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BALOCHISTAN: Peace linked to missing persons' recovery: Dr. Malik
June 15, 2013 Bari Baloch
QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Maalik said that efforts are being made to persuade civil and military leadership to resolve issues being faced by the province.
He expressed these views while talking to media Friday after visiting missing person's hunger strike camp set up by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons outside the Press Club. The hunger strike camp has been established for the last 1,177 days and the CM has visited it for the first time after taking oath.
Maalik accompanied by other NP leaders assured the VBMP vice president that his government is serious in resolving missing person issue, adding that he had also taken up the matter with Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif.
"Enforced disappearances and recovery of decomposed bodies of missing persons are the serious issues of the province," he said adding, "We have made it clear to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that recovery of missing persons is vital to restore peace in Balochistan."
To a query, he said that every sector including health and education has been ruined. The government, he said, is facing several challenges. He called upon all sections of the society to come forward in dealing with the challenges facing Balochistan government. He stated that efforts are being made to introduce good governance in Balochistan.
On the occasion, VBMS leader Mama Abdul Qadir thanked the chief minister and his delegation for visiting the missing persons' camp and apprised them about the issue. "We have been observing hunger strike camp for the last three years and none of the government official ever bothered to visit our camp, expressing solidarity with the missing persons' relatives," he added.
It may be mentioned here that more than 15 bodies of missing person were recovered since May 11, 2013 and five decomposed bodies were recovered on the day when Dr Abdul Malik was taking oath.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/editors-picks/15-Jun-2013/peace-linked-to-missing-persons-recovery-malik
IRAN: High Turnout in Election Shows People's Trust in Voting System
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi underlined that participation of over 70% of eligible voters in Iran's presidential election on Friday displayed that Iranian people have deep trust in the Islamic Republic's electoral process.
"The partnership of people from all walks of life (in the presidential election) showed that the Iranian people trust the electoral system of the country and consider the Islamic Republic as one of the most clean and trustworthy systems," Naqdi said in Tehran on Saturday.
His remarks came in response to the foreign media claims on election fraud in 2009 presidential election in which outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the voting but the Iranian people showed the incorrectness of such allegations by their 64% turnout in the last parliamentary election and their over 70% participation rate in yesterday's presidential election.
Naqdi stressed that the Iranians' massive turnout in the presidential election also proved the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the western sanctions against Iran which were aimed at creating division between the country's people and the ruling system.
The 11th presidential and the 4th city and village councils elections were held at 66,285 polling stations in Iran and 96 other world countries on Friday.
Campaigning for the June 14 presidential election kicked off in Iran on May 22 after the Guardian Council released the list of 8 qualified candidates, although only 6 remained in the race.
The qualified candidates represented a wide range of political streams from Principlists to reformists.
A number of 50,470,000 people were eligible to vote in the elections. 1.6 million youths came to be eligible to vote for the first time in their lives as the voting age in Iran is above 18 according to the law.
Early poll results said Hassan Rouhani, the former Iranian nuclear negotiator, is running ahead of the other candidates in Iran's 11th presidential election.
Iran's election headquarters announced on Saturday that Rouhani has 3,219,322 votes out of a total of 6,387,317 counted.
Time for Japan, India to go beyond words
By Sourabh Gupta
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JAP-01-070613.html
During the last week of May, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh paid a return visit to Tokyo in keeping with a tradition inaugurated by him and Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in 2007 to exchange summit-level visits on an annual basis. China's cancellation of the 2013 Trilateral (Japan-China-Korea) Summit meeting, slated for late-May, opened space on the calendar for the Abe-Singh meeting.
China's equally short-notice announcement of a Premier Li Keqiang visit to New Delhi in May and its attendant engineering of a mini-crisis on the disputed China-India frontier that drained political and bureaucratic attention from preparations for the Japan visit, robbed the Abe-Singh meeting of substantive content. There
was modest progress in resuming negotiations toward a bilateral civil nuclear cooperation accord.
At first blush, Prime Ministers Singh and Abe are a study in contrasts. Of modest upbringing, calm demeanor, and apolitical technocratic bent, Singh has reigned over the world's largest democracy for nine years despite having never won a popular election. Abe, by contrast, traces his personal lineage to the economic czar of war-time Manchuria (and future prime minister), Kishi Nobusuke, and his political lineage to Choshu and its pioneering traditions of national reform, revivalism, and restoration constructed around the identity of a timeless Japanese nation. His tenure in the Diet has been as continuous (since 1993) as his first stint as prime minister in 2006-07 was short-lived.
By all accounts though, both prime ministers genuinely enjoy each other's company - a rarity among current world leaders. Neither has lost his deep affection, further, for his counterpart's country or its role in their respective world views, with Abe even reiterating his belief that the Japan-India relationship has the largest potential of any bilateral relationship, bar none. The goodwill between the two is mirrored in the state of bilateral ties and the rapid strategic strides taken over the past decade or so - at least on paper.
In April 2005, Singh and prime minister Junichiro Koizumi declared a Japan-India Partnership in a New Asian Era, inaugurating an eight-fold initiative to strengthen bilateral ties. In December 2006, the relationship was elevated to a Strategic and Global Partnership by Abe and Singh. A Roadmap to realize this strategic partnership was unveiled in August 2007 during Abe's visit to New Delhi. To embed the strategic dimension of Indo-Japanese cooperation within the larger bilateral partnership, prime minister Taro Aso and Singh issued a Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation in October 2008.
To reinforce the notion that the landmark change in party fortunes in Tokyo had no negative impact on the relationship, Democratic Party of Japan prime minister Yukio Hatoyama and Singh drew up an Action Plan in December 2009 to advance security cooperation based on the 2008 Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation. At the October 2010 Japan-India annual summit, prime minister Naoto Kan and Singh drew up a Vision Statement for their strategic partnership for the next decade - an Enhancement to which was agreed by prime minister Yoshihiko Noda and Singh in December 2011.
The reality of strategic cooperation has been less impressive. Aside from participation within the Tsunami Core Group relief effort in 2004, joint involvement in a flashy five-power exercise in the Bay of Bengal alongside the United States, Australia, and Singapore in 2007, and an ongoing anti-piracy convoy coordination mission in collaboration with China's PLA Navy, instances of Japan-India maritime and strategic cooperation have been relatively few.
The first bilateral exercise between the Indian and Japanese navies was conducted only in June 2012. More to the point, both countries have placed a shallow operational ceiling to their scope of strategic cooperation in Asia and beyond.
Just before the Japan-India Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation was signed (October 2008), a similar Japan-Australia Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation was signed (March 2007) by prime ministers Abe and John Howard. Action Plans to realize those declarations were issued in 2009 by both sets of countries. The Japan-India Declaration and accompanying Action Plan, unlike its Japan-Australia counterpart, omits a reference to trilateral cooperation with the United States as well as fails to provision for bilateral logistics cooperation and classified information sharing.
Both such agreements, by contrast, were stitched up between Canberra and Tokyo in May 2010 and May 2012. A Japan-India defense relationship that is not premised in principle or letter on functionally joined common actions is likely to bump up quickly against natural limits - staff talks, ship and aircraft visits, bilateral exercises, and unit exchanges between defense divisions, by themselves, not amounting to much.
Bilateral cooperation frameworks aside, both Japan and India appear to operate within a set of self-imposed limitations that confine the practical scope of such cooperation.
On the Indian end, limits appear to be informal. In its Indian Ocean zone of core interest, New Delhi as a matter of principle seems disinclined to be appended to US and allied "coalition of the willing" missions - be it in regards to nonproliferation (Proliferation Security Initiative), anti-terrorism (Indian Ocean refueling operations) or nontraditional security (anti-piracy).
The preference rather is to participate in only blue-helmeted missions or those that come under broad-based umbrellas such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum and perhaps the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus. To avoid any hint of alignment with selective "minilateral" groupings, joint exercises across a broad range of maritime security activities, including search-and-rescue, minesweeping, tactical maneuvers and passage exercises, are likely to remain bilateral.
Overall, security collaboration in the Indian Ocean region will stay geared to cooperating with most, aligning with none, keeping the seas open to free passage and closed to great power contestation. And while New Delhi has participated in trilateral exercises with Washington and Tokyo in the waters of the East China Sea, it is by no means clear that New Delhi envisages the extension of any security obligation to these extra-regional waters.
Tokyo, on the other hand, remains hemmed in by a slew of constitutional and administrative restraints, the most notable only of which is its inability to lend support, let alone be joined in the use of force, to a fellow state actor in a combat zone even in its own backyard (defined as "areas surrounding Japan").
That Tokyo can credibly signal itself to be a significant conventional security partner in an extra-regional theater (that is, west of Malacca) would appear to be implausible - particularly at a time when its geographic horizons are retreating to its core "Far East" theater of strategic interest.
Although the Abe government can be expected to appropriately reinterpret/revise some of these constitutional restraints so as to expand the perimeter of defense cooperation with foreign partners, the scope of such exemptions is unlikely to noticeably benefit non-allied security partners like India.
Rather, the bulk of such reinterpretations or exemptions, much like the December 2011 Three Arms Sales Principles exception instituted by the Noda government, will be overwhelmingly geared to enhancing defense industrial base integration and operational joint-ness with Japan's Western alliance and security partners.
Clearly, Japan and India are not likely to be military partners in a conventional security contingency featuring China, now or any time soon. That they can be political partners though in navigating the management of China's rise will require that the security elements of their strategic cooperation be credible and meaningful - and be seen to be credible and meaningful. For that to be the case, Japan and India must find a way to engage in scenario-relevant practical cooperation on the ground and at sea such that joint actions during contingencies can adequately be planned for.
The nature of defense exchanges need to be premised on information exchange, logistics sharing, formulation of joint contingency plans for non-traditional security operations and joint exercises premised on joint response to such contingencies.
As a first step, the two countries need a basic military information exchange accord like the General Security of Military Information Agreement that New Delhi and Washington signed in 2002. Down the line, cooperation in the area of search-and-rescue, anti-submarine warfare surveillance and minesweeping can be conceived.
Second, Japan and India must agree to share equipment and supplies during United Nations blue-helmeted operations. Gradually, such logistics and equipment sharing can be extended to cover a range of other nontraditional security missions. Down the line, New Delhi will be well-served to strike up logistics cooperation arrangements with all Indian Ocean sea-lines of communications users and so restore, in time, the ocean to its historic role as a thoroughfare for all and a threatened barrier to none.
Equally, Tokyo needs to loosen its restrictive weapons-use rules so that its personnel can provide modest armed assistance to Indian and multilateral state partners in non-traditional security missions.
Third, at this time both countries need to keep their defense cooperation strictly bilateral - at best, shadowing emerging developments in security cooperation among like-minded partners. The vocabulary of a "broader Asia", an "Indo-Pacific", or an "Indo-Asia-Pacific" region has tended to run ahead of commitments and interests on the ground. Japan isn't India's security partner of choice in South Asia nor is India Japan's in East Asia, nor will this state of affairs change anytime soon. Tightly-knit Japan-India security arrangements need to be framed horizontally instead within the emerging practice of Asian security multilateralism.
Fundamentally, however, both India and Japan need to re-visit some cherished precepts of foreign policy. Although swayed by competing currents of Asia-centered or autonomy-oriented diplomacy, modern-day Japan has rarely been able to postulate an order independent of a Western-led diplomatic and alliance framework. Within this scheme of things, Tokyo's relations with distant Asian actors has been an afterthought, resting in part on the need to compensate and rebalance for its inability to forge enduring partnerships with its neighbors.
Post-independence India's foreign policy, by contrast, has never sought to articulate an identity within the framework of an alliance system - be it Western or any other, and continues even today to remain conspicuously committed to a pluralistic model of a cooperative security order. Within this scheme of things, independent-minded powers capable of exercising autonomy of judgment and decision-making are accorded a position a preference.
If Japan-India strategic cooperation is to realize its potential in Asia and beyond, both Tokyo and New Delhi will have to de-emphasize a tad-bit the virtues of alliance or autonomy, respectively, and accommodate the virtues of alignment a lot more.
Sourabh Gupta (sgupta@samuelsinternational.com) is a senior research associate at Samuels International Associates, Inc.
(Copyright 2013 PacNet)
BALOCHISTAN: Munir Mengal with Dr. Charles Graves at UNO - Bolan Times
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Hindu lawmaker in Pakistan raises fears of his community's exodus
Monday, Jun 10, 2013, 17:09 IST | Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI
Mahesh Malani, the only non-Muslim elected to the Sindh Assembly from Tharparkar, claimed discrimination against Hindus, the country's largest minority group, was forcing them to migrate to 'safer places'.
A Hindu legislator has cautioned Pakistan's new government about a possible exodus of members of his minority community and called for quick and effective legislation to safeguard their rights, according to a media report on Monday.
Mahesh Malani, the only non-Muslim elected to the Sindh Assembly from Tharparkar, claimed discrimination against Hindus, the country's largest minority group, was forcing them to migrate to "safer places".
"The increasing sense of insecurity, caused by issues like forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam, is compelling the community members to migrate to other places (like India)," Malani was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.
Malani, who contested the May 11 polls as a candidate of the Pakistan People's Party, has been pushing for a proposed law seeking registration of Hindu marriages since 2008.
He said the new government should form committees in every district to deal with the problems of minorities.
These committees should comprise Muslims, non-Muslims and members of the Council of Islamic Ideology and they should take up cases related to alleged forced conversions and forced marriages.
Rampant poverty is the main reason behind such incidents, particularly in Sindh where Hindus make up a substantial chunk of the population, he said.
Some Hindu businessmen are shifting their businesses due to the lawlessness in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, Malani said.
Since September last year, nearly 1,000 Hindu families have been struggling to migrate to India, the report claimed.
Some of them succeeded in making their way to India, a "development likely to raise questions about Pakistan's ability to protect its religious minorities", it said.
Several Hindu welfare organisations at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, which shares a border with Sindh, extended their support to Pakistani migrants, said Ramesh Jaipal of Hare Rama Foundation.
Leaders of the Hindu community had taken up the issue with Pakistan's Supreme Court,which ordered the implementation of laws to address the concerns of minorities, Jaipal said.
"The existing laws should be implemented to protect their rights – this was the court's order," said Malani, who earlier served as a parliamentarian in a seat reserved for minorities.
Nine legislators currently represent minorities in the Sindh Assembly, eight in the Punjab Assembly and three each in the legislatures of Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/1845997/report-hindu-lawmaker-in-pakistan-raises-fears-of-his-community-s-exodus
Iranian presidential election: strengthening or weakening the new Mongol empire?
Contributor: Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy
Posted: 06/10/2013 12:00:00 AM EDT
Presidential election, strengthening or weakening of the new Mongol empire?
Over the past few years, Iran has moved much closer to China but also to Russia. This pragmatic alliance based on the Sino-Iranian axis is marked by mutual geopolitical support, close cooperation with the Russian energetic hinterland and the dissemination of a global vision that challenges our own stereotypes. Does Iran wish to build a new Mongol Empire with its two strategic partners? Between 1206 and 1294, the Turkish-Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan indeed extended over Central Asia before it broke up into four blocks. Beyond the debate on the huge domestic challenges of the Islamic Republic, the presidential election of 14 June 2013 will be an opportunity to consider a possible inflection of Iran's international position. Marked by an ancient cooperation with China and Russia, Iran now has the choice between strengthening or loosening its relations with its strategic partners.
The alliance of Iran with China and Russia, through the prism of history
Despite the vicissitudes that troubled their respective histories, the Empires of Iran and China have managed to maintain a continuous relationship for a long time. This can be explained by mutual commercial interests. Between the fifth century BC and the Renaissance, Persia played a fundamental commercial intermediation role between China and the West. The Silk Road, which has connected for nearly a thousand years the city of Chang'an in China to Syria, passes through Persia. Today, with the sharp increase in maritime insecurity, Iran is dreaming of regaining its traditional intermediation role. This is facilitated by the fact that Persia and China have long backed one another from a political point of view. Pressed by Western Turks on his eastern flank, the last Sassanid ruler Yazdegerd III sent an embassy to the Emperor of China in 638. Similarly, in 1987, when the rumour spread that Iran had installed missile batteries in the Strait of Hormuz, the Chinese were immediately suspected of having sold ballistic equipment to Iran. Geopolitical collusion between Iran and China is due in large part to the fact that these countries have mutually stimulated each other through the respective innovations they introduced. Despite their chaotic histories, China and Persia have managed to maintain a good relationship. Three peaks of cooperation can be mentioned: the Sassanid, Mongolian and contemporary eras. For its part, the collaboration between Russia and Iran appeared later. From the reign of Peter the Great (1689-1725) onwards, Russia expanded its influence to the south. Russian-Iranian relations, initially bearing the hallmark of the Russian search for influence, have developed into a true partnership. Does this mean that Iran, China and Russia today form a genuine tripartite alliance?
Potential and limits of the new Mongol Empire
Despite the collapse of the ancient Mongol empire, it seems that the main protagonists of this epic have reformed a new alliance. The same causes producing the same effects, it is perhaps not absurd to speak of the emergence of a new Mongol Empire. Let us consider the facts. In 2001, China and Russia founded the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. One of the main objectives of this organisation was to counter the American influence in Central Asia. Tajikistan is one of the founding members of the organisation. It was joined by Iran in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2012, which were granted observer status. This means that the entire Persian-speaking world now belongs to the alliance. Totalling 1.5 billion people on 26 million square kilometres, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization concentrates 50% of world uranium and 40% of world coal. It conducts joint military exercises and exchanges in the fields of medicine and nanotechnology. This collusion between Iran, China and Russia nevertheless remains discreet and is visible in distant conflicts such as Syria or North Korea. The new Mongol empire has a definite advantage: none of the three civilizations that compose it believes that it belongs to a common cultural sphere. Rejecting the Western chimera of the abolition of frontiers, the three states will combine in future their pragmatism with a capacity for influence drawn from their respective pasts. This explains why above all the new plastic alliance fears the dissolving potential of globalisation.
Forming a true community of interest, the new Mongol empire propounds a highly original vision of the world. It must however overcome three structural weaknesses. The first is demographic. Since 1991, the Russian population has been declining due to a simultaneous decrease in the birth rate and increase in the death rate. The efforts of the government have only partially limited the collapse. In China, the inexorable consequences of the birth limitation policy threaten future growth. As far as Iran is concerned, fertility has come down from five children per woman of childbearing age in 1979 to 1.9 today. The consequences of this demographic decline are all too predictable: China, Russia and Iran will experience a sharp decline in imagination and innovation. These states will have to increase productivity in order to make up for the manpower shortfall. If they fail to recover, they will be unable to exert influence in the long run. Second, and in contrast to the thirteenth century, these three civilizations today encircle the island of Turkish civilization that once brought them together –China continues its policy of containment of the Turkic minorities of Xinjiang, Russia strives to control Altaic peoples of the Caucasus. Iran, for its part, sees Turkey as a regional rival. Thirdly, these three continental powers suffer from a real naval deficit. Iran, which achieved world power major status when it controlled its surrounding maritime areas, has opted for nuclear energy and against sea power. China, meanwhile, has experienced a recent naval reversal. However, it takes years to build a naval policy, and at present the new Mongol empire only controls part of the Eurasian continent.
The Iranian elections and the future of the new Mongol Empire
Just as was the case with the previous election, the Iranian presidential election to be held on June 14, will be analysed carefully by Western commentators quick to imagine a competition between conservatives and reformers. Instead of waiting naively for a hypothetical "Persian Spring", the election should be considered in its broader geopolitical context. It is indeed highly unlikely that a victory of the reformers would undermine the ideological foundations of the regime. It seems more important to focus on the geopolitical inflections that could occur after the elections. Among the candidates, A. H. Rafsanjani, before his candidacy was invalidated by the Council of the Constitution, could have embodied a return to lethargy for the new Mongol empire – with Iran and the United States moving closer to each other. Conversely, Saeed Jalili symbolizes the continued shift of the Islamic Republic to the east.
The Islamic Republic will continue its Ostpolitik in order to break at any price its diplomatic isolation. Iran is clearly playing alongside Russia on the Syrian issue. Relations with China are more complicated, since Beijing has taken advantage of its position of power, paying for Iranian oil with nonconvertible yuan, and flooding the Islamic Republic with mediocre products that ruin the Iranian small and medium sized enterprises. But, much more than his political affiliation, it is the personality of the new president that will play a decisive role in the country's position in the new Mongol empire. It would indeed be necessary for the new Iranian President to have exceptional charisma if Iran wants to become the leader of this odd alliance. After all, for Iran, assuming leadership of the new Mongol empire is only a stopgap alternative compared with the potential direction of the entire Muslim world –a dream that runs up against two obstacles, Iran being neither Arab nor Sunni.
Stéphane Baudens, Cultural and political analysis
Jean-Marie Holtzinger, Russian foreign policy
Michel Makinsky, Iranian domestic policy
Jérôme Pâris, Geopolitical issues
Norbert Lacher, Foreign policy of Iran
Antoine de Prémonville, History of central Asia
Anne-Sophie Traversac, Law and institutions
Serge Auffret, Communication and Government
Thomas Flichy, Coordination
The views developed in this article are those of its authors and should not be considered an official position of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy or its Research Centre.
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Last night Vicky presented Patti Sue with a receipt from the hospital on the Casa de Fe account, for a payment of $16,000. She got pretty emotional, so I deleted those pictures and here she is once she got a little more relaxed. She is grateful to the mission team, our churches and all our financial sponsors who made this possible. Yesterday, a Swedish short term mission member walked in and presented her with another $3000 for her hospital bill, so it is almost back to zero. However, in an earlier post I mentioned Karla is in the intensive care unit in Quito, they do not let her "run an account" until money comes in, she just has to pay that bill. There is never any relief from the constant pressure to get these children the best medical care possible.


We often describe the topically or thematically linked books we publish as being in "conversation" with each other, as if our library turns tea party after hours. Of course, it's the authors responsible for the works who actually animate those interactions, and late last year we invited two of them to engage one another more directly. In The Work of Revision, published last summer, Hannah Sullivan reveals iteration in literary production to be an inheritance bequeathed by modernism, with close and complicated ties to the advent of the typewriter. In his forthcoming Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, Matthew Kirschenbaum casts a roughly similar gaze on the rise of word processing software. The two were kind enough to allow us to listen in as they discussed affinities between their work in a weeks-long email exchange; what follows is an edited and condensed version of that conversation.
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Hannah, in The Work of Revision you identify the typewriter as central to the practices (or call them poetics) of revision you read as characteristic of high literary modernism through the composition habits of figures like James, Woolf, and Eliot. For me this grounds your argument not only in the space of literary and textual criticism, but also conversations in media studies, including the technologies of writing and even what is increasingly known as media archaeology. How do you walk the line between attentiveness to the material particulars of the medium—which extend beyond the typewritten page to the ecologies and economies of inscription that surrounded it, whether James' dictation or the stratification of the writing process into autographs, typescripts, proofs, etc.—and the slide into technological determinism?
Hannah Sullivan: Hi Matt, Yes, the typewriter is definitely a key part of my book. But I must emphasize how medially diverse the twentieth century was. The material documents I studied include many things besides typescript: notebooks, manuscripts, different stages of proof (Joyce's proofs for the "Ithaca" episode of Ulysses are notorious), serial printings, and first and subsequent book editions. Most of the writers I study continued to draft and compose by hand, but they revised and rewrote (also usually by hand) on very different kinds of pages.
And there is quite a bit of idiosyncrasy. In the 1900s, Henry James dictated new material to his amanuensis—he had given up writing—and then corrected typescript (sometimes including aural mishearings) before seeing proof. The revision process isn't always linear. But when he revised his earlier fiction for the New York Edition in the same decade, he was working from reproductions of his earlier published novels, pasted up with a specially wide margin for revision. Another example: in The Waste Land facsimile, we can see Eliot looping back into new composition by hand on the typescript, not a fresh sheet of paper.
The typewriter also came in at a later stage in the process than we tend to think. Media historians tend to focus more on "typing" than "typing up." But for the high modernists (and then for their sometimes self-consciously imitative successors), the typewriter was more an instrument of re-representation, of re-presentation, than composition. Were the earliest document preserved in the story of a modernist novel's development a typescript (even marked-up and scored with revision, and only the first of many others) the first working assumption should be that the manuscript was lost or destroyed.
This changed in the postwar period. And it doesn't have much to do with competence at typing. Sylvia Plath was an excellent typist (and typed up Ted Hughes's poems for him), but by writing her own poetry out in a distinctive, babyish hand, she was, I think, marking out her work as serious, modernist, and not effeminate or secretarial. (Not "written on a typewriter by a typewriter," in Randall Jarrell's infamous put-down of Oscar Williams' poems.) For male writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, or O'Hara, the typewriter had a different symbolic meaning, untainted with the fear of secretarial work. They saw in the machine the "lyrical" possibility of spontaneous, first draft composition.
The idea that all or most first draft composition happened on the machine can lead to other determinist arguments. If something is written on a machine, does it make it mechanical? (Not for the Beats.) Isn't that a genetic fallacy? Friedrich Kittler makes this assumption when he argues that Malling-Hansen's writing ball made Nietzsche into a laconic. But for most of the writers I study—Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf—typewriting slowed down the process of composition, introducing more stages for revision, as well as objectivity and distancing. The Waste Land facsimile, preserved forever with Pound's cuts and jibes and "echts," as well as Eliot's own more tentative changes, shows how human and dialogic the typewritten page can be.
In writing the book I was interested in the story that we can tell about the medium of composition. We have exceptionally good access to the draft documents of modernism, but the writers I work on didn't want their work to be instantiated like this. In some cases there are awkward ethical questions about whether we should even be looking at the drafts. So, unlike French genetic critics, who often take a rather hostile attitude to the published "fixed" texts, I try to emphasize the various events of publication (far-off, divine, as they may seem) as an important conceptual end goal. The documents of composition and revision, in other words, are more heterogeneous, more incoherent, of necessity, than the published books that they lead to, however sinuously.
Kirschenbaum: There is so much to engage here! Part of what interests me in these conversations are the iconic dimensions of different writing technologies, their place in both the popular and the authorial imagination; you touch on this above with your remarks about the different and _gendered_ dimensions that the typewriter assumed as an instrument of composition. I'm struck by the popular online lists that circulate nowadays of writers and their writing tools, like this one for example: http://flavorwire.com/410384/the-writing-tools-of-20-famous-authors/. It's the typewriter, along with the fountain pen, that are celebrated—not to be too Derridean about it, but the fact is the computer marks the entire list precisely through its absence.
I would like to ask you now about the archival dimension of your research, particularly in relation to your remarks about publication as an "end goal" above. Did these writers imagine or anticipate an archival identity for their work at all, and can we think of the availability of pre-publication materials in archives (however formidable the practical barriers to access may be in individual cases) as marking an equally significant event horizon, in the sense that given our habits and predilections as textual scholars we are as compelled by the archival record as we are the finished text? Of course sometimes the archive inverts itself, or like a Klein bottle it _becomes_ the publication: I'm thinking, of course, of Valerie Eliot's Waste Land edition here, among others. Has your immersion in the archives of modernists suggested that we perhaps approach, reconcile, _read_ the modernist archive as though it itself were a modernist event?
Sullivan: Your point about writers' tools and the heterogeneity of materials is fascinating. I'm struck by the fetishistic quality of some of the material descriptions in the "writing tools" piece, and remember feeling the same way when I was beginning this book and heard Claire Messud talk about the fact she could only write in a particular brand of French notebook (graph paper; Clairefontaine). The audience admired The Emperor's Children, so we all took this down, as a kind of tip. Magical thinking, no?
A kind of aura attaches to the HB pencil, the cheap biro, and the Mont Blanc equally—and to the typewriter too, as the prices in vintage and antique shops show. Do you think this will also be the case in time for word processors and then computers? The difficulty seems to be keeping the machines in working order—enabling them to be long-lived writing tools, rather than simply curiosities. And I am certain that we need to question the idea that the relationship between tool and product is iconic. We understand that the biro doesn't produce "cheaper" or quicker prose than the Mont Blanc. So why should a machine produce literature that is mechanical? Why couldn't avant-garde poetry be written in bog-standard MS Word? My work on the laborious, individual, highly artisanal, slow typescripts of modernism suggests (contra Kittler) that the typewriter doesn't make everyone a laconic.
I don't think it's until the postwar period that writers started building the possibility of future manuscript and typescript sales into their compositional horizons. This is a period of rapid growth in funding for US universities, and it had already become clear that private individuals were willing to pay large amounts for writers' manuscripts. (The Berg Collection was donated in 1940; the Ransom Center was building up its collections in the 1920s and 1930s). And of course the timing of this is not unconnected to the history of modernism. The war was better for American universities than for the high modernists!
The boundary between public and private documents alters when one knows that even unpublished documents might be read by scholars, and, yes, absolutely, the sense of publication as a single, dramatic, estranging "event" must alter. Archives are places where reading and interpretation happen quite slowly, I think, piecemeal, on different visits, and often over many years. But the modernists I discuss were, I think, relatively naive about the prospect of institutional collection and examination of their papers. In some ways, this makes their drafts more interesting to look at—the fantasy of peering over someone's shoulder is easier to sustain when we imagine they didn't want us to do it. In this sense, the jumble of documents that are gathered together in the facsimile of The Waste Land, which Eliot took remarkably little care over in the period post-1922, are exemplary for being rather uncurated! James wanted everything destroyed.
I'm also struck by Charles Stross's recent self-described "rant" against MS Word, not only the virulence (and characteristic eloquence) of it, but also by the glee which accompanied its widespread circulation. Some of that, of course, is basic anti-Microsoft sentiment, but I think it's also about bearing witness to the spectacle of a writer so passionately invested in his or her tools. WordStar and Scrivener (the latter is Stross's software of choice) have very different affordances from Word of course, but the fetishistic desire remains as well: I think about Peter Carey's laptop on display under glass at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, or the justly lauded emulations of Salman Rushdie's personal computers available to patrons of the rare books reading room at Emory. Derrida has written a bit about his belief that an "aura" will come to surround famous computers in the same way as famous manuscripts. And William Gibson's throwaway line about "Stephen King's Wang" in his novel Pattern Recognition was my point of departure for Track Changes.
There is one final question I wanted to ask you, which is about the role of digital humanities (so-called) in your research. One is struck by the screenshots from the Juxta tool that populate your book, for example; can you talk about digital tools as part of your research method and the extent of your interest in using them to extend your further textual investigations?
Sullivan: I think these questions about tools are absolutely fascinating, and you bring up terrific examples. In my own case, all the same, they're mostly interesting along the way—the end goal is always analysis of what they produce, the final text. And I do take seriously the idea that writing tools might not be tremendously determinative; this is the Diving Bell and the Butterfly argument, and a good humanist point of view.
The emulations of Rushdie's computers seemed bizarre to me when I first heard about them. Rather brilliant, but also rather pointless. For Benjamin, the aura doesn't attach to the tool (chisel, pen, paintbrush) that produces an object, but to the object that the tool makes. Derrida might be right to say that, in the future, we'll find writers' computers inordinately interesting, but I don't think there is a very good parallel for this in the past; we're interested in the blood, sweat, tears, and paralipomena on the page because they are hermeneutically interesting, not in the pen itself.
A lot of my work is geared towards putting the author—and his or her rational, conscious, executable intention—back in the picture. To me, it's exciting to realise that (at least sometimes) individuals can write and revise in conscious pursuit and realisation of a sophisticated intention. (It so often doesn't happen, for me, for my students, for many people.) But I'm like almost all other modern literary critics in caring primarily about the work, and the traces through which it comes to be, rather than the person who makes it, or the tools they use. e.g., I would definitely rather know what Michael Pietsch did in editing The Pale King on his own computer than have the computer that David Foster Wallace wrote on, as an object in itself.
On tools: I think Juxta is so very useful. I had far more Juxta screenshots in my original manuscript, and I think this was partly because it seemed to me an intellectually honest and straightforward way of presenting variation, acknowledging (often) that two states being compared were not binary alternatives, but two of many (the drop-down menu offering more). And it was convenient. Some of these screenshots made it through into the book, but a simple parallel text would have done as well. Probably this will look very dated soon!
I am working on a new project now on free verse. There I am trying to do a formalist, non-semantic version of what Franco Moretti has called "distant reading." The Work of Revision isn't really about (nor does it benefit from) digital humanities, in any significant sense. But I do think the idea of using computers to notice formal patterns (revision; line length) rather than/as well as semantic meaning (e.g. the collocation of two nouns, like "love" and "marriage") is important, and something that has been weirdly neglected. I think old-fashioned formalists, true close readers, could both gain from, and give much, to digital humanities. Learning about and summarizing the content of texts—the plots of millions of 20c novels, say—doesn't seem to me to be the distinctive ability of a computer over a human. But who wants to count the average number of syllables per line in mediocre verse of the 1860s?


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Q: Unable to convert JSON to Java Object using Spring boot Rest service I have created a REST service using spring boot. Initially I had multiple parameters (Strings and Ints), but it was suggested that I send the request in json and automatically convert it to an object. But when I call the following REST service I get the following error:
Failed to convert value of type 'java.lang.String' to required type 'x.x.x.MobileCreatives'
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, value = "/creative")
    public @ResponseBody void uploadCreative(@RequestParam("mobileCreatives") MobileCreatives mobileCreatives,
                                             @RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file){

        logger.trace("Sending creative to DFP");
        mobileCreatives.setFile(file);
        dfpAssetsManager.createCreative(mobileCreatives);
    }

I would like to know why it is thinking that the input is a string, when the input is the following JSON:
{"networkCode":6437988,"iO":"test345345","name":"test4354","advertiserId":11659988,"clickThroughUrl":"test.com"}

My class MobileCreative has a constructor that is in the same format as the json. Do I need to add any annotations to the class MobileCreative becasue an example I was looking at didn't have any?

A: You want @RequestPart not @RequestParam. Per the documentation ...

The main difference is that when the method argument is not a String,
  @RequestParam relies on type conversion via a registered Converter or
  PropertyEditor while @RequestPart relies on HttpMessageConverters
  taking into consideration the 'Content-Type' header of the request
  part. @RequestParam is likely to be used with name-value form fields
  while @RequestPart is likely to be used with parts containing more
  complex content (e.g. JSON, XML)

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Emergent BioSolutions Hub to Move Forward on Advanced Ebola Drug for HHS
Anna Forrester July 16, 2015	News, Products & Service
The Emergent BioSolutions-led Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing will continue the development of a therapeutic drug against Ebola under a new two-year, $19.7 million contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS said Wednesday the Emergent CIADM facility will begin advanced work to manufacture a monoclonal antibody drug …
Executive Profile: Linda Boles, Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director at ViON
Neel Mehta June 29, 2015	Executive Spotlight
Linda Boles is director of healthcare strategies and business development at ViON Corp. She brings more than two decades of experience in business development across health information technology, radiology, surgical systems and laboratory medicine areas to her role at ViON. Prior to joining the veteran-owned corporation, Boles served as president …
CACI to Use MicroPact's Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract
Anna Forrester June 17, 2015	Healthcare IT, News
CACI International has chosen MicroPact's entellitrak software platform to support the former company's task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency's Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. …
HHS Seeks Contractor to Update Family Planning Services Portal
Mary-Louise Hoffman June 4, 2015	Healthcare IT, News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to contract a vendor to help redesign and maintain a public-facing website run by the agency's office of population affairs. HHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it is looking for a contractor that can also support a clinic database …
ONC Grants $300K for Six Health IT Projects
Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2015	Healthcare IT, News
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $300,000 in total grants to six teams of developers and healthcare organizations that aim to live-test new health IT applications. The medical app developers were chosen and matched with healthcare providers through ONC's Market R&D Challenge, according to …
CACI to Help Implement Electronic Medicare Appeals Processing System; Ken Asbury Comments
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InfoReliance to Help Build HHS Enterprise Apps Through AWS Cloud Platform
Mary-Louise Hoffman January 6, 2015	Cloud, News
InfoReliance has been awarded a 12-month contract to help the Department of Health and Human Services create and test enterprise applications with Amazon Web Services cloud technology. The technology consulting firm said Monday it will provide AWS cloud computing services as well as app development and testing support to HHS' office of …
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Anna Forrester November 24, 2014	Cloud, News
Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization to provide Office 365 products and services that are tailored for government agencies to the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Thursday that the authority to operate certifies Microsoft to provide HHS cloud-based email and enterprise collaboration services such as Exchange Online …
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Admin May 30, 2014	Cloud, News
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10th November 1891 the Death of Arthur Rimbaud
by Dorian
Today we salute the nineteenth-century visionary outsider poet, Arthur Rimbaud – whose brilliant but slender volume of work produced in a mere handful of years is often overshadowed by his magnificently audacious life. The legend of Rimbaud centres around five extraordinary years, commencing in 1870, when the prodigiously talented 16-year-old poet from Charleville, 125 miles northeast of Paris, suddenly rejected his provincial middle-class and academically promising trajectory. He began to drink, steal, grew his hair long and ran away from home three times – most notoriously, in February 1871, to join the anarchist insurgents of the Paris Commune. Back in Charleville, Rimbaud wrote two letters and sent samples of his poetry to the eminent Symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine – eliciting the infamous and fateful response: "Come, great and dear soul; we are calling out to you, we are awaiting you." Rimbaud arrived at Verlaine's Paris home in September 1871. The two poets promptly fell madly in love and, with no regard whatsoever for Verlaine's pregnant wife, embarked on a tempestuous affair. Shunned by the Parisian Symbolists, Rimbaud and Verlaine fled to London in July 1872 where they lived in decadent squalor and argued violently. After countless separations and dramatic reunions, the relationship finally ended when, in a jealous rage, Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist and was sentenced to two years of hard labour in a Belgian prison for attempted murder. Rimbaud was left traumatised and disoriented. He returned to Charleville where he completed his two masterpieces, Illuminations and A Season in Hell – his prose account of his time with Verlaine. And then, just five years after his life as a poet began and shortly before he turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud gave up writing forever.
Thereafter, Rimbaud opted out not only from poetry but society as well and became an exotic if somewhat unsavoury vagabond. He joined the Dutch army in 1875, but only to secure free passage to Java whereupon he swiftly deserted. There are records of him trekking across the Alps, working in a German circus, gun-running in Cyprus, slave-trading in Egypt and Yemen before finally settling in Ethiopia where he lived with a "native woman". He remained there until 1891 when, seriously ill, he made his way back to France and died after the amputation of his right leg at the age of 37.
The legend of Rimbaud, the ultimate enfant maudit, has cast him as an enduring and endlessly fascinating figure of alienation, rebellion and liberty. But lest we forget that beyond the myth, Rimbaud was a groundbreaking "poet of the future" who originated an hallucinative style that would later influence such luminaries as Albert Camus, the Beats, Jim Morrison and Patti Smith. Moreover, Rimbaud expounded revolutionary theories of poetry and life: writing to the poet Paul Demeny in May 1871, his so-called "Letter of the Seer" declared war on the existing artistic order and proclaimed a new Poetic Vision. In one of the most startling and celebrated passages in literary history, 16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud wrote:
"I say it is necessary to be a seer … The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses. All the forms of love, suffering, and madness. He searches himself. He exhausts all poisons in himself and keeps only their quintessences. Unspeakable torture where he needs all his faith, all his super-human strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the one accursed – and the supreme Scholar! – Because he reaches the unknown! A language must be found. Moreover, every utterance being an idea, the time of a Universal Language will come!"
Rimbaud prophesized that these poet-seers would lead us to a new age of unbridled intelligence and social utopia. We can but hope he was right. Go Rimbaud!
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9 Responses to 10th November 1891 – the Death of Arthur Rimbaud
Sonya Dyer says:
Bloody hell! I knew nothing about him but aim to put that right. Would you or your readers care to suggest where best to begin?
Irma says:
Hi Sonya,
I would like to recommend "The time of assassins" from Henry Miller to you…I think it is the best introduction to Rimbaud…it is writen with true love, fire and blood…not a pale, stale, academic biography but something really worthy reading in itself even if you were not interested in Rimbaud at all…
Dorian says:
Hi Sonya. The (2) Letters of the Seer should be available online. "Rimbaud Complete" is considered a good English translation. And "Rimbaud" by Graham Robb is a wonderful biography. "I is another," he said … and he really was *something else*. Happy discovering!
Crumb says:
Wow, nice one. Rimbaud blazed across the pages like a proto-rocknroller, lived fast and died young and left a legacy fresher now than ever. I just found found out that nov 10 is also the date of Ken Kesy's passing, maybe worth considering for next year Dorian…? Keep 'er lit, I love this blog, it's ace!!
Knocker says:
Dorian. I love this blog, but I also hate the internet so I will not bother writing anything either profound or interesting to back up my previous statement. Thank you kindly. I'll buy you a beer in New York if your here. I drink early.
My mind was blown away when I was just a teenager by this guy, his poetry and life…and I still feel new insights everytime I read once again any of his pages…Yes, I agree, he was something else, somethig just great, pure life and freedom, he was sexy, pure desire coming into act, and everyone of us should be grateful to him for showing that just everyone of us can do the same if we really want to…
thanks,Dorian
Seek out the Wallace Fowlie translations of Rimbaud. I think they are the best. But it's all a matter of opinion I suppose.
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Dan'l says:
Another thing worth reading for the Rimbaud lover: Cordwainer Smith's science fiction story "Drunkboat" is a weird-ass interpretation (including a partial translation) of Rimbaud's "Le Bateau Ivre." There's even a character named Arthur Rambo.


This large, three-fold leaflet, from the late Brian Green's collection, was distributed with the 1965 Puppet Master Magazine. It advertised the forthcoming publication of US Puppeteer, Bil Baird's Book, The Art of the Puppet, one of the most highly regarded puppet books ever produced.
Bil Baird, perhaps the foremost puppeteer in the world today, writes in Chapter 1 of The Art of the Puppet: "The impulse to make puppets is nothing new. People have been creating them for thousands of years and why? What is the fascination of puppetry?... It is part of man's ancient urge to recreate life that results in this many-layered art. More diverse than painting, sculpture, dance, song, or poetry, puppetry has something of all of them. It is a means of communication, an extension of human expression."
In this well-written and beautifully illustrated volume, Mr Baird presents the only complete history of puppetry, an important area of the theatre which, until now, has been unjustly neglected. His narrative, beginning with the cave man and following the development of civilization through the Orient and the Western world, examines the famous and outrageous Mr Punch, the raucous Karaghoz, the Knights of the Orlando Legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia and the unusual Bunraku puppets of Japan. Mr Baird describes the puppets of the American Indians and then goes on to trace the evolution of American puppetry up to the present day, when the puppet is used as a major teaching tool.
In addition, the book deals with the more technical aspects of puppetry. Plays, descriptions of old performances, discussion of the problems of performing and the making of puppets (with sketches done especially for this book by Mr Baird) are all included.
With its exciting narrative interwoven with many beautiful illustrations, The Art of the Puppet covers in detail both the history and technique of puppetry. It will be of great value to art lovers, theatre buffs, social historians and everyone interested in this unusual art form.
Bil Baird was formerly Puppet Master to Tony Sarg. He, his wife Cora and their troupe have performed all over the world, from India to Moscow, from Broadway to their own theatre-loft home in Greenwich Village, New York. They are frequently seen on television and perform at the World's Fair.


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Ku Family History
Ku Name Meaning
Chinese : variant of Gu 1. Chinese : variant of Gu 2. Chinese : variant of Gu 3. Korean: there are three Chinese characters for the surname Ku. The most common of the three claims thirty-two clans, but only two can be documented. The other two Ku surnames each have one clan, with its own Chinese character. All four of the Ku clans immigrated from China. The clans that use the more common character came in two waves: the first settled in the Nungsong sometime before 945, and the second, which settled in Ch'angwon, arrived in 1224. The name of the immigrant who founded the first of these two clans has been lost; but the name of the second is Ku Chon-yu. Members of these two clans can be found throughout the Korean peninsula, but 45 percent of them live in Kyongsang South province, while 20 percent of them live in Seoul and Kyonggi province. The founder of the clan that uses the other Ku character was named Ku T'ae-rim. He was an emissary for Tang China on his way to Japan when a storm blew his ship onto the shores of Koguryo Korea in 663. He settled in Koguryo territory and subsequently held a post in that government. Koguryo was a Korean kingdom which existed in the northern part of the Korean peninsula from 37 bc to ad 668. Its territory was incorporated into Shilla when the peninsula was unified in 668. Most of the modern-day members of this clan live in Ch'ungch'ong province. Very little is known of the origins of the clan which uses the third Ku character. There are only a few families which still use this character in Korea; they live in Kyongsang province and Kangwon province.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Q: MouseCliked listener not always running I have a MouseClicked listener but sometimes it doesn't run.
However MousePressed or MouseRelease are always active.
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A: If the mouse button is pressed and the mouse is moved even for a nanosecond, and then the mouse button is released, then it will not capture the mouseClicked event. In such a case only mousePressed and mouseReleased events are fired. You can verify this by listening to mouseDragged event. Between mousePressed and mouseReleased events, you will find one or more mouseDragged events.
It's rather unusual to use MouseListener with Buttons. Instead use ActionListener.


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Randy Phillips (born 1990) used social media to reveal his homosexuality while serving in the U.S. military.

Randy Phillips may also refer to:

 Randy Phillips (soccer) (born 1959), American soccer player
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 Randy Phillips (politician) (born 1950), member of the Alaska Legislature from 1977 to 2003
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Cairo University's New Sexual Harassment Policy a Novelty in the Region
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CAIRO— Egypt's Cairo University this month became the first public university in the region's most populous state to adopt a sexual harassment policy, a move hailed as a first milestone by professors and activists who led the effort and as first step in spreading the policy to other Egyptian universities.
"Sexual harassment is a problem all over the world," said Hoda Elsadda, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University who started the policy initiative with other professors. "It's a problem you find in the workplace, at universities and most places have policies about this. We didn't have these policies because sexual harassment for a very long time was a taboo issue—people didn't recognize its existence officially, people hesitated to talk about it."
"This has changed over the last three years and it has become a public issue and a subject of debate… so we found this to be an opportunity to introduce a policy at Cairo University," she added
The policy, which was not released in print to Al Fanar Media since a final draft is still being reviewed, coincides with broader as well as global efforts to combat harassment. In January, U.S. President Barack Obama established the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. It aims to identify the scope of the problem on college campuses in the U.S., help prevent campus sexual assault, assist schools to respond effectively to cases and improve as well as make more transparent the federal government's enforcement efforts, a White House statement said.
One in five women is sexually assaulted while at university in the U.S., according to the statement.
In Egypt, harassment on campus was thrust into the limelight in March when a young woman was assaulted by a mob at Cairo University. The case drew further outrage when university President Gaber Nasser said the woman, who was wearing pants and a long-sleeve shirt, provoked the men with "inappropriate clothing," and declared that both she and the attackers would be punished.
Nasser later retreated from those statements, insisting harassment is inexcusable, rights groups said. But his sentiments reflected widespread tendencies in Egypt to blame victims for a problem that is pervasive.
In a study published with the support of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women last year, 99.3% of women and girls surveyed in Egypt reported they had been subject to harassment: This includes telephone stalking, verbal abuse, groping, dirty looks and rape. School or university students were responsible for harassment in almost 62% of cases, the survey showed.
The new policy at Cairo University, to be implemented in September, states that no form of sexual harassment will be tolerated at the university and provides a framework for enabling students and professors to safely report harassment, according to a statement by Harassmap, an independent initiative that worked on the policy.
In practice, the policy will allow a student to make a complaint to a point person in his or her faculty, who will then take the case to an executive committee—comprised of a majority of women—which will investigate, Elsadda said. Punishment is based on a graded system and could lead to suspension or expulsion, she said.
A more senior committee at Cairo University, which will include the president, deans of five faculties and several professors will be responsible for drafting and monitoring the implementation of the policy, Elsadda said.
Dina Farid, founder and director of Egypt's Girls Are a Red Line campaign launched two years ago to raise awareness about harassment, said she would also like to see a committee comprised of students overseeing activities related to implementing the policy, in particular because members of staff could be harassing students and other staff members. Farid advises that the rules be well-advertised so those at the university know what sexual harassment is and its consequences. She hopes procedures are in place so victims could, if they choose, take complaints to the police.
Generally, "it's good to see such policies put in place," she said. "But hopefully it's not just a verbal policy—we want to actually see it being implemented."
Adoption of the policy follows a decree issued by former interim president Adly Mansour in June that criminalized sexual harassment for the first time in Egypt. Days later, after a video of a naked woman being viciously assaulted in Tahrir Square went viral online, newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the nation's prime minister to form a committee that would create a national strategy to address harassment.
"This is the first time that the government and institutions are even starting to see it," said Ahmad Hegab, Safe Areas Unit Manager at Harassmap. "For years, they didn't accept the fact that sexual harassment was happening."
But Human Rights Watch said amendments to Egypt's penal code still need improvement and that Egypt still has major gaps in violence-against-women laws. "This level of attention to sexual harassment from an Egyptian president needs to be judged by what actually results [from it]," said Rothan Begum, women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, in a June statement.
Still, some are now being prosecuted for sexual crimes. On Wednesday, a Cairo court sentenced nine defendants to 20 to 25 years in prison for sexual assault on Tahrir Square, the state news agency MENA reported. Late last month, two men were slapped with two years in jail and EGP 5,000 ($700) in fines for verbally harassing a woman at a mall, while another man was handed a one-year prison sentence for taking a picture of a woman asleep on a bus, according to the Daily News Egypt, an English-language daily.
Yet cases appear to be few and far between considering the sheer amount of harassment incidents that take place daily here, fueling questions about whether or not new policies at state and university levels will prove effective. At Cairo University, numerous factors could inhibit successful implementation, activists said.
"First, it depends on whether girls will take such an initiative to use this policy to their (benefit)—to file complaints," said Salma ElNaqqash, director of the Women's Political Participation Academy at Nazra for Feminist Studies in Cairo. "If the girls decide, 'We don't want to do this,' there's no point of having such a policy." Another challenge, said ElNaqqesh, is the difficulty for young women to file complaints against their professors since they hold positions of authority.
Moreover, campus security personnel will need to be educated about what harassment is and how to deal with it, activists said, while learning not to blame victims. "And what we don't know, as of now, is who will be (securing) the university," said Hegab, at Harassmap. If private companies manage campus security, independent organizations like Harassmap could train guards to handle harassment issues. But if police are reinstalled on campuses—reversing a decision to remove them from public higher learning institutions in 2010—it is unlikely rights activists will be permitted to train them, Hegab said.
Regardless, activists and professors seek to expand the policy's reach. "We think of Cairo University as a first step and my expectation is that all national universities will follow suit," Elsadda said, adding that anti-harassment policies are just as important as those addressing plagiarism.
Policies will not eradicate a problem but they will definitely lessen one, address some of the issues, hold people accountable, make people feel they have access to justice and ensure that a complaint procedure will guarantee some justice, she said. "All of that is important."
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Q: Issue with removing boost::interprocess::named_mutex I did below program, but it failed to delete the named_mutex in the end, print out result of "Mutex delete failure"
void IPC::testNamedMutex()
{
named_mutex mutex(open_or_create, "MyMutex");
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    mutex.lock();
    cout << "Mutex taken" << endl;

    std::fstream fs("test.txt", std::fstream::out | std::fstream::app);
    if (fs)
    {
        fs << "Thread id: " << boost::this_thread::get_id() << ", "
                << "Iteration " << i << endl;
    }

    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::seconds(1));
    mutex.unlock();
    cout << "Mutex is unlocked" << endl;

}
cout << "Delete the file and mutex?(y/n): ";
char c;
cin >> c;
if (c == 'y' || c == 'Y')
{
    if (remove("test.txt"))
        cout << "File deleted" << endl;
    else
        cout << "File delete failed" << endl;

    bool success=named_mutex::remove("MyMutex");
    if (success)
        cout << "Mutex removed" << endl;
    else
        cout << "Mutex delete failure" << endl;
}
}

However, if I run the remove with a second program such as below, it works. What could be the reason?
void IPC::testDeleteNamedMutex()
{
cout << named_mutex::remove("MyMutex") << endl;
}

A: AFAIK This happens on windows if the mutex has been created while running in elevated context, but you try to remove it as a regular user.
In other words, UAC spoiling things again.
Theoretically, you should be able to set ACL (access control lists)  to grant permissions to the intended users/groups. I haven't tried this. I'd consult Technet and/or your local administrators to find out more if you need to.


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