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Iran and Turkey Join Dictators' Club; Gulf States to Follow?
by Seth J. Frantzman
https://www.meforum.org/63577/iran-and-turkey-join-dictators-club
Published originally under the title "Russia Pushes for Authoritarians to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization."
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is holding its annual summit this year in Samarkand. The gather of a number of authoritarian regimes usually goes unnoticed in the West. However, this year's gathering, which will take place this week, showcases how Russia, despite the invasion of Ukraine, will be greeted with respect by a number of other authoritarians. Uzbekistan, a country that is ostensibly close to the US and the West, is hosting the meeting. High-level meetings between China and Russia as well as Iran, Russia, Turkey and China are expected.
The states are expected to sign a memorandum on Iran's role in the SCO this year. "We expect [SCO] leaders to sign a memorandum on Iran's commitments to join the organization, after which Iran would fulfill [its] commitments in accordance with the procedures and complete its accession to the organization," SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming told Russia's TASS on Friday.
Iran isn't the only authoritarian regime coming to the SCO. Belarus has also submitted an application. "The SCO is currently actively discussing Belarus's application, and major coordination work is underway on behalf of the Secretariat. We believe there will eventually be consensus," Zhang Ming said, according to reports.
With the exception of India, the countries that attend the SCO are generally authoritarian regimes. The SCO has eight members and includes six dialogue partners. The countries that attend include Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Afghanistan, Iran and Belarus are observers. Armenia and Azerbaijan, along with Turkey are attending this year as partners of the grouping. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar are also reportedly becoming dialogue partners.
Turkish state media is highlighting Ankara's role this year at the meeting. This is part of Turkey's growing alliance with Russia, Iran and China. Turkey wants to form an alliance of authoritarian regimes that will be anti-western and help reduce the US role in the Middle East and Asia. The SCO increasingly appears as a forum that is designed to confront the US. Countries like Pakistan under its former leader Imran Khan often spoke out against the US and said he was seeking to create a "multi-polar" world alongside Russia. Far-right commentators in Turkey who back the ruling AKP party are also proud of Ankara's role alongside Russia and China at the meeting.
The SCO didn't have turn out this way. It didn't have to end up as a grouping that gives a positive greeting to Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion and promotes membership for more authoritarian regimes. However recent years and summits have clearly been used by Russia, China and others to create a forum that is totally disconnected from the West. The goal is increasingly a world that exists without the West. What that means is a way to avoid US and western sanctions on Russia or Iran. These countries have common interests. Turkey, which is buying the S-400 from Russia and is now outside the US F-35 program, a partnership with Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus and China is also a key part of the current Turkish government's approach.
In the Middle East countries increasingly look to the SCO as a grouping that is important. What this means is that it is not only seen as a gathering of Central Asian states, it is growing to have more importance as it expands partnerships to Ankara, Tehran and Belarus.
An article at Arab news noted that "established in 2001 as a successor to the Shanghai Five, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the largest regional grouping in Eurasia, covering around 40 percent of the world's population and 30 percent of global economic output. Owing to its impressive profile of security and economic cooperation, the SCO has gained enormous traction across Asia. No surprise that a number of countries from the Middle East and Southeast Asia are lining up to join as dialogue partners, observers and members."
Who else might join?
The Arab News article claimed recently that "the UAE reportedly wants to join the SCO as a member, bypassing other accession conditions. Syria, Iraq, Israel, Bangladesh and Vietnam also hope to join as dialogue partners or observers." The article, by Ishtiaq Ahmad, a former journalist who has been vice chancellor of Sargodha University in Pakistan and Quaid-e-Azam Fellow at the University of Oxford, writes that the SCO is not an anti-US bloc, "quite the contrary, its evolution conforms to the familiar pattern of 'new regionalism' in the developing world, which has produced viable regional organizations, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council and ASEAN. All are intergovernmental organizations with similar structures, defying the supranational mode of integration in the EU."
His assertion might ring more true if western countries and democracies were also seeking to be partners of the SCO. Iran and Belarus running to join appear to indicate that this is not what is happening. Ahmad notes that "the SCO's comparative distinction arises from its rapid progress in forging close security and economic collaboration. The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure is its key institution to counter the three evils. Security cooperation is reinforced by military exercises, dubbed as peace missions, and counterterrorism drills held periodically in the member states." He also writes that "their overarching goal is to create the Greater Eurasian Partnership by synergizing SCO's developmental activities with multilateral integration projects in Eurasia, including China's Silk Road Economic Belt and Russia's Eurasian Economic Union." His conclusion is that the Gulf states should seek to work with the SCO and diversify their "geo-economic linkages in Asia without jeopardizing geopolitical partnership with the US."
His article also argues that with Iran joining the SCO is a positive sign because countries that join are less likely to cause trouble with other members and partners. Indeed, Iran is increasingly an ally of Russia and Turkey. The fact is that Iran continues to destabilize the Persian Gulf and threaten many countries in the Middle East. It remains a key question whether countries that are close to the US and the West will seek dialogue with the grouping. India is the one major exception of a country that is close to the West and also works with the SCO.
Seth Frantzman is a Ginsburg-Milstein Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum and senior Middle East correspondent at The Jerusalem Post.
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Coat check is located in 101A in the Wisconsin Center. It costs $5 up to 4 hours, $10 all day, $25 all weekend (weekend has in/out privileges). It is free if you have a VIP, VIP+ or photographer badge.
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Yes, we have a cosplay contest and it is called the Masquerade. It's Saturday, Feb 16 @ 5:30PM-8PM.
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Frances have been a prolific writer since the late 1980s when she had three poems published New Beginnings: A Reflective Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Since then, she has contributed to over 25 magazines and was the longest running contributor for Insight (2002 to 2012), Australia's No.1 spiritual lifestyle magazine until its demise in September 2012.
First published in November 2012, Dancing the Sacred Wheel: A Journey through the Southern Sabbats was expanded to 292 pages and re-released in June 2014 and made available through all Amazon affiliated online stores in both paperback as well as ebook format.
Dancing the Sacred Wheel provides an in-depth look at the myth and folklore associated with each of the eight sabbats (seasonal festivals) observed within modern Paganism, but also discusses way of creating specific rituals and observances that acknowledge each seasonal "gateway" when the local environment is reflecting something completely different. While written primarily for the Southern Hemisphere, the author sets about to challenge the reader, regardless of which hemisphere they reside, to draw inspiration from their own local environment when wishing to create a "Wheel of the Year" that is completely unique to them.
Australian customers can purchase their own copy direct from the author for $35 (including postage anywhere within Australia).
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In Her Sacred Name: Writings on the Divine Feminine, published in October 2014, consists of some 214 pages, and is a collection of expanded essays that focused around the concept of the Divine Feminine, the Goddess that came from many diverse cultures that included Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, African and Mesopotamian.
In Her Sacred Name is available through Lulu as well as all Amazon affiliated online stores in both paperback as well as ebook format.
Call of the God: An Anthology Exploring the Divine Masculine within Modern Paganism consists of some 290 pages and showcases an array of various essays, poems, invocations and artwork of the Divine Masculine, the God, and how he is depicted amongst various Pagans around the world.
Contributors to this anthology include Michael Howard (editor of The Cauldron who passed through the veil shortly after release of the anthology), Pete Jennings (past Pagan Federation president and author), Anna Franklin (author of 30 books and decks including The Pagan Ways Tarot and The Sacred Circle Tarot), Tony and Candia McKormack from British Pagan band Inkubus Sukkubus, Shauna Aura Knight (mixed media artist and author), Peter Coughlin (writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction), and Patrick Larabee (artist and author of Whisperings from the Void).
Call of the God is available through all Amazon affiliated online stores in both paperback as well as ebook format. Australian customers can purchase their own copy direct from the author for $35 (including postage anywhere within Australia).
The Wytch's Circle: Written to accompany the course of the same name that Frances runs through the Temple of the Dark Moon, this book contains foundational information with respect to contemporary witchcraft together with an introduction into circle casting, working with the elements, sigil and spell creation, and even foundational rituals found within ceremonial magic and the qabalah. The Wytch's Circle is published by TDM Publishing in July 2019 and is available through Lulu.
A Little Book of Wicca: An initial introduction to what some of main philosophies, ethics and practices of this earth-centric spiritual path is all about. Consisting of some 67 pages, this book is the perfect size to give to family and friends to explain what the earth-centric spiritual belief of Wicca (contemporary witchcraft) is actually about. A Little Book of Wicca is published by TDM Publishing in July 2019 and is available through Lulu.
Encountering the Dark Goddess: A Journey into the Shadow Realms: Based on workshops of the same name that Frances has been hosting since 2006. The objective of this book is to introduce the reader to an assortment of Underwordly, chthonic, and even seemingly destructive Goddesses. It is through myth, magic and sacred ritual that we can face our hidden shadows and open ourselves up to be transformed under the protective guidance of the Dark Goddess. Encountering the Dark Goddess: A Journey into the Shadow Realms will be published by Moon Books and will be available from March 2021.
Forthcoming Projects
Contemporary Witchcraft: Foundational Practices for a Magical Life: While there is an abundance of approaches to witchcraft and modern Wicca today with many encouraging an "anything goes" approach, Contemporary Witchcraft: A Foundation for the Magical Life offers an alternative for the seeker who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of a more traditional approach to the Craft. By tapping into the essence of the teachings handed down by Gardner, and later Alex Sanders, this book provides the seeker with invaluable tool and techniques that will enable them to set a foundation upon which to build their ongoing magical and spiritual practice. Regardless of whether the seeker is interested in joining a coven or not, contemporary witchcraft is about dedication and devotion in order for the greater mysteries to be revealed. This books offers an insight into how the non-initiate can achieve this in their own practices. Contemporary Witchcraft: Foundational Practices for a Magical Life will be published by Moon Books and will be available from mid 2021.
On Her Silver Rays: A collection of moon myth, lore and other information to assist those wishing to work with the energies of the moon throughout the different astrological and lunar phases of the year. Anticipated release date: Mid 2020.
13 Lessons in Magick, Wicca and Witchcraft: Making available a comprehensive correspondence course that Frances ran from 1999 to 2010 that explored the practices of magic, witchcraft and modern Wicca through detailed lectures. This course will be presented in a larger, workbook style format specifically designed as a training manual for solitary practitioners who are interested in establishing for themselves a "solid foundation" upon which they can seriously explore the art of magick as well as the spiritual practices of witchcraft and Wicca in this modern age.
Anticipated release date: Late 2020
In The Great Below: Working title of the journey Frances commenced in July 2015 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and the similarities she experienced to that of the Sumerian Goddess, Inanna, who descended into the Underworld for three days and three nights. Anticipated release date: Late 2021.
Sabbats Downunder: A yet to be titled anthology collating various practices and thoughts of the Sabbats (seasonal festivals) from Pagan and other earth-centric practitioners who reside in the Southern Hemisphere. Aims to be a follow up and expansion of Dancing the Sacred Wheel: A Journey through the Southern Sabbats. Submission Call: TBA.
A Year with the Goddess: Proposed title for the book on the Goddess, the Sacred She drawing inspiration from the numerous rituals, activities and other events hosted by Frances at The Goddess House since 2007. Anticipated release date: Early 2021.
As a prolific writer, Frances Billinghurst has had articles that have appeared in numerous publications since 1998 including Silver Wheel, Pagan Times, Witchcraft, Spellcraft, Magick, The Green Man Quarterly, The Australian Pagan Magazine and Alternative Spirit Magazine (Aus), The Cauldron (UK), Rainbow News (NZ), Circle, New Witch and SageWoman (USA) and the 2008 Llewellyn's Witches Calendar. I have also written for ezines including Magickal Light, Goddess Guru, Avalon and Mundi Axis, amongst others.
Since 2012 Frances has contributed towards an increasing number of anthologies including:
Unto Herself: An Anthology in Honour of Independent Goddesses edited by Ashley Horn (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2012),
Witchy Magic edited by Serene Conneeley and Lucy Cavendish (Blessed Bee, 2012),
The Faerie Queens: A Collection of Essays Exploring the Myths, Magic and Mythology of the Faerie Queens by Sorita d'Este and David Rankine (Avalonia Books, 2013),
Queen of Olympos: A Devotional Anthology for Hera and Iuno edited by Lykeia (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2013),
A Mantle of Stars: A Devotional for the Queen of Heaven edited by Jen McConnel (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2013),
Paganism 101: An Introduction to Paganism by Pagans edited by Trevor Greenfield (Moon Books, 2014),
By Blood, Bone and Claw: A Devotional Anthology to the Morrigan edited by Nicole Bonvisuto (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2014)
Witchcraft Today: 60 Years On edited by Trevor Greenfield (Moon Books, 2014),
The Naming of the Goddess edited by Trevor Greenfield (Moon Books, 2014),
From the Roaring Deep: A Devotional Anthology in Honour of Poseidon and the Spirits of the Sea edited by Rebecca Buchanan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2015),
Daughter of the Sun: A Devotional Anthology in Honour of Sekhmet edited by Tina Georgitsis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2015),
The Grey Mare on the Hill edited by Lee Davis (Grey Mare Books, 2015),
Garland of the Goddess: Tales and Poems of the Feminine Divine by Gerri Leen (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2016),
Flower Face: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Blodeuwedd (Ninth Wave Press, 2016),
Pagan Planet: Being, Believing and Belonging and the 21st Century by Nimue Brown (Moon Books, 2016),
Weathering the Storm: Moon Books Collective edited by Trevor Greenfield (Moon Books, 2020).
Other anthologies that Frances has contributed towards but not yet published anthologies include:
Memento Mori: A Collection of Magickal and Mythological Perspectives On Death, Dying, Mortality and Beyond (Volume II) by Kim Huggens (Avalonia Books)
Pagan Prayer Project by Stacey Demarco,
Shield of Wisdom: A Devotional Anthology in Honour of Athena (Bibliotheca Alexandrina), and
The Bosom of Isis by Sorita d'Este (Avalonia Books).

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require 'resolv'

username = node[:username]
api_host = node[:api_host]
controller_host = node[:controller_host]
controller_ip = Resolv.new.getaddress(controller_host)
vcap_home = "/home/#{username}/cloudfoundry/vcap"
vcap_services = node[:vcap_services]

controller_conf = "#{vcap_home}/cloud_controller/config/cloud_controller.yml"
script "Setup cloud_controller" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user username
  environment ({'CONTROLLER' => controller_ip,
                'CONF' => controller_conf,
                'API' => api_host})
  only_if {vcap_services.include? "cloud_controller"}
  not_if "grep #{controller_ip} #{controller_conf}"
  code <<-EOH
  sed -i "s|external_uri:.*|external_uri: $API|" $CONF
  sed -i "s|local_route:.*|local_route: $CONTROLLER|" $CONF
  sed -i "s|mbus:.*|mbus: nats://$CONTROLLER:4222/|" $CONF
  EOH
end

router_conf = "#{vcap_home}/router/config/router.yml"
script "Setup router" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user username
  environment ({'CONTROLLER' => controller_ip, 'CONF' => router_conf})
  only_if {vcap_services.include? "router"}
  not_if "grep #{controller_ip} #{router_conf}"
  code <<-EOH
  sed -i "s|mbus:.*|mbus: nats://$CONTROLLER:4222/|" $CONF
  EOH
end

health_manager_conf = "#{vcap_home}/health_manager/config/health_manager.yml"
script "Setup health_manager" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user username
  environment ({'CONTROLLER' => controller_ip, 'CONF' => health_manager_conf})
  only_if {vcap_services.include? "health_manager"}
  not_if "grep #{controller_ip} #{health_manager_conf}"
  code <<-EOH
  sed -i "s|local_route:.*|local_route: $CONTROLLER|" $CONF
  sed -i "s|mbus:.*|mbus: nats://$CONTROLLER:4222/|" $CONF
  EOH
end

dea_conf = "#{vcap_home}/dea/config/dea.yml"
script "Setup dea" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user username
  environment ({'CONTROLLER' => controller_ip, 'CONF' => dea_conf})
  only_if {vcap_services.include? "dea"}
  not_if "grep #{controller_ip} #{dea_conf}"
  code <<-EOH
  sed -i "s|local_route:.*|local_route: $CONTROLLER|" $CONF
  sed -i "s|mbus:.*|mbus: nats://$CONTROLLER:4222/|" $CONF
  EOH
end

script "Start vcap" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user username
  cwd vcap_home
  environment ({'VCAP' => vcap_home, 'HOME' => "/home/#{username}",
                'SERVICES' => vcap_services})
  code <<-EOH
  echo "Activate rvm"
  rvm_path="$HOME/.rvm"
  [[ -s "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm"
  type rvm | head -1

  rvm use 1.9.2-p180
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "failed to rvm use 1.9.2"
    exit 1
  fi

  cd $VCAP
  bin/vcap start $SERVICES
  EOH
end

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• To contact you if an appointment needs to be rescheduled.
If you have given us permission, we may contact you by email, text, mail or telephone about updates or new services. Traditionally, we don't do this (we have sent one newsletter in seven years) and do not plan to unless there is a significant change such as in staff or if we can make booking or amending an appointment easier for you. From May 25th 2018 we will not send you this information in an email newsletter unless you have 'opted in' which we will ask you in consultation in the form of a documented record.
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Q: Could you generate procedural textures in Unity2D? First question, so excuse me if I miss some basic etiquette. I'm messing around in Unity2D with a 2D terrain generator for something like a DnD world map. However, I'd like to texture this map with something along the lines of a procedural paper texture. But googling around hasn't lead me to much help - and so I am wondering what is out there that could assist me in at run-time generating a procedural texture and applying it to a 2D plane.

A: It will most likely depend on what exactly you're trying to achieve with this procedural texture.
For instance, why wouldn't a simple tileable texture not be appropriate for this project ?
Shaders are probably what you're looking for, there's plenty of resource out there on how to make diverse kind of textures but learning how to make shaders is not a trivial undertaking and can easily become a project of its own.
So I can't provide much in terms of practical answers but If you were to follow through with this idea I would strongly suggest you check out the Shader Graph  Unity plugin.
It'll be a more practical way than making the shader yourself, but still no easy task.
Get started with Shader Graph
Sorry for the lack of usable code snippet.

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Muiredach mac Brain (mort en 885) est un  rois de Leinster et un abbé de Kildare  du sept Uí Dúnchada des Uí Dúnlainge une lignée des Laigin. Ce sept avait sa résidence royale à Líamhain (, à la frontière ente le comté de Dublin et celui Kildare). Il était le fils de  Bran mac Fáeláin (mort en 838) et le frère de Ruarc mac Brain (mort en 862), deux précédents rois.

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On constate de grandes divergences dans les listes royales du Leinster de cette époque. Francis John Byrne suggère que la cause de cette apparente confusion est liée au fait que les souverains Uí Dúnlainge n'exercent que très peu d'autorité réelle à cause des agressions de leur voisin occidental  Cerball mac Dúnlainge (mort en 888), roi d'Osraige. Cerball, est incapable de s'empaer lui-même de la royauté du Leinster, mais il parvient à priver ses rivaux de la possibilité d'y exercer un réel pouvoir. Muiredach lui-même apparait dans les annales comme un chef du forces du Leinster et même un roi alors que d'autres personnages sont aussi considéré comme roi.

Sa première mention dans les annales se trouve en 870. Cette année là, l'Ard ri Erenn Áed Findliath envahit le Leinster et y impose sa suzeraineté. En même temps son allié Cerball mac Dúnlainge (mort 888) d' Osraige envahit le Leinster par l'ouest. Il prend Dún Bolg (Dunboyke, dans l'actuel comté de Wicklow) où son camp est attaqué par les Hommes du Laigin qui obtiennent un succès initial, mais
apr-s une contre-attaque sont mis en fuitet. Muiredach est mentionné parmi les chefs des armées du Leinster comme roi. Leur résistance disuade toutefois l'Ard ri d'exiger des otages du Leinster.

En 871 le roi Ailill mac Dúnlainge est tué par les Vikings du royaume de Dublin. il est le premier roi à être désigné comme « roi de Leinster » dans les Annales d'Ulster depuis 838. Les annales notent ensuite que  Domnall mac Muirecáin (mort en 884) devient roi en 880. Dans la période intermédiaire, Áed Findliath envahit le Leinster dans le but d'y imposer son autorité, il pille la campagne et brûle les églises dont Cell Ausili (Killashee, près der Naas) en 874. Muiredach réagit et mène une force à l'attaque des domaines des Ui Neill du sud en 875. Il dévaste la campagne jusqu'à Sliab Monduirn en Brega.

Domnall meurt en 884 et Muiredach devient définitivement roi. Il est désigné comme roi de Leinster dans l'entrée relatant sa mort en 885 dans les Annales. Muiredach était également abbé de Kildare où il avait succédé en 870 à son parent Cobthach mac Muiredaig. Cet abbatiat était devenu le monopole virtuel du sept Dúnchada depuis 798. Un autre parent, Suibne Ua Fínsnechtai est évêque de Kildare de 881 à 884. Son fils Fáelán mac Muiredaig (mort en 942) sera aussi roi de Leinster.

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Article connexe
Liste des rois de Leinster

Liens externes
 Annales d'Ulster sur CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
 Annales de Tigernach sur CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
 Livre de Leinster, Rig Laigin et Rig Hua Cendselaig sur CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork

Sources secondaires

Décès en 885
Roi de Leinster au IXe siècle
Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Noblesse irlandaise du haut Moyen Âge

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Describing it as a fun and colorful event for all involved, referring to the participants as masqueraders and telling of how much excitement and joy expressed during this wonderful event. Adults and children, from all walks of life, have their rightful place in this wonderful, national celebration.
Everyone is free to dance either by themselves or with their friends and even strangers at times. You see lots of different types of movement, from chipping - which is a simple but rhythmic shuffling of the feet, waving of arms, hands, flags and pretty much anything that you can wave to people jumping as high as they can. It is an amazing thing to see and experience. We cannot say that enough. So, we wanted our students to experience it as well, in the only way physically possible to do so without having to buy them all plane tickets and fly them to Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival. Although the latter does sound nice! Putting together a fun, mas-inspired activity is the only other way we could allow them to learn and experience it.
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Children love to sing, well most of them do. We do have a couple of students who are shy about their voice and aren't the most confident singers and hey, that's ok. But for the ones who love to belt out a note or two, this activity allowed them to do just that. What made it easier for everyone was the complementary movement because it reinforced the lyrics of the song and made it easier to memorize. We also got the opportunity to teach our students a dance move that is very necessary to learn, as it is one of the main ways to move during Carnival time. Now we think they are definitely Carnival ready and next year, who knows, we may just have to buy them those plane tickets and fly them all down to Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival. At the end of it all, we can definitely say this activity was successful and everyone had fun while learning and to us, that's what matters most.
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Bekhi Makhubu, editor of The Nation, and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko were arrested on charges of contempt of court after publishing two articles. Media in Swaziland operate under strict regulations and criticism of King Mswati III and his government is not tolerated.
DW: The men were arrested after publishing articles – what exactly were these articles about?
Mary Rayner: They were two separate articles. One is the reflection by the editor of the nation and the other was an article by the human rights lawyer. Both in various ways were reflecting on specific judicial proceedings in which they presented a view that there was an interference of some sort in the judicial proceedings. The articles are part of a bigger picture of three or more years of crisis in rule of law in Swaziland in which the law society and another organizations inside and outside Swaziland have been concerned about the way in which the administration of justice is conducted and creates problems of access to the courts in a fair and impartial manner for anyone who needs to approach the courts to seek a remedy, including for human rights violations. The articles are part of that process of domestic discussion and reflection, they also followed articles that were published in The Nation several years ago which led one of the two men Bheki Aakhubu, the editor of The Nation to be arrested and to be brought before a proceeding, charged with contempt of court and he is still waiting for his appeal against a severe sentence which was imposed on him.
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Would you say that the arrest of these two men is more like an intimidation of journalists or freedom of expression?
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Back then, Istanbul in the summer months was a place of sounds and smells. It had colour, but it was the colour of cut watermelons and the flash of silver fish in the garbage-strewn water of the Bosporus. Water is a funny thing there. Like everything else, it lasts for only so long. We were told not to drink it straight from the faucet, so we purchased huge thick glass bottles in old wicker baskets. In the summer, it would be barely days before the green moss would start growing on the insides of the glass. We wondered why we bothered.
Our rented apartment sat at the top of a hill, at the end of Yogurt Man Street. The place was full of names like that. We were renting from the man who lived in the penthouse apartment, a Turk with ice-blue eyes, Selim Bey. He had a doughy face, always covered with a slight sweat sheen. The smell of lemon cologne wafted after him like a cloud. Colours and smells. We were good enough for him to take our foreign money if nothing else.
The cobbles of Yogurt Man Street ended at the hard-packed earth of our yard, dry and brown. Tomato plants and chilies grew against stakes along the centre. I often thought about an actual yogurt seller walking up Yogurt Man Street, his flat metal pans dangling from the yoke across his shoulders, and swaying slightly back and forth as he walked, his flat cloth cap pulled down on top of his head as a statement to Ataturk's changes. But it rarely happened. The hill was steep, and we bought our supplies from foreign shops or had them come in trucks from the Netherlands.
At one end of the yard sat the apartment block, tall, white, and new. Directly opposite, at the other end, sat the old house, behind a wall of oleander bushes. The place had been abandoned for years. Vast, wooden, and mysterious, it sat at the end of the yard and threatened with what it might hold. At one time, a section had projected into the yard -- a back room of some sort -- but the wooden parts had long gone. We used to pick away at the surrounding foundation bricks with sticks, searching for the shiny black scorpions hidden between the cracks. It was a thrill and a dare, all at once. The scorpion is like a spider, fascinating with the risk it holds, just like the house at the bottom of the yard.
I remember standing at the base of the hill on a winter's night, the wind whipping shadows from the branches and the single street lamp at the top. I stood frozen, watching the old empty house, its bulk leaning perilous and dark over the narrow, cobbled street. I stood there for what seemed an eternity, until finally I closed my eyes and ran.
An English family lived in the apartment next to ours -- the Watsons. They had two boys and a girl. It was the older boy, a year my senior, who taught me how to catch scorpions and keep them in a matchbox, and it was he who first dared me to go into the old house. He dared me although our parents had warned us away from the place.
"It's dangerous," they would say. "Just stay right away from it." Which only gave it that extra tinge of excitement for a growing boy. Who knew what treasures we might find lurking within its cracked and faded boards? Each day after school, we would slip inside, the three of us, and search for riches hidden within the walls. We picked away at the plaster with sticks and fingers, searching for the hidden spaces behind. When we found nothing, we started on the floorboards.
We improvised, using whatever we could lay to hand: lengths of timber, a garden rake. And we pried and worried those floorboards until one by one they yielded. Holes began to appear between the floors, and we had to pick our way treacherously over gaping traps. The floor became less, and our confidence grew as the old house submitted to our will. There was still no treasure. When finally there was hardly any flooring left, we started demolishing the walls, taking swinging strikes at the plaster, and leaping back as huge lumps fell and puffed up clouds of dust that sparkled in the shafts of sunlight lancing through the walls. We struck at the plaster-daubed slats with enthusiasm, revelling in every thump and crash.
One day, I was on the upper floor, in the section that leaned perilously out over Yogurt Man Street's cobbles, when Mark called out from below.
"Come and look at this."
I peered out of the upper story window, or what was left of it, but could see nothing that would attract his excitement. He must have found some treasure within!
I raced down the rickety staircase to the room below. He was standing, his face pressed up against a hole in the outer wall. Then he giggled. I pressed myself into the space beside him.
Across from the derelict house, high above the street sat another -- old wooden boards and balconies and windows -- but people still lived over there. I couldn't see what was so funny.
"Over there. Look at that window. Do you see her?" He giggled again.
I looked to where he was pointing, and I saw. Behind a dirt-filmed window stood a girl. She was much older than we were. She wore a creamy yellow sweater and a black skirt. Long black hair fell around a plump pale face. And then she waved and smiled. I pulled back from the hole in the wall, flustered and feeling guilty.
"Come back," said Mark. "Look!"
She was still there. And then she started to dance -- a belly dance -- and she was dancing just for us.
We must have stood there for over half an hour, until she finally looked over her shoulder, smiled and waved, then disappeared from view. After a time, we dragged ourselves away from the hole, flushed and excited. She had danced there in that window, just for us.
A week passed before we had the chance to enter the old house again, but though we kept returning to the hole in the wall, the grime-streaked window across the street remained blank. The next day we were disappointed yet again.
Two days later, in the early morning, a combination of age, the elements and our ministrations proved too much for the old house. A mighty crash from outside the apartment building reverberated through the neighbourhood. The noise dragged us all from breakfast and we leapt up and raced outside to see. Whether it would have happened anyway, or whether the amount of floor and wall material we had removed over the months finally tipped the balance, we will never know. The old house had given up the ghost, and had fallen, a pile of timber, tiles, and plaster, down into Yogurt Man Street below. As we stood there speechless with the enormity of what had happened, the dust cloud slowly settled above the brown and orange pile.
We could have been in it when it went. We could have been crushed beneath the tumble of wood and nails and clay. But we weren't. Mark and I looked at each other with wide-eyed expressions. We weren't thinking about the danger we had escaped.
And though I didn't know it then, I know it now. In that brief time, the old house had revealed to us its treasure; an ephemeral treasure that now lay buried and hidden beneath the rubble on Yogurt Man Street never to be seen again, but one that will last forever.
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We love computers from the 1980s and early 1990s and still use them to this day. Some of us like to do hardware projects, some play games. Some like to code and some like to draw. And some like to do everything you can possibly imagine! If you like to still use your Commodore 64, VIC-20, Amiga 500… whatever! You've come to the right place.
And better yet, the whole point of this club is to get together – in person – and share what we're each doing these days on this fun machines. Not currently active but still love these old vintage computers? That's OK, too.
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Q From Selinda Chiquoine: My new puppy has really gotten my goat, and I was wondering how the heck that phrase came to be?
A In 1927, a writer in the Brazil Times — not the country, but the place in Indiana — commented this was "one of the most absurd slang phrases in the English language". It's hard to disagree, though plenty of candidates for the accolade come to mind. Even worse, nobody has much of a clue where it comes from.
Our usual meaning is that somebody has goaded or teased another into signs of irritation or has — accidentally or deliberately — exasperated or annoyed them.
I think the crowd got his goat, or the idea of fighting — one or the other — because he did not say boo and sat down like a mope.
Washington Times, 18 Nov. 1905.
The idiom became very popular in the US and by 1914 had been taken to Canada, Britain, Australia and other countries.
The most frequent story that attempts to explain it relates to horse racing in North America and to the common practice of putting an animal in a horse's stall to befriend and calm it. The story says that a goat was the most common companion and that enterprising villains capitalised on the association by gambling on the horse to lose and then stealing the goat. A substantial ability to suspend one's disbelief is needed to accept this at face value.
This is a sensible suggestion but once again there's no evidence.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones were starting for Church. "Wait dear," said the lady, "I've forgotten something; won't you go up and get my goats off the bureau?" "Your goats," replied Jones, "what new fangled thing's that?" "I'll show you, remarked the wife, and she sailed up stairs and down again with a pair of kids [kid gloves] on her hands; ''there they are," said she. "Why I call those things kids," said the surprised husband. "Oh, do you!" snapped the wife. "Well so did I once, but they are so old now, I'm ashamed to call them anything but goats." Then they went on to church and smiled sweetly on their friends, and put a nickel in the missionary box, and the next day Jones' wife had a half dozen pairs of new gloves in a handsome lacquered box of the latest design.
Steubenville Weekly Herald (Steubenville, Ohio), 26 Mar. 1880.
You may groan at the weakness of the joke, but it must have been a thigh-slapping, rib-tickling wonder of the times to judge by how often it was repeated. I counted 48 examples between 1880 and 1900 in American newspapers; it crossed the Atlantic within a year and at least a dozen versions appeared in British newspapers in the following two decades; it was almost immediately taken to Australia, where at least 38 versions were published between 1884 and 1904 (at this point I stopped counting).
I'm not suggesting it's the direct origin of the expression, but the phrase get my goats must have been put into the minds of a lot of people through repetitions of the joke. This might have been combined with some slang usage of goat — perhaps a play on kid — to make the idiom we now have.
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Priority Targets for Crop Improvement: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
This presentation summarizes the biotic (insects, viruses, fungi, bacteria, weeds, and post-harvest pests) and abiotic (drought and soil nutrients) stresses that may be addressed or countered in order to improve crop yield in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Data is sourced from FAOSTAT, GAEZ, a series of academic papers by Waddington & Dixon, and IMPACT model estimates. Slides compare area harvested, yield, and yield gap percentage with total calories per year, the 2005 value of production, and projected growth between 2005-2030.
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The Importance of Policy Incentives to Agricultural Productivity Growth: A Synthesis
This research brief synthesizes evidence on the effects of policy incentives on agricultural productivity. The evidence discussed is primarily drawn from documents provided to EPAR by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We review the role of policy and institutions in the Asian Green Revolution, a detailed case study on how policy changes have removed smallholder productivity constraints and contributed to growth, and the theory on the connection of policy incentives to productivity growth.
Agricultural Risks Management in Africa
This brief presents selected material from the Fourth African Agricultural Markets Program (AAMP) policy symposium, Agricultural Risks Management in Africa: Taking Stock of What Has and Hasn't Worked, organized by the Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa that took place in Lilongwe, Malawi, September 6-10, 2010. We draw almost exclusively from Rashid and Jayne's summary, "Risk Management in African Agriculture: A review of experiences." This article summarizes across the background papers, with major findings grouped into three broad categories: cross cutting, government-led policies, and modern instruments.
Crops & Climate Change: Executive Summary
This report combines analyses from four previous EPAR briefs on the effects of climate change on maize, rice, wheat, sorghum, and millet production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In addition, this brief presents new analysis of the projected impact of climate changes in SSA. We include comparisons of the importance of each crop, of their vulnerability to climate change, and of the research and policy resources dedicated to each. Especially with respect to climatic susceptibility, these rankings provide a comparative summary based upon the analysis conducted in the four previous EPAR briefs, statistical analyses of historical yield and climate data, and future climate model predictions. According to the indicators analyzed, our research suggests that maize leads the cereal crops in terms of importance within SSA and in terms of research and policy attention. Our analysis of climate conditions and the crop's physical requirements suggests that many maize-growing areas are likely to move outside the range of ideal temperature and precipitation conditions for maize production. Rice is the third most important crop in terms of consumption dependency, fourth in terms of production, but second only to maize in terms of research funding and FTEs. Sorghum and millet rank second and third in production importance and second and fifth in consumption importance, but rank below maize and rice in terms of FTE researchers. Their role is complicated by the fact that they are often considered inferior goods; SSA consumers often substitute away from sorghum and millet consumption if they are able to do so. Wheat is the least-produced crop of the five, and the second to last in terms of consumption importance. However, it still ranks above millet in terms of FTE researchers.


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Background: UK guidelines recommend that all newly diagnosed colorectal cancers (CRCs) be screened for mismatch repair deficiency (MMR-D) that may be indicative of Lynch syndrome (LS). Current diagnostic approaches, will fail to detect MLH1 promoter hypermethylation or a germline mutation in approximately 60% of suspected LS cases. In most cases the diagnosis of LS can be excluded by somatic sequencing through the demonstration of double somatic mismatch repair (MMR) mutations.
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Results: Modelling shows that for Bethesda families, performing concurrent germline and somatic testing would be more cost-effective than sequential germline and somatic testing (£523 vs. £940 per proband). For Amsterdam families, however, performing sequential testing would be more cost-effective than concurrent testing (£617 vs. £1256 per proband).
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Philippe Coutinho eager for his first goal against Man United
Philippe Coutinho is yet to score against Liverpool's north-west rivals and would love to get his first against Man United on Thursday night.
Coutinho is sure to be a pivotal figure at Old Trafford, as the Reds look to build upon their 2-0 win at Anfield last week.
Despite often proving to be Liverpool's attacking talisman in recent years, the Brazilian is yet to score against United in five appearances, and missed a glorious chance in the first-leg.
He says he hopes that changes on Thursday, as Jurgen Klopp and his side look to inflict more misery on their arch-rivals.
"It would mean a lot," he says. "Whenever we score a goal it is very good. Last week I was close but ended up missing.
"I have to continue working to be able to score goals and, of course, to score a goal in a game like this, in the Europa League, would be a very special moment."
The 23-year-old also spoke about the form of teammate and compatriot Roberto Firmino, who is arguably Liverpool's most influential player on current form.
"He is a great player as I always said before he arrived," he continued.
"The other players and I are very happy to have him with us. He is a key component in our current team.
"As Lucas has said, he is a guy that seems like he is going to score in every game, he assists, so he has been very important and I am happy to see him doing well and helping the team.
"We can see Firmino has adapted very quickly. He is an amazing guy on the field and off the field as well. We are very happy."
Coutinho has scored 23 goals in 132 appearances for Liverpool, since arriving from Inter Milan in January 2013, and a 24th strike for the club would be perfect on Thursday evening.
Having played second fiddle to Firmino and Adam Lallana in the first-leg, is this his chance to inspire the Reds to another victory?
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Most nitrates which circulate in the plasma become concentrated in salivary glands and released into saliva. Nitrate molecules are reduced to nitrites via oral facultative anaerobic bacteria. After swallowing, some nitrites are absorbed into the circulating blood and represent one of the sources of vasodilatory Nitric Oxide (NO). It has been recently found that the antiseptic mouth rinse used by healthy individuals for more than one week elevates the blood pressure to some extent and reduces nitrate reduction. In the present review, we discuss the disruption of the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway after using the antibacterial mouthwashes. Reduction of commensal bacteria by antiseptics prevent endogenously produced nitrates from being recycled to systemic nitrite which has the potential to decrease blood pressure. Thus, it can be concluded that excessive use of oral antiseptic mouthrinses could lead to cardiovascular events particularly in patients with high risk to cardiovascular accidents.