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Ron Stratten, Pac 8's first black assistant coach and later NCAA exec, on Jon Embree
In the wake of Jon Embree's firing, I checked in with an old family friend — Ron Stratten, now the owner of StrataSoles, Inc. in Spring Valley, Calif.
Ron played at Oregon, briefly was in high school coaching, then returned to the Ducks as defensive line coach in 1968. He was the first African American assistant coach hired in what then was the Pacific 8 Conference, later became the head coach at Portland State, and was an NCAA official for many years before going into private business.
Stratten labeled the Embree firing "a travesty." He wondered if Embree had been given a mandate to turn it around quickly, and we both know the answer to that was no — not necessarily, because the turnaround was supposed to be accomplished with honor. "It was clear they had very little talent as Colorado jumped into the Pac 12 Conference," Stratten said. "Jon said he wanted to avoid taking a quick fix approach — with bad guys with talent, who brings problems — but it seems clear his bosses did not agree with that strategy. I wonder how much they shared their aspirations for the program, beyond wanting to go to a bowl."
Stratten continued: "I remember Mississippi State hiring Sylvester Croom as it went on probation, something he had nothing to do with. I told friends at the NCAA that I hoped they did not expect him, as the first black head football coach in the SEC, to be competitive while he was on probation and while he wasn't able to fully address the negative recruiting of his SEC colleagues. He was successful in spite of the probationary noose around the program's neck, but was fired anyway, just as they came off probation. MSU had had its best seasons in many years and Croom finally had his own players who were committed to the way he saw success. Coach Embree did not have the chance to put his mark on that team, as I'm sure he was promised.
"As African Americans we are reluctantly hired and expected to overcome extreme adversity just to keep the job. We don't get the benefit of the doubt very often. I'm not saying Jon's firing was racism, but I'm sure race played a part in how long losing would be tolerated while building a program. Though we are starting to see opportunity for African American coaches expanding, it is going to be essential that expectations are clear and resources are available commensurate with expectations."
Stratten brought up the landscape in the Pac 12. "It is not clear whether that commitment was really there in Jon's case," he said. "You would know better than I would. Take a look around the Pac 12. You'll find academic centers, weight rooms, training facilities, and staff to support students with needs. It is definitely a big boy game these days and the arms race is in full stride. Maybe the next coach will get better support."
Ron noted that he was a "transitional coach" at Portland State. I know: He nursed a horrible and under-funded program through several seasons of improvement, tangible and intangible, before he resigned and PSU replaced him with booster favorite Mouse Davis, familiar around here as the one-time coach of the Denver Gold.
"It is a difficult hill to climb," Stratten noted.
His conclusion: "Jon Embree deserved better."
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Vivo Nex is set to launch on Tuesday (June 12) as the company's latest smartphone, but leaks and rumours are still pouring in from all corners. A lot of details regarding the upcoming handset have already been leaked in several previous reports. Recently, two variants of the smartphone were spotted on the company's site in China and the specifications were in line with… Read More »

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American Heart Association – Texarkana Heart Ball 2012
We continue to support the American Heart Association and will be attending this year's Texarkana Heart Ball on March 3rd. The Heart Ball celebrates the giving that fuels AHA research and programs designed to prevent heart disease before it starts, and to help survivors thrive. Countless Americans owe their lives to AHA-funded research breakthroughs and the AHA's guidelines, training, advocacy and programs.


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Welcome to Kabul:Reconstructions. You can follow the information below, which has been gathered from a
number of sources by a number of participants (click on the names at left for bios), to reconstruct your
own picture of events in Kabul since this site was launched on March 8th, 2003 and, in a sense, since the
reconstruction of Afghanistan began somewhere in the winter of 2001-02.
Some of this information has been provided in response to specific questions submitted by visitors like you. Please note that this section of the project is now maintained as an archive and has not been updated since 2005. Click here to ASK A QUESTION.
Mariam Ghani
Zohra Saed
Massoud Hosseini
Nassima Mustafa
Bibigol Ghani
Arian Mouj Sharifi
Soraia Ghani
two perspectives on women's rights & the constitution (NY Times/Negar)
Women Gather in Afghanistan to Compose a Bill of Rights By CARLOTTA GALL NY TIMES Sep 27, 2003 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A few Afghan women and girls were released from jail for a day to attend a recent conference on women's rights in the new Afghan constitution, and their stories brought home the need for change in a country where 95 percent of women are illiterate. One of them, Eqlima, 16, said she had run away from her uncle's home in Kabul and had been picked up by the police in Kandahar. Brought to the conference, she fell into an exhausted sleep. When she awoke, she denounced the police for locking her up when she had committed no crime and vowed to escape as soon as she could. Rosia, 20, said she had fled her father-in-law's house after being forced to marry her brother-in-law after her husband's death. Then, she said, she was raped by her father-in-law and chained up and threatened with death, accused of killing a 2-year-old boy who had fallen down the family well. Mina, 30, said she had been kidnapped by a Taliban commander in Kabul seven years ago, along with her 2-year-old son, and sold to a man in Kandahar who had lost his arms in a mine accident. Kept as his captive wife for seven years, she had borne him four children and was pregnant with a fifth. She said she had run away to the police when the man's mother warned her that he was going to kill her. Their accounts could not be verified but did not surprise the Afghan women - many of them lawyers, doctors, human rights specialists and civil society leaders - gathered for four days to try to draw up a bill of women's rights for the new constitution. In their proposed bill, education for girls would be mandatory through secondary school, and women would have freedom of speech, freedom to vote and run for election, equal representation in Parliament and the judiciary, equal pay with men, and rights to financial independence and to own and inherit property. Many of those rights were entirely denied Afghan women under the six-year rule of the Taliban. Addressing the most difficult issues, the women called for criminal charges to be brought against men for domestic violence, sexual harassment and abuse, whether in public or at home. They demanded a ban on the practice of giving women or girls as compensation for crimes committed by one family against another. They called for a minimum marriageable age of 18 for girls (it is currently 16 but many girls marry in their early teens), for the right to marry and divorce in accordance with Islam, and for a reduction in time that women have to wait to remarry when their husbands disappear. [Fatima Gailani, one of seven women on the commission that is drawing up the draft constitution, told the women later in Kabul: "I am proud to say that what the women in Kandahar and other women have asked for, they are all in the constitution of Afghanistan. We were not alone in the commission, there were not just seven of us, we had you all there."] But as all the women at the Kandahar conference admitted, the law and the constitution are one thing on paper, and practices around the country, especially in the conservative tribal areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan, are quite another. Foreign diplomats are worried that change will be harder to carry out if Islamists succeed in making Shariah, or Islamic law, binding in the constitution when it is adopted at a loya jirga, or grand assembly, due in December. In 1964, Afghanistan adopted a Constitution that made the country more progressive than many of its neighbors. A civil code and family law drafted in 1976 also gave women some important rights. But the legal system has barely been functioning for three decades, laws and constitutions have often been ignored in Afghanistan and cultural mores remain stronger than the law in many places. "The law is good, but it is not implemented because the government is not strong," said Suraya Parlika, who heads an Afghan women lawyers' association in Kabul. The greatest success of the conference in Kandahar, was the extra passenger who returned to Kabul with delegates from the capital. "With lots of tears and pleas," said Sunita Mehta, co-founder of Women for Afghan Women, the conference organizers won the release of Eqlima, and were arranging a foster home and school for her to attend. 09/24/2003 NY Times Afghan Women's Rights From some of the most desperate corners of Afghanistan, about 45 brave women have embarked on a cause that hardly seems on Washington's powerful radar. President Bush's speech to the United Nations yesterday barely mentioned Afghanistan's struggle to build what he calls a "decent and just society." Yet recently, these Afghan women endured great risk in that very cause. They traveled to Kandahar, now considered a dangerous city, deep in Taliban territory. There, they crafted an extraordinary document they have called the Afghan Women's Bill of Rights. The document sets somewhat different priorities than the American Bill of Rights adopted more than 200 years ago. For Afghan women, the first amendment would guarantee an education. Then came health care, personal security and support of widows. Freedom of speech was number five, followed by freedom to vote, with a guarantee of constitutional rights to "widows, disabled women and orphans" coming much later. As basic as these rights sound to Western ears, they are still very much in jeopardy in Afghanistan. Violence against women has increased dramatically since the war. American promises of support are too modest compared with the nation's growing needs. Still, the Kandahar women presented their hand-written bill of rights to President Hamid Karzai in hopes that their views will be considered as a new constitution is written over the next few months. For many in Afghanistan, a bill of rights may seem a distraction. Men and women increasingly fear traveling or even going outside because of a growing population of drug lords, warlords and Taliban avengers. But the Afghan women are wise to demand security on a historic document. An earlier constitution provided protections for the "human being." Too often, that did not cover Afghan women. ---------------------------- Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am back in the States for a few days and here is a short report of my activities since last March. 1.Ā NEGAR ACTIVITIES - Continued to meet with the Afghan power establishment regarding the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women and the equal rights of women in the new constitution.Ā These contacts included the clergy, the military, the women's groups, the provincial delegates, the media and the government, at all levels, in groups or one-on-one meetings.Ā We were successful in adding to the signature list such names as Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, President Bush's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Mr. Shahzada Massoud, Minister Councilor for Tribal Affairs, Professor Popal, President of Kabul University, Mr. Bahauddin Baha, President of the Commission on Judicial Affairs, and many others. - Shoukria Haidar, President of Negar and I had a three-hour meeting with members of the Constitutional Revision Commission regarding the delivery of the support signatures (I have already sent you the letter).Ā It was agreed to plan a special ceremony. So, on August 11, we invited about 150 of our diverse supporters and the Commission sent two representatives, Ms. Hakema Mashaal Siddiqui and Dr. Abdulhai Ellahi to officially receive the first installment of the signatures (We had managed to transport about one hundred thousand of them from Paris and Washington).Ā The ceremony was attended by several ministers, among them Mr. Qanooni, Dr. Farhang and Dr. Raheen, several deputy ministers including Ms. Qamar Wakili and Mr. Mobarez, Deputy Chief Justice, Mr. Manawi, five generals, three of them women, Loya Jirga delegates, school principals, university professors, representatives of foreign embassies including French, American and Italian, women NGO leaders and wives of two ministers, Mrs. Zarghouna Qanooni and Mrs. Marghalaray Pashtun (whose husband has since become Governor of Kandahar), along with scores of local and foreign journalists. The ceremony got off to a good start with the introductory Koran reciting performed by Mrs. Said Bibi Naqi, the first girl high school graduate of Afghanistan. Then Shoukria gave a short speech officially delivering the signatures, as twenty women and men, led by Mrs. Najia Zara brought the reams of signatures and put them in front of the Commissioners.Ā Dr. Ellahi, then gave an acceptance speech.Ā Mr. Qanooni, Mr. Mobarez, Ms. Qamar Wakili, Mr. Manawi and myself also talked about the importance of the equal rights of women as citizens. Shoukria then outlined Negar's plans until the promulgation of the Constitution, with nine seminars in eight provinces and the last one attended by our international friends to be held in Kabul, just before the Loya Jirga that will ratify this historic document. - We held the first of the regional three-day conferences in Charikar, capital of Parwan province three weeks ago.Ā We invited only one hundred of those women in the province who might be potential delegates to the Loya Jirga. We actually had a great turnout of about 250 including about fifty men that included Governor Muqbel, Commander Ayar, Mawlawi Fazli and many from the Al Biruni University in the nearby Kapisa province.Ā The speeches and participation of the attendees were so well received that right on the spot the Governor created one hundred and four posts for females at the provincial level! - We also had a preliminary visit to Herat where Shoukria met with Governor Ismail Khan and Ms. Bassira Rouhani, the President of the Women's Council of Herat. Herat and its surroundings were beautiful and the people in the streets seemed more liberal than Kabul. We visited the grave site of Abdullah Ansar, Gazorgah, and the mausoleum of Queen Gawharshad (15th century). At her tomb I stood in great respect of her and prayed that God will give some of her wisdom and success to us, the modern women of Afghanistan.Ā I did not however appreciate the highway that now cuts into two parts the grounds of her famed madrassah and its five still standing pillars.Ā I thought how we can develop a viable vision of the future if we do not respect our history. - On our return to Kabul, we learned that the Loya Jirga is postponed until early December.Ā So we had to make modifications to our plans.Ā Our provincial conferences will continue but at a less hectic pace.Ā Our last conference, originally planned for the end of September in Kabul, will now be held very early in December, when we will deliver the other two hundred thousand signatures as well.Ā We will announce the dates as soon as we know the exact date of the Loya Jirga. And you are all invited! (Meantime, continue to collect and forward to me in the USA as many signatures as you can including from your governments. Get the Declaration and the Statement of Support from www.kabultec.org.) - The Minister of International Development of Germany visited Kabul.Ā One of her meetings was with several Afghan women leaders and Shoukria and I were invited to it.Ā She was very interested in our activities and of course committed to the equal rights of women as citizens in the new constitution. 2.Ā UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES - I continued to teach and enjoy it very much. This year the students seem to be bouncing back from the shell shock of having lost several years of schooling, which was the case last year.Ā They are very enthusiastic about learning.Ā We even managed to have a field trip to the National Archives and to see the Arch of Victory in Paghman.Ā For many of them this was their first field trip ever.Ā They were amazed at the wealth of history presented to them at the Archives, especially letters from such luminaries as the Prophet Mohammad, Ahmad Shah Baba, and many other kings of Afghanistan as well as the original manuscripts from Jami and others.Ā They also enjoyed seeing Paghman for the first time and learned that Afghanistan has had a long - - and glorious - - history of fighting for its independence.Ā We still lack textbooks and materials.Ā I would love to have a few videos and books on art history and Islam to take with me.Ā I also got involved a little with the boys and girls dormitories.Ā I donated some money to the boys dormitory to get equipment for volunteers to clean the kitchen and the cafeteria.Ā It would be so good to provide them with examples, by posters and videos, of what student volunteer activities are like in other university dormitories. Anyone interested to help either the girls or boys dormitories, please let me know. - I also now work full time at the University's first think tank called the National Center for Policy Research opened in early summer, thanks to grants from the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation.Ā This is a much needed institution to both rekindle the mentality and practice of academic research and create some knowledge repositories about Afghanistan by Afghans themselves.Ā I have three research projects that employ professors and students from the School of Social Sciences.Ā We are hoping to develop some specialties that pertain to Afghanistan's current needs, such as the area of gender, conflict resolution/peace building, ethnic/diversity awareness and constructing some databases.Ā We have been trying to build a library from what is available in the local market as well as develop a methodology of social science research and project management. We are looking for donors for our projects. 3.Ā OTHER ACTIVITIES - Privately I developed literacy programs for adults.Ā As you know Afghanistan has more non-literate adults than school age population and right now they all want to learn how to read and write.Ā We have started courses in several deprived areas of Kabul.Ā The students enjoy these classes and demand seems to grow from day one.Ā Finding and/or creating the right materials, training teachers and preventing high dropout rates have been educational. But the joy is to see these adults learning the alphabet and rudiments of counting - - and giggling about it.Ā Some of them are grandparents, others are very young marrieds, most are laborers and small vendors, we even have one mullah and one street beggar! - Thanks to friends in the USA, we received a large shipment of a novel about the heroics of Afghans against the Soviet occupation, called Kara Kush written by Idries Shah, an Afghan-British author.Ā We distributed copies to all the Afghan Universities and some voluntary civil society organizations, places that have English language classes but are short on reading material. The donations were very well received as we have had several requests for more such material. - I was able to take with me in March a few pounds of the vegetable and flower seed packets that many of you sent.Ā We distributed them in Kabul and the outlying villages to several groups of widows with gardens.Ā Thanks to good rainfall this spring, the harvest has been tremendous, especially Swiss chard, radishes, zucchini, okra, carrots, green beans, cucumbers, sage and dill have given good results.Ā What hasn't worked so well are the tomato varieties and herbs such as thyme and rosemary.Ā Maybe somebody can give me tips on how to grow these from seed in dense soil in very dry climate? Afghans are also constantly asking me about seeds for fruit shrubs/trees and unusual flowers that will grow in such conditions. - I also attended many government, civil society and NGO gatherings, conferences and seminars, and weddings, engagements, mosque meetings, bazaar encounters, crafts shows, concerts, plays, village picnics and... too many to recite here.Ā I have met many many very wonderful people, men and women, young and old, Afghan and non-Afghan. I have learned a lot from them. Some things strike me as especially fantastic: In thirty seven years of living outside Afghanistan I had forgotten one thing about my people, their habit of hard work. Now, going through Jad-e Maiwand, for example, I never see any one strolling, but thousands of souls busy at some task. This ethics of hard work is a beautiful omen of what is to come. I am convinced that given a small chance, my people will rebuild their country in a much shorter time than anyone gives them credit for.Ā Also, the mind of Afghans seems to me to be a cauldron of ideas. I have now met so many Afghans who never left Afghanistan and who managed to write one or two books, unpublished as yet, but still indicative of their gray matter wonderfully at work even under the worst of circumstances.Ā And no day goes by without a few really passionate discussions - even with the pushcart seller.Ā I keep imagining what intellectual blossoming we will experience if this mind is given half an opportunity.Ā Then too, the spirituality that exists in Afghanistan, the belief in meaning, the quest for a world larger than one's own existence, the attitude that there is more to life than just the daily grind, that ideals exist to die for. All of these make me realize every day why Afghanistan is such a special place and why I am having so much fun there. - Speaking of fun, early in the year I rented a three room apartment, a place for me and my books.Ā The apartment, a third floor walk-up, was not only previously tenement housing for six families who had moved for the first time from their rural area to an urban setting it had not seen any repairs for 24 years either.Ā The walls, ceilings and floors were covered with thick layers of two decades of war living, all the electric connections were just big dirty holes, the bathroom fixtures and appliances were broken, the kitchen was not only non-operating but even inside the cupboards were smeared with soot as if they were used for cooking and the countertop formica was scratched and torn to pieces as if it was parchment paper; there were no glass panes, no door handles, no locks.Ā Rats, roaches and other crawlies were having a time of their life on every imaginable surface.Ā It took three people three days and seven boxes of detergent for the rooms to show their true condition to the painter.Ā The carpenter and plumber had an easier time; they hauled everything out and started all over again. The electrician had to start with finding the fuses.Ā Well, six months and umpteen trips to every corner of the bazaar for every little needed part and countless missed handyman appointments and untold disappointments later, I have a painted, carpeted and fumigated little flat that is sealed from the elements with window panes, has a functioning bathroom and kitchen, and with all the electrical outlets and connections in place.Ā It has running cold water from five in the morning until five in the afternoon and electricity until ten pm, that is when there is no rationing, in which case I have electricity from six in the evening until six in the morning.Ā And to top it all of I can catch a taxi just outside my door.Ā I feel like I live in a palace - - or at least in a penthouse in Manhattan or the Champs Elysees!. And, I get to be the first to hear the fireworks when they happen: The hill in front of my building is reputed to be the launch pad for terrorists' rockets and on a couple of rare occasions I have heard the rockets go over my building and drop somewhere with a loooouuuud noise (Thankfully, each time they missed). On a more serious note, our work for women's rights in the constitution is by no means a foregone success.Ā I am really concerned about the impact of the enemies of Afghanistan.Ā Those against a democratic, stable and successful Afghanistan are powerful and determined.Ā Limiting women's rights is still the easiest route to derailing the constitution, and all the while making it look like it is really the Afghans themselves that are the bad guys. Oh, our enemies are so savvy at that... But make no mistake, we are even more determined to help Afghanistan make the right decisions for itself whether our enemies like it or not.Ā I ask you to join us in this decisive rendez-vous with history. It is my right; it is our common legacy! Regards, Nasrine Gross
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the idea of reconstruction -- as both process and metaphor -- in the context of present-day Kabul.
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Whether you've noticed or not, endurance events have become increasingly popular. We're talking 5Ks, marathons, triathlons and the ultra trendy fun-runs to name a few. Millennials (born between 1980-2000) make up the nation's largest living generation as well as a large majority of running event participants.
Many of the companies who sponsor these events are seeking to stand out against their competitors & associate their brands with the Millennial consumer. However, it's pretty much an art form in and of itself to market to Gen Y. The Millennial consumer has increased brand expectations and it's important that brands tap into their emotional values while steering clear from traditional marketing strategies.
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Cost to Start and Grow an Import Export Business
We are often asked – How much do you need to start an import business or imported product line? How long will it take?
- Cost – its product dependent – we have seen clients start with anywhere from $5000 to $50,000+. Finding suppliers that can provide a variety of products with low minimum order quantities is critical. , with a low budget you should be prepared to everything yourself including launch to market.
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There are a variety of grants available to import export businesses in Australia to help them improve systems, access new markets or develop a technology. Of course the money does not come without conditions, and the grants are generally intended to provide small business benefits through cash flow, market development and process improvements. The key is keeping track of the grants and knowing which ones are suitable to your import export business, and are worth investing time into.
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- Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) grant – TCF grants of up to $50,000 are offered to existing businesses in the TCF industry to improve enterprise culture. Successful applicants so far have rolled out online stores, digital and social marketing campaigns, design/pattern making systems, and work flow systems. This is a must for any existing clothing label developing an online store or making process improvements.
- Tradex allows you to claim an exemption on GST and tariff for imported goods that are intended to be exported. A very handy scheme that is a huge help to a small import business' cash flow. The goods usually have to be exported within 12 months of import and can be re-exported in the same condition or included with other products and exported.
- Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) – offers new and existing exporters reimbursement of up to 50% of approved costs they incur developing export markets (except New Zealand). So if you wish to start selling your product label overseas straight away, this is an essential grant to register for
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Brackup::Dict::SQLite - key-value dictionary implementation, using a SQLite database for storage
Brackup::Dict::SQLite implements a simple key-value dictionary using a SQLite database (in a single file) for storage. It provides the default storage backend for both the Brackup::DigestCache digest cache and the Brackup::InventoryDatabase inventory database (as separate databases). The database schema is created automatically as needed - no database maintenance is required.
Brackup::Dict::SQLite is optimised for speed and loads the entire database into memory at startup. If you wish to trade-off some performance for a more conservative memory footprint, you should consider using Brackup::Dict::SQLite2 instead.
See Brackup::DigestCache and Brackup::InventoryDatabase for how to manually specify the dictionary class to use.
File location
The database file location is a parameter defined by the using class, so see Brackup::DigestCache and Brackup::InventoryDatabase for their respective database locations.
SQLite Schema
This is defined automatically, but if you want to look around in it, the schema is:
key TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
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My approach is integrative. I have 20 years experience in offering counselling and psychotherapy in private practice and have also worked for a number of organisations in the public and private sector.
Additionally I offer short courses in Mindfulness - a mind/body approach that helps us to relate differently to our experiences. The NHS recommend Mindfulness as a way of managing anxiety and stress, recurring depression and pain and I now offer individual meetings as well as short courses. 6 sessions is usually adequate to begin living mindfully.
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In 2004, I was touring Germany with 'Death of a Salesman'. During the course of the run, I had the good fortune to bump into an old friend in Munich, who happened to be in the audience. As it happened, he lived in the town of Dachau, and since I'd long had an interest in the Third Reich and their Final Solution, we arranged for him to be my tour guide in the former concentration camp.
It's very hard to describe how I felt when seeing the notorious camp. People always say that birds no longer sing at these sites; and for me, on that day, it was true. There was, for me, a sort of numbness that took over, as my brain tried to process what my eyes were seeing. One could say so many things, but what would be the point? The banality of evil hung like a cold, damp cloud in the air.
After the visit, during which we spoke little, my friend broke the silence. 'If I'd lived then, I would have been part of the Resistance'. I just looked at him and said 'How do you know?' He insisted he would have, but the more I saw of Germany, the more I visited its museums, the more I saw the many memorials there are to the genocide of WW2, the more certain I grew that this was not a decision to be made until one was in the situation.
Even more than over 70 years ago, Westerners are primed to see themselves as the 'good guys'. We can possibly blame this on the stories we tell ourselves, either verbally or through our media. Never more has this been apparent to me than in the language used post-9/11 by Bush and Blair: Bush's comment that he took his advice from God to justify 'shock and awe'; Blair's constant assertion, through policy and spin, that Islam was 'incompatible' with the West. Not so incompatible that it was beneath him to personally profit from this seeming incompatibility.
The narrative of the 'good' Muslim versus the 'terrorist' Muslim took root. We had a Muslim senior politician resign in Baroness Warsi, because of rampant anti-Islam policy in her cabinet under David Cameron. Islamophobia, even in so-called liberal circles, became rife. Atheists like Sam Harris, who is clearly Islamophobic, have become worshipped (in an ironic turn of events, for those who profess a dislike of cults, neo-atheism seems to me to be cultish in the extreme) by legions of followers. Crusader-style language has been employed, with little prevarication, in our newspapers and by our politicians. Extra restrictions through the reintroduction of the Prevention of Terrorism Act have been placed on Muslims, but what of it? The vast majority of society has, directly and/or indirectly, been drip-fed the fallacy of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant supremacy. And now we're here.
I've been, in my posts on social media, been talking about the dangers of the rise of white supremacy for most of the past decade. It has been pretty obvious to me that once one goes down the road of 'otherising' a community (as was done to the Irish in the 1970s), it is a slippery slope. A documentary that made an impression on me was '5 Steps to Tyranny', an old BBC Panorama programme that a kind soul has uploaded to YouTube. For anyone looking to acquire a basic understanding of how psychologically human beings are primed to be seduced by tyrants, it's worth a viewing.
I also recommend 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor Frankl, a book that made a huge impression on me in my twenties. Having re-read it recently, I noted with some amusement and a little shock something that had escaped me on my initial reading of it. That the Jews in the concentration camps, as starved and reduced as they were, still held a certain contempt for those deemed lower than them. One of the groups listed was 'Moslems'. Frankl also noted that survivors either went on to do great good in the world as a result of their experiences, or bullies. The element involved was choice.
One of my lifelong obsessions that led to an interest in the Holocaust is human nature. The potential of human beings. Their capability for greatness or destructiveness. Having observed the rise of white supremacy so consciously, I must confess a personal interest. Two of my nieces are Muslim.
Something happens to you when you see a next generation of your flesh and blood come into the world. You want the world to be a better place for them. My brother converted to Islam around 2002. He married a Moroccan Muslima. My two Muslim nieces are a light in my life, my mother's life, my brother their uncle's life. But I cannot remember a time since they were born that I did not fear for them, based on their religion and the acceptable onslaught of everyday prejudice.
One story that illustrates how far this prejudice can spiral out of control. My brother and his wife, now resident in the UK, had neighbours who went on holiday to Spain. Another neighbour, out of prejudice, hadn't seen said neighbours for some time. She called the police, claiming that my brother and wife had murdered them. They were brought to the local police station and interrogated until the police located the holidaying couple. This happened only a couple of years ago.
The rise of neo-fascists and their advisers and followers is no accident. On one level, it speaks to the ability of sociopaths (which I believe Farage, Trump et al to be) to easily manipulate our worst natures. It speaks to political ignorance, which even many of my university-educated British friends have hitherto worn as a badge of honour, and are now desperately scrambling to understand how what has happened, could have happened. It speaks to an ignorance by white people of the difference between equality being in law, and in practice. It speaks to a childish quality of following the herd and of blaming the other for our own lives' ills. That childish quality was also in evidence during the Brexit vote, when people blamed immigrants for a lack in their own lives, without taking into account that the UK had opted out, voluntarily, of taking control of migration when given the chance by the EU. The fact that obvious economic lies were swallowed (the £350m savings on the NHS being only one of many lies, or should I say #alternativefacts spewed like so much rancid spume by the Leavers) shows how ripe the UK was for being overtaken by white supremacists dressed in wolf's tweeds like Farage. The acceptable face of racism, succeeding where Mosley and his Blackshirts couldn't, in dressing up fascism in a hail-fellow-well-met bon viveur façade. Repugnant, but effective.
Being so easily fooled by the white supremacist in our own backyard, and the Crusader-like views by mainstream politicians and media that led to his success, is it any wonder that we are witnessing a Muslim 'ban' in the USA, the supposed torchbearer of Freedom and Democracy Inc? Is it a ruse by Trump & Co to turn it into a profitable war, thus giving a boost to munitions, big Pharma, oil and consequently the banks? (If it is, I suggest all GOP politicians, including Trump, and any collaborators be forced to conscript their own offspring first, as a sign of good faith). In this political atmosphere of night-time raids and smoke and mirrors, it is hard to tell.
What is clear is this: we now are all faced with a choice. Resist or collaborate. There are no other options available. We will have the answer to that generations-old question. And as we judged others over 70 years ago, so will we too be judged.


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Copenhagen, Denmark: Denmark fielded a team comprised of lower-league and futsal players for Wednesday's international friendly in Slovakia amid a contract dispute with the country's football association.
The makeshift Danish side, captained by third-division forward Christian Offenberg, lost 3-0 in Trnava without the likes of Christian Eriksen and Kasper Schmeichel who led them to the last 16 of the World Cup.
Denmark are due to face Wales on Sunday in their first game of the inaugural UEFA Nations League.
They could have to rely on the same players unless the standoff between the Danish players' union and national federation over commercial rights is resolved.
Coach Age Hareide has been replaced for the two matches, with Euro 92 winner John Jensen in temporary charge.
"We must hold the two national matches to avoid millions of fines and possible exclusion of the national team for several years," said Kim Hallberg, director of the Danish Football Association (DBU).
"On behalf of DBU and Danish football, I am pleased that John Jensen has taken the hard task of being coach in both matches," he added.
In 2017, the Danish women's team boycotted a World Cup qualifier against Sweden over salary disputes, leaving Denmark at risk of being banned by UEFA if they cancel another match.


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Belfast Lord Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile returned to his former youth club on Monday 16 April to open a new 3G pitch and praised the 'essential contribution' of the work of staff at the Short Strand club.
The Lord Mayor joined BELB Interim Chief Executive Gavin Boyd at Doyle Youth Club in cutting the ribbon on the new £70,000 3G pitch at Mountpottinger Road.
"It is great to see that the many young people who attend this youth club now have a pitch that is fit for purpose," said Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile.
"The Doyle has been a central component in the lives of so many young people for over 25 years now and I want to pay tribute to the staff and volunteers who make such an essential contribution to the lives of young people in this area.
"The work of this club is developing the education, talents, creativity and well being of children and young people and is a sure example of leadership in action. They continue to lead the way with other clubs in inner-east Belfast in terms of cross community engagement and development."
The pitch at Doyle Youth Club is one of four multi-use pitches currently being refurbished by the BELB in its youth clubs in the city.


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The Dark Knight Rises Trailer – The World Wants To Know: Real or Fake?
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Today's Trending topic on Google is: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer. Perhaps it's the hottest topic on around the Hollywood movie forums and the question is whether this trailer is real or fake. Hollywood Reporter is asking their audience as well.
Well, you decide, here is what leaked to the internet and why the world wants to know if it's real or fake.
An apparent bootleg video has surfaced that has many fans debating whether it's real or not. It's primarily graphic with a shot of bats swarming a city with lightning overhead. The text reads, "The storm is coming to Gotham." reports Hollywoodreporter.com


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The anointing of the sick by which the Church commends to the suffering and glorified Lord the faithful who are dangerously sick so that He relieve and save them, is conferred by anointing them with oil and using the words prescribed in the liturgical books.
Anyone needing the Sacrament of Anointing for themselves or for a family member should contact the rectory to make arrangements with a priest to visit. One need not wait until the person reaches the end moments of life, but ideally the Sacrament should be celebrated when the sick person is conscious and is able to participate in the prayers and have the opportunity to make their confession receiving the Sacrament of Penance. If hospitalized, most hospitals have arrangements for pastoral care and anytime one is admitted it is important to see that you are identified as a Catholic. Priests assigned to care for hospitals are available to offer the Anointing of the Sick. When visiting hospitals your parish priest is also willing to offer the Anointing of the Sick to those in need.


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Firstly, if you are interested in OTC stocks like Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF, you will be doing yourself a massive favor by joining the Trader HR chat room (the people there are experts at tricky stocks like this), so do that now – we also strongly recommend Microcap Millionaires where you can learn how to profit hugely off lesser known OTC stocks (what you find there is much more interesting than IHHSF, in our view). These recommendations are current as of 2020-01-03. Now onto the news and analysis.
REPORTING FOR 2020-01-03 | BUNDESPREMIERLEAGUE.COM: We have conducted a deep analysis of how Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF (OTCMKTS:IHHSF) has been trading over the last 2 weeks and the past day especially. On its latest session, Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF (OTCMKTS:IHHSF) opened at 45.35, reaching a high of 45.35 and a low of 45.35 before closing at a price of 45.35. There was a total volume of 60.0.
VOLUME INDICATORS: We saw an accumulation-distribution index of 48.19, an on-balance volume of -45.35, chaikin money flow of 0.05242 and a force index of 1.7689. There was an ease of movement rating of 0.0, a volume-price trend of 0.39299 and a negative volume index of 1000.0.
VOLATILITY: We noted an average true range of 0.31502, bolinger bands of 45.35, an upper bollinger band of 45.35, lower bollinger band of 45.35, a bollinger high band indicator of 1.0, bollinger low band indicator of 1.0, a central keltner channel of 45.35, high band keltner channel of 45.35, low band keltner channel of 45.35, a high band keltner channel indicator of 1.0 and a low band keltner channel indicator of 1.0. There was a donchian channel high band of 45.35, a donchian channel low band of 45.35, a donchian channel high band indicator of 1.0, and a donchian channel low band indicator of 1.0.
TREND: We calculated a Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) of -0.00226, a MACD signal of -0.00061, a MACD difference of -0.00165, a fast Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator of 45.35, a slow Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator of 45.35, an Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) of unknown, an ADX positive of 20.0, an ADX negative of 20.0, a positive Vortex Indicator (VI) of 1.0, a negative VI of 1.0, a trend vortex difference of 0.00556, a trix of 0.89149, a Mass Index (MI) of 4.99999, a Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -200.0, a Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) of -0.37544, a KST Oscillator (KST) of 8.34794 and a KST Oscillator (KST Signal) of 8.34794 (leaving a KST difference of -0.16306). We also found an Ichimoku rating of 45.35, an Ichimoku B rating of 45.35, a Ichimoku visual trend A of 44.91945, an Ichimoku visual trend B of 44.4739, an Aroon Indicator (AI) up of 4.0 and an AI indicator down of 4.0. That left a difference of -20.0.
MOMENTUM: We found a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 50.0, a Money Flow Index (MFI) of 100.0, a True Strength Index (TSI) of 100.0, an ultimate oscillator of 100.0, a stochastic oscillator of 50.0, a stochastic oscillator signal of 50.0, a Williams %R rating of -50.0 and an awesome oscillator of 0.0.
RETURNS: There was a daily return of 0.83479, a daily log return of -0.1165 and a cumulative return of -0.11643.
What the heck does all of this mean? If you are new to technical analysis, the above may be gibberish to you, and that's OK (though we do advise learning these things). The bottom line is that AS OF 2020-01-03 (if you are reading this later, the analysis will be out of date), our analysis of technical indicators for Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF (OTCMKTS:IHHSF) is telling us that this is potentially a buy. Please comment if you disagree with this conclusion or if you find any errors in the analysis above.
For a more complete analysis, run all of this through the BTMA software. Also, to stay up to date with what is happening on Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF, we strongly advise Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF investors to subscribe to MarketBeat.com's daily email newsletter for updates, news and analyst ratings on Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF and any other stocks you want – without this you are trading blind:
DISCLAIMER: We are not registered investment advisers and the above analysis should be taken at face value only. We strongly advise against buying or selling Ishares III Plc MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan Ucits ETF (OTCMKTS:IHHSF) based solely on our analysis above, and are not responsible for any losses that you may incur if you choose make any investment decisions based on the above.
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St. Charles Borromeo Parish offers funeral luncheons to registered parish families in times of death and mourning. A simple meal can be offered to family and close friends in Borromeo Hall after funeral Masses and rite of burial.
We welcome volunteers! Please contact Pat Trembly, Funeral Luncheon Coordinator, at 816-436-3466 to prepare a dish, assist with set up, coordinate food/meal donations, and assist with serving and clean-up.


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Prospective graduate students are encouraged to visit campus. Take a walk through the Richard M. DeVos Center and the new L. William Seidman Center in downtown Grand Rapids. Visit the convenient Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences on Grand Rapids' Health Hill. Check out the state-of-the-art laboratories in the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories or the John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering.
Prospective graduate students who wish to meet with a graduate program directly are encouraged to contact specific graduate programs for more information regarding visit opportunities.
You also can take a virtual tour of Grand Valley State University. This is a great resource for those of you unable to make the trip, or for anyone who wants a virtual view of Grand Valley's campuses.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The August project 2012: August 15, 2012
So yesterday wasn't great. I left the house to take Bear to the dentist, only to discover that my car, with my purse inside, had been stolen from our driveway.
Despite getting my purse back again, I really couldn't find much to be happy about. The car wasn't insured for replacement, and there's no chance of getting a new car in the near (or mid-distant) future. I'd canceled all my credit/debit cards, and though I have them back and no one tried to access them, it still means I have no access to my money until the new cards come in the mail. I {heart} Rhody is about to become "I {heart} all the parts of Rhody on the bus routes."
I was actually starting to reconcile myself to not having private transportation (which I know is a luxury in most of the world), when I realized this morning that my camera was also in the car. I keep it there so it's always handy. Even if we find the car, the chances of getting the camera, GPS and RI Pass are very slim. I probably shouldn't be surprised about how much of my day-to-day life focused on that car.
So my focus for the next few days is familiarizing myself with bus routes to get Bear to the dentist, and me to work, and so forth.
My happiness for the day? I'd accidentally left my Kindle and cell phone in the house. So I still had those.
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Oh, this is awful! I had my purse ripped off my arm decades ago, and I still remember everything about the unfortunate incident. It's why I always keep an extra pair of glasses in my bathroom and my house keys in my pocket, because when I lost my bag what I missed most were my glasses and my keys. I'm curious -- how did you get your purse back? And it's just as well you cancelled all those cards. Identity theft is so insidious, and taking that wise step may have saved you a lot of (further) grief. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Hang in there!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Gal! My purse ended up dumped out behind some bushes in our front yard. My landlord noticed it when he was getting the mail. They must have been after the keys because they left everything else behind.Delete
Holy moly! I am so sorry to hear about this. I hope everything works out for you.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Kwiz! I'm sure it will.Delete


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The North Coast is a new destination for many travel geeks. With annual conferences like Content Marketing World every September, Cleveland is quickly becoming a surprisingly hip weekend experience. Just remember to keep your Chef Curry shirts at home.
Much like San Francisco, the best bars, restaurants and shops are tucked away in neighborhoods. So I asked Cleveland Hipster in Residence (my brother) for his go-to's.
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When you're in a city like Cleveland, it's easy to get sucked into a Starbucks. Avoid the downtown area and find a local roaster instead.
The Loop – local art, vinyls and a quiet upstairs (Tremont)
Phoenix Coffee Bar – rooftop, record player and a nitro toddy (Ohio City)
Passenger's Cafe – local beans, bagels and breads.
Check out the chalk bored and disloyalty card. Trey (the coffee guy) was previously at Micro Roaster of the Year Award winning Gimme! Coffee in New York City. Mark (the hostel guy) has traveled to over 70 countries and stayed in ~100 hostels.
Together, they're cool AF.
Where to stay
The Kimpton Schofield Hotel – newest hotel in Cleveland (opened 2016)
Located in a circa 1902 landmark building, the Kimpton is a 7-minute walk from Playhouse Square and less than a mile from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The hotel has a retro-chic feel with midcentury design and comic books scattered throughout the hotel.
Cleveland is behind on boutique hotels compared to cities like Pittsburgh with Ace Hotel and Hotel Monaco. For a local experience, Airbnb is best.
Ohio City and Tremont are both walkable neighborhoods with plenty of local cafes, art galleries and farmer's markets.
Iron Chef Michael Symon rents out his personal home in Tremont from $90 per night.
A few locals to follow
The best way to avoid tourist traps in Cleveland is to connect with a few locals.
@WhyCle – neighborhood events from #LocalCLE (food, wine and non-profit fundraisers)
@CSledzik – breweries, bars via Untappd and food trucks (enough said?)
@BikeCLE – neighborhood tours of CLE + local tips (fun fact: I met Anne in 2011 and took an early tour when she was just getting started.)
@CLEFoodTrucks – find them, try them all.
Know someone else I should add to the list? @briannekimmel with an intro!
Questions, comments, complaints? Blame @PJKimmel.