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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. adviser on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad held talks in Islamabad on Tuesday with Pakistan's foreign secretary, the foreign office said, days after visiting Kabul to try to restart talks with the Taliban for an end to the 17-year Afghan war.
The appointment last month of Khalilzad, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, highlighted the U.S. administration's fresh efforts to convince Taliban leaders to participate in the Afghan peace process, despite a surge in the group's attacks.
Khalilzad met President Ashraf Ghani in the Afghan capital on Sunday to discuss possible peace talks with the Taliban, who have repeatedly rejected negotiation offers and called for a boycott of an Afghan general election set for October 20.
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua received Khalilzad and the two led "delegation-level talks", with security, defense, and diplomatic officials from both countries attending, foreign office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on social network Twitter.
Pakistan's cooperation in the peace process is believed to be key to its success. The country's powerful military is believed to have kept close ties to the Afghan Taliban since using it to blunt Indian influence in the region in the 1990s.
U.S. officials have accused Pakistan of providing safe haven to Taliban militants in its border regions with Afghanistan and using them as an arm of its foreign policy. Pakistan staunchly denies using proxies.
Khalilzad is set to travel to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar after leaving Islamabad as part of a 10-day trip in a bid to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.
The Afghan-born former ambassador's knowledge of the country's main languages, culture and politics could help him engage with all stakeholders in the peace process, besides his experience advising or working for four U.S. administrations.
Writing by Saad Sayeed; Editing by Clarence Fernandez


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Oh where to begin. We lost our power last Wednesday, for a total of 36 hours, then had to wait until Monday am to get our Internet straightened out and back online. I didn't mind being incommunicado, I'm used to that when I teach/travel but it was interesting to be home and realize how dependant I was on it for the simplest of things. And of course my husband was unable to work at all which frustrated him (and his clients, I'm sure) no end. To top it off, our air conditioning went on the fritz and we have been in a huge heat wave, code red alert here in DC. Fortunately our long-time AC man came out Sunday morning and put us out of our misery. I can't remember if it was Saturday or Sunday morning that I awoke @ 6:30 am to this mist-filled morning, the rising sun casting a golden glow on the fog.
But now life is back to normal - both computers and AC humming (we do so love the quiet of a neighborhood without power, all velvety black and peaceful).
Last night was the girls night out we have been trying to schedule since the Sex & the City movie opened. FINALLY something happened in my favor after the rough week we had. Their computers said my debit card had expired but you could see the 2012 expiration date stamped right there on the card, so she just comped me 2 free passes! Hooray. It was nice to have the time with my daughters and DIL without the babies. Daddys did that duty.
So since we last talked, I completed my Ebay auctions of all my zines and sent off over 40 boxes of fabric from my stash. I am physically and mentally unburdened. Now to turn to the craft books. They are rather awkward to ship and tedious to sell online, so my first stop will be the secondhand bookstore. Perhaps I will make a list of them and if anyone wants one I can sell it to you. I also have almost a complete set of the first 4? years of Somerset Studio including their Premier issue. That's a lot of magazines and a lot of weight, but if any of you dear readers are interested, let me know. Media Mail rates are not too bad.
By a random number generator, THE WINNER OF PLAY ZINE IS: Evidence of an Artistic Life. Congratulations! Drop me an email with your name and address and I'll wisk it on it's way. There will be more giveaways. I'm still playing catch-up here and will have more photos and stuff tomorrow I hope.
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Playing Catch-Up
Posted by Lesley Riley at Tuesday, June 10, 2008
3 comments:
- Thien-Kim aka Kim said...
Sorry to hear about your loss of power. I'm your neighbor in Silver Spring, and boy, am I glad the heat wave is over! Funny how I never thought of 85 degrees F as cool.
- Wednesday, June 11, 2008
- Thien-Kim aka Kim said...
I also meant to add that I'm in your predicament when it comes to magazines. I have 10 years of Threads Magazine. From when they first started publishing and still had knitting and weaving patterns in it. To keep or to get rid of? I can't decide yet so I'm trying not to think about them.
- Wednesday, June 11, 2008
- Quiltblocktour said...
Wow, what a gorgeous foggy picture! The leaves are so green it's unbelievable :)
- Sunday, September 13, 2009
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If the secret to Samson's strength lay in his curly locks, the source of John Edwards' power is his voice. Speaking in a honeyed North Carolinian drawl peppered with "sirs" and "pleases," Edwards can talk of populism and class in terms that would get most any other candidate labeled a Leninist, and yet he seems unthreatening, even solicitous. As Chuck Todd, the editor of National Journal's Hotline, marvels, "Howard Dean says it, and it's shrill; Edwards says the exact same thing, and you melt." The voice separates Edwards from the rest of the field, and makes him the first genuine populist in decades with a serious shot at the presidency.
Underlying the way Edwards talks, and even how he thinks, is a simple fact that is often ignored because it is so obvious: John Edwards is a trial lawyer before he is a politician. His are the highs and lows of a speaker trained on juries, not crowds; of a voice that seeks to persuade rather than to inspire. Generally, a talented politician is a masterful orator. But while a great orator seems larger-than-life, a great trial lawyer seems like he just came from your living room, possibly after watching the ballgame. And Edwards is one of the best.
For progressives, this translates into an important difference: John Edwards can speak truths about the country that the other Democratic candidates cannot. At the AFL-CIO's annual Wellstone Award dinner last December, where Edwards was being presented with the yearly decoration, he ruefully responded to a particularly powerful video of the late Paul Wellstone's fiery populism by chuckling, "I'm a southerner; we don't know how to talk like that." But as a southerner, as a trial lawyer, and as an experienced presidential campaigner, Edwards knows how to talk about that without marginalizing himself or unsettling his audiences. It's a difference in style that allows a difference in substance -- one that could decide whether, in 2008, the Republicans face off against a Clintonian or a populist.
This would seem a time for the latter. The Democrats swept to victory in 2006 by delivering an economically populist, antiwar message. When the Campaign for America's Future asked voters to name the three most important issues of the election, "Iraq" topped the list, followed closely by "gas prices and oil companies" and "health-care costs." In 2004, 53 cents of every dollar in salary increases went to the top 1 percent of earners. Inequality has gotten so bad that even George W. Bush has given a speech decrying its rise and the attendant spike in CEO pay.
In short, it would seem an ideal moment for the class-conscious son of a millworker. But populism is traditionally a hard sell in American presidential politics, even when the timing is fortuitous, and Edwards has compounded that problem by declaring war on poverty as well. That's not exactly a proven combo for winning the nation's highest office, and the electorate may not want to hear such harangues from a mansion-dwelling lawyer worth tens of millions of dollars. But it's been a long time since a presidential campaign featured a populist as authentic as Edwards, and he's spent a long time proving his talent for winning over skeptical groups of ordinary Americans. For Edwards, those groups used to be called juries. Today they're called voters. The question is whether there's really a difference.
"Americans have politicians who come from two places," says Bruce Raynor, general president of UNITE HERE, a 450,000-member apparel and hotel union. "Either they are professional politicians -- which is nothing bad -- or they are rich people who were successful in the corporate world. John Edwards made his money suing corporations. That's very different."
It's a difference Edwards' opponents have occasionally mistaken for a weakness. In 1998, incumbent Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth sought an early knockout against his neophyte challenger in North Carolina with a raft of anti–trial lawyer ads. "It didn't work," recalls Rob Christensen, a political reporter for the Raleigh-based News & Observer. "The trial-lawyer issue gets a lot of Republicans and conservatives, but doesn't play with voters, particularly in places like North Carolina and the South. With the low rate of unionization and state governments being controlled by Big Business, the working person traditionally didn't have a lot of say in his own fate. Trial lawyers were the great equalizer."
To better grasp the archetype, pick up any of the best sellers by Mississippi-native John Grisham: Almost all are Manichean contests pitting heroic trial lawyers and their weak, wounded clients against powerful interests indifferent to the suffering of ordinary people.
Reminded of Faircloth's attacks on trial lawyers, Edwards' longtime pollster Harrison Hickman laughs. "We were very much like Br'er Rabbit: glad to be thrown into that brier patch. It lets Edwards talk about the kinds of people he represented, families and children who'd been injured in egregious ways. The challenge would always have been, in a debate: Name one of my clients who didn't deserve the award they got."
It is a failure of political reporting that those legal cases are rarely evaluated as anything but potential attack ads. The stories, people, and corporations Edwards came into contact with amounted to a searing, visceral course in old-style populism.
Think of it this way: Hillary Clinton's caution and political savvy are obvious products of an adult life spent entirely in politics, the last 15 years or so on the national stage. Barack Obama's broad appeal and talent for consensus building are not unexpected traits in a former community organizer. So what does spending decades confronting the grievous, heartbreaking damage done to individuals and families by powerful, profit-driven corporations do to a man?
"Every single day," says Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, "what he saw were good people, in great need, who were being mistreated by big corporations -- corporations that knew that they had done wrong, and often insurance companies that were taking a calculated risk going to trial. … If you took that person, a person who chose that as his life, you would end up with the politics that he's talking about today."
In 2003, when John Edwards wanted to present himself to the electorate, he, like every other world-leader wannabe, wrote a book. But his Four Trials, unlike most campaign tracts, doesn't say a word about his experience in the Senate or his plans for the country. Instead, it recounts a quartet of trials Edwards fought: two against corporations, two against doctors. More to the point, it introduces four clients whom Edwards fought for: ordinary individuals who display heroic endurance in the face of profoundly unfair events. At the close of one wrenching trial, Edwards turns to the jury and says, "What you have been doing for the last seven weeks is you have been watching what happens when absolute corporate indifference collides with absolute innocence. That's what this case is. That is what this case is about. And that is why you are here."
In some ways, that is also what Edwards' campaign is about, why he is here. When we sit down for an interview, one of the first questions I ask him is whether he thinks of himself as a populist. "If I knew what that meant," he laughs, "I could answer that question." But as I start to offer a definition, he interjects: "Can I answer first, then you tell me? I don't want my answer to be influenced by the other definition. If being a populist means standing up for regular people so they don't get … ," and here he pauses, searching for the right words, "… stomped on by powerful multinational corporations, the answer is, 'Yes.'" I abandon my own definition, which, by comparison, would seem tinny and esoteric. "The reason I wrote that book the way I did," he continues, "is I think you read that book and you know, for good or bad, a lot about John Edwards and the way he views the world."
Edwards, to be sure, is not anti-enterprise, but his comments lack the deification of business and business leaders that so often lace elite Democratic rhetoric. This, again, speaks to background. Career politicians spend their lives raising money, not making it. As they ascend in prominence and power, their need for well-heeled supporters grows ever greater. A corporate friend is not only a good golfing buddy; he's also a financial savior, an indispensable political asset. Indeed, in such a relationship, the politician needs the business leader more than the business leader needs the politician. In politicians, it breeds an inevitable idealization of corporate executives.
Certainly this was true for another southern politician who occasionally claimed the populist mantle: Bill Clinton. In The Survivor, reporter John Harris' recounting of Clinton's presidency, the author describes Erskine Bowles, Clinton's third chief of staff and the man who would lose a bid for the Senate seat Edwards vacated to pursue the presidency: "A Charlotte investment banker and millionaire many times over from his business dealings as well as the family fortune into which he married, Bowles fairly boasted of his indifference to capital customs. 'I'm a creature of the private sector,' he liked to say. 'It's my natural habitat.'"
This is precisely what attracted the president. "The Clintons," Harris writes, "had organized their lives around politics, not money, yet they were fascinated by people who had made money and understood it, especially when these people were not conservative Republicans. Clinton knew he was just as smart as and usually more experienced than almost any political operative giving an opinion. But an investment banker like Bowles -- now, there was someone worth listening to."
Edwards reveals an opposite approach. He doesn't take money from political action committees or lobbyists, and in conversation, casually places himself in opposition to the reflexive glorification of corporate CEOs. At one point, I ask about the volunteerism aesthetic of his campaign, which plans to enlist scores of civic-minded supporters into "One Corps" -- volunteers who, with the campaign's encouragement, will fan into their communities to do public service. "This is perfectly consistent with my belief in labor unions, in the jury system, in the power of America," Edwards says. "It's the difference between the CEO of a multinational corporation and somebody who believes the best of America comes from its people, not from people who are giving orders. I don't know any other way to describe it. I really do believe that in my heart and soul, and always have."
A story Elizabeth Edwards told me -- and that John Edwards, after being pressed, confirmed -- may shed some light on why. John's mother, Bobbie, had a shop in a country warehouse outside of Robbins, North Carolina, where she'd refinish old furniture pieces that she'd bought at antique auctions. "She really could turn things that looked awful into beautiful pieces of furniture," remembers Elizabeth. "It was hard labor, but she loved it." John's father, Wallace, meanwhile, had risen to supervisor of a Roger Milliken textile mill. "Now," says Elizabeth, "the way you decide whether a plant is operating well is what their production is, and how much of the production is wasted because it has imperfections in it -- the number of 'seconds.' And the Robbins mill was either at the top or near the top among the Milliken plants while [Wallace] was running it -- it had some of the lowest seconds. He ran an incredibly efficient plant, and actually afterwards went into business as an efficiency consultant."
One day, Roger Milliken decided that all of his plant supervisors needed college degrees. Wallace Edwards had never been to college. "You have to know to begin with," says John Edwards, "there's nobody in the world I admire like I admire my father. Nobody. He's honest and good and strong, but bleeds for people around him in a way I wish I could. I'm not him; I wish I was. I used to watch how hard he worked, and then they brought [in] this guy -- 'The College Kid,' they called him -- and he just took over. That's when my father left [the plant]."
"When he left," finishes Elizabeth, "he left his health insurance on the table. He had a heart condition, and had [had] rheumatic fever as a child. Bobbie quit that store she loved and went to work first at the county board of elections, then at the post office, where she could have insurance. And when she went to the post office, she joined a union."
"I've always said," John Edwards told me, "if you look at my life pattern, every piece fits: coming from the background I come from, becoming a lawyer, the work I did as a lawyer, and then the work I've done as a political leader."
Some of this populist conviction was obscured by the occasionally Rorschach-like nature of the campaign Edwards ran in 2004. And indeed, as Edwards has geared up for a second presidential bid, observers have treated him as a whole new beast. The New Republic, surveying his recent focus on poverty and labor, termed him "The Accidental Populist." The Nation wondered, "Who is this guy -- and what has he done with the centrist New Democrat who once had Karl Rove quaking in his boots?"
Some of this goes back to tone, words, and accent. The emergence, in 2002, of a handsome, articulate, drawling southerner brought to mind another handsome, articulate, drawling southerner who actually was a centrist. But John Edwards was, and is, no Bill Clinton. Despite a widespread perception to the contrary, Edwards never joined the Democratic Leadership Council, though the organization courted him heavily. "That was not the route he wanted to go," says Elizabeth. Indeed, all the way back in 2002, The New Yorker noted that "Edwards has chosen to present himself as a rollicking, full-throated, us-against-them populist."
Edwards' reputation for moderation was also earned by his early, unblinking support for the Iraq War. He not only backed the war; he co-sponsored the resolution authorizing force. Nor could he claim ignorance: He sat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
"He really has to overcompensate on other issues to overcome his support for the war," says Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, proprietor of the weblog Daily Kos. "It's the defining issue of the decade, and he got it so wrong."
Edwards has, to be sure, sought penance, most notably in a November 13, 2005, Washington Post op-ed that began, simply, "I was wrong." Over time, he has become even more vociferously antiwar, his constant apologies serving as preamble to angry denunciations that seem aimed, in some ways, at his former self. Speaking at New York's Riverside Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, from the same dais on which King condemned the Vietnam War in 1967, he lifted a phrase from King's address for his own refrain: "Silence," he kept saying, "is betrayal" -- a line the media took as a challenge to Obama and Clinton, who, still in the Senate, retain the power to legislate against the war. It is also, however, an unintentional commentary on Edwards' current impotence: No longer a senator, all he can do is speak.
Edwards now approaches foreign policy in much the same way he addresses economic policy: as a populist. Speaking at the Brussels Forum on Transatlantic Challenges last April, Edwards said, "Spreading democracy is not about knocking regimes down; it's about building -- building democratic institutions and communities that will protect basic freedom. Just as poverty and disillusionment isolate and drain hope from our people in our own cities, it does exactly the same thing for every person around the world who feels like they have no chance." To Edwards, you can't fight the war on terrorism without firing a few shots at poverty as well.
Edwards' intense focus on poverty is, politically, very different from the "two Americas"–style populism that he relied on earlier in his political career. The genius of the "two Americas" was that it drew the battle lines so smartly, pitting the overwhelming majority of Americans against a rich and parasitic elite. It was populism as E.L Doctorow defined it, speaking for "the large middle world, neither destitute nor privileged." Edwards identified "one America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks. … One America (middle-class America) whose needs Washington has long forgotten, another America (narrow-interest America) whose every wish is Washington's command." Most any listener, from most any income bracket, could happily count him- or herself in the first America -- the America of decent, hardworking people just looking for a fair shake.
Recently, however, Edwards has turned his focus from the large middle to the destitute. In 2005, he became the director of a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and during the 2006 election, he spent the run-up stumping across the country for minimum-wage increases. He announced his campaign for the presidency in the mud of New Orleans' Ninth Ward, and in April, he will release Ending Poverty in America, a collection of articles co-edited by John Edwards from scholars and experts on how to eliminate the scourge of deprivation from our shores.
When you talk to the Edwards campaign staff, however, you're quickly assured that the antipoverty crusader will employ a different approach as a presidential campaigner. "It's not a campaign strategy," says Edwards. "It never was. It's what I care about, and I'm going to talk about it as long as I'm breathing. But there's a difference between being a candidate for president and running a poverty center at the University of North Carolina. In Des Moines, [Iowa], you would've heard me talk about poverty, but you would've heard me talk about poverty in the context of what's happening in the middle class, what's happening with the growing gap between the rich and the poor, and energy, health care, American leadership in the world. You can't just be the president for low-income families."
In that spirit, the first major policy announcement of Edwards' new campaign wasn't an antipoverty plan; it was a plan to reform the health-care system. Health care is that rare economic problem that can afflict white-collar workers with much the same ferocity it directs against low-income workers. Since 2000, health-care costs have shot up an average of 10.5 percent a year, while worker's earnings have risen an average of 3.1 percent. That may be why 80 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the cost of health care. And Edwards' plan -- which ends the ability of insurers to discriminate on grounds of medical history, age, or health status; offers a Medicare-style program that all Americans could buy into; and subsidizes a significant portion of the middle class to achieve universality -- should prove widely appealing.
Edwards spoke of "Two Americas" in 2004, and he wasn't elected president of either. At the time, he was dogged by questions of authenticity, and his unrelenting niceness and optimism -- he rarely went negative against his primary opponents -- blunted the message's effectiveness. Whether his amplified appeal meets with more success in 2008 may rest on whether he's learned the lessons of 2004.
Those lessons can be summed up in one word: conviction. The political power of this was driven home for Edwards during the 2004 campaign, as the Bush team eviscerated John Kerry by arguing that the electorate couldn't really trust him. "You know where I stand," Bush joked during the election, "and sometimes, we even know where my opponent stands." You can't, of course, get Edwards to say an unkind word about Kerry. Try, and he'll just shake his head. "I've been pretty disciplined about not going back and critiquing," he'll say. I remember, though, a dinner with the Edwardses shortly after the 2004 election, in which I was struck by John Edwards' constant use of the word "conviction." It was like a murder mystery in which the traumatized witness rocks back and forth uttering the single-word clue that unravels the case.
Conviction is not something Edwards has had much trouble demonstrating. As a trial lawyer, he spent years fighting skilled corporate attorneys for the hearts and minds of juries, both sides burying their overwhelmed audience beneath mountains of highly technical evidence and testimony and experts and objections. In the end, the members of the jury, who lacked the expertise to really know which side was playing straight with them, had to go with their gut. And when it was Edwards sitting at the plaintiff's table, their gut tended to tell them that not only was this guy telling the truth, but that the other guys were telling particularly vile untruths. Not only could he show conviction; he could expose its absence in his opponents.
This campaign, Edwards' focus on poverty and populism can be read as an attempt to demonstrate his own convictions: You may not care about what John Edwards cares about, but at least you know that John Edwards cares. At the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee, while Hillary Clinton declared, "I'm in, and I'm in to win," and Barack Obama identified "cynicism" as America's greatest enemy, Edwards pegged his speech to the question, "Why are we here?" ("we" being the Democratic Party's delegates and the 10 assembled presidential hopefuls). The answers: an 8-year-old girl going to bed hungry; a hotel housekeeper walking a union picket line; a high-school student hiding his college-acceptance letter because his family can't afford tuition; a mother mourning her son, who just died in Iraq; an orphaned child sitting in a Sudanese refugee camp; and a father trying to pay the medical bills for his child, who winds up in the emergency room because they lack health insurance -- a veritable Who's Who of little people bravely battling against the vagaries of fate and economics.
Edwards' speech was, by wide acclaim, the finest of those by the Big Three (Edwards, Obama, and Clinton). The National Journal's "Hotline On Call" noted that it received five standing ovations, while Clinton's address got three, and Obama's generated only two. Clinton's speech offered a string of agreeable generalities crying out for a narrative. Obama's address was a more cerebral commentary on the theater of politics and the problems of apathy. Fascinating problems, both, but Edwards's intense focus on the suffering of powerless individuals made such philosophical considerations appear slightly dilettantish. In terms of simple celebrity, he clearly lacked the star power of the other two. But he explained precisely who and what John Edwards stands for, and highlighted the comparatively insufficient answers that Clinton's and Obama's speeches gave to the "Why are we here?" question (good things and hope, respectively).
"Edwards is really trying to be Bobby Kennedy meets César Chávez meets William Jennings Bryan," says Chuck Todd. "And I think that position is going to have some appeal." To win in 2008, though, convincing the majority of voters that he cares for sympathetic underdogs will not be enough; they need to believe he will stand for them. But if Edwards -- in that unthreatening southern drawl, drawing on those years spent fighting against malign corporate actors -- can convince the electorate that he will "[stand] up for regular people so they don't get stomped on by powerful multinational corporations" … well, a lot of people believe themselves "regular people," and this is a moment in which they hunger for a champion.
"The one thing I am certain of," Edwards told me, "is that when Iowa caucus goers walk into caucus on a Monday night a little under a year from now, they will know what I stand for. They won't have any questions. They may not agree with it, but they'll know it."
His confidence is unsurprising. When small groups of Americans spend months listening to Edwards, they often end up concluding that his beliefs are exactly aligned with theirs, that his heroes are their heroes, that his enemies are their enemies. This may be John Edwards' biggest case, but it is not his first.


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Understanding colour rules
I have started preparing course materials for a series of interior design workshops I am planning to run in the Autumn. I think the first one will be on how to pick the perfect colour scheme and incorporate this into a design concept for your room/s, as this is the starting point when planning an interior makeover.
Some people have an "eye for colour " and instinctively know which colours look good together. Others need to develop a sense of colour and using a colour wheel to understand how different colours interact with each other, is a good place to start.
Primary colours are Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary colours are made from mixing the primary colours
Tertiary colours are made by mixing a primary with the secondary next to it on the wheel.
Cool colours
Those on the left of the wheel(roughly from yellow-green to violet). Use to create a calming atmosphere so often used in bedrooms.
Warm colours
Those on the right of the wheel. Use to create a stimulating, cosy atmosphere so works well in living and dining rooms.
Take inspiration from objects or fabrics that you love, perhaps a favourite painting, rug, vase, and build a scheme around it. Travel can also inspire-think about colours and forms associated with Japanese interiors, for example.
Practical considerations
If you have existing furnishings that you want to incorporate into your scheme, this will restrict your choice of paint, On the upside though, it does give you a starting point. Make sure you take a picture of your furniture or sample of your fabric with you when you go paint shopping.
What atmosphere do you want to create?
Decide whether you want to create an earthy and organic feel, faded vintage look or bright and modern feel – what best reflects the variety of objects you own and your personality? For an earthy scheme, pick colours that are prevalent in nature like terracotta or ochre, for a vintage scheme choose muted shades, while for a modern look choose an intense palette of colours like magenta, cyan, violet or lime green (although not all together!).
Understand the effect of tone
If you want to create a relaxing space, opt for a harmonious or tonal colour scheme. This is where you choose colours that are adjacent to each other on the colour wheel, and combine naturally to create a balanced effect. A tonal scheme is where you choose several shades of the same colour. Selecting two or more shades from the same segment of the colour wheel or picking several colours from the same stripe card will result in a harmonious scheme.
If you would like more information on courses, or would like to suggest an interior design topic for a course, message me on Facebook or twitter, or email me. All details on www.dressingroomsinteriors.co.uk
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We came across an issue today when we were trying to set Send As permissions for a specific mailbox and recieved the below error on Exchange 2010.
Active Directory operation failed on DC.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied.
Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-03151E07, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0
The user has insufficient access rights."
To resolve this we had to do the following
1, Open Active Directory Users and Computers and View advanced features
2, Find the user account for the mailbox with the issue and go to the properties of this account
3, Go to the security tab and hit advanced
4, Now check the box that says include inheritable permission and apply this setting
5, Now when you set the send as permission and all works
Exchange Management Shell command completed:
Add-ADPermission -Identity 'CN=User,OU=Users OU,DC=Domain=DC=com' -User 'DomainUser1' -ExtendedRights 'Send-as'
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In 2006, David Geldart, the then Director of Physical Education and Sport at St. Mary's, Menston, visited South Africa as part of a British Council and Youth Sport Trust initiative to promote sport in the country's most deprived areas. As a direct result of that visit, St. Marys and Mnyakanya High School in KwaZulu-Natal developed a unique partnership using sport to inspire young people in both countries. The two schools named their collaboration the 'Bambisanani Partnership' – Bambisanani being the Zulu word meaning 'working hand in hand'. The partnership has subsequently gained international acclaim for its 'pioneering and inspirational work' using the power of sport to promote education, health, global citizenship, enterprise in one of South Africa's poorest rural regions. Ten years on, the partnership has become a multi Award winning charity chaired by David Geldart and led by Mrs Catherine Chattoe at St. Marys and Mrs PK Zondi in South Africa.
Mnyakanya High School is situated in the rural and remote Nkandla region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The school, in the heart of traditional Zululand, was opened by Nelson Mandela in 2004 and is located in one of the most deprived areas of South Africa with high rates of HIV/AIDS, unemployment and adult illiteracy. The area has one of highest rates of AIDS orphans in the world. Class sizes are in excess of 60 and the school has very limited resources. Despite all this, Mnyakanya provides an oasis of hope in the area and many students walk two hours, each way, for the opportunity to receive an education.
Sport has driven the Bambisanani Partnership and has been the catalyst for whole school developments at both St. Mary's and Mnyakanya. Over the course of the past ten years the Bambisanani Partnership has become part of each school's identity. Teacher and student exchanges, joint learning projects involving almost all areas of the curriculum have enriched teaching and learning at both schools and empowered the partnership. A fundamental factor in this success has been whole school involvement, engagement and support of Governors, Senior Leaders, teachers, parents, students and the wider community including supporters and sponsors.
The visits to and from each country have had a significant impact on those involved. Students from St. Mary's who visit South Africa prepare for more that eighteen months in advance. In addition to the necessary fund raising and advanced leadership training, students are involved in a learning programme that covers topics such as Apartheid, South African history and politics, Zulu culture and traditions, HIV/AIDS awareness and Zulu language. When in South Africa the students (normally lower Sixth Form) mentor twenty Mnyakanya students through the 'Bambisanani Leadership' programme, taught through sports activities. At the end of the programme, the students from both schools have the responsibility of jointly planning and delivering a community Sports Festival and a community Reading Festival for over 150 primary school children from the Nkandla region. Significantly, even the Reading Festival uses sport to great effect. Beyond the leadership mentoring, St. Mary's students also coach a range of specific sports and teach academic subjects at Mnyakanya, and sports and reading at Ntlowane Primary School and Zulufadder Orphanage.
The annual visits to South Africa have also included primary and secondary colleagues in order to encourage this kind of development in other schools. Business sponsors and supporters have also visited the project.
David Geldart said:-
"The process of the young people working together using sport for the greater good never fails to remind us of the awesome power of sport. The impact on all those involved is truly inspirational."
Quotes from St. Mary's students:
"My world has just got bigger, I realise it is my duty to be a global citizen."
"Much of our life in the UK has become obsessed with materialism and 'celebrity'. We have lost touch with things that really matter. My visit to South Africa has given me a much more meaningful perspective on life."
"How can my life ever be the same again? I have been given the most wonderful opportunity and I have a responsibility now to continue to make a difference in my life."
Quotes from Mnyakanya students:
"We have worked together …. people of different colours, countries, religions and cultures …. we have proved it can be done."
"My view of the world has changed. I can now see what a difference it makes when you love and respect people."
"We have all learned so much from working together. We have learned to be leaders and to work in the wider community. We have made friends and now have greater confidence in the world."
Beyond annual visits, the majority of Faculty areas at St. Mary's have used the partnership as a stimulus for learning. Exceptional work in Religious Education, English, Languages, Humanities, Technology, Drama, Art and Music has further embedded the collaboration. Joint learning projects in Art and Creative Writing based on the theme of 'The Power of Sport' inspired over 650 students from both schools to voluntarily enter age related competitions. The work has since been exhibited in both countries and prints sold internationally.
'Bambisanani Enterprises' is a student led business that exists in both schools with the purpose of teaching enterprise skills and raising funding for the partnership. Business sponsors in both countries have given their time to mentor students involved. The partnership has also developed the Bambisanani Award scheme. To gain the awards at Bronze, Silver and Gold level, students have to successfully complete independent learning projects on Leadership, Social Justice, Global Citizenship, Enterprise, Volunteering and Community Engagement.
The charity supports Aids orphans into school and is currently funding four students through University. Simphiwe Ndlovu is now in his second year at University training to be a teacher. Simphiwe said, 'I knew that I wanted to be a teacher when I completed the Bambisanani Leadership Programme. I was really motivated to succeed in my studies at school to gain entry to University. To become a teacher is my dream. I want to be one of those good teachers that the world needs.'
St. Mary's and Mnyakanya both now work with other schools to encourage them to also develop international partnerships. This involves working with schools individually and speaking at conferences about the Bambisanani Partnership and the benefits of such work.
Both the University of Leeds and Leeds Trinity University have become involved with the Bambisanani Partnership. Led by Andy Lockwood, staff and students the University of Leeds have recently returned from South Africa where they pioneered a unique cycling project at Mnyakanya School, teaching students how to ride bikes safely and maintain them. In addition to this, the team delivered a Sports Leadership programme to over 150 primary school children and volunteered at Zulufadder Orphanage.
In its tenth Anniversary year, the Bambisanani Partnership has ambitious plans to extend its work and influence. In addition to the annual exchanges, supporting students in need and the provision of a wide range of new learning activities in both schools, the charity is working with the University of Leeds and Leeds Trinity University to develop leadership programmes with its own students in South Africa. At Mnyakanya School the charity is currently working on the instillation of Wi Fi and computers to enhance teaching and learning in this remote rural area. It is also the aim to create a football pitch for the school and wider community on land nearby. The partnership's long term relationship with Zulufadder Orphanage will be developed through the building of a new Hostel for the most vulnerable of vulnerable children who need immediate care and accommodation. Additionally the partnership is also working with the South African Commission to the UK to help establish a Sport and Education Forum linking the UK and South Africa with the British Council and Youth Sport Trust to support other schools develop sustainable partnerships.
William Vilakazi, Principal of Mnyakanya School, is in no doubt about the importance of the partnership:-
"The Bambisanani Partnership continues to be an inspiration to our school and community. It is difficult to put into words the impact of the partnership. Some of the impact is physical and very practical; some of the impact is psychological, influencing attitudes, confidence, motivation and aspiration. We all learn from working together and the focus on developing young leaders is changing people's lives. We are working in an equal partnership where there is mutual respect. There is a saying in Zulu culture: 'Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' – meaning, 'we are what we are because of others'. We are genuinely working hand in hand and I believe that both school communities are enhanced as a result. What this partnership teaches cannot be learned from books."
The partnership's founder, David Geldart added:
"This work is not easy, indeed it is fraught with difficulties and frustration; yet the prize is great if you have a team that is determined to succeed. This is not really about charity, it is much more than that; it is about people from different parts of the world working together and learning together. The Bambisanani Partnership will not change the world but it has changed the world for some people; it has changed the lives and perspectives of many. It is testimony to the unique power of sport and of education as to what can be achieved by working hand in hand in a genuine partnership. We have learned so much from our first ten years of working together; not least that we can achieve even more in the next ten years."
Three remarkable books have been published about the work of the Bambisanani Partnership. The fourth book, Bambisanani: Ten Years of Working Together and Learning Together, is currently being written and will be published early next year.
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Dane DeHaan to star in Angelina Jolie's Unbroken?
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Dane DeHaan is in the running for the lead role in 'Unbroken' which is to be directed by Angelina Jolie
Dane DeHaan is in the running for the lead role in Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken'.
The 'Chronicle' actor is in contention to play Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian and World War II bombardier, according to Deadline.
As well as DeHaan, Jolie is said to be considering 'Resistance' actor Alexander Dreymon and Jack O'Connell from hit TV series 'Skins'.
Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the script for the film, which is based on Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book 'Unbroken'.
The biographical book tells the story of World War II hero Zamperini, who was taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese army and was declared dead, but returned home to a hero's welcome at the end of the war in 1945.
Hillenbrand's previous book, 'Seabiscuit: An American Legend', was adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Tobey Maguire.
DeHaan shot to fame in sci-fi movie 'Chronicle' in 2012 and is currently filming superhero flick 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2', playing the role of Harry Osborn.
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A common misconception is that varicose veins are primarily cosmetic, when in fact; damaged or diseased veins often get worse over time and cause disabling symptoms and complications. That's why it is imperative to seek out a doctor that is not only qualified to manage vein disease, but also has a thorough understanding of the interaction between the leg veins and the heart.
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The last time we spoke to Laurie Allen, who is quadriplegic as a result of a fall in 2015, she'd just finished a modified triathlon in her hometown of Austin, Texas, USA. Now, with two months to go before the annual Wings for Life World Run to raise money for spinal cord injury research, we caught up with the funny, determined and unabashedly honest multi-tasker for insights on her day-to-day life.
Laurie, you're married and are a senior vice president for a software company. What is everyday life like for you with quadriplegia?
When this happens, one of the biggest things you lose is time, because everything takes so long to do. The other big thing you lose is freedom. For example, a caregiver comes at six o'clock every weekday morning to help me get ready, because I can't do everything by myself yet. So it doesn't matter if I didn't sleep well or went to bed late – I don't have an option about when I'm going to get up.
Then what happens?
I am always very stiff in the morning; so when I start trying to move, I have muscle spasms. And then I begin the day by using the bathroom. Glamorous! (laughs) When you have a spinal cord injury like mine, it's a process and requires some time, even with a caregiver.
How do you bathe?
I can mostly do my own shower, but I spray the bathroom with water, and it also takes time. Another challenge is that I don't have feeling in my hands, so I can't sense things like whether I've gotten the conditioner out of my hair. Those little things that you take for granted!
What about getting dressed?
The caregiver transfers me back to the bed and helps me get my clothes on. It's about time management. It would take me an hour just to get dressed if I did it all by myself.
Next you're out the door?
I transfer to my wheelchair and gather my computer and my lunch – which involves thinking ahead about things like what container I can open by myself at work. Then it takes me several minutes to get into my [specially equipped] van and ready to drive.
What about at work?
I can't open the door to the building, so someone else has to let me in, but once I'm at the office it's pretty normal. I've found a docking station that I can get my computer into and out of by myself, I use voice recognition software, and I have cuffs on my hands with styluses that I use to type. They've moved the microwave where I can reach it, and I've figured out how to open the carbonated water I bring with my teeth!
Let's jump to after work.
I lift weights twice a week with a personal trainer. I also do physical therapy once a week at my house, so that I'm working on transfers and such in a real-life setting. I try to ride my bike twice a week, although it takes other people to help me get on and off, and when there's enough daylight I get in my racing chair once a week as well, also adding swimming.
Once you're home with your husband, what's the evening like?
The thing that's difficult for me is that I always did the cooking because it was a hobby I loved. My husband hates cooking, but now it all falls to him. He has to cook and clean up, and then it's the process to get me into bed.
Bedtime – easier said than done?
I can transfer myself into the bed and get undressed, but usually my husband does it to save time. And depending on what I've done throughout the day, my arms are just really tired. I have to wake up in the middle of the night and get into a different position so I'm not getting pressure issues from lying on one spot of my body too long. That's my day!
You've said before you were never a person to sit still. What is this like for you?
I was not a patient person at all, and now people tell me, "You're so patient" – but what else am I going to be? There's really no option. There are many hard things, but I want to focus on the positive. There are lots of things you just have to laugh at.
Given your day-to-day challenges, what do you hope for from spinal cord injury research?
For me personally, it's not the big things like walking. It's the smaller progress science and research can make to improve our daily lives. To get a little bit of bowel and bladder function back, or some hand function, would be huge. And we are seeing progress in those areas as well as toward the larger goals – I'm seeing it myself in my own community.
And you're still planning on participating in the Wings for Life World Run on May 6?
Yes! Several of us are putting together an App Run in Austin, which will include a wheelchair accessible route. We hope lots of people will join us. But that's what's special about this event: we're all racing together at the same time no matter where we are, and everyone who takes part or donates is really making a difference.
So is there anything you'd like to say to those out there reading this?
We will find a cure one day. And every step we take in this research has the potential to provide those of us living with a spinal cord injury a better quality of life. Do we all want to walk? Of course we do. But in the meanwhile, we would be thrilled to have an easier day, each and every day. Please join us in progressing this research forward by participating in the Wings for Life World Run!


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Stuck in a rut? Looking for new ways of making revenue or scaling your impact? No matter how long you've been in business, it's important to remain agile, inventive, and resourceful. Here are three recommendations for bringing your team together and helping drive scalable new ideas in order to create a sustainable future.
- Think Big. Get Feedback
Follow a lean strategy that creates fast cycles of building measuring and learning. Failing fast doesn't mean failing in a way threatens your business. When thinking of new programs, products, services, or initiatives, it's beneficial to have a thought partner that can provide you with feedback and coach you through cycles of invention, value proposition design, and ways to test the idea.
- Build Innovation Into Your Organization's Culture
Consider building innovation and long term entrepreneurship training at your organization. For many organizations, the new year spells a great opportunity to invest in establishing a culture of invention and creativity. Research shows that the number one factor when it comes to retaining quality employees, particularly millennials, is facilitating their professional growth. Creating opportunities to drive lasting change through customized trainings is a great way to help staff work better and faster through challenges they encounter whether it be coming up with new programs or approaching problems.
- Bring Everyone Together for an Innovation Sprint
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A Unique Academic Institution
The Centre for British Studies is an interdisciplinary area studies institute of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In its research, its international master programme and the lectures it regularly offers to the general public, the Centre has established itself as a major voice for all things British in the heart of Berlin during the last 20 years.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German re-unification, the Centre was established in recognition of the UK's role as one of the Western powers which protected West Berlin during the Cold War. Based on the decision made by the Berlin Senate on 17 January 1995, the Centre was officially opened in June 1995 in the presence of the British Ambassador, Sir Nigel Broomfield and the governing Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen.
From the beginning, the Centre was designed as a teaching and research institute covering all aspects of British culture both past and present. Organising public lectures to encourage cultural exchange is also a part of the Centre's responsibilities. In so doing, it is not only a reminder of Britain's past role as one of the four allied powers in Berlin, but also a symbol of the continuing close ties between Germany and Britain.
The Centre's interdisciplinary research programmes cover British history and politics, economy and law, literature, culture and the media. Historically, Britain, being a pioneer within the modern industrial and commercial world as well as an imperial power, has made a distinctive impact on Europe and the world. It continues to make decisive contributions to the structuring of a transnational and global culture. The complexity of exchange, interactions and cultural formations cannot be examined from only one point of view or through any one discipline. Rather, a broad range of methods and approaches must be applied in a problem-oriented way.
This interdisciplinary approach is also characteristic for the M.A. British Studies – taught entirely in English – in order to introduce an international student body to pivotal questions and equip them with competences for a response. Students are guided into becoming highly qualified specialists, and, at the same time, they acquire a general cultural competence in contextual thinking. Highly-qualified staff and guest lecturers from the UK, academics as well as practitioners, prepare the Centre's graduates, who come from various disciplines, for duties with German and British institutions and businesses active in the European market.
The recently opened Berlin Graduate School for British Studies supports such students, who, after completion of their M.A. in British Studies, wish to write a PhD thesis. For that purpose the Centre for British Studies cooperates with other faculties at the Humboldt-Universität. The Berlin Graduate School for British Studies welcomes graduates from other study programmes provided their focus is related to a British topic.


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Globalization Effects On Businesses
Monetary authorities said the impending interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve would continue to spook the local financial market as the normalization" could not materialize before the end of the year. For instance, brushing of teeth on a daily more disciplined you are with time,the greater your chance of succeeding in balancing your two jobs. Stock exchange experts believe that worse is yet to come and hundreds or thousands of funds could be driven out of business in this thrift situation. As you can see, the business world is not idiot proof, and some of the idiots are even the ones with MBA's and a whole lot of doctorates to their name.
I have found that many entrepreneurs never even take time to read the lease until they try to get out of it, which is always impossible to do. When you sign a lease on behalf of your business, you are the one on the hook for the remaining cost of the lease should your business decline and no longer have revenue to cover the rent.
One day after taking questions for nearly six hours at Berkshire's annual meeting, Buffett and Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger held a nearly three-hour news conference on subjects that ranged from investment strategies to the newspaper industry.
Speaking to Business Standard, Sanjay Khendry, vice-president (global business development), Sierra Atlantic, said they would be initially focusing on the enterprise application services market in India during 2007, primarily in one of the company's core competence areas – manufacturing.
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I have very fond memories of holiday's as a child and always looked forward to spending time with Great Auntie Kathleen and Great Uncle Len who lived in Somerford, then Hampshire. I lived in West Sussex at the time, a stones throw from the shingle beach and not too far from the bright lights of Brighton, but holiday's with my Aunt and Uncle always stick in my mind. It's funny what you remember, the journey through the New Forest that… Continue Reading "My Great British Family Holiday #OMGBFamily"
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This article by Gavin Mueller (from the defunct music blog Stylus) construes the rhetoric of authenticity in pop music to be a "joust," or "game." Mueller breaks down two competing strategies or systems of thinking about this: first, the "rockist" attitude (which is kind of old-school and somewhat conservative in its essentialist, performance-based value-set, skeptical of technological fads and a lot of what makes pop "pop"); second is, perhaps, more market-driven, but no less concerned with essence — exemplified by 50 Cent (whose authenticity as a gangster was cemented when he was shot in the face).
Mueller draws no ultimate conclusion — or rather, the point is that there is no conclusion to our Baudrillardian catch-22; continually compelled to recreate the real, the really real, in order to escape awareness of the fact that everything in our world is constructed and artificial; authenticity prima facie impossible where all form is predetermined by our image of it.


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Black Kings of Ancient Slave owning Societies: According to some black African writers they did and some felt ashamed by it.
'In Ghana, politician and educator Samuel Sulemana Fuseini has acknowledged that his Asante ancestors accumulated their great wealth by abducting, capturing, and kidnapping Africans and selling them as slaves. Likewise, Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Awoonor has written: "I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We too are blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human history."'
'In 2000, at an observance attended by delegates from several European countries and the United States, officials from Benin publicized President Mathieu Kerekou's apology for his country's role in "selling fellow Africans by the millions to white slave traders." "We cry for forgiveness and reconciliation," said Luc Gnacadja, Benin's minister of environment and housing. Cyrille Oguin, Benin's ambassador to the United States, acknowledged, "We share in the responsibility for this terrible human tragedy."'
One African blogger wrote that "the bulk of the supply came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. The middlemen also purchased many of the slaves from the people in the interior .
Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation. The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. As years went by and the trade collapsed such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished"
"Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade, "himself is the descendant of generations of slave-owning and slave-trading African kings," urged Europeans, Americans, and Africans to acknowledge publicly and teach openly about their shared responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade"
"Historians estimate that ten million of these abducted Africans "never even made it to the slave ships. Most died on the march to the sea"—still chained, yoked, and shackled by their African captors—before they ever laid eyes on a white slave trader"
Africans were also sold to other Africans in Dahomey for human sacrifices. Africans were also sold to Muslim slave traders for use as eunuchs in the middle east. Most males did not survive the eunuch station and those who did survive left no descendants. The price of slaves was low because slaves could not only walk to the middle east from Africa, they could also carry trade goods on the way there.
The Africans sold to the white men became high priced cargo because of the expensive ocean voyage. This made it profitable to breed slaves. In contrast in the middle east the price of slaves was so low that the children of slave women were regularly killed so that the mothers could get back to work. The black population in the New World owes its existence to capitalism and the white man's need for labor. There were not enough white slaves available to fill the need for plantation labor.
According to David Stannard's American Holocaust, 50% of African deaths occurred in Africa as a result of wars between native kingdoms, which produced the majority of slaves. This includes not only those who died in battles, but also those who died as a result of forced marches from inland areas to slave ports on the various coasts.
The practice of enslaving enemy combatants and their villages was widespread throughout Western and West Central Africa, although wars were rarely started to procure slaves. The slave trade was largely a by-product of tribal and state warfare as a way of removing potential dissidents after victory or financing future wars.
However, some African groups proved particularly adept and brutal at the practice of enslaving others, such as Oyo, Benin, Igala, Kaabu, Asanteman, Dahomey, the Aro Confederacy and the Imbangala war bands. By the end of this process, no fewer than 18.3 million people would be herded into "factories" to await shipment to the New World.
The kings of Dahomey sold their war captives into transatlantic slavery, who otherwise would have been killed in a ceremony known as the Annual Customs. As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighbouring peoples. King Gezo of Dahomey said in the 1840s:
The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery.
Like the Bambara Empire to the east, the Khasso kingdoms depended heavily on the slave trade for their economy. A family's status was indicated by the number of slaves it owned, leading to wars for the sole purpose of taking more captives. This trade led the Khasso into increasing contact with the European settlements of Africa's west coast, particularly the French.
Benin grew increasingly rich during the 16th and 17th centuries on the slave trade with Europe; slaves from enemy states of the interior were sold, and carried to the Americas in Dutch and Portuguese ships. The Bight of Benin's shore soon came to be known as the "Slave Coast". In 1807, the UK Parliament passed the Bill that abolished the trading of slaves. The King of Bonny (now in Nigeria) was horrified at the conclusion of the practice:
We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself.
The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa. Obviously, Europeans did not TAKE Slaves in Africa, they BOUGHT Slaves in Africa. These expeditions were typically carried out by African kingdoms, such as the Oyo empire (Yoruba), Kong Empire, Kingdom of Benin, Kingdom of Fouta Djallon, Kingdom of Fouta Tooro, Kingdom of Koya, Kingdom of Khasso, Kingdom of Kaabu, Fante Confederacy, Ashanti Confederacy, Aro Confederacy and the kingdom of Dahomey.
Europeans rarely entered the interior of Africa, due to fear of disease and moreover fierce African resistance. The slaves were brought to coastal outposts where they were traded for goods.
Denmark was the first European country to ban slavery. In 1807 Britain declared the slave trade to be illegal. One year later the United States of America followed, Sweden in 1813, The Netherlands in 1814, France in 1815 and Spain in 1820.
However the constant demand for slaves in the Caribbean and in the Southern States of America continued. Huge profits could still be made with the slave trade. In the years that followed, dozens of illegal slave transports took place between Africa and those destinations. Britain on an international level made great efforts to stop this illegal trade.
It made agreements with other countries, and British marine ships were authorized to ransack ships leaving Africa. They patrolled along the African coast to stop illegal slave transports. When a slave trader was caught, the ship was confiscated and the captain punished. The punishments England imposed in 1811 was deportation or the death penalty.
But it was not from a humane point of view that England suppressed the slave trade; rather, it was to protect its own sugar colonies against dishonest competition from other countries that could still count on new supplies of cheap slave labor.
The British and French ships patrolling along the African coast also had some unintended consequences; It was not unusual for a slave ship to toss her human cargo into the sea when confronted with a British or French slave hunter. There were also rumors about mass slaughters of slaves onshore along the African coast by African slavers, when British or French ships prevented the slave ships from reaching the shore to pick up their human cargo.
The most important markets for illegal slavers was Cuba and Brazil. From Cuba the African slaves were illegally transported on fast clippers to the southern states of America, often with false documents to prove the slaves originated from other Caribbean colonies and not from Africa. British, American, French and Dutch ships took part in the illegal slave transports that happened until 1870.
At a rough estimation, about 1,898,400 slaves have been transported over the Atlantic Ocean between 1811 and 1870. Sixty per-cent of these slaves wore transported to Brazil, 32 percent to Cuba and Puerto Rico, 5 percent to the French West Indies and only 3 percent straight to the United States, but many slaves were brought to the United States through Cuba.
Reformers campaigned during much of the 19th century for the United Kingdom to use its influence and power to stop the traffic of slaves to Brazil. Besides moral qualms, the low cost of slave-produced Brazilian sugar meant that British colonies in the West Indies were unable to match the market prices of Brazilian sugar, and each Briton was consuming 16 pounds (7 kg) of sugar a year by the 19th century. This combination led to intensive pressure from the British government for Brazil to end this practice, which it did by steps over several decades.
East Africa
Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century as many as 50,000 slaves were passing through the city each year. Some historians estimate that between 11 and 18 million black African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 AD to 1900 AD, compared with the 9.4 to 12 million Africans who were taken to the Americas.
During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese Empire was the first European power to gain control of Zanzibar, and the Portuguese kept it for nearly 200 years. In 1698, Zanzibar fell under the control of the Sultanate of Oman, which developed an economy of trade and cash crops with a ruling Arab elite.
The Muslims and slavery
As the Muslims failed to conquer Europe in the 8th century they took to pirate raids against the shores of Spain, southern Portugal and France, and Italy, that would last roughly from the 9th century until the 12th century, when the Italian city-states of Genoa, Venice, and Pisa, along with the Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, as well as the Sicilian Normans, began to dominate the Mediterranean.
The Barbary Corsairs
The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa from the time of the Crusades (11th century) until the early 19th century. Based in North African ports such as Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé, and other ports in Morocco, they sailed mainly along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast.
But their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, and they primarily commandeered western European ships in the western Mediterranean Sea. In addition, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco.
The Middle Ages from 1100 to 1500 saw a continuation of the European slave trade, as there was a shift from the Western Mediterranean Islamic nations to the Eastern nations, as Venice and Genoa took firm control of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 12th century and the Black Sea from the 13th century sold and both Slavic and Baltic slaves, as well as Georgians, Turks, and other ethnic groups of the Black Sea and Caucasus, to the Muslim nations of the Middle East.
"the Kingdom of Kongo became a major source of slaves for Portuguese traders and other European powers."
"Slavery had existed in Kongo long before the arrival of the Portuguese, and Afonso's (King of Kongo 1456-1542 or 1543) early letters show the evidence of slave markets. They also show the purchase and sale of slaves within the country and his accounts on capturing slaves in war which were given and sold to Portuguese merchants. It is likely that most of the slaves exported to the Portuguese were war captives from Kongo's campaigns of expansion. In addition, the slaving wars helped Afonso consolidate his power in southern and eastern border regions."
"The rulers of these societies usually appointed caboceers (traders) to deal with European slave traders. Many, such as the caboceer from the Fante people, John Currantee, or the leader from the Efik people Ephraim Robin John (known to the European traders as King George) were well-known as canny and ruthless dealers.
They were able to communicate in a number of European and African languages. The African slave traders were skilled in using to their advantage the rivalries between the French, the English and the Dutch to get the best prices for their slaves. Often they demanded (and received) 'gifts' or 'custom fees', known in some quarters as 'dashee', from the Europeans."
Plantations were developed to grow spices, hence the term Spice Islands. Another major trade good for Zanzibar was ivory. The Sultan of Zanzibar controlled a substantial portion of the East African coast, known as Zanj; this included Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, and trading routes that extended much further inland, such as the route leading to Kindu on the Congo River.
Sometimes gradually and sometimes by fits and starts, control of Zanzibar came into the hands of the British Empire; part of the political impetus for this was the 19th century movement for the abolition of the slave trade.
The relationship between Britain and the nearest relevant colonial power, Germany, was formalized by the 1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, in which Germany pledged not to interfere with British interests in insular Zanzibar. That year, Zanzibar became a protectorate (not a colony) of Britain. From 1890 to 1913, traditional viziers were appointed to govern as puppets, switching to a system of British residents (effectively governors) from 1913 to 1963.
First, foreign slave trade was banned in 1850. Then, in 1871, the sons of the slaves were freed. In 1885, slaves aged over 60 years were freed. The Paraguayan War contributed to ending slavery, since many slaves enlisted in exchange for freedom.
However, in 2004, the government acknowledged to the United Nations that at least 25,000 Brazilians work under conditions "analogous to slavery." The top anti-slavery official puts the number of modern slaves at 50,000. More than 1,000 slave laborers were freed from a sugar cane plantation in 2007 by the Brazilian government, making it the largest anti-slavery raid in modern
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Ambassador Cyrille Oguin of Benin said:
Benin President Mattieu Kerekou has made reconciliation a priority, Oguin says. "The president of Benin, the people of Benin have asked me to come here and apologize for the government, for the Benin people and for Africa for what we all know happened," Oguin says. "Where our parents were involved in this awful, this terrible, trade."
Eventually Africans paid for their stupidity in selling their own kind into brutal Slavery:
Most of the continent was colonized eventually they regained freedom.
As the saying goes when you digging a ditch dig two. One for the person you are digging it for the other one for yourself.