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The Washington Wizards guard plead guilty to a misdemeanor weapons charge today—as opposed to the felony weapons charge handed to Gilbert Arenas—and will get one year of probation and a fine. Don't worry, it gets weirder.
Since Javaris Crittenton has no prior record and supposedly didn't actually threaten anyone, he'll be getting off pretty easy. Arenas is still awaiting sentencing for his guilty plea for the same incident, but probably won't be so lucky. However, this statement from Crittenton's lawyer is rather curious:
"Mr. Crittenton brought a lawfully owned, unloaded handgun into Washington, D.C. only because he legitimately feared for his life. The government's proffer of facts to be filed today acknowledges that his handgun was not loaded and that he never threatened anyone with it. The gun was legally purchased, but bringing it into the District, even for self defense, violated the city's strict gun control laws."
Wait. Who has legitimately threatened Crittenton's life? Arenas? An unknown enemy? Am I missing something or is that a very damning, accusatory statement? (Or is it just a lawyer being a blowhard as lawyers are wont to do?) And if he was really so afraid for his life ... why was the gun unloaded? Even blanks would at least make a scary noise.
I know this may be hard to accept—since we're talking about insane NBA stars who throw empty guns at each other as jokes—but this whole story is slightly confusing!
Wizards' Crittenton is sentenced to year of probation, fined after pleading guilty to misdemeanor [Washington Post]


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Psalm 87
1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
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The lawyers for four victims of Palm Beach perv Jeffrey Epstein are holding Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz's feet to the fire he started earlier this year when he told Gossip Extra and several TV programs he never met Epstein victim Virginia Roberts, let alone had sex with her.
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Calling the current public employee pension system "a Ponzi scheme," Gov. Jerry Brown paid an unusual visit on state lawmakers at the Capitol this week to make a personal pitch for his reform plan.
Brown wants lawmakers to place his reform plan on the ballot in November of 2012. It would boost the retirement age, increase contributions, and set up a hybrid system of benefits that would include a 401(k)-style plan.
Speaking to a two-house committee, Brown described his plan in colorful terms, referring to it as "castor oil."
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"There's an intergenerational issue," said Brown, who is 73. "Speaking for the old geezers, we should be given our due, but not our overdue."
Complaining that the current system is unsustainable, Brown said, "I don't like these kinds of irrevocable commitments. I waited a long time to get married, at 67."
Brown also alluded to his pending plans to place a tax hike plan on the ballot, telling lawmakers that unless something can be done on pension reform, he and the legislature won't have the credibility to ask for votes on other issues.
Brown is expected to begin the process soon of seeking to qualify an initiative that would raise temporarily raise income tax rate on the wealthy, as well as a hike in the sales tax.
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Every once in a while, one comes across a movie that is extraordinarily thought-provoking. My favorite actor, Aamir Khan, has differentiated himself as a thinking star. With his approach to film-making alone (let alone top acting talent), I would argue he has done more for Bollywood (or Hindi cinema, as some prefer to call it) than any other actor of his generation (at least). Per him in this interview, the primary inspiration behind his decision to skip college and choose acting as a profession was the film Pyaasa (1957) by Guru Dutt. This was why I chose to see the film. I went in with high expectations, and they were exceeded, for I haven't thought as much as I did during and after a movie in a long, long time.
Pyaasa starred Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, and others. Produced and directed by Guru Dutt, it had music by S. D. Burman and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. I was working from home the weekend I saw it, and figured playing the film for a few minutes after lunch on a Sunday afternoon would be a good way to take a quick break. The 'quick' break lasted for the duration of the movie, it was that captivating! Here are some highlights:
1. The first scene in the film was a definite strength, and a striking precursor to the rest. Vijay (Guru Dutt) was a poet.
He sang this poem, fascinated with bees in the garden, when, all of a sudden, he noticed a passerby stepping on and killing a bee:
2. A struggling poet, he was mistreated by everyone save his mother and a few close friends. Resourceful poets dismissed his work as waste...
...and his brothers sold his pages of poetry as scrap for a few annas (an annaa is a sixteenth of a rupee, the unit was last used officially in 1957, the year of the film's release!). They made it obvious that he was unwelcome in the family home because he was unemployed and did not contribute financially.
3. Devastated, Vijay left home and spent some time at a friend's place. Coincidentally, he overheard Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman), a prostitute, singing one of his poems. This also began the film's musical journey with Jaane kya tu ne kahi.
3. Gulabo wouldn't realize the person following her was the poet whose writings she carried and admired, until after she too mocked him for having nothing to offer.
4. We're taken to a college classroom next (a good use of the flashback), where this beautiful bit of poetry...
...was centered around our introduction to the beautiful Meena (Mala Sinha):
5. Every scene in the film was used to illustrate something valuable. Here's a traveler taking advantage of the ever-helpful Vijay (leaving the rest of this to your viewing experience):
6. In the mean time, Gulabo and Vijay learned more of and from each other.
Gulabo (whose name reminded me of Gulabbo -- Sue (Alice Patten) -- in Rang De Basanti (2006)) really was quite beautiful.
You might recall she also acted in Rang De Basanti (and did superb) as mother of Ajay Rathod.
7. Abdul Sattar (Johnny Walker) was Vijay's loyal friend. An expert at providing tel maalish (hair oil massage), Mr. Walker's portrayal of the character only confirmed that he was one of the best ever at comedy (given my limited knowledge of classic cinema, I think the only one in the same league was Mukri). Really liked him as Mastana in Taxi Driver (1954 -- here's my review), and thought he did an excellent job here as well.
As a light-hearted song, this Mohammad Rafi song -- Sar jo tera chakraaye ('Whether you are dizzy') -- doubled as Abdul Sattar's sales pitch and some welcome comic relief.
8. At an alumni reunion, Vijay met his college sweetheart Meena again. The poem Tang aa chuke hain was brilliantly placed (video, lyrics and translation in this post), and was perfectly timed to be followed by an introduction to publisher Mr. Ghosh (Rehman), who invited Vijay to his workplace the following day.
9. Vijay was disappointed with the offer, but must have thought it worth accepting upon realizing Mr. Ghosh was Meena's husband. One of the most popular songs from the soundtrack -- Jaane Woh Kaise -- was placed at Mr. Ghosh's house, as noted in this post with its lyrics and translation.
10. Vijay and Meena had a couple of fantastic sequences (following another popular song -- Hum Aap ki Aankhon mein (video, lyrics and translation in this post)), where the dialogue was top notch:
11. Much like the scenes with Vijay and Meena, this accidental meeting between the former and Gulabo set the tone for the remainder of the film as far as lessons on relationships were concerned.
12. A disturbing scene with a child involved sparked off a remarkable song in Jinhein naaz hai Hind par, the last paragraph to which was as follows (hope to translate this some day):
Here is the song:
The song also led to an outpouring of the antagonists' views on the worth of Vijay's poems. Again, Vijay trusted Gulabo with the conversation.
13. This scene by the railway tracks was the turning point in the film.
What prompted a Meena-Gulabo confrontation?
What was Abdul Sattar doing singing his delightful signature song again?
Nothing prepared me for the final 45 minutes of the film, not even reading reviews describing the film beforehand. In those final minutes, we were reminded of the tremendous ease with which some lie and change loyalties for material wealth. We were also reminded of the various thought processes that guide value systems and definitions of success that are individualistic and geared to the short-term. This was why Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye (video, lyrics and translation in this post) was a tremendous complement to the film and its fitting end.
The very obvious elements that enabled Pyaasa to hold the viewers' attention from the first frame to the last were the dialogue and the music. They were critical to the effectiveness of the film, and were executed flawlessly. The songs were not only fantastic as vocal, musical and lyrical products of the highest quality, but were integral to the unfolding of the plot. They served as very natural extensions to the dialogue, which is the biggest compliment a lyricist (Sahir Ludhianvi here) must hope for.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without spectacular performances by Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, and Mala Sinha. In addition, the supporting cast was more than up to the task of participating in a demanding film with a message that commands respect over five decades after its release. The cinematography was very well done too.
And finally, as a follow-up to the very first paragraph in this post...my viewing experience led me to believe that the following (#s 1 - 3) were some significant messages of the film (there were plenty more). They served as reinforcement of the universal good, an idea not too different from the one presented by Tagore in Sadhana. The film tackled each head-first, and did very well:
- We are to leave everything behind. Focus on investing in community rather than in the self.
- The purpose of education is to make us better learners, thus better people.
- The way one looks at woman and her role in society, and one's treatment of women, are fair indicators of one's character. I have not encountered a film that was as effective in dealing with this issue as Pyaasa.
- Don't even *think* of risking your life and saving someone trapped on railway tracks unless you're Guru Dutt in Pyaasa...
...or Aamir Khan in Ghulam (1998). Watch the scene about a minute into this video (Aamir did the stunts for the scene himself, which was quite remarkable).
If you're read this far, you know what I thought of Pyaasa. I shall definitely revisit and hope to continue to understand it better. Close to five stars for an excellent, excellent film that earns the viewers' focus throughout! It really is a must-see, no second thoughts about it!
Movie rating: 4.75/5 (Excellent!)
My classification: PG (for plot)
Music rating: 4.75/5 (Excellent!)
PS: Comparisons to Devdas are inevitable given the plot (love triangle with a prostitute and a woman who married for riches), but Devdas was not nearly as mature and emotionally capable of doing what Vijay accomplished. Pyaasa was about something much greater and substantial than a character like Devdas, his love, his selfishness and his uncontrolled state which led to his destruction.


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The Black Keys Stream 'Turn Blue' Album, Debut 'Fever' Video + Book 'SNL' Gig
Preach it! The Black Keys are back and the promotional machine is in full swing! The duo recently debuted their video for their hit single 'Fever' and they're also now streaming their 'Turn Blue' album ahead of its May 13 release.
As for the video, it finds frontman Dan Auerbach as a televangelist, getting a little sweaty while preaching the word of the lord while drummer Patrick Carney looks on. As the clip moves forward, the audience gets more and more pulled in by Auerbach's preaching and the clip ends with some good old fashioned faith healing. The video can be seen above.
As for the 'Turn Blue' album, the Black Keys are giving fans an early preview via iTunes. You can listen to the full disc at iTunes, and you can pre-order 'Turn Blue' there, as well. The band also has a pre-order site where you can get the standard edition of the album as well as bundle packages here.
For fans looking to catch the Black Keys, check them out this weekend when they appear as the music guests on 'Saturday Night Live' with guest host Charlize Theron. The 'SNL' episode airs May 10 on NBC at 11:30PM ET/PT.


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"To kill oblivion with a little memory,
we cover our chests with lead and hope."
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN).
In: 'Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings',
Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature)
Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.)
"We are a product of 500 years of struggle: first, led by insurgents against slavery during the War of Independence with Spain; then to avoid being absorbed by North American imperialism; then to proclaim our constitution and expel the French empire from our soil; later when the people rebelled against Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship, which denied us the just application of the reform laws, and leaders like Villa and Zapata emerged…" – First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, January 2, 1994
In the mountains and jungles of the Mexican southeast, an insurrection explodes in January 1st, 1994. Several municipalities in the province of Chiapas are taken over by the armed rebels that call themselves Zapatistas, followers of the legacy of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919).
Led by the campesinos and the indigenous populations of Chiapas, this neo-zapatist movement blossoms into the spotlight of the world's arena in exactly the same day of the implementation of NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement of the North American countries.
From day one, it was made quite clear by the rebels that one of the objectives of EZLN's uprising was to be an obstacle to the implementation of Free Trade policies in Mexico. The economical set-up of Neoliberalism (based on privatization, free competition, consumerism etc.), argues the Zapatistas, is nothing but an authoritarian imposition of rules made-up by "the world of money":
"The world of money, their world, governs from the stock exchanges. Today, speculation is the principal source of enrichment, and at the same time the best demonstration of the atrophy of our capacity to work. Work is no longer necessary in order to produce wealth; now all that is needed is speculation. Crimes and wars are carried out so that the global stock exchanges may be pillaged by one or the other. Meanwhile, millions of women, millions of youths, millions of indegenous, millions of homosexuals, millions of human beings of all races and colors, participate in the financial markets only as a devalued currency, always worth less and less, the currency of their blood turning a profit. The globalization of markets erases borders for speculation and crime and multiplies borders for human beings. Countries are obliged to erase their national border for money too circulate, but to multiply their internal borders." – (Marcos, Unveiling Mexico, p. 117)
Wall Street and Washington join hands and try to persuade Mexicans that "Free Trade" will be a marvel for Mexico, but Mexicans have every reason to be suspicious of their neighbor who stole from it a big slice of territory in bygone years. Today, at the frontier that separates the countries, the yankees have built up a huge Wall of Segregation, and soldiers with license to kill can deal with illegal immigrants in very unbrotherly ways. The same country responsible for La Migra (and Guantánamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib detention facility…) preaches the Free Trade gospel as if it was salvation.
The men and women who have arisen to speak out their discontent in Chiapas are yet to be fully heard by the world-at-large. Artists and writers have helped spread their voices, from Manu Chao and Rage Against the Machine, to José Saramago and Eduardo Galeano. 20 years later, the Zapatistas are still struggling against the powers that want to crush human dignity in the bloody altars of profit. And if the Zapatistas' scream has the potentiality to be heard and comprehended all around the world, it's because they accuse the established capitalist system of committing crimes that are visible worldwide, in many different countries: ecological devastation; ethnical genocide of indigenous populations and destruction of their cultures; concentration of capital in the hands of a few multinational corporations etc.
Zapatismo has been called the first revolutionary movement of the Internet-era, the avant-garde guerrilla that's pioneering the ways to be followed by the guerrillas of tomorrow. But reactionary political powers have been violently trying to silence their voices – and the "money world", also referred to by Marcos as "The Beast", doesn't refrain from methods such as military agression, police repression, institutionalized murder, and para-military militias. All in order to maintain the Order imposed by The World of Money and to bury the voices of these "indians", covered in masks and carrying guns, that insist in demanding social justice, autonomy and real democracy.
Marcos describes Chiapas's tragedies very vividly in his poetry-filled words: "This land continues to pay tribute to the imperialists", writes the insurgent Zapatista, "and there's a thousand teeth sunk into the throat of the Mexican Southeast" (Unveiling Mexico, 1992, pg. 22-23). Would the indigenous populations of southeast Mexico have risen in rebellion if the suffering they endured hadn't become unbearable?
"In times past, wood, fruits, animals, and men went to the metropolis through the veins of exploitation, just as they do today. Like the banana republics, but at the peak of neoliberalism and 'libertarian revolutions', the Southeast of Mexico continues to export raw materials, just as it did 500 years ago. It continues to import capitalism's principal product: death and misery.
The health conditions of the people of Chiapas are a clear example of the capitalist imprint: 1.5 million people have no medical services at their disposal. There are 0,2 clinics for every 1.000 inhabitants, 1/5 of the national average. There are 0,3 hospital beds for every 1.000 Chiapanecos, 1/3 the amount in the rest of Mexico… Health and nutrition go hand in hand with poverty. 54% of the population of Chiapas suffers from malnutrition, and in the highlands and forest this percentage increases to 80%…. This is what capitalism leaves as payment for everything that it takes away. (…) Chiapa's experience of exploitation goes back for centuries. " – Sub Marcos, Unveiling Mexico
In Subcomandante Marcos' political tought, which seems to be deeply rooted in an understanding of Latin America's reality similar to Eduardo Galeano's, Imperialism is the name of the beast which has it's thousands of teeths sunk into Chiapas neck – and so many numberless others places on this Earth where 85 flesh-and-blood earthlings retain the same amount of wealth as half of the world's population (according to Oxfam). Welcome to the established economical and political orden in 3rd planet from the Sun, a place of extreme inequality in which the criminal status quo is defended by armies and warmongers, for the profit of speculators, gangsters and banksters.
"A handful of businesses – one of which is the Mexican state – take all the wealth out of Chiapas and in exchange leave behind their mortal and pestilent mark..(…) Pemex has 86 teeth sunk into the townships of Estación Juárez, Reforma, Ostuacán, Pichucalco, and Ocosingo. Every day they suck out 92.000 barrels of oil and 517.000.000.000 cubic feet of gas. They take away the petroleum", states Marcos, "and in exchange leave behind the mark of capitalism: ecological destruction, agricultural plunder, hyperinflation, alcoholism, prostitution, and poverty."
It's easy to delineate the image of the Enemy in the Zapatistas' hearts: the face of the big-bellied beast of Greed. Imperialism is dirty business, greediness in action, devastating egotism that turns nations into vampires that suck the life-blood of others. Besides the petroleum that gets sucked out of Chiapas by greedy oil companies, another similar process affects the production of coffee: 35% of Mexico's coffee is produced in Chiapas, but more than 50% of Chiapas' coffee production is exported. The campesinos that work in the fields to produce it have terribly inadequate life-conditions of nourishment, health, education etc. The true producers are dying of hunger and disease while foreign powers ride on golden streets of robbed privilege.
The list can be enriched with many other "commodities" that are sucked-out of Chiapas to feed, elsewhere, the belly of the beast. There are 3.000.000 animals waiting to be slaughtered for beef in Chiapas: "the cattle are sold for 400 pesos per kilo by the poor farmers and resold by the middlemen and businessmen for up to 10 times the price they paid for them." (Unveiling Mexico, p. 23) Chiapas' forests are also among the culinary preferences of the greedy hungry beast: whole woods are cut down by capitalism's chainsaws, and this precious wood is then shipped out of Chiapas to be sold elsewhere for huge profits. Similar histories could be told about honey, corn or hydrelectric energy – goods that Chiapas produces in large quantities, but get eaten away by this beastly creature which Marcos denounces and summons to answer: "what does the beast leave behind in exchange for all it takes away?" (pg. 24)
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John Lennon asked us in his era-defining song to "imagine a brotherhood of man", but Chiapas isn't the place to look for it. It ain't brotherly treatment to exploit, repress and steal fellow humans – and that's what businessmen and fancy capitalists have been doing against the Chiapanecos. "1.000.000 indigenous people live in these lands and share a disorienting nightmare with mestizos and ladinos: their only option, 500 years after the "Meeting of Two Worlds", is to die of poverty or repression." (Marcos: p. 26)
There are 300.000 Tzotziles, 120.000 Choles, 90.000 Zoques, and 70.000 Tojoales, among other indigenous populations, that inhabit the land of the poorest state in Mexico. Chiapas could be rich, but it's wealth is sucked away and taken abroad, to bank accounts of greedy capitalists, and if you join the Zapatista up-rising against this reality you might end up killed by the repression. How many people has the Mexican Army killed in order to silence the voices that question the undoubtable goodness of the so-called "Free Market"? I leave the question unanswered, for now, and move on, from exploitation to rebellion.
At the dawn of the New Year, in January 1st 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army descended from the Lacandon Jungle to take over the power in several cities of Chiapas, including San Cristobal de Las Casas and Ocosingo. They believed to be "professionals of hope", "transgressors of injustice", "History's dispossessed", finally raising their voices to demand liberty, justice, democracy, dignity. This is the moment when they became visible, when they stepped out of the shadows, when they shouted for the whole World to hear.
"Death does not hurt; what hurts is to be forgotten. We discovered then that we longer existed, that those who govern had forgotten about us in their euphoria of statistics and growth rates. A country that forgets itself is a sad country. A country that forgets its past cannot have a future. And so we took up arms and went into the cities, where we were considered animals. We went and told the powerful: "We are here!" And to the whole country we shouted: "We are here!" And to all the world we yelled, "We are here!"…"
This movement is deeply rooted in History: far from being immediatist and pragmatic, the Zapatista movement demands respect for the rights of human populations who descend from the occupants of this land prior to the European's invasion. This scream of rebellion raises from an ocean of blood: the genocide of the Indians and the destruction of their civilizations is still an open wound in the Zapatistas hearts, and they won't allow the world to forget these past misdeeds. In January 1994, Subcomandante Insurgent Marcos reminded us than in Mexico
"during these past ten years (1984-1994), more than 150.000 indigenous have died of curable diseases. The federal, state, and municipal governments and their economic and social programs do not take into account any real solution to our problems; they limit themselves to giving us charity every time elections roll around. Charity resolves nothing but for the moment, and again death visits our homes. That is why we think no, no more; enough dying this useless death; it is better to fight for change. If we die now, it will not be with shame but with dignity, like our ancestors. We are ready to die, 150.000 more if necessary, so that our people awaken from this dream of deceit that holds us hostage." (pg. 17)
Seen from the capitalists' perspective, there's a dispensable strata of the population labeled as "Indians" (so called because Columbus thought, more than 500 years ago, that the land where he had arrived was India…). "Check out the text of the Free Trade Agreement, and you will find that, for this government, the indigenous do not exist." (p. 66) Social inequality and marginalized people go hand in hand in Mexico: "on a national level there are 2,403 municipalities. Of these, 1.153 have a level of marginalization considered high or very high. States with high indigenous population have the majority of their municipalities with high and very high levels of marginalization: 94 out of 111 in Chiapas; 59 out of 75 in Guerrero; 431 of 570 in Oaxaca…" (p. 67)
For 10 years the Zapatista uprising had been fermenting in the woods, since 1984, and at the beginning of 1994 time had arrived for their voice to be heard, not only in Mexico, but throughout the world, amplified by the Internet, sending its shout throughout the Global Village. One of the easiest ways to understand the emergence of Neo-Zapatism is to look at the consequences of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) agreement becoming active: free market had kicked out the barriers and products from abroad were about to flood into Mexico, like a tsunami, drowning out Mexican campesinos with the devastating power of a Dust Bowl Storm. The Zapatistas knew very well that NAFTA would certainly enrich some big corporations, mainly american and canadian, but would wreck the equilibrium of the local economies – especially in southeast Mexico. NAFTA was inforced with "dictatorial" fashion: it's a fact that neither civil society nor the indigenous populations of Mexico were consulted on the matter, even tough they would be tremendously affected by the transformations in the National Constitution.
"The preparations for NAFTA included cancellation of Article 27 of Mexico's constitution, the cornerstone of Emiliano Zapata's revolution of 1910–1919. Under the historic Article 27, Indian communal landholdings were protected from sale or privatization. However, this barrier to investment was incompatible with NAFTA. With the removal of Article 27, Indian farmers feared the loss of their remaining lands, and also feared cheap imports (substitutes) from the US. Thus, the Zapatistas labeled NAFTA as a "death sentence" to Indian communities all over Mexico. Then EZLNdeclared war on the Mexican state on January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA came into force." – Wikipédia
According to Marcos, NAFTA "only means freedom for the powerful to rob, and freedom for the dispossessed to live in misery." (p. 73) We've heard this real-life story many times: everytime a Wal-Mart opens in a city, lots of smaller stores go bankrupt because they can't compete with Wal-Mart's prices. That's why it's possible to considerer EZLN as a movement demanding national sovereignty; from the Zapatistas perspective – which arises from the experience of thousands of Mexicans – what is called "neoliberalism" is just a fancy name for imperialist capitalism, for foreign domination, for the sad reality known for centuries in Latin America of wealth being robbed from a country and getting transformed in capital that enriches some big-shot abroad.
In Ana Carrigan's excellent article "Chiapas: The First Postmodern Revolution", she reminds us that years before NAFTA forced itself into North America there was already a lot of rebellion by campesinos in Mexico: in April 10, 1992, for example, 4.000 indigenous campesinos marched to the country's capital and read a letter adressed to President Carlos Salinas, in which "they accuse him of having brought all gains of the agrarian reform made under Zapata to an end, of selling the country with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and of bringing Mexico back to the times of Porfirio Díaz." (pg. 36)
"The Zapatistas made their first, spectacular public appearance in San Cristobal de Las Casas. On October 12, 1992, amid demonstrations marking 'The Year of The Indian, 500 Years of Resistance', 4.000 young men and women armed with bows and arrows suddenly appeared out of the crowd. Marching in military formation, they advanced to the central plaza where they attacked the monument to the founder of San Cristobal, the 16th century Spanish encomendador, Diego de Mazariegos. As the symbol of 500 years of opression crashed from its pedestal, the Indians hacked it to pieces and pocketed the fragments before disappearing. In the annals of indigenous resistance, the toppling of Mazariego's statue had a symbolic resonance equivalent to the destruction of the Berlin Walls." (ANA CARRIGAN)
The communities in Chiapas who have embraced the EZLN program were bound to clash with Mexican establishment. The powers that be, unbrotherly as usual, sent Army soldiers in great numbers in a bloody attempt to silence the rebels. As Juana Ponce de León states,
"for the government, the issue is simple. There are vast oil reserves, exotic wood, and uranium on the autonomous indigenous lands of Chiapas; the Mexican government wants them, but the indigenous communities, who have no currency in the world's markets, are in the way. While projecting through the national and international press an image of concern for the human rights issues and the intention to resolve them, the government orchestrates the privatization of the Mayan lands and a low-intensity war to weaken and divide the communities." (Traveling Back for Tomorrow, XXV).
- A graffiti at City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's bookstore in San Francisco
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Last year, I launched a project called PhyloPic. The goal of this project was to create an open database of freely reuseable silhouette images of organisms. Furthermore, it featured a phylogenetic taxonomy so that, if a taxon wasn't illustrated, an approximation could be found.
I launched it as a "public alpha", meaning that it wasn't complete and still had some bugs. The year turned out to be very busy for me: an awful thing happened, and a wonderful thing happened. And I didn't really have time to push PhyloPic to the next level.
Unfortunately, I hadn't built it well enough in the first place. The architecture was not optimized, and the site became extremely slow and buggy. I took it offline, hoping to release a new version in short order, but it turned out to need a lot more work than I first thought.
Happily, it is now ready again!
What's Changed?
Aside from general optimization, here's a summary of major changes:
- Vector files (SVG) are now supported! Unlike raster bitmaps, vector images can be scaled to any size without loss of resolution. Most silhouettes are still only available as raster bitmaps (PNG format), but a few can also be downloaded as SVG files.
- The submission process was completely rewritten. It now only uses Flash for opening and preparing the files; everything else is HTML/Ajax. (And I'll probably phase out the Flash component in the future, once HTML5 matures enough that it can reliably take that task over.)
- A major new feature in the submission process is Social Network Login. You can now log in via Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo! This lowers the barrier to submission and will hopefully encourage more people to submit silhouettes.
- Taxon and search pages load progressively. The first time anyone goes to a taxon page or performs a new search, PhyloPic grabs the appropriate data from uBio. (Subsequently the data is cached.) This can take a really long time, if there is a lot of data. (In fact, this was the main reason I shut the site down before.) Now the page will load instantaneously then try to update the data, if necessary. And taxon pages will show status updates as data is pulled.
- Image search is enhanced. Now you can search for related taxa in addition to supertaxa and subtaxa.
- There are no developer APIs. (What, you thought all the changes were positive?) I have been working on updated APIs, but it's not quite ready for primetime yet. I didn't want it to delay the relaunch, so it'll hopefully be bundled into public alpha 2.1.
- URLs are different. (And a bit uglier, to be honest, but it's for the best in the long run.) Don't expect all the old ones to work, but do expect the new ones to work from here on out.
|Triadobatrachus massinoti
Image by Nobu Tamura.
What's Ahead?
I have a lot of plans for the future of PhyloPic. You can keep abreast of the latest plans here. (Now we'll see if I have the time to finish them....)


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Board of Regents
Full Board Retreat
Friday, November 13, 1998; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Royal Suite, Alyeska Prince Hotel
Girdwood, Alaska
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Agenda
"The Board of Regents adopts the agenda as presented.
I. Call to Order
II. Adoption of Agenda
III. Work Session
IV. Adjourn
This motion is effective November 13, 1998."
III. Work Session
Board members and President Hamilton will hold a work session.
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West Hollywood Pole Dancing
Pole art popularity outstrips its origins
By Mikaela Conley
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / April 22, 2013)
Sergia Anderson climbed high up a pole as Bjork's "Hyperballad" blasted through Circus Disco, a West Hollywood nightclub. Spinning and twirling, legs straight and toes pointed, she hung perpendicular to the ceiling, holding the pole with just her hands. Anderson then dropped quickly, catching herself just inches above the floor.
The crowd gasped, then applauded.
So goes the National Aerial Pole Art championship, in which 10 amateur pole dancers and 11 professionals competed on April 7. The stage included two floor-to-ceiling poles — one that spun and one static — against a glittery backdrop for competitors. Receiving the biggest applause was Greta Pontarelli, a 62-year-old amateur competitor, as she held herself, still and taut, upside down on the static pole.
Anderson, a 30-year-old competitor and owner of the Vertitude pole fitness studio in Woodland Hills, began dancing when she was 4, but it wasn't until she discovered pole at 27 that she found an art that spoke to her.
What was once a dance that was synonymous with strip clubs, pole art has become an underground community that is finding its way into mainstream dance, fitness, art and culture.


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I can't believe that a year has passed already since the last OWH blog hop. The time sure does fly by. This year the theme was to use red, white and blue on our cards. Lucky for me this is also the month that we celebrate national scrapbooking day. I managed to score this awesome paper pack from Close To My Heart for only $5. The paper pack had the perfect red cardstock in it along with some pretty amazing vellum paper!
I made two cards for the hop. The first one I used a sketch from Close To My Heart and the second one was an OWH sketch. The first card was a little more detailed but I really enjoyed making it. I started out creating the pocket for the missing you tag. I used navy blue cardstock that I had in my stash along with the vellum feather paper that came in the paper pack. Next I got out my crop-a-dile and some buttons that I had to attach the vellum part to the blue cardstock.
I then adhered all of this to the base of the card and went to my Cricut where I cut a tag using my Art Philoshphy cartrdige. This Cricut cartridge has everything that you need to get creative with your Cricut. I then of course decided that the card needed a little oomph so I got out my walnut distress ink and distressed the edges of everything. I was very pleased with the end result.
The next card I made was a Thank You card that I used the OWH sketch for. I cut out the paper pieces and used the same red cadstock that I used for the missing you card that I created. I orginally was going to just use a plain piece of white cardstock but quickly realized that it needed a little more. I grabbed my faded jeans distress ink and distressed the edges. I stamped the Thank you sentiment with my Close To My Heart stamp that came with my Art Philosphy cricut cartridge and cut the shape with my Cricut.
Both of these cards were really easy and quick to make thanks to the card sketches. Enjoy the blog hop!
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text: Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the location of the Confederate president's capture in 1865, was in serious danger of closing because the State of Georgia pulled its funding. Some folks have thankfully stepped in to keep it open, with the SCV pledging up to $25,000 annually. We historical bloggers are seldom reluctant to criticize the Sons of Confederate Veterans when they do wrong, so it's only fair that we commend them when they do right.


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The 2012 Conference was wonderful. I took the queen rearing track and some of the other classes as well. All speakers and instructors were very helpful and informative. Made some very nice friends. Thank you for all that helped put on a great conference.
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American speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison once said, "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
So how do you become informed about the many sides of today's issues?
The library now provides Opposing Viewpoints in Context, an electronic resource you will want to check out.
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This content helps you understand and evaluate hot topics, whether for homework help or lifelong learning and information literacy.
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Brewers Fall To Mets In Season Finale
Milwaukee End Year With 74-88 Record
Eric Young Jr. finished first, the New York Mets came in third and a sold-out crowd at Citi Field went home happy on the final day of another difficult season.
Young won the National League stolen base crown with 46 and helped the Mets rally past Milwaukee 3-2 on Sunday when the Brewers botched two bunts in the eighth inning.
"I just talked to him before I walked in here. He's about as high as you can get," New York manager Terry Collins said. "That's a great honor for him."
The speedy Young swiped two bases in the first, scored on a shallow sacrifice fly and later threw out a runner at the plate from left field. He began the day tied for the NL lead in steals with Milwaukee shortstop Jean Segura, who sat out for the 10th time in 11 games.
Segura returned Saturday from a strained right hamstring, but he and the Brewers didn't want to push it in the season finale, manager Ron Roenicke said.
"Now after it's all said and done, it's a great feeling that I was able to do it. Like I said, I'm glad we finished the season on a winning note," said Young, acquired from Colorado in June. "I'm proud of myself. That's my craft, stolen bases, and you always pride yourself in what your craft is."
Young's father led the NL in stolen bases with 53 for the Rockies in 1996.
Playing in front of their third sellout this season, the injury-riddled Mets prevented a four-game sweep by Milwaukee and finished 74-88 for the second consecutive year. They have endured five straight losing seasons since moving into Citi Field.
New York did make a bit of progress with a third-place finish in the NL East, its highest since second in 2008. The Mets had come in fourth for four consecutive years.
Before the game, former slugger Mike Piazza was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame during a 30-minute ceremony on the field.
After the final out, Young applauded as Mets players tossed their caps into the stands behind the dugout.
"Very nice. It's indicative of the way we've gone about things: Battling, battling, battling - battling again today to come away with a win," Collins said. "I'm very proud of them. It's a good way to end the season."
Center fielder Juan Lagares also cut down a Milwaukee runner at the plate in the fourth to help starter Jonathon Niese escape further damage.
Marco Estrada allowed two hits in seven sharp innings for the Brewers, who finished 74-88 for fourth place in the NL Central. They had won four games in a row and 12 of 17.
Estrada struck out eight and walked none.
"Marco threw the ball outstanding," Roenicke said. "He pitched well enough to earn a shutout."
Milwaukee scored twice on five singles and a walk in the fourth, then carried a 2-1 lead into the eighth. Lagares reached on a throwing error by shortstop Jeff Bianchi, and Juan Centeno dropped down a bunt in front of home plate.
Second baseman Scooter Gennett was late covering first and bumped into umpire CB Bucknor while trying to navigate his way toward the bag. The low throw from catcher Jonathan Lucroy skipped up the right field line for an error that allowed Lagares to score all the way from first.
Wilfredo Tovar sacrificed and reached safely when first baseman Sean Halton made an ill-advised throw to third. Pinch-runner Matt den Dekker beat the play, putting runners at the corners.
One out later, Young drove in the go-ahead run with a dribbler to reliever Brandon Kintzler (3-3).
"My gosh, not the way you want to end a season," Roenicke said.
Vic Black (3-0) pitched a hitless inning for the win and Frank Francisco struck out two of three batters in the ninth for his first save since Sept. 1 last year.
NOTES: Milwaukee CF Carlos Gomez stole a base to become the first Brewers player with 20 homers and 40 steals in one season. ... Brewers starters had a 2.94 ERA in September. ... Young scored on David Wright's short sacrifice fly in the first inning after stealing second and third. ... The only other Mets player to lead the league in steals was Jose Reyes, who did it from 2005-07. ... Lagares finished with 15 assists, a Mets record for rookies and the most by a rookie outfielder in the majors since Delmon Young had 16 for Tampa Bay in 2007. ... New York 2B Daniel Murphy ended the season with an 11-game hitting streak. He also had 22 consecutive stolen bases, the second-best streak in club history. ... The Mets finished 33-48 at home. Only the Chicago Cubs (31-50) were worse in the NL. ... New York went 2 for 32 (.063) with runners in scoring position during the series. ... Mets home attendance has dropped in five straight seasons for the first time in franchise history. With the crowd of 41,891 for the finale, the Mets drew 2,135,657 this year for their lowest home attendance since 1.77 million at Shea Stadium in 1997.


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A Look at America's Spiritual Life Through 100 Sermons in 1 Day
What would Christianity look like in America if captured in 100 sermons by 100 different pastors across denominations?
That is the question author Scott H. Lewis is attempting to examine through his upcoming book, One Certain Sunday: A Snapshot in Time From America's Pulpits.
Calling on pastors across the United States to contribute their sermons delivered specifically on Dec. 4 for inclusion in his book, Lewis is looking to capture a moment in the country's spiritual life through the anthology of sermons.
"My goal is to create an interesting tapestry of American Christian ideas as expressed on one certain Sunday," Lewis told The Christian Post in an email.
The book marks the first step toward completion of his 100 Sermons project, where he hopes to eventually gather 100 sermons preached on Dec. 4, 2011.
Though he is aware that the actual finished work might contain fewer sermons, he does not mind. He simply wants to shine a light on the nation's spiritual life through the variety of sermons preached.
Dec. 4 was chosen as the designated day for no reason in particular besides the fact that it did not coincide with any Christian holiday or national special event. He was interested in what was being preached on a "normal" Sunday, not in special Easter or Lent sermons.
The idea for his project was sparked by a piece featured in Life magazine decades ago, Lewis explained, where the publication sent photographers out across the country to take photos on the same ordinary day. What resulted was "A Day in the Life of America," an impressive photo essay which showed the diversity of the American people and their different lifestyles.
"I thought that if we could draw attention to the diversity of sermons delivered on a certain Sunday –different styles and topics, across denominations, from churches rich and poor, mega- and mini-, rural and urban – it might say something interesting," the American public relations executive shared. "It certainly would be a 'poll' of what messages ministers felt important on the same day."
Additionally, the author, who currently resides in Ukraine, aims to bring attention to the pastors who worked hard to write thought-provoking, insightful and moving sermons which were "worth more than the fleeting attention they [received] on any given Sunday."
"An effective sermon is an art form – part literary and part dramatic," Lewis detailed. As a prolific writer, he had never realized that sermon writing was another form of writing until he read the book Craddock on the Craft of Preaching, which opened his eyes to the richness of sermons. "A good sermon is literature, the product of inspiration and craftsmanship and creativity."
"Here was a form of written storytelling that was practiced by thousands of men and women across the country, but ... received very little attention outside the congregation to which it was delivered. It was read aloud one or two times, [and] then lost to the vapors of time. What a waste!"
Wanting to share the literary talent of the pastors with a wider audience and prolong the lifespan and effects of each sermon delivered, Lewis created his 100 Sermons project.
"Most ministers are humble people who believe that their sermons are good, but not worth publishing," he said in a statement. "That's what makes this project so exciting. We really want to hear the messages that these salt-of-the-Earth preachers deliver. They represent the fabric of Christianity as well as their better-known colleagues."
"Not every sermon will appeal to every taste, and some may arouse strong disagreement," he noted. "Others, though, could expose us to thoughts and insights that, though not of our particular denomination, strengthen our faith, enrich our understanding, or challenge our preconceptions."
Though a few pastors have shown interest in the idea so far, Lewis believes that it will be hard to get some pastors involved in the project.
"Megachuches with active TV and radio ministries won't participate for contractual reasons," he shared, while everyday pastors do not want to get involved because they do not see what they did as "special or even especially noteworthy."
He thinks they are wrong of course, seeing "everyday pastors" as modest, hardworking people, who hid their "homiletic light under the proverbial bushel."
"I'd hope that [our] stories in the media might coax them out," Lewis expressed.
Pastors whose sermons are included in the book will receive credit for their work and will also be asked to provide brief information about their church and background.
"Participation in the book project will bring your ministry to readers across the nation – and beyond," he concluded.
Ralph, Harland & Co., a small press publisher, will publish One Certain Sunday. Lewis, the author, has lived and worked in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2000. He has authored three books, including The Kindness Cure: 52 Weeks to a More Fulfilling Life.


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News about Lemony Snicket sequel?!
If you have information about a sequel please tell us!!!
It would be great if Glenn Close plays Esmé Squalor & Tim Allen- Jerome Squalor & Tim Burton as director
Paramount Pictures is interested in another movie based based off the children's fantasy books Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. But the producers admitted that's a bit more complicated. "You have the creation of the world, and therefore they tend to be expensive. And there's Jim Carrey," producer Walter F. Parkes said. "You have to be absolutely certain that the market's there and the idea's there before you embark on that." This all sounds like producer double speak which means: not gonna happen.
Parkes did however announce that he's working on Master of Space and Time with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry, about a scientist who discovers a way to control reality.
According to the producers of last year's Jim Carrey blockbuster "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," a sequel might be on the way.
"We're talking about it," said Laurie MacDonald. "It's a tough movie, it was a big movie to mount, but it is being discussed. The movie did well, and the books just continue to grow in their popularity. They're really expanding, and a bigger audience (is there) because of the books."
Her longtime production partner, Walter F. Parkes, said any sequels would have to move quickly, as they've found themselves in a race against time.
"The issue is, could we get something going before the kids are of drinking age?" he laughed. "Our kids are growing up. ... [in the 'Harry Potter' movies,] that's the school where you're supposed to go to sophomore, junior and senior year and grow up. Our Baudelaire children are supposed to stay their little orphan selves. We'll see — we're getting together with Nickelodeon in the next couple weeks to discuss it."
Siberling (director) and Carrey are keen to return for the sequel (which will mostly be drawn from the fifth book, The Austere Academy), but he's unsure if his young stars will be able to make it. 'Liam actually grew 4 inches during filming' laughs Siberling, 'Emily is 15, but she assures me that she's never going to change because her mom is small. And unfortunately the infants that play Sunny will have to be recast, because those little girls will be heading of to school.
He says, "I asked the studio how they were going to deal with the sequel. But they didn't want to talk about it until the first film was out.
"It's amazing. A script has not yet been worked on for the sequel, which I find a bit baffling.
"After all these obstacles on this I'm thirsting after an experience that will be brief, an intimate story that instead of shooting in seven months, I could shoot in seven weeks. It's kind of nice."
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Projects Abroad Human Rights Office – Cape Town, South Africa – Monthly Reports
Projects Abroad Human Rights Office - Cape town - Monthly reports - August 2011
This month has been another busy one for PAHO with lots of new volunteers arriving and with that new ideas and dynamics are brought to the work we are doing. Some put all their energy and efforts into organising and pulling off a very successful soccer tournament in Manenberg, others made huge progress in terms of the work we do with the women's shelters; not forgetting the request from Bonnytoun themselves for us to spend more time with the boys each week because of the great work our volunteers have been doing there. Here's a round up of the progress being made in each of our projects.
Social Justice
Things at Bonnytoun have been progressing well with volunteers making a great impression. We are now working with two groups of boys, and have been asked to take on another day a week as well as organise 4 a 10 day program in September for when the teachers are on holiday. This month there has been a huge focus on 'perception' and how the boys perceive issues such as race, homosexuality and disability as well as how they perceive themselves. One of the boys prepared a speech, which a volunteer read to the whole group, about his aspirations and hopes for the future and this was very encouraging. Volunteers managed to bond with the boys through fun games and activities with encouraged them to open up and volunteers were able to learn a lot about the boys and their past, as well as their current frustrations in terms of the justice system in South Africa and how their sentencing is constantly being postponed. There is so much work that still needs to be done in places such as Bonnytoun but volunteers have shown that by giving these boys time and respect we are able to make a difference to their lives and there is a hope that we can effect their future in a positive way.
The Women's Shelters
Sisters Incorporated – The volunteers working with the women at Sisters this month have worked extremely hard. They have been empowering the women at this shelter to build up their self confidence and belief in themselves again. They have been discussing jobs and interview techniques with the women and this is highly beneficial as all of the women are keen to find jobs. The women were asked to compliment each other and discuss each others best attributes. Many women were surprised what was said about them and this proved to be a great way to build up their confidence and encourage them to pick out their best characteristics which they can focus on during a job interview.
St Anne's
Work at this women's shelter has also been progressing brilliantly with dedicated volunteers spending the time to get to know the women and putting effort into their workshops. This month volunteers began working through the Constitutional Rights within South Africa and have found there to be many more regular attendees to the sessions than there used to be. Feedback from the women has been great, stating that the PAHO volunteers' workshops are their favourite. They enjoy the lively discussion and that they are all encouraged to speak and get involved. Another new initiative with work at St Anne's has included giving the women resources to study after the volunteers leave. These have proved to be successful as the women always return the following week with questions for the volunteers about what they have been reading.
Free Gender
A two day conference held by Free Gender took place in Khayelitsha at the beginning of this month. The conference addressed the issue of corrective rape and the South African police with the aim of sharing stories of those affected by corrective rape and to raise awareness of this with the police. Many of our volunteers attended and the conference was something for the organisation to be proud of. The first day was well attended with many police and officials in attendance. However the majority of it was spoken in Xhosa and our volunteers were unable to follow much of what was going on. Day two saw fewer people in attendance but victims shared their experiences and it was a great atmosphere with everyone learning a lot.
Manenberg Girls
This month volunteers managed to secure some free tickets to Robben Island for the girls. They had never before had the opportunity to go and so they were extremely grateful for the trip. It was also a great way for the volunteers to bond with the girls and build up trust amongst the group. On occasions this month we encouraged the girls to take on the role of preparing a workshop for our volunteers, to teach them something for a change. This was a great way to encourage these girls and build up their confidence and self-esteem and the idea seemed to work really well. Other activities this month included 5 spending a day in Manenberg with the group, shopping and braaing (South Africa's take on a BBQ) whilst also building up relationships through singing and dancing.
Manenberg Boys
This month a few of our volunteers worked extremely hard to set up a soccer tournament for the boys in Manenberg. The idea was to create teams by mixing up those from different gangs within Manenberg so that they had to work together as a team and play soccer. Despite the awful weather and the apprehension of the boys in the beginning about having to mix with others, the day was a great success with eight teams participating. The whole community came out to show their support, coming together and chatting with others. Even one of the locals invited everyone into their home as the soccer finished to have an awards ceremony for the winning two teams and allow people a place out of the cold to enjoy snacks and drinks. The volunteers involved in this did a great job organising such an event and we hope to be able to continue organising many similar events as it is a great way of bringing a community together.
Mock Trial/Debating Workshop
There has been great progress with the group taking part in this program with things moving on from just debating to now preparing these youths for the mock trial. Volunteers have been discussing with them the process within court, the role of each person as well as the set up and how arguments are presented from either side. The group were then put to the test with a simple case for role play which they responded to brilliantly. We are now aiming to organise a court trip to for them to see a real trial in action which will give them a better understanding of the system before it comes to their time to present theirs.
Sobambisana – Crossroads
The youth in Crossroads are looking for a way to build a brighter future and many of them lack the necessary skills to find employment. Volunteers researched and found out about an employment/training initiative in South Africa, these are known as learnerships. They consist of employers taking people on, allowing them to work whilst also studying so that they become trained up and gain a qualification in a certain area. Volunteers discussed these with the youth at Crossroads and assisted them with filling in the application forms. This is a great learning opportunity for these youths and we are hopeful that many will be successful with their applications.
Communicare – Ruyterwacht
The community we are working with in Ruyterwacht was created by the government during apartheid to house all of the poor whites, away from view. The idea was to have these people find jobs and finally move from these free houses which were provided by the government. However they began expecting free handouts and ended up staying in these free houses for generations. Volunteers are currently preparing proposals and research questionnaires which will be used to gather as much information from the community as possible so that we can tackle the issues that are most prevalent.
Legal Services
Lavender Hill
Many new cases have come to us through Lavender Hill this month with not only women now coming for advice. We have begun opening cases for a handful of men and are encouraging anyone who needs assistance to come to us.
Parliamentary Monitoring
Parliament has been getting busy this month with a variety of Committee Meetings which volunteers have been attending. Parliamentary monitoring is becoming highly popular with the volunteers with many of them wanting to visit Parliament to experience the committee meetings. One popular topic that was discussed this month was the Protection of Information Bill and the discussions surrounding it including national security fears which were being addressed in the committee meetings. Another popular discussion in Parliament this month included South Africa's contribution to Libya; their plans post Gadaffi and whether their level of support will change?


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# state-of-it - Wednesday 29 January, 2014
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Poll: Have fears of contracting Covid-19 stopped you visiting shops, pubs and cinemas?
THE COUNTRY LOOKS unimaginably different compared to a few weeks ago. Empty streets have been replaced with busy crowds eager to return to shopping, while pubs and restaurants are now largely open again.
Cinemas and museums have re-opened their doors, bringing more than a touch of normality to many lives.
But that doesn't mean the pandemic has gone away. As concerns about street drinking in Dublin on Saturday night show, fears about a second wave are becoming heightened, while the danger of contracting Covid-19 hasn't evaporated.
These two realities – a re-opened country and the spread of the virus – are now co-existing somewhat uneasily, and will likely do so in the months to come.
So today we want to know: Have fears of contracting Covid-19 stopped you visiting shops, restaurants, cinemas or pubs now they've re-opened?
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South Sider is county marbles champ
The Allegheny County Parks Department announced the winners of the 2013 County Marbles Tournament, which took place May 30 through June 1 in the Courthouse Courtyard.
In the boys division, 14-year-old Ben Eddings of the South Side took the championship, and 11-year-old Sam Eddings, Ben's brother, finished second. In the girls division, 10-year-old Emily Cavacini of Shaler Twp. was crowned champion, and 14-year-old Brooke Narr of Lawrenceville was runner-up.
Allegheny County winners and runners-up are now eligible to enter the 90th Annual National Marbles Championship in Wildwood, N.J., from June 17 through 21.
Allegheny County's marbles program has produced a number of girls and boys national champions, including Bailey Narr and Brandon Matchett in 2011, Penelope Bauer in 2010, Amber Ricci and John Leffakis in 2008, Alexandra Bauer in 2007, Keith Moss in 2006, Jamie Miller in 2005, and Carly Miller in 2004.


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|Safer stop/resume for RefreshManager
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1. Requirements
Class [aria.templates.RefreshManager][http://www.ariatemplates.com/aria/guide/apps/apidocs/#aria.templates.RefreshManager] is responsible of refresh operations. It provides an API to stop and resume them. The code behind these methods just updates a counter so that, when the resume is called as many times as the stop method has been called before, refresh operations are executed.
This implementation is error-prone: if the resume is called erroneously called multiple time, it is likely that some errors occurs because refresh operations restart too early, when the entities that stopped it are not yet ready.
The stop/resume mechanism should be improved.
3. Technical solution
Here is the new signature suggested for the methods
4. History
17/03/20104 Spec creation - Francesco Longo
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In a much earlier post, I promised to discuss something about the B.F. Johnson Publishing Company… so…
In a letter written by one F.T. Amiss (we'll see him again in another post) on April 13, 1914, Amiss remarked:
…as an assistant Editor of the B.F. Johnson Publishing Co., of Richmond, Va., I helped to edit the first school history that even attempted to render justice to the Confederate Soldier and his cause. This book is now extensively used thru the South, and its popularity caused either publishers of histories to come nearer the truth in dealing with the Civil War and its causes. This book was Lee's School History. After helping to edit it, I took the field and during my stay with Johnson Publishing Company, I worked every state of the South from Texarkana to Richmond, in the interest of the Johnson books, especially this popular history.
Susan Pendleton Lee's A School History of the United States was published in 1895 by the B.F. Johnson Publishing Company of Richmond, Virginia. The preface reads: "Most of the School Histories now in use tell in detail the story of the northern half of the country, while only a few chapters are devoted to its southern half. In this book, an honest effort is made to speak truthfully of both without sectional passion or prejudice".
Mrs. Lee, by the way, was the daughter of Confederate General/Rev. William Nelson Pendleton, the sister of Sandie Pendleton, the wife of Confederate Gen. Edwin Gray Lee (a second cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee), and a member of the Mary Custis Lee Chapter, U.D.C. of Lexington, Va.
In her recent book, Burying the Dead, But Not the Past, Caroline Janney mentioned Mrs. Lee as among the Daughters of the U.D.C. who grappled with the efforts to maintain a true standard among histories of slavery and the Civil War. You can see a bit of what Janney had to say about this effort here. Of course, there is also mention of B.F. Johnson Publishing's works in Fred Arthur Bailey's essay (Free Speech and the Lost Cause in the Old Dominion) in Virginia Reconsidered.
If books such as those published by the B.F. Johnson Publishing Company held their own among the students in the classrooms of the South, then at what point, really, were Southern children corrupted with "Yankee lies" in school texts? Was this actually an unrealized fear that has developed, over time, into "perceived fact" (and thereby a new myth) among several in the new age Confederate remembrance?


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go off (one's) rocker(redirected from going off her rocker)
go off (one's) rocker
To become crazy or mentally unsound; to become extremely foolish or foolhardy. I'm going to go off my rocker if I have to hear that blasted song once more! I think Jane's grandmother has gone off her rocker lately. You must have gone off your rocker if you think that's a good idea!


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Furniture Makes The Room :: Pre Order
Hello All!
Things have been a whirlwind around here, and I plan to do some more journaling over the next few weeks to catch everyone here in this space up on what has been happening with Knack…
….BUT, today is exactly one month from the launch of my new book Furniture Makes the Room!! Can you believe it? I can hardly believe that the time is finally here, and I get to share this work with all of you! I can't wait for you all to see the projects and homes in this book, and feel like it is truly the book that has always been inside of me!
So, we are introducing a special pre order campaign today, and those of you who pre order lickity split get a special treat!
Here are the details:
1. Order Furniture Makes the Room from online retailers (links below) and then fill out the form here with receipt info and mailing address.
2. Pre-order Incentive: You will receive a roll of wave FrogTape® and a bag of milk paint!
3. Fulfillment: Pre-order incentive will come separately from the book. Chronicle Books will send out a special package to all of the people who have completed the form. So, basically it will be a happy mail day for you guys! Yay!
So, click your heels and head on over to Amazon, Chronicle, Barnes and Noble, or Indie Bound to pre order your copy and get in on the special gift we have for you!
Thank you to Chronicle Books, FrogTape®, and Old Fashioned Milk Paint for sponsoring this pre order goodness!


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Sugaring is off to a very early start
copyright the Chronicle February 10, 2016
by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph
Temperatures 15 to 20 degrees higher than normal have led to an unusually early start to the sugaring season this year. Sugarmakers who tapped early enough have already made syrup and say it's the earliest they have ever boiled.
Ted and Rebecca Young of West Glover made 50 gallons of light syrup on Friday. Ted Young has been sugaring for at least 43 years.
"I've only ever boiled once in February," he said. "In the old days, we wouldn't have had the trees tapped anyways."
It takes warm days and below freezing nights to get the sap running in maple trees, and that's exactly what happened during the last week of January and in early February.
"We're seeing more temperatures indicative of late March, early April," said meteorologist Brooke Taber of the National Weather Service. "It's been crazy."
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2nd Star Productions' Pippin
Pippin, a deceptively complex and challenging musical, gets a strong interpretation by 2nd Star Productions. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell) and lyrics by Roger O. Hinson, it recounts a fantastical tale that ultimately comes home to rooted values.
Pippin considers himself extraordinary and recoils from mundane tasks. Thus the son of Charlemagne is like many young people as he sets off to seek extraordinary accomplishments. He goes to war, enjoys dalliances with women and rebels against family and country — only to find contentment in small pleasures and country life.
His story is told by a theatrical troupe, surreal images and staging abound.
Then there's the singing and dancing, which won Tony Awards for best direction and choreography for Bob Fosse when it premiered on Broadway in 1973.
Magic To Do, the show's biggest number, is its opener. Its slow tempo gave pause as to how the rest of the show would go. It got better with each song, building to a powerful and emotionally satisfying ending.
Director Larry Friedman uses creative staging and innovative theatrical lighting and special effects to keep the show moving. He has also assembled a talented cast of gutsy performers.
As Pippin, Nick Lehan makes an auspicious debut with 2nd Star. He has the vocal power and acting skill to carry this show and make the 90-degree turns his character requires. His Pippin is sweet, arrogant, befuddled, melancholy and utterly charming.
Leading Player, the emcee of the show, gets a strong depiction by Vince Musgrave. He controls activity on the stage (think of the emcee in Cabaret) with the requisite stage presence. A more ominous overtone in Act I would make his transition into a disturbingly dangerous character at the end more convincing. But overall Musgrave dances, sings and poses his way through his performance with depth and intrigue.
Catherine is the woman who ultimately grounds Pippin with simple living and ordinary joys. Rebekka Meyer portrays her completely convincingly. Her brave, revealing performance makes you ache — and root — for her.
Charles (Charlemagne) is a role perfectly suited to Wendell Holland, with his strong voice, commanding presence and delight in dancing.
Pippin's grandmother Berthe has one scene, and TiaJuana Roundtree shakes it for all its worth. A joy to watch, she rules the scene as her character should.
Pippin's scheming stepmother Fastrada, played by Hannah Thornhill, and stepbrother Lewis, played by Carl Williams, add comic flavor and do more for gold lame costumes than could be imagined.
The players, 10 of them, provide the chorus and crowd characters for each scene. Their fun onstage is contagious. Little bits of background business between characters are fun if you catch them, but they are scaled small enough not to upstage the main action.
The songs are the old-fashioned crafted kind that stick in your head for days. Corner of the Sky is a lovely song depicting the angst of youth. No Time at All is Berthe's anthem to knowledge gained from age. Extraordinary is everyone's hope for themselves.
All Karen Hastings' choreography is appropriate to the stage and to the cast, inventive and professional, but one dance deserves to be singled out. Right Track, sung and danced by Pippin and the Leading Player, is a joy. The duo is spot-on in the soft-shoe section, and their delight is keenly evident.
In Pippin, 2nd Star Productions grab their Corner of the Sky.
By Roger O. Hirson. Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Diretor: Larry Friedman. Music director: Joe Biddle. Choreographer: Karen Hastings. Set designer: Jane B. Wingard. Lighting designer: Garrett Hyde. Stage manager: Joanne D. Wilson.
Playing 8pm FSa Nov. 25 & 26 and F Dec. 2; and 3pm Su Nov. 27 and Sa Dec. 3 at Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie. $20 w/age discounts; rsvp: 301-832-4819; www.2ndstarproductions.com.


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|Crafts For Preschoolers
All About Me Book
What you need:
• 5 pieces of white construction paper
per child
• magazines
• blue, green, and red paint
• crayons
• glue sticks
• circle template (located in template tab)
• hole puncher
• yarn
What to do:
Day 1: Trace circle onto 1st piece of construction paper and have children draw a self portrait using crayons.
Day 2: Make a collage using pictures
children cut from magazines (why not get in some cutting skills?) of items children like; favorite foods,colors etc and glue onto the second page.
Day 3: Trace circle onto 3rd piece of
paper and using the blue and green paint have the children "dip" their index finger into the paint and put their fingerprints inside the circle. Write the words "My Fingerprints are Different from everyone in the world"
Day 4: using the red paint (or any other color the child may prefer) paint the child's hand and place on the paper. Write "I am Special"
Day 5: The last page you will list the following;
My Name Is__________________
I am _____ years old
My Birthday is__________________
My Favorite Color is_____________
My Favorite Food is ____________
I Like to ____________________
I Don't Like__________________
I Have ___brothers and ___ Sisters
I Have a pet___________________
~ When all the pages are completed, punch 3 holes along the edge of all the papers and tie yarn through all the holes in the pages to make a book.
My Special Face
When I look in a mirror I see my face,
And all of its parts are in their place.
I see two little ears and one little nose,
I see two little eyes and one little mouth.
When I look in the mirror, what do I see?
A wonderful and special me! (Give yourself a hug!)
~Jolanda Garcia
Edible All About Me Faces
What You Need:
• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Peach colored icing (mix white icing with orange food
• Light Brown Icing (you can mix chocolate and white icing together to get many shades of skin tones)
• Brown, Black, and Red Licorice for hair
• Yellow taffy for blonde hair
• Crushed chocolate/ Vanilla cookies for hair
• Chocolate candies, blue, green and brown for eyes
• Red candies for the mouth
• Fruit shaped candies for hair bow
• Yellow candy for middle of hair bow
What To Do:
• Give each child a rice cake and allow them to choose the icing that is closest to their skin color and spread it on the rice cake.
• Give them candies to choose from to create their faces,hair etc
All About Me
A great way for children to share something about themselves (and to boost their self confidence) is to send home a lunch bag with the following note stapled to it: All About Me Bag ,As part of our theme "all about me," we would like to welcome the children to share things about themselves with their classmates. Find 3-5 things that represent your
child and place them in the bag. Some ideas may include an object that is their favorite color, or a label/package from their favorite food, or something they may collect. Please make sure it fits in the bag! We will be sharing these bags with the other children during group this week. You may bring them in any day this week! We look forward to learning more about your child!
All About Me Posters
These Posters are wonderful to display in your hallway! Send them home with your Students on the first day of school to decorate at home and return to school. They are reasonably priced at Oriental Trading Company, you get 30 of them for $8.00! Just click the picture to bring you to the site.
All About Me!
Provide each child with a cut out like below made from Poster Board. Have them decorate it at home to represent themselves. They can use whatever they would like such as fabric for clothes, yarn for hair etc. These come out so cute! Hang them around the room or in the hall and let the other children guess who is who.
My Family Tree
Use a design foam roller to make the trunk. Paint the branches with a paint brush and add the leaves with a leaf stamp or sponge.
Send the apples home for the Parents to write their family members names on them. Glue the apples to the tree.


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Arts & Events
New: FILM REVIEW: Tears of Gaza: An Apolitical Apocalypse-- Opens September 21 at the Elmwood Theater
In a perfect world, I'd like to think Bibi Netanyahu might be required to sit through a screening of Tears of Gaza—and that he would emerge moved by the plight of the Palestinians. Again, in a more perfect world, I would wish that the men who manufactured the bullets, grenades and unquenchable, flesh-searing phosphorus bombs used in Gaza (and elsewhere in the world) would be required to sit through this film—in the company of their horrified wives and children.
This documentary is an "apolitical" film in that it does not or dwell on the history of a particular regional conflict nor trouble itself with the rationales or strategies behind any particular military action. It merely shows the human consequences of war on a single, trapped and beleaguered civilian population.
In the broader context, however, the film's very title reminds us that the remarkable footage (captured by numerous photographers and filmmakers on the ground) is a civilian's-eye documentation of Israel's "Cast Lead" attack on Gaza in 2008.
Because Israel refused to allow any international reporters to enter Gaza during the assault, the ferocity of the attack has remained largely unrecorded and unseen in the West—until the release of this stunning Norwegian documentary.
Norwegian director, actress and author Vibeke Løkkeberg was moved to undertake this film (her twelfth since 1966) after watching a brief interview with several child survivors of the Cast Lead attack. Løkkeberg explained it was "the short glimpses of children's faces displayed on my TV set, after they had lived through the war" that motivated her to secure funding from The Freedom of Expression Foundation and the Norwegian Film Institute and to undertake the film project, with the assistance of producer Terje Kristiansen.
"Wars are senseless, destructive, unworthy of mankind," Løkkeberg insists, offering as proof the words of a grieving father, holding the burned body of a child disfigured by the effects of a phosphorous bomb: "What God do these people believe in, who can do this against children? And how can I gather the strength to forgive?"
The 2011 winner of the Human Rights Award and the Monaco Charity Film Festival, Tears of Gaza has also screened at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival, where it was hailed as "an unsettling, gut-wrenching, and simultaneously thought-provoking film."
Tears of Gaza revolves around several extensive and emotional interviews with three young survivors—Amira, Razmia and Yahya. The interviews and other scenes of Gaza's shell-shocked survivors were shot covertly by local filmmakers working in Gaza over a period of six months. After the footage was smuggled out of Gaza, it took another year for the raw footage to be edited into the final 83-minute-long film.
This is what war looks like up close, unfiltered by corporate news anchors, uninterrupted by commercials for Charmin Ultra Soft and Febreze air fresheners. That means confronting the visual impact of bodies charred by phosphorous weapons, gaping bullet-caused wounds in bellies and heads, and bullet holes in the bodies of two-year-old children, clearly suggesting that they had been executed at close range.
Because of the Israeli-imposed blockade on goods and services, when the bombs being to fall, the impoverished residents of Gaza are even less able to defense themselves. There are no ambulances to carry the victims; lacking a fire department, families struggle to save their burning homes with garden hoses.
Variety praised the "disturbing immediacy and visceral terror" of this powerful film, noting that its message was above politics and "almost purely observational…. The wounded parents carrying maimed children are not in uniform, and the bullet holes in the two-year-olds did not arrive by accident."
As Tears of Gaza manages to find rare theatrical screenings in select US cities, producer Kristiansen recently offered an observation about the so-called "War on terror" being orchestrated from Washington. According to Kristiansen, "The use of words like 'terrorist,' 'discrimination' and 'democracy' tend to be mantras for justifying the use of violence."
Tears of Gaza makes it abundantly clear that we've had too much violence. It's time to start focusing on healing.


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Introduction to Power to Consumers
There is a growing awareness among business leaders and consumers in the United States that our power grid is in need of an upgrade. Our nation's competitiveness and economic strength depends on a transformation of the U.S. electricity system that enables and applies entrepreneurial innovation, incentivizes investment that drives out waste, and dramatically improves performance outcomes that are important to all customers.
The Galvin Electricity Initiative, together with the nation's leading entrepreneurial companies and innovators, are leading this electricity industry shift to declare and remove the regulatory, policy and technology barriers to effectively empower the consumers and businesses and deliver Electricity Transformation for all.
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What happens after the ceremony is once again a highly personal choice and there are no obligations.
You may wish to release balloons or doves.
Would you like a book of condolence available for people attending the funeral to write messages and memories in? Would you like to keep the floral cards as a keepsake? Prehaps have a piper or brass band to play music whilst you leave the ceremony and chat to friends. Your Doves Funeral Directors funeral director can organise all of these for you.
You may want to consider a reception afterwards or you may decide to take some time alone or with close friends and family, our drivers will take you back to the venue of your choice.
To help you decide follow our step-by-step guide.
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Best portable projectors
The best projectors that you can take travelling with you
If you're giving a business presentation on the road, or taking the kids on a long holiday, check out our roundup of the best portable projectors. These projectors are small, light and can play video off your iPod, iPhone, MP3 player or portable media player.
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HP's Notebook Projection Companion is a small and very portable DLP-based projector that's perfect for users who regularly give off-site presentations. The best part about it is that its LED light source is claimed to last five years, which means there are no lamp replacement costs. We think it's a great little projector for business users who want a portable model, but we do wish it could run on batteries.
- Review Date:
- Reviewer:
- Manufacturer:
- 4th Aug., 2010
- Elias Plastiras
- Rating:
- Price:
- $ 699.00
- Pros:
- Tiny and portable, can use an HP notebook power adapter, LED light source, low TCO, simple to use
- Cons:
- Oversaturated colours, some blurriness, no battery pack