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Ganirelix injection is used as a fertility medicine to prevent premature luteinizing hormone (LH) surges or ovulation in women undergoing fertility treatment of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. It may also help reduce the need for follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), which is also needed for ovulation. Ganirelix is a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist.
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Call your doctor or pharmacist for instructions.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Throw away used needles and syringes in a hard, closed container that the needles cannot poke through. Keep this container away from children and pets.
Ask your pharmacist, doctor, or nurse about the best way to dispose of any leftover medicine and other supplies.
It is very important that your doctor check your progress often at regular visits to make sure that the medicine is working properly and to check for unwanted effects. Your doctor will probably want to follow the developing eggs inside the ovaries by doing an ultrasound examination and measuring hormones in your blood stream.
This medicine may cause serious types of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. Call your doctor right away if you have a rash, itching, hoarseness, trouble breathing, trouble swallowing, or any swelling of your hands, face, or mouth while you are using this medicine.
The needle cover of the prefilled syringe contains dry natural rubber (a derivative of latex), which may cause allergic reactions in people who are sensitive to latex. Tell your doctor if you have a latex allergy before you start using this medicine.
If your doctor has asked you to record your basal body temperatures (BBTs) daily, make sure that you do this every day. Using a BBT record or some other method, your doctor will help you decide when you are most fertile and when ovulation occurs. It is important that sexual intercourse take place around the time when you are most fertile to give you the best chance of becoming pregnant. Follow your doctor's directions carefully.
If severe abdominal pain occurs with use of ganirelix, discontinue treatment and report the problem to your doctor immediately. Do not receive the injection of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and avoid sexual intercourse.
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So, I downloaded Eternal X and have been playing through it. What I like to do these days is keep a big long text file of all my thoughts as I'm playing. General comments, specific bugs, and sometimes a ramble about the plot. Because I tend to write volumes of text, I thought I'd make a separate thread. I'm playing Eternal 10.0.1, and I've never played Eternal before, so I have no pre-existing opinions or knowledge of the scenario.
Let's get started, then. Here are my notes from Chapter 1.
Prologue & Chapter 1
The first thing I notice is there are no interface options to adjust the crosshairs, even when using the default theme. That's a problem with Aleph One, not Eternal, but it should be added back in to the engine, because messing with your preferences file in a text editor is much less convenient.
The Far Side of Nowhere
This map was big, bleak, and dreary. The first terminal has good information but is super long. The map didn't provide good clues on where to go next, so if I didn't have high expectations for future levels, I might have gotten bored and given up. I mean, atmosphere is great, but it's a game: it still needs to be fun. The central hourglass of liquidy stuff looked nice.
Deja Vu All Over Again
As a suggestion, if Hathor's software is still mostly contained within the player, the player might get information (e.g. terminal text) without having to log onto a terminal console. We did this a few times in EMR, using lua.
Your hand changes sizes noticeably between your fists and the shock staff.
The S'pht compiler bolts look great! In fact, all the high-res projectiles look much better.
The textures only show a passing resemblance to the Marathon. Let's see if that's explained later in the game...
Though the player is coming from the future, I expected an explanation that the Enforcer weapon had been studied and analyzed, before it appeared as a 'normal' weapon with a proper name and working ammo counter in your HUD.
You may want to re-assess weapon balance. In this one level, I've picked up over 30 staff charges, and each clip lasts for a really long time.
Septococcal Pfhoryngitis
So far the music is excellent, building on existing themes in Marathon while being unique and mood-setting.
You 'breathe in' through the left speaker, and 'breathe out' through the right speaker. I love the little touches like that.
The wasps and lookers are notably smaller, which I like. In the NW corner there's a big light on the ceiling shaped like the Marathon logo, and the wasps flitter around it just like real insects. That's great.
I'm disappointed the ceiling lights and standing lights can't be destroyed. They were undestroyable in Infinity, but Bungie made destroyed sprites for them anyway.
Whoa, some of the best Pfhor set textures I've seen. Though maybe I'm just happy to see some COLOR at last .
The Enforcers punch you. Too bad there isn't an accompanying animation.
The shock staff can push enemies over ten yards back; even hunters go flying.
I really get the sense that the Enforcers out-rank the fighters, because they get a better weapon, something I didn't get from the original games.
Hmm, Troopers still drop a weapon even when killed with grenades. Usually explosives destroy a monster and his weapon.
My overall impression is, what a fun, pretty, well designed level. Now let's see why I was sent into the Pfhor ship...
Sakhmet Rising
One thing that may or may not be worth fixing: if you use 3rd person view, you see the player is still holding the old weapons: the Trooper rifle looks like a flamethrower etc.
The game crashed shortly after command-entering back into fullscreen, just after the framerate recovered from loading the textures in again. The log is recorded in Eternal Crash 1.log.
What a contrast in Tycho's demeanor and outlook compared to his later, rampant state. Though I also have to wonder if he timed his message to me to take just long enough to read that I'm in danger of suffocating .
glitch: The switch controlling platform 322 doesn't light up when activated.
So, it seems the scenario is nonlinear. I hope I have time to examine the replay value. It's also clear now that Hathor used to be a Battleroid before she became an AI: I look forward to seeing how that came about.
I notice the S'pht compilers also have a gray color table. I think gray is overused in Marathon scenarios; it's the lazy way to make a new color table.
It's sometimes evident what photoshop filters you've used to enhance the textures. For instance, a number of textures seem 'fuzzy' which, while detailed, doesn't really feel right.
Durandal says he's apathetic about humanity one way or the other. I don't think that's accurate: he speaks multiple times in the original games about what he does or doesn't owe the humanity that created him.
It seems odd that I hear wind and loons inside the Marathon.
The area around polygon 138, once you get the platforms running, is actually enough to drop my framerate from 30 to 20. Now's as good a time as any to say I'm playing on a 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro. 20 frames per second is playable for me, but on lower hardware that could get down to unplayable rates. I'll have to experiment with mipmap settings to see if that helps.
By late in this level, I'm coming around to the idea that the shock staff is your 'workhorse' weapon, with nearly unlimited ammo, but it isn't the best weapon. Another thing that occurs to me is that you can stun enemies for a good 2 seconds with one hit, making the name "shock" staff appropriate.
Gee, too bad the hunters don't drop they shoulder cannons as a useable weapon, but I don't hold it against the scenario that they don't.
Shouldn't the gray mothers-of-all-hunters always explode, like in the original games?
The shock staff weapon-in-hand sprites could really use a facelift. A dithering pattern is very apparent.
I would've liked to see an animation for the Hunter punching you. C'mon, they've got these big sharp stabby arms; put them to good use
A small typo: "There no way to even try to access it." should be "There is" or "There's"
And in conclusion...my gosh this level was enormous. Are they all going to be this long?
Roots and Radicals
Whoa, that 'radar screen' looks awesome. Very clever, very convincing.
Hmm, I didn't think there were fusion BoBs on the Marathon...
Heh. I fired grenades into the circular room with 4 switches instead of taking the teleporter first.
The fact that the battle rages endlessly in this level makes for an almost comical number of Trooper rifles littering the ground, enough to slow the game down.
Oh no you don't...I purposefully didn't pick up Durandal's primal pattern. I wanted to ignore him and continue following Hathor, hoping for a branching storyline. But Hathor still acts all hurt as if I'd betrayed her. It seems I have no choice but to switch sides, but it was presented as if I did have a choice.
I do like the concept that the battle rages on, while the player rises above it with better things to do, very much.
The Tangent Universe
Hmm, where am I? When am I? Why is my helmet display different (i.e. extravision)? I sure hope I don't have to fight anything while under the trip-o-vision .
Shouldn't the 'outdoor' lighting for this level reflect the giant sun shining from the west?
Hmm. These 2 MADDs open up an airlock to come in, yet I still don't start using oxygen. I think that could be changed dynamically with lua.
Sakhmet Rising
This map crashed on me the second time around, too. See Eternal Crash 2.log.
If this is indeed the exact same level, and not a different copy of it a la the Electric Sheep levels, then that was exquisite. That was masterful. Not just a single level to indicate the path was a dead end, but a huge, significant chunk of the game dedicated to what is a dead end. And by going to the actual same level, it really feels like you're going back in time, moreso than in Infinity. I love it.
Once you play this level the 'right' way, it ends up having a G-4 Sunbathing feel to it: running back and forth in vacuum hitting switches in a radial-shaped area of the ship.
The moon in the landscape appears to have an atmosphere. Did we colonize the moon? And if so, shouldn't there be some green on there?
Core Done Blew
Gah, atrocious pun!
This map has a lot of solid panes of glass. I would've used a semitransparent texture to make it obvious which openings have glass.
The fog was quite effective. For the first time I can recall in an Aleph One map, the fog wasn't oppressively dense, yet it still obscured far-off parts of the map I presume the mapmaker didn't want me to see.
Hathor migrates over to Tycho's core to avoid her own destruction. Her logic, presumedly, is that Tycho wouldn't want to kill himself. Yet Tycho dismisses any need for self-preservation almost immediately, in the same terminal. On the one hand, it makes Hathor more human to assume Tycho wouldn't be willing to die. But on the other hand, Hathor is an A.I. that is on par with Tycho, probably superior given the advantage of her ability to time travel. So we would expect her to anticipate Tycho's quick decision that he is expendable.
Heart of Fusion
Well, I managed to get myself stuck. I had the bright idea of waiting until the 2 troopers around polygon 831 opened the door while I waited in the room to the west that overlooks that area. Then I lobbed grenades to hit the switch in front of polygon 842. How clever I thought I was...until my grenades hit the switch twice, raising the platform just enough to block my exit from the shaft, and killed the troopers so they couldn't open the door again. Thank goodness I didn't save after that!
"Welcome to my mind." That makes me laugh .
The end of this level really drives home the fact that Durandal and Tycho are modeled after the same Traxus template. It's curious just how similar their architectures are, though, since Tycho said this area of the ship had been repurposed many times.
I think the problem I have with the textures isn't too much gray, per se. It's that most textures are monochromatic. That is, they use only one, occasionally two hues for the entire texture. If it had more variety, I think I wouldn't mind the mutedness as much.
I'm confused from the terminal text on what this Cybernetic Junction is, and what you need to use one.
To Sleep Perchance To Dream
Boy, this level is killing my framerate, now down to 15 fps.
I'm anticipating by now that whenever there's a level with permanent extravision, it indicates no combat (I really hope!), and it's a 'failed future' ending.
Nice to see someone else making use of multiple landscape images per level.
Chapter 2 comments coming whenever I finish it.

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My obsession for chips and salsa/guacamole has come to a halt. Why? Because of my new obsession with the horrors of genetically modified (GM) foods. The corn in tortilla chips is one of the major GM foods. The more I read, the more terrified I became. Especially when I thought about my child spending playdates in other kids homes – with parents or nannies who are not educated on GM dangers. We need to educate ourselves and our friends – FAST! GM foods cause everything from sterility and infertility to allergies and cancers. Wake-up in restaurants – talk about no regulation.
I have included two articles below. One explains the health problems brought on with GM foods and the other from www.foodbabe.com which gets more specific about food labeling and how companies that use GM foods try to trick customers by cunning labeling strategies.
The health information featured below is excerpted from Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risk of Genetically Engineered Foods, by Jeffrey M. Smith
Health Risks
In 2009, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) stated that, "Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with genetically modified (GM) food," including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system. The AAEM has asked physicians to advise all patients to avoid GM foods.
Starting in 1996, Americans have been eating genetically modified (GM) ingredients in most processed foods. Why isn't the FDA protecting us?


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Remember when you saw a John Wall highlight reel for the first time? My first experience with him came courtesy of this mixtape from his high school days, in which Wall fast-twitches all over various high school gyms and generally looks like a space alien come to destroy our previous notions of what a basketball player can and cannot do.
It's been a long time since I've felt that way about Wall. Since going pro, his electric talents have been buried under the persistent dysfunction of his Wizards team, a prolonged injury, and the possibility that he had transformed into Fat John Wall. The fact that the NBA is now littered with dynamic young point guards didn't help matters, either. There are only so many hosannas to go around.
But last night, while leading his team to a 10-point victory over the New York Knicks, Wall reminded us that he is still very much John Wall. In the video above, you'll see Wall swipe a shot away from Carmelo Anthony, streak down to other end of the court, rip out Jason Kidd's still-beating center of gravity with a vicious spin move, and then softly lay the ball in.
Wall has only started eight games since returning from injury last month and is still playing himself into game shape (you can see that he never quite reaches full, holy-shit-how-is-he-moving-that-fast speed in the play above), but last night served as a reminder that he is back, and that he is, hopefully, ready to dazzle us once again.


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• Hallelujah •
hæ-lê-lu-yê • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Interjection, Noun
Meaning: 1. An interjection of unexpected joy or relief. 2. An exclamation of "Hallelujah!" or piece of music based on it.
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In Play: We all have 'hallelujah' moments; we might hear a student shout: "Hallelujah! Exams are over!" Parents occasionally feel like we do today, "Hallelujah! The kids are off to camp for the rest of the summer!" But, then, so do the kids: "Hallelujah! The 'rents are gone for the weekend!"
Word History: This very good word comes from Hebrew hallalû-yah "praise to God (Yahweh)," based on hallalu, the imperative plural of hillel "he praised". Hallel "song of praise" is a member of the same family. These words share the same ancestor as Arabic halala, the name of a Saudi Arabian coin. The name of the Arabian coin is akin to hilal "crescent" from halla "to appear" (said of the moon). Yah is a shortened form of one of the Hebrew words for God. It is found in many personal names such as Jedidiah (Hebrew yedid-yah "beloved of God"), Matthew (Hebrew mattay-yah "gift of God"), and Isaiah (Hebrew yesha'-yahu "salvation of God"). The origin of this word may be Hebrew haya "to cause to be." Jehovah is the modern English (mis)pronunciation of it.
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Such a game would be awesome.If lego wants to make a bajillion dollars out of a new video game they should do an FPS on consoles, make a game which is like a toned-down alternative for parents who don't want their kids playing CoD. Customization and destruction with lego would fit perfectly in the genre.
I did play Lego Universe since I got a month's subscription for free, and I thought it was pretty cool. I was a level 3 knight/level 2 space ranger for the sentinels after I got done playing. I was going to renew my subscription (expecially since the new ninjago world came out) but I guess I won't be doing that now.


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I'm headed home from a couple of days at UN Week in New York, where I was fortunate to get to attend several events relating to a review of the Millennium Development Goals. I'll have a lot more to say about that debate, TEDxChange with the Gates Foundation, the Mashable/92Y Social Good Summit, and the Clinton Global Initiative in the days to come. The summits and meetings are covering a huge range of topics, some of which are being honestly debated and discussed and others of which have been reduced to a series of feel-good talking points backed by questionable statistics and assertions.
This week's events brought home one very clear fact for me: Western thinking about development is elite-driven. Almost entirely. It's partly understandable; the primary goal of the Clinton Global Initiative, for example, is getting the rich and powerful to make commitments to save the world in various fashions. While this work is targeted at the poor, their voices are absent in the conversation. While there is a lot of discussion of the need to capture human capital in developing countries, we didn't hear from anyone who had actually lived the experience of escaping poverty. We didn't learn how families survive on $1 a day from people who have no choice but to make it work.
There's something very discomfiting about sitting in a hotel ballroom full of rich people talking about the best ways to help the world's poorest people when almost none of the latter are present.
Don't get me wrong: I enjoy hobnobbing with influential people as much as anybody. I love getting to hear people like Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus speak and am still astonished that I got to go. But just as there are limits to what I can tell you about life in central Africa, there are limits to what elites from developing countries can describe about their countries as well. Rich and poor, privileged and not – the contrasts are rarely clearer than at events like these, where the presence of the poor is limited to pictures in slide shows while wealthy people hobnob over cocktails and abundant buffets.
Am I the only one who would rather hear about what life as a poor woman in Ethiopia is like from an actual poor Ethiopian woman? Wouldn't she give listeners more insight and perspective than yet another celebrity who's been "touched by Africa" (and it's always "Africa," never the specific country) on a two-week trip organized by an NGO and a PR firm? Couldn't leaders of small-scale civil society organizations in Pakistan tell us more about their struggles to provide services, promote democracy, or build peace than the experts who supposedly know them well? Doesn't a woman who's managed to find foster families for hundreds of orphans in her Congolese community know more about accomplishing tasks on a shoestring budget than most of us ever will?
The world's poorest people aren't often welcome in these forums. Not really. It's too bad, because ignoring the expertise of the poor – or only considering it when translated by the famous for the masses – hasn't served them or us very well thus far. I don't know what keeps them out of the discussion – culture, language, visa restrictions, or just being overlooked. What I do know is that talking about development while excluding from the conversation those who need it most is a mistake. We need the voices of those we want to help.


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My husband and I have a fun tradition that we started years ago. Rather than buy each other big gifts for Hanukkah, we challenge each other to buy eight little gifts (one for each night of Hanukkah) -- and all of them have to be purchased at the 99¢ Only Store. It's always a fun challenge to find gifts for each other that cost under a dollar. Some of them are practical, some are meaningful, and others are just downright funny!
This year I bought Robert the following:
1. A picture frame. I put our family picture in it.
2. A set of mini screwdrivers. A guy can never have too many mini screwdrivers, right? Plus I needed them for one of my recent craft projects.
3. A box of Junior Mints (his favorite candy).
4. A multi-pack of his favorite chewing gum.
5. A book about science facts.
6. A Springer Spaniel puppy calendar. He had two beloved Springer Spaniels who have gone on to doggie heaven.
7. A nose hair trimmer (hehehehehe).
8. A combination flash light, level, and drill bits/screwdriver doo-hicky thingy (cool, huh?).
Robert bought me:
1. A kitten calendar. I love cats, so this was my favorite gift.
2. A book light for late night reading
3. A multi-pack of purse-size kleenex packs. My grandma always told me, a "lady" should always carry tissues in her purse.
4. A shower cap***
5. A pair of wine glasses. Surprisingly, they're very nice quality! I think I'll go back to the 99¢ Store and get more of these wine glasses to complete the set.
6. A jigsaw puzzle. It has 500 pieces. That should keep me busy for a while.
7. A fly swatter. Huh??? Because a girl can never have too many fly swatters??
8. A necklace. Actually, I bought this gift for myself at a local gift shop. Halfway through Hanukkah Robert realized that he only got me 7 instead of 8 presents at the 99 Cents Store, so I volunteered to go pick up a little sumpin' sumpin' for myself to open on the last night of Hanukkah. Very thoughtful of me, huh?
We always have a lot of laughs over our 99¢ Only Store gift exchange, and it doesn't break the bank!
***The shower cap was a reference to a laugh my family shared on our trip to Disneyland a few months ago. The four of us went on Splash Mountain our first day there, and we all got soaked. It was so much fun so I said I wanted to go on it again the next day. Robert and the girls said they would go on it again, but only if I would sit in front -- the seat that gets the wettest. I happily agreed . . . but I had planned ahead. When I sat down in the front of the log with my family behind me, I pulled out a plastic shower cap from the hotel and put it on. There were a couple dozen people looking on, so it totally embarrassed my daughters -- something that gives me a twisted pleasure {insert evil laughter}. I wore the shower cap the entire ride, but the rest of me still got completely soaked. If you've been on the ride, you know that no dinkie little shower cap isn't going to keep you dry. But I digress . . .
Here are a couple more Hanukkah layouts I created for Creating Keepsakes magazine. Here's a 2-pager featuring my girls opening their presents:
As seen in the December 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.
I made the little presents and gift bags out of chipboard pieces, paper scraps and trim:
I had the pleasure of playing with Faber-Castell products on this layout:
As seen in the December 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice and/or any other holiday you celebrated recently!!


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Glen and Lori Caron of Estherville, formerly of Marshall, Minn., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicole Joy Caron, to Kyle Brandon Walker, son Kathy Walker and the late Larry Walker of Ames.
The future bride received her nursing degree from Iowa Lakes Community College and is employed as a Homecare Pediatric Nurse at ChildServe.
The future groom received his degree in automotive technology from Universal Technical Institute and is employed as a Certified Technician at Strivers Ford Lincoln.
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Editing Django templates with Emacs
This page lists some helpers to edit django templates with the Emacs editor.
I've started hacking on an editing mode for Django templates in Emacs. (Please note that this is the first time I ever do Emacs Lisp, and that what I currently have is nothing more than a start. If you can come up with fixes or improvements, these are much appreciated).
The most obvious benefit that it provides at the moment is syntax highlighting of variables and blocks.
It knows about the Django default tag names and uses a different coloring for comments. At the moment it is configured to automatically kick-in for files with extension
.djhtml (I made it up that way, in order not to clash with other defaults one may have with .html files). Of course you can invoke it with
M-x django-mode in any buffer.
You can get it here: http://unicoders.org/code/hacks/trunk/django-mode.el
Put it somewhere where Emacs can find it then add this line to your
.emacs file:
(load "django-mode.el")
This is a sample screenshot of the results with the "Charcoal Black" color theme:
There is another emacs django templete mode. It is derived mode from html(sgml).
- Elisp Code(.html) http://tsgates.cafe24.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/django-html-mode1.html
- Download(.el) http://tsgates.cafe24.com/elisp/django-html-mode.el
- Example(.html) http://tsgates.cafe24.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/django-html-mode-ex.html
Improved version
There is an updated and improved version of this mode on: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~eopadoan/+junk/django-html-mode
- Updated the supported tags to current (django 1.0b3).
- Added auto-close command (
C-c ]).
To get, run on a shell:
bzr branch lp:~eopadoan/+junk/django-html-mode
MUltiple MAjor MOde is an extension for Emacs that allows one buffer to use multiple modes for different stretches of text. It's bundled with nXhtml, and now includes a django-html-mumamo-mode for Django templates. This uses django-mode from django-mode.el above for the django parts and html-mode for the html parts. (In addition it uses css-mode for css parts etc.)
django-html-mumamo-mode provides:
- Syntax highlighting aka font locking
- Indentation of template tags
- ... and all the benefits of nXhtml
Sample screenshot:
If you are using Yasnippet, you can get the django-mode with many useful snippets. To get, run on a shell:
bzr branch lp:django-mode
And append something like that:
(load "~/Dropbox/django-mode/django-mode.el") (yas/load-directory "~/Dropbox/django-mode/snippets")
to your .emacs.
-- I'm using django-html-mumamo-mode nicely but cant for the life of me get snippets working in templates. yasnippet is fine but I don't know what to name the directory and I've tried everything I can think of for the folder (django-mode, django-html, django-html-mode, django-html-mumamo-mode, html-mode/django-mode, html-mode/django-html-mode, etc). Any Ideas on this? In emacs it says I'm in "HTML/django-html" exactly like the screenshot.
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Addis All Around
>> Friday, July 29, 2011
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Dawit Yoseph has become a good friend of mine. He is a single guy with a daughter who lives in Virginia. His passion is for his culture and he is always welcoming to those interested in his beloved Ethiopia. He started Addis All Around after witnessing the lack of information for visitors to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Today his news site is flourishing and he is swamped with the pouring in of medical, political and arts media information.
The website's blog features a new book release by Anne Marie Ruff called, "Through these Veins":
"Through These Veins weaves together the dramatically different worlds of traditional healing, U.S. government funded AIDS research, and the pharmaceutical industry in an intensely personal, fast-paced tale of scientific intrigue with both devastating and hopeful effect."
Dawit is the type of person that's loyal to his work, his culture and friends. He is always willing to give a helping hand which is a rare find these days. I love his passion and respect his view of education through an informative media source. If you're looking for live theater, sports updates, great resturants or to simply learn Amharic (one of the primary Ethiopian langauges), vist Addis All Around.


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Sediments are present along much of the Korean and Chinese coastline. This is particularly evident on the border between China and North Korea, where the Yalu River (Chinese) or Amnok River (Korean) is discharging a dense brown cloud of silt into the Korea Bay.
From 2,500 m above sea level on Baekdu Mountain, in the Changbai mountain range, on the China-North Korea border, the river flows south to Hyesan before sweeping 130 km northwest to Linjiang. It then returns to a more southerly route for a further 300 km to empty into the Korea Bay between Dandong (China) and Sinŭiju (North Korea).
The river is 790 km (491 mi) long and receives the water from over 30,000 km2 of land. The Yalu's most significant tributaries are the Changjin, Heochun and Tokro rivers.
The river is not easily navigable for most of its length: although at its widest it is around 5 km, the depth is no greater than 3 m and much of the river is heavily silted.


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To view the 2011 U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team Yearbook, click here.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 24, 2012) – Almost the entire 2012 U.S. Men's National Team is back in the gym in Anaheim, Calif., the Official Host City of the U.S. Men's and Women's National Volleyball Teams, to get ready for a busy season.
As of Aug. 23, the following players were training at the American Sports Centers:
Antwain Aguillard
Matt Anderson
Jordan Dufault
Gabe Gardner
Kevin Hansen
Max Holt
Jayson Jablonsky
Rich Lambourne
Dave McKenzie
Jeff Menzel
Ryan Millar
Evan Patak
Will Price
Reid Priddy
Matt Rawson
Sean Rooney
Riley Salmon
Clay Stanley
Donald Suxho
Robert Tarr
Brian Thornton
Dustin Watten
Jonathan Winder
Austin Zahn
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) and Asseco Resovia Rzeszów won the Plus Liga championship in Poland, defeating the regular-season champion PGE Skra Bełchatów in the best-of-five final series, 3-1.
Lotman was named the most valuable player of the first match in the series, as visiting Resovia Rzeszów defeated Bełchatów, 18-25, 26-24, 25-16, 25-18 on April 17.
Lotman scored 15 points on 10 attacks (47.6 kill percent, .381 hitting efficiency), a match-high four blocks and one ace. Lotman was also credited with 26 receptions, which were 54 percent positive.
Lotman was also involved in a controversial decision in the second match on April 18, which visiting Resovia Rzeszów won 25-21, 25-19, 24-26, 25-15.
With the score tied 12-12 in the fourth set, Lotman hit a ball that officials said was touched by Bełchatów's block attempts. Bełchatów protested the call and the match was delayed for a time as the discussion ensued. Bełchatów was given a yellow card and Resovia Rzeszów went on to win the set. Lotman finished the match with 14 points on 11 kills (52.4 kill percent, .429 hitting efficiency), two blocks and one ace.
Lotman was held to four points in each of the final two matches, but had high percentages of positive receptions in both.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Jastrzębski Węgiel are tied 2-2 in their best-of-five, third-place series with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle.
Holmes has played well in the series. In the first match on April 17, which visiting Jastrzębski Węgiel won 20-25, 25-20, 25-16, 25-22, Holmes scored 10 points on seven attacks (63.6 kill percent, .545 hitting efficiency), two blocks and one ace.
In the second match, on April 18, host ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle won, 25-21, 25-19, 24-26, 25-21. Holmes scored 14 points on seven attacks (77.8 kill percent, .778 hitting efficiency), two blocks and five aces, which were his team's only aces.
In the third match, on April 21, host Jastrzębski Węgiel won, 25-23, 25-22, 25-15. Holmes scored 10 points on five attacks (83.3 kill percent, .833 hitting efficiency), four blocks and one ace.
In the fourth match on April 22, host Jastrzębski Węgiel fell, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22. Holmes scored five points on three attacks and two blocks.
The final match will be played April 25, but Holmes is returning to the United States to prepare for the NORCECA Men's Continental OIympic Qualification Tournament.
To view photo galleries from Plus Liga matches, click here.
The German league team Berlin Recycling Volleys, including U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), won the German league championship, defeating Generali Haching in the final series, 3-2.
In the first four matches of the final series, the teams won their home matches. Haching hosted the final match, but Berlin turned the tables, winning 31-29, 22-25, 21-25, 25-18, 16-14 on April 22.
Touzinsky was the second-leading scorer on the team in the final match with 13 points on 12 kills and one block. Shoji set the final match and also scored one point with a block. He set the team to a 40.5 kill percent and a .345 hitting efficiency.
Australia's Paul Carroll, who played college volleyball at Pepperdine, led all scorers with 33 points. To view photos from the final match, click here.
The German title was the second league championship that Touzinsky has won this winter. In January, Touzinsky won the Puerto Rico league championship with Cariduros de Fajardo.
U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and his Russian Super League team Zenit Kazan won the league title, going 3-0 against U.S. middle blocker David Lee(Alpine, Calif.) and Dinamo Moscow.
Priddy played sparingly in the final series and did not score. Lee started all three matches. In the final match on April 17, Kazan won 25-21, 25-17, 25-22. Lee scored three points on three attacks.
To view Dinamo Moscow's photos of the match, click here.
To view Zenit Kazan's photos of the match, click here.
U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Ural Ufa finished fifth in the league playoffs, winning two matches over Dinamo Krasnodar.
In the final match on April 16, Ufa won, 26-28, 23-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-9. Ball scored five points on three kills, one block and one ace, which was the winning match point. He also set Ufa to 50.9 kill percent and a .420 hitting efficiency.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and his French league team Tours, which won the league in the regular season, won the league championship match over Poitiers on April 21, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22.
Andreoli Latina, which includes U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.), lost in the league playoff semifinals to Itas Diatec Trentino, 2-0.
In the first match on April 12, Trentino won 28-26, 25-20, 25-21. Troy played as a substitute and started the third set. He scored six points on five attacks (50.0 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and one ace.
On April 15, Trentino won 28-26, 25-13, 25-23. Troy again played as a substitute and started the third set. He scored 10 points on nine kills (45.0 kill percent, .300 hitting efficiency) and one ace.
Latina will compete for Italy in the 2013 CEV Cup.
Another playoff was held to determine which team would represent Italy in the 2013 CEV Challenge Cup.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and Sisley Belluno played M. Roma Volley in one two-match semifinal, which Belluno won 2-0.
U.S. Middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Copra Elior Piacenza won the other semifinal series over outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) and Acqua Paradis Monza Brianza, 2-0.
Rooney led his team in scoring in both matches. In the first match, which host Piacenza won 25-18, 25-20, 25-20, Rooney scored 14 points on 13 attacks (56.5 kill percent, .478 hitting efficiency) and one ace. Holt started the first two sets and scored three points on two kills and one block.
In the second, visiting Piacenza won 23-25, 25-15, 30-28, 21-15, 15-12. Holt scored 16 points on eight kills (66.7 kill percent, .667 hitting efficiency), five blocks and three aces. Rooney finished with 17 points on 14 attacks (41.2 kill percent, .324 hitting efficiency), one block and two aces.
In the final, Piacenza defeated Belluno, 25-22, 25-21, 25-20. Holt scored seven points on four kills (66.7 kill percent, .667 hitting efficiency), one block and two aces. Suxho scored two points on two attacks. He also set his team to a 57.4 kill percent and a .485 hitting efficiency.
U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and his Spanish league team Unicaja Almeria fell to Caja 3 Voleibol Teruel, which includes U.S. outside hitter Matt Webber (Brentwood, Calif.) in the best-of-five final round, 3-0.
In the final match on April 14, visiting Teruel won, 29-27, 25-21, 22-25, 25-19. Menzel substituted in the second set and started the third and fourth, finishing with nine points on seven kills and two aces. He was also credited with 22 receptions considered 68 percent positive.
Webber led his team with 17 points on eight attacks, a match-high six blocks and three aces.
To view a photo gallery of the final match, click here.
Fans will have several opportunities to see the U.S. Men in action this summer.
It all begins on April 27 and 29 when the U.S Men will play Argentina in two exhibition matches at JSerra High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Both teams will be preparing for their zonal Olympic qualification tournaments.
Tickets will be available at the door or online at jserravball.eventbrite.com.
On May 7-12, USA Volleyball will host the NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament, which will be played at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. The winner of this tournament will qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
All tickets are now on sale. For more information, click here.
Finally, on June 29-July 1, the U.S. Men's Team will host Italy, France and Korea for the FIVB World League at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas. Tickets are now on sale. For more information, click here.


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Hanging flowers by ribbon is a simply lovely way to dress up a space for your wedding or reception. Whether you go with an all-white look or a thematic colour, or just use greenery, hanging arrangements will look fabulous and fresh.
I also love when the flowers are adorned with strands of clear beads and baubles. Or you can go with a more low-key feel, and hang flowers from jars or cans. Flowers are just the beginning of this trend. Patterned parasols, colourful paper pom poms, candle holders, and adorable little birdcages--if you can string it up en masse, you will delight your guests with such a display.
I used to hang all sorts of things from thread, ribbon, etc, when doing window displays for shops. It was always an easy way to create an eye-catching window. My favourite display was done by folding several dozen origami paper cranes, in bright pink, orange, and white, and hanging them in a sweeping diagonal. There was no merchandise in the window at all! I just added a paper "sale" banner, looking as if two of the cranes were holding it in their beaks.


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Exhibit Expansion Initiative, 2013-2015
The Center for Western Studies is embarking on a major redesign of its "permanent" historical exhibit spaces to ultimately expand the themes presented to visitors of the Fantle Building.
"Although the exhibits that Dean Schueler, Art Huseboe, and I oversaw served us well from the time the Fantle Building opened in 2001," remarked Executive Director Harry Thompson, "they are now twelve years old. The Center needs to begin planning for the redesign and expansion of these exhibits as a way to attract new audiences."
For two days in August 2013, CWS staff members Kristi Thomas, Elizabeth Thrond, and Harry Thompson met with a team of exhibit designers from Split Rock Studios to begin planning the concept design phase of the Exhibit Expansion Initiative, as approved by the CWS Board of Directors.
Split Rock Studios is a nationally recognized museum exhibit firm, based in the Minneapolis area. One of its recent commissions was the redesign of the Ford's Theatre Museum in Washington, D.C. Split Rock Studios has also completed work at the Chateau de Mores Interpretive Center in North Dakota and the Akta Lakota Museum in Chamberlain, South Dakota. The firm designed the Center's original exhibits.
The overall theme for the new exhibits will be the "voices of the Northern Plains," referring to the voices that "speak" to us through Plains Indian and immigrant artifacts, as well as through the letters and photographs that provide context for understanding these objects.
The goal of the Exhibit Expansion Initiative is to feature in new and compelling ways the remarkable treasures found in the Center's collections. Special emphasis will be placed on sharing with the public the letters and photographs from the Center's archives. These documents will be further highlighted by such objects as a plow used to break the sod in Dakota Territory, the steering wheel from a steamboat that plied the upper Missouri River, and a bell from a locomotive engine that pulled cars laden with grain and passengers across the Dakota plains.
Additional features of the exhibit redesign will allow CWS to place on display some of the remarkable examples of quill- and beadwork from the Blue Cloud Abbey — American Indian Culture Research Center Collection. The exhibits will also introduce visitors to authors O.E. Rolvaag, Herbert Krause, and Frederick Manfred, whose lives are intertwined with CWS and whose writings help define the Northern Plains region. The images presented here are conceptual drawings for the Fantle and Froiland Plains Indian Galleries.
With gifts in hand approaching $200,000 and completion of the concept design phase, CWS is proceeding with the next phase of the Exhibit Expansion Initiative—design development. This phase has several stages—design development I & II, pre-production, production, and installation. The initiative will significantly impact three museum exhibit areas and will require considerable staff involvement throughout the forthcoming twelve-month period. Follow the progress of the Fantle Gallery portion of the project on the CWS Facebook page.
The Center gratefully recognizes the following for their financial support of the Exhibit Expansion Initiative: Lynn and Barbara Aspaas, L.M. Baylor, Shon Cronk, Verna Berg Estate, Gary and Kathy Conradi, Virginia Dettman Charitable Foundation/SFACF, Ruth Dunmire (in memory of Ray Dunmire), Elizabeth Gutch, Howard and Eunice Hovland, Gil and Lillian Johnsson, Gerry and Robert Law, Gordon ('57-59) and Joan ('59) Nelson Family, Ronald R. Nelson Trust, Larry Ness, Gary and Roseann Olson, Richard and Tammy Otten (in honor of Lynn and Barbara Aspaas), Lynwood Oyos, Darwin and Jane Sletten, Charline Smith, and attendees of the June Event in 2013 and 2014. If you would like to make a gift to the exhibit initiative, please contact Executive Director Harry Thompson.


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Java runtime scalability specialist Azul Systems has announced a new version of its free and open source jHiccup tool. Available from Azul and also on GitHub, this software has been designed to examine "platform-level latency and operating characteristics" inside applications.
Live apps can now be monitored without restarting, and jHiccup collects (platform-level latency) on any Java application in production or in testing. So-termed "Hiccup Charts" are produced and cover the entire test interval so that system performance (including platform behavior and disruptions) can be plotted against predefined service level agreement (SLA) targets.
"jHiccup plots latency across the entire percentile range — highlighting the existence of platform-level problems that negatively impact performance in Java applications," said Azul CTO Gil Tene.
Tene also explains that jHiccup can be used to diagnose operating system-level issues as well as runtime performance within a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
In some cases, jHiccup results can help identify non-application-related system performance artifacts induced by virtualization, swapping, or power management — artifacts that can be overlooked when troubleshooting essential business systems.


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Linear motor system with configurable track and multiple movers
New XTS from Beckhoff combines multiple motion control technologies into a versatile transport system. Video: See the XTS in operation.
At Pack Expo, Beckhoff Automation showed off its new XTS (eXtended Transport System) that combines linear drive technology with a track system that can be configured into virtually any desired shape. The result is a transporter system with a flexible path that can cover almost any desired length, is controlled wirelessly, and driven by a single PC. The linear movers have no wired connection and multiple units can function independently on the same track.
Movers can perform a variety of functions:
• Accelerate, brake, position, and synchronize themselves
• Take absolute positions on the track or relative to other movers
• Move as groups or individually
• Create clamping force while moving
• Recover energy through regenerative braking, and
• Position accuracy is better than ±0.025 mm @ 1.5 m/s with repeatability < 10 µm.
Tracks can be assembled using a variety of pre-configured modules in any desired combinations.
Beckhoff Automation
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Pale or nude pink is one of the must have colours for this S/S fashion season …. It's so easy to match it with soft gray and charcoal, navy or washed out denim, beige and ivory.
I really love that natural palette so I wondered if I already had something matching that 'cherry blossom' range of shades ….
My picks:
♡ Butterfly sleeve blouse (custom made) ♡ Printed AMQ vest ♡ Sporty cotton ONLY top
♡ Butterfly print Pieces scarf ♡ Sleeveless Zara dress ♡ Flower print H&M tights
♡ Thai silk Jim Thompson cushion


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Kirsten Helle grew up loving food. And there was always plenty to love.
"Celebrations were built around food," she said. "Every night, dinner was a big production and you ate until you burst."
Her parents were both great cooks. Her father even had a side business doing catering, making food an even bigger part of their lives.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, her extended family history was filled with obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
"No one talked about it," Kirsten said. "It was treated like something that was normal."
The more Kirsten ate and the more weight she gained, the more her self-image plummeted.
She put herself on diets, using pre-packaged meals or shakes to limit calories. However, she didn't exercise and didn't see the results she wanted. Eventually, she resumed her old eating habits.
By the time she reached 25, Kirsten weighed 230 pounds. She was on medication for high blood pressure and high cholesterol and was diagnosed with prediabetes.
She also was the mother of an active 2-year-old daughter, and she lacked the energy to play with her.
"I was always tired," Kirsten said. "It hit me that if I continued this lifestyle, she could turn out like me."
For the first time, Kirsten turned her attention to her health, rather than numbers on a scale. She learned everything she could about nutrition and began to see how to incorporate it into her business as a personal chef.
She focused on ways to add more vegetables to her diet and looked for ways to make familiar dishes healthier.
And for the first time, she learned about healthy portion size.
"In my family, portions were huge," Kirsten said. "We ate huge steaks and huge potatoes."
Kirsten also began exercising, starting with 10 minutes at a time, three times a day.
"At first, I had no energy and I would get winded very fast, but I made a commitment to myself to do it every day," she said. "It was hard had first, but then it just became part of my life."
Her hard work paid off. Within a year, she'd lost 50 pounds and her cholesterol and blood pressure were back to healthy levels.
The birth of a son interrupted her weight loss temporarily. But she got back into the groove. Since her weight peaked, she's lost 110 pounds and she's kept it off for six years.
She tries to be active with her kids, Riley, now 12, and Donovan, 7, at least an hour a day, either going for walks or playing outside.
Dinnertime is still an important family tradition. Only now, it's also a lesson in healthy eating habits.
"I want my kids to know what a healthy portion is and encourage them to listen to their bodies," she said. "I let them have more vegetables and fruit if they're still hungry."
Kirsten's example has also encouraged others in her family to take a healthier path. Her mom and brother have lost weight and several cousins are also working to break the cycle of heart disease.
Now 35 and living in suburban Seattle, Kirsten continues to work as a personal chef. She also is a nutrition consultant through her company Mesa de Vida (Spanish for "Table of Life"), working with families who want to eat healthier. She teaches them how to shop, plan menus and read labels.
"I help families learn about nutrition and create new family habits," she said.
Earlier this year, Kirsten volunteered to facilitate the American Heart Association's BetterU Challenge in the Seattle area. The 12-week program drew 50 women who worked to learn how small changes to their daily lives can help bring their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar into a healthy range.
This fall, Kirsten is continuing her work with the American Heart Association by leading the six-week A Healthy Start to Home Cooking program, which teaches participants how to cook healthy meals at home.
"So many people are told to lose weight," Kirsten said. "I help them to see that it's not about losing weight. It's about living a healthier life."
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Viewed from the perspective of the African liberation movement, it is imperative for both women and men alike to have a firm position regarding women in society. We must answer honestly for ourselves: What role should women have in a liberated Africa and in the movement for African liberation?
There is no doubt that for many reasons the most controversial answers to this question will come from men, but African men nonetheless must take a position. This author begs the pardon of women for any unintended male chauvinism inherent in this editorial. History does teach us however, that there are prominent examples of African men who can serve as role models to others regarding a male position on women. The earliest instructive figure that comes to mind is Frederick Douglass, a prominent African slavery-abolitionist of North America.
Frederick Douglass was the most prominent male advocate of women's emancipation of his time. Because of this, he was often held to public ridicule and experienced slanderous name-calling. At a time when most men would feel their manhood was compromised or that their masculinity was being questioned, Frederick Douglass maintained his anti-sexism position. When he was sarcastically branded a "women's rights man" he responded, "I am glad to say that I have never been ashamed to be thus designated." This is a perfect example for any men who play these macho, peer pressure games with each other.
As a man, Frederick Douglass understood that the subjugation of women in society was just as corrosive as any other human oppression. He realized that without women's contributions to society the world would be at a great disadvantage. At a women's suffrage convention he said: "No man, however eloquent, can speak for woman as woman can speak for herself. Nevertheless, I hold that this cause is not altogether and exclusively woman's cause. It is the cause of human brotherhood as well as sisterhood, and both must rise and fall together. Women cannot be elevated without elevating the man, and man cannot be depressed without depressing woman also".
The late President Sekou Ture of Guinea concurred, asserting that "Just as the struggle of African women cannot be waged and pursued outside the context of the struggle of our People for the liberation and emancipation of our continent, so the freedom of Africa cannot be effective if it does not lead, concretely, to the liberation of the women of Africa. In the emancipation of women is the emancipation of men."
These are men acknowledging that the free development of society is conditioned by the free development of women. They were saying that if women are forced to labor and raise children in deplorable conditions this consequently affects males as well as the females of society. Today African women are victims of gender discrimination in the work place, the burdens of single parenting, physical abuse and rape by men, and brutal forms of state sponsored sexism. Such things as prostitution from low self-esteem/worth and severe economic hardship are prevalent among women. Twisted commercial cultural values penetrating society reduce woman to mere sex objects. The African liberation movement cannot afford these symptoms or the afflictions that cause them. African men must begin viewing women as indispensable counterparts, seeing in each and every woman a potential mother, sister, wife, friend, and/or business partner. The liberation of African people cannot be achieved without the full and fair participation of African women in the leadership of our struggle.
An examination of African history reveals impressive examples of women freedom fighters and women's organizations. Many African parties and national liberation fronts consisted of women's wings that have played and continue to play indispensable roles for independence throughout the depth and breathe of the continent. The women's wing of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Organization of Angolan Women (OMA) is the largest women's organization in the world and has over forty years of experience in fighting for African liberation. Starting out with five courageous women, today OMA has a membership of over 1.5 million women and has received international awards for their work in literacy while at the same time fighting the enemies of Africa.
Other such African women's organizations are: The National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW) which is the women's wing of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF); the Organization of Mozambican Women (OMM) of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO); the Democratic Union of Women of Guinea-Bissau of the African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). The Union of Guinean Women (URFG) is the women's union of the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG).
Historically it has always been women who have undertaken the most painstaking and sacrificial roles in the African liberation struggle. Not to take anything away from the prominent and renowned women, who have made great contributions to our struggle, but the most profound lessons men can learn from African women in particular and all women in general are not from the high profile contributions. Many men still have to learn, and we can learn it from the women, that in order for contributions to our people's struggle to be genuine we cannot look only for high-profile roles or expect recognition. As men we must learn, and we can take examples from our women, that our families need our selfless and unconditional support and there is no role, in any kind of relationship, that deserves more accommodation and cooperation from us than that of our women who bare our children and bare the brunt of our suffering as a people.
The most revolutionary relationships we can have in our movement, with our mates, and with our families have been exemplified mostly by the women. A man who cannot take a lead from a woman certainly cannot be revolutionary enough to help empower women. Empowering African women means being able to have faith in and to submit to their leadership in revolutionary organization and their leadership in the family as well. This is not to say there needs to be a leader for one-on-one relationships, but when we take the family as a whole we must admit that it's our grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, wives and daughters that more often know and do what's best for the family as a whole. There are so-called men freedom fighters that neglect their children in order to "sacrifice for the greater good of the movement�.
We men must have relationships with our children that don't leave them feeling like the movement keeps us away from them, but instead helps them understand that the movement is the inspiration that makes us the good and loving fathers and husbands we should be. If we pay attention women will teach us this type of selflessness.
There are certain things African people as a whole can only learn from African women, because they have sacrificed and suffered the most and have balanced these things the best. Women have a tradition of demonstrating relationships that are characterized by unconditional love and sacrifice. There are still men who consider themselves revolutionary but who have difficulty interacting with strong, confident, intelligent women; men who can only have a relationship with a woman if she abstains from the political movement and only supports his participation in it. Or worse yet men who pay lip service to women's role in the movement but still try to rationalize and justify reducing her to a sex object or their own personal support base.
As long as African women play a second-class role in the practical and theoretical solutions of African problems only one half or less of Africa's intellectual potential will be at work. African men must help free African women up so they can work to increase their understanding and mastery of revolutionary theory AND experience in revolutionary practice…so that we have as many women regarded and respected as ideologues for our struggle as we do men. This is what will enhance and complete the soundness of our revolutionary ideology. The relationship of African women to men must become such that our successor generations can look to a body of revolutionary knowledge and practical examples that have been forged equally by both men and women. Only then can we achieve African liberation and make a real contribution to the liberation of humankind.
In conclusion President Ture offered us a valuable epiphany when he said, "The women, as we have said, constitute the base of society. If today, all the men in Guinea, all the men in Africa, and all the men in the world, were to disappear, the Guinean and African society and mankind would however continue to live, because there would still be women carrying in them germs that would come to replace all the men who had disappeared. But let all the women of Guinea, all the women in Africa and all the women in the world disappear, and at most, in a century, the whole of mankind would disappear! This is a first reality.�
Black Star contributor Netfa Freeman is director of the Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA), a program of the Washington DC based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com
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