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Lancaster, MA (PRWEB) July 30, 2014 -- On Thursday, July 24, 2014, a Worcester County jury found Darren Pellerin, 44, guilty of two counts of Rape of a Child Aggravated by Age Difference and one count of Indecent Assault and Battery of a Child (Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs Darren Pellerin; Worcester Superior Court, Commonwealth Of Massachussetts; Dockett #WOCR2011-896). The jury deliberated for a day before rendering its verdict. At the time, Mr. Pellerin was a member of the overnight staff of the Doctor Franklin Perkins School. The incident occurred during the 2010-2011 school year.
The Perkins School is located in Lancaster, Massachusetts and provides educational and therapeutic services to children and adolescents with psychiatric and emotional issues. Following the allegations of child sexual abuse, Mr. Pellerin, who had been a member of the overnight staff for nine years, was discharged.
The sentencing hearing for the two convictions of rape of a child and indecent assault and battery of a child is scheduled for Thursday, July 31, 2014.
According to Attorney Thomas M. Kiley of Kiley Law Group, LLC, who represents the victim and his family, "This is the most pernicious form of child abuse involving a child with special needs that is the least able to protect himself from this abhorrent conduct. Schools, such as the Perkins School, have a responsibility to provide a safe residential environment for these children and protect them from this type of abuse."
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text: For the last few months I have been busy preparing to host a bridal shower for my daughter. Last week we had the shower and I snapped a photo of the ribbon bouquet that she will carry during the rehearsal in August. Remember this tradition, it is a keeper! There were many helping hands working to bring this together. My friend Pam helped plan and decorate. My sis helped with all of the food preparations and the final details before guests arrived and Gita did a beautiful job arranging the flowers in crystal vases. A floral garland draped over a doorway, with tulle billowing all around, pink roses and gladiolas, baby's breath, silver dollar eucalyptus, bride and groom photos, flickering tea lights, yummy eats, personalized pink and white M&M's, and lots of love showered over the bride to be last Saturday. The art of living! Our home became the blank canvas for this event and it is just a little example of how creativity is part of every day life. Cheers friends and thanks for stopping by! P.S. see those candlesticks in the photo, they used to be black and I spray painted them a chalky ivory. I was a mad woman with spray paint getting ready for this shower. I love me some DIY.


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Ease your worries about revision, by adapting your out-of-hours learning with our latest revision techniques.
Preparing for exams is probably the most challenging time many of us will experience as students. From what to revise, to staying motivated, or guessing what might come up in a paper, the stress brought on by exams is totally natural and felt by everyone.
There are so many ways to learn and finding the right way to revise during your exams, is arguably the most important piece of advice we can give.
If you find yourself struggling to revise, or feeling disjointed from the revision process, there are a huge range of revision techniques out there to try. If the way you're revising isn't working, talking to a friend or teacher about how they learn, could help. Asking others for advice to adapt your own revision techniques, could help unearth a new strategy you hadn't previously considered.
Finding what works best for you is the key to exam success. Whether that's revising in the morning before school, or after studies when perhaps your mind is more motivated - every person has their own unique practises.
Whether you're revising at school or at home, there are revision tips every student can follow to help ease the pressure of exam season.
Our Top 5 Revision Tips for Pupils:
- Start Revising Early - The earlier you start revising, the better. Maximising the time you have to process and revisit information will help you cover more materials and accept revision as an ongoing process. Feel prepared when entering the exam hall in the knowledge that you utilise time wisely and can stick to deadlines.
- Make a Revision Schedule - A revision timetable is the best solution, especially for GCSE exams, where there are multiple topics and subjects to prepare for. Separate your subjects out into hourly or half hour segments on designated days. It's also important to be strict with this revision timetable so that you work efficiently and on schedule.
- Make Revision Fun - Effective revision doesn't have to be dull. Be inventive with the way you memorise information, by investing in colourful stationery, making creative mind maps and using post-it notes to write down essential dates and details. Revision can also be done across a range of mediums, such as watching videos, or listening to podcasts. Keep making notes throughout this process though, to ensure you have material to reflect back on later.
- Study with Friends - A problem shared is a problem halved. Ask your peers about their revision techniques and take advantage of each other's knowledge. You may have different areas of expertise, so can help one another when revising these. Asking each other questions and quizzing one another on topics, is a useful revision technique for both parties.
- Take Time Off and Reward Yourself – It is important to take some time out of your day to give your mind some rest, to refocus after a long day of revision. Work towards a set target and then have a reward waiting for you at the end - whether that's some down time with friends, or an outdoor activity.
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Prefabrication Holds Many Keys for Emergency Buildings in Times of Crisis
At the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, two modular hospitals—with 2,600 total patient beds—were assembled using simple steel frames in just 10 days. It's a test case for how factory-built, rapidly deployable emergency buildings can empower communities to respond faster and potentially save thousands of lives in a crisis. It's also an example of what can be done through technology, hard work, and determination. But not all modular prefabrication is created equal.
While the COVID-19 pandemic is providing a real-world opportunity for prefabrication to help mitigate a crisis (be it a storm or a virus), that doesn't mean complex, master-planned hospitals with large patient towers will pop up in less than two weeks—at least not any time soon. Certain aspects of prefabrication can help immediately, some can help midterm, and some represent long-term solutions to prepare the world for pandemics of the future.
The Immediate Response
As the demand for hospital beds increased in the past couple of months, emergency-management responders have turned to venues such as hotels and dormitories. These buildings contain rooms, beds, and the basic infrastructure a health-care setting needs, but they lack the ability to be quickly retrofitted.
Because these buildings were constructed in situ, they're useful only in their existing physical place. You can't redeploy them to another site. The retrofitting process may be considered wasteful because once the health-care need is over, contractors have to return the building to its original state.
Field hospitals have also popped up in parks and stadiums around the world. Although health-care organizations have the infrastructure to build these temporary structures in just days, the tents lack durability and can succumb to weather.
Fleets of containerized solutions and temporary modular solutions can fulfill these same emergency demands, and they can last longer. Like tents, prefab modular buildings are temporary and rapidly deployable. But they're also reusable, and they can be built for precise needs, whether that's caring for COVID-19 patients or treating the injured after a hurricane.
Modular: 6 to 12 Months
Some parts of the world may not be experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak yet, but they could be in the months to come. Local governments need to think about putting midrange emergency solutions in play to prevent area hospitals from becoming overwhelmed if their situation gets worse.
In the 6-to-12-month range, it's possible to move away from temporary solutions and look to existing factories that are able to pivot or ramp up production. For example, my friends at BLOX are still in full production building health-care facilities throughout the COVID-19 crisis, and they also have the capability to prefabricate mobile isolation care units (MICUs). Other manufacturers and subcontractors with fabrication facilities are able to pivot from building modular hotels and schools or prefabricated MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) subassemblies and skids to hospitals.
I worry about owners and developers looking to the wrong part of the industry for solutions. Prefabrication can answer emergency needs in short-, mid-, and long-term timelines, but it has to be the right solution for the right time frame. The fleet program is not going to build your patient tower three years from now, and those small factories doing volumetric modular aren't necessarily a fit for the entire facility when master-planning larger hospitals.
Prefabrication: 3 to 5 Years
Grand hospital towers with multiple floors and thousands of patient rooms often take years to design and build. Given the timeline and planning required, owners and developers should look across the entire continuum when they consider prefabrication.
General contractors (GCs) and designers will have to act more like integrators, using element-centric designs and principles of design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) that enable supply-chain partners that build prefabricated elements. GCs will need to procure and integrate lots of prefabricated pieces and parts with in situ elements—things like headwalls, distribution racks, bathroom pods, operating rooms, plant rooms, and even elevators.
These elements can be made in a factory—built concurrently as the ground is being cleared—and delivered to the site of a new hospital or an existing hospital expansion, capitalizing on tight schedules and shaving days, weeks, and maybe even months off construction timelines.
By getting subcontractors to put more energy into their fabrication shops, the industry can develop and mature an ecosystem for DfMA and prefabrication. This approach could push existing companies using prefabrication and other industrialized-construction methodologies, such as automation and digitization, to be more successful or even start up new factories.
Prefabrication for Cleaner, Safer Spaces
Prefabrication makes sense in designing and building critical infrastructure buildings such as hospitals, because it promotes safety, sanitation, and patient experience.
One reason this aspect is particularly important to me is that, several years ago, a coworker friend's daughter fought and eventually succumbed to a brain tumor. During her illness, she was in a hospital for the better part of eight years. Her caregivers and parents were careful to keep her room wiped down and clean to reduce exposure to bacteria and viruses. I always consider patients like her when a hospital begins construction planning, and I think about the activities that would occur near her room—the dust, debris, noise, and construction workers existing in the space that needs to be pristinely clean for her experience, health, and survival.
Besides gaining concurrency for time and cost savings, DfMA and prefabrication can help hospital systems and contractors build healthier buildings while disrupting patients' lives less.
The DfMA strategy includes other considerations for designing for new technology, such as decoupling technology-intensive areas like MRI or proton-therapy vaults. These structures can be prefabricated faster than traditional construction and provide crucial care for patients while generating early revenues for health-care companies. Technology can be scaled with capacity needs and swapped out with other technologies as they evolve.
Why Prefabrication for Emergency Buildings?
I know that elements of the old ways of construction—including prioritizing cost and schedule first—will always be considered. DfMA and prefabrication enable more certainty around cost, schedule, and scope. But along with this certainty, I want to see healthier hospitals that are less disruptive to their patients, staff, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Prefabrication promotes a more sustainable industry. Prefabrication facilities are cleaner, safer, and more controlled environments than construction sites. They're less disruptive and less noisy than a construction site, and they're more efficient because they can produce structures concurrently with work being done on the permanent site.
In factories, the learning curve is shorter because the same group of workers handles multiple concurrent jobs; crews can learn something on one job and apply it to the next job coming down the production line.
Yes, prefabrication provides better general opportunities for the construction industry. But during this pandemic, it provides a pathway to accelerate responses to emergencies on every scale, whether it's a small-town hospital that needs a separate wing for anticipated COVID-19 cases down the road or a large inner-city hospital that needs hundreds of beds now. Prefabrication will make architecture, engineering, and construction smarter and stronger, and it will help communities respond with the right solutions in times of great need.


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Five Essentials for Building Sponsorship Sales
The art and science of creating effective event sponsorships is a lot more complicated these days than simply offering Bronze, Silver and Gold packages. Schooled in data analytics, marketers are looking for sponsorship opportunities that meet their specific needs and that provide a measurable ROI.
No wonder industry surveys consistently find that event sponsorships are a top challenge for event organizers. In a recent EventMB survey of more than 1,000 event professionals, "finding sponsors" ranked as a top challenge, second only to "budget issues." Here's a distillation of five key takeaways from EventMB's 2018 Guide to Event Sponsorship, written by EventMB Founder and Editor Julius Solaris, excerpted below. For the complete guide, click here.
1. Build a data-centric profile of your audience, and be fluent in articulating the value of different audience segments to potential sponsors. "Do you have 20,000 potentials or 500 well-targeted, exact-fit [to sponsor needs] attendees at your event? Most sponsors don't want 20,000 tire kickers. They want easy conversions, people who will be interested in their product or service and are on the market to buy. It's up to you to make these introductions and turn your mass traffic into valuable leads for them. Marketing professionals are far more comfortable allocating marketing dollars when they know exactly who the promotion will reach."
2. Innovative sponsorship programs look at the needs of attendees first. "They understand the core needs of those attending events, and they offer the opportunity for sponsors to provide solutions. For example, how can you solve the issue of attendees waiting in line for hours? Get a sponsor to pay for registration at the airport. Lounges, games, food…the elements that can deliver a sponsor message are endless. Innovative sponsorship leverages experiences."
3. Research the mission of the company you're approaching. "What are they looking to do — traditionally and this year? Shift your attention to how your event can help sponsors achieve their objectives. It's up to you to marry sponsor needs and the needs of your audience. If you can do it successfully, you can build a long-term, valuable relationship for all involved."
4. Create a proposal that works. "There are two main things you need to accomplish in an event sponsorship proposal: Show a return on investment, and build the confidence with the sponsors that you can achieve what you are telling them you can. Today's marketers are charged with understanding data and analytics, and they will ask the tough questions because their CEOs are reading Forbes and Harvard Business Review and they're being told data is king. If you don't help them by at least showing a preliminary estimation of the possible return on investment, they won't present it to their boss."
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Poker Table Limits and Betting Types
One of the most common questions we asked by beginners to poker
is, "How do the table types and betting limits work in poker?"
There are three types of betting at tables, limit poker, no limit
poker and pot limit. They are explained in brief below, beginners
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With limit poker games, the table limits are set at the beginning,
each round of betting then follows the limits laid down.
For example, you may play at a £1/£2 table or a £10/£20
table. In the first example, the first and second rounds of betting
would be a minimum of £1 and a £1 raise. This is followed
by £2 for each subsequent round and raise until the end of
the poker hand. There may be a maximum of 1 bet and 3 raises in
each round of betting. This includes a bet, raise, re-raise and
a cap. After this the next card must be dealt by the dealer.
No Limit
In no limit, the first betting round would have to be at least
the size of the big blind value for the table, as normal in poker
games whether limit or not. A valid bet must then be at least the
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but with no maximum. The sky's the limit as they say!
After the opening round the bet must be at least half of the last
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Four decades of opposing natural and human-induced artificial selection acting on Windermere pike (Esox lucius)
Carlson, S.M.; Edeline, E.; Vøllestad, L.A.; Haugen, T.O.; Winfield, Ian J.; Fletcher, Janice M.; James, J. Ben; Stenseth, N.C.. 2007 Four decades of opposing natural and human-induced artificial selection acting on Windermere pike (Esox lucius). Ecology Letters, 10 (6). 512-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01046.xFull text not available from this repository.
The ability of natural selection to drive local adaptation has been appreciated ever since Darwin. Whether human impacts can impede the adaptive process has received less attention. We tested this hypothesis by quantifying natural selection and harvest selection acting on a freshwater fish (pike) over four decades. Across the time series, directional natural selection tended to favour large individuals whereas the fishery targeted large individuals. Moreover, non-linear natural selection tended to favour intermediate sized fish whereas the fishery targeted intermediate sized fish because the smallest and largest individuals were often not captured. Thus, our results unequivocally demonstrate that natural selection and fishery selection often acted in opposite directions within this natural system. Moreover, the two selective factors combined to produce reduced fitness overall and stronger stabilizing selection relative to natural selection acting alone. The long-term ramifications of such human-induced modifications to adaptive landscapes are currently unknown and certainly warrant further investigation.
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ENG recordings in response to mechanical stimulation
datasetposted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by E Brunton, C Blau, K Nazarpour
Electroneurogram signals recorded from 16-channel cuff electrodes placed on the sciatic nerve of Sprague Dawley rats. The recordings were made in response to three types of mechanical stimulation, namely, proprioception, touch and nociception. The data files include synchronisation comments and signals that indicate when a stimulus was applied and what the stimulus was. Proprioceptive responses were recorded in response to a servo motor moving the foot to one of 6 different angles. Touch responses were recorded in response to heel of the foot being touched with one of two Von Frey fibres, corresponding to a force of either 100 or 300 grams. Finally, Nociception responses were recorded in response to the foot being pinched using a pair of forceps either on the heel, or the outer toe.


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Milan Kundera's New novel The Feast of Insignificance is a "wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told through the daily lives of four friends in modern-day Paris". Said chief executive Stephen Page: "It feels incredibly relevant to the world we live in now. It's very funny, and also quite surreal … It's hard with an author of Kundera's stature to talk about his best work, but this is a significant novel, an important work."
Born in 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Kundera has now lived in France for more than 40 years. He has won acclaim for novels including The Joke (1967), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) – "Kundera's novel seems as relevant now as it did when it was first published," wrote John Banville in 2004 – and Immortality (1991), which were all originally released in Czech. His 1984 play Jacques and His Master, and later novels, including Ignorance (2002), were written in French.


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Engine power failure (Subaru). On March 25, 2013, about 1310 mountain standard time, an experimental Owens Velocity 173 airplane, N33SV, experienced a loss of engine power during cruise and made a forced landing on a dirt road near Maricopa, Arizona. The pilot/owner operated the airplane under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part […]Read More


text: Thanksgiving is here, and we at Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research have so many things to be thankful for. Every year, at the top of that list is YOU: the women and men who selflessly donate their time, information, and samples–everything from saliva and urine, to nipple aspirate fluid and breast milk, to blood and breast tissue samples–all in support of breast cancer research. As Research Manager for the Love Research Army program, I especially am grateful for the dedicated members who volunteer for our studies, share our emails with family members and friends, and spread the word about the Foundation, our programs, and the importance of participating in research. The Love Research Army is a tremendous resource to breast cancer researchers. With your help, we have already recruited for 89 breast cancer research studies, covering a wide range of topics. But we don't plan to stop there! New researchers are learning about us every day and we are still growing our membership to ensure that they can find as many participants as they need. Whether you have been with us since the Love Research Army launched six years ago or you just joined our family today, we are so thankful for your support. One of the first Love Research Army studies you volunteered for was the Breast Milk Study. This study, conducted by a team at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is investigating the breast cells normally found in breast milk to see if there are any epigenetic (cellular and physiological traits not caused by changes in DNA) differences between women whose breast biopsies turn out to be healthy and those whose biopsies show a problem, such as cancer. Learning more about these epigenetic differences may help researchers develop a way to provide women with information about their breast cancer risk. Not only did the Love Research Army step up to help the research team reach their participation goal, they surpassed it! Due in large part to your incredible interest and willingness to participate, the team was able to obtain additional funding to recruit even more women and increase the ethnic diversity of the study population. A total of 428 Love Research Army members volunteered to participate, and the study recently closed. Stay tuned for a research results webinar in 2015. You can view the 2012 webinar in which the team shared their preliminary results. Several Love Research Army research studies are investigating genetic factors that increase breast cancer risk. It is so important to study diverse populations to find out more about genetic mutations that may be specific to certain groups of people. In January 2014, we launched a study being conducted by researchers at City of Hope in Duarte, CA, designed to learn more about breast cancer in Hispanic women. Even though breast cancer is the most common cancer, causing the most cancer deaths among Latinas, very little research has been done on hereditary breast cancer among Hispanics. The research team has been enrolling women from Los Angeles County and will soon expand their search to other locations. More than 70 Love Research Army members are already signed up for this study, and more are needed. Learn more about the Genomics and Breast Cancer in Hispanic Women study, share it with your friends, and watch for our eblast when the team expands this important study. Whether a researcher is enrolling people who have never been diagnosed with breast cancer, people with a personal history of the disease, metastatic breast cancer patients, or anyone in between, we know we can count on the Love Research Army to find the right people–and find them quickly. More studies are on the way, so please keep an eye out for our Love Research Army e-blasts. For a listing of our current studies, please visit our Love Research Army website. Thanks to YOU, our partners in our mission to achieve a future without breast cancer, Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research and teams of researchers all over the U.S. are making progress towards that goal. We are excited to continue this groundbreaking work in 2015 and hope you, your family, and your friends will join us. Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Leah Wilcox Eshraghi


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For our friends with significant disposable incomes and the urge to find a truly special hotel-spa-dining adventure, Denver's Hotel Monaco is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering two Decadent Decade packages that include 10 exclusive experiences for $10,000.
The Klimpton hotel opened in downtown Denver on Oct. 1, 1998, the same year, the hotel notes, that Google and Viagra entered the public lexicon, Monica Lewinsky became the best-known White House intern and the Denver Broncos finally won a Super Bowl.
To celebrate the past decade, the decadence packages give two guests:
— Two nights in one of the hotel's music-themed suites. They include the John Lennon suite, Grace Slick suite, Miles Davis suite and more.
— A bottle of Cristal champagne with two Tiffany crystal champagne glasses and hand-dipped, gold-leafed strawberries.
— The John Lennon lyrics currently hanging in the hotel's John Lennon Suite to take home.
— A behind-the-scenes private tour at the Denver Art Museum, featuring the new Daniel Libeskind-designed wing.
— A private concert by Denver musician Angie Stevens with the option of taking a guitar lesson from the artist.
— Spa treatments for two at the on-site Aveda Renaissance Spa: a Gold Facial and Himalayan Rejuvenation Treatment.
— Dinner at Panzano, repeatedly ranked one of Denver's Top 10 restaurants, featuring contemporary Northern Italian cuisine. Chef Elise Wiggins will create a special meal for two at the private chef's table with specialty wines and champagne.
— On-demand limo service for the weekend, with an itinerary of the best places to hear live music in Denver.
— Private shopping at John Atencio jewelers with wine and cheese and a private showing of the jewelry collection, with a $1,500 gift certificate to use toward any purchase.
— Two hand-selected, exclusive shirts from Denver's iconic Rockmount Ranchwear with, if possible, the opportunity to meet founder Jack Weil, the 107-year-old inventor of the snap-front cowboy shirt.
Only two 10-year packages will be sold, and each must be reserved at least two weeks in advance. For more information, go to www.monaco-denver.com. To make reservations, guests must call the hotel directly at 303-296-1717.


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Officials are backing off a plan to lease land in some New York City public housing complexes for new, mostly market-rate rental buildings.
New York City Public Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea said Friday the authority wants private developers to submit ideas for possible new buildings at eight housing projects in Manhattan. Originally, NYCHA had asked developers to submit formal proposals. NYCHA has also asked developers to include first-floor commercial or community space in their new designs.
The plan to build market-rate buildings on the developments is known as the Land Lease Initiative. City officials have said it would generate an estimated $30 million to $50 million a year for much needed repairs.
But the development plan has angered many tenants and advocates who question the fairness of using public housing land for other purposes. On the Lower East Side, residents of NYCHA complexes that were identified as potential spots for the market rate development, like at Meltzer Towers at 94 East 1st Street, have been resistent to the plans and questioning how well they could be executed.


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It is not uncommon for us to envision a career switch to work that we consider to be more meaningful, rewarding or simply fits us better. Our desire for a change may stem from dissatisfaction with our current job or personal developmental goals, but other times it could be rooted in an innate desire to fulfil our life-long occupational dream. Regardless of your motivation, there are pointers to bear in mind when executing the career transition. Kathy Caprino from Forbes.com has devised a 5-step guide to leaving your job for a career based on what you love:
1. Step Back for an empowered perspective
First, you have to understand yourself much more deeply than you do now, without which you cannot build a successful and enjoyable career. You have to know what you'll give up everything for, what you value, your priorities, standards of integrity, non-negotiables and your style, preferences, and ideals.
Secondly, you need to step back and look at your life and career with a different lens than you're used to. To connect the dots and make use of everything you are and have learned in your prior years working, you have to get off the hamster wheel and view your life from a higher, more enlightened perspective. You need a mentor, friend, coaching buddy, or other sponsor who can help you understand more clearly what your talents, gifts, and passions are.
2. Let Go of Your Habits and Routines
Do you know what is blocking you from more success and satisfaction in your professional life? The first place to look is where there are repeating negative patterns in your life – terrible bosses, toxic environments, being passed over continually, back-stabbing colleagues, draining responsibilities, etc. It could be limited beliefs and mindsets about financial resources, success, power, your ego and your worth barring you from success. For others, their communication styles, lack of confidence or reluctance to seek guidance when needed hurts them.
Until you let go of what you're doing and thinking that keeps you stuck and small, you can't build a happy, successful career. Your limitations will follow you in every new direction until you address them.
3. Say Yes to your compelling visions
Thirdly, you need a vision for the next chapter of your life. But, not just any vision or fantasy but one built upon a feasible, concrete masterplan. It's critical to identify concretely what amazing success and reward looks like for you specifically, but then break that down into a vision that fits well with what you believe is possible. If you dream of writing a book, then start writing – a blog, an article, your first chapter, a paper, a guest post, something. Get going towards your compelling vision so that it doesn't remain in the sphere of the impossible.
4. Explore it and try it on
Perhaps the most important step is exploring the top three directions you're excited about, and trying them on as thoroughly as you can. For example, if you're in real estate but think you want to start your own business, try it on – interview people doing what you want to do (and people who failed at it), research it online, go to SCORE for help developing your business plan, meet with your financial consultant to review your financial plans, read everything you can get your hands on about this new business direction, go to networking meetings with people in the field, create your marketing plan. Try on the professional identity of this new direction before you leap.
5. Create it S.M.A.R.T.
Finally, you can't go from Point A to Point Z in a month. This process – of identifying who you really are and determining the directions that will align best with your values, visions and needs – takes time, energy, patience, trust and commitment. You need to be ready to charge right out of your comfort zone and put yourself out there to learn and grow. Results will not fall in your lap without a challenge.
You also need a plan with specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely goals, and someone in your court to hold you accountable. Get help, build a plan with milestones that you can measure, and get on the path to expanding yourself so that you are a true match with the great career you long for.
This post was originally published here on Forbes.com in October 2013. TheYoungProfessionalGroup.com takes no credit for the work of the author.


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Cries of Foul After Basketball Game At a Tony Private School Turns Ugly
A tempest has been swirling inside the delicate gilded teapot of New York high society after basketball fans of the elite Trinity School taunted a Jewish player for the opposing Dalton school with calls of "gefilte fish, gefilte fish," and "hey, he fouled him… that's not kosher!"
One Dalton parent challenged the hecklers at the Friday night game on January 27, and afterward wrote a now-well-traveled letter to the headmasters of both schools tracing a direct line between the "chorus of hate-mongers" at the game and the vicious antisemitism of the Third Reich.
"Listening to the rancorous taunting awakened long-forgotten images of Kristallnacht," Shelly Palmer, wrote in a letter that was also addressed to the Archdiocese of New York and the New York Times.
A different account comes from a top Jewish communal official involved and students from Trinity and Dalton –– both of which have student bodies that are largely Jewish. These students say the incident suggests, if anything, how students can become desensitized to potentially antisemitic behavior when constantly surrounded by Jewish culture.
"There's no question this was in bad taste," said Aaron Crowell, 23, a former Trinity student who is Jewish himself. "But in places like Trinity that are so heavily Jewish, students feel we are among our own so we have to watch ourselves less closely."
The conflicting accounts show that, most of all, in multi-ethnic New York, context is everything.
For Alex — a Jewish student in the 10th grade at Dalton, who asked to withold her last name –– when the first taunts came from the Trinity side of the gymnasium, she did not think back to World War II, but instead to a battle between the Trinity and Dalton basketball teams earlier in the season.
"We really creamed them at their homecoming," she said, "so they were very upset with that. They were more competitive than usual."
"They were being confrontational and aggressive," Alex said, "but I didn't feel offended or threatened. I'm not going to lie, my Jewish friends and I imitate old Jewish grandmothers and poke fun at each other in Jewish accents."
Her assumption was that the rowdy students were friends of Matt Goldberg –– the Dalton player at the receiving end of the heckling — and themselves Jewish.
In fact, an investigation after the game found one of the accused students to be Jewish and all of them to be connected through friends to Goldberg, according to Joel Levy, the regional director for the New York office of the Anti-Defamation League, who has dealt extensively with the schools since the incident.
Levy said that after hearing all sides of the story, he believes it's vital to "see this in the context of a school sporting event. In sports we frequently hear uncivil discourse."
But Palmer, in his letter, identified much greater malice in the taunts and charged Trinity with fostering a "brand of animus," calling the game a "sorrowful indictment of the Trinity culture."
While Palmer later withdrew this assertion about Trinity's culture to a reporter for the New York Times, the remarks caused reverberations in the hypercompetitive world of elite New York prep schools, in which the battle for top students hinges on a reputation for diversity as much as anything else.
Jewish parents from Trinity called up Levy at the ADL worried not about antisemitism at the school, but instead about how this might effect the school's reputation.
In this case, the stakes were raised by the timing of the event. Next weekend Trinity will send out letters to all the students accepted for next school year, whom the school will woo in the coming weeks and months.
Administrators at Trinity did not waste any time in showing their concern for the problem. The school issued an apology to Palmer, opened an investigation into the incident, and held numerous discussions among the administrators, teachers and students.
On Tuesday, the headmaster of Trinity wrote to the school's community countering the most damning accusations in Palmer's letter.
"That letter," wrote Henry Moses, "which was widely distributed on the Internet and in e-mails and has been the occasion for reports in the media, characterizes Trinity as an institution that inculcates hatred in its students. This is a lie."
For students taking part in the lively Internet discussion since the incident, it was the particular presence of Jews at Trinity that made Palmer's charges of antisemitism unlikely.
But Richard Goldstein, a social commentator for The Village Voice, argues that the heavy presence of Jews at the school, and even a Jew among the hecklers, does not preclude bigotry as the motivating factor in this incident.
"There is a continuing anxiety about embodying what it is that makes Jews different," Goldstein said. "You will join in the joke in order to tell yourself that you are not implicated by these things."
Levy, though, said that the more he learns about the incident, "the less vicious it appears."
"They were using words about Jews that they were comfortable in using because of their context –– they didn't think it was bad," Levy said.
Perhaps most dispiriting for some observers was that the hecklers' aggressive tactics came out on the winning end of the night. Trinity beat Dalton 45-33, to even the series at one win apiece for the season.


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|Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles
|Copyright © 2002-2007 Andreas Parsch
In 1955, Radioplane developed the Model RP-71 Falconer as a derivative of the OQ-19/MQM-33 series of target drones. The drone was launched by a solid rocket booster from a zero-length launcher, and was recovered by parachute. The RP-71 had onboard still picture (and optional TV) cameras, and was used by the U.S. Army as the surveillance drone of the AN/USD-1 system. The drone itself was officially designated OA-2343/USD-1, but was usually referred to as either AN/USD-1 (although this was really the designation of the whole drone surveillance system, including ground equipment) or SD-1 (as an abbreviation of AN/USD-1, with SD conveniently being interpreted as "Surveillance Drone"). Series production of the SD-1 for the U.S. Army started in 1959.
|Photo: via Ordway/Wakeford
|SD-1 (MQM-57A/B) (exact model unknown)
Equipment of the SD-1 included a KS-54 or KS-61 camera system (including a KA-39A or KA-30 still picture camera, respectively), flare ejectors, and an AN/DPN-32 (later AN/DPN-62(V)) radar beacon. The SD-1 was tracked on the ground using the AN/MPQ-29 radar system. There were two different models of the SD-1 (one for the AN/USD-1A system, and one for the AN/USD-1B), which differed slightly in the electronic guidance equipment. The AN/USD-1A drone used an R-943/USD-1A receiver, while the AN/USD-1B had an R-1220/USD-1B receiver and a KY-500/USD-1B decoder.
|Photo: Ben Rogers, Fly Vintage
|SD-1 (MQM-57A/B) (exact model unknown)
In June 1963, the RP-71 drones of the AN/USD-1A and AN/USD-1B surveillance systems were designated as MQM-57A and MQM-57B, respectively. The MQM-57 remained in service until the mid-1970s, and a total of about 1500 MQM-57s of all versions were built by Northrop Ventura (formerly Radioplane).
Note: Data given by several sources show slight variations. Figures given below may therefore be inaccurate!
Data for MQM-57A/B:
|4.06 m (13 ft 4 in)
|3.50 m (11 ft 6 in)
|0.79 m (2 ft 7 in)
|195 kg (430 lb)
|300 km/h (185 mph)
|4600 m (15000 ft)
|40 min.
|160 km (100 miles)
|McCulloch O-100-1 piston engine; 54 kW (72 hp)
[1] Frederick I. Ordway III, Ronald C. Wakeford: "International Missile and Spacecraft Guide", McGraw-Hill, 1960
[2] Kenneth Munson: "World Unmanned Aircraft", Jane's, 1988
[3] R.T. Pretty, D.H.R. Archer (eds.): "Jane's Weapon Systems 1972-73", Jane's, 1973
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Here at Eagle Rock, we believe leadership is not a position to be held, but an action that all young people are capable of taking. And Public Allies — a national organization committed to creating a just and equitable society by engaging and activating the leadership of all young people — is one of our partners in advancing that cause experientially.
Specifically, we're talking about the Public Allies Eagle Rock Fellowship, which in 2021/2022 will offer eight individuals the opportunity to work with us in our efforts to re-engage high school students in their education, which for our next cohort of fellows is accomplished through a year-long service and leadership development experience here in Estes Park, as well as online if and when health and safety protocols dictate.
The Public Allies Fellowship here at Eagle Rock — which will celebrate its 20th anniversary when the next fellow cohort joins us in late-August of 2021 — is a residential, community-based opportunity for future teachers and educational leaders who are passionate about alternative approaches to learning, social justice, and youth development and empowerment.
As such, we are actively seeking applications for the selection of eight young adults to work with us and our students as either Educator Fellows or Health and Wellness Fellows. The application deadline for these fellowships which run from Aug. 27, 2021 to July 1, 2022), is March 15, 2021.
Educator fellows will earn their teaching license here at Eagle Rock, becoming leaders through training, mentorship, developing curriculum, creating student activities and events, and designing and implementing in-house team service projects. Additional responsibilities include classroom instruction, participating in residential life programming, providing academic and personal support for individuals within our diverse student body — acknowledging that learning happens everywhere, both for students and instructors.
Our Health and Wellness fellows play a crucial role in supporting student social-emotional needs and encouraging their growth and healthy development. This includes participating in individual sessions with students, evening and weekend programming, community building, and assisting on-campus support groups and clubs. Additionally, the Health and Wellness Fellows work in tight coordination with our Health and Wellness Counselor and other Eagle Rock staff to develop student-centered resources, enhance counseling practices, and serve our students holistically.
Below is a list of what we strongly desire from all our Fellows applicants:
- A strong academic background in an instructional area such as English, science, math, human performance, visual arts, music, or literature and literacy
- Relevant experience working with youth, in non-profit or educational settings, ideally high school age
- Self-starters who are flexible and can meet demands of residential community life
- A sincere interest in participating in and benefiting from a rigorous leadership development program
- Ability to work independently
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to give and receive feedback
- Driver's license and a good driving record
- A college degree or equivalent life-experience post high school
- Awareness and knowledge of cultural competencies and social justice issues, with demonstrated actions toward creating more just and equitable communities.
Benefits of being an Eagle Rock Public Allies Fellow include a living stipend of $20,500; a private room in a communal house; meals when students are on campus; AmeriCorps healthcare, which ranks as fully covered; a $500 professional development stipend; and a $6,095 AmeriCorps education award once you graduate from the program.
Additionally, participation in Public Allies at Eagle Rock offers student loan forbearance; and the opportunity to participate in a Colorado alternative teacher licensure program (for Educator fellows), which is paid for by Eagle Rock.
For more details, qualifications, and application instructions, please visit Public Allies at Eagle Rock.
Additionally, if you know a passionate young professional committed to serving students with an antiracist, social justice lens, please nominate them for the opportunity here.
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NMFS announces the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for bowhead whales, and other limitations deriving from regulations adopted at the 2002 Special Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). For 2004, the quota is 75 bowhead whales struck. This quota and other limitations will govern the harvest of bowhead whales by members of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC).
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[Doc. No. 040205039-4039-01, I.D. 012804A]
Whaling Provisions: Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Quotas
Friday, February 20, 2004
*7910 AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of aboriginal subsistence whaling quota.
SUMMARY: NMFS announces the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for bowhead whales, and other limitations deriving from regulations adopted at the 2002 Special Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). For 2004, the quota is 75 bowhead whales struck. This quota and other limitations will govern the harvest of bowhead whales by members of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC).
DATES: Effective February 20, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Yates, (301) 713-2322.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Aboriginal subsistence whaling in the United States is governed by the Whaling Convention Act (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). Regulations that implement the Act, found at 50 CFR 230.6, require the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to publish, at least annually, aboriginal subsistence whaling quotas and any other limitations on aboriginal subsistence whaling deriving from regulations of the IWC.
At the 2002 Special Meeting of the IWC, the Commission set quotas for aboriginal subsistence use of bowhead whales from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas stock. The bowhead quota was based on a joint request by the United States and the Russian Federation, accompanied by documentation concerning the needs of two Native groups: Alaska Eskimos and Chukotka Natives in the Russian Far East.
This action by the IWC thus authorized aboriginal subsistence whaling by the AEWC for bowhead whales. This aboriginal subsistence harvest is conducted in accordance with a cooperative agreement between NOAA and the AEWC.
The IWC set a 5-year block quota of 280 bowhead whales landed. For each of the years 2003 through 2007, the number of bowhead whales struck may not exceed 67, except that any unused portion of a strike quota from any year, including 15 unused strikes from the 1998 through 2002 quota, may be carried forward. No more than 15 strikes may be added to the strike quota for any one year. At the end of the 2003 harvest, there were 15 unused strikes available for carry-forward, so the combined strike quota for 2004 is 82 (67 + 15).
This arrangement ensures that the total quota of bowhead whales landed and struck in 2004 will not exceed the quotas set by the IWC. Under an arrangement between the United States and the Russian Federation, the Russian natives may use no more than seven strikes, and the Alaska Eskimos may use no more than 75 strikes.
NOAA is assigning 75 strikes to the Alaska Eskimos. The AEWC will allocate these strikes among the 10 villages whose cultural and subsistence needs have been documented in past requests for bowhead quotas from the IWC, and will ensure that its hunters use no more than 75 strikes.
Other Limitations
The IWC regulations, as well as the NOAA rule at 50 CFR 230.4(c), forbid the taking of calves or any whale accompanied by a calf.
NOAA rules (at 50 CFR 230.4) contain a number of other prohibitions relating to aboriginal subsistence whaling, some of which are summarized here. Only licensed whaling captains or crew under the control of those captains may engage in whaling. They must follow the provisions of the relevant cooperative agreement between NOAA and a Native American whaling organization. The aboriginal hunters must have adequate crew, supplies, and equipment. They may not receive money for participating in the hunt. No person may sell or offer for sale whale products from whales taken in the hunt, except for authentic articles of Native handicrafts. Captains may not continue to whale after the relevant quota is taken, after the season has been closed, or if their licenses have been suspended. They may not engage in whaling in a wasteful manner.
Dated: February 13, 2004.
Rebecca Lent,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs
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40 Things To Do For Yourself Instead Of Writing A Letter To Your Ex
I get it: Your heart is feeling all kinds of achy-breaky already, and then you find out your ex is now dating someone else. The pain is unbearable, to the point where you cannot breathe and you'd do anything to make yourself feel better.
Suddenly, your mind is going haywire. You think back to how perfect you were together and get angry with yourself. If you had just been better, or hadn't fought with him so much, you'd still be together.
You were supposed to get married; you loved each other. It was perfect before you just got a little off track.
Now, you feel completely replaced. There's another girl doing the things you used to do with him; she's hanging out with his family and his friends.
With the aid of social media, you witness just how happy they look together. She seems better than you; she's certainly going to treat him better, and everyone will certainly like her better.
With all these difficult emotions, it's understandable that the past becomes a little bit blurry. All of a sudden, you can't remember why you ever thought it was a good idea to break up.
You made a huge mistake, and up until now, there was hope of getting back together. He moved on and you, well, you're still crying over his picture and writing open letters to him on the Internet.
I get it, completely; I've been there. The only reason I can explain this situation so well is because I've lived it. But, gosh, we need to stop this.
Why do you think your ex has a new girlfriend, and you're writing open letters to the girl who replaced you? Why has he moved on and you haven't?
It could be because you are not letting go, instead holding on to how great it was. I hate to break it to you, but if you broke up, the relationship probably was not all that great.
If he was going to change his mind about the relationship, he probably would have by now too. Also, why would you want to be in a relationship with a person who obviously was not right for you?
Maybe you had a beautiful, romantic trip to Mexico on which you were so in love. Maybe there was that time you spent Christmas with his family and it just felt so right.
But, if, ultimately, you did not end up together, you need to accept it. It seems he has accepted it and is well on his way. What's holding you back?
Well, for one, it could be these open letters you keep sending to him and his new girlfriend, confessing how you did everything wrong and he did everything right.
What is there to gain from telling the new girl that you want her to take care of him? Also, in every relationship, both parties are responsible for good and bad. It's never one-sided.
It's time for you to take that energy you are exerting on him and refocus it on your own wellbeing. So, instead of writing this excruciating, heart-breaking letter to him or his new girlfriend, here are some self-constructive things you can do to help yourself move on and meet new people.
I guarantee, the sooner you start focusing on the things you love in life, the sooner you will forget about the things (ahem, people) you used to love.
1. Okay, write him that letter, but don't send it. Write him five letters. Who cares? Just get it out and move on.
2. Go for a run.
3. Read a book about anything but love.
4. Spend time with your dog.
5. Start taking a dance class.
6. Get rid of all his stuff, including his old basketball hoodie you still wear to bed.
7. Trash the old pictures.
8. Go see a movie with a friend.
9. Take a college night class.
10. Make your own jewelry.
11. Volunteer.
12. Go to the zoo.
13. Delete all your old Facebook pictures of you and him.
14. Take a bubble bath.
15. Organize your room.
16. Write a blog post about flowers.
17. Journal about all the great people still in your life.
18. Spend time with those people.
19. Watch a scary movie. (Okay, maybe not. That might give you a reason to stay up all night and think of him.)
20. Paint a picture; you don't have to be good at it.
21. Go to a museum.
22. Grab a coffee with a friend you haven't seen in a while.
23. Sign up for a half-marathon and start training.
24. Take a Zumba class.
25. Explore your spirituality.
26. Yoga.
27. Meditate.
28. Clean the bathroom.
29. Donate clothes you haven't worn in a while.
30. Write the book you've been thinking about for years.
31. Get on Pinterest and pick a DIY project.
32. Blast your favorite T-Swift song and dance in your underwear.
33. Visit your parents.
34. Plant flowers in your yard.
35. Think about where you see your life headed now that you are free to do whatever you want.
36. Write a list of positive things you love about yourself.
37. Mail a care package to your best friend.
38. Bake cookies.
39. Watch your favorite TV show.
40. Listen to a podcast and learn something.
These 40 options will make you a better, smarter, happier person, and none of them involving the ex that decided to seek out new people and new hobbies.
The point is, you don't need him in order to be happy. The fact that you are living and breathing is proof that it's impossible for you to be replaced.
The memories you two have together will always be there, but for now, you've both decided to go separate ways for whatever reason.
Take advantage of the chance to explore your own passions. That way, when a person comes along who is better for you, you can tell him about all of the awesome things you've done.
If nothing else, think about the fact that your ex-boyfriend didn't sit down behind his computer to write a sappy letter to you.
He was probably out at the movies with his new girl. This is not supposed to make you sad; it is supposed to guide you to see that you can be out having fun, too.
Let go, or be dragged.


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Myanmar's Despised Muslim MinorityThe Rohingya, a Muslim minority of Myanmar, present a picture of poverty and destitution (Reuters)
The Rohingya: Myanmar's OutcastesAkbar Ahmed
The image of a smiling Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receiving flowers from her supporters is a powerful message of freedom and optimism in Myanmar, the symbol of democracy in a country which has known nothing but authoritarian oppression for decades.
Yet few ask one of the most pressing questions facing Daw Suu Kyi. How will she deal with the Rohingya? "The Rohingya," you will ask. "Who are they?" The Rohingya, whom the BBC calls "one of the world's most persecuted minority groups", are the little-publicised and largely forgotten Muslim people of the coastal Rakhine state of western Myanmar. Their historic lineage in Rakhine dates back centuries, as fishermen and farmers. Over the past three decades, the Rohingya have been systematically driven out of their homeland by Myanmar's military junta and subjected to widespread violence and the total negation of their rights and citizenship within Myanmar. They are a stateless Muslim minority.
The Muslim minority of Myanmar is not recognized by the government (Gallo/Getty)
The continued tragedy of the unrecognised Rohingya, both in Myanmar and as refugees abroad, casts a dark shadow over the bright hopes and prospects for democracy in a country plagued by violence and civil war. Suu Kyi is ideally placed to extend democratic reforms to all ethnic peoples, including the Rohingya, in a free Myanmar.
Though the Rohingya may be small in number at less than two million, the real lesson of the Arab Spring is that no notion of democracy can succeed without the inclusion of all people within a country's borders. Every member of society, regardless of race and religion, must be given their due rights as citizens.
While many ethnic minorities in Myanmar have been the victims of the central government's oppressive measures, the Rohingya stand apart in that their very existence is threatened. The Rohingya's plight abroad as refugees in places such as Bangladesh and Thailand has seen glimmers of the media spotlight, but less attention has been brought to the underlying cause of their flight: the violence and cultural oppression at home.
These policies were enacted by Myanmar's government to force the Rohingya outside of Myanmar as a result of their being Muslim and ethnically non-Myanma. The government erroneously labelled them as "illegal Bengali immigrants" in their efforts to eradicate the Rohingya culture.
Kings to refugees
Yet, the long history of the Rohingya and the Rakhine state contradicts the government's claims. The medieval Kingdom of Arakan, encompassing the Muslim Rohingya, was once an enlightened centre of culture, knowledge and trade, displaying a harmonic blend of Buddhism and Islam in its administration and court life. The kingdom's cosmopolitan and international capital city, Mrauk U, was described in the 17th century as "a second Venice" by a Portuguese Jesuit priest and was often compared to Amsterdam and London by travellers and writers of the time.
It was the 1784 military conquest by Bodawpaya, the king of Burma (now Myanmar), that transformed this once vibrant kingdom into an oppressed peripheral region. After this, many haunting tales began to circulate of Burmese soldiers rounding up the Rohingya in bamboo enclosures to burn them alive, and marching thousands to the city of Amarapura to work, effectivley as slave labour, on infrastructure projects.
With the rise to power of the military junta in 1962 under General Ne Win, a policy of "Myanmarisation" was implemented as an ultra-nationalist ideology based on the racial purity of the Myanma ethnicity and its Buddhist faith. The Rohingya, as both Muslims and non-Myanma, were stripped of their legitimacy and officially declared foreigners in their own native land. With the passage of the junta's 1982 Citizenship Law, they effectively ceased to exist legally.
Stripped officially of their citizenship, the Rohingya found their lives in limbo: prohibited from the right to own land or property, barred from travelling outside their villages, repairing their decaying places of worship, receiving an education in any language or even marrying and having children without rarely granted government permission. The Rohingya have also been subjected to modern-day slavery, forced to work on infrastructure projects, such as constructing "model villages" to house the Myanmar settlers intended to displace them, reminiscent of their treatment at the hands of the Burmese kings of history.
The denial of citizenship and rights was accompanied by a military strategy of physical and cultural war designed to drive the Rohingya out of Myanmar. The initial push of the military's ethnic cleansing campaign came in 1978 under Operation Naga Min, or Operation King Dragon. The purpose of this operation was to scrutinise each individual within the state as either a citizen or alleged "illegal immigrant". This resulted in widespread rape, arbitrary arrests, desecration of mosques, destruction of villages and confiscation of lands among the Rohingya people. In the wake of this violence, nearly a quarter of a million Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, many of whom were later repatriated to Myanmar where they faced further torture, rape, jail and death.
In 1991, a second push, known as Operation Pyi Thaya or Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation, was launched with the same purpose, resulting in further violence and another massive flow of 200,000 Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh. Non-governmental organisations from Europe and North America estimate that 300,000 Rohingya refugees remain in Bangladesh, with only 35,000 residing in registered refugee camps and receiving some sort of assistance from NGOs.
Acknowledging the Rohingya
Those remaining, more than 250,000, are in a desperate situation without food and medical assistance, largely left to slowly starve to death. The December 2011 refugee repatriation agreement reached between Myanmar President Thein Sein and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will exclude the Rohingya, due to their lack of Myanmar citizenship, one of the conditions for repatriation for the expected 2,500 returning refugees.
The Rohingya predicament underlines a paradox for the world's great faiths, straddling the divide between Islamic Asia and Buddhist Asia. Each emphasises compassion and kindness and yet, we see little evidence of this in their dealings with the Rohingya people.
As part of this current study on the relationship between centre and periphery in the Muslim world, we recently interviewed Dr Wakar Uddin, Chairman of The Burmese Rohingya Association of North America (BRANA). A gentle and learned man, he is an energetic ambassador for his Rohingya people with a firm grasp of regional history. All the Rohingya want is the reinstatement of their citizenship in their own land, as revoked by the former dictator General Ne Win, and the dignity, human rights and opportunities that come with it.
Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy have a unique opportunity to reach out to the Rohingya people and include them in the new democratic process. The NLD should work with the central government to expand the role of all ethnic minorities as full Myanma citizens.
By acknowledging their rights, the government will bestow upon the Rohingya the dignity and the responsibilities of citizenship and present opportunities for mutual cultural understanding and the repatriation of the thousands of refugees existing in purgatory, separated from their homes and families. Great strides have recently been made by the Myanmar government towards the creation of an open and democratic political system and an end to ethnic violence, yet this is only the beginning.
With the recognition of the Rohingya as Myanma citizens, Suu Kyi will honour the memory of her father, Aung San, as he, before his untimely and tragic death, also reached out to ethnic minorities to participate in an independent Myanmar. Only then can a democratic and modern Myanmar be legitimate and successful in the eyes of its own people.
But the first step is to acknowledge the Rohingya exist.
(Source: Al Jazeera, 30 January 2012)
Islamophobia and the 'fear of the Other' in MyanmarFrancis Wade
Chiang Mai, Thailand - The mob that set upon and killed a group of Muslims riding a bus through western Myanmar on June 3 displayed a depravity normally the hallmark of the country's military. News reports that emerged in the wake of the incident, allegedly in response to the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist girl by three Muslim men days before, described the ten victims of a frenzied beating being urinated upon before the bus was set ablaze.
Comments that circulated the internet in the wake of the massacre were almost as shocking. "Killing Kalars is good!" one person said, using the pejorative slur that has become a popular and casual way of referring to Muslims of South Asian decent (one that state media also regularly employs). It mattered little that the men accused of the rape had already been arrested.
The attack was a rare incident; the reactions suggest however that heightened levels of resentment towards the presence of Muslims in Myanmar society exist on a much wider scale. This animosity is shared by senior figures in the government - current representative to the UN, Ye Myint Aung, once described the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Arakan state who are singled out for particularly savage treatment, as "ugly as ogres", while since 1982 the government has denied them citizenship, claiming they are "illegal Bengali immigrants". Persecution of the group has been so protracted and debased that Medicins San Frontieres describes them as being among the world minority groups "most in danger of extinction".
While Myanmar's myriad ethnic groups have all suffered egregious treatment at the hands of the military government, which has sought to bring the country "under one flag", the fear of Muslims is a particular one. On the website of The Voice journal, which issued an apology after being bombarded with threats following its coverage of the massacre, one visitor wrote: "We should either kill all the Kalars in Burma or banish them otherwise Buddhism will cease to exist".
The 'other'
Treatment of Muslims as the 'other' persists despite the country's push to embrace the outside world and everything it offers. There is something of a contradiction then in the population's desire to become global players, which will see it interacting far more with non-Myanmar, non-Buddhist ethnicities. In Arakan state, where tension between Buddhists and Muslims often spills over into violence, hypocrisy is also evident in attempts by Arakanese to goad public opinion against the Rohingya in the name of "nationalism". These are the same Arakanese who, ironically, regularly accuse the government of attempting to aggressively assimilate Arakanese into the Burman way of life.
Such is the treatment of Rohingya that up to 300,000 now reside in Bangladesh, which in turn sees them as illegal immigrants from Myanmar and denies them citizenship. They are the epitome of stateless, and spend their lives in unofficial camps where conditions are notoriously poor (only 28,000 are registered by the UN). Their disaffection has made them ripe for Islamic militant groups and human traffickers. Many attempt the perilous sea journey from Bangladesh to Malaysia and beyond to find work - in December last year, a boatload of more than 60 who ran into trouble off the coast of southern Myanmar were detained by Myanmar police, ironically on immigration charges.
Accusations that the government has sought to dilute, or "Burmanise", Myanmar's 135 distinct ethnic groups have existed for decades, and factor in the apparently institutional practice of rape of ethnic women by Myanmar troops, as well as the forced learning of the Myanmar language in ethnic schools.
In Northern Arakan state, where the majority of Rohingya reside, and where foreigners are barred from entering, the practice is effectively official: government policy stipulates that Rohingya babies born out of wedlock be placed on blacklists that bar them from attending school and later marrying. A Rohingya couple must apply well in advance before attempting to wed; the frequent denial by authorities, as well as a strict two-child policy reserved only for Rohingya, has led rights groups to accuse the government of attempting to slowly wipe out the population.
Racism or religious discrimination?
Naypyidaw uses the premise of "illegal migration management" and "control on population growth" to justify the persecution of this group. The "immigrant" label however does not match with evidence that modern-era Muslim political participation in Arakan state goes back to the 1930s, while the Arakanese city of Mrauk U, in its zenith in the 17th century a key trading hub in Asia, was ruled by Muslim sultans.
Nor is this a consistent measure, given the millions of Chinese that have migrated to Myanmar in recent decades to become powerful players in the economy. Is there an issue then with the often darker skin of Muslim groups in Myanmar, or that their religion conflicts with Buddhism?
Few seem to know, but one major cause for concern is that this hostility exists across the entire spectrum of Myanmar politics. The post-colonial civilian government of U Nu in the early 1950s expelled the Burma Muslim Congress and made Buddhism the state religion; then came Myanmar's first dictator, Ne Win, who used anti-Muslim propaganda to powerful effect during the mass expulsion of Indians in the 1960s. He branded the tens of thousands brought in for work by the British as colonial stooges, and exploited the subsequent anti-Islam sentiment to ban all Muslims from the army. The same key issue that fuelled the infamous anti-Chinese riots of the late 1960s and 1970s - that Myanmar were aggrieved at jobs going to foreigners - had also driven the anti-Indian and anti-Muslim riots in 1930 and 1938.
Ne Win's propaganda may have had a lingering effect, given the marked levels of resentment and suspicion of Muslims that remain, particularly in the west of the country. Nicholas Farrelly, a Southeast Asia specialist at the Australia National University, thinks however that this is consistent with the attitudes that many Buddhists elsewhere in the region have towards Muslims:
"In general, they find their habits foreign, their lack of integration exasperating, and their proselytising unwelcome. When we compare them to other groups, Myanmar's Muslims enjoy none of the educational or international prestige that is widely associated with the country's Christian minorities. While Kachin and Karen Christians have suffered atrocious treatment I think there is at least some mainstream Myanmar Buddhist respect for their cultures and religion. Such respect is rarely accorded to Muslims."
An 'open', but racist, Myanmar?
In an era of cautious opening, the continued inability of Myanma to debate the subject rationally is worrying. The opposition National League for Democracy, viewed by the outside world as the driving force for change in Myanmar, itself tiptoes around the subject - one party official told the BBC earlier this year that "even in our organisation the Rohingya question has not been settled". Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent pro-democracy activist, said last week that the Rohingya "are not a Myanmar ethnic race... It has become a national concern infringing on our sovereignty". Does he also think that Thailand, for example, should hold the same attitude towards the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Burma living on its soil?
Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been criticised for failing to properly address the wider "ethnic issue" in Myanmar, urged the Buddhist majority to "have sympathy for minorities" in the wake of the June 3 killings, but refuses to weigh in heavily on the debate. She justified this tentativeness by saying that her party "must cautiously avoid amplifying the situation" - that may be true, but what could also be at stake is the risk of losing support from Arakan state's Buddhist population.
Even among the revered monastic community, often seen as staunch defenders of equality in Myanmar, there has been controversy. The Democratic Voice of Burma reported on a statement released by influential monk and former political prisoner, Ashin Virathu, that said: "I see that Muslims make up a larger percentage of the perpetrators in rape and murder cases". It was "reasonable", he continued, that the "[rape] victim's side see this as an insult to their people and [Buddhist] religion."
Now, despite the government announcing an investigation into the killings, race riots have erupted in western Myanmar and President Thein Sein on Sunday announced a state of emergency. At least eight people have been killed, some allegedly by government troops who opened fire on crowds.
Below the surface
The marked difference between now and past periods of heightened racial tension however is that there has been no major influx of Muslims in recent years - perhaps this points to a tension within Myanmar society that has simmered for years, unaddressed and awaiting a trigger.
One hopes this grisly period will bring about some thorough and measured questioning of the catalysts behind the massacre and resultant crisis, but the often inflammatory nature of these discussions induces avoidance. Few therefore acknowledge that xenophobia and fear of "the other" exists in Myanmar, meaning it goes unchallenged.
A census is due to take place in 2014 - the first in 25 years - but at present around 800,000 Rohingya are unlikely to be included. Such discriminatory policies are a major blight on Myanmar's revamped international image, but are largely obscured by the taboo that surrounds exposure of it - observers are loath to broach the subject, given the ramifications that accompany accusations of racism.
But evidence of an ingrained hostility among civilians is there, and it needs to be recognised. The massacre is not the first such sign - a BBC report last year that carried a map depicting Arakan state as the home of the Rohingya sparked an alarming uproar, and online forums again became hubs of bitter discussions, including calls for a nationwide boycott of the BBC and demonstrations outside the British embassy in Yangon.
If Myanmar is to truly join the global community, the floor must be opened to debate. There must be acknowledgement that a malaise exists among the very Myanma that for decades have felt the pain of antipathy and isolation. Taking a sensitive but head-on approach to the problem, rather than the pussyfooting demonstrated even by powerful figures in the pro-democracy movement, would be the first step.
(Source: Al Jazeera, 11 June 2012)