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Orthodox Leadership in a Brave New World, by Fr. Johannes Jacobse
By Fr. Johannes Jacobse
Almost thirty years ago Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered an address at HarvardUniversity that still ranks as one of the most trenchant and inspired critiques of Western culture ever given. Although some of the political references are dated, two observations remain as true today as when they were first spoken. The first is that the philosophical materialism that shaped communism and led to the Gulags now operates in the Western world. The second is that mankind stands at an anthropological threshold.
What is philosophical materialism? To use Solzhenitsyn's definition, it is the belief that man has no touchstone other than himself:
To such consciousness, man is the touchstone in judging and evaluating everything on earth . . . we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.
Philosophical materialism has concrete cultural ramifications. To social utopians, it means that persons have no enduring value—so society can be forcibly arranged around notions of the common good. To hedonists, it means that the body is primarily a pleasure machine. To nihilists, it means that because the death of the body is also the end of existence, we should exalt death and violence.
These themes shaped much of the course of the last century. Solzhenitsyn had firsthand experience of Marxist social utopianism, but he was not the first to sound the alarm. Almost a century earlier, Dostoevsky heard the rumblings that would make Russia susceptible to communist tyranny and warned, "Without God, everything is permitted."
Prophets of the West
The Democratic West had its own literary prophets, who, while not steeped in Christianity as deeply as Solzhenitsyn or Dostoevsky, nevertheless understood the Christian moral tradition and thus were able to discern the cultural trends that Solzhenitsyn would express so clearly at Harvard years later.
One such visionary was George Orwell, who foresaw the tyranny of the social utopianism that follows when traditional notions of truth and virtue are supplanted, and confronted it in 1984. Another was Aldous Huxley, who, in his classic Brave New World, focused more on the elevation of pleasure and the senseless preoccupation with stimulation that would afflict culture once moral norms shifted. Neil Postman, in his brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death, pointed out the differences between the two authors:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
As trenchant as Orwell's and Huxley's prophecies were, however, Solzhenitsyn's emerges as more compelling because of his explicit religious appeal. In locating the cultural calamities in the loss of an awareness of God, he shows the stance Christians—particularly those who understand that current cultural conflicts require more than a political solution—should take today.
The Anthropological Threshold
Mankind, said Solzhenitsyn (and here he means Christendom—the culture that drew from the well of Judeo-Christian morality), stands on an anthropological threshold as significant as the shift from the medieval to the modern period:
If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.
"Anthropology" comes from the Greek word anthropos, which means "man." In theological terms, anthropology means what we understand the human person to be. It encompasses who he is, what he was created for, how he should comport himself—all the constituents of man's existence that raise him above the animal, that define his purpose, that make meaning out of his relationships.
Consider Solzhenitsyn's exhortation in the questions facing us today, especially the looming issues concerning the advancements in medical technology. We have unlocked some secrets about human life that were unthinkable just a generation or two ago. Who would have thought we could map the human genome or grow organs from a single cell, as it appears may soon be the case? Who foresaw such advancements as locating and even correcting fetal abnormalities? Who guessed that we could extend life expectancy by decades in some cases?
These advancements are front and center for several reasons. First, they require us to answer foundational questions about the nature and value of the human person. These questions have not been answered, at least in terms that have achieved any kind of cultural consensus. Secondly, how they are answered will drive research and development in the future. Frankly, how we decide these questions will determine what kind of society we bequeath to our children and grandchildren.
These advancements are fraught with ethical difficulty. Is it wrong to test for Down's Syndrome in an unborn child? Is it wrong to extract stem cells from embryos? How far do our obligations to keep people alive really go? These types of questions are highly contentious, as any student of the culture knows. One thing we know for certain is that as our knowledge increases, the ethical questions concerning the nature and value of human life will become more numerous and complex—and the contention is likely to increase.
The contention has been largely defined in political terms. Every reader is familiar with the hot-button conflicts—teen sexuality, homosexual marriage, abortion, the Terri Schiavo dilemma—that have been fought in the public arena. The political arena will always remain a venue for moral conflicts, but we sell ourselves short if we conclude that the political dimension is the arena where these questions will find their final resolution.
For Solzhenitsyn, spiritual development and self-awareness work hand-in-hand—clearly a Christian value self-evident to any Orthodox Christian. But he also warns that because Western culture has been sidetracked into a philosophical materialism that has dimmed man's spiritual awareness, its future is threatened. The only way out of the present morass is spiritual renewal.
Solzhenitsyn experienced the ravages of the spiritual darkening firsthand, particularly during his eight years in a Soviet prison. There he received the fundamental insight that would propel his groundbreaking work: "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties—but right through every human heart."
The timing of his Harvard speech couldn't have been better. His words fell on the ears of a nation that was already experiencing the wrenching dislocations of a cataclysmic shift in moral values and social order—from the sexual revolution to riots in its cities—in ways unprecedented in its history. At the same time, the wondrous—and fearful—unlocking of the deep mysteries of human nature was moving into full swing. America had entered a culture war.
The Anthropological Dimension of the Culture War
The culture war is fundamentally a conflict about anthropology—how we value the human being, how we ought to define him, the purpose for his existence, what social arrangements society deems suitable for men and women, and so forth. And politics emerged as the prominent battlefield for the conflict.
Complex conflicts tend to drift toward simplification, and the culture war was no exception. Cultural liberalism and cultural conservatism roughly followed political lines: Democrats were liberal and Republicans were conservative. It wasn't a perfect fit, but even a big suit on a small man still covers his body.
No one has really been comfortable with the arrangement, except perhaps the activists. Adding to the discomfort is our characteristically American way of adjudicating moral conflict. American culture has no institution of moral judgment. We have no national Church, no council of legislative elders, and no final court of arbitration that can definitively resolve the perplexing moral questions that face us. As a result, the debates and political maneuverings that follow are often raucous and chaotic affairs.
There is wisdom in this system of apparent chaos, however. The Founding Fathers, in refusing to establish a central authority of moral judgment, ensured that these questions must be addressed by the culture itself, thereby affirming the precept, politics follows culture, in ways that inhibit any imposition of a final adjudication from the state.
This precept is also drawn from the Christian tradition. It is grounded in the notion that the power of the state draws not only from the consent of the people, but from a people grounded in the Christian moral tradition. Solzhenitsyn, again stressing the anthropological dimension, himself acknowledged this point in the Harvard address:
Yet in the early democracies, as in the American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted on the ground that man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility.
The model built by the Founding Fathers is not a perfect formula, but it does resist the tyranny that Solzhenitsyn experienced in Soviet Russia. One way is by providing a fluidity through which reform movements can arise. Take Democrats for Life, for example. Five short years ago an internal challenge to the hard-line pro-abortion position held by Democratic Party leadership was virtually unthinkable. But there it is.
Politics will always play a role in the great moral debates. It's the American way. In taking questions to the culture, then, we need to look past (but not overlook) the political factors and define more clearly the anthropological dimension of the debate. It's a complex topic, so let's restrict our discussion to one important theme: the use and misuse of the Christian moral vocabulary.
Moral Deconstruction
Moral deconstruction can be defined as the systematic takedown and restructuring of the moral assumptions that used to guide our decisions, especially those that touched on the foundational constituents defining our self-understanding and value. These would include decisions about life, death, sexuality, purpose, meaning, sacrifice, and more.
Coming back to our literary prophets, we can see that cultural deconstruction was what they feared. Orwell warned against the imposition of tyranny, Huxley against a mechanization of the body, and Solzhenitsyn against a moral redefinition of man through which his God-given direction towards freedom (ultimately found in Christ) would be obscured.
Ideas have consequences. How we think determines how we act. This describes not only the individual but also the society he inhabits. A society cannot continue to function without shared notions of right and wrong—a dynamic we call the moral consensus. These ideas and values function as universals, as ways that a society organizes itself.
Further, these ideas depend on language, because it's through language that the ideas are passed from one generation to the next. They shape a story, a cultural narrative, which references ideas and actions to a larger body of meaning. Solzhenitsyn, in arguing that the moral touchstone has shifted from God to man in Western culture, thereby implies the narrative has shifted as well. Solzhenitsyn says as much by writing the Gulag series, which attempted (successfully as it turns out) to destroy the Marxist cultural narrative by telling the truth about it, employing the values and ideas of the traditional narrative Marxist ideas sought to supplant.
In terms of how these concepts enter the culture, however, Orwell is probably the clearest. In Politics and the English Language, Orwell warned of how the meanings of words are subverted to stand for ideas and concepts that are not true to their meaning. The promises of the socialist utopia sweeping Europe (and the American intelligentsia) at the time were Orwell's target, but the dynamic remains true today.
In all corners of the culture, words drawn from the moral tradition are employed to justify actions and behaviors that the tradition otherwise discourages and often prohibits. We saw it in the great debates about abortion and euthanasia in the last few decades. The conflict was not only about competing moral values, but also about the language by which those values were communicated. Words like freedom, choice, human value, and others whose meanings were relatively clear when the cultural consensus was shaped by traditional Christian morality now served a different function as that consensus shattered.
This co-opting of the Christian moral lexicon is one reason for the deep moral confusion in the culture. It creates a kind of moral schizophrenia in which people are unsure if right and wrong even exist. Repeat certain words over and over again, and people will tend to believe them. If these words have moral power, which is to say if they derive their authority from the moral tradition, people will tend to believe their new applications are the tradition.
That's what Huxley warned against. If man is a biological machine, and if that machine responds to pleasure, why not frame the pleasure-inducing activity in the terminology of a private good? Orwell warned of the same corruption. If man is machine, why not frame the attempts at social reorganization in terms of the common good? All it takes is wrestling common terms from their traditional moral contexts and employing them in ones that justify the dehumanization as progress. Good becomes evil, and evil becomes good. Society has reconstructed itself in a new moral order.
What makes Solzhenitsyn's exhortation so compelling (and ultimately more valuable) is his conviction that the crisis is fundamentally one of anthropology. As such, it might also be one of historical inevitability. Perhaps our progress has forced this dilemma upon us, just as the Nestorian controversy forced the elucidation of the divinity of Christ and the Arian controversy the elucidation of His two natures. The question we as a society need to answer is: What is Man?
The Re-Christianization of Culture
As awe-inspiring as our technological advancements are, and despite the promise they hold for the alleviation of human suffering, the application of new technologies towards the betterment of the human condition in terms traditionally understood is not assured. The moral crisis facing American culture, particularly the deconstruction of cultural forms that managed to safeguard the common and private good (and sometimes correct its failures), can easily subvert the knowledge into something grotesque and ugly while claiming to serve the good.
Solzhenitsyn warned as much when he said the crisis can only be resolved if man reawakens to the spiritual dimension of his existence: "This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but—upward."
If Orthodox Christians should understand anything, it is this: Salvation is a concrete, existential encounter with the living God. Moreover, this Lord gives gifts, including wisdom, knowledge, insight, and courage—all the elements needed to confront the maelstrom of confusion in which our culture finds itself, and all meant to be applied in the work of daily life, whether as mother, researcher, mechanic, priest—whatever our vocation may be.
Salvation is not understanding the correct theological concepts; it is not nostalgia for civilizations past; it is not formal membership in a long-standing parish; it is not social activism; it is not morally appropriate behavior; it is not mastery of the moral vocabulary. Further, it is not enough to recall the certainty of the past. Nostalgic impulses, as comforting as they may be (including the Orthodox variants, such as the longings for Hellenistic Greece or Holy Russia), simply won't meet the challenge.
Orthodox leadership today requires great courage. Courage, said Winston Churchill, is the one quality that lets all other virtues flourish. When Solzhenitsyn delivered his address three decades ago, he spoke not as a philosopher, but as a voice crying in the wilderness. He cried out against the dehumanization of men he experienced in the East and saw advancing in the West. Only people with moral clarity and courage could successfully challenge it, he exhorted. What the world needs is not more philosophers, but moralists.
The exhortation drew from a supreme confidence in the power of truth. Solzhenitsyn believed that truth is self-verifying. When the truth is spoken, its veracity is self-evident to the hearer. This is a profoundly Christian notion rooted in the teaching of the apostle Paul: When the Gospel is preached, Christ (who is Truth) is revealed.
Any Orthodox response to the cultural challenge must first presume a recovery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The wisdom of the Fathers, the artistry of the poets, the healings of the miracle workers, the courage of the martyrs, the knowledge of the scholars, the patience of the teachers, the foresight of the bishops, the faithfulness of the priests—all the elements that shaped and forged the moral tradition that founded Western civilization and must renew it today—start with the recovery of the Gospel. As Jesus said, "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).
Read Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address at: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolzhenitsynHarvard.php


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Exhibitions / selection
2024 Room In Room, new exhibition concept in process
September 01 - 24, 2023, group show Cadavre Exquis, speicherN, seed SILO Potsdam
2022 Corpus 08, cloister
September 09 - 13, 2020 Berlin Art Week
March 7, 2020 Re-visited III at Never Apart. Frames and Pictures by the Brücke Artists, Brücke Museum Berlin
Video excerpt of Re-visited III, Limitation, Perspective and Cutout, visual presentation and interactive intervention
April 7 - June 11, 2017, Extended Compositions, Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
December 14, 2016 - February 24, 2017 Paessaggio Futuro, Finanza & Futuro, Milan, Italy
June 2016 "Kunst am Bau", public art - invited realisation competition Walden 48, Berlin
July 17, 2015 - May 21, 2016 Initiator / curator of the exhibition series Room In Room, Grüntuch Ernst Lab Berlin
October 29, 2015 - January 29, 2016 Torino-Incontra Berlino, German Bank, Turin, Italy
October 30 - January 09, 2015-2016 Under Construction Berlin, Gallery Opere Scelte, Italy
July 2 - August 29, 2015 Dear Darkness exhibition, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
May 1 - 3, 2015 Gallery Weekend Berlin, Private Collections, Germany
June 26 - September 13, 2014 Gallery Opere Scelte, Turin, Italy
September 20 + 21, 2013 Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
October 20 + Nov. 3, 2012 European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany
September 2012 - December 2016 Burj Flavin-Tatlin at Photography collection Arthur de Ganay, Berlin, Germany
July 22 - October 3, 2011 Knoefel & Friends, Mecklenburgische Festspiele, Germany
April 14 - August, 2011 In The Night at ORBE, Museum MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
August 27 - October 2, 2010 finalklein at Media Facades Festival Europe, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany
November 18, 2009 - November 15, 2010 Rectangular 01 + When it gets dark / Barnimkante, Berlin, Germany
June 4 - November 22, 2009 Détournement Venise, evento collaterale alla 53. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte,
Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, Venezia, Italy
August 25, 2009 Framing 01 at Exhibition, Temporary Art Space, 211 Elizabeth Street in New York, USA
March 13 - April 20, 2009 Emergency Room Project, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, PAN, Italy
November 30 - December 21, 2008 Kunstverein Arnsberg / Jahresgaben, Germany
October 3 - 8, 2008 Urban Screens Melbourne, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
November 15 - 30, 2008 Wanakio Grant, Maejima Art Center MAC, Okinawa, Japan
July 18 - August 31, 2008 Corpus 01, double room at Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
May 08 - 29, 2008 SOS-Kunststück, Osramhöfe, Berlin, Germany
December 01, 2007 - March 1, 2008 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture,
Burj Flavin-Tatlin within the room of The GULF - OMA / AMO presentation, Shenzhen, China
October 29 - November 30, 2007 Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany
September 2007 TrampolineUK at Royal Centre, Nottingham; Derby Big Screen; Phoenix Arts Centre, UK
July 20 - August 04, 2007 Niveaualarm Innsbruck, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
July 2007, Intervention: Personal Project in Public Space, Corpus 01, double room, Tiergarten Berlin
May 2007 Sneak Preview, Corpus01, double room at Galerie Gillian Morris, Berlin, Germany
February 2007 Emergency Room Project, P.S.1 / MoMA, New York, USA
February 2007 Tangible And Embedded Interaction Conference TEI 07, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
August 2 - 6, 2006 freequent traveller at ParticipART, MART, Museum of Modern Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy
2006 Experimentdays '06, organized by Experimentcity, Berlin, Germany
2005 kaitusburi, music video created with Sascha Pohflepp, music: Mieko Shimizu, Robert Lippok, Barbara Morgenstern
2005 Web Biennial (WB05), Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM, Turkey
2005 Refresh Conference, Banff, Canada and Netart versus Web Art, Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2002 - 2003 finalklein at U3 Corporate Culture: Art, Plastics and Recycling exhibition, Potsdamer Platz Berlin, Germany
2002 between the eyes, Play gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin, Germany
2002 tokyostories, the International competition Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2002 finalklein at Tokyo Homebase, projectspace, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Presentation of the buckymap puzzle at bfi.org during the Buckminster Fuller - Your Private Sky, Japan Tour:
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Watari-Um Tokyo
2001 Exhibition of the buckymap puzzle at Buckminster Fuller - Your Private Sky exhibition, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
Bibliography / selection
Room In Room exhibition at Grüntuch Ernst Lab as part of the office-monograph of Grüntuch Ernst Architects, 2020
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Deutschlandradio Kultur, Program PROFIL, "Faszination Gebäude, Susanne Schuricht", 10:50 am, 21 July 2008
20 Jahre Kunstverein Arnsberg, 1988 – 2008, catalog, 2008
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edited by Shumon Basar, Markus Miessen and Antonia Carver, May 2007
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"Freequent traveller: Interaction versus contemplation", Baton Rouge, USA 2007
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Tate Modern, The Architectural Association and The Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006
NY Arts Magazine, Berliner Kunst, July - August 2006
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Bijutsu Techo (BT 10), Sumie Kawai, finalklein, October 2002
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Double Room, proceedings of ParticipART (PDC 06), ninth biennial Participatory Design Conference, Italy 2006
Interview with Thierry Geoffroy / long version (Emergencyroom Berlin ER / Galerie Olaf Stüber, 2006)
Berlin A-Z, Spätkauf, a story about a typical relict of the former GDR, an unusual tour guide,
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a Bidoun Book, edited by Shumon Basar, Markus Miessen and Antonia Carver, ISBN 978-9948-03-453-7, May 2007
Design by politics, interview by Susanne Schuricht and Sascha Pohflepp with John Maeda, De:Bug magazine, January 2006
Download in English (detailed version)
IEPE, interview with Iepe BT Rubingh, January / February Issue of the Italian art magazine tema celeste, English version
ISSN 1128-6601 (No. 113), 2006, Download in English / Italian (short version)
New Design in a complex world, interview by Susanne Schuricht and Mirjam Struppek with John Thackara,
published in the July / August Issue of the Italian magazine tema celeste ISSN 1128-6601 (No. 110), 2005
Download in English (short version)
Download in English (detailed version)
Virtual Art, — the Aura of the Digital - interview by Susanne Schuricht with Dr. Oliver Grau, February 2004, Berlin
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magazine Umelec International (9771212955044 - 04) and in the 07 Issue, of the German berlinermagazine, 2004
Download in English (detailed version)
Sustainability and Quality, interview by Susanne Schuricht with Joachim Sauter, May 2001, Berlin
July Issue 2001, Chinese magazine Art&Collection (4719294100025 - 07)
2003 MA at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK Berlin)
Susanne Schuricht is a Berlin based artist, working primarily in architectural sculptures. Her artworks deal with the framing of perspective and the creation of a visual excerpt from the surrounding context, in the conscious pause in order to perceive. In many of here installations the human scale and interaction are relevant. Her work has been shown and published interdisciplinary in the international art scene, but also at architectural biennials and scientific conferences. Selected exhibitions include Extended Compositions at Centre d'art Pasquart, Switzerland; Torino-Incontra Berlino, Deutsche Bank Turin, Italy; ORBE, Museum MUCA Roma, Mexico City; 53rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte – La Biennale di Venezia; PAN, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, Italy; Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany; Shenzhen-Hongkong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, China; MoMA P.S.1, New York, USA; Mart Museum Rovereto, Italy, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany. Recent reference in the publication of Karsten Schubert "Körper Raum Oberfläche", Gebrüder Mann Verlag.
From July 2015 - May 2016 she co-initiated, curated and organized the Room In Room exhibition series at Grüntuch Ernst Lab, which spanned a conceptual bridge from architecture to architecture-related art. Her artworks are part of collections worldwide.
Susanne Schuricht
Susanne Schuricht
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As far as console gaming nostalgia goes, the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) is ground zero. While Spacewar! and Pong prototyped interactive game experiences within the academy and for the local bar, it was the Atari VCS that became a fixture in living rooms across America. Launched in 1977, the system overcame an initial chilly reception to enjoy massive popularity in the early 1980s. Approximately 30 million Atari VCS consoles were sold and the system, along with arcade titles such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man!, drove the first mass culture video game mania that lasted until the bottom fell out of the market in 1983. The Atari VCS was affordable, accessible and provided a "domesticated" counterpoint to the haze of arcades - an experience that families could gather around and socialize through. Given the initial cost associated with personal computers, it was the Atari VCS and titles like Combat, Adventure and Pitfall! that indoctrinated an entire generation of gamers and set the wheels of a multibillion dollar industry in motion.
Considering the evolution of video game consoles (seven generations and counting), the cultural significance of the Atari VCS alone would justify another book-length appraisal. However, Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost's collaborative text Racing the Beam, published this past spring by MIT Press, was developed with a broader mandate in mind. The book is the first in a new series dedicated to a "platform-focused" approach to media scholarship. A cultural reading of the Atari VCS would address aesthetics or "reception" to the console and Bogost and Montfort argue that it is possible to drill down from that strata of analysis to interface, then form/function (narratology) through to code. The scholars acknowledge that while code has become a nexus within media scholarship in recent years, it is possible to dig deeper still to platform - "the basic hardware and software systems upon which programming takes place... the foundation for computational expression." The subsequent analysis of the Atari VCS is firmly grounded in the technical capabilities of the system. Under this scrutiny the figure of the console melts away. Racing the Beam surveys six seminal cartridges in relation to key components which include the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the Peripheral Interface Adaptor chip (PIA), memory and the pivotal Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) - the operation of which inspired the moniker of the book. This sounds dry (and at times it is) but the duo do a remarkable job of providing a close, nuanced reading of the design decisions, play and game space of the titles in relation to the assemblage of electronics that underpins the system.
Surprisingly, Racing the Beam does not read like an electrical engineering textbook. For the most part, Montfort and Bogost's analysis of the design of the selected Atari VCS cartridges is extremely engaging. The discussion about sprite graphics and game variants in Combat! is fascinating and the analysis of virtual space in Adventure makes most writing on "the architecture" of gaming seem tremendously unimaginative. Pitfall! serves as a springboard into discussion about not only the platformer genre it helped establish but broader issues of authorship and labor. The chapter on the rushed, undercooked conversion of the iconic arcade game Pac-Man to a pale (flickering) Atari VCS imitation reads like Shakespearean tragedy. The authors use these games, as well as Yar's Revenge and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to conduct a thorough examination of the development process, interface elements, level design, and graphic idiosyncrasies afforded by the Atari VCS - all the while framing the last thirty years of game history.
It is hard to levy any substantial critique at Racing the Beam as the book abides by its promise to parse the Atari VCS as platform by way of the code and context of specific cartridges. Readers that are less technically savvy might feel a bit alienated by the time they hit the third or forth analysis of TIA graphics registers but Bogost and Montfort should be commended for making this material not only accessible but entertaining. While the "platform approach" is clearly not for everyone within game studies and the digital humanities, this text needs to be read and considered as it provides a robust example of media scholarship.
Towards the end of Racing the Beam the authors tip their caps at the artists and hackers that are developing content for the Atari VCS within the burgeoning homebrew scene. This past spring a perplexed interviewer asked Montfort why anyone would still be working with the platform "given all the modern systems available." His reply: "Why does somebody write a sonnet? I think it's in part because they want to connect to the whole tradition of the sonnet that is different than writing a poem of a different form. They're interested in the sonnet because they're interested in what it is as a form." Montfort hits the nail on the head and he and Bogost have exhibited the same dedication to both tradition and form.
Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer with an active interest in the intersection of space and media. He is co-editor of the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and blogs at Serial Consign.


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Fidelity Bank Plc has successfully issued 10 years N41.21 billion in fixed rate unsecured subordinated bond at an 8.5 percent coupon rate due in 2031. The bond issuance, which was fully subscribed, given that total investor interest and commitments in the bonds were N56.6 billion, adds to the impressive portfolio of landmark transactions structured by the bank, and underscores its capacity to successfully execute debt capital market transactions.
The transaction is a landmark achievement in the Nigerian domestic debt market for being the largest corporate bonds ever issued by a Nigerian Bank including the deposit money banks and merchant banks etc.
In December, the bank had announced plans to issue fixed income securities with 10-year tenor to support the growth and development of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Retail Business as well as its technology infrastructure. The bank conducted the debt issuance under its registered N100 billion bond issuance programme.
The bonds are unsecured and subordinated, which will qualify as Tier II Capital in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Guidance Notes on Regulatory Capital for commercial banks in Nigeria.
Speaking on the significance and success of the bond issuance, Fidelity Bank Chairman, Mustapha Chike-Obi said that the bond issuance further demonstrates our confidence in Nigeria's debt market. "It also validates the continued investor confidence in our corporate strategy and aspirations, strong corporate governance structure and solid and stable executive management team with robust history of superior financial performance and returns", Obi explained.
In her comments, Fidelity Bank CEO, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe noted that proceeds from the transaction would be utilised to support growth in the issuer's risk assets in SME and retail business as well as investments in technology & retail infrastructure. This, Onyeali-Ikpe added is in line with the bank's Tier I aspirations. According to her, our business fundamentals have remained strong despite the challenging economic environment occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic and the attendant recession.
She added: "The successful bond issuance highlights the confidence in the Fidelity brand, as well as our capability to expand our funding sources, and deliver innovative financial services to our esteemed customers."
The issue was assigned a rating of A- by Agusto, and A by Datapro and will be listed on both the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and FMDQ Securities Exchange Limited.
Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged commercial bank operating in Nigeria, with over 5.7 million customers who are serviced across its 250 business offices and various other digital banking channels. The Bank is focused on select niche corporate banking sectors, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and is rapidly implementing a digital-based retail banking strategy which has resulted in annual double-digit growth in savings deposits in at least 7 consecutive years while over 50 percent of its customers are now enrolled on its digital platforms.


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56 Years Ago: Johnny Cash Marries June Carter in Franklin, Ky.
Fifty-six years ago today (March 1, 1968) was a day of celebration for Johnny Cash and June Carter: It was on that date that the couple wed in Franklin, Ky. The two were married just one week after Cash proposed while they were performing together in London, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 22.
Cash and Carter initially met in 1956, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, while Cash was still married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto. Cash and Liberto's divorce was finalized by the end of 1967, and the country icon didn't waste any time in asking Carter to become his wife.
Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote Cash's "Ring of Fire," served as the best man for Cash and Carter's nuptials. Carter wore a light blue dress with matching flowers in her hair. A non-alcoholic reception was held at Cash's home in Hendersonville, Tenn., following the ceremony.
Cash and Carter each had three children before they got married; together, they had one son, John Carter Cash, who was born in 1970. Their love story remains one of the greatest of all time, lasting 35 years until June Carter Cash's death in May of 2003. Johnny Cash passed away four months later, in September of 2003.
"We get old and get used to each other," Cash said in a letter to his wife, written for her 65th birthday. "We think alike. We read each others [sic] minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted. But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met."
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - The New England Patriots have signed tight end Kellen Winslow and re-signed wide receiver Deion Branch to add depth to a pass-catching group that lost Aaron Hernandez to a right ankle injury.
The announcement Wednesday came three days after the tight end was hurt on the Patriots' third offensive play of their 20-18 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. The Patriots have not said how many games they expect him to miss.
I just met Kellen (Tuesday) for the first time, so I'm excited to get out there and practice with him,'' quarterback Tom Brady said Wednesday.
Aaron has been a huge contributor for us and every time he's in there, he seems to be making plays. We'll see how it goes without him or with him, I don't know. It's just a matter of him feeling well enough to go out there and play.''
Winslow was released by the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 1 after spending the past three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following five seasons with the Cleveland Browns. He had 75 receptions last season and has 437 in his career since being taken with the sixth pick of the 2004 draft out of Miami.
We'll see how Kellen fits in,'' Patriots coach Bill Belichick said before Wednesday's practice.
I've never coached him before, don't have any background with him, but (we) feel like he might have a chance to help us so that's why he's here.
The Patriots released Branch on the final roster cutdown after he caught 51 passes last season but kept his nameplate above his locker and his possessions inside it.
Branch said he drew interest from other teams but for family and other reasons he preferred the Patriots, although he wouldn't say if there was an understanding that New England would bring him back.
The days I was off I was still working out,'' he said.
My agent was busy on the phone doing his job and I was doing my job. It was just all about the right time and the right place.''
Branch is confident he'll fit right back into the offense.
That's the goal and I'm sure the coaches are expecting it out of me and that's what I'm going to deliver,'' he said.
There's a couple of new plays. It shouldn't take long. It'll take a day or so. I'll be all right.''
New England also re-signed linebacker Niko Koutouvides and released running back Lex Hilliard, linebacker Mike Rivera and wide receiver Greg Salas, who was obtained from the St. Louis Rams after Branch was cut.


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Press Release
Texas Resident Arrested on Charge of Attempted Use of
Weapon of Mass Destruction
For Immediate Release
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Suspect Allegedly Purchased Bomb Materials and Researched U.S. Targets
WASHINGTON – Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of Lubbock, Texas, was arrested late yesterday by FBI agents in Texas on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his alleged purchase of chemicals and equipment necessary to make an improvised explosive device (IED) and his research of potential U.S. targets.
The arrest and the criminal complaint, which was unsealed in the Northern District of Texas, were announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; James T. Jacks, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas; and Robert E. Casey Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Dallas Field Division.
Aldawsari is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court in Lubbock at 9:00 a.m. on Friday morning. Aldawsari, who was lawfully admitted into the United States in 2008 on a student visa and is enrolled at South Plains College near Lubbock, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Aldawsari has been researching online how to construct an IED using several chemicals as ingredients. He has also acquired or taken a substantial step toward acquiring most of the ingredients and equipment necessary to construct an IED and he has conducted online research of several potential U.S. targets, the affidavit alleges. In addition, he has allegedly described his desire for violent jihad and martyrdom in blog postings and a personal journal.
"As alleged in the complaint, Aldawsari purchased ingredients to construct an explosive device and was actively researching potential targets in the United States. Thanks to the efforts of many agents, analysts and prosecutors, this plot was thwarted before it could advance further," said Assistant Attorney General Kris. "This case serves as another reminder of the need for continued vigilance both at home and abroad."
"Yesterday's arrest demonstrates the need for and the importance of vigilance and the willingness of private individuals and companies to ask questions and contact the authorities when confronted with suspicious activities. Based upon reports from the public, Aldawsari's plot was uncovered and thwarted. We're confident we have neutralized the alleged threat posed by this defendant. Those reports resulted in the initiation of a complex and far-reaching investigation requiring almost around the clock work by hundreds of dedicated FBI agents, analysts, prosecutors and others. Their effort is another example of the work being done to protect our country and its citizens. These individuals are deserving of our respect and gratitude," said U.S. Attorney Jacks.
"This arrest and criminal charge is a result of the success of the FBI's counterterrorism strategy, which is to detect, penetrate, and disrupt terrorist plots in the United States and against U.S. interests abroad. In this case, FBI Agents and other FBI experts worked tirelessly to neutralize the imminent terrorist threat described in the criminal complaint. The public can be justifiably proud of the national security expertise shown by the FBI in this investigation," said Special Agent in Charge Casey.
Purchases of Chemical Ingredients and Other Equipment
The affidavit alleges that on Feb. 1, 2011, a chemical supplier reported to the FBI a suspicious attempted purchase of concentrated phenol by a man identifying himself as Khalid Aldawsari. According to the affidavit, phenol is a toxic chemical with legitimate uses, but can also be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol, also known as T.N.P., or picric acid. The affidavit alleges that other ingredients typically used with phenol to make picric acid, or T.N.P., are concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids.
Aldawsari allegedly attempted to have the phenol order shipped to a freight company so it could be held for him there, but the freight company returned the order to the supplier and called the police. Later, Aldawsari falsely told the supplier he was associated with a university and wanted the phenol for "off-campus, personal research." Frustrated by questions being asked over his phenol order, Aldawsari cancelled his order and later e-mailed himself instructions for producing phenol. The affidavit alleges that in December 2010, he successfully purchased concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids.
According to the affidavit, legally authorized electronic surveillance revealed that Aldawsari used various e-mail accounts in researching explosives and targets, and often sent emails to himself as part of this process. On Feb. 11, 2011, for instance, he allegedly e-mailed himself a recipe for picric acid, which the e-mail describes as a "military explosive." He also allegedly sent himself an e-mail on Oct. 19, 2010 that contained information on the material required for Nitro Urea, how to prepare it, and the advantages of using it.
The affidavit alleges that Aldawsari also e-mailed himself instructions on how to convert a cellular phone into a remote detonator and how to prepare a booby-trapped vehicle using items available in every home. One e-mail allegedly contained a message stating that "one operation in the land of the infidels is equal to ten operations against occupying forces in the land of the Muslims." During December 2010 and January 2011, Aldawsari allegedly purchased many other items, including a gas mask, a Hazmat suit, a soldering iron kit, glass beakers and flasks, wiring, a stun gun, clocks and a battery tester.
Searches of Aldawsari's Residence
Two legally authorized searches of Aldawsari's apartment conducted by the FBI in February 2011 indicated that the concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids; the beakers and flasks; wiring; Hazmat suit; and clocks were present in Aldawsari's residence.
FBI agents also found a notebook at Aldawsari's residence that appeared to be a diary or journal. According to the affidavit, excerpts from the journal indicate that Aldawsari had been planning to commit a terrorist attack in the United States for years. One entry describes how Aldawsari sought and obtained a particular scholarship because it allowed him to come directly to the United State and helped him financially, which he said "will help tremendously in providing me with the support I need for Jihad." The entry continues: "And now, after mastering the English language, learning how to build explosives and continuous planning to target the infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad."
In another entry, Aldawsari allegedly wrote that he was near to reaching his goal and near to getting weapons to use against infidels and their helpers. He also listed a "synopsis of important steps" that included obtaining a forged U.S. birth certificate; renting a car; using different driver's licenses for each car rented; putting bombs in cars and taking them to different places during rush hour; and leaving the city for a safe place.
Research on Potential Targets
According to the affidavit, Aldawsari conducted research on various targets and e-mailed himself information on these locations and people. One of the documents he sent himself, with the subject line listed as "Targets," allegedly contained the names and home addresses of three American citizens who had previously served in the U.S. military and had been stationed for a time at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In another e-mail titled "NICE TARGETS 01," Aldawsari allegedly sent himself the names of 12 reservoir dams in Colorado and California. In another e-mail to himself, titled "NICE TARGETS," he listed two categories of targets: hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants. On Feb. 6, 2011, the affidavit alleges, Aldawsari sent himself an e-mail titled "Tyrant's House," in which he listed the Dallas address for former President George W. Bush. The affidavit also alleges that Aldawsari conducted research that could indicate his consideration of the use of infant dolls to conceal explosives and possible targeting of a nightclub with an explosive concealed in a backpack.
The affidavit also alleges that Aldawsari created a blog in which he posted extremist messages. In one posting, he expressed dissatisfaction with current conditions of Muslims and vowed jihad and martyrdom. "You who created mankind….grant me martyrdom for Your sake and make jihad easy for me only in Your path," he wrote.
This case was investigated by the FBI's Dallas Joint Terrorism Task Force, with assistance from the Lubbock Police Department. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Baker and Denise Williams from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, and Trial Attorney David Cora from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
The charges contained in the criminal complaint are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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ATLANTA — Republicans in Georgia are set to approve a new congressional map that adds to their representation in the U.S. House even as they voted to trim their own majority in the state legislature.
Monday, the Georgia General Assembly will give final passage to a bill that creates nine congressional districts favoring Republicans and five heavily-Democratic districts. The new map swings a northern Atlanta suburban seat more than 25 points to the right and likely pits two Democratic incumbents into a primary challenge.
U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, a Democrat, has held the 6th Congressional district since 2019. Currently, it sits across three counties just north of Atlanta, has one of the highest percentages of college-educated voters and supported President Joe Biden by nearly 12 points in 2020.
The new lines, released Wednesday morning a few hours before the first committee hearing on the bill, remove several Democrat-heavy precincts, leaving behind a district that would have voted for former President Donald Trump by about 15 points.
Republican lawmakers drastically shifted the boundary lines by adding in all or part of three heavily-conservative exurbs, with the northern end of the district closer to Tennessee than Atlanta.
Democrats and voting rights groups have protested the change, which would make it virtually impossible for McBath, a Black lawmaker known for advocacy around gun violence reduction, to win that seat.
"Redistricting in this way — drawing districts so contrived as to be ludicrous, to shore up power that is clearly fading — reads like a balding man trying to fool the world with an embarrassing combover," says state Sen. Michelle Au, a Democrat.
The 7th Congressional district, currently held by Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, the only Democrat to flip a House seat in the 2020 election, would shrink its geographic footprint to a majority-nonwhite community in Gwinnett and Fulton counties and move from a swing district to a solidly Democratic seat.
Democratic strategists predict that McBath and Bourdeaux will likely have to run against each other in a primary for the new 7th district since both have indicated they wish to keep serving in Congress.
Republicans have defended the map, saying the state's population growth and diversity is fairly reflected in the new districts, even the one that drastically overhauls the partisan makeup of the 6th.
"If you look at any one congressional district, which has close to 800,000 people in it, you're going to find diversity on all levels within any district," redistricting committee chairman John Kennedy of Macon, a Republican, said after the Senate voted along party lines to approve the plan. "We drew the maps as best we could to make sure that they were legal, compliant with the Voting Rights Act to the person, according to the Constitution."
This year is the first major redistricting cycle where Georgia and other jurisdictions with a history of racist and discriminatory voting practices did not have to seek federal pre-clearance of these changes.
A growing Georgia
Georgia has emerged as a nationally-watched battleground state after voting for President Joe Biden, the first Democrat to carry the state in almost 30 years, and sending Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the U.S. Senate in a January 2021 runoff that cemented the party's control of the chamber.
It's also ground zero for the fight over voting, with a new 98-page voting law that cracks down on some accessibility to the polls, recurring problems with long lines and voting machine issues and Trump's singular focus on proving he did not lose the state by citing false and non-existent claims of fraud.
In 2022, the state will have tightly contested U.S. Senate and governor's races in which Democrats could win several statewide offices, even as Republicans face a more favorable environment nationwide.
Georgia is on track to become a majority-nonwhite state, if not already. The latest census figures show 50.06% of the state's 10.7 million residents identify as non-Hispanic white, down from 55.88% in 2010.
The state's growth has been fueled almost entirely by diverse residents moving to counties in metro Atlanta's core. Over the last decade, the Asian and Hispanic population grew significantly in Georgia and more than 300,000 new Black residents moved into Atlanta and its surrounding areas alone.
At the state level, this growth and diversification led to concessions from Republican mapmakers that saw several new districts created in Democratic areas in both the state House and Senate redistricting plans.
Republicans currently control 103 of 180 state House districts and 34 of 56 state senate districts. The new House boundaries, now awaiting Gov. Brian Kemp's signature, create one new Republican seat in fast-growing Forsyth County and several new Democratic seats around Atlanta while eliminating seats in rural Georgia and only pairing three sets of incumbent lawmakers who are not retiring.
In the state Senate, Republicans added two new seats in Democratic parts of metro Atlanta by dissolving seats held by two rural Republicans running for higher office but made the district represented by Sen. Michelle Au, the Senate's only Asian American lawmaker, majority-white and conservative-leaning.
That change, and many others made across the three maps, will likely be challenged in court in the coming weeks.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh plans to cut spending from its own budget on climate change adaptation and rely more in the future on funds from donors, government officials said.
The low-lying South Asian nation, considered one of the countries most at risk from climate impacts such as sea level rise, worsening erosion and erratic rainfall, has been a leader in the developing world in committing its own funds to climate adaptation. Officials allocated $320 million from the country's budget over five years to a domestic climate adaptation fund, said Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith in a budget speech to parliament.
But "this allocation will be reduced in the future and instead steps will be taken to increase (funding to) the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund, established with the assistance of our development partners," Muhith said in a June 5 speech. That fund has so far received $187 million from international donors, with some of the money going to adaptation projects.
The minister proposed no new funding for the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF), the country's own adaptation funding initiative, in the next budget.
The change comes as part of an update to the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan of 2009.
Critics of the decision said the change in strategy comes in part because of questions raised about the alleged misuse of funds from the country's adaptation trust fund, and the government's desire to avoid further controversy in the future.
Last October, the Bangladesh chapter of Transparency International said it had found evidence of political influence, nepotism and corruption in the way funds were allocated.
"A significant amount of money had been allocated for the BCCTF in the last five years but the spending was poor. Besides, the way the fund was managed has raised questions for many, which led no fresh allocation in the new budget," Shamsul Alam, a member of the Bangladesh's Planning Commission, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation over telephone.
He said one advantage of relying on donor-funded climate adaptation projects it that they help transfer expertise and modern technology on adaptation, something Bangladesh in some cases lacks. "Capacity building of people on the ground is a must to adapt to climate change impacts," he said.
Asked if donors might feel less willing to channel money to Bangladesh as a result of the government cutback in its own spending, he noted that in the new budget the government has imposed a "green tax" on industries that do not have a waste treatment plant.
That change "proves Bangladesh's sincerity to climate change adaptation and keeping the environment free of pollution," he said.
Atiq Rahman, executive director of Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview that Bangladesh still has a lot to do to adapt to climate change, particularly as it is so vulnerable.
He said the southern part of the country is particularly vulnerable, with 20 million people already lacking sufficient food, safe drinking water and sanitation systems. Drought-prone northern districts will also need large-scale climate adaptation programmes, he said.
Rahman said he thinks the government's decision to cut its own spending on climate adaptation is the wrong one.
"The BCCTF should be kept well funded and replenished to encourage donors to pay more in the resilience fund. Unless you pay a portion on your own, why will donors feel interested to pay for your adaptation programmes?" he asked.
But greater transparency needs to be put in place in the spending of climate funds, to ensure the money goes to support people in the most need of help.
Hasan Mahmud, a member of parliament and Bangladesh's former environment minister said adaptation projects costing less than $25 million will suffer the most if Bangladesh's adaptation trust fund has no resources.
Donors for the most part only sponsor climate resilience projects larger than $25 million, he said in a telephone interview, but many of the projects Bangladesh needs most cost in the range of $5 million to $10 million.
"Big projects are not needed everywhere," he said.
The government's decision to create its own adaptation trust fund was highly praised by donor agencies and countries and a major encouragement for them to channel money to Bangladesh, he said.
"Donors felt (the depth of) Bangladesh's seriousness about adaptation, despite not being responsible for climate change, following formation of the fund. Now the donors may get a wrong message and raise questions about whether we need any more adaptation funds since we have stopped spending from our own," Mahmud warned.
Syful Islam is a journalist with the Financial Express newspaper in Bangladesh.


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Someone had called me at half past eleven. The phone rang six times breaking the silence and darkness of the room for about ten or twelve seconds. I didn't pick up. Just left it ringing on the nightstand. My body didn't even move from its sleeping position. Why didn't I pick it up? Mai, who was deep asleep facing the wall, didn't seem to hear it. I tried closing my eyes, but couldn't sleep any more. Those rings were still inside my head. Two or three minutes of lying still passed after I decided to get out of bed, put on my old levi's t-shirt and jeans. After thinking about it twice, I went out of the room, grabbed a cold Taiwan beer from the refrigerator, and exited the apartment.
A dense fog was surrounding Danshui Night Market, making it impossible to see the end of the street. As I walked on the brick floor, I looked at my left, and noticed that no food stand was open. Which was weird, because there was still people around at this time. I walked few meters, and turned my head to the other side. The sea was dark but I could still see little waves in motion. Well, actually, what I was seeing was the reflection of the moonlight on the waves in motion. I kept walking, and after a minute or two, I reached the fishermen's wharf (which was empty too), and decided to stay there. I walked closer to the end of the wharf, opened my beer, took a long sip, and watched the boats moving smoothly on the shiny waves.
I started to think about those six rings. Why I'm here outside in the night Is it just because of a phone call that I didn't pick up? I thought. I took another sip of beer, and decided to think about something else. I thought about Mai. As usual, she didn't even noticed that I had left the room. In fact, she had stopped noticing my presence in the apartment around a year ago. Each time I was sleeping beside her, I felt like there was a stranger lying beside me. She had become a dead body. Or did had I become a dead body for her? Just a mixture of skin and bones lying beside her. I never felt so lonely in my entire existence. It was like a peaceful desperation. Like a silent scream. Like being asphyxiated in a huge empty space. I felt even lonelier than the time I used to sleep alone in my old apartment with only cockroaches and mosquitoes accompanying me. I took a last sip of beer, and wondered where was the living and breathing Mai?
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- How to make the narrative 'flow' more smoothly.
- Will these introductory paragraphs attracts the reader?
- Are there too many I's?
(I'm not a native English Speaker, but I really want to write my stuff in English.)


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Rhode IslandThe State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (commonly known as Rhode Island) is geographically the smallest state in the United States, and the state with the longest official name. Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen original American colonies that declared independence against British rule to begin the American Revolution. The state's common name, Rhode Island, actually refers to the largest island in Narragansett Bay, also known as Aquidneck Island, on which the city of Newport is located. The origin of the name is unclear. Some historians think that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, upon discovering Block Island, just southwest in the Atlantic Ocean, named it Rhode Island because of its similarity in shape to the Greek island of Rhodes. Later settlers, mistaking which island Verrazzano was referring to, gave the name to Aquidneck Island instead. Other historians believe that the name is derived from Roodt Eylandt, Dutch for "red island," given to the island by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block due to the red clay on the island's shore. Despite the fact that most of the state is part of the mainland, the name Rhode Island leads some out-of-staters to erroneously believe that the entire state is an island. Nicknamed "The Ocean State," every point in the state is within 30 miles of sea water.
GeographyRhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. It shares a water border with New York. Narragansett Bay is a major feature of the state's topography. Block Island, known for its beaches, lies approximately 12 miles (19 km) off the southern coast of the mainland. Within the Bay, there are over 30 islands. The largest is Aquidneck Island, shared by the municipalities of Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth. Among the other islands in the Bay are Hope, Prudence, and Despair. Rhode Island is mostly flat with no real mountains. Rhode Island's highest point is Jerimoth Hill, only 812 feet (247 m) above sea level. HistoryIn 1614 the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the island that is now called Block Island. In 1636 Roger Williams, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views, settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay near the Moshassuck River. He called the site Providence and declared it a place of religious freedom for Baptist settlers. Historically, the land is unique because it was purchased twice, once from the King of England, and once from the Native American tribes which lived on the land. In 1637 Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts for expressing her beliefs that people could talk to God by themselves, not necessarily through a minister. She and some others, including William Coddington and John Clarke, founded the town of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island. In 1639 Coddington left Portsmouth and founded Newport on Aquidneck Island. In that same year a formal government was established for the island. William Coddington was the first governor and Philip Sherman was the first Secretary. In 1643 Samuel Gorton founded Shawomet, which is now called Warwick. In 1644 the name of Aquidneck Island was changed to Rhode Island. On May 18, 1652 Rhode Island passed the first law in North America making slavery illegal. Charles II of England granted John Clarke a Royal Charter on July 8, 1663 to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which effectively united the two colonies into one. (edit: Britain was under the control of the short-lived republic, thus no Royal Charter was granted to Rhode Island, instead the House of Commons was the only governing body available to issue a charter. This is unique to Rhode Island and the only colony to be issued a charter without the consent of the crown.) Rhode Island was the only one of the thirteen colonies that had complete religious freedom. Under the terms of the charter, only landowners could vote. Before the Industrial Revolution, when most people were employed as farmers, this was considered democratic. The royal charter was used as the state constitution until 1842. In 1664 the seal of the colony was adopted. It pictured an anchor and the word HOPE. King Philip's War occurred during 1675–1676. King Philip (Metacomet) was the chief of the Wampanoag Indians. The settlers of Portsmouth had purchased their land from his father, Massasoit. King Philip rebelled against the English. The first attacks were around Narrangansett Bay but spread throughout New England. Rhode Island was the first of the British colonies in America to declare its independence on May 4, 1776. Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 states to ratify the United States Constitution (May 29, 1790) doing so after being threatened of having its exports taxed as a foreign nation. As the Industrial Revolution moved large numbers of workers into the cities, a permanently landless, and therefore voteless class developed. By 1829, 60% of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote. Several attempts had been made to address this problem, but none passed. In 1842 Thomas Dorr drafted a liberal constitution which was passed by popular referendum. However the conservative sitting governor, Samuel Ward King, opposed the people's wishes, leading to the Dorr Rebellion. Although this collapsed, a modified version of the constitution was passed in November, which allowed any white male to vote that owned land or could pay a $1 poll tax. Law and GovernmentThe capital of Rhode Island is Providence and its current governor is Donald Carcieri (Republican). Its two U.S. Senators are John "Jack" Reed (Democrat) and Lincoln Chafee (Republican). Its two U.S. Congressmen are Patrick J. Kennedy (Democrat, district one) and Jim Langevin (Democrat, district two). Rhode Island tends to vote Democratic in presidential elections and has done so consistently from 1988 through 2004. The state supported Republicans until 1908, in 1916–1924, 1952 and 1956, in 1972, and in 1984. In 2004, Rhode Island gave John Kerry a greater than 20 percentage point margin of victory (the third highest of any state) with 59.4% of its vote. All five counties in the state supported the Democratic candidate. EconomicsRhode Island's 2000 total gross state product was $33 billion, placing it 45th in the nation. Its 2000 per capita Personal Income was $29,685, 16th in the nation. Rhode Island's agricultural outputs are nursery stock, vegetables, dairy products, and eggs. Its industrial outputs are fashion jewelry, fabricated metal products, electric equipment, machinery, shipbuilding and boatbuilding, and tourism. Demographics
Important Cities and TownsProvidence EducationProvidence is home to a number of schools including Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Providence College. Rhode Island has several state colleges and universities, the University of Rhode Island, located in Kingston in the southern part of the state and Rhode Island College in Providence. Colleges and UniversitiesGibbs College Professional Sports TeamsPawtucket Red Sox, AAA (minor league baseball) affiliate of the Boston Red Sox MiscellaneousState symbolsState motto: Hope Famous Rhode Islanders
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The folks at Slap Ya Mama really know how to make seasonings. All of their various seasoning mixes and blends combine to make the ultimate Cajun eating experience! For this recipe, Slap Ya Mama Gumbo mix and a confetti blend of peppers create a meatloaf just bursting with the fun flavors and colors of Mardi Gras. Slap Ya Mama Etouffee Sauce brings a rich, smooth base to a sauce that will have you lickin' the pot!
Mardi Gras Meatloaf with Mighty Mushroom Sauce
by Gary
Serves/Makes 4-6
1 pound ground beef, preferably 70/30 ratio
1 pound ground pork
1/2 cup diced red, orange, yellow, and green peppers (any combination)
2 Tablespoons diced celery
2 Tablespoons minced onion
1 clove garlic, minced
1 egg, beaten
1 can (8-ounce size) tomato sauce, divided use
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
2 Tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon Slap Ya Mama Gumbo Mix
1 teaspoon Slap Ya Mama White Pepper Seasoning
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup Slap Ya Mama Etouffee Sauce
1/4 cup water
1 Tablespoon minced onion
2 Tablespoons canned button mushrooms
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon Aleppo pepper
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Coarse salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 Tablespoon unsalted butter
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line shallow jellyroll pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.
For the meatloaf: In a large bowl combine beef, pork, peppers, celery, onion, garlic, egg, half of the tomato sauce, olive oil, bread crumbs, 2 Tablespoons gumbo mix, white pepper seasoning, and black pepper. Mix well, but do not overwork. Form into loaf shape on pan.
In a small bowl, stir together remaining tomato sauce and 1 teaspoon gumbo mix. Spread evenly over meatloaf. Place in oven and cook, uncovered, for 1 hour.
For the sauce: In a medium saucepan, combine etouffee sauce and next seven ingredients over medium high heat. Bring to a boil, then simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Check seasonings, adding salt and pepper as needed. Swirl in butter.
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Hasan Mahmud, the author and producer of the Docu-Movie "Hilla" is driven by justice in general and justice for women in particular, a fundamental value of Islam. Indeed, if Islam were to be defined in one word, it would be Justice.
There were a lot of practices that Islam had negated but continue within a few societies. Culture runs deeper than religion, and some of the primitive practices like honor killing, female genital mutilation, and instant divorce without the consent of the wife continue till this day, even though Islam prohibits it.
Hilla is one such instrument; a deviant deterrent for men and women not to rush to divorce. If they do, the woman had to marry another man and fully consume the marriage and then if that other husband divorces her, she can come back and re-marry the first husband. What an agony! Even business is carried in such temporary marriages. Darn, that is again without her consent, the prophet liberated women and said, if a woman is unhappy with the marriage she can initiate divorce, it was a feminist idea in the 7th century while women were considered chattel everywhere in the world including Europe.
The Sharia laws like all other laws were devised to serve regret free justice. However the implementers have been men and mis-application of the law continues where ever there are divorces. Indeed, no society is free from the misapplication of laws including our own U.S of A. We have put many innocent people on Electric Chair in Texas.
This Docu-Movie is about dealing with Hilla marriage under Sharia law. The dialogues and characters of the Imam, father, bride, the teacher and college educated girl are authentic and are set in tiny Bangladeshi town. The language is Bengali with English subtitles. I have lived in a small village and a town and I can relate with the originality of the screenplay. I was absorbed and watched the 90 minute movie in one sitting.
When the movie Lagan was released, I wondered who is going to watch three hours of Cricket and the guys hitting the balls and fielders chasing it. But the movie became a classic and I have seen it twice and it's been shown all over the world including Latin American resorts.
This documentary is gripping and dialogues are fascinating.
The Imam and the adopted father of the woman (her departed father's friend and the Village-chief) want the marriage restored, as the husband, inadvertently uttered the words Talaq (divorce) three times inadvertently; it means the end of marriage, the divorce is final. What an oppressive tool!
They gather in the public square and bring all the books on Islamic jurisprudence, the Sharia books to read through to find solutions. It is a very powerful scene; the fact that so many books were to be read with different opinions will open up the eyes of those who are entrenched with a singular view. The local Imam asks the reader to read Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Shafii opinion as well. This deliberation needs to become a part of the culture to bring about a positive change. At the end the Quran wins in restoring Women Rights. A happy ending to the tension the viewer endures.
Hasan has subtly introduced a new norm in a small town environment. It encourages research and truthfully portrays the differences in opinions, it opens up people's hearts and minds to do the basic thing; Justice.
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I'm looking to get a job as a Python programmer. I know the basics of the language and have created a few games with it using pygame. I've also started to experiment with Django.
However, looking at the job market, it doesn't seem very many Python jobs are web-related. On the desktop side of things, it doesn't seem like very many companies use the popular GUI libraries like pyQt or wxPython.
How are companies actually using Python? What areas should one focus on to land a job as a Python programmer?


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Statement from NOW President Toni Van Pelt:
Washington, D.C. — It's not enough for Donald Trump and his henchman at the Department of Health and Human Services to attack abortion rights and put women's health at risk. At this week's United Nations General Assembly, HHS Secretary Alex Azar tried to erase the words "reproductive health and rights" from the dictionary.
At the UN's first high-level meeting on universal health coverage, Azar called on the United Nations to remove what he called "ambiguous terms" relating to sexual and reproductive health in policy documents.
At the same meeting, Trump cozied up to dictators and strongmen who share his contempt for democracy and human rights. Azar announced the U.S. was speaking on behalf of autocracies like Brazil, Egypt, Libya and Sudan that criminalize abortion. Trump can't ban abortion in all 50 states with a tweet, but he thinks he can put language that objectively describes reproductive health care on a list of banned expressions.
We're not surprised—after all, Donald Trump boasted during his UN visit that he "took over" the United States on his election, and his thirst for absolute power grows more dangerous every day.
Donald Trump left the United Nations in the shadow of impeachment, and Alex Azar should join him there.
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text: Movie directed by Sofia Coppola. Cinematography by Edward Lachman. Gallery includes movie stills featuring Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon, Josh Hartnett as Trip Fontaine, Kathleen Turner as Mrs Lisbon, James Wood as Mr Lisbon, A.J. Cook as Mary, Hanna Hall as Cecilia, Leslie Hayman as Therese, Chelse Swain as Bonnie, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Anthony DeSimone, Lee Kagan and Robert Schwartzman. Sofia Coppola won the 2001 Young Hollywood Award for 'Best Director' and also won the MTV Movie Award for 'Best New Filmmaker'. She was also recognized by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and recieved a Sierra Award nomination for 'Best Female Newcomer'


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With a little help, you can communicate better than you used to
With Bluetooth streaming from your various devices to your hearing aids and captioned phones that display your phone conversation as text on a screen, your communication can be helped significantly. Some people who experienced natural hearing earlier in life might wonder why they never had such things when they were hearing well.
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Who do I contact for software support?
Contact Epson for support with the product's driver(s) and any other software or utility listed on the Downloads tab on your product's support page. If your product comes with third-party software, contact the software company.
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Stock Loss: Stupid is, as Stupid Does
When Getty Images acquired iStockphoto, they said they did so to prevent iStockphoto from canibalizing their own business, at a time when the average price for a stock photograph was in the $900 range.
Here's a photo, on the iStockphoto website (here) of a nondescript fragrance bottle. Price? About $10.
Where can you buy this exact same photo, with the exact same resolution, for $340?
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Why, iStockphoto parent company, Getty Images, right here via their Getty Images Flickr site!
So, Getty is doing a pretty good job of self-immolation. This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that Getty Images makes mistakes that cost them their bottom line!
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Oil on Linen
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Roberto Guglielmino (* 1952 in Varese; † 2009 in Graz) was an Italian-born Styrian artist who combined elements of both abstract and surreal 20th century techniques in his metaphysic paintings. He was self-taught and began his career in Graz, Austria in the 1970s, as a member of a group of young artists known as the "Young Wild Ones" who opposed established avant-garde and minimalistic art. He experimented with different materials, styles and mediums and crossed paths with other famous artists all over Europe. Roberto also had a passion for music, particularly jazz, and sometimes incorporated it into his art. In his later works, he returned to figurative painting and used geometric shapes and deformed nature as a motif.
Guglielmino's oil art pieces are distinguished by an unreal light source, an intense play of chiaroscuro and the presence of markedly defined volumes, which are expressed in a combination of elements that will leave the observer astonished.
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Our range of decorative pillows can spice up any home or office space, offering a perfect modern glam. To complement your room with one or several of our pillows will for sure give a fresh and stylish look. All pillows are available in two sizes. Inner cushion is not included in the price.
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SKorea: Trump to meet NK leader Kim by May
WASHINGTON (AP) - After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. No American president has ever met with a North Korea leader.
The South Korean national security director, Chung Eui-yong, told reporters outside the White House of the planned summit, after briefing Trump and other top U.S. officials about a rare meeting with Kim in the North Korean capital on Monday.
The meeting would be unprecedented during seven decades of animosity between the U.S. and North Korea. The countries do not even have formal diplomatic relations. They remain in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
Chung said he had told Trump that Kim says he's committed to "denuclearization" and has pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests -- providing a rare diplomatic opening after a year of escalating tensions over the North's tests. The rival Koreas have already agreed to hold a leadership summit in late April.
"He (Kim) expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible," Chung said. "President Trump appreciated the briefing and said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization."
Chung did not say where Trump would meet with Kim. The White House said Trump's meeting with Kim would take place "at a place and time to be determined."
Trump took office vowing to stop North Korea from attaining a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the U.S. mainland. He's oscillated between threats and insults directed at Kim, and more conciliatory rhetoric. His more bellicose talk, and Kim's nuclear and missile tests, have fueled fears of war.
Trump, who has ramped up economic sanctions on North Korea to force it to negotiate on giving up its nukes, has threatened the pariah nation with "fire and fury" if its threats against the U.S. and its allies continued. He has derided Kim by referring to him as "Little Rocket Man."
After Kim repeated threats against the U.S. in a New Year's address and mentioned the "nuclear button" on his office desk, Trump responded by tweeting that he has a nuclear button, too, "but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
On Tuesday after leaving Pyongyang, Chung had publicized that North Korea was offering talks with the United States on denuclearization and normalizing ties, but the proposal for a summit still came as a huge surprise, and will raise questions about whether the two sides are ready for such a high-level meeting.
Chung, who credited Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign for the diplomatic opening, said Kim understands that routine U.S.-South Korea military drills "must continue."
The drills were suspended during the Winter Olympics recently hosted by South Korea, which provided impetus for the inter-Korea rapprochement. The drills are expected to resume next month. North Korea has long protested the military maneuvers south of the divided Korean Peninsula as a rehearsal for invading the North.
Trump had made a surprise visit to the White House press briefing room on Thursday afternoon to alert reporters to the South Korean announcement. When asked whether the announcement would be about talks with North Korea, he told ABC reporter Jon Karl: "It's almost beyond that. Hopefully, you will give me credit."
On Tuesday, Trump had expressed both hope and skepticism about the reported offer of talks, which has yet to be confirmed, at least publicly, by the isolated North Korean government. While the path to a diplomatic resolution over the North's nuclear arsenal would be long and difficult, talks could dampen fears of war breaking out over what represents an emerging threat to the U.S. mainland.
Just a few hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is traveling in Africa, had said the adversaries were still a long way from holding negotiations.
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.


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by Raphaël Michaux
— Raphaël
We have a mission. A beautiful mission. We want to cure every child with cancer.
Find new treatments, improve existing ones, and kick children's cancer to send it far, far away forever and may it never come back! We therefore financially support scientific research, and bring together the drive, inspiration and knowledge of everyone involved. From researchers, doctors and parents to politicians and pharmaceutical companies. Only a joint effort can ensure that children with cancer are cured and better cured.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, 100% of the funds raised by you will finance innovative research projects selected thanks to the European FIGHT KIDS CANCER initiative.
FIGHT KIDS CANCER is a European call for projects that we launched together with Imaginefor Margo (France) and Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg).
On April 22nd, we officially closed the application period with 23 projects submitted by research teams coming from 9 different European countries –while each project involves a collaboration with several other European teams.
We shall officially announce the selected projects mid-June, when the appraisal by independent international experts will have been completed.
Good luck Proximus team!
Un petit coup de pouce pour cette dernière ligne droite
Good luck Proximus team!! Run, Forrest! Run!
Have good race and keep up with this amazing initiative dear Proximus colleagues !!!
Bravo Catherine, Bravo Matteo, Bravo Stéphanie, bravo Véronique, bravo les Proxikickers!
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Dit jaar kan ik niet meelopen maar steunen doe ik zeker en vast. Go go go ??
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