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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer…
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
In her 1943 essay "We Refugees" Hannah Arendt explains the predicament of the suicide that "in their own eyes" feel themselves as having failed life's standard. Having given into despair in themselves, they die "of a kind of selfishness"; the failure of how to define, or redefine, one's self-worth given the loss of assumed standards makes for the quandary: "If we are saved we feel humiliated, and if we are helped we feel degraded." This quandary speaks to standards of citizenship and social belonging that in turn speak to systems of society and behavior that are radically reconfigured in the lives of displaced peoples. The refugee being a prime example of such, one that Girogio Agamben in his 2008 essay "Beyond Human Rights" argues as "perhaps the only thinkable figure for the people of our time and the only category in which one may see today… the forms and limits of a coming political community."
I am learning of how standards are reconfigured in a year of working with Afghan families living in a school building in the center of Athens. My assumptions of dignity and belonging are changed as I am gradually invited into these lives. It begins with an invitation to have tea on the spread blankets that cover the floor of a classroom, where we leave our shoes at the blanket's edge. Mattresses are pushed up against walls; some pillows are on the floor. I'm urged to use a pillow as I am a guest but I shake my head, saying it's not necessary, only to realize this creates confusion and a look of disappointment, so I accept the pillow, and drink the sweetened tea. I have a bag of raisins with me. There's a feeling of comfort and hospitality, as we drink the sweetened tea and share the raisins. We discuss the fact that some of the children are attending the Greek public school. I'm asked if I will find a dentist for a 3 year old whose top front teeth have all rotted. It will be her birthday at the end of the month. It is not the date on her paper but the one her mother gives us in April. When I'd asked her father he said he wasn't sure what the date of her birthday was. But her mother knows, and tells me. We plan a party. I still have a string of lights with me, a cluster I'd forgotten to bring to the Christmas party we had in December. I plug them in and they start flickering, this makes Heniah, who takes a quick intake of breath, laugh. She keeps plugging and unplugging the lights as they flicker in their nest of color.
Changed circumstances will change how we see what we see. These small living spaces are made unexpectedly new. Even the city is made new. Omonia square where buses and metro stops make for intersections and gatherings, where information on squats, cell phones, fake passports, border smugglings, and plain old advice on everything from medicine to asylum petitions are hawked. It is also a world where Unés, one of the refugee children I've grown close to, notices things I've never paid attention to. He pauses in our walk along a crowded street as someone who is selling potato peelers loses his grip, and the peeler skids across the pavement, Unés picks it up, checks the blade and gives it back to the man who is surprised anyone would pick up the now broken peeler, and thanks him. We pause at a pet shop because one of the puppies catches Unés' attention. There's also a snake and a parrot on display. When we leave Unés points to a huge ice-cream stand with its exaggerated plastic cone. I must have seen the thing too many times to remember because it sits just outside the metro stop, but this time I see it as he does, and smile.
We speak a mix of English, Greek, and Farsi words, a jumble of emoji symbols, VIBER and WhatsApp emoticons and letters. There is salam, "hello" and bedrood, "goodbye". Thanks to the weekly games and books and songs in English that Alicia, Judi, Eirini, Stephanie and other volunteers and donors have made generously available some of the children are now speaking in near-fluent English phrases. We have become as familiar to them as they have become to us – Rocha, Heniah, Unés, Narghes, Rakia, Azize, Maedeh – we know each other's names, even ages. Judi is asked why she isn't married, and if she was ever married. I'm asked if I have any children. One afternoon I show a video on my cell phone of couples dancing tango at the studio where I go. I'm asked if I do this too, Azize and her sister would like to come with me, next time I go. We go to a Luna Park where there are bumper cars and a Ferris wheel, and high-flying space-cars in which Heniah, fearless, pushes on the gears so the air-borne car will go higher. She is giddy and I am anxious. Maedeh, who is 14, comes with me to a play my daughter is in. It is Ramadan and she asks if she can skip the fast since she will be walking in the heat to the theater. Her mother is okay with this, and she dresses in white tights and her scarf and tells me you can tell the difference between Syrian and Afghan women by the way they wear their scarves. The Afghan women wear them more loosely around their heads, less tightly folded around their faces. There's a moment in the play when the top comes off one of the actors, it's a split-second; the actor is a statue that comes to life, her white, spray-painted breasts are bared. On our way back to the squat Maedeh will mention it, that the actor "lost her blouse" and I will nod and ask if she will tell her mother and she says she might which makes me think I may not be invited to take her daughter anywhere after this, but ask then if it surprised or bothered her. She shakes her head and says, very simply, "This is Europe."
In Agamben's essay he references Arendt's point that one of the things the Third Reich ensured before Jews and Gypsies were sent to the extermination camps was that they had to be "fully denationalized…stripped of even that second-class citizenship to which they had been related after the Nuremberg Laws." Agamben is making the point that the concept of the nation-state founded as it has been on assumptions of citizenship and national belonging was a way to draw the line between what lives were "doomed to death", and which remained with human, legal, rights. He argues the point first put forward by Arendt in relation to the Jews. He notes that "What is new in our time is the growing sections of humankind are no longer representable inside the nation-state – and this novelty threatens the foundations of the later." In other words, human rights as they have been historically tied to citizenship are now, as he explains, "Beyond Human Rights", an insufficient insurance, or reflection, of our humanity.
I get a message from Heniah's brother, who is 12, that her birthday party will be at 2:00, and would Judi and I like to come. Like the invitation to tea I feel it's important to go, and want to celebrate my fearless 4 year-old's day. I pick up a lemon pie that looks fancy and some paper plates, cups, plastic forks, party hats, and arrive after Judi. We're invited to sit on the floor in the classroom that is now the family's living space, the wide blankets are cleared and what was once a school desk is brought in so Heniah can sit there and blow out her candle. We'll wait for the guests, mothers and their young children who arrive from other squats, and camps, some from as far as the Malakassa camp, where mostly Afghan families are housed; everyone arrives with a small gift, wrapped in colored paper. There are clips for Heniah's hair, colored plastic bangles, a coloring book. There are balloons taped to the walls and the Christmas lights I'd brought are hanging from the blackboard where they have been taped. Heniah has had her hair in tiny braids so that now curls all around her face, and Rocha puts new clips into it.
But what is most impressive is the 3-layered cake that's been prepared for the guests. My bought lemon pie, while delicious, is nothing compared to this chocolate cake, which Heniah's mother, Azize, has made.
There is excitement as people gather. The women shed their veils and change into clothing that would make them indistinguishable from anyone else in the city. Sleeveless dresses, skirts, loose shirts with low necklines. Azize puts on make-up and earrings. When she wears lipstick I think she looks like an Italian film star, but I'm not sure which one, maybe Monica Bellucci. There is music, and then dancing; the women pull me up from the floor where I'm sitting to join them; Raikia shows me how to move my arms in a slow, sensual wave, I start to laugh, feeling awkward at first, but then happy. The children are also dancing in a circle.
Judi asks me, "who do you think is happier in a moment like this, a group of women in the UK or US or these women?" I say, without much thought, that I think right now this gathering is a very happy one, and that everyone in the room is enjoying themselves. When Judi asks Maedeh why there are no boys, or men, she says they are never present at the women's parties but that they are not missed either. Judi asks if she wouldn't want a boy to dance with if she liked him, and Maedeh gives an emphatic "No!" and tells us when the time comes, her father will find a boy for her and will ask her if she likes him, if not he'll find another one. She says two boys waited for her sister who is 19; "one waited for nothing" because Mina didn't want to go to him, and now there's another in Sweden. Maedeh is matter-of-fact, "If a boy wants to wait and I like him then we can get married when we ready."
We share stories, and our lives. When Maedeh speaks Judi and I expect that she and perhaps some of the other women would wish to have some of the choices we in our western worlds assume are the better ones, and find out that's not the case, that things are also less patriarchal if more gender-specific, than what we assume. For example, Narghes, who is also 14, tells me it is her mother who will pick the wife, or suggest someone, for her older brother, because her father is dead. She tells me her father had taught her to read, and wanted her to learn languages. At some point in our conversations, I share a anecdote from Greek Orthodox weddings, that the liturgy uses the quote from the Bible about the wife fearing her husband at which point the wife stamps her husband's foot in symbolic resistance. Azize and Maedeh look suprised, and ask why a wife would be told to be afraid of her husband, I say to remind them of who has the authority, they tell me both have, but each has a different kind.
There are other ironies and surprises; that we communicate across language and culture in ways that reinvent our language and culture. My VIBER messaging with Narghes was a mash-up of discourses, and went on from our first month of friendship. When she messaged me that she'd like a pair of black tights if I could find them for her, to when the family moved to the Malakassa camp, and finally got their papers under the family reunification law to go to Geneva. We shared hundreds of texts, emojis, voice messages, in our digital exchanges –
Bai Bai [Bye Bye] – Narghes writes, Okey [Okay]; You vato slip??? [you want to sleep???]; Hi you kam tomoro [you come tomorrow]; Andrstan [Understand]; vat taim you kam [what time you come]; Hi Adrianne you kam tomoro my mazr koking for you [you come tomorrow my mother cooking for you]; Ined nmbr hosin and maide [I need number hossein and maedeh]
The nation state, says Agamben is in demise, borders are being contested, people are being smuggled through at costs that sometimes include their lives, certainly the EU is in crisis, and the refugee influx has magnified what Agamben explains as the "unstoppable decline of the nation-state and general corrosion of traditional political-juridical categories." But as Arendt said of the Jews in 1943, "Refugees driven from country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples – if they keep their identity." These families, unhoused, as they are from country and citizenship are examples of this challenge; rather than feeling themselves as having failed life's standard, they show us how the standard is life itself, as in sheer life, as in what it means to continue with the traditions and values that shelter us.
Narghes' mother wants to give me a gift, it is a black patent leather bag someone has given her, and she thinks I might like it. She also ties up the bag of raisins I've brought because there are still some in the bag, but I say I want her to keep the raisins, and she says tashakor [thank you]. My proximity to these lives has made the obvious newly tenable, and newly proximate.
Girgio Agamben, "Beyond Human Rights" Open 2008/No.15 Social Engineering http://novact.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Beyond-Human-Rights-by-Giorgio-Agamben.pdf
Hannah Arendt, "We Refugees" in Altogether Elsewhere, Writers on Exile. Ed. Marc Robinson.
All photos by Adrianne Kalfopoulou


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Reimagining Religion
Date(s) - Tuesday, June 11, 2019
7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church of Providence
In his autobiography, Wrestling with God, Lloyd Geering observes that the longevity of the Judeo- Christian theological tradition has resulted from its brilliant mythological description of the human condition. "But because we have now moved into a radically new age and express ourselves in a non-mythical medium," he argues, "it has now become necessary to enunciate a completely fresh world theology, drawing appreciatively from all religious traditions, the light of our new knowledge of the universe." Reimagining Religion is an ongoing attempt to employ the best recent scholarship in coming to grips with issues raised by radically new developments in the study of religion and thereby achieving a fuller appreciation of what religious literacy entails in the 21st century. Leader: Tom Hall, firstname.lastname@example.com

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Watching the Royals these last two weeks, you can kind of get a sense for why Zack Greinke is so frustrated. It's not that the Royals are losing, although they've lost 8 of their last 11; or that they're not scoring, although they haven't scored more than 4 runs in any of those 11 games. It's that the roster that takes the field every night is still, after all this time, predominantly made up of stopgaps.
Of the 25 men on the active roster, the only players who are good bets to be on the Opening Day roster in 2012 are Greinke (if he's not traded), Billy Butler, and Joakim Soria. Alex Gordon and Kila Ka'aihue might be if the Royals don't find a way to dump them. Mike Aviles and Mitch Maier have a shot. One of the relievers, most likely Blake Wood, will probably still be around. Maybe Sean O'Sullivan.
But that leaves at least 16 roster spots, and probably closer to 20, where the Royals are just spinning their wheels. Those roster spots will probably remain functionally empty until sometime around next May, at which point, if everything goes to plan, you might see a new player shuffle into Kauffman Stadium on each homestand. Tim Collins might show up first…then Mike Moustakas…a left-handed starter (pick one) around Flag Day…then another one around the 4th of July…
The future is getting closer. But it's still in the future. The present, meanwhile, consists largely of counting time. It's not simply that the Royals are bad, although they are. It's that they're largely pointless to watch.
- The struggles of one of the above players, Kila Ka'aihue, has some wondering whether he has a future with the ballclub after all. This is the danger that the Royals were courting by waiting until August to cut ties with Jose Guillen and giving Ka'aihue an everyday job. If Ka'aihue had come out of the gate crushing the ball, then ultimately the extra time in the minors would have been more of an inconvenience than anything else.
But because Ka'aihue started 4-for-35, suddenly there's a very real danger that the Royals won't get an accurate assessment of his abilities this year because they'll simply run out of time. The Royals have another 44 games left this season, which means at most Ka'aihue is going to end up with a little over 200 plate appearances. That's hardly enough playing time to properly evaluate a player, particularly a player getting his first opportunity in the big leagues.
Travis Hafner, to pick a very similar player, hit .242/.329/.387 in a 70-plate-appearance audition in 2002, and then started 2003 hitting .230/.302/.415 through the end of July, in 44 games. At that point, Hafner was 26 years old, had 219 career plate appearances, and had an unimpressive career line of .234/.311/.406. It's a fair bet that Ka'aihue's career line, at the end of this season, may approximate Hafner's numbers both in quantity and quality.
From August 1st through the end of the season, Hafner hit .276/.349/.545. In 2004, hit .311/.410/.585 and led the league in OPS+, the start of a 3-year run in which he was arguably the best hitter in the American League.
I am not saying that Ka'aihue will hit like Hafner did; in fact I find it distinctly unlikely. But by giving him such a small window of opportunity, the Royals run the risk of making a poor evaluation of Ka'aihue's talents at the end of the year, and even if he is the next Travis Hafner, the Royals might wind up discarding him anyway before they find out.
He's hit into some tough luck, no question; he missed a home run by just a few feet in his first two starts after his call up, and in his first 5 games back he was 2-for-20 despite just 2 strikeouts. But he seemed to press after that, striking out 3 times in a game against the Angels and then uncharacteristically swinging at bad pitches over the past few games. On Thursday night, facing lefty specialist Boone Logan in the 8th inning, he fouled off the first two pitches, both down at his shoetops, then watched as the third pitch ran right through the heart of the plate for strike three. I've seen this movie before, with Alex Gordon in the starring role.
Hopefully he'll come out of it soon. On Saturday he mustered two hits, including one off of Logan. On Sunday…he was on the bench, against a right-handed pitcher, so that Willie Bloomquist could play third base.
I still believe that Ka'aihue is going to be an above-average hitter in the majors. Check that: I believe Ka'aihue already is an above-average hitter, and just needs enough of a sample size to prove it. But the Royals have made his path needlessly difficult, and they aren't doing him any favors by sitting him on the bench against opposite-side pitching.
- Speaking of Guillen, I have tried and failed to come up with a permutation of "cash considerations" or "player to be named later" which would cause the Royals to come out on the short end of the trade with the Giants. Perhaps if "cash considerations" meant "one billion dollars" – or worse, if the PTBNL was…Jose Guillen. Otherwise, the Royals got something for nothing. Don't expect the PTBNL to be a real prospect, but even so, the Royals saved a quarter-million dollars. That's enough to pay for a decent prospect out of the Dominican.
- I don't think Bryan Bullington is ever going to live up to even a fraction of the expectations that come with a #1 overall pick. There's no evidence to suggest that his Sunday start was anything more than the vagaries of baseball showing themselves, a reminder that it is baseball, not football, where on Any Given Sunday the worst team can beat the best team, even with a 29-year-old journeyman in search of his first career win on the mound.
But what a win it was. By Game Score, Bullington's start was the best one of the season by a Royal. (Although tellingly, the Royals had six starts that were better than this in 2009.) It was just the third time in their history that the Royals had beaten the Yankees 1-0. (Amazingly enough, the other two times occurred in the same series – on June 9th and June 11th, 1972. Jim Rooker and Dick Drago threw shutouts; Paul Schaal and Amos Otis drove in the only runs.)
Most impressively, Sunday was the first time ever that the Royals shut out the Yankees on two hits or less.
I still don't think that Bryan Bullington has any more upside than to be another Brian Bannister-type. But I'd say he's earned another start. With the original Bannister not doing too well these days, the Royals could do worse than to let Bullington prove whether they've found a successor.
- Bullington's performance was a testament to the veteran influence of Jason Kendall, who called a brilliant game, sagely guided his inexperienced hurler through the gauntlet of one of the game's toughest lineup, and even threw out the speedy Brett Gardner trying to steal second base in the sixth inning.
Or at least, I'm sure Kendall would have done all those things had he actually started the game. Instead, Brayan Pena did.
In Pena's last four starts behind the plate, the pitching staff has been so traumatized that they've given up a total of 9 runs. I don't think it's humanly possible to destroy the canard that the Royals need Kendall behind the plate for the sake of the pitching staff, but if the fact that the team is dead last in the AL in ERA wasn't enough, the performance of their pitchers with Brayan Pena is just another data point.
Ned Yost, to his credit, seems to have noticed that Pena doesn't call a fastball down the middle on every pitch, and that he's even thrown out 5 of 13 potential basestealers. Yost has said that Pena will start almost every day game from now until the end of the season, and a few other assorted games, which should add up to about a third of the games on the remainder of the schedule. On any other team, allowing a 36-year-old washed-up catcher to play two-thirds of the remaining games for a last-place team would incite all kinds of protests. On the Royals, we call this progress.
- Well, it would be progress if Brayan Pena could actually hit. Instead, he's now 1-for-his-last-23, and has grounded into 4 double plays in that span. After hitting an impressive .273/.318/.442 last season, he's down to a line of .161/.238/.196 this year, and has struck out nearly as many times as he did last year, in barely one-third of the at-bats. If I didn't know better, I'd say getting to play twice a month is bad for a player's development.
- Twenty-one of the Royals' next 24 games come against divisional rivals. Now's the perfect time to make their move.


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Provinces taking part in the 2013 – Onkweni Royal Cultural Festival»
The Following South African Provinces are taking part and sending contesting cultural dancing groups to the Onkweni Royal Cultural Festival – 2013 in December 27-31 later this year in Ulundi, the Northern Zululand. The festival is sending one bus per Province and each of them is 80 seater with an estimate participants of 1000 people plus 300 from further Kwazulu Natal Regions. We are expecting over 25000 people to come and attend this spectacular event in Zululand.
Kwazulu Natal
Western Cape
Limpompo ( Northern Province)
North West
Free State
Northen Cape
Eastern Cape
Besides the cultural dancing contestants there are a number of government and societal dignitaries and Officials of various organisation who will attend this year's function at Ulundi, Northern Zululand, KZN. This year we will have just few international participation from across the SA borders, e.g., Swaziland musical guest and Namibian attendees and other parts of Africa..
It is hopeful that in 2014 session of the programme the participation will be extended widely to other international delegates and renown cultural groups across Africa.
Be part of this event and celebrate the great cultural and diversity vibrancy in SA in December 2013 at Ulundi, KZN.


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As the pace and fullness of modern life serve to isolate us from one another, the contact we do share becomes vastly more significant. We unconsciously absorb each other's energy, adopting the temperament of those with whom we share close quarters, and find ourselves changed after the briefest encounters. Everything we do or say has the potential to affect not only the individuals we live, work, and play with but also those we've just met. Though we may never know the impact we have had or the scope of our influence, accepting and understanding that our attitudes and choices will affect others can help us remember to conduct ourselves with grace at all times. When we seek always to be friendly, helpful, and responsive, we effortlessly create an atmosphere around ourselves that is both uplifting and inspiring.
Most people rarely give thought to the effect they have had or will have on others. When we take a few moments to contemplate how our individual modes of being affect the people we spend time with each day, we come one step closer to seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. By asking ourselves whether those we encounter walk away feeling appreciated, respected, and liked, we can heighten our awareness of the effect we ultimately have. Something as simple as a smile given freely can temporarily brighten a person's entire world. Our value-driven conduct may inspire others to consider whether their own lives are reflective of their values. A word of advice can help others see life in an entirely new fashion. And small gestures of kindness can even prove to those embittered by the world that goodness still exists. By simply being ourselves, we influence other's lives in both subtle and life-altering ways.
To ensure that the effect we have is positive, we must strive to stay true to ourselves while realizing that it is the demeanor we project and not the quality of our wondrous inner landscapes that people see. Thus, as we interact with others, how we behave can be as important as who we are. If we project our passion for life, our warmth, and our tolerance in our facial features, voice, and choice of words, every person who enters our circle of influence will leave our presence feeling at peace with themselves and with us. You never know whose life you are affecting, big or small. Try to remember this as you go out into the world each day.


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Hub FAQ
This document lists some popular questions from the Hub server forum.
What is a hub server?
A hub server is a Moodle plugin. It transforms a freshly installed Moodle site into a hub server. A hub server is used to store course backups that have been shared by registered Moodle sites. Publishers can also advertise their courses.
Can I use a hub server as a normal Moodle site?
For security reasons it is better not to do so.
Is the hub server plugin code maintained by Moodle HQ?
Should I update the Moodle code hosting a hub server plugin when I update this plugin?
Yes, always.
Should the registered sites be updated when I update my hub server plugin?
No, they don't have to be updated as the plugin is backwards compatible. However sometimes new functionalities require changes in both Moodle and plugin code. In these cases, the new functionalities will not be operational until the plugin and the registered sites are updated.
Where can I download hub server plugin?
The hub server plugin is available for download from the modules and plugins database http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_hub
What is Moodle.net?
Moodle.net is the Moodle.org hub server. It is a public hub and it is managed by Moodle.org. In 2013, it was renamed as "Moodle.net".
Can I sell courses on Moodle.net?
No yet but it is planned. See MDL-25496 for details.
Yes you can. However it is better to indicate in the publication creator notes that the theme will only be activated if:
- The theme is installed
- Course themes are enabled for the site
Yes. If this module/block is Moodle 2.0 compatible (with support for backup and restore in 2.0), the module and its data will be added to the shared course backup.
The local plugin would need to be already installed on the destination Moodle site. Then this local plugin would need to be set up. Use publication creator notes to explain it. Note that sharing does not save information related to a local plugin (i.e. the local plugin database is not backed up).
It is not possible to share courses directly from a Moodle 1.9 site. However it is possible as follows:
- Backup your course
- Restore your course into a Moodle 2.2 site or later.
- Share your course
I get an error when attempting to publish a course
The most likely cause of the error "An error occurred during the course publication (Access control exception | DEBUG INFO: Invalid token - token not found). Please try again later." is that the token is shared by multiple sites.
The solution is to unregister your Moodle site in Administration > Site administration > Server > Hubs then re-register it.
See also
- Using Moodle Hub servers forum
- Moodle.net FAQ


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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday
All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners
or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—
Did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?
This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.
This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.
This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.
So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are
but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made,
and the stars that blaze
in our bones,
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.
~Jan Richardson
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Rolling Blackouts C.F.
The French Press
About this item
In early 2016, the release of 'Talk Tight' put Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN, Stereogum and Pitchfork, praising them as stand outs even among the fertile landscape of Melbourne music. Chock full of snappy riffs, spritely drumming and quick-witted wordplay, 'Talk Tight' was praised by Pitchfork "for the precision of their melodies, the streamlined sophistication of their arrangements, and the undercurrent of melancholy that motivates every note."
The band was born from late night jam sessions in singer / guitarist Fran Keaney's bedroom and honed in the thrumming confines of Melbourne's live music venues. Sharing tastes and songwriting duties, cousins Joe White and Fran Keaney, brothers Tom and Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie started out with softer, melody-focused songs. The more shows they played, the more those driving rhythms that now trademark their songs emerged. Since then, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever rode that wave from strength to strength. Touring around the country on headline bills and festival slots all the way to BIGSOUND, the entrenched themselves with their thrilling live shows while prepping their next release.
'The French Press' levels up on everything that made 'Talk Tight' such an immediate draw. Multi-tracked melodies which curl around one another, charging drums and addictive basslines converge to give each track its driving momentum. Honed through their live shows, this relentless energy carries the record through new chapters in the band's Australian storybook. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's songs have always had all the page-turning qualities of a good yarn and 'The French Press' is no different. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists, lyricists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo and Joe White often start with something rooted in real life - the melancholy of travel on 'French Press', having a hopeless crush on 'Julie's Place' - before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result is lines blurred between fiction and reality - vibrant stories which get closer at a particular truth than either could alone.
Blending critical insight and literate love songs, 'The French Press' cements Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever as one of Australia's smartest working bands.
French Press
Julie's Place
Sick Bug
Colours Run
Dig Up
Fountain Of Good Fortune


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In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down.
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town, tin can town.
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fall down.
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground, chained to the ground.
The warden says "The exodus sold."
If you want a way out...
Silver and gold, silver and gold.
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor.
I scream at the silence
It's crawling, crawls under the door.
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun.
Jesus, say something!
I am someone, I am someone.
Captains and Kings in the ship's hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold, silver and gold.
I seen the coming and the going
Seen the captains and the Kings.
Seen their navy blue uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things.
The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you've got
These chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free).
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound.


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All 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the Thai navy SEALs said Tuesday, ending an 18-day ordeal that riveted people around the world.
The SEALs, who were central to the rescue effort, said on their Facebook page that the remaining four boys and their 25-year-old coach were all brought out safely Tuesday. Eight of the boys had been brought out of the cave by a team of Thai and international divers on Sunday and Monday.
"We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave," the SEALs said, referring to the name of the boys' soccer team.
"Everyone is safe," they said.
Related: Warm in blankets, Thai boys smile, joke with rescuer in cave
Related: 4 more boys brought out of flooded Thai cave
They said they were waiting for a medic and three SEALs who had stayed with the boys in their dark refuge deep inside the cave complex to come out.
Cheers erupted at a local government office where dozens of volunteers and journalists were awaiting news of whether the intricate and high-risk rescue mission had succeeded. Helicopters taking the boys to a hospital roared overhead.
Highlighting the dangers, a former Thai navy SEAL died Friday while replenishing oxygen canisters laid at regular intervals along the route out of the sprawling Tham Luang cave.
The plight of the boys and their coach has riveted Thailand and much of the world — from the heart-sinking news that they were missing to the first flickering video of the huddle of anxious yet smiling boys when they were found 10 days later by a pair of British divers. They were trapped in the cave that became flooded by monsoon rains while they were exploring it after a soccer practice on June 23.
The eight boys brought out by divers on Sunday and Monday were doing well and were in good spirits, a senior health official said Tuesday.
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Apple and Samsung have distribution operations who manage the sale of their products to independent retailers in New Zealand. Here are the aggregate accounts for these operations (for ten years in the case of Apple and seven years for Samsung).
Apple's distribution to New Zealand is through a company that is resident and operated in Australia while Samsung used a branch of an Australian company up to 2013 and since then has used a New Zealand company. The accounts of these companies and branches are easily accessible from the New Zealand Companies Office.
Apple's distributor is slightly more profitable but there is little between them. The average effective tax rates for the two are also very close. One of these made front-page news; one didn't. A year ago we wondered the same for this side of the world.


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Most days, we wake up to an inbox full of love and the occasional piece of knock-off Viagra spam [Ed note: On the other hand, our dick-sucking has lacked a certain zest lately]. But a few days ago, we received this magical screed. It's written by esteemed former Ubyssey editor and Actual Real-Live Journalist Justin McElroy, who's won a lot of awards—and a lot of hearts—for being superlatively great. He suggested we add some sparkly gifs (actual quote: "The Hunger Games are big with the youths these days, right?"), but we thought it was great as is. Laziness played no part in this decision.
If four years of covering UBC on a daily basis taught me anything, it's that talking about student politician elections should be done with a heavy grain of skepticism. Every year, the same crop of eager young ones come forward with vague slogans, impossible goals and more guts than brains.
Not only that, but once upon a time AMS Elections were about (cue West Wing inspirational music) big issues. Big issues, with candidates on all sides of the political spectrum arguing for what they believe in. Who got elected really mattered, and while giant clusterfucks might happen, they were about tuition or student activism or something else which galvanized students to care.
The past two years, student political culture has turned soft, mushy, and predictable, with people afraid of trying anything or criticizing anyone. I don't know if that has made things better or worse…but it's certainly made things less exciting.
However, you have to choose the Leaders of Tomorrow—and I'm here to help. That, and take advantage of the fact that no longer running The Ubyssey means I can dispense with an insincere veneer of optimism, and rant like the curmudgeon I am.
But I'm here to mostly help! Plus, The Editor of this blog puts up with me drinking, yelling, and laughing with her roommate in the middle of the night, interrupting her sleep, so there's that. [Ed note: Our walls are made of paper and spackled with my sleep-deprived tears. More after the jump.]


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THE European Union (EU) has supported several disaster response and recovery initiatives in Fiji in response to the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Winston, but one particular action has focused on recovery for commercial farmers and enterprises in the agriculture and aquaculture sectors. Under the Increasing Agriculture Commodity Trade (IACT) Project TC Winston Recovery Action, the European Union dedicated FJ$4.3 million to rebuilding the commercial productive sector, moving beyond the level of subsistence farming and informal trading.
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Candice Bergen has had a pretty political dating life.
While on Wednesday's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to promote the revival of her series "Murphy Brown," Brown confirmed that she and Donald Trump went on a date as teens.
"I was very young," the now 72-year-old actress said. "I was about 18. Trump and I are about the same age. Or as he would point out, I'm about six months older."
Bergen, who was attending the University of Pennsylvania at the time, said she believes a young Trump showed up dressed all in burgundy and in a burgundy limousine.
She said she couldn't remember how the date came to be, but she was clear about one thing.
"I was home very early," Bergen said.
She also talked about going on a date with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when she was a young woman.
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A Southwest Airlines flight was canceled Wednesday after a passenger's Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone caught fire on board. And the owner says he already replaced his phone after the recall of Note 7 phones for the same issue.
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission said it is investigating the incident, which occurred on a Baltimore-bound flight before it departed from the Louisville International Airport Wednesday morning.
The owner of the Note 7, Brian Green, told WAVE 3 News that his phone was powering down when he put it in his pocket, and that a few seconds later he "heard a pop" and then noticed smoke "billowing" out of his clothes.
"I pulled the phone out and threw it on the ground, because I didn't want it to explode in my hand," he said. "I didn't know what else to do with it."
The flight was then evacuated as about two rows of seats were enveloped in smoke, Green said.
Southwest said Wednesday that customers were able to acquire seats on other flights in order to reach their destinations.
Green told WAVE 3 News that he had already replaced his phone after receiving a text message from Samsung about the Note 7 recall, which was initially issued in September.
"I had a green battery indicator, which is supposed to say this is a replaced or 'known good' phone," Green told the station.
Samsung was unable to corroborate Green's story when asked Wednesday.
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Green said his Note 7 was his third Samsung device. He said he called the company to make them aware of the situation and he was "put into a ticketing system" but has not heard more.
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Bob Wing works with racial justice groups in Los Angelos. He was part of the first wave of Asian American activists in the late 1960s. Wing was founding editor of the anti-war newspaper, War Times, and the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and was one of the national leaders of United for Peace and Justice.
I first read this article in the Monthly Review which was titled "Harry Chang: A Seminal Theorist of Racial Justice."
It is little known that a shy Korean immigrant named Harry Chang made vital contributions to the theory and practice of racial justice in the United States. In his most fruitful period, the 1970s, his work shaped the thinking and political work of numerous movement organizations, mostly led by people of color. Although he died prematurely in 1979, his work helped lay the foundations of two of the most progressive and influential theories of racism: the theory of racial formation and critical race theory.
To one degree or another, Harry may be credited with a number of ideas that were highly controversial in the 1970s but which in recent years have become much more accepted. His starting point was to highlight the centrality of the "one drop" rule that determines race in the United States (only). By analyzing this rule, he showed that racial categories are sociohistorical categories, not genetic or genealogical, and that they are qualitatively distinct from class, ethnicity, or nation/nationality categories. Harry coined the term racial formation to underscore the necessity of analyzing racism as a historical process that encompasses the origins of racism, how and why it has changed over time, and the process of eliminating it in a given historical context. He also argued for the centrality of law to racial formation and the inseparability and mutual determination of racial and class formation. Clarifying the distinctiveness of racism
also laid the basis for analyzing the intersection of race and nationality.
Unfortunately, Harry has received little or no public recognition for his important contributions. The analytic method he used to arrive at these conclusions reveals a virtuoso dialectician at work.
When we worked together in the 1970s, Harry often reminded me of Karl Marx's despairing thought that the German Ideology (later labeled "the first truly Marxist work") had been consigned to "the gnawing criticism of the mice" in his attic. Harry would muse how, in a similar
vein, perhaps one day, long after his death, someone might stumble across his manuscripts and say, "Wow, that obscure Korean guy really knew something."
Bob Wing works with racial justice groups in Los Angeles. He was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. Bob was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times, and the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and was one of the national leaders of United for Peace and Justice.
Born Chang Heh-Ik in 1937 to Protestant seminarian educators in South Korea, Harry immigrated to the United States to attend UCLA in 1955, the year of the great Montgomery Bus Boycott. Somehow over the next decade this fledgling foreign student, like many others in the United States during that fateful period, got radicalized. He was introduced to Marxist circles by fellow foreign students at UCLA, married the daughter of a prominent black Communist in 1964, and began to organize Marxist study circles with students from the third world as a graduate student in Seattle in the late 1960s.
Although he was trained as a mathematician, Harry became a brilliant Marxist educator and a truly original applied philosopher. His focus and forte was dialectics: he dedicated himself to learning, teaching, and most of all applying the Marxist analytical method. He disciplined his mind by constantly writing, not for publication, but to clarify and challenge his own understanding.
A true product of the 1960s, Harry became absolutely obsessed with the uniqueness and importance of race and racism in the United States. He dedicated much of his life's energy to unraveling the political and historical mysteries of this most devastating U.S. institution. Unlike many other theorists, he planted himself among young political activists, mostly of color, and not within the walls of academe.
I first met Harry at a Venceremos Brigade meeting in Oakland at the very end of 1970 and he already had the bug. In that meeting he took on the project of writing a pamphlet on U.S. racism to be used in preparing people for the Cuba experience. I was a youthfully arrogant nineteen-year-old who felt he knew a lot about the subject without ever having studied it. So I volunteered to work with Harry, largely, I thought, to make sure this unknown Korean immigrant who had just moved to the Bay Area from Seattle didn't screw it up.
At the time, Harry's thinking about racism was mainly influenced by Oliver Cox's magisterial Caste, Class and Race. My ignorance was such that I had never heard of this great black Marxist or his magnificent book, but Harry had thoroughly digested it. He rapidly penned "Notes on Racism," which attempted to incorporate and to some degree advance upon Cox's insights into the uniqueness of race as compared to other similar categories (caste and class) and what Cox saw as the integral historical connection of racism and capitalism.
Over the next eight years of intensive theoretical work on racism, Cox's influences remained in Harry's laser-like focus on those two questions.
At the same time, Harry's new insights on these subjects were linked to his study of Karl Marx's philosophy, especially his dialectical method of analysis, as most fully exhibited in Capital and the Grundrisse. He became convinced of the profundity of Lenin's remark that Marx in general
and Capital in particular could not be deeply understood without a serious study of the German philosopher Hegel, especially Hegel's Science of Logic.
From 1971 until his premature death in 1979 Harry avidly studied, wrote about, and led dozens of study groups on Capital, involving hundreds of young political activists. Thirty years later, his hundreds of pages of carefully prepared study notes on Capital are still astonishing for their
insights into Marx's method. For me and many others, studying with Harry opened up new intellectual vistas and introduced a standard of theoretical and logical rigor that most of us had never imagined. He gave substantive meaning to "dialectical analysis," a phrase that had so often been used to obfuscate and dazzle rather than for concrete analysis.
But Harry's study of Marx was, above all, dedicated to enhancing his ability to unravel the intricacies of U.S. racism. At the time, most U.S. leftists either saw racism primarily as an ideology used by capitalists to justify "superexploiting" black workers (racism as intensified class exploitation) or as the ideology of national oppression (blacks as an oppressed nation in the Black Belt South or an internal colony). Harry believed these views were metaphoric rather than analytical, and, as he delved further into Capital and the Grundrisse, he became convinced that Marx's method could also be applied to understanding racism:
More than half of Capital is devoted to the critique of bourgeois political economic categories [commodity, value, money, capital, etc.]. It is a key insight of historical materialism that historical development is reflected in the logical development [the development of concepts and categories] and, as Engels put it, the latter, as a result, represent the former "in complete maturity and classical form." Hence the critique of capitalist categories plays a crucial role in the analysis of the capitalist mode of production. This is also the method that must be applied to the race question....A Marxist analysis of racism must begin with a critique of the racial categoriesPut another way, Harry's first methodological insight was: "'Racism' should only be the subject not the object of study." The object of study should be racial categories and the social practice that produced them. By this method, Harry sought to overcome what he saw as rampant subjectivity in race theorizing, especially the transposition of the race question into an internal colonial, national, or ethnic question.
(black and white) themselves, and from there proceed to an examination of the socio-historical situation that endowed these forms of thought with deadly social validity. ("Racism and Racial Categories," 1973)
If we ask a million people what racism is we would probably get a million different answers, since "racism" refers to individual opinions formed in the course of living in race relations. But if we ask a million people to identify each other as "black" or "white" the chances are the results would be practically uniform. The race of a person is not subject to individualsubjective interpretation, is not a matter of opinion. The racial distinction is a categorical necessity without which racism cannot fully function while the concept of racism is not. (Untitled manuscript, 1975)It was, he decided, in the dialectical materialist critique of these racial categories that the particularity of the social relations of racism (compared to class, caste, nation, nationality, or ethnicity) could be accurately identified. If that task were not undertaken, he argued, "racial categories are posited as eternal metaphysical entities existing prior to race relations and valid beyond the realm of racism," a notion he thought as wrongheaded as seeing capital as an eternal reality valid beyond the realm of capitalism. Such a view would lead, he thought, to the uncritical notion that the goal of antiracist struggle is racial (or "national") equality rather than the elimination of oppression based on racial categories, just as reformist or utopian theories of capitalism called for equality between classes.
Harry's experience as an immigrant, his study of Cuba, and his analysis of racial categories highlighted the peculiarity of the dialectic of U.S. racial categories: the so-called hypodescent rule by which anyone who appeared to have a single drop of "black blood" was considered black.
He commented on how U.S. racism often viciously divided immigrant siblings from Latin America and the Caribbean into black and white. Such anti-human racial categories, Harry recognized, are peculiar to the United States alone.
In fact, he argued, these categories themselves harbor a chauvinistic logic: "Inherent in the notion of 'White' is the requirement of genetic 'purity' while the notion of 'Black' harbors the assumption of genetic 'contamination.' One of the peculiarities of the racist psyche in the U.S. is that its sense of a 'drop of African blood' is unbelievably acute but it is practically blind to 'a drop of European blood.'" "White" and "black" are not the least bit neutral; they contained the chauvinistic logic of pure versus contaminated, clean versus dirty, and pure breed versus mongrel. Racial categories, in other words, are not determined by natural science or genealogy,
and were certainly not an attempt at neutral physical description. "Racial categories are not biological categories, but social-relational categories that fetishize genetic diversity." The logic of racial categories is itself racist.
Moreover, he noted, "the dialectic of the categories of Black and White is relative as opposed to absolute"—meaning that, like class categories (workers versus capitalists, landlords versus peasants, etc.), they are determined by and only in relation to each other. "White" and "Black" are not eternal, independent, or neutral categories: they are the necessary ideological representation of the mutually dependent, mutually exclusive poles created by the social relationship of racism. But unlike class categories, they hinge not on economic relationships but on a socially produced fetishization of physiognomy, a fetishization fashioned to maximize those who could be defined as permanently enslavable. (U.S. slavery was the only modern slave society that depended primarily on slave reproduction rather than the African slave trade for the bulk of its labor force.)
This is in sharp contrast to the dialectics of ethnic, religious, and national categories, which are absolute categories—meaning they indicate the historical practice of self-determined, inner-sourced relationships. Nations, for instance, are formed through the inner development of national life, and they enter into international relations. A colonized nation strives for independence (self-determination), not the destruction of the colonial power. Thus Harry's analysis starkly distinguished the dialectics of race from class (economically determined), ethnicity, or nationality (socio-culturally determined irrespective of physical difference, hence the possibility of multiracial ethnic groups or nationalities).
Harry's analysis of racial categories drew direct inspiration from Marx. Bourgeois social science sees "working class" and "capitalist class" as neutral descriptions of one's economic activity or income level. Marx exploded that illusion by showing that in reality they are the opposite but interconnected poles of the social relationship of class exploitation whose negation necessitated the overthrow of capital and, ultimately, the abolition of class society. Similarly, while bourgeois social science accepts racial categories as natural, genealogical, ethnic, or descriptive, Harry saw racial groups as interconnected poles of white supremacy/black oppression whose negation necessitates not only a fight against inequality but also the end of a society polarized into racial groups.
Harry was fond of saying that racism was a form of commodity fetishism: the bourgeois habit of thought that confounds socioeconomic relationships as inherent in the natural state of things (e.g., products versus commodities, gold versus money, genetic or genealogical diversity
versus racial groups).
And just as money was not just a clever invention but a distinctive social relationship which had developed instead through historical phases of individual (occasional barter) to particular (regular but not yet dominant exchange relations) to general (where the practice of exchange and commodity production were so generalized as to require the development of money to facilitate it), so racism did not pop into the world fullfledged (or once generalized, did not stay the same), but was the product of what he called racial formation.
Given the context of working with the Venceremos Brigade and trying to understand Cuban race relations, Harry was quick to notice the stunning difference between racial categories in the United States and Cuba. In Cuba the categories are numerous, descriptive, and fluid rather than
bipolar, hardened, and chauvinistic as in the United States.
So where Cox and others had seen racism as essentially an international phenomenon, Harry's connection to Cuba (and his study of South Africa) helped him clearly see that racial categories (and therefore racisms) are qualitatively different in different countries, and may change in different historical periods within a given country. Racial categories are not, in other words, universal or global categories like capital or money. By focusing on the development of racial categories, Harry insisted on the ability to "differentiate between racism proper (e.g., the U.S.) from quasi-racial or racism-like situations (as in most of Latin America) where racial discrimination exists but not as a fully independent and systematic social relation."
He felt this distinction was as important as that between barter and money. It also enabled him to distinguish between different fully developed systems of racism: the racism based on bipolar racial categories in the United States versus the racism based on the tripolar racial categories
(black, colored, and white) of South Africa. And it was the basis of coming to grips with the transformation of nationality or ethnic categories (e.g., different specific European, African, Latino, or Asian ethnicities) into racial (black and white) or combined national-racial categories (Asian,Chicano, Latino).
Drawing from the Marxist concept of class formation, Harry dubbed the concrete development of racism as "racial formation," a concept that encompassed its origins, development/transformations, and demise.
Finally, just as Marx had grasped that the formation of money was linked to commodity production, Harry realized that racial formation in the United States was linked to the peculiar historical conditions of the development of capitalism. He guided a collective study of the historical origins of racism in the colonial United States that established a relationship
between the development of racial categories with the development of the slavery-based plantation system. And he showed that racism was not a mere "add on" to U.S. capitalism, but a central condition without which U.S. capitalist development would have been qualitatively different. In other words, racism could powerfully shape capitalism, not just vice versa. Racism did not just add additional profits to capital, it actually determined the very shape and course of capitalist accumulation, social formation, and political structure in the United States. Herein, for example, lies a key to why the United States was different from, say, Brazil, (which had slavery but was underdeveloped) or Canada (which had no slavery but is a second rank capitalist power).
Harry's analysis of the political economy of slavery displayed his theoretical creativity. Some Marxists deduced that slavery in the United States was capitalist simply because it existed in a capitalist world-system. Others asserted that it was precapitalist because the "internal contradiction" of slavery was not a wage relationship. In "The Slave Economy in U.S. Capitalism" (1974), Harry argued, "the character of the historical essence of slavery in the U.S. hinges on the analytic decision as to whether a slave mode of production has 'capitalist features' or a capitalist mode of production made use of slave-labor."
Harry showed that the "planter" or "slaveholder" was not a single economic role, but in fact involved in a variety of economic relationships: landowner (or tenant), slave owner, slave user (or renter), slave buyer/seller, banker (or debtor), merchant, etc. Most important, "the distinction between slave-owning and slave-using corresponds to a case of
capitalistic dialectic of distribution and production."
The actual historical circumstance of the origin of slavery in North America leads us to conclude that slave-labor arose as a substitute for wage-labor in a mode of production demanding wage-labor but faced with the shortage of wage-laborers. In its modus operandi, the category ofOver a tremendously productive period from 1973 to 1978, Harry penned a number of essays in which he set forth his theoretical and historical research. In that period, Harry wrote "Racism and Racial Categories," "National Minorities and Racial Minorities," "Racial Categories and Racial Formation," "The Slave Economy in the U.S.," "Critique of the Black Nation Thesis," several manuscripts tentatively titled "Towards a Marxist Theory of Racism," "Black Capitalism," and several untitled manuscripts.
"price of slaves" was as well established as "price of land" in capitalism; hence Marx's remark that "the price paid for a slave is nothing but the anticipated and capitalized surplus-value or profit to be rung out of slave" (Capital, vol. 3, [International Publishers] 807) is fully applicable
here....Thus, although slaves in the U.S. were not wage-earners, they were the labor counterpart of capital with this proviso: the planter expended wage in his capacity of agricultural capitalist and intercepted wage in his capacity of capitalist slaveowner. ("The Slave Economy in U.S. Capitalism," 1974)
In his lifetime, he only published one of these essays, Critique of the Black Nation Thesis, in 1975. Although this pamphlet was claimed as a collective product of the group that had formed around Harry to do research and refine Harry's analysis, it was primarily Harry's work. Posthumously, two of his colleagues, Paul Liem and Eric Montague, stitched together parts of two of Harry's essays and published it in 1985 in the Review of Radical Political Economics under the title "Toward a Marxist Theory of Racism."
Around the same time, the numerous essays Harry had written became the basis of many study groups as well as an important part of the political strategies and practice of a number of different movement organizations: the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Third World
Women's Alliance, the Northern California Alliance, several chapters of if not the entire Venceremos Brigade, the National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision, and later the Line of March and the National Antiracist Organizing Committee.
Harry died a premature death from a brain tumor in 1979. So it was left to his political/intellectual successors to produce our own versions of his theory. Knowing Harry he would probably not have been very satisfied with what the rest of us have done with what he taught us. But like or not, after his death, his work was carried on through three main branches
(not to speak of hundreds of activists).
The first and perhaps least influential of these branches was produced by a group of Harry's closest associates during the 1970s. Although some of us had an unfortunate rift with Harry, our theoretical views on racism were directly shaped by him. Some of this work is found in "Towards a Communist Analysis of White Supremacy and Black Oppression," by Linda Burnham and Bob Wing; "Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans," by Bob Wing; "The Filipino Nationality in the U.S.," by Bruce Occeña; and "The Mexican/Chicano Question in the United States," by Manuel Romero. As mentioned above,
Harry's work also became a foundation of the political work of many movement organizations some of which continue in one form or another today.
A second branch of work was created by Neil Gotanda. Neil was also a part of the circle of people who worked closely with Harry in the 1970s. He went on to become a law professor and one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, one of the most influential and progressive trends in racism theory over the past decade or more. Neil was one of the editors of the seminal Critical Race Theory: Key Writings that Formed the Movement. He also wrote a number of powerful essays such as: "A Critique of 'Our Constitution is Colorblind,'" "Comparative Racialization: Racial Profiling and the Case of Wen Ho Lee," and "Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory and Asian American Studies."
Howard Winant created a third branch. While considerably less connected to Harry than the other two branches, Howie was a member of one of the political organizations strongly influenced by Harry and participated in some of Harry's study groups in the 1970s. In 1986 Howie coauthored (with Michael Omi) Racial Formation in the United States, a book that transformed race theory, teaching, and scholarship throughout this country's universities and colleges. Howie has published several other important books on racism, but it is Racial Formation that bears the strongest marks of Harry's ideas.
None of these branches claim to be a direct elaboration of Harry's work and in fact there are considerable differences among and between them. But each has at its foundations Harry's insistence on distinguishing race from class, ethnicity, and nation; the view that racial categories
are historical categories, rather than natural or genealogical, and subject to change over time (i.e., the process of racial formation); and the focus on how to connect racism to capitalism.
Harry was an extremely shy person. Although supremely confident in his intellectual capacity, he assiduously avoided the limelight. It didn't help that he always felt stalked by the South Korean CIA. Although his passions burned brightly within him and in his work, I doubt he had
many regrets about the limited recognition he received. Still it is long past time that Harry received some of the credit that is his due for a productive lifetime brilliantly dedicated to socioeconomic and racial justice.
Harry Chang, presente!
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My Pro-forma comments script has now gained quite a following (and it - allegedly - just got bust by upgrading to jQuery 1.7.1). This is a personal request to the team to consider adopting it.
Not that I don't wish to keep on maintaining it, but the next step (allowing users to define one global set of comments to be used across all their sites*) is pretty awkward for me to implement "from the outside", but would be comparatively trivial for the team (I believe).
Goes off to fix script...
* Note: I have a beta half-version of this; it requires two separate userscripts, and allows you to push/pull between "local" (site-specific) and "global" storage. And even if I get the global sharing 'properly' working, it would still only be for a given machine.


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Post-occupancy surveys
Features/Mind/Feature 86
- 84 Health and wellness awareness
- 85 Integrative design
- 86 Post-occupancy surveys
- 87 Beauty and design I
- 88 Biophilia I - qualitative
- 89 Adaptable spaces
- 90 Healthy sleep policy
- 91 Business travel
- 92 Building health policy
- 93 Workplace family support
- 94 Self-monitoring
- 95 Stress and addiction treatment
- 96 Altruism
- 97 Material transparency
- 98 Organizational transparency
- 99 Beauty and design II
- 100 Biophilia II - quantitative
- P5 Health through housing equity
- P6 Education space provisions
Post-occupancy surveys
To allow occupants to provide feedback to building owners and management, and help further develop the WELL Building Standard.
Given the diversity of built environments, it is difficult to prescribe a comprehensive set of features that are effective across all settings. Occupancy surveys can be useful in measuring the extent to which a building is effectively promoting and protecting the health and comfort needs of its occupants. In addition, the ability to offer feedback and have a recognized stake in one's comfort and well-being can have a positive impact on occupant mood.
In buildings with 10 or more occupants, the Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Survey™ from the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley (or approved alternative) is completed by a representative sample of at least 30% of occupants at least once per year unless otherwise noted. The survey covers the following topics of occupant satisfaction:
Thermal comfort, including humidity and air flow, at least twice a year (once during the cooling season and once during the heating season).
Workspace light levels and quality.
Odors, stuffiness and other air quality concerns.
Cleanliness and maintenance.


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Responsibility to Others Using the Waterways
As a vessel operator, you are just one of many who are enjoying the privilege of using the public waterways. It is your responsibility to stay aware of others in or on the water and to respect their use of the waterways. Remember that being a responsible operator includes controlling the noise of your boat or PWC.


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This is a quick post to share my experience booting uncompressed Linux kernel images, during the benchmarks of kernel compression options, and no compression at all was one of these options.
It is sometimes useful to boot a kernel image with no compression. Though the kernel image is bigger, and takes more time to copy from storage to RAM, the kernel image no longer has to be decompressed to RAM. This is useful for systems with a very slow CPU, or very little RAM to store both the compressed and uncompressed images during the boot phase. The typical case is booting CPUs emulated by FPGA, during processor development, before the final silicon is out. For example, I saw a Cortex A15 chip boot at 11 MHz during Linaro Connect Q2.11 in Budapest. At this clock frequency, booting a kernel image with no compression saves several minutes of boot time, reducing development and test time. Note that with such hardware emulators, copying the kernel image to RAM is cheap, as it is done by the emulator from a file given by the user, before starting to emulate the system.
Building a kernel image with no compression on ARM is easy, but only once you know where the uncompressed image is and what to do! For people who have never done that before, I'm sharing quick instructions here.
To generate your uncompressed kernel image, all you have to do is run the usual make
command. The file that you need is arch/arm/boot/Image
Depending on the bootloader that you use, this could be sufficient. However, if you use U-boot, you still need to put this image in a uImage
container, to let U-boot know about details such as how big the image is, what its entry point is, whether it is compressed or not… The problem is you can't run make uImage
any more to produce this container. That's because Linux on ARM has no configuration option to keep the kernel uncompressed, and the uImage
file would contain a compressed kernel.
Therefore, you have to create the uImage
by invoking the mkimage
command manually. To do this without having to guess the right mkimage
parameters, I recommend to run make V=1 uImage
$ make V=1 uImage ... Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready /bin/bash /home/mike/linux/scripts/mkuboot.sh -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -n 'Linux-3.3.0-rc6-00164-g4f262ac' -d arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/uImage Image Name: Linux-3.3.0-rc6-00164-g4f262ac Created: Thu Mar 8 13:54:00 2012 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 3351272 Bytes = 3272.73 kB = 3.20 MB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready
Don't be surprised if the above message says that the kernel is uncompressed (corresponding to -C none
). If we told U-boot that the image is already compressed, it would take care of uncompressing it to RAM before starting the kernel image.
Now, you know what mkimage
command you need to run. Just invoke this command on the Image
file instead of zImage
(you can directly replace mkuboot.sh
by mkimage
$ mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -n 'Linux-3.3.0-rc6-00164-g4f262ac' -d arch/arm/boot/Image arch/arm/boot/uImage Image Name: Linux-3.3.0-rc6-00164-g4f262ac Created: Thu Mar 8 14:02:27 2012 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 6958068 Bytes = 6794.99 kB = 6.64 MB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000
Now, you can use your uImage
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HORSESHOE Cookie Cutter (lrg)
HORSESHOE Cookie Cutter
Material - Stainless Steel
Height of the Cutter - 5/8 inch
Size - 4.25 in x 4.25 in
Cookie cutter that can be used for making decorated/royal icing sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, pernicky, fondant molds, sandwich shapes, or any other use that you creatively think of.
Care and cleaning - Hand wash with soap and water, rinse well and dry immediately. We recommend laying them on an unlined cookie sheet and putting them in the oven at 350 degrees for 2 to 3 minutes.
This cookie cutter is a traditional Czech Cookie Cutter that
is used mainly in making Pernicky. In the Czech Republic, the Pernicky cookies initially appeared in 1335, when they
were mainly enjoyed as a dessert or as a thickening agent in savory sauces. Today, these crispy and fragrant
cookies are appreciated for their amazing artistic value, and the lavish decorations make them a unique, edible artwork.
The company that makes these cutters is the Smolik Company. It is located in The Czech Republic and is a family owned business. They ship their cutters all
over Europe. These cutters are not available anywhere else in the United States, and Teesa's Baking Supplies is excited
to be able to partner with the Smolik Company to bring these wonderful cutters and the tradition of the beautiful Pernicky to the U.S.
Please Note - Some of the sizes of the Czech cutters are much smaller than those that are traditionally used in the U.S. Because of this,
please make sure you check the size, and make sure the size you are purchasing is appropriate for your needs.