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Democrat Warren officially enters crowded presidential race
Massachusetts senator, who has tussled with president over heritage, hopes to distinguish herself with focus on ending economic inequality
LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (AP) — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren made her bid for the presidency official on Saturday in this working-class city, grounding her 2020 campaign in a populist call to fight economic inequality and build "an America that works for everyone."
Warren delivered a sharp call for change at her presidential kickoff, decrying a "middle-class squeeze" that has left Americans crunched with "too little accountability for the rich, too little opportunity for everyone else." She and her backers hope that message can distinguish her in a crowded Democratic field and help her move past the controversy surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage.
Weaving specific policy prescriptions into her remarks, from Medicare for All to the elimination of Washington "lobbying as we know it," Warren avoided taking direct jabs at President Donald Trump. She aimed for a broader institutional shift instead, urging supporters to choose "a government that makes different choices, choices that reflect our values."
Trump "is not the cause of what's broken," Warren told an elated crowd without using the president's name. "He's just the latest – and most extreme – symptom of what's gone wrong in America."
In a tweet, Trump referenced the controversy over her Native American identity, once again using the insulting nickname he's given her.
"Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President," Trump tweeted. "Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!"
Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
Warren announced her campaign in her home state of Massachusetts at a mill site where factory workers went on strike in the early 20th century, a fitting forum for the longtime consumer advocate to advance her platform.
Supporters turned out in below-freezing temperatures, many hoisting signs — "Win With Warren," one read. A Massachusetts bakery created "Persist" cookies for the event to honor the candidate's slogan, "Nevertheless, She Persisted," words first spoken in the Senate to rebuke her.
Warren's rollout rally was a potent motivator for longtime supporters such as Mo Malekafzaly and Carlos Garcia, two longtime backers who attended her rally from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
The choice of Lawrence to start her campaign "shows who she's fighting for," Garcia said. Asked if fellow New Englander Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, could pose a serious threat to Warren in New Hampshire's critical primary should he get into the race, Garcia said Warren is "such an effective communicator that I think that people will respond to that very well."
Warren went straight from her kickoff to New Hampshire, home to the nation's first primary, where her campaign projected that 350 people turned out for an event in the city of Dover. She plans to spend Sunday in Iowa, where the leadoff caucuses will be the first test of candidates' viability.
Warren was the first high-profile Democrat to signal interest in running for the White House, forming an exploratory committee on New Year's Eve.
She was endorsed and introduced Saturday by Massachusetts Democrats Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III. Kennedy's backing could prove valuable for Warren, given his status as a rising young Democratic star and his friendship with one of her potential 2020 rivals, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas.
Warren enters the race as one of the party's most recognizable figures. She has spent the past decade in the national spotlight, first emerging as a consumer activist during the financial crisis. She later led the congressional panel that oversaw the 2008 financial industry bailout. After Republicans blocked her from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she helped create, she ran for the Senate in 2012 and unseated a GOP incumbent.
She has $11 million left over from her commanding 2018 Senate re-election victory that can be used on her presidential run.
Still, Warren must compete against other popular Democrats who will be able to raise substantial money. A recent CNN poll found that fewer Democrats said they'd be very likely to support Warren if she runs than said the same of former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Sanders. Still, about as many Democrats said they'd be at least somewhat likely to support Warren as said the same of Harris or Sanders.
That challenge is on display this weekend as Democratic presidential contenders — or those considering a run — fan out across the crucial early-voting states. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is in Iowa, while New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is visiting South Carolina. Another possible presidential rival, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, planned to be in New Hampshire on Saturday, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar is announcing her bid Sunday in her home state of Minnesota.
And Warren's launch comes at a challenging moment for the 69-year-old senator. She's apologized twice over the past two weeks for claiming Native American identity on multiple occasions early in her career. That claim has created fodder for Republicans and could overshadow her campaign.
On Saturday, Trump's re-election campaign manager was quick to respond to her candidacy and called her "a fraud."
Warren got notable backup from Gillibrand, however, who called her Senate colleague "an extraordinary public servant." Speaking to reporters in South Carolina, Gillibrand said Trump's treatment of women, particularly women of color, was "outrageous."
The campaign launch will test whether the controversy is simply a Washington obsession or a substantive threat to her candidacy. Doug Rubin, a Boston-based strategist who advised Warren during her first Senate run in 2012, said in an interview that most voters will respond to "the powerful message she's been talking about," in terms of battling social and economic injustices, rather than the back-and-forth over her personal identity.
Another threat could come from a fellow senator who has yet to announce his own plans for 2020: Sanders. They're both leaders of the Democrats' liberal vanguard, but some Sanders supporters are still upset Warren didn't support him during his 2016 primary run against Hillary Clinton. And as a senator from Vermont who won the New Hampshire primary, he would likely go into the Granite State as an early favorite if he decided to run again.
Sheri Clark Nadell, a Maine resident who traveled to Warren's New Hampshire event, said that while she likes Sanders and voted for him in his previous campaign, she is less inclined to do so now.
"I'm not sure, at this point, that he could win," Nadell said. "And I feel sad saying that. But we need to win."
Despite their similarities, Warren and Sanders have taken somewhat divergent paths in recent months as they prepare for the primary. After proposing an "ultra-millionaire tax" that would hit the wealthiest 75,000 households in America, Warren told Bloomberg News last week that she continues to "believe in capitalism" but wants to see stricter rules to prevent gaming the system — a marked contrast with the self-described democratic socialism of Sanders.


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Following our second interview Kellan snuck in 5 Questions for Paul Mison before I managed to tap Jim's suggestion of Gustavo.
I think Drift Words sums Gustavo up nicely with "Although he's far too clever, he makes up for it by using his polymath powers for good." … and charts and stunning graphs. It's always a pleasure to see what Gustavo comes up with.
And on that note …
1. What are you currently building that integrates with Flickr, or a past favorite that you think is cool, neat, popular and worth telling folks about? Or both.
Gustavo: First of all I must say: I'm not really a flickr tool developer. The only real tools I created are the quite minimalistic FlickRandom and Contact Crossing (very kindly hosted by Jim Bumgardner). Rather, I use flickr's API to mine flickr's database for interesting information, usually leading to some visualizations or at the very least a bunch of graphs.
One such visualization led to a browser for exploring related groups. Not a full-fledged tool since it explores static and outdated data.
In other words, what I do with flickr's API is not tool development but analyses, trying to figure out the structure and dynamics of flickr's social network, group content and participation, etc. The most recent analysis I performed attempted to understand how exposure to photo content flows through the contact network. Starting from a basic pattern combining three types of network relations, I quantified the importance of a user's social network in determining his or her exposure to content of interest.
2. What are the best tricks or tips you've learned working with the Flickr API?
Gustavo: Cache, cache, cache. Depending on what you want to do, you might find yourself retrieving certain bits repeatedly, and you'll definitely want to build a good local cache. Be careful though, as it's all too easy to underestimate the size and complexity of the data. Your cache might unexpectedly morph from a speed asset to a sluggish monster.
Another potential problem from underestimating the size and complexity of the data is that you might suddenly discover that your code issued many more API calls than you expected. Remember to play nice, and keep an eye on your API key usage graphs.
Expect unexpected responses: It's always good to make the code smart enough to realize the server's response is not exactly what was expected, be it in completeness, format, special characters in free text, etc.
Finally, still on the theme of unexpected responses: Grow a thick skin, as there will always be someone who will misinterpret your motives for developing a tool that "uses" their information.
3. As a Flickr developer what would you like to see Flickr do more of and why?
Gustavo: Let me suggest two: one very simple, the other very complex.
The simple one is a "no special perms" authentication level. For some purposes, as a developer I'd like to have the user authenticate for the sole purpose of knowing who they are – I might want to give certain results for their eyes only, or someone else might want to allow certain actions to happen just once per user, etc. At the moment, the minimal level of authentication requires that the user entrust the developer with access to private data. Many users will rightfully decline giving such access, and as a developer I'd rather not have to even request and disclaim, when I don't need it.
The more complex one requires a bit of background. Almost four years ago, there were various discussion threads on the topic of finding interesting content. Back then I took a stab at using network information to discover interesting photos – first looking for people who post similar stuff, then looking for people who share faved photos (which striatic called neighbors) and finally, actual photo suggestions.
As an aside, the algorithm worked quite well even for people with a hundred or so favorites (I had just 21 faves!); people today have many thousand favorites – a very rich data set to start from. I went on to produce suggestion lists for many people, but that was always me, manually running scripts. Since then, other developers created interesting tools for content-driven content discovery, including Flickr Cross-Recommendations, inSuggest and flexplore.
The reason I never tried to create a stand-alone tool for this is that I quickly realized that to make it work reasonably fast, I essentially needed to replicate flickr's database. If you take all my favorites, then list all the people that faved those photos, and finally enumerate all their favorites… and you then repeat this exercise for whoever requests it, you either need to use many thousand API calls per visitor (and wait!), or you need to create a huge cache, covering unpredictably disparate segments of flickr's database. A massive cache that would grow stale very quickly unless people used the tool continuously. If you try to include extra information into the scoring scheme (say tags, color data, group membership…) the network use and storage requirements grow even worse. In other words, this project appears to be completely unsuitable for a developer without direct access to flickr's database… and flickr's content suggestion system (Explore) doesn't provide any personalization tools: we all see the same.
The only effective solution I can suggest (beyond flickr developing a personalized Explore, or flickr sandboxing third party developers) is the creation of high level API calls, embodying some method of complex querying into the database. For example: A higher level API call could accept a list of users as query, and return a list of photos sorted by the number of people (from the query list) who faved them. With the current API, one has to retrieve the full favorites list for each person, collate the results, and discard the vast majority of the information that was transferred. A higher level API method could make such intermediary results invisible and save much bandwidth, latency and data replication.
Hey, you asked. ;)
4. What excites you about Flick and hacking? What do you think you'll build next or would like someone else to build so you don't have to?
Gustavo: There's a number of things that attract me to flickr hacking. There's of course the vast and ever-growing amounts of data, and the fact that it's not "more of the same": The diversity of data types (photos, users, metadata, groups, etc) and relations make this complex system fascinating to study. There is also the human side: People really care about their stuff. People get excited, for example, when they recognize their user icon in a visualization of the social network, and immediately want to explore around. Last but not least, I really appreciate the openness of the flickr API. I'm amazed that such wealth of information is shared so freely!
As for "what next", I have a couple of ideas. I'll only hint that the word association analysis was a fun first step. :)
5. Besides your own, what Flickr projects and hacks do you use on a regular basis? Who should we interview next?
Gustavo: dopiaza as Utata's architect.
Dan: Thank you, Gustavo. Next up (unless Kellan gets in first!) dopiaza.
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striatic and malanalars.


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Feds Gambled More on Electric Cars in 6 Months Than Transit Gets All Year
Vice President Joe Biden will return to his home state of Delaware today to announce that California car company Fisker Automotive will reopen a shuttered General Motors plant to build a moderately priced plug-in hybrid that goes by the code name Project NINA.
Fisker's investment in the Delaware plant was made possible by a $528 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, which has offered $8.5 billion since June to producers of plug-in hybrids.
When that $8.5 billion is combined with the DoE's $2.4 billion in stimulus grants to car battery producers, Bloomberg notes that the Obama administration's total investment in low-emissions autos has topped $11 billion in six months — about $500 million more than the annual budget of the Federal Transit Administration.
The DoE loan to Fisker has attracted its share of media scrutiny, with the Wall Street Journal suggesting that former Vice President Al Gore's backing helped the company win government support.
Henrik Fisker, CEO of his namesake company, responded that the loan was conditional and "will be repaid, with interest, to the American taxpayer," telling critics of the NINA cars' $40,000 price tag that "any new technology is expensive."
Fisker also noted that this year's $11 billion haul is just the beginning of Washington's investment in hybrid electric cars — the market for which remains unproven. During the hectic days of last fall's financial bailout, Michigan lawmakers secured enough funding to guarantee $25 billion in loans for makers of more fuel-efficient cars. (By way of comparison, the U.S. DOT estimates that the nation's transit networks need $50 billion to get their equipment into a state of good repair.)
The loans to Fisker and Tesla, which got $465 million from the DoE in June, come from that $25 billion pot. And the government gave the hybrid automakers an undeniably good deal — interest rates as low as 5 percent, compared with up to 20 percent on the private market, and a repayment window of 25 years.
Will the government's growing subsidies to automakers dissuade conservatives from claiming that transit is the nation's only subsidized mode of transportation? The chances aren't good.


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On 16 May 2014, the symposium "Perspectives on ICT for Development" (ICT4D) was held at VU University Amsterdam. The event featured international speakers from different backgrounds, who were asked to present their perspective on the principles, practice and scientific background of ICTs for Developing countries.
The symposium was a great success, with over 100 participants that came from all over the world, bringing their expertise to the discussion floor. During breaks, these participants were asked to share their background and thoughts on a number of ICT4D issues by sticking colored markers on three poster boards. The results are shown in the three pictures below. During the lively discussions the different perspectives were highlighted. Discussions were kickstarted by asking audience members from different disciplines to comment on a speaker's viewpoint. Students were asking practitioners, regreening experts discussed knowledge sharing with computer scientists etcetera. This resulted in many multidisciplinary discussions throughout the day.
The entire event was broadcast live on the Web, with viewers from as far away as Liberia and Nigeria. The entire symposium is archived online on youtube.
The first speaker was Stefan Schlobach, [watch on youtube], assistant professor of Artificial Intelligence at VU Amsterdam, and coordinator of the Master Course on ICT4D at VU's Computer Science Department. He highlighted the Computer Science perspective of ICT4D, identifying a number of interesting research challenges from CS subdisciplines such as Human-Computer Interaction, Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval.
Next up was Mirjam de Bruijn [watch on youtube] , professor of contemporary history and anthropology of West and Central Africa, at the African Studies Centre, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University. Her talk "Mobile Africa Revisited" presented a number of of how the introduction of ICTs (specifically mobile phones) changes the lives of people in developing countries. Her research shows the need to consider the profound transformative effects that ICTs can have but also its limitations.
Professor Saa Dittoh from the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana and Wendelien Tuyp from the VU next talked about the role of communication and knowledge sharing for regreening efforts in Africa [watch on youtube]. They provided insight in grand-scale agricultural issues and how local innovative farmers are making a difference.
After the lunch, mr. Amadou Tangara from Sahel Eco (Mali) and Stéphane Boyera of SBC4D consultancy held a duo-presentation on Mobile and Voice Technologies For Social And Economic Development [watch on youtube]. Their talk highlighted the potential of mobile and voice technologies for information sharing and Mr. Tangara presented a number of the voice systems resulting from the VOICES project.
The penultimate speaker was Tim Unwin [watch on youtube]. He is professor of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D is also the editor of the book "ICT4D" (Cambridge University Press, 2009) which was used in the ICT4D VU course. Prof. Unwin presented a very inspiring, high-level and highly skeptical look on the merits of ICT for development, focusing on the question whether the practice of ICT4D is actually helping the most marginalised communities rather than widening the gap. He cautioned for careless optimism that often surrounds technological advances and urged the audience to rethink their focus and approach.
The closing speech was given by VU University's own prof. Hans Akkermans[watch on youtube] who also discussed the scientific backbone of ICT4D practice. In his talk he discussed the role of the (computer) scientific method and computer scientists themselves in ICT4D asking "what the sheep can do for the goats" and vice-versa. He posited that ICT4D presents "extreme" research challenges for computer scientists, referring back to the first speaker's talk as well.
The wonderful symposium was sponsored by VU Computer Science, the Network Institute and VU international Office.


text: The Dot-CA Extension, conceived by Webnames.ca Co-Founder John Demco, Hits Two Million Internet Addresses Vancouver,BC, November 22, 2012 - Webnames.ca, Today, Thursday November 22nd, 2012, marks a monumental day for the .CA domain. On this date, the .CA domain hit two million registrations. This is a big achievement for all Canadians everywhere as we celebrate an important milestone of Canadian presence on the web. In the early days of the internet, no one expected the .CA domain to be this pervasive. With steady growth and an influx of tech-savvy Canadians, the .CA domain has become the seventeenth largest internet domain name registry when compared to names like.COM and country specific domains. . Currently the most recognizable symbol of Canadian identity on the internet, the .CA domain had a humble beginning. It was conceived by Webnames.ca Co-Founder, John Demco in 1987 (2012 marks 25 years for the .CA domain name); and for 13 years, John and a group of dedicated volunteers managed the .CA out of his office at the University of British Columbia. What started out as a couple of domains have now grown into two million domains and continues to grow daily. By 2000, an amazing 100,000 .CA domain names had been registered under John's care. "When we started the .CA domain there were only a few thousand computers on the Internet – in total – and no one thought it would ever be so pervasive," said John Demco, who had allocated and administered .CA domain names at no charge to users. Now, Canada "leads the world in the amount of time its citizens spend online, and while the Internet from a technology perspective doesn't concern itself with nationality, Canadians strongly identify with .CA domain names and the registration of two million .CAs is proof of that." .CA has now become an important part of the identity and presence of Canadian businesses on the web. ".CA shows website visitors that they are shopping locally, will pay in Canadian funds and receive product shipped from within the country," says Webnames.ca President and Co-Founder, Cybele Negris. "Two million .CA domains is a huge milestone and all Canadians should feel proud of this achievement. I remember over twelve years ago working with John Demco and our team to transition the .CA domain registry to CIRA. The domain has continued to grow in importance for Canadians and John's vision to preserve an online identity for all Canadians is being fulfilled. With numerous new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) being launched by ICANN next year and the expansion of domain extensions from 22 gTLDs to hundreds, the role of .CA in representing a Canadian website will be even more crucial." The growth of .CA domains has been growing at an astounding pace. In 2008, the dot-CA domain celebrated reaching one million .CA domains registered and in only four years, the two million mark has been reached. "One never knows what might happen, especially in an environment as dynamic as the Internet. However, .CA has been performing well since its inception, and particularly well during the past few years, and we can look forward to continued strong growth" said John Demco. "This is a notable milestone for the .CA domain. It has become part of the fabric of Canadian society. I would like to pay tribute to the volunteers who contributed so much during the early years of the registry, to CIRA for its excellent stewardship since taking over responsibility in 2000, and to all those who are getting involved in the .CA domain and Internet governance in general." About Webnames.ca Webnames.ca Inc. is a leading Canadian internet solutions company. Webnames.ca's services include web hosting, email, domain portfolio management, SSL certificates, website design and more. Webnames.ca is committed to supporting its customers with industry leading systems and exceptional customer service. Visit www.webnames.ca for more information. Visit www.webnames.ca for more information. About CIRA The Canadian Internet Registration Authority is the not-for-profit Canadian corporation responsible for operating Canada's dot-CA Internet country code Top Level Domain. With over 2,000,904 dot-CA domain names registered to individuals, companies and government agencies, Canada's dot-CA Internet domain has quickly become a critical part of Canada's Internet infrastructure. For more information, visit www.cira.ca. Contact: Amy Elderkin Marketing Coordinator Webnames.ca Inc. 604-633-3097 ext. 147


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The changes to the Basel III international banking regulations have been widely reported as a sop to financiers. But what actually happened?
The Basel regulations are about the stability of the banking system. When the third Basel accord comes into effect this year, it will introduce strict new requirements how leveraged-up banks can be, as well as mandating that they hold enough liquid assets to cover all of their cash outflows for a month. The idea is that by requiring these safety nets, the amount of revenue banks can make is curtailed, but so too is the risk that they will go belly-up in the event of another crisis.
The problem with Basel III is that reducing the amount of leverage a bank is allowed to use is the same as reducing the number of loans it is allowed to make, assuming its available capital stays the same. Reducing the number of loans is sort of what we don't want to happen, what with much of the developed world still being deep in depression and businesses clinging to survival by the skin of their teeth.
In fact, as the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin writes, the chances of a leverage induced crisis are quite low.
The change in Basel has been painted, by none-other than Mervyn King, as a trade-off. We thought that the big risk would be another bust; but now we know the big risk is a dead recovery. So lets water down the regulations. King said:
Since we attach great importance to try to make sure that banks can indeed finance a recovery, it does not make sense to impose a requirement on banks that might damage the recovery.
But the problem is, it's not Basel's leverage requirements that have changed. It's the liquidity ones. And they are a lot more important to implement sooner rather than later.
Leverage requirements are important in case we find ourselves in a situation like 2008, where the value of the assets banks are holding drops precipitously. Banks suddenly find themselves much poorer than they thought they were, and a wave of failures sweeps through the system. But we are a long way from the sort of bubble which is required for leverage requirements to be needed. First we need a recovery.
Liquidity requirements, on the other hand, guard against bank runs. And bank runs are a symptom of lack of faith in the system – something which remains very real today. The dilution of Basel now delays the implementation of those requirements, meaning that the risk of bank runs won't be actively fought until 2019; and it also weakens the very requirements themselves, allowing banks to claim a far larger pool of assets as "liquid capital".
Felix Salmon points out that what's really happening is that Basel III has become the latest in unconventional central bank actions:
The committee has clearly determined that if you've run out of ammunition in terms of interest rates and quantitative easing, then when you're searching around for some other monetary-easing tool, regulations are a reasonable place to look. And I really don't like that precedent. Monetary policy should be entirely separate from bank regulation, even if central banks should properly perform both roles. With the ink barely dry on the Basel III agreement, now is no time to start diluting it for the sake of some hypothetical temporary future marginal boost to growth.
It's important to point out that the actual changes may not be that bad. Alphaville's Lisa Pollack argues that there's a fair amount of whinging which ignores that the weakened regulations are still perfectly perfectly capable of fighting a liquidity crisis. But the principle of the change is still concerning. Regulators decided what would be the best and safest way of running banks, and then changed their mind based, not on new evidence that they could achieve the same safety with less stringent regulations, but on completely different criteria. That bears the hallmarks of the thinking which got us into this problem in the firs place.


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No turning back on clean water
Polluters and their friends in Congress are taking steps right now that could overturn the president's historic action for clean water. Now that we've restored the Clean Water Act, we're not going to let the polluters carve it up again.
Don't let Congress mess with clean water.


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The King and the 'Nsiat Bird
Nigerian Folktale
When 'Ndarake was King of Idu, being young and rich, he was very fond of fine girls, and had plenty of slaves. The 'Nsiat bird was then living at Idu, and had a very pretty daughter, whom 'Ndarake wished to marry. When he spoke to the father about the matter, he replied that of course he had no objection personally, as it would be a great honour for his daughter to marry the king, but, unfortunately, when any of his family had children, they always gave birth to twins, which, as the king knew, was not allowed in the country; the native custom being to kill both the children and throw them into the bush, the mother being driven away and allowed to starve. The king, however, being greatly struck with Adit, the bird's daughter, insisted on marrying her, so the 'Nsiat bird had to agree. A large amount of dowry was paid by the king, and a big play and feast was held. One strong slave was told to carry Adit 'Nsiat during the whole play, and she sat on his shoulders with her legs around his neck; this was done to show what a rich and powerful man the king was.
After the marriage, in due course Adit gave birth to twins, as her mother had done before her. The king immediately became very fond of the two babies, but according to the native custom, which was too strong for any one to resist, he had to give them up to be killed. When the 'Nsiat bird heard this, he went to the king and reminded him that he had warned the king before he married what would happen if he married Adit, and rather than that the twins should be killed, he and the whole of his family would leave the earth and dwell in the air, taking the twins with them. As the king was so fond of Adit and the two children, and did not want them to be killed, he gladly consented, and the 'Nsiat bird took the whole of his family, as well as Adit and her two children, away, and left the earth to live and make their home in the trees; but as they had formerly lived in the town with all the people, they did not like to go into the forest, so they made their nests in the trees which grew in the town, and that is why you always see the 'Nsiat birds living and making their nests only in places where human beings are. The black birds are the cocks, and the golden-coloured ones are the hens. It was the beautiful colour of Adit which first attracted the attention of 'Ndarake and caused him to marry her.
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
Notes: Contains 40 Nigerian folktales. The introduction is written by Andrew Lang.
Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
Published: 1910
Publisher:Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta


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Me in my studio: BD1982
The studio
American producer BD1982 has moved around a fair bit in recent years; having lived in Japan, Philadelphia and New York before recently returning to his native New Jersey.
It's of little surprise then, that his music touches on a broad variety of influences - from UK dance strains like grime and garage, to Eastern percussion sounds and the fuzz analogue warmth of vintage synth soundtracks.
Here, with his latest EP Casings set to drop on his own Diskotopia imprint next week, the producer shows us around his compact, MPC-focused production setup.
BD1982: "I recently moved back to New Jersey from Japan shortly after completing the Casings EP. I set up this current studio set up in a cubicle kind of space.
"It's really comfortable and easy to manoeuvre which has really helped my workflow. Everything is routed to the MPC 2000XL through an Edirol UM-880 MIDI Patcher, which helps to consolidate layering up a new track."
Akai MPC 2000XL
"The MPC 2000XL has been at the centre of all my productions for some time now.
"Everything is programmed and sequenced through the MPC then recorded into Logic where I do full mix downs. I love programming on the MPC and will definitely be using this machine for a long time to come."
E-mu SP-1200
"I've been using the SP-1200 lately with the Roland Space Echo RE-201 for pads and vocal samples but the drums are definitely undeniable.
"It's fun having the SP slaved to the MPC as well, since a few of the original SP pads aren't as responsive as they used to be."
Access Virus TI-Snow
"The overall sound of the Access Virus TI-Snow is a little too metallic and harsh for my tastes in general but once you get around how to smooth out and deepen your own patches it's pretty versatile."
Korg microKorg
"Even though it's been rinsed for some time now there's still a decent amount of possibilities in the microKorg and it also functions as one of my main MIDI keyboard controllers."
Roland Juno 106
"I picked up this Juno 106 off of Yahoo Auction which is like a better version of eBay for gear in Japan. Never get tired of Chorus 2."
Soundcraft 200BVE mixer
"The newest addition to the cubicle is a Soundcraft 200BVE 16 Channel board. Just recently getting into it, but it's been great so far."
Technics tape deck
"An older Technics tape deck also found on Yahoo Auction, which is great for resampling onto cassette before dumping to the MPC, and also just going back through old mixtapes.
"Shout out to Greg G for the custom Digikiller tape that's in there now."
Kawai XD-5
"I love programming the Kawai XD-5 and it's got some amazing capabilities for weird percussion."
Sound modules
"From top to bottom: An old Alesis NanoBass module that I recently found in a box; two Akai GM and Vintage sound modules; the Ediroal UM-880 MIDI patcher."
"MacBook Air running Logic with Apogee Duet interface at the controls."


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In Douglas Murray's latest piece for The Spectator, he asked whether Jews should leave Britain, a question prompted by a piece written by Israeli journalist Caroline Glick, which she wrote after participating in an Intelligence Squared debate about Israeli settlements.
The resolution they debated was titled: "Israel is destroying itself with its settlement policy. If settlement expansion continues Israel will have no future."
Glick and Danny Dayan, outgoing head of the Yesha Council, were pitted against William Sieghart and Lord Levy's son, Daniel Levy (one of the founders of J-Street).
The resolution passed by a ratio of 5-1.
Murray wrote the following:
"As Glick notes in her bitter farewell to London, the audience was so hostile towards her argument that when she even mentioned the matter of Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and his involvement with the Nazis during World War II she was booed down by the audience. They – having been presented to her as open-minded – turned out to be so close-minded and partial that they would not even hear a historical fact about a Palestinian figure who was an actual Nazi."
However, there was actually some applause from the audience in response to the following Nazi reference made by an audience member. (I edited the full video, which can be seen here).
The dilemma in responding to such a grotesque inversion – the insidious and intellectually bankrupt assertion that Israeli Jews are the practitioners of a Nazi ideology, a charge for which many "sophisticated" Europeans, weary of Holocaust guilt and increasingly hostile to Israel, seem to enjoy as a bit of moral Schadenfreude – is whether to dignify it with a response.
Murray, who didn't mention that particular question from the audience, strikes the correct tone in his broader reply when he contextualized the tenor of the Intelligence Squared debate by citing MP David Ward's evocation of 'Jewish atrocities' during his putative commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, as well as the cartoon by Gerald Scarfe.
Murray wrote the following:
"There is absolutely no connection between, for instance, the liquidation of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto and the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank. There is absolutely no connection between the situation in Gaza and the herding of six million Jews into concentration camps. The wonder then is not over Scarfe or Ward's sense of timing, but why at any point in any year they would be so keen to spread lies and to bait Jews by comparing the actions of the Jewish state with those of a genocidal doctrine of Nazism which sought to annihilate the Jews."
While Glick's gloomy and definitive prediction that there is no future for Jews in England seems a bit too glib, Murray's slightly more restrained conclusion and haunting final question certainly seem sober, well-informed and depressingly apt:
"Glick's question returns. What sort of future is there in Britain for Jews? I would submit that there is a future. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the price of that future is that Jews will increasingly be expected to distance themselves from Israel. There is a fair amount of evidence from the Jewish community suggesting that this process is already underway. Once it is complete then those 'good' anti-Israel Jews will be able to proclaim victory. But the same force that they encouraged to come for their co-religionists will then just as surely come for them. And then where will they hide?"
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Storyline 3: Customizing the Focus Order of Slide Objects
Sometimes it's helpful to change the focus order of your slide objects to improve keyboard navigation and make your course accessible to learners with screen readers. With Storyline 3, it's easy to do.
Tab & Reading Order The Focus Order window controls the tab order of interactive objects, such as buttons and markers, as well as the reading order for non-interactive objects, such as text and images. |
- Customizing the Focus Order
- Removing Objects from the Focus Order
- Restoring Objects to the Focus Order
- Resetting the Focus Order to Its Original State
- Adding Alternate Text for Screen Readers
Customizing the Focus Order
- Open the slide you want to customize in Slide View.
- Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Focus Order.
- When the Focus Order window opens, select the option to Create custom focus order in the upper left corner.
- To change the focus order of an object, select it and use the Up/Down arrows in the lower right corner to move it to a new location in the list. (Storyline will highlight the selected object on the slide with a red outline, so it's clear which object you're editing.)
- When you're finished, click Save.
- The default focus order is left to right and top to bottom.
- All objects for the slide appear in the Focus Order window, including objects from layers and slide masters.
- If you add new objects to the slide after customizing the focus order, they appear at the bottom of the list.
- The focus order you define also controls the reading order of text and images for screen readers.
- You can't customize the focus order of player navigation elements, but you can skip them when you're tabbing through a slide with a screen reader.
Removing Objects from the Focus Order
It's a good idea to remove objects from the focus order altogether if they aren't crucial to the context of the slide. For example, you might remove background design elements from the focus order so learners won't have to repeatedly press the Tab key to advance to important elements, such as captions and text-entry fields.
To remove an object from the focus order, select it in the list and click the Remove button in the lower left corner of the window.
Removing an object from the focus order doesn't delete it from the slide. It only hides it from keyboard navigation and screen readers.
Tip: To remove a slide master object from the custom focus order, you'll need to switch to Slide Master View (press F4). Right-click the object and choose Size and Position, then select the Accessibility tab and uncheck the visibility box.
Restoring Objects to the Focus Order
To restore an object to the focus order that you previously removed, click the Add button in the lower left corner of the window and select the object you want to restore.
To restore all objects at once, click the Add button and choose Add all objects back to focus order.
Resetting the Focus Order to Its Original State
Need to start over? Just mark the option to Use default focus order at the top of the window or click the Reset button at the bottom of the window. Here's the difference between the two:
- Use default focus order: This option resets your focus order and remembers your custom order in case you want to switch back.
- Reset: This option resets your focus order but doesn't remember your custom order.
Both options reset only the objects currently in the focus order list. They don't restore objects that you previously removed. See Restoring Objects to the Focus Order.
Adding Alternate Text for Screen Readers
To add alternate text for screen readers, simply enter text in the Alternate Text column on the right side of the focus order window. (Another option is to use the Size and Position window. See this user guide for details.)
If an object doesn't have alternate text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline.
Screen readers won't read objects that you've removed from the focus order.
Although slide master objects appear in the custom focus order window, you'll need to switch to Slide Master View (press F4) to set their alternate text. Right-click each object on the slide master, choose Size and Position, and select the Accessibility tab.


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Headquarter – Europe
Steinklüftstrasse 34
A-5340 St. Gilgen
Ph: +43-6227-7577
You are welcome to spend a weekend in our headquarter at St. Gilgen/Austria, where you can get some impressions of our activities. Every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Satsang is held, explaining the various aspects of spirituality. Literature can be provided to understand the true import of spirituality.
Moreover it is possible to see films about Sant Kirpal Singh or the project Kirpal Sagar. For talks and conversations we are at your disposal.
Our headquarter is located approximately 30 km from Salzburg at St. Gilgen – Austria, situated near the beautiful lake 'Wolfgangsee' amidst the mountains.
To see the location, illustrated with some pictures, click here:
Headquarters for the West – Google-maps.
The accommodation and the vegetarian meals are free of charge. Please note that the centre is a non smoking and non alcoholic area.
We would appreciate if you could send us a short message announcing your visit.


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Brann Dailor's Mastodon drum setup in pictures
Brann Dailor's drum setup in pictures
Mastodon began leaving their mark on the hard rock world 10 years ago with the release of their first album Remission. Since then, they've continued to grow and develop their skills as a band by releasing a string of daring yet critically acclaimed albums.
The latest is The Hunter. It could very well be the album of their career. Chock-full of grooving, catchy songs, the album maintains Mastodon's proggy style presented in shorter, concise cuts.
One quarter of this musical equation is Brann Dailor. Brann not only handles the complex rhythmic duties of Mastodon but also writes lyrics, arranges songs and sings as well.
Hailing from Rochester, New York, the 36-year-old Brann grew up in a musical household and was exposed to a wide variety of music. This led to getting an early start on drums at the age of three or four.
Brann's mother and stepfather were in a cover band and he was constantly hearing different music they were learning and playing. That, combined with whatever happened to be on the stereo, gave Brann quite an education.
Although not a schooled player with a formal background, Brann's musical exposure fuelled his desire to drum.
Previously working with producer Brendan O'Brien on their opus, Crack The Skye, Mastodon took another left turn and worked with noted hip-hop and r'n'b producer Mike Elizondo (who along with Dr Dre has produced tracks for50 cent and Eminem in addition to pop acts Fiona Apple, Pink and Maroon 5).
The result has been met with much approval. Brann's machine-gun single strokes are as prominent as ever and the drums are powerful and strong in the mix while still supporting the song. Mastodon are currently on tour in the UK in support of the album.
Rhythm recently caught up with Brann to chat about his playing and recording The Hunter. Here we bring you pictures of his kit, along with snippets from that interview, which you can read in full in Rhythm 198. Or you can subscribe to Rhythm Magazine to read interviews with the world's top drummers each month.
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The kit
Tama Starclassic Bubinga: 22x18-inch bass drum; 10x61⁄2-inch, 12x7-inch & 13x7.5-inch toms; 16x16-inch floor tom; 14x6-inch Starphonic brass snare
You've used the same set-up over years, is there a particular reason for that?
"I don't know, I guess I'm just a creature of habit. I get used to a set-up being a certain way. I know there are guys out there that will change it up from time to time to keep it interesting but I just really feel like I have a handle on the way my drums are set up.
"When I write music with the band, I use those configurations so much, if I was to put something else in, I don't know where I'd use it. I didn't write the song with it. I would have to change it before writing. Like add a china or something like that.
"I've always tried to keep it as simple as possible, but I can't seem to get rid of the three toms up top. I like having the three toms there. I had a bigger kit when I was 14 or 15 and when we went to play our first gig, I couldn't fit all the drums into one car, so I had to get a hold of a truck to come over and pick up the rest of the drum kit and bring it to the gig.
"The set-up that I have now was out of necessity back then to be able to fit the drums into one car. That's why I got rid of the actual double bass that I used to have.
"I had a big Ludwig rocker kit when I was 14. It was massive and wouldn't fit in one car, so I had to downsize."
Meinl: 14-inch Mb20 Heavy Soundwave hi-hats; 18-inch Mb20 Heavy crash; 22-inch Mb8 Medium ride; 8-inch Classic Bells Effect cymbal; 20-inch Mb20 Heavy crash
The songs on The Hunter are shorter and more compact. Was that intentional or just the way the writing happened?
"It's just the way it worked out. I guess it's sort of a knee-jerk reaction to Crack The Skye, which was really long songs with lots of stuff going on. We wanted to go the other way with it.
"But you can talk all day about what you want to do and then once you start writing, things just start happening. It takes on a life of its own. You have to trust it and follow it wherever it goes and hope for the best. There were a lot of weird, stressful situations happening with people in their lives outside of the band.
"Normally, for a mastodon album, we usually make that a really stressful thing. We're in there everyday, all day long, banging our heads up against the wall to figure out how to shoehorn these mathematical equations into these songs and it gets pretty intense in there.
"Tempers flare occasionally and people have been known to walk out [laughs]! All's fair I guess. We get together the next day and go, 'okay, sorry.' that's like eight months of that going on usually, especially for Crack The Skye.
"Trying to put together stuff like 'The Last Baron', which is a nightmare, to be honest. It was fun and when you're finally able to get through the whole song and it feels right and you can play it through for 14 minutes, it feels like you accomplished something.
"This time around, it was really imperative to make sure the practice space was the one place that was stress-free. We could all go there and write music together and have it not be difficult or hard.
"I think that in the past, if we'd come up with a riff, or a series of riffs like in 'Curl Of The Burl', we would have said to ourselves, 'it's a little too simple. People expect more from us,' or something like that, but we went with gut reaction. We were satisfied with a simpler version of ourselves."
Tama hardware including Speed Cobra double pedal, Iron Cobra lever glidehi-hat stand & 1st Chair Ergo Rider drum throne; Vater 5B woodtip sticks; Evans heads: EQ3 clear bass, EQ3 black resonant bass, EQ Pad muffler, AF Patch, Power Center snare batter, 300 snare side, G2 clear tom tops, G1 clear tom bottoms
Is the writing a democratic process?
"It's democratic. Everyone contributes. It happens a whole bunch of different ways. I could write something at home. Everyone writes a little bit of something at home. Or, we come in and we have one riff or two riffs. Someone else has a riff that goes with that one, something like that.
"I feel like it doesn't become a Mastodon song until everyone has some input on it. Everyone touches the song in a certain way. It does something different and it brings something different to the table to make it sound like us.
"If it's just one person by themselves, it doesn't sound like Mastodon to me. Everyone gets in there and contributes a little bit."
On being a lyrical drummer...
When you are writing lyrics, where does your inspiration come from, and do your lyrics inspire certain drum parts - or is it the other way around?
"I see the way a vocal pattern lies over the top of something as also having a percussive element to it. I try to pick a subject matter for lyric writing but it's hard because you want things to come to you naturally.
"You don't want to push for them to happen. I sit down with a song and listen to it over and over again and try to sing something over the top of it. Then I'll get some sounds going, like some phrasings going. Then I'll make those into lyrics.
"I'll say, 'I can get four syllables into this space.' that's how you have to write the lyrics. They have to fit in these little spaces. You have to shoehorn them in there. Then you have to try to make lines one and three rhyme and make lines two and four. It's really unorthodox but we make it work somehow."
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September 11 was to be my first day of work at a new job in downtown Manhattan. Though New York was still very new to me, it was immediately obvious that something was terribly wrong. As I climbed the stairs of the subway just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, there was a palpable feeling of panic in the air as people stared, horrified, into the sky. I followed their gaze upward and I instantly understood. Smoke and fire were gushing from a gaping hole in the smooth, silvery surface of the right-hand tower.
I asked someone nearby if he knew what had happened, and he said it was a bomb. Another man walked over and declared, "No, it was a plane, a plane flew right into building . . . ." Then an enormous explosion drowned out his words. Above our heads, an orange fireball swallowed the top of the second tower, as clouds of paper filled the sky above us. Hundreds of people began scattering. I ran across the street to the Municipal Building and up to a shrieking woman who stammered through her sobs that she had seen a large blue and white plane slam into the building. We stared slack-jawed as sections of the building's metallic facade fell in chunks to the ground. It took a few moments until we realized that some of those falling pieces were not metal at all, but rather human beings leaping eighty or more stories to their deaths—right before our eyes. All I could think to do was make the sign of the cross.
As I stood there in disbelief, a man next to me with a messaging pager said that the Pentagon had just been hit. I grabbed at his pager to read it for myself. Then came the confusion and rumors on the street: "The Capitol's been attacked!" "The State Department has been bombed!" "The Supreme Court is in flames!" "Camp David is burning!" "A plane is on its way to the White House!"
During all this, the fire trucks had been racing past on their way to the Towers. I must have seen twelve of them rush past our corner. In the coming hours and days, I often wondered how many of the men on those trucks died just minutes later.
Soon the NYPD asked us to evacuate the area. It was only a minute after we began to walk uptown and away from the Towers that the sound of several claps of thunder began to rip through the air just over my shoulder. I turned around and saw with my own eyes a sight of pure horror, as the left-hand tower began to collapse into a massive white cloud. Our walk quickly became a run, and then a stampede.
Eventually, as we got farther away from the cataclysm, our pace slowed back down. I caught my breath, trying to absorb what I had just witnessed, when an olive-skinned man with a mustache and briefcase walking to my right began to intone: "You see what happens! All the Palestinians want is a place to call home, a small piece of land. We continue to fund the Israelis, we supply them with money and weapons, we support the persecution of a people for decades, and you see what happens! It should not have come to this. It didn't have to come to this! They have had enough, and you see how they respond—they've got our attention now."
Letting him push on without me, I paused with several hundred others at the Manhattan Bridge to watch the lone burning tower. We had outrun the smoke and dust unscathed, but now thousands of others followed behind us. They were in groups of three or four, marching toward midtown, some sprinkled with ash, many others caked with a dust that had hardened on their skin as it mixed with sweat and traces of blood. They passed by like ghosts—grayish-white figures carrying bags, suitcases, and purses. Extras from the set of a horror film, quietly walking home.
As I followed them uptown, a businessman from Atlanta who was in New York on business told me that he couldn't get through to his wife on his cell phone; he knew she'd be scared as hell. "I was on the eighty-first floor, and we were probably the last to get out, but the firefighters kept coming in, heading up as we headed down. They just kept filing up the stairs."
Then, a sudden gasp from a group of Chinese men and women on the corner, and we turned to watch the second tower follow the fate of the first. After a few seconds, I continued my dazed trek to my apartment on 19th Street.
I'm not sure why I went back. The morning of the twelfth I heard a homily at Mass imploring Christians not to yield to the pain and evil but to overcome adversity with faith. That message stuck with me.
The van of volunteers drove us through the smoking and dusty streets of lower Manhattan, cluttered with countless thousands of sheets of paper; all around us, cars and emergency vehicles looked like they were made of papier-mâché. Fruit and bagel stands stood abandoned on empty sidewalks, the apples and bananas sitting in undisturbed rows, coated with a layer of pulverized concrete half an inch thick.
For someone raised in peaceful and prosperous America, Ground Zero itself was simply astonishing to behold. In the center, a crater 60 feet deep and 120 feet across. On each side, the mangled remains of the towers themselves. They say that each floor of each massive 110-story building was an acre in size. Spread before me was 220 acres of pure destruction crammed into a 16-acre plaza.
Stringy steel rods cut like irregular staircase steps—the skeleton of the building facade—surrounded two six-story piles of debris. Twisted red steel. Windows. Carpets. Toilets. Bits of copy machines, computers, file cabinets, desks. And of course, hidden somewhere within the mountainous piles, the mutilated remains of over five thousand human beings. And then there was the noxious smoke, streaming from a thousand cracks and fissures in the piles from hundreds of hidden fires beneath them. It was a smoldering mound of hell on earth.
No one seemed to be in charge. Hundreds of firefighters crawled around on the piles in small groups. Several pockets of twenty or thirty of them labored with torches, shovels, wire cutters, jackhammers, electric saws, oxygen canisters, hoses, dogs, and their bare hands. At the fringe of the pile—near the Brooks Brothers store that had been transformed into a makeshift morgue—stood several long lines of emergency workers who handed off buckets of debris, one by one. Spontaneous order emerged from the chaos.
So, for example, a New York City fire captain in the pit who needed forty welding tips phoned a friend in New Jersey who has a boat. His friend calls the local union, and in an hour a couple boxes of welding tips are loaded onto a ship, along with several boxes of food, clothes, medical supplies, and fifteen guys looking to lend a hand. An hour later the captain docks the boat at the Cove, east of the American Express building directly adjacent to the site. Ten minutes later, a motley group of construction workers, police officers, volunteers, FBI agents, and National Guardsmen arrive to unload the boxes and pass them down a 150-man work line. Linda and Jackie, two nurses, organize the unloading at the end of the supply line: "Medical supplies, here! Clothes, there! Construction supplies, here!" The captain radios that the welding tips are off the boat. Twenty minutes later, a retired veteran named Rich makes his way into the makeshift supply store on the second floor of the AMEX building, finds the welding tips, and hauls them in a golf cart across the plaza to an equally makeshift transfer station. Half an hour later, the captain who "ordered" the welding tips from his friend in New Jersey not more than two hours ago walks over to pick up his supplies.
Much of my time was spent directing materials around the site. The supply triangle between the dock, the AMEX building, and the piles ran nonstop for several days and nights. In the days following September 11, similar operations were repeated throughout lower Manhattan, as thousands of people spontaneously found and contributed to the supply chain.
There was much goodness and bravery at the site, but there was also fear, as frayed nerves frequently conspired to induce instantaneous panic. When something shifted unexpectedly on one of the piles, for instance, a firefighter would run, sending the team around him leaping from the huge mound, thereby inspiring hundreds of workers in that quadrant of Ground Zero to scatter. Within seconds several hundred workers would be "running for their lives" down the nearest street, tossing their tools, kicking up dust behind them, tripping over live fire hoses.
Then, as people began to realize that it had been a false alarm, the explanations would begin. "The Millennium Building was gonna come down." "I smelled natural gas." "There was a fire on the pile." After twenty minutes or so, people would slowly creep back toward the site. This cycle repeated itself several times in the first few days, until a system of bells and bullhorns replaced leaping bodies as the official evacuation call.
I would never have predicted it beforehand, but one of the most helpful and generous groups on site were the Scientologists, who, as I learned, take great pride in being the first to respond to the scene of disasters and crises. When you state your need to a member of the Church of Scientology, the entire group enters what they call the "cycle of action." Anyone who answers a request must do everything in his power to satisfy it and return directly to the person who issued the request to report the results. Ask a Scientologist for a respirator, for example, and your request immediately echoes out from your location in concentric circles. "You need a respirator?" "Respirator!" "We need a respirator up here!" "OK, who's got the respirators?" "Bring out the respirators!" It was extremely efficient, if also slightly comic.
The Scientologists were not always so helpful, however. They also provided what they called an "assist""an odd procedure during which a worker runs his hands over your arms and legs in order to "center your energy." It didn't so much resemble a massage as a child petting a small dog before he has acquired complete motor coordination.
At a time when so many people seemed to be at their best, it was sad, although hardly surprising, to learn that a few took advantage of the breakdown of law and order in the vicinity of Ground Zero. Some of the looters did their damage in the shadows, late at night, while others were bolder, dressing up as construction or utility workers. They pilfered through the AMEX supply area, filling up bags and buckets with donated jeans, shoes, sweatshirts, socks, and underwear. They made their way into people's homes and businesses, taking advantage of the mass evacuations in lower Manhattan to take what they wished.
One day an off-duty officer from the Department of Justice took me on a golf cart tour of the businesses that had been looted shortly after being boarded up by the authorities. He was particularly incensed that a nearby National Guardsman had been so ineffective in preventing the damage. Moreover, a number of apartments in Battery Park City—the high-rise residential buildings that abut the Trade Center—had been broken into, and a number of supplies down at the dock had been stolen, both while supposedly under watch by the National Guard officers. A few days later, the military police and the NYPD stepped in to clamp down on the crime.
President Bush arrived at Ground Zero on Friday, September 14—the first day in my twenty-four years of living that I experienced genuine patriotism. When word got out that the president might pay us a visit, eyebrows lifted and smiles cracked on faces. Twenty minutes before he arrived, the NYPD cleared the area at the northern edge of the site, and several work crews that had been on their way to work began to congregate around the area where Bush would arrive. As soon as he stepped out of his black Suburban, the workers dropped their shovels and scurried around to welcome him. Many of us stood on overturned buckets behind a few rows of people to catch a glimpse, and those behind us stood on two or three buckets. Scores of guys climbed on top of the trucks, cranes, and emergency vehicles in the area to watch and listen. Some just climbed higher on the rubble, or stood on an overturned I-beam to catch a glimpse.
I thought to myself that this scene must be reminiscent of some bygone time in America's political history when a White House staff did not plan every presidential visit weeks in advance. I thought of Lincoln at Gettysburg, stepping out of a train to make a speech, and spontaneous crowds of people, some climbing into trees or on walls, gathering around to watch and listen. Here was our commander-in-chief, faced with unprecedented destruction on American soil, to rally men in hard hats at the center of a wounded city, at the center of a stunned nation.
As he passed in front of our section, his hand met mine, and he looked me in the eye for more than a moment to hear me stammer what I believe was something like, "God bless, Mr. President, we're behind you." He was in no hurry to speak to us as a group, but rather took his time meeting us individually. The crowd around the rubble was growing fast, reaching at least 1000. There was clearly an enthusiasm in the air for the first time since September 11.
When the President finally grabbed a bullhorn and began to speak, it was hard to hear him at first. When someone in the crowd shouted, "We can't hear you!" the president proclaimed loudly, "But I can hear you! And the rest of the country hears you! And soon, the people who did this . . . are going to hear from all of us!" At that moment, a shot of electricity surged through the crowd. Cheers erupted and echoed off the surrounding buildings, each draped with a tattered American flag. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" It went on and on.
Then—at the corner of West and Vesey streets in New York City, on the edge of a mass grave, at the feet of the commander-in-chief of the world's mightiest nation—I was overwhelmed with an unexpected sense of fraternity and love of country. Not fifty feet away lay the remains of five thousand innocent people, and here, at their side, a band of their brothers stood before their leader, united in an unconditional love of justice. I really do think that is what it was.
One night at 2 a.m. I was on my way through the rain to pick up supplies in the AMEX building, which, among other things, was being used as a transfer station for the bodies and parts of bodies we had recovered from the site. From there, they were packed onto trucks to be taken to the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. As I entered the atrium of the building I saw scores of workers holding their hard hats over their chests. Fifty yards away a dozen firefighters proceeded slowly in my direction carrying a body bag. I removed my hard hat and stepped to the side. As they approached, I could read their red, swollen eyes. Their uniforms were dark with mud and soot. Raindrops dripped from everyone's gear. A priest wearing a raincoat, a hard hat, goggles, a respirator, and a headlamp came forward with a book and oils. The men carrying their fallen friend cried quietly as the priest rolled back the bag and anointed the body, administering Last Rites. In the atrium, heads bowed and no one moved. I don't remember how long we stood there, but time seemed to stop as profane space became as sacred as a shrine. Eventually, the priest stepped away, and the firemen walked slowly forward, out the doors and into the truck waiting outside. Without a word, we went back out into the dark rain to work.
Before the rainstorm, nearly everything at Ground Zero was covered with a layer of dust, which became the parchment for the messages of rescue workers. On windows or walls, you could find short compositions: "God Bless America," "Engine company 6," "Give us Justice," "Revenge is a bitch," "We miss you Johnny," and the like. But one message stood out. Written with a black marker on a flier posted on a pillar of the AMEX building, "RIP Fr. Mike." Father Mike Judge, a Franciscan priest and chaplain of the FDNY, died when he was struck by a falling body on September 11 as he administered Last Rites to a deceased firefighter. In the days since September 11, working around the clock with little-to-no rest, I lost track of time. But this message reminded me that it was Sunday.
Sunday was my fifth day working at Ground Zero. I was exhausted. After making my rounds at the supply area, I walked up North End Avenue to the support center at Stuyvesant High School. I had heard earlier in the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral was going to hold a 5:30 Mass, and I felt the need to attend it. As I entered the building, I saw a man dressed in a white habit walking slowly but deliberately down the hall. The tip of his Roman collar peaked out of the robe. He looked and spoke like James Earl Jones and his face was very serious. It occurred to me later that he was probably a Franciscan and had likely just come from attending to the dead at Ground Zero.
All around us, the Scientologists and volunteers buzzed back and forth, and police officers and workers passed by. I asked the priest whether there would be an evening Mass around the site, and he told me that the only one had been held at 9:00 that morning. I told him that I was hoping to attend the memorial Mass at St. Patrick's, which I instantly realized had started six minutes earlier. He then said very deliberately, "I can offer you the Holy Eucharist. Would you like that?" And then, with five days of chaos in my head and fatigue consuming my body, a nameless priest in a white robe, almost invisible in the white hallway were it not for his dark complexion, put his hand on my head, said a blessing, and placed the Body of Christ in my mouth. My eyes remained closed for a long time.
Here, amid the nonstop movement and clutter of bodies and buildings, amid the constant acrid smell of smoke and smog, amid the signs reading "Warning, high levels of asbestos here!", amid the dozens of workers who seemed always on the verge of breaking down in tears, amid the steady flow of sobbing civilians who toured the place where their loved one lay entombed, amid the constant sounds of machines, crashing metal, and sirens, amid all of the destruction and death—here was a pocket of peace. Here, Christ was present, not only among us, but now, again, inside me. And then this angel in the whirlwind sent me on my way and resumed his slow but deliberate walk through the horror, looking to dispense solace to any and all who would accept it, passing through the tumult, almost as though he were from another world.
Vincent Druding, a former editorial assistant for First Things, was recently ordained into the priesthood for the diocese of New York. This essay was originally published in the December 2001 issue of First Things.
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The Hunt for Red October (Hardcover)
Tom Clancy's rich imagination and his remarkable grasp of the capabilities of advanced technology give this novel an amazing ring of authenticity. It is a thriller with a new twist, a "military procedural" with an ingenious, tightly woven plot that revolves around the defection of a Soviet nuclear submarine--the USSR's newest and most valuable ship, with its most trusted and skilled officer at the helm. A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The entire Soviet Atlantic Fleet is ordered to hunt down the submarine and destroy her at all costs. The Americans are determined to find her first and get her safely to port in the intelligence coups of all time. But the Red October has a million square miles of ocean to hide in and a new silent propulsion system that is impossible to detect. Or is it? Her daring and cunning captain, Marko Ramius, thinks so. The commander of the Soviet's fastest attack submarine, however, is confident that he will find his prey. And Bart Mancuso, the aggressive commander of the U.S. Navy attack sub the Dallas, is counting on the sensitive ears of his resourceful young sonar operator to identify Red October's unique sound print and track her down. The nerve-wracking hunt goes on for eighteen days as the Red October stealthily eludes her hunters across 4,000 miles of ocean. But just short of Ramius's objective, his submarine converges with the others in a rousing climax that is one of the most thrilling underwater scenes ever written. Can the start of all-out war be avoided? The outcome is clear only on the very last pages.
Since the publication of The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy established an unrivalled position as the world's leading thriller writer, with a string of million-selling novels and three major Hollywood films to his name. He was also the author of SSN and the non-fiction books Submarine, Armoured Warfare, Fighter Wing and Marine, and the co-creator of the Op-Centre series.


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Don't segregate boys #students and girls #students in classrooms?
Is your daughter a tomboy? Your son not especially into football? Does your daughter excel at math? Your son a skilled artist? Or does your daughter switch roles, relatively easily, from skinning her knees on a soccer field to worrying about what to wear to a party? Or does your son, like mine, come home sweaty and bruised from lacrosse practice only to sing gorgeously in the shower as a member of his high school a cappella group?
If your answers are yes — and probably most parents recognize some elements of these traits in their children — you can breathe a bit easier today. That is, at least, if you happen to live in Wood County, West Virginia.
That's because recently, under a legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and its local affiliates, the Wood County Board of Education agreed to abandon for two school years its program of separating boys and girls into single-sex classes. The ACLU had filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mother and her daughters who claimed the sex segregation was a form of sex discrimination against girls.
This little-noted legal settlement gives all of us — parents, teachers, administrators, and kids themselves — something to think about: Are single-sex classes really an effective way to educate our children?
Historically, of course, single-sex schools — especially private schools and colleges — were the norm. But since the dawn of the 20th century, both educators and parents have seen them as historic anachronisms, especially for boys. Single-sex schools for girls may have challenged stereotypes, but single-sex schools for boys reproduced them, fostering what David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, in their monumental midcentury study, "The Academic Revolution," called "male arrogance."
Today, single-sex schools may provide some benefits, though these tend to be benefits that accompany the economic privilege of the families that can afford them. (That is, single sex private schools tend to also be schools for the elite.) But single-sex classes, in otherwise coeducational public schools, are entirely misguided.
In recent years, single-sex classes in public schools have become increasingly popular as a low-cost remedy for two issues that plague our country's public school system: the efforts to encourage girls' ambitions in traditionally "masculine" arenas such as science, technology, engineering and math, and to address the "boy crisis" in schools, the chronic underachievement of boys, especially in traditionally "feminine" subjects such as English.
It's a popular theory. After Title IX regulations changed in 2006, more than 1,000 public schools segregated at least some of their classes by sex, a 2010 Feminist Majority report said. The National Association for Single Sex Public Education states a lower number — it says 500 U.S. public schools "offered single-sex educational opportunities" for the 2011-12 school year.
Regardless, the theory is wrong. In fact, single-sex classes might do more harm than good.
To be sure, there is some anecdotal evidence that some students prefer single-sex classes (though they tend not to "prefer" to take calculus and we still insist they do). And especially in inner-city communities, single-sex "academies" have gained popularity because of their brilliant combination of rigid discipline, uniforms and powerful sense of community and school spirit. But, according to Pedro Noguera, an education expert, there is no research that shows the "single-sex" part of the equation has any independent effect on student performance.
Instead, evidence points decidedly in the other direction.
Single-sex classes reinforce harmful stereotypes about boys and girls. A 2011 article in the journal Science concluded that "sex-segregated education is deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, cherry-picked, or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence. There is no well-designed research showing that single-sex education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." The article's authors, all researchers, were also members of the nonprofit American Council for CoEducational Schooling.
These efforts are often based on the flawed notions of a few educational consultants, such as Dr. Leonard Sax. He's the founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, which is now more innocuously titled the National Association for Choice in Education as if to obscure its actual mission. Under these theories, school districts have experimented with different curricula, seating arrangements, pedagogical styles and even room temperature, 72 degrees for girls and 68 degrees for boys.
According to a brief filed by the ACLU in 2010, boys in one Louisiana school read "Where the Red Fern Grows" while girls read "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" because "boys like 'hunting' and 'dogs,' but girls prefer 'love stories.' "
"Girls tend to look on the teacher as an ally," the association's website explains. "Given a little encouragement, they will welcome the teacher's help. A girl-friendly classroom is a safe, comfortable, welcoming place. Forget hard plastic chairs: put in a sofa and some comfortable beanbags."
In the case of Van Devender Middle School, the school in Wood County, West Virginia, the ACLU said the principal defended the layout of the boys' class — students seated side-by-side, bright lighting because "when they look at each other in the eye, it becomes more of a confrontational type of thing." Girls had dimmer mood lighting, and they would, "sit around tables, where they can make eye contact, where they can make relationships, and that sort of thing."
The ACLU said the mother who challenged the single-sex class arrangement was furious that one of her daughters was constantly told to sit still — despite the fact that she had attention deficit disorder and the boys in the adjacent classroom had opportunities galore to move around. Another girl with poor vision struggled to read in the dimmer light. A third was prohibited from taking notes during a presentation because her teacher said that girls learn better through auditory, not visual, input.
I assume that most of the parents of girls find such stereotypes deeply insulting. But I'd hope that parents of boys find them equally insulting — that boys are only capable of learning in a Spartan setting, more like boot camp than school. What's the recommendations for boys — that classes be experienced as unsafe, that we seat them in uncomfortable chairs, bark at them and make them read "If" and "Invictus?"
We know that boys and girls are as different from each other as they are from every other child.
Parents with larger families often see this better than parents who have one boy and one girl and observe categorical differences between the two, assuming that such differences are somehow biologically hard-wired. Good social science is different from good parenting, and requires a sample size greater than two.
If you have, say, six kids, you'll describe one or two of your boys as "more quiet, a bit shyer" than the others, or a girl as "the tomboy" who "loves to play sports." Imagine what would happen to those "nonconformists" in a single sex class that is entirely oriented to the rough and tumble boys or the quiet girly-girls.
Fortunately, the tide is turning.
As the evidence mounts that single-sex classrooms confuse the norm with the normative, teaching to stereotypes rather than children, parents are challenging every effort as both discriminatory and harmful to their children. In the past year, the number of single-sex options in public schools dropped for the first time in more than a decade. Several schools — including some in Boston; Pittsburgh; Madison, Wisconsin; and Durham, North Carolina — have dropped existing or planned single-sex classes after ACLU involvement.
Our nation's schools serve us best when they teach our children as individuals, with remarkably diverse personalities and learning styles. All our children — boys and girls — deserve no less.


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God The Father: Call To Catholic Church To…
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 @ 16:42
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 @ 16:42
I Am God the Almighty Father, Creator of all things, God the Most High.
My daughter, it is important that those who follow the Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church accept the millennium, as promised to all of My children.
The Words contained in My Holy Book, the Holy Bible, do not lie.
My Promise is contained in the Acts of the Apostles.
John the Evangelist was also told about the Glorious Return of My beloved Son, when He will reign in the new Era of Peace for 1,000 years.
Why do those who profess to understand My Holy Word refuse to accept part of it, but not the other?
To those sacred servants of mine, I say to you now to open the Book of Truth.
You have a duty to proclaim the Truth.
You must not listen to those, within your ranks, who twist the Truth in relation to the New Era of Peace on Earth.
What motivates your brothers, within My Roman Catholic Church, who deny the Truth?
You have confused My children.
Because of their loyalty to the One True Church, The Roman Catholic Church, you are denying them the chance to prepare their souls for My Son's Reign in the New Paradise on Earth.
Your duty is to inform My children of the Truth.
To My children, you must never deny the Truth contained in the Holy Bible, which contains the True Word.
You, My children, must accept the Promise made by My Son, after His Glorious Resurrection from the dead.
He said that He would come again.
This time, for the Second Coming of My Beloved Son on Earth, is drawing close.
If you believe in the Promises made by My Son, then you will know that He means what He said.
When He comes again, He comes to Rule and take up His Rightful Throne in the New Paradise I have created for you all on Earth.
Never doubt the Words from the Divine Lips of My Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.
Know that I, your Beloved Father, want you all to join as one family with My Son in Paradise.
Accept the Truth. Do not twist it or adjust it to suit your flawed interpretation of the Truth.
I Am the Truth.
You cannot change Me or Who I Am.
The Truth will set you free.
Your beloved Father
God the Most High
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