text:
Succession planning is one of the most important topics in nonprofit capacity building. That wasn't the case even 10 years ago. Today, there's more people moving from job to job, and a large number of baby boomers retiring. Effectively filling those open positions is critical to the success of the organization.
Unfortunately, succession planning is still done quite poorly — primarily because it's too often seen as a matter of replacing a person, rather than organizational performance management. Those two perspectives produce very different ways to do succession planning.
(Unfortunately, performance management is too often viewed only as employee performance management, and not as organizational performance management — but that's another blog post.)
Succession planning is a management function,
not a staffing crisis.
Establish Board-approved, up-to-date personnel policies
They should include guidelines and procedures about, e.g., staffing analysis, hiring, orienting, training and organizing employees; performance management; and compensation and benefits. Those policies not only ensure fair and equitable treatment of employees — they can minimize chances that you'd lose a lawsuit with an employee.
Here's more about personnel policies.
Conduct relevant and realistic strategic and departmental planning
The planning clarifies the most appropriate priorities for the position to address. A position, or job role, is really a means to get something done in the organization — it's means to achieve an overall goal or address an overall priority. Why fill a position that was not designed well in the first place? Only through useful planning will the organization know if the position is designed well.
Here's more about strategic planning.
Conduct staffing analysis to identify most appropriate roles
Too often, job roles are developed in response to recurring crises in the workplace, to an increasing amount of work that is not getting done. Instead, roles should be identified near the end of strategic planning when clarifying what expertise is needed to achieve goals. The analysis should produce up-to-date, relevant job descriptions. (There are many who assert that job descriptions are no longer a useful management tool — that's another blog post.)
Here's more information about staffing analysis.
Use suitable practices of employee performance management
These practices should be done regardless of whether the employee is leaving or not. They include:
- Establishing performance goals in reference to the employee's job description and priorities for the year
- Techniques for effective delegation, not just work direction
- Getting up-to-date descriptions from the employee about his priorities, issues, plans, etc.
- Sharing useful feedback to continue to enhance the employee's performance
- Addressing performance issues when they occur (they might require training, providing more resources, getting more from the employee or firing the employee)
Here's more about employee performance management.
Making sure all employees go on vacation
That forces the organization to learn about — and be able to do — the jobs when the employees are gone. A supervisor might not really know what his employees are actually doing to get the job done. Ironically, the better the supervisor is at delegating, the less the supervisor might know about the details of his employee's job.
Succession planning is about developing and implementing a system, a practice of activities on a recurring basis. Then, when an employee leaves, the system almost naturally refills the position with the most suitable candidate.
Here's more resources about succession planning.
What do you think?
For more resources, see our Library topic Nonprofit Capacity Building.
Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD – Authenticity Consulting, LLC – 800-971-2250
Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning.


text:
Get expert advice from the design pros with $100 minimum purchase.
Get professional design and home decor advice for FREE* from HER Home Design
Hand-crafted minimalism highlights this nightstand with glass top. It is fashioned from solid poplar, white oak veneer, plywood, MDF, and metal. It features a tempered glass top and a charming grey oak finish with brushed nickel accents for style and panache. Drawers are constructed with 45mm metal ball-bearing glides for easy movement. The details and design of this nightstand make it the perfect bedroom accent piece.
Get the latest interior design and home decor trends from the design team at HER Home Design

subset: commoncrawl


text:
A classic staple of men's style, watches remain one of the most important fashion accessories for sophisticated guys everywhere. But don't feel that you have to spend a small fortune for a quality timepiece. In fact, those in the know can get a swank timekeeper for under $500. Don't believe us? Check out these options.
Invicta Diplomat Alarm Watch
Don't let the straight-laced name fool you. The Diplomat Alarm Watch adds a modern twist to a classic design – perfect for creative types. $399 Invictawatch.com
Hamilton Boulton Large
An American classic with Middle Eastern flavor, the Hamilton Boulton stresses simplicity and elegance. As an added touch, Arabic-styled numerals adorn the face of this sophisticated timepiece. $475 Hamiltonwatch.com
Tourneau Sea Pearl
Looking for a watch that's at home both in the office and on the high seas? Water resistant to 20 atmospheres, the Sea Pearl is a perfect combination of form and function. $450 Tourneau.com
Wenger Commando Dual Time 2-Eye
Wenger combines rugged military features with clean, sophisticated lines to make the Commando series one of the best all-around values on the market. $275 Wengerna.com
Check out Debonairmag.com and start living a better life on any budget.
For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube!


text:
Issue No.5, Fall 2006
November 6, 2006
Dear JUA Readers,
Below you will find the new issue of JUA, filled with information on
Africa-related events, jobs, and resources.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any submissions or questions.
With best wishes,
James De Lorenzi
JUA Editor
For archived issues of JUA, including jobs currently advertised, see:
Pediatrician Dr. Jerry Ehrlich worked for Mdecins sans Frontires (Doctors
Without Borders) in Darfur in 2004, and has served overseas in Sri Lanka,
Georgia, and Haiti, as well as locally in Camden. He will be speaking
from 1:00 to 2:00 on Friday, November 10, in Reunion Hall, at the John
Morgan Building on Penn's Campus.
The African Studies Center Outreach series is presenting another K-12
Teacher Training Workshop, entitled "Africa: Environmental Threats and
Opportunities." It will take place from 3:30 -6:30 PM on November 14, in
Williams Hall Room 816.
The annual Wharton African Business Forum (WABF) of the University of
Pennsylvania will take place November 11th, 2006, at John Huntsman Hall on
Penn campus. The theme for the conference is "Africa: Building New
Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy." The Wharton Africa Business
Forum is an integral component of the Wharton Global Business Forum, the
pre-eminent business school event addressing the major economic, social
and political trends affecting Africa, Asia, Europe, India and Latin
America. In its 14th year, the Wharton Africa Business Forum (WABF) is
expected to bring together three hundred business leaders, investors,
academics, and students with a keen interest in Africa.
On November 15th, Ghanaian theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye will be at Temple
University speaking about women's leadership in Ghana. Founder of the
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, Oduyoye is being honored at
the national AAR meeting with a panel cosponsored by the Womanist
Approaches to Religion and Society and the AAR Committee on
the Status of Women in the Profession. Her presentation will begin at 2:40
pm, and will be in the Women's Studies Lounge, 8th floor, Anderson Hall.
On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, West Chester University will host Jen
Marlowe (A UPenn graduate), one of the makers of the documentary film
"Darfur Diaries." Ms. Marlowe will be on campus all day for a variety of
events, culminating with a showing of her film at 7pm followed by a panel
discussion that includes Dr. Lawrence Davidson, a WCU professor of Middle
Eastern Studies who returned from a visit to the Sudan in mid-September.
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies is organizing a
postgraduate research workshop for the 10th of November, 2006. The
workshop will include sessions on presenting your work
at conferences, publishing and careers, as well as current research in
Francophone postcolonial studies. The workshop is open to all
postgraduates working on the colonial and/or postcolonial periods, or
colonial and/or postcolonial issues in any area (history, literature,
cinema, politics, linguistics, etc) related to metropolitan France and
Belgium and/or constituent parts of what is termed "the
Francophone world". The day will provide an invaluable opportunity to meet
other postgraduates and researchers working in French and Francophone
Studies. There is an admission fee of 15 for the postgraduate research
workshop (which includes tea/coffee, lunch, and membership of SFPS for
2007). An outline programme and the booking form can be found on the
website: www.sfps.ac.uk (follow the link under Conferences and Study
Universidade do Porto, Portugal (November 16-17, 2006)
The Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto develops
interdisciplinary research on African societies, including projects on one
of the most striking phenomenon of the modern period: African forced
labour. With the purpose of sharing findings and promoting scientific
debate, the CEAUP is presenting a seminar that will cover all forms of
forced labour of African origin, from the medieval slave trade to the
colonial policies of the XX century, and including both the colonial
African regions and the American and Asian societies where African forced
labour was integrated. For more details, contact (email@example.com).
Dubbed the "Goya of the Townships" for the eloquence of his drawing,
Dumile was born in Worcester in the western Cape. An artist of astonishing
power who had few opportunities to develop his art, and whose despair led
him to substance abuse, Dumile, perhaps more than any other African
artist, deserves a proper retrospective. Despite the adversity he faced as
a black South African artist, or perhaps because of it, Dumile's work
communicated a depth of emotion that was exceptional and there can be no
doubt that he deserves a wider
Settler colonisers come to stay. They seek to replace native peoples
on--or, at least, displace them from--their land. Characteristically, the
outcome is a conflictual coexistence through which indigenous and invasive
societies historically transform one another. In addition to the classic
sites of European settler colonialism (Ireland, the Americas, Africa,
Australasia), settler colonialism structures relationships as historically
and culturally diverse as those between Israelis and Palestinians,
Japanese and Ainu, Chinese and Tibetans, Indonesians and Papuans,
'Americans' and Hawaiians, Tswana and Khoi-san.
We invite conceptual, comparative, transnational, or locally focused
contributions to a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of settler
colonialism and indigenous alternatives, past and present. Thematically,
papers might address issues such as: native resistance and survival;
cultural adaptation and renaissance; invasions and frontiers;
sovereignties (titles, treaties, terra nullius, etc.); middle grounds,
interludes, spaces of mutuality; internal colonisation; assimilation; race
and place (the Pale, reservations, urban zoning, segregation, etc.);
settler colonialism and the question of genocide; reparation and
reconciliation; diaspora/exile; indigenous people and multiculturalism;
settler and indigenous literature; gender; social class; religion;
political economy, economics, and colonization. Papers should be no longer
than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to:
[firstname.lastname@example.com] before February 1st.
EDINBURGH, UK (March 28-29, 2007)
The Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh invites
submissions for a conference entitled "The Power of Water: Landscape,
Water and the State in Southern Africa." The conference will focus on
three themes in order to explore the interrelationship between practices
and discourses of water, landscape and the state in southern Africa. For
more information, see (http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk).
CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE ON POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA, University of
Texas at Austin, USA (March 30-April 1, 2007)The University of Texas at
Austin is pleased to announce a three-day conference focusing on the
histories, genres, meanings, purposes, and impact of popular cultures in
Africa. The aim of the conference is to examine how popular cultures have
evolved and contributed to the character of Africa. Participants will be
drawn from various countries. Submit proposal that includes a 250-word
abstract and title, as well as the authors name, address, telephone
number, email address, and institutional affiliation to Conference
Convener, Toyin Falola (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Conference
Coordinator, Tyler Fleming (firstname.lastname@example.com). For more
information, contact Toyin or Tyler.
CALL FOR PAPERS: MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Chicago IL(April
12-15, 2007)
In April of each year, the MPSA holds one of the largest political science
conferences, we anticipate 4,000 presenters from across the United States
and around the world presenting in over 780 sessions. The African Politics
section welcomes both panel and paper proposals on all Africa-related
topics. Of particular interest are contributions on political economy,
basic service provision (primary education and health), and political
institutions. Particular interest will also be given to submissions using
newly collected data (whether quantitative or qualitative) and to
submissions using innovative theoretical methods. For more information,
see [http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/conferences/conferences.html].
The theme of the 33rd annual conference of the French Colonial Historical
Society will be "Rivers and Colonies," but papers on all aspects of the
French experience overseas will be considered. The Society encourages
scholars from all disciplines to send proposals. Consult the web site for
the individual responsible for proposals relating to Africa. The
conference will be held in La Rochelle, France, June 6-10, 2007. See
(http://www.frenchcolonial.org) for more details.
The Workshop for Advanced Study at the University of Leipzig invites
contributions for conference entitled "The Production of Knowledge about
Extra-European Areas in Central European Academic Worlds during the "Age
of Extremes." In the course of the 20th century the study of world regions
like Africa and Latin America was established in European universities and
other academic institutions. Though in some cases the origins of this
European academic interest in these regions lay even further back into the
past, it was during the 20th century that major centres were founded and a
whole culture of "area studies" emerged. This workshop asks for decisive
characteristics of the emergence and further formation of academic studies
on Latin America and Africa in Eastern European universities. Abstracts of
no more than 1000 words should be submitted by October 10, 2006. For the
invited speakers travel costs will be returned and accommodation will be
granted. Final versions of the presented papers should be submitted until
April 2007 and will (after evaluation through the planning committee) be
published in a volume in autumn of the same year. Papers in the English
language will be preferred. Other languages are not necessarily excluded.
For further information contact: Jochen Meissner, Zentrum fr Hhere
Studien, Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1, 04105 Leipzig, Germany
Berkshire Publishing Group and CQ Press are preparing the Encyclopedia of
Global Perspectives on the United States for publication in June 2005. The
encyclopedia will explore the role and image of the United States from the
viewpoints of the peoples and nations of the world. The editor is
searching for African scholars to contribute articles on the African
nations that are still unassigned. The articles will include historical
coverage as well as a contemporary analysis of that nation's relations
with the United States. The unassigned nations in Africa are: Burkina
Faso, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Guinea, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, and Tunisia. For more
information, contact Karen Advokaat
The Schlager Group is looking for writers to contribute to The
Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World. Writing for the
Ancient World set will take place under the direction of the editor in
chief, Peter Bogucki, with the aid of a board of editorial advisers for
separate regions of the world (R. Hunt Davis, Jr., Professor Emeritus of
History and African Studies, University of Florida, is the adviser for
Africa). The four-volume Ancient World set covers prehistory to the fall
of Rome (476 CE), arranged A to Z by 69 headwords, from "adornment"
through "writing" and including such topics as art, death and burial
practices, education, natural disasters, science, and trade and exchange.
Please contact Marcia Merryman Means (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you
have an interest in participating in this project. Be sure to include your
rsum and a writing sample. For more information, visit the website at
The African Review of Foreign Policy is a journal published by United
States International University. To submit manuscripts and for more
information, contact [firstname.lastname@example.com].
The David Boren Scholarship competition to fund undergraduate study abroad
is now underway, and supports applications from all disciplines with an
African geographic focus. All recipients of NSEP awards incur an
obligation to work for one year upon graduation for the federal
government, normally in the Departments of Defence, Homeland Security,
State, or the intelligence community. For more information, visit
The Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) invites applications
for a scholarship of 10,000 to support Africans wishing to pursue economic
research for the degree of DPhil at the University of Oxford. Candidates
must have been accepted onto the DPhil economics programme by the
University of Oxford. The thesis topic should be of relevance to African
economies. Museveni Scholars will be attached to the CSAE and will
normally be supervised by members of the research team. The CSAE will
now consider a new round of applications for the Museveni Scholarship for
the academic year 2006-2007. The closing date for applications is 31
October 2006. Applications must include a copy of your research proposal
together with your CV and details of other funding (and current funding
applications) obtained for your DPhil studies. Please send applications
to the Administrator, CSAE, Department of Economics, Manor Road Building,
Oxford OX1 3UQ or by email to [email@example.com].
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State
University invites applications for a one-year residential post-doctoral
fellowship during the 2007-08 academic year. The center is especially
interested in projects dealing with the following themes: the use of force
and diplomacy; the ideas, identities and decisional processes that affect
security; and the institutions that manage violent conflict. The Mershon
Center provides a $33,000 stipend plus university benefits, an office, a
computer, and $1,800 for travel and research expenses. Ph.D.s earned since
June 30, 2001, are eligible. Please submit applications in both hard copy
and electronic formats. Hard copies may be sent to Mershon Center for
International Security Studies, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, 1501
Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201, Attn: Grants and Fellowships Coordinator.
Electronic copies may be sent in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect
format to Grants and Fellowships Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com. The
deadline for applying is January 8, 2007. More information is available at
The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have
already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences,
or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or
trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct
research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a
participating American overseas research center. Deadline: Friday,
January 12, 2007. For an application, visit
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) welcomes applications to its
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program for the 2007-2008 fellowship
year. Established in 2001 to enable activists, scholars, and journalists
from around the world to deepen their understanding of democracy and
enhance their ability to promote democratic change, the fellowship program
is based at NED's International Forum for Democratic Studies, in
Washington, D.C. The NED is especially interested in ensuring that this
program becomes known to scholars and activists in Africa. For further
details, please visit www.ned.org. For instructions on how to apply, see
www.ned.org/forum/R-FApplication.pdf or visit
www.ned.org/forum/reagan-fascell.html. Applications for fellowships in
2007-2008 must be received no later than November 1, 2006. Notification of
the competition outcome is in April 2007.
The Borlaug LEAP, a fellowship program funded by the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) has Dissertation or Thesis
Fellowships for up to $25,000 available for graduate students from
sub-Saharan African countries working in the fields related to
agriculture. Applications received by October 15th will be reviewed and
grant recipients notified the following January. For more information,
visit (http://leap.ucdavis.edu).
The School of Social Science invites applicants for its visiting member
award for the academic year 2007-2008. A completed PhD or equivalent is
required by the application deadline. Visiting members are expected to
pursue only on their own research, while the school organizes a weekly
seminar at which members as well as invited guests present their on-going
work. The school welcomes applications in economics, political science,
law, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The theme for the 2007-2008
is "The Rule of Law under Pressure"; the application deadline is November
15, 2006. To apply, and for more information, visit
The library will award approximately thirty Research Fellowships for the
year June 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. Sponsorship of research at the John
Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is
centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South,
including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American
involvement. Application forms can be downloaded from
or they may be obtained by writing to the Director, John Carter Brown
Library, Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912. The deadline for submission of
application materials is January 10, 2007; all materials must be
postmarked no later than that date.
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) is an independent
international research council that is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The
mission of IFS is to strengthen the scientific research capacity of
developing countries in science fields related to the sustainable
management of biological and water resources. Research proposals submitted
to IFS should be from biological, chemical, physical, sociocultural or
economic science fields, and relevant for the
conservation, production or renewable utilization of biological or water
resources. IFS awards research grants with a maximum value of USD 12,000
for the purchase of equipment, expendable supplies, fieldwork activities,
etc. Researchers are eligible to receive up to three research grants
during their career. For more information, visit
Global Youth Connect, an international human rights organization, is
currently recruiting young leaders (ages 18-25) to participate in human
rights delegations in 2007, with sites in El Salvador, Cambodia, and
Rwanda. Participants will visit local organizations, support fieldwork,
and complete training workshops. Tuition varies, but is generally close
to $1800 US dollars. Final deadline for applications is September 22,
2006. See the following website for more details:
The Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt
University is especially interested in historians working in the area of
transnational black cultures. Focus on intersections between Africa,
Caribbean, Latin American and the African American experience especially
welcome. The tenured Associate Professor position, beginning fall semester
2007, is full-time in African American and Diaspora Studies but may
include a courtesy appointment in a department. Applicants should submit a
letter of application, curriculum vitae, selected teaching evaluations,
and four letters of recommendation to Professor Kathryn Gines, African
American and Diaspora Studies, VU Station B, Box 351516, 2301 Vanderbilt
Place, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1516 by November 20th,
The Africana Studies and Research Center seeks a scholar who specializes
in African literature and who has interest in the African Diaspora
especially in Caribbean literature. We welcome applicants who work in
diverse genres, in literatures in languages other than English, and in
different historical periods. Applicants at the assistant professor level
must have a Ph.D. degree in an appropriate field of study by the date of
hire. Applicants are expected to teach courses in African and African
Diaspora literature at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants
should provide the following: Letter of application, curriculum vitae,
copies of two scholarly publications (or no more than two chapters of a
dissertation), description of courses taught or interested in teaching. In
addition, applicants should request that recommendation letters from three
referees be sent directly to the address below by the stated deadline.
Application deadline: October 31, 2006. Appointment begins July 1, 2007.
Send materials to: African Literature Position Africana Studies and
Research Center 310 Triphammer Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850
The Africana Studies and Research Center seeks a scholar who specializes
in African history with a focus on African history since 1800. We welcome
applicants whose research and teaching engage the African Diaspora from a
comparative perspective. Applicants at the assistant professor level must
have a Ph.D. degree in an appropriate field of study by the date of hire.
Applicants are expected to teach courses in African history at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants should provide the
following: Letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of two
scholarly publications (or no more than two chapters of a dissertation),
description of courses taught or interested in teaching. In addition,
applicants should request that recommendation letters from three referees
be sent directly to the address below by the stated deadline. Application
deadline: December 1, 2006. Appointment begins July 1, 2007. Send
materials to: African History Position, Africana Studies and Research
Center, 310 Triphammer Road, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
The History Department at Hollins University invites applications to fill
the Batten Chair of the History of Women and Leadership at the associate
or full professor level, beginning in the fall of 2007. Specific area of
research in women's history is open but preference given to a non-U.S.
field. Teaching field in Latin American, African, Middle Eastern, or Asian
history strongly preferred. In addition to teaching, the Batten Professor
will have the opportunity to define and shape the Batten Leadership
Institute in developing a curriculum for the academic study of leadership
at the undergraduate level. Applicants must demonstrate a strong
commitment to teaching at a liberal arts college, to women's education,
and to research and publication. Nominations or applications (including
letter of application, c.v., and three letters of support) should be sent
to Batten Chair Search Committee, Department of History, Box 9722, Hollins
University, Roanoke, VA 24020. Applications will be accepted on a rolling
basis but expressions of interest must be received by December 21 in order
to schedule meetings for the American Historical Association convention in
Le Moyne College, the Jesuit college of Central New York, seeks an
outstanding teacher of undergraduates for a tenure-track assistant
professorship in history of the Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa, with
an Islamic emphasis, beginning August 2007. All periods and regions of
specialization will be considered. PhD in hand by time of appointment is
expected. Teaching responsibilities include upper-division electives in
the field of specialization, with a least one elective on the modern
Middle East; occasional thematic seminars; and participation in the first
-year survey course in World History. The ability to teach a course on
Islam that would meet the needs both of History majors and the Department
of Religious Studies is highly desirable. Located in Syracuse, New York,
Le Moyne enrolls 2300 undergraduates, of whom 140 are History majors. The
Department of History has 11 tenure lines. Class sizes are limited to 30
in the first-year survey course and 25 in elective courses, and a 3/3
teaching load, with no more than two preparations per semester, is
standard within the department. Scholarly research is valued and actively
supported. Please visit the College website at www.lemoyne.edu as well as
the History Dept. webpage. Review of applications will begin November 15,
2006 and will continue until the position is filled. Please send letter of
application, vita, dossier, and three reference letters electronically to
email@example.com, subject line History. Materials which cannot be
sent electronically should be sent to Office of Human Resources, Le Moyne
College, 1419 Salt Springs Road, Syracuse, NY 13214. Inquiries about the
position may be addressed to Professor Yamin Xu, co-chair, Middle
East/North Africa search, Dept. of History, Le Moyne College, 1419 Salt
Springs Road, Syracuse, NY 13214, or by e-mail to email@example.com.
Lehman College of CUNY seeks a professor to teach undergraduate courses in
the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department
of History. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in
research and publish as well as develop grant proposals for funding. The
candidate will also be expected to provide student advisement and serve on
departmental, divisional, college and university committees. The position
carries a twenty-one hour workload for the academic year, which normally
means teaching 3 or 4 courses each semester. The workload of tenure-track
faculty members is reduced by twenty-four hours over the first five years
to facilitate their research and publication commitment. Qualifications
include Ph.D. in African History or African Politics. We invite
applications from candidates with outstanding scholarly and instructional
records, who are interested in contributing to the mission of the
Department. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three current
letters of recommendation and publication or writing samples to: Dr.
James A. Jervis Chair, Search Committee Department of African and African
American Studies Lehman College Carman Hall, Room 285 250 Bedford Park
Boulevard West Bronx, NY 10468-1589
The Department of History of the University of Ottawa invites applications
for a tenure-track appointment in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Area
of specialization: open. Starting date: July 1, 2007. Requirements: Ph.D.,
publications and teaching experience preferred. The candidate will be
required to teach in English and in French. Rank: Assistant Professor.
Salary: According to Collective Agreement. Applicants should submit
curriculum vitae and three confidential letters of reference to Jan
Grabowski, Chairman, Department of History, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Ontario, K1N 6N5. Deadline for applications: December 1, 2006. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens
and permanent residents will be given priority.
The University of Ottawa invites applications for two tenure-track
positions, at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, for the new
interdisciplinary M.A. Program in Globalization and International
Development. Seven academic units participate in the Program: Economics,
Geography, History, Law, Political Studies, Religious Studies, and
Sociology and Anthropology. The main appointment of each successful
candidate will be in the Program, with a secondary appointment either in
the Faculty of Art, the Faculty of Law, or the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The academic and administrative dossier of each successful candidate will
be administered by the Faculty where the secondary appointment will be
held. Requirements: Ph.D., publications, and teaching experience or
relevant professional experience. Both candidates will be required to
teach and supervise students in French and in English. Starting date: 1
July 2007. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of
teaching and research interests and three confidential letters of
recommendation sent separately to Dr. Ruby Heap, Associate Dean, Faculty
of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Ontario, K1N 6N5. Deadline for applications: 15 December 2006, although
the search will remain open until successful candidates are found. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, however, Canadian citizens
and permanent residents will be given priority.
As part of a college-wide search involving multiple departments, the
History Department at Wheaton College seeks a tenure-track assistant
professor with scholarly and teaching expertise in Diaspora/Cross-Cultural
Studies. The search solicits applicants in many disciplines, the
successful candidate will be appointed to one department. The History
Department is especially interested in candidates who study Indian Ocean
and/or western Pacific Rim diasporas. Period of specialization open.
Candidate must be able to teach in Wheaton's general curriculum as well as
introductory and advanced courses on both "sending" and "receiving" areas
of diaspora. Those with expertise in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the
Persian Gulf, and/or sub-Saharan Africa are particularly encouraged to
apply. Send letter of interest referring to position by title and
indicating possible home department, resume, a one-page statement of
teaching and scholarly philosophy as it relates to the Wheaton Curriculum,
and three letters of reference to Ms. Susan Colson, Executive Assistant to
the Provost for Special Projects, Park Hall, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
02766. Application deadline: December 15, 2006.
Seeking a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor to teach a wide
range of courses in ancient and/or medieval world history before 1500.
Ability to teach and develop undergraduate world history surveys, upper
division courses, and Master's level graduate courses. Candidates
experienced in teaching transnational history are encouraged to apply.
Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Teaching work load (four courses a
semester), preparation for classroom instruction. 2. Provide student
assistance including academic advising. 3. Continuing scholarship and
professional activities which include contribution to the content of the
discipline, participation in or contribution to professional organizations
and societies, research demonstrated by published or unpublished work,
public service and contributions to the professional growth and
development of the college community. 4. Participation in scheduled
orientation and registration programs. 5. Attendance at college functions,
including commencement, convocation and faculty, committee and
departmental meetings. 6. Instructional responsibilities include courses
in World Civilizations. 7. Desirable subfields: open, with preference for
Asia, Africa or the Middle East. 8. Opportunities to teach summer, winter
term, online and undergraduate and graduate evening courses. 9.
Participate in curriculum review and development, program reviews and
student outcomes assessment. Qualifications: 1. Requires a doctorate in
History with specialization in Ancient and/or Medieval History. 2.
Expertise in any area of World History. 3. Ability to teach Asia, Africa,
or the Middle East is preferred. 4. Ability to integrate appropriate
technology and software in teaching. 5. Commitment to excellence in
teaching, demonstrated teaching experience appropriate to the level of
appointment, and evidence of scholarly/creative activity. 6. Ability to
work effectively with a diverse student body. 7. Commitment to research
and publication that will engage undergraduate students. 8. Ability to
perform all duties with or without reasonable accommodations. Full-time,
9 month Benefited Position. Please submit letter of interest, resume,
statement of teaching philosophy and three professional references. Salary
Commensurate with Qualifications and Experience and the MSCA Bargaining
Agreement. Email materials to email@example.com or by mail to Human
Resources Office, 160 Pearl Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420.
World History to 1500, one-semester replacement, Spring Semester 2007.
Western Michigan University invites applications for a one-semester
faculty replacement, January-April 2007, at the rank of visiting assistant
professor or instructor, depending on credentials. Preference given to
candidates who have completed the Ph.D., but applications will be accepted
from candidates with advanced ABD status. Teaching experience preferred.
Teaching assignment will include two sections of World History to 1500 and
one advanced undergraduate course in the candidate's field. WMU, a
student-centered research university, encourages applications from
underrepresented groups. Salary commensurate with qualifications and
experience; no fringe benefits. Review of applications will begin
immediately and continue until the position is filled. Send letter of
application, vita, statement of teaching philosophy, academic transcripts
and three letters of recommendation to: Marion W. Gray, Chair, Department
of History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5334.
Willingness to teach a modern world history course required. Secondary
specializations from among the subfields of imperialism, post-colonialism,
South Asia, Japan, Africa and/or Middle East desirable. THe yearly
teaching load is 4-3 and productive scholars can earn a reduction to 3-3.
Ph.D. required by August 2007; teaching experience preferred. Send
curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and statements of research
interests and teaching goals. Manhattan College is an independent
Catholic co-educational institution in the Lasallian tradition, located in
the Riverdale section of NYC. We expect our faculty, administration and
staff to be knowledgeable about our mission and to make a positive
contribution to that mission. Women and minorities are encouraged to
apply. Please send curriculum vitae,three letters of reference, and
statements of research interest and teaching goals to: Non-Western/World
History Search, Department of History, Manhattan College, 4513 Manhattan
College Parkway, Riverdale, NY 10471 Review of applications will begin on
December 8, 2006 and candidates will be interviewed at the AHA in Atlanta.
THE UCLA GLOBALIZATION RESEARCH CENTER-AFRICA REGION. For more
information, visit http://www.globalization-africa.org/
TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY (TPU): This is the largest on-line peace and
development university launched in 2003. TPU has been developed by
TRANSCEND, a Peace and Development Network for Peace by Peaceful Means and
provides the on-line form of Transcends global training programs. For
more information, contact Cristina Barsony (firstname.lastname@example.com) or
visit http://www.transcend.org/tpu
A bi-monthly webzine of NCLRC, providing practical teaching strategies,
share insight from research, and announce professional development
opportunities for elementary, secondary and post-secondary foreign
language educators. The newsletters and archives can be viewed at the
following website http://nclrc.org/readings/newsletter.html
Volunteer in Africa is an organization dedicated to disseminating
information on volunteer programs in Africa. They organize a wide range
of volunteering, internship and cultural exchange in Ghana. For more
information, visit http://www.volunteeringinafrica.org
African Colours, online since July 2000, is a portal for Contemporary Art,
as well as a dynamic force to link artists from different parts of the
world so that they can share their ideas and culture and achieve a common
goal. To make a contribution, you can send your news and editorials to
firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, visit
This site has a collection of tips, samples, and links to help students.
The IIS site also includes funding opportunities for Africans and Foreign
Nationals. For more information, visit
AJOL is being re-launched on its own website. It provides free access to
tables of contents and abstracts for over 175 journals published on the
continent, and also provides a number of additional facilities. AJOL
offers a document delivery service, and full (improved) searching and
browsing facilities, as well as a new Email alert function. The service
remains free to both users and participating journals (with charges only
for document delivery requests from outside developing countries). For
more information, visit http://www.ajol.info
This searchable collection contains about 1,100 images, including many
historical drawings and maps on Africa. For more information, visit
The program theme is: The Social Sciences and HIV/AIDS, A Political
Economy of Patient Welfare and Rights. The initiative is being undertaken
as part of a broader project of interventions which will involve the
fostering of a networked community of African researchers with the
required competence and interest in the field of health studies. Within
this framework, it is envisaged that a range of research, training and
dissemination activities will be carried out and several policy dialogues
organized. The research and policy dialogue components of the program will
be spread over the period 2003 to 2005. For more information, visit
Current funding opportunities relevant to researchers and research
institutes working on development issues in low and middle income
countries are available through the Global Development Network. For more
information, visit
The objective of this on-line resource is to provide researchers,
students, and the general public with resources that are integral to
understanding health concerns in Africa. This is accomplished by
harvesting information from existing websites and information providers.
Links to and information on a wide array of health-related initiatives,
facilities, and opportunities on Africa are provided. To access this
on-line resource, visit http://www.africa.upenn.edu/health/. For more
information, contact Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar (email@example.com)
This site contains valuable content for scholars, activists, and media.
Content includes bibliographies on rights, profiles and contact details
for rights organizations in a range of countries, training materials,
rights databases, and profiles of scholars and experts in various fields
relating to Islam and human rights. All of this content is searchable
through a Google-powered search engine. For more information, visit
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is hosting
a four month-long online forums beginning November 2005 on its website
"Women in World History" (http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/). The forum will give
world history teachers the chance to talk about ways to teach issues
surrounding women and gender in African history. For more information,
contact firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/forum.html
Also announcements for jobs in Africa are posted on this resource. For
more information, visit http://www.pambazuka.org/
Smithsonian Global Sound offers digital downloads of music and sound from
Africa and around the world. The site has a wealth of educational content
and downloads are accompanied by extensive liner notes. Our goal is to
encourage local musicians and traditions around the planet through
international recognition, the payment of royalties, and support for
regional archives. For more information, visit
The USAID HIV/AIDS E-Newsletter provides monthly updates on USAID's Office
of HIV/AIDS and partner activities to prevent and mitigate HIV/AIDS across
the developing world. The newsletter reflects activities exclusively to
USAID and its implementing partners. For more information, visit
The Communication Initiative has introduced its revamped database of
global media coverage on human rights issues. This feature is part of the
Communication Initiative's Human Rights Window. It allows for a one-stop
search related to media coverage for each individual article in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Articles from over 200 developing
country newspapers and 10 leading global newspapers are featured in the
database. For more information, visit
The Journal of Pan African Studies will be published on-line four times a
year (March, June, September and December) by Amen-Ra Theological Seminary
Press in association with the California Institute of Pan African Studies.
The journal seeks to sustain an interdisciplinary scholarly discussion on
the full dynamics of the African world community experience. The journal
is accepting articles for its first peer reviewed open access on-line
edition in March 2006. The deadline for the March 2006 issue is February
11, 2006. For more information, contact Itibari M. Zulu (firstname.lastname@example.com)
South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history
project. It was established in 1999 as a not-for-profit organization, to
promote research; to popularize South African history and to address the
biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of Black South
Africans has been represented in our educational and heritage
institutions. Includes lesson plans and other classroom material.
Website: http://www.sahistory.org.za.
An international scholarly online discussion list on African culture and
the African past. H-Africa encourages discussions of research interests,
teaching methods, and historiography. H-Africa is especially interested in
the teaching of history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse
settings. In addition, H-Africa publishes course materials, announcements
of conferences and fellowships, book reviews, and the H-Net jobguide.
H-Africa is also non-partisan and will not publish calls for political
action. Visit [http://www.h-net.org/~africa] for more information.
African Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania
647 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215)-898-6971
Fax: (215)-573-7379
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: http://www.africa.upenn.edu
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.


text:
Tag Archives: limestone pool
Parting shots
No, your monitor's not messed up. The water really looks that green. It's a limestone pool at Dumbarton Oaks, and the cherub or putto is made of lead. I imagine there's a bit of algae in there too. This is … Continue reading
Posted in photography Tagged amphitheater, Beatrix Farrand, cherub, Dumbarton Oaks, fountain, Georgetown, limestone pool, Mildred Bliss, Pan, Wash DC, wrought-iron chair 2 Comments


text:
Navigating the waters of sustainable seafood is a task that is difficult even for the most educated of chefs. Frequently-changing bits of information, "trust me" versus trustworthy purveyors, and multiple sources are only a few of the challenges that chef face in their seafood sourcing decisions. Matt Jennings, Executive Chef and Co-owner of Farmstead, La Laiterie and Farmstead Downcity, talked to us about what he considers important when sourcing seafood for his restaurants. He also shares a beautiful and simple recipe for Striped Bass crudo.
Chefs Collaborative: What challenges do chefs face in sourcing sustainable seafood?
Matt Jennings: Where to begin? The challenges are very extensive. I think that one of the biggest issues is being able to find sustainable seafood that both satisfies the chef's desire to cook something interesting and the customer's desire to eat something interesting. If you've done sardines once, you've done them 1000 times. How do you keep things exciting all the time? The biggest challenge we have is keeping things fresh and new and interesting, for chefs and for customers. We can't have too many repeat offenders on the menu unless they are hallmarks of our cuisine. When using sustainable seafood, we have to respect a more limited repertoire, but at the same time, there are different ways you can treat ingredients and therefore more opportunity for creativity.
C.C.: What factors do you take into consideration when sourcing fish?
M.J.: Sustainable first, local second. The sustainable angle is more important than the local angle for us. It's a top priority. Local is its own beast because it's impossible to source everything you buy locally. If I had to choose, I would rather have menus be seasonal and sustainable. Seasonality is huge – a lot of the time you're already purchasing sustainably and don't even know it. If you're a Rhode Island chef and you're buying local Striper, you're already halfway there. But if we find great by-catch from the Mediterranean, we utilize it.
I've also made it an ongoing responsibility of my kitchen. On the days I'm not there, my Chef de Cuisine, Ben, and my cooks know that the bottom line is that we only serve sustainable fish. It is great to see my guys carry the torch. Together, we have sought out new sustainable seafood resources across the country. Seeing the next generation of young cooks 'heed the call' of cooking sustainably, is invigorating and reminds me on a daily basis, why I do what I do.
C.C.: What kind of tools would help chefs make better purchasing decisions?
M.J.: We've come a long way from where we were. I'm a Twitter junkie. It's nice to see people call each other out on Twitter for using unsustainable seafood. We are able to keep each other honest that way – if you talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Sourcing seafood can be challenging because you feel like you need to be on the Monterey Bay Aquarium website all the time and keeping your hand on the pulse of the industry. You need to work with great vendors, and develop a close relationship with them. It's all about trust. Our vendors know our angle. They don't come to us unless they have something sustainable that fits the bill. We've already done the legwork to establish ourselves as a restaurant serving sustainable seafood. We no longer have to talk to them to tell them what we want, which saves a lot of time and frustration. My fish guys are now acclimated to doing business with us. We might be a small account, but we are the type of account that a reputable vendor wants to have. It makes a statement about their caliber of customer. Likewise, when we find a fish vendor that is willing to go the extra mile for us, we are committed to them. I've had the same fish guys for over six years now. Our ordering is now less about asking them 'what is sustainable' and more about us inquiring about what kind of fish they have that fits into the sustainable boundaries. We might say "We are looking for something fatty, that can be grilled" or "larger fish that can be served whole". That sets up a conversation with our vendors about ideas. That's one of the best parts of being a chef. These type of relationships.
C.C.: How do you educate your customers on sustainable seafood?
M.J.: We did a special sustainable seafood dinner two years ago for New Year's Eve. Everybody got a packet from Monterey Bay, with a seafood watch list and other information on sustainable seafood. It was great. The people who attended were from both sides of the fence – some supported sustainable seafood, others didn't know what sustainable meant. At that dinner, it was customers educating customers.
On a daily basis, we offer a daily fish selection, which is always sustainable. Ben is responsible for always finding sustainable fish – fresh and local, if possible. Our customers know to expect it. Even if they've been in two weeks in a row, they'll have something they've never had before.
C.C.: Could you tell us a bit more about the recipe you're sharing with us?
M.J: I've decided to keep it simple this time around. This time of year, we love serving raw seafood, so here I have provided a simple recipe for striped bass crudo. Here, the bass is complemented by the sweet fennel and slight heat from the Maras pepper. 'Crudo' simply means raw- this is basically an Italian version of sashimi- and when carefully prepared, it is one of the best ways to eat striped bass. In this country, this style of preparation has kind of been trendy since 2005 or so, but it has never and will never, go out of style for us. Preparing fish this way is so fresh, vibrant and, well…'summery'. The Spanish and Italians have been cooking this way for centuries. Goes to show- if it ain't broke, don't fix it. What I love about crudo, is that this is ingredient driven technique- using the freshest and best ingredients available, and letting the food shine. That is what we are all about.
Rhode Island Striped Bass Crudo, Fennel Vinaigrette, Maras Pepper, Flowers & Tiny Herbs
Serves 6
For the vinaigrette:
1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
2 tablespoons minced shallots
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves, picked
2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup finely chopped (brunoise) fresh fennel bulb
2 tablespoons chopped fresh fennel fronds
1 tablespoon Maras pepper (available at specialty or middle eastern grocery shops)
Whisk lemon juice, shallots, thyme, lemon zest, and honey in medium non-reactive bowl, to blend. Slowly drizzle in olive oil, while whisking, then fennel and finally the fennel fronds.
Season to taste with kosher salt and cracked white pepper. This can be done a day ahead if necessary.
To serve:
Take a fresh and heavy fillet of stripped bass and slice as thinly as possible on the bias. Use a very sharp knife! You should be left with beautiful, paper thin slices of bass, and you should have about 24-30 thin slices.
On six plates, shingle four or five thin slices of striped bass on each plate. Gently stir the vinaigrette with a spoon, and carefuly spoon the vinaigrette over the fish. If you have access to small herbs or edible flowers, garnish the plates with these now. Lastly, sprinkle some maldon or other very coarse sea salt over each serving.
As a variation, you can always add a small bed of succulent, young salad greens underneath each portion of fish. This makes for a great opening course, paired with a glass of prosecco or other sparkling wine.


text:
Palmer Group is Iowa's premier employment firm and provides more than 300 client companies with a broad range of employment services.
Ready to learn more?
See Spark Hire in action with one of our product experts.
Palmer Group is Des Moines, Iowa's premier employment firm. They were founded to become the best firm in Iowa, a mission which continues to today. They have over 65 professionals in their office and provide more than 300 client companies with a broad range of employment services that include recruiting, professional temporary staffing, high level contracting, and outplacement services.
The Palmer Group wanted to avoid bad in-person interviews, improve their candidate screening efficiency, and more effectively market their candidates to clients.
We wanted to be unique in the industry.
This was our first time looking into video interviews and a big priority for us was for the platform to be user friendly. We ended up choosing Spark Hire because it seemed easy, convenient, and cost effective.
Before implementing video interviewing, our multi-step process involved phone and face-to-face interviews with our team and our clients.
We customize the video interviews based on our clients' needs. When we have candidates to present to clients, we share their completed video interviews. This helps our clients better screen the candidates and make decisions about who they are interested in. We also use it to create introduction interviews for our staff and candidates that have difficult schedules or live out of town.
We fell in love with Spark Hire as soon as we saw the reaction from our clients. Our clients thought it was very unique and loved the idea of using the software for pre-screening.
Spark Hire is unique, customizable, and user-friendly.
Its ability to be personal yet convenient for the candidate.
The quality of the product and the customer service of the Spark Hire team is second to none.
Easy, convenient, and cost-effective.
Join thousands of organizations who are benefitting from Spark Hire's video interviewing platform.Get a demo


text:
It's the most wonderful time of the year… to make lists about our favorite television!
Now that December is upon us, we're kicking off TVLine's Year in Review, which honors the best, worst and weirdest of 2019 TV. First up? The year's best drama series.
The past 12 months were an embarrassment of riches for small-screen fans, with broadcast, cable and streaming services all delivering dazzling shows. Whether you craved a bold teen drama like Euphoria, the sci-fi adventures of Stranger Things or a harrowing tale of real-life events such as When They See Us, there was no shortage of compelling dramatic television.
In the attached gallery, we've narrowed down the year's offerings to the 10 best dramas, including three series that got kudos at this time last year. On the other hand, four of the shows that we recognized in 2018 — My Brilliant Friend, Homecoming, The Haunting of Hill House and The Americans — weren't eligible for a repeat appearance in this year's gallery, allowing us to applaud plenty of newbies.
Which drama claimed this year's No. 1 spot? Scroll through the attached gallery — or click here for direct access — to find out, then drop a comment with the dramas that make your best-of lists.
Coming up next in TVLine's Year in Review: Best Comedies, Worst Shows, Most Heartbreaking Deaths, Funniest Moments, Sexiest Scenes and much, much more!


text:
June 29, 2008
Steven Moffat
"Nine and a Half Minutes" is the single most brilliant script ever. It's from Coupling. No, the good one, the British one (same scripts, better acting and directing). It is the exact same sequence of events involving six people seen from three different viewpoints. It's the only time I've seen the same joke mean two different things, with both being hysterically funny. And while it adds a bit to know the characters, it's still brilliant without that knowledge.
Go watch it. Go watch the whole series. You can finish reading this when you're done.
Moffat also wrote the best Doctor Who episodes ever. All six of them. "The Empty Child," "The Doctor Dances, " "The Girl in the Fireplace," "Blink, " "Silence in the Library," and "Forest of the Dead." They will creep you out. They will break your heart. They will end in a place you didn't expect but that is exactly where they must end. And you will never forget the characters they introduce.
Next season, Moffat takes over the whole show. I already knew that, of course. Cheers went up at WisCon when it was announced that it was now official. But having just seen the last two episodes he wrote makes it more immediate, so now I'm twitching for it to happen now, now, NOW. It won't, though. Not for another two years.
I'm so going to wear out my DVDs before that gets here.
3 comments:
- Christopher said...
"The Girl In The Fireplace" remains my all-time favorite episode of Doctor Who, from both the old and new series.
My only concern about Moffat taking over from Davies is that he won't have as much time for cranking out such amazingly good scripts.
- Kelly McCullough said...
I agree that I'm delighted about Moffat taking over, but I'm not so sure about knowing the characters in Coupling mattering only a bit for the brilliance of Nine and a Half Minutes to come through. From the point of view of someone who has only seen that one episode, it was good and funny, and quite well written, but (not knowing the characters) it didn't come across as more than that.
I'm not saying it isn't the best script ever written for a TV show, just that it didn't register that way for me under the circumstances. That's because the characters without context didn't come across as very deep or more interesting than any genuinely good sitcom's characters and so their problems and interactions didn't engage me much more than any other television comedy. The writing was sharp and witty and the structure a cool one, but it just didn't grab me at the level it has grabbed the folks I know who watched it in the context of the broader show.
- Stephanie Zvan said...
Christopher, Sophia Myles is also brilliant, which really added to that episode. Heck, she was the only good thing about Underworld.
I'm hoping that with the long lead time for him taking over, they can figure that out. But one per season isn't that much cranking out. Hopefully he can keep up with that while inspiring other writers to do more with the characters and series.
Kelly, those characters are some of the most compellingly shallow I have seen in the history of television. I'm not sure whether you'll get as much from the series, just based on that, but S&J are sure to let you borrow the series if you ask. Or if they remember you haven't seen it. Or if you walk past the shelf where it's sitting.


text:
Help and support
Help and Support
QGIS is under active development and as such it won't always work like you expect it to. The preferred way to get help is by joining the qgis-users mailing list. Your questions will reach a broader audience and answers will benefit others.
This mailing list is used for discussion of QGIS in general, as well as
specific questions regarding its installation and use. You can subscribe to
the qgis-users mailing list by visiting the following URL:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user <P> qgis-de For the german speaking audience we also provide a qgis-de mailing list. Just like the qgis-users mailing list it is used for discussion of QGIS in general, as well as specific questions regarding its installation and use. You can subscribe to the qgis-users mailing list by visiting the following URL:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-de <P> qgis-developer If you are a developer facing problems of a more technical nature, you may want to join the qgis-developer mailing list here:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer <P> qgis-commit Each time a commit is made to the QGIS code repository an email is posted to this list. If you want to be up to date with every change to the current code base, you can subscribe to this list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-commit <P> qgis-trac This list provides email notification related to project management, including bug reports, tasks, and feature requests. You can subscribe to this list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-trac <P> qgis-community-team This list deals with topics like documentation, context help, user-guide, online experience including web sites, blog, mailing lists, forums, and translation efforts. If you like to work on the user-guide as well, this list is a good starting point to ask your questions. You can subscribe to this list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team <P> qgis-release-team This list deals with topics like the release process, packaging binaries for various OS and announcing new releases to the world at large. You can subscribe to this list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-release-team <P> qgis-psc This list is used to discuss Steering Committee issues related to overall management and direction of Quantum GIS. You can subscribe to this list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc <P> You are welcome to subscribe to any of the lists. Please remember to contribute to the list by answering questions and sharing your experiences. Note that the qgis-commit and qgis-trac are designed for notification only and not meant for user postings.
We also maintain a presence on IRC - visit us by joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net. Please wait around for a response to your question as many folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a while for them to notice your question. Commercial support for QGIS is also available. Check the website http://qgis.org/content/view/90/91 for more information.
<P> If you missed a discussion on IRC, not a problem! We log all discussion so you can easily catch up. Just go to http://logs.qgis.org and read the IRC-logs.
While the qgis-users mailing list is useful for general 'how do I do xyz in QGIS' type questions, you may wish to notify us about bugs in QGIS. You can submit bug reports using the QGIS bug tracker at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/. When creating a new ticket for a bug, please provide an email address where we can request additional information.
<P> Please bear in mind that your bug may not always enjoy the priority you might hope for (depending on its severity). Some bugs may require significant developer effort to remedy and the manpower is not always available for this.
<P> Feature requests can be submitted as well using the same ticket system as for bugs. Please make sure to select the type enhancement.
If you have found a bug and fixed it yourself you can submit this patch also.
Again, the lovely trac ticketsystem at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ has this
type as well. Select patch from the type-menu. Someone of the
developers will review it and apply it to QGIS.
Please don't be alarmed if your patch is not applied straight away - developers may be tied up with other committments.
The QGIS-community also runs a weblog (BLOG) at http://blog.qgis.org which has some interesting articles for users and developers as well. You are invited to contribute to the blog after registering yourself!
Lastly, we maintain a WIKI web site at http://www.qgis.org/wiki where you can find a variety of useful information relating to QGIS development, release plans, links to download sites, message translation-hints and so on. Check it out, there are some goodies inside!


text:
Cycosports prides itself in running some of the best run bike races and rides in the region. Providing our riders with a safe and enjoyable day is always our priority.
But there is more to these exciting events than riding a bike – it takes a dedicated team of different roles to make them happen.
Crew members take on many important tasks. From promotions to staffing registration, signing routes to managing refreshment stops, there is so much you can do to help make these rides a success.
These volunteers are fully supported, briefed and advised by one of our regional bike team staff, so are always in good hands.


text:
- Error
^Back To Top
|Main definition
180 All right, I'm going to ask somebody who can lead songs, just to... Where is that great preacher, brother, that...? What's his name? Capps, Brother Capps. Is he in the line? What's that? Come here, Brother Capps, and stand there and sing (the congregation) while we all pray, "The great Physician now is near."
10 I seen Brother Capps raise his head up. You're too young to think them thoughts now. And so wait till you get up where Brother Neville and I are, then--then you'll--you'll think a lot of things different, kind of weakens down.
179 All right, then have a congregational song, and then maybe a second congregational song, and then have somebody already spoke of, if you can, to lead in prayer. Let the--the pastor, ever... Well, the pastor shouldn't be there, the--the song leader should do that. It's Brother Capps, I think. See, he'd know what to do, let--let him have someone spoke... or either lead in prayer hisself. Have the congregation to stand in prayer, see, just stand up, and let somebody lead in prayer. Now, if you don't watch...
15 And now, tonight, I'll give to praying for the sick.
And I want to... man, and bless these man, and Brother Collins, and Hickerson, Brother Neville, Brother Capps, the trustees, and all, for the fine reports that's been coming, of how you're orderly, setting the church, and how everything is be coming into its right position. I'm grateful to you man. The Lord bless you for trying to carry out an order. And letter after letter comes into Tucson, to me, "Brother Branham, it's not like it used to be. It's so much different, such a blessed feeling of the Presence of God." And I'm--I'm grateful for that. The Lord ever bless you!
5 And we've assembled here now in the church. We pray for Brother Neville, and for Brother Capps, and Brother Collins, and all the rest of the ministers, and the--and the trustees, deacons, and all the laity, and the strangers in our gates. May this be a day that we'll long remember, because of Your Presence.
53 And now you are--you are welcome to be in our midst at any time. Now, I'm not here all the time, but we have some fine pastors here; Brother Neville, one of our pastors; Brother Capps, another of our pastors; and Brother--and Brother Collins, Wilbur Collins, another, our pastors. And then we have different ones from different parts, our little associated churches. If you're around in--in Texas, the Martin brothers here, and Brother... What's the brother that comes with you out here? I can't see Brother Blair this morning. Oh, Brother Blair, I didn't see you, Brother Blair. Brother Ruddell, right back here, one of the churches on 62, one of the sister churches here. Brother Junior Jackson, sitting right here by Brother Blair, I see him now, another one of our sister churches. And we got churches around over the country from everywhere.
6. And then, here is the picture of those... I was telling you this morning of those Beatles, "Return of Beatles," and there's the articles; you just should read it out of the magazine and all of the different things. "... as it were, had founded a new religion." Now, their manager... I've got a note out of the paper here. You haven't got time... If anybody wants to read these or I can put them on the bulletin board, then you can read them. And I just want to show you the hour that we're living in is shocking. You might not understand it; but, people, try to understand it, that--what these things are. I've asked Brother Capps; he's got a good education and can read better than I, I've asked him to read this article from the manager of the Beatles. Can you do it, Brother Capps, at this time?
35 I want to talk to Brother Vayle, Brother Rober-... Borders, and the brethren here. If... I wonder if they couldn't have, in the church, in the afternoon, or some morning, or something, instruction service for those who are seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Would that be all right, you brethren? Brother Neville and all of you could get there, and Brother Capps.
17 Tonight we have a little change in the service. We have a fine brother here, Brother Capps. He come to us from the Nazarene church. And I think that is right, Brother Capps? He is wishing tonight to be ordained by us, by laying on hands.
19 And, now, Brother Capps has been ordained officially in the--the Nazarene church, but tonight he wants the elders, and so forth, to lay hands upon him for ordination, to carry this Message. What a gallant thing!
20 I have--I have heard the reports ever since I been in Tucson, and such wonderful reports, of Brother Capps here in his assistance to our gracious Brother Neville, who is holding the candle of Light just as gallantly as these two man can hold. We have laid hands on Brother Neville, but not upon Brother Capps. And I want those who are ministers, Brother Jackson and them, if they're here, and Brother Ruddell and the elders of the church here, if they'll come up here just for a few minutes now, and laying hands on Brother Capps. And the..
27. Let the elders walk around now and lay hands upon Brother Capps. Let's all bow our heads.
28 Dear God, the temple posts has moved again, and as seeing the Spirit of the quickening Life working in our brother. I pray, God, as he feels this from Above, that says that he must go. We lay hands upon him, as Your elders, Lord, and give to him the right hand of fellowship; and lay our hands upon him, and pass the blessings of God upon him, that You'll anoint his lips, his thinking, his entire being. And may he take this Message of the Gospel to every crack and corner that You'll call him to. Grant it, Lord. We give You our brother, as a servant of Yours, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
199 Remember now, pray for me when the hot persecution winds are blowing, when devils on every side is challenging, I'll remember you're praying for me night or day, and I'll be praying for you.
Stand by your good pastor, Brother Neville, and the associate, Brother Capps. Listen to them. They'll teach you the Word of Life. I believe that. If I didn't believe it, I certainly wouldn't have them here. I certainly would not. I believe that they believe the Message, and they stay with it to the best of their knowledge, and I've got faith in both men. Stay with them. These other brothers, around where they got their meeting, that stood here tonight, if you're around their neighborhood, stand by them. You heard what they come here for, tonight.
3 We thank You for what You did for those in the hospital this morning, and what You did for Brother Capps' little boy that was laying, almost dying, and now here he is in the audience tonight. How we thank You, Father, for all these things!
MANIFESTED.SONS.OF.GOD.title JEFF.IN AD.2 60-0518
Because the Headstone was rejected when It come.
Hits - 505
My father used to give me whippings, and I thought, "Oh, my." I wished I could call the old gray-headed brother, father of mine, back from the other lands today. I would respect every whipping he ever give me. I never got even as much as I needed. I thought so then, but I don't now, because it corrected me. Though he didn't do right himself, yet he wanted me to do right. Amen. He wants us to. If the earthly parents wants us to so well, what about our heavenly Parent the Lord Jesus? He has to correct us. And the Scripture says, "If we cannot stand chastisement, or a whipping, child-correction, then we become illegitimate children and not the children of God." See?
Hits - 342


text:
Ross Barkley has reportedly told Everton that he is not ready to extend his contract at Goodison Park.
The England midfielder has been hugely underwhelmed by the club's performance this season under Roberto Martinez and is believed to be considering his future, according to Bleacher Report UK.
Everton are happy with Barkley's progress and have a new improved deal lined up for the 22-year-old, who still has two years remaining on the four-year, £60,000-a-week deal he signed in 2014.
But Barkley wants to put the talks on hold and wait to make a decision on his future after the European Championships in the summer and club officials are believed to be worried that Barkley will leave if Roberto Martinez stays on as boss.
Barkley is understood to like the idea of a new coach at Goodison as he has lost faith with the under-fire Martinez, who is set to hold talks with the Everton hierarchy on Friday afternoon.
A host of clubs are tracking Barkley, who has scored 14 goals for club and country this season, with Manchester United and Manchester City, both paying close attention.
However, London duo Arsenal and Chelsea are both huge admirers of Barkley, and are likely to be in the hunt for the player who Martinez is desperate to keep hold of.
In February Martinez, speaking about Barkley's contract, said: "We will probably look at it in the summer. As I've said before, Ross is not a young man any more.
"He's a player you can build a project on. When you want to build a project it is about a player who wants to play for Everton and wants to take that role. It is one thing as a manager wanting to do something, if the player doesn't feel the same way then you cannot do it."


text:
Never miss a post! "Dear Abbie" in your inbox is a click away.Join 228 other subscribers
Email Abbie!
"I would like to open this site for conversation with women of all ages, convictions and styles of life – wherever situated on the gamut of experience. In principle, there is no bar to men joining in, since how one defines women has a lot to do with what it means to be a man. But it is women I invite to pull up a chair at this virtual café table and put their questions and views into the conversation. I can be wrong as often as right, so specific advice will be avoided. What will be sought is light on how best to frame the situation of women, considered as a highly interesting problematic. What kind of hand have we been dealt, as women, and how can we best play it?
Comments are warmly encouraged on any post at any point."
We're Social.
Recent Posts
Recent Comments and Replies
Abigail on Ancestors… "Thankfulness… on "Gossip" Abigail on Fine Tuning and Blunt Retoolin… Abigail on My Mind Is Not My Brain castaway5555 on Fine Tuning and Blunt Retoolin…
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- July 2012
A picture is worth…
Tag Archives: talking to God
My Father's Continuing Funerary Cortege
Posted on June 23, 2020 by Abigail
My Father's Continuing Funerary Cortege A country song comes to mind as I try to picture what reading the complete extant papers of my father has been like for me during these past weeks. There's a long line of mourners … Continue reading →
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, Biblical God, books, bureaucracy, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Guilt and Innocence, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, Memoir, memory, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Mortality, Mysticism, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, politics of ideas, Power, presence, promissory notes, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romantic Love, secular, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 10 commandments, 1920s-1970s, accepting Sinaitic law, accepting The Covenant, admirers, appreciative letters, Bobby Bare's "Long Black Limousine", challenge of being human, charisma, Columbia class of 1925, country song, deep levels of nature, depth of tradition, detachment, executrix, father-daughter relation, fear of God, funeral cortege, generous love, Henry M. Rosenthal, highbrow America, humble parishioners, imagination, incorruptibility, Israel at Sinai, knowing my father, letters from notables, literary estate, living culture, Louisville Kentucky, Moses, mourners, national opinion shapers, nearness to God, papers of Henry M. Rosenthal, personal magnetism, philosophy students, primeval chaos, risks of The Covenant, sermon, sermon on Mount Sinai, Shevuoth sermon 1941, still small voice, talking to God, tapping sources of being, the burden of being human, the fight to be human, the secret of a life, the secret of a man, thunder at Sinai, trained skill, voice at Sinai, voice of God, words of Sinaitic law, worldly success | Leave a comment
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Posted on August 14, 2018 by Abigail
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites Nudnik: "A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag." The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten. As … Continue reading →
Posted in Absurdism, Action, Alienation, American Politics, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, Biblical God, Chivalry, Christianity, Cities, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Institutional Power, Jews, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Love, Martyrdom, master/slave relation, Memoir, memory, Messianic Age, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, non-violence, Oppression, pacifism, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, politics, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, radicalism, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, secular, Seduction, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", ad hominem attack, bigotry, Christian friends, collegiality violated, dangerous pessimism, dark corners, dark memory, double standard, European Femininity, European women, evasion, G.I. Bride, German complicity, good guys, groupthink, Hitler's reading list, Hitler's sport events, in the wrong job, insulting speech, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish neighbors, Jewish opinion, loaded questions, memory, naturalistic worldview, outdoor cafes, outdoor prayer, peaceniks, personal stories, picking a quarrel, prayer as last resort, religious experience, religious turn, requirements of priesthood, self-deception, self-righteousness, Shoah, talking to God, the Holocaust, the human soul, the Other, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, war-time trauma, womanly arts, wrong life path, wrong vocation | Leave a comment


text:
The Model Look Salon - Pearland's Best Hair Salon
Providing Premium Haircut and Hairstyle services to Pearland, Friendswood, Alvin, Manvel area.
Making great cuts in the Pearland area for over 10 years. Hair cut & style for men, women, and children. Relaxing environment. Wide range of hair treatments to all types of hair. Shampoo, Color,Highlights & foil, Lowlight.
From balayage, to straighteners, to razor cuts, to extensions, we apply our expertise to tap into your beauty. We sculpt hair styles to compliment facial structure. We use hair color and highlights to enhance hairstyles and skin tones.
We are proud to provide a variety of hair services to help keep you looking great.
Please see our gallery of actual client photos.
We offer the best in Hemp & Cannabidiol rich products. We carry only the best of Natures Root. Discover our growing selection of Skin Care, Body Care and Therapeutic products.
Men, Women, and Children haircuts.
We are a family owned business aimed at making you and your whole family feel at home. We look forward to seeing you.
Latest and greatest looks or keep with the classics. We can help you achieve the look you want.
Hair Color
We use only high quality products to treat your hair. You will love the result.
Hightlights / Lowlights /Color Correction
Brazilian Blowout Certified
Brazilian Blowout professional smoothing treatments are the most innovative and effective in the world.
Through the use of breakthrough bonding technologies, these customizable smoothing treatments actually improve the condition of the hair by creating a protective protein layer around the hair shaft to eliminate frizz and smooth the cuticle.
The end result is smooth, frizz-free hair with radiant shine!
Keratin Treatment
Proefssional hairsmoothing process
Permanent Wave
Treat your hair for that perfect "perm". Bring out the wave.
Have that special event coming up we can help. We can accomodate onsite appointment for parties and special events. We can match the look to the occation.
Bridal, Prom, Quinceanera, Sweet sixteen or a night on the town.
Eyebrow, Upper Lip
Special Occasion Make-up
We have years of service in the beauty industry. Let us help when you have those special events.
On Site Special Occasion
No matter the occasion. We can help with induvidual or party hair and makeup. Advance appointment required.


text:
Some of you may have already known about the mandatory profile change in Windows 2008 but I had no idea. I recently did my first Citrix XenApp 5 – Windows 2008 project and had a hard time getting the mandatory profile working.
After some searching I found that the mandatory profile folder name has to have a ".v2" appended to the end of the folder name. The reason Microsoft made this change is because the user profile sturcture in Vista and Windows 2008 is a lot different than in previous versions of Windows. By forcing you to append .v2 to the end of the folder prevents Windows 2008 from trying to load a profile from a previous version of Windows.
It was a little tricky configuring Group Policy to point to the mandatory profile with a .v2 on the folder name. When I first configured the "Set path for TS Roaming User Profile" setting I set it to %logonserver%\netlogon\xenapp-prof.v2. This didn't work, I had to set the profile path to %logonserver%\netlogon\xenapp-prof and then Windows 2008 automatically appends .v2 to the end when looking for the path.
So to recap,
- I created a mandatory profile with the folder name "xenapp-prof.v2".
- I configured my profile path to point to "%logonserver%\netlogon\xenapp-prof". If you configure the profile path with a .v2 it will not work.


text:
KARACHI: Without naming them, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has demanded removal of three federal ministers for allegedly being open supporters of banned groups and having links with proscribed organisations.
Speaking at a press conference at the Sindh Assembly building on Wednesday, he alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government was victimising the opposition parties, but not taking action against the banned organisations, which was against the spirit of the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism.
"They [the PTI] are not taking action against the banned organisations because they had been their allies in the last general elections. The groups had been rebranded to help the PTI form its government," Mr Bhutto-Zardari alleged.
He called for the formation of a joint parliamentary national security committee with the mandate to oversee implementation of the NAP.
PPP leader calls for formation of parliamentary national security committee to oversee implementation of NAP
Besides, he demanded, the PTI should distance itself from the banned groups.
The PPP chief said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was so much committed to its "agenda of victimising political opponents" that even an angel who was made its head could not stop it from committing "political engineering".
He condemned NAB's act of arresting Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani from Islamabad "on trumped-up charges" and said the speaker's arrest was tantamount to an attack on the provincial assembly as the speaker's office symbolised the assembly's existence.
"The charges of assets beyond means are false and forged and that can be placed on anyone," Mr Bhutto-Zardari said.
He condemned NAB's raid on Mr Durrani's house after his arrest, saying the raid indicated there was no evidence against him. Besides, such a raid could also be made to falsify or plant evidence, instead of finding one. He said women and children of Mr Durrani's family were "taken hostage" during the raid and demanded an investigation into the incident.
He claimed that the 'benami' or fake bank accounts case was also an instance of political engineering, adding the apex court had taken suo motu notice in the case citing violation of human rights because of slackness in the investigation though "the case does not fall into the domain of suo motu or violation of human rights".
"There was no slackness as a first information report was registered in this case, a preliminary report was presented and the case is being heard in the banking court."
Mr Bhutto-Zardari said appointment of representatives of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the case was an undemocratic precedent that "politicises the ISI and judiciary and also militarises the judiciary".
He said another 'obnoxious unconstitutional' effort was the shifting of the fake accounts case to Rawalpindi, which he termed a violation of the concept of jurisdiction.
"Every time, Karbala is staged for the Bhuttos in Pindi," the PPP chief said.
He said everyone had witnessed how the chief justice of Pakistan had summoned an ISI representative in an open court and asked him on whose instructions Mr Bhutto-Zardari's name had been included in the JIT report.
In the same hearing, he added, the CJ had said Mr Bhutto-Zardari was innocent and his name should be expunged from the JIT report and the Exit Control List.
However, he said, surprisingly when the court's written orders came they did not include the abovementioned remarks.
"This is very absurd. I think it can only be a mistake," he said.
He requested the apex court to look at its record again as that omission sent a very bad message.
Regarding the regional situation, he asked the government to help strengthen the Afghan government in the present scenario. He also said there should be strategic withdrawal of (US) troops from Afghanistan.
Published in Dawn, March 14th, 2019


text:
"Let's go to The Canvas for our special dinner"
Audrey and I had dinner and painted portraits of each other at The Canvas art bar and bistro to celebrate the 90 days we've been together. Yes, I realize it's not really that long in terms of relationships.
The restaurant is in the industrial section of Northwest Portland almost under the Fremont Bridge. From the outside, it looked like a very new place in a very old building. New paint, new pavement, old brick. I LOVED it.
There was plenty of spacious sitting to lounge about, be creative, buckets of crayons, a giant roll of paper for sketching, and a center stage for a model to pose. It was like a bar had been bred with an art class. No model on this particular night but each other.
Everything I could want about our service and food was perfect. There were other artists nearby talking about comics, blogs, art shows and writing. We sipped beer and champagne while trying to recreate a likeness in paints.
Ultimately, we didn't care too much how much we did or did not look like our paintings, but we felt connected by them. Very romantic.
Highly recommended for the artist in anybody.