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JEFFERSON - Boyd Martin, Sr., 69, Jefferson, entered into rest Thursday, April 11, 2019.
Mr. Martin was born in Jefferson, a son of the late Hugh Bartow Martin and the late Nellie Mae Turpin Martin. Mr. Martin was retired from the Engineering Department of the University of Georgia. In addition to his parents, Mr. Martin is preceded by three sisters, Alviree "Cricket" Fields, Ealviree "Butch" Patterson, and Lilie Mae Grindle; and three brothers, Hugh Arthur "Hugh Boy," Bill and Charles Martin.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Shirley Hicks Martin, Jefferson, sons, Henry Martin and his wife Felicia, Athens, Brian Martin and Fiance Candy McWatters, Jefferson; daughters, Sherry Hawkes and her husband Michael, Danielsville and Melissa Bond and her husband James, Toccoa; 15 grandchildren, Jasmine, Jessica, Blake, Rebecca, Cody, Casadie, Vada, Sabrina, Allison, Brayden, Marissa, Faith, Destiny, Alexis and Madison; six great-grandchildren, Ava Grace, Joel, Jase, Asher, Mariah, Tianna and one on the way, Emma.
Mr. Martin was a very talented man and was a devoted husband and father.
Funeral service: Sunday, April 14, 2019, at 2 p.m. from the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy "Rodger" Peck officiating with burial to follow in the Woodbine Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Henry Martin, Brian Martin, Michael Hawkes, James Bond, Blake Martin, Cody Hawkes and Brayden Watkins.
Family to receive friends: Saturday, April 13, 2019, from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Evans Funeral Home, Inc., 1350 Winder Highway, Jefferson,706-367-5467 is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences at www.evansfuneralhomeinc.com
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Department Overview
The Office of District Counsel, sometimes referred to as the Legal Department, is comprised of two attorneys and a support staff consisting of one paralegal and one legal secretary.
The Office of District Counsel represents the administration, handles a variety of legal matters for the Jackson Public School District, and strives to practice preventive law. The attorneys represent the school district in legal matters. Its board attorney, Dorian Turner, also represents the School Board. The District Counsel attends all School Board meetings, and when the School Board sits as a decision-maker, the District Counsel represents the administration in employee discipline matters, student expulsions, and suspensions.
It is the mission of the office to provide the highest quality legal services to the Jackson Public School District by providing sound legal advice and effective representation. The provision of quality services contributes to the district's goals of student achievement, safe schools, attraction and retention of high-quality teachers, and other endeavors.
The attorneys are available to answer calls from principals and administrators who seek advice on various issues. Principals should contact the District Counsel's office when any staff member is in receipt of a subpoena or is contacted by an investigator, attorney, or paralegal that is not employed by the school district. Principals should also contact the office with legal questions including custody issues such as to whom to release a student, student records, student discipline, harassment, child abuse, employee discipline, school board policies, and contracts for programs, goods and services.
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Phone: (601) 960–8916
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Excerpts about a number of American presidents and their eye problems can be found at http://www.aao.org/newsroom/release/20120213.cfm:
Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln had strabismus, also known as lazy eye. You can see this in some photos or portraits of the 16th president. Lincoln's left eye tended to roll upward, especially when he was tired or excited. News reports of his fiery 1860 presidential election debates with Stephen Douglas describe Lincoln's eye as "rolling wildly" as he spoke. His dominant right eye did most of the work of seeing, especially for near work like reading.
Lincoln's left eye was set slightly higher in his head than his right, and his left eyelid drooped a bit. When he was 10 years old Abe was kicked in the head by a horse, and may have suffered nerve damage that led to a mild paralysis of his eyelid. Lincoln also suffered from double vision (diplopia) at times.
America's 25th president, Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider and adventurer, and his move into the White House hardly slowed him down. In one of his many boxing matches while president, Roosevelt received a blow to the head that some sources say left him partially blind in his left eye. (Others say earlier injuries caused the damage.) If the tough punch was the culprit, Roosevelt's loss of sight would probably have been due to a detached retina (undiagnosed), say ophthalmology historians. Athletes who play impact sports today can take a lesson from TR, and make sure to use protective eyewear and seek immediate medical care for any eye or head injury.
Woodrow Wilson was shocked to awaken one morning in 1906, seven years before he became the 27th president, and find himself nearly blind in his right eye. He'd suffered a hemorrhage (severe bleeding) in his retina, the sensitive area at the back of the eye that relays images to the brain. Other than resting his eye for several months on orders from his ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.), no real treatment was available in those days. Wilson had high blood pressure, a risk factor for "central retinal vein occlusion," a blockage in the main retinal vein, and this probably caused the bleed and damage, say Eye M.D. historians. Eventually his vision improved some, and though Wilson complained his golf game was never again as good, he seems to have coped fairly well.


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Mirena IUD Defects Injure You or a Loved One?
Philadelphia Mirena IUD Lawyer Explains Common Complications
Mirena is a small, T-shaped intrauterine device (IUD) that releases a contraceptive into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Created by Bayer, the birth control device lasts for up to five years before replacement is necessary. However, Mirena may cause serious health problems. Women using the device have reported organ perforation, ectopic pregnancy, infection and cranial pressure. In some cases, victims required surgery to repair damage caused by the device. Many of these victims filed product liability lawsuits against Bayer, seeking damages for product defects. According to victims, Bayer misrepresented the benefits of using Mirena while downplaying the possible risks, such as organ perforation. Women who filed these lawsuits claim they would have used another birth control product had they been made aware of Mirena's risks.
The Pennsylvania pharmaceutical litigation lawyers at Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C. can help victims of defective products, including birth control implants, explore legal options for compensation. Our firm is not afraid to take your case to trial, if and when necessary. We will fight for your rights against even the largest and most powerful medical device companies. By contacting a Mirena IUD lawyer at our firm, you can discover your legal options after a medical device injury.
What Are Possible Mirena Injuries?
First approved by the FDA in 2000, Mirena IUD works by slowly releasing the contraceptive drug levonorgestrel into the uterus. A doctor can place the device in the uterus during a routine visit, and it can remain in place for up to five years. However, women have reported serious health conditions as a result of Mirena IUD use, including:
- Perforation. In some cases, Mirena implants may migrate and puncture the uterus. Women who have experienced uterine perforation reported severe, crippling pain, as well as nausea. Device migration may cause bowel adhesions, infections and obstruction. In addition, uterine perforation significantly raises the risk of injury to other organs, such as the intestines.
- Ectopic pregnancy or birth defects. Though marketed as a contraceptive, women may still become pregnant while using Mirena, due to potential product defects. In some cases, the device also increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies occur outside of the uterus and may require invasive surgeries. Birth defects or miscarriage may also occur in normal pregnancies.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease. Women using Mirena IUD have reported pelvic inflammatory disease. This health condition may cause lower abdominal pain, bleeding, pain during intercourse and ectopic pregnancy.
- Infection. Some women may experience life-threatening infections days after receiving a Mirena implant.
- Brain pressure. Mirena may cause a condition called pseudotumor cerebri, a buildup of fluid in the skull. Symptoms of this condition include severe headaches, blindness and ringing in the ears.
- Emergency surgery. When Mirena IUDs migrate and puncture other organs, victims may require emergency surgical procedures, such as a hysterectomy. This can increase the risk of secondary complications.
When Can I File a Mirena IUD Lawsuit?
Hundreds of Mirena lawsuits have been filed against Bayer by women who suffered severe complications while using the device. Allegations against Bayer include:
- Deceptive marketing. According to the lawsuits, Mirena was marketed as being more convenient than other birth control methods. In addition, lawsuits claim Bayer misrepresented the benefits of Mirena while understating the possible risks.
- Concealing risks. Lawsuits accuse Bayer of hiding the risks of using Mirena, such as device migration and organ perforation after insertion.
- Selling a defective medical device. Lawsuits accuse Bayer of failing to research and conduct post-market surveillance on Mirena. Some claim that Bayer intentionally sold a dangerous and defective medical device
Victims filing these product liability lawsuits claim to have suffered permanent complications while using Mirena IUD. They argue they would have used another product if they had been told of the possible health risks. In 2009, the FDA demanded Bayer end its aggressive direct marketing campaign, which included having company representatives holding house parties to sell the product.
Injured While Using Mirena IUD? Contact a Mirena IUD Lawyer for a Free Consultation
If you or a loved one suffered injuries while using Mirena IUD, then contact our firm right away. Depending on the circumstances of your situation, it may be possible to file a claim for compensation. Damages from a Mirena IUD lawsuit can help pay for medical expenses, lost income, as well as pain and suffering.
The pharmaceutical litigation lawyers at Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C. have decades of experience helping those harmed by defective products, including birth control. Our attorneys can help you explore all possible legal options for compensation. We have offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and offer representation nationwide. For a free consultation with one of our attorneys, call (877) 638-0114 or fill out our online case review form.


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Coming Zune!
So Microsoft unveiled it's iPod competitor today. Per usual with a new Microsoft product, Sci-Fi Tech reports "there's no precise launch date or price yet, although Microsoft does day(sic) it'll be available 'this holiday season.'"
According to Bloomberg, "The player offers a 30-gigabyte hard drive, comes in black, white and brown and allows users to wirelessly share music with nearby devices, the Redmond, Washington-based company said today in a statement."
Sci-Fi Tech also reports "the Zune will feature built-in Wi-Fi, allowing users to wirelessly share songs and videos… theoretically. The press release says you'll be able to share full-length "sample tracks" of "select" songs as well as homemade recordings and pictures. Sounds like there'll be some pretty serious copy protection."
Honestly I've got my iPod, i'm going to be purchasing a UMPC as soon as ASUS does a US launch. I don't see this being a device for me… But it sure seems cool as hell!
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It's been an exciting few months at Northcote Lawyers, with the opening of our second office and three new team members.
Our new premises are located at 157 St Georges Road, Northcote, directly opposite Batman Park.
The expansion is a natural progression for us and will allow us to better service our clients.
We are also pleased to welcome Lawyers Jessica Kerr and Linton Lethlean and Paralegal Louise Moulton to the team.
Jessica has worked in commercial law since her admission in 2010 and has acted in a range of commercial disputes including insurance, building and construction and consumer law disputes.
Linton comes to Northcote Lawyers with of 50 years of experience behind him. He practises in commercial, property, probate and estate planning law.
Louise is currently studying Law at Swinburne University and is developing a keen interest in Wills and Estates in her work with clients.
We warmly welcome them to the team!


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Fashionista with attitude – Tina Leung
I just had an interview of a girl for the fashionista feature of my magazine. Before it issued, I would write something about her which I know I rarely do so. But this can be the very first time that I admire a Hong Kong fashionista.
Her name is Tina Leung. I have met her quite a few times on different fashion events and occasion, mostly at Lane Crawford. I never really have get known what she does until today's interview. She surprised me. Not about her work but her attitude.
Waiting, tired in the morning but looking forward to meet her cos she is sort of a mystery. Reading her blog and instagram, you can tell this girl has a different taste of fashion. She makes use of colour and shape very well that suit her body figure. So how will she be wearing? I know I don't have to worry.
Turn out she arrived with plenty of sorry. She was late for an hour this noon cos of her work.She showed up and dressed nicely in the first outfit I requested. And, with killing heels, RUNNING towards me. I was worried if she would fall.
She isn't a model, not with a doll face, not a size zero. Unexpectedly she did it so well in 5 mins shoot with gorgeous outfits.During the time, Tina gets changed. My photographer and I have been waiting for 15 mins in between each of her change. Tired, but wanting to see her look.
She is totally a sweet girl with fashion sense that I never have such compliment on a fashion girl in Hong Kong. When we have all finished, she suggested to have McDonald's as she is starving. Tina even had bought me a coke zero.
If you don't have a good heart, no matter how you dress is shit. So many fashion people out there gossip around, act bitchy and behave slutty. Or they are arrogant just because they thinks they are cool wearing labels. Why would they do so? They are just empty.
I admire Tina as she is a sweet, caring girl who really works hard on her jobs. I tell myself work hard, be tough and never be mean or arrogant!
Check out her blog http://www.tinaloves.com/and you can get known more about her and her fashion life. xx strangejoanne


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Lois Lerner, one IRS employee supposedly responsible for targeting conservative groups again invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to speak to the House Oversight Committee. And still, no action from the White House.
I find it completely unacceptable that the Justice Dept. under President Obama has failed to investigate and prosecute those responsible. Stand with me and demand an investigation of the IRS. Sign the petition.


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Subarctic Survival - the WINTER WEISS
They say a picture paints a thousand words so here a few - the winter weiss 2009 was a excellent event - perfect weather - and a great group - we hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!!
Posted by Survivall at 16.3.09
5 comments:
- Luis Portugal said...
It has a nice blog.
Sorry not write more, but my English is bad writing.
A hug from my country, Portugal
- 17 March 2009 at 09:37
- Survivall said...
Thanks Luis - your English is better than my Portugese!!
Glad you like the blog!
- 17 March 2009 at 12:55
- Johan said...
It was a great time indeed!
Grtz Mini Mors ;-)
- 22 March 2009 at 10:28
- Johan said...
A great time indeed..... Need more pics to satisfy all the curious ones out here, including my own memories.
Grtz Mini Mors ;-)
- 22 March 2009 at 10:29
- Survivall said...
Lol Mini Mors - I have so many pictures its hard to decide those to use and those not to as I dont wanna bore folks ...........
Glad you enjoyed it and got home safe mate
- 22 March 2009 at 17:24
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The Steamboat Marathon has become a favorite for many runners and non- runners alike. For a lot of runners, they have those races that they run every year, no matter what. For me, I've made this race a yearly tradition that finds me at year 15.
This race has served many different roles. It was my first half marathon years ago and acts as a yearly warm up to the trail-running season. It also was a return to racing after injuries and was a race to celebrate my mother after she passed away. It has been a good motivation to run through snowy Springs and was a celebration of our son as I ran pregnant last year. The race typically starts under a gorgeous, blue sky, although it once saw snow in June. Above all, it is a chance to celebrate a beautiful town and the Yampa Valley by running with friends, some avid runners and some that make this their first or only race of the year.
Whether starting the full marathon in the cool mountain air at Hahn's Peak or taking on the half marathon, you run past fields of green grass, spring wildflowers, the Elk River, and horse-filled pastures. This reminds runners why its one of the prettiest road marathons in the state. I love it when you run towards the finish downtown with the snow covered ski area as the backdrop.
It doesn't matter whether they are the last 10k runners or the fastest marathoners, everyone finishes at the same place, everyone has accomplished something and everyone is treated to streets lines with cheering supporters. I am looking forward to my 15th year, and many, many more after that and, as always, seeing old and new friends at the start!


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Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation present in sunlight and other sources, like solariums. Our skin reacts differently to UV-A and UV-B rays. It is the UV rays that give us a tan, but also sunburn if we overexpose our skin to sunshine. The key to healthier tanning and a safer time out in the sun is to avoid sunburn. That means knowing how strong the UV radiation is at any given moment, and what that means for your skin type.
The scale was developed by Canadian scientists in 1992, then adopted and standardized by the UN's World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization in 1994 (Wikipedia).
The Norwegian Radiation Authority reccomend being generally cautious with strong UV intensity (UV index 6-7), and special care must be taken when experiencing VERY STRONG UV intensity (UV index 8 and higher).
Using the SunSense One, radiation dose is indicated on the 2-digit display and with audio signals. One hour of sun exposure at intensity level 1 will give a value of 1.0. One hour in the sun at intensity 4 will give a value of 4.0.
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The use of sunscreen will increase the maximum UV-values and exposure time before sunburns occur. The amount of extra protection depends on the Sun Protection Factor (SPF). Always read the manufacturer's recommendations on use, amount needed and SPF. Observe that an SPF of for example 10 doesn't automatically mean you can stay out in the sun 10 times longer that without sunscreen. Sunscreen may also have different levels of protection for UV-A and UV-B. We recommend using skin friendly sunscreens with both UV-A and UV-B protection.
Some sunscreen products block UV-B but not UVA-A. UV-B is the trigger that causes the body to produce melanin, giving skin its brown colour and protects it by actually giving you thicker, tougher skin that absorbs UV-A radiation. By blocking UV-B only, the body's own protection remains inactive, while the UV-A dose is much higher than it would normally be.
We also often use less sunscreen lotion than the manufacturer recommends in order to get the stated Sun Protection Factor, essentially reducing the effectiveness of the sunscreen.
SunSense technology is the sensible way to monitor your UV-exposure. If you need to use sunscreen, make sure it is made from natural ingredients and blocks both UV-A and UV-B.


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The War of 1812 (1812-1815) was waged between Great Britain and the United States. Americans called
it the Second War of Independence.
The War of 1812 began in the Ohio country as Americans moved onto lands claimed by the British. The British and their Indian allies fought back. The Battle of Tippecanoe led to a formal declaration of war in 1812.
The Americans felt that British support of the Indians was a threat to their expansion. A large part of the American population was afraid of the Indians being incited by the British and massacring their settlements. The American fear was worsened by the arrival of
Chief Tecumseh.
By 1812 British ships had captured almost four hundred American vessels, severly disrupting American export trade. At times Americans were conscripted to serve on British ships. As a result, many Americans called the War of 1812, the "second war for independence".
On June 18, 1812, Congress passed a bill, approving President Madison's declaration of war. Britain tried to delay it's own declaration, in hopes that war could be avoided, until January 9, 1813, but military action started a lot earlier.
Commodore Perry's decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie and General Harrison's victorious campaign leading up to the Battle of the Thames led to British surrender. The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814 officially ending the war.
Harrison received the rank of Brigadier General during the War of 1812 and commanded the Northwest Army on the Detroit frontier.


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Indians are terrified of most of the new things which happens around them. Latest confusing thing right now happening to them is Paytm payment banking, though it is not new at all. Airtel and India post are already competing with each other in this kind of banking sector. RBI should be acknowledged for taking this kind of bold move in the banking sector which may be able to reform the Indian banking methods.
Now about the Paytm, I am sure you have tons of queries to ask, so LikeWike would love to solve all of your issues regarding paytm payment banking.
- Questions like
What will happen to your Paytm balance? Is – don't worry Paytm wallet will continue to be an e- wallet solely even after the bank is launched. You can keep cash balance in it as well as continue transacting using the e-wallet. If you wish to opt. for Paytm payment banking you just need to take care of some very simple formalities and you are good to go. All you existing customers of e- wallet, you have no option to choose because Paytm payments bank will automatically transfer your accounts.
About new customers, you need to log on PaytmBank or download the iOS app to get an invitation for account opening. Customers will need to submit e-KYC (Know your customer) documents. E- Wallet customers will get a perk of transferring money to other accounts.
Interest rates are bit disappointing as it is of 4 percent only which is lowest among other existing online banks like Airtel payments banks offers 7 percent annually and India post payment banks 5.5 percent. One thing which hasn't changed in Paytm services is cash back and the first million customers to open accounts with Rs 25,000 deposits will get cash back of Rs 250 instantly. You can open your account on zero balance as well with no extra charges.
If you are not satisfied with this new system you can close your account just by sending a mail to the help desk of Paytm (email@example.com).
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Hospital guards locked out over industrial dispute
Guards at the Thomas Embling Hospital at in Melbourne have been locked out of the premises in an industrial dispute with security company G4S.
The hospital at Fairfield treats mental health patients, most of whom are from the prison system.
The 15 guards had taken protected industrial action, including refusing to do administrative tasks and some patrols, after enterprise bargaining talks with G4S broke down.
The company says it has brought in other guards to ensure the full range of security services are provided at the hospital.
But Lloyd Williams from the Health and Community Services Union says it was not necessary to lock out guards involved in the pay dispute.
"This has left the secure facility with inadequate security arrangements and we think that it's outrageous," he said.
"It will put the service at risk, at best. Our members bans that they have in place are an inconvenience and the actions by G4S are simply over the top."
Mr Williams says the replacements are not properly trained.
"We are concerned that the actions by G4S is leaving this secure mental health facility vulnerable because the workers that they have brought in are not the regular staff and don't know the regular systems," he said.
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An outbreak of severe bleeding linked to tainted synthetic weed products continues to worsen. Illinois health officials reported this week that a third person has died soon after taking the drugs.
Cases of synthetic cannabinoid-associated coagulopathy have been spotted in five states now, with three reported deaths. Image: Kelley McCall (AP)
As of today, there have been 114 reported cases of what's now being called "synthetic cannabinoid-associated coagulopathy" within the state. Symptoms have included bleeding from the eyes, ears and gums; especially heavy bleeding during a period for women; and coughing or urinating blood. The earlier two deaths involved men in their 20s, while the latest victim was a man in his 40s.
"Each day we've seen the number of cases rise," said Nirav D. Shah, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health [IDPH], in a statement. "Synthetic cannabinoids are unsafe. They are not regulated and people don't know what chemicals may be in them, like rat poison. While efforts are underway to get the contaminated drugs out of circulation, it's possible they could re-emerge. We urge people not to use synthetic cannabinoids now or ever."
The working theory is that these products, sold under names such as K2 and Spice, have been laced with rat poison. Several patients in Illinois have tested positive for brodifacoum, the main ingredient of many rodenticides. Brodifacoum blocks the effects of vitamin K in the body, including our ability to properly clot blood. Its potency is so well known that it's often referred as "super-warfarin" - an allusion to the common blood thinner. At this point, though, it's still not known how or why these products have rat poison in them.
Synthetic weed products operate in murky legal territory in the US. They're sold as smokable herbs that are sprayed with chemicals meant to legally mimic the high of traditional marijuana, or as mixtures that can be vaped. But the exact formula of these products is often a mystery, as drug manufacturers scramble to avoid bans on specific ingredients passed by US states or the federal government.
And while the recent outbreak is the first time that bleeding has ever been associated with synthetic weed use, these products are already known to cause temporary psychosis, hallucinations and sometimes death.
Illinois has been the epicentre of the outbreak, though health officials elsewhere have begun to alert doctors, hospitals and coroners to keep an eye out for cases. According to an outbreak alert released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, at least four other states - Indiana, Maryland, Missouri and Wisconsin - have seen a combined five patients visit an emergency room with similar symptoms as of last week.
The CDC has also sent a team to work together with the IDPH, while police are conducting their own separate investigations.


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The Pasmodern ManifestoPosted: October 28, 2016 Filed under: Art, Literature Leave a comment
The Pasmodern Manifesto
By Frank Edwin Macapanas
- The very nature of modern Filipino identity is of hunger – for belongingness, for recognition, for resolution. And yet the Filipino is unaware of this, for he is sustained with the bahaw (stale) – pan-os (spoiled), even – ideology of the past. He is essentially hungry and malnourished, he is pasmo. This is called the Pasmodern Condition.
- What are the stalenesses and spoilednesses that the Filipino partakes of? These are foreign essences he imbibes to define himself: Spanish holy water, the American spirit, and today for those in the regions the water of the river Pasig. And yet this does not help him define himself, it only ascribes unto him the identity of the cultures from whence these objects are pirated. We are all just indios, just little brown Americans, just variations of Manileno, or a combination of all these with K-pop bangs. The Filipino identity is a Budots identity, a repetitive and heterogeneous pastiche of influences, but forever devoid of coherent substance.
- The condition of being unaware of one's hunger for identity is called Dinanghag. The Filipino must liberate himself from this ignorance, from the blindness at his own malnourishment, and realize that he is hungry. Only then can he move forward as a human being.
- The duty of the artist is to dispel Dinanghag by exemplifying hunger. He must embrace his own emptiness and let it define his art.
- Prolonged hunger begets delusion, and the acceptance of the Budots identity without knowledge of it is itself a delusion. And yet this is a world of lies, we are all caught in Indra's net, all beneficiaries of Nietzscheian balikbayan boxes. Nothing, therefore, is truer than the delusions of the Pasmodern.
- True cultural incorporation is the making of borrowed elements our own. We however make ourselves what we borrow, we adjust to what we take, compromising our identity creation in the process. The artist must redeem the Filipino identity of such compromises, purge it of its anomalous voids. Before the Filipino can recognize he is malnourished of actual identity, he must wretch out all the otherness he has swallowed. He must kill the Spanish Jesus, he must kill Uncle Sam, he must kill Rizal. The beginning of Pasmodern awakening is purgation.
- And yet truths that establish themselves are difficult to remove, like addictions to the immediate and familiar pleasure of junk foods. Dinanghag is most problematic when it is permeated by a sense of attachment, of seriousness. But the solution to this is whimsicality in derision. To move the Filipino with art, the artist must yaga-yaga, but he must not only yaga-yaga, he must yaga-yaga with the intention of hurting in order to scrape off barnacled old 'truths': the artist must bugal-bugal. The artist must initiate Bugal-Bugal Revolution, for the individual Filipino and for the Filipino people synchronically. This will lead to identity purgation.
- The initial result of successful Bugal-Bugal Revolution is Kahasol – an immediate feeling of somewhat bereft consternation, as if sense had been 'hustled' away from one. This then leads to alienation, the Filipino finally seeing he is not an indio, not a brown American, not simply a variant of Manileno. And he will realize he cannot continue thinking he is any of these. Everything he has come to know as familiar will be unpleasant and different. And there will be nothing, other than these now strange lies, but emptiness. He will be incapable of determining then who he is. This is his recognition of his own hunger for familiarity, and the discomfort he will feel is Kalain (difference/unpleasantness).
- And yet he will continue to see delusions, for hunger always begets delusions. But this time he knows he is seeing delusions, and these delusions will consciously emerge as an attempt to fill in the void where truth is supposed to be. The Filipino must embrace the delusions of the Pasmodern as they are, and not as truths, for it is better to be deluded and know that one is deluded than to see the truth and not know that the truth is a delusion. There is no truth, so we must make it. This is Pinataka, the deliberate creation of truths in its inherent absence.
- The role of the artist is to create. The artist must take Filipino identity in his own hands, grip it firmly, stroke it violently until it blisters, and let liquid possibilities spurt out of it. The artist must not be limited to who the Filipino is, or who he seems to be, but must be preoccupied with who the Filipino can and in his own opinion must be. The Pinataka artist consciously contributes to the endless discourse of identity creation.
- Any artist who believes he is 'depicting' realities is being deluded without knowing it. The nostalgics who hark back to long gone precolonial times, the colonialists who deify the Spanish or the Americans or the Koreans, the activists decrying anything not dealing with farmers or the urban poor or the environment or gender as 'socially irrelevant,' the removed poets aspiring for 'moral universals:' all of them are deluded without knowing it. The only serious artist is the Pinataka artist.
- The Pinataka artist is also superior to De Man's 'deliberate misreaders,' for more often than not the deliberate misreader is not really misreading deliberately but accidentally, inadvertently forging new meaning out of the old. The Pinataka artist is conscious even of his deliberate accidents.
- There are two types of Pinataka artist: the ones who are completely devoid of any tradition, and the ones disowned by their tradition. Both types contribute to the creation of identity, but the latter is superior to the former, as the former, out of native genius, may simply produce unwittingly what has already been produced, while the latter are aware of what has been said in the discourse before and will deliberately be different.
- The Pinataka artist is a prophet, and as such he cannot be encumbered by the mundane communicative difficulties of class in conveying his prophecy. And yet in his attempt at initiating Bugal-Bugal Revolution he can take advantage of class. He can Lim-buwag – shatter (in Tagalog 'buwag') the established Dinanghag by overturning (in Cebuano 'limbuwag') the accepted hierarchies in that class. Bakhtin calls it carnivalesque, but we will not borrow his term (we must rehabilitate ourselves for the time being of our addiction of borrowing!) as we already have our own. By presenting lower class culture to the upper classes and vice versa, they will see not that their class has defined who they are, but that they have allowed their class to define them – seeing what is not one's own does not present universals, it alienates one from the familiar. This will lead to Kahasol, then ultimately Kalain.
- The end of the Pasmodern endeavour does not exist, one Bugal Bugal Revolution must come after another endlessly. The Filipino identity will never be fixed. It is the duty and mission of the Pinataka artist to make Filipino identity one of permanent kalain, one of Ka-ugaling-on, 'however-ness,' the state of identity that will always have its insufficiencies and contradictions. Liberated from Dinanghag, the Filipino will never be complacent and will forever be a being ahead-of-himself, constantly taking his own identity as an issue.
- It is not strange for the Pasmodern Filipino, enlightened by Pinataka art, to embrace his Budots identity. Rather it is expected, as true and complete rejection of any sense of inherent essence will make incongruous hybridity as acceptable as, if not preferable over, any delusions of purism. Filipino identity may easily become its own question. It is the duty of the artist to constantly ask that question.
Myanmar's NoodlesPosted: October 24, 2016 Filed under: Places Leave a comment
I will live a long life because of Myanmar.
I'm lucky to be in Shan State, where Myanmar sees the greatest diversity of noodles. Most noodles are served either a-yeh (with soup) or a-thoke (literally 'salad,' in dry form). The diversity comes in the kind of noodle (there is no specific word for noodles in general in Burmese, though 'kauk swe' comes near), and how it is prepared.
Here are some of the many varieties of Myanmar's noodles I've had.
Notes on September in MyanmarPosted: October 18, 2016 Filed under: Personal, Places Leave a comment
(I forgot to give this introduction in the first of such posts: these Notes are monthly logs we Cardoner Volunteers here in Taunggyi have to turn in, and to make them more interesting I've been writing them in the Notes style this blog and Facebook have led me to develop over the years)
- September – the month I traditionally call 'my month' – started with my Nal performing poetry for the first time in her native Marbel.
- Her performance was punctuated with Inday Precious here in Taunggyi wailing in worry as news of the Davao blast reached us. The last thing anyone heard of her boyfriend before the blast was that he had gone to the Roxas night market – the site of the explosion. We would later find out that he was okay, but while no news came Undag was inconsolable.
- Nal was supposed to have class on that day at that time, but she skipped it and went home to Marbel to perform. She may well have been injured if she was there (my girlfriend likes wandering around alone at night). It was hardly an exaggeration to say she had been saved by poetry.
- Amidst Davao's collective grief, I here in Taunggyi could only be thankful that, while many innocent bystanders died from the blast, my romantic interest was not one of them.
- When news reached her, she shared to me how the fated escape from danger shook her. One of the victims, Kristel Decolongon, was around her age from Suralla, a town near Marbel. The blast made my girlfriend realize how it could have been her – it could always be her – and how fragile life was. That the victim felt so near her (in terms of age and origin) made her feel the blast more palpably.
- Suffering, when it does not happen to you, elicits diverse but not altogether conflicting reactions: Thank goodness it did not involve me, but my goodness it could have been me.
- The first semester was ending in SAG. Part of the requirements that the kids had to give were translations of poetry in their own languages to English. This was a requirement I thought of giving them even before I left the Philippines, and I knew from then on it was a good idea. The kids ended up turning in a rich assortment of Myanmar's internationally underrated literature.
- They also had to submit poetry folios. All three sections gave three copies each (one for me, one for SAG, and one for Ateneo de Davao's SALEM), but only one, first year section Stanislaus, printed copies for all its students.
- I do not know how teachers of other subjects find fulfillment in their teaching, but it is always such a rewarding thing to see students of literature producing something from what you thought them. When you start seeing them sharing Kachin or Burmese poems on Facebook, you know you've succeeded as a teacher.
- The third years had to defend their research proposals. This was the first time defences were held in SAG, and in spite of a few expected bumps the results were very satisfactory. I may have even unwittingly inspired Inday Precious (who sat in some defence panels) to do research and take up a Masters.
- Before we gave the final exams though, we had to leave the country – the 70 days allowed for us to stay as non-Burmese was running out. And so, from Taunggyi we travelled for half a day by bus to Yangon, then from there took a flight to Malaysia, where we would stay for three days in Kuala Lumpur.
- Yangon felt like a badly managed museum, rich with historical and cultural sites but run down in many parts. The former capital was bustling with the sudden influx of tourism, and is it continues to burst I could see the seams. I only hope it doesn't lose its wonderful ancient soul as it meets the demand for modernity and globalization. (more on Yangon in a later post!)
- I finally went to Shwedagon Pagoda. When I first saw it on television I was only in High School, and the metaphor that immediately came to mind was that it looked like a Mountain of Gold. I have since wanted to see it in person. The chance to be in it felt like a personal conquest.
- In Myanmar, the mountains you climb can sometimes be gold.
- By now I've gotten the hang of managing different timezones. That KL had the same time as Davao made it easier.
- We were met in Kuala Lumpur's airport by a Burmese, Alvin Aung Myint, one of SAG's scholars and future teachers. The moment just made it palpable how international a situation I was in.
- In many ways Kuala Lumpur felt like a return to Singapore, it had the same Malay urban vibe about it, and in some areas even the same smell. I had once vowed to myself to return to Singapore when I went home from a summer there, and so far this is the closest I've been.(for more on KL, see my Kuala Lumpur Experience post!)
- The internet is a wonderful thing. While the Malay Peninsula and the Celebes sea separated us, my Ilongga in Davao felt very close, and not a minute passed that I did not hear from her. Petronas Towers, Masjid Jamek, Merdeka Square, the Muzium Negara, Central Market, Petaling Street, Jalan Alor: wherever I was I was chatting her, and it felt like she was exploring KL with me. And it was a joyous thing that, for three days at least, we weren't an hour and a half apart. In more practical terms that meant we had the same sleeping pattern.
- Back in Taunggyi, Abdula organized a Communication Arts Festival for his three sections. I was never too big on Speech Choirs but he got me to judge in a Speech Choir contest. The kids seemed to have enjoyed it, and to that extent it succeeded.
- He also got me to judge the on the spot essay writing contest, and that I was very big on. This was not the first time I had judged such a contest (the last time I could remember was when I was still in Silliman and the National Youth Summit was held in Dumaguete), and since the first time I did it I've always adopted a policy when judging handwritten essays: pay no attention to handwriting. I will never forget that I did not win any place in the only Region-wide press conference I attended (when I was in High School) simply because my handwriting wasn't pretty enough.
- Which was hardly a problem among the student really: the elegant curves of the Burmese script were coming out of their Roman letters.
- Three months into the mission and I think I've determined what I can leave behind after a year here in Taunggyi: to help SAG move forward in terms of extracurricular involvement, and to give it a platform for tangible output for its project of giving English-language education.
- I had already helped in the former, by helping the students draft a Constitution for their student council. The experience drafting two student council charters (one of them, Silliman's Graduate student's organization, was actually ratified) finally proved to be useful.
- But I want to aim to give my own contribution (the above was largely Undag's accomplishment). I want to help set up a newsletter for the school. Talks with Father Paul already resulted in two benchmarks: to make releases monthly, and to include the international community of SAG's donors, partners, and attached teachers in the target audience.
- For the latter aim, I want to initiate the establishment of an Online Archive for translations of Myanmar's literary works. It will be tied up with the output of students in literature classes, and it will hopefully not only provide the international readership with access to Myanmar's literature, but also showcase works in the minority languages in the country, particularly those spoken in Taunggyi like Shan, Intha, and Pa'Oh.
- A bible passage important to literary theory is also good for volunteers to contemplate upon: the Parable of the Sower. As a volunteer sent out on a mission, on one hand I may see myself as a seed, cast unto earth which may be shallow or full of brambles. I cannot accomplish anything if the earth I find myself in will not let me bear fruit.
- And yet I may also see myself as the earth in question, and the seed cast upon me as opportunity. Will I throw the opportunity to the scavenging birds, let it shrivel up with the shallowness of my efforts, or let it be choked by the tares of my own self doubt? Or will I strive to be fertile earth?
- One thing is for sure: vegetables, fruits and flowers grow very healthily here in Taunggyi.
Myanmar's TeaPosted: October 12, 2016 Filed under: Places Leave a comment
As a tea lover, I find Myanmar to be one of the many forms of paradise. Tea is deeply ingrained in the country's many cultures, and it is served in ways unique to the place.
Generally, tea is served for free in restaurants – it is so common it's just called yeh nwe hkyin (ရေနွေးချမ်း, 'hot water'). This tea is usually green, but it is also common for it to be roasted (making it redder) and mixed with some lahpet hmwe, a mysterious leaf whose English or Latin names still evade me and which has a distinct creamy pandan fragrance.
Unlike the Japanese or the Chinese, Myanmar has no issues with exposing their tea leaves to sunlight, which means the tea can acquire a strong, grassy astringency. Here in Shan State it evokes for me the wildness of the mountains. Teapots are also often covered with a filter cork made of rattan to keep the leaves from coming out, but this also lends a woody taste to the resulting tea.
Myanmar is also the only country where the leaves themselves are regularly eaten. Lahpet thoke, a salad made with picked tea leaves, is a common snack served in teashops as well as in homes, and has many variations.
There are also distinct ways of drinking tea for each ethnicity. So far I've encountered two: the Intha way of roasting tea, with Lahpet hmwe and sesame seeds, and the Akhar's infusion.
The Akhar would drink tea by boiling it with eight leaves of a fruit tree called Mahkyipe. It is regarded as a medicinal tonic, carried over from Chinese traditional medicine. That one must use eight leaves is fascinating – I've never encountered numerology in tea before.
But one of the things I found remarkable about Myanmar's tea culture is the milk tea. Actually a largely Indian influence, milk tea nevertheless plays an important part in Burmese socio-culinary culture. Teashops serving milk tea proliferate throughout the country, serving as meeting places for people where alcohol-serving bars would be in other cultures.
It is also in Myanmar that I have seen the greatest variety of milk teas. I had encountered a total of ten variations to milk tea, which is served after boiling for hours (making it perfectly strong) creamed with evaporated milk and sweetened with condensed milk.
Below are the variations:
Blessed are the Poor in SpiritPosted: October 9, 2016 Filed under: Fiction, Kidapawan Leave a comment
Manong Inting Padecio may just be a poor tricycle driver and he may have many faults, but he always did his best to make up for them by being a good father and husband.
Just before he put his pants back on, he peed on his tricyle's front, thinking of his son Janmark. Smart boy, he thought. He's graduating this March from Pilot, and he and his wife were able to save just enough to send him to CMC for high school. As he began digging up a pit to bury the bago-bo boy's dead body, he felt a surge of excitement at the thought of seeing his son wearing a toga.
When the pit was deep enough to fit the dead body snugly, he kicked it in and covered it with soil. Then he looked around: this area of Baranggay Saguing, bordering Kidapawan and Makilala, is wild, uncultivated and deserted land, and save for the moon and his tricycle's headlight, it was dark. There was not a soul around.
He saw the little bago-bo, probably around eight to ten years old, peeing on a car parked outside a house in Sandawa Phase 2 when he was about to garage his tricycle for the day. Chastising the little urchin, he dragged it by the ear in scolding to his tricycle and had planned to take it to DSWD. But when he reached Central Warehouse, he suddenly felt the itch for it, and seeing the dark skinned boy scowling beside him he could see that the little indigent was already starting puberty.
So he talked the boy into a deal: he won't take it to DSWD if the kid agreed to come with him. Afraid of authority, the boy agreed.
The boy cooperated at first. In the overgrowth some way away from the highway in Saguing it agreed to take off its shorts and have its penis sucked (it wasn't difficult to get boys this age up). The boy even came – the kid already had pubes as curly as the hair on his indigent head, but it seemed like that was the first ejaculation.
But when he asked the little botini to suck him, the kid refused. So he broke the boy's neck and, still being hard himself, relieved himself with the dead body's mouth and anus. He was careful to come outside though so he can clean after himself. By the time someone finds the body all his traces would have decayed. As if anyone would look for a little bago-bo.
'Nong Inting was experienced enough to clean after himself. On his way back to downtown Kidapawan he made a detour to Riverpark, where he found a dark corner to leave the shovel (he always left his shovel somewhere far from the spot every time he did this).
On the way back home he started feeling guilty again. Whenever he enjoyed little pleasures like this – with a few shots of Tanduay or, in spite of his wife hating the smell of it a few sticks of Fortune – he always felt bad for enjoying something he didn't think he deserved.
But a bit of good will always justify gratifications, he remembered his late father once telling him. When he was alive, the man had been an unemployed drunkard whose frequent beating of his wife and effeminate son had often disturbed their neighbourhood in Baranggay Perez, and yet as Nong Inting grew up he always remembered his father around a circle of no less than five fellow tambays outside a sari-sari store laughing over Kulafu.
The man really did nothing for a living (his mother did the laundry to support them), so he thought if the oaf was allowed to enjoy some moment of gratification for himself, he, 'nong Inting, who worked so hard for his wife and son as a tricycle driver would deserve it even more.
But so he won't feel too bad he thought he ought to do something a little extra. Yes, maybe a dog. Poor Junmark always loved playing with the askals that their Ilocano neighbour Minyong was raising for adobo. Tricycle driving in Kidapawan made very little, but maybe he can scrape some for one of those mongrel puppies they sell in Mega.
When he arrived at their shabby little house in Bartolaba, he was surprised to see that the house lights were still on. It was already nine in the evening, and he had texted his wife he will be having dinner out because he had a passenger to Balindog (the other extreme end of the city from Saguing). He had expected his wife and son to be asleep now. Jumark came out from the door when he heard the tricycle and greeted 'nong Inting with a mano. When he asked the boy why they were still awake the boy did not answer, but he noticed a faint smile on his son's face.
When he entered the house, the wife was watching television, but it was obvious both she and Junmark seemed were waiting for him to get home.
The wife could not control herself. She told their son to tell him the news.
Junmark seemed at first to struggle finding the words. But it did not take him long to blurt it out – Pa, he said, his voice trembling. The Principal told me this afternoon. I will be graduating valedictorian.
Tears began welling in 'nong Inting's eyes as he hugged his son and muttered thanks to Lord Jesus for the fortune and blessings they had received. For all his faults and shortcomings as a person, thought 'nong Inting, God can be so generous.
The Kuala Lumpur ExperiencePosted: October 9, 2016 Filed under: Personal, Places Leave a comment
(Because Myanmar law allows foreigners to stay for only 70 days in the country, the Cardoner Volunteers here in Taunggyi have to go to another country from time to time. Our first such exit was to Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated States of Malaysia. SAG's three scholars in KL, William, Alvin, and Pan Phyu, along with Fr Paul's contact Mr. Nordin, served as our hosts. Here are some thoughts on our three days there.)
- Few things are more beautiful than a metropolis at night seen from the sky.
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport smells like Changi but looks like Hongkong
- It seems to be a trend that airports are built far away from downtown. KLIA is so far away it is actually in an exclave of Kuala Lumpur within the adjacent state of Selangor.
- Malaysia displays the best of Muslim culture I've seen so far. Women look so fashionable in their hijabs!
- While Singapore may be very near, KL is infinitely cheaper.
- Rubbing alcohol really seems to be a Filipino thing – we could not find it in Thailand and Myanmar, and we couldn't find it in KL either.
- Malaysia also shows what a malay culture would look like if it conquered the ills of a colonial past, a good example for the Philippines to follow.
- Kuala Lumpur is somewhere between Singapore and Manila, clean and very urban with glistening high rising buildings, but also still quite neighbourhood-ly. Unlike Bangkok it may take some effort to get a glimpse of its history and culture.
- One thing it has that few metropoleis have, though: genuine vegetation. In between imposing modernity are patches of what look like virgin overgrowth. Singapore's greenery just feels artificial compared to KL.
- As if to make up for their patches of urban void, the cars in KL drive ridiculously fast. Jaywalking is ten times scarier in Malaysia.
- Laksa really comes close to being the best noodle dish in the world.
- I wouldn't give the same praise to Asam Laksa though: light but sour and fishy, it can be an acquired taste
- Petaling Jaya, in Selangor, is lucky to have its own community museum!
- It was unfortunately closed when we where there last time, though
- Good luck trying to buy books in KL: the vast majority are in Bahasa. I guess it's admirable how much literature exists in the language, but it makes literary tourism difficult!
- But English is thankfully common. As one of the world's top tourist cities, KL is very friendly to foreigners.
- Yup, Books Kinokuniya is still the most impressive bookstore chain I know. When I found out there was a branch in KL I knew I had to go there.
- The Petronas Towers are a pair of huge diamond skyscrapers that glisten under the sun in the day and glow with office lights at night. The cylindrical shape of each tower makes it feel so solid and yet so ornamental compared to the soap bars surrounding it.
- There's more to the Petronas than the towers: in front of Suria KLCC at the feet of the towers, there's a fountain pond that has a fountain show every half hour. And there is a whole park just beyond that.
- There is a strange pleasure – an urban luxury, if you were – to riding trains. I guess it's the Kidapawan boy in me still thrilled at the artifacts of metropolis.
- Yup, the best way to enjoy a sexy metropolis like KL is to wander around alone. In lieu of having someone special wander with you, that is.
- Roses have the taste of love, and I could not help missing her again while sipping Minuman Bandung. The Johor style of the drink though has a hint of lychee acidity to it.
- I think I just saw a snatcher running away in Suria KLCC!
- The Malaysians deserve a reputation for having the most colourful sweets. Kuih never fails to impress whenever I see it.
- It is a bad idea to visit KL's historic center at high noon: Taunggyi's cool sunlight made me forget how our latitude's noons could be scorching.
- And we were equally unlucky to find Masjid Jamek – where KL's most primitive beginnings could be traced – was under renovation and open only to muslims for the time being.
- Refreshing discovery by the confluence of the Klang and the Gombak rivers: Duterte is loved across Southeast Asia. Contrary to Western media coverage, the foulmouthed Philippine president really is becoming the poster boy of ASEAN independence. In Bangkok and Myanmar the case was similar. But the hat vendor outside Masjid Jamek was so much a fan of the man than when one of us mentioned Digong used to be our mayor, he gave us a free hat.
- The Muzium Negara just made me drool with envy: the Malaysians are proud of their history and culture, and they're making money by showcasing them.
- It is really in Malaysia that you see the richness and relevance of Mindanao history. The precolonial Moro polities were featured in the Muzium Negara. As a Mindanawon, Malaysia makes my heart bleed because it shows me what Mindanao could have been if it wasn't so messed up by the Philippines
- They have a separate section for the rubber industry. as a son of a rubber plantation family, it resonates to me. What is common between Kidapawan and Malaysia? Rubber.
- It also has a section on the contribution of writers to Malay national consciousness.
- Which just highlights one thing for the Filipino: Rizal is still the only writer to have contributed to National consciousness. The rest are victims of obscurity or are too busy squabbling with each other – irrelevant, to put it simply.
- Malaysia's elective monarchy never ceases to fascinate me!
- KL minus the Petronas Towers is so much more: the Muzium, Central Market, Petaling Street, and Jalan Alor.
- Central Market makes me feel embarrassed at Davao's Aldevinco.
- Petaling Street feels like a movie set – a more humid version of Hong Kong's Temple Street.
- Stay away from chestnuts being roasted!
- Jalan Alor, the longest food street I've ever seen, was where I finally reunited with my Singapore craving, Char Tow Kway, aka the carrot cake with no carrot.
- Food brings the world together: also in Jalan Alor, there's a restaurant with Filipino staff serving Filipino food. And when I bought Char Tow Kway, the waiter exclaimed in delight at seeing the Burmese kyats still in my wallet – it turned out he was Burmese.
- When departing from KL, KLIA can be very badly managed, with queues taking over an hour. You must get there at least three hours before your flight. Even if you live nearby.
- Unsurprisingly, having a relationship means wishing you were with her. Anywhere really, but most specially when exploring a new, wonderful place.
- I obviously did not take enough pictures! See a bit more of them on my Facebook album!
Notes on FederalismPosted: October 7, 2016 Filed under: Politics Leave a comment
- The greatest flaw of the current unitary system of government is that – like most of the things about our identity as a country – it was decided on by a select few and imposed on the rest of us against our will or without our fullest understanding. Our cluelessness about what happens to us is the root cause of our lack of National pride.
- Federalism, if we are to adapt it, must avoid that – it must be a destiny we will all choose to take, every step of the way.
- Public information dissemination and media coverage must be intense and sophisticated, from consultations to the referendum.
- Something as important as changing how the country works must dominate the public consciousness – I want to see Enrique Gil and Matteo Guidicelli having a brawl over it in public.
- Ralph Recto's opposition to Federalism on the grounds of revenue disparity among would-be states shows both a lack of imagination and a blindness to the major root causes of regional backwardness – dependence on the capital, often operating as National-local cronyism (both executive and congressional), exacerbated by the red tape of the Unitary bureaucracy which demands approval of projects from faraway Manila, is why progress only trickles down the regions at best.
- Federalism would cut our low-earning regions' allowances, but it would also give them the impetus and leeway to be more industrious and find allowances for themselves. Recto should know about that, his own father had once so eloquently advocated self sustainability and warned against the ills of economic dependence on a greater power.
- Sometimes, being a doting and overprotective parent can actually stunt the growth of your children.
- Capacity building for the would-be states must be an integral component of the transition process to a Federal system.
- The peripheries of power have been so used to relying on the capital that devolving power to them would be expecting Skyscrapers to be built with tapping knives and pick axes.
- The Philippines has long seen the bullying of the rural by the urban, by the industrial on the agrarian. Metro Manila, Cebu, and Davao have long stifled the growth of the rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
- No, Imperial Manila is not the only villain. There is also Imperial Cebu and Imperial Davao. And there are small-time bullies stealing all the lunch money in each province and region too.
- States must all sit on the federal table as equals, regardless of industry. The United Arab Emirates, where power is distributed in proportion to revenue, is not the ideal model in that respect.
- Otherwise, our states would only squabble. There is a reason why regionalism is a bad word, and the capital has used this to justify the imposition of National homogeneity with hegemony.
- In that respect, the upper chamber of the legislature needs to see fundamental reform. Right now the Senate is the exclusive club of the hegemons, those who succeeded in reaching the top of the vertical melee for power. It seats so many dynasts and oligarchs you might as well call it the Philippine House of Lords.
- Whatever you do with the Senate, it must serve to be representative of each of the Federated states: have senators elected at large per state like the American Senate, or give the membership selection to the State governments like the German Bundesrat. Ideally, each state should be given their own way of choosing their representatives for the upper house.
- Fundamental to Federalism is the cultivation of the individuality of each component entity, drawing strength in diversity. Because the other states of Federal Malaysia did not impose their system on Negeri Sembilan for uniformity, they were able to have a model after which their unique elected monarchy could be patterned.
- A healthy federation is pied, dappled, freckled.
- Sionil Jose's concern that Federalism would empower the local warlords– a concern echoed by Grace Poe's opposition to it in the elections, is not unfounded. And yet his own recognition of Duterte's revolution is the answer to that: Federalism would help to localize this revolution, not giving a boost to the local powers, but cutting them off from their hegemonic National protectors. No more national padrino system or complicated top-down bureaucracy centered in distant Manila to blame, if a state is doing poorly the people know who to lynch.
- Local self determination is more than just economic and administrative. More fundamentally, it is cultural – it is existential. For would-be states to stand up on their own feet, they must first know who they are.
- Structural decentralization must occur not only administratively, but also socioculturally. Philippine Federalism must first and foremost be a cultural federalism.
- Most of the eleven states in Nene Pimentel's Federal Model for the Philippines are cultural chimerae, regions lumped together even if they had little shared history, soulless products of the illusion of National homogeneity imposed from the hegemonic capital since the time of Quezon.
- Region 12, SOCCSKSARGEN, is a prime example of how local identity has fallen victim to the Unitary hegemony. The poor region, whose convoluted acronym of a name nobody can pronounce, was frankensteined from the dismembered remains of the historical Cotabato sultanate, and its provinces rarely interact. Struggle as it may, as a region it has no sense of identity.
- The federal state to which Region 12 would belong in the Pimentel Model, Southern Mindanao, is equally soulless as a polity. The Kidapawanon has little affinity with the Tagumeño in Davao del Norte or the Pantukanon in Compostella Valley. If not kept in check, Davao would dominate the whole place, or Davao and GenSan would squabble to the detriment of the other towns.
- The fact that local history is not taught in our schools is both one cause of regional resentment against the national, and the reason why it is inconceivable to the likes of Senator Recto that the regions cannot support themselves. We have for so long seen the Philippine peripheries as mere dependents on the might and money of Metro Manila. Teaching local history, and national history in the context of the local, will teach our local children to own their destinies because their historicity will be taught from such an immediate perspective. This will be crucial to making Federalism a success.
- Education, culture and arts, social welfare – all of that, and more, have to be bottom up. Federalism would be hollow if those were not devolved.
- The communities of the would-be states, on the local level, must take the responsibility of adapting cultural self-determination into their own hands, carving their own collective identity against the grain of the imposed homogenous national. No more National offices to give you curricula and templates, you must build your souls from indigenous materials.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley could not be more relevant to the debate on Philippine Federalism. The poets, he once proclaimed, are the unsung legislators of mankind. Our cultural devolution lies crucially in the hands of our local artists, whose duty it will be to create our local sense of selfhood –to carve our collective souls from the wilderness.
- If they would only stop banging on about Duterte and each other. We need our intellectuals to be intellectuals right now.


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Maggi episode reinforces need for upgrading food safety standards
The Maggi episode reinforces the case for upgrading and strengthening our food safety standards.editorials Updated: Oct 21, 2015 23:47 IST
The tests done on Maggi at three government-accredited laboratories — in Hyderabad, Jaipur and Mohali — have vindicated the stand of Nestle chief executive officer Paul Bulcke, who had said at the time of the ban on the fast-food that there was no excessive lead in it.
The laboratories, under instructions from the Bombay high court, found the lead content below the permissible limits in all the 90 samples sent to it. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had banned Maggi in June. However, quashing the ban in August, the court said: "Principles of natural justice have not been followed before passing the impugned order and on that ground alone impugned orders are liable to be set aside, particularly when the petitioner (Nestle India), had given a press release that it had recalled the product …" The court had also said the food labs under the FSSAI were not "authorised" to do the tests.
This gives rise to many worrying problems. If the action of the FSSAI in performing the basic tests has been called into question by the court, it's time for the government and the minister concerned, Ram Vilas Paswan, to take immediate action. After all it was Mr Paswan who had ordered the tests on Maggi. The UP Food and Drug Administration, the first organisation to raise an alarm over Maggi, on its part also did some tests. And if according to the court the FSSAI labs are not authorised to perform the tests, then who is supposed to do them? Did the FSSAI not do due diligence?
The matter had been referred also to the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. Not much was heard thereafter. Shortly before the quashing of the ban by the court, Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly asked his colleagues not to make "unnecessary fuss over the ban" till all the facts came to light. In that case, why was the ban imposed in the first place, more so in view of the fact that Nestle had agreed to recall the Maggi packets?
This paper had said at the time of the ban that India's entire food chain was toxic and probably it might even be too late now to reverse the trend. After all that has happened since then, it must be reiterated that not only the regulator but also the consumer and manufacturer are made aware of the rules, and the food-testing laboratory infrastructure and skills strengthened and upgraded.
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After my day off yesterday my legs felt amazing today. I started with a 10 miler that felt so good that it might have been my best run so far on this trip. My pace was way faster than I expected and it felt very easy.
My second run got cut short due to a big thunderstorm. I was going for another 10 miles, but only got 5 in before I had to stop. It wouldn't have been a big issue, but the storm carried on strong for a long time, delaying us for 3 hours.
While we were waiting for the storm to pass, we did some laundry and got lunch at Wendy's. If anyone was curious whether or not a baconator is a good pre-run meal, the answer is absolutely yes.
Once the storm finally passed, I did two straight 10 milers with a short break between, then finished the day with an easy 5. Surprisingly I finished with a lot of daylight to spare despite the long delay.
We went back to the RV park at the end of the day and met up with my mom and my brother Emmett, who flew out here tonight. Emmett is going to be filling in as my support crew for a week or so when my dad flies home in a couple days. It was a nice surprise to see my mom though, because I had no idea she was coming out as well.


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Q's Daily DIY Green Tips: The Why of Water Heater Temperature
Controlling the temperature setting of your hot water heater can save you energy. For some time I lived in a home with a tankless hot water heater running off of an oil burning boiler. When I moved in I first wondered why the boiler was firing so often, especially as it was summer. After a limited inspection I learned that water temperature was set to 180 degrees. Hot. The minor scalding at the kitchen sink immediately explained. Knowing the dishwasher we used brought the water temperature up to between 140 - 145 degrees for optimized performance, I turned the hot water setting to 120 - 125 degrees. The result: hot water still "hot", a non-scalding sink, clean dishes, and lower energy consumption. The same premise works for conventional water heaters, though you may need to consult the manual to determine the temperature of each setting (Very hot, hot, ect.). Why not give it a try?


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Officials are investigating after a 4-year-old boy was recently thrown off a bridge into a river in Montesano, Washington.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the Devonshire Bridge over the Wynochee River in Montesano last week after bystanders witnessed the boy being thrown off the bridge and called police.
WARNING: The video is graphic and contains strong language
The boy survived the fall. It was not immediately known if he suffered any serious injuries.
Brianna Jones, who witnessed the incident, told The Washington Post the child's head almost hit a steal beam in the fall, and that he was screaming when he surfaced.
His mother, she said, tried to make it seem as if the whole thing was "fun."
"We all started freaking out and yelling at her, 'You can't do that!" Jones told the Post. "She said, 'He's my kid, and it's none of your business.' If that happened out in the open, you can only imagine what's happened to the kid behind closed doors."
"You just don't throw a kid off a bridge!" she added. "It made me so mad. … People like that shouldn't have children."
Deputies interviewed witnesses and the boy's mother. Deputies said Saturday they've recommended the Grays Harbor Prosecutor's Office charge the boy's mother with reckless endangerment and another man with reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing.
All of the charges are misdemeanors, deputies said. Child Protective Services has also been notified of the event.
Kaylub Fawley posted video of the boy being thrown to his Facebook page on Thursday, writing, "This is what happens when some parents just don't care…this is a woman me and all my friends witnessed letting a 'stranger' throw her 4 1/2 year old son of the bridge yesterday into the water for fun!!"
In an interview with The Post, Fawley explained that he made the footage public to inform others on the consequences of endangering children.
"I hope that mother gets what's coming to her," he told the newspaper. "I just want that child to be safe."


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With Christmas coming up you start thinking what you can do for the annual Christmas lunch. If you are looking to do something different here is a good idea.
If the annual Christmas lunch seems a little old and low key why not take the team to cook their own? There is no better way to reward and have fun.
Venturis Table provide a service for this which not only means they will get a lovely meal but also they will learn skills which they can take away with them to use for the rest of their lives. At Venturi's Table you will be provided with all ingredients needed to make the perfect Italian three course Christmas meal in one of their state of the arts kitchens. It gives all colleagues a chance to work together and team build as well as have fun and a lovely meal.


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Kids Eat for £1 at Carluccio's Bromley this Easter
Happy tummies make for happy mummies and daddies so, with the school holidays around the corner, Italian restaurant group Carluccio's is spreading some cheer this Easter – kids' meals are just £1 Monday to Friday from 30th March until 13th April.
Under 10s can enjoy a delicious main dish, dessert and a soft drink, all for just £1 with every adult main ordered. The kids' menu features a choice of classic Italian family favourites including lasagne, creamy macaroni cheese, ravioli filled with ricotta and pine nuts or chicken Milanese served with rosemary roasted potatoes. Little ones can also create their own pasta dish with a choice of Carluccio's tomato, pesto, or bolognaise sauces with spaghetti or ditaloni meaning 'small thimbles' due to its shape. To finish, bambinos can opt for a gelato or sorbetto in a variety of flavours.
Parents are looked after just as well with a menu packed full of authentic Italian dishes adhering to the late Antonio Carluccio's food philosophy of 'MOF MOF' – minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour. As well as antipasti boards, freshly made pasta, small plates and grills, there's a strong selection of vegan and vegetarian dishes. And, whilst the kids are knee deep in Carluccio's activity pack, there might be time for a sneaky glass of prosecco – it is the holidays after all!
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- One £1 kid's menu is offered with each purchase of an adult main
- Kids must be aged 10 years or under
- Offer valid Mon- Fri between 12 noon until 5pm
- This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers, including Carluccio's Set Menus
- Offer runs from 30th March – 13th April 2018
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Western Europe has experienced mixed fortunes in 2013 to date with regard to angel investment, according to Zephyr, the M&A database published by Bureau van Dijk. The first quarter of the year declined from Q4 2012 in terms of value, dropping 10 per cent from EUR 90 million to EUR 81 million. However, Q2 went some way to making up for this, with investment of EUR 131 million recorded during the period. In spite of this promising showing, Q3 looks likely to drop, thereby continuing the series of peaks and troughs. From the beginning of June until the 18th September, there were 56 deals targeting companies based in Western Europe worth EUR 86 million. Since there are only 11 days left of the quarter, results look unlikely to reach the same levels as in Q2. The same is true globally, where in Q3 to date 253 transactions with an aggregate consideration of EUR 844 million have been recorded, compared with 384 worth EUR 1,247 million from April to June.
In September so far there have been 10 European angel deals worth a combined EUR 28 million. However, only seven of these had disclosed values, which ranged from EUR 290,000 to a high of EUR 13 million. The top transaction by consideration involved UK-based text prediction software developer TouchType securing funding from parties including Cambridge Capital, Octopus Investments and Index Venture Management. Individuals such as Jon Craton, Nick Hynes and Carl Uminski also took part, as well as a number of undisclosed individuals and angels. It is notable that this deal accounted for 46 per cent of all angel investment in Western Europe during September to date. Second place was filled by Swedish home food delivery service Mathem i Sverige, which brought in EUR 9 million from GP Bullhound and Karl-Johan Persson, in addition to other shareholders and investors.
In fifth place was a notable deal involving an Irish target. Dublin-based NewsWhip Media tracks news from about 5,000 English-language sources and analyses social media data and responses on each to assess their overall popularity. The company received a seed round of EUR 800,000 on 12th September, with investors including Enterprise Ireland, the AIB Seed Capital Fund, Shane Naughton, Hal Philipp and Hannes Smárason. Prior to the injection, NewsWhip said it would use its next round to support product development and marketing and upon closing it said its main focus will continue to be its Spike platform, which chief executive Paul Quigley described as a story-finding tool designed to make journalists' jobs easier. In addition to the funding round, the company simultaneously announced plans for geographic expansion with the opening of a new office in New York City. NewsWhip was founded in 2010 by Quigley and chief technology officer Andrew Mullaney.
The deal is by no means the first time angel investors have ploughed funds into a data processing company, nor is it the largest investment. According to Zephyr, the top ranked deal by value of this type since January 2006 came just two months ago and involved Brazilian online logistics contracts and services comparison platform Sontra bringing in EUR 240 million from Mola Factory and undisclosed individuals. Second place was worth less than half this amount, as Fab.com, an online discovery platform operator, secured EUR 112 million from a range of investors, including Lars Hinrichs, Itochu Corporation, Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
The majority of the top deals continue in this vein, with the lion's share involving US targets. The highest European data processing angel investment in the period targeted a German firm. Small business process mobile and online application platform operator NumberFour, which is headquartered in Berlin, raised EUR 29 million from individuals Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Jerry Yang, Klaus Hommels, Lars Hinrichs and Simon Levene, as well as T-Venture, Allen & Company, Lakestar and Index Venture Management. NumberFour was founded by Marco Boerries in 2009 and has additional offices in Hamburg and California. It claims its offering helps more than 200 million people to run their businesses.
To sum up, as we near the end of Q3 a drop in the aggregate value of angel investment in Europe looks likely. However, as shown by historical deals, blockbuster transactions involving angel investors are not unheard of, so there is still a chance that one or two deals could propel values level with, or even higher than, those recorded in Q2. September to date has accounted for investment of EUR 28 million across 10 transactions. Almost half of this is attributable to the TouchType deal, but more investments of this size in the next few days could possibly prop Q3's results up so it can stand level with previous quarters.
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Cookie Crew now out on Milk Magazine. Thanks to a beautiful team. Styling by Julie Cordewener and our lovely models.
Concrete Jungle now out on Milk Magazine. Wherever we go out and play. Thanks to a beautiful team. Styling by Ada Juszczak and our lovely models Tola & Inka.
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Virgil Bremer knows a thing or two about impeccable timing. Over their one-year anniversary dinner, Bremer shared with his wife that he had decided to leave his 6-year career as a senior research scientist in the animal health industry in favor of running the couple's livestock operation full-time.
Listen in as Craig Newman talks about why he's a believer in professional development.


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A FORMER Denbigh police officer has shed light on another side of life at the Kinmel Park camp.
Just in time for the centenary anniversary of the Bodelwyddan camp's infamous riots on March 4 and 5, 1919, Robert H Griffiths has published Riots, Death and Baseball - The Canadians at Kinmel Park Camp 1918-19.
His latest work – already sold out on Amazon and with a 'Best Seller' rating - focuses on some of the pastimes enjoyed by the troops awaiting transport home, as well as the extraordinary tales of some of the characters from the First Nations – indigenous Canadians – and 'The Black Battalion'. It also features extracts from The Journal's sister title The Denbighshire Free Press.
Mr Griffiths said: "The story of Kinmel Park Camp does still captivate many people, from far and wide, as well as people from the area."
The book, his third on the subject, follows up the success of his first The Story of Kinmel Park Military Training Camp 1914 to 1918, which despite now being first published in 2014 is rated 19,212 out of more 8.5 million books and has been rated the number book worldwide on 'The History of Wales'.
The camp gained infamy following the Armistice on November 11, 1918, when it transitioned to a staging camp for more than 17,000 Canadian soldiers nursing sisters awaiting repatriation.
However, from late January and early February 1919, poor living conditions and overcrowding caused discontent amongst the troops leading to riots on the evening of Tuesday, March 4, 1919.
Wrecking and looting followed before a 'rioting mob' attacked camps 19 and 20, leading to the deaths of five Canadian troops as well as 57 arrests and subsequent courts martial.
Mr Griffith's added: "The camp and its surrounding area, and especially the 'local hotspot' of Rhyl on Friday and Saturday nights became very much Canadian.
"However, this was the worst rioting and disturbances, with the most fatalities of any which took place in the UK during the First World War period."
Some of the extraordinary people present at the camp include 'Mike Mountain Horse' of the Blood Tribe, in Alberta, Canada, who killed three German combatants with 'his war knife' before being bayoneted in the abdomen, and who was decorated with Blackfoot and Blood Tribe 'victory symbols'.
Also at the camp was Joseph Crow Chief, of the same tribe, who was wounded on the first day of The Battle of Canal du Nord, in September 1918 and was also 'gassed' in the trenches.
Lieutenant Charles Denton Smith, uncle of actor Jay Silverheels who played Tonto in the 1950's American series The Lone Ranger was another at the camp.
Mr Griffiths further discusses the hundreds of members of No. 2 Construction Battalion - better known as 'The Black Battalion' - which caused racial tensions leading to a 'razor and stones fight'. Among them was the very first black officer in the Canadian and British military, the Rev Captain William Andrew White.
Mr Griffith's said: "There was also Benjamin Randolph Hagin, a fisherman of Lockeport, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, who met and married Elizabeth Twist, known as 'Betsy', from Brickfield Terrace, Rhyl - not the most usual thing to happen in 1919 in Rhyl.
"By telling their stories, it ensures that those who were at Kinmel Park Camp during the First World War period are not forgotten, are not just mere names on War Memorials, or upon long-forgotten gravestones."
To find out more of the camp's history, Mr Griffiths will give a talk to the Prestatyn History Club at the Ty Caradoc Community Centre on Wednesday, March 13 at 10am.
The book is £9.50 and available via publishers Gwasg Carreg Gwalch of Llanrwst, from the Welsh Books Council and from many bookshops and booksellers including Waterstone and at the Tweedmill in Trefnant.


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Sidney councillor Tim Chad is floating change when it comes to one of his passions.
A 19-year local politician, Chad has been involved with recreation on the Saanich Peninsula since 1988. That's when he was first elected and found himself appointed to the Saanich Peninsula Recreation Commission. He has served in that capacity ever since and has watched his own family derive hours of happiness using the services of places like the Panorama Recreation Centre.
Yet, more recently, Chad has become disenchanted with the administrative and governance functions currently handled by the Capital Regional District. And for a while now, Chad has been suggesting that it's time the three municipalities on the peninsula take over.
"We've got probably one of the best recreation systems, bar none, in Greater Victoria," he said.
"In my mind, I think we could do (the services currently done by the CRD) on the peninsula."
Chad has compiled a list of what the three municipalities pay the CRD for IT services ($67,000), human resources ($88,000) and finance and corporate services ($119,000).
That's on top of the $3.75 million that Sidney, North Saanich and Central Saanich pay for recreation services and facilities on the peninsula.
Chad said the dollar amounts probably wouldn't change if the municipalities took over administration duties, saying only that the recreation commission could funnel that money to local service providers instead.
Based on that, and an admitted distrust of the CRD, Chad said it's time to start thinking about whether local control of recreation services appeals not only to the three municipalities, but to taxpayers as well.
"The CRD owns nothing," he continued. "They are the tax collector for our rec. services and the municipalities have to sign off on the budget anyway."
Chad said the CRD was asked to handle the administrative duties back in the late 1970s, when Central Saanich pulled out before an arena and pool facility were built following a referendum in 1976.
Chad said the CRD was asked to become the third party to handle administration and to help set up the commission itself.
Central Saanich re-joined the commission later on, taking the place of a CRD-appointed director. The other directors are made up of appointees from the councils and public from all three municipalities to form a board of nine. It's this body that Chad said he thinks can handle the job of administrating recreation on the Saanich Peninsula.
He said he is open to other ideas on a change in governance, but first he hopes his move will gain traction in the community. An earlier attempt to get the subject on a tri-municipal meeting this year failed when he was struck ill and was not at the table to fight for his idea.
Chad added it's not as though the CRD hasn't done its job, in fact he said he doesn't have many issues in that regard. He said, however, that with other matters facing the CRD in the future, it might be time to make a change.
Chad said he hopes his idea catches on, adding he will bring it up with his own council, at the tri-municipal setting and with the recreation commission. He said he hopes it will at least be given serious thought.


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Former banker ordered to hand over foreign pension income to ex-wife in landmark divorce ruling
A former banker who blew his fortune on spread-betting was yesterday ordered to hand over income from a foreign pension to his ex-wife, in what lawyers said was a landmark ruling stopping divorcing spouses concealing assets offshore.
Amit Goyal, who once earned £385,000 a year as a senior investment banker, was told to hand over two-thirds of his pension income to his ex-wife, Ankita, after transferring the funds to an Indian pension provider in a bid to hide his assets.
Legal experts said that the case was a landmark judgment that would stop warring spouses from attempting to shelter their wealth from the British courts.
Sarosh Zaiwalla, a solicitor who acted for Mrs Goyal on a pro-bono basis, said: "This judgment will come as a welcome relief to parties who find that, in anticipation of matrimonial proceedings, their spouse's pension has been transferred overseas."
Mr Goyal, who had worked for firms including Barclays and Deutsche Bank, wed his wife in an arranged marriage in 2004. They separated in 2011 and have a nine-year-old daughter.
The former banker initially tried to claim that he had not been validly married, as an imposter had taken his place at their wedding, although this was dismissed by a judge in 2013.
A court ordered him to hand over his last assets, £19,000 of shares, to his ex-wife, but he instead gave them to a cousin in what he said was payment for an existing debt.
In a Family Court ruling handed down yesterday, Mr Justice Mostyn dismissed Mr Goyal's claims that he had handed his pension to a Mr Deshmukh, to whom he owed money.
The judge said that although an email account in the name of Mr Deshmukh had corresponded with the pension provider "there is no evidence that [the firm] do not believe that this is other than an email account operated by the husband".
He ordered Mr Goyal to hand over £4,000 of his annual pension income to his wife, which he said was "a very small sum objectively, but it will be a meaningful sum for her as she attempts to rebuild her life and to support their child".
Mrs Goyal said she was yet to received a penny from her ex-husband, in the five years since divorce proceedings began.
She said: "To be honest if I had not had the support of my family and friends I don't think I would have survived."