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Draft program of the international conference:
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Outline and aims of the conference:
The international expert conference brings together 70 experts, stakeholders and educational multipliers of Roma and non-Roma (youth) organizations in order to discuss strategies for Holocaust memorial days, to review educational approaches and materials and to share successful practices and educational tools. This conference is based on the need to raise awareness about the Roma Genocide, which is still not recognized in many countries and in formal and non-formal educational institutions, and to strengthen the educational value and real meaning of memorial events especially for a generation of young Roma and non-Roma.
ternYpe follows a strategy to raise the involvement and engagement of Roma youth in commemoration and remembrance of the Roma Genocide, and it addresses the question what role the young generation will take, what lessons it will learn and how it is important for the identity in Roma communities. Moreover, the conference aims to create synergies and cooperation between researchers, experts, journalists, educational decision-makers and educational multipliers and trainers, especially from Roma and Roma youth organizations.
Long-term outcomes
The project aims to produce as an outcome an educational and interactive online platform, and an "Educational Suitcase" for Holocaust Education of young Roma and non-Roma in order to spread tools and strategies in the education and remembrance about the Roma Genocide. The platform targets young people, activists, and young multipliers working in Roma and non-Roma (youth) organizations on Holocaust and Human Rights Education. The project builds on the results and experiences of other institutions working on educational materials regarding the Holocaust and Roma Genocide, and it involves the partners and experts during a one-year lasting process assuring the quality development of the educational results.
Programme – Day 1
Introduction: Key-note speech: Importance of Roma Holocaust education and remembrance
PANEL 1: Awareness and research about the Roma Genocide in the World War II
WORKSHOP SESSION 1: Awareness and research about the Roma Genocide in the World War II
PANEL 2: Memorial days, commemoration and recognition. How to bring meaning into memorial days?
WORKSHOP SESSION 2: Memorial days, commemoration and recognition. How to bring meaning into memorial days?
Programme – Day 2
PANEL 3: Roma genocide and Holocaust education: Experiences, methodologies and educational tools
WORKSHOP SESSION 3: Roma genocide and Holocaust education: Experiences, methodologies and educational tools
CLOSING SESSION: Education for remembrance – ways forward
Organizers and supporters:
The project is organized by ternYpe International Roma Youth Network and Roma Educational Association Harangos in cooperation with the Institute of History of the Pedagogical University of Krakow. The project is supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Commission, the Ministry of Administration and Digitalization of the Republic of Poland, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and Open Society Foundations.


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My birthday has always been a holiday for me. When I was a kid, I would start hounding my mom in July about my birthday that wasn't until January. I couldn't wait for the day that was all about me! I loved the parties, the cake, the ice cream, the singing, and of course opening all those presents! Some things will never change, that is until they must.
The stress over birthdays began when Debbie was a toddler. I remember going to family parties and singing to every single person who had a birthday during the current month. Debbie would burrow into our arms. Sometimes she would cry. Other times she would just simply curl up into a tight ball. I would make my typical excuses. "She's tired," or "I think she must be getting sick." Anything to deflect attention away from Autism. As she grew, the burrowing and crying gave way to blood curdling screaming, hitting, throwing, kicking, and, on the rare occasion, eloping. In fact, just this past summer we went to Red Robin for lunch because Debbie had asked to go there. She knew there would be singing and clapping and sure enough there was. Yet, she still managed to chuck a mostly empty glass across the table.
We realized early on that her birthday parties needed to be modified. We sing to Debbie but there is no clapping unless she initiates it. That works for Debbie and what works for her works for us. When the unexpected birthday celebration happens, however, it's a whole new ballgame. At least it was until recently.
Last night we went to Red Lobster for dinner for my birthday. We had a long wait for everything from beginning to end. We had neglected to bring Debbie's Abilify with us. If I was a betting woman, I would have bet against us coming out on the successful side of this trip. All signs were pointing to at least a tantrum. I'm glad I'm not a betting woman. I would've lost the bet!
There were three separate birthdays complete with singing and clapping on top of everything else. I could feel myself tense up each time. I held my breath and waited to be smacked. And yet, those smacks never came. There was no yelling either. Instead, Deb held her ears while she leaned into my chest. And then each time it was over, she looked at me and said, "Clapping is all done. Happy Birthday is all done." She was more concerned about getting her chicken fingers than she was about the birthdays!!!
So it's okay that my birthday didn't come with all the fanfare and hoopla from my childhood. It's okay that we didn't sing or eat cake or open presents. My present this year didn't come in a box. My present came from Debbie. She was calm and patient through other peoples' celebrations and that, my friends, is the best birthday present ever!


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A while back I made a full Table Top Review and Field Test Shooting Review for my sample - pre-production KWC Mauser M712 Broomhandle CO2 Blowback Airsoft Pistol. Well we finally got the finished product in our Canada Replica Airguns Store and not only in the 6mm Airsoft version but also the 4.5mm Steel BB versions!
I most likely will not be doing another table top review for the KWC Mauser M712 Broomhandle CO2 Blowback BB and Airsoft Pistol since I already made a fairly comprehensive Table Top Review of my sample - pre-production Airsoft unit. The only real difference I could find visually is the markings on the left side of the receiver indicating the pistol is made by KWC in Taiwan and the Caliber it shoots.
I will however be making a side by side Field Test Shooting Comparison Video to see if the production Airsoft version shoots the same as my pre-production model and also how the 4.5mm steel BB version compares in terms of fps and accuracy side by side.
We also have magazines for both of these KWC pistols in our Canada Store!
Make sure to watch my YouTube Update Video where I show these two very realistic KWC Mauser M712 Broomhandle CO2 Blowback pistols in detail:


text: Pyongyang has reportedly test-launched a short-range missile Japan and South Korea said the test was not a major worry since it appeared the weapon was a short-range missile incapable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Officials, however, said on Monday that the test would strain efforts to restart talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. North Korea test-launched what appeared to be a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, US officials had earlier said. The test came as Washington indicated that Pyongyang might be headed towards a nuclear test. "Is this the kind of missile that can carry a nuclear warhead? Not really," a South Korean government official said on condition of anonymity. A Defence Ministry spokeswoman in Tokyo said Japan had yet to confirm whether the launch took place. "At this point, the missile in question is thought to have flown a very short distance and cannot be described as something that immediately has a particular impact on our country's security," she said. Pyngyang's neighbours say the test is not a major worryTokyo believes the weapon may have been a land-to-ship or small ballistic missile. The missile, which probably had a range of about 100km, may have been launched from North Korea's east coast, Japanese network NHK reported, quoting unnamed defence sources. Analysts said Pyongyang might have meant to send a jolt to a six-party process aimed at ending its nuclear ambitions. The talks have stalled since June 2004. North Korea is currently free of international surveillance of its nuclear activities. It kicked out International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in December 2002, withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the following month and now claims to have made atomic bombs. No threat increase "This missile launch does not mean that there has been an increase in the threat from North Korea," said Noriyuki Suzuki, chief analyst at Tokyo-based Radiopress, which monitors North Korea. US believes the North may be trying to build nuclear missilesSuzuki noted when North Korea fired a short-range missile last year, it was trying to increase its leverage in the talks and added Pyongyang might have had a similar intention this time. "The overt purpose is an exercise or test, but given the timing, there could be an element of provocation, a political element," he said. The missile test caused the Japanese yen and the South Korean won to fall in early trading on Monday, but had little impact on stocks. Earlier, the White House called the test a bullying tactic and said there was growing evidence that Pyongyang might be working to arm missiles with nuclear warheads. The suspected North Korean missile test came on the eve of a UN-hosted conference expected to focus on nuclear proliferation concerns, including North Korea. Review of NPT Meanwhile, about 190 nations have begun a review of the NPT, with worsening crises in North Korea and Iran showing how difficult the world's fight against the spread of atomic weapons is. The world is facing a new era ofnuclear 'rogue' statesThe treaty, which went into effect in 1970, seems flawed, if not outright ineffective, ahead of the conference at the United Nations. Since the treaty was signed, the world faces a new era of "rogue" states, international nuclear smuggling rings, and trans-national terrorist groups seeking weapons of mass destruction. Iran is showing the strains in the non-proliferation treaty in another way as the United States claims the Islamic Republic is secretly developing atomic weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear power programme that is under IAEA safeguards. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday dismissed Washington's concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme, the day after Iran said it was unhappy with the progress of nuclear negotiations with Britain, France and Germany, and warned it might resume uranium conversion activities in defiance of a November agreement. The European Union, backed by the US, wants Iran to halt all nuclear fuel cycle activities. In return, the EU is offering a package of trade, security and technology incentives. SOURCE: Agencies


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5 Simple Steps to Taking Your Freelance Career on the Road as a Full-time Traveler
Not every Digital Nomad secretly harbours dreams of being a full-time traveller, working from wherever they lay their laptop. However, some do, and the Digital Nomad workstyle does make that more feasible than most other ways of working.
Freelance Web designer Nathan Swartz wrote about taking your career on the road as a full-time traveller, offering these five key steps:
- Organize Your Accomodations
- Rediscover the Internet
- Set Yourself Up for a Digital Lifestyle
- Inform Existing Clients of Your New Hours and Availability
- See the World!
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Project Description
Impact Builders
Impact Builders Inc. is a family run company with a professional approach that consistently delivers homes of the highest caliber. Brothers Kyle, Chad and Dwayne take a hands-on approach with each project and stake their reputation on the satisfaction of the homeowners. As an HPO (Home Owner Protection) registered builder, Impact Builders Inc. is well-known for their superior craftsmanship and dedication to meeting the needs of their clients with previous experience building multi-family and single family projects.
Melcor Developments Ltd. has chosen Impact Builders Inc. as the building contractor for the Dunbar Villas as they are recognized for their unique, high-quality homes and commitment towards client satisfaction.


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The integration of business and computing fields is the key to the effective management of information in today's organizations. As more organizations process information to support decision-making, the need for highly qualified professionals in computer information systems increases. Business, government, and organizations in the nonprofit sector have increasing demands for systems analysts, data administrators, and information technology specialists. The Division of Business and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science offer jointly the Master of Science in Computer Information Systems program. The program prepares individuals in developing business expertise and skills, as well as computing knowledge and practices. The program has state-of-the-art technological support: a large local area network of PCs interconnected via high-speed cabling and the Experimental Computer Science Laboratory. The campus general-purpose computing labs have workstations that run Windows and Linux operating systems and a wide variety of specialty software tools used in the program courses
Applicants for admission to this graduate program are required to follow the general guidelines for the application process presented in the Admissions Process section in this catalog.
Prospective students applying to a degree program must fulfill the following requirements:


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today's song is welcome home by radical face
a new favorite song that popped up on pandora one day.
the sun has finally decided to poke its little head out here in portland
and my only plans for the day are to soak up as much of it as possible!
i hope you all have an equally lazy and sunny weekend :]


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This may come as a shock to some of you, but the producers of this movie appear to have thought about their intellectual property for more than ten seconds and decided they'd probably ought to have a half-decent reason for making a sequel. Rather than just replace all the actors, keep the robot "trackers" and tell largely the same story again, they kept the characters, built on their stories and made a sequel which extends things in an interesting way.
I know, right? Now, none of this is to say it's very good, but they deserve credit where it's due. Returning are Don "The Dragon" Wilson as undercover Secret Service agent Eric Phillips, Stacie Foster as investigative journalist / former terrorist / Eric's wife Connie, Steve Burton as good guy Jared, and Jim Maniaci as the Cyber-Tracker. Only by this point, Trackers are used as good guys, helping the cops out – Eric tries to get "No. 9" to refer to him by his first name, but No.9 is programmed for formality.
So, the plot. A lot of the plot is based around (I presume) the producer owning both a second-hand car lot and an explosives factory; because so many cars get blown up or wrecked, and so many gigantic explosions happen, that I began to wonder if this wasn't a very specialised fetish video. A group of villains, led by Paris Morgan (the great Anthony DeLonghis, "Highlander: The Series"), is getting hold of government-issue cybernetic technology, lots of weapons, and is…well, it's one of your generic world domination things, I think. They're well aware that no-one came for the plot, so that's dispensed with as quickly as possible.
A large portion of the movie is based on Morgan making perfect cyber-copies of Eric and Connie, and setting them loose to cause destruction, kill off their enemies in the police department, and so on. Herein lies a problem, one of the sorts of problems that movies like this come across from time to time. If the plan was to take over local government, start building a power base and spread from there, why bother antagonising the guy who whupped a load of Tracker ass in the last movie? Why not just try and not mess with him or his wife, who has the ear of the world's media, at all? But, even though their plan is dumb and hinges on normal Eric and cyber-Eric never being seen at the same time by anyone who cyber-Eric doesn't immediately kill, the plan works for the entire second act of the movie.
Stop thinking about it. "But, he's a huge hero. Why would he wipe out a whole police station?" Sshhhh. Leave it.
I like how they try to give us a little taste of the future, still, which indicates someone thought about the world they were inhabiting. Eric appears to have upgraded his sexy home security system to one with a hologram of the top half of a beautiful woman – she still flirts with him, and gives them an "I know what you're doing" look when they ask for privacy mode to be enabled so they can have sex. I'm not sure I'd be thrilled with my own home becoming jealous of me, but so be it! And the police chief's daughter pops over to train in martial arts, which involves her plugging in a VR headset and fighting the cheesiest computer simulation. I wonder if it'd have looked impressive in 1995? Maybe not.
But the plot and the world building, much like in the last movie, takes second place to fights, car chases and explosions. So many explosions! There are a couple of gun-battles which go on for what feels like forever, and they follow the path of the first one – indestructible robot stands in the middle of a bunch of people who can't shoot or find cover, several hundred bullets fly about, eventually the non-robots fall over. Then there's a ton of car chases as well, one in the huge LA storm "drains", the other in "that" motorway tunnel; both locations have been in hundreds of movies.
There's a character called Kessel, played by Athena Massey, and she's great. The villain's main assistant, I was really looking forward to her chewing some scenery and having a cool death scene, but she's relegated to feuding with the heroes' third banana Jared, who I honestly didn't even remember was also in the first movie (and I watched them two days apart). Way too much time is given to the robotic Eric and Connie.
And, while we're being honest, there's way too much borrowing of scenes from other, better movies – for instance, there's the police station scene which is a direct lift from "The Terminator" (but in this, no-one wonders how one apparently normal man can slaughter an entire police station, get shot dozens of times but be completely fine). The whole experience leaves you, honestly, feeling slightly numb. There's so much gunplay, and so many explosions, fights, and car chases, that no one bit stands out. I never thought I'd say this, but I kept wishing for a quiet conversation or something, just to break it up.
I do want to mention one last thing, perhaps the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in a reasonably budgeted b-movie. At around 1:21:00 (it's on Youtube, you can watch it yourself if you like), there's a shot of a guy standing in a corridor, only they forgot to put anything on the blue screen behind him! So, he's stood in front of an effect which isn't there, and then he gets shot and the crashmats he lands on are clearly visible, and not just for a tiny instant either. It's one of the most egregious errors I can think of in a movie of this stature, and I love it a little bit more because of it.
I've spent a long time criticising this, and it's definitely not perfect, but it's so energetic that you can forgive it a lot. Apparently, PM Entertainment are a company that specialised in wild OTT movies like this, so expect more reviews of their stuff in the weeks to come.
Rating: thumbs in the middle


text: "U.S. farm incomes will hit their lowest point this year since 2009, a U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast showed on Tuesday." Such a forecast to US agriculture is brought on by bumper corn and soybean harvests as well as inventories for grains including wheat. It is expected that farmers will make record corn and soybean harvests this fall.


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Interior visualizations play a major role in bringing about realistic representations of an architectural idea. Accurate interior design through 3D rendering helps to negate any design flaws or factual errors at the very onset of construction. When presented to the clients, 3D animation based interior visualizations enable them to get a glimpse of the proposal with aesthetic appeal.
The architects can also make use of 3D models to analyze interior scheme weak points before investing time and money on actual implementation. The interior modeling can help iterate various options of flooring designs, furniture placements, wall colors, false ceilings and so on.
By utilizing 3D rendering and visualization, one can even move furniture within the building and plan for proper space management. This new graphic solution inspires the associates to try out various alternatives to provide a complete satisfaction for the end customers. Implementing such alteration at real time could however cost a fortune for the builders. Depending on the intended result, interior visualization may take few days to few weeks for implementation.
Comprehensive 3D rendering agencies are available in market who provide services at an affordable price.3D animation empowers the architects , shareholders and end users to evaluate the feasibility and profitability of the project. By utilizing interior visualization one can even estimate lighting requirements, furniture requirements and so on.


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GUWAHATI – Cases of contamination of groundwater in the State are swelling up everyday, making groundwater unsafe for consumption. According to the official data, the number of the State's districts which have got their groundwater contaminated by fluoride and arsenic has shot up to 22 and 21 respectively from 19 and 20 respectively in 2014-'15.
According to the data available with this newspaper, in 2014-'15, the arsenic affected districts of the State included Baksa, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Cachar, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Jorhat, Kamrup, Karimganj, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar and Sonitpur.
This year, Tinsukia has also been found to be affected by arsenic, raising the number of affected districts to 21, said the sources.
Till 2013-'14, nine districts – Barpeta, Dhubri, Goalpara, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup, Karbi Anglong, Karimganj and Nagaon – were found to be affected by fluoride.
But in 2014-'15, with the inclusion of Baksa, Cachar, Chirang, Darrang, Dibrugarh, Morigaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Sonitpur and Udalguri, the number of affected districts rose to 19.
In 2015-'16, with the inclusion of Bongaigaon, Lakhimpur and Tinsukia, the number of fluoride-affected districts have shot up to 22, sources said.
According to experts here, the trend of rise in the number of fluoride and arsenic affected districts should be studied, together with the impact of such contamination of groundwater, which is used by the people of many areas in these districts for the purpose of drinking as well as domestic use, on human and animal health.
Except in the two districts of Karbi Anglong and Nagaon, no comprehensive health impact studies of groundwater contamination in the rest of the districts has so far been known to have been conducted, said the experts. The origin of fluoride so far is known to be geogenic.
The State's Department of Mining and Mineral may undertake such studies, involving also the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) in this regard, said the experts.


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Adventure in Baltimore
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One of Shirley Temple's later films, Adventure in Baltimore (1949) stars the former curly-haired moppet in a spirited comic performance as Dinah, a fiercely independent young woman who gets thrown out of her well-to-do girls school in 1905 for stirring up trouble with her controversial progressive ideas. When she is sent back to her parents in Baltimore, Dinah continues to cause problems, especially for her father (Robert Young), a clergyman whose aspiration to be named bishop is jeopardized by his daughter's free-thinking ways. Not only does Dinah shock the community when she paints a scandalous portrait of her boyfriend (John Agar), but she also becomes a vocal crusader for women's suffrage and equal rights, which throws the town into an uproar.
Having been the biggest child star in the world throughout the 1930s and 40s, Shirley Temple had made admirable efforts to transition into more age-appropriate roles as she grew up in films such as Since You Went Away (1944) and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). Since 1944 Temple was under contract to famed film producer David O. Selznick after years of being a top level star for Twentieth Century-Fox. Selznick had been working to help Temple, now an attractive young woman, be accepted as an adult actress. Even though barely out of her teens, by the time Temple made Adventure in Baltimore she was already a married woman and a new mother to boot.
Also under contract to Selznick at the time was Temple's first husband, actor John Agar, which was no accident. The shrewd producer had previously featured the married couple in John Ford's Fort Apache (1948) starring John Wayne in an effort to capitalize on the public's interest in their off-screen relationship. For Adventure in Baltimore Agar was cast as Temple's boyfriend Tom. It was the second and final film that the couple made together before their divorce in 1950.
Filmed at RKO Studios, Adventure in Baltimore reunited Shirley Temple with director Richard Wallace. Wallace had also directed her in the hit 1945 comedy Kiss and Tell.
The film also marked the second time that Temple co-starred with Robert Young, who plays her father in Adventure in Baltimore. They had first worked together 13 years earlier on Stowaway (1936) in which he had played an adoptive father to her as a dimple-cheeked seven-year-old. Young found Temple all these years later to be "as confident and professional as she had been as a child."
According to Anne Edwards' 1988 biography Shirley Temple: American Princess, Temple had an enjoyable time on the production of Adventure in Baltimore. One crew member who worked on the film recalled, "Young and Shirley had a great rapport, and [Richard Wallace] played to it. Also, she was treated like a princess by both these men. I think she felt very comfortable."
Despite the film's warmth and Temple's winning performance, Adventure in Baltimore was a critical and box office disappointment. Shirley Temple would make only three more feature films in her career before retiring permanently from the silver screen.
by Andrea Passafiume


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Have a great one sir,
Have a great one sir,
"Laissez les bon temps rouler"
Happy Birthday my friend.
And many more to come...
... and now, back to work!
Torture numbers and they'll say anything.
Hubbabubba, Touche à tout.
Thanks Guys!
- Ivan.
Anna Honey just got back from Mother Russia last night, so hopefully the workload will decrease a bit with two parents in the house.
- Ivan.


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Planning a trip to Jamaica does not have to be only about snorkelling, hotels and beaches. Although those are wonderful winter activities, there are other ways to enjoy Jamaica Holidays. For something truly unique, why not plan your next holiday around a road trip?
It's no secret that Jamaica is lined with warm waters and sandy beaches as far as the eye can see. Past all these shorelines lies something deeper. The island is known for its warm hospitality and friendly folks, so exploring the off-beaten paths by car could be the beginning to a unique Jamaica experience.
Where to Stay
Along the roadways are numerous private Jamaican cottages, villas and apartments that can be reserved for a night, a week or longer. These comfortable quarters are often the best choice for a home away from home experience. You can use your new Jamaican home away from home as a base while you explore the territory.
Where to Go
Enjoy some of the exotic places the island has to offer. Take in the full flavours and participate in the local markets. There are 14 parishes on the island that can easily be explored as you make your way through the many mountainside villages and tiny town that you discover along the way, not to mention the breath-taking scenery along the coastlines.
A place of interest to explore is Portland and Ocho Rios. This area is where you will find beautiful vistas in amazing surroundings. Along the roads, be sure to stop and enjoy some of the items for sale, such as Jamaican delicacies that include jerked pork and chicken. For the perfect dinner, try a plate of jerk food at Buff Bay's Blueberry Hill Jerk Shop or at Portland's Boston Jerk Centre.
What to See
If you continue along the south coast you should run into Treasure Beach, which is a great hotel area. If you stay long enough to enjoy a boat ride along the Black River you may be fortunate enough to see some of the alligators that call this place home.
This same road will see you past YS Falls where you can visit a papaya plantation then dive into the falls using a rope. After YS Falls is Negril. Here there are a great many choices for seafood and beachfront dining. For a truly unique dining experience, be sure to check out Alligator Pond's Little Ochie. This is a restaurant that serves customers their meal on a boat that rests on stilts, which is covered by a beautiful thatched roof and offers a magnificent sea view.
The roadsides in Jamaica will be dotted with a variety of craft market stalls, farmers selling their product and food stands that have sour sops, local fruit and waters. Jackfruit and cold jelly are a common food choice. These jellies are a combination of boiled root wine and herbs mixed with honey or molasses and served cold. It is an island favourite.
If you plan to buy local souvenirs, be on the lookout for bamboo shakers, hand-painted wood items and a variety of vibrant reggae CDs.
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Module 7: Identity, Representation & #Selfies (two weeks)
MACT Reading Week Feb. 15-21
Monday, Feb.22, 2016 - Sunday, March 6, 2016
Theory of the Selfie Assignment DUE by 23:59 March 6
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Module 7: Identity, Representation & Selfies
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One of my key questions when looking at the "What Picture Would They Use" page was who is the "they?" Is it the media? Is it the police? Just like people choose to present a different face for different audiences, different people "using" a photo would choose depending on the audience and the story they want to tell. In my experience with a death in the news, reporters use whichever photo is the fastest to find, cross reference with a name and confirm. If they can do that with more than one, for example a non-private Instagram or Facebook account, they will. If someone's digital gallery included all kinds of photos, (pot smoke, graduation, short skirts, gangster signs), that variety would usually be shown.ReplyDelete
I understand the point of the question is not so much about the literal photograph, as much as the "picture" which may be painted by police to justify a shooting. There is a disconnect when a person feels empowered to choose how they want to portray their story through their image, as if they are the only ones able to add context to it.
As in William James' quote (in Miroiu, p. 3) a person "generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups." So while one may show themselves dressed up as a bad-ass (like thericardodurand) for friends, and in a cap and gown for family, the choice of how the "real" person is perceived is up to the audience and the text story surrounding the photo. As much as one is trying to tell a narrative about themselves through the selection of selfies, just because the subject chooses the photo to post, doesn't mean there is similar control about the context in which it is used or percieved. It is naïve to think otherwise.
Further, because selfies are captured "to be shared on online media networking sites," (Miroiu, p.9) there is in my opinion a magnification of the image being broadcast: the subject chose that photo and put it out there because they want people to see them as a gangster, or a pot smoker, or a good person.
I agree with Katz that this kind of campaign can "bring selfies beyond narcissistic tendencies," but it also is narcissistic in that it turns the lens and the idea inwards to the selecting of an image of oneself.
If They Gunned Me Down Which Picture Would They Use? Retrieved from: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/
Katz, L. (2014, May 10). Say it with a selfie: Protesting in the age of social media. All Tech Considered. Retrieved from: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/05/10/311143584/say-it-with-a-selfie-protesting-in-the-age-of-social-media
Miroiu, C. (2014). The Selfies: Social Identities in the Digital Age. Retrieved from: http://www.anzca.net/documents/2014-conf-papers/796-the-selfies-social-identities-in-the-digital-age.html?path=2014-conf-papers
Adding to the comments above, "Which Picture Would They Use?" effectively demonstrates Mead's notions of 'play' and the 'the game' as outlined in Miroiu (2014). Individually, each selfie represents 'play', the moment in time when one aspect of a person is captured and they are playing a specific role: partygoer, graduate, gang banger, father, traveller, militant, etc. That role may represent a part of them — or perhaps it is fictional! — but in either case it is unlikely to represent the totally of the person. Each moment is a mini narrative, with the subject playing a character in a particular setting during a particular event.ReplyDelete
The pairing of specific selfies by each individual acknowledges 'the game'. It is here where the individual "pay[s] attention to the attitudes and behaviours of the other participants" (Miroiu, 2014), in this case how others might judge these isolated images through the lens of negative stereotypes. By pairing contrasting images and including the hashtag, participants recognize and challenge the judgement of others while preserving their multifaceted identities.
Miroiu, C. (2014). The Selfies: Social Identities in the Digital Age. Retrieved from: http://www.anzca.net/documents/2014-conf-papers/796-the-selfies-social-identities-in-the-digital-age.html?path=2014-conf-papersReplies
Thanks Mark, for your interpretation of Mead's concept of 'play' and 'the game'. I actually found this explanation more helpful than that of Miriou. I particularly connect with your statement: "Each moment is a mini narrative, with the subject playing a character in a particular setting during a particular event".Delete
Another interpretation of this narrative "moment" comes from Brian Droitcour:
[blockquote] "The selfie is abject, the residue of personhood's digital and physical molting—images shed in square, flat flakes like bits of a snake's skin, recording a body's change".
Such eloquence.
Mark, I also like that you point to the "multifaceted identities" of participants in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. It reminds me about our reading from Nathan Jurgenson, and the expectation that social media users should have a coherent identity without flaws. Participants in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown are highlighting the different aspects of their identities, embracing their "identities as more fluid" (Jurgenson, 2012). This is especially surprising, given that the #IFTheyGunnedMeDown participants are likely marginalized because of their race. Instead of choosing "selective (in)visibility ... [as] vulnerable populations" (Jurgenson, 2012), they're participating in the online conversation apparently without misgivings.
Droitcour, B. (26 April, 2013). Selfies and Selfiehood [blog]. Retrieved March 1, 2016, from https://culturetwo.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/selfies-and-selfiehood/.
If They Gunned Me Down Which Picture Would They Use? Retrieved March 1, 2016 from http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com.
Jurgenson, N. (2012, November 26)."Glad I Didn't Have Facebook In High School!" - Cyborgology. Retrieved March 1, 2016, from https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/11/26/glad-i-didnt-have-facebook-in-high-school.
Posting a photo of yourself with a message makes a bigger statement than simply tweeting a hashtag or anonymously signing an online petition (Katz, 2014). The If They Gunned Me Down hashtag is part of a campaign that focuses on a much large issue happening in America. While these photos use a hashtag instead of a sign, each post becomes immediately personalized, and the hashtag allows each poster to be linked together in hashtag activism. This definitely goes far beyond narcissism.ReplyDelete
Everyone has various layers to our identity. There is more to each of us than what each selfie captures. Comparing and contrasting two images shows the various sides of them. We are not just scholars, musicians, or out to just party, and sometimes what we look like in a selfie isn't who we are at all, but rather the purpose of the selfie was to document an activity or experience that is important to the individual. Without context, it leaves the audience guessing, and they could be guessing very wrong.
Not working in the media, I can not be sure how photos are selected. Jenn's answer to that seems perfectly reasonable. But I also think that may depend on the company doing the reporting. There has to be a bias somewhere, people are choosing to use very specific photos for the purpose of portraying people in a certain light, otherwise there may not be a need for campaigns like If They Gunned Me Down.
1. If They Gunned Me Down Which Picture Would They Use? Retrieved from: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/
2. Katz, L. (2014, May 10). Say it with a selfie: Protesting in the age of social media. All Tech Considered. Retrieved from: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/05/10/311143584/say-it-with-a-selfie-protesting-in-the-age-of-social-media
3. Miroiu, C. (2014). The Selfies: Social Identities in the Digital Age. Retrieved from: http://www.anzca.net/documents/2014-conf-papers/796-the-selfies-social-identities-in-the-digital-age.html?path=2014-conf-papersReplies
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When taking selfies, an "individual can choose how to construct and publicly disseminate his/her personal identity" to a certain extent (1). Once any image becomes accessible online, the originator loses complete control over the dissemination of this image, together with the commentary and the story it intends to tell. A simple example is when any photograph is re-shared on social media.ReplyDelete
Possible results include the mise-en-scène and judging of "isolated images through the lens of negative stereotypes", as Mark described it. A clear example is provided by the If They Gunned Me Down Which Picture Would They Use? hashtag against racial stereotyping, in which the "they" refers to the media and law enforcement agencies (2). In his post, I think Mark hit the nail on the head when he cited an important facet of Miroiu's argument. Miroiu draws on Goffman to call attention to the "social context" in which self-representation takes place. In short, self-representation is "theatrical acting" which happens in the social context of a "performance" (3). Images found online can be used by instances of power to influence public opinion and how an individual is perceived. Decontextualized pictures are used not only to shape perceptions, but also to reinforce assumptions of the stereotyped images and ingrained narratives that already exist in public in the public mind. In the media of a segregated America, images were and are used to reinforce the criminal stereotyping of African-American men and justify the use of lethal force by the authorities in the eyes of the public. The If They Gunned Me Down hashtag played an important role in pointing the finger at the pervasive negative image of Black Americans in public opinion and how the authorities use images to reinforce stereotypes.
The critical role that images play in framing news stories is akin to the powerful role that highly manipulated portraits and self-portraits play in the construction of the post-modern idealized image of beauty and perfection. Conceptual visual artist Amalia Ulman has put together a brilliant performance (4) in which she created counterfeit selfies, which I chose to examine as part of my second assignment. A description of Ulman's Excellences & Perfections performance is discussed abundantly online (5). Ulman's performance reminded me of Nikki S. Lee's Projects, which piqued my interest nearly 20 years ago (6). The exploration of gender stereotyping is an important aspect of these seminal performances, both of which involve elaborate mise-en-scènes, acting by the artists and an extended time span. They ask us to look and think beyond a series of photographic portraits that may at first appear ostentatious and exhibitionistic. Taken as a whole, these provocative staged images demand that we critically reexamine our collective notions of documentary truth, social, commercial and media image circulation, stereotypical gender representation, and so on. From an aesthetic point of view, their strength does not reside solely in their evocative power as images, or in the skill with which they were executed, but rather conceptually, in their social critique.
With reference to last week's discussion on the "curation" of images of an apparently heterogeneous nature in social media, also worth watching are the first few minutes of Ulman's 2013 conversation with Dr. Cadence Kinsey (7). Ulman explains and then expands on why she was interested in the images found on a young Asian girl's blog and Instagram account that combined teddy bears, babies, and cupcakes with images from ongoing plastic surgery (8).
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(1) Miroiu, C. (2014. July). The Selfies: Social Identities in the Digital Age. Paper submitted for publication in the proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Swinburne University. Abstract retrieved from: http://www.anzca.net/documents/2014-conf-papers/796-the-selfies-social-identities-in-the-digital-age.html?path=2014-conf-papers
(2) If They Gunned Me Down Which Picture Would They Use? Retrieved from: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/
(3) Miroiu, ibid. p. 4.
(4) By performance here we mean a performance done in the context of a visual art context. See
Performance art. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 28, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art
(5) Sooke, A. (2016, January 18). Is this the first Instagram masterpiece? Telegraph. Retrieved from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/photography/what-to-see/is-this-the-first-instagram-masterpiece/
Kissick, D. (2014, October 24). from plastic surgery to public meltdowns amalia ulman is turning instagram into performance art. I-d. Vice. Retrieved from https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/from-plastic-surgery-to-public-meltdowns-amalia-ulman-is-turning-instagram-into-performance-art
(6) Nikki S. Lee, . (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 28, 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_S._Lee
(7) See Dr. Kinsey's current research interest: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/people/research-fellows/academic-staff/cadence-kinsey-profile/kinsey-profile
(8) Video in Common. [Screen name]. (2015, January 22). Amalia Ulman & Dr Cadence Kinsey - in Conversation, 2013 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbRYL6By4k
By posting selfies with the hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown, social media users are participating in a larger conversation about race. While the selfie is a form of expression, it's the distribution of the selfie on social media channels (Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr) that makes it unique. That's to say, there have been self portraits for centuries, but -- as Miroiu points out -- the digitization of pictures has now allowed for rapid and ubiquitous distribution (p. 13).ReplyDelete
In the words of José van Dijck (as cited in Miroiu, 2014), they're "storing photographs to document their lives, but by participating in communal photographic exchanges that mark their identity as interactive producers and consumers of culture" (p. 7).
Using these platforms as a sounding board really counters the radical intent of the #IfTheyGunnedMeDown or #BlackLivesMatter movement, in my mind. Rob Horning argues that selfies aren't an act of defiance, because they're created for a network with set parameters. In his words, a selfie is "one's self commoditized to suit the logistics of networks". Therefore, participating in conversations like #iftheygunnedmedown aren't altruistic. They are too self-aware. In Horning's words:
[blockquote] "Selfies may be mistaken for autonomous self-expression: an assertive, short-circuiting gesture that recuperates the communication/surveillance platforms that otherwise contain the self. But selfies don't tap a suppressed inner essence; they develop the 'self' as an artisanal product line."[/blockquote]
The #IfTheyGunnedMeDown conversation is particularly poignant for me. As a member of the media, I have trawled Facebook and Twitter looking for pictures of people who recently died. If the story is considered important enough, then the pictures are considered fair use and distributed without a second thought.
I have rarely covered stories as contentious the deaths of Mike Brown or Trayvon Martin, so I'm not sure now I would have reacted. That said, clearly members of the media need to examine their bias when working on racially-charged stories. In my experience, newsrooms have very few people of colour, so it's predominantly white people telling the Black Lives Matters stories.
When talking about anti-oppression, I don't want to insert myself into the conversation. As a white person and therefore a person of privilege, I find myself comfortable at a distance, offering words of support. As this Tumblr post displays, oftentimes in anti-oppression discussion white people aren't welcome. Link: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/post/95379954886/mariefatale-iftheygunnedmedown-ver-2-they
Katz, L. (May 2014). Say It With A Selfie: Protesting In the Age of Social Media. Retrieved February 16, 2016, from
Horning, R. (2014, November 23). "Selfies without the self," The New Inquiry. Retrieved February 16, 2016, from http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/selfies-without-the-self/
Miroiu, C. (2014.) #Selfies: Social Identities in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the Australi and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Swinburne University,
Victoria 9-11 July, 2014. Retrieved February 16, 2016, from http://www.anzca.net/documents/2014-conf-papers/796-the-selfies-social-identities-in-the-digital-age.html


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Jack S. Nyman, Director, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Baruch College.
Robert E. Paaswell, Interim President, The City College of New York.
Anthony Perl, Post Carbon Institute, and Professor and Director, Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Frank S. Ralbovsky, Senior Project Manager, Transportation & Power Systems Research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel, 15th Congressional District, New York.
Jon Rynn, author, "Manufacturing Green Prosperity."
Elliott Sclar, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia University.
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Anyone dropping by the Ross Terrace during the day this week can witness the spectacle of three British TV hosts building and then living in a human-sized replica of a wasp's nest. The feat will be filmed as part of a new series called "Live Like an Animal."
Consulting with Nat Geo WILD crew is James M. Carpenter, entomologist and curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology. In this video, Dr. Carpenter takes you behind the scenes of the Museum's Hymenoptera collection which includes the world's largest collection of wasp nests with more than 1,000 specimens as well as the 7.5 million-specimen gall wasp collection donated to the Museum in 1958 by the widow of Alfred C. Kinsey:
The primary focus of Dr. Carpenter's work is the wasp family Vespidae, a group of nearly 5,000 described species that encompasses the most sophisticated societies among the social wasps, i.e., ones that build large, communal nests. (Gall wasps, by contrast, are solitary; they lay their eggs, fly away, and never have contact with their offspring again.) Carpenter's special concentration is on the commonly known yellowjackets and hornets. For amazing, close-up views of some of Dr. Carpenter's specimens, visit the current exhibition Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies in the Akeley Gallery on the second floor.
The nest being featured on the Ross Terrace is something of a yellowjacket hybrid, incorporating some of the more interesting elements of nest structure and behavioral patterns of the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and the European or German Wasp (Vespula Germanica)—both known as yellowjackets in the United States.


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MODESTO -- Lyn DeLano was in Hawaii with her mother in February 2011 when her uncle died at a care home in Roseville.
MODESTO -- Lyn DeLano was in Hawaii with her mother in February 2011 when her uncle died at a care home in Roseville.
DeLano, who was in charge of her uncle's finances, called Shaun McGuire, owner of McGuire Cremation and Funeral Service in Modesto.
Though he had only a four-hour window to pick up DeLano's uncle, McGuire made it to Roseville and took care of everything.
"We had no issues at all with him," said DeLano. McGuire even helped DeLano get a refund from the Department of Veterans Affairs for some of the funeral costs. "He was just excellent to deal with."
Paperwork was processed quickly and DeLano was grateful for McGuire's help.
So when another uncle died last August, DeLano recommended McGuire to her cousin. But the cousin's experience was vastly different, and echoed those of other customers of McGuire's in the last 10 months or so.
"He started having issues where he couldn't get in touch with Shaun," DeLano said. "He couldn't get a death certificate, he couldn't get the ashes or a receipt. Shaun was dragging his feet on all this stuff."
Because of the increasing complaints starting earlier this year, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department and district attorney's office launched an investigation. Friday, deputies removed 17 bodies from the 12th Street building that housed the funeral home.
DeLano was left at a loss to explain the change.
"We are totally mystified as to what happened to Shaun McGuire and his funeral and cremation service."
Several other clients of the funeral home also are disappointed, and many complained to local and state officials when they weren't getting the remains of their loved ones in a timely manner. DeLano said her cousin filed a complaint, but when he finally got the paperwork he needed in January, he withdrew it.
Stanislaus County officials stopped issuing cremation and burial permits to McGuire earlier this month, citing concerns over the delay in cremating remains and processing paperwork.
McGuire has not responded to repeated telephone messages and has not been at his business address.
DeLano is concerned because she gave McGuire information about her mother, planning to use his funeral home in the event of her mother's death.
Monica Vargas, an information officer for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, recommended that anyone with concerns about records or information call the state Cemetery and Funeral Board.
Though many funeral homes accept money to prepay for services, Vargas said McGuire did not report having any of those funds. The funeral home apparently operated with "wish lists" for preplanning, but consumers held onto their own money.
DeLano is left wondering what happened to cause the sudden change.
"This is just kind of befuddling to me," she said. "Something must have happened."
Complaints and concerns can be registered with the Cemetery and Funeral Board at (916) 574-7870.


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I learn so much from z! I do remember the point, made here on WC, that language genders are different from human genders. However, now I learn of a new definition of squeamish. I've always used it to mean "easily made to feel sick," but there is also a definition of, "having strong moral views."
Come to think of it, if you have strong moral views you probably are easily made sick.
I've always used it to mean "easily made to feel sick," but there is also a definition of, "having strong moral views."
I was using the word in the sense of "easily disgusted by something".
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Gosh, I thought it meant a group of indigenous peoples in Western Canada! http://www.squamish.net/
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
That's the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.
Actually the Squeamish Indians were known for covering their bodies with dung to intimidate their enemies, hence the present definition of the term.
Give a man a fish and he can eat for one day; give a man a fishing pole and he will find an excuse to never work again.
Nollidj is power.
Really, z, or were you kidding? If so, I wonder if people ever use the definition of "having strong moral values." I haven't heard of it, have you?
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It's Michael Dibdin, an English author who writes about an Italian detective named Inspector Aurelio Zen. Correspondent Anthony Mason reports for CBS News Sunday Morning.
Italy is the setting for Vendetta, and Dead Lagoon, and Blood Rain, and the rest of the Dibdin's series of highly acclaimed Aurelio Zen mysteries.
So why is Italy such a good place to set a crime novel?
"There's a hint of drama, of course, but also with a huge amount being hidden, there's a sense of drama," Dibdin replies. "There's also a sense of immense mystery. I mean, what more do you need, you know, for a mystery novel?"
Aurelio Zen, says his creator, "is not a white knight who thinks he can ride in and make everything different. Because I think, on the whole, Italians do not have those kind of illusions."
The author himself is somewhat inscrutable. For a crime writer, Dibdin is hardly your usual suspect. He is an English writer, raised in Northern Ireland, who lives in Seattle and writes about an Italian detective.
So what does he call himself? After some verbal jousting, Dibdin comes up with a description: "I'm a resident alien. That's exactly what I am. I'm a resident alien, and I feel alien everywhere."
The son of an itinerant physics teacher, Dibdin and his family moved every year for the first seven years of his life. "They always felt that the grass would be greener on the other side of the hill, and you just kept on moving," he explains.
Early on, Dibdin started writing. But his precise motives are a mystery.
"I have no idea, no idea. I really don't," he says. "But I scribbled from a very early age. I'm afraid, you know, there was even a moment when I wrote, well, poetry!"
Why did he choose to write crime novels?
"Well, I didn't really choose to write crime novels," says Dibdin. "Crime novels have chosen me."
It was all an accident, really. Dibdin was living in Italy, teaching English at an Italian university, when he was abruptly fired in a school power struggle -- "which left me feeling, I have to say, pretty bitter," he says. So he started sketching out a crime novel set in Italy, with the criminals drawn from his former colleagues.
"I did it partly, I have to say, as sort of a little act of revenge, a private act of revenge," notes the author.
That novel, Ratking,introduced Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen. Much to Dibdin's surprise, it won the British crime writer's Gold Dagger for best mystery. "And people started saying, 'Well, when's your next Italian book?'" he recalls.
Dibdin himself disovered he was growing intrigued with the inspector he had created quite by accident.
"When Zen started out, it was just after, you know, the Aldo Moro affair, where he was kidnapped by the Red Brigades and then murdered, as many people believe, with the collusion of the government," explains Dibdin.
After the kidnapping and murder of their former prime minister in 1978, Italians learned to hold authority under suspicion. Dibdin finds it interesting to work with a character who is a decent policeman who must work against public perception that, as a policeman, he must be rotten.
It was Dibdin's heart that ultimately took him to America. After he fell for another mystery writer, Katherine Beck (K.K. Beck to her readers), he moved in alongside her in Seattle.
Says Beck, "I had a little house in Seattle. And he bought the twin house next door. And that's the writing house."
She writes upstairs. He writes downstairs.
"It's a little odd," admits Beck, "but it works quite nicely."
And they claim the egos never clash.
"Somehow," says Dibdin, "we seem to be able to have the ability to look at each other's work with a cool but friendly eye."
Beck adds, "he writes about very dark things, so that requires a certain descent into moodiness."
Does she have to go along?
"Well, you know, you feel you should go along out of kindness," replies Beck. "But there's only so far you're willing to go."
Dibdin writes a book a year, alternating with non-Zen novels. But he always comes back to his Venetian policeman.
This past summer, Dibdin began scouting the scene of Zen's next adventure along the Tuscan coast, where the sands are carefully segregated into private clubs and regimental rows of beach chairs seem to be marching toward the sea.
The longer you are with the place, says Dibdin, the closer you get to the sea. "It's a bit like subscribing to the opera, you know," he explains. "You start off...with the bad seats. And then you move forward to the good stuff."
In the book, Zen will be recovering from an attack by the Mafia in Sicily.
"It's the perfect place to hide because...you're hiding in plain view, which is always the good thing to do," explains the author.
In the end, Dibdin says, his novels are more about the people than the place. But they are possessed of an Italian attitude. The skepticism that says, like the leaves on the olive tree, things are not all that they seem. Above, the leaves are a rich glossy color. "If you're looking at them from underneath, there's a rough, sort of dirty green side," he explains.
Ever the Englishman abroad, Michael Dibdin has condemned himself to the role of itinerant alien. But after all these years, the author has made himself at home with his Italian inspector.
Does Dibdin see an end for Zen at some point?
"Well, I suppose in the same sense that I see an end for m," the author replies. "I mean, we don't last forever, you know. We'll have to wait and see."


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This indulgent cheesecake is like having your drink and eating it too! If your feeling adventurous make your own Bailey's Irish Cream with this recipe...you'll be glad you did :)
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- 1 1/2 chocolate cookie crumb
- 1/3 cup confectioners sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3 (8 oz) packages cream cheese
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tbl flour
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream or plain greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup Irish Cream liqueur
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, mix the first 4 ingredients and pat into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan. Bake for 10 minutes; set aside. Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees.
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, sugar, and flour; beat until smooth. Add eggs one at a time until combined. Mix in sour cream or yogurt and Irish Cream; pour over crust.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees then reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees and continue baking for 1 hour.
- Remove from oven and loosen cake from the rim of the pan with a knife and allow to cool. Remove rim from the pan and chill before serving. Pour a drizzle of Irish Cream over the top when served :)


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French President Emmanuel Macron has been roasted on social media for ordering a custom set of porcelain tableware reportedly worth half a million euros, days after complaining about the "crazy amounts of dough" spent on social security.
The culture ministry allocated some 50,000 euros ($58,000) to pay around 30 artists chosen to submit proposals for the new "Elysee Blue" bone china collection.
French investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported Wednesday that at current list prices — a single, unadorned plate sells for 400 euros — the 1,200 pieces of tableware would cost at least 500,000 euros.
The winner of the contest was French visual artist Evariste Richer, who will design the pieces produced by the prestigious Sevres porcelain factory, a state-owned company founded under the reign of Louis XV to produce royal china.
The presidency on Thursday defended the order, saying a modern table service was needed for large state dinners and other gatherings, which can include up to 300 guests, because the existing collection dated from the 1950s.
It also said the cost of the new collection, to be delivered over three years, would be covered by the annual subsidies to the Sevres factory, which are expected to reach about 4.5 million euros this year.
The order will not lead to increased subsidies, it added.
But the pricey collection comes at an inopportune time, as Macron and his government appear to be preparing voters for benefit cuts.
In a video released by his team on social media this week, Macron — who campaigned on a pledge to cut spending — assails social spending in particularly blunt language.
"Our social policy, look at it: we spend a crazy amount of dough on social security and the people are poor. They're born poor and they stay poor. Those who become poor, stay poor," he said.
The comments are not likely to help him shake off the label of "president of the rich", which has stuck since he pushed through changes to labour laws last year making it easier for firms to dismiss employees.
Using the hashtag #VaisselleGate (DishesGate), hundreds of Twitter users mocked the president's move, many posting images depicting the first couple as disdainful royalists.
"Macron spends 'crazy amount of dough' on new dishes for the Elysee!" tweeted Socialist leader Olivier Faure.


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It's a vegetarian dish, quite healthy one & one of the cookbooks was actually used - instead of only "looking good" on the shelf ;)
You can eat it as an accompaniment to a main meal or do what we did - add a fried (or maybe poached) egg to it and you have a nice brunch/lunch!
Hope you'll enjoy it - I know I did!
Recipe comes from River Cottage's cookbook "Veg everyday".
How to make it...
- 400 g waxy potatoes or new potatoes
- 200 g spinach
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 1 onion, thinly diced
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1 red chili, deseeded and finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons garam masala
- 2-3 tablespoons double cream or coconut cream (we used the latter)
- sea salt and black pepper
Halve or quarter large potatoes, so that all pieces are roughly the same size. Boil them as you usually boil the potatoes until tender. Drain and put aside.
Wash the spinach, drain roughly and place in the saucepan. Cover and put over a medium heat until the spinach has wilted. Drain and leave in a colander until cool enough to handle, then squeeze out as much liquid as you can with your hands. Chop the spinach roughly.
Heat the oil in a frying pan and gently sweat the onion for 10 minutes, until soft. Add the garlic, chili, ginger and garam masala. Cook for a couple of minutes more, then thickly slice the potatoes into the pan. Cook for a couple of minutes.
Add the chopped spinach and cook briefly to warm through. You can leave the dish as it is now or add the double cream or coconut cream to make it richer. Either way season with salt and pepper and serve.
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