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Tibet, which is experiencing a tourist boom, plans to open up to the outside world to attract more visitors from abroad this summer, a top official from the remote Himalayan region said.world Updated: Mar 13, 2013 23:40 IST
Tibet, which is experiencing a tourist boom, plans to open up to the outside world to attract more visitors from abroad this summer, a top official from the remote Himalayan region said Wednesday.
The region will open up further to the outside world and attract more visitors from aboard this summer, Padma Choling, chairman of the Tibet region legislature said.
In 2012, Tibet attracted 10.58 million visitors, an increase of 21.7% year-on-year, generating 12.64 billion yuan ($2 billion) revenue, state-run China Daily said.
The vast majority of the tourists, however, are Chinese from mainland.
Tibetan authorities expect the tourism industry's contribution to local GDP to climb to 20% by the end of 2015, with the number of overseas tourists expected to account for more than 10% of the total, generating more than 15% of revenue.
But, Choling said the opening-up should abide by state foreign policies first and "fit the local situation" as Tibet is a border area.
"The prerequisite of opening-up is to upgrade service facilities and service capabilities to match the requirements. And we have to protect national territory at the borders," he told the Daily.
Tibet has a host of tourist attractions, including the highest peak Mt Everest called Qomolangma, the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon; and the Potala Palace, the home of Dalai Lamas.
While the Himalayan region is mostly open to Chinese tourists, foreigners must apply for entry permits.
In 2010, the central government proposed making the region a major global tourism destination, and from January to November last year, it received more than 90,000 overseas tourists, the local tourism bureau said.
"The (Tibet) autonomous region has to further open up to ensure the tourism industry develops in the right direction," Choling said.
"Tourism will further open up to the world from this summer," he said, adding that summer will be the starting point, as conditions in winter are harsh.
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It was a rude awakening for the DBL Sharks Sheffield in the opening fixture of the season as the Leicester Riders stormed to a comprehensive 85-54 victory at the English Institute of Sport.
The Sharks knew this would be a tough opening fixture and so it proved, with the Riders exacting revenge for their 84-77 play-off final defeat in May.
Following a tight first quarter which ended 14-14, Leicester were dominant throughout, scoring 42 points to the Sharks' 17 in the second and third periods.
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Second annual International Friendship Day event acknowledges community leaders.
Church of Scientology Sacramento Public Affairs Director Mike Klagenberg at the second annual International Friendship Day Breakfast and Awards Ceremony at the Church of Scientology of Sacramento July 30, 2013.
Seven Sacramento community and religious leaders were honored July 30 at the second annual United Nations International Friendship Day "Friends of the Community" breakfast and awards ceremony at the Church of Scientology of Sacramento.
International Friendship Day was proclaimed by the UN in the belief "that friendship between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities."
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A compendium of critical opinions http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html
And of positive takes http://summapolitico.blogspot/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html
THE DEVELOPING CODICIL For a discussion of the poetics of the poem and the controversy surrounding that aspect, there is
over what is openly played out
in war games at the end of which we
the survivors are at best footnotes.
against those who under a loudmouth's thumb
are pushed into organized cheering—
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people
on suspicion that under his influence
an atom bomb's being built.
Über reimlose Lyrik mit unregelmäßigen Rhythmen
it is a text that is full of tension, in its metrics as well in the relationship of the personal and the objective nature of its subject, war, politics, U-boats, atomic rockets.
Put to the side for the time, or forever, whatever easy time you may have charging Grass with grandiose self-importance: he is TRYING for a Hoeldernisque earnestness. Hoelderlin, Brecht – a great formality, an easygoing-seeming free verse, emotionality, objective political concepts... lie uneasily together. Therefore I agree with Detering and others that criticism of the poem as a poem begins at that intersection of subjective elements with the editorial political language and reference to daily events, and those who have already voted: you might give the matter more thought, if only for the sake of political poetry. For one matter has not been addressed, and it lies at the heart of the attacks against the poem: it's ambiguity mixed with straightforward entirely unambiguous assertions into a world ruled by the Manichean dichotomy friend/ foe. No wonder the defensive aggressive so insecure Netanyahoo & Co. are so upset! After all, this may be the most effective political poem in the West in a very long time. And it is for reasons of aesthetic impurity. I mean, the poem might also screech expressionistically, with ample justification for the prospect it envisions, and don't think Grass does not know the available repertoire.
The American President playing war games as though he were still a kid in an arcade. Or it it the Mau-Mau coming out in him now that he is reading Kagan – you can see where Grass might have taken his poem if he were less parochially oriented. Grass's diatribe, for that is what the so composed poem is too, might easily have been twice as long if had addressed the powers that be behind the Netanyahu / Liberman gang. And what of it, if the poem does not subscribe to the going, fussy aesthetic imperialist criteria, what if it is a bit crude and simple, and intentionally lightly freighted? If only folks were as upset by the subject it addresses as they are by the form Grass takes. The immense media effort taken to avert the subject of the poem and to foist anti-Semitism on to Grass, to make Grass's youth the subject, and avert the subject he addresses!
However, it is a poem with a shadow… how many poems have shadows… echoes… some very great ones of course do, too… that accompanied the new German President, Gauck, to Israel. You can declare a poet persona non grata, but not his shadow.
What was Grass thinking or suggesting by his most contentious line? The result of the dissemination of all that destroyed atomic material?
The poem is evidently provocative in the extreme, we can't tell whether Grass who wrote the poem in a Brechtina manner also absorbed some of Brecht's slyness in ending up being enviably provocative. I myself don't think so, I think Grass bumbled into a far greater controversy than he had anticipated, and venture that guess because Grass didn't tie the links between the US Neo-Cons, the US Congress and AIPAC and Netanjahu / Liberman into the airtight warmonger imperialist reprise case as he might have. Grass is bringing the news, but it is mostly old news, we've been hearing of the first strike against Iran for years, it would follow two other first strikes, against an Iraqi and a Syrian atomic reactor, it actually was on the past January 2012, Netanjahu had just been in Washington in March to pitch the same game plan. It is old news but for the Dolphin class U-boats and their ability to deliver rockets with atomic war heads, a capacity just confired by Der Spiegel on Sunday June the 3rd The puzzling line -
"a strike to snuff out the Iranian people.."
Amindebejad may not be the monster that Western propaganda makes him out to be, he may indeed be more demagogue than monster, yet he is also a lot more than your Maltese barking from Big Bertha's lap. He is more than just a useful idiot for propaganda purposes. The revolutionary anti-imperialist Islamic fervor that empowers him is not be discounted. Nor ought Israeli anxiety to be discounted, no matter the degree to which Israeli demagogues exploit it.
Professor Hinderer points out in his piece in Literaturkritik that Grass tends to be a bit tendentious in other poems, too. Professor Suesselbeck, also at this one sane venue, has pointed out that Grass has been obsessed with an Atomic apocalypse for many years.
Günter Grass might have merely written an encyclical along the lines of his final stanza:
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,
all the peoples, neighbor-enemies
living in this region occupied by madness
—and finally, to ourselves as well.
My fourth professorial authority of Germanics, Jan Sueselbeck, also mentions in his piece in Literatur Kritik
http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16633 Was geantwortet werden muss
Grass's poetics lectures at Frankfurt's Goethe University in the 90s, finds that Grass cannot be said to be up to snuff of Adorno's [always misunderstood] suggestion that poetry could no longer be written subsequent to the Shoah [my reception of it, and it appeas to be Grass's too, is that as a measure the end of civilization is a moment that must always be with you], and finds that maybe Grass, although not anti-Semitic, may have "a problem with Jews" as several other Jewish acquaintances of Grass mention along the way.
I have indicated previously and do so once more that I think it is entirely irrelevant to the subject at hand whether Grass happens to be either overtly or unconsciously anti-Semitic. What he stated, editorially, is first of all something that had been known for years, so even if an aging SS general stated it, it would still be the case that various Israeli governments have been contemplating a first strike, and it is more than likely that President Obama will greenlight such an attack after the fall elections, so we can gather from Martin Indyk, twice US ambassador to Israel.
Sueselbeck also hints that Grass may have notions about Germans being victims that do not subscribe to the official line. Again, a matter that may or may not be the case, but is irrelevant, since Grass envisages a worldwide catastrophe - why hasn't Grass also been accused of secretly belonging to a some Christian sect that believes in the "rapture" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology
After all, Schirrmacher of the FAZ (4.4.12)proceeds to find a huge secret in the poem because he learned in school that poems have secrets, and so if you can't find it, make it up. As Professor Detering says with marvelous efficiency, the kinds of readings that Schirrmacher and Joffe [see anon] project into the poem's back cannot be "falsified." True, all you can do is repeat these phantastic suggestions, or make up one of your own. But what an immense effort to destroy the poem and the poet?
Aren't we living in a world, at least in the U.S. where Tony Kushner can turn Brecht's Mother Courage into yet another gay Cabaret and everyone is delighted that we can kiss Brecht's pathos goodbye as well?
Nachrichten Deutschland lesen. Nach seinem umstrittenen israel-kritischen Gedicht hat sich Literaturnobelpreisträger Günter Grass in einem neuen Poem zur ...
"Europas Schande" - Günter Grass dichtet wieder
Nach seinem letzten, durch Bürger und Medien zwiespältig aufgenommenen Werk "Was gesagt werden muss" (ShortNews berichtete), hat Günter Grass ein ...www.shortnews.de/.../Europas-Schande-Gunter-Grass-dichtet-...Grass liest Gedicht "Europas Schande" | NDR.de - NDR Kultur
Günter Grass mischt sich erneut in die internationale Politik ein: Der Literaturnobelpreisträger aus Lübeck kritisiert nun Europa für seine Griechenlandpolitik.
Gunter Grass stands by poem about Greece and Europe - KathimeriniGermany's Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass has confirmed he wrote a poem which attacked Europe for its treatment of Greece. The poem, called " Europe's ... www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles.../2012_444146]
the threat I suppose being that Grass will become a kind of "extra-parliamentary poetic opposition" of one. Just goes to prove I suppose that a Nobel Prize and a considerable body of work can haunt those in power, we are reminded of Stalin's wanting to censor the Shostakovitch symphonies and many similar attempts through the ages.
To date, various German attempts to neutralize his poems with satire have fallen flat, in my estimate, but for a single highly amusing light touch one on German radio that in a long report on the state of the country merely alludes to Grass's endeavor by periodically chiming in "Günter Grass is said to be writing a poem about it." http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/corso/1772164/
As of this writing early June 2012 – the Israel poem is shadowing the new German president, Gauck's visit, to Israel and Palestine.
In March 2012, Netanyahu came to Washington to receive yet another green light for a pre-emptive attack on Iran, he had had it once in January, but it was called off. Election year-wary Obama did not green-light him, but told him that come what might Israel had the U.S.'s "back", and as a parting gift gave him a vase full of Rose Garden daffodils, no, a few plane loads full of bunker busting bombs. Netanyahu went back to Israel but not before addressing the U.S. Congress and AIPAC, both organizations backed his war which you can find recorded and accessible via Youtube and AIPAC.
And just in case anyone forgot John McCain Indian Fighter's refrain "Bomb bomb bomb Iran" of four years ago, or the slogan "Wimps go to Bagdad, real men go to Teheran", here is our very own Max Boot of the Council of Foreign Relations this year
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It is the consequences of a then –Spring 2012 - immediate first strike scenario is what troubled Gunter Grass to launch his I imagine intentionally provocative intervention. Perhaps he is just a vain aging showboat as which the fine poet Durs Gruenbein and lots of other home-boys like Karasak and Rudi Dutchke, whom it afford the opportunity to be back in the news themselves at least in this fashion, to accuse Grass, saying, Hey Günter, it's time to shut up. "Ta geule!" a character in Handke's latest spectacular novel, THE GREAT FALL would shout, and magnificently written, his joy in writing makes me want to live. However, just as that nearly congenital exhibitionist Handke invariably really has something to show, isn't just a loudmouth, GG's wooden mallet usually hits the big bass drum.
the charge of anti–Semitism bounces, a self-confirming and quickly self-congratulatory daisy chain, a forever hermetically sealed echo-chamber, overwhelmed, sought to ruin Grass Easter bonnet bomb – turn it against him, make him the issue not the issue that troubled him and so many others – it's really interesting to follow the time line of this - and not a once was the poem even quoted, not one line! But in the Atlantic where the poem then stands accused of not being pretty by the pretty pretty girl who has not the faintest of the barnacles that attach to it – to Netanyahu in Israel, who condemned the poem at least a half dozen times, "How dastardly to put Israel and Iran on the same moral plane", press conferences, interviews, zeroing in on its most contentious line "a strike to snuff out the Iranian people" no matter, no not one iota of a matter or cognizance taken of Grass's attempt to self-inoculate himself against the attack writing the verdict of "Antisemitism" is well known. No dice! He is declared persona non grata in Israel, a self-perpetuating echo-chamber, it admits of no opposition, or mention of disagreement, and comments to that effect are quickly expunged if they happen to appear long enough for Google to cache them. [As it did mine at the WSJ, but whose 72 comments where then reduced to 12 with the "revised" version of the Joffe!] It was a nearly unique experience for me to watch the creation of a self-censoring bubble. I say "nearly", because I had noticed something over the course of a far longer time line with Handke's impermissible interventions in matters Serbian, but at that time there was no Google and no Google spiders, I had to tie 12 search engines together and pretend I was my great grandfather with his horses and his carriage!
The masses of support that Grass's poem is acquiring is taken no notice of, at most a brief acknowledgement of Jakob Augstein writing in Der Spiegel. http://summapolitico.blogspot/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html
contains a list of several dozen intellectuals of real import who came out to support Grass. In the U.S. among noteworthy publications with on-line presence, Salon did, so did Mondoweiss, the World Socialist Journal, Huffington then ran a fine piece by a British "Independent" Journalist.
Yet, First Amendment rights for the sealed echo-chambers are intact.
but at least provides a translation of the poem, with a bit of rudimentary reporting. Bloomberg does not beat around the bush "Guenter Grass, the German writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brought forth last week an odious little poem that focuses on the threat to world peace posed by the Jewish state, and congratulates its author for the courage to point out this truth." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-09/israel-iran-history-holocaust-perverted-in-grass-s-poem.html#disqus_thread
Thus the dirty deed done to Grass will persist equally long, I know that the dirty deed that the allegedly stellar Bob Silvers committed on Handke,
http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2009/12/letter-to-robert-silvers-ny-review-of.html or that Robert Wilson of The American Scholar committed when Handke
http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2007/03/b-c-reverse-of-initial-posting-of-open.html got out of line with his defense of the Serbs from one-sided blame, using third stringers J.L. Marcus and Michael McDonald, leads an equally vivid underground life among the nearly infinite long list of regurgitators of opinions – say in THE FASTER TIMES [!] universal lethargy in discrete quantities. Choked by the gossip vine. Effluent breeding weeds in lakes depriving the water of oxygen. In the instance of Grass it may be that "heeb," recommended by the FAZ in their eagerness to find support for their take on the poem, will have the last word; who needs anti-Semitism if you have "heeb"! It is not so much the dreadful journalists as the editors who employ them, and the publishers who employ these editors to commit constant perjury.
But why was I silent for so long?
Because I thought my origin,
marked with an ineradicable stain,
for having been, my opinion, just another member of the brother horde, another child soldier whom their fathers send out to war, until too few of them see the light, is ignored. Nay, the one real Nazi in the crowd who really rubs his nose in his adolescent mistake is Josef Joffe the virulently hyper-ventilating German journalist Neo-Con in the highest standing, the suave ingratiating Josef Joffe, as which I experienced him here in Seattle at the U.W. about a decade ago, co-founder of the National Interest, member of the Hoover institute in who in my assembly of the negative takes on the poem
serves as an all purpose voodoo doll, for being the most exorbitant projector. The best German of the lot was Schirrmacher. ""Es ist ein Machwerk des Ressentiments, es ist, wie Nietzsche über das Ressentiment sagte, ein Dokument der 'imaginären Rache'einer sich moralisch lebenslang gekränkt fühlenden Generation." http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/das-israel-gedicht-von-grass/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html
Once more, the excellent Tubingen professor Detering comes to the rescue of my sputtering prolixity and points out that the phantasmagoric projections of anti-Semitism and resentiment with which Joffe and Schirrmacher shower the poem cannot be "falsified"; indeed, all you can do is duplicate them ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Nor can you possibly defend against them.
ZEIT (4.4.12) and in http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304299304577347871489771432.html#
Nobel laureate Günter Grass, 84, is a poster boy of "re-education," America's therapy for post-Hitler Germany. Or he was. In 2006, this chest-thumping anti-Nazi laid bare his long-concealed career in the Waffen-SS. Had Mr. Grass sprung the shocker a decade earlier, his 1959 novel "The Tin Drum" would still shine forth as a masterwork, but without the Nobel Prize, which he was awarded in 1999.
Neither has Grass ever been any kind of poster boy, nor is his gradual enlightenment to where he found himself subsequent to Spring 1945 in any way comparable to the forced re-education that communist regimes practiced. Or Romney pere's "brainwashing" to lower myself to Joffe's level for the moment.
Joffe is not aware it seems that he does his argument little favor by characterizing being drafted into the SS for a few months or even volunteering as a teenager as a career. However, Joffe is just clever enough, as compared to "heeb" not to demolish The Tin Drum in the course of his Bombardino Demolition Co. act.
"Just before Easter this year, Mr. Grass launched a bigger bombshell, a poem titled "What Must Be Said." The gist: For too long, the poet had been cowed into silence by what he calls the "verdict of anti-Semitism."
Well no, Grass had not been "cowed", he had been, or the personae of the poet, had been humbled into a quandary, of being a guilty German finding himself in a position where he felt he needed to criticize the successors and survivors of endangering the peace. What one might want to criticize is the presumptuousness of being "the conscience of his people."
"But in his dotage, he finally dared speak out against the diktat because Israel was readying a "first strike" that would "extinguish" Iran and the "fragile world peace." Germany, though, would "share the guilt" because it was arming Israel with nuclear-capable U-boats."
"dotage": really, Joffe, you lowlife, must you sink that low? And call agenbite of inwit "diktat" is on the same gutter level.
are pushed into organized cheering—"
I happened to agree with Grass that Germany would have been better off split into two countries, for the DDR to pursue a democratic socialist course, and not be robbed of its, the People's Republic of Farmers and Workers accumulated wealth of their factories and agricultural co-operatives by the Neo-Liberal West German robbers. And then the state has to re-start that economy after it has been robbed clean. The banana eaters certainly received a banana where the great majority did not anticipate it.
So it is not a question of whether Grass was right or wrong but whether this is an effective poem or not, and on that score you would have to agree that it most certainly is, and if you look at the poem as closely as it deserves to be regarded, and as slowly as its editorial quality appears to have failed to make people read it, you may agree on that score and see why, also textually.
Nonetheless, it was judged to be a poor poem:
over what is openly played out
in war games at the end of which we
the survivors are at best footnotes.
against those who under a loudmouth's thumb
are pushed into organized cheering—
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people
on suspicion that under his influence
an atom bomb's being built.
to name that other land in which
for years—although kept secret—
a usable nuclear capability has grown
beyond all control, because
no scrutiny is allowed.
under which my own silence lay,
I feel now as a heavy lie,
a strong constraint, which to dismiss
courts forceful punishment:
the verdict of "Antisemitism" is well known.
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes
for which time and again it must be tasked—
once again, in pure commerce,
though with quick lips we declare it
reparations, wants to send
Israel yet another submarine—
one whose specialty is to deliver
warheads capable of ending all life
where the existence of even one
nuclear weapon remains unproven,
but where suspicion serves for proof—
now I say what must be said.
Because I thought my origin,
marked with an ineradicable stain,
forbade mention of this fact
as definite truth about Israel, a country
to which I am and will remain attached.
in old age, with my last drop of ink,
that Israel's nuclear power endangers
an already fragile world peace?
Because what by tomorrow might be
too late, must be spoken now,
and because we—as Germans, already
burdened enough—could become
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore
not to be eradicated
with any of the usual excuses.
because I've had it with the West's hypocrisy
—and one can hope that many others too
may free themselves from silence,
challenge the instigator of known danger
to abstain from violence,
and at the same time demand
a permanent and unrestrained control
of Israel's atomic power
and Iranian nuclear plants
by an international authority
accepted by both governments.
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies
living in this region occupied by madness
—and finally, to ourselves as well.
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.
Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.
Doch warum untersage ich mir,
jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,
in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten -
ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar
aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung
zugänglich ist?
Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,
sobald er mißachtet wird;
das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist geläufig.
Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,
das von ureigenen Verbrechen,
die ohne Vergleich sind,
Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt wird,
wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch
mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,
sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.
Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?
Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,
die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,
verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit
dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin
und bleiben will, zuzumuten.
Warum sage ich jetzt erst,
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?
Weil gesagt werden muß,
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;
auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden
zu tilgen wäre.
Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,
weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens
überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,
es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,
den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr
zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und
gleichfalls darauf bestehen,
daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle
des israelischen atomaren Potentials
und der iranischen Atomanlagen
durch eine internationale Instanz
von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen wird.
Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,
mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser
vom Wahn okkupierten Region
dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben
und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.
although what might constitute these stellar reporters criteria we will never know. The fine and humane novelist Louis Begley [among those cited earlier] who joined Grass in his dislike of Netanjahu but can't see past his memory of the SS [Sturm Staffel] insignia [Runen], it turns out ["is no more a poem than a porcelain urinal could become a work of art, just because [French Dadaist artist] Marcel Duchamp decided to exhibit it as a water fountain,"] hasn't the faintest about modern poetic conventions or, like many another, never sees past the poem's editorial aspects.
and I started to dwell on its versification that I began to realize that Brecht was its godfather, as Detering demonstrates.
And if you read it as slowly as the poem actually makes you read it, and as Grass reads it you will get a different sense of it than as a speed-reader who happens on an editorial: defenses are up, mere words suggesting editorial content are dismissed at once as poetically impossible, which at least helps explain or suggest an explanation to the riddle why people instantly shift into their own political aesthetic sphere. Surfeit, false language. Impossible. Which is why there are times that poets resort to "agit-prop" and provocation.
During a two month focus on this kind of event and story you of course come upon oddities of all kind in this ayuntamiento of the Cien años de soledad, the Charenton of the Mind: an infinitude of uninformed opinions, from the abysm of unrelieved Neo-Con filthy-macnastiest of a Josef Joffe, the lack of anything classy but for Fritz Stern in his interview in the FAZ with Felicitas von Lovenberg, as well as cheap and easy shots from fellow poets and writers who failed to find any merit in Grass's dirge and, like its critics, fail to acknowledge the numerous intellecuals
who took it and the issue it addressed seriously, and what little sympathy Grass received, but from me for his awkward emotional exertions,
Of course Islamic voices chimed in from all over; mostly supportive but not all; most amusingly from far off Sri Lanka – such events as the Grass brouhaha invariably elicit sideshow comedies - where Grass became a Jew who criticized Israel, Iran being portrayed as pure as the virgin Fatima!
who exists in a world where words like "verzueckt" rule the aviary and who will see the rocket coming at the same time as Mr.McGoo, but who has written favorably and nicely about Handke.
The most, I would say only touching and heart-rending response was the confession of a Jewish survivor and who did so by joining the Hitler Youth [but most of whose family was exterminated] and pretending to be Volksdeutsch, who states that Grass has the right to voice his opinion and agrees with it:
Grass hat das Recht zu solch einer Warnung Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass Günter Grass den Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefschürfend erlebt hat und mit gerade mal 17 Jahren sogar von der Waffen-SS einverleibt worden ist, hat er aus seiner Lebenserfahrung ein deutliches Recht dazu, solch eine Warnung auszusprechen. Die Tatsache, dass die israelische Regierung ihm ein Einreiseverbot ausgesprochen hat, zeigt eindeutig, dass an Grass' Warnungen etwas dran ist. Es wäre seitens Israel besser gewesen, zu bestätigen, keine nuklearen Waffen zu besitzen und zu erklären, keinen Erstschlag gegen den Iran ausführen zu wollen. Alles das hat nichts mit dem Holocaust zu tun, sondern es geht einzig und allein um die Erhaltung des Friedens heute. http://www.badische-zeitung.de/leserbriefe-68/grass-hat-das-recht-zu-solch-einer-warnung--58301213.html
Grass has the right to voice his opinion for the very reason that he was part of the SS as a young man and experienced what a world war can be like… It would have been better for Israel not to have atomic weapons and to declare that it will not do a first strike….
Occasionally, in that wasteland of
officialeese, a private voice peeks through. Alas, Mr. Joffe and Co. would that you learn to be so generous in
your understanding!
As I fade out from this project and as the scandal putters, but for whatever updates that will be posted at
to resume my life in the coal mine, we can observe Grass's shadow, the shadow of his imperfect but ever so effective, provocative poem accompany the new German President, Gauck, on his visit to Israel and Palestine, who, a man of great moral standing, takes an even-handed approach, as apparently a real friend, to Israel, and I await whether Netanjahu / Liberman will be able to deal with the same critique issuing from someone who cannot be so easily besmirched.
Hitler's toxic leavings, not just a ruined culture that will never recover. That those poor sods then should be at the mercy of the likes of Netanjahu and Liberman. I can't find either justice or irony or any kind of moral in that. And of course the controversy not only allows no end of cowards to spew bile at Grass, but invigorate the actual existing anti-Semitism.
Michael Roloff, June 2012
However, SZ, the Suedeutsche is always game for a controversy, they did Handke's Justice for Serbia back in 1993. Handke, surprisingly, fails to enter the fray [of the Grass controversy] in this instance. He did the time Grass revealed in Peeling the Onion in 2007 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS, a tank gunner, small stature, good fit for cramped spaces, U-Boats. Handke strutted forth with the worst kind of self-righteousness, the newsfolk caught up with him in Spain [Handke had forgotten what he had learned from Milovan Djilas] ¡ esto es una vergüenza ! at that time everyone knew at age 17 what the SS was, where I felt I needed to point out that the 30 year old Handke at times seemed not to know what every normal 12 year old does.
Surprising hat with everybody and his cat chiming in on the Grass controversy Peter Handke did not. Journalists, knowing that Handke is always good for a sexy quote, did not get anything out of him until he and his buddy Luc Bondy started giving interviews for the mid-May 2012 premiere of Die Schoenen Tage von Aranjuez. Handke, a pretty bad liar, lied, not that unusual for him, but certainly so in an instance where a star was robbing him of some of his space in the firmament his featured place in the lime light, big time, internationally, the Grass story spread to India, Thailand, Japan.
The Council on Foreign Relations'Max Boot is no stranger to calling for increasingly confrontational measures to address Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. But in a column in today's L.A. Times, Boot doubles down on his calls for war while in the same breath admitting that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would only delay Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon. He writes:
By BRADLEY S. RUSSELL
Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz last week, in response to U.S. and European Union moves to apply sanctions on its oil industry. Only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, the strait sees the passage of roughly 28 tanker ships a day, half loaded, half empty. Some 17 million barrels of oil—% of oil traded in the world—go through this chokepoint. If Iran really could close the strait, it would do great damage to the world economy. But it would also damage its own already shaky economy because Iran relies on the strait to deliver oil exports to China and
Context ctd.
By Michael Ledeen
Sanctions will neither stop the Iranian nuclear program nor stop the Real War. Only a change in regime can accomplish that. To that end, sanctions could be a positive force if they were combined with support for the Iranian opposition. Just ask the Revolutionary Guards how serious the resistance is: the RG just deployed an additional eight thousand soldiers—some in uniform, others in plain clothes–in the streets of Tehran.But no Western leader cares to help the Iranian opposition, even verbally. When those leaders say "no option is off the table," they mean some day there might be a military attack against Iran. But financial and tactical assistance to the Iranian people willing to actively fight for freedom is totally off any Western strategic table; "No solution but force … strong military rule. Any outbreak will bring upon the Arabs enormous suffering. We shouldn't wait for a big uprising to start, but rather act immediately with great force to prevent them from carrying on. … If it's possible, we should conquer any disputed territory in the Land of Israel. Conquer and hold it, even if it brings us years of war. We should conquer Gaza, and parts of the Galilee, and the Golan. This will bring upon us a bloody war, since war is difficult for us –we don't have a lot of territory, while the Arabs have lots of space to retreat to. But that's the only way to survive here.
There is valuable experience [on this matter] we don't pay notice to. I mean the Ottoman rule over the Arabs. The Turks ruled over the Arabs for 400 years, and there was peace and quiet everywhere. The Arabs hated the Ottomans, but every little thing they did brought mass killings and hanging in towns squares. They were hanging people in Damascus, and Izmir … every town had hanging posts in its center. … The Arabs were so badly beaten, they didn't dare revolt. Naturally, I don't recommend the use of hangings as a show of force like the Turks did, I just want to show that the only thing that might move the Arabs from the rejectionist position is force."
Israel's Spy Revoly
Something has gone very wrong with Israel's posture on Iran's nuclear program. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak lead a confrontational approach -- including dramatic interviews and speeches to U.S. audiences that have convinced many that Israel might soon strike Iran's nuclear facilities -- the former heads of Israel's intelligence agencies have come out publicly against the government's position. First, Meir Dagan -- who headed the Mossad until late 2010 and coordinated Israel's Iran policy -- called an attack on Iran "the most foolish thing I've heard." In April, Yuval Diskin -- the previous head of the domestic intelligence service, the Shin Bet -- voiced a scathing and personal critique of Netanyahu and Barak. Diskin questioned not only the leaders' policy, but also their very judgment and capacity to lead, warning against their "messianic" approach to Iran's nuclear program.
Courting Failure in Iran Nuke Talks
May 28, 2012In rebuffing Iran's concessions on its nuclear program, the Obama administration is bending to hard-line neocon pressures at home and Israeli demands abroad. But it also appears stuck on the notion of permanent U.S. hegemony in the Middle East, says national security expert Flynt Leverett at www.RaceForIran.com.
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
On Antiwar Radio, Flynt Leverett reviewed the P5+1 nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic, noting that President Barack Obama and his foreign policy team seem no more prepared to deal with the major issues that must be addressed to enable a meaningful agreement — accepting internationally safeguarded enrichment in Iran and recognizing that a negotiated solution will necessarily entail significant sanctions relief —than it was during its previous attempt at nuclear diplomacy during
Just as the United States had (and has) interests in Asia, it has "critical interests" in the Middle East. And it can only protect and promote those interests by "having positive relations with all of the important players in the region—and especially with Iran."
This, however, is "a strategic logic" that the Obama Administration "seems no more capable of embracing than its predecessors in the Bush-43 Administration." (Or, one might add, the Clinton and Bush-41 administrations.) It is a profound "strategic failure."
In the interview, Flynt also critiqued myths of Iranian "irrationality" and of the Islamic Republic as too unreasoningly hostile toward the United States for real improvement in U.S.-Iranian relations to be possible.
Flynt Leverett served as a Middle East expert on George W. Bush's National Security Council staff until the Iraq War and worked previously at the State Department and at the Central Intelligence Agency. Hillary Mann Leverett was the NSC expert on Iran and –from 2001 to 2003 – was one of only a few U.S. diplomats authorized to negotiate with the Iranians over Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Iraq. [This article was originally published at RaceforIran.com.]
The stunning revelations by Mr. Sanger, The New York Times's chief Washington correspondent, about the American role in using computer warfare to attack Iran's nuclear program already have made headlines, and rightly so. He persuasively shows that under Mr. Obama, the United States government has been engaged in what one presidential adviser calls "a state of low-grade, daily conflict."
The heart of this book is the chapter titled "Olympic Games," which Mr. Sanger writes is the code name for a joint program of Israel and the United States to insert malicious software into the machinery of the Iranian military-industrial complex and so set back Iran's ability to manufacture weapons-grade uranium. Specifically, in 2008 and 2009 the software threw off the balance of centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear enrichment center. It did so in a variety of unpredictable ways, making it at first seem like the problems were random or the result of Iranian incompetence. The key to getting inside the computers — which were not connected to the Internet — was to load the virus into thumb drives that Iranian nuclear technicians, perhaps unknowingly, would bring to work and plug into the computer systems there.
Sanktionen für Günter Grass
Nach dem israelischen Einreiseverbot für Günter Grass wendet sich nach und nach die gesamte Weltgemeinschaft gegen den Autor. Grass-Häuser in aller Welt werden geschlossen, die Botschafter nach Hause geschickt; Politiker der Europäischen Union erwägen ein Tabak- und Schnauzkammembargo, um Grass zu zermürben. Auch immer mehr Schurkenstaaten gehen auf Distanz, u.a. Kim Jong Un: "Wir wissen, daß Grass seit Jahren an einem zehnten, hochangereicherten Roman arbeitet und dafür mit extrem haarspaltendem Material experimentiert. Damit wollen wir nichts zu tun haben." Auch der Iran stellte die Zusammenarbeit mit dem umstrittenen Dichter ein: "Nun gut, auch wir wollen Israel auslöschen", so Mahmud Ahmadinedschad, "aber schnell und relativ schmerzlos. Die Juden vorher mit endlosen Pfuschgedichten zu quälen, das ist grausam und barbarisch."
must be one of the oddest of all time.
Even the Israeli Military and Security Services
realize that the Netanyahoo/ Liberman government
poses a threat to world peace, it would be the case
even if an old SS general said so, but if Günter
Grass, who contorts himself into a knot of contrition
for having been a Teenage Werewolf Nazi provokes this government
with the same truth, it goes into tizzy! And so does
every Neo-Con within range of a news site!
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass Günter Grass den Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefschürfend erlebt hat und mit gerade mal 17 Jahren sogar von der Waffen-SS einverleibt worden ist, hat er aus seiner Lebenserfahrung ein deutliches Recht dazu, solch eine Warnung auszusprechen. Die Tatsache, dass die israelische Regierung ihm ein Einreiseverbot ausgesprochen hat, zeigt eindeutig, dass an Grass' Warnungen etwas dran ist. Es wäre seitens Israel besser gewesen, zu bestätigen, keine nuklearen Waffen zu besitzen und zu erklären, keinen Erstschlag gegen den Iran ausführen zu wollen. Alles das hat nichts mit dem Holocaust zu tun, sondern es geht einzig und allein um die Erhaltung des Friedens heute.
Re: Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss
Esther Dischereit
10.4.2012 12:41
Link to numerous if not all FAZ pieces about the poem:


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In your bag No: 1022 – Erick Tomaliwan
In your bag /
by Bellamy /2 min read
In your bag 1022, Erick Tomaliwan
Nice, Erick has a black and white, black and white bag for us. Check it out.
I always go to this section of the site as it always intrigues me what people carry around.
To start things off, my name is Erick Tomaliwan. I often categorise myself as a try-hard hobbyist and I won't explain why. This is probably the third time I changed the contents of my bag as I did a brand switch just a few weeks ago, however this is the setup I am most happy with and the product of my short experience. The picture is in black and white because I love black and white.
I chose the Billingham Hadley Pro because of its stealth look.
Also, Kai and Lok of DigitalRev uses them.
Bessa R2 + 50mm Voigtlander Nokton F/1.5 Chrome Edition.
Sony RX100
Why these two? I used to carry a Sony A7 + 55mm combo until I noticed that the shots I was taking more bad shots than good ones, quantity over quality. I decided to switch to film to discipline myself and just carry a compact if really needed. However, I still use the a7 whenever I go to a more serious shoot.
Ilford FP4
Ilford XP2
I don't know how to develop films L so I have to ask people to develop it for me with a special care for the FP4.
Business cards
Asthma inhaler
iBasso DX90 + DUNU DN-2000 (yes, I carry a mp3 player)
Moleskine Star Wars Edition (May the force be with my photography journey)
Lens pen
Note: equipment was taken with a Ricoh GRD IV. When it comes to street photography, Snap focus and zone focusing are kings.
Thanks for sharing your bag with us Erick. Nice to hear about your switch to film.
Check out the links and make sure you come and comment.
Keep them coming folks, we need more submissions, so get your bag on Japancamerahunter.com. Send me a hi resolution image of the bag (please make sure it is horizontal, 720px across is optimal) and its contents, with some details about yourself and what you shoot. Oh and don't forget your contact details (twitter, flickr, tumbler et al). Send the bag shots here. Please understand that there is a long wait now as there is a backlog of submissions. Not all make the cut, so make sure yours is funny/interesting/quirky. And please make sure the shot is of good quality, as the ones that are not do not go up.
2 comments on "In your bag No: 1022 – Erick Tomaliwan"
Hi Erick
Nice bag.. quick question not about cameras, but about the iBasso! What do you think of it, good/bad, complaints?
As a casual user, the dx90 is pretty much more than enough for me. flat sounding which makes my choice of headphones very wide, but I heard it can be matched with certain headphones that will make it perfect. In addition, you can replace the battery on your own compared to the Fiio X5 where you have to send it out to them. I used to pair this with the Shure 535 red edition and the bass has never been more alive, but my taste in music is still in mids and highs.
Firmware is a bit buggy and the DAC software is still not perfect (which will be updated soon).
Otherwise, I am happy man.


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Young Girlz keep hopes alive with 3-1 win over T&T
...meet Puerto Rico in third-place play-off
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jamaica's Under-17 Women's team kept their CONCACAF Championships hopes alive with a come-from-behind 3-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago in their final Group F encounter in the CFU Championship, at the Stade Sylvio Cator in the Haitian capital yesterday.
Needing to win, the Jamaicans did just enough to secure a place in the play-offs. The Jamaicans will more than likely meet Puerto Rico tomorrow for a place at next year's CONCACAF Championship to be held in Nicaragua.
Olufolasade Adamolekun led the scoring for the Jamaicans with two beautiful goals in the 69th and 85th minutes, while Captain Monique Perrier got the other goal in the 30th minute. Aaliyah Prince had given Trinidad and Tobago the lead in the sixth minute.
Jamaica went straight on the attack from the opening whistle but were again pushed on the back foot when Prince beat Chelisa Schloss in goal to give Trinidad and Tobago an early lead. The young Reggae Girlz regrouped and almost responded soon after, but Adamolekun's strike was kept out by Chelsea Ramnauth in goal for the Trinidadians.
Five minutes later, Adamolekun was at it again, but her shot from 25 yards out flew inches over the crossbar. And the Jamaicans continued their pressure in attack, but were denied on numerous occasions.
The young Reggae Girlz eventually got their reward at the half-hour mark when Perrier headed home from a well-taken corner kick by Sydoney Clarke to pull the Jamaicans level. Clarke then went close to adding her name to the score board in the 35th minute, but her strike from a distance went wide of the goal.
The Jamaicans continued their dominance on the resumption and immediately went straight for goal with some good opportunities, but the attackers failed to convert.
Perrier had a clear chance to put Jamaica in front, but she fired over the crossbar in the 66th minute in what could have been a moment of joy for the young Reggae Girlz.
Adamolekun capitalised on a defensive mix-up from the Trinidadians to fire past Ramnauth in the 70th minute, giving the Jamaicans the lead. The Texan-born Adamolekun almost grabbed her second a minute later, but her shot was kept out by Ramnauth.
However, her brace inevitably came five minutes from time when she picked up a delightful through pass from Giselle Washington and turned a defender on her way to firing past Ramnaught, to seal the win for the young Reggae Girlz.
Head Coach Xavier Gilbert praised the girls for a spirited performance after falling behind early.
"It was a good game. I thought we made it a little bit harder than it was, but I think we dominated right throughout. We managed to get the job done and credit must be given to the girls for their efforts. Unfortunately, we went behind early, a little mistake, but that is the nature of the game; but they managed to come back strong," Gilbert told the Jamaica Observer in a post-game interview.
"We now have to look forward to the game on Sunday and I think it is going to be a tough one, but we are up for the challenge," the tactician noted.
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Aircraft: Cessna 172. Injuries: None. Location: Ft. Pierce, Fla. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: A student pilot was practicing touch and goes with a CFI on board. According to the CFI, during the flare the student pilot pulled excessive back pressure on the elevator flight control and the airplane ballooned.
The plane came down hard on the main landing gear. The CFI took over the controls, did a go-around, and landed on another runway. The airplane received substantial damage to the rudder torque tube.
Probable cause: The student pilot's improper flare and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action, resulting in a hard landing.
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Signs That You You Have To Move Out Of The City
If before many opportunities are coming your way in the city but not now anymore. Yes you have work and your salary is bigger than of the province however if traffic jam is giving you stress. Then you have to think now. It is indeed frustrating to just get bored in the city, especially when your daily routine is work and home, oh well how can you unwind at night when you don't feel safe anymore plus the floods when it rains. You have no energy at all to travel back and forth because of the stress caused by long travels. City has everything but it is already difficult to catch with the cost of living, yes you have bigger salary than what you have in the province but if you can't eat 3x a day and if you do, you don't feel like enjoying it, you really have to think now of moving out. On the other hand, as I mentioned there are already opportunities that you don't expect in Visayas and Mindanao especially in Cebu and now in Pampanga. So I am sure you can find work now outside the Capital, which is Manila.


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Hi monks!
I have a problem that i know can be solved by using trig. However i am at a loss on how to go about it in perl.
Bit of backstory:
Here's the code i've used:
This ofcourse returns angles to the lines from 0 degrees (strait north)
Using this information i am able to use the law of sines and the law of cosines (and some addition/subtraction to get the angle from line AB to line AC and line BC) to figure out the length of the sides that are made to my test point on the x,y graph (on paper but it should translate to perl code fairly easy).
I am however at a loss on how to proceed further....
I have constants on a x,y grid that are as follows:
I am trying to caculate the x,y cords for a point that i would like to map. My thoughts are to find the intersection of two circles, as i know the radius of each circle (from my math on paper, one centered on Point A and the other centered on Point B).
Circle at Point A's radius: 781.5815
Circle at Point B's radius: 431.2683009
Can somebody please give me some tips or suggestions on how to proceed to solve this problem in perl? Code examples would be greatly appreciated....This is the first time i've had to do any kind of higher level math in perl.
It doesn't have to be solved using intersection of two circles if sombody out there has a better method of figuring it out...and i must admit my trig skills are very rusty as i haven't used em much since high school.
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The Seed Report: Day 8
Whoa! Look at our little seeds and their sprouts - we are surprised by how fast these have shot up! Looks like we need to get these in the ground (or pots) really fast...
It's only the eighth day that these have been in their peat pellets but already they're looking leggy and too stretched out for the little soil sacks to support.
We're planting the beans in their own big, deep container, and we're putting the beets in a long shallow trough. The greens, cucumbers, and radishes will go in more large yet not too deep containers.
Related: The Seed Report: Day 3
Plus... Garden Spotlight: An Array of Seeds
(Images: Faith Hopler)


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New restorative justice strategy to focus on victims' needs, community safety
A new five-year strategy will expand the Manitoba government's ability to deliver restorative justice, better meet the needs of victims of crime and increase community safety, Attorney General Gord Mackintosh announced today.
"This new strategy will set the province on an innovative path to increase the use of restorative justice as an effective alternative to the traditional court system, by expanding programs and services for victims, offenders and the community," said Minister Mackintosh. "The entire approach to restorative justice has to begin from the perspective of the victim. To succeed in the long term, we must make offenders more accountable, and better identify and address the root causes of an offender's criminal activity."
Manitoba's Restorative Justice Act, a Canadian first, was also put into effect today, Minister Mackintosh said. It creates an advisory council to oversee the implementation of the five-year strategy and help grow restorative approaches and includes community and government representatives with expertise in restorative justice.
The goal of restorative justice is to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community. Minister Mackintosh said the strategy includes:
- creating a new nine-person prosecution unit to help significantly increase referrals to restorative justice programs;
- funding new and expanded mental-health and drug courts;
- working with north end residents for a North End Community Court;
- supporting restorative justice programs on the Bloodvein First Nation, Portage la Prairie and Morden;
- investing $320,000 to create restorative justice opportunities immediately in the Westman and Parkland regions, and for Métis residents of Winnipeg including $10,000 for Candace House to help create a business plan to aid in delivering victim supports;
- establishing a restitution recovery program to help victims collect court-ordered payments;
- creating five restorative justice hubs throughout the province to support existing programs and co-ordinate services;
- improving training and building awareness;
- enhancing supports for victims throughout the entire process; and
- identifying supports for chronic, low-risk offenders.
"The act and council are important steps forward in much-needed justice reform," said Kate Kehler, executive director, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. "Restorative justice is proven to provide resolution for victims of crime, accountability to those who commit crimes and context of the crime so the community can address the root causes."
Minister Mackintosh noted the new investments are in addition to more than $1.8 million in restorative justice programs and services already funded by the Manitoba government including:
- mediation services in Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage la Prairie and Morden;
- justice committees in 45 communities with volunteers who hear cases that have been diverted from the traditional court process; and
- community justice programs and mediation services for Indigenous and Métis people through partnerships with Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, Manitoba Metis Federation, Southern Chiefs Organization and other agencies.
"Restorative justice can provide a more appropriate resolution in many situations," said Minister Mackintosh. "Through a strong restorative justice system, we can help reduce future crimes, provide closure to victims and reduce some of the pressure on the traditional court system."
For more information about Manitoba's strategy for victim-centred restorative justice and other resources, visit www.gov.mb.ca/justice. Manitobans who wish to provide feedback on the strategy can do so until Feb. 1, 2016, at email@example.com.
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Restorative justice can be any program, approach or policy that helps to deal with criminal activities outside of the traditional court process. The goal is to help prevent future offences through mediation, restitution, treatment or counselling. The offender, and often the victim or community, are essential to this process.
The new Restorative Justice Advisory Council will provide advice to the Manitoba government on how to implement the new five-year strategy on restorative justice, focused on programs, policies, evaluation and related issues. In addition to government representatives, the council includes:
- Victor KaiCombey is originally from Sierra Leone and now a Canadian citizen living in Winnipeg. He was an active member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Working Group after the Sierra Leone Peace Accord, and holds a degree in conflict resolution.
- Richard Kennett is a former teacher, school principal and a long-time advocate for restorative justice. He managed the Manitoba government's Lighthouses program prior to retirement, has been a working member of a volunteer justice committee and is a trained mediator.
- Julyda Lagimodiere lives in Thompson and is the minister of the Métis Justice Institute, which runs diversion and restorative justice programs in the community and throughout Manitoba. She will also represent the Manitoba Metis Federation.
- Phil Lancaster is a retired lawyer, current board member with the John Howard Society and a contributing editor to the Canadian Native Law Reporter. He was a special assistant with the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, is a trained mediator and a local justice committee volunteer.
- Mabel Morin is a community leader on the Peguis First Nation including the Peguis Justice committee, Housing Society and RCMP committee. She holds certifications from Grande Prairie Regional College, the University of Alberta and St. Francis Xavier University.
- Janet Schmidt operates a consulting firm, Schmidt and Associates, that specializes in facilitation and mediation training for organizations and individuals.
- Roy Smith is a Thompson resident and an employee of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), which delivers restorative justice programs in 16 MKO communities.
- Karen Swain is the cultural advisor for the Onashowewin Justice Circle, an Indigenous restorative justice agency in Winnipeg, and will also represent the Restorative Justice Association of Manitoba.
- Karen Wiebe is the executive director of the Manitoba Organization for Victim Assistance and will provide a victim's perspective on the restorative justice programs. Her son, TJ Wiebe, was murdered in 2003.


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Cloud Computing
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The motivations behind cloud initiatives can vary, and may include cost-related goals, dramatic increase in scale, reliability of existing infrastructure, or needing to allocate people resources more effectively. Unicon engages with clients to develop cloud approaches tailored to meet the specific needs and goals of the organization. Post-deployment or migration, Unicon's managed services can also integrate into on-going operations to completely address the long-term cloud computing goals.
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Reversing brain damage in former NFL players with natural supplements
Brain injuries and multiple concussions are common in NFL football players. Thirty retired NFL players with brain damage and cognitive impairment were treated with natural substances at an outpatient neuropsychiatric clinic at UC Irvine School of Medicine.
All patients were supplemented with Fish Oils (55.6 grams per day), a multiple-vitamin, and the following brain enhancing nutrients; Ginkgo and Vinpocetine to enhance blood flow to the brain, ALCAR and Huperzine A to increase the level of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter necessary for learning and memory), plus NAC and ALA (powerful brain antioxidants) on average for six-months.
There were statistically significant, real world increases in scores of attention, memory, reasoning, information processing speed and accuracy in the Microcog test (a battery of tests for cognitive functions). The brain SPECT scans showed improved circulation. The nutrients improved cognitive skills and cerebral blood flow and this could have widespread implications for patients with traumatic brain injuries. The study is published in the Jan-Mar issue of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.


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Wrapped in Style: Pretty Rope Vessels for Spring
There's no reason to avoid organizing when you can put your things in vessels as lovely as these ones. Whether it's a neon accented bowl or a colorful hanging basket, they'll make any room look stylishly pulled together.
- Add cheer to a dim corner with a hanging basket sewn in the colors of a bright sunrise. $51.22 at Zillpa's Etsy store.
- Gemma Patford's popular handpainted bowls are as artful as they are useful. $45 AUD.
- A serene, sculptural bowl that would look great anywhere from a bookcase to a console table. $70 at Landon Dix.
- Hot pink rope is a modern, playful touch on a clean lined bowl. $46.51 at Find Your Happy's Etsy store.
- Line your shelves with Threshold's lovely set of 8 blue and white baskets. $55.92 for the set at Target.


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Eggert Jonsson insists Hearts should receive more recognition for the work their academy is doing.
So while Hearts are better known for having a squad packed with Lithuanians, Eggert reckons it's time the club was praised, in the same way their city rivals are, for producing young stars.
Jonsson said: "I don't know why the credit goes elsewhere but we are definitely due some as well.
"Hearts are a club that likes to bring on the young players. We already have many in the first team and there are plenty more coming through the academy."
Romanian kid Dumitru Copil, who snubbed Celtic to join the Jambos, and Branimar Kostadinov are among the next crop strongly fancied to make the step-up.


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Tah Dahhhh !!!
Isn't that what your family says whenever they're showing off something new?!!! Well, here it is (in its almost-complete photo). Without further ado . . .
Thee Lady Eleanor Stole from ScarfStyle
Huh? It's not done? Well as far as your picture shows, it is not done. However, I finished it Sunday and weaved in the ends and wore it to work on Monday!!! Huh? Why no picture of the finished product? Well, I have to find just the right model to wear it so you can see it as it drapes magnificently on someone (not me). An excuse? Uhmmm yes.
In the meantime, I've finished the back panel of the Vogue skirt and have begun earnestly on the front panel. Having just completed the lower section of lace-stripes, I'm ready for something more like stockinette for a bit. (Picture later.)
The Heifer Project
In case you have some money you want to use for a good cause besides getting me an Extreme Tickle Me Elmo, hop on over to WendyKnits and donate some funds to the Heifer Project. So far she's doubled her initial goal of $5,000. You have a chance to win something for each $10 you donate. I love that Lucy's waiting (daily) for some little chicks to show up ... alas she will be disappointed, but I think Lucy (and Wendy) will rejoice with all of us as good is done with the donations. Thanks Wendy!!!!
Special Friends
A shout out to blog-less Donna in Indianapolis. She's become a new knittin' buddy and has shared with me about some yarn purchases she made in Switzerland while vacationing recently. She and her sister-in-law, and my friend, Roberta, gifted me in a special way after a meaningful event we shared together last weekend on behalf of their late mother-in-law. Expecting nothing but "being a part" I received a BASKET-ful of African Violets and a yummy fruit basket on Monday. See for yourselves what beautiful gifts NICE people give (besides their friendship which, truly is priceless).
Some pics of the African Violets
(There are 10 separate pots in the basket !!!!!!!)
And the yummy fruitbasket from Paul's Fruit Market.
Thanks gals!!
Now for a word or two from Samson
Peek a boooooo!!! (er uhm ... No, I'm not one of the chicks Lucy keeps hoping for!!!)


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Those not watching are missing one of the most entertaining games of the year.
Here we go, Dallas 2 man advantage 1:13 left.
Drouin is a man possessed on the face-offs, winning like 60 % in the last 3 games.
Wow what a save by Niemi, MB will sign him to a 3 year contract.
I don't see Andrew Shaw coming back again this year, seems like he has another concussion, yikes.
Galchenyuk makes his line-mates better. He's consistently performed (around the same pace) despite being jerked around and put with trash line-mates.
Galchenyuk was put in a position to fail all season long, yet he will finish the season as arguably our best forward.
And, yes -- I know he should be our best forward... but the point remains.
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Pateryn talking shit after the game. I love when marginal NHL'ers puff their chests out.
Paraprasing: "He always gets concussions because he always plays like that"
Might be true, but shut your f**king mouth. It was a clean hit, your head was down, go f**k yourself. Shaw's career might be over BTW, but if he does recover, I hope he lives another day just to feed Pateryn his lunch and I hope is POS wife has front row seats for the beat down.
No surprise we won this game.


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IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BACKFLOW RECERTIFICATION CLASSES: The recertification class is now an eight-hour class.THOSE RECERTIFYING MUST TEST THE RPZ, DC, PRESSURE VACUUM BREAKER, AND SPILL RESISTANT VACUUM BREAKER.
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text: Kraft Enrolls in Starvin' U. Published on April 14, 2006. Kraft "University of St. Arvin" Poor college students are well schooled in hunger, and the ones enrolled at the University of St. Arvin are no exception. Luckily, Kraft's convenient Easy Mac Cups are a quick and easy source of sustenance—a lesson effectively taught throughout the halls of a virtual dorm created by FCBi. Flyers posted on the dorm's main bulletin board lead visitors to various spots from the new TV campaign, as well as an email feature that lets you send pleas for Easy Mac (in the guise of a St. Arvin classmate) to friends and family members, and a fully interactive video of a hungry dude who'll eat just about anything you suggest. Most Popular In this article: AdCritic Interactive


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Student Research
Undergraduate Students
The staff of the Poultry Research Unit, as members of the Sydney School of Veterinary Science are responsible for a number of undergraduate courses. Lectures and practical classes in all aspects of poultry science and production are given to students of the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Science. The facilities used in these courses are located in the Foundation Unit at Camden.
The Poultry Research Foundation offers an annual prize to the final year student in Animal Veterinary BioScience course who demonstrates the greatest proficiency in poultry science.
2012 Winner:
Shenara Somasundaram - "Alleviating heat stress in commercial ducks."
Previous Winners:
2011 - Hannah Lum - "The effect of altered incubation temperature on bone composition and leg weakness in a fast feathering dam Cobb line of broilers."
2010 - Kate Hartcher - "Using egg albumen corticosterone concentrations to evaluate the role of the glucocorticoids in the production of abnormal eggs."
AND Ryan Hopcroft - "Impact of sorghum-based diets (including aspects of their processing) on broiler growth."
Postgraduate / Masters Students
PhD and MSc students have contributed substantially to the research programs conducted over the years, and many now occupy positions where they service the Australian poultry industry directly, or indirectly. Since its inception in 1958 the PRF has seen over 60 PhD and MSc students graduate successfully.
Many of the students have been from overseas and have undertaken their degrees, often as part of official Australian aid programs to developing countries. Their return home has facilitated the development of an international network with common interests in research and education in poultry science.
Current Students:
Tugrul Durali - Comparative digestive physiology and health of free range broiler and conventional broiler.
Sonia Yun Liu - Starch and protein digestion kinetics in broilers.
Emma Bradbury - Ca, P and phytase and the effects on broiler welfare.
Linda Browning - Vitamin D, Ca, P and phytase in poultry.
Kate Hartcher - Effect of rearing conditions on the development of feather-pecking behaviours in free-range laying hens.
Dean Powell - Investigating the effect of nutritional status on chicken satellite cell fate, proliferation and differentiation and their implications on muscle development.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Postdoctoral Research offers recently graduated PhD students the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge and further their education and experience as a research scientist. Typically these positions are research only though occasionally involve some degree of teaching and supervisory commitment. Postdoctoral researchers in many ways are the life-blood of the PRF as they have the time and the focus to make considerable progress in their given research area.
Current Postdoctoral Research Associates:
Stuart Wilkinson - 4 year commercially sponsored project to investigate the effects of phytate in monogastric nutrition.
Yumin Bao - 3 year Danisco supported project on mechanistic modelling of feed enzyme bioefficacy in the diets of broiler chickens.
Mini Singh - 3 year Poultry CRC funded project on improving the performance of free-range poultry production.


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DOOM Discussion
Trainer Tools and Resources
they're above everyone else & act like they're saints & all.
Let's just agree on one thing: We wait, no matter how long,
we wait & wait & wait. and as I've mentioned before, Doom just
came out today...so let's give the trainer makers a chance, alright?
Now, let's stop bickering or I'll delete this thread.
the purpose behind my thread was to provide intel
of the in-game HUD's features & details, and to determine
what cheat options could be created from the intel I scavenged
from the Youtube clip of Doom.
but if people are gonna fight & point the finger at each other
on who's impatient & who's not...well, don't say I didn't warn ye.
I'll admit I'm just as impatient as you all. but since none of you
will admit yer impatience including those who think & act like they're better
...then keep it to yerselves.
This conversation is over!
Still, sorry for getting riled up, Every new game that comes out I see someone going "HUrry up!" or something like that and it grinds my patience into salt.
I respect how much effort the trainer makers put into their stuff, and because of that, it bothers me when there's so much disrespect towards them. Still, Sorry Neo.
As for me being patient. I'm playing doom right now without the trainer, so. Pretty sucked in, especially since I can do Boot to the head as doomguy, to demons.
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my copy of Doom is installed.
Until then, rip & tear...and have fun!
But eh. Yep. I'll rip and tear. And boot to the face, and beat possessed to death with their own arms. XD
Hope its possible to Train up Praetor Tokens and other things!
& even the BFG & chainsaw meters to grenades & even upgrades
from a single youtube clip...hopefully the trainer makers
will find a way...hopefully.
anywho...I'm on 76% & counting. still installing!
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text: Through careful grape selection from various Marlborough sub-regions, wild yeast fermentation and a touch of French oak, the Mahi Sauvignon Blanc shows that the individual parts creates a beautiful, balanced and complex wine. This is a fabulous wine; intense and elegant, bright citrus and tropical hints, balanced zingy acidity, textural mouth feel - a kind of of very subte creaminess from partial malo and a small amount of French oak treatment. On the whole it is a wine with subtlety, balance and complexity. And it is fantastic value.


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will a MBP2010 turn on without the battery indicator cable?
Hello guys
Ive got a macbook pro 2010 with a broken battery light cable. The one that shows you how much charge you have in your battery if you press the little silver button (it's part number: 821-0828-A).
I clumsily broke the flimsy little thing and now I can't get the machine to power in at all. I need to know if this is coincidental, or if this cable prevents the machine from powering on at all.
It does seem unlikely to me. But I've visual checked all my other connections and they seem fine. Unfortunately I don't have a multimeter here to check.
Thanks for reading, I hope you can confirm this one way or another so I can move on in my quest to solve this!
Is this a good question?
What color is the magsafe led/light? Are you using the 85w or 60w power adapter? All of the Apple chargers are marked with their wattage, look on the plug side side panel. Granted, it's hard to read as it's a very light grey print on the white case, but it's there. Why did you have the laptop apart to begin with?
Please answer the questions I asked earlier. You are our eyes and ears. You are the only one here that knows why you had it apart to be able to break the cable.


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After having been distinctly underwhelmed by Shinagawa, I decided to take a look around Osaki, the next stop, on the same day. My Tokyo road atlas suggested that there wasn't going to be a lot to see, so I guessed that visiting a second stop on the same day wasn't going to take up too much time.
One one side of the station there is an area given over to offices and hotels and an extensive residential area. One of the office complexes is called Art Village Osaki, in front of which you can see this gnome with a huge hat titled 'Growing Farmer'.
Immediately behind this is the Megurogawa flanked by offices and apartment blocks, but it makes for a nice peaceful walk after the busy main road in front of the station.
The other side of the station has the Think Park business complex next to which even more construction is taking place, and beyond that there seemed little of interest to tempt me on what was a stiflingly hot day.Looking at the remaining stops on the line, I just know that it's going to get more interesting from here on.


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Anthology of essays that attempt to make sense of the historic political drama of 2009.
If this year was arguably the most important election year in decades, it's surprising that so many of pieces read like business-as-usual political journalism. There are a few wisely chosen works, most by veteran political scribes like George Packer, Dexter Filkins, Michael Wolff and Jane Mayer, all of whom produce the multilayered, thoroughly researched stories for which they're known. Many of editor Flippin's inclusions, however, do little more than confirm mainstream journalism's abiding fascination with superficial cult-of-personality issues and image. At the bottom of the barrel are several articles that approach political issues the way People or US Weekly might. Michele Cottle's intelligence-insulting profile of President Obama for the New Republic does little more than wonder if he's "cool," or is there a "dork" underlying all this perceived coolness? Only slightly more substantial is Adam Sternbergh's discovery of a baseball-statistics geek, Nate Silver, who now scientifically predicts political contests, and Lisa Taddeo discovers the key to Obama's victory is a 30-something college dropout with a large e-mail list. Like John Richardson's soporific study of Joe Biden for Esquire, most of these profiles display an unhealthy obsession with image-making and the artifice of political "narrative." It's the lone hard-line conservative writer, Brian Doherty, who finally addresses real issues concerning presidential ambition and abuse of power—though not without paranoiac rumblings. "Right at the Edge"— Filkins' exposé of the ugly truths behind Pakistan's chummy relationship with the Taliban—is probably the best of the bunch.
Uneven, but holds the occasional flicker of hope for the future of American political journalism.


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For a second time, Stella's Bar & Grill in Bellevue takes top honors in the Nebraska Beef Council's "Nebraska's Best Burger" contest. Director of Marketing Adam Wegner says Stella's Cheeseburger received the most on-line votes and rave reviews from the panel of judges. More than 200 restaurants were nominated this year and judges visited the top five.
Union Bar in Gering was the first runner-up followed by the Peppermill Restaurant in Valentine and the Cellar Bar & Grill in Kearney – who tied for third. Sin City Grill in Grand Island rounded out the top five.
Stella's Bar & Grill also won the competition in 2012. They will receive a plaque and will be featured in May as part of Nebraska Beef Month.