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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Interbike has announced the second round of categories and nominees for the 2014 Interbike Awards, including retailer, athlete and advocacy designations. Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, which made the nominations for the retail awards, has opened up an online voting ballot to pick the winners.
Categories for the retailer awards include Best Urban/Lifestyle Shop, Best Pro Road Shop, Best Mountain Bike Shop, Best Women's/Female Friendly Shop and 2014 Retailer of the Year. There are five nominees within each category, including Bicycle Habitat (New York), Huckleberry (California), Bicycle Haus (Arizona), Over the Edge (Colorado) and Bicycle Garage Indy (Indiana), to name a few. Winners will be determined by an open industry online ballot and vetted by BRAIN editorial staff. The ballot can be found at surveymonkey.com/s/WHRH8Z8.
Velo magazine has selected the list of nominees within the athlete categories. Andrew Talansky, Alison Powers, Georgia Gould, Marianne Vos, Eric Marcotte and Taylor Phinney are among those tapped as nominees for the categories, which include International Cyclist of the Year, North American Revelation Rider of the Year, North American Road Cyclist of the Year, North American MTB Cyclist of the Year and more.
PeopleForBikes headed up the advocacy award nominations within the Next Generation Award, PlacesForBikes Award and the Leadership Award categories. These nominees have all played a huge role in the furthering of our industry this year, and the group includes standouts like the Recycle-A-Bicycle program in New York, the AtlantaBeltline and Mayor Greg Ballard of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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American teams digging from 1925 to 1933 found an amazing archaeological discovery. They dug up some 5000 family and administrative archives spanning six generations from around 1450-1350 BC. The tablets were discovered to deal with the social, economic, religious and legal institutions of the Hurrians at a administrative centre in northern Iraq (1). But what is really great about the discovery of the Nuzi tablets is that they testify to the historical nature of our Old Testament. There are several ways in which scholars believe that it achieves this:
- In the story of Abraham, we read that he and his wife, Sarah, were childless. Abraham adopts Eliezer of Damascus to be his heir (Gen. 15:2–3). Later, in Genesis 16:1–4, Sarah gives her handmaiden, Hagar, to Abraham in order to bear him an heir (Ishmael). When Isaac is later born to Sarah, he becomes the heir in place of Ishmael, even though he is the younger child. The Nuzi tablets, as well as texts from later periods, record similar legal situations.
- When Isaac married Rebekah, Rebekah's brother, Laban, handled the negotiations but asked her if she consented (Gen. 24:57–58). But when Laban arranged the marriage of his daughters to Jacob (29:15–30), his daughters were not consulted. The same situation is represented in Nuzi contracts: when a brother draws up the marriage contract, the woman is consulted; but if the father draws up the contract, she is not.
- The story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 illustrates the practice of levirate marriage found also in the Nuzi tablets. A widow cannot remarry outside her deceased husband's family. It is the responsibility of the dead husband's brother to carry on his brother's line by marrying the widow.
- In the Joseph story, Joseph's older brothers are jealous of him because they think that their father, Jacob, will choose him as his heir rather than the oldest brother (Gen. 37). The Nuzi tablets indicate that it was within a father's right to choose a younger son as the heir. This suggests that Joseph's brothers' fears were legitimate.
- In Genesis 31:50, Laban charges Jacob, with God as his witness, not to take any other wives besides his daughters. A similar prohibition is found in numerous Nuzi marriage contracts.
This is undeniably an important bit of information for biblical and ancient historians. Professor Peter Enns explains that "the Nuzi documents are helpful in providing a general historical context in which the stories of Israel's earliest ancestors would have taken place in which the stories of Israel's earliest ancestors would have taken place" (2). Likewise Bryant Wood of Associates for Biblical Research explains:
"Nowhere else in the ancient Near East is this kind of reverence for family documents illustrated, except in the Old Testament. Indirectly, the practice at Nuzi supports the position that Genesis and the other books of history in the Old Testament are grounded in actual family, clan and tribal records carefully passed from generation to generation" (3)
1. Wood, B. 2006. Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Nuzi Tablets. Available.
2. Enns, P. 2005. Inspiration and Incarnation. p. 50 (Scribd ebook format).
3. Woods, B. Ibid.


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Egyptian court adjourns NGO trial
Feb. 26 - A trial of Egyptians and foreigners working for NGOs is adjourned until April, raising hopes among the dozens of defendants that the case could be dropped. Katharine Jackson reports.
Democracy activists enter a cage inside an Egyptian courtroom...defendants in a trial that has threatened ties between Cairo and Washington. The judge adjourns the trial until April...raising hopes among the non-profit workers that the case could be dropped. The foreign and Egyptian non-governmental organization workers - including the son of the U.S. transportation secretary and 15 other Americans - are accused of receiving illegal funds from abroad and carrying out political activities unrelated to their work. The case has underscored tension between the United States and the generals who took power in Egypt when President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. Washington officials have said annual military aid to Egypt, worth $1.3 billion, is under threat. Katharine Jackson, Reuters.


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Toast and a cold glass of pulpy orange juice. It's been a morning of lots of quotes and I feel that I haven't been reading very much the past week and a half. I'm not even very sure what has been occupying my time seeing as I didn't exercise very frequently this week either, or watch TV. Sometimes I wish the weekend could stretch out for days and days so that I may lounge around at all hours of the day with a book in hand, music in the air, and a 90s cartoon playing soundlessly on a screen just in the corner of my eye.
The reality is closer to me hanging out in my gym attire at work, procrastinating with the internet, reading quotes from Tumblr.
The plan today is to jam on out of here, book it to my exercise class, get ready for the day, and head on over to a SoFar LA music event. I'm hoping my evening will somehow involve a little wine but I never can remember to bring any home from the store.
Tomorrow there will be my early Sunday morning run, rushed breakfast of standing around the kitchen counter, crumbs falling down off a plain slice of toast, then exercise class, and then – just maybe a little unplanned, unrushed, pure relaxation.
I imagined I needed no one, and this is what I still imagine to this day. I needed no one, and so I had no one. But naturally we do need someone, otherwise we inevitably become what I have become: tiresome, unbearable, sick—impossible, in the profoundest sense of the word. I always believed that I could get on with my intellectual work if only I were left completely alone, with no one else around. This proved to be mistaken, but it is equally mistaken to say that we actually need someone. We need someone for our work, and we also need no one. Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one. In the last few days I have once more become aware of this totally absurd fact: we never know at any time whether we need someone or no one, or whether we need someone and at the same time no one, and because we never ever know what we really need we are unhappy, and hence unable to start on our intellectual work when we wish and when it seems right.
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If you are thinking about writing a story, maybe a full length novel, then I hope I can help inspire you.
I've looked back at the experiences I've had between now, and when I was a kid, and compared it to some other people's experiences, and I think I have five tips, which honestly, I think other people have shared with me from time to time, which will help you.
They can help you write a better story to share with others, whether it is your own life story, or a story of a life of a character in your own settings for a book or book series. With that being said, let's get into it.
- The first tip would be, know what version of you, that you want to be.
If you are putting yourself into an imaginary world for a story, imagine a version of you within that world.
What is your past, what is your present like, and how would you like for things to change from here on out? What kind of adventures do you want to go on?
What would it take for you to actually get up and leave the house to do something? How many times would you have to try something before you get it right?
Feel free to both exaggerate, a little, and still be somewhat realistic. Once you kind of know this version of you, you are ready for the next tip.
- The second tip would be, find a group to interact with who looks forward to the version of you that you want to become.
If you are writing this story, whether a novel you are writing, or just to write a story of your life that you would prefer to be living, then add characters to your story that accept you, and that you want to be around.
There's a possibility that one day you'll find a copy of this story, and realize that some parts of it actually came true, or are still coming true.
Either way, with this group with you, you'll be better prepared for the unexpected moments life will bring into your story, and the unexpected twists that you may find yourself adding to the stories you are putting your character through, who will also find that they are better prepared, because they have friends who can help them through it.
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- The third tip would be, sign up for the long trip.
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The year 2012 is days gone now and everyone is talking of 2013, even businessmen - big or small.
Would they be the same as of last year or use different jargon or language to impress upon their customers to enhance their business?
BusinessNewsDaily interviewed small business owners, PR people, entrepreneurs and others to give workers a heads up on which buzzwords they may see in the coming year.
- Advertainment -- "Advertising is no longer about interrupting what people are interested in, it's about being what people are interested in."
- Phablets -- A mixture of a smartphone and tablet.
- Growth hacker -- "A role that replaces traditional marketing roles in fast-growing businesses."
- Social learning -- "An individual's learning a skill through observation, without necessarily changing their behaviors or on-the-job performance.
- Alphanista -- "Successful women in powerful positions having it all."
- Acqui-hire -- "A blend of acquired and hired."
- Return on involvement -- A brand that "gets involved with their community will garner better return on their investment by getting involved hosting fundraisers, partnering with schools and giving the local residents a gathering spot."
- Inventreprenuers -- "An entrepreneur-inventor hybrid that markets and/or manufactures their own creation."
- Twinternship -- "An internship where the student's mission is to promote the company and its brands using social media such as Twitter and Facebook."
- Wantrepreneur -- Someone who hasn't "taken all the steps necessary to take the leap" intoentrepreneurship.
- Minergy -- Someone who uses "minimal energy to get the task accomplished."
- Tri-ti-tasking -- "Doing three things at once."What about you, if you are a businessman - would you use this vocabulary too?via Mashable


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"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. " James 4:4
Why is everyone talking about homosexuality these days? It seems like everywhere you turn, there it is; on the television, on the internet, and in the papers. Why is it so popular? The answer is the following: We are in a battle, and homosexuality is a tool of the enemy.


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Shut down! Shut out! And shut in! Why does White Americans hate our first black president, President Barack Obama? It is easy to point to racism as the root cause, so why does this hatred exist for the black man in the white house. What is it that continues to fuel this raging fire of racism? Why have this president been served a constant diet of political obstruction, personal obsessions, and out right public disdain and disrespect for the man, and the office? This ongoing diet of destruction and division has rendered President Obama unable to govern, even after being elected president for his second term. The recent shutdown (one of many examples) and threat of national default on our debt has been averted for ninety days as the "kick the can down the road" approach takes center stage once again. If President Obama "walked on water", the power brokers would complain that the Obama "can not swim." Being born black we learned early in life we have to run faster, hit harder, jump higher, fly better, and in every way perform twice as good as our white counter parts. History underscores this as Jessie Owens, Jackie Robinson, Shirley Chism, Mohammed Ali, the Buffalo Soldiers, the Tuskegee Airmen, and many others can attest.
I remember being the only black student in class during my junior and senior high schools years. We were "bused" to the white community before "busing" became an issue. I recall feeling the eyes of my fellow white students upon me whenever we read about slavery, little black sambo, and Nigger Jim. However I soon learn a coping mechanism and quickly earned even more "stares" when it was revealed that there was only two "A's" on the exam and I got one of them, hence setting the curb. This practice of being an over achiever educationally, was also displayed in college, even if I had not been prepared to go to college. We were "groomed" for trade school and not college. Our grandparents always stressed higher education stating "learn all you can, they can't take it away from you." Later I learn this was not totally true as the politics of higher learning often resulted in the GPA game. Your attitude and many times your color could make a difference between making the dean list or not.
Institutional racism "is" the root cause of President Obama's problem, but it is being fueled and fed by people who have a vested interest in "unpresidenting" the president. Although the race card has been used effectively by the Tom Cruzes, Ben Carlsons, Sarah Palins, Rush Limbaughs and Allan Wests, and other right and left wingers as well, their exist other cards that needs closer scrutiny. Black people did not elect the first black president of America. Neither did our Hispanic brothers or sisters or Asian Americans. "White" people elected the President Obama. Sure the minority vote put President Obama in the white house. But it was the white voters that sealed the deal and represent the balance of power. Black people represent 3% of the population in the State of Iowa, yet not once but "twice" citizens of Iowa voted for Barack Obama to go to the white house. White Americans (especially Independent label males) voted in numbers that shocked the country by choosing character over color, voting for the one who could best represent America's hope, dreams and aspirations and not the one who played to the many American fears…fears of declining white electoral power and fear of losing financial control in this great country.
Lorraine Haneberry's, Raisin In The Sun, depict this diabolic desire to have both political and financial control by any means necessary. "Son, how come you talk so much 'bout money'?' cried out the black mother (Ruby Dee) to her son (Sidney Poitier). Art often times imitate life as black people have always struggle for the freedom to learn and to earn. The son responds to his mother's inquiry saying "Because it is life, Mama!" The struggling mother reminds her son that "once upon a time freedom was life… now its money. I guess the world really do change." Being black in a white world, the son respond, "No it was always money, Mama. We just didn't know about it."
The night of the vote to open back up the government Paul Broun (R-GA) continued to denounce health care reform, President Obama's crowning jewel to date. "If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that's in people's pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the War Between the States, the Great War of Yankee Aggression" said Broun who is flirting for running for senator in Georgia. Yes racism is alive and well, one hundred and fifty years after the Civil War. Shut down! Shut out! And Shut in! What's next, succession? Hummm…


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Most Americans are of the opinion that illegal immigrants are downtrodden victims who need a helping hand instead of a swift boot out of the country. After all, isn't America a nation of immigrants? Many people ask: What ever happened to the iconic axiom on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?
The issue here is simply what part of the word "illegal" is so hard to understand? Legal immigration is the way law-abiding, people with core integrity have honestly come to this country for over a century. They recognize the rule of law. They honor and respect the nation and state in which they reside. They make good neighbors and are often good friends with existing citizens.
Conversely, does it not make sense that those who enter "illegally" are not so much driven by economic necessity, but by a deep-seated prevalence for making a "quick buck" no matter who is victimized in the process?
VICTIMIZED? Who could possibly be "victimized" by illegal immigrants? These poor, wretched, downtrodden folks are the only victims, right?
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Check out the facts. Did you know that each and every day, over 25 American citizens are killed by the actions of "illegal" immigrants across America? Do the math. This means that since September 11, 2001 a total of 105,375 Americans have died from the activities of "illegal" aliens. Half of the deaths are from violent crimes, while the other half is from traffic fatalities or other "accidents". Source: http://www.firecoalition.com/docs/criminalalienstatistics.pdf
Think about this for just a few minutes. 105,375 American deaths directly due to illegal immigrants. That's nearly as many American dead during WWI (116,516), and is more American deaths than the Korean "Conflict"(36,516) and the Vietnam War (58,209) combined. Source: http://www.militaryfactory.com/american_war_deaths.asp
Why are these statistics not shown on the "controlled" media TV and Newspapers – who constantly lean toward relaxing immigration enforcement? Why is it not disclosed that there are well over 300,000 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails? Source: http://www.firecoalition.com/docs/criminalalienstatistics.pdf
Welcome to Reality Friends – and it's not pretty. Just take a look at a small sampling of innocent victims.
Here's little 9 month old Serenity Reed, a blonde blue-eyed little darling who is now yet another "statistic". From the Barstow California Examiner we read about the horrific and shocking events of June 7-8, 2013 that has escaped the nation's attention:
"On Saturday, police in Barstow arrested Jose Luis Aguilar, 36, at a Greyhound bus station after he reportedly sexually assaulted and beat his girlfriend's baby daughter to death.
A day earlier, the baby's mother, Jennifer Reedy, 31, awoke to find her daughter lying dead in her crib.
Aguilar was gone, as was Reedy's car and money from her purse.
Police were able to find Aguilar using the GPS in his cellphone.
At a press conference Benton County prosecutor Andy Miller, told reporters: "It appears that Mr. Aguilar was on his way to flee to Mexico."
The Tri-City Herald reported:
Serenity suffered at least two separate skull fractures, the affidavit said. Beneath the skull fractures were subdural hematomas — injuries which can result from major head trauma. Wigren found hemorrhaging around her eyes and bleeding in part of her brain.
Aguilar has been charged with first-degree manslaughter and is currently being held at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga without bail. More charges are expected to be filed.
Incredible! Aguilar is just one of over 300,000 "illegal alien" inmates being imprisoned at U.S. taxpayer's expense. Do you still think "Illegal Immigration" is a "victimless" crime – not worthy of your concern?
If so, then take a minute and review a small sampling of other victim's stories:
Mexican Extradited to Houston for Murder of Tina Davila
TEXAS – Houston mother of five, Tina Davila (pictured), was stabbed to death in 2008 when Timoteo Rios tried to hijack her SUV, but she refused to give up the keys because her 4-month-old baby was in the vehicle. The killer was identified by the surveillance tapes from the store near the crime had been arrested earlier for marijuana possession but had not been deported. He quickly fled to Mexico.
The murder deprived five children of their loving mom, and that kind of pain never goes away. Her family are relieved that some justice may be at hand.
Rios, an illegal alien with a criminal record, had admitted to local law enforcement twice before the slaying that he was in the country illegally, but had not been deported, according to arrest and immigration records.
Newark Schoolyard Executioner Sentenced
NEW JERSEY – In August 2007, three college students who were hanging out in a schoolyard were brutally attacked and shot to death by six MS-13 gangsters. Another young woman managed to survive, despite her terrible injuries, which have left her with facial paralysis to this day. The two women were raped and hacked with machetes.
One man, Melvin Jovel, confessed to being the only shooter, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
Drunk Driving Illegal Alien Killer of Two Alabama Teens Sentenced
ALABAMA – There are many tragic stories about the victims of illegal alien criminals, but it doesn't get much worse than the deaths of Leigh Anna Jimmerson, 16, and her boyfriend, Tad Mattle, 19. The couple died in a fiery crash in April 2009 when their car burst into flames after being struck by illegal alien Felix Ortega, who was drunk at three times the legal limit for Alabama.
The prosecutor put together a deal where Ortega pleaded guilty to two murders in return for a 15 year sentence and eligibility for parole in 12.5 years. It was acceptable to both families who presumably didn't want to go through a trial where the horrific details of their kids' deaths would be brought out. Even so, the plea agreement seems weak punishment indeed for the preventable deaths of two young people with their whole lives ahead of them.
Why didn't their country protect them from foreign criminals?
Drunk Driving Alien Sentenced to 50 Years for Felony Murder DWI
AUSTIN – A stiff sentence was handed down to Jaime Alvarado, a serial drunk-driving twice-deported illegal alien, who killed Nashville business-man Robert Benn shortly after he arrived in Austin for a new job.
Benn was driving from the airport when his car was struck by the inebriated Alvarado as the Guatemalan was fleeing police because he feared being deported.
In a cruel coincidence for the family, Benn's granddaughter was born a few hours before he was killed, so he never got to meet her. Robert Benn was 64 and had three children.
Alvarado did not stop, even though officer Christopher Geck turned on his lights and sirens attempting to make a traffic stop. Alvarado said he was afraid of being deported and ultimately decided he would try to drive home before being arrested so his SUV would not be impounded. [. . .]
Alvarado, who had a 0.20 blood alcohol level, 2-1/2 times the legal limit, suffered only minor injuries.
ICE Promises to Reveal Alien Criminal Statistics for Virginia County
VIRGINIA – On August 1, a previously arrested drunk-driving illegal alien killed a nun, Denise Mosier (pictured left), and seriously injured two others. The alien, Carlos Martinelly Montano (pictured right), had twice been handed over to ICE for deportation, but had instead been released into the community pending a deportation hearing (occasions which have notably poor attendance among those invited).
A few days later, the Chairman of the Prince William County board of supervisors, Corey Stewart requested information from ICE that would reveal how many illegal aliens are being released by the agency into the county and their crimes.
The rather surprising news is that ICE agreed.
Father of Crime Victim Tells His Story About Open Borders' Terrible Cost
VIRGINIA BEACH – Ray Tranchant speaks out as the father of a teenager Tessa Tranchant killed sitting at a stop light by an illegal alien. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly. […]
The public hears too little about the crime victims of unlawful foreigners; the liberal press prefers to swoon over foreign perps and their sufferings in pursuit of a "better life" rather than consider the human tragedies caused by open borders.
The accused killer, Bolivian Carlos Montano, had earlier been handed over to ICE for deportation (twice!) but instead was released onto American streets. He had spent 20 days in jail for two drunk-driving convictions, so was clearly a bad crash waiting to happen. An obviously dangerous illegal alien was released with deadly consequences.
Alfredo Ramos, the alien later found guilty of killing Tessa Tranchant and her friend Alison Kunhardt, had been convicted twice of alcohol-related crimes but was not deported, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were rightly accused of being "sanctuary cities."
Read more … http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
VICTIMLESS CRIME? Don't believe it for a second. Do these criminals deserve "amnesty". REALLY???


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Pence leaves NFL game after players kneel during anthem
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a NFL game on Sunday in his home state of Indiana after some players knelt during the national anthem, a form of demonstration that began last year as a symbolic protest about police violence against racial minorities. Lisa Bernhard reports.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday abruptly walking out of an NFL game - but leaving the media to wonder whether his surprise move had in fact been staged. It all played out like this: Pence early in the day tweeting a photo saying he and his wife were looking forward to cheering on their home team Indianapolis Colts - and honoring former star quarterback Peyton Manning, who's number was being retired. But the two, along with their daughter, quickly bolted after some members of the opposing San Francisco 49ers refused to stand during the national anthem. Pence explaining on Twitter he left the game 'because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, our National Anthem.....' Less than an hour after his statement, the White House released this photo of Pence and his wife standing during the song. The speed with which it was released among the morsels that left media pundits wondering if the walkout had been planned. Reports also saying at least one journalist who'd asked to accompany Pence into the stadium was told to remain in a van outside because the vice president might be leaving early. The Indianapolis Star also noting that the photo from Pence's early tweet was actually taken from a game he attended - and tweeted from - in 2014 - and NOT taken at Sunday's Colts/49ers matchup. After the Pence's walkout, he flew to a planned fundraiser in LA... with President Trump quickly tweeting, 'I asked VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and Second Lady Karen.'


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Tremont, Maine
The first time you stumble upon this scene when driving on Route 102 through Tremont, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, you sort of gasp at its panoramic beauty. Then, you discover that the same thing happens each time you arrive at this spot! Beautiful things never get old.
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I'd love to have a "Vel greater than 120" modulation source in addition to the existant "Vel greater than 100".
As an ex: just earlier I was trying to trick a Synth bass preset of mine into behaving like a trad slap funk bass, whereas hitting really hard at peak vel triggers a type of neo-slap sound (here delay turned down, filter drive and resonant up etc). I used the greater than 100 source. But that really cuts into the heart of the normal velocity range.
I could think of so many other fun sound design examples (think working with a trad sampler, like Kontakt, where one reserves that tip top vel layer for all sorts of nuanced and not-so-nuanced mayham/expressiveness/badassery).
Mod Matrix FR for Dune 2
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Just a thought, I haven't tried this, but what about using Vel>100 to control the amount of Vel>100 in the mod matrix? So:
1 Vel>100 0 Filter Cutoff
2 Vel>100 50 Mod Matrix 1
Obviously change the 50 to taste
It should work. Let me know
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I just tested this. It works
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Here's a zip file with a bass patch, a sfs file for Orion users and a mp3 for non-Orion users
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Eighteen years after her brother's death, an early-morning phone call brings Sophie Mae Reynolds back home to Colorado to investigate.
Sophie Mae's bath-products business is flourishing, and she's about to marry detective Barr Ambrose. But her mother Anna Belle's call begging her to come home and read her brother's long-lost suicide note changes everything. The newly surfacing letter, sent by her brother Bobby Lee to his girlfriend Tabby and marked return to sender, says that he can't handle the guilt, but doesn't say what for. Sophie Mae uses Tabby's cheesemaking classes as an excuse for a visit to the dairy farm owned by Tabby and her husband Joe, who was Bobby Lee's best friend. Although Tabby is extremely reticent to talk about the past, Sophie Mae perseveres, and when Joe gets bashed to death with a cream bottle, the ladies alibi each other. Meanwhile, Sophie Mae researches the period of Bobby Lee's death, looking for an event that could have caused his guilty feelings. Several deaths at that time and problems at a ranch run for troubled teens may hold the answer. Arriving to meet her parents, Barr is embroiled in both Anna Belle's ambitious wedding plans and Sophie Mae's search for clues she hopes will clear up both Bobby Lee and Joe's deaths.
Another enjoyable entry in McRae's craft-centered series (Spin a Wicked Web, 2009, etc.). This time information about artisanal cheesemaking supplements the plausible mystery.


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Monday, 24 October 2011
Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
Illustrator: Diana Sudyka
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date: May 1st, 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
After a year apart, the members of the Mysterious Benedict Society are about to finally reunite. Mr. Benedict has planned a surprise for them that will provide them with a safe chance for adventure and challenge. However, things change unexpectedly when Mr. Benedict and Number Two are kidnapped by Mr. Curtain. When Reynie, Constance, Sticky and Kate see the clues for the scavenger hunt Mr. Benedict had planned, they might be able to retrace his steps and find him. As the foursome embark on their journey, all of their skills will be needed to save the founder of their society.
After I read a book that I love, I'm often hesitant to read the sequel. I'm always worried that the later books in the series won't live up to the original. But The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey was just as enchanting as its predecessor. All the things I loved about The Mysterious Benedict Society were back for the sequel: the quirky and original characters, the puzzles, the clever writing and the adventure. Together, Sticky, Reynie, Constance and Kate make the perfect team. Sticky is perfect for when you need accurate information. Reynie is the ultimate problem solver and notices everything. In this novel, Constance proves to be excellent at predicting outcomes. Kate's the girl you want if you need someone to act fast under pressure. They are all great characters and I love them to bits. A year has passed between the first book and the second, and the children have grown up quite a bit. Constance, for example, shows new abilities that were never there before. You can tell that the other children have also matured in the course of the year, especially Sticky. In some older children's books it feels like the characters are children forever, and I like seeing the characters grow up with each book. The children grapple with some bigger issues in this novel: Reynie has trouble believing that there are very many truly good people. Stickie struggles with his newfound pride and Kate has trouble understanding why they can't occasionally sink to the level of their enemies, if it's for the better good. The villains were much more frightening in this novel and the threat felt very real. The Ten Men turn ordinary items (such as bowties, clipboards and pencils) into instruments of torture. I thought this was both creative and terrifying. In The Mysterious Benedict Society, the villains' intellect didn't match the children. In fact, many of the Executives weren't that bright. In The Perilous Journey, the Ten Men outsmart the children at times, and it felt like they were in much more danger than ever before.
The plot was fast paced and exciting. The children travel a fair bit, including a ride on the boat from the cover. There were parts that were so clever, such as how Mr. Benedict concealed the truth when taking the truth serum. Everything was just so smart and fun and I loved it. While the illustrations for The Mysterious Benedict Society were drawn by Carson Ellis, the rest of the books in the series are illustrated by Diana Sudyka. I think she did a fantastic job at both keeping the style of Ellis' drawings while still adding something unique. My favourite illustrations were for the chapters "Awkward Exchanges and Clever Disguises" and "Dusk Before Sundown." Sudyka's illustrations of the characters were brilliant, as was the cover. Overall, I really think that this is a book that has everything. With adventure, mystery, danger and excitement, this is a children's book that can appeal to anyone and a good example of how to do a sequel.
"May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home."
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Charlene Williams-Kaludjak snuggles with her new baby Nowyah, named after her late mother, Nowyah Williams, a local nurse and midwife who was a driving force in establishing the Rankin Inlet Birthing Centre.
A visit to Rankin Inlet Birthing Centre highlights maternal health-care delivery
By Katie May
2014 Greg Clark Award Recipient
But if I could do all that without even touching down in the Kivalliq region — home to the territory's oldest birthing centre — I wouldn't have needed the Greg Clark Award. For one thing, there were a handful of people aboard the cargo-carrying 737 en route to Rankin Inlet, and none of them was born yesterday. When I arrived in the hamlet of 2,245, there were about five expectant mothers due to give birth at any moment, two midwives on call 24/7, one hefty barge shipment of office furniture requiring assembly at the Rankin Inlet Birthing Centre, and, as it turned out, zero babies born during my time there.
The chance to spend a week delving into the complexities of maternal health-care delivery in a northern community that has laboured for the past 20 years to take banishment out of Nunavummiut's birthing experience seemed an opulent opportunity considering the daily deadline-distorted reality that stonewalls too many journalistic endeavours. The award afforded access to a part of Canada where travel costs are exorbitant — a fact that hints at underlying challenges of food security, poverty, cramped housing and social issues that, along with community resiliency, cultural strength and utmost importance of family, intertwine to form a backdrop against which babies are born at one of the highest birth rates in Canada.
I saw it was impossible to separate issues surrounding the health of pregnant women and babies from the overall health of the community. And vice versa. That my visit coincided with Rankin Inlet's Embrace Life Week — a calendar of community events underscoring the local significance of World Suicide Awareness Day — served as a stark reminder.
I wanted to get a better look at what encircles the beginning of life in Rankin Inlet, to start to see the whole picture of community-based birth come into focus. But I was wary, too, of flying in over a smoky dump fire on a drizzly Sunday afternoon, landing on the ground and purporting to have a sense of the place by the time I secured my ink-stained notebook and shiny copy of Birth on the Land within the seat pocket in front of me on Saturday morning. I've been quick to scorn egregious examples of "helicopter journalism," wherein reporters plop themselves into unfamiliar settings and proceed to the nearest soapbox of clueless authority. I didn't want to fall in line with a caricature of the hard-nosed southern journalist — one with which birthing centre staff have become quite fatigued — whose apparent sincerity peels like a used baggage tag at the end of a long trip.
"I saw it was impossible to separate issues surrounding the health of pregnant women and babies from the overall health of the community. And vice versa."
But I had time. Time to listen to whoever had time to share their story with me. Time to find out more. Time to worry the more I found out, the less I knew.
I talked to the midwives, taking in hurried happenings around the public health building where they keep their offices. There's a complement of four when fully staffed, together responsible for guiding women in the region through the spectrum of normal birth, from prescribing birth control to providing prenatal care throughout pregnancy and beyond, up to eight weeks postpartum.
When women decide to fly south as their due dates approach — and more than two decades since the conception of the community-based birthing centre, about a third still do, even in the absence of high-risk complications that would force them into an urban hospital — the midwives are there when they get back. A phone call away always, a personal social-life sacrifice toward the goal of healthy moms and babies.
For mothers-to-be who choose to labour at home, the Birthday Room awaits, decorated with Inuit art and handmade quilts, across town in the new health centre. There, families can convene and leave together a few hours after the baby is born. They have a choice that hasn't always existed.
I talked to women who stayed and to women who left. I took in their stories of loneliness, of comfort, of fear, of satisfaction, of disappointment, of love. Some were old enough to recall giving birth in igloos or in tents on the land. Some were too young to remember a time before birthing centre checkups became the norm. Some women emphasized stronger bonds they felt with sons and daughters born close to home, and some described struggling to breastfeed a screaming newborn while surrounded by strangers. Women told me they witnessed the birth of their adopted child, or had wrestled with guilt over giving up their baby after caring for them all the way back to their community.
I listened as a teenage soon-to-be mom wondered if she'd ruined her future, if she'd ever go to college. I watched as a couple who had suffered two previous miscarriages heard their baby's fetal heartbeat for the first time. These women's stories compel me to become a journalist worthy of telling them, the kind who can articulate for all Canadians the sense of place Rankin Inlet residents have laboured to claim as their own.
Read Katie May's story Birth in a Northern Nation in the Winnipeg Free Press.
To read more about the Greg Clark Award, visit the award page. The award will begin accepting applications in early 2015.
The Canadian Journalism Foundation would like to thank
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Photo: A resident assesses the damage after a tree fell on a house on Glen Eden Drive in Raleigh. Staff Photo by Harry Lynch
Triangle residents today will be picking their way through the wreckage left by high winds that raked North Carolina from the mountains to the coast Monday, ripping trees from rain-sodden soil that crashed onto homes, cars and power lines and left thousands without power.
More than 300,000 were left without power across North Carolina as repair crews battled stiff breezes that made their work difficult.
The blustery aftermath of a weekend nor'easter whipped up gusts that approached highway speeds around 11 a.m Monday -- 48 mph at Raleigh-Durham International Airport; 62 mph at Piedmont Triangle International Airport near Greensboro, federal forecasters said.
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The need to predict and mitigate the impact of complex human- and nature-induced stresses on large-scale, geographically-distributed systems has never been more evident than now. These challenges and inevitable societal changes result in a need to develop and adopt new technologies and improved efficiency into the infrastructure.
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Druk Padma Karpo School is an award-winning project, inspired by the vision of His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, a spiritual leader of Ladakh. Our school offers an education that grounds students firmly in their own culture and equips them to thrive in the modern world.
The main school is located in Shey (the ancient capital of Ladakh) about 30 minutes' drive up the Indus Valley from the main town of Leh. A branch school opened in Khachhey in April 2010.
Students study Bothi (the local language), English and Hindi languages, plus sciences, social studies, creative arts and sports. They learn life and livelihood skills, including team work, presentation skills, leadership and problem solving through formal and co-curricular activities.
Sometimes known as Rancho's School.
The school is known locally as 'Druk Padma Karpo School' ('Padma Karpo' means 'White Lotus' in Bothi) and is named after Mipham Pema Karpo (1527-1592), who is revered as a great scholar.
This unique initiative is managed by the Druk Padma Karpo Education Society (a local non-profit society) with support from Live to Love, Drukpa Trust (UK charity no 1014948 under the patronage of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama), the Drukpa Charitable Foundation (a US 501(C)(3) organization) and Drukpa Humanitaire (France).
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I believe my mum was or is into nudism, because she didn't wear underwear, instead she wore pantyhose. I think my parents might have attempted swinging, because one morning we kids found a pin-the-boobs-on-the-smasher poster still hanging on the den wall from one of their parties they had http://nuderoad.com . Me and my brother would additionally look through my dad's playboy magazines while our parents were out shopping.
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Classification: P30 Tump.
OS Grid Ref: SO071933 This data is currently only accurate to a 6 figure grid reference (c.a 100m).
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UK Area: 31 - Aberystwyth to Welshpool (OS Maps 1:50k 136. 1:25k 215E.)
Latitude: 52.529634, Longitude: -3.370878, Height: 271 metres (889 feet)
Prominence: 34 metres (112 feet)
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Why Does my House Have to be Perfect Before I List it?
If you were going to try and sell your vehicle, you would want it to look perfect, right? I am going to assume (dangerous, I know!) that you would take all your possessions out, any garbage, and give it a good cleaning before showing it to any potential buyers. You would take the steps necessary to ensure you got the most money back as possible. And the thing with a vehicle is, its not usually a good investment. Meaning that it depreciates in value as time goes by.
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So why wouldn't you want to do everything you possibly could to make sure that value isn't compromised when people come to view it?
Potential buyers are going to view your house and decide if they can see themselves living there. When they have decided that they can, they are going to be looking for any imperfections or downfalls that they can use to lower your asking price. If your house is perfect, you have the negotiating power, not them.
Why does your house have to be perfect? So that you get the most money out of your biggest investment. Can you really afford for it not to be perfect?
Stay tuned for some tips on how to make your house perfect before listing or give me a call and I would be happy to help.
Have a great weekend!


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OPS, EPS camps to hold merger talks soon
| Updated: Aug 23, 2017 11:20 IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Apr 21 (ANI): The AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) faction on Friday announced the setting up of a committee to oversee merger talks between the camps headed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and his predecessor O. Panneerselvam. OPS campaign leader, K. Pandiarajan told ANI, "We have a got a formal invite from EPS (CM Edapadi Palaniswami) camp for appointing a committee. We have agreed that we will go ahead and nominate the committee very soon by the end of the day." Pandirajan informed that they have already submitted lakhs of affidavits, adding that they will continue to do work towards the goal of having talks with the rival faction. "We will engage in discussions with the other party," he added. Talks for a merger between the OPSand EPS camps gained ground after an FIR was registered against AIADMK T.T.V. Dinakaran for bribing Election Commission officials for staking claim of the 'Two Leaves' symbol of the party.(ANI)


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We started new series this month called "The Way" based on the words of Jesus in John 14:16. Here's where we are taking students:
The way – Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as "the only way." A way is a path or route, and the disciples had expressed their confusion about where He was going and how they could follow. As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them (and us) "follow me." There is no other path to heaven, no other way to the Father. Peter reiterated this same truth years later to the rulers in Jerusalem, saying about Jesus, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). The exclusive nature of the only path to salvation is expressed in the words "I am the way."
The truth – Again Jesus used the definite article to emphasize Himself as "the only truth." Psalm 119:142 says, "Your law is the truth." In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminded His listeners of several points of the Law, then said, "But I say unto you . . ." (Matthew 5:22,28,32,34,39,44), thereby equating Himself with the Law of God as the authoritative standard of righteousness. In fact, Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Law and the prophets (Matthew 5:17). Jesus, as the incarnate Word of God (John 1:1) is the source of all truth.
The life – Jesus had just been telling His disciples about His impending death, and now He was claiming to be the source of all life. In John 10:17–18, Jesus declared that He was going to lay down His life for His sheep, and then take it back again. He spoke of His authority over life and death as being granted to Him by the Father. In John 14:19, He gave the promise that "because I live, you also will live." The deliverance He was about to provide was not a political or social deliverance (which most of the Jews were seeking), but a true deliverance from a life of bondage to sin and death to a life of freedom in eternity.


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State contractors seek support to preserve highway funding revenue for road projects, jobs
Nevada News Bureau
About $87 million in state taxes that could be parlayed into 10 times as much to pay for critical road improvements are ready to flow to the state Department of Transportation next year, but there are concerns the money could be diverted to other needs.
The Nevada Chapter of the Associated General Contractors has asked the Nevada Department of Transportation's board of directors to work with the Legislature to ensure the revenue remains dedicated to the State Highway Fund.
An estimated 25,000 jobs could be created with the funding if the money was used to sell bonds, said John Madole, executive director of the Nevada AGC. About $870 million could be generated for road projects in the next two-year budget under this option, he said.
"We think it's important as the fiscal 2014-2015 budget building process begins, that policymakers are mindful of continuing the commitment made several years ago to improve funding for Nevada's highways," Madole said. "This funding infusion comes at a crucial time for Nevada, since the current ending fund balance in the State Highway Fund is now depleted to record low levels not seen in more than two decades."
The additional tax money is set to flow to NDOT as the result of two separate measures already approved by the Legislature.
Senate Bill 429 of the 2009 session raised money for the cash-strapped general fund in part by slowing the depreciation on vehicles when motorists pay their registration fees. The measure required, however, that the additional revenue from the governmental services tax go to the State Highway Fund instead of the general fund starting on July 1, 2013. About $61 million a year would be made available for road projects.
Senate Bill 429 became the package of taxes proposed to sunset on June 30, 2011, but extended in the current budget as part of a deal between Gov. Brian Sandoval and a majority of state lawmakers.
The other measure is contained within Senate Bill 503 of the 2011 session, which temporarily increased the amount of money the Department of Motor Vehicles could spend on administrative costs for two years. The expiration of this provision will provide an additional $26 million a year to the Highway Fund beginning in July 2013.
DMV spokesman Kevin Malone said today the agency will be seeking the lower level of administrative costs in the next budget.
But Nevada's general fund demands, from funding for public education to an expanding Medicaid population, could potentially put these funding streams for road projects at risk.
Sandoval said in March he will extend the "temporary" tax package into the next two-year budget to avoid cuts to education, including a 0.35 percent sales tax increase and a higher tax rate for large businesses under the payroll tax. Whether this means the vehicle registration money will also be retained to support the general fund is not yet clear.
The process of preparing the next two-year spending plan is now under way and Sandoval spokeswoman Mary-Sarah Kinner said today the budget issues must be analyzed first before decisions are made on all of the elements of the sunsetting tax package, such as the motor vehicle registration revenue.
Madole said the job creation potential from the increased highway funding would help Sandoval meet his goal of creating 50,000 new jobs in Nevada by the end of 2014.
A draft resolution of support for ensuring the revenues go to the State Highway Fund as planned was submitted to the NDOT Board of Directors by Madole last month with a request that it be considered at its July 23 meeting. Sandoval is chairman of the board.
"I think it's very important because since 1992 . . . there have been no increased revenues for state highway funding," Madole said. "We believe that that money, because it is an identifiable source that's a pretty stable source of revenue, I'm not a bonding expert, but we've had others look at it and say that money could support bonds."
The gas tax has not been increased since that time while inflation has probably risen by 35 percent to 45 percent during the same period, he said.
Gas tax revenues are declining in part because of increased fuel efficiency, causing the NDOT to consider alternative ways of raising revenue for roads. NDOT is in the midst of a multi-year study of the Vehicle Miles Traveled tax, which would replace the existing fuel tax and be levied based on the number of miles a car travels rather than the amount of gas it consumes.


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the other day i wrote about Anyfont Plugin which provides an awesome font look to your wordpress site. today there is something very larger than Anyfont Plugin. Its called TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a nice WordPress plugin that allows you to add a lot of design choices to your actual blog post and will be used as a minimum on your blog.
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Other Media-A Fantasy Wedding
lizinverse on July 11, 2015
>.> So this happened….
XD yes, Jinx is a cat-boy in this game….
Anyway, I'm still alive, slowly poking along on the next page. I got bummed out for awhile (again) but I'm crawling out of it.
Next page is on the horizon!
Please look forward to it!


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Campaigning for international solidarity in 2011
After assessing 2010's political activities, members of the Revolutionary Socialist Party at its December congress adopted an outlook for this year emphasising consolidation and building across the range of those activities.
The RSP is a small party, and the scale of its activities had been quite modest, but also quite varied. Despite small resources, a lot had been done. Activities had varied too from city to city, where resources as well as opportunities differed. It was clear that no major political campaigns had yet emerged with a nationwide or even partly national scale. Interventions by RSP members to help build different campaigns, while trying to win support for its ideas, reflected that variety and unevenness.
Australian imperialism
International solidarity featured prominently in both 2010 activities and 2011 projections. Australia is an imperialist country, and the Australian capitalist class views the world and the region through imperialist eyes. In Australia, it tries to encourage racist and xenophobic sentiments among working people, hoping to win acceptance for imperialist behaviour in the Third World, whose inhabitants it hopes will be seen as inferior, failed peoples not worthy of solidarity. For the RSP, international solidarity is both a way to support progressive struggles outside Australia and to intervene within Australian politics by fighting against the ideological campaigns and the political, war and economic policies of Australian imperialism.
Members had been active during 2010 in international solidarity, and plans were made to continue this. It was possible to identify two general types of activity: in solidarity with socialist revolutions and in solidarity with progressive struggles for social justice and national liberation.
Venezuelan revolution
The explosion onto the scene of the Venezuelan revolution and the working class's winning of power there set one major priority for the RSP. Socialist revolutions have been rare in the last few decades, and the unfolding and strengthening of the Venezuela revolution should be cherished and defended by all socialists. It is a gruelling process, with the Venezuelan capitalist class not yet destroyed and still actively pursuing counter-revolution, even though deprived of state power. The United States has remained aggressive, recently trying to appoint a hostile US politician to the post of ambassador, which the Venezuelan government has rejected. The US armed forces continue to build bases encircling Venezuela, especially using Colombia.
Making this revolution even more significant is the strategic alliance that has been built between Venezuela and Cuba. Solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution requires solidarity with the Cuban revolution and vice versa. The RSP has put effort into building a Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Club on the University of Sydney campus, which organised a successful activist brigade to Cuba and Venezuela last July. The club also carried out a range of activities on the campus, and club members contributed articles to the RSP newspaper, Direct Action, which carried articles on the two revolutions throughout the year. Films and forums on Venezuela and Latin America were also organised in Melbourne and at the University of Western Australia and Australian National University.
The congress decided to consolidate this work and build it up wherever resources were available, working together with other activists with the same goals. RSP members would help build the 2011 Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network brigade to Venezuela and would work with sympathetic academics about the possibility of an academic-oriented conference. Where there were interest and resources for continuing to build campus clubs, that would continue. RSP members would remain active in Australia Cuba Friendship Societies in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
The RSP also took an initiative to hold seminars on the anniversary of the Vietnam Moratorium, inviting activists from the '60s to speak. Seminars took place in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. The seminars were accompanied by an extensive poster exhibition. In 2011, solidarity work with the Vietnamese revolution will continue, with prospects for a campaign around compensation for the huge damage done to Vietnam by Agent Orange. The possibilities of pursing this through a new organisation will be first investigated in Sydney, where the largest of the Vietnam seminars took place.
Palestine and the boycott campaign
Around the world there is increasing solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom manifested in support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS). In the United States and Europe a broadening range of groups are building campaigns for boycotts and other sanctions. In Australia, the first national conference on BDS was held in Melbourne in November. A wide range of activists from different groups were involved. RSP members are strong supporters of this project, and RSP members will be working hard with everybody to build successful BDS campaigns during the year. This will include an anti-apartheid week on campuses during the first half of the year. There are Palestinian solidarity groups in most states, and RSP members who have been helping in these will continue that work.
This campaigning has enormous potential to grow during 2011. Already several unions have adopted pro-BDS positions, as have the NSW Greens and the Marrickville Council in New South Wales. BDS activists have already carried out actions against Israeli cosmetics and chocolate businesses in Australia, symbolic actions to raise awareness, as well as protests outside Caterpillar, which has contracts with the Israeli military.
The anti-dictatorship revolts in Tunisia and Egypt have already led to small solidarity actions being initiated by various groups in Brisbane and Sydney. This is another element of support for radical change in the Arab world and an end to repression there - at the heart of which stands the oppression of the Palestinian people.
Indonesia and Timor Leste
In 2010 the RSP hosted a speaking tour by an Indonesian activist, Vivi Widyawati, from the Committee for the Politics of the Poor-People's Democratic Party (KPRM-PRD). Widyawati visited Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The RSP also contributed to the discussion of progressive Indonesian politics through the Australia Indonesia Solidarity Group in Melbourne. The congress decided that in 2011, the RSP would work with the KPRM-PRD to organise activist tours to Indonesia, where students and workers from outside Indonesia can meet and discuss with women's movement, trade unionists and student activists. These would be coordinated with similar tours to Timor Leste, organised jointly with the Socialist Party of Timor. It is hoped this will inspire more people on campuses and in unions in Australia to become active in supporting the progressive and left movements in these countries.
RSP members have already visited Indonesia and East Timor since the congress to begin organising these tours, which it is hoped will get under way by the middle of the year. Another RSP activist has also visited the Philippines, and there may be a possibility of working with left forces there, such as the Workers Party, in the same way.
South-East Asia remains a significant area for Australian imperialism, both working by itself and as an ally to the United States. Greater cooperation between genuine radical forces in the region will prepare the ground for good solidarity campaigning when the need arises.


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Two bombs that exploded next to the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday killed three people and injured over a hundred. U.S. President Obama vowed to bring to justice those responsible for this "act of terror".
Egyptian journalist and blogger Nadia El-Awady voiced her reaction to the bombings in her most read worthy post: Boston: Why Arabs Like Me Are Horrified
In it, bravely and frank as is typical of her, she describes her reactions to the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the fears with regard to the new attacks yesterday in Boston. Her courage to tell what others rather keep a personal secret, is admirable. I felt compelled to answer and urge you to first read her post, before continuing here to read my reply.
When I saw the second plane fly into the WTC on September 11 – there was shock on my face and horror. Not, because this happened to the U.S., but because I knew that this happened to humans. The single mother battling hard with her two children after her husband had left her, the young man aspiring to become a scientist finding a cure to diseases, the old woman who had lost her husband and son in a car accident early and been alone and brave for 30 years, the businessman from abroad on a strenuous conference trip, working hard to ensure a living for his family and education for his daughter and son, the over 600 Muslims working in companies in the towers, being unaware of getting killed this very minute by so called 'Muslim' brothers – who were in fact no brothers nor Muslims but cold, pathetic terrorists and murderers.
These were the pictures that flashed through my head in a fraction of a second as I watched the plane plunge into the tower and explode in a fire ball. How could I have smiled, knowing that humans, real living human individuals were pulverised to nothing in this very moment? It wasn't the U.S. that was getting attacked in that very minute, it were humans, humans of flesh and blood, all the humans I had in my mind. And it was visible if the vision was not, for whatever reason, blurred.
I have had more than my fair share of anger over the U.S. (and that is putting it very euphemistically). But when the bombs exploded in Boston yesterday, I only saw the people, the humans torn to pieces and killed. The 8 year old boy, who was so proud that his father had run the marathon and reached the finish line, or the woman who had perhaps managed to fight a terminal illness and was just getting back on her feet, the young man, who had successfully made it through high school and thought his whole life lay before him – how could I see them other than 'humans', how would any other 'label' fit but 'humans'?
Some say: The U.S. was attacked. And to them that is the truth. That was the plan of those who planted those bombs. They wanted to 'attack the U.S.', and sometimes this gives a feeling of satisfaction to people, who do not realise that they are falling for the trap laid out for them by the bomb planters.
No, whatever they tell us or want us to say, it wasn't the U.S. attacked yesterday in Boston but innocent human beings: boys, girls, women and men – humans like you and me. And vice versa it also wasn't 'an Arab' or 'a Muslim' or whoever who planted those horrific bombs, but a coldhearted, pathetic murderer, like you sadly find them in any society around the world. There are murders happening in the Western world by Westerners that, regarding brutality, easily match this bomb attack. Not in numbers, but in ruthlessness. So how can a label of nationality or religion explain anything where inhumane horror is concerned, where we are talking of tearing young children's bodies apart for the sake of power and greed?
We must learn to do away with these labels that never tell us any truths but only help to manifest what the murderers want: That as a human community we fall apart, that our compassion for our fellow humans is halted, that we become divided into labels and camps of 'U.S.' and 'Arabs' and 'Muslims' and 'Christians', of 'Blacks' and 'Whites', of 'good' and 'bad' – into labels of 'them' and 'us' – of 'they' and 'we' – into never making it together.
A mother crying over her bomb torn boy cries the same, whether in Baghdad or Boston. The pain is no different. Why then should we allow the killers, who inflict these pains, to divide us into groups where the same very horrific pain over a dead child becomes a 'their pain' over an 'our pain'? Why play into the hands of those who kill and triumph if we fall for the categories they have decided for a distorted world of hate and power?
It is the categories in our heads that tear us apart. The bombs come later. If we would understand this, there would be no room for smiles, nor now for the fear to learn of the nationality of a bomb planter, of hearing, he might be "one of us", of dreading to "learn how far behind we will fall yet again". Because, no matter what he says and perhaps even believes, he did not plant that bomb as an Arab, or a Muslim, or a Christian, or an American. He planted these bombs as a pathetic, mentally disturbed, sick person full of hatred for himself and others. And he wants us to join him in his madness of thinking so he can feel that he's not alone with his disease.
I won't go along. You were never an Arab to me Nadia, and not a Muslim. You were a human being. The rest was a colourful and wonderful add-on that helps shape your personality. Nothing more. But nothing less. Like my add-ons, you like or dislike. Some we share, some we don't. But your tears are like mine, your smile is too – well, your laughter is a lot louder than mine, I admit it, but hey, there's got to be some difference! – you're a woman, I'm a man, you're a human, and so am I.
If one day – God save us from this – we both should get killed in a bomb blast in a terrorist attack, will you die as an Arab and I as a Westerner? Or won't we both die as the humans we were? Will anyone try to tear us apart even in death, in you 'the good' and me 'the bad' or vice versa? How dare anyone? We are humans. And as such we meet, and if fate wants it, we die.
Let us embrace our heritage, our cultures, our beliefs, our nationalities, as a unique personal gain and a richness of our diverse world. Let us respect and treasure it. But in the end – if we don't remove the labels of otherness from our heads in life and in death we play into the hands of those who plant bombs and horror. And with that we will never be able to stop the terrorists from doing their horrific deeds. Not on the ground. And – much more dangerous – not in our heads.
It's there after all, were the bombs begin.
April 16, 2013
Boston: Where the Bombs Begin
Posted by jonamorem at 8:23 PM
Labels: 9/11, Arabs, bombs, Boston, Christians, compassion, humans, marathon, Muslims, Nadia El-Awady, Westerners
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There are 2 levels of meaning. One where the US/Kurds/Christians/women/Shiite/Jews/etc were attacked for their identities. One where they are attacked for not being soldiers.ReplyDelete
If you remember the 1st level of meaning you're not helping the terrorists, you're hurting them. Because they want to eradicate/marginalize/subjugate people's identities and you're saying "No. We stand in a pluralistic community side-by-side with those identities."
If you TOTALLY forget the 2nd level of meaning, then Yes, you play into the terrorist's hands.
Is not humanity pluralistic? On the logical, indisputable, I think you read into it so much you missed it level?ReplyDelete
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