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Fingers are being pointed to members of the ruling coalition for harbouring terrorists who are killing and maiming innocent people in the name of Islam. With the next general elections in the offing howcapable is the government of carrying out the country's own war on terror?
Ahmede Hussain
November 29. Gazipur courthouse. At around 9:45 a young man, of a small wiry build, walked up the ground floor of Gazipur courthouse with a bag in hand. Within a minute a ball of fire leapt up to the ceiling of the hall building as the man detonated a bomb, killing himself along with seven others. The youth, who was later identified as Abdur Razzak, had made his small grisly place in history as Bangladesh's first suicide bomber.
Within a minute Razzak died and left the trails of his beastly act behind: Lawyers, who were preparing the day's case with their clients, tried to run out of the pandemonium, but their legs seemed to have betrayed them. Some tumbled over the debris; others, with a burned leg or a broken arm, managed through the mayhem. Blobs of flesh were seen on the wall of the room, limbs and body parts of the injured were strewn across the grimy floor amid charred furniture and two twisted ceiling fans.
On that fateful day Mohammad Sultan, a farmer, went to the court to consult his lawyer about a long-standing land dispute case. "I was taking a stroll when I heard a big bang and, turning round, I saw a column of smoke gush out from the library," he says. Sultan left the room only a minute before the blast.
But others were not so lucky. At the entrance to the Chittagong court building Abul Bashar, another suicide bomber, brushed past the doorway where twenty-eight-year old Rajib Barua, a police constable, was getting briefed. A few yards away Bashar blew up a bomb strapped to his thigh: his torso heaved 50 meters up and the lower part of his body turned and twisted by the impact in mid-air as he fell to the ground. The youth, in his late teens, survived for 48 hours but in his way to "martyrdom" killed two and maimed 20 more innocent people.
Of the injured, Rajib Barua is fighting for life in the Chittagong Medical College Hospital. "My son came and told me that he had been posted to Dhaka; I blessed him, wishing every success in his new posting. But how was I to know that something like this was going to happen?" Shimul Barua, Rajib's elderly father says.
No one knows the answer in a country where every ordinary citizen's life is at stake.
Both the attacks bore the hallmarks of Jamiatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB), a banned outfit which wants to establish a Taliban-styled regime in the country. In fact, in a note tucked into his pocket, the Chittagong suicide bomber had described himself as a Fedayee, Arabic for the one who devotes himself to Allah. "It is a primary warning message from a dedicated Mujahideen for the forces deployed for the judges' security. We will continue our Jihadi mission until establishing an Islamic welfare state," the note continued.
The JMB's self-styled spiritual leader Maulana Abdur Rahman, who studied at Medina
University in Saudi Arabia, claims that the outfit was formed in 1998. However, the group came under the spotlight in 2004; the JMB has made three front organisations named Mujaheedin Alliance Council, Islami Jalsha and Muslim Rakkha Mujaheedin Oikko Parishad.
The group reportedly has a three-tier organisation. The first tier, known as Eshar, has an unspecified number of members; Eshars are all full-timers and maintain direct links with the seven-member Majlis-e-Shura (Central committee). The second tier, called Gayeri Eshar, has 10,000 members, Bangla Bhai once claimed in an interview. The lowest tier of the group involves those who indirectly assist the group.
Crippling the country's modern secular judiciary is the so-called JMB's prime objective it seems, for within 48 hours after the gruesome twin bombings, another JMB member was arrested while trying to make his way through the district commissioner's office in downtown Gazipur.
On November 14, two JMB members, in an apparent suicide mission, killed two senior judges in the northern Jhalakathi town. Two months before this ghastly attack on the country's judicial system, "as a warning", the extremist group planted 459 bombs across the country. In a leaflet left near the blast scenes, the group called for a quick establishment of the Sharia law.
It indeed took the government longer than usual to accept the idea that religious extremism does exist in the country. It is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led Four-Party Alliance (FPA) that had been vigorous in denying the presence of zealots in the country. The history of the BNP's denial and a string of unabated extremist activities date
back to March 6, 1999 when first such blast killed 10 cultural activists in Jessore at the annual gathering of the Udichi, a cultural organisation. Since the Jessore blast, the BNP had been rubbishing claims made by local and international media that Islamist outfits were, in fact, engaged in violent activities to usurp the country's democratic polity.
In the run up to the 2001 general elections, bombs ripped through different public places across the country more frequently. Though in its five-year term in the office the Awami League (AL) failed to nab the masterminds behind the blasts, the party leaders laid the blame at the door of the BNP, who formed an alliance with two religious parties, namely Jamaat (JI) and Islamic Oikko Jote (IOJ).
The BNP-led FPA eventually won the elections, and the first blasts in its term took place on December 21, 2002 at four movie theatres in Mymensingh. Khaleda Zia was quick to find the perpetrators: "It is the act of those who are making anti-Bangladesh campaign at home and abroad," she said. The centre of Khaleda's diatribe was AL-chief Sheikh Hasina, who only a few days ago told a European audience in Brussels that sympathisers of Al-Qaeda were ruling Bangladesh.
In fact, up until the Gazipur twin blasts, when it came to curbing extremism the BNP had pursued a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde policy.
The infamous Siddiqul Islam alias Azizur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai who would later unleash a reign of terror in northeastern Bangladesh was arrested once while trying to launch an attack on Topon Poddar, an AL leader. But the thug was subsequently freed and later formed Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), which grouped its members in 10 camps in Baghmara, Raninagar, Naldanga, Singra and Atrai.
Though independent media portrayed the JMJB as the armed wing of the JMB, a section in the government through some state machinery actively supported Bangla Bhai who started to slaughter citizens across the northern and northeastern parts of the country. Noor Mohammad, divisional inspector general of police, told the Daily Star on 4 May 2004, that Bangla Bhai and his men were helping the police maintain law and order. "We have asked different police stations to support them whenever they (JMJB men) go to catch outlaws.
You know that the Shorboharas (left-wing extremists) have been quite active for many years and it is not possible for the undermanned and ill-equipped police force to hunt them down. Aziz is helping us," he said.
BNP's joint secretary of Baghmara unit, Besharat Ullah endorsed the JMJB's killing operations by addressing the JMJB's first public rally.
A part of the BNP-led FPA did not change its unwavering support to the JMJB when newspapers ran gruesome reports carrying photographs of men hanging from a tree upside down, tortured to death by Bangla Bhai's boys. The photographs had prompted the government to launch a mockery of a drive to arrest the infamous operations commander of the JMB. On May 27, 2004, Noagaon police sought the media's support to nab Bangla Bhai. The notorious criminal who had already killed and maimed hundreds, on the other hand, seemed to be readily accessible to the press: in an interview published in local dailies he said that "three ministers and a BNP lawmaker" had assigned him to launch an "anti-outlaw operation" in the northeast.
Such help by the same coteries, in fact, continues even after the JMB has claimed responsibility for countrywide simultaneous blasts. In one instance, on November 27, a desperate deputy minister from Rajshahi, called the police to release Mahtab Ali Khamaru, a JMB cadre, who, according to police sources was behind the killing of three suspected Purba Banglar Communist Party activists. Before his arrest Mahtab had boasted several times to the press that the police would not be able to "keep him for long" as the deputy minister was behind him. His claims have reportedly turned out to be correct. According to newspaper reports, three BNP MPs, Aminul Haque, Fazlur Rahman Potol and Ruhul Kuddus Dulu opposed the police actions against JMJB saying the outfit was on a "pro-people mission" freeing the northern region of left- wing extremists.
The JMJB and JMB activities in the country, meanwhile, continued unabated. On January 30 this year, the groups circulated a leaflet in Rajshahi calling for Muslims to prepare for a holy war. "The groups committed to jihad, like in many other countries, had flourished in Bangladesh as well to fight the conspiracies of Kafirs and to retain the glory of Muslims," the leaflet titled 'Qurbani and Jihad Fi Sabilillah' declared. No one was arrested.
Under increasing pressure from international donors to clamp down on these Jihadi outfits, the government banned the JMB and JMJB on February 23 for engaging in "subversive activities". Muhammad Asadullah al-Ghalib, professor of Arabic at Rajshahi University and a
leader of a shadowy Ahale Hadith Bangladesh, was subsequently arrested. But the spiritual leader of the JMB proved out to be a tough nut to crack: Ghalib did not disclose any significant clue regarding his accomplices; the professor is still in jail. Two photographs of Abdur Rahman, head of the JMB and, and Bangla Bhai were circulated through the media. Though the government has made a promise to give "huge cash rewards" to anyone who can provide the law enforcers with any significant clue regarding these two terrorists, both the men are at large.
Except for providing mere lip service, the government did not take any cut-and-dried step to nip the terror in the bud. On the contrary, five days later the government slapped a ban on the groups, the Daily Star ran an investigative report that exposed another government official's help in JMJB activities. With the help of eyewitness accounts and a special government report it showed that Masud Mia, the superintendent of Rajshahi police, used his office to help Bangla Bhai flee, even after the prime minister herself had ordered his arrest.
The FPA leaders, at the same time, are going on with the same old claptrap. Khaleda Zia in a long-overdue statement has condemned terrorism asking the public not to heed to the zealots. She, however, has got a bunch of colleagues who have earned a good deal of notoriety for coming up with antithetic statements about religious extremism.
"There is a conspiracy going on to prevent Islamic revolution in the name of taming militancy," Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini, a leader of the IOJ, told a public meeting in Mymensingh on August 25, a day after Ghalib was arrested.
"The government has launched the crackdown in line with the US. The main opposition has also provoked the donor agencies to take this anti-Bangladesh and anti-Islamic stance," Mufti Abdur Sattar Akon, a Jamaat MP reacting to the ban imposed on the JMB and JMJB told the Daily Star on the same day.
Akon's boss, the JI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami's stance is even stranger. "Bangla Bhai does not exist in reality, it is a creation of the media," he said when the marauding criminal was butchering people in the name of hunting down left-wing insurgents. Nizami remained the Devil's advocate even after terrorists planted 459 bombs across the country. According to a BBC report he pinned the crime on the Research and Analysis Wing of the Indian Secret Service.
Nizami, who himself actively opposed Bangladesh's liberation war by forming paramilitia Al-Badr, came up with another theory when terror struck in Gazipur. In an in interview with ATN, a local TV channel, Nizami, who is also the Industries Minister, accused the independent media for fomenting terrorism by highlighting incidents of militant activities.
The party summarily denies involvement whenever the press comes up with the JI members' involvement with the JMB; the JI remained silent when newspapers ran Bangla Bhai's interview where he declared that till 1995, he was a member of Islami Chatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of the JI. Ghalib, the militant guru, also turned out to be a former member of the ICS. Newspapers have found Moulana Washiqur Rahman, a Satkhira JI leader, to be a JMB ideologue. Abdul Khaleq Mondal, the JI MP of the area described him as a supporter, but locals beg to differ: "…Rahman, who has been on the run since the countrywide serial blasts, was always the host to militant kingpin Bangla Bhai or other JMB top brass whenever they visited the area… Locals said that Washiqur has a very close personal relationship with the local Jamaat lawmaker and if the people should meet Khaleq Mondal they have to go through Washiqur," the report said.
Local and national BNP leaders, too, cannot avert accusation of indulging the extremists. A few weeks ago the party sacked Abu Hena, an MP elected from Baghmara constituency, for washing the party's dirty laundry out in the open. "Islamic militancy started to spread in Bangladesh soon after Jamaat-e-Islami had come to power, riding on the BNP. The militants in fact did not exist four years ago," Hena has told newspapers. He has categorically named Aminul Haque, the telecommunications minister, as a closet Jamaati, saying some BNP MPs in connivance with the JI and IOJ are helping the militants get a free hand.
Hena's comments have opened a whole new Pandora's Box. Col Oli Ahmed, a former minister and BNP MP, denounced Hena's expulsion, terming it as unfortunate. Mosharraf Hossain, a BNP whip in the parliament, has bombarded the headquarters by describing some of his colleagues in the FPA for acting as JMB's stooges.
In the wake of repeated media reports that the JI and IOJ have links with the militants, the BNP high command has now made it a policy decision to defend the JI. Like the way a zealous mother would guard her peerless scion, the BNP is trying to fend off any possible threat to JI's politics. "Anti-Jamaat forces are planting bombs to undermine the coalition government," Nazmul Huda, senior BNP leader and communications minister, said.
The history of the BNP's reliance on religion as a political tool to woo the masses goes back to its birth. Since its formation the party gave shelter to a wide array of politicians: from dormant fundamentalists to frustrated Maoists, Gen Ziaur Rahman had a place for everyone in his newly founded party. In fact it was Zia who lifted the ban on the JI and like-minded fundamentalist groups, who had been banned for collaborating with Pakistani occupation forces during Bangladesh's liberation war. Zia dumped socialism and secularism from the constitution and harboured religious-- at time fanatical elements-- of the society.
Lt Gen Ershad seized power in a bloodless coup in the aftermath of Zia's death and later formed his own party; Ershad followed Zia's footstep very firmly: whenever the dictator brewed a problem, he resorted to use religion to cling on to power. Ershad made Islam the state religion, and it was during his vile and corrupt rule that Jamaat's call to establish "Allah's law and good people's administration" gained strong foothold in some small pockets in the Bangladeshi hinterland.
In 1991, in the first general elections after the restoration of democracy, the BNP surprised everyone by winning 140 seats. It formed a majority government with the help of the JI. In the run up to the 1996 elections, the JI formed an alliance with the AL to oust the then BNP government. The AL eventually ditched the JI and with everyone fighting their own battle the JI that won 18 seats in 1991 failed miserably to win even the expected number of seats. The BNP, without the help of JI and IOJ, lost a significant number of seats to the AL that later formed the government. As far as the paradigm of votes were concerned, the elections had shown that the BNP would never go to power alone without the help of small fringes of religious parties like Jamaat. Thus a marriage of convenience was formed between the BNP and the JI, both knowing that each of them would be indispensable to the other. In the 2001 general elections the BNP made alliance with the JI and IOJ and their combined alliance got 46 percent of the total vote. In the same elections the AL bagged 41 percent vote, which means if the BNP and the JI fight the next elections alone, chances are high that both the parties will lose a large number of marginal seats to the AL. This equation, along with the government's failure in almost every sector, has made the BNP jittery and puts BNP's apparent goodwill to curb fanaticism into question. With the general elections looming over the horizon only time can tell if the BNP is capable of sincerely curbing religious extremism, an act that may irk its two major allies.
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Finished Death Note: Reporting Back.
Summary for the un-caught up. A handful of commentators recommended the Manga series Death Note. Since this was before we had a Manga reviewer-type (Hey Kethylia) who knows what she's doing, I figured I'd read this and report back, even though Manga ain't usually my beat.
And I liked it a heck of a lot. It was a
Nah, scratch that last article. THE best example of effective plotting I've ever read in comics. The story kept moving, reinventing itself, knocking the feet out from under the characters and laughing, laughing, laughing….
And, yeah, I freaked out like a crazy person at the slightest HINT of spoilers, because I really wanted to see what was next for myself. But now I've polished off the rest of the series and….
Yeah, the commentators were right.
This series got worse in a hurry.
Volumes 7 through 11
See, here's the problem: The first six issues were about the two main characters coming together. They start out not knowing each other, than only knowing each others names, then the plot rushes forward like a freight train and BAM! they meet and they become friends sorta and it all, predictably, ends in handcuffs.
And then came volume seven.
This status quo that had been building and building? Gone. Buh-bye. But that's the sort of thing you expect from Death Note.
Which means that the remaining issues are spent building a new status quo, which could have been fine. Except that the new status quo is really kinda close to the old status quo, but the closeness between the characters that anchored the plot since the beginning was gone, and the charactersare further apart, physically, mentally, spiritually. It feels like a regression. Let's call this BIG PROBLEM A.
We've also got BIG PROBLEM B, which results from BIG PROBLEM A. When you have main characters not really interacting because click for spoilers.
Keep in mind that Death Note is reallly plot dense. Which means that we need a lot of explanation to keep track fo what's going on.
Which means the finished result is a plentitude* of pages of people sitting and talking. We'll call this BIG PROBLEM B. Talking heads work well in comics very, very rarely.
Talking heads in film have the advantage of the actor's body language, rhythm, and inflection. It your screen star is good enough, they can sit there and make it cool. Hell, the right actor can SLEEP cool.
Talking Heads in prose can play around with the language offering more rhythmic options, and it's relatively easy for the prose writer to create narrative asides and scene changes without losing track of the main story. So even if they're not James Joyce the prose writer can keep the reader interested by shifting the scene around.
In comics you got pictures of people talking.
Which gets old after forty-odd pages.
I'm looking at you, beginning of volume 11.
For comics to remain exciting, characters have to be DOING stuff. All. The. Time.
And there was an awful lot of stuff not being done between volumes eight and eleven. The plot doesn't completely fall down but you can feel it teetering under it's own weight. Creeeeeaaaaaaaaaaak.
Which ain't to say that these books are ALL bad. Even "significantly worse," in this context, is still pretty good. Stuff I liked:
Themes: While it's always been fairly clear what the major themes of the series are, Volume 8 moves them from subtext to text as the characters reveal their individual positions on "what's good" and "what's evil" for the first time, and it's interesting stuff. Light argues that his ends justify the means, and that history will judge him favorably. The Click for Spoilers, sensibly don't give a crap about history. There's legal and illegal, right and wrong. It made the world more alive, more real to see that these super genius characters are as aware of the big picture thematic stuff at work in their conflict as us doofus readers.
Misa… Misa Misa Misa. I really did not like Misa. And I posted about it at length last time.** The commentators were split about fifty/fifty with me against Misa and against me with Misa.
But to tell you the truth, I'm starting to warm up to her a little bit.
Let's look at the one scene in the whole damn 12 volume thang I believe I can spoil without ruining major plot-points relating to the rise of Light. That's because this is Misa's scene, start 'ta finish. Misa and Kiyomi Takada – the sorta spokesman for Light's sorta organization are having dinner. They're also both head over heels in love/lust with Light, there's some snappy back and forth and the scene ends with Misa, bottle of wine in hand, leaning back and smiling contentedly.
"Misa wins."
I get it now. While the nature-of-morality stuff is the main attraction, the second big theme is that each character – and please, forgive me for this – reflects Light back at himself. Light and "L" are obviously two sides of the same coin, but Light sees himself through his father's morality, his sister's innocence, Teru's absolute devotion to the cause….
An' so on.
And although I didn't completely grok this the first time, Misa's a reflection too.
"Misa wins."
Her existence isn't defined by loving Light, exactly. it's playing a role, and more than that playing a game. So her life parallells the Light vs. "L" war, except she sees it as Misa vs. the World (or at least the vaginated parts of the world) to hold on to Light, who doesn't really love her. Which, sure, makes her a narrow-minded, immoral bitch. But in Death Notes world of ever-so-slippery morality that's almost like validation.
So I see what Tsugumi Ohba (if that is "her" real name) is doing here. I still say the story could've benefited greatly from less of her.. But them's the breaks.
Volume 12
Was a really solid ending, much better than the last four volumes. But it also got weirdly American.
Well, more similar to American comics artwise. Lemme explain: Like I said in the last go-round, the art from Takeshi Obata was designed to (A) serve the narrative and (B) not to call attention to itself.
Or it WAS.
Until volume 12.
All of a sudden we've got repeated half-page shots of Light wrapped in shadows all hair standing-on-end and cackling evil. All of a sudden 'an for the first time the art is screaming "Pay Attention To MEEEEEEEEEE!" There's nearly full-page shots, panels that aren't aligned at ninety degree angles on the page… All of a sudden we've taken a turn towards Neal Adams.
And it works, mostly. I had problems with the ending, where Click For Spoilers. And, yeah, their were a lot of talking head panels. But those are quibbles in the face of the masterful use of mood and (once again) continually escalating tension as we watch Light…
Nah. That would be telling.
Last Death Note time time I made some predictions. Let's see how I did before I wrap up.
I give myself full marks on (A) and (B). 2 out of ten for (C) and (D), for being technically correct in the meat of both but not really capturing the spirit of what actually happened. (E) I'm giving myself a charitable 4 out of 10 for asking the right question that related back to a major plot development. And, yeah, a big fat goose egg for letter (F).
So 28 out of a possible 60. Pretty freakin' terrible, really. But Death Note is not an easy series to figure out – and I mean that in the best possible way.
Alla this leaves me wondering what I'm going to do between now and when volume 13 comes out, though.
I'd like to read more Manga. I was going to read Tezuka's Buddha, but now I'm committed to reviewing a series that stupid Matt Brady didn't do first. Any recommendations?
* Ha! Had to go to the Thesaurus for that one, but it's a real word and You Don't Know It. Eat it, Windows SpellCheck.
As an upside, Spellcheck doesn't recognize "Spellcheck." So I count this as a victory.
** P.S. Wasn't that feminist criticism? I THINK that was feminist criticism! And if so, who do I have to blow to get linked to by When Fangirls Attack? 🙂
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My grandmother was one of those people who saved wrapping paper and ribbons to use another day. I knew she did it to be thrifty, but I still mentally rolled my eyes every Christmas and birthday as she warned us not to ball up the papers and throw them away.
|Nikki Smith's custom digital art tissue papers.
Of course, I now do this myself. But while thrift plays a role, my real purpose is to use the papers-especially patterned tissue-in art. The problem is, unlike my grandmother who actually used the ephemera again, I have built up an unwieldy stash.
The worst of it is, when I do want to use some of my tissue paper stash, I rarely have exactly what I'm looking for. So I was thrilled to get a sneak peek of the November/December 2012 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors where Nikki Smith writes about how to print your own custom tissue papers using the computer and digital art.
"A terrific technique for getting artwork off of your computer and into the real world is to print your own custom tissue papers. Consider scans of your artwork, digital art, photos, or public domain images from sites like vintageprintable.com for printing images onto tissue.
"The effect is amazing yet it is simple to do. And it opens a world of possibilities for using your own imagery as transparent layers for collage, decoupage, ice resin jewelry, and more," writes Nikki in the ongoing Getting Technical column.
It reminded me of another simple technique for repurposing your artwork via the computer, making packing tape transfers.
How to Make a Packing Tape Transfer
1. Make a toner (not inkjet) copy of your design. I took a digital art print of Nick's drawing of a pear, resized it with my photo-editing software, and printed it out on copy paper.
|Printed drawing covered with tape.
2. Take a piece of packing tape (the clear kind, not the kind with strings in it), and place it over the image you wish to transfer. Burnish the tape onto the image with a bone folder or similar tool (I used the handle of a pair of scissors).
3. Cut out the image. (I made two transfers. In one I cut out around the pear; for the other I cut the entire rectangular image.) Immerse the image in warm water and let sit a few minutes.
4. Remove the image and start rubbing the paper off the back with your thumb or fingers. If it does not start to rub off easily, leave it in the water another minute or so.
5. When all the paper has been rubbed off the back, you should have a see-through transfer. Pat it dry with a paper towel. It will still be a little tacky on the back, so you can stick it on your substrate like that to play around with it, but you may want to add a clear-drying adhesive like gel medium for more permanence. (Also, don't rub the paper towel on the tacky part of the transfer, or you will have to immerse and rub that paper off. I speak from experience.)
You can read all about Nikki's technique in the upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.
Now that I have a way to print exactly the kinds of images I need onto tissue paper, I don't really have to keep adding to my ephemera stash. I can stop any time I want to. Really, I can.
If you want to learn more useful and artistic ways to apply technology to your art, check out the getting technical column. In the coming month, the planned topics are video simplified, adding watermarks and copyrights, clipping images, cloning tool tips, repeating simple backgrounds, and adding texture layers.
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On 8 June 2017 NEGOTIATE researcher Veneta Krasteva took part in the '3rd International Scientific Conference: Knowledge Based Sustainable Economic Development' (ERAZ) held in Belgrade, Serbia. The event was organised by the Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance, Belgrade in collaboration with the Faculty of Business Studies, Mediterranean University – Podgorica, Montenegro; University of National and World Economy – Sofia, Bulgaria; Faculty of Commercial and Business Studies – Celje, Slovenia and the Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans.
Conference ERAZ is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia. The event was attended by researchers from eight countries from different scientific organizations, stakeholders and media.
In the beginning of her presentation Veneta Krasteva has presented NEGOTIATE project – its aims, the main stages of work and consortium members. Leaflets among the guests were distributed.
After that, based on life-course interviews conducted in the framework of NEGOTIATE project, Veneta Krasteva has revealed the subjective experience and perception of job insecurity and unemployment of people from two birth cohorts in Bulgaria, who have entered the labour market in periods of economic crisis. In the text the researcher shows: How the interviewees perceive their own situation and capabilities for action and choice when entering the labour market. The themes discussed in the report were the challenges associated with economic crisis, the impact of education, the role of employers, the importance of gender and the source of support.
A paper: "Early job insecurity and unemployment: a thematic analysis of interviews with two generations in Bulgaria" will be published in the "Proceedings of the Third International Scientific Conference – ERAZ 2017" after peer reviewing.


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Quotes About By Gender Choosing
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.Send Quote
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. ĀI name myself. ĀA gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.Send Quote
One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.Send Quote
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.Send Quote
It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.Send Quote
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.Send Quote
I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward-thinking and progressive people, yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.Send Quote
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.Send Quote
Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.Send Quote
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.Send Quote
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the lawsSend Quote
I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.Send Quote
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.Send Quote
The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.Send Quote
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.Send Quote
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.Send Quote
My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.Send Quote
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.Send Quote
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While war crimes have the Geneva Conventions and international treaties criminalize genocide, torture and slavery, crimes against humanity have no dedicated treaty that prohibits states from committing them. Legal scholars are working to change this, and are in the final drafting stages of an International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity.
In IJT 184, veteran war crimes tribunal journalist and former IJT editor Thierry Cruvellier analyzes the significance of Chadian ex-dictator Hissène Habré's upcoming trial at the Extraordinary African Chambers.
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Sudan's President Bashir gets away again but who looks worse: the ICC or South Africa?
The Islamic State (IS) is perpetuating heinous human rights violations in Iraq and members of the jihadist movement may be guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, says a UN report released last week. Its author, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, recommends Iraq join the International Criminal Court and accept its jurisdiction "over the current situation".
The first trial of a Communist-era prison commander charged with crimes against humanity [IJT-168], in a case the media have dubbed "Romania's Nuremberg", raised great expectations. But after a few months, many people in the country still struggling to reconcile with its past have voiced disappointment.
Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea last week filed appeals against the life sentences that judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) issued in August for crimes against humanity.
For more than a month, former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic has tried to convince judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that he had no actual clout during the war in Croatia and his fiery media appearances during the 1991-1995 conflict were just for show. The last ICTY fugitive to be caught in 2011, Hadzic was prime minister of the Serbian Autonomous Region of Eastern Slavonia and later president of the Republic of the Serbian Krajina.
Last week, Belgium arrested and indicted Liberian Martina Johnson on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for alleged participation in Operation Octopus, a brutal battle for capital city Monrovia in 1992. This is the first-ever indictment for international crimes during the country's first civil war, lasting from 1989 to 1996. Human rights organizations say Johnson was a close confidante of former Liberian president Charles Taylor and served as a general in his National Patriotic Front for Liberia (NPFL).
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are struggling to maintain their case against Kenyan vice president William Ruto and his co-accused, radio broadcaster Joshua Sang. As the evidence continues to dribble away, the defence plans to ask for an acquittal halfway through the trial. Both Ruto and Sang are accused of crimes against humanity committed during the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007 and 2008.
For the first time since the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu a quarter-century ago, a Communist-era prison commander faces charges of crimes against humanity. The landmark trial of Alexandru Visinescu could help Romanians come to terms with their country's totalitarian legacy. Survivors of the grisly Ramnicu Sarat prison in eastern Romania waited for decades to see the former chief appear before judges.
After an initial guilty verdict in August for two former Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of crimes against humanity – and strong admonitions from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)'s appellate judges for its trial chamber to hurry up – substantive hearings are underway in what is known as Case 002/02.


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"The Truth About Cats and Dogs"
Summary: This fic was inspired by a scene from "The Truth About Cats and Dogs". Most of the dialogue (between Angela and Brennan) is from the movie. Everything after Booth enters the story is purely mine….with the exception of Booth of course.
Disclaimer: Of course I don't own anything remotely associated with BONES nor did I have anything to do with "The Truth About Cats and Dogs".
Author's notes: I finally had an opportunity to catch up on some of the really wonderful fics on this site including those that have been submitted for the March CPB challenge. I just couldn't resist joining in since I'm a major movie buff and I had a little bit of free time. Anyway, it's a short, meaningless little story but hopefully amusing. Enjoy.
The mall was extremely crowded as Angela and Brennan struggled to make it toward the makeup and perfume department. Brennan honestly didn't know how her best friend always managed to talk her into these types of outings. The last time she's made a special trip to the mall was to purchase her rather large handgun. She smiled as she recalled Booth's disapproval of her purchase as well as his surprise at the size of the gun. Sometimes size did matter.
Angela grabbed her hand as they entered the department they had been seeking for the last ten minutes.
"Hey what's this? Your palms are sweaty."
"Malls make me nauseous," Brennan stated in a matter of fact tone. She noted that Angela didn't bother to let go of her hand despite her proclamation of its sweatiness. The artist must have sensed her desire to bolt from the crowd.
"I did that facial reconstruction for you instead of going on my date," Angela reminded her.
"Yes, you did and you did a brilliant job." Perhaps flattery would make her change her mind about this whole makeover idea.
Angela smiled at her knowing full well what her friend was attempting to do. "Bren, you and I combined, we make the perfect woman."
Brennan rolled her eyes and allowed her friend to pull her towards the makeup counter. "No, Ange, you and I combined make the perfect political prisoner. What we really do well is act self-righteous and starve."
Angela chose to ignore her friend's last comment and smiled at the attractive saleswoman behind the counter.
"Hi," she said before turning to stare at Brennan's face for a moment. "Okay, we need the Spring Bride blush and the Absentia pore minimizer."
Brennan rolled her eyes again and turned to face the saleswoman. "I'd actually like a pore maximizer if you have one, because sometimes you just want to put loose change somewhere…or keys." She smiled at her own joke as Angela shook her head.
The saleswoman did not appear amused as she moved to another area to find the items that Angela requested.
"There's an art gallery in Riverside that wants to display a few pieces of my artwork," she said as she stared in a mirror sitting on the counter and smoothed a stray hair. "They've asked me to bring some of my work by the gallery tomorrow for them to see."
"That's so cool." Brennan smiled at her friend, genuinely happy for her. "That's great Ange."
"Would you come over later and help me decide which paintings I should take tomorrow?"
"Yeah, of course I will."
Angela picked up a small jar from the counter and sniffed the contents as the saleswoman approached them again. "This is really nice but it's a little bit smelly."
"We also have this new face cream that neutralizes the free radicals that attack the skin," the saleswoman informed them as she held up a rather expensive looking bottle. "Let me ask you," she continued as she stared at Brennan, "what's your skin regime?"
Brennan frowned and stared back at the saleswoman. "My regime?"
"Mmm-hmmm," the saleswoman smirked.
"The regime from which the radicals are trying to get free? Are we selling face cream or staging a coup?" she questioned as she glanced at the bottle in the saleswoman's hands. The woman was giving her yet another reason to hate the mall.
The saleswoman continued to be unimpressed with Brennan's sarcasm as she placed a large mirror on the counter in front of the anthropologist. "Let me show you something."
Brennan stared at her reflection and squinted, which was unnecessary since every flaw and every pore on her face had been magnified hundreds of times over.
"Do you see how dry and discolored you are?" the saleswoman continued as Brennan squinted even harder. Of course she was dry and discolored, she silently reasoned. She didn't take the time to use moisturizer while she was uncovering human remains in mass graves. "Do you see the irreversible sun damage? You haven't been taking care of your skin and it's only going to get worse."
Thirty minutes and one failed makeover later, Angela sat next to Brennan in the shoe department and watched helplessly as her friend cried.
"God, I can't believe it," Brennan said as she sat up straight and sniffled. "I can't believe I let her do this to me. I know exactly what she was doing." She couldn't believe she was sitting in the mall crying over a bad makeover and the purchase of several makeup and skin regime products. The saleswoman reminded her of some of the cruel girls she'd endured during her high school years. The woman's sales technique had hit a sore spot with Brennan, making her feel like an awkward teenager all over again. At the moment all she wanted to do was remove the massive amount of gunk from her face.
"Do you have a tissue?" she asked Angela.
"I think she might have put one in the bag with your gift with purchase," Angela said guiltily as she reached for the large shopping bag at Brennan's feet. The day at the mall was supposed to be fun, not cause her best friend to have a breakdown.
Brennan took a deep breath as Angela handed her the tissue. "Men don't go around buying all this expensive crap hoping women will want them you know." She waved the tissue around to emphasize her point. "If I was a guy, women would be lining up to go out with me. I'm smart, have a good sense of humor and I make a great living."
"I'd fuck ya," Angela joked with a smile.
Brennan smiled slightly and tried to wipe some of the makeup from her face. "Thank you honey, I know you would."
"Talk about walking in on a conversation at the wrong time," Booth chuckled as he approached them. His amusement was put on hold when he spied mascara streaked on Brennan's face, indicating that she had been crying.
"Hey Bones, what's wrong?" He took a seat next to his partner, sandwiching her between Angela and himself.
"What are you doing here Booth?" she asked as she sniffled again.
"It's a mall Bones; I'm shopping. Would you like to tell me why you have all that crap on your face?"
"Angela and I were shopping at the makeup counter and the saleswoman…"
"You listened to some saleswoman who works for a commission?" he interrupted. What on earth would possess someone with Brennan's beauty and brains to buy into a sales pitch at a makeup counter? He took the tissue from her hand and gently began to wipe the bright red lipstick from her lips. "Bones, do you remember when I told you that you're well structured?"
Brennan nodded as Angela leaned toward the couple, her interest piqued. It was funny that her best friend had never mentioned that conversation to her.
"Someone as well structured as you doesn't need all of this expensive crap covering her face," he continued as he used the tissue to wipe some of the Spring Bride blush from her cheeks. "Okay?"
Booth leaned down and picked up the shopping bag. "Come on, let's return this and I'll take you both for some ice cream."
He stood and started toward the makeup counter while Brennan composed herself.
"Hey Bren, you know how you said if you were a guy you would have women lining up to date you?"
"Yeah, so?" Brennan frowned at her friend as she stood and wiped more of the blush from her cheeks.
"Sweetie, you don't need a line of men waiting to date you. You've got Booth."
Brennan rolled her eyes, now highlighted by dark eyeliner and grey eye shadow. "Angela, the next time we come to the mall together, it had better be to purchase another gun."
Angela laughed as her friend moved past her to join Booth. "Say what you want Bren, but I'm not the only one who'd…you know." She winked at Brennan and whistled.
Brennan closed her eyes and shook her head at Angela's train of thought. "You're not getting any ice cream."
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I consider teaching to be an honor and a privilege. University faculty meet and work with students in their transformative years as they step into adulthood, and consequently, I believe that the hours spent in the classroom and in office hours are much more than simply instruction time. They are opportunities to enthuse and engage students in their own transformation and to encourage them to think critically about themselves and the world that they inhabit.
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GST techniques advance my work with all the dancers I see. There is something very unique and different about GST and it works better than any other things I have tried!
My body felt stronger and balanced after just one session. As an Osteopath and a physician I have to say Anna Rahe's knowledge of the human physique and physiology is superb.
With over 30 years of extensive diverse studies, I can say with confidence that GST is by far one of the leaders in the body care and wellness field. I have personally experienced profound body changes and see these in my patients as well. GST works synergistically with every other body care method. I even find that GST enhances my work and reduces a patient's needs for adjustments.
I hurt my back repeatedly. I also struggled with debilitating headaches I attributed to my deafness (the result of a viral infection I had when I was 10) that also affected my balance and coordination. I sought to alleviate my back pain by following my wife's suggestions that I try Pilates. For fourteen years I exercised twice a week with Pilates. It kept my back problems at bay, and I felt stronger but saw no improvement with my headaches and coordination. After studying GST I rarely, if ever, have headaches any more. My balance and coordination is remarkably better than it has ever been—opposite to what usually happens at my age. I was also able to find my body's own rhythm, something I had lost, along with my semi-professional career as a cellist, because of my degenerative hearing.
GST transformed my body and changed my life. Although I had been physically active for many years, first as a semi-professional martial artist and then as an actress, my body problems had taken their toll. I had issues walking, sitting and standing and eventually had to have 2 hip replacements. Because of my challenging frame, joint problems, back issues and a couple of bio-mechanical hip joints, it was difficult for me to exercise and rehabilitate. I have seen of all kinds of professionals and body workers over the years. Most have tended to work on me rather than with me. Anna Rahe truly partnered with me in my healing process, and together, through GST bodywork and movement technique, we created the pathway for me to reclaim my body and the miracles that lie within
"I started my GST journey 90 days ago because of excruciating back pain from disc bulges in my lumbar spine that had debilitated me for over a year. Not only was the pain relieved within a week, GST has transformed the way I hold and move my body, the way I stand, sit, walk and work out. I have a different body today."
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text: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Nemanja Calasan, Keaton Grant and E'Twaun Moore stepped up at critical times to help Purdue rally past Indiana State, 71-60, in men's college basketball action at Mackey Arena on Saturday. The Boilermakers were without spark plug Chris Kramer, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard. Kramer suffered a concussion in Tuesday night's loss to Clemson. Purdue (4-1) will get another test from an in-state rival on Wednesday, when the Boilermakers host Ball State (7 p.m., Big Ten Network). Indiana State drops to 3-3. Indiana State led Purdue by seven points early in the second half and owned a 54-50 lead with 8:43 left in the game when the Boilermakers woke up to steamroll the Sycamores. Grant hit a pair of 3s and a fastbreak basket to go on a personal 8-0 run. Grant's run ignited what would become a 19-2 spurt. During that stretch, the Purdue defense chopped down the Sycamores, forcing five turnovers along with 1-of-8 shooting in a span of 12 possessions. In that stretch, the Sycamores hurt themselves with misfires on three one-and-bonus situations. Calasan ended up with 16 points to lead Purdue. Moore, who kept Purdue in it by scoring the Boilermakers' first eight points of the second half, finished with 12 points. Grant scored 11 and the Valparaiso double-barreled assault team of Robbie Hummel and Scott Martin scored 10 points each. Harry Marshall led Indiana State with 20 points, and Isiah Martin scored 14 for the Sycamores. "I think it's important that other guys step up," Purdue coach Matt Painter said of his team responding to a challenge with Kramer sidelined. "You know what excites me the most is Keaton Grant stepped up again and wanted the basketball. "He is a guy that hasn't scored a lot of points, but in two games when the chips were down, he stepped up and wanted the basketball. He took good shots there, and that's something I keep telling him, to be aggressive but take good shots." Grant said that Painter let the Boilermakers have it at halftime after they lost a 10-point lead and trailed going into the locker room, 37-35. "It was an intense speech, and that's the thing that woke us up," Grant said. "(Coach Painter) woke us up at halftime, knowing that we weren't playing to our capability. We were getting passive on defense. We had to step up definitely on defense, and that's one thing he definitely said. "I think we're learning," Grant continued. "We're so young. We're going to get it corrected. We just have to bring more intensity from the get-go." Calasan gave Purdue a huge boost of intensity off the bench. "I missed Chris a lot," Calasan said of the team playing without Kramer, whose status is questionable for the Ball State game. "He's always out there fighting. He is the hardest fighter on the team. "We miss him, but I think we did a good job. I think I need to be one of the leaders and fire up the team a little bit. I need to play with aggressiveness and put some fire into the team." Indiana State coach Kevin McKenna saw his gutty team battle Purdue fiercely until the final stretch. "I thought our guys competed 34, 35 minutes of the game, and then we let down just a little bit defensively," McKenna said. "Against a good team, a talented team that plays a complete game, it's tough to overcome that. Give a lot of credit to their team. They have very good young players and they're talented and they keep coming at you. I'm proud of our effort for the most part, but we just let down at the end." INDIANA STATE (3-3): Arnold 3-5 0-1 7, Martin 7-11 0-1 14, Moore 3-9 1-2 8, Stinson 3-5 0-0 7, Carter 0-3 0-0 0, Holmstrom 0-3 0-0 0, Lee 0-1 0-0 0, Marshall 6-11 7-9 20, McCoy 1-4 2-2 4, Tunnell 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-53 10-15 60. PURDUE (4-1): Johnson 3-8 0-1 6, Hummel 4-7 1-2 10, Grant 4-5 0-0 11, Martin 4-11 0-0 10, Moore 4-11 2-4 12, Crump 2-6 0-0 4, Green 0-3 2-5 2, Calasan 6-10 4-5 16. Totals 27-61 9-17 71. Halftime -- Indiana State 37-35. 3-Point Goals -- Indiana St. 4-15 (Stinson 1-1, Arnold 1-2, Moore 1-2, Marshall 1-5, Carter 0-1, Holmstrom 0-2, McCoy 0-2), Purdue 8-17 (Grant 3-4, Moore 2-4, Martin 2-4, Hummel 1-1, Crump 0-1, Calasan 0-1, Green 0-2). Fouled Out -- None. Rebounds -- Indiana St. 31 (Arnold 7), Purdue 40 (Moore 8). Assists -- Indiana St. 12 (Moore, Stinson 3), Purdue 17 (Moore 5). Total Fouls -- Indiana St. 19, Purdue 18. A -- 14,077. -- 14,077.


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I believe in going to college. I think college is an important step in life that, for most people, helps you get ahead. I have seen the difference between people who do go to college and people who do not go to college. My mom is a college graduate and she has a steady job that will help her up until she retires. My dad, on the other hand did not graduate college and although he has been successful in his life, he does not have a steady job. My parents are the main people in my life who have pointed out how it is to my advantage to go to college. My dad has also said he regrets his decision to quit college. That is why in my family, everyone is basically required to go to college. I realize that some people can not afford college, especially with how expensive it has gotten, but they have ways to help you pay for it. That is part of the reason I believe in college, it gives positive effects and there are not many reasons someone is not able to go. One reason why I picked college as something to write about for my belief is because in a year or two I will have to start getting ready for the whole college process. Also my brothers have found colleges that suit them and they are thriving. My sister is still trying to pick the perfect college that will suit her and help her for the next four years. College gives you an amazing opportunity and there are so many different options to choose from, even more so than high school. You pick what kind of job you want to have and in that specific area you can take classes that interest you more than just normal required classes. Not only does college give you a great education but it also prepares you for real life and it gives you a chance to live on your own. Overall I believe that college helps people in their lives and it sets them up for success. I think everyone should try to further their education and go to college, it will benefit them later on in life.
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Rec 1 training focuses on introducing brand new divers to the in-water skills similar to that of Essentials of Recreational Diving from the very beginning of their dive training. This will include proper balance and trim, precise buoyancy control, propulsion (frog, helicopter, back kicks), controlled descents and ascents, gear manipulation, regulator manipulation (s-drills) and smb deployment. It also introduces team diving procedures and protocols.
Rec 1 trains the non-certified diver in the foundational skills at the Essentials level, capitalizing on the law of primacy. It focuses on the fun of underwater exploration while teaching safe diving practices and solid foundational skills while also emphasizing safety and respect for the marine environment.
This class doesn't just certify divers. It creates safe, confident, comfortable divers who are able to plan, execute and enjoy their own dives and underwater explorations and adventures to depths up to 60' using a single tank of air.
Who is this class designed for?
Anyone who wants to experience our amazing underwater world. Rec 1 is conducted in a friendly learning environment where new divers will learn from the very beginning the foundation of UTD configuration and UTD philosophy similar to that learned in Essentials of Recreational Diving. The class is designed for the non-certified diver who wants to learn team recreational diving from the start. In other words those who want to become a recreational diver (single tank, no decompression diving) and want to apply the UTD principles into their recreational diving practices to increase both safety and fun.
Sounds like a bit more than you want? Check out our Open Water class,and feel free to contact us. We're happy to provide more information to help you make a decision that best suits your goals.
Why take this class?
The Rec 1 class focuses on the foundational skills of recreational diving using the building block approach. Many aspiring recreational divers want to begin their diving career with a solid foundation and also ensure the skills and knowledge they learn now will be consistent with their future training and equipment needs and desires.
Rec 1 introduces the skills taught in the Open Water class, but also introduces and incorporates team diving skills and protocols, more precise buoyancy control and multiple propulsion techniques and SMB deployment, similar to Essentials.
In short, Rec 1 can be viewed as a combination of Open Water and Essentials of Recreational Diving. The result is a highly trained, competent diver with an understanding of team diving from the start of his/her diving career.
Class Information
The UTD Recreational 1 course is normally conducted over a 5-6 day period, and cumulatively involves a minimum of 50 hours of instruction designed to provide an introduction to the UTD/Hogarthian equipment configuration, basic scuba diving physics and physiology, minimum decompression, including history of decompression and practice, physics, physiology, tables, and operational considerations including situational awareness and understanding the scuba environment. The in-water skills will be first conducted in a confined water environment prior to entering the open water. These skills will include, but not limited to, snorkeling techniques, buoyancy, trim, propulsion, basic 6, air sharing and valve management.
All UTD/FKD classes are videotaped for educational and review purposes only as we believe this is invaluable for students to visually focus on their individual in-water skills, situational awareness, communication, and team diving. Learning to self evaluate is an important aspect of the class. You will be evaluated during the class to obtain the UTD "Recreational 1" certification. This certification will allow you to scuba dive unassisted by an instructor or divemaster within your certification limitations and to continue within the UTD Recreational training curriculum.
Our focus is the complete dedication to your diving skills, knowledge & in water practice.
Minimum 16 years of age
Overview/Course limits
Maximum depth is 60'
All dives are to maintain a working PO2 of no greater than 1.4
Standard gas is air
Single tank configuration
No stage decompression
No overhead environments
Long hose primary, and necklace style backup regulator hose configuration
Instructor to student ratio maximum 6:1 in open water, adjusting downward for environmental conditions.
Complete the UTD academic materials (online or book)
All UTD classes are non-smoking
The use of prescription drugs must be authorized prior to the onset of diver training by a physician
Must be able to swim a distance of at least 50 feet/15 meters on a breath hold
Must be able to swim at least 300 yards/275 meters in less than 14 minutes without stopping
Required Equipment
See our Equipment Requirements Page for Essentials of Recreational Diving
Rentals are available for most equipment. If you have any questions on equipment requirements or rentals, please contact us prior to registering.
Course requirements include 10 hours of academics and 6 hours of confined water work, 8 dives, 2 of which will be experience dives as defined in the UTD standards and procedures.
The initial 2 dives will be conducted in water no deeper than 30 feet (9 meters) to evaluate the diver's ability and to transition from the pool to the open water environment while still maintaining the required skill levels.
The last two dives are to be at depth for experience, within the certification limits of the class.
Recreational Diver 1 (Rec 1) course is one of two entry level classes we offer (the other being Open Water). It's designed to teach non-certified divers the wonders of diving. UTD's Rec 1 class builds a solid diving platform using the law of primacy as the greatest teaching tool.
This extensive class is designed to prepare divers for recreational diving using proper equipment, diving techniques and safety procedures by introducing basic scuba diving theory, knowledge, equipment configuration, dive skills and emergency procedures, allowing each student to see the big picture while they learn to think in the water.
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Every time Steve Gauck scouts the Soybean Watch '17 field, he encounters a situation where he needs to confirm what he is seeing. So he pulls the Purdue University Corn & Soybean Field Guide out of his back pocket. He still relies on the original print version. The Purdue Crop Diagnostic Training and Research Center publishes a new version of this popular guide each year, typically appearing in midwinter.
"It's a good way to be more certain about what I am finding in the field," Gauck says. "Both pictures and descriptions of insects, diseases and other situations in the book make it easier to figure out what's going on. When you have the pictures and details right there in the field while you are looking at the insect or problem, it's a lot easier than sending the specimen off or trying to identify it later."
Gauck is a sales agronomist for Beck's, based near Greensburg, Ind. Beck's is the sponsor of Soybean Watch '17.
On one visit to the field, Gauck noticed a few adult beetles on plants. There weren't enough to cause issues, but he wanted to identify which beetles he was finding. He pulled out the guide.
He determined there were both Mexican bean beetle adults and bean leaf beetle adults in the field. Mexican bean beetles aren't as common but can be found in some fields. The larva is easily recognized because it has a soft body. The adult resembles more of a common beetle.
TINY PEST: Steve Gauck used the Purdue guide to identify this insect as an adult Mexican bean beetle.
According to the Purdue guide, adult Mexican bean beetles are round with copper-colored wings featuring 16 black spots. They can skeletonize leaves by feeding, and can also feed on pods. The guide notes that they can continue feeding all the way to harvest. Mexican bean beetle feeding on leaves would seldom approach the threshold for spraying, Gauck says.
Bean leaf beetles can be yellow, tan or red, according to the guide. They have a distinct, triangular black mark behind the head and between the wing covers. You may find bean leaf beetles that don't have black spots on their wing covers.
If pod feeding reaches 5% of marketable pods and 10 or more beetles are present per foot of soybean row, it may pay to spray for these beetles. That means careful scouting needs to continue all the way to harvest, Gauck says.


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India - Import Requirements and DocumentationIndia - Import Requirements
Import licensing requirements:
In the last decade, India has steadily replaced licensing and discretionary controls over imports with deregulation and simpler import procedures. The majority of import items fall within the scope of India's EXIM Policy regulation of Open General License (OGL). This means that they are deemed to be freely importable without restrictions and without a license, except to the extent that they are regulated by the provisions of the Policy or any other law.
Imports of items not covered by OGL are regulated, and fall into three categories: banned or prohibited items, restricted items requiring an import license, and "canalized" items importable only by government trading monopolies and subject to Cabinet approval regarding timing and quantity.
The following are designated import certificate issuing authorities (ICIA):
The Department of Electronics for import of computer and computer related systems
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion for organized sector firms except for import of computers and computer based systems
The Ministry of Defense for defense related items
The Director General of Foreign Trade for small-scale industries not covered in the foregoing.
Capital goods can be imported with a license under the Export Promotion Capital Goods plan (EPCG) at reduced rates of duty, subject to the fulfillment of a time-bound export obligation. The EPGC plan now applies to all industry sectors. It is also applicable to all capital goods without any threshold limits, on payment of a 5% customs duty.
A duty exemption plan is also offered under which imports of raw materials, intermediates, components, consumables, parts, accessories and packing materials required for direct use in products to be exported may be permitted free of duty under various categories of licenses. For the actual user, a non-transferable advance license is one such license. For those who do not wish to go through the advance-licensing route, a post-export duty-free replenishment certificate is available.
Advance License: An advance license is issued to allow duty free import of inputs, which are physically incorporated in the export product (making normal allowance for wastage). In addition, fuel, oil, energy, catalysts etc. that are consumed in the course of their use to obtain the export product, may also be allowed under the plan.
Duty free import of mandatory spares up to 10% of the CIF value of the license, which are required to be exported/ supplied with the resultant product, may also be allowed under Advance License.
Advance license can be issued for:
Physical exports: An advance license may be issued for physical exports to a manufacturer exporter or merchant exporter tied to supporting manufacturer(s) for import of inputs required for the export product.
Intermediate supplies: An advance license may be issued for intermediate supply to a manufacturer- exporter for the import of inputs required in the manufacture of goods to be supplied to the ultimate exporter/deemed exporter holding another Advance License.
Deemed exports: An advance license can be issued for deemed exports to the main contractor for import of inputs required in the manufacture of goods to be supplied to the categories mentioned in paragraph 8.2 (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (i), and (j) of the Policy. An advance license for deemed exports can also be availed by the sub-contractor of the main contractor to such project provided the name of the sub-contractor(s) appears in the main contract. Such license for deemed export can also be issued for supplies made to United Nations Organizations or under the Aid Program of the United Nations or other multilateral agencies and paid for in foreign exchange.
Import Declaration: Importers are required to furnish an import declaration in the prescribed bill of entry format, disclosing full details of the value of imported goods.
Import Licenses (if applicable): All import documents must be accompanied by any import licenses. This will enable the customs to clear the documents and allow the import without delay.
Ex-factory invoice, freight and insurance certificates: These must be attached so that the customs can verify the price and decide on the classification under which the import tariff can be calculated.
Letter of Credit (L/C): All importers must accompany a copy of the L/C to ensure that payment for the import is made. Normally this document is counter-checked with the issuing bank so that outflow of foreign exchange is checked.
Not all consignments are inspected prior to clearance, and inspection may be dispensed with for reputable importers. In the current customs set-up, an appointment with the clearing agents for clearance purposes will avoid delays. In general, documentation requirements, including ex-factory bills of sale, are extensive and delays are frequent.
Clearance delays cost time and money, including additional detention and demurrage charges, making it more expensive to operate and invest in India. For delayed clearances, importers seek release of shipments against a performance bond; furnishing a bank guarantee for this purpose is a more expensive proposition. Customs have recently extended operations to 24 hours a day to ensure timely clearance of export cargo.
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