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3D, 4D and Theology
Jun 21, 2016
Peter Enns blogged recently about the task of Biblical Scholars, which he identifies as trying to find the best narrative which explains all of the evidence (in this case the narratives of the Bible), and I warmed to that – after all, this is what I do as a scientist (originally a Physics degree, now doing some occasional part time research in Chemistry) and is part of what I did as a lawyer when doing court work, particularly in criminal defence. He particularly likened his work to putting together a jigsaw, where perhaps 200 or so pieces are there out of a 1000 piece jigsaw, with some pieces which do not obviously seem to go together.
The thought which immediately sprang to mind was "But what if there are pieces from more than one jigsaw there?" That is something which has in fact happened to me a number of times, usually when there are just a few pieces which have strayed from another puzzle into this one, but occasionally when two or more puzzles have become completely mixed.
What, say, if the pieces were of a three-dimensional jigsaw, but we were interpreting them as only pieces of a two dimensional puzzle? What if they were indeed two dimensional representations of the same thing, but from a number of completely different directions?
Again, what if they were an attempt to combine several images into one, which would not make much sense as a two dimensional graphic unless you realised what was being attempted, as in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude descending a staircase", which looks to combine several viewpoints in space and in time.
Has this, I wondered, happened with the Bible? Of course, the standard conservative hermaneutic demands that the whole text, Old and New testaments, is all divinely inspired and is telling a single consistent story. Though most will say that they don't hold to a theory of divine dictation, that is effectively what they end up with. This looks to me very much like deciding from the beginning that there is only one picture here. John Wesley, for instance, said that we must not "fragmentise" our study of scripture. "When a verse seems contrary to the overarching biblical message, we must look at the verse in question macrocosmically rather than microcosmically". Was he right?
Slightly less conservative scholars will readily concede that the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) are composed of a mosaic of texts composed at different times by different people with different agendas and which therefore reveal significantly different viewpoints. The documentary hypothesis, for instance, sees four major strains of thinking, and indeed several different conceptions of God. However, most scholars take the view that, underlying this, there is actually only one God at work throughout this collection of texts. Where there are different concepts of God (the Jahvist and Elohist traditions, for instance) they are just different views of one YHVH/Elohim deity.
There are, of course, a lot of themes in the Hebrew Scriptures. The dominant one is probably the redemption of Israel from slavery and return to the promised land, but there is also a strong narrative of prophetic challenge to kingly authority, God -v- mundane rulers, an increasing insistence on monotheism to the exclusion of "other gods" (OK, conservatives will try to tell me that the scriptures are monotheistic from the start, but that is not borne out by the text), and there's a narrative of sin (usually collective sin) and how to make ones self right with God again. There are others, but these are probably the principal ones.
On to the New Testament, and the vast majority of scholars (and particularly those who are primarily theologians rather than biblical historians) are looking for a single narrative of the purpose of Jesus; many if not most will then refer this back to the Hebrew Scriptures and principally use them as a foundation for their NT work, seeing the themes of the NT prefigured in them. Most will acknowledge that the Fourth Gospel has a viewpoint radically different from the three synoptic gospels and that Paul and the author of James have significantly different stresses, but there is still a strong theological urge to find the same message in each strand, an underlying theory of what it was (or is) that Jesus did for us.
But what if there is more than one thing which Jesus did, more than one way in which he was significant which is of importance, and those things are not obviously connected except in the person of Jesus?
Some while ago I wrote a post titled "God: WTF?", in which I suggested that the only appropriate response to peak mystical experience was something like "WTF?"; it is just too overwhelming and multi-faceted to make it susceptible to description (and the best attempts are wildly poetic rather than coldly analytic). The more I read of the New Testament writers, the more I think that they were struggling with the question "Jesus: WTF?". At the most basic level, they knew he had lived, taught, healed, gathered a following, died and had then become alive again to some of his followers in some sense, and they knew that he was important. That is to say "IMPORTANT!". Some of them experienced him as being present to them in, so far as I can understand it, much the same way as that in which I think of God as being present to me in peak mystical events – Paul and John, at least, are identified by F.C. Happold as "Christ-mystics", and I agree; quite some number started to include him as a figure of worship.
It was not, however, sufficient to say "come and follow Jesus; this is what he said we should do"; they had to make sense of what they experienced about him. Starting with Paul, all the NT writers wrote using the vocabulary of talking about God which they had available, which was mostly the Hebrew Scriptures – and they mined every area of those in which they thought they could find an analogy to Jesus or a new way of considering his importance.
He needed to be like Moses, so he was saving his followers from some form of slavery, variously the Devil, or Sin, or the Romans. He needed to be like Elijah, so he was prophetic and worked miracles (a very similar set of miracles). He had died voluntarily at the hands of the occupying power, faithful to the last, like the Maccabean martyrs, so his death was an atonement, and was a substitution (the Maccabean martyrs arguably saved many others from death by their actions, and in dying they could be thought to suffer the death or failure to remain faithful – which in Judaism is often regarded as much the same thing – which may otherwise have come upon many Israelites).
He needed to be kingly, as being the Messiah, so naturally acquired titles similar to those of Caesar (for instance, Son of God), and he needed to be more universal than even Caesar, so gentiles and Jews both had to be included. He also needed to be priestly, so the author of Hebrews reinterpreted him as ascending to make an ultimate sacrifice (of himself) in the imagined heavenly Temple. As a sacrifice, he needed to recall the passover, so he was the passover lamb, but he also needed to recall the Feast of Atonement, so he was the Yom Kippur goat – or, actually, he was both of the Yom Kippur goats, the one which was ritually sacrificed and the one which bears all the sins of the people and is driven out of the assembly.
Out of all these different perspectives, theologians starting with Paul have tried to construct a coherent single message. As one might have predicted of an attempt (inter alia) to make Jesus simultaneously into one lamb and two goats, sacrificed for two different reasons on two different occasions (and surviving in the case of one goat), the result either forces pieces of the picture into a scheme they don't fit into, or ends up as initially confusing as Duchamp's nude, or both.
And yet, and yet… look at the statement I highlighted in yellow above. I am clearly there putting forward a theory of Jesus, even though it's a severely stripped down one (there are a lot of pieces I have left out…). We are, I think, inevitably going to do this, and the most I can ultimately ask is that we exercise a little humility and accept that there may be other ways of fitting the pieces together, other pictures which can be reached.
Back to the Hebrew Scriptures and the concept of God. The Hebrew Scriptures conceived of God in a lot of ways, and strict monotheism wasn't the start point. There's strong evidence that YHVH started off as a purely national god of the Israelites (consider all the references to "other gods") and became a conflation of YHVH and Elohim, YHVH being a god of wrath and war, Elohim being much more of a creator and sustainer. The writers moved on to thinking of God as supreme among other gods (henotheism), and finally to God as the only deity – "Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one".
They didn't, however, conceive of God in the same way as the Greek philosophers, for whom God was much more like an abstract principle. Some of this way of thinking crept in to the NT writers, particularly John, whose first chapter (so far as I can see) lifts a huge amount of thinking from Philo of Alexandria's attempt to synthesise Greek philosophy with the Hebrew Scriptures (look in particular at Philo's conception of "Logos", otherwise "Word"). For the Hebrews, God was very much a personal God (and a national one, as Israel were the "chosen people"), for the Greeks the ultimate God was far beyond personality (the philosophers had largely dispensed with the very personal pantheon of Greece a long time previously to Aristotle, to whom I link – note that this kind of thinking looks a lot like the later thinking of Christian theologians).
Are these different concepts actually just different views of the same [ ] (to avoid any label at all)? Well, this is not a dead issue, as witness the suggestions recently that the God of Islam is not the same God as the God of the Bible. Judaism, of course, moved steadily in the direction of categorising other gods as false, and eventually demonic. So, largely, did Christianity, save that in Western Christianity a very large number of saints seem to resemble remarkably local and tribal gods.
In this area, I have taken the view that yes, there is One God (my peak mystical experience does not admit of its source being other than all-encompassing) and that this is the foundation of all mystical experiences in multiple religious traditions, for which insight and argument I am indebted to F.C. Happold. I am therefore committed to there being a single underlying reality, and thus in some way, the different ways in which mystics of varying religious traditions have talked of God must in some way be different images of the same God, however difficult this is to understand.
I gave up the concept of syncretism (trying to meld together a set of different viewpoints) many years ago – the result tended to look too much like Duchamp's painting, confusing and inadequate at best unless and until you got the trick of looking at it, and not really representing any single viewpoint adequately. I am, however, increasingly coming to the view that Christianity in and of itself is already trying to meld viewpoints which are not so much inconsistent as just looking at things from totally different standpoints (and that Judaism before it was also trying to do that, with slightly fewer viewpoints).
So, to theologians, I suggest that for any problem, no matter how complex, there is a simple, understandable solution.
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Interview with Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) expert Ms Asha Kambon
Ms Asha Kambon was the lead consultant for the ILO led Employment, Livelihoods & Social Protection (ELSP) assessment of the Fiji Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA). She is one of 3 developers of the PDNA methodology in the world. She speaks to ILO about her recent experience in Fiji and provided a technical insight into the methodology and principles.
Q: Please give us a short brief on your professional background.
I have spent about 20 years working at the United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America in the Caribbean, and it was during that period that we developed the methodology for the macro-socio economic assessment of disasters. I was privileged to be part of the team who worked in the development of the methodology and also the execution of it in different parts of the world.
Q: When did the PDNA start, what was its duration and which international organizations participated in this PDNA Assessment?
The period under which the PDNA has been conduct is 15 days. The three main partners who supported the government in undertaking the PDNA came from the World Bank, the European Commission and the - United Nations Development Group (UNDG). The UNDGs brings together all the various UN agencies such as the ILO to be partners in supporting government in order to undertaking the PDNA.
The PDNA was supposed to get off the ground on the 29th of March with the collection of data, and a draft document was supposed to be ready around the 19th of April for presentation to the Permanent secretary, and that apparently took place on April 20th. This morning, there will be a second presentation to the Minister with responsibilities on natural disaster and they will then work on the recovery framework.
Q: This is the first time that ILO and UNDP and World Bank worked together on a PDNA in Fiji. What are your impressions?
I think this was a very good process of bringing together the ILO, the UNDP and the World Bank to work on the PDNA. I think ILO came in as a strong partner because such a significant proportion of the population of Fiji is involved in economic activities. Although, a significant part of the population is involved at the subsistence level.
Q: You conducted a training on the Employment, Livelihoods and Social Protection (ELSP) chapter as part of this assignment with the ILO. How do you think that went and how important the training is in terms of capacity building for this very technical area of work?
I think the training of both the ILO staff and their counterparts, government and civil society was very important in terms of understanding more deeply the employment livelihood and social protection chapter that is part of the PDNA process. It is new and therefore, it is very important that we understand what kind of data they are collecting, why do they collect it, and how we are going to use this data to come up with some answers that will be at service of the government of Fiji in terms of understanding how many people will lose their income and the value of that income.
Q: How is/was the civil society involved in this PDNA? How did it work for Fiji?
I was very pleased and impressed with the level of the civil society participation from the first time I got here. Some of our early meetings were with the members of the Trade Unions, Women's cooperative and Women's Triple, associations of taxi drivers but also persons with disabilities, and I think that this was extremely good and serviced well for the success of the PDNA.
Q: What are the impressions you had after working on this ELSP chapter?
This was the second opportunity for the ILO to present the ELS protection component as part of the PDNA in the Pacific. First time in Vanuatu. The difference is I think on this occasion we also joined with the UNDP to produce the social component of the assessment and I think that was good, that there is a positive and linking both the issue of livelihood and social protection and employment to the social sector because we were able to strengthen the extra recommendation that came out of it because we were able to analyse the impact on poverty and the impact on the loss of incomes and link those two things very fundamentally.
Q: This is the second ELSP chapter in a PDNA in the Pacific: what changes do you notice between the one in Vanuatu, compared to Fiji?
There is definitely a good consultative process going on between the stakeholders. That is not something you find all the time. Very often, we speak about consultation but it doesn't happen because the people of the civil society are not thoroughly engaged in the process. I think the ILO, the UNDP and other partners in this process were very good at ensuring this constant consultation right at the start of the process.
Q: I understand that two other cross cutting/impact sectors were merged into this PDNA. What were they? What were the impact of it? How do you think that merger contributed to the intended outcomes of the PDNA?
The two sectors that came together is poverty (social component of the PDNA) and employment, livelihood and social protection of the PDNA. I think that was a good match and that let us able to arrive to some excellent findings in terms of the outcomes of the PDNA that there is a possibility of more people moving to more -subsistence activities as a result of TC Winston, which is unfortunate. If we take a gender look at that, we would say that unfortunately, because many women have been already involved in this subsistence sector, if more people, meaning more men are forced into this sector, they may squeeze women out and that would certainly not be a good thing because women use the subsistence sector to be able to maintain the livelihoods and the state of their families. So that was one outcome that we were able to find. The second outcome is that there was likely a risk of increasing income inequalities as a result of TC Winston and this was because the fact there was a significant proportion of the population that would be without or with reduced incomes as a result, and they are some people for who the amount of incomes would remain the same, because the salaried workers continue to receive their salaries. But people who are day labourers, who were working in the informal sector, wage earners etc., may lose their incomes. Concretely, what would be the result of that? It is that you would have a widening income inequality in the country and that is never a positive outcome for the country because of the social ills of that. The third finding that we were able to arrive at was that there is maybe an emerging poverty as a result of a loss of income because poverty is measured by income and if people lose their income for either a short period of time, or for a lengthy period of time, it could result in transitional poverty – it would be transitory but still, it is poverty. That means that you may have more demand of the social protection measures that government has in place, and government has excellent social protection measures in place and the government has been scaling those up in order to avoid the population to fall into absolute poverty, but certainly we are expecting as a result of TC Winston that the demands on social protection may increase about 32 per cent.
Q: We have now come to the end of the PDNA, what will happen next?
Now that the PDNA has been completed, meaning that we have submitted all the information that we could have gathered about the effects of TC Winston, and its impact on the population, on the society and on the economy. Now, the government partners will turn their attention to the recovery framework, what can we do to change things, to be more resilient, to prepare people better for the next time, and how can we help people to secure their livelihoods in the future.
Q: Is this your first assignment with the ILO for a PDNA? What are your impressions about it?
This has been my first assignment with the ILO and I found it very interesting. Usually, I am looking at the macro socio economic assessments and I am either looking at the micro or advising on the social component of it, and I sort of depend on the ILO to come good with the analysis on loss of income and loss of goods, and on this occasion here I was focusing on that myself. I found it very interesting and I think it tells a different story about the outcome of the event on the population, which is a very important story and I think being involved in it myself, I can see more the significance of it and I think in any other PDNA that I'll work I will do my best to ensure that the ILO's work is giving this kind of permanence its deserves in this PDNA process.
Q: This is your second engagement in the PDNA in Fiji. What changes do you notice between the PDNA after cyclone Evan and the PDNA after cyclone Winston? How has this experience been compared to your previous one?
What is a concern for me when I examine my experience with TC Evan and TC Winston is the movement of human resources. A lot of people who were trained after TC Evan and gained a lot of experience undertaking the PDNA after TC Evan have moved. We can see the positive in that because the government was able to engage and to put in place measures that were recommended. The minute TC Winston occurred, they began to engage in up-skilling the social protection measures and injecting money into the economy based on recommendations that were made after TC Evan, and that is good.
What worries me - as for every small island state - is that so often skilled people are moved about because resources are desperately needed everywhere, and it means that people who have been trained may not be available again for participation in another event. I would support the continuous training of staff and personnel so you do have a rich source of people that can lead the process at the government level, and at the agencies level in case of such an event occurs once again.
Q: The ILO plans to organize a sub-regional workshop in July with Pacific countries that have already done a PDNA. This workshop will focus on two cross-cutting sectors. In your opinion and experience, what issues would you think these cross cutting sectors should focus on?
I think it is a great idea to bring together countries that experienced the PDNA and help them focus on what are the cross-cutting issues that should be strengthen. Indeed, very often, people are unable to grapple with the cross-cutting issues. I think of course the issue of employment, livelihoods and social protection is an important issue, and the other one would be gender because half of the population is composed by women, and in some islands, more than a half the population are women. They clearly play a critical role in family nutrition, family health and well-being, and many of them in agriculture so I would recommend that these areas get a good coverage. The third one would be environment, and that would be a necessity because small island states depend on the environment for their existence and subsistence, so we do need to understand how to estimate the extent of the damage and the extent of the loss in the environmental sector, especially since eco-tourism has become a part of the gross domestic product.

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Defenders of the bill say the extra cash is needed to speed up military reforms that could help the former Soviet state join NATO.
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New in Symfony 2.7: VarDumper improvements
Warning: This post is about an unsupported Symfony version. Some of this information may be out of date. Read the most recent Symfony Docs.
The VarDumper component was introduced in Symfony 2.6 to provide a better
debugging experience. This component includes a dump()
function which is a
much better alternative to the regular PHP var_dump()
In Symfony 2.7 we made the dump()
function easier to use and we also improved
the dumping of complex variables such as PHP reflection classes.
Added support for recursive node toggling
Contributed by
Nicolas Grekas
Lars Wallenborn
in #14071.
In Symfony 2.6, when dumping a deeply nested variable, you must click on each node arrow to reveal the contents of the nested nodes:
Symfony 2.7 removes this hassle by adding recursive toggle support. Just press
the Ctrl
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Added new specialized casters
Contributed by
Nicolas Grekas
Grégoire Pineau
in #14080,
and #13960.
The VarDumper component uses casters to transform the objects and resources into the array-based data representation used to display the variable contents. Symfony 2.7 includes new casters to improve the debugging of Reflection classes, MongoCursor objects, XML parser resources and AMQP resources.
For example, when you dump a PHP class reflection in Symfony 2.6, you get the string representation of that reflection:
In Symfony 2.7, thanks to the new specialized caster for PHP reflection classes, you'll see a much better dump:
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Regarding the use of Xdebug + var_dump(), that's definitely a very good combination and lots of Symfony developers use that. For others, the overhead introduced by Xdebug is too high and they don't want to slow down the application performance while developing it.
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The Beatles new "Rock Band" video game launched today, and I can't think of a better topic for our first post here at Linked and Loaded. We want to cover the new media revolution, and is there a better symbol than this new video game? Sure it's not really a Web 2.0 powerhouse, but video games have become a constant feature in our lives and have influenced many of the new media developments in the past 30 years.
The game is getting great reviews as one might expect. Jason Zingale writes:
What ultimately makes the game so unique, however, is its presentation. Though The Beatles themselves look a little cartoony, it's all done with the understanding that the game is more of a fantasy-based reality than a factual retelling of their history. That would certainly explain why there's no mention of Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best, why some songs that were never performed live are on the set list for certain venues, or why Ringo is shown playing some songs at Abbey Road (like "Back in the U.S.S.R.") that he never actually recorded. The psychedelic dreamscapes that the band is transported to during their Abbey Road sessions, meanwhile, are almost too stunning for their own good. I found myself often missing notes just because I was staring at the visually seductive environments meant to depict the band's musical transformation during their later years, and for the diehard Beatles fan who thinks they know their music inside and out, you can even better appreciate the dreamscapes by turning off the scrolling notes.
The attention to detail doesn't end there, either. Every song is prefaced by never-before-released audio clips of in-studio chatter, while Overdrive (the score multiplier you earn during each song) has been aptly changed to Beatlemania. Heck, there's even an option to turn up the audience volume to "realistic" levels, making it virtually impossible to hear anything you play. That might not be enough for some people, who will likely be turned off by the all-too-brief Story Mode, but then again, they're probably not real Beatles fans. Anyone that does like their music (and you're in the minority if you don't) will enjoy every second, because while the set list may feel a bit short at only 45 songs, nearly every one is better than a majority of the stuff in the "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero" vaults. It's the least you'd expect from a band as popular and prolific as The Beatles, but to see Harmonix so successfully translate the spirit of their music to video game form is almost beyond belief. Forget about ponies. You're gonna dig this game.
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The new 25hours Hotel Firenze sits directly on Piazza San Paulino in the old town of Florence, just round the corner from Central Station. Comprising three properties, the building ensemble has 173 rooms and 10,750 sqm of floor space.
An Italian restaurant with a fresh design is taking shape on the roofed patio of the historical bank building from the 18th century. A characteristic café will enliven the Piazza San Paulino, while an elegant bar will celebrate the culture of sophisticated drinking.
"Italy has topped the list of preferred locations in our expansion strategy for some time now, so we're particularly delighted about our imminent launch on the Florentine market. The building itself has huge potential, and the spacious public areas will certainly get our creative juices flowing", says a visibly excited Florian Kollenz, Chief Development Officer at 25hours Hotels.
Renovation of the partially listed complex of buildings is in the capable hands of the Florentine architects from Genius Loci Architettura, while interior designer Paola Navone is sure to add surprises to the design and development. Blending tradition with modernity in her typically wilful style, we can look forward to her playfully personal take on the dichotomous forces of Dante's Inferno and Paradiso.
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The two Best things in the world... CHOCOLATE and BACON!
United at last!!!
These scones are so good with a nice hot cup of Earl Grey Tea (if you want to be all fancy :)
Step 1: The Recipe
2 3/4 cups of Flour
1/3 cup of Sugar
1/2 teaspoon of Salt
1 tablespoon of Baking Powder
1/2 cup of Butter
1 cup of Chocolate Chips
1 cup of Cooked Bacon Chopped
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
1/2 cup of Milk
(bake at 425 degrees for about 15 minutes)
2 cups of Powder Sugar
1/2 teaspoon of Maple Syrup
6 tablespoons of Milk
Step 2: Dough Step 1
Cut the butter (chilled) into the flour
*if you don't have the proper dough cutter gizmo for that, a food processor also works just fine.
You can use a whisk and simply jab at the mixture until it is the consistency of thick lumpy sand (like you are making a pie crust)
After you have achieved this, go ahead and mix in the remaining ingredients (except for the chocolate chips and bacon)
*definitely use a nice bendy spatula for this task!
if you use the whisk, it all gets stuck inside and is a pain in the booty to get out.
Also avoid using your hands. This dough is very sticky! It has a magical impossible to remove texture. and it is evil. but yummy.
Step 3: Dough Step 2
Now add those yummy Bacons and Chocolate Chips!
Then put the sticky dough onto a nicely floured surface. And flour your hands!
Step 4: Last Dough Step
Now flatten out your dough and mold it into the shape of a long rectangle.
Now, using a knife, cute that big boy into several small triangles.
Place those little guy onto a greased baking sheet. (I used bacon grease! Eeeeeeee!)
Top them off with some yummy little bacon niblets. oooooooh yeeeeeah
Step 5: Bake!
425 degrees for about 15 minutes!
I can hardly wait!!!!
To keep yourself occupied during the baking process, you can begin making your Maple Glaze!
Step 6: Maple Glaze!
Combine your ingredients into a bowl and whisk them up with a fork
Be pretty precise with your measurements or the glaze will not harden and you will have soggy scones. bleh.
mmmm the Maple-y goodness
Step 7: Combine!
After those lovely little scones have cooled a bit, give them a nice drizzle! Fo Shizzle.
Now eat them!!!! Yeeeeee!
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After a showing in Berlin (covered) in 2014 and joining the 56th International Venice Biennale Arte (covered) in 2015, Katrin Fridriks will be showing soon at Lazarides Rathbone. For her second solo with the London gallery (opening in May), the Icelandic abstract and conceptual artist will be presenting a different version of one of her most recognizable pieces – Perception of the Stendhal Syndrome – Gene&Ethics Master Prism.
Entitled Macrocosm, the exhibition is focused on the Fridriks' exploration of the correspondences between the two dimensions – macro and microcosm. By allowing visitors to explore the work through a gigantic magnifying glass and beyond the limits of human eye, she reveals the hidden spheres of her work. Once aware of the complex depth in her work, the viewer can enjoy multiple viewpoints and the levels of other pieces. In a similar manner she created corresponding paintings that present her vision of a macrocosm with one canvas being a micro particle of the other. In order to create such an effect, she developed a new technique of producing work that involves a precise, single splash of paint in order to capture the energy of that action.
Along with presenting the new body of work, Katrin Fridriks will also be signing her first monograph which includes the installation Stendhal Syndrome on the cover.
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FINA provided a summary of the women's 25K races in Ostia Beach.
This is how FINA described the race held under wavy conditions:
Germany's Angela Maurer explained her victory, "My goal in Rome was a medal and I got gold. With the waves, it is important to swim in the lead. Although I like the heat and the waves, today there was a little too much."
Silver medalist Anna Uvarova of Russia explained her view of the course, "It was very difficult because of the sea. It was really wavy. I was very satisfied with her final sprint. In the last lap, I sped up. I swam very fast. When I realized I was third, I aimed at reaching the Italian girl (Federica Vitale) and I managed to overtake her."
Federica in turn explained her bronze-medal swim, "[The bronze medal] is the greatest thing I have done until now. This time I really wanted to make it. I gaveit everything I could in these six hours and over the last six months. I did my best, especially so I could win in my town."
FINA also gave some detailed race highlights:
After 1 hour and 50 minutes of swimming, Anna and three other favorites - Natalya Pankina of Russia, Kate Brookes-Peterson of Australia and Martina Grimaldi of Italy - shared the lead. After 3 hours and 30 minutes, as the competitors were finishing their sixth of ten laps, the situation remained unchanged except two swimmers had left the race: Zaira Cardenas of Mexico with serious jellyfish stings and Kate who was suffering from dehydration and exhaustion.
By the conclusion of their seventh lap, Natalya, who finished ninth, was leading, followed by Martina and Angela. These three set the pace for some time, but not without appearances at the front by 15-year-old Eva Fabian of the USA (shown on left after race) and Celia Barrot of France who finished fifth.
Federica started to make her move towards the lead and Margarita Dominguez of Spain was also regularly applying pressure. Margarita would end up taking the frustrating fourth place at the end.
With 1.5K to go, Margarita, Angela and Martina were battling it out for the medals. But unlike the men's 25K race, numerous other swimmers were right on their heels and they were facing a considerable challenge if they wanted to hang on for a medal. It was a very close, fast finish considering the distance they had swum. In the end , Angela's experience gave her the edge and her eighth world championship medal (2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze).
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Miami Design Preservation League is thrilled to present the official poster for the 45th Annual Art Deco Weekend: Art Deco Celebrates the Radio. Artist Sergey Serebrennikov has created a beautiful design for the ages, reflecting the radio's impact on Art Deco and its enduring legacy on Miami Beach.
The festival will take place Jan 14-16. A new website has been launched where you can plan your weekend and learn more about the events – including walking tours, lectures, films, live music, the classic car show, and more. We'll be sharing more details on the program in the weeks ahead.
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1. To Sculpt Legs: Sumo Squats
This exercise is really specific for toning and sculpting beautiful dancers' legs. It targets hard-to-reach inner thighs.
To do: Stand with your feet spread wide past your shoulders and turn your toes out. Bend your knees and lower straight down, extending your arms out in front of you, then press back up. Repeat for 30 seconds.
2. To Tighten the Tush: Hip Thrusts
These thrusts are a great hip and booty toner.. The reason? Pressing your hips forward and up from a kneeling position utilizes the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius (two muscles that make up your rear, along with the gluteus minimus), and hamstrings to firm and shape the backside. What's more, pressing your arms back as you rise calls on your abdominals to quickly flatten the belly.
To do: On a soft surface, get onto your knees and position your legs shoulder-width apart. Sit back onto your heels, then squeeze your tush and your abs to press your hips up and forward as you simultaneously extend hands to the back. Repeat for 30 seconds.
3. To Banish "Bat Wings": Kneeling Tricep Extensions
This exercise tightens the triceps, or the muscles that run down the backs of the the upper arms and shoulders, to firm "wave wiggles". Extending the weights backward while balanced on your knees also further engages the butt and core for all-over sculpting.
To do: Get onto your knees on a soft surface, keeping them together. Lift 5-lb weights up toward your armpits and tilt your shoulders forward slightly. Extend the weights straight back, then bring them forward once more. Repeat for 30 seconds.
4. To Nix a Muffin Top: Modified Side Plank
A twist on a standard side plank, this move will help you sculpt an enviable hourglass silhouette. Putting your bottom knee down in a side plank allows you to support your body more while still working your muscles. It utilizes your obliques to cinch in the waist.
To do: On the floor, lift yourself onto your right side with your legs straight and stacked beneath you as you place your right hand on the ground underneath your shoulder. Bend your right knee so your foot is pointing behind you. Keeping your right knee on the floor, push your hips up off the ground and extend your left arm overhead. Hold for 15 seconds, then switch sides.
5. To Melt a Pooch: Supergirl Crunches
Extending the body from fingertips to toes works the entire core. That includes the rectus abdominis, aka the large muscles on the front of the midsection that sculpt six-pack definition, and the transverse abdominis, or the muscles that crisscross the abdomen to pull in stubborn belly flab.
To do: Come onto all fours with your hands directly under your shoulders. Extend your right arm forward and your left leg back so that they are parallel to the ground. Pull them in so your right elbow meets your left knee under your belly, then extend it back out. Repeat for 30 seconds, then switch sides.
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Every Valentine's Day, we're surrounded by heart-shaped cards and candies, roses, candles, and everything red and pink imaginable. All of which serves as a reminder that our romantic relationships should be prioritized, and that all that "love in the air" is a very good thing. And it is. But love is hardly one-size-fits-all. You may be unpartnered this year and showing some love to your favorite baby cacti. You may be a dog mom who is treating your pup to a day at the park (complete with adorable coat + little booties). You may be sitting by your dad's bedside, finally paying him back for all those years of love and care that he gave you. Whatever your situation, as you celebrate all the forms of love in your life this year, don't forget your most important connection — the one you have with yourself. At HerMoney, we often talk about self care and the importance of daily rituals to heal and transform. But self care goes well beyond a weekly bubble bath (although that's an excellent idea) or a day at the spa. Did you ever think about how investing in your financial future is an important form of self-care?
Taking time to create a money map for yourself is more than an exercise in economics — it's a commitment to your freedom and independence, says James Maio, the head of tax at Slate Law Group. "By investing in your financial future, you are allowing yourself to control how you will live your life. It's an act of self-love that will help you maximize the most precious and limited resource of all: time," he adds.
Here's a look at some of the reasons why this February is the perfect time to get your finances in order. Because you deserve it. (Just make sure you leave time in your schedule for a call with your BFF + something chocolate.)
Investing in your financial future improves your sense of self-worth.
You know that feeling when you're walking down the street, jamming to your favorite song, heading to a meeting where you know all your hard work is about to pay off? That kind of confidence is contagious. Wouldn't it be great if we could feel more of that, more often? When we understand how we're doing financially, it can be a confidence booster like none other. According to Maio, having a thorough understanding of how you're tracking toward your goals, where your budget stands, and how much money you have coming in and going out, offers an incredible boost to your self-esteem. When you commit to saving and investing, you know you're not just dreaming about your "one day" goals (though daydreaming is always encouraged), you're actually walking the path to get there, every day. "Knowing that you have been putting that money aside for your future self should give you a great sense of self-worth, satisfaction and security," he says.
Investing in your financial future makes you self-reliant.
Financial confidence is where self-love meets self-reliance, says chartered financial analyst and the founder of UNest, Ksenia Yudina.
"Prioritizing your financial wellbeing is a fundamental component of a happy, healthy life. Ignore your financial future, and you expose yourself to stress and all the related issues that impact not just your wealth but your health, your relationships, your career, and your love life," she explains.
READ MORE: The Best Self Care Gifts That Will Actually Help You Reach Your Goals
When you know you can support yourself, regardless of any other factors, you can spend more time visualizing your future rather than stressing over your present. It also allows you to think critically about your values and your goals that may be decades into the future. "Prioritize the really important areas of your life, such as your kid's future needs or retirement and mix in some things that fall into the category of self-love such as a dream vacation or car," Yudina recommends.
Investing in your financial future reduces stress.
While people don't often share just how much their financial stress may be impacting their overall health, there's no doubting how serious it can be, says Brittney Castro, certified financial planner and founder of Financially Wise. And with the pandemic, budgeting and financial planning is even more important than ever, as small financial issues can become huge problems in the face of lost income.
If you've been ignoring your savings account balances for too long — or if you have absolutely nothing saved — stop worrying about how you've fallen behind, and create a game plan that will get you where you want to be. Once you have a plan in hand that will help you battle your debt or improve your savings, you'll be so much less anxious. "By embracing this type of mindset, you can reduce money stress now and in the future and form a positive, loving relationship with your finances," Castro says.
READ MORE: I Have No Retirement Savings. Now What?
The first step? Have a weekly money date with yourself where you dial-in to your budget, check your accounts and acknowledge your progress. Then look to make moves to improve your spending habits or routine accordingly.
Investing in your financial future allows you to weather the unexpected — and feel secure about your retirement.
Did that out-of-network doctor's bill throw your budget into chaos last year? What about that last-minute trip to visit a family member in poor health, or the leaky water heater that had to be replaced? Emergencies happen, and without financial security, we'll never be able to stay above water. Maio says not taking the time to learn how to budget and invest is the opposite of self-care, since you're setting yourself up for a potential disaster. And, you're also not giving yourself the option to retire comfortably. Simply knowing that we'll be able to step out of the workforce one day — and feel good about it! — is so powerful.
"Instead of working until the day you die, saving and investing for retirement gives you freedom in the future," he continues. "Simply put, financial security and the freedom it brings means that you will only have to answer to yourself; you will be free to do whatever you want with your time. In my humble opinion, there is no better form of self-love or self-care than that."
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Fouad Mohammad, Principal Engineer – CFD & FEA at Bergstrom Inc
In the build up to Foam Expo North America and Adhesives & Bonding Expo 2021, we spoke with Fouad Mohammed who is Principal Engineer – CFD & FEA at Bergstrom Inc. Find out more about how Fouad works below:
Can you tell us a about your role at Bergstrom and what your responsibilities entail?
Some of my major responsibilities at Bergstrom as a principal engineer include:
- Global subject matter expert for facilitation of HVAC climate control CAE (FEA & CFD) studies for transportatiovehiclesle and for off-highway construction equipment.
- Leads and performs complete airflow and thermal CFD analyses to optimize the airflow distribution and thermal performance of the overall HVAC system and its sub-components including electronics components using CFD tools such as OpenFoam, ParaView, Autodesk, AcuSolve, AccFieldView, Ansys Fluent and CFX.
- Leads and performs different types of linear and non-linear FEA analyses such as modal, frequency response, random vibration and optimization using HyperWorks FEA package and other FEA tools.
- Correlates the CFD analysis results to the experimental test data and supports the engineering team through all phases of product design stages.
- Addresses any design or performance issues with the engineering team and tests the proposed design countermeasures to meet customer targets.
Why is the validation and testing of materials so important for HVAC systems during product assembly and processing?
The validation and testing are so important because they will confirm whether the given HVAC systems designs are structurally stiff enough to withstand the applied loads or not. One type of validation tool is the FEA (virtual structural analysis) which includes a numerical approach to solve, for example, the given stresses and displacements for the given HVAC system to be compared with the allowable strength of the materials of the given design.
Many iterations of the FEA analysis might be needed to be run by the FEA expert after each design improvement till confirming a final robust design. The next step is to perform some type of physical testing and/or field testing to make sure that the FEA results are correlated with real-life testing. Other types of virtual validation are based on other software tools such as validating the electronics of the HVAC system requires an electronics validation tool and the flow/thermal analysis within the HVAC system requires CFD (computational fluid dynamics) tool.
Are there any innovative projects or developments you are particularly excited about within the HVAC sector?
Yes, there are many exciting projects underway. For me, the most interesting is how to improve the HVAC systems for the electric vehicle market. The key challenge is to keep minimizing the energy usage for such systems as much as possible to contribute to less drainage for the battery systems.
What are you most looking forward to about attending the live event?
I am most looking forward to opening a dialogue and exchanging expertise regarding the most important challenges for today's materials including those being used in HVAC systems.
If you could have one famous person (living or from the past) over for dinner, who would they be and why?
To me the most famous person I want to have dinner with would be my Mother. I lost her few years ago and I feel that I didn't spend enough time with her.


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Your guide to becoming an investor in the UK property market
Considering purchasing a property as part of a brand new investment? Investing in property can be incredibly exciting – but it is also a huge responsibility to take on and requires a lot of forethought and careful planning. It is a big step to take, there's no doubt about it – which is why you need to have the right experience and insight beside you to help support you in making the right decisions. You need to make the most of your money to make your investment worthwhile. Fortunately, the William Gleave team has plenty of experience helping people in North Wales to find excellent properties and to make good investment decisions. We are an experienced local letting agent based in Buckley with a team of local experts – no one is better placed to help you become a property investor.
What are the benefits of investing in property?
If you are thinking of purchasing an investment property, then you are probably already aware of just how common this is. People across the UK invest in property, but what makes it so appealing? Well, it is a form of investment that gives you a great deal of freedom and control. Not only are you free to browse the market and choose your own investment, but you can then also go to visit and assess your new investment all for yourself. Getting to physically touch and stand inside your property is something that many property investors find incredibly appealing.
But the other main reason that people make a real estate investment, of course, is the fact that it can potentially yield great returns. Whether you are purchasing a buy-to-let investment or a property you will be refurbishing and then selling on, property can become a very profitable investment. But this isn't always easy to achieve, making securing a reliable and trusted property advisor all the more important.
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Investing in property is an incredibly exciting experience that nonetheless comes with a few potential hurdles. One thing the William Gleave team always recommends is that you spend a lot of time researching before taking the plunge. Research the local market, as well as spending plenty of time thinking about the potential buyers or renters you will want to approach you and your property.
Location is hugely important, so spend plenty of time researching local property prices and actual properties to make sure that you will be able to make the kind of investment that you want to make.
Then, it will be time to start calculating your expenses and potential yield ahead of purchasing your property. We have a lot of experience helping investors in property to make these kinds of calculations here at William Gleave, so get in touch for an honest and fair appraisal of your potential investment.
Get in touch
Want to find out more about how we can help you to invest in property in Flintshire, Denbighshire or Conwy? Get in touch with the William Gleave team today to discover the ways in which we can support you throughout this process. From decision making to searching the local market for good investment properties, we are the team that can help you make the most of your investment.


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November 10 saw a fourth general election in four years for Spain's voters. Barely six months on from the previous election in April, when Socialist (PSOE) caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was unable to form a majority government to break the political deadlock, the country appears to be back in the same predicament. In the background, Catalonia has continued to polarize public opinion and create problems for the Madrid government, which have only recently been exacerbated by the jail sentences handed down to nine leaders of Catalonia's independence movement. The ensuing mass civil unrest in the region has stretched the police force to capacity.
That being said, continuing political uncertainty, which has prevailed since last April's election, has had little impact on Spain's cost of borrowing. Spanish bonds have outperformed along with other peripheral European markets, primarily owing to the European Central Bank (ECB) increasing its loose monetary policy in response to economic weakness in northern Europe.
10-year Spreads on Spanish Versus German Government Debt (Basis Points)
Source: Bloomberg, November 6, 2019
Fragmented Politics
We have been talking about the gradual fragmentation of European politics as a longer-term trend. In the aftermath of the 2007-8 financial crisis, there has been a prolonged period characterized by low growth and rising wealth inequality. In this context, there has been a gradual shift away from the center ground of politics, with increasing votes for both left and right-wing political parties that have come to the electorate promising change.
Spain is a prime example of this, with many voters perceiving the established parties not only to have done a bad job, but also to be corrupt. Consequently, the established Spanish parties have lost votes as new parties have been created on a promise that they will fix things. First, we saw the creation of the left-wing Podemos party (now part of Unidas Podemos), which came to being on a ticket of radical change. Then the center-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) Party was formed, principally to fight corruption. Both these new parties have eroded votes from the old guard of the center-left PSOE and conservative Partido Popular (PP) parties: the more parties you have, the greater the chances of being unable to form a majority government. However, such developments have little impact on markets, as there is hardly any change in economic policy, especially in Europe, where monetary policy is set outside the country.
Change Agents
Unfortunately, the electorate remains dissatisfied and looks for further 'change agents', which leads to a second phase, which is an even greater shift to more extreme left and right-wing parties. Once again, Spain is a good example of this, as the results of the November 10 election now confirm. The ruling PSOE won 28% of the vote, 1% less than in April, while the Vox party (formed in December 2013), which had leapt into fifth place in the April 24 election, has done even better this time, moving up to third place, with 15% of the vote. There are different opinions on how right-wing Vox is, but clearly its Spanish nationalist policies are appealing to those who feel threatened not only by Catalan independence, but also by immigration. The center-right PP also grew its share of the vote to almost 21%
Electioneering Breeds Contempt
The party that has fared worst is the Citizens Party, which saw its share of the vote drop from almost 16% in April to less than 7% last Sunday. It is a good example of what can happen between phase one (new parties promising change) and phase two (even more extreme parties promising change). The Citizens Party is suffering from that well-known problem that if you promise change and then fail to deliver it, you just become part of the establishment and get the blame. The new failed parties do not have a group of core voters who would vote for them regardless of any political inaction, as they had appealed to a broad group of dissatisfied voters who move onto the next new bright shiny thing.
This has now come to pass in Spain once again, with the caretaker prime minister looking to forge a new coalition. Thus the political impasse remains in place, albeit with some new contestants coming to the fore.
Here we come across the other continuing trend, which is a little more subtle: constant electioneering with multiple party options can lead to arguments between parties, which makes it harder to form coalitions. Additionally, shifts to the extreme left and right make it challenging for parties to work together, owing to their differences on ideological grounds (witness the failure of the left-wing Five Star Movement and right-wing League coalition in Italy).
Shift Towards Increased Government Spending
It seems unlikely to us that the latest Spanish election will have a material effect on the value of the euro, as the single currency is driven by a pan-European economic outlook and the ECB's interest-rate policy. Furthermore, the yield spread between Spain and its European neighbors is likely to be influenced by anything that changes either the credit quality and/or the degree of government-bond supply. With that in mind, we should remember that each European Union country is limited in the amount of debt it can issue; thus radical changes to fiscal policy seem unlikely. For example, populist Italian politicians talked frequently last year about increasing the country's budget deficit, but then found themselves constrained.
Nonetheless, we note the growing trend within Europe, as elsewhere, to provide economic support through increased government spending. With economic growth generally weak across Europe, and monetary policy at an extreme, we anticipate a continued shift towards more fiscal intervention. At the same time, with the environment rising up the political agenda, we wonder how long it will be before we see government borrowing being channeled into renewables and greater energy efficiency.
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I've gone on record as saying that I like the Universal monsters as a general rule. Of them, I'd have a hard time picking a favorite between Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man. I like the monster because he's probably the most sympathetic of all of the Universal monsters. He's the one most easily misunderstood. Frankie is sort of the poster child for anyone who's ever felt a misfit in this life. The Wolf Man, though, is the most tragic of the creatures. He is, at heart, a good man who has been cursed by something he didn't ask for and didn't deserve. Having them both in one movie? I couldn't wait to watch Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man when I bought a set of Frankenstein movies recently.
Despite his top billing, though, this is far more a vehicle for the Wolf Man, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Of course, with any monster sequel from this era, we need to start by resurrecting the monsters. The Wolf Man is first, as a pair of vagrants break into the Talbot family tomb to steal the jewelry they heard Larry was entombed with. They find a surprisingly preserved corpse instead of the bones they were expecting, and when they remove the branches of wolfs bane from the body, he reanimates. And of course it's a full moon, so he goes lycanthrope on our hapless thieves and wakes up miles away in a hospital having been allegedly dead for four years.
Of course no one believes anything he has to say about his being a werewolf despite having admitted to committing a murder during his first night in the hospital. Eventually, Larry breaks out and heads to the continent where he tracks down the Romani woman Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) who originally told him about the curse. Recognizing him as the man who received the curse from her son, she agrees to help him, and the two decide to seek out the famous Dr. Frankenstein, who is said to be able to work miracles in the area of life and death.
Of course, Dr. Frankenstein is dead (and this is Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein we are talking about here), and his castle (circa Ghost of Frankenstein) is in ruins. Hunted by the townspeople for even mentioning the hated name, Larry finds himself once again transformed. He eventually winds up at the castle, where he discovers the Monster (Bela Lugosi!), and revives him.
So here's the thing--Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is both a joy and a little disappointing. It's really short, and a movie that pairs up two truly iconic monsters could stand to run at least another 15 minutes to give us the team up (or battle) we deserve. That said, I'm not sure where I'd beef up the running time. The movie gets right to the point of the story and goes along at a nice clip. There's not a lot of fat to trim here, and adding more might end up just feeling like padding.
It does feel strange that Frankenstein gets the top billing, though, because he's not in the movie until after the halfway point, and he's not in it a great deal after that, either. And yes, I know it's Frankenstein's Monster and not the doctor himself. Allow me a shortcut now and then.
Still, Lon Chaney reprising the role of Larry Talbot is a real treat. Chaney made a lot of terrible movies in his career, but he makes up for all of them with this character. The Wolf Man, as I said above, is the most tragic of the Universal Monsters, and a great deal of that can be credited directly to Chaney's loser-like persona and hangdog expression. He's easy to feel sorry for, and that's exactly how we should approach Larry Talbot.
Of course I liked this movie. It's loads of fun for what it is and while I could stand more of the Monster and more in general, it's a hard movie to find fault with in any serious way.
Why to watch Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man: Two classic Universal monsters in one movie.
Why not to watch: Despite his top billing, Frankenstein's Monster isn't in this that much.


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Sony Achiba spotted and he is looking very different than before
One-time Ghanaian musical sensation Sony Achiba has been spotted after a long absence from the music industry in the country it is howver uncertain if he is still pursuing his music career.
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The musician is believed to be a globetrotter now and moves from one country to the other as a traveler. However, he happens to be based in New Delhi in India. He has visited many countries including Germany, the United States of America and England.
The musician is fondly remembered by his funky Indian-inspired apparel in which he appeared dressed in.
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Sony Achiba came into the entertainment industry as a dancer and worked with many of the top musicians back in the day including Awura Ama Badu, Rex Omar, Frank Mensah Pozo aaand Tommy Wiredu.
He then decided to venture unto the music scene in the year 2000 when he came out with his own album. He is noted to have introduced Indian culture into Ghanaian music earning him the title, "Indian Man". He appeared to shows dressed in Indian-inspired clothing and even had a touch of Indian voices and musical instrumentals in his music.
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One of the popular songs by the musician was "Nipa Boniayefour" from the album he titled, Indian Ocean"
He was rated among the top professional dancers in the country during the early 2000's. He was fiercely rivaled by Slim Busterr who was arguably Ghana's best dancer then.
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Sony Achiba is believed to have been born in Kumasi to J. B. Danquah and Akua Fremah. He started his primary and secondary school education in Kumasi. He also attended the Kumasi Technical Institute (K.T.I.) for a while
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