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Netflix has warned that there is a new scam targeting their users.
The streaming service is used by millions upon millions of people the world over and is extremely popular in Ireland.
Netflix subscribers have been hit by an updated version of the scam that has been doing the rounds since last year.
Deadline report that 110 million users have had e-mails from the scammers sent to them.
While previous Netflix scams have asked users just to update their billing information, the latest scam is more worrying.
They are falsely telling users that their accounts will be suspended unless their payment information is updated within 48 hours.
The scam is pretty sophisticated, with the Netflix logo emblazoned across the top of the email.
Not only that, but when the user actually clicks on the link provided in the email they are taken to a website that looks like a relatively convincing mock-up of a Netflix dashboard.
Users are encouraged to give their log-in details and their credit card info in order to prevent their account from being suspended.
So if you see an email in your inbox that looks like the one above, be sure to get on to Netflix and confirm it's really from them.


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What is a Normal Heart Rate?
Resting pulse – This heart rate is optimal
The level of the resting pulse is different for each person. However, there are certain limits which indicate which heart rate is normal and which is too high.
According to current, scientific studies, it is also possible to recognize exactly by this value how high the life expectancy and health of a person is.
The guide values of the resting pulse
It is well known that the heartbeat keeps the blood circulation in the body going. The heart continuously pumps blood through the entire human body, supplying the organs, tissues and cells with nutrients and oxygen. Pulse is the frequency at which the heart beats every minute.
The heartbeat can vary per minute throughout the day because it depends on the exertion. In this context, the resting pulse is particularly interesting, because it indicates how often the heart must beat regardless of the effort, in order to still be able to supply the entire body with blood.
Compared to adults, children have a relatively high resting pulse. In newborns, the heart beats particularly fast, between 120 and 140 times per minute. In childhood, on the other hand, the heartbeat slows down again, so that between the ages of seven and twelve the heartbeat levelled off at around 90 beats per minute.
Adults, on the other hand, have a resting pulse of between 60 and 80 beats per minute, while seniors have a slightly higher guideline. Older people therefore have a pulse rate of between 80 and 85 beats per minute.
What exactly does the resting pulse say?
According to some experts, there is a direct connection between a high resting pulse and mortality, because a scientific study carried out indicates this. According to the study, researchers examined a total of 4,300 test subjects with an average age of 59 years.
For nine years, a team of experts accompanied the participants and found that the subjects with a resting heart rate of over 70 heartbeats per minute had a 60% higher mortality risk than those with a lower resting heart rate.
A high resting heart rate only brings with it dangers over time
If the pulse only temporarily rises, this does not immediately mean that this person is seriously ill or must die earlier. It only becomes dangerous here when the resting pulse is constantly high and thus lies at over 100 beats per minute, because in this case one speaks of tachycardia.
In this case, those affected usually notice a strong palpitation of the heart that can be felt up to the neck. It is often a case of heart chasing, which occurs in phases. The rise in pulse starts just as suddenly as it ends again. The more so as there is no need for physical exertion, because even in the resting phases heart chasing can occur.
Why does it come to an increased resting pulse?
Electrical impulses are sent to the heart by specialized heart muscle cells. These control the heartbeats. If the heart races, the complex conduction path system can be disturbed.
A lower blood circulation, a sinus node disorder and additional conduction pathways can be responsible for this. Hypertension and cardiac arrhythmia can also cause an increased resting pulse.
How can affected persons lower an increased resting pulse?
An excessively high resting pulse can also be reduced without medication. Stress must be avoided in any case and even the resting pulse can be lowered with the right clothes, because if the heat accumulates under the clothes, this can increase the heart rate. For example, it can help to take a short walk in stressful everyday situations and thus lower the pulse again.
How do you measure your pulse correctly?
The perfect time to take a pulse measurement is always the morning before you get up. In order to measure your resting pulse, you do not necessarily need a special device, because such a measurement is also possible with the help of a stopwatch or a wristwatch with second hand.
So place one or two fingers on the inside of your wrist or neck and press lightly until you can feel your heartbeat. Now look at the watch for 15 seconds and count your heartbeats. Then take the determined value times four and you will get your resting pulse value.


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Buss, Doris, Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, and Obijiofor Aginam, eds. 2014. Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: International Agendas and African Contexts. New York, NY: Routledge.
Authors: Doris Buss, Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, Obijiofor Aginam
This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments. The chapters are organized around three main themes: the continuities between conflict sexual violence and post-conflict insecurity; the troubling category of "victim" and its representation in post-conflict settings; and the international contexts – such as international programming, aid and justice interventions – that shape how conflict sexual violence is addressed. The authors come to the topic from various academic disciplines - anthropology, gender studies, law, and psychology - and from different non-academic contexts, including civil society organizations in affected regions, and policy and activist organizations in the Global North. Collectively the chapters in this volume offer complex and detailed analysis of some of the debates and dynamics shaping contemporary understandings of conflict sexual violence, highlighting, in turn, new insights and emerging topics on which further research and advocacy is needed. (Routledge)
Topics: Armed Conflict, Civil Society, Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, International Organizations, Peacebuilding, Security, Sexual Violence, SV against Women Regions: Africa
Year: 2014
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I reported yesterday on how Joe Biden's calls for unity and healing were already self-destructing thanks in no small part to a recent Glamour magazine interview done by his campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon in which she called Republicans "a bunch of f**kers."
Understandably, O'Malley Dillon's comments made waves in Republican circles, not because of hurt feelings or anything like that, because Republicans have certainly been called worse by Democrats including Biden himself over the years. Instead, her remarks were viewed as a confirmation of what Republicans have said over the last month about how in reality Democrats (and their media allies) have no real interest in any post-election "unity and healing", despite their numerous impassioned claims to the contrary.
Not surprisingly, CNN's Jake Tapper – who completely ripped off the "objective" mask the moment his network projected Biden to be the election winner — demonstrated once again that there is nothing he won't say and do to mask the legitimate issues Republicans bring to light about the hollow and empty rhetoric coming from Democrats.
Tapper's sizzling hot take in response to the backlash over O'Malley Dillon's swipe was to proclaim it was "stunning hypocrisy" coming from "folks who were silent for years about vulgarities and smears":
The stunning hypocrisy we're beginning to see from folks who were silent for four years about vulgarities and hideous smears and more is going to require seatbelts and various safety equipment. Strap in!
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 17, 2020
Except, as I pointed out earlier, this is not about hurt feelings about being insulted, because we're used to that. It's about the Biden campaign saying the quiet part out loud about how the whole "unity and healing" talking point is just that and nothing more. If Democrats don't really mean it — and we all know they never did — then Republicans in the House and Senate should feel no obligation to extend any type of olive branch in turn (though some, unfortunately, will).
Tapper was immediately called out by people who remember his own four-year "New Tone" campaign against the Trump administration, and how it's Tapper himself who has proved to be a massive hypocrite:
I was told that Trump being vulgar, etc was bad by media.
Now they're saying it's ok for Democrats to be vulgar because Trump was. https://t.co/qNDxj9aWUD
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 17, 2020
Nobody believes the sweetness & light reconciliation garbage coming from Biden
His team hates us
This foul woman was just honest enough to say so. https://t.co/9fHUJ0X2mF— Jim Hanson 🇺🇸 (@JimHansonDC) December 16, 2020
Biden's people are acting just like Trump and that's on Trump – @jaketapper
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 17, 2020
It is tweets like this that make it extremely difficult to believe that the continual distortion of reality and utter lack of self-awareness from so-called journalists is unintentional.
The gaslighting is strategic and purposeful. https://t.co/cs82pKXms1
— Leonydus Johnson (@LeonydusJohnson) December 17, 2020
I already have whiplash from the abrupt end of speaking truth to power.
— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) December 17, 2020
While Tapper often acted as an apologist for Democrats prior to the election, his post-election transformation into a complete lapdog for the Biden-Harris campaign has been quite remarkable. It also proves the point that not only is CNN not a news organization but that they will be leading contenders for the coveted role of unofficial state-run TV "news" outlet under a Biden-Harris administration.
That is something Tapper and his equally biased colleagues will wear like a badge of honor in the coming months as they play predictable "whataboutism" games with Republicans every time they raise legit issues about their political opposition.
As I've noted before, Jake Tapper is proving the old adage true about how you can take a person out of their element, but you can't take the element out of the person. In this case, you can take Tapper out of being a former writer for the radically left-wing Salon magazine and out of once being a spokesman for a former Democratic Congresswoman, but you can't take the radical, angry, duplicitous leftist out of Jake Tapper.


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Kamala Harris was officially sworn in as the vice president of the United States shortly before noon on Wednesday ― a historic moment, especially for women of color across the country.
The former Democratic senator from California took the oath of office on Wednesday, alongside President Joe Biden, on an Inauguration Day that looked very different from previous ones thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about extremist right-wing riots.
Harris, with her hand placed on two Bibles held by her husband, Doug Emhoff, was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Supreme Court.
The swearing-in ceremony in front of the U.S. Capitol took place two weeks after Trump supporters stormed the building in an attempt to disrupt Congress' certification of Biden and Harris' election victory. Several people died as a result of the insurrection, including U.S. Capitol Police officers. Rioters attacked law enforcement officers, broke windows and furniture, and attempted to hunt down some of the hastily evacuated lawmakers, with the likely intent to harm them.
Harris' inauguration marks the first time that either a woman, a Black American or an Asian American has become vice president of the U.S. Born to Indian and Jamaican immigrant parents, she has called herself "a proud American" whose Black and Indian heritages "are of equal weight in terms of who I am."
She is also the first vice president to graduate from a historically Black college or university, earning her bachelor's degree at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University in 1986. At the time Harris was chosen to join Biden's ticket, Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick called it an "extraordinary moment" that "represents a milestone opportunity for our democracy to acknowledge the leadership Black women have always exhibited."
"When she governs as the first and last person in the room with Joe Biden, she's going to bring all of those identities with her into those rooms," said Glynda Carr, national director of Higher Heights, a political action committee focused on electing more Black women at state and federal levels.
"But she is also a reminder of the fact that there are conscious and unconscious biases of women, and women of color, and Black women," Carr continued, speaking to HuffPost at the time of Harris' election. "And so when she during the debates said, 'I'm speaking, I'm speaking' ― every woman, regardless of race and ethnicity, has been in a position where they saw and felt that, and that was a coalescing point for her."


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If you don't yet have a will, you're not alone. More than half of American adults don't have a will or living trust, according to a recent study by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
While older adults are more likely to have wills than younger adults are, close to 20 percent of Americans over age 70 still don't have wills, either
About one thousand adults participated in the survey. Some of the survey's findings , as reported by Caring.com, include:
- 42 percent of U.S. adults have a will, trust or other estate plan.
- Only 36 percent of parents with children under age 18 have wills.
- 22 percent of millennials (aged 18 to 36) have wills.
- 81 percent of people 72 or older have a will.
Why don't more people have wills? Nearly half of those without a plan reported to surveyers that they were, essentially, procrastinating. Other factors could include how many assets someone has – someone with few assets might not think it's important to have a plan for protecting them if they die.
But one of the most unsettling findings from the survey is how few parents of young children have wills, meaning that they don't have a plan to establish a guardian in the event that they die before their children turn 18.
Regardless of your age, assets and family structure, if you don't have a will or trust, you're running a risk that the government will determine what happens to your assets, and potentially your children, after you die. You're never too young to make sure your wishes control what happens after your death.
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On January 13, MSG Nathan Goodman, an experienced jumper with the Army 3rd Special Forces Group and a Green Beret team sergeant, was killed in a HALO (High-Altitude, Low-Opening) parachuting accident in Arizona.
The Army opened an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.
Goodman had had over 200 freefall jumps and was a free fall military jumpmaster. Therefore, his death left friends and family wondering how this could have happened. His wife Kelly had posted on Facebook right after the fatal accident described what many felt.
"He is such a skilled jumper," she wrote. "There's no reason this should have happened! I'm just out of words."
Goodman was born in Pasadena, CA, and grew up near Chicago, Ill. He joined the Army more than 17 years ago. He completed initial training at Fort Benning, Ga., before being posted to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii as part of the 27th Infantry Regiment.
In 2005, he transferred to the Army National Guard and attended Special Forces Assessment and Selection. He graduated in October 2007 as an engineer sergeant and served with the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) until he returned to active duty with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Group in 2010.
He had a stint with 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) from 2016 to 2018 as a senior instructor, then chief instructor. He then returned to 3rd Group and later became an operations team sergeant of Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha 3314. He completed tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa.
On the fateful night, his team was conducting a high-altitude, high opening (HAHO) jump from a civilian aircraft. They were jumping from 11,000 feet. Each operator was to jump, stabilize, and deploy their pilot chute in about four seconds. This method of infiltration allows jumpers to fly in formation (stack) over a significant amount of space and land undetected.
Upon exiting the aircraft, all appeared to be normal according to the jumper that jumped right behind him. But as Goodman reached for the bottom of his chute to throw out the pilot chute, which catches the wind and drags out the main canopy, he became unstable.
Goodman was the primary jumpmaster. So he was the second to last to exit the aircraft. One of the other jumpers told investigators that he observed a partially inflated canopy doing rotations before falling from sight.
Goodman's automatic activation device, known as a Cypres, did deploy correctly. The investigation report stated that, "in this case, the Cypres [device] worked properly, but because the reserve was most likely tangled around MSG Goodman's body and equipment, it was ineffective."
Because of the altitude involved, Goodman's main canopy was found nearly a mile from his body, which was located about six miles from the intended drop zone. His equipment was scattered over a wide area as well.
The accident investigation was first obtained by the Army Times through the Freedom of Information Act. According to the investigation, Goodman, "most likely dipped his right shoulder" when he reached back, causing him to become destabilized and spin. Goodman was jumping with full combat equipment and breathing from an oxygen mask.
Goodman had complained of right shoulder pain before and during the jump. The shoulder pain was cited during the investigation and may have possibly played a role in what caused his shoulder to dip causing him to destabilize.
Goodman's "main parachute and lines deployed around him and became entangled in his [night vision goggles] and even possibly other equipment," the investigation found. As trained, he cut away from his main canopy and deployed his reserve chute, but that too became entangled all around him.
It is important to note that the Special Forces team was transitioning to a new style of parachute beginning on January 9.
With the previous equipment, free-fall jumpers would pull a ripcord located on their right shoulder, which launches a spring-loaded pilot chute and deploys the main canopy. But during the training in Arizona, the Green Berets were being taught a different method that requires the jumper to reach down to the bottom of their chute and hand-deploy a pilot chute that they then throw into the wind.
The method is common among civilian skydivers. It is also regularly used by Military Free-Fall School instructors at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
According to Colonel T.J. Rainsford, Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) spokesman, Army free-fall special operators are required to transition to this method, according to April 2019 training guidance cited in the investigation. The new method is ultimately safer and considered the "current industry standard."
"It is a simple and secure deployment method and almost completely eliminates the possibility of a pilot [chute] hesitation during deployment," Rainsford said to the Army Times, adding that it also helps standardize the deployment methods used by instructors and students.
However, the investigation highlighted a concern. The new method, which requires jumpers to reach back rather than simply grab the ripcord at their shoulder, could introduce range-of-motion issues for some individuals, especially if they destabilize during free-fall. And unlike civilian skydivers, special operations troops jump with a lot of gear that could easily cause the jumper to become destabilized.
When the military began the transition to this system, it produced slides for their training program. The slides were included in the Army Times piece which highlighted this exact issue.
"While the use of a [hand-deployed pilot chute] system is safer, it does pose a greater risk to parachutists that cannot conduct a stable exit, stable free-fall, or maintain heading control throughout the deployment."
Goodman had gone through the certification for the new method, including work in a wind tunnel at a private facility. He was certified by a free fall instructor with over 2,500 jumps. He had conducted 13 prior jumps with no issues before the night of January 13.
The Army's investigation called for a working group to be formed. Its purpose is to discuss potential issues with transitioning to the new method, adjust the regulations as needed, and ensure that such accidents don't repeat.
One of the recommendations that have been implemented is that regardless of the number of jumps an operator has, "If [a] jumper exhibits instability on more than three jumps, instructors/graders will begin monitoring [them] more closely and capturing feedback on camera, as well as provide written feedback." That jumper then has to go through remedial training.


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Reducing Stress in Middle-level Adolescent Athletes by Teaching Communication Skills to Parents
Date of Award
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Undergraduate Capstone Project
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Graduate School of Professional Psychology
First Advisor
Jennifer Cornish
Second Advisor
Judy Fox
Third Advisor
Jennifer Paz
Athletes, Adolescents, Stress, Communication skills, Parenting, Development
This paper focuses on identifying common difficulties for parents in their attempts to encourage and support adolescent athletes who play competitive sports, but are not competing at the highest level, and who have a low likelihood of playing collegiate or professional sports. Often in their desire to support their child, parents can become overly invested in their child's perceived success, leading to internalization of every success and failure. This can commonly result in the parent(s) failing to recognize the needs of the player in the moment, or in later, negative conversations about their performance. As a result, adolescent athletes may experience greater levels of stress and pressure being placed on them by their parents that is unintended but can be very disruptive to the player's self-esteem and anxiety levels when engaging in sport. Upon identifying those common difficulties this paper will establish a tool for teaching parents basic therapeutic techniques to reduce stress in their adolescent.
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Procter, William Alexander, "Reducing Stress in Middle-level Adolescent Athletes by Teaching Communication Skills to Parents" (2018). Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects. 292.


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In two separate incidents Sunday, two mothers were accused of driving under the influence with a child in the car.
The first was reported at 2:32 p.m. on University Avenue near 58th Street in the El Cerrito neighborhood of San Diego.
San Diego police say a 25-year-old woman was driving eastbound on University when her Ford Mustang crossed into oncoming traffic, jumped a curb and collided with a tree. Officers found the driver's 5-year-old girl sitting in the front seat of the car with minor injuries.
The child was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision, police said.
The driver sustained serious injuries. Mother and child were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police said.
Officials said it's believed the mother was driving under the influence.
Then, hours later in Chula Vista, police arrested a woman for driving under the influence following a traffic collision at 4th Avenue and G Street.
The mother and her toddler were traveling on G Street when the woman ran a red light, striking a car traveling southbound on 4th Avenue, Chula Vista police said
A couple in the other car suffered minor injuries, police said.
The child was turned over to relatives while her mother was arrested for DUI.


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For almost a year now, time has seemed imaginary. I, like so many people around the world, have been staying home and waiting. I'm privileged that I get to do this, that my work has been able to move online. And as a poet, cloistering myself off may have even come a little too easily. But even in the midst of my privilege and (relative) introvert ease, I have found myself grieving. I am grieving for this year. For friends and family. For my canceled plans. For our country's utter inability (unwillingness) to help those who need it most. I am grieving my 27th birthday and my aging. How could my body have aged and betrayed me while time ceased to exist? And more alarmingly still, how will it betray me further if I get sick or get someone else sick before the vaccine is widely distributed? The micro and the macro are losing all sense of proportion—shading everything I touch.
I carried these circular thoughts into reading CM Burroughs' second book of poetry, Master Suffering, which is similarly made of ever-revolving questions and evolving curiosity. Burroughs prefaces her collection with two epigraphs, each of which poses a daunting question. The first epigraph from Annie Dillard asks, "Are you a woman or a mouse?" and the second comes from June Jordan, who asks "And what shall we do, those of us who did not die?" These provocative inquiries simmer on the back burner as Burroughs offers her own questions and answers about bodies—our own and the ones we love—and what happens when we lose someone that is a part of us.
Master Suffering is broken into three different sections, each with its own title: "As Lover," "Nerves Rising," and "Gleaning, Gleaning." At first blush, the three sections seem to offer a linear progression of reflection for the speaker(s), as they ponder their own bodily autonomy, gender, family, religion, and most prevalently, loss. In "Body as a Juncture of Almost" Burroughs ends with the lines, "my trying to be. Self that I own./I own her. At least" which despite the lack of a question mark, leaves a note of uncertainty that hovers over the rest of the section (5). This doubt matters because the site of self "should" be concrete. Knowable. Burroughs hesitancy reminds us that this is a fiction.
"As Lover" ends with three poems, all titled "Incidents for the Forgettery" which seem to grow sharper and more intimate with each iteration, as the cast of characters within the collection grows from the speaker and beloved/lover, to include doctors hurrying in and out of focus, and a sister who can't be saved. "My sister wasn't/made of such seams" (16). Her lines physically expand across the page, most notably in the third iteration, where we also see line breaks—as if the speaker is allowing us time to breathe in this moment more deeply.
The second and third sections continue this sharpening intimacy even as they expand their cast to include a brother, a mother, a father, an unflinching view of a hospital room, and a life support machine. But Burroughs' poems do not allow us to rest in the narrative. The use of repeated titles, first in "Incidents of Forgettery" (x4), then "Dear Liver" (x3), "God Letter" (x6), and finally, "When She is Looking Mean and Impressive" (x2) create a whirlpool of inner-momentum. This formal scaffolding reminds us that we do not think, or move, or grieve in only one direction (forward) but rather we are constantly cycling. We double back on ourselves. Grief hurts us over and over, even when we are medicated, even when we can name our feelings.
In "God Letter," Burroughs writes:
...I would keep on the same way for years, through a therapist
or two, one who was a family friend and had known
my sister, who had me pay for my sessions myself I was 19,
it was $1 per session for me to feel empowered in my
healing, and he told me to hug my mother and
tell her I love her and I did. Who would put
so much sadness in one person, do you know
what the dark looks like and that it has its own
gravity and how once I started taking anti-depressants
and finally felt "normal sadness" I was amazed...(36)
It is the detailing of these small moments, the strange mundanity of the cost of a therapy session with a family friend that enriches each of the poems in this collection and makes us feel them so intimately. Almost as if we are remembering them instead of reading them.
No, we are not linear, and neither are these beautifully and masterfully wrought poems as they turn over and over under the same names. What should we do, "those of us who did not die"? Burroughs does not give us an easy answer, but she does offer us an answer which is messy and perfect in real life. In the final poem, "To Be Saved," the speaker concludes. "Signs happen such that/We are always gasping and awakening" (46). We will wake up and start again, over and over, and these poems (thank god) can help strengthen us through this period of perpetual gasps and evasive answers.
Roseanna Alice Boswell is a queer poet from Upstate New York. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in: Driftwood Press, Jarfly Magazine,Capulet Magazine, and elsewhere. Roseanna holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English at Oklahoma State University. Her first collection, Hiding in a Thimble, is forthcoming with Haverthorn Press in 2021. Find her on Twitter @swellbunny posting about feminism and her love of exclamation marks.


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A delicious veggie-based family meal –warm and hearty for cold winter evenings
Recipe and styling by Illanique van Aswegen
Photograph by Adel Ferreira
Cheesy baby marrow "meatballs
- 520g baby marrows, coarsely grated
- 280g panko breadcrumbs
- 260g ricotta
- 250ml (1 cup) Parmesan, finely grated + extra, to serve
- 30ml (2 tbsp) fresh oregano, finely chopped
- 20ml (4 tsp) garlic, finely chopped
- 2 large eggs, lightly whisked
- zest of 2 lemons
- 5ml (1 tsp) salt
- pinch freshly ground fine black pepper
- sunflower oil, to shallow-fry
- 185g orzo (pasta rice)
- 10ml (2 tsp) olive oil
- 1 (160g) large onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 5ml (1 tsp) garlic, finely chopped
- 15ml (1 tbsp) tomato paste
- 5ml (1 tsp) sugar
- 5ml (1 tsp) smoked chilli flakes
- 125ml (½ cup) red wine
- 1 (400g) tin chopped tomatoes
- 15ml (1 tbsp) balsamic vinegar
- 5ml (1 tsp) fresh oregano, finely chopped
- 300g fresh vine tomatoes
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- handful basil leaves, to garnish
For the "meatballs", preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine all of the ingredients, except the sunflower oil, and stir through.
Place a large heavy-based pan over medium heat. Add the sunflower oil and spoon mounds of the meatball mixture into the hot oil. (An ice cream scoop works best, as it ensures that the meatballs are evenly shaped and portioned.) Fry the "meatballs" in batches, 2 minutes, on both sides. Transfer to the oven to cook, a further 5 minutes.
For the orzo and spicy red wine sauce, cook the orzo in salted boiling water, 8 – 10 minutes, until tender. Strain through a sieve.
Heat a saucepan over medium heat, and add the olive oil and chopped onion. Sauté, 5 minutes. Stir in the 5ml (1 tsp) finely chopped garlic, tomato paste, sugar and smoked chilli flakes, and sauté, 1 minute. Stir in the wine, tinned tomatoes, balsamic vinegar and 5ml (1 tsp) oregano, and simmer, 5 minutes. Add the vine tomatoes, cover with a lid and simmer, 2 minutes. Season to taste.
Top the orzo with the sauce and "meatballs" (reserving the vine tomatoes). Serve with the reserving vine tomatoes from the sauce, and add grated Parmesan and fresh basil.
If the sauce is too spicy for your liking, add a splash of fresh cream to reduce the chillies' heat.


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Meeting Summary for Jan 24th
Hi all: here follows a brief summary of what went down at today's get-together. If you don't feel like reading anything and simply want to know when the next meeting is, it is scheduled for next Saturday, January 31st at 8pm. We'll code seriously for 3 hours or so, then make with the drinky, and probably then silly sounds.
- Basic working model of "Server" machine accomplished. OSC messages are sent to the server with a modified name which is comprised of the first initial of your first name followed by your code name, no caps. ( bkane, jkitten, etc.) This is then broadcast out to the rest of the group with your name and the message. (kane, kitten, etc. followed by '/tr, 0' or some such.)
- Basic control of sound via OSC messaging occurred. Kane controlled the frequency of Dusty's single sine synth. like the first step on the moon. Kitten was very upset because he was working toward this goal simultaneously. however, Dusty was controlling the server… 😉
- correct translation and passing of OSC messages between SC3 and Max was accomplished.
- Most importantly, all of the above was made possible by The Star of Kane <– a mysterious property whereby an unintelligible Int8Array is transformed from useless, error-throwing junk to a working array of data. Bravo Kane, you are today's hero!
If I've forgot anything, post a correction or addendum. Good luck to all in your endeavors this week, and we'll see each other soon, at the lastest hopefully next Saturday. Cheers!


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These scammers are not in the USA and I am sure that there is no legal action that I can take. There is no way that I can stop them from stealing my photos. This has been happening for years, but it is at an epic level now. I feel bad that this can hurt my reputation if you are a customer and think that you are buying from me when it is a scammer site. To avoid this you can only buy buy going directly to my website.
If they already got you, I am so sorry.
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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O'Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.
22 Nov 1993: Chalmers, Judy
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POM. Judy, we missed you last year, you were on a trip to foreign parts. Could you give me a sense of what that trip was about? You mentioned some of the people who were on it.
JC. Yes as a member of the ANC I sit on a back-up committee that has been looking at local government and looking at how to bring Port Elizabeth, which has been a very divided city, into the situation where it is one municipality. Port Elizabeth in fact has led the field in South Africa in moving towards reintegrating itself into one municipality with a common tax base, one city. So that was taking people mainly from the ANC, it was organised by the Human Rights Trust, looking at local government in Washington - we went to Washington, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Berne in Switzerland. I think there were 22 ANC members, four DP members of the City Council here in Port Elizabeth and the four top bureaucrats in PE, the City Treasurer, the City Engineer, the Town Clerk and the City Administrator, and then we also had people with us from some of the rural areas, a women from Port Alfred, from Graaff Reinet, from Bedford, people who had never really moved away from the community base so it was very much a major experience for them and for us to be with them as we looked at how some of the major cities of the world were managing local government, particularly Berlin and Moscow, in a transition period. It was very interesting.
POM. How about the mix of people who were on the trip and their inter-relationships?
JC. On the whole we got on very well. There were a few clashes that had to do with personal styles more than anything. People shared rooms, we all shared rooms. There were six women and we shared accommodation, we had double rooms. The Town Clerk was sharing with a Comrade from the SACP and on the whole I think people formed relationships. I think that was really the major plus that came out of the trip, that we formed relationships that enabled us that when we got back to our own city to approach one another on a personal basis and I think some trust was formed during the trip. We still get together and meet and now if I've got a query about something that is happening in local government I feel comfortable ringing up the Town Clerk and so it goes. I think that trip was probably very much a factor in the fact that PE is ahead of the other cities in terms of local government.
POM. Now you had mentioned earlier this Major Danie Badenhorst. I'd just like you to tell that story again.
JC. Well that happened in 1988 when a group of about 30 of us went up to Lusaka to meet the ANC and talk through policy issues, just to really meet one another and it was a very successful trip. It was over a long weekend and we had three hard days meeting, we met Joe Slovo and Thabo Mbeki. It was while Oliver Tambo had had a stroke but quite a minor one so he spent time, he chaired one of the sessions and it was wonderful spending that time with him when he was still in full possession of his faculties. Anyway when we got back the morning after we returned there was a knock at 5 o'clock in the morning, it was in mid-winter, on my front door and there were four security policemen and a policewoman who then proceeded to search our house in great depth. I hadn't brought back any subversive literature with me because I'm not that stupid and so there was really nothing much to find except that in my study I did have a lot of the original, the primary documents that we collected in Black Sash over the years from people we were taking statements from during the state of emergency so I was a little bit nervous about that, but it was not banned literature. Anyway they spent all this time with us and when I had to get dressed the woman came into the bathroom with me and watched me dress, they searched through our underwear. It was one of those really - quite a nasty experience. It hadn't happened to me in that sort of depth before.
. Anyway, now we find ourselves in 1993 and I sit on the local Peace Committee with the Major who headed that team that searched my house in 1988 and I in fact don't let him get away with it. When we, the Sash, had the launch of our new vision statement this year I invited Danie to come and he had a very nice time, in fact I think he was the last to leave but we had many township people, from the ANC, from the community based organisations and everybody I introduced him to I said, "Now this is the guy who searched my house in 1988", and he said, "Ja, well, those were different times", and he took it in good spirit and we've now become quite good friends. I know about some of his family problems and we've got a good basis for a relationship.
POM. Since we've talked to you last how far has South Africa come?
JC. I think an enormous way over the last two years. I think we have progressed in every way and in many aspects to everybody's surprise. I feel really quite proud to be a South African now which I haven't had that sensation for many years but I think people have sat down together, they've worked together, there's been a lot of horse dealing going on but that was inevitable. I think at a local level here we've seen the changes in local government. I think there have been relationships of trust being established. I think you see that with the bureaucracies, I think you see it with the South African Police and the South African Defence Force and I think you also see it just in ordinary white perceptions. I think there is a lot of fear. Perhaps we are luckier in the Eastern Cape than in many other areas because there isn't the violence here. There's an enormous amount of criminal activity but there isn't the political violence mainly perhaps because this is politically a very unified area. This is the heartland of the ANC, there's an element of PAC but there is no Inkatha Freedom Party, well there is a branch of the Inkatha Freedom Party which is managed by a white Afrikaner called Mr Rautenbach, but there just isn't the political violence and I think people just want the election to come and go and they want to get on with their lives and they hope, perhaps optimistically, that once the political situation has become clearer to the world there will be an input of foreign finances which gives everybody the hope that maybe South Africa will finally be able to become the country that can fulfil its potential. So I think there have been enormous changes.
POM. What is your understanding of what was agreed to in Kempton Park last week?
JC. Well I'm no constitutional expert but I think the whole plan for a Transitional Executive Council looks promising. I think there are aspects of it that one is perhaps somewhat uncomfortable with like the single vote. I think here in the Eastern Cape we are worried about the regional boundaries and I think there is enormous concern about that because it affects people's pockets. I think the new dispensation for the police looks encouraging and for the South African Defence Force. I think, thank goodness, the Supreme Court, the method of nominating people for the Supreme Court has come round to being a far more democratic way than it was a week ago, so that's helpful. I'm sure there's so much horse trading going on.
. I've been quite involved in the Goniwe Inquest that has been running down here for months and that too has been a most interesting situation where you have an ex-SADF officer who sent the original message for Matthew Goniwe and three other Cradock leaders to be assassinated, the outcome of the message looks as though it led to their being assassinated in very, very, terrible circumstances. The man who sent the message has been the chief witness in the Goniwe Inquest and has admitted to sending the message and the scenario has been that on the one side you had the South African Police Senior Counsel and on the other side the South African Defence Force Senior Counsel each trying to blame each other for the eventual outcome, for the fact that Matthew Goniwe was murdered. Subsequent to the murder there were three black security policemen and an informer were blown up in a car in 1990, clearly it was an inside job and they were blown away very likely because of knowledge that they had and we now realise probably knowledge that they had about the Goniwe murder. So the South African Defence Force have latched on to this to blame the police and the police are saying, "No, no you had just as much ability to assassinate Matthew Goniwe as we did", so it's like a hot potato being thrown from one to the other and the man who finally agreed to the message, General Joffel van der Westhuizen who is head of Military Intelligence in the whole of South Africa, and we have been very fearful that there has been some horse trading going on with General van der Westhuizen and that he will get away with the fact that he ultimately was responsible for sending that message and we're not sure that that won't happen.
. But on the other hand through this has come an exposure, mainly because of this Lourens du Plessis who was the Colonel who sent the message, there has been an exposure of the methodologies, the way of working, the dirty tricks that went on in the eighties that has been quite remarkable and it fell to me to sit quite often with Colonel Lourens du Plessis because of the fact that his own lawyers could not sit with him during the breaks when he was in the witness box so it fell to my lot to give him moral support. He's a man who has had quite a history of a drinking problem and there was fear that he might not quite manage it in the witness box so I used to sit with him, took him home for lunch, etc. and he told me some of the things that were done during the mid-eighties that really amazed and shocked me. We knew there were dirty tricks going on but we didn't know the amounts of money that were put into it, we didn't know the technology that was being given to it in terms of the pamphlets. They had a printing machine, the pamphlets that were being issued, the anti-consumer boycott pamphlets, the anti-UDF pamphlets were all coming from this one source and in fact this one man. So it has been an interesting past six months for me because I have been sitting in at most of that trial.
POM. Could you give us an example of what were some of the more shocking things, because you knew there were dirty tricks so what was beyond dirty tricks that so shocked you?
JC. Just on a personal basis something that shocked me was the fact that my husband and Rory Riordan had a paint business that they had been running, they had been involved with for many years and they took into their employ Mkhasillie Jack and other activists at the time and Mkhasillie Jack was the person who was co-ordinating the consumer boycott really against apartheid during 1985 and Lourens du Plessis master-minded the campaign to bring my husband's business down, and Rory Riordan's, and it is so strange at this time one finds oneself stepping back in history and forward into the present all the time as you come across people who have played a role over the years and you are now able to match two and two and make four out of things that before had not seemed, things that you knew were happening, things you suspected were happening, suddenly now parts of the jigsaw are being put into place. So that was something else that Lourens du Plessis did.
. Joffel van der Westhuizen put in place a civilian unit called Hammer that operated during the 1980s. They were created to be able to react quickly when there was a need for undercover work and we still don't know the extent that Hammer played but there have even been suspicions that they might have played a role in the death of my sister because they had a unit that was nearby to the place where we had the accident in December 1985. What I plan to do is sit with Lourens du Plessis with a tape recorder and just go through that time with him. I think it would be interesting and I think one could learn a lot from it because now he is prepared to talk.
POM. This brings up the whole question of amnesty and indemnity on the one hand and on the other hand the situation you had in East Germany and Czechoslovakia where people were given access to the files the security forces had on them and were able to learn the names of the individuals who had been informants and very often it was husband being informant against wife or brother against brother or whatever and it became a matter of terrific divisiveness in both East Germany and Czechoslovakia. What are your personal feelings on that whole question?
JC. A lot of the same trial that I referred to I sat with Mrs Goniwe who is the widow of Matthew Goniwe and she has said to me time and again that they are not looking at punishment, what they want is the truth. They want to know what happened, how it happened, why it happened and I think that is behind much of people's desire to know the names and the actions of the people, the CCB, the security police, the torturers, they want to know why it happened and how it happened, the disappearances, the assassinations. As far as revenge - I have a great fear and a certainty in fact that much of the information will have already been trashed. I am sure of that. I know Brian Curran of Lawyers for Human Rights has again and again called for the freezing of all files and documentation so as far as history is concerned, partly for history but also for the individuals who suffered during the apartheid era for them to have access to those files, for the files to be open to public scrutiny so that people can know what happened, for children to know what their father's history was and for us to learn a very salient lesson of how not to go into - I don't know that we learn from history but I just would feel much more comfortable if I knew those files were still in existence.
POM. If there were a file on you, I assume there is, besides being able to read the contents of the file would you wish to know who had supplied information about you and at what time or would you be satisfied with knowing this was the information that was collected on you?
JC. Well, for instance, our Advice Office was twice burnt, the second time in 1988 when they poured petrol through the window next to my desk and threw a match in and we lost a lot of information. I would jolly well like to know who did that. I think historically you would probably find it was very few people because the fewer the people the safer the operation. You'd probably find there weren't very many who were involved in those covert operations in the Eastern Cape. I mean Dirk Coetzee was involved in a few of the incidents but I think for it to be useful and for it to be historic you need to know the names. I think also one of the things that has been mooted as a possible way of dealing with the people who were involved is that they just must not in future hold public office and in order for that to happen we must know who they are. I would be very happy, even though I think he's a brilliant soldier and probably a man who like Louis Botha was just carrying out instructions, but I think a man like General Joffel van der Westhuizen I would be more comfortable I think if he was not the head of Military Intelligence in a future South Africa.
PAT. We were really talking about people who were in the townships who were part of an informer's network, who did it for money, young people. Do you think they should be exposed?
JC. That's a difficult one. I don't know. I don't know whether you stick to officialdom, people who were doing it because if you start investigating the impimpis that's another whole can of worms. The people themselves know, there are people quite high up in the Youth Movement and people say, "Indeed they were informers but we have forgiven them but we know." The people themselves in the communities know and knew who the informers were. Maybe there were mistakes and that's always another problem because there were mistakes made, there were people necklaced and who died appalling deaths and mistakes were made but I don't know whether that would serve a useful end to start a witch hunt. No I don't think so really. I don't think so.
POM. To go back to the constitution for a moment. When talks deadlocked last year it was over the issue of what they called the deadlock breaking mechanism, what mechanism would be used to break the stalemate if the Constituent Assembly couldn't agree on a constitution. From your reading and knowledge of the constitution, do you know what that is?
JC. I'm not clear really now what the deadlock breaking mechanism is.
POM. Do you know also another factor which received prominence and then seemed to disappear, how decisions would be made within the Cabinet? Whether they would be made on the basis of 51%?
JC. It's now 60% isn't it?
POM. I don't know.
JC. I think so. I think it is now 60%. I still have to read the draft, I don't think anybody really has read it yet, so I'm not clear on that. I agree, I think there are an awful lot of very important questions that ordinary people like myself just, as you say, that seem to have slipped away.
POM. You're not ordinary. You're educated and in a different sort of strata than most people.
JC. Perhaps slightly more informed than the average. And, too, I am a member of the ANC, but I'm not very clear on quite a lot.
POM. I've been asking this question of everybody, some of them in quite high positions in the ANC itself and I'm just met with blank stares as though a lot of matters that could create potential trouble were just shifted aside.
JC. Didn't Govan Mbeki have comment on that?
POM. No he said he hadn't studied the documents in detail.
PAT. Quite an interesting thing is that some of these issues on which CODESA 2 broke down are now getting resolved in a way that nobody knows how they have gotten resolved.
JC. It's quite scary isn't it? It is really quite scary and I'm sure it's what happened throughout history and only when you find that there's another war on your hands do you think, "If only we had actually made sure of that thing." So I think it's a very good question. Now maybe you're helping change history by making us go back and say, "What has happened?"
POM. I think that's not a very good thing! Taking what you know of the constitutional proposals and the TEC and the Electoral Bill on a scale of one to ten where would you rank all these proposals and propositions in terms of the degree to which you are satisfied with them? Ten representing very, very satisfied and zero representing very, very unsatisfied.
JC. I'm just so happy that they've come through that maybe my percentage is weighted by the relief I feel that the fact that there is actually going to be an election. I'm very uncomfortable with the fact that the Freedom Alliance is there at all but with the fact that they are being so hard line and even more so with Buthelezi who I think is a huge problem as far as South Africa is concerned. But I'd rate it at about a six I think. More plusses than minuses but I'll be happier when we have had a chance to actually workshop it and see what it means and what it means for us and what it means for people as far as the Black Sash is concerned, what it means for ordinary people in terms of human rights and where it leaves them. Our struggle to get welfare on to the agenda of the political parties is going to be enormous because there is so much politicking going on and ordinary people's problems - I really have no knowledge yet how it's going to change their lives and not in the next century, how their quality of life will become better over the next five years.
POM. What do you think the average person living in a township has the right to expect of a government of national unity after five years?
JC. So much will depend on the economy. I think in terms of local government I think the ordinary township person can expect some improvements. I think they can expect more electricity, I think they can expect better water. I think they will have more of a say at a local level in addressing their problems. I think we will have a City Council here that will have representation from all the political parties and just the ordinary people will be far better represented and have a far bigger say. I think from the white ratepayers point of view it's going to be very traumatic because they will be having to quite some extent finance the disaster areas of our city. So I think there will be an improvement in services which must be an improvement for them and I think they will have the ability to participate in a much greater way at local level and I think there's just so much excitement about. Because we're doing a lot of voter education, I think there's so much excitement about the vote and I think there are definitely expectations that are not going to be realised and there will be anger at the speed of progress and the fact that they feel that things are not happening at a rate that is really making a difference to them, but I think there will be an improvement in their quality of life but whether there will be jobs, that's really the bottom line, is something else.
POM. In March of 1992 de Klerk hit the peak of his popularity with winning the referendum and it looked as though the white right was demoralised, discredited and in a shambles, they didn't know what to do and some 18 months later you find that whereas the National Party stood at about 28% in surveys at that time it's now down to 12% or 11%, it's base seems extraordinarily fragmented and de Klerk has lost that touch he had in the first couple of years of being the one who made all the going. What happened?
JC. I just think it must be extraordinarily difficult, I mean stamina is what it's all about. I think perhaps for him it's taken too long. Mandela still seems to be able, even though I don't think he's a particularly healthy man, he still seems to be able to, and I think he's made some big mistakes, but I think he still manages to hold the people, hold his followers and with de Klerk there seems to have been a disenchantment. It's hard to really say, he himself seems to have weakened. I don't think his confidence has - I don't think he's feeling that he's doing the correct thing and the right thing and that has weakened him but he seems to have, as you say, lost his touch and I haven't really thought of analysing why.
. My personal feeling as far as the elections are concerned, I think that the National Party will get more than the present poll surveys are showing. We notice here in our Coloured community they have quite a following there and perhaps because this was also the heartland of the Labour Party, of Allan Hendrickse, although Allan Hendrickse himself is now avowed ANC. I think a lot of people will vote Nationalist Party because they perceive them as the government and they think that's where the money is and they know that the bureaucrats are still going to be predominantly Nationalist Party followers. So I think as far as the Nationalist Party is concerned this dropping off, I suppose he's perceived as a sell-out by so many Afrikaners who somehow thought he was going to swing it and again to keep white power in a way that would not change the status quo, really wouldn't change their lives. That was unrealistic.
. I was in Cape Town last week and with a South African who now lives in New Orleans, he's a lawyer and he was educated at Stellenbosch and he had spent quite a lot of time there and he says the people who he has come across who are upper middle class, educated middle class, all seem very resigned and just say, "Now we just want to be able to get on with our lives and let's get on with the elections and get on with it." I feel quite optimistic in that way. I don't know whether de Klerk is going to last too long in the transition period. I don't know what you are picking up on that. That charisma and confidence that came across so strongly from him seems to have withered away whereas people like Roelf Meyer particularly, Tertius Delport who is not my best thing at all, but others seem to have that iron that's bringing them through this period.
POM. With the Freedom Alliance there have been suggestions in the last couple of days, or at least since last week, that if the Freedom Alliance held itself together or ran on separate tickets, Buthelezi on the one hand and the white right wing on the other, that they could well end up with being in second place ahead of the National Party and therefore would have one of the Deputy Presidencies and would be in a position to sabotage from within. Do you think that is a real likelihood or just one of these 'stories of the week' things?
JC. The IFP isn't in the election yet, but people still seem to think that they may well come in although I've heard that it will depend to an extent what the King does because apparently the Executive will never go against Buthelezi unless the King distances himself from Buthelezi and it will depend on people like Walter Felgate whether he loses that hold that he seems to have over Buthelezi. I think Constand Viljoen is an interesting man and I think that he is making quite conciliatory noises. He's certainly not of the same ilk as Ferdi Hartzenberg and Tom Langley and those Conservative Party types who seem to hold on to Afrikanerdom in a very destructive sort of way. I think that Constand Viljoen makes a different sort of impact on the picture. If it wasn't for him I would be more pessimistic than I am about the role of the Freedom Alliance. Gqozo is finished I would say. Mangope, if it wasn't for Sol Kerzner and I'm quite surprised that Sol Kerzner continues in the style that he does in aligning himself with Mangope.
POM. Sorry, this is who?
JC. Sol Kerzner. You know the Sun City guy, Bophuthatswana. He holds the purse strings in Bophuthatswana so he controls Mangope to quite a large extent but I think both Mangope probably and Gqozo certainly will soon not be really major factors in the Freedom Alliance so then what are you left with? The CP, the Volksfront and there's a lot of - I don't think they'll ever really act in a sufficiently unified way for a sufficient length of time for them to play the role that you are thinking is possible.
POM. From which do you think the bigger threat will come? From Buthelezi or from what I'll just term collectively the white right wing?
JC. As far as the possibility of there being a Deputy President?
POM. No in terms of if Buthelezi stays outside the process will the result be an unstable South Africa coming into existence from which foreign investors will distance themselves in droves or must a way be found of accommodating him?
JC. I think if he doesn't come in there will probably be a referendum around secession and I'm amazed always that he still has the white support in Natal that he does have although I believe that within his Executive there are a number of whites who are extremely uncomfortable with the fact that he has pulled out of the negotiation process. I think the white right wing could start some sort of an IRA type operation which is enormously damaging because so few people are needed to do a tremendous amount of damage and they have clearly got the weapons and got the instruments to do this. For some of them they see it as a holy war and I think that would be very scary and I think it certainly would frighten away investors.
POM. So would you take this threat of violence from the white right more seriously than from the ...?
JC. I think not if I lived in Natal but I don't think you can quantify it really, they both could do an enormous amount of damage.
POM. Could you see a situation if the white right did engage in this IRA-like activity where it takes very few to cause enormous damage and kill a lot of people and tie down a lot of security forces, could you see a situation where a new government, shortly after it took office, it had to declare a state of emergency, bring in detention laws to cope with the situation?
JC. I would hope not but I think within the constitution there will have to be, it is far better to have laws that would encompass a state of emergency set in place beforehand rather than find yourself in a situation where there would have to be a state of emergency and not the legislation that could manage it in a way that it is least damaging to, hopefully, human rights culture and I think the same thing happens with detention laws. There must never be detention laws as was Section 29 where there was no access to lawyers, no access to family, where the names were not published. I think if there were to be detention laws it would have to be clearly set out, perhaps ten days, access to lawyers, access to family, names to be published and it could be used as a cooling off period. I'm not comfortable with it at all, but I've heard it discussed in quite some depth and that seems to be the thinking of lawyers and people in the human rights movement that it is better to have laws in place that could manage it in the least damaging way than just to find yourself in a situation.
POM. Make up the laws as you go along.
JC. Yes, that's right. It goes against the grain to even think along those lines but I guess it's sensible.
POM. Just to return to Buthelezi, a lot of people said that all you have to do to deal with the Buthelezis of the world or the Mangopes is to pull the financial strings and cut off their funding and that brings everything to a halt. To your knowledge is Zulu nationalism a real thing? Is it a real thing that Buthelezi, with the backing of the King, can draw on to either secede or to create conditions under which a new government would have to do some very serious bargaining with him?
JC. It's very hard for me to comment on that because Mandela speaks at a rally in mid-Natal and he gets enormous support and I only hear, probably because of my Sash connections and friends I have, I mostly hear about the anti-Buthelezi feeling. He's diabetic, people say his temper is sometimes very unpredictable, he's about 65 or 66 now but clearly a frustrated and in many ways humiliated man and I think he is dangerous and I think in Natal there are so many of those ex-colonial types that still think that they can go it alone, but I don't know how rational it is and I couldn't really comment on whether secession is a realistic possibility. But I've heard that it would certainly be a consideration for him because I think he's lost his hope of national leadership and so the regional option must be the one for him. But the war talk and the talk of civil war I think is hideous, absolutely hideous and I am amazed that there are people around him who go along with it. I think many parts of Natal are really very, very terrible. I sit on a Board in Johannesburg called the Independent Board of Investigation into Informal Repression and Peter Kerchoff from Natal comes up, he's in the Anglican Church in Natal, and the things he tells us of absolute - violence is always the first option, it's real anarchy there. It will be a hit and then a counter hit and then another counter one and everybody's lost sight of the original reason for the first strike or for the first act and the warlords here who Buthelezi does certainly encourage and it's all territorial and positively medieval really in many ways.
POM. Is Peter Kerchoff - where is he in Natal?
JC. He's in Pietermaritzburg and I can't remember the name of the organisation he belongs to but he works with the Anglican Church in Natal. He's a very good person.
POM. You wouldn't have a telephone number for him?
JC. I might have. I would either have it here or in my thing at home. He'd be a very valuable person for you to talk to.
POM. One of the things we've become particularly interested in is in the dynamics of the violence and whether or not it can be brought under control not only before an election but after an election, whether it has now gathered a force and a momentum that must play itself out over a number of years.
JC. And whether people will be too afraid to go to the polls. If the IFP doesn't come in I can't think that anybody will be allowed to vote up there. It's the same with Bophuthatswana. They are saying that you don't have to be a South African citizen to vote, you can come in with a homeland passport and people will come out of Bophuthatswana to vote but the repression there is so high that what will happen to them when they go back, that is a major worry.
PAT. Why when the story is told about Natal, and maybe it's just the people that we know as well, is it always told as the IFP story and not as the ANC. They say it takes two sides to fight a civil war and what you see is simply one side against the other side. What do you think are the dynamics of that? Do you think it's just that the IFP has terrible publicity agents in terms of how they do this?
JC. It's quite funny because they had Laurens van der Post, you remember Laurens van der Post that quite special old chappie who's written so much about the Bushmen and he's a great friend of Buthelezi's and he's had two interviews on SATV a little while ago and he's now 86 or 87 or something and he's godfather of one of Prince Charles' children I think as a man who has seen life in many ways, he was in Japanese prisoner of war camp during the war and was tortured but he thinks that Buthelezi has been maligned and run down and publicity given him is so slanted, but that's not what one hears from people who live there. I hear probably anti-Inkatha or anti-Buthelezi, that's the sort of information I mostly do get but then I think it seems to be, everybody says it's stemming from him. It's his encouragement of the warlords. He could stop it if he really wanted to.
POM. He promotes himself as a devout Christian who abhors violence of every kind. Where was it the other day we saw a photograph of him and he was crying and he was talking about ...
PAT. In Dennis Worrall's office, it was a photo from a couple of years ago.
POM. But it was Buthelezi crying and he was talking about the violence that was going on and the necessity to stop it. So one finds it difficult. As Patricia put it, if there are two sides involved in a conflict it's very easy to pick one side as the noble side and the other side as the bad side and we've wondered - if one goes through the lists of Inkatha people who have been killed over the last couple of years one could certainly make the case that there has been a calculated campaign to destroy middle level Inkatha leadership. And that's why I would like to talk to Peter because if the violence really depends on dynamics that are outside of his control, I mean does he have full control over the warlords?
JC. It may be so. People don't say really that he can stop it but they say it won't stop as long as he is there which is something different.
POM. But he is the person who suggested that he and Mandela do joint tours together and make appeals for peace and the ANC has never taken him up on that.
JC. But they say something different of course, so you're right, it's where you stand. But Peter will say there have been terrible acts on both sides and it's the same people, it's people within a village who have lived alongside each other for years, for decades and something will come in and suddenly the dynamic will change and then there will be trouble. It's so easy to contrive from both sides, for the one side maybe to see that Inkatha are gaining some ground there so to undermine that and for the same thing to happen.
. It happens in the PWV area with the hostels and it's the same situation. You just don't know how much of it is manipulated and how many agents provocateurs there are involved because that is so I am quite sure. Where there are peaceful areas on the PWV and then suddenly there will be a drive-by killing and some of the documentation that we have had from our researchers on the Independent Board who are in there all the time has been really remarkable especially about the hostels. Our one researcher particularly, she has now had to pull out a bit because it's becoming terribly, terribly stressful, but she was just in there all the time on the East Rand and the documentation that has come out of that is amazing and what a role the police are playing up there, especially the ISUs. Time and again requests are made to them in a timely fashion and they just don't respond and they're not there or they go somewhere else and you wonder how much of the violence is manipulated. We are just so lucky down here.
POM. We've a couple of families in Thokoza, the other part of what we're doing since we talked to you last is that I now have ten families ranging from a rich conservative family living in Zeerust to an African family living in a shack in Orange Farm and every colour and income group in between. I interview all these families extensively two or three times a year, aunts, uncles, siblings, whoever is in the circle of the family to get a sense of what is happening to ordinary people while this is going on and we have one family in Thokoza to whom we have had great difficulty getting access to this time because they don't want us there, not just for our safety but for their safety too.
PAT. They are sympathetic to the ANC.
POM. Then we also have a family that is IFP with a quite remarkable woman, her name is Gertrude Mzizi and what she would tell you about the atrocities that have been visited on them ...
JC. Now is she on the Executive of the IFP?
PAT. Not on the Executive of the IFP but in the Thokoza area her husband is Chairman of the branch and she is head of the Women's League. So in that particular area, they live in a home there, their membership is the people who live in the hostels. She's on the Peace Committee.
POM. But it's extraordinary because if you hear things that she tells with such passion and intensity you say this person must be telling the truth and this must be the way it is. Then of course you cross the street and you get an entirely different version of events told with the same degree of passion of intensity. Would there be any way of getting hold of some of the documentation of that Commission?
JC. You can go to the office. I'll give you the number. If you phone and speak to Sally Sealy, and another person who I think would be useful for you to talk to is Paul Verryn. He's a Methodist Minister who lives in Soweto. He has five parishes there. He's been involved in peace action for some years and he's very much in touch with Soweto dynamics and what is happening there. He's a remarkable man. It's called the Independent Board of Investigation into Informal Repression and the number is 4033256 or 7. They'll probably want to know what you're going to do with it but Sally Sealy is the person to talk to there. It came into being at the time when Frank Chikane was poisoned. I don't know if you remember? And there were a lot of covert operations going on that were not official and there was a decision taken to have an Institute that looked into the hit squads. The other people who come regularly to that are John Dugard and Brian Curran, Sheena Duncan and Brother Jude from the Catholic church, SACC, and Max Coleman also from HRC and they do very, very interesting work.
POM. And the cleric's name is?
JC. Paul Verryn and you can get him at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg which is 3375938. I've got a meeting at 5.30 so I must go.
POM. Thank you every so much. Fascinating.
JC. I ramble on but I'll be back home by 7 or just after and then I can give that to you. Peter would be very useful. He's a very nice man too.
PAT. Is this one of the areas in the boundary demarcation that they have opened up the local option for referendums when you said ...?
JC. What's going to happen here at the election it will be voted as one region but the votes will be counted separately apparently. It's all very strange I don't really understand it.
PAT. So that later one could break off?
JC. Well the Eastern Cape, the businessmen, everybody, the DP, everyone except the ANC wants it to be a separate region, for Ciskei, Transkei to be part of the Border region and for the Eastern Cape to be, well it's region D which stretches right up to De Aar and then they want PE to be the capital and the ANC has ideas that maybe it could be one big region so that the Transkei and Ciskei would have more of an industrial base and have Kingwilliamstown as the capital which freaks the PE businessmen absolutely out of their minds.
POM. It would also be making it much more a Xhosa region.
JC. Yes, yes, very much.
POM. Interestingly again for their opposition to ethnically driven boundaries.
JC. I'm quite torn on it because I love Port Elizabeth. I was born and bred here and I don't want it to be sucked into an absolutely hopeless situation so I'm also being a bit ethnic I think.
PAT. ... the candidates for the regional legislature, like in the ANC?
JC. That's what we're all trying to find out. And how they are going to be doing it for our City Council.
PAT. When is that, October, November?
JC. It's going to be so interesting because the Mayor at the moment gets R8000-00 a month and he's an absolute nerd. I'm trying to think how he can be a middle-aged nerd, he's really useless. So, no, what they're planning is if they have 100 councillors, 50 from the statutory and 50 from the non-statutory section it will come down to everybody receiving a salary of about R700-00 a month, so the white Nationalist Party and CP City Councillors are fighting like anything on all sorts of different options and there's a real battle going on. So much of it just comes down to personalities and leadership and we've actually got really good local government leadership here and they carry the whole thing. Rory is one of them. Then there's that tension, that black and white tension that white intellectuals are masterminding the process yet again and people like Rory would be seen as being somewhat arrogant and somewhat manipulative perhaps so there are so many different dynamics.
POM. Thank you ever so much.


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LaWana Boone of Gloucester County, NJ chose Rowan's Diversity and Inclusion Certificate of Graduate Study for its rigorous curriculum, classes both online and close to home, and opportunities to get involved on campus. This fall, she earned her graduate certificate — the first to do so — and plans to leverage her knowledge to help organizations further their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Read on for more of LaWana's story.
"Being first, to me, is an honor. I'm very elated that I was able to be the first person to graduate from the program. I think it sets a tone for other students to become involved in a program, especially students of color," says Rowan Global student LaWana Boone on earning her Certificate of Graduate Study in Diversity and Inclusion from Rowan this fall.
LaWana says she has always been knowledgeable of diversity, what "people of color have faced, in particular Black people in this country, striving for equality."
The Rowan program's interdisciplinary courses served to deepen her knowledge base and expand her scope of diversity and inclusion to other populations.
Calling the program "very rigorous," LaWana says the coursework covered literature and politics as well as "qualitative research and physiological approaches to diversity and inclusion."
One particularly impactful class for LaWana was History of Political and Social Movements, which opened her eyes to other groups, from the LGBTQ+ to Native American communities, which have fought for their voices and rights throughout time.
She made connections with faculty, some of whom she considers friends. "They were able to take time with me in class and out of class. I enjoyed conversing with them on all levels of academia and personal issues," LaWana says.
She also discovered student opportunities on campus, volunteering her time on Fridays with the Fresh for All program, which distributes produce each week to the Rowan and Glassboro communities.
"I love giving back. I love serving my community," LaWana says. "As humans, we never know when we could be that very one needing and on that receiving end. So whenever I have an opportunity in life, I always try to give and help those who may be in need because that very person could be me one day."
LaWana's professional goal is to impact others in the community by teaching about the benefits of being a diverse company, "using diversity and inclusion, making it a part of the fabric of each and every organization in which your employees can grow, and thrive, and balance equality among all employees," she explains. She adds this is something that should start at the top, with executive leadership communicating directly about diversity and inclusion to their employees.
With her certificate in hand and future in sight, LaWana reflects on this Black History Month with reverence and a renewed perspective: "Black History Month to me is honoring my past ancestors and paying tribute to them for all of their achievements and progress under insurmountable odds, they still thrived. They still succeeded. And they're still here. And also coupled with looking towards the future, the future of knowing that people are now finally being given more opportunity. Are things perfect? Absolutely not. However, I do think that we are making strides. Black history to me means honoring the ancestors, paying it forward, standing on their shoulders and doing and being the best that I can be to pass the baton to others."
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A catalyst (or catalytic converter) is a component of an exhaust system that reduces the amount of harmful substances in exhaust gases, such as CO, CH, NO and NO2. All of these are poisonous and components of smog. So the catalyst is an element, containing noble metals that in reaction with harmful substances "burn" them to environmentally friendly standards.
Inside the catalyst body there is either a ceramic or metal honeycomb structure on which is applied a thin layer of platinum-iridium alloy.
With the introduction of environmental standards, all cars began to be equipped with one or more catalysts.
What to do if there are problems in work of catalyst
In most cases, the dealers refuse to change catalytic converter under warranty and assure that this is due to the poor quality of gasoline that was used. As a result they offer to change this detail.
The price of the original catalyst ranges from 500 up to 2000 usd. The price of the catalyst is so high because it is basically the entire exhaust pipe, that is rather complex part, including the complex flange connections, exhaust manifold, most often corrugation and the catalyst barrel itself. It is clear that such a part is very complex and expensive to manufacture. In addition, the catalysts contain precious metals, that are themselves expensive.
Most often in specialized services specialists offer their clients alternative catalyst replacement solutions, such as:
- Installation of a universal catalyst. It is directly the catalyst barrel itself. It is welded into a standard part, instead of a failed catalyst. Basically, here is replaced the part of the exhaust system that is out of order, and not the entire exhaust pipe. This option is more correct and significantly more budget depending on the size and requirements of the catalyst unit.
- Replacing the catalyst with a flame arrester. This work generally removes the catalyst from the system. Instead of a catalyst is installed a flame arrester (pre-resonator), which does not clean the exhaust gases, but only smooths the exhaust stream, removing extraneous sounds that will occur if you simply remove the catalyst.
The replacement of catalyst
From the point of view of chemistry, the catalyst is a non-wearing component. However, in practice, the catalyst in the exhaust system fails first.
In case of universal catalyst installation, there is only one drawback. A universal catalyst, like the original one, is very dependent on external factors. Therefore, it is impossible to give a full guarantee on it. Usually, they work for 60-80 thousand km, but may fail even earlier if there is a failure in the ignition system or in the engine operating system.
In any case for high-quality diagnostic, it's recommended to use services of the reliable car service. In such case, personalized approach is guaranteed. You can sell the used catalytic converter on the website autocatalystmarket.com.


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Illumina, Inc. has donated $1 million in sequencing capabilities to the Molecular Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at Kasturba Hospital, in the Municipal Corporate of Greater Mumbai, to help expand SARS-CoV-2 sequencing capabilities in the region and support the broader genomic surveillance effort across India.
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Caulmert were appointed by Wynne Construction to provide professional Civil and Structural Engineering design services for the new £7m Holyhead Primary School on behalf of Anglesey County Council.
The scheme involved the design of a new building, whilst the existing listed building on the site was refurbished to retain its existing features whilst complimenting the new development.
The design and detailing was undertaken using a fully collaborative Level 2 BIM process. The design team fully embraced the BIM process and Caulmert undertook the detailing using Revit 2015 and specification through NBS Create.
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New Recipe - Now with Lower Net Carbs and Calories.
The Keto Chocolate and Hazelnut Ganache Tartlet is an indulgent treat that can be enjoyed any time of the day. It features a rich and flavourful crusty base, and filled with dark and rich chocolate ganache, topped with hazelnuts. Each bite is sheer pleasure! Enjoy them in your me-time, with friends or delight your guests at a party. With just 2.7g net carbs per piece, you can rest easy and enjoy.
Sugar free. Gluten free.
2-Pieces Per Pack
Key Nutritional Info
Cocoa mass, cream, almond flour, butter, erythritol, cocoa butter, resistant tapioca starch, egg, coffee, inulin, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, vanilla, stevia
Allergens: Dairy, eggs, nuts
Nutrition per Tartlet (75g)
Net carbs 2.7g
Total carbs 11.8g
Sugars 1g
Fiber 9.1g
Protein 4.9g
Fat 26.8g
Calories 287 Kcal
Special Instructions
We use all natural ingredients and no preservatives in our products. The tartlets are best consumed as soon as possible. If required, you can freeze them for up to two weeks.