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Setsuko Thurlow Visits Berlin
August 28, 2015
By Maria Lohbeck, ICAN Germany
In late June, ICAN Germany hosted Setsuko Thurlow for one week in Berlin to share her experience of the bombing on Hiroshima.
The pupils of in the Berlin high school she visited only knew the stories about Hiroshima and Nagasaki from their history books. Recently, the 10th grade school class has spent some lessons on the Second World War, learning about what happened on 6th and 9th of August in 1945. Today's lesson, however, is different: Setsuko Thurlow is present. She gives a personal account on what had happened to her on the day the nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on her hometown Hiroshima.
Setsuko was thirteen when she was exposed to the horrors of a nuclear detonation. That day, Setsuko and her classmates didn't have regular courses in school. In times of war, it was not unusual to send the school children away to support the war-efforts in any way. Together with other girls from her class, she was sent to a military base to help decipher secret codes on the morning of the 6th August. A military leader was just giving the girls a pep talk to motivate them for work, when an incredibly bright light outside caught everyone's attention. The next thing Setsuko remembers is that she was abruptly thrown into the air, and then she fell unconscious.
Setsuko was relatively lucky. While most of the other girls that were with her that day died, she survived and can still tell us about it. That day, someone helped her to free herself from the debris of the collapsed house and fortunately she was not heavily injured.
Moving to the United States for her studies, Setsuko decided to use her experience for political activism: today she can look back on centuries of peace and disarmament work, including a speech at the UN first committee.
Today Setsuko Thurlow is 84 years old, and she is a so-called Hibakusha: a survivor of the atomic bomb. She lives in Canada, but together with Kathleen Sullivan, a peace education campaigner and director of the association "Hibakusha Stories", she accepted the invitation of ICAN Germany to spend a week in Berlin in June 2015.
The week was packed with events:
Setsuko and Kathleen carried out workshops with 15-17 years old school pupils. Kathleen and Setsuko have been holding those workshops together already for years now. While Kathleen starts off giving the children understanding of the reality of nuclear weapons (how many are there? Who possessed them? How strong is their destructive force?), Setsuko subsequently gives an account of her own personal experience. Hearing Setsuko's story in such an intimate setting, many pupils were visibly touched and moved by her account. It was during these sessions that it became so obvious how hearing this personal story really has an impact on people's thinking.
Setsuko also spoke in front of big audiences: the "core event" was a public lecture in the long-established "Urania", a center for academic exchange with the public, where past speakers have included Albert Einstein and Max Frisch. In her lecture here Setsuko emphasized the connection of Germany and Japan, especially through German thinkers and intellectuals that have had great influence on Japanese society as well.
One of the highlights of Setsuko's visit was her speech in front of mostly medical students in the university: after she had finished her talk, an almost 200-strong crowd showed Setsuko their appreciation with a standing ovation.
For a commemoration event, Setsuko also visited the official Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial in Potsdam, close to Berlin. She was touched to speak on Hiroshima-Nagasaki square, especially because she had not learned of the existence of this new memorial before. Not long ago a German association, the "Hiroshima -Platz e.V." successfully fought for the establishment of this memorial place.
At the end of the week we were all exhausted and content that things worked out so well. We are grateful that Setsuko and Kathleen accepted our invitation to Berlin and made the week such a success. We are looking forward to working with them in the future.


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Santa Cruz charter school breaks ground on future 'forever home'
SANTA CRUZ >> With less than eight months remaining before Pacific Collegiate School hopes to throw open the doors to its new Mission Street home, the public charter school is launching a $2.2 million fundraising campaign to cover remaining costs.
By Jessica A. York
Santa Cruz council OKs new building for PCS
The Santa Cruz City Council approved plans Tuesday for Pacific Collegiate School to relocate its renown charter program to a largely empty building on the Westside, a proposal that requires special permits to operate in an industrial zone.
By J.M. Brown
Pacific Collegiate School gets initial OK for building plans
The Santa Cruz Planning Commission voted 6-0 Thursday to recommend city leaders approve a charter school's request to renovate an office building for its new site.
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Charter school votes to request facilities from Santa Cruz district
Move is back-up plan while city evaluates new building
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Growing Pains: Santa Cruz school reopening sparks fresh debate on easing overcrowding
Student population: Overcrowded district mulls four proposals for Natural Bridges Elementary amid call to slow down
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Santa Cruz's Pacific Collegiate reveals site for proposed relocation
SANTA CRUZ -- Leaders of Pacific Collegiate School, a nationally acclaimed charter school, announced Thursday the location of its proposed new site on Santa Cruz's Westside.
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Santa Cruz's Pacific Collegiate School names Simon Fletcher its new principal
SANTA CRUZ -- The Pacific Collegiate School board voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint Simon Fletcher, a leader at the acclaimed public charter school since its founding, as its next principal.
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Linking ≠ endorsement.
1) mainly macro: To all UK journalists, [the Conservatives are wrong on economics]
2) Blizzard in the Northeast United States
3) Morning Star :: Economist Pettifor backs bid to ween Labour off austerity
4) Why Russia's Economy Will Not Collapse by Charles Wyplosz – Project Syndicate
5) Calculated Risk: EIA: Record Oil Inventories, Imports at 7.4 million barrels per day
6) The Risk Retention Rules: A Victory for Securitizations Involving Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities? | Pepper Hamilton LLP – JDSupra
7) Why Juncker's Investment Plan Is A Good Try But Not Enough
8) Deal requires firms to justify fracking trade-secret claim – Washington Times
9) WASHINGTON: NTSB: Systemic flaws in safety oversight of gas pipelines | Business | FresnoBeecom
10) Big banks must face currency rigging lawsuit | Business Insurance
11) Cook County land bank may add 700 properties – Chicago Tribune
12) Is the $60 camera drone worth it? – YouTube
13) SYRIZA Victory in Greece In Spite of the NYT and WSJ Coverage – YouTube
14) 'Spaniards desperate, will revolt if Brussels fails to listen' – MEP for Podemos party – YouTube
15) The Case for Renting: Homeownership Isn't for Everyone | Zillow Blog
16) Woolworth mansion in Glen Cove blaze, firefighters respond – Newsday
17) New England coastline risk assessed – Eagle-Tribune: News
18) Warren Asks Wall Street for Answers on Dodd-Frank Rollback – Washington Wire – WSJ
19) Audit the Fed? Not so fast. – The Washington Post
20) How Fast Will China Grow? by Justin Yifu Lin – Project Syndicate
21) EUROPP — After Syriza's victory, Podemos now poses a major threat to the Spanish political establishment
22) Sluggish Wage Growth Continues Throughout 2014 | Economic Policy Institute
23) 421a Tax Abatement | Vicki Been HPD | Tenant Advocates NYC
24) Galle — Asia's property hotspot? – YouTube
25) Has Greece Done Enough? – YouTube
26) Yanis Varoufakis on the future of Greece – YouTube
27) How to Figure Cash Flow on Rental Properties – YouTube
⇧ mainly macro: To all UK journalists, [the Conservatives are wrong on economics]
Simon Wren-Lewis for Chancellor of the Exchequer? That would be quite a leg up for the UK. Are the Brits wise enough and educated enough (even simply informally)?
Simon Wren-Lewis, economics professor at Oxford University and fellow of Merton College:
To all UK journalists who plan to talk about the economy over the next 100 days. Here is a very simple fact. [3] GDP per head (a much better guide to average prosperity than GDP itself) grew at an average rate of less than 1% in the four years from 2010 to 2014. [1] In the previous 13 years (1997 to 2010), growth averaged over 1.5%. So growth in GDP per head was more than 50% higher under Labour than under the Conservatives, even though the biggest recession since the 1930s is included in the Labour period!
George Osborne says: "Britain has had the fastest growing major economy in the world in 2014." However GDP per head in the UK in 2014 remains below 2007 levels, but it had exceeded those levels in the US and Japan by 2013. …
That GDP per head growth under 1.9% in 2014 can be trumpeted as a great success when it is no more than average growth between 1971 and 2010, and when we should be recovering from a huge recession, and when there are signs that this growth may not be sustainable, shows how diminished our expectations have become.
Growth under Labour, including the Great Recession, was 50% better than under the Coalition. So please, if you want to make your reporting on the economy over the next 100 days objective, use this fact. If the Conservatives win this election because enough people believe that they are more competent than the previous government at handling the economy, it will be a devastating verdict – on the UK media and its journalists.
⇧ Blizzard in the Northeast United States
Some people are upset that the weather forecast was overstated concerning some areas. Others, and sometimes the same people, use that forecast to suggest Anthropogenic Global Warming isn't happening.
A blizzard in the Northeast United States this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record and near-record snowfall, high winds, and monumental drifts.
Exposures at Risk
Ten to 20 inches of snow can lead to loads of roughly 15 to 30 pounds per square foot on flat roofs, but that calculation does not account for snow drift, which can significantly increase loads. The risk of roof collapse is particularly acute for light metal, long-span roofs (such as on warehouses or hangars). Engineered structures must conform to high load tolerances and damage to these structures would be expected to be less. The roofs of marginally-engineered structures (such as small businesses, convenience stores, etc.) can collapse under large accumulations of snow, particularly if their roofs have not been well-maintained.
In the Northeast, design snow loads are on the order of 20 to 50 pounds per square foot. Many old buildings in the Northeast may not meet the current code requirements, however, which could increase the total damage. Also, other building elements—porches, carports, awnings, and gutters—which often do not receive any specific design attention, are vulnerable to heavy snow loading.
Heavy snow and strong wind can result in downed trees, causing damage to structures and automobiles, as well as downed power lines and power outages. Because of the cold temperatures throughout the Northeast, areas with long-duration power outages and lack of heat may experience frozen pipes.
Weather and climate are not synonymous. The trend is still warming. 2014 was the hottest year during modern record keeping. The rate of increase is not due to non-human involvement. Our use of carbon burned as fuel is the prime reason for the rate of increase, though there are other human inputs. Methane releases could become catastrophic if CO is not reduced in time.
⇧ Morning Star :: Economist Pettifor backs bid to ween Labour off austerity
Left MPs fighting for Labour to abandon cuts plans won an influential ally…as top economist Ann Pettifor backed their alternative to austerity.
A statement penned by Michael Meacher called for Labour to cut Britain's £90 billion deficit by "kick-starting the economy" with public investment.
It said that a million jobs could be created "without any increase in public borrowing" by directing publicly owned banks to invest £30bn in key industries.
"Politicians should look after employment, as Keynes once argued, and the budget will look after itself."
…public investment effectively pays for itself because creating well-paid, skilled jobs will generate income and sales tax revenues from the newly employed with which the borrowing can be repaid.
⇧ Why Russia's Economy Will Not Collapse by Charles Wyplosz – Project Syndicate
Charles Wyplosz, Professor of International Economics and Director of the International Centre for Money and Banking Studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva:
…in recent years, Russia has enjoyed a sizeable budget surplus, and public debt is below 20% of GDP. It is true that income from oil and gas, which represents the bulk of government revenues, has been halved when measured in dollars. But the Russian currency has fallen by about the same percentage, meaning that the government's income in rubles remains approximately unchanged.
Similarly, Russia's current-account balance has been mostly in surplus in recent years. Gross public and private external debt is below 40% of GDP, and much of it is denominated in rubles. The sharp fall in export income is rapidly changing the situation, but Russia is starting from a comfortable position. To panic would be premature.
Those are very good points within a rather narrow context. We laid out our much broader views in our last post: "Russia mulls "bad bank" to fight economic woes — fastFT: Market-moving news and views, 24 hours a day — FT.com." (https://propertypak.com/2015/01/29/news-real-estate-risk-economics-jan-29-2015/#01291517)
⇧ Calculated Risk: EIA: Record Oil Inventories, Imports at 7.4 million barrels per day
Bill McBride quoting "the EIA: Weekly Petroleum Status Report":
U.S. crude oil imports averaged over 7.4 million barrels per day last week, up by 204,000 barrels per day from the previous week. Over the last four weeks, crude oil imports averaged over 7.2 million barrels per day, 4.8% below the same four-week period last year. …
⇧ The Risk Retention Rules: A Victory for Securitizations Involving Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities? | Pepper Hamilton LLP – JDSupra
Because the risk retention requirements will require banks to list the retained interests on their balance sheets, banks will have to meet higher regulatory capital requirements. We expect this development to spur the migration of certain financial products away from banks to non-bank financial institutions, such as hedge funds.
Depending upon size, a given hedge fund may or may not be systemically risky for the economy as a whole. Will any hedge fund still be treated as Too Big To Fail? The Fed would have us believe not, but when push comes to shove and a large hedge fund has been under-regulated and fails, will the Fed sit by and let liquidation occur?
⇧ Why Juncker's Investment Plan Is A Good Try But Not Enough
Martin Meant, Senior Researcher and Head of Unit European Economic, Employment and Social Policy at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels:
It will lead to some more investment, but it suffers from serious shortcomings, meaning that the investment will be limited in volume and biased towards the countries that need EU help the least.
The continuing emphasis on 'structural reforms', when this is partly a euphemism for reducing employment protection and pay levels and for limiting the scope for collective bargaining, should also be judged counter-productive. Cutting wages has contributed in a number of countries to lower demand, without obvious positive effects in raising exports. Cutting wages can also nullify the positive effects of investment in areas which need to attract and retain qualified employees.
… To achieve more would require dropping the strict insistence on the core elements of austerity and developing a more substantial and better-funded investment plan. The current proposal ignores the great potential strength of a plan run from the EU level. A EU fund, or institution such as the EIB, if adequately capitalised, could raise substantial finance at very low rates of interest and use it to finance investment across the EU, above all in countries in the greatest difficulty.
⇧ Deal requires firms to justify fracking trade-secret claim – Washington Times
Many of the ingredients in fracking chemical products are linked to health problems ranging from respiratory distress to organ damage and cancer, according to Earthjustice.
Companies and commission staff will need time to re-process the litigated trade-secret requests and more recent ones regulators set aside pending the outcome of the lawsuit, but the work isn't insurmountable, said Tom Kropatsch, a program supervisor for the commission. "We think we can meet the requirements of what the agreement says," Kropatsch said.
⇧ WASHINGTON: NTSB: Systemic flaws in safety oversight of gas pipelines | Business | FresnoBee.com
Three accidents since 2010, in California, Florida and West Virginia, illustrate many of the systemic problems, the board said. In the California accident, nine people were killed and 70 homes destroyed. In the West Virginia incident, the stretch of pipeline that ruptured ignited a fire that destroyed three homes and damaged several others.
⇧ Big banks must face currency rigging lawsuit | Business Insurance
A federal judge on Wednesday said U.S. investors may pursue a nationwide antitrust lawsuit accusing 12 major banks of rigging prices in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
In some lines of work, they'd lose their institutional and personal licenses and serve time in prison. Why has there been such never-ending special treatment? When they are fined, it is never enough to even put their institutions at a financial lost for the given year.
⇧ Cook County land bank may add 700 properties – Chicago Tribune
To date, the land bank, created by the Cook County Board in early 2013, has acquired or earmarked for acquisition more than 60 homes or lots zoned for residential use. The first abandoned homes that have been sold to developers are scheduled to be rehabbed and put on the market for sale in spring.
⇧ Is the $60 camera drone worth it? – YouTube
FT San Francisco correspondent Tim Bradshaw tries out the cheapest camera drones on the market, the Hubsan X4 H107C and the Syma X5C, to see how these remote-controlled quadcopters with video cameras compare with more expensive models.
Don't break the law with these!
⇧ SYRIZA Victory in Greece In Spite of the NYT and WSJ Coverage – YouTube
Professor William Black says the people of Greece won in spite of mainstream medias' efforts to bury their plight and force them into a Great Depression.
He also pointed out the contagion of a different type: democracy overcoming neoliberalism and austerity.
⇧ 'Spaniards desperate, will revolt if Brussels fails to listen' – MEP for Podemos party – YouTube
This is a good follow-up to Bill Black's comments concerning democracy spreading to Spain and other nations.
It's not only Greece which is challenging the EU – Spain's echoing Athens' example and witnessing the rapid rise of a left-wing party. It's called 'Podemos', which means 'We can'.
RT spoke to Lola Sanchez, a Euro MP for Spain's Podemos Party, which is keen to follow Greece's example. She says that Brussels has no choice but to listen to Athens.
⇧ The Case for Renting: Homeownership Isn't for Everyone | Zillow Blog
This is a very good overview by Melissa Allison.
Shirleen Holt's relief at returning to renting is typical of many former homeowners.
No more fixing leaky faucets; no more time-consuming projects.
A marketing consultant who recently moved to Ashland, OR, Holt expects to own again, but for now she is thoroughly enjoying the renter's life.
"When something goes wrong, I just call the landlord," she says. "That right there is worth an extra $100 a month."
It's a practical reflection of the added bother and expenses that accompany owning a home.
Although owning is now twice as affordable as renting when it comes to monthly payments, those figures don't tell the whole story. Some people say they've made more money — and even become millionaires — because they switched from owning to renting. They invested down payments and other money that went toward mortgages, taxes, insurance and maintenance, and they came out ahead.
⇧ Woolworth mansion in Glen Cove blaze, firefighters respond – Newsday
Part of a wing of Glen Cove's historic Woolworth mansion was burned and "priceless" woodwork and decor forever gone when flames erupted Wednesday in a first-floor bedroom, authorities said.
Smoke was noticed just before 11 a.m. by an off-duty Glen Cove firefighter plowing the snow at the 1916 estate, city and fire officials said.
Brick construction saved a great deal of the house if not all of it.
⇧ New England coastline risk assessed – Eagle-Tribune: News
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday issued a report saying that managing the flooding risk along the North Atlantic coast from events like Superstorm Sandy is something that has to be done collaboratively by all levels of government and the private sector.
The Corps issued a framework to help that collaboration as part of a two-year study covering 31,000 miles of coastline along the northeastern United States.
The study said there are a range of options that communities can look at, such as how floodplains are used and how evacuation plans are put together. They also must consider how much risk is acceptable.
⇧ Warren Asks Wall Street for Answers on Dodd-Frank Rollback – Washington Wire – WSJ
Elizabeth Warren and her allies are keeping up the pressure on the contentious Dodd-Frank rollback that made its way into a must-pass $1.1 trillion spending bill at the end of last year.
Ms. Warren (D., Mass.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Maryland) sent letters to four top Wall Street banks Thursday asking for details about how the firms will alter their derivatives trading operations in the wake of the change. Mr. Cummings is the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform and Ms. Warren a member of the Senate Banking Committee.
The letters are a clear indication that liberal Democrats plan to continue hammering big banks over the change — which all but eliminated a provision forcing banks to "push-out" risky swaps activities into affiliates that aren't eligible for federal backstops.
We totally oppose the particular rollback of Dodd-Frank and find completely specious the argument that creating a wall so derivatives will not be backstopped increases overall risk.
⇧ Audit the Fed? Not so fast. – The Washington Post
Not this again.
Calls to "Audit the Fed" are back. And just as before, they are extraordinarily dangerous to the health of the U.S. economy.
We aren't going to question the sincerity with which Catherine Rampell holds her stated convictions. We are, however, more than a bit put off by the use of the loaded term "conspiracy."
As our readers know, we are not libertarian capitalists. That said, we certainly do not believe that auditing the Fed is dangerous. Here's why.
We don't think there should be a Fed as we know it but rather a computer program that increases or decreases the money supply (bond-free) across the board (all accounts) depending solely upon what the people want funded as expressed by fully informed votes, whether for representatives or directly on whatever measures the level of detail of which those deem in their interest to vote directly. If the money were put to the real economy and not finance capitalism (private speculation), there would be increases in real growth to match the increases the money supply and hence no inflation. The supply would be pegged to real productivity.
That would wrest democracy back from those who currently control it via nothing else than their wealth and the wealth of the corporations they own and control, which wealth was typically created on an uneven playing field made uneven in the first place by what money and often unethical means brought forth.
⇧ How Fast Will China Grow? by Justin Yifu Lin – Project Syndicate
Justin Yifu Lin, Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development, Peking University, founding director of the China Center for Economic Research:
In 2008, China's per capita income was just over one-fifth that of the United States. This gap is roughly equal to the gap between the US and Japan in 1951, after which Japan grew at an average annual rate of 9.2% for the next 20 years, or between the US and South Korea in 1977, after which South Korea grew at 7.6% per year for two decades. Singapore in 1967 and Taiwan in 1975 had similar gaps — followed by similar growth rates. By extension, in the 20 years after 2008, China should have a potential growth rate of roughly 8%.
But potential growth is just one part of the story. Whether it can be achieved depends on domestic conditions and the international environment. In order to exploit its latecomer advantage, China must deepen its reforms and eliminate its economy's residual distortions.
… China's investment resources are abundant. Combined central- and local-government debt amounts to less than 50% of GDP — low by international standards. Meanwhile, private savings in China amount to nearly 50% of GDP, and the country's foreign-exchange reserves have reached $4 trillion. Even under comparatively unfavorable external conditions, China can rely on investment to create jobs in the short term; as the number of jobs grows, so will consumption.
There's not one word about real estate in the entire article. The real-estate bubble issue still exists whether it's talked about or not.
⇧ EUROPP — After Syriza's victory, Podemos now poses a major threat to the Spanish political establishment
Following Syriza's victory in the Greek elections on 25 January, a number of commentators have turned their attention toward Spain, where the left-wing Podemos, which originally emerged from the Indignados protest movement, has been receiving strong polling numbers since the end of 2014. Vicente Navarro writes on the growth of Podemos and his role in shaping the party's economic programme. He argues that the anti-austerity and pro-democracy narrative put forward by Podemos has deeply resonated with the Spanish electorate, and that the party now poses a major threat to the Spanish political establishment.
We support Podemos' anti-austerity and pro-democracy efforts.
⇧ Sluggish Wage Growth Continues Throughout 2014 | Economic Policy Institute
Our position exactly:
We need to see consistent wage growth above this range before there is a hint of upward pressure on prices stemming from too-tight labor markets. Thus, the Fed should not even consider raising interest rates to forestall inflation until wage growth is consistently above this target. Elise Gould:
⇧ 421a Tax Abatement | Vicki Been HPD | Tenant Advocates NYC
It remains unclear what the future holds for the 421a tax abatement program. The program, which provides a tax break for developers but sometimes requires the addition of affordable units in their buildings, is set to expire in June.
⇧ Galle — Asia's property hotspot? – YouTube
Foreign investment into Sri Lanka's picturesque southern coast has grown since the end of the country's 26-year civil war. The FT's Avantika Chilkoti reports from the former Dutch settlement of Galle on the opportunities available for foreign investors.
⇧ Has Greece Done Enough? – YouTube
Moderate to strong pro-austerity positions voiced here.
Paolo Mauro and Anders Aslund debate whether the austerity undertaken by Greece has been sufficient to merit more help from Europe.
We, on the contrary, find austerity measures to be extremely anti-democratic. They are designed to further enrich entrenched usurers.
⇧ Yanis Varoufakis on the future of Greece – YouTube
This past Sunday, Greece's Syriza party came into the power and frequent Boom Bust guest Yanis Varoufakis was elected as finance minister. Take a look at some of Yanis' interview highlights from the show over starting from January 2014.
He's not a far-left radical at all. He's quite the mixed-economy realist and understands macroeconomics.
⇧ How to Figure Cash Flow on Rental Properties – YouTube
Mark Ferguson:
Cash flow is not monthly rent minus your mortgage. There are many more expenses you must account for.


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Vietnamese-French Nuage Rose (real name Bui Thi Hong Van) launched her novel Trois Nuage au Pays des Nenuphars (Three Clouds in the Country of Lotus) last Friday during the European Literature Days hosted in Ha Noi. The author picked up the French Writers Association award for "Most Favourite" title and has introduced her book at book fairs in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
She chats with Culture Vulture on her first book.
What is the book about?
It traces the nostalgia of a small girl, who experienced her childhood during the American war of destruction against North Viet Nam (1964-75). At first, I intended to write an autobiography. But soon, I realised that with the main heroine "I" in the story, it wouldn't work. Then I decided to write about "her", a small girl, who permits me to write more objectively and even explore more features of the war through the girl's innocent eyes.
The story consists of 250 pages; with some illustrations including rare photos of our family dating back to that time and some pencil sketches by my father. He helped me to draw sketches of the scenes and situations we experienced during my childhood in a rural area in the north, when we evacuated from Ha Noi to avoid American bombs in rural areas of Hai Duong Province.
I have no intention to write on the war and history as there are too many experts in the field. I just tell a story of my childhood in the context of historic moments. The story also reflects my memories of life in the countryside with kind-hearted farmers, wonderful scenes and odours.
What inspired you to write the novel?
Well, I actually have written a lot since I was young. Many people write as a career, some write as they are talented and many others write to earn a living. For me, I have written because of a very simple reason: I don't know how to express myself orally.
In some moments of my life, I realised that I haven't told my parents: I love you!
And I started to write the story as a love letter to my parents, then to the kind-hearted farmers who cared for me and my family during the fiercest period of war and poverty. My children have grown-up in France and are now living in Viet Nam. I also want to write for them to understand the historic periods of their motherland, about what their grandparents and family have experienced.
I wrote in French as I can express myself better in French than in Vietnamese. I have lived in France for a long time and there are many notions in Vietnamese that I don't know. When I started to write, French came naturally.
How has the book been received in Europe?
It's a real surprise. I'm not a professional writer nor a famous person. When I finished the book, I also had no intention to publish it. But many of my acquaintances read it and encouraged me to publish. Then I received some proposals from some publishers in Paris.
Then, I received the award from the French Writers Association's Publishing House.
And I have been warmly welcomed at book fairs in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Bretagne, Normandy and Mans.
I don't dare to talk too much on my book's success. Let the audience talk.
What are your most memorable moments with audiences there?
In each country, I had special, memorable and moving moments.
In Geneva, an American woman held my hands and said that my novel reminded her of her the 1960s, when she used to go marching in the streets to protest the war in Viet Nam.
In Brussels, Belgium, a physician told me that when reading my book, he was consumed by feelings of guilt over Viet Nam.
I was very moved by young audiences. I have signed my books to give to students aged 14-22 years old. And one of my youngest readers was a 12-year-old girl. I was very happy to talk to them.
And what I'm most happy about today is introducing my book in my very own motherland; in the city I was born. I want to give this novel as a present to my parents.
As a female writer, do you think women have advantages when it comes to writing?
No, I don't think women have more advantages or disadvantages than men when writing. I have written with the feelings of a human being, not a woman. Women and men are equal in the field. — VNS


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'Take Away The Lady' to be performed at the Stratford Arts House in the Autumn.
Reading for this is on Monday 19th May. Auditions will be on Wednesday 21st and Wednesday 28th May. At the Studio, 7.30pm.
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26 March 2018: Publisher Haynes has teamed up with BikeRadar, the authority on bikes and cycling gear, to create the ultimate Road Bike Manual app for true cycling enthusiasts.
Based on Haynes' best-selling Bike Manual, The Road Bike Manual app provides an authoritative and trusted voice when it comes to step-by-step maintenance guides. It also offers easy to follow videos and other handy content for any cyclist to digest when they're on the move.
Available now for tablets and smartphones, The Road Bike Manual App can be downloaded for just £2.99 from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.
From the wheels to the cockpit, drive train, frame care and brakes, the app provides essential how-to information and advice for maintaining a road bike. Packed with handy information and pointers, plus invaluable roadside fixes, it features instructional videos that provide advice on how to fix a bike when it all goes wrong but the tools or parts required to fix the problem properly aren't available.
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With over 30 years' experience working for and with Tour de France yellow Jersey holders, world champions, Olympians, world record breakers and countless elite athletes, Chaz Curry, who wrote the app's content, said: "In producing this app, I was keen to convey the techniques and 'trade craft' that have taken over thirty years for me to learn.
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Dave Clutterbuck, BikeRadar's Publishing Director, added: "There is so much information available to today's cyclist about bike repair and maintenance, but the quality and utility of this information varies massively. This makes it difficult for people to find the right advice for them. Teaming up with Haynes – a company that shares our heritage of world-class reader advice – has allowed us to create the best tool for cyclists, whatever their level of expertise."
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In his three decades of chucking spanners at bikes Chaz Curry has worked for and with Tour de France yellow Jersey holders, world champions, Olympians, world record breakers and countless elite athletes.
He designed an internal spoke nipple specifically for carbon rims and invented a suspension maintenance product that led to him co-founding a lubricants company.
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I've been working on a new army for a while, and I managed to get some cool and evocative shots of them the other weekend. These are my new Steel Legion that I'm planning to use in some games recreating the 3rd War for Armageddon soon. I've used Death Korps models for the troops, but those of you old enough to remember Codex Armageddon will know that Death Korps were just a different paint scheme for Steel Legion originally anyway, so these boys are back where they belong!
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The potential of a "good problem" exists. A "good problem" is like having too much of a good thing and deciding just exactly what to do to make a situation work well.
In football, a "good problem" occurs when a team has two strong quarterbacks, but the coach has to decide which one to play to best benefit his squad.
I saw where Mick Mulvaney mowed a patch of median on Sunday morning and had a photographer and reporter standing there to report about it. Political stunts like that make me feel insulted. It's not as if he'd ever done anything like that when he wasn't running for office. And people who do nice things in our community for the right reasons don't call a reporter to do a story about it, nor do they put a big sign on their tractors telling us to vote for them. I feel like politicians who pull stunts like this must think we're not very smart.
What an election year this has been. Back in January, South Carolina was in the national spotlight as both the major Democratic and Republican contenders hoping to become the next president courted primary voters.
It was an exciting few weeks as the presidential candidates crisscrossed the Palmetto State. A couple of those candidates – Republican John McCain and Democrat John Edwards (remember him?) – made campaign stops in Lancaster County.
Reading a letter to the editor can be entertaining and enlightening. It can also be discouraging and infuriating.
This whole business of who was born and raised here vs. someone who wasn't takes me back to the days of county vs. city.Almost every major policy item was fought over in that manner.
It was difficult it was to change to a county-wide school district, with a board that appointed a qualified superintendent. We were elated when we helped elect Bob Mobley to the County Council. That was the start of working together.
I believe in public education. I believe in public education because it is committed to helping all children be successful – no matter how much their parents make, or who their parents are, or where they worship, or how supportive – or non supportive – parents are of their child's efforts.
Public education embraces children with special needs, children who can't afford supplies, children who are geniuses, children who need motivation.
Public education embraces them, pushes them, gives them dreams – and the skills to achieve those dreams.
The United Way of Lancaster County's kickoff offered reason to celebrate.
The recent breakfast event, launching the local United Way's 51st year, featured a helping of the customary early-morning fare of sausage, scrambled eggs and biscuits.
The food had to have a taste of victory since the United Way's board of directors said $450,000 was raised last year, topping the goal of $400,000.
Those numbers had to produce smiles for the attendees at the thought of trying financial times here and across the state and nation.
In the Nov. 4 general election, voters of Lancaster County will have an opportunity to express their opinion as to whether sales tax charged in the county should be increased by 1 percent to pay for construction of a new county courthouse.
The vote is not whether or not to build such a facility. That has already been decided. County Council is on record as expressing the need for a new courthouse and declaring that one will be built.
We elect council members to use their best judgment in county matters and to make sound decisions when called for.
As usual, I read the majority of Mick Mulvaney's recent "Statehouse Report" with little interest.
As usual, he takes credit for the few "good" things coming out of the state capital, while ignoring all of the bad things like this year's multi-million dollar budget deficit that he was actually involved in.
Ignoring the deficit, he brags about the Department of Commerce spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for yet another planning study when Lancaster County already has a development plan.
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Born May 5 1885, Piedmont, Uinta County, Wyoming.2,6,7,8,9,10
He married Vera Mae Archer6 [Vera May Archer9], Mar 18 19156, Farmington, Utah6. Vera was born Apr 12 1892, Kansas.11 (Apr 29 1892).12 (c1896).2
On Sep 12 1918 William Edwin Hinshaw, age 33, registered for the World War I draft in Uinta County, Wyoming. He declared he was born May 5th 1885, and was then residing in Leroy, Uinta County, Wyoming, where he was a rancher. He declared his nearest relative was Mrs. Vera Hinshaw of Leroy. He was recorded as short, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair.8
William and family were shown in the 1920 census (Jan 8 1920), Leray Township, Uinta County, Wyoming:3
William and family were shown in the 1930 census, Cumberland Co. Road, Sulphur Springs Township, Uinta County, Wyoming:2
William Edwin Hinshaw died Feb 11 1951, Ogden, Weber County, Utah; age 66.6,9,10
William's obituary was published in "The Ogden Standard Examiner" (Ogden, Utah) on Tuesday evening, February 13, 19519 (see scan below).
In 1968 Vera was living in/near Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming.11
Vera died Nov 22 1968, buried Evanston City Cemetery, Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming.11,12
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PEORIA — Carter Lindstrom heard the cheers, but he wasn't sure.
When the Glen Ellyn Glenbard West senior stepped to the final rack of five basketballs Saturday during the Three-Point Showdown King of the Hill, Lindstrom didn't know he trailed the leader by two points.
"I heard the crowd," Lindstrom smiled when asked if the final shooter knew how many he needed to make on the final rack to win the showdown. "But I really didn't know. I was just trying to make them all."
The Class 4A 3-point champion squared up to the final rack and missed the first two. The next three 3s slipped into the net — just enough to edge Class 3A champion Treyvon Calvin of Arlington Heights St. Viator, who made 10 just seconds before.
The two small-school champions — both of whom said they've started baseball practice back home — tied for third with seven makes each.
Class 2A champion Graham Eighner, a senior at Hoopeston Area, made his seven in the first two racks before missing the final five.
Class 1A champ Christian Trexler of Tamms Egyptian, was the only junior in the finals.


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Rajkumar Holuss, 1st Sous Chef at The Waterside Inn, Bray, was announced as the winner of the UK final of the 49th Le Taittinger Prix Culinaire International competition this weekend. Following a closely fought final of the competition at Roux at Parliament Square, UK Presidential Judge, Michel Roux Jr, and Champagne Taittinger's Marketing Director, Vitalie Taittinger, revealed Rajkumar as the winner at the evening celebration.
Rajkumar was joined in the final by James Sleep, Junior Sous Chef at White's Club, London and Adam Thomason, Head Chef, Restaurant Associates at Deloitte. The three finalists each had to prepare their classic dish on a theme chosen by the organising committee, which this year was poularde (large chicken). They were also tasked with preparing their interpretation of a Bakewell tart, a theme provided by Michel Roux Jr a week before the final.
All three UK finalists received a Jeroboam of Champagne Taittinger and Rajkumar received €2,400 and a trophy. He will now go forward to compete in the international final in Paris on 23rd November, where he will be joined by the winners from France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Japan.
Comments Vitalie Taittinger "Congratulations to Rajkumar on winning this national final. The standard of all the entries in the UK final was incredibly high. He fought off some exceptional competition to take the title and this will hopefully stand him in good stead as he goes forward to represent the UK in the international final in November."
The competition, which was set up 49 years ago, is open to chefs between the ages of 24 and 39, with over five years' experience. Often referred to as the 'Everest of Gastronomy', it demonstrates Champagne Taittinger's commitment to the promotion of young, upcoming chefs.
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The European Commission would like to strengthen the so-called human security approach in export controls. The approach aims at regulating the export of certain cyber-surveillance technologies more strictly in cases in which they are deployed for surveillance purposes and might lead to human rights violations. According to the European Commission, the current export control system is solid but still has loopholes when it comes to controlling the export of critical cyber-surveillance technology to third countries. These conclusions were based on reports about human rights violations during the Arab Spring: journalists and civil society organizations reported human rights violations against regime opponents who had been monitored by state agencies. According to press reports, EU-technologies were used in some instances to monitor those individuals.
BDI explicitly backs strengthening human rights in third countries. It also supports the EU's value-based trade agenda that is intended to ensure high standards of sustainability, human rights, and democracy. However, the tools proposed in the reform proposal go beyond what is necessary. In fact, they could even fail to protect human rights. This is especially true for the new catch-all rules. In its position paper, BDI proposes an extended list-based approach that should be considered instead.
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Passengers and steam train enthusisasts were thrilled to watch the Oliver Cromwell chug into Melton railway station on Saturday.
The old loco, which is now owned by the National Railway Museum, entered service in 1951 and spent its first decade hauling express trains on the Great Eastern Main Line between London, Norwich, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.
Readers have been sending in their photographs of the atmospheric scene as the steam train arrived in a snow-bound Melton.
Jonathan McGrady was captured the loco leaving the station while Sara Alcraft took photos as it stopped to pick up passengers on its way north to York.
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Talk2 Media & Events (Talk2 ME), an incoming organiser for AIME 2019, is planning to make a strong entrance for next year's event. The company's CEO Matt Pearce announced a series of changes set to reflect the industry research the company has undertaken since being awarded the management contract.
According to Mr Pearce, the event mainly consists of three pillars: commerce, education and networking. The initiatives planned are meant to inhale the power of each and every one of those pillars in order to ensure the future longevity of the event.
To begin with, there will be special focus on The Hosted Buyer Program, by inviting key players which will reflect the Asia-Pacific region. Secondly, the range of education offered will be expanded to include both individual and industry development across all 3 days on a broad range of subjects. Finally, additional networking sessions on the show floor each day of the event as well as a new one on the Tuesday evening will be offered to participants.


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Dear Friends of MDLO,
Today seems like a great time to curl up with a good book, OR a great recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the snow falls!
We are very proud to join Maestro Glenn Quader and The Piedmont Symphony Orchestra in its 20th Anniversary Celebration along with the voices of The Reston Chorale (celebrating their 50th Anniversary!) and the American University Chorus in producing Beethoven's 9th Symphony! Beethoven's 9th has been long celebrated as one of the greatest works of oratorio which brings massive numbers of vocalists (over 135 in this case!!) and a fantastic orchestra together to make joyous sounds! We are very happy that some of our soloists have joined us from past MDLO Productions!
Our Beethoven's 9th soloists:
Merideth Marano returns after appearing as our Juliette in Roméo et Juliette (2015), Nedda in I Pagliacci (2014), and having been a part of our MDLO Emerging Artist Program. We are glad she is able to join us, having recently moved to Seattle, Washington!
Anamer Castrello returns to MDLO after appearing as Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette (2015) and Mama Lucia in Cavallaria Rusticana (2014). We thank Anamer for adding constant and essential energy and life to our organization and making time from her busy performing schedule!
Duane A. Moody returns after joining us as Canio in I Pagliacci (2014). We are happy he is able to join us again from his busy performing schedule (including engagements with the Three Mo' Tenors) and faculty duties at Berklee College of Music.
Javier Arrey joins MDLO for the first time after his debut as Marcello in La Bohème at The Vienna State Opera and joining the Metropolitan Opera roster this year. We are very fortunate to have Javier between engagements!
We are grateful to all who continue to support us in so many ways including those who have offered their time and expertise in furthering our goals, and those of our partner organizations
My best wishes to you and your family as you enjoy or struggle to conquer the snowfall! I look forward to seeing you at the Hylton Center in Manassas for this wonderful event.
With warm wishes after the snowfall,
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Plan Ahead
July 9th, 2012
Paul Merrill
Optimism in business is not always the best basis to make plans.
A local supermarket decided to put in a coffee shop within their store. They made a partnership with Tully's (http://www NULL.tullys NULL.com/), a coffee company based in Vermont. The coffee was fine. However, the location was not. Another very similar coffee shop opened in the same exact spot a few years before – and closed after about a year.
What made the supermarket decision-makers think that Tully's would be different? I'm not sure. I suspect it was a sense of optimism. I did not want to say, "I told you so," when the Tully's shop closed. I knew it would fail as soon as I saw them opening the shop, maybe two years before the closing.
The moral of the story? List the reasons why a new initiative from your organization failed. Ask all the players that you can find who were involved in the initiative. Learn from that mistake and do not repeat it! Use the lessons learned from that failed initiative to plan ahead for your next initiative.
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Elizabeth Howard (@smallstate) (http://elizabethhoward NULL.net) #July 17, 2012
We have a restaurant in a really weird location in town. It's HUGE inside with a big outdoor patio. It's been 3 different incarnations in the 5 years we have lived here. I am not sure why no one has clued in yet. It's just not gonna happen at that spot unless they figure out some way to overcome the location issue.
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I've seen that happen over and over. It always makes me wonder…


text: BUSINESS Manchester Orchestra to Play Interactive Tumblr IRL Showcase In Atlanta (Exclusive) 3/27/2014 by Andrew Hampp FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Andrew Thomas Lee Manchester Orchestra Atlanta rockers Manchester Orchestra will celebrate the release of their fourth album "Cope," out Tuesday (April 1) via Loma Vista/Republic, with a twist on a hometown show next Thursday (April 3). The group will take over Atlanta's Gallery L1 for the latest installment of Tumblr IRL, a music-and-art installation that has enabled bands like Childish Gambino and Broken Bells to bring their new albums to life for their most active fans.At the event, fans will be able to interact with and visualize their emotions and current moods as inspired by the music on "Cope," which layers hard-crunching guitars over heartfelt lyrics. The band will also perform acoustic, re-worked versions of songs from the new album. "The idea for both the record and the event was how differently the word 'Cope' can be interpreted," Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull tells Billboard. "I would ask my friends and family what they thought that word meant to them, and it was pretty fascinating that I never got the same explanation. So when we were trying to make this thing come to life in an art space, we wanted to focus on how to turn these different meanings into a really cool interactive party with projections and black-and-white lyrics."Adam Farrell, creative director for Loma Vista, the band's label, admits he "didn't get" the event's abstract concept when it was initially discussed three months ago "for the longest time. But what [agency] Uprising Creative came up with is a very elegant way of achieving what the band has always done, and associating it with cutting-edge technology."The events have thus far been a part of participating artists' album-release weeks, which can help boost both music sales as well as engagement on Tumblr. Though the company, acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion in May 2013, doesn't share specific follower counts for member pages, the company's music evangelist Nate Auerbach tells Billboard that Broken Bells saw their follower count "more than double" as a direct result of their Tumblr IRL performance at Brooklyn's Baby's All right in January. Even more specifically, a December installation for Childish Gambino at Brooklyn's Rough Trade generated 17,600 posts, 481,700 notes and 259,900 community engagements on Tumblr across a three-week period, according to data shared with Billboard."Tumblr IRL is a mix of artists who have relevance to the Tumblr community, a concept that demonstrates something that is unique or pushes limits, and a great album, and Manchester Orchestra checks a lot of those boxes," Auerbach says. He's also not wed to the strategy of working with artists who just have new albums to plug. "I'm not opposed to working with artists who have a tour with amazing production who are looking to deconstruct that a little," he adds.Tumblr IRL will also not just be an event for media hubs like New York and L.A., as evidenced by Manchester Orchestra's Atlanta locale. "Fans are the best press an artist can get," Auerbach says, "and this way we don't have the distractions of the press and music industry people that can come with those cities. They get everything anyway."Adds Hull, "At this point it's about in music it's about developing those fan relationships and doing things that are outside of the box of what people think are 'normal.'" FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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Masterclass JCF 2017 With Chef Ryan Clift – A familiar with Chef Ryan Clift. His infamous passion of cooking through the medium of television or new media.
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Please note that event registration and documentation such as the agenda is only available to member firms.
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Thursday 10th - Friday 11th October - 2019
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Hosted by member firm EdgePoint
Welcome to the 10th AICA Americas Regional Meeting in the Windy City, Chicago! Our theme, 'Strength in Numbers', refers to a number of pertinent items on the agenda as well as the strength of the AICA network across the globe. Our Americas members will be using their time in Chicago to strengthen their relationships, collaborate and look to share best practices and knowledge.
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Singapore will be our destination for the AICA Global Meeting in 2019. The agenda is still being planned, but will include round table discussions, networking and collaboration, best practice sessions and one to one meetings.
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Thursday 9th - Saturday 11th November 2017
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Friday 5th - Saturday 6th October 2017
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"Research data management concerns the organisation of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. It aims to ensure reliable verification of results, and permits new and innovative research built on existing information." - DCC(1)
Main points
Research data have a longer lifecycle than the period in which they were created. One way to look at it is by using a research lifecycle. The meaning of the data varies with every phase of the research cycle they are in.The image to the right depicts such a cycle.
A research lifecycle is intended to help illustrate how the various phases in the life of research data tie in with each other and how the choices you make in one phase influence the data quality in the other. A lifecycle helps to shift the short-term perspective to a long-term one: what is the intended purpose for these research data? How do you make sure that the choices you make when you collect data are robust enough to enable reuse and long-term storage?
There are many lifecycles in circulation and all are tailored to a user group's needs. The image to the left is the lifecycle of environmental sensing research, in which the scientific output derived from it is depicted.
Data archives focussing on long-term storage sometimes use the term digital curation lifecycle.(4) It provides a detailed description of the steps an archive takes after entering a dataset. The lifecycle comprises activities focusing on the primary goal of a data archive: long-term storage and availability.
Essentials 4 Data Support
In Essentials 4 Data Support we distinguish a planning phase (Chapter II), research phase (Chapter III) en user phase (Chapter IV) (mouse over the images to read the corresponding text):
An in-depth look
- There are quite a few data lifecycles in circulation. Staff of the University of Bath wrote an article(5) in which they compared the various models. What are the recurring elements in each lifecycle?
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What is your experience with research lifecycles? Do you prefer a particular lifecycle? If so, why?
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Transgender Woman Sues Crossfit….
Transgender Woman Sues Crossfit….
Oh Hell, you knew it was coming. Everyone I know loves it when leftists from the equal opportunity mob get owned by their own particular brand of poison. I should probably warn everyone now that there are going to be a great many quotation marks in this post to denote terms and such.
Seems that Chloie Jonsson, 34, who used to have an outtie, but now has an innie, wants to compete in a Cross Fit competition in California (Kommufornia really) because "she" says the law protects her based upon her "gender identity" as opposed to her actual gender as it relates to discrimination. She says that Cross Fit has to let her compete as a woman, because that is what the law says, but Cross Fit says you have to compete as the gender you were born with. On your birth certificate… Not the one you think you are…
This smells of publicity stunt to me, really and truthfully, this is starting to sound like a remake of the movie The Ringer or the sequel to Juwanna Mann. I guess all the contestants are equal, until they are not, unless they think they are.
But those bigots over at Cross Fit got their General Counsel over there to go out and spread his (his mind you) organization's "hate speech" about those that happen to just be a little bit "different."
CrossFit's general counsel, Dale Saran, would not comment on the lawsuit, which seeks $2.5 million in damages. Saran directed The Associated Press to a CrossFit online discussion board, where he posted that Jonsson had never supplied medical documents to back up her assertion that she was a woman. He also dismissed McCoy's suggestion that transgender athletes are engaged in a struggle as valid as the one black baseball players waged to be accepted in the major leagues.
"The fundamental, ineluctable fact is that a male competitor who has a sex reassignment procedure still has a genetic makeup that confers a physical and physiological advantage over women," Saran wrote in a letter to McCoy that's linked to the discussion board. "That Chloie may have felt herself emotionally, and very conscientiously, to be a woman in her heart, and that she ultimately underwent the legal and other surgical procedures to carry that out, cannot change that reality."
That doesn't seem very inclusive of Dale. I wonder where he learned all of this bigotry and hate? Was it his white parents from his triple gated community or his high-falutin all white private school that indoctrinated him into this hateful belief?
"Our decision has nothing to do with `ignorance' or being bigots – it has to do with a very real understanding of the human genome, of fundamental biology, that you are either intentionally ignoring or missed in high school," he said.
Heavens to Murgatroid!!! Dale and everyone in the organization learned that men and women are different in High School Biology class. Please excuse me for a second. I am going to get on the phone right now and call my son's school and demand that they end the teaching of this bigotry this instant.
So my question to liberals is, which group are you going to protect? The women that you say still are earning only .75 cents to the dollar on men and who still face "institutional sexism" or the "gurl" who says that because she used to be a dude, and because she chose to become a "woman" based upon knowing in her bones (which are BTW, still thicker and stronger than her actual female competitors) that "she" can compete in a division of actual women? Which group is more important to defend? Those with two X chromosomes or just one? Inquiring minds want to know. Who ranks higher on your "Oppresso-meter?"
And when I read this, I thought; you know who should be pissed? Black baseball players. Read sometime about all the things that Jackie Robinson was subjected to when he joined the major leagues. It will shock you that people would act this way over a sport. I am not surprised because this is always the stronghold of the LBGT community; that it is just like the civil rights movement. Except it isn't. Jackie Robinson didn't go and have surgery to become "black" or "Negro." He didn't start out as a white guy hitting a .405 batting average and then decide that his career prospects would be better after his "pigment-ectomy."
You see liberals, this is what happens when you start making laws and rules because of who people "think" they are, instead of who they actually are. Chloie can get surgery, Chloie can take "her" hormones, Chloie can get all gussied up with an Up-do and throw on some Jimmy Choos and hit the town for a night of fun with her friends and tell everyone that down to her very core she is all woman, but Chloie will always remain, at the most important level (the cellular one), a man. You are still a man, baby. Just because you feel like you are something doesn't mean you are. The fact that CrossFit has a rules that says they are going to take who you are from what your real first birth certificate with the DNA that you got when you popped out and not the one you get after your surgery for the DMV paperwork sounds to me like a great business practice. Sounds to me like their policy makes everything "equal" for all of the competitors, especially the female ones (the ones with a womb constructed by DNA, not Dr. Smith from Plastic Surgery Associates).
Or else maybe my husband, because he got in touch with his "feminine side" last week and now thinks he is a chick should be allowed to compete with the girls, you know, because he really feels like a woman now.
SO… What's it gonna be libs? Protect the Girls or fight for the "Gurlz?"
And yet, this is exactly how the same sex marriage issue got pushed into the court system and now has reached the point that one cannot decline to participate in an same sex wedding if they own a public business.
Just wait until some black robe saint tells CrossFit that they are ordered to pay up and allow Chloe to race, because they "hurt her dignity"
Even the author got caught up in the "proper" naming.
Chloe is actually a male. Period. He has been cosmetically and pharmaceutically altered to appear female.
I don't believe transgendered female is accurate, but is actually a politically correct naming that the left uses.
"Chloe is actually a male. Period. He has been cosmetically and pharmaceutically altered to appear female."
Then, am I to assume, that any male who has sexual relations with Chloe would be engaging in homosexuality, while any female would be engaging in heterosexuality?
(I note that Jen is posting and then replying to herself. I have heard it said that people who talk to themselves do so when they want an "expert" opinion!)
VALman, this particular comment section doesn't permit editing of prior posts. In order to add onto a post, one has to reply to their own post.
Anyone who attempts to have sexual relations with Chloe needs their own therapist. Chloe is not a woman, she simply has the appearance of one. And makeshift equipment.
Any male who has sexual relations with "Chloie" is engaging in self-deception.
I tried to find "Chloie's" given name, and could not. However, the article does take some pains to not refer to "Chloie" Jonnson as female in any way, other than in quotation marks, or in the quotes. I do think it would have been better had Miss Thoris deliberately used the male pronouns in this article.
Just remember: Chloie Jonnson is still a male, albeit a castrated one, but he is definitely not a man.
Yes, many of us saw this coming, and eagerly anticipated the day when protecting women (by using different physical standards or abilities) would run up against protecting people who … are confused. Heck, I would have done *much* better on the Cadet Fitness Test if I could have worn a bra and used the women's minimums. (And, then, Martha McSally could have used the men's standards and wrestled with the guys like she wanted.)
The one question for the CrossFit folks would be what to do with someone born as both. There are a very few out there who actually *are* messed up, physically, and have both sets of equipment. I know one who was raised as a boy (and that is what is on her BC), but always felt themselves to be a girl and is finally dealing with that. *Those* are the people for whom "gender re-assignment" surgery was intended. I would be curious how they would handle that? (I would hope it would be with compassion and some real thought.)


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This concept is the reverse of a contra account, which reduces the balance of the account with which it is paired.


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An evening of Pie and Poetry closes PoemTown Randolph's celebration. Poet and Vermont Public Radio Friday Night Jazz host Reuben Jackson reads from his work. A local jazz trio provides musical accompaniment and homemade pie sweetens the evening.
This event will be held at the Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont.
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This thorough, 12-page booklet covers the ANSI/ASME valve tag standard for piping valves any facility could use.
Valve tags solve the problem of complicated pipe surfaces but you need to know how they work. This guide walks you through color-coding, choosing appropriate materials, what to put on the tag, and how to apply them. It's packed with full-color pictures and real-world examples and even includes code-compliant abbreviations.