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A goal deep into the second half secured all three points for FC Pune City, as they leapfrog Delhi Dynamos into fourth. An animated coach Franco Colomba was involved in a tussle in injury time, however this would not affect his celebrations later.
"This victory was a fruit of our labour in preparation, after the previous defeat. It means a lot to our team. I had to rest a few players in the last match due to the schedule, and that showed as our team performed well today," said Colomba.
The Italian made as many as six changes to his side, and started with Israil Gurung instead of Ashutosh Mehta on the left wing.
"It's not fair, because I pick players according to their ability and how they can help the match. For movement and finishing, I have David Trezeguet. For pace and strength, I have Dudu and Goossens. I decide according to the situation." he added.
Franco Colomba ran onto the field in a Jose Mourinho-esque style as his team sealed all three points, "I am still a player in my head. I have always been like this, whichever team I have managed. And when I am happy, that is the way I express it," he explained.
Meanwhile Israil Gurung commented on the player's fitness, he said "The players are in good shape and are fit to play. It doesn't matter whom the coach picks, we will perform" , while talking to ISL Media Team
"When the competition is good, the performances are bound to be good." Gurung concluded.


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All Cardiff Fans: Get To Hull Game !
Cardiff City has been caught up in somewhat of a media furore of late with a massive semi-final place booked for the FA Cup, ticket madness for that game and the court case ongoing right now.
It's perhaps possible to forget that the Bluebirds have a big home game tomorrow (Wednesday) against Hull City. It's an un-glamourous midweek tie but for anyone who calls themselves a fan of Cardiff City - get there if you can!
We all owe the team something after they deservedly won at the weekend. Of course we have all been frustrated at times this season but an FA Cup semi final is something to be truly proud of for our small squad.
Tickets have been selling well (there was a huge rush this morning) and if you needed an extra incentive to get there..... those retaining ticket stubs from the Hull City match WILL be allowed to purchace Wembley tickets before they go on general sale (subject to availability).
Calling every single Cardiff City fan, come on get down to Ninian Park tomorrow night, support the boys and 'make some noise!!!'


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| no.peace.los.angeles chapter 1 . 9/6/2009
Wow, I love the title of this chapter. That's fabulous. The poem itself is quite nice, too. Simple, but still poetic. Lovely. Keep writing! :)
| GeorgyannWayson chapter 7 . 9/5/2009
I have never read poems with this format before, this was very raw, but also good in my opinion. Sam obviously have up something great, but you can't change what people want. I tried to change my ex-boyfriend's mind about me, and it just made me more miserable. Don't trudge down that dark, confusing path.
I hope everything works out and you heal from this love that has left you so empty.


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AfriGeneas Western Frontier Forum
Black/Indian Relations
From Africa To The American West
June 2005
"Black and Indian Relations"
It has been said that African-Americans had a favored status among some Native American cultures because of their skin color. It has also been said that African-Americans took it easy on the Indians during western expansion because they sympathized with them. Prior to The Civil War, laws generally dictated what relationships African-Americans were allowed to have with other cultures in America, including Native Americans, but after the war, the relationship between African-Americans and Native Americans makes a dramatic shift.
The two views of negative and positive opinions, and everything in between, can be found in narratives and notes from Native Americans and African Americans in the west. I would like to present one negative view each from a Black and Indian perspective and one positive view each. My first narrative is of a former Black slave to a Cherokee Indian master, the slave being Cherokee freedwoman Sarah Wilson. It's not a secret that Native Americans from the so called "Civilized Tribes," kept slaves and like African-American and White slave owners, some were innocuous relationships and some were abusive, Sarah Wilson's narrative show the harsh side of a Cherokee slave owner:
African-American View
".... They would have hangings in Ft. Smith courthouse, and old Master would take a slave there sometimes to see the hanging and that slave would come back and tell us all scary stories about the hanging. ...One time he whipped a whole bunch of the men on account of a fight in the quarters, and then he took them all to Fort Smith to see a hanging. He tied them all in the wagon, and when they had seen the hanging, he asked them if they was scared of them dead men hanging up there. They all said yes, of course but my old Uncle Nick was a bad Negro and he said, "No I ain't afeard of them nor nothing else in this world," and old Master jumped on him while he was tied an beat him with a rope and then when they got home he tied old Nick to a tree, and took his shirt off and poured the cat-o-nine tails to him until he fainted away and fell over like he was dead. I never forget seeing all that blood all over my uncle, and if I could hate that old Indian any more I guess I would, but I hated him all I could already I reckon."
Sarah Wilson was not happy as a Cherokee slave in the Arkansas/Oklahoma area, but another Black/Indian contact in Kansas produced what I call the authentic Black West Thanksgiving, that being the first year of the founding of the Black settlement town of Nicodemus. The following excerpt explains:
"...The best known historically black town in Kansas, Nicodemus was named for a legendary figure who came to America on a slave ship and later purchased his freedom. Founded in 1877 by a group of colonists from Lexington, Kentucky, the town had a population of 600 people by 1879. The first winter was particularly harsh and had it not been for the food, firewood and other staples received from Osage (Indian) Nation, the settlers would have perished. By the second year many of the men had found jobs either farming or working with the railroad and the settlement became increasingly self-sufficient."
Black Western matriarch Lulu Sadler Craig, one of the early settlers of Nicodemus, Kansas also had something to say about the Native people:
"...Indians didn't give us any trouble," Craig recalled. "Winter was hard to take," she said and without the dugouts "we would have frozen."
Ms. Craig went on to be an educator and at least one story recorded by her of the early settlers of Nicodemus has been turned into a children's non fiction reader by author Barbara Brenner called "Wagon Wheels." Several successful Black Western stories would not have become if it had not been for the charity of the Osage Nation.
Native American View
Now that I have discussed two Black perspectives of Indians, I would like to present two Indian views of Blacks. Perhaps the only honor as great for a soldier than the one bestowed by their compatriots for courage is the honor bestowed by the soldiers' enemy, and to many Western Indians the Buffalo Soldiers were enemies. Frank N Schubert, author, presents information about Captain Dodge and Buffalo soldiers fighting Utes in Colorado, this excerpt describing the arrival of Buffalo soldiers to a skirmish perhaps gives an idea of how the Utes viewed Blacks:
"...while Dodge rode into view and through the entrenchments, not one Ute raised his rifle. They just watched with curiosity, according to Emmitt's informants, as the strange soldiers came. "The Buffalo Soldiers," Emmitt wrote, " were something to wonder about and to laugh about- perhaps something to be a little angry with-but they were nothing to be afraid of." Several warriors called out at once "To-Maricat'z! The black whitemen! The Buffalo Soldiers! After Dodges men arrived, the Utes even sang songs that ridiculed them and showed an awareness of the impact of racism on the Maricat'z (whitemens") social structure.
I need to come into the early 20th century to present the positive Indian view of African Americans. Hampton Institute in Virginia is one of the more than one hundred plus HBCs (Historically Black Colleges) founded after the Civil War. The alma mater of Booker T. Washington, it was one of the few that recruited Native Americans from the Northern Plains for what they called "re-education." Researcher Jon L Brudvig collected first person accounts of Native Americans students who attended Hampton Institute, one student, an Oneida named Clayton Layman wrote this about his experience at a presentation in 1921:
"...Members of the faculty, visitors and fellow students. I am very grateful for the opportunity of congratulating the colored race on their rapid progress in the last fifty-eight years. Since the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the colored people have made more progress than any other race in existence during so short a time. The Negro and the Indian have been associated in this school since 1878, and on the whole have gotten along very nicely. Both races have progressed very rapidly in spite of the lack of schools for the colored race and the disability of the Indian to speak the English language both of which were great hindrances to the progress of each race."
I'll close with a statement by a female Native American blues musician named "Pura Fe'" published in the "Native Peoples" magazine for May/June 2005. Even today there are many divergent views about Blacks from Native Americans and visa versa, some vitriolic and some, like Pura Fe's, a reminder that people of different cultures found their common humanity the one saving grace in the face of early American brutality:
"...I am a Tuscarora from North Carolina. The Tuscarora were known for harboring runaway slaves and refuges - black, white and Indian - and played a part in the slave uprisings here. Southeastern Indians and African Americans share history and blood. The music I play is a fusion of all those strands in one body and soul. It is what I am. ...The mixture of African and Indian blood was like the creation of a new race that gave birth to this rich musical culture, a race that's largely been forgotten."
Thanks for reading, Allen L. Lee
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China's "blue territory" and the technospherePosted: April 19, 2017 Filed under: Academic debates, South China Sea | Tags: academia, blue territory, Chinese nationalism, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, HKW, maritime disputes, PRC maritime law enforcement, south china sea, technosphere, UNCLOS, UNCLOS and South China Sea 1 Comment
I recently contributed an essay to Technosphere, a multimedia online magazine based out of Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW): China's "Blue Territory" and the Technosphere in Maritime East Asia.
According to the magazine's calculations, it's a 648-second read.
It's part of a set of presentations that comprise a dossier on the theme of land and sea. I can recommend checking out some of Technosphere's other dossiers, especially those on creolized technologies and risk and resilience.
My contribution contains some of the arguments developed in my PhD thesis, which fortunately is now done and dusted. It's titled "Chinese Popular Nationalism and PRC Foreign Policy in the South China Sea" — as always comments and criticisms are much appreciated, so if you feel like taking a look, you can download it by clicking on the title.
Comparison of Vietnam and China's joint statements, 2011-2017Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: China-Vietnam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South China Sea | Tags: arbitration, China-Vietnam, China-Vietnam joint statement, China-Vietnam relations, joint communique, Nguyen Phu Trong, nine dashed line, nine-dash line, Philippines vs China arbitration, Sino-Vietnamese relations, south china sea, South China Sea arbitration, UNCLOS, UNCLOS and South China Sea, Vietnam-China joint statement 2 Comments
East Asia Forum has kindly published a piece from me on recent developments in Sino-Vietnamese relations. To supplement it, i'm posting here a table comparing the South China Sea-related elements of the last 7 joint statements between the two.
The comparative table was the basis for the article's argument that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to Beijing last month did not involve any softening of Vietnam's position on the issue.
According to a knowledgeable Vietnamese source, there are three types of Sino-Vietnamese bilateral joint statements issued after high-level meetings. In ascending order of importance these are:
- Joint press release (联合新闻公报, thông cáo báo chí)
- Joint communique (联合公报, thông cáo chung)
- Joint statement (联合声明, tuyên bố chung)
These documents are often not released in English, and some of the translations that have appeared have been incomplete or unreliable, so the table above compares the Chinese full text as published by state media (links are in the caption area above).
The table also includes an item, not discussed in the EAF article for space reasons, on cooperation in public opinion work. In the 2011 joint statement, the two sides pledged cooperation on "strengthening public opinion guidance and management" – which, in the context of several weeks of anti-China protests through the middle of that year, was tantamount to a Vietnamese undertaking to dampen anti-China sentiments.
Interestingly, however, there has been no analogous item in the recent joint documents — even after another, even more intense, wave of anti-China sentiments burst forth in 2014 during the HYSY-981 oil rig standoff. Its omission from subsequent documents might indicate an acceptance on China's behalf of the strength Vietnamese nationalist sentiments that flow in its direction at times of heightened tensions. Perhaps also an acknowledgement that Hanoi is already doing what it can to promote Sino-Vietnamese friendship? Any other readings?
The EAF piece is reposted below. Based on some early feedback, i should have been clearer that in suggesting . . .
China may have pulled back from its pursuit of particular claims that have no basis in international law
. . . i do not mean the PRC has seen the light and is abandoning all claims deemed unlawful in the UNCLOS arbitration. Just that there are some unlawful aspects of China's claims that it is no longer pushing, and this has removed some of the major drivers of Sino-Vietnamese tensions.
As always, further comments, arguments, additions and corrections are much appreciated.
Pistons, PX, petroleum, politics: checking in with Chairman Ye JianmingPosted: January 17, 2017 Filed under: PRC News Portals, State media | Tags: CAIFC, CEFC, Chen Qiutu, China CEFC Energy Company, China Energy Fund Committee, China-Czech relations, Czech Republic, 陈秋途, Fujian Huaxin, General Political Department Liaison Department, Huahang Oil, Huaxin, Jian'ou, Lai Changxing, PLA General Political Department, SAIFC, Sino-Czech relations, Ye Jianming, 华信, 华信能源有限公司, 叶简明, 叶建明, 叶主席 2 Comments
Since this blog last checked in with Ye Jianming in 2013, the youthful Chairman and his $40 billion CEFC (Huaxin) oil trading, storage and finance conglomerate have gone from strength to strength. It now ranks as the world's 229th largest company by revenue.
CEFC originally attracted my attention due to Dai Xu's South China Sea warmongering under a "CEFC Strategic Analyst" title between 2011 and 2013. The company hasn't been associating itself with that kind of militarism of late (at least not publicly), but its mystique has only intensified as various new information has come to light.
Here's a brief rundown of what's emerged since 2013:
- Chairman Ye Jianming is not Lt-Gen Ye Xuanning's son, nor Marshal Ye Jianying's grandson. Far from being a princeling — my own and others' best guess as to his background — he was born into a family of boatmen in the Fujian hinterland.
- However, just as a blood relationship was finally disconfirmed, Chairman Ye turns out to be business partners with Ye Xuanning's daughter in an entity bearing the PLA's famous Carrie (凯利) brand.
- The company's oil trading business originates with assets confiscated from Fujian smuggling kingpin Lai Changxing, which it acquired in 2006. Chinese financial media reporting indicates that before becoming an oil baron, Ye made pots of gold by purchasing a state-owned piston factory, and wholesaling the industrial chemical PX.
- Evidence of Chairman Ye's involvement in the PLA General Political Department Liaison Department's (GPD-LD) CAIFC system has continued to accumulate. Yet the GPD-LD's fortunes appear to have been falling almost as fast as Chairman Ye's have been rising.
- There are signs the rise of Chairman Ye may be related to the rise of Chairman Xi — from Fujian via Shanghai, to Beijing, and out onto the Belt and Road. CEFC/Huaxin laid the groundwork for Xi's triumphant state visit to the Czech Republic in March 2016, establishing a "key link" in his signature foreign policy initiative.
For those who find this all as irresistably intriguing as i do, these points are detailed below, followed by a selection of aphorisms from the expanding corpus of Ye Jianming's Thought, and a brief personal disclaimer.
[Updated] Defining the post-arbitration nine-dash line: more clarity and more complicationPosted: July 20, 2016 Filed under: Article summaries, China-Philippines, PLA & PLAN, South China Sea | Tags: arbitration, Central Party School, 王军敏, historic title, internal waters, Law of the Sea, nine dashed line, nine-dash line, Philippines vs China arbitration, PLA Daily, South China Sea arbitration, straight baselines, UNCLOS and South China Sea, Wang Junmin 8 Comments
One week on from the UNCLOS arbitration ruling on the South China Sea, the PRC's response continues to somehow both clarify and complicate the issue at the same time. The latest episode in the unfolding mystery of the nine-dash line seems to diminish the line's linkage with oil and gas claims designated unlawful by the Tribunal, while ramping up its associations with "historic title" over large sweeps of archipelagic waters [but seemingly not the entire Spratly archipelago – see update at the bottom].
On Monday an article published on p.6 of the PLA's official newspaper offered a clear and detailed post-ruling definition of the nine-dash line from authors at the Central Party School. One of its main purposes was to refute the Tribunal's inferred reading of the nine-dash line as a blanket claim to historic rights within the area it encloses. (Grateful HTs to Bill Bishop for digging it up and Bonnie Glaser for drawing attention to its significance.)
The article offers a more complex clarification of the line's meaning than my optimistic reading of last week's PRC Government Statement: whereas i read the Statement as implicitly separating the nine-dash line from China's maritime rights claims, this article spells out at least some explicit links between the two.
On the other hand, it offers little or no support to the expansionist reading of the line that has underpinned many provocative PRC actions in recent years. In particular, the CPS scholars' definition does not appear to support a claim to oil and gas resources out to the edge of the nine-dash line. This was a key element of the implied reading of the nine-dash line that the Tribunal struck down as unlawful. It's a position that the PRC has backed up with coercion against other claimants' energy survey ships in the past, and it's also the basis for the notion, widespread in PRC domestic discourse, that rival claimants, especially Vietnam and Malaysia, are "plundering" China's resources.
The writing of this article is attributed to CPS Postgraduate Studies Institute Deputy Dean Wang Junmin 王军敏, but the newspaper byline attributes it collectively to the CPS Center for Research on the Theoretical System of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics. It is, as such, not a government statement, but it's very detailed, takes into account the Tribunal ruling, and could end up being close to the interpretation the PRC goes forward with in the wake of the ruling.
This interpretation can be summarized as follows. The nine-dash line is not a blanket claim to historic rights over all waters within, but rather to three distinct sets of rights across different geographical areas:
- Sovereignty over the islands within the line (the original meaning of the line when the KMT government published it in 1948)
- "Historic title" (历史性所有权) to waters enclosed by straight baselines drawn around island groups within the line (definitely including the Paracels, for which the baselines have already been announced, but not necessarily for the whole Spratly group)
- Non-exclusive fishing rights in others' EEZs where (a) they overlap with the line and (b) Chinese fishers traditionally fished under high-seas freedoms
The article begins by arguing the UNCLOS does not constitute the entirety of international maritime law, and that customary international law continues to apply on matters where rules are not provided for in UNCLOS. In particular, the authors argue,
"The UNCLOS did not provide rules for the issue of territorial sea baselines for continental countries' archipelagos; nor did it provide rules for historic rights, although it affirmed their status in international law."
The author(s) state that the Philippines "distorted" the nine-dash line by (a) presenting it to the arbitral tribunal as representing a Chinese claim to sovereign rights and administration over all of the waters and seabed within; and (b) by arguing that the PRC claims "historic rights" (历史性权利) within the line, when in fact the PRC claims "historic title" (历史性所有权) over areas within the line, putting the case outside the Tribunal's jurisdiction.
This line of argument appeared, fleetingly, in China's 2014 Position Paper, which noted that disputes concerning "historic bays or titles" were exempt from compulsory dispute resolution under Article 298. According to the author(s), China has "historic title" to internal waters within archipelagic straight baselines.
So the authors say the Philippines "slandered" China's nine-dash line by providing a distorted reading of its meaning to the Tribunal. Here's how they explain its true meaning:
First, looking at China's practical exercise of state power, China has never claimed all the waters within the line as its territorial sea or internal waters, exercising state sovereignty there. In fact, the 1958 Territorial Sea Declaration, at the same time as proclaiming the applicability of the straight baseline system and setting the breadth of China's territorial seas at 12nm, implicitly noted that international waters [exist] between the Chinese mainland and coastal islands, and Taiwan and surrounding islands, Penghu, Pratas, Paracels, Zhongsha, Spratlys and other islands belonging to China [ZH]. In 1996 the Declaration of Territorial Sea Baselines announced the territorial sea basepoints and baselines for the Paracel Islands, thereby implying that within the 'nine-dash line' China would, in accordance with the UNCLOS, take the Paracels as an integrated whole entitled to territorial seas, contiguous zone, EEZ and continental shelf. Likewise, China's 2011 note to the UN Secretary General claimed that the Spratlys also enjoy territorial seas, EEZ and continental shelf. This implies: China has never claimed all the waters within the 'nine-dash line' as China's historic waters or that it enjoys historic rights .
Second, the Philippines used the Chinese expression 'historic rights' (历史性权利) to argue China had not claimed 'historic title' (历史性所有权). As everyone knows, historic rights in international law refers to the rights enjoyed continuously by a state in certain waters since ancient times. Historic rights include historic title and non-exclusive historic rights. Waters subject to historic title are called 'historic waters' (历史性水域), these are part of a coastal state's internal waters or territorial seas, and mainly include historic bays. other coastal waters adjacent to the coast, and the waters within archipelagos. Non-exclusive historic rights are divided into historic rights of passage and historic fishing rights. The former refers to innocent passage through internal waters, specifically all countries' rights of innocent passage through areas not originally regarded as internal waters, but which became enclosed as such through the coastal state's application of straight baselines.[ZH] The latter refers to non-exclusive rights to fish in areas that were previously fished in accordance with high seas freedoms but which have now become a coastal state's EEZ [or] archipelagic waters.[ZH] The mere use of 'historic rights' in the PRC EEZ and Continental Shelf Law, by MFA spokespersons, and by Chinese scholars, does not imply China does not claim 'historic title'. In fact, our country has historic title and historic fishing rights in different areas within the nine-dash line.
Third, China's 'nine-dash line' rights claims mainly comprise: 1. China has territorial sovereignty over islands, reefs, cays and shoals within the line; 2. China has historic title to waters within archipelagos or island groups that are at relatively close distance and that can be viewed as an integrated whole, these areas are China's historic waters, they are our country's internal waters,[ZH] and China has the right to draw straight baselines around the outermost points of these waters and claim state administrative zones such as territorial seas, EEZs and continental shelves etc. in accordance with the UNCLOS. 3. When waters within the 'nine-dash line' become [part of] another country's EEZ or an archipelagic state's waters, China has the right to claim historic fishing rights or traditional fishing rights in the overlapping areas.
The many references to non-exclusive fishing rights contrast sharply with the complete absence of any mention of claims to oil and gas rights. As noted, it was precisely that (implied) claim that led to the line being designated unlawful. The 2012 CNOOC oil blocks, especially, convinced the Tribunal that China was acting in accordance with this reading of the line (see especially the Award paragraphs 208-214). But under the above definition, the nine-dash line seems to have no significance at all to the geographic scope of China's energy rights claims.
The other striking thing about this definition is the heavy focus on the issue of historic title over internal waters enclosed within straight baselines around island groups — an issue addressed in an excellent article by Yanmei Xie over the weekend. There is plenty of reason to think that straight baselines might be about to enclose the Spratlys, a move that would significantly harden the PRC's position.
But there might be yet another strange twist here. Looking again at the third paragraph above, the Party School authors define China's claim of historic title to internal waters as existing in "archipelagos or island groups that are at a relatively close distance and that can be viewed as an integrated whole (my emphasis)." Which kinda seems to suggest the historic title aspect might be referring to the Paracels but not the Spratlys.
I've heard the "can be viewed as an integrated whole" argument for archipelagic straight baselines in the South China Sea numerous times from PRC sources, but i've never come across the "at a relatively close distance" criterion before. Why else might they have included this?
Here's the answer (update 21/7):
Dylan Jones points out that the relatively close distance criteria refers to the distances between the islands, and a careful re-reading of the article confirms this. Here's the Central Party School authors' detailed explanation in translation:
"Most international legal experts consider state practice is forming, or has already established, international legal norms regarding continental states' offshore archipelagos: the straight baseline system's applicability to continental states' offshore archipelagos is restricted to those archipelagos that can be seen as an integrated whole, with relatively small distances between the islands, and intimate connections between the waters and the mainland [. . . ]
"The most likely and most appropriate method for China's territorial sea baselines in the Spratly Islands is to imitate the method used in the Diaoyu Islands, for example, taking the main islands and reefs such as Itu Aba, Pagasa, West York, Spratly and Mischief as the centre, and linking together the surrounding reefs to establish baselines [. . .]"
"Looking at historic rights, China has historic title to waters between the relatively close, intimately connected islands that qualitatively comprise a unified whole, these waters are historic waters, China's internal waters . . . China has the right to take those groups of islands within the Spratlys that are relatively close to each other as a single entity to establish territorial sea baselines,[ZH] and China's Spratly Islands in the SCS have maritime administrative zones such as territorial seas, EEZ and continental shelf."
So the author(s) do in fact believe a "historic title" claim over "internal waters" enclosed by straight baselines exists in the Spratlys — but rather than covering the entire archipelago, as per the Paracels baselines in 1996, it would only cover those parts within the archipelago that are close together. Here's the Diaoyu example they refer to:
The authors repeat this "within the Spratlys" + "close together" + "intimately connected" recipe for Spratly straight baselines (and thus the scope of internal waters subject to historic title) no less than 6 times, so it's fair to conclude this was a point they were keen to get across. That would be a tough sell domestically given that it would probably exclude James Shoal, that shallow patch of ocean considered by many (probably most) Chinese people to be the southernmost point of the nation's sacred territory. This would be one reason to think the party might not make a Spratly baseline declaration in the near future after all.
Another rambling post…i really ought to shut up and let things run their course. But the riddle of the nine-dash line continues to string me along rather compulsively. If any readers have made it this far then at least i mustn't be the only one.
The "next level smearing" of Chinese patriotism: a view from the Communist Youth LeaguePosted: July 19, 2016 Filed under: Academic debates, Article summaries, China-Philippines, China-US, Mouthpieces, State media, Weibo | Tags: angry youth, arbitration, audience costs, boycotts, Chinese nationalism, Communist Youth League, 表情包, memes, nationalist demonstrations, nationalist mobilization, online nationalism, Philippines vs China arbitration, Sina weibo, South China Sea arbitration, UNCLOS and South China Sea, Weibo 6 Comments
The first weekend after the July 12 Philippines vs China arbitration ruling — the "7.12 Incident" — has passed without reports of major anti-foreign protests.
There were, however, scattered cases of nationalist mobilization. There was at least one case of picketing outside a KFC in Hebei province (video), some smashing of iPhones (footage of which was often shared via iPhones), and a bunch of online dried mango retailers claiming to have switched their suppliers away from the Philippines.
Together with the various patriotic outpourings online, this was probably the largest set of collective actions by Chinese citizens on the South China Sea issue yet seen in China — bigger than Scarborough Shoal in 2012, or the peak of tensions in 2011, though still probably smaller and less intense than the demonstrations that would likely have occurred during the 2001 Sino-American EP-3 incident, had authorities had not prevented them.
While the Global Times hailed the "new wave of patriotism," it was clear that, like in 2001, the party-state did not want real-world demonstrations. Municipal and university authorities were reportedly instructed to stay vigilantly on guard against potential mass gatherings. Nor, it seems, was online warmongering particularly desirable from the party's perspective, with jingoistic Weibos encountering censorship.
An article published on the Communist Youth League's Weibo illuminates some of the reasoning behind this desire to keep the patriotic outbursts relatively mild. It argues that much of the extreme nationalist outbursts are in fact "next-level smearing" (高级黑, referred to below as gaojihei) of China's good patriots by anti-party elements posing as extreme nationalists.
Just how much of China's ultra-nationalist output this actually accounts for is a wide open question. But the article offers evidence that it does explain at least some of the most visible and intense cases of what the outside world commonly understands as Chinese nationalism. In this way, it's another illustration of how much more lurks behind shows of apparently anti-foreign mobilization besides simple "nationalist" ideology.
The examples cited suggest at least 4 distinct kinds of anti-regime motivation for extreme nationalist speech and actions:
- Critiquing the party's ideological policies through parody;
- Giving patriotism negative associations;
- Fomenting domestic chaos that would destabilize party rule;
- Pushing for a war that would likely be disastrous for the party.
The article is written by one of the Communist Youth League's most energetic proponents of pro-party "positive energy" in both China and Australia. Besides being on the committee of the All-China Youth Federation, Lei Xiying is a PhD student at Australian National University, whose previous projects include the "take a selfie with the flag," setting up an Association for PhD Students and Outstanding Youth Scholars, and heavy promotion of last year's military parade. He's a prolific political commentator in the PRC state media, as well as in the Chinese-language media in Australia.
The author is, in short, a very worthy recipient of his Positive Energy Youth award bestowed on him by the Cyberspace Administration of China for being an "outstanding youth representative of online ideological construction." As such, the article is illustrative of some of the issues facing the state's leadership of popular nationalism on contentious foreign policy issues in the internet era, which i'll return to briefly at the end.
Life's-a-game memes and the hijacking of youth patriotism by "crazy uncles"
Communist Youth League Weibo, July 16, 2016
Lei Xiying
This afternoon a post-1995 netizen sent me a "patriotic" photograph that he found confusing.
At a glance, with the slogan "violators of my China, however distant, must be punished" it's a hot-blooded emotional "patriot." But look a bit closer . . . Excuse me? [The calligraphic banner] is "a gift for US President Putin" . . . look again, a bald, bespectacled, half-naked, very inelegant "crazy uncle" with bad posture hits your eye . . .
"Bro, his patriotic expression is weird, how could he say the American President is Putin…"
I replied to this post-95's doubts in three decisive words: next! level! smear! (高!级!黑!)
Is this surprising? Actually no, it's commonplace. Whenever big things happen in China, whenever the whole population's patriotic sentiments rise, these kinds of gaojihei are sprayed out everywhere.
For example, the author says, during the Diaoyu crisis, a person who had once burned the 5-star red flag suddenly became a patriotic Diaoyu defender, inciting the masses to take to the streets. Other suspect "patriots" had bragged about using the occasion to help themselves to a free meal or Rolex watch. "As for those among the peaceful patriotic marchers who urged violence and looting, their shouting of patriotic slogans was the loudest, but what was their objective?"
In one common gaojihei, Lei notes, netizens purported to blame actress Zhao Wei, who has again been the target of nationalist criticism of late, for masterminding the South China Sea arbitration decision, the Turkish coup attempt, and the Nice terror attack in order to divert attention from her sins.
Lei makes an important distinction between those who initiate extreme nationalist actions and those who join in later:
The initiators of this type of information are generally troublemakers, while those who forward it on are overwhelmingly ordinary netizens with naive patriotic sentiments — their heart is good, but due to their unfamiliarity with the internet's complex public opinion environment, they are used by people with a purpose.
Besides these, some groups who are normally very dissatisfied with the state, the current system and the present state of affairs, suddenly become interested in patriotism, and urge everyone to take to the streets, and take to the battlefield.
The author then provides several examples of such suspects.
Another concern is the attempts to link party-sactioned patriotism with the sickening violence seen in the anti-Japan demonstrations over the Diaoyu Islands in 2012.
Some people take the opportunity to smear and exaggerate the behaviour of "extremist elements," and use this to "represent" and "denounce" the rational behaviour of the overwhelming majority of patriotic youth, enacting maximum distortion on patriotism.
Have we taken to the streets and smashed things? Committed violence? We are just playing with memes (表情包), OK?
The author then takes the opportunity to address some other criticisms of South China Sea patriotism. A comment observing two main types of nationalists, "very smart swindlers" and "very emotional idiots," comes remarkably close to Lei's own analysis of the initiators and followers noted above. Not surprisingly, his rebuttal does not acknowledge any such parallel:
Please do not force these meaningless labels on us, OK? If you must label us, we are the 'party of memes' (表情包党), OK?
In response to a middle-aged Weibo user's observation that outbursts of patriotism tend to involve the denouncing of race-traitors:
We love the country but we do not arrest traitors, that was your generation's hobby, our hobby is memes, OK?
In the words of noted scholar Liu Yang 刘仰: "If you trace the patriotic demonstrations over the past few years, you find that every time patriotic enthusiasm is ignited, a succession of acts of sabotage follow. Strong voices immediately appear afterwards, saying patriots are 'angry youth,' patriots are criminals, patriots are extremist terrorists, patriots are ignorant brain-dead! . . . Time after time patriotic enthusiasm has ended in farce. This may be the behind-the-scenes manipulators' objective: [keep this pattern repeating] until one day when China really needs the power of patriotism no one will appear, like the villagers in the Boy Who Cried Wolf or King You's generals after he played with the fire beacons ('烽火戏诸侯'故事里的勤王之师)."
Thankfully, according to the author, the plot was thwarted thanks to the Communist Youth League sending out articles such as his own, discouraging any boycotts of any country's products, and designating memes as the "patriotic form" of choice for today's youth.
In conclusion Lei notes that critics of patriotism had different motivations corresponding to their generations. In contrast to the post-1970 and post-1980 generations (who presumably act on the basis of their westernised values), post-1950 and post-1960 critics of contemporary youth patriotism are often driven by their disillusionment with "the current system, road, and theory." The article finishes with a rousing affirmation of the current generation:
Our understanding of history, of China, and of the world is inevitably more complete, more objective, more rational than that 'historically burdened' generation
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this is why, after the 7.12 arbitration incident, we did not take to streets, scream protests, or even smash things up as some people had hoped . . . on the contrary we initiated a form of 'mocking and scolding' (嬉笑怒骂) unique to this generation.
Not sure if the summary above hangs together at all — the article itself is similarly disjointed — but it does raise a couple of issues facing the state's leadership of popular nationalism on contentious foreign policy issues in the internet era.
First, as the Liu Yang quote suggests, the CCP state's ability to tap into the power of popular nationalist mobilizations is significantly compromised by the moderate backlash their extreme elements generate. This point, borne out in Chris Cairns and Allen Carlson's recent study of the 2012 wave of nationalism, has been recognized by other smart minds within the propaganda system. In a research interview in 2013, a state media employee familiar with audience costs theory observed that any international leverage China may gain from allowing domestic protests is greatly diminished when violence ensues. Not only does protest violence require suppression, thereby foregrounding the state's ability to control nationalist outrage. It also brings forth strong anti-nationalist voices from across society, suggesting popular support for defiance of nationalist demands for escalatory foreign policy choices.
Second, perhaps reflecting the need to protect trade ties in a time of economic uncertainty, the CYL was clearly keen to specifically discourage boycotts among the youth, and substitute them with online "memes" (表情包). For the party-state to adopt these particular forms of internet-era youth expression as a vehicle for its propaganda makes perfect sense. But as a substitute for real political action it's so openly inconsequential (and, due to the need for political correctness, humourless) that i wonder how this could possibly satisfy any genuine nationalist anger about the South China Sea issue — let alone the kind of general dissatisfaction with life that underpins at least part of it. This might be why some of the approved "memes" contained nods in the direction of slightly more violent Cultural Revolution-esque imagery (e.g. the one below).
What else is going on here? What am i missing about this "meme" strategy? As always, thoughts, suggestions, corrections etc. most welcome.


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They may have lost the battle for Israel Folau's signature but the NRL are doing their darndest to ensure at least one member of his family remains in rugby league.
Sport-hopping Folau's younger brother John has been included in the inaugural Junior Emerging Queensland Origin squad camp to be run by master coach Wayne Bennett and Maroons mentor Mal Meninga in Brisbane in January.
The 26-strong squad – which will be groomed for Queensland's 2013 Under-20s Origin team – also includes ex-Maroons forward Antonio Kaufusi's brother Patrick and North Queensland's Tariq and Ashton Sims' sibling Korbin.
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Keen to capitalise on Kiwi-born Josh Papalii switching allegiance to Australia, Meninga and Bennett have included the damaging Canberra backrower in a 14-strong senior squad headlined by Dally M player of the year Ben Barba.
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:::Cliffs::: Had to put my dog down, it sucks.
So, on this past Friday, after nearly 13 years, my wife and i had to put down our dog Bo. His breed, American Bulldog, has a typical life span of 8 to 12 years. So knowing that he was on borrowed time we talked about his passing often in an effort to prepare our selves. Didn't work.
He had been bulletproof for his whole life except for the last 48 hours. From ages 2 - 9 he weighed right around 100 pounds. At age 11 he was 85 and at age 12 he was 75 pounds. On friday he was 93 pounds. Vet suspected some type of tumor. Pulling some fluid from his bloated abdomen revealed some bloody fluid which substantiated the Vet's suspicions. In 48 hours he really went down hill with mobility, breathing was very shallow and he just looked miserable. With these changes and the vet's info we felt it was time.
Fastest 12 years 10 months in my life. Truly a difficult decision to make. Did my share of crying. And i don't mean i shed a couple of man tears. I'm talking about slobbering, snot bubbling, full on sobbing that can leave you dehydrated. The house is so different without him here. He will be sorely missed.
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Barcelona forward David Villa has been admitted to hospital due to a bout of renal colic and may be unavailable for Saturday's league game at Granada, the La Liga leaders said on Monday.
The 31-year-old Spain international will undergo an operation to treat the condition, Barca said in a statement on their website.
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Directed by Shelley Delaney, head of the professional actor training program, "Knock Me a Kiss" is a fictional account, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois's daughter Yolande's marriage to Countee Cullen, one of Harlem's great poets. The marriage was considered the high point of the Harlem Renaissance. It united the daughter of America's foremost black intellectual and cofounder of the NAACP with the young poet whose work was considered to be one of the flagships for the New Negro movement.
Officially opening on Friday, the production's public performances run tonight through Saturday and May 14 through May 17 at 8 p.m. in the Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater in Kantner Hall. There will be an additional matinee performance May 17 at 2 p.m.
Toney will act in the role of W.E.B. Du Bois alongside student actors. Smith, who is head of the playwriting program and nationally acclaimed for his work, explained that he knew the role of Du Bois needed a mature actor, and was delighted when Toney joined the cast.
"It's been a real pleasure working with David," Smith said. "I'd met him about 10 years ago in New York City when he was auditioning for another one of my plays, and to reconnect with him in this way has been a really rich experience."
Toney's participation also has had an impact in many ways, according to Delaney.
"First and foremost, he is powerful evidence that it is not only possible to survive, but to thrive as a theater artist. Working with a working actor is empowering, particularly when that actor graduated from the place you're currently studying."
He's also pushing the students to excel.
"David is setting an incredibly high standard of hard work, creativity, commitment and risk in the rehearsal process, and the students are following suit," Delaney said. "He has a seemingly unlimited pool of new ideas, and he is inspiring the students to take greater risks because of that."
Delaney built time into the rehearsal schedule for Toney to work with each of his student castmates individually. The work has deepened their commitment while polishing their performances, Delaney said.
But this is no ordinary School of Theater production for more reasons than Toney's performance. With the support of many faculty members and an 1804 Grant that was awarded in 2007, the play, and potentially many of the students, will be performing at the off-Broadway Theater for the New City. The production is tentatively scheduled at the lower east side New York theater in January 2009.
"The production of 'Knock Me a Kiss' in Athens and its subsequent production off-Broadway will provide our students -- both graduate and undergraduate -- the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the highest-caliber theater artists in the country in one of the most dynamic and exciting theatrical and cultural centers in the country, New York," said Robert St. Lawrence, technician-lighting director in the School of Theater and one of the 1804 Grant recipients.
Smith explained that the New York performance was the collaborative effort of many faculty members including Delaney and Ursula Belden, head of production design and technology.
"Ursula Belden has been working a lot to increase Ohio University's visibility in New York City and thought this was a great opportunity," Smith said. "As the writer, I'm just sort of along for the ride, but the collaboration has just been delightful."
"Knock Me a Kiss" was originally produced by the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago in 2000. It won the 2000 Black Theater Alliance Award for Best New Work and was nominated for the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work.
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The Kenai Peninsula has lost an important bridge to its past and voice for its future with the death of Kenaitze elder Emil Dolchok earlier this week.
Mr. Dolchok suffered a heart attack after an evening of doing what he loved to do: Fishing for the Kenai River's early-run king salmon.
A voice for subsistence and Native rights, the 77-year-old elder was recognized for his contributions in 1999 by being named Cook Inlet Region Inc.'s Shareholder of the Year and the Alaska Federation of Natives' Elder of the Year.
At the Peninsula Clarion, we knew him as a letter writer -- a long, but unassuming, letter writer. He brought in his last letter for publication last month. It was published as a ''Voices of the Peninsula'' column on April 25.
When we asked about getting a picture to accompany his piece, we had to work around the tides: Mr. Dolchok was going fishing.
After he brought in his letter, there was a short discussion in the newsroom about how we needed to do a feature story on him. The story was assigned; a date was scheduled for it to run; some pictures were taken. Mr. Dolchok died before an interview took place. It is very much our loss, and a poignant reminder that no matter how long life is, it's too short for all there is to do.
Mr. Dolchok's last letter in the newspaper carried one of his favorite themes: changes in fisheries management have hurt lifelong residents -- of which he was one -- who depend on the fish they catch to feed themselves and their families. He was passionate about the topic and will be remembered as a tireless advocate of lifelong residents.
A sampling of his convictions:
''The early king salmon run could be harvested before the blowflies began laying eggs in the spring and the rains set in the month of July. Both these factors make the processing of fish difficult. But it doesn't matter to the sport fishermen, who slice a strip off the sides of salmon, leaving excessive amounts of meat on the backbone and all the rich belly meat connected to the head and tail. Then, they throw this carcass of wanton waste on the banks or in the river to be snagged or trampled on by other anglers. In some areas the fish waste they leave on the banks attracts bears and other predators creating a problem for humans -- but it's not the angler's fault ever!'' (Peninsula Clarion, April 25)
''With all this said, I am a lifelong, year-round resident of this area. It has become increasingly harder for me to access the fish I was born and raised on. I have had to stand by and watch with disgust as limits are put on local residents to accommodate the desires of tourists and anglers from the big city. With every inch that the sport fisherman takes with legislation, we compound the hardship on the year-round, lifelong residents of the Kenai. It's time that our legislators and the Board of Fish take an interest in our needs.'' (Peninsula Clarion, April 25)
''... (P)lease tell me or at least explain to me, the true meaning of equal opportunity. We Kenaitze Natives have been on this Kenai Peninsula forever, catching these early-run king salmon to feed our families and to smoke, can, salt and dry for our winter food supply. I have always been under the impression that these salmon were for all mankind as a food source. I cannot, so help me, understand the biased one-sided allocation granted to the sport fishermen who have just recently come into this Kenai area. '' (Peninsula Clarion, April 3, 2000)
''... I, for one, am all for rural preference. By regaining our subsistence privilege, maybe we would be able to harvest a few of these early-run king salmon on the outer inlet beaches before the sport fishermen completely wipe them out. ... Are we heading for the same willful destruction of our valuable salmon stocks as Washington, Oregon and California? I dread to think about it, but it is sure heading in that direction.'' (Peninsula Clarion, April 3, 2000)
We will miss Mr. Dolchok and his letters. He always gave us something to think about concerning this place he loved and called home all of his life.
Our sympathy goes to his family and many friends in their time of great loss.
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Both cards quite a bit shorter
Overclockzone Thailand has snapped some shots that compares the size of the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 to the 2900XT, and both cards are quite a bit shorter.
Both of the Radeon HD 38x0 cards came retail packaged and are based on the reference design from AMD. The company behind the cards is Sapphire, and it looks like they've stuck with the reference clock speeds, at least initially.
Both cards come bundled with Half Life 2 Black Box and an HDMI to DVI dongle, as well as the usual assortment of cables and adapters.
You can find some more pictures here as we didn't manage to find the pictures on the original site due to our inability to read the Thai language.


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Religion, Ideology and Society
The problems I refer to, concern what Friedrich Max Muller called Religionswissenchaft or 'science of religions* as early as 1867.1 Although my own research output is minimal, I have nevertheless ventured to undertake the subject because having taught the subject at the postgraduate classes for nearly two decades, I have often felt there is a paramount need for developing the discipline along scientific lines. I propose to undertake a world view with the objective of placing studies on Indian religions in proper perspective.2
We shall not attempt any definition of religion and prefer to take its multi-dimensional character as a convenient starting point.3 Briefly, it may be mentioned that myths, rituals, doctrines, theology, mystic experience, socio-ethical content, etc., constitute some of the major dimensions of the religious phenomenon.4 Similarly, Religionswissenschaft has been variously defined but one of the best known classifications takes cognizance of the psychology, history, sociology and phenomenology of religion.5 A bird's-eye view of the major phases in the creation of a 'science of religions' as an important discipline is desirable to understand the Indian scene. Surely, one can easily identify the methodological transformations between Max Muller*s writings on comparative mythology with an accent on philology in the latter half of the nineteenth century and Bruce Lincoln's analysis of the Rigvedic religion published about a hundred years later.6 From the rather simplistic, though not uncritical, presentation of A. Barth7 to recent writings with pronounced influences of Levi-Strauss* structuralism and Freud's psychoanalysis represents a very long trek.8
Lewis Henry Morgan in his classic work Ancient Society9 published in 1877 wrote, 'Religion deals so largely with imaginative and emotional nature, and consequently with such uncertain elements of knowledge, that all primitive religions are grotesque and to some extent unintelligible' (emphasis added).10 More than half a century before this, August Comte, in his famous Cours de philosophic positive (based on his lectures of the 1820s) had pronounced his theory of the
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June 23, 2009
Bringing Girls And Boys To Computer Science With 'Alice'
Imaginary World Invisibly Teaches Kids to Program
Duke University computer scientist Susan Rodger is hoping ice skaters, cute animals and fearsome dragons will bring new talent to her field.With support from the National Science Foundation, she and collaborators nationwide are using the power of storytelling to draw younger students into programming. An animation program called "Alice," invented by the late Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University, allows student programmers of all ages to create their own worlds without realizing they're actually writing code.
Rodger recalled the rush of introducing fourth-to-sixth graders to Alice during an annual event that brings elementary school girls to the Duke campus to meet with female professors.
"They learned Alice for half an hour, and then they got to create a world with it," Rodger said. "'Oh, wow, look!' they told each other. 'Come here. Show me. Look at this!' They were creating little stories with Alice, and in the process they were programming. They didn't know they were doing programming, but they were."
At Alice summer camps for middle-schoolers at Duke, "students were very engaged with Alice and were always asking for more time to work on their own worlds," Rodger reported at the March 2009 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Chattanooga, Tenn. "After five or six hours of Alice each day, we still had difficulty getting them to stop, turn off their Alice worlds and logoff at the end of the day."
Interestingly, those camps were "50 percent male and 50 percent female," she said.
Attracting females is key to the future of computer science, Rodger says. In 2008, only 11.8 percent of U.S. bachelor's degrees in computer science went to women, according to the Computing Research Association. And Duke's showing is hardly better, said Rodger, who is trying to turn that around by making programming fun to learn.
"In my most recent upper-level undergraduate course I had one female out of 15 students, and that's pretty typical," Rodger said. "It's a nationwide problem that there aren't many women in computer science in general. For example, we only have three women faculty in our department, out of 24 positions. And it's been the same for the 15 years I've been here."
Rodger, a professor of the practice at Duke, thinks Alice breaks stereotypes about what computer science is as students solve problems by inventing scenarios within virtual worlds. Those worlds are created by the students themselves, and populated with the objects, animals and people they introduce by drag-and-drop.
"It's a very easy way to learn programming if you've never done it before," she said. "It's hard to make mistakes. What you learn in the process are computer science concepts."
Student projects in Rodger's computer science course for non-majors recently included an animated nine-hole miniature golf course, complete with smoking volcano. Another placed Sarah Palin in a "seaplane adventure" in which Alaska's governor has to save her husband after his snowmobile breaks down. A third was an elaborate board game called "Roll."
Simpler projects, replete with mooing cows, hopping kangaroos, fire breathing dragons and bumper cars, would resonate with younger students, she said.
Studies show Alice's story-telling quality especially appeals to young women and minority students, Rodger said. And Alice's interactive computer games especially appeal to young men.
Rodger thinks early computer gaming draw a number of students to computer science, but those tend to be males. "There are a lot of shoot-'em-up games in particular that kids are playing," she said. "That turns off a lot of girls, who in general like to help people and tend to be more social."
Alice can handle both tastes. "Girls want to use animals and characters to tell a story," she said. "Boys want to use sci-fi objects, vehicles and lots of fire."
Rodger realizes that incorporating Alice in her computer science course for non-majors will not in itself convince many more young women or men to enter her field if they're already juniors or seniors.
So she's focusing on the next generation, now learning Alice in the middle schools of Durham. The National Science Foundation incentive has also created programs based in San Jose, Calif; Denver, Charleston, S.C. and Oxford, Miss.
The next Alice events at Duke, all for teachers, will include a June 17 symposium and a series of workshops that month and in early July.
"It's going to take four or five years to see if all those efforts are helping," she said.
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Oakham Ales are brewing a series of single hop variety ales.
For those of you unfamiliar with Oakham Ales they are based in Peterborough and have a 6 Barrel brewery at the Brewery Tap and a 75 Barrel brewery in the Woodston area of the city. Most of the series are limited edition brewed at the smaller brewery and are part of their Oakademy of Excellence.
The series is Nelson Sauvin (in March), Chinook (in June), Amarillo (in September) and Simcoe (in December). There has also been a very popular Citra, which I assume was brewed at the Woodston brewery as it's been in abundance around the East Midlands since April.
My personal favourite so far is the Nelson Sauvin with it's gorgeous apricot/ peach flavours. Citra comes a close second; very refreshing with grapefruit and gooseberry bitterness.
There is a list of pubs that will be selling them on the Oakademy website.
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But if warm dry winds blow upon the clouds, they rarefy the vapour to a greater degree, and temporarily disperse the clouds.
The rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces.
But extend this vapour, rarefy it; from so narrow a room as our natural bodies, to any politic body, to a state.
The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarefy it.
But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in the bulb and rarefy the air in the same.
Would an atmosphere perfumed by these Eastern woods clarify and rarefy our denser Occidental minds?
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Match poised after Sidebottom hat-trick
New Zealand 470 and 147 for 8 (Fleming 66, Sidebottom 5-37) lead England 348 (Collingwood 63, Vaughan 63, Ambrose 55) by 269 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentary
How they were out
A match which had been notable for slow scoring and a paucity of wickets turned on its head on the fourth afternoon when New Zealand, pressing for quick runs, lost six wickets for 20 in 11 breathtaking overs. Their chief tormentor was Ryan Sidebottom, whose 5 for 37 included a hat-trick. New Zealand are still in a decent position, leading by 269, and if they can nudge and nurdle that past 300 tomorrow, then they will be the favourites given how hard it is for any batsman to force the pace on this pitch.
But they are not as impregnable as they were when Stephen Fleming and Jamie How were cruising on 99 for 1 before the maelstrom. New Zealand had bowled England out shortly after lunch to take a first-innings lead of 122, and despite losing Matthew Bell to Sidebottom in the first over, had the match completely in their hands. After a solid start, they began to put pressure on England as the lead passed 200.
The whole situation was changed by a quite brilliant catch in the deep by Matthew Hoggard just as the tempo of the innings was rising. How hit hard and true towards deep midwicket but somehow Hoggard, hurtling to his right five yards inside the rope, threw himself high and wide to cling on to the catch as he fell to earth. How's shake of the head said it all.
A hiccup rapidly became a fully-fledged collapse as four wickets crashed in nine balls, including a Ryan Sidebottom hat-trick either side of Monty Panesar's dismissal of Brendon McCullum. Sidebottom, whose feat went almost unnoticed amid the coming and going of batsmen, was aided by some brilliant catching from Alastair Cook. Rarely can one man, let alone one side, have held so many outstanding catches in one match
Fleming, who had looked in imperious form, started the slide when a loose drive was well held by Cook in the gully, and then Cook somehow clung on to one rocketing towards him as Matt Sinclair threw the kitchen sink at a wide ball and got a thick edge. Jacob Oram completed the 1-2-3 when he was again undone by minimal footwork, trapped in front for a duck. As Sidebottom tired Panesar took charge, holding a simple return catch to remove first-innings century-maker Ross Taylor and then enticing Kyle Mills to heave across the line. A good crowd, basking in the sunshine and with little to cheer in the previous day and a half, were in raptures.
It was hard to believe this was the same England side that looked out of sorts in the field only an hour before. Vaughan had even brought on Collingwood ahead of the out-of-sorts Steve Harmison and left Panesar kicking his heels, even though for more than a day Daniel Vettori and Jeetan Patel had shown than spin was king on this surface.
Nor had the first session given any indication of what was to follow, even though England's pedestrian innings finally ended soon after lunch in a rush of wickets. They had resumed at the same crawl that had been the hallmark of their third-day performance and through the morning scored a mere 61 runs, including 28 in the first hour.
Vettori and Patel whirled away and posed a few problems. Ambrose played with excellent composure for a man in his first Test and brought up his fifty shortly before the break. By then he had lost Collingwood , who had provided the session's highlight with an out-of-character lofted six over long-off, lbw to Oram. Given that the previous four sessions had produced five wickets, the end came surprisingly quickly, New Zealand requiring just 7.1 overs after lunch to wrap things up, during which time one run was scored. England lost two wickets in two balls to Patel in the first over after the resumption, before Panesar fell to Mills' first delivery with the new ball.
After 11 sessions of torpor the match is intriguingly poised, and with the weather superb and the pitch holding together well, a thrilling climax is in store tomorrow.
Martin Williamson is executive editor of Cricinfo


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European Bankers to Meet ECB on Asset Check Update From July 8Jeff Black and Sonia Sirletti
Officials from 128 of Europe's biggest banks will meet staff from the European Central Bank next week for an update on the ongoing review of lenders' assets.
Chief financial officers and chief risk officers from banks have been invited to meetings in Frankfurt over three days -- July 8, 9 and 10 -- to discuss progress in the Comprehensive Assessment, according to an ECB spokeswoman.
The assessment is an examination of asset quality and crisis-resistance that's due to finish in October before the ECB takes over financial supervision for the euro area on Nov. 4. ECB President Mario Draghi said at a news conference today that preparations to set up the bank supervisor, known as the Single Supervisory Mechanism, are "proceeding as scheduled."
Topics on the agenda for the series of talks will include how the ECB plans to disclose the findings of the assessment, as well as outstanding steps in the asset quality review.
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New glowing spray might help CSI hunt for explosivesJune 4th, 2008 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 4 (ANI): A new aerosol spray that glows blue under UV light would help CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) officers to hunt for common explosives.
According to a report in New Scientist, William Trogler and Jason Sanchez at the University of California at San Diego in the US have developed the aerosol.
Spraying an object with the aerosol and illuminating it with an ultraviolet torch makes the object glow blue.
But any colourless patches betray traces of explosive as faint as a trillionth of a gram per square centimetre.
Some explosives can already be looked for using portable devices that detect vapours released in even trace amounts. But most modern explosives must be detected by directing a puff of air at a surface and collecting samples to be tested in a lab.
The new spray can instead detect those substances at the scene and even distinguish between different explosives.
The aerosol contains a polymer that normally dries to form a film that fluoresces blue under UV light. However, if it is exposed to any of a range of explosives, including nitroglycerin and TNT, it reacts with nitrogen groups in the explosives to become colourless.
The polymer emits at the blue wavelength most visible to the eye, said Trogler. The visible detection is very intuitive it doesnt require a scientist to operate, he added.
The polymer can change colour to reveal different classes of explosives after continued exposure to UV light. The light catalyses a reaction between explosives in the class that includes nitroglycerin and PETN.
It yields a green luminescence, said Trogler.
That feature of the spray could help investigators gather evidence at a crime scene usually only known after a trip back to the lab.
According to Michael Knapp at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US, sensors able to directly reveal what they have found to investigators can lead to more sensitive results. (ANI)
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I have a 2000 chevy metro lsi. When the car is cold the car will start up, but when the car gets hot even after a few minutes of running it will not start up again until completely cooled, the car cranks and the starter is fine.
The car cranks and the starter is fine. We check the crank shift and it is fine, there are also no codes coming up. No one can figure this out. Any suggestions, it is also not the coils. After the car starts it runs good, so confused?
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At the 2016 Geneva Auto Show, Bentley introduced the 2017 face-lift of its flagship luxury sedan, the Mulsanne. The Mulsanne's power unit is a 6.75 liter V8 that puts out 505 bhp and 752 lb-ft of torque. With this new 2017 Mulsanne, most of the design changes are in the front fascia
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The new Bentley Flying Spur and an updated Bentley Mulsanne made their North American debuts at the New York Auto Show this week. The Flying Spur, the newest Bentley offering, combines the classic sedan styling the company is known for with a sportier, edgier feel. Meanwhile, the Mulsanne maintains its


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Lee Manfred manages the Payments Strategy and Innovation practice as a Partner with First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. In this capacity Lee advises leading financial institutions, payment networks, card associations, processors, retailers, and technology providers on strategic initiatives related to deposit access products and services, including debit issuing, prepaid issuing and program management, and ATM deployment and network management. He consults on diverse topics including payment strategy, product and new business development, mergers and acquisitions, operations benchmarking, vendor selection and negotiation, financial analysis and valuation, and pricing strategies. Lee has advised top 5 financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada in Payment Strategy development and implementation.
Lee has over twenty five years of consulting and retail financial services experience. He earned an MBA from the George Washington University, and a BBA from the University of Notre Dame, both with concentrations in finance. Prior to joining First Annapolis, Lee held senior consumer lending positions and co-founded a specialized student lending company.
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'Rose Of Thurles' Pageant Coming Up
WITH the Rose of Tralee just over, Thurles is gearing up for its very own version of Ireland's fondest pageant.
The 'Rose of Thurles' is a charity event in aid of Haiti. Although the disaster took place over a year ago there are still thousands of families effected, says organiser Evelyn Roberts.
"The money raided will go to the Haven Charity which are still working flat out building houses schools and playgrounds for the families and kids."
The event is like the rose of Tralee but instead of countries and counties the girls will represent clubs and business and clubs in and around the Thurles area. The prizes are all being donated by local designer Jennifer Hill who will custom design a tiara for the winner. Also trophies are being designed by local student Aishling Ryan.
The event consists of two nights. On the first night, 29th September, Judges will meet with the Roses,
Escorts and business people. This will take place in the Wytchway Inn, in Holycross. The second night is the big night in HQ nightclub in Thurles, at 8pm.
There is a fee of E45, which includes a sash for business or club. Places are limited so get in ASAP. Readers can find out more information by contacting 086/2642892 or email or Facebook Rose of Thurles.