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It is uncommon for me to be so moved by a piece, to feel so connected to the author and their ideas, that I feel a massive reinforcement of my convictions. There are many systems of oppression, but I find that there is one that is many times overlooked and not taken as seriously: In her post, A Thousand Rivers, Carol Black introduces a concept I had not thought much about up to this point: cognitive imperialism (the emphasis is mine).
Marie Battiste, a Mi'kmaw education professor at the University of Saskatchewan, has a very clear term for the tendency of one powerful group to claim the authority to define its own cognitive traits and preferences as normal and desirable and all other ways of thinking, learning, and understanding the world as deficits and disabilities: she calls it "cognitive imperialism." It's the cognitive equivalent of racism. It leads naturally, of course, to a kind of cognitive Manifest Destiny that assumes that one way of thinking, of learning, of being in the world is destined to overwhelm and replace all others.
Whoa. This is a window into how complicated our work as teachers is. While I might be reading books that show my students represented in them, while I might be discussing with students how gender and racial bias manifest themselves in society, I am probably using instructional methods and having thoughts that is trying to get students to process things a certain way. But how in social justice's name am I to take this realization and translate it into reality in my classroom?
A Builder
During my student teaching in kindergarten, I had a student who, by all traditional tests, was "failing". I will call him Carlos. If I pointed letters out in random order on a piece of paper, he maybe knew five letters at any given moment. He would count cubes out, with the goal of making 18, and then forget within five seconds what number we were working on. When called on to share thoughts during a read a loud, he would smile and his tongue would circle in his mouth. Most of the time, he would smile and shake his head, as if to say "Never mind!" If he did speak, it was in Spanish. This is the typical deficit based profile of an english language learner struggling in school.
I also saw Carlos who, when playing with blocks would explain to me "Este es un parque, está es la tienda." (this is a park, this is a store):
I then ask Carlos, "¿Oh, estás haciendo un parque y una tienda? ¿Me puedes explicar más?
Carlos turns away, a behavior that is not expected nor desired in an "academic" setting". I notice he turns around, and approaches a white girl that speaks English for most of her time in the classroom and points at a half sphere she has near her, "Can I use this?". The girl nods, and Carlos returns triumphant with his half sphere, and puts it on top of a structure he identified as his tienda (store). "¡Mira mi tienda!"
I respond, "oooh de qué es?" (What type is it?). Carlos continues to build another structure, and says "Esta es una escuela" (this is a school).
What just happened? I've thought about this conversation a lot. I, trying to be a "good" curious educator, am asking these probing questions, to which Carlos mainly responds by continuing his work. It's as if I'm the one who is behind and I'm the one that has to keep up with this work and thinking. He appears to enjoy explaining things through modeling. I also heard him speak English for the first time and noticed he changed his language depending on who he was speaking with.
So in front of me, I have a builder who clearly thinks in metaphors, making the blocks become a park, a school, and a store. There was nobody doing the exact same thing as him, and perhaps he felt like it was truly his space to make sense of his world in the moment. In front of me, I had a flexible learner that was guiding himself through play.
Into the Academy
So, great. What have I just learned about Carlos? Well, for one thing, I have noticed that Carlos is engaged when he gets to choose how to use what's in front of him. I didn't tell him what to do with the blocks, nor did I tell him he had to use blocks. He could have made patterns with shapes, played with puppets, or built with the larger brown blocks. There was no set product that he had to do. How might I translate this into, let's say, reading literacy?
All of my thoughts about children and their cognition are truly tentative and hypotheses, waiting to be disproven. Using what I knew about Carlos and his love of blocks, I proceeded to attempt a dialogically organized discussion around the book Clic, Clac, Muu, Vacas Tecladoras. I sat Carlos down with three other students who tended to keep to themselves during whole group read alouds. My goals were to 1) observe students making sense of the text, whatever it is they make sense of and, 2) nudge students to explain their thinking and go deeper into their ideas.
I began with the title page, and asked "¿Qué ven?" (What do you see?). One student said they saw a computer and cows. Carlos appeared to begin rolling on the floor. He was visibly disengaged. Throughout the reading, at times Carlos would participate, but only after much time and he would do a lot of his smile-with-his-tongue-circling-in-his-mouth, something I observe him do when he appears hesitant to participate. I would nudge him to tell me what he sees in each image. He would look away and start playing with his shoe and someone else would jump in.
After that read a loud, I had a new hypothesis: if I presented a book without words and intricate illustrations, Carlos would participate more openly and enthusiastically. I realized that perhaps Carlos saw the words in the book, and may not see himself as someone who can read or talk about books with words in them. So I was curious to find out how he would interact with a wordless picture book.
A Grand Journey
With a new hypothesis in hand, I organized another dialogical discussion around the wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker. Immediately after I opened with "¿Qué piensas que está pasando?" (What do you think is happening?) Carlos' eyes lit up. He spoke in what seemed to be paragraphs about what was happening, based on what he saw. Other students contributed as well, and Carlos was able to get back into the conversation when he felt like it: he did so with ease. It was the first time I had seen Carlos ecstatic about reading a book. It's almost as if he felt like a reader and a sense maker.
It's impossible to say that my hypothesis was correct, but we were at least headed in a direction that animated Carlos.
Cognitive Dissonance
In a very small way, Carlos and I worked to push back against the cognitive imperialism that dominates our school system. I worked to change my approach and mindset to revolve around Carlos' way of thinking and being, around what he showed me not what he should be showing me. Time is so tight during student teaching, so I do have some parting thoughts as to how I would potentially continue working with Carlos in other domains.
There's no getting around a sinister fact of life for teachers in the USA: standardized tests. And I do feel a responsibility for kids to at least do the dog and pony show to continue to have the autonomy to do actual learning.
For helping Carlos do well on standardized tests, I would want to build on his affinities and strengths. I'm wondering what would happen if I painted or got blocks with letters on them, and worked to rearrange them and create words with them. I wonder, in math, how he would do with open ended number talks focused on counting and nudging him towards different ways of looking at numbers, such as asking "How else could we count them?", with a genuinely curious mindset around his answers.
But Carlos is only one student, and what about the other 23 students (or more) in the classroom? Well, to that I say that the more accessible and open I made my approaches to Carlos, the more agency and excitement I saw from other students as well. Teaching is hard for many reasons. It is those reasons that make me love teaching even more every year. The intellectual challenge is well worth the effort in order to create a more just, inclusive, and democratic society.


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Mozaik Humaniora will initially have the Chief Editor to screen the submitted manuscripts. The papers are read and screened by the editorial board members (based on their field of expertise) to decide whether it meets the criteria of Mozaik Humaniora publication. Mozaik Humaniora operates a double-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author and vice versa. The manuscripts will be sent to a peer-reviewer based on their field of expertise. Mozaik Humaniora provides a review form for the reviewer to give their assesments which includes originality, clarity, contribution to the field and scope, as well as language and stucture. Then editorial board will make a decision upon the reviewer comments or advice. The decisions include:
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When we arrive at this time of year, if you profess Christianity, we start singing songs in praise of peace. What we never quite realise is that Global Peace is within our own hands, or more accurately, within our own minds.
Rhonda Byrne, the writer and motivator behind the film "The Secret", understands this totally. In a recent Secret Daily Teaching she said:
Change in a country begins with one person. Each country reflects the inner peace or turmoil of its mass population, and so as one person changes they affect the rest of the population. One person has the power within them to bring massive change to their country through immense love and peace within themselves. But we cannot bring about peace and well-being to our country unless we have conquered that in our own life. Do you see? You cannot give what you do not have.
Each person's job is to bring utter harmony into their own life, and then they will become the greatest human gift for their country and the world.
Inner Peace is the first challenge
Developing inner peace is the basis of many religions including Christianity, yet we rarely see this understanding enacted by the more fanatical believers. Often it seems their reason for being is to convince non-believers of the error of their ways and force them into believing the believer's own particular brand of religion/creed. This is so far from the true meaning of peace and its application.
It took me a long time to understand the essence of peace, and I found out you need some humility along the way. Putting it into practice constantly is even more difficult to learn. It takes constant commitment every waking minute. When your ego shouts: "That's not fair!" peace is fading from your heart. When your ego shouts: "You're getting more than me" peace is coiled into a corner. When your ego shouts: "You're wrong" peace just left the building.
There are many great books and DVDs around that will help you on your way to understanding what real Peace is all about. Here are a few I have used as tools on my journey:
The Secret DVD and Book By Rhonda Byrne
The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks
One DVD and film featuring many great avatars and teachers
The Living Matrix movie and DVD
Eckhart Tolle's book: A New Earth
The Voice – Director David Sereda
So during this festive season and into the New Year, I would like to wish one wish, and that is YOU are the one person it takes to tip the balance toward world peace through you own inner peace. I'm working on it but I've got a long way to go.
Heather Sylvawood, creator of the Facebook page WriteGear


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Announcements 2010
Update on Industrial action
- 22 Sep 2010
The management of Northam Platinum Limited regrets to advise that the strike at its Zondereinde mine in Limpopo province continues, following the failure of the second round of mediation with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at the CCMA yesterday, Tuesday 21 September 2010.
Management remains firm in its rejection of the NUM's demands of:
- a 15% increase in basic wages
- the collapsing of a number of bands which increase the demand to 19.5%
- the increase in the living out allowance from the current R1 600 per month to R3500 per month.
- in aggregate the total cost to company equates to an increase of 32%
Northam chief executive Glyn Lewis commented today, "This is a disappointing outcome after the best efforts of the CCMA. Nevertheless, we remain available and committed to seeking a resolution to this deadlock which will serve to satisfy the best interests of the company, its employees and its shareholders"


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Hello Everyone,
I would really appreciate, if someone puts light on it please. I am confused about how to treat Accruals, which were mistakenly created.
on 31st January, I passed an Accrual for Water rates for £1000 (Estimate) and then on 1st February, I reversed the accruals leaving a credit balance in the Water Expense account in sage software for the month of February.
On 15th of Febraury, I came to know that, I have mistakenly created the accruals and no such invoice for water rates is expected. I produce monthly management accounts. Now the problem is previous month management accounts, I cannot adjust. What should I do in order to remove this credit balance in the water expense account?
Please help!!!
The accounts for January show a debit of £1000. In February you reversed the journal so the accounts show a credit of £1000. You do not now need to do anything as overall there is nothing in the accounts for water. If you were to look at the accounts for the two months, there wouldn't be anything in them for water.
Any help?
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, you are absolutely right. But as I produce monthly management accounts. when I prepare february P&L statement, 1000 credit appear in water account. Thats odd. How to deal with this?
If you look at the journals you entered for January & February originally & then post the opposite for both month now this will correct the individual months for you
Good luck
Lisa Phipps FICB
Hanan AK said:
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, you are absolutely right. But as I produce monthly management accounts. when I prepare february P&L statement, 1000 credit appear in water account. Thats odd. How to deal with this?
Can I ask, is this for a client or is this studying stuff?
If the latter then I agree with Sapphire, you will have to go into Jan and post a CR to Water and DR to accruals, bringing the charge to zero for the month. In Feb you will have to do the opposite.
If the former (this is a LIVE client's accounts), then I would agree with HRM. You cannot do anything as presumably the January Mangt accounts have already been reported - therefore you cannnot go back and restate management accounts just because you made a mistake, January is over and you cannot do anything. With management accounts there should always be some commentary i.e in Jan it would be 'bill expected', and in Feb it would be 'bill no longer forthcoming' which would explain your variances. YTD the value would be zero, as Hazel says.
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San Diego Sport Innovators Announces Five New Board Members
Friday, April 28, 2017
San Diego Sport Innovators (SDSI), the nonprofit business development organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the sport and active lifestyle (SAL) industry, announced the addition of five members to its board of directors: Emilie Cotter of FleishmanHillard, Melissa DeVita of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Michael Lawrence of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Eric Northbrook of Voit Real Estate Services, and Roger M. Spatz of Reef/Eagle Creek. The five will join 16 current members.
"These new additions to our board are watershed moments in our organization's history — these people, and the companies that they represent, are all foundational pillars in our region, community, and economic, cultural and social space," said Bill Walton, executive director of SDSI. "We could not be happier, more fortunate, privileged or honored, to have each of them officially on our team. Today, SDSI reached a milestone; from this point forward, we now have the skills, strength, expertise, breadth and depth, to fully implement our purpose, mission and goal."
SDSI said its 101 company membership roll represents the San Diego lifestyle and includes leading sports and technology brands, nutrition and yoga, surf, skate, cycling, golf, retail, as well as service companies. The organization focuses on relevant and actionable C-level content that benefits its member companies and facilitates new business opportunities.
The five additions are experienced members of the business community Cotter is a senior VP and partner at FleishmanHillard, a global public relations and communications company. DeVita is the vice president, Division Counsel for Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Lawrence works in wealth management at Morgan Stanley's Global Sports and Entertainment. Northbrook is managing director of Voit Real Estate Services San Diego. Spatz is the president of Reef and Eagle Creek brands within the VF Outdoor/ Action Sports Coalition of VF Corp.


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Do-Something Congress No. 9: Reserve corporate tax cuts for the companies that deserve it
Americans are fed up seeing corporate profits soaring even as their paychecks inch upward by comparison. Companies need stronger incentives to share their prosperity with workers – something the 2017 GOP tax package should have included.
Though President Donald Trump promised higher wages as one result of his corporate tax cuts, the biggest winners were executives and shareholders, not workers. Nevertheless, a growing number of firms are doing right by their workers, taking the high road as "triple-bottom line" concerns committed to worker welfare, environmental stewardship and responsible corporate governance. Many of these are so-called "benefit corporations," legally chartered to pursue goals beyond maximizing profits and often "certified" as living up to their multiple missions. Congress should encourage more companies to follow this example. One way is to offer tax breaks only for high-road companies with a proven track record of good corporate citizenship, including better wages and benefits for their workers.
THE CHALLENGE: Good corporate citizenship is punished, not rewarded, in a market that puts profits first.
The pressure to return profits to shareholders – the tyranny of so-called "shareholder primacy" – is one reason companies have been disinvesting in their workers. As Brookings Institution scholars Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck have noted, many companies are increasingly reverting to "short-termist" behavior to avoid missing the quarterly earnings targets promised to shareholders (1). For instance, one notable survey of more than 400 CFOs found that 80 percent would "decrease discretionary spending on R&D, advertising and maintenance … to meet an earnings target" and 55 percent would "delay starting a new project" even if it meant sacrificing long-term value (2).
Companies also don't seem to be raising wages or investing in worker training. Even as many firms have been reporting some of their best profits in years during this recovery (3), companies are cutting back on benefits like health insurance and offering less on-the-job training than they once did. And despite their recent uptick, workers' wages haven't caught up to where they should be. According to a Brookings Institution analysis, real wages for the middle quintile of workers grew by just 3.41 percent between 1979 and 2016, and actually fell slightly for the bottom fifth.
Corporate short-termism is bad for workers, who don't get the wages and training they deserve. It's also bad for companies, which are shortchanging their long-term health to satisfy short-term shareholder demands. But as long as current corporate culture remains fixated on companies' stock prices, firms will feel tremendous pressure to put short-term profits above all other priorities – and often at workers' expense.
A small but growing number of firms have begun to reject the hold of "shareholder primacy" and have organized themselves as "triple-bottom line" companies committed equally to social and environmental good as well as profit. Among these is the growing number of "benefit corporations" specially organized under state law with the purpose of "creating general public benefit." Since 2010, 34 states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation legally recognizing benefit corporations and protecting them from shareholder lawsuits for decisions that don't maximize profits. Notably these states include Delaware, which is the leading "domicile" – or legal home – for most of America's major companies. A significant number of benefit corporations have also won third-party certification from the nonprofit B Lab as "Certified B Corps" – essentially a Good Housekeeping seal of approval for benefit companies that have met strict standards for worker treatment, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Among the many factors considered for certification are the share of workers who get formal training; rates of employee retention and internal promotion; the share of workers receiving tuition reimbursement or similar benefits for training and education; the extent to which "worker voice" plays a role in the company's governance; pay equity; and company practices to reduce its environmental footprint.
According to the nonprofit B Lab, more than 2,500 businesses globally are certified B Corps. While the vast majority of these businesses are small, certified B Corps include such well-known U.S. and global brands as outdoor clothing maker Patagonia, Cabot Creamery, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, and New Belgium Brewery, the makers of Fat Tire beer. A small but growing number of B Corps are now publicly traded, including cosmetics company Natura; Sundial Brands, a subsidiary of Unilever; and Silver Chef, a company that finances commercial kitchen equipment purchases for restaurateurs. These firms are proof that companies with an avowed social mission can in fact succeed in a cutthroat capital market. If more companies follow suit, the result could be a dramatic and beneficial shift away from the stranglehold of shareholder primacy and toward better corporate practices.
Many companies may feel they can't "afford" to invest in their workers if it affects the bottom line for their shareholders. Targeted tax cuts to reward high road companies such as certified benefit corporations could, however, change the calculus for some companies and encourage them to change their behavior. These tax benefits could be structured in one of two ways:
- Option One: Preferential tax rate.
As PPI has previously proposed, one option is to modify the new corporate tax rate to establish a preferential "public benefit corporation" rate for businesses that meet "high-road" requirements. Only the most deserving companies should qualify for the new 21 percent corporate tax rate; all others should pay a rate that is two to three percentage points higher.
To be entitled to these benefits, companies would meet one of two requirements: (1) that they be legally organized as "public benefit corporations" in their state and can provide good evidence of how they are fulfilling that mission; or (2) they must meet a minimum set of standards for worker treatment and investment, to be promulgated by a new standards-setting body authorized by Congress (effectively behaving like benefit corporations without the formality of legal status). To set the required standards, Congress could establish an inter-agency "workers' council," including representatives from labor and business, to establish guidelines for public benefit corporation rate eligibility (though enforcement would be left to the IRS). Companies would apply for a discounted tax rate in the same way that charities and nonprofits apply to the IRS for tax-exempt status, with the proviso that companies must also report annually on their performance, either in their public filings or in separate submissions to the IRS.
- Option two: Benefit corporation tax credit.
A second option for structuring a high road company tax incentive is to create a tax credit for benefit corporations like the "sustainable business tax credit" offered by the city of Philadelphia. Under this benefit, first launched in 2012, Philadelphia businesses that are either certified B Corps or that can show they meet similar standards of social and environmental responsibility can qualify for a tax credit of up to $8,000 against their revenues. Up to 75 firms can apply for the credit on a first-come, first-served basis.
This structure might be especially beneficial for small and medium-sized benefit corporations structured as "pass-through" entities not subject to the corporate tax rate. As Jenn Nicholas, co-founder of the Philadelphia-based graphic design firm Pixel Parlor told Governing magazine, the credit has helped her afford higher wages and other benefits for her 10 workers. "It's a challenge to be profitable and provide benefits to our employees," Nicholas said. "Every tiny bit helps, and it feels like somebody is looking out for us when the general climate [for small businesses] is the opposite" (10).
While some policymakers have proposed requiring companies to treat their workers more fairly, tax incentives for high-road businesses are a better approach. Top-down mandates tend to invite resistance or evasion and will not succeed in changing the overall spirit of corporate culture in favor of shareholders over workers. Encouraging companies to reform themselves will ultimately prove the more enduring tactic. As more businesses see that they can indeed "do good and do well," the grip of shareholder primacy will weaken, and workers will benefit.
1) Galston, William A., and Elaine C. Kamarck. More builders and fewer traders: a growth strategy for the American economy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2015.
2) Graham, John R., Campbell R. Harvey, and Shiva Rajgopa. The Economic Implications of Corporate Financial Reporting. N.p., 2005.
3) Bureau of Economic Analysis. "Gross Domestic Product, Third Quarter 2018 (Second Estimate); Corporate Profits, Third Quarter 2018 (Preliminary Estimate)." News release. November 28, 2018. Accessed March 28, 2019. https://www.bea.gov/news/2018/gross-domestic-product-third-quarter-2018-second-estimate-corporate-profits-third-quarter.
4) Kim, Anne. Tax Cuts for the Companies That Deserve It. Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, 2018.
5) Shambaugh, Jay, Ryan Nunn, Patrick Liu, and Greg Nantz. Thirteen Facts About Wage Growith. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2017.
6) B Lab. "State by State Status of Legislation." benefitcorp.net. Accessed March 28, 2019. https://benefitcorp.net/policymakers/state-by-state-status.
7) Title 8: Corporations, Delaware Code §§ CHAPTER 1. GENERAL CORPORATION LAW; Subchapter XV. Public Benefit Corporations-361-386 (2017).
8) B Lab. "Certified B Corporation: About B Corps." Benefitcorp.net. Accessed March 28, 2019. https://bcorporation.net/about-b-corps
9) Id.
10) Kim, Anne. "The Rise of Do-Gooder Corporations." Governing, Jan 2019.


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Move To SHOUTcast 2
Before we get too far down the road rejuvenating The Rock Stream, we thought it might be a good idea to future-proof technology!
We have been working hard behind the scenes to grapple with the new SHOUTcast 2 streaming system as there is some speculation that the original SHOUTcast will shortly be discontinued by the new owners Radionomy.
To begin with we are testing SHOUTcast 2 on the mobile player (http://rockstream.rocks) and if successful we will gradually start moving all of our streams over to this system.
Please give it a try and let us know what you think. . .
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New Requests Gizmo
The new Rock Stream web space is moving on apace. The main site is pretty much completed at therockstream.net and we are currently building out the new members area! Have you tried out our new gizmo yet? Now you can pick your own songs (up to 3 per day) using our new automated feature.
Search through our database of over 4,000 rock trax. When you have found the track you are looking for, click on the green "plus" symbol. A new dialogue will appear asking you if you are sure you want to do this, click on "Yes I Am" and you are done. The next dialogue will show that "your request has been successfully placed".
New Product In The Rock Stream Shop
Replacement for our USB transmitter (which is difficult to source at the moment and currently out of stock), this is an excellent alternative. Will transmit on a frequency of your choice on FM (87.5 to 108) via a 3.5mm jack. It also comes with a USB charger lead so can run off a PC with an audio jack close to an earphone jack and is designed so that it can also double up to plug into your mobile phone and run for approximately 2 hours without charging. The best news is that it is even cheaper than the earlier model we sold!


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Mini Cooks in the Kitchen will provide a virtual learning experience to our future chefs. Chefs, guided by our recreation staff, will make great tasting quarantine goodies together. This four-week mini session will include recipes for sugar cookie fruit pizzas, 7 layer dip, pasta salad, and more. Ingredients will be provided. Recipes will require a few common household appliances and cookware. Adult supervision and assistance is required.
*Some ingredients may contain allergens, including peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, gluten, or eggs.


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How Dear is Life
Book condition: lacking the dust wrapper, covers worn, and lacking endpapers. Reading copy only.
Volume 4 in the 15-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series.
The publisher's blurb for the Alan Sutton edition (1995) states: 'Phillip [Maddison] is full of trepidation as he sets out for his first day at the Moon Fire Office, the same company which employs his father. Whenever he can he escapes to the joys of the countryside in the Weald of Kent to go birding, and it is there he finds the peace he craves. Then, in 1914, war is declared on Germany and general mobilization is announced, and Phillip finds himself called up in the London Highlanders. Though his colleagues envy him this "holiday" from work, he is secretly afraid. "I believe if I come back I shall be changed evermore" he tells his mother, and it is not long before he finds himself at the Front, and "home is another world".
'A vivid recreation of life during the years leading up to the First World War, How Dear is Life also presents an accurate depiction of trench life and the trooper's war at Ypres, drawing on Henry Williamson's own experiences as a soldier.'
(For a further consideration of the book and the background to the writing of it, see Anne Williamson's How Dear is Life.)


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Digital Camera Image Sensors Permanently Damaged By Concert Laser Display ~ CAUTION ❗❗
Several videos have emerged of concert lasers damaging the sensors in DSLR cameras. One particular example shows lasers damaging the sensor of a Canon EOS 5D MKII. It appears that the laser burns the CMOS sensor's pixels, while the user is creating a video, rendering it permanently damaged with just a micro-second of exposure.
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Suggestion if you are using any digital camera for photographs or for videos, do not permit the Laser Beam to strike your cameras lens or your eyes, for the Safety of Both.
It is suggested that the lasers cause the damage by heating up the sensitive surface of the sensor. The ILDA (International Laser Display Association) say that camera sensors are often more sensitive to laser light than the human eye. What's more the damage to one pixel can also cause a whole vertical or horizontal row of pixels to stop working properly, making the damage even more visible.
The lasers can cause dead pixels, which may be visible on photos with areas of uniform colour. Any camera with a CMOS sensor could be susceptible, so it's recommended that if you attend a concert where there are laser beams to take extra care not to let the beams directly hit the sensor of your camera.
For more information on avoiding laser damage to your Digital Cameras, visit the ILDA site, (International Laser Display Association)
Lasers emit concentrated beams of light, which can heat up sensitive surfaces (like the eye's retina) and cause damage. Camera sensors, mobile-phone cameras, vidwo cameras are all, in general, very susceptible to damage by Concentrated Laser Light than the human eye. However My advice is if the Laser may Kill your Digital Imager, it may Damage your Vision.
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For large scale shows, such as on a televised concert, laser show producers work with clients to avoid TV camera locations and video projectors (ILDA Members, see this page for details). However, it is not possible for laser show producers to be responsible for all cameras and camcorders which might be at a show.
Therefore, if you attend a show as an audience member, you should take reasonable precautions not to let a laser beam DIRECTLY enter your camera lens.
You can photograph the beams in midair, or doing graphics on a screen. If you can't see the laser source (projector output aperture or bounce mirror) in your viewfinder, this means you're not getting the full beam power into your lens. Indirect viewing like this should not cause damage.
Avoid beams which are coming straight into your lens (or bounced off a mirror or other reflective surface and then into your lens). The damage potential is much greater when the entire beam power enters the camera lens.
Eye safety is first. The primary safety concern for laserists is that the show is eye-safe. A good working definition of "eye-safe" is that everyone leaves the show with the same vision they entered – there is no detrimental change to a person's vision. International safety standards such as IEC 60825 and ANSI Z136 set "Maximum Permissible Exposure" levels for laser light. Shows done at or below the MPE should cause no problem for human eyes. Even shows which exceed the MPE have remarkably safe records (eight documented or claimed eye injuries out of 109,000,000 persons viewing continuous-wave laser shows over 30 years).
However, there are no MPEs for sensors such as CMOS or CCD chips. This means a show may be perfectly safe for eyes, but could possibly damage a camera sensor. One reason is that camera lenses may gather more laser light, and concentrate it to a finer point. Another reason is that a CMOS or CCD sensor may be more easily damaged than the eye.
Due to the many varying factors involved with lenses and sensors, laser show producers cannot be responsible for audience-member damage to cameras or camcorders.
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Next month Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the city's largest churches, will raise up a new leader. Paul Daugherty—who will turn 29 three days after he becomes the church's senior pastor—is the youngest child of founding pastors Sharon and the late Billy Joe Daugherty.
The ministry hosts 7,600 worshippers each week, runs an international Bible school network of 1,542 schools in nearly 100 nations, and operates a major Christian school and the Tulsa Dream Center.
Paul Daugherty's parents were about his age when they founded the ministry 33 years ago—before he was born. He grew up going to the church and attended Victory Christian School from kindergarten through 12th grade. He graduated from Oral Roberts University in 2008 with a major in theology and a minor in business.
Daugherty's fall 2009 wedding was postponed one day so that his late father, who was battling cancer, could finish a chemotherapy series and officiate. It was Billy Joe Daugherty's last public service before he died five weeks later. Sharon Daugherty has been pastoring the church since then.
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Paul said in an interview with Tulsa World last week that the first time the thought occurred to him he might one day pastor Victory was at his father's bedside at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
"The night my dad passed away, I was holding his hand ... and just, crying, 'God, please let my dad live.' And I just had this moment, where God was like: 'He's with me now, and he's happy. Serve your mom and serve the church, and get ready because you're going to step into this role one day.' That scared me, because I had never thought about being the pastor of Victory.
"I was the youngest sibling. ... I didn't say anything. But I took it to heart, and started serving my mom wholeheartedly."
His mother confirmed this a year and a half later when she told him: "I think you should know that your dad had spoken that you would one day step into the role as pastor, but that you needed time to develop."
Around that time is when Paul Daugherty began preaching regularly at Saturday night services and taking on more responsibilities at Victory, where he was the youth and young adult pastor.
"I'm young. I don't have all the answers," he said. "And I am nervous about taking on this role. But I do think that with the help of the Holy Spirit and with the help of the solid, strong, smart people around me ... that our church can continue moving forward."
Daugherty sees himself a team leader, not the face of the ministry.
"I think the day of the one-man show in ministry is over," he explained. "It's unhealthy for one person to try to do everything.
"Victory has always been a church of love, acceptance and forgiveness, and a church that loves to reach out. And we'll continue doing that."
Daugherty is not the first sibling to become senior pastor of a church. His two older sisters and their husbands are pastoring churches they started—Ruthie and Adam Sanders in Frisco, Texas, and Sarah and Caleb Wehrli in Orlando, Florida. He said he has the support of his older brother, John, who has said he does not feel called to be a pastor.
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download The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, read online The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, kindle ebook The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 6cb1e484d0d6 Things Have Never Been Easy For Oscar, A Sweet But Disastrously Overweight, Lovesick Dominican Ghetto Nerd From His Home In New Jersey, Where He Lives With His Old World Mother And Rebellious Sister, Oscar Dreams Of Becoming The Dominican J R R Tolkien And, Most Of All, Of Finding Love But He May Never Get What He Wants, Thanks To The Fuk The Curse That Has Haunted The Oscar S Family For Generations, Dooming Them To Prison, Torture, Tragic Accidents, And, Above All, Ill Starred Love Oscar, Still Waiting For His First Kiss, Is Just Its Most Recent Victim Diaz Immerses Us In The Tumultuous Life Of Oscar And The History Of The Family At Large, Rendering With Genuine Warmth And Dazzling Energy, Humor, And Insight The Dominican American Experience, And, Ultimately, The Endless Human Capacity To Persevere In The Face Of Heartbreak And Loss A True Literary Triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Confirms Junot Diaz As One Of The Best And Most Exciting Voices Of Our Time
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How this book won the Pulitzer Prize AND the National Book Critics Circle is beyond me It s terrible Here s the review I wrote when it came out I stand by this completely If someone says they read this and liked it, punch them in the throat I m kidding, naturally Review of Junot Diaz s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, published Oct 7, 2007 Imagine, if you will, that seven years after publishing The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Ernest Hemingway decided to expand his well known short story into a 350 page novel Imagine if, before Macomber is accidentally shot by his wife on that safari, Hemingway decided to pad the narrative with a couple hundred pages about Macomber s mother, sister, and grandfather tangents that only serve to betray the proper focus of the story, its title, and the reader s trust.That, in short, is what Junot Diaz has done with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Riverhead Books, 24.95 a short story he wrote for the New Yorker in 2000, and which, in novel form, devotes pages to the title character s extended family and it s so called curse or fuku than it does to the fat, girl challenged nerdy writer who loves The Lord of the Rings trilogy and aspires to be the Dominican Tolkien Diaz, now 38, burst on the literary scene in 1996 with his well received collection of short stories, Drown, which critics and readers both loved I ve been meaning to read it for some time, and when I learned he was coming out with a novel, I figured the timing was perfect I d sample his lone collection of short stories, get a flavor for his style, and then progress to the novel Unfortunately, the library s sole copy has been checked out for weeks, so I didn t get to read Drown before experiencing The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which happens to be one of the most erratic, ill conceived and annoying books I ve ever encountered.The book begins with short lived promise We meet dorky Oscar as a high school sopho living in Paterson, N.J., with his mother, Belicia his sister, Lola and his heroin addicted uncle, who plays a minor, insignificant role The mother had been born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, but immigrated to the United States in the early 1960s The kids father, whom she met on the plane to the states, took off a long time ago, and the story of his flight from domesticity is about the only case of love gone bad that isn t described in excruciating detail in this book.Crazy love is the family s curse or fuku, which is the superstitious element of magical realism that threads through the novel No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed the fuku on the world, and we ve all been in the bleep ever since, says the sometime narrator, Yunior, the onetime boyfriend of Oscar s sister, whose name and identity won t be revealed until halfway through the book, and for no other reason than Diaz wants to torture his readers That s the only reason I could glean, anyway So, Oscar s personal fuku is that he loves girls, but they don t love him And basically, they don t love him because he doesn t look like Enrique Iglesias To hear Diaz tell it, Oscar s the only Dominican who doesn t Had none of the Higher Powers of your typical Dominican male, couldn t have pulled a girl if his life depended on it Couldn t play sports for bleep , dominoes, was beyond uncoordinated, threw a ball like a girl Had no knack for music or business or dance, no hustle, no rap, no G And most damning of all no looks He wore his semi kink hair in a Puerto Rican afro, rocked enormous Section 8 glasses sported an unappealing trace of mustache on his upper lip and possessed a pair of close set eyes that made him look somewhat retarded Yunior goes on, Perhaps if he d been like me he d been able to hide his otakuness maybe bleep would have been easier for him, but he couldn t Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens Couldn t have passed for Normal if he d wanted to At this point, we don t who the narrator is or what his relationship to Oscar might be Truthfully, wanting to know does help drag the reader through the novel But learning the identity isn t ultimately rewarding it s annoying.Early on, the forward momentum of the novel stalls and the narrative flashes back in time and focuses on Lola, the sister, and how she ran away from home in the 1990s and then to the mother, Belicia, and how she was a star crossed lover herself in the Dominican Republic The mother s section of the book lasts 90 pages and covers the years 1955 1962 A wise reader would have quit the 335 page book at this point, because The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao had morphed into The Bloated Family Background of Oscar Wao But I read on, waiting for it to get better Unfortunately, it never did, and the reasons seem clear.Not only is the narrative timeline all over the place, but important information be it dialogue or exposition is often relayed in Spanish Now, I took two semesters of the language in college and yet I had no idea what characters were saying in many parts, because context didn t lend hints If Diaz is aiming this book towards a bilingual audience, then so be it But how difficult would it have been to translate the Spanish in footnotes The book is already rife with footnotes anyway, which mainly serve to explain the history of the brutal dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic Throw a gringo a bone.In describing how Belicia, Oscar s mother, had developed a brash attitude as a teenager while living in the Dominican Republic with her adoptive mother, La Inca , Diaz writes, Those of you who have stood at the corner of 142nd and Broadway can guess what it was she spoke the blunt, irreverent cant of the pueblo that gives all dominicanos cultos nightmares on their 400 thread count sheets and that La Inca had assumed perished along with Beli s first life in Outer Azua, but here it was so alive, it was like it had never left Oye, pariguayo, y que paso con esa esposa tuya Gordo, no me digas que tu todavia tienes hambre Uh, no comprende, amigo A lack of Spanish skills won t be the only thing that keeps you from enjoying this book Beyond its organizational problems, the literary devices in play the magical realism, the comic book references, and the fat, supposedly lovable title character make the book feel derivative of Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay , and A Confederacy of Dunces Towards the end of the novel, Yunior, the narrator, is describing Oscar s last great love, a semi retired prostitute named Ybon He says, I know I ve thrown a lot of fantasy and sci fi in the mix but this is supposed to be a true account of the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Can t we believe that an Ybon can exist and that a brother like Oscar might be due a little luck after twenty three years This is your chance If blue pill, continue If red pill, return to the Matrix Too bad that offer came so late on page 285 Do yourself a favor and take the red pill now Return to the Matrix and don t read this book.
I want to know all about your family, your childhood, your grandparents, their childhood, etc, etc, I want to know where you lived, what food you ate, what games you played or didn t play I want to know why this is important to you or that is not Which is why I LOVED this book Junot Diaz takes 300 pages to tell a story about a boy that wants to be kissed and the kiss MATTERS because we know his family, we know his friends, we know their superstitions and their pains, and their loses and their survivals and by the time we get to page 339 we know why the kiss is so important.Oscar goes on the short list of book characters that will stay with me forever.
Exhilarating Brutal yet beautiful Wao I really enjoyed both the style and the story of this whirlwind of a novel by Junot D az I can see why he got a Pulitzer and wonder if he other books are as fun to read I think that Seven Killings was even masterful, but Oscar delivers nearly as much gore and Caribbean corruption and historical facts as well I especially enjoyed the footnotes Writing any about this book would certainly break my no spoilers rules so suffice it to say that this book was GREAT and I will be on the lookout for D az fiction For about Trujillo, his regime, his assassination, and the chaos that ensued with a magnificent female protagonist Urania , don t miss Feast of the Goat by Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa it is extraordinary
I bought Oscar Wao as a birthday gift for my mother in October based on scores of sterling reviews She read it, gave it a mild thumbs up probably just being nice and handed it off to me Now having read it, I m pretty mortified I thought this book would be something she might like The critical consensus seemed to be that Junot Diaz is a good writer, and he picked a good story to tell here in his first novel But I found this book lacking on both counts I found the writing lazy and unexpressive in many places Granted, I have no Spanish language background, so there were some important places in the novel where I couldn t get the total meaning of the sentences, but I thought Diaz s reliance on slang colloquialism arose out of laziness than from the narrative voice, which was often sloppy There are multiple narrators and they mostly talk in the same voice, with the same elements of short humor pithy street wisdom offered The story was just as diappointing There were efforts made at epic storytelling here tackling the Trujillo dictatorship of the Dominican and its spiritual ramifications on the generations of the de Leon family But when you boil this thing down, it s just the story of a loser teenager trying to get laid And there aren t any characters who raise the level of discussion Besides Oscar, his mother s trying to get laid, his sister s trying to get laid, and so it seems the essence of the Dominican character is about getting laid Maybe it s honest, but it s not saying much about their culture relevance It was hard for me to take away any large messages from this book when it operates from such a crude fundamental point.I give it two stars only because Diaz seems to have a knack for narrative the plot is well constructed, even if it is slight irrelevant and there are a few characters who will remain in my mind.
Ok, I m writing a review of this book right now or I ma die trying goddamn it 1 HOUR LATERI got nothing I ve deleted like 20 paragraphs 1 HOUR LATER 2 bruises in my forehead, kind of dizzy, I ve cursed the gods of knowledge for being born without literary talent And 0 review Oh god I give up This is all I got This book is awesome Is a nerdy dude being nerdy as hell and not getting pussy Even tho he desperately wants it he watches Akira which I think is kind of cool he watches cool tv shows that I like Talks about books that I like, and has an unhealthy Tolkien obsession almost as big as mine I didn t like it when he was hating on Magic The Gathering but whatever I know how different strategy nerds get really aggressive when talking about games they don t like, he eats platano Mucho mucho platano And god damn it I love platanos too With cebollitas and queso frito He has a fuku almost as bad as mine I disagree with him when he compares Balaguer to one of the Ring Wraths I think it was the witch king I think if we are going to talk about dominican culture in LOTR terms Trujillo was Morgoth and Balaguer was Sauron there is a part on the Silmarillion when after the fall of Morgoth yes, I used the Noldor name fuck off Sauron escapes and they said that he gets to be as evil as his master oh god I need a life so badly anyway this book has anime, DD, Tolkien, Dr Who, platanos, Dominican mother s makes one want to kill one self , voodoo, Love, I mean all the good stuff
Soon after I started reading this book, I also started reading Housekeeping vs The Dirt by Nick Hornby In it s preface, Hornby discusses why reading has fallen by the wayside as of late A lot of people associate reading with boredom because to most, it feels like a chore to get through novels If people would just read what they enjoyed, then they would begin again to see the pleasures of reading and thus, do of it he even makes a point that someone who reads only The Economist and their daily paper every week may in fact be reading words than him There s a bit of circular logic to this, of course how are you to know if you ll enjoy a book unless you start Along with that, you have many circles that seem to want to claim that unless reading is difficult or a challenge, then it wasn t really worth reading at all Which pretty much sums up all the trappings I fell into with Oscar Wao I first became aware of it when I read an interview with Diaz on a comic book site I frequent I recognized the book cover from work and said, There s a comic connection in there I should check it out I did, and the very first line is a quote from an old Fantastic Four comic Flipping through at random I caught even references, to the New Gods and Middle Earth and so onit seemed rife with geeky references I d get seriously how many of the literatti would know what the Omega Effect was I made a mental note to check it out later Before you know it, this little book had won the Pulitzer Wow, there must be to it than just some sci fi asides So I finally found a good break to read it It starts out interesting enough, despite a lengthy discussion about the Dominican Republic s dictators, and I can see Oscar is pretty likable There is a LOT of Spanish and Spanish slang mixed throughout, but I can figure out most through context The second section then shifts to Oscar s sister, Lola She s afforded about equal time, albeit with less geeky references, and I stick through it here because she spends her time in Wildwood, and as I spent a lot of summers there growing up I wondered if I d recognize anything something else Hornby discusses in the above book, oddly enough familiar locations as a reason to read a particular book The next section is what did me in Diaz decides to spend a LOT of time on the childhood and adolescence of Oscar and Lola s mother From what I ve gathered in other reviews, Diaz is apparently setting up some themes between all these family members, but at that point I couldn t care less This was not what I signed up for, and the Spanish comes on even stronger here I found myself skipping almost every other sentence I m sure there is some beautiful dovetailing of story lines later on, but the reading became a chore, and at that point I decided to take Nick Hornby s advice on how to proceed Put it down You ll never finish it Start something else And there s nothing wrong with that.
A to Z around the world personal challenge D is Dominican RepublicAfter the partial failure with another Pulitzer winner and the controversy surrounding this book author I was a bit weary at first I shouldn t have been because it was an excellent novel which deserves its praise The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not about Oscar s life and it definitely wasn t wondrous It is a saga of Dominicana family starting in the Republic during the horrendous period of Trujillo s reign, one of the worse dictatores, and ending in New York in the 90 s The main characters are, in my opinion, the invisible Trujillo and la madre de Oscar, Belicia Cabral La historia is narrated by one of the characters and we gradually find out who that is The timeline is not linear but it made sense to me The characters are powerfully, all flawed and not overly likable but they felt real to the period and the surroundings The novel is written in Spanglish and I was thankful for my knowledge of Espanol Watching Narcos also helped as I could thoroughly enjoy those beautiful adverbs such as maricon Although I read it in Romanian, the translator kept the Spanish slang and did a good job to preserve the flow, as the author intended There are a lot of bad words in here, so for someone who is easily offended, it might be a problem Sexism in this novel and Sexual misconduct of the author Rant alert and unpopular opinion about metoo I read a couple of reviews who criticize this novel because it is sexist Well, is it I guess it is, taking in consideration that women are viewed as putas and their most important features are el culo and the tits However, I am strongly against judging a book about how the women characters are portrayed Who would read anything by classics then Context is always important and also the author s intentions I am sure that this was the culture in the Dominican republic of that time maybe even now or in the US in the migrant neighborhoods It adds verity to the plot characters and I would hate to see a novel ruined by excessive political correctness Or anything else I do not care much about authors lives but even I heard about the scandals surrounding the author I usually ignore their personal life because it is their work that interests me and I managed to do it nicely this time as well I will not say because I should not write about the author s personal life but, in general, I think this metoo movement is going way too far and deviates from the original, appreciable objective, which is to denounce sexual predators like Weinstein I don t think the aim should be to scare men, dig into their private life and further damage the relationship between the sexes I recently had a discussion with a friend about Henry Cavill s statement which was so criticized although in my opinion is true Here it is There s a traditional approach to that, which is nice I think a woman should be wooed and chased, but maybe I m old fashioned for thinking that He added It s very difficult to do that if there are certain rules in place Because then it s like Well, I don t want to go up and talk to her, because I m going to be called a rapist or something So you re like Forget it, I m going to call an ex girlfriend instead, and then just go back to a relationship which never really worked So well done us, Women We managed to scare the shit out of men I know of men that do not go to business dinners with women because they are afraid they will be accused of sexual harassment So goodbye, equal opportunities Ok, I ll stop my rant now but it does bother me how things should improve but instead they might turn for the worse.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot D az is pure genius storytelling at its core This was a Book Club choice that had me a little nervous but in the end had me tightly strapped in for the ride.As the title suggests, there is brevity to Oscar Wao s life Going into the read knowing this fact makes it even harder to accept as you have little hope that he will survive all that is thrown at him in his early years You root for him the entire length of the book but know deep in your heart it will not end well.The imagery, foreshadowing and character development is on point rich with emotion and passion You will fall in love with Oscar knowing all the while he is so very different from you, but so very similar at the same time You will suffer the torture and experience the pain he feels.But in the end, you accept what has happened despite the heartbreak and sadness that comes with it I am better man having read about Oscar than I was before About Me For those new to me or my reviews here s the scoop I read A LOT I write A LOT And now I blog A LOT First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at where you ll also find TV Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I ve visited all over the world And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who what when where and my pictures Leave a comment and let me know what you think Vote in the poll and ratings Thanks for stopping by.
Honestly, if someone had warned me that this book would barrage me, page after page, line after line, clause after clause, with obscure dorky references, Dominican Republican history lessons, and Spanish colloquialisms, I may not have picked it up But I am glad I did.It is comforting to realize that on the scale of nerd dom, I fall on the light end I could follow the shout outs to science fiction authors, as well as the Lord of the Rings allusions of which there were many But I was lost for all the anime, video game, comic, and role playing mentions And I was okay with that Really My ignorance didn t keep me from empathizing with the main character super dork Oscar Wao He actually reminded me of all the odd computer science and mechanical engineering majors from my undergrad I found him endearing and was always happiest and saddest when the book shifted back into a perspective featuring sweet, roly poly Oscar Likewise, I enjoyed the footnotes about the sorted history of the Dominican Republic Who knew they hated Haitians so much In fact, I expect any prominent Latin American author writing about their homeland to have some kind of educational element.Alas, the Spanish words intermixed into every other sentence Those got on my nerves I could normally infer their meaning, but it was tiring Plus my straight laced Colombian husband was of limited use with the Island slang Although I will admit, it was fun to see him flustered Picture us reading at a restaurant I look up and kick Leo under the table.Me Hey, Leo Another one What does ___ mean Leo SHHH looks guiltily at the Latino family eating at the table next to us Me What What does it mean Leo Not now.Me pause Later Which brings us to the next point the cussing Diaz s style is unique He is definitely a modern literary writer The artistry and intelligence is there Yet instead of stuffy and pretentious, Diaz is raw and raunchy He is liberal with the cuss words It didn t bother me, but if you are faint of heart, you definitely want to avoid this book.Well, I told you a half truth I was fine with the language on the page, but in person, I was blushing Let me explain I went to an event last night with Diaz He was hosted by an amazing reading series in Houston, Inprint The crowd at these events is how should I put this prim There are groups of university literature writing students, but the overall demographic is middle aged and older You ll see lots of shiny loafers, tailored dresses, coiffured hair, and blazers Diaz got up on that stage in his sneakers and let it rip He has a dirty mouth It shouldn t have been surprising given what I already knew of his writing He really does write similar to how he talks I guess I just expected he would tone it down for this event Oh no He used every cuss word in the urban dictionary At one point, everyone was laughing at some joke and he affectionately remarked we were some giggling motherf ckers He was also fond of informal phrases, such as yeah man and for real.Yet it felt authentic He was not out to impress or shock us and instead came across as charming and candid Plus I give him kudos for being that relaxed in front of several hundred people Nonetheless, I was a little uncomfortable I kept stealing sideways glances at the lady sitting next to me She was wearing stockings and a lovely pastel cardigan and stared straight ahead with this blank expression I would have given a thousand pennies for her thoughts.Moving beyond the verbal color to the substance, Diaz thinks men are inherently bad at writing from a woman s perspective although improvement is possible After he likened writing workshops to death matches between writers, he recommends you write for readers and not other writers He believes readers are far generous and forgiving As an example, he pointed to how Lord of the Rings lovers will put up with countless pages of f cking Elvish poetry Diaz also will admit he is a slow writer It takes 3 4 years for him to finish a 15 page short story Although he seemed at peace with his pace To wrap up, I mentioned earlier that Diaz s style is unique Yet I will offer some comparisons to potentially help orient yourself His writing reminded me favorably of both Gary Shteyngart s causal, humorous style and Jeffrey Eugenides beautiful, multi generational story telling Plus in his acknowledgements, Diaz mentioned one of my all time literary crushes, Francisco Goldman He actually called him Frankie G And anyone who loves Frank is okay in my book I read to learn But if 90% of the references fly over my head, I become frustrated For this reason, I never get far into The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana with its multitude of unfamiliar Italian culture references I also avoid those literary self help books that me feel bad about all the classics I should know, but don t ex How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
Meet Oscar de Leon, dubbed Oscar Wao by bullies who liken him to the foppish Oscar Wilde Our Oscar is a fat, virginal Dominican American teenager who carries a Planet of the Apes lunchbox to school, spends hours painting his Dungeons Dragons miniatures, and who knows about the Marvel Universe than Stan Lee If Nerd was a country, Oscar would be its undisputed king Oscar is the kind of kid sweaty, mumbles to himself, inevitably invades personal space, probably has bad breath we would avoid on the subway In Junot Diaz debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, however, Oscar is the flame and we are the moths An earnestly open hearted protagonist, he draws us to him until we incinerate in the intensity of his character He s a pitiful but hopeful loser we can all relate to, even the Prom Kings and Queens among us who might just be the loneliest kids in school The last time I was this absorbed by a fictional weirdo was in 1989 when John Irving s Owen Meany forced me FORCED, I SAY to read his Prayer twice in rapid, thirsty succession Oscar held me captive in much the same way with his sweaty, sticky fingers tightly gripping my attention Let s return to Diaz for a moment To use the words Diaz and debut novel in such close proximity is something of a joke Diaz has been a middleweight figure on the literary scene for eleven years, based almost exclusively on his previous and only book Drown, a collection of interconnected stories which, like The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, chronicled the Dominican immigrant experience with a startling freshness If you turn to the back flap of that 1996 book, you ll read an author bio which concludes with He lives in New York City and is at work on his first novel That was eleven years ago To say that Oscar Wao was much anticipated would be an understatement Why the long wait Tick off the reasons on your fingers writer s block, the paralysis of sudden fame at a young age Diaz was in his late 20s when the accolades started flooding in , working for years on an apocalyptic novel about the destruction of New York City which was eventually trumped by the sur reality of 9 11, not seeing anything on the blank wall which stares back at you unblinking, you name it Little of that matters now, except as an interesting footnote of trivia, because today we hold in our hands the solid, substantial Oscar Wao For a first novel, it s an impressive triumph Now back to Oscar As the novel s title implies, this is the chronicle of Oscar s brief, candle flame life and charts his quest, but rarely conquest, of girls You see, not only is Oscar a Tolkein loving, Star Trek quoting, Dungeons Dragons playing geek, he s a horny geek whose tongue hangs out and eyes bulge in cartoon cones every time a pretty girl walks by The only trouble is, as his friend Yunior points out, Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber Save for one incredibly happy encounter late in his life, Oscar s lust is unrequited, but he takes this as a matter of course because he believes his family is living under the cloud of an Old World curse called fuku, brought to our shores, he believes, by Columbus Despite wearing the family doom like a black, itchy sweater and meeting romantic rejection at every turn, Oscar optimistically journeys through the 1970s, the dawn of the Nerd Age, Diaz writes It s Oscar against the world and he glumly accepts his lot in life Everybody, he says at one point, misapprehends me As he grows older and retreats from his peers into the world of Lovecraft, Doc Savage, Asimov, Heinlein and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Oscar begins to think his destiny is to be the Dominican Tolkein He spends countless hours holed up in his room writing science fiction and fantasy tales If Diaz had allowed, Oscar probably would have spent eleven years working on his masterpiece but, as we re always reminded, this is a brief life Oscar tries to make the most of it, even with the fuku hanging over his head The novel is than just a Nerd Epic, however Diaz pulls out all the stops in an attempt to tell a all encompassing story of immigration and assimilation Oscar lives with his mother and sister in the ghetto of Paterson, New Jersey, and the novel is as much their story as it is his We re just starting to groove with sympathy for fat little Oscar when Diaz suddenly shifts gears and takes us into the world of Lola, Oscar s beautiful, athletic sister who has a stormy relationship with their mother, Belicia, a hardnosed no nonsense femme matador Then, before too many pages have elapsed, we re deep in that woman s story, in a long section of the book called The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral, where we learn what happened to her back in the Dominican Republic to make her so bitterly protective of her children These chapters, along with the rest of the book for that matter, really are filled with heartbreak, a transmogrification of fuku that shapes the course of everything to come, from Oscar s obsession with Shazam to Lola s runaway teen saga Diaz also proves to be something of a risk taker The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao bravely assumes there is an audience of readers who will sit through a long novel in which the English and Spanish languages mingle without the author once stopping to translate the unfamiliar words The gist of what the Spanglish phrases mean is pretty easy to pick up, and for those readers who absolutely have to know what guapa or chuleria mean well, an English Spanish dictionary is as close as the internet Diaz also assumes his readers will come to the table with some knowledge of Dominican history, specifically the tyrannical regime of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961 and who, if Oscar is to be believed, was master of the fuku Trujillo who You know, the portly, sadistic, pig eyed mulato who bleached his skin, wore platform shoes, and had a fondness for Napoleon era haberdashery If your mind is as blank as mine when it comes to the island s past, never fear Diaz replays the highlights of Santo Domingo History 101 in footnotes which annotate the novel Yes, footnotes The novel is peppered with them, as any well respecting Screed of Nerd should be Diaz knows most of us don t know squat about Dominicans and, as in Drown, he brings us briskly into the light Pay attention to Trujillo, though, because he plays an important role in Oscar s destiny Diaz never lets the pace lag and his sentences remain fresh and sharp throughout One woman is described with eczema on her hands looking like a messy meal that had set later, Yunior describes how it feels to be mugged my guts feeling like they d been taken out of me, beaten with mallets, and then reattached with paper clips Through his wondrous use of language, Diaz brings the book alive and makes it tremble in our hands The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is an epic in the truest sense and in its fat, endearing hero s chest beats a Homeric heart Oscar leads us through his unflagging quest for happiness, while Diaz tumbles us through a century of Dominican history and shows us how the brief life of one lonely boy can epitomize the immigrant experience This novel was well worth the decade long wait.


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Deported self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) General Miguna Miguna has announced he will be returning to Kenya.
In a statement issued after Friday's high court ruling, Miguna thanked Justice Chacha Mwita for reminding some State officials that no one is above the law.
"The court has affirmed what I have stated over and again," Miguna said in a statement sent to the media.
"Those who believe that our fundamental rights, freedoms, and dignity are vested by force, violence, and brutality have been reminded by Justice Chacha Mwita that no one is above the law. Our birthrights are inviolable."
Miguna also thanked his attorneys led by John Khaminwa, and announced that he will be returning to the country, though he has not given a timeline.
"I extend my gratitude to those few genuine and dedicated advocates like Dr. John Khaminwa, Waikwa Wanyoike, Stephen Ongaro, and the KNHRC senior officer Kamanda Mucheke plus all patriots and comrades who stood with me throughout! I will be back! The struggle continues!"
In his ruling, Justice Mwita declared that Miguna is a Kenyan citizen and that the government violated his rights by declaring him persona non grata.
"The government's deduction to cancel Miguna Miguna's passport and declaring him prohibited immigrant is unconstitutional and is hereby declared null and void," read the ruling.
"I find and hold that he did not lose his citizenship upon acquiring a Canadian passport."
The court also directed the respondents - Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i and Immigration Principal Secretary Gordon Kihalangwa - to pay Miguna Sh7 million from their own pockets for violating his rights.
"Damages cannot be borne by taxpayers. They are borne by the respondents jointly and severally to dissuade future violations," Mwita states.
Welcome back. What happened to you Miguna in March was unconstitutional and nonsensical, an embarrassment to the Nation. Some authority somewhere has finally seen the light. In no other country has such upuzi been witnessed.
Karibu tena nyumbani Ndugu Miguna. Pole sana kwa yote maovu uliyofanyiwa na mkristo Matiang'i, mkristo Kihalangwa, na mkristo Boinnet. Ni lazima watu hawa watatu waondolewe kazini mara moja kwa sababu ya kuiaibisha nchi ya Kenya duniani nzima hasa kutokana na vitendo vya kinyama walivyomfanyia Ndugu Miguna.
Sijui kwa nini Boinnetti yungali kazini hata sasa? Kwa nini? Mahali anaposimamia ndipo panapoongoza nchini nzima hasa kwenye uhalifu, ujambazi, utapeli, uongo kuliko taasisi zote nchini.
Viva Miguna Miguna.
Even terrorists and serial killers are not treated like that.
They will regret what they did to you years to come.the whole world witnessed their ugliness.
Will be overturned on appeal. Miguna had sued the offices and not the office holders. My limited understanding of the legal systems is that a judge cannot make a judgement against non-suit parties.
If it's by air, which airline will let him board? Once you get on a no fly list, good luck travelling. I am curious as to which border he can cross under his real name. The scene he created at JKIA earned home a jail sentence outside prison walls!
Mhh..come, baby come! I miss the drama and the mess of it all! They will silence you with a handshake dripping with promises of things to come, you will forget how your arse was dragged out of Nairobi. We are waiting, it's kind of dry with these "all is forgiven hand shakers". We know they are up to something...at our expense yet again. Tafash!
MM will have his handshake as well. Get a consolation job, awaiting to be nominated by Sonko as a deputy and tuendelee mbele with personality cult.
It is too early to smile Mr. Miganu Miguna. Please hold your smile!!!. You have two rape causes pending in two Canadian Courts and don't forget that decision can be revised by an appeal Court in Kenya
hehehehe miguna trust me with your big mouth the only way to enter kenya where u were born is to fill the paperwork again.Yr celebrating is futile.U broke the law by getting a pass in a fraudulent way n again trust me for you to enter kenya u MuST fill the required papers which raila brot personally to you at the airport n u refused to do so???Hii ni new kenya miguna miguna!If it was done at supreme court then ungekuwa na chances kidogo but high court itaenda appeal then supreme court nahio will take another 5 years so wewe kaa huko canada tafuta cna job ama manoki job au walmart job ndio uweze kulipa bills zako.Alluta continua
Just stay where you are. Live your life and take care of your family. Do not loose 4 looking for 8.


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This article walks you through the creation of elements, their types, and how you can consolidate elements. For these actions we create a new dimension called "Customers" in the database "Demo".
Select Dimensions in the hierarchy structure of the database "Demo" and click the button Add dimension. In the following dialog enter the name "Customers" and click OK to finish. Then click on the dimension, and the Elements tab opens. Click on the button Add element to create a new element.
For this example, create the element "Miller LLC", then create the element "Total". Next, create the element "Smith Corp", selecting "Total" as the parent element. During the element creation, you can use the tab key on your keyboard to navigate to the Parent Element column to make changes to the element:
Click on the expand/collapse button to the left of the "Total" element to view or hide the element's children.
Select the element "Smith Corp", then hit the enter key on your keyboard to create the next element, which will automatically be a child of "Total". Name this element "Meyer Ltd".
Now right-click "Miller LLC" and select Add to (additional) parent from the context menu:
Select "Total" as parent element.
Elements can be added to one or to more than one consolidated element, making different views of a dimension possible. These structures are often called "parallel hierarchies".
The buttons at the top of the elements tab are from left to right: add, delete and search elements, expand/collapse all branches ore only the selected branch, expand the level by number, use a stored subset, set a Format/Style, toogle between show or hide Format/Style, and toogle between hierchical and list view.
Making changes to elements
- Double-click on the name, type, parent element, or weight of an element to change these aspects.
- Base elements can be changed to numeric or string type, but a consolidated (parent) element may not change type.
- Weight can be a positive or a negative decimal number, using the point as decimal separator. The arrow buttons change the weight up or down by a unit of 1.
- Right-click on an element for a context menu with additional options (see screenshot above).
Element types
Elements in the In-Memory DB can be numeric (N), string (S), or consolidated (C).
- Numeric elements can only contain numbers. They can be used for calculations, e.g. for consolidations.
- String elements can contain all characters: (e.g. letters, numbers, special characters). They can be used for comments. They cannot be used for calculations.
- A consolidated element is a parent element that has one or more child elements or child levels. With the OLAP Server, you can consolidate both numeric and string elements, but only consolidated elements based exclusively on numeric child elements will be calculated.
Note: for older versions of Jedox, it is not recommended to use the format yyyy.mm for the month dimension, as the elements are treated as numeric when performing drillthrough.
Consolidation calculations
Consolidated element = Child1 * weight + [Child2 * weight + …]
A prerequisite for the calculation of a consolidated element is that all child elements must be numeric or consolidated with a numeric value.
Drag-and-drop operations
Several drag-and-drop operations are implemented in the Modeler. When you hover the mouse cursor over a row in the Modeler elements grid, the row header will show a "drag handler" icon on the very left side. The icon visualizes the drag area. If you move the mouse cursor over the icon, the cursor changes to a "grabbing hand" cursor.
For example you can move in "Demo/Regions" the country "Austria" from "East" to "West". After this action "Austria" will be automaticly consolidated in "West":
To mark several elements, press the Shift or Ctrl key while clicking on the elements and hold the grabbing hand to start the drag operation.
While dropping you can press the Shift key to indicate a "Move" operation or the Ctrl key to indicate an "Add" operation. While pressing the key, a tooltip is shown, hinting the currently chosen action. The additional key must be held down at the moment when drop occurs in the target area.
You can drop the element(s) between two elements in the grid (visualized by a blue line) or on top of an element (visualized by light blue background). If you drag the element on top of a collapsed consolidated element and hold it there for one second, the element will be expanded.
Longer trees that extend beyond the screen will automatically scroll when the cursor reaches the bottom of the screen.
Drag-and-drop functionality is also possible when paging is used, either in flat view or in tree view. To drag across pages, the mouse cursor is dragged on a paging control (button) and held there for one second. The UI will then change to the next/previous page.
In list view, elements may only be reordered using drag-and-drop functionality.
If you drop without a shortcut key being pressed at same time, you receive a menu with Add, Move, and Cancel buttons. Not all of these actions are applicable for all drop positions. Inapplicable actions are disabled in the menu.
- Add: this button is only active if the drop zone is either on top of an existing element or within a dimension hierarchy branch to which none of the selected/dragged elements currently belong. Selecting Add will define the elements as children of the element or element branch on which they are dropped. The elements will also remain in their existing hierarchy position (i.e., a parallel hierarchy is created).
- Move: this button is always active. If the drop zone is within the same hierarchy branch, elements will be only reordered within the consolidation order. If the drop zone is on top of an element or within a different hierarchy branch, selecting Move will remove the elements from their current hierarchy position.
- Cancel: this button is always active. It cancels the drop operation.
When adding or moving an element, a popup warning appears, as changing an element from base to consolidated type may imply loss of data.