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By Alan Shandro
In Lenin and the common sense of Hegemony, via a cautious textual and contextual research of the writings of Lenin and his Marxist contemporaries, Alan Shandro strains the contours of the '(anti-) metaphysical event' pointed out via Gramsci in Lenin's political perform and concept, the emergence of the 'philosophical fact' of hegemony. In so doing, he successfully disputes traditional caricatures of Lenin's position as a political actor and philosopher and reveals the underlying parameters of the concept that of hegemony within the classification fight. He thereby clarifies the conceptual prestige of this pervasive yet now more and more elusive suggestion and the good judgment of thought and perform at paintings in it.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Cambridge Texts in the by G. W. F. Hegel
By G. W. F. Hegel
This booklet is a translation of a vintage paintings of recent social and political notion. Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts), Hegel's final significant released paintings, is an try and systematize moral concept, common correct, the philosophy of legislation, political thought, and the sociology of the fashionable kingdom into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of historical past. Hegel's paintings has been interpreted in notably other ways, influencing many political pursuits from a ways correct to some distance left, and is commonly perceived as principal to the communitarian culture in sleek moral, social, and political suggestion. This version comprises vast editorial fabric informing the reader of the historic heritage of Hegel's textual content, and explaining his allusions to Roman legislations and different assets, utilising lecture fabrics that have only in the near past turn into to be had. the hot translation is literal, readable, and constant, and may be informative and scholarly sufficient to serve the desires of scholars and experts alike.
Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress by John Riddell
By John Riddell
John Riddell (ed. & tr.)
The lawsuits of the final Comintern congress during which Lenin participated, finally on hand in English, finds a Communist international circulate grappling to reconcile the target of unifying staff and colonial humans in fight with that of urgent ahead to socialist revolution. the main of nationwide parties' autonomy lines opposed to demands extra stringent centralization. Debates diversity over the start of Fascism, the decay of the Versailles Treaty procedure, the increase of colonial revolution, and women's emancipation. Newly translated and richly annotated, the stenographic transcript of the month-long congress discloses a wealthy spectrum of viewpoints between delegates. integral resource fabric on early Communism is supplemented by way of an analytic advent, special footnotes, greater than 500 brief biographies, word list, chronology, and index.
Riddell has right here pulled off an important and masterful editorial attempt, evaluating previous guides of those lawsuits within the 4 major languages of the Comintern – English, French, German and Russian … The paintings fascinated with clarifying the diversities among texts, offering extra exact annotation, and correcting the misspelling of names and offering appropriate biographical information is substantial, and will earn the gratitude of generations of students for a few years to come.
—Alexander Marshall, Marx and Philosophy evaluation of Books
We will be very thankful to John Riddell and his crew of collaborators for making to be had, for the 1st time in an entire English model, the mins of the Fourth Congress of the Comintern … [F]or an individual looking to comprehend the heritage of the twentieth century [Toward the United entrance] could be a useful paintings of reference, and no library with pretensions to severe old insurance will be with no it …
—Ian Birchall, overseas Socialism
"John Riddell's towards the United entrance: lawsuits of the Fourth Congress of the Communist foreign is an incredible paintings of scholarship within the culture of David Riazanov. The ebook is a amazing paperback of 1,300 pages, however it repays studying: it's a guide for innovative socialist approach, within the phrases of a lot of its most interesting representatives."
—Paul Hampton, Worker's Liberty
"John Riddell is to be congratulated on assembling this high quality quantity ... Beg, borrow or do what you need to to get a duplicate and browse it. Its measurement might sound intimidating yet I completely loved examining it from hide to cover."
—Chris Bambery, ISG
Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to The Social by Helena Rosenblatt
By Helena Rosenblatt
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Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the most elements of Genevan political and spiritual idea within the first half the eighteenth century. during this method Dr. Rosenblatt contextualizes the improvement of Rousseau's concept from the 1st Discourse via to the Social agreement. over the years Rousseau has been followed as a French philosopher, yet Dr. Rosenblatt issues out that he's, in reality, a Genevan philosopher and explains that it was once his dating with Geneva that performed a vital part in his improvement into an unique political thinker.
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
By Judith Butler
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's contemporary reflections on gender and sexuality, concentrating on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic different types, social violence, and the projects of social transformation. In phrases that draw from feminist and queer thought, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the restrictions on recognizable personhood. The e-book constitutes a reconsideration of her prior view on gender performativity from Gender hassle. during this paintings, the critique of gender norms is obviously positioned in the framework of human patience and survival. And to "do" one's gender in definite methods occasionally implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes in regards to the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent times, a mix of pursuits excited by transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their advanced family members to feminist and queer thought.
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism (Columbia by Hermann Kappelhoff
By Hermann Kappelhoff
Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing fight to narrate audiences to their historic second. Appreciating cinema's distinct skill to bind concrete residing stipulations to person event (which current political associations cannot), he reads motion pictures through Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, via the recent Objectivity and the recent Hollywood, to illustrate how cinema situates spectators inside of society.
Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean perform of "thinking in images" to his research of flicks and accommodates the ways of Jacques Rancière and Richard Rorty, who see politics within the everlasting reconfiguration of poetic varieties. this permits him to conceptualize movie as a medium that consistently renews the audiovisual areas and temporalities during which audiences confront truth. Revitalizing the interpreting of flicks by means of Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's old importance whereas studying its engagement with politics as a realm of expertise.
The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
By Raoul Vaneigem
Essentially the most vital exponents of Situationist rules, this treatise provides an impassioned critique of contemporary capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of recent radical inspiration. initially released in early 1968, the ebook either kindled and coloured the could 1968 upheavals in France that captured the eye of the area. within the political weather of at the present time, Raoul Vaneigem's very important paintings of radical anticapitalist notion has struck a brand new chord with the global Occupy flow. Naming and defining the alienating good points of lifestyle in patron society—survival instead of residing in complete, the decision to sacrifice, the cultivation of fake wishes, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and the substitute of God by way of the economy—the publication argues that the countervailing impulses that exist deep inside of this alienation, akin to creativity, spontaneity, and poetry, current an actual substitute to nihilistic consumerism. This rigorously edited new translation marks the 1st North American ebook of this significant paintings and features a new preface through the writer and a translator's note.
"Anyone who talks approximately revolution and sophistication fight with no referring explicitly to daily life—without greedy what's subversive approximately love and optimistic within the refusal of constraints—has a corpse in his mouth."
The Culture of the New Capitalism (The Castle Lectures in by Richard Sennett
By Richard Sennett
The celebrated sociologist Richard Sennett surveys significant variations among previous sorts of business capitalism and the extra worldwide, extra febrile, ever extra mutable model of capitalism that's taking its position. He indicates how those alterations have an effect on daily life—how the paintings ethic is altering; how new ideals approximately benefit and ability displace previous values of workmanship and success; how what Sennett calls "the specter of uselessness" haunts execs in addition to guide employees; how the boundary among intake and politics is dissolving.
In fresh years, reformers of either deepest and public associations have preached that versatile, worldwide businesses supply a version of freedom for people, in contrast to the event of fastened and static bureaucracies Max Weber as soon as referred to as an "iron cage." Sennett argues that, in banishing previous ills, the new-economy version has created new social and emotional traumas. just a convinced type of man or woman can prosper in volatile, fragmentary associations: the tradition of the recent capitalism calls for an incredible self orientated to the fast time period, fascinated by capability skill instead of accomplishment, prepared to or abandon prior event. In a concluding part, Sennett examines a tougher kind of self hood, and what functional projects might counter the pernicious results of "reform."
"Hardly any social thinkers have given severe concept to the drastic alterations in company tradition wrought via downsizing, 're-orging,' and outsourcing. thankfully, the exception—Richard Sennett—is additionally the most insightful public intellectuals we've. within the tradition of the recent Capitalism Sennett addresses the recent company tradition together with his ordinary sizeable erudition, eternally supple mind, and enterprise ethical outlook. the result's remarkable, traumatic, and completely priceless reading."—Barbara Ehrenreich, writer of Bait and turn: The (Futile) Pursuit of the yank Dream
"Reflective, studded with sharp insights, relocating with grace among colossal rules and particular circumstances. this is often classic Sennett."—Douglas W. Rae, writer of urban: Urbanism and Its End
"packed with thought... profound and challenging... Sennett is the following commencing up a desirable debate approximately how glossy associations, with their consistent restructurings and delayerings, are producing ever-sharper inequality." Madeleine Bunting, New Statesman
"Sennett has been gazing for a few years how glossy paintings styles make self-respect ever more durable to accomplish. Now, he has brilliantly driven his pondering to a remorseless conclusion... a triumph" Will Hutton, The Observer
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the by Chiara Bottici
By Chiara Bottici
Among the unconventional, artistic ability of our mind's eye and the social imaginary we're immersed in is an intermediate area philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated via pictures or (re)presentations which are presences in themselves. supplying a brand new, systematic realizing of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings clean perception into the formation of political and gear relationships and the ambiguity of an international wealthy in imagery but doubtless without mind's eye. Bottici starts via defining the variation among the imaginal and the imaginary, finding the imaginal's root which means within the picture and its skill to either signify a public and determine a suite of actions inside of that public. She identifies the imaginal's serious function in powering consultant democracies and its amplification via globalization. She then addresses the frustrating bring up in pictures now mediating politics and the transformation of politics into empty spectacle. The spectacularization of politics has ended in its virtualization, Bottici observes, remodeling photographs into techniques with an doubtful courting to truth, and, whereas new media has democratized the picture in an international society of the spectacle, the cloned photo not mediates politics yet does the act for us. Bottici concludes with politics' present look for legitimacy via an invented perfect of culture, a flip to faith, and the incorporation of human rights language.
The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism by Peter D. Thomas
By Peter D. Thomas
Winner of the Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sormani 2011, presented via the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin for the simplest book/article on Gramsci within the interval among 2007-2011 internationally.
Antonio Gramsci's criminal Notebooks are this present day stated as a vintage of the human and social sciences within the 20th century. The impact of his concept in different fields of scholarship is barely handed by way of the various interpretations and readings to which it's been subjected, leading to frequently contradictory 'images of Gramsci'. This e-book attracts at the wealthy contemporary season of Gramscian philological stories so that it will argue that the genuine value of Gramsci's concept is composed in its unique place within the improvement of the Marxist culture. delivering an in depth reconsideration of Gramsci's concept of the country and inspiration of philosophy, The 'Gramscian moment' argues for the pressing necessity of taking over the problem of constructing a 'philosophy of praxis' as an important point within the modern revitalisation of Marxism.
[...] Peter Thomas has controlled to write down a massive and leading edge interpretation of Antonio Gramsci. i'm convinced that it will and will turn into a "go-to" textual content for these attracted to realizing the significance of Gramsci. I hugely suggest this article, and grownup educators eager to draw on Gramscian recommendations could forget about this article at their very own peril.
John D. Holst, grownup schooling Quarterly Vol. sixty two, No. 1 (February 2012), pp. 92-94
[...] Thomas has written one of many best remedies of Gramsci from a Marxist standpoint. by way of philosophical mirrored image, it really is an grand source that may set the bar for any critical theoretical engagements with the Gramsci's historicism for it slow to come.
Harrison Fluss, Parrhesia, No. 14 (2012), pp. 71-76.
For somebody attracted to Gramsci, Peter Thomas' The Gramscian second is instantly turning into required studying given its exhaustive presentation of Gramsci's proposal and politics. [...] Bringing Thomas' philosophical matters to undergo on Gramsci's remedy of distinction may well possibly function a big rejoinder to post-Marxist readings of Gramsci.
Michael Ekers, Antipode, Vol. forty four, No. three (June 2012), pp. 1034-1038
Thomas single-handedly redefined and redesigned the study application at the very nature of the legal Notebooks. [...] In time, researchers will make the most of Thomas's groundbreaking paintings. it's going to be learn via everybody who's eager about revitalizing Marxian concept. meant for either graduate scholars and Gramsci students [...].
Jelle Versieren, evaluate of Radical Political Economics, Vol. forty four No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 120.
Peter Thomas' booklet is awesome within the scope and intensity of its argument... [his] analyzing of Gramsci [...] is helping us reconsider the questions dealing with Marxist philosophy in a manner which could contain historicity and dialectics along immanence an radical contingency, hence keeping off the bounds self-imposed upon a wide a part of present radical theorizing, with no falling again into idealist hypothesis. Thomas' name to re-introduce Gramsci on the heart of Marxist philosophy
needs to be heard.
Panagiotis Sotiris, technology and Society, Vol. seventy six, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 105–114
Book has been presented with the Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sormani 2011 via the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin, Italy.
The award justification reads: "Si tratta di un lavoro di eccellente qualità, che impressiona consistent with l. a. struttura equilibrata, l'ampiezza dei riferimenti alla bibliografia in varie lingue e los angeles limpidezza dell'esposizione. […] Il libro si segnala così come una delle migliori monografie d'insieme sul pensiero di Gramsci che, collocato criticamente nel contesto europeo, emerge in tutta los angeles sua penetrante modernità."
[...] ciò che sorprende nella lettura di Thomas è los angeles capacità di instaurare un dialogo costante tra Gramsci e Althusser – al di là degli schematismi dogmatici che hanno opposto i due autori negli anni'60 e'70 (storicismo contra strutturalismo, ermeneutica contra epistemologia) –sulla teoria dello Stato, sulla teoria dell'ideologia e sulla teoria della storia, pensata non nella forma intrinsecamente teleologica degli stadi di sviluppo, ma nella sua politicità, tutta immersa nei rapporti di forza e nei conflitti della congiuntura: in questo senso lo storicismo assoluto di Gramsci e l. a. teoria del pace storico althusseriano si incontrano, produttivamente, nel tentativo di costruire quello che potremmo definire un nuovo "materialismo della congiuntura.
Vittorio Morfino, in Critica Marxista No. 1 (2011), pp. 48-55
Peter D. Thomas's clean reassessment of the criminal Notebooks... serves as very important corrective to this non-political, "cultural studies" Gramsci. Thomas's purpose to re-politicize and re-historicize Gramsci's undertaking in the context of the Communist overseas (Comintern) is...a singular success.
Adam Hilton, Socialist experiences, Vol. 7, No 1-2 (2011), pp. 341-346
The Gramscian second is an staggering paintings of scholarship and one that may still turn into a Marxist vintage. it truly is terrifyingly erudite, superbly written, and compellingly argued.
Daniel Hartley, KULT on-line, No 27 (2011)
il libro dell'australiano Peter D. Thomas [...] è un grande libro, perché, con una maestria che spero venga universalmente apprezzata, riesce a sintetizzare e a mettere in equilibrio una doppia tensione, difficilissima da controllare: quella tra l'approccio diacronico ai Quaderni del carcere e los angeles necessità di ricostruire un qualche ordine al loro interno; e quella tra approfondimento storico-filosofico e proposta teorica dentro los angeles discussione filosofica marxista(e para-marxista) attuale.
Fabio Frosini, Critica Marxista, No. 3-4 (2010), pp. 73-77
[...] el libro di Thomas – che considero il più importante lavoro sul pensiero di Gramsci pubblicato in lingua inglese nell'ultimo trentennio [...]
Alastair Davidson Critica Marxista, No. 3-4 (2010), pp. 55-57
Peter Thomas n'a pas seulement écrit un livre épais, il a écrit un grand livre.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Actuel Marx No, 49
[...] The Gramscian second has basically establishd Thomas as one of many major specialists within the box, and the publication will doubtless develop into crucial analyzing for all severe scholars of Gramsci's book.
Mark McNally, Radical Philisophy No. 162 (July/August 2010)
Peter Thomas has produced a good publication, which readers of this magazine may still beg, scouse borrow or borrow to procure a replica, putting Gramsci firmly, not only within the progressive camp, yet as a Leninist rooted within the early, innovative years of the Communist International.
Chris Bambery, overseas Socialism, A magazine of socialist idea, No. 127, published: 25 June 2010
Unpublished endorsements
Thomas's goal to re-politicize and re-historicize Gramsci's undertaking in the context of the Communist foreign (Comintern) is the book's singular achievement.[...] therefore you can actually merely desire that Thomas's booklet will reset the phrases of dialogue for Gramsci scholars.
Adam Hilton, Socialist experiences 7 (2011) 329-346.
This may still turn into the traditional textual content in English on Gramsci's proposal. accustomed to the newest wrinkle within the Italian debate, Thomas combines an unequalled philological examine into the assets and a mastery of the continuing debates concerning the experience we must always make of key principles like hegemony. He deftly overturns the obtained orthodoxy and a few of the abuses of the information of the Marxist militant, either restoring Gramsci's paintings to its real prestige and starting up fruitful chances for figuring out his contribution to political idea extra as a rule. the simplest booklet on Gramsci's political concept for 3 many years.
Alastair Davidson, writer of Antonio Gramsci: in the direction of an highbrow Biography
Thomas's Gramsci is the single we want in an period of monetary and geopolitical crises that bears a few resemblances to Gramsci's personal time. This Gramsci isn't any incipient post-Marxist. Thomas's Gramsci, built from rigorous serious examine of the felony Notebooks and of the now wide scholarly literature, is a deeply consequent philosopher reason on reconstructing progressive Marxism against the main complex bourgeois considered his day. this can be additionally a Gramsci for whom political financial system is of imperative methodological and substantial value. now not content material with scholarly interpretation, Thomas attracts his Gramsci into discussion with modern radical proposal, illuminating each side of the dialog. it is a publication that would recast the knowledge of Gramsci, particularly yet now not solely within the Anglophone international.
Alex Callinicos, Professor of ecu reports, Social concept and overseas Political economic system, King's collage, London
What superlatives am i able to use to explain this publication? phrases like 'outstanding,' 'superb' and 'tour-de-force' recommend themselves, yet even those don't totally catch the extreme strength of The Gramscian second. Thomas's erudite and staggeringly subtle interpreting of Gramsci's felony Notebooks thoroughly overturns the dominant interpretations together with these of Louis Althusser and Perry Anderson. by no means back can we have the capacity to learn Gramsci completely via their lenses. Henceforth, Thomas's magisterial exploration of Gramsci's suggestion becomes the severe element of reference for all critical paintings within the box. yet Thomas does greater than meticulous exegesis. He additionally insists at the reality of Gramsci's paintings, urging that we process it within the spirit of "both continuation and transformation, constancy and renewal". He succeeds brilliantly on all counts.
David McNally, Professor of Political technological know-how, York college, Toronto
The Gramscian second demonstrates the level to which Gramsci's concept represents a unique synthesis of almost the complete culture of Western political notion. This paintings succeeds in offering Gramsci as a "living classic", an writer relevant to our realizing of modernity. Given its scope, richness and originality, i've got doubtless that this paintings will signify a milestone in Gramscian scholarship and an incredible contribution to modern debates in political conception and philosophy.
Stathis Kouvelakis, writer of Philosophy and Revolution and Co-editor of a severe significant other to modern Marxism
The Gramscian second is the main thorough and illuminating philosophical learn of Gramsci but to seem in English. It units a brand new usual for paintings not just on Gramsci himself yet normally complicated of matters linked to his legacy – at the mechanics and dimensions of hegemony, at the position and nature of the topic of political motion, at the relation among thought and perform, and among civil society and the nation. Thomas does greater than any past reader of Gramsci to illustrate how his philosophy can relatively declare to satisfy Marx's well-known prescription – no longer basically 'to interpret the area yet to alter it'.
Peter Hallward, Professor of contemporary eu Philosophy, Middlesex college, London


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Now that Ashes of Creation is counting down to its Kickstarter campaign on May 1st, it has a week to do all it can to prep fans and the wider MMORPG community about what it offers — and make a case that it's worth your crowdfunding dollars.
From what I can tell, so far the indie team has been doing a tremendous job doing just that. The site looks great and lends some authenticity to the project, the dungeon video (all of the videos, really) make a case that there's been a lot of development poured into the game, and there have been regular blog posts walking players through Ashes' design. But the campaign and hype may hinge upon a single feature that the devs are trying very hard to convey: nodes.
OK, I'm not crazy about the name. "Nodes" may be succinct and work, but the name seems a little… off to me. Associations with "lymph nodes" or "mining nodes" send my brain off in weird directions. Ashes of Creation's nodes are more like an evolved version of Guild Wars 2's event system and public quests in other MMOs, but in a larger and more structured way than what we've seen before. I like the concept, but it's definitely grand and the backbone of the game, which makes it essential for fans to comprehend.
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I'm still absorbing and processing all of it, to be honest, but I cautiously like it. It's seeing an MMO as a large-scale Civilization-type game, with politics, housing, economics, and individual action all playing a part. A few random thoughts:
- I'm gratified that they have three types of housing, including instanced housing (so that there's no shortage) and freeholds (for more WildStar-style layouts).
- The whole concept of "citizenship" to a city is pretty intriguing and could do more for building and giving real meaning to player factions than the artificial divides that most MMOs create based on racial choice.
- Most of the large-scale stuff — making a metropolis, being a leader, probably owning a town house — won't ever involve me personally. I'm watching these videos thinking, "But what about the average player who's not a power-mad dictator or some rich billionaire? Other than benefiting from some of the node features, what will we have direct control over and be able to do?"
- I like the concept here because it's like the devs are setting up a play room with certain rules but have no idea how the players are going to react and what they'll do with the toys they've been given.
- All of the growth (and presumably destruction) of nodes sounds measured and slow so that we're not seeing several metropolises rise and fall overnight. It'll give players time to figure out the world, keep abreast of changes, and maybe band together to influence them.
- Will the node system keep us centered in one single zone, once we declare citizenship and have a house there? Will that just be our home base and we'll go ranging on expeditions? What about the nomad who simply wants to travel the world?
- The videos are flat-out gorgeous. I also liked the animated map in the first video to spell out how the node system works. It's clear-cut and works wonderfully.
- Little worried about the checks that might or might not be in place to guard against player griefing and abusing the system. Can't think of anything worse than being part of a fiefdom of some Internet Warlord (Derek Smart?) and not having an easy way to untangle from it due to citizenship, housing, and other benefits.
Kickstarter is May 1st. I'm seriously considering backing it. Going to see what they talk about next week and evaluate what they're offering, but dang if this game isn't kicking butt already.

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Micah 2 New Century Version (NCV)
The Evil Plans of People
2 How terrible it will be for people who plan wickedness,
3 That is why the Lord says:
"Look, I am planning trouble against such people,
Micah Is Asked Not to Prophesy
6 The prophets say, "Don't prophesy to us!
The Lord Promises to Rescue His People
12 "Yes, people of Jacob, I will bring all of you together;
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MInimax Express Transportation Inc. – Cornwall, ON
AZ Company Driver Day Shift (Full-time)
Minimax Express Transportation is a premier LTL carrier with terminals in Ontario and Quebec. Our growing business is based upon providing excellent service to our customers.
Not just another AZ Driving Position. Minimax Express Transportation, something different.
Tired of reading boring Ads and being asked the same questions in interviews? Have you ever thought about driving for Minimax Express Transportation? No, why not?
Are you tired of being treated like a number? Feeling like you aren't part of the big picture? That your opinion doesn't matter? What do you have to lose, give us a call and see if we are a fit to you?
Got your attention yet? SO, WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
As an AZ driver with Minimax you get;
-Competitive wage.
-Benefits for you and your family.
-Driver bonus program every quarter.
-Always thought you looked good in uniform? So do we!
-Is your family life suffering because of long hauls? Our drivers are home every night.
-Part of an extended family, where we know your name, you're more than a number to us.
-Are you breaking down a lot on the highway? Driving a truck that has more miles than you? Minimax continues to invest in new equipment.
-Communication with all our staff from the President to the Janitor, you'll be part of the transportation process.
-Transparency and open door policies for all staff.
-We are an equal opportunity employer and we don't care about your gender. Can you drive and have an AZ license, if so, than we want to hear from you.
-Advancement opportunities.
So we won't ask you to visit our website for more information or send your CV to our HR department. Come on in or call, we want to hear from you. What do you have to lose? If you have an AZ license, come join our family.
1-800-465-6657 ask for Jim MacPherson or Stephan Robinson.
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Mack speaks about suicide prevention to Lake Conroe Lions
The Lake Conroe Centennial Lions Club was honored to have as our speaker a fellow Lion from Conroe Noon Lions Club (who also just celebrated 20 years of perfect attendance), Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 - Montgomery County, Wayne Mack.
To give a little background, Judge Mack was originally from Wisconsin (but got to Texas as quickly as he could) and moved to Montgomery County in 1985 to take an unpaid internship position in the youth department of a local church To support himself he took a job as a night custodian for the county. And that is where it all started. He quickly moved up the ranks to eventually become director of building custodial services. During that time, Judge Mack attended and graduated from Lone Star Community College Police Academy and then worked for the Conroe Police Department for 10 years. In 2014, he was elected to his present position as Justice of the Peace.
The topic that Judge Mack addressed to us that evening was suicide and suicide prevention. He pointed out there are a lot of suicides occurring in Montgomery County and unfortunately, that trend is increasing. Some people argue that the increase is due to population growth, but in Judge Mack's opinion that is not the reason. We as a society must change our thinking. We need talk to those around us and tell them that it is okay to say, "I'm not okay". He mentioned that if every parent, grandparent or guardian would only have 5 conversations with their child every week, that it would make an enormous difference in that child's life. They would know where to go if they need help. Starting a dialogue is so important.
Judge Mack also reiterated the importance of service in our community. He stressed the importance of following the Golden Rule "Do unto others that you would have them do unto you." Young people have gotten away from becoming members of service organizations, like Lions International and Rotary International.
Mentoring at risk children is also a wonderful idea. However he stressed that children are not the only people who have mental health issues and at the risk of suicide. People from the all ages, from their teens to their nineties, take their own lives. And it occurs in all communities too. Judge Mack has seen about 38,000 cases in his four years on the bench, and he estimates that between 50% - 60% are mental health issues. However, Montgomery County is one of the fortunate counties to have it's own Mental Health Coordinator. Judge Mack concluded by saying that if we are interested in helping, to please contact his office. He would be happy to help you!
Thank you, Judge Mack, for all you have done and continue to do for our county! We look forward to your annual Prayer Breakfast on October 11th at Lone Star Convention Center.
Lake Conroe Centennial Lions Club meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of every month a 6:00 pm, downstairs at Walden Yacht Club. The meeting is free of charge and the public is invited to attend. Please come join us and find out what being a Lion is all about! For more information, contact President DeWayne Hawkins at 502-550-4685.


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This animation shows the various steps taken when creating an RTV mold. First, risers are put on the part to allow air to escape from the final mold. A thin film is attached to the part, which will act as a seam for the final mold. A box is built around the entire structure, and it is filled with silicone rubber. Once the rubber has cured, the box and risers are removed, the mold is opened at its seam, and the original part is removed. Any type of urethane can now be injected in the mold to create an exact duplicate of the original. Watch this quick video sculpting tutorial and learn how to cast an RTV mold.
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Helen discusses the work that is being done through First 5 Humboldt to assist with development and support of community gardens in Humboldt County. www.reachouthumboldt.org
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Helen L'Annunziata
Better Together-Community Coordinator
First 5 Humboldt
The Redwood Community Action Agency's RAVEN and Demonstration garden blossoms with additional native plants and herbs. The produce grown in the garden, including artichokes, lettuce, strawberries, broccoli and cauliflower, and helps feed members of our community who are houseless.


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Jeremy Nicholls
Chief Executive Officer Social Value International
Session Description
We all believe we are making a difference but are we really solving the problems we wanted to address? Are we making as much of a difference as we can?
There is no end of advice and guidance on impact measurement and there is increasing international agreement, across sectors, on how to measure impact. Despite this application remains variable and patchy and the data doesn't seem to be driving resource allocation decisions. And yet if we don't crack this challenge we probably won't be solving the problems and we won't be making as much of a difference as we can and need to.
Measuring our own performance is challenging but there is nothing more exciting than knowing your performance is really effective. This session will put some of the leading organisations on the spot and find out how they are answering these questions.
Key Takeaways:
- To what extent should our investment portfolios seek to change the underlying systems that cause the problem we are addressing? If they should how can you do this?
- Responsiveness to users is often talked about but rarely measured and reporting on? Where can you start?
- To what extent is any data we collect on impact being influencing decisions. What needs to change to make this more common?
Ushnisha Ghosh
Manager, Lean Data Acumen
Lilian Lehmann
Regional Director - Southeast Asia IDinsight
Frank Hubers
Research Fellow Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy (ACSEP), NUS Business School
Clara Barby
Lead Partner, The Impact Management Project Bridges Fund Management


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Softlight mercerised cotton embroidery thread
Softlight 50/2 weight is a 100% mercerised cotton thread produced from long-staple fibre lengths. The mercerisation process increases the lustre and strength of this thread making it perfect to use when stitching machine embroidery designs and embellishing clothing and projects.
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Welcoming the New Year with a goal to increase one's financial wealth is always a good thing. Whether it's investing in assets like Forex, company shares, and stocks, there is no doubt that anyone can learn a thing or two about trading and investing. For people who want a bit more stability, they may start their career by first trading foreign currencies and then working their way towards building a portfolio that includes different assets.
The reason many people start with foreign money is there is rarely a shortage of demand – and opportunities – when it comes to this particular commodity. The foreign exchange (forex) market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world, although it also comes with a number of risks.
To boost your forex trading career in 2019, here are a few tips to remember:
1. Take note that not all platforms are created equal
With countless trading software and platforms available online, many people who don't practice due diligence tend to fall into the trap that any program will work just fine. This is simply not true because certain models are unable to provide accurate forex quotes and synchronize with the market's movement, and some may even include ads that slow down the software's features.
Start on the right foot by investing in a reliable software that offers accurate forex quotes, provides tight security, enables a series of analysis tools, and comes with a user-friendly interface with its own demo account.
2. Adopt several strategies
Not every strategy works for every individual. This is because the market is risky and traders often need to weigh in their strengths and weaknesses and decide whether they want long-term or short-term success. In order to have some stability, investors must familiarize themselves with different trading techniques, such as scalping, position trading, and day trading, so they can easily adjust to the demands of the market.
3. Remember that not all brokers are created equal
Every forex investor needs a broker to carry out their orders if they're unable to follow the market's movement closely. As a rule of thumb, many experts agree that hiring a registered broker is safer than hiring nonregulated ones because they're bound by the regulations imposed by the institution. The reality is that many licenses may actually be worthless if they are from offshore institutions.
For a safer trading experience, stick to your country's own forex brokers and make sure they're regulated by reliable authorities. Check this website for an in-depth review.
4. Execute orders without emotion
One of the many hurdles that come with trading is that sometimes people can get carried away if they lose too much or get too confident if they earn more than what they expect. While there is no shame in giving yourself time to process this information, many people often react in haste to make up for their loss or get carried away by their greed.
The reality is that letting your emotions get the better of you in executing orders can affect your success as a trader. For a better chance of earning a stable profit, investors must learn to keep a cool head even when tensions are high.
5. Continuously educate yourself
Even though the forex market is considered one of the largest and most liquid markets, there is still a chance that a person can incur more losses than what they earn. While a number of risks are definitely present, modern innovations like the Internet have provided the means to continuously learn the factors that affect the market and how to manage risks properly.
Every time you notice there is a new platform or an increase in demand for another currency, always remember to practice due diligence first before deciding whether or not you'll take advantage of this new opportunity.
Learn from your mistakes in 2018
Trading currencies can be a huge risk although it also comes with various opportunities. Nearly everyone from beginners to experts in the industry has experienced some sense of loss throughout their career. While you cannot entirely prevent risks from happening, you can learn from your mistakes instead as you go along. The reality is that to have a successful career in trading forex, one must accept failures, learn, improve, and move on.


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Hi, I'm Francis, the host of this show "Cooking with Dog.
Today, we are making Daifuku, a mochi dessert stuffed with a sweet filling.
The beautiful color of matcha powder will remind you of young green leaves.
The whipped cream filling also gives it a nice accent.
Let's prepare the whipped cream filling.
Chill the bowl of heavy cream on ice cubes.
Add the sugar and beat the cream with a hand mixer.
When it reaches a stiff peak stage, clean the beaters.
Spoon the whipped cream into the pastry bag with a nozzle.
Give it a little squeeze to remove the air inside.
Cover a tray with plastic wrap
and squeeze the whipped cream into a round shape.
The cream should be about the size of your thumb.
Place the tray in the freezer to harden the cream.
Alternatively, this frozen cream can be used as a dessert topping.
Now, the cream is completely frozen.
Quickly flatten the anko, red bean paste.
Cover the frozen cream with the anko.
The food preparation gloves
will help to avoid softening the cream.
Store the anko balls in the freezer
while making the mochi wrapper.
Next, dilute the matcha green tea powder with water.
Add a minimal amount of water to dissolve it.
Dust a generous amount of potato starch onto a tray.
We will be dividing very sticky mochi on the surface later.
And now, let's make the mochi.
Combine the mochiko, sweet rice flour
and granulated sugar in a microwave-safe bowl.
Add the water and thoroughly mix.
Loosely cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
Then, microwave the mixture at 600 watts for 2 minutes.
Remove the plastic wrap.
Lightly wet the inner surface of the bowl with a kitchen brush.
This will help in removing the mochi later.
Thoroughly knead the mixture
with a dampened wooden paddle.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap again.
Microwave the mochi for 1 more minute.
When the mochi begins to look translucent,
stop heating it.
Heating the mochi in 2 steps
will help avoid overcooking.
Wet the inside of the bowl again
and knead the mochi thoroughly.
Add the diluted matcha green tea powder and mix.
Diluting the powder beforehand
will help it combine with the mochi.
When the matcha is distributed evenly,
transfer the mochi to the tray covered with potato starch.
While coating the mochi with the starch,
carefully stretch it into a long oval shape.
Then, tear the mochi into 5 equal pieces.
Now, remove the anko balls from the freezer.
Shape the mochi piece into a flat circle.
The clean even surface should be facing outward.
Place the anko onto the center
and quickly gather the mochi toward the top.
Tightly close the edges of the mochi.
Repeat the process to wrap the rest of the anko balls.
Adjust the shape of the daifuku
and remove the excess potato starch.
Dampen the daifuku with a kitchen brush.
Finally, sprinkle on the matcha powder.
Compared to Shiratamako,
which is another type of sweet rice flour,
Mochiko, regular sweet rice flour easily absorbs water
so it is easy to combine the mixture.
Enjoy the gorgeous matcha daifuku. The combination of the anko and cream is amazing!
Francis, the delicious dessert is ready!
If the mochi dough becomes cool,
it is very difficult to stretch
so wrap the anko balls as soon as possible.
Good luck in the kitchen!


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The ultimate meta movie, Director's Cut will be available on demand TODAY and Home Video on June 5th
In Director's Cut Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) plays a disgruntled crowd funder who kidnaps the footage, and star, of the film he backed in order to create his own version starring himself. Ironically, the film was actually financed by an elaborate crowdfunding campaign that attracted over 4,500 backers. Written by Penn and directed by Adam Rifkin, Director's Cut stars Missi Pyle, Harry Hamlin and Hayes MacArthur who are playing both themselves as well as characters in the movie within the movie and cameos include Lin Shaye, Kristy Hill, Nestor Carbonell and Penn's longtime partner, Raymond Joseph Teller.
Director's Cut opened in select theaters earlier this month and is available on VOD everywhere today.
For list of platforms https://epic-pictures.com/film/directors-cut#where_to_watch
Blu-ray/DVD combo release on June 5th.
- This loaded 2-disc pack includes the following features: – Riffin' with Rifkin and Penn (32 minutes) – Blount's BTS: Behind The Scenes of DIRECTOR'S CUT (20 minutes) – 5 Deleted Scenes – KNOCKED OFF "Early Cut" (14 minutes) – Outtakes (6 minutes) – Slamdance Premiere (9 minutes) – Brendan Mitchell at the L.A. Premiere (14 minutes) – The Clap: Slate-Mania from the set of DIRECTOR'S CUT (2:29) – Make Penn Bad: Original Crowdfunder Pitch Video (4:06) – Additional trailers from Dread Central Presents Feature Audio – 5.1 Dolby Digital English – Audio Commentary with director Adam Rifkin and writer/star Penn Jillette – Audio Commentary with crowdfunder Perry Friedman – English Closed Captions DVD and Blu-ray are region free.


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2 bunches radish, diced
1 15oz can of black beans
handful of cilantro, chopped
1 jalapeno, diced
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice (about 1/2 of a lime)
salt and pepper, to taste
Add diced radishes, black beans, chopped cilantro, and diced jalapeno in a bowl. Juice one half of a lime on top of the mixture. Top with salt and pepper. Stir to combine. Enjoy!
Change it Up! Another excellent way to prepare this salsa is to swap out the black beans and cilantro for cannellini beans and dill!


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|Last date : 31-08-2018
|Fee : 100/-
|How to apply
|Contact Number : 080-2656267
|Address : Registered Office : No 29/1,3rd floor , Sir M N Krishna Rao Road, Basavangudi, Bangalore – 560 004
Can Fin Homes (CFHL), established in 1987, is promoted by Canara Bank in association with reputed financial institutions including HDFC and UTI. The vision of Canara Bank on the relevance of having an exclusive outfit for providing housing finance at a time when institutional finance was not flowing to the housing sector to the required extent and banks had constraints in locking up funds in long term housing finance saw the birth of CFHL.
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1. A degree of any Discipline from a recognized University with a minimum of 60% marks.
2. Should be willing to work in any Centre within the country. Candidates not willing to work anywhere in India need not apply.
3. Proficiency in data entry/ computer applications is preferred.
4. Knowledge of driving two wheeler is desirable.
|Age Limit : 21 to 30 years
|No.of posts : 25
|Pay Scale : Rs. 35430/- per month
|Qualification : Graduation
|Last Date for Submission of Application
|31 August 2018
Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences(CCRAS): Lab Technician Vacancy. Last Date to Apply: 31 October 2018
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam(Vizag Steel): Vacancies for Junior Trainees. Last Date to Apply: 25 September 2018
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL): Vacancies for Nursing Assistant cum first aider. Last Date to Apply: 20 September 2018
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd: Vacancies for Assistant Manager. Last Date to Apply: 27 September 2018
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research(IISER): Registrar Vacancy. Last Date: 30 September 2018
Kerala Forest Research Institute(KFRI): Project Fellow (Zoology) Vacancy. Date & Time of Interview: 04 October 2018 at 10 am
Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board(KIIFB): Bill Checking Assistant Vacancy. Date & Time of Interview: 04 October 2018 at 9.30 am
Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Recruitment 2018: Vacancies for Pharmacist Gr II (Homoeo). Last Date to Apply: 24 October 2018
Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University(KVASU): Overseer Electrical Vacancy. Date & Time of Interview: 01 October 2018 at 10 am
Roads and Bridges Development Corporation of Kerala Ltd(RBDCK): Assistant Vacancy. Last Date to Apply: 03 October 2018
Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Recruitment 2018: Vacancies for Lift Operator. Last Date to Apply: 24 October 2018
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL): Assistant Security Officer Vacancy. Last Date to Apply: 19 September 2018
Southern Railway Recruitment – 71 Nursing Superintendent, Health & Malaria Inspector & Various Vacancy – Last Date 27 August 2018
Ircon Infrastructure & Services Limited (IrconISL) Recruitment – 11 Project Co-Ordinator, Sr. Project Engineer & Dy. Project Engineer Vacancies – Last Date 25 August 2018
Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) : Vacancy for Audit Trainee in Kochi. Last Date to apply: 31 July 2018
Vijaya Bank Recruitment 2018: 330 Probationary Assistant Manager (Credit) Vacancy. Last Date to Apply: 27 September 2018
State Bank of India Recruitment 2018: Vacancies for Dy Manager (Security) & Fire Officer. Last Date to Apply: 24 September 2018
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD): Vacancies for Development Assistant. Last Date to Apply: 12 September 2018


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This clock is QUIET! You can not hear the ticking. It runs on a single AA battery. The clock mechanism is made in the U.S.A. and has a 10 year warranty. There is a metal hook on the clock mechanism to catch a nail to hang it on the wall.


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Video Production Coordinator @ Visit Savannah
Tyler Edic, video production coordinator for Visit Savannah and the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, moved to Savannah in July 2018. A native of Upstate New York, Tyler studied broadcasting and mass communication at the State University of New York at Oswego, interned at the Late Show with David Letterman, and earned his Bachelor's degree in 2013. He then worked for his alma mater in the Office of Alumni Relations and University Development in a digital media role, with the aim of engaging the college's alumni audience and encouraging philanthropy to support scholarships and research programs.
After more than three years of working for SUNY Oswego, Tyler stepped down from his role and relocated to Rochester, NY, to continue his education in pursuit of a Master's in Business Administration, from Trident University International. During his online graduate work, which he completed in December 2017, Tyler worked at varying marketing agencies and freelanced his video production and digital media services.
When not creating videos, Tyler enjoys listening to music, playing guitar, skateboarding, and going to the dog park with his girlfriend, Megan, and their dog Lilly.
Shannon Lowery and Tyler Edic of Visit Savannah will lead a discussion about digital content with a particular focus on video content and social media distribution. They will cover topics like identifying your brand voice and audience, good social practices, which social media platforms to use when, how to keep the audience and medium in […]


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Flood of '73 by Andrew Scott
I am sitting on my front porch
watching the river rise with the melt.
Happens this time every spring.
Hear on the radio to watch the floods.
I laugh to myself each time.
What they see is nothing
compared to the flood of '73.
We should have saw it coming
with all the snow we got that winter
but it looked like it was melting alright.
Typical little floods here and there.
We were even starting to seed our fields
until the rain hit hard and never stopped.
The Saint John River could not handle it all.
The rain and the melt was too much.
The water washed away communities
along the banks of the river.
Taking away homes and lives.
There was no way they could prepare.
I remember the shock
of a trailer park being swept away.
Farmlands were destroyed
for years afterwards.
Damages that would never be healed.
I watch people flinch
every time the snow melts now.
The shudder took years to leave me
to the point that now I just laugh
at the people in panic.
The water floods now will wash some away
but it will never be like '73
April 27, 2015
© Andrew Scott – Just a Maritime Boy 2015
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Bio: Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of a classrooms, judge poetry competitions as well as published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. His books, Snake With A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen and The Storm Is Coming are available now


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A big, rich style of Shiraz with deep, inky crimson color. A complex nose displaying elements of white pepper and spice, licorice and plum characters and a hint of fresh earth typical of ripe Shiraz fruit. The palate has tremendous strength and structure with loads of flavor. Tannin, while evident, is fine grained rather than hard and drying. Lifted cedary oak overtones compliment both the fruit and flavor. The wine is but a babe and will continue to gain complexity over the next five to ten years and perhaps beyond.
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Fox Making Summer Return to Hell's Kitchen
Fox has slated Monday, June 12, at 9 p.m. ET for the second-season premiere of summer reality cooking series Hell's Kitchen.
stars acid-tongued British chef Gordon Ramsay. He leads 12 contestants through the chance to take over as executive chef of a new Las Vegas restaurant. The winner is also eligible to receive a financial interest in the new eatery at the Red Rock Casino Resort Spa, 10 miles off the Las Vegas Strip.
In its rookie campaign last summer, Hell's Kitchen performed strongly for Fox in young adult demos. It is produced by Granada Entertainment and A. Smith & Co. Paul Jackson, Arthur Smith, Kent Weed and Layla Sabih are executive producers.


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The allrounder from Charters Towers, who has been described by coaches and teachers as a natural born leader, joined the senior contract list for the first time in 2016-17.
Birkett captained the Queensland Under-18 team at the national championships last season and won the Konica Minolta Youth Player of the Year award for her efforts.
While the young and inexperienced Queenslanders struggled early, Birkett led from the front and they improved with each game.
She was part of the Queensland Under-18 team the previous year that won five of its six games and enjoyed playing alongside her now Fire teammates Grace Harris, Jemma Barsby, Holly Ferling and Beth Mooney.
Birkett also spent two campaigns with the State Under-15 team, helping the team to win the national championship in 2010-11.
Final ball. Five runs to win. A spot in the WBBL Final up for grabs... Nic Carey's shot looked destined for a six before Haidee Birkett produced a stunning clutch catch on the boundary
Brisbane Heat moved a step close to securing a semi-final spot with a comprehensive five wicket over the Melbourne Renegades at Allan Border Field
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We had the pleasure of meeting the famous singing fisherman of Lake Kivu in Rwanda, on their way back from a night of catching tiny sambaza fish. The fish are delightful fried and shared with friends with a few bottles of Primus beer, but nothing beats the synchronized harmonies of the singing fisherman of Lake Kivu. My tribute here:
A Tale of Two Dervishes – Sufi Music in Khartoum and Delhi
The capitals of Sudan and India are not often thought of as must-see tourist destinations. Delhi is all too often just an entry point for tourists visiting India. And Khartoum, well, Sudan's capital is after all… in Sudan, which is not high on tourism bucket lists either.
People are missing out. Delhi is a delightfully insane patchwork of vibrant communities and leftovers of ancient empire(s) all stuffed together in a frenetic megacity. Khartoum is actually a peaceful and calm oasis on the Nile, with some of the friendliest human beings I have ever encountered. I've greatly enjoyed visiting and working in both cities over the past few years.
And interestingly enough, at the top of the to-do lists for visitors to both of these cities are very similar cultural attractions: Sufi shrines that feature the rhythmic devotional music so typical of this mystical branch of Islam.
A trip across the Nile from Khartoum to see the whirling dervishes of Omdurman is a must for the few visitors to this city. In Delhi, checking out the Thursday night Sufi Qawwali singing at Nizzamudin is one of the most unforgettable experiences that the city has to offer. I'll let my video from December 2016 prove the point:
Although both sites attract some tourists, the vast majority of visitors are adherents of the Sufi branch of Islam. Unsurprisingly, there are a number of similarities between the Sufi two sites. Both are located at tombs of important Sufi leaders. The singing and dancing at both sites happens once a week, at sundown. And both sites serve a larger spiritual purpose for Sufis, making a visit to one a real, enriching experience.
Nizzamudin is located in posh South Delhi but stands out enormously from its surroundings. It is a tiny medieval village of shrines, mosques, mausoleums, kebab joints, and Islamic shops that has grown around the tomb of the 14th Century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin. Arguably the most important Indian Sufi saint, the Shaikh Nizzamudin believed in the power of mysticism and was a proponent of the power of music and poetry to move people closer to God.
Centuries later his followers are doing just that. Every Thursday huge crowds gather at the Shaikh's tomb, navigating a series of alleyways and tightly packed streets to reach the shrine. The alleys get smaller and smaller as you get closer to the Dargah, Persian/Urdu for "Shrine." Every inch is covered by vendors hawking rugs, Islamic goods, oils, and plates of flower offerings. Pilgrims crowd into a small courtyard in front of the shrine, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Qawwali musicians.
Eager indeed: My first attempt at seeing music there was a bust- we waited over an hour before the musicians decided that they weren't going to play. My second visit late last year was successful. The second I emerged from the labyrinth into the courtyard, I knew my ethnomusicologist heart wasn't going to be broken again as the sounds of Qawwali drifted through the crowd.
Qawwali is practiced throughout South Asia, from Pakistan to Bangladesh. The late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan popularized the style among Western audiences.
One of my favorite Qawwalis from the master, Sanu ik Pal Chain:
What really struck me at Nizzamuddin was the diversity of the audience – a perfect microcosm of India's complex multi-faceted society. Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists were all there to pay tribute to the Shaikh and take in the Qawwali. The songs were primarily in Punjab and according to my friends, some of the melodies were in fact popular Bollywood tunes with lyrics changed around. I noticed Sikhs praying right next to Muslims.. India really is incredible:
In Omdurman, Sudan, the ceremony takes places every Friday, outside the tomb of the 19th Century Sufi leader Sheikh Hamed al-Nil. The shrine is located inside a dusty cemetery on the outskirts of Omdurman, Sudan's capital in the 19th century.
In fact, a few blocks from the cemetery lies another important tomb, that of the "the Mahdi," Sudan's mythic religious leader who fought against the colonial Egyptian and British forces in the 19th century. It's relatively easy to visit this tomb and adjoining museum before seeing the dervishes, taking in a huge whiff of Sudan's bloody colonial past: the Battle of Omdurman, General Gordon's defeat, etc. etc.
Arriving at Sheikh Hamed al-Nil mosque is magical in itself. I tried to document it here:
Most of the visitors to the mosque are part of the Qadiriyya Sufi sect, followers of the Sheikh Hamed al-Nil. In stark contrast to the ubiquitous white jalabiya that many Sudanese men wear, the Sufi dervishes wear colorful green robes and sport long deadlocks.
And yes, they whirl. As the music increases in intensity the dervishes attain a higher spiritual level, going faster and faster. Adherents pulse back and forth around the dervishes chanting and playing on large frame drums. I noticed women and men dancing quite close to each other. The music was as rhythmic and pulsating as Qawwali, and was mostly in the distinct Sudanese pentatonic scale. I tried to capture some of the tunes:
Nizzamudin doesn't have the same caliber of whirling dervishes, but many adherents go into a trance-like state during the Qawwali. Both times I visited, a group of young woman could be seen – and heard – flinging themselves back and forth behind a latticed screen in a corner of the courtyard almost like they were possessed.Their screams got louder and louder and by the end the few Western tourists were visibly disturbed.
But it was a sure sign of the real spiritual fervor that was going on, along with the great tunes. If you are looking for a real-deal 21st Century mystical experience with some fabulous music, go no further than Nizzamudin and Omdurman.
Le Carillion and Friday 13th Paris Attacks: An Ode to the Café Concert
Cafés and concerts were the principle target of the Friday 13th terrorist attacks in Paris so I thought it would be appropriate to offer a brief tribute to the "café concert." There is something about the café concert that is so uniquely Parisian, and so emblematic of that little Bohemian chunk of the Right Bank that was targeted by the terrorists last week.
Pictured here are a few snaps from a run-of-the-mill café concert in 2009 at the Carillion in the 10th arrondissement. As millions around the world now know, the Carillion was one of the cafés attacked on Friday the 13th, with at least 12 deaths. One widely-circulated photo showed sheet-covered bodies in front of the bar's distinctive red façade. I'd like to share some memories of the bar before the attacks.
My old time band the Ol Timey Messengers had a series of café-concerts there, playing Sunday afternoons for a motley crew of bar regulars and occasional "fans." Like many Parisian bands, we had been searching for years for the perfect café , speaking with countless dive café owners throughout the 10th, 11th and 18th arrondissements. Our buddy Claire-Sophie introduced us to the Carillion and it seemed like a good fit. After all, organizing a café-concert in Paris can be wonderfully informal – often a brief conversation with a barman over a pastis can seal the deal. No press packets, references, demo CDs. Just a handshake.
Virginia fiddler and guitarist Thomas Bailey joined the band for some shows at the Carillion and his wife Mozell snapped these photos before succumbing to the bar's potent "ti' Punch," a sticky rum-based cocktail from the Antilles.
At the time, the Carillion was still building up its hipster cred and had many traits of the classic neighborhood Paris dive café. Like many cafés in Paris, it was run by ethnic Berbers from the Kabyle region of Algeria. Bordering a number of working-class Parisian neighborhoods, the café had a diverse clientele of Arabs, Berbers, Chinese, Afro-Caribbean folks and all other sorts of permanently inebriated chain-smoking characters.
In other words, the perfect audience for Appalachian fiddle music and a few Elvis numbers care of infamous Paris-based English Rocker Brad Scott (pictured above on ukulele). Where else but in Northeast Paris could a group of American and English folk musicians serenade a bar of Chinese, Jewish and Arab shmata salesmen with obscure Kentucky fiddle tunes, Hawaiian ballads and sea shanties? That's the Paris I love.
The café concert, like Parisians themselves, is a moody beast. Sometimes you are playing to room of people fully engrossed in their conversations, barely looking up to acknowledge the band. Clearly your music is disturbing their hushed conversations about politics, sex and film (in that order). Yet other times, you play to a café jam-packed with sweating drunken lunatics standing on bar stools, yee-hawing at every song. Other times you play to that perfect Paris music-going crowd of respectfully quiet chin-stroking intellectuals. Or sometimes your audience will consist of just one drunkenly waltzing couple, swaying majestically on the tiled floor.
Like so many good things in Paris, café-concerts are firmly rooted in the past. Starting in the 19th century as a form of light entertainment, the café-concert evolved into a truly egalitarian Paris pastime. Manet and others took a liking to the café-concert at the turn of the century. We all know what happened in the 20s and 30s. Café-concerts took a dive after World War Two but the 1980s saw a revival with, many rock and punk shows held in cafés in Belleville and other Northeastern Paris neighborhoods.
When I left Paris last year, the café-concert seemed to be going strong, although the ongoing economic crisis was taking a toll. Some of my best memories of the city were playing or attending café-concerts. Nothing beats walking down a cobblestone Paris street in the middle of night as the sounds of an accordion, fiddle, or manouche jazz guitar drift out of the one dimly lit café. Its damn cliché but I saw it thousands of times. Let's hope it doesn't stop.
Photos by Mozell Miley-Bailey
An afternoon with the legendary Trallaleri singers of Genoa
European polyphonic singing, an ancient vocal style featuring interweaving melody lines, can still be heard from the Mediterranean to the Caucuses. Interestingly, the wildest form of European polyphony is not found in an isolated Corsican village or deep in the mountains of Georgia but in the quiet alleys, piazzas and docks of Genoa, Italy's busiest port.
This unique style is known as Trallalero, after the rhythmic nonsense syllables used by its mostly male singers. Alive and well in Genoa and the region of Liguria, Trallalero features up to twenty singers that preform in squadre (teams). Each squadre features an aural orchestra of weird and wonderful voices, from soaring falsettos to a chorus of booming basses.
I first heard Trallalero over 15 years ago through Alan Lomax's legendary 1950s recordings in Italy. Lomax was dumfounded by the Trallaleri singers he discovered, claiming it was some of the most remarkable music he recorded in Europe. He described it as "music of the Genoese longshoremen." One recording in particular, La Partenza, completely blew me away. It had a distinctly medieval feel, with the melodic complexity of a Bach fugue, the rhythmic drive of Balkan music, the ornamentation of a Renaissance opera and felt distinctly, well, Martian. I vowed to make it one day to Christopher Columbus' hometown to hear the style live.
Finally, after ten years in France my wife and I decided to do a weekend away from the kids in Genoa. I got to work on some serious google ethnomusicological research before the trip. After many days, I found a few leads then set off to Tanzania for work.
Who would have thought that my first invite to a Trallalero session would land in my inbox one night in a hotel in remote Mbeya, Tanzania. I had finally made contact with Lucica, one of the few woman Trallalero singers, via a facebook page. After a long back and forth, she announced that her squadre would be having its last practice of the summer during our visit!
Fast-forward a couple of weeks to Genoa, the rendez-vous was in a completely unremarkable cafe off a small piazza in the old city. We showed up early, tired from a day wandering around the city's labyrinthine alleys. The tiny cafe was packed with a somewhat rowdy group of septu- and octogenarians downing coffees and engaging in oh-so-Italian lively banter. Seemed like a normal scene.
After a few minutes, the men paid up at the bar and one by one filed up a minuscule staircase at the back of the café, continuing to banter and slap each other on the back as they ascended. Upstairs, tables were pushed to the sides and a tiny table was left in the middle with a bottle of red wine and plastic cups. The singers arranged themselves in a full circle around the table and quieted down.
The squadre began to sing (try headphones for full sound):
And so began my hour or so with the Trallaleri. It felt like a real, honest practice: The group sang about 12 tunes and had ample time to yell at each other ("it's a Ligurian thing, Lucica assued me"), discuss arrangements and drink. The squadre, called "I Raccögieti," is one of about five active teams in Genoa proper. A brief explanation on how it all works:
Each squadre has very specific voices that play specialized roles. First, there is a triumvirate of melody voices. In the above video, the gentleman in the yellowish polo shirt, Mario Olivieri, is the tenor or the primo voice. Next to him, the baritone, which sings counterpoint to the tenor. Then there is the contralto, above in a striped shirt – an amazing singer named Stefano Ardigò Contraetu. The contralto sings in a highly-stylized falsetto voice. Everything is done in the distinct Genoese dialect.
On the other side, a full choir of basses, directed by a lead bass. Then, the really odd addition: the chitarra, or "guitar" – the man in the video, towards the back, with a hand over his mouth.
Women are a rarity in this music, so we were especially lucky to catch one of the few female singers of this style, Lucica, taking over the role of tenor:
There seems to be a good deal of debate about the origin of the music. Some whom I spoke with disagreed about Lomax's theory of longshoremen origins. According to Stefano, the music started in bars in the 19th century, mixing religious music with popular Opera and Ligurian folk traditions. Clearly the port did bring in outside influences and it seems they show up in the music – the droning bass recalls Greek Orthodox chants (or other Eastern vocal styles). Just check it out (another recording without video but with better audio):
Genoa was recently the subject of an urban makeover. The city's infamous port was scrubbed clean(er) and great effort was taken to attract tourists to this once-seedy town. These days Genoa is stunning. Stately avenues lined with 19th century buildings dot the hills over the city, offering vertiginous views over the Ligurian Sea. The old port is cleaned up and the piazzas burst with life. A massive, modern aquarium on the harbor recalls Boston or Baltimore, rather than a salty longshoremen's den.
According to Stefano, this gentrification has started to push Trallalero outside of the city, deeper into the mountains behind Genoa. He says that Trallalero is now alive and well in small villages, but interest in dying out in the city. The chance that you'll run into some Trallalero harmonizing in piazza on a typical tourist jaunt are low. A funny irony: a folk music that is quintessentially urban in nature is now moving to a more rural setting. An almost opposite effect than what we've seen with countless other folk traditions that start rural but ended up widely practiced in cities.
I'll end this post with a particularly poignant number, "E Americhe." It's the story of an immigrant to America – fitting for Genoa's history and fitting for my upcoming return to the shores of E Americhe.
2014 Paris Street Food Festival
When I first moved to Paris 10 years ago, street food basically consisted of (i) rancid kebabs – I remember a local newspaper tested 100 randomly-chosen kebabs in a lab and 50 of them had traces of fecal matter (ii) ghastly crepes filled with rotten cheese that leaked engine-fluid like grease that literally burnt through clothes (iii) Incinerated "chestnuts." Parisians definitely didn't take kindly to having a bite on the street: They found it uncouth and seemed especially unhappy to burn through their fashionable outfits with nuclear crepe grease.
Like so many parts of the Parisian culinary scene, things have changed… big time. The first food trucks appeared in 2009, spearheaded by the now famous hamburger van Le Camion qui Fume. It was a rough start, with all sorts of permit issues and tussles with the authorities. A few years later, food trucks were popping up all around the city serving burgers, tacos etc. to the Hipsteratii of Paris. Now they are an institution. "Street food festivals" are being held around the city and an insane amount of new trucks – some distinctly Francophile and other completely Brooklynified – are showing up on street corners around the city.
I checked out the "Festival de la Street Food" [actual name] this weekend. A few snaps:
The festival was held at the temple to Paris Hipsterdom – the newly-renovated Carreau de Temple. Food trucks were parked in front (and inside) of the massive 19th-century cast iron structure. The lines of hipsters were 100+ deep only a few hours into the festival.
Tacos and other "consumables" (cupcakes, burgers, bagels, beer) have been a mainstay of the new Paris "Broukligne" culinary scene. So it only makes sense that taco trucks would materialize. This one – El Tacot – was our favorite truck at the festival. No-nonsense tacos, fresh, good value, quick service.
Inside the Carreau de Temple – overpriced but nice dumplings.
Yup, a "New York Deli" style food truck with mutant bagels. Must be the water here….
Bretons checking out a bride. I didn't try their crepes but they looked distinctly non-nuclear.
The rare "Gallic" participant.
Honey and waffle cones! Cultivated on the roof of the Carreau!!
Fish and chips! It's a strange world..
Keep in mind that only a few years ago, there were very few vegetarian options in Paris. It was a struggle to entertain visiting Americans. Now you can get veggie hot dogs on the street. Times are a-changing.
Bastille Day 2014: Seven things that you should know about France, en petite taille
I took my sons to the excellent Model Railroad Museum in Rambouillet forest outside of Paris this weekend and realized that the gargantuan railroad and miniature exhibition offered some telling lessons about France. I snapped a few photos that illustrate perfectly what I learned about France.. after 10 years living here!
Here's my listicle:
Welcome to France! It's reeeaal purty here.
We like the countryside, livestock and the hydropneumatic suspension that allows us to drive across fields without breaking a single egg in a basket (according to legend, this was a direct order to Citroën's engineers from President de Gaulle).
We like fresh fish.
And we invented quality of life!
Happy Bastille Day! More posts coming soon…
Chechamba – Portrait of a Malawian Old Timey Musician
I was in Malawi recently for work and I had the great pleasure to meet Wenham Chechamba in Blantyre, the country's second-biggest city. Still going strong at 80 years old, Chechamba is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sought-after music teacher and somewhat of a beloved national treasure.
I used scrollkit to create a little multimedia website on Chechamba, with videos, photos and interviews of the man himself. Click here or the photo and scroll away!


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Alan Rust received his graduate degree from Ohio University in 1973. Since, he has continued a professional acting career in theatres throughout the country including, The Hartford Stage Company (where he can be seen in the annual production of A Christmas Carol), GOODSPEED musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Stage West, The Northern Stage Company, The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and the Monomoy Theatre. He has directed over one hundred productions in university and professional theatres in the United States as well as Sydney, Australia; Goteborg, Sweden; Birmingham, England; and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has held positions at the University of Washington, the State University of New York at Purchase, the University of Detroit, the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he served as dean, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he was the head of the acting program and the University of Hartford where he is the director of the Theatre Division of The Hartt School. He held the position of president of the National Theatre Conference in New York City. He has been a United States representative for the International Theatre Institute in Istanbul and Izmer in Turkey and Moscow and Ashkabad in the former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan. Mr. Rust was a founding member of the World Theatre Training Institute in Vienna, Austria.


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I try to scuttle away, but with my cast slipping and sliding on the wet floor, I can't move particularly fast. In desperation, I make a magnetic grab for the door, and just have time to think, "That's not magnetic, it won't work," before I go sliding wildly across the floor towards it.
I'm covering my face to protect it from the daggers of glass showering around me, which is why I don't realize that I'm magnetically dragging myself directly into Regina until our legs tangle up and she topples onto me. She howls her outrage, and the storm shrieks in sympathy. A pair of lightning bolts crashes outside, adding to the ringing in my ears, as she pummels my already bleeding arms and head with her fists.
"Vermin! Cockroach!" she spits, scrambling free of me. Clearly, the intervening week has done nothing to raise her opinion of me. I roll out of range of her kicks and stagger awkwardly to my feet.
"What did I ever do to you?" I ask, and although I meant for it to be accusatory and maybe indignant, it really comes out sounding plaintive and even kind of whiny.
Fortunately, Regina is indignant enough for the both of us. "You got me fired! I came back from dealing with you and Darryl had someone else working and a note saying I was no longer an employee! A note!"
This strikes me as more than a slightly unfair edition version of events. "Even if you think the fight was my fault, which I do not, it didn't get you fired. Maybe if you had gone back that night, instead of running off and leaving the store unlocked, that wouldn't have happened!"
She gasps, covering her mouth in shock like I've just sworn in church. "Have you been stalking me, you cretin? How would you know that? You're disgusting!"
And with that, she rushes me, shoes squeaking on the rain-slick tile. I tense to block a punch, but at the last second she loses her footing and slips, slamming into my chest shoulder-first in a perfect tackle. My cast betrays me again and I go over backwards, landing painfully among shards of glass and lumps of ice, with more hail still coming down around me. I feel dozens of tiny needles digging into my skin, burying themselves in my flesh, but before I can even really process that, a piece of hail the size of a kiwi slams directly into my forehead. The spike of pain that produces is instantly joined by its twin as the impact bounces the back of my head off of the floor.
I didn't know that you could literally see stars outside of a cartoon, but bright lights explode in my vision and for a second, everything else greys out. I don't lose consciousness, though, which is good, because Regina is pressing her advantage. She clenches her fists and squeezes her eyes shut, and lightning strikes barely five feet behind me, reaching through the ruined skylight. In its aftermath, the hail intensifies. I feel like I'm being beaten with billiard balls.
I grab for the door again, heedless of the razor cuts I'm receiving by pulling myself across the floor; anything is better than the bludgeoning I'm getting right now. Regina snarls, though, and the door is lanced by another lightning bolt, and I lose my magnetic grip on it.
"At least I've made it out of the hail," I think, right before another chunk of ice wings me in the shoulder. I look up to see Regina advancing on me, scooping up another ice rock the size of a baseball and chucking it at me. This one connects, too, and if it doesn't hurt as badly as the ones from the storm, that's probably only because she hasn't gotten me in the head yet.
I'm at a total loss for what to do, so to buy time, I copy her: I grab the nearest lumps of ice and scramble to my feet to face her. I'm starting to feel the damage now. My head is throbbing from its abuse and my entire back is a symphony of razor pain. The glass shards stab me when I move, so I just stand stock still, glaring at Regina.
She glares back at me, her diatribe stopped for the time being. For a moment, we hold that pose, two combatants locked in the world's highest-stakes snowball fight. It's a ridiculous image, and even through the chorus of injuries, it still conjures up a half-smile from me.
This raises a fresh rage in Regina, who shouts wordlessly, hurls her iceball at me and scrabbles for a fresh one. I dodge, offering bitter thanks to whoever set this up for at least not giving her precision control over the winds. Her power, like mine, seems to be largely intuitive, and her control is broad-based but difficult to direct precisely.
In fact — I dodge another thrown ice missile and sling one back, scoring a hit and earning a yelp from Regina — in fact, it's never occurred to me to wonder exactly how she can do what she does. I put it down as superscience or magic and went about dealing with the effects instead of thinking about the cause. And right now, the tiny bit of smarts I have left over from the intelligence boost is shouting at me internally.
It's got its work cut out for it. In addition to not being all that quick a thinker ordinarily, I'm also currently under attack, in quite a bit of pain, and possibly suffering from a concussion. The funny thing about pain is that it really focuses the mind sometimes, though, especially if you understand that an unfocused mind will lead to more pain. Not getting hurt any more is a spectacular motivator. My brain grabs all available processing power to solve this problem, momentarily dampening the pain as it works to show me a solution.
It's not instantaneous, though, and there's a lot going on, so here's how it plays out. As Regina and I are trading off with iceballs, I'm thinking about the weird way her lightning messed with my magnetic grip on the door. When she slams a solid hit into my good knee and I drop onto the floor again, I barely feel my cast cracking, because I'm remembering that every time she cranked up the storm's fury, it was accompanied by a blast of lightning, even after she knew that that was completely ineffective against me.
And so when she sees me lying prone again and presses her advantage, racing towards me with a chunk of ice in one hand and a knife-sized shard of glass in the other, I don't even try to get out of the way. I just raise my arms to catch her on the way in, guiding her weapons past my head to crash uselessly into the floor. And as her weight crashes down on me, driving me onto the constellation of glass embedded into my back and awakening a new cacophony of screaming nerves, I focus everything I have into making the strongest magnetic field I can and applying it to her, sticking it to her like a web.