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Tsongas Wins Special Primary and Is Favored to Win Meehan Seat
Posted September 5, 2007 at 7:21am
Massachusetts is poised to send a woman to Congress for the first time in a quarter century.
College administrator Niki Tsongas, the widow of the late Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), won a spirited special Democratic primary Tuesday and is favored to win the Oct. 16 special election to replace former Rep. Marty Meehan (D), who resigned two months ago.
Tsongas, who was heavily favored at the outset of the special election and had raised more than $1.2 million through Aug. 15, held off a late surge from former Lowell Mayor Eileen Donoghue to win the primary, 36 percent to 31 percent. Three state Representatives split the remainder of the vote.
"The selection is a referendum on the presidency of George W. Bush," Tsongas told her supporters Tuesday night, according to several media accounts. "If you want to end the war in Iraq, join me and send a message to the White House."
In the general election, Tsongas, 61, will face 49-year-old farmer Jim Ogonowski, who handily won the Republican primary. Although Republicans and Democrats alike see Ogonowski as an appealing candidate with a compelling story to tell – his brother was a pilot of one of the planes that was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001 – the 5th district west of Boston is likely too heavily Democratic to be truly competitive, and it remains to be seen whether national GOP leaders have the resources to help their nominee.
Assuming Tsongas wins, she will become the first female Member of Congress from the Bay State since then-Rep. Margaret Heckler (R) was defeated for re-election in 1982.
– Josh Kurtz


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Edsel PTSA Scholarship
The Edsel Ford PTSA is again offering at least one $500 scholarship to a graduating senior. See the PTSA scholarship application for more details. The application deadline is April 12.
If a student wishes to park in the Student Lot, a $10 parking pass will be needed. Please print out the attached form and fill completely out and bring it with your cash (CASH ONLY). Passes will be sold in the cafeteria directly after school March 15th through March 19th (1p.m-1:30 p.m.). If you are unable to come at that time please contact Mrs. Moran (morana@dearbornschools.org) to work out an alternate time. Security sweeps of the parking lot will begin in April.
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Senior Scholarship Information:
1. Collegeboard Scholarships: High school seniors are highly encouraged to visit www.collegeboard.com to find scholarships, financial aid and internships for more than 2,200 programs, totaling nearly $6 billion! Once you get into the site, click "Find Scholarships," and start searching.
2. Donovan Xavier Baker Scholarship: The Donovan Xavier Baker Scholarship Fund was created as a way to honor the short but beautiful life of Donovan Xavier Baker. Any African-American male between the ages of 17-22 is eligible for this $2,500 scholarship. For more information and to apply go to: thedonovanxavierbakerscholarshipfund.com/ and download the application. The deadline is April 30, 2021.
3. Dearborn Education Foundation: Norman Hammoud Scholarship: This scholarship fund was created in honor of Norman Hammoud, a former teacher and student-athlete of the Dearborn Public Schools. He was an all-star football player at Fordson and Bowling Green State University. Through this scholarship fund, Mr. Hammoud's dreams of helping students excel in sports and academics will live on. Seniors who played on the football team at Edsel Ford this year are eligible for the $1,000 scholarship. The deadline is March 31, 2021.
4. Michigan State University Scholarship: There is a new MSU Michigan Resident Scholarship of up to $1,500 annually. Beginning in the Fall of 2021, all admitted Michigan students will be automatically considered for this new scholarship. Seniors are encouraged to apply to MSU as soon as possible to receive maximum scholarship consideration.
5. Schoolcraft College Scholarships: The college is offering the Trustee Scholarship and Award of Excellence to area high school seniors who plan on attending Schoolcraft College next year. The Trustee Scholarship Award is for $2,000/year and the Award of Excellence Scholarship is for $5,000/year. Students apply for admission at schoolcraft.edu/apply and complete the online scholarship application at schoolcraft.edu/scholarships. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2021.
(ترجمة هذه الصفحة في الأسفل. إضغط على Select Language ثم اختر اللغة العربي Arabic.) Yasmeen Nasr Community Liaison Edsel Ford High School 313-827-1535 nasry@dearbornschools.org
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MIP holds follow-up workshops for history teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina
On 10 December 2022, the Mechanism's Information Programme for Affected Communities (MIP) held a follow-up workshop on how to use the archives of the ICTY and the Mechanism for 30 history teachers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The event was organised in cooperation with the European Association of History Teachers (EUROCLIO) and the Information Centre on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Sarajevo.
During the session, the participating teachers presented lectures they had prepared using judgements and witness testimonies from cases before the ICTY and the Mechanism, along with other material from the digital archives. Their lectures addressed various topics, including crimes of sexual violence, forced removal and migration, and the use of propaganda during the conflicts.
Applying the knowledge and methodologies they had learned during the previous MIP trainings held in September of this year, the participants discussed further opportunities for teaching about the conflicts, as well as relevant contemporary topics that could also be addressed.
In order to provide a regional perspective during its workshops, the MIP has developed close cooperation with teachers' associations from countries across the former Yugoslavia. In this regard, 10 representatives of national associations participated as trainers during the workshop, sharing their experience and contextual insights from their own countries with the history teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Importantly, they also brought familiarity and expertise in the use of the ICTY and Mechanism archives, having themselves participated in similar MIP trainings as part of this same project.
Through these workshops, history educators not only enhance their skills in researching the courts' archives, but also expand their knowledge of the events of the 1990s conflicts, the crimes committed, and the adjudication of these crimes before the ICTY and the Mechanism. Once trained, they are better equipped to develop fact-based and engaging lectures about the region's recent past, using documents and judicially-established facts from both ICTY and Mechanism cases.
Trainings on the use of the ICTY and Mechanism archives for history educators form part of the wider MIP, which is funded by the European Union.
The aim of the MIP is to improve the knowledge and understanding of citizens and communities in the countries of the former Yugoslavia about the crimes committed during the conflicts of the 1990s, based on ICTY and Mechanism cases.
For more information, please contact the External Relations Office
Arusha Tel: +255 (0)27 256 5376
The Hague Tel: +31 (0)70 512 5691
Email: mict-press@un.org
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The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) was established by UN Security Council Resolution 1966 (2010) to complete the remaining work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after the completion of their respective mandates. The Mechanism has two branches, one in Arusha, Tanzania, and one in The Hague, Netherlands.


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Share this Story: Five men sentenced to death for 2006 Mumbai train blasts
Five men sentenced to death for 2006 Mumbai train blasts
Karen Rebelo • Reuters
MUMBAI - An Indian court sentenced five men to death and jailed seven for life on Wednesday for planning the bomb blasts that ripped through Mumbai commuter trains in 2006, killing more than 180 people and wounding hundreds.
The specially convened court convicted 12 of 13 accused earlier this month for their role in the events that led to seven bombs exploding on packed trains during the evening rush hour in Mumbai on July 11, 2006.
The bombs targeted an overcrowded suburban network that carries around seven million people a day.
Police say the attack was carried out by disaffected Muslims at the behest of Pakistan-based Islamist militants, and named militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba's Pakistan-based leader, Azeem Cheema, as the prime conspirator.
One of the convicted men flashed a victory sign as he was taken from jail to the court for sentencing.
Defence lawyers said they would appeal to the Bombay High Court. "We are disappointed with the decision," lawyer Wahab Khan told reporters. "Even a common man could say this is a framed-up case."
Controversy has dogged the investigation of the 2006 attacks, adding to delays in a trial which has dragged on for eight years and featured testimony from about 200 witnesses.
Some defendants said they were tortured by police eager to extract confessions on charges that ranged from murder to conspiracy against the state and waging war against the nation. Police have denied these assertions.
Relations between India and Pakistan remain difficult, with recent flashpoints including border tensions and controversy over whether to discuss the disputed territory of Kashmir derailing an attempt to revive peace talks.
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My Lady Jane is a terrifically enjoyable if inaccurate romp through Tudor history. The authors make the characters come alive in a way that enables them to be like able and relatable. Not everyone is a fan of historical fiction, but I feel that this book makes that genre more accessible.
The book was engaging and I finished it in one sitting. I fell in love with the characters, their world, and how everything developed over the course of the novel. Jane, Edward and G realistically grew and changed as people – from bookish to brave, spoiled to caring, and lascivious to loyal.
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Sly Fox and The Hustlers presents a Halloween Food Drive
Feeding People Through Our Music on Halloween
Saratoga Springs, New York: Putnam Place today announced they will be kicking off their Thanksgiving Food Drive for the Franklin Community Center on Saturday 8pm October 31st, 2020 at Putnam Place. It will be a fun filled Halloween night with live music to support our local community. Sly Fox and The Hustlers along with Perpetual Vibes, a local talent marketing and management agency, will be releasing a special musical treat for all the supporters that come and bring a non-perishable item. The Saratoga Franklin Community Center needs more donations as this has been an especially difficult time for local families affected by COVID19 and have struggled with job loss and financial constraints. The doors will open at 8pm and there will be a mix of live music and a DJ. Everyone will be required to wear a mask and adhere to all COVID19 guidelines. Saratoga's Franklin Community Center needs mac & cheese, cereals, and canned fruits and vegetables as well as hygiene products such as shampoos, soap, and laundry detergent, but anything is appreciated.
There will also be a live Facebook event for those who just want to drop off donations and enjoy the show from their home! Please go to Putnam Place Facebook for additional details and check out Sly Fox and The Hustlers website at slyfoxandthehustlers.com.
"We are very excited about helping Putnam Place and Sly Fox & The Hustlers in promoting this very important food drive event for our local community." says Michelle Moyer, CoFounder, Perpetual Vibes.
"We wanted to do something during these trying times of Covid 19 and financial distress in our local community," says Sly Fox, Manager at Putnam Place. "Music is always a source of happiness and connectivity, what better way than to bring them together"
About Sly Fox & The Hustlers. A local band who plays raw blues, funk & soul with a dash of punk served on a hot plate with a rough edge. They recently recorded a new cover that will be unveiled on Halloween and will be releasing a new album in Spring 2021.
About Perpetual Vibes. Is a local talent management and music marketing agency recently established in August of 2020 in the heart of Saratoga County.
About Putnam Place. Is a 500 capacity music hall located in downtown Saratoga Springs with state of the art sound and lighting technology. Who hosts local, regional and national touring bands several nights a week.
Located in: Diamond Brady Plaza
Address: 63 Putnam St, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Sly Fox and the Hustlers is on the move with a new CD and tour
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Blue Öyster Cult draws fans to Lake George music festival
The Lake George Examiner
By Gillian Burdett - September 26, 2016
"...A couple Doors covers had one Festival patron commenting that Sly Fox could well be Jim Morrison incognito."
— Festival patron


Although Simchos are beautiful and uplifting, most of the time we don't leave inspired. In fact, on the way home from a wedding we often find ourselves reviewing and rating the event - the food, the flowers, the band, the attendance, the gowns, and the hall. Sometimes we may even feel tinges of envy for different aspects of the wedding.
But no one feels any tinge of jealousy when walking out of a house of mourning. If anything, we have the opposite feeling - genuine compassion and empathy for the mourner's loss. It compels us to find a few moments of contemplation before we quickly get lost again in the bustle of life.
Recently, Chani and I went to be menachem avel. I didn't expect it to be anything more than a routine sad such visit. But it ended up being a very poignant experience that helped put things in perspective.
The mourner is someone we have known and respected for most of our married years. She and her husband are great-grandparents.
She was mourning the loss of an older sibling, who lived quite a distance away. After she shared with us some recollections about her sister, the mourner related to us that her sister's death made her reflect about her own mortality. The sincerity of her next question was unnerving: "Now I have begun wondering what am I going to say when I get up there? I'm so afraid of that!" Then she proceeded to tell us about the added chesed she was planning on doing to help others. It was clearly something she gave a great deal of thought to. It should be noted that she already does much chesed for others, and tries hard to live a Torah life. Yet she was looking to do more, to grab every opportunity.
It reminded me of the anecdote with Rav Yosef Yozel Horowitz, who was a hard-working businessman. On one occasion he met the great Rav Yisrael Salanter. After he told Rav Yisrael what he did he commented that 'one must have what to live with', Rav Yisroel replied that although that was undoubtedly true, 'one must also have what to die with'. The words so shook Rav Yosef Yozel that he left the business world, and eventually founded tens of Yeshivos known as the Norvadok yeshiva. Rav Yosef Yozel himself became known as the Alter of Norvadok.
I should add that I told the mourner that the first merit she will be able to mention in the celestial courts after 120 is that she is a ba'alas teshuva. That means she willingly altered her entire life to draw closer to Hashem. It surprised me that she herself didn't think of that. What greater merit is there than the willingness to adopt a totally different lifestyle to grow spiritually?
In our world, at times ba'alei teshuva may feel that they aren't fully accepted or aren't as great as those born religious. But in the World of Truth, where effort, yearning, and desire have primacy, there is hardly anything greater.
I don't know how long the inspiration stayed with me. But at least for a few minutes that experience reminded me that ultimately, we are in this world, not for taking (though we must care for ourselves properly), but to see how much we can give others - not merely money, but more profoundly in time, care, and love.
Each morning in Hodu we recite the verse "strength and joy are in His Place" (Divrei Hayamim I 16:27). In the presence of G-d there is only happiness and vitality. That is the beracha we confer upon the mourner. Hamakom - the One on whose presence there is only strength and joy, should comfort you - by granting you strength and joy, just as He will ultimately do so for Zion and Yerushalayim!


It doesn't matter what country I'm in, the second I get a whiff of sweet, fragrant keffir lime, I am immediately transported to Thailand and straight into the memory of a fiery bowl of green curry chicken, devoured while relaxing by beautiful, blue seas.
The same goes for the smell of burning leaves. In many parts of rural Thailand, they deal with their garbage by burning it, and while this is not the most environmental method of dealing with it, the odor of the grass and leaves used to stoke up the fire are deeply imprinted, and somewhat romanticized, in my olfactory memory.
I first smelled this in Northern Thailand in 2009. We had rented a scooter for the grand price of 150 baht or $5 per day, and we were zipping up and down the hills around chilled out, rasta town Pai. It was our first (but not last) trip to Thailand, and I remember feeling liberated and limitless as I held tightly onto the man that would become my future husband.
Rudyard Kipling once said, "the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." And I am inclined to agree.
What I am about to say may be sacrilegious to those travelphiles of you out there, but the truth (at least for me), is that after you've traveled enough of the world, things start to look the same. The fashion is strange and the people speak different languages, but essentially, it's still the same. Especially in our current world of multinationalism, instantaneous media/internet and relatively cheap transportation.
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Aside from Albania (which opened it's borders to capitalism just 30 years ago), I have been able to find without much trouble, a Mcdonald's or Starbucks in just about every other country I've visited. Outside the Forbidden City in communist China? Check. Muslim Marrakesh? Check. India? Yup, India too.
I'll tell you one thing for certain though. If I close my eyes and take a deep inhale, China, Marrakesh and India all smell uniquely Chinese, Moroccan or Indian. Starbucks and Mcdonald's disappear from my vision and memory and I am left with a true feeling or "scentiment" about that country. India is the smell of fresh masala dosai, potatoes covered with flavourful mustard seeds and curry leaves, the smell wafting into my nose and making my stomach grumble instantly. Or the tickle in my nostrils when I catch the scent of cardamon pods, ginger and cinnamon freshly ground in a mortar and pestle, ready for brewing into a spicy chai tea. I am transported back to a gritty blue train platform, surrounded by women in colourful saris, and the sound of the chai wallah peddling his wares. I can see his dented metal carafe and hear his singsong voice, "chai-eeee. chai-eee. chai-eee," and how I wish now for a sip of that 11 cent chai that cannot be duplicated by any other country in the world.
I love that you segue the whole thing to become a generic travel topic. I agree about the McDonalds and Starbucks. But I think MY travels have never been the same. You probably travel more places that's why. Though, I know what you mean. I saw one windmill last weekend, but I didn't get excited as much as I did when I saw hundreds of it in Palm Springs. A lighthouse I saw is just another lighthouse just like the rest. The food, yeah, even Japan is high on tacos and curry meals. So, I completely see what you mean here.
Woah, you're really digging back into the archives of the blog. 😉 I'm totally appreciative that you read so far back!
I agree…I think that the experiences you have traveling are different every time. Eating McD's in Marrakesh is definitely a different experience than eating McD's in Korea. It's weird though, cuz sometimes when I'm watching a movie in a theatre for example in Thailand or Peru or wherever, I have a little trip out, cuz I actually forget where I am. I could be anywhere watching that same movie!!


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Demi Lovato 'Was Upset' Nick Jonas Did Not Invite Her to His Wedding
By Rachel Wallace
They've been pals since their Disney Channel days, but Demi Lovato "wasn't invited" to Nick Jonas' December 1 wedding to Priyanka Chopra, a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. "Demi was upset," says the source. "It broke her heart."
Demi Lovato (L) and Nick Jonas during the 2017 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 19, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Chris Polk/AMA2017/Getty Images for dcp
The couple's lavish nuptials took place over five days in Jodhpur, India, one month after Lovato, 26, left the rehab facility where she had been recovering from her July 24 drug overdose. Jonas, also 26, voiced his support for the "Sober" singer at the time of the tragedy: "Like all of you I am reeling at the news about Demi," he wrote on Twitter. "All of us love her and need to pray for her to get well. She is a fighter."
Lovato currently does not follow Jonas on Instagram. Even so, the source notes, "she wishes him and Priyanka the best." For more on how Lovato is doing post-rehab, check out the video above.
And for even more on Lovato — including her budding romance with Henri Levy — pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands now.


Christine Dormaier is a local yoga teacher and the owner of Sound Yoga. She has recently authored a new book: Why Yoga Works – which offers insights on the rich history and underlying philosophy of Yoga. It also provides simple guidelines for the practice of this powerful healing art. The first part of the book discusses Yoga's roots in the ancient wisdom teachings of India and explains the core principles and strategies for reducing human suffering, creating optimal health and cultivating satisfying relationships. Part Two offers simple practices that demonstrate the entire range of Yoga's transformational tools. This book offers step by step instructions for creating individualized practices combining postures and conscious breathing with meditation. Why Yoga Works is appropriate for beginners, Yoga teachers, or anyone interested in becoming a teacher themselves.
Seattle Yoga News: When and how did you discover yoga?
Christine Dormaier: From the time I was a small child I suffered from asthma. It limited my physical activities. I was on daily meds and used a rescue inhaler frequently. The meds made me very hyper and I could not relax. I somehow heard that Yoga might help me to relax and help me with my breathing. I found one of the few Yoga books out at the time and tried all the postures. Since it wasn't aerobic I didn't have an asthma attack. While on vacation in Hawaii I decided to try my first Yoga class. It was an amazing experience. Even though I had my inhaler at the ready I never once had to use it. After class, I asked the teacher for help remembering what we did in class. To my surprise, she suggested I come back the next day for a private session with her. She designed a personal practice for me which she said would help with my asthma. I practiced every day and found that it calmed me down. It also transformed my relationship with my breathing from one of constant fear of an asthma attack to being more in control and at peace with my breath. When I asked her what style she was teaching she explained rather than a particular style she studied and taught in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. She recommended the only teacher in Seattle who taught in her lineage. I studied with her for several years and as a result experienced improved health, greater self-awareness and a sense of freedom I had never felt before.
Seattle Yoga News: What led you to become a yoga teacher?
Christine Dormaier: I had been studying Yoga with my teacher for several years. One day, at a retreat in Hawaii, I was shocked when my teacher asked me to teach a woman in Seattle who wanted to learn Yoga. Although I am an introvert and never didn't plan on being a teacher, I felt I could do it since it was just one person. Molly was my first student and only student for two years. When I saw just how much the teachings benefited her, I was on the path to becoming a teacher.
Seattle Yoga News: What prompted you to write this book about yoga?
Christine Dormaier: For many years I have been training teachers. I have known Fran and Robert my co-authors about 20 years and we have always shared our teacher training notes. One day when we were yet again exchanging notes I stopped and said, "Why don't we just put everything we have learned together once and for all." I thought it would be quick and easy. Boy, was I wrong. It took a couple of years to compile all our notes and put them in order. Somehow this morphed into the idea of writing a book so others could benefit from our efforts. 10 years later it became Why Yoga Works & How It Can Work For You.
Seattle Yoga News: Which audience are you targeting?
Christine Dormaier: A student of mine told me she was surprised to find her husband was reading the book. She said, "Even though he doesn't practice, he is enjoying learning something I'm passionate about, Yoga." That is not the audience I think we all thought would read our book. But it does say to me that even someone without Yoga experience can follow it. Ultimately, I think our book is perfect for beginners who want a better understanding of Yoga to teacher trainers who want to use our book as a foundation text in their program. The reason it works for such a wide range of people is that it's written in everyday language, the chapters are short, and we cover an incredibly broad scope of Yoga practice and theory.
Seattle Yoga News: Take us through your experiences as a self-published author. Why did you go down this route?
Christine Dormaier: We decided to self-publish for many reasons. We knew that even if we could get a publisher to pick us up they might shelve the book for a year or two. We wanted it out sooner. We talked to experts in publishing that gave us great advice and helped us formulate a plan. Every step of the way was a huge learning curve. We were so lucky to find Andres Adamson, a yogi who understood our language, formatted our layout, all the graphics in the book and the beautiful cover shot. Andres lives in Estonia. The person who indexed the book is in Jamaica. Our Sanskrit expert, Aja lives in Oregon as well as our editor Wayne who helped us structure our book and find our voice in the early years. We decided to go with Amazon print on demand because if there were any errors, they could be corrected and the book could be revised and back out quickly.
Seattle Yoga News: How much research and work went into writing this book?
Christine Dormaier: It took us 10 years to write Why Yoga Works & How It Can Work For You. The research is the culmination of 75 years plus of study, practice and teaching between the three of us. The classical texts taught to us by our teachers form the foundation of our knowledge that we have passed on in our book.
Seattle Yoga News: You co-authored this book with Fran Ubertini & Robert Birnberg. What was the experience like working with them on this book?
Christine Dormaier: Crazy! You know how hard it is to schedule one person to have coffee with you, well, add in another person and three outermost corners of the United States, Florida, California and Washington. Factor in the unexpected and multiply it by three. You get the picture. If there was ever a disagreement majority always ruled. Thankfully there was an odd number of us or we would still be writing. The cover is a perfect example. Originally we didn't know what we wanted, although we were clear about what we didn't want. I found the cover photo one day when I was going thru Andres's photography portfolio and loved it. I have always had a special connection with trees. Because each tree is unique they speak to the individuality in all of us. It took a couple of months to convince one of my co-authors, but when we saw the first proof copy, we knew it was the right choice.
Seattle Yoga News: Anything else you would like to add?
Christine Dormaier: I wouldn't have been able to write this book without 20 plus years of teaching at my sweet little studio, SoundYoga, in West Seattle. My students continue to help me refine my own understanding of Yoga. I am so grateful that this is the dharma that I have chosen or that has chosen me.
Chris Dormaier, M.S., CYT, ERYT 500 is Director of SoundYoga and a Certified Teacher Trainer in the tradition of Krishnamacharya. She also holds a diploma from the American Viniyoga Institute as a yoga therapist. Chris is also the author of the DVD Strong Bones Yoga and the co-author of Why Yoga Works & How It Can Work For You with Fran Ubertini And Robert Birnberg. Chris continues her studies with Sonia Nelson in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a yoga therapist Chris applies yoga principles in developing yoga practices that support and meet the needs of individuals who strive for better health and a happier, well-balanced lifestyle. Chris has helped many people with arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, heart conditions, MS, and other health concerns find yoga practices to maintain and improve their health.


Ruby has a built-in tracing system which you can access using the TracePoint class. Some of the things you can trace are method calls, new threads & exceptions.
Well, it could be useful if you want to trace the execution of a certain method. You will be able to see what other methods are being called & what are the return values.
Let's see a few examples!
Most of the time you will want TracePoint to trace application code & not built-in methods (like puts, size, etc).
You can do this using the call event.
This prints the file path, the line number, the event name & the method name.
Many methods will make more than just 3 methods calls, especially in framework code, so the output from Tracepoint can be hard to visualize.
This generates a call_graph.png file with the results.
Keep in mind that this is not static analysis, this will actually call the method!
Would you like to know where these methods are defined?
Don't worry, I got you covered! I added an option you can enable to show the file path for each method call.
For this you will need to trace the return event and use the return_value method.
Return value for the_method is AAAAAAAAAA.
There are many ways to achieve this, like prepending a module, redirecting $stdout or redefining the bar method.
If you are feeling creative, comment on this post with your own idea!
But I found one of the answers particularly interesting because it used the TracePoint class.
This code will call exit when the method bar is called, which prevents the string from being printed by ending the program.
Probably not something you want to use in real code, but it proves one thing about TracePoint: Events are triggered before they happen.
In this post you learned about the TracePoint class, which allows you to trace a few events like methods calls or new threads. This can be useful as a debugging tool or for code exploration.
This is a useful way . I sometimes want to trace the execution without pry.
Thanks for the wonderful gem!


At its Twenty-First Session the United Nations General Assembly resolution 2142 (XXI) proclaimed 21 March as 'International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination'. The theme for 2018 is: "Promoting tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in the context of combating racial discrimination".
It is important to note that in 2018 racism and racial discrimination persists in multiple forms. Most notably, one has to acknowledge the deplorable infliction of racial intolerance and xenophobia targeting migrants, refugees, people of African Descent, Arabs, and minorities in many regions of the globe. In the past few years racism in the context of migration has been a grievous situation and was the theme of the 2017 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This grave and on-going situation is evident in many parts of Europe, North Africa, United States of America, and Myanmar among several other regions and countries according to numerous reports by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), states, and United Nations (UN) reports and press releases.
It is in this context that promoting tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in combatting racial discrimination is especially warranted. Furthermore, Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) continues to stress the importance of adopting and fully implementing the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) as the perspective of combatting racial intolerance via promoting solidarity through various means such as education is well integrated in the DDPA that includes practical steps towards national legislation.
While there are numerous examples of racism and racial discrimination across the globe such as the grave and atrocious abuses against the Rohingya and ethnic minorities in the Middle East, other instances of racial intolerance and racism persist in other regions that are not often mentioned. For instance, police brutality in the United States of America and enslavement in Libya all have racial roots. It is also important to note that in all instances solutions and preventive measures can be found in the promotion of tolerance, inclusivity, unity and respect for diversity, which is also included in the DDPA.
The world was shocked on 13 November, 2017 when footage depicting what appeared to be a slave auction surfaced in the media. The practice itself was strongly condemned by a group of UN Experts1 on 30 November, 2017 who also shed light on the current devastating humanitarian situation in Libya. Despite the revolting revelation that black African migrants primarily from West Africa were once again targeted to be enslaved for the purposes of forced labour, detention, torture, bribery, and sexual slavery it is not entirely surprising that it was a possibility in the first place.
It should be noted that the fall and death of Libya's former Prime Minister, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, by NATO forces and its allies was a catalyst to the realisation of the slave auction. However, several important factors also contributed to the actualization. The primary and essential element is the intense and none-shameful racial discrimination and racism towards black Africans in Libya that has century old roots.
Concern is expressed about allegations of acts of discrimination against migrant workers on the basis of their national or ethnic origin.
This growing hatred against black African migrants did not cease and sadly further escalated in the 2000s particularly during the anti-Gaddafi uprising when it was reported that Col. Gaddafi had allegedly hired black African mercenaries. Even though these allegations were not confirmed increased racial attacks and racial discrimination against African migrants increased in scale and severity. Reports and footage of killings and even public lynching of African migrants while audiences yelled racial slurs and celebrated surfaced yet there was not much public outcry and condemnation of the perpetrators. Victims would claim their innocence and perpetrators admitted their hatred towards them due to the allegations of black African mercenaries.
It is clear that due to past racism, racial hatred and discrimination going unnoticed and unattended to despite the efforts of CERD black African residents and migrants in Libya were used as scapegoats for claims that have yet to be confirmed. Additionally, in November 2017video footage surfaced depicting an alleged slave auction of black African migrants. Since, numerous reports by migrants who were released or escaped enslavement depict atrocious living conditions, various forms of torture usually to obtain ransom, and multiple forms of sexual violence.
Had there been practical steps taken that promoted tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in Libya it is almost certain that the situation would not have escalated to the point of indiscriminately killing, torturing, detaining, and enslaving black Africans.
In the United States of America (USA) racism, and in particular hate speech, appears to have resurfaced ever since President Donald J. Trump took office. Discrimination against Muslims and/or Arabs is also evident especially in view of the Travel Ban that President Trump attempted to enforce in February 2017, almost immediately after he took office. Though not as blatant, President Trump himself has been subject to questionable choices of words from his "sh*thole" comments to implicating the laziness of Puerto Rican survivors who asked for help after Hurricane Maria struck Dominica and Puerto Rico. It should be well noted that after said remarks, President Trump hardly seemed remorseful, and furthermore, his supporters are always quick to side and defend his discriminatory actions without self-reflection or consideration of the people Trump refers to.
Additionally, his proposal to build a wall across the border of the US and Mexico as well as the detention and deportation of individuals able to enjoy the Dream Act (2017) appears to be discrimination in nature as it mainly targets immigrants of Latin descent. Along with other legislation that punishes and/or separates families better laws must be enacted that encompasses non-discrimination and respect for diversity.
Moreover, Trump has also been accused of siding with White Supremacists after he failed to denounce their role and activities after a clash broke out at one of their rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. This inaction by the US President can encourage white supremacists and other far-right extremists to continue and even increase their actions and sentiments that are based on racial hatred instead of promoting constructive dialogue and promoting racial diversity.
In 2016, National Football League (NFL) star Colin Kaepernick became the centre of attention when he decided to exercise his right to expression by taking a knee during the national anthem in protest of persistent and repeated ill-treatment of minorities by police officers across the United States. While his peaceful protest was in line with the US Constitution Mr. Kaepernick received considerable backlash for choosing to exercise his right in this manner. It was seen by many opposers as an attack against the American Flag and American Troops. While his actions did spark some dialogue and action in combatting civic and social injustices based on race it came at a high price and Mr. Kaepernick and others who choose to exercise their rights and carry out their peaceful protest are continuously vilified by many who have taken to hurling racial slurs and denouncing the involvement of professional athletes in political and civil debates. It should be noted that while demonization of his actions in mainstream media, social media, and including personal attacks in public Mr. Kaepernick and others have made considerable contributions towards combatting racial intolerance in the US.
The USA generally prides itself regarding diversity and the protection of human rights but as evidenced in it's long and recent history the country still has a long way to go in terms of promoting racial unity. Blaming others, pointing the finger, and having "knee-jerk" reactions that normally involve forms of racial hatred and intolerance appear must be replaced with tolerance and unity and the police system must integrated enhanced training that eliminates the perceived element of "fear" particularly regarding people of African and Latin descent.
Europe has witnessed increased racial hatred in the form of hate speech and racially motivated violent attacks particularly against African and Arab migrants. Some countries with borders along the Mediterranean encounter numerous migrants from North Africa. Despite several provisions in international law including non-refoulement. However, numerous reports illustrate disturbing acts of violence that can be attributed to racial intolerance and racial hatred as majority of the boats attempting to reach European borders are either shot at, left to sink, or turned away to return to dangerous places and situations where death is a reality.
As well, several countries, especially in Eastern Europe Racial Discrimination against Roma persist as many are unable to find accommodation due to their ethnicity. Furthermore, many Roma children are discriminated against regarding education.
When promoting 'inclusion' the participation of all relevant actors, especially victims, from grass roots levels to decision-making processes and dialogues must take place in order to ensure the voices and contributions of all are welcomed.
Despite this first article expressed in the milestone document proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1948, we still witness various forms of the evil of racism across all regions of the globe 70 years later. It is also very worrying that there remain countless incidents of racial hatred, racial discrimination, and violent acts on targeted individuals or groups based race that go unreported and undocumented due to disempowerment, unawareness, and just as troubling a distrust in legal and other systems in terms of follow-up, accountability, redress, retribution and justice.
GICJ continues to stress the importance of and continues to recommend the adoption and full implementation of the DDPA. With regards to all types of media, Africa is still shown as a place where people die, continuous and rampant poverty and disease and malnutrition whereas this is not what Africa is. The media must promote truths about the wonders and beauty of Africa including the positive aspects and actions that several states have taken towards development and innovation. Additionally, creative short and long-term solutions along with quality and accessible education must be applied in all states. Lastly, human rights training at every authoritative level must be implemented urgently and effectively.
The United Nations, states, and civil society must engage in the promotion of racial inclusion, unity, and respect for diversity at all levels towards harmony of the humanity.
1. The UN experts: Ms. Urmila Bhoola, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; Ms. Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Mr. Felipe Gonzalez-Morales, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants; Ms. E. Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism; Ms. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons; Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on violence against women; Mr. Obiora C. Okafor, Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity; Mr. Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquiccio, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children; the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.


The security guards at Kaiser facilities in California work for a company named Inter-Con Security, which then contracts with Kaiser. All other employees at Kaiser are unionized, and Kaiser is a responsible company with their employee relationships. And in other states like Oregon, the Kaiser security guards are unionized. But, for some reason, the security guards in California are not employees of Kaiser and the contractor, Inter-Con, is fighting unionization. In fact they are engaging in tactics that are not legal, including intimidation, interrogation of employees to find out who is trying to form the union, and other anti-union tactics. (It is legal to form a union and supposedly protected by law.) This week the guards went on strike to demand that these illegal tactics stop, and that laws against such tactics be enforced.
There are, of course, bigger issues in any strike and any drive to unionize. What it comes down to is that corporations are able to amass incredible power and wealth, while individuals on their own are not. So when individuals find themselves up against corporations they have little to no ability to stand up against this massed power and concentrated wealth. Employees are just one example of this dilemma. Most employees are not in a situation that makes it possible to ask for fair pay, benefits, sick pay, health insurance, etc.
Over time, though, workers learned that if they can organize into a single unit and act together they are able to fight back. This is known as organized labor, or unions. And by going on strike, shutting down the corporation's ability to bring in the bucks, they gain leverage over the corporation and can improve their situation. This is, in fact, what brought America its middle class — weekends off, 40-hour workweeks, sick leave, vacations, pensions, raises, reasonable pay, etc. And, in fact, you can see that since the decline of the labor movement many of these benefits have been disappearing. We have been losing pensions and health care and raises, etc.
But it is not just employees who have a difficult time standing up against corporate power. Look at the vast power of the tobacco and oil industries to set the country's priorities. As many as 3-400,000 Americans still die each year from cigarettes that were marketed to children who did not have the maturity to resist while addiction to tobacco is especially strong if it begins at an early age. Yet we are still unable to fight back against the horror this industry inflicts.
And the oil companies and coal are able to fight efforts to reign in their power. We are unable to get our government to fund sufficient alternatives to automobiles, like urban rail systems and other mass transit, or high-speed trains between cities. And alternatives to oil and coal energy generation like solar, wind and research into others are all stymied or severely underfunded even though we know entire, new job-creating industries could be launched.
Our hopes for one-person-one-vote ideas about democracy continue to suffer from the one-dollar-one-vote corporate assault. It is not clear what the eventual outcome of this battle will be.
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Finding HMS Terror and making sense of the past
In 2016 it was announced that the long-lost ship of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, had been discovered in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Abandoned in April 1848 after the expedition party encountered heavy ice in the Arctic's Northwest Passage, the exact fate of those onboard – none of whom survived – has long been a mystery. Here, maritime historian Andrew Lambert explains the significance of the discovery...
Published: September 28, 2016 at 9:00 am
On 12 September 2016, a team from the Arctic Research Foundation announced that a wreck identified as the British Arctic research ship HMS Terror had been located on the southern coast of King William Island, in the middle of Terror Bay, at a depth of 69–79 feet (21–24 m). The ship was designated in 1992 as a National Historic Site of Canada, even though its whereabouts were then unknown. Since its discovery earlier this month the exact location has been withheld in order to preserve the wreck and prevent looting. An Inuit hunter and member of the Canadian Rangers who joined the crew of the Arctic Research Foundation's ship Martin Bergmann recalled finding what appeared to be a mast sticking up out of the ice seven years earlier – his information led the searchers to the wreck.
The Arctic Research Foundation, a Canadian private charitable foundation, was established in 2011 by businessman Jim Balsillie to support long-term sustainability in the Arctic. Its finding of Terror follows the discovery, two years before on 8 September 2014, of the first of the Franklin expedition's ships, this time by archaeologists from Parks Canada, the national body charged with oversight of heritage and the environment. Parks Canada announced that it had located one of Franklin's ships at the eastern end of Queen Maud Gulf on the north coast of Canada using multi-beam sonar and a remotely operated underwater vehicle. Three weeks later, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper confirmed that the ship was indeed Sir Franklin's flagship, HMS Erebus.
Inuit testimony played a critical role in locating Erebus – oral testimony recorded by British and American missions in the 1850s and 1860s spoke of a large ship sinking in Queen Maud Gulf, narrowing the search area. But the expedition's second ship Terror, the old accounts suggested, had been destroyed by the ice. In the short Arctic dive seasons of 2015 and 2016, Parks Canada's divers have surveyed the Erebus, cleared marine growths and recovered a number of artefacts, including the ship's bell, brass cannon, crockery and navigational instruments.
Both the ships appear to be in very good condition. Initial (limited) inspections of the more accessible internal spaces suggest the ships remain much as they did when Franklin's men abandoned them, although it is likely one or both were pillaged by Inuit hunters who recycled wood and metal for their own use. Many of the artefacts they reprocessed were later recovered by the search missions of the 1850s and are held by the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. There is much more work to carry out, but in the Arctic underwater archaeology is restricted in time by temperature, pack ice and cost.
HMS Terror was built originally as a bomb vessel, one of the heavily built wooden sailing ships of around 350 tonnes displacement built to carry and use heavy mortars. Terror had fired some of the famous 'bombs bursting in the air' that feature in the American National Anthem, when she joined the bombardment of Baltimore in September 1814, a battle fought between British invaders and American defenders in the Anglo-American War of 1812. Many bomb vessels were later modified for Arctic research, their stout hulls reinforced, the bows sheathed in iron and heating systems installed. Under the command of bold and capable navigators these small ships pushed into the eastern Arctic in the 1820s, adding a series of Regency names to the map.
In 1845, after returning for a four-year mission to circumnavigate Antarctica and determine the location of the South Magnetic Pole, Erebus and Terror were refitted and equipped with small steam engines to drive propellers. The engines were second-hand railway locomotives. Terror's spindly funnel still stands, along with her three masts and the projecting bowsprit; her upper works are intact, and like her near sister the details of her distinctive upper deck layout were critical to establishing her identity. This could be checked against the shipwright's plans drawn at Woolwich in 1845.
The two ships had sailed from the dockyard at Woolwich in the spring of 1845 on a wave of euphoria; everyone expected they would return triumphant having conquered the wilderness. Instead they became locked in the ice to the northwest of King William Island, in the grim, desolate heart of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. Franklin died in 1847 and the survivors abandoned ship in April 1848. More than 100 emaciated, sickly men marched south in sub-zero temperatures, in a region without animals to hunt, in a hopeless attempt to reach safety. Along the way they met grim and terrible fates amid the ice; some died, others were cannibalised, none survived. To date we have no written record of the expedition, just 263 cryptic words on a scrap of paper left by Terror's Captain, Francis Crozier, as he led the doomed march, and the archaeology of a catastrophe. Much of the story has been recovered from the trail of human bones, many cannibalised, spread along the west and south shores of the Island.
The ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror used in Sir John Franklin's ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. Illustrated London News, 24 May 1845. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Getty Images)
Many of those remains were found in Terror Bay, where the marching men had camped. The new discovery places HMS Terror in the bay and seems to show the crew had deployed an anchor. This would rewrite the narrative of the disaster without adding anything to our understanding of why the ships had been abandoned. That story is locked up in the long-lost written records – ship's log books, medical records and official reports – which would enable historians to rewrite the greatest mystery in polar navigation. To date neither Erebus nor Terror has offered up any new written evidence. What we do have are final resting places for the two most famous ships in the Arctic; locations that can be added to charts of discovery.
For centuries explorers had sought the Northwest Passage, a navigable sea passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that would connect the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and could be used as a possible trade route. Erebus, probably without a living soul on board, completed the last unexplored section of the Northwest Passage, the 200-mile gap between the Atlantic based voyages of William Parry and Franklin's 1820s canoe journeys along the Canadian Pacific north coast. However, the old story that the expedition had been sent on its mission specifically to complete the passage should not detain us for long.
By 1845 everyone knew the Northwest passage was economically useless, impossible to navigate in a single season and lethally dangerous. It would require bigger and powerful ships. Captain Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), fellow of the Royal Society, was sent not to explore the Northwest passage but to conduct the most important scientific mission of the era, taking several tonnes of equipment to the Magnetic North Pole to conduct a nine-month programme of observations. These formed part of a global effort to understand the earth's magnetic field and whether it could be used as an aid to navigation. It was this, the largest science project of the age – and not the geographical curiosity of the Nortwest passage – that persuaded a hard-pressed, cash-strapped British government to send Franklin and a costly expedition into the Arctic.
The project was driven by high-profile scientific lobbying. It was truly global, involving research stations as far afield as Tasmania and Siberia. This, and this alone, explains why the ships were stuck in the ice close to the Magnetic North Pole. There is evidence of the expedition's research station ashore. Franklin had been studying and recording terrestrial magnetism since his early days in the Royal Navy, even before he fought with distinction at Trafalgar in 1805. He built the research station in Tasmania. It seems obvious that a stout 60-year-old must have been sent to command a science project, not lead an exploring mission to discover the Northwest passage.
The Canadian discoveries have drawn the attention of the world back to a region that last made headlines when Franklin's expedition disappeared. However, it is important to recognise that the costly, high profile exploration, discovery, archaeology and history, including the rediscovery of the Erebus and Terror, is rarely divorced from politics. Canadian interest in finding Franklin's ships has far more to do with questions of Arctic sovereignty and national identity than historical or geographical curiosity. Franklin matters because he is the basis of Canada's title to the Arctic, a title derived from British possession: the Royal Navy searched, named and mapped the region before the Canadian Confederation, burying several sailors in the permafrost for good measure. As Terror's bombardment of Baltimore helped win a war that was fought to keep the United States out of Canada, it is fitting that her discovery should assist Canada to keep control of the Arctic archipelago – a control challenged by the United States. Some, however, maintain that the war of 1812 had no clear victor.
Over the years many theories have been advanced to explain the disaster that befell Franklin's expedition, from lead poisoning to botulism, but the scientific consensus is that the men became scorbutic – they ran out of vitamin C once their lemon juice had been frozen, which destroyed its vitamin content. Food was running out, and it is likely that tuberculosis, which had killed three men in the winter of 1845–6, had attacked some of the other men.
Ultimately, locating the ships changes the narrative of the last days of the expedition and the way in which the disaster unfolded, but the big questions remain. Why was the expedition entrusted to Franklin who, by his own admission, was no longer fit for exploring duty? Why did the officers and men abandon their ice-bound ships in April 1848? Why were they stuck on the northwest coast of King William Island? Did they commit mass survival cannibalism? And above all what was the real purpose of this costly enterprise?
Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor Naval History at Kings College, London and the author of Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation (Faber London, 2010).


The brig/brigantine Mary sailed from Cork, date unknown, but probably in April. The passengers were all Irish, and their intended destination was the United States, via the port of Boston. The Mary arrived at Boston May 17th 1847, but the passengers were in such a destitute condition, the city authorities would not allow them to land unless the captain was willing to pay a bond for their care. The captain was either unable or unwilling to pay such a bond, so the decision was made to sail for Halifax, Nova Scotia. The passengers protested, but to no avail, and Mary set sail for Halifax May 22nd 1847. A newspaper account from the Boston papers was published in the Saint John, NB, Morning News on Friday, May 28, 1847. On Friday, June 4, 1847, The Christian Messenger (Halifax), reported "Arrived Friday 28th; Brigt Mary, [captain] Wyman, Cork via Boston, 46 passengers who were prohibited from landing at Boston."
The British brig Mary, Captain Wyman from Cork, arrived at this port 17th inst., [Monday, May 17th 1847] with forty-six steerage passengers. The city authorities would not suffer them to be landed, owing to their destitute condition, unless the master gave bonds that they would not become a burthen to the city. This he was unable or unwilling to do, and came to the conclusion that he must take them to Halifax, for which port he accordingly cleared on Saturday [May 22nd 1847]. The passengers were naturally much exasperated at the turn matters were taking, and when the pilot ordered the crew to weigh anchor, the passengers took possession at the handspikes and windlass, and assaulted Capt. Wyman, who called to his assistance Capt. Josiah Sturgis, of the revenue cutter Hamilton, who went on board with six men and attempted in his usually judicious and dispassionate manner, to restore order, and directed his men to man the windlass.


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Bird lovers in the city welcome the government's decision to set up Great Indian Bustard (GIB) conservation breeding centers in Maharashtra
by Bhairavi Shrivastav November 25, 2022 November 25, 2022
written by Bhairavi Shrivastav November 25, 2022 November 25, 2022
Many bird lovers in the city have welcomed the decision of the state government to set up a Great Indian Bustard (GIB) conservation and breeding Centre in Maharashtra. They claim that it will go a long way in conserving and preserving this bird which is fast moving towards extinction. A few years back only one GIB was spotted in Ambazari.
The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) in Delhi has asked the Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka states to prepare a proposal for setting up such centres in their states. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will help the states to build these centres.
Avinash Londhe, a bird researcher and enthusiast in conversation with The Live Nagpur said that "Breeding centres are definitely welcomed in Maharashtra, but it is relatively late compared to the current status of the endangered species. The Great Indian Bustard pair lays one egg per year which needs to be fertilised which is quite difficult. The habitats of the GIB need to be conserved first."
Dr Anil Pimpalapure from the city who has been working for many years on studying GIB told The Live Nagpur that "conservation of the species is very important. It is very important to pay attention towards the conservation of the habitat for the bird such as grassland and Bustard habitat. I strongly feel there should be two centres in Maharashtra, one specifically for the Vidarbha region. Some measures are needed to be taken to save the habitat in Vidarbha and total Maharashtra."
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GD Goenka Public School nurtures and encourages its students to develop a habit of reading books. Keeping this noble aim in mind, a Scholastic Book Fair was organized on the school premises from February 7 to 9. The students of all age groups in large numbers very enthusiastically visited the bookstall and bought books of their choice. A vast variety of books were on display on the stalls.
The students enjoyed the fair and picked books varying from science to mysteries; from puzzles to poems; and from fiction to facts. There were fiction, non-fiction, activity books, encyclopedias and many more. The main attraction was the puppet show. It was a real hit as retelling a story using puppets help kids learn narrative skills. School principal Raveen Pande talked to the students and encouraged them to inculcate reading habits.


1. Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit; lightly grease a shallow casserole dish and set aside. In blender, combine tofu, nutritional yeast, ground cashews, garlic, salt, cayenne, and nutmeg. Blend until smooth. Try not to add additional liquid if possible, but you can thin it out slightly with olive oil or water if your blender needs a little help.
2. Taste for seasoning, adjusting as needed adding hot sauce if desired. Heat olive oil over medium-high in a large saute pan. Add red pepper flakes if using and chopped onion; saute until onions are translucent, about 2-3 minutes.
3. Add spinach and artichokes, stirring to combine and heat through. Season with salt and fresh black pepper to taste, being mindful that the tofu mixture will also add seasoning.
4. Add tofu mixture to spinach mixture and stir well to combine. Spoon into prepared casserole dish and heat uncovered in oven for 10-15 minutes until heated through and lightly browned.
You could also top with vegan parmesan or shredded mozzarella (I'm a Daiya addict) before baking, but I think it's pretty good on its own. Serve warm with tortilla chips, baguette slices, or raw sliced veggies.
Source of recipe: I wrote this recipe, just winging it and hit the nail on the head. I made this for my brother's super bowl party last year and it disappeared with lightning speed, I got a special request to bring it again this year so I decided to post it.


With sensual curves and pointy prehensile, there is no mistaking Zoe's transformative style which morphs between painting and scenery. Her colour palette shifts to daring combinations, as does the subject of the imagery, generally incomplete without a spoken or gestural motif.
How seamlessly you apply your skill to both 2D and 3D pieces! – Do you find this a natural process, or do you see the mediums as not so different?
They begin in the same way as a drawing but I cut them out of the page/board, it's great to be able to hold a piece of your drawing. When I'm making my 3D pieces I treat them as sections of larger painting/drawing. This image then has infinite playful composition and narrative possibilities. So when I'm making the 3D work I am making a large painting one character at a time.
So is it a composition that reveals itself to you along the way? I seem to remember that you work full time in scenery work...is this still the case? If so, is it rather nice to be hired for your style?
It's something I can play with in a space. The act of installing a show can become a theatrical process in itself, moving characters around like improv theatre. Yes, I have been a scenic artist for over four years. I think my style makes me a good scenic, although it is never employed in the same way as with my own work. Scenic painting requires me to find effective and efficient ways to reproduce other people's styles. I have to make something look like wood I have to completely hide my 'hand', meaning if there are visible brush marks you imagine and almost see a person making it, therefore it becomes unconvincing as wood. I'm all about the 'hand' when I'm making my artwork. It can be a weird thing using these amazing materials, stuff you would love to spend the same amount of time using in your own work but putting all that energy into someone else's design. But the job has so many perks, I have learnt what materials are able to do for me, how to use tools and that scale is not to be daunted by but just needs approaching in a different way, depending. When the klaxon goes off at work I franticly get some materials together take about 30-40 minutes to make something and then get straight back to work. Most of the works I have made this summer have been made in this small gap at lunch.
Your 'dame' takes a prominent role in both your paintings and sculpture; do you use a character and reinvent her?
I'm not totally sure whether they are different characters or not, I can really destroy something by thinking about it too much so I try to avoid that. I do not think that they are full characters, just symbols for a feeling. Usually I draw from imagination and sometimes I notice I have pulled my face and body into a similar form to what I'm drawing.
There is an element of humour or comedy from the catchphrases you often include, that is something that you don't often get from contemporary art.
I think there is an element of humour; I see them as diary entry drawings, telling myself off, comic book style. Cryptically highlighting my frustrations in the form of drawing with a phrase. I really like how literal text looks within an image. Laughter would be nice; I like comic book delivery, delivery of quick narrative. Raymond Pettibon. Humour hand in hand with enjoyment, I think you can be comic with material as well i.e. fluorescent colours, metallic, lipstick. I am more exited about things like Manga and theatre design than contemporary art at the moment. I think that's because it's more about entertainment and less about prestige.
Yes, I can definitely see the comic influence coming through. I like what you said about being comic with material too.
I find strong colour irresistible! I have been painting with fabric dyes and printing ink recently. They are something I had been using at work, painting pantomime. I get really into the qualities of a particular paint, like a smoothness or richness, so something like this can lead my colour choice, a really nice colour that one that feels great to use.
What's next for you then after your recent award from Nottingham Castle Open? Do you enjoy the creative process of putting an exhibition together?
Up next is an exhibition called 'Thai Prices', a project I'm organising with Rufus Newell, following our recent month long art residency to Com Peung in Thailand. We will show work we made in that month, and since, mostly drawings, and have a go at selling stuff we made last year. Usually I spend the few days before a show carrying ridiculous amounts on trains and getting stressed, but I'm sleeping well at the moment because this exhibition will literally be meters from my studio space!
Zoe Spowage lives and works in Leeds. Recent exhibitions include Bring Me Your Love, Losers Gym, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham and Slowly Slowly Catch a Monkey, Bristol.


Margaret Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), John G. Paton. She was the daughter of the Rev. John Whitecross, whose work The Shorter Catechism Illustrated (1828) was republished by the Trust (1968). A gifted writer, musician, and artist, she died in 1905. Her Letters from the South Seas (1894), was republished by the Trust in 2003.


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Environment, Impact, Society
Green Campus Initiative: An Interview with Adenike Akinsemolu
by Alessandro du Besse' - Tech Editor
Started by Adenike Akinsemolu in Nigeria, the Green Campus Initiative is a prime example of what a person with the environment at heart should do. Educating people about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is one of the main objectives of this project; let's find out from Adenike Akinsemolu's voice, what are the other goals of the Green Campus Initiative and how this project could be a leading example to promote SDGs in Africa.
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Adenike Akinsemolu: I am an environmentalist and an educator. I teach sustainability science and advocate for 'green' living.
Since I was young, I've had a connection to the outdoors. I grew up in a rural area where I would ride bikes, play football, and explore the landscape. I had a partner who I would hike with and we created some of my fondest memories. These experiences influence my decisions to be a champion of sustainability. You develop a peaceful partnership with nature when you traverse its seemingly endless terrain of green pastures. This is why I'm such a proponent of its pleasures and become defensive when I witness the environment's destruction by human actions.
I feel as if I am defending the honor of a childhood friend who has given me everything. I must return the favor.
In my travels, I've seen significant differences in the relationship between locals and the environment. I've witnessed cultures of green living, where everyone does their part to contribute to environmental sustainability. I've also witnessed the opposite: students littering on their way to class with a smile on their faces. Adults set even worse examples. Seeing this, my mind started to focus more on educating to change these cultural norms.
We're far too clever a species to continue to be so foolish.
One day, I asked my students what it meant to 'go green'. I was met with a sea of blank faces staring back at me. Instead of feeling a sense of defeat, I mustered a bit of courage, which we all have, and took the lack of response as a challenge: I was going to change things. Thus began the Green Campus initiative.
In the Photo: Adenike Akinsemolu. Photo Credit: Green Campus Initiative
What kind of activities does Green Campus Initiative do?
A. A.: It all begins with changing the minds of individuals. Mindsets will then affect attitudes and these attitudes will change behavior. Widespread changes in behavior become new cultural norms, and the process repeats and strengthens.
Visibility is the key. We recruit as many volunteers and Green Ambassadors as we can. This increased awareness of environmental effort has a powerful effect on even the least-engaged passerby. One isn't as likely to litter when they're reminded of the detriment it will cause to their environment. We recently instituted a research base with an environmental focus and it's our goal to be stationed in every university campus in Nigeria.
We want to kick-start the drive for proper waste management where waste collection is compartmentalized for easy sorting and eventual recycling. We are in the early stages of implementing the Trash for Education program which lets impoverished communities trade renewables for books and other educational materials. Sometimes, they're even able to take a course at the institute. This education will lead to even further innovation. It's a positive cycle which starts by asking individuals to view their trash in a different light; waste becomes fuel for a better life.
We are currently experimenting with Green Education as a course in secondary schools. This project has been piloted in Homaj Schools. After testing, we're aiming for the curriculum to be utilized in all schools in the very near future.
I think it's important to point out that we aren't simply trying to enforce our personal views. Everything is based on volumes of empirical research and is also research in itself. Therefore, data mining is very high on our list of priorities. If we find that our practices don't match emerging data, we change the practices. We aim to be the 'one-stop shop' for verifiable data regarding 'green' practices.
While some of the details might change, the purpose at the heart of these goals will be accomplished. It's only a matter of time, and we're past due.
In the Photo: A group of students at the Green Institute. Photo Credit: The Green Campus Initiative
How many people have you trained so far?
A. A.: Nearly 10,000 students from various universities have received training to lead local chapters of the Green Campus Initiative. These chapters themselves can contain hundreds of engaged individuals, so the visibility is growing.
With the transition to the Green Institute two years ago, we have gained international attention and have been invited to train students abroad. Overall, we have trained over 25, 000 individuals globally. While we're proud of these numbers, we aren't content. This is only the beginning.
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What kind of impact do you have on your community?
A. A. : I hesitate to call it my impact. It belongs to all of us in the initiative and those who contributed before us. I do feel as if I've been a conduit for change. Going green is becoming trendy. It's an attractive proposition. One might go as far to say that it's cool to 'go green'. Some of my students have been inspired to start a social business, get involved in an environmental movement, or just become the change they want to see in their communities. The energy is palpable. Some are pursuing politics and starting conversations about sustainability in government. For a country like Nigeria, this is an unprecedented change and a step in the right direction.
In the Photo: Adenike Akinsemolu teaching a class about SDGs. Photo Credit: The Green Campus Initiative
What do you think needs to be done to have more women entrepreneurs and initiatives like yours in Africa?
A. A.: Everything begins and ends with education. Change is nearly impossible without first updating what and how we're teaching our students. Above all, this means teaching the skills required to find the truth while promoting the courage and confidence needed to apply it. Acceptance of a diverse range of social roles for women needs to be embraced in Africa. This will instill the entrepreneurial spirit and turn the latent potential of female Africans into incredible powers of progress.
Young women especially need to be reminded of this potential and we need to remove the roadblocks impeding the fulfillment of this potential.
In the Photo: The Green Team at work. Photo Credit: The Green Campus Initiative
What are your thoughts about the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)? How do you think the Green Campus Initiative can give a positive contribution in that sense?
A. A. : The SDGs goals are ambitious, as they should be. It's important to 'think big' but we must remember the importance of (seemingly) small steps. The SDG goals are achievable because progress towards one goal facilitates the achievement of all other goals. They are all linked.
We include The Sustainable Development Goals as an integral part of the Green Education Curriculum we implement. There's a module dedicated to the goals, and these goals influence the other lessons as well. They are ever present. Recently, I participated in the Ethics Co-Lab where I taught the SDGs alongside the Ethics of Waste to a group of Masters students at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. They learned how to approach some of the SDG goals such as poverty, gender inequality, and quality education by creating a business model. There's the idea that being 'green' comes at the cost of economic success, and the students learn quickly that business metrics and actually be fueled by green initiatives. It's a win-win.
In the Cover Photo: A class of the Green Institute. Photo Credit: The Green Campus Initiative
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Lord Of The Rings : The Rings Of Power Trailer Out, Know Release Date, Cast
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Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set to make its debut on Amazon Prime Video on September 2. If you are a fan of The Lord of the Rings franchise comprising of various books and movies, you would be familiar that Amazon has been working on a prequel series for a while now.
Final Promo Of The Show is Out Power Of The Rings Release Date Total No. Of Episodes are in Season OneWhen Will All the Episodes AirPower Of The Rings CastWho Directed The Series Amazon PotentialThe Budget Future Seasons
Final Promo Of The Show is Out
Lord of the rings has been the most anticipated shows
Power Of The Rings Release Date
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series will begin on Friday 2nd September 2022. Episodes will then be released weekly on Amazon Prime Video.
The episodes will launch at the same time around the world so all fans can experience them simultaneously. The finale of the eight-episode first season will air on October 14.
Total No. Of Episodes are in Season One
There will be eight episodes in Season One.
When Will All the Episodes Air
Episode 1 – Friday, Sept. 2
Episode 4 – Friday, Sept. 16
Episode 7 – Friday, Oct. 7
Episode 8 – Friday, Oct. 14
Power Of The Rings Cast
The Rings of Power cast is huge, consisting of 38 cast members in total. The big ones are Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Nazanin Boniadi, Beau Cassidy, Kip Chapman, Morfydd Clark, Anthony Crum, Ismael Cruz Córdova and so on.
Who Directed The Series
This terrific show has been developed by executive producers J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay.
'House of the Dragon' vs the 'Rings of Power'
Both the series are going head-to-head with two epic fantasy series. But they both have some differences to consider.
Amazon Potential
Amazon only has the rights to make one series, consisting of five seasons, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is that show.
"House of the Dragon," however, is the opening salvo in a lengthy, multifaceted rollout of "Game of Thrones" spinoffs and sequels.
Power of Millions – It is the most expensive shows till date, with the first episode budgeting in 467$ M
House of the Dragon- with its $200 M budget for the first season.
Future Seasons
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," with production on Season 2 set to take place in the UK this October.
"House of the Dragon," meanwhile, has yet to be renewed for a second season and is awaiting an official greenlight.
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If architecture is a privileged site for thought, then this is because it enacts an intersection of matter, nature, meaning, economics, ecology, bio-materiality, aesthetics, subjectivity, politics, and affect in its exploration of the possibilities of materiality in inventing voids. It is not merely a cipher of culture, something to be interpreted and deciphered, but is itself a formation of culture; a series of machines forming subjectivities (as Foucault observed, though the disturbing example of the panopticon), relations between people, animals, plants, sky, earth, and the broader world, activities of life, and so on. Architecture does not merely express in the sense that those calling themselves historical materialists treat cultural artifacts as crystalized or coagulated expressions of their time; no, architecture forms and invents forms of life in its exploration of matter and the void.
Architecture is, in and of itself, an enactment of the borromean knot. Architecture is borromean. Here, of course, I take some liberties with the borromean knot, adapting it to the needs of machine-oriented ontology. It is a way of tying the borromean knot in actuality, in the enactment of a world. The tying of the knot is the formation of a world and a polis. In the order of the real, it is an exploration of the powers of matter, of the pluralism of matter, of ways of folding, twisting, bending, stacking, and weaving matter to form unheard of voids. Wood, clay, stone, steal, glass, aluminum, thatch, rubber, plaster, unheard of materials yet to be imagined, even living beings as in the case of trees grown together, intertwining with one another, to form a new void. The architects, no less than chemists, physicists, and biologists, are great explorers of the possibilities of matter and what it can do. Enclosures generative of the void must stand and abide. For that to take place there must be a discovery of the powers of matter, but that discovery is a discovery made only through working with matter. Accompanying this discovery is a discovery of the forces of the cosmos– gravity, wind, light, pressure, heat, cold, etc –for these are that with which the enclosure must contend.
Architecture in the real creates and forms voids and these voids, in their turn, channel bodies, defining sites of activity, relation, movement, and becoming. There is, however, an architecture of the real, an absolute architecture, that brackets any thought of what might transpire in the void that the edifice creates, and that suspends any question of meaning or affect. This architecture deterritorializes the edifice from meaning and function; exploring the powers of matter and void for their own sake, seeking to determine what they can do, what can exist.
At the level of the symbolic, architecture is a machine that produces meanings. In 1286 William Durandus will write of how every element of the Gothic cathedral signifies. The windows are the scripture, the lattice the prophets, the door is Christ, the piers the bishops and doctors, etc. Everywhere the matter in the real is made to signify in the symbolic, producing a series of meanings in the void; a text or writing in the void. Meaning comes to pervade the enclosure and it presents itself as a text to be read. Yet these texts do not merely ask to be read, the are machines that make meaning and that are formative of subjectivities. The symbolic is then woven with the real and the imaginary, forming systems of affect, action, perception, and the rest. More to come.
Graham Harman has claimed that the major division between his version of object-oriented ontology and your 'onticology' lies in your dismissal of vicarious (or indirect) causation, your position that real objects do not have qualities, and your avoidance of any distinction between sensual objects and sensual qualities. Do you agree with Harman's distinctions and/or where do you position your 'onticology' in relation to Harman's OOO?
Harman was an encounter for me, leading me to attend to an entire world, the world of things, and the differences that make, and also giving me the courage to attempt philosophical work of my own rather than remaining at the level of interminable commentary on other thinkers. I have never been able to determine whether our philosophical differences are genuine, or whether they are merely the result of different linguistic articulations. As Deleuze somewhere says, philosophers always misunderstand one another.
Triangles ACD and BCE are distinct entities, yet nonetheless relate at point C. Clearly they are not relating directly at all points, but why should that lead us to conclude that there's no real relation between them or that they don't touch? This is something I don't understand.
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For anyone who is interested, here is the text of my talk before the College of Architecture at Texas A&M (btexasa&marchitecture). In light of that event and the extraordinary work and architectural thought I witnessed there, much of what I develop here will have to be rethought. Accordingly, I've resolved to delve into architectural theory and history to further develop my thought. At present I'm striving to define just what sort of machine architecture is. My working definition is that architecture is a spatio-hyletic experimentation with the void. "Hyle", of course, is the Greek word for matter. The reference to hyle, I hope, distinguishes architectural thought and invention from the mathematical disciplines of geometry and topology. These are, of course, of the greatest relevance to architectural experimentation (and here I would also add the arrow spaces of category theory), but are not yet themselves architecture. By contrast, the suggestion that architecture experiments with the void attempts to distinguish architecture from sculpture.
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Following the strategy of Deleuze, I always strive to individuate arts by what is singular within their medium. For example, in his approach to cinema, Deleuze treats the narrative dimension of film as secondary as film shares this with literature, instead treating cinema as an invention of and experimentation with images. We can approach architecture in a similar way. Absolute architecture– not to be confused with Aureli's concept –would be a pure exploration of the spatio-hyletic possibilities of space, an invention of voids, that investigates what space can do. Here it is crucial to distinguish between operations and functions. Outside of mathematics, a function is an operation subordinated to a use. An operation, by contrast, is what results from an activity upon a flow, without that activity requiring any use. All functions are operations, but not all operations are functions. We approach architecture functionally when we think it in terms of the uses to which it is to be put (dwelling, labor, educating, worship, etc). We approach architecture operationally when we explore it as a pure experimentation with the void, detached from considerations of function.
Perhaps it's like this. The eternal and universal are not something that is already there, but rather are something that is produced. Here, of course, I'm dancing with Badiou. If it is true that the eternal and universal are something produced, then they are also wagers. No one can know in advance whether something will be eternal or universal. Only time will tell. This entails that both universality and eternity will perpetually face challenges. At any moment these crystals of time could fracture and shatter to pieces. I am here, above all, thinking about works of art. The eternal and universal work of art– song, painting, sculpture, prose, poem, architecture, etc. –is slippery. From the beginning, it doesn't fit with its time. It's irreducible and can't be dated, even if we know its date and its origin. Often it will create strife or controversy; which is to say, discussion. There's something about it that already exceeds its origin. It doesn't fit with the culture of its time even while marking that time, nor can it be erased by the biography of the artist. Moreover, it can't be reduced to a proposition. That is to say, it can't be translated into a set of statements that would replace it. No, there's something excessive about it that's out of joint. It doesn't fit with its time or author. It belongs without belonging. Yet that is not enough. Not only does it not fit with its time but it doesn't fit with any time. It travels through time and exists in time, yet no context ever saturates it. Like a rogue planet, it disrupts whatever time it falls into and provokes thought, discussion, and affect, but always in a different way. The origin has produced something that is out of place, a shard of eternity, that travels across time without having a home even though it began somewhere. We say that context stipulates the being of a being, yet crystals of eternity escape all stipulation, instead stipulating. They are absolute orphans and for this reason, universal.


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