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Uighur Muslims and China
The Uighur Muslims in China are facing persecution at the hand of the Chinese govt. In what has been described by many as a way to obliterate an entire ethnicity. The autonomous region of Xinjiang, which is home to most of the Uighurs in the country has been subjected to mass surveillance; and its citizens are sent to re-education camps for "educating" them about the Chinese culture. This article introduces the Chinese govt.'s efforts to assimilate the Uighur minority and its stance on separatist movements as seen through the Chinese Communist Party. It also touches upon China's response to allegations of Nazi-like treatment of the Muslims as they are detained in detention camps and have alleged China of torture and psychological terror on going against the order of the officials. The response of the international community and how the gap between the two ethnicities can be bridged has also been touched upon in this article.
China is the largest country in East Asia with a population of 1.394 billion. Even though the country is ethnically diverse, the Han Chinese comprise over 91 percent of the population. Out of the other 55 ethnic minorities, Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnicity comprising of about 11 million people. The majority of the Uighurs are living in Xinjiang, an autonomous region in the northwest of the country. Xinjiang is situated along the Silk Road in the northwest corner of China and was officially absorbed into the Chinese Empire in 1884. It is the only autonomous region in China which has a Muslim majority. Communist China broadened the absolute influence of the region in 1949. Though oddly enough, it is still recognized as an autonomous region, in fact as the other 'autonomous' region of Tibet,[1]
China's diversity, however, doesn't show when it comes to politics. Chinese Communist Party is the founding and ruling political party of China and has a strong communist hold in the country. It is quick to suppress any individual uprising that may threaten its existence. China's constitution states: "the exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens." [2] Some Uighurs have turned to violence as a way of obtaining an autonomous "Islamic Uighuristan" or "East Turkestan with Xinjiang".
The Chinese Government refuses to recognize resistance to the rule of the Communist Party in minority areas, including the Xinjiang territories. Though successful with a few of the smaller and less esteemed minorities in China, Beijing's attempts to assimilate minority groups have created violent tension among a handful of minorities. With its crackdown on domestic separatist groups, the Uighurs have become one of China's main targets.
What caused the ethnic tensions between Uighur Muslims and China?
The tensions between Uighur Muslims and the Chinese government have been boiling for years. In 1949, the population of Han Chinese in Xinjiang was only 6 percent, while 82 percent of the population in Xinjiang were Uyghurs. According to the Uighur American Association (UAA), Xinjiang's Han population had increased in the region from 2,20,000 in 1949, to 8.4 million in 2008.[3] After the railway connecting the rest of China to Xinjiang was constructed in 1952, the number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang increased significantly. The govt. Promoted Chinese culture in Xinjiang and encouraged intermarriage between the Uighurs and Han Chinese.
In recent years, the government has been taking draconian steps to reduce the population of Uighur Muslims in Xianjiang. There is growing evidence of mass surveillance and over 90 detention camps in the country. Though Chinese officials have argued that these "re-education centers" are "free vocational training" for making life "colorful".[4] Officially called Vocational Education and Training Centres by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Government, these camps currently hold over 1.5 million detainees, that is, over 6 percent of the adult population in China. The Uighurs in these internment camps have described these places as such: here, people are taught Chinese history and patriotic songs, fed ethnic Chinese cuisine, and tortured and starved on going against official orders. Officials visit homes of Uighur to keep an eye on them and bring back interesting details, thus infringing Uighur privacy to the maximum.
The surveillance and systemic crackdown of the Uighur community got tightened when the 9/11 attacks happened. The Chinese government has tended to compare America's war against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to its war toward Xinjiang's separatists. China declared itself as a fellow victim of global terrorism and to contain the "rising insurgency" in China, took draconian steps against the Uighurs as it blamed this minority group for fuelling terrorism and separatism in the country. In April 1996, the govt. of China went so far as to implement its Strike Hard campaign against major criminals but also both "ethnic splittists" and "illegal religious" forces and individuals throughout the region. Xinjiang, Uighur homeland, was also targeted by the govt. To target the regulation of their religion.
One of the key challenges in seeking to track and control human rights abuses stemming from the Xinjiang Strike Hard campaign is that official sources seldom differentiate between objectively violent or militant acts by Uighur separatists and non-violent cultural or political demonstrations by those in the ethnic separatist movement who refrain from using or promoting aggression.
What does China say about claims of "Ethnic Cleansing"?
China for a long time denied the presence of any detention camps in the state. It was only when pics surfaced of camp construction contained in barbed fence wires, the government acknowledged the presence of what they call "re-education centers". Uighurs who were detained in this center and got out the claim that it was meant to intern them and wipe out their ethnicity slowly but surely. The ethnic cleansing taking place is not quick but steady nevertheless. Due to certain random attacks in 2013 and 2014, for which the Uighurs took credit, China has further tightened security and blame the "jihadi" and separatist tendencies of Uighur Muslims.
The govt. has stolen from these people their right to practice their religion. Muslims here, known as Uighur Muslims, are not allowed to grow their beards or observe fast in the month of Ramadan, women are not allowed to wear a burqa, and they cannot celebrate their religious festivals. According to the Uighur Human Rights initiative survey, 10 to 15 thousand mosques have been destroyed in Xinjiang Province in the last three years. Yet Muslims around the world, including India, have refused to lift voice against violence against Chinese Uighur Muslims. [5] In 2017, the Xianjing govt. passed a law that does not allow men to grow long beards and women were denied wearing veils along with the demolishing of mosques.[6]
Chinese govt. is further alienating the Uighur community in its bid to stop extremist activity by forcing restrictions on the Uighurs as a whole and marginalizing them. Many Muslims in the state are convinced of their govt.'s atrocities and are more determined now than ever to have their state, separate from the Chinese.
Most recently the Chinese govt. has been criticized for partly filming the Disney movie "Mulan" in Xinjiang. The film has become a catalyst for outrage over the policies of the Chinese Communist Party that encourage nationalism and the ethnic Han chauvinism[7]. Under President Xi Jinping, China's most authoritarian leader in decades implementation is being done of "equal family planning policies" for all ethnicities. But while equal on paper, in practice Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions, and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang's other ethnicities, interviews and data show.[8]
China is being highly criticized around the world for causing a Nazi-like environment for the Uighur Muslims however, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of them slowing down as of yet.
There is an urgent need to speak up about the atrocities being faced by the Uighur Muslims in China. Muslim countries around the world seem to be silent concerning the ethnic cleansing taking place in Xinjiang, China. U.S. President Donald Trump said in a gathering of world leaders in General Assembly that, "Americans will never … tire in our effort to promote freedom of worship and religion. We want and support religious liberty for all". At the same time, it has criticized other countries, including some Muslim states, for not doing enough or for backing China's approach in Xinjiang. However, it has not issued any sanctions on its own to avoid the possibility of a war.
China itself needs to take steps to amend the situation it has created in the country. China could strengthen its relationship with the Muslim community of Xinjiang not only by minimizing religious oppression but also by taking an active interest in promoting good ties with Muslims. In the urban areas of Xinjiang, the country needs a more proportionate ethnic representation in party and administration and more trade devolution.
Isolating Uighur women to obey Han Chinese rituals for sterilization and birth control, and Uighur child is a sure way to create frustration in their hearts and indirectly promote separatist feelings. By allowing Islam to reach the education system in a small way, China will be best served. By entering Xinjiang's curriculum with Muslim teachings and heritage, it will promote feelings of peace. Otherwise, parents who are true to their faith are compelled to send their children to Muslims' underground schools, so they can maintain whatever identity they have left. In the effort to stop terrorism, innocent Muslims are being persecuted and this will turn into another significant humanitarian problem in the world unless appropriate measures are taken.
How much of Xinjiang's population is Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese?
Today, 40 percent of the population of Xinjiang is Han Chinese, and 45 percent id Ulighur Muslims.
When did the Chinese govt? re-establish control over Uighurs?
Chinese govt. re-established control over in the year 1949 after crushing the short-lived state of East Turkestan.
What is the language spoken by the Uighur Muslims?
Ulighur is the Turkic language spoken in Xinjiang. Some Muslims also speak Chinese but with an accent. Chinese is not their native language.
How many Muslims have been detained in re-education camps?
Up to 1.5 million Muslims have been detained in these camps as of 2019.
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[1] Members of Ruling Communist Party in Muslim Majority Region in China Sign Atheism Pledge, OUTLOOK, (Jan 24, 2018), https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/members-of-ruling-communist-party-in-muslim-majority-region-in-china-sign-atheis/307300.
[2] J.P. Mallory & Victor H. Mair, THE TARIM MUMMIES, (2000).
[3]Sbika Razvi, 'The Goal is To Erase Us': How China Runs Uighur 'Concentration Camps', (Sep. 19, 2018, 09:28 PM), https://www.thequint.com/news/world/uyghur-muslims-concentration-camps-xinjiang-china
[4]China claimed its re-education camps for Muslim Minorities are free 'vocational training' that make life colourful, BUSINESS INSIDER INDIA, (Oct 16, 2018, 07:38 PM), https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/china-claimed-its-re-education-camps-for-muslim-minorities-are-free-vocational-training-that-make-life-colorful/articleshow/66248603.cms
[5]Arun Kumar Chaubey, Chinese atrocitites on Uighur Muslims continue as Islamic Community maintains strategic silence, ZEE NEWS, (Aug. 19, 2020, 01:40 AM), https://zeenews.india.com/india/chinese-atrocities-on-uighur-muslims-continue-as-islamic-community-maintains-strategic-silence-2303671.html
[6]Bryan Wood, What is happening with the Uighurs in China, PBS NEWS HOUR, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/
[7]Amy Qin, Why calls to boycott 'Mulan' over concerns about china are growing? NEW YORK TIMES, (Sep 8, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/asia/china-mulan-xinjiang.html
[8]China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, (Jun 29, 2020), https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
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Q: Wrap text onto other side of a grid cell with CSS Given this html structure, where LLGrid is displayed as grid in CSS, how can I make sure that my text is wrapped into the same cell, as if it was divided into two columns?
I did not manage to find a way to program the text to do this, so it keeps overflowing outside of the cell because it is too long.

.LLgrid {
  display: grid;
  grid-gap: 3px;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
  grid-template-rows: repeat(3, 1fr);
  background-color: red;
  position: center;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 1400px;
}

.cell {
  /* center the cell content */
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  display: flex;
  font-family: Arial;
  background: white;
  width: 680px;
  height: 150px;
  color: black;
  font-size: 12px;
  overflow-wrap: break-word;
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EDIT 08 September 2021:
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.screen {
    width: 1450px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 20px 24px;
    font-family: verdana, arial;
    text-align: center;
    background: #130a06;
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A: You could split the content into separate columns and apply display:flex; to the row and min-width: 100%; to the columns so they read vertically: - demo
Alternatively you could apply display:flex; & flex-wrap:wrap; to the column, but they content will read horizontally. - demo

A: Finally, I managed to deploy a solution of my own.
I removed the suggested inner div row, column and I operated on the div class="cell" directly.
On CSS I used the column attributes to get the text displayed as I need. Afterwards I formatted the text to be visible in its entirety.
This solution is the best fit for me, as the page is meant to be static (it will serve as a dashboard and not as a website, therefore I count with some rigidity).
.cell {
  justify-content: center;
  column-count: 3;
  align-items: center;
  font-family: Arial;
  background: white;
  width: 848px;
  height: 310px;
  color: black;
  font-size: 16px;
  margin: 5px;
  overflow-wrap: break-word;
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In this article we will cover current gold stocks that are hot with details about each company's background, its economic growth potential, advice from the experts, and recommendations as to which stock, or stocks might be the right fit for you.
Looking to invest in gold, but not sure where to start? Gold can be tricky to invest in. Some people consider it a "must-have" investment or believe that their portfolio isn't complete without investing in gold. However, even though it can be difficult to decide exactly which gold mining company to invest in, having a solid investment strategy will always be a smart move.
One expert's opinion is that you should devote 5-10% of your portfolio to gold and rebalance periodically to ensure that the value of your gold stays approximately the same. However, if you already have your own strategy, all you need to do now is peruse our list!
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Barrick Gold, a gold mining stock, is one of the best gold stocks to invest in because it's the leading gold producer. In 2014, it produced more than six million ounces of gold--over one million more than its top competitor. Of all its strengths, including its large size and scale, the biggest standout is Barrick Gold's high-grade reserve base.
Barrick Gold also stands out as one of the lower-priced stocks to invest in. It sells for less than ten times its trailing twelve months' cash flow from operations per share. Barrick is also showing great potential for growth as it has advanced around 120% so far this year.
The corporation's website shares its goal: "Our vision is the generation of wealth through responsible mining—wealth for our owners, our people, and the countries and communities with which we partner." Barrick Gold aims to be the leading mining company focused on gold by operating high-quality assets, operational excellence, and allocating capital strategically.
Although based in Canada, Barrick Gold runs mining operations based in 10 different countries. This corporation's stock price, consistency, and detailed innovation plans for the future make it one of the top gold stocks on the market today.
Newmont Mining claims that "We will be recognized and respected for exceptional economic, environmental and social performance." That alone shows prospective stock buyers that the corporation doesn't just focus on gold, but its impact on the world from many different lenses.
The company was founded in 1921 and now has about 28,000 employees across 6 different countries. Along with its size and scale, Newmont also has the strength of its industry-leading debt metrics which make it one of the top 10 gold stocks. Its potential to grow gold production continues to be a reason to that it is one of the best gold stocks to buy now.
In addition, Newmont has given a five-fold return this year, adding more value to this stock than ever before. Despite global economic uncertainties, this corporation has thrived, showing investors that it is a great gold stock to buy. According to some experts, Newmont Mining is different from its competitors in that it has a solid position to boost output as well as a lower cost profile.
Yamana Gold's simple mission is to "mine precious metals profitably and responsibly." The company is currently working toward several goals, including increasing production, expanding operations, focusing on exploration, managing expenditures, containing cost, and delivering strong results. All this work has paid off--Yamana Gold is one of the best gold stocks!
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The company's four core values show that this corporation is not simply a gold mining company. Kinross aims to put people first, have outstanding corporate citizenship, maintain a high performance culture, and exercise rigorous financial discipline. This is a global mining company that truly cares, and that shows through its success.
Kinross has recently been reducing its debt considerably, allowing their cash flow to be used for more productive and innovative purposes. The company has also been driving costs lower. This means that it can capture higher cash flows and eventually warrant premium valuations.
This company is truly global, covering 4 regions, 9 countries, and 17 operations. It's focused in South Africa, which is a stark difference from many of its competitors. According to production measurements, AngloGold Ashanti is the third-largest gold mining company in the world. The company aims to focus on people, safety, and sustainability, to optimize overhead, costs, and capital expenditure, and maintain long-term optionality, among other goals.
AngloGold stands out among many others in the business because it sells for less than 10 times its trailing 12 months' cash flow from operations per share. The company also recently lowered its AISC by 11%, making costs lower and eventually leading to premium valuations. AngloGold has also made huge progress in the area of debt reduction, giving the company more opportunities for growth spending, which is something investors are willing to pay a premium for.
This company stands out not just because it's financially successful, but also because its core values correlate with its real-life actions. AngloGold Ashanti is a company that follows through and provides its investors with major profits.
Although not as large as some of the other companies on this list, Harmony Gold MIning Company is still one of the best. Compared to others on this list, it is an older company, founded in 1950. Throughout the timeline of its business, Harmony has truly cracked the gold mining code.
Harmony Gold Mining Company operates in South Africa and Papua New Guinea and claims to have low debt along with robust margins and earnings. Safety and accountability are two of Harmony's main values, along with honesty and achievement. Its main business strategy involves creating value by increasing margins and generating profit.
Some impressive statistics show that Harmony has seen its shares surge about 260% so far this year. It's predicted that the company's earnings growth will be around 225% for the year. As the third-largest gold producer in Africa and the twelfth-largest in the world, these figures show that Harmony will only continue to grow.
Goldcorp is a Canadian company with 10 gold mines in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. Five key attributes lead this business: high quality production, low cash costs, maintaining an investment-grade balance sheet, operating in regions with low political risk, and and conducting business in a responsible manner.
Many investors choose Goldcorp for its proven strategy and consistent focus. This year, Goldcorp is up 40%, showing that its strategy is paying off. Two new mines went into production in 2015, giving a possible reason for the company's financial growth. Although more expensive than some stocks, Goldcorp has managed to maintain a lower debt level than its cheaper rivals, allowing it to boast of an investment-grade balance sheet.
Founded in 1981 as a Royal Resources Corporation, Royal Gold has continued to grow and succeed. Today, it has 38 producing properties, 24 development stage properties, 50 evaluation properties, and 81 exploration stage properties. Clearly, this company knows what it's doing when it comes to growth and innovation.
Royal Gold has minimal net debt, showing that it's a reliable company that has the ability to continue to grow and profit. Experts say that Royal Gold tends to have a more stable business because it doesn't directly face many risks or operating costs as a miner. It also has low, locked-in costs that allow the company to avoid unpredictability in the market. Due to this, Royal Gold has actually been increasing its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Golden Star Resources, based in Canada, was incorporated in 1992 and has established successful operations in Ghana. It has a focus on the environment, healthy and safety, and community. This year, its sales have skyrocketed about 256%! Golden Star Resources also has an expected earnings growth of approximately 104%!
The company's two mines in Ghana are about to go through a major development stage in order to increase operating margins and cash flow. The mines will be high-grade, low-cost underground mines that will work in conjunction with existing pit operations. Production has already commenced on one mine, and the next mine's production will begin in 2017.
These fully funded, on-track projects are expected to yield an impressive 180,000 to 205,000 ounces of gold with a cost of $815-$925 per ounce. With this huge renovation going on, it's the perfect time for investors to buy shares in Golden Star Resources!
Sandstorm Gold isn't necessarily a gold mining company, but that doesn't make it any less lucrative! Instead, it is a gold streaming and royalty company. This means that Sandstorm "provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine." Sandstorm now owns a total of 131 streams of royalties, making its portfolio extremely impressive to investors.
So far this year, Sandstorm's stock has grown 70%. For the full year, the company has an estimated 115% earnings growth. Investing in Sandstorm, rather than an actual mining company, allows investors to benefit from rising gold prices and gold production. The investors then have leveraged upside without the downside from cost overruns they could run into with a gold miner.
Clearly, although Sandstorm isn't the typical gold mining company, it has a lot to offer!
Now that you've read through our list of gold stocks, you might be overwhelmed with all the information! Checking out stock comparisons is a good way to see exactly which companies are doing the best right now, but all 10 on our list are great choices. Whether they're more focused on innovation or the environment, they've all been successful and are projected to have continued success.
You could also consider the differences between companies that mine gold and companies that stream gold. There are pros and cons to both options, but both produce profit! You may also want to think about whether you'd like to invest in a company centered in the United States, or if you're comfortable investing in businesses based overseas.
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Five men, known as the "White House plumbers," broke into the Watergate apartment and office complex on June 17, 1972. The well-trained burglars' mission was to raid Democratic Party offices in the complex and obtain secret documents pertaining to the presidential election. The five men, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Baker, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, and James McCord were caught and arrested. Subsequent investigations revealed the involvement of E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy in planning the break-in, and possible connections to the White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Photo showing the first and last pages of the complaint filed in Washington, D.C., by the Senate Watergate committee in 1973 naming as defendant Richard Nixon both individually and as president of the United States.
picks, and military issue walkie-talkies. Authorities discovered small canisters of tear gas on two of the men. Some of the tools were even marked with government identification numbers, evidence that the operation was planned or authorized by a member of the government. The White House, and President Richard Nixon himself, were soon implicated, elevating the Watergate incident to full-fledged political scandal at the highest political level.
The men involved in the Watergate affair were members of the Committee to Re-elect the President sometimes referred to colloquially as "CREEP." Months before the break-in, members of CREEP advised President Nixon to develop "political intelligence capabilities" to further his campaign. Facing public backlash from the war in Vietnam, Nixon's committee sought to discredit Democratic opponents in an attempt to gain ground in the election. Following the Watergate burglary, and the arrest of the "White House plumbers," Federal authorities conducted a full investigation of the incident. The White House, and CREEP, attempted to block full disclosure of the scandal.
The cover-up of the Watergate affair was itself a deft intelligence maneuver. Members of CREEP destroyed pertinent documents and encouraged allies in the United States intelligence community to do the same. The Nixon White House destroyed tape archives of phone conversations. FBI Acting Director Patrick Gray later resigned his post after admitting to destroying Watergate documents at the request of CREEP officials. Those in custody gave a series of false statements, committing perjury, in an attempt to distance the scandal from the Nixon administration. As a result, only three of the original eight men arrested were indicted. For a while, the cover-up was successful.
Following Nixon's re-election, the U.S. Senate began a formal inquiry of the Watergate scandal. The previous CIA and FBI investigations failed to implicate the Office of the President because none of the persons questioned mentioned the involvement of the White House in CREEP operations. In March 1973, Hunt asked for a significant sun of "hush money" to refrain from going to the FBI or Senate committee with information about the scandal. He received $75,000.
Most of those involved in the scandal decided to exercise their Fifth Amendment rights and not testify to the Senate committee. Nixon announced a new investigation of the scandal on March 21, 1973, but immediately began to stonewall the process. A letter from McCord to Judge Sirica on March 23 formally implicated the White House plumbers, CREEP, and the president in the Watergate scandal. The cover-up fell apart, and a desperate administration resorted to a series of "dirty tricks" to shift the focus of the investigation away from the Nixon administration.
The "dirty tricks" focused on discrediting those who testified against CREEP, White House, and intelligence agencies. Some were accused of sexual misconduct, others of financial irregularities. Stink bombs were planted in offices. However, the most devious trick was the falsification of State Department cables by Hunt to implicate former President John Kennedy in the assassination of the South Vietnamese President Diem. Hunt tried to sell the cables to the media, in an attempt to anger and influence predominantly Democratic Catholic voters. The timely surfacing of the mysterious cables, as well as public disclosure of campaign finance irregularities by the Nixon administration further fueled the scandal.
While the break-in itself was an illegal act, the Watergate scandal had far greater legal consequences. The involvement of former CIA members raised questions about the prevalence of political espionage in the United States government. Using the resources of the intelligence for political espionage or personal gain is strictly illegal under American law. In addition, the involvement of the White House implied the Office of the President resorted to gross abuses of its power and authority. Subsequent Senate hearings and FBI investigations reached similar conclusions, and nearly 30 people in the Nixon administration were fined or imprisoned.
Complex intelligence operations and sophisticated equipment had permitted the "White House plumbers," CREEP, and Nixon to perpetrate and hide many of their crimes. However, the same sophistication of cloak and dagger operations ultimately undid the Nixon administration and broke the mysteries of the Watergate scandal. Nixon recorded most conversations in his office. An intense legal battle, eventually reaching the Supreme Court, ensued over the tapes, their possible editing, and their admissibility in Senate Select Committee hearings. Facing impeachment after the subpoena of the tapes, Nixon resigned his office. Although he was later pardoned by President Gerald Ford, some of the people involved in the scandal served long prison terms, never breaking their cover story in relation to the scandal.
The most important political scandal in U.S. history was perhaps best put in perspective by the late comedian Bob Hope, who said of Watergate, "It gave dirty politics a bad name."
Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All the President's Men, 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Kurland, Philip B. Watergate and the Constitution (The William R. Kenan, Jr., Inagural Lectures). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1992.
United States National Archives and Records Administration. Watergate resources. < http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/watergate_and_constitu ion/teaching_activities.html >(01 December 2002).


The levator scapulae muscle is an elongated muscle present in the shoulder girdle. It acts as a connection between the upper limb and the vertebral column and can be located in the posterior triangle of the neck. Sternocleidomastoid covers the superior aspect of the levator scapulae whereas its inferior part is covered by trapezius and by its name it is easy to figure out that its major role is to lift the scapula.
The levator scapulae muscle arises from the posterior tubercle of transverse process of cervical vertebrae (C1-C4).
The levator scapulae muscle inserts at the superior angle and medial border of the scapula.
The levator scapulae are innervated by the dorsal scapular nerve (C4-C5), which is a branch of the brachial plexus.
Blood supply to the levator scapulae is carried out by the descending scapular artery.
The name itself suggests, the major function of the levator scapulae is to provide elevation to the scapula. The entire scapula is simultaneously pulled medially by levator scapulae. This movement helps to bring back the elevated arm back to its neutral position. Apart from this, the levator scapulae also moves the inferior angle away from the back leading to a minor upward tilt of the scapula. If the scapula is stationary, a contraction of the levator scapulae causes the bending of the cervical vertebral column to the side (lateral flexion) and stabilizes the vertebral column during rotation.
Forward head posture increases tension on the levator scapulae muscles to co-contract which leads cervical extension in an elongated position. Increased tightness in the levator scapulae due to more work taken from a forward head posture can lead to cervicogenic headaches.


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How culture rot happens: Unthinkable –> Laughable –> Thinkable –> Accepted
Dr. Harry L. Reeder III
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POP CULTURE EXPRESSION OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to take you to an article out of The Jewish Voice. The Museum of Pop Culture is looking to expand, adding a second location in New York City. The Museum of Pop Culture opened in Seattle nearly 20 years ago. 7,000 visitors come through this museum every year. Now they're going to open a second site in New York City.
DR. REEDER: When you go to that museum, what are you going to see? There are certain spheres within a society that become almost the factory that produces pop culture as their product. What they are is somewhat obvious when you think your way through it, but what they can be may not be as obvious and that's what, ultimately, I'd like to get to today.
In pop culture right now, it's basically shaped by the music industry, the entertainment industry in its various aspects, from the products of cinematography, the YouTube industry, commercials in the media, novels that are read, television industry and the cablevision — and all of that contributes to the culture.
AIM IS TO SEEP INTO EVERYDAY CULTURE
They all have an impact, but when we talk about culture, what are we talking about? Culture is how society does business. Pop culture is how the society functions and what it expects within the popular spheres of life — the public spaces of life. For instance, right now — we talked about this yesterday — there is language in the workplace that would have been unthought of 50 years ago, thus you have the rising of a #metoo movement, which inevitably will come when the pop culture has created that environment that people are then being violated by what supposedly is acceptable, yet ultimately is destructive.
TOM LAMPRECHT: Well, Harry, speaking of 50 years ago, CBS News recently reported it was 50 years ago in 1968 when the Broadway play, "Hair," took root in pop culture. Unfortunately, I've got to report that that was probably the first time in Broadway where all the people on stage decided to take their clothes off. Is pop culture a reflection of our culture or is it dictating to the culture what our standards ought to be?
POP CULTURE "IDEAS" ARE NOT ACCIDENTAL
DR. REEDER: I think the pop culture is the product that these various industries — the entertainment sphere, the academic world, all of that — is beginning to operate a certain way to produce a sense of, "This is what we think the environment ought to be." Some of it has hooks and hangs on and some of it disappears, but all of it has an ultimate impact.
The spheres of influence, unless they are impacted, influenced, retarded and restrained by the grace of God coming through the people of God and the power of the Spirit of God, will always take a culture into a death spiral in which it makes the unthinkable thinkable, and then the thinkable becomes acceptable and the acceptable becomes doable.
You get a sitcom that gets you to laugh that homosexuality is a merely harmless event and you're laughing at it and if it becomes laughable, then it becomes thinkable, now it becomes acceptable, and once it becomes acceptable, then it becomes doable, and once it becomes doable, it becomes part of the culture. Once you begin to say it enough in a song, in a novel, in a movie, in a broadcast, on television, then it becomes mainstreamed into the culture.
You're exactly right: once it gets into the culture, it doesn't come in static; it continues to move in a downward spiral. The only hope is the influence of God's grace that would restrain it and retard it by behavior that is both appealing yet confrontational.
"Oh, here is a family that has both order and ardor, has both ethical parameters and yet passion in relationships and compassion in relationships," and that's seen in the family, and that impacts a neighborhood and that impacts a city. And where should that be coming from? That ought to be coming from the Gospel ministry as the Gospel ministry presents the redeeming grace of God that transforms sinners and, once you're transformed in your relationship to God, you begin to be transformed in your life — salt and light.
If the salt is salty, it doesn't take much for it to affect the environment. If I speak of the contributors to pop culture being media, academia — being the entertainment industry, political industry — if I keep saying that, everybody will agree with that, but what they won't think of, the most powerful influence upon pop culture can be the church of Jesus Christ.
THE CHURCH & CULTURE
However, the church will not — now, listen, Tom, this is important — the church will not impact the culture if it makes its mission to impact the culture. The church has to make its mission and its message to impact people with the Gospel, taking the Gospel to evangelize and disciple. And, as people get right with God and God works right within them, then their life changes and they become light in the culture and light dispels darkness, and they become salt and salt purifies, penetrates and preserves.
And so, it becomes a consequence of cultural blessing when Gospel transformation takes place so the church needs to see itself, not on a mission of cultural transformation, but as an instrument of cultural transformation as it fulfills its mission of Gospel evangelism and discipleship.
CHANGE THE PEOPLE, CHANGE THE CULTURE
I'm hoping I'm saying that clearly and plainly because, while we want the church to impact the culture, that cannot become the mission of the church — the mission of the church has got to be the Gospel mission and the Gospel message in the lives of individuals. And, when they change, their life makes an impact first in their family, in their church, in their community and in their workplace.
A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH CAN GO A LONG WAY
Think of salt. My wife makes this corn on the cob; it's unbelievable and I know what makes it unbelievable: butter and salt. However, it doesn't take that much salt and it doesn't take that much butter for a large ear of corn to be transformed. It doesn't take that much salt to transform an entire pot of green beans if the salt is salty.
And, by the way, when it happens, notice that I don't go up to my wife after the dinner and say, "Honey, that was the best butter and salt I've ever had in my life." No, I say, "That's the best corn on the cob I've ever had in my life." But what made it so appealing and so attractive and what made it so tasty? What made it something that drew me to it in appreciation? It was that salt that was put upon it.
That's the way the Christian is so let your speech be seasoned, is it were, in salt. Let your life by salty. Lift up the light and then, as the Gospel transforms your life, your life transformed will affect your family, your relationships at the workplace and all of that affects the pop culture.
I am not amazed at the downward spiral of our culture as expressed in pop culture because that's the way it always goes because of the sin nature of humanity; what amazes me is the absence of the impact of common grace from God's people and His church in the culture and that's there because we have not engaged in the work of redeeming grace and evangelism and discipleship with a clear Gospel message and fulfill our Gospel mission, "Go and make disciples of all the nations."
COMING UP TOMORROW: 50 YEARS SINCE RFK'S ASSASSINATION
TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, on tomorrow's edition of Today in Perspective, I want to talk about another event that took place 50 years ago and that was the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
DR. REEDER: Tom, it's interesting that you brought out a date, 1968, not only the production "Hair," but that was a pivotal moment in pop culture. It also was the year of the assassination of Martin Luther King and it was the year of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, who, himself, becomes an example of movement in his life that reflects the culture and impacted the culture. Let's take this up, even as we are in the very days that we remember that event of his assassination 50 years ago.
Dr. Harry L. Reeder III is the Senior Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham.
This podcast was transcribed by Jessica Havin, editorial assistant for Yellowhammer News, who has transcribed some of the top podcasts in the country and whose work has been featured in a New York Times Bestseller.
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Preemptive Strike
by Michael Crowley and Burgess Everett
https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16859/preemptive-strike
Two weeks before a crucial diplomatic deadline, newly victorious Republicans in Congress are plotting to derail one of Barack Obama's few remaining chances for a second-term policy legacy: a nuclear deal with Iran.
The Obama administration's interim agreement with Tehran expires on Nov. 24. But Senate Republicans don't plan to wait until they take power in January to rattle the nuclear talks. On Thursday, a day after returning to Washington, they will seek a vote on legislation requiring that Congress approve any deal.
Democrats, who still control the Senate, are likely to quash the move. But it's an early illustration of Republican plans to confound the president's nuclear diplomacy, which the GOP sees as dangerously weak toward Tehran's anti-American Islamic regime.
"The Hill has a lot of power to make things miserable for the president," said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a critic of the nuclear talks who consults closely with Congress on Iran legislation.
If the interim nuclear deal is extended with few or no new concessions by Iran, sources say Republicans are likely to take up legislation similar to a Senate bill sponsored last year by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez and Sen. Mark Kirk, the one that drew 60 co-sponsors. That bill threatened new sanctions should Iran violate the interim agreement, or if it abandons the negotiations.
"If it's just a simple extension with a couple of bells and whistles, like they did [in July], I expect Congress to move forward with a new bill similar to Menendez-Kirk," said Dubowitz. "For the administration to actually get an extension without that they would have to come back with a partial deal — but a meaningful partial deal."


If you are familiar with zombie movies, novels, or comic books, you know what to expect, except that Carpe Mortis: You Only Live Once has an anthro-animal cast, with matching action. "… his ropey tail flicking about in agitation." "He wiggled his round ears for emphasis." It is very well-written, in thirty short chapters of two to seven pages.
There is a fine but appropriately dark cover by TaoRen.
This novella is a sort-of sequel to Graveyard Greg's (writer) and Krahnos' (artist) 32-page comic books Profiles and Profiles 2 (both Fuzzy Green Dice, January 2009); Graveyard Greg's (writer) and CarpeHall's (artist) 32-page comic book Carpe Diem Halloween Special (Fuzzy Green Dice, October 2010; and Graveyard Greg's novel Welcome to Cappuccinos (FurPlanet, January 2012). That is, it is a direct companion to the Carpe Diem Halloween Special, adding some of the "cool" characters from Welcome to Cappuccinos.
It all started in 2007, when I released the Carpe Diem Halloween Special. In that story, I subjected the cast of characters to a zombie apocalypse, and left the readers hanging at the end.
Fans of Carpe Diem know that I also have a spin off comic for adults only called Profiles. What happened to those particular characters? How did they handle the sudden zombie apocalypse?
If the Carpe Mortis Kickstarter project is successful, you gentle readers will find out.
Carpe Mortis is a story that runs parallel to the events of the Carpe Diem Halloween Special, and features the cast of Profiles with a few guest star appearances by a certain barista jackal, his boyfriend, and his little brother [from Welcome to Cappuccinos, also funded via Kickstarter]. A preview can be found if you know where to look.
The Kickstarter goal was $500. It raised that on the first day, going on to $1,591 total.
Graveyard Greg says in an Author's Note about the subtitle, 'You Only Live Once', "It does mean, however, I might call the sequel You Only Die Twice." (p. 7) Will there be a sequel? The ending, set a month after the outbreak of the plague and the end of civilization, implies one.
For all that it is well-written, Carpe Mortis: You Only Live Once is a stereotypical zombie horror novella. It is recommended for fans of zombie fiction only.
When there is no more room in Hell, the furries will yiff the Earth!


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Q: Arithmetic of Ramanujan's $\tau$-function I'm planning to give a short and introductory talk about modular forms, and I'm going to say that modular forms' Fourier coefficients are arithmetic, which is certainly not a mathematically well-defined sentence but (at least for me) shows the importance of modular form in number theory. Three basic examples I'll introduce is the following:

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*Eisenstein series

*Discriminant function

*Theta function
The Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series are divisor power sum functions, and Fourier coefficients of  (power of) theta functions are related to the number of representing a given number as sum of squares. However, it is hard for me to explain arithmetic significance of $\tau$ function. Here's a list of facts that I know about $\tau(n)$:

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*Multiplicative since $\Delta(z)$ is a Hecke eigenform

*$|\tau(p)| \leq 2 p^{11/2}$ (Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture, which has automorphic form version that is only known for a few cases)

*Can be expressed as combination of divisor sum functions, by using the identity between $\Delta(z)$ and Eisenstein series

*several congruences in wikipedia

and this list doesn't seem to be the arithmetic heart of the $\tau(n)$. Could anyone explain the arithmetic essence of $\tau(n)$?


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The Woman From The Sea (Kaitei Kara Kita Onna)
Watered States
The Woman From The Sea
(Kaitei Kara Kita Onna)
Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara
Seen at a screening at the National Film Theatre
Warning: Slight spoilers swimming around the depths this review...
This is a movie which I had a bit of a strange reaction to when I finally saw it. I went to an NFT screening with JamesDevereaux of The Great Acting Blog and after the film was done he asked me what I thought of it and, in all honesty, I felt little disappointed but ultimately wanting to take another look at it... which is unlikely at the moment since the movie has never been made available on video in a country which would necessitate a subtitled print of a relatively (for Western audiences) obscure film. I said I'd need to sleep on it and, after a few fitful attempts at sleep (my personal life at the moment is a wreck) I have come to the conclusion that it's a film I'd very much like to rewatch and let grow on me. Which must mean I kinda liked it, right? My feelings will probably be more apparent to me as I finish writing this review.
The film was screening as part of a season of old Nikkatsu studio films at the National Film Theatre and the curator of the event, Jasper Sharp, came out and did a little intro to the movie. Now bearing in mind the NFT staff always give out fact sheets containing an article about the movie you're about to watch before the screening, I have to say that the gentleman in question was, for the most part, just underlining what I'd already only just read on the programme notes. However, I am grateful to this guy because he mentioned one insightful scrap of information in his opening spiel which, although I would probably have arrived at the same conclusion myself after watching the film, I have to give credit to him for because he pointed it out first and maybe I was looking out for it. That information was a comparison of this film and others like it to... Scooby Doo... and I'll explain just why I agree with that proposition in a little while.
So the first thing I have to say is that it's very much of its time, but for an American or British picture, in terms of cutting and editing. Even the shot set ups, although there were a couple of stand outs, were not what I was expecting from a Nikkatsu studio picture from this specific era (Nikkatsu are, of course, Japan's oldest film studio). Most, not all but most, of the shots are a little less stylised and the space less artificially populated than I would suspect from some of the giants of Nikkatsu... people like Seijun Suzuki and his ilk. Instead, the movie relies on a more charming and comfortable feeling of community injected into the scripting and acting. The acting, by the way, was pretty matter of fact but stronger for it in this one, with special mention going to whoever the lady was who played the main male protagonist's aunt.
The film took me by surprise because I was expecting something more serious and less lightweight for a picture that essentially contains supernatural elements mostly associated with the horror genre and, indeed, you can certainly see strong elements of that genre in this film but in a more "gee whiz" kind of presentation. Dealing with a beautiful (and HIsako Tsukuba really does have a searing presence in this role) fish-woman who attaches herself to our main protagonist Toshio (played by Tamio Kawachi) early on in the film, I was expecting something a little more haunting and poetic like a watery version of Kaneto Shindô's excellent film about cat spirits, Kuroneko. Instead, we had a similar idea but with a lady who is a shark and who has been poaching and eating fish, not to mention feasting down on some of the locals as part of her diet too.
The strange bit is that the whole movie has been cross-pollinated with what I can only assume are the Japanese equivalent of the American beach culture movies of the time (you know, stuff like the Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicelli vehicle Beach Blanket Bingo). These were apparently (and again thanks to Jasper Sharp for this) known as "sun tribe" movies and this makes for a rather uneasy, if spectacularly interesting, blend to watch on screen because, on the one hand you have a threat to the community in the form of a hostile, aggressive fish-woman who lures her victims to their death and eats them and it's all mixed in with the same fish-woman and Toshio getting all teenage romantic and starry eyed. It's quite a stark contrast at times too, because the villagers who seek to slay this beautiful monster are really quite viscous in their intent and even Toshio's brother is killed off by the titular monster.
And while all this is going on, the great Japanese composer Masaru Sato's score is enhancing the shenanigans even further and this is where the Scooby Doo analogy really takes hold because one of the methods the filmmakers use to give the audience the message that this is a wholesome movie about a bunch of kids investigating groovy mysteries is to have Sato deliver a score full of weird jazz and percussion hits and, annoyingly, Hawaiian guitar stingers... all dropped in almost without structure, or at least quite randomly, within the underlying music. And thinking of it, although it's been many decades since I watched an episode of Scooby Doo, an extremely similar method of scoring was taking place in those early cartoons and this does give the picture a very strong message that it's all just a heady, teenage romp.
Except it's not. People are dying in brutal fashion and even Toshio is in line to be the next meal of the young "fish themed maiden". So it's all very interesting actually.
At the end of the day... I was fairly entertained by this film and I would certainly pay out for a DVD or Blu Ray of this movie if it was available (I'm looking at you Criterion Eclipse!) An interesting experience and one that people who are into exploring different movies should all strive to seek out... or at least a movie in a similar vein. Time and money well spent.
Posted by NUTS4R2 at 20:05
Labels: HIsako Tsukuba, Kaitei Kara Kita Onna, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Masaru Sato, Nikkatsu, Scooby Doo, sun tribe, Tamio Kawachi, The Woman From The Sea
bucko 14 June 2013 at 22:56
Wow--what an incredible mash-up! Wish I'd been there to see it with you guys. Love the Scooby Doo referencing, although groovy guitars can get annoying. Would this be more horror? Comedy? Art film?? if you had to pick one...
NUTS4R2 15 June 2013 at 08:50
None of the above really. There's horror but it's not graphically horrific... just something that would be horrific if it was happening for real, out of the confines of the mindset of the characters here.
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CfA: Medical Humanities in German Studies
We invite abstracts of up to 500 words for a planned edited volume on the medical humanities in German studies. Scholars from the areas of literature, history, and cultural studies are encouraged to participate. We have received interest in this project from the editors of a new series on the medical humanities, and in order to reach the widest audience possible, we ask that abstracts and future contributions be written in English.
'Medical humanities' is an evolving term that seems to change with each scholar and each approach. Originally, the field was directed at medical students. The humanities, particularly in the forms of history, literature, the arts, and philosophy, were integrated into medical programs to educate and prepare ethically minded health practitioners. The path was relatively one-directional, however, with humanistic study employed in the service of medical training.
Recent years have seen a shift, as scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in issues of health. The COVID-19 pandemic will leave an indelible mark on our culture and only underscores how topical and significant these discussions will be moving forward within our fields. This impact can be seen in the richness of areas like disability studies, body studies, cognitive studies, and the intersection of health and policy, among others. In addition to incorporating aesthetic or ethical dimensions into discussions surrounding medicine, the medical humanities have also played an important role in providing access to these discussions to traditionally underrepresented peoples, groups, and perspectives. Overall, the medical humanities have done important work in bridging the STEM-Humanities gap.
The medical humanities play a particularly important role in German studies. Our understanding of the wars of the twentieth century, of the Holocaust, and of the development of the modern health care system is expanded by literary and historical investigation. So, too, can our hermeneutic methods evolve through the adoption of approaches developed by health professionals. The medical humanities encompass the works of important Germanic historical figures, authors, film makers, and scientists. They are interested in representations of illness and the body in literature, art, film, politics, or exhibition. They likewise engage methodology and challenge both humanistic and medical dogma. The medical humanities are fluid.
The proposed volume will interrogate the medical humanities in German studies. How are the medical humanities employed across the breadth of our disciplines? How has this field developed over time and which approaches are expanding scholarship today? What do these discussions reveal about the culture and history of the German-speaking world? Which medical models translate into hermeneutic experiments, and how does this change the way in which we interpret? How has COVID-19 impacted this field, or the cultures of investigation?
The goal of the collection is to underscore and celebrate the interdisciplinarity of the medical humanities and to embrace the breadth of German studies. Contributions are encouraged from all corners of German studies and the volume plans to integrate the scholarship of historians, literary scholars, film scholars, and the work of others who may identify with our field. Our goal for the volume is to demonstrate the many ways that research approaches in the medical humanities can significantly reframe or shed new light on the history, culture, language, literature, and film of the Germanophone world.
Please email an English abstract of no more than 500 words and a brief one-paragraph biography to the volume editors listed below. Questions can also be directed to individuals in this list. The due date for abstracts is: November 15, 2021
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3 teams that should be calling the Knicks about Cam Reddish
NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade Rumors, New York Knicks
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The Knicks are reportedly looking to trade Cam Reddish and plenty of teams should be interested, even with his struggles this season.
It appears that Cam Reddish's time with the New York Knicks may be coming to a close. The former lottery pick is 6-of-29 from beyond the arc over his last 10 games and has seen his minutes dwindle. The Knicks are the second team he's played for in his four-year career and now it appears a third may be on the horizon.
Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News reported that the Knicks and Reddish's agent are working together to try and find a trade. He hasn't been able to stick with either the Hawks or the Knicks but there are still several teams that should be willing to audition Reddish for a consistent role.
3. Dallas Mavericks could get Luka Doncic some more help
I feel fairly confident in saying Cam Reddish doesn't really solve any problems for the Dallas Mavericks. At this point, he's a decently effective wing defender with length and athleticism and not much of a track record at the other end of the floor. That is to say, he's not going to give the Mavericks anything they aren't already getting a better version of from Dorian Finney-Smith, Tim Hardaway Jr. or Josh Green.
But, he would have the benefit of being a 23-year-old with upside on the sixth-oldest roster in the league with very few obvious pathways to improvement besides pushing Luka Doncic to the breaking point. In addition, the Mavericks could package Dwight Powell, JaVale McGee and a protected first-round pick to get Derrick Rose as well, who they reportedly may covet.
I realize giving up another pick probably isn't very palatable to Mavericks fans but their 2025 pick is the earliest one they could trade and at that point Doncic may already be fed up or ground down to a nub. The Knicks don't have any particular use for McGee or Powell but they apparently don't have any use for Reddish either and turning Rose into a future first, even a heavily protected one, is probably a win.


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Secretary Bird The Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large raptor related to hawks and eagles. This large, terrestrial bird of prey is endemic to the open grasslands in sub-saharan Africa. The Secretary Bird is famed for being the prominent emblem of Sudan and South Africa and appears on both nations coat of arms.
Secretary birds are so called because of their quill-like crests on the backs of their heads that resemble 18th century clerks with pens tucked into their wigs.
Secretary Bird Description
The Secretary bird has the appearance more like a stork or crane than a bird of prey. These tall birds can measure 1.3 – 1.4 metres (around 4.5 feet) in height, weigh 3.3 kilograms (7.3 pounds) and have a wingspan of over 2 metres (6.6 feet). The Secretary bird has a small head with small eyes and a hooked beak. Its plumage is a light bluish/grey and it has a red colored face. Flight feathers are black and they have black feathers on the thighs and on the back of their heads. Their legs are long and powerful and are used for striking and pursuing prey.
Secretary birds have 2 central elongated feathers on their tail which extend beyond their feet when in flight. They have tough scales on their legs to help protect their legs from snake bites. Secretary birds do not have grasping toes like other birds of prey, instead their toes are thick and blunt with short curved talons on the ends. Both male and female are similar in appearance.
Secretary Bird Habitat
Secretary birds prefer open grasslands, steppe and tree-dotted savannas. They live in areas where grass is fairly short so they can see prey more easier as they walk along. They build large nests in Acacia trees or thorn trees made from long, flat twigs and grass and can measure 8 feet wide and 1 foot deep. Nests grow larger year by year. Nests are returned to just before dark to roost in over night after a days hunting on the ground. Secretary birds avoid forests and dense shrubberies as they might restrict their movement.
Secretary Bird Diet
Secretary birds are diurnal carnivorous raptors who feed up on a variety of prey. They are famous for their ability to kill snakes on the African grasslands. The secretary bird may travel over 30 kilometres a day in search of snakes, insects and other animals. They feed up on snakes such as Adders and even Cobras but will also consume lizards, amphibians, rodents and birds eggs. Small animals are eaten whole, however, larger prey is stamped to death before being consumed.
Dangerous prey, such as snakes, are first stamped on to stun them and then pecked behind their neck to kill them. The secretary bird also stamps on the ground with its large stout-toed feet to flush prey out of hiding.
Secretary Bird Behaviour
Secretary birds are territorial and occupy areas of around 40 – 50 square kilometres. Although the secretary bird is a good flyer, it spends most of its time on the ground. It flies well but needs a long take-off run prior to leaving the ground. Secretary birds mate for life and although out of breeding season they can be solitary, the other half of a pair is usually not far away. Secretary birds are silent nearly all of the time. The only sound they make is a croaking sound when displaying for a mate.
Secretary Bird Reproduction
Courtship includes a mutual display of chasing each other with wings spread up and backwards much like they perform when chasing ground prey. Mating takes place either on the ground or in their large nests up high in Acacia trees. The female lays 2 – 3 oval, pale green eggs over a period of 2 – 3 days. The rough textured eggs are incubated by the female for 45 – 50 days.
Young secretary birds have yellow skin on their faces and a downy plumage. They are fed regurgitated food from their parents. The young can flap their wings at 60 days old and fledge around 80 days old. Although they still remain in the nest for most of the time, they go on expeditions with their parents who teach them hunting skills.
Secretary Bird Conservation Status
The Secretary Bird is classed as 'Least Concern' although young are vulnerable to other birds of prey when left alone in nests and the secretary bird itself is threatened by loss of habitat and deforestation. The species became a protected bird in 1968 under the Africa Convention of Nature and Natural Resources.
Galapagos Whimbrel Birds
Galapagos Willet Bird
American Oystercatcher Bird
Galapagos Rail Bird
Galapagos Lava Gull Bird
Indian Cuckoo Bird
Secretary Birds like fires! They catch lots of small animals driven out by the flames sweeping over the grass.Secretary Birds are often kept as pets in Africa because they kill snakes and rats.
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Sagittariidae
Genus: Sagittarius
Species: S. serpentarius
Binomial name: Sagittarius serpentarius


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Q: Remove paths from $PATH variable with PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e ...) doesn't work Because I'm not familiar with the way to add permanent path, I export the wrong dir accidently, which is  /home/adolph/anaconda3/condabin. (It should be /home/adolph/anaconda3/bin)
adolph@adolph-System-Product-Name:~$ echo $PATH
/home/adolph/anaconda3/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/adolph/anaconda3/bin:/home/adolph/anaconda3/bin

I tried to remove the wrong directory in the method introduced by most of the post.
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adolph@adolph-System-Product-Name:~$  PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/home\/adolph\/anaconda3\/condabin$//')

However, it still exist. How to solve it in effective way?
adolph@adolph-System-Product-Name:~$ echo $PATH
/home/adolph/anaconda3/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/adolph/anaconda3/bin:/home/adolph/anaconda3/bin

A: You could define your desired PATH  for your current session like this:
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/adolph/anaconda3/bin
If you want that change to be permanent, you could add that line to your ~/.bashrc.


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The hairdresser for the homeless Jump to media player Josh Coombes gives free haircuts to homeless people and publishes their stories online.
The disability hairdresser Jump to media player Liz Stewart and her son Delroy run a hairdressing salon for people with additional needs.
A Manchester hair salon has a unique global clientele catering for a burgeoning trade in hair tourism thanks to its exposure on social media.


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Zande is a town in Koekelare, West Flanders, Belgium.

External links
Zande @ City Review

Populated places in West Flanders
Koekelare

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Arcane legal theories interfered with the credibility and efficiency of the Obama administration and frustrated the soldiers trying to fight terror overseas.
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, by Daniel Klaidman, offers a few interesting details about the president and the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. According to Klaidman, "Law and politics so constrained Obama's ability to influence counterterrorism policy, it's easy to appreciate the lure of JSOC."
The real problem, in the president's view, was that the Bush Administration shunned the advice of lawyers, whose "finely grained distinctions and hair-splitting legal arguments could mean the difference between who would be killed and who would be spared." So the president presented a sweeping new framework to Congress to help him better execute the war on solid legal footing? No. Actually, Obama brought in more lawyers to better split hairs. "His administration seemed to view the involvement of lawyers in the formulation of nation security as a badge of honor -- evidence of its commitment to the rule of law." Only, that's the exact opposite of what the president is doing. The lawyers are there to circumvent law. The Bush administration relied on John Yoo. The Obama solution? More John Yoos. As many John Yoos as it takes.
Much of the narrative involves White House lawyers constructing elaborate rationales and circumstances under which the president can order triggers pulled or bombs dropped in countries with which we are not at war. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh, for example, "developed a theory of 'uniqueness versus fungibility'" in deciding who to kill.
Apparently, U.S. commandos aren't. "This was just the kind of legal nitpicking that drove the operators crazy. It was hard to imagine knife-in-the-teeth commandos asking themselves whether they'd passed the four-part Koh test on uniqueness versus fungibility before blowing a bad guy to kingdom come."
As Klaidman writes, the president "personally signed off on each kill or capture operation conducted in Yemen and Somalia." Whichever member of the Obama administration leaked this information probably wanted to evoke Eisenhower approving each U-2 flight over the Soviet Union. The difference, of course, is that Ike had a first-rate, well-honed military mind, and an appreciation for the risks associated with the missions. The present system seems a bit more like Johnson choosing bombing targets in Vietnam. The notion of a secret presidential kill list is odious enough, but from what experience, exactly, does Barack Obama draw from when deciding whether a mission is good or bad? How does he, or any president, maintain consistency in ordering lethal force against individuals?
The man who comes out best in Kill or Capture is Admiral William McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. During one of his first briefings with special operations, Koh was "awed by McRaven's crisp efficiency. What a contrast, he thought, to the meandering academic meetings at Yale Law School, where he and his colleagues could spend six hours debating a single faculty appointment." Repeatedly in the book, McRaven appears with the solution to whatever problem the country is facing, and follows through.
It's very easy to blame the president (and I do) for our present, ill-conceived, unilateral, ad hoc world war, but at least he's flexing executive muscle. The real question is: Where is Congress? It seems they've abdicated even the pretense of oversight. What happens when we don't have a lawyer as president?


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The story of Gray
This is the tale of how Gray was written, and when, and how it came to be in your hands.
I had ceased teaching university in 2004 partly because teaching writing was messing up my ability to write. Or, let's back up 10 years before that: after a moderately successful decade in publishing stories, poetry, and slick magazine articles, teaching had slowed me down for the following decade. But I missed writing, so very much. Teaching was also becoming boring after a decade of it (most jobs get boring after 2 years, so this was actually a win!), and it was always far too much work (I often only worked ¾ time, yet I worked 60-hour weeks and made far too little money and often had no health insurance), so I said "My house is paid off. I have some money saved. Let's go back to writing, Lou, which is still the only real passion that's lasted you a lifetime."
I wrote three books in my first year off. A pen name book (no longer for sale) was one of them. A non-fiction book (which I never published or marketed) was one. And Gray was one. I'd been reading about the topic of the type of disaster itself, as reading NF science is one of my hobbies. I'd always thought that disaster novels and movies had gotten something wrong. Often, in real life, disasters come without warning, and if there is no more electricity, no more communications, the people suffering in the midst of it don't have the slightest idea what was going on. Before the year 1900, no human would have ever known about the when of an impending disaster or the how or why of it! (Read the terrific books Isaac's Storm or Krakatoa to get an idea of how disasters played out before 1900.) I wanted to write about that—a limited viewpoint of one person, a confused person who didn't know anything about the disaster, and whose struggle for survival was so demanding that she could seldom spare a thought to wonder over it.
Gray was a single long book, complete by the end of 2005. I tried to get a agents interested in it and in the pen name book, but I got no nibbles at all on either. The few who bothered writing back said of Gray, in their professional wisdom (cough, cough), "No one reads post-apocalyptic books any more."
I was mightily confused at that comment, for I certainly still loved the genre, but I moved on in my writing. I outlined a book I still like the idea of, a mainstream novel about a woman whose husband died young, who with her insurance payout decides to foster troubled teen girls on a small farm/homestead she had always wanted (or at least thought she wanted). It's funny at points as things go wrong, and poignant at points. I did write a lot of it, but then I thought, "They won't want this one either," and let it sit unfinished. (I think I still have it somewhere, but I couldn't swear to that.)
After my three and a half books were written, I didn't go back to work teaching. I liked being away from it too much. I found a way to live on the cheap (and I do mean cheap—it cost me $4000 US/year to survive, and that was without food stamps or any other assistance) by selling my house, and while I wrote some short stories and poems for the next seven years, and even some outlines for novels, I burned it all in campfires. Wasn't worth the trouble of marketing it, I figured. Agents didn't find my work appealing, and agents were the barrier to my communicating with publishers. And short work simply doesn't pay much, so you may as well burn it in the campfire as send it out into the world. Financially, you'll come out ahead by using your lighter.
Then I settled down to a life you'd call more "normal." More settled, certainly. More electricity to run the computer, and daily internet access after years without. So I started writing novels again, first a draft of my family history novel, and then my disaster novels. Again, I ran into the agent brick wall with all that. I was beyond frustrated. I had great publishing credentials. I'd had stories in top fiction magazines. I had writing awards, so I knew I couldn't totally suck as a writer in everyone's opinion. Good magazines had written me once upon a time, asking if I had any stories for them, so I was sure I wasn't deluded about my skill as a teller of fictional tales. I'm still not sure why agents didn't like my stuff. (Had you still been able to approach publishers directly, as you could when I was young, I suspect I would have sold my books, but those days were long gone by 2012).
But by this time, I didn't have to burn my work and give up writing again, or give it up for good. Now there was the Kindle, and my dear friend Shelley said, "You can do this. Self publishing can work." There was Howey and Konrath and Hocking and others proving it would work danged well, in fact. Still, I hesitated (in retrospect, too long!) But I took the plunge with my old pen name book and with the disaster novels, planning to follow up with whichever genre of book sold best. And very quickly, total strangers around the world started buying my disaster ebooks. So cool! I wanted to hug every one of them. :D I even got a few pieces of fan mail! Lifelong writing dreams were finally coming true, and nobody was in my way. I was my own publisher, reaching readers directly, and learning how to run a business.
People in the know said, "Good start, but you need a series now." I didn't have a series idea, but I'd been re-reading Gray with thoughts of publishing it next, and I thought, "I have a lot more to say about these characters." So I took the long novel—which was somewhat different, and ended soon after Coral finding Benjamin and them deciding to leave his house when something bad happened there—and I rewrote what I had and then continued the tale, making sure each book had a climax and came to a resting place that completed a section in a satisfying way. One of the books of the series gave me a bit of trouble and took seven months to complete, but I worked at it to get it just how I wanted it.
And the series found its readers. Fans wrote me daily. I got offers for traditional publication of it and for audio publication. It was great—and overwhelming some days, for my email inbox was stuffed full every morning, needed to be combed through, the offers needing to be vetted, and at times I despaired of carving out more time to write!
Gray continues to be my most popular work. Podium Publishing picked it up as audio book, with a professional approach to me when I'd gotten past those overly busy days. They did a great job with it, and I was given a wonderful narrator, Lauren Fortgang. I've moved on from Gray, to other books and series, but it continues to excite and move readers all around the world, and I'm still as grateful as I was in 2015 to every single one of you who bought, read and enjoyed it.
And while Amazon has its problems sometimes managing its self-publishing platform, I'm also grateful to them, for had they not taken the risk of developing the e-reader, losing money hand over fist on it initially, and had they not opened up publishing in ways that didn't demand that writers schmooze agents to get through to publishers (who all live in the same place and all look and think alike, which is not necessarily how most readers think), you'd have never read Gray. I'd have never been a full-time writer. We wouldn't have countless numbers of wonderful novels by other people were it not for Amazon leading the way with the Kindle and letting novelists be their own publishers, be their own agents, and free themselves of the NYC system that wasn't working for most writers or many readers.
Mostly, though, the gratitude I have—and which I never forget, not for a day—is aimed at my readers. Without you, I'm still a frustrated person living well below the poverty line and burning my stories in campfires. So thank you for reading.
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