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Actor. An award-winning actor and Hollywood icon, he was known for his strong portrayals of Spartacus, Vincent Van Gogh and Doc Holliday. The son of Jewish immigrants, he became the patriarch of an acting family. He was the father of actor Michael Douglas and father-in-law of actress Catherine Zeta Jones. He attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, New York, where he met Lauren Bacall who helped to launch his film career. Bacall recommended him to producer Hal B. Wallis and he was cast in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) opposite Barbara Stanwyck. He starred in over 90 films on the silver screen and on television, and guest starred on the shows "The Jack Benny Program," "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," "Tales from the Crypt," "The Simpsons," and "Touched by an Angel." He was a popular leading man from the 1940s through the 1980s, often playing roles in Westerns and film noir. From playing a happy go-lucky sailor playing an instrument made out of a turtle shell in Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954), to a cowboy who hated barbed wire in "Man Without a Star" (1955), he played a wide variety of characters from the dark and troubled to the happy-go-lucky. Some of his most iconic roles were playing the gladiator Spartacus in the titular film (1960), the troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh in "Lust for Life" (1956), and Doc Holliday in "Gunfight at the OK Corral" (1957). His many awards include the Best Actor award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for "The Vikings" in 1957; an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991, a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 1994, and a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He received a star on the Hollywood walk of Fame in 1962, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter in 1981, and the National Medal of Arts award from President Bush in 2002. He was producer on over 30 films including "Spartacus" and "Tough Guys" (1986) which he starred in with Burt Lancaster. He directed two films 1970s films, "Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre" and "Posse." He wrote eleven books, including his autobiography "The Ragman's Son" in 1988. He suffered a stroke in 1996 and he later wrote a book about his recovery, "My Stroke of Luck" in 2003. He was married to actress Diana Dill, from 1943 to 1951, and they had two sons, Michael and Joel. He met his second wife, producer Anne Buydens, while filming "Lust for Life," and they married in 1954. They had two sons, Peter and Eric. Together they penned the book "Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood" in 2017. He passed away at the age of 103.
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Healing Power From Within
By Maria-Pia Negro Chin
Missioners' trauma healing workshops help people around the globe to overcome traumas
In February 2010, just a month after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, Maryknoll Father Dennis Moorman discovered the urgent need for his newly acquired skills.
Even though the Haitian patients reported pain and ailments, the priest says, the medical team of volunteers he had come with could not find anything medically wrong with most of them. "They showed typical symptoms of unresolved trauma," explains Father Moorman, who had just completed his studies in trauma-healing therapy.
The survivors were grieving the nearly 300,000 people killed by the earthquake, while "striving to cope with the day-to-day survival demands of finding shelter, food and clean water," he adds.
Father Moorman greets parishioners on the periphery of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Although his home is in Brazil, he also ministers around the world. (N. Sprague/Brazil)
Father Moorman remembers a woman who lost her husband and house in the Haiti earthquake. "She kept repeating, 'I have eight kids, and I'm trying to feed them. … I can't sleep, and I can't eat. All I can do is think about feeding my eight kids,' " says Father Moorman. Realizing that her children's survival depended on the mother's, Father Moorman asked her "What is it that helps you get through this? Do you have any kind of a spiritual resource?"
"She said, 'The only thing I can think of is Jesus hanging from the cross,' and I said, 'Just take one minute for yourself, just to go there to Jesus on the cross.' "
When she calmed down, she was able to go to that quiet place inside her, he says. After a moment her face relaxed and she started singing and praising God. "After this experience, she was able to find a new space within herself that allowed her to shift out of the trauma that paralyzed her and to see new options for feeding her children," he says.
Father Moorman now ministers to people suffering multiple types of trauma—from surviving natural disasters, to growing up in situations of domestic violence, or living with the daily challenges of trying to overcome poverty.
Father Moorman (blue shirt) and Sister Nyaki (yellow dress) congratulate those who completed a Somatic Experiencing training in João Pessoa. (Courtesy of D. Moorman/Brazil)
"Trauma is anything that overwhelms our nervous system, anything that's too much for our nervous system to handle," says Father Moorman. "It affects us physically, spiritually and emotionally." He explains that trauma can cause depression and lack of energy, or panic and anxiety attacks. It can also cause the body and nervous system to close down, resulting in dissociation from reality, which limits people's openness to the possibilities of life.
Father Moorman, whose ministry is based in Brazil, returned to Haiti in 2011 with Maryknoll Sister Euphrasia "Efu" Nyaki, a faculty member of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute in Brazil.
Father Moorman says they trained volunteers to help those suffering trauma, through Somatic Experiencing for trauma resolution, "a neurophysiological method of healing" to help people renegotiate trauma. Using their knowledge of different therapies, Father Moorman and Sister Nyaki developed a five-day workshop to teach people what the priest calls "trauma first aid."
Father Moorman says the basic skills for renegotiating trauma consisted of: being in touch with one's body and sensations, breathing properly, finding healing resources and engaging the body's innate healing capacity. "Bringing awareness into the physiology of our body is what unleashes its healing potential," says the priest.
Maryknoll Fathers Alejandro Marina, Dennis Moorman and Maryknoll Sister Efu Nyaki participate in trauma healing workshops in Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Courtesy of Centro Misionero Maryknoll en América Latina / Bolivia)
Since their time in Haiti, the two missioners have worked in Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea to help people overcome the effects of trauma, while training those who would like to sharpen their skills to deal with trauma but cannot afford to study these methods.
Father Moorman says people can feel the transformative effects of the workshop. One man said he had not been able to sleep since his wife died and left him to care for their 6-month-old daughter alone. After the second day of training, he said he slept for the first time since the tragedy.
"People ask me, 'What does this work you're doing as a therapist have to do with being a missioner, or being a priest?' I say, 'What did Jesus do? He went around healing people,' " he says. "As Maryknollers, we work especially with people who are suffering, and have difficulties in life, and most people are traumatized in some way or another, so in doing the healing work, we're actually helping people to reconnect with themselves."
Father Moorman began working with a Somatic Experiencing practitioner to heal his own trauma after years of witnessing violence during his ministry in João Pessoa, Brazil. "I was having nightmares, and I was traumatized vicariously even though I never suffered any direct violence," he recalls.
Seeing the value of this body-awareness approach, he studied for three years to become a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. He was struck by the simplicity of the method for helping others, as well as its impact on his own healing. "It is helpful in ministry because you see results very quickly," he says.
He thought the healing tools would help the people he served in Brazil, because most of them could not afford the time or money to go to traditional therapy every week. By sharing his knowledge, he could help them learn to manage their own stress, anxiety and issues of trauma to continue the healing on their own.
Originally from the countryside near St. Maurice, Ind., Father Moorman now works with different trauma-healing organizations in Brazil, including a holistic healing center led by Sister Nyaki and a restorative justice program, all while working as a priest in Perús, on the northwestern periphery of the city of São Paulo. However, he says training others in trauma- healing therapy around the globe has become his main mission. "You could say the world is my mission now," he says.
Other Maryknollers have invited Father Moorman and Sister Nyaki to share their trauma workshop in the countries where they serve, with many of the participants volunteering to help others deal with their trauma.
That was the case of Moses, who had been imprisoned and tortured because of his efforts to organize unions in South Korea in the 1980s. "Moses attended the healing workshops by Dennis and Efu, and has overcome the trauma to a great extent," says Maryknoll Father Russell Feldmeier, who invited the missioners to share their workshop in 2012. "Moses (now) leads healing and personal growth educational programs."
"Dennis and Efu would lead them into healing in a very gentle way. They were so respectful of the person," Father Feldmeier says. The workshops "invited (people) to take responsibility for their own healing."
After the workshop, the workers would have monthly meetings to continue the healing process and every year Father Moorman and Sister Nyaki would return to provide more advanced training.
"When people heal their trauma, they are able to relate better with others and can live fuller lives," says Sister Nyaki, who is originally from Tanzania.
The possibility to help others find wholeness after a traumatic event led Tania Avila Meneses to bring the healing workshops to the Maryknoll Mission Center for Latin America (CMMAL) in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Avila says the holistic techniques people learned allowed them to use body awareness as a springboard for healing.
"I saw how people faced their fears little by little, acquiring tools to deal with trauma," says the center's language teacher Kitty Schmidt. "They felt freed, strengthened, supported."
Father Moorman adds that training community leaders across the globe multiplies their efforts to share the tools to move beyond trauma and suffering.
Whether in Haiti, Korea, Brazil, Bolivia or other countries he and Sister Nyaki are invited to, Father Moorman hopes their efforts continue to empower others to lead hopeful lives after trauma.
Photographer Nile Sprague also did reporting for this story.
Featured Image: Crosses mark the graves of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Missioners have helped to heal survivors' trauma.
Maria-Pia Negro Chin
Maria-Pia was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She earned a master's degree in multimedia journalism from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in communications/writing from Loyola University Maryland. As bilingual associate editor, she writes, edits and translates articles for Misioneros and Maryknoll Magazine for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Her work has received awards from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada. She lives in New York with her husband.

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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Bernie Sanders Could Win. America Could Become Socialist. Are We Witnessing the Failure of Propaganda?
The independent senator from Vermont says the economic system is rigged against working-class Americans. He's right.
The electoral political system is a subsidiary of those who rule the economy. Which is why Bernie Sanders never stood a chance. The political system was rigged against him.
And yet, despite the formidable institutional obstacles stacked against him, Sanders is doing great: largely considered a shoo-in to win New Hampshire, leading in Iowa, closing the gap nationally. Surprised pundits are marveling at his popular momentum, ground organization and fundraising prowess. There is now a credible path to the Democratic nomination and, if he runs against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, to the White House.
Center-right Hillaryworld wants to know: how did this happen?
Leftists wonder: is this cause for hope?
It is an amazing story. Everyone in a position to block Sanders' campaign did everything they could to sabotage him.
Marginalization always used to work. Remember John Edwards? His 2008 primary campaign was doomed because TV networks refused to cover him. But the media's cold shoulder isn't hurting Bernie.
In the bag for Hillary Clinton and remembering the lesson of 2008 — the more voters hear from her the less they like her — the Democratic National Committee fed her aura of inevitability by refusing to give Bernie the exposure and legitimacy offered by a robust round of debates. Debates, the few of them the manipulative DNC chair and Hillary toady Debbie Wasserman Schultz allowed to take place, were scheduled for the nights known for low television viewership.
That tactic backfired. Hillary did better than Bernie in the first three debates. But no one saw her flex her foreign-affairs muscles.
Bernie got nothing but chicanery from the DNC, to the point that the Sanders camp had to sue to access its own voter data. Which only reinforced his image as a rebel — not easy for a U.S. senator — and further endeared him to his supporters.
Despite everything, Sanders could win.
Moreover, it's not just Sanders the candidate who is doing well. His "unusual" politics are becoming usual.
Sanders' self-labeling as a democratic socialist — universally considered political suicide in the United States — is catching on. In one of the most surprising poll results of the 2016 race, a recent survey of likely Iowa caucus-goers finds that more of them call themselves socialist (43%) than capitalist (38%).
Where did Iowa's socialists come from? They certainly weren't indoctrinated by the mainstream system. No ideology, not even radical Islam, has come under heavier systemic assault than socialism. From the Palmer Raids of a century ago to McCarthyism to the Tea Party's (sadly mistaken) insinuations that President Obama is a secret red, socialism has been the bête rouge of mainstream American politics: reviled in ridiculous movies, misrepresented and excluded from acceptable public debate, even on the watered-down liberalism that passes for a "left." Even in schools, socialism and communism are lied about — if they're mentioned at all.
It's certainly a notable moment. The ruling elite's old tricks are indeed failing them. But it's too early to declare propaganda dead and gone. Propaganda works. That's why those in power keep using it.
Here's what I think is really going on: old institutions have been discredited. Sanders' growing support and Iowa's surprisingly socialist hordes reflect public contempt for everyone in charge.
Pundits have mostly focused on populist anger on the right, embodied by the wild neofascist-lite pronouncements of Donald Trump. But there is just as much rage on the left excluded from the Democratic Party since George McGovern's 1972 defeat to Richard Nixon. Divided or not, one thing Americans can agree upon is that they don't trust government — on the right to leave them alone, and on the left to help them out.
Propaganda is still effective. But when it's broadcast by elites who are widely despised, its effect is opposite of what's intended.
Hillary Clinton racks up endorsements from unions and left-leaning organizations like Planned Parenthood. In the past, these would have given her a boost. This year, it reinforces a negative framing of her as bought and paid for by special interests.
In days of yore the endorsement of a young actress starring in a hip TV show would have been a feather in Hillary's cap. In 2016, it's hard to imagine how poor Lena Dunham will wash away the stink of Hillary's hard-edged corporatism.
Hillary has an incredible resume: first lady, senator, secretary of state. This year, she'd be better off as an outsider. Credentials subtract from her credibility. What's wrong now, voters feel, is partly her fault.
Bernie Sanders' campaign gets accused of improperly accessing Hillary's data on DNC servers. In the old days, the smell of an ethical breach might have doomed his candidacy. Now, because Democratic voters are disgusted by the DNC's brazen attempt to fix the primaries for Hillary, the controversy looks like another sleazy attack on Bernie the outsider.
Because the public distrusts journalists, the media blackout works in Bernie's favor. Through the lens of this new politics of contempt, if the powers that be want to censor the "wild and crazy" socialist senator, he musn't be that bad after all.
What Bernie really needs is for Hillary to receive Obama's endorsement (which she obviously, foolishly, wants.) That would be the end of her.
The same reverse-propaganda paradigm holds true for socialism. As America's continuously lauded state religion, capitalism takes the blame for all its associated evils: layoffs, stagnant wages, home foreclosures, health insurance companies that don't pay claims. If socialism is anti-capitalism, an alienated populace has evidently concluded, it doesn't matter that they don't know very much about it. Socialism can't be that bad.
If elected, President Sanders will be ineffective. Either that, or he'll sell us out. Such is the nature of this system: it chews up and spits out those who don't go along to get along.
A Sanders victory would nonetheless mark an important prerevolutionary moment. As Ché Guevara observed, people will not resort to armed struggle before they exhaust every last opportunity to nonviolently reform the existing system by casting their votes in elections.
A Sanders Administration would be our best, last, 100% doomed shot at fixing a rigged regime.
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Blow Up Stubborn Calves With These 3 High-Volume Routines
Bill Geiger
April 19, 2018 • 7 min read
Building the most stubborn of muscle groups requires different strategies and a pain-is-pleasure mindset. Here's how three top Jyoto.info athletes bend heaven and earth to grow their calves!
Calf training can seem like one of the most pointless activities you do in the gym; For most people, it's all pain and no gain. One reason for that is because, unlike other major skeletal muscle groups, the calves contain a lot of slow-twitch muscle fibers, which are notoriously unresponsive to a muscle growth stimulus. As a result, calves just don't seem to get any bigger—no matter how hard you work them.
But some lifters have had success with this particular body part. Today, NPC bodybuilder Lawrence Ballenger, IFBB pro Kathleen Tesori, and WBFF pro Lee Constantinou share their calf workouts with you. They'll tell you which techniques work better than others, and what tips can help you finally see some real calf growth.
Stretch to Grow
At the end of a hard leg workout, simply standing can be challenging. It's no surprise that many lifters just stagger over to the seated calf raise machine, bust out a few sets, and call it a day. But here's why you need more.
The general motion you use when training calves involves going as high up on your toes as you can, then descending into a deep heel stretch. When your knees are bent, such as when you're doing seated calf raises, one of the two major calf muscles, the gastrocnemius or "gastroc," can't stretch. This severely limits how much it can contract and grow.
If you want to build that knotty, diamond-shaped gastroc muscle, you need to stretch it hard. And that means focusing on straight-legged movements, including standing raises, donkeys, and leg-press calf raises.
Yes, you can do plenty of seated work as well, since that will hammer the other major calf muscle, the soleus. But know that to grow, you need both.
Lawrence Ballenger: High Volume, High Intensity
Lawrence Ballenger's approach is both high volume and high intensity—hitting his calves with lots of reps and zero breaks.
"I used to train my calves extremely heavy, and nothing happened for years," he says. "Once I lightened the weight and focused on pushing blood into the muscle and creating cell swelling and a pump, my calves finally started growing."
Lawrence Ballenger's Calf Workout
Triset
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Standing Dumbbell Calf Raise
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Donkey Calf Raises
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As Ballenger does these high-rep exercises, he creates a more forceful contraction by keeping the weight over the insides of his feet rather than on the entire foot. Then he does bodyweight standing calf raises for 15-20 seconds.
"Since I'm standing on the floor, I lose some range of motion. But I just tap my heels to the floor and then come back up without bouncing, never allowing my calves to fully rest."
It's important to use a controlled tempo so momentum doesn't take over. He goes slowly, getting just enough rest to go right back into the triset rather than stopping. It's super intense.
"I train calves twice a week after legs. I've followed this protocol for four years now, and my calves have grown about 5 inches," he says. "But it's remarkably painful. When I can't handle the pain and want to quit, I remember that pain and discomfort are what drive change and growth."
Kathleen Tesori: Short, Between-Set Mini-Rests
"I feel like I've had an advantage because I started wearing heels almost every day at a really young age, which helped grow and define my calves," Tesori says. "I still wear pumps every day to work, so my calves are used to carrying my body weight."
However, Tesori adds that wearing heels is not the same as working your calves through a full range of motion. When she's doing calf exercises, she goes as high up on her toes as she can, and then extends her heels below the platform to get a deep stretch on every rep. Her goal is to lift her body weight through a full range of motion. She combines high volume and weighted exercises to make sure she hits her entire calves, targeting each head by changing up foot position: toes inward, outward, and straight ahead.
Doing your calf work on the leg press machine makes it easy to change foot positions with each set, which is one reason why Tesori has favored this particular tool in the past, usually at the end of a hard leg workout.
Kathleen Tesori's Calf Workout
Calf Press On The Leg Press Machine
"Pain is inevitable when you push yourself with calves," Tesori says. "The best way to work through intense pain is to either push out the reps as fast as possible or take a quick break within the set, then quickly resume. Make sure you keep track of your load and reps because you'll want to keep trying to improve each week."
Lee Constantinou: German Volume Training with Tip-Toe Walks
"I'm still working to develop a more impressive set of calves," Constantinou says. "My calves just don't seem to want to grow much, even though my workout is intense and takes quite a bit of time. There's so much muscle pain involved in my calf workout, I try to distract myself by zoning out, listening to music—even grunting. They all help."
Constantinou usually adds calves onto the end of his leg workout. Larger, multijoint leg exercises warm up his calves prior to his isolation work with movements like lunges and Romanians.
He schedules calf training 2-3 times a week, hitting them first on one of the workouts to give them more focus and attention. When he goes heavy, he aims for 15-20 reps. When he has tried to go very heavy, he's felt more pressure on his tibialis anterior (shin) and less in the gastroc. He also finds peak isometric contractions more effective than just pumping through the reps.
"I've tried some rather unconventional approaches to calf training, but one that stands out is German Volume Training," Constantinou says.
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Walking, Treadmill
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"The 10x10 protocol left my calves incredibly pumped, but very sore for the next couple of days," Constantinou recalls. "I even did tip-toe walks between sets, which had them firing on all cylinders! But it's all about volume and pump. That's what calves respond to."
Bill Geiger, MA, has served as a senior content editor for Jyoto.info and group editorial director with MuscleMag and Reps magazines.
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Audrey Brinkruff 3rd in the 1600 and 3200 meter runs.
Addi Hill placed 5th in the 400 meter run.
The 4×400 team of Hill, Lindsey Pope, Jade Reynolds, and Peterson ran their fastest time of the year placing 4th.


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Breakfast doesn't have to be complicated and you sure as heck don't have to buy it every morning. I remember those days--when my work day started with a Starbucks drive-by. I spent about $8 every morning. I had a great salary so I was like, "who cares? It's $8." I did the math. 8x5=$40 per week. $40/week x 4 weeks = $160 a month JUST on breakfast, alone. Did I also tell you I ate lunch and dinner out most days?
Yep, that was me. That was my life.
Not anymore. I do like to grab a muffin or croissant from time to time, but I am currently doing an experiment to see which of those foods is contributing to my acne. It's mostly caused from the hormones I'm on for my transition but I KNOW that nutrition plays a huge role in whatever happens with my body.
So, I'm eating a lot less baked stuff and more oatmeal lately. I like oatmeal but it can get boring. I try to come up with new things to add in to make me like it even more.
Here's my latest and greatest. Hope you enjoy!
*prep all the dry ingredients the night before, add the wet ones in the morning to save EVEN MORE time!


The Engish-language edition of Ricardo magazine is now on sale across Canada. The 164-page September issue has over 50 fall recipes, tips and ideas for the fall season. The French edition of the publication launched 12 years ago and is one of Québec's most successful magazines.
Ricardo magazine will feature the opinions of lifestyle experts and include sections like Ricardo For Kids, Weekday Wonders and Safe Eats—a section for Canadians with dietary restrictions—in every issue.
The magazine will be published six times a year and will be distributed at all major retailers. Ricardo Media is a private company run by celebrity chef Ricardo Larrivée and his wife Brigitte Coutu—the company's president.


Graigue Ballycallan GAA Club and St Brigid's Camogie Club are holding a massive family fun day at the Club Grounds on Sunday, August 12.
This is the third year that they have held this event and it promises to be bigger and better than before.
There will be a huge range of attractions, including a train ride, face painting, vintage display, underage Hurling and Camogie tournament, tug-o-war, colouring competition, Wheel of Fortune, al fresco food, fun fair stalls, farmers market stalls, live music, plus fantastic new attractions including the biggest inflatable climbing wall in Ireland, circular obstacle course, brand new log rolling attraction, rodeo bill, Irelands Highest inflatable slide and the return of the All Ireland Bale Rolling Competition.
There will also be a monster timber auction will be held on the day. Don't miss a great opportunity to get firewood at a great price!


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In a goodwill gesture, South Korea removes propaganda loudspeakers from border with North Korea (VIDEO)
From Fort-Russ
By Paul Antonopoulos Last updated May 1, 2018
South Korean military personnel were seen removing the propaganda loudspeakers used for cross border anti-North Korean broadcasts on Tuesday.
Dozens of loudspeakers were used for anti-Pyongyang messaging and their removal is seen as indicating a further step in thawing relations between the two Koreas.
South Korean leader Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un recently agreed to work on a "complete denuclearize" of the Korean peninsula.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/05/in-a-good-gesture-south-korea-removes-propaganda-loud-speakers-from-border-with-north-korea/
Tagged border, DPRK, Kim Jong Un, loudspeakers, Moon Jae-in, North Korea, propaganda, South Korea
Biological Warfare: U.S. dropped plague-infected fleas on North Korea in March 1952
From Medium
By Jeffrey Kaye
There is a great deal of misunderstanding between the people of the United States and North Korea. This is largely due to the lack of information the average U.S. citizen has about the suffering endured by Koreans during the Korean War, including war crimes committed by U.S. forces.
While U.S. forces carpet bombed North Korea, bombed irrigation dams, and threatened nuclear attack, their most controversial action was the use of bacteriological or biological weapons during the war.
For decades, the U.S. has strenuously denied the use of such weapons. At the same time, evidence of such use was kept from the American people. Even today, very few are aware of what really happened. Only in February 2018 was a full documentary report on germ warfare, prepared and written by mostly West European scientists, released online in easy-to-read format.
Some former Cold War researchers have maintained that China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea perpetuated a fraud in their claims of germ warfare. They rely on a dozen or so documents supposedly found by a rightwing Japanese journalist in Soviet archives. But these researchers never counted on the fact that someday the public could read documentary accounts of the biowar campaign for themselves.
The story that follows concerns one such episode, the dropping of plague-infected human fleas on a single small village. But we will see that the story itself is much larger, and includes a U.S. cover-up about Japan's use of biological weapons in World War II, and testimony from a Marine Corps colonel about how the U.S. conceptualized its germ warfare campaign.
Excerpted from the 1952 "Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China," p. 287 (p. 325 of linked PDF)
The tale begins with an American plane flying circles over and over a small North Korean village one moonless night in Spring 1952.
Tagged biological warfare, DPRK, fleas, germ warfare, ISC, Japan, North Korea, plague
The genocide conspiracy against North Korea: An open letter to the International Criminal Court
By Christopher Black and Prof. Graeme McQueen
Global Research, January 26, 2018
The American threats against North Korea continue to mount and with them the threat of the genocide of the people of North Korea by the United States of America and its allies. The meeting of the USA, Canada and other nations that attacked North Korea in 1950 held in Vancouver, Canada, on January 16, which some hoped would lead to a political solution, instead took on the character of a meeting of criminals who by their presence, agreement and actions made them parties to a conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime under the statute of the International Criminal Court and the Genocide Convention of 1948.
The threats made against North Korea are due to one single fact: the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea refuses to accept the world hegemony of the American Empire. It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. It has become a ritual now to state that all the permanent members of the Security Council are armed with nuclear weapons, that the United States has used them on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that they have continuously threatened to use them to intimidate other nations since 1945, that Pakistan, India, and Israel have them, that NATO members in Europe have them at their disposal under US direction, that North Korea is in violation of no international law in developing them to defend themselves, to ensure their security just as all those other nations have done, that North Korea threatens no one and seeks only to have a full and final peace with the United States.
The nuclear weapon issue is a simply the pretext that the United States is using to try to solidify its tyranny over Korea, over the world.
The threat to the world peace comes not from North Korea. It comes from the United States and its allies: the nations who have degraded themselves into subjugated vassal states ready to obey any criminal order of their masters of war in Washington.
In response to what in our considered opinion are criminal actions, Dr. Graeme MacQueen, Founder and former Director of the Centre For Peace Studies, at McMaster University, and I, felt it necessary to send the following Open Letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on January 23.
Dear Madame Prosecutor:
Re: Threats of Genocide Made Against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
We, the undersigned, share the desire of the Canadian people to establish and preserve peace in the world. It is therefore necessary for us to ask you to open an investigative file on the action of governments allied to the United States, including Canada, its government ministers and officials active in the on-going crisis with the DPRK.
Embarrassment and shock at President Trump's threats against North Korea have been widespread and have led to a serious discussion in the US as to whether Mr. Trump is mentally fit to govern. However, the threats of Mr. Trump and his secretary of defense go well beyond the US domestic sphere and have direct implications for other countries, including Canada.
Tagged DPRK, genocide, ICC, North Korea
Fearing peace, the U.S. humiliates South Korea, threatens North Korea. Japanese and U.S. historical aggression against Korea.
Stand with North Korea for peace.
From Global Research
By David William Pear
Fearing that peace might break out with the two Koreas talking to each other, Washington instructed South Korean President Moon Jae-in to keep the message about anything but peace. It is not just Trump. A former top official for the Obama administration warned Moon that South Korea was not going to get anywhere with the North Koreans unless they have the "US behind them". Humiliating, that is like saying that Moon's "button" is not as big as Kim's. The metaphor is exactly how the Washington elite see South Korea: as Washington's obedient proxy state. The official went on to say,
"If South Koreans are viewed as running off the leash, it will exacerbate tension within the alliance".
Running off the leash! Now more humiliation, is South Korea a US poodle? Instead President Moon Jae-in is showing that he has teeth, and that South Koreans want their country back from US humiliating domination.
During the talks it was agreed for North Korea to participate in the Winter Olympics in February. The two countries will even march together under a common flag, and future talks between the two are planned to reduce tension. Trump continues to bluster, while the two Koreas have "engaged in the most substantive direct talks in years". Neocons such as John Bolton are outraged that North Korea has proven once again that it is willing to come to the negotiation table. Bolton says it is a dirty trick and that North Korea is "taking advantage of a weak South Korean government", adding more insulting humiliation. To Washington, South Korea talking peace is weak, running off the leash and going it alone without its US master. The North using the peace option is seen as a provocation and propaganda that Washington will not tolerate.
In retaliation the US sent more nukes to Guam, and put the state of Hawaii on a full alert that a "ballistic missile was inbound". The nukes outbound to Guam are real; the ones inbound to Hawaii were fake, just like the ability of the billion dollar THAADS to shoot them down. Too conveniently the Hawaii false alarm comes just as the US and its vassals are readying for what the US plots to be a show of solidarity and unity on killer sanctions against North Korea. The US wants its chorus to perform the tragedy of telling North Korea to obey or watch 500,000 of their children die. As Madeleine Albrightsaid about Iraq's 500,000 dead children from US sanctions, "the price is worth it". The US does not think the price of diplomacy is worth it though.
The US continues to block efforts at diplomacy, and express its contempt for South Korea's elected President Moon Jae-in. He was elected on a peace platform by the South Korean people. Moon's predecessor Park Geun-hye sang from the US hymnbook until she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. In 2017 the South Korean people went to the street and demanded the granddaughter of former dictator Park Chung Hee be impeached, and now she is in prison. Peace is not anything that Washington's plutocrats want to hear, although the South Korean people like the sound of it, and elected Moon their president by a wide margin. The self-interests in Washington preferred the corrupt warmonger Park. She carried the US's tune with perfect pitch, even (allegedly) conspired to assassinate the North's Kim Jong-Un. The message of the humiliation from US apparatchiks is that if Moon does not change his tune the US will try to undermine South Korea's democracy with a regime change project might be in his future. The US habitually meddles in other's elections, and wants to keep tensions high on the Korean peninsula, keep the South Koreans in line, make North Korea a boogeyman, frighten the American people, station 30,000 US troops in South Korea with wartime operational control, buy more multi-billion dollar THAADS from Lockheed Martin, and divide the Korean people. Even at the risks of a nuclear war, which the US proposes making easier.
Tagged DPRK, Japan, North Korea, South Korea
Sign the People's Peace Treaty with North Korea
From David Swanson
A Peace Treaty with North Korea — and you can sign it!
Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open message to Washington and Pyongyang.
Click here to add your name to the People's Peace Treaty.
https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13108&tag=WBW171027&track=WBW171027
The People's Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. Government. It reads, in part:
Recalling that the United States currently possesses about 6,800 nuclear weapons, and has threatened the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea in the past, including the most recent threat made by the U.S. President in his terrifying speech to the United Nations ("totally destroy North Korea");
Regretting that the U.S. Government has so far refused to negotiate a peace treaty to replace the temporary Korean War Armistice Agreement of 1953, although such a peace treaty has been proposed by Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) many times from 1974 on;
Convinced that ending the Korean War officially is an urgent, essential step for the establishment of enduring peace and mutual respect between the U.S. and DPRK, as well as for the North Korean people's full enjoyment of their basic human rights to life, peace and development – ending their long sufferings from the harsh economic sanctions imposed on them by the U.S. Government since 1950.
Add your name now.
The People's Peace Treaty concludes:
NOW, THEREFORE, as a Concerned Person of the United States of America (or on behalf of a civil society organization), I hereby sign this People's Peace Treaty with North Korea, dated November 11, 2017, Armistice Day (also Veterans Day in the U.S.), and
1) Declare to the world that the Korean War is over as far as I am concerned, and that I will live in "permanent peace and friendship" with the North Korean people (as promised in the 1882 U.S.-Korea Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation that opened the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Korea for the first time);
2) Express my deep apology to the North Korean people for the U.S. Government's long, cruel and unjust hostility against them, including the near total destruction of North Korea due to the heavy U.S. bombings during the Korean War;
3) Urge Washington and Pyongyang to immediately stop their preemptive (or preventive) conventional/nuclear attack threats against each other and to sign the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons;
4) Call upon the U.S. Government to stop its large-scale, joint war drills with the armed forces of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan, and commence a gradual withdrawal of the U.S. troops and weapons from South Korea;
5) Call upon the U.S. Government to officially end the lingering and costly Korean War by concluding a peace treaty with the DPRK without further delay, to lift all sanctions against the country, and to join the 164 nations that have normal diplomatic relations with the DPRK;
6) Pledge that I will do my best to end the Korean War, and to reach out to the North Korean people – in order to foster greater understanding, reconciliation and friendship.
Sign your name by clicking here.
Some noted signers:
Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, UFPJ
Gerry Condon, Veterans For Peace
Noam Chomsky, Emeritus Professor, M.I.T.
Blanch Weisen Cook, Professor of History and Women's Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Joe Essertier, World Beyond War – Japan
Irene Gendzier, Emeritus Professor, Boston University
Joseph Gerson, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
Louis Kampf, Emeritus Professor, M.I.T.
Asaf Kfoury, Professor of Mathematics, Boston University
John Kim, Veterans For Peace
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
John Lamperti, Emeritus Professor, Dartmouth College
Kevin Martin, Peace Action
Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University (retired)
Steve Rabson, Emeritus Professor, Brown University
Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
David Swanson, World Beyond War, RootsAction
Ann Wright, Women Cross DMZ, Code Pink, VFP
After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends.
> President Jimmy Carter, "What I've Learned from North Korea's Leaders,"Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2017
> Col. Ann Wright (Ret.), "A Path Forward on North Korea, " Consortiumnews,March 5, 2017
> Leon V. Sigal, "Bad History," 38 North, Aug. 22, 2017
> Prof. Bruce Cumings, "A Murderous History of Korea," London Review of Books, May 18, 2017
http://davidswanson.org/a-peace-treaty-with-north-korea-and-you-can-sign-it/
Tagged armistice, DPRK, Korean War, North Korea, peace treaty
Responsible actions needed to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula — a Chinese perspective
By Zhong Sheng
Global Research, May 01, 2017
People's Daily 30 April 2017
Given the continued escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula over the past months, all concerned parties should implement the resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council in a more strict manner and return to peaceful negotiations, the People's Daily said in an editorial published on Sunday.
The commentary came after Friday's ministerial meeting on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula hosted by the UN Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York.
The latest developments on the peninsula highlighted an imperative need for all parties to intensify their efforts to bring stakeholders to dialogue table, added the commentary published under the pen name Zhong Sheng, which is often used to express the paper's views on foreign policy.
It is reasonable for the DPRK to pursue its own security, but its nuclear and missile ambitions have put itself and the whole region into dire peril, stressed the article titled "Responsible actions are needed to ensure peace of Korean Peninsula".
The country has been immersed itself into a strong sense of insecurity given historic reasons and reality, the paper added.
The DPRK must not be obsessed in a wrong path of repeated nuclear tests and missile launches that resulted in rounds of sanctions, the commentary said, calling on the country to respect and comply with the relevant Security Council resolutions.
The article pointed out that the Republic of Korea(ROK) and the US also added fuel to the escalated tensions since the two allies, who have been maintaining a high-handed pressure on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula, revealed a strategic intention to crush the DPRK.
It is almost impossible to ease the crisis on the peninsula if the ROK and the US continue their fantasy to settle the problem with more military actions but turn a blind eye to reasonable appeals of the DPRK, the paper stressed.
China is not a directly-concerned party of the peninsula crisis, and it does not hold the key to solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula, the commentary admitted.
But it emphasized that no matter what happens, China will never waiver in its clear-cut position regarding the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, which means it will stay committed to the goal of denuclearization as well as the path of dialogue and negotiation.
In the next step, the DPRK should refrain from further nuclear test or missile launches, the article urged, adding that the ROK and the US, for their part, also need to stop launching or expanding their military drills or deployment against the DPRK.
All stakeholders need to comprehensively understand and fully implement the DPRK-related resolutions adopted by the Security Council, the paper said. The international community needs to step up their anti-proliferation efforts against the DPRK action. Meanwhile,all parties also need to do more to persuade stakeholders back to peaceful dialogues, it added.
China will, with its utmost sincerity and efforts, safeguard the peace and stability of Northeast Asia and realize the goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula along with relevant parties, the paper vowed, stressing that though a peace lover, the country is fearless of any provocations or tests.
China has proposed the "dual-track approach" and "suspension for suspension" plan for peaceful settlement of the issue, in an attempt to help the parties breakout of the security dilemma and return to the negotiating table.
The objective, reasonable and feasible proposals, according to the editorial, not only conform to the requirements of the UN resolutions, but also meet the fundamental interest of all parties including the US and the DPRK.
Translated from Chinese, People's Daily, April 2017.
The original source of this article is People's Daily
Copyright © Zhong Sheng, People's Daily, 2017
http://www.globalresearch.ca/responsible-actions-needed-to-ensure-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula/5587878
Tagged China, DPRK, North Korea, peace
America's war against the people of Korea: The historical record of U.S. war crimes
…we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. …Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives…
We should dispense with the aspiration to "be liked" or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers' keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague and—for the Far East—unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
George F. Kennan, State Department Brief, Washington DC, 1948
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, April 30, 2017
Global Research 13 September 2013
The following text by Michel Chossudovsky was presented in Seoul, South Korea in the context of the Korea Armistice Day Commemoration, 27 July 2013
A Message for Peace. Towards a Peace Agreement and the Withdrawal of US Troops from Korea.
Armistice Day, 27 July 1953 is day of Remembrance for the People of Korea.
It is a landmark date in the historical struggle for national reunification and sovereignty.
I am privileged to have this opportunity of participating in the 60th anniversary commemoration of Armistice Day on July 27, 2013.
I am much indebted to the "Anti-War, Peace Actualized, People Action" movement for this opportunity to contribute to the debate on peace and reunification.
An armistice is an agreement by the warring parties to stop fighting. It does signify the end of war.
What underlies the 1953 Armistice Agreement is that one of the warring parties, namely the US has consistently threatened to wage war on the DPRK for the last 60 years.
The US has on countless occasions violated the Armistice Agreement. It has remained on a war footing. Casually ignored by the Western media and the international community, the US has actively deployed nuclear weapons targeted at North Korea for more than half a century in violation of article 13b) of the Armistice agreement.
The armistice remains in force. The US is still at war with Korea. It is not a peace treaty, a peace agreement was never signed.
The US has used the Armistice agreement to justify the presence of 37,000 American troops on Korean soil under a bogus United Nations mandate, as well as establish an environment of continuous and ongoing military threats. This situation of "latent warfare" has lasted for the last 60 years. It is important to emphasize that this US garrison in South Korea is the only U.S. military presence based permanently on the Asian continent.
Our objective in this venue is to call for a far-reaching peace treaty, which will not only render the armistice agreement signed on July 27, 1953 null and void, but will also lay the foundations for the speedy withdrawal of US troops from Korea as well as lay the foundations for the reunification of the Korean nation.
Michel Chossudovsky Presentation: 60th anniversary commemoration of Armistice Day on July 27, 2013, Seoul, ROK.
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Armistice Day in a Broader Historical Perspective.
This commemoration is particularly significant in view of mounting US threats directed not only against Korea, but also against China and Russia as part of Washington's "Asia Pivot", not to mention the illegal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US-NATO wars against Libya and Syria, the military threats directed against Iran, the longstanding struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel, the US sponsored wars and insurrections in sub-Saharan Africa.
Armistice Day July 27, 1953, is a significant landmark in the history of US led wars. Under the Truman Doctrine formulated in the late 1940s, the Korean War (1950-1953) had set the stage for a global process of militarization and US led wars. "Peace-making" in terms of a peace agreement is in direct contradiction with Washington "war-making" agenda.
Washington has formulated a global military agenda. In the words of four star General Wesley Clark (Ret) [image right], quoting a senior Pentagon official:
"We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran" (Democracy Now March 2, 2007)
The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first major military operation undertaken by the US in the wake of World War II, launched at the very outset of what was euphemistically called "The Cold War". In many respects it was a continuation of World War II, whereby Korean lands under Japanese colonial occupation were, from one day to the next, handed over to a new colonial power, the United States of America.
At the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945), the US and the Soviet Union agreed to dividing Korea, along the 38th parallel.
There was no "Liberation" of Korea following the entry of US forces. Quite the opposite.
As we recall, a US military government was established in South Korea on September 8, 1945, three weeks after the surrender of Japan on August 15th 1945. Moreover, Japanese officials in South Korea assisted the US Army Military Government (USAMG) (1945-48) led by General Hodge in ensuring this transition. Japanese colonial administrators in Seoul as well as their Korean police officials worked hand in glove with the new colonial masters.
From the outset, the US military government refused to recognize the provisional government of the People's Republic of Korea (PRK), which was committed to major social reforms including land distribution, laws protecting the rights of workers, minimum wage legislation and the reunification of North and South Korea.
The PRK was non-aligned with an anti-colonial mandate, calling for the "establishment of close relations with the United States, USSR, England, and China, and positive opposition to any foreign influences interfering with the domestic affairs of the state."2
The PRK was abolished by military decree in September 1945 by the USAMG. There was no democracy, no liberation no independence.
While Japan was treated as a defeated Empire, South Korea was identified as a colonial territory to be administered under US military rule and US occupation forces.
America's handpicked appointee Sygman Rhee [left] was flown into Seoul in October 1945, in General Douglas MacArthur's personal airplane.
The Korean War (1950-1953)
The crimes committed by the US against the people of Korea in the course of the Korean War but also in its aftermath are unprecedented in modern history.
Tagged Carlyle Group, Citibank, DPRK, Kennan, Korea, Korean War, North Korea, U.S. foreign policy


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Black Pearl Orchestra Performs Black History Month Concert This Saturday
By Cherri Gregg March 9, 2012 at 7:31 am
Filed Under:black history month, Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Chevalier de Saint George, Hayden, Joseph Boulogne, Mozart, Music Director Jeri Lynne Johnson
By Cherri Gregg And Jericka Duncan
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra will perform its Black History Month concert at the Philadelphia Cathedral in University City on Saturday.
Music director Jeri Lynne Johnson says she founded Black Pearl so that classical music lovers could enjoy music from a diverse range of composers. And on Saturday, she says, attendees will hear selections from musical geniuses, such as Haydn and Mozart, as well as someone many haven't heard of.
Listen to Cherri Gregg's interview with Jeri Lynne Johnson in this CBS Philly Podcast:
"The Afro-Parisian Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint George. He was very prominent in the court of Louis XVI. He actually commissioned a number of symphonies from Franz Joseph Haydn, called the Paris Symphonies. And he, as a black violinist and conductor and the leader of the orchestra, prepared these symphonies and performed them."
Johnson, who is also a Philly 360 Creative Ambassador, says she started Black Pearl in 2007 so that the world could hear from a more diverse group of musicians.
"We have musicians that are African-American, Latin American, and Caucasian. It was really important for us to show that a symphony really should reflect the world around it."
For more info on this weekend's performance, go to BlackPearlCo.org.


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Malindipiplärka (Anthus melindae) är en afrikansk fågel i familjen ärlor inom ordningen tättingar.

Utseende och läte
Malindipiplärkan är en stor piplärka med kraftig näbb, långa och kraftiga ben och lång stjärt. Underisdan är kraftigt streckad, ovansidan brun och på huvudet syns ett tydligt ljust fjäderstreck. Näbbroten och benen är bjärt skärgula. Arten skiljs från andra piplärkor genom en kombination av utbredningsområde, levnadsmiljö, storlek, kraftig kroppsbyggnad, genomgående mörk fjäderdräkt väldigt kraftig streckning undertill. Sången består av ett långsamt upprepat "churee" och det vanligaste lätet är ett stigande "sveet".

Utbredning och systematik
Malindipiplärka delas in i två underarter med följande utbredning:
 Anthus melindae mallablensis – förekommer i Somalia (nordöstra Mogadishu i Mallable-regionen)
 Anthus melindae melindae – förekommer i kustvattnen i södra Somalia och sydöstra Kenya (i söder till Mombasa)

Levnadssätt
Malindipiplärkan påträffas i kustnära gräsmarker, framför allt säsongsmässigt översvämmade. Den hittas också i jordbruksmarker.

Status
Malindipiplärkan har ett rätt begränsat utbredningsområde, men beståndet anses vara stabilt. IUCN kategoriserar arten som livskraftig.

Namn
Malindi är ett distrikt i Kustprovinsen i Kenya, tillika namnet på dess huvudort.

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Polytechnic students: Multiculturalism is our defining Singaporean trait
It's about how we deal with multiculturalism that will define who we are.
Low Jia Ying
Can be found watching true crime documentaries or tending to my growing collection of houseplants.
COVID-19 has revealed a lot about Singaporeans and what we stand for.
For one, the solidarity and kindness that Singaporeans have shown to our frontline workers and the disadvantaged in our society have been very encouraging.
But the recent racist incidents have prompted a lot of soul searching among me and my friends. What does it mean to be Singaporean? What does it mean to live in a multicultural and multiracial society?
I recently had the opportunity to attend a Zoom session organised by the National Youth Council (NYC) called Conversations on Singapore Spirit, where about 100 polytechnic students were invited to share what they thought the Singapore Spirit was.
Held on Jun 15, this was the second out of four sessions, and featured four panellists, including Mr Alvin Tan, Minister of State (MOS) of Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and Ministry of Trade and Industry, national athletes Yip Pin Xiu and Veronica Shanti Pereira, and Night Owl Cinematics' (NOC) Aiken Chia.
I was interested to see what my peers thought the Singapore Spirit is, and how Singaporeans can live peacefully in a multiracial society.
Multiculturalism is the root of who we are
During the Zoom session, it was interesting to see that multiculturalism was constantly mentioned as a defining trait of the Singapore Spirit.
A student facilitator, Adam Morier from Republic Polytechnic, said on behalf of his group: "Multiculturalism really stands out to all of us, and is something that the country has been really proud of. It's something that's in our blood."
Other students also shared, because Singaporeans are all from diverse backgrounds, we have so many festivities and cultural events to look forward to.
One student also mentioned how his family and their neighbour of a different race would interact very frequently and even exchange gifts from time to time.
Mr Tan gave an analogy of how multiculturalism is our root, and Singaporeans have to be mindful of what comes out of these roots.
"Everything springs out of [this root]. The good fruits, and the not so good fruits. Good fruits can prosper and we can benefit from them, but there are also weeds that grow out from roots. These weeds we have to prune," he added, referring to the cases of racism and discrimination.
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Comedian Rishi Budhrani, who hosted the session, agreed with this analogy and said: "We can't run away from our roots, these are the cards we've been dealt, it's about how best we move forward with them."
Racial harmony and inclusivity is something we have to constantly work at
The students also expressed their concern about the recent racist incidents here, and the negative impact that they have on Singapore's social fabric.
National track and field athlete Veronica Pereira, in response to a question about whether Singaporeans are merely tolerant of different communities, said that it is true to a certain extent, but she has seen improvements over time.
"I believe that [these incidents] are not a true indication of who we are as Singaporeans. We are slowly growing, we can't expect change to happen right away. But I definitely believe that we will reach a point where we will be truly inclusive of all races and cultures," she said.
She said that we should be mindful of our daily interactions with other races, as well as the conversations we have about other races with people of our own race.
"We have to dive deeper, and respect each other a little more," she added.
Being responsible social media users
Host Rishi also noted, as raised by Minister Lawrence Wong in a recent press conference, how on social media, negative news tends to travel much faster than positive news, and how positive news often gets eclipsed by negative news.
NOC's Aiken shared that he is careful of both what he takes in and what he puts out on social media.
"I tend to control what I see online. I want to make sure that I take in good stuff, things that will value-add to my life.
"As a creator, if you produce things that are sensational, they are easily forgotten and they are easily uprooted. But if you are able to put deep roots into the content that you put out, it will speak volumes," he added, using Mr Tan's root analogy.
What we put out on social media can impact the Singapore Spirit and how we act towards each other. PHOTO CREDIT: DOLE777 VIA UNSPLASH
He mentioned how his show Food King aims to celebrate hawker culture in Singapore, and is something that tries to create deep roots in the community, which will hopefully bear good fruit in the future.
How we can unite as Singaporeans during the pandemic
The students mentioned how the pandemic may have taken a toll on Singaporeans' mental health, and could be what led to the increased societal strife.
Paralympic national athlete Pin Xiu acknowledged how being at home can be frustrating, especially if we are isolated and away from our communities.
"Along with mental health awareness, there has to be mental health support. This is so that people don't see taking care of your mental health as a taboo, and that they can seek the help that they need," she said.
Mr Tan added that despite social distancing, we need to remember to stay connected with each other.
He said: "In this pandemic, there are forces that divide us. But there are also a lot of forces that are meant to unite us and we want to elevate the forces that unite us the most.
"We have people of different stripes, faiths, abilities, and if we can come together, we can get past this."
Find out more about the other sessions in the Conversations on Singapore Spirit here.
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The RMK Engineering College has been accorded to establish IEDC by the NSTEDB, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India from the academic year 2011-2012 to 2015-16. The IEDC-RMKEC has received 38.8 lakhs from NSTDEB-DST.
To develop institutional mechanisms to create entrepreneurial culture in academic institutions to foster growth of innovation and entrepreneurship among the faculty and students.
CII-AICTE India Innovation Initiative i3 - NATIONAL YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD during Oct' 2016 at New Delhi. (Cash award `50,000).
Best Project in the State level under "International Society for Scienti􀀀c Research and Development (ISSRD)". (Cash Award `10,000).
First Runner up in Yustart - 2017 conducted by CII-IIMB on 10th March 2017. Cash prize `50,000/- and Incubation support at IIMB.
Schneider Electric Apogee Innovation Challenge held at BITS, Pilani Feb '16- Winners at national level with a cash prize of INR 36,000.
RAC Innovation of Engineering and Technology held at Chennai Feb '16 - Winners of the event with the Best Concept Award.
Texas Instruments IoT Challenge held at BITS, Pilani Feb '16 - Winners at national level.
The following IEDC projects were applied for patents.
SMART G SHOES N.Veera Kumar, P. Srinath, K. V. P. Siddhartha Surya, Dr. T. SURESH This project was selected for CII- AICTE-DST Innovation Competition 2015 - and was applied for patent.
E. Kaleeswaran, S. Manivannan (EEE 2013-2014) started their new Venture in December 2015. They started a company, "M/s NIVI Robotics Private Limited" which is an Embedded Technology based product development start up.


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For the benefit of all users: A legitimate company will accept payment in its own bank account by check, credit card or by an online bank transfer and hence absolutely clean record of payment flow from customer to company is maintained. It will never ask to pay money by pre paid cash card, Western Union or Moneygram to a third party. If someone asks to pay money by these means for a business or an official transaction, you can take it as FRAUD.
How could any lender be satisfied that the loan will be serviced, by just getting Advance Fee?! No one will give unsecured loan, unless they are absolutely certain that they would be able to recover the entire principle and interest. They will also obtain customer's concurrence to set up automatic monthly charge on the debtors bank account apart from other protections like agreement for wage garnishment. They will also be a registered company so that they can proceed legally, if a customer defaults.
It would be foolish to trust a stranger (probably having a bogus website), who offers loan on the phone or email with no registration & no license to operate the business, in your state.
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"A VALUABLE gateway to the world of theatre for young people" – that's what panto is all about for Dave Benson Phillips.
The festive show, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is already packing them in at the Palace.
Not only that but it can also be a unique and exciting first-time experience for many children.
"I've been part of more than 30 pantomimes during my career, and I think they are so important because they are often a gateway to the world of theatre for young people," said Dave, who plays panto funny-man Muddles in the production.
"A trip to the panto with the family or school will often be the very first time a child ever goes to the theatre and I remember myself the first time I saw people onstage in a panto.
"Seeing a chorus of children – children just like me – performing onstage, doing breathtaking, amazing things, really inspired me. I wanted to give it a go – and even though I'd never seen anyone from my own school onstage like that, I still wanted to try.
Headlining the family show is Britain's Got Talent winner Jai McDowall, who is already winning over audiences with his powerhouse vocal talents as Snow White's handsome prince.
Stand-up comedian Andre Vincent also appears as the larger than life Dame Dolly, with actor Paul Winterford playing Herman the Henchman and Naomi Slater taking on the title role in her Redditch debut.
Snow White is at the Palace Theatre until December 31.


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At Grand Lodge
3505 Pacific Ave. Forest Grove, OR, 97116
Grand Lodge History Pub
Crash Course: The Portland Air Disaster that Made History and Changed History
Grand Lodge - Grand Lodge Theater
5 pm doors, 6:30 pm program
Qualifies for "Attend a McMenamins History-Sponsored Event" Experience Stamp.
Why not stay the night? Receive 15% off your hotel room that evening using the code HISTPUB or mention it when you call the hotel.
About Crash Course: The Portland Air Disaster that Made History and Changed History
Presented by Julie Whipple
Accidents don't just happen. On a cold winter night in 1978, a DC8 passenger jet with 189 aboard crash landed, out of fuel in a suburban neighborhood on East Burnside. Ten people died. The pilot was blamed and stripped of his career, and a sweeping transformation of flight crew training took place that made United Flight 173 (in)famous worldwide as the model for failure and change. That was only the half of it.
Hiding in plain sight for years in an attorney's file boxes, the forgotten truths of the landmark air disaster reveal much more: an emotional journey tethered to the disgraced pilot and a three-year-old survivor named Lisa who became an unlikely hero for justice and public safety in the rollercoaster legal battle that followed. This is the long-overdue, true story of a misunderstood airline disaster that forever changed the lives of those on board and countless others -- including yours.
Julie Whipple is a writer and educator based in Portland, Oregon. She holds an MFA in creative writing with an emphasis on nonfiction. She worked in Kenya and Tanzania as the East Africa correspondent for the London-based, weekly news magazine Africa Economic Digest, and as a contributor for the London Observer, South Magazine, Radio France International and Deutsche Welle among others. Her work has also been published in the Christian Science Monitor, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly Magazine and the Portland Business Journal covering an array of topics including tribal fishing rights in the Northwest, the emergence of bioethics as a field and force in medicine, the development of hydrogen fuel cells as a clean energy alternative, labor issues in multinational corporations and many other stories about business and scientific innovations and their impact on people's lives.
Her background also includes several years as a journalism and creative writing educator in a Portland high school.
Crash Course is her first book. An early portion of it won a Kellogg Award for reporting judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss.
Photo credit: Lukas Ketner, Portland illustrator.
About Grand Lodge History Pub
These monthly, free events are open to everyone interested in Oregon and Pacific Northwest history. Co-sponsored by like-minded historical and civic organizations, we bring you experts, scholars, first-person experiencers and historians who expound on topics from Lewis and Clark to shipwrecks, hop growing to women pioneers and far, far beyond. It's like being back in the classroom - except this time you get to settle into comfortable seats and enjoy a drink or two with dinner while you listen and learn.
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Congresswoman Hartzler Responds to GAO Report on Federal Funding for Abortion Advocacy Groups
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-04), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) responded to the public release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which revealed that over the course of three years (FY2016-FY2018) nearly $2 billion in taxpayer dollars went to three abortion advocacy groups: Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
The GAO report also examined four regional abortion providers: Family Planning Associates, American Women's Services, All Women's Health Center, and Whole Woman's Health. Three of these regional providers confirmed receiving a portion of this funding.
"This GAO report shows a disturbing and shameful trend where our federal government spends its taxpayer money funding and subsidizing Planned Parenthood and other abortion giants, all while destroying human dignity with every life lost," Rep. Hartzler said."We must end this horrific misuse of taxpayer funds, work to divert the $1.8 billion away from pro-abortion groups, and find real, equitable opportunities benefiting women and children that the American people actually support."
"At my request, the Government Accountability Office provided federal funding amounts for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood over the course of three years," Sen. Blackburn said. "It is unconscionable that taxpayer money inevitably finds its way to abortion providers that promote the killing of unborn children. Such misappropriation is an atrocity and exposes the critical need to promote the pro-life agenda."
"The findings of the GAO report are disgraceful: large abortion corporations received a whopping $1.8 billion in federal taxpayer dollars in just 3 years," Rep. Smith said. "This taxpayer funding is subsidizing an entire industry that is committed to performing and promoting the killing of unborn children. Recent national polling reaffirms that 60% of Americans do not want their tax dollars subsidizing abortion. The American people are not fooled by accounting tricks; they know that, when the government forks over $1.8 billion to the abortion industry, taxpayers are in essence subsidizing its whole business. Taxpayer dollars should be used to provide genuine, life-affirming health care, not used to pad the budgets of organizations that are using other funds to kill unborn children."
The GAO report, which was released on Thursday, January 21, 2021, stemmed from a request for up-to-date information Reps. Hartzler, Smith, and Sen. Blackburn submitted to GAO in 2019.
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, received approximately $1.6 billion in governmental funding over the three-year period reviewed. Of this amount, approximately $304 million came through federal grants and cooperative agreements, while the majority of this funding was in the form of Medicaid and other reimbursements to the abortion industry ($1.3 billion). Current federal law prohibits federal funding of abortions but has no limitation on funding abortion providers. This GAO report provides an accurate record of the nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funding which continues to support and facilitate the abortion business in the United States and around the world.
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PPP 130 | Why Leadership Training Isn't Preparing You to Lead (and What To Do About It), with author Herminia Ibarra
Act First, Not Think First
In this episode we speak with Herminia Ibarra, author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader. Herminia chairs a department at the world-renowned INSEAD business school and is recognized by Thinkers 50 as one of the top business thinkers around the globe. In this episode, Herminia shares...
PPP 129 | Less Panic and More Productivity for Project Managers, with author Kory Kogon
The Urgent and the Important
In this episode, we speak with Kory Kogon from the FranklinCovey organization. Kory recently published The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity. It's a very, very helpful resource for helping us sort out the urgent and the important.
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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.scatter;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.profiler.util.TransactionId;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.vo.scatter.Dot;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;

/**
 * @author Taejin Koo
 */
public class ScatterDataTest {

    private static final String agentId = "agent";
    private static final String transactionAgentId = "transactionAgent";

    @Test
    public void addDotTest() {
        int count = 100;

        long from = 1000;
        long to = 10000;
        int xGroupUnit = 100;
        int yGroupUnit = 100;

        ScatterDataBuilder builder = new ScatterDataBuilder(from, to, xGroupUnit, yGroupUnit);
        List<Dot> dotList = createDotList(agentId, transactionAgentId, count, from);

        for (Dot dot : dotList) {
            builder.addDot(dot);
        }

        List<Dot> dots = extractDotList(builder.build());
        Assertions.assertEquals(count, dots.size());
    }

    @Test
    public void addDotTest2() {
        long from = 1000;
        long to = 10000;
        int xGroupUnit = 100;
        int yGroupUnit = 100;

        ScatterDataBuilder builder = new ScatterDataBuilder(from, to, xGroupUnit, yGroupUnit);

        long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

        TransactionId transactionId1 = new TransactionId(transactionAgentId, currentTime, 1);
        TransactionId transactionId2 = new TransactionId(transactionAgentId, currentTime, 2);

        long acceptedTime = Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from);
        int executionTime = (int) Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(60 * 1000));

        long acceptedTime2 = Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from);

        Dot dot1 = new Dot(transactionId1, acceptedTime2, executionTime, 0, agentId);
        Dot dot2 = new Dot(transactionId2, acceptedTime2, executionTime, 1, agentId);

        builder.addDot(dot1);
        builder.addDot(dot2);
        ScatterData scatterData = builder.build();

        List<DotGroups> values = scatterData.getScatterData();
        Assertions.assertEquals(1, values.size());

        for (DotGroups dotGroups : values) {
            Map<Dot, DotGroup> dotGroupLeaders = dotGroups.getDotGroupLeaders();
            Assertions.assertEquals(2, dotGroupLeaders.keySet().size());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void addDotTest3() {
        long from = 1000;
        long to = 10000;
        int xGroupUnit = 100;
        int yGroupUnit = 100;

        ScatterDataBuilder builder = new ScatterDataBuilder(from, to, xGroupUnit, yGroupUnit);

        long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

        TransactionId transactionId = new TransactionId(transactionAgentId, currentTime, 1);

        long acceptedTime = Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from);
        int executionTime = (int) Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(60 * 1000));

        long acceptedTime2 = Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from);

        Dot dot1 = new Dot(transactionId, acceptedTime2, executionTime, 0, agentId);
        Dot dot2 = new Dot(transactionId, acceptedTime2, executionTime, 0, agentId);

        builder.addDot(dot1);
        builder.addDot(dot2);

        List<Dot> dots = extractDotList(builder.build());
        Assertions.assertEquals(2, dots.size());
    }

    private List<Dot> createDotList(String agentId, String transactionAgentId, int createSize, long from) {
        long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

        List<TransactionId> transactionIdList = new ArrayList<>(createSize);
        for (int i = 0; i < createSize; i++) {
            transactionIdList.add(new TransactionId(transactionAgentId, currentTime, i));
        }

        long acceptedTime = Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from);
        int executionTime = (int) Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(60 * 1000));

        List<Dot> dotList = new ArrayList<>(createSize);
        for (int i = 0; i < createSize; i++) {
            int exceptionCode = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(0, 2);
            dotList.add(new Dot(transactionIdList.get(i), Math.max(Math.abs(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(Long.MAX_VALUE)), from), executionTime, exceptionCode, agentId));
        }

        Collections.shuffle(dotList);

        return dotList;
    }

    private List<Dot> extractDotList(ScatterData scatterData) {
        List<Dot> dotList = new ArrayList<>();

        for (DotGroups dotGroups : scatterData.getScatterData()) {
            dotList.addAll(dotGroups.getSortedDotSet());
        }

        return dotList;
    }

}


President Michael D Higgins has warned Europe about a rise in racism, disharmony and loss of social cohesion as policy is dominated by concerns for a powerful financial sector.
In a hard-hitting speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Higgins said people are suffering because of actions and opinions of unaccountable ratings agencies.
He warned that the inspiration and achievements of the founders of the European Union cannot be taken for granted.
"Today, citizens in Europe are threatened with an unconscious drift to disharmony, a loss of social cohesion, a recurrence of racism and an increasing deficit of democratic accountability in some decision making of an economic and fiscal kind," he said.
The President described these as the "threatening clouds over Europe".
Mr Higgins went on to question the role and influence of big players in the world of finance and money markets. He said that European institutions have struggled to keep pace with an onslaught of economic crises and that it comes from unaccountable sources.
"We cannot, however, ignore the fact that European citizens are suffering the consequences of actions and opinions of bodies such as rating agencies, which, unlike parliaments, are unaccountable," he said.
"Many of our citizens in Europe regard the response to the crisis in their lives as disparate, sometimes delayed, not equal to the urgency of the task and showing insufficient solidarity with them in their threatened or actual economic circumstances.
"They feel that in general terms the economic narrative of recent years has been driven by dry technical concerns; for example, by calculations that are abstract and not drawn from real problems, geared primarily by a consideration of the impact of such measures on speculative markets, rather than driven by sufficient compassion and empathy with the predicament of European citizens who are members of a union, and for whom all of the resources of Europe's capacity, political, social, economic and intellectual might have been drawn on, driven by the binding moral spirit of a union."
Mr Higgins raised the issue of unemployment with 26 million people across the EU out of work, including 5.7 million young people, and 115 million in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The President said there is nothing more corrosive to society and more crushing to an individual than endemic unemployment, particularly among the young.


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» Military DWI
Strong Defenders Of Military Members Charged With DWI
A DWI conviction can be a military career killer if you are an active duty service member, reservist or member of the National Guard. In addition to criminal and civil penalties in the Missouri court system, you may face disciplinary sanctions such as Article 15 (Army and Air Force), captain's mast (Navy and Coast Guard) or office hours (Marines). You should obtain legal representation as soon as possible.
At the law firm of Travis Noble, P.C., we aggressively defend service members, reservists and National Guard members who are arrested on suspicion of DWI. Our lawyer has extensive experience and a successful record defending clients, even in supposedly "impossible" cases. We will work tenaciously to defend your rights and freedom.
For a free consultation with a military DWI lawyer, call Travis Noble, P.C., at 314-450-7849.
More Than Two Decades Of Experience
Travis Noble is a former police officer and narcotics agent with more than 20 years of criminal law experience. In your case, Mr. Noble will undertake a comprehensive review covering all aspects of your case, including the legality of the police stop, field sobriety tests, breath test procedures and other factual and legal issues. Travis Noble will carefully scrutinize these and other aspects of your case, defending you vigorously at all stages of the legal process.
Two Types Of Hearings To Know
When defending you, our goal will be to beat the DWI charge by obtaining either a dismissal or reduction to a nonalcohol offense. If we are successful, you will be spared the worst consequences of your arrest. However, even if you are cleared of the DWI charge in Missouri circuit court, you may still face the prospect of nonjudicial punishment (NJP) from your commanding officer or officer in charge.
Obtaining a positive outcome in your Missouri DWI case may possibly spare you from an NJP action entirely or minimize the potential consequences of an NJP disciplinary hearing. Our firm will cooperate with your military lawyer, providing all information required to present a strong defense in your NJP hearing.
Can You Join The Military With A DUI? Will You Get Kicked Out Of The Military Because Of A DUI? Get Answers Now.
For a free consultation with a military DWI attorney, contact Travis Noble, P.C. We represent clients in the St. Louis area and elsewhere in Missouri. Call 314-450-7849 today.