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From sacred body to waste
Regimes of value associated with the corpse in French nineteenth-century painting
Anaelle Lahaeye
There are many factors at work in the iconography of human remains. Some of those frequently discussed are aesthetic criteria, iconographic traditions and specific contingencies, whether political (for example in war paintings), symbolic (essential for transi images) or cultural. There is, however, one factor that is rarely mentioned, despite its centrality: the regime of value associated with corpses. Christ's body is not painted in the same way as that of a departed relative or that used in a human dissection. Artists choose a suitable iconography depending on how the remains are perceived. This criterion became absolutely crucial in contexts such as nineteenth-century France, when attitudes to corpses underwent major changes.
Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage, History, Law, Sociology
Human remains within an Apache knowledge ecology
An interview with Vernelda Grant
Bridget Conley
Vernelda Grant
This edited transcript of conversations between an Apache cultural heritage professional, Vernelda Grant, and researcher Bridget Conley explores the knowledge that should guide the repatriation of human remains in the colonial context of repatriating Apache sacred, cultural and patrimonial items – including human remains – from museum collections in the United States. Grant provides a historical overview of the how Apache elders first grappled with this problem, following the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) in the US Congress. She explains how and why community leaders made decisions about what items they would prioritise for repatriation. Central to her discussion is an Apache knowledge ecology grounded in recognition that the meaning of discrete items cannot be divorced from the larger religious and cultural context from which they come.
Last place
Burying the dead in times of pandemic
Diane O'Donoghue
Both historical and contemporary records of mass contagion provide occasions for visibility to persons who otherwise remain little recognised and even less studied: those who bury the dead. While global reports attest to self-advocacy among cemetery workers in the current COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological complexities of their labour go virtually unseen. Findings on the experiences of those doing such work reveal a striking contrast. While societal disavowal often renders their task as abject and forgettable, those who inter the remains frequently report affective connections to the dead that powerfully, and poignantly, undermine this erasure. Acknowledging such empathic relationality allows us to look at this profession in areas where it has never been considered, such as psychoanalytic work on 'mentalisation' or in contemporary ethics. The article concludes with an example from the accounts of those who have buried the dead in the massed graves on New York's Hart Island.
Literalised vulnerability
Holocaust ashes in and beyond memorial sites and museums
This article focuses on ongoing contestations around burned human remains originating from the Holocaust, their changing meanings and dynamics, and their presence/absence in Holocaust-related debates, museums and memorial sites. It argues that ashes challenge but also expand the notion of what constitutes human remains, rendering them irreducible to merely bones and fleshed bodies, and proposes that incinerated remains need to be seen not as a 'second rate' corporeality of the dead but as a different one, equally important to engage with – analytically, ethically and politically. Challenging the perception of ashes as unable to carry traces of the personhood of the of the dead, and as not capable of yielding evidence, I posit that, regardless of their fragile corporality, incinerated human remains should be considered abjectual and evidential, as testifying to the violence from which they originated and to which they were subjected. Moreover, in this article I consider incinerated human remains through the prism of the notion of vulnerability, meant to convey their susceptibility to violence – violence through misuse, destruction, objectification, instrumentalisation and/or museum display. I argue that the consequences of the constantly negotiated status of ashes as a 'second rate' corporeality of human remains include their very presence in museum exhibitions – where they, as human remains, do not necessarily belong.
Representing the pain of others
Telling stories of violence, suffering and death in museum exhibits
Steven Lubar
This article describes some of the techniques museums use to represent the suffering body in exhibitions. Some display human remains, but much more common, especially in Western museums, are stand-ins for the body. Manikins take many forms, including the wax museum's hyperrealistic representations, the history museum's neutral grey figures and the expressionistic figures that represent enslaved people in many recent exhibits. Symbolic objects or artefacts from the lives of victims can serve as counterweights to telling the story of their deaths. Photographs can show horror and the machinery of death, focus attention on individual lives or recreate communities. The absence of the body can call attention to its suffering. All of these techniques can be useful for museums trying to display and teach traumatic histories, but must be used with care and caution.
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In their presence: re-framing the scene of the dead body
Academisation and the law of 'attraction'
An ethnographic study of relays, connective strategies and regulated participation
Andrew Wilkins
England has long been a 'laboratory' for experimenting with structured incentives to compel, among other configurations, the organisation of schools as businesses. The focus of this chapter concerns a recent market-based experiment in education in England called the academies programme. The academies programme makes it possible for schools to operate outside their Local Education Authorities (LEAs) as private enterprises or 'state-funded independent schools' with significant responsibility for management and accountability delegated to school leaders and governors. From this perspective, the academies programme is a continuation of the idea of 'co-steering' or 'co-governance' inasmuch as academy status removes the requirement for the administration of 'needs' through the bureaucratic centralism of LEAs and instead empowers schools to consensually work with stakeholders to produce flexible, responsive models of service delivery. Yet, as this chapter shows, school autonomy among academies is conditional on the attraction of suitably skilled school leaders and governors who can effectively deploy prescriptions and solutions for 'effective governance', which includes conditioning certain people to stay out of governance. In some cases, academy structures resemble the same techno-bureaucratic settlements they were meant to replace and improve, namely LEAs, albeit lacking the mandate or incentives to provide strong democratic accountability based on principles of citizen participation and community voice (Wilkins, 2016, 2019a). The suggestion here is that the academies programme has become a target of political control from the centre and business saturation despite claims that academy status works to depoliticise and deregulate schools.
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Conclusion – Embedding an educational settlement
Coercion, contestation and localised struggles
Christy Kulz
Kirsty Morrin
Ruth McGinity
This concluding chapter charts how the goal of total system academisation remains the Conservative government's goal in the face of scant party-political opposition; however, grassroots opposition to these social and cultural interventions continues. The chapter explores how the privatisation of education structures and the narrowing of democratic participation ties to authoritarianism by reflecting on ethnographic exchanges at the Academies Show. It continues by examining the relationship between academisation and the increasing institution of detailed, rigid uniforms and punitive behaviour policies including isolation booth and practices of off-rolling and exclusion. The chapter concludes by analysing the connection between nationalism, racialisation and authoritarian educational forms through recent and well-publicised staff and student protests at Pimlico Academy in London that critically interrogate the norms promoted through these structures.
The 'contradictory space' of the entrepreneurial academy
Critical ethnography, entrepreneurship education and inequalities
This chapter draws on research in Milltown Community Academy, a Northern secondary school that houses an 'entrepreneurship specialism'. Overall, the chapter makes two contributions; firstly, it presents data that evidences retrenched inequality at Milltown Academy, and secondly it makes a methodological case for critical ethnography. Empirically, the chapter examines Milltown Academy's entrepreneurial agenda in practice. In the academy 'entrepreneurship education' is formally embedded in the school's ethos and curriculum. It is also realised through a 'real-world' initiative that allows local and student start-up businesses to operate from within the school building. Throughout, the chapter highlights processes by which 'race' and class inequalities are (re)produced in and through these entrepreneurship education practices. Methodologically, data in the chapter are drawn from critical ethnographic research collected at the institution over a year-long period. Bringing together methods and theory, the chapter draws on critical traditions in theories of sociology and education that centre inequality and 'contradiction'. Specifically, the chapter devises and operationalises a series of 'contradictions' it names as 'keyoxymorons' to think, research and write through complex, and simultaneous struggles with inequality in the academy school and beyond. For example, the keyoxymoron 'successful-failure' is deployed to explore and unpack socio-historic discourses of 'success' attached to the academy, while simultaneously illustrating how some of these narratives of 'success' work to encompass, distort and ignore 'failure'.
Free schools, inclusion and social capital of children with special educational needs and disabilities
Clara R. Jørgensen
Julie Allan
Inclusion has been a key concern for researchers exploring the impact of free schools in England since their introduction in 2010. However, discussions of inclusion have mostly centred on structural issues of social justice and equality, more specifically whether free schools are located in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, whether schools operate fair and inclusive admission policies, and whether parents and children of disadvantaged backgrounds are equally able to access the schools. Not much has been written about what actually happens at the schools in terms of more micro-level day-to-day practices and interactions. This chapter reports on a project carried out at a secondary free school in 2016–2018, using qualitative and ethnographic methods to examine the views and experiences of teachers, school staff, parents and children, particularly in relation to inclusion and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). With reference to social capital theory, the chapter discusses the extent to which the school was able to use its free school status and particular 'freedoms' to foster inclusive practice and strategies. The chapter critically considers the free school programme in relation to the inclusion of SEND students, but also explores the possibility that mainstream schools may draw on experiences developed within free schools to strengthen inclusive practices and strategies. The chapter furthermore outlines the main challenges experienced by staff in developing an inclusive school and reflects on some of the difficulties of fostering inclusion within an increasingly competitive and performance based educational system.


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Красноярск — полуморской двухколесный пароход. Построен в Англии на верфи R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd в 1903 году. Первоначально получил название Lady Buller , но из-за отказа оплаты заказчиком английский флаг не поднимал и до 1905 оставался на территории верфи незарегистрированным. пароход не был речным а предназначался для каботажных прибрежных рейсов. Первоначальная грузоподъемность 174брт, паровая машина Компаунд 87 нлс. В 1905 у верфи приобретен МПС России и назван Красноярск. Под именем Krasnojarsk был застрахован в обществе Ллойда на время морского перехода, попав в их справочник Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. В 1905 году для снабжения армии во время Русско-Японской войны российское Министерство путей сообщения закупило в Германии, Англии и Голландии речные суда. Было куплено шесть пароходов, получивших названия «Енисейск», «Красноярск», «Туруханск», «Ангара», «Лена», «Минусинск» и десять железных лихтеров. Суда были переведены на Енисей в сопровождении каравана морских судов во главе с ледоколом «Ермак».

10 октября 1905 года суда прибыли в Енисейск, где провели зиму. Из прибывших судов Министерство путей сообщения 16 октября создало Енисейскую речную флотилию. 1 мая 1906 года Енисейская речная флотилия была переименована в «Срочное казенное пароходство на реке Енисей».

Осенью 1906 года суда Срочно-казённого пароходства были переведены в Стрелковский затон на Ангаре.

19 апреля 1909 года весенним ледоходом в результате затора льда на Енисее и Ангаре из Стрелковской протоки вынесло два лихтера и пароходы «Минусинск» и «Красноярск». Вторым затором вынесло три лихтера и пароходы «Лена» и «Туруханск».

Пароход «Красноярск» получил повреждения и затонул ниже Стрелки (место слияния Енисея и Ангары) в Черёмуховском перекате.

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История судоходства на Енисее

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 Северная морская экспедиция Министерства Путей Сообщения на реку Енисей в 1905 году. (С картой и 17 рисунками). СПб 1906 г. 96 с.
 Имя на борту: О названиях пароходов и теплоходов Енисейского флота/ Владимир Семенов // Речник Енисея — Енисейское речное пароходство. — 2001. — 9-15 февраля.
 Балакин, Н. Рейс к берегам прошлого: О кораблях и людях Енисейского пароходства. Воспоминания / Н. Балакин // Речник Енисея — Енисейское речное пароходство. — 03.04.98
 Павлов А. С. Пароходы Сибири 1844—1918. Обь-Иртыш, Ангара-Байкал-Селенга, Амур, Лена, Енисей, Колыма. Якутск Агентство СIP НБР Саха 2014 г. 168 с

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кроме этого парохода имя Красноярск носило ещё несколько паровых судов. Например построенный в 1915 пароход Доброфлота

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LADY BULLER ,1903

Пароходы Российской империи
Речные суда
Транспорт Красноярского края
Появились в 1905 году
Суда по алфавиту

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America's favorite dysfunctional dad dispenses his less-than-perfect wisdom in this six-episode collection. Homer Simpson treats all his children equally, whether it's strangling his son, missing his daughter's recital, or forgetting the baby's name. Having read half of one chapter of one book on child-rearing, Homer proves you don't need book-learning, or street smarts, or anything more than a song in your heart and a beer in your hand to love your kids, particularly if their wonderful mother is doing all the hard work. So enjoy these episodes, and if you get the chance, share them with your dad, with the message: "I am so glad you're better than this".
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Chopin Scherzo / Ballade
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1. Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 (08:22)
2. Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38 (07:08)
3. Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47 (06:36)
4. Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 (10:08)
5. Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20 (10:16)
6. Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 (09:32)
7. Scherzo No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 39 (06:05)
8. Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 (10:58)
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Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58
Etude, Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor (As Featured in "Batman: The Telltale Series - Episode 4" Trailer) - Single
Classical, Soundtrack
Etudes, Op. 25: No. 12 in C Minor "Ocean" - Single
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Max Egger Memorial Album
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What Dreams May Come
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Masterpieces of Frédéric Chopin - EP
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Osokins Plays Chopin
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Comics, 12-3-22: Quotes Thomas Sowell
12-3-22, About Thomas Sowell: He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina on June 30, 1930. As his father passed away prior to his birth, and his mother, a housemaid already had 4 children he was adopted and raised by his great aunt and her 2 grown daughters. When he was 9 years old his family moved to Harlem, NY. For family reasons he dropped out of the prestigious Stuveysant High School and in 1951 he was drafted into the US MARINES serving as a photographer during the Korean War [..]
In 1968 he earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. From 1963-1978, he held teaching positions in economics at various institutions including Rutgers, Howard, Cornell, Brandeis, UCLA, and Amherst College. Since 1972 he has published 56 books, 70+ essays and has more than 30 books reviews. In 1980, he was awarded the "Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow" at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, where he currently continues his writings and work. More here https://sowell.org/about
Comics, 11-10-22: Ignorant Leaders
Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America's Elites
8-25-20, Marxists now control the dissemination of ideas thru universities, the media & elected govt officials. The violent tactics of their militant arms, Antifa and Black Lives Matter have been tacitly legitimized by the quiescence of the Democrat Party. [..] Yoram Hazony, Chairman of the Edmund Burke Society says: "Liberals will have to choose between two alternatives: either they will submit to the Marxists and help them bring democracy in America to an end. Or they will assemble a pro-democracy alliance with conservatives."
WHY ARE THE FOOLISH IN CHARGE OF AMERICA? [here]
10-23-09, Ignorant Fisherman -- Conservative Americans are shocked at the stupidity of the Obama administration; and rightly so. It squanders America's wealth, the weakens her military, despicable mishandling of the CIA, the celebration of moral wickedness, the encroachment of constitutional liberties, the blind commitment to environmental myths and so much more. [Note: and in 2022 we have Biden & Fetterman] =>
The root of America's woes is spiritual. The people don't fear God because the churches don't preach the fear of God. For that reason the issue can't be solved by political action and moralistic crusades and Republican or Libertarian rants. I am thankful for the watchdog role of the conservative media and for the fact that there is a viable alternative media today, but the best thing Bible-believing Christians can do to help America is to seek God's face and purify our individual lives and congregations and keep our focus on Christ's Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18-20)
Social Security is NOT Welfare and Seniors EARNED Their Retirement Benefits
11-10-22, Social Security retirement benefit program is not a welfare program. The recipients worked and contributed into a fund that was matched by their employers via what's called 'FICA TAX'. Then when they reached age 62 they received THEIR MONEY ... yes - THEIR MONEY. It is not tax payer money. Many liberal leftists claim it's an 'entitlement program' ... it is entitlement alright ... as senior citizens earned it. More here: seniorsecurityalliance.org/ssa-and-welfare-program-differ/
Comics, 11-8-22: Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma ), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son".
He traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies") and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, he was hugely popular in the USA for his leading political observations and wit He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.
Comics, 9-24-22: Winston Churchill Quotes
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies.
His views on Socialism, Communism and Nazism:
"There are two non-God religions, Nazism and Communism – two peas … Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You leave out God and you substitute the Devil. You leave out love and you substitute hate."
... "Whenever socialism has been tried, it has failed."
At the UN 9-24-22, Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov quoted Winston Churchill about hell and also said:
"… Seven months into that operation, and with Russia recently announcing the mobilization of some 300,000 additional troops, the future of the world order is being decided, with the US led "unipolar" model receding into the past."
See full report here: https://www.rt.com/russia/563476-sergey-lavrov-un-speech-ukraine/
See full 23 min speech here: https://rumble.com/v1le26l-fm-lavrov-speaks-at-un-general-assembly.html
Comics, 9-15-22: Progressives = Totalitarians
Progressives are Totalitarians [more here]
5-2-22, USA Gov Policy, Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr. -- A US House of Representatives vote on Res 760 condemning Cuba's repression of peaceful protestors and journalists. Called on Cuba to not arrest or detain peaceful protestors and to release all political prisoners. [here] It appeared to be the type of feel-good gesture that would unanimously pass with the liberal leftist Democrats. [There were no monetary or other strings attached to it. It was a symbolic gesture issued largely in response to a Human Rights Watch.] Instead, 40 Democrats voted against it. [Here]
<= The despicable vote included Dem Jerry Nadler, Alexandria Cortez, Illian Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters with the other 34 Democrats. The resolution passed with 207 Republicans voting Yea and zero voting nay. [..]
During the Covid fiasco, when parents discovered that progressive propaganda was being force-fed to their children they began to dissent. The response by the Biden Administration was rapid. A move was made to call concerned parents "domestic terrorists" and the FBI was unleashed on them. The leftist strangle-hold on the educational establishment was not to be challenged!
Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization [more here]
11-17-21, Brownstone.org -- Totalitarianism is a system of government (a totalitarian regime), or a system of increasing control otherwise implemented (a totalitarian movement) – presenting itself in different forms and at different levels of society – that tolerates no individual freedom or independent thought and that ultimately seeks to totally subordinate and direct all aspects of the individual human life. It's a state in which nothing can be permitted to exist that contradicts a society's ruling ideology...
Comics, 7-16-22: Well Prepared Senior!
Arming the Elderly: A Self-Defense Guide for Senior Citizens
With more than 14 percent of seniors having experienced either physical, psychological or sexual abuse - more and more over the age of 65 are carrying concealed weapons. Following are self-defense techniques for seniors that can lessen risk of being victimized:
Walk with purpose keeping eyes up
Be aware of surroundings and know where the exits are. Don't be distracted.
Keep your keys in your hand and quickly lock car doors.
Don't Be Overly Trusting
70-year-old woman charged after pointing fake gun at cop
11-9-21, TwinCities.com — Jean Ann Hansen, 70-year-old woman charged after pointing fake gun at state trooper, attempting to jump from a Midway bridge in St. Paul.
Jean was charged with one count each of making threats of violence [she pointed fake gun at officer], fleeing a police officer. More here
Six Reliable Handguns For The Elderly - Survival Sullivan
Sadly many predators target the aged for attack or robbery. [..] The first step to helping an elderly loved one to stay safe is to keep their defensive edge is understanding what the typical challenges and obstacles are that are endemic to their advanced years. [..] One solution is the full-size .22 caliber semi-automatics pistol. It allows the shooter to keep the gun closer to the body in a retention position that functions in conjunction with a laser sighting system to produce good accuracy while minimizing strain and fatigue. More here
Comics [Quotes], 8-18-21: Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer, Ayn Rand, original name Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, (born February 2, 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia—died March 6, 1982, New York, New York, U.S.). Her commercially successful novels promoting individualism and laissez-faire capitalism were influential among conservatives and libertarians and popular among generations of young people in the United States from the mid-20th century.
Upon her arrival in the United States in 1926, she changed her name to Ayn Rand. She became an American citizen in 1931. After six months in Chicago she moved to Hollywood, where a fortuitous encounter with the producer Cecil B. DeMille led to work as a movie extra and eventually to a job as a screenwriter.
In 1929 she married the actor Frank O'Connor. Soon hired as a filing clerk in the wardrobe department of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she rose to head of the department within a year, meanwhile writing stories, plays, and film scenarios in her spare time.
Her most famous and popular novel is: "Atlas Shrugged" considered her masterpiece:
In 1945 she began sketches for her next novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957; film part 1, 2011, part 2, 2012, part 3, 2014). The book depicts a future United States on the verge of economic collapse after years of collectivist misrule, under which productive and creative citizens (primarily industrialists, scientists,and artists) have been exploited to benefit an undeserving population of moochers and incompetents. The hero, John Galt, a handsome and supremely self-interested physicist and inventor, leads a band of elite producers and creators in a "strike" designed to deprive the economy of their leadership and thereby force the government to respect their economic freedom. From their redoubt in Colorado, "Galt's Gulch," they watch as the national economy and the collectivist social system are ...
Rand described her systematic philosophy, which she called objectivism, as "in essence…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
 [Note: Heroism, purpose, good morals and achievement are being destroyed in 2021 America just as she predicted.]
Black man, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born into slavery and rose to become a leading American intellectual of the 19 century. His work in educating the freed slave helped give access to new hope for thousands. In 1881 he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) and 20 years later the National Negro Business League. He is remembered as the most influential African American speaker of his time and he supported segregation.
In 1991 Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be invited to the White House; President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dine with him. Roosevelt saw Washington as a brilliant advisor on racial matters. And President William Howard Taft was the second president to also seek his council. Washington, a famed public speaker known for his sense of humor also authored many books: "The Story of My Life" (1900) and "Up From Slavery" (1901)...
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20/20 Special Edition - Islam: Questions & Answers
On September 29, 2010, ABC aired a one hour documentary called Islam: Questions and Answers. The goal of the program was to clear up misconceptions of Islam held in the minds of the American public. ABC seems to have struck a nerve with their program. Many pro-Islamic people and groups have written ABC to protest the view given to Muslims as not nuanced enough, or too broad-brushed, or not diverse enough by focusing on Arab and Asian Muslims in America while ignoring Black Muslims, supposedly the largest group of Muslims in the U.S. (as if the Black Muslim voice of the U.S. is representative of the majority of Muslims worldwide).
I myself have difficulties with the way Islam was portrayed, but for altogether different reasons. I have posted these videos along with commentary on the Facebook page for Radical Truth. The videos and commentary are here reproduced to reach a broader audience.
Links to the entire documentary, in 5 parts, can be found at the end of this article.
Muhammad & Qur'an
There are a few things left unsaid in this short clip.
Although Khadijah did assure Muhammad his revelation was from God, his first reaction was confusion: he did not know if he was divinely inspired or demonically possessed. Ibn Ishaq, the earliest biographer of Muhammad, quotes him thus: "Woe is me, poet or possessed. Never shall the Quraysh say this of me! I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest." [1] Muhammad was so full of fear from the thought of being possessed by an evil spirit that he threatened suicide. ABC conveniently omits this fact.
This clip suggests the Qur'an is no different from the Bible - same stories, etc. The truth: Similar (not same) stories, but with a twist not in the Bible. Examples: Adam and Eve kicked out of garden, but the garden is in heaven, not earth. They were sent to earth as punishment. Another: Satan is kicked out of heaven for refusing to bow down to Adam as commanded by Allah. The same stories: NO; similar distorted stories: YES. In fact, the many stories found in the Qur'an come from different religious traditions that were prevalent in 7th century Arabia and borrowed from those traditions. See the booklet by Rev. W. St.Clair Tisdall: Original Sources of the Qur'an.
Jesus is the Messiah?
Dianne Sawyer in this segment just doesn't get it. She has the 'deer in the headlights' look when the Mr. Hendi admits that Muslims believe Jesus is the Messiah and that he will return to establish the kingdom of justice and peace. What Sawyer does not understand is that Islam uses different terms for Messiah, and teaches that the events of Jesus' return at the end of the age is far different from what she understands.
Yes, Muslims believe Jesus is the Messiah; at least that is what is claimed. He is called such in the Qur'an: Isa al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah). But in the Judeo-Christian heritage which is the foundation of the United States, the term 'Messiah' denotes, to Jews, the one who will establish the Kingdom of Israel on earth, and to Christians, the promised one from the Old Testament who would come as "God with Us."
But in the Islamic worldview, the Messiah is the one who will come at the end of time to establish once and for all the Islamic caliphate (Muslim rule worldwide), who will kill every Jew and Christian, break all crosses, destroy churches and synagogues, and make all the world worship Allah alone and recognize Muhammad as God's prophet. Jesus later will have a family, and eventually die and be buried next to Muhammad.
So when the Mr. Hendi says Jesus will return to establish justice and peace, what he means is far different from what Diane Sawyer is thinking. He is talking right past her, and she nods in agreement, not understanding at all what he is intending to say. This is miscommunication at its finest.
I can say with confidence that Diane Sawyer knows none of this. The Messiah Jesus of Islam is not the same Messiah of Judaism and Christianity, yet this is what seems to be inferred here and unquestioned.
Muhammad Tolerant?
The statement is made that Muhammad was tolerant of all other religions, and that Islam today is tolerant also. This defies historical reality and is patently false.
A well established fact of history is that prior to his death in 632, Muhammad systematically eliminated every Jew from Arabia, either through exile, expulsion, or genocide. In a well known battle in 627, Muhammad personally supervised the slaughter of the Banu Qurayza in Medina as 600-800 Jewish men were beheaded and their bodies thrown into a large trench. The women and children were taken as slaves. From the captive women, Muhammad selected a new sex slave - Rayhana - and had relations with her later the same day in which he had killed her husband.[2] Muhammad wanted to marry Rayhana, but she would have nothing of it and preferred to remain his sex slave.
Muhammad went to Medina after fleeing persecution in Mecca. In Median he attempted to promote himself to the Jews there as another prophet along the line of other prophets. When the Jews rejected his as a prophet, Muhammad changed the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca. So much for tolerance.
One only need look around the world today to see that Islam does not tolerate other religious systems. In Egypt, Christians are killed, tortured, girls are raped, churches burned, no new churches can be built, church in need of repairs cannot obtain the necessary permits. In Pakistan, Indonesia, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, and other predominate Islamic societies, people of beliefs other than Islam are regularly killed or tortured, including heretical Islamic sects such Ahmadiyya. Why does ABC or Diane Sawyer fail to ask probing questions about these activities and challenge the speaker?
Muslim Contributions
This short 24 seconds of video has a number of glaring errors in it.
Muslims did not invent algebra. Even liberal Wikipedia admits the Greeks had a published book on algebra in the 3rd century, 400 years before Islam.
Muslims did not invent the concept of contagious disease. Louis Pasteur in the 19th century was known for his breakthrough discovery of contagious disease and their prevention. He was almost killed for his theory, so how can it be breakthrough if Muslims knew about it 1200 years earlier. Again Wikipedia comes to our rescue.
Thomas Jefferson wanted to learn more about Muslims (Mohammadeans as they were called) to confront the ongoing hijacking of US ships by Muslim pirates. This is why Jefferson had his own copy of the Qur'an, so he could understand his enemy better. 20/20 conveniently forgot to mention this fact.
Islam & Christianity Both Violent?
This clip is a fine example of a Red Herring: a logical fallacy whereby information is introduced which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy. The question being asked in the clip is, "Is Islam inherently violent?" The response: Violence can be found in the Bible! While violent passages can indeed be found in the Bible, this in no way answers the question of whether Islam itself is violent; a Red Herring. The question of violence in the Bible or Christianity is irrelevant to the question of whether Islam is violent.
No Jew or Christian today takes someone to the city gates and stones them to death, and then claims that the Bible allows them to do this. But many Muslims today do use the violent verses of the Qur'an as justification for their actions.
For a general overview on the subject of jihad, see this author's research paper, downloadable here. For a listing of the violent verses of the Qur'an, see this article.
Shame on 20/20 and Diane Sawyer for even attempting such a comparison!
Does the Qur'an Command Muslims to Fight?
Yes, Muhammad did preach peace in Mecca and later became more violent and aggressive in Medina. This is because when in Mecca, he preached a new religion that the polytheistic society there did not approve of. Meccans worshipped 360 various gods, and when Muhammad began calling all their gods false, he came under persecution. He had few followers, no political clout, and so his instruction to his followers were to be patient, get along as best as possible, and restraint. But when he moved to Medina, he quickly amassed a large following and had significant political clout as a leader. Here Muhammad's words grow more violent. Bottom line: When Muhammad and Muslims were the underdogs, they preached peace; when they were the majority in power, they became violent. Here is an analysis done by Rev. Richard Bailey.
Abrogation. When contradictory verses in the Qur'an are encountered, as demonstrated in this clip, the prevailing thought among Islamic scholars is to apply the concept of abrogation. Two verses from the Qur'an support this notion.
Sura 2:106 - Whatever verse we abrogate or cause to be forgotten, we bring a better verse than it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has might over all things?
Sura 16:101 - And if we exchange one verse in place of another verse, and Allah knows what He sent down, they said, "Surely, you are only a forger."
Key to understanding this concept is knowing a bit of the history behind Muhammad's revelations. He was not given the Qur'an all at once, but rather his revelations were spread over a period of 23 years, from 610 to 632. During the early years in Mecca, Muhammad was given certain verses regarding his relations with the pagan Meccans. During his later years in Medina, he was given other verses that seem in direct conflict with earlier verses, in which Muhammad is commanded to kill anyone who does not worship Allah as God and acknowledge him as God's prophet, including the Meccans for which he had received earlier verses advising peaceful relations and tolerance. According to abrogation, the newest verses, if they are on conflict with prior, older verses, over-ride or abrogate the older verses. Thus, all peaceful verses from Mecca were cancelled by later revelations commanding violence against unbelievers.
An excellent paper on abrogation, published in 1926, can be found and downloaded here.
Irshad Manji says Muhammad preached violence as found in the Qur'an because he found himself in warfare among his own people. What she failed to mention is that Muhammad himself was responsible for initiating those wars or skirmishes by inviting others to accept him as God's prophet and worship his God, and violently attacking them if they resisted his invitation or message.
Grapes, not Virgins? Terrorists Misled?
Not virgins but raisins? This lady is no Muslim scholar. The origin of this idea of virgins=raisins (or more correctly, grapes) comes from a book written by Christoph Luxenberg (a pseudonym) called The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran (http://www.amazon.com/Syro-Aramaic-Reading-Koran-Contribution-Decoding/dp/3899300882) which was banned in many Muslim countries because it is considered blasphemous.
Many words in the Qur'an are obscure and difficult to understand even by the most educated Islamic scholars. Luxenberg applied a novel idea to understanding these words. He went back to the Syriac roots of Arabic to help decode some of these words. The word for 'virgin' is 'houri' in Arabic, but 'houri' is not of Arabic origins. When Luxenberg applied his theory, he discovered the real meaning of the word might be 'grape' instead of 'virgin.' In context, the world grape fits in with the description of Paradise in Suras 55 and 56 as a lush garden filled with all kinds of fruit, rivers of wine, and so forth.
Tawfik Hamid seems to suggest that radicals get their information from non-Islamic sources, and quotes a radical book that says the blood money for a non-Muslim is half that of a Muslim. He suggests this quote is not legitimate and un-Islamic.
In fact, the quote is legitimate and can be traced back to an authoritative legal manual of Shari'a law, called Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller in English). Speaking of the blood money penalty for killing another, this legal manual, recognized as legitimate by the majority of Muslims, says, "The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man" and "the indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third that paid for a Muslim."
Tawfik suggests radicals cannot trace their writings back to authoritative sources, but he is simply wrong.
Since Luxenberg lives in fear of his life for his analysis of the word 'houri' might be a raisin or grape, for ABC to suggest that this is the mainstream understanding of the word, instead of 'virgin,' is misleading at best and likely outright deception. Jihadists today don't kill themselves over the prospect of eating a bunch of grapes or raisins in paradise; they're excited about the prospect of 72 virgins.
No Taqiyya Today?
The two female talking heads in this clip, and used throughout the entire video, simply do not know what they are talking about. They say taqiyya does not exist; they are either ignorant, or are themselves engaging in taqiyya.
The verse generally quoted in support of taqiyya is Sura 3:28, which says, ""Let not the believers take the disbelievers as Awliyaa' (supporters, helpers) instead of the believers, and whoever does that, will never be helped by Allaah in any way, except if you indeed fear a danger from them" According to the standard understanding of the last phrase, Muslims can befriend a non-Muslim, at least in appearance, when needed, to advance Islam or out of fear. This is taqiyya - saying or doing one thing for expediency sake, and as a temporary measure, until the truth can be made known safely.
Lest you think this is the opinion of this author, here is what the website Islam Q&A has to say on the matter:
This verse explains all the verses quoted above which forbid taking the kaafirs as friends in general terms. What that refers to is in cases where one has a choice, but in cases of fear and taqiyyad it is permissible to make friends with them, as much as is essential to protect oneself against their evil. That is subject to the condition that one's faith should not be affected by that friendship and the one who is behaves in that manner out of necessity is not one who behaves in that manner out of choice.
Shaykh Muhammad al-Saalih al-'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about the ruling on mixing with the kuffaar and treating them kindly hoping that they will become Muslim. He replied:
Undoubtedly the Muslim is obliged to hate the enemies of Allaah and to disavow them, because this is the way of the Messengers and their followers...
Based on this, it is not permissible for a Muslim to feel any love in his heart towards the enemies of Allah who are in fact his enemies too...
But if a Muslim treats them with kindness and gentleness in the hope that they will become Muslim and will believe, there is nothing wrong with that, because it comes under the heading of opening their hearts to Islam. But if he despairs of them becoming Muslim, then he should treat them accordingly. This is something that is discussed in detail by the scholars, especially in the book Ahkaam Ahl al-Dhimmah by Ibn al-Qayyim.
One of the best examples of taqiyya today is that Islam is a religion of peace. It is not a religion of peace; it is a religion of submission to the commands of Allah. When a Muslim says "Islam promotes peace," they mean the world will have true peace when the world comes under submission to Allah and Islam reigns supreme. For examples of the 'peaceful' activities of Islam, see the website The Religion of Peace.
For a discussion of taqiyya by former Muslims, and supporting citations from the Qur'an and hadith, see the article here. An insightful analysis of taqiyya by Raymond Ibrahim of the Middle East Forum can be found here.
Men and Women Equal?
Men and women are equal according to Quran? Well, let's see.
Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them. Qur'an 4:34 (Shakir)
Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth (have sexual relations with your wives in any manner as long as it is in the vagina and not in the anus), when or how you will. Qur'an 2:223 (Khan)
Allah enjoins you concerning your children: The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females. Qur'an 4:11 (Shakir)
O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e.screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. Koran 33:59 (Khan) [Where are men commanded to cover themselves so as not to be annoyed or molested by stalking women unable to control their sexual desires??]
Irshad Manji is wrong to assert that Khadijah represents the Islamic view of women. Muhammad married Khadijah in 595, long before he received his first revelation in 610 which began Islam. Khadijah is pre-Islamic, and her treatment by Muhammad has no bearing on how Islam views women today. This lady is incredible in her subtle way to spin things. Her argument is nothing but a smokescreen. For a view of women in Islam, from Islamic sources, see the article here.
Dearborn: Fordson High Representative of Muslim-Christian Relations?
Watching this clip, one would get the impression that everything at Fordson High in Dearborn is just fine: Muslims and Christians both linking arms together for the good of the city. The sad reality is that the administration, particularly the Muslim principle, has systematically been eliminating every last Christian from the staff of the school using lies and deception. Two news sites have written articles exposing this elimination of Christian staff from Fordson: WorldNetDaily and OneNewsNow.
I have personal experience with the way Dearborn treats Christians, at least Christians who dare proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ there. It is not pretty, and it is not tolerant. Once again, ABC news gets it wrong, and plays the role of dhimmi with full vigor.
Anyone who thinks Muslims and Christians get along fine elsewhere should subscribe to email and hard copy updates from organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs, Compass Direct, Assist News Service, Barnabus Fund, and Open Doors. Talk to Christians who have lived in those parts of the world and get their story. Despite what Muslims in the west would have us believe, Islam is NOT tolerant of any other religion, and is especially intolerant of Judaism and Christianity.
Islam Defined by a few extremists?
Here is another fine red herring by the ABC staff. An abortion clinic bomber does not define Christianity because Jesus Christ did not teach violence and no scripture in the Bible condones such an act. On the other hand, Muhammad not only taught violence and exemplified it in his own life, but verses in the Qur'an also provide scriptural justification for the violence committed today by Muslims who choose to do so. This gentleman does not know Islam; he only know what others have chosen to tell him, and he bought it uncritically.
Linking Arms Together Will Solve Everything
Let's just hold hands and sing kum-bye-yah and all will be well. Try telling that to Christians in Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, parts of the Philippines, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, and numerous other locales where they live day by day in fear for their life, simply because they are Christian, not Muslim.
1. Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, A. Guillaume, translator (Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 106
2. Ibid, p. 466.
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January 25, 2018 – The Santa Fe Saints (14-9, 4-0 MFC) picked up a big Mid-Florida Conference road win Wednesday afternoon on the road, defeating Florida State College-Jacksonville 77-49. This is the second win for SF over FSC-J this season. The first was a 101-63 win in Gainesville.
SF doubled the output of the BlueWave in the first quarter and took an 18-9 lead into the second.
They continued to pour it on over the second ten-minute period of the game and lead 35-21 at the halftime break.
The Saints stretched their lead to 22 points three quarters of the way through and capped the 77-49 with another strong fourth quarter.
Stephanie Jackson lead SF with 17 points, Julie Fournier finished with 15, and Gryselle Sepulveda added 10.
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Duff Goldman Shares Touching Tribute To ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill
By Owen Duff/July 29, 2021 1:00 am EST
ZZ Top took to their website earlier today to announce the death of their longtime bassist, Dusty Hill, aged 72. Condolences and tributes have already begun to pour in on Twitter — many from fellow musicians, including Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Christopher Cross, and Paul Young.
Hill has also received kind words from celebrities outside of the music industry, notably, "Ace of Cakes" star and Food Network regular Duff Goldman. Responding to a notice tweeted by Rolling Stone, Goldman shared his own brief tribute to the ZZ Top bassist, reflecting on the significance Hill's work held for him. "Man, I've learned so many of Dusty's basslines over the years," he tweeted. "He was such a machine. A powerhouse and a driver. RIP my man."
A seventies-baby, Goldman grew up around the same time ZZ Top's star began to rise, with the Houston-based band scoring hits early in the decade with "La Grange" and "Tush," and releasing later-career hit "Gimme All Your Lovin'" in 1983 (via Ultimate Classic Rock).
A layered career
As fans of Duff Goldman's baking shows will already know, the professional baker and Culinary Institute of America grad is a man of many talents. On shows like "Ace of Cakes" and Food Network's "Baking Championship" series, Goldman brings a multi-disciplinary approach to his work, giving equal weight to both the art and science of baking. Besides his culinary background, Goldman is also a skilled graffiti artist and metal sculptor, as shared on his Food Network biography. He is also a longtime musician, and plays bass for musical groups, including Elvis cover band Danger Ace and indie group Sand Ox.
Interestingly, ZZ Top's career reached its peak around the same time Goldman's began to take off, with the Houston band being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, and Goldman getting his first major Food Network show in 2006 with "Ace of Cakes" (via IMDb). Goldman is, first and foremost, a professional chef — but his respectful tribute to Dusty Hill comes from one bassist to another.


ACT Senator Kate Lundy, the minister assisting for industry and innovation, believes that the roll out of the National Broadband Network will help Gov 2.0 initiatives flourish.
"I think most of you know how proud I am to be part of a government that's investing in a universal, high bandwidth network for Australia," Lundy, who is also the minister for sport and the minister for multicultural affairs and a high-profile supporter of open government, this morning told the inaugural DrupalCon Sydney conference.
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Employing social media enables governments and government agencies to receive better feedback on policies and initiatives.
Many in the public service view open source solutions as "not only as a viable but as a really exciting substitute to proprietary tools," Lundy said. The senator made reference to the Department Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' extensive use of Drupal.
The department chose Drupal based on the usual criteria for selecting software, but has also realised "the deeper benefits in having an open source CMS," Lundy said. The department has been able to build their own modules and share those with other agencies.
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This weekend was pretty amazing on my social media feed, for all of the wrong reasons.
The term "fake news" exists for a reason, in fact there are a few Congressional Investigations involving the concept right now. But the term has also been muddied recently by a misappropriation of the phrase.
There is a real market for "fake news", click farms, ad hustles, and influencing across all social media platforms. Where the producers of websites are trying to generate thousands of clicks with totally false "cookie cutter" stories where a celebrity in a simple situation is used, and the name of the area changes out to generate clicks in a region. Think about when the internet told you Taylor Swift was buying a home on Cross Lake. Or when Samuel L. Jackson was moving to Bossier City?
These sites are often URLs (website addresses) that look close enough to a real site to fool people, and will generally appear to be a real site...until you start clicking around. You'll find a lot of empty links, or ads that look like stories that will take you to new, more vicious sites. These sites are often just trying to get you to click, so they can go show major advertisers (like Google, who then sells that space to others) that they have so many people looking at the ads on their content.
The other version of this is to spread misinformation to influence opinions without repercussion.
I got social feeds full of both this weekend.
First, there's a story being shared around titled "Fresh Water Sharks in Caddo Lake!" from a fake site called "Channel 45 News". This story isn't even trying. The main person in the story is named 'Ima Lion' and there's essentially no content. The site that created this one is a "prank" site designed to goof your friends. But the unfortunate part of social media is that "pranks" quickly turn into viral stories because people don't actually read things. I'm not even sure who started this one now, because I've seen it shared and reposted dozens of times.
One of the other blow-ups I saw this weekend involved the story of "bodies in barrels" found on a former Presidential Candidate's property.
This story traces back to an urban legend that was often floated last year during the Presidential campaign. It resurfaced last week when a satire website took all of the elements of the urban legend, and put them together in an official looking post.
"We believe that there is nothing more precious than the mind of an aging conservative. Here we gather a boatload of bullhonkey, works of pure satirical fiction, to give the fist-shakers of the world a reason to hate. Reality is often in the eye of the beholder. You won't find any of it here."
So how does a post that includes that disclaimer, get pushed around on social media with authority? I mean, I saw someone who posted it get blasted for it, and have people inside the ever-expanding comment thread defend the story. Their defense was hard, cutting, and completely void of facts. We're talking about people who feigned comprehension in their defense who hadn't even clicked the post to read it. Once those people finally understood what was happening, they of course apologized and retracted their attacks...actually they didn't, they shifted the blame to the targets of the "fake news" for being so icky in their minds that it makes this seem realistic to them.
So it wasn't their fault they couldn't be bothered to actually read and understand something before commenting on it?
Shreveport and Bossier have enough issues to deal with that we don't need to create our own. There are people screaming that Shreveport has a shooting problem, which is true. But instead of working on it, we're creating a second shooting issue, of metaphorically shooting ourselves in the foot.


Does the state of the planet tell us that we are about to enter a new world? Think about it. Oil and food prices are spiking, floods and droughts are devastating economies, populations are being displaced and governments like the ones in Egypt and Tunisia have been thrown out because of rising food prices. We are seeing political instability in the Middle East, floods in Australia destroying crops and droughts in Russia causing grain shortages. Think of China facing a food shortage. With all that money in the bank, it can go on a global shopping spree to feed its 1.3 billion mouths. The question is where that leaves the rest of the world.
Does it mean the end of shopping and consumerism? Are we witnessing end of the economic order and the beginning of a new one? Will business models have to change?
Most definitely, according to a new book The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World, written by Australian environmentalist and former head of Greenpeace International Paul Gilding. He says we are undergoing a profound shift and that is going to change business and economies forever.
According to Gilding, we are operating the global economy at about 150 per cent of capacity. In other words, we are using the earth's resources at a rate that would take 1-1½ planets to sustain. And that is an economic problem. It means the quality of our soil will not be sufficient to provide the diets we are used to, water supplies are degrading and oil production is peaking while consumption is increasing. The mess we're in, he says, is not as simple as fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth Version 1.0. That was a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's resources. That is now finished.
Gilding says there is hope. We can change to a low impact economy and we have to do it. As humans, we have a history of being good in a crisis. We ignore our health issues until we have a heart attack, we ignore the badly designed global financial system until there is a global financial meltdown and we ignore Hitler until there is a war. But we do tackle the problem. We might be slow but we're not stupid. As a result, we're already seeing electric cars rolling off production lines, organic food production outstripping conventional food production, solar prices falling and more investment in renewable energy.


The Dr. Kimberly A. Beyer and Delores S. Beyer Scholarship in Education was established in 2012 by Dr. William (Bill) H. Beyer '52, retired associate vice president of business and finance and professor emeritus (math sciences) for The University of Akron, in honor of his daughter, Dr. Kimberly A. Beyer, and his is wife, Delores S. Beyer.
Bill and Delores were married on September 6, 1959, in Akron, Ohio, and moved to Blacksburg, Va. Bill completed his Ph.D. in statistics at Virginia Tech while serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. In 1961, Bill accepted a position in UA's Department of Mathematics, commencing a relationship with the University that has spanned more than 50 years. The couple has three children - Randall, Kimberly, and Kevin - all of whom earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Akron.
Through this scholarship, Bill wishes to recognize his daughter, Kimberly, who serves UA's Division of Student Affairs as Director of Communications and Strategic Planning and Executive Assistant for the Vice President, as well as assisting the Chief of Staff in the Office of the President. She also holds adjunct faculty status in the College of Education, where she teaches graduate courses. Previously, Kimberly worked for more than 20 years in UA's Career Center, serving as Interim Director for eight years. Prior to joining The University of Akron, she worked in Career Services at Ball State University. A three-time University of Akron graduate, Kimberly holds a doctorate of education in higher education administration, a master of arts in counseling-student personnel services, and a bachelor of arts in psychology. She credits the University with providing numerous opportunities for her to make a difference in the lives of students, especially as she guides them to realize their full potential - personally and professionally.
Delores has been a strong advocate of education and is especially grateful and proud of her husband's successes and her children's professional opportunities. She remains an active member of Beth El Synagogue and is past president of both Beth El Sisterhood and the Akron Chapter of Hadassah. Delores volunteered or more than 25 years in numerous civic and community organizations, including The University of Akron, and continues to be a member of UA's Women's Club. Volunteerism has taken a back seat now in favor of her other hobbies, including gourmet cooking, reading, traveling, attending plays and movies, and most of all, enjoying her three grandchildren - Riley, Cara, and Ava - whom she adores.
The Dr. Kimberly A. Beyer and Delores S. Beyer Scholarship in Education was established to support full-time graduate students with disabilities registered with the Office of Accessibility and enrolled in the College of Education at The University of Akron. The College of Education Dean's Office, in collaboration with the Office of Accessibility and the Office of Student Financial Aid, will select recipients.


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Only nine months to go: New "Extreme E" racing series is about to take off
Continental special tyres for the E-racing ODYSSEY 21 race car
Tyre developers and test drivers are working under time pressure
The racing series launches in January 2021 at Lac Rose in Senegal
How time flies. In January 2021, the spectacular new off-road racing series will be launched under the name "Extreme E", bringing professional motorsport with electric SUVs to the remotest corners of the earth. Continental is a Founding Partner and exclusive tyre supplier to the new series.
It has been more than one year since the collaboration was made official. Participants still have nine months to overcome the extraordinary challenges before the series begins. "By the time the event calendar was officially presented, every interested party realised that we are part of a completely new and unique project," says Sandra Roslan, who is responsible for the Extreme E project at Continental. "And the schedule is tight. Unforeseen delays will be almost impossible to make up for."
Sandra Roslan, Head of Content Marketing & Social Media and Project Lead Extreme E
In January of next year, the starting signal for the Ocean stage will take place on the banks of Lac Rose, not far from the Senegalese capital of Dakar. The first of the five races signifies the beginning of a series, which organisers hope will make motorsport an ambassador for climate protection. By choosing routes close to threatened habitats, the Extreme E racing series aims to raise awareness of climate change among motorsport fans worldwide, as well as politicians, residents and local authorities at the venues, and encourage them to step up their efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
"Once the series begins, things will really take off," says Sandra Roslan. "In March 2021, we'll start in the desert of Saudi Arabia, in May in the Himalayan mountains. Not only must the tyres function on a completely new vehicle, but also on extreme courses in vastly different climatic environments."
When you consider that the development of a new tyre for conventional cars generally takes three to four years, it soon became clear the kind of challenges the tyre developers at Continental have to overcome. "The ODYSSEY 21 is an extraordinary vehicle which is similar to commercial SUVs in length, width and weight, but with its electrical equivalent of 550 HP it has three times the torque of the Formula E Gen 2 vehicle," says Sandra Roslan. The intensive test phase has been underway since October of last year. For this, Continental is relying on people like Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky. The Swedish motorsport athlete has successfully started in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, currently holding the title as the only woman so far to have won races in this series. The test vehicles are equipped with a custom-made tyre based on the successful Continental CrossContact series. "As of today, we can say that the tyres and vehicles are harmonising well with each other," says the Continental project manager. From now until the start of the first race, it's a matter of tailoring the design as best as we can to the various extreme challenges. With the aid of ContiPressureCheck technology, tyre data such as air pressure and temperature are also displayed for drivers on a screen in the cockpit during the races.
The vehicles will be handed over to all teams in August. Until then, there are plenty of test drives still on the agenda for Continental and Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky.
Extreme E is organised in cooperation with Formula E. From 2021 onwards, Continental will be a premium sponsor of the Extreme E racing series. The technology company will equip all vehicles in the races with tyres for the different and very demanding situations. The organiser, Formula E Holdings Ltd., expects ten teams in the first year of the series. The following dates are planned:
Ocean Stage: from January 23 to 24 at Lac Rose, Dakar, Senegal
Desert Stage: from March 6 to 7 in Sharaan, Al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia
Glacier Stage: from May 14 to 15 in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Mustang District, Nepal
Arctic Stage: from August 28 to 29 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Rainforest Stage: from October 30 to 31 in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
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"The Face Of Mars" science fact article; fiction by Isaac Asimov, Charles Fontenay, Lloyd Biggle, Daniel Galouye, Walter Tevis, Leo Kelley, and others.
Jack Vance's novelette "The Narrow Land," plus assorted short fiction by Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Rog Phillips, William Tenn, Kris Neville, and Bob Olsen.
"Gleaners" by Clifford Simak, "The Upside-Down Captain" by Jim Harmon, "Gravy Train" by Daniel F. Galouye, stories by Ron Goulart, Ray Russell, and Raymond E. Banks.


VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday met with the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the first-such meeting of its kind, on the eve of the dedication of the church's huge new temple in Rome.
The Vatican offered no details of Francis' audience with the church president, Russell Nelson, and other leaders. The Latter-day Saints said it was the first-ever meeting between a pope and head of their church, and said the two men discussed religious liberty, family and youth among other topics.
"We have much in common," Nelson tweeted afterward. "The differences in doctrine are real_and they're important_but they're not nearly as important as the things we have in common."
Nelson and the 14 elders who make up the leadership of the church, widely known as the Mormons, are in town for the dedication Sunday of their new temple. The lush complex features an oval-shaped marble house of worship crowning a hilltop and a visitor center featuring a larger-than-life marble statue of Christ surrounded by smaller statues of the apostles.
The Latter-day Saints said the visit to Rome was the first time their entire leadership had gathered outside the U.S.


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L'année 868 est une année bissextile qui commence un jeudi.

Événements

Asie

 11 mai : fabrication à Dunhuang, en Chine occidentale de la Sapience de diamant (le Soutra du Diamant), le plus ancien livre-rouleau imprimé conservé.
 15 septembre : l'esclave turc Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-884), envoyé en Égypte par son beau-père, le gouverneur Bakbak, en qualité de lieutenant, arrive à Fostat. Il prend la tête de la révolte égyptienne et fonde la dynastie des Tulunides qui se rend pratiquement indépendante de Bagdad (fin en 905).

 Soulèvement mené par P'ang Hsün en Chine. Des soldats d'une garnison du Guizhou se mutinent pour rentrer chez eux. Ils traversent la Chine du sud vers le nord le long du Yangzi Jiang avant d'être écrasés par les Tang en 869.

Europe

 5 janvier, Rome : consécration de Constantin, qui prend le nom de Cyrille, par le pape Adrien II, qui soutient Cyrille et Méthode dans leur entreprise et autorise l'usage de la liturgie en langue slave.
 7 janvier, à Pouilly-sur-Loire, Charles le Chauve confirme à Girart de Roussillon qu'il n'annexera pas les abbayes de Pothières et de Vézelay fondées quelques années auparavant par ce dernier.
 15 février (15 des calendes de mars) : inondation  attesté aux Pays-Bas par les Annales de Xanten.
 Printemps : le siège de Raguse par les Aghlabides est levé après 15 mois par la flotte byzantine.
 17 avril : Berthe, épouse de Raimond, comte de Toulouse est mentionnée comme comtesse aux côtés de son fils Bernard de Rouergue dans un acte de donation à l'abbaye de Vabres.
 16 mai : concile de Worms. Les doctrines de Photios sont réfutées et 45 canons édictés dont quatre concernent les interdits de parentés. Recommandation est faite aux prêtres et aux évêques d'utiliser l'ordalie de l'hostie : si un prêtre accusé avale sans difficulté une hostie consacrée, son innocence est prouvée.

 Mai : pacte de Metz entre Charles le Chauve et Louis le Germanique, qui décident du partage des terres de l'ancien empereur Lothaire , alors en possession de ses fils Louis et Lothaire II.
 29 août : Charles le Chauve reconnait le titre royal à Salomon de Bretagne et à sa descendance à l'issue de l'assemblée de Pîtres.

 Alliance entre Æthelred de Wessex et Burgred de Mercie contre les Danois, qu'ils tentent de déloger de Nottingham. Le futur roi du Wessex Alfred le Grand épouse Ealhswith.
 Louis II le Jeune prend Matera, Venosa et Canosa aux Sarrasins et remet le siège devant Bari, prise en 871.
 Soulèvement de Mérida contre l'émir de Cordoue Muhammad  qui part aussitôt assiéger la ville, en laissant croire qu'il marchait sur Tolède ; les révoltés se soumettent et l'émir démantèle les fortifications à l'exception de la citadelle du gouverneur. Les chefs de l'insurrection (dont le muladi Ibn Marwan) sont emmenés à Cordoue avec leur famille pour servir dans l'armée.
 Vímara Peres prend le bourg de Portucale aux musulmans pour le royaume de Galice et entreprend sa repopulation. Le premier comté Portucalense est créé.
 Les Vikings emmenés par Hâsteinn (Hasting) remontent la Loire et pillent une nouvelle fois Orléans puis attaquent Redon.
 Hincmar trouve normal de laisser «  les bénéfices en vue du service militaire aux fils des pères qui ont bien servi l'Église ».
 En Germanie et en Francie occidentale, crue historique généralisée des fleuves à la suite de pluies incessantes, selon des annales de Fulda.

Naissances en 868

Décès en 868

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Jomsviking – the band's first concept record in their storied career – tells a tragic, original tale of conflict and revenge, backed by the Swedes' trademark melodic, anthemic metal, which was produced and mixed once again by Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Testament, Accept). To purchase and preview Jomsviking, please visit amonamarth.com, where the record is available in various formats, and the videos for "At Dawn's First Light" and "First Kill" can be viewed.
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