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Q: What is the rule for using "of" after generalizing nouns? Consider these examples:

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*We went to the city of Rome. / We went to the city Rome.

*He was born in the year of 1941. / He was born in the year 1941.

*Kafka is known for the book of "The Trial". / Kafka is known for the book "The Trial".

*We live on the planet of Earth. / We live on the planet Earth.

*I like the fruit of apple. / I like the fruit apple.

*We bathed in the river of Thames. / We bathed in the river Thames.

*Where did the chemist of Linus Pauling live? / Where did the chemist Linus Pauling live?

*In Africa we can find the mammal of lion. / In Africa we can find the mammal lion.

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*The City of Rome is correct as there is the possibility that you were visting some other region associated with Rome, such as its commune https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome. This would be particularly true of New York where you could visit the State of New York without going within hundreds of miles of the city. This form can be applied to all cities and towns so applies to Rome.

*Either is correct but the 'of' is less frequently used. Perhaps it is a remnant of "The Year of Our Lord".

*Kafka is known for his book "The Trial". The book of "The Trial" would be an account of or commentary on a famous historical incident known universally as "The Trial", or possibly a book retelling the story of a film or play called "The Trial", or possibly the story and dialogue of a musical called "The Trial".

*We live on Planet Earth. The name Earth refers directly and unambiguously to the specific planet so does not require an 'of'. Unlike Rome, Earth does not have any surrounding space that we could live on.

*"I like the fruit called 'apple'"; or "I like apples"; or I like the fruit of the apple tree". "Apple" is unambiguous and there are many individual apples, however all apples are the product of apple trees which can be referred to generically as "the apple tree"

*We bathed in the River Thames. The name refers only to the river, not to any surrounding area. There is the valley of The Thames but this is not The Valley Thames so cannot be confused with the river in the way that a city can be confused with a state.

*Where did Linus Pauling live? Pauling was a chemist, he did not posess a chemist. You could ask "Where did the father of Linus Pauling live?" since Pauling had a father.

*In Africa we find the mammal called lion. Just like liking apples except there is no tree.
Basically where the object of the sentence owns the preceding term and there is potential confusion, eg Rome 'owns' the city and also 'owns' the commune, you need an 'of'. The same applies to the father of Pauling since omitting the 'of' might suggest that Pauling was a Roman Catholic priest.
In cases where the two words form a single Proper Noun (River Thames, Planet Earth) no 'of' is needed since there is no ownership.
Where the object does not 'own' the preceding term (apples do not own fruit, lions do not own mammals) no 'of' is needed, but the resulting form is not always normal usage.
In the case of authorship the book is owned entirely by the writer in the case of fiction but the subject of the book can be said to 'own' the book if the subject pre-exists.
This leaves only the year, and by extention months, as in "The month of September". Possibly this is to avoid confusion with "the early part of September" and "January of 1945". If this is the case then the periods of time can be said to 'own' their subdivisions and their full terms so an 'of' can be used.
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Kiss was my first favorite rock group. Their album Rock and Roll Over was the first album I ever bought. Oh man...that was one cool album. I studied that album cover and read the liner notes for hours. Even now, I rank that cover as one of my all-time favorites, and not just because of nostalgia.
I have given my opinion on Kiss and their place in musical history. They are Hall of Famers. Don't give me the makeup argument either.
I almost met Ace Frehley in 2011 at Days of the Dead, but his line was insanely long. I really tried, but time constraints prevented me from meeting Frehley. Heading into the 2012 Days in Indy, I figured the situation would be the same and it was.
Sometimes though, being a member of the media has its privileges. At the end of one of the nights, a few of the celebs were invited into meet Frehley and I was also given the opportunity. This was so cool for many reasons.
First, obviously, I was stoked that I was going to be able to meet Frehley without waiting 4 hours in the line. Second though, it was fun to watch Frehley and other stars interact. I was scheduled to interview Felissa Rose right after meeting Frehley and who should "cut" in front of me? Ms. Felissa herself! I also saw JohngysBeat.com favorite Traci Lords pose with Frehley. It was like seeing various worlds colliding.
Meeting Frehley was super cool, as well. I asked him how he was doing and how long the day was. He was pretty low key, but responded that he was great and how could he really complain about the line or anything else.
You might think this is a no-brainer, but not really. Many stars do voice their complaints. Many stars let you know how tiring these appearances are. Don't get me wrong, I do not feel sorry for any celebrity making cash signing and posing and I can see how tiring it can be, but Frehley's attitude was exactly what you would want in any celebrity guest, let alone the big draw of the convention.
Overall, this was one of the highlights of the convention. It was great to see that one of my musical favorites was very cool. It also says a lot for the Days of the Dead con and for Adolfo Dorta who runs it. It isn't just coincidence that his guests are all very fan-friendly!
Ace Frehley and me in Indianapolis, IN-July 2012.
Wow, really cool, to meet a favorite band member from years ago!


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Geopolitics of Eurasia for India
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20 Jan Geopolitics of Eurasia for India
Posted at 20 Jan 2023 in Current Affairs, Daily Current Affairs for UPSC by Piyush singh 0 Comments
This article covers "Daily current events "and the topic is" Eurasia and the current geopolitical situation" which is in news, it covers the "International relationship" In GS-2, the following content has relevance for UPSC.
For Prelims: Russia-Ukraine, NATO, QUAD, AUKUS
For Mains: GS-2, India, and new Eurasia and geopolitical situations
Why in news:
As 2023 gets underway, the world is embracing a "new normal" in which ancient and new fault lines in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific are being rearranged.
About Eurasia
Eurasia as a concept is not new. Many people used it as a descriptor that was both neutral and a large land mass that united Europe and Asia.
Despite geographical continuity, over the centuries, Europe and Asia developed into distinct political and cultural realms.
Eurasia is a tectonic plate that geographically underlies much of Europe and Asia. There is no universal agreement on what the territory's political borders are, though, and this is a problem for the region.
Colored Eurasia Map with Country Names and Capital Cities
Approach of Russia
Although it struggled to integrate into either, Russia regarded itself as a force in both Europe and Asia. As new geopolitical conceptions, it created "Eurasia" and "Greater Eurasia." Putin sees it as his historic mission to bring the "Russkiy Mir," or the Russian world, back together, which led to the 2014 invasion of Ukraine and the takeover of Crimea. Despite the significant expenditures of the scheme, he was adamant that he would pursue it.
Changes Associated with the New Eurasia
Japan: The country is adamant about forming reliable military alliances with Europe. the prime minister of Japan made a straightforward statement: "The security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific is indivisible." Japan will also develop a substantial missile arsenal to intimidate China (and North Korea, whose missile capabilities have grown).
US: The NATO summit in Madrid in June invited important Asian partners to join at the US's request. Along with the president of South Korea, the summit was attended by the prime ministers of Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. Asian leaders are taking part in NATO discussions for the first time. Eurasian geopolitics will continue to be characterized by new elements, such as NATO's engagement with Indo-Pacific challenges and East Asia's engagement with European security. The Biden Administration expressed its intention for its allies and partners in Europe and Asia to cooperate more with one another in its National Security Strategy, which was published in 2022. It is eager to support the advancement of its allies, particularly India, in their efforts to bolster the regional power structures in both Europe and Asia.
South Korea is increasing its visibility in Europe to join the party as well. It sells significant weapon platforms in Poland.
Australia: Equally eager to include Europe in the Indo-Pacific is Australia, which has joined the US and UK in the AUKUS agreement.
Russia and China's cooperation: The geopolitical landscape in Eurasia was changed by China and Russia before Japan and South Korea went to Europe.
Putin traveled to Beijing in February 2022 to sign a document that declared an alliance "without limits" and no "forbidden zones" just days before he gave the order for his army to invade Ukraine.
Together, Putin and Xi revealed a Eurasian alliance in the hopes that it would be the long-awaited final blow to Western hegemony.
Eurasia's importance to India
Resources: The Eurasian region is abundant in natural resources, particularly energy resources, which are distinguished by large production and exports. India's interests must be protected through economic cooperation with these nations. In terms of energy (oil, natural gas), and natural resources, the Eurasian states are potential long-term allies (that include uranium and iron ore).
Pharmaceutical: The medical and pharmaceutical industries also present a great deal of room for collaboration. By establishing public hospitals and clinics in Eurasia, India is prepared to increase cooperation. India is planning to create a Central Asian e-network with India as its core to provide connectivity for tele-education and telemedicine, connecting all five Central Asian States.
Industry of construction: Indian firms can demonstrate their skill in the field and develop constructions of the highest caliber at affordable prices. Iron ore, coal, and inexpensive power are all found in almost endless quantities in Central Asian nations, particularly Kazakhstan. India can assist in building a number of medium-sized steel rolling mills that will produce the specialized goods it needs.
Economic benefits: Eurasia's strategic peninsular location connecting several subregions of Asia and West Asia makes it vital for India's goal of becoming an economic hub. Recent programs like Make in India, Skill India, and Digital India may very well help with this. If India integrates economically with other regions of Asia, it may also be used as a tool to take advantage of the demographic dividend in India.
Strategic importance: Strategically, the Eurasian region wants to become less dependent on both Beijing and Moscow. In light of this, they are ready to assist India in its efforts to improve its standing in the area and offer a viable alternative to the established actors Russia, China, the EU, and the US. A qualitative improvement in India's relations with the Eurasian states is made possible by the simultaneous implementation of the Iran nuclear deal and Russia's confrontation with the West.
Tourism: India is a developing tourist destination. Eurasia is crucial for attracting tourists from the continent. To draw more tourists, India should build beaches and luxury accommodations.
Way India expands its influence
Provide regular and frequent shipping connections between Chabahar and the Indian ports of Mundra, Kandla, and Mumbai.
Support the planned joint Afghan-Uzbek project to extend the 700 km long railway line from Mazar-i-Sharif to Herat, which would go through western Afghanistan. All of Central Asia, including Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, would be connected to the Chabahar route via western Afghanistan if this project were to succeed.
In order to position Chabahar as a crossing point between Eurasia and the Indian Ocean, India has to enlist the aid of one or more Central Asian nations, especially Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
The SCO framework might potentially be used to promote connectivity cooperation with these nations.
Without necessarily engaging in direct conflict or rivalry with China's BRI, India should forward its own connectivity strategy for Eurasia. India may undoubtedly benefit from assistance in moving toward Eurasian integration with Russia, Iran, and Central Asian nations.
In order to link to the Far East and even Japan, India should work to join Russia's "Greater Eurasian" corridor and the Northeast Passage in addition to INSTC and Chabahar Port.
The rise of Eurasia makes it more difficult for India to sail on two boats at once. Up till this point, India could easily run concurrently with the continental coalitions led by Russia and China and hunt with the marine coalition (the QUAD) in the Indo-Pacific.
As long as the maritime and continental powers did not engage in open hostilities, this was possible.
But the battle between China and Russia and the US, Europe, and Japan is now severe and doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.
The cloud cast over India's continental strategy will therefore get deeper in the days to come due to the growing security threats from China along its Himalayan border and the strengthening of relations between Moscow and Beijing. Positively, there have never been more opportunities to bolster India's strategic capabilities through alliances with the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Delhi must now seize the opportunities that are opening up.
Way ahead
India must exert the same effort toward the creation of a "Eurasian" policy that Japan and South Korea do. India's continental strategy needs to be reevaluated in relation to Eurasia, while the Indo-Pacific is about Delhi's new marine geopolitics.
India has dealt with each of Eurasia's constituent regions separately over the years, but Delhi now needs a coordinated strategy to gain a firm presence in the region.
India will undoubtedly run into many conflicts along the way with the US, Europe, Russia, China, Iran, and the Arab Gulf, but it shouldn't let these conflicts stop it from progressing.
Increased strategic action in Eurasia that creates opportunities in all directions is the key for India.
Eurasiantimes.com
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Castrovalva and the Quintessential Phase of DOCTOR WHO's 1980s Concept Album | Warped Factor - Words in the Key of Geek.
As we continue our look at each Doctor's debut adventure, Dominic Fellows examines the Fifth Doctor's first outing, Castrovalva.
I saw Castrovalva by accident. I had gone to HMV in Birmingham to buy The TV Movie only to find that censorship issues had delayed it by a week. Fortunately 'Castrovalva' was being sold for £7.99 a bargain for a VHS tape in 1996, these days I'd think twice before spending that amount on a Blu-ray. So instead of watching a new Doctor battling The Master in an overly complicated plot involving the world being turned inside out, I watched… erm… a new Doctor battling The Master in an overly complicated plot involving 'Castrovalva' being turned inside out. I suppose I got some of what I expected.
As a debut story 'Castrovalva rather cheats doesn't it? Coming fourth in the production of season 19 Peter Davison has settled in a bit and gives a very confident performance. This does neither him, nor the character any harm in this instance, but it does rather make his performance over the next three adventures very inconsistent, an observation that applies to much of eighties Doctor Who.
He spends the rest of his tenure dealing with the advantages of having a young body and the frustrations of having an old mind, as he says 'I feel quite like my old self or rather my new self' and then later 'well whoever I feel like it's absolutely splendid' This theme is very present during the Davison years, it is constantly trying to be 'new' while still frequently re-visiting the old favourites. This is the point when Doctor Who stops being just a fun family show and becomes a show with a history and therefore a show with expectation and a show not with casual viewers but die-hard fans. This is the point when the audience gets just that bit more critical.
Perhaps the production team had this in mind when they decided to make this the very first story to be entirely devoted to dealing with post regeneration. Previously we had seen Troughton come to terms with it in about 2 minutes flat, Pertwee spent one episode in a hospital bed and Tom Baker had been barmy(er) for about ten minutes and that's it. Presumably the feeling was that a now more mature audience would want to see a story that addressed the trauma involved in regeneration. There's good and bad to this, on the one hand the Doctor becomes vulnerable and even fallible adding more jeopardy to the proceedings, there are several moments here where he just collapses for no reason. On the downside the story never seems to get going and is tends to be Peter Davison doing 'I'm really tired' acting for ninety minutes.
But 'Castrovalva' succeeds where every other debut story does not is in its thought. All other debut stories are generally quite light action/adventure fare 'Castrovalva' is quite bold in saying 'we are thinking about this' and since 'Castrovalva' there have been a number of more thoughtful tales 'Kinda' and 'Snakedance' being obvious examples. Low on incident but big on concepts, this is the first time we ever see an unstable Doctor. 'The Twin Dilemma' would take this idea a bit too far but here it's nicely judged.
It also pulls a very neat trick of being a finale as well as a debut. Most obviously it brings the loose 'Return of the Master' (or 'New Beginnings' as the DVD set would have us believe) trilogy to a close, but perhaps less obviously it puts a cap on season eighteen. The move from the less silly adventures of the late seventies and into more science orientated tales of 1980/81 is well documented but it's during 'Castrovalva' that a balance is found. Opinion on season eighteen is divided, some championing it as a high point where the show started to take itself more seriously, others deriding it as a dry and bloodless set of adventures where all the fun had been removed. 'Castrovalva' is full of the high scientific concepts to begin with, but as episode four comes to a close with a screaming Master and lots of running around we are in much more familiar territory. Eighties Doctor Who would continue to be full of high concepts with a good dollop of silliness occasionally to remind us all that this show is about entertainment. I particularly like Tegan's introduction to recursion 'If we had an index file, we could look it up in the index file under index file… I'm talking nonsense' to me, this is a beautiful example of how legitimate science to the un-scientific mind can sound even more nonsensical than the stuff they make up, which is doubly ironic when you consider it was written by Christopher H. Bidmead, perhaps Eric Saward was having a joke at his expense?
'Castrovalva' may not be perfect and as probably the most low-key 'opening night' for any Doctor, but it succeeds in setting a template for much of the rest of the 1980s, it's kind of like Doctor Who's concept album and it's not such a bad concept at all.


Investment trusts are companies that invest in the shares of other companies for the purpose of acting as a collective investment.
Investors' money is pooled together from the sale of a fixed number of shares a trust issues when it launches. The board will typically delegate responsibility to a professional fund manager to invest in the stocks and shares of a wide range of companies (more than most people could practically invest in themselves). The investment trust often has no employees, only a board of directors comprising only non-executive directors. However in recent years this has started to change, especially with the emergence of both private equity groups and commercial property trusts both of which sometimes use investment trusts as a holding vehicle.
Investment trust shares are traded on stock exchanges, like those of other public companies. The share price does not always reflect the underlying value of the share portfolio held by the investment trust. In such cases, the investment trust is referred to as trading at a discount (or premium) to NAV (net asset value).
The investment trust sector, in particular split capital investment trusts, suffered somewhat from around 2000 to 2003 after which creation of a compensation scheme resolved some problems.
One of the key differences between an investment trust and a unit trust, is that an investment trust manager is legally allowed to borrow capital to purchase shares. This leverage may increase investment gains but also increases investor risk.


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Q: Error while updating my system 16.04 LTS When I am using following command to update my system, I got an error from dpkg,how to rectify that,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

linux-signed-image-generic depends on linux-image-extra-4.4.0-24-generic; however:
  Package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-24-generic is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-signed-image-generic (--configure):
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No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
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  Package linux-signed-image-generic is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-signed-generic (--configure):
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Errors were encountered while processing:
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A: Follow this answer. I had the same problem and after delete lilo helps me
Apt errors since upgrade to 12.04

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Hope for Trans Folk from Harvey Milk
I've just returned from a rally for transgender equality in front of the Massachusetts State House organized by Join the Impact Massachusetts. Today's event was part of a week-long celebration of the legacy of Harvey Milk, who would have turned eighty years old today, had he lived.
I was one of several people who spoke on a range of topics related to pending trans legislation, from an overview of the national and state movement for trans equality, to how we are all impacted by the gender binary, trans or not. After the speeches, we marched down from the State House, to Government Center, to Downtown Crossing and then back up the State House, providing Saturday shoppers with an unexpected interlude.
I pray and, in the tradition of Harvey, hope that our legislators will hear us and finally get ENDA and the Massachusetts Trans Civil Rights Bill out of committee and passed.
JTIMA Harvey Milk Day Rally for Transgender Equality
State House Steps, Boston, MA
Hope from Harvey Milk
In his book The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk, openly gay journalist Randy Shilts (may he rest in peace) described a San Francisco Sunday morning scene in 1978 when, with Harvey Milk sitting in the back pew, the Reverend William Barcus, priest of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, got up and denounced Proposition 6. This "Briggs Initiative" called for the removal of gay and lesbian people and possibly even their supporters from working in the California public schools. In an unusual move for a priest in that context, Barcus not only spoke of the God who stands with the marginalized, not only berated the fear-mongering, dehumanizing rhetoric of the Initiative and its backers, but he also witnessed to these truths with his own life, coming out as a gay man. He challenged people to, as he put it, "morally put yourself on the line, not after the fact, not after November 7th, but now" (pp. 241-242; for more on Rev. Barcus's sermon, see this LGBT chronology for the Episcopal Diocese of California by Rev. Kathleen McAdams).
On that morning I was across the Bay in Berkeley where I grew up, possibly in Sunday school, possibly sleeping in. I had no idea of the import of what was going on across the Bay and around my state. I was a shy new kindergartener, a little girl growing up to be a transman, a spouse, a dad, an academic and an Episcopal priest. What Harvey Milk inspired in William Barcus and countless others, I too came to appreciate as one who also knows something of what it feels like to be dehumanized.
What Harvey Milk goaded us into remembering with relentless wit and grit is the crucial importance of hope. Hope. "You gotta give 'em hope," he said again and again. He wasn't the biggest fan of organized religion so-called, but by God he knew how to preach. Hope, he knew, is as essential to human life as the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. Without hope we shrink into ourselves, our capacities squandered, our stature cut short. Our ability to hope, as human beings, is intimately tied to our dignity.
When others deny transgender people our dignity, they attack the heart of our humanity. This happens as much in quiet, behind the scenes ways as in the bold, openly violent ways we mark every year at Trans Day of Remembrance. I am thinking of the violence of intentionally identifying us with wrong names and pronouns; the violence of quietly tossing our resumes in the proverbial circular file; of falsely telling us the apartment is already rented; of telling us we must wait our turn to ensure being treated with dignity and respect; and particularly in this climate, of shamelessly labeling legislation that would safeguard our basic civil rights a "bathroom bill."
I'm honestly not sure how much transgender people were on Harvey's radar in the late seventies, but I have no doubt that our struggle today would inspire and galvanize him. He would tell us that no matter what indignities we have suffered, no matter who might have rejected us, we do not have the option of giving up hope. In his Hope Speech, he said, "if there is a message I have to give… it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope." Harvey knew his election was a foot in the door for all who are marginalized. But he also knew that the hope he inspired was not automatic. It was something he called on each person in his audience to give. And I would submit, Harvey's legacy renders that hope as something we must also claim.
The program for his memorial service at the San Francisco Opera House contained a line from Victor Hugo that he had recently hand-copied and posted on the wall of his office: "All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come" (Shilts, 286). Trans people of Massachusetts, from around the nation and indeed the world, partners, allies, families and friends, lawmakers, people of all faiths: the time for full equality for transgender people has indeed come. The time is now for all of us — and particularly, I would say, for religious leaders of all traditions— to "morally put ourselves on the line," as Reverend Barcus put it, for the dignity that is our birthright. The time is now for our legislators beneath this gleaming dome to finally take up the Massachusetts Transgender Civil Rights Bill, and for our legislators in Washington to take up ENDA, and pass them. Thank you.
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A Service-- and Sermon-- of Renaming
The week before last at my congregation, we celebrated in the context of the Sunday Eucharist the legal name change of a community member, Anderson Michael C. I put together a liturgy drawing from several sources, including Justin Tannis's book Trans-gendered: Theology, Ministry, Community, the Standing Commission on Liturgy Music's book called Changes: Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage, and a prayer written by another parishioner who is working on a liturgy for people in transition.
In addition, Anderson preached the sermon and gave me permission to share it on this blog. Anderson also created the graphic (pasted below where it was in his original text) which he put on invitations to friends and community members, and which I also used on the cover of the worship booklet.
Sermon – Anderson C's Rite of Naming – 9 May 2010
I am very happy to see you all here today. It means a lot to be able to share this special day with you and celebrate the claiming of my name, so I thank you for coming. I also thank Cameron and you for giving me this opportunity to preach the sermon today.
I think we are fortunate to have this particular Gospel reading today from John: Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you… Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid."
With those words, the resurrected Jesus comforted the apostles just before he left them, and before they left each other to go out into the world and spread God's word. I hope that we, too, can find comfort in those words for ourselves with whatever difficulties life presents as we go out and live in the world in our daily lives.
For me, one of the things I take with me when I go out from here will be my name, which I claim today. For you, the members of this congregation and also my friends who are here today for this Rite of Naming, I would like to offer to you my story because you all have played a part in it. And in this story is a lesson that I would like to share with you so that you can take it with you.
Last year at about this time, I was in this church for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, and something happened to me that had never happened before in my life. As I listened to the words, the description of what Jesus endured that day had an impact that I had never felt before. Prior to last year, the readings were just a story, like in a novel or a screenplay. Intellectually, I understood the series of events and their significance, but emotionally, I never felt them, until last year. It was then that I could see the events in the context of Jesus as a real person rather than, as I had in the past, just a character in a story. I could feel His vulnerability and suffering even though I had not been able to before.
Similarly, just as I had felt the pain of Jesus' crucifixion, I also experienced the glory of His resurrection days later. The questioning when the tomb was found empty, the surprise when He appeared in a locked room with the apostles, the skepticism of Thomas, the relief, happiness and wonder when they realized He had triumphed over death.
You might wonder why I hadn't experienced this emotional connection to the humanity of Jesus until just last year at the age of 48, or why I was even detached from it in the first place. The answer is that this was a consequence of my being transgender.
For some people who grow up as transgender, they learn how to present a persona that the rest of the world wants to see. There are so many signals to children about how they should be as people, and for some transgender children, the signals can be that the person they really are is "bad." For example, in kindergarten, I was once yanked by the sleeve from the line of boys waiting to use the bathroom (which is where I thought I should have been because, after all, I was a boy) and I was towed over to the line of girls. The teacher's aide who did the yanking said to another, "She did it again! Why can't her parents teach her which bathroom to use?" So with that little remark, I received the message that if I did what I felt inside, not only was I wrong, but my mom and dad were bad parents. That is a really difficult and confusing message for a five-year old to grapple with.
So what happens in some of these cases is that some transgender children, to the best of their ability, construct a persona that matches the name and sex on their birth certificate and that meets the expectations of everyone around them, especially the people they love and want to please most -- their parents and siblings, their teachers, their friends. In doing so, their true self can become buried inside, their emotions silenced for the sake of survival, and they sometimes are unable to feel.
I was unable to feel. The analytical left side of my brain put the smack-down on the emotional right side when I was a child and held onto control for dear life. I went through the decades as a detached observer of my own life rather than as a true participant. Loneliness came from the inability to feel not only what was going on inside of myself, but also the emotional connections that people in my life tried to make with me. Intellectually, I could see how I affected others and how they valued me, but I couldn't feel it. And the worst part of all of it was that I didn't know that I couldn't feel it. I thought that seeing it was feeling it. So I took the role of the observer, and somehow made connections with people by mentally translating their actions into crude emotional representations.
That held true for God's love as well. I would sometimes lay awake at night as a child and remember what I had been taught about God's love, and I would close my eyes and try to feel it, because I knew that if I could, it would feel wonderful. When I was unable to connect with it, I comforted myself as best I could by knowing that Jesus said that he loves us and so it must be true.
Eventually when I got older, I left the church. That's not a big surprise considering I could not emotionally tie into God's grace or even really connect with the other members of the congregation. I didn't lose my faith though. I thought about it, reasoned it, analyzed it, but couldn't act on it. Eventually, after years of being away, I returned because of an ache for the spirituality and communion of religion.
I attended a church that was down the street from my house. I was content for a while and derived comfort from attending services and the occasional church event. Then one day during mass, a woman sitting near me refused to share with me the sign of peace. I watched her extend her hand to everyone around her but then she looked me in the eye as I extended my hand toward her and she refused to take my hand in hers. Now all my life many people have assumed, based on the way I presented myself, that I was a butch lesbian, and this woman might have had the same judgment of me. Certainly, the way she acted was not in keeping with Jesus' own peace that he left with his apostles and with us, as we heard today. I left that church that day and didn't go back.
It was around that time that I experienced a small event that led to a momentous epiphany. The small event was a cab ride in San Francisco – the cab driver called me "Sir." I analyzed that small event for several weeks until, in a defining moment of clarity that came while I was washing the dishes at my kitchen sink, all of the puzzle pieces of my life that had been suspended in a disorganized floating jumble suddenly aligned and snapped together, forming a picture of my true self. My mind could no longer support the persona that I had built for myself over the decades, could no longer pretend to be the woman that I and everyone around me thought I was. I suddenly realized who I was not, and I also thought that I was the "wrong" kind of person. I had worked for 45 years to smother the true person I was, so accepting and loving myself was a concept that was foreign to me.
And so the real work began, peeling back the layers upon layers of persona to reveal the real me, a painstaking process in which I was engaged when I came to this church for the first time. I came after attending Transgender Day of Remembrance here in November of 2008. I had no church to call my own, this one looked really nice and I knew the vicar. With an ache to once again belong to a spiritual home, I contacted Cameron and asked him what time that services were held on Sundays.
As I continued to attend this church, with Cameron's help, I had the courage to be here as my true self, and it was the very first time in my life I lived simply as me. I cannot even tell you how validating and affirming that was. But a funny thing was happening at the same time. Apparently, I began to matter. I didn't realize it, but Cameron would tell me that I did. He would take me aside and try to point out the impact that I was having in this congregation, but I didn't get it. I couldn't feel it, and so I would brush aside what he was telling me. And then we would look at each other, both of us perplexed, he, I think, because he couldn't understand why I couldn't see what, to him, was so apparent, and me because I couldn't understand how he could be so sure about something that I couldn't feel myself.
At the same time, my therapist was working on a similar project, trying to help me realize that I mattered, that people cared about me and that I was deserving of their love. I didn't feel that either. It bounced off of me because I was unable to let it in. How could I accept love from others when I couldn't even love myself? But my therapist kept trying, coming at it from different angles and using different methods, trying to help me accept and care about myself and see my own value in the world.
There were also close friends in whom I had confided and told about my "situation," members of a support network I had formed in order to stay afloat as I navigated the sometimes treacherous waters of this process of finding myself. Some of those people are sitting in this room today. And those people, by accepting me after I told them the truth about who I was, also, in their own way, gave me the freedom to be myself. Their acceptance, your acceptance, helped me to accept myself.
So there was a continuous stream of caring from all sides. From members of this congregation, from my therapist, from my friends, who all worked, knowingly or unknowingly, to eventually erode the shell in which I had been abiding. Without the shell, my emotions were exposed, raw and sensitive, but I could feel. In addition, I became able to accept myself and to love myself and thereby also allow the love from those around me to penetrate, to come inside and allow me to stand free in the warmth of love.
God has been patiently waiting for me while I have journeyed to this point. And today, like Simon Peter when he heard the Lord call, I swim to meet Him and I clothe myself in my new name, to present myself to Him, and to you, as my true self. I would not have been able to do so without all of you.
And now you know my story, how I came to this church in the fall of 2008, how one year ago, I came to more fully understand Jesus' humanity, and how I have reached the point of claiming my name. With this story, as I mentioned at the beginning of this sermon, there is a lesson for all of us, including me, which is:
When you help someone to love them self, you give them the ability to feel the love of others and the love of God and to allow that love to enter into their heart.
This is what everyone in this room has done for me. You gave me your peace, my heart is no longer troubled or afraid, and I feel loved. In this way, I can claim my true name of Anderson Michael C. For this gift, I thank all of you.
Posted by Cameron Partridge at 10:31 PM
Labels: trans narratives, transgender liturgy, transgender spirituality
Bishops' Letter Contributes Momentum on Trans Civil Rights in MA
As the Massachusetts Judiciary Committee pushed back its deadline for reporting on the Transgender Civil Rights Bill to early June, Boston-based LGBT paper Bay Windows has reported on two new voices of support, Boston City Council and the letter sent last week by Bishops M. Thomas Shaw and Roy "Bud" Cederholm (Bishop Gayle Harris did not sign because she had not yet returned from a leave of absence). Read the whole article here. Excerpts are reposted below.
I would like to add that the article cites Virtue online as the place from which it got the text of the letter. Virtue Online reprinted without acknowledgment my exact post (which I posted with permission from the Communications Office of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts to three blogs: TransEpiscopal, Walking with Integrity, and the Interfaith Coalition for Transgender Equality). This made it look as if Virtue Online actually had permission to post the letter, which it did not.
Transgender Rights Bill receives more support, extended deadline
by Hannah Clay Wareham
Amid resolutions and commendations, hopes are high for bill to pass.
Support for "An Act Relative to Gender-based Discrimination and Hate Crimes" (S. 1687/H. 1728), known as the Transgender Civil Rights Bill, is growing in Boston. The City Council last week passed a unanimous resolution backing the bill and joined the Episcopal Diocese of Masscahusetts in publicly voicing their support. The Transgender Rights Bill will remain under consideration by the Judiciary Committee for at least another month.
Gunner Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), said that the organization "is grateful for the continued support of the Boston City Council and hopes that our state leaders will follow this wise example and extend civil rights to our state's transgender citizens."
The Transgender Civil Rights Bill offers crucial employment protections for transgender people and outlaw anti-transgender workplace discrimination. If the bill is passed, the category of "gender identity and expression" will be added to the Massachusetts hate crime, employment, housing, credit, public accommodations, and public education non-discrimination laws.
The legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary on May 6 extended the bill's deadline, giving it at least another month to remain under consideration. The original deadline required that the bill be reported out of committee by May 7.
"As they say on 'Monty Python,' we're not dead yet," DeeDee Edmondson, political director of MassEquality, said. "The Judiciary Committee and our coalition [of organizations working together to pass the bill] now can get down to the business of producing a piece of legislation that can put transgender people back to work and bring stability and dignity to families throughout the Commonwealth."
On April 30, Episcopal Bishops M. Thomas Shaw and Roy "Bud" Cederholm of the Diocese of Massachusetts sent letters to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Senate President Therese Murray, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo urging the lawmakers to pass the Transgender Rights Bill. Attached were resolutions stating the full support of both the Episcopal Diocese of Masschusetts and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
"As bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, our eyes are open to the realities of transgender people and their families," Shaw and Cederholm wrote in the letter, which was subsequently printed by VirtueOnline.org. "Many of them serve faithfully in the congregations and ministries of our diocese, as lay people, as deacons, and as priests. They are dedicated and loving parents, children, siblings, friends, and community leaders."
The letter encouraged lawmakers to act quickly in passing the bill. "Adding gender identity and expression to the state's nondiscrimination and hate crimes laws is no isolated concern of a special interest group," the letter read. "The disproportionate suffering of transgender people should grieve the hearts of all who love justice and liberty."
The Transgender Rights Bill received an intensified focus from a wide variety of mainstream media outlets after Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker pledged on Saturday, April 17, that he would veto the bill if elected.
Labels: Bishops, Massachusetts H1728/S1687, transgender rights
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Vicky Pattison lands new TV show – but it could be VERY awkward
Blimey, Vicky's one busy lady!
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Vicky Pattison is continuing to take over our TV screens after bagging herself ANOTHER show – but things could get pretty awkward for her…
The former Geordie Shore star will appear as a panellist on new ITV2 panel show Codswallop Club, which will be presented by Rylan Clark-Neal.
Vicky Pattison weighs into Love Island fallout
But things could become a bit awks for Vicky, 28, as the programme will be aired at the same time as her Channel 5 show It's Not Me It's You. CLASH!
Both jobs have definite similarities too, given that they're both comedic panel shows, but we're sure that busy Vic will be able to juggle them!
Codswallop Club has been produced by new Xtra Factor host Matt Edmondson and is all about 'the art of bluffing'.
The show sees two celebrity teams compete against each other as they try to convince the other side that they're telling the truth and we can imagine Vicky being seriously LOLs at this.
Meanwhile the other show she's currently a panellist on – It's Not Me It's You – sees the stars go head-to-head in a series of funny challenges based on relationships.
Vicky goes up against fellow panel regular Kelly Brook and the series has already gone down well with viewers.
One fan commented on Vicky's Instagram page: 'Watched it being filmed, it was really good! Great job guys!'
Another added: 'you have done nothing but grown in comedy and be absolutely fabulous. Keeping it real. Gorgeous, inspiring and hilarious. '
Well if that's anything to go by we think Vicky will be brilliant in her new Codswallop gig!
That aside, Ms Pattison has certainly got plenty of things to keep her busy right now.
The Newcastle lass remains a regular panellist on Loose Women and she's also popped up as a showbiz reporter on This Morning. And we haven't even mentioned the books, clothing line and supplements range amongst other ventures.
Keep up the good work, Vic!


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Students join in Hong Kong Solidarity
Written on 2nd October 2014 . Posted in News
Over 300 students joined together in Piccadilly Gardens on Wednesday evening in solidarity with the Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong. The event was organised by Louis Yuen and five other second year students at the University of Manchester and UoM Business School.
The aim of the protests in Hong Kong is for China to withdraw plans to decide on candidates for the next Hong Kong leadership election in 2017. Beijing opted last month that Hong Kong people could elect their next leader with the compromise that the candidates would be screened by a pro-Beijing committee based in China.
Beijing does not want to escalate the protests in Hong Kong with a strong response, worrying what the effect could be on Mainland China. In Hong Kong, however, police responded to the protests on the weekend with tear gas and pepper spray, although since Monday the police have stopped using forceful action and the protests remain peaceful.
The Occupy Central Movement aims to achieve universal suffrage: genuine political rights with no unreasonable limitations. It has been argued that back door diplomacy may have been a better option but the students have taken to the streets to express their views.
The UoM students orchestrated the event in Piccadilly Gardens as an evening of speeches and singing, including Les Miserables' Do You Hear The People Sing?, and they provided yellow ribbons and banners to all attendees.
Yuen has not told her family in Hong Kong about this event because they are pro-Beijing, but this did not distract her focus for the evening:
"The people in Hong Kong are suffering from the pepper spray and tear gas… so we wanted to get all the people together to speak out and show support for Hong Kong democracy.
"I think the government have to listen, because we are not going to give up this time, because for Hong Kong people we all think it's the last time to strive for democracy."
Marina Garvey Birch
Protesters call for greater UK involvement in Hong Kong pro-democracy movement
UoM call for 'immediate' return of exchange students in Hong Kong
Hong Kong protests in Manchester met with anger from patriotic Chinese
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The Australian Pro Bono Centre is proud to have been a part of the Asia Pro Bono Conference since its inception in 2012. Now in its seventh year, the Conference has been hosted by Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar, Indonesia and Malaysia. This year the Conference moves to north Asia for the first time, when it will be held in Hong Kong from 25 to 27 October. In 2012 around 100 people attended. Since then the Conference has grown rapidly, becoming a rallying point for pro bono leaders in the Asia Pacific region. This year 500 delegates are expected to converge on Hong Kong to celebrate the force that is pro bono.
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Q: Is there much pro bono happening in Hong Kong?
I've worked in Hong Kong for almost ten years and compared to when I first arrived, there is so much more pro bono happening now. Despite their fierce reputation for competition and money-making, there has always been an underlying culture among local lawyers of helping those in need. What is different now is the sharpened awareness of the importance of access to justice as a fundamental cornerstone of the rule of law, and also the presence of international law firms and multinational corporations, which are importing and "glocalising" the local best practices here.
Davyd at a legal clinic in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong's poorest district.
Q: How can we be part of the pro bono movement in the Asia Pacific?
Share your expertise with colleagues in Asia and work together on global responses to seemingly intractable justice problems. Find out what is trending now in pro bono in the most populous region of the world.
Offer financial assistance to help bring delegates from developing countries to the Conference by contributing to the Inclusion Fund. This has been a pillar of this Conference since it began and you can make a donation to the Inclusion Fund by visiting the Conference website. Sponsorship packages for the conference itself are also available for law firms, businesses and justice minded philanthropists! This is a not-for-profit conference and anything earned goes toward waivers for delegates who would otherwise struggle to attend and be heard.
Most importantly: attend the Conference and bring your friends and colleagues! Anyone with an interest in a more just, equal and fair world should attend. It is a rare opportunity to meet like-minded lawyers, academics, students and other justice professionals.
Q: What's the Conference theme this year and what are the main topics?
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Being in Hong Kong we were naturally looking for program content that would build a more tech-aware pro bono community that would be of practical benefit to our clients, while remaining accessible even to non-techie Conference participants. There will be sessions for beginners and global experts; innovations in service delivery from low cost law firms to paralegals building legal empowerment and ADR in refugee camps.
At a thematic level we will look at current issues such as discrimination and ageing in Asia, questions of justice and identity for stateless people, financial abuse of migrant workers, how women have been exploited by some international organisations, and we ask what lawyers in Asia can do for refugees.
Q: What are the costs involved in attending the Conference? Do I need a visa?
The Conference registration is US$499 with the early bird discount, available now. Many airlines fly direct to Hong Kong from Australia each day. No visa is required for Australian passport holders.
Q: How do I register for the Conference or find out more about the Conference?
Register now at www.probonoconference.org. Any questions? Email me at 2018APBC@probono.org.hk or davyd@probono.org.hk.
Davyd is the founder of the Hong Kong Centre for Pro Bono Service, (www.probono.org.hk). An alumnus of UNSW, his pro bono commitment began when he interned at the Kingsford Legal Centre. Davyd went on to volunteer at the Inner City Legal Centre, Sydney and at the Public Interest Law Clearing House (now Justice Connect).
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The issue figured prominently during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia President Joko Widodo as they deliberated on developments in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and beyond.
NEW DELHI: In a veiled message to China amid its growing assertiveness in resource-rich South China Sea, India and Indonesia today asserted that the dispute must be resolved through peaceful means and in accordance with principles of international law without resorting to threat or use of force.
Without naming China, the two leaders also called for exercising self-restraint in the conduct of activities, and avoid unilateral actions that raise tensions.
In the talks, India and Indonesia have also decided to boost ties in maritime security sphere with a focus on cooperating with each other to ensure the safety and security of the sea lanes.
"Regarding the South China Sea, the two sides stressed the importance of resolving disputes by peaceful means, in accordance with universally recognised principles of international law including the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)," a joint statement issued after the talks between Modi and Widodo said.
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After her lack of parental guidance as a child, it's not surprising that being a hands-on mother is very important to Barrymore. She and her husband try spend as much time together as a family.
Barrymore's father was absent most of her life and is happy her children will never have to deal with that.
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A new survey of 612 migrant workers in eight provinces across China revealed that the process of seeking compensation for pneumoconiosis was expensive, time consuming and brought little reward.
Pneumoconiosis is by far the most serious occupational disease in China, with an estimated six million victims, nearly all of whom are migrant workers. Pneumoconiosis can only be contracted by working in a high-dust environment such as a mine, construction site or mineral processing factory for a sustained period of time. Every single case of pneumoconiosis in China should, by right, be classified as an occupational disease, yet according to a new survey by the charity organization Love Save Pneumoconiosis (大爱清尘), only 25.7 percent of migrant workers with pneumoconiosis even bother to seek compensation from the government or their employer.
Such apparent apathy can perhaps be explained by that fact that, according to the survey, only 17.3 percent of those migrant workers with pneumoconiosis who sought compensation actually got any compensation. The survey of 612 migrant workers in eight provinces across China revealed that the process of seeking compensation was expensive, time consuming and brought little reward. More than 77 percent of those workers who did obtain compensation got less than 60,000 yuan.
More than 90 percent of respondents described the process of seeking compensation as either "very difficult" or "quite difficult." Some campaigns for compensation lasted six years, while the average time period was nearly 17 months. And the average expenditure during this time was 6,529 yuan.
Only 18.8 percent of migrant workers sought compensation through legal channels such as labour arbitration and civil litigation, suggesting a distrust of the legal process, particularly in jurisdictions where the employer is located. Many workers believe, with justification, that courts and local government officials in the employer's jurisdiction will be biased against them. In addition, 93 percent of respondents had never signed a labour contract with their employer, severely limiting their chances of proving a labour relationship, the first step towards claiming compensation.
By far the most popular means of seeking compensation (60 percent of respondents) was through collective action, a result that reflects the fact that pneumoconiosis cases tend to concentrated in rural communities where there are large groups of labourers who all worked together in the same mine, construction site or factory.
Collective action tends to be much more effective than individual cases because the complainants can pool resources and exert greater pressure on the employer or local government, as was the case in 2010 when a group of 180 migrant workers from Leiyang in Hunan travelled to Shenzhen to demand compensation for pneumoconiosis contracted working on the city's construction sites in the 1990s. After staging protests and threatening to sue to Shenzhen government, they were awarded with various levels of compensation, ranging from 70,000 yuan to 130,000 yuan depending on the severity of their illness. However, even in this relatively successful case, many workers found that within just three years, nearly all the money had gone.
Migrant workers with pneumoconiosis in hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan
The Love Save Pneumoconiosis survey showed in detail how the medical costs for migrant workers with pneumoconiosis can quickly add up, leading to severe financial difficulties for the worker's entire family. The survey found that 67 percent of respondents had been hospitalized at least once in 2013 and that half of those had hospital bills in excess of 10,000 yuan. Most migrant workers were covered by the government's rural cooperative medical insurance scheme but this only pays for a proportion of medical costs.
One of the key issues for migrant workers with pneumoconiosis is that, in many cases, they cannot work or can only get very low-paid jobs. More than half the respondents said they could no longer do manual labour and 18 percent said they could not even do household chores. Given that these workers were previously the family's main bread winner, this disability drastically reduces the family's income. The survey found that the average income of migrant workers with pneumoconiosis was just 10,080 yuan per year compared with 22,509 yuan for the migrant workers without pneumoconiosis who were interviewed. Average expenditure for migrant workers with pneumoconiosis on the other hand was 24,804 yuan a year, with half of that (12,364 yuan) taken up by medical expenses.
Migrant worker with pneumoconiosis with just some of the medication he has to take to manage the disease
The Love Save Pneumoconiosis report placed the blame for China's pneumoconiosis crisis squarely on the employers in high dust industries who blatantly failed to protect their employees from dust inhalation, and the local government officials who just stood by and let it happen and then turned their backs on the victims when they sought help. The report calls for employers to be held accountable, for laws to be improved and properly enforced and for the government to set a special fund to compensate China's six million victims of pneumoconiosis for their medical costs and economic losses.
For more information about pneumoconiosis and its devastating impact on China's migrant worker communities, please see CLB's three research reports on the subject dating back to 2005:
Time to Pay the Bill: China's obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis
The Hard Road: Seeking justice for victims of pneumoconiosis in China
Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic among Guangdong Jewellery Workers
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Young migrant workers take centre stage
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Kunming slams the door on migrant workers
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Hammad Suheir
Acteur/trice | Poète | Voix off
Elle tient le rôle principal (Soraya) aux côtés de Saleh BAKRI (Emad) dans LE SEL DE LA MER d'Annemarie Jacir (2008).
Suheir Hammad (born October 25, 1973) is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island.
As an adolescent Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibrant Hip-Hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories her parents and grandparents had told her of life in their hometown of Lydda, before the 1948 Palestinian exodus, and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in the Gaza Strip and then in Jordan. From these disparate influences Hammad was able to weave into her work a common narrative of dispossession, not only in her capacity as an immigrant, a Palestinian and a Muslim, but as a woman struggling against society's inherent sexism and as a poet in her own right. When hip-hop entrepreneur Russel Simmons came across her piece entitled'First Writing Since,' a poem describing her reaction to the September 11 attacks, he signed her to a deal with HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She recited original works on tour for the following two years. She is now working on her third publication which will be a book of prose.
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29/December/2021 Society
UN chief urges that recovery be 'our resolution for 2022'
TASHKENT, December 29. /"Dunyo" IA/. Together, let's make recovery "for people, planet and prosperity" our resolution for 2022, the UN chief said in his message for the New Year, reports "Dunyo" IA correspondent.
"The world welcomes 2022 with our hopes for the future being tested by deepening poverty and worsening inequality…an unequal distribution of COVID vaccines…climate commitments that fall short, and by ongoing conflict, division, and misinformation", Secretary-General António Guterres lamented.
However, these are exams that all of humanity can pass "if we commit to making 2022 a year of recovery for everyone", upheld the top UN official. Mr. Guterres went on to detail how best the recovery should be done on each front. The pandemic requires "a bold plan to vaccinate every person, everywhere", he said.
And for an economic rescue, the UN chief flagged that wealthier countries must support the developing world with "financing, investment and debt relief". Meanwhile, to heal from mistrust and division, he affirmed that a new emphasis must be placed "on science, facts and reason".
At the same time, recovery from conflicts calls for "a renewed spirit of dialogue, compromise and reconciliation" while restoring our planet takes "climate commitments that match the scale and urgency of the crisis", said Mr. Guterres.
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/*                                    Xdmf                                   */
/*                       eXtensible Data Model and Format                    */
/*                                                                           */
/*  Id : XdmfPlaceholder.cpp                                                 */
/*                                                                           */
/*  Author:                                                                  */
/*     Andrew Burns                                                          */
/*     andrew.j.burns2@us.army.mil                                           */
/*     US Army Research Laboratory                                           */
/*     Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD                                           */
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/*     Copyright @ 2014 US Army Research Laboratory                          */
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/*     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without            */
/*     even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS               */
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#include <hdf5.h>
#include <sstream>
#include "XdmfArray.hpp"
#include "XdmfArrayType.hpp"
#include "XdmfError.hpp"
#include "XdmfHeavyDataDescription.hpp"
#include "XdmfPlaceholder.hpp"
#include "XdmfSystemUtils.hpp"
#include "string.h"

shared_ptr<XdmfPlaceholder>
XdmfPlaceholder::New(const std::string & filePath,
                     const shared_ptr<const XdmfArrayType> type,
                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & start,
                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & stride,
                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & dimensions,
                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & dataspaceDimensions)
{
  shared_ptr<XdmfPlaceholder>
    p(new XdmfPlaceholder(filePath,
                          type,
                          start,
                          stride,
                          dimensions,
                          dataspaceDimensions));
  return p;
}

XdmfPlaceholder::XdmfPlaceholder(const std::string & filePath,
                                 const shared_ptr<const XdmfArrayType> type,
                                 const std::vector<unsigned int> & start,
                                 const std::vector<unsigned int> & stride,
                                 const std::vector<unsigned int> & dimensions,
                                 const std::vector<unsigned int> & dataspaceDimensions) :
  XdmfHeavyDataController(filePath,
                          type,
                          start,
                          stride,
                          dimensions,
                          dataspaceDimensions)
{
}

XdmfPlaceholder::XdmfPlaceholder(const XdmfPlaceholder & refController):
  XdmfHeavyDataController(refController)
{
}

XdmfPlaceholder::~XdmfPlaceholder()
{
}

shared_ptr<XdmfHeavyDataController>
XdmfPlaceholder::createSubController(const std::vector<unsigned int> & starts,
                                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & strides,
                                     const std::vector<unsigned int> & dimensions)
{
  return XdmfPlaceholder::New(mFilePath,
                              mType,
                              starts,
                              strides,
                              dimensions,
                              mDataspaceDimensions);
}

std::string
XdmfPlaceholder::getDescriptor() const
{
  return "";
}

shared_ptr<XdmfHeavyDataDescription>
XdmfPlaceholder::getHeavyDataDescription()
{
  static shared_ptr<XdmfHeavyDataDescription> p = shared_ptr<XdmfHeavyDataDescription>();
  return p;
}

std::string
XdmfPlaceholder::getName() const
{
  return "Placeholder";
}

void
XdmfPlaceholder::getProperties(std::map<std::string, std::string> & collectedProperties) const
{
  collectedProperties["Format"] = this->getName();
}

void
XdmfPlaceholder::read(XdmfArray * const array)
{
  array->initialize(this->getType(), this->getDimensions());
}

// C Wrappers

XDMFPLACEHOLDER * XdmfPlaceholderNew(char * hdf5FilePath,
                                     int type,
                                     unsigned int * start,
                                     unsigned int * stride,
                                     unsigned int * dimensions,
                                     unsigned int * dataspaceDimensions,
                                     unsigned int numDims,
                                     int * status)
{
  XDMF_ERROR_WRAP_START(status)
  try
  {
    std::vector<unsigned int> startVector(start, start + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> strideVector(stride, stride + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> dimVector(dimensions, dimensions + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> dataspaceVector(dataspaceDimensions, dataspaceDimensions + numDims);
    shared_ptr<const XdmfArrayType> buildType = shared_ptr<XdmfArrayType>();
    switch (type) {
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT8:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt8();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT16:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt16();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT8:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int8();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT16:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int16();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT64:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int64();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_FLOAT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Float32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_FLOAT64:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Float64();
        break;
      default:
        XdmfError::message(XdmfError::FATAL,
                           "Error: Invalid ArrayType.");
        break;
    }
    shared_ptr<XdmfPlaceholder> generatedController = XdmfPlaceholder::New(std::string(hdf5FilePath), buildType, startVector, strideVector, dimVector, dataspaceVector);
    return (XDMFPLACEHOLDER *)((void *)(new XdmfPlaceholder(*generatedController.get())));
  }
  catch (...)
  {
    std::vector<unsigned int> startVector(start, start + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> strideVector(stride, stride + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> dimVector(dimensions, dimensions + numDims);
    std::vector<unsigned int> dataspaceVector(dataspaceDimensions, dataspaceDimensions + numDims);
    shared_ptr<const XdmfArrayType> buildType = shared_ptr<XdmfArrayType>();
    switch (type) {
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT8:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt8();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT16:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt16();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_UINT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::UInt32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT8:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int8();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT16:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int16();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_INT64:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Int64();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_FLOAT32:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Float32();
        break;
      case XDMF_ARRAY_TYPE_FLOAT64:
        buildType = XdmfArrayType::Float64();
        break;
      default:
        XdmfError::message(XdmfError::FATAL,
                           "Error: Invalid ArrayType.");
        break;
    }
    shared_ptr<XdmfPlaceholder> generatedController = XdmfPlaceholder::New(std::string(hdf5FilePath), buildType, startVector, strideVector, dimVector, dataspaceVector);
    return (XDMFPLACEHOLDER *)((void *)(new XdmfPlaceholder(*generatedController.get())));
  }
  XDMF_ERROR_WRAP_END(status)
  return NULL;
}

// C Wrappers for parent classes are generated by macros

XDMF_HEAVYCONTROLLER_C_CHILD_WRAPPER(XdmfPlaceholder, XDMFPLACEHOLDER)


TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands (December 30, 1998 - Saipan Tribune)---The operator of the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino is facing another lawsuit for failure to pay invoices amounting to $237,106.90 despite repeated demands.
The complaint was filed yesterday by FPA Pacific Corp., a corporation organized and existing in Tinian, against Hongkong Entertainment (Overseas) Investment, Ltd.
According to the complaint, beginning in 1998, FPA supplied construction materials, equipment and labor to Tinian Dynasty pursuant to a verbal agreement that the invoices would be paid in full within 30 days.
The agreement also provides that Tinian Dynasty would pay 1.5 percent interest per month and attorney fees incurred in the collection of any unpaid balance.
FPA claimed it supplied all materials, equipment used and labor requested by Tinian Dynasty and FPA performed its obligations under its verbal agreement with the establishment.
FPA said it sent invoices for the materials, equipment and labor costs but Tinian Dynasty failed to pay any of the invoices despite repeated demands.
FPA said Tinian Dynasty breached the agreement with FPA by making only one token payment of $7,000 last Nov. 27, 1998 and failed to pay the remaining balance of $237,106.90 plus interest.
The interest as of the date of the filing of the complaint is $7,000 and is increasing at the rate of $3,556.60 per month.
The complaint said FPA has been damaged by the breach and is asking the court to render judgment against Tinian Dynasty in the amount of $237,106.90 in unpaid invoices, pre-judgment interest of 18 percent, post judgment interest of 18 percent and attorney fees.


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Dinosaur fossil on auction in Britain could fetch $1 billion
A diplodocus skeleton named Misty is seen at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, southern England on Nov 25, 2013. The almost-complete fossil will be up for auction in Britain on Wednesday, the BBC has reported. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS
Nov 27, 2013, 11:21 am SGT
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Jeremy Lee
jerlee@sph.com.sg
THE almost-complete fossil of diplodocus dinosaur will be up for auction in Britain on Wednesday, the BBC has reported.
The diplodocus is a large, long-necked dinosaur from the late Jurassic period. The fossil was unearthed by palaeontologists in the United States state of Wyoming.
Mr Errol Fuller, curator at Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex, was quoted by the BBC as saying: "To my knowledge it's the first time a large dinosaur skeleton has been auctioned in this country."
The fossil is expected to fetch more than £500,000 (S$1 billion) at the auction. It has an estimated value of between £400,000 and £600,000.