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Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
India: New Delhi police arrest protesting doctors
Tamil Nadu overhead tank operators and conservancy workers demand permanency
Punjab university teachers continue strike action
Haryana childcare workers demand higher wages
Pakistan: Islamabad teachers oppose reforms to remove them from federal government service
Islamabad police attack federal government workers
Sri Lankan railway station masters protest over long-outstanding claims
South Korean parcel delivery workers threaten strike
Terminated workers at Cambodia's largest casino protest
Junior doctors at hospitals in Victoria mount class action
New Delhi police arrested several hospital resident doctors protesting outside the Maulana Azad Medical College on December 27. The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) condemned the police action and threatened that all healthcare institutions would be completely shut down from that day.
The protest was a part of the ongoing national indefinite strike that began on December 21 to oppose suspension of postgraduate medical admissions, which is causing extra workloads. Resident doctors from several states across India walked out on December 6 over the issue.
This year's NEET-PG 2021 postgraduate entrance exam, which usually occurs in January, was postponed until September because of rising COVID-19 cases. Adding to the delay, postgraduate medical admissions have been stayed by the Supreme Court, which has postponed hearing petitions filed by students questioning the validity of resident seat allocation until January 6.
The striking doctors said they will not return to work until they receive a written assurance from the government that the issue is being resolved.
Hundreds of overhead tank (OHT) operators and conservancy workers employed in rural areas across Tamil Nadu demonstrated on December 21 to demand higher wages and permanent jobs. Cleanliness protectors and conservancy workers in villages said they were being exploited and paid a meagre 3,600-rupee ($48) monthly salary with no holidays or leave.
They demanded correction of a government order issued by the previous state government in February. While the government claimed the order increased all salaries, it set them at only 4,000 rupees per month and effectively cut the salary of OHT operators who earn up to 5,000 rupees a month.
OHT operators have been working on a part-time basis or on consolidated pay for several years. They allege that no proper employment records have been maintained which means they could be terminated anytime.
Strike action by teachers from the Guru Nanak Dev University and affiliated colleges across Punjab state has entered its fourth week.
Guru Nanak Dev University Teachers' Association members, along with members of the district unit of Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers' Union want the University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scale revised in line with the Seventh Pay Commission. They are also demanding the government reverse its decision to delink teachers' pay grades from the UGC pay scale.
Veterinary care workers from the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University hospitals in Ludhiana, Punjab state began an indefinite strike on December 1 over the same issues.
Anganwadi (childcare) workers demonstrated and blocked traffic on the Chandigarh-Kharar highway in Chandigarh, Haryana state on December 21 over the late payment of salaries and for a wage increase. Traffic was blocked, causing long queues of vehicles stretching almost 4 kilometres.
The protesting workers have been making these demands for the past nine months but the government had failed to respond. They warned that they will proceed with different forms of protests until their demands are addressed.
Teachers and non-teaching staff from government-run schools and colleges struck on December 23 to oppose a government act that removed the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), the current authority over the schools, from the federal government hierarchy. It will instead be controlled by the mayor of Islamabad and become a local government body. Over 400 educational institutions, including 390 schools, were shut down by the strike.
A previous week-long strike begun on November 30 over the issue was called off by the Federal Government Education Joint Action Committee after the government claimed it needed time to address the educators' demands.
Teachers and non-teaching workers claimed the reforms will end their status as federal government employees and lead to the loss of current benefits. Opposition to the reform is popularly supported by students and parents.
FDE employees are also concerned that the federal government's persistent failure to uphold financial commitment to provisional and local governments have frequently led to delayed or non-payment of salaries. The Imran Khan government is seeking to reduce public expenditure, including for education, via reforms that transfer social budget responsibility to local authorities.
Employees from several federal government departments in Islamabad protested outside the ministry of finance on November 30 to demand the implementation of the 25 percent pay increase agreed by the government in February. The demand comes amidst continuing double digit inflation and stagnation of pay.
A heavy contingent of police attacked the November 30 protest with tear gas, preventing them from marching to the office of the prime minister. Police blockaded roads with truck-size containers to contain the protesters.
A similar protest was held on November 16 in which workers also demanded the inclusion of various allowances into their base pay and time-scale promotions.
The All Government Employees Grand Alliance in February shut down the workers' mass protest that brought Islamabad to a standstill declaring that the government had agreed to meet their demands. The government quickly reneged its agreement and instead implemented measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Railway station masters took industrial action on December 23 to protest the railway department's lack of action on their outstanding demands. They stopped transporting or accepting parcels and issuing travel tickets. Station masters said rail authorities had ignored their demands, despite numerous appeals to rectify multiple problems.
Major demands included payment of coverage allowances if promotions cannot be provided, and overtime for station masters calculated under the same system as engine drivers.
The Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters' Union called off the action on Tuesday, claiming it had received an assurance from the state minister for transport that their demands would be addressed.
Union members at CJ Logistics, South Korea's leading parcel delivery company, have threatened to strike before the end of the year to demand better working conditions and against unsafe workloads. Over 93 percent of the 2,290 union members at the company approved taking indefinite strike action from December 28.
The union claims that CJ Logistics has failed to use the full amount of increased delivery charges that should have been spent to reduce workload under a January deal between the government and logistics firms. The deal called for logistics companies to hire extra workers to sort parcels and take other steps to prevent overwork.
The agreement was made after mass protests by workers following the death of 16 delivery workers allegedly caused by overwork. According to the union, CJ Logistics is spending only 30 percent of the increased shipping charges to improve working conditions for delivery workers.
Some 365 laid off workers from the NagaWorld casino complex in Phnom Penh have been holding daily protests since December 18 in front of the casino complex demanding reinstatement and an end to alleged discrimination against union members.
The dispute goes back to April when the Hong Kong-owned complex used the COVID-19 pandemic as the excuse to restructure its operations and target the union organisation. It laid off 1,329 of its 8,000-strong work force. Only 85 workers accepted a severance payout which the union claimed was less than what is required by law.
Protesters, mostly union members, want reinstatement, and review of termination packages to bring them in line with Cambodia's Labor Law. The dispute is being mediated by the ministry of labour and vocational training.
More than 1,400 junior doctors across multiple healthcare services in Victoria have joined a state-wide legal campaign demanding repayment for un-rostered overtime as well as penalties against the hospitals for alleged breaches of the Fair Work Act. The doctors claimed they are overworked and under paid.
Coordinator of doctors in training at Australian Medical Association Victoria, Dr Gavin Wayne, said morale was at an all-time low, and the hospital system was at "breaking point." He said that health administrators and various governments have for decades relied on these doctors, who are regularly working up to 25 hours a week overtime, most of it unpaid.
Dr Wayne said the systemic exploitation of junior doctors would be the only thing keeping hospitals going in 2022, when health services would be trying to catch up with a backlog of treatments delayed by COVID-19.
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New History of Psychology: Reputation, Politics, and Archives
2013.05.14 General, JournalsAgostino Gemelli, archive, Catholicism, communism, fascism, Gantt charts, Germany, historiophoty, Italian psychology, Kenneth James William Craik, Piaget, politicsJacy Young
The May 2013 issue of History of Psychology is now online. Included in this issue are articles on the role of reputation in academic life via a study of psychologist Kenneth James William Craik, the intersection of science and politics in communist Germany, and the work of Italian Catholic psychologist Agostino Gemelli (left). Other pieces include a discussion of Gantt charts as a means of visually depicting history and a look at the Piaget Archives in Geneva, Switzerland. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below.
"The reputation of Kenneth James William Craik," by Alan F. Collins. The abstract reads,
Reputation is a familiar concept in everyday life and in a range of academic disciplines. There have been studies of its formation, its content, its management, its diffusion, and much else besides. This article explores the reputation of the Cambridge psychologist Kenneth Craik (1914–1945). Having examined something of Craik's life and work and the content of his reputation, the article concentrates on the functions that Craik's reputation has served, particularly for psychology and related disciplines. The major functions of that reputation are identified as being a legitimation and confirmation of disciplinary boundaries and discontinuities in the period shortly after World War II, an exemplification of how to be a modern scientist and of the values to embrace, a reinforcement of science as having a national dimension, an affirmation of psychology as a science that can serve national needs, and a creation of shared identities through commemoration. The article concludes that studies of reputations can illuminate the contexts in which they emerge and the values they endorse.
"Science in a communist country: The case of the XXIInd International Congress of Psychology in Leipzig (1980)," by Wolfgang Schönpflug & Gerd Lüer. The abstract reads, Continue reading New History of Psychology: Reputation, Politics, and Archives →


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Founded in 1996, The South Coast Symphony, the Unstuffy Symphony, is a resident orchestra for South Orange County. The Symphony is beginning its 21st Season here in Orange County. The 70 member Symphony's mission is to provide South Orange County's fifteen diverse communities with a professional, accessible and affordable symphonic musical experience. The Symphony's eclectic programming is designed to entertain and educate while also attracting a whole new generation of patrons. The Symphony performs a wide variety of orchestral literature from the Classics and Opera to Light Classics, Broadway and Pops. Ticket prices range from $10 to $45. The Symphony's subscription series venues are at Soka University's Performing Arts Center and Coast Hills Auditorium, both centrally located for all of South County in Aliso Viejo. The South Coast Symphony Alliance and Junior Alliance, our support groups, include over 50 members who are instrumental in providing numerous volunteer and support services to The Symphony.
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It doesn't matter if you are a 10-year Forex veteran or someone who is just starting to trade in this fascinating market – you want to be better. If you are not, you should be. Only if you constantly strive to be a better Forex trader than the day before can you hope to survive and make money by trading. The following tips will help you do exactly that, become the best Forex trader that you can be.
When you just get into Forex, you spend a whole lot of time learning. First you need to get a grasp of the basics. Then you learn the lingo. Then you start analyzing various strategies and learning from successful traders. Then you start learning from your own experience.
And then… you stop learning.
After a while, many Forex traders start thinking that they have learned everything there is about the market and the best practices. They become settled in.
This is the beginning of end, simply put.
The foreign exchange market is an infinitely intricate ecosystem which is evolving at an incredible pace and the moment you stop learning, you are behind. Do it for more than a few weeks and it is highly likely that you will have troubles catching up.
It's not impossible, but why risk it?
In short, always keep learning. You cannot afford not to.
It is not a secret that many Forex traders keep their own trading journals, but for some reason, many traders choose not to do it. Sure, they keep some record of their past trades, but it is rarely as organized and as structured as it should be.
There are innumerable reasons as to why keeping a Forex trading journal will be good for you, but the most important one is that it will help you notice patterns that you might not notice otherwise. After a number of trades, you will start noticing the flaws in your market analyses and various actions that you take. You will also start noticing the good things that you have been doing with your successful trades.
In short, keeping a trading journal will provide you with a uniquely combined set of data that consists of outside numbers and your own, personal data.
One thing that is almost bafflingly absent from the majority of Forex community is honest, open discussion between traders. Sure, there are certain details that no one is prepared to share, but there are just as much trade talk that can benefit everyone involved in the talks.
These may be discussions about various tools or some general practices that certain traders have found beneficial.
You might find that reaching out to other traders is a bit tricky and you might feel discouraged after a while, but it is just as likely that you will encounter a couple of more open traders who will be glad to exchange certain findings.
The main thing you can get from this is expanding your views on Forex trading, which can get quite myopic due to the individualistic nature of trading.
Some traders, especially those who have been doing it for a while, get set in their ways. They will stick with their broker even when better alternatives spring up. They will stick to a single currency pair even though switching up might actually help them make money. They will keep using the same, proven tactics even though changing them up might improve their outcomes. They will feel apprehensive in face of exciting new possibilities such as social trading.
We are not saying that you should suddenly become erratic or give up on your tried "classics". We are simply saying that you should keep your eyes open for new options and solutions.
Forex trading can be volatile and when this happens, the crucial thing to do is to keep your emotions in check. Often times, you will feel absolutely overwhelmed by anger, despair, exhilaration or elation.
And this is perfectly natural.
You will feel certain emotions.
When you must never do is allow the emotions to take over. The same goes for superstitions and hunches, whose calls are often almost impossible to ignore.
Never trade unless you can explain to yourself your decision using nothing but data.


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This is it commadres! This is what we've been working so hard for these past almost 10 years! U.S. peoples' revolution. You wouldn't want to miss this, would you?
People from all over the country – & several other countries – from all walks of life (the wealthy missing) and passionately devoted to addressing all ranges of issues, continue to materialize, represent, and make the connections as we OCCUPY D.C.
Over 200 people intentionally sleep on the plaza last nite – at least until 4:30am when the organizers went around waking up folks at the behest of the police!
Many activists are committed to occupying D.C. until a majority U.S. Americans rise up and join us on the plaza, demanding the end to wars, killing, rapes & torture, & bringing our troops & contractors immediately home.
Demanding an end to the brutal rule and blatant violence of the rich and corporate. Demanding the honoring and protecting of all life on this planet.
We all know it is only numbers of bodies and prolonged occupation until our demands are met that will END WARS!
Consider what kind of a place we would have now if the same small numbers of people would have showed up in the 60's and 70's as are showing up today!
End the suffering of the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia - and our soldiers. Halt the extinction of 200 species a day on the Mother Earth. Begin the toppling of the empire, and the rebuilding of kind of society we want, need, have to have.
Rise up. It is the only thing that truly matters today.
So come to D.C. NOW and join the revolution! Don't be "left behind"!
What an amazing action, this Occupy Freedom Plaza! Lots of youth are here. Lots of actions happening. Music and speakers on the stage. General Assemblies. Consensus building. Amazing giving voice to everyone who wants to be heard. Talking 'stacks', mike checks, megaphones and microphones.
Marches, sit-ins, closing down Chamber of Commerce, General Atomics, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Lots of interacting with the public, both at the Plaza and around D.C.
Food not bombs has been feeding everyone. There's another "Occupy D.C." Wall Street action happening simultaneously at McPherson Plaza a few blocks away. We are trying to bring the anti-war message over to these 99% people, and include that message of money with our messages of protecting human and all life on the planet.
This plaza is raised up from the street about three or four steps, has a marble floor, and covers a very large city block. There are sections of grass along one side of the plaza and section in the middle back. Portapotties line the sidewalk at the west far end of the Plaza and at the east far end is the stage.
Some male voice, urgent, quiet, resonating like long single notes from a sax under the constant city hum, carries thru the dark to our inert forms bundled in sleeping bags and/or cardboard boxes, carrying the message from the police: get up. No more sleeping on the ground.
Apparently it is illegal in Washington D.C. to actually sleep in a sleeping bag, tent, cardboard box, any structure anywhere on the ground. You can sleep on a chair.You can lay down on the ground but you can't sleep.
There are no birds to wake up to. The noise of the city never cedes. It is very wet and cold, much like a San Francisco summer morn. Our sleeping bags and anything exposed to the nite air are dripping with dew.
The murmur of hundreds of folks stirring awake, as the cold increases in direct proportion to the darkness leaking out into dawn, leaks slowly over the plaza as the early sun illuminates the capitol.


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NCAN is partnering with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and College Forward to increase the number of rural students entering and completing postsecondary degree programs.
Research has shown that a lack of resources and support for rural Texans has created a population that knows less about college planning and is less likely to enter or complete postsecondary education than its urban peers. Only 11 of every 100 Texan students considered low-income in 8th grade will complete a postsecondary degree or certificate within six years of their high school graduation.
The AgriLife Extension Service is aiming to change this pattern by bringing college access and success services to 27 sites in Texas over four years. The service program, which received a $3 million grant from the Greater Texas Foundation for this initiative in September, is focused on improving the lives of Texans through the promotion of education, individual health and environmentalism.
To help the AgriLife Extension Service achieve its goal of getting more rural Texan students to and through college, NCAN and College Forward – based in Austin – will provide the services with expertise on college access and success.
To make this goal a reality, NCAN will provide the AgriLife Extension Service with professional development training for those in direct service delivery positions, coaching sites as they set up programs and helping with data collection and analysis.
Until now, most of NCAN's work in Texas has focused on urban areas.
"With the largest rural population of students in the country, there is tremendous need for providing quality programming and support to this population located in small schools in isolated settings," NCAN Executive Director Kim Cook said.
College Forward will provide training for agents, curricula for students and parents, summer melt and college completion support services, and data management services.
Austin Buchan, CEO of College Forward, says the collaborative efforts of the organizations involved will "lead to a proven, scalable model that transforms the lives of thousands of underserved students across Texas' vast rural landscape."
With the guidance of College Forward and NCAN, the AgriLife Extension Service hopes to create a "college-going culture" in rural Texas. The initiative is built around the idea that If more students are given access to a higher education and complete degrees they can expect higher wages, better career prospects, improved health, and increased civic engagement, making for a better, more equitable state.


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Protesters denounce Trump's wall, emergency declaration in Wilmington
Adam Duvernay
A group of protesters gathered Saturday in Wilmington's Rodney Square to rally against a controversial emergency declaration recently declared by President Trump to build a border wall.
Described by organizer Coby Owens as a "pop-up protest," the political rally was meant to fire up opponents of the border wall for what's expected to be a protracted fight.
"This wall is nothing but racist and xenophobic. It does not represent what we want," Owens said. "We are a country that is made great by immigrants."
After Congress did not approve President Trump's request for $5.7 billion for a wall, despite a bitter shutdown fight, the president on Friday announced he would declare a state of emergency and divert up to $8 billion in federal money from other uses to build 234 miles of barrier, USA Today reported. Trump's move faces a number of lawsuits over his use of executive power, including from the American Civil Liberties Union and the state of California.
At Saturday's protest, Owens bellowed through a bullhorn the words those waving signs across from him may have been thinking: "It's just a stupid wall. I'm sorry. It's stupid."
"What is a national emergency right here in America right now is the fact that we have gun violence out of control inside our schools and outside," Owens said. "We have millions of people who aren't on health care ... We are in a human right crisis."
A chunk of the protest crowd came with Becca Cotto, director of racial and social justice for YWCA Delaware. She said being seen and heard was the first step of the fight.
"What's really important are the voices in America. A majority of us don't want a wall," she said. "The best thing that our president did was get a lot of people like this fired up."
Wilmingtonian Harry Collins walked through the square during the protest and exchanged some words with the protesters. He said he favors a wall and tough immigration laws.
"People should come in this country the right way, not the wrong way. They should put a wall up there," Collins said. "If you have to sneak into this country, there's something else going on in your life that's the reason you shouldn't be here in the first place."
Contact Adam Duvernay at (302) 319-1855 or aduvernay@delawareonline.com.
Opinion: Trump would likely lose a legal fight if he uses emergency powers for 'the wall'
Demonstrators target Trump border wall


Basically, if you have poor cell signal in your house or business but you're connected to Wi-Fi, your iPhone will use the Internet connection to place phone calls and receive texts. iPhone 6 and above with iOS 9 can turn it on in Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi calling.
Wi-Fi calling is a feature that lets calls be placed over a wireless connection when cellular connectivity is poor, functioning much like an AT&T M-Cell does now. It's similar to Apple's own FaceTime Audio feature, which also routes calls over a Wi-Fi connection. AT&T customers can turn on Wi-Fi calling by going to the Phone section of the Settings app and toggling on the Wi-Fi calling feature. From there, there are a set of steps to walk through, including entering an emergency 911 address. Wi-Fi calling is available on the iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus, and 6s Plus running iOS 9.


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Toivo Sakari Korhonen, född 15 juli 1926 i Kuopio, död 10 maj 2014 i Helsingfors, var en finländsk arkitekt.

Korhonen avlade studentexamen 1947 i Kuopio och blev färdig arkitekt vid Tekniska högskolan i Helsingfors 1952. Från 1955 drev han egen arkitektverksamhet och var som mest produktiv under 1960– och 1970–talen. Han ritade främst, men inte uteslutande, byggnader i Helsingfors och hans arkitektur var utpräglat modernistisk. Därtill utförde han flera större bostads- och fabrikbyggnadsprojekt utomlands, bland annat i Peru, Saudiarabien och Västtyskland.

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Kotka affärscentrum, 1960.
Tammerfors universitet, 1960–1966.
Valmet Ab:s affärshus i Gardesstaden, Helsingfors, sedermera polisstation, 1964.
Lauritsala kyrka, Villmanstrand (tillsammans med Jaakko Laapotti), 1969.
Metrostationerna Kajsaniemi, Kvarnbäcken och Gårdsbacka, Helsingfors, från 1971.
Heimolahuset, Helsingfors, 1972.
Pukeva Oy:s varuhus i Kajsaniemi, Helsingfors, sedermera Kodin Anttilas varuhus, 1974.
Saastamoisenkulma bank- och varuhus, Kuopio, 1977.
Helsingfors universitets administrationsbyggnad, 1977.
Sampohuset, Vasa, 1978.
Böle polisstation, 1983.
Tammerfors tekniska universitets andra och tredje byggnadsskeden, 1983.

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Our purpose is to raise the profile of young carers to create communities whereby young carers, their families and others are comfortable and confident to speak out about this social issue.
We strive to ensure that through this;
We create an understanding and awareness of young carers, their families, illnesses (with a particular focus on mental health illnesses) and disabilities.
Challenge and diminish the stigma, discrimination and prejudice perceptions attached to being a young carer, having an illness and/or disability.
Young carers and their families are identified and better supported.
We work to develop young carers emotional resilience and raise their aspirations.
Academic establishments and professionals are better equipped to identify and support young carers
There are 166,363 young carers in England according to the 2011 census data, this figure is a 20% increase from the census data recorded in 2001, where 139,000 young carers were identified. (The Children's Society, 2013).
1 in 12 young carers are caring for more than 15 hours per week and around 1 in 20 miss school because of their caring responsibilities. (The Children's Society, 2013).
Young carers are 1.5 times more likely than their peers to have a special educational need or a disability. (The Children's Society, 2013).
Carers have significantly lower educational attainment at GCSE level, the equivalent to nine grades lower overall than their peers e.g. the difference between nine B's and nine C's. (The Children's Society, 2013).
A quarter of young carers said they were bullied at school because of their caring role (Carers Trust, 2013).
Young carers are more likely than the national average to not be in education, employment or training (NEET) between the ages of 16 and 19. (The Children's Society, 2013).
39% of young carers said that nobody in their school was aware of their caring role. (Dearden, C, Becker, S, 2004).
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Album review: Kudsi Erguner's "La Melancolie Royale"
Ney music with a mission
"La Melancolie Royale" is an hour-long Sufi meditation on the reed flute by the great Turkish virtuoso Kudsi Erguner. Marian Brehmer on a Sufi musician with a mission
"Listen to the reed flute, how it tells its tale / How it bewails the pain of separation" – it is no coincidence that the Persian mystic and poet Rumi began the Masnawi, his 25,000-verse masterwork, with the ney as a symbol. After all, the ney, like almost no other Oriental instrument, represents the yearning of the soul for its origins, for a union with the divine source from which it originated.
For the Sufis, the ney serves as a perfect metaphor. In order to make this instrument, a reed is first torn from the reed bed, just as the human soul is uprooted and feels alienated in this world.
As the first step in transforming the reed into an instrument, the flute maker completely hollows out the reed, just as individuals on the path to perfection must empty themselves from all desires and egotistical traits. Then he takes a hot iron rod to bore holes in the emerging flute. This process stands for all the trials and tribulations the spiritual aspirant experiences on the path towards maturity. Only upon completion, after all this elaborate work, can the breath of the divine flute player flow through the body of the ney.
A listener to Kudsi Erguner's new album – "La Melancolie Royale. Meditation Soufie" – might be inclined to think that the master has set humanity's existential journey to music. The ney virtuoso's album consists of six tracks, which celebrate the original sound of the reed flute in all its facets. For the most part, the sound of the instrument resembles that of a soft sigh, with delicate melodic lines and, to Western ears, a tonality that is unusually nuanced and characterised by many subtle ornaments.
Mellow, yet simultaneously ascetic
In performing his instrument, Erguner, the neyzen, the name given to a ney player in Turkish, displays acrobatics with his breath and achieves a meditative state that gradually draws in the listener as well. Erguner's playing exhibits enchanting beauty that immerses the receptive listener into a deep sense of spirituality. The virtuoso intentionally excludes other instruments from the performance. He wants to preserve the singularity of the ney and allow it to tell its own story. As a result the album is at once both mellow and ascetic.
Ney music with a mission: as a flute virtuoso, Kudsi Erguner soon made a name for himself in Europe. Erguner collaborated with world music stars like Peter Gabriel and at the same time engaged in research into traditional musical cultures in regions such as North Africa, Afghanistan, and South Asia
Kudsi Erguner is one of the most famous ney performers to have made a name for himself on the world music scene. Born in 1952 in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to a family of musicians, Erguner was taught to play the ney by his father and his grandfather. Both were so well known in Anatolia as outstanding masters of their instrument: even today people in Turkey speak of the "Erguner school" of ney playing.
When he was seventeen, Erguner became a member of the Istanbul Radio Orchestra, and at 23, he moved to France to study architecture and musicology. In Paris, he founded the Mevlana Institute, where he taught classical music and the precepts of Sufism.
As a flute virtuoso, he soon made a name for himself in Europe. Erguner collaborated with world music stars like Peter Gabriel and at the same time engaged in research into traditional musical cultures in regions such as North Africa, Afghanistan, and South Asia. In the 1980s, he served UNESCO as commissioner for Turkish musical culture.
In 2008, as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair's Turkish Guest Country Programme, Erguner headlined a highly-acclaimed concert in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, where, together with his ensemble, he performed music both as composer and flautist in the traditional Turkish Sufi style to accompany poetry from Goethe's East-West Divan. In describing Erguner's accomplishments, the renowned World Music Central forum writes, "He has documented and revived an almost forgotten musical tradition and brought it to the notice of a Western public, thereby ensuring its place in the cultural heritage of Europe."
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Our students say it, our alumni say it and our staff say it – you really are a name, not a number, at Leeds Trinity University.Located on a beautiful campus six miles from Leeds – one of the UK's best student cities – we've been providing outstanding, student-centred higher education for more than 50 years.
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We cultivate a research-led culture across all our course subject areas and research centres to enhance our students learning experience.
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The Andrew Kean Learning Centre is home to our Library and IT services and a range of study areas including a 24-hour study space.
The library is open 24/7 during key points throughout the academic year.
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Whether you're studying in the Andrew Kean Learning Centre, catching up with friends in the bar, or working out in our fully-equipped sports centre, you're only ever minutes away from everything you need.
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Love to play football? Passionate about politics? Whether you already know what you want to get involved in, or you're looking to try something new, the Students' Union offers plenty of sports clubs and societies for you to get involved with.
If you have an interest that isn't currently covered, the Students' Union will support you in setting up your own group with like-minded students.
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Before installing any RHV components, there are some prerequisite checks to perform to ensure everything is in order.
When we are using Gluster as our Storage Domains for RHV, the installation manual recommends assigning the volumes to the 'virt' volume group. This applies optimisations to the volume for virtualisation. I am also applying the other volume configuration requirements from the RHV installation guide here too.
Unfortunately, due to the version mismatch between our main Gluster nodes (v3.8.4) and our Arbiter node (v3.8.8) this command fails.
When we have a look at the 'virt' profile, we can see that it is actually just a grouping of volume settings to apply.
Great! We have them all applied now except for the two that complain about the versions. Since these are RECOMMENDATIONS, I'm not going to worry too much about the two options that failed to set (yet).
We also need to enable root ssh using keys between our nodes. First create an ssh keypair as the root user on all three hosts. This will allow the RHV Manager to query the gluster status.
Next, copy the public key from each host to all hosts (including ourself) (I had to enable root ssh on the Raspberry pi in /etc/ssh/sshd_config). We are not worried about the RPi connecting to the RHEL hosts, as the RHV Manager won't be able to use it for querying anyway.
12.1.22.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer rhvm.core.home.gatwards.org.
Next we need to install the necessary packages on both nodes. I originally elected to use the installation method that used the cockpit installer, so I installed the ovirt dashboard, and enable the cockpit service. Even though I am not using this for the installation, it may be useful later. I am installing the vdsm-gluster package here as well – this is important! Without this package, the RHV Manager won't have visibility of our gluster volumes.
The reason I am not using the Cockpit based installation is that we cannot specify backup Gluster hosts for the engine storage volume (engine) – this leaves us with a single point of failure in our cluster as if the host we define as the storage mount goes down, the whole cluster goes down. Turns out that using the good ol' CLI based installer allows us to pull in a customisation file so that we can define redundancy on our storage.
On the baremetal hosts (our main hosts that will be the hypervisors) we need to ensure that the network ports required are open in the firewall. Failure to open these will result in the installer hanging checking the VDSM status of the manager VM after it has been installed. The firewalld service files required are delivered by the various RPM packages pulled in by the command above, so we can't enable the firewall services until the package is installed.
Now, lets make our storage configuration file for our override. What this is defining is that our primary storage point for the Hosted Engine is baremetal1:/engine (our gluster volume), but we have backup servers at baremetal2 and baremetal3. If baremetal1 becomes unavailable, the others will be used to mount the volume, keeping our cluster alive. Note that we are using 'baremetal' addresses here and not 'storage' – the reason being that the 'storage' addresses in our 10.1.12.0 subnet are used for the brick replication (backend), the 'baremetal' addresses in our core 172.22.1.0 subnet are where the clients will mount the volumes from (frontend).
Now we can start the deployment of our self-hosted engine. We run this in a 'screen' session so that if our connection drops out we can reconnect – the deploy takes some time to complete.
We DO want the installer to configure our Gluster environment – Although we have already done this manually, this adds the hooks into the RHV Manager.
We do NOT want the installer to configure iptables for us. We are not installing a pure RHV+RHGS or RHHI configuration – we don't want the installer to screw with our setup.
We need to confirm a pingable gateway. In this case the gateway on my core network was auto selected – this is fine.
Define which NIC will be the oVirt management network. I want my eno1 (core network, untagged) to be used for management.
We are asked to confirm the OVA image to install for the engine. The wizard downloaded this earlier.
We need to confirm the console type for the manager VM. I chose the default VNC.
The installer want to use cloud-init to configure the VM – that's fine by me.
We are prompted to supply or generate a cloud init – select Generate.
Network setup – DHCP or Static. I chose Static so I know where this VM is.
Define the IP address – make sure you use the one assigned to the hostname in DNS!
Update /etc/hosts – I chose YES here, my DNS should be reliable, but you never know….
After completing the wizard, the installation of the RHV Manager will continue – it will take some time. Hopefully the installation will complete, and you will see a successfully deployed message.
Logging into our RHV-M Administration Portal (as the admin user) we can see our baremetal1 host listed as part of the default cluster. Note that the RHV-M Hosted Engine VM itself is not yet seen within the cluster – this will be configured a little later.
We can also see our two Gluster volumes, although we only see one brick (but its status is UP) and the status details are incomplete.
In the next part of this series we will continue with the configuration of our RHV environment.


AWARD-WINNING drama series, Shuga returns to Nigeria and seeks fresh talent for the new season.
The campaign kicks off with open auditions, which will be held on Thursday, April 4th at the Classique Event Centre, Ikeja Lagos.
MTV Shuga has been at the forefront of attracting and developing new acting talent including: Timini Egbuson, Emmanuel Ikubese, Bukola Oladipupo, Helena Nelson and Jemima Osunde; last season's open auditions attracted over 1700 hopefuls. MTV Shuga Naija would-be actors will be judged by a diverse range of industry experts and selected based on their acting skills and originality.
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Florida's Governor signs tobacco tax increase into law..
May 28, 2009 - TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist signed into law a $1-per-pack cigarette tax hike Wednesday - the biggest of its kind in Florida history -- saying he hopes to kill the habit that results in thousands of deaths every year.
"I view it more as a health issue than a tax issue," said Crist, a Republican who broke with a career-long opposition to tax increases. " Ronald Reagan used to say if you want to kill something, tax it. It wouldn't be bad if we killed smoking. It would save a lot of lives."
As of July 1, 2009 Florida's new cigarette tax is $1.34 per pack. An equivalent increase applies to smokeless and pipe tobacco, but not cigars. The extra $1 tax is expected to generate more than $900 million a year, to be used to offset Medicaid costs and fund cancer research.
With the increase, Florida's cigarette tax goes from sixth-lowest in the nation to slightly above the national average of $1.23 a pack. Still, Florida's Deep South neighbors have some of the lowest levies in the nation. Among them: Georgia (37 cents), Alabama (42 cents) and South Carolina (7 cents).
Higher cigarette taxes mean teenagers will never pick up the habit, and addicted adults might quit, said Brenda Olsen, an American Lung Association lobbyist. Though Florida's tax has remained flat for two decades, smoking rates have steadily declined. About 19 percent of adults, or less than 2 million Floridians over 18, smoke.
Still, smoking is linked to 28,600 deaths a year in Florida and requires $6 billion to treat tobacco-related illnesses, state analysts say.
David Sutton, a spokesperson for Altria Group Inc., the parent company of Philip Morris, told the newspaper that Florida's tax hike would prompt many consumers to seek tax-free ways to buy their smokes, whether on an Indian reservation or the Internet. "Obviously, it's a big hit to our consumers and to retailers as well," he said. "You've got a very difficult economy out there." We have to make sure the PACT legislation that just passed in the House, flys through the Senate and becomes law. This will prevent the mailing of all tobacco products by the US Postal Service. Read More: U.S - PACT legislation passed by House...
Reference: Crist signs cigarette-tax hike, calls it a 'health issue', Josh Hafenbrack | Tallahassee Bureau, Orlando Sentinel, 5/27/2009; A View to a Kill Florida's Crist signs tobacco "execution order"; other states mulling tax increases, Convenience Store / Petroleum (CSP) Daily News, 5/28/2009.
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Mister Crist, You lost my vote in the future and I bet others as well. Hope to vote you out!
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An increasing network across Westpac's aligned dealer group and salaried adviser channels has helped BT Financial Group hit $895 million profit for the year ending 30 September 2014.
In Westpac's financial results report for 2014, the bank reported its Australian wealth and insurance divisions' profit increased 16 per cent on the previous year driven by "improved adviser productivity".
"Advice revenues were also higher from an increase in customers and improved planner productivity," Westpac's financial report said.
"Advice income was up strongly driven by an expanded planner network with continued focus on quality advice," the report said.
Speaking to ifa, a spokesperson for Westpac said adviser numbers across its banking and authorised representative network have grown from last year.
Across Westpac's internal networks, adviser numbers grew from 560 to 595 while the authorised representative network grew from 622 to 667.
Westpac also said BT's "consistent focus" on meeting customers' financial services needs has resulted in "more customers choosing BT for their insurance requirements".
"This, combined with the expansion of distribution into the independent and aligned planner networks, has led to solid growth of new life insurance business and a rise in market share up 110 basis points to 11.4 per cent," the report from Westpac said.
"Insurance also delivered a strong performance with cash earnings up 19 per cent supported by a 16 per cent rise in Life in-force premiums and an 11 per cent increase in General Insurance gross written premiums," it said.


General Director of «Promstroyles» Evgeniy Islamov acted as an expert when creating an article «House like a miracle» for the Federal newspaper «Trud», dedicated to the practical implementation of the concept of construction of wooden multi-storey houses in Russia.
As noted in an interview, «Promstroyles» four years ago the first in our country to start production and the construction of houses on CLT-technology, which is today recognized worldwide.
The specificity of multi-storey wooden house is saving time is not immediately several stages of construction. First, it prevents so-called "wet" processes, then the savings on the Foundation of the house and zero point of construction, and once built a box house, for example, the layout of wiring and simplified communications utilities several times. Faster is the process of building wooden high-rise buildings when all panels are manufactured in the factory and on the construction site, they simply adjust to each other and fixed.
Today, there are several hundred of successfully implemented projects for the construction of multi-storey wooden buildings in Norway, France, England and Italy.
Read more about the development of wooden housing construction in Russia, you can read here.


Fort Fredrick The Fort is an impenetrable Fortress Located on Port Tariff. The Fort is Heavily Guarded by Navy Soldiers. The Fort Commander is General William Howe. Security of the Fort includes Members of The Royal Navy Guild. It is the base of The Elites of England and Lord Matthew Blastshot. Surrounding the Fort is a series of gates and guards. On the waterfront is a strong Navy fleet Led by Horatio Nelson. The Fort is currently under construction and is heavily guarded. Any attack would be suicide.


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Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology from 1983 until 2008.
In January 2007, he returned to Italy for the project and Fellowship "Rientro dei cervelli", in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II where he teaches "Sociologia della cultura digitale" and "Marketing e nuovi media". He was invited to return to the Library of Congress for another engagement in the Spring of 2008.[1] He is research supervisor for the PhD Planetary Collegium M-node[2] directed by Francesco Monico.
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De Kerckhove received his Ph.D in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979. He was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980, and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.
He edited Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci, McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984) two collections of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology. He also co-edited with Charles Lumsden The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), a book which scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition. Another publication, La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne appeared in France in December 1990 and in Italy the following year (Feltrinelli, 1991).
Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991) addresses the differences between the effects of television, computers and hypermedia on corporate culture, business practices and economic markets. The Skin of Culture (Somerville Press, 1995) is a collection of essays on the new electronic reality which stayed on Canadian best-sellers lists for several months. It was translated into a dozen languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Polish and Slovenian.
Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research on new media and cognition. His latest book, The Architecture of Intelligence, was first issued in Dutch in December 2000, and in English (June 2001), Italian and German in September 2001. It was later translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. He collaborated with Mark Federman on McLuhan for Managers: New Tools for New Thinking, published in September 2003. De Kerckhove is also contracted to work on a book about the history of stage performance from early Greek theatre to modern Opera, in collaboration with Francesco Monico.
The Augmented Mind, 40k, ebook edition (English | Italian), (2011)
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Ever wanted to learn the King of Pop's famous Thriller dance? Now's your chance! Head over to the studio Tuesdays at 6pm for special Thriller practice leading up to our Thriller Masquerade Ball on Friday, October 27. If you're currently a Positively Ballroom student, these classes are already included in your tuition! Not one of our students? No problem! Thriller classes are just $5 each!


BOSTON (WHDH) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Monday that residents living in the Greater Boston area may have been exposed to a person recently diagnosed with measles.
During the infectious period, the individual visited several places last week in Braintree, Waltham, Framingham, Plymouth and Hyannis, officials said.
"Masculine virus currently causes major national and international outbreaks of measles, and lack of vaccination combined with domestic and international travel has resulted in the spread of the disease," said Massachusetts State Epidemiologist, Dr. Catherine Brown. "Being vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself from this disease."
Measles are considered highly contagious. People who are not immune to the disease who have visited any of those sites may be at risk of developing measles and are advised to contact their healthcare provider to confirm their immunization status.
250 Granit St, Braintree, MA 02184 running nose and red eyes) and rash occurs on the skin two to four days after the onset of symptoms develop.
Those who were exposed to and started developing symptoms of measles should call their healthcare provider before visiting an office, clinic, or emergency room.


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There aren't many restrictions when it comes to men's fashion, especially when wearing what makes you happy. Sometimes, though, you may want to accentuate or lessen a characteristic about your body. In that case, there are a few suggestions you may find helpful when it comes to big and tall suiting.
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Jessie worked at a family and estate boutique prior to attending the Queen's University Faculty of Law, and while at Queen's, assisted a sole practitioner in the Kingston community with child protection and custody and access work. These experiences laid the foundation for Jessie's sensitive, thoughtful, and practical approach to helping people resolve legal problems.
Jessie joined a prominent international full-service firm as a summer and articling student, returning as a litigation associate, where she gained experience with dispute resolution in a broad range of civil litigation areas, including estates and trusts, contractual and shareholder disputes, real estate, and personal injury.
Jessie has volunteered as pro bono duty counsel at the Small Claims Court, helping unrepresented people navigate the court system and explaining legal concepts using accessible language. At Queen's, she was a caseworker for the Legal Aid Clinic, representing low-income community members before the Provincial Offences Court and Social Benefits Tribunal. Jessie received awards for the highest academic standing in the Wills & Estates and Advanced Family Law courses, as well as for excellence in the Legal Aid Clinic.
Jessie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Middle Eastern History and Gender Studies jointly from Dalhousie University and the University of King's College. She currently sits on the Executive of the Board of Directors of Young Women in Law, a not-for-profit organization for women lawyers in their early stages of practice. When she is not at the office, Jessie is a baking enthusiast who loves to experiment with pies and cakes. She is an avid reader and traveller and frequently combines the two, reading books set in the countries and cities she is visiting.


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Governor Abbott Appoints Five to Specialty Courts Advisory Council
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Elizabeth Rainey and Leslie Robnett to the Specialty Courts Advisory Council for terms set to expire February 1, 2023 and February 1, 2025, respectively.
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Elizabeth Rainey and Leslie Robnett to the Specialty Courts Advisory Council for terms set to expire February 1, 2023 and February 1, 2025, respectively. Additionally, the Governor appointed Diane Bull and reappointed Brent Carr and Rebecca DePew for terms set to expire February 1, 2027. The council evaluates applications for grant funding for specialty courts from the Governor's Office and makes funding recommendations to the criminal justice division regarding best practices.
Elizabeth Rainey of Midland is Presiding Judge of the Midland County Adult Felony Drug Court, Midland County DWI Com1, and the Midland County Transitional Treatment Court. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Midland County Bar Association, and the Texas Bar College. She is a Region 7 Director and Chair of the Education and Outreach Committee for the Texas Association of Specialty Courts and a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Additionally, she is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Midland, a U5 Coach for the Midland Soccer Association, and a youth group volunteer for St. Luke's Methodist Church. Rainey received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Texas A&M University and a Juris Doctor degree from Texas Tech University School of Law.
Leslie Robnett of Fort Worth is an attorney for Duane Morris, LLP. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, The University of Texas Chancellors Council, and the Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court. She is the former chair of the Tarrant County Bar Association Appellate Section and the Travis County Bar Association Civil Litigation Section. She is a member of the Teneo Network and the American Enterprise Institute – Fort Worth, Texas Women for the Arts, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Stewards of the Wild. Additionally, she is a former board member of Dress for Success Austin and former member of the St. David's Foundation Toast of the Town Planning Committee. Robnett received a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from The University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Texas School of Law.
Diane Bull of Boerne is retired as Judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law #11. The docket included a DWI specialty treatment court. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, and the Texas Association of Specialty Courts and a former member of the Houston Bar Association, and former chair of its IDEA Committee. Additionally, she is a former advisory board member of the Houston Food Bank and Child Advocates. Bull received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Texas A&M University and a Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School.
Brent Carr of Fort Worth is Judge of the Tarrant County Criminal Court at Law #9. The court works with several specialty court dockets including the RISE program for commercially sexually exploited individuals. He is a member of the Federal Courts Northern District of Texas, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the State Bar of Texas. Carr was an artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps and received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Tampa and a Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law.
Rebecca DePew of Holland is Judge of the Bell County Court at Law #3. The court handles a specialty veterans docket. She is a member of the Texas Association of County Court at Law Judges, Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce, Holland Chamber of Commerce, and the State Bar of Texas. DePew received a Bachelor of Arts from East Texas State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School.
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The philosophical innovations of Margaret Cavendish
James, Susan (2009) The philosophical innovations of Margaret Cavendish. In: Mendelson, S.H. (ed.) Margaret Cavendish. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 7. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754660811.
Official URL: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcT...
Book synopsis: A maverick in her own time, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) was dismissed for three centuries as an eccentric crank. Yet the past few decades have witnessed a true renaissance in Cavendish studies, as scholars from diverse academic disciplines produce books, articles and theses on every aspect of her oeuvre. Cavendish's literary creations hold a wide appeal for modern readers because of her talent for thinking outside the rigid box that delimited the hierarchies of class, race and gender in seventeenth-century Europe. In so doing, she challenged the ultimate building blocks of early modern society, whether the tenets of Christianity, the social and political imperatives of patriarchy, or the arrogant claims of the new Baconian science. At the same time, Cavendish offers keen insights into current social issues. Her works have become a springboard for critical discourse on such topics as the nature of gender difference and the role of science in human life. Sara Mendelson's aim in compiling this volume is to convey to readers some idea of the scope and variety of scholarship on Cavendish, not only in terms of dominant themes, but of critical controversies and intriguing new pathways for investigation.
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As a part of our Spring 2017 lecture series, we have received the locally and internationally well known ceramics genius Toni Cumella.
Son of the ceramist, Toni Cumella colaborating with architects from all around the world, expert in use of ceramics in architecture. Toni Cumella describes his work as artisan using new technologies. Well known for the restoration of Gaudi's Casa Batlló, restoration of Gaudi's Parc Güell, Santa Caterina market`s roof , Spanish pavilion at the Expo Zaragoza or recently open Maat in Lisabon among others.
Robert Brufau, Architect who designed structures for the most important national and international projects.(Among others: CCCB in Barcelona, Santa Monica Art Centre in Barcelona, Caixa Forum in Zaragoza, Disseny Hub in Barcelona, MNAC, el Molino Theatre, Torre Agbar, Forum's Triangle etc ) gave our Spring 2017 students lecture on Ceramic Applications in Structures.


More than 150 colleges and universities will be in attendance, including almost all Virginia public and private universities. This is a phenomenal opportunity to gather some information about schools and to ask admission officers (not alumni representatives) questions regarding academics, admissions, financial aid and anything else that is on your mind.
Families are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to meet with all of these institutions at one time in one place.
No RSVP is necessary; however, you may view a list of participating schools by clicking here.


When we think of faith, some may think of miracles – but when Jesus saw the people he had fed coming back to make him king, he was exasperated. They had not realized that it was a sign, but just that they got free food. In faith, there are layers of meaning, not all of them available to everyone at the outset.
Religious "faith" is a word that means different things to different people. Usually it means something weird to people who don't have it, of course. That is probably why so many of them flee it like the plague. But it also means different things to different people even within the same religion.
Since most people I converse with are thoroughly agnostic if not outright atheist, their idea of faith is obviously one that harmonizes with this life choice. As they see it, faith is the lazy or stupid person's alternative to thinking. Rather than gather actual facts and think logically about the conclusions they lead to, the religious person can simply believe whatever makes him or her feel good, regardless of whether it is factually true or not. Consequently, while they may be happy in their belief, they are likely to cause all kinds of trouble for themselves, others, and the world at large. The conclusion is that faith should be fought on every opportunity, in order to reduce its cancerous influence. The atheist may or may not actually be bothered to do this, depending on whether he has tried and failed sufficiently often.
Undeniably there are people who fit this description all too well, especially in America (or perhaps they are just getting more publicity there). Stupidity and faith are certainly not mutually exclusive. But perhaps they should have been.
"Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for I meditate on your testimonies.
A funny thing about that Jesus quote is that if you give it to others but leave a blank where it says "understand", they will usually insert "believe" or "obey" instead. Jesus was not unfamiliar with either of these, but chose to use "understand" here.
Faith is supposed to cause, and coexist with, understanding and eventually wisdom. It is not supposed to be a quick way to avoid thinking – rather it should form a better container of thought than we can fashion out of our personal experience. Or you may think of it as the skeleton on which our thoughts are fastened, if you prefer that image.
In light of this, we see the absurdity of trying to avoid faith. Your average atheist does not avoid faith at all, but rather has faith in some other model of containing thought. Frequently this is some form of socialism, which is a philosophy that competes squarely against religion. The atheist is rarely entirely devoid of ideals – usually quite the opposite. He has ideals, and he is usually sure that what he is doing is for the greater good. Everyone needs some kind of overarching system of thought and meaning of life, or madness ensues. If you don't have religious faith, you have faith in various other sources that you find more reliable. And it is no great wonder that you do, given that most religious people are stupid hypocrites – just like most people everywhere and at all times.
You should be aware that the usual religious person knows next to nothing about his own religion. I refer you to the occasional questionnaires by Pew Research (like this one) and the unavoidable embarrassing statistics that are published afterwards, showing that Christians only know about half of these easy questions while atheists know somewhat more. This is because in America, you have to actually make an effort to be an atheist; in some countries it is the other way around, but the majority will always be ignorant and not particularly care about it.
Thus, the willful stupidity that you observe in the religious person is NOT an effect of their faith, but the opposite: This is how you end up when you DON'T meditate on the testimonies, to use the Jewish description. Other faiths have somewhat different ways to express this, but you should find the same at least in those religions with which I have a passing familiarity.
The representatives of the religion is its saints and sages, just like the representative of science is the scientist, not some random quack who has read about quantum physics in Science Illustrated and believes he can use it for magic. Yes, unfortunately there is quite a bit of religion on this level.
It is not difficult to find in religious text things that are upsetting or that seem to run counter to common sense. But it is not difficult to do so with science either, if you are as ignorant of science as most people are of religion. For instance, to go back to quantum physics, pretty much the only thing common people know about it is that really small things can be waves and particles at the same time. This is obviously not true. There can't be waves if there isn't something to make waves in, like some kind of liquid or something. Stupid scientists! They should get out more. Well, no, we don't actually say this because it happens to be demonstrably true, even though only a few people have actually seen it happen. The same largely applies to religion.
Science is not a religion. Religion is a science. It is a platform for exploring the deeper reality of the spirit, just as worldly science is for exploring the physical world. But in both cases, most people simply read the cliff notes and have faith in them; they are neither scientists nor saints. Well, neither am I, I guess. Still, you pick up some when you look around for decades.
Now you would expect this from me, who wanders the jnana (insight) path, while most Christian walk the bhakti (loving worship) path, if any. And certainly the Bible assures us that God has chosen that which is foolish in this world, to put the wise to shame. But it seems a bit of twisting words to think that this encourages stupidity. Rather, it encourages an alternate wisdom, based in a completely different container of thoughts. And, generally, based more on practical exercises than thought-building. Religion was originally experiential, it was based on things you could do and experience for yourself the truth of the words. If we don't, well, we can hardly blame the religion for our shaky understanding.
In short: The stupidity of the religious is not from our faith, but from not understanding it or not practicing it. A faith that is only meant to serve as an insurance is unlikely to cause wisdom.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general says a peacekeeper from Burundi has been killed in an attack in the Central African Republic.
Stephane Dujarric says Thursday's attack apparently was carried out by "anti-Balaka elements" — a reference to a mostly Christian force that has several times attacked U.N. peacekeepers who are trying to quell interreligious and intercommunal fighting in the country.
Dujarric said Friday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offers his condolences to the family of the fallen peacekeeper, as well as to Burundi's government.