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A: Starting a sentence with "as" is perfectly appropriate. What is not appropriate is your starting the sentence with "as" and then having the "so" later on. Both are conjunctions, both express a cause–effect relationship between two clauses, and crucially, both are connecting the same two clauses. As a result, the sentence is ungrammatical as stated. You have to pick exactly one and be done with it:

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The Boogie and the Brow era is set to begin in the Big Easy, so now is the time to buy single game tickets at Smoothie King Center to cheer on your New Orleans Pelicans! The Bayou's Twin Towers of Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins will be an intimidating force as the Pelicans look to contend in the challenging Southwest Division and the Western Conference.
The Southwest houses some of the best players in the league making two visits to New Orleans, including James Harden and the Rockets, LaMarcus Aldridge and the Spurs and Mike Conley and the Grizzlies. Add in visits from LeBron James and Stephen Curry, and every can be a big game. Check out the full Pelicans season schedule to see Boogie and the Brow now!
The tandem of Davis and Cousins is the first high-powered Twin Towers combination in the NBA since the Spurs had Tim Duncan and David Robinson patrolling the paint. Both players' offensive skill sets complement the other, and Davis is entering the prime of his NBA career as one of the best two-way players.
The backcourt has plenty of potential in point guards Jrue Holiday and Tim Frazier, while Jordan Crawford could be the answer at shooting guard after trading away Buddy Hield to land Cousins. The Pelicans will be one of the NBA's most intriguing teams next season, and watching Davis and Cousins confound opponents will be worth the price of admission.


Not content with releasing four new V-Ray demo reels last month, Chaos Group has just released a new reel rounding up VFX and cinematics projects created using the renderer – and it's saved the prettiest for last.
The cinematics will probably be most familiar to regular CG Channel readers, including some fantastic work from Platige Image, and pretty much every major recent teaser released by Blur Studio.
The VFX isn't necessarily what you might expect, featuring as it does work by CGarchitect Architectural 3D award-winning visualisation and production design studio Factory Fifteen.
However, there is also some great work from more conventional visual effects studios, including Oscar winners Pixomondo, France's Mikros Image and Ireland's Screen Scene.
It's a shame not to see anything from the big US studios that use V-Ray, but there's always next year.


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THE INACTION OF ORGANISATIONS TO INTERVENE ON A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE – SINAZO ZULU
Source: Gordon Johnson (Pixabay)
Human rights are integral for every single individual in the world irrespective of race, gender and age. These rights are based on shared values such as equality, respect and the protection of human ethical norms. Human rights in Africa, however, have been a contentious discourse when assessing the events such as; colonialism, the Rwandan genocide and the South African Apartheid regime just to mention a few. With this history in mind, human rights in Africa have been violated to the extent that African organisations have been established to safeguard citizens of member states from potential repetition of human rights violations. These organisations include the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Communities (SADC).
The AU and SADC have designated organs to address conflict and human rights violations respectively. An organ such as the Peace and Security Council (PSC) which is the decision-making body of the AU is for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts. It is set to facilitate timely and efficient responses to conflict and crises in Africa. Additionally, SADC developed the Mutual Defense Pact (MDP) which provides a legal framework set to enhance collaborative defense cooperation to deal with issues ranging from aggression of a member state to cooperation in the field of joint training and information sharing. The MDP focuses on issues of conflict resolution, military preparation, collective self-defense and self-action, destabilising factors and the settlement of disputes.
These organs were put in place to guarantee the realisation and protection of human rights at all costs. They have, however, failed in many African countries to realise what they were set out to do. This article is aimed at evaluating the role of these organisations in addressing the consistent violation of human rights in Zimbabwe. Although arguments of state sovereignty have been used against intervention, it is important to note the principle of sovereignty does not supersede the need to guarantee human rights. At their most fundamental levels, the AU and SADC were established to serve the people of Africa and not the interests of member states. This article therefore suggests that the inaction of the AU and SADC is a matter of political will, which originates from heads of states that occupy positions in these organisations with unconscious biases and impartiality.
Article 4(h) of the constitutive act of the AU states that the AU has the power to intervene in a Member State if there is war crime, genocide or crimes against humanity and 4(j) states that member states have the right to request intervention from the Union to restore peace. Moreover, SADC states that intervention is possible in accordance to the Protocol on Politics, Defense and Security cooperation which allows for regional intervention in the case of intrastate conflict, but only for purposes of mediation not military assistance. While these protocols are in place, there is still a lack of implementation in matters which need intervention. This shows that the legal writing is not the issue but rather implementation. This is the case with the citizens of Zimbabwe who have been exposed to violations of their human rights for decades.
Zimbabwe has a long history of human rights violations this started with the genocide of Ndebele's from 1983 to 1987. It was then followed by the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that Zimbabwe participated in for economic gain. This led to economic downturn which together with tribalism running rife and a decaying economy the gross violations of human rights continued through 1997-2000, with the implementation of land reform policies through violent land grabs that resulted in farm murders. Additionally, the violation of human rights heightened in 2002 and 2008 with state endorsing election violence which sought to intimidate people to vote for ZANU-PF and to stifle the opposition thus, eroding their constitutional democracy. In all the above mentioned, the AU and SADC failed to take or took little action to intervene for the people of Zimbabwe.
After former President Robert Mugabe was removed from power in November 2017 and the instatement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa there was hope that Zimbabwe would be on a new path. His administration, however, is only an intensified continuation of Robert Mugabe's "legacy" particularly with the recent anti-corruption protests. With the suppression of journalists, citizens and opposition leaders, the state under Mnangagwa has weaponised the rule of law against the people by arresting and torturing those with dissenting views. Such a violation is condemned in the African Charter for Human Rights, in particular Article 6 and Article 14 which Zimbabwe signed and ratified. The signature and ratification of member states is an acknowledgement of consequences for contraventions. The AU and SADC have remained silent and have not sought any intervention as yet. This is the continuation of their trend of inaction.
It is evident that President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaposa, the chairperson of the AU and President Hage Geingob of Namibia as chairperson of SADC have remained silent and have not exhibited any plans to intervene. Even with states, such as the US, sanctioning President Mnangagwa and businesses with ties to alleged corruption in light of this, the AU and SADC is still quiet and absent in speaking up and taking action. These leaders are protecting state security, fellow elites and sovereignty rather than fulfilling the objectives of the organisations which are promoting human rights and freedoms for citizens in Africa. The protection of sovereignty is seen by how ineffective these organisations have been when it comes to regional peacekeeping. The AU and SADC allow leaders to have too much room for unconscious biases and impartiality based on personal and national interests. This dominates peacekeeping as their laws provide way for actions but, leaders are not putting these laws in place. This essentially leads to inaction which is bound to affect the citizens.
The inaction of the AU and SADC is a contributing factor to the failing of states in Africa. In trying to uphold the principle of sovereignty they are compromising the safety and standard of living of Africans which is contrary to the ethos of these organisations. The AU and SADC need to break their silence and take the necessary steps to intervene in Zimbabwe's matter, as it is what they are set out to do and is what the citizens need. They need to send a message to the Zimbabwean government that they cannot go against these organs without any consequences.
Sinazo Zulu is 20 years old and matriculated at Sutherland High School in Pretoria. She is currently studying the degree BAdmin Public Management and International Relations at the University of Pretoria. She plans to further her studies in International Relations.
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Within its walls lived four generations of one remarkable family that made significant contributions to the political, literary, and cultural life of New England and the United States. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), grew up in the house and went on to become one of the most famous men of his time. General Peleg Wadsworth, built the house in 1785-1786, and the last person to live there was Anne Longfellow Pierce, Henry's younger sister. Mrs. Pierce, widowed at an early age, lived in the house until her death in 1901. At that time, in accordance with a deed she executed in 1895, the house passed to the Maine Historical Society to be preserved as a memorial to her famous brother and their family.
Great little stop while in town. History is an amazing thing.
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Hugh Jackman Wife | 10 Lovely Pictures
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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has carved international recognition for his roles in major films, particularly as superhero, period, and romance characters. He got an immense fame for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series. Scroll down to have a look at stunning pictures of the wife of Hugh Jackman.
Furness was born in Annandale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and raised in Melbourne. She went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and studied acting there. She graduated in either 1981or 1982, the year is not confirmed. She performed on the stage in New York. In 1988, she appeared in the movie Shame and got an incredible appreciation for her role. She won Best Actor award for the same film from the Film Critics Circle of Australia and Golden Space Needle. Hugh met the love of his life back in 1995 on the set of the Australian series Correlli. Deborra was playing the lead role in this series. At the time Hugh was around 26 years old, and Furness was 39, undoubtedly the age gap could not stop him from falling in love with her.
Furness husband Hugh Jackman, openly speaks about his love for his wife. The X-Men star, who played the famous character of Wolverine, is a famous in Hollywood but unlike most marriages in the industry, him and his wife remained famous for a long time. The couple are celebrating 24 years together and Hugh saw it as a perfect opportunity to declare his love for 64-year old Furness. "These 24 years have been the best of my life! And, as far as I can see, we keep getting better. I love you Debs with every fibre of my soul. Happy anniversary," the actor wrote on Instagram along with an adorable throwback photo.
The two got married in 1996, before Hugh became a Hollywood superstar. Hugh met the love of his life back in 1995 on the set of the Australian series Correlli, Deborra was playing the lead role. At the time Hugh was around 26 years old, and Furness was 39, but the age gap clealry could not stop him from falling in love with her. Hugh has openly admitted that had a major crush on her. But at that time he was unaware of the fact that this beautiful lady Deborra also had a crush on him. After they finally confessed their feelings for each other, the two dated for a while and then got married on April 11, 1996 and have been together ever since.
After suffering two miscarriages, she adopted two children with Jackman: Oscar Maximilian and Ava Eliot, a son born in 2000 and a daughter born in 2005.
Neither fame nor time has tarnished their bond, however. To this day, Jackman and Furness are a prime example of what true love looks like.
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Yay You: Happy Retirement Party!
I'm so glad several of you have been able to play along with my Happy Retirement Party (the stamps, NOT me!!) and get a free hostess set without having to host! Not sure what I'm referring to? Check out my sale in April and make sure you place your order with the code by the 30th, so you can choose a freebie, too!
Terrific Tulips (above) and Cozy Cottage have been the top picks so far. What would you choose?
My friend Janice sent me this adorable card made with the Yay You stamp set. It's got so many fun details and she just carried it off perfectly. Even more awesome was the handwritten message inside... and I'm struck again by how our words carry such weight. There is so much power in a simple phrase or two penned inside a card.
Just think--every single day we have the potential to lift up spirits, encourage and exhort, bear one another's burdens, and cause a big smile. That's pretty magical!
Who could use a card from you today?
Watercolor Wings and Bold Butterfly: Happy Retirement Party!
Say farewell to our beloved Watercolor Wings stamp set and the matching framelits die cuts! This beautiful set is being discontinued and will not appear in the next catalog, so snag a set quickly before it's too late! With two sizes of butterflies, layering die cuts, and sentiments included with the set, this is a really great basic to have in your collection.
Click here for my free tutorial on how to create this amazing pop-up card with three of the butterflies!
I hope you're enjoying the featured retiring items each day in April. If you missed it, be sure to check out the fun hostess set freebies I'm offering through the 30th. Details here! Check back tomorrow for a special retirement party Etsy discount code!
I'm so glad everyone's been enjoying the April 2018 Class of the Month! From your enthusiastic response, I can tell you've been wanting some practical layouts and ideas for masculine cards. While these projects will work with any patterned papers, they look especially good with the True Gentleman suite. And it's retiring, my friends... so you'll want to get it while you can!
This exclusive card design in particular is going to be a favorite layout for years to come. It's just one of the seven projects and two fancy folds in this month's club. If you like systematically learning new layouts, techniques and tricks, join us anytime just by shopping with the code!
When you shop with the club code for the month, which tells me you want to play along. I'll email to welcome you to the club and keep track of your participation points. Your PDF project files will be emailed automatically, and in a few days you'll get a card in the mail with this month's sneak peek product samples. All YOU do is shop--then play!
The April 2018 Code is VAX7VJH2 and the "Suggested Order" Total is: $34.00.
True Gentleman Designer Series paper pack, $145593 $11.00 RETIRING, while supplies last!
Night of Navy Corduroy Ribbon, #145597 $8.00 RETIRING, while supplies last!
I hope you'll play along with our fun online rewards club whenever you can. I love nothing more than placing the free shopping spree orders for club members! If you have questions, please drop me a line or leave a comment. Happy Creating!
You've successfully clicked on Day Three! Good for you! If you don't know why you're here, let me explain. My crafting BFF Penni and are are running a week-long series on last-minute "oh crud, Valentine's Day is coming" ideas for quick cards, home decor, classroom treats and more that you can whip up in a handmade hurry.
Today's projects will hit the spot even if you don't own a single stamp that says "Happy Valentine's Day!"
Got letters? If you have the Large Letters Framelits or the ability to stamp or die-cut big lettering, you've got everything you need to make a great Valentine. Spell anything you want, use red glimmer paper or a red and white color scheme, sub in a heart for a letter or two, and you're good to go.The Labeler Alphabet helps you finish off your sentiment however you'd like.
I made a masculine version of these Large Letters card that I love even more than the sparkly original.
Earth tones, wood textures, weathering and some upcycled cardboard come together in a fun way for this guy card.
I didn't like how sparkly my rhinestones were on this particular card, so I took a silver Sharpie and toned them down. Neat tip!
Penni was busy with her Large Letters Framelits as well! Look at this fun version of the popular Eclipse technique, done with the new Spring 2018 catalog set called Heart Happiness (page 20).
Eclipse technique in a nutshell: stamp all over your cardfront. Die cut your word. Back the cut-out sheet with another color of paper. Adhere the letters back down, slightly off-set from their original holes.
Use mini dimensionals so the letters pop up and show off the background. Cool! Look at all that fun texture.
Heart Happiness is a great set to use for making backgrounds, because it's clear photopolymer. So your placement is perfect, every time. Plus, you'll have a heart style for any occasion, with 14 different images!
Our last project for you today is a fun mini fold-out slash pop-up card! Sized for a Mini Envelope, this card packs a lot of unexpected fun in a small package. I wish you could see this in person. It is just darling.
All it takes is a 3x12 inch strip of Whisper White cardstock, scored at 2, 4, 6.5 and 9 inches. It accordion-folds into a fun little panel card you can spell any three or four letter word on. We just love tiny cards! Isn't it cute?? These are for hand-delivery, though! They're too small for the mail.
Ahhh, my favorite holiday. And the least favorite holiday of my BFF Penni, who prefers Halloween. But both our favorites have something very important in common--CANDY! More specifically, chocolate.
It's probably no wonder that both of us glommed the More than Chocolate stamp set when it appeared in the 2017-18 Stampin' Up Idea Book & Catalog. Enjoy DAY ONE of Penni & Lyssa's Last Minute Valentine Adventure, our annual blog series featuring quick and easy ideas to squeeze in some homemade crafty goodness in our busy modern lives. Missed last year? see it here.
Today's post showcases a basket-full of ideas that you can use if your idea of a great holiday is also one that includes a lot of the good stuff. It takes some serious sincerity for me to tell someone I love them more than chocolate!
Cute, huh? The Wooden Crate thinlets make a perfect little basket that's going to be fun for Valentine's, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter goodies. Just add a handle of a 1/2 by 11 inch strip of cardstock. It's just the thing for a bunch of adorable 3x3 cards with matching Mini Envelopes.
Speaking of LOVE, nothing says it quite like a big old diamond. But, barring that, how about a box of chocolates?
I made this chocolate box card, but I got the idea from Penni. The 2.25 and 2.5 inch circle punches coordinate perfectly to make a teeny box of truffles! I had fun using different foil and glitter cardstock for the lids. Too cute!
The More Than Chocolate stamp set comes with a zillion (actual count) little truffles and decorative toppings. It's fun to fit the pieces in like a puzzle, then dream of all the yumminess you're drizzling into the box. Add a little Wink of Stella clear glimmer, and it looks good enough to eat!
Can you believe I somehow do not own the Sweet & Sassy Framelits??? Penni let me use hers and I'm hooked. I loved how fast they made this fun pop-up card. And they coordinate with a set in the Spring 2018 Occasions Catalog, too. Do you think she'll notice if I keep them?
I'll zip up a tutorial for this pop-up project as soon as I get a minute. It's one of those that looks complicated but it actually really easy. AND you can do it with any shape of Framelits, too. I love learning a new tip!
Thanks for joining us today as we kick off our Valentine Adventures all week long. As usual, we've left things to the last minute--but that's ok, because that's when the real-life papercrafting stuff kicks in. See you tomorrow!
Last night I finally tried a technique I have admired for years now. It doesn't really have a name, but it's a really cool looking cut you do with your Paper Trimmer that leaves a straight edge with part of the main image left intact instead of cut off. I couldn't believe I waited so long to try it, with was so easy! So here's one that was "new" to me. Even after 12 years of stamping professionally, I still learn things every day!
It's so easy--just start at the top cut down to where your image begins, then lift up the blade over the image, and resume cutting to the bottom. When you take it out of the paper trimmer, use your Paper Snips to cut around the image (in my case, the tip of the wing) and discard the strip. How fun! And since it's still flat, it doesn't have bulky layers to interfere with mailing.
I made a bunch of these for the thank you cards for January's Class of the Month Club. Every month participants get a handmade card using the featured set--and it's full of samples! This month's samples are from the True Gentleman suite, page 45 in the Spring Occasions mini catalog. I always cut the samples generously so there's enough to make several cards. Everyone loves it!
Read about how to join my online club full details here and see the January club code and sneak peeks here. I'd love to spoil you rotten as one of my VIP club members! And you can be earning shopping spree points every month YOU choose to participate. That's right--in my club, you don't have to participate every month unless YOU want to. No commitment--just convenience.
Thanks for popping in to see my cards today! Hope the cheery pumpkin and lime color combo brightened your day. Drop me a comment below if you're going to try this paper cutting technique--or use the spatter stamp and sequins to jazz up your own butterfly cards!


This post is written by Jens Lerche, Reader in Agrarian and Labour Studies in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS and Editor in Chief of Journal of Agrarian Change, Alpa Shah, Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE, and Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University.
It is now half a century since the small uprising in the village of Naxalbari in West Bengal led to the spread of a Maoist inspired revolutionary armed struggle in India, that is still ongoing. But with the Indian state now bent on crushing these Naxalites, and with the more general challenges faced by parliamentary communist parties across India, the question of how to analyse the agrarian economy – the basis of left strategy for a communist society in many parts of the world – remains of the utmost importance. There are many unresolved questions for scholars, activists and left parties alike.
How important are semi-feudal production relations? Should the aim be to eradicate semi-feudal relations in agriculture and to develop a modern, industrially based capitalism? Is global agribusiness exploiting Indian farmers and if so, is this the main problem for both big and marginal farmers? Should the focus still be on land reforms and if so, what kind of reforms and why? Or should landless peasants, labourers and petty producers unite against rural and urban capitalists, along class lines? And what does the analysis of the agrarian economy mean for struggles against dispossession by mining and industrial conglomerates and the neo-liberal industrial development they are proponents of?
A special issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change (JAC), analysing underlying developments in the Indian countryside and assessing the analysis and the political strategies of the Indian left parties of CPI, CPI(M) and the CPI(Maoist) (the latter otherwise known as the Naxalites) is now free to download for two months.
The JAC issue argues that there is a serious need to think anew the analysis of agrarian change – particularly the persistence of semi-feudalism – dominating the programmes of most left parties in India. John Harriss' article Does 'Landlordism' Still Matter? concludes that the classic 'semi-feudal' landlordism and semi-feudal surplus extraction has substantially transformed across the country. Isabelle Guerin's study of Bonded Labour, Agrarian Changes and Capitalism, focusing on empirical research in Tamil Nadu, shows that today, bonded labour in sugar cane harvesting, brick kilns and rice mills, far from being pre-capitalist, is a crucial means by which capital disciplines and cheapens labour.
Deepankar Basu's and Debarshi Das' article on The Maoist Movement in India, analysing country-wide macro-data (on land-holdings in particular), concludes against the Naxalite analysis that the country is no longer semi-feudal and semi-colonial, and argues that the contradiction between feudalism and the broad masses should no longer be the primary contradiction structuring strategy and tactics. But even in the Naxalite guerrilla strongholds in the Adivasi forests of eastern India, Alpa Shah, based on ethnographic research, argues that The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Guerrilla Zone was in fact never one of a transition from semi-feudalism. She suggests that the stageist model of transformation disabled the Naxalites from taking full account of the revolutionary potential of the communal aspects of Adivasi social forms and anti-state politics. Moreover, she argues that capitalist migrant labour relations now are economically vital for the reproduction of Adivasi households.
Indeed, at an all India level, Jens Lerche in The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India argues that the rural labouring classes are now fully integrated into the neo-liberal capitalist economy and into capitalist class relations but that the transition to classic industrial capitalism has been by-passed. Most rural people find themselves with one foot in the agrarian economy and the other in informal precarious jobs or petty production outside agriculture, under the worst possible conditions.
Fifty years after the Naxalbari uprising, the underlying issues of inequality and oppression have not gone away but they have changed shape. But with the inadequacy of the semi-feudalism analysis, the basis for a whole raft of political positions challenging inequality fall away, including the argument for armed struggle in its classic form. The special issue suggests that class politics remains central but must now relate to the conditions created by neo-liberal capitalism, including complex seasonal informalised migrant labour relations, capitalist agrarian relations, continued capitalist land grabs and increasing inequality, persistent exploitation and social oppression. In contrast to the semi-feudal thesis – and also to a focus on transnational agribusiness and transnational capital as the main enemy of 'the peasantry' – it is shown that there is little that unites the main agrarian classes of capitalist farmers and the marginal farmers/seasonal labourers. The implications of these debates are significant not just in India but across the Global South.
Jens Lerche, Alpa Shah and Barbara Harriss-White jointly edited this special issue of JAC. To contact the authors: Jens Lerche (jl2@soas.ac.uk), Alpa Shah (a.m.shah@lse.ac.uk), and Barbara Harriss-White (barbara.harriss-white@qeh.ox.ac.uk). For more read 'Agrarian Transitions and Left Politics in India' Journal of Agrarian Change 13(3), 2013.
This post was first published on the website of the Economic and Political Weekly.


Mullen to Egypt's Army: Way To Not Kill Protesters!
The Obama administration's approach to the unrest in Egypt has been as clear as mud. So it's striking to hear the head of the U.S. military offer an unalloyed 'attaboy' to Egyptian troops, for allowing protesters to gather in peace.
Mullen's big-up for his Egyptian counterparts — "a stabilizing influence," he said — is a sharp contrast with four days' worth of rhetoric from senior Obama administration officials. The military is now the only entity in Egypt that the administration has unambiguously praised. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton demanded that the government "transition" to "free and fair elections" — widely understood to be an endgame for Mubarak — and called on the demonstrators to refrain from violence.
After a weekend of uncertainty, Egypt's military announced yesterday it wouldn't stand in the way of the protests that have wracked the country for the past week. Immediately afterward, the embattled regime of Hosni Mubarak began offering greater concessions — none of which have been accepted.
White House officials told Egypt experts yesterday that they were urging "restraint" on an Egyptian military that already was already reluctant to crack down on a popular uprising. The U.S. has perhaps the most influence over Egypt's military than any other institution: it provides $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt every year, supplying much of the country's arsenal. Mullen's praise is a clear signal that the U.S. wants its military partnership with Egypt to outlast Mubarak — and, potentially, could be jeopardized if Egyptian officers reverse course and take any drastic, violent steps. If Egypt's army doesn't support a post-Mubarak government, there's no chance that government can succeed. So keeping friendly relations between our military and theirs is a way to maintain influence in the country.
The military's restraint is especially striking given the scale of today's massive protests. Al Jazeera is reporting that an unprecedented two million people are demanding an end to the Mubarak regime in Cairo's Tahrir Square alone. Additional protests — none of them reportedly violent as of this writing — are underway in the cities of Ismailiya, Mansoura, Damietta, Alexandria, Mahalla and Suez.
Nothing the government has done has placated the protesters: not appointing a new cabinet nor offering to freeze taxes on food. Late yesterday, ex-spymaster and new vice president Omar Suleiman offered to negotiate with the leaderless opposition. Mohamed ElBaradei, the likely interlocutor for the opposition, countered that Mubarak should receive "a safe exit" from Egypt. To be generous, ElBaradei added that Mubarak, ruler of Egypt for 30 years, shouldn't be prosecuted.
The new reported demand from the protesters is that Mubarak has to leave Egypt by Friday. Only after Mubarak departs, Al Jazeera reports, will a coalition of opposition groups agree to enter a dialogue with Suleiman.
Some U.S. critics, like, um, Danger Room, have questioned whether President Obama has responded clumsily to the upheaval in Egypt and across the Arab world. Our friend Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor and top Mideast scholar, tweets today that had Obama openly embraced the protests, "Egyptian crowds would be exactly the same but [U.S.] influence over army would be much less." Touche!
Did Egypt's Army Just Throw Mubarak Under The Bus?


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IRAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Iran Agricultural Research (Iran Agric Res: IAR), an international journal, publishes articles on original research in agriculture and related fields including agricultural extension and education, animal science, crop production and breeding, economics, food science, horticulture, machinery, plant biotechnology, plant protection, soil science and water engineering. Manuscripts related to the mentioned areas are considered, if they contain information of direct significance to agriculture and related to living products. The aims of IAR Journal are: (i) to stimulate scientific research among Iranian scholars and their colleagues in other countries, and (ii) to provide a forum for the exchange of information and dissemination of knowledge in the agricultural sciences.
Iran Agricultural Research is published as one volume per year. At the present time, each volume consists of two issues.
Publication is fully free in this journal. It is open access and the content is also available to all readers.
Manuscripts should be submitted in the version of MS Word 2010 to the IAR Editor-In-Chief through the journal website (http://iar.shirazu.ac.ir/). Authors are urged to refer to 'Instructions to Authors' (see below) before submission of their typescripts or the format of the articles in the latest issue of the IAR Journal.
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Manuscripts must be written in English and prospective authors should consult a recent issue of IAR for style and format. Articles sent to IAR must not be previously or simultaneously submitted to or published in any other scientific journal.
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References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically, if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication. If a reference is in Persian, please mention the language at the end in parenthesis.
- Jadhav, U., Khot, L. R., Ehsani, R., Jagdale, V., & Schueller, J. K. (2014). Volumetric mass flow sensor for citrus mechanical harvesting machines. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 101, 93-101.
- Zare Hosseini, H., Ghorbani, R., Rashed Mohassel, M. H., & Rahimi, H. (2014). Effects of weed management strategies on weed density and biomass and saffron (Crocus sativus) yield. Saffron Agronomy and Technology, 2, 45-58. (In Persian)
- Fayaz, A. (2014). Encyclopaedia of tropical plants: The identification and cultivation of over 3000 tropical plants (1st ed.). Ontario: Firefly Books.
- Cuq, B., Gontard N., & Guilbert, S. (1995). Edible films and coatings as active layers. In Rooney, M. L. (Ed.), Active food packaging (pp. 111-135). London: Springer.
- Wyllie, A. H., Kerr, J. F. R., & Currie, A. R. (1980). Cell death: the significance of apoptosis. In Bourne, G.H., Danielli, J.F. and Jeon, K.W. (Eds.), International review of cytology (pp. 251-306). London: Academic Press.
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- Bekker, T. F. (2007). Efficacy of water soluble silicon for control of Phytophthora cinnamomi root rot of avocado (Doctoral dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa).
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Various Artists: Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger Volume 3
Seeds: the Songs of Pete Seeger Volume 3
Label: Appleseed
What a joy it is hearing Pete Seeger sing again! For those wondering, his voice has held up remarkably well over his 84 years. In their respective 80-plus age group, he might be the best singer since Champion Jack Dupree. Seeger now sounds like -- and this is a compliment -- a weathered cross between Kermit the Frog and Mr. Snuffle-upagus (Big Bird's friend the mammoth, remember?). In this, his first full release since winning a Grammy for 1996's Pete, Seeger's voice is relaxed, warm, and surprisingly supple, combining experience with his ever-present sense of child-like wonder.
The first disc of two consists of Pete Seeger performing with others. It's heartening to hear Seeger still has his old, un-self-righteous touch with a protest song: on a "Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)", updated for the invasion of Iraq, Seeger says, "I may be right, I may be wrong / But I got a right to sing this song / [spoken] Isn't that the wonderful thing about America? You got a right -- to be wrong!" It's in that warmth, tolerance, and the acknowledgment of his own fallibility that Seeger demonstrates the charm, affability, and humanity that continues to make him not only right about a variety of issues, but, unlike some of his folk peers, likable being right.
On the second disc, songs Seeger either wrote or popularized are covered by a wide range of folk and pop artists. Dick Gaughan does a memorable version of "Bells of Rhymney". Instead of the jangly sound of both Seeger's original and the Byrds' well-known cover, Gaughan recounts Seeger's miners' lament over a landscape of brooding synthesizers pierced only by the wrenching cry of electric guitar chords.
Gaughan's take becomes especially memorable given the social upheaval that, as related in the liner notes, infuses his cover of the song. "When the original poem was written," executive producer Jim Musselman recounts, "hundreds of coal mines were operating all throughout the country." The brooding atmosphere of the new cover is to "stress the bleakness of the nature of the mining industry in Wales today."
Gaughan's cover is a moving example of the folk music process at work, a process that Seeger has been a champion of in both theory and deed. Taking a familiar song, Gaughan reinterprets it both as an artistic creation and as a social document. Jangle is replaced with painfully drawn chords, an artistic statement that represents the death of Wales's mines. The protest of working conditions in the older versions becomes an evocation of the triumphs and tribulations of a vanished world. The liner notes mention that it is the hope of those who participated in these recordings that "some of the anti-war songs will become obsolete and never need to be sung again. The day when 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone' [the title track to volume one of this three volume series] becomes less relevant will be a great day for humankind." Gaughan, however, demonstrates that, even when the specific issues are gone, there can still be a raw power in the basic human drama of the songs themselves, as well as in their power to evoke what is no more.
On the other hand, there are also dangers to covering songs often tied to specific historic incidents. Natalie Merchant, for instance, does a version of "Whose Side Are You On". Fearing the worst, I was happily surprised at first when both the music and Merchant start slow, letting the quiet power of the lyrics implicate the actions of the murderous (real-life) company owners without any unnecessary histrionics. Unfortunately, Merchant then gets caught up in her own agitating and ends up sounding as strident as Joan Baez, whom Merchant no doubt admires. Still, in contrast to many of her own songs, at least here Merchant is protesting a cause that's actually worth protesting.
Most of the covers here fall somewhere in between. Most of the time, they benefit from a lighter touch than Merchant's. Taking a cue from Seeger himself, one that Merchant could have used, Carolyn Hester performs "One Man's Hands" with quiet optimism and lets the words themselves speak for which side she's on. The choice of covers also benefit from the choice of songs. Instead of every artist choosing a song of Great Social and Political Import, many opt for one of the humorous or personal numbers that have always humanized Seeger's protests. Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert's "Precious Friend", for instance, is graced with a touch of Dixieland jazz and vaudeville and balances out Merchant's protest nicely. For the most part, the pleasures from the covers on the second disc are from similar strokes of small inspiration and likability. Yet, if they rarely come with the brilliant, sweeping reinterpretation and recontextualization of Gaughan's cover of "Bells of Rhymney", they do usually come with the common touch, the unpretentious, good-humored affection, tolerance, and decency that always characterize Pete Seeger himself. After all these decades, the world could still learn a lot from him, perhaps now as much as ever.
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This Day in History – November 9 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight
8 November 2020 by Gary Jenneke
THIS DAY IN HISTORY… NOVEMBER 9
1541 – Queen Catherine Howard confined in Tower of London.
Accused of promiscuous mischief, husband Henry VIII had her sent to the tower and five days later executed.
1764 – Mary Campbell released by the Delaware Indian Tribe.
She was a child of ten taken captive during the French and Indian War. Six years later as a result of a peace treaty (later violated by white settlers) 60 white captives held by the Indian tribes were released. Mary was among those released. Purportedly, many of the captives wanted to return to living with the Indians. It is not known if Mary was one of them or not.
From History.com: "Mary Campbell lived through the major turning points of late 18th-century America. She was an adolescent among the Indians as they attempted to reassert their rights to the American landscape and a woman among colonists as they fought to free themselves of the British empire. Mary wed in 1770 as colonial protests became violent and gave birth to seven children as her home, Pennsylvania, was reborn first as a state independent of Britain and then as part of a new nation."
It seems a woman would have been better off being kidnapped by Indians than married to a respected king. Tell me again, which ones were considered the "savages?"
1938 – Kristallnacht. Night of Broken Glass.
Starting in the late hours of November 9 and continuing into the next day, Nazi mobs torched or vandalized hundreds of synagogues throughout Germany and damaged or destroyed thousands of Jewish homes, schools, businesses, hospitals, and cemeteries. Nearly 100 Jews were murdered during the violence. Nazi officials ordered German police officers and firemen to do nothing as the riots raged and buildings burned, although firefighters were allowed to extinguish blazes that threatened Aryan-owned property.
According to History.com: "Despite Roosevelt's condemnation of the Nazi violence, the U.S. refused to ease the immigration restrictions it then had in place, constraints that prevented masses of German Jews from seeking safety in America. One reason was anxiety over the possibility that Nazi infiltrators would be encouraged to legally settle in the U.S. A more obscured reason was the anti-Semitic views held by various upper-echelon officials in the U.S. State Department."
This all sounds sadly familiar regarding the Syrian refugees.
1918 – Thomas Ferebee
According to NYTimes.com: "At 8:15:17 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, Major Ferebee pushed a lever in his B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, making sure an automatic system he had activated seconds earlier had functioned. He watched as a single, 9,000-pound bomb turned nose-down and fell toward its target, Aioi Bridge, which he had personally selected from aerial photographs. 43 seconds later, when the bomb had fallen from 31,000 feet to 1,890 feet above the target, the sky erupted in dazzling light, and the earth soon seemed to seethe like boiling liquid. At least 80,000 Japanese were killed instantly or would eventually die as a result of radiation from the explosion. And the atomic age was born. Ferebee, who retired from the Air Force in 1970, always argued that the Hiroshima bomb was necessary. 'I'm convinced that the bombing saved many lives by ending the war.'"
I'm still conflicted by its use. Would the Japanese have surrendered anyway, or would an invasion, with an estimated one million American casualties, have been necessary? My rationale is biased because my father was part of the invasion force. His life may have been spared because of the bomb. Another thought: because the bomb was invented, it had to be used. That's just the way the human mind, and especially the military mind, works. If not back then, perhaps a much more powerful hydrogen bomb would have been used on people. And we do have the horrific examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a deterrent.
Our current president, upon being briefed on our nuclear arsenal, apparently being woefully ignorant about radiation and nuclear winter, remarked "Why do we have all these nuclear weapons if we're not going to use them?" All humanity may be facing a bleak future.
1935 – Bob Gibson
A Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Gibson was one of the most intense competitors of all time. He also may well have been the most intimidating pitcher in history.
I'm a baseball fan, but the dawdling pace of today's game is getting to me. One of the reasons I liked Gibson is that he didn't mess around. A radio announcer once said about him: "Gibson pitches as though he's double parked."
History.com
* Lead-In Image (Enola Gay) – Everett Historical / Shutterstock.com – "B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' landing after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan. Tinian, Marianas Islands. August 6, 1945."
* Queen Catherine Howard (art) – Morphart Creation / Shutterstock.com – "Portrait of Catherine Howard, of after Holbein, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837."
* Kristallnacht (video) – Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo / YouTube.com
* Thomas Ferebee (video) – Million Colors of Light / YouTube.com
* Bob Gibson (video) – Tim Moore / YouTube.com
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WILLEMSTAD – The President of Parliament, Mrs. Giselle Mc. Williams postponed all the parliamentary meetings that were scheduled for this week until further notice.
This week Parliament was supposed to talk about the letter received from the Council of State on the proposition to give the Members of Parliament from Aruba, Sint Maarten and Curaçao the opportunity to submit Kingdom Law proposals.
Parliament was also going to talk about the local airline InselAir together with the Ministers of Traffic, Transportation and Spatial Planning, Finance, and Economic Development. Another agenda topic was air traffic safety.


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Copper mining was relatively widespread in the United Kingdom but only Parys Mountain in Anglesey, Wales seriously challenged Cornish production. The copper was mainly extracted by opencast methods which created a spectacular mining landscape. The Great Orme at Llandudno in Wales is an important prehistoric mining site. There are also Welsh copper mining sites in Cardiganshire and Snowdonia.
In the Lake District, copper mines were developed in the seventeenth century and worked on a large scale during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, powered principally by water. Ireland also had significant prehistoric copper mines and produced copper well into the 19th century.
Lead and zinc mining in the United Kingdom shared a number of technologies with Cornish mining, water-power for pumping, ore-processing technologies and, though on a much smaller scale, steam-pumping. Lead and zinc were mined extensively in the North Pennines, and lead in the Peak District; where Cornish engine houses can be found. In central England it was mined in Shropshire, notably at Snailbeach and Tankerville. In the south lead was mined mostly in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, where evidence of Roman mining exists. Lead was also mined in all the Welsh counties. Water-power predominates but steam-power was adopted, using Cornish engines, particularly in the Flintshire/ Denbighshire mines. Wanlockhead in Scotland and Laxey on the Isle of Man were also significant sources of lead and zinc.


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TV ReviewsShamelessSeason 2
Shameless: "Can I Have A Mother"
Joshua Alston
ShamelessSeason 2
"Can I Have A Mother"
The word "uneven" gets tossed around a lot in episodic television criticism. I use it quite a bit myself, so I'm partially to blame for overusing it in a way that sort of robs it of its meaning. So apologies in advance for saying, man alive, what an uneven season of Shameless this is shaping up to me. Honestly, what better adjective can describe a season of television that careens so wildly from nearly great to totally inessential? I really dug "Father's Day," and I was hoping for some continued momentum. But "Can I Have A Mother" represents the opposite of momentum. It is, at the very least, a speed bump.
There's a certain level of leeway that you have to lend to an episode that exists primarily to move pieces into place, and "Can I Have A Mother" is certainly one of those. Still, it was almost devoid of any sort of payoff for anything that has been laid out prior to now, and just generally stumbled with the storytelling. The issues lied mostly with the reintroduction of two characters: Peggy Gallagher, Frank's mother who was released early from prison, and of course Steve who casually strolled back into Fiona's life last week. I have to assume that the reasons for bringing Grammy Gallagher back into the picture will become clearer as the back half of the season plays out, but based on this episode I'm already over her.
Most of my issue with the early episodes of season two is how deeply unpleasant it can be to spend time with Frank, particularly in situation where his behavior doesn't involve or affect members of the family somehow. Frank just isn't a character you want to spend a lot of time with. While it's understandable to make Peggy exactly the type of mom you would expect to have raised Frank Gallagher, the result is now I'm forced to watch the repugnant, sociopath misadventures of what really amounts to two Franks. Peggy was trying to muscle $200,000 out of Noah Pitts, her former meth partner who has since opened a cosmetic surgery practice. When he's unable to come up with the cash in 24 hours, she decides to kidnap his children for ransom. Luckily, Frank has the presence of mind to lean on Dr. Pitts until he coughs up the last $75,000 he has left, which of course Frank then tries to skim off of.
When Peggy wasn't terrorizing her son and former associate, she was savaging poor Sheila, and in her own home, no less. Peggy Gallagher is absolutely how Sheila describes her to be when she finally melts down; she's a loud, mean, vicious bitch. And if there's one thing Shameless doesn't need, it's another deeply unlikeable character. Look, I really like Louise Fletcher, and there was something really funny about how William H. Macy played his bratty tantrums. I'm willing to keep an open mind here. As Nana Gallagher is clearly having some serious health issues, it wouldn't be surprising if the Gallaghers were mourning her within a few episodes, and I can see that bearing fruit. But for now, the reintroduction of Peggy feels like a poor facsimile of Monica's bracing return in season one. The only character really struggling to adjust to her return is Frank, and while I understand Frank's utility, that's not the same as being emotionally invested in the character.
Even more problematic was how inelegantly Steve was crammed back into the story. I've never been a huge fan of Steve, or the Steve and Fiona relationship, and I've always felt the way I'd feel watching a friend of mine having a relationship with someone who seemed nice enough but wasn't the one. But that relationship is central to the show, regardless of how much mileage I get out of it, and I've accepted that. But if the stuttering romance between these two characters is of such vital importance, the writers need to treat the machinations of that relationship carefully and reverently. At the end of last season, Steve was left with no choice but to flee the country, and Fiona had to decide whether or not to go along. For viewers really interested in their relationship, that was a moment with genuine stakes. But what was it all for when Steve can just waltz back into the country whenever he gets ready with apparently no consequence? Steve shows up at the Gallagher-adjacent house he bought and talks to Tony, who now lives there with his Asian girlfriend. An envelope of money and a smarmy-Steve smile later and it was all water under the bridge.
Of course, reestablishing a relationship with Fiona isn't going to be as easy, because now Steve is legally married to Estefania, because of oh-my-God-you-can't-be-serious. By that I mean, Steve ran afoul of a drug lord and made amends by marrying his daughter in order for her to live in the States. I've complained a lot about the writers' tendency to do whatever seems the most outrageous, and this is a perfect example of that. It's a wacky story element intended to bring Steve back, but with a complication barring him from reuniting with Fiona right off. Of course, because angry, animal sex is such a big part of their relationship, that doesn't stop Steve and Fiona from an almost-tryst in the bathroom during the world's most contrived double date. If I'm supposed to care about Steve and Fiona, I need to feel like I'm not going to be jerked around endlessly. The story of two people who love each other but just can't seem to get it together is one audiences have seen enough that it has to be executed in a meticulous and credible way, and this felt forced, rushed, and even nonsensical. It made me dislike Fiona for a few minutes too. Sex with another man in the bathroom during a date? That's the kind of behavior that led Lucy Jo Heisner to mount a full-blown information campaign.
Usually when a Shameless episode is wobbling from a story perspective, it's at least rescued by some hilarious zingers. Not the case with "Can I Have A Mother" which was co-written by Macy, and almost entirely free of the acidic wit Shameless is known for. It's an especially glaring difference considering how many fantastic one-liners were in "Father's Day." Without its typical laughs, and so much time spent on Peggy and Steve, there wasn't much to like about the episode. Of course, knowing Shameless, we could easily be back to A-range by next week.
In other Gallagher news: Frank got expelled from Sheila's place, Ian still isn't speaking to Lip, Lip continues his downward spiral, and Debbie spilled the beans about Jimmy.
In Gallagher-adjacent news: Ethel and Malik dug up Kev's weed stash and sold it for enough money to split town together.
Sheila suddenly had balls of steel when Nana Gallagher drew on her. I'm hoping that, and her sudden willingness to stand up to Frank, represents a sudden reversal of her regression. I'm ready for a happier Sheila, even though I don't understand how she continues to be a character without an attachment to Frank.
"One of my unspoken rules is that you don't fuck someone else while we're on a date. I thought that was just assumed." No, you're in the right on that one Adam. It's poor form.
Peggy on Frank's updates on the lives of her grandchildren: "Frank, shut up, this doesn't interest me."
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