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Backpacking through time
1st October 2015 Journeys with a bookMarion Molteno
A chance encounter in a bookshop in Old Delhi … Books overflowing everywhere … Tessa, a young traveller with a backpack …That's where the central story of Uncertain Light began.
Preparing to go to India, I'm thinking back to my own first journey there – also solo with a backpack, but I wasn't a nineteen-year old on a gap year, I was thirty-seven. What took me? I had taken two months unpaid leave and left our two young children with my husband. He's an excellent father, but still – ?
For four years I had been running English classes in London for women from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. I got drawn into their lives, their issues. I studied Hindi. I listened to Indian music. I made myself look anew at things they found beautiful which at first I did not. I was reading about South Asia's history, its cultures, politics, like it would provide answers to questions I could hardly frame. We ourselves were recent immigrants to the UK and I had adjustments of my own to handle – how did I find the head-space to explore another culture so persistently? I don't know; only that somehow it became a leit-motif that accompanied my own inner journey.
Though a late-starter, I did what most backpackers do. I had bizarre encounters on trains, and incidents with locks in cheap hostels. I fended off the press of rickshaw drivers when I arrived at a station. I failed to respond to beggars and felt miserable about it. I discovered the delight of gane ka ras (sugarcane juice), watched the cane being crushed by a steel machine that must surely have been fifty years old. I ate delicious chaat (cooked snacks) from street stalls, and regretted it when diarrhoea took over. I stood awed before gigantic structures centuries old cut into rock or extraordinary carvings on the walls of temples. As an outsider I was exempt from many of the constraints of class, gender, caste, and could do things like persuade a cycle-rickshaw rider in Jaipur to let me have a go pedalling while he acted the passenger (I wanted to see how hard it was.)
My fragile hold on Hindi created some absurd moments. Contemplating the cave paintings in Ajanta (Buddhist and millenia old), I told a young tourist guide that I had read a book about them. He looked deeply impressed – and too late I realised that instead of parhna (the verb 'to read') I'd used likhna ('to write'). But the blunder got us laughing, and by the end of the day he had invited me home to meet his mother and sisters. They were fascinated by my glasses; they didn't know anyone who wore them, and had assumed they were a fashion item.
But unlike most travellers, in two months in India I was only rarely in a hostel or hotel, for I plotted my journey to take in the families of friends back in London. Living for a few days in each household was an unrivalled way to experience India's social diversity – of religions, life situations, attitudes. From a spacious flat in Bombay looking out over the sea I moved to a crumbling multiple-family house in Lucknow, where we drew water from a pump in the courtyard and slept on string beds. In the hills near Haridwar I stayed in an ashram with a friend whose grandfather had retired there to meditate. In Qadian in the Punjab I was absorbed into an Ahmadiya family (Muslims who are regarded as non-orthodox), and spent two days with women who never moved out of the house except in a burkha. In Gujarat I was the guest of an Arya Samaj family (a reform movement of Hinduism). I accompanied a head-teacher to her school to watch young girls learning complex bharata natyam dance sequences, and realised how little we in the west challenge children to use their extraordinary capacities of memory. Gender roles in homes where I was a guest were never fully predictable. In the household of a polo-playing army officer, stridently 'western' in his attitudes, the women had to engage in quiet subterfuge to do things he accepted in me but would not have countenanced in his own family. In another home I was taken off by the women to sit on the flat roof and learn to winnow the husks off sesame seeds, but it was the man of the house who checked before I retired to bed whether I was 'addicted to bed-tea' in the morning. (I am.) No preconceptions could survive this multiplicity.
Back in London I could enter into the lives of my Indian and Pakistan friends at a different level. I had a sense now of the journeys they had made, leaving all that behind. I began writing short stories about some of those transitions – theirs and mine. In 1987 they were published – A Language in Common. Ahmed Rashid, in The Independent, called it 'The most extraordinary book of short stories – one of the first attempts to straddle in fiction the social divide between white Britons and Asians.'
A window onto other lives
I've been back in India many times, mainly through my work with Save the Children, but it's always a challenge. Now, nearly thirty years since that first journey, I've been going through the catalogue of Speaking Tiger, the Indian publisher of Uncertain Light, looking for books to help me understand the complexities I am going into. There are some impressive sounding writers: Harsh Mander – 'works with survivors of mass violence, hunger, homeless persons and street children.' Anubha Bhonsle – 'reports from Jammu and Kashmir and the North East of India on the impact of long-standing conflict.' Nandita Haksar – 'human rights lawyer, has been involved in the women's movement from the 1970s.'
This is an extraordinary country. It has mega-scale poverty, discrimination, social problems, and also so many remarkable people trying to do something about them. I've been encountering them from the start of my connection with India. Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association – I travelled to Ahmedabad to meet her and she invited me to join a team meeting. The women supported families with home-based piece work – rolling biri cigarettes – collecting recyclable waste. We sat cross-legged in a circle while they talked about their attempts to negotiate better terms from middle-men.
Afterwards a lively young woman who did block-printing on fabric took me home to demonstrate her craft. I don't know which made the bigger impression – the skill and concentration it required – the repetition, bordering on drudgery – or her energy and confidence, now that she was taking collective action with other women. And in Delhi, Primila Lewis – as a social activist she had helped farm labourers to claim their rights under labour laws; for that she spent eighteen months in prison during Indira Gandhi's Emergency, and wrote movingly about her experiences and the women she got to know in prison.
Another powerful memory that reimagined itself in Uncertain Light … An American friend had worked for a year on a Gandhian-inspired project in rural Bihar, and he arranged for me to spend a few days there. It was on land acquired in the Bhoodan movement, donated by landlords to the peasants who lived on it. A volunteer took me on a walk through neighbouring villages whose bare-survival conditions showed up how transformatory this project had been.
Later, in my time with Save the Children, I saw many similar transformations. A young colleague accompanied me on a journey of hundreds of miles to initiatives that we were supporting … Night schools for children who herded animals by day … Mother-and-child health centres in a tribal area of Andhra Pradesh … In Orissa, on land where houses had been flattened by a cyclone, a community-run pre-school and vocational centre. In Delhi I met women who ran mobile creches for infants whose mothers carried bricks on building sites. Behind each of these and other initiatives were a complex set of histories. One organisation was caught up in internal disputes – the original charismatic leader had resisted letting others in on decision-making. In another, there were issues about funding not being properly accounted for. These are predictable human frailties, not unique to this field. None of it diminishes the remarkable phenomenon: each of these projects had been started by someone who stepped out from the privileged life they had been born into, to try to do something, however modest, for people burdened by extreme poverty; and to confront the socially constructed barriers that prevented them from getting beyond it.
The first flickering of Uncertain Light goes back all that way. Fragmented, highly coloured moments lodged in my memory, to germinate decades later in fiction. Wherever the story would later travel, this is where it began.
Photo credits: Famous Book Store – Amit Mehra @Indian Express, Sept 12, 2015; painting of Padmapani in Cave 1, Ajanta; block printing – Joe David Brown; Samanvay Ashram in Bihar – Deven Shah @ Service Space.
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A few months ago, I decided I wanted to join the roller derby. There was a small problem: I had never skated before.
Not one to be deterred by such minor obstacles, I immediately signed up for roller skating classes (me, one other adult, and a room full of seven year olds), bought protective gear and a pair of skates, and will be joining next month.
I took 18 hours of classes almost every semester of undergrad while working two jobs, had a baby in graduate school, and got married and bought a house before I turned 25.
I'm a jump in with both feet kind of gal. Sometimes I can make a decision, realize it was a mistake, and fix it before you even notice that I acted. I move fast, and in many ways it has served me very well.
But there are other ways that it has not.
There are little ways. When I am trying to write a blog post or a assignment for my students and my browser is moving slowly, it can send me into a near fury. When I am trying to leave the house in the morning and my daughter is dawdling around talking to each of her stuffed animals in alphabetical order, I get twitchy with anxiety.
There are also big ways. Sometimes I get so caught up in planning the next move that I forget to enjoy the move I just made. I'm so swept up in figuring out when is the right time to buy a new house that I don't decorate the one I'm in. I'm so fixated on mapping out articles I want to submit that I can't enjoy watching a movie for pleasure because I feel like it's time wasted.
And sometimes when a deadline is far enough away, I lose interest completely. For instance, sometimes it's hard for me to keep my energy on finishing my PhD because I know the dissertation is going to take a while (especially since I'm working full time).
What I need is to cultivate some patience.
This article that I stumbled across earlier today talks about crafting New Year's themes instead of resolutions. They're more likely to stick because they allow for flexibility as the year happens, and the theme "should be a word that resonates with you and embodies something that has been missing from your daily life."
So, that's my word for 2014: patience.
What's your theme for 2014? Do you have any tips on cultivating patience?


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Influencer arrested for alleged sexual assault
By Ash Kent| 3 years ago
Social media influencer, Ray Diaz has been arrested for alleged sexual assault, after being accused of both physical and verbal abuse by a 16-year-old girl he allegedly had a relationship with.
Diaz, 33 was taken into custody in San Diego by the elite Robbery-Homicide Division Special Assault Section with the help of the San Diego Police Department.
His bail has been set at $500,000, according to police.
The Los Angeles Police department opened an investigation into the influencer after disturbing videos were leaked that appear to show him verbally and physically assaulting Angelica Salek, 16, who he was allegedly dating — rumours that he furiously denied.
Diaz, runs a YouTube channel which boasts over 300k subscribers and boasts 3.1 million followers on Instagram. He has also appeared in several low-ranking films.
The influencer is known to go after young girls, with calls for LAPD to step in and arrest him. (Instagram)
On July 5, a video was posted to Angelica's Instagram account, featuring a man alleged to be Diaz. The video was taken lens down, showing only a black screen on what appears to be a car seat. But the audio shows the man in the car screaming and threatening Salek with violence and sounds of him hitting her while she sobs.
At one point in the confronting video, the man tells Angelica to "kill herself" and "die" so he can "just get on with life".
The video was originally removed from the Instagram account, with Salek claiming her mother had posted it in a bid to break up the relationship, and that the yelling and screaming was merely acting practice.
Diaz also came out to say he does to evoke emotion before he attends auditions – something he learnt in New York.
However, Salek has since come spoken out in a lengthy interview with YouTube star Keemstar in an episode of his show DramaAlert, claiming that it was in fact real abuse and that she had endured it for months. She also claimed that Diaz forced her to lie and say it wasn't real.
Diaz has a big following on YouTube. (YouTube)
She also confirmed she was dating the 33-year-old, from the time she was 16.
"Yes, we were dating," Salek told Keemstar, adding "[for] around 11 months or something."
And when asked if the pair were "sexually active" the emotional Salek alluded the answer was yes.
YouTuber Keemstar interjected stating sleeping with someone under the age of 18 in California is statutory rape.
On Friday, the LAPD announced via Twitter they were "aware of several social media posts related to a social media personality, alleging physical abuse and sexual relations with a minor". "We take these allegations seriously. Currently, the department has directed a group of investigators to look into these allegations," the LAPD wrote.
Salek told Keemstar that all she wants is for Diaz to be brought to justice for his alleged actions.
"I hope and pray that something does happen here, that he does get put away. I don't want this to happen to any other girl," she said.

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Inspired by BT Parson's latest read Amaro we barrel aged some Fernet Branca for a month in with some maple syrup AND cola syrup. Fernet is often sipped as the ultimate hangover cure but here with extra sweetness and oak from the barrel we love it served short with a splash of soda and big cut of orange.


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As always I love reading about your U.S. Adventures!! I cannot wait to see you both soon!
A bit boring keep going to the USA, I would love to read a blog from Mongolia or Timbuktu.
Timbuktu was from me. Didn't want it to be anonymous.
Wishing you both a great adventure and look forward to following your progress on the blog.
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By Lakeview Physio
BScPT, Acupuncture, Certified Gunn IMS
Osteoarthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints that involves the joint cartilage (the shiny and slippery surface on the end of the bone), the bone underlying the cartilage, and the joint lining and capsule.
Osteoarthritis has increased dramatically since the middle of the 20th century. Not surprisingly, researchers are busy in search of answers for the what's, why's and how's of this frequently occurring condition. Like so many areas in medical science we know a lot about osteoarthritis, but fall short of knowing how to prevent, slow down or reverse joint damage caused by osteoarthritis.
What Do We Know About Osteoarthritis?
OA most commonly affects the hips, knees, spine and hands, is more common in women, and occurs more frequently after the age of 40.
It is a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints that involves the joint cartilage (the shiny and slippery surface on the end of the bone), the bone underlying the cartilage, and the joint lining and capsule.
Symptoms include at varying degrees of severity joint pain, swelling, stiffness and associated muscle weakness and/or tightness. The symptoms of Osteoarthritis tend come and go, with periods of increased discomfort and periods of greater comfort.
Known Causes and Risk Factors for the Development of OA Include:
Prior joint injury and damage
Genetic predisposition and bone deformities
Long term overuse such as might occur in a work environment or some sports
Medical treatment and interventions cannot, at this time, prevent or reverse the joint damage caused by the osteoarthritis process.
Medications such as acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories can help manage symptoms. Advanced disease is treated on an as needed basis with corticosteroid injections and surgical interventions such as hip and knee joint replacements.
Injection therapies such as Prolotherapy, PRP (plasma rich protein) and Stem Cell therapies have not been proven to be consistently effective therapies to treat symptoms of OA or to reverse joint damage and the future role of these therapies is uncertain.
What is the Best Treatment for Osteoarthritis?
Evidence based treatment of Osteoarthritis emphasizes education, weight management, exercise and activity modifications to reduce pain and improve mobility and function.
Despite what could be exciting future developments in the medical treatment of osteoarthritis, primary treatment will be patient education, weight management, exercise and activity modifications. These are tangible strategies, available now for people with osteoarthritis to take charge of managing the health of their joints.
The challenge of course for the medical and physiotherapy professions is to provide accessible services to people that assesses, treats, educates and follows patients once diagnosed or at risk of developing osteoarthritis. For many people, consulting with their physiotherapist and applying their programs and exercises at home or in their community gym is an effective approach. However, there remains a need to reach more Canadians diagnosed with osteoarthritis and facilitate the education and exercise programs that is key to best treatment and management of their OA.
GLA:D Canada – An Evidence-Based Education and Exercise Program for Osteoarthritis
This program, originating in Denmark, has proven results for people with osteoarthritis in their hips or knees to lessen their pain, take less pain medication, increase their mobility and to improve their overall function.
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Kuusamo, Finland–Just call him the Iceman because Zydrunas Savickas did it again, winning his third SCL Iceman in a row.
If your deadlifts are stuck, try this trick for motivation: go eyeball to eyeball with a bear, as Zydrunas Savickas did at the SCL Iceman today. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.
The Iceman is not your ordinary strongman contest, so when today opened with a loading race, it was massive logs and ice blocks that were loaded onto a platform made from ice, and the deadlift, for example, put a bear in the mix.
On his way to his third consecutive victory in the Iceman, Zydrunas Savickas opened the contest today by setting the world record in the Viking Press with 165 kg x 12 reps.
"In the beginning, we were pretty unlucky losing Terry Hollands and Jimmy Laureys, but were really happy Martin Wildauer came on such short notice. On the first day, we had some rough weather—snow, wind, cold—but the athletes didn't complain. It's the Iceman: whatever temperature or the weather, they will continue," contest organizer Ilkka Kinnunen told IronMind.
"Conan's Wheel was really tough: only 4 athletes made the full circle. Tomi Lotta was the only one to go over 70 meters, which made the Finns really happy.
"The Truck Pull Medley was extremely tough, especially with the truck pull as last part of the medley; Zydrunas and Tomi were the only ones to finish.
"Today was a sunny, beautiful day—perfect for the athletes and audience to enjoy the Iceman III," said Kinnunen.
Here are the final scores, officially.


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Written by Lucy Gordon
Art by Rin Ogata
Heather has been charmed by Lorenzo, a rich elite from Sicily. He's a gentleman, but weak and powerless in the face of his overwhelming brother Renato. Suspicious that Heather may simply be after their fortune, Renato investigates and subjects the woman to a bizarre test, even going as far as to tempt her with a large sum of money. She refuses, and so he rewards her by ordering her to marry his brother...
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Her Sheikh Boss
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Claudia is a hardworking personal secretary, working 24/7 for her arrogant boss, Samir, the CEO of a shipping company. The only reason she is so devoted to her work is that she is in love with her boss, who, despite his arrogance, is very charming. One day, Samir gives an unexpected gift to Claudia, who has been working so hard that she forgot her own birthday. The gift is an order to join him on a business trip to his home country in the desert. Is it going to be a romantic getaway for just the two of them? Or will it all fall apart when she finds out that he is a sheikh who is already engaged?
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"I might not be able to have children anymore…" Having decided to quit her job in order to pursue medical treatment, Andrea pays a visit to her boss's office. To her surprise he invites her to join him on a business trip to Paris. Andrea accepts the offer, hoping to make this final assignment a memorable experience. But while in the City of Love, her boss surprises her yet again. This time with a sudden proposal!
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Bria Green may be an outstanding architect, but she's struggled to build herself a safe haven from her overbearing father. When she runs into Sam Wali at a conference, she thinks she's found the perfect vacation fling. But when she finds out that he's the prince of Adhara and that he wants her to take on a project in his home country, Bria might just find that the walls she's built to protect her heart have to come tumbling down
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1. Remove the tofu from its packaging and press it between 2 trays for 15 minutes to remove excess liquid. Dice.
2. Place the diced tofu into a bowl and marinade with Major Oriental Mari Base (1) for 1 hour.
3. Coat the tofu with corn flour (1). Heat a pan and shallow fry until golden.
4. Heat oil in a wok and add the garlic, peppers and mushrooms and sauté until just cooked. Add Major Oriental Mari Base (2).
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Roman Hoffstetter o Roman(us) Hofstetter (24 de abril de 1742 – 21 de mayo de 1815) fue un compositor clásico y monje benedictino. Algunas de sus composiciones (llamadas los seis Cuartetos de Cuerdas Opus 3, conocidas también como la Serenata de Haydn) fueron atribuidas por error a Haydn. Hoffstetter publicó otros cuartetos de cuerdas (Op. 1 por Diller y Hummel en 1771 y Op. 2 en 1782) bajo su propio nombre. Además de estas obras, se conservan los manuscritos de otros cuartetos suyos.

Hoffstetter tomó los hábitos como Pater Romanus en el monasterio benedictino de Amorbach en 1763, permaneciendo allí hasta la secularización de este, en 1803. No se conoce nada acerca de sus estudios tempranos o de su vida, aunque se puede suponer que provenía de una familia con conocimientos musicales. Accedió en poco tiempo a la posición de Regens Chori (Director de Coro), además de oficiar como organista y algunas veces de sacerdote en la región de Odenwald, aunque su cargo principal en el monasterio era el de Kuchenmeister (Cocinero Maestro). Además de sus cuartetos de cuerdas (que debieron ser cuidadosamente revisados, ya que poseían notables parecidos estilísticos con Haydn), Hoffstetter compuso cerca de 10 misas (muchas de las cuales fueron preservadas en los archivos de la Arquidiócesis en Würzburg), así como un pequeño número de obras para iglesia, incluyendo un Miserere perdido en el que colaboró con el compositor Suizo-Alemán Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792). En adición, existen 3 conciertos para Viola ofrecidos a la venta en el catálogo Breiktopf en 1785. Podría decirse que ellos son los mejores ejemplos y promotores del virtuosismo para Viola escritos en el siglo XVIII, y, de ser genuinos, podrían representar la cúspide de la carrera creativa de Hoffstetter. [Fine, M., "The Viola Concertos of Fr. Roman Hoffstetter, OSB", DMA diss., Memphis St. Univ., 1990]

Hoffstetter es más conocido por su amistad con Kraus, que nació cerca de Miltenberg am Main. Esta amistad empezó cerca de 1774 y continuó a través del nombramiento de Kraus como compositor de la corte del rey sueco Gustavo III, hasta la muerte de Kraus. Hoffstetter mantuvo correspondencia con Kraus, y su temprano biógrafo, el diplomático sueco Fredrik Samuel Silverstolpe, que lo puso en contacto con su ídolo, Haydn. Nueve de esas cartas, escritas entre 1800 y 1802, han sido conservadas en la colección de Silverstope en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Upsala. [Unverricht, H. "Die Beide Hoffstetter," 1968]

Siguiendo la secularización de Amorbach, Hoffstetter se retiró, sordo y ciego casi por completo, a Miltenburg am Main con su abad, Benedikt Kuelsheimer. La mayoría de los trabajos escritos para Amorbach fueron perdidos en la disolución de la biblioteca monástica por tropas francesas en 1803.

Bibliografía
 Marshall J. Fine: The viola concertos of Fr. Roman Hofstetter, OSB. A new edition based on the manuscripts found at the university of Lund. UMI Publications, Ann Arbor, Mi 1990
 Hubert Unverricht: Beiträge zur Mittelrheinischen Musikgeschichte. Bd 10. Die beiden Hoffstetter. Zwei Komponistenporträts mit Werkverzeichnissen. Schott, Mainz 1968, ISBN 3-7957-1310-2
 L. Somfai: Zur Echtheitsfrage des Haydnschen op. 3. Haydn-Jahrbuch III, 1965.

Compositores de Alemania del siglo XVIII
Compositores de Alemania del siglo XIX

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Larry Coleman is the most successful sidecar roadracer in the United States, winning three American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) national championships ('76, '77, '79), and a land-speed record holder in sidecar divisions. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2010.

Stationed in Germany with the military in the late 1960s, Coleman in fall of 1968 founded a motorcycle club with fellow US soldiers, named "Bones MC", after a MAD magazine cartoon with a cigarette in a skeleton hand. The club, originally based at Frankfurt, predates the first German charter of the Hells Angels, founded 1973 in Hamburg, by several years. The Bones also accepted German members, expanded to Mannheim and other cities, and became the largest MC in Germany. With US members returning after their service, Germans took over, and the Bones MC turned into an "outlaw motorcycle club", until in 1999 16 of the 21 chapters merged ("patch-over") with the smaller Hells Angels MC of Germany.

Watching the 1969 German motorcycle Grand Prix at Hockenheimring, Coleman got hooked to sidecars and sidecar racing, riding a BMW R69S with sidecar. Upon returning to the States, Coleman raced a Kawasaki H1 Mach III 500cc sidecar with passenger Wendell Andrews with immediate success in American Federation of Motorcyclists (AFM) and AMA racing, missing the AMA Championship in 1973 at Laguna Seca by finishing runner up. In 1974, Coleman/Andrews imported a state-of-the-art sidecar racing chassis from England, installed a Suzuki GT750 engine, and dominated both AFM and AMA racing for the next several years, winning two AMA national Championships in 1976–77.

After Andrews retired from racing in late 1977, Coleman teamed up with Mark Bevans to contest and win the AMA Championship in 1979. The team built a new chassis for 1980, powered by a Yamaha TZ750, and won the sidecar support race at the 1981 Formula1 Long Beach Grand Prix, which put the team on the cover of Cycle News, as well as earning them articles in Cycle World Magazine, American Motorcyclist and other publications. At the end of the 1981 season, Coleman retired from full-time sidecar racing to pursue a career in the motorcycle industry, where he held sales manager positions with Kal Gard Lubricants, Supertrapp Industries, and K&N Filters.

In 1988, Coleman started to compete at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a racing sidecar. He holds since 2011 an Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials AMA national record with a 1350cc Suzuki sidecar at 158.2 mph. At one time he had as many as four records, one of which stood for 17 years. The top was 174 mph.

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Mike Handler
Michael Handler is the Chief Communications Officer at Awana. Through engaging storytelling, collaboration, and design thinking, he helps leaders understand the culture and creatively solve problems.
Michael has a diverse background in ministry, graphic design and business. He graduated Sum Cum Lade with a BA in Ministerial Studies and a minor in Youth Ministry. Before joining Awana in 2011, he ran a design and marketing firm that served denominations, non-profits, and universities. He also consulted over 15 startups and church plants.
Drawing on his 18 years of experience coaching pastors, leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs, Michael speaks and writes on a variety of topics, including leadership, communications, vision, biblical truths, creativity and storytelling.
In 2014, he co-created the global documentary, MORE, which shows stories of God at work around the world through the Awana ministry. Currently, he is producing and providing creative direction on a feature-length documentary about the importance of discipleship and the future of the church in North America.
Michael enjoys trying new restaurants and tackling DIY projects. He and his wife, Erin, have one son and three younger daughters. Together, they love cheering on the Cubs, Bears and spending way too much time at Disney.
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Barbecued chicken has a smoky, sweet, tangy flavor that can come from a broiler but it tastes even better off the grill. Just be sure the chicken is cooked all the way. Prick the chicken with a fork. If the juices run clear, the chicken is done, but to be really accurate, use a meat thermometer. The internal temperature of chicken parts on the bone should be 165 degrees F.
Be sure the thermometer isn't touching a bone, which can give a false high reading.
Grill times in recipes are approximate, depending on the heat of your grill and the size of the chicken pieces. To shorten cooking time, you can microwave chicken pieces for about 3 minutes per pound before grilling.
If the mere thought of chicken hot off the grill makes you salivate, you'll love this Barbecued Chicken recipe.
Oil the grill grid and prepare a medium-hot fire in a charcoal or gas grill.
Season each piece of chicken with salt and black pepper on both sides.
Put the chicken pieces, bone-side up, on the grill. Cook for 30 minutes.
Flip chicken pieces with tongs. Cook for an additional 20 minutes or more, as needed.
During the last 10 minutes of cooking, brush the chicken pieces with barbecue sauce.
The chicken is done when it's no longer pink inside or when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 165 degrees F.
Per serving: Calories 514 (From Fat 253); Fat 28g (Saturated 7g); Cholesterol 134mg; Sodium 452mg; Carbohydrate 21g (Dietary Fiber 0g); Protein 43g.


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Q: Visual Studio 2015 Cordova app wont build and hangs I'd done a clean install of windows 8.1, downloaded VS 2015 community update 1. (i've also tried this with VS 2015 Enterprise Edition) I then create a new javascript cordova app. Everything loads up fine. as soon as i start building the project the build process just hangs for many hours.
There are no build errors at all and nothing seems to end. I need to end VS using the task manager to close the project to test again.
This is have tried
1: clearing the cordova cache
2.Running the dependancy checker which returns that everything is ok.

*Renaming the CoreCon folder to something else

*Checked to see if all the packages are installed in the VS installer.
Once i create a new cordova project then build i get this in the output and it will just hang there for days!!
1>Target "InstallMDA" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.FileMirroring.targets" from project "c:\users\clzby\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\BlankCordovaApp7\BlankCordovaApp7\BlankCordovaApp7.jsproj" (target "EnsureNodeJsRequirementsAreAtCorrectVersion" depends on it):
1>       Using "RunMdaInstall" task from assembly "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.VisualStudio.MultiDeviceHybridApps.MdaBuildTasks.dll".
1>       Task "RunMdaInstall"

Im now totally lost, i dont understand as to why i install a new product and the build does not work.. Im i missing something?

updates
My current version of node is
4.1.2
current version of cordova is
5.4.1
here is also a link to some microsoft issues
http://taco.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/known-issues-ripple-cordova/#strongbuild-hangs-or-does-not-execute-when-building-for-ios-with-cordova-lt-533-and-nodejs-400strong
but im still have the same issue where nothing is building in a cordova javascript or typescript project
here is a diagnostic output
1>Target "InstallMDA: (TargetId:11)" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.FileMirroring.targets" from project "c:\users\clzby\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\BlankCordovaApp15\BlankCordovaApp15\BlankCordovaApp15.jsproj" (target "EnsureNodeJsRequirementsAreAtCorrectVersion" depends on it):
1>                   Using "RunMdaInstall" task from assembly "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.VisualStudio.MultiDeviceHybridApps.MdaBuildTasks.dll".
1>                   Task "RunMdaInstall" (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:MdaVsixDir=E:\New folder\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ApacheCordovaTools (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:NodeInstallPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:NpmInstallDir=C:\Users\Clzby\AppData\Roaming\npm (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:LangName=en-US (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:ProjectDir=. (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:Configuration=Debug (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:PackageName=vs-tac (TaskId:10)
1>                     Task Parameter:BuildVerbosity=Diagnostic (TaskId:10)

A: The problem is that you are targeting Cordova 5.4.1. There are numerous incompatibilities and problems with 5.4 with both Visual Studio and Windows. Please change your target CLI to 5.3.3.
Our next update will include support for 5.4.1, but Update 4 will not work with it.
(Disclosure: I work on the Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio)

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The cost of the government's bailout programs has climbed $6 billion to $27 billion, according to the latest analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.
The congressional scorekeeper reported Thursday that the ultimate cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program would be somewhat higher than its last estimate in May 2013. That's because the CBO estimated that the amount the government would spend on housing relief efforts contained in the program would be $10 billion higher, while the costs of the government's assistance to the auto industry fell.
By the CBO's estimate, $438 billion of the $700 billion program will ultimately be doled out under TARP, and $371 billion of that has already been repaid. Just $8 billion under TARP remains outstanding, although the CBO estimates the government will pay out another $15 billion before the program is finally concluded. Another $44 billion under the program has already been written off by the government.
The CBO's price tag for the bailout is actually somewhat lower than the administration's. The Office of Management and Budget estimates the final cost of TARP will come to $39 billion, primarily because it expects the government to spend billions of dollars more on housing programs than the CBO does.
The Treasury Department announced in 2011 that the bank portion of the bailout, while publicly reviled, actually turned a profit for the government. To date, Treasury estimates taxpayers have received a $28 billion profit on the bank rescue.
The CBO estimates that the only costly portions of the program were assistance to the insurance giant American International Group, which will likely cost $15 billion, and another $14 billion to rescue domestic auto companies. The CBO expects the government will spend $26 billion on housing programs, but that money was never intended to be repaid.
The administration has been quick to tout the success of the bailout program. While publicly unpopular, the program did help stabilize the financial system, and ended up costing a fraction of what was once expected. The government is still winding down smaller portions of the program.
"Treasury has made significant progress towards winding down the programs that helped prevent the economy from falling into a second Great Depression, and we will continue to balance the speed of our exit with maximizing returns for taxpayers," said Timothy Bowler, Treasury's acting assistant secretary for financial stability, earlier this month.


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Published by Seneca at January 17, 2022
Every Time I Die Has Broken Up, Keith Buckley Shares Legal Document
Coheed And Cambria Announce New Album "Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind"
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Back in 2018, Silverstein celebrated the 15th anniversary of their debut album "When Broken Is Easily Fixed" with an anniversary tour and now they will be celebrating 20 years as a band. The band will be performing their sophomore album […]
Sepultura Detail New Album "Quadra", Reveal Cover Art & Concept
Sepultura has released details on their forthcoming fifteenth studio album, "Quadra". The album is set to release in early 2020 through Nuclear Blast and the band has stated that it's a concept album. You can see the album artwork below. […]
Hundredth Announce Early 2020 European/UK Tour
Hundredth have announced that they will head over to Europe/UK for a tour in early 2020. The band has also released a new track called "Iridescent" recently, which you can find below. 2020 Tour Dates: 02/07 Dublin, IRE – Fibber […]
Nile Release "Vile Nilotic Rites" Lyric Video
Nile has released a lyric video for the title track of their new album "Vile Nilotic Rites". You can check out the lyric below. The album is set to drop on November 01 through Nuclear Blast. Karl Sanders offered the […]
Machine Head Starts "Burn My Eyes" 25th Anniversary Tour, Fan Footage, & Set List Revealed
The 25th-anniversary tour for Machine Head's "Burn My Eyes" record has begun and the band is performing two sets. The first one is a mixture of tunes that span Machine Head's catalog, with Robb Flynn on vocals/guitar and Jared MacEachern […]
Cradle Of Filth Cancel Shows To Focus On New Album
Cradle Of Filth has canceled a handful of upcoming shows in Europe Tel Aviv in order to focus on their upcoming album. The band will however, be performing the following dates: 10/19 London, UK – The Palladium (performing "Cruelty […]
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Guest editorial: 'Never Trump' movement is nonsense now
Ventura County Star
The following editorial appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune:
The Electoral College results are in, and all but a handful of electors voted as they had pledged, and Donald Trump will take over as president in less than a month.
Perhaps the millions of Americans who seemed to think it was possible the New York Republican would never take office despite a fairly decisive Electoral College lead can return from Fantasyland now and deal with reality. Yes, Hillary Clinton got nearly 3 million more votes. Yes, Russia very likely used hacking of embarrassing Democratic National Committee emails to hurt Clinton and help Trump. Yes, Trump is coming off a campaign in which he repeatedly said offensive, even appalling things.
But since Trump's victory became clear the night of Nov. 8, the "Never Trump" movement has been nonsense. Not just because it didn't have a chance of blocking him from becoming the 45th president. Because trying to isolate and marginalize a president-elect is both futile and a really bad strategy.
Anyone saying "Not my president," stop. Trump will be next month. Trying to ostracize him didn't work when he was a candidate. It won't work now.
Any movement that wants to moderate or stop policy changes the Trump administration may seek needs to engage its ideas head-on.


Imagine it's an autumn morning, crisp and clear.
Sun is gleaming off an amber canvas of leaves amid a robin-egg-blue background.
You go to the kitchen to pour yourself another cup of coffee and there, through the window, you see a stranger relieving himself on a tree at the edge of your property.
This, horribly, is a situation that Algonquin Highlands Ward 3 Councillor Marlene Kyle says happens "all over the place" in the quaint community of Oxtongue Lake during the peak of fall foliage.
For anyone unaware, Oxtongue Lake is a hamlet at the northern tip of Algonquin Highlands township. It's tiny even by Haliburton County standards, a small collection of resorts, businesses and homes nestled in a picturesque chunk of Canadiana.
It was a haunt of members of the Group of Seven.
Oxtongue Lake prides itself as the gateway to the uber-popular Algonquin Provincial Park. However, during fall colours season in September and October, that gateway gets crowded. Congested. Clogged.
Fall foliage is big business in the area, bringing in thousands upon thousands of sightseers and shutterbugs each year.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams can stretch kilometres down Highway 60, into neighbouring Dwight.
The problem is the streams of tourists bring streams of another kind with them.
Many travelling from the GTA, perhaps stopping innocently enough for a Starbucks along the way, by the time tourists reach the park, nature is knocking on the door.
However, they're not quite in the park when they reach the traffic jam at Oxtongue Lake and the community doesn't offer the kinds of businesses where one can simply slip in and use the washroom unnoticed.
Sure, they come to look at the leaves, but it seems many visitors end up using them too.
Quite understandably, this is all quite upsetting for residents of Oxtongue Lake.
Last week Algonquin Highlands council received a staff report detailing potential solutions park officials plan to undertake this season, including more staff to sell tickets and direct traffic, heightened promotion of alternate entry points to the park, etc.
The report also looked at the possibility of the township renting privies to be stationed on public property in Oxtongue Lake.
However, as some members of council pointed out, the problem really belongs to the province. It's a provincial park, after all. It seems unfair for the township to be left holding the bucket.
The province needs to put a lid on this situation. Otherwise, residents are not going to get any less pissy any time soon.


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Winter Soldier '71, Winter Soldier '08 Testimony, Congress May 15th
By jimstaro in Congress, Iraq
I was still in 'Nam, counting down the days, real short, in returning back to 'The World' and my discharge after 4years of service, when 'Winter Soldier Investigation '71' took place.
The Congressional Testimony than would follow the Detriot testimony of my brother 'Nam Vets who had already returned from that Debacle and Occupation!
Sadly the Country that said, almost as one {many of us 'Nam Vets said we would never allow again} we would remember the lessons of, We Didn't, and history repeats!
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Who deserves a market wage?
By Jay Elias in Health Care, Media
Inherent in universal health care plans are price controls. By bundling patients together under major health care insurance providers or the Federal government, patients gain the ability to collectively bargain with doctors, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and nurses, lowering the cost that these people and companies can charge for their services. By this method, more people are able to get more health care at a lower cost, with the sacrifice being that we can no longer use market mechanisms to influence our health care system.
Conventional market economics will suggest that this is an outright bad idea, since market mechanisms are more responsive and elastic than asymmetrical bargaining. However, this can be dismissed as a serious rebuttal since health care markets are already deeply distorted by complicated insurance systems and the AMA cartel controlling doctor credentials.
But, there is an important practical and philosophical problem which this poses.
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By Victory Coffee in Personal
All high schools look the same don't they? That weird cheap tiling on the floor and cinderblock walls painted industrial beige. I looked in the trophy case as I passed by, taking notice of years of proud football awards, basketball, plaques, pictures, memorials to accomplishments. Posters all around. Some hand made from students advertising upcoming events, a few supplied by companies or public interests.
The Miami Herald reports that Newcomers are assimilating quickly in U.S. "A wide-ranging and provocative new study of immigrants' integration into U.S. society has concluded that newcomers today are assimilating more quickly than their predecessors did 100 years ago — with Cubans, Vietnamese and Filipinos among those leading the way."
Jacob L. Vigdor, a Duke University economist, authored the study which was published by the Manhattan Institute, a right wing think tank. The study found that new immigrants become part of the American society "remarkably well." "Today's immigrants are making faster progress. As a result, even as immigration has skyrocketed, assimilation has remained stable, Vigdor concluded. 'This is something unprecedented in the United States,' he said."
Only "Mexicans — by far the most numerous nationality — lag significantly behind other big immigrant groups, possibly because a lack of legal status keeps many Mexican immigrants from advancing." The Washington Post adds "A major reason" why the assimilation of Mexican immigrants lags behind others is a "high percentage of Mexican immigrants who are in the country illegally… 'If you're in the country illegally, a lot of the avenues of assimilation are cut off to you,' he said. 'There are lot of jobs you can't get, and you can't become a citizen.'"
Vigdor noted: "In general, the longer an immigrant lives in the United States, the more characteristics of native citizens he or she tends to take on… however, that the speed with which new arrivals take on native-born traits has increased since the 1990s. As a result, even though the foreign population doubled during that period, the newcomers did not drive down the overall assimilation index of the foreign-born population. Instead, it held relatively steady from 1990 to 2006."
The New York Times reports Defense War Secretary Robert Gates wants weapons useful in current conflicts. "Gates issued a clear warning to the military and its industrial partners on Tuesday that expensive, new conventional weapons must prove their value to current conflicts, marked by insurgency and terrorism, if they hope for a place in future budgets." In addition, Gates indicated "the Army and Marine Corps would continue to carry the brunt of the nation's combat effort. The Air Force and Navy, he said, would be cast as 'America's main strategic deterrent' against potential adversaries such as Iran, North Korea and China."
He acknowledged that given troop commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan, "it is true that we would be hard-pressed to launch a major conventional ground operation elsewhere in the world at this time."
"The risk of overextending the Army is real," Mr. Gates said. "But I believe the risk is far greater – to that institution, as well as to our country – if we were to fail in Iraq. That is the war we are in. That is the war we must win."
Four at Four continues with the oil pander of Congress and the real betrayal of America.
Zen and the art of earth maintenance
By DWG in Environment
A stumbling point for me in the practice of Buddhism is optimism. I do not do optimism. My thoughts on optimism parallel Ambrose Bierce.
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong… It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
I am particularly prone to pessimism (realism) when it comes to the response of our species to climate change. In reading the parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra, I am tempted to wonder (which is as close as I come to hope).
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Free The Press! McCain's "Grace Period"
By buhdydharma in Action, Media
Dis grace ful
Washington Post's Balz: Media will scrutinize McCain 'once the general election really begins.'
Wash. Post's Murray: 'Just wait' until after the primaries for media to scrutinize McCain.
Russert: 'In Time,' McCain Will 'Receive The Same Scrutiny' From The Media As Obama And Clinton
RUSSERT: We get flooded with e-mails, Senator McCain making a mistake on Shia versus Sunni, making mistake about the first Persian Gulf War and the second vis-a-vis oil. His own relationship with Pastor Hagee and why isn't that talked about and reported on the way Reverend Wright's relationship with Senator Obama is talked about. But all that in time. I mean, it is only May. This has been going on for some time but it will be a long, long campaign. And when Senator McCain is back in the media's light, he'll receive the same scrutiny.
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Overlooked by Media, Important Torture Testimony!
By tahoebasha3
Cross-posted at DailyKOS
Memos written at the request of high-ranking government officials by Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo on August 1, 2002 (also signed by Jay Bybee, now a federal judge) and March 14, 2003, assured the Bush administration that
. . . . the Department of Justice would not enforce the U.S. criminal laws against torture, assault, maiming and stalking, in the detention and interrogation of enemy combatants."
Of course, we know that the purpose of Yoo's memos were simply established as a means of legal clearance for all that ensued thereafter.
Daniel Levin, Acting Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel (December 30, 2004)
. . . . specifically rejects Yoo's definition of torture, and admits that a defandant's motives to protect national security will not shield him from a torture prosecution. The rescission of the August 2002 memo constitutes an admission by the Justice Department that the legal reasoning in that memo was wrong. But for 22 months, the [sic] it was in effect, which sanctioned and led to the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody."
Note: all quoted material above from Marjorie Cohn, President National Lawyers Guild.
Alberto Gonzales, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, David Addington, David Luban, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Geneva Conventions, George Tenet, George W. Bush, Jay Bybee, Jim Haynes, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Marjorie Cohn, Philippe Sands, Torture, Torture Statute, War Crimes Act
Preliminary Feedback Thread…Free The Press!… The Maddow Movement!
By buhdydharma in Action
OK, I am struggling a bit and need y'alls help/feedback! As I have said, I think it is vitally important to start concentrating on the media, to bring whatever influence we in the blogosphere can to bear on this essential tool for public oversight.
The issue is highlighted right now by the fine, fine work Greenwald and others are doing on the military analyst scandal. (Which, like all things dirty about this administration, seems to have Karl's fingerprints on it.)
The first struggle, a name for the overall campaign. Something not overly confrontational to their fragile egos…such as Eat The Media!!! but still exciting. I like Free The Press!
But am open to other suggestions. What say you all?
Next…resources. Do any of you fine people want to volunteer to put together a media contact list for the major cable news shows and news directors? If you can come up with a neato format, all the better, but if someone just puts a list together, some other kind soul could volunteer to put it in a handy dandy format. Ideally we would like to end up with a box we can put on the side panel like the contact Congress box. Alternatively, if you know of a good existing list, please link!
On to the Maddow Movement and some serendipitous surfing! >>>>
issues, Maddow Movement, Rachel Maddow
OR-Sen Candidate Merkley Leads in New Poll
By sarahlane
The primary is just one week away here in Oregon. When you look at the polls from the past month there's only one conclusion you can make. Oregon Senate candidate and current House Speaker Jeff Merkley is climbing up the polls. Here's a snippet from Survey USA:
Eight days until votes are counted in the Democratic Primary for US Senate in Oregon, state House Speaker Jeff Merkley and attorney Steve Novick remain effectively tied, though today Merkley has the nominal advantage, 31% to 27%.
2008 elections, Gordon Smith, Jeff Merkley, OR-Sen, Oregon, Steve Novick
Revolution: First Strike – Political Cocktail Party
By brobin in Action
…just let me say this one more thing… start having political cocktail parties and start getting people thinking about our situation and perhaps this will also enlarge their world view
pfiore8
Have we started a list yet of all of the things that have to
be undone beginning next January????
masslass
To answer masslass, well yes, now we have.
Pull up a barstool, grab a cold one of your choice, and let's have a Political Cocktail Party…
From an essay last week entitled "The Revolution Started Yesterday. Well YOU Started It! Political Cocktail Party," I asked all of you enlightened Dharmites to discuss in the comments of that essay the things you feel could and should be addressed beginning Right Now in order to begin the undoing of all of the twisted and underhanded things that have been visited upon our country and the world by our "Current Criminal Administration".
The response was even better than I had hoped for, and I would like to thank you all so much for taking the time to get involved in more than just talking or typing about what we need to do, but to begin actually doing something about the issues we identify.
Under the Topic of Action, we even created a new tag called Issues Project so everyone that wanted to get involved by writing essays that address this issue can be easily found by others here that are interested in these issues.
Issues Project
Blogging Halfway McCain's Global Warming concepts
By A Siegel
John McCain's speech and policy constructs on Global Warming have gotten a bit of attention from the Energy Smart blogging world. The following are few of the worthwhile discussions to date.
climate change, global warming, John McCain
UFPJ encourages Iraq Moratorium participation
By Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, UFPJ:
Since last fall, on the third Friday of every month, people in cities and towns around the country have organized protest activities and other events as part of the nationally coordinated Iraq Moratorium. This coming Friday, May 16th, is Iraq Moratorium #9.
First, we want to congratulate the local organizers who keep pulling together these activities. And we also want to congratulate the national organizers who have maintained and expanded this effort, including the Iraq Moratorium website at: www.IraqMoratorium.org
Second, we want to encourage more local groups to get involved. There is still time to organize something in your community, at your school or workplace, or anywhere you might be able to reach people.
You can find reports from past Moratorium actions, as well as listings for events already planned for this Friday, at the Iraq Moratorium website. Reading through all of this will inspire you and might give you an idea of something you can do as part of this project. If you do plan something, please be sure to list it on the calendar.
Finally, if you are planning something for May 16, try to take some photos or video. Then we hope you'll take a few minutes to go back to the site and post a report on what happened — not just numbers but anecdotes, descriptions of who came, etc. If you have them, include photos or video. What you do, and the stories you tell, can inspire others for future actions.
Again, the website for the Iraq Moratorium is www.IraqMoratorium.org – be sure to check it out!
(UFPJ — United for Peace and Justice — is the nation's largest peace coalition, with more than 1,400 affiliated organizations.)
anti-war, Iraq Moratorium, Peace, UFPJ
An Offensive Defense January 22, 2020


Fannys sweetness, firmness, constancy & experience were of inexpressible comfort to me at Malvern, & to the last day of my life it will be a comfort to me to think of the tears she so tenderly wept over our poor dear child, when all was over.
In 1851 the firm was known as Swale and Wilson, publishers, general stationers, and news-vendors, of 21 Great Russell Street, London (Post Office London directory 1851).
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.


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As Slow as Possible, and Letters Home
Antony Huen reviews recent poetry releases by two of Hong Kong's most respected young English language poets.
Kit Fan, As Slow as Possible (Arc Publications, 2018), 82pp.
Jennifer Wong, Letters Home (Nine Arches Press, 2020), 72pp.
Kit Fan has always had the eye of a visual artist. In his debut poetry book, Paper Scissors Stone (2011), he showed his acute sense of paintings, as in the two-line poem "Morandi," which can be voiced by the eponymous Italian painter: "Wrestle with the object first. / Then plant the shadow." Fan also repeatedly reads words as images. In one poem, the Book of Kells, displayed in the library of Trinity College Dublin, is seen to have "lapis lazuli / brushing against the lagoon of a Latinate 'g.'" In another, a visitor to the British Museum is "deciphering the word 華" on a "scholar's rock," seeing how "the dividing strokes hesitate / at the meeting points." A Latin letter in an illuminated book and a Chinese character on a rock sculpture are both seen as visual images, and Fan invites us to decipher the Chinese word, which is reproduced in calligraphic font.
Fan's first book, a winner of the inaugural HKU Poetry Prize, evinced his interest in painting, book arts, and calligraphy, but his latest poetry collection, As Slow as Possible, published in the UK, marks his full investment in the visual arts, recreating and referring to a vast range of visual artworks from the East and West. These include Chinese landscape paintings, frescoes, Banksy's street art, "photographs by Daniel Beltrá in Spill," anatomical illustrations, the sound installation which gives the book its title, and "an ivory model of a pregnant woman," among many others.
A number of these are closely associated with our early years. "Among School Teachers" radically reinvents the title and historical context of W. B. Yeats' "Among School Children": "children who knew little of death / had seen images of guns and wounds, a speck / of a person stopping a column of tanks." The poem "Law of Desire," in contrast, records a teenager's sexual awakening, which was triggered by a film with the same name of the poem: "His first Almodóvar, a name he couldn't pronounce, made his heart leap / forward across the embarrassing teenage years." In Fan's new book, the sight of still and moving images awakens a child or teenager to what they "knew little of." Fan repeatedly captures the capacity of a visual image to trigger a coming of age.
If these encounters with documentary images and a film are isolated moments in Fan's book, paintings often provide the narrative frame of a poem. "Zurbarán's Window" and "My Mother in a Velázquez" are both about a pictorial portrayal of the mother. The first poem recreates the narrative in Zurbarán's Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth, reimagining how the Spanish painter, "the son of a haberdasher," projects his younger self with his mother onto the biblical painting: "he puts a sewing basket by her ruby dress / and a single teardrop on her brooding face // as she sees her son braid a crown of thorns." The other poem refers to Velázquez's art as a benchmark for a truthful, though not entirely accurate representation of the mother: "It was you, wasn't it?"; "or at least how I or Velázquez / would have painted you."
Fan's new book, with its range of visual artworks, travels in time, and between cultures and artistic traditions. One poem, framed as "Ten Haikus by Fan Kuan," reimagines the landscape painter as a poet composing a haiku sequence in English:
Dusk –
at the spine of a cliff some warbles singing –
Oh it's dawn.
of good ink
seen through tracing paper.
Treetops dampen
cloudily
like pubic hair.
Fan (or Fan Kuan in the poem) reads the physical body into nature, offering a unique take on the traditional haiku form and Chinese landscape art. Sharing the surname of Fan Kuan, the poet also establishes himself as a poetic equivalent of the painter, as the shape of the haikus mimics that of a mountainous range, integral to Chinese landscape paintings.
Elsewhere, Fan continues to be a poet with a painter's mind, seeing the world in terms of its colours. In the opening poem "Transmigration," based on a day in Salamanca, a city in Spain, Fan characteristically focuses on a shade of blue: "That sudden indigo is not to be mistaken / for cobalt, iceberg, peacock's crown or the poet's lapis lazuli." The image of "the poet's lapis lazuli," alluding to Yeats' poem about the bright blue silicate, becomes a counterpoint to the "indigo" in question. It is revealed to be the colour of a bird, seen as a symbol of transmigration: "that living, spectral colour between blue / and violet, flying out of the arch, perching on the stone for three seconds."
As Slow as Possible is full of colours, from "your mandarin orange shirt" to "their hands half-frozen, purple with bruises." Blue, nevertheless, stands out, with the many shades of it. "Zurbarán's Window" depicts the painter's use of charcoal in childhood: "His hand says sky, and it turns charcoal blue." In another poem, a visitor reflects on a day in Ischia, an island in the Gulf of Naples: "The sky was a dead sea blue." In "Twelve Months," a sequence of poems associated with each month of the year, Janus, the two-faced Roman deity, is "yet to be repainted / probably this spring in Hague blue." The Europe painted by Fan, which also contains the Book of Kells and its lapis lazuli, abounds with blues, seen in connection with spirituality, transformation, memory, mythology and nature.
If Fan has used colours like a painter in his poetry, he has also recreated multifarious uses of visual art: to offer a model for his poetry, to trigger political and sexual awakenings, to foster an identification with nature, and to figuratively restore or create lives. These include a group of human and mythical mother figures. According to "Genesis," the longest poem in the book, Nüwa, the mother goddess, "created humans in her image, moulded the earth into shapes." Framed as the Chinese Genesis and borrowing words from the Bible, the ambitious poem suggests that both the Chinese and biblical versions of the Creation are sculptural. In "Europa," Fan puts it astutely that the "goddess," compared to a "trophy," "will / survive as long as the idea / of it survives, in the midnight / oil, in the hearts of its people, / in books, statues, and museums." Our "hearts," as Fan suggests, are comparable with literature, artworks and artefacts as where a life lives on. Fan's As Slow as Possible is a handsome monument to the literary, visual and historical images etched on his heart.
The lives recast in art, nevertheless, can be far from their actual counterparts. Consider these lines from Jennifer Wong's early poems: "She looks at the drawing getting more real. / She is becoming to herself a counterfeit, / And to the artist, only skin" (from "Life Drawing"; Summer Cicadas, 2006); "you sat there editing my face, / setting the hues, the colour contrast. / You spent days on the images" (from "Photographs"; Goldfish, 2013). Since her earliest works published by Chameleon Press in Hong Kong, Wong, like Kit Fan, has recreated different kinds of visual artworks, exploring the paradox in the relationship between art and reality.
If Wong's first two books, especially Goldfish, represent her expanding interest in visual artworks, which include the "colours and headwears" in "a Peking opera performance" and Yayoi Kusama's "dots," her latest full-length collection, Letters Home, her first in the UK, embodies her extensive investigation into art from and about Hong Kong and mainland China. The poems are as much "letters home" as a poetic exhibition of artistic and cultural objects from Wong's first home. Anticipated by the cover artwork, by the Hong Kong artist Lam Tung Pang, the expansive group of objects includes Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter used in Goldfish too); "ideograms/ of rolling hills, a loving farm," as opposed to "ominous symbols of altars, / knives"; digital pictures of social unrest in Hong Kong; an "engraved Chinese teapot," and many more.
In Letters Home, many of the artworks and artefacts lend themselves to be classic representations of a Chinese family. In the poem "Bloodline," referring to Zhang Xiaogang's family-portrait series with the same name, one of the portrayed families reveals a discrepancy between private pain and the public image: "We camouflage our pain / with our comrade smiles." In the poem based on Zhang Yimou's Under the Hawthorn Tree, a film set during the Cultural Revolution, the speaker addresses the "free love" which "would destroy you," saying that "I was vigilant in my speech / to save our family from blame." Looking at Chinese artists' works, Wong explores the political and social-cultural obligations laid on a Chinese family.
"Ba Jin (1904–2005)," an earlier poem in the book, recreates the writer-activist's representation of "home, or family, or none of those": "家 where everyone has to be as perfect as a porcelain vase. In their embroidered robes, the parents sit in Qing dynasty chairs made of rosewood: virtuous statues." The prosaic form foregrounds the decree-like nature of this quotation, where the images of the traditional Chinese artefacts, used metaphorically and as part of the mise en scène, dramatize the perfection which "has to be" embodied by each family member and indeed, the house they live in. Wong introduces Chinese art and culture to readers of English poetry; in particular, the idea of a "perfect" Chinese family, often staged in their equally "perfect" house.
Wong tells us at the end of the book that the modern character of 家 "looks identical in both traditional and simplified Chinese," suggesting that there is a uniform kind of Chinese "home, or family." In another poem, Wong refers to the Chinese word for love: "I even taught you 爱, the character for love. Too many strokes! I won't remember." Earlier in the poem, we hear from the lover who does not speak Chinese: "Tell me about your language. Your words are pictures aren't they?" Wong's Letters Home, peppered with Chinese characters throughout, self-consciously addresses her Anglophonic readers as seeing the Chinese words on the page as "pictures," rather than words with meanings and etymology.
"King of Kowloon," a tribute to Tsang Tsou Choi, the famous street graffitist in Hong Kong, ends with a collective identification with Tsang's words: "Your furious characters on the red pillar box / kindle in us an identity we have always known." The poem addressing the character 爱 does not indicate that it is simplified Chinese; in "King of Kowloon," Wong, again, does not tell us that the "furious characters" reproduced on the page are traditional Chinese. Wong strategically uses either traditional or simplified Chinese for different words, and without the knowledge of that, one would not recognise the irony in the comment on 爱 as having "Too many strokes," and the kind of "identity" Tsang's characters is said to "rekindle." Wong impressively takes full advantage of her multilingualism in Letters Home, which lives up to its name by being committed to her homeland and the Chinese interconnection between home and family.
Just as other poems include Chinese words as "pictures," "Mountain City," the longest poem in Wong's new book, begins with a five-line epigraph in Romanised Cantonese. The long poem, modelled on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," begins by painting Hong Kong in red through the images of "blood red flowers," "the red umbrella" a "bridesmaid holds," "the scarlet silk of the bride's / lung-fung kwa," and the "cherry eyes" of a "suckling pig." Strikingly, it ends with a call to "read the unabridged Dream of the Red Chamber." Red is consistently the colour of Wong's Hong Kong. In Goldfish, Wong homed in on "the red baby / of Zhang Xiao Gang," offering her first reading of Zhang's eccentric family portraits. "Red is our metaphor," she memorably puts it. If blue is frequently Kit Fan's metaphor, red is Wong's, representing the Chinese heritage of her home city.
The two writers, born in Hong Kong and now based in the UK, engage with Asian and Western literary traditions, and use the poetic space as a canvas for their exhibition of art; working art and colours from Hong Kong and beyond into metaphors, images and narratives, and proudly establishing themselves and their cultural heritage in Anglophonic literature.
Antony Huen is a poet-critic. His recent poems have appeared in Cha, The Shanghai Literary Review, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and articles in The Compass Magazine, Humanities, and Wasafiri. With a PhD in English from the University of York, he lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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A survey of fog trends by members of the OpenFog Consortium. This blog is an excerpt from the original content written for Embedded Computing Design.
As we usher in 2018, one thing is certain: there will be a whole new set of predictions on what technologies will be hot in the coming year.
Some of the early bets are in, and many of them mention fog. Business Matters cites fog computing as one of the top 5 innovation trends for 2018. Forbes Contributor Joe Kendrick came out with just one prediction for 2018: that cloud would morph into fog. And SDX Central listed OpenFog's work as one to watch for creating standards in multi-access edge computing.
At OpenFog, we're not in the business of predicting the future. Our mission is to build it. By creating an open, interoperable and secure fog computing architecture, we are establishing the requirements for standards that will power digital innovation.
But rather than sit out on the crystal ball fun, we thought we'd share some facts about fog from the experts: Our members. In December, we polled our global membership – global technology leaders, innovative startups, leading academic researchers – and asked them a few questions about fog. While this information has inherent biases – after all, they are the pioneers of fog computing – we uncovered some interesting insights that may be a bellwether for the year ahead. Here's what we found.
Organizationally, fog is most often seated in R&D, followed by New Ventures.
IoT is the top application area for fog technology by a wide margin (70%), followed by industry-specific applications and 5G.
Customers for fog solutions are most interested in fog to help solve latency and network bandwidth Security topped the list of concerns.
And finally, we asked our members to name the top two industries that will adopt fog. Manufacturing, smart cities and transportation headed that list, followed by energy, healthcare and smart homes.
We'll revisit these findings at a future date to learn more about the outcomes from their organizational support and spend on fog.
In the meantime, for a more rigorous assessment of the future of fog, we invite you to download the 451 Research report on the Size and Impact of Fog Computing Market.
Regardless of predictions ahead, there is one certainty: that we will continue to enable innovation and industry advancements through rigorous requirements for fog computing. Come join us in our efforts to make history in the years ahead.
This blog was written by Lynne Canavan, Vice President of Marketing for the OpenFog Consortium.