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2017 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists and A Review of "The Chapel of the Thorn" by Charles Williams
Posted on June 12, 2017	by Brenton Dickieson
The Mythopoeic Award shortlist is out (see here). I'm not often at the same table as the cool kids on the newest and hottest fantasy lit–I'm just now reading Patrick Rothfuss, and wondering what I have done with my life up 'til now. But I do watch the Inklings scholarship award pretty closely. While I'm not certain that every year they pick the absolutely top book of the year, a number of the award-winners have become definitive, including authors that we have mentioned here like Clyde Kilby, Walter Hooper, Kathryn Lindskoog, Humphrey Carpenter, Paul Ford, Tom Shippey, Peter Schakel, Joe Christopher, Christopher Tolkien, Doug Anderson, Goerge Sayer, Charles Huttar, David Downing, Verlyn Flieger, Michael Drout, John Garth, Janet Brennan Croft, Diana Glyer, Dimitra Fimi, Michael Ward, and Grevel Lindop, with his recent biography of Charles Williams.
Here are the finalist for this year's Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:
Lisa Coutras, Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle Earth (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016)
Sørina Higgins, ed. The Chapel of the Thorn by Charles Williams (Apocryphile Press, 2015)
Leslie Donovan, ed. Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works (Modern Language Association, 2015)
Christopher Tolkien, ed. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2014)
Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
I am pleased that I have read three of these books. I'll give you a quick highlight of two of them, and reprint in revised form a review I did of a third. This third book, Sørina Higgins' publication of a lost book by Charles Williams, confirms the Mythopoeic Awards' commitment to Inklings studies (and not just Tolkien and friends), as well as their intention to support emerging scholars and archival work.
Tolkien and Beowulf
As part of a recovery of old books happening in culture, there is a desire to read what used to be canonical works. One of these is the text of Beowulf, the manuscript of which I had the chance to show my son last year. In the recovery of Beowulf among the authors that shaped the minds that shaped ours, a lot of people have been curious about Tolkien's work on the Old English epic. In 1983, Christopher Tolkien published The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays, with Tolkien's famous Beowulf essay and some other pieces. Michael Drout's publication of the 2002 edited volume, Beowulf and the Critics, fills out this critical work.
It wasn't until 2014 that most of us finally got to see Tolkien's full translation of Beowulf. Tolkien's son and editor, Christopher, provided that full text, as well as a lengthy series of notes and three other connected poems. Frequent readers of Beowulf will love to see a new version, and will be curious to see how Tolkien turned theory into translation. Readers who are relatively new to the poem won't find it quite as readable as some more contemporary translations, but Tolkien's prose translation retains both the central meaning as well as a textures of culture in the text.
As usual, Christopher Tolkien's editorial work is superb. The notes include comment after comment that show the struggles J.R.R. Tolkien went through in order to set an appropriate text for translation, and then capture it in modern story form. We also get to see that C.S. Lewis played a role in the draft stages of the translation, once again shattering the false flag myth that Tolkien was impervious to influence (with thanks to Diana Glyer for helping us to think that through). The use of endnotes plus commentary makes for awkward reading in print form and in the ebook. I would have loved to see tri-panelled ebook, page-facing text and notes, or at least a footnote plus commentary approach. But that is about readability: as an artifact and Beowulf resource, this is a big, beefy, important book.
It also has a gorgeous cover design with a Tolkien dragon that will be my second tattoo … if I can ever decide on the first one.
The Zaleskis on the Inklings
This book came out of nowhere for me. Doubtless others knew that a couple of scholars in Britain were working on a significant response to Humphrey Carpenter's Inklings that would become the gold standard for the next generation of readers. I, however, was clueless. So this book came as a gift.
Eminently readable and carefully researched, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams is a nice balance between strong biography and a resource for Inklings fans to read the works of their favourite author and his closest friends. It is also one of the closest reads of Owen Barfield's life that I know of. In the way that John Garth filled in Tolkien's wartime imaginative development, the Zaleskis gave me a better scope of Tolkien's childhood, Barfield's middle-aged development, and a core Williams framework for trying to re-imagine his life.
It is true that I did not gain a lot of new information from the C.S. Lewis sections–and I suspect that deep-dive scholars of individual Inklings might feel the same about their particular focus of study. But putting Lewis in conversation with the other three allowed me to flip some of my settled ideas and test them in a new context. I have not yet attempted a side-by-side reading of the Zaleski's work with Lindop on Charles Williams, but I look forward to the attempt.
We owe Humphrey Carpenter a debt of gratitude for his work as a public intellectual and as a Tolkien and Inklings biographer. But he was very much a Tolkien-first man, and the other Inklings settle in around Tolkien in ways that don't always strike me as accurate. This book at least offers an alternative view to augment Carpenter's work and fill out our understanding of this timely group of literary icons.
An Unpublished Poem by Charles Williams
Charles Williams wrote The Chapel of the Thorn in 1912, though it was never published. Once thought lost, this Williams' play has finally been brought to print by Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins. I had the opportunity of seeing this mportant and neglected Charles Williams dramatic poem move from archival space to finished book.
The original text is housed at the Wade Centre in Wheaton, IL. By a chance encounter I was working beside Higgins as she began to open up this century-old text with the hope of publishing it Head tilted forward as if in prayer, left hand hovering over a magnifying glass, Higgins worked with Williams' neat handwriting. It was a manuscript complicated with age, his own edits, and the comments of his beta reader, Fred Page. Thus began the two-year process of transcribing, formatting, checking, editing, introducing, and producing The Chapel of the Thorn.
Anyone who has attempted Williams' later poetry knows that there are challenges ahead. Even his supernatural pot-boilers—relatively popular in the day—can be a little obscure at times. It is true that in both the novels and the poetry, Williams' characters are clear and the narrative arc is discernable. He can paint scenes with vividness and heighten expectation even for the tentative reader. Still, the gap between reader and writer often remains.
The Chapel of the Thorn has none of that distance. For any reader who enjoys Shakespeare or Arthurian literature, Thorn is completely accessible. Written in formal iambic pentameter with even-handed archaisms, I was immediately drawn into the story of The Thorn.
The setting is a coastal village in late Roman Britain. The village sits on the historical crossroads between paganism and Christianity. The land is officially Christian, but there is a power struggle still at play between king and Church. The villagers attend the local Christian church, and the women are typically devout. The men, however, only pretend to Christian piety while they maintain their devotion to paganism, their love of the old druidic stories, and their practice of keeping sex slaves—mistresses who satisfy the male and are an economic trade unit in the village.
As the title suggests, the tension focusses around the little village chapel. It is the home of a sacred object, a thorn from the make-shift crown that attended the crucified Christ's brow (or perhaps it is the entire crown itself). The village priest, Joachim, is the protector of the relic and seeks enjoyment of Christ in its contemplation. The villagers see it as a thing of power, but their main interest in the chapel is that it is the resting place of their ancient hero, who will one day rise again. Attendance to religious service, then, is a façade for some and mystical encounter for others.
The tender balance of past and present, paganism and Christianity—held together by a silent truce of hypocrisy and doublespeak—is threatened when a nearby Abbot, a monk of tremendous secular and personal influence, comes to the village to remove the relic to a more accessible place of pilgrimage. While Abbot Innocent pretends to public interest alone, it is a power play at a far deeper level.
This unusual triangle fuels both the poetry and the plot. There are other storylines woven into this short play, and yet I never found that the stage was too crowded. The most slippery aspect of the play is the very thing that gives it enough interest to read a second time: what is the motivation of the characters? The Chapel of the Thorn begs at questions of authenticity and hypocrisy with well-drawn characters that pull us into their own storylines.
Sørina Higgins has done a great service in bringing this text from the hallowed halls of the archives to our nearest bookstore. But she has done more than this. Added to her own critical introduction are essays by Grevol Lindop and David Llewellyn Dodds—really the two other scholars to have produced work on The Chapel of the Thorn. These three engaging thinkers tell us the history of the text, but also assess the poetry itself and link Thorn to Williams' other works. We see in Thorn, for example, the beginning of Williams' interests in the hallows and Arthurian legend—interests that will be central themes in Williams' popular novels and narrative poetry.
The result of Higgins' work as editor and producer is a book that re-begins a delayed conversation, continuing a journey that was aborted long ago. In this way she extends the work of an archive, giving us all the chance that I have had: to sit with the manuscript before us, head tilted forward as if in prayer, our pencil hand hovering over a notepad as we try to discern the many layers of this almost lost Charles Williams treasure.
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13 Responses to 2017 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists and A Review of "The Chapel of the Thorn" by Charles Williams
Joe R. Christopher says:
The Zaleski book has new material on Owen Barfield and it has a powerful description of Charles Williams' (split?) personality at the end of his description in the center of the book. (I can't give page citations at the moment because my copy is at home and I'm writing in my office.) I think I caught about three minor slips in facts when I was reading. The proper comparison is to Carpenter's _The Inklings_. The Zeleskis, however, argue that the Inklings are an important literary group at the level, in a very different way, of the Bloomsbury group (Virginia Woolf et al.), although they say at the end of their book that Bloomsbury's writings had more polish. (If one wanted to compare _The Lord of the Rings_ and _Mrs. Dalloway_ [perhaps as a point in discussing their literary reactions to World War I or some such topic], I would agree that Woolf's is more polished of the two in general; but that does not mean Tolkien's very different style, in a medieval and William Morris tradition, is invalid.)
Thanks for filling in some spaces Joe. The Barfield bits were the most helpful to me. I'm still working out Williams as a person, but I'll get there.
Is "polished" a strong metric for the production of a group of writings? I love Woolf, but her work is just something quite different. (I know her best of that group)
jchristopher2017 says:
OK, "polished" is a metaphor. In this case, one of the things it means is that _The Lord of the Rings_ begins with a party, an obvious sort of humor, and gradually shifts tone to suspense (the Dark Riders), etc., etc. Woolf begins following the thoughts of Mrs. Dalloway, planning a party (a more sedate sort of party) and retains the same sort of flow of ideas throughout in the episodes involving Mrs Dalloway; Woolf is setting up a contrast of two social worlds after World War I–the war-damaged soldier who commits suicide on the same day, and Mrs Dalloway who is, in her way, creating a period of stability in that world. Throughout Woolf uses the same transition between scenes–the hours struck by Big Ben ("the golden circles dissolved in the air," if I remember the phrasing). I haven't read _Mrs Dalloway_ as a whole for probably thirty years, but I picked it off my shelf and re-read the opening pages the other day. Perhaps an interesting comparison would be the Shire after the hobbits return and London after the war (Frodo leaving on the ship = the suicide, etc.). In this case, "=" means "should be compared to.") I would suggest that Woolf manages smaller but more artistically unified work while Tolkien's is a sprawling work that attempts to contain a huge world (a whole world war, if you will).
Hmm. I rather like the comparison I dashed off. Maybe next spring I can write it more fully as a paper and read it at a meeting somewhere.
Well done! If it may make comparing to choose more difficult (a bit of apples and pears?), it is also delightful that there are both studies and scholarly editions on the list – and pleasing to compare these Inklings scholars in that with the Inklings as scholars – Lewis producer par excellence of studies, and Barfield like him in this, Williams more producer of studies than editions, though there are Evelyn Underhill's letters as well as (perhaps most notably) The Figure of Beatrice, and Tolkien, perhaps more textual editor (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Ancrene Wisse) than maker of studies – and yet, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, to name but the most famous and influential one!
Yeah, I don't know what the metrics are. If "Thorn" won this year, it would be 2 CW projects in a year, and each radically different.
I'm reading Figure of Beatrice now (with Dante and Marsha Daigle-Williamson's Dante & CSL book). His first chapter is, I hope, the basic argument. If so, I'm doing okay.
That query did cross my mind – back-to-back CW? – though, indeed, "each radically different."
I remember Figure of Beatrice as one flowing excellent thing, probably, indeed, like the Divine Comedy itself as starting so well and then getting better and better as it goes along – so, you're probably doing okay! I first met CW in all Dorothy Sayers' quotations from it in her Inferno translation – before I'd ever heard of Lewis, and was not enthusiastic about trying a book that seemed to be about emus and improbable trees (The Hobbit, thanks to the Ballantine 1960s cover illustrator) – but didn't remember his name or make a connection for a good while after I met him again later as Arthurian poet and amazing novelist.
Great story! Emus are definitely a turn-off when you want to read only about trees. Meeting CW through Sayers is really a treat.
For me, Dante dips in the middle. The Inferno is genius, but I struggle with the Purgatorio.
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This is a thread where you can ask for help with any homework you have, or help understanding a concept in something you're learning. This is also a good place to ask for references/links if you're researching something. If you have a deadline, please let us know in your post, so that we don't put off answering you until it's too late.
Of course...I understand that there is no school right now, but that didn't mean my teachers couldn't give us homework over the summer-- right?
Ehh...my Chemistry teacher (yes, I will be in another year of Chemistry-- not because I failed mind you ^_~) gave us work to do out of the Steven S. Zumdahl Chemistry 3rd Edition book. Any help would be appreciated on this problem. I'm stuck. This actually gives the answer in the back but there is no use copying it if I don't understand how to do it. So, I will give the question and the answer and please someone help me figure out how to get the supposed answer.
- How do your values compare with those in the periodic table?
- How do you account for any differences?
O, 7.94; Na, 22.8; Mg, 11.9; O and Mg are incorrect by a factor of ≈2; correct formulas are H20 (water), Na2O, and MgO.
Any help is appreciated!! Damn this AP crap!
Ok, I'm terrible at explaining things but I'll try. First of all, let's assume that hydrogen has atomic mass of 1.00, then the unit mass of hydrogen is 1g/unit. If 0.1260g of Hydrogen reacts with 1.0g of oxygen to form HO, then there is 0.1260g H × (1 unit H /1g H) =0.1260 unit of hydrogen in that much HO. Since HO has hydrogen:oxygen ratio of 1:1, there is just as much, meaning 0.1260 units of oxygen in that 1.0g of oxygen. So 1.0g O/ 0.1260 unit=7.94 g/unit. The rest follows. The reason why the atomic weight is off by a factor of two is because the molecular formula is wrong.
If you've taken chemistry before, then consider the unit to be moles, g/mol is the molar mass. If not, just remember atomic weight to be mass/unit quantity.
Can anybody help with my geography essay?
Hisui wrote: Ok, I'm terrible at explaining things but I'll try. First of all, let's assume that hydrogen has atomic mass of 1.00, then the unit mass of hydrogen is 1g/unit. If 0.1260g of Hydrogen reacts with 1.0g of oxygen to form HO, then there is 0.1260g H × (1 unit H /1g H) =0.1260 unit of hydrogen in that much HO. Since HO has hydrogen:oxygen ratio of 1:1, there is just as much, meaning 0.1260 units of oxygen in that 1.0g of oxygen. So 1.0g O/ 0.1260 unit=7.94 g/unit. The rest follows. The reason why the atomic weight is off by a factor of two is because the molecular formula is wrong.
This part I understood, about Oxygen and Hydrogen. But when I tried to do the sodium and magnesium problems, I dont get the answers they give, following the same mathematical procedures.
So far we have Oxygen: 7.94g/unit, hydrogen: 1.00g/unit.
You should realize by now, all that matters here is the units. The units should cancel out in each operation, and in the end you'll get the unit of g/unit, and that's the atomic weight.
OH! I get it now! I have been out of school for too long and I seem to forget everything (summer will do that to you ^_~). Thank you!
I know how it is. The problem stumped me for a second too.
GuanYu wrote: Can anybody help with my geography essay?
Depends on what kind of help you need. Just post your questions/concerns/etc, we'll help out as we can.
Alrighty, here is the question (this one doesnt give an answer....sadly).
38.) An excited hydrogen atom emits light with a frequency of 1.141 X 10ˉ14 (14th power) Hz to reach the energy level for which n=4. In what principal quantum level did the electron begin?
Now, this is what I did. I figured that it was necessary to find the wavelength first, using the equation λν=c or λ= c/ν.
Now, using the wavelength, speed of light, and Planck's constant (which is 6.625 x 10ˉ34 (-34th power) J·s) we will find the change in energy (ΔE).
Seem odd? I had the same answer for the initial state energy as I did for the energy change between them and I can't figure out why!! NOTE: I am not using the same calculator as I usually am seeing as how mine was stolen (it was a graphing calculator TI-86), and for some reason, doing the practice problems in the book (with the answer) even gives the wrong answer. I mean, I do the same work it shows and everything and my scientific notation is off by about 30 decimal places and they are in the correct modes and everything. Any help would be appreciated because I am stuck. Even after I find the right energy for the intitial energy state I dont know how to find the initial quantum number.


This weekend, we (yes, this includes myself and my wonderfully supportive husby) attended our first fibromyalgia support group. I heard about this center from my new doctor here to check into for water aerobics and I saw support groups on their site. I was amazed to see they have a specific group devoted to people with fibromyalgia and similar autoimmune conditions. On our way there, I told Nick I was thinking I would be the youngest one at the group. Lovingly, he reminded me to not let those concerns/worries enter my thoughts. As we entered the group, my theory was confirmed. We were definitely the youngest ones there with most of the ladies (yes, Nick was the only man in the room :) isn't he amazing for being there with me?!) being retired or a few decades older than us.
It was nice to relate to others and hear their stories of dealing with daily pain and other things associated (sensory sensitivities, digestive disorders, depression, anxiety, etc), yet heart breaking to hear so many of the struggles people are dealing with. Divorces, job losses, and pain leaving to them unable to work, putting their finances, homes, and stability of life at risk. Some single moms struggling to grasp the overwhelming reality of their newer diagnosis and the impacts this has on their family and lives. One younger woman shared many other conditions she faces and that doctors have given her less than a year to live. It is so heartbreaking to see and hear this kind of pain.
I'm glad we went to the group, but it is also hard to see how many years and decades they have been facing daily pain and to see that many are still facing it today. Some have found a life balance to help the symptoms (many end up being a balance of meds), but it was slightly disheartening to see the impact it still has on their daily lives. Even the smallest daily tasks can seem too much to bear with so many symptoms present at the same time. Always trying to see the optimistic side, I have felt as though I will find a balance and I will not let this diminish my life. It's a daily mental battle to endure this pain long term, but having such a supportive family and friends helps me not lose hope. It's been a year now since I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and I've gone through a handful of medications to help and am still searching for a balance where the medications' side effects don't make it worse than it was to begin with.
All in all, I am assured I am not alone in this journey. I have a supportive team and the Lord guiding me step by step. It doesn't mean it's easy. I have days it feels like Nick carries it all (and he does so without missing a beat) while I lay down trying to pass through some migraines, pain flares, or fatigue. I cannot let myself worry about future impacts on my work, family, or health and am trying to live looking at one day at a time to avoid being overwhelmed. I have yet to find that balance, but am seeking, reading, and learning what I can to get there as soon as possible.
Life is a journey for us all. There are good days and bad, but we put one step in front of the other and love those around us seeing joy everywhere possible.
We've also been loving the warm weather this weekend- It's been gorgeous and so nice to enjoy the fresh air outside. We were able to soak up the sights of one of Minnesota's beautiful lakes, which is where the photos in this post are from. The snow and ice is melting with all of our warm temps - I'm welcoming Spring with open arms.
I'll also share two songs I've been loving lately. They're encouraging for so many situations people may be facing and I've found a lot of comfort in them lately.


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Imperial Brands Moves Into Nicotine Salts
By Angel Abcede on Jul. 11, 2018
BRISTOL, England -- Competition within the closed-system vaping space is only getting hotter, with Imperial Brands, the owner of blu electronic cigarettes, announcing a new line of pods containing nicotine salts, a move that will reportedly compete with the recent success of rival Juul Labs, according to Bloomberg.
In an interview with Alison Cooper, CEO of the Bristol, England-based Imperial Brands, Bloomberg reported that the company will release the pods in July in the United States and United Kingdom. The pods contain nicotine salts, which allow for rapid absorption of nicotine into the bloodstream, the news agency said. San Francisco-based Juul Labs, which has recently garnered a 68% share of the U.S. market for vaping devices according to New York-based Nielsen, uses a similar nicotine formulation in its products.
"The type of experience Juul delivered was definitely a step forward,'' Cooper told Bloomberg. "Smokers weren't switching completely into vaping before, because the experience wasn't satisfying enough. That's what we are trying to achieve."
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Gas prices, Juul hurt blu volumes
Competition from Juul products and the recent rise in gasoline prices has had a negative impact on blu e-cigarette volumes, according to Dan Carr, president and CEO of Greensboro, N.C.-based ITG Brands, a U.S. branch of Imperial. Speaking during a July 2 investor call, Carr used California, its No. 1 U.S. market, to describe the situation, saying the state accounted for 2.5% of their category decline. Of that amount, 1.3% of it was due to "reduced promotion volume" and between 0.5% and 1% was due to competition from Juul.
"You can imagine that the gasoline [prices had an] impact in the U.S.—it's gone from $2 to $3 for a gallon of gas," Carr said during the conference call. "That has really impacted the consumer, and we see a direct correlation."
Carr also noted that recent weeks have shown signs of volume improvement.
Big competitors move into closed vaping
Another major U.S. tobacco manufacturer, Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Distribution Co., announced earlier this year that it launched a closed-system, e-cigarette device called MarkTen Elite. In doing so, it entered a growing and increasingly more competitive field.
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E-liquid maker introduces device
San Clemente, Calif.-based Space Jam Juice also announced a move into the closed-system e-cigarette market. Earlier this year, the company introduced its device called, The Byrd.
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Fontem Ventures, blu e-cigarettes add flavors
Earlier this summer, Charlotte, N.C.-based Fontem Ventures, which is owned by Imperial Brands and manages the blu e-vapor product lines, reached an agreement with Greenville, N.C.-based Purilum LLC to expand the flavor portfolio of the blu brand. Under the agreement, Purilum, a manufacturer of e-liquid concentrates for vaping, will deliver a range of flavor concentrates to the blu brand, as well as provide finished e-liquids for Myblu, a starter kit that includes a device and closed-system flavored pods.
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Of her many contributions to humankind, I believe that Ladybird Johnson's commitment to preserving a healthy environment is her most important. Her vision was not just about wildflowers, but also of preserving the land they grow in; our rapidly disappearing native landscapes.
Bluebonnets were just a jumping off point for Ladybird; a way to draw our attention to the wildly abundant diversity of nature that was once all around us but is now in steep decline.
In north central Texas, her dream of replacing junkyards and billboards with trees and wildflowers ran into the brick wall known as, "PROGRESS". The Highway Beautification Bill she promoted must have bypassed the Fort Worth area. Our junkyards are being replaced by gas wells. Trees and flowers decorate billboards, touting the glories of gas drilling; not exactly truth in advertising or beautiful.
Through her gentle teaching and living by example, Ladybird reminded us that it is in our best interest to preserve native landscapes, that "nature nourishes us and brings joy to the human spirit", a timeless lesson many have forgotten.
The people of Fort Worth may be learning the difference between royalty payments and bonus checks, this driller and that that driller, but if they don't soon learn how those things impact their air and water quality, loss of native landscapes and neighborhood integrity, they will have learned nothing at all.
The New York Times called Ladybird a "determined environmentalist", a moniker often denigrated in today's world, but heroic nonetheless. I see her, too, as a gentle teacher who, by example, pointed us back to the garden, a lesson Fort Worthians badly need.


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Staking is a practice used to anchor, support, and protect recently planted trees. Trees are often staked unnecessarily and incorrectly. Even still, there are times when staking can help a tree if done correctly.
A tree's form will change depending on its growing conditions. Movement of the trunk signals the tree to increase trunk girth and root growth, thus increasing stability. Besides trunk movement, branches lower on the trunk add girth where they are positioned. Not only does this increase trunk taper but the branches have a dampening effect with wind as well.
Most young trees can stand unsupported. Given what we know about tree development, staking can easily lead to negative results. If the tree is staked too tight and does not move, then development of trunk and roots is delayed. We have seen many times where rigid staking is removed, and the tree just flops over. As well, the staking material itself can injure the trunk of the tree if attached incorrectly.
Can your tree not stand upright on its own? Despite the negative aspects of staking, it can be beneficial to stake a tree when needed. If done properly, staking can help a tree stand while the roots are established. This is especially true when the tree has disproportionate above ground to below ground mass. Grab the trunk and move it back and forth. If the root ball moves in the soil, your tree may need a stake. If the tree is exposed to high wind on a regular basis, it may need a stake. While trees can grow straight on their own, staking can assist. We just don't want the stake doing most of the work. Sometimes the stakes themselves can act as barriers to protect the tree from lawn mowers, weed whackers, frisbees, cars (maybe), and other mobile objects including people and pets. It may be advisable to stake in areas of high traffic.
Remove whatever staking the nursery has done.
Drive two parallel stakes (wood or metal) a foot in to the soil just outside the root ball. Stakes should be in line with the prevailing wind.
Support the trunk with your hand as you move it up the trunk. When the tree is upright, that is where the ties will be attached. Ties should be as low as possible on the trunk.
Attach the tree to the stakes with ties. The ties should be a broad, soft, flexible material. You might try using a pair of nylons or the inner tube of a bicycle tire. Don't use wire or rope.
Don't cinch up ties on the trunk. Ideally it should form a figure eight between the trunk and the stakes.
Remove the ties when the tree can stand upright on its own. Ties should be on no longer than a year. You may leave the stakes without the ties as a form of protection for the tree.


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Mexico asking the Vatican for codices from Aztec times for the 500th anniversary of Spanish conquest
Monday, October 12th 2020 - 08:13 UTC
The request to allow the texts to be exhibited in Mexico was made in a two-page letter addressed to Francis and posted on president Lopez Obrador's Twitter page
The Mexican government has formally asked Pope Francis for the temporary return of several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in the Vatican library ahead of next year's 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
The request to allow the texts to be exhibited in Mexico was made in a two-page letter addressed to Pope Francis and posted on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's Twitter page on Saturday but dated Oct 2.
It was delivered to the pope by Lopez Obrador's wife, Beatriz Gutierrez Muller, who met with him at the Vatican following a meeting she had on Friday with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
One of the three codices, or books, requested is the Codex Borgia, an especially colorful screen-fold book spread across dozens of pages that depicts gods and rituals from ancient central Mexico.
It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ordered hundreds or even thousands of them burned in the decades following the 1521 conquest.
In the letter, Lopez Obrador requests the Vatican return the Codex Borgia, two other ancient codices as well as its maps of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan for a one-year loan in 2021.
The nationalist president is planning a series of events to commemorate the anniversary next year. He also reiterated his request that the Catholic Church, as well as reigning Spanish King Philip VI, apologize for atrocities that were committed following the conquest of Mexico, which Lopez Obrador said would mark an "act of historic contrition".
The Vatican has not yet responded to the request, but its museums and archives have in the past lent out various manuscripts and works of art after similar requests from other countries.
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RPSRaceTeam.com lead pilot Danny Kelsey scored valuable AMA Pro National Guard Superbike series championship points en route to two solid finishes during the Triumph Superbike Classic hosted at scenic Barber Motorsports Park. This would be the first time that Kelsey would enter superbike class competition in 2013.
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China Media Bulletin: Holiday crackdown, Beijing netizen outcries, Skype app removal (Issue No. 124)
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This photo, taken from a longer video posted on Twitter by Agence-France Presse correspondent Rebecca Davis, shows the demolished homes of migrants in the Xihongmen section of Beijing. The city authorities have used the aftermath of a deadly fire to evict and destroy the homes of tens of thousands of migrants. Images of families left out in the cold circulated widely online, drawing an outcry from middle-class netizens, but soon censors began deleting posts en masse. According to a censorship index by Hong Kong University's Weiboscope project, the pace of Sina Weibo deletions on November 26 and 27 related to the evictions and a kindergarten abuse scandal exceeded that on October 18, the opening day of the 19th Party Congress. Credit: Rebecca Davis
Analysis: China's Stealthy Holiday Crackdowns
Netizen outcry over mass evictions, child abuse scandals
Propaganda, censorship, and tweets during Trump's visit to China
Censorship and surveillance updates: Skype app removal, probe of ex-internet czar, video surveillance, 'Coco' release
Hong Kong & Macau: National anthem, threats to journalists, Macau lawmaker's suspension
Beyond China: Pressure on publishers, Apple chief in China, Ghana cartoonist, Katy Perry visa ban
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Dissident convictions and acts of censorship seem timed to avoid lumps of coal from international observers.
As families across the United States were preparing for their Thanksgiving feasts last month, a Chinese court in Changsha sentenced prominent rights attorney Jiang Tianyong to two years in prison. His alleged crime was trying to "overthrow the socialist system" by publishing articles online, speaking to foreign news outlets, and publicizing his clients' cases via social media. At first glance, the timing of the decision may appear coincidental. But the Chinese government has a long history of sentencing free expression activists or ramping up censorship while observers in leading democracies are distracted with major holidays. This year may be no different.
Just two years ago, Guo Feixiong, another well-known activist, was sentenced to six years in prison on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and one of the biggest holiday shopping days in the United States. Guo was punished for protesting in support of newspaper journalists who had gone on strike in 2013 over increasingly heavy-handed censorship. He was held in custody for more than two years, and had been the subject of numerous international appeals, reinforcing the suspicion that his sentencing was planned with the U.S. holiday in mind.
Such cases have occurred around Christmas and New Year's Eve as well. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo received his 11-year prison sentence for online writings and a prodemocracy manifesto on Christmas Day in 2009. Prominent attorney Pu Zhiqiang—who had defended dissident artist Ai Weiwei, among other clients facing reprisals for criticizing the Chinese government—was handed a three-year suspended sentence on December 22, 2015.
On December 30 of that year, Lee Bo, one of several detainees linked to a Hong Kong publishing company known for salacious books about China's leaders, mysteriously disappeared from the territory, only to reemerge in custody in China. He was apparently abducted and smuggled across the border by Chinese security agents in an unprecedented move that sent a chill throughout Hong Kong society.
The Chinese authorities have also chosen holiday periods to carry out acts of censorship against foreign news organizations or technology companies, which may respond less quickly or robustly when executives are trying to spend time with family.
For example, under pressure from Beijing, Apple removed the New York Times mobile phone application from its online store in China on December 23, 2016. The paper chose not to report on the change until January 4, perhaps realizing that it would get more attention from the media and policymakers after the New Year. Two years earlier, on December 28, 2014, Google's Gmail email service was blocked in China—especially for mobile phone mail applications. The service had suffered months of disruptions, but tools tracking Google traffic showed a sharp drop that day.
To the credit of international news organizations and foreign governments, despite the awkward timing, these incidents do get coverage and official responses, such as expressions of concern from the U.S. State Department. Still, with reduced staff during holidays, embassies may not have the manpower to send observers to a sentencing hearing or issue a statement as quickly as they might otherwise. And even if news organizations report on the unjust jailing of people like Liu Xiaobo and Jiang Tianyong, readers and viewers naturally pay less attention to these and other stories during their time off.
Looking ahead to this holiday season after a year of intensified online censorship, several prominent human rights lawyers remain in custody. Most notably, Wang Quanzhang has been held incommunicado for over two years, and his lawyers were again denied access to him last week. He may be put on trial soon. Gao Zhisheng, a Christian who suffered horrific torture in the past, was taken back into custody in August.
All those who care about the fate of these men, as well as the tens of thousands of other political and religious prisoners languishing in Chinese prisons or detention centers, would do well to watch for and respond to any further penalties or restrictions in the coming weeks.
The apparent holiday pattern suggests that Chinese authorities are more sensitive to international pressure than they would like to admit. Even if a public outcry fails to improve prisoners' situations (though it often does), the Communist Party leadership should at least be put on notice that it cannot hide its shameful decisions behind celebrations of peace, joy, and gratitude.
Sarah Cook is a senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House and director of its China Media Bulletin. This article was also pulbished on December 13, 2017 by the Diplomat.
Chinese social media exploded with anger in November as low-income laborers in Beijing were made homeless by rapid demolitions in the name of "safety." Adding to the online uproar, the sweep was bookended by separate child abuse scandals at daycare centers in Shanghai and Beijing. Despite swift censorship, the public response to these events reached a scope rarely seen since the 2011 Wenzhou train crash, when millions of enraged Weibo users forced the state to address the disaster and its botched cover-up. A period of tightening internet controls had followed those events.
The mass evictions and demolitions began after a November 18 fire in a structure housing migrant laborers in Daxing, Beijing that killed 19 people. Beijing mayor Cai Qi immediately ordered citywide fire-safety inspections. Under this pretext, tens of thousands of migrants and low-income residents were evicted in short order, given just days or even hours to vacate their homes. Photos circulating online showed families wandering the streets of the capital city in below-freezing temperatures, carrying all their possessions on their backs or in cardboard boxes. The images conjured up a term that has been used in official discussions of efforts to thin out cities: "low-end population" (低端人口). First employed by the People's Daily in a 2010 op-ed, "low-end" is supposed to refer to the type of work people do, not to their intrinsic value as human beings. But the distinction is often blurred; one netizen uncovered official documents across Beijing districts that described measures to "clear away" and "control" the "low-end population."
Middle-class netizens have taken up the term for themselves as a statement of solidarity with the displaced workers, as industries ranging from restaurants to e-commerce delivery have felt the ripple effect of the evictions. A sweatshirt emblazoned with "low-end population" even went on sale on Taobao for a time, before it and many other references to the "sensitive word" were censored. Over 100 intellectuals, lawyers, and artists signed a petition that circulated online, urging the Beijing authorities to stop the evictions. Following the outcry, state media seemed to pick up the criticism of the city government, and the mayor appeared to soften his stance.
Meanwhile, the two child abuse scandals have shaken the entire country. On November 9, surveillance videos leaked onto Weibo from the childcare center at the Shanghai offices of Ctrip, one of China's leading travel agencies. In one, a staff member shoves a little girl, who bangs her head into a table and falls backwards. In another, a boy cries inconsolably after being force-fed wasabi. The online furor over the scandal overshadowed the U.S. president's state visit to Beijing. The second scandal, which erupted online on November 24, centered on RYB Education, a publicly traded company that operates kindergartens and other learning centers. Parents in Beijing alleged that their children had been molested, that they had needle marks on their arms, and that their teachers had made them take "white pills." This time, though, the police said the surveillance footage had disappeared due to a damaged hard drive. On November 29, the police accused two parents of fabricating the stories, while another woman was detained for "rumor mongering" after she claimed online that military personnel were involved in sexually abusing RYB students. Again, despite official efforts to suppress the story, related videos and posts spread widely.
During Donald Trump's November 8–9 visit to China, his first as U.S. president, the Chinese government rolled out the red carpet for what it called a "state visit plus," which included an evening of dining and performances within the Forbidden City—something previous U.S. presidents had not been privy to. Chinese state media coverage of the visit and of Trump was overwhelmingly positive, though it was especially focused on the display of hospitality by a confident China; media outlets received specific orders to post news of the welcoming ceremony in prominent places on their websites and mobile phone news apps. For his part, Trump avoided remarks on topics that would have upset his Chinese hosts, like democracy and human rights, and went so far as to state during a press conference that he did not blame China for the trade imbalance with his own country, despite having denounced Beijing over the issue as part of his 2016 campaign.
State media coverage of the visit dominated the Sina Weibo social media platform, and the comment function was disabled on many posts. For others, only "carefully chosen" comments saw the light of day. Keyword filtering and other censorship removed posts on Weibo and the WeChat messaging service that were critical of Trump, ranging from backhanded remarks about Trump's effect on Beijing traffic to reposts of an article about the $253 billion in trade deals Xi and Trump signed on November 9. Among the posts removed were two from the U.S. embassy's official account, one of which quoted Trump telling Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe that in dealing with North Korea, "the era of strategic patience is over."
Trump agreed not to take questions from the media at a joint press event with Xi. The last three U.S. presidents had taken questions at press conferences or town hall meetings during their state visits to China, although President Barack Obama did not take questions during his first visit to China as president. The Trump-Xi press appearance was not broadcast live in China.
Chinese state media welcomed Trump's shift away from his earlier tough talk on China. A November 9 Global Times editorial incorporated the U.S. leader's deep mistrust of the American media, blaming such outlets' "fake news" for duping the Chinese public into believing that Trump was unpopular and stupid. The same article noted that the president "hasn't used the issue of human rights to make trouble for China so far," a break from the approach of past U.S. presidents on state visits to China.
In many ways, Trump and Xi are polar opposites, not least in their use of social media. Xi has only posted once to Weibo, and the occasion was clearly choreographed. Meanwhile, the U.S. "tweeter-in-chief" kept up a steady pace during his visit to Beijing, and updated his account banner with a photo of himself, Xi, and the two first ladies at the Forbidden City. In response to a question about the legality of Trump using the banned U.S.-based service Twitter while behind China's Great Firewall, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying explained that Chinese people simply "communicate in different ways" and that "you should have no reservations about Mr. President's ability to keep in touch with the outside."
Skype disappears from app stores: In early November, Skype went missing from the app stores of Chinese companies Tencent and Qihoo 360, as well as from Apple's Chinese app store. "We have been notified by the Ministry of Public Security that a number of voice over internet protocol apps do not comply with local law. Therefore these apps have been removed from the app store in China," an Apple spokeswoman told the media. Skype services are still accessible to Chinese users who installed the app before the ban. Microsoft, which owns Skype, ended its partnership with Hong Kong–based TOM Group in 2013 in response to scrutiny of TOM-Skype's censorship and surveillance of its users; it also improved privacy protections for users of the application. Microsoft's new partner, Guangming Founder (GMF), was cofounded by the Communist Party mouthpiece Guangming Daily and the Peking University venture Founder Group, but apparently those official connections could not prevent the app's removal.
A former chief censor in the crosshairs: On November 21, news emerged that former Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) head Lu Wei is under investigation for "serious violations of discipline." Lu was suddenly replaced last year by Xu Lin, who has continued his predecessor's work of throttling speech and expanding surveillance of China's digital ecosystem. A leaked propaganda directive dated November 22 instructs websites and social media platforms to disable commenting on Lu's case and to delete any related "negative comments attacking the system." Party officials accused of "violations of discipline" are generally those who have fallen out of favor with President Xi Jinping and become caught up in his anticorruption campaign.
Cameras everywhere: A November 12 report from IHS Markit estimates that the Chinese market for video surveillance hardware and software was worth $6.4 billion in 2016, making it the largest market in the world for these products. Moreover, the sector is expected to more than triple in China by 2020. Chinese and overseas investors, including the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, are bolstering Chinese tech companies that build surveillance products. The manufacturers export widely, including to the United States. One company, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, is 42 percent owned by the Chinese government and has over 20 percent of the global market share in video surveillance equipment. As the Chinese government builds its national network of security cameras with facial, speech, and even gait recognition software, Chinese tech giants such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are also developing surveillance technology. Chinese law enforcement agencies work with such companies to monitor citizens, and use related data to detain potentially innocent people in the name of counterterrorism.
'Coco' uncensored: The Disney-Pixar animated film Coco opened in Chinese theaters on November 24 and was an instant box-office hit. Technically, a film centered on Mexico's Day of the Dead shouldn't have made it past the censors unscathed, given its ghostly characters. Article 4 of the 2008 censorship guidelines issued by China's main media regulator explicitly lists "ghosts and the supernatural" among content that "must be cut or altered" from any film. It seems that common values of honoring ancestors overcame the rules this time. Netizens are passing around a story that censors from the Chinese Film Bureau were moved to tears by Coco and thus let the film pass without any cuts. This is not the first time such censorship rules have been bent, as demonstrated in 2011 by the release and popularity of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Beijing pushes ban on booing anthem: Hong Kong soccer fans have been booing during the Chinese national anthem since the Umbrella Movement three years ago, and pending legislation that would make doing so a crime has not stopped them. Jeers drowned out the "March of the Volunteers" at a November 9 exhibition game against Bahrain, and again at an Asian Cup qualifier against Lebanon on November 14. On November 4, the National People's Congress Standing Committee had inserted a new mainland National Anthem Law—passed in October—into Annex III of Hong Kong's Basic Law, effectively requiring Hong Kong to enact a local law to implement the new provision. Macau is on a path to adopt similar legislation, as the anthem law was also added to its Basic Law. The mainland law calls for prison terms of up to three years for those who disrespect the anthem in public.
Threats to journalists: Threatening letters were sent to the homes of Hong Kong Free Press editor in chief Tom Grundy and commentator Tim Hamlett, as well as to the home of Grundy's family in the United Kingdom, between August and September. One letter listed 50 foreign journalists and activists, some of whom are current or former HKFP staff, as "Foreigners [who] have been deemed Guilty of spreading hatred and dividing Hong Kong, China society" and suggested that they would be deported in January 2018. Hamlett was warned that "in politics, when one does not know ones enemies clearly, one could get hurt," going on, "I and many people would really regret if something happened to Tom in the next few years." Grundy's letter was less restrained, calling him "the master of illusion" and portending an end to the nonprofit online newspaper's operations. The Hong Kong police opened an investigation on October 4. On the same day, the Hong Kong Journalists Association and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong released statements of support, urging authorities to find those behind the threats.
Macau democrat suspended from assembly: Sulu Sou, a newly elected lawmaker and president of the prodemocracy New Macau Association, was suspended from his position in Macau's Legislative Assembly on December 4. The move reduces the influence of democrats in the assembly and removes his immunity from prosecution. Sou faces a charge of "aggravated disobedience" for his participation in a May 2016 demonstration in front of Chief Executive Fernando Chui's residence, which was organized to protest possible irregularities involving a RMB 100 million (US$15 million) donation from the semiofficial Macao Foundation to Jinan University in Guangzhou. (Chui reportedly has links to both the foundation and the university.) When police asked protesters to disperse, they made paper airplanes out of protest letters and threw them over the fence before leaving peacefully. Sou was only permitted to answer legislators' questions during his suspension hearing. At 26, Sou is the youngest person ever to serve in the assembly. He is also the first legislator to be suspended since the founding of the Macau Special Administrative Region in 1999. His case echoes those of several prodemocracy or proindependence legislators who have been removed from Hong Kong's Legislative Council over the past year.
Pressure on publishers: On November 2, Australian publisher Allen & Unwin informed Professor Clive Hamilton that it would delay the release of his book Silent Invasion: How China Is Turning Australia into a Puppet State until "certain matters currently before the courts have been decided." Based on a November 8 email from Allen & Unwin's chief executive, Hamilton believes that the publisher is concerned about two ongoing China-related defamation cases against Fairfax Media and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation following their investigative reporting into Chinese political influence in Australia. The author asked the publisher to return publication rights to him so that he can seek a new outlet for his book. Separately, on November 21, U.S. academic publisher Sage stated that it has been put on notice by Beijing that it may have to leave China if it does not comply with censorship demands. The threat follows at least temporary capitulations to Chinese censorship by Cambridge University Press and Springer Nature earlier this year.
Apple chief speaks at Wuzhen conference: "The theme of this conference—developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits—is a vision we at Apple share," Apple chief executive Tim Cook said on December 3 at the opening of the fourth annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, organized by the Cyberspace Administration of China. Cook made his remarks not long after responding to questions from Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) about Apple's removal of virtual private network (VPN) apps from its Chinese app store over the summer. Cook said Apple removed 674 apps—far more than the 60 to 80 initially reported—while also asserting, "We believe that our presence in China helps promote greater openness and facilitates the free flow of information." Many China experts begged to differ. "By dancing onstage at the World Internet Conference, furnishing his hosts with golden soundbites about shared visions and common futures, and by endorsing hollow official rhetoric about 'openness,' Cook has crossed a line," writes China Digital Times editor Samuel Wade.
Ghanaian cartoonist resists pressure: Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, a political cartoonist in Ghana, satirized his government's response to harmful illegal gold mines supported by Chinese companies in his April cartoon "We Dey Beg." It featured an unflattering portrayal of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Beijing's ambassador to Ghana, Sun Baohong. The Chinese embassy sent a letter to the Ghanaian government complaining of "a number of distorted or biased reports and stories on Chinese people, especially some reports and cartoons that are defaming Chinese leaders and senior officials." Ackwerh then lampooned the embassy's complaint with "Them Threaten." The ambassador apparently gave up and changed tack, attending an exhibition of Ackwerh's work in July and even posing for photos in front of his caricature of her.
No visa for Katy Perry: According to a letter circulated on Sina Weibo, American pop star Katy Perry pledged in October to "observe the laws and regulations in China" and "not to say or do anything religious or political" for her planned concert at the Shanghai Victoria's Secret fashion show at the end of November. Her promises were in vain—she is indefinitely banned from entering China. The ban is most likely punishment for her 2015 concert in Taipei, where she draped herself in Taiwan's flag and wore a sunflower dress in an apparent nod to the 2014 Sunflower Movement, in which protesters successfully postponed passage of a cross-strait trade bill that many feared would give Beijing more political leverage in Taiwan. Gigi Hadid, Irina Sharipova, and several other models slated to be at the Victoria's Secret show were also denied visas. The show went on, but police broke up the after party after 9 p.m.
On November 28, a Chinese court sentenced Lee, a 42-year-old Taiwanese human rights activist, to five years in prison for discussing democracy and information about the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre on Chinese and foreign social media platforms. He had reportedly also spoken online about Taiwan's democratization and tried to assist the families of Chinese political prisoners. Lee was charged with "subverting state power," a provision often used to jail mainland Chinese activists for expressing views critical of the Chinese government and Communist Party. Lee, however, is the first Taiwanese citizen to be convicted of the crime. Jailed alongside him was a Chinese national Peng Yuhua, who was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Lee traveled to China in March and soon lost contact with friends. Ten days later, news emerged that he had been taken into police custody. He was charged with "subverting state power" and put on trial in September in Hunan province. He was denied his own choice of a lawyer and granted limited access to his wife. At the trial, which was televised, he was shown confessing to the charges levied against him for having engaged in online conversations that "attacked" the Chinese government and promoted "Western-style democracy." This follows a trend in recent years of Chinese and Hong Kong activists, lawyers, and booksellers taken into custody making apparently coerced televised confessions.
International human rights groups and the Taiwanese government were quick to condemn Lee's harsh sentence. His wife expressed pride in her husband, reflecting that when "pursuing a dream, one must be ready to pay a price." Observers also noted the broader implications of Lee's punishment for civil society not only in Taiwan but also elsewhere in the world, whose members may find themselves in danger when traveling in China if they have engaged in efforts online to support democracy and human rights in China. Lee's case has reportedly had a chilling effect in Taiwan and ignited a debate about the dangers for its citizens traveling in China, where the Chinese government typically treats them as its own nationals.
Holiday trials and online censorship: Watch for news of charges, trials, or sentences for activists like lawyers Gao Zhisheng and Wang Quanzhang—or for blocks on foreign media or technology platforms—around Christmas and New Year's Eve, following a pattern described in this issue's feature article.
National anthem and security legislation in Hong Kong: Following the Chinese legislature's addition of a new National Anthem Law to Hong Kong's Basic Law and defiance by football fans jeering the Chinese anthem, watch for initiatives by pro-Beijing members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council to introduce a bill that would fully incorporate punishments for disrespecting the anthem into Hong Kong law. Also, following renewed calls from Chinese officials last month for Hong Kong to enact security legislation that was shelved in 2003 due to mass protests, watch for efforts to reintroduce such a law, which would further reduce freedoms in the territory.
Proposed rules to counter foreign political interference in Australia: Last week, Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced plans to introduce new laws that would ban foreign political donations and create a "transparency scheme" requiring agents of foreign governments to report their ties, a plan modeled on the United States' Foreign Agents Registration Act. The initiative comes on the heels of numerous media investigations into Chinese Communist Party interference in Australian politics, media, and universities, though the proposed laws would not focus solely on China. Watch for the details of the legislation as they are introduced, as early as this month.
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Q: JPA OneToOne mapping not using Foreign Key as specified So I am working on an issue in which the JPA mapping is trying to link two tables incorrectly.
The logic is something akin to:
@Table(name='TABLE_A')
class TableAEntity {
  @Id
  @Column(name = 'TABLE_A_ID')
  Long TableAId

  @Column(name='SOME_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someColumnName

  @Column(name='FOREIGN_KEY_ID')
  String foreignKeyId

  @OneToOne
  @JoinColumn(name='FOREIGN_KEY_ID',
  insertable=false, updatable=false)
  TableBEntity tableB
}

@Table(name='TABLE_B')
class TableBEntity {
  @Id
  @Column(name = 'TABLE_B_ID')
  Long TableBId

  @Column(name='SOME_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someColumnName

  @Column(name='SOME_OTHER_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someOtherColumnName

  @Column(name = 'FOREIGN_KEY_ID')
  String foreignKeyId
}

From everything I have read through similar questions in Stackoverflow and other help sites and document sites, this is arguably correct.
Where my issue comes into play, is that the query is doing something odd every other time, but working correctly the other part of the time. When it is not working correctly, it tries to join like so:
LEFT JOIN TABLE_B tableb_0
WHERE tableb_0.foreign_key_id = ?

Whereas the ? in this is null
Now foreignKeyId in TABLE B is a Column with a unique constraint and Table A has a foreign Key relationship to this Column in Table B.
I have tried:

*

*setting fetch type to Lazy (no changes)

*changing TABLE A to use mappedBy and setting up a bidirectional mapping in Table B (get an inaccessible error)

*adding referencedColumn

*a number of other configurations I found browsing stackoverflow and a number of other websites

At this point the mapping, when called, will either perform correctly, or will try to nulled variation...
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or how to resolve this?

A: A unidirectional one-to-one is usually mapped this way:
@Entity
@Table(name='TABLE_A')
class TableAEntity {
  @Id
  @Column(name = 'TABLE_A_ID')
  Long tableAId

  @Column(name='SOME_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someColumnName

  @OneToOne
  @JoinColumn(name='FOREIGN_KEY_ID')
  TableBEntity tableB

   // hascode/equals
}

@Entity
@Table(name='TABLE_B')
class TableBEntity {
  @Id
  @Column(name = 'TABLE_B_ID')
  Long tableBId

  @Column(name='SOME_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someColumnName

  @Column(name='SOME_OTHER_COLUMN_NAME')
  String someOtherColumnName

   // hascode/equals
}

I'd say check the Hibernate ORM documentation on how to map associations with @OneToOne if you want more examples.
You can also use @MapsId if you want to remove the extra column on TABLE_A

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Q: can someone tell me what this error mean? MongoError: cannot do raw queries on admin in atlas
i tried to run :
 mongoose
  .connect(
    'mongodb+srv://yonco:mypassword@shop.iujhp.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority'
  )
  .then(result => {
    User.findOne().then(user => {
      if (!user) {
        const user = new User({
          name: 'yonc',
          email: 'yonc@rest.com',
          cart: {
            items: []
          }
        });
        user.save();
      }
    });
    app.listen(3000);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.log(err);
  });

i actully copied the source code from the course im doing but the error remain

A: Your string should look like this:
mongodb://<user>:<password>@cluster0-shard-00-00-rnmsm.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-01-rnmsm.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-02-rnmsm.mongodb.net:27017/test?ssl=true&replicaSet=cluster0-shard-0&authSource=admin&retryWrites=true&w=majority

Use your username and password correctly.
I would suggest make env for connection to MongoDB url as it contains user details.
Env docs: https://www.twilio.com/blog/working-with-environment-variables-in-node-js-html


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A book entitled Jibbe He Pulaar (Poems in Fula) written by Ebrima Baldeh of GRTS was launched during the fifth anniversary of Fulbe Africa, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel on Sunday. The programme also featured the launch of two other books written in Fula by Amadou Sowe.
In his brief speech at the programme attended by hundreds of cultural enthusiasts, Ebrima Baldeh, a manager at the news and programmes department of the national television, said his motivation to write in his native Fula was informed by his "ardent desire to explore a new genre in local language literature".
He said unless the emerging African writers liberated themselves from the shackles of colonialism, everything they do will be designed in a way that suits only Western standards. "I think we have to change the trend, the challenge is for us to write in our native languages so that we can communicate effectively. I know that I'm trying to conduct an experiment with myself on something that is completely new and unadventurous but I'm ready to learn," said Ebrima Baldeh.
In her review of the book, Mariama Baldeh, a lower basic cycle teacher said the book will be useful for primary school pupils. She describes the book as simple and straightforward, which should help teachers explain basic concepts and ideas in Fula. The book basically talks about the cultural orientation of the writer's formative years in his native community, in Fula Bantang in the Central River Region of The Gambia.
The 40-page book captures and chronicles poems about the culture, lifestyle, philosophical orientation and mysticisms in indigenous Fula societies in provincial Gambia. The book is structured in a way that the poems highlight some didactic lessons in life and issues that are prevalent in rural communities.
Speaking earlier, the president of Fulbe Africa, Ousman Sowe and the permanent secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, spoke at length about the significance of the Fulbe Africa 5th anniversary celebrations. They said the publication of the two books in Fula was a big achievement for the organisation.
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