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CSPP
From TalossaWiki
Common Sense Progressive Party
Leader: Owen Edwards, Éovart Grischun
Beliefs: Progressive, Monarchist.
(This article is about the historic 'Common Sense Progressive Party'. For information on the modern 'Progressive Party' please see Page: PP).
The CSPP (Common Sense Progressive Party) was a Talossan political party. It was formed in early 2012 as a merger of the Common Sense Party (CSP) and the Progressive Party (PP). Party members were commonly called 'the progs', the CSProgs' and 'the progressives'. It was dissolved with the dissolution of the 45th Cosa as no member had chosen to register the party for the election. This also in line with a planned phasing out of the "common sense" label aimed at returning the Progressive movement back to it's original "Progressive Party".
1.1 Progressive Party (PP)
1.2 Progressive Party of Talossa (PPT)
1.3 Common Sense Progressive Party (CSPP)
2 Seats held per Cosa
Progressive Party (PP)
The Progressive Party was first officially registered on 7 October in 2008 by Owen Edwards. It's early membership was chiefly composed of members of the now disbanded LRT. The early days of the Progressive Party saw heavy campaigning on issues relating to the Republic of Talossa as well as several attempts at establishing an Order of the Bonnacon and a pension fund for retired Talossans. In their first contested election (October 2008), the PP received 13 votes (18.57%) earning them 37 of the 200 available Cosa seats.
The following election (July 2009) was a particularly difficult campaign for the PP after their leader became involved in fierce arguments with Viteu Marcianüs of the FGP. These events and subsequent fights led to the complete collapse of the FGP. Éovart Grischun, deputy leader of the FGP, urged party supporters to give their votes to the Progs. The election continued as it began, with many heated exchanges from all parties in the contest.
By elections end the party received 25 votes boosting their seats to 68. The party was becoming a credible opposition to the much larger and dominant RUMP. However, despite doing well in the election, the PP suffered a major blow when Edwards stepped down from leadership and renounced his citizenship, an after effect of the bitterly fought election. T.M. Asmourescu was elected to serve as the party leader, but the party stifled due to lack of activity among members.
Progressive Party of Talossa (PPT)
Breneir Tzaracomprada was elected leader of the party in January 2010 and led the campaign for the April 2010 election where the party made a major comeback and received 28 votes/89 seats. After a successful term of office, Tzaracomprada stepped down to spend time on affairs outside of Talossa. Éovart Grischun was elected leader in October 2010.
The party fragmented due to differences within the party. The core membership had changed from it's original line up and Grischun struggled to maintain a balance of ideals that appealed to the widening gap in party membership. In the January 2011 election they suffered losses with seat numbers going down to 57. Glüc da Dhi then left the party with Alèxandreu Soleighlfred to form a new party, the Moderate Radicals, while Grischun left to form the Common Sense Party. The Progressives, now diminished in numbers, was now being led by Flip Molinar. The Election in October 2011 saw their seats cut again to 40.
Common Sense Progressive Party (CSPP)
By March 2012, the Progressive Party, now under the leadership of Flip Molinar, was about to fold having lost most of it's members. Éovart Grischun, who was now leading the Common Sense Party, successfully negotiated a merger between the CSP and the PP to form the Common Sense Progressive Party (CSPP), essentially saving progressive politics from disappearing from Talossa permanently. He then wrote to his old friend, Owen Edwards, asking him to return to the Kingdom (Edward's had renounced his citizenship back in 2009) to help rebuild the Progressive movement. Grischun and Edwards managed to bring the Progressive Party back to health and successfully re-cemented the ideals of progressive politics. Grischun then stepped aside from party leadership and Edwards once again was leading the Progs. The CSPP ceased to exist after the 45th Cosa during the planned phasing out of the "common sense" label. This led the Progs back to their original grassroots Progressive Party.
Party Name
8 July 2012/XXXIII 1 December 2013/XXXIV Owen Edwards CSPP
15 March 2012/XXXIII 8 July 2012/XXXIII Éovart Grischun CSPP
18 January 2011/XXXII 15 March 2012/XXXIII Flip Molinar PPT
15 October 2010/XXXI 18 January 2011/XXXII Éovart Grischun PPT
January 2010/XXXI 15 October 2010/XXXI Breneir Tzaracomprada PPT
5 August 2009/XXX January 2010/XXXI T.M. Asmourescu PP
7 October 2008/XXIX 5 August 2009/XXX Owen Edwards PP
Seats held per Cosa
Cosa Term
Party Acronym
45th Cosa
CSPP 21
43rd Cosa
Pre merger
PPT 40
42nd Cosa
41st Cosa
PP 89
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EU Extends Sanctions against Iran over Human Rights
This Tuesday, the European Union voted to extend sanctions against Iran until April 2018, in response to "serious human rights violations", according to Reuters.
This move has been welcomed by politicians, organizations and members of the general public who advocate for human rights.
The EU stated that their ban targeted people who were complicit in "torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, or the indiscriminate, excessive and increasing application of the death penalty, including public executions, stoning, hangings or executions of juvenile offenders", and those "responsible for directing or implementing grave human rights violations in the repression of peaceful demonstrators, journalists, human rights defenders, students or other persons who speak up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression".
Human Rights Issues in Iran
There are any number of human rights issues in Iran at any one time; from the imprisonment of political opponents to the torture of prisoners to the execution of juveniles.
Amnesty International recently released their 2016-17 report on Human Rights in Iran and highlighted these main issues:
Freedoms of expression, association and assembly
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Discrimination against ethnic minorities
Torture and other ill-treatment
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In their summary, Amnesty wrote: "The authorities [in Iran] heavily suppressed the rights to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly and religious belief, arresting and imprisoning peaceful critics and others after grossly unfair trials before Revolutionary Courts…Members of religious and ethnic minorities faced discrimination and persecution. Women and girls faced pervasive violence and discrimination."
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The Sanctions
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Asset Freeze: This currently affects 82 Iranian people and one company.
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The sanctions mentioned above are not subject to the agreements of the nuclear pact and do not violate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA)
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Syria: Vision of Mankind's Future?
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WUWT: Why Didn't the Bible Mention Blizzards?
Let me emphasize I would not know about this if someone had not pointed it out to me.
Posted the other day on the science denial blog Watts Up With That.
Which now brings me to the decisive point: while the proponents of the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) insist that the temperatures of the planet are set to rise in an accelerating mode that we won't be able to control least we adopt drastic climate protecting measures a.s.a.p., we just learn that in the Sinai desert, a region to the south-west of Israel, four hikers have died in a blizzard. They lost their way and sadly froze to death in deep snow at temperatures well below the freezing point. Pictures in the internet show camels knee-deep in snowdrifts.
If one pieces together this information and biblical records, one might feel entitled to draw the conclusion that such a weather event hasn't been observed in the region for several thousand years. Not exactly an indication of runaway temperatures, at least not a rush to the northern regions of the mercury scale. And this wasn't a singular event. Over a prolonged time period and a wide area, the Middle East might have been experiencing its worst cold snap in several hundred if not thousand years.
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You wouldn't know it if you got all your news from Fox & Friends, but January was, globally, one of the warmest in the instrumental record.
Interestingly, this report, based on NOAA data, says January was the "third wettest" in the record, whereas the UK Met Office says the month was the wettest in 248 years, since records began. I give the Met Office the edge on that one.
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How might parents in low-income communities ensure children thrive in their first five years?
Phase: Research Missions: SUCCESS STORIES
Total Parenting: The Family<>School<>Community Nexus
The ECD life-cycle is, unfortunately, not a sole dominion of parents, family or households. Parents have to let lovely ones out into 'strange' hands of someone else at very tender ages. This is true however loving, caring or possessing parents may be. Children are normally let out to school and the larger community where they live and interact for many hours. This builds on the family-based ECD foundation in a 'family-school-community' nexus. Parents of deaf children in Morogoro and poor parents with normal children, in Temeke, weigh out many give and take facts before they risk and 'giving out' a child to nearby pre-school. Available resources at Kilakala Unit in Morogoro might have soothed parents to bring out deaf children to school.
Written by John V. Kimario
Updated on 00:42, Nov 11, 2014
"it takes time for a mother to bring her deaf or hard of hearing child to the public and even to school"
it is hard to attract qualified and experienced special education teachers into village community schools...
This is a clip From Stamford Nursery Class:On first and second days at school young Arafat would NOT LET MOTHER WALK OUT and MOTHER WOULD BE HAPPY TO STAY A LITTLE LONGER ...EVEN START TEACHING...The bond is always hard to let go...the clip speaks for itself
Kilakala Unit for deaf kids is a great relief to parents. Thanks to Ministry of Education, Municipality, Parents and Kind Dutch Donors. It is time our net work builds on best practices, in low income areas, like thes schools in Morogoro
The precious ECD life-cycle is, unfortunately, not a sole dominion of the parents, the extended family or the household alone. At a point in time, parents have to let the lovely child go out into 'strange' hands of someone else! As one reads through the postings, the school, as an institution, presides over others as a receiving institution. At very tender ages parents have to let a child go to school. They leave it out there for many hours and even days. Someone else not even a relative, just an institution takes over, to top up on what parents have started in their child's ECD cycle. As parents accept and wield to the reality, of 'giving a child out' it is an approval to the need for a 'total parenting' approach which cuts across parental, family, and cultural bonds to institutional, and give way to community care.
Just recall your first day at school. Can you recall how long did you cry? If you are a mother/father, how did you feel leaving your dear son/daughter to that day care teacher? (The video clip attached shows how young Arafat could not let the mother go and Mama Arafat could not let Arafat alone at Stamford Community Nursery in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, 2012).
Given such strong bonding...how best can a global platform like this one, pool the much needed resources in support of community schools in low income communities, to build the necessary capacity to take up this noble role (child-family-community bond) in more or less similar proportions?
Unfortunately, to the dismay of many parents, the 'new parent', i.e. the school, the village government, individuals and communities out there; do not necessarily possess much of the aspired soft and hardware resources mix to warrant family or household approval. Parents may decide to wait for better chances!
A child born in low income communities is unfortunately hit twice. Both the family and the community school are not best resourced to adequately provide fully for their children's ECD needs.
..How best can we create at least a single successful school resources sharing link between resource rich communities inside and or outside Tanzania to community schools in dire need in Tanzania? I study web content and related OpenIDEO platform content on this site and link to field realities from the two community pre-school units. The Kilakala Unit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a government unit in Morogoro Municipal and Stamford Nursery school in Sub urban Temeke, Dar es Salaam.
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Attracting Parents to a Sub-urban Nursery School
Many factors intercede to convince a parent to 'let go' a child to a community/village nursery or pre-school. It's more than individual's convincing power or Government policy.
I went out into two sub-urban areas in search for real life examples in low income communities. I visited and immersed myself into Kilakala Unit for deaf children in Morogoro Municipality and Stamford Nursery School, Uwazi suburban Area of Makangarawe ward in Temeke district, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
CASE NUMBER ONE:Kilakala Unit for Deaf Children
At the deaf unit, I observed three teachers (Mr. Fikiri Kassim - Class Assistant, also deaf; Ms.Mariki and Ms. Urassa Trained Montessori facilitator) at work in a more or less Standard Community [government] pre-school. Parents made bold decisions, to bring children with special needs. Pupils study for six hours. The unit is partly sponsored by Dutch benefactors. Teachers are government employees. A hybrid of community-government-Donor unit.
At this unit, there are two trained teachers in Montessori principles, and one Class assistant (Mr. Fikiri who is also deaf, and can use Swahili sign language). The unit is relatively well equipped with Montessori gear for various learning activities.
It was very encouraging to learn that, Mr. Fikiri was a student in the same school where he managed to complete his primary school.
He had vague ideas about his childhood dreams. Although he practices photography, He started doing this because he was given a very good digital camera by sponsors who also support the unit.
Looking at the rest of the pre-school children, most of them were happily interacting amongst themselves and the teachers using sign language, although some are still struggling to master the complete set of signs.
The story of Rahimu Kassim, a deaf class assistant at Kilakala Unit for deaf children.
1.What did you want to be when you were young?
It took long to communicate this. His Dreams came very late in life. Possibly due to communication failures, between parents and children. Or general lack of interest to follow up on deaf childre's activities, likes and dislikes? Or due to parent over protection of a child with special needs?
Rahimu:Rahim had the idea that he could not do or make it. Just coming and going back home…just learning?
Teacher:We guide the students as they reach class five and above.
Teacher:Very few, only one I have seen with excellent drawing skills from very early ages. Even Rahim had the same (drawing) interest but unfortunately, no one assisted Rahim through systematically to make it as an artist…
Rahim:I started photography because a benefactor gave me an excellent digital camera. I now use it to take pictures for people, functions and the deaf unit.
Rahim is also a class assistant. He assists class teachers with children in communication using sign language. He can prepare food for them and oversee them in drawing and in out of class activities.
To teacher: Can children under 5 years demonstrate unique skills as they use Montessori activities and materials?
Yes. To figure out ones' dream we have to observe them as they play, interact with others, learn and easiness at use of signs and at drawing exercises.
We are lucky that our class is fairly well equipped, which is not the case with many village and sub urban community schools. Even trained teachers are very few in the community.
CASE NUMBER TWO: Stamford Nursery School in Sub-urban area of Uwazi.
This is a case of parents who opted to bring children to join school in this suburban area of Temeke district in Dar es salaam Tanzania. It is a typical example of many pre-school and nursery schools mushrooming in suburbs. In this 2012 clip from Stamford Nursery shelter, Arafat is brought to Stamford nursery shelter by the Mother.(Mama Arafati). The mother and teachers are trying hard to 'break the mother-child bond' and let Arafat (the child) 'go' to a different set of hands…the teacher, the school unit, the other children and staff at Stamford Nursery Unit and, (Mr. Dismas, Ms. Felista , a care taker). And to the many people out there his way between school and home in the neighborhoods.
The schools and teachers and significant others to which/whom parents entrust children may not be the best out of what they'd like to compared to the love and material provisions given at home. Lets assess situations in schools here and find out how best, through this platform we can help to improve education resources at community schools in search of near total parenting through the agency of the school…community nexus.
In 2012 I took a very bold step by setting out to start a Community pre-school to cater for the education needs of children in my neighborhoods, the sub-urban community at Uwazi Area in Makangarawe ward, Temeke Municipality in Dar es Salaam City – in Tanzania.
I could not wait any longer to make this dream come true. I felt strongly that, children around should get a place to come together, play, share a maize meal (porridge), sing learn to read and write as part of their preparations to join formal primary education at government schools. Instructions would be in Swahili language.
As I keep struggling with the idea, I push myself to advertise the idea to neighbors, by raising posters on walls and parents got interested. They agreed to bring kids at least for 4 hours. This is from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
At Stamford parents register 4 to5 year kids after conviction. In 2012, I would visit individual households to find if mothers would like to register a child at Stamford. Mostly, moms said "…bado kidogo… and or...hajafikia" meaning "…not yet" ..and or "… just a bit…it is not yet ready..." meaning I have to wait a bit. May be wait for it to grow a little bigger? It was not clear what mothers meant. On surface it could mean…not yet discussed and agreed/allowed by the father?...or I don't have the fees?.., or I don't have money for the uniform?...or I love my child so much I can't let it go out so early to other people…? …or the school is not worth my child? What makes a mother let or not let a child attend to a community nursery School in low income communities? How can such motivation be supported?
It was not easy for pioneers to take bold steps and bring a child to me. I decided to prepare uniforms for pioneers. I decided on the uniform and got a tailor who made them for my pioneers. I gave the uniforms to neighbors with a 4 years girl (Amida) and 3 years boy (Arafat). These were motivated to join the 'pre-school' in February 2012. They became my pioneer class. I named the school 'Stamford Nursery School' ; simply because I had to make use of existing large classrooms, used by Chelsea FC fans to watch English Premier League matches in the evening. The fans preferred to call the area, and specifically these two big classes 'Stamford Bridge Arena' .
In 2013 and 2014, Parents kept on bringing in more and more children at the now Stamford Nursery School. As time went by, I started facing many challenges on how to improve and maintain a high quality Pre-school unit which would be accepted by the community, registered by government and prosper as a fully fledged community pre-school for the Uwazi Area sub-urban community.
I dream to turn the Stamford Community pre-school unit in to a fully fledged pre-school based on standard Montessori methodology. I strongly trust that the approach will benefit children in unearthing their dreams over time. At least Stamford unit will be of help to poor community members of Uwazi because it is not easy for them to register their children to any Montessori based or English –medium schools because they are very expensive.
.How best can we create at least a single successful school resources sharing link between resource rich communities inside and or outside Tanzania to community schools in dire need in Tanzania? I study web content and related OpenIDEO platform content on this site and link to field realities from the two community pre-school units. The Kilakala Unit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a government unit in Morogoro Municipal and Stamford Nursery school in Sub urban Temeke, Dar es Salaam.
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16:19, Oct 21, 2014
Thanks for all of you provocations, details and photo documentation here, John. You've certainly given everyone in our community a lot to think about. The nexus of families + school + community is indeed an important one and we really appreciate you bringing it up in such detail through a Tanzanian lens.
Thanks Meena. I pray a kind of working network in support of ECD in low income families and communities is gradually evolving through this challenge. Stay blessed.


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How to make a cheap hot shower!
Wildwood is too small to have a shower inside, so I got this great idea on a hot outdoor shower from a friend of mine.
Head down to your local hardware or gardening store and buy yourself a pressurised weed sprayer container – the one where you pump the handle to get the pressure up.
Check out the irrigation section and select a shower head – for watering plants, one where you can hold the handle down to turn the water on and off (to water the plants) – my one has got lots of different settings.
If the hose diameter is different (like mine was) then you need to get a fitting to step between sizes. Preferably something that isn't going to go rusty. This was beyond my level of technical expertise, so I got all the shop assistants running around the different departments in the shop to come up with a solution here.
If the hose still doesn't fit on the end, you can heat it up in boiling water to make it soft and then try to get it to fit. Add a hose clip or a tie down to hold it securely in place.
And voila! Boil yourself up a kettle full of water on the stove, add cold water and the boiling water in to the pressurised container – check the temperature first, then pump it up and away you go!
The pressure was surprisingly good! You just have to pump it up wet yourself down, lather up with soap and then rinse off!
LOVE it! I've used a tank sprayer for years, but this takes it to the next level.
Excellent idea,added to seals wish list!
Where is this beautiful backdrop for an awesome hot shower?
Duckworks sells one painted black so it can act as a solar shower too.
Packing one up right now…..what a great idea…I think it would be usefull to rinse off the pups too after they have had a dip!
Try a kitchen sink sprayer, the hose should screw right on and it has a lever for on and off.
Get some black spray that is made for plastic and paint it black and you have an instant solar shower /water heater too.
yes great idea – would save boiling the kettle!
We have been looking for one of those here in Greece, for when our camping shower has been in too much sun and is too hot!!
This is such an ingenious idea! I have been using pocket showers for years with backpacking, but this takes it to a whole new level. You could even fill this container with fresh water, leave it in the sun during the day, and voila… Warm shower in the evening without having to boil water!
spend on the boat, save on the shower!
Hey Viki what a great idea! Thanks so much. Will give it a try!


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Blainville-sur-Orne és un municipi francès situat al departament de Calvados i a la regió de Normandia. L'any 2007 tenia 5.541 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Blainville-sur-Orne era de 5.541 persones. Hi havia 2.133 famílies de les quals 516 eren unipersonals (180 homes vivint sols i 336 dones vivint soles), 568 parelles sense fills, 829 parelles amb fills i 220 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 2.192 habitatges, 2.144 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 2 eren segones residències i 46 estaven desocupats. 1.382 eren cases i 765 eren apartaments. Dels 2.144 habitatges principals, 980 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 1.149 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 15 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 12 tenien una cambra, 196 en tenien dues, 425 en tenien tres, 713 en tenien quatre i 798 en tenien cinc o més. 1.613 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 1.009 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 870 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 3.715 persones, 2.755 eren actives i 960 eren inactives. De les 2.755 persones actives 2.456 estaven ocupades (1.267 homes i 1.189 dones) i 299 estaven aturades (127 homes i 172 dones). De les 960 persones inactives 334 estaven jubilades, 373 estaven estudiant i 253 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Blainville-sur-Orne hi havia 2.287 unitats fiscals que integraven 5.845,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 17.933 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 148 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 8 eren d'empreses extractives, 4 d'empreses alimentàries, 3 d'empreses de fabricació d'elements pel transport, 11 d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 25 d'empreses de construcció, 36 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 7 d'empreses de transport, 6 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 2 d'empreses d'informació i comunicació, 3 d'empreses financeres, 3 d'empreses immobiliàries, 7 d'empreses de serveis, 19 d'entitats de l'administració pública i 14 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 32 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una oficina de correu, 2 tallers de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola, 1 autoescola, 8 paletes, 2 guixaires pintors, 4 fusteries, 2 lampisteries, 1 electricista, 1 empresa de construcció, 6 perruqueries, 3 restaurants i 1 tintoreria.

Dels 11 establiments comercials que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un hipermercat, 2 botiges de menys de 120 m², 3 fleques, 2 carnisseries, 1 una botiga d'electrodomèstics i 2 floristeries.

L'any 2000 a Blainville-sur-Orne hi havia 3 explotacions agrícoles.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
Els 2 equipaments sanitaris que hi havia el 2009 eren farmàcies.

El 2009 hi havia 2 escoles maternals i 2 escoles elementals. Blainville-sur-Orne disposava d'un col·legi d'educació secundària amb 351 alumnes.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Blainville-sur-Orne a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Blainville-sur-Orne a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de Calvados

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The Bend Casting Club is holding the Bend Fly Fishing Festival at Wille Hall on the COCC Campus on April 19 from 10am to 4pm. The purpose of the Festival is to bring the lifestyle of the fly fishing community to the broader general public at a unique venue, driving messages of education and awareness regarding the sport of fly fishing, the art of the creative people involved with it, the conservation community engaged in activities forwarding the stewardship of the resources, while fostering fun activities and memories which these activities create.
Films will highlight the ethic of conservation, the programs and projects local and regional organizations are performing to enhance and protect our water, along with some great films showcasing our waters supplied by local filmmakers at Catch Magazine and Mountain Made Media.
There will be opportunities to learn the techniques of tying flies and casting fly rods, along with areas both indoors and outdoors to participate in these activities first hand from local tiers and casting instructors.
Alongside all of this there will be local artists sharing their mediums including illustration, carving and filmmaking, and a showcase of the history of the modern fly angler with a place to see how things have evolved over the years.
During this program there will be a raffle and small auction including items furnished by Patagonia, Simms, TFO, Jeremy Koreski Photography and more.
Bend Casting Club is a component of the local Deschutes Chapter of Trout Unlimited.


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About The Players: Al Buschauer & Savannah Walters
It's generally understood that no business operates successfully without key players/leaders and a competent harmonious staff. Through the decades we've had staff members relocate, retire, go off to school, start a family or begin new careers of their own. It's been the ongoing stability of the core of our organization that continues to steer our destiny:
Al Buschauer
As founder and CEO of Buschauer Portrait Design, Al is actively involved with multiple studio functions including: principal photographer, digital artist, marketer and fine art print maker. He oversees the general operation of the studio, making sure we are operating according to our vision, passions and customers' needs.
If accolades matter, he admits to having enjoyed considerable success in his career, winning numerous awards locally, regionally and nationally. He's had work on public display at Florida's EPCOT Center and images chosen for the Photography Hall of Fame. He was invited to teach other professional photographers on the lecture circuit, across the United States, during certain phases of his photographic journey. He found teaching both inspiring and rewarding when he saw others get excited about reaching their potential as artists.
When he's not working, he spends his leisure time playing his guitar, taking his pup Daisy Mae for runs in the woods and riding his motorcycle.
Savannah Walters
As co-owner and business partner, Savannah is likewise active in multiple aspects of our studio functions. Back in the years when we were still photographing weddings, Savannah's own photographic background kept her busy photographing weddings and couples portraits on her own, for 18 years under the Buschauer name. Since then, as our business has evolved, she lends her expertise more toward the framing division of our company. Our customers welcome and trust her artistic eye and helpful suggestions. These days, she still occasionally assists Al with select portrait sessions, particularly those on location.
Savannah is involved in various aspects of our marketing... and edits most of the material published on line or in print. None of our written material is un-important. Al admits to regretting more than once, having printed or released written material without the benefit of Savannah's editing skills, because his zeal to "get it done" won out.
Savannah joined Al several years before before the opening of their Barrington Studio. One of her main ambitions and pleasures in life is writing. She has a deep love for "critters" and a long list of animals she's rescued over the years, both wild and domestic. She enjoys reading, watching movies, gardening and riding her motorcycle with friends from Willow Creek Church's High Road Riders.
In July of 2002, Al joined forces with Hands of Hope, a Barrington Hills based organization that helps African women and children in desperate straits due to HIV/AIDS, hunger, lack of clean water, no provision for education and no means of supporting themselves. His first mission trip to Africa was with HoH in 2006. He returned in 2007 with a group from Willow Creek Community Church.
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Reuben rocks Norwich with Hillsong worship
2007: International worship leader Reuben Morgan and a band from the 20,000-strong Hillsong Church in Australia performed in Norwich on Monday night (July 23) to a packed crowd of 650. Keith Morris reports on the gig and an exclusive interview with Reuben.
It looked and felt just like a rock concert. Drayton Hall, current home of Norwich Family Life Church was packed to the rafters, the dry ice was drifting across the stage, the coloured lights illuminating the drum kit and keyboards. As Reuben Morgan and the Hillsong band emerged onto the stage and struck up the opening chords of My Redeemer Lives the crowd went wild bouncing up and down with lifted arms. The building literally shook along with the music.
As they raced through songs from Reuben's latest album Everyone, the words flashed up on plasma screens above the audience but they were unnecessary as everyone seemed to know every single word. The ninety-minute set captured the attention in a moving and inspiring evening.
But this was not a rock concert, it was a worship service. The focus of attention was ultimately not the band but the God to whom they devote all their songs.
Organiser Jon Norman summed it up: "This was not a concert but there was a purpose behind tonight. It was somewhere you can encounter Christ." And Jon's words were proved spot on when around 25 youngsters responded to a call to commit or recommit their lives to Christ.
I managed to catch Reuben for ten minutes just before he went on stage and he was quite clear that even though he has topped the Australia pop charts, he is not a rock star but a worship leader, a music pastor.
Australia's premier Christian songwriter, Reuben was back in Norwich because of a connection with Jon at the Hillsong College in Australia where they first met. Hillsong is more about worship than planting churches. There are just three across the world. The 20,000 one in Sydney, one in London and one in Kiev, Russia.
"We are here in Norwich to build up the church and build up his people," said Reuben. "We want to contribute to the life of the Church here and encourage people to encounter God. We want people to experience and receive from God. I believe that Jesus Christ is real, alive and relevant today and is worth looking into. I want to help connect with people where they are at, whether they are young or old. I want them to know that they matter to God.
"We are trying to work with local churches to encourage them and help them to move forward. We can help them build a momentum, build enthusiasm and see what could be."
Reuben and the band were in Norwich in the middle of a European tour which took in Germany, Sweden and Budapest playing to crowds from 500 to 5,000.
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Why Facebook Is "Under Review" and Not Awarded a JUST Seal in the 2021 Rankings
by JUST Capital
2021 Rankings of Americas Most JUST Companies Communities Customers JUST 100
In the period between June and October 2020, after our data collection process concluded but before our Rankings were released, Facebook was the subject of several high-profile media controversies related to the spread of misinformation, hate speech, and other discriminatory and incendiary content on its platforms. In some instances, such as in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it is alleged that Facebook's failure to swiftly and systematically remove such content from its flagship platform may have indirectly contributed to the deaths of protesters.
Compounding our concerns about Facebook are the outcomes of its own Civil Rights Audit, released in July, which details its performance on matters including voter suppression and voter information, building a civil rights accountability infrastructure, content moderation and enforcement (including hate speech and harassment), advertising targeting and practices, diversity and inclusion, fairness in algorithms, and the civil rights implications of privacy practices, among others. While the transparency demonstrated by undertaking and publishing an audit of this type – voluntary in nature – is a positive step, the auditors noted that they had watched the "company make painful decisions over the last nine months with real world consequences that are serious setbacks for civil rights" and that "Facebook's approach to civil rights remains too reactive and piecemeal."
From recent polling conducted in collaboration with The Harris Poll, we found that almost two in three Americans (63%) say that companies have a moderate to significant role to play in taking an active stand against the spread of disinformation by identifying and debunking falsehoods and propaganda. Yet Facebook stands accused of repeatedly failing to halt the spread of misinformation and incendiary content, both of which could be categorized as acts of omission or non-action. An act of omission is more overt and measurable, particularly in the context of our research and ranking work. Facebook has not deliberately incited violence from extremist groups on its platform, but there is credible evidence to suggest that the company did not act with the speed and force necessary to stop it.
Recognizing that the spread of misinformation online is a complex problem for which a perfect solution may not exist, we have therefore put Facebook's 2021 ranking "under review" and withheld the JUST Seal that denotes a company's inclusion as one of America's Most JUST Companies. The Seal is a reward for proven excellence. Until Facebook's performance and alleged shortfalls are better understood, we deem unproven its case for JUST Capital's highest honor.
Our objectives in ranking companies, and awarding leaders the JUST Seal, is simple: We want to measure company performance as accurately and objectively as possible, and we want to recognize, celebrate, and incentivize true leadership.
In the coming year, we will be taking concrete steps to further explore and quantify how Facebook's actions (and inactions), and similar business behaviors by other internet companies, can be better reflected in our Rankings, in order to meet these objectives. These efforts start with our Polling Team, which will embark on a survey research program to better understand public opinion on these types of controversies. We will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research fielded among a random sample of the American public, aged 18+, to understand:
awareness of the controversies,
comprehension of the issues, and
opinions on whether Facebook deserves a place in the JUST 100 given the circumstances.
Proposed Approaches
Qualitative deep-dives (via one-on-one interviews, online discussion boards and/or virtual focus groups) in which we actively discuss the controversies.
Sentiment analysis using third-party resources to more broadly understand public opinion (e.g. via non-Facebook owned social media, blogs, and other sources).
Public perception work – understanding attitudes toward Facebook among users and non-users, and the evolution of those attitudes.
Polling current and former Facebook employees about their opinions of leadership controversies (to the extent access is possible).
Survey and polling work fielded among the American public to quantify awareness and preferences for course of action.
We will further investigate the extent to which our existing metrics are adequately capturing the social consequences of Facebook's actions and other corporate actions like it. Facebook's above-average performance on the fourth most important Issue in our Rankings, "Acts ethically and with integrity at the leadership level and takes responsibility for wrongdoings," may reveal that one or more of its underlying metrics are not calibrated or sufficiently targeted to signals of repeated failures of leadership on matters of enormous social consequence. We will be conducting a detailed analysis of our metrics on this Issue and, as ever, working toward better measurement.
We will be updating this website with our progress in 2021.
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Staged (In)Visibility
Suzana Milevska
My immediate reaction when I first read the abstract for the Strategies of (In)Visibility conference was a certain discomfort. I should immediately try to clarify the reasons for such a feeling. It had nothing to do with the contents or the style of the abstract itself, but with a kind of echo, an irrational déjà-vu coming from the past. Somehow I could not suppress the reflex of rejection towards the main topic of the conference. This initial discomfort forced me to tackle the fact of refraining from discussing politics and the political implications of artistic practices. It became obvious to me, that this rejection or abjection was mainly the result of my upbringing in a communist country.
With this essay, I want to suggest that this abhorrence to discuss politics in the context of post-socialist countries with one party system contributes to this debate about (in)visibility. The reason I find this visceral rejection that verges on the abject to be relevant is not simply because I was born and educated in such a system, it is also because the artists whose art I am going to discuss later, started working in similar circumstances. More precisely, my paper will deal with the art that was produced in a period of transition, at the time of the shift from socialist to post-socialist societies in the ex-Yugoslav countries. I will try to shed some light on that period by first making a difference not between art, activism and these protagonists strategies towards (in)visibility, but between art that is about the political and art that enters and functions within the realm of the political. In fact, even activists projects can take part in discussions about the political without actually transforming the political and vice versa, art projects can enter and transform the political sphere.
Making visible the political
Instead of discussing the work of artists that chose anonymity because of their fear for the success of their activities e. g. making visible the invisible as the title and the abstract of the conference suggest, I have chosen to discuss the issue of making visible the political as such. This is something that art dealing with political issues, art acting from within the political and activism have all in common as their starting aim. From this perspective, the difference between pure art and engaged art becomes less relevant, and here I refer to the recent discussions on the politics of aesthetics in the context of Jacques Ranciere's writing.[1] In order to clarify the phenomenon of rejection from the political I experienced, I need to unearth where this political abject comes from. To do so, I will need to go back to the 1980s and refer to the now non-existent cultural and political geography of ex-Yugoslavia.
Let me first mention that the original theoretical context of the term abject, was defined by Julia Kristeva in her book The Powers of Horror. For her, the abject has religious roots and it is mainly about a form of primal repression and transgression. She writes: "Discomfort, unease, dizziness, stemming from an ambiguity that through the violence of a revolt against, demarcates a space out of which signs and objects arise."[2] However, for Kristeva, the effects of abjection can only lead to the constitution of ones own culture: "The abject is the border, not me, not that not nothing either. A something that cannot be recognised as thing, A weight of meaningless, on the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of reality that if I acknowledge it annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards; the primers of my culture."[3] The political abject in ex-communist countries was definitely the primer of one's own culture for one's feeling of discomfort from political culture. It was the only alternative so that these two were not to be mixed. As with any of the food mixing taboos that Kristeva speaks about, if the mixture between politics and culture would have taken place, the loathing was the only final result.
I am not sure whether Kristeva would agree with the idea of taking the abject out of its original context and applying it in a political context, but the fact that she never wrote an explicit book dealing with her Bulgarian past can make one think that this was after all a possible result of a similar rejection on the verge of abjection of the experience of the political in her youth. (She did address the political, though, in Strangers to Ourselves and when writing on the political thinker Hannah Arendt).
That is one of the possible answers to the question why artists in the East have still not delved in the possibilities offered by activist artistic practices. In the late 80s and at the beginning of the 90s, there was hardly any art in East Europe that was not dealing with the political issues of the dissolution of communist states. It was during that time, that the political became visible (in contrast to the clandestine art practices from the previous periods when even abstract art had a certain political meaning). However, this resurgence of interest in the political is not the same as to say that these artists were activists. Even though now there are already few artists and art groups that are just starting to enter the realm of agitation and activism, the activists groups exist in a much larger extent (during the 2003 elections in Macedonia there were 160 NGOs and they all entered an association supporting the coalition of two parties that won the elections and now rules the country at the moment).
Positionalities
In the 80s in ex-Yugoslavia, there was not much choice of different political positions for intellectuals, artists, writers and other professionals who were not convinced by the communist party programme. However, three main different options could be distinguished and all of them were necessarily unofficial, illegal or oppositional: One could completely distance oneself from the only official political party and secretly boast ones non-belonging status (unless the membership card would have accidentally dropped out from his/her purse). Even though in the 80s (especially after Yugoslavia's leader Tito's death in 1981) some of the writers being members of the communist party, would be writing journalist comments with titles such as Who is not with us is against us, to be active intellectually and yet not to be a member was possible and even popular. Moreover, party members were despised and isolated by the inoperative intellectual communities and were forced to socialise among them. The second possibility was the preserve of the most courageous. One could belong to, at first clandestine but very soon openly publicised, nationalist movements. The nationalists were already publicly visible and audible in the 80s but their activities were not legalised. Very soon in the late 90s the different nationalist oppositions in the different republics incited the split of Yugoslavia and the ethnic conflicts resulting with most horrible local wars. These two different positions were not isolated from each other, though. One could be a member of the communist party and yet be a nationalist, or boast to have an apolitical past and still be a secret member of the party. In fact, the latter was the most ambivalent position available - being a communist party member but remaining non-active in public, belonging without belonging. Being after the easy access to power (guaranteed were not only small privileges but the membership was required for any university or managerial position) and yet criticising it was a kind of simulated opposition and it was seen as the worst hypocrisy. Although from today's perspective, this sounds as a fake opposition it was not that innocent or safe. If a clandestine member would have been discovered, there was no turning back to the intellectual flock and this ambivalence would have ended with being persecuted by both cheated sides.
This popular position was perhaps the most comfortable one, but it could not last for long. I want to argue that even today this intertwinement of different political positions continues today in all countries that emerged after the dissolution of ex-Yugoslavia, an intertwinement that makes problematic the engagements within the realm of politics. The parties were changing their names and leaders, members were fluctuating from one party to another and they still do. The non-governmental organisations are pretty much involved in this chaotic wannabe democracy. Many things did change after the war conflicts and the need to question and re-position ones own attitude towards the political after the conflicts inevitably popped up. However, the political ambivalence from the past mixed up with the political awakening of the present, resulted with a very specific political scene.
Change of languages
Today, and not only in the East, it becomes almost impossible to tell the right from the left, the democratic from the conservative, or the nationalist from the fundamentalist. Such entangled political positions seem to have reflected directly onto the art scene and with artists. How can we expect the artists and activists dealing with political issues to be consequential in their addressing something that is not consequential as such. If the political arena changes its language, artists will inevitably begin to deal with these issues or even more when functioning in the political framework they need to change the language, not necessarily meaning that they will have to mime it. The example of the Slovenian art group IRWIN, a part of the NSK movement established in 1983 and later re-named NSK State, can serve as the best example of such a need for changing the language of art and its relation to reality.
In this context, I want to evoke the case of the most renowned intellectual from ex-Yugoslavia the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek who underwent a similar political context in the early stage of his career (and whose name is linked with the activities of NSK and Laibach, the music group part of NSK). In 1976, he published his book Sign, Signifier, Letter both in Slovenian and Croatian. With this book, he started the first serious reception of psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia. However, with this book, it was almost impossible to anticipate the political application of psychoanalysis of Zizek's later texts. The book deals with a very complex reading of Lacan linking psychoanalysis and the Borromean knots and entanglements between the order of the real, imaginary and symbolic with contemporary philosophical interpretations of Hegel and Kant. However, there were no references to concrete events and persons from daily life in Yugoslavia and psychoanalytical plays with any political or social issues, the style of writing that later put Zizek in focus on the international intellectual scene.
Even though in some texts the psychoanalytical concept of the Law of the Father could have been read as the political figure of Tito, this would have been deliberately left ungrounded in the texts. It was not until the late eighties and early nineties when Zizek started writing his famous essays on film. He then first embarked on his cultural crusade focusing instead on a completely philosophical discourse. Interestingly enough, at the very same time, in 1990, he became the official Liberal Democratic Party candidate for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia. The famous essay Why are Laibach and NSK not Fascists? that Zizek wrote in 1993 about the Slovenian music group Laibach and the phenomenon of the artists collective NSK was the first text that tried to explain the NSK phenomenon which started in 1984 when three groups that were established in 1983 (the music band Laibach, the five art member collective IRWIN and the theatre Gledalizce Sestre Scipion Nasice) gathered under the same name NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst).[4]
What most deeply holds together a community is not so much identification with the Law that regulates the community's "normal" everyday circuit, but rather identification with a specific form of transgression of the Law, of the Law's suspension (in psychoanalytic terms, with a specific form of enjoyment). He then gives as an example, the enjoyment of Ku Klux Klan's secret enjoyment of torturing their black victims.[5] In fact, I would suggest that a similar enjoyment was shared in the ex-Yugoslavia among intellectuals and artists who did not accept to get involved in the country's political life, solidarity-in-guilt adduced by participation in a common transgression of the communist rules.
This uneasy feeling is fed on the assumption that ironic distance is automatically a subversive attitude. What if, on the contrary, the dominant attitude of the contemporary "post-ideological" universe is precisely the cynical distance toward public values? What if this distance, far from posing any threat to the system, designates the supreme form of conformism, since the normal function of the system requires cynical distance? In this sense the strategy of Laibach appears in a new light: it "frustrates" the system (the ruling ideology) precisely insofar as it is not its ironic imitation, but over-identification with it - by bringing to light the obscene superego underside of the system, over-identification suspends its efficiency.[6] By using the Althusserian model of ideological state apparatus, Zizek calls for an interpretation of Laibach and NSK that remained as a kind of starting reference for each reading of the practice of this phenomenon.
Staged dangerous liaisons
One thing that Zizek gets right (there are many discrepancies and contra-dictions in his text and in later texts that can be found on various projects of NSK and Laibach performances) is that there was mostly no life/death threat for either the state or for intellectual and art projects. They were often regarded as harmless or simply overlooked by the communist party. The story of the Day of Youth poster scandal from 1986/1987 when New Collectivism design group (the sub-group of NSK which consisted of some members of Laibach, IRWIN and the theatre collective Gledalizce Sestre Scipion Nasice), through a strange succession of events, caused a real confusion between the art and political world, shows exactly the fragility of the claim of danger and threat for art entering politics. The scandal aroused when a New Collectivism's poster that won the first prize in the national competition and was already distributed for the Day of Youth (Tito's official birthday that was celebrated each 25th May along Yugoslavia) was withdrawn when the authorities were warned that it showed the proximity between socialist realism and Nazi Kunst (the poster was actually a re-design of a Nazi poster by Richard Klein from the 1930s, an obvious, but indistinguishable fact for the jury). Following the scandal that indirectly connected communism with fascism the yearly ritual of celebrating Tito's birthday was abolished, but yet nobody was imprisoned or tortured, unless you did not count the endless interviews with the members of Laibach on the State TV or in the magazines in which the journalists repeated asking similar questions to the one that was on everybody's mind: But are you fascists, are you really fascists?[7]
Therefore the invisibility entertained as a deliberate artistic practice from its start is paradoxical - it cannot be a strategy that is forced to artists for protection of their integrity or for guarding their ideas from the centres of power. In contrast to some risky art actions and concepts that put their authors in a real danger there is also often a kind of hidden agenda among artists or wannabe activists: it is often hypocritically pre-calculated and aims to use the energy of curiosity and expectation from the viewers. I want to critically reflect on certain artists and especially art groups that flirt with these strategies in order to acquire the desired attention. Once they are ready to reveal the clandestine identities of the individual members of the group, previously kept hidden under the excuse of a hypothetic danger, they expose their strategy and enable the questioning of its ingenuity. This paradox can be explored through the case of the Slovenian art collective IRWIN from the start of their career, or through the case of Zampa di Leone (still unknown author(s) of an art web site from Serbia and Montenegro) as some of the most relevant examples of such an investment in invisibility as a process that leads towards an inevitably fast success.
Zampa di Leone's In the Arse of the Balkan 2000-2005 comic strip web site both jokes with artists including the most renowned artists and projects such as successful IRWIN's group recent projects, the artists Tanja Ostojic, Milica Tomic and Uros Djuric, and the curators Marina Grzinic and Branko Dimitrijevic and aims to a cultural critique of the representation of the Balkan art scene in a Western art context. Their graphic drawings and language aims to be a kind of subversive activism but there is definitely a certain ambiguity in Zampa di Leone's attitude towards activism. Although they state: In the Arse of the Balkan "is dealing with the phenomenon of cultural activism and artistic practices in the West Balkan region and Europe in the last half of decade"[8], their ironical approach towards activism becomes clear through other texts. However, according to the clandestine author the web site will fulfil its mission with any change of in the local situation and the notion of change is definitely an attribute closely related with that of activism. It is obvious that the target of this project is not the political in general but the art politics of the Serbian and Balkan art scene.
The question here is whether the anonymity of the artist was really necessary and what is the danger that could harm either the project or the artist behind it. Obviously, there is only one danger that can be detected in this case, the one of not including the project within the kind of exhibitions that were already highly criticised in the comic strips by the author. Should we believe the artists claim that there have been already 10.000 visitors to the web site: perhaps none of the criticised exhibitions had such a big audience. However, any kind of judgment or justification of the effects of this ambivalent strategy is difficult and problematic.
This acted dissident-ship among artists is a renowned phenomenon in East Europe that resulted from the complex cultural conditions during the communist and post-communist periods when the distinction between the real and staged danger was difficult to make. The renowned Ranciere's statement that political art is always a kind of specific negotiation not between politics and art but between the two politics of aesthetics - or the Deleuzian claim that an important characteristic of minor literatures is that everything in them is political was the best experience among artists in Eastern Europe. Whether abstract or realistic, any art by non communist artists could be interpreted as against the communist programme, an interpretation that sounds very similar to that of "Who is not with us is against us".
Paradoxically enough, the troubles with the political continued after the dissolution of communism. However now, the protagonists of the politicisation of art come from the West. During the first years of transition only political art was acceptable if it come from the East. At the moment, while it seems that politically engaged art is now easier to accept for the local art scene, activist art becomes on the contrary more prominent in international art circles. The transformations of the art language changed not only in the realm of the language in general, but also between language and reality. Still it is difficult to make a clear distinction between the two oppositions - the language of art about the political and the language of art that acts within the political. The paradoxes that stem out of local circumstances actually blur this basic difference. It is only recently that few artists in Slovenia: Apolonija Custeric and Tadej Pogacar, in Croatia: Andreja Kujuncic and group Platforma, or Tanja Ostojic started working in the realm of the political thus changing again the language of art and thus overcoming the old feeling of abjection that resulted from ones involvement in the realm of the political.
Under the straightforward plot of modernity and postmodernity or the clear-cut opposition of pure art and engaged art, we have to recognise the original and enduring tension of those two politics of aesthetics, which are entailed in the very forms of visibility and intelligibility that make art identifiable as such to us - those two politics which are led ultimately to their own self-suppression. It is that tension which underpins and somehow undermines the seemingly simple project of a political or "critical" art that would serve politics by arousing the awareness of the forms of domination and enhancing thereby energies of resistance or rebellion. That simple project has been taken up from the beginning in the tension between the two opposite politics: art suppressing itself in order to become life and art doing politics on the condition of doing no politics at all.
[1] Bojana Cvejic, "Jacques Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics". Frankfurt Summer Academy. http://theater.kein.org/node/view/99
[2] Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horro. An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press. 1982, S. 10
[3] Ebd. S. 2.
[4] Slavoj Zizek, "Why are Laibach and NSK not Fascists?" Originally published in M'ARS (Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija), vol. 3/4.
[5] http://www.nskstate.com/appendix/articles/
whyarelaibach.php
[7] One example of such a question, answered ambiguously is from the interview of Laibach given to the Slovenian magazine Mladina. Mladina: My final question: are you Fascists or not? Laibach: Isn't it evident? http://www.ljudmila.org/embassy/3a/exc/l3.htm The most provocative interview is still the one from 1983 given for the State TV News programme where the members of Laibach band were dressed in uniforms: http://www.nskstate.com/laibach/interviews/
laibach-interviews.php
[8] Zampa di Leone, "In the Arse of the Balkan 2000-2005". http://www.various-euro.com


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Q: Proving n is not divisble by m using Division Algorithm When $n$ and $m$ are integers, how could I write a statement equivalent to the statement "$n$ is not divisible by $m$" using ideas from the Division Algorithm?

A: I'm not totally sure what you mean by this, but generally, '$n$ is not divisible by $m$' means that there does not exist an integer $k$ so that $n=mk$.
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For all of you who have supported the Build a Module.com project, through kind words, making purchases, spreading the word, or sending positive mental vibes, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Because of your support, more and more people are getting the chance to learn Drupal with a cutting-edge set of learning tools, innovations are being made for live training techniques that could change the face of training forever, and we have quickly become one of the biggest, highest quality single-source video tutorial libraries for Drupal.
This next year is going to be an exciting one. We're going to be covering more and more territory with our tutorials, we'll be helping groups and individuals conduct live trainings across the globe with our Mentored Trainings (including at DrupalCon), and we'll introduce some great new features that will make learning on Build a Module.com an even more enjoyable experience.
Thank you again, this has been an amazing year and here's to another one that's even better!
Last week we wrapped up a series of videos on how to manage feature modules, and in this week we fill in some of the gaps by looking at how to capture those bits of content and configuration that we can't quite get directly into a feature module. We also explore how to use a central list and a set of basic rules to keep track of changes that require a little manual finagling.
If you're excited about capturing everything in code that you possibly can (if you're not excited about that, then watch some of the previous videos on why code capturing is so awesome), then this will get you that last 10% that doesn't quite fit into the other tools we've covered.
Selenium IDE - a tool we've covered a bit in the past - is a great way to capture site modifications in a way that's easy to automate in other environments. In this video we take a top-level view of how this process works.
Once you have a 'test' (a macro), the next step is to capture the test in code. To do this, we export the test and create one more test to explore some of the other options available to us with Selenium.
Automating is awesome, but sometimes it's just not possible. For those changes that require real human interaction, it's great to have a set of rules and central location for keeping track of the changes as you push them to other team members and launch them into staging and production sites. In this video we show you one way to do this.
In this video we step back into Git techniques and look at using several commits for one group of changes to make it easy to roll back and document changes from one revision to another.


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We Are America: The Cultural Programs of the Great Depression
Date(s) - Thursday, July 15th
The Great Depression remains the most devastating economic disaster in American history. It is often remembered for its suffering: bread lines, makeshift shantytowns known as "Hoovervilles," gaunt faces, and dust storms. Yet, the experience of collective suffering also prompted a period of policy experimentation and creative expression that manifested in the artwork of the Works Progress Administration.
Join Dr. Betsy Pease, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University, to learn about the broader context of the New Deal and Depression-era culture in which these artworks were produced, an era that saw a diverse cross-section of Americans use opportunity to redefine their nation and make claims to a rightful place in it.
Register to get access to the Zoom session.
This program is free and open to the public.
Please consider donating whatever amount you can to support the Museum's mission.
In connection with Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Jewish Artists of the WPA, an exhibit on display at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, June 17 – September 5, 2021. The image above can be seen in the exhibit; Hooverville Depression Scene by Max Arthur Cohn. Oil painting, 1938. UWM Art Collection and Mathis Art Gallery. Gift of Jane Cohn Waldbaum and Steven L. Morse. Photo credit: UWM Art Collection.
Dr. Betsy Pease is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University Wisconsin where she teaches courses on American history, cultural and social history, and cultural geography. Her research has focused on depictions of urban and nonurban communities during the Great Depression in the United States. She grew up in northwest Wisconsin and now lives in Mequon with her spouse and two children.


So whether you have fond memories of reading children's books when you were small, or whether you have small children that you read books to now, this list is a source of inspiration for us all! Children's book always bring a smile to my face, I love the simple joy that they bring. Here are 7 incredible children's books!
This was my favorite book when I was a little girl. I read and re-read this book so much that the copy I have is falling apart now! I saved mine so one day I can read it to my own children. This is one book every child should read!


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HTC's most exciting phone in years might cost more than a next-gen iPhone X
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HTC quietly announced a new smartphone initiative in May, a phone like nothing else available on the market. The HTC Exodus, due later this year, is supposed to be HTC's first crypto handset and the world's first blockchain phone.
It might also be doomed to fail, much like every phone HTC made to date. That's not only because of what it proposes but also because it might cost more than the iPhone X versions Apple is about to launch.
The $999 iPhone X proved to be too expensive to meet Apple's goals, although the phone did very well so far, helping Apple significantly raise the average selling price of the iPhone. Come fall, the three upcoming iPhone X models will be slightly cheaper, with the 2018 5.8-inch iPhone X supposed to cost $899.
The HTC Exodus, meanwhile, will cost around $1,000, according to what Phil Chen told The Verge about it. Well, he did not specify the exact price but did say that the Exodus will cost about as much as a different blockchain phone in town, the Sirin Labs Finney.
The HTC exec happens to be the company's chief decentralized officer, and that's not a joke. Instead, it's a nod to the emerging crypto world, where decentralization is a significant characteristic of the blockchain.
HTC did not reveal many details about the Exodus back in May, other than to say that the blockchain will power it. At the time, that seemed to be a suggestion that the phone won't run Android. It's still not clear what operating system we can expect, or what kind of hardware we're looking at.
But HTC wants to announce the handset — you know, again — at the end of the third quarter, and then launch it by the end of the year.
From the interview, it appears that HTC is dialing back excitement a bit. In May, the company said that "we envision a phone where you hold your own keys, you own your own identity and data, and your phone is the hub."
It turns out that kind of handset is a little further in the future. The Exodus, meanwhile, will be a phone with a crypto wallet that's going to be "the most secure hardware wallet out there." Mhm.
Also, it'll come with CryptoKitties preinstalled, which is an Ethereum-based game — hey, if you're not familiar with it, you probably don't need crypto handsets. On the other hand, crypto games on phones could teach you a thing or two about the blockchain, and that's probably why CryptoKitties will be available initially on HTC U12.
HTC does want the Exodus to be able to mine cryptocurrency, to which I say good luck with that. HTC is looking at the matter and might release a white paper this year.
The Exodus does sound exciting, and it's likely we'll see crypto phones worth buying down the road. Bitcoin may be a bubble, but the underlying blockchain tech isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
But HTC doesn't have a track record that would convince anyone it can pull off a fantastic device that will sell like hotcakes. That's sad, but true for a company that crafted so many other exciting phones in the past. As a reminder, the company sold a part of its mobile division to Google and fired some 1,500 employees recently. The ones that remained and, for some reason, still want to make phones for HTC, are working on the Exodus.
Tags: BitCoin, blockchain, Exodus, HTC
If you hate that the Note 9 reuses the Note 8's design, then you're doing smartphones wrong


Yale-New Haven Medical Center is a nationally recognized Level I Trauma Center. Most complex trauma occurring in Southern Connecticut is triaged to Yale, and the institution serves as a tertiary referral center post-traumatic reconstruction for southern New England.
All members of the department participate in fracture care. Complex reconstructions and fracture problems are also managed by this division. The Orthopaedic Trauma Service is comprehensively supported by numerous orthopaedic and surgical subspecialties.


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Групата е съставена от 10 отбора, играе се всеки срещу всеки в две срещи на разменено гостуване. За победа се начисляват 2 точки, за равенство 1, а за загуба не се начисляват точки. Отборите заели последните две места отпадат в "Б" група.

Класиране

Влизат
 Торпедо (Русе)
 Спартак (София)
 Торпедо (Димитрово)
 ДНВ (Пловдив)

Отпадат
 Торпедо (София)
 Червено знаме (Марек)

Резултати

Резултатът от мача Спартак (Сталин) – Торпедо (Пловдив) 3:0 е присъден служебно. Двубоят Торпедо (София) – Динамо (София) завършва 0:2, но е анулиран с мотив "опорочен от съдията". В преиграването резултатът е 2:4. Мачът Червено знаме (София) – Строител (София) завършва 1:2, но е преигран – 1:3.

Голмайстори

Състав на шампиона Динамо (София)

Източници
 Българските футболни първенства 1924-2003
 bulgarian-football.com – Български футболен архив

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One of the most treasured and special ingredients of Campania iscolatura di alici. Its roots date back to ancient Rome where it was known as garum. The deep brown elixir is made by hand, using only natural ingredients and without adding any preservatives. Colatura is the liquid obtained by ageing the anchovies in a controlled environment for 9 to 12 months during the anchovy curing process. The resulting extract then aged for 3 to 4 years in oak wood barrels before being filtered and bottled. Colatura is rich with the flavors of the sea and anchovy flavor.
Colatura is a versatile ingredient and it can be used with pasta, fish, meats, vegetables and bruschette. Use in dressing spaghetti with lightly golden garlic, chili flakes, a small splash of colatura, olive oil, parsley, topped with toasted breadcrumbs. Colatura is also added to the braising liquid for lamb or beef. Try sea bass braised with tomatoes, olives, garlic, parsley, and a splash of colatura. Substitute colatura for anchovy filets in a Caesar salad, again a small splash is all that is needed. Orecchiette with cauliflower, garlic, chilies, raisins, and pine nuts is also enhanced by its magical properties. Also, blanched broccoli tossed with extra virgin olive oil, a small splash of colatura, red pepper flakes and toasted garlic.
It is important not to add any salt to the recipe and we suggest adding colatura little by little until the desired flavor is obtained.


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package com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.dataflow.ui.handler;

import com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.dataflow.core.project.DataflowMavenModel;
import com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.dataflow.core.project.DataflowMavenModel.DataflowMavenModelFactory;
import com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.dataflow.ui.DataflowUiPlugin;
import com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.ui.util.ProjectFromSelectionHelper;
import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import com.google.common.base.Strings;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractHandler;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.NullProgressMonitor;

/**
 * A handler that updates the Dataflow Version of the selected project.
 */
public class ModifyDataflowVersionHandler extends AbstractHandler {
  private static final String NAMESPACE = "com.google.cloud.tools.eclipse.dataflow.ui.dataflowVersion.";

  private static final String PIN_COMMAND_ID = NAMESPACE + "pin";
  private static final String TRACK_COMMAND_ID = NAMESPACE + "track";
  private static final String UPDATE_COMMAND_ID = NAMESPACE + "update";

  private final DataflowMavenModelFactory modelFactory;

  public ModifyDataflowVersionHandler() {
    this(new DataflowMavenModelFactory());
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  ModifyDataflowVersionHandler(DataflowMavenModelFactory dataflowMavenModelFactory) {
    this.modelFactory = dataflowMavenModelFactory;
  }

  @Override
  public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
    String commandId = event.getCommand().getId();
    if (Strings.isNullOrEmpty(commandId)) {
      return null;
    }
    IProject project = ProjectFromSelectionHelper.getFirstProject(event);
    if (project == null) {
      throw new ExecutionException(
          "Exception while modifying Dataflow Maven Dependency: no project selected");
    }

    IProgressMonitor monitor = new NullProgressMonitor();

    try {
      DataflowMavenModel model = modelFactory.fromProject(project);

      switch (commandId) {
        case PIN_COMMAND_ID:
        case UPDATE_COMMAND_ID:
          model.pinDataflowDependencyToCurrent(monitor);
          return null;
        case TRACK_COMMAND_ID:
          model.trackDataflowDependency(monitor);
          return null;
        default:
          DataflowUiPlugin.logWarning(
              "Unknown Command ID %s in ModifyDataflowVersionHandler", commandId);
      }
    } catch (CoreException e) {
      throw new ExecutionException(
          "Exception while modifying Dataflow Maven Dependency for project " + project.getName(),
          e);
    }
    return null;
  }
}

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How kudzu became the 'bad seed' of plant world
Kudzu's journey to becoming the bad seed of the continent's plant world has close parallels in historical attitudes towards immigration, regionalism and nationalism, argues Western environmental historian Kenny Reilly.
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By Debora Van Brenk
Environmental historian Kenny Reilly's MA thesis examines the shift in perceptions about kudzu during the past 144 years. He is writing a chapter about the plant in a soon-to-be-published anthology of environmental history.
Under different circumstances, kudzu might be heralded for its utility – its leaves ideal for grazing cattle, its root a treatment for stomach upset. Instead, the climbing and coiling perennial vine is almost universally reviled as a noxious weed, a scourge – 'the vine that ate the South.'
The line between hero and goat has been drawn and redrawn several times since kudzu's introduction into North America at the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia.
Its journey to becoming the bad seed of the continent's plant world has close parallels in historical attitudes towards immigration, regionalism and nationalism, argues environmental historian Kenny Reilly.
"Kudzu has been made a scapegoat for a lot of other issues," said Reilly, whose History MA thesis examines the shift in perceptions about kudzu during the past 144 years. He is writing a chapter about the plant in a soon-to-be-published anthology of environmental history.
"Before studying this, I would not have thought the way we describe plants and animals could be influenced by racism or sexism or other forms of bigotry. But it's really interesting seeing how people can graft identities you'd think would be reserved for people – like 'Southern' and 'Northern,' 'Asian' and 'native' – onto a plant like kudzu."
When planted by the hundreds of acres in the 1920s, kudzu was the exotic darling of farmers, botanists and druggists alike.
First, a bit of context.
When planted by the hundreds of acres in the 1920s, kudzu was the exotic darling of farmers, botanists and druggists alike. The plant's deep roots prevented soil erosion on the South's sandy-loam cotton and tobacco fields. Its verdant leaves provided rich fodder for livestock. Ground into powder, it became a digestive aid and hangover cure.
But as populations moved from rural settings to cities in the industrializing South of the Second World War, farms were abandoned and kudzu grew unchecked in the countryside. Capable of growing two metres a week, the plant quickly enveloped trees and farmsteads. Native plant species were in the fight of their lives.
At the same time, the United States was at war with Japan – and anything 'Asian' on American soil became suspect. References to kudzu in contemporaneous news stories, advertisements and agricultural bulletins changed to battle language.
"You started to see kudzu described as a 'Japanese monster devouring the landscape.' The plant became racialized as an Asian invader, an invasive, an unwanted immigrant," Reilly said.
The vine with a fragrance once compared favourably to the lovely mountains of Japan was now a mirror of Americans' fear – the embodiment of being overrun by an occupying force. And that's why, Reilly said, scientists' research efforts also became devoted to the plant's eradication rather than its potential usefulness.
"When people are talking about these species, where does the science begin and where does the racism begin? If it weren't so intensely vilified, there might have been more research in to how to use the plant and how to make the most of it."
In the 1980s, the vine began to encroach upon more Northern climes – having already blanketed millions of acres south of the Mason-Dixon Line – and language describing its origin also evolved.
"In Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, they became 'Southern' plants. One newspaper article said, 'the scourge of the South, imported from the Orient, has arrived in the North,'" Reilly said.
There was no mistaking that some framed this as a re-enactment of the American Civil War – only botanical – and this time, the South was winning.
Reilly cited two Mississippi postcards of the time that show a verdant overgrowth of kudzu and, in jest, advise readers to take "southern Revenge" and "plant kudzu seeds up nawth."
In the past decade, kudzu has taken root along roadsides in Southwestern Ontario. Reilly noted some writers are again redefining the plant in a way that may be more cultural than biological – this time, as an American import that threatens nothing less than Canada's iconic maples.
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As our information moves faster, we move faster. And as more of humanity comes online (2.3 billion more people in 2016–2017 alone), it's causing a fundamental and spontaneous restructuring of our collective behavior. The overlay of our evolving planet wide digital nervous system has taken the perennial drivers of change — human needs, politics, geography, culture — and woven new patterns from them. All of us, especially those who are guiding businesses, need a new framework to understand and adapt.