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VIEWPOINTS, Outreach activities: advice, resources and ideas for life scientists
Allergy and the microbiome, a bidirectional influence – a 'science and society' outreach event in Spain
Isabel Varela Nieto
Research Professor, CSIC
The Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine (IMMA) of the CEU San Pablo University of Madrid (Spain) hosted a science outreach event on May 23rd 2019 supported by FEBS and promoted by the FEBS Science and Society Committee within the general topic "Healthy microbiome, healthy host".
The English program is shown below:
The IMMA is a multidisciplinary research center with several projects focused on the study of clinical and experimental immunopathology. Some of their projects are on the microbiome. Its director Dr Domingo Barber was the main organizer of the event.
It was the first time that CEU San Pablo University hosted this important event, which was held in its central campus. It was advertised in Spanish and English and open to the general public. CEU offered school buses for their secondary school students and teachers to attend. The event included several videos recorded by the youngest members of the Barber lab and games addressed principally to teach and attract the attention of secondary school students.
The FEBS Science and Society Committee member and president elect of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Prof. Isabel Varela-Nieto, and the dean of the School of Medicine of CEU San Pablo University, Prof. Tomás Chivato, inaugurated the event. Prof. Varela-Nieto introduced FEBS and the FEBS Network to the audience and emphasized the importance of getting basic scientific concepts clear to the general public.
Next, members of the Allergy Network ARADyAL explained to the attendees the growing prevalence of allergy, some of the causes including increased environmental stress as pollution, the importance of collaborative research to tackle the problem and the relationship between health and the microbiome.
This was followed by a practical example to the attendees prepared by Barber´s PhD students who used several home-made videos to explain in simple words what the microbiota is and how a scientific project on microbiota is carried out from the sample to the bioinformatics analysis of data. They explained the most important steps for the success of research projects involving human microbiota.
Finally, there was a colloquium with attendees to answer questions, which was followed by a mobile contest carried out by using the App Mentimeter to test if the attendees had got the concepts right and to reinforce the scientific messages.
For more information (in Spanish) please see:
Newsletter CEU Media http://www.ceumedia.es/tv/24513/lasalergias- centran-el-debate-en-la-jornada-de-divulgaci-n-cient-fica-de-la-febs/
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Dr. Isabel Varela-Nieto graduated and earned her doctorate in Chemistry, Biochemistry Section, at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). She has been a visiting guest scientist at the Medical Schools of Uppsala (FEBS Fellow, Sweden) and San Diego (MEC Sabbatical, USA). She is Professor of Research at the CSIC and group leader at the CIBER of rare diseases (CIBERER, ISCIII) in Madrid. From the early 1990s she has been studying hearing neurobiology and IGF-1 actions. She was the first Chair of the SEBBM Science for Society working group with which she actively collaborates. She is currently the president of the SEBBM and a member of the FEBS Network working group and FEBS Science and Society Committee.
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Elwin Reimink

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title: Authentication in Time--Triggered Systems using Time-delayed Release of Keys
authors: Armin Wasicek, Christian El Salloum, and Hermann Kopetz
conference: Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed computing (ISORC), April 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISORC.2011.14
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Dana Erdman, CD-BIM, leads effort and shares advice with women who are considering a career in construction
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Meet Dana Erdman, CD-BIM, and Director of Technology and Innovation at Bulley & Andrews (B&A). While the company uses Matterport in their day-to-day operations, she shares the innovative way they leveraged the technology to help prepare employees to return to work in a post-COVID world. Dana also tells us about her surprising journey to B&A, and gives advice to women who are interested in breaking into the construction industry. Follow her on LinkedIn.
You're the Director of Technology and Innovation at Bulley & Andrews. Tell us about your work and how you got into this field.
Typically, I think most people would point to their college degree as the explanation here, but my degree is in Theatre Arts Management. I never once pictured myself working for a construction company. I had a variety of really odd jobs once I graduated college; I sold mattresses and worked as a scout for a talent agency. I was trying to figure out the theatre scene, but it was really hard to feel settled and find purpose.
I was always into technology. I was one of the first kids in school to get a computer at home. I started downloading music off of Napster and Limewire. I figured out how to get around the AOL dial-up loop. I was interested in learning more about computers, about how they work, and what they could do.
I ended up at a temp agency after my foray in odd jobs and was hired for an administrative position at Bulley & Andrews (B&A). I worked my way up from there.
I wanted to learn as much as I could from anyone who was willing to give me the time of day. I didn't know construction, but I knew technology and I knew hard work, and I used that to help not only push myself forward, but the company forward as well."
How did Bulley & Andrews use Matterport for their office re-opening. Are there any other ways the company uses our platform that you would like to share?
During the shelter in place orders, our company communication was a top priority. It was important that people felt engaged to each other and the company they work for. Once the orders were lifted, B&A began to formulate a plan to reintroduce our employees back to the office.
Our leadership team knew we had to be transparent and over communicate the changes people would experience. Matterport helped us do just that by illustrating the health and safety protocols we put in place, including new room capacities, flow protocols and furniture reconfiguration to enable employees to social distance."
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What advice would you give to women trying to break into this industry? What do you think is the most significant barrier to female leadership?
I recognize there are challenges for women in any industry. But as a traditionally, male-dominated one, construction is particularly difficult. However, it's important to note that within the last few years, support and encouragement for women to become involved in this industry has been stronger than ever and leadership positions haven't looked as diverse as they do now.
In order to be successful in the industry at large, construction firms recognize that they have to be diverse and inclusive."
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Anything else you would like to add?
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Rudolf Kirchschläger (; 20. marts 1915 – 30. marts 2000) var en østrigsk jurist, diplomat, udenrigsminister og forbundspræsident (1974 – 1986).

Kirchschläger gjorde under 2. verdenskrig tjeneste i den tyske hær, men var på intet tidspunkt medlem af nazistpartiet. Ved krigens afslutning havde han grad af kaptajn.

Fra 1947 til 1954 var han dommer, i 1954 indtrådte han som juridisk sagkyndig i det østrigske udenrigsministerium, hvor han bl.a. beskæftigede sig med den Østrigske Statstraktat og neutralitetsloven, der banede vejen for, at 4-magtsbesættelsen af Østrig kunne bringes til ophør i 1955.

I årene 1967 – 1970 var han østrigsk ambassadør i Prag, hvor han bl.a. satte sig op imod sine instruktioner fra udenrigsminister Kurt Waldheim ved at udstede visum til Østrig til et meget stort antal tjekkoslovakiske borgere, der ønskede at flygte for den sovjettiske invasion i 1968.

I 1970 indtrådte han som udenrigsminister i Bruno Kreiskys regering uden at tilslutte sig noget parti.

Ved præsidentvalget i 1974 opstillede han som partiløs (men støttet af Kreiskys parti, SPÖ) og vandt 51,7% af stemmerne. Han opnåede som forbundspræsident en meget stor popularitet og autoritet. Han blev ved valget i 1980 opstillet af både det socialdemokratiske parti, SPÖ, og det konservative ÖVP og fik ikke mindre end 79,9% af stemmerne.

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Defying Dostum: A new Jombesh and the struggle for leadership over Afghanistan's Uzbeks
Author: Thomas Ruttig
New Jombesh's leadership, with Alem Sa'i (4th from left) and Ahmad Eshchi (5th from left)
After years of attempts at inner-party reform, dissidents of Jombesh, one of Afghanistan's major political parties, have given up. They have left and created a new party; not very surprisingly it is called the "New Jombesh." The recent departure to Turkey – officially for 'medical treatment' – by 'old' Jombesh leader (and First Vice President) Abdul Rashid Dostum indirectly facilitated this step. AAN's co-director, Thomas Ruttig (with input by Ali Yawar Adili), takes a closer look at this emerging competition for the leadership over Afghanistan's Uzbeks.
A new political party has been launched by dissidents from Abdul Rashid Dostum's Jombesh. Jombesh-e Nawin-e Afghanistan (New Movement of Afghanistan) officially declared its existence – the step traditionally taken by new Afghan parties before officially registering – at a press conference on 11 June 2017.
The new party's launch happened only a month after the 'old' Jombesh's leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former warlord of Uzbek ethnicity who is also the country's First Vice President, left Afghanistan for Turkey. Ostensibly, this trip was for 'medical treatment'. In fact, it amounted to an all-but-official dismissal from his position in response to Dostum's involvement in a high-profile case of violence against a former political ally (more on this below). (1) While in Turkey, Dostum joined a new tripartite Etelaf bara-ye Nejat-e Afghanistan (Alliance for the Salvation of Afghanistan) forged in his Ankara residence; it is a coalition between his 'old' Jombesh, Jamiat-e Islami and the wing of the Hazara-dominated Hezb-e Wahdat led by Muhammad Muhaqqeq (see here). (A separate AAN dispatch on this issue will follow soon.)
The removal of Dostum from the scene and the establishment of yet another opposition alliance are additional expressions of the multi-faceted crisis that the National Unity Government (NUG) has faced since it was established almost three years ago. This crisis is now increasingly underpinned by ethnic and political polarisation, both within the NUG and beyond (for information about earlier episodes of the crisis see AAN analysis here, here and here).
With the overshadowing figure of Dostum away and his return unclear, the dissidents dared to do what they had tried to avoid for more than a decade whilst pushing for reform (and, without saying it aloud, trying to sideline the volatile Dostum) – they made a break with the mother party. (For more on the reform attempts in Jombesh, see this 2012 AAN report)
While the new party still has to register, the new Jombesh is, for now, led by a temporary executive council. The first party congress will be held "soon" according to Muhammad Alem Sa'i, the party's current leading figure. Sa'i is a former governor of Jowzjan (2009-13) and, at the time, has led an interesting group of younger Turkish-educated reformers called the Aidan Group. The members of this group owe their careers to Dostum after he had selected them for scholarships abroad. They tried, after their return to Afghanistan, to win his support for their own claim to the party leadership, but this failed. In 2013, Dostum and Sa'i fell out over the latter's refusal to join the opposition alliance to which Dostum then still belonged, the National Front of Afghanistan. After protests staged by Dostum's followers against Sa'i, and an attack on his residence, (media report here), the central government decided to replace Sa'i as governor.
According to Sa'i, the new party has already been unofficially operating and recruiting members in Kabul and the provinces for four years. He claimed it had branches in 25 provinces and members from all ethnic groups.
The original Jombesh, officially called Jombesh-e Melli-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan (National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan), is one of the country's main tanzims, ie the military-political networks that emerged during the fight against the Soviet occupation (1979-98). This one, however, was originally set up by the communist regime as a security guard (a "group for the defence of the revolution") around the oilfields of Sherberghan in Jowzjan province and Dostum's home area. (2) Jombesh had, and still has, its main basis drawn from among the Turkic-speaking population of northern Afghanistan. These are mainly the larger Uzbek ethnic groups and fewer Turkmens.
However, Jombesh's and Dostum's clout does not solely come from a successful appeal to ethnic loyalties. Dostum has also, consistently and successfully, prevented contenders for the leadership emerging from within his party and the wider ethnic community. If necessary, he acted ruthlessly, even vis-à-vis his own close followers, if they deviated from his line or threatened to become too much of a challenge. In the past, there were also hand-outs to his followers and to Sheberghan's population (such as free gas supply, a feature that now appears to have ceased). Such hand-outs were financed from his control over the Sheberghan gas fields and, according to reports that are difficult to verify, payments from regional allies in Central Asia and beyond, including, at least for some time, the US (see, for example, this report, p 4). Dostum was also among those warlords who were re-mobilised with CIA money as allies against the Taleban in 2001; the Washington Post, at that time, called him "America's man in Afghanistan".
New Jombesh's political positions
The New Jombesh has clearly put itself in the government's camp. In its first statement in mid-May 2017 (still before its official launch) published over social media – the communication channel of choice for many Afghan politicians, political parties and social groups – the party declared its unequivocal "support for the government under the leadership of President Ghani," adding that the government should "complete its term."
In the on-going debate about the failures of the National Unity Government and the demands by the opposition for reforms (demands that are often primarily aimed at the re-distribution of government positions) or even a change in the political system (AAN analysis here), the New Jombesh has rejected demands for resignation of the National Unity Government and early presidential elections. It also announced that it would take part in the recently scheduled 2018 parliamentary elections.
On the subject of the recent terrorist attacks and protests in Kabul (see AAN analysis here, and here), the New Jombesh tried to take a balanced position, as it called for "deep and fundamental reforms to the security agencies," the avoidance of "any political, ethnic and regional taste" in the demands of the opposition, and the identification and prosecution of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks. Muhammad Alem Kohkan, the secretary of the New Jombesh, even offered up the party as a mediator between the protestors and the government. (3)
The new party's first official statements do not distinguish it much from other Afghan political parties. The catchwords used are familiar: supporting national unity, reform and political pluralism with this based upon "the principles of Islamic and human ethics" and aspiring to "consolidate the democratic system."
The name of the new party suggests that the dissident's break with the mother-party is not that clear-cut and that it probably intends to, in the first place, recruit among the 'old' Jombesh's core base: the northern Afghan Turkic-speakers or turk-tabaran (4). In order to do so, it has raised Jombesh's old battle cry over the Uzbeks' (or Turks') under-representation in the government institutions demanding a "fair representation of different ethnic and social groups." With its potential connections to the (resources of the) government – from which Dostum once more has become estranged – this amounts to a veritable challenge to the so far unchallengeable Dostum.
At the same time, the new party – just as the 'old' Jombesh did – tries to reach out to other ethnic groups, not least because Afghanistan's laws governing political parties exclude purely ethnicity-based parties. The new party called upon "all well-natured and patriotic countrymen, including respected ulema, tribal elders, civil and media activists, traders, business people, farmers, workers, women and youths, who wish to participate actively and constructively in the political struggle" to join. It remains to be seen, though, whether the provincial branches of both Jombeshs have really managed to recruit significant numbers of non-turk-tabaran. (5) Although the 'old' Jombesh also always aspired to develop a base among non-Turks, it was never overly successful.
Unsurprisingly, and probably correctly, Sa'i portrayed the establishment of the new party as a continuation of earlier attempts to reform Jombesh from the inside (read AAN analysis of the earlier attempts here and here). In a 18 June 2017 interview with Kabul-based newspaper Madanyat, he said that, as deputy head of the old Jombesh, he had tried to bring reforms to the party, but there had been "no open ear to pay attention to these ideas and programmes" and that in the party "flattering is heeded more than thought, talent and programme." He also criticised the old party for being "monopolised by one family," adding that "no role is granted to people outside the family of General Abdul Rashid Dostum." Therefore, he said, a council, not an individual, would lead the new party.
Esmatullah Raghib, a columnist for the Ghor-based Jam-e Ghor website, criticised Dostum for having allowed both Karzai and Ghani to repeatedly "deceive" him "without learning from the experience". Indeed Karzai, for example, had given Dostum the title of "Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Afghan National Army," a grandiose-sounding position without staff, mandate or budget. Raghib also accused Dostum of "suppression" of the younger, educated generation of Uzbeks who wanted to become politically active outside Jombesh.
A chain of allies-turned-foes
Known politicians among the new party's leaders who are mentioned in the media include Jamahir Anwari (a Turkmen and former Minister of Refugees and Repatriation Affairs), Hashim Ortaq (an MP from Faryab), Nazari Turkman (a former deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga from Kunduz) and Ezzatullah Amed, former head of Kabul Polytechnic. Former Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani has denied his reported association with the party.
Ahmad Eshchi, son of an arbab (rich landlord), and former governor of Dostum's home province Jawzjan in the 1990s, and a son who is a member of Jowzjan's provincial council have also joined, as photos on social media show. Eshchi – formerly and better known as Engineer Ahmad – was involved in a widely reported personal conflict with Dostum in late 2016, after which Eshchi accused Dostum of serious physical assault and abuse (see, for instance, one media report here).
The case was never fully investigated, although there were arrest warrants issued for a number of Dostum's bodyguards and Afghanistan's donors reportedly strongly supported such a move. When Dostum refused to cooperate with the attorney general, government security forces surrounded his residence and then stood down after he mobilised his own armed supporters.
This was only the latest outbreak in a long-standing political rivalry between Eshchi and Dostum. Having joined Jombesh in the 1990s with a small, but well-organised, northern, left-leaning faction of the 1980s' ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, called Groh-e Kar (Labour Group), Eshchi had already once tried to set up a rival party to Jombesh in the north. In 2003, together with former left-wingers including Groh-e Kar, he launched Jombesh-e Hambastegi-ye Melli Afghanistan (National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan). His attempt to run for president one year later was prevented by Dostum who feared a split of his vote bank. Eshchi temporarily returned to Jombesh but, in 2016, Dostum accused him of financing "the opposition" and being involved in "security problems". Both were references to cooperation with the Taleban, or other personal enemies, as Dostum's convoy had been attacked twice by insurgents while he was personally leading anti-Taleban operations in the north (see media reporting here and here).
Somewhat similarly, another former Dostum ally-turned-foe became part of the New Jombesh: Gul Muhammad Pahlawan who, together with his family, fell out with Dostum after he allegedly ordered the assassination of his brother, Faryab-based commander Rasul Pahlawan in 1996 (Rasul, a Dostum ally, had refused to give up 'autonomy' to the latter with his stronghold in Jowzjan). Another brother, General Abdul Malek Pahlawan, who had risen to become Dostum's deputy, turned the guns against him in revenge in 1997 and helped the Taleban take over Mazar-e Sharif. Later, in 2004, Malek was part of a first attempt to wrest at least part of the northern Turkic electorate from Dostum's control when he set up Hezb-e Azadi (Freedom Party). (6)
Legal action and elections
Dostum interpreted the investigation against him and his bodyguards in the Eshchi case as an attempt by the president and his allies to sideline, not just himself, but the Uzbeks in general. A few months after he became First Vice President of the country – the highest position ever taken by an Uzbek in Afghanistan – he had accused the president of only giving him unimportant tasks, such as the oversight over the National Olympic Committee. He was "not Ronaldo," he was quoted as saying then, referring to the Portuguese football star, "You can't just throw a football at me."
This was followed by complaints that the government had not supported him when he was attacked during his 2016 anti-Taleban operations, and that National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar and intelligence chief Massum Stanaksai (both Pashtuns) had conspired against him and wanted him killed – implicitly accusing them of being part of a "fifth column" within the government (quoted from this Dari video). He accused Ghani of favouring Pashtuns in his government, particularly from his home province Logar.
The Eshchi case was not the first time legal action was sought against Dostum for violence against a former ally. In 2008, Ghani's predecessor Karzai suspended Dostum from office and wanted him arrested after a similar case of "kidnap and torture" of Akbar Bai. (7) The latter had accused Dostum of planning the murder of political rivals in his ethnic group, but was also preparing a challenge to Dostum's political leadership among the turk-tabaran. (8) Dostum's guards prevented a planned arrest by shooting at the police. In a similar move as that involving the recent departure of Dostum, Karzai and his US allies persuaded him to take a 'vacation' in Turkey. (9) One year later, he was brought back, in what the Telegraph called "a last minute gambit by Mr Karzai to secure an ethnic bloc vote which had seemed likely to split in recent weeks."
The embarrassment potential of the Eshchi case for president Ghani comes from the fact that he had put Dostum on his 2014 presidential ticket in the first place, while full-knowing his background and volatile character. Although Ghani had forced Dostum to half-apologise for his civil war atrocities (see AAN reporting here), the alliance was criticised – particularly as Ghani, during his first attempt at the presidency in 2009, had called Dostum, then a Karzai ally, a "known killer" (quoted here). In order to get Dostum on his side, Ghani had to extract Dostum from an opposition alliance that, in the run-up to this election, united almost all political forces that were considered as the main representative of the three largest non-Pashtun ethnic groups: the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras (see here and here). To do so, Ghani offered Dostum the first vice-presidency, so far always held by a Tajik – with 'his' Uzbek vote block that numerically was large enough to have swung the 2014 result in Ghani's favour. (10)
The publicity generated by the Eshchi affair enabled President Ghani to generate enough pressure to make Dostum leave on a pretext while, at the same time, avoiding a public break with him and deepening the on-going government crisis. (Some Afghan media reports quoted a spokesman of the president as saying that, if Dostum was proven innocent in the investigations in the Eshchi case, he could resume working in his position (see for example here).
'Old' Jombesh's reaction
The old Jombesh party reacted with derision to the establishment of the new Jombesh. On the day of its launch, it said it considered the newcomers "affiliated with the government" who would not cause "any disruption or split to the Jombesh party". Some Dostum supporters went further, calling the New Jombesh "agents of the Palace" and announced on their social media pages that the new party would "not be allowed to operate among the turk-tabaran". Abdullah Rahimi, a Jombesh representative in Germany, even likened the new party's leadership with "suicide bombers imported from other side of the border" on his Facebook account.
Already in mid-March, with the Eshchi affair at its zenith, Dostum – who since the last party congress in 2008 officially is 'only' Jombesh's "honorary chairman" – made it clear that he was not willing to rescind control over the mother-party. After years of non-family members being nominal heads of the party, (11) he had his oldest son, Haji Bator Dostum, "unanimously elected" as acting head "until the convening of its fourth congress", which has regularly been announced since 2011 when it had originally been due. (12)
A Turkey link?
Afghan observers with knowledge of Jombesh's internal discussions told AAN they believe Turkey played a role in the promotion of the younger generation of Afghan Uzbeks now leading the New Jombesh and supported the removal of Dostum from the Afghan scene by agreeing to host him. A number of the new party's leaders, including Sa'i, have studied in Turkey – ironically with grants handed out via Jombesh. They also believe that the Afghan government, with possible support by Washington, obtained President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's support to host Dostum again. (13) In exchange, they say, Ghani conceded control over a network of Afghan-Turk schools to the government in Ankara in February 2017. This was also reported by Afghan media. (14)
There have been good relations between the government in Ankara and the co-Turk Dostum ever since Turkey, after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, tried to project some influence, if not political hegemony, over Turkic Central Asia (which, geographically, extends to the northern slopes of the Hindukush, including what used to be called Afghan Turkestan). Also, Turkey had hosted Dostum already and has been home for parts of his family for some years now. By hosting Dostum again, observers argue, this would further obligate Ghani to the Erdogan government and give the latter increasing influence in Afghanistan.
A ticket home for Dostum?
The establishment of the New Jombesh is the result of a combination of genuine, but failed attempts to reform one of the most powerful parties of the country. It is a foreboding of political positioning before the coming elections. Its break with the mother party seems to herald the end of the attempts for inner-party reform in the original party. Given Dostum's known reaction to inner-party dissent, a way back for its leaders seems out of the question. They obviously hope to gain the support of the president's camp by providing it with a platform to mobilise Uzbeks and Turkmens of northern Afghanistan independently from Dostum for the parliamentary elections in 2018 and the next presidential election in 2019.
Whether the president's side will take up this offer depends on whether it wants to use Dostum's absence from the country to sideline, or at least weaken, an unloved ally without losing face and to create a political alternative in his ethnic stronghold – or whether it chooses to patch up the conflict with Dostum, as Karzai did before the 2009 presidential election. The reports of his possible return, if the investigation against him (or rather, his bodyguards) proves his innocence, seem to point to the latter. Such an outcome would appear to strengthen Dostum's hand, as he would, not only return to his vice-presidential position, but also could likely increase the price for his support for the Ghani ticket in the upcoming elections. The fact that Dostum has joined the tripartite "Alliance for the Salvation of Afghanistan" suggests that he is positioning himself to either challenge the government or to use this challenge as a bargaining chip. (A separate AAN dispatch on this issue will follow soon.)
The return of a strengthened Dostum would cement his quasi-monopolistic role as "the Uzbek leader" – a role he is consistently given by the country's leadership and its allies, as well as the media – and would be another backlash for the emergence of more pluralistic (party) politics in Afghanistan. The new Jombesh, in that scenario, is likely to end up in the margins of Afghanistan's political landscape. However, the final break of the erstwhile Jombesh reformers with the mother party also shows that there is, both a need, and a niche, for political alternatives in northern Afghanistan.
(1) For now, the Afghan government is officially sticking to the medical treatment version and has called rumours about Dostum being sent into exile "baseless". The Afghan news agency Tolo reported that relatives had "forced" Dostum to have treatment in Turkey.
(2) During the 1980's civil wars, Jombesh, which was, in essence, a militia, fought on the side of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government (1987-92) against the mujahedin. It quickly became the regime's unofficial shock troop. Its brutal forays into southern Afghanistan earned Dostum's fighters the nickname of kelim-jam, meaning "carpet thieves". (They did more than just stealing, as reported by the Afghanistan Justice Project (pp 49ff). In 1987, Dostum's militia was upgraded to the 53rd Infantry Division of the army and, in 1990, he officially became a division commander and a general (see this report, p 17). Five years later, in 1992, with the Najibullah government losing Russian financial support, Dostum did a last-minute about-face. His men occupied Kabul airport, joined the mujahedin and handed Kabul to them; they also prevented Najibullah from boarding a plane into exile in India. As a reward, Hazrat Sebghatullah Mujaddedi, the first interim president of the new mujahedin government, officially gave Dostum his general's rank again. The mujahedin's mistrust vis-à-vis the 'former communist', though, never fully went away.
As a party, Jombesh was created in early spring 1992, immediately after Dostum's break with the Najibullah government, under the name of Jombesh-e Shemal (Movement of the North) (see this AAN report, p4). Initially, it was designed as an all-northern counterweight to Shura-ye Nazar, the Jamiat commanders' network set up by late Ahmad Shah Massud. Atta Muhammad Nur, then a local Jamiat commander outside Mazar-e Sharif, was initially actually a deputy leader of Jombesh (see this report, p 2). Periodically, Jombesh also included Tajiks and Pashtuns, depending on the shifts of regional alliances in northern Afghanistan. After a few months, in June 1992, the party officially was renamed "Jombesh."
(3) Kohkan has been a member of the executive council of the Rights and Justice Party that was headed by National Security Advisor, Hanif Atmar. Before that, he was active in Jombesh's cultural and publication section. He is said to be a relative of Hashem Ortaq, an MP from Maimana (Faryab province), whose name is also mentioned as a leading member of the new Jombesh.
(4) Turk-tabar can also relate to an even broader ethnic spectrum or Central Asian background, including the Tajiks, for example.
(5) This has not been overly successful, even in the case of old Jombesh. In 2005, for instance, it adopted a fringe party from Nangrahar province – Hezb-e Mobarezin-e Melli-ye Demokrat-e Solh-e Afghanistan (Party of National Democratic Fighters for Peace in Afghanistan) – as its local branch and awarded its leader Zhan Pacha Shinwari with a seat on Jombesh's political committee. Shinwari was expelled again in 2013 (source: Aina TV, 16 June 2005).
(6) After 1997, Malek (who does not use the takhallos Pahlawan anymore) fell out with the Taleban again and fled to the US. The Taleban were so upset about his 'treason' that, when the US demanded the extradition of Osama ben Laden after the October 2000 terrorist attack against a US navy vessel in the Gulf of Yemen, they asked for Malek in exchange.
Malek's Hezb-e Azadi (Freedom Party) was registered in 2004, but disappeared after the Ministry of Justice's 2010 re-registration drive. See also this non-AAN report by the author, pp 29/30. Initially the Freedom Party received protection from Dostum's main northern rival Atta, from Jamiat-e Islami. Later, it was allied with then president Hamed Karzai but, in 2014, Malek supported Abdullah in the election. He currently serves as an adviser to Abdullah.
(7) Another case of violence against a Jombesh dissident was reported by the New York Times in June 2006.
(8) Another leading Turkmen departing Jombesh was Ismail Munshi, from Aqcha in Jowzjan. Munshi was a former deputy head of Jombesh's Executive Council, who walked out on Dostum and the party at a 2011 political committee meeting (here, p 9). It is striking that those who fell out with Dostum were often Turkmens. As AAN had already written in 2011, the "Turkmen are the group who have particularly struggled for reforms in the party and have their own leaders among the Jombesh leadership." (see AAN previous analysis here) Also, on the role of the Turkmens in Jombesh see this report, pp 7-9.)
(9) This was not Dostum's first stint in Turkey. He lived there between 1998 and 2001, after the Taleban ousted him from Mazar-e Sharif, up to his return in 2001 as an US ally (see this report, p 19).
(10) As the 2004 presidential election showed, when Dostum ran and had exactly 10 per cent of the total vote, he has a potential of around 800,000 votes. This is more than double the margin Ghani was over the 50 per cent threshold in 2014. (The total number of valid ballots cast in 2014 was given as 7,120,585, of which Ghani had 3,935,567 and Abdullah 3,185,018. This represents a difference of around 750,000 votes. See the figures here and here)
(11) The non-family member leaders included Sayyed Nurullah Sadat, who had been acting head since either 2004 or 2005 (unclear) and was official head from 2008 to 2013; in a short intermezzo in 2008/09, he was replaced by Mawlawi Kabir, a Sarepul MP. Sayyed Azizullah Kargar has been acting leader since 2013.
(12) Jombesh's Aina TV reported a 400-strong gathering of the party's political committee, its secretariat and provincial leaders, did the election. Enayatullah Babur Farahmand, Dostum's chief of staff, wrote on his Facebook account that the proposal to elect Bator Dostum had come from Kargar himself who – in old 'communist' fashion – had tendered his resignation "on grounds of health problems", but promised to "stand by the side" of the new acting leader to carry out whichever post was designated to him.
Haji Bator Dostum, in contrast to his father, has a modern education. (According to different information he has either graduated in Turkey or the US.) Earlier this year, he travelled to the US in his father's place (reportedly the US refused to give General Dostum a visa, still a decision of the Obama administration). A Jombesh spokesman said he held meetings with an adviser of president Donald Trump and a potential American ambassador to Afghanistan. (see media reports here and here).
(13) The Turkish president was already personally interested in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad in the 1980s. One photo recently re-published in Turkish newspapers (see, for example, here) showed him as a young man admiringly looking up to Hezb-e Islami leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, during an un-dated visit to Turkey; next to him is Tunisia's Islamist leader, Rachid Ghannouchi. In those years, Erdogan was a leadership member and (from 1984 onwards) deputy leader of the (later banned) main Turkish Islamist party, the Refah Partisi (Welfare Party). Erdogan's currently ruling AKP party emerged from a split in one of Refah's Islamist successor parties.
(14) The first two Afghan-Turk schools were actually opened in 1995 and 1996 in Shebarghan and Mazar-e Sharif, which were then still under Dostum's control, while the Taleban were advancing in the rest of the country. The Taleban closed those schools later. In total, six such schools with a total of 5,000 students were active in the country, in Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Sherberghan. They were run by a Turkish non-governmental organisation, Afghan Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), which Ankara sees as linked to the religious Gülen movement outlawed by Erdogan after the failed coup in July 2016. The Turkish government has asked for the schools to be transferred to a government-run educational and charitable foundation. Additionally, according to Tolo news, Kabul agreed to expel "some 150 pro-Gülen Turkish teachers" after the handover. Parents of the students have since then protested the move (see here), arguing that, since the schools had been established by private persons (including Afghans and Turks) and registered as private educational institutions, the government could not hand them over.
Tagged with: Akbar Eshchi, Dostum, Jombesh, Muhammad Alem Sa'i, New Jombesh, Uzbeks
Thematic Category: Political Landscape
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The Rosary, Brown Scapular and The Sabbatine Privilege
Pope St. Pius X said: "If you want peace in your heart, in your home, in your country, assemble together every night and say the ROSARY". Many complain that it is a tedious repetition – that they cannot meditate on the mysteries. Our Blessed Mother gave this advice to St. Dominic: "This is why, before doing anything else, priests should try to kindle a love of prayer in people's hearts and especially a love of my rosary. If only they would all start saying it and persevere, God, in His mercy, could hardly refuse to give them His grace. So I want you to preach my Rosary!"
St. Louis de Montfort said: "I beg of you to beware of thinking of the Rosary as something of little importance – as do ignorant people and even several great but proud scholars. Far from being insignificant, the Rosary is a priceless treasure which is inspired by God." He also tells us: "For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil." St. Dominic prayed to Our Lady that she would force the devils who possessed a man to reveal the truth about devotion to her. The devils were forced by Our Lady to reveal: "Now that we are forced to speak we must also tell you this: Nobody who perseveres in saying the Rosary will be damned, because she obtains for her servants the grace of true contrition for their sins and by means of this they obtain God's forgiveness and mercy." St. Teresa of Avila tells us how priceless a treasure it is by showing the value and merits of a single HAIL MARY. Shortly after her death, she appeared to one of the Sisters of her Community and told her that she was willing to return to a life of suffering until the end of time to merit the degree of glory which God rewards one devoutly recited Hail Mary.
The Brown Scapular
Another magnificent assurance of Salvation is Our Lady's Brown Scapular. One of the great mysteries of our time is that the great majority of Catholics either ignore or have forgotten the Blessed Virgin Mary's promise: "Take this Scapular, it shall be a sign of salvation, a protection in danger and a pledge of peace. Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire." She further says: "Wear it devoutly and perseveringly. It is my garment. To be clothed in it means you are continually thinking of me, and I in turn, am always thinking of you and helping you to secure eternal life."
Many Catholics may not know that it is the wish of our Holy Father, the Pope, that the Scapular Medal should not be worn in place of the Cloth Scapular without sufficient reason. Mary cannot be pleased with anyone who substitutes the medal out of vanity or fear to make open profession of religion. Such persons run the risk of not receiving the promise. The medal has never been noted for any of the miraculous preservations attributed to the Brown Cloth Scapular. To obtain the fullest possible benefits from the Brown Scapular devotion, one must be validly invested (sometimes called enrolled) in the Brown Scapular by a priest. Every priest has the privilege of enrolling Catholics in the Scapular. After having received the initial blessed Scapular from a priest, no other Scapular need be blessed before wearing. The blessing and imposition are attached to the wearer for life.
During the Scapular Anniversary celebration in Rome, Pope Pius XII told a very large audience to wear the Brown Scapular as a sign of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady asked for this consecration in the last apparition at Fatima, when she appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel, holding the Brown Scapular out to the whole world. It was Her last loving appeal to souls to wear Her Scapular as a sign of Consecration to Her Immaculate Heart.
St. Claude de la Colombiere, the renowned Jesuit and spiritual director of St. Margaret Mary, gives a point which is enlightening. He said: "Because all the forms of our love for the Blessed Virgin, all its various modes of expression cannot be equally pleasing to Her, and therefore do not assist us in the same degree to Heaven. I say without a moments hesitation that the BROWN SCAPULAR IS THE MOST FAVORED OF ALL!" He also adds: "No devotion has been confirmed by more numerous authentic miracles than the Brown Scapular."
The two great founders of their own respective Orders, St. Alphonsus of the Redemptorists and St. Don Bosco of the Salesians – both had a very special devotion to Our Lad of Mount Carmel and both wore Her Brown Scapular. When they died, they were buried in their priestly vestments and Scapulars. Many years later, their graves were opened. The bodies and sacred vestments in which they were buried decayed, BUT THE BROWN SCAPULAR WHICH EACH WAS WEARING WAS PERFECTLY INTACT. The Scapular of St. Alphonsus is on exhibit in his monastery in Rome.
We should even give the Scapular to non-Catholics as Our Lady will bring conversions to those who will wear it and say one Hail Mary each day as the following true story will show: An old man was rushed to the St. Simon Stock Hospital in New York City, unconscious and dying. The nurse, seeing the Brown Scapular on the patient, called the priest. As he was saying the prayers for the dying, the man became conscious and spoke up: "Father, I am not a Catholic." "Then why are you wearing the Brown Scapular?" asked the priest. "I promised my friends to wear it," the patient explained, "and say one Hail Mary a day." "You are dying," the priest told him. "Do you want to become a Catholic?" "All my life I wanted to be one," the gasping man replied. He was baptized, received the last rites and died in peace. Our Lady took another soul under Her mantle, through Her SCAPULAR!
The devils revealed to Francis of Yepes, the brother of St. John of the Cross that three things especially tormented them. The first is the NAME OF JESUS; the second, the NAME OF MARY; and third, THE BROWN SCAPULAR OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL. "Take off that habit," they cried to him, "which snatches too many souls from us. All those clothed in it die piously and escape us."
"The Scapular must be worn on the shoulders in such a manner that one part hangs in front of the body and the other in back. Worn in any other way it carries no indulgence or promise."
The Sabbatine Privilege
The Scapular even extends to Purgatory.
The Sabbatine Privilege is based on the Papal Bull issued on March 3, 1322 by Pope John XXII. This Privilege was approved and confirmed by many popes including St. Pius V. It essentially says that those who wear the Scapular and fulfill two other conditions can obtain early liberation from Purgatory, through the special intercession of the Virgin Mary, on the day consecrated to her, Saturday.
The other two conditions are: 1) Observe chastity according to one's state in life and 2) Recite the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother (the Rosary, with permission from a priest, can be substituted for the office). The other two conditions are: 1) Observe chastity according to one's state in life and 2) Recite the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother (the Rosary, with permission from a priest, can be substituted for the office). Our Lady revealed to Venerable Dominic of Jesus and Mary: "Although many wear my Scapular, only a few fulfill conditions for the Sabbatine Privilege." We maintain the majority don't know them. It is an act of charity to make the Sabbatine Privilege known to all. A soul from Purgatory was asked by a Sister: "What is the average stay of the souls in Purgatory?" The Poor Soul answered: "From thirty to forty years!" Can you see the importance of making Our Lady's Privilege known – if you consider that the flames are the same as the fires of Hell!
A last reminder – we give you the message of one pastor. He said: "If I were positive that all my parishioners died wearing the Brown Scapular, I would be most certain that we would all meet in Heaven." If this pastor can be so certain about his parishioners, why can't all pastors be just as certain? Give your pastor this circular. Why can't every father and mother be certain of their children, family and friends? Explain to them the SCAPULAR PROMISE and the SABBATINE PRIVILEGE. Heed Our Lady's wish: "Wear the Scapular devoutly and perseveringly . . . It shall be a sign of salvation, a protection in danger, and a pledge of peace."
The Real Fatima Story
A Gallup poll disclosed that only one and one-half percent of all Catholics in the Untied States really know the Fatima message. Why? Because the other 98 1/2 percent of American Catholics are ignoring – or do not have a chance to learn about – God's plan for a just and lasting peace.
The time was October 13, 1917 – the place was Fatima, Portugal. The "Miracle of the Sun" was witnessed by more than 70,000 people. An event so outstanding that it was reported in many secular newspapers of the times, including the influential O DIA and O SECULO papers run by atheists and agnostics.
At that time and in four previous apparitions, Our Blessed Mother told three shepherd children that wars were a punishment due to sin and that man must stop offending God "already too much offended." She predicted that if people did not follow the "Peace Plan from Heaven" that Russia would rise and spread her errors throughout the world and that "various nations would be annihilated . . ." She also predicted World War II which would come in the reign of Pius XI – and it arrived right on schedule.
The Blessed Mother gave the three children a frightening vision of Hell and told them this was where the souls of poor sinners go and that "many souls go to Hell because there is no one to pray for them . . ."
Were these vision and predictions for real? The most recent Pontiffs seem to think so – Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. What is the Peace Plan from heaven? Stop offending God with sin, pray the Rosary daily, offer prayers and sacrifices of reparation including the devotion of the Five First Saturdays, consecrate ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and wear the Brown Scapular. We offer a brochure on the story of Our Lady of Fatima which can be ordered from the address listed at the end of this article.
Enrollment and Blessing Formula
for the Brown Scapular
Priest: Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy.
All: And grant us Thy salvation.
Priest: O Lord, hear my prayer.
All: And let my cry come unto Thee.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with thy spirit.
Priest: Let us pray:
O Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of mankind, by Thy right hand sanctify + these Scapulars (this Scapular) which Thy servants will devoutly wear for the love of Thee and of Thy Mother; the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel; so that, by her intercession, they may be protected from the wickedness of the enemy and persevere in Thy grace until death; Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.
The priest now sprinkles the Scapular with Holy Water, after which he places the Scapular on each one saying:
Receive this blessed Scapular and ask the Most Holy Virgin that, by her merits, it may be worn with no stain of sin and may protect you from all harm and bring you into everlasting life. Amen.
After placing the Scapular on each person, the priest continues:
By the power granted to me, I admit you to a share in all the spiritual works performed with the merciful help of Jesus Christ, by the religious of Mount Carmel, in the name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen
May Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, bless + you whom He has been pleased to receive into the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. We beg her to crush the head of the ancient serpent in the hour of your death, and, in the end, to obtain for you a palm and the crown of your everlasting inheritance. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
The priest now sprinkles those enrolled with Holy Water.
Labels: brown scapular, rosary, Sabbatine Privilege
TradCatKnight November 20, 2017 at 8:57 AM
ARMOR AND WEAPONRY!
Annette Marie November 20, 2017 at 9:38 AM
I especially like the part about relief from Purgatory. I'm wearing both brown and purple scapulars...I need all the help I can get! :)
TradCatKnight November 20, 2017 at 10:41 AM
excellent:)
Frank Capra November 20, 2017 at 10:35 PM
Our weapons for combat
Tom Policinski November 21, 2017 at 11:41 PM
How does the purple scapular play into the Brown? I've heard some people say the Brown is so all encompassing, you don't need others. What do you think, Eric? I know you talk about the Purple scapular. I have both.
TradCatKnight November 21, 2017 at 11:55 PM
I HAVE BOTH TOO, THE PURPLE IS SPECIFICALLY FOR THESE ENDTIMES MOST SPECIFICALLY CERTAIN CHASTISEMENTS
Karen Karwowski November 22, 2017 at 7:00 PM
I have been wearing the Brown Scapular and praying the Rosary daily for several years now. I have always kept in mind to fulfill all the conditions of the Sabbatine privilege for the sake of my poor soul. I keep the Purple scapular in a prominent place in my home to bless the entire house and keep us safe from the chastisements to come.
TradCatKnight November 22, 2017 at 7:01 PM
AWESOME KAREN!
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to
the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no
matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the
personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by the
Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we
cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia dos Santos
of Fatima
Good segment with Fr. Gruner
What do I do if I have no traditional priest by me?
http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/05/resistance-missing-mass-spiritual.html
I pray 15 decades daily as Bishop Williamson suggests. There is so much reparation to be made. I wonder how much longer can God put up with this evil generation
:( IT IS SAD
This crisis has only brought me closer to Jesus and Mary
GOOD TO HEAR, KEEP CRUSADING
I heard Fr. Kramer is the head of the Fatima Center? Is this true?
FATIMA CENTER SPLIT...HE HEADS THE AMERICAN SIDE
Please keep me in prayer. I am struggling, Donna P
OF COURSE I WILL:)
What do you think Francis meant when he said a little while ago that this might be the last Christmas? War?
THAT IS POSSIBLE, HES A MASON IN MY OPINION AND ON THE INSIDE HE WOULD KNOW THE PLAN
Any news as to whether there will be more Resistance bishops made in the upcoming year?
HAVENT HEARD ANYTHING YET
Only Our Lady can bring heretics and schismatics back to the Church. She is the destroyer of heresy. This should be in our intentions daily. Pray for heretics!
BINGO! EXCELLENT COMMENT
How many people do you think will die in the next world war. Sorry for being a bit off topic
Thank you for your site Eric. Very balanced and appreciate how blunt you are on the topics.
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Why are the sort and filter options greyed out?
Sometimes Excel's sorting and filtering options become grayed-out and unusable for no apparent reason. This problem doesn't arise very often, but it can be very confusing when it does.
Adding to the confusion, there are several reasons why this can happen! This article explains the reasons sorting and filtering can be disabled, and how to fix the problem.
One of Excel's features is the ability to 'protect' a worksheet, which can prevent it from being sorted, and even prevent it from being changed in any way.
If this is the cause of the problem, you should be able to resolve it by unprotecting the worksheet.
Worksheet protection is covered in depth in our Expert Skills course.
Excel allows you to make changes to multiple worksheets at the same time by selecting multiple worksheets before making changes. This is called a 'worksheet group'.
You cannot use sorting and filtering when multiple worksheets are selected, so if this is the cause of the problem you can fix it by simply selecting a single worksheet.
Worksheet groups are covered in much greater depth in our Essential Skills course.
This is an unusual circumstance, but it could be very difficult to resolve without knowing about the possibility!
Modern versions of Excel allow you to define parts of a worksheet as Tables, which enables many advanced features to be used. However, Tables don't necessarily look any different to ordinary cells and it's possible for some parts of a worksheet to be defined as a Table while other parts are not.
If you try to sort a range of cells that are partially within a table and partially outside a table, you'll find that the Sort and Filter options are grayed-out and unusable, even though the cells might look completely ordinary!
The only way to tell for certain if a cell is contained within a Table is to click on it and look at the Ribbon.
If the cell is contained within a Table, the Table Tools > Design group will appear on the Ribbon.
Removing the Table should re-enable the sorting options (although it's likely that whoever created the Table did so for a reason). You can remove the Table by clicking the Table Tools > Design > Convert to Range button on the Ribbon.
You can learn much more about Tables in our Expert Skills course.
Some Excel data may originate from an external data source, such as a SQL Server database. This isn't a problem in most cases, as Excel is able to apply sorting to most external data sources, but there are some that Excel may be unable to sort.
If the data is held in a data source that Excel cannot sort, you may need to copy it and paste it as Values before you can sort it.
Pasting values is explained in depth in our Essential Skills course.
We also explain external data sources in great depth in our Expert skills course.
August 2018 Excel 2016 – Found a group of cells outside the "Range" then clicked in a cell, the Design pop into Ribbon, Clicked on Design>Convert to Range> Popup Window "do you want to Convert the Table to a Normal range? YES / NO. similar as stated above.
Yes, this is exactly the process shown above, converting a Table into an ordinary Range.
OMG Thank you so much!! I just spent about 2 hours working on the spreadsheet and did not want to start over.. You are a life saver!!!
"Convert to Range" is also ghosted out, so this is not a fix. The worksheet is not grouped or protected. What else could it be?
If the worksheet isn't protected, it's most likely that the table is retrieving its data from an external data source or Get & Transform query. If this is the case, you may need to change the sorting options within the query itself or copy and paste the data elsewhere so that it is no longer connected to another data source.
This is just what I needed. Never realized that before but it makes sense.
Thank you!! Worked in Excel for years and this was driving me nuts!
I had this problem. Could not find the solution until I carefully scanned the cells and noticed in the last row a TINY black corner on the lower right corner of the first cell of that row. Hovering the mouse pointer over the corner made the cursor change from a pointer to a square outline. Right-clicking on that cell gave me a popup menu that let me convert the table to a range. Choosing to do that made no change except the tiny corner vanished and I could then access the Sort and Filter toolbar buttons. Beats me why the creator of this table did their table that way but I'm glad to have the sort/filter buttons available again! Writing this, I also discovered I could have right-clicked on any cell in that column to see "Convert to range" present in the right-click menu. Any other column, that option did not appear.
It looks like you were having the problem mentioned in the The data may be partially contained within a Table section above. It most likely happened because the workbook's creator added or removed rows without realizing that they weren't being included in their table.
As you observed, you can convert tables to ranges using the right-click menu, but the easiest way to tell if a cell is part of a table is usually to select the cell and see if the Table Tools > Design tab appears on the Ribbon.
I'm glad you were able to solve the problem; perhaps Microsoft will make it easier to spot Tables in a future version of Excel!


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Chairman PCB Ramiz Raja visits Naya Nazimabad
A Memorandum of Understanding between Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Naya Nazimabad was signed during the reported week. Chairman PCB Ramiz Raja visited Naya Nazimabad to survey the Cricket Stadium where a drop-in pitch is to be installed.
This partnership is aligned to Chairman PCB's vision of improving the quality of pitches across Pakistan and Arif Habib Group's vision of contributing to the improvement of facilities and availability opportunities of opportunities to budding cricketers.
Ramiz Raja, Chairman, PCB, concluding his visit of the cricket stadium and Gymkhana observed, "I am amazed at the brilliance of the facilities available at Naya Nazimabad that will go such a long way in uplifting not just the game of Cricket but also other sports. We have decided to assign a technical team to Naya Nazimabad Cricket Stadium which will work very closely with the Management to upgrade the stadium making it ready to host exciting domestic and international cricket games."
Once the upgradation is complete, the PCB will host and organise domestic matches at the Naya Nazimabad Stadium including Under-19 and women's matches while practice sessions and exhibition matches for the HBL Pakistan Super League franchises can also be staged at the stadium from the 2023 edition onwards.
Arif Habib, Chairman, Naya Nazimabad said, "With the ever-growing demand for cricket in the country and the improvement in the security situation, foreign cricketers are comfortable touring Pakistan, many of whom have already have visited Naya Nazimabad. We look forward to working with PCB to revive Pakistani's cricket greatness, glimpses of which we have seen recently."
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Akhter Hussain Bugti, Secretary and Director General Ghulam Nabi Nizamani, Altaf Hussain Khoso Chairman PLUS, Rizwana Patel Executive Director PLUS inaugurated it at a ceremony by cutting the ribbon,
The entire staff of PLUS, DEPD, Civil Society, Media Persons were present on the occasion. Secretary Akhter Hussain Bugti stated that it's a great initiative by PLUS to help needy people and we appreciated PLUS and our department will fully support to PLUS.
Sinf-e-Aahan sung by Zeb Bangash
The original soundtrack for drama serial directed by film & TV director Nadeem Baig, 'Sinf-e-Aahan' sung by the talented and renowned Zeb Bangash.
The soundtrack has been composed by Asim Azhar and Hassan Ali Hashmi and is performed by Zeb Bangash along with Asim Azhar. The music for the track has been composed by Qasim Azhar. The song goes with the storyline of 5 young women played by Sajal Aly, Yumna Zaidi, Kubra Khan, Syra Yousuf & Ramsha Khan and their individual journey to becoming officials in the Pakistan Army.
"I feel honoured to be a part of this soundtrack with such a talented team behind it," commented Zeb Bangash. "It's an empowering and melodious track that depicts the struggle and bravery of the women of steel in the show."
Zeb Bangash, is a renowned Pakistani singer and composer. The talented singer has appeared in five seasons of Coke Studio since 2009, giving us landmark hits like Aja Re More Saiyyan, Roshe, Dilruba Na Raazi and Chal Diye. Since then, Zeb has performed songs across borders as well including her solo song 'Ajnabi' in the Bollywood film Madras Cafe 'Sooha Saha' in Highway and 'Haminastu' in Fitoor.
Back home she has lent her voice for iconic hits like 'Sambhal Sambhal' from Verna, 'Bekaraan' from Superstar and 'Moray Saiyyan' from 'Parey Hutt Love' as well as the multiple award winning OST for the drama serial 'Diyare Dil'.
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