Where would we be without the jus?
here pictured with limited edition Zooming Spiderman; and a snowflake web cake.
The pretty child was pleased.
I had a brilliant idea for an activity: Stained glass cookies. My oldest made this reliable no-chill sugar cookie dough before hand, and the guests had fun sorting and smashing Jolly Ranchers. I recommend triple bagging the candy before smashing it.
One guest was allergic to wheat, so she used the larger bits of Jolly Ranchers and arranged them on parchment paper around wooden skewers. We baked these in a low oven until they were melted and then let them dry, and they made pretty, if blobby, lollipops.
I had to do the Saturday shopping on Sunday, so hot dogs it warr.
This salad is supposed to have greens topped with grilled chicken, dried cranberries, toasted pecans, chunks of green apple, and blue cheese or feta cheese, plus a sweet vinaigrette of some kind. I forgot the cheese and the dressing and was too tired to cut up apples, so it was a little blah.
I cooked the chicken in the Instant Pot, I think 6 minutes of high pressure. I just chucked them in with a bunch of lemon juice. This produced chicken that was definitely cooked, yes it was. Oh well, not my finest hour. Moving along.
Still a winner. I used less brown sugar than the recipe calls for, and had a heavy hand with the ginger. Both improvements.
I served it over rice with chopped scallions and sesame seeds.
This meal was the high point of the week. Honestly, it was only medium high. Not bad, but not the joyous mouth festival I was anticipating.
I used This Old Gal's recipe, which calls for pepperoncini, beef broth, and Italian dressing seasoning packets. I don't normally buy seasoning packets — just a random bit of snobbery, nothing to see here — but I didn't have the emotional strength to look for a different recipe.
The meat obligingly shredded at the mere touch of a fork (if you like shredded meat, the IP is unsurpassable).
I toasted rolls, and actually toasted them, instead of burning them. I had my sandwich with lots of horseradish sauce and Swiss cheese, but some chose provolone or pepper jack.
Fancily, I dished out the dipping juice in ramekins I got at a yard sale. Sadly, Corrie heard "jus" and drew the wrong conclusions. When she found out it was meat juice, she got over her disappointment quickly and then just went ahead and drank meat juice out her special cup. She's flexible.
I like this meal, but I think next time beef is on sale, I'll skip the pepperoncini and just make it savory instead of spicy, maybe using red wine and onions along with beef broth.
There is way more juice than you can possibly use for dipping sandwiches, so I'm not saying you have to crumble your baked potato into the juice and eat it that way, but you might, rabbit. You might.
In closing: "au jus" means "with juice." You can not serve "au jus" with your sandwiches, unless you also intend to ask for another scoop of "alamode" with your pie. Get it together, America. These are the things that separate us from the animals.
I sauteed boneless pork ribs in a pan and then, once they had cooled a bit, I sliced them thin. Then I used the same pan to cook up some mixed frozen stir fry vegetables. Another pot for ramen, and another pot to boil some eggs. I've made this entire meal in the Instant Pot, but that's a lot of putting in and taking out, and nobody wants that at 6 p.m. on a Thursday when you still haven't bought stocking stuffers.
We had crunchy noodles, scallions, a few sesame seeds, and hot sauce to sprinkle on top. A very satisfying meal for cheap.
(and discovered you can buy a light timer for $10!) and knocked just about everything else off my Christmas to-do list.
Our Christmas food tradition is a breakfast of cinnamon buns, bacon ($3.33 a pound for bits and pieces, which I actually prefer), grapes, pomegranates, orange juice, and egg nog; and a dinner of — well, there is an excellent Chinese restaurant 3/4 of a mile down the road, and I got nothing to prove.
A team of microbiologists at Rockefeller University, in what sounds like a late-night-at-the-holiday-party-inspired bit of good science, proved that, at least in lab conditions, given an alcohol content of 20%, eggnog comes out the other end completely sterile after just 24 hours of resting. That's cleaner than eggnog bought in sealed cartons from the supermarket.
The article above also concludes that egg nog does not actually taste better if you deliberately leave it in the fridge for a year before drinking it. Science!
And I guess that's it from me until after Christmas! A merry and blessed Christmas to you, my friends. Don't forget the jus.
What's for supper? Vol. 86: ¿Qué pasa, kielbasa?
I'm having a flashback to a former life: Everyone's schedule is all screwey for end-of-year stuff, so we spent the morning at the park trying not to throw ourselves into the waterfall, and then we got a blister so we had to cool our feet at the library. There are pregnant women chasing toddlers everywhere, and every cell in my body is shrieking out silent thanksgiving that I'm not one of 'em.
Birthday party! We had no end of pizza, and birthday cake in the shape of – what else? – Devil's Tower.
It was a Close Encounters of the Third Kind party, what else? It turns out the birthday girl was kidding about wanting me to mash some potatoes so she could have a mountain-sculpting contest with her friends. Humph.
Birthday girl requested shawarma. I treated myself to skinned, boned chicken and set it to marinate the night before. It turned out to be breast meat, not thigh, which was a little disappointing; but it's still always a fabulous meal. We use this recipe for oven-roasted shawarma from the NYT.
We had it with tomatoes, cucumbers, three kind of olives, feta cheese, pita bread, hummus, and yogurt sauce. I added pepper, lemon juice, and a bunch of minced garlic to plain yogurt and then basically wallowed around in it for the rest of the evening. Garlic yogurt speaks to me on a cellular level. A microcellular level. A nano-micro-weensy-cellular level. Just keep zooming in, and it's garlic and yogurt, all the way down.
I briefly considered making the cheesecake in the Instant Pot, but then remembered that I am disgusting and don't really clean it too good, so it's kind of meaty in there. If there are people in the world who prefer their cheesecake meaty, I don't want to know about it. I used this simple recipe (no sour cream) with a graham cracker crust, and used a silicone pan instead of springform. Unlike the photo, it turned out swell.
I crushed up a bunch of fresh strawberries with sugar and rum vanilla. We wanted a chocolate ganache, but I remembered in the nick of time that Aldi chocolate chips don't really melt. So I made this hot fudge sauce with cocoa powder, butter, and condensed milk. Veddy nice.
It was horrendously hot, so I thought we might avoid filling the kitchen with corn steam if I cooked the corn on the cob in the Instant Pot instead of in a big pot of water. I guess it worked? But you do have to release the steam at the end anyway, so we kind of got it all at once. I think it helped a bit overall. It's definitely cooler than stovetop cooking while it's cooking.
I tried This Old Gal's recipe for IP corn on the cob, which includes sugar, milk, and butter. It was certainly easy, and the corn was, well, sweet, creamy, and buttery. Kinda gilding the lily, though, and not really worth the extra calories. I'll probably use the IP for just cooking plain unflavored corn on the cob in the future, though, just because it was easier than wrestling with a giant stock pot sloshing with boiling water. I always scald my abdomen.
I have the eight-quart Instant Pot (affiliate link), which fits twelve whole ears of corn comfortably, see?
I will here discuss an IP semi-failure: I put the pork into the IP with salt, pepper, and a can of Coke, and set it to "slow cook." This took four hours, and then it automatically went to "keep warm" mode for the rest of the day. It came out dry and tough, and we had to pull pretty hard, which nobody wanted to do. I'm not sure if that means it was too low heat, or too high heat, or what, but it just wasn't the same as the regular old slow cooker. Maybe if I pressed "slow cook" again after four hours, I dunno.
From Budget Bytes, a new dish for us, and a hit! It's very easy to make: Cut up the things, put the things on a pan, make the things hot. Add yummy dressing.
I used three 14-ounce packages of kielbasa, about four pounds of red potatoes, and one large cabbage, and tripled the recipe for dressing. It's hearty and summery, and I liked the looks of it, too.
The only sad thing was that I finally had to admit it was time to get rid of the two giant "disposable" catering pans we got from the Chinese restaurant at Christmas. They have developed leaks, so I'm getting some Real Pans. Yet another thing I finally have enough money to buy, now that the kids are leaving home and we don't need it as badly anymore. Oh well.
We had the option to add an extra hour and a half of driving at the end of the school day in order to get to two campuses for portfolio night, or we could get ice cream.
and then when she dropped Dora's ice cream, we wouldn't get her another one. So when it was supper time, she threw herself on the floor and howled, "NO NO NO TSITSIN MUGGETS!" It's a shame we never do anything nice for her.
Child #2 graduates from high school this year (with honors in math!!!), so Damien and I will be in attendance this evening while the kids at home struggle along with a case of boxaroni. Cheers!
Author simchajfisherPosted on June 16, 2017 Categories Uncategorized, What's for Supper?Tags birthday parties, birthdays, Budget Bytes, cabbage, cake, cheesecake, chocolate, corn on the cob, Instant Pot, kielbasa, pork, pulled pork, This Old Gal, What's for Supper?19 Comments on What's for supper? Vol. 86: ¿Qué pasa, kielbasa?
I do love grilled pita pockets. I grilled them in butter. They are so cozy and filling.
Irene's First Holy Communion and Mother's Day! We've had so many parties lately, we decided Sunday would be just us chickens. Irene had a very good morning.
This is Irene's Happy Pie face. The kid just loves pie. She gave everyone mini pies from Walmart for Christmas. I think it was her early exposure to Amelia Bedelia. She just loves pie! And so do I.
I made the lattice one. I wove it for a while, then got bored and just started slapping bits of dough on. Irene's crust was made of hearts and ducks, much like her soul.
We used this recipe from the 1896 Fannie Farmer cookbook. It was new to me, and really did taste old fashioned, especially the crust, which had a pleasantly sharp, salty flavor. The crust turned out pretty light and flaky. It was a little hard to work with, but it added more to the overall taste of the dish than the typical bland crust. I did use the neat trick of freezing the butter and then grating it with a cheese grater, so it's very easy to incorporate it into the flour without overhandling it.
Damien made everyone steaks. I like mine so rare, you can have a conversation with it while you eat.
Sear some pork ribs in olive oil until browned on all sides. Take pork out, slice very thin, set aside. Add a coarsely chopped onion, about eight cloves of minced garlic, and a few scoops of ginger paste. Saute to brown. Add a cup of chicken broth to deglaze. Add seven more cups of broth, plus 8-10 oz. sliced mushrooms, and return pork to pot. Slow cook for several hours.
Just before dinner, have a kid cook a giant bunch of ramen noodles and some soft boiled eggs.
To serve, put ramen in individual bowls, ladle pork and broth over that, add a few halves of eggs, and throw something green on top. We happened to have some zombie scallions.
It was tasty and satisfying, and the pork was very tender after cooking all day. I adore thin slices of pork in soup.
For the coconut rice, I use this Instant Pot recipe from This Old Gal, who loves unnecessary complications. I have had about enough of This Old Gal. I did have coconut milk and coconut cream, but not toasted coconut or coconut sugar. I am skeptical there is actually something called coconut sugar.
The rice was pleasant, but not amazing. Who has a recipe that makes lovely, sticky coconut rice like in a Thai restaurant? Wanty.
I have no memory of Tuesday.
I wish I had chopped up the greens smaller, to integrate them more with the other ingredients, rather than making a bed for them to lie on, but the combination of flavors and textures was excellent.
So: mixed greens, broiled chicken, blueberries, blue cheese, red onions, and toasted nuts (we had walnuts and almonds. There must have been a nut sale at some point. Again, I highly recommend taking the extra few minutes to toast the nuts); and a sweetish dressing made of olive oil, wine vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper.
I served everything in separate bowls. To my delight, most of the kids chose to include blue cheese and onions in theirs. When I was that age, the harshly challenging flavor of something exotic, like yellow mustard, would have sent me into howling despair, but my kids are so much more adventurous. I never insist they eat anything, but I do keep serving things that I think are yummy, and I offer it to everyone every time. And here they are eating onions and blue cheese! I did a thing!
Not my finest hour. My plan was very basic: tortilla chips, ground meat and pre-made taco spice, jarred cheese substance, and salsa on the side.
I had to run out unexpectedly, so I directed the meat cooking and draining via cell phone, which turned out to be only slightly less nerve-wracking for both parties than when a passenger has to step up and land a damaged airplane with the help of a pilot on the ground.
Then I dashed home and dashingly forgot that the label said not to heat the cheese in the jar. Why? Because, we discovered, it balloons up like a ghastly yellow nightmare, then collapses into a rubbery hunk. Excuse me, rubbery hunk olé.
Then I set the chips on fire.
If you're wondering why I never clean my oven: I do. I just immediately follow the cleaning with another spill. Then I set some chips on fire.
Assuming I can figure out how to open a jar.
Maybe you're wondering what is the big deal about the Instant Pot. Is it really so great? Why does everyone go so cuckoo over it? Should I be worried that my spouse has bought a pair of spotless doves and is sharpening a knife?
And why does Simcha insist on making these embarrassingly chimpy images with very primitive software and a crying toddler on her lap?
I have the answer. To the first question, not the second.
Risotto, risotto, risotto. I love risotto with my whole heart, but it is a pain in the neck to make. Hovering over the pan, stirring, adding in a little broth, stirring, waiting, simmering, waiting, stirring, adding some more broth, stirring, waiting, and it smells divine, but your entire life is passing you by while you wait for it to be done.
In the Instant Pot, it's easy. Truly easy, and fast. And it tastes just as good as the difficult kind. This, in itself, is a reason to own an Instant Pot. All the other stuff is bonus. Now you know!
Here is the obligatory reminder that all my links to Amazon products are Amazon Associates links, and I get a small percentage of every purchase made using my links. Amazon is restructuring its pay scale soon, to the detriment of people who mostly plug books and toys; so I would be very, very grateful if you could bookmark my link and use it any time you shop on Amazon!
I'm gonna come right out and tell you: we rely on Amazon for our car payments. My husband has a 1.3-hour commute, and absolutely needs a reliable car. So! Please use my links, so my husband doesn't have to drive to work in the Instant Pot. It's good, but it's not that good.
And now, back to risotto.
Last Friday, we had tuna fish patties and butternut squash risotto. I used this butternut squash risotto recipe from Good Housekeeping. I used onions instead of shallots, ground sage instead of fresh, and regular old white rice instead of arborio. It was fabulous. Creamy but not mushy and packed with flavor. Amazing.
I spent a good half hour wandering around the house, taking people by the shoulders, holding them with my glittering eye and quothing at them, "Do you even realize the possibilities?" Risotto with fresh tomatoes. Risotto with bacon. Risotto with scallops or garlicky shrimp. Risotto with asparagus and gorgonzola. Risotto with lemon, mint, and peas. Risotto with hazelnuts. Risotto with saffron and fennel. I don't even know what fennel is! But I will!
The other reason for having an Instant Pot is because venting the steam is fun. Some days, it is the most fun you will have all day.
Cousins over again. They responded very positively, with shrieking, to the idea of hamburgers and chips. So let it be written; so let it be done. I had planned sweet peppers and hummus, but there were just too many runny noses and double dippers in the population, so, in the interest of good health, we skipped the veg.
Farewell to cousins and hello to my parents. Here is my niece with one of her favorite playthings: My father's beard.
Damien made one of his absolute most magnificent dishes, the late lamented Deadspin's chicken cutlets. You pound the chicken flat, bread it (Damien used panko crumbs), fry it (Damien used olive oil and butter), then top it with a fresh basil leaf and a slice of cheese (Damien used mozzarella, but provolone is great, too), and ladle some homemade tomato sauce over that.
This meal makes me go absolutely insane. It's so good, you can't imagine. As I ate it, I thought of starving people in the third world and then thought, "TOO BAD." With these chicken cutlets, you could — dare I say it? Rule the world.
Also, I had some mushroom left over from last week, when I accidentally didn't make soup. So I went with this mushroom risotto recipe from This Old Gal. This Old Gal discourages using plain old regular mushrooms, but I did it anyway, and it was good. I didn't have fennel or parsley, so I went with sage again, and really peppered it up. Completely delicious.
Damien had made 38 chicken cutlets, so we put the leftovers in a pan, spread the rest of the sauce over it, added a layer of sliced cheese, and warmed it up in the oven, then served it on spaghetti.
There was no leftover risotto because I devoured it for lunch.
I feel like there was salad.
I just noticed that I wrote "steambed" instead of "steamed," but I think the "b" expresses how lightly I didn't steam them.
Have you tried Korean beef bowl yet? You won't regret it.
It's so easy, and it's just spicy enough to be warming and comforting, without assailing your mouth. Wonderful use for ground beef. Also a wonderful use for immortal zombie scallions, if you happen to have any haunting your kitchen.
I used, you'll never guess, the Instant Pot for the rice. This really is easier than stovetop rice. It comes out slightly sticky, which we like, and you just put in water, rinse the rice and dump it in, and then press a button and walk away.
Oh, I thought of another advantage for the Instant Pot. InstantPot.com has plenty of useful, simple recipes, like the rice one above. It also has a slew of completely bonkers recipes that were apparently written by a malicious robot who flunked out of ESL. Here is one of my current favorites: Beer Potato Fish!
A photo of something, who knows what?
It calls for a pound of fish, some oyster flavored sauce, a cup of beer, and a tablespoon of rock candy. Doesn't that sound tasty? It also instructs you to push the fish button, which does not exist. I suppose someone is making money off this in some way, and I kind of feel like they deserve it.
The Instant Pot had acquitted itself so well this week, I thought maybe I'd try one of the many, many pork rib recipes that are available. But then I remembered that I could also sit on the couch and tell my son how to some pork ribs in a 450 oven on a roasting rack with a little salt and pepper, and I knew they would be scrumptious. And so I did, and so they were.
If there's a better way to prepare pork ribs, I just don't care.
I also considered making Instant Pot mashed potatoes, but the recipes all looked more complicated than stovetop recipes. So I just went ahead and boiled them in a non-instant pot and mashed them. I left the skin on, which I almost never do. To me, this adds excitement and piquancy. To others, it's like hanging around with that weirdo who keeps on harping on the idea that, in many regions, apple cores, corn cobs, and chicken bones are considered a delicacy.
The vegetables were that good old supermarket blend of frozen peas, carrots, corn, string beans, and lima beans. This makes me feel six years old, in a good way.
Since our bishop has given us a St. Patrick's Day dispensation to eat meat on Friday, we did our meatless meal on Thursday. Except I forgot, and had leftover Korean beef bowl for lunch. For my penance, I had massive heartburn all night, and dreamt I was endlessly editing and re-editing a blog post about best and worst dresses of the Oscars; only I had to do it on taped-together paper with sidewalk chalk and then take photos of it with a Kodak disc film camera.
So, I am all caught up on Lent.
So, St. Patrick is, like, the second-tier patron of our regional arch-diacistry, or something; and my husband is tremendously Irish, so we prayerfully discerned that have no choice but to eat three different kinds of meat today.
The kids love boiled dinner, so I'll be cooking up some corned beef with red potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and adorable little onions, and serving it with gobs of mustard, as St. Patrick himself did. It's how he drove the snakes away.
We're also trying a new dish, Dublin coddle (recipe from Southeast Missourian, for some reason) which is a nice little thing with bacon, sausage, sweet and russet potatoes, herbs, carrots and apples. No argument from me. The two other recipes on this page actually sound way better. Maybe when I win the lottery.
Nobody likes soda bread, because it is terrible. Last year, I looked up authentic irish desserts, and quickly discovered why people usually just go with, like, brownies with green frosting.


Come and celebrate with author Amanda Alberson as she releases her first book Losing Connor!
The theme for the party is "Blast from the Past" Get ready to take a walk down memory lane as you answer questions to win great prizes!
Prizes to be won! 1 of each in photo except for book marks as there will be 2 of those.


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Under Tutorial the font overlaps itself quite alot, i have tried diffrent options and can't seem to stop it.
Any reply's would be great and thanks in advance.
No fix as far as I know; it's a minor negative side effect of the IZJS english patch. Visually speaking, it might look slightly less bad with texture filtering forced to on; YMMV.
How would i force it on?
EDIT: I dident realise the option under the video plugin wasen't ticked, has made it alot better! It still overlaps but looks much nicer.
have you checked this on a real PS2?
Unfortunately not, i own an EU PS2 and an EU version of FF XII but apparently the Zodiac Job system with ENG patch doesn't work on EU PS2's so i don't think I'll try.
I do, i have multiple PS2's and 1 i can use for burned games.
Simply check with software rendering. The output will be the same as on a real console.


text:
package org.basex.query.func;

import static org.basex.core.users.UserText.*;
import static org.basex.query.QueryError.*;
import static org.basex.query.func.Function.*;

import java.io.*;

import org.basex.*;
import org.basex.api.client.*;
import org.basex.core.*;
import org.basex.core.cmd.*;
import org.basex.io.serial.*;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.*;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

/**
 * This class tests the functions of the Client Module.
 *
 * @author BaseX Team 2005-22, BSD License
 * @author Christian Gruen
 */
public final class ClientModuleTest extends SandboxTest {
  /** Server reference. */
  private static BaseXServer server;

  /**
   * Starts the server.
   * @throws IOException I/O exception
   */
  @BeforeAll public static void start() throws IOException {
    server = createServer();
  }

  /**
   * Starts the server.
   * @throws IOException I/O exception
   */
  @AfterAll public static void stop() throws IOException {
    stopServer(server);
  }

  /** Test method. */
  @Test public void close() {
    final Function func = _CLIENT_CLOSE;
    // successful queries
    query(connection() + " ! " + func.args(" ."));
    // BXCL0002: session not available
    error(func.args(" xs:anyURI('unknown')"), CLIENT_ID_X);
    // BXCL0002: session has already been closed
    error(connection() + " ! (" + func.args(" .") + ", " + func.args(" .") + ')', CLIENT_ID_X);
  }

  /** Test method. */
  @Test public void connect() {
    final Function func = _CLIENT_CONNECT;
    // successful queries
    query(connection());
    query("exists(" + connection() + ")", true);
    // BXCL0001: connection errors
    error(func.args(Text.S_LOCALHOST, DB_PORT, ADMIN, ADMIN), CLIENT_CONNECT_X);
    error(func.args("x\\o//x", DB_PORT, ADMIN, ADMIN), CLIENT_CONNECT_X);
  }

  /** Test method. */
  @Test public void execute() {
    final Function func = _CLIENT_EXECUTE;
    // successful queries
    contains(func.args(connection(), new ShowUsers()), S_USERINFO[0]);
    query("let $a :=" + connection() + ", $b :=" + connection() + " return (" +
        func.args(" $a", new XQuery("1")) + ',' +
        func.args(" $b", new XQuery("2")) + ')', "1\n2");
    // BXCL0004: connection errors
    error(func.args(connection(), "x"), CLIENT_COMMAND_X);
  }

  /** Test method. */
  @Test public void info() {
    final Function func = _CLIENT_INFO;
    // check if the info string is not empty
    query("let $a := " + connection() + " return (" + _CLIENT_EXECUTE.args(" $a", "xquery 123") +
        " and " + func.args(" $a") + ')', true);
  }

  /** Test method. */
  @Test public void query() {
    final Function func = _CLIENT_QUERY;
    // successful queries
    contains(_CLIENT_EXECUTE.args(connection(), new ShowUsers()), S_USERINFO[0]);
    // multiple sessions
    query("let $a := " + connection() + ", $b := " + connection() + " return " +
        func.args(" $a", "1") + '+' + func.args(" $b", "2"), 3);
    // arguments
    query(func.args(connection(), "declare variable $a external; $a*2",
        " map { 'a': 1 }"), 2);
    query(func.args(connection(), "declare variable $a external; count($a)",
        " map { 'a': () }"), 0);
    query(func.args(connection(), "declare variable $a external; count($a)",
        " map { 'a': (1 to 5) }"), 5);
    query(func.args(connection(), "declare context item external; .",
        " map { '': (1, <a/>, 'a') }"), "1\n<a/>\na");
    // binary data
    query(func.args(connection(), "xs:hexBinary('41')"), "A");
    query(func.args(connection(), "xs:base64Binary('QQ==')"), "A");
    // serialization parameters (should be ignored)
    query(func.args(connection(),
      SerializerOptions.METHOD.arg("text") + "<xml/>"), "<xml/>");
    query(func.args(connection(),
      SerializerOptions.ENCODING.arg("US-ASCII") + "'\u00e4'"), "\u00e4");
    query(func.args(connection(), "xs:base64Binary('QQ==')"), "A");
    // query errors: returning function items
    error(func.args(connection(), "function() { }"), CLIENT_FITEM_X);
    error(func.args(connection(), "true#0"), CLIENT_FITEM_X);
    error(func.args(connection(), "array { }"), CLIENT_FITEM_X);
    error(func.args(connection(), "map { }"), CLIENT_FITEM_X);
    // query errors: server-side errors
    error(func.args(connection(), "x"), NOCTX_X);
  }

  /** Test method for the correct return of all XDM data types. */
  @Test public void queryTypes() {
    final Object[][] types = XdmInfoTest.TYPES;
    for(final Object[] type : types) {
      if(type == null || type.length < 3) continue;
      query(SerializerOptions.BINARY.arg("no") +
          _CLIENT_QUERY.args(connection(), " \"" + type[1] + '"'), type[2]);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns a successful connect string.
   * @return connect string
   */
  private static String connection() {
    return _CLIENT_CONNECT.args(Text.S_LOCALHOST, DB_PORT, ADMIN, NAME);
  }
}

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text:
Pózva egykor önálló község, 1963 óta Zalaegerszeg városrésze.

Fekvése
Zalaegerszegtől 3 kilométerre észak-északkeletre található. Délnyugati szomszédja 1 kilométerre Nekeresd, északkeletre 3,6 kilométerre pedig Zalaszentiván. A városrész lakott területén a Sümeg és Zalaegerszeg közt húzódó 7328-as út vezet keresztül.

Története
A falu neve már az 1255. évi feljegyzésekben megtalálható. A 13-14. században a Kőszegi családé volt.

Vályi András szerint "POZVA. Szala Vármegyében, földes Ura Gróf Festetits Uraság, lakosai katolikusok, és másfélék, fekszik Sz. Iványhoz közel, mellynek filiája, ámbár legelője, fája, makkja elegendő van határjában; de mivel a' homok miatt sovány, második osztálybéli."

Fényes Elek szerint "Pózva, magyar falu, Zala vmegyében, az ollári uradalomban, ut. p. Egerszeghez 1/4 óra, 130 kath. lak."

Érintette a Celldömölk–Boba–Ukk–Zalaegerszeg–Bajánsenye–Muraszombat–Murahely-vasútvonal 1890-ben átadott szakasza, de megállóját 1960-ban áthelyezték, majd valamikor az 1980-as évek után megszűnt.

1915-ben 20 000 fős orosz hadifogolytábor létesült a falu mellett, ami 1918-ig működött.

1939-ben a zalaegerszegi kórház elmeosztálya a városból kiköltözött a faluba, ez lett a későbbi kórházi telephely alapja.

1963. január 1-jén Zalaegerszeghez csatolták.

Közlekedés
A 3-as, a 3C és a 3Y jelű helyi autóbuszok érintik.

Nevezetességek
 "Külső kórház", a Zala Megyei Szent Rafael Kórház telephelye. Évente 45 ezer fekvő- és több mint 1 millió járóbeteget látnak el itt. A fogadóépület falát Németh János keramikusművész "Gyógyítás" című domborműve díszíti. A kórháznak saját termálkútja van.

Jegyzetek

Források

Külső hivatkozások
 Pózva Településrészi Önkormányzat – Zalaegerszeg.hu
 A Zala Megyei Szent Rafael Kórház honlapja

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Andy Bourne has been giving ECHL clubs some fantastic uniform redesigns. He adds another today with this superb set for the Atlanta Gladiators.
Andy Bourne takes us back to the ECHL again on this Minor League Sunday with his take on the Adirondack Thunder. Gotta love those lightning bolts on the sleeves!
The Colorado Avalanche have been a popular team among concept artists lately. Today it's Andy Bourne trying his hand at a redesign for the mile high club.
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Sinfonía #1
Interrumpimos este programa/We Interrupt This Program
La [medio] diezmada/Decimated [By Half]
El ostrakón/The ostrakon
Sala de Prensa/Press Gallery
Talleres y traducciones/Workshops and Translations
Kurt Hackbarth, Escritor y Dramaturgo Writer and Playwright
Posted on December 28, 2014 by kurthackbarth under American education, education, learning, Philosophy, schooling
My epiphany, when it came, did not take place at an araby but in the more prosaic confines of a college townhouse. I was 21, a senior, and in my final semester when, one day at the dining room table I realized that, in a few short months, I could be free of classrooms for the first time in my conscious life. Since the age of four when I started kindergarten, and even before if Mrs. McGovern's nursery school was thrown into the mix, my life had been molded and mandated, dominated and dictated by obligatory schooling. A hundred-and-eighty school days a year at six hours a day multipled by twelve years made for roughly 13,000 hours in my K-12 education alone; top that off with another 1,500 or so college hours and I was up to 14,500. Fourteen thousand, five hundred hours of my one-time-only youth. And that wasn't even counting early band rehearsals, homework, detentions, and the mind-numbing quantity of extra-curricular activities American students submit ourselves to in order to pad out our college transcripts. Sitting at the table, I began running through what those 14,500 hours had provided me with in terms of an education. The conclusion was inescapable: not enough to justify the time and expense. Not by a long shot. This was neither the most efficient, nor the most empowering, nor the most emotionally-healthy way to go about the process of learning. By the end of the semester, I had turned my back on graduate school, gotten a job in a library and was at work on a first attempt at a novel. My life as a citizen-at-large had begun.
And I am happy to report that, although my formal education ended at the door of a mere BA, I have not only continued to be able to learn, I have done it better. An example: in six school years, from grades seven to twelve, plus a particularly useless college conversation course, I learned precisely one foreign language (and it is a sad statement on our educational affairs that I was about the only one that did even that). In the years since leaving school, I have learned four more, including the one that is now my literary language. I have done this, in the main, without classrooms of any kind. This is not intended to be a boast; apparently I am "gifted" at language learning. But isn't that, or shouldn't that be, the goal of education – to both discover and foster the talents of each learner with all the means at our disposal? And even with my "gift" (which I think is often a lazy way to describe a combination of interest and discipline), I have struggled and scraped over many years to get my Spanish to the point of being able to express myself fully in it in writing. What if I had been exposed to languages at an early age, when we are most open to them? What if I hadn't been placed for a grand total of 14,500 hours in a series of institutions that devote themselves to wringing the joy of learning out of us? Instead of being taught by their parents and private teachers, one shudders at the thought of a Beethoven or a Brahms being sent to one of our school music classes where, in third or fourth grade, they might first get to blow into a plastic recorder. Thus do we fancy ourselves, in the twenty-first century, more educated than our unfortunate forbearers.
"The American university has become the final stage of the most all encompassing initiation rite the world has ever known," Ivan Illich once wrote in Deschooling Society. "No society in history has been able to survive without ritual or myth, but ours is the first which has needed such a dull, protracted, destructive, and expensive initiation into its myth." To Illich, a proper educational system should do three things: "it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known."
Hey, teacher: leave those kids alone.
On Solitude
Posted on December 23, 2014 by kurthackbarth under Philosophy, Solitude
By whatever tripartite cocktail of nature, nurture and culture, it has fallen upon me to be a person who spends a great deal of time alone. This is a necessary condition for a writer of course, our occupational hazard, and one that I have learned to approach with the requisite dosage of amor fati. In the best of times, my solitude spreads itself out before me, inviting me to loll on it like a blanket of infinite possibility, my time to be allotted and dispensed as I see fit. I awake without an alarm, roll from one side of my bed to the other without risk of jostling a grouchy sleeper, and, once fed, clothed and groomed to the liberatingly minimum solitude standard, set about to beckoning the muse by dint of sheer, inspired kinesthetics. I work and write, laugh and cry, putter and pace to the backdrop of the day's chosen soundtrack, the ideal intermingling of autodidact and anarchist, a dynamo of learning and leavening and sublimated libido.
Then solitude decides to swipe the blanket away, leaving me suspended above the abyss like a Jonathan Edwards-style sinner (a simile I come by honestly, having come of age in post-puritan Connecticut). My two rooms morph into a warren of claustrophobia, my lack of grooming and nutrition into both a reflection of my paralyzed state and a pretext for its perpetuation. Loneliness pervades my body, leaving it a limp, rag doll. Learning and leavening, in a neat one-for-two, become exchanged for languishing. I yearn for company while impressing myself into the labor of keeping it out. I stare in diligent self-hypnosis at the intermittent lights of my computer screen, playing the same song over and over as if skipped records were back in style and cursing Sundays, when they cycle around, with all of the diminished powers at my disposal.
When it comes to sussing us out, solitude is extremely sharp. If we are capable of some feat, it will reveal it to us as if it were the bestower of our own boon. If we are stumbling towards a fall, it will stick out its leg. Solitude is protean, crafty, osmotic, a creator of weather fair and foul in which to clothe itself as friend and foe. Embracing us non-locally with its massless arms, it caresses while stifling, nourishes while depriving. It brooks no rival and gives no quarter.
But I hyperbolize. Wisened by the years, I have learned neither to deflect solitude's presence by means of manic bouts of Calvanist-seal-of-approval industry (Connecticut again, alas), nor to lie prostrate like a dog before its alpha leader the moment solitude sees fit to bare its existential teeth. As in the proverbial encounter with the bear in the woods, I have trained myself, through years of despair-soaked tenacity and scorched-earth depressions, not to cut and run. The result of such training is he who blogs before you today – if not a paragon of equanimity, then someone who can move into and out of solitude as it is given me to do. Someone who can stare down the bear.
The sun sets at six o'clock on this second-shortest day of the year. Tonight, there will be reading and a movie, moments of contemplation, the joy of thought, another degree added to the arc of my lifespan. Alone.
"Please Malala, Don't Forget About Mexico"
Posted on December 15, 2014 by kurthackbarth under Mexico, Norway
Last Wednesday, December 10th, a 21-year-old international relations student from Mexico's National Autonomous University, Adán Cortés, stood up and approached the microphone at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony with the Mexican flag in his hands. His request was a simple one: that the prize's recipient, Malala Yousafzai, not forget what is happening in Mexico. With all due irony for a ceremony ostensibly celebrating world peace, Cortés was hustled forcibly from the room, fined a hefty sum for daring to interrupt the big show and is currently sitting in jail, awaiting expulsion from Norway. But his gesture has seared itself into national consciousness. It is Mexico's version of the shot heard round the world.
As the world now knows, 43 teaching students from the Normal School in Ayotzinapa were disappeared on the night of September 26th, 2014. Only one of them – Alexander Mora Venancio – has been confirmed dead by an Argentine forensic team; the fate of the other 42 is still officially in doubt. Although thousands upon thousands have lost their lives since Mexico embarked on its ill-fated, US-backed drug war in 2007, the case of the 43 has galvanized public attention like none other, bringing together as it does all of the elements of the national nightmare: collusion at all levels of government with the drug cartels; a historical, reflexive and well-founded mistrust of the police; and a criminal investigative apparatus neatly melding buffoonish incompetence with outright malfeasance.
The official version of events runs this way: that the students, who were comandeering buses in order to attend the October 2nd ceremony commemorating the 1968 massacre of students at Tlatelolco, were rounded up by municipal police on orders of the mayor of the town of Iguala, José Luís Abarca. The police then handed over the students to members of the criminal organization Guerreros Unidos, with whom Abarca and his wife María were in cohoots, in order to be dispatched. This the cartel was to have done by burning the bodies beyond recognition in a local garbage dump while the army, cocooned in its garrison in the same town of Iguala, did nothing to intervene. (In a now-infamous declaration, Attorney General Jesús Murillo Kuram baldly stated it was a good thing the army didn't intervene, "or it would have been worse".) This is the federal government's version of the "lone gunman" theory: it was one crazy mayor that done it, conveniently from the left-of-center PRD party. Nothing to do with us.
Mutliple sources have confirmed the swiss cheese-like consistency of this official version of events. First of all, according to the weekly newsmagazine Proceso and citing a report by a UC Berkeley investigative team, the Federal Police were involved in the operation from the get-go, monitoring the students along with state police as soon as the students left their school. There is certainly no lack of motive for the federales to have been involved: the rural normal schools, established in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution to train teachers to work in rural communities, have long been a hotbed of radical social criticism. According to journalist Sanjuana Martínez writing in online news website Sinembargo.mx, there is a plan afoot to close the 17 rural normal schools that remain. And secondly, a report released this week by the National Autonomous University's Institute of Physics concluded that it would have been impossible to burn 43 bodies to unidentifiable ashes in the garbage dump without the use of 33 tons of logs and 53 kilograms of gas per body, or if, as the story goes, the burning was done by tires, 995 would have been needed with a plume of smoke that would have been seen for kilometers around. Even the Argentine forensic team who identified the remains of Alexander Venancio carefully noted that their identification does not constitute proof that he was actually killed at the dump site.
Meanwhile, as La Jornada columnist Julio Hernández López notes with typical astuteness, the Peña Nieto administration is attempting to "dosify" the tragedy by releasing news a little bit at a time, essentially running out the clock on the story in the hopes that the public will lose interest over time. It is, needless to say, a strategy that has been used effectively enough in the past. But that, as the story unfolds, may actually be giving the government too much credit, presuming that it is interested in releasing information at all rather than stonewalling its own complicity in the case. Given the collusion of the judicial and executive branches in Mexico, given the absence of an independent investigative apparatus, it is hard to imagine Peña Nieto's government moving forward with anything approaching a real investigation without international pressure added to domestic protest. And that is why it is so important that Adán Cortés did what he did at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony: keeping the story of the 43 front and center in international attention, foiling any attempts at dosification and keeping the pressure on an administration already being rocked by a conflict of interest scandal involving favors provided by the Grupo Higa construction group to first lady Angélica Rivera and Finance Minister Luis Videgaray. The story of Ayotzinapa is one that cannot and must not be forgotten. And by reminding us of that, Adán Cortés deserves all of our commendation. Norway, take notice.
*UPDATE Monday, December 15: Adán Cortés has been officially expelled from Norway and is due back to Mexico this evening.
The Story of "The Francophone Baby" or The Vagaries of Literary Translation
Posted on December 10, 2014 by kurthackbarth under Cuento Corto, Literary Translation, Mexico, Short stories, The United States, Traducción literaria
In late 2002 or early 2003, when I was living in Italy and before the thought of seriously writing in Spanish had ever occurred to me, I wrote a short story called "The Francophone Baby". This was the era of the run-up to the Iraq War, let us recall, when nativists were rushing to subsitute "freedom" for "French" in our fries, much as their great-grandparents had tried taking the linguistic knife to sauerkraut and hamburgers a hundred years before in the context of World War I – and with the same success. I don't recall that I planned it the way, but the story of an all-American family who freaks out becasue their baby is born inexplicably speaking French turned out to be delightfully timely.
More than political, however, the story was inspired by my reading of the work of Joseph Chilton Pearce, in particular his book Magical Child, which discusses the importance of the mother-child bond which forms, in part, by the fetus synchronzing right from the womb with the mother's speech pattern (a fact I put into the mouth of my fictional pediatrician). Pearce has written extensively on the breakdown of that fundamental bond, and children's subsequent development, through such factors as hospital birthing, television and day care. So "The Francophone Baby" itself was born as a thought experiment of what might happen if this rupture were taken, not to its logical extreme but to its illogical one.
The story was published in the online magazine "The Adirondack Review" in that same 2003 under the admittedly clunky pseudonym of Archibald Graham, the doctor played by Burt Lancaster in the movie Field of Dreams. And there the story sat, basically ignored, until I began my first serious attempts to publish in Mexico five or so years later. As is logical, I started out by translating some of the stories I already had, and as "The Francophone Baby" was short and possessed the advantage of having already been published, I started there. The first translation of the story was published in 2008 in El Ciclo Literario.
A couple of years later, as I began gathering together the material that would become Interrumpimos este programa (in English, We Interrupt This Program), I revisted the translation, both expanding the dialogues and making some key changes to the translation itself:
Tweaking Mr. Johnson's idiomatic language. Although a Mexican character in as agitated a state as Johnson might very well say pendejadas and maricones, the character is, in fact, American. This is a conundrum I have come back to over and over again in my writing since: how to render the idiomatic language of a character when the language he is presumably speaking within the story is different from the one the story itself is written in?
Re-translating the language joke. In the original English version, the language spoken by one of the babies is the hypothesized root language of humanity: the Ur-language. But whenever someone says the word Ur, Mr. Johnson accuses them of trailing off (my homage, conscious or unconscious, to Eric Idle's reading of the cave script in Monty Python and the Holy Grail). As the joke does not translate, I have Mrs. Johnson confusing the Spanish equivalent of the hypothesized language, proto-sapiens, with the much more common term homo sapiens.
Integrating the story with the rest of the collection. As I put the collection together, the idea gradually ocurrred to me of finding a way to link the stories together, to interlace them. As baby Jacques recurs later in the book as an adult in a specific geographical location, I found it expedient to sell him off to the Province of Quebec instead of France's Culture Ministry – a switch which wound up eliciting a lively protest from a francophone friend in Montreal!
As it's turned out, "The Francophone Baby" or, in its Spanish incarnation "El bebé francófono" has become the most popular story in the book by far (not least due to the fact that it's the first and shortest story), and my go-to story for most readings. As an interesting mini-case study in the evolution of stories and their translations over time, following are links to the three versions of the story:
1.) The original English version in the Adirondack Review.
2.) The 2008 translation in El Ciclo Literario.
3.) The final published version in Interrumpimos este programa.
Escaping the Realism Trap, or Why I Write in Spanish
Posted on December 7, 2014 by kurthackbarth under Uncategorized
At readings or in interviews, I am inevitably asked: "If your first language is English, why do you write in Spanish?" The underlying implication, it often seems, is that one should write in one's mother tongue, and that it is almost unnatural that one doesn't (Steiner writes of this historical suspicion of polyglots and translators in After Babel). Another implication is that, as the literary market for English is so much larger than the corresponding one for Spanish, I am effecitively shooting myself in the foot by choosing to write in the latter: a sort of literary malinchismo writ large. There are, in fact, a lot of reasons why I choose to write in Spanish. The first and foremost of those is that I live in Mexico and am a naturalized Mexican citizen. The second is that writing in a language that is not originally my own allows me a distance from myself, a capacity for reinvention, which is fundamental for breaking through the solipsist lurking just beneath the surface of any writer. The third is that the act of writing in another language forces me to write more slowly, more contemplatively, rather than skimming along the surface of my native tongue. Fourth, Spanish is a beautiful language with an eminent literary history all its own that I am proud to be a very small part of.
And here's another reason. In a recent article for The Observer entitled, "Experimental Fiction: Is It Making a Comeback?", William Skidelsky, himself paraphrasing Zadie Smith, writes that in healthy times, the realist and the avant-garde literary traditions would "comfortably coincide" (I find that in itself far too neat, but let's continue for the sake of argument). But these clearly aren't healthy times, as evidenced by the fact that, in the anglophone world, the realists rule the roost: "A breed of lyrical realism has had the freedom of the highway for some time now, with most other exits blocked." Skidelsky continues, "The well-made realist novel, inherited from the 19th century, is what we are stuck with now, and even if we aren't excessively fond of it, it seems to be pretty much all we have."
This sort of realism (the kind that, as Cortázar writes, that smugly continues to believe that everything can be described and explained within the parameters of Enlightenment philosophy), stifles me. In fact, I have recently taken to composing a series of Aphorisms Against Realism on my Facebook and Twitter pages in order to explain both to myself and others exactly why that is. When I pick up an issue of Harper's or The New Yorker to read the short story, I do so by force rather than volition: unless the issue happens to be dabbling in a bit of Latin-American "exoticism" by a Bolaño or the like, I hold my breath and go back in the windowless, airtight rooms just to see if something, anything has changed since I left. In today's anglophone world, the fate of genuine literary creativity, more often than not, are the ghettos of what is known, pejoratively, as genre fiction.
Fortunately, this trend does not necessarily hold for the rest of the world. As Skidelsky points out, "[t]he assumption that genuine experimentation is no longer possible is in many ways a parochial quirk of the anglophone world. Things are very different, for example, in Latin America, where anti-realist techniques have long been part of the mainstream…" I recently finished Adolfo Bioy Casares' masterpiece La invención de Morel and was blown away by the visionary and philosophical fantasy wedded to the most precise, the most literary, the most scientifically realistic of language. Yes, the novel was written back in 1940. Yes, America has had its Barths, its Pynchons and its Vonneguts since then. But it's funny: just as our technology traps us ever more in its virtual world – precisely as Morel's invention does to Bioy's fated protagonist – mainstream anglophone literature has chosen to enclose itself atavistically in a throwback trap: the positivism of a bygone world. I put down Bioy Casares' novel and, wrapped in the glow of the awestruck reader, said to myself: I'm home.
P.S. To be fair, Skidelsky's piece mentions a series of current anglophone authors writing experimental fiction (the fact that it's called "experimental" showing in and of itself how much realism rules), among them Tom McCarthy's Remainder, which I went right out and bought. I'll share my comments in a future post.
Aforismos anti-realistas / Aphorisms Against Realism
1.) El realismo es el derviado del fracaso de la imaginación. / Realism is the by-product of the failure of the imagination.
2.) El realismo es una asfixia voluntaria. / Realism is a voluntary asphyxiation.
3.) El realismo es la tentativa de tapar el siglo veinte con un dedo. / Realism is an attempt to pretend that the twentieth century never happened.
4.) El realismo es una choza de lámina en medio de un vendaval. / Realism is a tin shack in the midst of a gale.
5.) El realismo es reacomodar los muebles y creerse en otra sala. / Realism is rearranging the furniture and believing oneself to be in another room.
6.) El arte imaginativo crea, produce, conoce. El realismo, en cambio, recrea, reproduce, reconoce. / Imaginative art creates, produces, cognizes. Realism, in contrast, recreates, reproduces, recognizes.
7.) El realismo es una reclusión voluntaria en el carcel de los sentidos. / Realism is a voluntary reclusion in the prison of the senses.
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AAMC Responds to PCORI RFI about the Science of Engagement Funding Initiative
Anne Berry, Lead Specialist, Implementation Research & Policy
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The AAMC submitted comments to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on Nov. 19 in response to the institute's request for information to advise on a potential new funding initiative to inform the science of engagement.
In its comments, the AAMC lauded PCORI's commitment to advancing effective engagement. As PCORI looks to develop the proposed initiative, the AAMC has encouraged the institute to prioritize partnerships, stakeholder engagement, community collaborations, and trust-building throughout the research process. The AAMC recommended that engagement should be conducted in a culturally appropriate manner, and the proposed funding initiative should promote connections and collaborations between organizations, communities, and researchers.
The comments also noted that the proposed new initiatives should align with PCORI's National Priorities for Health, its research agenda, and other federal health agencies' engagement initiatives.
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Whitney: a deserved win
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Jon Whitney felt the Saddlers got the result they deserved after beating struggling MK Dons 1-0.
Julien Ngoy scored the only goal on 70 minutes – just four minutes after coming on for his debut.
"I thought we were deserved winners," said the boss.
"We were solid and it was nice to get the clean sheet. There were lots of positives.
"It was always planned to take Amadou [Bakayoko] and Erhun [Oztumer] off, with the amount of energy they had to expend to stop them getting out.
"We aimed to flip the two of them – and that's what we aimed to do with Justin [Shaibu] and Julien, to bring them on and keep that energy and that threat.
"We asked for a big shift because we know Dan [Micciche] wants them to play out from the back.
"They've got individual players who can hurt you if you give them space and time, but I thought we limited it really well. We won the ball back and threatened. That was the game plan.
"It was nice for Julien to come on and get the goal and it was nice for Jack [Fitzwater] to get man of the match.
"I thought he came in and did really well for a young lad playing his first game in League One.
"Credit to the team – they stuck to the game plan really well and we were deserved winners."


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Regional organisation
Like a magnet
15/02/2019 – by Karim Okanla
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ECOWAS is a less than perfect regional organisation, but it has made considerable progress and looks attractive to neighbouring countries.
Right after World War II, when most of sub-Saharan Africa was still under colonial rule, West Africans made several attempts at regional integration. The first effort dates back to 1945 and was driven by France. The CFA franc was created as the joint currency of francophone countries. It had a fixed exchange rate with the French franc, tying the economies closely to the monetary policy of the colonial power. Today, the Central Bank of the UEMOA (Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine – West African Economic and Monetary Union) is based in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The CFA franc now has a fixed exchange rate with the euro.
After several failed attempts to involve all countries of the region, regardless of language or size, in regional cooperation, Nigeria and Togo launched yet another initiative in 1972. It resulted in the Treaty of Lagos, which was signed on 28 May 1975 and established the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States).
The main goal was to foster economic cooperation and promote intra-regional trade. Because of chronic instability and civil wars, however, ECOWAS soon had to focus on issues of regional peace and security (see interview with Vladimir Antwi-Danso in D+C/E+Z e-Paper 2018/02, Focus section).
Vincent Foly is the editor of La Nouvelle Tribune, a newspaper in Benin. In his eyes, the ECOWAS is perhaps the most successful regional organisation in Africa. He says it has achieved much in terms of ensuring free movement of people and goods. An agreement on a customs union has boosted its reputation. The specialised agencies of ECOWAS are funded with a common import levy, and that system is running well.
The positive image of the regional bloc, says Vincent Foly, seems to be acting like a magnet. Morocco, a country in northern Africa, has applied for membership in February 2017. It is still awaiting official admission.
Mauritania, a former member state of the ECOWAS which left the organisation back in 2000, signed a new associate-membership agreement in August 2017. The step made economic sense: ECOWAS is home to 300 million people and covers about one-sixth of Africa.
On the other hand, it has not concluded an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU. Only a preliminary agreement is in force, which applies to
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
But not all works well within the bloc. Foly says ECOWAS has "feet of clay" because political rivalry amongst heads of state and government continues to undermine efforts at full integration.
Other observers see more serious flaws. Luc Fernand Kpelly, a journalism instructor, argues that ECOWAS basically only unites "heads of states who bribed their way to power". In Kpelly's opinion, moreover, the former colonial powers, namely France, Britain and Portugal, continue to manipulate the regional bloc for their own national interests. "France often hides behind Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire to torpedo all promising effort at full integration," he says.
Overall, the ECOWAS has not been able to achieve a full harmonisation of member countries' macroeconomic policies. There is also a lack of promotion of the private sector as the driving force towards achieving economic integration. Divergent and often counter-productive taxation policies in individual member states constitute another serious bottleneck. Stronger trade within ECOWAS could make the region more resilient to external shocks, but so far, governments have not done much to make that happen. Mass poverty remains a huge challenge, and the informal sector tends to keep people trapped in misery – for example in Benin (see my comment in Debate section of D+C/E+Z e-Paper 2018/10).
Plans to establish a monetary union for all ECOWAS members have been spelled out for a long time, but have not made much progress. In view of the problems the Euro-Zone has run into that may actually be a good thing. Indeed, some critics argue that UEMOA is hurting the francophone members by subordinating them to European exigencies.
Karim Okanla is a media scholar and freelance writer from Benin.
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The climate deal struck in Paris is ambitious, innovative and a bit awkward
Portrait of the South African environmentalist and human rights activist Andrew Zaloumis
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Troublesome trend: recent elections in Senegal, Benin and Nigeria have revealed serious problems
Why Houdegbe North American University Benin once looked promising, but is no longer operational
Inadequate financial oversight
A financial scandal is rocking Benin – and a former president's name is mentioned often in its context
Unsustainable livelihoods
Deforestation is ravaging the environment of Savè, a small town in Benin
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There is no guarantee that the elections in the DRC will be peaceful, transparent and credible


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Heradida extima est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Zodariidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Cap-Occidental en Afrique du Sud. Elle se rencontre vers Cederberg et Cape Agulhas.

Publication originale
 Jocqué, 1987 : Descriptions of new genera and species of African Zodariinae with a revision of the genus Heradida (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue de zoologie africaine, , , .

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The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that they have closed the deal on rights to screenwriter April Prosser's comedy Plus One. Gloria Sanchez Productions, the division of Gary Sanchez Productions dedicated to female-driven film and TV projects, will produce with executives Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay taking lead.
This will mark the second feature to go into development for Prosser, whose screenplay The One That Got Away landed her on the 2012 Black List and is being produced by Mason Novick and directed by Ari Sandel at Amazon Studios. Julie Rapaport and Melissa Wells will oversee production on Plus One for TWC.
In Plus One, Rachel comes out of a long-term relationship only to realize all her friends have married off and there's no one single left to go out with…except Summer, the loud, sexually-oversharing wild card who is now Rachel's only option for a wing woman.
Commented TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein: "We're thrilled to be on board with this hilarious and smart film by talented up-and-comer April Prosser. Her script drew one of the strongest responses from our team that I've seen in a while. Female-driven comedies continue to be a tremendously exciting force in film these days and we couldn't be more delighted to be behind one of this caliber alongside the amazing comedic minds at Gloria Sanchez."
Noted Sanchez: "I have wanted to win an Oscar since I saw Gwyneth Paltrow win for 'Shakespeare in Love.' I just found out Harvey has 79 of them. We're honored to work with such a talented company and we want an Oscar. I promise to leave Gwyneth alone now."


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Kolisi in search of a pot of gold for the Rainbow Nation
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South Africa's first black rugby captain Siya Kolisi may have made an even more positive impact on unity in the country than the iconic gesture of Nelson Mandela donning a Springboks jersey for the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, former flyhalf Joel Stransky says.
Stransky put over the decisive drop-goal as South Africa beat New Zealand to win the Webb Ellis Cup 24 years ago, and watched from the podium as a beaming President Mandela triumphantly passed the gold trophy to captain Francois Pienaar.
It was a hugely symbolic moment that offered redemption for rugby, which until then had been seen as the preserve of South Africa's white minority and a symbol of the apartheid system.
In a tumultuous period of uncertainty in the country, where ordinary citizens fretted over the future, Mandela's wearing of the Springboks jersey sent out a clear reconciliatory signal.
But almost a quarter of a century later the symbolism of a black man leading out the team in Saturday's final against England offers even more positives for a society dealing with rampant crime, unemployment, corruption and economic hardships.
"If Siya Kolisi can lift the trophy it will be massive, but just making the final has already given us tremendous hope," Stransky told Reuters in an interview.
"There has been a great sense of achievement already and that is on the back of our first black captain providing the inspiration."
The victorious 1995 squad had just one black player in Chester Williams, the iconic winger who passed away following a heart attack on September 6 this year.
On Saturday, when South Africa face England in the final in Yokohama, the starting 15 will feature seven non-white players.
"What was most important was how Nelson Mandela used Chester as a pin-up boy and in doing so used rugby to unite the nation," Stransky says.
"We went through a period of around 18 months where sport gave us great belief and hope by bringing people together. We not only won the World Cup, but also the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996.
"We crossed many borders and came through that period of uncertainty in good shape.
"SA Rugby has done, over the years, an enormous amount. I think what they are not good at is waving a banner and telling everybody about them," he adds.
"If you go watch youth club rugby, or schools rugby, it is very much dominated by kids from all backgrounds."
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Kolisi's journey, rising out of poverty in the crime-ridden Zwide township near Port Elizabeth to the brink of lifting the World Cup, is a story that all in the 'Rainbow Nation' have rallied behind.
Prop Tendai Mtawarira says the team recognise the significance of the moment and also what a win on Saturday would mean to the country.
"What Siya has achieved has been remarkable. For a young kid to rise above his circumstances and become Springbok captain, and lead the way he has, it's been inspirational to all South Africans – from all walks of life," he said in Japan this week.
Coach Rassie Erasmus also knows there is a lot more at stake on Saturday than a trophy.
"Rugby is one of the things that, for a few minutes and sometimes a few hours, days and months, if we win people seem to forget about their disagreements," he said.
"We are trying to win for South Africa, and not just for the supporters, but because our country needs a lot of things and we want to help fix that."
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The 1992–93 Wichita Thunder season was the first season of the CHL franchise in Wichita, Kansas.

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Note: y - clinched league title; x - clinched playoff spot; e - eliminated from playoff contention

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1992–93 CHL season

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Le piz Cazarauls est un sommet des Alpes, en Suisse. Situé dans les Alpes glaronaises à une altitude de  d'altitude, il s'agit du tripoint entre les cantons de Glaris, des Grisons et d'Uri.

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An interview with a traveler to India, who experienced some direct encounters of female injustice and its current practice, was conducted. Devin Anderson a senior at the University of Iowa experienced accounts of female inequality and degradation through members of his Knolls group when studying in India.
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DEVIN: I backpacked mostly in the Himalayan Mountains and in nearby rural villages.
INTERVIEWER: While you traveled in these villages did you witness or experience any inequalities between the women and men?
DEVIN: In many of the villages I visited the men and the women both held specific roles, ones that were part of their society, part of their way of living. Most of the duties that these roles implied were based on gender. I had also witnessed some inequality between the two genders. Like one day we went to a restaurant type place in one of the larger rural villages we were visiting, and while we were there some of the women in my group went to go order some food. The men who were there to take orders blatantly ignored their requests and waited for one of the men in our group to order for them. Women were apparently not allowed to speak or order for themselves and the men there actually seemed a little offended that these women had even tried.
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This is a good specimen.
I would prefer the tail to be more pointed. But this is already very eye-pleasing. Can you please provide a clearer pic of the side view profile?
Nice fish, I would prefer its tail to be a little bit bigger. What is the colour of the belly area, white or black?
i'm different, i don't like the tail to be pointed, i like it to be rounded.
The tail being pointed could've been nice, but it is still a fine specimen.
If only the black is darker.
Nice. Looks like it is bought from Pasir Ris recently.
You have misunderstood what I've said. I meant more erected. Not sharper tail.
If you are referring to the whitish appearance of the eyes, for your info, are reflection of their iris caused by flash during picture taking.