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Texas on the Potomac
Analysis: With Cruz and Dewhurst, the loathing is personal
By Joe Holley on July 24, 2012 at 1:42 PM
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U.S. Senate Candidate Paul Sadler speaks during the the 2012 Texas Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, June 8, 2012, in Houston. ( James Nielsen / Chronicle )
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** CORRECTS PARTY AFFILIATIONS ** State Senate Democratic candidate Paul Sadler speaks during a candidate forum in Tyler, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004. Sadler and Republican Kevin Eltife are vying for the District 1 seat. (AP Photo/Tyler Morning Telegraph, D.J. Peters). HOUCHRON CAPTION (02/15/2004): Democrat Paul Sadler, (SHOWN), and Republican Kevin Eltife are running in a special election to fill Bill Ratliff's District 1 seat. less
** CORRECTS PARTY AFFILIATIONS ** State Senate Democratic candidate Paul Sadler speaks during a candidate forum in Tyler, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004. Sadler and Republican Kevin Eltife are vying for the ... more
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U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler (D) holds 10-month-old Pablo Hinojosa-Donisi, son of Austin ISD school board candidate Gina Hinojosa, during a fish fry at the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations in Austin, TX on Fri., Aug. 31, 2012. Ashley Landis for the Houston Chronicle less
U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler (D) holds 10-month-old Pablo Hinojosa-Donisi, son of Austin ISD school board candidate Gina Hinojosa, during a fish fry at the American Federation of Labor - Congress of ... more
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U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler (D) speaks to supporters during a fish fry at the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations in Austin, TX on Fri., Aug. 31, 2012. Ashley Landis for the Houston Chronicle less
U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler (D) speaks to supporters during a fish fry at the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations in Austin, TX on Fri., Aug. 31, 2012. Ashley Landis for ... more
TAMPA, FL - AUGUST 28: Senate Republican Candidate, Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Today is the first full session of the RNC after the start was delayed due to Tropical Storm Isaac. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) less
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Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate candidate from Texas speaks at the second day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday, August 28, 2012. (Lionel Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT)
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U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Cruz speaks during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, June 9, 2012.
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U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Cruz, left, and his wife Heidi Cruz wave as they take the stage for a speech during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, June 9, 2012.
U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Cruz, left, and his wife Heidi Cruz wave after his speech during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, June 9, 2012. Cruz and David Dewhurst are locked in a fierce fight for the Republican nomination to fill Texas' open U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/LM Otero) less
U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Cruz, left, and his wife Heidi Cruz wave after his speech during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, June 9, 2012. Cruz and David Dewhurst are locked in ... more
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Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, left, gets a kiss from his wife Tricia Dewhurst before he speaks to the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 8, 2012.
David Dewhurst waves before speaking during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, June 9, 2012.
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and candidate for U.S. Senate speaks during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 8, 2012. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A bipartisan debate.
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Ted Cruz addresses a crowd of about 20 supporters at a restaurant in Temple on Saturday, May 26. Cruz vowed that, given a runoff against Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, he would win the Republican nomination.
Political partners: David Dewhurst and Gov. Rick Perry.
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The politics of the personal trumped differences over policy in Monday's debate between U.S. Senate candidates Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz, who accused each other of lying about their respective records and waging a media war marked by untruth and insult.
Sponsored by the King Street Patriots, a Houston-based tea party organization, the hourlong debate before an audience of more than 300 offered mostly nuanced differences on the issues. The conversation grew heated when Cruz accused Dewhurst of running a dirty campaign.
Each is seeking to be the GOP choice to succeed the retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
"You know, I think you can tell a lot about a candidate by how they conduct their campaign," Cruz said. "From day one my campaign has kept the focus on the issues. … Unfortunately, the lieutenant governor has not reciprocated. He has spent over $10 million of his vast personal fortune flooding the airwaves with false, personal attack ads maligning my character."
Cruz said his father, a Cuban immigrant, received a Dewhurst mailer this week that accused his opponent of being unpatriotic. "You know, one of the worst things you can say in politics is to malign someone's patriotism, and yet what the lieutenant governor sent to my father was a mailer that said, quote, 'Ted Cruz worked against our country.'
"I have to say, Mr. Lieutenant Governor, you're better than that," Cruz added.
David Dewhurst, right, gestures as he upbraids Ted Cruz, left, during their final pre-runoff debate. (AP photo)
"I have been running FOR the United States Senate," Dewhurst responded, "telling people why I'm running and why they ought to vote for me. Since day one my opponent has been running against me. I talk about policy, I talk about solutions, I talk about answers."
Although the audience had been told in advance not to applaud or audibly respond to the candidates' remarks, an audience member shouted "Not true" as Dewhurst spoke. Later in the debate, an audience member yelled "Liar." The candidates ignored the outbursts.
On the issues, each candidate sought to portray himself as the most conservative.
Dewhurst said his first act as a U.S. senator would be to vote to repeal what he called Obamacare. "Throw it in the trash heap of history, bad history," he said.
"I would keep not a single word of Obamacare," Cruz said. "The Supreme Court's decision upholding it was a tragic day for liberty."
Asked about illegal immigration, Dewhurst called for tripling the size of the Border Patrol.
Cruz agreed. "We need to do everything humanly possible to secure the border," he said. "That means fences, that means walls, that means technology like helicopters and drones with infrared and that means boots on the ground, securing the border and tripling the U.S. Border Patrol."
Asked about gun control in light of Friday's mass shooting at an Aurora, Colo., theater, both men expressed their fealty to gun rights.
"Sadly," Cruz said, "when there is an evil act by a deranged individual, you see those with political agendas try to capitalize on it by violating our rights. I am a passionate believer in the Second Amendment."
"There's no question that what happened in Aurora is terrible," Dewhurst said, "but this deranged individual should not be a catalyst for changing our fundamental rights. I am a strong believer in the Second Amendment."
Although the lieutenant governor received a polite reception, most of the audience seemed to favor Cruz, a tea party favorite who has pulled ahead in recent polls.
"I think he articulates very well what he believes," said Brent Johnson, a Houston investment counselor. "As he said, we need someone who will go up there and fight."
Olivia Pelech, a stay-at-home mom, said she supports Cruz because he will keep the nation from going the way of Europe, "where liberties are being stripped away every day. If we don't elect strong, principled leaders, we're going to suffer the same fate."
Early voting for the July 31 GOP runoff began Monday and ends Friday.
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Нікосфен — давньогрецький гончар, майстерня якого працювала з 545 по 510 роки до н. е. в Афінах.

Підпис Нікосфена — «Нікосфен зробив це» — один з найчастіших підписів гончарів, що зустрічається на давньогрецькій кераміці: його підпис виявлено на 139 чорнофігурних і 10 червонофігурних вазах.

Особливе значення мають, так звані, «Нікосфенівські амфори», які повторюють форму етруркських буккеро. Їх збереглося близько 130. Більшість з них виготовлена Нікосфеном, декілька з них незважаючи на його підпис приписуються його майстерні. Вази Нікосфена розписував переважно один вазописець, і досі не встановлено чи був це сам Нікосфен. Невідомий вазописець отримав ім'я Вазопісець Нікосфена, або Вазописець Н. Його не слід плутати з вазописцем на ім'я Нікосфен.

Гончар Нікосфен створював в основному вази невеликого розміру, приділяючи при цьому велику увагу пошуку нових форм і надихаючись зразками, що прийшли з-поза меж Аттики. Творчий пошук привів Нікосфена до нових художніх технік: він використовував так звану техніку Сікса в зображенні фігур червоно-коричневого або білого кольору на глянцевій глині. Нікосфен працював також з такими вазописцями, як Лідос, Ольтос, Епіктет і Нікосфен. Всі ці вазописці розписували також вази гончара Памфіла, більш молодого колеги Нікосфена, який копіював його кераміку. Більшість з цих непідписаних копій складно відрізнити від творів власне Нікосфена.

Майже всі амфори роботи Нікосфена експортувалися в Черветері і в Вульчі. Вази Нікосфена практично не зустрічаються за межами Етрурії.

Посилання

Джерела

 John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, S. 71-73
 V. Tosto: The Black-figure Pottery Signed NIKOSTHENESEPOSIEN, Amsterdam 1999 (Allard Pierson Series 11)

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Corcoran Communications Skipper Overboard: Guiter Jumps Ship
June 10, 2012 by CultureGrrl
David Levy, director of the Corcoran from 1991-2005
At least one staffer of the foundering Corcoran Gallery has bailed out.
I've been away on a work-ation the past four days, so I'm belatedly reporting on the missive that arrived in my inbox on Friday morning—a farewell address from Kristin Guiter, the Corcoran's vice president for communications and marketing, now leaving for those proverbial "other opportunities." Her announcement came directly after her attendance on Thursday evening at a meeting called by Save the Corcoran proponents. That meeting was reported by the Washington Post.
The newspaper's David Montgomery wrote:
Kristin Guiter…attended the meeting as a representative of the leadership.
have heard the public outcry, and I think everyone should stay tuned,"
Guiter said. She said Corcoran management would be willing to meet some
Save the Corcoran members.
Guiter apparently knew full well when she addressed that meeting that the very next day would be her last at the museum. Here's what hit my inbox at 10:21 a.m. on Friday:
Some of you may already know, but I write today to tell you that recently I made
the decision to move on from the Corcoran in order to explore other opportunities, as
I continue on my professional path. And, at that time, I agreed to stay through an
important board meeting this week to help steer the communications efforts, out of
dedication to the Corcoran. While I will transition with my team and colleagues over
the next week, today will be my final full day in the office.
I will always treasure the time I've spent in this historic institution….For more than five years, I have been one of the Corcoran's biggest champions and
that will not change. My loyalty will always lie with the Corcoran, and I wish my
favorite D.C. institution a very bright future…
…but not with Kristin.
As you may remember, something very similar happened at the endangered (now downsized and recovering) American Folk Art Museum, when the museum's press spokesperson, Susan Flamm, and its director, Maria Ann Conelli, left their posts during the dark days of AFAM's dire difficulties.
Also on Friday, the Washington Post published a must-read opinion piece, The Corcoran at a Crossroads, by David Levy, who directed the Corcoran from 1991 to 2005 (and was its last director to be a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors). Levy strongly argued against moving the museum from Washington, and also sucker-punched the on-the-ropes museum with an I-told-you-so regarding his aborted plan to build a Frank Gehry-designed addition to the Corcoran. Calling the abandonment of that project " a major mistake," he asserted that this "set the stage for the current crisis."
Maybe so; maybe not. But whatever the merits of the Gehry gambit, Levy's latest recommendation is worth taking seriously—that the Corcoran distinguish itself from the free-admission Smithsonian institutions by becoming "Washington's museum, serving this unique metropolitan region whose
residents have the highest income and educational levels in the United
States, while creatively reaching out to its inner-city neighborhoods."
If the Corcoran is going to rebrand itself, that sounds like a sound way to do it. Meanwhile, there's an intriguing Diebenkorn show in its future.
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Better the devil you know?: a millennial's perspective on the Fujimori Legacy
The legacy of Alberto Fujimori is controversial. While he has numerous supporters across Peru and abroad such as our previous interviewee Ella Carkagis, among Peruvians born in the 1980s and 1990s in particular, opposition is common. In this profile, Alexis Castro Robles interviews Carkagis' eldest daughter, Marianella, who gives us an insight into the 'other side' of Fujimori's regime and also how she perceives Peru's future now that Alberto Fujimori has received a 'humanitarian pardon.'
Alberto, Kenji and Keiko Fujimori (Image courtesy of 'Peru 21' newspaper)
Marianella, although you were in your teenage years during the late 1990s, do you remember what politics was like at that time from your family and school?
At that time, everyone was afraid of everything. Our parents sent us to school with fear, because the terrorists chose targets randomly. I remember that the street lights blew up and that we stayed in the dark. There were always candles in my house. There were soldiers in the streets and curfews quite often. We could not leave the house after 7pm. I remember the terror that we felt walking past a car that looked suspicious in the street, because it could be a 'coche bomba' (car bomb). At school they taught us to be prepared at all times. We simulated emergency situations. They also taught us to shout a warning if we heard a very loud sound, because it could be a bomb.
Your mother was supportive of Fujimori's measures in granting the military extensive powers to challenge 'terror' by arresting suspected rebels and trying them in secret military courts with few legal rights. What are your thoughts?
Terrorism was so bad in the 90s that the government had to declare war. We believed that there was a good side (the state) and a bad side (the terrorists) but we were wrong. The country was consumed by a witch hunt. Any man could say that his neighbor was a terrorist and without evidence the military could take him from his house in the early morning and 'disappear' him. Villagers were taken from their homes by soldiers and executed. They raped the women. The buses that went to the provinces were dangerous for this reason. We were terrorised both by the terrorists and by the military, who far from protecting us, took advantage of the power granted them to torture, rape and kill.
Do you believe Peruvians recognise the human rights violations committed by Fujimori and the military? If not, what impedes this recognition?
Fujimori was a showman. He went on national television with boots, helmet and carrying cement to every school he built. He appeared to help with everything, while also robbing his people and murdering us. He did many works to keep us quiet. His government was bloodthirsty. We Peruvians are so poor in education that we are not able to understand that "the lesser evil" is not good. "That he who steals but does work" is not good. We are not used to thinking about our neighbor. We think only of ourselves and our hunger. There are many people who know what Fujimori has done and do not care because they were "necessary deaths". No death is necessary. Homicide is a crime.
What do you think about the mass forced sterilisation that affected around 300 000 Indigenous Peruvian women, many of them without anaesthesia, in the late 1990s?
It was simply inhumane. There are people like my mother who say it was necessary. Machismo did not allow women to make the decision to no longer have children and many thanked the government for having sterilised them. But many women without children and very young were also sterilised, without anaesthetics and without knowing what was being done to them. They were treated like cows. When my mum says it was necessary, I answer: What if it had been your daughter? What if it had been me? She remains silent. Those people who were mistreated could be any of us and we should all repudiate a fact as execrable as that. The solution was and is in education for all. Machismo exists because there is no education.
Peruvian women march against Keiko Fujimori, drawing attention to women's rights, Keiko's political ties with her father and her questionable human rights stance. (Image courtesy of 'Diario UNO' newspaper)
Fujimori's sterilisation of women was highlighted by opponents during the presidential campaign of Alberto Fujimori's daughter, Keiko. For example 30 000 protesters in Lima expressed their discontent in April 2016. Do you think these protesters feared a possible return to her father's dynasty?
Yes indeed. The same people who were with [Alberto] Fujimori, are also on the side of Fujimori's daughter. Her government would be a terrible blow against democracy.
Do you think the protests were a response of the Peruvian Left? Or just those who supported for the current Peruvian President, Pedro Pablo Kucyznski ('PPK')?
'PPK' won the elections thanks to Keiko Fujimori. He won because we were against her winning. He did not win on his own merit. The PPK government is another mistake to avoid the greater evil. He is a president who has done nothing for us like so many others. Our streets are infested with criminals.
Lastly, Alberto Fujimori has received the 'humanitarian pardon' for his ailing health by Kuczynski in December 2017. What do you think about this decision?
'PPK' sold our country when he pardoned Fujimori. He did not care about the hundreds of mothers who still cry for their unborn children. Nor the disappeared parents who could not raise their children. Not even the hundreds of women who were harmed and mistreated by the regime. Kuczynski was on the verge of losing the presidency for a fujimorista coup d'etat. He betrayed every Peruvian by pardoning him.
Alexis Castro Robles
Leave a comment Posted on February 22, 2018 by historyitm Uncategorized
It's that time of the year again! History in the Making are looking for papers for our next issue. It doesn't matter if you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, or somewhere in the middle. If you have an essay, thesis extract, or a submission prepared just for us, we're interested in looking at it!
Check out this page to find out how to submit.
Submissions close 30 April 2018.
Leave a comment Posted on January 24, 2018 March 2, 2018 by cameronmcphedran Uncategorized
Fond Memories of a Dictator: The Fujimori Legacy in Peruvian History
Latin American history and politics has taken an interesting turn of late. On 24 December 2017, the current Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski granted an official 'humanitarian pardon' to former President Alberto Fujimori, whilst new Chilean President Sebastian Piñera only today declared his Cabinet, including members who have links to the Pinochet regime.
In this blog post, Alexis Castro Robles interviews Ella Carkagis, a nurse assistant living in Sydney since 2011, who supports Fujimori's actions. In both Peru and abroad, Fujimori's legacy attracts both praise and criticism, most notably his actions in ending the 1980-1997 terror of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) for the people of Peru. He is criticised for having achieved this at the cost of breaching human rights which led him being sentenced to twenty-five years in prison in 2009.
What were your experiences during the era of terror in Peru? Did you agree with Fujimori's measure to overcome this by granting the military extensive powers to arrest suspected rebels and try them in secret military courts with few legal rights?
During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, I was always scared to leave my house and, like everyone I knew, there was always the thought of whether you would come back alive. I lived in a time where if you saw a package in the street, you thought it was a bomb, where electric light towers would continuously blow up and you had to stay in the dark. No one in the world would like to live in constant fear and terror of dying anytime. During this time, I was also at university and, as many of us lost numerous semesters, we had to dedicate ourselves to throw stones in the street burn tires and challenge the police for a better education and end corruption. Fujimori himself once entered my university to drill the students in the courtyard, hoisting our national flag, making us place our hands on our chests and singing the national anthem. He told us that we were students whose duty was to study for our country and parents.
I agree with Fujimori's measure as he made sure to capture the leaders of the Shining Path and MRTA, who together caused the deaths of over 60,000 people. While Fujimori was accused of killing nine La Cantuta University students, I believe that as a president of Peru, if nine killed hundreds of people, I would have also avoided further deaths by killing these students. Why defending the rights of nine people? What about the rights of thousands and thousands of people killed by terrorism in Peru during the 80s and 90s?
What about the mass forced sterilisation that affected around 300 000 Indigenous Peruvian women, many of them without anaesthesia, by the Fujimori regime in the late 1990s? Do you think it was an act of abuse and genocide?
At that time, I was a school teacher in a very impoverished area of Peru's capital city, Lima. I know for a fact that some of my students' mothers underwent these sterilisations since they already had too many children, their economic situation was critical, and they even told me they were grateful for it. I agree to sterilise women with numerous children who are in extreme poverty without the possibility of giving a good quality of life to their children who could end up begging in the street and have to prostitute themselves under bridges.
Do you think his program has improved the lives of Indigenous women?
I believe there has been progress for Indigenous Peruvian women, but it should be sustained. I have travelled around Peru in the 2000s and I have seen great progress for these women in the main provincial cities, but we still need to reach more remote villages where populations live in towns that border other countries and poverty is rampant.
How has the Fujimori regime influenced geographical regions in the 1990s?
Fujimori ordered highways and roads not only in Lima but in more remote and poor provinces like Ilo, Abancay and Ayacucho. He also facilitated medical centres and schools across the nation, including one in front of my house. That is why those in the provinces favour Fujimori. In the 2016 presidential elections for instance, you can see people in the poor provinces such as Ayacucho voted for Fujimori's daughter, Keiko in contrast to the vote in Lima.
Map depicting votes for the second round of the 2016 Peruvian Presidential Elections by Province (Image via Wikipedia). Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won the election with a runoff breakdown of 50.12% against Keiko Fujimori's 49.88%.
If Keiko Fujimori received support in the last elections, why do you think over 30,000 protesters across Lima expressed their discontent during her campaign in April 2016? Do you think they were fearing a possible return to her father's dynasty?
The majority of these protesters were university students who are too young to remember what people like me suffered during the era of terrorism in Peru and what Fujimori achieved in the 1990s. All these young people who have no memory of our dark past are part of the Peruvian Left today and hate Fujimori for the death of nine terrorist students from La Cantuta University. They voted for the current Peruvian President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ('PPK').
I do think that it was fear motivating the Peruvian Left who found in university students a willing bastion but voting for 'PPK' was a serious error. And of course, the Left understood Fujimori's crime in killing innocent people. Terrorism will not return if the Fujimoristas again have power.
Now that Alberto Fujimori has received the 'humanitarian pardon' for his ailing health by Kuczynski, are you grateful for this decision? Or do you think it was an act of convenience from Kuczynski as Fujimori's son, Kenji, helped him to survive a bid of impeachment?
Fujimori deserved the pardon for having been for me and much of the population the best president that Peru had. 'PPK' was dishonest and he should have pardoned him earlier, not at the precise moment that his position was at risk.
Alexis is a final year BA student at UNSW aiming to do Honours in 2019, focusing in topics relating to Latin American History and subaltern studies.
Leave a comment Posted on December 4, 2017 December 9, 2017 by cameronmcphedran Author in Focus
History in the Making author in focus: Joanna Molloy
Joanna Molloy is the author of "How does the film 'Dresden- The Inferno' reconstruct life in Dresden and represent the trauma suffered by victims of the 1945 Dresden bombing," recently published in Volume 5, Number 1 of History in the Making.
Here, Joanna reflects on the context behind her article, her future reading plans, and on what she views as key contributions and contributors to the field of History.
What's your favourite history book?
One of my favourite history books is Eric Hobsbawm's 'Interesting Times – A Twentieth-Century Life'. Hobsbawm lived in Vienna in the 1920s, witnessed the rise of Nationalist Socialism in Berlin in the early 1930s, arrived in England in 1933 and went on to study history at Cambridge. In this book he discussed world events and forces such as Fascism, Communism and the Cold War by drawing on, and combining his personal experiences of the twentieth-century with his interpretations as an academic historian.
Who is a historian you admire and why?
I also like Mary Fulbrook's extensive writings on Germany in the twentieth-century, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in particular. She uses a wide range of sources and approaches; combining state records, cultural artifacts and oral histories. Her writing is clear and measured, and she sees GDR society in its complexity, rather than framing the GDR with Cold War ideology.
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New issue: Volume Five Number One
History in the Making has a new issue: Volume Five Number One. This new issue continues the journal's strong record of publishing outstanding work by history students.
This issue focusses on twentieth century European history, with insights from Swatilekha Ahmed, Rebecca Cordony and Joanna Molloy. We also emphasise the role of women in history, most prominently in Michelle Staff's talented examination of women's biography.
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We're looking for new members
History in the Making is looking for new members to join our team.
We're looking for PhD or Honours students in history, who are interested in the behind-the-scenes work involved in running a journal.
Our volunteer team shares our skills and experience to handle the journal's:
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If you know how to do any these things, or are keen to learn, then we want to hear from you.
The role will be easiest for someone based in Sydney. We meet about once a month, on weekends and weeknights, in Sydney.
If you're interested in this opportunity, send us an email, telling us about your experience, why you're interested in joining our team, and the skills that you could bring.
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History in the Making is again calling for papers for a new issue. From first-year undergraduates with a fresh perspective on American politics, to Honours students with original research, History in the Making is the journal for up-and-coming history students.
If you have an assignment, thesis extract, or a submission prepared just for History in the Making, now is the time to submit. We will select a group of authors to work with our editors to improve their submissions and prepare them for publication in late 2017.
Submissions close 7 May 2017.
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History in the Making author in focus: Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart is the author of 'Where There's a Will: Using Deceased Estate Documents to Inform Family History', which was published in Volume 4 Number 2 of History in the Making.
Rebecca has a background in midwifery and health science, and is currently studying for a Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History at the University of New England (UNE).
In this blog post, she explains her interest in history, gives some advice about submitting to History in the Making, and gives her tips for primary archival research.
How did you come to your topic for your article?
My interest began as purely personal as Hannah, the central figure of my article, is my great-great-grandmother. I had always known the story of her being the local midwife, and became more interested in her when I became a midwife myself, and I really wanted to tell her story. Through the Grad Dip in Local, Family & Applied History at UNE I have been able to explore a range of topics around Hannah, including the paperwork relating to her death. The original essay topic was unpacking the distribution of wealth across generations within the family i.e. from Hannah to her children and subsequently onto theirs. It was interesting to see the differences in how each of the children fared and try to understand their circumstances in a socio-economic sense, especially as her daughters were much more successful than her sons. But the differences in the paperwork were also really interesting – both Hannah and Catherine's wills are rich in clues about their relationships and connections, but dramatically different in tone, content, and intent. This is the aspect I focussed on for my article – can paperwork such as a will tell us about a person? How? Why would Hannah leave a house to Jack, but let Lizzie use it indefinitely? Why would Catherine leave the farmland to Elsie, but deny her the equipment she needed to run it? For me, family history really lives beyond names and dates on a tree and in the stories – both Hannah and Catherine left such tantalising little clues to explore!
I think studying history gives us context for our lives. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Taking a midwifery perspective for example, I realised as a student that midwives are not taught a professional history. There is no 'Florence Nightingale' heroic identity or image, or stories of skilled pioneer women, respected in their community. Although the regulation of midwifery is now well documented, much of the discourse around midwifery practice is very negative, emphasising baby-farmers, abortionists, and Dickensian 'Sairy Gamp' style drunkards, and often couched in 'us and them' terms in opposition to the professions of nursing and/or obstetrics. Midwifery has begun a process of re-establishing itself as a discrete profession in the last decade or so, but we have no context for professional identity or professional pride without knowing our history. How can we know who we are or where we are going if we do not know who or where we came from?
What advice would you give to someone considering submitting an article to the journal?
Do it! It is a really interesting process from being told a paper is good and 'you should publish that' to producing an article for publication. It was actually fun to be able to ditch the assigned question and reframe it to focus on my choice of topic. The peer-review feedback process was revealing in the way it presented different perspectives to those I had considered, and also provided genuinely constructive criticism on technical aspects of writing and editing. The 1-1 feedback from my assigned editor was invaluable. There was nothing threatening in the process, and everyone I dealt with from the journal was supportive and encouraging. I was much more excited than I expected to see my paper 'out there' – tick that goal off the bucket list! – and the reactions of my lecturers, friends & family have been great.
How did you find and access your primary sources?
Most of the primary sources for this paper are available in public archives – Public Record Offices in Northern Ireland (PRONI) and Victoria (PROV), Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages Victoria (BDMVic), National Archives UK and Australia, Parliamentary papers, Convict LINC Tasmania, Victoria Police Museum, and Trove. Some of these are freely available online, for example, many wills in Victoria can be downloaded free from PROV, and LINC provides extensive convict records free. Other resources require a trip to the archive to view and photograph, such as land grants from PROV. Victoria Police service records must be requested through the media unit before a .pdf is emailed. Although they can be valuable, I have so far refused to pay for services such as ancestry.com, but instead accessed them via my local library. These services can be very hit-and-miss: you might spend hours and find nothing or strike absolute gold in minutes. Similarly, you might find nothing in one and loads in another on the exact same person! It can be time consuming and frustrating. Also, you may or may not be able to access actual documents; sometimes only a transcript is available. BDMVic is excellent in that online searching is now free, and certificates are available for immediate download but of course there is a cost, and at $25 per certificate it can become very expensive to explore a family.
I want to do a major research project around Grannie Watts next year, exploring her midwifery practice in rural Victoria 1880-1920.
You're hosting a dinner party. Which three historical figures are invited?
1. My great-great grandmother Hannah Jane 'Grannie' Watts obviously!
2. Mary Gilbert – the pregnant wife of blacksmith James, Mary was the only woman on the Enterprize, which landed in Port Phillip in August 1835.
3. Abraham Lincoln
History in the Making author in focus: David Taylor
History in the Making recently published David Taylor's article about race and aesthetics in the nineteenth century portraits of Thomas Bock and Benjamin Duterrau.
David is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, where he is writing a thesis about knowledge and information networks in eighteenth century Britain and Europe. He can be found at UTAS, LinkedIn, Academia.edu and Twitter.
Here, he describes his writing process, his experience of the peer review process at History in the Making, and his ideal dinner party.
I gained an awful lot from the peer review process. For one, it opens your work up to constructive criticism. While you may feel that this kind of thing is a negative thing that you do not need, it's important to remember that, at most times of your career in history, you will be asked to offer your work up for reading, debate, and criticism. Why not start with History in the Making, where you can get reviews from peers and fellow students, and learn from there? It also allows you to become familiar with the ongoing editing process. Many students come out of high school and into university without the important editing skills that make good work great. Editing is as important as the article itself. It can let down your work if it looks shabbily edited, or not edited at all, no matter how many references you make. Lastly, it taught me to work for reward. You need to set yourself goals as a researcher, and to have a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of publication, is a major bonus.
Why did you choose to study history?
I chose history as much as history chose me. From when I was a little boy, I was exposed to the wonders of history through documentaries and books. As a teenager, I would write fictitious histories of European kingdoms and write myself into their narratives. It might sound obsessive or strange, but I think now that it was history enacting itself through my learning, and vice versa. By writing early and writing a lot, it taught me to develop my thinking, reasoning, editing, and story-telling abilities. So early on, story-telling was as important to me as history itself. The two link together perfectly. Even if history is not your sole passion, it has a way of binding itself to your brain and making you think differently about so many areas of your life.
My writing process is to continuously write. In previous times, I was very much a cerebral researcher, taking thousands of words of notes for an assignment that might be only 500-1000 words in length. That is fine for undergraduate work. When and if you come to postgraduate study, it is important to write continuously, because storing references in a master file or in your head will only get you so far before one or both explode. Writing continuously links to editing continuously, and by the end of a research project, you can be working with a large chunk of good text, instead of starting from scratch! Also, a good lecturer once told me to write up every book that came across my desk. Just write 100-200 words on it, so that you don't forget later what you read or why you read it.
My favourite history book would have to be The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama. It is a study of wealth and culture in the Dutch Golden Age and it is what taught me that history writing doesn't have to be boring, nor does it have to be strictly academic. The book subconsciously taught some of the most important elements of historical writing: a sharp eye for detail, meticulous research and referencing, and above all, a delivery method that captures the reader. Although I have wandered many different historical paths since first reading it, it is a book I return to in the course of many different investigations. It's a sign of a good history book, that it becomes a reference guide to many different areas of your work.
Again, I would return to Simon Schama. A reasonable amount of my lecturers over the course of my studies have crinkled their nose at the mention of his name, as if he were a glass of milk poured on the day of its expiry. I never understood their reaction. There is an unspoken disregard for historians who 'go mainstream', as if they're somehow corrupting the discipline. What Schama has instilled in me is a belief that history is not just for academics and journals, but for everyone, to relate to and to learn from. It is our common heritage, the dirt beneath our feet and the words on the pages before our eyes. We must dust it off, lift it up, and make it presentable to the world, and we must do so with respect to history itself, and not to suit our own ends.
I think the first choice would have to be Rembrandt van Rijn, the famous Dutch Golden Age artist. Not only would be supply interesting conversation, he would also probably paint a quick portrait of our group for posterity. I've seen enough time travel movies to know these moments can easily be lost forever. Rembrandt is also highly enigmatic, with a magnetic force around his life and his work that has made or broken the careers of many historians and art historians. Along with him, I think I'd invite the topic of my PhD dissertation, Sir Andrew Mitchell, the British envoy to Prussia during the Seven Years' War. Not only could this fill in much of my historical research, but he is also a diplomat highly skilled and informed in many different areas, and perhaps there would be no better placed person to enlighten me on the attitudes, beliefs, and world of the eighteenth century than him. His career also crossed paths with many eminent persons of that century, and so it would be like having a reference guide at the table. Having invited a seventeenth and an eighteenth century figure, my last guest would be a Roman, but for a fun evening, let's go with Caligula. Many of the rumours and anecdotes surrounding the young emperor's life have persisted for centuries, and while some may be true, many have been brought into question. His fiery determination and acute paranoia for security don't seem to be in doubt, and also the rich cultural heritage of a young Roman Empire would be too much for my dinner guests to resist. Not only could we be entertained by stories of Rome, but the darker side of Rome would also be fantastic dinner conversation. Maybe we could finally resolve the debate over whether or not he made his horse a Roman consul! It's in Rome and Greece, too, that my historical inspiration began, so all the more reason to invite this tarnished emperor.
Leave a comment Posted on July 7, 2016 December 9, 2017 by historyitm announcements
New issue: Volume 4 Number 2
A new issue of History in the Making is out now
After months of painstaking effort by our authors, editors and reviewers, History in the Making is pleased to announce a new issue. In this issue, the journal maintains its high standard of inquisitive, thoughtful works by undergraduates, complemented and honed by a dedicated team of postgraduates.
Two articles in this issue exemplify the exciting and diverse source material available to undergraduate history students. Rebecca Hart provides a close analysis of death certificates, wills, obituaries and deceased estate files to reveal the very personal experiences of a Victorian family. Hart focuses on the experiences and relationships of prominent women within the family, and uncovers the rich stories that can be found in often-dry legal documents. David Taylor accesses interactions between white Tasmanians and indigenous Australians through Benjamin Duterrau and Thomas Bock's portrayals of Truggernana, Mannalargenna, George Augustus Robinson and their contemporaries, concluding that there is more to these artworks than meets the eye.
Eighteenth and nineteenth century United States history remains a popular topic for our contributors. Hope Williams recounts the activities of abortionist Ann Lohman, known as 'Madame Restell', in nineteenth-century New York City. Her career, the controversy with which it was met, and the media coverage of that controversy, are evaluated as manifestations of contemporary social issues. Peter Harney also accesses the social issues that loomed large in the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, by examining the transformation of punishment from physical violence to architectural power and surveillance. Harney places that transformation in a broader social context of disease, secularisation and industrialisation.
History in the Making continues to publish strong works examining early modern and ancient periods. Jennifer Lord explores the portrayal of female mystics by male and female hagiographers, to identify attitudes to gender in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. She concludes that these mystics were constructed in a way that accommodated their spirituality within existing power structures. Debbie Turkilsen reaches further back, closely examining the rhetorical devices used by Julius Caesar to persuade his audience in The Civil War. She reveals that the text is indeed rhetorical, intended to communicate Caesar's attitude towards the controversial events described in his work.


The SocNetV project has just released its latest version 1.6. Binaries for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available from the Downloads menu.
The new version brings back the web crawler feature which has been disabled in the 1.x series so far.
To start the web crawler, go to menu Network > Web Crawler or press Shift+C.
A dialog will appear, where you must enter the initial web page (seed). You may also set the maximum nodes/pages (default 600) and what kind of links to crawl: internal, external or both. By default the spider will crawl both internal and external links.
The new web crawler is vastly improved from the 0.x releases and consists of two parts: a 'spider' and a 'parser', each one running on its own thread.
The spider visits a given initial URL (i.e. a website or a single webpage) and downloads its HTML code. The parser scans the downloaded code for 'href' links to other pages (internal or external) and adds them to a queue of URLs (called frontier).
The process is multithreaded and completed in a matter of seconds even for 1000 urls.
The end result is the 'network' of all visited webpages as nodes and their real links as edges. To help you find some patterns right away, the nodes are by default displayed with their node sizes reflecting their outDegree.
From there, you can analyze the network using the SNA tools provided by SocNetV.
Please note that the parser searches for 'href' links only in the body section of the HTML code.


A landmark is now forever gone from the downtown area.
Last Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, demolition began at the former Rae Valley Market (Andre's Store) in downtown Petersburg.
Rae Valley Market was moved last year to a new spacious building near the junction of Highways 14 and 32 in Petersburg.
The demolition provided Petersburg residents with an opportunity to review the history of the local grocery store, which dates back to 1887 when J.J. Andre moved his small store building into Petersburg from its former location in Raeville.
Complete details in the Jan. 30 Petersburg Press Print & Electronic Editions.


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5 Names to Watch at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships presented by Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.
By Mike Gustafson//Contributor | Monday, August 21, 2017
It's one of the last major championship meets of the season: The eyes of the competitive swimming world turn to the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana for the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships, presented by Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. This week, more than 600 swimmers from nearly 100 countries will attend the World Juniors. For the United States, 18 boys and 24 girls are scheduled to compete — and many of them could be names to watch in the coming years.
In fact, a number of 2016 Olympic swimmers began their international competition career at the World Juniors, proving that this kind of experience becomes incredibly valuable as a swimmer matures. Anyone who wants to know who the next up-and-coming Olympic swimmers are need only to glance at this week's World Juniors roster.
And among these names, there are five in particular to pay attention to. Here they are…
1. Michael Andrew
This week, one of the most anticipated swimmers-to-watch will be Michael Andrew; it seems as though the spotlight follows the young professional swimmer no matter which meet he attends. Andrew has a number of races this week, including a scheduled showdown against teammate Reece Whitley in the 100m breaststroke. It's the event many have been waiting for: Two of the most promising young swimmers squaring off against each other in the sprint breaststroke. Michael Andrew is one of the most promising swimmers in years, with numerous age group records left in his wake. This week's 100m breaststroke could be a foreshadowing of things to come.
2. 15-year-old Regan Smith
If these World Junior Championships give valuable international racing experience to the next up-and-coming swimmers, expect the young Regan Smith to take advantage. At just 15, Smith has lit up the age group record boards, and could compete in as many as six events this week, including all three backstroke events. Smith, representing Riptide Swimming in Minnesota, will also show prowess in the sprint butterfly.
3. Carson Foster, a well-rounded up-and-coming swimmer.
Anyone who paid attention to this summer's Speedo Junior National Championships couldn't escape noticing the Foster brothers, from the Mason Manta Rays in Ohio. The younger of the two Foster brothers, Carson, is scheduled to compete this week. At the Speedo Junior Nationals, he swam well in a number of events, including a showdown with older brother Jake in the 200 IM. This week, fans can see Carson swim the 200-meter backstroke. This kind of international competition is invaluable for a young athlete, and it'll be fascinating to see how Foster transitions from the event-packed Speedo Junior Nationals to a relatively less event-heavy Junior Worlds.
4. Grace Ariola taking on the sprint world.
Ariola, an Illinois native, will be sprinting close to home; she has a packed event schedule on top of that. She'll be in both free and back sprint events. At last summer's Olympic Trials, Ariola placed 9th in the 100-meter backstroke; the Texas commit has also been to the World Junior Championships before, back in 2015. In sprinting, more experience usually means the better. Expect big things from the competition-experienced Ariola this week.
5. Nicolas Albiero
This Kentucky native representing Cardinal Aquatics is a backstroke and butterfly specialist. In fact, Albiero is scheduled to compete in all of the butterfly events. Butterfly, vastly different in long course than in short course, is one of those events difficult to do both as a sprint and mid-distance; when it comes to butterfly, Albiero can do it all.


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Housing advocates take on landlords, support tenants
By MATTHEW ORMSETHNovember 26, 2018
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ousting a New York landlord from his dilapidated complex was a win for Cori Mackey and the Rev. AJ Johnson. But since then, the breadth of Hartford's housing woes has only expanded for the two. The scale of disrepair and neglect in its subsidized housing has come into sharper, more sobering focus as more tenants come forward, they say, seeking help and a similar outcome.
Mackey and Johnson — executive director and organizer, respectively, for the Christian Activities Council — will not take on every case. They helped organize tenants living in the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments, owned by Queens, N.Y.-based Emmanuel Ku, because the tenants were willing to lead the fight. Mackey and Johnson also believed they had a degree of leverage: Ku's contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development paid him more than $1 million a year to house 150 low-income families, but required he keep his buildings in "safe and sanitary" condition. Mackey and Johnson knew they were neither.
Nearly a year later, HUD stripped Ku of his contract and relocated hundreds of tenants.
"We've been called by other complexes where people are happy to say they have bad conditions, and when we ask them to engage, they don't want to," Mackey said last week, five months after Ku lost his contract. "It breaks our heart, but we have to walk away. Otherwise we become the next advocacy organization."
The Christian Activities Council, founded in Hartford in 1851, is not in the business of advocacy, its leaders insist. If the people affected by an issue will not lead the fight — tenants in a ramshackle building, parents at a closing school — Mackey and Johnson say they refuse to speak for them.
"The minute you overlay your expectations on what they're feeling," Mackey said, "you're just living out your own biases."
Mackey, who is white, knows there is tension in a white woman leading a community agency in Hartford's North End, a mostly black and Hispanic neighborhood. Johnson, a black pastor who leads Urban Hope Refuge Church, heads up the CAC's community organizing front.
Nearly always suited, with matching tie and pocket square and the occasional straw boater, Johnson moves among the unacquainted with a pastor's ease. He is quick to make conversation, but "his greatest strength," said Denise Best, chair of the Upper Albany Neighborhood Revitalization Zone, is "he knows how to listen."
The first hurdle in organizing tenants, Johnson said, is "going through the steps of saying this isn't normal, having them identify that crack in their bathroom that's been there a long time and they've gotten used to."
Damaged, even dangerous, housing has become normalized in Hartford's poor neighborhoods, Johnson said. "Re-energizing them is the key to the whole thing. That's where the real magic is."
Early in the process, Johnson and Mackey try to find a half-dozen tenants willing to lead, to speak with officials and the media. What follows is a series of rehearsals. "We do a rehearsal as if we're going to be in a play," Mackey said. The tenants write scripts. Some of them, playing the part of high-powered officials, dress up in suits. Once, when a bureaucrat was known to drink coffee during meetings, his double showed up at rehearsal with a Dunkin' Donuts cup.
It's all intended to familiarize the tenants with an uncomfortable, foreign space, Mackey explained. Most have never met the mayor or a federal housing official.
Mackey described their relationship with City Hall as injected "with a healthy dose of respect."
"The phrase we live by is: No permanent enemies, no permanent allies," she said. Mackey and Johnson had criticized City Hall during the Ku saga, saying its inspectors vetted the landlord's buildings only after public outcry had peaked. But the two credited Mayor Luke Bronin for dispatching inspectors — and personally touring — another similarly ramshackle complex in the North End recently.
"What makes the CAC effective," Bronin said, "is they're not speaking for residents." He vowed to use his levers in the city's inspections department to pressure the complex's owners to repair their property, and to "push HUD towards a sense of urgency."
Mackey and Johnson have since turned their gaze on two other North End complexes: the Infill apartments, 52 units owned by a Brooklyn woman; and the Barbour Gardens apartments, 84 units owned by a consortium of Long Island-based investors. Like Ku's buildings, both complexes are federally subsidized, their owners contracting with HUD through the agency's Multifamily Housing program. Private landlords contracting with HUD offer 1.2 million units of housing nationwide, compared to about 900,000 from local housing agencies.
The Infill apartments were the subject of a recent NBC News story, offered as a case study for a national investigation of HUD Secretary Ben Carson's leadership of the agency. The apartments, owned by Blima Isaacson and managed by Eli Fish, recently scored 21 out of 100 on a HUD inspection, with officials noting mold, vermin and leaking ceilings. Neither Isaacson nor Fish responded to requests for comment.
The Barbour Gardens apartments, by contrast, scored an 81 on an inspection in February. The mark was well above passing, nothing that would raise flags. But in September, city inspectors found more than 200 code violations in 33 units, noting mice and cockroach infestations, water damage and sagging walls and ceilings.
The buildings' owners — Saeid Soleimani, Mehran Bassalie, Albert Soleimani, Marc Wolfe, Rafiollah Setareh, Yadidia Setareh, David Setareh, and several limited liability companies — were sent notice they would be fined $99 per violation, per day, if the city violations were left unaddressed. A spokesman for Bronin said re-inspections are currently being scheduled.
HUD sent the owners a notice of default in October, warning they had 60 days to fix the deficiencies noted by Hartford inspectors. In May, the agency had renewed its contract with the owners for six months.
A HUD spokeswoman said the owners are "in preliminary discussions to sell the project to an owner with plans for substantial rehabilitation." A Manhattan attorney representing the owners, Aaron Seligson, did not respond to requests for comment. A Norwich attorney representing them in eviction cases in Hartford did not respond to a request for comment.
The HUD spokeswoman, Rhonda Siciliano, said the agency is relocating two families from the Barbour Gardens apartments for health reasons. Siciliano said she could not specify the health issues, but Mackey, who has been working with the families, said they stem from mold and vermin.
Doctors from Connecticut Children's Medical Center and the Family Medicine Center at Asylum Hill sent notes to HUD urging the agency to remove children from the apartments. A Connecticut Children's doctor said health inspectors had visited one of the units and seen mold, mildew, mice and cockroaches.
How, Mackey and Johnson ask, could a building that easily passed inspection in February be deemed a health risk for kids just eighth months later?
The inspections are a "total sham, so fundamentally flawed," Mackey said. "It forces us to look upriver and say, if this is the only mechanism HUD has to determine if this property needs their attention or not, something's got to change."
HUD said last month it was carrying out a "wholesale reexamination" of the inspections, known as REACs, after the Real Estate Assessment Center that conducts them. HUD acknowledged that "REAC's 20-year-old scoring system needs to be changed to better reflect the physical conditions of the properties where more than two million families call home."
Siciliano, the HUD spokeswoman, said the apartments' passing score in February "does not reflect the conditions on the ground at the property now."
Mackey said there has been no progress in relocating the families. Doctors sent the notes last month. "HUD cannot take credit for relocating them," she said.
Information from: Hartford Courant, http://www.courant.com


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import json

from django.conf import settings
from django import template
from django.urls import reverse
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _  # noqa
from django.utils.translation import ungettext_lazy

from horizon import tables

from monitoring.alarms import constants
from monitoring import api
from monitoring.overview import constants as ov_constants

STATUS = ["OK", "WARNING", "CRITICAL", "UNKNOWN"]

def get_status(index):
    if index < len(STATUS):
        return STATUS[index]
    else:
        return "UNKNOWN: %d" % index

def show_status(data):
    status = data.upper()
    img_tag = '<img src="{img}" title="{label}" class="status-icon" />{label}'
    if status == 'CRITICAL':
        return img_tag.format(img=constants.CRITICAL_ICON, label=status)
    if status in ('LOW', 'MEDIUM', 'HIGH'):
        return img_tag.format(img=constants.WARNING_ICON, label=status)
    if status == 'OK':
        return img_tag.format(img=constants.OK_ICON, label=status)
    if status == 'UNKNOWN' or status == 'UNDETERMINED':
        return img_tag.format(img=constants.UNKNOWN_ICON, label=status)
    return status

def show_severity(data):
    severity = data['alarm_definition']['severity']
    state = data['state']
    if state == 'ALARM':
        return severity.upper()
    else:
        return state.upper()

def show_alarm_id(data):
    return data['id']

def show_metric_names(data):
    names = set(metric['name'] for metric in data['metrics'])
    return ', '.join(names)

def show_def_name(data):
    return data['alarm_definition']['name']

def show_def_severity(data):
    return data['alarm_definition']['severity']

def show_metric_dimensions(data):
    if len(data['metrics']) > 1:
        commondimensions = data['metrics'][0]['dimensions']
        for metric in data['metrics'][1:]:
            for k in tuple(commondimensions):
                if k not in metric['dimensions'].keys() or \
                        commondimensions[k] != metric['dimensions'][k]:
                    del commondimensions[k]
        return ','.join(["%s=%s" % (n, v) for n, v
                         in commondimensions.items()])
    else:
        return ','.join(["%s=%s" % (n, v) for n, v
                         in data['metrics'][0]['dimensions'].items()])

def get_service(data):
    if len(data['metrics']) == 1 and 'service'in\
            data['metrics'][0]['dimensions']:
        return data['metrics'][0]['dimensions']['service']
    else:
        return ''

class ShowAlarmHistory(tables.LinkAction):
    name = 'history'
    verbose_name = _('Show History')
    classes = ('btn-edit',)

    def get_link_url(self, datum):
        return reverse(constants.URL_PREFIX + 'history',
                       args=(datum['alarm_definition']['id'], datum['id'], ))

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return True

class CreateAlarm(tables.LinkAction):
    name = "create_alarm"
    verbose_name = _("Create Alarm")
    classes = ("ajax-modal",)
    icon = "plus"
    policy_rules = (("alarm", "alarm:create"),)
    ajax = True

    def get_link_url(self):
        return reverse(constants.URL_PREFIX + 'alarm_create',
                       args=(self.table.kwargs['service'],))

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return True

class EditAlarm(tables.LinkAction):
    name = "edit_alarm"
    verbose_name = _("Edit Alarm")
    classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-create")

    def get_link_url(self, datum):
        return reverse(constants.URL_PREFIX + 'alarm_edit',
                       args=(self.table.kwargs['service'], datum['id'], ))

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return True

class GraphMetric(tables.LinkAction):
    name = "graph_alarm"
    verbose_name = _("Graph Metric")
    icon = "dashboard"

    def render(self):
        self.attrs['target'] = 'newtab'
        return super(self, GraphMetric).render()

    def get_link_url(self, datum):
        url = ''
        query = ''
        self.attrs['target'] = '_blank'
        try:
            region = self.table.request.user.services_region
            grafana_url = getattr(settings, 'GRAFANA_URL').get(region, '')
            url = grafana_url + \
                '/dashboard/script/drilldown.js'
            metric = datum['metrics'][0]['name']
            dimensions = datum['metrics'][0].get('dimensions', {})
            query = "?metric=%s" % metric
            for key, value in dimensions.items():
                query += "&%s=%s" % (key, value)
        except AttributeError:
            # Catches case where Grafana 2 is not enabled.
            name = datum['metrics'][0]['name']
            threshold = json.dumps(datum['metrics'])
            endpoint = str(reverse_lazy(ov_constants.URL_PREFIX + 'proxy'))
            endpoint = self.table.request.build_absolute_uri(endpoint)
            url = '/grafana/index.html#/dashboard/script/detail.js'
            query = "?name=%s&threshold=%s&api=%s" % \
                (name, threshold, endpoint)
        return url + query

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return (getattr(settings, 'GRAFANA_URL', None) is not None and
                datum['metrics'])

class ShowAlarmDefinition(tables.LinkAction):
    name = "show_alarm_definition"
    verbose_name = _("Show Alarm Definition")

    def get_link_url(self, datum=None):
        url = 'horizon:monitoring:alarmdefs:alarm_detail'
        args = (datum['alarm_definition']['id'],)
        return reverse_lazy(url, args=args)

class DeleteAlarm(tables.DeleteAction):
    name = "delete_alarm"
    verbose_name = _("Delete Alarm")

    @staticmethod
    def action_present(count):
        return ungettext_lazy(
            u"Delete Alarm",
            u"Delete Alarms",
            count
        )

    @staticmethod
    def action_past(count):
        return ungettext_lazy(
            u"Deleted Alarm",
            u"Deleted Alarms",
            count
        )

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return True

    def delete(self, request, obj_id):
        api.monitor.alarm_delete(request, obj_id)

class AlarmsFilterAction(tables.LinkAction):
    name = "filter"
    verbose_name = _("Filter Alarms")
    classes = ("ajax-modal",)
    icon = "plus"
    policy_rules = (("alarm", "alarm:filter"),)
    ajax = True

    def get_link_url(self):
        return reverse(constants.URL_PREFIX + 'alarm_filter', args=())

    def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
        return True

class AlarmsTable(tables.DataTable):
    state = tables.Column(transform=show_severity, verbose_name=_('Status'),
                          status_choices={(show_status('OK'), True)},
                          filters=[show_status, template.defaultfilters.safe])
    name = tables.Column(transform=show_def_name, verbose_name=_('Name'))
    alarmId = tables.Column(transform=show_alarm_id, verbose_name=_('Alarm Id'))
    metrics = tables.Column(transform=show_metric_names,
                            verbose_name=_('Metric Names'))
    dimensions = tables.Column(transform=show_metric_dimensions,
                               verbose_name=_('Metric Dimensions'))

    def get_object_id(self, obj):
        return obj['id']

    def get_object_display(self, obj):
        return obj['id']

    class Meta(object):
        name = "alarms"
        verbose_name = _("Alarms")
        row_actions = (GraphMetric,
                       ShowAlarmHistory,
                       ShowAlarmDefinition,
                       DeleteAlarm,
                       )
        table_actions = (AlarmsFilterAction,
                         DeleteAlarm,
                         )

def show_timestamp(data):
    return data['timestamp'].replace('.000Z', '').replace('T', ' ')

class AlarmHistoryTable(tables.DataTable):
    timestamp = tables.Column(transform=show_timestamp,
                              verbose_name=_('Timestamp'),
                              attrs={"data-type": "timestamp"})
    old_state = tables.Column('old_state', verbose_name=_('Old State'))
    new_state = tables.Column('new_state', verbose_name=_('New State'))
    alarmDimensions = tables.Column(transform=show_metric_dimensions,
                                    verbose_name=_('Alarm Metric Dimensions'))
    reason = tables.Column('reason', verbose_name=_('Reason'))
    # reason_data = tables.Column('reason_data', verbose_name=_('Reason Data'))

    def get_object_id(self, obj):
        return obj['alarm_id'] + obj['timestamp']

    class Meta(object):
        name = "history"
        verbose_name = _("Alarm History")


In 1998, the concept of a heritage trail started and planning began.
The Allegan County Tourist Council hired the services of a planner to help put together the 122-mile tour with 28 historical sites, and produced a map with the help of Allegan County Land Information Services. A Guidebook was produced with the help of the planner in 2003. Audio CDs were added, narrated by 18 historians from the county, for listening to while driving between sites. Interpretive signs have been installed at many of the 28 sites.
The best way to experience the Allegan County Heritage Trail is to use the Heritage Trail Guidebook along with the accompanying audios. The Guidebook is a forty-page booklet that highlights all 28 Trail sites with pictures, stories, and other points of interest and can be viewed online, downloaded or printed. Truly, this Guidebook is a mini-history book of Allegan County. The audio files are comprised of recordings from over fifteen local historians and residents further detailing the history of Allegan County. These recordings provide additional information to that which is available in the guidebook. The information is presented in a historical context and many of the stories of the "old days" are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face!


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.. highlightlang:: c

.. _concrete:

**********************
Concrete Objects Layer
**********************

The functions in this chapter are specific to certain Python object types.
Passing them an object of the wrong type is not a good idea; if you receive an
object from a Python program and you are not sure that it has the right type,
you must perform a type check first; for example, to check that an object is a
dictionary, use :c:func:`PyDict_Check`.  The chapter is structured like the
"family tree" of Python object types.

.. warning::

   While the functions described in this chapter carefully check the type of the
   objects which are passed in, many of them do not check for *NULL* being passed
   instead of a valid object.  Allowing *NULL* to be passed in can cause memory
   access violations and immediate termination of the interpreter.

.. _fundamental:

Fundamental Objects
===================

This section describes Python type objects and the singleton object ``None``.

.. toctree::

   type.rst
   none.rst

.. _numericobjects:

Numeric Objects
===============

.. index:: object: numeric

.. toctree::

   long.rst
   bool.rst
   float.rst
   complex.rst

.. _sequenceobjects:

Sequence Objects
================

.. index:: object: sequence

Generic operations on sequence objects were discussed in the previous chapter;
this section deals with the specific kinds of sequence objects that are
intrinsic to the Python language.

.. XXX sort out unicode, str, bytes and bytearray

.. toctree::

   bytes.rst
   bytearray.rst
   unicode.rst
   tuple.rst
   list.rst

.. _mapobjects:

Container Objects
=================

.. index:: object: mapping

.. toctree::

   dict.rst
   set.rst

.. _otherobjects:

Function Objects
================

.. toctree::

   function.rst
   method.rst
   cell.rst
   code.rst

Other Objects
=============

.. toctree::

   file.rst
   module.rst
   iterator.rst
   descriptor.rst
   slice.rst
   memoryview.rst
   weakref.rst
   capsule.rst
   gen.rst
   coro.rst
   datetime.rst


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Full Protection and Security, Gunboat Diplomacy, Libya, Turkey
Turkey and Libya: Full Protection and Security or (Gunboat) Diplomacy?
Ylli Dautaj (Durham Law School) and Rebecca Sahlin Karlsson (DER Juridik)/ May 1, 2020 April 27, 2020 /1 Comment
A widespread debate on the legitimacy of (and backlash against) investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) has been on-going for several years now. Put colloquially, this debate asks essentially whether ISDS in its current form is capable of handling international investment disputes, generally, and such disputes that implicate a public interest element, in particular. Moreover, it asks whether all stakeholders' concerns are taken into account in the contemporary practices and whether and how the procedural framework should evolve to reflect this. Should there be (several) moderate reforms put in place or a more systematic reform of both international investment agreements (IIAs) and ISDS? Naturally, we cannot cover the entire debate here. This post focuses on a particularly interesting development in Libya. It is argued that the developments in Libya should be analyzed through the lens of historical backlash rather than contemporary backlash.
We are living through some very turbulent times. In this respect, Professor Hobér and Dr. Dahlquist rightly noted that the ISDS "universe is not shielded from the trend towards nationalism and protectionism currently sweeping many parts of the world."1)Kaj Hobér and Joel Dahlquist, ITA Problems and Exercises (2018) p 14. In that light, one should never lose sight of the central goal of developing a robust international investment law (IIL) and ISDS. The substantive protection and procedural guarantee was put in place in order to protect (and therefore indirectly promote) private capital through foreign direct investment (FDI). Investors did not trust that municipal courts of host States would be neutral enough to adjudicate investment disputes. Moreover, investors where not particularly happy with diplomatic protection as a vehicle for redressing investment grievances—in particular not small and medium enterprises, who would often not be able to convince their home State to engage in a political stand-off for their sake. And worse yet was the occasional show-off by gunboat diplomacy (a form of post-colonial hegemonial warmongering). It is only at a time of political chaos, where the global rule of law is at its weakest, that a country can use gunboat diplomacy and get away with it.
Gunboat diplomacy manifests a total rejection of the utility of transnational adjudication. As a practice it has been unheard of for the last centuries (in its express means—the reader may consider that there are implicit forms of gunboat diplomacy and we would happily receive such comments below). Now it seems that the concept has come back to haunt an already weakened regime of ISDS.
Turkey and Libya: What's Next?
Several ISDS claims have been brought against Libya following its two civil wars. Hundreds of infrastructure projects were initiated in Libya, a large portion of which came from the Turkish construction industry.2)See Ana Maria Daza-Clark and Daniel Behn, "Between War and Peace: Intermittent Armed Conflict and Investment Arbitration" in Gómez, Gourgourinis, and Titi, International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict (2019) p. 47. More specifically, in February 2011 "there were an estimated 100 construction firms from Turkey operating in Libya, with over 270 unfinished projects worth an estimated 28 billion US dollars (USD)".3)See Ibid. In the first civil war, many Turkish investments were suspended. However, some projects were reinitiated subsequent to the first civil war when the newly formed government gave signals of economic and political recovery (between 2012 and 2014); this temporary improvement took yet another turn with the second civil war (triggered on 16 May 2014).4)See Ibid. As a result, in the aftermath of Libya's failure to offer inter alia full protection and security, many investors turned to ISDS in order to remedy their grievances.
These investors did the right thing. Turkey and Libya had signed a bilateral investment treaty, which offered full protection and security and included an ISDS clause. In fact, the legal community and the global rule of law did not let them down. Many investors where highly successful in their claims—but not all. For example, in a recent award all claims on the merits were rejected but in others claims have been upheld (sometimes some of the claims).
Despite this, things have recently taken an unexpected turn. Turkey decided to support the internationally-backed Libyan government through its militarily—and has even promised engagement if necessary. Apart from possibly being a political show-off or geopolitical positioning, it has been described by Turkish officials themselves as an aim "to salvage billions of dollars of business contracts thrown into limbo by the conflict and secure more leverage in the scramble for oil and gas in the Mediterranean".
In light of the Turkish investors' experience, Turkey's main goal seem to be to ensure that the construction projects will eventually be resumed. This makes sense, given the value associated with the projects, approximately $18 billion. Despite the two civil wars and multiple ISDS procedures, there are in fact plenty of costly construction projects that could possibly be resumed—including hospitals, shopping malls, parks, universities, hotels, etc. The intervention brings with it diplomatic talks, such would include the resumption of the contracts. It has been reported that Turkish-Libyan Contracting Joint Working Group "has agreed to start work on the continuation of the unfinished projects of Turkish companies in Libya". In fact, it seems that many Turkish investors are keen on resuming their unfinished projects.
This leaves us with one main question: Why did Turkey decide to engage militarily?
If Turkey did indeed decide to deploy troops in Libya in order to secure a favorable investment climate for its many investors or to recoup lost profits through diplomatic pressure (even if only partly), Turkey may have turned the tides on the evolution of international investment law and ISDS by re-inviting a new era of gunboat diplomacy or informal and coercive diplomatic protection. This could be one of many manifestations of the unintended consequences of the contemporary misinformed backlash debate. This new era gunboat diplomacy (or diplomatic protection) is not a component of the contemporary backlash debate, but rather relevant to the historic debate on the need for IIL and ISDS.
These developments must be monitored carefully. Meanwhile, IIAs with robust investment protection and ISDS clauses should be strenuously praised as a great invention in legal (and human) civilization. IIAs with ISDS clauses depoliticized investment disputes and enabled cross-border investments at a rate never seen before. Any deviation from ISDS for redressing international investment disputes would be a dangerous development.
Kaj Hobér and Joel Dahlquist, ITA Problems and Exercises (2018) p 14.
See Ana Maria Daza-Clark and Daniel Behn, "Between War and Peace: Intermittent Armed Conflict and Investment Arbitration" in Gómez, Gourgourinis, and Titi, International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict (2019) p. 47.
See Ibid.
Czech Supreme Court in Line with Prevailing International Practice: Arbitration Clause Contained in an Exchange of Simple Emails Found Valid
Petr Briza (Bříza & Trubač)/ May 2, 2020 May 4, 2020
The Paradoxical Relationship between "Foreign Direct Investment Screening" and International Investment Law: What Role for Investor-State Arbitration?
Giacomo Rojas Elgueta, Benedetta Mauro (D|R Arbitration & Litigation)/ April 30, 2020 April 27, 2020
Abdulrasheed Badmus says:
A careful and we'll thought-out analysis of the issue. Tunisia's action can be considered as military collaboration for protection of his nationals interest and not necessarily undermining the efficiency of ISDS


As an Account Director, you will excel in building strong relationships and always have our client's best interests at heart.
Due to a period of extreme growth, we are hiring for a highly confident and experienced Account Director who is able to lead key client accounts and build client and agency relationships. The role includes developing strategic partnership solutions for clients alongside responsibility for delivering and managing partnerships and campaigns.
Maintain all existing relationships and identifying and securing client growth opportunities through creative projects, cross selling of services and expansion.
Demonstrate growth of accounts whilst maintaining the highest levels of service.
Develop positive, proactive relationships with Client and Agency team creating a stimulating environment within which the best work can develop.
Ability to translate complex briefs and business challenges into robust, feasible and creative solutions.
Collaborate with colleagues in leading commercial discussions about new and existing opportunities.
Develop and manage close working relationships with the client to ensure expectations and deliverables are achieved.
Demonstrate a solid strategic and executional understanding of the client's business and market.
Work effectively with Project Management to ensure that all projects are on budget. Taking responsibility for ensuring the team has the right time and resources to deliver within the client's time frame.
Track and manage all account finances as well as managing account forecasting, organising status meetings with Managing Directors to ensure all targets are met.
Experience of working on a wide range of digital disciplines specifically marketing and website development.
An empathetic and polished communicator with outstanding relationship and negotiation skills.
Truly understands how different customer journeys require a bespoke and creative service.
Understanding the value of great ideas and client collaboration.
High-level thinker, capable of standout idea generations, problem solving and maker of sound decisions.
A team player who is constantly learning, regularly teaching and genuinely loving the challenge of work.
Demonstrate ability to advise and lead on any and all account based challenges.
Becoming a trusted client partner and building open and honest relationships with clients.
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