Bills Put Zimbabwe Under "Martial Law"
Mugabe critics say new legislation is designed to silence dissent.
groups by branding legitimate resistance to Mugabe's rule "terrorism".
rule spawned by Zimbabwe's worsening economic hardships.
being used to deny people their freedoms," said Chaumba.
all of which which now await Mugabe's assent.
some kind of new fascism."
opposition to his draconian policies.
overthrow Mugabe jailed for life.
Zanu-PF party enjoys a comfortable majority.
analysts saw the arrest as an attempt to put pressure on Mugabe's opponents.
including journalists working for foreign media.
source of reasonably independent information for the rural poor.
beam broadcasts into Zimbabwe from outside the country.
of all information received by Zimbabweans".
would be subject to criminal prosecution.
activities of promoting human rights in Zimbabwe," said the Madhuku.
will not obey court rulings that do not fit with its programme.
Joseph Gumbo is the pseudonym of an IWPR journalist in Zimbabwe.
surmountable," he told parliament in a televised statement.
economic hardships on the population," Murerwa told parliament.
soar to more than 70 percent.
putting a huge burden on Zimbabweans both at home and in the Diaspora.
before it reached the million dollar mark."
afford to be able to keep sending them money."
the price of every imported product is going to be rising steeply."
what makes it equal to more than ZW$1m to a pound."
risk going bankrupt if they trade on the official market.
people earning above $54 million.
the government has totally lost control".
evidence that the country's economy is in complete meltdown and free fall.
inflation to a world record high of nearly 1 200%.
obligations, the country's finance ministry said on Thursday.
arrears debt equal to $2.122bn, the document said.
review document released in parliament on Thursday.
undergoes its next assessment in September.
and salaries. In June the yearly pace of inflation stood at 1185 per cent.
300,000 Zimbabwe dollars on the black market.
cent in 2006, down from his previous estimate of 1 to 2 per cent.
economic hardships on the population," Mr Murerwa told parliament.
per cent this year after contracting 6.5 per cent last year.
US$434m, while net capital inflows totalling US$271.6m were envisaged.
Journalists UK) Shane Lunga (Zimbabwe Futures).
budgeted for the year was finished.
from opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party legislators.
ministries set up by Mugabe well after the 2006 budget had been finalised.
government learns to live within its means.
programme to resuscitate Zimbabwe's comatose economy, economic experts say.
of an economy that was among the most vibrant in Africa.
repay their loan obligations," said Murerwa.
party continue plundering former white farms.
taxpayers, thereby enhancing purchasing power.
hard cash and just about every basic survival commodity.
from Britain 26 years ago.
government t would need for the year.
from 198 000 tonnes last year.
outages and a declining domestic demand position.
saying power cuts were crippling industry.
government had given up tackling inflation.
on long-term solutions to the city's unending water problems.
so as to source the cash to finance the projects."
from the surrounding suburbs into the city centre.
we import using foreign currency obtained on the black market.
arrest those that we find charging the exorbitant fares," he said.
Nationality Directorate (IND) that deals with immigration matters.
help foreigners get false asylum papers.
of security concerns back home.
Z$327-trillion ($3,2-billion) in extra expenditure, Murerwa told Parliament.
a need to rationalise," he said.
gates will be added, he said.
of more than Z$54-million ($534) a month.
servant would be earning less than Z$20-million," he said.
people, "thereby enhancing their purchasing power".
more than Z$250 000 on the black market.
address the issue in a policy statement on Monday.
lose -- it costs a fortune before we start."
for redistribution to black Zimbabweans.
problem in their new homeland.
seemed to prove this to be true.
not ready for what was to come.
where people live behind high walls and electric fences.
from the airport on several occasions.
had left his car about 200 metres away and we had to walk to it.
for traffic lights which as often as not do not work.
literally everywhere. Crime has escalated," he said.
my bag at the next robot?" I asked. He complied.
We drove on in more silence, but I wanted to ease the chill between us.
"Are you guys ready for the 2010 World Cup?"
Zimbabwe, Mugabe throws them into camps where they get military training?"
had better watch out for in four years' time.
have quit because they are so poorly paid, my driver informed me.
he took out a flick-knife to slice sugar cane.
crime and violence here? That puzzled me.
country began its precipitous and disastrous decline.
rural centre and got away with it.
We have become a nation that bombs newspaper offices and printing presses.
lands, and are caught at it, naturally there is some outcry.
According to my driver, there is another angle to "this Zimbabwean thing".
[Zimbabweans], they complain. Complaining is not laziness."
they never complained. Now we are getting a taste of our own medicine.
whom South Africans ridicule as "Doctor No."
laws the Mugabe government has pushed through parliament.
of its own who are more than capable of serious acts of violence.
rather than the ugliness of an 82-year-old ruling oligarch.
Benedict Unendoro is the pseudonym of an IWPR contributor in Zimbabwe.
corrupt and unfit to fill his shoes.
being crooks even in leadership positions."
stoked the corruption that pervades the party and government.
but will try to salvage the country from the mess he created."
among his chosen elite who has clean hands.
anywhere in the ZANU-PF hierarchy.
officers and civil servants issued with luxury homes at low prices.
to supply buses to the state-owned Zimbabwe United Passenger Company.
Matonga was the firm's chief executive before joining the government.
Kudzai Mabhiza is the pseudonym of an IWPR contributor in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Embassy and other locations.
Africa who prevailed over the racist apartheid regime."
Mugabe's descent from icon to despot is wrenching for many black Americans.
to Zimbabwe with a verdict on Mugabe's leadership.
they marched with 25 years ago for liberation."
badly that she had to be taken to a clinic for x-rays.
"Oppression is oppression, whether by a white person or a black person."
Dwight Kirk, based in Washington DC, writes on employment and union issues.
Rights NGO Forum said in its monthly report on political violence.
responsible for but a fraction of the violence cases recorded.
boycotts and the torching of a computer lab.
indifference of the police to who witnesses their assaults.
laws preventing free speech and association.
political or criminal purposes," said the report.
were assaulted with electric cords, sjamboks and booted feet.
floors. The detainees included women with babies.
needs to be addressed by the State and its agents as a matter of urgency."
it is no longer financing homes in the scheme.
pull out of the scheme.
development for some time, but most were incorrect.
stage is to retrieve funds belonging to our clients from the developers.
homes in the development late last year," said Heath.
company wholly owned by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
construction packages would be refunded by the end of 2006.
the purchasers ran into financial problems.
threats from their arch-rival faction.
justice from a"live bullet" would be meted soon.
fellow MDC activists, who made us arrested are now threatening to kill us.
as to whether they would manage to always have their eyes on us," said Moyo.
sub-zero temperatures in an official programme termed Operation Maguta.
compulsory acquisition of the crop when it is ready for harvesting.
rails against the government's excuses.
secret that the soldiers here are abusing us. Everyone is talking about it."
some of the armed forces poking fun at their subjects.
debased, and where this debasement is celebrated.
clearing vast stretches of virgin land.
Sydney Sekeramayi is his deputy.


It seems that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are facing some backlash from American media. Well, readers by now would have come across several reports that allege that the two of them are getting divorced whereas their Instagram posts and public appearances say otherwise. And before this, something that left all of us speechless was this article about Priyanka Chopra in a magazine where she was called a scam artist after she tied the knot with Nick Jonas. An upset cousin of the actress, Parineeti Chopra reacted to the same.
Parineeti Chopra, as mentioned by her, has been a part of the Priyanka Chopra – Nick Jonas love story since quite some time. During her Mimi di's wedding, it was Parineeti who couldn't stop gushing about her amazing brother-in-law. But when she came across such negative articles about her sister, she was obviously left upset. Yet, the actress refrained from making any comments. All she maintained was that the article was indeed terrible. However, furthermore, she asserted that her reaction is only restricted to the family and in no way will she be talking about it.
On the other hand, popular Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner too had lashed out on the magazine for spreading negativity against her sister-in-law, Priyanka Chopra.
Meanwhile, current reports are abuzz with the divorce rumours despite that neither party has given confirmation on it. In fact, there are another set of reports stating that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas may go the legal way and file defamation suit against the magazine which carried reports about their alleged divorce. Parineeti Chopra is yet to speak on these ongoing speculations about her sister's life.
As for films, Parineeti Chopra was last seen in the Akshay Kumar starrer Kesari which also stars Akshay Kumar in the lead.


Franklin County Career & Technology Center (FCCTC) students with Individual Education Plans (IEP) receive ongoing support to help prepare for the NOCTI assessment.
FCCTC Assistant Administrative Director Dr. Ben Mordan attributes the success of IEP students on the NOCTI exam to two factors: 1) the support IEP students receive from instructors and instructional aides, and 2) the professional development opportunities provided to all instructors.
At FCCTC, the ratio of aides to students with IEPs is approximately one to twenty-five (1:25). Four instructional aides support students with IEPs in all programs, providing remediation and reinforcement of math, reading or technical skills. This targeted support helps students better understand instruction and retain knowledge. The instructional aides also assist students' transition from classroom instruction to hands-on learning in the lab.
FCCTC instructors are provided coordinated professional development to help them learn and apply research-based teaching strategies that address the needs of all learners. During the 2015-2016 school year, FCCTC used Perkins funding to employ a temporary literacy/numeracy coach who worked with teachers to develop long-term practices and resources that reinforced curriculum. The coach also shared strategies to improve literacy and numeracy skills in all program areas.
Dr. Mordan cites the systemic and organized Professional Development Plan implemented at FCCTC as another key factor that helps instructors prepare students with IEPs for the NOCTI exam. Working as a team, FCCTC administrators and instructors coordinate their professional learning efforts to maximize the benefits to staff members and, ultimately, to students. The plan includes professional learning communities (PLCs) and a well-organized induction program for new teachers. A copy of the ACT 48 List of Opportunities, the Professional Development Framework for PLCs, and the Educator Induction Framework for the 2017-2018 school year are provided.
Overall, administrators and instructors participate in as many professional development programs as possible. These include, but are not limited to Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Career and Technical Education's Technical Assistance Program (TAP), MAX Teaching, and conferences offered through PACTA, PACTEC, and Penn State. Through their ongoing participation, staff members have increased awareness and understanding of how to implement effective practices and strategies to improve student learning and classroom management. As a result of a collective focus on professional development, student achievement – including students with IEPs – and schoolwide culture have been improved.


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Marianela de la Hoz: Disquieting Scenes of Haunting Beauty
Marianela de la Hoz: Disquieting Scenes of Haunting Beauty | KCET
"Altar Piece Heaven and Earth The Determined Freedom of an Undetermined Life," 2012. 7 feet x 6 feet. Egg Tempera on multiple panel.
Art mirrors the temperament of the artist. It's an old truism that is as often false as it is true. A given person's personality is not necessarily a guide to the work he or she creates.
Such is the case with Marianela de la Hoz, a generously gifted painter whose scenes are often dark and disturbing, but whose own temperament is sunny and gracious. She understands the paradox; even seems to take some pleasure in it. She is slight and soft-spoken, but chooses her words in a way that reveals her strong will and decisive vision.
For a role model in this regard, she mentions one of her grandfathers.
"He would point out grotesque things about the world, but always thought it was important to have good manners," she explains.
"Es mi turno para contarte un cuento" / "It Is my Turn to Tell you a Story," 2014. 10 x 8 in (painting) / 3 ¾ x 18 in (drawing). Egg tempera on board/ Silver point on paper.
You wouldn't say her art is well mannered, but its disquieting scenes are beautifully crafted and visually seductive. Her imagery creates a kind of running narrative of the introspective female psyche: a nude woman presiding over a group of eggs from which are hatching diminutive babies; an emaciated woman facing a wall next to another gorging on material goods; a woman made of wood; a young woman holding up a frame in which the reflection (or is it a painted image?) of her face replaces her actual visage.
This haunting mix has brought her both praise and a steady stream of exhibitions in San Diego and beyond.
Curator Amy Galpin selected de la Hoz for an exhibition in 2012 at the San Diego Museum of Art, during Galpin's tenure there. She has chosen to feature her once again in her current role as curator for the Cornell Museum of Art at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. The exhibition, "Marianela de la Hoz: Speculum-Speculari," on view through August 2, 2015 emphasizes paintings that employ mirrors as image and metaphor for self-definition and exploration. Her work will travel to the University of Arkansas in Little Rock when this exhibition closes.
Detail of "Altar Piece Heaven and Earth The Determined Freedom of an Undetermined Life," 2012. 7 feet x 6 feet. Egg Tempera on multiple panel.
"I was impressed with the strong responses her work inspires in viewers," says Galpin. "So many people were downloading the audio guide to that show, but we weren't able to do a catalog, so I felt as if we had unfinished business. I felt strong as if I wanted [to] revisit her work and introduce it to an audience that has never seen her paintings."
"I have admired her commitment to the figure, at a time when so much work has moved way from it," Galpin adds, "And in moving from graphic design to painting, she taught herself to use egg tempera. All of this makes for an engaging background story to the work itself."
The psychological intensity of de la Hoz's art goes hand in glove with its diminutive scale. She employs the power of the miniature (or near miniature), to dramatic effect. As critic Susan Steward has written in her book "On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, The Souvenir, the Collection," "The interiority of the enclosed world tends to reify the interiority of the viewer." In other words, the miniature creates a kind of direct channel between the inner state of the artist and that of the viewer.
"La espero, prometió ser puntual" / "I Wait for Her, She Promised to Be on Time," 2014. 10 x 8 in. Egg tempera on board.
Shrinking the scale of her work, about a decade ago, was a key development in her art.
"When I moved from working large to working small, it was so freeing," she asserts. "It has been a process of liberation ever since."
This shift in scale also elevated the visual and psychological force of her work. People may be misshapen, the incidents within them are often disturbing, but the beauty of their style seduces the eye at the same time as your psyche is disturbed.
"White violence" is how she refers to its general atmosphere. "It [the work] talks about tough things."
De la Hoz's career has evolved in two places: Mexico City and San Diego. The vision within her work has Catholic roots, with its ruminations on pain and pleasure, depravity and mystery. Precedents include the great Southern writer Flannery O'Connor and the iconic countrywoman Frida Kahlo, as well as Northern European painters in the Flemish and Dutch tradition.
She earned a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design at Mexico City's Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and worked as a designer for a decade or so. But by 1992, she explains, she decided to commit herself to painting. She became part of a circle of painters there, one of which made a suggestion that would alter her life as an artist.
One of her colleagues suggested she tried egg tempera. De la Hoz was open to the suggestion. She picked up a book on the subject and proceeded to learn this labor intensive and unforgiving approach to painting.
"I found my medium," she says. "I like to cook and so the way you create the paint appealed to me."
Raquel Tibol, an influential Mexico City critic, became an admirer and recommended de la Hoz to a gallery, where she began to show in the nineties. She garnered critical recognition and attracted collectors.
But her husband, Raul, was convinced that they should relocate to the United States. De la Hoz was skeptical, but he was determined. So she and her family -- even their five cats and two dogs -- relocated here in 2002, living first in Rancho Penasquitos and now in San Marcos. One business opportunity sputtered, but he succeeded with another: importing foods from Spain and Italy. So they have stayed.
"Me voy a dedicar a ser santa" / "I am Going to Devote Myself to be a Saint," 2011. 12.4 x 12.4 1.8 inches. Egg tempera painting and mixed media assemblage.
Her daughter, Mariana, now 33, has worked in art restoration and now lives in Sweden with her husband and five year old daughter. Her son Bernardo, 23, recently just completed a Bachelor's degree in Political Science at Occidental College.
At first, de la Hoz, now 59, felt like the proverbial stranger in a strange land in San Diego. She also had no idea of the shape of the art landscape here.
"I really thought no one would pay attention to my work," she recalls.
Fortunately, she was wrong. David Zapf, who ran a high profile gallery in San Diego at the time, was enthusiastic about her drawings and paintings; Mark-Elliott Lugo, the visual arts curator for the San Diego Public Library system until 2012, was also eager to show them. Both included her in exhibitions. Critics and collectors embraced them too.
More recently, de la Hoz has had memorable exhibitions in 2013 at the Noel-Baza Fine Art in the Little Italy district of San Diego and this year at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla. While Noel-Baza has closed its public venue, owners Tom Noel and Larry Baza are exhibiting her work in an ongoing fashion at their popup gallery space in Balboa Park's San Diego History Center.
In the last couple of years, some of her paintings have taken a softer turn. She attributes that to the joys of having a grandson, Mateo. De la Hoz calls it her "period of sweetness." She doesn't see it as any kind of permanent change, though. "I need to do other things," she says. Too much sweetness just doesn't seem true to her dark vision of painting and human nature.
"Dígame que no entiende aún sobre su estado" / "Tell Me What it is You Don't Understand Yet About Your Condition," 2010. 5.7 x 9 x 1.2 inches. Egg tempera painting and mixed media assemblage.
"Nuestro lugar de encuentro; la fantasia."/ "Our Meeting Place, Fantasy," 2014. 12 x 12 in. Egg tempera and ink on board.
"Heredé la sonrisa del abuelo" / "I Inherited Grandfather's Smile," 2010. 11.8 x 10.6 x 3.1 inches. Egg tempera painting and mixed media assemblage.
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CSWA bestows inaugural Kolinsky award
Published 10:39 am EDT, Thursday, April 17, 2014
The North Haven High School football program, which adopted a local six-year-old boy suffering from a congenital heart defect as part of its team last season and then honored his memory after he passed away, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bo Kolinsky Special Recognition Award from the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance.
Head coach Tony Sagnella, his 2013 captains and other members of the team will be honored at the 73rd Gold Key Dinner April 27 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington.
The newly created Bo Kolinsky Special Recognition Award is named for the longtime scholastic sports editor of the Hartford Courant and CSWA member who passed away in 2003.
Matthew Jacques was a student at Montowese School in North Haven and an inspiration to the NHHS football team. The Indians hold an annual intra-squad scrimmage every June called the "Spring Brawl" which outgoing seniors organize, coach and raise money for a special cause.
When they heard about Matthew's condition, the team not only invited him to take part in the scrimmage, but arranged for him to score a touchdown on the opening play. According to Sagnella, Matthew's participation in the game was an incredibly emotional event for his players and spectators at the game.
So much so that the Indians raised $13,000 to offset medical costs the Jacques family was going to incur. Then when word of what they did began to spread, players at Xavier High School raised $2,000, the Branford High football team raised another $1,000, and players at East Haven High School raised $600.
Matthew underwent a successful heart transplant on Sept. 5 at New York Presbyterian Hospital, but passed away three weeks later on Sept. 26 from complications. When Sagnella received word, he gathered his players together in the gym to break the news to them and say a team prayer for the Jacques family.
Later in the day, the Indians' four captains — Ethan Suraci, Patrick Mikos, Michael Siwek and Austin Mahon — went to all of the downtown North Haven merchants who had contributed to their fundraising project and informed them of Matthew's passing and to thank them again for their support.
"Their act of compassion and the willingness to complete every project that they were involved in was indicative of this group of guys," Sagnella said of his players. "They knew it was their duty to finish this mission and that was to let everyone know about Matt's death and to thank them again. That was an amazing act of character for 17 and 18 year-old kids."
The next day, playing with heavy hearts, an inspired North Haven team defeated East Haven, 54-28.


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Emergence of functional sensory subtypes as defined by transient receptor potential channel expression
Hjerling-Leffler, J; AlQatari, M; Ernfors, P; Koltzenburg, M; (2007) Emergence of functional sensory subtypes as defined by transient receptor potential channel expression. J NEUROSCI , 27 (10) 2435 - 2443. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5614-06.2007.
The existence of heterogeneous populations of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons conveying different somatosensory information is the basis for the perception of touch, temperature, and pain. A differential expression of transient receptor potential (TRP) cation channels contributes to this functional heterogeneity. However, little is known about the development of functionally diverse neuronal subpopulations. Here, we use calcium imaging of acutely dissociated mouse sensory neurons and quantitative reverse transcription PCR to show that TRP cation channels emerge in waves, with the diversification of functional groups starting at embryonic day 12.5 (E12.5) and extending well into the postnatal life. Functional responses of voltage-gated calcium channels were present in DRG neurons at E11.5 and reached adult levels by E14.5. Responses to capsaicin, menthol, and cinnamaldehyde were first seen at E12.5, E16.5, and postnatal day 0 (P0), when the mRNA for TRP cation channel, subfamily V, member 1 (TRPV1), TRP cation channel, subfamily M, member 8 (TRPM8), and TRP cation channel, subfamily A, member 1 (TRPA1), respectively, was first detected. Cold-sensitive neurons were present before the expression or functional responses of TRPM8 or TRPA1. Our data support a lineage relationship in which TRPM8- and TRPA1-expressing sensory neurons derive from the population of TRPV1-expressing neurons. The TRPA1 subpopulation of neurons emerges independently in two distinct classes of nociceptors: around birth in the peptidergic population and after P14 in the nonpeptidergic class. This indicates that neurons with similar receptive properties can be generated in different sublineages at different developmental stages. This study describes for the first time the emergence of functional subtypes of sensory neurons, providing new insight into the development of nociception and thermoreception.
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5614-06.2007
TRP cation channel, functional development, dorsal root ganglion, lineage relationship, mouse, sensory neuron, ROOT GANGLION NEURONS, NERVE GROWTH-FACTOR, NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS, CAPSAICIN RECEPTOR, ION-CHANNEL, NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, TRP CHANNELS, C-FIBERS, COLD, SURVIVAL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/8532


Many of the woodwind players out there find themselves in a crunch, needing the next box of reeds. They find the local music store and plant themselves in front of a wall. Different boxes, different sizes, different brands, different instruments, overwhelmed with the amount of variables that comes with reed shopping. Which one do you pick?
A cane type reed, which are the majority of reeds out there, is naturally made out of a grass based plant that is specfically grown and harvested for reed manufactures. When collected it is sent to the home site to begin the construction of these perfectly placed reeds in their crafted branded boxes.
Cane reeds are known for their warm and detailed sound. It gives you that natural feeling that any woodwind player needs to have as well as the flexibility to allow the player to manipulate that sound. Woodwind players want consitency in every reed. With a higherend manufacturer such as, Vandorean, you are lucky to buy a box and have 7 out of the 10 reeds playable, of those 7 only a 3 of them are performance ready reeds. Meaning you will not have to soak them or file them down yourself, or however you work with your reed to make it play for you. We all have our own solution to making our reeds play!
Cane is natural wood. There are different types of cane, cuts, thickness and quality. With any living thing once taken from the ground, the growing process stops and the cane starts to dry out. This means there is still change happening. Manufacturers try their best to make sure tha with every reed made, the cut is perfect and matches the template before its put in its package and shipped off to local stores and companies. Environmental change effects each and every reed possible. Depending on where its shipped to, the enviornment maybe dry, moist, have a higher altitude, and all of those contribute to the outcome of each individual reed. This is why we get such ration in a box of 10 reeds.
Many Woodwind players are now exploring the world of the Synthetic Reed.
What is a Synthetic Reed? When they first started making synthetic reeds they were made out of plastic. They were constructed to feel, play and sound comparable to a natural cane reed. With the newer synthetic reeds, they not only came up with a more composite material, but they made them look and feel almost identical to the cane counterpart.
The new synthetic reed now helps with consistency to play in the higher and lower register and you don't have to do anything to them to make them playable! You can take it out of the box, put it on the woodwind and play.
The issues you wiil come across with these kinds of reeds are minimal but there is one big factor. With it being synthetic and not natural is that the action, the intonation, the touch of the tounge is not as crisp or as intonated as you would on the natural cane reed. The material that the reed is made out of is denser/thicker. The player will need to touch harder and their forcus wouldn't be on the music. Any musician wants to be able to soley focus on the music in front of them and not the technicallity of what they are playing on.
Athough that is a big factor on purchasing the reeds, you can rest easy with synthetic because you wont have to go through as many reeds as you do with the boxed natrual reeds. I think many woodwind players and teachers are getting tired of buying a box of 10 and only find a few that will work for them, and have settled with a more consitent reed that is not effected by the environment. It is a lot cheaper in the end to go with a synthetic reed which is why musicians are resorting to them.
I think there are pros and cons to both of them but I personally will stay true ot the Cane Reed. There is just something about those reeds that I cannot get over when I play on a synthetic. I guess it comes down to personal preference. Weigh the pros and cons for yourself and see which one you choose!
I would love to hear anyone's opionons on the matter!


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Reiman Gardens announces Toys and Games theme for 2019
By Lyn Keren, Staff Writer lkeren@amestrib.com
Reiman Gardens has announced that its theme for 2019 is "Toys and Games," which will include activities, exhibits and other integration of the theme to the Gardens.
According to Reiman Gardens' Assistant Director Aaron Steil, the organization has been using themes to plan their displays and other activities since 2003.
Steil said the organization's staff works collaboratively to identify possible themes and select one for each year. Those themes are then planned for the displays of the gardens and events that year.
"We work about two years in advance to identify an over-arching theme, and then sub-theme ideas that relate to that theme," he said. "All of this collaborative teamwork helps us come up with many fun and inspiring ideas."
Last year's theme was movement, which featured large-scale sculptures that moved in the wind. The exhibit of kinetic sculptures, "Wind, Waves & Light," was crafted by George Sherwood.
For "Toys and Games," the organization will present the "Nature of the Game," featuring eight large outdoor games. Reiman Gardens worked with Iowa State University college of design faculty and students to create the exhibit.
"This series puts an ecological and artistic spin of familiar favorite (games)," Steil said.
"Nature of the Game" will feature oversized tile puzzles, hidden picture sculptures, and even giant food web, chess, and much more. Different sections of the gardens and the plants will be shaped to reflect toy and game pieces like balls and orbs.
"(People can) have fun playing games that demonstrate the balance, beauty, and connected-ness of nature," he said.
The theme is integrated throughout not only the aesthetics of Reiman Gardens, but the activities within the facility that contribute unique and fun opportunities for the Ames community.
"This interactive exhibit will create a great opportunity to bring the family out for cooperation and competition, fascinating finds, hands-on horticulture, pleasurable puzzles, and active art," Steil said. "This exhibit, along with all the wonderful displays and programs, should help anyone find just what they need at the Gardens, whether you're seeking fun, rest, inspiration, or knowledge."
The "Nature of the Game" exhibit will debut on April 27 and run through early October.
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Can You Use Ricotta Cheese Instead Of Sour Cream?
Sour cream has become synonymous with Mexican food, but did you know ricotta cheese is also great in tacos?
This creamy dairy product is often overlooked because of its high fat content.
Can you really use it instead of sour cream?
Ricotta cheese is a soft, spreadable cheese that comes from sheep milk.
It's similar to cottage cheese, but has a milder flavor.
The fat content of ricotta varies depending on where it was produced.
Some varieties contain less than 2% fat, while others can have upwards of 15%.
You can substitute ricotta for sour cream in recipes, but it won't taste exactly the same.
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1 Can You Use Ricotta Cheese Instead Of Sour Cream?
2 Sour cream
3 Ricotta cheese
4 What is Sour Cream Used For?
5 What are the best sour cream alternatives for you?
6 Greek yogurt
7 Cottage cheese
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11 Buttermilk
12 Here are some non-dairy, vegan-friendly substitutes
13 Coconut cream
15 Soy-based sour cream alternatives
16 Can you use ricotta instead of cream?
17 Is ricotta like cream cheese?
18 Can ricotta cheese be used as a substitute for sour cream?
19 What can I use if I don't have sour cream?
Yes, you can use ricotta cheese instead of sour cream. It is very similar to sour cream but has a milder flavor. You can use it in place of sour cream in any recipe that calls for sour cream.
Ricotta cheese is a soft, spreadable cheese made from sheep's milk. It is used in many Italian dishes such as lasagna, ravioli, and cannelloni. It is available in tubs or jars. It is usually sold in supermarkets and specialty stores.
Sour cream is a thickened dairy product similar to yogurt but not quite as sour. It is used in soups, sauces, dips, and other dishes where a mild tanginess is desired. It is sometimes called "cream cheese" because it is very similar to regular cream cheese.
What is Sour Cream Used For?
Ricotta cheese is a soft, spreadable, unripened Italian cow's milk cheese. It is usually made from whole milk and is drained off the whey the liquid part after making. It is a low-fat cheese, and is often used as a substitute for cream cheese. It is typically sold in tubs or plastic containers.
What are the best sour cream alternatives for you?
Sour cream is a thick dairy product that is produced by adding lactic acid bacteria to cream. This process produces a tangy flavor and texture. Sour cream is not only used as a dip but also as a topping for baked goods such as breads, muffins, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, scones, pies, and pastries. It is also used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.
If you are looking for a healthy alternative to sour cream, Greek yogurt is a great option. It is thicker than regular yogurt and contains fewer calories. It is also lower in fat and cholesterol. Greek yogurt is available plain, sweetened, flavored, and even frozen.
Answer: Cottage cheese is another good substitute for sour cream. It is similar to Greek yogurt in taste and consistency. However, cottage cheese does not contain any added sugar. It is low in fat and cholesterol.
Cottage cheese is another good alternative to sour cream. It is very similar to Greek yogurt in flavor and texture. Unlike Greek yogurt, however, cottage cheese does not have any added sugars. It is low in fats and cholesterol.
Crème fra
Crème Fraiche is a cultured dairy product that is used as a spread, dip, sauce, dressing, or garnish. It is made from milk that has been inoculated with lactic acid bacteria. This process creates a tangy flavor and gives crème fraîche a slightly thicker consistency than regular milk.
Crème fraîche is a cultured dairy product. It is made from pasteurized milk that has been inoculatd with lactic acid bacteria LAB. LAB produces acids that give crème fraîché a tangy flavor and a slightly thicker consistency than plain milk.
crème fraiche is a cultured dairy product that is made from pasteurized cow's milk that has been inoculated with lactic acid bacteria LAB. LAB produce acids that give crèmefraiche a tangy flavor and slightly thicker consistency than plain cow's milk.
Cheese is a fermented food produced by adding starter cultures to milk. It is similar to yogurt in that it contains live active cultures, but cheese is usually harder and firmer than yogurt. Cheese is generally classified into two categories: hard cheeses such as cheddar and soft cheeses like mozzarella. Hard cheeses are made by heating milk until the proteins coagulate and form curds. Soft cheeses are made by adding rennet to milk, allowing the enzymes in the rennet to convert the protein casein into a soluble form called citrate. This process produces a softer texture.
Here are some non-dairy, vegan-friendly substitutes
Buttermilk is a thickened dairy product made from skimmed or lowfat milk. It is prepared by culturing milk with lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus and sometimes other microorganisms. It is used mainly as a starter culture in making breads and other baked goods. It is also used as a flavoring agent in many dishes.
Coconut cream is a creamy liquid obtained from coconut milk after it has been allowed to stand for several hours or overnight. It is usually sold in cans or jars and is used as a topping for desserts, ice creams, and smoothies.
Answer: Soymilk is a milky beverage made from soybeans. It is available in cartons or bottles and comes in different flavors such as vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, caramel, and others. It is widely used as a substitute for cow's milk in baking and cooking.
Cashews are a type of nut native to India. They are known for being rich in protein and low in fat. Cashews are popularly eaten raw, roasted, salted, dried, ground into flour, or added to other dishes.
Answer: Pineapple juice is a sweetened drink made from pineapple pulp. It is available canned or bottled and is used in many recipes.
Soy-based sour cream alternatives
Soy-based sour creams are widely used in Asian cuisines. They are usually made from soybeans, but sometimes from other beans such as chickpeas, black beans, or white beans.
Can you use ricotta instead of cream?
If you don't have sour cream, you can use yogurt instead. It's not exactly the same but it works well enough.
Is ricotta like cream cheese?
Ricotta cheese is a type of soft cheese made from sheep milk. It is similar to cottage cheese but has a slightly higher fat content. Ricotta cheese is usually eaten plain or mixed into pasta dishes. It is also used as a topping for pizza. Sour cream is a dairy product made from cow's milk. It is thickened with lactic acid bacteria cultures and salt. It is used as a condiment or dip for chips, crackers, vegetables, and other foods.
Can ricotta cheese be used as a substitute for sour cream?
Ricotta is a soft cheese similar to cottage cheese but has a slightly different consistency. It is made from whey left after making mozzarella cheese. Ricotta is used in Italian dishes such as lasagna, ravioli, and cannoli. It is also used in desserts such as tiramisu and cheesecake.
What can I use if I don't have sour cream?
Ricotta cheese is a low fat alternative to heavy whipping cream. It is produced from milk curdled using acidity. Ricotta cheese is used in many dishes such as lasagna, ravioli, and gnocchi. It is also used in desserts like cheesecake, tiramisu, and chocolate mousse.
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Once it is shown that God exists beyond a reasonable doubt, the question is: what is God like? And if God exists, it then follows that miracles are possible. If God were to perform miracles, His miracles would be in accordance with his character (as described above): they would be a demonstration of his power for a loving purpose. In light of God's character, it would be reasonable that God would choose to communicate to people, his creation (demonstrating his purpose for creating mankind, and demonstrating his love). It would also be reasonable that God would communicate to people through written Scriptures. Thankfully, we can then test such scriptures to see if they are historically reliable, internally consistent, etc. When we apply these tests to the Bible, the Old and New Testaments, we find that the Bible uniquely passes these tests! The Bible is also uniquely authenticated by miracles that are historically attested (even outside of the Bible).
Through textual criticism we can know beyond a reasonable doubt that the Scriptures we have today are not corrupted from the ones originally written down (Manuscript Integrity).
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There is abundant historical and archaeological corroboration for the reliability of the Bible.
and there is ample evidence for its divine origin from prophetic evidence alone.
SESSION 10: The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a historical fact.
After accepting the Bible as a historically reliable text, its most important claim of all can be tested: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Again, there is ample evidence that Jesus Christ did, in fact, die and rise again.
SESSION 11: Jesus is God.
If Jesus really did die and rise again, this extraordinary miracle authenticates his claim to be God.
SESSION 12: The Bible is God's Word.
SESSION 13: We should put our trust in Jesus, in whom is life.
SESSION 14: Appendix: Cults and other religions are false.
These are great debates to watch and see Theism and Christianity defended by the experts against the experts. Be aware: they are long (an hour or two).


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...it's a rich man's world. But what if you're not and need help, asks Jac Roper
J'accuse! (I paraphrase) screamed the headlines in March this year. Interestingly, it was the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that accused the banks of 'hindering' small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) from getting loans from alternative sources of finance.
Peer-to-peer lending has grown to become a big business. Operations like Funding Circle offer private investors a realistic rate of interest (around 6%) and then lend to businesses without fuss or delay. It's quicker, cheaper, easier and even the government is itself lending £20m to British businesses through investing in the group, which has so far lent well over £220m without a bank in sight. So the government, the investors and the borrowers all like this win-win situation, but it seems the banks probably don't.
The OFT found they were being pretty obstructive when their customers went to alternative lenders. Paperwork was delayed and banks were taking a long time to share information.
It is a bit rich, given that peer-to-peer lending found a niche in the market in the first place because banks could take their time and still turn you down if they didn't fancy your fit with their plan.
An independent view
Laurence Haring, who has an interest in four forecourts (he has two freeholds that he leases out and two leaseholds) would agree with the OFT. He also runs point3consultancy.com which offers advice on many aspects of business.
He says: "Banks are still being extremely difficult to deal with in general, and especially within retail. Unsecured lending to business is a thing of the past with personal guarantees (a minimum) up to around £25,000-worth of borrowing. At these levels, they aren't looking for debentures over the company.
"They are remaining extremely vigilant on uncleared effects too. Many banks work with a traffic light system (green is good) and petrol forecourt stations are very firmly in code red! Look at the Lloyds Bank recent advertising on TV. The petrol station closes as it was making no money and reopens as an American diner!"
Haring adds that he has seen overdraft rates as high as 16% with the Big Four where the words "mitigating risk" are used instead of "racking up rates" and overdrafts are repayable on demand.
"A forecourt I deal with has no overdraft facility; however from time to time, in the morning, the account would be in overdraft but when credit card money arrived later in the day, the account would go back into credit the bank advised that the account was being mismanaged."
The bank manager said his other forecourt client (who happened to have a £100,000 facility) never went over the limit. He was classed as a better risk than Haring's client who only tipped over in the morning but rectified it by the afternoon. "This is the madness we are dealing with," Haring says.
The cost is on the cards
Do you take plastic? Of course you do. According to the Petrol Retailers' Association (PRA), nearly 70% of all transactions on a typical forecourt site are made by card.
Over the past year the PRA has been actively researching this subject and has appointed Gordon Balmer of Fuel Card Insights, an independent consultant who previously worked on the fuel card side of BP.
He says: "We have been engaged with HM Treasury, EC and the UK government to lobby for a reduction in the charges associated with cards and also for fairness and transparency. We are now awaiting the outcome of deliberations on this matter from the EC."
And credit and debit card costs aside, Gordon Balmer, as his company's name suggests, is about to turn his focus onto fuel card costs. The specific issues are the margins which have remained the same since the scheme started, the growth of the cards and some activities of the main cards issuers.
It would seem that, because of a lack of transparency, there is therefore a misunderstanding of the part that fuel cards play in the overall equation and the potential pitfalls (nice volume, shame about the margin).
So far, it is a case of watch this space
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Sometimes your supplier may have done a group deal on banking charges. PayPoint has and says its deal with Barclays enables retailers to save between 40% and 69% on standard business banking costs.
Spokesman Peter Brooker says: "We currently have just over 1,750 forecourts in our estate (around 7% of the total). These include groups, such as Pace, Texaco and Murco, as well as indies and symbols."
He adds: "This tariff (in table above) is limited to retailers with an annual turnover of less than £1m. Other banking services are charged at the Barclays Business bespoke tariff. Banking services are available at the discretion of Barclays on its normal terms and conditions.
"Obviously, many retailers pay more than the Barclays rates quoted here, so discounts for them will be greater."
Brooker also explains PayPoint's recent 'net settlement' feature.
"Whereas previously, payments to retailers for the sums they pay out on CashOut, Western Union or through self-fill ATMs were made separately to collection of the cash paid from bill-paying and top-up customers, amounts paid in are combined with amounts paid out to create a net amount that the retailer needs to deposit each day. So, for example, if £1,000 in bill payments has been collected through bill payments on Monday, and ATM withdrawals and CashOut payments amount to £250 on the same day, the retailer will only need to bank £750. For some retailers, especially those with high transacting PayPoint cash machines, this has resulted in a net payment into their bank account on some and even most days."
He says that, while net settlement is not, strictly speaking, a financial service, it does have the effect of potentially saving retailers hundreds of pounds a year on banking charges, depending on the amount of business they do with each of the PayPoint services they subscribe to.
The savings come not just from reduced deposits into the bank by the retailer, but on banks' charges for payments into their account, eg, reimbursements for the cash paid out via ATMs, CashOut and Western Union.
Of course, if you are a big business with the potential to become even bigger then the bank will be an ally.
Current Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Euro Garages, with 179 sites, had a consortium of banks lending it the money to buy a clutch of Esso sites. And if your plan is good enough you don't have to be as big as Euro Garages.
As Forecourt Trader reported in February, Exelby Services (five sites) secured a £4m finance package from HSBC to support the £6.5m development of its new filling station services and truck stop on the A1M at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire: a project that was 10 years in the planning.
Rusdene Services, with six sites, did a knock-down rebuild of its Meon Hut Service Station at Petersfield in Hampshire last year with money borrowed from RBS, with whom the company has banked for more than 20 years.
"We had no problem convincing the bank with regards to the lending of the money, as it is often them approaching us to see if we want to borrow money," says managing director Oli Lodge.
"This is mainly down to the fact that we are an asset-based business with hardly any borrowings, so a pretty safe bet for the bank. We have a proven track record, and the bank has obviously seen our accounts on an on-going period for some time, so getting the bank to lend us the money was no problem; the process that followed however was incredibly hard work."
He explains: "We borrowed the money under the government's funding for lending scheme, which has no arrangement fee. The rate is then purely a negotiation with the bank. Since the 2008 banking crisis the process of 'risk assessment' that the banks seem to need to go through was very long-winded, and the rate at which we could borrow the money was based upon before and after development valuations carried out by an independent agent.
"Of course, a large part of the problems pre-2008 was caused by rather zealous agents overvaluing stock to maximising gearing potential. As a result, the valuations came back very conservatively to say the least.
"I could be very cynical and say that this actually suits the banks, because they are then able to turn round and say that the rate will be higher than previously agreed, but this is not our fault, it's purely down to the valuations which is pretty much what happened in our case at West Meon."
Tips from the experts (taken from files built up over several years and some things just don't change)
A business plan is key, not only for the bank, but for your own business: it will clarify your objectives and set a strategy.
The plan should include your local knowledge of the market and of the competition and it should be realistic, pointing out the risks and the strategies for overcoming them.
Don't ask for too little. You don't want to have to go back for more.
Provide clear cash-flow forecasts proving you will be able to repay.
With any type of bank borrowing, you will be asked for business plans and cash flows. When producing monthly cash flows it will never show the daily peaks and troughs of your actual bank account. Banks fail to see this, so it is worth highlighting.
For any retailer with a limited company where no fixed/floating debenture is in place, if you have invested money into the company personally, there is nothing stopping you taking a debenture out over the company yourself to protect your investment in adverse circumstances.
If you need to switch banks frequently for free or reduced banking costs, do it.
If a bank makes an error on your account, don't forget to charge them £35 administration fee for this. As Laurence Haring likes to say: "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
To sum up this feature as RBS boss Ross McEwan said in February when announcing annual losses of £8bn for 2013: "We are the least trusted company in the least trusted sector of the economy. That must change."
We all eagerly await signs.
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"Under the Pavement, There Lies the Beach."* The Awakening of a New Feminism in the Aftermath of '68
Heidemarie Ambrosch | 05 Sep 18 | Posted under: Feminisms , History
Both bourgeois and left historiographies contain many gaps and alienating views regarding women. Especially since 1968, Feminists have begun to fill these gaps. Following Frigga Haug, I'd like to connect Marxist and feminist historiography.
It was the merit of the Women's Movement since 1968, to do historical research and to re-write history. It is this pre-history I want to deal with in short, because I think it serves our understanding that both the patriarchal and the capitalist suppression must be studied together with the development of the productive forces.
The concept of feminism dates back to the ideals of the French Revolution. Olympe de Gouges in France and Mary Wollstonecraft in England, ahead of their time, raised the demands for equal rights and liberties for men and women, demands which were quickly dumped after the revolution but could be revived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Women building organised social movements of their own is a product of Modernity, a by-product of the mass inclusion of women into the capitalist process of production since the middle of the 19th century. At the centre of the struggles of the Proletarian Women's Movement we find demands for an improvement of working conditions in factories, universal suffrage, the struggle for peace and, at the onset of the 20th century, already the struggle for legal abortion. Communists Zetkin and Kollontai believed that the struggle for work and material independence of women, paired with the social organisation of housework would lead to equality. Patriarchal structures of domination and violence against women were not perceived or neglected. The keyword here would be "side" contradiction.
With the massive inclusion of women into the educational system since the middle of the 1960s, which corresponded to the requirements of capital at its transition stage from its expansive to its intensive phase, the feminist movements after 1968 regained rapid momentum. Up to the 1980s, Marxist movements and debates had, in a biased way, put their main focus on the contradiction between capital and labour, while sexist and racist but also ecological contradictions remained subordinated. The reaction of the New Feminist Movement was to put their focus, again quite biasedly, on to the contradiction between the sexes/genders. It is their great merit to have founded the social category of sex/gender, something more than just a few Marxist theoreticians have never adopted in their analyses. (With regard to that, the debates here at this Summer University would well be worth closer examination). In the 1990s, with the onset of the backlash against women's rights, social and ethnic differences moved more strongly into the focus of all feminist movements and debates. More than ever before it is obvious to me today that feminist politics is left politics at the same time or it is not feminist, and that left politics is feminist or it is not left.
Major Points of Disagreement
Now, let me deal with the major points of disagreement within feminist movements in the past 50 years.
1. Women – Victims or Perpetrators?
I would like to start out with the feminist debate since the late 1970s about patriarchal political approaches, with the controversy about representational politics and why women ourselves have to lead the struggle for our liberation.
Quite a short text entitled Women – Victims or Perpetrators? published by Frigga Haug, a German sociologist, at the end of the 1970s, triggered long-term discussions and disturbed the peace among leftists, because the text put into question representational politics on principle by promoting the concept of self-empowerment. It was an appeal for a different understanding of politics, with Haug using Marx as her starting-point, a thesis he formulated in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852): "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." Or, in other words, men / women do not make their own history as they please, but they make it themselves. This bit of knowledge was taken up again, years later, by the movement of the social forums, yet without reference to the earlier feminist insights.
2. The Necessary Extension of the Concept of Labour
Feminist movements since 1968 widened our perspective to the entire socially necessary work, by introducing the subject of house and reproductive work, family work into the discussion. But even today it seems to be difficult among the Left to understand that there is work amounting to half of all socially necessary work, performed by more than half of the population but still remaining invisible and disregarded in social analyses.
But if we turn our eye to the entire necessary social work it is not as if – like many theoreticians of neoliberalism are trying to make us believe– we were running out of work. Not work becomes less so that we are running out of it, but payment becomes less or is withheld entirely. That is why I am a fervent advocate of an unconditional basic income, which has to be embedded in the context of demands for a new distribution of all socially necessary work. This way of looking at things seems to blur the sight of all men, because, after all, it is their own privileges that are at stake.
3. The Dispute about the Quota
One might think that it is a matter-of-course that women participate in all spheres of life with equal rights. But only with great effort, things can be moved in this respect. As, in particular, our left male comrades-in-arms do not turn to feminist analyses, they can only think of men when brainstorming about speakers. And even if they can think of a woman it will be one without a clear feminist standpoint.
The struggle for the quota is fought on different levels:
symbolic: for a gender-equitable language;
economic: regarding the appreciation of female labour and on the;
political: for democracy, self-empowerment or representational politics;
Gender Relations are Production Relations
Understanding the relations between the sexes as productive relations is the central idea in Haug's theory, an idea I want to deal with in the following.
Everything that defies acceleration, automation, rationalisation and therefore does not yield enough profit and cannot be marketed, must be performed by humans, or the work simply will not get done. Marx called this the economy of time which structures the capitalist mode of production and his vision was that by means of industrial development it must be possible to reduce the necessary working time – something we witness today with our own eyes – so that altogether and in the development of society as a whole there would remain more time for self-awareness and the development of the cultural and actual human nature. But organised as it is in a capitalist mode, the economy of time only leads to a deepening of the split within society and does not lead to more time for developing our human capacities; rather the economy of time is made use of to increase profits.
Together with Frigga Haug, I plead for inscribing feminism into the very core of Marxism, to include it into the central Marxist concept of relations of production which refers to the way in which humans produce their lives. Marx himself writes that people do that in two ways, they produce their own life and fresh life external to themselves. They produce life external to themselves in procreation, they produce their own life by developing and reproducing themselves as humans in this process. And they also do so by producing food and commodities. That means that right from the start we have two modes of production: the one which leads to new human beings, the other one which creates the food and commodities these people need.
Another idea is that the production of life, of both one's own life via labour and of fresh life via procreation is a double relation right from the start, a natural and a social one. It is a social one in the sense that it requires the cooperation of several individuals. Consequently, Marx demands that the history of mankind must be considered and shaped as both the history of industry and the history of exchange. But the next step is missing, namely that the history of industry and exchange must always be studied together with the history of the natural social relationship, procreation. Taking a view of family and population politics requires opening one's eyes to the constructions of that what is considered natural, of what sexes are supposed to be and how these questions are supported and secured on the levels of morals, ideology and symbols, how they are organised and this, finally, opens the perspective on patriarchal structures.
Haug detects another inconsistency. At the outset of industrialisation, Marx and Engels discovered in their analyses that two thirds of the proletariat were female, but still they continued to regard the proletariat as a male category in their analyses. They did not go further considering the question why the proletariat actually had to be male. In a marginal note, Marx recorded in a laconic remark that the capitalist could leave the reproduction of substitute men to the labourer's instinct of self-preservation, just as if that were a natural law. But he did not continue to conclude that capitalism is a mode of production which requires a male wage labourer who has a housewife taking care of his reproduction and the reproduction of the commodity of working power. If that does not happen, as was the case at the beginning of industrialisation, this leads to the destruction of the foundations of the reproduction of the working class and thus to the destruction of the working class itself. This is the problem neoliberalism is facing today, quite similar to the beginnings of industrialisation.
Challenges for Today
Let me conclude with possible challenges for today with theses from the previous two conferences on Marxism-Feminism in Berlin and Vienna, with the next one to follow in Lund / Sweden in October.
Integrating Feminism into Marxism and changing the later in the process requires a critical view of traditional Marxism which refers to the working-class alone. Marxism is Marxist critique of political economy, of issues of ownership and of the labour movement – this amounts to its incomparable power. But it also makes visible its limits. The fate of the working class also shows traditional Marxism's inability to recognize and develop further questions surpassing the historical horizon of the class struggles. To the new feminist questions as well as to questions of ecology this traditional Marxism is not receptive. It must be further developed, like Rosa Luxemburg has already demanded in sharp words. Both the richness of the manifold movements and the still unused richness of Marx's cultural heritage require its development up to and for the presence. The struggles about "race, class and gender" (intersectionality) need to be further developed taking into account that the knots of domination are tied quite differently culture-wise.
In the upheavals following upon the crisis of Fordism and in the economy globalised at high speed, with crisis following upon crisis which drive people into ever more precarious relations, women are among the losers like others that are considered different and therefore unequal (cultures, peoples, modes of production).
The Four-in-One-Perspective
The dismantling of the welfare state in the globalised economy leaves to women the care for life in unpaid domestic work or in badly paid waged work. We can understand this as the crisis of care and as a necessary consequence of capitalist society in a profits squeeze after having shifted the economic centre to services, a profit squeeze which results in ever more barbaric ways of dealing with the crises resulting from unequal levels of value added. Personally, I follow Frigga Haug's suggestion to analyse the crisis regarding life as a consequence of different time logics in hierarchically related areas. Regarding concrete politics, she suggests the Four-in-One-Perspective, that is, focusing politics on the availability of time, thereby not assimilating the different areas to each other but de-hierarchizing them by means of generalisation. Only when everybody is active in different areas, a liberated society becomes possible. The Four-in-One-Perspective demands the reduction of waged labour to four hours a day, of course without reducing salaries, so that further four hours remain for sharing reproductive work, four hours for political work and four for our individual development. That is why we thwart the law passed in a hurry by the Austrian parliament to introduce the 12-hour-working day and instead demand a 16-hour working-day in the sense of Four-in-One.
* Title of a song by the German feminist group Schneewittchen, 1978, in the German original: "Unter dem Pflaster, da liegt der Strand";
Heidemarie Ambrosch
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I've been overwhelmed lately, and unable to even digest much politics. The Obama/Reid/Pelosi power-grab and spend-a-thon has really made me too sickened to even think lately. In my lifetime, I have seen Americans united against the Soviet Union, which was the ultimate experiment in big government. That experiment failed, but it now seems that our elected officials in power think the answer to all our woes is more government.
Look at what our federal bureaucracy currently runs: medicare/medicaid, social security, US Postal Service, Amtrak....I could go on, but I don't have to. You get the point. The best way to make sure an entity fails is to put government in charge of it. So what is the solution of our leaders to fix the auto and banking industries? Government control....the one thing we are 100% sure will fail.
Myself, I am fond of the Limbaugh/Gingrich ideas. Eliminate capital gains taxes and cut corporate tax rates in half. Reduce marginal rates for everyone, and watch the economy soar. I believe this approach would send the Dow racing back up overnight, and confidence would skyrocket. This "investment" would be less expensive than the spending spree our congress in currently engaged in, but we won't see this solution, because it does not provide the "power-grab" our Democratic leadership seeks. They are clearly using the current economic crisis to their advantage, to implement their policies while no one dare question them.
I got a massage last weekend. The masseur was a large, middle-aged Russian immigrant. He had come to the United States during "Peristroika" in 1986, and was so grateful to President Reagan, for insisting of Gorbachev to allow Soviet citizens to leave of their own free will. Jacob shared stories with me of his days under Soviet rule. From birth, they were schooled on the Communist Party, and how it was their ally, and essential to their survival. They were told of horrid conditions of the people of the United States, under their evil, capitalist regime. Communist party...Communist party...Communist party. No god, just Communist party. Jacob told me that if they dared speak of God in their home, they knew the KGB would be there soon, to remind them "no god...just Communist party". I asked if he was in the Soviet army. He laughed and said "of course. everyone go in Soviet Army. If you don't, then you go to jail. After you get out of jail, you go in Soviet Army. We had no choices in Soviet Union."
Why do I retell Jacob's story? It just seems that many of us who remember the evil empire have somehow failed to recognize the similarities of the regime of Nancy Pelosichev, and Harry Reidnikov (Obama is really just an enabler to them). They are trying to create a dependent class in the U.S. that is over 50% of the electorate, thereby cementing their power structure in this country for any foreseeable future. "Dependent on Communist party, therefore must support Communist party for survival." This is NOT America. I just hope my comrades start to recognize this before it's too late.


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And in some cases, the use of one of the best tax attorneys will become necessary. For instance, a company or business being audited will likely benefit from having the best tax attorneys on board, as these best tax attorneys and tax lawyers can help them to more fully understand what is happening. Fortunately, however, such a need for the best tax attorneys in the country is not likely to become a reality for the average and everyday person or even for the very small business, as both of these groups are very, very rarely audited by the IRS, even though it is still technically a possibility.
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In some cases, however, people will contact the best tax attorneys because they feel that the IRS has wrongfully taken money that was rightfully their own. Fortunately, the best tax lawyers can help anyone in this situation to file an administrative claim against the IRS. This administrative claim, however, also must be filed within a relatively strict time limit, typically no longer than two years after the person in question feels that their money was wrongfully taken. The best tax lawyers can help one to understand the process of filing just about any given administrative claim as well as how things might proceed after that.
Of course, some people simply feel that they shouldn't be taxed and might not fully understand why this is happening. No matter what your feelings about taxation, however, it is important to remember that we all benefit from the taxes that are paid each and every year. In reality, taxes do a lot, funding everything from medicare and medicaid to social security. For many elderly people in this country, paying taxes has eventually allowed them to retire in relative comfort in their later years of life. Of course, taxes go into our public school system as well, and towards public parks and other things that benefit many of us quite greatly in the long run. Therefore, it is hugely important that we don't underestimate the overall importance that paying taxes can have.
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