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set (JAVASCRIPT_BINDINGS_PLATFORM "ANDROID")

add_definitions(-DATOMIC_PLATFORM_ANDROID)
add_definitions(-DATOMIC_OPENGL -DKNET_UNIX -DATOMIC_TBUI)

set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -fstack-protector")
set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wno-invalid-offsetof -std=gnu++0x -fstack-protector")

list (APPEND ATOMIC_LINK_LIBRARIES dl log android GLESv1_CM GLESv2)

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Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell hydrogen-powered SUV going in production
Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell hydrogen vehicle. Image: Revolve Eco-Rally/Flickr/CC BY-SA
The Hyundai Motor Company has announced that it will begin production of the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell crossover in December. That will make it one of the world's first hydrogen-powered vehicle to be mass produced.
Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell ahead of competition
Toyota has said that it will be 2015 before automakers will be ready to begin mass-producing hydrogen cars. Honda has had the FCX Clarity available since 2008, but only on a lease basis in Southern California. It recently says it will be making the cars available for purchase in 2015.
The Korean automaker rolled out the ix35 Fuel Cell at the 2012 Paris Auto Show last month.
Hyundai will begin with a small run of only about 1,000 cars over the next two years. By that time, it hopes, there will be more infrastructure to support the refueling of hydrogen vehicles. After that, it wants to set a manufacturing goal of 10,000 cars a year. The cars will be built at Hyundai's production plant in Ulsan, South Korea.
Hydrogen fuel cell technology
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are not technologically complex. They use a fuel cell stack that can turn hydrogen into electricity to charge a Lithium Polymer battery. They are driven by electric motors, like traditional EVs, but the hydrogen fuel source eliminates the range limitation worries faced by drivers of those vehicles. The ix35 has an estimated range of 365 miles. Truly emissions free, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles emit only water.
While they may lack the power of a fossil-fuel engine, the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover will go from 0 to 60 in 12.5 seconds and cruise at 100 mile per hour. Except for a reduction in engine noise, it is said that drivers won't notice much difference between them and their old gas guzzler.
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Lease to Denmark
Last week, we reported that Hyundai was leasing 15 hydrogen powered ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles to the Danish capital Copenhagen as part of its initiative to be carbon-neutral by 2025.
Cost is a big object
Hyundai has not released price projections for the vehicles, but promises to do so nearer their availability. However, cost is certainly an object in making the vehicles viable for significant adoption by the motoring public.
Last year, Toyota implied that getting hydrogen vehicles on the market by 2015 would take an act of magic. Toyota said the cost of making them will have to come down before they are commercially viable. At that point, it said, fuel cell vehicles cost about 10 million yen each to build. That is just over $128,000.
Mitsuhisa Kato, head of Toyota's product planning group, said in 2010:
"Ten million yen is quite a lot of money, so we wouldn't call that commercially viable. We have to reduce costs further to make it commercially viable."
Automotive Discovery
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The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), an international organisation with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is currently implementing the project titled 'Improving Migration Management in the Silk Routes Countries' (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan). The project aims at maximising the development potential of migration and mobility within the Silk Routes region and towards major labour receiving countries. It also aims to establish comprehensive regional responses to migration and mobility with full respect of human rights and protection of migrants.
•	Three Flagship Initiatives, focusing on the establishment of Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs), regional law enforcement cooperation and protection of migrants' rights.
The Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) are established under the auspices of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development (MOPHRD) in Islamabad and Department of Labour (DoL), Punjab in Lahore. These centres are operational since October 2015.
The intrinsic aim of establishing MRCs is to provide accurate and timely information on safe and legal migration, referral and counselling, as well as raising awareness on irregular migration and the related serious risks. It furthermore aims to contribute to the definition and implementation of a migratory policy adapted to national, regional and international level.
	Within their three years of existence, the MRCs have provided individual counselling to more than 2,600 migrants related to their migration decisions and legal migration options.
	The MRCs have furthermore provided information on safe and legal migration to more than 25,000 potential, intending and outgoing migrants through orientation sessions in vocational and educational institutions.
	The MRCs have provided pre-departure trainings at the Protectorate of Emigrants (PoEs) to more than 50,000 outgoing migrants through their daily sessions at the PoE in Rawalpindi.
The main target groups are the MRC clients/ audience which were counselled and oriented in one to one counselling session, group orientation and community outreach activities. The following institutions are particularly targeted: technical and vocational training institutes, Public/ private universities and colleges, Protectorate of Emigrant, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and HRD, Labour and Human Resource Department, Punjab and the Bureau of Emigration.
(c)	Identify constraints and opportunities in MRC activities and recommend potential solutions.
(a)	Implement a comprehensive and sustainable monitoring and evaluation framework.
•	Support the continuous improvement of MRCs.
The evaluation will thus have to combine formative and summative elements and, due to its accompanying character, also include to some extent monitoring tasks.
More specifically, the evaluation will address the issues below which refer to three of the five evaluation criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact) endorsed by the OECD-DAC .
•	To what extent was the MRCs suited to the priorities and needs of the potential, intending migrants and their families?
•	To what extent the objectives of the MRCs were fulfilled?
•	Are there any short, medium or long term results achieved by the MRCs?
•	How have the MRC outputs evolve throughout the project?
•	How are they perceived by the beneficiaries / users?
•	To what extent are the stakeholders aware of the possibilities to make use of the MRC outputs?
•	To what extent are stakeholders actually making use of the MRC outputs as listed above and why so/why not?
•	How can the use of MRC's outputs be improved?
•	Which intended outcomes and which unintended outcomes, notably resulting from the counselling sessions and outreach activities, have occurred as a result of the MRCs?
•	What real difference has the MRC made to the target groups?
•	To what extent do stakeholders perceive benefits from the MRC outputs for the successful completion of their regular tasks? Why so/why not?
•	Which factors enable/ impede the achievement of outcomes?
•	Primary Data Collection through In-depth Interviews (IDIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). The consulting partner is required to propose the number of IDIs and FGDs to be conducted.
•	Share findings with MRC and ICMPD teams and incorporate their feedback.
•	Data analysis should be done through thematic analysis approach and data triangulation.
•	Assist in feedback of the findings, conclusions, lessons and recommendations from the evaluation.
•	Submission of data collection tools templates for further review and approval by MRC/ICMPD.
•	Submit a draft for a comprehensive M&E Framework.
•	Submit a final M&E Framework after incorporating feedback received from MRC/ICMPD.
•	Draft evaluation report along with the raw data collected through Data Collection Tools.
•	Final Monitoring and Evaluation Report.
-	Collection and analysis of data. Due to the time span to be covered by the evaluation, the field phase will have to be split in several parts, i.e. certain points in time when data are to be collected.
All reports have to follow the structure agreed upon with the MRC/ICMPD team.
•	Good understanding of cultural differences and their impact on working styles.
•	Ability to work alone, develop creative solutions and deal with multicultural environments.
•	The location of the evaluator is flexible (possibly Islamabad), with travel required to some of the project activities. Interviews with the stakeholders and MRC counselled clients will take place by phone, email, skype.
•	Target timeframe: from 15 October 2018 – 30 December 2018 with the workdays provided for to be distributed appropriately over this period.
This part should summarise the most important aspects of the evaluation as perceived by the tenderer.
In this part, the tenderer should explain the way in which he/she proposes to perform the evaluation. This entails a clear description of the methodology that the tenderer proposes to use, including a rough work programme explaining the way in which he/she proposes to perform the assignment, in line with all relevant specifications of the ToR. It should include a description of the tasks, an indicative work schedule and of the resources that will be used to carry out the evaluation.
This part must include the curriculum vitae of the expert who will actually perform the tasks of this assignment. In particular it must be demonstrated that this person has the necessary skills to perform all tasks in line with the task specifications as well as the qualifications outlined in the ToR.
The overall budget of the evaluation cannot exceed EUR 40.000. The tenderers must submit a detailed budget that includes the experts' fees and costs incurred in connection with this assignment, including field trips to the beneficiary countries or regional activities and the participation of one expert to the final conference. Offers below the maximum threshold will be given preference.
The tenderer must fill in the Request for Quotation form (available below) with the offer. The form must be signed and dated.
Offers must be signed by the tenderer or his duly authorised representative.
Tenderers will be informed by 7 October 2018 whether their offer has been accepted or rejected.


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Tisagenlecleucel, sold under the brand name Kymriah, is a CAR T cells medication for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) which uses the body's own T cells to fight cancer (adoptive cell transfer).

Serious side effects occur in most patients. The most common serious side effects are cytokine release syndrome (a potentially life-threatening condition that can cause fever, vomiting, shortness of breath, pain and low blood pressure) and decreases in platelets (components that help the blood to clot), hemoglobin (the protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body) or white blood cells including neutrophils and lymphocytes. Serious infections occur in around three in ten diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients.

T cells from a person with cancer are removed, genetically engineered to make a specific chimeric cell surface receptor with components from both a T-cell receptor and an antibody specific to a protein on the cancer cell, and transferred back to the person. The T cells are engineered to target a protein called CD19 that is common on B cells. A chimeric T cell receptor ("CAR-T") is expressed on the surface of the T cell.

It was invented and initially developed at the University of Pennsylvania; Novartis completed development, obtained FDA approval, and markets the treatment. In August 2017, it became the first FDA-approved treatment that included a gene therapy step in the United States.

Medical uses
Tisagenlecleucel is indicated for the treatment of those under 25 years of age with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that is refractory or in second or later relapse; or adults with relapsed or refractory (r/r) large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) not otherwise specified, high grade B-cell lymphoma and DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma.

In May 2022, the indication in the US was updated to include the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

Adverse effects
A frequent side effect seen is cytokine release syndrome (CRS).

Serious side effects occur in most patients. The most common serious side effects are cytokine release syndrome (a potentially life-threatening condition that can cause fever, vomiting, shortness of breath, pain and low blood pressure) and decreases in platelets (components that help the blood to clot), hemoglobin (the protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body) or white blood cells including neutrophils and lymphocytes. Serious infections occur in around three in ten diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients.

History
The treatment was developed by a group headed by Carl H. June at the University of Pennsylvania, and is licensed to Novartis.

In April 2017, tisagenlecleucel received breakthrough therapy designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  for the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

In July 2017, an FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended that the agency approve it to treat B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that did not respond adequately to other treatments or have relapsed.

In August 2017, the FDA granted approval for the use of tisagenlecleucel in people with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  According to Novartis, the treatment will be administered at specific medical centers where staff have been trained to manage possible reactions to this new type of treatment.

In May 2018, the FDA further approved tisagenlecleucel to treat adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), based on results from the JULIET phase II trial.

In England, the NHS will use the procedure to treat children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) if earlier treatments including stem cell transplants have failed; it is expected to apply to between 15 and 20 children. In March 2019, NICE issued guidance approving Kymriah for treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in adults after 2 or more systemic therapies.

Manufacture
In a 22-day process, the treatment is customized for each person. T cells are purified from blood drawn from the person, and those cells are then modified by a virus that inserts a gene into the cells' genome.  The gene encodes a chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) that targets leukaemia cells.  It uses the 4-1BB co-stimulatory domain in its CAR to improve response.

Modification of the cells to create the customized therapeutic has been a major bottleneck in expanding availability of the treatment, requiring T cells extracted in Europe to be transported to the United States where they are modified, then back to Europe.  Novartis has been expanding a facility in France, and constructed a new facility in Stein, Switzerland, to relieve this bottleneck beginning in 2020.  Novartis uses the company Cryoport Inc. for temperature-controlled transportation required for the manufacture and distribution of Kymriah.

References

Further reading
 BLA 125646 Tisagenlecleucel - Novartis Briefing document to FDA ODAC

External links

Antineoplastic drugs
Breakthrough therapy
Gene therapy
Novartis brands
Orphan drugs

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Request Class Reference

Public Member Functions

 	__construct (array $query=null, array $request=null, array $attributes=null, array $cookies=null, array $files=null, array $server=null)

 	initialize (array $query=null, array $request=null, array $attributes=null, array $cookies=null, array $files=null, array $server=null)

 	duplicate (array $query=null, array $request=null, array $attributes=null, array $cookies=null, array $files=null, array $server=null)

 	__clone ()

 	overrideGlobals ()

 	get ($key, $default=null)

 	getSession ()

 	hasSession ()

 	setSession (Session $session)

 	getClientIp ($proxy=false)

 	getScriptName ()

 	getPathInfo ()

 	getBasePath ()

 	getBaseUrl ()

 	getScheme ()

 	getPort ()

 	getHttpHost ()

 	getRequestUri ()

 	getUri ()

 	getUriForPath ($path)

 	getQueryString ()

 	isSecure ()

 	getHost ()

 	setMethod ($method)

 	getMethod ()

 	getMimeType ($format)

 	getFormat ($mimeType)

 	setFormat ($format, $mimeTypes)

 	getRequestFormat ()

 	setRequestFormat ($format)

 	isMethodSafe ()

 	getContent ($asResource=false)

 	getETags ()

 	isNoCache ()

 	getPreferredLanguage (array $locales=null)

 	getLanguages ()

 	getCharsets ()

 	getAcceptableContentTypes ()

 	isXmlHttpRequest ()

 	splitHttpAcceptHeader ($header)

Static Public Member Functions

static 	create ($uri, $method= 'GET', $parameters=array(), $cookies=array(), $files=array(), $server=array())

Data Fields

 	$attributes

 	$request

 	$query

 	$server

 	$files

 	$cookies

 	$headers

Protected Member Functions

 	prepareRequestUri ()

 	prepareBaseUrl ()

 	prepareBasePath ()

 	preparePathInfo ()

 	convertFileInformation (array $files)

 	fixPhpFilesArray ($data)

 	initializeHeaders ()

Static Protected Member Functions

static 	initializeFormats ()

Protected Attributes

 	$content

 	$languages

 	$charsets

 	$acceptableContentTypes

 	$pathInfo

 	$requestUri

 	$baseUrl

 	$basePath

 	$method

 	$format

 	$session

Static Protected Attributes

static 	$formats

Detailed Description

Request represents an HTTP request.

Author:

Fabien Potencier <fabien.potencier@symfony-project.com>

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

          __construct
          (
          array $
          query = null,

          array $
          request = null,

          array $
          attributes = null,

          array $
          cookies = null,

          array $
          files = null,

          array $
          server = null

          )

Constructor.

Parameters:

array	$query	The GET parameters

array	$request	The POST parameters

array	$attributes	The request attributes (parameters parsed from the PATH_INFO, ...)

array	$cookies	The COOKIE parameters

array	$files	The FILES parameters

array	$server	The SERVER parameters

Member Function Documentation

          __clone
          (
          	)

Clones the current request.

Note that the session is not cloned as duplicated requests are most of the time sub-requests of the main one.

          convertFileInformation
          (
          array $
          files	)
           [protected]

Converts uploaded files to UploadedFile instances.

Parameters:

array	$files	A (multi-dimensional) array of uploaded file information

Returns:

array A (multi-dimensional) array of UploadedFile instances

          static create
          (
          $
          uri,

          $
          method = 'GET',

          $
          parameters = array(),

          $
          cookies = array(),

          $
          files = array(),

          $
          server = array()

          )
          	 [static]

Creates a Request based on a given URI and configuration.

Parameters:

string	$uri	The URI

string	$method	The HTTP method

array	$parameters	The request (GET) or query (POST) parameters

array	$cookies	The request cookies ($_COOKIE)

array	$files	The request files ($_FILES)

array	$server	The server parameters ($_SERVER)

Returns:

Request A Request instance

          duplicate
          (
          array $
          query = null,

          array $
          request = null,

          array $
          attributes = null,

          array $
          cookies = null,

          array $
          files = null,

          array $
          server = null

          )

Clones a request and overrides some of its parameters.

Parameters:

array	$query	The GET parameters

array	$request	The POST parameters

array	$attributes	The request attributes (parameters parsed from the PATH_INFO, ...)

array	$cookies	The COOKIE parameters

array	$files	The FILES parameters

array	$server	The SERVER parameters

          fixPhpFilesArray
          (
          $
          data	)
           [protected]

Fixes a malformed PHP $_FILES array.

PHP has a bug that the format of the $_FILES array differs, depending on whether the uploaded file fields had normal field names or array-like field names ("normal" vs. "parent[child]").

This method fixes the array to look like the "normal" $_FILES array.

It's safe to pass an already converted array, in which case this method just returns the original array unmodified.

Parameters:

array	$data

Returns:

array

          getAcceptableContentTypes
          (
          	)

Gets a list of content types acceptable by the client browser

Returns:

array Languages ordered in the user browser preferences

          getBasePath
          (
          	)

Returns the root path from which this request is executed.

Suppose that an index.php file instantiates this request object:

* http://localhost/index.php returns an empty string * http://localhost/index.php/page returns an empty string * http://localhost/web/index.php return '/web'

Returns:

string

          getBaseUrl
          (
          	)

Returns the root url from which this request is executed.

This is similar to getBasePath(), except that it also includes the script filename (e.g. index.php) if one exists.

Returns:

string

          getCharsets
          (
          	)

Gets a list of charsets acceptable by the client browser.

Returns:

array List of charsets in preferable order

          getClientIp
          (
          $
          proxy = false	)

Returns the client IP address.

Parameters:

Boolean	$proxy	Whether the current request has been made behind a proxy or not

Returns:

string The client IP address

          getContent
          (
          $
          asResource = false	)

Returns the request body content.

Parameters:

bool	$asResource	If true, a resource will be returned

Returns:

string|resource The request body content or a resource to read the body stream.

          getFormat
          (
          $
          mimeType	)

Gets the format associated with the mime type.

Parameters:

string	$mimeType	The associated mime type

Returns:

string The format (null if not found)

          getHost
          (
          	)

Returns the host name.

Returns:

string

          getHttpHost
          (
          	)

Returns the HTTP host being requested.

The port name will be appended to the host if it's non-standard.

Returns:

string

          getLanguages
          (
          	)

Gets a list of languages acceptable by the client browser.

Returns:

array Languages ordered in the user browser preferences

          getMethod
          (
          	)

Gets the request method.

Returns:

string The request method

          getMimeType
          (
          $
          format	)

Gets the mime type associated with the format.

Parameters:

string	$format	The format

Returns:

string The associated mime type (null if not found)

          getPathInfo
          (
          	)

Returns the path being requested relative to the executed script.

Suppose this request is instantiated from /mysite on localhost:

* http://localhost/mysite returns an empty string * http://localhost/mysite/about returns '/about' * http://localhost/mysite/about?var=1 returns '/about'

Returns:

string

          getPreferredLanguage
          (
          array $
          locales = null	)

Returns the preferred language.

Parameters:

array	$locales	An array of ordered available locales

Returns:

string The preferred locale

          getQueryString
          (
          	)

Generates the normalized query string for the Request.

It builds a normalized query string, where keys/value pairs are alphabetized and have consistent escaping.

Returns:

string A normalized query string for the Request

          getRequestFormat
          (
          	)

Gets the request format.

Here is the process to determine the format:

* format defined by the user (with setRequestFormat()) * _format request parameter * null

Returns:

string The request format

          getScriptName
          (
          	)

Returns current script name.

Returns:

string

          getUri
          (
          	)

Generates a normalized URI for the Request.

Returns:

string A normalized URI for the Request

See also:

getQueryString()

          getUriForPath
          (
          $
          path	)

Generates a normalized URI for the given path.

Parameters:

string	$path	A path to use instead of the current one

Returns:

string The normalized URI for the path

          initialize
          (
          array $
          query = null,

          array $
          request = null,

          array $
          attributes = null,

          array $
          cookies = null,

          array $
          files = null,

          array $
          server = null

          )

Sets the parameters for this request.

This method also re-initializes all properties.

Parameters:

array	$query	The GET parameters

array	$request	The POST parameters

array	$attributes	The request attributes (parameters parsed from the PATH_INFO, ...)

array	$cookies	The COOKIE parameters

array	$files	The FILES parameters

array	$server	The SERVER parameters

          isXmlHttpRequest
          (
          	)

Returns true if the request is a XMLHttpRequest.

It works if your JavaScript library set an X-Requested-With HTTP header. It is known to work with Prototype, Mootools, jQuery.

Returns:

bool true if the request is an XMLHttpRequest, false otherwise

          overrideGlobals
          (
          	)

Overrides the PHP global variables according to this request instance.

It overrides $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_SERVER, $_COOKIE, and $_FILES.

          setFormat
          (
          $
          format,

          $
          mimeTypes

          )

Associates a format with mime types.

Parameters:

string	$format	The format

string | array	$mimeTypes	The associated mime types (the preferred one must be the first as it will be used as the content type)

          splitHttpAcceptHeader
          (
          $
          header	)

Splits an Accept-* HTTP header.

Parameters:

string	$header	Header to split

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Giuseppe Moioli (born 8 August 1927) is an Italian rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the 1952 Summer Olympics, and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Moioli was born in Olcio di Mandello Lario in 1927. A worker at the Italian motorbike manufacturer Moto Guzzi based at their plant in Mandello del Lario, he became a member of the company's rowing team, Canottieri Moto Guzzi. A coxless four was formed with Moioli, Elio Morille, Giovanni Invernizzi, and Franco Faggi. The first time they left their home training ground, Lake Como, was when they travelled to the 1947 European Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland. Little known in rowing circles, they unexpectedly won the gold medal in their boat class. The four were to dominate this boat class until 1952, continuously winning all races they rowed including all heats. In 1948 he was a crew member of the Italian boat which won the gold medal in the coxless fours event. Four years later he was eliminated with the Italian boat in the semi-final repechage of the coxless four competition. At the 1956 Games he was part of the Italian boat which finished fourth in the coxless four event.
^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Giuseppe Moioli". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Del Giudice, Scipione; Scarronzoni, Gli. "73. Early Rowing in Italy". International rowing turns professional (PDF). pp. 744–748. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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As well as being a competitive boxer and kick boxer, and a true combat sports fan, I am also a feature writer for a boxing & news website called: The Ringside Report!
I began working for the site early in 2018 and have since been posting regularly.
If you're interested in reading some of my boxing specific articles then you can check out my work by visiting the Ringside Report and checking out my column, under the name Tyler "The Miracle Man" White!
Many thanks to the man in charge of The Ringside Report – Mr Brad Berkwitt – for allowing me to work on this prestigious platform!


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VegNews Celebrates Black History Month: Bryant Terry
In this exclusive interview with VegNews, famed chef and author Bryant Terry speaks about his efforts to reverse America's health crisis with whole, traditionally Black foods.
by Richard Bowie
Abstaining from the use of animals for food, clothing, entertainment, or for research has always been portrayed as a radical way of living. Those who live their lives by such principles find themselves part of a small but passionate minority, using their everyday choices to advocate and fight for the rights of animals. But some members of this plant-based group don't have the luxury of making animal rights the center of their lives—they must, at the same time, continue fighting for their own.
One such subsect is Black vegans. While not receiving the same amount of attention as other members of the plant-based scene, the Black community has made, and continues to make, meaningful and important strides in the name of veganism. From the iconic political activist Angela Y. Davis' work stemming back to the 60s, to David Carter showing the world that a 300-pound NFL lineman can be sustained, and thrive, on a vegan diet—we're inspired by the accomplishments of Black vegans.
Every week during February, VegNews is highlighting one Black vegan making history now. This week, we're talking to Bryant Terry, accomplished educator and author of Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, & Southern Flavors Remixed. A 2015 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award-winning chef and the current Chief-in-Residence at San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, Terry is arguably one of the most qualified people to speak on food issues facing the African-American community.
VegNews: Who has inspired you to change the way America eats and/or in your own life?
Bryant Terry: Chef and cookbook author Edna Lewis has a big influence on my work. Similar to all my books, her mission was to help people connect with the flavors of real food that she enjoyed growing up in the South. After taking New York City by storm with her approach to Southern cuisine at Café Nicholson in the late 1940s and '50s, she went on to write several cookbooks that focused on seasonality and freshness. Her book The Taste of Country Cooking had a major impact on my style of recipe writing. That book reads like a memoir infused with recipes, and it inspired me to draw heavily on history and memory in my own cookbook writing, which I often describe as "recipes as autobiography."
VN: What role does your identity play in your work and everyday life?
BT: My primary focus as an activist is addressing the public health crisis among African-Americans that relates to what we eat. A large part of my work is about helping my people remember that our traditional diet is replete with nutrient-dense dark leafy green vegetables, protein-rich legumes, vitamin-packed fruit, and the like. When we move beyond the reductive way that people imagine African-American cuisine—antebellum survival food eaten by many enslaved Africans and the comfort foods that Black folks most often enjoy on holidays and special occasions—and peel back the layers, it becomes much clearer. We simply need to look back and embrace the eating habits of many of our ancestors from just a few generations ago. And when you consider that for thousands of years traditional West and Central African diets were predominantly vegetarian—centered around staples like millet, rice, field peas, okra, hot peppers, and yams—and that many pre-colonial African diets heavily emphasized plant foods, a plant-based diet celebrating the food of the African diaspora is perfectly fitting.
VN: You were honored by UC Berkeley in 2014 for your commitment to community development and transformative change. How do you use food to strive toward that goal?
BT: We all should be concerned about the way that multinational food corporations are ruining our health and degrading the very foundations of a healthy food system—clean soil, air, and water. African-Americans suffer from some of the highest rates of preventable diet-related illnesses, and many working class and working poor African-American communities face a number of economic, physical, and geographic barriers to accessing healthy, safe, affordable, and culturally appropriate food. Given this, we should be taking the lead in owning and driving the solutions to address this public health crisis that our communities face. I strive to use the sensual pleasures of the table to shift people's habits, attitudes, and politics in regard to food. In my eyes, building community around the table and strengthening the food-justice movement go hand in hand. When one considers that educating, strategizing, and organizing for many social movements throughout the 20th century took place in people's homes, it seems appropriate that the food revolution will find its spark in home kitchens.
VN: A lack of representation in the mainstream vegan movement is an ongoing theme in many discussions in the Black vegan community. Others talk about inadequate access to information and fresh, whole foods in certain areas of the nation. What do you make of these issues?
BT: I feel most passionate about empowering people to take back our food system from the handful of transnational corporations that control it. My guiding mantra for over a decade has been start with the visceral, to ignite the cerebral, and end at the political. In order to take back our runaway food system, we need to engage in grassroots activism while keeping one eye on changing public policies. I see empowering people to prepare and cook real food and share meals with community as a revolutionary first step towards politicizing them around food issues.
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Yorkshire firms updated on the latest grant funding available to drive export
Businesses from the Leeds City Region were able to get the latest information about the myriad of grants and support available to help drive overseas expansion at an event organised by peer-to-peer export advice service ExportExchange.
Held at Garbutt + Elliott's new York offices last week (16 May), a number of export finance experts were on hand to update exporters about funding programmes currently available from DIT and the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership. Among the speakers at the ExportExchange 'Live' event was James Smith of the Manufacturing Growth Programme, Simon Middleton of Make It York and Ingunn Vallumroed from DIT. They updated the attendees on the recently launched MGP2 programme, which makes a further £12m of funding available to SMEs as well as the extension of the Exporting for Growth grant funding helping SMEs in the Leeds City region to explore new markets.
In addition, international finance and banking experts Jon Gillgrass of Santander and Tariq Javaid of Garbutt + Elliott provided advice on mitigating risk and some of the funding challenges facing businesses on the export journey.
Chaired by David Parkin, successful exporters from the region. Eric Hawthorn of Radio Design in Shipley, which designs and manufactures electronic equipment for mobile networks, and Rob Whitehead of Harrogate-based traditional confectionery business, Serious Sweet Company, discussed their first-hand experience of trading overseas.
including having a local presence in China, India and Finland. There's no doubt in my mind that the willingness of peers to share their export stories has been extremely valuable and helped us on our journey, which is why initiatives like ExportExchange are so important.
"As a mobile communications business, we had always planned to trade internationally, and the support we received from DIT, particularly in terms of introductions to senior people within their global networks, was vital. My advice to fledgling exporters is to make sure they have innovative products which are right for the market and also to be dogged and take a long term view – it took us ten years to break into the Indian market! Businesses need to be aware that there is lots of help on hand, both in terms of funding support and advice, so make sure you use it."
The ExportExchange.co.uk initiative, which launched in 2017 to bring together experts in overseas trade within firms from the Leeds City Region, now has over 170 members and has helped share exporting knowledge with many growing exporters who have registered to receive advice from experienced Yorkshire mentors or 'patrons'.
The ExportExchange programme is backed by the European Regional Development Fund and supported by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the Department for International Trade (DIT), and a number of private sector export specialists.
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69-year-old Porn Star, Ron Jeremy To Be Declared Incompetent In His Rape Cases
Legendary adult film actor, Ron Jeremy to be declared "incompetent" in his ongoing several sexual abuse
Ron Jeremy, an American porn actor accused of rape and sexual assault by 21 women, is going to be deemed unable to stand trial due to'severe dementia.'
The former adult entertainer, 69, was charged with 30 counts of sexual assault after victims as young as 15 years old accused him.
According to a Los Angeles County prosecutor, he is now unlikely to face his rape trial.
Prosecutors claim Jeremy confined some of the women and raped or sodomized them, as well as having sex with others when they were sleeping or unconscious.
Jeremy previously pled not guilty to 12 counts of forced rape, seven counts of forceful oral copulation, and six counts of sexual abuse by constraint, according to DA George Gascón.
However, the Los Angeles Times adds that Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson stated that mental health professionals consulted by prosecutors and Jeremy's defense team decided he has severe dementia.
According to the Times, there is no proof that he is faking his symptoms.
On January 17, he was scheduled to appear in a Hollywood courtroom where he would be legally pronounced incompetent.
'As a consequence of the specialists' agreement, the defendant will be judged incapable to stand trial… his prognosis for rehabilitation is not good,' according to an internal email.
'If he does not improve, we will be unable to prosecute him for his crimes.
'Because criminal procedures are halted while he is incompetent, we are also unable to obtain a guilty plea from him or consider alternative options for obtaining justice for the victims in this instance.'
A study of medical records and conversations with Jeremy revealed that he had severe dementia.
After being judged incompetent, Jeremy is expected to be admitted to a state-run facility.
Since his arrest in June 2020, he has been imprisoned at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles County on a $6.6 million bond.
His claimed abuse allegedly began in the 1990s.
Jeremy was also charged with four counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object and two charges of sexual penetration of a sleeping or unconscious person.
There was also one count of lewd conduct on a kid under the age of 14 or 15, sodomy by force, and assault with intent to commit rape.
According to Gascón, Jeremy's alleged sexual assaults occurred over a period of more than 23 years and involved 21 victims ranging in age from 15 to 51.
According to the August 19 indictment published by DailyMail.com, Jeremy is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl known as 'Jane Doe 5' on June 12, 2004, penetrating her with a foreign object.
Another girl, 17, was reportedly raped in 2008 at a residence in Los Angeles' Woodland Hills area.
She was referred to as 'Jane Doe 22' in the court records.
Prosecutors believe Jeremy raped a 19-year-old woman at a picture session in the San Fernando Valley in October 1996, which was one of the first claims leveled against him.
Later, in October 2000, Jeremy reportedly raped a 26-year-old woman during a gathering in a Los Angeles County nightclub, according to officials.
According to the indictment, Jeremy had sexual intercourse with 'Jane Doe 19' in 2000 using 'force, assault, duress, threat, or fear of imminent and severe bodily damage.'
Jeremy was also accused of sexually abusing another lady at a City of Industry strip club between 2002 and 2003, according to officials.
Another lady, 21, went to Jeremy's house in 2010 and was reportedly sexually abused.
According to authorities, Jeremy reportedly sexually assaulted a 38-year-old lady in a West Hollywood pub in January 2013.
The most recent allegations date back to January 2020, when Jeremy allegedly raped and sodomized a woman designated in court filings as 'Jane Doe 17,' according to the indictment.
'Far too frequently, survivors of sexual assault suffer in silence,' said Gascón.
'We must guarantee that survivors have access to all available resources to aid in their rehabilitation, including trauma-informed therapies for healing and assistance in reporting such crimes.'
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Radio World: "Australia Still Has Shortwave Voices"
(Source: Radio World via Michael Bird)
HANS JOHNSON ? APR 23, 2019
SYDNEY — Radio Australia shortwave services may be dead, but the medium is alive and well on the continent.
Reach Beyond Australia is on shortwave, but with its Christian programming largely in foreign languages, it really isn't seen as representing Australia on the shortwaves. But there are other private Australian stations that are broadcasting and more are planned.
And while these stations are not a replacement for Radio Australia's international transmissions or the defunct (for the moment) Australian Broadcasting Corp. domestic service, they do have various goals and share certain characteristics.[…]
4KZ is a shortwave relay of an Innisfail, Queensland, medium-wave station with the same call sign. It is part of the NQ Radio network. 4KZ plays a variety of music and is heavily involved in the community. The shortwave serves remote areas of north Queensland. "We are planning a 90-or 120-meter service for evenings local time, from station 4AM in Mareeba," explained Al Kirton, NQ Radio's general manager.
Unique Radio has been on three years and currently broadcasts from Gunnedah in New South Wales. Its owner, Tim Gaylor, has a background in community radio. "We like a station to inform people about alternative subject matters not currently on mainstream media," he said. Unique Radio also plans to add a night frequency in the 90-meter band.
There are also future stations in the works from New South Wales.[…]
Click here to read the full article at Radio World.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, Australia, Michael Bird, Radio World, Reach Beyond Australia, Unique Radio on April 30, 2019 by Thomas.
4KZ update: Transmitting low power for now
The 4KZ transmitter is located in Innisfail, Australia
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jerome van der Linden, who writes:
Have been communicating with Al Kirton (4KZ, Innisfail, Queensland Manager), and by virtue of my membership of a couple of Facebook groups for caravan (trailer to you) owners in Australia, have publicized the fact that Al is keen for reception reports from people in the target area.
Al also advised that they're not even on 500 watts at the moment:
"We are only on 300 watts due to the fact that we only have one of the two 600 watt RF modules working.(Half of the 600 watts in the good module is lost into the combiner). It should be much better on ~ 1 Kw when the part arrives from the USA and the module is repaired."
Thank you for the update, Jerome!
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, Australia, Jerome van der Linden on January 3, 2018 by Thomas.
4KZ celebrating 50 years, now on shortwave
(Source: Southgate ARC)
Australian broadcaster celebrating on shortwave
As part of 50th celebrations, radio broadcaster 4KZ in Northern Queensland is now on 5055 kHz and already getting signal reports including from North America and New Zealand.
General Manager of NQ Radio (4KZ, 4AM, 4AY, KIK FM & KOOL FM), Al Kirton announced the decision to SWLing Post in May, and now confirms the transmission began on December 20.
He told the WIA: "Unfortunately we are on half power for a couple of weeks until one of the RF boards can be repaired, then we will go up to I kW."
The shortwave broadcast is from a site at east Innisfail in Tropical North Queensland. Mr Kirton said the USA-made 1.2 kW transmitter being used is feeding an Inverted V antenna at about 14 metres high at the peak.
The program is from the 4KZ and 4AY AM band transmitters and designed to cover the Cape York area and the northern outback. However the 60m band signal has been heard further away.
He said: "I have had many reception reports, many with audio clips", some from Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales and Victoria, as well as from "Monterey USA, Alberta Canada and New Zealand."
The transmission hours are about 0500 to 2300 hours UTC. All confirmed reception reports will receive a 4KZ shortwave QSL card. No return postage is required.
Reports by email to Al Kirton (al@nqradio.com.au) or to Radio 4KZ, PO Box 19, Innisfail Queensland 4860 Australia.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation stopped its shortwave services to the northern outback in January 2017.
Jim Linton VK3PC
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, Al Kirton, Australia, Southgate ARC on December 24, 2017 by Thomas.
4KZ Update and Reception Report Information
Many thanks to Al Kirton, group general manager of radio station 4KZ, who writes with an update to our post from earlier today:
We are pleased to advise that as part of our 50TH Anniversary celebrations, Radio 4KZ shortwave 5055 kHz commenced transmission yesterday afternoon. Reports have come in from as far as Monterey, California USA.
Unfortunately, during the next 2 weeks we will be running on half power at 500 watts.
Transmission is from the 4KZ (am 531 – 8kW) & 4AY (am 873 – 1 kW) site at east Innisfail in Tropical North Queensland. We use a USA made LPB 1.2 kW shortwave transmitter feeding an Inverted V antenna at about 14 metres high at the peak. The transmitter audio is via an Australian-made Crusher digital audio limiter.
The system is designed to cover the Cape York area of Queensland and the Northern outback. Fortuitous reception is available at times over a much wider area.
Transmission hours will be approximately 0500 to 2300 hours GMT (3pm to 9am Queensland time.)
We welcome reception reports. All confirmed reports will receive a 4KZ shortwave QSL card. No return postage is required.
Reports should be sent to me, Al Kirton al@nqradio.com.au
Or by regular mail to: Radio 4KZ, PO Box 19, Innisfail Queensland 4860 Australia.
Excellent! I will certainly do my best to put 4KZ in the logs, but it will be a challenge doing it from the east coast of the US. Still, perhaps propagation will surprise me one evening!
For more about 4KZ on shortwave, and to follow updates, simply follow the tag: 4KZ
This entry was posted in News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, Al Kirton, Australia, New Shortwave Stations, New Shortwave Transmitter, NQ Radio, Shortwave Radio on December 20, 2017 by Thomas.
Breaking News: Australian broadcaster 4KZ now on shortwave!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Phil Brennan (VK8VWA), who notes that 4KZ started broadcasting today in Australia. Phil notes:
At last! ID for 4KZ confirmed at 0750 [UTC] Wednesday 20 December on 5,055 kHz.
Thank you, Phil–and thanks for following this development so closely over the past few weeks.
I tried tuning to 5055 kHz at my home in eastern North America, but of course conditions weren't ideal to receive a 1,000 watt AM signal from Australia. I wasn't ready to give up, of course, so I turned to the KiwiSDR network.
The following recording was made on December 20, 2017 starting around 11:33 UTC on 5,055 kHz . The receiver is a KiwiSDR located in Goulburn, NSW, Australia.
No details yet on where to send reception reports, but I will ask the station manager and post his reply in an update.
Post Readers: Please comment if you've also logged 4KZ!
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, Australia, New Shortwave Stations, New Shortwave Transmitter, NQ Radio, Phil Brennan, Shortwave Radio on December 20, 2017 by Thomas.
4KZ Update: broadcasts will commence after transmitter repairs
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jerome van der Linden, who shares an update from 4KZ Station Manager, Al Kirton:
Hi Jerome
5055 is not on the air yet.
The transmitter failed and requires some inexpensive parts which are not available in Australia. They should be here any day from the US.
We hope to be able to commence in the near future.[…]
Al Kirton
Radio 4KZ
Thanks for sharing this update, Jerome. For more information about 4KZ, check out this previous post.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged 4KZ, ABC Cuts, ABC Northern Territory Shortwave, ABC Shortwave, Australia, Jerome van der Linden, NQ Radio on August 1, 2017 by Thomas.
4KZ: More info about Australia's new shortwave broadcaster
Many thanks to Al Kirton, the General Manager at NQ Radio, who has kindly shared a few more details about NQ Radio and, specifically, 4KZ:
Hello Thomas
NQ Radio operates about 20 AM & FM transmitters in North Queensland, Australia. Our stations are 4KZ, 4AM, 4AY, KIK FM & KOOL FM.
In a couple of months or so we will be establishing a 4KZ shortwave service on 5055 kHz with 1 kilowatt.
The antenna is designed to give primary coverage from 200 km to 800 km from Innisfail. We suspect it will be heard with a low quality signal much further away.
Many thanks, Al! We'll be listening!
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, News, Shortwave Radio, What's On Shortwave and tagged 4KZ, ABC Cuts, ABC Northern Territory Shortwave, ABC Shortwave, Australia, NQ Radio on April 17, 2017 by Thomas.


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Facing Failure: A Levinasian Reading of Bernard Malamud's Fiction – Part IV
One of the key features of the schlemiel, one we see brought out in I.B. Singer's "Gimpel the Fool" is the fact that the schlemiel – regardless of the situation – doesn't give up on trusting people. Even if there is reason to judge someone in a negative manner, they overlook or find an excuse to judge it favorably. Although the reader may frown upon the desire to trust the stranger, the fact of the matter is that it is one of the most noteworthy qualities of the schlemiel. And though the schlemiel comically misses the truth of the matter in this or that story, the failure of others to be honest with the schlemiel should trouble us. Singer's "Gimpel the Fool" teaches us this lesson. But it does so by drawing on a character who was born in Europe (and who Sidrah DeKoven Ezrahi associates with the "virtual ghetto" created by American intellectuals and writers such as Irving Howe, Leslie Feidler, Saul Bellow, and I.B. Singer) . In contrast, and as I have been showing, Malamud's novel, The Assistant, makes the schlemiel more realistic…and American. He also shows us how an American schlemiel can be a secular saint, instead of what we often see the schlemiel portrayed as today: as a bro, a dude, a poor loser, or a caricature.
(Indeed, Hollywood does not and should not hold the rights over the meaning and life of the American schlemiel.)
As we have seen over the last three blog entries, Bober trusts Frank. Frank has good intentions but his actions contradict them. He continues to steal although he knows it is wrong. And, to be sure, as the story goes on we learn that he was one of the people who robbed and beat up Bober. For this reason, we can see that he becomes Bober's "assistant" because he has a conscience. He feels guilty. And over time, he makes more and more efforts to make things right; but this doesn't keep him from stealing.
As a schlemiel, Bober doesn't simply see Frank as a poor stranger in need of a job. He sees him as a person who has turned himself around (in the Hebrew and Yiddish this would be called "teshuva"). But as I pointed out in the last blog entry, Karp – one of three Jews in Bober's neighborhood and who also happens to have a business and a daughter he wants to marry off – tells Bober that all of the things he believed about Frank and the success of the store were wrong. Moreover, he deals the crushing blow when he tells Bober that new business owners are taking over a store than will, most likely, run out of business.
Depressed and confused about Frank, Bober goes to bed, has a tormented sleep, but wakes up with many thoughts about Frank. Instead of thinking about how much a fool he was for thinking that Frank was the reason for success, Bober ends up putting Frank in a favorable light. What Malamud has done for us, in this instance, is to provide us with a means of accessing the thoughts of an American schlemiel. But, as I mentioned above, these thoughts are not those of a caricatured schlemiel or a schlemiel who is a poor loser so much as an American schlemiel who is, as Edith Wyschogrod would say, a "sample" of a saint's "carnal generality." In these instances, we see Bober rethink what Karp had told him:
As for what he would do with Frank, after long pondering of the situation, thinking how the clerk had acted concerning their increase in business – as if he alone had created their better times – Morris at length decided that Frank had not as he had assumed when Karp told him the news – tried to trick him into believing that he was responsible. The grocer supposed that the clerk, like himself, was probably ignorant of the true reason of their change of luck. (156)
The narrator tops it off by telling us that "Morris felt" that Frank didn't know and muses that perhaps he did this "because he wanted to believe that he (Frank) was their benefactor"(156). And "maybe that was why he had been too blind to see what he had seen, too deaf too hear what he had heard. It was possible"(156). In other words, the narrator is trying to figure out, by way of thinking like a schlemiel, why Morris overlooked these things about Frank. And this musing about how this was possible tells us a lot. It tells us that a schlemiel, of Bober's saintly type and of Gimpel's type, wants to believe in the others goodness. Moreover, they "feel" before they think; not the other way around. Here, in this moment, we have such a situation where Bober is trying to think about Frank after hearing negative things from Karp; nonetheless, we can see that even though he may see why he is blind, he continues to stay that way be judging Frank favorably.
Nonetheless, Bober is weak and realizes that the store will have to be sold now that there is new competition in the neighborhood. Following this musing, which all happens in the morning, before opening the store, Frank comes down to see that Bober is suffering and confused: "When Frank came down he at once noticed that the grocer was not himself"(157). Frank, to be sure, has his own moral problems. But the narrator tells us that what troubles him most is what Bober's daughter, Helen, told him; namely, that he must "discipline himself"(157).
While Bober is in the dumps, Frank "makes his mind up," based on what Helen told him about disciplining himself, that he would "return, bit by bit until all paid up, the hundred and forty-odd bucks he had filched from Morris in the months he had worked for him"(157). Frank wants to tell Bober, for the first time (!), that he stole money from him and that he was going to pay every dime of it back. But when he sees Bober's suffering face, he "felt it was useless"(157).
Frank, for the first time, contemplates what it would be like to confess the truth to Bober, a Jew. And this troubles him, deeply. An anti-Semitic thought crosses his mind, but this turns into other thoughts that tap into his conscience:
But when he pictured himself confessing, the Jew listening with a fat ear, he could not stand the thought of it Why should he make more trouble for himself than he could now handle, and end by defeating his purpose to fix things up and have a better life? That past was the past and the hell with it. (158)
Taking this as a point of reflection, the narrator, in the most judicious manner, suggests that Frank may have been a "victim" of anti-Semitic thief who cajoled him into doing it while, at the same time, noting that he did rob Bober and must make amends. He did the deed and must pay the price, but the narrator seems to suggest that he can get away with not saying anything while…secretly paying Bober back:
He had unwittingly taken part in a holdup, but he was, like Morris, more of a victim of Ward Minogue. If alone, he wouldn't have done it. That didn't excuse him that he did, but at least showed his true feelings. So what was their to confess if the whole things had been sort of an accident? Let bygones be gone. He had no control over his past – could only shine it up here and there and shut up as to the rest. From now on he would keep his mind on tomorrow…He would change and live in a worthwhile way. (158)
What's fascinating about this reflection is the fact that, as far as Judaism goes, teshuva (repentance) requires that if a Jew does something wrong they should admit the wrong to the person wronged and ask for forgiveness. Here we see that Frank can't do that. It is too much for him. He can pay back what he stole, but he can't face Bober and tell the truth.
Nonetheless, Bober still trusts Frank (or rather, as the narrator suggests, wants to trust Frank) and the door is still open. The schlemiel leaves open the door for teshuva. The question is whether Frank can fully (not partially) follow through.
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Trust Issues: Cynicism, Post-Nationalism, and Captain America
Politics and theater go hand-in-hand. One doesn't have to be an intellectual to know that politicians use words and gestures to gain attention, garner support, or justify this or that agenda. It's obvious to anyone that the media, film, and the internet can affect this or that political agenda. Within a few hours, a political agenda can be ruined or bolstered. Everyone knows this and we have seen this happen and see it happen on a daily basis.
But while the greatest obstacles to accomplishing this or that political agenda may be created by the media or Hollywood, the opposite is also true. One of the markers used by this or that politician to measure the success or failure of a project is whether the "public" is optimistic or cynical. To be sure, President Obama has been using these terms a lot in his speeches. He has been worrying that Americans are too cynical and no longer trust the government. And, to address this, he has even turned to comedy and theater to regain confidence. He has played the schlemiel (a character whose charm often acts to win the viewer over). He understands how, without optimism and trust, his administration will lose power and authority. But more is at stake than belief or disbelief in the government.
For many Americans, the greatest stakes have to do with the belief in exceptionalism. Is America unique….anymore? Or is it a nation like all others? It has become an issue, today, because America seems to be losing it's standing in the world. We see this issue discussed in the media, in Washington, DC, and in Hollywood. We also see it discussed in academia. And, as an academic, I can tell you that I have many colleagues who despise American nationalism and exceptionalism. For many of them, there is a conviction that America would be better off it were a part of a larger collective that would work to eliminate racial, economic, sexual, and cultural oppression and inequality around the world. Instead of leading the effort, they would like it if America were more humble. But, to be sure, they just don't want this to happen; rather, like good post-Marxists, many believe it is already happening and that there is nothing we can do to stop it. Justice, meaning post-nationalism, will prevail. All resistance is futile and, in their view, stupid. Nationalism and patriotism are one and the same thing for many of them. Marx believed that the nation-state would eventually "wither away" and so do many of my colleagues. It's only a matter of time.
But what will take its place?
This is an interesting question. In a post-nationalist America, what will people turn to for hope and inspiration? There are many answers to this question. I would suggest looking at some of the biggest academic conferences out there these days for an intimation of where academics think the answers may lie. One thing I can say, from what I see within my own academic circle, is that many academics want to leave nationalism and patriotism behind for "justice" and "ethics." To be sure, nearly all of the post-Zionist thinkers in the field of Jewish Philosophy are post-nationalist. Many envision Israel not in terms of a state but in terms of something "bi-national" where Israelis and Palestinians can co-exist, side by side with each other. Hence, there is a lot of scholarship in my field that sees the Jewish nation-state as powerful, violent, unjust, and unethical. All resistance to the state (in academia and in the street) is deemed ethical. This, it seems, is a part of a larger political agenda – a post-nationalist one.
If I were to sum up what they are looking for in a blunt way, I would say that what is common to their readings of Judith Butler, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas (amongst others) is the belief that we can trust each other but don't because of the nation state or politics (which breed distrust and violence). After all, when Hannah Arendt was accused by Gershom Scholem of not having "ahavat Yisrael" (love of Israel, the nation) in her treatment of Adolph Eichmann, she replied by saying she cannot conceive of national love. She could only understand the love of friends. That, in a nutshell, pronounces the desire of post-nationalism: to live in a world where we don't need nations or nationalism to define who we are and what we do. All we need to do, to live a just, ethical life, is be friends and agree to coexist. That would be true justice. Nationalism and patriotism, on the other hand, are thought to be the anti-thesis of friendships and trust. Nationalism creates, for them, cynicism and war, while post-national trust creates optimism. (Slavoj Zizek's opposition of "kynicism" to "cynicism" provides a model for this project.)
The opposition between some kind of post-nationalist trust and nationalist distrust and cynicism has found its way into Hollywood, but, I would contend, this is by no means a mistake. To be sure, the mood in academia these days finds that American exceptionalism and nationalism have done us no good whatsoever. The latest Captain America film – Captain America: Winter Soldier – is a case in point. And I have a feeling we will see more of these types of films.
In the film, nationalism is downplayed and distrust and cynicism touches everything. The new, revived, Captain America isn't fighting so much for America as for trust and hope. He is looking for people he can trust. Unlike Independence Day (1996), saving America is really secondary to the main theme, which is saving trust and hope.
In this film, Captain America is looking for people he can trust. The nation, as it stands, is infiltrated with cynicism and distrust. Hydra has its hand in everything. And Hyrda is fascistic. America – that is, nationalism – is not the alternative so much as is trust in the other. And this film shows Captain America battling with people inundated with fascist nationalism, on the one hand, and other American's who have been infected with it (which suggests that fascism and its desire for order and security is the true essence of nationalism). The war isn't between America and Hydra; it's a war between trust and mistrust or post-nationalism and nationalism.
The Message: in this post-nationalist world, the most important thing is to know who your friends are. In this world, America, as in the first scenes of the film, with all of its monuments, is merely the backdrop for a larger existential drama. In this film, Captain America dons the same uniform he used during WWII – when American patriotism was at an all-time-high – but it is faded (just like the glory). He is, so to speak, putting new wine (the wine of trust) into an old (nationalist) skin.
I found this movie interesting not simply because it could be read as reflecting or not reflecting the current attitude of Americans toward American exceptionalism, so much as the fact that it is structured to appeal to something post-national. It moves toward a post-national kind of trust. But what does this mean about American nationalism? What does it suggest about patriotism? Is it merely, like Washington, DC, a backdrop for an existential issue?
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President Obama and Slavoj Zizek: The Kynical Comic versus the Simpleton
Over the last few days, I've been thinking about trust, cynicism, and the schlemiel.
Does the schlemiel provide solace? Does the schlemiel restore trust? There isn't an easy answer to this question. I started my thread of blog entries thinking about how President Obama, in his comic routine at the Correspondents' Dinner, appealed to the self-deprecating simpleton. He did this in order to end cynicism and gain trust.
The fact of the matter is that at least one variety of the schlemiel – the traditional, Eastern European one – works to endear the viewer, listener, or reader. The key ingredient to comically win over the audience is naivite. The schlemiel may make mistakes and may try hard to win, but he often fails.
The President played the schelemiel the other night. The President's charm, at least in this routine, is to be found in his failure to make his dreams a reality. And this is an appropriate topic for comedy given the President's emphasis on hope and change. The President, so to speak, is a dreamer. He lives on dreams. And perhaps many of us entrust him with power because we also like to dream (about a better future). In effect, perhaps we identify with a schlemiel because we are schlemiels, too. And this is the message: we can trust a naïve dreamer as only a dreamer can dispose of our cynicism. And The President seems to have been playing that comic role the other night.
But there is more on the table. The appeal of the schlemiel is not simply his or her inclination to dream big. To be sure. The dreamer who wants to make his or her dreams come true is socially awkward. As Adam Kotsko claims in his book entitled Awkwardness, many comedians play on the awkwardness of trying to succeed in a social situation. We saw this throughout the President's routine. And to see this awkwardness in him is to see the everyman. Perhaps the President's awkwardness brings us relief; namely, to know that, like us, the President is also trying to be socially accepted and trusted while, at the same time, dreaming of making things better.
Whether or not the President's routine ends your cynicism, however, is another question. Perhaps we would all feel better if we believed that the President was a schlemiel like us. But, as I pointed out yesterday with respect to Zizek, Karl (not Groucho) Marx believed that all ideology is naïve and that it has no idea that it is really doing anything wrong. Ideology, for Marx, naively thinks it is right. It can't understand itself. It can't see itself.
In other words, Marx would read ideology as a fellow German of the 19th century would read the schlemiel. To be sure, the German reading of the schlemiel has a similar structure to Marx's reading of ideology. The German schlemiel is absent-minded and naïve; he has a blind spot and can't see it. We can. As Sander Gilman points out in his reading of the German schlemiel in the 19th century, the point of the schlemiel in German theater was to show what NOT to be. We can see what the schlemiel cannot. And, as a result, we can reject the behaviors that the schlemiel naively repeats ad infinitum. This is what Marx, analogously, thought with respect to ideology. His job, as a critic, is to "unmask" the naïve aspect of ideology and show what it is blind to; namely, the exploitation that private property and the class system is based on. This "consciousness" could be used to correct the system and transfer all private property from the exploiters to the exploited. In effect, consciousness is maturity and its first task is to negate naivite (which, analogously, would equate with the negation of the schlemiel).
Zizek doesn't buy this. He says that the notion that ideology is naive no longer holds. Today, Zizek argues ideology is not naïve. It wears the mask of ideology while knowing full well that it is lying. Zizek's perspective, to be sure, is highly suspicious of anyone who purports to believe in this or that ideal. To do so, especially with a smiling face, is tantamount to being a trick of the ruling power. Zizek would say that anyone who upholds a principle or Enlightenment ideal is the real cynic as such a person does not truly believe in what he or she is saying but does so anyhow.
To think that the political is naïve, for Zizek, would be a mistake. For Zizek, everyone acts "as if" they believe in this or that ideology when in fact they don't. One could also argue that the simpleton belongs to an ideology. Using Zizek's logic, one could say that acting as if one is a naïve simpleton is a ruse since no one can really be naïve today. For him, this would be equivalent to nostalgia.
But, as I said above, the naïve schlemiel has a different meaning for Americans than it does (or rather, did) for Germans. To be sure, the self-deprecating naïve schlemiel has more in common with the Eastern European, Yiddish schlemiel than it does with the German one. In truth, Eastern European Jews (both secular Yiddishists and Hasidim) were charmed by the simpleton. The foolish innocence of this character is something that they held onto. It was the last bit of goodness in a world that, for them, was very bleak, dishonest, and violent. In contrast to their German-Jewish brethren, they were not interested in exposing this naivite in the name of this or that consciousness.
Zizek's dropping of the naïve in the name of the cynical and the kynical works in two ways. On the one hand, it casts suspicion on any ideology that purports naivite; on the other hand, it leaves the possibility of goodness behind.
Zizek's affirmation of kynicism, which he draws from Peter Sloterdijk, has nothing innocent or naïve about it. In fact, the whole point of kynicism is, as he says, to mock and destroy the cynic who, for Zizek, dishonestly affirms freedom, truth, justice, etc. As opposed to Marx, Zizek doesn't believe that consciousness is the answer. And the kynic doesn't look to posit an argument. Rather, the kynic is more interested in the power of mockery to displace those in power. He could care less about the ideas that are affirmed by neo-liberals. And this includes the appeal to innocence and simplicity. For Zizek, these ways of being should not be corrected so much as left behind.
Here's the question: if you get rid of the naïve, if you disregard Obama's entire comic routine which makes endless appeals to simpllicity, do you also dispense with trust?
Reading Zizek, I'd have to say that the answer is yes. Zizek is not interested in that which, for The Enlightenment, forms the basis of society. To be sure, the notion that trust is the bond of society –as the basis of the social contract – is not simply an Enlightenment ideal. As David Novak argues in The Jewish Social Contract, the social contract itself, and the trust it embodies, is based on something prior "historically" and "ontologically" to the social contract; namely, the covenant. The trust in God to, so to speak, do his side of the bargain, is the basis for believing in the promises of any leader or government.
But you dont have to be a philosopher or a poltical scientist to know that if cynicism reigns, this trust and society itself will go down the tubes. In the Torah, the prophet of all prophets, the law giver, is Moses. One of his most salient character traits, which he no doubt won the people over with was his humility.
But there is more to the story. Moses's humility is inseparable from his faith. Moses is humble because he knows that, no matter how hard he tries, it's not all in his hands. He's not sure if he will succeed. At the very least, he trusts that he is doing the right thing. And this faith, this belief, to be sure, is naïve. It makes Moses, at times, socially awkward. (To be sure, there are many occasions when, in speaking to the Jewish people, he feels very awkward and worries to no end.) A rationalist like Karl Marx would see this belief as naïve since man, not God, is the master of the world. Man, not God, can create and preserve justice by simply getting rid of such naivite and becoming mature and self-conscious. Putting trust in God or a covenant would, for Marx, be naive. Zizek, on the other hand, would see this belief in a naïve leader and even the presentation of oneself as a naïve leader to be cynical. Indeed, he would see this as a form of deliberate self-deception.
Humility and naivite, in other words, are, in Zizek's view, impossible. No one, today, can believe that the President is really humble or naïve. Acting "as if" one is naïve, for Zizek, is an act that is used to legitimate a ruling ideology.
Strangely enough, the mockery of the self-effacing, self-deprecating, and naïve comic character, otherwise known as the schlemiel, would be a kynical answer to cynicism. In other words, for Zizek, one kind of humor – the one that ridicules – is better than the other (which preserves trust, humility, and goodness).
So, the choice is yours. Do you want the kynical comic or the naïve schlemiel? Which of the two would be better for society? Has this question, as Zizek purports, already been decided? Have we grown up and realized that preserving the naïve is really an act of cynicism or have we, on the contrary, decided to affirm the schlemiel because, without it, hope and trust will never be on the table? Or is this question, quite simply, ridiculous? Does it really matter to us if the President's comic routine, in which he plays a simpleton, has an element of truth and does, in fact, foster trust while effacing cynicism? If it does, then we will have to admit that the relationship of aesthetics to politics matters to us and deserves greater attention.
(Spoiler Alert: In the next blog, we will look into another type of American schlemiel – the cynical yet naïve kind.)
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Sick British paedophile who repeatedly raped girl, 4, lived in Malaga under false name for almost a DECADE
The woman became a binge drinker and used drugs in her later life
21 Mar, 2018 @ 12:13
SICK: Alan Hollis
THE victim of a child rapist who fled to Malaga has revealed how her decades-wait for justice destroyed her life.
Twisted nightclub owner Alan Hollis repeatedly raped the woman when she was a little girl in Liverpool in the 1970s.
The 70-year-old, who was also a private detective, was finally arrested in 1996 after the victim plucked up the courage to call police.
He was bailed to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on the condition he surrender his passport, but fled the country.
The paedophile was caught at Gatwick Airport as he attempted to fly to Florida in 2007 and was taken back to Liverpool.
But unbelievably, he was granted bail under the condition he handed over his passport.
He fled to Malaga on a fake passport and lived under a false name.
Spanish police eventually caged Hollis in March last year and he was sent back to the UK to
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stand trial.
His victim told Liverpool Crown Court how the abuse 'had a negative effect on me my whole life' and that she 'went off the rails'.
She said: "When I told the police about what had happened in 1996, I felt a range of emotions and relief that I was giving myself the opportunity to get it out in the open and have some closure.
"I knew he was arrested and charged with the things he did to me, but then I was told by police that he didn't turn up at court, and that he had left his house.
"I couldn't believe it, but there was nothing I could do, so I just locked it all away again and tried my best not to think about it.
"In 2007 I was again told that he had been arrested and all the feelings and emotions came flooding back again.
"To be again told that he had again failed to attend court was so hard to deal with."
Hollis abused his victim from when she was aged just four.
Sick paedo Hollis lived in Malaga under a false name
The woman became a binge drinker and used drugs in her later life.
She said:""When officers came to my house this year to tell me Hollis had been arrested I fell to the floor, I was hysterical and shaking.
"The feelings again came flooding back – I really need this to come to an end.
"Sometimes over the years I have wished that he would die of natural causes, hoping that it would give me some peace knowing he wasn't here.
"But then I feel that would be too nice a thing to happen for what he did to me and the torment I have experienced my whole life."
Hollis was a violent abuser who made his victim masturbate him and perform sex acts while making her watch porn.
She said: "I truly believe if he hadn't done those things to me, I would have taken a different path in life.
"Although I have done my best to lock it away and not think about it, I have daily reminders and it never goes away."
She continues to suffer with anxiety, panic attacks and depression, and has now started counselling.
She said: "I think that because I know he is now in custody, I can now allow myself to open up about it.
"For years I feel like I have been in limbo, like my life has been on hold. I hate him passionately for what he did to me and for running away.
"It's something I just live with. It will never ever go away, it will live with me forever."
Hollis was jailed for 15 years and nine months, after admitting rape and six counts of indecent assault.
Judge Denis Watson, QC, said the victim's statement revealed the 'severe psychological harm' he caused.
He said: "It is a sample of the horrific impact, the life-changing impact, that your offending has had on her."
The judge added: "She has been waiting since 1996 to hear you say you're guilty."
Hollis will spend at least half of the term behind bars, but only be released early if a parole board deems it safe.
Hollis must sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life and comply with an indefinite restraining order.
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How awesome is that??? I'm incredibly grateful for the generous gift that someone gave our family, they're greatly appreciated! That said, as opposed to being thankful for just that one person, let me broaden this out a bit. The way they made this gift is also so fitting as this was one of Dad's favorite ways to give to others – anonymously.
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At the end of the day, that's what I am really the most thankful for today. While I'm incredibly grateful for Anonymous' generosity, I'm also thankful that one person's very generous action has hopefully started an avalanche of positive experiences with my Dad's memory at its heart. Thinking that even though he's gone he's still making the world a better place fills my heart with pride and happiness.


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Der Backbeat (engl. für Rückschlag) ist ein Anglizismus für ein rhythmisches Stilmittel in der Musik, der sich speziell beim Schlagzeugspiel der westlichen Popmusik inzwischen zu einem de facto Standard etabliert hat. Dabei werden die geraden Zählzeiten (im -Takt also 2 und 4) vor allem durch die Snaredrum (kleine Trommel) oder offene Becken betont.

Geschichte
Der Backbeat wird seinen Ursprung in der Gospelmusik haben, wo Händeklatschen und Tamburin beim -Takt-Schema auf 2 und 4 den Gesang rhythmisch begleiteten. In die Popmusik gelangte er über den Boogie-Woogie, belegbar durch das Schlagzeugspiel im namensgebenden Back Beat Boogie von Harry James (1939), und dessen Einfluss auf den Rhythm and Blues. Als Pionier des Backbeat-Schlagzeugs gilt der Sessionmusiker Earl Palmer, dessen Betonungen erstmals auf The Fat Man von Fats Domino (10. Dezember 1949) zu hören sind. Der Backbeat ersetzte als energetischere Alternative für die Tanzmusik der Jüngeren den synkopierten Swing-Stil, gelangte über Rockabilly (z. B.: Bill Haley & The Comets Rock the Joint, 1952) in den Rock and Roll und dominiert seitdem das Rhythmusgefüge in der populären (Tanz-)Musik.

Grundrhythmus
Der Grundrhythmus ist meistens folgender:

Weblinks
 Drum Lesson – Rock Backbeat Basics. Youtube (erklärt anschaulich den Aufbau eines einfachen Backbeats)
 Bill Haley & The Comets - Rock The Joint auf Youtube

Einzelnachweise

Spieltechnik (Schlagwerk)
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