IRAN REACTS PREDICTABLY TO INDYK SPEECH... "When the government of Iran is ready to engage, we will be too," Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk said in a 14 October speech to the Asia Society. Although this statement was not a new departure, it did represent a very clear enunciation of official U.S. policy towards Iran. Reactions of Iranian officials and media were predictable and indicate that Iran is far from ready for engagement.
Indyk reminded the audience that a year ago Secretary of State Madeline Albright said the U.S. is prepared to develop a "road map in which both sides would take parallel steps to deal with issues of concern" and lay the foundation for a normal relationship. Indyk went on to say that the Iranian government's response has been "hide-bound and unimaginative, insisting that the U.S. must first take a number of unilateral steps as some kind of precondition for an official dialogue."
Indyk described how Iranian officials are allowed to visit different locations in the U.S. to participate in "people-to-people" exchanges and suggested that U.S. officials should have reciprocal privileges. Indyk also said that the U.S. sanctions policy is a reaction to Iranian government practices that "violate international norms" and threaten the interests of the U.S. and its allies. Until Iran's behavior becomes more acceptable, the U.S. will oppose investment in its energy sector, bilateral debt rescheduling, favorable credit, and loans by international financial institutions.
Iranian domestic and international behavior is flawed in several ways, according to Indyk. From a domestic perspective, official Iranian treatment of religious minorities causes concern. International issues that are undesirable are Iran's support for Lebanese Hizballah, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's meetings with "leaders of Palestinian rejectionist groups," and causing trouble in Jordan. Indyk also expressed concern about Iran's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile development programs. "We continue to support a Middle East free of all WMD. But the kind of proliferation we see in the region today -- be it in Iran, India, or Pakistan -- is leading in exactly in the wrong direction."
Iranian reactions to Indyk's speech were predictable. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi said the U.S. has built the "wall of mistrust" between the two countries, and it can "compensate for the past and present behavior only by taking practical, perceptible, and meaningful steps." Assefi referred to Indyk's views on WMD and Iran's role in the Middle East as "unfounded" and "leveled with the idea of bigger arms sales...[and to divert] public attention away from the weapons of mass destruction in the possession of the Zionist regime."
Iranian state radio said on 16 October that the behavioral changes U.S. officials want actually mean that Iran should act "according to Washington's desires and give up its Islamic principles." Torqabeh va Chenaran representative Mohammad Azimi said, according to the 17 October "Tehran Times," that the U.S. should accept Iran's preconditions, such as release of Iranian assets held in U.S. banks and banning anti-Iranian terrorist groups in the U.S. Ardebil's Ahmad Qazai-Niyari added that economic sanctions should be lifted. Referring to WMD, a 17 October "Tehran Times" editorial said Indyk forgot to mention "Israel, which is the main source of insecurity in the region, with more than 200 warheads in its nuclear arsenal."
An editorial in the 16 October "Abrar" noted that Indyk's comments were almost identical to Albright's earlier ones, and furthermore, Iran had never supported terrorism and was in fact a victim of it. It went on to say that, despite Indyk's words to the contrary, the U.S. was dictating preconditions to Iran. "Payam-i Azadi" was similarly unimpressed, and it added that Khatami, in his CNN interview of January 1998, was too generous in his comments about America. Imam Sadeq University's Professor Hojatoleslam Ayubi said Indyk's comments stemmed from American jealousy about Iran's relations with Europe.
...NCR TERRORIST DESIGNATION EARNS LITTLE PRAISE IN IRAN. In his speech to the Asia Society, Indyk mentioned the State Department's early-October inclusion of the National Council of Resistance as a cover name for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) on its list of terrorist organizations. That group is also known under the following cover names: National Liberation Army of Iran, People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, Organization of the People's Holy Warriors of Iran, the Sazeman-e Mujahedin-e Khalq-e Iran, and the Muslim Iranian Student's Society. This designation makes it illegal for U.S. individuals and groups to provide funds or material support to the group, denies entry to the U.S. for the group's operatives, and requires that U.S. financial institutions block the organization's funds.
"Tehran Times" was unimpressed. The English-language daily editorialized on 16 October that this actually was a sop to monarchist Iranian exiles who are competing with the NCR for recognition as the genuine opposition-in-exile. "Abrar" praised the redesignation but noted that it was not very meaningful because the MKO is based in Iraq and supported by Iraqi President Saddam Husseyn. On 18 October, "Jomhuri-yi Islami" added that "the Hypocrites [MKO] continue to enjoy America's strategic support."
Any conciliatory effects of the redesignation were offset partially by a letter to Secretary of State Madeline Albright from 28 (out of 100) senators who urged reconsideration of the terrorist label. They suggested that the State Department "look afresh towards the possibilities that exist within Iran's democratic opposition, including the People's Mujahedin," AFP reported on 14 October.
U.S. CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION REJECTED. Iran's speaker of parliament, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, said on 18 October that "because we are not obedient to the U.S., they allege that we do not have freedoms in Iran," IRNA reported. He was referring to U.S. State Department Spokesman James Rubin's 6 October citation of Iran, under the terms of the International Religious Freedom Act passed by Congress last year, as one of five countries of particular concern for violating religious freedom. This would make Iran liable for U.S. sanctions, although U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright has not decided on this yet. Research conducted by an American religious publication supports the State Department statement, but the Iranian government rejects it and Iranian religious leaders accuse the U.S. of having a double standard.
On 7 October, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi "categorically denied" accusations of religious persecution in the Islamic Republic. Assefi went on to say, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, that followers of "divine religions" enjoy complete freedom in performing their rituals and actively participate in the country's social activities. According to Iran's constitution, the "Twelver" sect of Shia Islam is Iran's official faith, and there are three recognized minorities -- Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews.
Supporting claims such as Assefi's was a "Religious Minorities in Iran" photo exhibition held at Yerevan's National Pictures Gallery. The exhibition showed Armenian Apostolic churches in Iran, as well as Armenian schools and the Ararat soccer team, the Noyan Tapan news agency reported on 6 October.
All the minorities, including Sunni Muslims, encounter governmental persecution (see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 20 September 1999). Churches serving the Armenian Christian community are tolerated, but Persian-speaking churches which try to convert Muslims usually are closed, Tom White of Voice of the Martyrs, an evangelical Christian organization, said in the 7 October "Religion Today." Furthermore, 10 Christian pastors have been killed since 1979, and other Christians are terrorized and threatened, according to Abe Ghaffari of the Colorado-based Iranian Christians International.
HIZBALLAH GETS IRANIAN ENCOURAGEMENT -- AND POSSIBLY ARMS. In the first half of October, Iranian officials and their counterparts in Lebanon's Hizballah organization met several times in Tehran, according to official Iranian sources. Such meetings coincide with reported increases in Iran's supply of military equipment to Hizballah, according to reports from Israeli sources.
During the first two weeks of the month, Hizballah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah was in Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei told Nasrallah that "continuing the struggle" to liberate occupied territories is necessary, state television reported on 12 October. He also criticized Palestinian leaders who gave concessions to Israel and praised those who continue to fight Israel.
President Mohammad Khatami told Nasrallah that "the freedom of Qods [Palestine] is our common goal and we should not allow aliens to hatch plots to sow discord among us," IRNA reported on 10 October. This meeting occurred amidst announcements about an anti-Zionist conference that will be staged in Tehran from 8-10 February. Expediency Council chairman Hojatoleslam Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani called for "consolidation of unity amongst combatant groups" in his meeting with Nasrallah, IRNA reported on 11 October. Iranian Speaker of Parliament Hojatoleslam Ali-Akbar Nateq-Nuri told Nasrallah of his hope that "the occupied territories would be liberated through the continuation of the Islamic resistance," state television reported on 9 October.
Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi told Nasrallah that "confronting Israel is a fundamental Islamic duty" and it is necessary for "Jihadi groups to continue their struggle against the Zionist regime until they free the Holy Qods," IRNA reported on 11 October. Nasrallah also met with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, who "stressed on the support of Iran for the resistance movement of the Lebanese people and government," according to a 6 October IRNA report.
During this same period, there were several reports from Israeli sources about an increase in Iranian backed military activities in Lebanon. Tel Aviv's "Yediot Aharanot" reported on 24 September that Iran encouraged attacks against Israeli units in Lebanon, and that Amal has joined Hizballah in these attacks, although Iranian arms supplies through Damascus continue at the same pace as before. But on 7 October "Yediot Aharanot" reported that "Iran has recently started supplying weapons and materiel directly to Hizballah via airlifts to the Beirut airport." Hizballah sources, however, rejected the report, saying it is "entirely fabricated, seeking to justify the continuous Israeli aggression against Lebanon," Beirut's Al-Mustaqbal reported on 8 October.
This denial was no consolation to the Israeli Defense Forces, because Sheikh Muhammad Fadlallah had claimed that Hizballah has new and sophisticated weapons to use against the Israelis. According to Tel Aviv's "Hatzofe" on 12 October, there have been reports that Iran has provided Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Also, Imad Mughniyah, head of Hizballah's security apparatus, allegedly accompanied Sheikh Nasrallah when he visited Tehran, according to Tel Aviv's "Haaretz" newspaper on 15 October.
IRAN ALLEGEDLY HELPS HAMAS AND PKK. Martin Indyk's comments about Iranian support for Palestinian rejectionist groups were provoked by Jordanian King Abdullah, according to the 18 October "Tehran Times." An Iranian Foreign Ministry official rejected similar claims as "completely baseless" IRNA reported on 30 September. But around the same time, reports of Iranian assistance for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were rejected by an "informed source" at the Iranian Interior Ministry who said, according to the 4 October "Tehran Times," "Laics easily lie." Despite such denials, some of these reports are harder to dismiss than others.
Official Iranian statements are very supportive of Hamas. When arrest warrants were issued in Jordan for Hamas officials who were visiting Tehran, Hamid Muayyir, President Mohammad Khatami's representative at the Organization of the Islamic Conference said, "They are welcome to stay for as long as they wish," Amman's independent "Al-Arab al-Yawm" reported on 13 September. While several of them left for Amman on 21 September, Abu Marzuk allegedly left for Aden on 9 October. Iranian state broadcasting denounced the crackdown on Hamas on 1 October and said the Palestine Authority is "bent upon suppressing all anti-Zionist moves." The U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization also was criticized by Iranian state broadcasting on 12 October.
Israeli sources also claim that Iran is behind Hamas activities. Dan Meridor, chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said there are two processes in the Arab and Islamic world, according to a 12 October "Mideast Mirror" report. One is the peace process supported by Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians, and the other is a counter process -- "Iran was obviously behind this struggle." Meridor went on to say that Iran encourages and provides weapons for groups opposed to this process. Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in the West Bank said "Iran is supporting and aiding Islamic militants in an attempt to spoil the peace process," the "Jerusalem Post" reported on 13 October.
Turkish sources continue to link Iran with the outlawed PKK. When PKK forces began their withdrawal from Turkish territory, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, according to Istanbul's "Zaman" daily on September: "we cannot say that the PKK will definitely not move to Iran. That option remains a possibility." Turkish intelligence sources then claimed, according to Istanbul's "Radikal" daily on 14 September that Iran "transferred an arms depot it controlled in Iraq to the PKK." Turkey's Office of the General Staff announced on 28 September that by moving to Iran and other countries, the PKK indicated the organization's intention of continuing its terrorist activities. On 7 October, the semi-official Anatolia news agency published "intelligence units' reports" that detailed Iranian assistance to the PKK in the areas of arms supplies, training, basing rights, and possibly in drug trafficking.
TRIALS AND CONVICTIONS OF STUDENTS. Addressing a meeting of Tehran University officials, President Mohammad Khatami called for a "decisive, careful, and speedy confrontation" with the people behind the July demonstrations that started there, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported on 19 October. It seems that his orders are being followed, with news of another conviction, news about the arrest of political dissidents, and identification of one of those sentenced to death. Also, students and a professor were tried for their parts in the publication of a "blasphemous" play, and another student publication was closed.
In its statement commemorating 100 days since the outbreak of the July demonstrations, the Islamic Association of Students at Shahid Rajai University expressed its concern about the Revolutionary Court's handling of students' cases. It went on to say, according to the official "Iran" newspaper on 18 October, that the conviction of students from Tehran's Shahid Rajai and Amir Kabir Universities "could well have unfavourable consequences."
The Shahid Rajai University conviction refers to Mehdi Fakhrzadeh, a student who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for his part in the demonstrations, according to the 17 September "Sobh-i Imruz." He was imprisoned on 17 July and was tried without legal representation by the Revolutionary Court. This seems to contradict Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi's late-September comments that the university students involved in the July demonstrations are "innocent and not guilty."
Also, three students at Amir Kabir University -- Abbas Nemati, Mohammad Reza Namnamat, and Ali-Reza Aqai -- were tried in a case relating an insulting play about the Twelfth Imam that was published in a student magazine called "Mowj." The trial of a fourth student, Hamid Ahangari, was postponed so he could prepare his case. Professor Mehdi Sajadehchi was tried, too, on charges of having encouraged the students.
"After a thorough cross-examination the accused confessed to being guilty," the Ministry of Intelligence and Security claimed in a 3 October communique. That must have been quite a confession, because it later emerged that one of the original four suspects was a "university employee for photocopying," Reuters reported on 14 October. Aqai, furthermore, is "in charge of the bulletin board" at the university, IRNA reported on 20 October.
The case was presided over by Press Court Judge Said Mortazavi, who also serves as the prosecutor. Six clerical members of the Supreme Court served as his advisers. According to the lawyer of one of the students, the writers did not intend to "insult Islamic values but serve Islam by revealing the nature of some people who pretend to be followers of the Twelfth Imam but in fact follow their own interests," "The Guardian" newspaper reported on 21 October. Professor Sajadehchi defended himself by saying, "often I did not pay full attention to the articles submitted by students," according to IRNA.
Judge Mortazavi will be busy, because soon he will preside over the case of "Anjuman," the publication affiliated with the Islamic Student Association of Science and Industry University. The publication was banned due to a Law Enforcement Forces complaint about its printing photos of the attack against a university hostel in July, "Sobh-i Imruz" reported on 21 October.
Reza Kermani, Qodratollah Jafari, and Hussein Shahriari, all members of the nationalistic Pan-Iranist Party, were arrested recently for their parts in the July demonstrations, "Arya" reported on 10 October. Revolutionary Court Judge Ghulam-Hussein Rahbarpur had said in a 12 September "Jomhuri-yi Islami" interview that investigations against the Pan-Iranists were continuing. Pan-Iranist leader Mohsen Pezeshkpour told RFE/RL's Persian Service that the arrest, release, and re-arrest of Pan-Iranists has been continuing since July.
Meanwhile, the weekly "Aban" reports that a death sentence for Malous Radnia (also known by the inappropriate nickname Maryam Shansi) is a certainty, according to the 18 October "Iran News." Radnia was arrested on allegations that she had played a part in the July demonstrations (see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 26 July 1999). In a 19 July television broadcast of MOIS statement No. 4 on the demonstrations, the announcer said Radnia was a member of Manucher Mohammadi's National Union of Students and Graduates. The MOIS statement added: "She was actively involved in the unrest and would continuously place false reports at the disposal of foreign media on the developments."


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Charter Shifts Mobile Into Higher Gear
Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading
About ten months after introducing its wireless offering, Charter Communications is now going full steam ahead in the mobile market.
Charter, the second-largest cable and broadband provider in the US, reported adding 208,000 lines for its Spectrum Mobile business in the second quarter, up from 176,000 new lines in the first quarter. The latest gains boosted Spectrum Mobile's total lines to 518,000 after three full quarters of deployment.
Speaking on the company's earnings call Friday morning, senior Charter executives stressed that they are still revving up efforts to roll out their new MVNO service throughout their 51 million-home footprint. They noted that they are almost finished opening new retail outlets and extending the service's reach to all mobile devices.
"We're just getting to full-scale mode at the end of the second quarter," said Charter Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge. "We'll continue to grow the mobile business at a more rapid rate."
Mobile revenues climbed to $158 million in the period ending June 30, up from $140 million in the first quarter. That puts the cableco on track to scale at least $600 million in mobile revenues this year.
Charter said its Q2 total operating costs included $277 million of mobile expenses, slightly up from $260 million in the previous quarter as the MSO spends heavily to develop the new product line. That total encompasses mobile device costs, marketing launch costs and operating expenses to stand up and operate the mobile business, as well as Charter's portion of the expenses for its joint MVNO venture with Comcast.
Noting that the company's expansion of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program is proceeding as planned, Charter CFO Chris Winfrey reiterated that the goal is to build Spectrum Mobile into a profitable unit ASAP. "Mobile is ramping up nicely and the early results look promising," he said. "We expect it to be profitable on a standalone basis once it reaches scale."
On today's earnings call, Winfrey did not spell out what that profitability point might be. But, in a similar earnings call Thursday morning, Comcast CFO Matt Cavanagh said his company would start turning a profit on mobile when its penetration rate reached "the mid-to-high single digits."
Moving onto Charter's other booming business, broadband continued to generate robust subscriber and revenue gains for the company in the spring quarter. The MSO netted 258,000 broadband subscribers (221,000 residential and 37,000 commercial), down slightly from last year's record haul because of lower commercial adds. That boosted its grand total to nearly 26 million high-speed data customers, with residential accounting for 24.24 million.
Not surprisingly, then, broadband services drove much of the revenue growth in Charter's residential business. That segment's revenues surged to $4.1 billion, up 8.8% on a year-over-year basis. We'll have more to say on Charter's broadband business in a story later today on our sister site, Broadband World News.
Video was another story, however. Like other pay-TV providers that have reported their Q2 results so far, Charter dropped substantially more video subscribers as cord-cutting by consumers continued to accelerate. The cableco shed 150,000 residential video customers in the spring months, higher than the Wall Street consensus estimate and double its sub losses from a year ago. It closed June with 15.8 million residential video subs, down 2.5% from 16.2 million a year earlier.
Like their counterparts at Comcast yesterday, though, Charter officials shrugged off the higher video sub losses on their earnings call. Like other large US MSOs increasingly focused on letting more price-conscious consumers drop their pay-TV packages because of slim profit margins on the legacy video products, they are happy to let those "low-value" customers go if it means higher margins and lower costs overall.
"There's still a lot of value in the [pay-TV] bundle to a lot of consumers," Rutledge said. But, he continued, "the problem with the bundle is that content companies make their content available for free" on broadcast TV, the Internet and other distribution platforms. "It's hard to compete with free," he dryly noted.
Despite the sub decline, Charter's video revenues still edged up 0.6% on a year-over-year basis to $4.4 billion, driven by annual rate hikes and the expiration of various promotional deals. But the falloff in video customers dampened that effect, as did a higher mix of low-priced Choice and Stream subscriptions within the company's video base and lower pay-per-view and video-on-demand revenues.
Business services continued to shine for Charter as the operator added 39,000 small-to-midsized business (SMB) subscribers, raising its total to 1.9 million, and 5,000 enterprise customers, increasing that total to 258,000. Largely as a result, commercial services revenues climbed 4.7% to $1.62 billon, putting Charter on course to easily eclipse $6 billion in commercial revenues this year.
While Charter's overall Q2 performance seemed pretty solid, analysts noted that the company still fell a bit short of Wall Street's bullish expectations on nearly every key metric except for capital intensity, where the operator lowered its capex more than expected. For instance, Crag Moffett, a principal analyst at MoffettNathanson, picked apart the earnings report and faulted Charter for not executing on its strategy quite as well as Comcast has. In particular, Moffett faulted the company for not increasing its broadband subs, business services revenues and profit margins even more than it did.
"In a vacuum, these results would likely be viewed as very good," Moffett wrote. "Unfortunately, we don't live in a vacuum."
That could help explain why in morning trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, Charter's share price dipped 2.8% to $394.4 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.
— Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading
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Penn State Students React To New COVID-19 Protocols
Story posted January 19, 2022 in CommRadio, News by Brooke Steach
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa — In the wake of the growing coronavirus pandemic, Penn State is taking special measures to ensure its students are still safe, despite deciding to start the spring semester in person.
While Penn State students are not required to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, if students are not vaccinated and do not show up to weekly testing, the university is now taking a drastic measure.
Students that do not comply with weekly testing protocols will have their Canvas access revoked. As Penn State feels this is a good authoritative way to keep students safe, many students in the community feel this way as well.
Bralynn Clouser, a second-year majoring in biology, mentions that it's a good way to ensure that everyone is going to get their weekly test.
"If you're against going in to get your weekly test, that is an extreme and then you can't do any of your classes," Clouser said. "I think it could go either way depending on what the goal of the university is and how individuals are."
With a similar reaction, Destiny Sanchez, a second-year broadcast journalism major, says that the university is making that decision because not enough people are getting tested like they are supposed to be.
"Canvas is the way that we do all of our schoolwork, so if that's taken away from them they can't do their schoolwork," Sanchez said. "I think they are at the point that not enough people are doing what they are supposed to be doing so they have to take these drastic measures."
With this new policy in mind, only students who have not submitted proof of vaccination are required to get tested for the coronavirus each week. Testing is completed at the white building on campus. This announcement on Canvas revocation was made on Jan. 13.
Brooke Steach is a fourth-year majoring in broadcast journalism. To contact her, email bas6464@psu.edu.
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Mpingo Conservation How can I help?
Current harvesting of mpingo to make musical instruments is not sustainable. This is clear from the long term trend whereby logging has moved southwards from Kenya, through northern Tanzania, to the present harvesting areas of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. It is also evident every day in the forests where we work, where good quality trees are being stripped out far quicker than they can regrow. In 2004 over 70% of the timber extracted from southern Tanzania was illegally felled, and rural communities receive a tiny percentage of the ultimate value of the logs. Some logging companies are more responsible than others, but the practices of the worst offenders have driven international prices down to unprecedented levels in recent years. To compete even the better companies have to play dirty or face going out of business. However it does not have to be like this.
Responsible logging coupled with more efficient sawing practices could provide a long-term sustainable supply of mpingo for the manufacture of musical instruments and the indigenous carving industry. Law enforcement is inadequate and under-resourced. Local communities are in a position to regulate logging if given the incentive of a fair price. Our community forestry programme, supported by new laws in Tanzania, is addressing just this. Now logging companies can extract timber from new Village Land Forest Reserves that are managed by the local communities. However, they will have to pay villagers a fair price and only harvest a sustainable amount.
We and our partners have tried approaching various companies operating along this supply chain. But for a few exceptions, all believe that there is no real demand for ethical products, and that instead price rules. Even though the price of the wood that goes into the instrument is only about 1% of the final sale price, most manufacturers appear more focused on the price of the wood and not where it comes from or how it got to them. They seem to think that their ultimate customers, which is you - the musicians, do not really care.
We need you to prove them wrong. Contact the manufacturer of your instrument. Ask them what they are doing about this. Demand they put greater pressure on their suppliers to harvest responsibly and adhere to best practice. The lowest priced timber is not necessarily the best! Suggest the manufacturer gets in touch with us if they are having trouble sourcing sustainably felled timber from well-managed forests. Next time you buy an instrument put all these questions to the staff in the shop. Do not buy instruments which have been made by companies who do not respond to your concerns. And please tell all the musicians you know about this. We need to get the message out far and wide to develop a critical mass of concerned consumers.
Until recently manufacturers have not been able to buy timber from a scheme such as ours, so they can be forgiven for past practices. Even now we do not have a sufficiently large area of community forests to supply enough wood to satisfy the annual demands of the musical instrument trade. But, we can supply a significant fraction of that market, and if we can demonstrate success in our pilot areas by selling sustainably harvested timber to manufacturers then we can scale up quickly. So while manufacturers cannot switch immediately to 100% sustainable timber, they should have a clear commitment and strategy to improve their wood sourcing over the next few years, with elimination of irresponsible suppliers an eventual goal in 5 years time.
Logging companies may attempt to reassure the manufacturers about these issues. They will claim to adhere to some code of best practice, that it is their competitors who are guilty of unsustainable, illegal logging, and that cooperating with us is impractical. Unfortunately the tropical timber trade's record on such matters is abysmal; self-regulation is not working. Independent certification by bodies such as the Forest Stewardship Council™ is the only way to be sure logging companies are sticking to their commitments.
Contact us If you want to help out in other ways, or want further information not available on this web site, please email us at enquiries@mpingoconservation.org.


Transparency means involving everyone you can in the conversation, and giving people all the information they need. This is the secret to accountability in relationships with team members – and with customers.
By this I mean my commitment to you to be transparent with you, to tell you what's really going on. Transparency, the habit of telling the truth even when there's a sensitive issue or a problem that might make me look bad, is one of the things that makes an "It's all of us" mindset possible. This "It's all of us" mindset is one of the things that allows organizations to deliver great service to customers. And as leaders, we need to commit ourselves to supporting that mindset.
Hey: We're all human, which means we all make mistakes. Acknowledging that fact is healthy for both the organization and for the individual. You can't have an "It's all of us" mindset if the prevailing culture is one of never admitting that there has ever been a problem, or that you have ever made a mistake! Changing this pattern always starts with the person at the top. When you share your real experiences, which include mistakes and mess-ups, not just successes, people instantly know you are real — and they are both inspired to serve your cause and to trust you as their leader.
You cannot force employees or anyone else to be accountable to leadership or to customers. You cannot demand that any of your people be accountable and expect to get a positive result. You can only model accountability toward your employees, and in so doing, inspire them to be first accountable to you, then to their co-workers, and ultimately to your customers. One of the very best ways to do that is to be up-front about a specific mistake you've made, or an area where you know you have fallen short in the past and you need to make up some ground. That's vulnerability. That's transparency. And you can't sustain a great service culture without it.
Remember that accountability is keeping your commitments to people! You are not accountable to things. You are accountable to people. Accountability is therefore a choice – a choice that each and every person must make for themselves … starting with the leader.
So: If you want your team members to acknowledge those times when they've made a mistake with their customers (and I hope you do!), then that means you must model exactly that kind of transparency in your interactions with the team! As in: "Here's where I made a mistake, and here's where I need your help." Get it all out on the table!
How you communicate can either be inclusive or exclusive. When there's a lack of transparency, when only certain individuals are privy to what really happened, other people feel excluded and left out. While there may well be some sensitive information that needs to be restricted, there is far less than many leaders think. The default setting in too many teams is "zero transparency" – which inevitably leads to "zero trust" – which inevitably leads to a poor customer experience!
The transparency you achieve by sharing all the relevant information, good or bad, enables you to build trust. It is through this trust that people come to believe that the company's attitude is "It's all of us." When your people feel this way, you get greater loyalty from your employees, and they end up delivering a better experience for the customer.
Transparency means involving everyone you can in the conversation, and giving people all the information they need. This not only improves the quality of the various relationships and improves organizational morale … but it also provides better, faster, and more diverse ideas for resolving the various challenges you face. Leaders would be amazed at the solutions that their people could create if they only had access to the relevant information!
Transparency is an essential part of effective communication within any organization. The lack of transparency is culturally toxic. Whenever I see organizations where customers are not treated well, I know that the people inside the organization are not treated well, and I know there is likely to be a problem with transparency. It is critical that we pay attention to the level of transparency we model, and to how people inside our organization relate, communicate, and build relationships with each other. Once we figure that part out, building strong relationships with customers becomes much easier. If our people know how to build better relationships internally, they will naturally build better relationships externally.
Companies that focus on customer service and are not first committed to modeling transparency with their own people, to treating their own people well, will forever come up short. They will always be looking for the next customer service consultant to come in to try (and eventually fail) to solve their problems! Create a positive culture that fosters accountability in the workplace by being and modeling transparency.


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Read Last Week: Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer, about (surprise, surprise) a young male Jewish writer from New Jersey.
I've only read one other Roth book before --- his take on the medieval play Everyman. I found both novels to be highly accessible, compellingly written, but not really groundbreaking or original or, in the end, all that entertaining. The Ghost Writer is about a young man breaking into his career field as a writer. He talks to an older writer/father figure, and he deals with his family's reception of his work and other things. Then there's a fairly strange turn about three-quarters through. I read it as an assigned reading for my Postmodern Literature class, and I think it was included as "Postmodern" for its alternative take on history, and, to a lesser extent, its uneasy construction, which slips fluidly into flashbacks and is fairly malleable in terms of its timeline (though it ends up being linear in the end). [Geez, what's with all that alliteration in that last sentence?]
Reading Now: Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, an anti-war novel from the '30s that shouldn't really be reduced to a description like that. From the first few chapters, it's been pretty impressive in its style. Trumbo uses a nearly punctuation-less prose that is effective, although I would never consider writing that way. Good to see stuff like that sometimes. So far, the narrator's reminiscing on his childhood before he made his way to war, but as the book progresses he realizes he was extremely wounded during the war and is now laying helpless in a hospital somewhere. He's got a strong voice, kind of like Holden Caulfield, but definitely not as snarky. I did find Johnny in the "Teen" section of my local library, but I think it's one of those books (like All Quiet on the Western Front) that can appeal to younger and older readers.
Playing: Borderlands (PS3 version). Pretty cool so far.
Listening to: Tokyo Police Club's Elephant Shell after grabbing their EP A Lesson In Crime off my shelf over the weekend. But it's feeling like it's going to be a very Morrissey Monday Morning.
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Note that nothing is being emitted by the WAND or any infrared forehead thermometer. The pros: A remote temporal artery thermometer can record a person's temperature quickly and are easily tolerated. Remote temporal artery thermometers are appropriate for children of any age. Before self-quarantine time wasn't introduced, people were using an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of liquid and air. Remove protective cap. When you press the button, it takes a "picture" of the lightwaves already being emitted by your forehead and converts that snapshot into a temperature reading. Learning how to use an infrared thermometer, preparing it for measurement, and calibrating it are all crucial in attaining high accuracy with your measurements. For example, some brands of forehead temperature guns have only one button. Do infrared thermometers emit radiation ThermoPro TP30 Digital Infrared Thermometer Gun. In the windless environment, just keep the infrared temperature gun on the bridge of the nose and in the middle of the two eyes with 3-5cm vertical distance where is the radiation source closest to normal body … You can utilize the ThermoPro Thermometer to get fast and accurate results. Think of an infrared thermometer like a temperature camera. Traditionally, body temperature has been measured using contact thermometers that are placed on the forehead or in the mouth, ear, armpit, or rectum. 3. 1. Forehead thermometers measure the infrared energy emitted from the skin. Remote forehead thermometers use an infrared scanner to measure the temperature of the temporal artery in the forehead. The use method of the forehead temperature guns of different brands will be different. This button is not only the power button, but also the measurement key. It is designed to measure the forehead temperature of the human body easily and quickly. 2. About Infrared Thermometer. Always follow the manufacturer's instructions to get the best results. When we point the probe at our forehead or body closely, the thermopile absorbs the infrared radiation and turns it into electricity. Before taking a measurement, remove dirt or hair from the forehead area . But this infrared thermometer can is used on a human for a general-purpose medical where the temperature is measure on the human forehead. How to use the Braun Touch + No touch thermometers. Infrared thermometers allow a person's temperature to be taken with minimal (tympanic) or no (Non-contact infrared thermometer, thermal scanner) contact with the person. A non-contact infrared thermometer is a professional grade thermometer that measures body (forehead), surface, and room/ambient temperature instantly and accurately. The cons: A temporal artery thermometer may be more expensive than other types … Forehead infrared thermometer is an infrared temperature measurement tool. The reason why an infrared thermometer can be called for any time when an object needs to be determined is that it uses the infrared light from one object onto a detector called a thermopile. There is no use for this type of forehead temperature gun. Infrared Forehead Thermometer How to Use? It is the best one for you to measure the temperature. Sale! The Non-contact Infrared Thermometer can be used as a non-invasive screening tool in a multi-patient environment: This energy is collected through the lens and converted to a temperature value.
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Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Work involves personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, generally regarding routine matters for purposes of giving or obtaining information which may require some discussion.
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The Long-tailed Jaeger is a marine bird that belongs to the Stercorarius genus of the family Stercorariidae. The binomial name of this bird is Stercorarius Longicaudus and it is largely found in northern Canada and northern Alaska during the reproduction season. During migration, the Long-tailed Jaeger is found in estuaries and on the shores and winters on off coastal waters in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Long-tailed Jaeger is the smallest bird of the Skua family, with the body length, ranging from 15 inches to 23 inches (38 cm to 58 cm), according to the age and the season. However, body length of the Long-tailed Jaeger can be extended more up to 11 inches (29 cm) because of the tail of length 5.9 inches (15 cm) of the summer adult. The Long-tailed Jaeger has a wingspan between 40 inches and 46 inches (102 cm and 117 cm), with the body mass that ranges from 8.1 Oz to 15.7 Oz (230 grams to 444 grams).
The Long-tailed Jaeger has a slightly curved bill, webbed feet, with the tail length that ranges in length from 6 inches to 10 inches (15 cm to 25 cm). The Long-tailed Jaeger has elongated piercing center tail feathers that protrude ahead of its other tail feathers. The Long-tailed Jaeger usually breeds on the tundra and coastal swamps in the Arctic Ocean. During the winter season, the Long-tailed Jaeger is generally found on the open sea, far from the seashore. At the time of the non-breeding season, the Long-tailed Jaeger frees its center tail feathers. During the breeding season, the Long-tailed Jaeger has a white head and abdomen, a gray back, and wings and a dark brown color cap on its head. During the non-breeding period, the cap of the Long-tailed Jaeger has gray and white spots on it, and its undersides boast white and light brown bars. Both female and male birds look alike.
The adult Long-tailed Jaeger birds habitually hover above their breeding territories. Juvenile birds are much trickier, and they are hard to separate from the Long-tailed Jaeger over the ocean.
The Long-tailed Jaeger mostly feeds on crustaceans, fish, small birds, and insects. The Long-tailed Jaeger also feeds on small creatures, such as voles and lemmings. The Long-tailed Jaeger hovers above its ground prey, circling similar to a hawk. The Long-tailed Jaeger then plunges down and catches the prey. The Long-tailed Jaeger also captures insects in the air and it robs food from other marine birds, but not as frequently as the Parasitic Jaeger.
Both female and male Long-tailed Jaegers construct a nest in a low depression on the land. The female Long-tailed Jaeger is capable of laying 1 to 2 eggs in a single clutch. Both the female and the male Long-tailed Jaeger birds protect the eggs. Usually, the female bird spends additional time on the nest. The chicks depart their nest some days subsequent to hatching. One parent resides with the chicks whereas the other parent fetches food back to their nest. The adult Long-tailed Jaeger bird regurgitates food for the baby birds to consume. The baby birds fledge when they attain the age of 21 to 27 days, but the father and mother birds stay with them for some more weeks.
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Ori Sela is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in the history of Early-Modern and Modern China, and is interested particularly in the reciprocal relationship between intellectual history and socio-political history at various crossroads in China's past. The transition from China's imperial era into the nation-state building of the twentieth century, along with the crucial roles history has played and continues to play in current affairs, is another facet of his research and teaching.
Sela received his Master's degree (magna cum laude) from the program for religious studies at Tel Aviv University, and his PhD from Princeton University. Sela's dissertation, titled "Qian Daxin (1728-1804): Knowledge, Identity, and Reception History in China, 1750-1930," dealt with the ways in which knowledge was produced from the middle of the Qing period until the Republican era, and investigated the links between concepts of identity and knowledge during this period. Among other things, Sela examines the relationships between scientific knowledge, historiography, categorization of knowledge, and intercultural interactions (with Japan and India as well as with the West).
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That's what happened to me in the last nine months on the subject of "Sleep". Now, before you quit reading, know this; I'm NOT going into the subject of amount of sleep. Instead, I'm intrigued by and specifically going to discuss technologies negative impact on sleep and thus our overall health and performance.
Then this past fall when Coach Wolforth and I were in Belgium for the European Baseball Coaches Association Clinic, Jeff Krushell, Strength & Conditioning Consultant for Major League Baseball International and President of Human Sports Performance mentioned the same thing during one of his presentations. His message emphasized the effects on young athletes. This was my "I've heard that before" moment.
Then in the last two weeks, I've come across and read two additional magazine articles on the subject. Our family had already had discussions on the topic and taken some personal action but the last couple occurrences pushed me to share the information with you.
Let's start with the how (and I'll try to keep this rather simple). When used at night, it is believed that the blue light given off by these devices can fool the brain into thinking it's still daylight thus disturbing sleep patterns. We have what is called a circadian rhythm which works on our 24 hour cycle. It's our body's natural ebb and flow.
The blue light emitted by these devices closely simulates outdoor daylight. As a result, the light triggers the brain to stay awake disrupting the natural and much needed production of melatonin.
Understand that the interruption of the circadian rhythm can have significantly more consequences than the limited discussion here. In addition, other elements of your sleeping environment can affect the rhythms. This week I simply wanted to address the blue light affects of our gadgets.
So what can or should we do? The number one recommendation I've read over and over again is to shut off these devices at least one hour before going to bed. I don't know about you but that's a challenge in our house. We've compromised, started with 30 minutes and are slowly working our way up. It's particularly hard if you're one to read books on your I-pad when you go to bed or you're a student doing homework on the computer right up until you crawl into bed.
I encourage you to look into this more yourself. I have found it quite interesting. Remember, it simply comes down to not stimulating the optic nerve once the sun goes down.


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Оскільки згідно з Основним законом 1992 року Естонія є парламентською республікою, повноваження президента значною мірою обмежені, він не входить в систему виконавчої влади і є, головним чином, символічною фігурою, виконуючою представницькі і різні формально — юридичні функції. Президент не може бути членом будь-якої політичної партії і не може займати жодної іншої виборної або призначуваної посади. Ці обмеження спрямовані на забезпечення незалежності та політичної неупередженості президента при виконанні його посадових обов'язків.

Обрання президента проходить шляхом голосування в парламенті або в спеціальній колегії вибірників (у тому випадку, коли жодному з кандидатів не вдається в ході трьох турів набрати необхідної більшості в дві третини від конституційного складу Рійгікогу). Президент обирається строком на п'ять років, Одна і те ж особа не може бути обрана президентом більше, ніж на два терміни поспіль.

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The price of gas is climbing higher. Here's how you can save at the pump
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Don't be surprised if filling your car's tank at the pump keeps gobbling up a growing portion of your budget.
Amid already rising gasoline prices, the average price you pay for per gallon could jump over the next couple of weeks, according to GasBuddy.com.
On top of elevated prices for crude oil — which accounts for more than half the price of gas — as demand recovers from a pandemic-induced drop and production remains lower, millions of barrels of refining capacity are now offline due to extreme cold in the lower half of the U.S.
"Much of the projected increase in gas prices is likely to play out in the coming days," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
The current national average for a gallon of regular unleaded is $2.58 and could reach somewhere between $2.65 and $2.75 soon. That would put it about $1 above the $1.74 tallied in April 2020 amid plummeting demand as the pandemic took hold.
Additionally, the cost per gallon also tends to rise in the spring as demand increases and stations switch to cleaner and more environmentally friendly gas for the summer.
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There are ways to save money on gas — beyond things like sticking to the speed limit and avoiding aggressive driving — that could translate into hundreds of dollars per year.
For starters, shop around. Depending on where you live, there can be big price swings between gas stations. And even if the difference in price per gallon may only be a few pennies, it still adds up.
"Too many motorists just pull up to the closest pump and end up overpaying," De Haan said.
There also can be stark differences in price from one state to the next. For example, one gas station in Arizona is $1 less than a competitor across the California state line, De Haan said. (California's tax applied per gallon is 82 cents and Arizona's is 37 cents.)
Additionally, there are apps — including GasBuddy, Gas Guru and AAA TripTik — you can use to find the best prices along your route.
Too many motorists just pull up to the closest pump and end up overpaying.
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It's also worth looking into loyalty programs, which many major chains have. They generally are free and can offer cents-per-gallon discounts, De Haan said.
However, credit cards that offer discounts for gas purchases might not be the best option unless you routinely pay off the card's balance.
"If you're not paying off your bill, you end up giving the bank more money than the discount is worth," De Haan said. "The cards work if you're paying it off, but not if you carry the balance month to month."
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When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
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The Dancing Masters (1943)
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum…
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.
Trailer: A Madea Family Funeral (2019)


The parliament in Budapest decided last week that Hungarians living abroad are eligible for Hungarian passports. Slovakia reacted promptly with a law stripping all those who accept Hungary''s offer of their Slovakian passports. The press calls the dispute an anachronism, and sees Hungary''s move as interference in Slovakia''s election campaign.
The left-leaning daily Népszava suspects that the current tensions between Hungary and Slovakia are a diversionary tactic orchestrated by their respective governments. Ferenc Kepecs reports: It''s a commonplace that the nationalists of one country can''t get along without the nationalists of another despite the fact that they spend their time attacking each other. The escalation of tensions aids their bid to cast themselves as the only true guardians of their people and divert the public''s attention from their problems and mistakes. The Slovak government under Robert Fico wants to divert attention from its poor performance in negotiations with other EU countries when it came to Slovakia''s contribution to the bailout for Greece. … For its part the new Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán is playing the national card because it lacks a programme and can't fulfil its pompous promises.
Tibor Kis believes that, should the Hungarian parliament pass the law on the collective nationalisation of Hungarians living in neighbouring countries it could be the beginning of a freeze in relations between Budapest and Bratislava: One thing became obvious to the Hungarian Slovaks yesterday: In Fico''s eyes Hungary will become a declared enemy of Slovakia the minute it adopts the law on dual citizenship. This is likely to happen today. On Tuesday Fico declared quite openly: "What is happening in Hungary is dangerous for Slovakia"'. Slovakia''s Hungarians naturally see Fico's words as a threat. And that is precisely what the Slovak head of government intended. His harsh words were not so much aimed at Hungary but at them – which is only logical because he has influence over them. He can make their lives even harder.
The newly-elected Hungarian parliament has got off to a vigorous legislative start, adopting in its first two weeks not only the citizenship law, which has caused indignation in neighbouring countries, but also introducing a so-called Trianon Remembrance Day (to mark the 1920 peace treaty that deprived Hungary of two thirds of its state territory). Political scientist Daniel Hegedüs comments: If the focus on the dual citizenship was not enough to confirm Western opinion formers in their belief that the Hungarians are nationalist mischief makers, few can doubt this following the tabling of the bill on national unity. Naturally, the ninetieth anniversary of the Trianon tragedy needs to be marked with dignity but it would be more appropriate to leave this to the historians.
Two main currents have dominated political discussion in present-day Poland, says Marek Beylin – on the one hand, a bureaucratic notary state, representing the ruling Civic Platform (PO) and a dark fantasy state of the Rights and Justice Party (PiS) on the other. Yet the discussion really ought to focus on something quite different: The spokespersons of the two major parties first have to shed a few illusions. Our hard-line conservatives, who have been calling for a centralized state that imposes collective identities and interests, finally ought to realize that this is not what a significant majority of people wants or needs, since even some supporters of PiS or of Jarosław Kaczyński would not trade the freedom to shape their own lives and to choose their own values for the idea of a fantastic state. In the period of national mourning many people claimed that the Poles'' response proved that this is the kind of state they want. It is time to see our society for what it really is. Many of the mourners who paid tribute to those who died were seduced by the idea of mourning, an idea of a state transported from a heroic-romantic tradition directly into the present. This seduction was based on civil society''s nostalgia for the heroic tradition rather than a political approval for its actual resurrection. The mourning, although it projected a unified picture, was experienced in many different ways. For it is the politicians, ideologues and opinion polls who create and promote the myth that every one of us is a coherent whole and that by choosing a political option we choose everything it involves. Whereas, in fact, every one of us contains many fragmented worlds and we choose only scraps out of what is presented by politicians – those scraps that have a better fit with some of our own individual expectations. What can a government do with this? It can allow this variety of views to flourish by not being just a notary of social processes but also their patron, by taking a firm stance against the discrimination of ethnic and sexual minorities, by supporting women in their struggle for equality. Either will the state transform itself in line with new social trends, getting closer to the great democratization of societies and individuals trying to look after them; or it will become an anachronistic entity that causes frustration and provokes rebellion.
Although satirist Jacek Fodorowicz sympathizes with the victims of Poland''s recent devastating floods, he is more interested in uncovering the causes of the extraordinary aversion to insurance on the part of his fellow countrymen: Spending money on insurance means losing it for the sake of a nebulous promise that you might eventually, just, get something in return while, at the same time, depriving oneself of real commodities which the same money can buy you straight away. Besides, before spending money on insurance one needs to have the certainty, or at least a realistic hope, that the insurance company will continue to exist for a while; that the state as such will continue to exist and if it does, that it won''t decide all of a sudden to requisition all the premiums paid up until now or to turn the money into bits of paper without any value – none of this we could not take for granted for many years. The only thing that''s certain is: whatever I spend on food or drink today is mine. Everything else can disappear at any time. Younger citizens of Poland may not even remember the fraudulent currency exchanges or the galloping inflation under the People''s Republic but that''s what family tradition is for. Their dads might tell them stories about the way the state insurance company used to compensate them for a wrecked car – the insurance money was based on official prices and, if the car had been bought for miraculously acquired dollars, its price would be converted using the official exchange rate. Given that in forty years of the People''s Republic there had not been a single case where someone would have walked into a shop and bought a car at the official price, let alone for dollars, the money the insurance company paid up seemed like a cruel joke. That is why the belief that every zloty spent on insurance is by definition a lost zloty has become encoded in our genes. To this you must add a more recent experience, all the true or exaggerated stories of insurance companies fighting their clients for every zloty on the grounds that they have to protect themselves against a plague of fraudulent claims. Some more time needs to pass before we will be persuaded that it makes sense to get insured.
Katarzyna Kubisiowska challenges the traditionally cherished image of the Polish Mother: It's easy to live with a woman like this: she does not talk back, she does not beg, she does not protest. As an almost public commodity she endures any absurd ideas linked to her image. She is an ethereal creature, not affected by periods, labour pains or menopause. The Polish Mother''s physiology is insignificant when it comes to the Fatherland. What does this image stem from? It stems from subjugation. Her figure was supposed to reinforce national feelings in the 19th century when our fatherland was robbed and partitioned by other countries. For two hundred years she has been presented as suffering, unhappy, even crucified. She has died many times – in various uprisings, during World War II – but there was never any doubt that she would be resurrected. When she slipped off the black hood covering her face a noble and innocent face would be revealed. The Polish Mother can take on every burden since the sole purpose of her life is to sacrifice herself. Two years ago I was shocked to read, in one of the national dailies, statements by politicians from various parties professing their gratitude to their mothers. Every one of them without exception said that the most wonderful thing was how much this woman had sacrificed herself for them. She would count every penny, just to save up for her son''s flat. She gave up her career. She was ready to come whenever he called. She had no demands, desires or ambitions of her own. On examples of two women artists Katarzyna Kubisiowska shows how in the 21st century Polish women have started to shed this traditional image. The first, Elżbieta Jabłońska is Supermother in a photograph from her 2002 cycle Domestic Games, showing her in the kitchen wearing a Superman costume, her young son in her lap. I respect this picture for its universal reversal of values and because I am sure that many women, who have to make a superhuman effort to cope with the abundance of everyday chores, will identify with her. Yet, at the same time, this picture still includes an element of consent with the role of a victim, which is part and parcel of the image of the Polish Mother.
That is why Katarzyna Kubisiowska prefers the harsh and uncompromising photos of Diane Arbus who broke with the traditionally sugary image of the woman with her child. She is particularly taken with the way artist Monika Drożyńska stares out of a photograph taken by Grażyna Makara two years ago. Neither the delicate features of the young woman''s face, nor the folksy shirt and loosely plaited hair can deprive her bold gaze of its force. Even the meanings hidden in the knife and fork, held by the artist as military accessories, fade vis à vis the uncompromising look in her eyes which says: nothing is impossible, I want to take whatever I can from life, I am entitled to happiness.
Recently there has been a deluge of new Polish translations of famous works of world literature. Why do translators tackle books that have already been translated into Polish, and often quite well?, asks Justyna Sobolewska: Should translators strive to be faithful to the original or try to ensure their translation sounds good? As a recent article in the Magazine littéraire reminds us, all sorts of things were acceptable in 19th century French literature: drastic cuts, translators adding their own passages or leaving out entire book chapters. The proponents of the school of humility on the other hand insisted that a true translator has to serve the author. What most of the new Polish translations have in common is fidelity to the original. Radical interference with the text is no longer fashionable. Foundations for the body of Polish translation of world literature were laid during the Young Poland period. It was the first literary period in which the translators had the ambition to transpose into the Polish literature not only individual authors or individual works but an entire literary tradition. Translators such as Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Edward Porębowicz, Leopold Staff, Jan Kasprowicz and Antoni Lange believed in a civilizational project. New translations often correct mistakes of previous translators. This is quite common in many cases, with one exception – that of Boy-Żeleński. His translations have been criticized yet they are irreplaceable. Adam Pomorski doubts if anyone would dare to translate Stendhal or Balzac after Boy. "'Boy had a fantastic command of Polish and that is why he has cast what I would call a castrating shadow over Polish fiction writing. Boy was perfectly at home in the French of the salons. And even if something sounds ungrammatical in Polish, it is still brilliant. At the same time, he constantly balances on the thin edge between fidelity and infidelity"', says writer and translator Marek Bieńczyk. "In Poland there is no tradition of translation criticism, which just goes to show how provincial we are. Whenever new authors are reviewed, their translators are not mentioned although a splendid book is also the result of the translator''s effort. It is only thanks to the translator that the author sounds good in Polish. The name of the translator ought to appear on the book cover to make the readers realize that this is Flaubert translated by Ryszard Engelking. Translators are invisible in present-day Polish culture,"' complains Jerzy Jarniewicz, author of a new translation of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Also in this issue: an interview with Andrzej Wajda, about Katyń and Smolensk. The tragedy has unified us, the funeral has divided us. This is nothing new. After all, we have survived the government of Jarosław Kaczyński, who is the demon of conflict.


Imagine piloting a drone using the movements of your torso only and leaving your head free to look around, much like a bird. EPFL research has just shown that using your torso to pilot flying machines is indeed more immersive — and more effective — than using the long-established joystick. The results are published in today's issue of PNAS.
The scientists wanted to observe how people use their bodies to pilot a flying object, in this case a drone, and determine which movements are most intuitive and natural — approaching the pilot problem from a completely new perspective.
They started by monitoring the body movements of 17 individuals thanks to 19 markers placed all over the upper body as well as their muscular activity. Each participant followed the actions of a virtual drone through simulated landscapes that passed-by as viewed through virtual reality goggles.
Motion patterns emerged and the scientists quickly established torso-related strategies for piloting drones: they found that only 4 markers — located on the torso — were needed to pilot flight simulators and real drones through a circuit of obstacles effectively.
Overall, the scientists compared their torso strategies to joystick control in 39 individuals. They found that torso drone control outperformed joystick control in precision, reliability and with minimal training sessions.
While the PNAS results provide a truly new and completely immersive piloting strategy with a focus on characterizing the relevant torso parameters, leaving the head, limbs, hands and feet free to perform other actions, their proof-of-concept system still requires body markers and external motion detectors in order to work.
The next steps are to make the torso strategy completely wearable for piloting flying objects. The application range is huge, from flight simulators to piloting drones and even perhaps planes of the future. A garment that implements the torso strategy into drone control without external motion detectors was developed at EPFL based on the PNAS findings.
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Equilibrium: When does one of the central ideas in economics work?


It's winter and it's time to break out your scarves. Function over fashion in the winter months HOWEVER I recently found a way to have the best of both worlds.
Road Trippin! It can be fun, it can be boring, it can be breathtaking, it can be LOOOONNGG. I have made my way back and forth across the country and experienced all of the above. Yet I still jump into the car at any opportunity for some cross country adventures. The first time I drove across country from California to PA and took a slow southern route visiting friends and family along the way. It gave me a taste for the west coast and shortly after I ended up moving there! Meaning I had to get in the car again this time from PA to CA and we took the most direct route straight across the county... not so fun that time around.
There are many easy drives from Denver to surrounding parks and small towns that can provide beauty and wonder. This is a quick list of some fabulous stops along the way from Denver to Aspen.
These are the basics to make your car-camping festival experience as comfortable and cleanly as possible.
Festival season is UPON US. The best part about festivals is the great music all in one happy place with good vibes and fun fashion. You have to be strategic when planning and packing for festivals especially if you're car camping. It can be tricky to look your best while living out of a tent with no running water….but we have got you covered and will include a complete packing guide and some festival hacks in an upcoming post.
While we are still figuring out the perfect balance between floating flawlessly through the airport with the perfect amount of items and overpacking to the point of sitting on your bag, shuffling stuff at the airport to make it fit and juggling all of your overstuffed suitcases we will get the answer some day. In the meantime here are some health and packing tips and tricks that I swear by during my many travels.
A quick weekend ski getaway to the fabulous town of Aspen, CO. Driving from Denver to Aspen through the mountains is a world of beauty within itself. Once you arrive in Aspen it feels as if you have been transported into a holiday snow globe.


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Strange Brew, Lounge Side Wins AMA Sound Awards with QSC K and KW Series Loudspeakers
By SCN Staff (Systems Contractor News) 2016-03-31T15:58:00Z
In a town known for its all-encompassing music scene and more than 250 live sound venues, Strange Brew, Lounge Side distinguishes itself with an eclectic calendar of acts. In recent years, Strange Brew has also scored big at the Austin Music Awards, an event that kicks off the South by Southwest Music Festival every year. With a dozen AMA awards under its belt including Best Live Music Venue, Best Acoustic Venue, Best Venue to Play, and this year's award for Best Club Sound, Strange Brew recently added a number of K Series and KW Series loudspeakers to its all-QSC sound system.
An insurance office in 2009, the building occupied by Strange Brew today was transformed by founder Scott Ward, a man with a background in construction who helped imbue the place with its hand-hewn, uniquely South Austin vibe. As part of the property's evolution, the Strange Brew Lounge Side opened four years ago under the same roof as the coffee shop. With its high, arching ceilings, intimate atmosphere, and stellar acoustical qualities, the room has a capacity of 160.
"We've been an all-QSC venue everywhere since we opened, including outside on our patios and in the coffee house. Our guest artists—and it seems like everyone else too—have always raved about our sound right from when we first opened the doors," said Ward. "Our recent upgrade actually represents the second incarnation of QSC sound system we've used on the Lounge Side."
The newly upgraded house sound system on the Strange Brew, Lounge Side features a pair of KW Series loudspeakers flown left and right above the stage. A center fill hang residing between these two elements incorporates another single KW153 buttressed on each side by a K8 loudspeaker. Two KW181 subs extend the low frequency response of the rig, and as a final complement, a K10 loudspeaker is employed for sidefill. Stage monitors on the Lounge Side include four KW122s and a single KW152 for the drummer. Four K12s also stand at the ready, set to be employed on an as needed basis.
"When we installed the original lounge system," Ward added. "I didn¹t think there ever would be a way to improve it. The warmth of the sound was exceptional, it did everything we wanted it to for any act night-after night for more than 5,000 shows without any problems. Then one day a group of engineers from QSC visited and said that it could indeed be even better. I have to admit, I didn¹t believe them at first."
Following a careful analysis of the room and the existing components, the QSC team created a new audio blueprint that increased the number of enclosures and drew a map of wider coverage bringing an even template of sound to every inch of the space. Headroom increased as well, with clean, transparent maximum peak levels of 134 dB becoming a reality. Along with improved dynamic range, the sound stopped Ward in his tracks when he heard it.
"I really didn¹t believe my ears, but the QSC engineers were right, and our great system got even better," added Ward. "We had a really big show the first night the loudspeakers were up-and-running. I walked the room and stopped at different spots, and the sound was phenomenal. The upgrade actually took our original QSC system there to another level in terms of fidelity, clarity, and coverage. We worked hard to get an AMA for Best Club Sound, and we couldn¹t have done it without QSC."


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