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Phnom Penh Post - 'Adhoc 5' may face more time
'Adhoc 5' may face more time
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga | Publication date 27 April 2017 | 07:04 ICT
Adhoc officials Ny Sokha (right) and Yi Soksan are escorted out of the Supreme Court after their bail was denied last month. Pha Lina
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
After informing two media outlets in separate interviews that the pre-trial detention of the so-called "Adhoc 5" had been extended, a Phnom Penh Municipal Court clerk yesterday retracted his statement, prompting one of the defence lawyers to speculate that the extension of their clients' detention was a foregone conclusion.
The speculation came just as it was announced that the five – Adhoc's Lim Mony, Ny Sokha, Yi Soksan and Nay Vanda, and former Adhoc staffer and current National Election Committee official Ny Chakrya – had been nominated for the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, along with two other finalists from El Salvador and Egypt.
The five are closing in on the one-year mark of their detention, and a judge is expected today to deliver a decision on whether the five will enter their third consecutive six-month pre-detention period. After that, no further extensions are allowed, and the investigating judge would have to send the case to trial or drop the charges.
But speaking to both The Post and the Cambodia Daily yesterday, Y Rin said that the investigating judge, Theam Chanpiseth, had informed him that detention for the five would be extended again.
"Yes, there is an extension. As you know it is six months at a time and the procedure allows us to extend it three times," he said, referring to the first detention, followed by two extensions.
When asked for the a copy of the decision, Rin asked to confer with the investigating judge, only to later say that he had misspoken, and instead read out a summons that had been sent for both sets of lawyers to appear today.
Adhoc lawyer Keo Sophal said that if Rin had indeed said there was an extension, then it seemed that her clients' detention had already been decided.
Legal expert Sok Sam Oeun said yesterday that such a situation wouldn't necessarily be abnormal, as investigating judges usually only called the defence in to inform them of their decision, with the lawyers free to challenge the decision later.
Fellow Adhoc defence counsel Lor Chunthy confirmed that his four clients had been summonsed to court today for a closed meeting with the investigating judge, with Chakrya's lawyer, Sam Sokong, confirming the same.
Chunthy said that if Rin's revelation stands, it would be unfortunate and unreasonable.
"I don't know why the court is afraid that they will collude together if they are given bail," as it has suggested in the past when denying bail, Chunthy said. "There is no reason they would do that."
If the detention is extended, the five could still be in Prey Sar prison as the Martin Ennals Foundation, named after a past secretary-general of Amnesty International, announces the winner of its prestigious award on October 10 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The award is judged by a panel consisting of representatives from 10 international human rights organisations.
"It is enormously brave of people to stand up against the Cambodian government like this, which year after year relentlessly has tried to snuff out criticisms or any sort of organising by civil society," said Brian Dooley of the nonprofit Human Rights First.
Contact authors: Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
Court summons Adhoc staffer
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'Adhoc 5' released on bail in case widely seen as political
Three of the 'Adhoc 5' denied medical care
Ex-Adhoc staffer, now CPP Commune Chief-elect, pledges to address logging
NGOs under close watch for bias
The Ministry of Interior yesterday warned human rights groups that they are being closely watched for alleged bias towards the opposition CNRP, in a startling
Interior Ministry mulling investigations into NGOs' "neutrality"
Rights worker abuse is on the rise: observers
Ex-Adhoc staffer and government critic now on the campaign trail for CPP in Ratanakkiri
Detention upheld: Court denies appeal by Adhoc staff


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Hélio Paschoal CSS (* 26. April 1927 in Vargem Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Brasilien; † 22. November 2005) war ein brasilianischer Ordensgeistlicher und römisch-katholischer Bischof von Livramento de Nossa Senhora.

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Hélio Paschoal trat der Ordensgemeinschaft der Stigmatiner bei und empfing am 15. August 1951 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe.

Am 29. März 1967 ernannte ihn Papst Paul VI. zum ersten Bischof des einen Monat zuvor errichteten Bistums Livramento de Nossa Senhora. Der Bischof von Jaboticabal, José Varani, spendete ihm am 25. Juni desselben Jahres die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren der Bischof von Caetité, José Pedro de Araújo Costa, und der Bischof von São João da Boa Vista, Tomás Vaquero.

Am 21. Januar 2004 nahm Papst Johannes Paul II. seinen altersbedingten Rücktritt an.

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Archive for October 12th, 2021
The "Tarbouche" by Robert Sole': Book review part 1
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 12, 2021
Note: In this book was published in 1992 by Robert Sole' who lived in Egypt for 17 years and became the chief editor of the French "Le Monde". A detailed stories of the Syrian community and the history of Egypt since Mohamad Ali until the revolution of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The term "Syrians" in the book refers to all those who emigrated to Egypt after 1860 from current state of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. They were called Syrians because they constituted one people and had open borders and daily trade.
Most of them left/fled after the terrible massacres perpetrated on the Christian communities in Aleppo, Damascus and Lebanon that left thousands of dead and lingering trauma for those who survived the lynching, rape and insane behaviors.
These massacres were initiated by the Ottoman empire to punish the interference of the western colonial powers in communities that seemed to prefer cultural alliances with them.
Le Tarbouche is a detailed history of modern Egypt since1830 until the coup d'etat of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, and particularly the cultural/educational/political leaning of generations of the Greek catholic sect that settled in Egypt.
I decided to start from the end, the note in the diary of Michel Batrakani of 1964 as he emigrated to France:
He visited his brother Paul who settled in Switzerland with his Swiss wife and children. One of Paul's sons asked his uncle Michel:
"Au fond, personne en Egypt a obliges les "Syriens" a quitter L'Egypte". Les formules lapidaires s'adaptent mal a une histoire en demi-teintes comme notre communaute' de Syriens Grecs-Catholiques.
Nous n'avons pas ete formellement expulses mais ont ne se sentaient plus accepte' comme une communaute Egyptienne. Nous avons toujours ete' entre deux langues, deux cultures, deux eglises, deux chaises. Comme mon pere disait: "Ce n'est pas confortable, mais nos fesses sont faites ainsi"
Non, personne ne nous a obliges a quitter l'Egypt, mais l'air y devenait irrespirable. Nous sommes partis de notre propre gre', sur la pointe des pieds, sans tarbouche ni trompette. (Actually, those who used to wear the Tarbouche dropped this headchef to European alternatives as they boarded the ships)
Georges Batrakani rummarized the situation as "Nous ne sommes pas Syriens, pas Egyptiens: Nous sommes Greck-Catholiques"
Mon frere Andre', un Jesuite, pense que nous n'avions pas fait l'effort de s'integrer. Il recommendait a tous ceux qui quitter L'Egypt de s'integrer aux pays, leur second pay.
(Actually, most of the Syrians wanted a foreign nationality, but they were Not even "authorized" an Egyptian nationality. They felt comfortable with the "mixed" legal system for foreigners to avoid the strict Islamic shari3a of the Egyptian legal system)
Note 2: The Egyptian "Christian" Kobet/Qobt considered the original Egyptians and were against foreign occupations, especially the British occupation, until the coup d'etat of Gamal Abdel Nasser that considered Islam as the nation religion in the constitution. Since then, the Qobt became the lynchpin every time a national upheaval spread in Egypt. Actually, the Qobt had their own accounting system and were the accountants in Egypt, until the British established their accounting system for graduation in that field.
Note 3: With the exception of highly educated Syrians in Egypt who created most of the dailies and theaters, and cultural clubs…the vast majority (Catholic and Orthodox emigrated Syrians) followed the events from their "balconies" in order Not to be in close contact with the mass Egyptians. Many lost their life-ling business from the ransacks and burning of their institutions during extremist upheavals against "foreigners".
Note 4: This a description of the 1860 massacre committed in Damascus against the "Christians. Linda Batrakani kept her secret for 34 years until a few weeks before her passing away. She kept recounting this massacre every day "pour vider une plaie purulante qui debordait de toutes parts". She said:
"Il etait midi. Les muezzins venaient d'appeler a la priere. Nous avond entendu 2 coups de canon, suivi d'une immense clameur. Des centaines de soldats ont fait irruption dans le quartier chretien et suivis de civils musulmans qui bradissaient des cimeterres, haches et trombones…Derriere eux les femmes les excitaient par leur cris.
Ils fracassaient les portes, egorgaient les personnes, meme les enfants males, malmenaient les filles et emportaient les objets… puis il mettaient le feu et poignardaient les fuyants, pendus par les pieds au-dessus des brasiers. Malheur aux femmes enceintes… Parfois, ils cuisaient les nouveaux nes sur les flammes
Haret al Nasara (the Christian quarter) etait riche et enchanteur et les personnes avaient de hauts postes, travaillaient aux tribunal local, et des institutions florissantes. Exterieurement, les masons ne payaient pas de mine, mais l'interieur etait un enchantement. De notre terrace on dominait les jardins de la villes et les montagnes dans lesquelles coulaient une multitude de ruisseaux… Damas etait une delicieuse ville et la mieux arrosee des villes.
Mes deux grands freres etaient partis le matin a cheval pour avertir l'emir Abdel Kader (the hero of the Algerian uprising against the new French occupation of Algeria). Des signes au charbon avaient ete inscrit pendant la nuit sur les portes des maisons Chretiennes.
Avec mes 3 autres freres, soeurs et maman nous sommes alles frapper a la porte d'une voisine musulmane et heberger jusqu'au matin moyennant 10 pieces d'or. En quittant, rasant les murs… ils furent tous massacre'. Dans une boutique, ils avaient enferme des jeunes gens et les questionner: "Veux-tu devenir musulman?" Ceux qui acceptaient etaient circoncis immediatement. Ceux qui refusaient etaient abattus d'un coup de hache.
l'emir Abdel Kader recueillis 3,000 dans son palais, mais les massacres continuaient pendant plusieurs jous et nuits. Puis l'exode vers Beyrouth et l'annee suivante l'embarquement pour Alexandrie, pas un sous, sauf un couvre chef.
INTRODUCTION to "AGAINST GENOCIDE"?
Contributors: Zoé Samudzi.
This is the 37th issue of The Funambulist and I couldn't be more appreciative of the opportunity to be the guest editor. The title of the issue, "Against Genocide," serves a dual function: it represents a collective dedication to studying and preventing genocide, as well as a contestation of the selective application and often limited definition of the word.
While not globally comprehensive, the issue nevertheless seeks to offer a challenge to our understanding of state violence, memory, aesthetics, land and displacement, race-making, international law, and more.
Genocide is a crime, the "crime of crimes."
It is a rare eliminatory violence that, by our canonization, exemplifies the very worst of human political behavior because it is the attempt to destroy a people simply for who they are.
That genocide is a crime is probably the least important thing about it.
Genocide the "process" is not necessarily the same as genocide the crime.
Genocide emerged as a crime removed from recognitions of the violence of coloniality because Nazi occupation was positioned as an aberrational violence beyond the laws of war observed by civilized Western states. (I disagree: Nazi Germany tried to colonize the lands it occupied)
Germany's invasion-occupation of Eastern Europe and the extreme anti-Jewish hatred(Not only Jews, but Tzigane and most minorities) that most notably marked the genocidal campaign provided the foundation for Raphael Lemkin's proposed criminalization of the destruction of social, cultural, and political collectivities.
Dirk Moses conclusion in Problems of Genocide (2021), was underpinned by "criminal, as opposed to political motivations" — it was a violence most readily conceptualized through the language of transgression.
Genocidal processes (a still ongoing process of Zionist Israel on the Palestinian people)— demarcation, exclusion, elimination, and political reassertion (a bit more concise than Gregory Stanton's 10 stages of genocide) — are a political necessity. They are a comprehensive means of population management, a tool of conquest utilized across multiple centuries.
K'eguro Macharia wrote about the ideological chasm between the Pan-African Congress' Declaration to the Colonial Workers, Farmers, and Intellectuals (1945, the year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Nuremberg Trials) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948, the year that the Genocide Convention was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly).
Macharia describes how the Pan-African Congress "recognized that the modern world's primary division of power was between colonizing powers and colonized people" — that this political hierarchy was also a bifurcation "between those considered human and those considered sub- and non-human."
In its failure to indict or even cursorily name colonialism as foundational to the inequities that the United Nations purportedly sought to resolve, Macharia concludes a compatibility between and complement of the UN's framework and imperiality. This is the premise of human rights law inherited in the postwar invention of genocide as a crime: the omission of coloniality is exonerative, it is only the crimes of postwar modernity that could conceivably registered as criminal. And even then, only a careful selection.
The concept of permanent security is derived from Einsatzgruppe D commander Otto Ohlendorf who coined the term in 1939 to justify his soldiers' mass killings of Jews in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. For him, total elimination would enable the "pacification" of the region so it would be more amenable to Nazi security interests.
Adolf Hitler made this concept even more explicit following the German invasion of Poland in October 1939, describing "the absolute guarantee of security" following the ethnic reordering of Europe after the removal of minority groups from German land.
History does not repeat: history continues and reiterates. Berkeley, August 2017. / Photo by Zoé Samudzi.
This now-commonplace geopolitical strategy pairs prevention (the anticipation of inevitable future threats) with preemption (military actions taken to forestall said inevitability), and in attempts to reduce insecurity, animates an unending cycle hellbent on seeking out and extinguishing both internal and external threats to the nation.
(If we consider that most current wars were launched as "pre-emptive" wars then we can agree that all current wars were done on genocidal intent and purpose)
During the Nuremberg trials, Ohlendorf's defense team described his actions as "putative self-defense," which the Benjamin Ferencz-led U.S. prosecution dismissed.
To accept the rationale as valid would be to entertain blatant Nazi flouting of the international rules of war; but outright rejecting it would accidentally incriminate the Allied powers.
U.S. military strategy, for example, would deploy this permanent security logic in its anti-communist campaigns in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and elsewhere during the Cold War. (And in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria)
Imperialism as a civilizing mission was a humanitarian iteration of permanent security: good subjects were governable, and ungovernable subjects were cast as terrorists or dissidents or otherwise tainting elements that compromised the integrity of the white (or white-approved) sovereign.
The willingness to enact racial violence that blurs the boundary between the civilian and armed resister is an example of an always already genocidal impulse of states whose maintenance necessitates the race-crafting — an othering — foundational to permanent security.
Lemkin's opposition to the violence of empire was never a wholehearted opposition to the imperial form, only to particular articulations (e.g. favoring the apparent civility of British indirect rule over the brutality of German settler colonization).
The very first and last day of the San Francisco encampment created in protest of ICE policy in July 2018. / Photos by Zoé Samudzi.
The [neo]colonial paradigm of total war functionally eradicates the possibility of civilian innocence, exploiting the ways that certain racialized and minoritized populations are not and have never been afforded innocence.
Steadfast minorities are burdens, blemishes, demographic anxieties, existential threats to the colonial powers.
Nation-states are bounded territories where populations have been defined by a set of national criteria, some socio-biological identifiers (e.g. Americanness as whiteness despite the enduring analogy of the "melting pot").
Therefore, permanent security represents, per Moses, the "preventative killing of presumed future threats to a particular ethnos, nation, or religion, [with]in a bounded territoriality."
Geopolitics as interactions between these bounded identity-defined territories facilitates a clearer understanding of identity-targeting violence as not anomalous crime explained by the "just because" punishment of difference, but as core to state formation, function, and interaction.
The transformation of civilian into threat becomes especially fraught in considering intent as a central definitional factor of genocide. This is the further muddying of the distinction between genocide as the ultimate crime of crimes and the common mistreatment of groups of people because of discriminatory categorizations within political systems.
THIS IS THE FURTHER MUDDYING OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GENOCIDE AS THE ULTIMATE CRIME OF CRIMES AND THE COMMON MISTREATMENT OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF DISCRIMINATORY CATEGORIZATIONS WITHIN POLITICAL SYSTEMS.
At the end of 1951, the same year that the Genocide Convention was ratified, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition to the United Nations charging the U.S. government with the genocide of its Black citizens. They accused the U.S. of the "mass murder of its own nationals, with institutionalized oppression and persistent slaughter of Negro people in the United States on a basis of 'race,' a crime abhorred by mankind and prohibited by the conscience of the world."
Buttressed by a damning mountain of evidence, the petition offers two main arguments.
First, using the Convention's language, they first accuse of "killing members of the group," exemplified by "killings by police, killings by incited gangs, killings at night by masked men, killings always on the basis of 'race,' [and] killings by the Ku Klux Klan."
The second argument is a social and economic: that the government is guilty of "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction in whole or in part." They explain how the "American Negro is deprived, when compared with the remainder of the population of the United States, of eight years of life on the average."
This social-economic argument connects the enduring traumas of the transatlantic slave trade, to the indignity of the southern plantocracy's evolution into the exploitative system of sharecropping, to how Jim Crow segregation forced Black people into "filthy, disease-bearing housing, and deprived by law of adequate medical care and education."
The petition used the criminalization of identity-based targeting to contest white supremacy's creation and enforcements of racial hierarchies, including the deprivation and precarity to which so many Black people were and are still subjected.
The petition was roundly opposed by the American delegation, as well as by Lemkin himself, because of how the Convention was being used to challenge quotidian practices of colonial white supremacy deliberately elided in the formulation of human rights discourses and international criminal law.
Using W.E.B. Du Bois' framework of the racial color line, the Congress also internationalized their claims, linking the Klan lynch mob to past and present colonial warfare, including the then-ongoing war in the Korean peninsula.
As demonstrated by the We Charge Genocide petition and the subsequent moves to quash the claims made by the Congress, anti-Blackness — the identification and elimination of the security threat presented by Black people — is a necessary part of the U.S.' genocidal domestic securitization structure.
The incarceration/prison system procedure and processes of Black "citizens" is also a part of this. This encompasses the pointedly anti-Black prison-industrial complex and police brutality, the regime of border security (literally departmentalized during the "global war on terror" as "homeland security"), civil liberties-eroding "counter-extremism" strategies, and the historical dispossession, internment, and extermination of Indigenous peoples — an origin sin.
The military engagement between the settler colonial government and various Indigenous nations in the three centuries of the so-called "Indian Wars" established a crucial frame through which U.S. preemption-prevention would be enacted in its imperial frontiers overseas.
The expectation of civilian casualty is part of a strategy that either targets and harms civilians or completely fails to discriminate between combatants and non-combatants (see: the deliberate legal nebulousness of the "unlawful enemy combatant").
Because conflict is not restricted to engagements of clearly defined combatant groups, and because combatant and non-combatant categories are often deliberately collapsed into one another, the entire population can be targeted and killed. But at what point can this totalizing need and aspiration to eliminate be deemed genocidal?
I still remember when the government didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq despite trotting out a venerable Black four-star general and Secretary of State to convincingly argue fabricated evidence about aluminum tubes and biological weapons to the UN Security Council.
And I remember how, partly in an effort to reduce the casualty count of U.S. soldiers, the war effort pivoted to drones. "Surgical strikes," they're impressively called; and we mockingly call our Nobel Peace Prize-winning and first ever Black head of state "President O-bomb-a."
I've never been good at math so surely there's a complicated calculus I don't understand, but how many Iraqi or Yemeni or Somali or Afghan wedding guests equals the life of one U.S. infantryman? The accountants in Operation Enduring Freedom and the soon-to-end Operation Freedom's Sentinel are cooking the books.
The colonial imaginary of total war hit home in a recent conversation with a Zimbabwean scholar some years older than me. During the liberation struggle, the Rhodesian military corralled swaths of rural native populations into "protected villages," fenced internment spaces patrolled by soldiers to prevent civilians from resourcing, interacting with, and joining the freedom fighters.
My mother lived in one for a couple of years; she describes them to me as concentration camps. This scholar was explaining to me that the Rhodesians were right to collapse the boundary between civilians and the guerrillas. Because when young people were out in the fields with their cattle, when they were up on hills and rocks surveying landscapes and signaling and alerting the movements of friends and enemies alike, were they not some part of the war effort?
NO ONE IS KILLED SIMPLY FOR POSSESSING AN IDENTITY: THIS IS THE DEPOLITICIZED FORMULATION OF GENOCIDE IN ITS LIBERAL DEPLOYMENT.
No one is killed simply for possessing an identity: this is the depoliticized formulation of genocide in its liberal deployment. The real cruelty and terror of collectivized punishment is the fact that, at any given time, it is possible to observe one or more of the five legally defined acts of genocide in many many parts of the world — including within U.S. borders — being performed against some group in a way, and it is legal (or maybe not) and perfectly normal.
Horrifyingly enough, it is possible to study genocide without studying people.
Around 230,280 acres of Hawai'i, almost 6% of the state's total area, is covered by military bases — the highest of any U.S. state. On the island of O'ahu, where the capital Honolulu is located, military infrastructure takes up almost 25% of the island's area; a friend from the island describes the presence as being "hidden in plain sight." He also told me there are beaches in Waikiki resort area that are only accessible to military families: colonial settlement negates native sovereignties, then occupies and disappears land from its people. / Photo by Zoé Samudzi (November 2019).
Genocide Studies (originally and often as Holocaust Studies) is the postwar discipline, and then there's the study of genocide as the political and cultural evolution of a people. Not evolution in a way that reifies Social Darwinist "survival of the fittest" and racial capitalist ideas of scarcity-driven competition for space and existence, but a global macro-evolution of political institutions and nation-states whose imperialistic hierarchies have always marked some to live and some to die.
Captured by disciplinarity, Genocide Study is the study of necropolitics in which violences are made legible through enumerations, analysis of aggressor goals and intentions, and historiographic comparisons. As a study of people, however, genocide inhabits a different affective register.
It is the discovery of the mass graves of Native children at the assimilatory horror shows euphemistically referred to as "residential schools." It is the pleading for human remains and invaluable artifacts from museum institutions: public institutions that exclude portions of the populous from "the public" so that the bones these excluded wish to lay to rest can be trapped behind glass and displayed or incarcerated in the archives for study in perpetuity.
It is to read in history books that you no longer exist and that your struggle for a self-determining survival was disruptive to "peace" and thus dishonorable. It is your tongue tripping over an alien language that is your birthright; it is watching architectural monstrosities erected on lands stolen from you and your family and your community.
It is new military aggressions reiterating long-existing campaigns and occupations; it is diaspora scattered by force, helplessly and worriedly watching assaults and humiliations from afar. It is the denial of phenomenon again and again and again, even as survivors and their descendants present historical records and their own recollections and bodies as evidence.
To use Marius Kothor own words to answer her question, our "affective response to this history [does] constitute a source of historical knowledge."
WHERE WITNESS-BEARING IS MARKETED AS A KIND OF COLLECTIVE EMPOWERMENT, STUDYING AND LIVING AND RECALLING GENOCIDE IS THE ATTEMPT TO EXPRESS THE INCOMMENSURABLE.
Where witness-bearing is marketed as a kind of collective empowerment, studying and living and recalling genocide is the attempt to express the incommensurable: to register pain and violence and humiliation and fear and devastation and fatigue and whatever else that, to paraphrase Elaine Scarry, actively destroys language because of its unshareability.
"The unnamable war is about the capacity to wage war," Felicia Denaud writes. To know the ease of mass death by selfish neglect (the nearly two years of COVID-19 has been a harrowing testament) or pointed elimination brings into focus the workaday necropolitical functioning of the Westphalian structure: someone must die so life can be preserved.
Sometimes we witness these violences in realtime, and other times we visit and revisit the archive hoping to make a little more sense of what we see. The breakneck speed of telecommunications has dramatically changed the role of the atrocity image and what it means to show and attempt to humanize (or dehumanize) a dead body or vulnerable people when slaughter is produced in excess and corpses and refugees have never been easier to find.
As we look at these images, "the moment of the other's suffering engulfs us," John Berger writes. ("Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis," says Roland Barthes: witnessing is a transfixion, we can't and we must look away.)
And while we may try to assimilate the facts of those images into our own lives, "the reader may tend to feel this discontinuity as his own personal moral inadequacy," continues Berger. Photographic permanence tends to extract a photographed moment from the ones surrounding it: the image, in a way, comes to exist singularly even as we know events both immediately preceded and followed that moment. The image becomes a canvas for personal projections of morality.
And once an image of atrocity is morphed into a universalizing reminder of the human condition, the moment effectively becomes depoliticized. So, too, "genocide" becomes a noun or adjective ("genocidal") used to punctuate a harm because you're not supposed to ignore the word when you encounter it.
THE IMAGE BECOMES A CANVAS FOR PERSONAL PROJECTIONS OF MORALITY. AND ONCE AN IMAGE OF ATROCITY IS MORPHED INTO A UNIVERSALIZING REMINDER OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, THE MOMENT EFFECTIVELY BECOMES DEPOLITICIZED.
The difference between genocide and Genocide is at the level of abstraction. Abstraction not necessarily as outright denial, but as a distancing. There are no people in many of these disciplinary debates, no stakes beyond argument.
There is no orality as reliable historical narration, no ancestral land thieved, no peoples displaced or cattle or orchards stolen, no waters polluted or privatized or made undrinkable, no languages and entire life-worlds lost, no humiliation and anger at cheap attempts at reconciliation or public memorialization, no denied right of return to mourn, no movements for reparations or repatriation, no asking permission to access ancestral lands for burials, no humans involved. Only economies, only states.
The contributors beautifully responded to the theme from their respective materiality, identities, geographic and diasporic locations, politics, and artistic mediums. While Ju-Hyun Park challenges the historical legacy of Korean partition and the devastating bombing campaigns during the Korean War, Ayantu Tibeso and J. Khadijah Abdurahman describe real time responses to the ongoing genocide in Tigray against the backdrop of the Ethiopian Empire's ethnopolitics.
Considering political dynamics of denial, Zenzele Ndebele broaches the fraught topic of the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe: a brutal four year campaign that is still denied by the government.
Related to this national history through denial, Nicole Froio interview with Dr. Tábita Hünemeier illuminates the dark underbelly of the founding myths of Brazilian racial democracy with an unconventional enumeration of genocide: genome sequencing.
In the same vein as this political honesty, Jo Bluen presents a fragmented and poetic challenge to the origin story of international justice as told through courts: from the watershed trials in Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Duly challenging political storytelling, Nicholas Mirzoeff engagement of monumentality and the removal of Confederate monuments from public space forces us to consider the fixity of history: the necessity for revision and more democratic authorship.
Monumentality presents the opportunity for another kind of witnessing, as does photography, and I'm grateful to be able to publish the work of one of my favorite photographers, Nazik Armenakyan. Her series of photographs of Artsakh before and after war illustrates a continuity of regional conflict inflected by the continuity of attacks against Armenians, from the 1915 genocide into the present.
Our cover illustrator, Thandi Loewenson, created an original piece for this issue. Her translation of photographs and sketches of the land in Kabwe, Zambia into etched-carved-cut graphite blocks and then into digital art brings a textural, haptic, material dimension. She told me that during early colonial mining excavations in Zambia — then, British South Africa Company-administered Northern Rhodesia — a skull was disinterred. The Broken Hill skull or, more crudely, "Rhodesia Man," is currently being held in the Natural History Museum in London.
Reiterdenkmal, the 15 foot Equestrian Monument, was erected in Windhoek on January 27, 1912 — Kaiser Wilhelm II's 53rd birthday — memorializing the German soldiers who had honorably perished in the genocidal 1904-1908 Herero Wars. "Remembering and honoring German citizens that died from the hands of the indigenous," part of the inscription reads. The statue is seen here in the courtyard of Alta Feste, the headquarters of the imperial German army, after it was removed from its plinth on Christmas Day 2013. / Photo by Zairon.
It feels especially weighty to put together an issue about mass death in the second year of a catastrophic pandemic, accelerating global ecological crisis, and multiple refugee and IDP-producing conflicts — preventable death is devastatingly abundant. In the preface to her play We Are Proud to Present…,
Jackie Sibblies Drury writes that "the most tragic death is the death that is elided over as history is canonized": that this dehumanized death is, "if not a fate worse than death, perhaps a death worse than death." This issue is dedicated to the memories and imaginations of the ancestors in whose names we fight and whose names we don't always know, and to a never-ending solidarity with the living.

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Revolutionary rise of the silver sisters
SUMAIRA (Instagram: @greysian_)
By: SUMAIRA (Instagram: @greysian_)
WHY A NEW WAVE OF WOMEN ARE GOING GLORIOUSLY GREY
A GREY revolution has taken the world by storm and that mighty movement has only got stronger throughout lockdown with more women than ever ditching the dye.
The trailblazers have shown the brilliant beauty of going grey and in doing so have empowered others to follow their inspiring path. Eastern Eye caught up with five of these fabulous silver sisters to find out about their gorgeously grey journeys.
Fauzia (53)
It all began with a mallen streak at the age of seven. I was distraught and ashamed. I felt I didn't fit in because I was different. Each white hair was snipped away! Fast forward 15 years and I had embraced my natural hair, but had my confidence shattered by my father's harsh criticism of it. I was made to feel I had to 'fix' my grey hair, and so my chemical relationship began. It ruled my life from there on. Over the years, I yearned to ditch the dye, but I lacked the courage because of cultural pressures and societal norms, which depicted women with grey hair as old, ugly and unworthy. Lockdown was an opportunity to embrace my grey; it was now or never. I took a leap of faith and feel free as a bird with my beautiful, natural hair colour. I feel proud to be a silver sister – to inspire and support those who may be in the position I once was. This is not the end and just the beginning. I am unique and I love it!
Instagram: @WhiteHairDontCare2020
Mazz Akhtar (38)
At 25, I was 40 per cent grey, so dyeing my hair was a routine way of life. I loved being a bottle red-head and for a long time all was well. Fast forward 10 years and 80 per cent grey was far more difficult to manage. I was now dyeing my hair once a month, sometimes even twice! It was falling out, brittle and breaking at the slightest touch. Yet still, I succumbed to the cultural perception of "you're going to look old and awful if you don't dye it." In January 2020, I didn't want to live my life like that anymore and ditched the dye. Fourteen months later, I know I made the best decision for my hair. It has started to recover from the torture of 20 years of hair dye. I hope by going grey I can encourage others to buck the norm and most importantly, I can set an example for my daughter, that grey hair is beautiful, and we can choose to age any way we want.
Instagram: @mazz_silver_strands_of_wisdom
Devjani Bodepudi (40)
I eventually decided to 'ditch the dye' because I knew I wasn't fooling anyone, least of all myself. It became a depressing inevitability, finding the white appear only days after an expensive dye job. I was also touching up the roots at home every three weeks, but it wasn't enough. I'd always admired the few women I knew who had stopped colouring, so I was sure it could be okay, if not stunning. My biggest fear was that it would be ageing and that's why I turned to Facebook and Instagram. It is where I found the sweeping silver sisters movement, but I also learnt of the growing number of brown women who look like me and understand the stigma we face in our own communities. Now that it's done, I feel relieved. Nothing compares to knowing that you're becoming a little more of who you are supposed to be.
Instagram @browngirlgreygirl
Sukhi Sian (41)
Lockdown gave me my opportunity to ditch the dye. I had been dyeing my hair for 20 years. Even though it felt like a chore, covering greys was the 'norm'. Three months before lockdown, I turned 40 and wanted to dye my hair silver to blend with the greys. Instead, my hairdresser and I compromised on chocolate brown to prevent damage from bleaching. When lockdown happened shortly after, I did not bother with box dyes; I was curious to see my grey growth. Fifteen months on and what a transformational journey this has been, unravelling another layer of self-authenticity. I have even begun to embrace my hair's natural waves. It might sound crazy, but I now see the roots of my hair like the roots of a tree – they go deep within to the core of me, like an anchor symbolising an inner strength that can withstand anything. A journey of self-love.
Instagram: @sukhi_silver_journey
Naomi Jones (40)
"I am pleased you dyed it, the grey was really ageing". I was 21 and my glamorous colleague's wife's words hit home. Confirming my fears that white hair is a big no-no, I started a process of dyeing my hair, which was to last two decades, spending three hours in the hairdressers every four weeks. Then lockdown hit and hairdressers shut. Three months without dye and my hair was healthier. The white actually made my skin look brighter. Embracing your grey does not mean letting yourself go. I still invest in good haircuts and have found a love of colour in my clothing and makeup. Not everyone likes it, but I get more compliments than negative feedback, mainly from women in their twenties who come up to me to say they love it. The next generation is better at embracing beauty in its different forms and these are the words I listen to now.
Instagram: @silverat40
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For their adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's tragic portrait of passion and hypocrisy among the czarist aristocracy, "Anna Karenina," screenwriter Tom Stoppard and director Joe Wright have adopted a surprising and successful approach: They've made it fun. This may sound tough to do without trivializing the passion and anguish at the story's core, but the movie's breezy, stagy style (especially in its first half) both keeps momentum going through the dense forest of characters and enhances the inevitable, sorrowful conclusion.
One way to transform an 800-page Russian novel into a film just over two hours long is to eliminate transitions. Here it's done literally: We're often looking at the action through a proscenium arch, and characters are prone to walking through a set of doors from one scene directly to the next. It's a clever, lively device that keeps you on your toes as a viewer, without veering into Baz Luhrmann-style anachronism. Other techniques, such as rhythmic, tightly choreographed movements in offices and wheat fields as well as in ballrooms, add to the brisk theatricality while emphasizing both the mechanical rigidity of aristocratic society and the comforts of its regularity.
Wright ("Pride & Prejudice," "Atonement") returns to literary adaptation after a brief hiatus, and brings his favorite actor, Keira Knightley -- and her clavicles -- along to 1874 Imperial Russia. Knightley's Anna owes a visual debt to Greta Garbo's 1935 incarnation, but she makes this paragon of infidelity and indecision her own. The rest of the cast serves well, with Matthew Macfadyen playing the boisterous Oblonsky much as Kevin Kline might have 20 years ago, and Jude Law exhibiting maturity, restraint and grief as Anna's cuckolded husband (it's amazing what a Russian beard can do for a guy's image!). Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Count Vronsky, on the other hand, comes off as a callow pretender undeserving of Anna's relentless obsession.
Folks have been arguing for well over a century whether Anna Karenina is a victim of the patriarchal society in which she lived or of her own unruly passions. (More recently, they have argued over whether she exhibits borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder, and what she should have been prescribed.) Whatever the interpretation, Stoppard and Wright have demonstrated that Anna's saga has lost none of its power.


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Valérie Lemercier did not reprise her role because she thought it was way too similar to the first movie and she "did not want to do the same thing twice." She also found the scenario very bad.
Die konkreten Zugangsvoraussetzungen für die Aufnahme in die MBA-Studiengänge sind ein mit einem Diplom, Bachelor, Master, Staatsexamen oder einem gleichwertigen Abschluss absolviertes Studium beliebiger Fachrichtung an einer in- oder ausländischen Hochschule; ferner eine mindestens zweijährige, einschlägige berufliche Tätigkeit nach dem Studium.


A trip out to the Llangollen Railway and what a day to pick - it's the Eisteddfod and Charles & Camilla are visiting! Needless to say that there wasn't a parking spot anywhere except for the extortionate municipal job which cost an absolute fortune so we moved on - do they REALLY want tourists to visit the town? We eventually headed for Carrog but decided to stop off at The Chainbridge Hotel for something to eat. This was the view from the hotel.
Sadly the bridge itself was closed off and a good job too because it had clearly seen better days. Like much of North Wales the hotel is badly in need of some remedial works but will the level of business allow for it - the eternal dilemma?
A train arrived with 7822 "Foxcote Manor" in charge.
The train set off for Carrog as the engine brewed up.
I just managed to get to Carrog station as the Manor was reversing round the train.
I like the Llangollen railway very much, it runs through spectacular scenery and Llangollen itself can be explored at will. However, on the day I visited, the town was packed with visitors but they did not appear to be visiting the railway. It lacks character somewhere, there is no sense of excitement and everything seems to happen in slow motion. When we arrived at Llangollen there were several people wanting to photograph the engine but couldn't because staff members were messing about on and around the cab. The engine sat there for an interminable amount of time before anyone bothered to uncouple it and then another long wait before a signalman arrived to organise the runround. Having travelled on the train, passengers inevitably want to photograph the engine - everyone has a digital camera these days - with or without their family on the shot but the constant fussing tends to prevent this. Why can't the engine come in, be uncoupled, run round and then recouple to allow visitors to shoot away to their heart's content without having to spend an hour or so to take what they see as memorable pictures? Llangollen isn't alone in this and many railways would do well to consider the lot of the amateur photographer. Well positioned, fenced compounds would surely go a long way towards eliminating the dangerous and unwanted trespass that we see and hear about all too often.


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Tracey Murphy Speaks about Susan Murphy Milano and the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit at Crime Survivors Award Event
Tracey Murphy, advocate and intimate partner violence survivor, will be speaking at the 2013 Crime Survivors Awards Banquet, sponsored by Crime Survivors, Inc. Friday, April 26, 2013 at Anaheim Marriott, 12015 Harbor Boulevard, Garden Grove, CA.
The purpose of this event is to present public safety personnel from the private and public sector with awards for assisting and helping victims of crime; Bringing awareness, prevention, and survival to all of the surrounding communities while offering resources and services to victims of crime. This event is also a fund-raising opportunity for Crime Survivors, Inc. to help support our programs. All proceeds raised by this event will go directly to programs for Crime Survivors. http://www.crimesurvivors.org/page/events/2013-crime-survivors-awards-banquet/
For several years Tracey Murphy was mentored by the late Susan Murphy Milano, nationally recognized intimate partner violence expert. Murphy assisted her in the exposure of the revolutionary Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit (EAA) described in detail in Murphy Milano's book, Time's Up: A Guide on How to Leave an Abusive and Stalking Relationship. Using the EAA in her own safety and escape plan, Tracey Murphy is a testament to the favorable results of the EAA and how it can be used successfully in helping victims of intimate partner violence enhance their personalized safety plan and escape abuse.
Tracey Murphy is one of a handful of advocates carrying the torch of Susan Murphy Milano's work through Document The Abuse, bringing awareness to audiences and organizations across the country of the benefits of the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit and teaching how it can be incorporated into existing protocols. The importance of the EAA to first responders, law enforcement, court personnel, hospital personnel and domestic violence advocates is one of Murphy Milano's significant contributions to the vast issue of keeping victims of abuse from becoming murder victims.
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Of the assets listed for sale in Q1 2016, thousands are still available for purchase. Clear differences are seen among equipment types and manufacturers.
Key Takeaways for Decision Makers
RENTER/SELLER: When pricing assets, relying on average list prices from resale websites can lead to skewed results. Many listings have already been listed for sale for an extended period of time and may not reflect current market conditions.
EQUIPMENT MANAGER: Due to depreciation and overhead costs, you'll have better bargaining power when negotiating a price for equipment that takes longer to sell. On the other hand, dealers have less incentive to compromise on equipment that's in high demand and sells quickly.
Heavy equipment sellers know finding the right buyer for a piece of machinery can take time. Although adjustments might be made to the price or description in order to attract more customers, the asset can remain on the market for weeks, months, or even longer.
How many assets remained on the market for at least one year? To answer that question, we began with two datasets. The first contained sales listings recorded from January to April of 2016, while the second contained listings from April 2017. By comparing the two groups of data, we identified thousands of pieces of equipment that were on the market in 2016 and were still listed for sale 12 to 15 months later.
Serial numbers played a critical role in the analysis. After all, there's nothing surprising about seeing a dealer list multiple assets with the same make, model, and model year. But in each case, the serial number is unique, allowing us to determine whether we're really looking at the same unit at two different periods of time. Advertisements that did not include serial numbers were excluded from the analysis. Furthermore, focus was narrowed to twelve of the most common equipment types in the construction space, leaving 130,000 unique pieces of equipment to classify.
Overall, about 18% of assets on the market last year were also seen in Q2 of 2017. The remaining 82% were no longer listed for sale. In many cases, this is because the individual pieces of equipment were sold through the private market or at auction. Other possibilities are that the dealer chose to rent the unit rather than sell it or simply removed the advertisement. In general, a low percentage of units listed in both years speaks to a dealer's ability to sell that kind of equipment.
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In the graph above, note that the percentage of slow-selling assets was much lower for small equipment like compact excavators, skid steers, and compact track loaders. On the other hand, rear dumps and graders were especially likely to remain on the market for a year or more. Given the wide variety of applications calling for compact equipment, it's no surprise that these units are in high demand. Compared to larger wheel loaders and dozers, the low price points also present less of an obstacle for buyers.
Large generator sets appear to be an anomaly until specific models are examined. The average price across the entire equipment type is comparable to pricing for compact track loaders and backhoes, but the largest power units often sell for $500,000 or more. You won't find these pieces of equipment in every contractor's fleet, and with lower demand, it's logical that these units take time to sell.
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At the manufacturer level, the breakdown showed similar variability. Of the manufacturers selected, Bobcat had the lowest percentage of units on the market in both 2016 and 2017. Out of the thousands of items available on the used market in Q1 2016, only 11% can still be found on resale platforms nationwide. Volvo and Takeuchi units proved harder to sell, but this is likely due to the types of equipment in question. Much of the Volvo equipment fell into the rear dump or wheel loader categories, which would not be expected to sell as quickly as Bobcat's compact equipment.
Only Multiquip and Wacker had a higher proportions of slow selling assets. About 32% of Multiquip units were no longer on the market in 2017, leaving 68% yet to be sold. However, all of the Multiquip models considered here fell into one equipment type (Large Generator Sets), making it difficult to compare them to the other manufacturers. Wacker Neuson is a similar case. In general, differences at the manufacturer level can be attributed to product mix rather than inherent characteristics of the manufacturer.
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The most interesting comparisons are made at the intersection of equipment type and manufacturer. Bobcat, Case, Caterpillar, Deere, and Volvo produce equipment in all four of the categories shown above and can be compared directly. No single manufacturer consistently had the highest or lowest percentage. For example, although Bobcat equipment in general tended to exit the market within a year, Deere's compact excavators were less likely to be recorded in both years than their Bobcat counterparts. Unsurprisingly, the patterns are the same between compact track loaders and skid steers, with Case leading the pack.
With so many other factors at play, it is important not to assume that brand itself is causing items to sell quickly or slowly. Instead, these figures highlight the importance of examining how long as asset has been listed for sale when buying, selling, or conducting other research.
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Stardate 06.15.2022.A: My Orvillian Nightmare - A Review Of "Electric Sheep" (The Orville S03E01)
Wouldn't you know it?
I'm on vacation, and the BnB I'm staying at has a Hulu account. I don't have one – generally speaking, I'm not a fan of paywalls, though I have broken down on a few fronts – so imagine my surprise when I was afforded this opportunity to watch an episode or two of The Orville: New Horizons as a bonus perk? I've always intended to put up some episode reviews for the popular Seth MacFarlane program – bought the first two seasons on DVD intending to do so – but how about stumbling into the chance to start with Season 03's premiere installment?
I've mentioned in this space that I'm not a big fan of Seth's trademark humor. It isn't awful; I just find the vast majority of it a bit easy, occasionally a bit lazy, and every now and then a bit uninspired. While it isn't always predictable, it possesses elements some might see coming more than a mile down the road. Think what you will, but my position is cheap comedy doesn't do Science Fiction or Fantasy any favors.
Thankfully, Seth and friends have largely dialed it back so far as The Orville is concerned. There's a barb here and there, but much of it in this episode is far more casual and less structured than what's come before. Heck, even a few of the asides pass so quickly some viewers might not even notice them. I could argue that – since they're no longer the focus of attention – then why bother with them? Sticking with the 'MacFarlane signature appeal' only for the sake of maintaining that connection to his other properties is a benign way of throwing a creator a bone (as they say); but I – for one (and I realize I'm alone) – am glad it's been mildly refocused.
However, "Electric Sheep" – the first episode of this new season – still felt clunky, much of which is owed to its curious design.
For the bulk of the hour-plus, the ship sits in dry dock, undergoing a full refit now that it's been moved to Hulu (and, yes, also accounting for the huge conflict that the program dealt with with the Kaylon). As a result, there are sequences and scenes crafted around this construction, essentially tying the show even closer to Star Trek: The Next Generation's famed 'technobabble' than ever before. Yes, yes, yes: I realize these are small bits that some believe help 'set the mood' of a show that's grounded in SciFi … my point is that they don't feel organic. They feel staged. As a consequence, staged bits slow down the narrative, and I'd question whether or not that's the best use of any show's time, especially The Orville, whose morality plays don't embrace the hard scifi subjects that TNG did (thus far).
Also, what does it truly say about a show when its best special effects stuff is part and parcel of a dream sequence?
In an attempt to hype the show for this Hulu move as well as the thankless delay COVID placed on all of Hollywood production, MacFarlane released this massive five-minute effects' sequence a few months back: it featured one of the program's secondary characters – Dr. Finn's children – running about the ship as it was being destroyed in a massive attack. It was dynamic. It was thrilled. It was the stuff that, naturally, encourages folks to tune in and find out what happens next! Well … sigh … it was all a dream. Granted, unlike the standing around talking about the ship rebuild scenes which added very little to the main plot, this 'preview' tied in to the hour's main thrust … so I guess we need to be thankful for small favors.
In any event, much like The Orville episodes on Fox, this adventure was another cerebral exercise for morality purists: it deals chiefly with suicide as the ship finds itself in the precarious situation of having to say goodbye to one of its finest characters (and its most Trek derivative), Isaac. In a move to increase ship's efficiency, the android electronically fries his brain, thus killing himself as a way to push the crew past their obvious reservations about serving alongside a member of a race responsible for killing so many who served in the Planetary Union.
As the episode's primary story, this doesn't truly allow for much action. As I've implied, this presents a moral quandary – along with the clear emotional tie-ins – and it requires a wealth of talking amongst the characters to explore this 'strange new predicament.' The chief catalyst for much of the moral quandary involves an all-new cast member – actress Anne Winters enlists in the role of Ensign Charly Burke, who I'm (ahem) affectionately going to refer to as 'Ensign Snotty.' (Yes, you can infer from that I didn't much care for her.) Her personal experience in the Kaylon massacre has left her with an understandable grudge against Isaac … and, lo and behold, it's also her personal skill set that makes her the only person in all of the galaxy who can bring the fallen crewmate back from the dead.
While others might find that particularly intriguing, I thought it was a bit too formulaic for these dire circumstances. It's the kind of thing that's been done before elsewhere (in Science Fiction and Fantasy). MacFarlane's script tries hard to give it some kind of greater dramatic weight, but substantive moments delivered from an unlikeable character don't always ring authentically, not in the moment. It's a sequence that'll likely be followed up upon in a later episode, so as a standalone instant I didn't make too much of it. I suspect we'll see more of Ensign Snotty, and then we'll be able to gauge whether or not she's taken steps forward as a new addition to the team.
Otherwise, "Electric Sheep" still felt uneven.
Many of show's characters are sidelined into small moments, and even a few barely capture seconds of screen time. Bortus – a staple for so many of the show's better episodes – is reduced to a mere bridge officer, and here's hoping the player gets some exposure in the next hour. Also, there's a surplus of time around the show's addition of a new fighter-craft, giving The Orville more of a 'Star Wars' trait than was ever a 'Star Trek' one. Also, this new ship – the Pteradon – doesn't even figure into the episode's main plot in any substantive way, giving its sequences a feeling of gratuitousness that The Orville has never had in the past.
Is this the 'New Horizons' hinted at in the program's title?
If it is, then maybe it's better behind a paywall where gamers and their friends come together.
Though I've never been The Orville's biggest fan, I appreciated the earnestness put into legitimate storytelling, ignoring the temptation to the 'flash and sizzle' that all too easily takes over visually in favor of spinning real yarn. "Electric Sheep" felt like it was more of an appeal to "electric sheep" – a term I've heard applied to those who live in online games as opposed to reality – and I'm not sure that's the connotation intended.


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January 14, 2014 · by NoCoda. Record Reviews	· in 7 Star, Across The Pond, Chill, Dream, Indie, Melodic, Random Discoveries, Shoegaze.	·
The Echo Label
What It Sounds Like: Mellow, relaxed indie rock with touches of dream and shoegaze, perfect for a rainy night in.
I knew virtually nothing about Engineers when I picked up this record. So what drew me in? First, it's on The Echo Label, so I was pretty hopeful that it wasn't going to be a flat-out dud. Second, the cover artwork is wonderful. I'm a fan of that type of futuristic, modern building that looks like it has been left abandoned on a distant planet in a faraway galaxy. It reminded me of the first Unknown Mortal Orchestra record, and how much I liked that album cover.
Could I sound any more like a hipster at the moment?
The trouble that I expected to encounter here was that the songs were going to sound too similar; it was going to be next to impossible to differentiate this record from track to track the way that I was hoping for. It's true, it does kind of mesh together. Waved On hangs on a little longer than it needs to, while Said And Done offers little variation over its almost five-minute running time. That being said though, they're both completely enjoyable songs. I still listen to Said And Done and ask myself – why doesn't this drag? By all rights, it should be dragging – but it's over before I know it, and I've enjoyed it the whole way through.
There's no mistaking the appeal, however, of standouts like Come In Out Of The Rain, which may be the most energetic track of the set, while still maintaining that sense of melodic flow and smooth tones, or New Horizons, which is a stargazing track if I've ever heard one. Forgiveness could be a Feeder b-side ballad, and seeing as though they are my favorite band, that's gotta be saying something for my appeal of this record. Come to think of it, a lot of these tracks could be toned-down Feeder b-sides. The lyrics are simplistic and sometimes vague, and the instrumentals are slow and grand. They even let the speakers fly sometimes, like on the fairly epic closer One And Seven, which finishes in a flurry of seemingly every instrument in the studio being turned up to full volume, and while still being melodic, just powerfully exhaling themselves through the amps.
Engineers couldn't make another record just like this – that would be the wrong move, and they would certainly fall into the pit of repetition. But I would be excited to see what direction their future records take. As of this current posting, I haven't heard their later records (2009's Three Fact Fader or 2010's In Praise Of More), but I'm certainly interested in checking them out. This self titled record was a solid start.
If you had to listen to two tracks: Forgiveness / Come In Out Of The Rain
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Q: changing values of a column in datatable in vb.net I want to loop through a databale and change the values of a specific column in that datatable.
eg: the database returns Request_ID, Desc, Date and Status_Ind. The Status_Ind column contains integer values. I dont want to show the integer values to the user. I want to convert that to a string value based on the integer values returned in that columns.
if Status_Ind = 1 then
    'the values changes to Published

A: Assuming your DataTable is defined as this:
Dim dt As DataTable

First you need to add a new column to your DataTable to hold the Status:
dt.Columns.Add("Status", Type.GetType("System.String"))

Now Loop through the DataTable and update the status column:
For Each dr As DataRow In dt.Rows
    Select Case CInt(dr.Item("Status_Ind"))
        Case 1
            dr.Item("Status") = "Published"
        Case 2
            dr.Item("Status") = "Some other Status"
        Case Else
            dr.Item("Status") = "Unknown"
    End Select
Next

Then you could then remove the integer column:
dt.Columns.Remove("Status_Ind")

A: You could do it by creating another column:
Dim dt As New DataTable
dt.Columns.Add(New DataColumn("status_int", GetType(Int32)))
dt.Columns.Add(New DataColumn("status_str", GetType(String)))

'add example row - not publised
Dim newDr0 As DataRow = dt.NewRow
newDr0(0) = 0
dt.Rows.Add(newDr0)

'add example row - publised
Dim newDr1 As DataRow = dt.NewRow
newDr1(0) = 1
dt.Rows.Add(newDr1)

For Each dr As DataRow In dt.Rows
    Select Case dr(0)
        Case 1
            dr(1) = "Published"
        Case Else
            dr(1) = "Not published"
    End Select
Next

For Each dr In dt.Rows
    Console.WriteLine(dr(0).ToString + " " + dr(1).ToString)
Next

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The balm of classical music | Babelia
"I am the Music, and with sweet accents I know how to appease any tormented heart and pray with noble anger, pray with love, I can inflame the most frigid souls. With golden lyre I sometimes ground the mortal ears to delight singing; and in this way I further encourage souls to the sound harmony of the lyre of heaven ": this is how the allegorical character of La Música expresses himself at the beginning of Orpheus, the "Favors in music" from Claudio Monteverdi with which symbolically begins the history of the opera. Any musical recommendation to accompany our forced confinement these days should necessarily start here.
The unusual images of our desert cities and towns have a perfect musical correlate in the spiritual concert Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste (How deserted is the city), a spiritual concert composed by Matthias Weckmann in 1663, whose text taken from the Jeremiah's Lamentations, although referring to Jerusalem, it served to graphically depict the ravages caused in that year by a plague epidemic in Hamburg.
Whoever longs for outings in the countryside and contact with nature will find solace in Symphony "Pastoral" from Beethoven or in An Alpine Symphony from Richard Strauss, which graphically describes with sounds the ascent to a mountainous summit, with all its vicissitudes. And the long hours recovered for leisure will allow activities almost always forgotten: contemplating the moon, for example, companion and confidante of romantic poets and composers. A Goethe poem starring the inevitable Wanderer who wanders alone and aimlessly with the moon as the only company inspired one of the best songs of Franz Schubert.
Lost the usual references that differentiated Monday from Thursday, or Wednesday from Sunday, now that every day inevitably resemble each other, now that the lives of many have become the same theme with the introduction of small but welcome variations, Nothing better than spending some time listening to one of the most prolific and longest-running genres in Western musical history. And much better to opt for very little known examples, such as Aria Variata Johann Christoph Bach, great-uncle of Johann sebastian, who called him a "deep composer"; waves Variations in F minor, by Joseph Haydn, a rare gem; waves Variations on a Schumann theme that the young man Johannes Brahms he wrote as a tribute to his friend and mentor.
A gender-specific variant of the variations are the chaconas or passacaglias, in which a bass remains unchanged while the upper voices continue to transform. Here, too, the possibilities are almost endless, but let's stick with four very different examples: Jesu meines Lebens Leben, Dieterich Buxtehude; the last of those known as Sonatas of the Rosary, by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, a musical representation of the Guardian Angel, to whom many will be trusting these days; the last move of the Fourth symphony by Brahms, inspired by the final chorus of the Cantata BWV 150 Bach; and the Chaconne chromatique which closes the Sonata for solo viola from György Ligeti. Listening to them, the days will no longer seem the same.
The running of the bulls also invites the discovery of music whose existence we have ignored until now. Three proposals alone: the motet For the grant senz d'Adriane, a praise of the mythological character of Ariadne written by an Italian Trecento composer, Filippotto da Caserta; the first of the Gesänge der Frühe, one of the piano miracles of the last and already alienated Robert Schumann; and the conclusive movement of the Notturn by the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck, who created one of the most exciting music of the 20th century to ease the pain of heartbreak from extraordinary verses by his compatriot Gottfried Keller.
Whoever longs for the crowds can substitute them for the crowd of instrumentalists and singers that the Eighth Symphony by Mahler, which closes with a Mystical Choir that puts music at the end of the Splendor de Goethe: "Everything transitory / is just a simile; / here the insufficient / becomes evidence; / here the inexpressible / is realized; the Eternal Feminine / pushes us to the top ". Those who choose, on the contrary, to withdraw and take refuge in solitude and music, will feel reflected in the last of the Rückert-Lieder from own Gustav Mahler. And for those who prefer to put themselves in the hands of Providence, or for those who despair, Bach is a reference that never disappoints: "I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and I wait for his word", is sung in the chorus of his youth Cantata BWV 131. Also the divinity, not necessarily the Christian, is the recipient of the song of thanks that, recovered from a very serious illness, Beethoven composed as a slow movement of his Quartet op. 132, an obligatory music in times of illness, convalescence and healing.
In the year of its anniversary, when the great Bundeskunsthalle exhibition in Bonn has had to close its doors and so many concerts dedicated to its music have been suspended, Beethoven has to have at least a double presence on this list. Fraternity, so necessary these days, appears exalted not only in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony, but also at the end of his opera Fidelio: "The brother looks for his brothers and, if he can help him, he does it with pleasure." This same ideal of union encourages Variations on "The united people will never be defeated", from the American Frederic Rzewski, who has endorsed as never before a born fighter like the pianist Igor Levit.
"But –paraphrasing Forges– let's not forget Italy", and what better way to remember it than with the music that Hugo Wolf imagined for the poem that Goethe made Mignon sing in Wilhelm Meister's years of learning: "Do you know the land where the lemon tree flourishes?" We know it and we cannot forget it. And when all this is over, there, here and everywhere, we will thank with the monodic sobriety of the sequences and antiphons of Hildegard von Bingen or with the polyphonic effervescence, bathed in Italian light, of the end of the Dixit Dominus from Georg Friedrich Händel.
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