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My fight for democracy
A Message from Cindy Sheehan
Ron McCallie
Another Dishonorable Chicken-hawk
by Cindy Sheehan
I know just a little bit about Mr. William Kristol:
He is the son of one of the founders of the "neo-conservative" movement, Irving Kristol.
He is a commentator on Fox News.
He was Chief of Staff for one of the political "geniuses" of our time: VP Dan Quayle.
He is editor of another Rupert Murdoch war-propaganda rag, "The Weekly Standard."
He is a member, and signer, of the Project for the New American Century, which is a game plan for US global hegemony based on military strength and one of its goals and objectives was the over-throw of the Hussein Regime in Iraq with a next stop in Iran and Syria (because the PNAC plan is going so well, so far).
By all accounts, Mr. Kristol is a brilliant man, who like his father before him, uses his brilliance for destruction. He is a shameless supporter of a failed, murderous, and miserable strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and one of the "mushroom cloud" crowd.
One thing Mr. William Kristol is not, is a combat vet.
Although he was born in 1952, he never served during Vietnam. I am sure while at Harvard he was a staunch supporter of the American effort to enrich the war profiteers while ostensibly stopping that war's "enemy" communism from spreading across Asia. Secure in his studies during that quagmire, Kristol joins a long line of neo-con chicken-hawks who are drenched in other people's blood and love to send other people's children to die for their lies.
I don't know anything, or care to know anything about Mr. Kristol's private life. I don't care if he is another closeted gay Republican or is a happily married hetero with children. I do suspect, however, that if Mr. Kristol is married, his children are not serving in Iraq, being misused by the very same incompetent and cowardly Commander in Chief (who also did not serve in Vietnam) that Mr. Kristol shamelessly supports while the entire administration and Republican hypocrites are crumbling from corruption and scandal.
I do know one thing for sure about Mr. Kristol, he does not like to be bothered with those pesky little things called facts. On February 20, 2003, Mr. Kristol incredibly gushed: "If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world." This statement shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the Arab world or any kind of foreign policy sophistication (but does show a great use of Rovian-Foxian expolitation of emotion). No one in the Arab world (except maybe, Israel, which is geographically located in the "Arab world") was calling for the US to "free" Iraqis. No one from Iraq except "Curveball" or the slimy and profit-motivated, Ahmad Chalabi, both Iraqis who weren't even living in the country at the time of the invasion were calling on the USA to liberate them. In fact, after many years of murderous sanctions against Iraq, a fierce nationalism arose in opposition to the US-UN led sanctions. According to National Intelligence Estimates, since the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Islamic Jihadism has increased. Mr. Kristol is also incredibly ignorant of human nature and human history. No peoples like to be occupied. No child, brother or sister, or mother or father, who sees a loved one blown away by American or insurgent's bombs will love the oppressor. In fact, violence only creates more violence and more life-long enemies.
Now Mr. Kristol is safe behind his desk and computer calling for another attack against Iran. I think he hears the non-existent cries of the Iranian people to be liberated from their regime. The Iranian people are directly next-door to Iraq and they see what US "liberation" brings. It comes with the awful price of high civilian casualties; hospitals bombed, Doctors killed; no electricity or clean water; and eternal occupation.
In a recent op-ed for The Weekly Standard, Mr. Kristol makes many more tactical and fundamental errors. The ANSWER coalition is calling for mass mobilizations begining the week (Sept. 15) that the White House authored Petraeus report on the surge is due. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), who are leading the September 15th march, are calling for a "die-in" to end the march and begin the rally. The vets, unlike the chicken-hawk neocons, have actually served in war, particularly the one that Mr. Kristol imagines is such a success. IVAW is asking activists to represent a killed service-member and at an appropriate time lie down. Taps will be played and also a simulated 21-gun salute. It sounds respectful to me, being the mom of one of the soldiers, and I will proudly, yet sorrowfully, be lying down for my son that day. Many of the march/rally participants will be "dying" to represent the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed for Mr. Kristol's deceptions.
Mr. Kristol calls on the "honorable" members of the anti-war movement to denounce the die-in and lumps MoveOn.org with other organizers of the die-in. MoveOn is not associated with the die-in as they do not support non-violent, direct civil disobedience. What I find so amusing is that Mr. PNAC-Fox News-Chicken-hawk has made himself the judge of what is honorable.
Mr. Kristol has a problem with the anti-war movement using the names of the fallen without the permission of the families. No one got my permission when my sons portrait was used in the pro-war memorial at Arlington Cemetery. Casey's name and likeness has been used by pro-war people all over the nation without my permission. Why is that okay, Mr. Kristol? I know for a fact such memorials as Arlington West, Eyes Wide Open and our memorial at Camp Casey would remove names of soldiers at the next of kin's request. If any family member so requests, I am sure IVAW will do the same thing---but a word of caution:
Even though the members of IVAW (all my adopted sons and daughters) have a big problem with the occupation of Iraq and with the Bush crime family, they served their country honorably (unlike Mr. Kristol) and they all fought side-by-side with the fallen. They love their brothers and sisters and they would themselves have died to take the place of any one of them. Do not, never, ever, claim that we families, or the Iraq Vets are dishonoring our sons and daughters killed by the lies of The Weekly Standard, Fox News, BushCo., et al. That is the biggest lie of all, or maybe it's this one that Mr. Kristol told on March 1, 2003:
"Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this president."
I would laugh if I weren't crying so hard.
If Mr. Kristol gets his PNAC way, by this time next year, we will need a lot more people at a die-in.
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New Declaration of Independence 2007
I think the Declaration of Independence needs to be modified to fit our current world conditions.
[Adapted In The United States Of America July 4, 2007]
The Unanimous Declaration of the Citizens United States of America From the George W Bush Administration, Corporate Control, Shadow Government, Right Wing Main Stream Media and The Military Industrial Complex
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present President of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Congress to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation With Signing Statements till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to Obey them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has Divided representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; With Voter Caging and Suppression of Votes, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to Increase the population of these states; for that purpose
Ignoring the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and Lowering the conditions of Seeking Employment In The U.S.A, Therefore Driving Down The Wages Of The Working Class.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He Has Misled The American Citizens To Invade A Sovereign Nation To Gain Control Of Their Oil Resources At The Expense Of Taxpayer Funds And The Lives Of Our Young Men And Women In The Military.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with Corporations And The Free Press to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off FAIR trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on While Lowering Taxes On The Most Wealthy Among us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of Constitutional laws in a neighboring States, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these States:
For taking away our Freedoms, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For Hamstringing our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war Against Foreign Nations.
He has Ignored Our Citizens On Our Ravaged Gulf Coasts, Torn Down Our Educational System, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our Fellow Citizens And Citizens Of Other Nations taken captive In All Lands to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections Of Foreign Nations, and has endeavored to bring on the Civil Discourse In Iraq And The Middle East Oil Producing Nations, whose known Rule Does Not Conform With Our Democratic System.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A President, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the Leader of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Republican brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our Disappointment With Them. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the Citizensof the United States of America, in Objection To The Current Administration Are , assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, solemnly publish and declare, that these united Citizens are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the George W Bush Administration, and that all political connection between them and the state of Corporate Oligarchy, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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Jak And Daxter: Naughty Dog Leads And Other PlayStation Devs Reflect On The Precursor Legacy's 20th Anniversary
By DAMN OS on December 3, 2021
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, the Naughty Dog-developed platformer that spawned two sequels and multiple spinoffs, is now 20 years old, and to celebrate the anniversary, Sony has rounded up some retrospective thoughts from Naughty Dog devs and other PlayStation studio leads.
Hitting PlayStation 2 on December 3, 2001, The Precursor Legacy is officially 20 years old, and as noted by Sony Interactive Entertainment content communications manager, Tim Turi, who wrote today's PlayStation Blog post, it marks an interesting point for Naughty Dog. Today, Naughty Dog is best known for Uncharted and The Last of Us, but before those two franchises, their bread and butter was Jak and Daxter, the series the studio developed after its bout of Crash Bandicoot games.
Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells recalled the difficulty in designing an open world for The Precursor Legacy.
"The biggest thing I learned was the challenge of designing an open world game without using load times," Wells writes. "We set out from the start to design a world and not levels like we were used to coming from Crash, and we made it a rule that if you could see it, you could walk (or boat or fly) to it and that when you reached a building or cave that you could go inside and that the inside would have to fit within the space that the exterior could support. It wasn't easy."
Naughty Dog senior technical artist Charlotte Francis said physics for The Precursor Legacy was one of the most exciting aspects of developing the game.
"I remember being really excited about the physics that had been added to the rope bridge by the programmers, because we had rope bridges on Crash Bandicoot, but they did not have physics on them," Francis said. "We were jumping up and down on the bridge and marveling about how it reacted to Jak jumping on it."
Bend Studio engineering manager Darren Chisum said Jak and Daxter broke a lot of ground, citing that the graphics were "top-of-the-line at the time" and that the game "allowed you to play through very large areas without loading screens," something we might take for granted today. Insomniac Games quality assurance analyst, Heather Finley, said they recall their grandmother owning a console just so her grandkids could play The Precursor Legacy.
"I will forever remember how hard it was, as a kid, to cross the Volcanic Crater on the A-Grav Zoomer or how hard it was to catch 200 pounds of fish for that darn fisherman," Finley said. "It was the first game that I truly considered a favorite of mine. I even mentioned Jak and Daxter when I was interviewing for Insomniac because it had such a huge impact on my life and love for games."
For more about Jak and Daxter, check out this story about how Naughty Dog is not working on a new Jak and Daxter despite the rumors it is.
Did you play Jak and Daxter? Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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Indigenous women protested outside the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday morning to demand action to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls across North America. Madrid police shut down the protest within minutes. On Monday, indigenous youth and elders gathered outside the Canadian Embassy in Madrid to protest the Canadian government's support of the Alberta tar sands extraction and new fossil fuel infrastructure, including a pipeline that would cut through indigenous lands to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Wisconsin. We speak with one of those demonstrators: Eriel Deranger, a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the executive director of Indigenous Climate Action. "Canada comes to these meetings touting themselves as a global leader in addressing the climate crisis, as having great relations with their indigenous peoples," she says. "But the reality is … not a single project that has ever been proposed in the Alberta tar sands has ever been denied."
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Henry Cole lecture 2009: Professor Hongnam Kim
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Thank you for the very generous introduction of me. And I thank all of you for coming this evening to hear my lecture. It is really wonderful to be here - this time Mother Nature finally allowed me to fly into this part of globe. I was very sorry for the postponement of my lecture [which] has inconvenienced many, including my colleagues at the V&A. Before I left Korea, I went through a Google Search to find out who Henry Cole was – because I did not know about him – and found out really wonderful things about him and felt his contribution was so great in British cultural history, particularly for this eminent museum, and I was very honoured and humbled.
My talk today is about the national museums of the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea and the issue of cultural nationalism at these institutions. Japan was the first in Asia to launch national museums in the late 19th century, starting with the Tokyo National museum, followed by the Kyoto and Nara National Museums. The country now possesses about 4,000 museums. The Republic of Korea (hereafter called Korea) launched its central museum (National Museum) in 1945, absolving the Imperial Household Museum which existed from 1908 and of the Kyongju Museum. Korea now boasts about 1,000 museums. The first national museum which the People's Republic of China (hereafter called China) created was the National History Museum in 1915, followed by the Palace Museum in 1925 and the Museum of Chinese Revolution in 1961. China has set out to have more than 3,000 museums within a few more years. The seats of its 33 provinces already have their own museums, often of impressive scale. The museum fever is spreading in Asia. Economic prosperity and political stability obviously are the major driving force behind such an increase of museums in Asia.
These museums have followed the models of the West in their mission to preserve natural and manmade heritage, disseminate knowledge, and educate people, offering authentic experiences though exhibitions and education programmes. Nevertheless, one peculiarity observed from these institutions is the presence of cultural nationalism of varying intensity, which can be discerned from their collections and other programmes.
As proven by their birth years, cultural nationalism is indeed their birthmark; a powerful driving force in the colonial and post-colonial era, multilayered but with different agendas, it helped these museums join in nation-building or nation-rebuilding, and in consolidating national identity. But when too prevailing, or when left inmost, it can continue to shape all programmes, knowingly and unknowingly, promoting prejudice and disrespect among the people of three countries. It can even take a form of cultural imperialism in which hegemony (in a cultural sense) is the explicit goal of the nation states in relation to foreign cultures, as seen during the colonial period. National museums are the foremost example of social institutions of these three nations that are shaped in the penetrating process of corresponding (being attracted, pressured, and even forced) and even promoting the values of cultural nationalism. The outcome can be unhealthy and anti-educational, especially for children and the youths.
It was this issue of cultural nationalism which was of major concern during my tenure as the Director of Korea's National Museum. The question was how much of it is a necessity, and how much of it should be expelled to make the Asian community a healthier and more friendly one with mutual tolerance and respect. In this rapidly changing social world, there isn't much for us to hang onto. Museums, and perhaps universities and libraries, may remain as the last institutions for spiritual comforts, purification, and the reassurance of human dignity.
Now, first, let me brief you on the nature of cultural nationalism in the region. Then I will move on to describe how cultural nationalism was operating in the past, and what sorts of change have occurred to affect these museums in recent years. I must say that the subject turned out to be so loaded that it was like disturbing a beehive. I hope you will bear with me.
Cultural Nationalism and National Museums in East Asia
The first is the cultural nationalism and the national museums of East Asia. Cultural nationalism in East Asia is deeply rooted in the region's geopolitical history. While I talk, I shall have on the screen a moving cultural map of 2000 years for the region as a simple historical survey. The dramatic changes in this map are the result of bloody wars, conquests, colonisation, and independence struggles which involved nearly 60 ethnic people-groups in the East Asian region. Included are the Han Chinese, the Korean and the Japanese who became the final winners in the region as of today. Naturally, ethnic solidarity, patriotism and nationalism were the strongest weapons in these struggles for ethnic and national survival and politic and cultural hegemony. The map ends with the colonial period when Japan nearly succeeded in taking over the entire region, only stopped by the atomic bombing of its mainland in 1945. During these dramatic turns of events, grievances, mistrust, hostility, hatred, racism, bigotry, vengeance, protectionism and ultra-nationalism were incubated and cultivated against each other. It took forms of anti-Japanese sentiment in China and Korea, anti-Chinese sentiment in Korea and Japan, and anti-Korean sentiment in Japan. Among all the countries which participated in the BBC World Service Poll in 2007 and 2008, 2009, South Korea and the People's Republic of China were the only ones whose majorities have strong anti-Japanese sentiment.
The map is still in flux. There has also been the continued territorial dispute over some islands currently controlled and claimed by Japan, but claimed also by China. Japan and Korea are still in debate over the Island of Dokdo in the shared sea of Korea and Japan. Still, numerous issues from the time of Japanese rule continue to generate ill-feeling in China and Korea. It has a lot to do with Japan's refusal to admit and apologize for its wrongdoings, refusal to compensate the victims, and to continue distorting history in school textbooks. The fact is that there can be no forgiveness if one does not ask for it, or wants to be forgiven.
The political situation has also gotten much more complicated owing to the division of Korea by the warlike, communist north [one slide is lost] and the pragmatic, democratic-capitalist south, a precarious situation which offers ground for political manipulation to China and Japan - the former siding with the North for its own interest, the latter as a reason for undue military build-up. China's recent annexation of Tibet and the land of Uyghur has made all their moves in the region suspicious of hidden intentions. Threatening is also the fact that China can exercise a vote in the Security Council at the UN. Japan has been nervous and defensive as China and Korea have posed serious challenges and threats by encroaching upon its share of world trade. With the memory of the pre-Modern era when China exerted its political dominance and cultural imperialism on them, Korea and Japan are cautiously watching China's recent rise as a world power. We do not really know how this map will change in the future.
This time-old, threesome affair resulted in an interesting phenomenon, that much of the cultural nationalism has been internally oriented within the region. But now it comes to have an added dimension as they are interwoven in the global competition in economy and culture. It is either to reclaim the mastership of Asian culture to the world as in the case of China (well felt at the opening ceremony for the 2009 Summer Olympic in China); or to rebuke such a claim in the case of Japan (holding to its past glory) or to prove its own significance and cultural identity in the case of Korea (as revealed by the new national museum building). All three are involved in globalization but largely without forsaking cultural nationalism. This is in line with what Henry Kissinger wrote in his article, 'Price of Globalization' (for a newspaper of Abhu Dabhi. Gulf News, May 27, 2008). I quote, 'For the first time in history, a genuine global economic system has come into being with the prospect of heretofore unimagined well-being. At the same time - paradoxically - the process of globalization tempts a nationalism that threatens its fulfillment'. Yes, it is true that the trend of globalization fired up cultural nationalism in a new way, however more inclined towards contest than the earlier oppression and aggression among three countries. Globalization has inspired regional solidarity and alliance to guard the region against the powerful outsider. There has not been the formation of an Asian Union like the European Union. It may not be possible as long as two ideologies, namely communism and democracy, co-exist in conflict in Asia.
Now let us turn to the museums themselves. Given the time limit I shall refrain from giving you too many details for each museum under discussion. First, national museums of China.
National museums of China
There was a time when the Chinese culture was represented by the two great national museums; the Palace Museum, Beijing, in that Forbidden City and the National Palace Museum, Taipei. But in the last ten years, The Communist Party decided to create a new national museum of China by merging the existing History museum and the Revolutionary Museum attached to the Tiananmen Square. It is due to open within this year. In a rather dusty condition, rarely visited, it had been more famous since 1990 for its Countdown Billboard hung on its 313 meters long façade for such events as the resumption of China's sovereignty of Hong Kong (1997) and of Macau (1998), and for the Beijing Olympics 2008, as you see here. And it was recently for the 2010 Shanghai Expo. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage has recently handed over to the Museum about 400,000 cultural relics in its possession, as an addition to the existing 600,000 items. Major archaeological discoveries heretofore housed in provincial museums will be presented on a rotation basis. When it opens, the exhibition space of 192,000 square metres will more than double the previous space. It will have 28 new exhibition halls and state of the art exhibition facilities and storage. The Museum will become one of the largest in the word, not to mention in Asia. The collection is to cover the Chinese culture from the Paleolithic period through to the end of Qing dynasty, as well as all the mementos for the achievements of the Red Army leading to the founding of PRC. Obviously cultural nationalism will remain a strong undercurrent geared by the State.
The Palace Museum collection in the Forbidden City shares the Ming and Qing imperial collection with the National Palace Museum Taipei. Quite a number of objects from this collection also went overseas during the chaotic time of dynastic collapse and in the early part of the 20th century. Limited by the nature of the space and the collection, the Museum could not extend its programmes much beyond its holdings. However, lately it managed to create a space for special exhibitions for international loan exhibitions; it has held such exhibitions as the one from Vienna's royal collection.
Both museums have not held Asia-related exhibitions in their history as far as I know. In 2007, however, when I met the Director of the new National Museum, he revealed a plan to install a permanent space to show Asian art on a rotation basis. It would be interesting to see what will be the fundamental concept of exhibitions for this Asia Gallery; would it be [based on] cultural diversity, cultural relativism, or continued cultural imperialism? [Would it express] objectivity and aesthetic appreciation? Would it be too hopeful to imagine that they will try to show the East Asian culture flourished as a creative extension of, and eventual independence from, the Chinese culture as exemplified in Western art history and by the great Western museums which have recognized all important achievements of different countries and regions in the West. China's nationalism and cultural nationalism coming from both the state and the people were understandable at a time when China, having escaped from the crisis, felt insecure of its national and cultural identity, and defensive of Western culture.
Now time has changed. It is hopeful that Chinese historians, art historians and aesthetic minds who would come forward to link all Asian culture and art in a holistic approach. Hopefully, China, a big country, stands with a big mind to embrace cultural and ethnic diversity and history of the region and redefine its larger role in the region. Again hopefully there will be no more of the old Han-Chinese mentality that 'We are the center of the world, we are the sum of Asian culture'.
Now let us move on to the national museums of Japan.
National museums of Japan
Unlike China and Korea whose holding of cultural relics, both public and private, is much limited to the heritage of their own people, Japan's holdings cover a diverse range from its own to the Western art and to that of Asia, especially of China and Korea. The country's East Asian holding began very early on, when Buddhism was accepted as state-religion, initiated by the regent prince Shotoku Taishi and the ruling Soga family of Korean origin in the late 6th century. The building of Buddhist temples in their political centre Asuka called for the import of Buddhist artists and temple builders from Korea, whose descendants were mobilized to build the world's oldest surviving wooden architecture, the Horyuji temple, the images within.
From the Nara period of the 8th century Japan turned away from Korea to Tang China and its culture with great enthusiasm. A large number of Chinese cultural relics began to pour into Japan as well testified by the Shoso-in imperial treasury in Nara. Another large-scale import of Korean craftsmen took place during the Japanese invasion of Korea during the reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the last decade of the 16th century. During this war, the peninsular was reduced to ashes and all palaces and Buddhist temples were sacked before burning. The Japanese taste for Korean ceramics developed under the influence of Senno Rikyu, the famous tea master and connoisseur in the house of Hideyoshi. The daimiao of Kyushu was the last to join the War under the condition that their reward will be the Korean potters (a large number of potters were taken to Kyushu as captives) This resulted in the rise of Kyushu as the centre of ceramics in Japan and in the world. Thus this war has been popularly called in Japan and Korea as the 'Ceramic War'.
This imported continental culture became the foundation for the Japanese to invent its own unique culture from the Heian period on. Another significant inflow, this time from China, was in the field of painting. Masterpieces of Chinese painting of Southern Song, rejected by China's literati collectors, entered the treasury of Japanese monasteries in Kyoto and resulted in a great flowering of Japanese ink painting with such masters as Josetsu and Sesshu of the 15th century. This list of Japan's importation of Chinese and Korean art can go on and on until the last large-scale inflow of Chinese and Korean art and crafts during the colonial period.
Such respect and admiration for the Chinese and Korean culture began to switch to that of disrespect at a certain point in Japan's history. The first sign appeared during the reigning years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, an expansionist himself, with an ambition to conquer and plunder Korea and China. But the decisive turning point came with the Meiji Restoration of the imperial power during which time cultural imperialism began to prevail Japan. As Asia's first industrialized country with a modernized army, Japan struggled to attain equality with the Western Powers which otherwise would have colonize the country [they believed]. A decision to distinguish itself from the rest of backward, inferior Asia called for its policy of 'Separation-from-Asia'. In other words Japan no longer wished to be a part of Asian civilization from this point. It is uncertain whether contemporary Japan has completely abandoned such a notion.
A rich depository of Chinese and Korean cultural relics has been handed down to the present mostly in pristine condition. It was possible thanks to the very special sense of care and preservation of all things of the Japanese people and the absence of foreign invasion in Japanese history except for the civil wars, which luckily left temples and imperial palaces mostly intact. At times when Japan's economy slows, the Chinese and Korean art objects surface on the international market, whose sellers are from Japan. Such richness of East Asian cultural relics would have been enough for Japan to possess a museum in match to the biggest institutions of the West to showcase the Asian civilization and culture. But it is not the case with the state-run national museums. But some private collections of Chinese and Korean art which did go public, namely the Sumitomo Collection, the Idemitsu Collection for Chinese art, and the Ataka Collection for Korean ceramics which eventually entered the Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramic Art.
Although the Tokyo National Museum[now you've already seen the slide of the Museum] has maintained one separate building called Toyokan devoted to Asian art. It has been left dusty with little signs of curatorial activities for a long time, not to mention the depressing state of Korean art display on the 3rd floor with few visitors. Kyoto and Nara National Museums would have Chinese art on small-scale displays, but Korean art is shown sporadically and is mostly limited to the Buddhist context. I used to comment on this observation when I saw the directors of the Tokyo National Museum. They would smile back at me in agreement, and talk about the lack of acquisition fund and their future renovation plans for the Toyokan. They also expressed an honest concern over the possibility of a repatriation dispute with China and Korea, once on public display - an issue too large and delicate to cover in today's talk.
One positive note to end this part of the talk on Japan is that there has been a significant change in the governance of national museums in Japan as part of the national government's administrative reform programme. In 2001, three formerly independent national museums - Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara National Museums - merged under the official name of the corporate entity called Independent Administrative Institution (IAI) National Museum [a long name!]. In 2005, a fourth institution was added - the Kyushu National Museum. In 2007, this museum entity is again merged with the National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties consisted of the Tokyo and Nara Research Institute. Finally all brought under the Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
As a long-term goal, Japan's National Museum aims to enhance its function as an educational facility, and as a platform for international cultural exchanges and the dissemination of Japanese culture. Short term planning is focused on improving the efficiencies of operation and enhancing the range of services provided to the public, and consolidating the museums' financial position.
This consolidation, however, meant the restructuring of manpower by cutting at least one-fifth of the staff; it also meant the reduction of government budget by about 40 percent, as well as the staff rotation among the institutions. Still experimental at this stage, it has brought hardship on the staff who had been so used to the old system. But, eventually they may enjoy, probably and hopefully, 40 percent of independence from the Government. Now we will wait and see what our museum colleagues in Japan will do with this newly acquired freedom, as spelled out in their mission statement, and whether they will be able to turn this freedom into the freedom from Japan's own burden of the past.
Now, let me move on to the National Museum of Korea, the last museum I will be talking about.
National Museums of Korea
Historically a significant sign of Korea's burgeoning cultural nationalism appeared in relation to China, which was the invention of Korean alphabet in the early 15th century. Initiated by King Sejong, the project was to resolve the discrepancy between the spoken language of its own and the written one borrowed from the Chinese writing, and the resultant high illiteracy. The project was carried out as a top secret, kept from both the Ming Chinese government and the Korean Sino-sycophants who would have opposed it as a challenge to China's political and cultural authority. As a small country, adjoined to the Chinese mainland, Korea had to endure the domineering attitude of China for its survival, but not without mixed feelings throughout its pre-modern history. Nevertheless, Koreans have kept basic respect for China as a cradle of East Asian civilization.
But the case of Japan is quite different. Historically the Korean people considered the Japanese culture being at the receiving end under its own influence. Thus the two Japanese invasions in the last decades of the 16th century came as great shock to Korea and resulted in the initial anti-Japanese sentiment among its people. However, it was Japan's colonial rule over Korea for 36-years from 1910 through to 1945 that caused the fully-fledged anti-Japanese movement. Recorded as the most atrocious in the world's colonial history, Japan set out to erase Korea's core identity, artificially replacing the local religion and language with its own. It was indeed heretofore the worst practice of cultural imperialism. It was during these colonial years that Japan also developed prejudice towards Koreans, labeling them as the inferior people to be ruled. In the year of 1965 twenty years after the liberation when the government of two countries agreed to open a diplomatic relationship, there were demonstrations and riots throughout the country against the decision, which I myself witnessed vividly as a junior-high student at the time.
The very fact that the new Korean government established the National Museum in 1945, the very same year of liberation is very telling of the museum's significance in the process of nation-building and consolidating national identity. The collection was meagre [to start with], made up of the Royal collection of rather mediocre quality. [This picture shows small building in the palace complex which housed the collection] The only non-Korean objects were the Han Chinese material excavated in Lolang, the present Pyongyang of North Korea and the Otani collection of Central Asian Buddhist art, both of which were left behind by accident when the Japanese left Korea hurriedly after the surrender. The only hope for enhancing the collection was archaeological discoveries of ancient tombs, Buddhist monastic sites, and old ceramic kiln sites. This is the reason why the department of archaeology has been the most powerful at the National Museum of Korea. Six out of eight Directors were archaeologists before me, in its history. Nothing Japanese was allowed in the Museum, which reflected the nearly hysterical anti-Japanese mood of the society at the time in all spheres.
This anti-Japanese sentiment was a major source for cultural nationalism in the post-colonial era of Korea. However, after the Seoul Summer Olympics of 1988 things began to change. Hosting the event successfully, Korea earned international recognition and gained confidence and pride. There sprouted quiet wishes to be free from the heavy burden of the colonial past. All felt the 50th anniversary of the liberation in 1995 was the time to do something about it - either to vent out the emotion or to overcome it. The government decided it had to be the demolishment of the Japanese Government's colonial building, the ultimate symbol of Japanese rule and of Japanese imperialism. There was an intense public debate on the issue. The President and his cabinet, and other demolition proponents argued that the building was a symbol of Japanese rule that had been built deliberately to deface the Palace of Gyeongbokgung and to weaken the geomantic potent of the city. Opponents countered that Korea, now a prosperous country, should no longer be troubled by such symbolism and that the reminders of the Japanese era were needed as historical lesson to future generations. Indeed the building was the scene of numerous historical events, housing first the National Assembly and then the Capital Building and so on. Nevertheless, the demolition began on Liberation Day, August 15, 1995, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Japanese rule. The world would have taken the action as a sort of hysteria and a sign of ultra-nationalism. But to most of the Korean people it was a national sacrifice to the lost 36 years and to all victims of the time. By late 1996, the building was gone, taking with it the earlier intensity of anti-Japanese emotion from the Korean people.
In this event, the National Museum took a direct blow, since the building had been the home of the National Museum from the year 1986. Having to move again less than ten years, this time with no building ready to move in, some young staff expressed concerns over the safety of cultural relics and even staged a demonstration by a covenant of joint signature with the catchphrase, 'Build the museum first, Demolish the building later'. However, the government confirmed the decision to move the Museum into a temporary building within the palace complex and made public its plan for a new National Museum, this time of a grand-scale, to become the largest in Asia, The result is the present building for the National Museum which was opened in late 2005, after nearly 10 years of preparation.
With the new Museum Korea seems to have entered a new phase of cultural nationalism, more relaxed, rid of the postcolonial and post-War resentments and self-pity. One significant step was to stop being a museum indifferent to other Asian cultures. The government accepted a proposal by the program committee to add an exhibition hall devoted to Asian art. But this move was somewhat counteracted by the addition of the Hall of History, pushed by the historians, who were armed with strong nationalism. The lack of a historical collection was one reason given by the opponents who insisted building a collection first, and then an independent history museum. The outcome was otherwise, as seen in the slide on the screen. The need to fill the History Hall ensured inter-departmental tensions over the limited pool of relics. As a consequence, the Hall of History had to be left pretty much devoid of the cultural narration of history since the other two departments of Fine Arts and of Archaeology were reluctant to share the cultural relics which had been under their care. In the midst of all this, the Hall of Asian Art was left uncared for with no department responsible for its upkeep and programmes.
Less than a year had passed when I was appointed as Director in August 2006. The museum was not quite settled in terms of organization and programmes. Those yellow-marked on the chart are the departments I managed to install or upgrade while in office. The programme of exhibitions, education, and acquisition were also found to be in need of more historical objectivity and inclusivity if the Museum wished to be a truly representative of Asian and Korean culture. This direction, when successfully implanted, would have influenced the 11 regional branches under its directorship.
With the new department of specialist curators, the Hall of Asian Art was finally taking a better shape with a separate gallery for the South and Southeast Asia, the Central Asia, Himalayan region, China and North-eastern Asian, Japan and the Chinese relics excavated from Lolang and the peninsula's seabeds [of course there have been some new arrangements in the last two years and this chart may not be the same now]. Two-thirds of the acquisition fund were spent on the purchase of non-Korean objects covering China, Japan, and India. I used to say to the staff who were worried over such unprecedented move; 'We'd better do it, since this will probably happen only while I am in office'. It turned out that my staff and I were both right. They were right to worry since I had to stand in front of a hearing committee at the National Assembly who furiously criticized the acquisition of non-Korean objects, labeling the action anti-nationalistic. I was also right that there has not been much non-Korean acquisition since I left the Museum. Since the Museum is 100 percent funded by the government, it is often censored on its spending and on the number of visitors. But there have been some signs that the government may take a similar action as in Japan sooner or later to make the Museum less dependent on the government for its need of approximately 100 million dollar annual funding for the central museum in Seoul and its 11 regional branches.
At any rate, acquisition alone was not enough to fill the galleries and energize the Asian programme; it needed loans and exchanges of exhibitions from outside of Korea. This awareness helped initiate the organization of the Asian National Museums Association. It was delightful to receive the welcoming response from the directors of national museums in China and Japan. The photo shows the first meeting of three directors to plan the organization. The second year meeting was held at the Tokyo National Museum. Consequently, the Chinese Art Gallery received a long-term loan from the National Museum of China; Loans from the Vietnam Ethnology Museum Hanoi made possible a special exhibition of Vietnam; there were also long-term loans from the National Museum of Indonesia for the South and Southeast Art Gallery. The Japanese Art Gallery received long term loans from the Tokyo National Museum to make up for the shortage of objects and to organize special thematic exhibitions. Delightful as all these were, the exchanges were still in one-way direction. It was hoped it would not remain so when the Special Gallery for Asia is in operation at the National Museum of China, and when the Toyokan of the Tokyo National Museum is finally renovated.
As a way to conclude my talk, let me read you part of the welcoming remark I gave at the inauguration of the Asian National Museums Association on the morning of October 25, 2007. It reads:
'I would like to welcome all directors and representatives from the national museums of Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, Mongolia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over the past decades national museums in Asia have exercised cultural leadership in preservation and promotion of one's own cultural heritage, but admittedly with little interest in the culture of neighboring Asian countries. We have been all immersed in one's own cultural heritage for many, many reasons - mainly as a defensive mechanism as a post-colonial reaction or in face of the Westernization of culture, or as both. The National Museum of Korea was not an exception in this regard.
Today we are gathered here in Korea to inaugurate the Asian National Museums Association, with a shared belief that now is the time Asian countries begin to think beyond one's own cultural nationalism to understand and appreciate the rich cultural diversity of Asia and its contribution in the making of the Asian civilization'.
Well three years have passed since the welcoming remark, and it is amazing that I am here to talk about the same issue as passionately as ever. I must regret that, given the time constraint, I could not touch on the National Museum of Taiwan and the National Museum of North Korea, as well as many other related issues. I shall end my talk here and I thank you all so much for being with me tonight. Thank you!
ytam
truly engaging notification, friend.
let me take a nap... great illustration, anyway.
velac
if you found that funny, your a sick and evil basterd and should be shot!
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Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentations at the 2022 National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings
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Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUPH) (Aurinia or the Company), a biopharmaceutical company committed to delivering therapeutics that change the course of autoimmune disease, today announced that data from multiple studies of LUPKYNIS™ (voclosporin) will be presented at the 2022 National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, taking place April 6-10, 2022 in Boston, Mass.
"Aurinia is committed to expanding the body of research supporting the clinical benefits of LUPKYNIS, the first FDA-approved oral therapy available to people living with lupus nephritis," said Neil Solomons, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Aurinia. "We look forward to sharing updates at the National Kidney Foundation's Spring Clinical Meetings, including the design of a prospective observational registry of patients treated with LUPKYNIS."
Presentations related to LUPKYNIS at the meetings include:
Title: "The Efficacy of Voclosporin in Lupus Nephritis is Independent of Changes in Anti-dsDNA and Complement at Week 52"
Poster number: 314
Presenting author: Betty Diamond, M.D., Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine & Maureen and Ralph Nappi Professor of Autoimmune Diseases, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York
Title: "ENLIGHT-LN: A Prospective Observational Registry of Patients Treated with Voclosporin for Lupus Nephritis in the United States"
Presenting author: Keely Dahl, PharmD, Associate Medical Director, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Title: "Attainment of Complete Renal Response Results in Significant Improvements in Lupus Impact Tracker in the AURORA 1 Study of Voclosporin in Lupus Nephritis"
Presenting author: Meenakshi Jolly, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor, Rush University, Chicago
Title: "Confirmation of the Immunosuppressive Function of Voclosporin at the Clinically Relevant Lupus Nephritis Dose in Lupus-prone Mice"
Presenting author: Linda M. Rehaume, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc.


23,000 job vacancies along with 10% quota for EWS in railways: The candidates who are considering towards railways for employment so here's good news for you. Railway recruitment board (RRB) is the largest Indian recruitment body and every year more than ten thousand job vacancies posts are proclaimed by the board.
Every year thousands of applications are invited from all across the nation in order to fill up the available posts provided by the board.
As per the union railway minister, Piyush Goyal, railway is going to be the first government branch to provide 10% quota for economically weaker sections. In the coming years, it will also lead to providing 23,000 jobs.
At present, RRB has before now proclaimed over 13,000 vacancies for the post of junior engineers (JE) and for this the application process is on progress. Candidates who are interested to apply for the post can apply it before 31st January 2019.
The Railway Minister on Wednesday said that the railway department will recruit about 1.31 lakh personnel in the period of next six months and around a lakh more in the following next two years.
The recruitments are going to be accomplished in two steps or phases. The first step of new recruitment of 1, 31,328 posts will be started in the month of February or March, 2019. He also said that this cycle will be accomplished by April or May, 2020.
The minister said at a press conference that the Indian Railways has authorized power of 15, 06,598 workforces. From these, 12, 23,622 workers are on roll. The left over 2, 82,976 are unoccupied posts. In the meantime, the staffing for available 1, 51,548 posts in the railways is on progress, which still leaves 1, 31,428 posts untaken, In 2019 -2020 about 53,000 and in 2020-2021 about 46,000 railway workers be going to retire, leading to provide an added vacancy for about 1 lakh job seekers.
According to the reservation policy of the government, about 19,715, 9,857 and 35,485 vacancies be about to get reserved for SC, ST and OBC candidates correspondingly. According to the reservation policy, around 15,000, 7,500, 27,000 and 10,000 posts shall be reserved for SC, ST, OBC and EWS candidates respectively.
On the other hand, the second phase of staffing of about 99,000 workers will be commenced in contradiction of vacancies rising out of retirements.
Goyal in his statement said, "We have planned in advance so that no posts will remain vacant in railways anymore. As an when retirements happen, the posts will be filled. Also, railways will be the first government department to implement the 10 per cent quota for the EWS category under the new amendment in which over the next two years, 23,000 jobs will be reserved for them. However, this will not affect the present reservation applicable for other categories like SC, ST, OBC and others".


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You feel it coming right? Christmas time is coming again this year to relax and meet loved ones. We share love and gifts with our loved ones.
But have you ever wondered which is the best Christmas gift for men?
Either the man is your husband, your boyfriend, your dad, your uncle a watch is a very good choice for Christmas gifting at Christmas day. Typically, the watches can be divided into 3 big categories. Wristwatches, smartwatches, and pocket watches.
Wristwatches and smartwatches are used by people in their daily life. On the other hand, pocket watches are used only by the small percentage of people, so you have to know that the person is interested in wearing them or collecting them.
But I am sure you ask yourself why watches are such a good gift for the men you love. I will explain shortly.
After you gift the watch to someone then every time he wears or looks at it, he will think of you as the one that gave it to him.
Everybody loves taking gifts from others and the people giving the gifts are always in our hearts because they are our closest people or people that care for us. The same way will feel the man that you offer the gift.
A good choice for young men (nephews, cousins, son, friend) is a smartwatch as with its many functions and technology fits with the active and spontaneous energy of a young man.
For older people (father, uncle, grandfather), you can pick a more classic watch, a wristwatch or evermore a pocket watch if you know that he is into them.
Unlike any other gift a watch can be kept safe in a drawer but it also can be also daily in our activities. Men have many activities and it is very likely that a watch is more than helpful.
Checking the time or using the many features of a smartwatch, the watch will help to be more productive and of course in time!
Be sure that he will think of you every time he wears your watch or every time he checks the time.
To buy a very impressive, you do not have to spend a fortune. Just keep in mind to make good research before you buy one.
There are many watches special for this occasion. Christmas watches can be luxurious of gold and silver but also can be made out of silicone. As you understand the higher the price of the material, the higher the price of the whole watch.
Gold and silver are well-known for their trait to not cause allergies to the skin. But if the wearer has no skin allergies then it is completely fine to go for other materials.
Go in different online shops or local markets and check prices, beauty and the different variety of specification that watches provide.
If the man that will receive the watch is a lover of good wearing and fashion and it is sure that a watch will be very appreciated.
Real men care about their external appearance. They are to be well groomed, smell good and have good hygiene. They care about their clothing and their accessories.
A good watch can help more than you think in everyday life. It shows high social status and the wearer feels a burst of high confidence.
Good wearing is very important and it is considered a good lifestyle. Men do not have to be blind followers of brands and fashion but it is important to care about their look.
A watch is a perfect gift for a man for Christmas. But for a good reason. Watches are full of sentiment, love, beauty, and fashion.
Watches support the look of the man and can bear memories from the past and memories that will take place in the future.
A watch does not have to be very expensive to be beautiful and of good quality. Just make your research and I am pretty sure that you will find the one perfect for your gifting.
I hope I helped with your Christmas gifts.
Yes I agree a watch is a great gift, but what kind of watch would be the best? I believe the watches that the battery last with the sun is good like that they don't need to go change the battery every 6 months. Like my husband he has a lot of watches but the only one that he where is the one that recharges with the sun, all his other watches don't work because of the battery. Its a hassle to go to the store to get it changed for him.
You are looking for a solar-powered watch or light-powered watch which is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell. Also, for your husband the safe choice is a wristwatch. Otherwise, if he is into technology you can gift him a smartwatch alternatively. You can find many wristwatches and less smartwatches which are solar-powered.
I hope you have a very happy Christmas period!
Stavros, Hello! Listen, you wrote an excellent article on Christmas gift for men. You wrote in detail and with restraint.
You intelligently and thoroughly considered the options for choosing a watch as a gift to a man. And delicately left the choice for giving.
Indeed, the choice is not simple. We should think about age, occupation and hobbies, respect for the general style and other things. But the feeling of giving and receiving a gift is always joyous.
Indeed, you have to be very careful to the age, the occupation and the hobbies of the receiver. If you consider these 3 characteristics, I am pretty sure you will have a perfect gift.
I wish you, Merry Christmas.
Hi Stavros! Thank you very much for these very useful tips! Yeah, I agree with you: A watch is an excellent for Christmas!
I am really glad that I helped you!


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Matera: Paleolithic in the Modern Age
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Matera is a unique city, an extraordinary timeless place.
That's the the city in which, from the Paleolithic era to the present day, you can retrace the history of man who lived here, using local resources and integrating perfectly with it.
It's also the city of the famous Sassi, the first site in southern Italy declared a World Heritage Site. I'ts the city of the rupestrian churches, the natural areas with different species of flora and fauna, rural traditions, landscapes of incomparable beauty.
But Matera is also a city of hidden treasures, museums, festivals, concerts, multimedia paths. October 17, 2014, the city of the Sassi has been nominated European Capital of Culture for 2019. The ancient village dug into the calcareous rock, on the side of the Gravina Valley, in 1993 has been declared Unesco's World Heritage.
The Sassi with their particular twist of caved used as houses, alley, stone churches, terraces, gardens, tunnel, are a great example of an architectural complex perfectly matching with the natural environment. This huge sculpture, preserved from the Palaeolithic era to nowadays, shows the way of life in the caves and close to them, from medieval era, modern houses have been built.
The Sassi are divided into two districts: the Sasso Barisano, the largest district, whose houses are now shops, restaurants and hotels, and the Sasso Caveoso, considered the oldest neighborhood that best preserves the appearance of the cave town . Thanks to technological path available through the APP Matera Invisible, free download (www.materainvisibile.it), you can discover the historic heart of the city through five routes associated with many elements: water, stone, light, time and spirit. In Matera there are wonderful hotels, where time seems to have stopped: here we show you the Caveoso and the Stone Hotel.
A piece of New York in Milan: Fifty House Soho
Bewalls: the modern boiseries by Salvioni design
The sensual side of haute couture: Manuele Canu
Art Nouveau in the magnificent Venaria Reale
What's Prosecco? A land, first of all!
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This is the core timetable subject to flexibility.
Montessori believed in giving children long periods of uninterrupted time, during which they could select purposeful activities and develop deep concentration.
This goal is achieved during the work cycle, when children may choose from a variety of activities including the Montessori materials, creative work, baking, gardening, and so forth.
Children work individually or in small groups, deciding when to have their snack, which they prepare themselves.
Circle time includes activities such as stories, singing, news, yoga, French or Spanish. We are visited by our art and music specialist twice a week. After this, children are responsible for setting the table for lunch each day and clearing up after themselves.


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Melania Trump 'Tough,' Smart And Knows What She Wants Out Of Marriage, Biographers Say
By Catherine Armecin
Melania Trump wanted to be both rich and "known," says biographer Mary Jordan
Jordan said the former model is "like a chess player" who stays silent before coming out with her moves
Journalist Nina Burleigh said Trump has one important quality that separates her from her husband's previous wives
Melania Trump's biographers have opened up about what they have observed and learned about the former first lady over the years.
In a new People report, four of Trump's biographers who collectively covered her for decades, Kate Bennett, Kate Andersen Brower, Nina Burleigh and Mary Jordan, shared their thoughts on the former model from Slovenia after hundreds of interviews and years of research. While their views on Trump sometimes differ, they all agree that Trump is "tough" and smart.
The biographers also said that the former first lady knows exactly what she wants out of life and out of her marriage with former President Donald Trump.
Jordan, author of "The Art of Her Deal," told People that Trump's goals weren't limited to becoming wealthy.
"I think a lot of people thought she just wanted to be rich," the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter, whose book was called "fiction" by the Trump White House, said. "And she wanted not just to be rich — I heard that several times from key people: 'You don't understand, she wanted to be known.'"
The author also noted that while Trump is a private person and is known for staying silent, this doesn't mean that she doesn't make moves.
"When I was in Slovenia, it kept coming up — also in Italy, when I was talking to people — she acts like a chess player," Jordan said. "Several people would say that she's there, doesn't say anything and then comes out with her moves."
As for her relationship with her husband, Burleigh, author of "The Trump Women," said that the former model has understood since they began dating in the late '90s that "all you do is butter [Donald Trump] up and make him feel like a man all the time because that's what this kind of guy needs."
She believes this is what separated Melania from her husband's previous wives, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples.
"You have to toe the line in terms of this sort of toxically masculine person at the center of it all and make him feel secure as a man. That's what [Melania Trump] has been good at from the very beginning. That was her special superpower," Burleigh claimed.
As for her social circle, Bennett, author of "Free, Melania," told People that the ex-FLOTUS "doesn't necessarily have a significant circle of friends. We used to get sightings of Michelle Obama out with her girls when she was first lady … But we've never had one of those with Melania Trump."
According to Bennett, Trump's inner circle includes her parents, her older sister Ines, her stylist Hervé Pierre and designer Rachel Roy.
One former member of Trump's circle, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, earlier said that the former model, like her husband, values fealty and her personal brand and claimed that her staying silent is part of her game.
"She is not an enigma. She is not mysterious," Trump's former friend and adviser, who published her tell-all book "Melania and Me" last year, previously told People. "That's why it's so important — the perception people have of her. That iron curtain around her, that slapping of [her husband's] hand, it's all part of the game. It's all part of keeping her mysterious."
Following their White House departure in January, Trump has focused on enjoying the spa at her husband's private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, raising her only child, Barron Trump, and spending time with her parents, People reported, citing unnamed sources.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 22: First Lady Melania Trump walks to the South Lawn to depart the White House on October 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump travels to Nashville, Tennessee for the final debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The Commission on Presidential Debates changed the format this time, muting of microphones to start each of Thursday's debate segments. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Photo: Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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Recycling receptacle in the kitchen. Would you beLIEVE there wasn't yet one in Mike's office? So passé! Don't have a service to pick it all up? Gotcha. It's no excuse. Mike brings it all home. Convenient, not really. But worth it? For sure.
Reduce the amount of the stuff you have to throw out. Bring your own plate, silverware, cup, mug, and lunch, while you're at it.
Suggest using the backsides of the paper you print out. Just reload it and reuse it. Voila! You just saved a forest or two.
Better yet, suggest not printing out so freaking much.
Make sure there's a place for bikes to be securely parked for the day. Mike encountered problems with the facilities manager when he tried to bring his bike up to the office space. Apparently bikes aren't allowed inside his building. Okay, so deal with it… After a few phone calls, peace was restored, issue was resolved, and now there's a place designated for bikes in the parking deck. No sweat.
Work from home sometimes. There are studies that show that people are actually MORE productive when working from home. Plus you get to work during the time you would normally be cussing in—I mean sitting in—traffic.
Do or suggest just one of these things. I dare you. You might just start a revolution in your little world. Tell me about it when you do. My kids will send you a thank-you note.


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Q: Missing coupon field in cart/checkout process I have added coupon code for free shipping in the Shopping Cart Price Rules (Magento 1.4.1.1), but I don't see any coupon code field in a cart or checkout process.
I have checked checkout.xml file and proper line exists
<block type="checkout/cart_coupon" name="checkout.cart.coupon" as="coupon" template="checkout/cart/coupon.phtml"/>

Edit:
It looks like coupon functionality was removed from coupon.phtml file, which contains now only

Can someone could to provide proper file for that Magento version?
Thanks

A: You can download Magento 1.4.1.1 from here then click on Release Archives tab and find the release version that you're looking for and download it, then extract it, then copy coupon.phtml from base theme app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/cart/coupon.phtml to your active theme folder.
Or just copy the following code:
<form id="discount-coupon-form" action="<?php echo $this->getUrl('checkout/cart/couponPost') ?>" method="post">

<?php echo $this->__('Discount Codes') ?>

            <?php echo $this->__('Enter your coupon code if you have one.') ?>
            <input type="hidden" name="remove" id="remove-coupone" value="0" />

                <input class="input-text" id="coupon_code" name="coupon_code" value="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getCouponCode()) ?>" />

                <button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Apply Coupon') ?>" class="button" onclick="discountForm.submit(false)" value="<?php echo $this->__('Apply Coupon') ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Apply Coupon') ?></button>
                <?php if(strlen($this->getCouponCode())): ?>
                      <button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Cancel Coupon') ?>" class="button" onclick="discountForm.submit(true)" value="<?php echo $this->__('Cancel Coupon') ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Cancel Coupon') ?></button>
                <?php endif;?>

</form>

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Mobile office suites on the iPad have come a long way since the launch of the original iPad and us consumers are now becoming spoilt for choice. Gone are the days that we spent hundreds of dollars on such full featured products, most now are going for just a few dollars. Byte² have recently released an update of their flagship product, Office² HD. Office² has been around for quite a while and was one of the first office suites on the original ipad. Sporting some unexpected functionality and delving into Word/Excel/Powerpoint territory, this app is ambitious, to say the least. The application comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, text file editor (basically the word processor without any formatting options.) and presentation editor.
If you have used Word, the document editor is a breeze. Most of the functionality is available from the formatting bar at the top of the screen, which deceptively is split into parts; most of it lies offscreen and requires swiping to access. The range of features is pretty complete. You have a full set of text formatting options at your disposal as well as different layout options like margins and breaks. You can even print, but only to Airprint printers, which I believe is huge deficiency, but one not limited only to Office². As with other iPad word processors, text selection is still fiddly, accurate tapping is sometimes difficult to achieve (eg setting margins on a ruler) and getting things done can be a slow process - perhaps gestures are the next big thing for these kind of apps. Bringing a bluetooth keyboard along alleviates some of these issues, but portability is one of the reasons to use an iPad in the first place.
The spreadsheet application has a wide range of pre-defined functions in several areas and should accomodate the basic spreadsheet user. For more complicated, specialised spreadsheets, the selection of functions will not suffice, and resorting to a more full featured offering (eg Excel) will be required. Also, one large omission seems to be the option of graphs, which I could not find anywhere. The Presentation editor allows creations of presentations via defined templates. It offers basic drawing and formatting functionality and a snazzy presentation can be knocked up in minutes.
What a lot of people require in this interoperable world that we live in is interchangeable formats. One great thing about Office² is the way that it integrates with DropBox, a popular cloud service for iOS users. It also integrates with GoogleDocs, one of my all-time favourite cloud services. For just a few dollars, Office² offers a reasonably fully featured mobile office suite. It may not be as polished as Pages or Numbers, but it certainly gives Apple a run for its money. Office² is certainly an app to keep your eye on and is a valid alternative for computing on the go compared to lugging a laptop around.


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Refugee Walk Poem
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The Canterburry Tales Adaptations
Nigeria & Pidgin English
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Canterbury Cathedral-a place pilgrim
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, has been a place of pilgrim for several centuries. It was the scene of St Thomas a Beckett's murder in 1170 by four knights working on behalf of King Henry II. Miracles were reported, and Thomas and the site of his martyrdom in the Cathedral became a holy shrine. Three years later, Pope Alexander III made him a saint. King Henry II was among the early pilgrims in 1174 that came to pay penance for his sins, walking bare foot and being flogged publicly. Six weeks later, the Cathedral was destroyed by fire, which was rebuilt from funds provided by pilgrims in honour of their saint. In addition to Chaucer Canterbury Tales crew, pilgrims have continued to this day, to visit Canterbury Cathedral as one of the oldest and most famous Christian structure's in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the Cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England. The present, Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013. Having worked extensively in Africa with particular interest in Kenya and Nigeria in the Niger Delta, like Chaucer he is well acquainted to the human wahala, especially of those regions where he worked on reconciliation with armed groups. The tradition of Pilgrimage is very much alive today, although the journey is faster and considerably more comfortable.
Chaucer's Pilgrims


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Still on the hunt for the location of the default startup config file on my pet Cisco ASA 5505. Can't find them with show flash, show disk or dir commands. Google's uncharacteristically unhelpful. A couple of search engine results allude to disk0:/.private/startup-config but I can't display the contents of that path.
So I get a Phillips-head and start unscrewing. I know, it's like Galen of Pergamon dissecting a man to find the seat of the soul. But I'm going to remove the internal flash card and then hook it up to a compact flash reader. See if there are any hidden files that the ASA's operating system is not displaying.
I've never opened up this model of ASA before. The act of opening up the chassis of any new machine always evokes a minor anticipatory tingle. Part curiosity, part dread. What's inside the box? The Heisenberg dead cat ick factor is an ever-present possibility. (From time to time, in the pursuit of data recovery, I've had to harvest hard drives from elderly servers that were decommissioned and then stored in a rodent-friendly environment. You'd be surprised how many animals are small enough to nest inside a partially-disassembled rackmount server.) But I'm looking forward to seeing the motherboard layout on this guy. The 5505 has such a small footprint.
Anyway, I remove 3 screws from the bottom of the ASA 5505. There are a couple of plastic protrusions (along the vertical edges of the cover at the rear) that are holding the chassis cover to the main body of the ASA. Just pull the rear sides of the cover slightly apart from the body to free the cover.
The insides look like what you'd expect. Compact, economical. Like a micro ATX box. Or a 6 tatami flat in Tokyo. A stick of RAM at the top of the picture, Compact Flash on the right. Lithium battery right next to it. Space for a Security Services Card (SSC) to be slotted in. The Compact Flash card is not listed as a field replaceable unit in the 5505 Hardware Installation Guide.
The Compact Flash card can be winnowed out of a small slot along the side of the ASA.
It's a regular Compact Flash card with a Cisco badge on it.
When the Compact Flash card is connected to a Compact Flash card reader and mounted on a Windows 7 computer, its filesystem is shown as FAT.
The top-level directory in the Compact Flash shows the same file listing as what was displayed with a dir command on the ASA.
After changing the View settings to disable Hide Protected Operating System Files, 3 more directories are now visible, including the .private directory that I was trying to access earlier from the ASA.
Inside the .private directory, there are what are presumably license files and the startup-config file that I was looking for.
Inside the boot directory, a lone file named grub. So, the ASA uses a GRUB bootloader?
Show disk command in the Cisco ASA 8.4 Command Reference.
Show flash command in the Cisco ASA 8.4 Command Reference.


One New York nail tech's vision for "International Nail Art Day" (#INAD, à la social media) caused nail fanatics from all over the globe to flock to social media on Saturday, Aug. 3, to share amazing nail looks and participate in a dialogue about the miniature form of self-expression.
One New York nail tech's vision for "International Nail Art Day" (#INAD, à la social media) caused nail fanatics from all over the globe to flock to social media on Saturday, Aug. 3, to share amazing nail looks and participate in a dialogue about the miniature form of self-expression. Mimi Wilson of Nails by Mimi (www.nailsbymimi.tumblr.com) estimates that up to 2,000 people participated in the first-ever celebration, and she shares with NAILS her inspiration behind INAD.
All the things I love, like chocolate and french fries, already had a day. And I figured nail art needed a day too. Nail art is such a huge part of so many people's lives and I knew there needed to be a day of acknowledging and celebrating that.
How did you market INAD?
In the beginning, I e-mailed nail artists and nail salons that had a strong social media presence and asked for their help in spreading the word about the INAD Instagram (IG) and Twitter accounts. Leading up to the actual day, IG was my go-to method for sharing any information. The Twitter account was linked to the IG, so it was really easy to reach people quickly.
What person or brand were you the most surprised participated?
It was really cool and surprising to see CND make an Instagram about INAD.
Are you planning for INAD 2014?
Absolutely! Aug. 2 is the date for the next INAD. This time I'm hoping to have a large event, have some giveaways, and to ultimately reach more people worldwide.