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Ehren Clemens ( ehrenclem) wrote in destructionisle,
Entry tags: !complete, !july ac, !thread, ehren clemens, megan avery
Who: Ehren & Meg
What: A private concert
When: Evening, June 26th, 2019
Where: Marigold Arts Center and Meg’s apartment
Rating: NSFW
I had to call in a few favors.
Without responding to Megs text, Ehren made his way to her apartment, locking his door securely behind him. He actual put himself more together tonight. A black button down with flowers and his grey blazer and matching pants. He knocked on it, hoping that he didn’t regret not taking one last good look in the mirror.
He didn’t need to be scared, he realized because he had no evidence that what happened last time would happen again. It was probably just some sort of freak accident. He smiled when she opened the door. “Can I show you something?” He asked, way too excited to wait for her to get ready.
The fact that her phone didn’t buzz with a reply was a bit odd but she thought nothing of it. A shrug and her phone was set aside in favor of what she actually had been up to - a bit of light painting. Brush would marr canvas until the knock at her door would come. Things set aside Meg moved from her place where she had been perched to paint and she hoped that she didn’t look like a crazy mess for whoever was there.
With a bit of caution she approached. Through the peephole she noticed Ehren and her smile grew as the door opened. “Hey! Wow, you look nice.” Impressed by his appearance she beckoned him inside. He seemed eager, the energy he exuded was intoxicating. “Of course you can!” She laughed, nodding.
“Hang on a second, I’ll go put on something not covered in paint.” Turning on her heel she nearly ran into her bedroom, door closing behind her. In record time for getting ready she was back out with Ehren, presentable in a short, denim miniskirt and a band tee shirt which was tied up at the hem into a knot. Her hair had been pulled up and wrapped in a scarf where it had been before.
He smirked and grabbed her hand to lead her out of her apartment. He wanted to get there quickly because he couldn’t really contain his excitement. He waited for a moment while she locked the door behind her and then began to pull her in the general direction of the arts center. “I’m sorry, I know this is probably a little sudden but I am really bad at keeping secrets and if I don’t show it to you right now I might just tell you before you get to see it. It would completely ruin the fun.” He explained, his pace brisk as they made their way.
Dani had graciously let him borrow a key to get in after hours, even though she gave him a hard time about it. “I have a surprise for you.” He finally admitted.
The door to her apartment was closed. Her bag and everything was left behind, key stuffed into the pocket of her skirt. And then they were moving in the direction of the Facility, though she was unsure where they were actually headed.
At his admission her eyebrows arched but her smile grew in anticipation. “You’re sneaky, I’ll give you that,” she laughed, hand finding his and holding it gently. A surprise for her. He’d put something together and she found it so endearing.
As they made their way into the Marigold, her curiosity only grew. “Really? That’s so sweet. What is it?”
Finally they arrived and he used Dani’s key to unlock the door. Inside it was dark with the exception of a few back-up lights. He followed the hall to find the door for the auditorium, grabbing a small flashlight off a podium near the door. As they made their way down the aisle he let go of Meg’s hand.
“Stay right there for one second.” He pleaded, slipping off toward the lighting booth where the stage lights were operated. He tried a few different ones at first, missing the center stage each time. Finally he found the right one and eased the lights up to the center of the stage where a bass sat on a stand.
He left the lighting booth and wandered back over to her to see her reaction.
Letting him lead her into the Center, Meg stayed quiet. She was curious. That was certain. Down the corridor they went after the flashlight was gathered. Into the auditorium.
Nearing the stage she wandered and then paused. A nod would come. She would do her best to remain though she wasn’t sure what they were doing here so late.
Interested, she watched the lights flicker. And then she saw it. The glimmer of the top coat in the lights and instantly she felt as if she’d been hit by a tanker truck. Her frame slouched and her hands lifted, cupping over her mouth. Tears welled up in her eyes.
He couldn’t see her face, only that her hands had come up and covered her mouth. “I had to call in a few favors, Dani is probably done being my friend with how much I’ve been bugging her.” He approached her from behind to stand next to her.
“It’s not your bass, or even one like it but it’s better than nothing and it’s yours whenever you want to come by and play it.” He offered, stuffing his hands deep into his pockets. She hadn’t said anything yet, not a thing, and he was starting to grow nervous.
It’d been years since she has seen a bass guitar; after the first year of being here her hopes of having one again had dwindled and faded. Now there was one settled on the middle part of the stage and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. If that was possible what else could happen?
She felt his presence behind her before his voice could echo and resonate in the auditorium.
A sniffle. Meg moved a hand to wipe at her eyes which were streaming before she turned and threw herself at him. Her eyes squeezed shut and she clung to Ehren. “Thank you.”
He wrapped his arms around her as he clung to him, letting an arm drop to her back. He let his arm trail down as far as his arms would reach and brought his other hand up to her hair to run his fingers over it. “You’re welcome.” He said although it didn’t seem like the right word. She deserved to have this here.
The sniffle made his eyebrows furrow, he hoped it hadn’t just dug up old memories of her band. She’d expressed how much she missed her bass and while it would have been nice to find the one she owned, this was all he could manage.
Clinging to him, Meg buried her face in his shoulder. She didn’t deserve such a gesture. He was far too kind, too thoughtful. How had she gotten so lucky? So fortunate to have someone like him waltz into her life unexpectedly?
After a moment she raised her head. Up onto her toes, arms would wind around his neck and she leaned up to kiss him. “You’re too sweet. That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.”
Pulling back she smiled at him. Letting go, Meg pulled back and turned, peering at the bass. She itched to play, her fingers twitched. It’d been years but a bit of practice and she would be back to her old self. Was that what she wanted, though? To fall back into old habits?
Ehren smiled at her as she looked at the bass. “Go check it out.” It wasn’t plugged into an amplifier right now so she wouldn’t be able to hear it’ right now and besides, Ehren wasn’t sure where Dani stored those things anyway. However, he was sure for her just being able to play around on it would be nice enough.
He knew he probably wouldn’t ever see a semblance of what her band had once been but he couldn’t imagine anything sadder than her missing her instrument. If there was some way for him to bring his dog here, he’d do it in a heartbeat, but who knew where she was or if she was even still alive.
He walked with her toward the stage and up the steps onto the stage where the light was shining down. “Go on.” He urged her.
Like a child being lead to the toy store she followed Ehren. Hand in hand, step by step they approached the stage where the instrument sat. She let him go and ascended the short steps, finally on the level with the bass guitar. A quick motion and she was there.
A hand would extend, fingers tracing the strings. The reverberation shook her core and another moment had her plucking the thing from the stand and pulling the strap across a shoulder.
It fit fine as far as her height was concerned. A moment was taken to really feel the guitar - the weight, how it sat in her hands, the pressure against her frame.
And then her fingers were dancing across the strings. Muscle memory was a godsend; a few failed attempts and a few pauses to correct herself and then she was playing as if she’d never left the stage at all.
He watched her from the side of the stage with rapt attention. She looked like she was in her element and the smile it brought to her face was worth all of it. There was a couch in the corner of the stage to her left and he sat on it as he watched her deftly pluck at the strings like she’d never stopped in the first place.
He supposed he was a little bit lucky. The fact that she was interested in him was pure dumb luck, that Dani would be able to help him like she did the same. Maybe his life wasn’t doomed after all, maybe he could still find some sort of semblance of happiness in this world.
He remained quiet as he watched her, mesmerized by the attention she gave the instrument.
Fingers crawled down the neck to find chords, the others plucked the strings without abandon. She swayed where she stood, rocking out to that audience of own who couldn’t really even hear the deep tones of the notes.
After a few moments she sighed and smiled happily, looking over at Ehren. Reluctantly the bass was taken off, set upon the stand. She could be there all night playing and she knew he deserved a bit of attention, too.
Moving over to where he was she nodded, “Thanks again, that was amazing. Really. So nice of you.”
He smiled up at where she stood and pushed his hand out to find hers and give it a good squeeze. A warmth filled his body as he looked at the appreciation on her face. This was what he did everything for, to help people and he wouldn’t stop for anything, not even for himself. “No problem at all.” He responded, slipping his other hand into hers.
The way she looked down at him sent a chill down his spine and his cheeks began to redden. She was so beautiful and he was so totally whipped by her. At this point he’d do anything if he meant that she would keep looking at him that way.
Her hand found his. Fingers curled into his and she moved to get closer. “You don’t know how kind that is, really. People don’t do things for people anymore.” Her lashes batted at him, lips twisted into a playful smile.
“I’ll always remember it. You should let me do something nice for you, to repay you, of course.”
“How?” He asked her, pulling her hands so that she kept coming closer to him. He didn’t want to force her but he did like the feeling of her small frame in his lap. He liked the way her fingers grasped at his own and he felt his heartbeat quicken in response.
“I mean, yeah well you are giving me a painting so I think that’s pretty even, don’t you think?” He asked her, flicking his eyes up to meet her gaze.
She bit at her lip and slid into his lap of her own will. Arms would wind around his neck and those large eyes would look up at him. “If you consider that even, then sure,” came the reply coupled with a shrug.
Her fingers slipped into his hair, she leaned in to press the ends of their noses together.
He surged forward to kiss her, placing his hands on her hips, he slid his arms around her back to pull her closer to him. He didn’t expect to feel so much of a spark between them when they started their first date but the electrical chemistry that they had physically was undeniable by now.
She was irresistible, and Ehren loved how pliant she was beneath his fingers.
She was glad he’d closed the distance and hadn’t pulled away. Her body leaned into his strong hands urging him on, really whatever was on his mind. Eyes closing she kissed him deeply. Meg couldn’t help but feel a shock of electricity any time they were together.
Never in her life had she expected such a virulent, intense connection to someone else. But out of all the people on the island she was glad it was with Ehren. She only hoped he wouldn’t abuse it.
One of his hands slid across the length of her back to lightly rake down her shoulder blades. There was something so sweet about the taste of her lips that he had a hard time resisting when he had the urge to take a bite out of them.
A soft groan escaped his lips, caught up completely in the moment. He didn’t have room in his mind right now to worry if he was going to slip into another vision. This was the only thing that his mind dared to think about.
The fact that they were in a public place even if it was after hours didn’t phase her in the slightest. She was more than comfortable settled there in his lap nearly anywhere. Their kisses continued with zeal.
And then she drew back, eyes fluttering open. “We should probably take this someplace else, yeah?” She didn’t want to upset Dani as much as she didn’t want to move.
He looked up at her, his lips a slick red circle and his breathing ragged. It was clear exactly what was on his mind and hers so he nodded, allowing his grip on her to loosen so they could stand up. When she climbed off of him he suddenly felt cold and following her up, unwrinkling some spots on his jacket where their contact had bunched it up.
“Where ever you want.” He agreed, taking her hand so that she could lead him.
Crawling out of his lap she stood up. Hands would find his and she took a step backward, then another. “Why don’t we go back to my place? Get your painting.” More than that maybe.
With a grin she turned and lead Ehren out of the place. A moment of pause to lock up and get everything shut down, and they were heading back the way they’d come.
Soon they were at her door. Fishing for the key from her skirt pocket, the apartment was unlocked and Meg pulled Ehren across the threshold.
He nodded to her suggestion and followed her home. The moment he was pulled through the threshold he crashed into her lips again, picking her up by her hips to wrap around his abdomen. He couldn’t really contain himself in this moment, so happy in this one moment to just think about what was happening right then.
With her in his arms he leaned back to shut the door and walked her over to her bedroom. When he placed her down on the bed he broke the kiss and shucked off his blazer. His fingers went to untie her shirt so that he could slip it off of her body. Glazed eyes stared at her for a moment before he leaned down to kiss her again.
A soft humming noise of delight was delivered upon his lips as their bodies crashed together again. Arms would wind around his neck, legs around his waist as he lifted her. The denim of her mini skirt rose high up over the hips and backside exposing skin once properly covered.
And then they were moving. Soft sheets would meet her. Meg sat up and pulled back, sliding out of clothes as prompted.
Exhale would come through her nose. Mouth moved against his. Her hands found his shirt and she pulled at the fabric to silently suggest the obstacle be removed.
He helped her along with the buttons on his shirt and slipped it off his shoulders before tossing it to the ground. He could feel himself push against the zipper of his pants as his fingers made their way down to pull down her denim skirt off of her slim legs. When he’d safely removed them he dipped his head down to press a kiss to the bone at her hip.
Everything about her was soft. Her skin, her hair, the smile that played on her lips and all of it was intoxicating. He climbed back up to meet her, pressing their bodies flush together and stole another kiss from her lips.
Glad for the help she pushed away the fabric of his shirt, wanting only the skin beneath. Nails would scrape playfully at the flesh exposed, leaving the faintest of red marks as if to stake claim. Out of her skirt, she kicked it away to the floor and worked out of the rest of the barriers.
Her eyes watched the way his mouth found the bone of her hip, a grin spread across her lips. He was gentle with her, she appreciated that. And then she drowned utterly in the next kiss.
Hands would scramble for purchase on skin, muscle, as she drew him flush against her and moved to lay back against warm sheets, blankets.
One hand cradled her neck as he kissed her and the other trailed down the length of her torso. He let his fingers slip beneath her panties and come to rest at the moment sensitive area. It was important for him to know that she was as into this as he was. He was not disappointed.
He ground his hips down into hers and propped himself up for a minute while he took the condom out of his pocket. Yes, maybe he was expecting to get laid tonight. He looked at her as if to get the go ahead. He wasn’t completely undressed yet but if she was into it he wanted to be reassured.
Those fingers dancing across her skin elicited sounds, had her shuddering at his touch. Tongue would slide out to graze the swell of his lips as she melted into his touch. There was no doubt she was into what was going on. She wanted it as much as he did.
Hands would slip down his frame to his waist, nimble fingers would work the button of his slacks and zipper open and apart, seeking what lay beyond. The sight of that little square of foil delighted her. “Good boy,” She breathed, nodding. Glad that one of them was prepared she hoped they could go all the way this time.
He groaned into her touch, standing up to free himself of his pants, shoes and socks. When he came back to the bed her lifting her up by her back, finding the clasps on her bra to let it fall off her shoulders. Once off he pressed delicate kisses to her chest, trailing down until he hooked his fingers into her panties, sliding them off her hips.
He let his lips wander down before pressing his tongue against that sensitive nub, desperate to hear the wanton moans from her mouth.
Meg let him go only long enough to watch him become freed from the burdens of clothing. Sitting up slowly, frame shivering and limbs spread she watched with hunger as his fingers moved and his body shook to rid itself of garments. And then once more, like a fish on a lure, she was in his grasp. Arms would shift and delicate lace would peel tenderly from skin.
Hips lifted, Meg slid out of the barrier. And to her surprise what came next caused her jaw to drop and her body to writhe. “Ohhh, Ehren!” She called, legs spread. Fingers would find the short strands of his hair and grip, head would tilt backward as her eyes closed.
He continued to swirl his tongue around before he sucked in for a brief moment. It had been a long time since he’d done this but he remembered that driving women crazy. His eyes flicked up at her to watch the look of pleasure on her face. There was nothing more beautiful in the world right now and he continued for another minute before he came back up to her again, wiping his mouth.
Ehren looked deeply into her eyes for confirmation. “You ready?” He asked her which was almost a question to himself. At this crossroads Ehren suddenly remembered what had happened last time. He had a choice to make. Would he let his fear overcome him or take a chance for once in his life?
She could feel her body vibrating at his touch. Breathless, heart hammering against its bone cage, Meg’s back arched and her grip became white knuckled. And then her eyes popped open when he pulled back. She let him go, taking a deep breath, expression desperate for more.
Nodding, she offered a smile. Waiting was a challenge when you were engrossed in a moment like that. An arm would lift, hook around him, and draw him in close while he figured out what was on his mind.
Just like when he asked her out on a date, Ehren said screw it to himself and knew he couldn’t stop now even if he wanted to. He took the condom package and ripped it open, sliding it from the tip all the way down to the base before he settled between her legs. Using one hand to guide himself inside he felt a burst of nerves explode as he pushed himself inside of her.
This was better than before, being so close to her, only using their bodies to get to their ultimate goal. He propped himself up on his hands as he rolled his hips into her languidly, allowing her legs to wrap around him for control.
He felt better than he looked, which was a hard thing to accomplish in her opinion. The pressure was welcomed and finally it gave way to what they both sought: pleasure. Meg groaned, hips pushing against his to ensure that he got as deep as he could go.
Legs would wind around his to pin him in place, keeping him from getting too far away. There was no room for regret here, they’d come too far for that.
Arms wound around his neck and Meg pulled herself up, breathing soft words into his ear.
Her whispers sent a shiver down his spine and he felt himself quicken his pace a little, making sure to arch a little deeper each time to hit that spot inside of her. She felt unbelievably good around him, slick and wet. It had been so long he would have been surprised if he lasted.
He let his mouth come to hear ear, nibbling on the lobe as her mirrored the sweet sounds she was making. Every part of his body felt like he was burning and electricity flowed through his veins.
Doing her best to match his pace, Meg struggled to focus. He was so good she couldn’t find an anchor into reality. It’s been so long since she’d coupled with anyone. She didn’t want it to end any quicker than he did though she knew it wouldn’t be the last time, either. Or maybe that was wishful thinking. Things this good never happened to her.
Head tilted to allow him better access to her ear, her eyes closed. Humming sounds of pleasure Meg dug her nails into his skin.
As she tilted her head to give better access his lips redirected their focus to her neck where at sucked a mark. He could feel the warmth building in his belly each time he rolled his hips into her. Nothing else in the world mattered except for him, Meg, and the room that they were currently in.
He let go of her neck and moaned against her skin. “Meg..” he pleaded although he wasn’t sure for what. More, less, it was all so much. His heartbeat began to quicken to an alarming rate and the flush cane to his cheeks.
She could feel his lips searing a mark into the sensitive, tender curve of flesh at her neck. Her body shuddered. When they were done each would bear the aftermath of the act - her scratch marks, his mouth marks. But she wouldn’t hide it or act as if it hadn’t happened. It was a source of pride.
“Ehren,” she moaned in reply, body twisting slightly to offer better access and deeper plunge. She bucked up against him wanting to take him to the next level of euphoria.
The way she moaned his name was enough to drive him over the edge and he pushed as hard and as deep as he could to hit that spot inside of her. It wasn’t long until he felt a surge go through him like a tidal wave and he was filling the condom. Relief washed over him that he never felt before and it suddenly occurred to him that it wasn’t happening, he wasn’t slipping into a vision.
He climbed off of her and laid down on the bed next to her, trying to slow his ragged breathing.
Her entire body tensed all at the same time, stomach fluttered and twisted, as she hit her peak. For a moment her heart stopped, breathing ceased, and then everything began to function again. Making herself untangle from him, it was with reluctance that she let him go.
But the smile on her face would not fade so easily. Her hands danced across his skin finding warmth, and Meg gathered him into her arms, closing her eyes as she rested there trying to regain herself. “Wow.”
His breathing wasn’t calming down and with his arms wrapped around her it started to quicken. “Fuck, fuck, fuck no.” He said as his vision started to blur and his eyes rolled to the back of his head.
This time he was in his apartment, and he blinked as he looked around. It looked different. The painting she had yet to give him hung over his bed. He looked around, this had to be a vision of himself.
He got up and wandered into his living room where he saw Meg. She was...pregnant???
Megan was humming softly to herself. In the living room she was standing up, painting something on a canvas by the window that overlooked the street. Sunlight poured in through lace curtains. She wouldn’t be able to stand for too long. The swollen belly made being upright for too long strenuous, her ankles tended to swell but she couldn’t paint sitting down and relaxed.
Her hair was a more muted pink, pastel in color with teal ribbons of curls pinned up and out of her face.
In the panes of the window she saw his reflection and smiled, turning to look over her shoulder at him. “Hey!” Eyes would divert back to the canvas enough to set the paintbrush down before she was swiveling to better face him. That was when she spotted the card around his neck.
He looked down at where she was looking, the ID badge hanging around his neck that classified him as a mutant. Shit, shit, shit, he thought, holding it up to his eyes to look at it. “Meg, it’s, it’s not what you think.” He pleaded with her. Even pregnant she looked beautiful, but he wasn’t ready for that, wasn’t ready to even think about becoming a father.
“I promise, I never wanted to keep this from you.” He begged her, he had to tell her the truth now, even if it was only a vision. “I can see the future.” He mouth said but it wasn’t his words that were coming out, but the words of a future version of himself.
Her brow furrowed. Lips dropped into a frown. “You’re a—“ the word sat heavy on her tongue. “— like us.” Hands would fall to her sides as he begged, though his confession had her eyebrows arched. The future? What a blessing and a curse.
“You lied to me.” The anger alleviated, giving way to a pure sadness. Fingers would lift, touch the top of the swell of her belly. Inside the developing child kicked, fluttered. “You lied to us.”
He walked toward her to try and dissuade her from anger, but it was apparent that it was boiling up inside of her. “Meg, please, I never wanted to lie to you.” He begged, falling to his knees in front of her, taking her hands in his.
“I did it to protect you, the both of you. You have no idea how this affects my life.” He didn’t like the way his future self sounded. Pathetic, needy. He didn’t like this version of him at all.
Her head would turn, eyes would close as she saw him kneeling, taking her hands. “You’ve never been a man to beg,” she breathed, the ache of the gravity and weight of the situation present in her voice. Her hands remained in his. Slowly she lifted one of his palms and pressed it upon the swell. The little thing inside was kicking at the place where Meg had put Ehren’s hand.
“Keeping secrets doesn’t protect anyone,” she managed, finally turning to look down at him. “And I thought we were your life?”
“You’re my everything.” He said, a little powerless man begging for the one person, or rather two, who was keeping his fragile form together. Ehren wasn’t by any means a strong confident person, but he wasn’t a sniveling beggar either. This was a bad version of him, a version of him that couldn’t even keep it together for a moment.
“Please..” he heard himself beg before his world began to fade away and Meg’s room came into focus.
When he awoke he was covered in sweat and as pale as a sheet. He gasped for breath as he grabbed Meg’s arms. He’d been out for an hour, which was much longer than usual and he stared at Meg in horror.
“Ehren,” Meg had started, shaking her head. The vision began to fade.
“Ehren?” Her voice was nearly frantic. She was shaking him, eyes searching his face for any search of anything useable to let her know he was alright. And then finally he gasped for air. Relief washed over her and she sat back, startled a bit when his hands gripped her arms. “Are you alright?” Her voice was marred with the fear. “You were out for an hour!”
By that time she’d put clothes on in case she had to call for help. She didn’t like the look on his face at all. “What happened?”
He looked at her in shock as his breath began to normalize and he let go of her. “I..” He began but then couldn’t say anything, couldn’t tell her what was happening. He stood from the bed on shaky legs and fell on the floor as he tried to gain back the use of his legs. Once he was up again he went to his clothes and began to pull them onto his body.
“I...I have to go, um, see a doctor.” He was scrambling to come up with an excuse that sounded real and this was as good as he was going to get. “Another panic attack, I think this one was bad. I’ll call you ok?” He said as he shakily buttoned his shirt.
He wasn’t going to call her, he didn’t know what he was supposed to do now but he couldn’t let this continue, not if this was in his future.
Her eyes widened.
She’d been in a near panic; what if he’d died in her bed or in her house? That would’ve been terrible! Lucky he’d been breathing but she was no less terrified and anxious on her own. Her arms ached from where he’d grasped but she paid it no mind. Instinct was telling her to help.
Scrambling from the bed she did her best to help him stand up, to find balance. “A panic attack?” She inquired, blinking. “That was not a panic attack. That was like a trance or something.” Meg took a step backward unsure of what was going on with him.
“You’re going to the doctor now? You don’t even know what time it is!” There was medical facility twenty-four seven but that sort of treatment was probably better coming from an actual primary doctor and not some ER doctor. “Ehren, just talk to me.”
He shook his head, tears forming in his eyes. “I can’t!” He yelled at her, shaking his head when he’d realized how rude he’d just been. “Listen, I’ll be fine, don’t worry about me.” Maybe this would be enough to get her off his back.
He grabbed his socks and shoes from the floor and sat down to put them on. “I’m used to this, I can handle it, ok?” He couldn’t tell her anything because then he’d look like an asshole and he looked like an asshole because he didn’t. There was no real moral reason why Ehren was behaving the way he was except for pure selfishness. He didn’t want that to happen so he wasn’t going to let it.
She blinked. Her own eyes watered and her jaw set. He had been rude. Meg threw her hands into the air and then waved him away. “Fine! I won’t.” Arms would cross over her chest and she turned her head away so he wouldn’t see any expression or emotion there. “Get out.”
Meg turned away. She wandered into a different place in her apartment to put distance between them, slamming a door shut behind her with a foot.
Ehren’s eyes softened and he turned around to exit her apartment. He didn’t want this either, he didn’t want her to hate him but it was the only way he was going to stop it from happening. “I’m sorry.” He said, barely loud enough for her to hear through the door and made his way out of her apartment.
When he got home he collapsed on his bed and began to cry. Why was he cursed with this? The minute he found someone he had a connection with and it was completely ruined. This was his life.
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17th January 2021 3:27 pm
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Artists will start moving in to Exchange Place Studios next week! Exchange Place Studios is our new city centre studio complex, a stunning 6 floor Art Deco building built in 1927 for WH Smith. The 63 affordable solo and shared studios have huge windows to the North, East and West with extensive views across the city.
The building is on Exchange Street in Castlegate, facing Victoria Quays, a five minute walk to the station and close to most city centre bus routes. The area will shortly undergo a complete transformation with the closure of the markets and the revealing of the remains of Sheffield Castle.
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The Secret Lives of Housewives
It’s a wonder that anyone has the nerve to write about housewives at all anymore: Not only are these women bored, but they have been universally declared boring. Yet last year saw the publication of Hausfrau, an acclaimed novel by the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum about a disconsolate American woman languishing in her husband’s stifling hometown in Switzerland, and this month brings American Housewife, a short story collection by Helen Ellis. Add to that Jenny Offill’s Department of Speculation, a 2014 novel that, while not technically about a housewife, wrestles with the same conflict between family life and self-determination, and it’s clear that the theme is enjoying a minirevival of sorts.
~Laura Miller, "Ladies of Leisure"
Novels featuring housewives as protagonists first burst on the scene in the 1960s-70s, with memorable opuses including Susan Isaacs' Compromising Positions, Judy Blume's Wifey and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, the latter two first novels for both authors (in Blume's case, her first novel for adult readers). Some of these early novels were sexy, some were polemics, but they definitely had a different take on the "suburban malaise" of earlier novels by their male counterparts featuring housewives, such as Revolutionary Road or Rabbit, Run. This was also the era that Erma Bombeck began publishing her "At Wit's End" columns, which took a humorous look at the lives of wives and mothers.
But, since them, we have had Desperate Housewives and Real Housewives of several different locales, and novels about lives in suburbia have become more twisted - or their secrets and controversies are more exposed, including vigilantes (Tom Perrotta's Little Children), familial doom (Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides), brutal murder (Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones), deception (Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl), and wife-swapping (Rick Moody's The Ice Storm).
We've compiled for you a list of fictional housewives with all sorts of adventures and dilemmas: in a "quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal"*; trying to fit in in a seaside village with a soap-selling mafia; trapped in what looks like a picture-perfect marriage; after the end of marriage, trying to make ends meet in a dodgy apartment-sitting situation; dealing with family secrets coming to a head; meeting a celebrity crush who changes everything; even a 35-year friendship that becomes a writers' circle. Being a housewife is not a quiet or uncomplicated life! As Helen Ellis said on Twitter, in her housewife persona (her handle is WhatIDoAllDay, and she regards her feed as an online "cocktail party"), “I’m not bored, I’m lying in wait."
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Love May Fail by Matthew Quick [eBook]
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
(particularly the stories from the collection Family Ties)
Housewitch by Katie Schickel
The Hummingbird's Cage by Tamara Dietrich
The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
Vintage by Susan Gloss
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
Plastic by Christopher Fowler
The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
Hush Little Baby by Suzanne Redfearn
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories by Lucia Perillo
(particularly stories such as "Dr. Vicks", "Anyone Else But Me", and "Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain")
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford [eBook]
How To Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale [eAudiobook]
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton [eBook]
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church
The Longest Night by Andria Williams
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee
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*from the library catalog
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Fashola and Ndigbo in Lagos
I used to be a keen observer and admirer of the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN). Apart from the visible progress he might have made in governing Lagos, I believe he is an astute and tactful politician. That could go as the most outstanding part of his personality. For almost eight years, he worked out a very rare but functional arrangement where he focused more on the day-to-day running of the state, while he allowed his former boss and Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria now All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to hold sway and take full charge of the political arena. Do not take my word for it but it takes a man of considerable political acumen to function effectively under the shadow of a maverick politician larger–than-life politician like the “Lion of Bourdillon”, as many call him, and yet be able to create a remarkable political niche for oneself. Managing overbearing political bosses is a virtue that many of our politicians have not developed. Fashola not only achieved this but managed to create an impression of a visionary leader on anyone who visited Lagos recently.
However the controversial deportation of Nigerian citizens of Igbo extraction resident in Lagos by giving them an emergency destitute status has brought Fashola’s true divisive and odoriferous tribal personality into the public domain. It is unarguable that many admirers of Fashola are rankled and startled and now see him in a different, largely uncomplimentary light. Apart from the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Fashola is one other governor who has demonstrated, in my view, that he has a direction and who anyone can hold a conversation with about good governance and development. My admiration for the conduct of these two used to be so boundless that I would nominate them without hesitation for any bigger national assignment only if I had the slightest opportunity. But not anymore, at least for Governor Fashola.
For the benefit of those who do not know the details. A Lagos State agency known as the Kick Against Indiscipline, obviously on the orders of the state governor, was said to have arrested some people predominantly from Igbo extraction about two years ago on the suspicion that they were leading destitute lives. They were detained in several locations in Lagos under some dirty and largely inhuman condition. Many of them allegedly died in the process out of starvation and sickness. A few who survived were later packed into a lorry like cows and deported to Onitsha where they were dumped near the head bridge at Upper Iweka and abandoned there. There is a possibility that not all of these hapless deportees were doing meaningful things before they were caught. However, some of them reportedly confessed to be petty traders and roadside food hawkers before they were nabbed by some overzealous KAI operatives. They disclosed that much when they were interviewed. But those are all by the way. How come they were interviewed to find that if they spoke Yoruba language before bundling them into prison? How come they bundled all of them into Onitsha even when some of them might have been from Calabar, Yenagoa, or even Uyo? Was it a pre- rehearsed attack against a perceived enemy ethnic group? When and where were these hatched?
As the debate continues to rage, many informed minds have continued to condemn Fashola and his government. However, a few ethnic jingoists have tried desperately to justify the action of the governor, who I am sure might have realised the import of his mistake by now. But I am certain that such arguments as indigene/settler, host/guest conversations have become anachronistic. And so I will not waste valuable time on the contribution of one tribe or the other to the growth and development of Lagos State as some have been preoccupied with.
However, I want to point out some personal views for all of us to consider, extrapolate and draw conclusions. The first point is a short story. During my days at the University of Ibadan, I used to spend time with a relation who lived in the Mushin area of Lagos. I remember it was a storey building and I often came to the narrow balcony to watch a mammoth crowd hurry across to Isolo, Idi-Araba, Surulere and other parts of Lagos. I recall vividly how I helplessly watched hoodlums on several occasions snatch bags and valuables from unsuspecting passers-by. If you are in doubt, try to walk around the area in the evening. You will notice some people following you and singing praises initially and appealing to you to “bless” them. If you hesitate, they will turn violent and “bless” themselves by force by dispossessing you of your valuables. They are still there as I write. Now, if a destitute person is someone who is poor and does not have the basic necessities of life. If the goal of the KAI campaign is to rid Lagos of poor, homeless beggars and non-taxpaying individuals as someone opined, then their destination should be Mushin. There, they will find trailer loads of such individuals but of course the destination of such vehicles will never be Onitsha. If the Lagos State Government was talking to its Anambra counterpart, why did it decide to drop the “deportees” at the Onitsha head bridge in the dead of the night, not in Awka or any government establishment?
Besides, how come the Lagos State Governor decided to contact, as he said he did, only the Governor of Anambra State on a matter as sensitive as this? Why did he not write other state governors in the South-East and South-South?
Instructively, during the last census exercise, Fashola and his fellow politicians were literally begging Ndigbo and other “settlers” not to go back to their states but rather stay back in Lagos and be counted. Now that they might have contributed to the mega population size of Lagos for which is a clear tool to bargain for national resources, these same people have become disposable street urchins. What could have inspired this state-sponsored hatred? Some say that the pre-civil war fear of Igbo dominance is still a factor. No. Not at all. The effect of the civil war on Ndigbo is so devastating that it will take many more decades to be neutralised, whatever anyone might think to the contrary. Many of the Igbo who left the East after the war went out in search of survival. After the war, they lost their jobs, money, properties and everything. Some of them who had millions of pounds in the bank had to forfeit them and were given only 20 pounds, on the orders of the Federal Government to start life. The only option they had was to continue to travel to places that were inhabitable to trade and farm etc. That was how the Igbo began to migrate to other parts of Nigeria in search of livelihood and survival. It takes a hard-working person to rebuild considerably from the rubble of war with only 20 pounds. Sadly, many years after the civil war, many other tribes with covert backing of politicians are still fighting against Ndigbo. Ndigbo are the least represented in everything Nigerian because, unfortunately, the divisive sentiments that pervaded during the civil war are still very active in the hearts and minds of many. If you look at the lopsided nature of the Nigerian civil service under the name of Federal Character, you will cry.
Since independence in 1960, ethnic issues have been deliberately politicised to give a clique of power-thirsty individuals, a dubious legitimacy. The civil war worsened it and politicians have continued to exploit it to their advantage. Amidst these sad and almost inescapable realities, one would only imagine that Fashola would have known and done better.
It must be noted out that the deportation saga has very tricky political implications. It has a potential of deepening inter-tribal suspicion with counterproductive political repercussions. For instance, Ndigbo constitute a majority of the non-Yoruba voting population in Lagos State that will be too difficult to ignore. How come Fashola mobilised these “street urchins” to vote for him only to remember towards the end of his last tenure that they are a bunch of nuisance that needs to be deported? Why did he not do it before 2011? What about 2015?
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Tuesday, 06 August 2013 03:52
The Kidnapping Of Poor Nigerians By Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola Of Lagos
"We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding. And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all persons in our country, on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity of our people" - The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
When it comes to the constitution, Nigeria’s political class abandons discretion so stupidly. The legal impotence of the Nigerian constitution will likely rank first when compared to other developing nations of the world. Politicians, the corruptly enriched and powerful routinely find creative ways to simply side-step sections that they deem inconvenient or uncomfortable. The section dealing with fundamental rights of Nigerian citizenship had long been dust binned and completely forgotten. When convenient or supportive of some of their excesses, like the devil who quote the Bible to justify an evil scheme, these corrupt politicians recite the same constitution often violated at will.
Governor Babatunde Fashola toed this now predictable line, barely, twenty-four hours after trampling on the protected rights of ordinary Nigerian citizens. Fashola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, sought refuge in the principles of separation of powers when protesting a call for the national government to review his reckless acts. The validity of contested provision is not in doubt, yes Fashola have state police powers. However, he has absolutely no powers on earth to deport a fellow citizen! The right of citizenship is inalienable and remains the fundamental principle of society. Today, with evil power-drunk dictators, like Babatunde Fashola, those rights mean little in Nigeria.
Somebody should whisper into the ears of Fashola that the ultimate purpose of separation of powers is to protect the liberty and security of the governed, as opposed to giving him the unfettered discretion to decide who to forcefully kidnap and deport to any place of his choice.
To understand the game that Fashola is playing, we may have to take a big leap to the past to see how our leaders, treat citizens (citizens is often viewed as a derogatory term by corrupt politicians).
DEPORTATION OF ALHAJI SHUGABA ABDULRAHAM
My first encounter with this ugly fact was as an eavesdropper in a conversation between my father and a gentleman. The man, a radical (a term often used by the government to discredit social critics), had then asked my father, the worst possible thing that the government can do to a Nigerian citizen. My fathers of blessed memories, was quick with his answer, denial of the right of citizenship. In complete shock and horror, I listened as my father narrated the story of Alhaji Abdulraham Shugaba.
During the years of "Shagari –Democracy" a one-party dictatorship similar to what we have now, NPN was in power. Shugaba, a member of the opposition party, GNPP was a strong opponent of the all-powerful NPN in Bornu State. He was a very flamboyant orator whose populist agenda appealed to his constituents. Shugaba, became too popular and could not be rigged-out by the NPN (then with a slogan, NPN-POWER!). Shugaba was a huge challenge to the power of NPN to rig in any politician of their choice.
Through a scheme and a series of political intrigues that will even baffle a hard-core Machiavellian, he was labeled a citizen of a neighboring country, Chad. Undeterred, he blasted the NPN rigging machines and called them citizens of Hell.
Black-market court injunctions were hurriedly purchased by the NPN, preventing him from contesting elections based on lack of, Nigerian citizenship! A determined Shugaba, painstakingly and successfully challenged most of the early injunctions. His success at the tribunals outraged the ruling oppressors.
His detractors became more desperate that he could have ever imagined. NPN, purchased another decision with a deportation order, without procedural due process. Before, Shugaba could say, “appeal,” Security agents were in his house very early in the morning, all armed to the teeth. Before the embattled Shugaba could say "what-up?" he was whisked away in his sleeping clothes (half-naked, barefooted) and deported to Chad. The protests of the Chadian government, that, Shugaba is not from Chad, met the unsympathetic ears of the ruling class.
The sensibilities and conscience of Nigerians were agitated, that was then, before the current state of hopelessness. A group of people with similar political interests mounted a legal defense. It went all the way to the Supreme Court, thank goodness, the apex court overturned the deportation order.
Monetary damages were awarded to the obviously rattled Shugaba, no amount of money can compensate one for such blatant and traumatic ordeal. The sad thing is that, Shugaba had to overcome high artificial obstacles before he was given a fraction of the court award. The result was again surprised, oppressive leaders found a weapon of choice, deportation.
DEPORTATION AS A WEAPON BY IBB - PATRICK WILMOT.
When a professor in ABU, Patrick Wilmot, became critical of the excess of Babangida, the man called Maradonna simply laughed. Nigerians watched helplessly when without any due consideration to his legal status, Babangida deported the hapless professor.
GOV. BABATUNDE FASHOLA’S FORCEFULLY SEIZURE, AND “DEPORTATION” OF FELLOW NIGERIANS THE HEIGHT OF CITIZEN ABUSE.
Now, the ruling class is moving it notches higher, of course in geometrical progression. Deportation based on poverty, is even worse that the above cases and that is exactly what Fashola is doing, period. What the man who at the bare minimum understands the meaning of human rights is doing is unreasonable or more obnoxious to Nigerian constitution which he once swore to uphold.
When Gov. Babs Fashola started his new wave of violating fundamental human rights of Nigerians, he did by deporting, Northerners. His rationale for the deportation was "to free the state of the destitute and beggars, and who are mostly from the northern part of the country." Some of us cried out in shock. This argument remains the most heart-breaking argument proffered by any person anywhere in the world for an egregious constitutional breach. One of the most important duties of a government is to improve the welfare of the citizens, including the poor, rather than do that, Fashola is not only trampling of the rights of the poor, but committing mass-murder. Some of these people will die off out of frustration.
After listening for a while, and sensing that Nigerians have forgotten. Fashola then embarked on a new wave. This time just like in the first exercise, he looks at people faces, and decided that they are likely from Anambah State, and deported all of them.
Even if one grudgingly listen to Fashola’s belated argument of “Welfare,” what type of welfare is he providing by forcefully deporting them from a place they call home. Fashola is eager to welcome the rich who swell the huge purse of his godfather with monies taken through taxes, levies and penalties for unlawfully confiscated goods, yet he cannot even use a small percentage of the fund to provide basic amenities for the poor. The quick-fix is deportation.
THE WRONGFUL ACT OF FASHOLA IS NOT DEPORTATION BUT KIDNAPPING
Simple definitions with very little explanation:
The expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country! Therefore, to be deported, one has to be expelled from another country where he is an alien. Never in the history of mankind has a man been deported from his own country! If there is genuine dispute as to the citizenship of the deported, the court ought to resolve it, not the executive. That is exactly why we have anti-aggrandizement principle.
The crime of unlawfully seizing and carrying away a person by force or Fraud, or seizing and detaining a person against his or her will with an intent to carry that person away at a later time. See http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/kidnapping
The situation even when viewed in a light most favorable to Babatunde Fashola, will still be kidnapping. The formulation of illegal deportation decrees in these type of cases presents problems of considerable complexity. Any public policy consideration of appropriate goal of freeing the state of destitute must necessarily be subordinated to the primary question -- the constitutionality of a dictatorial state governor trampling in a most egregious manner, on the constitutional rights of Nigerian citizens. Such an act is a violation equal protection of the laws and the most basic right, fundamental human rights.
Obi Enweze was the Secretary General of NADECO –USA/Canada
Saturday, 03 August 2013 15:10
Only 14 destitutes returned to Anambra –Fashola
CNPP cautions Obi over backlash
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday cleared the air on the controversies trailing the alleged forceful ejection of some Igbo from the state, saying only 14 destitutes were picked on the streets, ehabilitated and resettled back to their state.
Governor Fashola thus distanced the state’s government from the claim that those resettled were 67 or 72.
Fashola who also disclosed that he just ordered the rehabilitation of a mad woman who was allegedly impregnated by unknown person in Oshodi, said the state’s government’s care for its residents had no ethnic or political colouration.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State chapter of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has urged Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State not to allow the controversy cause rancour between Igbo and Yoruba in Lagos.
In a statement signed by the state’s chairman of CNPP, Hon Akinola Obadia, the group said that the issue should not be allowed to cause disaffection among the Igbo people living in the state with their Yoruba neighbours.
The CNPP also warned against tribalising the alleged deportation issue. The statement reads in part: “We in the CNPP have gone extra mile to find out the fact from government source on the issue of the return of destitutes in the state to their states of origin.
We decided to make a clean breast of the matter against the disinformation and rumour some people are making.”
Speaking during a visit of Aka Ikenga, Igbo community in Lagos to his office in Alausa, Ikeja, Fashola said what happened was indeed minor issue that had been exaggerated to score cheap political gain.
Explaining the genesis of the controversy, Fashola recalled that there was correspondence between the Lagos State Government and the Anambra State liaison in Lagos.
Governor Fashola explained that his Anambra State counterpart could not claim ignorance of the whole matter.
BRF: Is Lagos State Still Working?
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola: Is Lagos State Still Working?
You were a reference point, some even compare you with Cassius Longinus- philosopher and rhetorician, described as a "a living library and a walking museum".
You define style, you were a syllabus other states study, your simplicity, style of governance, traffic management, road management, environment, water transportation, housing, metro rail line project, education, health, public service were areas other states in Nigeria tried copying.
With your Better Re-assuring Future to Before Retiring Finally in 2015, is Lagos State still working? Your 1st term was an endless footprints on the sands of Lagos State history You break barriers, you were honored locally and internationally, as the world stand aside to let BRF passes , because you knows where you were going.
In your second term, it seems Lagos all these giant strides has virtually left to be wallowed. Through political bickering and manoeuvrings, your erstwhile deputy governor was replaced, and possibly you could not worked with the present one.
BRF, Lagosians are still dumfounded! Eko tin baje o! [Lagos is no longer working}. The Atlantic City, Lekki Free Trade Zone, are indeed an endless footprints of yours on the sand of Lagos State. The street sign posts in some areas has been abandoned. Most people were actually swayed to ACN because of your attributes and accomplishments.
Your second term is indeed not as vibrant as the first term, the political bickering and manoeuvrings that is already playing itself out in Lagos State to some, may be the reason why you have soft pedaled on consolidating on your unrivaled accomplishments. You are not serving any semi-god or godfather, but your service is to Lagosians by leaving an endurable, unrivaled, undeniable endless footprints of BRF on the sand of Lagos State now Before Retiring Finally!
You surrounded yourself with intellectuals, you established yourself in the minds of Lagosians as a master of initiatives, your voice is strong and harmonious, your manly understanding is strengthened and adorned with study.
And for those who have tied down your advancement, remind them; it was just as certain Indian wise man had observed: "O King Alexander, each man possess just so much of the earth as this one which we stand; and you being a man like other man, save that you are full of activity and relentless are roaming over, all the earth far from your home, troubling yourself, and troubling others. But not so long hence you will die, and will posses just so much of the earth as suffices for your burial."
BRF, Before Finally Retiring, Is Lagos State still working? Eko tin baje o!
My hopes for 2015: BRF/Tambuwal Ticket!
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Governor Fashola Is Turning A Bad Governor?
How can Nigerians be governed with this high level of cruelty by means of obnoxious laws here and there? Why is it that laws are executed with the speed like that of an angry hunting lion when it has to do with the poor in this country but when it concerns the bigger criminals in the name of political leaders and elites every government begins to form committees that never find them guilty? Why this impunity of recklessness?
Why is it that Nigerian leaders at various levels are very insensitive to the cry of the people, but yet expect to win the war against crime and social vices? Objectively speaking, how can Nigeria’s “vision 2020” policy of being one of the world’s leading political and economical powers in 2020 be realizable when Nigerian average citizens still live under $1 per day and their leaders do not see them as partners but rather treat issues concerning them like masters and slaves?
"I do not know if Governor Fashola
is aware that as his agents destroyed
those thousands of 'okadas' that they
also destroyed many homes,
shattered many dreams, jeopardized
the future of many children and created
more hooligans and criminals."
What have we Nigerians done wrong to our leaders?
Who is advising Governor Fashola with this heinous law to ban commercial motorcyclists popularly known as ’okadas’ in Lagos State without first of all honestly providing an alternative? This law is nasty and has got no human face. I was shocked and felt sick when I saw thousands destroyed motorcycles proudly displayed to news men/women as an achievement by the agents of Governor Fashola as ’okadas’ of those that failed the traffic laws. Oh, my heart bleeds! I do not know if Governor Fashola is aware that as his agents destroyed those thousands of 'okadas' that they also destroyed many homes, shattered many dreams, jeopardized the future of many children and created more hooligans and criminals.
By Nigerian standard of governance and development, Governor Fashola is one of the very few governors in Nigeria that I still respect and that is why I am making my stand known. Can somebody please tell Governor Fashola that he has at this juncture woefully failed the people because the reason of banning ‘okadas’ is shallow and laughable? If part of the reasons of banning commercial 'okada' operators was because many of the riders were engaged in nefarious activities with their ‘okadas’, can we now say because of some people that may be thieving politicians in Lagos State government that we should stop to have a government in Lagos State?
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo said that there are rogues and thieves at the National Assemblies. Can we now ban law making in Nigeria because of many of these merciless Nigerian law makers in the National Assemblies whose primary interests as evidence has shown have always been to increase their salaries without recourse to its effect on the nation and without plans to make laws that could rehabilitate the shameful health system in Nigeria or to build railways or undergrounds in order to make the everyday agony life of the poor Nigerians easier that ignited the 'okada' business? Can we say because there are too many air crashes in Nigeria due to the fact that a few individuals assigned with the responsibility to certify that planes are in very good conditions before they are put in use have collected bribes in order to allow coffins to airlift Nigerians ban the use of aircrafts? Or can we because of numerous motor accidents in Nigeria as a result of the failures of government at various levels ban the use of motors?
"The ban of ‘okadas’ from
Delta State to Lagos State
or anywhere in Nigeria under
any guise is an economic
murder on the part of the
poor masses."
Governor Fashola said that it was because of many ‘okada’ accidents that made him ban commercial motorcyclists. What did he do to reduce the number of accidents before this unfounded action? Is it not the responsibility of every government to find out the causes of problems? Did Governor Fashola’s government try to find out why there were many 'okada' accident cases? Do the agents of the governor, ‘LASMA’ who is the body of the executioners of this unfriendly law have the ordinary alcohol testing instruments in order to examine and know who is driving under the influence of alcohol on Lagos roads especially when an accident occurs? Did the government of Governor Fashola provide standard traffic signs and speed limits on all the roads he has banned ‘okadas’? Can Governor Fashiola scientifically prove how many of these ’okada’ riders are qualified riders or that are mentally stable to use motorcycles?
Take sentiments and emotions away from the fact that there have been 'okada' accidents and ’okada’ related robberies and look at the issue critically. If Governor Fashola did not carry out all these vital elementary assignments, how sound would it be for him to stand up one morning and ban ‘okada’ operators? If Governor Fashola cannot comfortably provide answers to the aforementioned questions; can he now see that the people did not fail but rather the inability of the Lagos State government not to have thoroughly viewed the issue and come up with an impeccable solution that failed the masses? The social implication of this decision is devastating on the people and can never address the issue of accidents he raised until his government takes a very reasonable measure to control and discipline many Lagosians whom out of ignorance or stupidity have formed the habits of navigating bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles or motors under the heavy influence of alcohol, hard drugs or without licences.
What Lagos State government or other states where they have banned ’okadas’ should have done in this situation should have been to research first and then look for a fair and logical method of arriving at a resolution that should not be more harmful to the society than the problem/s they were trying to avoid after also due consideration that it was unemployment that led to the ’okada’ business in the first place. Because even up to the late 80s we did not have commercial ’okadas’, therefore, government agents should have figured out carefully on how a few miscreants in their midst should have been identified and dealt with accordingly without raising tension instead of this indiscriminate ban.
If Governor Fashola continues to refuse to reverse this anti-masses law, the governor may have indirectly advocated that Nigerian banks should be closed because there are some bank managers who cooperate with fraudsters to steal millions or some workers of some banks who work with criminals by informing them when, where and how to break their banks and steal monies. If this obnoxious law is allowed to stand, Governor Fashola has equally advocated that the Nigeria police should be closed because there are many criminals and bribe takers in their midst whose work also has been to gather false evidences against helpless poor Nigerians. Some Nigerian military men/women have been dismissed from service, charged to court and found guilty as criminals. Consequently, the military should also be scraped in Nigeria because they are equally a failure since some of them supply sophisticated arms to armed robbers to kill and wreak havoc on Nigerians in the night in return for money while some of them have been accused to be sponsors, informants and trainers of Boko Haram.
I feel pained to see that Governor Fashola has quickly started to play over our collective intelligence with a massive campaign that since the ban of commercial ‘okadas’ that the number of accidents has reduced in Lagos State, but decided to remain silent whether crime reduced or increased.
"... a day shall come when Lagosians
will remind him (Fashola) this issue like the way
Nigerians have kept on reminding IBB
the annulment of June 12 that has
irredeemably murdered his political
return to ‘Aso Rock’."
Governor Fashola, do not forget that directly or indirectly you used the same ’okada’ people during your election campaign for votes. Why did you not ban 'okadas' before the 2011 election? Contrarily you made a law for all 'okada' riders and their passengers to be on safety gadgets before they could operate in LagosState? Which was good anyway? Could that law have been a mistake on the side of your government or a calculated attempt to deceptively win the confidence and the vote of the 'okada' riders? Most of the 'okada' riders who bought their motorcycles under credit or ‘higher purchase’ borrowed money to comply to your order and now that you are comfortably seating as the executive governor of Lagos State not only that you have stopped their source of daily bread but have also destroyed their production companies ('okadas') living them to gnash their teeth in pains and agony without anybody to turn to.
Because in Nigeria everything is possible, therefore, dear Governor Fashola, could it be that the idea of safety gadgets was not well thought of when you came up with the policy or that some people in your cabinet could have imported helmets without your knowledge and had mounted pressure for the implementation of the helmet law through advice so that their business could flourish? And now, perhaps the business of helmets seems no longer lucrative they have again channeled their deceptive policy somewhere and ‘okada’ operators and their families can go to hell.
Dear Governor Fashola, this is a message from your fellow governor who also happens to be in the same party “ACN” like you, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State , “I think it’s, for me, a class issue and I belong to the working class, so I cannot ban ‘okada’. First, I believe that ‘okada’ is a response to certain deficit in our intra-urban transportation system. From the 60s to the 70s to the 80s, we never had ‘okada’. If you ask a lady to take a ride on a motorbike it was like a taboo. Now it has became fashionable to have a woman and two children on top of a bike. It is not a culture choice. It is as a result of deficit in our intra-city transportation system.”
Dear Governor Fashola, I appeal to you like many others to please reverse this policy because a good leader must have good listening ears. Do not allow us to begin to compare you with the worst governor in Nigeria , Dr. T. A. Orji of Abia State who has unnecessarily channeled all his energy in social attacks against Dr. Orji Uzo Kalu instead of working for Abians.
A governor that one of his best achievements so far was the sacking of all non indigene workers from other eastern states because of bad advisers should not be the kind of governor we should compare Governor Fashola with. One hopes that Governor Fashola is not taking this direction and is listening to the voice of reasoning.
The ban of ‘okadas’ from Delta State to Lagos State or anywhere in Nigeria under any guise is an economic murder on the part of the poor masses. However, if Governor Fashola insists not to heed to the plea of the people, well, we will grudgingly and helplessly succumb to his wish, but he should understand that he has only used his position and might against us but has not won our respect and that a day shall come when Lagosians will remind him this issue like the way Nigerians have kept on reminding IBB the annulment of June 12 that has irredeemably murdered his political return to ‘Aso Rock’.
May God bless Governor Fashola, bless Lagos State and bless Nigeria !
Ahamefule
A patriotic concerned citizen writes from Vienna , Austria
Gov. Fashola Paper delivered at Achebe Colloquium on Africa 2012
Role of statecraft in the African Renaissance amidst regime change and ethno-religious insurgency - A West African Case Study
Being a paper delivered by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, at the 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa held at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island USA on Friday December 7, 2012
AFRICA Rising - That is the headline of last week's cover of Time Magazine. It is for me an appropriate place to start my discussion on the theme "Governance, Security and Peace in Africa"; and if I might say so at the onset, it is a somewhat misleading if not patronizing headline.
I say this because, students of world history will know that the story of our planet is one of the rise and fall of civilization and empires.
Civilizations and empires have thrived and floundered on the basis of the challenges of their time, when they peak or fall; and what men or women do or fail to do. And I propose to discuss this in some fuller detail as I deal with the subject of institutions. But I must emphasize that Greece, which is one of the Europe's poorest and highly indebted nations today, was once at the zenith of human civilization.
The heart of the Roman Empire which gave the world one of its most enduring legacies of law, was situated in what is modern day Italy and is currently a struggling economy.
But we have not heard the last of Italy or Greece. In the way that Germany rose from the ruins of two World Wars to become Europe's super power house today, we have seen the renaissance of a Ming Dynasty that took almost 5,000 years to re-discover herself in the renaissance of China.
Africa is not rising; it is experiencing a renaissance again. The sustainability will be determined by what men and women do or fail to do
So contrary to a rising Africa, I see the renaissance of a region that once boasted the amazing engineering feats of the Egyptian pyramids when there were no super cranes and a place where Timbuktu in modern day Mali, was once the place to be for science, mathematics and learning.
Africa is not rising; it is experiencing a renaissance again. The sustainability will be determined by what men and women do or fail to do.
This is the platform from which I propose to address my sub-theme of "Regime Change, Ethno-Religious Insurgency and State-craft in the 21st Century with my focus on West Africa.
Let me start by submitting that I have read enough history and seen a lot of conflict in almost five decades on earth to come to the clear conclusion, that all conflicts are fuelled by the desire for dominance, territorial control, economic benefit for self or allies.
I am convinced that in whatever garment these conflicts are dressed, whether ethnic or religious, those cloaks are only designed to whip up a sense of identity and support towards a cause they often may not understand.
West Africa, as the name suggests is a sub region of Africa that has 16 (sixteen) countries who are independent nations. Collectively they have a population of approximately 300,000,000 (three hundred million)people whose lands are blessed with all types of natural resources such as oil, gas, coffee, cocoa, timber, gold, to mention a few and access to water especially the Atlantic Ocean.
It is important to mention this so that there is clarity about abundance of human and natural resources. Some of the oldest and foremost learning institutions such as the Fourah Bay College and the many learning centres such as in Old Timbuktu are located in this region.
In the last few decades they formed an economic block, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for short, almost like the European Union to deepen economic trade.
But ironically, this region has until recently made global headlines for the wrong reasons. Apart from hunger and poverty experienced by a people so blessed; and I am not happy to say this, peacekeeping operations have consumed several millions of dollars as perhaps the only successes that can come out of a region of such vast resources.
These are peacekeeping missions to end the mindless slaughter of innocent men, women and children who have been victims of mindless orgies of violence in the pursuit of crass and brazen ambition under the guise of attempted governance. Sierra Leone and Liberia once very free, peaceful and historic settlements for their roles in the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the redevelopment of the African human capital through education, have lost their innocence forever.
While the healing process and rebuilding continues at a pace that encourages hope, there are scars that will never go away. My own country Nigeria faced a bloody civil war about which I will say a word or two,Ivory Coast was not spared; neither was Ghana, in the mindless toppling of regime after regime in the 1980s and several execution of leaders and the displacement of millions of citizens who became refugees outside their homeland.
Yes, many Ghanaian professionals became shoemakers, drivers, odd job men and women in my own country when I was a teenager because their country failed them. All these are now in the past. The old Gold Coast of Africa is back. The Ashanti Dynasty is not rising. It is experiencing a renaissance. What lies at the heart of all this conflict for me is a difficult question; and from here I have to be careful what I say so that I am not misunderstood.
Before the colonization of Africa in the late 19th Century, many of these nations were several kingdoms with kings and emperors.
We must remember that succession was by conquest and it is possible to rationalize what we have today on that basis. However, it is important to also explain what I think compounds the problem.
A good idea, whose frontiers are being tested to the limit. Liberal Democracy. In my view, there is yet to be a better form of organizing the affairs of a multitude of men than a representative democracy.
My worry is whether an idea conceived by men can last forever. Democracy has survived many ages. The Agrarian Age, the Industrial Age and it has merged with other philosophies like capitalism and moved into the age of information technology and now globalization.
It faces perhaps its biggest threat yet by the effects of technology and globalization which both test the limits of freedom. The success or otherwise of this model of governance has been the Achilles heel of the political stability of West Africa.
It is possible to argue that the African concept of communal existence, sharing and conciliation were shaken to their foundations by the winner takes all that elections produce in a democratic setting. While I may be wrong, and I hope that I am, it is a study that I hope will be undertaken. Those who are products of ancestors who ruled as kings and emperors may seem somewhat perplexed that they cannot share the Court of a successful winner after an election; and must, therefore, accept the economically unrewarding role of opposition, at least until the next elections are called.
Human endeavour and conflict
Really and truly, all human endeavor and conflict about a better life, but the irony is that the concept of a better life is itself amorphous and difficult to define. One might wonder for example why the people of the Western economies with all their infrastructure and progress, which are many miles ahead of what you will find in many parts of Africa are still agitating for a better life.
Happily for me, I am able to say that in spite of the difficulties many parts of West Africa are democratizing and with that, political stability is emerging and we are seeing development. Sierra Leone just conducted peaceful elections for the second time after many years of conflict.
The evidence of political stability stares every person in face as one witnesses the block by block rebuilding of a once peaceful country whose infrastructure was ravaged by conflict induced by regime change.
The question therefore is this:- In the light of the progress being witnessed in many parts of democratizing West Africa, is democracy the answer or the missing link to unlocking the vast opportunities in West Africa. Yes, democracy will, on the basis of the available evidence of what has been done under it, be critical to achieving the goal. On its own, it will not suffice to solve the problem.
In spite of democratic structures in Mali and with only a few months to general elections a few people still ganged up to seize power, with an official statement that they wanted to change things. The question on everyone's lips was: why not wait for the general elections that were so close; to effect the change by the ballot? The answer may be long in coming.
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN - Governor of Lagos State of Nigeria.
Is Fashola still working?
Travelling on Nigerian highways these days can be suicidal. It is not just because of the deplorable condition of the inter-state highways. The problem is more about the madness of commercial vehicle operators, lurking bandits and other bands of criminals. The horrible condition of the vehicles also makes them contraptions that had seen better days and only fit for junkyards. Yet, the drivers flout traffic rules and regulations with impunity and speed as if on a race track and even while driving against traffic, since their belief that committing crimes in Nigeria is about cash and carry.
The madness is not limited to our roads. There is confusion everywhere, as social vices of unequal proportions have taken over. Indeed, the state, its agencies and hired hands have become what some have referred to as attack dogs to the citizens. Persons with questionable characters, donning on all manner of uniforms, harassing, molesting and physically assaulting millions of innocent and law-abiding citizens, lurk around nooks and crannies of our major cities. In some cases, the terror gang members are known faces within the neighbourhoods as hardened criminals and deviants, but who have beat all rules and regulations to be enlisted and hired by politicians, government agencies and mushroom organisations to foment trouble and further disorganise the society.
I have chosen the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) as a metaphor in this piece to illustrate my deep concern on the ugly activities of anti-social elements across the country. I doff my hat for him [Fashola] for the appreciable strides he has been able to record so far. As a human being, he cannot claim to be perfect because a couple of his policies have been more injurious than helpful to the vast human Lagos population. But generally, he has played his part and one can only hope that his successor would consolidate on those gains.
But I am being compelled to ask, if Lagos metaphorically speaking is still working? Before now, the joke in many quarters was that Lagos was working, while other states are sleeping. Inasmuch as the joke is still valid, he and many of his colleagues in power need to take a look at one area I find quite horrifying and disturbing, which many of the governors, especially in the South-West must take a firm, decisive and courageous step before it is too late. It is the activities of the ubiquitous okada riders in the cities.
I was among those, who initially opposed the decision of some states to ban the activities of commercial motorcyclists by some governors, because of the high rate of unemployment in the country. I had also expressed reservation when the Fashola decided to restrict their movement to certain routes and parts of Lagos metropolis. My position then was that we needed to fix basic infrastructure, create more job opportunities and guarantee conducive environment for economic growth and development before taking some tougher measures. This was because most of the okada riders were artisans who have had to suspend their original trade because of the collapsed power sector. Others, including graduates from our higher institutions of learning, also had to resort to it after fruitless search for white collar jobs.
Whereas some of these challenges still exist now, we cannot continue to mortgage the peace, safety and security of the larger population because of the interest of the negligible population of okada riders in our midst. An outright ban on commercial cyclists from operating in our cities is necessary because of the havoc they wreak on the people. They are causing more harm to the psyche and body of the nation almost akin to the mental torture currently occasioned by the insurgency in the Northern part of the country. Their operations should be restricted to rural communities and properly regulated by the authorities as they intensify efforts at revitalising and reorganising the other critical sectors of transportation. It is obvious that incidents involving okada riders are being under reported going by the huge number of human casualties being recorded in public hospitals. Many people have gory tales to tell on their encounter with bandits posing genuine commercial cyclists.
Another menace on our roads in particularly Lagos and Ibadan, two strategic cities in the South-West is the swarm of motorpark touts at most bus stops and streets. Brandishing canes and horse whips, the touts harass and often engage drivers and passengers in bloody brawls even in the presence of regular policemen and anti-crime patrol personnel. While the sale and purchase of marijuana and alcohol is at their call and beckon at parks, their sources of lethal weapons during minor family disputes are a cause for worry.
It is difficult to ascertain the number of deaths resulting from the activities of Okada riders, but suffice to say that they have been more responsible for many avoidable crashes and killings in the country. Just last week, the editor of Daily Sun, Mr. Steve Nwosu, escaped death by a hair’s breadth when robbers operating on an okada attacked him as hot lead narrowly missed his skull. Just on Sunday in Lagos, the editor of the Nigerian Compass, Gabriel Akinadewo, was held hostage by bandits, who later made away with his invaluable.
Today, okada riders, motorpark touts, miscreants claiming to be agents of local councils and state government have swooped on the roads of Lagos, Ibadan and other towns in the South-West. Touts dictate fares to drivers and passengers, front for policemen by collecting money from commercial vehicles for ‘security,’ colonise bus stops, while okada riders rob with ease. In all these instances, these miscreants have succeeded in turning the Center of Execellence to heartache for the country. And one of the reasons is that we have continued to legislate even armed robbers to lionize themselves through all forms of amorphous s and associations. Now, we have associations for pepper seller, onion dealers, agberos, okirika [bend-down-select-boutique or tokunbo clothes] association, ewedu sellers, fura du nunu sellers association and name it, with each of them holding the rest of the population to ransom in their homes and sometimes committing gruesome murders!
Oderemi, 08023501874 (sms only)
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Using Iridescence
Iridescence is what we see on the surface of an oil slick when the sun shines on it. The rainbow effect is created by something called thin-film interference (read section "Iridescence" for details). For now let's just try using it. Iridescence is specified by the irid keyword and three values: amount, thickness and turbulence. The amount is the contribution to the overall surface color. Usually 0.1 to 0.5 is sufficient here. The thickness affects the busyness of the effect. Keep this between 0.25 and 1 for best results. The turbulence is a little different from pigment or normal turbulence. We cannot set octaves, lambda or omega but we can specify an amount which will affect the thickness in a slightly different way from the thickness value. Values between 0.25 and 1 work best here too. Finally, iridescence will respond to the surface normal since it depends on the angle of incidence of the light rays striking the surface. With all of this in mind, let's add some iridescence to our glass sphere.
sphere { <0,0,0>, 1 pigment { White filter 1 } finish { ambient .1 diffuse .1 reflection .2 refraction 1 ior 1.5 specular 1 roughness .001 fade_distance 5 fade_power 1 caustics 1 irid { 0.35 thickness .5 turbulence .5 } } }
We try to vary the values for amount, thickness and turbulence to see what changes they make. We also try to add a normal block to see what happens.
Important notice: The halo feature in POV-Ray 3.0 is somewhat experimental. There is a high probability that the design and implementation of these features will be changed in future versions. We cannot guarantee that scenes using these features in 3.0 will render identically in future releases or that full backwards compatibility of language syntax can be maintained.
Halos are a powerful feature that can be used to create a lot of different effects like clouds, fogs, fire, lasers, etc. The name actually comes from the ability to render halos with it, like the ones seen around the moon or the sun.
Due to the complexity of the halo feature and the large amount of parameters provided it is very difficult to get satisfying results. The following sections will help to create a halo step by step, starting with the basic things and going to the more subtle stuff.
It is also helpful to read the halo reference sections to get a better understanding of the halo feature. One should especially read the sections "Empty and Solid Objects" and "Halo Mapping" because they are essential for understanding halos.
What are Halos?
Halos are a texture feature allowing us to fill the interior of an object with particles. The distribution of these particles can be modified using several density mappings and density functions. The particles can emit light to give fire- or laser-like effects or they can absorb light to create clouds or fog.
A halo is attached to an object, the so called container object, just like a pigment, normal or finish. The container object is completely filled by the halo but we will not see anything if we do not make sure that the object is hollow and the surface is translucent. How this is accomplished will be shown in the next section.
When working with halos we always have to keep in mind that the container object has to be hollow and translucent.
The Emitting Halo
We start with one of the simpler types, the emitting halo. It uses particles that only emit light. There are no particles that absorb the light coming from other particles or light sources.
Section 4.8.5.2.1
Starting with a Basic Halo
A clever approach in designing a nice halo effect is to start with a simple, unit-sized shape that sits on the coordinate system's origin.
In the first example (halo01.pov) we try to create a fiery explosion, which the sphere is best suited for. We start with a simple scene consisting of a camera, a light source (we don't care about shadows so we add the shadowless keyword), a checkered plane and a unit-sized sphere containing the halo.
camera { location <0, 0, -2.5> look_at <0, 0, 0> } light_source { <10, 10, -10> color rgb 1 shadowless } plane { z, 2 pigment { checker color rgb 0, color rgb 1 } finish { ambient 1 diffuse 0 } scale 0.5 hollow } sphere { 0, 1 pigment { color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 1> } halo { emitting spherical_mapping linear color_map { [ 0 color rgbt <1, 0, 0, 1> ] [ 1 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, 0> ] } samples 10 } hollow }
We note that the sphere is set to be hollow and has a translucent surface (the transmittance channel in the pigment's color is 1), just like it is required for halos. We also note that the plane has a hollow keyword even though it has no halo. Why is this necessary?
The reason is quite simple. As described in section "Empty and Solid Objects" there can be no halo inside any other non-hollow object. Since the camera is inside the plane object, i. e. it is on the side of the plane that is considered to be inside, the halo will never be visible unless the plane is made hollow (or the negative keyword is added to bring the camera on the outside side of the plane).
What do all those halo keywords and values mean? At the beginning of the halo the emitting keyword is used to specify what type of halo we want to use. The emitting halo emits light. That is what is best suited for our fiery explosion.
The spherical_mapping and linear keywords need a more detailed explanation of how a halo works (this is also done in chapter "Halo" in more detail).
As noted above the halo is made up of lots of small particles. The distribution of these particles is described by a density function. In general, a density function tells us how much particles we'll find at a given location.
Instead of using an explicitly, mathematical density function, halos rely on a given set of density mappings and density functions to model a variety of particle distributions.
The first step in this model is the density mapping function that is used to map three-dimensional points onto a one-dimensional range of values. In our example we use a spherical mapping, i.e. we take the distance of a point from the center of the coordinate system. This is the reason why it is clever to start with a container object sitting on the coordinate system's center. Since all density mappings are made relative to this center we won't see anything if we start with an object sitting somewhere else. Moving the whole object (including textures and halos) to another location is the correct way of placing a container object.
Now we have a single value in the range from 0 to 1. This value will be transformed using a density function to get density values instead of distance values. Just using this single value won't work because we want to have particle distributions were the density decreases as we move from the center of the container object to the outside.
This is done by the density function. There are several alternatives available as described in the halo reference (see section "Density Function"). We use the simple linear function that just maps values between 0 and 1 onto a 1 to 0 range. Thus we get a density value of 1 at the center of our sphere and a value of 0 at its surface.
Now that we have a density function what do we do to see something? This is where the colour_map keyword comes into play. It is used to describe a color map that actually tells the program what colors are to be used for what density. The relation is quite simple: colors at the beginning of the color map (with small values) will be used for low density values and colors at the end of the map (high values) will be used for high densities. In our example the halo will be yellow at the center of the sphere where the density is greatest and it will blend to red at the surface of the sphere where the density approaches zero.
The transmittance channel of the colors in the color map is used to model the translucency of the density field. A value of 0 represents no translucency, i. e. that areas with the corresponding density will be (almost) opaque, while a value of 1 means (almost) total translucency.
In our example we use
color_map { [ 0 color rgbt <1, 0, 0, 1> ] [ 1 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, 0> ] }
which results in a halo with a very translucent, reddish outer area and a nearly opaque, yellowish inner areas as we can see after tracing the example image.
The basic halo used in modelling a fiery explosion.
There is one parameter that still needs to be explained: the samples keyword. This keyword tells POV-Ray how many samples have to be taken along any ray traveling through the halo to calculate its effect. Using a low value will result in a high tracing speed while a high value will lead to a low speed. The sample value has to be increased if the halo looks somewhat noisy, i. e. if some artifacts of the low sampling rate appear. For more details see section "Halo Sampling".
A good starting value for the number of samples is 10.
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Skoda Reveals Enyaq iV Exterior In New Teaser
By Dhruvan Naidu
As a company showed the exterior specifications before its global debut on September 1. The Czech car manufacturer’s first all-electric SUV takes a new approach in its design. Skoda has been inspired by years of production of Scala and Kamiq front headlights and the latest generation of Octavia, as the current Skoda Enyaq iV is a headlight.
The new, subtle lights for daytime runs and the new hexagonal shape of the key LED modules strengthens the new Enyaq iV’s character further. Skoda claims that there are ever-changing aspects in the geomechanics and transparent glass surfaces.
The next Enyaq iV is checked by 3-dimensional backlights illuminated with fine light strips. However, lighting graphics are welcome and welcoming on the first look, while the headlights give the first Skoda All-Electric SUV a highly dynamic and futuristic appearance, thanks to the LED technology.
The Enyaq iV was released last year as a version of Skoda’s Vision iV model. It will come on sale in 2021 and by the end of 2022, Skoda is planning to launch at least ten electric models under the iV brand.
The 4660 mm long Kodiaq four-door crossover is based on the MEB platform of the VW group and uses a 306bhp 4-wheel drive EV motor with a range of 500kms and the ability to charge in 30 minutes up to 80 percent.
The first Enyaq model is expected for launch in 2021, and the SUV version is now to arrive first. All releases will be based on the Electric MEB platform of the Volkswagen Group, which will be used by all brands of the group. We can expect a price of roughly 34 000 Euros (approximately Rs 28,29 Lakh), as compared with a mid-to-upper Kodiaq price.
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Trasmigration
LAND GRABBING OR LAND TO INVESTORS?
Libyan Uprising
The American Student Movement today
REFUGEES HOUSED BIBIONE
Correspondents at work
Monlam Silk Road
Social & CSR ASSIGNMENT
Ing Social Responsability
Unicef. The Niger SEJUP program
Unicef. The 2009 meningitis outbreak in Niger
Rolex Grand Slam of show jumping
Longines Global champions tour of show jumping
BACKSTAGE AT THE NEW ACER ASPIRE ONE CAMPAIGN
Davide Scabin in NYC
Rolex Central Park Horse Show 2015
DiLiborio Bsex
The ironman Lanzarote
The Abierto Argentino de Polo at Deauville
The Challenge CSI 5* Vincenzo Muccioli at San Patrignano
Almarai KSA, the largest integrated dairy company in the world
Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. Built after the war for the families of Pirelli employees, it is now used as a welcome centre for the refugees from the Libyan war. Coming from Gambia and Nigeria some of them try to obtain the official status of refugee. The details of the asylum applications are examined by a commission which on average emits a negative decision in 90% of cases.
Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. Foday Ceesay, 25 years old. He flees from Gambia in 2007 after he and a member of his family are threatened by exponents of the opposition party. He spends five months in prison in Libya where he then starts work as a carpenter. At the beginning of the war his father is killed during the disturbances in Tripoli while he himself manages to get to the port and onto a boat sailing to Lampedusa. “When the war broke out I thought Gheddaffi would stay in power, but then it became clear that this would not be the case and I decided to leave.” 90% of the asylum applications presented to the commission are judged to be false.
Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. Helen, 26 years old, Nigerian. She has always lived with her grandmother and never met her parents. In 2010 shed decides to leave for Libya with her husband. She works as a hair-dresser in Misrata until the war breaks out. They flee towards Tripoli crossing the desert on foot and she loses her husband when he gets on a different boat from her. She is pregnant and due to give birth in just a few weeks.. D: “Why do you think the Libyans gave you the boats: out of charity?”. R: “The Libyans? Because they didn’t want to keep the coloured people. They don’t like them, they have a habit of killing black people”. “I thank God that I’m safe and sound and can give life to my child”.
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Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. A guest of the structure goes towards the dormitories.
Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. Benedict and Idemudia are brother and sister from Nigeria. They were both enrolled at university, respectively business school and political sciences. After their parents’ deaths they leave and settle in Misrata. Idemudia marries a fellow Nigerina in January 2011. When the bombings intensify they decide to go to the beach in Misrata and get on one of the many boats that were heading for Italy.. “When the revolution broke out in Tunisia and then in Egypt we didn’t think it would get this far. We were sure that Gheddaffi would prevent any kind of uprising. Instead it started and in Misrata in a brutal fashion”.
Italy - Bibione (Venice). Marine colony Pio XIII. A cultural mediator dedicates his break to painting.
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The insignia of the 750th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group.
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Photographs commemorating the service of the 457th BG(H), inside the terminal building at Peterborough Business Airport.
Display commemorating the service of the 457th BG(H), inside the terminal building at Peterborough Business Airport.
Detail of the memorial commemorating the water tower used by Glatton airfield, station 130. This monument is on the site of the principal memorial to the 457th BG(H), on a road junction near the village of Conington. The water tower is directly behind this site.
Road sign in Conington, directing visitors to the memorials at All Saint's church that commemorate the service of the 457th BG(H) at nearby Glatton airfield, Station 130.
Detail of the rear, at the base, of the principal memorial to the service of the 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The memorial site is on a roadside junction, close to the site of the original airfield, Glatton Station130.
Detail of the rear of the principal memorial to the service of the 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The memorial site is on a roadside junction, close to the site of the original airfield, Glatton Station130.
The 457th Bomb Group began combat operations during the Big Week of 20-25 February when American bombers carried out concentrated raids against German aircraft bases, factories and assembly plants. The air crews' targets on that first mission were...
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42-102464 "What's Next?"
Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; with David Steele force landed base 16/4/44; Dow Fd 6/5/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG Glatton [G] 7/5/44; Missing in Action Le Bouget A/fd 14/6/44 with Chas Blackwell, Co-pilot: Theo Baskette, Radio Operator: Ed...
Delivered Cheyenne 26/1/44; Presque Is 3/2/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [W] Glatton 3/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 21/6/44 with Bob Krumm, Co-pilot: Leo Green, Navigator: Frank Vandevelde, Bombardier: Joe Hibbs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob...
42-31551 Elizabeth Ann
Delivered Denver 20/11/43; Seattle 23/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG [P] Glatton 29/1/44; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal...
42-31595 'FLYING JENNY'
Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Gt Falls 30/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG Glatton 25/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44; with Gene Whelan, Co-pilot: Jim Cawley, Navigator: George McPeake, Bombardier: Bob Kuncl, Flight engineer/top...
Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Billings 29/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG Glatton 26/12/44; Missing in Action Achmer 21/2/44 1st group loss with Llewellyn Bredeson, Co-pilot: George Barnes, Navigator: Bob Whitby, Bombardier: Sam Kalman,...
42-31618 'Our Baby'
Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Rock Springs 8/12/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Grenier 20/1/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [D] Glatton 27/1/44; 748BS; Missing in Action Florennes 14/6/44 with Jim LaPaze, Bombardier: Chas Rogers, Radio Operator: Elmer Velicer, Ball...
42-31620 Skunk Hollow
Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG [B] Glatton 26/1/44; on return from Hardelot 2/6/44 with Franklin Morrell, Co-pilot: Andrew Whiten, rest unknown (10 Returned to Duty) force landed no hydraulics, ran off runway...
Delivered Cheyenne 29/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Grenier 2/1/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [K] Glatton 29/1/44; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 24/2/44 with Max Morrow, Co-pilot: Tom Davis, Bombardier: Bob Horn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Lee,...
42-38113 Rene III
Delivered Cheyenne 16/12/43; Gr Island 29/12/43; Presque Is 21/1/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [A] Glatton 23/1/44; then 750BS [R]; Missing in Action [105m] Rheine 21/3/44 with Craig Creason, Ralph Gray, Rudi Haumann, Tom Madigan, Blair Arsenault, Ralph...
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Presque Is 2/3/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [G] Glatton 15/3/44; Missing in Action Metz 25/4/44 with Capt Edward Bender, Bombardier: Edwin Fuller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Free, Ball turret gunner:...
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)
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Book Indexing Services by Amron Gravett
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A | B | C | E | F-G | H-I | L | M | P | R | S | U | W
— Diplomats and Diplomacy Series (ADST-DACOR)
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide. University of Nebraska Press, 2019
The Man in the Arena: The Life and Times of U.S. Senator Gale McGee. University of Nebraska Press, 2018
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist. New Academia Publishing, 2013
The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen and Father Figures. New Academia Publishing, 2015
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy. Ohio University Press, 2016
Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait. New Academia Publishing, 2016
–– Fine Artists
The Best of Proctor’s West: An In-depth Study of Eleven of Proctor’s Bronzes. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2017
Eanger Irving Couse: The Life and Times of an American Artist, 1866- 1936. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2019
–– Literary Figures
Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019
Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein. Northwestern University Press, 2018
Karl Kraus and the Discourse on Modernity. Northwestern University Press, 2020
Krishnamurti in America: New Perspectives on the Man and his Message. Alpha Centauri Press, 2020
Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. Dancing Chiva Literary Arts, 2013
On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan. University of Michigan Press, 2017
The Philosophy of Piers Plowman: The Ethics and Epistemology of Love. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Solidarity with the Other Beings on the Planet: Alice Walker, Ecofeminism, and Animals in Literature. Northwestern University Press, 2019
T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe. Cambridge Scholars, 2015
Understanding Louise Erdrich. University of South Carolina, 2015
— Performing Artists
Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer. University of California Press, 2018
Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Life of Stan Jones, the Singing Ranger. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2014
Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band. University Hawaii Press, 2015
Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star. University of Nebraska Press, 2019
— Political Figures
Coded Letters, Concealed Love: The Larger Lives of Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale. New Academia Publishing, 2013
Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean- Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796. University of Nebraska Press, 2017
Hasan al-Turabi: The Last of the Islamists: The Man and His Times 1932- 2016. Lexington Books, 2018
In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881-1885. University of Hawaii Press, 2017
Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump. Beacon Press, 2020
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist. Harvard University Press, 2018
— Self-Published
Bell Bottom Trousers: Life Aboard an Attack Transport in the Pacific During World War Two. CreateSpace, 2016
Below Tranquility Base: An Apollo 11 Memoir. CreateSpace, 2013
Bringing Sundance Home: The Real Sundance Kid, My Great Grandfather. CreateSpace, 2014
–– Social Topics
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat. Beacon Press, 2020
BORDER and U.S. IMMIGRATION STUDIES. See also LAND POLITICS; RACIAL (IN)JUSTICE
Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws and Politics. University of Arizona Press, 2019
Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice Columbia University Press, 2016
In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition. University of Nebraska Press, 20202
Land Uprising: Mystical Materialism and the Indigenous Reclamation of the Americas. University of Arizona Press, 2020
Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont. University of California Press, 2019
Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderlands. University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Solidarity in Practice: A Moral Protest and the US Security State. Cambridge University Press, 2018
BUSINESS and ECONOMICS. See also PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Choosing the Best Self-Publishing Companies and Services. The Alliance of Independent Authors, 2019
Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class. University of California Press, 2019
From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy. Harvard Asia, 2015
History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. University of Nebraska Press, 2020
How to Get Your Self-Published Book Into Bookstores. The Alliance of Independent Authors, 2017
Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics. Cornell University Press, 2021
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative History. Cornell University Press, 2020
Providing for the People: Economic Change Among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875–1910. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
Rich as a King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing. Morgan James Publishing, 2014
Sensible Tax Reform: Simple, Just and Effective. Morgan James Publishing, 2014
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Central and Eastern European Migration Review
Vol. 8, No. 1, 2019
Introduction: Migration and Mobility in the Context of Post-Communist Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Agata Górny, Paweł Kaczmarczyk
Keywords: migration; CEE; post-communist transition
This special section opens a two-part collection of articles, to be published in two consecutive issues of CEEMR in 2019, looking at various aspects of migration from and into CEE that address the links between mobility and political and economic transition in the region. Its goal is to discuss, on the one hand, the contribution of the migration research conducted in CEE to the broader migration literature and, on the other, to demonstrate region-specific topics. An important inspiration for the preparation of this issue is the 25th anniversary of the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) at the University of Warsaw; this is accompanied by some reflections on how migration studies have developed in Poland and other CEE countries during these years of transition. Since the very beginning, the idea that guided research conducted in the CMR was to analyse migration in a broad socio-economic context and to develop cooperation with the best international teams of migration scholars. Therefore, for this special collection, we invited contributions which demonstrate the development of scientific collaboration between CMR researchers and outstanding European and non-European scholars, as well as articles by international researchers from all over Europe which focus on specific migration topics intersecting with post-communist transition in the CEE region.
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Diverse, Fragile and Fragmented: The New Map of European Migration
Russell King, Marek Okólski
Keywords: Europe; phases of migration; political events; asylum-seekers and refugees; migration policy
In this paper we review the significant political events and economic forces shaping contemporary migration within and into Europe. Various data sources are deployed to chronicle five phases of migration affecting the continent over the period 1945–2015: immediate postwar migrations of resettlement, the mass migration of ‘guestworkers’, the phase of economic restructuring and family reunion, asylum-seeking and irregular migration, and the more diverse dynamics unfolding in an enlarged European Union post-2004, not forgetting the spatially variable impact of the 2008 economic crisis. In recent years, in a scenario of rising migration globally, there has been an increase in intra-European migration compared to immigration from outside the continent. However, this may prove to be temporary given the convergence of economic indicators between ‘East’ and ‘West’ within the EU and the European Economic Area, and that ongoing population pressures from the global South, especially Africa, may intensify. Managing these pressures will be a major challenge from the perspective of a demographically shrinking Europe.
Social Remittances and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Embedding Migration in the Study of Society
Anne White, Izabela Grabowska
Keywords: social remittances; Poland; CEE; migration impact; social change
Our article considers social remittances and social change in Central and Eastern Europe. We show how migration scholarship can be embedded into the wider study of social processes and relations. ‘Social remitting’ sometimes seems to be little more than a slippery catchphrase; however, this article defends the concept. If it is defined carefully and used cautiously, it should help the researcher to think about what, in addition to money, is sent from one society to another and exactly how, thus shedding light on important and insufficiently studied aspects of migration. A close-up view of the processes by which ideas, practices, norms, values and, according to some definitions, social capital and social skills are transferred by migrants across international borders helps researchers to understand more precisely how migration contributes to social change or, in some cases, prevents it from occurring. Our article reviews some of the most interesting arguments and findings presented recently by other scholars and discusses aspects of social remitting which particularly interested us in our own research. The context of our research is social change in Poland: we attempt to understand how migration has contributed to wider patterns of social change since 1989 and exactly how it intertwines with other social trends and globalisation influences. This entails a careful focus on both structural conditions and agency and therefore on social remittances.
Do Diasporas Matter? The Growing Role of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the UK and Poland in the Development of the Homeland in Times of War
Iryna Lapshyna
Keywords: Ukrainian diaspora; Euromaidan; the UK; Poland; development
Ukraine has been going through a series of political and economic crises, notably the Euromaidan revolution and the Russian aggression and subsequent economic downturn. These events triggered fresh transnational diaspora-led activities such as the ‘London Euromaidan’ and the ‘Warsaw Euromaidan’. This paper analyses Ukrainian diaspora volunteerism in the UK and Poland and explores how the Ukrainian diaspora engages and contributes economically, socially, politically and culturally to the development of Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork in both countries, three main findings were identified. First, due to the events in Ukraine, the Ukrainian diaspora has mobilised, grown stronger and became more united, whilst transforming from a more inward-looking to a more outward-looking community which, as a result, is now more and critically engaging with Ukrainian affairs. Second, the Ukrainian diaspora has the willingness, power and resources to contribute to the development of the home country, claiming to be recognised as an important stakeholder in the development of Ukraine. Thirdly, the Ukrainian government’s lack of recognition of the contribution of the Ukrainian diaspora is one of the most significant barriers to more comprehensive diaspora involvement in development.
Snakes or Ladders? Job Quality Assessment among Temp Workers from Ukraine in Hungarian Electronics
Tibor T. Meszmann, Olena Fedyuk
Keywords: migration; precarious employment; temporary work agencies; job quality; Hungary; Ukraine
In contrast to the usual integration of migrant workers in the ‘bottom jobs’ on the labour market, the employment of Ukrainian workers in Hungarian electronics plants seems to take place in a more beneficial way. With the active mediation of temporary (temp) agencies, Ukrainian migrant workers are offered regular blue-collar assembly work, together with the same social rights and benefits as their local Hungarian colleagues. Relying, in our analysis, on the literature on industrial sociology, migration research and global value chains, we are developing a critical perspective in which migration and employment are not seen as separate spheres but as mutually reinforcing each other. We combine bottom-up empirical research based on interviews with workers and a sectoral inquiry on industrial and employment relations in the temp agency sector supplying multinational corporations. Our main argument is that complex contracting also means subtle controlling. Such contracting is not the cheapest form but it creates a different, efficient employment regime with dependent, controllable, flexibly available, ‘fluid’ employees. Employee respondents described their position as dependent, ‘out of control’ and a temporary earning opportunity. Devoid of clear mechanisms for controlling their work conditions or growth within the job, all respondents turned to a more instrumental approach, in which they invested in building up social capital through friendships, networks and personal relationships. Obtaining Hungarian citizenship and learning the language were two other main strategies for dealing with insecurity. Their efforts correspond with and reinforce a more globally integrated but ethnically motivated immigration regime, characteristic of post-socialist Hungary.
(Missing) Bridging Ties and Social Capital? The Creation and Reproduction of Migrants’ Social Network Advantages: The Case of Ukrainian Migrants in Poland
Marta Kindler, Katarzyna Wójcikowska-Baniak
Keywords: social networks; bridging ties; social capital; Ukrainian migrants; Poland; institutional embedding
The paper investigates the mechanisms behind the formation and maintenance of those migrants’ social ties which translate into a particular composition of the network and become a source of social capital. Based on a number of in-depth interviews with Ukrainian migrants in Warsaw, we find that Ukrainian migrants’ networks are based primarily on ties homogenous in regard to nationality, level of education and character of work. The institutional context of social interaction determines with whom migrants form relations and whether these ties become a source of social advancement. The studied migrants do form bridging ties with more experienced, as well as socially and legally embedded persons, mainly other migrants, receiving both instrumental and emotional support.
Nationality and Rationality: Ancestors, ‘Diaspora’ and the Impact of Ethnic Policy in the Country of Emigration on Ethnic Return Migration from Western Ukraine to the Czech Republic
Luděk Jirka
Keywords: ethnic return migration; Czech Republic; West Ukraine; ethnic policy; diaspora
Ethnic return migration is a widespread strategy for migrants from economically disadvantaged countries. This article is about those ethnic return migrants who might successfully migrate thanks to their ancestors; their decision is based upon economic, pragmatic or rationalistic incentives aside from their diasporic feeling of belonging. Although this phenomenon has already been studied, scholars still mostly refer only to the benefits proposed by immigration policy as a key to understanding it. The impact of policy in the country of emigration on ethnic return migration is understudied. This article fills this gap. I found that when the Soviet Union introduced an attractive policy for Ukrainians/Russians in terms of study or work opportunities and the inhabitants in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic were quick to proclaim themselves as Ukrainians or Russians, the dissolution of the Soviet Union quickly changed this motivation. Ukrainians with Czech ancestors started to aim at obtaining official status as Czech members of the diaspora because of the benefits proposed by the Czech government (mainly permanent residency). However, it is difficult to prove the required link to one’s Czech ancestors due to Soviet-era documents in which the column with the Czech nationality of people’s ancestors is often missing. These observations lead to the conclusion that an attractive immigration policy aimed at the diaspora should not be treated as the only comprehensive explanation for ethnic return migration. Ethnic policy in the country of emigration also shapes this kind of migration and – in this concrete case – could even discourage ethnic return migrants.
Unpacking the Meanings of a ‘Normal Life’ Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Eastern European Migrants in Scotland
Developing the Academic Careers of Foreign Scholars in Poland: The Case of Krakow
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Following Columbus: Delivering Plant Seeds from Los-Angeles to Krasnodar
From his four expeditions to American shores Columbus brought to Spain dozens of plants and animals that were not known by Europeans. It took years of precise examination and selection to introduce this products in to the European menu, and several centuries to make them common for remote locations in Europe and other continents. Pineapple, sunflower, pumpkin, avocado, zucchini, potatoes, corn, and tomatoes are just few of our favorite foods delivered to us by this great discoverer.
Potatoes brought by Columbus were nothing alike the vegetable we are used too. It had small watery clods, and was taken for decorative plant. First people tried to eat it raw, and used green clods for food, so that the vegetable was declared poisonous. Only in the mid of the 18th century due to the French agriculture's effort potatoes were declared non-poisonous, and full of nutritious properties. Several centuries later, Europe came to know of "ground apples", and during the ruling of Peter the First it was brought to Russia. Nevertheless, Russians refused to eat and to grow this vegetable, believing it caused awful diseases, including Tuberculosis. Couple of centuries later potatoes became second bread for Russians; USSR produced nearly third of world potatoes production.
Just like potatoes tomatoes were believed to be poisonous and decorative plants; Europeans were afraid to eat colorful red berries. Karl Linney in his plants classification called it "solanum likopersikum" which translates from Latin as "wolf's peach". Tomatoes were found on Aztecs' motherland, where it was called "tumantla" ("big berry"), Italians called it "pomidoro" ("golden apple"), and French – "pomme d'amour" ("apple of love"). Tomatoes came to Russia during the ruling of Katherine the II, and only in 1850 were proved to be eatable and useful. From that time tomatoes were planted in the Southern regions of Russia, and scientists started work on selection of plants that could be grown in the Northern part of Russia.
Corn (or mays as it was called by the Native Americans) was one of the first vegetables that were brought by Columbus from the New World. Corn spread across Europe very fast, and its nutrition properties were highly appreciated. High produce and easy growth conditions of corn made it really valuable to agriculture especially compared to rice and wheat. Corn came to Russia in the 17th century, and from the 19th century it started to grow on the Russian fields.
In the beginning of May Delivery World on request of its regular customer delivered lot of the plants seeds from Los Angeles to Krasnodar. Customs procedures are completed, and the first crops start to appear in Krasnodar.
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Hania's Story
Hania (not real name) had been out of work for over 6 years. A single mother with a young daughter, she was on benefits and struggling to pay the mortgage on the house she had bought when she was married. Although her benefits covered her basic mortgage payments and council tax she had very little to survive on.
Hania felt trapped because if she started work, the cost of her mortgage and council tax would be too much for her. At the same time, her childcare responsibilities meant she needed to find a job that was flexible but also paid enough to cover her expenses. She didn’t believe this would ever be possible.
Hania came to see Kibria at the Wodeham Community Centre and explained her predicament. Kibria listened and created a detailed record for Hania, detailing her skills, her work experience and her interests. He also noted her requirements for work and together they created an action plan of how to achieve this.
Firstly, Kibria carried out a Better Off Calculation with Hania, this is a computerised tool that shows how work and benefits can be combined to make a person better off financially by working. Kibria proved to Hania that with the right job, she would receive Working Tax Credits that would boost her income, her council tax bill would also be reduced. Hania was surprised and delighted by this – and it motivated her to increase her efforts to find work.
Kibria then helped Hania to identify her strengths, they realised that Hania had a gift for care and social work, she always helped people in her community. Kibria introduced her to a part-time care work training programme which Hania signed up for and completed within 4 weeks. With the training in hand, they applied for care work jobs every week and within a month Hania had secured a part time job.
The job changed Hania’s life, the hours allowed her to work around her daughter’s school routine and the pay and benefits meant she could pay her mortgage and have a money left to spend on her family.
Today Hania is very proud because she has even started to make payments towards reducing her mortgage, which is something she didn’t think was possible.
Hania (not real name) had been out of work for over 6 years. A single mother with a young daughter, she was on benefits and struggling to pay the mortgage on the house she had bought when she was married.Learn More
Shofique was a 19 year old from Tower Hamlets, since dropping out of college, he had been out of work for more than 14 months and was living in sheltered accommodation. The shelter referred Shofique to EF to help build his confidence and get him more active through work or training.Learn More
Shofique’s Story
Shofique was a 19 year old from Tower Hamlets, since dropping out of college, he had been out of work for more than 14 months and was living in sheltered accommodation. The shelter referred Shofique to EF to help build his confidence and get him more active through work or training.
One of the main barriers he faced was an extreme lack of confidence – initially he would not even attend one-to-one sessions with his advisor.
In order to overcome this, the first time his advisor saw Shofique was at at the shelter’s premises. We discussed Shofique’s needs and provided him with a realistic set of aims. After this we encouraged Shofique to attend EF’s office for the next meeting as there were more facilities there. Once Shofique started coming to the office his confidence grew and he started to drop in daily. His consultant was able to discuss many things from benefits matters, housing, family issues and even his hobbies in art.
Shofiques advisor composed a CV for him early on and designed a standard covering letter that he could forward to potential employers. He received interview support in the form of role play / mock interviews and he was supported to apply for work daily.
We tried to help Shofique recocgnize his own strengths – and the communicate those strengths at interviews. Shofique was very nervous and stuttered at interviews. We referred him to see his GP to look at possible treatment options he may have. We also carried out several mock interviews where we covered the most common questions and practiced his best response until he felt comfortable.
Finally, we also encouraged Shofique to canvas his friends, acquatances and advice staff about vacancies – and be on guard for work opportunities at all times.
In this way, he approached the receptionist at his local Youth centre, where he was a regular. They referred Shofique to the manager, who happened to be looking for an Office Junior – the happy coincidence lead Shofique to his first paid job.
Shofique
Summi had been out of work for three years. After getting married and having a baby, her husband had been against the idea of her working – so she left her job. Unfortunately, her marriage broke down in this time and she found herself alone in an unthinkable situation. Learn More
Summi’s Story
Summi had been out of work for three years. After getting married and having a baby, her husband had been against the idea of her working – so she left her job. Unfortunately, her marriage broke down in this time and she found herself alone in an unthinkable situation.
As a lone parent from a Bangladeshi family, she found it difficult to convince her family that going back to work was a good idea. Her mum was available to look after her child but she felt it was improper to ask her to do so.
Summi read about Employment First in one of our newsletters distributed at local youth clubs, women’s centres and by our local housing partners. She approached her advisor at the Jagonari Women’s Centre, who in turn referred her to Employment First.
The EF advisor supported Summi with advice, motivation, training and practical support. Initially, we sat down with Summi and closely analysed the barriers to work she faced. Summi’s biggest obstacle was her mindset – that asking anyone to look after her child was wrong despite her need to work. We encouraged Summi to find solutions to her childcare situation and looked for jobs that fitted around her commitments.
Her consultant created a new CV, highlighting her work and voluntary experiences and teaching her to see the employer-relevant aspects to her activities in the last few years. For example, Summi felt she had done no work for 3 years, and that period was a blank on her CV. Her consultant advised her that looking after her child, arranging care and benefits for her parents were all good examples of practical skills we could highlight on her CV.
Through this principal we also tailored Summi’s interview training, encouraging her to speak about her real experiences to employers and the real world skills these helped her gain.
Her Employment Mentor also arranged a work placement for Summi at the office of a local insurance company. The employer was fully aware of Summi’s situation and the work placement was kept flexible to support her needs.
In this time, she got to know the team and began getting used to the routine of working life again. We also felt that this would allow Summi to to demonstrate to herself and her family that she could manage a work life without disadvantaging her child.
Following her work placement, the employer was so pleased with Summi’s ability to fit in with their team they offered her a paid part time role. Summi also found that with her child now in nursery, her mother was better able to mind her during work days. Today Summi says she feels she has come out of dark hole that she never could see a way out of.
Summi
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Tuesday Schedule
Tuesday Teams
Weekend Teams
Kickball Rules
Base Coaches
Cancelled Games
Mercy Rules
Fair and Fouls
Bases will be spaced 60 feet apart.
The pitcher's mound will be in the center of the infield, equidistant from the 3 bases and home plate.
Foul Territory is any part of the field not between the first base and third base baselines.
Optional Extra Base — When the option of using this field setup is selected by the league coordinator for a season of play, this extra base must be used for all games of that league's regular season and league tournament games. If the extra base is used:
The extra base is only available for runners travelling from home plate;
Fielders trying to make an out on first base must touch the base in fair territory (the first base). Runners hindered by a fielder touching the base in foul territory (the extra base), will be safe;
When a play is attempted at first base, a runner who touches the first base prior to being called safe at the extra base shall be called out;
Once a runner has reached first base safely the runner must start the next play on the first base. Any runner standing on or touching the extra base at the beginning of the next play will be out;
The runner is permitted to use the first base if avoiding collision with a fielder in foul territory. In this event, the fielder in foul territory is permitted to tag the extra base;
The runner may use first base if attempting to advance to second base, or if there is no fielder on first base. A runner using or touching first base in any other circumstance is out.
Referees have jurisdiction over play and may:
call a time out;
call off a game due to darkness, rain or other cause at the referee's discretion;
penalize a player or spectator, including game ejection, for any reason after 1 warning. This includes but is not limited to un-sportsman like conduct, fighting, delay of game and excessive verbal abuse. Ejected participants must leave the field area and may not return to the game(s) for the rest of the night.
Each team must field at least seven (7) and no more than ten (10) players.
Team captains must ensure that:
all players participating in the game must kick in the written scorebook kicking order;
only the Captain may dispute calls with the Head Referee;
any eligible player arriving after the start of the game must be added to the end of the team's written scorebook kicking order.
It is expected that all players will be allocated equal playing time per day of play.
Captains are responsible for creating fair and even lineups for all regular season games and regular season tournaments. A full kicking lineup with innings that players will be sitting out must be submitted to the head ref and opposing captain before the game. A fielding position lineup will suffice.
All players must be slotted to field as even a number of innings as possible per game. No player may sit out a second time before another player has sat out their first time. A player may sit out a second time the same inning another player sits out their first time. Etc. (No 3rd out for player A before player B sits out twice).
Captains may only substitute players off/on to the field in case of injury or illness. The replacement fielder must be a player who has the least slotted starting time of the available benched players.
Two members of the team at kick may coach first and third base. The base coaches must assist in retrieving foul balls and may switch with other team members to remain in the proper written scorebook kicking order.
Base coaches may not interfere with the game.
Interference by a base coach shall result in an out.
In cases of injury or illness, a time-out may be requested for participant removal and replacement with a teammate as a substitute. If the participant later returns to play, the participant must be inserted in the same written kicking order position previously held.
If a player is ejected, injured, or becomes ill and cannot continue, the written kicking order will continue in the same formation, less the removed player.
There is no "automatic out" when the removed player's spot in the order is reached.
Only runners who are injured while traveling to a base, and who successfully make it to a base, may be substituted. There are no other allowable runner substitutions.
A runner may be substituted no more than twice during the game. After the second substitution, the injured player will be removed from the game and no longer be allowed to participate.
Unless otherwise stated at the beginning of a kickball season, substitute players from outside of the league are not permitted to play. If you are shorthanded you must play shorthanded.
Regular sesaon of the Saturday and/or Sunday leagues permit substitute players per our substitute player rules.
In a season where substitute players from outside of the league are permitted to play, the following rules will apply:
A non-league substitute is permitted to play only if there are less than 11 registered players present.
A non-league substitute may play no more than two games per season.
A non-league substitute may not play during the final tournament.
All non-league substitutes must sign the online anti-harassment/non-discrimination and injury waivers prior to playing.
Seasons with 45 minute games
Games will last at most 7 innings or approximately 45 minutes
Once the game reaches the 35-minute mark, the head ref will announce that the next inning (top and bottom) will be played and be the final inning.
In the event of a tie score at the end of the game, the game shall be marked as a tie.
Non-metal cleats may be worn only on natural grass fields (if not in violation of park rules).
A game that is called off by the Referee after three (3) full innings of play shall be considered a regulation game. The game score at the end of the last full inning shall determine the winner.
A game that is called off by the referee for any reason before three (3) full innings of play shall not be considered a regulation game and a new game may be rescheduled.
If a team is winning by 15 or more runs at the end of the 5th inning, the game will be called.
If a team scores 7 runs in an inning that half inning will immediately come to an end and that team can't score any more than 7 runs in an inning.
If a team doesn't have at least seven (7) players 10 minutes after a game is supposed to start, that team forfeits.
The team that doesn't forfeit will get 7 runs and the team that does forfeit gets 0 runs.
Pitches must be smooth-rolling at a moderate speed (no fastballs), with minimal bouncing and little to no spin.
A ball pitched smoothly into the batting box is a strike any part of the strike zone is considered a strike. See STRIKES & BALLS for details.
Once the pitcher has the ball in control and retains possession on the mound, the play ends. Runners who are off base at this time and in forward motion may advance only one base. Runners who are off base at this time and not in forward motion must return to the last base they touched.
Kickers must kick within the kicking box. He/she must have at least a portion of the plant foot within the kicking box during the kick. The kicker may line up outside of the kicking box.
Any ball kicked outside of the first base or third base baselines will be considered foul.
If the ball touches the ground in the outfield in fair territory or any player on the fielding team before entering foul territory it will be considered a fair ball.
A count of four (4) balls advances the kicker to first base. Other base runners only progress if they are forced. See BALLS for details.
A count of three (3) strikes is an out. See STRIKES for details.
A claim of improper kicking order must be made to the Head Referee who will make the final determination. Such a claim must contain two parts:
that the written kicking order was exchanged
that the claim is made on the field no sooner than the first pitch thrown to the accused "wrong" kicker, and no later than the first pitch thrown to the subsequent kicker. The burden of proof rests with the accused team. Any resulting play is nullified by a finding of improper kicking order, with an out recorded for the "wrong" kicker.
After a pitched ball is called a strike or foul, that is the final call.
Fairs and Fouls
A count of four (4) fouls is an out. Foul balls never count as strikes.
A foul ball is:
a kicked ball landing in foul territory.
a kicked ball touched in foul territory.
a kicked ball landing in fair territory, but touching foul territory on its own at any time before reaching first or third base.
a kicked ball whose direction is altered by contact with any object other than the ground in foul territory, and called as such.
a kick made on or above the knee.
a kicked ball touched more than once or stopped in the kicking box by the kicker.
a kicked ball kicked outside of the kicking box.
A fair ball is:
a kicked ball landing and remaining in fair territory.
a kicked ball landing in fair territory then traveling into foul territory beyond the 1st-3rd base diagonal.
A count of three (3) outs by a team completes the team's half of the inning.
Outs can occur in a number of ways:
Catching a ball kicked by the batter before it touches the ground.
Making a force out by tagging the base before the runner gets there. A force out can only occur if the runner MUST run (i.e. all of the bases behind the runner are occupied).
Tagging a player that is not on a base. Tagging includes touching a person with the ball while you hold it, or hitting them with it below the neck. If a runner is upright and you throw the ball and hit them in the head they may freely advance to the next base.
If a runner gets hit by a kicked ball the runner will be declared out.
If the player is hit while standing on a base the player will not be declared out.
A batter will be called out after accruing 4 Foul Balls in the same at-bat.
Foul balls never count as strikes.
The tag of a base by any part of a fielder’s body, while the fielder has control of the ball, before the runner originating at that base can tag-up as required due to a caught ball will result in that runner being out.
"Tagging up" is not allowed on foul balls. Runners may not advance on a ball caught for an out in foul territory.
A count of three (3) strikes is an out.
A strike is:
a pitch that is not kicked and is not called a ball that enters any part of the strike zone and
an attempted kick missed by the kicker inside or outside of the strike zone.
The strike zone is defined as home plate extending a home plate width (17 inches) to each side of home plate and no more than one foot off the ground.
A count of four (4) balls advances the kicker to first base.
A ball is:
a pitch outside of the strike zone as judged by the Referee where a kick is not attempted;
a pitched ball that does not touch the ground at least twice or roll before reaching the kicking box;
a pitched ball that exceeds one foot in height from the bottom of the ball as it enters the kicking box;
a pitched ball that exceeds one foot in height from the bottom of the ball at any time while passing through the kicking box, prior to reaching the kicker;
a pitched ball that is higher than one foot at the plate.
A runner may not leave the base (also known as leading off) until the ball has been kicked.
If a runner is found to be off the base before the ball is kicked by the batter the umpire shall call them out.
If a player intentionally interferes with a play, it will be an automatic out. Intentional interference is decided at the umpire's discretion.
Runners are allowed to take one additional base on an over-throw (this is a restriction on the runner, not an automatic right for the runner to advance). An overthrow is a ball thrown, kicked, or deflected into foul territory while making a defensive play towards a player or base. If any fielder attempts to make an out prior to returning the ball to the pitcher, runners may commence base running.
Runners must stay within the baseline. Any runner outside the baseline is out.
Runners may choose their path from one base to the next, and may follow a natural running arc.
Players "running through" first base must come back to touch the base if they would like to continue to second base.
If a player does not come back to touch first base before running to second, the player will be required to return to first base once the play is over.
If an out is made on that player while attempting to take another base, the player is still out, even if he did not come back to touch first base.
Runners are free to change course to avoid interference with a fielder making a play.
When attempting to avoid a ball tag, runners may move no more than 4 feet out of their established path.
A tag-up is a requirement to retouch or stay on the originating base until the ball is first touched, if a kicked ball is caught. After a tag-up, a runner may advance. A runner failing to tag-up as required allows that player to be made out by tagging the player or the originating base.
When in the field you may have up to 10 players on the field, 6 in the infield (First Base, Second Base, Shortstop, Third Base, Catcher and Pitcher) and 4 in the outfield.
Fielders must stay out of the baseline.
Fielders trying to make an out on base may have their foot on base, but must lean out of the baseline.
Runners hindered by any fielder within the baseline, not making an active play for the ball, shall be safe at the base to which they were running.
Runners may choose to advance beyond this base while the ball is still in play.
The catcher must field behind the kicker, and may not cross home plate nor be positioned forward of the kicker before the ball is kicked.
The catcher may not make contact with the kicker, nor position so closely to the kicker as to restrict the kicking motion.
The catcher must field behind the kicker, and may not cross home plate nor be positioned forward of the kicker before the ball is kicked. The catcher may not make contact with the kicker, nor position so closely to the kicker as to restrict the kicking motion.
When any non-fielder or non-permanent object except a Referee or a runner, touches or is touched by a ball in play in fair territory. This interference causes the play to end, and runners shall proceed to the base to which they were headed.
When any runner on or off base intentionally touches a ball. This interference causes the play to end, the runner to be out, and any other runners shall return to the base from which they came, unless forced to advance.
When any kicker intentionally hits the ball with their hand or arm. This interference causes the play to end, the kicker to be out, and any other runners shall return to the base from which they came.
During any play where a ball is popped or deflates significantly, that play shall be replayed with a properly inflated ball.
Proper Field Position must be maintained by all fielders until the ball is pitched. Proper Field Position is --
for Pitchers: - The pitcher must start the act of pitching with at least one foot within the pitching mound (see Rule 1.01d); - The pitcher must have at least one foot on or directly behind the pitching strip (see Rule 1.01c) when releasing the ball; - No part of the pitcher’s front foot may be in front of or across the front edge of the pitching strip.
for Catchers: - The catcher must be positioned within or directly behind the kicking box and behind the horizontal plane of the kicker, parallel to the front edge of home plate. - The catcher may not make contact with the kicker, nor position so closely to the kicker as to restrict the kicking motion. - The kicker may not trigger a position violation through maneuvers judged by the Ref to be deliberately tricky or unsportsmanlike.
In order to have VETERAN STATUS for the following season, you must attend 6 games out of the total 8 games during the season (tournament included). If you miss more than 2 games, you will not be considered a veteran for the following season. Attendance will be taken.
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CIMUSET 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021
Due to COVID19 pandemic CIMUSET 48th 2020 Conference is postponed to 2021.
It will be held physically in the “Iranian National Museum of Science & Technology”, Teheran: 26-30 October 2021 or online.
Theme: Museums & Environmental Concerns, New Insights
Conference web site: http://cimuset.inmost.ir/
Our planet is currently facing lot of environmental concerns. In in the last few decades, the degradation of our environment have gone up at an alarming rate, the world in facing more and more natural disasters in the form of flash floods, tsunamis and cyclones.
Main confernce topic: How can Sceince and Technology museums approach and present this important issue
Sub-themes
-How to present environmental issues in science and technology museum’s exhibitions: Global warming, deforestation, pollution, Increased Carbon Footprint, Ozone Layer Depletion, Natural Resource Depletion, Loss of Endangered Species, Urban Sprawl
– Museums and Environmental Education
– Concept of green museums: Museum management and green lighting, energy saving, recycling, protecting environment
Registration: http://cimuset.inmost.ir/?page_id=74
Call for paper: http://cimuset.inmost.ir/?page_id=106
Visit Iran: https://www.visitiran.ir/
CIMUSET-CIMCIM international Conference 2020
Playing and operating: functionality in museum
objects and instruments
4th– 6th February, 2020, Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris, France
Museum collections are formed by selections of objects that represent snapshots of the complexity of the world at different times. As such their value resides as much in their physical supports, as in the representation of the cultural networks of meanings and interactions of which there were part.
For some types of objects, this includes a particularly strong ‘performative’ element, where the object is a tool to accomplish an action: musical instruments, vehicles, clocks and watches, machinery and objects of science and technology are few of the most obvious examples.
For decades, museum approaches have been divided between emphasizing the preservation of the material support of the object, and preserving its capability to operate, for reasons that include dissemination as well as research. The use of alternatives, such as replicas and digital modelling has also been explored, sometimes controversially, and few attempts have been made at producing guidelines for the care and preservation of few among these types of objects.
This conference aims at offering a platform to discuss and compare current approaches the preservation, and interpretation of functional objects, comparing practices across collections, institutions and countries. It is hoped that, by highlighting overlaps and differences, it will be possible to develop a greater understanding of the practical and ethical reasons that inform different policies and that the outcomes of the conference will prepare the ground for a common set of guidelines that might build on the cross-disciplinary experience provided by a variety of objects that present common challenges.
The conference is particularly open to perspectives from curators, conservators, makers, musicians and all key professional stakeholders dealing with the preservation and interpretation of functional objects across collections.
The conference is jointly organized by the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Musical Instruments and Music (CIMCIM), the International Committee for Museums of Science and Technology (CIMUSET) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris. It is generously supported by the International Council of Museums ICOM (http://icom.museum). The International Council of Museums is an international organisation of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the research, conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world’s natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.
Sub-themes:
1. The ontology of functional objects
It has been widely argued that the nature of an object is transformed as soon as it enters a museum collection. Moreover, most functional objects have undergone changes, repairs, maintenance work and degradations, either before or after entering a museum collection, which might have transformed the way it operates and its outcome.
How relevant is the preservation of functionality – or the capacity to operate – in faithfully preserving and representing a museum object, and how does it combine with the many conflicting priorities that regulate the life and choices of a museum collections?
2. Interpretation of functional objects
Interpretation and public engagement are traditionally among the main reason to operate functional objects in museums collections, either within the museum galleries or taking them outside of the museum environment itself. This is often the case with musical instruments, vehicles, trains and several types of objects that would have operated in public spaces before entering a museum..
How can the impact of operating an original object be measured and justified, if at all, beyond the satisfaction of passing curiosity? How reliable is the message conveyed by operating an original and how satisfactory are possible alternatives such as copies or digital reproductions. Can truly satisfactory alternatives be found, compared to operating originals, which could still deliver a fully satisfactory experience for the visitor?
3. Good practice and risk management
During the last decades, approaches to operating museum objects have greatly changed leading to the production of sometimes contradictory policies and guidelines that reflect the spirit of their time. Individual museums, sometimes individual conservators, have developed practices and protocols to support informed decision making and risk assessment/management.
Can these policies and approaches be distilled in an overarching approach to operating objects held in museum collections? Where do they overlap and where are they unique to certain types of collections? Which policies and practices are currently in place and how effective have they been in their implementation?
4. Objects functionality in the 21st Century
In the last few years, the rise of virtual object design and physical modelling has created new opportunities and alternatives to reproduce and demonstrate the functionality of objects. These innovative approaches may question the very reason for making actual objects work.
How is the ongoing digital revolution changing the discussion on instruments playability and objects functionality? Can it provide a satisfactory alternative to understand functional objects? What can it contribute to the discussion on the usage of functional objects?
Abstracts submission Guidelines:
The following types of contributions are invited:
– Short papers, 10 min. + 5 min. Q+A
– Full papers, 20 min. + 10 min. Q+A
– Posters
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short CV of no more than 150 words including the following information.
Family name: Given Name:
Museum/Organization:
Please specify if you are a member of: CIMCIM □ CIMUSET □ ICOM □
Abstracts must be sent to Mathilde Thomas (mthomas@cite-musique.fr) by midnight
(12:00 AM-GMT) 22nd October 2019; late entries will not be considered. Accepted formats are MS
word and .rtf.
All submissions will be vetted by the Review Committee.
Please note that the conference language is English.
It is planned to provide simultaneous French translation.
N.B.: a limited number of travel grants will be available for invited speakers, especially young
professionals.
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Selected Comments during the Visit to the Handicap Soldier Development Centre at Taken Koh Sla of Kompot Province
Visiting Once a Year, A Close Look on Family Development
Today March 5, 2011, once again, my wife and I are coming to the Handicap Soldier Development Centre after my visit last year on March 8. It has been exactly one year since when I have promised that my wife and I will try to visit all of you once every year. Whatever I say, either in the local community context or in relation with neighboring countries, will not be backtracking.
Even in my absence, my wife and/or my children will come on my behalf to visit you all here as a continuation of a noble job that I have started. I have said and assured you all that this task is noble and I will never leave you just after transferring you from the handicap centre at Kien Svai to this place. I have to fulfill my duty in overseeing you personally, your family’s performances and keeping watch that you all will not fall under the poverty line. What concerns me even more is chance for education for your children.
New Achievements – Education
To start with, today we will put into official use a two storey building here for education service. No one would have imagined that here in Taken Koh Sla, former battlefield, there would be a building for schooling as such. It is beyond one’s thought indeed. As is affirmed by General Tit Meng Long, we have committed to improvement of educational chance and facilities for children here.
We now have five school buildings with 33 classrooms for 1,374 students and 56 teachers. As you can see here that the school buildings would comprise of all three levels of education – primary, junior secondary and senior secondary. With this facility in place, I am sure, children of our people in the community, not just those of the handicap soldiers, would have access to a nine year education (that is a requirement stated in the Constitution).
For children who would pass the senior secondary education, they stand a chance to be provided with a scholarship for furthering their education too. I have been receiving some one thousand scholarships or so per annum. I would set aside some of them for children of our handicap soldiers. Whenever they need in addition to qualifications they possess that are suitable to the standard set for a person to attain the scholarship, my cabinet, especially my son who is directly in charge of the scholarship will see to that.
Healthcare – A Delivery Clinic
As I have come this far I am so certain that your children have access to education not less than when they were with you at the handicap centre at Kien Svay district. In addition to that we have a clinic here specially built and prepared for child delivery. As you all may know that delivery before was being attended in general ward. As of March 1, if I am correctly reported, there was this first delivery in the new building. My wife said before arriving here that if anyone is to deliver while she is here she would attend to the delivery herself.
It is an encouraging result that the general ward here, as is reported by Gen. Tit Meng Long, has been providing treatment for some 12,195 patients in addition to 101 women who came for delivery. It is a satisfaction for us that in our society no one is being disregarded for physical reason and/or background when it comes to wedded pair. Take for instance my wife disregarded my handicap to get married with me. And it is also the case here where families of handicap soldiers are marrying their kids, or sometime between handicap soldiers’ families and those from outside the handicap soldier centre.
Water Resources and Supply
Today I have asked the Minister for Water Resources and Meteorology to come along. It should be recalling of the past experiences in Prey Veng province where there was a big flood in 1994 and drought in 1995. As of now, as far as I am informed, some wells have gone dried already. To say it in other words, the water table underground has gone further down and various ponds, including those at my place at Takhmao, have had the lowest level of water. It is amazingly bizarre because in October 2010, 600 mm of rain in 48 hours had been recorded. Now, only a slightly little water level remains. This has warned us of how to go about preparing for a water shortage both for consumption and for irrigation.
It has been the case here that only eight wells have maintained water level that is catering to need for washing and cooking. In 2010, the Ministry of Rural Development provided 33 drilling wells that are sufficient for household use but not for irrigation. The Ministry has indeed requested to me to drill some 30 more of the wells plus a 100 m by 200 m at the depth of 3 meters. That would include also a number of ponds for fish culture. Let me now instruct that this task of supplying water will be conducted by two ministries involved. I would permit the Ministry of Rural Development to continue its project of drilling some 30 wells more in order to increase coverage area with wells.
Since this service provision would only respond to household consumption need for water, I would leave the issue of searching for a more potential sources of water supply for irrigation to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. The Ministry must have received my instruction in writing already, but because the Minister is here, I would like to clarify the duty of providing water for irrigation not only for the Handicap Soldier Centre but also for areas in the vicinity. Water is second in line to be addressed here. We have to go beyond water availability for household consumption to addressing agricultural development demand.
Handicap Quota in Public and Private Workplaces
It has been requested to me by HE Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Interior, to establish a new commune boundary and authority here. I would ask HE Khoy Khun Huor, Governor of Kompot, to consider placing the commune authority out of the Handicap Centre. My reason is for the centre not to be plagued with incidents that may arise from electoral campaign season. Some opposition candidates may enter and reprimand handicap persons, who may, directly or indirectly, return with anger. I think it is best to put a commune office out of this centre.
Some people are so disrespectful that they may say scornful words to handicap people in general not to mention only those soldiers who have been handicapped for national defense. I am one of handicap person in Cambodia and I take that as disrespectful and immoral acts to do. In fact, handicap people deserve to be treated well. Let’s look at our law on handicap. The state and private institutions are obliged to set a quota in their workplaces for handicap people. Buildings must be accessible by handicap. For instance, the office building of the Council of Ministers, we have access roads and stairs for handicap persons too. I hope our people will be able to distinguish and make good judgment as with whom to entrust the job of leadership.
Thai Backtracks, Cambodia Goes Forward
In fact we have here some houses ready in preparation for handicap soldiers in the war of defending our territory at Preah Vihear area. Yesterday, a letter has been sent to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia and Thailand and also all Foreign Ministers of ASEAN. Cambodia has accepted completely what is proposed in the letter and has pointed out 14 locations, more can be decided later, and a timeframe of twelve months, with possible extension, for the observation team. The Minister of Indonesia is considering proposing meetings of the General Border Committee and Joint Border Committee on Demarcation for Land Boundary in Indonesia.
How come (the Thai side) continues to insist on bilateral (negotiation)? It is true that the two will finally be the ones who make decisions, but what about the party who has convened the meeting? Indonesia will host and co-sign the outcome of the meeting. (Thailand) claimed to be welcoming (the Indonesian observation team) and also challenged Cambodia to do so as well. When Cambodia accepts and goes forward, they are backtracking so as to consider the option./.
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