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Democide - A Formal Study of American Politics and Culture (Review)
29/03/2019 Reviews
Band: Democide
Location: Illinois, US
Genre: Grindcore/Powerviolence
Release date: March 2nd 2019
Bandcamp: https://democidepv.bandcamp.com/
Goddamn. When I saw the title, I thought for a moment that I stumbled upon some scientific paper about grindcore. And boy, was I wrong. Democide is a grindcore/powerviolence trio from Illinois. In the past, they released an album called No Sir, I don’t Like it with a hilarious album cover, probably made in Microsoft paint. The moment you look at the album cover, you know what you’ll get – a Trump-headed trout swallowing Hillary Clinton with black-and-white kids with X markers on their eyes pledging allegiance to the flag „standing” on some mutilated body, with a newspaper on the right with The President is Dead headline. And then you push the play button and hear Trump saying: And then I tweeted “it’s illegal! We’re tired of the nice people…’Cause they’re stupid…Terrible people…Unbelievable people are coming… They’re coming from all over the world….Total Control…Ding Ding, Bong bong, Bing Bing Bing…Now, here’s the good news! I probably tweet… It’s a question…. Ding Ding, bong, bong, bong…It’s a question…But What Do I know?...We will have no choice, but to totally destroy American dream! Totally Destroy American Dream! DEAD!
And the power surge coming in the form of an unstoppable force starts roaring from the stereo. The song titles such as: The Alt-Right Bred Like Cattle, Deportation Daycare, The CIA are good Cobblers if You Like Toe Cancer, Generational Domestic Abuse, Supreme Court Roofie Party, I’ve got a Glock in My Hello Kitty Lunchbox, Fast Food Last Supper will give you an idea of what’s exactly going on throughout this 22-minute-long release, both lyrically and musically. Bunch of blast beats, hysterical Japanese hardcore vocals inbred with the finest Brutal Truth-like growls will probably make your hair fall off if you’re not ready for music like this. One of band’s vocalists (they’re all “singing”) remind me of a metal version of Arab on Radar/ The Chinese Stars’ vocalist Eric Paul which is a good thing from the start. The doomy riff in Deportation Daycare will get your ears a couple of seconds of peace before the avalanche of craziness starts storming your house. If your paintings don’t start falling from the wall, I must inform you that you have a bad stereo. Talking about all the songs in-detail is kind of a stupid thing to do for a grindcore record, so we’ll highlight the best moments. Shoot First, Ask Later news report is interrupted by some tasty-sounding bass riff which time and time again transcends into a bloodsucking grindcore hellhole that disappears just like a flash of lightning. DIY Abortion Beach Party incorporates this summer-like Dead Kennedys vibe that accidentally ends up with screeching as the guy is being skinned alive. And basically I described all their songs in one sentence! HAHA! And yeah, the album has tons of samples from a bunch of people which is a routine thing in grindcore that never gets old. I Force Fed Jimmy John His Entire Family has a paradigm shift in terms of vocals, ‘cause the deep growls start kicking in loud! With an elderly-people disco riff in the background. There’s plenty of space for headbanging for a song of that duration….Disfish Can’t Swim is a drum & bass only track with demonic Death Grips vocals blabbing some nonsense (probably). The CIA are Good Cobblers if You Like Toe Cancer starts with some sample about dart pistols whose toxins cannot be traced in the victims body. And yes, this is one of those songs that you wanna hear live at Obscene Extreme festival wearing a costume of your choice. Generational Domestic Abuse has some demonic barking synced with hysterical vocals of Mr. XYZ. Fast Food Last Supper starts with some Trump’s nonsensical speech. The song itself is pretty raw and wild (aren’t they all just like that?). Incel Roadrage Killed My Grandma is based on a true event in which some idiot killed a bunch of people because he got rejected by women. And this song brought some really tasty riffs on the table! Chewbacca (Supernova cover) is one of those moments when awkward vocals kick in, the kind of vocals you always wanted to hear on this album…
Well, Democide’s A Formal Study of American Politics and Culture is a pretty neat, original and fun album to listen to. Pretty damn refreshing stuff in the sea of mediocrity that surrounds our everyday life. I must confess that this album is the best thing to listen to while fishing. And I almost forgot, who the hell is reading nonsense like this?
Rating: Fabulous
GWAA (guitars, vocals)
TOAST (bass, vocals)
Wizard (Drums, vocals)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nick Feltes at Introspect Studios Chicago, II
Album cover by: NEVER Collage
Logo By TOAST
Graveyard’s Time Ran Out is a deadly assault of extreme metal mixed with brain-melting dissonance!
Carcass’ Despicable EP splits flesh from bone (review)
Napalm Death’s Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism is the band’s best album in the past 15 years (Review)
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Men Already Enter the Women’s Locker Room at My Local Pool. Now Congress Could Make It Worse.
If I cannot be confident that my children
and I will be safe in a female-only space, where else are we supposed to go?
When I approached the director and
division manager at the pool, I was told that as of 2010, the facility
It came to my attention last spring that
a man who identifies as a woman was using the women’s facilities for my local
indoor swimming pool.
As a woman and a mom, I naturally was concerned
that my children or I could be in the presence of a man while using the women’s
locker room at the Claude Moore Recreation and Community Center in Sterling,
Virginia.
So I reached out to the pool director and
division manager of this Loudoun County government building to ask what their
policies were regarding locker room access.
That was just the beginning.
After months of asking various
authorities, I have been unable to find a single straight answer about our
neighborhood pool’s policy.
Then a few days ago, an official police report surfaced: A naked
man walking around the women’s locker room was seen peeping at a girl inside
one of the shower stalls. When recreation center staff approached the man, he
fled, and investigators are still looking for him.
I have no idea how this person
identifies. I have no idea why no one asked questions when this man entered the
women’s facilities in the first place. Most importantly, I have no idea what
would have happened if this criminal had claimed to be a woman when confronted
by staff.
While I write about this, Congress is about to vote on the Equality Act, which would make this policy the law of the land across all 50 states.
As we move into the summer months, I already
do not feel safe taking my children to my Loudoun County pool-not just because the
peeping Tom is still at large, but because of what I discovered about our local
community center.
division manager at the pool, I was told that as of 2010, the facility granted access to private facilities on the basis of self-identified
I was told that if a woman complains
about a man in the locker room, and the man identifies as a transgender woman,
then staff would have a conversation with that person. It was unclear what
would happen after that.
When I expressed my dismay about this
ambiguous policy, the director asked me point-blank: “How much privacy do you
need?”
I could only blink at him. I was
As I paused, he told me there are “partitioned
areas” and each shower is curtained off individually.
That made my blood boil. So I told him:
“Have you ever been in a woman’s locker
room? No? Well, let me tell you how it works.
“Little kids are annoying-they will come
under the stall doors of the toilets and open the doors while you are using
them. They will pull open the shower curtains while you’re in there.
“And trying to get dressed in a slippery
shower or a bathroom stall-where there are not adequate shelves to keep your
stuff from falling onto the floor or into the toilet-is impractical. So my
family and I put our stuff on a bench in the open area where it’s much drier
with more room to move.
“I don’t like to undress in front of
everyone, so I will wrap myself in a towel and try to get dressed that way. But
I know that if the towel does slip, it’s not a big deal, because it’s only
other women and small children in there. Never mind that the shower curtains
and stall partitions often allow for glimpses of the people behind them anyway.
“But now you are telling me that my
children or I could have to share this sensitive space with a man?”
The director and division manager said
they would take my concerns to their boss. I never heard back.
When I sent a follow-up email, I was told
that staff were busy and would respond soon. I have not heard anything since.
So I took matters into my own hands. That
summer, I stood before the Loudoun County School Board and shared my concerns
about gender identity policies. Then I emailed the county government to ask for
clarification about the policy, but received no answer.
I hope that authorities find the man who victimized
that poor girl at our local pool. Regardless of whether he identifies as a man
or a woman, my search to find answers about what to do in situations like these
has taught me something.
Under a gender identity policy like the
one at our pool, I no longer can trust that authorities in my hometown will
prioritize my needs and those of my children when we are in supposed safe
spaces for women.
Before this policy took effect, I could not imagine bring asked by an authority figure how much privacy I needed from men’s bodies and men’s glances, and then lectured on how much privacy ought to be sufficient.
The way this gender identity policy has
changed my hometown is subtle, but comes with real consequences.
Now Congress is considering the Equality Act, a dangerous bill that would make this policy the law of the land across all 50 states.
If the legislation passes, women across
the country will find themselves in the same situation as my family and
me-unable to trust that the responsible authorities will fight for our privacy
and safety.
Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric. This is
not equality; this is unfair to women.
Don’t be afraid to speak out.
The post Men Already Enter the Women’s Locker Room at My Local Pool. Now Congress Could Make It Worse. appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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CONTRIBUTORS SUBMISSIONS EDITOR'S LETTER FREE SUBSCRIPTION 253 BOOKS ABOUT FRANCE BOUTIQUE GALLERY
A Woman's Paris ~ Joie de Vivre
Fashion and Paris… exhibitions of the future of fashion?
A Woman’s Paris™ in Style
Berlin Fashion Week, Fashioning fashion: European Dress in Detail Paris, French fashion, French haute couture, Les Docks - Cité de la mode et du design Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mannequin le corps et la mode, Milan Fashion Week, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Musée Galliera Paris, New York Fashion Week, Paris CityHall, Paris fashion, Paris Fashion Week, Paris Haute Couture Hôtel de Ville Paris, Paris haute-couture
By Bénédicte Mahé
(French) I will start this article by saying that I am no fashion journalist and that my sense of style is often less than approximate (I am blaming it on my no-work, no-money situation, but who am I kidding?), except this does not prevent me from having an opinion about French fashion.
For decades now, Paris has been on the front row when it comes to fashion. However, I feel these last years it has lost the legitimacy it once had. Fashion weeks in New York and Milan or even minor fashion weeks in London and Berlin sometimes show more originality and creativity than well-established French fashion houses. Maybe it’s because they feel they have more to prove or do not have a “fashion collar shackle,” while France (well, Paris that is) is living on its fame and does not let up-and-coming designers free themselves from years of convention.
Nevertheless, the first semester of 2013 is witnessing an interesting trend in Paris: mixing culture and fashion. Three major exhibitions are showing an evident turn towards the past, from ancient garments to the diffusion of fashion. Is this the sign of a necessary reflection in order to go forwards? Is looking into the past the solution to finding answers for future collections and a legitimacy for the French haute couture? What do these exhibitions really hope to create? Will they even have an effect on the fashion world? I do not have any answer to these questions, but I think this process happening in Paris right now can help us define and reflect on our own attitudes towards fashion. So if you are in Paris or planning a trip soon, do not forget to check out these exhibitions!
Fashioning fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.
From December 13th 2012 to April 14th 2013
10, rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris
(this exhibition was presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from October 2010 to March 2011)
Mannequin – le corps et la mode
From February 16th to May 19th 2013
Les Docks – Cité de la mode et du design
34 quai d’Austerlitz – 75013 Paris
(this exhibition is curated by the Musée Galliera, which is currently closed for remodeling and is reopening the fall of 2013)
Paris Haute Couture
From March 2nd to July 6th 2013
Salle Saint-Jean. 5 rue de Lobau – 75004 Paris
(the entrée to this exhibition is free for everybody, like every exhibition by the Paris City Hall)
Share with us your thoughts on French fashion (or fashion in general) in the comments below!
Bénédicte Mahé has studied abroad many times, speaks four languages (French, English, German and Italian), and earned a Master of Management of cultural goods and activities, as well as a Master’s degree in intercultural communications and cooperation. She wishes to work in philanthropy for cultural institutions or non-profit organizations. Among her interests are drinking tea, cooking (with or without success), reading, watching TV shows, and—of course—shopping. She started her blog Tribulations Bretonnes in 2010 and has been updating it (more or less regularly) since then.
French Impressions: Anne Fontaine’s white shirts and the color of happiness. Anne Fontaine, a Franco-Brazilian fashion designer, entrepreneur, businesswoman and philanthropist, known as the “queen of the white shirt,” brought new faces and unforeseen levels of diversity to the fashion industry. Thanks to her, the white shirt is now definitely a staple on women’s wardrobes as a key piece. Anne shares her rise in the industry and 2011 launch of The Anne Fontaine Foundation, which is committed to the reforestation of the Brazilian rain forest. (French)
Beauty Confessions from a Globe-trotting Parisienne. Parisienne Bénédicte Mahé shares a French woman’s approach to beauty and makeup; and how the relationship Americans have with beauty is very different from that of the French. Including her list of Beauty Resources in Paris and a vocabulary of French to English translations. (French)
Sequins, Lamé, and Alien Hair: Inside Ylan Anoufa’s Paris Couture Show, by Abby Rodgers who, since moving to Paris, wanted to attend a fashion show during Paris Fashion Week. When her friend Marina, who did the makeup for the Gustavo Lins couture show, received an invitation to the Ylan Anoufa show she asked Abby to come along.
How to spend your money even if you do not need to: the French biannual sales, by French woman Bénédicte Mahé who writes about the exquisite uniqueness of French sales that last for weeks each year and offer incredible sales. These sales take place over five weeks during the late summer and for two weeks during the winter, and thus demands from shoppers: when to buy and what to wait for during sale season?
Scarves à la Françoise: The lingua Franca for stylish women, by Barbara Redmond who shares her experience trying on scarves and tying them at the home of her French friend in Lyon. Arriving at the famous silk manufacture in Lyon, André Claude Canova, Barbara and her friend gently tapped on the window even though the shop was closed. The shop girl let them and they all enjoyed hours of playfully draping, twisting and knotting scarves and shawls. An experience spurred by the ubiquitous nature of women and scarves: our common language.
French Lingerie: Mysterious and flirty, by Barbara Redmond who shares her experience searching for the perfect lingerie in Paris boutiques and her “fitting” with the shop keeper, Madame, in a curtained room stripped to bare at Sabbia Rosa. Including a French to English vocabulary lesson for buying lingerie and a directory of Barbara’s favorite lingerie shops in Paris. (French)
Text copyright ©2013 Bénédicte Mahé. All rights reserved.
Illustration copyright ©2013 Kayla McMullen. All rights reserved.
Illustrations copyright ©Barbara Redmond. All rights reserved.
barbara@awomansparis.com
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HRW Director Writes: F1 and "Racing to Repression in Bahrain"
2019-03-23 - 7:46 ص
Bahrain Mirror: Human Rights Watch published on its website an article to Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, in which she criticized holding Formula One race in Bahrain amid ignorance of blatant human rights violations in Bahrain, which some of them are related to the same sport.
The organization is launching a vast campaign against the Formula One, benefiting from the chaos caused by the case of the Bahraini player Hakeem Al-Araibi worldwide, and how it managed to move international sports bodies, led by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
Worden said in her article entitled "Racing to Repression in Bahrain" that "Bahraini authorities enjoy these extravaganzas because they distract from their abysmal human rights situation. But Bahrain's true picture is of arrests, abuse, and torture of peaceful dissidents and members of the opposition and the Grand Prix cannot "sports-wash" this track record away."
"Next week, Formula One returns to Bahrain for its high-octane auto race, the Grand Prix. The race sparks protests year after year in Bahrain, as well as in other repressive host countries like Azerbaijan," she added.
The Director of Global Initiatives also said "The leaders of Formula One and its governing federation, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) will be celebrating their race in Bahrain - a mere 20 kilometers away from the prison where Yousef is unjustly held. They could and should ask to meet her in prison."
Najah is an activist and mother of four. In June 2018, she was detained, tortured, and sentenced to three years in prison for her social media activity, including posts opposing Formula One because of the government's use of the race to whitewash repression.
Bahrain already tried to export repression beyond its own borders this year when it sought to extradite its former national football player and torture survivor Hakeem Al-Araibi from Thailand. After a global outcry the extradition bid failed, but Bahrain's abuses are a warning flag.
Minky Worden called on Formula One and FIA leaders should follow suit FIFA to ensure sports events don't contribute to human rights abuses. She said "it is time for Formula One to adopt and implement a human rights policy. And it should start by calling for Yusuf to be freed ahead of the Grand Prix race on March 31."
Arabic Version
Hakeem Al-Araibi
Najah Yousif
2023-01-23Al-Wefaq Calls on Bahrain Authorities Not to Retaliate against Prisoners: What They're Subjected to is a Crime
2023-01-10Information Circulated about Suspicious Purchases by Jewish Companies in Isa Town and Saar
2023-01-09Amnesty International Warns King Charles's Charity over Working in Bahrain
2023-01-07Diraz Friday Preacher: Selling Real Estate to Zionists is Betrayal of our Homeland
2022-12-05King of Bahrain Welcomes Israeli President at Al-Qudaibiya Palace
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International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
Vol 18, No. 1 March 2016
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2016. This edition contains articles from authors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, South Africa, UK, and USA. Many thanks to these authors for their contributions which showcase oncology pharmacy practice from around the world. Please also take a moment to think how YOU could contribute in this way. Don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected]. As a reminder, if you are a contributor and would like a pdf of your article acknowledging it as a newsletter contribution simply email me as above. Finally, I hope to catch up with as many members as possible at the upcoming ISOPP XV meeting in Santiago, Chile. Until then, stay safe.
Jill Davis
ISOPP Newsletter Editor
By Rowena (Moe) Schwartz, Pharm.D., BCOP
I admit this is my third version of these remarks. I wrote the initial draft traveling to the HOPA meeting last week. I revised that version (really, just re-wrote) traveling home from HOPA. Even with the edits, I didn't feel like I was capturing what I wanted to say. This final version was done following an early morning meeting with Harbans Dhillon (ISOPP President-Elect) and Sarah Lowis (Sea to Sky). I have struggled with this message, as it seems to reflect both the optimism and concern I have for ISOPP. Maybe that is appropriate?
ISOPP continues to mature as an organization. Twenty years ago this organization was built by dedicated and committed oncology pharmacists from across the world. Many of the most successful components (e.g. ISOPP Newsletter, ISOPP Website) that support ISOPP today are built from work of past leadership and membership. The continued success of these efforts is due to the members and leaders that have advanced the initial ISOPP foundation over the last 20 years. The Secretariat and ISOPP leadership have spent the last year taking a look at the organization, and have developed a plan to build for the future. The ISOPP Strategic Plan that will be presented at ISOPP XV in Chile, and subsequently shared with membership on the ISOPP Website and in the ISOPP Newsletter. The Strategic Plan is built upon the foundation established 20 years ago, and allows for further evolution of the organization to best address the current needs for oncology pharmacists. As cancer care and oncology pharmacy care evolves worldwide, so must this organization.
Rowena (Moe) Schwartz
Oncology Around the World
ACTA 2015 International Clinical Trials Symposium
By Carol Rice, Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
I had the privilege of attending the inaugural Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) International Clinical Trials Symposium in Sydney, Australia on 7 - 10 October 2015.
ACTA was formed in 2014 as a national advisory body to advance the interests of clinical trials networks, clinical trial co-ordinating centres and clinical quality registries across discipline and disease boundaries.
The theme of the Symposium was Better Evidence, Better Health and the program included speakers from research and clinical backgrounds as well as public health specialists, policy makers, health economists and industry professionals. A strong panel of international speakers included Professor Donald Berry, Professor of Biostatistics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre USA, Dr Joe Selby Executive Director of Patient Centred Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) USA, Professor Tom Walley, Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) UK, Professor Richard Horton, Editor in Chief of The Lancet and Ms Susan Marlin, President and CEO Clinical Trials Ontario, Canada.
Carol Rice
News from South Africa
By Carien van der Merwe, Oncology Pharmacist, Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa
Oncology pharmacy is not recognised as a speciality profession in South Africa, therefore is very under resourced with trained oncology pharmacists. There are currently no professional academic courses in this field and most pharmacists have picked up their skills by work experience and by attending educational meetings and conferences. The objective of having international experts at key local meetings is to further develop these skills and also to encourage more pharmacists to take on this speciality.
It was a great honour to have Mr Klaus Meier from ESOP (European Society of Oncology Pharmacy) as a guest speaker at our 17th National Congress of the South African Society of Medical Oncology (SASMO) and South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology (SASCRO) on 9 August 2015 in Cape Town. This platform allowed oncology pharmacists to engage, share and grow their knowledge in this specialised field. Mr Klaus Meier shared his experiences and best practice with the group. The group had a few key take home messages, especially around compliance with oral medication, which is often not a focus of attention, and also on the importance of aseptic techniques. ESOP had an exhibition stand providing pharmacists with must needed information and standards to assist with increasing compliance within the industry according to international practice.
Carolin Meirer and Hannah Meier at the ESOP stand
BOPA Symposium 2015 Telford Meeting Report
By Bruce Burnett BSc (Hons), MRPharmS, MMedSci, Teacher Practitioner in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy Department, University of Wolverhampton, UK
The 2015 symposium was held in Telford, Shropshire at the International Conference Centre. There were 400 delegates and for the first time there was an "Introduction to Oncology" day on the day before the meeting took place. I was fortunate enough to meet some of our "new to oncology" pharmacy staff during the intensive day.
The meeting proper started on the Friday and began with a debate, or at least a planned debate. As it turned out the two presenters, David Thomson, Chemotherapy Pharmacist Specialised Services (South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw), NHS England and National Cancer Drug Fund Pharmacist & Professor David Dodwell, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Leeds Cancer Centre/ Institute of Oncology, St James's University Hospital, actually agreed on a position. The discussion centred around the use of the SACT data set, collected by all NHS hospitals, collecting data on both chemotherapy administration and outcome, including toxicity, data. Both agreed that the data was not ideal and that there were concerns about the data quality.
Bruce Burnett
British Columbia, Canada: Embracing Change
By Lynne Nakashima BSc(Pharm), PharmD, Provincial Pharmacy Director, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
In British Columbia, Canada, we have a provincial system of providing cancer care to patients. This care is coordinated by the B.C. Cancer Agency (BCCA) in cooperation with the communities' oncology network hospitals. There are 6 BCCA centres, the only locations within the province where a patient can receive radiation therapy, and where systemic therapy is provided. Approximately 50% of systemic therapy treatments are provided within the BCCA and 50% in the hospitals participating in the communities' oncology network.
This past year has been a year of change for the BCCA, as we have started the new year with a new pharmacy structure. Susan Walisser retired as the Provincial Pharmacy Leader at the end of February, and with her retirement, came change. Previously, the Pharmacies reported through their regional programs, but now, Pharmacy reports through a provincial structure to the Pharmacy Director. While still maintaining our close linkages within the centres, the provincial structure enables us to capitalize on shared strengths, consistency and provincial standards of practice. We also welcomed new Professional Practice Leaders in Abbotsford (Sylvie Labelle-Stimac), Kelowna (Randy Goncalves) and Vancouver Island (Kimberly Kuik).
Lynne Nakashima
NZW-Hamburg 2016
By Lisa Holle, PharmD, BCOP, Assistant Clinical Professor, UConn School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Storrs, USA
The 24th NZW-Hamburg conference was held on January 29-31, 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. NZW-Hamburg was a combined meeting of the local Hamburg pharmacy association (Apothekerkammer Hamburg), the German Society for Oncology Pharmacy (Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Onkologische Pharmazie [DGOP]) and the European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP). The conference was attended by over 1000 oncology pharmacists, physicians, and researchers from around the world, and introduced a new format, which included concurrent sessions on a wide variety of topics ranging from oncology preparation to disease state management to scientific writing and publishing. Some of the highlights of the scientific meeting are included here.
Lisa Holle presenting the Ins and Outs of Disposing Oral Chemotherapy
Report of the BOPP Days
By Karen Vermis, Pharm.D., PhD, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
The Belgian oncology pharmacists society held their 9th yearly 2-day conference in February. Again, a varying programme had been prepared by the Scientific Committee.
Prof. Schots (University Hospital Brussels) discussed prognostic scores (which can be easily calculated via the internet), pathology and treatment with 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) of chronic myeloid leukemia, a perfect model for targeted therapy. Although survival is excellent at 90 %, the outcome can be compromised by intolerance, poor adherence and resistance to these oral medications. Mutations within the tyrosine kinase require patient pre-screening and this is leading to personalized therapy and precision medicine.
Karen Vermis
ISOPP Business and News
ISOPP 2016 Symposium
Are you considering participating in the XV International Symposium on Oncology Pharmacy Practice (ISOPP 2016), being held April 17-20 in Santiago, Chile? There is still time to register and check out the discounted rates for allied health professionals, students and South Americans.
As a registrant of ISOPP 2016, you are invited to attend three highly informative lunch sessions produced by the Palladium Sponsors. Pre-registration is required. Click on the links for more information on each symposium.
Roche Chile - Biological and Biosimilars: Pharmacovigilance, Interchangeability and Extrapolation of Indications (Monday, April 18, 13:00-14:30)
Hospital Pharmacists Taking the Lead - How Can Guideline Based Standing Orders / Pathways Enhance Effective CINV Patient Care (Tuesday, April 19, 13:00-14:00)
BD Medical - Mitigating Risk During Hazardous Drug Handling: Improving the Practice of Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs (Wednesday, April 20, 13:00-14:30)
Satellite symposia are open to ISOPP 2016 attendees. Register now and pre-register for the lunch sessions during the registration process. If you have already registered, log back in to your registration to select your sessions.
Spread the word using #ISOPP2016 and please forward this notice to your friends and colleagues who may be interested in what ISOPP 2016 has to offer.
2016 ISOPP Elections
On behalf of the ISOPP Nominating Committee, it is my pleasure to introduce the slate of candidates for this year's ISOPP Election.
There are three candidates for the President-Elect position, one candidate for the Treasurer position and seven candidates for two General Secretariat Member positions.
There is a photo of each candidate, and a letter of intent that each candidate provided, categorized according to election position, and listed in alphabetically order.
The terms of Rowena Schwartz (President), Harbans Dhillon (President-Elect), Johan Vandenbroucke (Treasurer), Tiene Bauters (General Secretariat member) and Anantha Naik Nagappa (General Secretariat member) are expiring. Harbans Dhillon moves into the position of President. Shaun O'Connor has put his name forward for the Treasurer position making available the third General Secretariat member position.
Members were sent a personalized email containing information on how to vote on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. If you did not receive the email, please contact the Society Management Office via email at [email protected].
I encourage you to read all of the candidate's letters and to vote by the deadline of Thursday, March 31, 2106 at midnight GMT.
Harbans Dhillon
ISOPP President Elect
ISOPP Nomination Committee Chair
A reminder that it is time to renew your International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP) membership. You need to be a member in order to vote in the upcoming elections and to continue receiving a copy of the Journal.
Renewal is easy. A renewal notice was sent to your email with the subject line: "ISOPP 2016 Membership Renewal". This email contains your personalized links for membership renewal.
If you did not receive the email or are not able to find it now, please contact Glenda Freeman. Glenda can facilitate resending a personalized link or answer any questions via telephone at +1-778-338-4142 or via email at [email protected].
Virtual Journal Club
The twenty-fifth issue of the Virtual Journal Club (VJC) is available on the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP) website. To access it, visit the Virtual Journal Club Surveys page or follow the direct link to the survey.
"A review of blinatumomab, a novel immunotherapy."
Matthew J Newman
Dina J Benani
Become familiar with the detailed preparation and administration procedures required for the safe use of blinatumomab;
Update and improve current knowledge regarding, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and therapeutic use of blinatumomab;
Become aware of and identify patients at risk of adverse effects related to blinatumomab which may be life-threatening and require diligent monitoring; and
Improve the current level of knowledge regarding any clinical controversies and off-label uses of blinatumomab.
Previous issue: Twenty-fourth issue
"Effects of gender on capecitabine toxicity in colorectal cancer."
Alastair I Ilich
Melanie Danilak
Christina A Kim
Karen E Mulder
Jennifer L Spratlin
Sunita Ghosh
Carole R Chambers
Michael B Sawyer
Determine whether female colorectal cancer patients experienced a higher incidence of dose-limiting toxicity than men when treated with adjuvant capecitabine;
Improve the current level of knowledge regarding capecitabine optimal dosing and toxicity;
Reliably measure determinants that place individuals at risk of capecitabine toxicity; and
Identify patients at risk of toxicity with capecitabine
As a reminder, ISOPP's Virtual Journal Club features online articles from the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice (JOPP). Members are encouraged to read articles and then answer a series of multiple choice questions through the Virtual Journal Club Surveys.
After completing the questionnaire, a certificate will be emailed to you. Although not formally accredited for continuing medical education (CME) points, participation is equal to one hour of CME activity.
Members are also encouraged to use the Member Discussion Forum to stimulate discussion about articles they have read. Your ISOPP membership provides many great benefits and we are hopeful you will find the Virtual Journal Club another asset to your oncology pharmacy practice.
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Newsletter Summary
This Newsletter Summary provides a brief introduction/summary to each article. In order to access the full article, login to the isopp.org website then click on the 'read more' button at the end of each article's introduction. In addition, at the end of each full article there is the opportunity for you to write comments about the article and start up a discussion forum.
AGM Notice and Agenda
ISOPP's 2016 AGM will take place on Tuesday, April 19 from 11:30 to 13:00 at the Sheraton Santiago Hotel and Convention Center in Santiago, Chile.
Review the agenda.
JOPP Reviewers Needed
Submissions to JOPP, ISOPP's official journal, have increased dramatically over the last few years. As a result, we need additional reviewers to keep the review and decision times as short as possible.
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for JOPP, please send your curriculum vitae to Barry Goldspiel at [email protected].
ISOPP 2016
"Explore ISOPP Opportunities" Reception
Tuesday, April 19, 17:45-18:30 Sheraton Santiago
ISOPP members and colleagues are invited to an informal gathering to discuss opportunities for involvement in ISOPP. This is an opportunity to learn how you can contribute to ISOPP's mission for the future.
ISOPP 20th Anniversary Dinner Chilean Style
Come celebrate ISOPP's 20th anniversary Chilean style. Enjoy good food, wine and local culture with friends, old and new. Performers from the Ballet Folkl�rico Antumapu, an outstanding artistic dance company dedicated to preserving Chilean folk culture, will perform "Chiliche, Gente de Chile" ("The People of Chile"). They will explore the great geographic and cultural diversity of the Chilean man and woman through music, poetry and dance.
Julie Torode, MD
Deputy CEO and Advocacy & Programmes Director of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland
Christian Caglevic, MD
Medical Oncologist and Head of Early Development Drug Unit of Instituto Oncologico, Fundaci�n Arturo L�pez P�rez, Santiago, Chile
R. Donald Harvey, PharmD
Associate Professor, Hematology/Medical
Oncology, Director, Phase 1 Clinical Trials Section, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Milan J. Anadkat, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Dermatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Celebrate ISOPP
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Please let us know if you have any questions regarding the upload by emailing [email protected].
ISOPP Sponsored Membership Program
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members who, given their
personal or regional financial situations, may not be able to become an ISOPP member or continue their ISOPP
membership.
Thanks to the generosity of members who have made
additional payments, there is
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Email [email protected].
Read more on the program.
Upcoming Events around the World
8-10: 12th International Conference of the Asian Clinical Oncology Society (New Delhi, India)
14-17: CAPhO Conference 2016 (Niagara Falls, ON, Canada)
17-20: XV International Symposium on Oncology Pharmacy Practice (Santiago, Chile)
19-21: 3rd European Conference on Oncology Pharmacy (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
3-7: 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)
12-15: 17th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (Liverpool, England)
For more upcoming events, visit the calendar of events.
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AFC Editions
Art F City
Wednesday Links: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 24, 2016
Mysteriously legible graffiti appeared on an abandoned hospital facing a luxury condo tower in Miami Beach yesterday:”YOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES WILL SOON BE UNDERWATER.” Is this in reference to sea level rise or the city’s notorious problems with mortgages? [The Miami Herald]
We at AFC recently joked that we should start a new category for news stories: “Living in Dystopia.” Well, today we have one that’s so dystopian and paranoia-inducing it’s practically a public mental health threat. Persistent Surveillance Systems is a private company that has secretly been flying aerial cameras over the city of Baltimore to document everyone’s movements and selling their data to the police. It’s like “real-time Google Earth.” How dystopian is this? So dystopian that the first sentence of this factual news article is virtually identical to the first sentence of seminal dystopian novel Neuromancer. Really. [Bloomberg]
In lighter news, Dominic Wilcox has opened the world’s first art exhibition for dogs. The London gallery has paintings in dogs’ color spectrum, hung at their eye-level and interactive installations. [Bored Panda]
Noah Charney is concerned about “art in the age of digital reproduction,” chiefly, that 3D-scanned and printed forgeries are reducing our appreciation of original works, or even hand-made copies. [Smithsonian]
Peter Doig’s bizarre legal troubles seem to have been resolved. The artist was being sued by a former Canadian corrections officer who claimed to own a painting Doig painted as an incarcerated teenager. This, despite the fact that Doig was never in the prison where the plaintiff worked. The whole case is just so weird. [Yahoo]
The Economist asks “Is Hacktivism Art?” We answer: sometimes? It’s one of those things like farming, where someone can use it as an artistic medium but the vast majority are just doing it because they need to eat. And then for every good piece of activist/hacktivist/farmer art there are 10 just horribly ill-conceived copycats. [The Economist]
Oh what a tangled web. Yesterday we linked to a report of a court ruling against restitution in the case of Nazi-looted paintings at The Norton Simon Museum. Today we learn that the person trying to reclaim the art is the daughter of a Nazi. [Culture: High & Low]
Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is killing it! He’s taken Mayor de Blasio on over his support of an out of scale development in Inwood which would include affordable housing units, but push more residents out of the neighborhood. And now he is blocking a new building development in Sunnyside that promises 100 percent “affordable housing”, but has numerous issues that have kept residents from supporting the development. This includes being out of scale for the neighborhood, being developed by a developer with other projects across the street known for their mismanagement, and not actually being affordable. [NY1]
We can’t even believe this headline is real: “Mouthwatering Qing Dynasty Sculpture of Braised Pork Belly Leaves Asia for First Time”. [Hyperallergic]
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About nuclear disarmament
May 3,2014
Nuclear powers report at NPT preparatory committee
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140503_16.html
The United States says it has reduced the stockpile of its nuclear warheads by 85 percent since the end of the Cold War.
Delegates from around the world are meeting in New York ahead of the review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty next year.
5 nations--the US, Russia, China, Britain, and France--submitted a report on ways they're scrapping nuclear weapons.
US representative Christopher Buck explained on Friday that the latest figure for warheads was 4,804 as of last September. That's a reduction of more than 300 from the number 4 years earlier.
He underlined the US commitment to the NPT and its effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons which is upheld by President Barack Obama.
He said the US is working to reduce the number of nuclear weapons unilaterally, bilaterally, and multilaterally with negotiations.
Chinese representatives emphasized that their country keeps only those nuclear weapons needed for self defense and that it will not use them against non-nuclear countries. But they did not disclose further details.
Some member nations praised the reports. Others said the very slow progress in nuclear disarmament points to the need for a treaty totally banning nuclear weapons.
May 3, 2014 - Updated 04:39 UTC
"Green" zones in Fukushima and nuclear future in Japan
What future for Japanese nukes?
New type of nuclear fuel?
More doubts about "Great Icewall"
Franco-Japanese collaboration on ASTRID reactor
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Roadshow presents a new adventure comedy called Pokemon-Detective-Pikachu https://roadshow.com.au/…/movies/wb/2019/pokemon-detective-…
in cinemas May 9
The story begins when ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu join forces on a thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery. Chasing clues together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City--a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live-action world--they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon universe.
please read Max Lyons ' review published: http://bohemianrhapsodyclub.weebly.com/la-premiere
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EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in
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Sun, Sea & Energy Efficiency – a Conference With a View
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ERBE and LoLo staff and students gathered in Galway, Ireland, for the first in-person student-led conference in almost three years. The event, ‘Striking the Balance:
Opportunity to Participate in Sleep Quality Survey
ERBE CDT student based at Loughborough University, JD Bhadra, is conducting a sleep quality survey as part of his PhD research. Are you interested in
4-year UCL PhD studentship in Post Occupancy Performance in Residential Buildings
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ERBE/LoLo Annual Conference 2022
The 9th annual Energy Resilience and the Built Environment Conference will be taking place in Galway, Ireland and online on the 25th of May 2022. This year’s
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4-year UCL PhD studentship in Physics-informed Machine Learning Modelling for Multi-scale Building Energy Systems with Enhanced Accuracy and Interpretability
UCL’s Energy Institute and Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in “Physics-informed Machine Learning Modelling
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‘I was very lucky to have strong female role models in my career so far. What I would really like to see more of is women encouraged and supported to pursue higher profile positions, both within the University and outside, in the industry.’
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LoLo CDT congratulates four alumni and numerous academic staff winning multiple awards at the CIBSE President’s Awards dinner earlier this month. The awards celebrated the
ERBE marks the start of LGBT+ History Month
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ERBE CDT Block Teaching Week- September 2021
The ERBE CDT hosted the annual block teaching week at Loughborough University in September 2021. It welcomed the new CDT PhD students and introduced them to key themes within the topic of ‘Energy Resilience in the Global Built Environment’.
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Rwanda (catch all)
Thread: Rwanda (catch all)
M-A Lagrange
In Barsoom, as a fact!
Moderator at work
I have merged eight threads on Rwanda to this renamed thread; seven of them concerned the genocide along a variety of themes, including book reviews (ends).
Kagame has been re elected with 96% of the votes. Let say it's a joke.
Carl, I concure with some of your idea on the capacity of military dictatorship to install the roots for economic develpment but the problem is the "next stage".
If you take Ivory Coast... The result is not that good.
Not saying that Kagame did a bad job for Rwanda but the development of his country is bound to the presence of armed groups (pro or anti Kagame/Rwanda) in DRC. Which in fact does not offerts strong perspectives for the future.
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Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
Big step for Rwanda: Abolish Capital Punishment
For those who have sometime questioned the Rwandans' ability to see beyond the immediate I would offer this:
'Capital punishment is of no use to Rwanda'
Independent Online - Friday October 13, 2006
By Gabriel Gabiro Kigali - Rwanda on Thursday moved a step closer to outlawing capital punishment, as the country's powerful ruling party endorsed the move over the objections of survivors of the 1994 genocide. (read more)>Africa; Death Penalty
Many outsiders expected the Rwandans (meaning the RPF) to be unmerciful after the genocide; indeed, they surprised me by their moves toward reconciliation when such steps seemed impossible. If this step away from capital punishment becomes official, it is further evidence of such thinking.
Key consideration in COIN is always amnesty and reconciliation. To a certain degree this more plays toward both those ends.
a. Builds support among Hutu majority for reconciliation
b. Builds international support that the new GOR is capable of adressing reconciliation after genocide
The other aspect of this is that it also addresses accountability. The Int Criminal Tribune on Rwanda will close fairly soon; the ICTR and its EU sponsors have not agreed to turning over high level suspects who have not been tried to Rwanda because of Rwanda's capital punishment laws. With the revocation of such laws, those high level suspects will most likely be turned over and they will not enjoy the relative comforts of prisons outside Rwanda. In that regard, it will help the new GOR enforce its ideas of accountability, especially with genocide survivor organizations that are not happy with the idea of no capital punishment.
Steve Blair
Thanks, Tom
This is an interesting area to follow, especially since feelings run (understandably) high in this area. If it can work here, similar techniques may work well in other areas.
French Link?
Interesting BBC story here regarding the French and Rwanda. One of the more provocative bits is:
"France has not expressed regret," AFP quotes Mr Bihozagara as saying during his three-hour testimony.
He added that even after the genocide the French government had not apprehended genocide suspects living in France.
Francophone Africa Forever at Whatever Costs
Operation Turquoise was aimed only at protecting genocide perpetrators, because the genocide continued even within the Turquoise zone," Mr Bihozagara said.
Very close to the truth, Op Turquoise was ORIGINALLY intended to restore the former government and when that proved impossible in the glare of international attention, it shifted to preserving the former government under the shield of the "humanitarian" zone. Meanwhile, genocide did continue inside that zone.
Let's just say that France is less than popular in Kigali (at least in the GOR and military). French actions (under and over the table) before, during, and after the genocide served France's overarching concern to retain Rwanda as a member of the Francophone Africa bloc.
Frankly some of the French doings harken back to what the French were willing to do in Indochina (the use of former SS troops) and Algeria (torture and general mayhem), only they were doing it through the client former government and its associates and looking the other way. Meanwhile France (and the US let this happen) forestalled and then delayed reaction to the genocide.
Rwanda Again
This might be of interest, Tom. Looks like the French just can't keep their mitts out of Africa.
Mr Kagame has always accused France of backing the Hutu extremists, known as the Interahamwe.
"If there is a judge, a credible judge... [he] should be asking the role of the French in the genocide," he said.
Broken Relations
Yep Steve!
I have been tracking. Rwanda asked the French embassy to leave and severed relations. France has been bulldogging Rwanda every step of the way since the former regime fled.
CaptCav_CoVan
Excellent book on the topic is "A People Betrayed:Rwanda" by L.R. Melvern, a journalist who was there during the slayings.
Conspiracy to Murder
The above title is Linda Melvern's latest. She does a good job of exploiting documents found later in the camps and in government offices that showed the genocide planning was a longstanding effort, not something concieved in 1993 as the Arusha accords were signed.
Stafford, VA
Sir, please excuse my ignorance on the subject, but from what I understand, Bagasora (utilizing the Interhamwhe) was amongst a handful of "architects" of the genocide. As I now understand it, the French are claiming that Kagame / RPF were responsible for shooting down Juvenal Habyarimana's plane, and thus responsible for the genocide that followed. Is this correct?
Genocide Plans and Start Dates
Taking a longer view of the "genocide" as a Rwandan government policy is useful in understanding the flow of events as they culminated in early 2004.
From independence with the flip flop of the Belgians in using the Tutsis as a control element for their colony to supporting the Hutus as the majority in the newly emergent independent Rwanda, sanctioned organized and supported violence against the Tutsis was very much a stated and unstated GOR policy. The results were periodic massacres that in manner if not numbers (though in the thousands) served as precursor models for 94. The Tutsi expatriate rebel factions--directed largely toward restoration of the royal family--incursions into Rwanda in the 60s (not many and not well done) did serve as sparks (or excuses by the GOR who exaggerated the threat) for massacres of the Tutsis. These massacres stimulated the Tusti diaspora into surrounding African countries and abroad into Europe, the US, and Canada.
Habyarimana seized control in in 74 as I recall promising to end this cycle of violence. In may ways he did but his use of the single party state with the MRND as its core included a 99% exclusion of Tutsi participation in any political process. This--the so called golden era of Rwanda--lasted until the late 80s when 2 events started to unhinge the equation. First of all African regimes could no longer count on the Cold War to keep the flow of donor assistance coming without political reform. Second the collapse of the world coffee market--the long pole in the Rwandan economic tent--was a disaster for Habyarimana's single party state. Commencing in the early 90s pressures from donors forced the President to start opening up the political process. And the internal poltical process amoung Hutus was explosive and often violent.
Parallel to these events, the RPF structured itself as a rebel/insurgent force that woulld force the GOR to accept the Tutsi expatriates (a million if not more) back into Rwanda. Initial efforts with the Oct 90 invasion were a disaster and Kagame as the new leader had to restructure and rebuild the RPA even as he held on to Rwandan territory against the GOR and the French. Habyarimana used the RPF threat against his opponents inside the country. Massacres of Tutsis took place on a scale of the early 60s; political violence against Hutu opponents of the regime was also common. But even within the regime, hardliners coalesced among the President's wife's family. That is where the gencoide plans really started to form up. French roles in all of this were both open in training the old army and advising/training/supplying hardline elements like the Interhamwe--the militia of the MRND.
Arusha was signed in 93 and by its terms the RPF won its fight; Implementation of Arussha sputtered along until April 94 when Habyarimana caved and agreed. That was his death warrant among the hardliners including his wife. France supported the GOR and the hardliners even after the UN embargo was placed against arms shipments. France gave shelter to hardliners as they fled; I saw a used Mercedes parking lot in Goma where GOR and hardliners parked their vehicles only to whisked away to safety--largely courtesy of the French.
The French charges against Rwanda are a smoke screen to cover Paris's role after Rwanda recently opened an investgation into all of this. Gerard Prunier's analysis of who shot the plane down still applies; he like me on the ground saw no logic in an RPF decision to shoot Habyarimana down. In contrast, the hardliners stood to gain and they used the event as a trigger for the genocide. Dallaire's recounting of events lays out how immediately killer squads started to fan out as well as the role of Radio Television des Milles Collines in orchestrating events over the air waves.
Long answer I know
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And so it continues...
Another BBC link on this one.
marct
A new book on Rwanda
I thought some people (i.e. Tom and Stan) would be interested in this
Book launch – The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) cordially invites you to the public book launch of The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, edited by Professor Allan Thompson. Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Tory Building foyer
Hors d'oeuvres will be served
Allan Thompson, Assistant Professor at Carleton University, is launching The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, the first book to explore both the international and local dimensions of the media equation during the genocide. "More comprehensive and accurate reporting about the Rwanda genocide could have changed the behaviour of the perpetrators, mitigating the slaughter'', writes Thompson in the book.
Allan Thompson is currently promoting the book in the U.K., East Africa and the U.S. He is writing a fascinating blog on his experiences at http://www.allanthompson.ca/blog.html/
[edit]http://www.allanthompson.ca/
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Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat...
Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
http://marctyrrell.com/
Link is Down But See USIP for Same Issue
the link is down but I will keep trying
But in the meantime, I particpated in an On the Spot Forum Panel in April 2004 at USIP on this very subject:
On the Spot in Rwanda: The Challenge to Diplomats and Journalists in Reporting the Genocide. It has been ten years since the genocide in Rwanda, which saw its most intensive slaughter in the spring of 1994. In light of the 10-year anniversary of the tragic events in Rwanda, on April 14 the Institute hosted a special roundtable discussion with three journalists and three diplomats who were on the ground in Kigali and in the region at the time. Moderated by Michael Southwick, former Institute Africa specialist and then deputy chief of mission to the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, the session featured discussion of the multiple challenges faced by journalists in their efforts to obtain and report the story as it unfolded and the role of American diplomats in the region to shape the response of policymakers. The panel discussion was followed by a general question and answer session moderated by Southwick.
(Note: 1994 Affiliations listed for all speakers)
Panel I
Alex Belida
Donatella Lorch
Jennifer Parmalee
Panel II
Thomas Odom
U.S. Military Attaché to Rwanda and Zaire
David Rawson
U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
Michael Southwick, Moderator
Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Kenya
The USIP site still has the audios for our presentations.
Best Tom
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Hello Marc !
Jeeez ! Free food !!! Do we have to do anything ? How are Canadian Hor d'oeuvres anyway
I have the same problem, the link is down but remain very interested.
Maybe you could call them (they could per se....join the Army . You remember, JTK gets the next frozen Canadian. We promised !
Regards, Stan
Hi Stan,
Originally Posted by Stan Reber
That's the tough life of he academy... work (food), work (booze), work (???)!!! The ones at Carleton aren't to bad.
I just fixed it in the post - this one works.
Yeah, but I keep telling you, the bounty's not high enough. If the US forces really want to sell it to Canadian academics and students, they need a campaign along the lines of "Join our unique, Participant Observation Summer program. All expenses included!!!"
"Join our unique, Participant Observation Summer program. All expenses included!!!"
You know, that's not a bad slogan. We've gone through so many, I don't which one to use anymore. That and the Army Chief of Staff is sending all retirees new pins, cause he didn't like the last set. Hmmm, what did that set the Army back for ?
Will give the link another shot now.
Thanks, Stan
Invite Thompson to "Talk" Here, Hey?
Marc,
I emailed Thompson. You should invite him to join the SWJ to blog or start a discussion thread on his book. Maybe we need an author's forum?
Originally Posted by Tom Odom
Not a bad idea, Tom. I'm going to try to get to the launch, so maybe I can chat with him there.
Stan, if I get there, I'll let you know about the dors d'oeuvres
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Natalie Cole – Ask a Woman Who Knows
Natalie Cole
Ask a Woman
(Verve – 2002)
by Carmen Miller
Ooooh yes, this is nice. It’s been three years since Natalie Cole released a studio recording, and it was worth the wait. ‘I Haven’t got anything beter to do’ and the title track ‘Ask a woman who Knows’ are jazz-ballads in the classic Billie Holiday tradition. Her cover of Michael Frank’s ‘Tell Me All About It’ is tinged with a Latin flavor and delivered sassy-cool. There are a couple of genuine big-band songs (It’s Crazy, Soon) but her strength here is the jazz ballad. Her playful duet with Diana Krall on ‘Better Than Anything’ is one for the ages.
Some of the credit for the success of this CD lies with the quality of the musicians that back her… Joe Sample, Rob Mounsey, John Pisano, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash …world class musicians for a world class project, and a string section to boot! The haunting ‘Calling You’ from the soundtrack to the 1988 film, ‘Bagdad Café’ show her R&B roots, but there’s little other attempt to ‘cross over’ with any of the songs on this CD, this is one for the jazz crowd. On ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ you can picture Natalie in the dim, smokey nightclub, the band in dapper suits sitting behind as she sings and swings.
‘Ask a Woman Who Knows’ features songs recorded previously by great singers like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Blossom Dearie, Carmen McRae, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, and Nat “King” Cole. Natalie Cole’s performance here helps cement her place among those greats, confirming that the King’s daughter is truly a princess of the jazz world. <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "_footer.htm"); ??>
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News Humor
The Politics page has been updated to reflect the winners of Pennsylvania's 2022 general election.
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is back! She's back in Virginia where nemeses old and new await. Author Patricia Cornwell reboots the series with Autopsy. Feel free to examine my review here.
How much of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can you take in one sitting? Check out my review of Harry & Meghan and find out.
January means it's not too long until pitchers and catchers report for spring training. In honor of the Phillies making the 2022 World Series, here's the OG version of the Song of the Day for January.
Make it a New Year's resolution to get out and enjoy! enjoy! one of Pennsylvania's many state parks in 2023.
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2022 is -ussy, a suffix used to create slang terms, primarily online.
The American Dialect Society chose the Word of the Year on January 6, 2023 during a gathering in Denver, Colorado. People were also allowed to join virtually.
Even though -ussy is not a stand alone word, it qualifies as Word of the Year material because the WOTY encompasses "vocabulary items," which include compounds, prefixes and suffixes.
"The selection of the suffix -ussy highlights how creativity in new word formation has been embraced online in venues like TikTok," said Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society New Words Committee. "The playful suffix builds off the word pussy to generate new slang terms. The process has been so productive lately on social media sites and elsewhere that it has been dubbed -ussification."
Other nominees for WOTY included Dark Brandon; rizz, a short form of "charisma"; and quiet quitting, which refers to doing only the minimum amount of work needed to meet the requirements of your job. Quiet quitting did come away the winner in the Most Useful/Most Likely To Succeed category.
You can read about these and other winners in the complete news release here.
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Home Home Tornado slams Texas, warnings sweep Florida; tornado forecast updates
Tornado slams Texas, warnings sweep Florida; tornado forecast updates
More than 129,000 homes and businesses were in the dark across Texas, Arkansas and Missouri on Wednesday and a tornado watch was in effect across much of Florida as a line of severe weather brought havoc to much of the South.
In Texas, at least one tornado late Tuesday tore off roofs east of Houston, downing utility poles and power lines and flipping cars, trucks and even a train. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries.
The weather threat was targeting the Atlantic Coast on Wednesday: The I-95 corridor from northern Florida to southern Virginia was most at risk. The most significant threat will be wind gusts that can reach hurricane force of 75 mph, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
A tornado watch was issued for parts of Florida on Wednesday morning after the National Weather Service in Tallahassee reported a confirmed tornado near Belair and Four Points, Florida, moving northeast.
“A line of strong, severe thunderstorms will progress eastward … into and across this watch area,” National Weather Service Meteorologist Roger Edwards warned.
Line of thunderstorms to bring damaging conditions to Carolinas
The weather service warned Wednesday that a line of thunderstorms will move eastward along North Carolina and South Carolina.
“Isolated damaging wind gusts and a couple of tornadoes are possible with these storms,” the weather service said.
The storms are moving ahead of a cold front surging southward through north-central North Carolina. The weather service warned that while the primary hazards are isolated damaging winds, a couple of tornadoes are possible if the storms continue to strengthen.
Tornado that hit Houston caused ‘at least EF2 damage’
Tuesday’s tornado that hit southeast Houston caused at least EF2 damage, the National Weather Service station in Houston reported Wednesday. EF2 damage from a tornado is characterized as roofs torn from frame houses, mobile homes that are leveled and large trees snapped or uprooted, according to the National Weather Service.
More than 16,000 people remained without power across the state as of 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us.
‘Extremely dangerous’ tornado slams Texas
The weather service at one point Tuesday warned that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado” was on the ground headed toward Baytown, about 25 miles east of Houston. Street flooding was a chronic problem across the region.
The National Weather Service said it was sending a team out to survey damage and confirm tornado strengths across parts of Southeast Texas. The American Red Cross said it was opening a shelter for residents of Pasadena, a city of 150,000 about 15 miles east of Houston.
Texas dog shelter blasted by tornado
In Pasadena, the animal shelter lost power, water and phones, so the shelter and adoption center were shut down.
“Please help! The Pasadena Animal Shelter was hit by a tornado today! We are in desperate need of fosters, etc.,” the agency tweeted. “Please please please share and if you can hold a dog or 5 (garage, spare room, whatever) PLEASE help us!”
The shelter later posted an update on social media saying other shelters and rescue organizations had taken most of the animals. “We assure you that the animals we have left are being cared for while we work to get them out to fosters and other organizations.”
Train blows over in Deer Park
In the Houston suburb of Deer Park, a tornado and damaging winds were blamed for blowing over a train. Dozens of buildings in the city suffered significant damage, and dozens of roads were closed because of fallen trees or power lines.
The school district posted a note on Facebook saying many homes and businesses were damaged, and that all its buildings and some neighborhoods had no power. After “careful consideration,” classes were canceled for Wednesday.
“We hope this will give families a chance to recover from the stress of today’s events, and we believe it is best for children to be with their parents or guardians after a natural disaster,” the post said. It added that the cancellation will allow staff to determine the extent of damage of its own buildings.
City officials urges residents to stay off the roads as workers attempt to repair downed power lines. Deer Park Mayor Jerry Mouton Jr. said he was amazed that no injuries were reported.
“We will deal with the property and recover and rebuild,” he said.
SNOW AND ICE:Winter storm forecast to reach Northeast as Midwest wakes up to snow: Wednesday weather updates
Heavy snow in Arkansas; schools closed in Michigan
The storm system was also bringing snow and ice to much of the central U.S. More than a dozen school systems closed as snow blew through Michigan. Chimes, Arkansas, received 12 inches of snow on Tuesday and 10 inches was reported in the Texas Panhandle in the town of Matador. Parts of Arkansas were paralyzed by heavy, wet snow Tuesday. Schools and businesses were closed across Oklahoma, where snow totals of up to 6 inches were reported.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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NBA: Spurs beat Thunder to forge tie for 6th | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
NBA: Spurs beat Thunder to forge tie for 6th
By JEFF LATZKE
OKLAHOMA CITY � George Hill scored a career-high 27 points, and the San Antonio Spurs overcame Kevin Durant�s 45 to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 99-96 on Monday night and forge a tie between the teams for sixth place in the Western Conference standings.
Serge Ibaka swatted away Tim Duncan�s layup try to give the Thunder a chance with 8.8 seconds left, but Thabo Sefolosha missed a 3-pointer from the left wing with 5 seconds remaining after he was left open because of a double-team against Durant.
Manu Ginobili then hit one of two free throws with 2.3 seconds left, and Russell Westbrook couldn�t connect on a halfcourt shot at the buzzer to tie it for the Thunder.
Durant matched his season high and helped Oklahoma City close a six-point deficit in the final 4 minutes. His 13-foot jumper tied the game at 96 with 48 seconds left.
Ginobili was fouled on a drive to the basket on San Antonio�s ensuing possession and sank both of his free throws. Westbrook turned the ball over by stepping on the sideline on his inbounds pass, but Ibaka came up with a big stop for Oklahoma City.
Sefolosha�s open 3 from the left wing hit both the back and front of the rim before bounding away. The Thunder had a six-game home winning streak snapped and lost back-to-back games for the first time in a month.
Hill has been taking on a bigger role for the Spurs since point guard Tony Parker was sidelined with a broken bone in his right hand that has kept him out for the last nine games. But no game was bigger than this one.
Ginobili added 21 points, Duncan scored 14 and reserve Roger Mason Jr. had 13 points.
Jeff Green had 16 points, Westbrook 12 and Ibaka 10 for Oklahoma City.
The game could be a pivotal one in the race for playoff positioning in the Western Conference. The teams entered with only a game separating them in the standings, and each ends the season with brutal schedules, facing 11 opponents with winning records in their final 14 games.
The victory gives San Antonio the tiebreaker with a 3-1 advantage in the season series.
Durant kept the Thunder even for a while after starters Green and Westbrook headed to the bench with four fouls early in the second half. Durant scored Oklahoma City�s next eight points, but then San Antonio put together an 8-0 run that featured back-to-back three-point plays by Hill and Matt Bonner to go up 81-74 late in the third quarter.
The Spurs took their largest lead at 86-78 following DeJuan Blair�s basket inside in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter.
Oklahoma City closed most of the gap with a 10-3 run to get within 89-88 on Durant�s jumper from the right side with 6:26 remaining, but Richard Jefferson ended that stretch by cutting to the basket for a three-point play. His two-handed dunk produced by Ginobili�s steal put the Spurs up 96-90 with 3:52 to play.
Ibaka tipped the ball away from Duncan twice in forcing a shot clock violation that allowed Durant the chance for the tying jumper with 48 seconds left.
The Thunder opened a 14-point lead midway through the second quarter mostly behind 19-for-21 foul shooting. The Spurs closed the half on an 11-4 run to get within 59-56 after Hill was fouled by Durant on a halfcourt shot with 1 second left and hit three free throws.
NOTES: Several Thunder players attended a Jay-Z concert in Indianapolis on Saturday night before Oklahoma City gave up its most points of the season in a 121-101 loss to the Pacers in a matinee game the following afternoon. But coach Scott Brooks said all the players were back at a reasonable hour and he doesn�t enforce a firm curfew. �I trust our guys. They�ve given me no reason not to trust them,� Brooks said. �Our guys are very professional and they really take their jobs serious and they have a lot of pride in our team. If it ever became a problem, which I don�t see it, then I would address it. But no issues with that whatsoever.� ... Oklahoma City finished 28 for 32 at the foul line.
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Thor Review
I wrote another review for M+, but I don't think it's going to be published, in which case it might as well go here as well. Again, a more 'professional' version of the rambling over here. Should say that this film is shaping up to be my favourite of this year...
Inspired by the success of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, Marvel Studios have become more confident about giving unknown superheroes to quirky filmmakers: Thor is brought to us by none other than Shakespearian thespian of renown Kenneth Branagh. Another inspired choice. Branagh delivers the operatic pathos / bathos required for a film about space-gods, but more importantly, he could use his name to attract the likes of Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård and Idris Elba to the ensuing silliness. Most importantly, he brought with him the magnificent Tom Hiddleston as Loki, who walks away with this film in his pocket. Comparisons with Ledger’s Joker will and should be made.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is set to inherit the Asgardian throne from his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins in typical scenery-chewing form), but he is proud, over-confident, and more than a little stupid. The diplomatic fiasco he wreaks convinces Odin that his son is unfit for rule. Thor is cast down, like Lucifer, from heaven, like Christ, to earth. His hammer, like Excalibur, is jammed in a piece of rock to be prized free when Thor proves his worth. Meanwhile, Thor’s mischievous, manipulative and inscrutable brother Loki becomes king.
To say more would be spoiling it, since Loki’s motives remain unpredictable up until the very end. In itself an impressive dramatic achievement, and one that is enhanced as the complexity of the character comes into view. But you can find intelligence everywhere in this film. The religious and mythological tropes pointed out above suggest multiple readings and resonances. Thor’s sojourn on Earth does not just teach him humility. This is a world without gods, without certainties, filled with people trying to create them for themselves. Thor becomes involved in assisting the life-project of one such mortal: Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster is an astrophysicist investigating wormholes, the rainbow bridges Asgardians control. Chris Hemsworth’s charisma (and fittingly divine abs) obviously have a part to play in their inevitable romance, but it is as benevolent emissary of a more magical world that he wins Jane over. But not just that. Thor is a barbarian in New Mexico, and the film extracts superb comedy from his neanderthal qualities. This is the story of hunkishness civilized, the acceptance of self-sacrifice. In the process of proving himself to his father, Thor proves himself to Jane.
The film’s focus on Thor and Loki’s duel, while rewarding, doesn’t leave much room for the other characters. Natalie Portman is typically charming and funny, but she has precious little time to establish her growing attraction to Thor, hence the final triumphant kiss feels rather sudden. Skarsgård and Elba have even less material to work with, so it is impressive that Branagh gives them just enough space to hint at depths left unexplored. Even Jane’s intern, Darcy Lewis, who exists solely to provide comic relief, is given a subtle one-liner pay-off. I got the impression that Branagh (understandably, given his background) cares about his actors and wanted to push their creative buttons. This attentiveness to details of character is welcome in a genre that usually encourages attentiveness to details of spectacle.
Indeed, there are problems, perhaps not entirely soluble, to do with pacing and visuals. Representing heaven is an ancient quandary in the field of imaginative endeavour (just ask Milton), so perhaps we should not be too judgmental if Asgard’s glossiness leaves us rather unimpressed. However, the ruined world of Jotunheim is similarly drab on the design front, and the battle which it stages will leave you hankering for your LOTR DVDs. More significant is the awkward way the film has to jam together plot and origin story, Earth and Asgard. The bracketing device at the beginning tries and does not quite succeed in creating a sense of urgency to the first act, although once Thor is exiled the energy levels pick up substantially. Nevertheless, these flaws are not extensive enough to spoil this film, which otherwise offers emotional and intellectual delights few superhero films have delivered. It’s going to be a big year for Marvel Studios, with Captain America and X-Men: First Class both coming out soon. Thor has them launching into it with their best foot forward.
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Workshop Study
Monumentals Projects
Cuban contemporary art
Painting, Sculpture, Engraving
Martha Jimenez has more than 250 exhibitions between collective and personal, ceramic, paintings and engravings. Reward UNESCO to "better group of works", she is member of LASA (Association of Latin America´ Studies) and she has obtained numerous rewards: prize UNEAC to the "Group Sculptural in Carmen´ Square ", prize ACAA "Manos ", international prize in Biennial Second Exhibition of Contemporary teaport Art in Shanghai, China, and selected among the best sculptresses in the 5to International Symposium of Terracotta in Eskisehir, Turkey. Their lifelong work has been outstanding with the distinction "Espejo de Paciencia", "Fidelio Ponce de León", " Nacional Culture " and the " Pedagogic Merit". She is an author and she is developing 4 projects of monumental sculpture in Cuba. A special recognition has in the Presidential Room of the Library of Emerson College and in the Gallery Joan Recnikoff in Boston, United States. It exposes in Anadolu University Faculty of Fine Arts Ceramic Department of Turkey and in the Gallery of High of Chavón of School of Design affiliated to Parson New the School for Design in Dominican Republic. The Museum of Fine arts of Montreal in Canada and the Museum of Arts in the Villa of "Art and Occupation" of Pezenas in Paris, exposes part of its art.
Plaza del Carmen, Camaguey
The Gossipers were not always large works. With this piece, in a small format, Martha obtained an important prize granted by UNESCO during one of the editions of the International Handicraft Fair, FIART. From the point of view, the Office of the Historian, at the proposal of the writer Roberto Mendez, proposed to make that sculptures on a large scale for locating it in the plaza. There is an empty chair next to the Gossipers. Many people sit in it and make a wish with the hope that it will be granted. The chair has become a symbol of dreams and hopes.
"Master's degree in Plastic Arts". "Attached teacher of the Latin-American Chair of Plastic Arts and Design" Fidelio Ponce of León". "Member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba". "Specialist in plastic infantile creation"
The logo that represents the work of Martha Jimenez Perez owns the Trademark Registration Certificate, awarded by the Cuban Industrial Property Office (OCPI). It was delivered in Havana on November 29, 2015. This artist has her legal domicile in General Gómez Street, number 258, between Masvidal and San Ramon, municipality of Camagüey, province of Camaguey, Republic of Cuba.
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Blog: Like everything I had ever lost had come back
Happy new year, one and all! As we enter the futuristic stardate of 2023 it has been very much ALL GO around here over the past 24 hours or so.
For LO! Wednesday began with the earth-shattering news that Allo Darlin' are coming back!. Allo Darlin' were (ARE!) one of my all-time favourite bands EVER and so I was VERY EXCITED INDEED about this, and also MOVED, in a gruff, manly way. I listened to their albums later on and can confirm they still a) are GRATE and b) always leave me feeling WISTFUL for a version of the past that didn't actually exiat, but feels like it was there - a time of wafting round London going to loads of amazing gigs every week, meeting lots of lovely people, and generally being GROOVY. I mean, that did happen A BIT, but perhaps not quite as much as it feels like it did whilst listening to "Silver Dollars". Unless it really WAS Indietracks every month?
As if that wasn't enough THRILLZ for one day, over in one of my OTHER "communities" there was huge news as Grant McCann was SACKED as manager of Peterborough United! I must confess I was quite pleased about this, as The Football has been pretty DULL of late. I don't mind going to see Posh lose - I am EXTREMELY USED to that - but I do object to it being BORING. But who would replace him? What incredible feat of recruitment had D McAnthony managed to pull off THIS time?
As Sky News, The Grass In My Groun and pretty much anybody else predicted, it was Darren Ferguson! For those who are sadly not informed about the comings and goings of Peterborough United FC, this will be his FOURTH time in charge of Posh, having last left eleven months ago. Grant McCann was only on his second go (third if you count a bit of caretaker managing), but I'm sure he'll be back soon enough. It is supremely DAFT, but hopefully it means things will at least be slightly more INTERESTING!
And after all that there were GIG THRILLZ for ME, but I shall save that for TOMORROW! For now I am off to live it up like it is the early 2010s again - see you on Myspace!
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[ARCHIVED] The Lost Order
"The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States.Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure--one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it. Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution--linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus "Cotton" Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow of a United States Senator, who together are planning radical changes to the country. And while Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt face the past, ex-president Danny Daniels and Stephanie Nelle confront a new and unexpected challenge, a threat that may cost one of them their life. From the backrooms of the Smithsonian to the deepest woods in rural Arkansas, and finally up into the rugged mountains of northern New Mexico, The Lost Order is a perilous adventure into our country's dark past, and a potentially even darker future"-- Provided by publisher.
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ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ ਵਣਤ੍ਰਿਣ ਜੀਵਜੰਤ ਸੰਤੁਲਨ ਮੁੜ ਬਹਾਲੀ ਕੇਂਦਰ (Centre for Restoration of Ecosystem of Punjab (CRESP)) http://CRESP.punjabiuniversity.ac.in
A balanced ecosystem is quintessential for all life on Earth. But, throughout World, unsustainable activities have destroyed aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, there is an urgent need to reverse this degradation and to restore the earth for the benefits of both humans and nature. Keeping in view the urgency of the situation, the United Nations has declared this decade (2021- 2030) as decade of Ecosystem Restoration. Today, the ecosystem of Punjab is in dire need of restoration as it is losing its biodiversity due to anthropogenic activities such as deforestation, habitat fragmentation besides climate change. We require sustainable solutions to tackle this challenge and to restore Punjab’s biodiversity. Punjabi University, Patiala has established Centre for Restoration of Ecosystem of Punjab (CRESP) to look for solutions that would sustain biodiversity, improve resilience in a changing climate, and re-establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.
The main objective of the Centre would be
to re-establish and restore native species of Punjab. For this, the centre will identify areas where natural processes such as rewilding, habitat restoration could be promoted in agreement with landowners, local park agencies and Government authorities.
generate strategies, action plans and awareness drives. Encouraging farmers to reduce tillage and plowing, substituting chemical pesticides with natural fertilizers and pesticides, and encouraging them to grow diverse crops.
Encouraging cities and towns to grow native plants, trees, and to create wildlife habitat spaces in parks, schools and other public places.
thus, to engage all sectors of society, and to work in collaboration with people of Punjab, government agencies and other organizations encouraging multidisciplinary approach to address the management of degrading ecosystem of Punjab.
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Self-Deprecation
Self-deprecation may be a gesture of meekness, like a dog that shows its belly: a sign that you mean no harm, or are not worth harming. It may be calculated to lower expectations: whether out of discretion, not to disappoint them, or by design, to surprise them. Or it may be an indulgence, extorting praise by threatening self-harm.
(In this way self-deprecation helps define friendship: what is a friend but someone who praises you for what you regret, someone who finds unthinkable the things you fear may be true? These precious offices can only be performed when self-deprecation occasions them.)
It may be a way to evade responsibility. “I couldn’t x to save my life” is a polite way to say no when it was wrong to ask. And it avoids embarrassment: of course you could x, if you put your mind to it, but when there is nothing to gain, why risk failure when you can excuse abstention?
Of course self-deprecation is not always serious. It may be an indirect boast. “All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.” Which is harmless in moderation. Or it may be a provocation. Montaigne appalled his friends by insisting that he had no memory. In the French of the time memory stood for intelligence: but Montaigne made the distinction, and the very absurdity of his self-deprecation enforced it.
All these uses are legitimate, but none of them can excuse the habit of self-deprecation. If you expect others to take you seriously, you should try it for yourself. Tell me often enough how stupid and useless you are and I may begin to believe you; apologize for yourself often enough and I will begin to believe you have something to be sorry for.
Of course some lives are just that lost, some people are just that broken; if patience can help them, they have a right to it. But I have no patience for people who fear being resented more than they fear being despised. It doesn't even work.
You may resent people for having things you could never have; but the people you hate are the ones who have the things you could never have – and despise them.
Aristocracy was invulnerable as long as aristocrats took pains to enjoy, and be seen to enjoy, their wealth and privilege; but the moment they started to doubt themselves the masses rose up and devoured them and raised the clear conscience of plutocracy in their place.
All persuasion begins in confidence. And since respect will be given, if those who deserve it cannot stand by their words, deeds, and lives, others will receive it undeservingly.
— Paul M. Rodriguez
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The axiom of finance is that having something now is better than having the same thing tomorrow. One who calculates by how much is said to discount. The same axiom holds elsewhere, but no one wants to do the math. The sacrifice that would be saintly if it were selfless is too often only thoughtless.
Take someone who refuses a dish because of ethical objections about how it is now made. Someone who abstains from foie gras has made a permanent stand against an inherent evil, and means it. But someone whose argument begins “Do you know what kind of—” may not have weighed their position. You will not live forever. You are not guaranteed the ability to enjoy food even as long as you live. While you could still enjoy food, your health may forbid it. Whether or not you have bothered to count, at the end of your life there will have been only so many meals and far fewer good ones; are you certain you want to subtract this one?
Anyone who proposes to change the world needs to be asked: “If the world were as you want it to be, what would you do with yourself? Could you be doing it now? Why don’t you?” Perhaps the answer would deprive a worthy cause of a capable supporter; but if there is nothing good or worthwhile in the world except making what is worst in it less bad, then there is nothing good or worthwhile in the world at all.
(Besides, the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who try to change it without having learned how to live in it. Danton on Robespierre: Cet homme-la ne saurait pas cuire des oeufs dur: “That man couldn’t hard-boil an egg.” A man might become a monster only because he was good for nothing else.)
The taste for causes can be a jaded one. Helping people is one way of hiding from them. Trying to save the world is one way of giving up on it. Devoting your life is one way of throwing it away. You say the fruits justify the tree; but who would eat of it, if they knew how it grew?
How fitting that a dog went first, and that, for a time, she was between us and darkness. All our proud rockets, all our brave pioneers, and we entered space as a child might enter a basement, holding onto a dog’s tail. She was a Moscow stray. A stray, and therefore nobody’s dog, or everybody’s – yours and mine, even. A Moscow stray, distant aunt to that remarkable unbreed of hustlers and idlers – Russia’s last aristocrats.
Strays live by the old covenant. Dogs never needed us. The deadliest hunter of the African plains is not the lion but the wild dog, whose kills are efficient, coordinated, and relentless. And they chose to throw in their lot with us. What honor! And what responsibility! There is a play (a radio play by Dunsany) where mankind is put on trial. One by one the animals testify against us; only the dog speaks in our defense, with such praise as is, in its way, worse than accusation:
He is man: that is enough. More is not needed. More could not be needed. All wisdom is in him. All his acts are just; terrible sometimes, but always just.
Bacon writes (against atheism) that men are better for having a god as dogs are better for having a master: a strange and improper argument. But if our faith is as heavy as the faith of dogs is to us, we can have a sort of sympathy, and imagine how gods might know shame.
Muhammad relates that a woman was forgiven a lifetime of sin for giving a thirsty dog a drink of water. Consider how the balance is weighed; what does it mean to harm a dog? “Who could eat a dog?” is really the same question as, “Who could eat a man?” Traditionally, nobody eats a dog for its meat; men eat dogs like men eat men: to absorb their power. It is at least respectful. When dogs are twisted into brutality, neglected into savagery, beaten into helplessness, there is no respect; better to be eaten. And yet each new puppy is a fresh expression of absolute trust, never diminished. Our terrible debt vanishes in that unquenchable devotion.
In his last years, isolated in deafness, Goya gave up canvas and impasted the walls of his own house with a series of alien images, primordial and apocalyptic at once. A lone dog – all alone – sinks below the horizon, howling as she recedes over the edge of the world. We sent Laika to die; we sacrificed her. She died within hours. And then for five months, dead, in her dark, silent capsule, she circled our bright world, falling and falling as the horizon slipped away beneath her, one dead dog keeping solitary watch over the billions. Then she fell as a star falls, a burnt offering, trailing fire, scattering earth and sea with her ashes.
Even the sky is haunted.
Genteel Tradition
In 1911 Santayana was ready to leave the United States. In California (already liminal America), he said what he could not say in Boston:
The truth is that one-half of the American mind, that not occupied intensely in practical affairs, has remained, I will not say high-and-dry, but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the backwater, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organization the other half of the mind was leaping down a sort of Niagara Rapids. This division may be found symbolized in American architecture: a neat reproduction of the colonial mansion – with some modern comforts introduced surreptitiously – stands beside the sky-scraper. The American Will inhabits the sky-scraper; the American Intellect inhabits the colonial mansion. The one is the sphere of the American man; the other, at least predominantly, of the American woman. The one is all aggressive enterprise; the other is all genteel tradition.
This phrase, “genteel tradition,” became the weapon of choice for the Mencken gang. They carried it in their hip pockets like a flask of violet perfume, ready to dash over an opponent’s head. And once the scent was on you, whatever you had to say, all anyone heard was the calico whine of a high-minded Protestant spinster.
But what did Santayana mean by it? He defines the genteel tradition as a form of anthropocentrism: an anthropocentrism that emulsifies transcendentalism – the sense that the world is your creation – with Calvinism – the sense that the world is your fault. Historically he traces it to the seventeenth century and the renewal of orthodoxy.
That is where it comes from; but what is it?
The genteel tradition opposes education to life. It wants things to be done the right way, openly, and for the right reasons, or not done at all. It requires play to be exercise; thinking to be persuasion; learning to be study. It wants us to be unfettered and spontaneous, but not to run in the halls. It does not care what is avoided, unless it approves of what is done instead. Just avoiding apathy, boredom, ignorance, prejudice, and stupidity – in the judgment of genteel tradition, avoiding them is only permissible when they are avoided properly.
Wealth, learning, and beneficence, even on a grand scale, must leave them cold, or positively alarm them, if these fine things are not tightly controlled and meted out according to some revealed absolute standard.
This should sound familiar; this is our world. Santayana thought the genteel tradition was dying; instead it enjoys absolute victory. It has coopted or outlasted every challenge made to it. How did this coffin case recover and reconquer?
In his speech Santayana names Whitman and William James as models of what was to come after the passing of the genteel tradition. How badly his prophecy failed shows in how unthinkable either man is as our contemporary.
Whitman’s generous sympathies would wither in our frost. How dare such a creature of privilege – white, male, educated – presume to contain us? His faith in active humanity – in discoverers, settlers, builders, farmers – is embarrassing. He accepts where we require indignation; he holds faith where we require doubt.
Whitman is an outcast, but James is worse off. He has been brought as low as a dead thinker can be brought. We say he anticipated recent discoveries – “now that we know everything, we can admit he was right all along.” And this is safe to say, because he has no heirs. Our psychology is blithely built on the compulsive, thoughtless quantification that he travestied.
We shelve pragmatism beside hypocrisy. A judgment that can be changed is a judgment that was never held properly. The impulse of the genteel tradition is theocratic: it will have you only hot or cold, never lukewarm.
Santayana’s examples have aged badly. Aggressive enterprise has been outsourced; skyscrapers turned out to be a gimmick, not half so efficient as the anomie of the exurban office park; the colonial mansion was not reproduced, but renovated.
More importantly, women made their own claim on the future: not just assuming male roles, but dignifying female ones. Gender is the worm in the apple of Santayana’s thought. Even for his period he is obtuse about it.
The American intellect is shy and feminine; it paints nature in water-colours; whereas the sharp masculine eye sees the world as a moving-picture – rapid, dramatic, vulgar, to be glanced at and used merely as a sign of what is going to happen next.
Santayana underrated women – women as people, and women as a subject. He observes a divide down the middle of humanity, and assumes that one side mirrors the other: one left, one right; one weak, one strong; one shy, one brash; one sentimental, one enterprising.
(In The Sense of Beauty, for example, while investigating the mutuality of sex and aesthetics, he infers that, because women are the most interesting thing in the world to men, men must be the most interesting thing in the world to women; whereas [aesthetically speaking] women are the most interesting thing in the world to men and women both.)
When Santayana made this metaphor – the genteel tradition is female, modernism is male – he corrupted his view of one dilemma with the quality of caricature that spoiled his view of the other. Thus he sketches both the genteel tradition and modernism (as he names its opposite) clownishly, in greasepaint. If the genteel tradition is feminine, retiring, domestic, careful, then the opposite must be masculine, daring, upthrusting, public. On these terms there is only one complete escapee from the genteel tradition in American letters: Ayn Rand. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer; posit the genteel tradition in Santayana’s playground terms and you get Objectivism.
Every form of modernism is tantamount to testosterism. It is the one thing every species of modernism had in common, the weakness they all shared; so when the thing happened that no one expected, they were all susceptible to it, and the genus went extinct.
(I cannot say how far Santayana himself is to blame; but even if others made the same mistake, it is still the same mistake, and bears the same analysis.)
The kind of thinking that modernism valued was the kind of thinking that felt most like work: laborious, therefore masculine, straightforward without the effeminate detours of inspiration or insight, muscular and tense, measurable in foot-pounds and horsepower.
So what happened? This is hard to see because Santayana’s future is our past. It belongs to the middle distance; we cannot see it for our own shadow.
What no one expected was the computer. Suddenly, there appeared the machine that proves there is no connection between how hard thinking feels and what it is worth. The labor theory of value does not apply. Thinking feels hardest when it is most trivial. Calculation is effortful, but not difficult – even a computer can do it.
Somehow we still admire feats of memorization and calculation. What computers prove is that these feats are dead ends. Mental mathematics, total recall, musical prodigality, are not signs of a powerful mind, but of a mind that has plenty of room because nothing else is going on inside it.
In this way the computer refutes modernism. Consider painting. Look across, from the first half of the twenty-first century, to the first half of the twentieth. What do we see there? We see nothing worth doing. There are no more Pointillists, Impressionists, Cubists, because Photoshop trivializes them. There is no more Abstract Expressionism, no more Suprematism, because the possibilities of these schools are exhausted by the screensaver.
“No,” I hear, “the computer no more refutes abstraction than the camera refutes representation.” But a painting is different from a photograph: one cannot see a photograph as a painting that could have been made, but wasn’t. But a work of modernism is always something that could have been generated by computer, but happened to be made by a human being.
(This definition applies to more than painting – Serialism, Brutalism, Oulipo – but less than everything that has been called modernist. I draw the line here.)
If we mute the caricature – if we correct for Santayana’s error – what is left then? The idea of a genteel tradition will stand. But what of the accompanying diagnosis? Do we have that divided mind? Certainly we have inherited the division as Santayana made it, and as others elaborated it: we find ourselves obscurely constrained to destroy the genteel – even under other names, like pretentious or inauthentic – wherever we encounter it, like the tribe of Amalek.
But the things the genteel tradition wants and provides are good in themselves. There is sufficiency and even bounty in it. It preserves what might be lost, incubates what might be stillborn. But for the sake of these good things the genteel tradition sacrifices things that may be better. It smothers everything it touches with an anxious sobriety: it would leave us in marmoreal disgust before it let us enjoy too meltingly. This I oppose. I side with ecstasy, rhapsody, and multitude, if only from a distance.
After Before Last
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(also RFC 959)
Network Working Group P. Hethmon
Request for Comments: 2389 Hethmon Brothers
See Also: 959 R. Elz
Category: Standards Track University of Melbourne
Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol is, from time to time, extended with new
commands, or facilities. Implementations of the FTP protocol cannot
be assumed to all immediately implement all newly defined mechanisms.
This document provides a mechanism by which clients of the FTP
protocol can discover which new features are supported by a
particular FTP server.
Hethmon & Elz Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 2389 Feature negotiation mechanism August 1998
Abstract ................................................ 1
1 Introduction ............................................ 2
2 Document Conventions .................................... 2
2.1 Basic Tokens ............................................ 3
2.2 Server Replies .......................................... 3
3 Knowledge of Extra Capabilities - the FEAT Command ...... 3
3.1 Feature (FEAT) Command Syntax ........................... 4
3.2 FEAT Command Responses .................................. 4
3.3 Rationale for FEAT ...................................... 6
4 The OPTS Command ........................................ 6
5 Security Considerations ................................. 7
6 References .............................................. 8
Acknowledgements ........................................ 8
Editors' Addresses ...................................... 8
Full Copyright Statement ................................ 9
This document amends the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) [1]. Two new
commands are added: "FEAT" and "OPTS".
These commands allow a client to discover which optional commands a
server supports, and how they are supported, and to select among
various options that any FTP command may support.
2. Document Conventions
This document makes use of the document conventions defined in BCP14
[2]. That provides the interpretation of some capitalized words like
MUST, SHOULD, etc.
Terms defined in [1] will be used here as defined there. These
include ASCII, reply, server-FTP process, user-FTP process, server-
PI, user-PI, and user.
Syntax required is defined using the Augmented BNF defined in [3].
Some general ABNF definitions are required throughout the document,
those will be defined here. At first reading, it may be wise to
simply recall that these definitions exist here, and skip to the next
section.
2.1. Basic Tokens
This document imports the definitions given in Appendix A of [3].
There definitions will be found for basic ABNF elements like ALPHA,
DIGIT, VCHAR, SP, etc. To that, the following terms are added for
use in this document.
TCHAR = VCHAR / SP / HTAB ; visible plus white space
The TCHAR type, and VCHAR from [3], give basic character types from
varying sub-sets of the ASCII character set for use in various
commands and responses.
error-response = error-code SP *TCHAR CRLF
error-code = ("4" / "5") 2DIGIT
Note that in ABNF, strings literals are case insensitive. That
convention is preserved in this document. However note that ALPHA,
in particular, is case sensitive, as are VCHAR and TCHAR.
2.2. Server Replies
Section 4.2 of [1] defines the format and meaning of replies by the
server-PI to FTP commands from the user-PI. Those reply conventions
are used here without change. Implementors should note that the ABNF
syntax (which was not used in [1]) in this document, and other FTP
related documents, sometimes shows replies using the one line format.
Unless otherwise explicitly stated, that is not intended to imply
that multi-line responses are not permitted. Implementors should
assume that, unless stated to the contrary, any reply to any FTP
command (including QUIT) may be of the multiline format described in
Throughout this document, replies will be identified by the three
digit code that is their first element. Thus the term "500 Reply"
means a reply from the server-PI using the three digit code "500".
3. Knowledge of Extra Capabilities - the FEAT Command
It is not to be expected that all servers will necessarily support
all of the new commands defined in all future amendments to the FTP
protocol. In order to permit clients to determine which new commands
are supported by a particular server, without trying each possible
command, one new command is added to the FTP command repertoire.
This command requests the server to list all extension commands, or
extended mechanisms, that it supports. That is, all defined and
specified commands and features not defined in [1], or this document,
must be included in the FEAT command output in the form specified in
the document that defines the extension.
User-FTP PIs must expect to see, in FEAT command responses, unknown
features listed. This is not an error, and simply indicates that the
server-FTP implementor has seen, and implemented, the specification
of a new feature that is unknown to the user-FTP.
3.1. Feature (FEAT) Command Syntax
feat = "Feat" CRLF
The FEAT command consists solely of the word "FEAT". It has no
parameters or arguments.
3.2. FEAT Command Responses
Where a server-FTP process does not support the FEAT command, it will
respond to the FEAT command with a 500 or 502 reply. This is simply
the normal "unrecognized command" reply that any unknown command
would elicit. Errors in the command syntax, such as giving
parameters, will result in a 501 reply.
Server-FTP processes that recognize the FEAT command, but implement
no extended features, and therefore have nothing to report, SHOULD
respond with the "no-features" 211 reply. However, as this case is
practically indistinguishable from a server-FTP that does not
recognize the FEAT command, a 500 or 502 reply MAY also be used. The
"no-features" reply MUST NOT use the multi-line response format,
exactly one response line is required and permitted.
Replies to the FEAT command MUST comply with the following syntax.
Text on the first line of the reply is free form, and not
interpreted, and has no practical use, as this text is not expected
to be revealed to end users. The syntax of other reply lines is
precisely defined, and if present, MUST be exactly as specified.
feat-response = error-response / no-features / feature-listing
no-features = "211" SP *TCHAR CRLF
feature-listing = "211-" *TCHAR CRLF
1*( SP feature CRLF )
"211 End" CRLF
feature = feature-label [ SP feature-parms ]
feature-label = 1*VCHAR
feature-parms = 1*TCHAR
Note that each feature line in the feature-listing begins with a
single space. That space is not optional, nor does it indicate
general white space. This space guarantees that the feature line can
never be misinterpreted as the end of the feature-listing, but is
required even where there is no possibility of ambiguity.
Each extension supported must be listed on a separate line to
facilitate the possible inclusion of parameters supported by each
extension command. The feature-label to be used in the response to
the FEAT command will be specified as each new feature is added to
the FTP command set. Often it will be the name of a new command
added, however this is not required. In fact it is not required that
a new feature actually add a new command. Any parameters included
are to be specified with the definition of the command concerned.
That specification shall also specify how any parameters present are
to be interpreted.
The feature-label and feature-parms are nominally case sensitive,
however the definitions of specific labels and parameters specify the
precise interpretation, and it is to be expected that those
definitions will usually specify the label and parameters in a case
independent manner. Where this is done, implementations are
recommended to use upper case letters when transmitting the feature
The FEAT command itself is not included in the list of features
supported, support for the FEAT command is indicated by return of a
reply other than a 500 or 502 reply.
A typical example reply to the FEAT command might be a multiline
reply of the form:
C> feat
S> 211-Extensions supported:
S> MLST size*;create;modify*;perm;media-type
S> SIZE
S> COMPRESSION
S> MDTM
S> 211 END
The particular extensions shown here are simply examples of what may
be defined in other places, no particular meaning should be
attributed to them. Recall also, that the feature names returned are
not command names, as such, but simply indications that the server
possesses some attribute or other.
The order in which the features are returned is of no importance,
server-FTP processes are not required to implement any particular
order, or even to consistently return the same order when the command
is repeated.
FTP implementations which support FEAT MUST include in the response
to the FEAT command all properly documented FTP extensions beyond
those commands and mechanisms described in RFC959 [1], including any
which existed before the existence of FEAT. That is, when a client
receives a FEAT response from an FTP server, it can assume that the
only extensions the server supports are those that are listed in the
FEAT response.
User-FTP processes should, however, be aware that there have been
several FTP extensions developed, and in widespread use, prior to the
adoption of this document and the FEAT command. The effect of this
is that an error response to the FEAT command does not necessarily
imply that those extensions are not supported by the server-FTP
process. User-PIs should test for such extensions individually if an
error response has been received to the FEAT command.
3.3. Rationale for FEAT
While not absolutely necessary, a standard mechanism for the server-
PI to inform the user-PI of any features and extensions supported
will help reduce unnecessary traffic between the user-PI and server-
PI as more extensions may be introduced in the future. If no
mechanism existed for this, a user-FTP process would have to try each
extension in turn resulting in a series of exchanges between the
user-PI and server-PI. Apart from being possibly wasteful, this
procedure may not always be possible, as issuing of a command just to
determine if it is supported or not may have some effect that is not
desired.
4. The OPTS Command
The OPTS (options) command allows a user-PI to specify the desired
behavior of a server-FTP process when another FTP command (the target
command) is later issued. The exact behavior, and syntax, will vary
with the target command indicated, and will be specified with the
definition of that command. Where no OPTS behavior is defined for a
particular command there are no options available for that command.
Request Syntax:
opts = opts-cmd SP command-name
[ SP command-options ] CRLF
opts-cmd = "opts"
command-name = <any FTP command which allows option setting>
command-options = <format specified by individual FTP command>
Response Syntax:
opts-response = opts-good / opts-bad
opts-good = "200" SP response-message CRLF
opts-bad = "451" SP response-message CRLF /
"501" SP response-message CRLF
response-message = *TCHAR
An "opts-good" response (200 reply) MUST be sent when the command-
name specified in the OPTS command is recognized, and the command-
options, if any, are recognized, and appropriate. An "opts-bad"
response is sent in other cases. A 501 reply is appropriate for any
permanent error. That is, for any case where simply repeating the
command at some later time, without other changes of state, will also
be an error. A 451 reply should be sent where some temporary
condition at the server, not related to the state of communications
between user and server, prevents the command being accepted when
issued, but where if repeated at some later time, a changed
environment for the server-FTP process may permit the command to
succeed. If the OPTS command itself is not recognized, a 500 or 502
reply will, of course, result.
The OPTS command MUST be implemented whenever the FEAT command is
implemented. Because of that, there is no indication in the list of
features returned by FEAT to indicate that the OPTS command itself is
supported. Neither the FEAT command, nor the OPTS command, have any
optional functionality, thus there are no "OPTS FEAT" or "OPTS OPTS"
commands.
No significant new security issues, not already present in the FTP
protocol, are believed to have been created by this extension.
However, this extension does provide a mechanism by which users can
determine the capabilities of an FTP server, and from which
additional information may be able to be deduced. While the same
basic information could be obtained by probing the server for the
various commands, if the FEAT command were not provided, that method
may reveal an attacker by logging the attempts to access various
extension commands. This possibility is not considered a serious
enough threat to be worthy of any remedial action.
The security of any additional features that might be reported by the
FEAT command, and manipulated by the OPTS command, should be
addressed where those features are defined.
[1] Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)",
STD 9, RFC 959, October 1985.
[2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
[3] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997.
This protocol extension was developed in the FTPEXT Working Group of
the IETF, and the members of that group are all acknowledged as its
creators.
Editors' Addresses
Paul Hethmon
Hethmon Brothers
2305 Chukar Road
Knoxville, TN 37923 USA
Email: phethmon@hethmon.com
Robert Elz
Parkville, Vic 3052
Email: kre@munnari.OZ.AU
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The Ominous Tune
by Alderway
It was a regular sunny day where Jessie lived.
He had moved out from his parents house at the mere age of sixteen and his parents let him. He was a prodigy child after all and was loved by everyone.
Other students were jealous of him because he played video games all the time yet he topped all of his classes.
On his laptop was a list of games that he had yet to play so he decided to buy a few.
As he scrolled through the best sellers, he came across one game that stood out.
The Ominous Tune.
The game intrigued him and all he wanted to do was buy it. Of course, his parents wouldn’t mind, they loved him.
The game was delivered to his apartment a few days later in a proper packaging.
He wasted no time and tore off the packaging and quickly installed the game.
The opening screen was breathtaking. It was a scenery with the sky the colour purple and a bunch of trees which gave a cozy feeling. And then it started, the ominous tune.
After taking off layers and layers of lies and very good manipulation, Jessie was completely broken.
He had a psychological condition which disabled him to feel anything. He was not a sociopath but he wasn’t normal either.
A lot of counseling between the ages of 7 to 14 led Jessie to become slightly normal and acceptable to the society.
In one of the sessions the psychologist moved his father aside for a talk and told him that if Jessie does not take good care of himself, then this condition of his will be his damnation.
The idea of the game was that you had to escape any form of danger that is thrown at you.
The warning in the starting of the game about the dangers was brushed off by Jessie. But as the ominous tune began he couldn’t help but feel scared and tried his very best to avoid all the dangers.
It went like this, you keep on walking in the forest and find items that would help you survive. The ominous tune keeps playing in the background and it increases if you are heading towards danger.
Jessie played the game all day on the first day and then slept, the tune stuck in his head.
It’s very difficult to describe the tune. It has got sequential high and low notes which has a very creepy aura to it. And whenever the volume of the tone increases, you feel slight pain forming near your temples. You start panicking. The tune is a nightmare.
But Jessie is smart. Nothing can harm him.
Jessie was 10 when he killed his neighbor’s cat. His parents buried the cat and didn’t let the owner know.
The owner searched for weeks and then eventually gave up. 7 year olds do have a short attention span.
Deborah was Jessie’s girlfriend.
She was very pretty with her hazel eyes and loved Jessie genuinely.
‘Jess, let’s hang out tonight. It’s been a while since we’ve properly spent time together’
It was true, Jessie had been playing the game since a week and hardly texted or called her.
But even as she spoke, all he could think of was the tune. And how he wanted to strangle Deborah.
He loved her. At least he thinks so.
She doesn’t know that he’s incapable of love. He doesn’t want to admit it.
They did eventually meet at Jessie’s apartment.
They ordered pizza and watched a couple of movies, all the while Jessie wanting out of it.
She tried making conversation but he kept on brushing her off.
She eventually snapped and yelled at him. He slapped her.
She went home ‘It’s over’.
Jessie went towards his bed and as he did, the tune in his head increased.
He was too tired to notice and so went to sleep.
In a phase when he was thirteen, he stopped taking his meds for a week.
They had to admit him into the hospital.
He went crazy and wouldn’t speak anything, just kept shaking his head and body violently.
The doctors had to tie him up and increased his dosage. His parents got strict with him for a week and then cut him some slack.
They are supposed to be the golden parents after all.
With Deborah gone, a voice in the back of Jessie’s head said that he should be sad. But he didn’t feel anything close to sad.
Maybe he should be relieved?
But he couldn’t feel anything.
Everyone started getting worried about Jessie. Finally.
His grades started falling rapidly. That’s why.
He stopped hanging out with his friends. That’s why.
He stopped calling his parents. That’s why.
But what was the reason of him not doing this?
He stopped taking his meds. That’s why.
He became more and more obsessed with playing the game and the tune haunted him hours after he stopped playing.
Dark circles appeared under his eyes and his eyes became very dull. It was funny though. How would his eyes be bright if he couldn’t feel happiness?
A major power cut was going to take place that day. The residents of the avenue were informed beforehand.
But Jessie didn’t know. He was too engrossed in the game to know what was happening in reality.
The power cut would last for two days and residents all over had different measures planned. Some would stay at their relatives. Some would just go for a vacation which was overdue.
Call it a haunting or a mere coincidence but when Jessie finally gathered the guts to move towards the direction where the danger was, when the tune became deafening, the lights went out and so did his computer.
He screamed. It’s only natural.
The worst part was, that the tune was stuck in his head.
Panic was his driving force which led him into running to the corner of the room and crouch down, his head between his knees.
After quite a lot of time passed, he realized that the tune wasn’t going to stop.
And so he got up and headed towards the exit. He froze halfway.
With horror, he realized that the tune got louder as he moved towards the door.
They found his body in his apartment after the power cut.
It creeped with maggots and had an awful stench.
The autopsy revealed heart failure. Apparently, he died of something shocking that happened to him. He died of fright.
They also found the game. It wasn’t the tune that killed him. It was his own mind. He was weak and he was just a child. This was where his parents should’ve interfered, but they didn’t. If only.
Alderway 2017
Hardly3ver
Nightmare_Fuel
Paint the Roses Red: Pt.4
ullahshy
The Camera Man
Ethaniotheking4
Pretty good. I like it.
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Explore and search for the Centennial Treasure in the world of WEB3.0! 【Raiders of the Lost Ark】
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the first real NFT puzzle game in WEB3.0. By solving interesting clues, explorers will follow the story to launch a series of exciting treasure hunt games, which will not only obtain many surprise rewards, but also meet the curiosity and adventure spirit of explorers. This is a great experiment. It may not be the most perfect, but it is definitely an exciting game full of joy and surprising bonus.
There are millions of the lost treasure in the Indian Ocean…
In 1716, Olivier Levasseur, a Frenchman nicknamed “the Condor” for the speed with which he attacked his enemies, was granted a license to use his private ships to capture enemy ships. But within months, Levasseur had moved on to a more lucrative career as a pirate.
In 1721, Levasseur and his companions, along with 750 pirates from three other ships, encountered the “Nossa Senhora do Cabo”, a Portuguese sailing ship flying the British flag, in the harbor of Reunion. 250 of them boarded the ship and killed the crew. Levasseur, who had no idea what was in the ship, was shocked. It was a floating treasure house filled with bars of gold and silver, precious stones, rough diamonds, guineas, church vessels, and goblets.
With the British navy in hot pursuit, the pirates were scattered. The treasure was stolen by Levasseur and buried on an unknown island. There are countless gold and silver buried on the island. The palace of buried treasure is also surrounded by the walls of gold and silver walls. The palace inside the walls is also inlaid with gold and resplendent. Then Levasseur disappeared, and the treasure faded from human memory.
Later generations in the course of the voyage occasionally get Levasseur’s death left before the treasure map fragments, so, they in such circumstances began a full of surprises and dangerous treasure-hunting journey…
1. The legend in the Indian Ocean
The seas are choppy, and in this unpredictable world, explorers need to find like-minded partners to help them out. To find these legendary treasures, 5,000 explorers from around the world will each be given a scroll and will be invited to embark on a fantastic adventure following the clues revealed by the age-old story.
2. Fragments of the Map
The island where the treasure is hidden is so mysterious that only those who try to complete the mission are eligible to move on. Explorers are required to complete a designated treasure hunt to find 1,500 excavated map fragments. In the journey of the treasure hunt, explorers may be able to retrieve the coins that Levasseur accidentally dropped!
3. The Treasure Map
On the way to the island of the intrigues, all kinds of fraud, all filled with people’s greed and desire for wealth. To find the huge treasure, explorers need to synthesize and assemble the clues they have into a true pirate treasure map. But a strange thing happened, the world appeared on 3,500 treasure maps! So which of these pirate treasure maps are real and which are fake? Explorers can only find real wealth if they get a real treasure map!
4. Treasure Hunt
After obtaining the treasure map, the explorer with more clues will be identified as the Raiders and get the next ticket to find the treasure. At the same time, explorers will also be able to gain coins or classic art collection. From there, explorers embark on a real treasure hunt!
5. Centennial Treasure
The treasure is precious, need to get the mysterious key to open, the key to obtaining the need for explorers to pay a certain price, the ultimate explorer uses the key to open the door of the palace buried countless treasures, get the centennial treasure which were lost for many years!
6. Super Pirate
In search of the most adventurous pirate heir, Levasseur also left clues and inheritance tokens for eligible Raiders. Eligible explorers are chosen to inherit not only the rich and mysterious legacy of the heirs but also the spirit of adventure for generations to come!
P2E.Game, the One-stop GameFi and NFT Information Aggregation Platform, has launched SocialFi Feature
Decentralized society：Finding Web3’s Soul
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Reader's Diary #2244 - Jordan Tannahill: The Listeners
This year I was asked to be on a Shadow Giller Jury with Lindy and Penny and happily joined the team, knowing full well I'm amateur-hour compared to those two! (Seriously, check out their blogs!)
Anyway, the short list came out just recently so I've had to jump in fast. The first I read was Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and the second was Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners. Already I'm excited for the debate as these are so different from one another.
The Listeners is about a woman whose life is turned upside down when she inexplicably starts to hear a hum. It's distracting, sometimes gives her nosebleeds, and worst of all her family thinks it's all in her head. Finally, she meets a group of others who can hear it and they lean on one another for support as they lose their once normal lives.
But more than the obvious plot differences, the two books are written so stylistically different. If Akkad is Margaret Atwood, Tannahill is Stephen King. That's not the insult some will make it out to be. It's just that Some Strange Paradise seems to wear its literary aspirations on its sleeve, whereas The Listeners is more grounded. Some like to refer to this a Literature (with capital L) versus literature (with a lowercase L) but I feel this is too elitist. To me it's more like the difference between impressionist art versus realistic art, there's value in both.
There's a scene in The Listeners for example when the narrator goes into detail about a Mexican dish brought by one of the support group. It doesn't further the plot and there's nothing particularly remarkable about the description, but it does help set the scene and make the reader feel more a part of the story. Such a scene is common place in this novel, but rare in Some Strange Paradise; the latter is more concise and poetic.
I would say The Listeners is more accessible and entertaining of the two, but still offers poignant thoughts on contemporary themes (alienation, conspiracy theories, complex love). Choosing one book over another though? I think it would come down to the style of writing you enjoy.
Labels: 15th Canadian Book Challenge, 2021, Giller, Giller Shortlist 2021, Harper Collins, Jordan Tannahill, Ontario
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Librarian by Day, Nude Butler by Night
Russell Davies, a 28-year old a librarian at Hartshill Library, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, U.K., assists the bookworm in need while fully clothed. By night, he assists on the domestic front serving the needs of ladies seeking a little fun.
He's The Naked Butler.
In a great example of pretzel-logic, he says that he knew he could be an excellent nude butler after he trained as a wrester at the Ultimate Pro Wrestling Training School here in the U.S.A. We thus learn why the P.G. Wodehouse characters got along - Jeeves never put the Tilt-a-Whirl Crossbody Press on Bertie. It just isn't done.
It's the skimpy outfits, Russell says.
He, until recently, kept his nocturnal vocation a secret from his boss and colleagues at the library.
“They were all pretty shocked. But it was fine. I haven’t told my parents what I do. I think my mum wouldn’t like it but they live Spain.”
He works ladies "hen" parties, which he says can get pretty wild. Let's face it: the Dewey Decimal System is not for kids. Older women are generally the randiest. "Sometimes the women will be screaming. They do try to pinch your bum."
His girlfriend doesn't mind. She's Jemma Palmer, aka Gladiator Inferno, a wrestling star. It is unclear whether she serves as Sergeant-At-Arms while Russell services. Someone's got to referee when the ladies put the Body Avalanche on him.
Next time you visit your local library, should the Reference Desk librarian sport a mohawk and split the seams of his Keep Calm and Carry On T-shirt, do not be alarmed. Be good. You may be served champagne. Be rude and it's the Leapfrog Body Guillotine for you.
"Hat's off to Russell," a library patron exclaims. "I've hired
him for my Friday night book club. Fine condition in handsome
binding, and a colophon that won't quit.
"And the book isn't bad, either."
Full story at Sunday Mercury.
Thanks to LISNews for the lead.
Image courtesy of Buff Naked Butlers, with our thanks.
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Anime Review - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection
An extension of the TV series, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection recounts four previously untold tales of the brothers Elric.
Totalling a paltry 60 minutes, don't expect a massive amount of depth from this release. What FMA fans DO get is a glimpse at the stories behind the stories and some answers to previously unexplored areas.
"Amazing secrets and startling facts are exposed for the first time in the Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection, a new assortment of stories set in never-before-seen corners of the FMA universe. Join Ed and Al as they chase rumors of successful human transmutation into a web of shocking family drama and lies. Sneak a glance at hidden sides of Winry and Hawkeye’s personalities. Survive the frigid north with a young Izumi Curtis as she fights to gain a deeper understanding of alchemy. Explore the legendary friendship shared by Mustang and Hughes and watch them grow from military school rivals into hardened brothers transformed by the horrors of the Ishvalan War. You thought you knew the whole story. You thought all the tales ere told. The Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection offers proof: You Were wrong."
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a strange beast, it is both a remake and not. It retells the original Fullmetal Alchemist story and basically begins exactly as the original series before taking a left turn to more closely follow the source material, the manga by Hiromu Arakawa. With this information in hand you can safely assume that if you've only watched the original series, you will still be able to follow these stories. They follow well established characters and the basic story of FMA.
Each of these four tales last for around 12-18 minutes and delve just below the surface of the FMA world. We learn how Mustang and Hughes became acquainted, the story behind Izumi's frigid alchemical training, why Winry has so many piercings and a story which is as close to Ed and Al's heart as any other. Although a 1 hour Blu Ray seems to be a little insignificant, the FMA:B OVA collection gives a fantastic insight into the stories behind the stories. Although not essential viewing by any means, this release gives a feeling that the FMA universe is alive, an organic thing that exists outside of what happens in the core series. Like Star Wars and Star Trek, in releasing titles such as this, Fullmetal Alchemist is becoming much more than a series, it is becoming a fantastically immersive universe.
The entire cast from the American and Japanese voice crew are back and reprise their respective roles which are performed to a very high standard. In fact, the entire release is fantastic quality. Just as with the original series and the later Brotherhood incarnation, the animation quality is fantastic. It has always been surprising to see a TV series with such high production values and this animation is beautifully realised in a crystal clear Blu Ray release. Studio Bones (Gosick, Star Driver) never fail to please with their stunning animation and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection is no exception.
Although not essential viewing, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection is a fantastic addition to the collection of any FMA fan. That said, if you are completely new to the world of FMA you should get through the series first. If you haven't watched any FMA, Madman are releasing the complete collection of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in October so you have no excuse!
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA collection is available now on Blu Ray and DVD from Madman. It is also available digitally through iTunes and from Bigpond Movies.
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Edward 1 July 2013 at 17:56
I love Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood!
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Eugenia Buerklin, M.A., LMFT
Somatic & Trauma Psychotherapy
Transpersonal Processes
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Resources & Referrals
ABOUT EUGENIA
In my earlier career as an actor and acting teacher, I discovered that my students were experiencing deep healing and transformation in my classes. Ultimately, the satisfaction of guiding students to become great actors paled in comparison to the gratification of helping people become happier, more fulfilled human beings.
In 1991 I had my own healing experience which led to my developing the somatic process, Empathic Body Processing. This technique has been taught to other therapists and has been the cornerstone of my private practice as well as in my work at the Center for Healthy Sex, and at other trauma and addiction centers, where I led the experiential sessions of the intensive outpatient programs.
In 1992 I was fortunate to be a part of psychologist John Cogswell's research team exploring and developing a body-mind technique called Walking in Your Shoes. I have continued to use this transpersonal process -- as well as Empathic Body Processing, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and other processes -- in my private practice, workshops, and retreats in Los Angeles, New York, Germany, and Hawaii.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree from Antioch University Los Angeles in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Spiritual and Depth Psychology. I received further training in Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, and Emotionally Focused Psychotherapy (EFT).
Antioch University Los Angeles
Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology
Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology
Empathic Body Processing
Developer, Facilitator
Walking in Your Shoes
Facilitator, Trainer
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses and Traumatic Memory
Brainspotting Trained
Phases I - III
EMDR Trained
Group Therapy Training
GPALA - Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles
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