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The Sudan Slave Story
In December I was invited by Christian Solidarity International to accompany them to the Sudan to document the purchasing of slaves to free them. This is a remarkable story in the world. Against the backdrop of a continuing eighteen year war of genocide of the northern government predominantly Arab Muslim on the African Christian south, in a country that is the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River, It is one of the world's most tragic stories. The north in its efforts to force a national religion is conducting an unrelenting religious war to force the issue. It is despotism at its worst. Two million people have died in the conflict, mostly civilians. In the center of this carnage a huge slave trade is going on. Civilians, mostly women and children, with their husbands slain have little ability to resist and are being sold into slavery to the northern Sudan Muslims and the eastern emirates. Most civilized nations have turned a deaf ear to this great holocaust now going on. It is one of the shames of the world that considers itself civilized. These are the stories as they appeared somewhat edited in the Santa Fe newspaper New Mexican in the February and March of 2001. Included are images that appear in a new book, Africa, The Holocausts of Rwanda and Sudan, University of New Mexico Press February 2006 by Lucian Niemeyer
The Sudan, A Saga of Genocide and Enslavement
In a land in the northeastern horn of Africa, the oldest known history of man has been revealed, dating back over two million years. Here man would find the roots of known civilization in the ancient accounts of Egypt, the White and Blue Nile, Khartoum, Lawrence of Arabia, the Mahdi, Nubia and Gordon Pasha. In the Christmas season of 2000 under a blanket of a brilliant black velvety night and brightly twinkling stars that covers the whole earth, a deadly drama of genocide and human slavery is being enacted in this land, in a manner that should revolt all civilized people. For in Southern Sudan the native Dinka and Nuer people of the Christian faith are being killed and enslaved in large numbers, in a most cruel manner by members of the Islamic faith abetted by the government of the Sudan. While the Israeli and Palestinian confrontation to the north, is the more visible and well known of this religious world conflict, southern Sudan is the frontier. For here genocide is practiced with a malice that knows no human boundaries. In this oldest of human backdrops, the human condition has not advanced far.
Dinka elder and youth
The war between the Islamic north and Christian south Sudan has old roots, stemming back to the 1950s when the country, separated at the time was made one by the western world after World War II. Shortly the country of Sudan was emancipated from England. A war between the two religious factions broke out in 1983, with the Islamic north invading the southern Christians. This is considered the time by which the current struggle is measured. From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in this genocide, mostly Christians, for sure civilians. Early on in this conflict, two professors at the University of Khartoum; Ushari Ahmad Mahmud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people and had investigated it. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the men and had taken women and children and into slavery for over two years. They wrote their report in 1987. It was widely circulated and was denied by the Sudanese government. The UN assimilated the report and then discounted it as hearsay. These two humane professors were incarcerated by their government and then were discredited throughout the world. The civilized world would not and could not hear.
Dinka tukuls in southern Sudan
The rumors persisted. The Catholic, Presbyterian and Anglican churches have had a strong presence in southern Sudan as well as world providers (non-governmental organizations or NGOs) who gave food, medicine and agricultural assistance to the affected people in this sub-Saharan land. We all have heard about the starvation of the Dinka people in this area with the southward movement of the desert conditions combined with the uncertain and devastating conditions of war. A normalized situation would be difficult for the people, but under the war conditions, it is intolerable, and the tribes suffer greatly. The United Nations, the European Common Market countries and the United States have all played significant roles in the area. All have received reports about the genocide and the slavery being enacted in the Sudan. All have turned a deaf ear with chilling results. In President Clinton's address to the world about Africa, "mistakes were made by the US and the world in the Rwandan genocide", he vowed that the policy of the US would not allow genocide to happen again in Africa and apologized for the US role. Just as this speech was being given, the State Department had sent an assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Rice to the Sudan to investigate the depth of the genocide and slavery. Her report was an horrific account of slavery being practiced in the southern Sudan region with interviews of former slaves being taken. The US government was in possession of an earlier report issued in 1994 of the slavery issue as were the United Nations, the European community as well as the three churches, which explained in some detail, the episodes of raids, the genocide and the wide scope of the slavery. By this time several organizations had attempted to buy back slaves from their Islamic masters and had limited success. Christian Solidarity International, (CSI) headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland was asked by local communities in 1995 to expand their operations to include the purchasing of slaves and has been quite successful. The extent of the human disaster has been only succeeded by the hypocrisy of the world community, both moral and political, and I am so ashamed.
Is the moral and political evaluation of the progress of our human struggle to be measured by the acceptance of genocide and slavery in Sudan by the world community?
Some years ago, the United Nations took the firm position that genocide and slavery were world crimes, should be eradicated and those engaged in it should be put on trial by the world court in The Hague, (Resolution 260 (111 A), UN General Assembly). This action has been the modis operendi in the case of Kosovo. Yet the world has not addressed the crimes being committed in southern Sudan. Indeed, it has not even acknowledged that crimes are being committed. It is now the correct politic direction by the churches, UN, US and the European community, to assuage the Khartoum government into joining the world community by negotiation and not to create tension via confrontation among those Islamic movements that are destabilizing large communities of the world. The term used by the government of Sudan in answer to the questions by the world community is "abductions". Certainly the spin fits the needs of the world community. Meanwhile help from Europe and the UN has all but stopped in southern Sudan, based on the notion that the world community should work with the government to solve the problem. The Khartoum government has put into place a fact finding commission to investigate the crimes and assuage the world community that slavery does not exist in the Sudan. It was as recently as several months ago that the President of the Sudan has stated in New York that "there is no slavery in the Sudan". While it is true, that very recently the Sudan was denied membership in the UN security council by not being elected, a firm resolve by the civilized powers of the world to end the genocide and slavery has not been mandated or stated. Meanwhile the atrocities continue unabated. Only a few non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and food given by the United States, fills the vacuum of need, while the greatest problems are coming. The drought and the coming offensive by the north during the dry season will create chaos in southern Sudan again. The few brave NGOs who give their help to save the people, while this terrible catastrophe is unleashed in the next few months, will be the only front line for the innocent people. The rest of the world community will wring their hands and say, how terrible.
at redemption site
Sudan - Christmas 2000
Let me tell you my experience in going to the Sudan this Christmas season.
In early December I received a call that invited me to travel with Christian Solidarity International (CSI), a human rights organization based in Switzerland which has specialized in helping the Dinka people in southern Sudan via medicine and the redeeming of their tribal members from slavery since 1995. The invitation that I received was through another human rights organization (Jubilee Campaign) with whom I was invited to travel with in the Spring of 2000, to document the persecution of Christians in Indonesia by the radical Islamic community. As I had done work documenting the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, creating articles and a traveling exhibition Rwandan Refugees, A Story of Life, it was natural that I had an interest in genocide in other parts of the world and especially Africa. As the invitation was to travel some four days later, I had little time to get tickets and prepare for the trip. Yet I arrived in Zurich to meet with the executives of CSI and traveled with them to Nairobi. We boarded a small charter aircraft owned by Trackmark, a relief service airline to southern Sudan. We were eight persons, five CSI staff, a human rights worker on a US senators staff, a human rights activist, and myself. I knew from past briefings and research into the situation that southern Sudan was a war zone. It was also my understanding that we were going into the midst of it. In fact I had to sign a document to CSI releasing them from my liability while I was in their care. There were daily bombings conducted by the government on the tribes of southern Sudan. I also knew that there would be no protection for me by the US government and that the government of Sudan was seeking to destroy CSI, which had embarrassed them including the plane that provided the logistics. Let me describe the area in which I was to work.
The Sudan is a
large country, the size of the eastern US from the Mississippi River to Maine.
Through it runs the great river Nile and its tributaries, otherwise it would be
almost a desert but for a few coastal regions. Historically there has always
been a northern Sudan and a southern Sudan. Southern Sudan is a large arid
country, undeveloped by US standards with one railroad running from north to
south. There are few passable non-paved roads. In the rainy season the roads are
quite impassable, while in the dry season they are meager at best. They provide the
arterial connection between towns and trading centers. Almost always this trade
is by foot traffic. The main distinguishing geographical features revolve around the
Nile and its tributaries, The White Nile, the Blue Nile and the river Lol. The
southern Sudanese people are mostly tribal people living in small villages
served by a few regional markets. The people survive by tending to their flocks
and by growing crops of corn and other staples. They live in small grass and mud
tukuls usually arranged in small villages near the flood plains of the
tributaries of the Nile. The Dinka are a large tribe living in the Bahr El
Ghazal region which is the western part of southern Sudan. It is here that the
genocide and the raiding of slaves takes place in regular northern government
offensives, in the dry season. The boundary of northern Sudan from the south has
another most important attribute. It is the separation from the Islamic north to
the Christian south. Thus the religious separation, genocide, slavery and war
creates a very separate politic which is a quite difficult breech to overcome. Yet
in this region Christian Dinka farmers quite often work closely with neighboring
Arab Islamic traders, both creating a living for themselves in this very poor region.
The weak and economically poor central government of Sudan plays a very little
role in administrating this area.
Sudan - Slavery
The government of Sudan for decades has attempted to force a national religion, Islam, upon all of its people, including the Christians in the south. In its many years of war and genocide it has been unsuccessful to force its will on the south, resulting in a defense organization, the SPLM/SPLA, which provides the overall defense for the southern people. The Sudanese government forces have occupied some regional trading centers, Wau, Aweil and Juba, garrisoning them with troops, yet little affecting the people. The government troops remain in isolated compounds whose soldiers can not foray into the countryside, without danger. They are logistically supported from the air and the railroad. The railroad is usually controlled by the government, but runs only sporadically. Thus the vast open spaces populated by small Christian villages are a particular problem for the central government to control. The people are for the most part self-subsistent. This sets the stage for the genocide and slavery that the Sudanese government has forced upon its southern people in its attempt to subject them and assimilate them into the Islamic religion of northern Sudan.
Over the years the Sudanese government has conducted major forays into the south, destroying villages, killing the men and taking into slavery, the women and children in addition to their animals. Raids conducted two, three, four, six, eight and ten years ago are documented. These coincide with the years that the slaves told me that they have been in servitude. The average is between four to six years of servitude, while one woman told me that she had been in slavery over twelve years. Approximately 6 years ago, CSI was asked to take over the program of purchasing slaves from their masters. The redemption was originally an effort implemented by the local chiefs. Some of the local Arabs which worked and traded with the Dinkas had a problem with the continual warfare and raids, which eliminated total villages and enslaved tens of thousands of their friends. When the Dinka chiefs attempted to find their stolen relatives, the friendly Islamic Arabs would seek out where the slaves were and inform the chiefs. Then the chiefs would raise the ransom that the northern Arabs asked for plus a fee for the intermediaries for the costs they incurred. Over time, a monetary standard was established which amounted to $35 per slave for redemption. A new trade was created. Usually the Arab masters would sell the weaker, older and less able slaves for currency. As this network became more established, it has become a source of hard currency for the Arabs and the redemption of slaves has grown into sizable numbers. Masters now had a ability to raise scarce cash; the friendly Arabs would be the go-between, providing the logistics and risking the wrath of the government. Soon the local chiefs ran out of the ability to raise the cash needed to redeem the slaves. CSI took over the trade when 15-20 slaves would be redeemed. As the network has improved the slaves redeemed in a single five day period has risen to average 4000, while a single trip has bought back over 5000 slaves. CSI conducts these very secretive trips to new locations each two to three months. They have redeemed over 42,000 slaves and the flow of the trade shows no sign of abatement. The trip that I was on brought home 4119 slaves plus one, when you add the boy that was born on the redemption day. I witnessed the birth.
On the first day we flew 600 miles into the Sudan to a small town right on the border, lying on the north south road and on the front lines. We landed at a small dirt airstrip in the evening that appeared out of nowhere within a half a mile of putting down. The rough dirt strip was just long enough to handle the small plane, which piloted by an experienced bush pilot, was still a handful to bring to a stop in the very short runway. Upon arrival, the local commissioner and the tribal chiefs met us and greeted us warmly. They had been informed in advance that we were coming and that slaves would be redeemed on this trip by CSI. Our luggage was taken to a baay, or an enclosure of matted reeds which contained several tukuls around an open area. Armed guards with Russian AK47 automatic weapons taken from the enemy, surrounded the area. We pitched our tents and then walked to the center of the village which contained the ceremonial fire. Unique Dinka chairs, which defy all normal furniture practices for stability and longevity were brought and there was a meeting of greeting and introductions. Around the meeting place the massed townspeople stood and watched with avid interest. The political structure that has arisen from this continued war contains local tribal chiefs, a commander for an area selected by the SPLA and the regional commissioner by the SPLM, usually an elder selected because of leadership ability which reports to the rebel civil government. All three were at this meeting. After the introductions and discussion, music and dancing by the local village members commences. Later a feast of chicken, bread and fish are brought out to welcome the CSI personnel. We, as outsiders, but as guests of CSI are welcomed warmly too. It is a lovely evening. In the middle of the center of the village stands a covered machine gun captured from the government troops. It stands there forever reminding us that we are on the front lines, as do the armed guards that are all around us.
As I had been asked to go on such short notice and was told to be in Zurich at a specific time with very little other instructions, I did not realize that I should take a bed role, mattress pad, food and a tent. I was fortunate to be invited to share the tent of the human rights worker but I had to sleep on the floor of the tent with a thin cloth over me. In the day it was very hot, but in the evening the temperature would drop into the low forties. So I covered myself with my jacket, the thin cloth and used my photographers vest for a pillow. The ground was as hard as concrete. I was very uncomfortable and it took some time to drop off in a fitful sleep. We awakened early the next morning to take the plane to the first redemption site. We had to take off very early so the government planes would not spot our plane and bomb it. After a breakfast of tea we were escorted to the plane and in a cloud of dust and a highly revved engine, we took off for a forty-five minute flight to a new dusty rough airstrip. As before, we unloaded and were taken to a compound where we pitched our tents and prepared ourselves for the first redemption of slaves. We walked for a way and soon saw a great number of people sitting under a huge tree, women and children, quietly somber. In all, there were 292 people herded together in a small group. To the side, a number of Arabs were waiting, clothed in white robes with white face coverings to prevent photographs that would enable northern Khartoum leaders to identify them for retaliation. The slaves had been waiting, some for two months and some just arriving a few days ago. They lived in the open, protected at night by a cloth held up by sticks to protect them from the elements and the mosquitoes. Their food was a gruel of corn ground into a fine mush and water. Many slaves showed signs of malnutrition over an extended period. I spoke to some of the women and children through an interpreter. Without exception, the younger women told the story of a raid destroying a whole village by fire, killing the men and capturing the women and children. They told of soldiers in fatigues coming in trucks and Arabs with white robes and horses conducting the raid, killing and burning. The people were then herded into a march to the north. On the way the women were gang raped. Then they were taken by a master to a home. Here the story changes. Some women become concubines, some servants in the house, some work in the fields, all are sexually used on a regular basis. The young girls as young as six, speak of rape. In this group the average time in enslavement was four years. Some women were noticed with large protruding scars. Without exception these were created by their capturers, using iron rods, knives and fire, usually because of resistance to sex. We were told by some women of genital mutilation but I did not witness it. Young boys were used as herdsman, for sex and as they grew older would be inducted into the army while the younger ones would be used for security purposes. Most of the boys were given instruction in the Koran. Some wore the traditional caps worn by Islamic people. A young boy of 14 told of the raid and capture six years ago, which included his father's herd of 30 goats. His cousin was also captured with a herd of 20 goats. His cousin lost one and was killed on the spot. The cousins herd was added to his own, and he was told that if he lost one he would too would be killed. He proudly told us that in the six years he did not lose one goat. His whole village had been obliterated. Six years later the ruins of the tukuls were covered with brush and trees taking over the area of the former village. He did not know anybody. When asked where he would go, he replied that he would go to the local chief for help. Many of the women had Arab children and/or were pregnant by their masters. Some of the women could not identify the father due to the multiple rapes which they had suffered. Some gave the name of their masters. In this group 11 had died enroute to the redemption site.
Sudan - More Slave Redemptions
Slave women
The next group of slaves was nearby and consisted of 322 women and children. The stories were the same. The procedure followed the same ritual. The intermediaries were different. This was Schindler's List revisited. It was easy to dislike the white robed Arabs as they were conducting the transaction, but as they said later at a meeting. "Yes, we do it for money, but the money could not pay us for the danger we are incurring. These are our friends and we do not agree with slavery and genocide." Without exception we were told of the Arab intermediaries kindness in the redemption process, as the slaves were treated kindly, even some receiving needed medical help after being purchased from their masters. We also heard other stories that some of their Islamic masters were kindly, and even though they expected sexual favors, the slaves were treated with respect. Usually these slaves were sold to the redeemers because of a jealous Islamic wife's intervention. In this dusty, remote and beautiful dry land the human condition realizes one moment of absolute freedom for the redeemed slaves. Others are not so fortunate.
Arab retrievers
The return to the compound brings somber reflection for what we have witnessed. Is it real? Can it be like this? The thoughts race through our minds with stunning power. The Dinka people are simple people with old values. Here truth is a basic value between people. Too many historical facts would have to be arranged by these simple people, to arrange these stories. With a dawning it comes. This is real. Slavery and cruelty does exist just as it did in America 150 years ago. How can this happen in our modern society? How can the world powers accept this basic value adopted as a world crime by all of the United Nations? How do the churches rationalize the morality of the situation ? Do all of the worlds organizations not recognize what is being told to them? If they know, then are they not part of the crime? Here where the roots of American slavery started, the cruel attempt to assimilate the Dinka people into the Islamic religion is being recreated for all the world to witness. Here genocide and slavery are revealed in all of its horrific attributes and appendages. Here human life is valued at $35.00.
We eat a visitors feast of goat stew with bread and water for dinner. The villagers have a gruel with touches of green and meat. The star studded sky is peaceful and a little later, the brilliant moon lights up the compound as though it is day. Finally the quietness of the evening lulls us to sleep on the hard earth. We are awakened by the sound of a donkey braying before dawn, fifteen feet away and the roosters crowing. Dawn rises with the red sun awakening through the acacia trees. For yesterday's redeemed slaves it is a new day.
Slave group
Sudan - Slavery, Angel and the Church
Today we pack our tent and wait for Heather Stewart and her Trackmark Cessna to pick us up to take us to the next town. Her story is quite unique. A grandmother with five children, she owns Trackmark flying relief service and a rest camp nearby, in a Kenyan border town near southern Sudan. When the starvation was going on in southern Sudan some years ago, the United Nations and other non governmental organizations (NGOs) utilized her services to ferry goods and people into southern Sudan. The Sudan government are continually bombing the southern Sudanese airstrips and have attempted to prevent this logistical pipeline from continuing, so her work is with risk. At that time Heather owned a fleet of 14 planes and 22 pilots. Trackmark, her company also ferried the CSI personnel in and out of southern Sudan redeeming slaves. As the slave trade was denied by Sudan and the story accepted by the UN, the CSI personnel were considered non-grata by the United Nations, UNICEF and the European Common Market countries. They were considered alarmists and meddlers which did not meet different politics of the nations in addressing the region. Whether Heather lost the United Nations contract for supporting CSI would be a matter of interpretation. The NGOs pulled out of southern Sudan and the United Nations contract was awarded to a South African company. They still call on Heather when an seriously ill person needs hospital care or where there is a dangerous run over the border for an emergency relief effort. Now her business has been reduced to one plane and herself as the pilot. Mrs. Stewart is a legend to those chiefs and commissioners in southern Sudan, whose tribes depend on her for logistical support and medicines. Her primary account now is CSI, and the mission is both secret and dangerous. Without her logistical capability, the redemption of slaves would not be as great. With a whoosh and a cloud of dust the Trackmark plane taxis to a halt near our compound and a beaming Heather greets us. She is a flying angel.
Plane refueling
Today we go to a more central village. Upon our arrival, we are greeted and taken to a compound where we do the usual setting up. We then go to a distant location in a truck where there are two new groups waiting with new intermediaries. The same procedure takes place and two groups, amounting to 680 slaves are redeemed this day. It is a extremely hot day and we are very dry, but the experience of the slaves and their trials keeps our attention riveted to the event. I visited a dusty market and the school. The children sang a song for us. It is the universal language of man to see happy laughing children, and so it should always be. I think of those children with their lost years of slavery and those still in slavery and it makes me weep.
The following
morning Heather returns with a plane full of medicine for the local hospital,
diesel fuel for the few trucks and miscellaneous supplies for the tribes. We
then take off for another short and dusty runway and a new village with 800
slaves. After our return to the compound from the slave redemption we sit and
rest in the unique Dinka chairs. An Anglican/Episcopalian Bishop of Wau, Henry Chuir
Riak enters the compound with a priest. After greetings and some discussions, I
ask why the church is not a more visible critic of the slave trade taking place
in his diocese. I am met with the statement from the bishop, "that there is
some slavery in his diocese but it is not the central church politic to broach
the matter". After some more discussion regarding his incarceration by the
Sudan government from which he was released only a year ago, I repeat the
question, informing him that I am an Episcopalian. Now he acknowledges that
genocide and slavery is widespread in his diocese, practiced by the northern
Islamic people, on his flock. The Bishop adds that the number of Christians are
increasing due to the war. He thanks the leaders of CSI profusely for redeeming
his people. He invites us to have breakfast with him the next day. The next
morning we go to his compound where he greets us. CSI staff asks to do a recorded
interview and he agrees. The Bishop acknowledges the widespread slavery,
captured by agents of the northern government are taken from his diocese and
renounces those people responsible for it. It is a powerful statement from an
important local religious leader against slavery and genocide. He then asks us
to go to his church where he is confirming children and adults in his
congregation this day. The church is packed with 700 to 800 singing and joyful
people. It moves me greatly.
Sudan - More Redemptions and HorrorThe next morning we fly to an airstrip that Heather had never flown to before. Our GPS radio tells us that the airstrip is very close, within a mile. We look down and see a very narrow dogleg to the right. It is inconceivable that we will land at that strip. Also Heather does not know the quality of the surface. Yet down we go, making a pass over the runway and then landing. It is rough and scary. At the last moment the landing strip straightens out and we come to a sharp braked stop just at the end of the rough dusty strip. As usual there are friends there to meet us as well as the chiefs. We are taken to a nearby compound near a river. It is extremely hot and we sit under a beautiful tree near the water. Here it is hard to remember the horror of the mission that we are all on. It is so tranquil with colorful birds nosily welcoming our presence. After some tea and snacks we walk two miles to the redemption site. After walking through the tent village we see the large group waiting for us under a large tree. Nearby are the Arab intermediaries. Two stories told to me by slaves stick out sharply in my memory. A young beautiful women has a remarkable scar around three quarters of her neck, two to three inches high, protruding in an even manner 3/4 of an inch. We ask her how she received the scar. Quietly she tells us that her throat was cut. Her age is 22. She was captured six years ago. While resisting her captors advances, her throat was cut and the cut extended down to her breast. She was asked how she survived the wound. She could not answer how. The answer was simple, many did not. She was taken as a concubine when she recovered. In her masters house she slept on the veranda. Finally the wife of the master had her ejected and she was sold to the redeemers. Each question elicited more answers, one more horrific then the other. Many times the master would come in the middle of the night to visit her. After the wound, she did not reject him. Her master called her by a generic name like she, ignoring that she had a given name, the whole time of her captivity. She knew that there were many other slaves nearby, both by her master and others that remain in captivity. She did not offer answers but quietly answered each question that was asked of her, evenly without emotion.
Arab retrievers
A young boy of 8 was captured in a raid. While walking to the masters homes a young girl could not walk further and collapsed. The Arabs cut her head off killing her immediately. They told the young boy to carry the head. For five days the boy carried the head. By this time the head was disintegrating and was so smelly that the captors told him to burn it. In the Dinka tradition, burning any human body parts was taboo. An older woman nearby raised her hands and voice in protest. She was severely beaten. Then the captors put a gun to the head of the boy and he burned the head. That was six years ago. The memory was evidently fresh as if it was today, in his mind. I heard so many stories like this one. A girl resisting rape had her hand placed into a bed of hot coals causing her fingers to be burned off. Then the five captors each had their way with her. Another very pretty girl had her captors get into a fight over her. Each wanted her for his wife. After a severe fight they stopped, determining that she was the cause. They placed hot knife points to her chest and burnt it severely. It was one episode after another. The cruelty of the northern Moslems on the Christian Dinka's, whom they considered unclean and an inferior people, is uniquely sadistic and cruel. Today 707 slaves were redeemed
As we walked the two miles back on the dusty and hot path we passed two more groups of slaves waiting to be freed. Some of the already freed slaves walked with us telling the remaining groups that they would be freed. There was pandemonium. The retrievers had difficulty to maintain order so that a correct accounting could be made on the morrow.
Young women slaves
When we got back to the compound, I used the extra time to visit the market, a hospital and the river. After a meal of goat stew and bread we lay down for a fitful sleep. Africa is so beautiful, yet it can be so cruel.
The last day of the redemptions for this trip, broke early with the braying of an ass and the crowing of roosters. An early foray into the countryside revealed wonderful villages of friendly people, all wanting to be photographed, striking a serious, severe pose, I love it. The emotions of the last few days were the most extreme that I have ever had. They have etched and seared me forever.
Today two large groups amounting to 1318 Dinka's were redeemed. A difference in the day was, that when we arrived the groups knew that they were to be freed and the sullenness encountered in earlier groups was absent. They were more interested in the process and us as white people. The boys were mischievous and the girls had more smiles. The huge pile of money that was used to redeem this large group was spread over a large cloth and was six inches high. I noticed in this wetter region, malaria was a normal sickness. This group had traveled for up to four weeks to get to this camp and there was more serious illnesses here then in other camps.
At the end of
the day, I added up the number of slaves that had been purchased on our trip and
it amounted to 4119 people of the Dinka tribe, with one newborn boy. In all, CSI
have redeemed 42,537 slaves in the past years. The Sudanese government and the
UN, US and European personnel and leaders combined with the church leadership
that think that the slave trade is random, small and a local problem, do not
understand the scope of the genocide and slavery in the Sudan. They do not wish to
confront these terrible world crimes. They have become part of the problem.
Sudan - Genocide and Slavery - Epilogue
Christmas 2000
The next morning after the last redemption we had to leave early to escape detection by the governments planes. We flew to Lokichoggio, the Kenyan border town where we were to refuel and proceed to Nairobi for departure to Zurich and then home to Santa Fe. When we arrived at the border town in the afternoon, there was an urgent radio message from a Doctor in the Sudan regarding a patient who was having a problem giving birth and needed to be hospitalized. Heather turned to us, either we go to Nairobi as planned or does she fly the other way to save a life. The patient won and we stayed over in Lokichoggio an extra night, rising early to fly and catch our plane. This is what the African bush represents and Heather and her flying relief service epitomizes the kind of dependency and help that people give because it is the humane thing to do.
Yet in this remote land there is a horror that is exceptional in this world that we live in. The religious differences between Islam and Christianity have magnified a genocide between people that history will regard as one of the worst ever recorded. The Holocausts of Russia and Germany, then followed by Uganda, Angola, Rwanda, Cambodia and so many more, need to be reexamined, so that we can place them into our value structure of what is acceptable and not acceptable on this world stage. We as people need to set minimal standards of behavior in our societies and then to enforce them evenly. While genocide and slavery have been determined as world crimes by the United Nations, the executives of the worlds leadership have selectively chosen which genocides to address. Politics have been included in these decisions that cloud the actuality of what is really happening. I can not think that the results of the years after World War II in addressing this problem has been either just or correct. For sure we as a world community have let the people of southern Sudan down, specifically the Dinka and the Nuer people, as we did the Tutsis in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. American Africans specifically need to address this global oversight as well as all of the religious denominations of the world, which should be the moral guide for our human condition. This has gone on too long. The Sudanese cry out for help in their pain, and people of goodwill must respond throughout the world. You can help, you must help.
Christian Solidarity International
Zelglistrasse 64, PO Box 70
CH-8122 Binz (Zurich)
Phone 41(0)1 980 47 07
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Some two weeks after I was there, Marial Bai; a village where we redeemed slaves
and met with the Anglican Bishop of Wau, was attacked and
destroyed. After some killing over 100 women and children were taken as well as
livestock. The Bishop was evacuated by the United Nations on January 3rd. Five
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A conservative challenger has emerged to take on Lamar Alexander.
His name is Joe Carr.
"We enthusiastically endorse Joe Carr in the Tennessee Republican Senate Primary," said Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, following Carr's announcement this morning that he would challenge Lamar Alexander.
"At TPN, we refer to Senator Alexander as 'Liberal Lamar' because he votes with Barack Obama more often than he votes the way the people of Tennessee want him to vote. Perhaps he should be referred to as the Senator from Obama."
Joe Carr has established a track record in the Tennessee House of Representatives as a solid conservative. Lamar Alexander should be the top target of conservatives looking to oust RINOs in 2014. While most conservatives are focusing on defeating Lindsey Graham, Lamar's record shows that he is more of a threat to conservatism. While he does not attract the attention Graham does, his voting record is worse and he does more damage to the cause of conservatism than Lindsey Graham does.
Tennessee conservatives should unite around Joe Carr, a patriot and a great candidate.
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So very happy to hear this.
Thanks for the info, Judson!
It looks like I had last looked at Rep. Joe Carr - (Tennessee General Assembly)
on 8/20/13, when he announced a bid to oppose Scott Desjarlaisin the 4th district primary. (Perhaps Scott's not so bad...the Left really hates him)
I'm busy looking for more information about Joe Carr! But I have no doubt that he's a better choice than Lamar.
Liberal Lamar remains an embarrassment to the Red State of Tennessee. Go for it, Joe!
There were a couple of Tennessee State Representatives that were interested in challenging for Scott Desjarlais' seat...Joe Carr was one of them... Senator Jim Tracy was another.
I will research him.
Give em Hell, I hope we can find a qualified or just honest contender for ever one of them that have to run in 2014. We should win them all but with the DOJ fighting voter ID for obvious reasons who can tell.
We need a detailed list of true Conservatives challenging the RINO's across the US so we can support them.
Paul Broun for Senator in Georgia.
Thanks for the information, Judson. If you want to back real conservatives for the senate in other states, please research for yourself, Steve Lonegan of NJ. That's right a true conservative in over 4 decades. Last week he won the republican primary defeating Christie's choice.
This is to fill the late Senator Lautenberg's seat. He is the real deal and is very devoted to the tea party. He was the former director of the NJ chapter for the Americans For Prosperity.
This weekend Christie endorsed him only because he wants to gain back the conservative votes. He really is for Corey Booker, mayor of Newark, who is running against Steve on the democrat ticket. Imagine that he said that in public!
It's known for a long time that Christie has no use for Lonegan, that alone speaks volumes. Christie is just pandering to the grass roots. However, who knows once he's in that voting booth, if he might pull the lever for Booker.
I will support Joe Carr.
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By sundararajan on Oct 29, 2005
When a method is called on a SmallTalk object, the methods associated with that object's class and its superclasses are searched at runtime. If none of these classes implement a method of given name, the Smalltalk virtual machine calls doesNotUnderstand (see also Reflective Facilities in SmallTalk) method on the object. How about this facility for JavaScript? We can easily implement such a feature for JavaScript engine in Mustang. We can use JSAdapter feature.
Code that uses could look like:
function Wrapper(obj) {
return new JSAdapter() {
__has__ : function(name) {
// this object supports property or method of any name
return true;
__get__ : function(name) {
// check whether wrapped object supports given
// member (field or method).
if (name in obj) {
return obj[name];
} else if (typeof(obj["doesNotUnderstand"]) == 'function') {
// if object has 'doesNotUnderstand' method, then
// return a function that would call it
return function() {
return obj.doesNotUnderstand(name, arguments);
} else {
// unsupported
return undefined;
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a : 10,
toString: function() { return "I am v"; },
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Garner, Erroll (Louis)
Pianist Erroll Garner established himself out of the rag tradition and created a sound all his own. In an era of piano giants, Garner stood just over five feet tall, and sat on a telephone book to better reach the keyboard. But his ability to play melodies in octaves over huge left hand voicings separated him from his contemporaries.
Erroll Garner (left) and Art Tatum at Birdland, 1952
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Erroll Louis Garner was born June 15th, 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Garner's parents were both singers at their local church. Garner's mother was a graduate of Avery College in Pittsburgh. Garner had an elder brother, Linton, and a twin brother, Ernest.
Garner started playing the piano when he was three years old. He never learned how to read music, which added to his distinctive sound and style. At the age of seven, Garner appeared on local radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, with a group called the Kan-D-Kids. Garner also studied with his brother Linton, who also played the piano.
By the time he was a teenager, Garner was playing professionally on the riverboats in Pittsburgh. He attended Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh, whose other famous musical alumni include pianists Ahmad Jamal and Billy Strayhorn. Between 1938 and 1941, Garner also played off and on with the Leroy Brown Orchestra in Pittsburgh.
In 1939, Garner traveled to New York City as an accompanist for singer Ann Lewis. He returned to New York City to fill in for Art Tatum in his trio, which included bassist Slam Stewart and guitarist Tiny Grimes. Garner kept performing with the trio when Slam Stewart took it over in 1945.
Garner played at the Three Deuces on 42nd Street with Stewart, guitarist Johnny Collins, and drummer Harold West. Also in 1945, Garner recorded Serenade to Laura, for the Savoy label. The song, Garner's adaptation of the theme to a popular 1994 film noir mystery film, featured John Levy on bass and George DeHart on drums, and sold close to half a million copies in the United States.
The success of this single propelled the pianist into the public eye. In 1947, Garner was leading his own trio with Red Callender and Doc West in the Los Angeles. That same year Garner recorded Cocktail Time for Los Angeles music-store owner Ross Russell's Dial Records. Also in California was saxophonist Charlie Parker, who had just been released from the Camarillo Mental Hospital, and Garner recorded Cool Blues with Parker for Dial.
Garner was one of the most popular entertainers of the early 1950s, and appeared on Steve Allen's Tonight Show. In 1950, Garner recorded an LP for Columbia, Long Ago and Far Away, which featured the song ""Lover." In 1951, Garner recorded his version of "Penthouse Serenade" with bassist John Simmons and drummer Shadow Wilson. In 1954, Garner recorded his best-known composition, "Misty" for Verve. Featured on this recording are bassist Wyatt Ruther and drummer Eugene "Fats" Heard. Starting in 1950, Garner also actively performed as a solo artist, with concerts that year at both the Cleveland Music Hall and at New York's Town Hall. In 1954, Garner recorded his album Mambo Moves Garner, an album that found the pianist experimenting with the era's popular Cuban dance rhythms.
In 1955, Garner entered a converted church in Carmel, California to record his album Concert by the Sea, which featured bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Denzil Best. This album was one of Columbia Records best-selling albums of the decade, and featured the songs I'll Remember April" and "April in Paris." Garner continued to release strong-selling albums for Columbia through the 1950s, including Feeling is Believing and Other Voices in 1956, and Paris Impressions in 1958.
In the 1960s, Garner began to score films. In 1963, he composed the music for the feature film A New Kind of Love, which starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Garner released several successful albums in the 1960s, including Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern, Dancing on the Ceiling, and Easy to Love. All three albums were released in 1965 for the Mercury and its subsidiary EmArcy label. In 1967, Garner had moved to MGM, and released That's My Kick. In 1968, Garner appeared on Danish television along with bassist Ike Isaacs, drummer Jimmie Smith, and bongo player Jose Mangual for a taped appearance that became the movie Erroll Garner in Copenhagen.
Into the 1970s, Garner toured the world and continued to record as well as score films, ballets, and Broadway musicals. However, his health steadily declined, and he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1975. Garner released Gemini and Magician for London Records in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Garner also released Play It Again Erroll for Columbia Records that year. Garner also recorded with orchestras during this time, and since he didn't read music, the orchestra performed from charts while he played from memory.
Since Garner never learned to read or write music, much of his early work was never captured. However, his later work was written down as he composed it. Garner's song "Misty" was used in the 1971 Clint Eastwood-directed movie Play Misty for Me, which starred Eastwood alongside Jessica Walter and Donna Mills.
Erroll Garner died on January 2nd, 1977 at the age of fifty-five from lung cancer. Garner is buried at the Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Squirrel Hill section of the city. Erroll Garner left behind a long, strong legacy of personality in his music. Few pianists are bold enough to try and imitate his signature combination of uncompromising left hand chord attacks and right-hand melodic ideas.
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Cocktail Time (Dial, 1947)
Body and Soul (Columbia, 1952)
Misty (Mercury, 1954)
Concert by the Sea (Columbia, 1955)
Feeling is Believing (Columbia, 1956)
Paris Impressions (Columbia, 1958)
Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern (Mercury, 1965)
Play It Again Erroll (Columbia, 1974)
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Issue with Album mode
I discovered to my dismay last night something I consider a serious issue with "album" mode on my brand new J3 (firmware 2.23). I chose an album, kicked off the first track, and the J3 started playing it, right enough ... it played right through the Album, all tracks in order ... but then it simply moved without pause into the next album in the alphabetical list. I don't want this to happen! I expected it to stop at the end of the album. Is this not possible?
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The answer IS in the manual, both visually showing the icons as well as with accompanying English text description.
Is it a great description? Not really. Are the icons really intuitive? Well not so much. But is the answer here? Yes.
The secret is to set "folder" as the play boundary, instead of "ALL".
(1) When the player is playing something tap on the small down-triangle at the center-bottom of the title bar at the top of the portrait-mode window. This will reveal a drop-down sub-menu with five icons used to control playback:
(2) If you then tap on the second icon in the drop-down sub-menu,you'll get a secondary sub-menu set of icons further specifying how playback is to proceed:
The first group of choices controls (a) play once through the boundary, or (b) repeat within the boundary.
The second group so of choices controls (a) straight play sequentially, or (b) random/shuffle.
The third group of choices in this second sub-menu controls the playback boundary: (a) current file only, (b) only files within the current folder/sub-folder, or (c) ALL music files on the J3.
If you have ALL set, music will continue beyond the current selected album into the next album. If you have FOLDER set, music should play only within the current folder/sub-folder... either (a) to the end and then stop if you have "play-once" mode set, or (b) repeat from the first track in the boundary if you have "repeat" mode set.
Set your controls here while playing something, and that should solve your problem.
Last edited by DSperber; 02-24-2011 at 11:17 PM.
Thanks. I find the manual somewhat impenetrable. I'm still getting used to it.
(And many of the icons don't immediately "speak" to me, even after I've read what they represent.)
Well, it seems like a strange choice they've made for the default settings. But you've heartened me that something can be done about them. Thanks, and thanks for taking the time to make such a detailed reply.
Oh, and it also has to be said that "play once through the boundary" resets whenever you manually choses the next song from a list. Use the skip buttons instead in such situation.
It appears to be the same as FOLDER, in how it functions. This seems like a bug, not by design... since they clearly provided an ALL option specified to work differently than FOLDER.
But now that I've tried it myself, it does appear that play does NOT move on automatically into the next folder (neither for the next artist, or for the next album within this artist, or for the next alphabetical title album, or anything) when the last track of the current folder completes playing.
It definitely either (a) stops playing at that final track n the current folder, if "play once" is specified, or (b) starts playing at the first track in the current folder, if "repeat" is specified.
I cannot find a combination of settings involving ALL that actually moves to any other folder. Seems to me like ALL is "broken".
Am I missing something? Did I misinterpret what the manual is presumably describing?
I wonder if this has to do with how I started the playback... by [Artists] and then selecting an artist, and an album for that artist. I wonder if I have to browse by [Folders] to make ALL work "properly" as described? Will give that a try.
I'd bought the J3 after protracted and really anoying database issues with iRiver devices, so when I thought the J3 was going to be problematical as well I probably got a bit more frustrated than was warranted in the context, but there you go.
I'm not aware of having selected "ALL" or having done anything more in that menu than look at incomprehensible (to me) symbols, so I think my J3 must have come with these options set that way.
(1) If you browse by meta-data tag field (e.g. by [Artist]) and then navigate to an album by that artist, the ALL setting appears to function identically to FOLDER. No difference.
So when you've started off in tag-based folder/file selection, ALL means FOLDER (or rather, ALL is not supported as described).
The only playback control that seems to have any function is the (a) PLAY ONCE, or (b) REPEAT setting.
(2) If instead you browse by [Folders], i.e. you really have the J3 in pure Windows Explorer-like folder/file navigation, and you pick a specific album and track for playback, and you have PLAY ONCE specified, then when the last track in that folder is reached if ALL is in effect then the first track in the next album will be moved to and playback of that track will begin.
Actually, it specifically is the next next alphabetical album either by the same artist, if another album exists, or the first alphabetical album by the next alphabetical artist, if the last track of the last album of the current artist has just finished.
In fact, the PLAY ONCE vs. REPEAT settings now appears to have no effect. Both options function as if PLAY ONCE has been selected, since REPEAT does not cause re-play starting from track one of the current folder (although it may eventually start re-play from the very first track of the very first album once the very last track on the very last album has been played).
The only playback control that appears to be functional in [Folders] browse mode is FOLDER vs. ALL. And if you have ALL specified, then when the last track of the currently selected folder is finished the J3 will move on to the first track of the next album folder and start playing it.
===>> [Folders] vs. [Artists] or other tag-based browse, seems to be the key:
(a) [Folders] makes ALL work as described. PLAY ONCE or REPEAT is now functionless.
(b) [Artists] makes ALL work as FOLDER (i.e. ALL as described is no longer active). PLAY ONCE or REPEAT is now functional, within that folder.
Last edited by DSperber; 02-25-2011 at 01:48 AM.
Interestingly, for me the J3 now seems "broken" when it finishes playing that last track of the current album. It does not behave as you say it worked for you.
Instead of doing any of the things I described earlier, it actually just sits there with the progress fuel gauge just continuing to progress... clock value continuing to increase beyond the actual true time value end of the track! Nothing is playing, but the clock just continues to increase... on the current track (i.e. last track of current album folder).
(1) So if I browse by [Album] with PLAY ONCE + ALL set, the J3 does not work correctly when that last album track is finished. It just "stalls" on that last track, clock continuing to increase beyond the end of the track but no sound as if playback were occurring, but it is not. Seems broken. Obviously not correct.
And if I browse by [Album] with REPEAT + ALL set, the J3 goes back to the first track in that folder when the last track in the album folder is finished.
(2) If I browse by [Artist] with PLAY ONCE + ALL set, the J3 just stops playing (although it appears to reposition itself to the first track in that album folder, in case I then press PLAY) when that last track is finished.
If I browse by [Artist] with REPEAT + ALL set, the J3 restarts playing the first track in that album folder when the last track has finished.
===> ALL is treated like FOLDER when ALL is set, when browsing by [Artist]
(3) If I browse by [Folders] with PLAY ONCE + ALL set, the J3 moves on to the alphabetically first track in either (a) the alphabetically next album folder by the current artist, or (b) the alphabetically first album folder by the alphabetically next artist when the last track in the current album folder finishes. In other words, alphabetical navigation through the folder/sub-folder tree under \Music like Windows Explorer would do.
Or, if I browse by [Folders] with REPEAT + ALL set, the J3 does exactly the same as above.
===>> REPEAT is treated like PLAY ONCE when ALL is set, browsing by [Folders], i.e. there is no repeat for the songs within the current folder (although the whole J3 collection may actually repeat, if you ever get to the true last song in the true last folder).
For me, ALL only seems to work properly as described when browsing by [Folders], with REPEAT seemingly non-functional as the J3 seems to behave as if PLAY ONCE were set.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Review: Piccadilly Wire-O Journal
First reactions to this large Piccadilly Wire-O Journal? With it's hardback covers, it's really heavy. This book would add a significant amount of weight to a backpack filled with schoolbooks. I appreciate the hard covers since I'm not always writing on a flat surface, but these really add to the weight of the book.
Looking at the Piccadilly website, I count over 140 different covers for their Wire-O Journals and I have just one thing to say about that.
I'm much more concerned with paper quality and product functionality than cover design. I always get a sense of a company desperately trying to please the consumer when they offer so many design choices. I think of designs that don't sell, and product having to be destroyed/recycled. In my eyes, it's bad marketing and overwhelming to the consumer.
When I first opened the book, I noticed that several of the pages were stuck together in the area of the ring holes. When I pulled them apart, they tore and had to be discarded. Flipping through the book, many of the pages need to be separated at the punch holes, and though no more pages tore, I think maybe Piccadilly might need to check the sharpness on their punch presses.
I do not understand why some of these books are listed on their website as "lined one side." Does that mean that some of them are lined on both sides? Why no consistency? For people that prefer to write on lined paper, they are going to be wasting half of the book.
As I am an avid fountain pen user, there was no doubt that I would be testing this paper with fountain pen inks, which are water based. With the dozen or so inks I tested, there was no visible bleed through, but there was a small amount of show through. Every ink tested feathered to some degree - some worse than others, but only a few were visible without magnification. (J. Herbin's Perle Noire was the worst of the batch.) The paper surface is ok to write on. It's better with larger smoother nibs than thinner ones, and I probably wouldn't suggest this paper for dry writing pens/inks.
This isn't really a product that suits my needs, nor my tastes.
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These are the prices when buying directly from Piccadilly
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Thanks for the great review! I'd been wondering about their "wood free" paper. I use the Piccadilly notebooks sometimes, because they were available at my local Borders (and I had coupons). The paper in their notebooks is really good for the price, but they don't have the "wood free" paper. I dislike feathering, so you've saved me some $--I won't be ordering any of these!
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Kansas Gov.-elect Sam Brownback opposes a
quick repeal of this year's sales tax increase.
Brownback said Thursday he doesn't think the Legislature should
repeal the tax increase next year.
The idea has been floated by Rep. Owen Donohoe, a Shawnee
Republican, in a letter to colleagues.
The state sales tax rose from 5.3 percent to 6.3 percent in
July. Outgoing Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson said it was necessary
to prevent deep cuts in education funding and social services.
Brownback, a Republican, wouldn't endorse the tax increase, but
he said the state has to balance its budget.
He said he opposes repealing the increase "at this time."
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by Bo, August 31, 2012
Not all checks are for women and we make sure here at Checks Superstore that we offer nice selections of all sorts of checks for men to choose from. Today we are featuring our awesome hunting checks as we know that a large population of men love to hunt. Let's take a look at some of our best selling hunting checks.
Many of our customers love to hunt and we offer many types of game checks from deer to buffalo, bear to wild turkeys. Maybe you enjoy bigger game animals like moose and elk, well we have some great checks with beautiful images of these too. If fishing is something you love, check in on our fishing checks too. These are very popular with or fisherman friends.
Many guys love their hunting dogs, so we included many check designs of strong hunting animals that you will enjoy using on a regular basis too. We even have a large selection of just animal prints to use. What is your favorite?
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Scope Art Show
When: (Ended) December 3, 2013 - December 8, 2013
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Price: $25 and up
Event Phone Number: (212) 268-1522
The Scope Pavilion
1000 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach FL 33139
The Scope Pavilion
1000 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach FL 33139
Moving to their new location on the sands of Miami Beach, SCOPE returns to Miami in a 70,000 sq. ft. tent near Ocean Drive and 10th Street. Over 100 galleries and exhibitors will showcase a wide range of curated projects, open to the public from December 4th through the 8th. Special events include the Platinum VIP Gala and the VH1 Indoor Lounge featuring a special performance by a special You Oughta Know artist.
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Computer freezes when streaming video problems can be highly aggravating to deal with. While streaming video online was rare just a decade ago, this form of media has become one of the most commonly accessed and created elements of the internet. While originally YouTube was the only popular site that featured a high volume of streaming video, nearly every single website online these days features some form of streaming video. If you're going to navigate the web smoothly and with a minimum of frustration, you need to know how to solve this problem.
Most freezes during streaming video will only last for about half a minute, but occasionally these freezes will stop your video in its tracks entirely, forcing you to reload the page and try again. Both are caused by the same basic problems.
Most of the above problems slow down streaming video because they eat up system resources, and streaming video requires a large amount of free system resources to function properly.
Both of the above fixes are necessary to implement, but nothing is going to get your computer running back up to speed as quickly and as effectively as getting a registry cleaner and running it regularly. Your registry is a collection of keys that tell your computer and its programs the parameters for pretty much every action that they take. As you can imagine, a registry filled with errors will cause a lot of problems and can lead to computer freeze when streaming video issues.
While it's possible to fix all of these Top 7 Reasons to Regularly Repair The Windows Registry by manually editing your computer's registry, doing so in inadvisable. If you accidentally adjust or delete the wrong key in your computer's registry than you can cause serious harm to your system. It's a much better, and safer, idea to simply get yourself a registry cleaner and let that program clean out your keys and holes for you.


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Voter trust in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2010
Abstract: In this paper the trust of Dutch voters in the election process is examined. Since the Parliamentary elections of November 2006, large changes have surrounded the Dutch election process. The widely used voting machines that were introduced in the Netherlands in 1966 were decertified in 2007, causing a return to paper ballot voting. Discussions took place both in the media and in Parliament on election technologies and the trustworthiness of the election process. However, based on survey data of the last two Dutch elections, these discussions so far have not significantly influenced the trust of voters in the election process. Furthermore, more voters still prefer the use of voting machines and feel that these machines are trustworthier than paper ballots. The presence of a 'winner-loser' effect on trust in the election process is not found for the Netherlands. In the meantime, some demographic variables are found that influence the trust in the election process. In the Netherlands, male voters have slightly higher levels of trust than female voters. Young voters are more trusting than older voters. Higher educated voters and voters with a higher personal income level show higher levels of trust. Voters who attend religious services on a regular basis also have higher levels of trust in the election process. However, the influence of these demographic factors is not very large. Further research will be necessary to develop a more accurately prediction model for Dutch voter trust.


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Newly refurbished workshop with office and parking. The property is of steel frame and brickwork construction, with flat concrete and felted roof over, and roller shutter loading doors. The property is heated via oil-fired warm air heaters, and is co
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Lichfield Street, Tamworth
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Bucknall New Road, Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent
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City-centre offices with parking and voice-activated entry system. The offices are gas central heated and are located on the ground floor of an office building with window-frontage onto Bucknall New Road. Accommodation comprises entrance lobby, main
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Four Lanes End, Garshall Green, Stafford
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A stables /storage building with land to let in the village of Garshall Green, Milwich. The property comprises a brick built stables, divided into three sections, with a total area of 78.3 sq m (843 sq ft). There is a rough-surfaced yard area adjoini
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Great Oak Road, Bignall End, Stoke-On-Trent
£2,250 Monthly
Detached House - 4 Bedrooms
**BEING FULLY REFURBISHED THROUGHOUT**DUE FOR COMPLETION AUGUST/SEPTEMBER**AVAILABLE FOR VIEWINGS**CCTV SYSTEM**GATED OFF ROAD PARKING*** Detached Four Bedroom, Four Bathroom Property with approximately 2800 sq/ft of accommodation. Having a full CCTV
Listed with: Goodchilds Estate Agents & Lettings (Hanley)
Vine House,Penkridge ST19
£1,995 Monthly
Property - 4 Bedrooms
Great opportunity to rent this four bedroom detached property in rural location with extensive grounds and can be offered on a furnished or unfurnished basis.
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The Limes, Roman Park, Little Aston, Lichfield, B74 3AF
£1,800 Monthly
Bungalow - 4 Bedrooms
Paul Estates are pleased to offer this impressive four bedroom detached bungalow in the most sought out location in Little Aston, within easy reach of amenities and a number of quality schools. The spacious property boasts two large reception rooms,
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St Edward Street, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 5DR
£1,670 Monthly
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Occupying a most delightful positions in Staffordshire within easy access to the the Peak National Park, The town of leek is a thriving historic market town with high levels of street footfall on a daily basis. The property is located on the corner o
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Hassells Bridge Hassell Street Newcastle Under Lyme Staffordshire
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Flat - 4 Bedrooms
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Hassells Bridge Hassell Street Newcastle Under Lyme Staffordshire
£1,540 Monthly
Flat - 4 Bedrooms
APPLY WITH KEATES HULME AND SAVE MONEY! APPLICATIONS COST JUST £50 PER PERSON. STUDENT PROPERTY AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2016: Four bedroom apartments available in purpose built student accommodation with onsite warden, located within walking distan
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pic.me iPhone 4 Tripod Case in the Works
Back in December, 2010, I reviewed the pic.me Tripod Case for iPhone 3G/3GS. It's a lightweight and low profile case that that transforms into a multi-angle tripod stand. It also transforms into a viewing stand. Now, an iPhone 4 version of the case is in the works. [Read more]


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Frabill® Universal Tow Bar
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Frabill's Universal Tow Bar makes transporting your ice sled behind your ATV or snowmobile easier and safer than ever. The Tow Bar's universal design makes it suitable for virtually any sled, and its heavy-duty tubular steel construction provides the toughness a Tow Bar needs. Easy one pin attachment system lets you quickly connect the sled to any snowmobile or ATV without hassle. Compact design allows for easy storage. Includes all mounting hardware. Size: 38'' L x 17'' W x 1.5'' H. Weight: 9.5 lbs.
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On any given day the web is buxzzing with a new rumor about the next mobile device or technical advance. Of those rumor none grows faster then the speculation on what the next iPhone has in-store for us. It was just a few short months after the iPhone 5s was announced there were already rumors of what we can expect with the iPhone 6.
The rumors at the time were that we would be getting two iPhones that would have 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays. With new leaked part images it would seem that those rumors were indeed true and Apple will joining in the 'Phablet' age. It was the online blog MacRumor that first posted the leaked photos of the flex cable for two smartphones.
The rumor weren't just limited to the size of the iPhone(s). Earlier this week online newspaper The Gardian reported that the new iPhone(s) could come with a sapphire glass blend. In the article they talked to Prof Neil Alford of the department of materials at imperial College London. 18 months ago Apple had consulted with the professor.
"Apple has patents for both sapphire lamination – taking two different cuts of sapphire to induce strain and increase its resilience – and for fusing quartz or silica (glass) to sapphire," Alford explained to the Guardian. "So they could certainly do that."
According to gsmarena.com some of the other rumored features that we can expect are a 8MP primary camera and a secondary camera for video chatting. It will reportedly also run Apple's A8 dual-core 2GHz processor. Just like the previous iPhone it is expect to have 2GB of RAM and come in models with 16/32/64 and 128 GB of internal storage.


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Assessing the August Primary. Wayne County voters continue to be swindled. They deserve some of the mistreatment for voting reelecting John Conyers after 50 years of blight and despair but showed some semblance of reason. They voted Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano out in no uncertain terms. Ficano barely garnered 5% of the vote. That five-percent who voted for him were his cabinet members and appointees.
Voting Ficano out of office was a step in the right direction but a baby step. They reelected John Conyers and elected, Debbie Dingell, who won her primary battle only because her husband, John, is retiring. He's never had a real job in his adult life. Now he wants to retire after nearly 60 years in Congress. Ms. Dingell's only qualification is having a husband old enough to be her grandfather. She will likely be favored to win the seat. With a congressional salary, she'll be able to afford to hire an aide to wipe the oatmeal and prune juice dripping from her husband's chin.
Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence won the 14th Congressional District. Lawrence is a mayor of an Oakland County city. The biggest portion of the district covers the East Side of Detroit. The district looks like a constipated Python. It ranges from shores of Lake St. Claire, through the East Side up through a narrow sliver of Oakland County. Somehow, thinking the residents of Farmington Hills have the same concerns as Detroiters living off Cadieux is hideous. The state canvassers who devised this district had to have the same condition as the Python.
The 11th District which envelopes the northern tier of the 14th District saw challenger David Trott defeat Incumbent Kerry Bentivolio. Trott lives in Birmingham, which is in close proximity to West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills. The 11th District includes Birmingham, Waterford and reaches down to Canton. Too much glad-handing was going on when these districts were drawn.
People get the government they deserve, self-serving politicians who will feather their bed. When only 18% of voters show up at primary elections, explains why incompetent and corrupt politicians are elected to office.
Final Thought: Governor Snyder showed real leadership. He observed the damage caused by the storms in the Tri-County Area. He didn't shoot pool or play golf.


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Is it wrong to represent a dependent variable and a function using the same symbol? For example, can we write the parametric equations of a curve in xy-plane as $x=x(t)$ , $y=y(t)$ where $t$ is the parameter? For me function is different from dependent variable. But, in many calculus texts, sometimes, a dependent variable and a function are represented using the same symbol, why?
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When we write $y=f(x)$, we give names to the function, its input, and its output.
But not all of these names are needed at all times.
What if we want to give names to the input and output, but not to the function itself? Writing $y=\cdot (x)$ is typographically awkward. Writing $y=y(x)$ conveys as much information, and is less likely to be mistaken for a typo. I think "$x\mapsto y$" would be a better choice, but this is less common.


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Frank Franklin II, Associated Press
NEW YORK — This year's Big East championship will have a slight midwestern accent and a touch of a southern twang.
Neither first-time finalist Cincinnati nor seventh-seeded Louisville was in the league eight years ago. But they'll be front and center Saturday night when they play for the conference crown at Madison Square Garden.
"I think Conference USA has come to the Big Apple," Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said.
Cincinnati and Louisville both joined the Big East for the 2005-06 season, though their tournament experiences have hardly been the same. The Bearcats had never advanced beyond the quarterfinals before this year, yet they looked right at home in the spotlight Friday night.
Sean Kilpatrick keyed an early 3-point barrage and scored 18 points to help fourth-seeded Cincinnati hold on for a 71-68 upset of No. 2 Syracuse. In the second semifinal, Peyton Siva produced another near-flawless floor game and Louisville dominated No. 23 Notre Dame 64-50 to reach the title game for the third time in four years.
The championship matchup — between two unranked teams — will be the first Big East final without at least one original league member. The Cardinals lost at Cincinnati 60-56 on Feb. 23.
"I walked in the locker room and the guys had written 'We need to win one more' on the board. I didn't even have to write it," Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said.
The top-seeded Orange (31-2) began the day with an 11-game winning streak. Yancy Gates and the Bearcats (24-9) ended it with a dazzling shooting performance in the opening 14 minutes, taking a 17-point lead before holding on when Syracuse got within one in the final seconds.
"It's a huge win for our program," Cronin said. "I think what you've got to realize in college basketball is, you've got to allow teams the course of the season. Some teams get better."
Now, a squad that made headlines early in the season for a brawl against intra-city rival Xavier and sunk as low as losing at home to Presbyterian, has its seventh win over a ranked team this season, the most in the country.
Gates was one of four Cincinnati players suspended for the December fight with Xavier. He missed six games for throwing a blindside punch in the fracas. That all seems a long time ago.
The senior big man scored 18 points for Cincinnati, which rebounded from one of its worst 3-point efforts in the quarterfinals against No. 13 Georgetown with one of its best against the Orange.
Dion Waiters had 28 points for Syracuse, which closed within 69-68 with 5.4 seconds left when he made two free throws — even though he was trying to miss the second. Justin Jackson was all alone when he dunked with 1 second remaining for a three-point lead and Waiters' desperation heave from beyond midcourt was off at the buzzer.
"No matter who you're playing, the top half of our league, the game is never over," Cronin said. "Obviously it's like a home game for them, which makes the win even sweeter for us."
The sellout crowd of 20,057, which included plenty of orange, came alive as Syracuse chipped away at the lead. The loss shouldn't hurt the Orange's chances of being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, but it did keep them from getting an opportunity to play for a sixth Big East title and first since 2006.
It was the second straight year Syracuse lost in the semifinals. Connecticut beat the Orange 76-71 in overtime last season on its way to the tournament title.
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Emaar: no higher ambitions than Burj Khalifa
Dubai's Emaar Properties has denied any plans to construct another skyscraper in Dubai that is taller than Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
Some media reports earlier quoted company chairman Mohamed Alabbar saying in an interview to CNN that the company planned to build a new skyscraper in the emirate that will be world's tallest.
"In a television conversation with CNN during April this year, company chairman Mohamed Alabbar discussed tall towers and modern technologies that make it possible for Dubai to build another tall building. The current media reports use this April conversation as a source which does not spell a firm decision," an Emaar spokesperson said.
"Emaar, however, does not have any current plans to develop a building taller than Burj Khalifa in Dubai," the spokesperson said.
Dubai's 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa is currently the tallest tower in the world. It will be overtaken by Jeddah's Kingdom Tower, which is expected to be more than one kilometre tall.
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The Manhattan Christian College volleyball team defeated Central Christian (McPherson) in three games Monday night.
MCC won 25-23, 25-18 and 25-17 to improve to 12-4 on the season.
The Crusaders will be hosting NAIA opponent Johnson & Wales University (Denver) on Friday.
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