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Diary of a Goldwinger , Part 11
Caminha, Northen Portugal was the venue for the 2009 Goldwing Club of Portugal Treffen.
1017 ks from home according to the sat-nav on the bike. Having never been to a Portugese Treffen we decided to give it a go. Having heard several stories about it we booked in for the camping and all the meals. This is the only Treffen that caters for you if you want it.
We set off with the trailer in tow and headed for Madrid expecting a 10 hour trip. I have noticed that since the credit crunch or crisis as they call it here, the roads are a lot quieter now. We had a quiet trip and as we hit the 700ks we noticed a big drop in the temperature and the clouds were getting very black, it started to rain and the temp went down and down before hitting 8 degrees. We rode through a few showers and arrived at the camp site after an 11 hour journey.
The camp site was OK, looking a bit on the tired side but we soon found our pitch and put the tent up amongst the many wingers that were on site. That all sorted it was a quick shower and down to the bar. A very small bar but anything will do after the trip. We chatted to the wingers that were there,from many different countries. Had a meal and retired to bed.
Up and about the next morning was the plan, into the town of Caminha for coffee and toast and a walk around. What a lovely little town it was, very colourfull in the main square with its many cafes and shops. The weather was not very good but we had a good walk around,found the local super market, stocked up and made our way back to the site, parked the bike and walked the short distance to the beach, sat down ordered a coffee and within 5 mins we were hit by rain and boy did it rain, this turned out to be the pattern for the whole weekend, heavy showers and sunshine. Friday night was into a marquee on the local football pitch, a 200 metre walk away for a typical Portuguese meal, roast pork and rice with salad. A few beers,in fact quite a few beers, a stagger back to the tent and a good nights sleep.
Heavy rain fell during the night and it was still raining when we got up. During a bright spell we got on the bike and headed back into Spain to a town called Pontevedra, a big town with lots of shops (bad choice) after a bit of lunch it was back on the bike and headed for Caminha. Petrol is 24 cents per litre more expensive in Portugal so we filled up before the border. We also took note of all the overhead gantry's displaying that there was a campaign on about speeding motorcyclists in the area and saw a few unmarked Guardia civil cars on our way back. Saturday night was presentation night and we were all transported by coach to a local town to a very nice hotel for a very nice meal. There were 17 countries represented at the Treffen, France took the top spot, Spain came in 3rd ( I think ) A great night and we got back to site about 1 am. Sunday again was a wet day and we rode into the town for the parade of nations. A manic 20 min trip around Caminha, lots of locals out on the streets to see the bikes as normal. Back to the marquee for another meal of Portuguese food, a few beers and off to bed.
Monday morning at 2am we were hit by a severe thunder storm, heavy rain and wind saw us both holding on to the tent and we were lucky not get blown away, some tents did on site and a large branch came off a tree onto a camper, luckily nobody was injured but a very rough night to say the least. At 6 am during a lull in the weather we packed our soggy belongings into the trailer and set off for home. Torrential rain for 3 hours on the way, forcing us to pull over at one stage, the rain stopped and we encountered 80 /90 kilometre winds for the next 4 hours, very poor riding conditions but we carried on and it took us 14 hours to do the 1000 + kms home.
Despite the weather we both enjoyed our first Portuguese Treffen and found the people friendly and really enjoyed their company and their food. Next year is still on the coast but further down the south of Portugal, we will be booking in for that one. 202 bikes inscribed for the weekend and the Portuguese club were pleased with that number. Not a big Treffen but a good one.
Next week sees us at the Spanish Treffen in Lloret de Mar. So watch this space …
Ride safe, Steve and Lorna.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Catalunya MotoGP 2009 - "Mama Mia"
For once I was glad I wasn't at the track alongside the 88,500 fans that watched the Catalunya MotoGP. There is no way I could have got the view that the BBC gave me watching Lorenzo and Rossi in the most closely fought race of the season. Valentino Rossi commented on Jorge Lorenzo taking pole position for the race that maybe if he had gone to the toilet before the final qualifying session he would have been on pole instead, it was that close.
And the race didn't disappoint as they duelled with each other wheel to wheel for 25 laps. At 200 mph down the straight Lorenzo passed Rossi with 13 laps to go and still they stayed locked together. With 3 laps left Rossi took the lead back from Lorenzo and they then both went all out for the win. Rossi was out to re-establish his pride having been beaten by Stoner and Lorenzo in front of his home crowd at the Italian MotoGP. Lorenzo wanted to show his home crowd that he could beat the Doctor.
For a couple of the corners it was sharp intakes of breath for the viewers as it looked almost certain that their desire to win was going to leave them both face down in the gravel. The superb Yamahas kept their grip and on the last corner of the last lap Rossi nipped through to take the victory. As Rossi commented at the press conference - "Mama Mia"!!
Stoner, suffering with some sort of bug, came in third battling to hold off Dovizioso. Capirossi had a great result coming in 5th ahead of the injured Pedrosa.
The overall results show that there are now three joint leaders of the MotoGP World Championship – Lorenzo, Rossi and Stoner – now that's what you call close.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Trackmaster Timing on Android Phones
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The Ice Climbers, named Ice Climber in Japan, are a pair consisting of a little boy named Popo and a little girl named Nana, who originate from the NES game Ice Climber. Though they have only had one single game of their own, aside from VS. Ice Climber, they have made frequent crossover appearances in other Nintendo games, including Game & Watch Gallery 4, WarioWare: Twisted!, WarioWare: Touched!, Tetris DS, a mention in Game & Watch Gallery 3, and another appearance in NES Remix. Both Ice Climbers are playable fighters in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Golden Eclipse.
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- : Ice Shot - Each Ice Climbers fire a block of ice that travel along the ground, bouncing off walls. When used in midair, the Ice Climbers will gain a slight boost in the air, but it will only work once before landing on the ground. (1-3%)
> : Squall Hammer- Both Ice Climbers spin around together while moving along the ground, consisting of many hits. It can also be used as a recovery move by mashing the special button, which causes both Ice Climbers to rise in the air. It gains more distance when both Ice Climbers are present. (2-3% (loop))
^ : Belay - The leading Ice Climber throws the following Ice Climber in the air with a rope. The following Ice Climber then pulls the leader upwards. If there is a nearby edge, the following Climber will target it, leading to a safe recovery for both Ice Climbers. Each Ice Climber become helpless after the move is used. (16%)
v : Blizzard - Each Ice Climbers blows icy wind from their hands, damaging nearby opponents. When the move is used on the ground, the partner will shoot in the direction opposite of the leader. (1-2%)
F : Iceberg - The Ice Climbers summon a huge Iceberg into the middle of the field. Touching the iceberg results in freeze damage, and possibly becoming frozen. Being frozen when pushed off the edge can lead to a fatal death, as the frozen player falls with full speed. (2% (hit), 5% (frozen))

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How do I get my father physical therapy?
My father has esophageal cancer and has lost a tremendous amount of weight due to the fact he cannot swallow solid foods. He is being fed through a TPN now, he is in need of physical therapy, and I do not know how to go about getting the help he needs. Please help.
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The member of the health care team who is usually best equipped to handle this question is a social worker. There are home care companies who can provide some physical therapy in the home if the patient is physically strong enough but it usually requires a doctor's order. Ask your father's oncologist how to access these services through your hospital or medical facility.
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Home care is definitely the best route here. Although we as physical therapists have to weigh the caloric intake with the caloric expenditure.
What does this mean?
If I am requiring my patient to work off more than he is eating just to make him stronger, I'm doing him a disservice. I'm actually contributing to his weight loss and weakening state.
A physician's order can start the home health care process and your physical therapists can monitor your dad's needs.
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Master Blender & Brewer, Mikkeller Baghaven
West Coaster covers the San Diego brewing scene, which may lead one to wonder why we're featuring an interview with an employee of globe-spanning, Denmark-based Mikkeller. It's because Ehren Schmidt recently resigned from Vista's Toolbox Brewing Company, requiring him not only to relocate to a country where he doesn't even speak the language, but also bid adieu to a brewery to which he brought a great deal of prestige and, oh yeah, perhaps the finest brewing region on the planet. It's an opportunity that came up fast, but a decision he put a lot of thought into. We sat down with him shortly before he boarded a plane for Copenhagen to find out how this came about and what awaits him across the Atlantic.
How did the prospect of employment with Mikkeller arise?
[Mikkeller owner] Mikkel [Borg Bjergsø] stopped by the brewery early one morning and I was in the middle of examining a new wild-yeast isolate under the microscope. He got to check it out and asked me a bunch of questions. We sampled through beers in barrels and sort of hit it off from there.
What does your new position entail?
I will be responsible for all of the beer production in a new oak-aging facility in Copenhagen at Mikkeller Baghaven. Baghaven is Danish for "backyard". Nothing has previously been released from this project. It is still very new.
What at the tops of your priority list coming in?
I'm going to continue to focus on oak-aged wild ales and farmhouse-style beers with an emphasis on local microflora. I'm most excited about the Koelschip trailer—a mobile koelship/beer-transfer tank—and the chance to work and collaborate with some top European Brewers. Also, I plan on collecting wild yeast in Denmark just like I did in California. When I travel, I always try to find a way to collect local organisms (when applicable). I plan on incorporating as much local microflora into the beers as possible.
What are some of your greatest Toolbox accomplishments and what will you miss most about San Diego?
Toolbox was a time of incredible growth in my career. What we accomplished in the two years I was there is amazing. We have made some great beers and I've met some wonderful people. I'm grateful for the exposure I've gotten locally and nationally during my tenure as head brewer there. As for what I'll miss, the Mexican food, the amazing weather and hills. There aren't many hills in Denmark.
What are your feelings on the big move?
Moving is always difficult, especially to a new country, and with dogs and a girlfriend. I am incredibly excited and stressed out. Denmark isn't the easiest country to get a work visa in, but luckily I got one. I'm grateful for everyone who has supported Toolbox and myself through thick and thin. We've been through a lot in a short amount of time and without the loyalists I don't think I would be where I am today. It truly is an amazing feeling. I want thank each and every supporter from the bottom of my heart. There will be more beers!
Owner & Brewmaster, Mikkeller Brewing San Diego
Last year, 10-year Denmark-based gypsy brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø hammered down stakes in Miramar, transforming AleSmith Brewing Co.'s original brewery into Mikkeller Brewing San Diego. His brewing team spent most of 2016 getting the feel of the facility. Now that group feels ready to be more aggressive in its fermentation activities. Bjergsø has vowed his brick-and-mortar will debut one new small-batch beer on a weekly basis beginning January 12 at its tasting room with a trio of new offerings: bourbon barrel-aged Beer Geek Brunch imperial oatmeal coffee stout, Fruit Face raspberry-coffee Berliner weisse and Uklar IPA. Future "San Diego Beer Release Series" debuts will take place every Saturday starting January 21. Keeping up with such a rapid rate of innovation and execution is no easy task. Curious about this and what it's been like for this world-famous brewer to find his feet in San Diego, we sat down with him to pick his brain.
WC: What are some surprises you've encountered in San Diego?
Mikkel Borg Bjergsø: It's been surprising how different the beer scene is in the U.S. compared to Europe. There are so many great players—especially in San Diego—and so many great beers. You really have to make an effort to stand out. I think with the new special-release series we will.
WC: What drove the decision to release a new beer every week?
MBB: Brewing a lot of different beers and beer-styles is in our DNA, and it was only a matter of time before we set out to launch a similar release schedule in San Diego. At this point we have an amazing crew in place, the brewing equipment is all dialed in, and our management setup is so in tune with our vision that we are confident now is the time. Most people will associate us with a hectic output of beers in all styles, shapes and formats, which is exactly what they should expect. That, and the totally unexpected, of course. Having your own brewery opens up a world of possibilities that are not usually doable when working in someone else's brewery, whether it's contract brewing or on a collaboration basis.
WC: What is your day-to-day involvement like regarding brewing at Mikkeller SD?
MBB: We've had to adjust to both the physical distance and time difference, but I am fortunate in the sense that I have to rely on the very capable hands of our head brewer Bill Batten and his team of skilled assistant brewers. It's still my recipes and vision, which we will discuss through our daily email chains and our weekly conference-call.
WC: What other interesting or exciting developments are on the horizon for Mikkeller SD?
MBB: There are a lot of super-exciting things under development, but the sour and barrel-aged beer programs are two projects we are putting a lot of effort into. We have such a creative team over there, and it seems that no matter how crazy the idea and/or recipe I throw at them, they enthusiastically turn those into great beer. We are also working on new collaborations with other breweries, and non-brewers as well.
WC: You've spent more time than ever in San Diego. What are some of your favorite local breweries?
MBB: I hate to name favorite breweries as it pushes the rest to the side. In the San Diego area there are obviously a ton of amazing brewers, from the old guys like Stone Brewing, Green Flash Brewing Co. and Ballast Point Brewing, to the young guns like Abnormal Beer Co., Toolbox Brewing Co., Modern Times Beer Co. and many others. I still have a big heart for our friends at AleSmith, so if I have to name one…
This weekend, long-awaited international collaborative project Mikkeller Brewing San Diego opened its doors. The place was mobbed, both by everyday customers stopping in for a taste of the numerous beers in the tasting room, and next-level beer geeks assembling in the lot behind the brewery for a beer-festival that included various local interests as well as hard-to-get beers from cult-favorite brewing companies outside San Diego. When the dust cleared, I was left with a sated palate, a bunch of notes and some photos to share with West Coaster readers. Before we get started, skeptics, haters and trolls will be glad to know that I'm leaving my opinions on beer aroma, flavor and quality out of this. It's only right. While I do not work for Mikkeller Brewing San Diego, I do work for AleSmith Brewing Company, the founder and CEO of which also has a substantial ownership stake in MBSD. So, I'll share the basics so you know what to expect going in. But I'll also share a bit of insight from behind this operation, because there are some fun little items that I'm sure San Diego beer enthusiasts will be interested in.
For those who somehow haven't heard the story of how Mikkeller SD (as we affectionately refer to it) came to be, here's the basics. After 19 years of brewing in a small, off-the-beaten-path set of business suites on Cabot Drive in Miramar, AleSmith owner Peter Zien signed on the dotted-line for a 105,500-square-foot facility two blocks away on Empire Street (which the City of San Diego later renamed AleSmith Court). That left Zien to decide what to do with AleSmith's original facility. A number of companies (even those many craft-beer fans would politely refer to as "unsavory") came knocking, but instead of entertaining the highest-bidder, Zien pursued an idea based on a nearly decade-old friendship with Danish gypsy-brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergso.
Prior to starting the business he would dub Mikkeller, Bjergso reached out to Zien as a homebrewer to a pro and asked for tips on integrating coffee into an oatmeal stout that, after this question was answered, would go on to be Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast. That beer made a name for Mikkeller, which has since gone on to become an international force worldwide…despite the fact Bjergso has never had a brewery to call his own. Looking to hand over his spot, turnkey-style, he reached out to Bjergso to see if he had any interest in a brick-and-mortar. The answer is yes and the rest is 15 months of history that consists solely of the duo and the recently assembled Mikkeller SD staff working hard to bring this project to life.
Though installed in the same spot as AleSmith's former tasting room, Mikkeller's recognizably quirky artistic stamp is all over the place. The floors have been painted turquoise, a mural featuring two very basic (and very flexible), iconic illustrated characters takes up the west wall of the sampling space with additional print art adorning the walls. AleSmith's curved orange wall has been replaced with contemporary wooden slats that, when matched with modern light-fixtures, are a bit reminiscent of some of MIkkeller's bars and bottle-shops, of which there are more than a dozen sprinkled across the globe. Best of all, the smallish space has been added to, care of the conversion of some of AleSmith's former office-space into an overflow seating area just off the main entrance.
The opening-weekend tap-list consisted of 18 beers. It was important to the team at Mikkeller SD to offer a wide array of beers and styles, but I can say from witnessing what into it that it wasn't easy. Delayed licensing and permitting alone made for a tough row to hoe, but we're talking 18 beers here. That's more than many breweries have to offer after having been open for months. And then one must consider the process of getting these beers dialed in to where Bjergso, who spent the majority of his time 10,000 kilometers away in Denmark but came up with base ideas and recipes for the Mikkeller SD beers, was comfortable with them. Beers would be brewed, fermented, then shipped to Denmark. Three of those initial beers—an American pale ale, India pale ale and porter—went through several iterations and were on at AleSmith's current tap-room over a span of several months. They took a great deal of time and consideration, leaving a mere 15 beers to be brewed before last weekend's opening—about six weeks down the road.
This is where the story gets pretty cool and the "creative-partnership" between AleSmith and Mikkeller that this new business is labeled became just that. Zien, who has been instrumental in early recipe-refinement (nobody knows the brewery like the man who built it and worked it up from the day's when it was comprised solely of dairy equipment), pulled out some homebrew recipes and methodologies. Members of AleSmith's brewing team collaboratively assisted, most notably on Mikkeller SD's first bottled beer, an English-style old ale dubbed Ny Verden. Other beers that made it in time for the opening were a Belgian-style blonde ale, saison, trippel and dark strong ale, several more IPAs (including a Brettanomyces-spiked offering that I really enjoyed FWIW), a Berliner weisse, a pilsner (and a version of that beer with blood orange), an imperial stout and numerous members of the Beer Geek family of coffee beers.
Overseeing all of this work and brewing all of these beers (with the help of his crew, of course) was head brewer Bill Batten. After well over a decade with AleSmith, he knows the Cabot Drive system like the back of his hand, so when Mikkeller SD was set to become a reality, both he and Zien knew it made sense for this industrious and adventurous brewer to transfer himself, and with him a ton of history and knowhow, to the new business. While I can't get too opinionated here, I can share that we at AleSmith are extremely proud of Batten, who went as far as roasting some of the coffee for the Beer Geek beers at his own residence. He is the glue that held together a rapidly developing project with the eyes of beer-obsessed people all over the planet.
And the fact he got by with a little help from his friends just makes the story all that much more San Diego in nature. Such camaraderie and willingness to do whatever it takes to make great beer is what this culture is all about, and it's a big reason why Bjergso was excited to plunk down his first full-time brewery in America's Finest City. Kudos to a good decision, cheers to a local beer landmark staying that way via a new identity, and props to the beer-lovers who have made and continue to make San Diego the very special place that it is.
In mid-December 2014, Mikkel Borg Bjergsø of Mikkeller visited San Diego to brew a collaboration beer with Peter Zien AleSmith Brewing Co. The result? Beer Geek Speedway. Described by the brewers as equal parts Speedway Stout and Beer Geek Brunch, the ~11% Imperial Oatmeal Stout will feature Kopi Luwak coffee beans and will go on sale online this coming Monday, January 19th. Celebrating its 20th year, this will be AleSmith's first 2015 specialty release. Click here for more info.
The relationship between Mikkeler and AleSmith is long-standing. "Beer Geek Brunch is definitely inspired by Speedway Stout," says Bjergsø. "I used to e-mail Peter asking him how to brew with coffee back when I was a homebrewer."
On the beer scene in Denmark, "Copenhagen has changed a lot in terms of beer culture. We're seeing much more diversity." He continues, "All of our beer bars were dark, walls littered with beer signs and the seats filled by big men with big bellies. We're now seeing more women involved."
The biggest enemy of craft beer in Denmark? "Bad beer. If a potential craft beer drinker tastes a bad beer, it might ruin the entire thing for him." In addition, "Beer is much more niche, and we have to fight against bigger breweries that are essentially a part of Danish culture."
While in San Diego, Bjergsø toured several spots including Stone Brewing Co. Liberty Station, Alpine Beer Co. and Societe.


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The arrival of the new Ferrari GTC4Lusso has changed the sporty four-seater four-wheel drive Grand Tourer concept forever. The GTC4Lusso's name references illustrious predecessors, such as the 330 GTC or its 2+2 sister model, the 330 GT – one of Enzo Ferrari's favourites – and the 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, which represented a sublime combination of elegance and high performance. The number 4 alludes to the car's four comfortable seats.
The Ferrari FF is a monster, a four-wheel-drive bread van with a 6.3-liter V12 that people like us have adored since it arrived in 2011. It's great to drive and better to look at, a shooting brake with more power, less practicality, and a higher price tag than pretty much anything else in this shape. Ferrari has sold almost 6,000 of them, handily beating its target of 800 per year. It was a success by any measure.
Its replacement, the GTC4Lusso, might sound like something out of Ferrari's mad, bad Sixties brochures, but under the skin is pretty much the same aluminum-alloy space frame of the FF. Ferrari has carefully listened to its critics on practicality, price, and power, and duly made the GTC more powerful, pricier, and not much more practical.
There have been some slight stylistic adjustments. A scallop was cut into the front fender and door skins to reduce the visual weight, and the roofline has been extended, terminating in a slight spoiler at the waist, which is said to improve aerodynamic efficiency by up to six percent. It looks sharp and mean on its 20-inch five-spoke alloys, although some of the detail, such as the wing vents and the absurdly long hood, verge on the cartoonish.
The engine drives a rear-mounted, seven-speed, twin-clutch transaxle and then there is that extraordinary four-wheel-drive system, which consists of a simple, helical-cut, hydraulically controlled gearbox running off the front of the crankshaft. It weighs 100 pounds and has two speeds plus reverse and a couple of Haldex-type clutches to activate each wheel when required in first to fourth gears and at speeds below 124 mph. New for the GTC is a ZF rear-steering system, a ram powered by an electric motor that pushes the rear suspension against its bushings to give a couple of degrees steering in either direction. Driving these systems, together with the F1 electronic rear differential, electronic stability system, magnetorheological adjustable dampers, and the torque vectoring, is handled by Ferrari's fourth-generation side-slip-control system. It's a mighty task of calibration and we'll come back to this, but the system is designed to improve the car's stability and agility from fast to slow speeds on bone dry or icy road surfaces. Ferrari claims a five percent improvement in responsiveness (the reduction in steering delay) and an eight percent improvement in agility (the reduction in steering response).


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How To: Root Motorola Droid X With One ClickLife gets easy for Motorola Droid X users as they can now root their devices with a relatively easy rooting guide. This guide is far simpler and easier than its predecessor which required you to have comprehensive rooting and command interface knowledge. Here is the step by step guide on rooting your Motorola Droid X easily.
Step 1: Download DroidXRoot.zip and extract all folder on your desktop (Links Posted at the bottom of the post)
Step 2: On your phone, Go to Setting >> Applications >> Development >> Enable DEBUGGING Mode
Step 3: Connect your Droid X to your computer.
Step 4: Launch the DroidXRoot.exe
Step 5: Just Click ROOT ME to root your Droid X
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farming under fire
UN predictions fall short: Gaza uninhabitable today
Dec 21, 2014, RT Op-Edge
-By Eva Bartlett
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Five months ago the world watched in horror as the bully of the Middle East, the racist, colonial settler state of so-called israel, launched the most brutal massacre on the Palestinians of Gaza since the Nakba (perhaps more brutal, Palestinian friends in Gaza have said).
Lasting over twice as long as the 2008-09 war on Gaza (formerly the most-brutal massacre since the Nakba), and killing over 800 more Palestinians than in the attack six years ago, the July-August 51-day offensive killed 2,131 Palestinians and injured over 11,000, and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, buildings, businesses, hospitals, Gaza's only power plant and other key components of Gaza's infrastructure.
Palestinian and foreign activists and journalists within the 40 kilometer-long strip of open-air prison tweeted and live-streamed images more horrific than the best Hollywood productions. Weathered journalists broke down sobbing at the sight of Palestinian civilians, especially children being targeted like prey by one of the world's most wickedly powerful armies and navies. Doctors who have seen the mutilated corpses and scarcely-living bodies of Palestinian elderly, men, women and children many times before were yet still appalled by the brutality of these latest attacks.
Worldwide, protesters, journalists of integrity called the bombardment of Gaza genocidal (as israeli officials and politicians called for genocide). One of the most shocking of many images was that of 4-year-old Saher Abu Namous's half blown-off head, his father cradling him and wailing. Entire families were murdered in this latest israeli offensive. Not for the first time, the israeli army bombed schools hosting internally displaced, hospitals (including a rehabilitation hospital for disabled and invalid), and entire neighborhoods.
As with prior military operations, the israelis in 2014 targeted water and sewage lines, electricity networks, hospitals, primary health centers, ambulances and medics, bridges and major roads, key governmental buildings, schools and universities.They went further and attacked water, electricity and sanitation personnel, killing at least 14, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) noted. The resulting electricity, water and sanitation crises are such that until November, power was out 18 hours a day, and just 10 percent of the 1.8 million Palestinians get water once a day (for a matter of hours). As of mid-November, Oxfam reported, power cuts were 12 hours per day in some areas.
While the bombs rained down, some iIsraelis pulled up seats to watch the bloodshed, as 21st Century Wire noted: "Old sofas, garden chairs, battered car seats and upturned crates provide seating for the spectators. …Some bring bottles of beer or soft drinks and snacks. …Nearly all hold up smartphones to record the explosions or to pose grinning, perhaps with thumbs up, for selfies against a backdrop of black smoke."
The israeli army used the same banned weapons on Palestinians this summer that they've used in the past two massacres, as well as "armour piercing bombs" which have "high explosive capabilities" and were used on Palestinian homes. Weapons-seekers flocked to israel after seeing the effects of its weaponry and technology. israel's weapons industry thrives with each massacre of the Gaza testing ground.
Strangling and starving Gaza
In September 2005, the 8,500 israeli colonists finally, unwillingly left their homes on stolen land. With no Jewish colonists in Gaza, israel has since been free to lock-down all of Gaza and bomb whenever the whim occurs, with no fear of any israeli loss of life. The israelis have waged wars against Gaza every year or two since pulling their colonists out.
Since the June 28, 2006 israeli repeated bombing of Gaza's sole power plant—destroying all six transformers – Palestinians in Gaza have neither been allowed to import the transformers and materials needed to rehabilitate the plant, nor offered an alternative solution. Through the now-destroyed tunnels, Palestinians did import smaller transformers and got the power plant hobbling again, but never to full capacity.
some news from Palestine
Gaza's Dream[VIDEO]:
Press TV, Israel ignoring health conditions of Palestinian inmates:
"The Tel Aviv regime is turning a blind eye to the deteriorating health conditions of about 1,500 sick Palestinians behind bars in Israeli prisons.
Figures show around 100 of the Palestinian inmates with health problems have been diagnosed with cancer and chronic diseases and are in need of immediate care.
Human rights organizations have called on Israel to immediately release the Palestinian inmates diagnosed with serious illnesses.
"Any one visiting the Israeli hospitals, where sick Palestinian prisoners are kept, discovers that the jails might be better. We have always believed that the appropriate solution to treat the prisoners is through releasing them," said Tayseer al-Ali, with the Palestinian Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights.
Reports say over 7,000 Palestinians are being held in Israeli jails. Approximately 2,000 of the Palestinian prisoners have been arrested over the past few months.
On September 26, the Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies said Israel was holding 540 Palestinians without trial, showing an increase in the number of these cases over the past six years."
Sam Bahour, Why must Gaza wait in the dark?:
"When I asked my colleague in Gaza about her biggest dream, her answer made an impression on me: "I dream of what life would be like with 24-hour electricity." CONTINUE READING
ramping up the sadism
*June 29 photo from Gaza. photo: Fadi Badwan
Unsurprisingly, one hears little to no news of Gaza these days, and utterly distorted news on Palestine in general. The ongoing manufactured crises that the 1.8 million Palestinians of Gaza have been suffering since at least 2006 is old news, their misery only now and then newsworthy.
There are murmurs from the usual suspects in the Zionist state's administration about those damn rockets from Gaza, with the vitriol of Lieberman flowing, calling to re-occupy Gaza. The thing is, while they did pull their roughly 8,000 colonists out in 2005, the Israelis never stopped occupying Gaza and, contrary to their obligations as an occupier, the various genocidal policies Israel has implemented over the years have served to further the ethnic cleansing of Palestine they have shown such talent for.
The corporate media has ignored, under-reported, or distorted the following important news items on Palestine:
Palestinian teen abducted, killed in Jerusalem
"A Palestinian teenager from occupied east Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday, hours after Israelis rampaged through the city calling for Arabs to die in "revenge" for the deaths of three settlers by unknown assailants.
…the body, discovered in a forest in the area of Deir Yassin, was charred and showed signs of violence.
Ma'an also reported that the body had been burned."
In Heinous Crime by Israeli Settlers, Palestinian Child Kidnapped, Tortured and Killed and His Body Mutilated in Occupied Jerusalem
"In one of the most heinous crimes committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the oPt, a group of Israeli settlers kidnapped Mohammed Hussein Abu Khudair, 16, from the vicinity of his family's house in Shu'fat neighborhood in the north of occupied Jerusalem, subjected him to brutal torture, and then killed him.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 05:00 on Wednesday, 02 July 2014, 5 Israeli settlers kidnapped the child from the vicinity of his family's house in Shu'fat neighborhood in the north of occupied Jerusalem. A few hours later, the Israeli police declared that they found the child's body in forest lands near "Givat Shaul" settlement, adjacent to Deir Yassin village, west of Jerusalem. The police confirmed that signs of torture and burns were seen on the child's body."
Geopolitiks: Eva Bartlett of InGaza on Human Rights in Palestine
Feb 19, 2014, Media Monarchy & Geopolitiks
I had an enjoyable discussion with James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy for his new series: Geopolitiks.
"Eva Bartlett follows in the footsteps of Rachel Corrie." As she continues her US speaking tour about human rights in Palestine, activist and journalist Eva Bartlett joins us for the second episode of Geopolitiks to talk about her years spent volunteering in Gaza documenting the various angles of life under siege, from the "peace" talks to Israeli war crimes and much more.
Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza
first published at Crescent International, Eva Bartlett
[see Observations from Occupied Palestine, Part 1]
Unusually heavy torrential rains last month inundated much of Gaza, which was already reeling from a tight Israeli-Egyptian siege since 2006. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected with more than 5,000 evacuated from their homes. Power outages of 20-22 hours daily, or complete days, have become the norm, affecting every facet of life in Gaza.
The Gaza Strip, a 40 km long, 12 km at its widest point, 365 square metre strip of land is host to 1.7 million Palestinians, two thirds of whom are refugees.
While Gaza's suffering extends decades back, since 2006 much of the world has cut ties with Gaza, and since 2007 Israel, supported by Egyptian and Western powers, has enforced a full blockade on the Strip.
It is not merely an economic blockade, but rather a full lock-down on movement, goods, access to health care outside, and limiting the import of fuel, cooking gas, and medicines, to name some items, into the enclave. It impacts on every facet of life imaginable.
In November 2008, I joined a boat of European Parliamentarians sailing from Cyprus to the Strip, attempting to symbolically break the blockade. Apart from the act of solidarity, it was also my sole means of entering Gaza. With all but one border crossing controlled by israel, and the remaining crossing by the complicit Mubarak rule in Egypt, entry by sea was the only option. However, the outcome was not certain: israel also controls Palestinian waters.
Brother of Palestinian Man in Gaza Killed by Israeli Sniper Speaks
Raddad's testimony is the story of Palestinians, again and again, it is the story not shown in the corporate media. [interview from IMEU]
Dec 26, 2013, Jehad Saftawi/IMEU
Raddad Hamad was collecting scrap with his brother Odeh when Odeh was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers on December 20, 2013. CONTINUE READING


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Imagine two scenes in two different parts of the world.
In the first scenario, three hooded gunmen raid an embassy. After a bloody gun battle, the terrorists take the Ambassador and other survivors as hostages. They demand the release of certain prisoners, or they will destroy the embassy and kill their hostages.
In the second scenario, three grey-suited executives raid a country. The collapsing economy has left the government powerless to administer essential services. Failed crops, internal corruption, and natural disasters have taken their toll. People are desperate and dying. The IMF and World Bank executives outline the terms and conditions of a $10 billion loan.
The terrorists in the first scene are eventually captured and executed for terrorist crimes. The bankers in the second scene are rewarded for their successful hijacking of the country's economy. Their corporations will be paid many times the loan over the next decade. The debt trap will cripple and imprison the country's future earning capacity. The executives receive bonuses and promotions that take their collective salary to a sum greater than the salaries of all the lowest paid workers in the country they had signed up to the trap.
Over the past sixty years, the IMF and the World Bank have forced economic 'development' that benefits the wealthy lenders and multinational corporations in the industrialized north and enslaves the world's poor majority in developing and third world countries. These international loan sharks have hijacked the economies of more than 100 countries. Loans, international assistance, and debt relief are given only when countries agree to conditions set by the Bank and the Fund. Free trade, market liberalization, and privatization of essential resources and services are demanded if 'financial stability' is to be achieved. While crippling interest payments force cuts in health care, education and other social services for millions of people around the globe; the banks and corporations that 'rescued' those countries report record profits. Humanitarian crises, like wars, have become lucrative business for those who have money to lend.
Debt Menace
Twenty years back, economist J. W. Smith warned, "The size of the debt trap can be controlled to claim all surplus production of a society, but if allowed to continue to grow the magic of compound interest dictates it is unsustainable. The third world debt had been compounding at over 20 percent per year between 1973 and 1993, from $100 billion to 1.5 trillion [only $400 billion of the $1.5 trillion was actually borrowed money. The rest was runaway compound interest]. If Third World debt continues to compound at 20 percent per year, the $117 trillion debt will be reached in eighteen years and the $13.78 quadrillion debt in thirty-four years." We are getting there. Fast.
The debt trap robs all the surplus production of an entire society and forces a country to work for nothing. This form of terrorism punishes the children, abandons the sick, and enslaves the adults. Every hour, one Filipino child dies because of debt-related poverty. Millions of children die every year in the Third World because they are too poor to buy food or medicines. Their families work extraordinary hours to earn less than $2 a day. Filthy slums with inhumane living conditions are prolific in most countries in the third world.
An estimated 150 million children live and work on the streets in the developing world, including 50 million in Latin America. Although many of these street children have some family links, they spend most of their lives on the streets begging, selling trinkets, shining shoes or washing cars to supplement their families' income. These children rarely go beyond a fourth-grade education. 25 million children without families live in the streets with other street children. They sleep in abandoned buildings, under bridges, in doorways, or in public parks.
In these extra ordinary times, those of us who live in the luckier countries relish our wealth by consuming goods manufactured in third world countries by slaves, many of them children. Essentially, these children are worse off than slaves of past centuries who were at least housed, fed and clothed. Despite internationally agreed convention of rights for the child, approx. one billion children lack basic human needs in South Asia, Africa, Vietnam, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. The UN estimated that nearly 3.5 million children died as a result of armed conflict in the last two decades alone.
Africa has been the worst sufferer in recent years. In the early 1980s, one in ten of the world's poorest lived in Africa; now the figure is about one in three. It gets worse. Anything extra our third-world worker can earn will go into debt service payments. The banks profit, and the shareholders increase their wealth. Sub-Saharan Africa pays close to $30 billion every year in debt service. These countries are experiencing a pandemic with terrible consequences. In South Africa one in five people has HIV-AIDS, and in Zimbabwe one in four. One in seven Kenyans has the virus. In Botswana, the country with the highest rate of infection in the world, more than one-third of all adults are HIV positive. Twenty million people, or the entire population of Australia, have died in Sub-Saharan Africa since the pandemic began.
Despite their extreme health crisis, 23 African countries spend more money on debt repayment than they spend on healthcare, which attracts only $2.5 billion, or a quarter of their debt service. This does not concern the banks that loaned the money. Their only objective is to make their rich owners even richer. The Kenyan widow dying of aids and leaving five orphans is not entered into the ledger books. However, the profits made by selling GM food that the starving widow and her children are forced to eat is entered into the ledger books. The humanitarian crisis has created a market for modified food that the rest of the world didn't want. After all, beggars can't be choosers.
After the G8 summit in Okinawa in 2000, President Obasanjo of Nigeria made this comment on Nigeria's debt: "All that we had borrowed up to 1985 or 1986 was around $5 billion and we have paid back about $16 billion yet we are still being told that we owe about $28 billion. That $28 billion came about because of the injustice in the foreign creditors' interest rates. If you ask me what is the worst thing in the world, I will say it is compound interest." When President Obasanjo spoke out, the developing world was spending $13 on debt repayment for every one dollar it received in grants. Under these circumstances, depression is becoming as common as cold. Millions of people are now compelled to pay a handsome price to pharmaceutical MNCs to buy "artificial happiness".
By contrast, the wealthiest individuals in the world can choose or buy anything they want. At the top of the list is Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim whose current net worth of 75 billion dollars, is more than 8 times the annual debt service of sub-Saharan Africa and 20 times the annual expenditure on health and education in those countries. The world's 1426 billionaires in 2013 registered a combined wealth of $5.4 trillion, well over the combined GDP of all the nations of sub-Saharan Africa ($1.2 trillion) or those of the oil-rich regions of the Middle East and North Africa ($1.34 trillion). These less than 1500 people also possess greater wealth than the combined income of the poorest half of humanity!
Think about that fact for just a minute. 1500 obnoxiously wealthy people have too much while nearly four billion people have nothing. Please allow the full meaning to play out in your mind. While 1500 hundred people have enough money to buy several countries, over 1.1 billion individuals live on less than one dollar a day and half of humanity or 2.7 billion people (up from 2.4 billion 20 years back) struggle to earn less than $2 a day and can barely buy enough food to stay alive. The five hundred at the top of the tree just make a profit out of poverty. MNCs pay their top executives more in annual bonuses than their lowest paid workers earn in a lifetime. While half of humanity struggles to survive every day, the wealthier half spends annually US$92 billion on junk food, US$66 billion on cosmetics and US$40 billion per month on wars that further devastate impoverished countries with crippled economies. A survey by Merrill Lynch revealed that 7.7 million high net worth individuals (whose financial assets are over US$1 million excluding homes and real estate) have a combined wealth of US$30 trillion.
Conversely, the geographical distribution of an ocean of poverty is also worth noting. Of the poorest 1.1 billion, over 400 million live in South Asia; about 320 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 270 million in East Asia and the remaining 110 million in the rest of the world. Interestingly, World Bank assumes that NOT-A-SINGLE-INDIVIDUAL in the developed world lives below US$ one a day.
A number of other statistics can be generated from world income distribution. These are some examples: the richest 1% people in the world receive as much as the bottom 57%, or in other words, less than 50 million of the income-richest people receive as much as 2.7 billion poor people. An American having the average income of the bottom 10% is better off than two-thirds of the worlds population. The top 10% of the US population has an aggregate income equal to the income of the poorest 43% of people in the world. Put differently, the total income of the richest 30 million Americans is equal to the total income of almost 2 billion poor people. Even among Americans, the divide between the rich and poor is huge. The richest one percent possess more wealth than the bottom 95 percent.
Back home, Indian government grossly misled through "India is Shining" campaign and the so-called "feel good factor". There is a big propaganda about our forex reserves. This is a mere statistical illusion, not an economic reality. India is the 9th most indebted country in the world having external debt of over US$ 390 billion. That means every Indian is born with a debt of US$ 317 or Rs. 20,600 on his shoulders. This excludes internal debt, which the federal and state governments borrow from the Indian public and cash-rich business houses in the bank market. Current estimates of people with HIV vary widely – UNAIDS puts it at 4.6 million. Sadly, there is on an average only one trained doctor to treat every 5,000 HIV patients in the country.
Who is Funding the Debt ?
While most people would be aware of the debt burden of the third world, they would be surprised to learn that the United States is the most indebted country. The accumulated debt of the world's 'richest' country is growing rapidly. It currently stands at $16.737 trillion. It means each American is in debt of $52,170!
The exact amount owed by the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) is $6 trillion. This means that 300 million Americans owe much more to the rest of the world as do about 3 billion people in the BRIC countries. Such heavy indebtedness of US, says Allen Sinai of DecisionEconomics, a US based consulting firm, "is a time-bomb issue".
If the money is not coming from the United States, where is it coming from? Who actually owns the money that was loaned in the first place? Some of it comes from illegal activities and is recognized as 'dirty money'. US and European banks launder between $500 billion and $1 trillion of dirty money each year, half of which enters the coffers of American banks. Some top European banks have recently admitted to this crime and got away with "fines" to the US authorities. Because they are not BCCIs, they are still open for business!
According to Catherine Austin Fitts, a contributing editor to 'From the Wilderness', and formerly Assistant Secretary of Housing under George Bush senior, the four largest states for the importation of drugs are New York, Florida, Texas and California. She points out that the top four money-laundering states in the U.S. (good for between US$100 and 260 billion per year in 1999) were New York, Florida, Texas and California. The connection goes on. Eighty per cent of all Presidential campaign funds also come from New York, Florida, Texas and California. While creditors abroad financed about a third of the year's borrowing, roughly 5 per cent of the America's total output of products and services.
A vast majority of foreign exchange reserves shown in the balance sheets of nations land up in US coffers. While the world saves, Americans spend their money freely. Today, to keep the US consumption going, that is for the US economy to work, other countries have to remit to America US$180 billion every quarter or US$2 billion per day!!! A Chinese economist asked a neat question recently: Who has invested more, US in China or China in US? The US has invested in China less than half of what China has invested in US. China has sunk over US$160 billion in US securities. Japan's stakes in US securities is in trillions. The gross US investment in Indian economy is only US$20 billion, while this poor, third world country keeps its foreign currency assets of over US$50 billion in US securities like treasury bills.
Is US Alone in this Game ?
The World Bank and IMF are the main targets of activists working to remove and eliminate third world debt, but these two international banking institutions are influenced by various banks, financial consultancies, and former politicians who manage the wealth of the world for their wealthy clients. The 'Group of Thirty' established in 1978 is a private, nonprofit, international body composed of very senior representatives of the financial, private, public and academic sectors. This select group of controllers aims "to deepen understanding of international economic and financial issues and to examine the choices available to market practitioners and policymakers". The most powerful decision-makers and influencers in the financial world are members of this magic circle, which includes major banks, universities, former politicians, and global consultancies.
Despite the impressive collection of financial wizardry and power, The Group of Thirty and annual Economic Summits have failed to neutralize the terrorism of third world debt. Those who manage the global economic system are focused on the shareholder value of banks and corporations. The system is 'successful' as long as it returns more wealth to the wealthy. Yet these financial experts are myopic about the future. The current level of debt worldwide is unsustainable and must eventually lead to the total collapse of a global economy that expects increased productivity from the poorest and unhealthiest workers on the planet. The horrific example of a Bangladeshi garment factory is fresh in our memory.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, is built on the principle that human rights come from the 'inherent dignity' of every person. The Declaration states, "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
When the United Nations wrote that declaration 65 years ago, mankind was recovering from the trauma of a world war and the horrifying genocide of millions of innocent civilians. At that time it was necessary to ratify basic human rights and the principle of human dignity. The genocides happening in the third world today are more horrifying than the death camps in Nazi Germany. This time the objective is not to 'cleanse the master race', but to make the masters wealthier and stronger.
The banks, in pursuit of more wealth and power, terrorize the third world. But many of us who live comfortable lives in rich countries are part of the crime. Our lifestyle, and our expectation that our savings must grow, feed the terrorism of debt. We might save a few dollars with the cheap imported clothes we wear, the coffee we drink, and the oil we put into the car; but those savings have made slaves of children and ignited wars. Our humanity has been hijacked by the US$ and the pursuit of wealth has become more important than human lives. Unemployment is increasing world-wide, when at least one billion jobs need to be created globally over the next 10 years to absorb new workers and to reach the UN's objective of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
Can we do something ?
This piece is not meant to simply educate the audience, but to encourage the will of ordinary people to prevail over the greed of a few power-hungry politicians and bankers. How then do we wage a war on 'debt terrorism'? Eleven actions are suggested that may democratize the global economy and make the world a better place to live. These are not easy or quick-fixes and each action will require dedication and persistence. The following may be a starting point:
1. The WTO must be replaced by a body that is fully democratic, transparent, and accountable to citizens of the entire world instead of to large corporations.
2. Mandate corporate responsibility so that corporations have to prove their worth to society or be dismantled. Corporations must be accountable to public needs, be open to public scrutiny, provide living wage jobs, abide by all environmental and labor regulations, and be subject to all laws governing them. Shareholder activism is an excellent tool for challenging corporate behavior.
3. Restructure the Global Financial Architecture. Currency speculation earns short term profits for wealthy investors but does nothing for long term development. A tax of even 1% on currency transactions would be a disincentive for speculation, would not affect real capital investment, and could create a huge fund for building schools and medical clinics throughout the "third" world.
4. Support the Jubilee action to cancel all third world debt, end structural adjustment, and defend a country's right to make economic decisions that will benefit the welfare of its people, not MNCs.
5. Prioritize human rights in trade agreements. Trade rules must comply with laws on human rights as well as economic and labor rights included in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. We should promote alternative trade agreements including fair trade, debt cancellation, micro-credit, & local control over development policies.
6. Promote sustainable development, not consumption, as the key to the progress. International development should not be export-driven, but rather should prioritize food security, sustainability, and democratic participation.
7. A just system should form the basis of economic structuring. Economic policies need to take into account women's important role in nutrition, education, & ethical development.
8. Build free and strong labor unions internationally and domestically. The union movement needs to be reborn. As corporations increase their multinational strength, unions are struggling to build bridges across borders and organize globally. Activists can support their efforts and ensure that 'free labor' is an essential component of any 'free trade' agreements.
9. Develop community control over capital and promote socially responsible investments. Communities should be able to implement investment and development programs that suit local needs.
10. Promote fair trade instead of free trade. We need to build networks of support and education for grassroots trade for wider distribution of wealth, and trade in environmentally sustainable goods. We can promote labeling of goods such as Fair Trade Certified, Organic, and sustainably harvested.
11. During the 20th century, various governments murdered over 170 million people. This excludes lives of armed combatants taken in war theatres. If we disarm every nation and cease all military operations, the money saved in the FIRST MONTH would shelter, feed, clothe and educate every child in this world.
The rich must live more simply, so that poor may simply live. We are living in a shameless world where food is given as a reward or withheld as punishment. Poor Afghans, poor Americans, poor Iraqis, poor Indians, poor Africans, poor Palestinians, poor Hindus, poor Christians and poor Muslims have more in common with each other. They form the base of a pyramid, and we can help turn that pyramid upside down.
There is hope. Many of us are campaigning to transform the new world order into a new humanity. Millions of ordinary people marched in anti-war protests in almost every major city in the world during the run-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq. The same is happening against the impending attack on Syria. The crisis created by third world debt has also made us aware of the stranglehold that organizations like the IMF, World Bank, US Treasury and the Bank of England have on the world.
Most of us want to live peacefully with others, to enjoy freedom and to feel love, respect and dignity. Our challenge now is to learn to live in communities, to honor and work with our environment, to reject the prejudice of national pride and to welcome the birth of an international community where sharing resource replaces monopolizing resources.
It is time to reclaim our humanity and to 'equalize' the economy so that we can fairly run, not unfairly ruin, our world. Economic theories or statistics will not feed, clothe or shelter us when we have used up the last poor worker. The current system is doomed to fail and will cost more millions of lives. If we start now, our grandchildren will be able to enjoy a world where human dignity is the most valued currency.
Let's begin to work on a new world order NOW.
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Carol Hills: I'm Carol Hills, and this is The World.
James Joyce: Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley.
Hills: That's James Joyce, reading from his novel "Ulysses," back in 1929. Joyce's work is meant to be read out loud, says another Irish writer, Kevin Barry. He's the latest author to share some of his summer armchair travel suggestions with us. And Joyce's collection of short stories, "Dubliners," tops Barry's list.
Kevin Barry: Anybody who's visited Dublin will know that it has a certain air as a city. It's often grey-skied, it's often quite wet, as it is today here, and it has quite a melancholy air, sometimes, and this feeling comes off the page as well when you open the stories of "Dubliners."
Hills: So compare the Dublin of Joyce's era with the Dublin of today.
Barry: Extremely difficult and weirdly similar at the same time. I think if you go through the stories of the book the description of the main shopping bustle downtown, and O'Connell Street, the never-changing River Liffey as it goes grayly through the city, you would be quite at home in the city through the stories. But at the same time Dublin has undergone, in the last fifteen, twenty years, a huge change. It's, for the first time, become a very multicultural city. Also, lots of new tensions in the city. But all those tensions in Irish life are there in the stories of this book as well. But as someone who writes short stories myself, when you read the work of this very young man, it's really terrifying, you know? Because you're looking for a slip in the rhythm, or the sense, or just an under fit adjective…
Hills: [laughs] Competing with him.
Barry: Yeah. And all you find yourself going, again and again, is, 'God, you're so good.' You know?
Hills: How old were you the first time you read it?
Barry: I can remember precisely, actually, because I took my first copy of "Dubliners" down off the shelf recently and discovered it was due back to Limerick City Library in 1987. I never returned it, I loved it so much. And I remember at that time I was a kind of a pale and gaunt teenage poet type, and I would take my reading to a graveyard of a cathedral in Limerick City, and I would lie amongst the headstones, melancholy, you know, hoping for an early but ironic death. But it never came. But that summer stays with me in reading those stories.
Hills: What's interesting is Joyce wasn't actually living in Dublin when he wrote those stories, and I mention that in part because the next author you are directing our listeners to is the late Roberto BolaÃ? ±o, and you've chosen his tome "2666," which takes place in Mexico. And BolaÃ? ±o had lived there, but he wasn't when he wrote that book. Is there something about not living in the place and relying on memory when you write it? Is it easier to understand a place once you've left it?
Barry: Yeah. I think that distance on a place, it sharpens the senses for it. And BolaÃ? ±o did live in Mexico as a late teenager and in his early twenties, I think. But he wrote "2666"³ in kind of late middle age, when he was living in Spain.
Hills: How does BolaÃ? ±o evoke Mexico for readers?
Barry: He does it by tiny detail. We get to taco joints, we get to cheap bars, we get to kind of seedy nightclubs. We get the smell of the place, and it all lifts off the page so brilliantly. It's very dark material. It focuses on the disappearances and the killings of women around the fictional city of Santa Teresa, which is very closely modeled on Ciudad JuÃ? ¡rez. But I often think, if you're thinking of summer reading, actually in a weird way it's a good time to tackle the darker stuff, you know?
Hills: Why's that?
Barry: Do you want to read this stuff in a dark winter's night with a gale rattling the shutters on your windows? Or is it good to have some sort of light and air and summer light around you? I weirdly read "2666"³ on the beach last summer. I'm sure I looked pretty pretentious, but you know in a weird way it worked for that moment, and for that setting.
Hills: So you're staying dark and gritty in your third and final choice, "A Clockwork Orange," the 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess, which a lot of people know from the film. Why this book?
Barry: I'm traveling to my own past by choosing this book. As a guy of about twenty, twenty-one, when I was starting to think about writing seriously myself, it was one of the books that was very important to me.
Hills: Why was it so important to you?
Barry: I think because of the musicality and the rhythms of its prose. I write very much with the ear, and I try to get a musical feeling into the sentences. I very much recognize a kindred spirit in Anthony Burgess. The story of "A Clockwork Orange" is set in an eerie, near future, in an English city that seems to exist under a kind of totalitarian regime. And he invents a whole language for this future city. And I think any book that's set in the future is really about the moment in which it's written. And it seems very evident now when you read "A Clockwork Orange" that in fact it's about British cities in the early 1960s. It's about the emerging cities of youth cults and mods and rockers fighting on Brighton Beach. Though it seems like a trip to the future, in a way it's a trip to the nostalgic past.
Hills: You mentioned the youth lingo that he makes up, and I know a glossary was actually added to a later edition of "A Clockwork Orange," and I understand Burgess was…
Barry: Dismayed, yeah.
Hills: Yeah, Burgess wasn't happy about that. What are some of your favorite words that Burgess created for "A Clockwork Orange"?
Barry: One that's kind of passed into slang, on this side of the Atlantic anyway, is "gloopy," which means stupid, or dumb. I'd say if there's one thing, actually, that links the three books I've talked about, I think there's a musicality about all of them. Burgess himself was a composer as well as a writer. James Joyce was a wonderful singer. BolaÃ? ±o was a rock fanatic. And I think that some of that love for music and musicality got in through all of their works.
Hills: In listening to your choices, I'm struck because your own writing is very much kind of gritty, taking on the margins of life, dive bars and problematic families. What drew you to those worlds?
Barry: I guess everything with me starts with the ear, and it starts with the way people speak, with the way that we speak in the west of Ireland, which is where I'm originally from. And I think the English language is a marvelous resource for writers here, because we take it and we twist it into all sorts of strange, new, wonderful, malevolent, and sometimes very beautiful shapes in the way that we naturally speak English here. There's an undertone of an older language, of our natural Irish language, Gaelic, underneath it, and that changes the way we form sentences and so forth.
Hills: Is that what you're speaking to me right now?
Barry: Well I guess so, [laughs] I mean my accent I suppose would be quite Midwestern in Irish terms, from around Limerick City where I grew up.
Hills: Can you speak to me for a couple minutes in what you would term the more Western Irish variety?
Barry: Well a proper west of Ireland accent would be much thicker than mine, and it would be quite fast in places, it would go on very quickly. You would struggle I think, Carol, to catch all of it sometimes. The peculiar thing about Ireland is it's a small, wet little rock on the verge of the black Atlantic, you know? But the accents change so radically, and so much, within a couple of miles. You could go to villages a couple of miles apart and the accent would be completely different. And I think when the accent changes, everything else changes. The soul changes. And my tactic, I guess, as a writer, always, I think if I can get the voices right, I can get everything else about the people from that.
Hills: Writer Kevin Barry, his latest book of short stories is "Dark Lies the Island," and it's coming out this fall. Thank you so much Kevin.
Barry: Thank you Carol. A pleasure.
Hills: For more of our armchair travel series, and to hear an excerpt from Kevin Barry's book, go to TheWorld.org. By the way, Barry told us that the title of his short story collection was inspired by a song. You might recognize it.
The Beatles: [singing] Your day breaks
Your mind aches
You find that all her words
Of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you
Hills: Yup, it's "For No One" by The Beatles. We leave you with that today. From the Nan and Bill Harris Studios at WGBH, I'm Carol Hills. Happy reading.


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Smoking related diseases kill an estimated 5 million people worldwide each year, with more than 440,000 Americans succumbing to conditions such as lung cancer which is usually caused due to an addiction to smoking. Although the rate of smoking in the United States has halved in the last 40 years, there are still more than 43 million Americans who cannot find it within themselves to kick the habit. We feel as if more needs to be done in order to stop people of all ages falling victim to these terrible illnesses.
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Negotiations is the fifth full-length album written, recorded, and produced by Portland-based band The Helio Sequence.
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The Helio Sequence - Negotiations
"Negotiations, the fifth full-length album written, recorded, and produced by The Helio Sequence, would sound different had it not been for a flood. In 2009, while touring in support of Keep Your Eyes Ahead, singer-guitarist Brandon Summers got an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night. Back home in Portland, OR, the band's studio/practice space was under nearly a foot of water. Heavy rains had caused the building's plumbing to overflow like a geyser. But Summers and drummer-keyboardist, Benjamin Weikel, were lucky: All of their best equipment was either on tour with them, or racked high enough off the studio floor to be spared.
Still, the band needed a new home. After three months of searching, Summers and Weikel settled into a 1500-square-foot, former breakroom-cafeteria in an old warehouse. They no longer had to work their recording schedule around loud rehearsals by neighboring bands, but were free to create late into the night in uninterrupted seclusion. With twice the square footage, the space also had room for more gear, a lot more gear. They decided to use this opportunity to try something different.
Summers and Weikel, who started playing together in 1996 and self-produced their first EP in 1999, have always been gearheads. But it wasn't until the success of Keep Your Eyes Ahead that they could afford to step things up: The duo spent months (and many hard-earned dollars) retooling their studio. They left behind much of the cleaner-sounding modern digital studio equipment and instruments they'd always relied on, and embraced vintage gear that would color their recordings with a warmer, deeper sound: Tape and analog delays, spring and plate reverbs, tube preamps, ribbon microphones, and analog synths."
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5. Hall of Mirrors
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7. Open Letter
8. When the Shadow Falls
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Oh great. just what we need: a new "British" Nazi party.
Policies in its constitution include discrimination against Jews, Muslims, the disabled and trade unionists, introduction of the death penalty for a host of new offences as well as the old ones, censorship, banning of charities not party-approved, and the promotion of smoking (eh?) All this and Kinder, Küche und Kirche too.
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Best Dissertation Award
The International Society of Political Psychology first awarded the Best Dissertation Award at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Paris.
All Ph.D. dissertations within the field of political psychology are eligible for consideration, regardless of home discipline. Dissertations should represent an independent piece of research that is the sole work of the author and gains the highest degree at the author's university.
Submissions are for dissertations completed and successfully defended between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the prior calendar year. Nominees must be current ISPP members.
Nominations should be submitted electronically and must include a one-page abstract (300 word), a 10-page (3,000 word) summary of the dissertation, and a letter of recommendation from the thesis adviser or committee member, all in English.
2017 Award Committee Chair:
Martijn van Zomeren
University of Groningen
Winners will be notified by 30 April 2017.
Past Winners
- 2016 Smadar Cohen-Chen (Honorable Mention: Eun Bin Chung)
- 2015 Julie Wronski (Honorable Mentions: Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Susanne Veit)
- 2014 Kizzy Gandy (Honorable Mentions: Joshua David Kertzer, Emma O'Dwyer)
- 2013 Jonathan Renshon
- 2012 Michael Quayle
- 2011 Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom
- 2010 Johanna Vollhardt
- 2009 Sam Pehrson
- 2008 Alina Oxendine
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- 1 kg peeled potatoes
- salty water
- 3 or 4 handfuls of Wheat or maize flour
- 3 or 4 spoons of skorup (cream skimmed from milk)
- a crumbled block of Cheese
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- One kilo of peeled Potato is cooked in salty water.
- When the Potato is almost completely cooked, without pouring the water in which it was cooked off, add 3 or 4 handfuls of Wheat or maize flour and continue cooking it.
- When you put the flour into the pot, make a hole in the middle of that pile with a tucanj or kacama and cook it for about 30 to 40 minutes in a medium-high heat.
- When it is cooked, pour the remaining water off, remove the pot from the heat and start mashing the mixture with a kacama taking the pot back to heat from time to time until the Potato becomes like a paste without any lumps.
- In another pot melt 3 or 4 spoons of skorup (cream skimmed from milk) and a crumbled block of Cheese, pour it over the hot kacamak and stir it.
- When the mixture is stirred well, kacamak ( the fatty porridge ) is ready to be served.


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Nick Jr Friendship Garden
Nick Jr Friendship Garden is a free Animal Games. Come and check out this brand new Nick Jr game right here on our site, you will like it a lot because it is a very fun and interesting little game in which you are not only playing with one character from the Nick Jr cartoons, you are playing with more of them because in the game there is Friendship Day and they all want to celebrate it together. So help Blaze from the Blaze and the Monster Machines games, the Paw Patrol team, Shimmer and Shane and other characters make a Friendship Garden for this special day because of course they want to celebrate it somehow and they thought making a beautiful garden with beautiful flowers would be the best way to do it. You will have all kind of missions, so we hope you will come and check it out and all you have to do is pay attention to what the characters are asking you to help them with in order to construct the garden. Good luck!
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A KUNG Fu school teaching the fighting style made famous by film star Bruce Lee is set to open its doors in Halesowen.
Instructor Alan Bagley is starting the branch of the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen association, which will operate out of St John the Baptist Church hall, Queensway.
It will officially open on Tuesday March 6, with classes running from 7pm till 9pm.
Father of four Alan said: "Wing Chun is a highly effective and practical street self protection system, developed and refined over hundreds of years in China.
"It was made famous in the West by early Kung Fu films and stars like the late Bruce Lee and more recently Donnie Yen in the IP man films.
"There is a warm welcome to all newcomers who are welcomed into a non-members group for a introductory 16 lesson course, during which time they will be taught the basics of Wing Chun."
Visit www.wingchunhalesowen.co.uk for details.


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Making public spaces in cities, Public: An interview with Jay Pather
What makes public space public? We interview the esteemed Jay Pather, Curator for Infecting the City 2012.
FUTURE CAPE TOWN l The day that Langa opened her streets
Thousands of residents across Cape Town recently flocked to Langa to walk its storied streets. Crime fears were allayed as visitors from the city's more affluent suburbs walked the streets in safety. They form part of the Open Streets movement that fosters diverse community interaction in urban areas, designating the street as a positive social space.
FUTURE CAPE TOWN | Why Cape Town must get serious about land
Christy Zinn unpacks Cape Town's controversial housing legacy and the current situation. Zinn points to the priority given private investors in central suburbs. She argues that the urban poor have been relegated to the outskirts of the city through apartheid spatial planning.
A weekend conversation: Can Cape Town learn from Berlin?
Can Cape Town learn from Berlin? Mayra Hartmann, an engineer based in Berlin, joins Rashiq Fataar and Brett Petzer to chat about how two cities, both devastated by the architecture of division and separation can learn from one another.
The Openheid State: From closed to open society in Cape Town
In Cape Town, apartheid is set in stone and poured in concrete. Michelle Provoost investigates the origins of the apartheid city and how we might navigate towards an open city.
Voices of the City: Charne Simpson
This week's Voices of the City sees us learning more about Charne Simpson, a born and bred Cape Town creative.


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Jordan lodged a formal protest at the Asian Cup on Wednesday after claiming a bungled doping test made one of their players sick.
Striker Ahmad Hayel could miss the game against Palestine on Friday after he was made to drink "several litres of water" after being unable to provide a urine sample following Monday's 1-0 defeat by Iraq.
It caused him to vomit and feel dizzy, said the Jordanian FA. The test had to be cancelled, a team doctor said.
The Jordanian FA general secretary Fadi Zureikat said the association had made a formal protest to the Asian Football Confederation about the "unhealthy procedure taken in doping test for Ahmad Hayel".
"The emergency facilities were not sufficient and the temperature in the testing room was very low," said Zureikat. "The player was made to drink lots of water and began vomiting.
"We had to take him back to the team base in a wheelchair, using our own private car, not an emergency vehicle. Subsequently we had to stay with the player until the early hours of the morning."
Jordanian football chief and FIFA presidential hopeful Prince Ali bin Al Hussein also checked up on the condition of Hayel by phone.
"The player was one of two players chosen by lots for a mandatory dope test," team doctor Adel Skirji told the Jordanian FA's website.
"Ahmad Hayel was unable to give a sample, which is normal as he had lost a lot of fluid during the game and needed more time to rehydrate.
"When [testing officials] tried to making him drink lots of water, it quickly reduced his temperature and he began to throw up and feel dizzy."
Jordan coach Ray Wilkins was said to be furious at the incident, which could deprive him of the player for Friday's game in Melbourne, and slammed the dope testers for acting in a "dangerous" manner after the match in Brisbane.
A Jordanian media officer claimed Hayel's blood sugar levels were low after Monday's game and he was asked to drink "many litres of water", after which he began to turn pale.
Asian Cup organisers were not available for comment.


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Question: Using Exhibit 13 12 the balance sheet of Angelina s Jewelry Company
Using, Exhibit 13-12, the balance sheet of Angelina's Jewelry Company at the end of July shown below, calculate all four financial ratios (quick, current, debt, and debt-to-equity) for the business.
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FYI, I am using Nature's Bounty Saw Palmetto, Natural Whole Herb, 450 mg, I take one three times a day (with food).
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As this event is held to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Lionism globally and the 50th anniversary of our own Farnham Lions clubs formation, we wanted to ensure that all the proceeds go to worthwhile causes in our own local community. After much work we have chosen to support the following incredible organisations with this event. We are working with them all in partnership, and hope to raise a very significant sum of money that can really help each and every one of them.
40 Degreez:
40 Degreez Centre is a one stop shop meeting the needs of young people in Farnham with youth clubs, holiday workshops, courses, sports, one to one learning programmes, residential outings, drop in skills learning and accreditation opportunities plus much more. Its an awesome place to be to meet new friends, learn new skills and get some useful advice.
Ridgeway Community School:
The Ridgeway is a school for children between the ages of 2 and 19 with severe and complex learning difficulties with an additional expertise and provision for pupils with an additional diagnosis for Autism. At the core of their work are high expectations.
Challengers is an independent children's charity that, for more than 30 years, has developed and delivered inclusive play and leisure for disabled children and young people across Surrey, Hampshire and increasingly the surrounding areas. The charity is based in Guildford (at 'Challengers Guildford Playcentre', our headquarters and one of our full time playcentres). In 2014 we delivered more than 138,000 hours for 1,300 disabled children. These services were delivered at Challengers Guildford and Farnham Centres as well as schemes based at schools and community youth centres all through the year.
Frensham Pond Sailability
See the first outing of Sea Lion here - https://www.flickr.com/gp/128441567@N05/506792
Frensham Pond Sailability aims to make sailing accessible to all. It has more than 100 members and is run entirely by volunteer helpers. Organised sailing takes place between April and October, on Saturday and Thursday mornings, with sailing skills taught by qualified and experienced sailing instructors. All those aged from 10 onwards with a wide range of disabilities or long term illnesses are made welcome. Sailors may attend independently and through special schools or support organisations. Everyone is encouraged to learn to sail independently and, if they wish, to sail competitively using our range of special dinghies or mini-keel-boats.


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Nnedi Okorafor recently revealed on Twitter, the new cover for the young adult novel Akata Warrior, the second book in the Akata Witch series. Illustrator, Greg Ruth, discusses the soft and hardcover designs for the Akata series on his blog Muddy Colors.
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, a 12-year-old American born girl raised mostly in Nigeria, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society, began developing her magical powers, and, as if this weren't enough, was chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu.
Now, stronger, feistier and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and unlocking the secrets of the living script in her strange Nsibidi book. Then a monster tries to drag her into a lake and this is only the beginning of her troubles. Eventually, Sunny must confront her destiny and with the support of her Leopard Society member friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face Anyanwu, journey to the mysteries town of Osisi to fight a climactic battle to save humanity.
Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards, merges real images of Nigeria with a unique world she creates. Akata Warrior is a compelling tale that mixes culture, fantasy, history and magic into a unique blend that will keep readers spellbound
Akata Warrior will be released in Fall 2017 by Penguin Books.