text: Subject: END STORY OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE (UNHCR, 1995) /* posted 2 Apr 6:00am 1997 by drunoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx in igc:reg.burma */ /* -------------" Vietnamese boat people: the end "--------------- */ VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: THE END OF THE STORY (pp-208, The State of the World Refugees, 1995) *********************************************** Ha Manh Dug was a nine year-old child in 1989, when he left Viet Nam with his parents and younger brother on board a fishing boat. He returned at the age of 15, almost a man, after spending six years in a detention center. Neither the Hong Kong government nor UNHCR considered that the Ha family had any claim to refugee status, and they had exhausted every appeal. So the family faced facts. Unwanted in Hong Kong and with nowhere else to go, they decided to go home and to rebuild their lives in Viet Nam. By the end of 1995, almost all of the 840,000 refugees and asylum seekers who have left Viet Nam since 1975 should have found a solution to their plight. The vast majority of that number - some three-quarters of a million people - have been resettled in other parts of the world, primarily in the USA, Australia, Canada, France, the UK and Germany. The remainder (those who remain in the camps of South-East Asia and who have not been recognized as refugees ) will, like the Ha family, go back to Viet Nam. And with that, one of the most elaborate and expensive refugee programmes in modern history will come to a close. Endless stream -------------- With the US withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1975 and the fall of the Saigon government, an apparently endless stream of boat people began to leave their own country and to land in the states and territories of South-East Asia: primarily Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. In the exceptional circumstances which gave rise to this movement, including the risk that these first asylum countries would push the boat people back to sea, the world's more prosperous countries agreed to provide resettlement places for Vietnamese who succeeded in leaving their homeland. By the end of the 1980s, the Vietnamese were still leaving. By now, however, 14 years after the end of the war, it had become increasingly clear that not all of the boat people had a valid claim to refugee status. Hundreds of thousands had already been resettled, and the promise of prosperity in California or Canada, coupled with the poverty of their own country, acted as a powerful incentive to leave. In may cases, the desire for a better life, rather than a fear of persecution, had become a primary motivation in the decision to leave Viet Nam. In 1989, an international conference was convened to seek a solution to this problem. The result was the CPA - the Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees - a package of measures intended to reduce the flow of economic migrants from Viet Nam, while providing protection to those who had a valid claim to refugee status. Within Viet Nam, boat departures were reduced by means of a mass information campaign, designed to persuade people of the dangers of clandestine migration, coupled with the expansion of an organized emigration programme to a number of resettlement countries. At the same time, a credit and community development programme, funded primarily by the European Union, was established in Viet Nam, with the purpose of 'anchoring' would-be exiles in their own community and promoting the reintegration of Vietnamese who opted to return from the first asylum countries of South-East Asia. Within those countries, procedures were introduced to determine which of the Vietnamese qualified for refugee status. Those who were accepted, the so-called 'screened-in', would be offered resettlement places, while those who were rejected, known as the 'screened-out', would be expected to return to Viet Nam with assistance from UNHCR. Counselling campaigns were launched in the camps and detention centres of South-East Asia, encouraging unsuccess ful asylum seekers to go home voluntarily and with support from UNHCR. The organization also established a programme within Viet Nam, in order to monitor the welfare of these returnees and to encourage the return of those who had been screened out. Impact of the CPA ----------------- The CPA has undoubtedly worked. In 1989, more than 70,000 Vietnamese arrived in South-East Asia. this stream has now been reduced to an insignificant trickle. Some 80,000 Vietnamese have been resettled during the past six years, while 72,000 have returned safely to their homeland. The camp population, which stood at 113,000 at the beginning of 1991, has been reduced to 50,000. More than half a million people have been able to emigrate from Viet Nam in a legal manner. While the screening procedures introduced in the first asylum countries have been subjected to some criticism, nowhere in the world have asylum seekers benefited from such close UNHCR monitoring and such extensive rights of appeal. This is not to suggest that CPA has been a simple or trauma-free exercise. Many of the Vietnamese have had to live in very difficult conditions while waiting for their status to be determined. Having staked everything on the bid to leave their own country, it has often been hard for those who are screened out to accept that they will have to go home. A hard core of unsuccessful asylum seekers have refused point-bland to volunteer for repatriation, and have use violent means to press their case for resettlement. Finally, in March 1995, the Steering Committee of the CPA recognized that 'orderly repatriation' - in other words involuntary return - was an 'appropriate' means of breaking the deadlock. As a matter of policy, UNHCR does not participate in actions which involve the use or threat of force. Within Viet Nam, however, the organization monitors the welfare of involuntary returnees as well as those asylum seekers who have chosen to return. To date, most of the complaints which returnees have brought to UNHCR's attention stem from economic and bureaucratic difficulties and delays in the payment of repatriation grants. With a growth rate of nine per cent in 1994 and the resumption of full trade and diplomatic relations with all of the industralized states in 1995, the economic prospects for the Vietnamese population now seem particularly positive. There is now a broad consensus that the blanket resettlement of the boat people went on for too long, and was sustained more by political than humanitarian imperatives. As a result, the policy helped to fuel migratory pressures within Viet Nam. But in the political and humanitarian context of the initial Vietnamese exodus, the distinction between refugees and economic migrants was not a relevant consideration. As a senior UNHCR official explains, 'the flood of people; the pushbacks; the piracy; the attacks; the robbery; the killing; the rape; the machine-gunning of boats; the breakdown of the obligation to rescue people at risk on high seas; the threats of closure of territorial waters - we faced a problem so peculiar, so specific and so dramatic that we had to act in this way.' However,' he continues, 'there was certainly no emergency in Viet Nam by 1989, and conditions there no longer justified the automatic recognition and resettlement of any person leaving the country.' Some actors in the Vietnamese situation continue to challenge the validity of the latter remark. In the resettlement countries, overseas Vietnamese communities continue to lobby against the CPA and in favour of indiscriminate resettlement. Furthermore, recent moves in the US congress to re-screen the rejected cases and to make additional resettlement places available have reduced the number of volunteers for repatriation and damaged the prospects of completing the programme by the end of 1995. Even so, the CPA has provided a striking demonstration of the way in which a concerted package of measures, based on migration management principles, can be used to resolve a longstanding and apparently intractable refugee problem. *****


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David Rodriguez Retires from Boxing
David Rodriguez Retires from Boxing
By "Big Dog" Benny Henderson Jr., Doghouse Boxing (July 25, 2014)
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There comes a point in time in the career of every athlete, when they have to make the decision to hang around a bit longer, or walk away into the sunset when the time is right for them to do so. The decision to call it a day for heavyweight fighter David Rodriguez, came just a little over week ago. Rodriguez, who hails from the Texas border town of El Paso, made his professional boxing debut in December of 1998. After thirty-six consecutive victories, producing thirty-four knock out wins, earning a few minor heavyweight titles, and a near death experience a few years back, Rodriguez's heavyweight dreams seemingly came to a scratching halt in December of 2013, when he suffered the first loss of his long career. But he decided to fight on.
The eighteenth of this month, it would appear the David would get back on the winning track and resume his heavyweight journey, when he faced Raymond Ochieng in Rodriguez's hometown of El Paso, a homecoming per say. Instead of getting back into the win column, Rodriguez, as he did to twenty-three of his opponents, was derailed in the first round. Ending the night early for the hometown hero, as well as halting his fighting career for good.
Rodriguez had a respectable career, he never fought for any major heavyweight titles, and will never been in Canastota, but, in his time he did make a name for himself. And that name will carry David far as he steps away from the bang for your buck sport. He also has a huge following of loyal fans, and many of those would like to witness what Rodriguez will do next with his free time.
There are going to be more than a handful who are glad Rodriguez is gone from the sport, along with his following, came the harsh critics, as well as some who just plain hated on the guy.
I myself did not know how to approach the guy when we first conducted our first interview ten years ago. But, right off the bat, we hit it off. Despite being an animal in the ring, Dave was laid back, outspoken, yet, respectable to me. He accidently dropped an F-Bomb, and quickly apologized. I explained to him, it was all good, those words do not bother me, and he went on cussing like a sailor, (now we respect sailors). During the time I have known David, I have seen his generous side, his compassionate side, the charity event we attended in 2007, him visiting the young children stricken with cancer, as well as working with the youth at times. So, all though many of his critics did not like his choice of opposition at times, he used his career to encourage others.
I remember his old manager cussing him a bit for coming out to a Marilyn Manson song, and there are a few stories I cannot tell, (Dave would be embarrassed).
I know David was not the greatest fighter on the planet, he will not rank amongst the elite, but I am honored to call him friend. I would like people to forget about the boxer David Rodriguez, as he stated, that David is no longer, focus on the man, on what he stood for in and out of the ring. He has faults like anybody else, but, he knows he is human. He knows he is not indestructible. I seen the fire and passion for boxing burn out of David's eyes a long time ago. Although I wish he could have reached the top, the middle was never a bad place to be. I do not believe he was happy with out his career ended, but, he is happy to not have that pressure on his shoulders anymore. Talking to him now, I have high hopes for him out of the ring.
I know many who read this will call this a puff piece, or me a nut hugger, and hey, call it what you will. I just want the readers to know, as a fighter he may have been limited, but, as a man, a child of God, a human on this little rock we call home, the possibilities are countless. As I did in his career as a professional fighter, and now in his journey from the ring, I will support my friend.
David, all though you did not get to fight for the heavyweight crown, where you were going to fly me out and experience it all firsthand, especially the after party, wild women and…I forgive you for that part. Rodriguez retires from the ring, but, his journey elsewhere continues. To be continued…
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Okay just to update, show four was finished, hung and opened all on time to great success, we had plenty of visitors and it was all good fun, so thats the last of the shows I've had to produce for welcome to the neighbourhood. thats 100 paintings in about 8 months (what is it with me and the number 100?) so I'm taking a bit of a break right now. WTTN isn't quite over yet, we still have the museum show to do yet, but no new artworks have to be produced for that which is good but we are doing all manner of other crazy things while thats on, more on that soon..
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|Yup, this pretty much captures the essence of the millenials.
Social commentary is a consistent theme on this blog. It stems from the fact that the industry is chock-full of young people, most of whom are millenials. The unrealistic expectations and poor professionalism married to a high level of independence and creativity is confounding at best.
So when I came across this article, I had a read through it. It validates many of my suspicions and sadly does little to refute my problems with the millenials.
For the record. I lie just outside the Gen Y lines. I think they consider me Gen X. But I see lots of myself in Gen Y.
Here's the problem with each finding. I think it's implicit but the article doesn't go far enough.
1. Millenials blame the parents for the way they are. Sure. You can blame the parents. You can blame the world. But at what point does someone assume responsibility for their own actions, their own life, their own results? You're misunderstand? Bitch, please.
2. Millenials wanna be the wealthiest 1% of the population. And I want a pony. The thing we have in common is neither of us are working towards that goal.
3. Republicans don't understand millenials. That's because they don't have to. The statistic that this section neglects is the sad fact that outside of the year Obama got elected, young people historically don't vote. I'll bet that millenials as a generation vote less than their preceding generations.
4. Millenials aren't "corporate material". No shit? You mean the unprofessionalism and the inability to follow instructions hurt employment potential? Call a spade a spade. Millenials always think the grass is greener on the other side.
5. Millenials think they will conquer the corporate world. Fat chance. Probably no chance. Yes the comprise of a large population in the workplace. But the percentage of successful millenials that reach upper management is likely considerably lower than previous generations. The facts are simple. You can't make it to the top if you don't climb the ladder. The article already states that most millenials leave their job within 2 years. Do people think that they're going to make partner or SVP in 2 years much less CEO?
6. Drug problems. Finally some truth. Millenials are a asthmatic, peanut allergic, celiac diseased, lot of diabetics.
7. Living with their parents. Because people with ambition live with their parents. Right.
8. Millenials don't buy cars. Should have been rephrased, "Millenials can't afford cars".
9. Millenials are practically professional students. Yes they are. Hence the success of the FIDMs, NYFAs, and community colleges. Because paying $15,000-20,000 to make $12/hour is great ROI.
10. Companies that neglect us will be sorry. That's funny because companies are already getting very good at marketing to millenials. See, it's not that hard. Just pay for a few "experts" to give good reviews on Yelp, twitter, Facebook, Instagram and you'll achieve instant overnight success. Millenials are the easiest lot to market to because they behave like sheep (read: aren't independent thinking).
Am I wrong? :)


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According to Occupational Employment Projections provided by the Illinois Department of Employment Security Economic Information & Analysis Division in 2014, employment of accountants is expected to grow by 12 percent in the state between 2012 and 2022. This strong growth is spurred on by an increase in the number of businesses operating in Illinois, changes in laws that affect the financial services industry, as well as the increased attention being given to organizational accounting integrity. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, rapid growth will occur in the specialized areas of international business and information systems auditing.
Big four accounting firms Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG all have sizeable offices in Chicago. Although some accountants start as bookkeepers, tax preparers, or enrolled agents and have minimal formal education, positions within corporations and accounting firms are held by those with bachelor's or grad degrees in accounting, or business degrees that include an accounting concentration. Those with their sites set on CPA licensure will very often earn a master's degree in accounting as a way to gain advanced accounting skills and earn the 150 total semester hours required to be eligible for licensure through the Illinois Board of Examiners.
Becoming an accountant in Illinois with either the Licensed Certified Public Accountant (LCPA) or Registered Certified Public Accountant (RCPA) designation requires a bachelor's degree, the successful completion of the Uniform CPA Exam, and one year of accounting experience. The Illinois Board of Examiners (IBOE) assesses the educational credentials of candidates to determine eligibility to sit for the CPA exam, while the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations (IDFPR) is responsible for granting licensure and practice privileges.
Illinois is home to some of the most well compensated managerial accountants, financial controllers, treasurers and CFOs in the nation, hosting operations and corporate offices for such world-class companies as Archer Daniels Midland, Boeing, Walgreens and more. In fact, 31 Fortune 500 companies were headquartered in Chicago as of 2015 according to World Business Chicago. It is no surprise that the Chicago area had the third highest level of employment for accountants of any metropolitan area in the country in 2014 according to the US Department of Labor.
The field of accounting is growing throughout Illinois with the state's Department of Employment Security estimating an increase of 11.7% in the number of accounting jobs in the state between 2012 and 2022. The agency expects that such a high level of growth will generate an average of 1,983 accounting positions on average each year during the ten-year period of their analysis.
Salaries for Accountants in a Variety of Positions in Illinois
According to the US Department of Labor, the median salary of an accountant in Illinois was $66,000 in 2014. Experienced professionals in the top 10% of their occupational category earned an average of $114,900.
In 2015, corporate accountants in large firms in Chicago with more than five years of experience earned salaries ranging from $84,563 to $107,933 according to the 2015 Robert Half Salary Guide.
Forensic accountants in Chicago earned even more with salaries that ranged between $87,945 and $137,145. Controllers at large financial services firms in Rockford earned salaries ranging between $121,200 and $154,400 a year.The highest salaries are reserved for Chief Financial Officers who are often licensed CPAs with years of managerial accounting experience. CFOs in extremely large corporate accounting firms in Chicago earned salaries that ranged between $358,238 and $572,873 a year.
Salaries for Accountants and Auditors Throughout Illinois
The US Department of Labor indicated that general accountants and auditors in the Lake County-Kenosha County area of the state earned salaries that were significantly higher than their colleagues in other parts of Illinois:
Tax Preparer Salaries Throughout Illinois
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, tax preparers in Peoria had the highest average salary for their occupational classification statewide in 2014. In addition, tax preparers in Peoria who were in the 90th percentile of this occupational category earned an average salary that was more than $26,000 higher than tax preparers in other parts of Illinois:
One of the most controversial tax laws to be passed in the state of Illinois recently has to do with sales tax for online purchases. The law requires that online retailers with in-state affiliates collect sales tax on purchases made in Illinois. The reason given by lawmakers was that the law would help small businesses compete with online stores by creating a "level playing field" and would also generate $150 million in tax revenue each year.
Critics fear the plan will backfire as online retailers such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com will terminate their in-state affiliates in order to avoid charging the sales tax, creating a worse situation for these small business affiliates. According to FTC Beat, a blog written by the Washington, D.C.-based Ifrah Law Firm, other states that have enacted similar laws, thereby causing Amazon.com and other online retailers to pull their in-state affiliates, have actually generated very little in the way of sales tax revenue through online purchases.


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I don't who I'm more annoyed with after reading this article in the Wash Post this morning, the tone-deaf teabaggers who wanted the country to default on its debts, or the Wash Post writer who seemingly didn't bother asking them (1) What's so wrong with the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, that they're willing to bankrupt the country over it; (2) What their responsibility is to compromise with those of other opinions and interests; (3) is the country supposed to default on its debts to please them; or (4) do they understand Democrats have the WH and the Senate, which in our system of checks and balances gives them considerable input into policy and budget choices?
Any of those questions would seem warranted when interviewing suburban teabaggers outside of Louisville, KY, who gathered to meet the wealthy teabagger candidate who's primarying Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
But no, we got nothing. So, given what the article did reveal, there's not much reason for feeling optimistic about anything politically unless teabagger candidates are just defeated, everyone, everywhere.


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Software testers are quite often part of the quality assurance function, involving testing a piece of software to ensure the user experience, and identifying bugs or glitches that would present problems for users. Software testers are required to document and replicate every glitch they encounter and provide advice and feedback for developers.
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Rock'n Roll must be dangerous, agressive and social relevant. It must be a rebellion against the establishment, an expression of an alternative culture. Not every band falls in this category, but for sure The Dead Kennedys, a San Francisco based group around the charismatic mastermind Jello Biafra, which existed from 1978 until 1986. The Dead Kennedys together with a few other american bands invented a new genre called "Hardcore". Hardcore is similar to Punk, but what is the difference? Well "Hardcore" takes ingredients of "Punk" and radicalize them. Hardcore is faster, more aggressive, more political, more of everything. And while Post-Punk and New Wave watered down the aggression of the first Punk generation, Hardcore emphasized it.
I remember my first contact with the Dead Kennedys, when I listened to their legendary debut Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables. There are those seldom moments, when you are listening to new music and you think you have never heard anything like this before. Your ears are shocked and try to adjust and you think "What the …" If I had to collect adjectives for the sound of the Dead Kennedys I would choose: Raw, unpolished, energetic, fast, aggressive, Lofi, Unique. Of course I explored some hooks and melodies in the songs, but they were sung and played with such a restless attitude. When you are listening to DK you are feeling like sitting on the first seat of a dangerous rollercoaster, which never stops. Sometimes it seems to fall into a hole, but immediately you rush into a looping. I had similar feelings when I explored Slayer and I understand, why Jeff Hanneman played a guitar with a Dead Kennedys-Sticker. The sound of The Dead Kennedys is the opposite of nice and beautiful. The guitar sounds like a darker version of Dick Dale or like a friendly buzzsaw. Tempos are often ridiculous fast. From a Producer's point of view the sound lacks frequencies and seems to be narrowed down. Imagine you would listen to a hole band through a broken Telephone and you get an impression, what to expect from DK. And throning on the top of this chaos Jello Biafra spits out the words like an angry Pitbull. Though you can not say, that Jello sounds beautiful or nice (Who would expect a beautiful voice in a band called "Dead Kennedys"?) he convinces with other qualities. He can sing extremely fast without loosing control over the words and the articulation. And he can make you believe, that he is angry, very angry, and sarcastic on the same level.
What I love about the Dead Kennedys: The lyrics attack politics, corruption, war, the music-industry and are very entertaining and clever and funny. Jello Biafra tried later to become the mayor of San Francisco. The Dead Kennedys set some marks against the establishment. They played on the "Rock against Reagan"-Festival and, they played the offensive "Pull my strings" on the 1980 Bay area music rewards. DK searched for controversy.
Musically DK surprises with a fusion of contrary elements. They expand the simple Punk-Formula with elements of Surfrock, Classic Rock'n Roll, Chromatic lines, Tempo-changes and spoken word parts. The music is often unpredictable and always exiting. All band-members are excellent musicians. I want to distinguish the talent of D.H.Peligro, who sets new standards for hardcore-drumming and later joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers and East Bay Ray on the guitar with his clever use of Delay, rapid chord changes and catchy melody-lines, which are obviously influenced by Surf-Rock. If you get more familiar with the DK-sound you can explore more and more recognizable little melodies, often as little interludes and played by the guitar. And many songs are very catchy, though you will probably not recognize this at the first listen. Taking a closer look on their albums I highly recommend "Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables", because it contains all their best songs like "Holiday in Cambodia", "California über alles", "Chemical warfare" and "Kill the poor". Second it is the most consistant work, the origin of the "Hardcore"-movement and can show off al, qualities of the band. The following EP In God we trust is focused on the wild side of DK with very fast and short material throughout. The eight tracks were recorded all live in the studio and fortunately the session was captured on video-tape, so you can admire the band on Youtube recording this album. "Nazi Punks fuck off" and the cover "Rawhide" stay in mind. The follower Plastic surgery disasters sounds more like a real second album, it widens the formula of the first album, the songs are more experimental and progressive, but less melodic. I highly recommend "Winnebago warrior", "Buzzbomb", "I am the owl" and "Riot". Maybe the album had been more successful, if the band had choosen another track-list, because in my opinion the best songs are not the first ones. The latter works "Frankenchrist" and "Bedtime for democracy" suffer from the absence of good songs and hooks, though Jello Biafra is still able to write political relevant and clever lyrics.
The Dead Kennedys are one of the most original bands I know with a highly remarkable sound and style. Their message and attitude was always highly credible and honest and this credibilty regarding the music and the lyrics is one of the things, which set them apart from other artists. The aggression and provoking attitude of many bands seems to be calculated, a clever marketing-tool to reach a targeted audience. Just think on all the satanic messages in Metal-songs. Believe the musicians, who sing about satanic rituals, really in their message? I don't think so, maybe except some crazy norwegian Black-Metal groups, which even not shrinked back from murder.
The other point, which sets them apart from other bands within the genres Punk and Hardcore is their clever musicianship and the variety of their music. Compare the Dead Kennedys with bands like Bad religion, Green Day, Blink 182, which are all labeled as Punk and though they write good songs they all sound very polished, very mass-compatible and generic compared to DK. The heritage of DK is found in bands like Sick of it all and also Slayer.
Best albums (with Youtube links)
1. Fresh fruits for rotting vegetables
2. Plastic Surgery disaster
3. Give me convenience or give me death (Sampler with live recordings and singles with some well-known songs like "Police truck" and "Too drunk to fuck")
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More often than not, the posts on this site will be mainly about sports. That's my profession right now, as a sports writer, and I hope to pursue sports journalism as I grow older into maturity. However, every now and again, I will be tempted to dive into other topics, like politics, our military, and the privilege it is to be an American. I also dab at religion every so often, and express my feelings about our Savior Jesus Christ.
As most of you know, I am a Christian and am also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and just five months ago returned home from serving a two year mission for the LDS church. As a member of the church, Christ is not only the single most important member of my faith, but also my life. Over the two years I spent as a missionary, I was able to grow closer to my Savior than I ever had before in my life. Last week, as I was sitting in church next to my parents, I was reading a passage from the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ, and a book of scripture comparable to the Bible and one that the Mormon faith uses.
I was reading from the book of Alma, chapter seven, verse 23," And now I would that ye should be ahumble, and be bsubmissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive." When I was a missionary, I read the Book of Mormon several times, and I know that I've read this scripture a hundred times, but until last Sunday, I never really dove into it, so today I'd like to do just that.
In this scripture, the prophet Alma is preaching to the people Gideon, and talking about the atoning sacrifice that would be made by Jesus Christ. Obviously, he was teaching them, and is teaching us how we can grow closer to Christ. The first attribute he lists is to be humble. I never really understood the meaning of humility when I first started my mission, and thought it referred to being humiliated, to be brutally honest. Why is humility so important to drawing closer to our Savior? When Christ was in the Garden of Gethsemane, suffering for our sins and wondering if there was any other way to complete this task, He said pleading to His Father above, "nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." Through His humility, our sins can be forgiven, and through His humility, Christ was able to achieve everything that His Heavenly Father wanted Him to achieve. Now to us, if we are able to forget ourselves and to become disciples of Christ, and accept His will for us, and do as He would do, we can in turn become who He wants us to become.
The next attribute Alma points out is to be submissive, which falls very closely to the category of humility. He next mentions to be gentle. At first glance, I was confused but never really thought much of it, why would being gentle allow us to be closer to Christ? Nevertheless, as you ponder more about the Spirit and the gift of the Holy Ghost that we receive, it makes perfect sense. We must sensitive to the Spirit, not abusing the gift of the Holy Ghost, or else we will drift farther away from the Spirit, thus making us further from the Savior. As a familiar hymn goes, "be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, for these are the words Jesus taught."
Next is to be entreated. To be completely honest, I'm still not 100% sure what this means. However, I like to think that it means to be treated. In the church, we believe in confessing our sins, and going through the repentance process and being able to become worthy again. Many times, we will ignore the confessing part, and believe that we can be worthy just off our own merits. This is a lie made up by Satan, and we cannot fall for it. The repentance process is to help us, so that we can be treated and become better. Rejecting the confession process, is almost denying the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ all together. We must understand that healing begins with confession.
The last point I wanted to discuss is the "being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times," aspect. Obviously, and the Savior knows this, that we cannot keep all of the commandments all of the time. Everyday, we do things that we're not proud of, even if its as small as playing a certain song on the radio or judging somebody in our head, we're not perfect and we will never be perfect in this lifetime. The meaning of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, is that though we cannot be perfect in this life, we can strive to be. God expects us to try to be perfect, knowing very well we cannot achieve it. Christ's sacrifice allows us to be better everyday. The great thing about the gospel is that we can improve daily, through His grace, we can change every single day. Whether its saying our prayers, studying our scriptures or choosing to serve more, every day is a new day to become an improved disciple of Jesus Christ.
The restored gospel of Jesus Christ has done more for me than I can ever explain. The man that Christ has helped me to become is a man that I'm proud of, but also that is in daily improvement. How grateful I am that I know and believe in my Heavenly Father's plan, that not only allows me to be better, but to become the man He wants me to be.


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A South African military officer, Major MV Mohlala, has been dismissed from service over racial comments he made on Facebook.
Mohlala had left a vile comment in a post shared by the son of an 80-year-old white man, Pastor Braam van Wyk, who was attacked at his home in Randburg on March 10th.
In response to the post, Mohlala commented that worse things should have been done to the man.
"Should actually have poked out his eyes and tongue so that the last people he would ever see, were the killers and he could go to his grave with the nightmare." Apartheid is in him. All of these old white people think we are stupid when they say they were opposed to apartheid. We will not forget what they have done. Now it is the white people's turn." Mohlala wrote
After much deliberation by the military authority, he has been dismissed from office. See a copy of his dismissal letter below


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Peter Whitehouse founded the Intergenerational School. Encourage learning between generations.
Importance of intergenerational perspective in looking towards the future.
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How might we change the story that we tell about ourselves in our place?
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Kids Try BBQ From 10 States | Bon Appétit
In this episode of "Kids Try Food", the kids try barbecue by region. Kids eat and react to hill country brisket and hot gut (beef sausage) from Texas, pulled pork and barbecue hash from South Carolina, hush puppies from North Carolina, dry rub Memphis ribs, burnt ends (brisket) from Kansas City, white sauce from Alabama, mutton, burgoo, and pickled eggs from Kentucky, smoked bologna and tabbouleh from Oklahoma, St. Louis style ribs and snoots, plus Virginia smoked ham and brunswick stew.
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Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.
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Kevin Powers writes a poetic, yet haunting, tale of one military member's experience with the Iraq war in his novel, The Yellow Birds. Private Bartle made a promise, one that he should never have made, to keep another member alive during their deployment. He failed. His failure haunts him as survivor's guilt shreds his life along with his suffering from PTSD.
John Bartle is represented as being both bad and good. His assignment as narrator is not easily trusted, as Bartle struggles with remembering what happened in Iraq. As a soldier, Bartle adapted to the war. He killed when he had to, almost automatically, while his mind sometimes questioned what his body was doing. Bartle's memory of Iraq is beautifully described with glints of danger, fear, and horror. The blunt force of what happened in Iraq is positioned carefully in contrast with the beauty of Powers' prose. It almost attacks the reader with its horrific qualities.
Readers will undoubtedly form an emotional attachment to Bartle. As the chapters switch from past to present, readers see what toll the war takes on Bartle's mind, body, and sense of right and wrong. His PTSD is readily apparent and begs for release. It's heartbreaking and soul shattering in its disparity.
From the start of the novel, readers know that Private Murphy will die and that Bartle will break his promise to protect him. Though what exactly happened is held back until near the end of the story. Bartle shares the story in pieces, reminiscent of the chalk marks he made on a concrete wall that represented each memory resurfacing. The non-linear timeline creates a poignant chaos of different disasters all culminating in one broken promise. Though the prose is beautiful and the writing style poetic, this novel is not for the faint of heart. It's a struggle to read and to understand, though incredibly moving and powerful in its complexity.
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West Town Bakery & Diner Brunch
June 19, 2015 by Amber
I love Memorial Day weekend for many reasons, but most of all because you have three opportunities to indulge in brunch. After a long day of soaking up the sun and boozing at a rooftop party (summer is here, eek!), we were in desperate need of some greasy fuel before tackling our Sunday plans.
I had heard from multiple people that West Town Bakery was amazing, and I was delighted to learn they have a diner that serves brunch and lunch. Our hungover crew of five was ecstatic when we were able to get seats immediately.
The West Town Diner menu takes not-so-risky twists on diner classics. The new summer menu includes mouthwatering items like short rib benedict, loaded baked potato waffles and vegan s'mores pancakes.
The diner's atmosphere is really unique; think classic '50s decor meets Chicago graffiti art. The bakery counter was stocked with everything your sweet tooth could possibly dream up. From professional wedding cakes to homemade bread and macaroons, this is the place to go for baked goods in Ukrainian Village. It also sells homemade packaged granola, coffee creamer, caramel, toffee, hot sauce and more.
We decided to settle our growling stomachs by sampling a few bakery items. This place is casual and convenient enough to let us bring our sweets back to our table.
We first chose the s'mores doughssant, aka, the 'cronut'. The outside of the doughssant was a deep fried croissant, and its crisp texture reminded us of a churro. When you took a bite, the marshmallow chocolate creme on the inside gushed out. It had the consistency of light whipped cream and was oh, so delicious.
The bakery's cake bites are famous, so on the advice of the sweet bakery employee, we shared the french toast and birthday cake flavors. The cake bites were essentially melt-in-your-mouth dough balls covered in frosting and sprinkles (and definitely worth the calories). We tried a piece of chocolate-covered bacon at the counter too, because why not?!
I ordered the short rib benedict from the summer menu. Poached eggs sat on top of rich, fall-off-your-fork braised short ribs and red pickled onions. The eggs were drizzled with a classic hollandaise sauce and placed on a toasted english muffin. The benedict came with hash browns on the side, which I found to be boring and a bit cold. Despite the cold hash browns, it was one of the best brunch dishes I've had in a while. I may come back here solely to satisfy my craving for this one again soon.
My fellow bruncher Eric praised the unique chicken-and-waffles combo. The fried chicken breast was paired with jalapeno cornbread waffles and topped with co-op buffalo hot sauce and creamy, sweet honey butter. The hint of spicy buffalo sauce on the chicken gave it a bigger flavor kick than the usual chicken and waffles. If you're not a fan of spicy food, don't let the jalapeno in the waffles scare you. Eric promised it was mild enough for anyone's palette.
Brendan couldn't resist ordering the special of the day: A huge pork loin stuffed with spicy chorizo sausage and topped with over easy eggs and Thanksgiving-worthy gravy. It was comfort food at its finest. He especially enjoyed the spicy chorizo stuffing. Apparently, this chef loves to give each of his dishes a little kick.
We also ordered the corned beef hash and Mexican skillet. The corned beef hash featured the house-cured corned beef mixed with crispy red potatoes, caramelized onions, pickled pepper aioli and an egg. There wasn't much that differentiated the flavors of this dish from a standard corned beef hash, but it did the job.
The Mexican skillet was the least impressive dish we ate. It was missing jalapenos and was lacking in the chorizo department. Honestly, West Town Diner just isn't the place to go for authentic Mexican brunch dishes. The crispy browned potatoes were, however, a major standout in both dishes.
The Bitches Say: B-. An easy in-and-out, no-fuss establishment with divine baked goods and thoughtful twists on classic diner dishes.
West Town Bakery & Diner
1916 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
(773) 904-1414
Diner Hours: Open daily 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bakery Hours: 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. Friday – Sunday.


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It has been a little while since the last update! So first things first... I should announce officially (some already know) I am going to be living in Shilla, Ancash!!! Ancash is one of the 25 departments in Peru. I will be a replacement volunteer (meaning this volunteer named Vishal from Peru 9 has been living there for the last two years), Shilla has roughly 1,500 people, has 2 schools, is a Quechua speaking community (meaning... they all speak Quechua and SOME speak Spanish... hehe.. oh man) and is also really really extremely cerca to the biggest montana in Peru se llama Huascaran... which MEANS folks. Best hiking trails for miles are accessible from my site!! Yessssss. I'm pretty stoked and nervous and all that. I leave tomorrow for my site visit. Along with me, three other volunteers will also be living in Ancash pretty close to me. Colleen (from UP to Ancash!), Lisette (who was the first volunteer I met in the airport in LA on the way to Washington D.C.) and Christy (Christy Baja as we like to call her :). I will not have internet or cell phone service in my site.. so my posts will probably be less frequent but I look forward to where I will be. I'm a fan of the size and the place... and I get to learn a dying language! After this week I will make sure to let everyone know about how the site visit went and all that jazz. Here is a pic of us new Ancashians:
I celebrated the Fiestas Patrias (Independence Day of Peru) the 28th and 29th with my host familia... we went out to the nearby town of Chosica and it was pretty emocionante because my madre hadn't left the house since I got here. We ate good comida and it felt like I was at the Ventura Fair which was nice. It's been kind of chilly and foggy lately, so the sun during the afternoon felt good. This is me, the madre, the perro and my hermana at the fountain in Chosica:
Today, Colleen and I made no bake cookies for our new host familias for when we arrive on Tuesday... plus we also made homemade peanut butter which was DELICIOUS. :) We ate lunch at the casa (some cauliflower bathed in eggs... with arroz of course and peas and carrots). Colleen cut my host brother's hair with success I might add. I know he would never tell us if he hated it but I think he likes it.
I can't believe that I only have 3 weeks left of training!! The real thing is about to start. I hope I'm ready! Apparently my new host family has their own fields where they work all day and their own guinea pig farm! Which means I'll probably be eating lots of cuy! Wish me luck. I will update in a week!


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Forests are a complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form. Tree-dominated forests can occur wherever the temperatures rise above 10 °C (50 °F) in the warmest months and the annual precipitation is more than 200 mm (8 inches). They can develop under a variety of conditions within these climatic limits, and the kind of soil, plant, and animal life differs according to the extremes of environmental influences.
In cool, high-latitude subpolar regions, forests are dominated by hardy conifers like pines, spruces, and larches. These taiga (boreal) forests have prolonged winters and between 250 and 500 mm (10 and 20 inches) of rainfall annually.
In more temperate high-latitude climates, mixed forests of both conifers and broad-leaved deciduous trees predominate. Broad-leaved deciduous forests develop in middle-latitude climates, where there is an average temperature above 10 °C (50 °F) for at least six months every year and annual precipitation is above 400 mm (16 inches). A growing period of 100 to 200 days allows deciduous forests to be dominated by oaks, elms, birches, maples, beeches, and aspens.
In the humid climates of the equatorial belt, tropical rainforests develop. There heavy rainfall supports evergreens that have broad leaves instead of needle leaves, as in cooler forests. In the lower latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, the temperate deciduous forest reappears.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Yoga is just as unscientific as astrology (and why this is not a bad thing)
And so, since it looks like I'll be staying put here in my corner of the upper midwest for at least a little bit longer, I may as well use this time to reflect a little more about things. Since we're talking about astrology, I'll start here. I've always seen myself as a very rational-minded person, and astrology has always struck me as being philosophically and scientifically suspect; in particular, the fact that astrological claims and predictions are not falsifiable has always struck me as good reason to see astrology as at best a pseudo-science, and therefore rationally suspect.
If you are not familiar with the notion of falsifiability, let me just give you a quick cliff-notes (or is it spark-notes? :-)) version of it, if you'll bear with my being rather pedantic here. In the 1930s, the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper came up with the notion of falsifiability in order to separate science from pseudo-science. The general idea is that a good scientific theory is a theory that can survive deliberate and genuine attempts to falsify or refute it. Take, for instance, Einstein's famous mass-energy equivalence formula, e=mc squared. This formula expresses a good scientific theory about the relationship between mass and energy, because it tells us very clearly the conditions under which it would be false: If you are able to find an instance anywhere in the universe in which e is not equal to mc squared, then you would have proven that this theory is false. In other words, a good scientific theory is a theory that "puts itself on the line" by making predictions that are precise, and which tell us clearly the conditions under which it would be false; hence "falsifiability". The general idea is that the more a theory puts itself on the line by making very precise predictions, the more scientifically credible it is, and vice versa.
Astrology runs afoul of this criterion of falsifiability, because virtually any astrological prediction about your life can be confirmed, depending on how liberally you are willing to interpret the astrologer's predictions. Popper himself, in fact, had rather harsh things to say about astrology:
"Astrology did not pass the test [of falsifiability]. Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence—so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavourable evidence. Moreover, by making their interpretations and prophesies sufficiently vague they were able to explain away anything that might have been a refutation of the theory had the theory and the prophesies been more precise. In order to escape falsification they destroyed the testability of their theory. It is a typical soothsayer's trick to predict things so vaguely that the predictions can hardly fail: that they become irrefutable." (Karl Popper, "Science, Pseudo-science, and Falsifiability")
Popper's views about science and falsifiability were one of the first philosophical views I studied when I took my first undergraduate philosophy class, and while I do not profess myself to be a Popperian or any kind of expert on his views, I think it is probably safe to say that for much of my twenties (yes, you are about to find out how old I am :-)), his views had a big influence on the way I viewed things in the world in general.
But things started shifting in my twenty-ninth year. In January of that year, I stumbled into my first yoga class, a power yoga class (for more details, see this post). I really enjoyed that first class, and immediately began practicing at home by myself pretty much right after that first class. The reasons that attracted me to yoga were many and complex. For one thing, on a purely physical level, I could feel, even from the very beginning, that yoga was much more than just "working out"; the kind of intense body awareness needed in yoga practice reminded me very strongly of the martial arts practice that I used to do in my teens. On a psychological and emotional level, yoga also immediately allowed me to stand back from and see through the useless and unproductive stories that I was telling myself in my mind all the time (for more details, see this post. Actually, I still tell myself stories even now; but I like to think that I am at least more aware of this tendency now).
On a philosophical level, I was drawn to yoga because I sensed that yoga provided a worldview that is bigger and broader than the narrowly mechanistic worldview that characterizes so much of contemporary western medicine: While the effects of asana and pranayama practice on our bodies and minds can be explained by modern science and do not contradict it, yoga practice begins with a subjective, "first-person" view of the body, one that does not presuppose a straight-forward mechanistic cause-and-effect view of how our minds and bodies work. Because of this, I found yoga practice to be a much more compassionate and empowering way of relating to my mind and body than the narrowly mechanistic worldview of western medicine. At the same time, because many of the effects of asana and pranayama practice are explainable in medical scientific terms, I also adopted a rather naively scientific view of yoga; I regarded yoga as not being as rationally suspect as "new-agey" things like astrology. Being grounded in the physical body, yoga did not seem as "woo-ey" as things like astrology, whose predictions and claims could be interpreted any which way, and are therefore not falsifiable. As such, yoga is more scientifically credible. Or so I thought.
But over the last couple of years, I have started to feel that this naively scientific view of yoga is inadequate; it does little justice to the actual felt experience of yoga practice, and may even be, strictly speaking, inaccurate. Why do I feel this way? Consider the notion of Nadi Shodana, or the cleansing of the channels of the subtle body. In Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, the second series is named Nadi Shodana, because consistent practice of this series is supposed to bring about the cleansing and purification of these subtle body channels, resulting in a more balanced and healthy nervous system, among other things. Because of its effects on the nervous system, Nadi Shodana is sometimes translated as "purification of the nervous system". To be sure, having a more balanced and healthy nervous system is a beneficial effect of the practice of Nadi Shodana, but it is not the essential objective of this practice. The objective of nadi shodana is to open up the central channel, or sushumna nadi, so that prana can flow freely through this channel, allowing for kundalini to rise from its state of slumber in the base of the spine and move up to the crown chakra. According to the Chandogya Upanishad, when this happens, one becomes immortal. If you consider this matter even a little, you will see how the narrowly mechanistic worldview of western medicine, which presupposes that the only things that exist are physical bodies and parts, cannot possibly do justice to what the real work of Nadi Shodana is. For one thing, although "nadi" is sometimes translated as "nerve", it is not a nerve, but a channel for the flow of consciousness/life-energy/prana. And since life-energy or prana is not a physical entity, it does not exist as far as western medicine is concerned. And if western medicine does not even have a place for prana, how can it possibly accommodate the notion of kundalini rising, let alone immortality?
What I am trying to say is, quite simply, this: Yoga is not a science, if by "science" we mean a set of theories whose entities are physically detectable, and whose results can be precisely predicted and measured using precise instruments and calculations. There is, to my knowledge, no "Nadi-Shodana-meter" that can measure precisely how far along and to what extent a practitioner has purified the channels of her subtle body, and give her a reliable prediction of when (or if) the awakening of kundalini will happen for her in this lifetime. If you think this sounds ridiculous, this is because it is. Yoga is, in the final analysis, not a science, and to pretend that it is otherwise is at best to bark up the wrong tree, and at worse, an exercise in futility (or maybe barking up the wrong tree is an exercise in futility, in which case they are one and the same thing... aren't I clever? :-)).
So as much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I have to state the obvious conclusion here: In the final analysis, yoga is just as unscientific as astrology. Isn't this depressing?... Well, it may be, if you think that the only things that are worth anything in life are things that are "scientific" and whose results can be precisely predicted and measured. If so, it is still not too late to jump ship: Maybe you can switch to Pilates, or this thing they call Zumba.
But here's another thought: Is life itself an exact science? I'm guessing the answer is no. Because if it were, somebody somewhere would surely have come up with a precise "owner's manual" for how to live successfully and get the most "performance" out of life by now, just as we have owner's manuals for our cars that tell us how to get the most performance out of them. And if life is not an exact science, why should it depress us that yoga, which teaches us how to deal productively as embodied living beings on this earth, is not?
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- AnonymousJuly 24, 2012 at 8:36 PM
I agree with you and I personally feel that the more I practice, the more "woo-ee" it really becomes, not less. As this point, I just don't really try to analyze it either way, but just to practice. Also, I recently listened to a teaching from Centre of Gravity wherein M. Stone joked that people like to say Buddhist teachings are "very scientific" especially new practitioners, and that really they are not. I thought you might find that comparison interesting as well.ReplyDelete
So, maybe the "missed teaching" this summer is the teaching, right? Maybe it is somehow the very teaching you need. KristenReplies
Yes, I really feel that the missed teaching is increasingly becoming the teaching in and of itself. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell me that I need to spend more time working on the practice by myself. I think Buddhism is in a similar situation to yoga, in that although the effects of practice can be empirically/scientifically observed, the process by which it actually works is not actually scientific, at least not in a straightforwardly mechanistic way. Very interesting.Delete
It is not wise to waste your time researching on the science behind yoga. Yoga is nothing but a performance of flexibility of one's body like circus, aerobatics, break dance, wresting, marshal art so on and so forth. Yoga is neither for exercise nor for therapy of any kind. Beware of yoga not to endanger your health.ReplyDelete


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I want to share something that has truly reminded me that CREATING ART is a liberty we may sometimes take for granted. It's something we don't have to ask for, or need permission to do. We can create anytime we want… we are lucky. So fortunate we don't even appreciate it at times…. I know I am guilty of that too.
As many of you know I curate the WHERE WOMEN CREATE column CREATIVE RITUALS, several months back I contacted a wonderful clay artist named Nika Htozkaya about being featured in the column. We were moving forward when suddenly all communication with her stopped, below is the actual email I received from her yesterday:
Hello Sandra,
Sorry for a long silence, but due to tragical events in my country I can't participate in such a great idea now. It's a real war in the region I live in, I hope some day there will be peace and I could be back to work creating.
I volunteer as a psychologist now as it is my first profession and really see that it is helpful. Two months ago I created a small organization to help people psychologically injured with war, so at least fifty percent of my time and money goes into that endeavor. Hope in a few weeks my organization won't be so vitally needed.
This wonderfully talented artist lives and creates in Kyiv, Ukraine and maybe thats just an anonymous place most have only heard about on the news but the reality is we are all truly connected in ways we may not even be aware of. Create every opportunity you get…. don't ever take that freedom for granted. Simply by engaging in the constructive act of creativity we are fighting destructive acts and for our right to live in a happy, peaceful world while making a very important contribution to our society as a whole. In Nika's floral words, "Have a Good Day!" Please share this message with as many people as you can…. because we can and maybe, just maybe we can make a difference even if it is in a small way by showing the love we have in our hearts for each other!


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Sunday, November 25, 2012
100 Books 113 - Lee Battersby's THE CORPSE-RAT KING
Is that a crown in your pocket, or are you just happy to come and rule us?
That's not a quote from this novel, but really? It totally could be.
Marius Helles makes his living robbing the corpses of soldiers who have fallen in battle, a practice he has refined to an art -- until he has no living to make at all. Tee hee. What happens is, he robs the wrong corpse -- that of a fallen king -- and is observed holding a crown by one of the recently dead, who misreads the situation and next thing Marius knows, he's been sucked down to the world of the dead! Whom the gods are ignoring! Because, the dead think, they have no king! So they need a king! Marius has a crown, therefore he must be a king! So he can be their king! But of course, Marius doesn't want to be dead, even if he gets to be KING DEAD!
All of that sounds spoilery, but that's all just the first chapter of The Corpse-Rat King, in which the newly-dead Marius gets his mission: find the dead a king, or else. But like all good Heroes, Marius at first Refuses the Call, and runs away. As excuses for a tour of a funky fantasy world go, this is a highly original one.
Battersby, too, took some time making this more than just a generic fantasy world. There are a lot of nice touches, like a short discourse on a tradition of throwing corn dollies into the water at the beginning of an ocean voyage and the industry of dolly-making that has grown up around it, that, combined with Zombie Marius' antics, make this book a genuine pleasure to read.
There are some disturbingly funny moments, such as when Marius almost "rescues"* a drowned Mad King who is a dig-in-your ribs reference to Caligula (he even named his horse "Littleboot" which is roughly an English translation of "Caligula" -- the nickname bestowed on the beloved toddler son of the Roman commander Germanicus that stuck right on through the kid's rise to the imperial throne) and rides him like a horsey beneath the waves. Or when... but that would be spoilery. Eff off. But oh, how I giggled.
This is another novel that I started and let go by the wayside because of shiny things that came my way. This should not reflect on the book's quality, however. I'm just distractable that way. And though I had read many other things between the putting-aside and the taking-back-up-again (a span of three or four weeks), I did not have to refresh my memory as to what had been going on. And once I was reading it again, I kept on at a giddy pace, carried away by Battersby's wonderful world building (and cathedral building; the Cathedral of Bones licks the Iron Throne hollow as an enduring taunt/symbol of a founding ruler's conquests) and Marius' resourcefulness as he first runs away from and then embraces his quest, like every hero does.
The ending leaves room for a sequel, by the way. Hurrah for Mostly Dead Marius!
*For "rescue" read "spirits away so he can proceed to the land of the dead and become their king."
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By Caelia Quinault
The operations of waste management company Viridor were laid bare on national television last night (August 12) in the latest episode of Undercover Boss – which exposed issues such as overfilled bins and the difficult conditions faced by waste pickers.However, some critics have been quick to attack the show for being too contrived and "soppy" – with the Daily Express going so far as to brand it "Undercover Dross".
In the show, which was aired at 9pm on Channel 4, Viridor's chief executive Colin Drummond went undercover at five sites across the UK to see what it was like at the 'sharp end' of the business.
Pointing to the "dog-eat-dog" nature of the waste sector, he said he hoped the experience would teach him lessons on how to stay ahead.
He said: "I think it is right and proper for a chief executive to go out and do what he expects his guys to do. I also want to see if… there are things we are doing wrong."
Described by his wife Georgina as a "driven perfectionist", Mr Drummond posed as former office worker John Roy who was trying out different level-entry jobs for a television programme.
His experiences ranged from collecting trade waste in Manchester and helping out at a household waste recycling centre in Oldham to joining waste pickers at materials recycling facilities in Bristol and West Sussex and working at a transport depot in Plymouth.
On his journey, Mr Drummond was struck by the commitment of many of his workers and in particular the efforts of transport depot worker Tim Lake, who has thyroid cancer but was still working every day and used holiday days when he had to go for treatment.
The chief executive was similarly impressed by the staff at the Arkwright Street household waste recycling centre in Oldham, who greeted everyone at the site to advise them on where to recycle different items and have helped drive up recycling rates dramatically.
On the flip side, Mr Drummond was shocked on his visit to the company's construction and demolition materials recycling facility at Filton in Bristol by the harsh conditions in which the pickers worked – which one remarked on as a "prison sentence" – and becomes concerned with their health and safety. He branded the dirty mess room at the site "shocking".
Buoyed by his experience, Mr Drummond told his board he wanted to "tighten up our policies and take some actions."
Notably, he said that Viridor staff should have the welfare facilities they deserved, that good ideas fostered by workers needed to be spread around the company and that good agency staff should be given full time employment and helped to progress.
I learnt a tremendous number of things that you just don't learn when you are looking at things from the outside
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He said: "I learnt a tremendous number of things that you just don't learn when you are looking at things from the outside… it is going to affect how we drive our business forward."
An initial review for the show came from human resources and business website HR Zone, which praised Mr Drummond's determination to go undercover himself rather than to send another member of his board.
However, it raised questions over whether it was a fair representation of the actual experience and added: "one criticism might be that it is too formulaic to be actually useful to a company".
This view was echoed by the Daily Express, which went further by saying the programme was boring.
It said: "Unfortunately, this show has turned into a sort of soppy, fairy godmother affair in which the boss goes undercover, finds employees who are fighting illnesses or want to go on a course and just gives them a leg-up not open to any of the millions of other people toiling away without the benefit of a C4 TV camera crew. Undercover Dross might be a better title for the show."
The Telegraph added, on a more light-hearted note, that Harvard and Oxford-educated Mr Drummond "certainly won't be giving up the day job".
It said: "At one point, as the 59-year-old struggled to push a wheelie bin packed with rubbish over a bump, watching factory workers asked his minder for the day: "He's not going to be instead of you, is he?"
Commenting on the show, Steve Eminton, editor of letsrecycle.com said: "The programme made a good hour's viewing and for the general public will have opened their eyes to the world of waste in a more constructive way than some of the programmes we have seen in recent years.
"There were some excellent examples of good practice, especially at the civic amenity site and in litter picking at other sites, all showing how the sector looks for good practice. Any one with doubts about the need to recycle more cannot but fail to have noticed the volumes of waste still being landfilled although this was also a reflection on the commercial and industrial sector."
Mr Eminton added: "In terms of emotion, some viewers also found it a bit of a tear-jerker at times, but there were real insights into the industry and its people and hopefully the problems found, such as at Filton, will be properly remedied."


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When I first went to University in Kuala Lumpur one of the food items I missed most was salted fish. I was definitely not used to the new cuisine of curried meat and fish and vegetables not fried in Foochow style. I had never left home for more than a week at a stretch before then. Mee sua was unheard of in the KL coffee shops then so we had to settle for the rather unfamiliar Wan Tan Mien. And many of us were not at all used to beef balls noodles with a lot of lengkuas (which is not easy on Foochow tongue).It was almost as cultural shock for my fellow Sibuans and I.
In my second year most of my friends and I had our mothers deep fry and bottle salted fish fingers. Our mothers would meet and buy salt fish from the Sibu Central Market and share stories about how their children were doing in MU (Universiti Malaya).
A conversation would go like this:
"Hey..how's your daughter doing?"
"Oh that stupid girl...just so so lah"
"My boy also. Ai yo...study hard every day . Sometimes forget to eat. So I have to send him this salt fish."
"Yeah...my stupid daughter also...very frugal. Never want to spend money. Just eat one dollar worth of kuay tiau with one fried egg in the evening."
"My son? He just drinks cold tea . Sometimes three days old tea also drink. Rice and salt fish enough for him. Very frugal...God is kind sending me such a son...Don't know what to do with him!"
We had several "kawans" in the salt fish market: the late Tang Tiong Kuok's father who was my mother's first cousin's husband and my cousin's father in law (Mr. Lee). We would always "teh yu" or buy our salted fish from my mother's Tiong cousin (from my grandmother Tiong Lian's side of the family). He was a haunched and white haired uncle whose children are prosperous titled business people today. In those days every one knew every one. And we even knew where they lived! Most of these salt fishmongers lived in "Ka Koh Chuo" a very famous dwelling place in Bukit Assek. From this house alone we have several Datuks actually.
I like the communal spirit amongst the salt fishmongers - their advice and their wisdom -- telling my mother which was a better buy for example. There was no such thing as best buy or special offer items. Everything was best buy at a price negotiated between the buyer and seller. I learned from the side carrying my mother's shopping basket. Years later as I read Hillary Clinton's book "It takes a Village to raise a child" I agree with her fully. She could have described life in Sibu!!
Today I remember with a smile the friendly men(UNCLES) who sold the salt fish and the others who sold the bean curd and bean sprouts and their sense of humour too. (WE ate a lot of bean sprouts because it was the cheapest we could get for 50 cents - great value).
Here I would like to say "thank you" to all those salt fishmongers (uncles and aunties) of yesteryears...they made our lives better because of their sincere kindness and sympathies.
I learned about Pa Tieh Poh (Ikan Kurau)- Muang Ngii ( Eel)- loong ma ka (wet salted mackerel) sai ngii (shark) hoong mui ngii (sting ray).
My memorable biology lessons in real life from these kindly old men. When they passed away life changed for me as well as for those around them. An era has gone by.
This is salted shark.
This is salted sting ray.
This is salted Ikan Kurau or pa tieh poh (one of the most expensive salt fish in the world) Equivalent to salmon.
This is salted eel or muang ngii - a Foochow favourite. I love it especially if it is not too salty.
As I left the salt fish monger's stall a strange nostalgia overwhelmed me. My eyes misted and I saw shadows of people of the past in front of me. Gone all of them.
It is still the aroma of that salty sea air and the identifiable smells of salt fish that bring us home to Sibu.
And finally who can remember who was the first salt fish monger of Sibu?
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Salted Fish in Sibu Central Market
Memoir by I Am Sarawakiana at 6:34 AM
Labels: Salted Fish sting ray eel shark
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- Superman said...
My mum like salted fish also but cannot take much as not so good for health. Too salty for her age. sometimes we just bought a little for cooking.Nice to go with bean sprouts.
- May 5, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- sarawakiana said...
Good morning Mr. Superman.
Yes indeed salted fish goes well with bean sprouts.
Whenever I look at the high price of Ikan Kurau I just sigh.....
What was once poor man's food is now beyond the reach of even the middle class....smile.
- May 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- justin said...
Some good salted fish used to be sold in the shops opposite the fish market.
I used to get Kurau from West Malaysia - all nicely packed for tourists actually. Yep - they are pricey.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- sarawakiana said...
West Malaysia is very famous for Ikan Kurau or pa tieh poh in Foochow.
there is something magical about salted ikan kurau.
- May 6, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Sarawakiana@2 said...
I think it would be nice if some of the shops in Sibu sell the salted fish in nice packaging...but Sibu being Sibu...many things are simple...Melaka is a good example where many of their products are really packed for tourists...and some of the original producers even have their own shops for tourists.
- May 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- Luyin said...
I love salted fish and eggs but for health reason I tend not to buy and consume too much.All these preserved foods are good reasons why we Chinese are the main targets of cancer of stomach or Colon and Nasophargyn.
If you can eat fresh, why go for the preserved food ?
- May 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- sarawakiana said...
Salted fish is just part of Chinese diet...e.g. it is a condiment for porridge. When people do not have appetite when sick they look for salted fish. Tau Geh needs salted fish.
But again how much salted fish to eat is within our control.
I love salted fish but I make sure it does not shoot up my blood pressure.
It is just so nice with nasi lemak!!
Comfort food but kept at the minimum.
Also Cancer can develop any time any place and in anyone...with or without salted fish..too..
We need to protect ourselves against cancer but it is a uphill task...
Thanks for visiting and thanks for the wise words.
- May 26, 2009 at 8:03 AM


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