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Updated Story: Peace Corps Volunteers in Kyrgyz Republic Are Safe, Returning to Sites and Serving Their Communities
Updated Story: Peace Corps Volunteers in Kyrgyz Republic Are Safe, Returning to Sites and Serving Their Communities
Peace Corps Volunteers in Kyrgyz Republic Are Safe, Returning to Sites and Serving Their Communities
Caption: A man passes by a poster with ousted President Askar Akayev's portrait in the village of Chym Korgon, 90 km (56 miles) east of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Monday, March 28, 2005. The poster is still safe because of its location, the region where Akayev's supporters prevail. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 28, 2005 (Updated 2:00 p.m. EST) -- Peace Corps Director Gaddi H. Vasquez announced that all volunteers serving in the Kyrgyz Republic are safe and are returning to their working and living sites. The volunteers were consolidated last week following recent political events in the country.
Although volunteers are returning to their host country communities and families, they remain on stand fast until further notice. Stand fast means that volunteers stay at their sites, remain focused on their work, and avoid travel.
"The Peace Corps staff in the Kyrgyz Republic conducted safety assessments over the weekend and determined that it was safe for volunteers to return to their communities and re-engage in their important work," stated Director Vasquez. "However, for the immediate future, all volunteers will remain on stand fast as a safety precaution."
The Peace Corps staff in the Kyrgyz Republic remains in constant communication with Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. Each Peace Corps program has an Emergency Action Plan specific to that country and developed in cooperation with Peace Corps Washington and the local U.S. Embassy. The plans are tested frequently and information is updated constantly. Volunteers are thoroughly trained in their roles and responsibilities, and posts are prepared for all emergencies.
Families may contact the Peace Corps' Office of Special Services with any questions or concerns they may have. Special Services maintains a 24-hour a day, 7 days a week duty system. The telephone number during standard office hours is 1-800-424-8580, Extension 1470; the after hours number is 202-638-2574.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Stephane Dion
What happened last night was disappointing by any measure, but for some odd reason I've never been prouder of Stephane Dion. Despite the talking heads, I completely understood the depth of the man, the ability to weave complex ideas together into a coherent thrust. If you actually listened, and could get beyond the pre-conceptions and spin, there was a real vision there, a vision which has been absent from immediate satisfaction election mentality for quite some time.
Dion isn't a natural politician, he doesn't necessarily think in a strategic sense, and snappy soundbites aren't readily available. That said, it was sort of refreshing, I mean here we have a man who is the anti-thesis of all those things we say we hate, all those attributes that make "politician" a dirty word. Just a man of conviction, demonstrating sincerity and honesty, presenting a view of Canada, which always had the country's prosperity at heart. We can agree or disagree on the substance, but nobody can question the character, bold ideas and firm resolve.
We all know our political discourse is a superficial game, I'm not naive enough to be surprised, but I guess what happened, I became invested. I believe Stephane Dion would make a great Prime Minister, I believe that this is the type of person, armed with solid ideas incorporating the skilled views of those with knowledge, that would benefit this country. People can heap scorn on the Liberal Party, in many respects I'd probably agree, but Dion wasn't part of all the jockeying really, wasn't involved in the game, devoid of ego, he just wanted to serve, his intentions were pure. Any fair observer would give Dion that admiration, it doesn't take much to agree.
Before I dive back into the realm of rational deduction, tactical consideration and political instinct, it is important to see someone outside of this arena, an arena which isn't particular attractive. In the end, the perceived failure of Stephane Dion is more a statement on the problematic nature of modern politics, than it is an accurate interpretation of the man's attributes or abilities. I'm proud of Stephane Dion, and despite the outcome, Canada was better for his participation.
33 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I agree with you and am also proud of Dion. You expressed this view very well. I found his substance, vision, commitment and integrity inspiring. I also am a big fan of a carbon tax shift and admire Dion for having the courage to stand behind this sound policy.
- 9:49 AM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Very well said.
- 10:02 AM, October 15, 2008
- me dere robert said...
Well written..
- 10:05 AM, October 15, 2008
- A Eliz. said...
I was very saddened last night as the media did it again. Dion is everything you said. The problem was the Green Shift as Harper lied his way through and the media helped. You did not here them say how many environmentalists or economists said the tax on carbon was the way to go.They should have been blasting this, for the country to hear. They did not care that Harper's goal was to ruin the country, as we know it. Their job was to get Harper elected.A few good liberals went down, and we got some new ones . Mike Harris riding's, 905, went Con. Thankfully the cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver did not buy it.
- 10:19 AM, October 15, 2008
- Mark Richard Francis said...
Changing leaders now will play right into Harper's hands.
The goal of this Parliament is to keep Harper to a minority, while rebuilding what the PARTY stands for and how it functions at the grass roots level. The Libs changing leaders will not be anything other than musical chairs, and would completely get in the way of making needed changes. We simply do not have the time to do both.
I think Dion is developing a reputation for being "straight up." harper is one his way to being well set up as another "lying Brian."
Ontario and Quebec continue to be the battleground the Libs have to gain in. Forget the West, except portions of BC. The Libs can't rebrand for the West any time soon.
- 10:23 AM, October 15, 2008
- Susan said...
Thanks for all your posts and especially this one.
- 10:31 AM, October 15, 2008
- 900ft Jesus said...
The Libs should keep Dion. Several reasons - those qualities you listed, steve; he is the type of politician we badly need right now - one who will commit to progressive policies despite the hard sell; one who can bring differing groups together; one who understand the world situation and our role in it; there's no time or money to go through another leadership race and establish a new leader; Dion wasn't solely responsible for the loss last night and the Liberal party better face this and get its s*** together; we need, as you said, start to appreciate as qualities what has been portrayed as weakness or we head toward a might is right attitude and a belief that brawn is better than brains.
And he wants Canada to be a fun pace.
At least the Liberals should see if the Dion who came out more and more during the election will perform better in the House this time around.
- 10:32 AM, October 15, 2008
- Constant Vigilance said...
I wholeheartedly agree. The more I saw of Dion the more I thought that he is the type of person I can believe in.
If any one thinks Ignatief or Rae would have done they are fooling themselves. I bet there are puerile commercials and websites ridiculing those two in reserve for after any leadership change.
My recollection from your previous polling posts is that the Liberals were well ahead in Ontario prior to the Doofusy trap interview. After that the polls were to the Conservatives by a hair. But for the complicity of the media there might have been a much closer result.
I think he played a tough hand very well.
- 11:02 AM, October 15, 2008
- Omar said...
I share all your sentiments regarding Stephane Dion as do many in Atlantic Canada. I believe he would have made a more than fine PM thus making Canadians proud to call him leader. Having said that, I do not believe he will ever appeal to enough voters outside of eastern Canada to ever see him claim the nation's top job. It saddens me to say, he needs to go. The sooner the better.
- 11:03 AM, October 15, 2008
- Kirbycairo said...
I agree that Dion's failure is a sign of what is wrong with our political system and the inability of voters to actually pay attention. But Dion also, like all the other leaders, was far too partisan and it is the blind parisanship that our politicians need to abandon in favor of coalition politics. That is where we need to move forward.
- 11:09 AM, October 15, 2008
- The Mound of Sound said...
I became involved with the LPC when it had a justice minister named Trudeau. From Pearson on I've watched them all come and go. Nice, intelligent guy that he is, Mr. Dion is the weakest of the lot by any measure.
If we offer Mr. Dion in the next election, the party risks irreparable damage. The Canadian public has rejected this fellow and those arrogant enough to ignore that do the party no favour.
Stephen Harper was never as strong a leader as some think. He ought to have been vulnerable on his own words, on his own record. He only looks invincible in contrast to his main opponent.
Mr. Dion did himself very little good and did Mr. Harper very little damage in the course of this campaign. The best attacks I saw on Harper came from Jack Layton and Elizabeth May, not Stephane Dion - and that's inexcusable.
I believe that very few Liberal votes last night came via Mr. Dion but, instead, either people voting for a popular local candidate or supporting the brand.
Hanging on to Mr. Dion out of fear is so antithetical to everything that has made the Liberal Party great. Politics is a blood sport and Mr. Dion lies mortally wounded. That's it. It's over.
- 11:27 AM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Excellent post. You've just communicated everything I believe (except using better grammer).
Stephane Dion is going to be the greatest Prime Minister Canada never had (Let's be honest, he's not going to stay leader, I hope he decides to remain an MP/future cabinet minister).
- 11:33 AM, October 15, 2008
- Tania said...
As a British Columbian, I share your sentiment. So the belief that Stephane will not be popular outside of the east is inaccurate.
I went to the Liberal "party" here in Vancouver after picking up a friend who was talking about why Dion shouldn't be our choice for leader.
Have we become so jaded that we "need" someone who can fight dirty? Who can go low?
It amazes me that we are always bemoaning the fact that politicians are "sleazy" and "untrustworthy" and Dion can never be described as those two things.
He's a man of honour, integrity, passion for this country that's stronger than my own. And I LOVE this country. He's sacrificed so much of himself to us, more than Harper and Layton ever have.
And now there's talk of replacing him? The Liberal Party wasn't built in a day. It didn't fall in a day.
This election wasn't a slight against Dion. We didn't have the money to fight back the two years Harper was constantly attacking our leader.
We all failed. We failed because we didn't rally behind our leader. We're still divided. We still have some grassroots building to do.
I hope that it's with Stephane as our leader.
He's made me proud to be a Liberal. He's made me passionate about politics.
Canadians deserve a Prime Minister who loves this country, from coast to coast. I hope one day that man is Stephane.
Thank you for this post. I frequent liblogs but I find most of it to be negative and divisive so I rarely comment. Your post eloquently described all my feelings for this wonderful man.
- 11:51 AM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I agree. Problem is, in these "modern" times, those kind of qualities are not enough to engage 40% of the electorate who just don't care... and don't frankly get inspired by policy but by personality. The LPC ignored that fact at it's own peril.
Buyers remorse anyone?
- 12:11 PM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I have no real interest in seeing the Liberal party succeed, that said, you better stick with Dion or get him out and a new leader by the end of January.
- 12:56 PM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
We need to keep Dion and throw Bob Rae back to NDP. the old people hate him in Ontario....I blame him and Jack Laytons deal with Harper to have his voters vote conservative where they were nort in the running in exchange for a conservative vote in the ridings where they were ahead...I believe the conservative party was telling layton what to do and when to do it...to become official opposition...lucky for us ...he failed but did get rid of liberals....I say KEEP DION. even Michael Coren said he was a good man.
- 1:05 PM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Thanks, Steve. Excellent Post.
I think Dion is a wise man. As the campaign went on I also became very invested in the fact that the public despite all evidence in how they speak about politicians actually want politicians and not truly visionary leaders. I think this election says a lot about that. Right or wrong, our society wants leaders that play the game well. Once in a while, we are blessed that they have a good vision as well. But the priority is clear, isn't it? The game comes first.
As I see it, and I have vast personal experience with this, Canada has for the past few years has been slipping into the malaise that held the grip in the US for over a decade. I purposely push that date back into the 90s, culminating - one hopes - with Bush but with its roots some years prior to his arrival.
It is a race to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to implement a government that claims to be anti-government but actually serves to centralize power more vastly to make the people ever more reliant on being in good favor with the central power in order to move ahead.
While I somewhat hope that Canada will avoid the worst of it, and may due to its more progressive history, more often than not I am surprised to see the same conditions and the same symptoms I witnessed there.
When I read the myriad of "strong progressives" writing, "Why vote if a man like Dion can't win?" or "Why vote if there is no electoral reform?" as I have this morning, I cringe a bit inside.
The people who blindly follow Steven Harper and his not clearly spoken but blatantly obvious vision will vote every time regardless of what he or his government does. EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is not the early 90s so even failure of policy will not in itself lead to the failure of his vision. The mood is different, and it will not shift for several years and only after catastrophic results if progressives do not remain strongly engaged.
The people who are easily swayed or overly burdened by their own lives will buy the leader's message, even if it is a pack of lies dealt one dirty card at a time. They will vote for it because fear and derision are powerful emotions for some. And the media in Canada, as with the US, has already begun to retreat into simply parrots for the leader even as they work to convince their viewers and themselves that they are "balanced" in their views.
So if the progressive vote remains fractured or sits out a few elections due to some "proud principal," the road will be rough as Canada's progressive spirit and voice are scuttled for nearly a generation.
The only thing that can prevent that is if progressives across Canada recognize it and devote themselves to ensuring this is the high-water mark for Conservatives under Stephen Harper. They have successfully excised the "Progressive" name and spirit from their party.
I am still torn as to whether I feel a true coalition is needed - I actually like the myriad of voices in Canada and feel it in some ways prevents the polarization seen in the US - people need choices and do NOT need to be forced into an A or B proposition. But for the good of the country, in the next election, progressives will either need to unite under one strong and respected progressive candidate, or they will need to create some alliance among the parties.
As for Dion, I admire him greatly. But I hope he steps down for the good of the Party. This election should have been about Harper all along, and it never once was. That is not the media's fault, though they were complicit at times. Dion boldly launched an election that made it about himself. And he lost that election. As far as I am concerned, the case is closed on that.
Finally, I am MIGHTILY relieved that Harper does NOT have a majority this morning. At the end of the day, I am one of those people that truly does believe that Harper has a vision, a deep and dark vision that I inherently do not trust. I expect we will see a return of that man in short order because he is small and manipulative. it is at his core. I think people are fooling themselves if they cannot objectively stand back and see that throughout his career. Read what he has written and ponder what he has said throughout his career. It is all there. Any reigns on his power are a blessing to everyone, even his most fervent supporters.
- 1:10 PM, October 15, 2008
- Canadian Hegemon said...
I can't argue with your assessment of Dion, it's spot on.
I was hoping that Canadians would see and decide this election with reason and understanding. However, this election has just demonstrated to me that most Canadians are too lazy and stupid to bother with understanding issues and examining the true character of the party leaders.
So, as good as Dion is, the liberals need a CHARISMATIC POLITICIAN if they want to win. We just saw good policies and a clear direction for the country will take you now where, unless you have a good leader who can put the question mark on his opponents.
- 1:29 PM, October 15, 2008
- Sean Cummings said...
Dion has a shot at a second chance, if anything to force the Liberal Party of Canada to play nice with each other instead of playing with themselves. Let's face it, the Liberal Party has been a shadow of itself since it ousted the last winner it ever had - Jean Chretien. Since then it's been backstabbing, undermining, "anonymous Liberal sources", etc. Personally I think Dion should tell those who want him gone to "vas faire foutre a la cache" ya bunch of disloyal F$#%$'s!
- 3:34 PM, October 15, 2008
- Lola Smiles said...
I hope DION stays.
He needs to.
- 9:00 PM, October 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Dion's problem was the Green Shift. The worst policy ever in a time of economic crisis. But where did this policy come from? Dion didn't dream it up. In fact he has always been opposed to a carbon tax. Rae and dear Mrs Findlay wrote the Green Shift. They sunk Dion.
Dion should demand that next May the convention vote on a new Red Book and develop sensible party policy. He should dump Rae to the back benches and disown his policies. Lay the blame where it belongs ,on Rae and Martha and replace them with Kennedy and Trudeau
- 10:23 PM, October 15, 2008
- liberazzi said...
We all know what the problem with Dion is and it is not something the party or himself can overcome. Everytime I talk about Dion to someone at work, family or friends its comes down to his English. Its sounds stupid, its not right, but this is the reality of the situation.
I was at a Liberal election party last night. 100% of those there said that Dion's time is over. I like Dion and I like what he stands for, but yes its over. Bob Rae believes that politics is the art of persuasion. Dion does not have this skill and he never will. We cannot afford to give Dion another chance. The Liberal party is a party that is out to win, not to just to make a good showing. If Dion was able to achieve a seat count around 100 then I believed he should stay. However, under Dion the Liberals lost a significant number of seats and our worst popular vote total ever.
Dion needs to leave within the next few weeks, so that we can start a leadership contest right away. A brokered contest will be too costly and too divisive. We need to either have a grassroots vote at the riding level or have caucus decide and we need to do it quickly. We need a new leader in place by next spring at the latest.
Electing a new leader is only the start. The party needs to improve its fundraising, getting the grassroots engaged and improving its local organizations. The Liberals lost a number of races because it did not get the vote out. Take the example of Bonnie Crombie's campaign. It used a number of different methods to id voters and make Bonnie known, plus it got the vote out and it paid off. Finally, the grassroots need to be listened to and not just pandered to. If we are not listened to then the party will continue to struggle. The party will most likely now move closer to the center. However, it must not abandon Dion's determination with regards to the environment and to eliminating poverty.
Dion's time is over. He can either leave with dignity now or be humilated into leaving next May. For the good of the party, he needs to leave now, but I hope he stays on as a MP, because he is a good man.
- 10:42 PM, October 15, 2008
- Gayle said...
Steve - I am taking a break from politics, but I saw this post this morning and did not have a chance to reply until now.
I just want to echo the voices here and compliment you on a great post. I do not know what the future holds for Dion, but I agree with your opinion of the man.
- 1:40 AM, October 16, 2008
- Dr. Tux said...
I completely agree with your assessment of the man.
Dion should stay. We cannot afford the money, nor the time to choose a new leader. We cannot afford the political expense of a protracted war and the infighting that this will inevitably bring.
This is a minority government. Let's not forget that. Let's also not forget that Harper's got a lot of challenges ahead of him. Balancing the war, the international economy, the bailouts, all the spending promises he made, while keeping out of deficits, is a tall order.
I really hope we can put this leadership non-sense behind us as quickly as possible, and focus our energy back on Harper and the issues we are facing.
- 4:25 AM, October 16, 2008
- Steve V said...
Don't take too long of a break :)
- 8:44 AM, October 16, 2008
- Gayle said...
Steve - I could hardly tear myself away for too long (look at what I am doing today!) :)
However, I have let some things go at work, and I really want to relax a bit. Besides, the Oilers are looking to have a break out season this year, so I want to ensure I can maximize my hockey experience. 2 down, 80 to go...
I will be back in a couple months or so.
- 12:00 PM, October 16, 2008
- Steve V said...
Maybe, they'll meet the Leafs in the Cup final ;)
- 1:13 PM, October 16, 2008
- Möbius said...
I agree with most of what you say about Dion. He would make a great MP (again), and could contribute, outside of the constraints of the Chretien/Martin situation.
However, as a leader, you have to lead, and inspire people to follow. That, he did not do.
- 8:26 PM, October 16, 2008
- Steve V said...
You know what, I didn't even like the guy, or more correctly, didn't think he had it. In the end, he inspired me, so that's saying something, given my predisposition.
- 8:44 PM, October 16, 2008
- Gayle said...
I do not like that idea. I do not want to start hating the Leafs! :)
- 8:55 PM, October 16, 2008
- Steve V said...
No worries, unless you guys are gunning for the first pick in the draft ;)
- 11:03 PM, October 16, 2008
- Gayle said...
the might OIL are 3 and 0.
I think it will be a perfect season...:)
- 3:32 AM, October 18, 2008
- Steve V said...
Ah, October optimism, I know it well :)
- 5:56 PM, October 18, 2008

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So it was at the Emmys, finally, after 5 years of being ignored, that Friday Night Lights won - twice! The first to Jason Katims for writing, and then to Kyle Chandler for Best Actor Drama. And did you notice the room? Everyone in that room watched Friday Night Lights. Jon Hamm definitely watched Friday Night Lights. From the sound of her shrieking, so did Drew Barrymore. And you? I will never stop nagging people about this.
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Class Leader delivers stirring stretch drive in Sir Barton Stakes
Lane's End Racing's Class Leader lagged far off the pace early before making an extended drive to prevail in the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes for 3-year olds Saturday at Pimlico.
Making only his fifth lifetime start, the Neil Howard-trained colt caught Life In Shambles and Six Spot in the shadow of the wire to win the 1 1/16-mile Sir Barton by a head in 1:43.79 on a fast main track. James Graham, who celebrated his 35th birthday Saturday, was aboard for the hard-fought victory.
Class Leader paid $5.60. The Sir Barton was the first stakes win for the son of Smart Strike.
Winning Trainer Neil Howard (Class Leader): "He's a nice colt. He's kind of a big colt, still growing up, but a very nice colt. I think he has a future. We couldn't be happier. He had to work but that's the kind of horse he is. It just takes a while for him to get his feet under him. We all agreed he was a little close in the Illinois Derby, but the horse that won (Dramatic Impact) is a very nice horse running in the Preakness today. We weren't quite ready for that."
Winning Jockey James Graham (Class Leader): "He ran a great race. I didn't take him, he took me. I didn't ask him, he went. I was a good passenger. The only trouble we had was in the first turn. We got a little squeezed and he dropped the bit, but he came back running. (The running time of) 1:43 for a mile and a sixteenth --that's running there."


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Re: MCSCS Corrections Reform - Findings from Tour of Kenora Jail
February 28, 2017 - Dear Minister Lalonde, I am writing today to provide you with a summary of what we learned. There are some issues that appear unique to the Kenora Jail that raise human rights concerns and warrant further consideration and action on the part of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS). I look forward to discussing these issues further at our upcoming meeting scheduled for early March.


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Easter for one Christian: Terrible death and impossible life?
The tendency for many modern people, including not a few Christians, is to see the death-resurrection saga of Holy Week as a myth — in the positive sense of a great cultural story.
It's about spring, annual cycles, Mother Nature's rebirth. It's something celebrated in most cultures and religions, accompanied in the West by ancient fertility figures such as eggs and rabbits.
These days it perhaps plays its most important role by helping us understand major experiences of loss and change: death to one life stage or relationship that then opens the door to a new stage and a re-born self, until we reach our own hopefully peaceful death.
The story of Jesus' death and resurrection is then an example of this great myth. For many Christians, of course, it's the greatest or culturally closest example. Yet for others it's become a myth in the negative sense: "just a symbol," not something that really happened.
Partly in reaction to this modern tendency, some Christians strongly emphasize what they understand to be the literal truth of the Gospels' death-resurrection narrative. It's not just an example of some cosmic process, but is God's great and unique saving act. Not myth, but truth. Indeed, the great Truth. It may have some general antecedents in nature and culture, but finally it stands alone at the center point of all human history.
So what if you tend, as I do, to embrace both these ways of understanding Jesus' terrible death and seemingly impossible resurrection?
What if you are thrilled by the depiction of nature's great story in Terrence Malick's magnificent recent film, "The Tree of Life." Yet you also catch whispers of Malick's Orthodox Christianity in that film and even more in his subsequent "To the Wonder."
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox forms of Christianity have not hesitated to understand the Gospel by means of historic antecedents, often from pagan religions, and by analogies to nature. So, yes, spring and flowers, eggs and bunnies, as well as Christmas trees and mother goddesses. Yet these branches of Christianity have always also emphasized, as have their Protestant brethren, the uniqueness and utter centrality of the Gospel's great story.
For Catholic and Orthodox and some Protestants, however, Jesus' death and resurrection do not stand in stark contrast to "the way of the world" as they do in so-called "dialectical" theologies. Rather, they are seen as intensifying and thereby fulfilling the natural world's rhythms of death and rebirth.
For Jesus' death was real and thus parallel to all the forms of death in nature. Yet his actual death was also the terrible result of Roman torture and execution. Thus, it exemplified the way that political power has made death "the way of the world," something quite different from natural death.
For the world's powers have always ruled by force, by war and execution – often of critics and prophets.
Thus for the Christian faith, Jesus' resurrection has never been simply another instance of nature's rebirth. The Gospel narratives, with their strange stories of miraculous appearances and disappearances, make it clear that this was not a case of someone dead just coming back to life. Jesus' resurrection is an event beyond the cycles of nature, what scripture and theology call an eschatological (or "end time") event.
It is a real event that announced and initiated a new order in creation, something born both within and beyond the hard shell of the world's way. It initiated and proclaimed, in other words, the Kingdom or Reign of God which Jesus preached and for which Christians pray – a new way of compassion, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice.
This new creation, Christians believe, fulfills the great promises of nature. It renews and realizes the hopes of rebirth implicit in flowers and fields, as well as in our own bodies and our life journeys. For God is the Good Creator of the wondrous flow of natural life.
Of course we know too well what has become of the original dream of paradise. Yet Christians nonetheless believe that God has not given up on our world. She has, rather, continued birthing the world even while giving birth in one among us to the fullness of life and spirit, word and wisdom. Thus as Christians understand it, we all today live with minds and imaginations filled by the hard "ways of the world," even as we are all called (though in different ways) to participate in God's many ways of giving birth to a new creation.
To this point, then, I've simply tried to report different beliefs about death and rebirth and resurrection. Now I'd like to speak more personally.
I suspect that many of us Christians may, at least in private, raise skeptical eyebrows about talk of resurrection and a new creation. Yes, I've heard this before. I'd like to believe it; even try to. And I try to embody it in my life, where I can. But on Easter, if I'm to be honest, I'll enjoy the spring sun and the kids or grandkids.


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San Antonio Rep. Lamar Smith was elected chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Wednesday by his Republican peers, a position that will have oversight over NASA and other Texas research institutions.
"I will be an advocate for America's innovators by promoting legislation that encourages scientific discoveries, space exploration, and the application of new technologies to expand our economy and create jobs for American workers," Smith, the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.
Smith's election keeps him in a leadership position, along with three other Texans elected to head important panels.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, stressed the importance of GOP leadership in light of a divided Congress and a second term with President Barack Obama, and he touted the connection of the newly elected Republican chairmen.
"The House of Representatives is an outpost in Democratic-controlled Washington for the priorities of the American people," Boehner said.
Smith served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee for the full six years of the GOP-imposed term limits. Boehner said his fellow Republican has been a "strong leader" and "dedicated to promoting economic growth."
Smith replaces Republican Rep. Ralph Hall of Rockwall. Hall, the oldest member of the House of Representatives, expressed his support for the new chairman.
"I have worked with Congressman Smith for many years on the Committee, and he has been a consistent and unwavering advocate for American space leadership and promoting technological advancements through research," he said in a statement.
The committee is important to Texas, with oversight of NASA and research programs conducted in San Antonio at Southwest Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and the University of Texas Health Science Center.
Maintaining funding for research, like the work being done in Texas, and pushing legislation to create jobs in science and technology fields are among Smith's goals for the position, the congressman said.
"Over 80 percent of the committee's $39 billion budget touches on research and development," Smith said. "We can't have innovation without research and development, and the purpose of the Science Committee is to encourage the (research and development) that leads to new innovations."
He joins three other Texas representatives appointed to chairmanships for the 113th Congress. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, was appointed chairman of the Committee on Financial Services. Reps. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, and Michael McCaul, R-Austin, will lead the committees on rules and homeland security, respectively.


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Even an investigation into reported fires in Jeep Wranglers didn't slow its sales in the U.S., and it remains one of Chrysler's best-selling products. But the Chinese government is still looking for answers as to why the Jeeps suddenly go up in flames.
Reuters reports that the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has urged Chrysler to find a fix for the fires linked to defective gearboxes. The NHTSA launched an investigation into Wrangler fires in March 2012 over more than 65,000 2010 Wranglers with automatic transmissions, but then closed the case in August of that year.
China went so far as to block the importation of 2011 Wranglers for a time, but that was lifted after Chrysler had reportedly fixed any fire risk. Still, the quality agency is working with Chrysler to come up with a solution that will satisfy the government.
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Dr. Aroop Mangalik has been a cancer specialist for 30 years. He cares for a lot of people who are nearing the end of their lives. Sometimes—rarely—a terminally ill person in a lot of pain asks for a lethal dose of medication. "And the few times that request has been made, I told the patient, Sorry, given the law in New Mexico, I cannot do that."
It's a hard thing to say, he acknowledges, when someone is suffering immensely and there is no cure in sight. "We try and find as many other ways as we can to keep them comfortable."
Mangalik and his colleague, Dr. Katherine Morris, are part of a lawsuit filed in District Court requesting clarification of a state law. The statute on the books makes it a fourth-degree felony to help someone take his or her life. The suit argues that the law doesn't apply to a licensed physician providing aid to a dying person who's mentally competent. The suit also makes the claim that state law is overly vague and violates the state's constitution.
The doctors are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the legal branch of national nonprofit advocacy group Compassion & Choices. Mangalik and Morris work at the University of New Mexico's Cancer Center, but Mangalik says he and his colleague are acting independently in filing the lawsuit and do not represent UNM.
" ... Now, with the use of all variety of drugs, oxygenation and all of these things, you can keep the body going for long periods of time."
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Complicated issues surrounding what's being termed "aid in dying" have become more prevalent in the last 40 years, Mangalik says. "The problem has been aggravated by the development of intensive care units and other advances in medicine." It used to be that when people became seriously ill, they would grow weaker and eventually die. "But now, with the use of all variety of drugs, oxygenation and all of these things, you can keep the body going for long periods of time." He avoids the word "alive" deliberately.
While a patient is propped up by modern medicine, family members hope for recovery. "That does happen in some cases." But for certain stages of disease, he adds, there is no treatment.
Two states— Oregon and Washington—have passed laws legalizing aid in dying. Montana's Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that state law protects physicians who help a terminally ill patient seeking death. Compassion & Choices cites a 2005 Gallup poll and a 2011 Harris poll showing that more than two-thirds of Americans support allowing physicians to assist in the death of terminally ill patients.
"This is a right and a decision that people want to be able to make."
Laura Schauer Ives, managing staff attorney with the ACLU
Last year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a policy statement opposing assisted suicide. "Catholic teaching views suicide as a grave offense against love of self, one that also breaks the bonds of love and solidarity with family, friends and God," wrote the bishops. They say people fear being kept alive past life's natural limits "by burdensome medical technology," but that's when the infirm truly need the support of the community, "assistance of others to assure them of their inherent worth."
Laura Schauer Ives, managing staff attorney with the ACLU, says this is a personal freedom issue. "This is a right and a decision that people want to be able to make." Terminally ill people aren't likely to use their final days to file a lawsuit to ensure their rights, she points out.
With regard to New Mexico's lawsuit, she says, it's not a question of morality but of clarity. The assisted suicide statute does not specify that medical treatment is against the law, she says, and such treatment is not suicide. "We're arguing for an individual to be able to make this very personal, private decision with their physician."
"You can't have rules or government regulation on these things. They have to be determined by discussion at that time, with that patient, with that illness."
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Schauer Ives predicts it might be a couple of years before the lawsuit is resolved, especially if it makes it up to New Mexico's Supreme Court.
Everyone's heard the story: The doctors tell a patient he has six months to live, but here he is 10 years later. "There's no question that prediction is fraught with uncertainty," says Dr. Mangalik. "For some diseases, it's easier to make that prediction." Terminal illness is defined by law and by Medicare, he says, and mental competency is also defined by the courts. If the lawsuit is successful, and both requirements are met, "a doctor would be doing a legal act by writing that prescription," Mangalik says.
It's generally considered best practice for patients to ingest life-ending medication themselves. At Dignitas, an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, employees film patients taking the medication to avoid legal trouble.
For many years, Mangalik has spoken against unnecessary medical procedures performed on the terminally ill. It's part of a spectrum of end-of-life dilemmas that includes aiding a patient's death, he says. "Many doctors and patients say, Oh let's try this. Oh, let's try that. I feel that many of those treatments also lead to discomfort and the prolongation of the body." Families demand that every possibility is pursued, and he says disagreeing with them is difficult. "The doctors—rather than explaining that this is not going to work—just do what the family wants. It's the easy way out."
Decisions to cease treatment—or to prescribe a lethal dose of medication when a patient requests it—shouldn't ever be made by a single doctor, he says. Instead, several should consult to ensure that all feasible options have been exhausted. "The decision is made with due deliberation," he says. "Nobody would just write off a patient."
Pressures bear down on doctors and families who want to save a loved one, he says, and there's really only one chance to get things right. "Every situation is different," he says. "You can't have rules or government regulation on these things. They have to be determined by discussion at that time, with that patient, with that illness."
For decades, Mangalik says, he's hoped to reduce the discomfort of people who are dying by enabling doctors to consider ceasing treatment. That way, patients can leave intensive care, where visiting hours are limited, and enter hospice to be with loved ones as much as they want.
Opponents of aid in dying have argued that it's a violation of doctors' oath to do no harm. But Mangalik says there is harm in allowing continued pain. "The Hippocratic Oath, like anybody, understands and accepts that every human being will die. Death is not the worst thing that can happen."


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text: Updated 2016 Mention that you are planning a trip to Slovenia and you will receive one of two reactions. Either the person will stare at you with a blank look on their face that says they have no clue who or what a Slovenia is, or they will immediately break into a smile and tell you what a wonderful country Slovenia is these days. It might be small and it might not be familiar to some, but those in the know are fully aware that Slovenia is one of Europe's jewels. A country that used to be part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia largely escaped the bloodshed and destruction that most of us associate with the Balkans. While it was part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia was economically more prosperous than many parts of the region. Today, it is a well developed country that is firmly aligned with Western Europe. Read: The Former Yugoslavia: Go Now!


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Given my history of researching and writing about criminals, a friend has asked me to comment about the horrifying mass murder of school children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut.
First, it should go without saying that our chief focus and concern here should be for the innocent victims -- the little kids, the adults on the school staff, and their many grieving families. When somebody commits an atrocity like this, it's too easy for him (and it is almost always a "him") to get the lion's share of the attention -- which is one main reason why these creeps do such things. The media always comply with their desire for instant attention-by-atrocity by spending inordinate time on them rather than the many victims, whose names vanish quickly into obscurity. I won't give the dead killer that posthumous satisfaction here. I'm instead filled with sorrow for the families and friends who lost so much yesterday, including the irreplaceable, budding lives that now will never be. And many more than two dozen lives were extinguished yesterday: The lives of many survivors and loved ones will never be the same, and we also can count them as having suffered fatal wounds. I grieve for them all.
Second, regarding the killer's motive, which my friend asked me to discuss: It's hard to know what the story is here without knowing more about him -- whether he was psychotic (the sort that hears voices in his head), or a psychopath (just a nihilist). Pure psychotics are largely dysfunctional in the world, and incapable of the kind of long-term fantasizing, planning, and secrecy that such a crime usually requires. Whenever we find that a true psychotic is involved in mass killings, he seems to be a paranoid schizophrenic acting more on impulse, using whatever weapons are available and not having thought out things very clearly. But most of the time, these crimes are pre-planned and carefully prepared for -- which indicates the functioning, criminal calculation of a psychopath (aka "sociopath"). Occasionally -- as in the "Dark Knight" killing spree in the Colorado movie theater -- it appears that there's a mixture of mental illness and conscious, nihilistic cunning and calculation involved. I don't know enough in this case to hazard a guess as to what "type" the killer may be.
Once that can be determined, however, then the next question is what lame "provocation" set off this specific killing spree. There's usually a triggering event: some slight or disappointment or personal disaster that the perp regards as symbolic of his wasted life -- as a symbolic end of the road. If the person is otherwise sane, but nihilistic/psychopathic, he almost always has been nurturing such real or imagined "grievances" for a long time, building them to a slow boil. Sociopaths/psychopaths (and criminals generally) always have some rationalization for what they do. (In the age of terrorism, those rationalizations are often ideological.) They always have shaky self-esteem, coupled with the belief that their lives have been somehow "spoiled," or denied some justice or "entitlement" to the happiness that others enjoy. They always feel envy toward those hated "others" and fantasize about getting revenge, about "getting back" at those responsible for (or who remind them of) their blighted lives. And so in these crimes there is always a scapegoat class of people, who symbolize for the killer why his life has been spoiled, why some grave injustice has been committed against him, and why those "others" deserve "payback."
You have to understand this to grasp that, for the mass killer, murder is an empowering event. He is playing God with other human lives, and gets a tremendous "rush" of power and control by treating other humans like playthings. A perfect example was the case of Ted Bundy, who was kidnapping, torturing, sexually assaulting, and murdering dozens of young women...while simultaneously working at a suicide-prevention hotline! Nothing for me better symbolized the mass killer's addiction to the feeling of power he gets by controlling the fate of other human lives.
While both serial killers and mass murderers are motivated by the desire to experience power and control over others, "mass murders" (where a lot of people are killed in one event, or in a "killing spree" over a few days) are somewhat distinct, motivationally, from serial killings (where three or more people are murdered in sequence over a considerably longer period).
Sociopathic serial killings are usually sexualized crimes of power, control, and sometimes anger and revenge. Their nihilistic perpetrator seeks power and control, or to express anger and the desire for revenge, against a certain "type" of victim, through sexual domination, pain, and humiliation. The victim "type" symbolizes for him something deeply personal, tied emotionally to his own anxieties. The perpetrator, usually feeling that he has a blighted, empty, or inadequate life, feels the thrill of empowerment by these crimes, in which his victims are reduced to the status of toys. The serial killer is not "attention-seeking" in the sense of wanting everyone to know his name, because he doesn't want to get caught, and he takes great pains to avoid apprehension. But he usually loves hearing about his crimes in the media, getting an additional cocky "rush" by putting something over on the police, and perhaps on those around him, who don't know about his grisly secret life. Sometimes serial killings aren't overtly sexualized -- e.g., the "Unibomber," the "DC snipers," hospital nurses who poison patients, etc. But the thrill of "playing God," of exerting ultimate power and control over lives, is a constant motivational theme. And so is their wellspring and source: feelings of living inadequate, flawed lives, alienated from a society where "everybody else" seems happy, wealthy, and content.
In contrast to serial killings, sociopathic mass-murders are almost always attention-seeking devices -- nihilistic crimes intended "to show THEM" (the scapegoat class, or society at large), to "get back" at the symbolic tormentors. The killer usually wants his name to be broadcast far and wide; he seeks infamy, because he's "making a statement" against the society that (in his fantasy) has irreparably ruined his life. The key word here is "irreparably." Because he thinks he can never find solace and happiness, his killings are usually "suicide missions" planned with military precision; he often dresses up in quasi-military garb for the "mission" and fantasizes himself as being a "soldier" conducting an "operation"; and he usually expects or intends to "go out in a blaze of glory" -- to die during the killing spree, either in a hail of bullets from the cops, or by his own hand.
Obsessive fantasizing and mental "rehearsal" are two other necessary ingredients to mass murders and serial killings. These types of people live, day and night, in a world of nonstop fantasy: revenge fantasies, sadistic sexual fantasies, fantasies of nihilistic destruction. They "rehearse" their crimes constantly in their heads, long before they actually commit them. They also frequently "rehearse" their crimes in slowly escalating forms. Serial killers often begin with sadistic porn, graduate to being "peeping Toms" and stalkers, then perhaps burglars -- invading private homes where their targets live, and stealing and collecting intimately personal "trophies," such as underwear. As they start to act out their fantasies, they carefully prepare "kits" with abduction items and various sadistic tools or sexual toys. Similarly, mass murderers often stockpile weapons and military "camo" garb, conduct "advance recon" on target sites, carefully plan their "missions," and practice shooting at firing ranges or on video games while imagining that the targets are their intended victims.
This explains how killers can commit horrific crimes. Just as surgeons have been given a rationale for cutting into the human body, and are then trained through endless rehearsals to "get used to it" -- just as soldiers have been given a patriotic rationale for committing mayhem on "the enemy," and are then trained through endless rehearsals to "get used to it" -- so too do mass murderers and serial killers prepare themselves with rationalizations and excuses, and then engage in obsessive fantasy and rehearsals, to "get used to" committing monstrous acts against innocent others. In their minds, their "targets" are anything but "innocent," you see.
In this particular case, you might wonder, "How could classrooms of little kids be regarded by the killer as his tormentors or as perpetrators of injustice against him?" In fact, of course, they can't be. But again, these crimes are symbolic.
One media report
suggest that the perp was a "loner" who played lots of video games and lived
with his mother; a friend described him as "very thin, very remote and [he]
was one of the goths." Reports are that the killer first murdered his mother, who was a teacher or teacher's aide at that particular school. That seems to be a significant "triggering event," and a likely link to a possible motive. If I had to guess at this point, based only on paltry evidence, I'd suspect that this killing spree was probably about hatred of his mother and/or "getting back" at her -- about a nihilistic desire to "show HER" by destroying the kids to whom she was paying a lot of attention, "rather than ME." Or perhaps he had been a student at that (or a similar) school, and was either tormented by other children or felt miserably alienated from them; and now, at age 20 and with an empty life, blamed the school for his misery. [UPDATE: It's now uncertain that his mother had any direct connection to the elementary school. I have read that she removed the perp from high school and home-schooled him. In some fashion, school seemed symbolic to him, but we'll have to await more information.]
Again, these are only wild guesses, based on paltry preliminary information. But it wouldn't surprise me if something like that was going on in this guy's head. It would fit the pattern of so many similar crimes.
One thing I do know: Gun control won't stop crimes like this. Mass killers would only use other means -- and they do. The same day that this blood bath was occurring in Connecticut, we read of some similar monster in China stabbing dozens of kids in a school. It is also noteworthy that the worst such mass-killing in an American school occurred in 1927, when somebody used three bombs to blow up a school.
So, what do we do -- outlaw knives, or the many simple household chemicals that people can use to make bombs? Then they'd turn to poisoning food in the school cafeterias -- or dumping toxins into public water supplies -- or chaining building doors shut and burning them down, with their occupants. Or driving cars along sidewalks, mowing down pedestrians. Or hijacking airliners and slamming them into buildings. Or dumping acid over the balconies at sporting events onto spectators below. Whatever. The destructive possibilities for nihilists who fantasize obsessively about such things, 24/7, are boundless.
The fact is that objects don't murder. Murderers do. Given the ingredients of blighted lives, social alienation, revenge fantasies -- and these days, an "entertainment" culture that glorifies sadistic brutality, plus "empowerment" ideologies that give millions of followers moral rationalizations to commit violent mayhem in response to various alleged "injustices" -- we will always have mass nihilistic crimes.
Depriving ordinary people of the means of defending themselves won't do anything...except to increase the number of vulnerable sheep for society's roaming wolves to prey upon. Those predators will always find the tools and means to kill. But the one constant in all of their unspeakable crimes is that their victims were not allowed to possess and carry the means to fight back against their victimizers.
Who knows what the outcome might have been if the school principal or a teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, had been allowed to carry a handgun?


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By DAVID GREEN
A couple bacteria walk into a bar and order a drink.
"We don't serve bacteria here," the bartender says.
"But we work here," says one of the bacteria. "We're staff."
That's the problem with a lot of science jokes. They need an explanation for the non-science-minded person. "We're staph" as in a staph infection.
A neutrino walks into a bar and the bartender says, "We don't serve neutrinos here."
The neutrino says, "Hey, I was just passing through."
I was just driving over to the elementary school Friday afternoon and "Science Friday" was on the radio. It was their second annual April First joke show in which they attempt to demonstrate that science can be funny. They even had a science comedian, Brian Malow, on the show.
Malow spouted off a series of bad jokes supposedly told by Albert Einstein, such as, "I had a dream that I made love to Rita Hayworth for an hour. Well, for her it was an hour. For me, 35 seconds. That's relativity."
Schrödinger and Heisenberg are out for a drive and they run over a cat. Schrödinger asks, "Is it dead?" and Heisenberg says, "Get this, I can't be certain."
Malow does have a problem. He needs a special audience to appreciate his material. Sometimes, he will tell a joke and the audience is silent except for one person who is laughing his head off. Actually, Malow said, he kind of likes it that way sometimes.
Did you hear the one about the phlebotomist who wrote a romance novel? It's about two corpuscles who loved in vain.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the participate.
Pure geek: If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA helicase so I could unzip your jeans [get it, your genes].
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? None; the light bulb has to want to change.
What was the greatest biological experiment of all time? It's when Luther Burbank crossed the Rocky Mountains with his wife. [As in cross breeding].
Steve Mirsky was also on the show. He writes a humorous column for Scientific American and once wrote a column about the funniest joke in the world. A study determined that it was the one about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson camping.
Holmes asked Watson to look up at the stars and tell him what he can deduce. Watson begins talking about the infinite universe and our tiny lives on this small planet, etc.
"No, you idiot," Holmes says. "It means someone stole our tent."
One atom says to the other atom, "Hey, I just lost an electron!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"
How do you tell a chemist from everybody else? He's the guy who has to wash his hands before he goes to the bathroom.
So much of TV science is so watered down, it's almost homeopathic.
A student pushes a full grocery cart to the express checkout lane in Cambridge, Mass., and the clerk just stands there. "What's the matter?" asks the student.
The clerk points to the sign about the 12-item limit and says, "I'm trying to decide if you're Harvard and can't count or M.I.T. and can't read."
By the way, only in Cambridge does the sign read, "Twelve items or fewer."
How do tell the difference between a wet brunette and a wet blonde? One smells like H2O, the other smells like H2O2.
I went to a magnet school for bipolar students.
Why isn't base 12 funny? Because 9, 10, 11. Hmmm, no one on the show even understood that one.
It was decided on the show that scientists get a bad rap. Of course they can be funny, but with a different sense of humor, perhaps.
Here's my favorite science joke. I heard it probably 30 years ago and I still think it's an excellent one.
It was the final exam in an ornithology class [study of birds] and the professor surprised his students by asking them to identify the footprints of 50 birds.
One poor student wasn't prepared for that at all and finally wadded up the test, walked to the front of the class and tossed it on the professor's desk.
As he walked away, the professor said, "Hey, what's your name?"
The student lifted up one of his feet, pointed at it and said, "You tell me."
Well, it's great to be here, and as they say in the world of jokes, it's great to be anywhere.


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I store all my photos on a Linux server and mount the remote directory containing all the photos on my local machine using sshfs (see Manage Photos from Multiple digiKam Installations). This way, I can access my photos from multiple digiKam installations. This setup works like a charm, except for one thing: when I inadvertently launch digiKam before I mount the remote directory, the application doesn't show photos from remote albums. What's worse, after I mount the remote directory and restart digiKam, it takes the application a long time to rescan all remote albums. To fix this annoyance, I wrote a simple Python script:
#!/usr/bin/env python import os, wx path = '/home/dmpop/photos/' app = wx.PySimpleApp() if not os.listdir(path): message = wx.MessageDialog(None, "The remote share is not mounted.", "Error", wx.OK) message.ShowModal() message.Destroy() else: os.system("digikam")
The script checks whether the folder where the remote directory is mounted to (in this case, it's /home/dmpop/photos/) is empty or not. If the directory is empty, the script displays an error message; otherwise it launches digiKam. For this script to work you need to install the python-wxversion package using the sudo apt-get install python-wxversion command on Ubuntu. Alternatively, you can modify the script to abort the operation instead of displaying an error message:
#!/usr/bin/env python import os, wx path = '/home/dmpop/photos/' if not os.listdir(path): sys.exit() else: os.system("digikam")
That's all there is to it. Grab the script, make it executable using the chmod o+x digikam.py command, and assign a keyboard shortcut, and your custom digiKam launcher is ready to go.


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Thavius Beck has remixed Nas and Nine Inch Nails. He's toured with poet Saul Williams, and collaborated with Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala and composer Trent Reznor. Before then, the Minnesota-born instrumentalist shaped the aesthetic of California's Global Phlowtations crew; he produced, rapped on, and engineered its heralded Phlowtation Devices album. More recently, the Los Angeles producer is an Ableton Certified Trainer, who has showed contemporaries Photek, DJ Frank E and Skylar Grey how to use the technology.
With such an extensive résumé, Beck doesn't need to drop solo work to remain relevant. Given his vast expertise, he could easily play in the background and stay comfortably in demand. Maybe that's why Beck sounds so assured on his new instrumental album, The Most Beautiful Ugly, in which the veteran composer nods to several genres while keeping them closely aligned to his own electronic blend. The sounds are far-reaching, yet somehow constrained, resulting in an expansive 40-minute concoction of bounce beat, soul, and techno. With the cohesion, Beck manages to sidestep a fate that's claimed many producers: instrumental albums can be a drag if they're not executed properly. Here, the musician uses quick transitions to keep things lively. Many of the tracks stick around for two to three minutes; 'Atmos,' an airy melody of handclapping snares and ambient strings, clocks in at four minutes, 12 seconds.
From the onset, it's clear that Beck is going for something cinematic, if not thoroughly sci-fi. The first voice heard on this album is an android's: "Do my eyes deceive me? Could it be what I have longed for?/The piece that completes the puzzle, the most beautiful ugly." The music is an equally spacey mixture of glitchy electronics and triumphant synthesizers set atop programmed drums. It unfolds as a stomping procession worthy of a Terminator remake, though I'm not giving Schwarzenegger any ideas. 'Break Til Broken,' Ugly's first official song, harbours the big feel and raving ethos of California's beat scene; ominous guitars buzz underneath a cantankerous mix of bouncing percussion. What's interesting, though, is how the album seems to settle as it plays. 'Feel Me/Fear Me' is a crossbreed of Southern crunk and West Coast G-funk, in which Beck manipulates the subgenres with distorted vocal samples and a gloomy bass line. Conversely, 'Labward Bound' is a Spanish dance rhythm on caffeine pills — horns blare at a furious pace and the beats-per-minute almost jump the rails.
With this album, and Beck's work in general, the whole is much greater than its parts. Surely, you can pick certain songs as favourites, but this should be played in its entirety to fully absorb the impact. Like other effective instrumental LPs, The Most Beautiful Ugly compiles a series of vignettes into one coherent stream. With that said, Beck's music is an acquired taste that could be too esoteric for some listeners. It's still a respectable listen that does its best to project into the future.
7Marcus J. Moore's Score


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