SINGAPORE – World No. 1 Lydia Ko and No. 2 Nelly Korda have confirmed their participation in the 2023 HSBC Women’s World Championship in Sentosa from March 2-5, organisers announced on Monday.
Both golfers had held the world No. 1 position last season, with Ko wresting the top spot from Korda after winning the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in November.
Ko, who was also the LPGA Player of the Year after clinching three titles in 2022, showed that she is ready to pick up from where she left off when she bagged a hole-in-one last week while on honeymoon in New Zealand with her South Korean husband Chung Jun. They married in December.
“I had an amazing year and to finish the season with a win and a return to the top of the world rankings was very special,” said the 25-year-old Kiwi.
“The HSBC Women’s World Championship is definitely an event I would love to win one day.
“It always has such a strong field and an amazing list of past champions that it would be such an honour to add my name to the list.”
To do that, Ko will have to improve on her best finish of joint-seventh in 2021 when she returns to the Sentosa Golf Club’s Tanjong Course. She was tied-23rd in 2022.
Defending champion and fifth-ranked Ko Jin-young had earlier announced that she will be back.
She had clinched last season’s championship with a total of 17-under 271 and made LPGA history by becoming the first female golfer to shoot 15 straight rounds in the 60s.
The South Korean, 27, is aiming to become the tournament’s first back-to-back winner.
Korda last played in the tournament in 2019, when she placed 10th.
The American, who held the No. 1 position for two weeks after winning the Pelican Women’s Championship last November, said she is excited to return to Singapore.
The 24-year-old had a remarkable 2022, after recovering from surgery for a blood clot in her right arm, and will be taking part with her sister Jessica.
The 29-year-old is ranked 18th in the world.
The full line-up will be announced at a later date.


The Importance of Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’
Can you name a predominantly Black multimillion-dollar movie franchise other than Madea? Bad Boys would count if Michael Bay wasn’t the director, and there we more than two movies in the series. So, then the answer is no, you can’t. All my favorite movie franchises star Caucasian men, such as Star Wars, every superhero movie ever, and LOTR. In fact, LOTR doesn’t even have a Black man… in six movies. Marvel’s Black Panther is poised to set up something that has never happened before, and I’m excited.
Black Panther is directed by Ryan Coogler, the man behind Fruitvale Station and Creed. Fruitvale Station was Coogler’s first feature film and it won multiple awards. He relaunched the classic, yet stale, Rocky franchise. The universe has been preparing Coogler for such a prestigious position; it’s not a coincidence that his third film will belong to a billion dollar multifilm shared universe. If you’ve seen the Avengers: Infinity Wars trailer, then you know Wakanda (Black Panther’s home country) plays a significant role in the upcoming superhero team-up. Black Panther is the last movie before the Avengers mash-up hits theaters, so in usual Marvel fashion it will most likely directly set up the events for the film. Ryan Coogler doesn’t need carry the weight of the franchise on his own though. The cast of Black Panther is absolutely spectacular.
Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, a prince who is thrust into the role of the Black Panther after his father’s assassination in Captain America: Civil War. Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis form the rest of the superstar cast. Never, in American history, have Black people been represented so vastly in a multimillion-dollar franchise. There are both men and women, youth and elders, being represented as royalty. Personally, I’ve grown tired of the slave centric, Black redemption movies that have become a staple in Hollywood. It’s about time we see some stories on the big screen centered around Black power, Black royalty, and Black diversity.


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La Salle entered Thursday’s contest against Wichita State needing to keep the Shockers off the offensive glass if they were to have any shot of advancing to the Elite Eight.
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Florida State at Wake Forest, 12:00 p.m.
George Washington at VCU, 12:00 p.m.
Cincinnati at Memphis, 12:00 p.m.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Brandon Sherrod scored 25 points — and set the Division I single-season record for consecutive field goals made — to help Yale beat Columbia 86-72 Friday and take over sole possession of first place in the Ivy League standings.
Justin Sears added 27 points for the Bulldogs (14-5, 5-0), who have won nine in a row, their longest win streak since closing the 1961-62 regular season with nine-straight wins.
Sherrod made his first five field-goal attempts, extending his streak of consecutive field goals made to 30 and breaking the Division I single-season record of 26 straight previously held by Eastern Michigan’s James Thompson and Bowling Green’s Torian Oglesby.
He hadn’t missed a field goal since January 16th.
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text: An end of the week story: There's always been a small part of me that has wanted to say, "I'm going out dancing tonight". And not that kind of raunchy, lights, dj, club dancing. No, when I said it, it would come out of my mouth with a hint of a southern accent in the smooth heat of summer during 1945, while putting on the heels to match my free-flowing dress (maybe I'd even add a "mama" to the end of that sentence because of course, I wouldn't be married yet. I'd be going to meet a man). I'd arrive at the rustic outdoor stage, twinkling with tiny lights where a festive jazz band would lead me to dance late into the night with my handsome date. Well yesterday, a tiny part of that came true. I got to say, "I'm going out dancing tonight". We went swing dancing with our friends- something I'd never done before. It wasn't near as romantic as my dreams- we fumbled around a lot and felt a little awkward and silly, but it sure was fun. And I did put on a dress and did get to dance late into the night with my handsome date (though, not too late, because we are practical people...). So here's a little something to take you to the weekend that's been a part of my week. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five has been pouring out of my speakers for the past few days and has taken me to magical places. I hope it takes you to magical places, too.


Every day, all over the world, people grapple with the most difficult decision of their lives - to leave their homes in search of a better life.
Throughout history, for many cultures migration has been an essential fact of life. The reasons people choose to migrate are varied and almost always complex. Some people move to new countries to improve their economic situation, or pursue better education. Others leave to escape human rights abuses; torture, persecution, armed conflict, extreme poverty and ultimately, death. War reporting tends to focus on the devastation of landscapes and casualties of battle; it’s harder to visualize stories of resulting psychological effects on those who escape such conflict and devastation. Even sweeping vistas of tent cities set up on dusty border crossings can’t convey the scale of human destruction, or the soul-destroying loss of home and disconnection of culture that is experienced by a refugee.
In response to these pressing global issues and the devastating effects they leave in their wake on vast populations and cultures, East Wing presents, “If I Leave, Where Will I Go”,
a group exhibition of photography and video installation featuring the work of, Leila Alaoui, Tanya Habjouqa,
and Omar Imam
three award-winning artists who use their unique humanistic perspectives to reflect on preservation amidst conflict. Devoting an enormous part of their creative energies to documenting this growing wave of instability in the 21st
century, these artist use photography to illustrate both the tenacious fight and real life hardships experienced by those who risk everything, altering their lives irreparably to survive. “If I Leave, Where Will I Go”,
is dedicated to the memory of our colleague and friend,
French Moroccan artist, Leila Alaoui
, who was tragically killed while on assignment for Amnesty International in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in January 2016. As part of this exhibition, East Wing presents her video installation “Crossings”,
which is just one chapter of her life’s work dedication to telling the story of migration. “Crossings”
reflects on experiences of sub-Saharan migrants who embark on the perilous journey to reach the elusive shores of Europe. Focusing on the collective trauma provoked by the embodied experience of crossing boundaries and becoming a fragile community in a new habitat. Alaoui’s work explores the experiential textures of psychological and physical transition and gestures towards the concept of Europe as a problematic utopia in the African imagination. Tanya Hajouqa
presents her latest work, 'Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots' ,
a popular proverb in the Levant, which means, “Tomorrow never comes,” or “In your dreams.” For Syrian refugees in Jordan, the burdens of violence are present in their scant belongings, heavy mementos to remind themselves of those they lost in the war. The draw to Europe seduces entire families, but most often because of the high risk and financial cost, it is the fathers and brothers who first make the journey. The women keep their mobile phones like talisman, they carry within them voice messages of love, lullabies, and hope. Habjouqa's photos explore these complicated intimacies of everyday life of Syrian women who have been left behind, clinging to a hope that soon their family will be reunited once again and, in too many cases, grappling with the knowledge they will never see them again.Omar Imam’s “Live Love Refugee”
explores the mental state of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, specifically investigating how relationships and dreams are affected by conflict and displacement. Working with his subjects in a theatrical manner, each acts out their personal stories of pain and desire in a surreal re-telling of the experiences they encountered while crossing multiple borders to escape their war torn country. “If I Leave, Where Will I Go?” runs until 10 March – 7 April.
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Fatima / UK, UAE 2014 / 70 minutes - Admission FREEArtist BiographiesLeila Alaoui
was a French-Moroccan photographer and video artist whose experiences across different cultural and geographic environments informed her critical and creative practice. Born in Paris in 1982, she studied photography at the City University of New York before spending time in Morocco and Lebanon. Her work explores the construction of identity and cultural diversity, often through the prism of the migration stories that intersect the contemporary Mediterranean. Her images express social realities using a visual language that combines the narrative depth of documentary storytelling and the aesthetic sensibilities of fine art. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2009, including at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Art Dubai and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and has been published in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and Vogue. Lelia Aloui is represented by East Wing . http://www.leilaaloui.comTanya Habjouqa
was born in Jordan and educated in Texas, her photographs focus on gender, social and human rights issues in the Middle East and she approaches her subjects with sensitivity, but also with an eye for the absurd. In 2014 she won a World Press Award for her series Occupied Pleasures
, documenting the many ludicrous moments of everyday life that the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem has created. Her book of this project was selected by TIME magazine and the Smithsonian as one of the best photo books of 2015.
Tanya is a founding member of Rawiya Photo Collective
, the first all female photo collective of the Middle East. www.tanyahabjouqa.comOmar Imam
is a Beirut-based, Syrian photographer and filmmaker. Working as a black and white photographer since 2003 he has completed many personal projects and social campaigns in Syria. Since 2011, he has used sharply satirical conceptual photography in reaction to the overly violent situation in Syria, which has caused him to often published his work under a pseudonym. After receiving a degree in accounting from the Commercial Institute in in 2001 he left his base in Damascus in late 2012 and began making fictional short films that focused on issues of Syrian refugees. Individually or with NGO’s Omar has completed numerous films, photography projects, as well as lead workshops with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Imam’s aesthetic and artistic choices are always linked to Surrealism, symbolism and dark comedy. Omar’s work has been featured internationally at Photoville Festival in Brooklyn New York (2015), and is a past grantee of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund (2014). Omar Imam is represented by East Wing. http://arabdocphotography.org/project/live-love-refugee


Celebrating 50 years of UK number one hit singles, the Magic of Motown is bringing its brand new 2014 Reach Out Tour to Wakefield’s Theatre Royal.
Songs like Dancing in the Street, My Girl, Where Did Our Love Go, My Guy and Baby Love rocketed Motown to the top of the singles charts in 1964.
Direct from the USA, The Magic of Motown promises five-star performances that will authentically revive the style and sophistication of everyone’s favourite Motown legends.
Show produced Michael Taylor said: “This year we’re proud to announce that the show will include more number one hits than ever before.”
Classic hits from the Temptations, Four Tops, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie and The Supremes are packed into the two-hour spectacular.
The group, specially formed for the show, celebrates its 10th year together on this tour.
Michael said: “In their capable hands we guarantee the score will be – with a nod to the great Stevie Wonder – uptight, alright and out of sight!”
The show takes place in Wakefield on Thursday June 5.
To win two tickets, email email@example.com with your name and full contact details no later than noon on May 6, answering this question: Which anniversary are the Magic of Motown performers celebrating this year?


Karla Herrera, who emigrated from Monterrey, Mexico more than two decades ago, was among the jovial crowd that began to arrive early Saturday for a celebration of Mexico at Aurora's annual Fiestas Patrias festival and parade.
She was there with her mother and 10-year-old-daughter, Jocelyn, to rekindle the memories of her youth.
"In Mexico this is our big celebration for the year. It's like our fourth of July," Herrera said as she perused the $5 sombreros offered for sale by one of the dozens of vendors. "The streets would be filled with people enjoying food and music where I grew up."
Families and friends came to the city transportation parking lot at Spring and Lincoln streets to share Aurora’s rich Mexican culture and its contribution to the diversity of the community, enjoy Mexican cuisine and performances by eight bands.
The Fiestas Patrias has been celebrated in Aurora for nine years, organizers said. The Aurora Hispanic Heritage Advisory Board hosts the event, in partnership with the city of Aurora and Aurora Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Felipe Rocha said he's been coming with his family since the festival began.
"Aurora is a great community. My family and I have done business in the city for years. Every year the festival gets better," Rocha said.
Rocha was accompanied by his 9-year-old daughter, Dyanara.
"I brought my daughter so she can experience Mexican Independence day, get in touch with her roots and have a good time with other kids in the community," Rocha said.
Rocha, a first-generation Mexican American immigrant, operates a Country Financial Insurance office in Aurora. His parents own and operate a restaurant in Aurora, and his late uncle was Aurora police Officer John "Salti" Saltijeral, a 30-year veteran of the department.
"It's important to know our culture and remember the opportunities this country gave us as immigrants. I also want my daughter to see what we celebrate in Mexico," Rocha said.
Aurora Alderman Juany Garza, wearing a brightly colored serape — a blanket-like shawl, is the only Hispanic on the Aurora City Council.
"It's wonderful that we can celebrate our heritage in the United States," Garza said.
The weekend's festivities began with Friday's 14th annual Hispanic Pioneers Breakfast, which honors the people who shaped the Latino community in Aurora.
Garza said she, too, was born in Monterrey, Mexico.
"It's important for our younger generations to learn about their culture, remember the traditions and not lose their identity," Garza said.
Karina Garcia, CEO/ and executive director of the Aurora Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, was born in Mexico City and came to the United States as a young girl with her family.
"As the second largest city in Illinois with a high Latino population, we feel it's important to host this event," Garcia said.
She said the event offered a taste of her youth.
"I feel as though we are in Mexico," she said. "I remember the country vividly as though it was yesterday. I remember celebrating our independence, there were food vendors all over the place."
There was no charge to get into the festival, which also featured a carnival with eight rides.
There were also lots of food vendors cooking authentic Mexican cuisine. Organizers invited the Aurora Puerto Rican Cultural Council to have a food booth because of their partnership with them as well.
The celebration continues Sunday, when Garcia said a parade featuring 60 units is expected to draw thousands of people to the downtown. She said the celebration will conclude with Sunday night's El Grito De Independencia observance.


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"AS I SEE IT"
Volume 7, Number 10, October 2004
“I too will have my say; I too will tell what I know.
For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me;
Inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and reply.
I will show partiality to no one. Nor will I flatter any man.”
["As I See It" is a monthly electronic magazine compiled and edited by Doug Kutilek. Its purpose is to address important issues of the day and to draw attention to worthwhile Christian and other literature in order to aid believers in Jesus Christ, especially pastors, missionaries and Bible college and seminary students to more effectively study and teach the Word of God. The editor's perspective is that of an independent Baptist of fundamentalist theological persuasion.
AISI is sent free to all who request it by writing to the editor at: DKUTILEK@juno.com. You can be removed from the mailing list at the same address. Back issues sent on request. All back issues may be accessed at http://www.KJVOnly.org
All articles are by the editor (unless otherwise noted) and are copyrighted but may be reproduced for distribution, provided the following conditions are met: 1. articles must be reproduced in unedited, unabridged form; 2. the writer must be properly credited; and, 3. such reproduction must be for free distribution only. Permission to distribute in any other form must be secured in writing beforehand. Permission for reproduction in Christian print periodicals will generally be given.]
The Da Vinci Code Once More
In our previous issue (AISI 7:9), we surveyed some of the books by Christian authors expressly written to refute or correct some of the claims--false claims--and misrepresentations about the Bible, Christianity, Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene that are part of the plot thread in best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code (henceforth, DVC). We noted that as of that issue, we had not had opportunity to read DVC for ourselves, a situation we have now remedied, and so we can speak directly to such matters as the premises of the novel, the plot-line, and the criticisms aimed at it. On this basis, we affirm that those books noted in the previous issue which were written to expose and correct the errors and misrepresentations of DVC did accurately describe Brown’s errors of fact; indeed there were several additional errors, mistakes and gaffs which I discovered which they did not mention.
In addition, I completed the reading of Secrets of the Code, edited by Dan Burstein, which I had only read in part (and a small part at that) as of that issue. Because of my spotty and limited examination of that book when I wrote the previous article, I mischaracterized it in some measure--as it were, pulling a “Dan Rather.” When I encountered this lengthy book, I read several of the shorter essays and reprints in it, and all of them were as I characterized the entire book in AISI 7:9--“a collection of kooks, crack-pots, lunatic-fringers, fabricators and forgers.” My mistake was in extrapolating to the rest of the book what I found uniformly in the part I did examine. A reading of the whole requires that I revise my opinion to some degree.
Burstein, upon reading DVC himself, decided to investigate the factuality of Brown’s claims and presentations, and Secrets of the Code is more or less the results of his own “quest” for the truth. Chapters, essays and such like by some 49 different writers are found here, only one of whom is clearly identifiable as a theological conservative. The rest include radical feminist professorettes, old-line theological liberal university professors, grail buffs, reviewers and others. Burstein’s own conclusion as given in the introduction is that there seems to be some validity in concluding, on the basis of Gnostic literature and the “scholarly” spin put on it, that there were alternative Christianities and Gospels which may be equally valid or even more valid that the Christianity and Gospels found in Scripture in the New Testament. On this we have no doubt that Burstein is greatly mistaken. But when it comes to Brown’s presentations concerning medieval grail legends, supposed hidden symbolism in Leonardo Da Vinci’s art, secret societies, Mary Magdalene as the holy grail, and the rest, Burstein concludes: “Dan Brown has left mainstream scholarship behind. He has plunged into the world of the medieval and New Age myths. Almost all of this is recycled from legend and lore documented by other writers over the last few decades. A great deal of it falls so far below the standards of evidence for historical credibility that it’s not worth discussing as history or as fact. To some, it is a lot of occult hogwash. To me, and perhaps many others, it is hogwash as history.” (Introduction, p. xxv).
While much of Secrets of the Code is the unsubstantiated claptrap that Brown built his novel around, some parts of it are decidedly worthwhile in their cataloguing of Brown’s errors. Among these that can be consulted with profit are 1. Bart D. Ehrman’s list of ten major Bible-related errors (p. 130); 2. “The Plot Holes and Intriguing Details of The Da Vinci Code,” by David A. Shugarts (pp. 254-283); and 3. the glossary (pp. 329-362), which helps the reader identify people, places, things and events in some way associated with DVC or the background materials on which it depends (though some of the information in the glossary is seriously even remarkably in error); 4. some of the criticism by art critics of Brown’s claims of hidden symbolism in Da Vinci’s artwork.
There are some bona fide scholars among Burstein’s 49, but not many (brief sketches of who or what these authors are is found in “contributors,” pp. 367-371). One of these, James Robinson, the editor of and leading expert on the Gnostic texts so readily embraced by some to weave the Mary Magdalene myths that are part and parcel of DVC, and himself no conservative, says “I think the only relevant text for historical information about Mary Magdalene is the New Testament.” (p. 99). In short, the leading expert on the subject says that whatever these Gnostic sources may say about Mary Magdalene, they have no claim to reliability or factuality.
Those who spend hours reading Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code would serve themselves well by setting aside a comparable amount of time for reading the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament. There they will find the real Jesus, the Jesus of history.
Superstitious Veneration for Translations: A Comment from A. P. Stanley
In chapter 1 of “One Bible Only?, edited by Roy Beacham and Kevin Bauder (Kregel, 2001), I traced the phenomenon of claims of the inspiration of various Bible translations and corollary claims of their unalterableness, from the pre-Christian era to the present day, involving many versions in many languages, not just English. I recently came across a quote from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881), Anglican divine and sometime professor of church history at Oxford University, along the same lines. In his book, Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church (London: John Murray, 1885), vol. 3, pp. 226-7, Stanley gives a kindred account. Speaking of the publication of the Greek translation of the OT, the Septuagint, and subsequent Jewish reaction to it in later centuries when Christians had adopted it as their OT and its differences from the common Hebrew text had become known, he wrote:
“On the one hand, it [i.e., the production of the Greek version of the OT] was regarded [by later Jews] as a great calamity, equal to that of the worship of the Golden Calf. The day on which it was accomplished was believed to have been the beginning of a preternatural darkness of three days’ duration over the whole world, and was commemorated as a day of fasting and humiliation. It needs but slight evidence to convince us that such a feeling more or less widely-spread must have existed. It is the same instinct which . . . in the Christian Church assailed Jerome with the coarsest vituperation for venturing on a Latin version which differed from the Greek [OT]; which at the Reformation regarded it as a heresy to translate the Latin Scriptures into the languages of modern Europe; and which in England has in our own days regarded it in the English Church as a dangerous innovation to revise the authorized version of the seventeenth century, or in the Roman Church to correct the barbarous dialect of the Douay translation of the Vulgate, or to admit of any errors in the text or the rendering of the Vulgate itself. In one and all of these cases the reluctance has sprung from the same tenacious adherence to ancient and sacred forms--from the same unwillingness to admit of the dislodgment even of the most flagrant inaccuracies when once familiarised by established use. But for all these venerable texts, . . . this sentiment has been compelled to yield to the more generous desire of arriving at the hidden meaning of sacred truth, and of making that truth more widely known.”
Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992. 240 pp., hardback.
David McCullough is a noted and excellent historian, chronicler of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 (see “The Reading--and Writing--of History,” AISI 4:10), of the construction of the Panama Canal (The Path Between the Seas, reviewed AISI 5:11), and of the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as author of biographies of John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. In this brief book of 17 chapters, McCullough has brought together “short subjects” that he wrote over a period of more than 20 years, beginning in the late 1960s. Here are biographical or historical sketches of explorer Alexander von Humboldt; Harvard botanist Louis Agassiz (a vigorous opponent of Darwinism and advocate of intelligent design); Harriet Beecher Stowe (authoress of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and sister of famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher); Teddy Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores during TR’s days in the Dakota badlands; artist of the American West, Frederic Remington; the building of the trans-isthmus railroad in Panama in the 1850s; the Roeblings, father and son, who master-minded the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the remarkable story behind the preservation of all the original blueprints for the bridge; the glory days of early aviation in the 1920s; novelist Conrad Richter; strip-mining restoration proponent Harry Caudill; eccentric naturalist Miriam Rothschild; photographer David Plowden; personal reflections on Washington, D.C., the city (as opposed to the government there); a retrospect of the major world transformation that occurred in the 50 years from 1936 and 1986; a college commencement address on where to go, what to see, and how important it is to study, really study, history, now that the formal, structured part of education has come to a close; and an essay lamenting the general neglect of historical study of the U.S. Congress.
McCullough writes from a mind well stored with thoroughly-researched material. His style is excellent and his content always instructive. My one criticism of this book (other than some details): no documentation or bibliography. A delight to read.
Some quotes from Brave Companions--
“Finding my subjects over the years has been mostly a process of one thing leading to another. . . . The research has rarely been dull, for the farther one goes in the pursuit, the more fascinating it becomes, like on a detective case. . . . How can I spend so much time on one subject, I am sometimes asked. The answer, of course, is that no subject is ever just one subject, but ten, twenty, more. You never know.” (p. xii)
“Every writing task involves new problems, some larger than others. Mainly writing means a great deal of hard thinking, the popular impression notwithstanding. (Paul Weis, who taught philosophy at Yale, once remarked, ‘I’m not as bright as my students. I find I have to think before I write.’)” (p. xiii)
“[Frederic] Remington never stays put for long in any one place, but there’s an awful lot of him while he’s around.” (p. 75, quoting Remington’s lifelong friend Has Rasbeck)
“The sheer number of bodies [of the approximately 6,000 men who died building the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama] that had to be disposed of became something of a problem in itself and led to a macabre solution. Since a large percentage of the dead men had no known next of kin, no permanent address, often not even a known last name, it was decided to pickle their bodies in large barrels, then sell them in wholesale lots. The result was a thriving trade with medical schools around the world, the proceeds going to finance a small railroad hospital at Colon.” (pp. 97-8)
“Indeed, [aviator Denys] Finch-Hatton is described as the most charming of companions, ‘a great man who never achieved arrogance.’ “ (p. 129)
“The way to see Washington [D. C.] is on foot, and I like to vary my route. Early mornings are the best time, before the traffic takes over. The past seems closer then. The imagination roams freer.” (p. 196)
“Harry Truman used to talk of Potomac Fever, an endemic disorder the symptoms of which were a swelled head and a general decline of common sense.” (p. 207)
“But there is nothing inevitable about history. The defeat of the Nazis, the war’s overriding mission, was never a certainty. . . .In the last analysis, the deciding factor in the war was America’s tremendous industrial power,. . . .” (p. 214)
“However little television you watch, watch less. If your experience is anything like mine, the books that you read in the next ten years will be the most important books in your lives.” (p. 224)
“It was ‘Ham’ Lewis who advised a newly arrived freshman senator named Truman from Missouri, ‘Harry, don’t start out with an inferiority complex. For the first six months you’ll wonder how the h*** you got here, and after that you’ll wonder how the h*** the rest of us got here.’ “ (p. 230)
Unfit for Command by John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi. Washington: Regnery Press, 2004. 216 pp., hardback. $27.95.
Democrat nominee for President in 2004, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, has chosen to make his ever-so-brief 4-month stint in Vietnam in 1968-9 THE centerpiece of his campaign for President, rather than his much longer and more recent record as Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor and especially in the U.S. Senate. A carefully “canned” version of his supposedly “heroic” service in ‘Nam has been edited for public consumption. In Unfit for Command, Kerry’s actual military service is examined, and often starkly contrasted to what Kerry has variously claimed in the years since.
Carefully documented and heavily dependent on eye-witnesses who were actually there in Vietnam along side Kerry, O’Neill (who served with Kerry in Vietnam) and Corsi (a Harvard Ph.D.) present a John Kerry who exaggerated his own military achievements, minimized those of others, falsified official reports, and made bogus claims regarding his three “purple heart” incidents--at least two are clearly cases of self-inflicted wounds of the slightest sort (miscalculations in the use of mortars resulted in scratches or pricks from shrapnel), and the third involved allied soldiers blowing up a rice cache with Kerry winged in the backside by another minute metal fragment. None involved enemy fire. Two of his “wounds” required nothing more than a band-aid, and the third involved no time lost for treatment. He (rather than his superiors or other eyewitnesses) took the initiative to apply for the bronze and silver star awards he was given, and he gave highly fictitious “official” accounts of the incidents involved.
In a widely-circulated account, Kerry claimed (and backed up by his bogus “journal”) that he was illegally in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968, even though President Nixon denied that there were any U.S. forces there then. That Kerry made the whole thing up is proven by O’Neill and Corsi. The first “tip off” that it was a lie is Kerry’s obvious blunder: Nixon didn’t even become President until January 20, 1969, almost 4 weeks after Kerry claimed he was in Cambodia with President Nixon’s full knowledge and approval! Kerry has subsequently come up with another story of his whereabouts and activities for that day.
It is most telling that virtually none of Kerry’s peers in Vietnam--other swift boat commanders (or higher ups, for that matter)--have the least respect for Kerry the soldier or Kerry the candidate. Were it merely one or two or a few who opposed Kerry, they might be dismissed as cranks or partisans, but when the great majority who served with him come to the same conclusion, we are compelled to take notice.
Much, indeed nearly the whole, of Kerry’s Vietnam service was orchestrated for a political career that he had planned, even then. He repeatedly filmed re-enactments of incidents, always with himself as the hero, and kept a highly doctored journal of his “exploits.” In reality, Kerry’s regular first reaction when faced with hostile fire was to cut and run (the authors report three specific incidents of this), fleeing instead of staying and assisting fellow American servicemen under fire, and returning only when there was no further apparent danger.
After he petitioned for early return Stateside from Vietnam (because of his three dubious purple hearts), Kerry, still in the Naval Reserve and therefore a member of the U.S. armed forces and subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, became radically active in the anti-war movement. Before the U.S. Congress in perjured testimony, he slandered those he served with in Vietnam, claiming that they--and he--had committed war crimes on a regular basis as a matter of official policy (though he NEVER has given specifics of who or where or when). It is this betrayal of his comrades in arms that has justifiably garnered the greatest ire from other Vietnam vets.
In fact, the only documentable “war crimes” at the time and in the places Kerry served were committed by Kerry himself. The swift boat under Kerry’s direct command unjustifiably fired on an unarmed Vietnamese fishing boat killing a man and his infant child, and leaving his wife a widow with another infant in arms (Kerry claimed in the official report that this woman and her infant were “Viet Cong” and claimed them as captured enemy combatants!). Another incident involved Kerry’s wanton and unprovoked slaughter of livestock in a small Vietnamese hamlet, and the burning of all the thatched huts of the villagers. No weapons or Viet Cong or any indications of such had been found in the village; nevertheless, Kerry personally torched the homes and destroyed the livelihood of the people there.
Kerry, in violation of the UCMJ and U.S. law, as a private citizen met with and negotiated with the communist North Vietnamese delegation in Paris in 1971, and Kerry’s subsequent public positions on how to end the war in Vietnam were in complete agreement with the demands the North Vietnamese communists made on the U.S. government.
Is it any surprise that the communist government of Vietnam today honors John Kerry as one of their “heroes” who helped them defeat the United States? His picture is displayed in a government museum in Saigon (I refuse to call it “Ho Chi Minh City”), along with those of other traitorous Americans who burned draft cards, resisted the draft, led protests and otherwise aided and abetted the enemies of the U.S. in time of war.
After his slanderous testimony before Congress, in an act of pure grand-standing, Kerry publicly threw away his military medals (or was it just the ribbons, or what it someone else’s medals?--Kerry’s explanations have changed more often than Kansas’ weather). He posed as an anti-war activist when he thought it was to his political advantage, and then as a war hero when that was more expedient. And unlike such anti-Vietnam war radicals Joan Baez and Jane Fonda, Kerry has never in anyway apologized for his anti-war rhetoric or actions.
While demanding that a full disclosure of George W. Bush’s National Guard service records be made, Kerry has steadfastly refused to grant full disclosure of his military records, including the medical records (which would describe exactly how insignificant his “wounds” were) and the official recommendations for his commendations. If he has nothing to hide, why does he continue to hide these records?
In sum: Kerry is exposed as a colossal liar, as prolific but not nearly as convincing or accomplished at it as Bill Clinton. While Clinton’s driving principle was gratification of his bodily lusts, Kerry has been driven by a lust for power and prominence, and has shown himself willing to tell any lie at any time that will serve that end.
Let us pray that this man NEVER has the responsibility as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military.
The Women in Lincoln’s Life by H. Donald Winkler. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Pres, 2001. 274 pp, hardback. $22.99.
As with virtually every man, various “females of the species” greatly impacted the developing or adult life of Abraham Lincoln. Naturally this would include Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln (who died when he was 9); his step-mother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln; his older sister and only sibling Sarah (almost exactly two years his senior) who died very young in her first childbirth.
Likewise, Lincoln was impacted by the young ladies he courted, the first of these being Ann Rutledge of New Salem, Illinois with whom, some claim, Lincoln was deeply in love and to whom he was reportedly engaged, but the relationship was cut short by Anne’s death at age 22 and Lincoln was overwhelmed with grief Exactly how serious the relationship was and how devastating Ann’s death was to Lincoln is strongly disputed. Billy Herndon, Lincoln’s later law partner and biographer was the first to publicly describe the relationship of Lincoln and Rutledge. Historians in the early and mid-20th century tended to dismiss Herndon’s claims as largely unsubstantiated rumor; more recent historians have tended to grant them more credence.
The sudden and early deaths of three women close to him--his mother, his sister and Ann Rutledge--could not but contribute to the world-view of Lincoln, and deeply influence his character.
A year after Ann’s death, Lincoln showed some interest in an increasing plump Mary Owens, somewhat older than Lincoln at 28; the relationship ended by mutual agreement.
Finally, Lincoln met, courted and married Mary Todd of Lexington, Kentucky. Interestingly enough, Mary in her courting days had also been wooed by Stephen Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, who some twenty years later with Lincoln, made up three of the four major party candidates in the presidential election of 1860!
Mary was, to cast the truth in the best possible light, “difficult.” Stories from their Springfield days of her yelling at Lincoln, throwing things at him, driving him out of their house by her frequent tirades abound. His frequent absences from home traveling the months’ long county court circuit were not so much a burden for Lincoln as an escape from the wildcat at home, as were his long hours in the law office when in town. Her embarrassing behavior continued in the White House years, focusing on lavish spending, including misappropriation of government funds, and raging and unfounded jealousy of all other women who came into Lincoln’s presence. This none too stable woman was finally driven over the edge by the cumulative effects of the deaths of three sons--Eddie in 1850; Willie, 1862; and Tad, 1871; and especially, the assassination of her husband as they sat side by side in a Washington theater.
Winkler gives some account of all these women and their impact in the life of Lincoln (as well as of other women of more minor import), and seems to be up on the latest research and relevant literature. However, Winkler tends to give too much unquestioning credence to oral reports two and three generations removed from events, especially in the matter of Anne Rutledge, and seems guilty of too readily impugning the reputation and morals of Lincoln’s mother and “the Widow Bixby” of Boston, and in one case even Lincoln himself. Likewise, though the volume contains several photos of “New Salem,” Winkler never notes that the New Salem in the photos is the reconstructed village dating from the early 20th century, not the original one from the early 19th century. There are, besides, a number of drawings “reconstructing” events in Lincoln’s life, some of the drawings being rather inept and historically anachronistic.
In sum: an instructive contribution to the corpus of Lincoln literature, but by no means a work of the first water.
The Stones and the Scriptures: an Evangelical Perspective by Edwin Yamauchi. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972. 207 pp, hardback.
Dr. Edwin Yamauchi is and has long been professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, specializing in ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean history, making him eminently qualified to write on the subject addressed in this handy volume, viz., the light that archaeology in the Middle East has cast on the Bible. Yamauchi marshals example after example of archaeological findings that confirm the general integrity of Scripture regarding nations, geography, chronology and customs, and has provided specific confirmation of individuals, rulers, and events. E.g., numerous Kings of Israel and Judah are mentioned in Assyrian and Babylonian documents, and one is even pictured on an Assyrian stone monument!
Of course, archaeology cannot be expected to provide express confirmation of every person, place or event in the Old and New Testaments, but the very small percentage of Near Eastern ruins that have been excavated and such relevant things as have come to light have consistently tended to confirm (and never to contradict) the historical reliability of the various Biblical books, and should lead objective observers to give the Bible the “benefit of the historical doubt” in places not yet expressly confirmed.
Even so, in spite of this consist pattern of repeated vindications--some utterly remarkable, such as Daniel’s representation of Belshazzar--hyper-critical doubters still insist on questioning, even rejecting whatever has not yet been directly substantiated by extra-biblical findings. These same critics, however, would be far less demanding when it comes to Egyptian, Persian, Greek or Roman authors and antiquities, demonstrating that they have a philosophical agenda--an anti-biblical bias--driving their interpretations. It is notable that “mere” historians of the ancient world are far more inclined to look favorably upon the historical reliability of the Old and New Testaments than theologians and philosophers who have an anti-supernatural bias that colors their perspective.
Though this book is now more than 30 years old (as far as we know, no up-dated edition of this book has appeared), and therefore lacking in some of the most recent discoveries, what is here is still valuable, and though in a few matters I differ from the professor (he favors the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the site of the crucifixion and tomb of Jesus, while I find Gordon’s Calvary and the nearby Garden Tomb more convincing), I can recommend this volume without hesitation to anyone interested in the question: what light does archaeology shed on the credibility of the Bible?
Yamauchi has written numerous other books on Bible-related archaeology and history, among other topics, and a good many scholarly articles. Worthwhile stuff.
The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. 340 pp. hardback. $19.99.
We very favorably reviewed two of Lee Strobel’s previous books, The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith in AISI 7:8. In them, this one-time atheist legal news reporter turned evangelical Christian examined the credibility of the Biblical accounts of the person and work of Christ, and the answers of the Bible to the questions of skeptics, respectively. Here Strobel turns his attention to the question of the Bible and science.
Secular scientists, along with some misguided Christians in scientific professions, have sought to separate, isolate and encapsulate science/knowledge/truth on the one hand and the Bible/religion/faith on the other as mutually exclusive (and antagonistic) matters. Religion has no place in science, and of course, science has no need for religion. Such a perspective ignores the fact that even secular scientists are “religious,” that is, they have a belief system that accepts by faith what it cannot prove; it just happens that their religion is atheistic naturalism and materialism, rather than theistic supernaturalism.
Though it is a given of secularism that real science is antagonistic to the claims of religion (meaning the Bible and its supernatural creationism), Strobel consults experts in various academic and scientific disciplines to demonstrate that what is assumed by secular science--that scientific naturalism has ruled out the need for a Creator and thereby discredits the Bible’s foundational claims--is contradicted by real science, and that the scientific evidence requiring a supernatural Creator (always large, but largely ignored) is substantial and growing, while that alleged to support pure naturalism is highly flawed, subjective, and in not a few cases out and out fraudulent.
Strobel was a secular atheist who fully embraced biological evolution as fact, beginning with the indoctrination he received as a high school student. He remarks that a very high percentage of committed evolutionists that he has encountered bear the same testimony--it was public school textbooks in high school science courses which persuaded and confirmed them in their adherence to de facto atheistic evolutionism (that is my testimony as well). Strobel points out that many of the “evidences” for evolution were either fraudulent and long-known to be fraudulent or irrelevant to the issue (here he interviews Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolutions, reviewed in AISI 4:2).
Strobel notes numerous cases of leading modern secular scientists who, overwhelmed by their scientific findings, have become believers in an intelligent “First Cause” for the universe, i.e., God, and in not a few cases, Bible-accepting Christians because of the real evidence of science unfiltered through atheistic presuppositions.
The weakest chapter in the book is that dealing with the origin of the universe. Yes, Strobel quotes experts to the effect that the evidence is incontrovertible--the universe had a beginning in time and space, and that since it cannot be self-caused out of nothing, then it must have been caused by an exceedingly intelligent and exceedingly powerful sufficient “First Cause.” So far, so good. But, though Strobel and those he has consulted thus far have repeatedly warned against uncritically accepting the “current wisdom” and accepted “truth” in the world of science, he and his experts do just that in the matter of the so-called ”Big Bang.” Though the “Big Bang” is a theory scarcely a half-century old, and though the body of scientific evidence discrediting it is large and growing, nevertheless, Strobel and the “old-earth” creationists uncritically accept the Big Bang and many of the unsubstantiated assumptions about it that are standard textbook fare these days. Though some questions are raised about aspects of the alleged Big Bang, and some proposed alternatives are noted (but not the ex nihilo recent creation narrated in Genesis 1) the fact of the Big Bang is not challenged (it certainly contradicts the plain narrative of Genesis 1 and all Bible passages relating to the initial creation). Old earth assumptions are uncritically adopted and evidences (some of which are noted indirectly--the recession of the moon from earth, the existence of magnetic fields on earth and mercury) are ignored.
Additional chapters address the cumulative evidences of remarkable “coincidences” that allow for the functioning of the universe in general and life on earth in particular--the relative mass of atomic particles, the strength level of electro-magnetism, earth’s planetary size, chemical make up, temperature, atmosphere, size and radiation level of the sun, orbital shape, planetary axial tilt, speed of rotation, position in the galaxy (ideal for viewing the universe!), the moon and its features, etc. etc., a list so long and remarkable that it looks as if the universe in general and earth in particular were designed to be inhabited (cf. Isaiah 45:18). To quote one expert and example: “What intrigued me was that the very time and place where perfect solar eclipses appear in our universe [i.e., on planet earth] also corresponds to the one time and place where there are observers [i.e. people] to see them.” (p. 186)
Strobel addresses the subject of the “irreducible complexity” of living organisms, livings cells and larger biological systems (such as the remarkably complex system of blood clotting) through interaction with the major proponent of this principle, Dr. Michael Behe. Such complexity demands creation of such complexity all at once and fully formed and functioning. No gradual build up by selection or favorable mutation (the proposed “omnipotent” mechanisms for biological evolution) is even possible in such cases.
Information theory and the discovery of human DNA (a tightly-coiled six-foot long chemical code containing more information than the entire Encyclopedia Britannica is found in every one of the approximately 100 trillion cells in the human body!) requires a master “Programmer” to create such vast information and its remarkable storage and access system.
Finally, the fact of human intelligence and consciousness defies any naturalistic explanation. “Spirit” is indeed distinct from “flesh,” that is, matter cannot account for man’s intellect.
Each chapter has bibliography for the interested reader to investigate matters more fully for himself.
Strobel’s pattern for his books--the investigative reporter rushing from expert to expert to solicit their informed opinions on this and that aspect of his theme--while serving adequately as a format for his two previous “Case” books, has become shop-worn in this volume, and needs to be abandoned or dramatically altered in any future apologetic volumes he may write.
With the caveat about uncritical acceptance of Big Bangism and its presuppositions, we can recommend this book, to introduce the reader (hopefully some skeptics and evolutionary naturalists among them) to the most recent scientific evidences that demand a wise, powerful and eternal Creator.
Though retailing for $19.99, I bought my copy at Sam’s Club for $11.87, and have seen it available for sale at Wal-Mart similarly priced.


In Business: Bemidji’s Lumberjack Shack Reopens with New Owners, New Plans on the Horizon
Monday, May 1st marked a new chapter for a long-standing Bemidji business, as the Lumberjack Shack reopened with its newest owners.
“My mom was the previous owner for 8 years,” said Jennifer Hiltz. “I knew that I would take over someday, I just didn’t know when.”
“We’re actually really excited to open,” said Les Hiltz Jr. “We’ve been working on it all winter, trying to get things ready to go, and doing some upgrades and getting some new products in. So yeah, we’re really excited to see the season take off.”
The Lumberjack Shack is perhaps best known for its variety of souvenir products of the Bemidji area, including the north’s mascots Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.
“Tourists come in and they wanna take home gifts because they visited our town, you know, they wanna take the magnets and the shot glasses,” said Jennifer. “We try to carry a lot of those things that the tourists will want to take home with them.”
In addition to it being the first day of new ownership, Monday also served as the Lumberjack Shack’s first day as a year-round business.
“We’d like to see local business come here as well and try to supply them with some of their Bemidji items,” said Les.
“We’ll have, maybe themed weekends for the winter for hockey days,” explained Jennifer, “Just some things to look forward to, those are all kind of in the future.”
Hopefully with its year-round direction and new guiding force, the Lumberjack Shack will continue to serve as a love letter to the Bemidji community.
“We’re happy to be here, happy to be finally open,” said Les.
In addition to providing year-round service, the Lumberjack Shack also hopes to provide a robust online presence within the near future.
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The town is famous for its mineral water industry (which is the number one export of Georgia), the Romanov summer palace in Likani, and the World Wide Fund for Nature-site Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park.
Borjomi mineral water is particularly well known in those countries which were part of the former Soviet Union; the bottling of mineral water is a major source of income for the area. Because of the supposed curative powers of the area’s mineral springs, it is a frequent destination for people with health problems.
Borjomi is also home to the most extensive ecologically-themed amusement park in the Caucasus.
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At last year's Google I/O conference, Google unveiled the popular Nexus 7 tablet, but with rumors of this year's Google I/O conference stating we'll see a Nexus 11 tablet, we should begin to get excited.
The Nexus 11 is rumored to feature an octo-core processor, making it the world's first 8-core-powered tablet. This should arrive in the form of Samsung's 8-core Exynos 5410 processor. The 11-inch display should be a Super PLS TFT screen, with a 2560x1600 resolution just like the Nexus 10. We should expect an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera backed up by a 2-megapixel front-facer.
One of the bigger nuggets in this rumor, is the fact that the Nexus 11 would arrive with expandable storage in the form of a microSD card slot. Until now, Nexus devices have had their internal flash storage and no upgradeable storage options, which is a bit of a lack when comparing them to other Android-powered slates on the market.


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Sometimes, I like to watch the grass grow. It’s pointless, I know. Impossible. Still, I enjoy it. Sitting still. Listening to the quiet. Learning patience.
Perhaps some are born with more patience than others. If that’s the case, I was at the back of the line. It’s been a slow process, (not ironically,) but I’m finally getting the hang of things. Like a good Zen koan, it’s not a lesson to be learned quickly.
Earlier today, I found myself picking through the remnants of my book pile. Yes, it’s time for a re-up at photo-eye. I’m headed there tomorrow, but that doesn’t help me today. So I decided to take another look at a few books that I’d previously dismissed. Maybe if I just take a bit more time, my opinion might change?
The first couple were still boring, so no dice. Then I came to Viviane Sassen’s “Parasomnia,” recently published by Prestel in Germany. I’d already picked this one up, (and put it down) twice, so I was not optimistic. But hey, you never know. (Plus, I think she was included in MOMA’s “New Photography 2011,” and those guys are never wrong, right?)
The first couple of passes were hard for me, because this is one more project where someone from the First world goes to visit the poverty of the Third. Been there. Done that. And the narrative is non-linear, if one could call it a narrative at all.
This time, though, I slowed down, and realized that the book opens with a short story by Moses Isegawa. Normally, I breeze right past stuff like that. (Don’t you?) But today, practicing my patience, I started to read. It’s about eleven pages or so, nothing too time-consuming, but thoroughly engrossing, and 100% necessary. The story follows a teen-aged boy as he wakes up to another morning of hardship in Uganda, 2011. Dreamy and poignant, it sets the tone for the pictures to follow.
But I’m not sure that “sets the tone” is the right way to put it. This book needs the story. It gives us a time, a place, a backstory, and a vibe. The photos to follow need to be seen in the context of a desperately poor place, racked with violence and natural disasters. The streets smell like urine, kids sit on the side of the dirt roads with their willies hanging out, beer halls rage music all night, jerry cans filled with water must be carried long distances, and opportunities are tragically scarce. People die. People disappear. Heat waves radiate up off the asphalt, such as there is.
You have to read the story to understand Ms. Sassen’s vision. That makes the book a collaboration. Which is interesting. Most essays are throwaways, added to help the publisher feel more comfortable about the possibility of some ROI. Honestly, I’ve heard enough about the importance of bagging a big name to write an essay that no one will read.
And what of the pictures? Are they less good for needing Mr. Isegawa’s context? Not sure I can answer that question. I need to think on that a while. But I’m not here to judge her artistic cannon, fortunately, just a book. And I’m glad Ms. Sassen was wise enough to begin her book as she did. (And that I was forced to be patient enough to appreciate it.)
The photographs range from portraits to still lives to obviously staged situations. Each type of image repeats, thereby moving solidly into the symbolic. Young African men and women, staring at the camera, intently. Caucasian people, hiding from the stark sun with towels and leaves over their eyes. Flowering trees to prove that life goes on, and burnt stumps to remind us that it doesn’t.
Vegetables left to rot on the ground. Tomatoes and corn. Why would that happen in a place with hungry people? Too many pesticides? Was the owner taken away by government agents, his/her possessions dropped behind? We see a freshly-dug grave, several shrines, and a red plastic bag hovering above a concrete tomb.
There are no guns, no machetes, no blood. But we do see a young man in a red shirt sitting in a blue chair that has been tipped onto the ground. And another photo, this one from the cover, of a body floating in the river, face down. Dead? You can’t tell.
I’ve said the in past that I don’t Google to get a better understanding of a book. If I’m supposed to know something, I expect it to be there for me to parse. But in this case, I did look up the word “Parasomnia,” just to be sure. It describes certain sleep disorders, from night terrors to sleep-walking, that afflict people who don’t sleep well enough. It leads to delirium, I suppose. But it also fits perfectly with the surreal but familiar feeling of this book. Not a bad title, given what lies within.
Bottom line: Cool book, reading required
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Climate Services, 2016, doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2016.01.001
This paper elaborates on the link between weather and climate in the context of providing climate services that will contribute to more efficient water services today, which, in their turn, will be better adapted to climate change impacts and conditions of tomorrow. It illustrates this by discussing the conceptual view and expected outcome of IMPREX, a newly started European research project built on the notion that “experience in managing current day weather extremes is the best learning school to anticipate consequences of future climate”. This paper illustrates possible ways to increase the link between information and services for the water sector, by addressing weather and climate time scales and discussing the underlying concepts of the IMPREX project and its expected outcome.


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Mongooses living in large groups develop "specialist" diets so they don't have to fight over food, new research shows.
Banded mongooses cooperate closely but are also prone to violence -- both between groups and within them -- and competition for food increases as a group grows.
To get round this, individual mongooses find a dietary "niche," according to researchers from the universities of Exeter and Roehampton. Group living has advantages and disadvantages, and the findings suggest specialisation is one way to prevent groups being torn apart by fighting.
"Social animals can gain many benefits from group living, but they also suffer from competition over shared food resources," said Professor Michael Cant, of the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
"Our research shows that banded mongooses respond to this competition by developing specialised foraging preferences.
"The study helps to explain why animals vary so much in their foraging behaviour, even when they live in the same place and have access to the same food."
The study examined wild banded mongooses in Uganda. Their diet includes millipedes, ants, termites and beetles, and sometimes vertebrates such as frogs, mice and reptiles.
The researchers tested opposing theories: that increased competition would lead to more varied diets, or that it would cause mongooses to find a dietary "niche."
They were able to compare individual mongoose diets by analysing the chemical composition of their whiskers, using the stable isotope facility at the Environment and Sustainability Institute, also at Exeter's Penryn Campus.
Rather than eating a wider range of foods, mongooses in large groups tended to become specialists in eating certain things -- leaving other foodstuffs for different members of their groups.
"This is the first test of these competing ideas about the effect of social competition on diet in mammals," Dr Harry Marshall, Lecturer in Zoology at the Centre for Research in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour at the University of Roehampton.
"This research confirms the hypothesis that mongooses adopt niche dietary preferences in response to competition from within their social groups.
"The findings suggest that group living may be one of the processes that promotes greater specialisation."
The findings are part of the Banded Mongoose Research Project, which has been running in Uganda for more than 20 years.
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#1: Belgian Waffles and Frituurs
#2: Sausage Roll from Panos!
Panos is a chain store that sells sweet and savory bake goods. You can find this store everywhere in Belgium (it's like a Starbucks, you can find one on every corner). It's a quick snack which is cheap and taste so good!
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I must mention these delicious Belgian pastry and donuts. They were SOOOOOOO good! We had these for breakfast. The chocolate one is like our boston cream donut but the only difference is that it's flaky outside. SO DELICIOUS!!!! The other pastries were cinnamon, custard filled and raisin.
#4: Blood Sausage by Sita's MomStesi planned something special for us to try but won't tell us what Sita's mom was going to make for us. They said Belgian people love it but some people hate it. Sita said she didn't like it as a child but was going to try it again when we do. It turns out to be blood sausage! I've tried it before but hated it. The ones i tried was very hard and the taste was really bad but this time it was soo good! You can eat it with apple sauce and some people eat it with brown sugar. I actually really like it w/ apple sauce.


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Title: “Taur” (Single)
Artist: Hargo Boparai & Arpan feat Jaggi Singh
Label: Soldier Sound Recordings
Publisher: A K Music Publishing
Release Date: 04.10.2012
After the worldwide success of his debut album “Bhangrafornia,” featuring the well received song “Kente Wale Gabaroo”, North American producer Hargo Boparai is back with a brand new single in collaboration with producer Arpan. The single entitled “Taur,” features the melodious vocals of Jaggi Singh, accompanied by music and a style that is atypical to the Punjabi/Bhangra scene.
An understudy of Ustad Lal Singh Bhatti, Hargo learned the value of a traditional style of Punjabi music with an equal balance of modern beats. One of the few producers residing in the United States, Hargo has worked with major artists such as Surinder Shinda, Master Saleem, Pappi Gill, and Bakshi Billa. In 2011 Hargo released an original album entitled "Bhangrafornia" which was in the top 20 on the I-Tunes world charts in the United States. His most recent project, a tribute track entitled “We Area All Sikhs” featured Sati Chohan and the Bol Punjabi De production team (Harvi Bhachu) gained national attention and was also featured in media worldwide. Hargo has established himself a pioneer of the Punjabi music scene in North America, beginning as a deejay, developing into a remixer and eventually maturing into a original producer.
Arpan, an electro and dubstep producer also based out of California, began his musical journey as a drummer for a rock band. Living and experiencing many cultures and styles, Arpan was born in Atlanta raised in Boston and India, eventually settling in the Bay Area, California. With influences from artists and bands such as Thrice, Skrillex, Dilllon Francis, and Zedd, Arpan is a talented musician that can also play both the drums and the keyboard.
The vocalist, Jaggi Singh is based out of Punjab, India and is a well respected and accomplished singer and song writer. He has worked with many major artists worldwide throughout the Punjabi music industry. A good friend of Hargo, this is the third project that Jaggi has contributed to for Hargo.
This blend of talent has been mixed seamlessly to create a unique sound in the single “Taur”, a mix of bhangra and house. With the support of Tigerstyle’s Solider Sound Recordings, Hargo and Arpan look forward to sharing their sounds with the world and let their music do the talking. We invite you all to enjoy "Taur".

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According to Reuters, Italian cellco Wind Telecomunicazioni (Wind Italy), the country’s third largest cellco in terms of subscribers, is interested in exploring acquisition talks with domestic rival 3 Italia, as well as broadband operators Fastweb and Tiscali. Citing comments by Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris – who sold his telecoms holding company Wind Telecom (formerly Weather Investments) to Russian telecoms giant Vimpelcom in April – Reuters confirms that no deals are currently in the works. The transaction with Vimpelcom, which included 100% of Wind Italy and 51.7% of Orascom Telecom, among other interests, meant that Sawiris himself is now a shareholder in the enlarged Vimpelcom group.
Shares in Tiscali, which had a 4% share of Italian broadband subscribers at end-March 2011, reportedly surged last month after reports linking Vimpelcom with a potential takeover emerged in the Italian press. Sawiris told a press conference this week: ‘We are completely open to integrating with all three companies you mention. We have [an] appetite to grow our business. We believe there [are] synergies, but until there is something concrete we cannot say anything more than that. There is nothing concrete right now’.