Novak Djokovic’s mother has made startling claims that Roger Federer was ‘arrogant’ in the Wimbledon final and God helped her son win.
Federer famously blew two championship points in the decider at the All England Club in 2019 as Djokovic won a thriller after a fifth set tiebreaker at 12-12.
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Discussing the epic final with Serbian publication Sport Blic, Dijana Djokovic claimed God ‘saved’ her son from losing.
"I saw a lot of matches, but Wimbledon was the most difficult last year,” she said.
“When Federer had two match points, I grabbed my cross from the Don River. I am a believer, I wear the amulet all the time, it has often saved me in difficult moments.
“I said to myself: 'Nole, you can do it, you've done it twice, you can do it again.' And he did it.
“He was saved by God. Novak also believes in God, he feels chosen. He carries a cross that brings him peace and happiness.”
Mrs Djokovic said she was annoyed by the pro-Federer crowd and the Swiss Maestro’s ‘arrogance’.
“In a stadium where everyone was cheering on Roger Federer, we were just a handful of fans for Novak,” she said.
“It's not nice that I'm annoyed by Federer or others at such moments.
“But it annoyed me because Federer is a bit arrogant.”
Djokovic slammed over ‘dangerous’ claims
Djokovic has been at the centre of controversy recently and fuelled the furore with some ‘disturbing’ claims last week.
In an Instagram Live chat with Chervin Jafarieh for a series called The Self Mastery Project, the two discussed how ‘toxic’ food and water can be made healthy through the power of positive thoughts.
“This is something that is not linked to any form of official way of presenting nutrition and how you should eat and drink,” Djokovic said.
“I know some people that, through energetical (sic) transformation, through the power of prayer, through the power of gratitude, they managed to turn the most toxic food, or maybe most polluted water into the most healing water, because water reacts.
“Scientists have proven that in experiment, that molecules in the water react to our emotions to what has been said.
“I truly believe that we should continuously every single day remind ourselves when we sit, that we sit without cameras, without phones, without watching things and stuff.
“Or even worse, having nervous [and] conflicting discussions at the table with your close ones during your meal.”
To be clear, Djokovic himself was the one who first introduced this stuff about water changing from emotions into the conversation on his Instagram, saying that mindfulness can make unhealthy food more nutritious, and that dinner table arguments can make good less nutritious. pic.twitter.com/LyJbJTvb9W
— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) May 7, 2020
Leading tennis commentators Ben Rothenberg, Jon Wertheim and Mary Carillo slammed Djokovic, with the latter describing his claims as ‘dangerous’.
“We know that he believes in meditation, in prayer, in holistic healing,” she said during a discussion on Tennis Channel.
“I’m very disturbed that Djokovic and that other guy are saying you can change toxic water to drinking water.
“This is dangerous stuff and when I looked at it … it already had half a million hits. I really hope he backs down from that.”


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Ohio Food Banks Ask State For Aid
Food banks in southeast Ohio are rationing food
The Ohio Association of Food Banks, desperate for help, continues to sound the alarm about the growing food shortage in Ohio.
Food rationing has begun at food banks in southeast Ohio, but the shortage is being felt statewide.
In June, the association said many of the state's food banks are now seeing a spike in need comparable to, or even higher than, the early weeks of the pandemic in spring 2020, said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, the association's executive director.
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Supplies of beets in the Michigan region are coming in steadily.
“There are a fair amount of beets available right now,” says Jordan Bremer of Victory Farms in Hudsonville, Mi.
He notes that harvest got a slightly later start this year—usually it begins in July but this year it started in August—and Michigan is still harvesting product and will continue to do so until the ground is frozen.
Meanwhile demand for beets is relatively average for this time of year. “I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Demand for beets picks up as the winter months come on as opposed to the summer,” he says. “But the Candy Cane beets and Golden Beets are definitely increasing in popularity. It’s such a small increase in demand though so I don’t think it affects the red beet supply or demand.”
In terms of regions competing with Michigan, Bremer notes that competition largely comes from growers in Canada.
All of this puts pricing at average currently for beets. “It’s similar to pricing at this time last year. Overall I’d say beet pricing is generally fairly stable,” he says. “Our highest pricing comes in the spring months when the Midwest starts to run out of their own product and want to ship them in. That’s when pricing goes up. Now while there’s a strong supply, the price is very average.”
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Modern CPUs have virtualization hardware capabilities that help speed VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, and other software on virtual machines. So, in this guide, you will learn how to enable Virtualization Technology in BIOS on Dell Inspiron laptops.
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Virtualization is the method of creating a representation of something based on software, or virtual, such as computer systems, servers, storage, and networks. This is the single most efficient way of reducing These costs while improving productivity and agility for companies of all sizes.
However, New companies virtualize their infrastructure to reduce hardware and labor costs. As the company does not need to purchase physical hardware to run the operating systems on them, using virtualization technology. Instead, they purchase one physical device with the capabilities of virtualization and install various operating systems. Click here to know more about Virtualization.
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Virtualization will increase the agility, versatility, and scalability of IT while achieving substantial cost savings. Greater versatility of workload, improved efficiency, and resource flexibility, streamlined processes-these are all virtualization advantages that make IT simpler to manage and less costly to own and run.
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Here’s how to enable Virtualization on Dell Laptops from BIOS:
Turn off your Dell laptop and press the F2 key whilst the Dell logo is on-screen.
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Step 1. Right-click on the Taskbar and select Task Manager. Click More details if needed.
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Six months ago many of the students in Chile quit going to classes. Six months later they have yet to return. Here in sum is a description of why the students are protesting.
Here in Chile there are two groups of students who have walked out of the first semester of school this year and have indicated they will skip the second semester as well. The students who have walked out of the school are public high school and public university students. Private schools are not affected.
There are three types of high schools here in Chile. They are the municipal schools, subsidized schools, and private schools. The students in the municipal schools have not attended classes for many months. Students at the subsidized and private schools are not on strike. Regarding the universities there are two types: private and public. For example The University of Chile and the University of Santiago are public which the Catholic University is private. The group which is leading the protests is called “Confech” which is a type of student union presenting the universities here. Their leader is Camila Vallejo who is head of “Fech” or Federation of the Students of the University of Chile.
Municipal high schools are free to attend while subsidized high schools cost maybe $100 or $200 per month. But to call the public universities here “public” is a misnomer because the state does not contribute to the cost of the university. Instead they loan the students money to attend. This is what has angered the students most of whom graduate from public of private school owing usually around $30,000 USD. The cost per year at these public universities is about $5000 USD per year.
What the students want is a constitutional guarantee of a free and quality education and for the state to take over running the municipal schools. Further the students want that the profit motive be removed from the schools: they say the schools should operate as a business which has no profit like a cooperative for example. After months of general strikes, marches, and violent outbreaks by lumpen—this is a German word meaning coming from Marx which indicates criminal elements who seek to wreck havoc regardless of the issue at hand—the government had agreed to meet with the head of the union which represent the high school students, university students, and the public university professors who are sympathetic to their cause. But the students walked out of these negotiations saying that the government has been disingenuous in their sincerity to deal with the issues.
Meanwhile the Piñera administration is moving ahead with legislative agendas which have been under discussion since several presidential administrations. This includes reforms of the municipal school system and lowering the interest rate on student loans to 2% and new scholarships. Unlike in the USA where President Obama has little sway with the legislature here Piñera’s right-wing government has the majority in the senate and among the deputies so he can generally move his issues toward debate and law.
There is a summary of the issues. The students now are at risk of losing the school year and there have been various proposals put forth to allow them to take their exams at other locations when the school they attend has been closed. That the school is closed is apparent because the students have piled up chairs at the entrance to the schools and hang banners of protest all about. The students do not attend classes but they hang out at the schools asking passersby for donations as a means to draw attention to their plight.
As a general observation I would say that most of the people here in Chile agree with the students while many are tired of the violence which breaks out at many of the demonstrations and would like that to end. Each time there are protest marches barricades go up in the streets and more than once city buses are set afire and a department store and other locations have been looted and burnt. Police are injured and so are the protesters. The position of the student unions now continues to be that the protests will continue and the students will not return to classes for the next semester although the University of Chile says it will be open.
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DDA public hearing is coming up on Monday
FLINT TWP. – Public hearings on proposed boundaries to establish a Downtown Development Authority district and two Corridor Improvement Authorities on Bristol Road and on Beecher Road are set for 7 p.m. December 18 at the township board meeting, 1490 South Dye Road. Boundary maps and details about the proposed economic improvement districts can be previewed on the township website at www.flinttownship.org. –R.S.
Nominations still open for 23rd Children’s Champion Awards
GENESEE COUNTY – Nominations are being accepted until 5 p.m. December 15 for the 23rd Children’s Champions Awards, to be presented at the Breakfast for Champions on Friday, February 9, 2018 at the Riverfront Banquet Center in downtown Flint. The Children’s Champion Awards started in 1996 to recognize people in the community doing good things for children. The awards are designed to recognize and thank individuals, businesses, government agencies and organizations. Some of the awards include youth scholarships. For more information visit the organization’s web site at childrenchampion.org/ — R.S.
MADD Genesee County to remember victims of alcohol related crashes
GRAND BLANC TWP. – MADD Genesee County will host its annual Candlelight Vigil of Remembrance and Hope on Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. The event will be held at the First Baptist Church of Grand Blanc, 6106 Saginaw Rd.
Family members and others affected by alcohol-related crashes are invited to light a candle in honor of a loved one killed or injured in an alcohol-related vehicular crash. A brief video honoring victims will be shown. Anyone who wishes to participate in the candle lighting or to have a loved one included in the video must call 810-953-9854 by Dec. 8. Callers are asked to include a contact phone number and the birth and death dates of the victim. Attendance at the service is NOT required to have a name read and listed in the program.
The vigil may be postponed if the weather forecast calls for snow and ice. To learn whether the vigil has been postponed, go to madd.org/local-offices/mi/ or call the phone number above. For all other information please call the number listed above. – G.G.
Wreaths across America
HOLLY — Cub Scout Pack 175 will be helping to lay evergreen wreaths on graves at Great Lakes National Cemetery, 4200 Belford Road, prior to a noon ceremony in remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The wreath laying begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16. — P.S.


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In our last blog we talked about the difference between metal fabrication and metal stamping. Some people assume they are the same, but they are not. Another misunderstanding about the industry is the assumption that metal fabrication and welding are interchangeable. This is also not true, although welding is a very important part of metal fabrication. Here we will talk about what welding is and why good welders are so valuable to a metal fabrication shop.
Metal fabrication is ‘the manufacture of three-dimensional metal parts through different processes such as cutting, bending, and welding’ or, more simply, creating a project out of metal. That part can have a stand-alone function, or it can be a component in a larger object. From this definition, you can see that welding is only one aspect of what we do here at D+M Metal Products.
What Is Welding?
Welding is the process of joining two pieces of metal, glass, or thermoplastics together using fusion. These pieces of material must have similar melting points for the welding to be successful at holding them together.
Tools Necessary for Welding
Welders use a number of tools to ply their trade. These include:
- A chipping hammer
- A metal brush
- A metal file
- A sheet metal gauge
- A speed square
- A soapstone
- A welding framing jig
- An angle grinder
- An oxy-acetylene setup
- C clamps
- MIG pliers
- Welding clamps
- Welding magnets
Welders work with hot metal, specialty tools, and heavy machinery, so they need to be trained in proper safety guidelines and to use the right safety equipment to prevent injuring themselves or others around them. Welders should have: flame-resistant clothing, an auto-darkening welding helmet, safety goggles, welding gloves, coveralls or a leather apron, heavy work boots, hearing protection, and often a method for fume extraction equipment.
This equipment needs to be used properly which means that the shop should have safety policies defined and communicated to their welders and the welders should be fully trained in how to implement them. Both the provision of equipment and proper training in expectations are necessary for a shop to have a successful safety culture and environment. This is part of the shop’s overall program of quality control.
How Do Metal Fabrication and Welding Overlap?
Welding is a metal forming technique that is necessary in many metal fabrication applications in order to complete work on specific parts or projects. Not all metal fabrication involves welding, but good welders are necessary for any metal fabrication business to operate. The most common types of welding used in metal fabrication shops are MIG and TIG welding, but there are different types of welding, including oxy acetylene and GMAW.
Both welding and metal fabrication use similar processes like assembling and bending. Many welders are able to fabricate, and many fabricators can also weld. Involving welders in the design process and early steps of a project allows them to give input into how the necessary welding can be accomplished and reduce or eliminate any overlooked problems.
At D+M Metal Products we value our team of welders and what they add to our metal fabrication process and output. We are committed to having a safe shop that observes the policies and protocols in our quality control program. We are also happy to invest in our employees when they seek to broaden their skills and abilities, including learning welding techniques. If you would like to become part of our team, please contact us today. We would love to talk with you about our employment opportunities.


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Toy Fairs on both sides of the Atlantic are featured this issue. DC Direct returns to the top comic characters of the last 60 plus years showcasing action figures, busts, and other items from its rich vault.
The Super Shogun Stormtrooper by Super 7 brings yet another dimension to the Star Wars franchise. Hasbro showed some impressive new additions to its Transformers, Spider-Man, and Marvel Superheroes line up. Mattel unveiled its DC Universe vs Masters of the Universe 2-packs and furnished AFD with images of some additional Masters direct series available through MattyCollector.com.
Brian Doyle’s report on the London Toy Fair offers some previews of brands also to be offered in North America, plus several exclusive to England and/or Europe. >There will be a new Dr. Who line, but security problems after photos released to AFD in past years casued problems with the BBC, but Brian did manage to secure a few photos of the 11th Doctor. The H.M. Armed Forces line is likely to have interest for 12" G.I. Joe collectors, Tomy has some more Harry Potter items, and there is a new set of Starsign Smourfs to attest this franchise is still breathing in some parts of the world.
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A Gainesville gun manufacturer is at the center of the latest fight for the Second Amendment in the Georgia gubernatorial race.
Honor Defense was dropped without notice by its online payment processor, Stripe, in August 2017 because the San Francisco-based company no longer wanted to do business with the Gainesville manufacturer, according to Honor Defense CEO Gary Ramey.
Ramey was notified last year that his company violated Stripe’s terms of service, which bars businesses dealing in weapons and munitions from using the online payment company.
At the time, customers could order an Honor Defense pistol online and have it shipped to a nearby dealer with a federal firearms license, where the customer could pick up the firearm after passing a federal background check through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
But Ramey said it wasn’t just the sale of firearms that was an issue for Stripe. Ramey offered to stop selling his pistols online if the company would continue to handle sales of T-shirts and other merchandise from Honor Defense. Instead, Stripe opted out, leaving the Gainesville company without any way of processing sales online.
“It just makes it more difficult” to do business, Ramey told The Times on Monday, noting he can still accept checks from distributors and dealers.
Representatives of Stripe did not immediately return a request for comment.
After Stripe dropped him as a client, Ramey was alerted by another of his service providers that it was dropping his business because of his firearms trade.
Intuit Quickbooks, who provided phone payment services to Ramey, told him in March that the company was cutting ties with Honor Defense.
Now, after initially shrugging off the decision from Stripe, the Gainesville business owner is trying to rally a defense for his business and others like him.
“We refuse to be victimized by it. We’re going to press on and move on,” Ramey said, adding that he wanted to “pick up the banner a little bit and bring this to the forefront.”
Unlike the federal government, private companies are mostly free to do business how they want and with the people and companies they want. Ramey acknowledges that Stripe and Intuit are “perfectly within their rights to not do business with our industry” but said people should know about the situation at Honor Defense.
“I think a lot of people don’t realize what’s happening out there,” he said.
Georgia has a law prohibiting unfair treatment of the firearms industry, called the Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act. The law is enforced through a complaint system, but here too Ramey has hit a dead end.
He said on Monday that the Georgia Attorney General’s Office won’t take up his case as both Stripe and Intuit are licensed as “money transmitters” and not banks. The law was written to prevent banks and other financial institutions from blocking access of firearms businesses to the financial system.
Ramey called the decision “disappointing,” and he’s now asking for help from Georgia politicians, starting with Republican gubernatorial candidate Casey Cagle.
In a Monday announcement, Cagle agreed there’s little recourse for Honor Defense in state law. Instead, he said he would push for state policy that would prevent state government from doing business with companies that discriminate against the firearms industry. He also called for using the state’s investments “in many of these companies” to push for change in their policies and said the state should review any tax incentives received by companies discriminating against the industry.
"There’s a lot of talk in our nation and in our state about businesses choosing to discriminate based on their views, but there never seems to be much outrage if the discrimination is against a group with conservative views, such as those who believe in gun rights,” Cagle said in the announcement.
While Ramey went to Cagle for help, the candidate’s challenger, Brian Kemp, was first to stake out a position on the issue and has reached out to Rep. Rick Jasperse, the state lawmaker who sponsored the nondiscrimination act, to push for a change to the law.
“By circumventing the intent of HB 292, online credit card processors are making it difficult for Honor Defense to conduct business, grow, and prosper,” Kemp said in a Sunday announcement. “As governor, I'll work with the bill's co-sponsors to specifically prohibit this type of discrimination.”
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Peace is a fire. It is dynamic, nuanced, and messy. Often it is more grey than black or white. Peace Fire is a newly formed nonprofit that creates spaces where people from diverse, and often opposing backgrounds, can safely encounter one another. We aim to facilitate an awareness of our shared humanity beyond ideology, politics, and identity by providing a space where a deeper understanding and appreciation of our difference may begin to grow.
Peace Fire values the qualities of compassion, awareness, encounter, and non-violence.
Conflict always originates from a disconnection with ourselves and others. In an increasingly busy, noisy, and fast world there is so much distraction from what we are actually experiencing. Awareness can support us ground in the present, opening a space to deeply encounter what may be occurring in ourselves, in others and in-between. Peace Fire facilitates awareness creating the potential for an encounter between people that has a relational depth and meaning. It is from this place, through glimpsing our shared humanity that conflict may be able to be resolved.
Peace Fire is based on the principles of non-violence. We recognize that violence has often been committed, and violence has been experienced, by many whom we encounter. In the spaces we create in the present, we endeavor to facilitate using a language and approach that is based on non-violence to others, and to ourselves.
We need empathy so we can give empathy. For many people we encounter who seek peace and reconciliation their experience of enduring trauma is a significant part of their experience. Peace Fire approaches all encounters through a trauma informed lens developed through international practice experience and research across diverse cultures and populations.
Peace Fire works with strategic partners to produce events that have the meaning and purpose of creating a more equitable, communicative, and peaceful society. We structure our events to be a lived example of what is possible when we assemble with awareness. Our events aim to be dynamic, creative and whilst recognize the lived pain for many – forward thinking. Our next event will be the Steel Shutter Revisited – 50th Anniversary Conference in Belfast.

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Originally from Fulking, Sussex, Marjorie started rigorous training at an early age, at the Doris Isaacs School of Dancing in Brighton, leading to roles as a child actor in several classic British films, including “Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?” with Diana Dors, “Aunt Clara” with Margaret Rutherford, and “The Belles Of St Trinians” with Alistair Sim & Joyce Grenfell.
Hollywood called and the entire family moved to Los Angeles where, after several lean years, she landed the role of Patty in the long running daytime TV soap “Our Seven Daughters” for NBC. A stalwart of Manhattan Beach Dinner Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of her late husband Arty Spelling, Marjorie played a whole gamut of leading roles, including Hedda Gabler, Joan Of Arc, Ophelia & Maria Von Trapp.
In the late 70’s she had great success with her One Woman Show – “Life is Like a Bubble in Our Glasses – the forgotten songs of Rudolph Friml”, which played several acclaimed seasons at Las Vegas Little Theatre.
Marjorie is delighted that Adam Speigel has lured her out of retirement for this wonderful production.


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Shahzad Returns To Cricket In 2018
Well-known Afghanistan cricketer, Shahzad Mohammadi, appeared at a press conference in Kabul on Sunday for the first time since the International Cricket Council (ICC) had banned him from playing cricket.
Mohammadi was banned on 17th of January 2017 from taking the field for one year over use of unauthorized medicines. He will now step onto the cricket ground on 17th January 2018.
Mohammadi once again apologized to the people on Sunday at the press conference because of using unauthorized medicines.
“What I did was not intentional, it was a mistake and I did not understand. Once again, I apologize to the people. When I was watching the national team playing, my family told me not to worry and one day I will play again,” Mohammadi said.
At the press conference the Chairman of Afghanistan Cricket Board, Atif Mashal, asked all the cricketers to observe the laws of ICC.
“I am very happy that Mohammadi will return on 17th of January 2018. During the time that Mohammadi was banned the ICC, he was doing fitness and we were informed in this regard. Based on the ICC law, we were not able to help him, because it was a principle and we had to implement it,” Mashal said.

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Today, we take a closer look at the life and works of Charles Chesnutt. You can find out more about Chesnutt and other profound American writers in our virtual exhibit, American Voices.
“Looking down the vista of time I see an epoch in our nation’s history, not in my time or yours, but in the not distant future, when there shall be in the United States but one people, moulded by the same culture” –Charles Chesnutt
When it comes to issues of race, the time between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement is almost entirely defined by Jim Crow segregation. Writing from the heart of that largely forgotten period, Charles Chesnutt produced works of fiction that both engage deeply with the African American past, present, and future and connect that community to the nation it is an integral part of.
Chesnutt’s identity and life were defined by a series of boundary crossings. He was born in Cleveland in 1858 to two “free persons of color” who had left slavery in North Carolina. They later moved the family back to Fayetteville after the Civil War and emancipation. He gained valuable insight on what life was like in both cities and regions, drawing upon that insight in his writing. Chesnutt noted that he was seven-eighths white; his paternal grandfather was even a slaveholder. That heritage led Chesnutt to be so light-skinned that he could have passed as white if he chose. Although he self-identified as African American throughout his life, he detailed in his journal that he was indeed frequently mistaken to be white.
In his literary career, Chesnutt also straddled the boundaries between genres. He rose to prominence writing short stories that seemed to fall into the “plantation tradition”—the sub-genre of late 19th century local color fiction that told romanticized stories of the pre-war slave South—but Chesnutt’s collected local color fiction challenged and revised the plantation tradition. In The Conjure Woman (1899), ex-slave storyteller Uncle Julius offers a far darker vision of slavery and the South in his tales, if his Northern white auditors John (the stories’ narrator) and his wife Annie can hear it.
Chesnutt also wrote short stories set in the late 19th century after the conclusion of the war. Collected in The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899), these stories examine and complicate histories of race and identity, segregation and community in the period that historians have called the lowest point of post-Civil War African American life. As exemplified by the title story “The Wife of His Youth,” first published in The Atlantic Monthly, Chesnutt’s realistic fictions push past simplified images of race and community to imagine the layers and meanings of these themes for both his African American protagonists and their nation at the turn of the 20th century.
In that new century Chesnutt shifted to longer forms, publishing a trio of realistic and political novels—The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and The Colonel’s Dream (1905)—that consider the future of race in America as fully as any works published before Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. Marrow, his best novel, originated with the misrepresented and forgotten 1898 Wilmington (NC) coup and massacre. From that starting point Chesnutt crafted a novel that encompasses the legacies of slavery and Reconstruction, the realities of segregation and lynching, and the divisions and interconnections of American communities, culminating in tragic yet still hopeful visions of the national future.
Although society has made great strides in inclusivity of people that have been historically marginalized from Chesnutt’s time, with Jim Crow laws being struck from legislation and even the election of the first African American president in 2008 and the first female African American vice president in 2020, there is still much work to be done. American society today is still defined by police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, and campus protests. It is still defined by systemic racism and injustice. Chesnutt’s historical, cultural, and political themes, and the boundary-crossing fictions through which he examined them, could not be more relevant and vital today.
Charles Chesnutt’s work provides readers today with a view of antebellum and post-Civil War life for African Americans. To learn more about Chesnutt and other revolutionary American writers, visit our virtual exhibit, American Voices, today!
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On March 5, 2015, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, William F. "Bill" Browder made a speech at the Oxford Union describing his personal experiences investing in Russia, the death of Sergei Magnitsky and the kleptocratic nature of Putin's regime. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he became blacklisted from Russia as a "threat to national security." He has since emerged as one of Putin's most strident critics, and a prominent human rights activist, after the death of Hermitage's lawyer and auditor Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. Following his speech at the Oxford Union, Browder agreed to sit down for an interview with me. The transcript is below:
You contributed to a book called "Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law: Should the EU follow the US?" Have you tried to incentivize other countries to adopt legislation on Russian human rights similar to the 2010 Magnitsky Law in the US? How successful have your efforts been?
Bill Browder: The main countries I am interested in working with are the United States, Canada, the EU and Australia. Its complicated, the more you go into the developing world, the less interest there is because many regimes there are perpetrating human rights abuses of their own. And it is much harder to get anyone to care. And the countries where the bad guys, like Russia, care about visiting are the civilized countries where they can keep their money safe. So that's why we want to go after the main developed countries of Europe and North America.
With regards to Europe, everyone wants to hide behind the EU. Nobody wants to make any individual decisions for the right reason, because they don't want to be targeted specifically by Russia. But the EU is a very complicated place because it requires a 28-country consensus. I think in the end the Russians, through their own behavior, will create the opportunity for us to enact more effective legislation. When people finally stop trying to appease Russia, the environment will be much more conducive for multilateral cooperation on combatting Russian human rights abuses.
When discussing Putin's seizure of assets, you have often emphasized the energy sector and trust agreements with oligarchs (which explains the $200 billion wealth figure), as major revenue sources. Considering the proliferation of Russian arms contracts to rogue regimes and around the world more generally, do you think that Putin has benefitted financially from defense deals as well? And if he has, to what extent has Putin's kleptocracy shaped Russian foreign policy?
Bill Browder: Absolutely. There is no question that he has benefitted. Putin is like a typical Mafia boss, with no interest in anything other than money. As for his concern for Russian strategic interests, he wouldn't sell arms to Ukraine, for example, but aside from that, he doesn't care about the national interests at all. He just cares about the money.
Bloomberg recently published a report marking the correlation between stock market prices in Russia and foreign policy decisions. Do you agree with their assessment that investments are having a significant impact on foreign policy decisions?
Bill Browder: No, even though I think a lot of Putin's money is held in companies that are trading on the market. Basically, he started by stealing as much money as he could. And now he is worried about being overthrown, so he started a war to distract people. His overriding concern now is just not being kicked out of power. Military policy has superseded the provision of economic growth as the main source of his legitimacy. He has stayed in power by creating a war and rallying people around the flag as a result.
Luke Harding has described Putin's Russia as a "Mafia State" and discusses the Boris Berezovsky case. Do you agree with the Mafia State description and what are your thoughts on Berezovsky's death?
Bill Browder: I completely agree with the idea that Putin's Russia is a Mafia State. With regards to Berezovsky, it looks very suspicious that a major Putin enemy somehow supposedly commits suicide and a very unusual suicide, without a note. All the questions that came up at the inquest, which was inconclusive, raise further doubts about whether he was killed or he killed himself.
How do you think Putin will handle the aftershocks of the Boris Nemtsov assassination? And if the Kremlin was involved in his assassination, why do you think that they handled Nemtsov differently from Alexei Navalny?
Bill Browder: Well, I think that Navalny has a lot more popular support than Nemtsov. They are really scared of Navalny, so they are more hesitant to be aggressive towards Navalny. With regards to the Nemtsov murder, Putin will find some patsies and convict them. We'll know they are not the real people, the people who ordered the hit. We'll never get to the bottom of it. Actually, this is not true. In Russia, there are so many crowd-sourcing and investigation materials now. He was killed in the open in the center of Moscow. I think in the end we will find out what happened and its not going to look good for the Kremlin. There is no way they can do an impartial investigation we need to do an international investigation. The OSCE or the Council of Europe can lead that investigation. Whether the Russians let them is another question.
Do you think Vladimir Putin has vetted a successor for the Russian presidency as he has pledged to resign from office in 2024? Do you think Mikhail Khodorkovsky could stage a political comeback?
Bill Browder: I think that Putin has sought to eliminate viable potential successors like Boris Nemtsov. Boris Nemtsov had very strong political aspirations, and you might think he didn't have a lot of popular support, but this stuff can change over night with the economic crisis going on in Russia. I think Mikhail Khodorkovsky has a chance of making a political return. He is a smart man. He has a lot of resources and has done his time. I don't think a Western liberal would be able to rise to power. There is a very low likelihood of oligarch coup, which is a scenario I am often asked about, as Putin retains control over maybe 30 or 70%, lets say 50%, of their assets through verbal trust agreements and the FSB power to arrest. The most likely successor would be a Navalny-type nationalist, in my view.
There is no way that Putin has designated a successor, by anointing a replacement he loses power. I do not think Putin is going to make it anywhere near 2024. I don't think the Russian people will keep him as president. I think Putin could be removed via a Maidan-type revolution, a palace coup, or by assassination. There are a million different things that could happen. For Putin, there is no life after Putin. I don't think he is going to leave the office alive.
Many scholars and analysts have described current hostilities between the West and Russia as a "new Cold War." Do you agree with this assessment?
Bill Browder: I think we are entering into a hot war right now, and that the best possible outcome is a Cold War. Russia is sending out bombers to violate our airspace. They have sent troops into Ukraine. They are killing people and violating treaties. They are doing everything possible to contribute to the most dangerous situation we have had in the past 50 years. We were lucky during the Cold War, because everybody knew where they stood. Right now, Putin is bluffing the whole world and saying he is ready to do anything and ready to go crazy. Nobody wants to engage with Putin, and since no one does, he can effectively do whatever he wants.
Do you envision further Russian military interventions and/or territorial annexations beyond Crimea and Ukraine?
Bill Browder: I think he absolutely will engage in further military campaigns. With regards to the Baltic States, many have claimed that these countries' status as EU and NATO members will deter Russian aggression but I think Putin is trying to show us that we have no deterrent. And even if we claim to have a deterrent, we will not act on it. He is seeking to divide and conquer wherever he can. He is working to create divisions within the EU and NATO in any possible way. He will continue to be obstructionist towards the West in every situation. Putin's power comes from causing trouble- he is a troublemaker.
We are all decent, consensus-driven and democratic people. We have to look to each other to make positions. But Putin doesn't so he can run circles around us. There will always be some kind of lowest common denominator that disagrees with being tough with him.
Since you believe that we are in a hot war with Russia right now, do you think Russia would risk a nuclear confrontation?
Bill Browder: I do not think that Putin will risk an open nuclear confrontation. But I think he could use nuclear weapons to make a point with somebody who doesn't have them, so they won't confront him. He will not even use them as a bargaining chip, if he does use them, he would like to convey the message that he is absolutely out of his mind. Imagine if he were to use one nuclear weapon in a country in Eastern Europe, a country that does not have NATO membership, our mouths will just be agasp. We would have no idea how to respond.
In order to contain the threat Russia poses, is it a good idea to provide lethal arms to Ukraine? Especially since that lethal aid might end up in the hands of oligarch-funded militias that the central government does not control?
Bill Browder: For sure, give the Ukrainians some equipment to go defend against Russia. Even if they end up in the hands of oligarchs, its better to have Ukrainian oligarchs fighting the Russians than nobody fighting the Russians. Putin's aim is to keep the war going as long as possible and he intends to invade other countries, so to keep him mired in Ukraine is preferable to him sweeping through Ukraine and then attacking the next place.
What is your opinion on the relationship between Putin and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych? Do you think Yanukovych will ever face justice at Interpol?
Bill Browder: I do not think that Putin will ever hand over Yanukovych. I think that if the Putin regime falls, that is the only way Yanukovych would ever face a trial. Putin and Yanukovych are similar in their motivations; Putin started this war because he saw Yanukovych being overthrown and realized that he needed to create a massive distraction quick or he would be overthrown as well.
What is your assessment of the current Russian economic crisis? Do you think the Russian economy can recover in the near future?
Bill Browder: I think the Russian economy is in a desperate state. If oil prices were to go up a lot, then its fine, it's a one-commodity economy and Russia is a one-commodity country. The destabilization of the Middle East through military intervention to manipulate oil prices is something the FSB might have as a strategic option. But at these oil prices, Putin is in a desperate situation. Putin cannot diversify the Russian economy even if he wanted to. Diversification takes twenty years; it's a long-term policy and it requires people to be willing to risk their capital. There will capital controls in place in Russia in the not too distant future. Nobody will invest a penny in that country. As for Russia's deals with China, the Chinese are just licking their lips to get cheap opportunities off of desperate seller. The Chinese are happy to buy Russian gas as long as its cheap and pretty much anything else that Russia offers at a discount.


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You can visit us safely whilst also bringing a little sparkle into your or someone else’s life by arranging a personalised visit to a studio that has many unique gifts on offer
Other Artists work being exhibited in our Open Studio include:
Viv Dykes, Artist (The Riverside Studio, Alnmouth),
Beth Davies, Hand Made felted essential oil soaps,
Myrna Smith, fused glass,
John Lawson, wood turning
You can choose your gift from either our work or several other local artisans.
Alternatively, you can view our and other local artists work on UniquEco Designs Facebook page to get inspiration.
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Based in Alnwick, Becky started creating her UniquEco Planters in 2012. Every stage of their creation is by hand giving each piece its own unique colours and character.
Due to other joint ventures Becky now only makes Planters for Alnmouth Arts Festival or for commissions.
Ivor has re-started his work with glass in late 2013 creating sun catchers, mirrors and other products.
Since early 2014 Becky and Ivor have combined their skills to create individual pieces of original art, wall hangings & Wishsticks & numerous other projects (see the Joint Ventures page).
In late 2019 Bethany, aged 15 years, started to make her own soaps. Beth creates soaps using the 'melt and pour' method, blending essential oils into the soap, with some soaps being felted (see Beths soaps page).
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Trajectories: 19th – 21st century printmaking from India and Pakistan" Curated by Camilla H. Chaudha
Exhibition Catalogue "Trajectories: 19th – 21st century printmaking from India and Pakistan" Curated by Camilla H. Chaudhary and Dr.Paula Sengupta.
This exhibition’s catalogue examines the history of printmaking from its commercial roots to the evolution of an independent artistic medium that, albeit using imported technology, eventually morphed from a Western-style aesthetic to one that represented indigenous narratives. The era preceding independence saw nationalistic pride pervade most practices. Post-independence saw many artists also dislocated and for some time struggling to establish their narratives
Over time, modernist manipulation of the medium led to the emergence of some brilliant artists in both countries who created bridges to post-modern narratives that dominate today. Contemporary practices are now concerned with using the technology to support their conceptual narratives, often with socio-political concerns or those dealing with personal issues. The narratives from both countries thus followed parallel trajectories, alternately similar and divergent.


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RESTORATION OF this small Incan city only began in the ’90s. The first visitors had to cross the Apurímac River via a rope bridge to reach it.
During a typical afternoon at Machu Picchu, you’ll be one among 2,500. At Choquequirao, you might see six or seven other visitors.
While the ruins currently sit under the radar, they won’t stay there forever. The regional government is investing $50 million into a cable car project that could get you to this site in 15 minutes intead of the current four-day trek. As early as 2016, there might be around 3,000 people visiting choquequirao per day. Consider yourself warned — get there now.
Choquequirao lies northwest of Cuzco, on the opposite side of snowy Mt. Salkantay from Machu Picchu. Access is via the highway to Abancay.
The trek has become standard fare among tour operators in Cuzco. Remember the general rule: the farther you wander from the main plaza, the less you’ll pay.
Of course, it’s possible to visit the ruins on your own. Knowing some Spanish is helpful, but the destination is popular enough now that most people will know what you’re doing and be able to help.
Hop an Abancay-bound bus and ask the driver to let you off at the turnoff to Cachora, just after the Saihuite archeological site. From there, flag down one of the frequent taxis that make the short journey to Cachora. There’s basic accommodation in the village if you need it.
From the plaza, follow the main road downhill, continuing after it turns to dirt. Soon, you’ll see a blue entrance sign pointing you towards the path to the ruins. There is also a tourist information centre located right at the start of the trek which makes it nearly much impossible to get lost.
Independent hikers will need to pay two different access fees along the trail, as it runs through Apurímac and Cuzco Departments. Don’t forget to bring some cash.
Come prepared — you’ll be experiencing vastly different elevations and ecosystems, so both bug repellant (there are a lot of tiny bugs that look like fruit flies, but bite and leave behind little blood blisters) and a warm sleeping bag are advisable.
This is no saunter down the Inca Trail.
From the village to the ruins and back, you’re looking at 74 km (46 miles). But it’s the elevation changes that really kill.
On the first day, the trail drops 1,800 meters (6,000 feet) to the floor of the Apurímac River valley, only to climb even higher on day 2. Then, you do the whole thing again when it’s time to leave.
Don’t let your guide — carefully trained in “exhausted-tourist encouragement” — fool you. This is tough stuff.
Most tours run 4 days/3 nights, but duration depends largely on your ability. Some people take 5 or even 6 days. I did mine in 3…barely. True speed demons (and the clinically insane) have been known to make the round trip in 2.
As with any tour in Peru, the more time you can spare, the more you’ll explore and discover. And in this case, the more your body will thank you when you’re done.
Speaking of sore bodies, a better option for independent trekkers than lugging a 30-40 lb. pack is to hire a mule in Cachora. This is how gear is hauled if you go with a guide. You can also hire an arriero (a muleteer) instead of a guide. They will help you on your way there and provide great insight on local life for a lot less money.
Campgrounds are plentiful near the river on the Cachora side, there are a few at varying heights on the mountain opposite, and at least one at Choquequirao itself. They charge a dollar or two per tent, per night.
The best is at Maranpata, at the end of day 2’s long, steep climb. The open views are tremendous, though this makes it a bit chillier.
For those who truly want to immerse themselves in the land of the Inca, you can turn this into a 9-day trek that ends in Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town). From Choquequirao, the trail drops and climbs a few more times, passing other minor archeological sites, old silver mines, hot springs, and coffee and banana plantations en route.
My guide told me the Choquequirao-Machu Picchu trek is incredibly strenuous, but he also called it the best trek in Peru. Only a couple hundred people do it each year. Compare that to the 2,500 descending on Machu Picchu every day, and you’ve got yourself some serious isolation.
Some ads claim that Choquequirao is “bigger than Machu Picchu,” but this refers to the mountain itself, not the ruins.
Choquequirao was a small city, about 20 families strong, and has nowhere near the number of structures as its famous sister.
However, because restoration began only recently, there’s likely much more still hidden by jungle.
Though your legs may be resisting at this point, make sure to follow the path that drops steeply on the far side of the ruins, which will lead you to a series of terraces. These original stone walls are decorated with white rocks that create the figures of llamas.
You won’t find these at Machu Picchu, or anywhere else for that matter.
But the real attraction of Choquequirao is simple: there’s no one there.
Apart from a few teams of restoration workers and one or two other small tourist groups, you’ll have the quiet, magnificent ruins all to yourself — almost as if you were discovering your own Machu Picchu.
This article was originally published on July 2nd, 2009.

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At first glance, Rich Hil looks like a weed smoking rocker covered in too many tattoos to even count, but once you dig deep, you'll find out that the son of American designer and fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger is quite a complex rapper.
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Photojournalist and Springfield native Mark Chester is the son of immigrants.
With family who immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus, he’s well aware of the multi-cultural fabric of our country.
It’s part of what inspired him to undertake a photographic look at Massachusetts’ newly naturalized citizens.
A display of over 30 framed black-and-white photos from his collection, “The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape-Photographs of New Americans,” is on exhibit this month at the Agawam Public Library.
The photos were taken at work or home, capturing glimpses into the lives of new citizens on their journey to the American dream. In the course of pursuing his project, Chester photographed more than 300 people who now reside in the commonwealth, including those living in Springfield from Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
The images capture a cardiologist at a veterans hospital, a doctor in an operating room, a tango instructor and a Taiwanese chef who had his citizenship documentation proudly framed in the restaurant, said Chester, a 1963 graduate of Classical High School.
“They are amazed and honored,” he said. “It was like I traveled all around the world without leaving the state. I was appreciative that people were responding positively about it and four years later I had enough photos to print.”
The flash of inspiration for the collection came to Chester in 1979, he said. He was on assignment, taking photos of Ellis Island off New York, once the nation’s busiest immigrant processing center to be used to illustrate an essay in Charles Kuralt’s book, “Dateline America.”
“I thought to myself, as first generation, with my family coming from Minsk, Belarus,” Chester said. “This is exactly the same way it was when the first wave of immigrants came to the United States.”
His curiosity and desire were sparked again while working at the San Francisco Examiner on an assignment about the sister cities of Shanghai and San Francisco.
“On that assignment, I took photos of the vice mayor of Shanghai and our mayor,” he said.
Chester traveled to the China in 1987 to document everyday life, later publishing the collection “Shanghai: In Black and White.”
His notion to focus on immigrant stories emerged once more after moving to Cape Cod in 2011, when he was reading a story in The Boston Globe, Chester said. In the article, former Gov. Deval Patrick was quoted speaking about the enrichment and impact the immigrant population has had on the commonwealth.
“I was curious to know the various nationalities, and I began looking at the 2010 Census,” Chester said.
His Bay State project is modeled after his earlier “Shanghai: In Black and White.”
Chester worked to meet and photograph people from the 180 countries that are represented in Massachusetts. He attended naturalization ceremonies, including events at federal courthouses in Springfield, Fitchburg and Boston.
He also collaborated with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to connect with people from the pool of new citizens.
“I have met families from Russia,” Chester said. “Of all 54 countries in Africa, I have met someone from 53 countries. … It felt good meeting all of them.”
The Mark Chester Diversity Project soon became a nonprofit with sponsorship by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, which Chester said, legitimized and gave the project creditability.
“These powerful photographs create a visual archive that celebrates the broad diversity of Massachusetts citizens,” the Agawam library said in an announcement of the exhibition. “The photographs of these new Americans enrich the viewer by sharing the vast cultural resources and rich ethnic heritage of the bay state’s 351 towns and cities.”
The collection was first shown in Waltham and has since moved on to over 100 venues, art spaces and courthouses across the state. It is on display during regular library hours Mondays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Sunderland Public Library also has a current exhibition of some of Chester’s works.
From September through December, the display will move about various locations including the Emily Williston Memorial Library in Easthampton. In addition, a selection of over 50 photographs is in the collection of the Springfield Museums.
Chester’s plans include printing copies to donate to all 351 main libraries and their branches at no cost.


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The Internal Revenue Service issued its final ruling Wednesday for the medical device tax that is set to go into effect Jan. 1.
That means manufacturers and importers will be required to pay a tax on sales for medical device equipment “intended for humans,” excluding over-the-counter items such as eyeglasses, contacts and hearing aids. Manufacturers and importers of these devices will owe their first bill to the federal government by April 30, 2013, for the months of January, February and March.
The 2.3 percent tax hike is part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), and many within the medical device industry were hoping to repeal the tax, claiming that it would cause job losses.
“This final rule does nothing to prevent the loss of jobs and innovation that has already occurred as a result of the medical device tax, and will unfortunately continue if we do not repeal this bad policy,” Mark Leahey, President and CEO of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, said in a statement.
In September, Steve Hanley, chief executive of MediBeacon, a company that develops devices to monitor kidney function, said the tax would cause his company to reevaluate how it prices products. Ron Borgschulte, owner of St. Louis-based Partners in Medicine, imports medical devices from overseas and says this tax will cause him to shift the cost onto customers.
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Shivani Chaturvedi | May 23, 2016
KR Meera is a Malayali novelist. After working as a journalist for years, she embarked on writing fiction and published her first collection of short stories Ormayude Njarambu in 2002. She is the winner of Vayalar Rama Varma Award, the most prestigious literary award in Kerala, and also of Kerala Sahitya Akademi for her story, Ave Maria, in 2009. Since then she has published five short stories collections, two novellas, five novels, two books for children and has written several essays. Her 2012 novel Aarachaar [published in English as Hangwoman] is considered among the best literary works produced in Malayalam. She has also written screenplays for TV serials and films.
Book I am reading now: My name is Radha by Saadat Hasan Manto.
My favourite book is: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The idea of picking up one book as favourite has no meaning when there are several books that have marked every turning point in my life. But on being asked about one favourite book I prefer naming this one by Marquez because no other book has given me the creative vibe like that. After years, I wrote a short story Noor Years of Solitude (Ekaanthathayude Noor Varshangal) to express what I owe to that book.
Biggest influence in my life: My mother.
Experiences while writing my first book: My first story was published in the Mathrubhumi Weekly in 2001. After publishing three more stories I got a call from DC Books, informing me that they were bringing out 10 debut books and I was also featuring in the list. Unsure of whether I was ready to confront the readers with a book, I finished three more stories and brought out the book excitedly in 2002. It won four important literary awards.
On my recent book, Sooryane Aninja Oru Stree: The book tells a story of the conflict between a woman, her body, family, the church and the law. The title is from Woman Clothed in Sun in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. I conceived the idea of the title while travelling as a pillion rider on a two-wheeler, when I saw a board by a prayer group informing that the topic of their next convention will be Woman Clothed in Sun.
If I were not a writer, I would be: I was a journalist.
My passion other than writing: There is no other passion than writing, but I enjoy watching films.
My favourite quote: “The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead,” by Kahlil Gibran.
My most prized possession: I don’t possess anything or anyone. I value my solitude the most.
I would like to be remembered as: Let people remember my stories instead.
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