With freezing temperatures on the way, there is an appeal to help those most in need.
Acadiana's first freeze could come over the weekend, in the days that follow expect more freezes and perhaps an ice storm.
The Acadiana Regional Coalition for Homelessness and Housing expects about 300 families and individuals will need housing over the next few days. Because of the pandemic, group shelters aren't an option.
ARCH is looking at thousands of dollars to put them up in hotels, but they can't do it alone.
"It is unacceptable for folks to be outside in this freezing cold. It's dangerous temperatures.”
ARCH director Leigh Rachal says they're working to make sure those most vulnerable have a place to stay.
"We've been putting this appeal out all winter and the community has responded but fundraising has kept up with the costs," Rachal explained. "We're going into this week needing to raise the funds for this week. We're turning to the community again to say, 'Can you help us get folks inside for this next cold snap?'"
In a Facebook post Lafayette Police Chief Thomas Glover says he's working to address the homeless population in Acadiana. Although he hasn't revealed what that plan will entail, he's made contact with ARCH.
"Homelessness in itself is a complex issue. It takes government, for profit, nonprofit, faith communities, everybody working together to solve it. I'm really grateful the police chief is willing to engage in these conversations and to work with us."
Through their winter housing program, homeless people can stay in a hotel room overnight. Although the community has offered help, Rachal says more is needed.
"These are people who've lived in our community for years who have hit rough times and we will not see them in this cold weather. We're determined to get it done and just need the community."
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DC Shoes has released the fourth episode of the famous Gymkhana series. Ken Block once again blown several sets of tires in a staggering way.
The specially prepared Ford Fiesta took a course onto the Universal Studios back lot, where the crew had five days to shoot. The director is Ben Conrad (Zombieland and 30 Seconds or Less).
As you may suggest, this fourth episode is a sensation as the first three it has been watched more than 100 000 times for a single day. Still, the first three parts have been watched over 110 million times.
There are a lot of interesting moments in the video clip as well as a great number of stunts, which are extremely dangerous even for such prepared driver and car. So, do not try this at home and enjoy watching the adrenaline junky – Mr. Block.
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Editorial: Those who shall not be named
Earlier this month, citizens were left aghast following the report of a trafficking incident in North Chennai, involving a 13-year-old, who was peddled by her kin and pushed into flesh trade.
The child who was repeatedly assaulted by as many as 10 men every day, was ‘managed’ by different brokers who earned lakhs by putting her up to this job. Eight persons have been arrested in connection with this case. But the incident is just one of the many instances of trafficking, carried out across the state.
Just last week, a 16-year-old, the daughter of a daily wage earner in Madurantakam, was kidnapped by a three-member team who forced her into the trade. Following the father’s complaint, the police rescued the minor from Madurai. Similarly, last month, Kanathur police raided two resorts in Panaiyur and Kovalam, rescued eight women and arrested six men running a prostitution racket. Here, it was the resort owner who brought the women into the city with the promise of jobs and later pushed them into commercial sex work.
In various districts of Tamil Nadu, trafficking of women has turned into a major spinner of illicit gains. In August, 19 pimps were arrested in Thanjavur, while their victims, nine women were rescued from houses masquerading as massage parlours. The developments are a cause for concern as law enforcement veterans have cited a surge in the number of minors being pushed into such syndicates.
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development recently came out with a study called Commercial Sexual Exploitation in India, which pegged the number of sex workers in India to 3 mn. Out of these, 35.47% had entered the trade before they turned 18. The report offered damning statistics on the number of minors involved in such work - 1.2 mn children. Also, between 1997 and 2004, a 50 per cent spike in prostitution was reported in India.
Tamil Nadu’s reputation as a hub of human trafficking was cemented five years ago when the state reported the third-highest number of incidents of human trafficking with 577 cases in 2015. The year witnessed 511 cases registered under provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, of which 351 were filed under Section 5, pertaining to procuring, inducing and pushing a person into prostitution.
The numbers paint a tragic picture and there are no easy answers in matters concerning the world’s oldest profession. Members of civil society and NGOs present arguments for the legalisation of the trade, and creation of a legal framework that would recognise the rights of commercial sex workers and protect minors from exploitation. But regulation might be a far cry for a profession that has little to do with consensual employment. In Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh, there are women from tribal communities living in slums, who have been ravaged by decades of drought and economically crippled by the ban on arrack. These ladies have taken to commercial sex work to make ends meet. It is one of the reminders that a very minuscule percentage of people enter the profession by choice.
So where does the conversation regarding such a problem begin? In 2010, about 76 children from Assam and Manipur, were rescued from ‘homes’ operated by missionaries in TN. Taking cognisance of this incident, the Supreme Court that year, passed an order which banned sending out children below the age of 12 years or those in primary schools to other states to pursue education. A decade since, trafficking continues unabated. Stronger punishments and imprisonment aren’t the sole solutions. The absence of a financial and social safety net that pushes millions towards penury, is one of the factors that need redressal. There is also a need for open, objective-centric discussion in civil society, on how commercial sex workers must be accounted for in the national scheme of things. Treating the issue as a taboo subject matter is not an option any longer.

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Since gaining a first class degree in Artist Blacksmithing from Hereford College of Arts, Frederick has specialised in handcrafting a range of kinetic, sound and garden sculpture using traditional blacksmithing techniques in combination with contemporary fabrication and design.
Frederick recently established his own forge and workshop in Herefordshire, where he teaches classes in welding and forging, takes private commissions and continues to create his own sculpture.
Recent exhibitions include Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden (Surrey), Cotswold Sculpture Park (Gloucestershire), Canwood Gallery (Herefordshire), Borde Hill Sculpture Garden (West Sussex), Llantharnam Grange Gallery (Cwmbran), Doddington Hall Sculpture Show (Lincoln), Fresh Air Sculpture Show (Cotswolds), Found Gallery (Brecon), Biennial show of Blacksmithing Art (Italy).
‘Balance’ is a hand-forged kinetic sculpture that explores the interplay between balance and geometry. The central three components balance upon one another and are able to spin on a central axis, either propelled by hand or by the wind. In turn, these movements and realignments can alter the ‘balance’ of the composition.
Crafted from steel with a galvanised finish, the sculpture uses a combination of traditional blacksmithing methods and contemporary fabrication techniques. It is engineered to withstand standard UK weather conditions, working well as both an outdoor and an indoor sculpture.
‘Aeolus’ is a series of sound sculptures that are played by the wind. The sculpture’s sound is created when the wind blows across the strings, agitating them and creating a series of harmonic tones.
Based upon the concept of the Aeolian Harp, which originated in Ancient Greece, the Aeolus sculptures are designed as tools for reflection and are intended to be used as a medium for the audience to connect to nature and their environment.
The instruments are hand forged, using traditional blacksmithing methods in combination with contemporary fabrication. They are accompanied by a hand forged steel ‘slide’ to play up and down the strings, allowing the user to play the instrument together with the wind.
The sculpture also comes with two stands, as seen in the photos. One hand forged sculptural stand to hold the sculpture upright. The other is a series of pegs that sit on the ground, holding the sculpture horizontally for ideal playing conditions in the wind.

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Xbox 720 – will it be revealed in 2011? Only Microsoft knows. But speculation has mounted since the start of the year that the platform holder is planning something big – we've rounded up the biggest rumours to help you make up your own mind.
– Microsoft has continually stated that it expects the Xbox 360 to have a decade-long life-span, which, if true will see it last until 2015. That's not to say it couldn't have some sort of overlapping lifespan much like the PS2 and PS3. M2 Research's Billy Pidgeon told NowGamer he expects the next Xbox to arrive at the end of 2014 at the earliest.
– Microsoft recently advertised positions on its console hardware development team, including someone to work on graphics architecture. According to the ad, the team is responsible for defining and delivering next generation console architectures from conception through implementation.
– Square Enix is ramping up for the next generation of console hardware, with a new studio set to develop for future consoles opening next year.
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The era of the four-day political convention is drawing to a close.
Even before Tropical Storm Isaac forced the GOP to cancel the first day of the Republican National Convention, political operatives on both sides of the aisle were questioning the usefulness of locking down an entire city for a weeklong meeting that could be accomplished in a weekend.
In fact, on Friday, the Republican National Convention Rules Committee voted to appoint a commission to study the financing, operations, and future of political conventions—and report back by the spring of 2014, said former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan.
He said that it takes about $120 million to put on the show, including $18 million in federal funding, $50 million in federal security money, and $55 million from the host committee.
Meanwhile, each of the three TV networks will air about three hours of prime-time coverage for each convention, down from four hours in 2008. NBC won’t broadcast anything from Charlotte on Sept. 5, opting instead to air the first game of the NFL season (the network will make up the time on Thursday).
To adjust to the truncated media coverage and the cost of hosting such a huge production, Republicans are considering alternatives that might include multiple sites in different cities, with each site hosting one night of the festivities. “I don’t think we’re wed to four days forever. The Democrats didn’t do four days this time, and we didn’t really do four days in Minneapolis,” Duncan said. “It’s certainly conceivable to do this in a shorter period of time.”
Under Duncan’s watch in 2008, the GOP shortened its convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul after Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Gulf Coast. This year, Democrats have shortened their Charlotte confab to three days.
“The conventions are so played out. In this electronic media world … you could do this in a day,” Alex Vogel, a senior-RNC-official-turned lobbyist, said. “I really question the long-term durability of a three- or four-day convention—and whether, from a messaging standpoint, it even matters.”
That’s especially true in this cycle. The conventions used to be where the country met the candidates, but after countless Republican primary debates and millions of dollars spent on advertising, most Americans are already familiar with Mitt Romney’s story and message. And the country has had more than four years to get to know President Obama, whose team has been aggressively campaigning for over a year.
And then, of course, there’s the nonstop online and cable-news coverage and the ceaseless chattering of the Twitterverse, which has created an environment of political perma-coverage that keeps campaign news front and center.
“The first day [of the convention] is really the equivalent of a political appendix,” said Democratic consultant Chris Lehane. “Does it have an impact on the campaign or the election? No.”
Of course, host cities’ desire to keep folks in town for as long as possible and the convention’s four days of unfiltered messaging are strong arguments against shortening the events.
But some traditions certainly could be cut to save time. Lehane, for one, questioned the practice of having dozens of speakers who aren’t covered on TV—unless they go off-message.
With Congress mulling a cut to the conventions’ public funding and a shrinking pool of cities that can raise the millions needed to host the events, it seems inevitable that the parties will have to rethink.
“It could happen as quickly as the next convention,” Lehane said.
This article appears in the August 27, 2012 edition of NJ Convention Daily.

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One reason that Bill de Blasio has moved from so-called broken windows or quality of life policing to sloganeering about neighborhood policing and a de facto policy of not-so-benign neglect is that providing real support to people before there’s a call or need for police intervention is arduous and expensive, while talk is still cheap.
Another reason is that he doesn’t have control of his own police department, whose members haven’t been shy about rubbing his nose in that fact even as they’ve become increasingly shy about doing the job asked of them and shootings in recent months have more than doubled from the same stretch just a year earlier. You don’t like what we do? Duck!
If there’s an embodiment of policing as a protection racket in New York City, it’s Ed Mullins, the vulgar, Trumpist head of the sergeants union who’s been at war with the mayor since 2014.
This May, Mullins called the city’s health commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, a “bitch”— and the mayor made her apologize to the police. That was after someone leaked an exchange weeks earlier in which the NYPD’s Chief of Department, Terence Monahan, tried to commandeer Health Department N95 masks when medical workers on the front lines of the fight against the virus were desperately short on them and she told him “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops.”
Monahan has heard and said worse, and the NYPD got 250,000 masks, but that didn’t stop Mullins from declaring that “Truth is this bitch has blood on her hands but why should anyone be surprised the NYPD has suffered under DeBlasio since he became Mayor.” (Barbot resigned in August, joining the list of women of color de Blasio has thrown under the bus.)
The grim punchline is that the city is full of cops — who have been charged by the mayor and governor at different points with enforcing mask-wearing compliance — not wearing masks, with the NYPD’s own Twitter account routinely sharing photos of groups of unmasked officers.
De Blasio says “the reality is it’s a very clear standard. We need to protect each other and everyone’s expected to do it.” If only that was New York City’s reality. But in fact, the NYPD has long been deeply suspicious of civilian oversight, let alone leadership.
Just try to imagine teachers or any other group of government workers simply ignoring the rules this way. For the NYPD, which has barricaded most of the 22 blocks with precincts in Manhattan for months now while brushing off questions from elected officials about that “siege mentality,” it’s routine. (De Blasio has routinely dodged questions about this, too.)
A few weeks after attacking Barbot, Mullins posted the police report of the mayor’s daughter after she was arrested at a protest, and without even removing her personal information from it. De Blasio called that doxxing “unconscionable,” but did nothing.
One pol who did do something is City Councilman and Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres, who last week asked the Civilian Complaint Review Board to investigate Mullins for calling him a “first-class whore” after the lawmaker called for a probe into the apparent NYPD slowdown. That abusive language investigation shouldn’t take long, but whatever the CCRB finds goes to the police commissioner to make the final disciplinary decision. I won’t hold my breath.
Torres called Mullins a “relic of the past” and de Blasio regularly insists that the unions don’t represent the police department or the city, but like William Faulkner wrote, “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
This mayor has made his bed and he’ll be napping in it for another 16 months. As Bill Bratton, de Blasio’s first police commissioner, put it this week: “Failure to successfully address crime AND quality-of-life issues in the early nineties cost Mayor David Dinkins his second term and diminished the reputation of his mayoralty. Déjà vu, all over again.”
The next mayor is going to have to decide if he or she runs the police, or if the police run him or her.


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The invectives against Tizian after the attacks at the hearing against Giacalone and those of 2008 against Capacchione and Saviano require stronger institutional positions
Friday, May 16th, in Bologna, during a hearing at the Tribunal, Mr Nicola Femia, accused of mafia association and detained for 14 months, has railed threateningly against judges and journalists. He said that it was not fair to blame him, but rather it should be the journalist who deserves to be punished, for it was him and his news articles to have put him in trouble with the judiciary.
The judge took his word before he could pronounce the name of Giovanni Tizian, the journalist who since December 2011 has been living under police protection following the interception of a telephone conversation during which the same Femia and an entrepreneur planned to shoot him in the mouth and putting an end to his exclusive investigations, which disturbed the video poker racket. Because of those threats, Tizian stands as a witness and defendant.
The outrageous behaviour of the accused, because of its intimidating importance, has raised alarm and concern and made it necessary to further strengthen the security measures for Giovanni Tizian. There have been claims of solidarity with the journalist. But the episode has not sparked the civil mobilization which so arrogant and unacceptable a public proclamation of hostility towards the civil function of journalism deserves. A journalism that in Italy is the subject of intense and continuous hostile campaigns that are under the eyes of all, and which the Observatory on Information of Ossigeno has been documenting.
It is not the first time that people linked to the Mafia in Italy claim to use the place where the justice according to the laws of the State is celebrated as a platform from which to issue threats and condemnations against journalists who have the courage to recount facts that disturb the clans’ business.
It had happened in Trapani, on March 7th, 2013 at the trial for the murder of the journalist Mr Mauro Rostagno, with the absurd request to the Court, by a defender of those standing accused of murder, to censor the news reports of Mr Rino Giacalone. Another dramatic episode occurred in 2008, in Naples, during the Spartacus trial against the leaders of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra, where the targets were the journalist Ms Rosaria Capacchione and the journalist-writer Mr Roberto Saviano, who were also targeted because of their reports. It has happened many other times.
Fortunately, the judges and the police are doing their part. But the civil society, politics, the institutions, the world of journalism, what are they doing while facing the repetition of these facts? They do very little. They should do more, they should have a more active role in the defence before the public opinion, the sense of justice and the role of journalism, explaining that this role for democracy, exercised free from threats and constraints, is irreplaceable.


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How to choose diamond for diamond segment
Publish Date:2021-02-03In the production process of diamond segments, diamond is an extremely important raw material. When selecting it, there are five aspects that need to be paid attention to. Let's take a look:
1: Diamond grit
Diamond grit is also called diamond particle size. Choosing an appropriate grit is the key to ensuring tool performance. The exposure or protrusion height of the diamond on the cutting surface of the diamond segment will affect the cutting depth of each diamond particle. Generally, coarse particles are used for cutting soft materials, while smaller particles are used for cutting tough materials. Therefore, when cutting hard granite, choose diamond with a smaller particle size and higher hardness, and when cutting marble, choosing diamond with a larger particle size and moderate hardness is a better choice.
2: Diamond concentration
The diamond concentration determines the number of diamonds on the cutting surface of the diamond segment. The higher the diamond concentration, the greater the number of diamonds on the surface of the cutting tool, which is beneficial to improve the life. But it is not that the higher the concentration, the better. If the concentration is too high, the surface bonding agent of the segment becomes less, and the structure of the segment becomes weak, which leads to a shorter life. Therefore, to select the appropriate diamond concentration, it is best to find the critical point of the diamond concentration in the segment.
3: Diamond shape
When diamond is under heavy load, the most suitable product is to choose very strong and complete cubic-octahedral diamond. This kind of diamond has the smallest contact surface during the working process and the strongest resistance to breakage, thus reducing equipment power consumption and extending tool life. However, octahedral diamond is not suitable for all. For softer stone, diamond with a weak structure is easier to open, which is convenient for fast cutting.
4: Diamond impurities
Impurities are foreign substances that are wrapped in diamond during growth. The impurities in the diamond not only affect the quality of the diamond during sintering, but also affect the load that the diamond can withstand during cutting. The more diamond impurity in the diamond segment, the more unstable the material will be. On the contrary, the stability of the diamond segment will be higher. Therefore, good diamond segment choose diamonds with less impurities.
5: Impact strength (diamond hardness)
The impact strength is affected by the characteristics of crystal shape, particle size and impurities. When selecting diamond, it is necessary to comprehensively consider the design of the tool, the performance of the bond, the performance of the workpiece material, the power of the machine, the required cutting efficiency and the life, etc. to select the diamond with the appropriate impact strength. The hardness of the diamond in the diamond segment is the core part of the cutting material. The diamond with insufficient strength will be crushed when it is hard and lose the ability to cut. On the contrary, the segment with too hard and not easy to break is easy to be ground. On the contrary, it can not play the role of cutting and grinding stone, which causes the segment to become blunt and increase energy consumption.
Therefore, the selection of diamond in the diamond segment is very particular, and it needs to be determined according to the hardness, wear resistance, and density of the cutting object.
The control ratio of the metal content in the diamond segment bond
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Selection of diamond powder for diamond segment
During the diamond segment working process, the role of diamond powder crystals is very important, especially in the cutting process, a good crystal can be very good in anti-breakage ability, reduce the power consumption of the equipment, and extend the life of the cutting....
Arrayed diamond segment and the saw blade
In traditional diamond segment products, the diamond powder in the segment is arranged in disorder. During the cutting process, the exposed diamond will impact the stone surface at various angles, and the exposed height of the diamond will vary. As a result, the diamond is not evenly stressed, and diamonds with high exposure are prone to fracture. In order to improve this situation and make the diamond distribution more uniform, arrayed segments have emerged. Weld the arrayed segment on the blade steel body to be an arrayed saw blade....
Commonly used bond for diamond segment
There are four commonly used bonds for diamond segment. These four bonds are matched with different diamond powders according to different materials to make diamond segments for different purposes. Each bond has its advantages and disadvantages. In the process of designing the diamond segment, we must take advantage and reinforce its shortcomings. This is the charm of diamond segment production and design....
Common problems and treatment methods of diamond segment
Diamond segment is a non-standard industry in modern industry. The instability of product quality is the most common problem. The following are some of the most prone problems and related solutions in producing diamond segments. Through these instructions, Let everyone better understand the details of diamond segments production process....
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In a long open letter addressed to his “detractors and haters” and “those who try to undermine radical economic transformation as the official economic policy program of the ANC”, former ANC national executive committee member Carl Niehaus has reflected on his political history in the struggle and accused numerous white businesspeople of being the “real state capturers”.
Niehaus was the unofficial spokesman for Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s ultimately unsuccessful bid to become president of the ruling party in 2017. He has also often been seen supporting former president Jacob Zuma at court during Zuma’s many appearances on corruption charges, mostly in Pietermaritzburg.
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OPEN LETTER BY CARL NIEHAUS TO MY DETRACTORS AND HATERS, AND THOSE WHO TRY TO UNDERMINE RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION (RET) AS THE OFFICIAL ECONOMIC POLICY PROGRAM OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
The day when I was found guilty of High Treason, and sentenced to fifteen years of political imprisonment, because of my membership of the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), I turned to the public gallery in the Johannesburg High Court, raised my fist and shouted “Amandla!”. Before the security police pushed me down the stairs to the holding cells, the crowd in the public gallery responded “Awethu!”.
Yes, Power to the People!, is the best description of the cause that I have, together with my fellow ANC comrades, dedicated our lives to. For me that commitment started in 1975, when as a 16 year old teenager I was offered a large empty oil tin to sit on by an elderly gentleman, who could have been my grandfather. It was the only available seat in the overcrowded, dark and dingy room in the mine workers hostel that I had entered as part of a group of young white teenagers, who had come to do so-called ‘missionary work’ in Soweto.
Thinking about the arrogance of what we were doing, still to this day, make me cringe. White kids thinking they could preach to older people, who could have been our parents and grandparents – just because they were black. The patronizing arrogance, which was nothing less than blatant racism, screamed to the heavens!
My personal journey of coming to realize this, started when the elderly man offered me the tin he was sitting on, and himself crouched down on the bare cement floor. As I sat down on that tin my face burned with embarrassment and shame. When I look back over the more than four and half decades that passed since that, for me, fateful Sunday morning, I see how through that humble gesture the elderly gentleman, whose name I never got to know, became the ‘missionary’ to me, and I his convert.
The life journey that started for me on that day, is certainly not yet completed. The early part of it took me to Alexandra township where I joined the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa of the Reverend Sam Buti and Dr. Beyers Naudé, after I resigned for the all-white Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk), in protest to exactly the kind of racism that earlier brought me, as such a misguided youngster, into the hostel in Soweto.
Going to church every Sunday in Alexandra, I was confronted with the Group Areas Act that made it illegal for me as a white person to enter a black township without a so-called ‘permit’. By then I understood enough about the scourge of racism, and how it was institutionalized into apartheid, that it was anathema to me to apply for such a permit. Every Sunday I was either arrested on my way to church, or if I was lucky and managed to get to church, I was arrested as I left. The cells in the Bramley police station, just outside Alexandra, became my regular Sunday afternoon and evening ‘residence’.
One experience led to another, and in 1979 I had reached the point where I realized, that if I had to be honest with myself about my abhorrence of apartheid, I had to join the African National Congress and the People’s Liberation Army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). I
realized that I could not just talk about my opposition to apartheid, I had to fight it whole heartedly and without reserve. With the assistance of Dr. Beyers Naudé, I crossed the border to Botswana and joined the ANC and MK. After several more border crossings, and crash courses about how to assemble and use an AK47, and to prime limpet mines, I operated in the underground structures inside the country. The comrades that I worked mainly with in Alex were, among others, Obed Bapela, Vincent Tshabalala, Connie Bapela, Dipuo Mvelase, Paul Mashatile, Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, and the Reverend Frikkie Conradie. Among various activities we identified targets, established arm caches and carried out a couple of bombings of police stations. I also helped to provide safe houses, and other infrastructure for MK liberation fighters who entered the country to carry out military operations against the apartheid regime.
As I got more and more involved, the personal price that I paid became heavier. My father chased me out of the family home, and declared that he no longer had a son, and that I was in fact dead to him. The rest of my family, and almost all whites, and most of my white friends rejected me. I was expelled from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), and soon found myself jobless, without any income. I was totally ostracized by white South African society, and lost the advantages and privileges that apartheid so abundantly provided to whites, at the cost of black people.
However, I did not regret it, these were conscious choices that I made, and although one does not always realize what the demands and sacrifices will be when you embark on such a journey, I accepted the challenges and deprivations that I had to face with a deep gratitude that my fellow black South Africans afforded me the opportunity to be, in my own small way, part of this great human endeavour of courage and fortitude to fight the evil of apartheid. The one thing that I will always be immensely proud of – up to my dying day – is that I could be part of the liberation struggle against the evil apartheid system, which was nothing less than a crime against humanity.
My whole life was challenged and changed by these decisions that I took, and the consequences they had. Eventually in 1983 I was arrested together with fellow comrades, including my then fiancé, Jansie Lourens, and comrade Obed Bapela. We were kept in solitary confinement in detention in the notorious John Vorster Square, and subjected to intensive interrogation and severe torture for several months. This culminated in being charged with so-called ‘High Treason’, I was found guilty and given a fifteen year prison sentence.
This is a short summary, with some of the most important experiences, of what led me to find myself eventually in that court room at the Johannesburg High Court, punching the air defiantly with my clenched fist as I was descending into the belly of the prison beast, from which I was only to emerge after ten years, when the ANC was eventually unbanned, and the negotiations for a democratic South Africa commenced.
There is much more to tell, which cannot go into this short letter, and it will have to wait until I publish my long postponed second autobiography, titled: “Beyond the Pale”, in November this year (2020). In that book I will write about all of this in more detail. I will tell about the incredible Helen Joseph, and how through her I met uMama Winnie Madikezela-Mandela, and the massive influence that the Mother of our Nation had on my life; and how I continue to understand the challenges for full economic liberation, that we are still facing now. I was fortunate to sit at the feet of these great revolutionaries and learn the history of the ANC, and the struggles of our people not only from books, but directly from their lips, and the living examples of courage and dedication that their lives were. I will also tell about my friend and comrade Vincent Tshabalala, how I helped him and others to cross the South African border to join MK, and to go for military training, and how when I was already in prison he returned to South Africa on an MK mission, and was betrayed and killed close to his family home in Alexandra.
In that autobiography, I will also talk about people like comrades Frikkie Conradie, Jessie Duarte, Paul Mashatile, and many more – all of whom I have now know for well over thirty five years. The book will be no holds barred, especially about my experiences – good and bad bad – with all my comrades.
For more than five years I have now been holding back to publish this book, which will also deal with the terrible slander and character assassination, that I have personally been subjected to. I held back out of concern that I do not want to damage and destroy other people’s lives, no matter how much callousness they have shown, and the pain they have inflicted on me.
However, the more recent baseless – and racially defined – attacks that some of the very same so-called ‘comrades’, and their cohorts, have launched on me for doing nothing wrong, but only defending and promoting Radical Economic Transformation (RET), which is the official economic policy program of the ANC, liberated me from that concern. The time had come to publish, to call them out, and to expose them for the charlatans that they are.
Concern for the poor, and the empowerment of the black (especially African) poor, to escape from the consequences of colonialism and its direct derivative, White Monopoly Capitalism (WMC), was since the ANC was formed in 1912, at the revolutionary heart of our Movement. The day the ANC ceases to be a pro-poor revolutionary Movement, that strives to empower the majority of black (and specifically African) poor to liberate themselves from the race-based poverty that was engineered by apartheid, it will loose it’s very purpose and reason d’être.
It is with pain and deep sadness that I too often now feel that I find myself back in a court again, but as I now turn to the proverbial public gallery I am far too often faced with attacks, and having vitriol and abused thrown at me. After having walked the long road of struggle and sacrifice that I faced over the past, more than forty years, there sadly seem to be still those in the public gallery of our beloved country, South Africa, who see someone like me as nothing more than just another white man. It seems that what I – in my own humble way – have dedicated my life to, and sacrificed in our liberation struggle, mean nothing to them.
There are those for whom, when it suited them, I was part of the liberation struggle, and they cheered me along. However, now that I – together with many other fellow black (and especially African) South Africans – insist that the struggle that we have fought for has not ended, and will never end until black South Africans have also secured their own full economic liberation and empowerment, I have become a scourge to them. An apparent ‘enemy’, and it seems that I must at all cost be defamed and destroyed.
I ask myself by what perverse turn of logic has the return of the land to its rightful owners (the people from whom it had been stolen by the white colonists), become controversial, and even objectionable, for some comrades in the ANC? Have they forgotten that at the very heart of our liberation struggle was always the critical matter of the stolen land, that had to be returned to its rightful owners?!
Furthermore, have we forgotten the callous response of the white colonial racist government to the formation of the ANC when they ‘legitimized’ their wanton theft of the land, and actually stole even more, when they institutionalized that theft in the 1913 Land Act?
Since when is it ‘factional’ to recall these historical facts? Since when has the derivative of white colonialism, as it morphed itself into White Monopoly Capitalism (WMC), now become unrecognizable to some so-called comrades in the ANC? Why are there now those who want to say that the concept of WMC is not part of the ANC’s lexicon, and make ridiculous claims to the effect it was developed by a British PR firm, with the name of Bell Pottinger, while they know very well that the term White Monopoly Capital had been used in the ANC and SACP since the 1940’s. Similarly they try to discredit the concept of Radical Economic Transformation (RET), as having been coined by the same Bell Pottinger, in order to defend the Gupta family.
Both White Monopoly Capital (WMC) and Radical Economic Transformation (RET) have been the standard and critical analytical tools of the ANC for many decades, in order to analyze and understand the brutal white colonial exploitation that had been internalized and domesticated, to become White Monopoly Capital. It was the insights delivered by these analytical instruments that assisted the ANC and the SACP to understand our socio-economic situation as colonialism of a special type, and to appreciate that apartheid was not only racist, but first and foremost a racially defined system of economic exploitation.
This is how I understand these critical concepts, and that is how I have used them throughout my long political career. I have never engaged with anyone coming from Bell Pottinger, a reactionary British PR company who promoted the rightwing racist Margaret Thatcher, and also worked for Johann Rupert. As far as I am concerned they should never have been touched by as much as a barge poll. That the Guptas tried to defend themselves by cynically abusing these two critical revolution analytical concepts on the advice of Bell Pottinger, for their own purposes, I have always found deplorable. In the process they damaged important revolutionary analytical conceptual tools, and this should never have happened. Those comrades who cooperated with them to do so, should actually be ashamed of themselves.
It should also be said that uncouth, and ham-fisted, as the Guptas are, they were never the real state capturers. They were merely a spaza shop compared to the real grand-scale white state capturers, since the earliest days of colonialism. We continue to be captured by the likes of the Ruperts, the Oppenheimers, the Christo Wieses, the Stephen Kosseffs, the Brian Joffes, the Koos Bekkers, the Stellenbosch mafia, and their companies Anglo American, Bidvest, Nasionale Pers, Investec, the big banks and insurance companies etc. It is not necessary to provide a comprehensive list, they and their strangle-hold grip on our economy, are well-known and glaringly visible for all who want to see the truth.
These are the real state capturers, and must we ask ourselves why they are not appearing in front of Deputy Chief Justice Zondo at the Commission of Enquiry into State Capture? The Zondo Commission is in danger of becoming a diversion from, and cover-up, for exposing those who are the real state captures, and white monopoly owners, of our South African economy.
Let me be clear: I have never held any brief for the Guptas at all. I have made it a deliberate effort to avoid ever meeting them, and I am glad that I have managed to do so.
I have often been called in a derogatory manner a ‘Gupta’, mainly because I have not shied away from using the media platforms of ANN7 and The New Age to state my views. I am unapologetic about having done so, and I have always maintained that I will utilize all opportunities, and media platforms, available to advance the views I hold dear. The irony of course is that I am not called names (such as a ‘Rupert’ or a ‘Johnny Copeland’), when I appear on other news channels such as eNCA, or NewzRoom Afrika, where I have recently quite often been interviewed. Let me make it clear, throughout my whole adult life and political career I have only been loyal to, and worked for, the ANC.
My loyalty and service to my Liberation Movement, the ANC, is well known and beyond reproach. I have no intention to do anything different now, or in the future. In doing so I have been absolutely consistent in the ideals that I have pursued throughout my life. I am proud to be an ANC veteran with 41 years of uninterrupted service to, and membership of, the ANC in good standing.
I always find it ironical when there are those who think they can undermine me by saying that I was a ‘good man’ years ago, but that I have now changed. My response to those who say so, is to ask them to do some serious introspection, because it must have been them who changed. As for me, I have been consistent to the point of being utterly predictable.
Those, especially those among my black ANC comrades, who now have a problem to see the glaringly obvious that our South African economy is still in the strangle grip, and control, of monopoly capital that is overwhelmingly white, are the ones who have to explain their newly acquired ‘blindness’. While doing so they must also please explain why they now suddenly have a problem with fighting that the land, that had been stolen by the white colonists, be returned the black (especially African) majority, who the ANC had since 1912 always acknowledged as the rightful owners. Why they now suddenly go through all kinds of contortions to reinterpret the Freedom Charter, so that it’s clear declarations that “the people shall share in the country’s wealth”, and that “the land shall be shared among those who work it”, to the point that it is so watered down, that they have become utterly powerless to effect any fundamental economic transformation.
Yes, indeed the time had come for honesty! Those who have, like Esau in the Bible sold their birthright for a bowl of lentil stew, must tell us that they have done so, and why? They must stop masquerading as so-called revolutionaries, spouting revolutionary phrases that they have hollowed out with their selfish greed to the point of being empty, shattered calabashes. These Judases must stop selling us out with their fake revolutionary embraces and kisses. Like Jesus was betrayed, and sold to the Pharisees, by Judas with a kiss in the garden of Gethsemane, we know they have sold us for the equivalent of their thirty pieces of silver.
Fronting for white monopoly capitalists, and making a mockery of Black Economic Empowerment, for luxury SUV’s, and debt over their heads to white owned banks to whom they are slaves for bonds of suburban homes, and ‘platinum’ credit cards that are perpetually in overdraft. Slaves to white capital, and the crumbs from the banquet of the white master’s table. Beholden as they are to white monopoly capital for the lives of fake prosperity that these sellouts live, they are in perpetual fear that the facade of so-called ‘prosperity’ and ‘power’ that they live, will come tumbling down all over them, if fundamental and radical economic transformation would ever be achieved. Thus, they have become even more vicious and vitriolic in their defense of the WMC status quo.
I have little hope that we will get honesty from such sellouts, they will continue to subvert and abuse the language of our revolution to try and cover up their shamelessness, and to protect their scam appearances of ‘empowerment’, and pathetic little ill-begotten gains. These pseudo revolutionaries will not drop their faux gilded masks voluntarily, and reveal themselves to the poor and exploited of our country. Those of us who see them for who they are, will literally have to pull the masks off their faces, and expose them.
I ask myself why I am now being called all kinds of names, even racist insults such as ‘white pig’, by some fellow black South Africans when I call for our government to ensure that the necessities that are required to fight the scourge of the coronavirus are procured from truly black owned companies? Am I wrong to point out that there are black communities that do not have even clean drinking water, and if government calls on them to wash their hands regularly, urgent measures must be undertaken to provide the water required to do so? Having made these perfectly reasonable calls, I have been threatened that my throat must be cut and my eyes gauged out, and that I am a ‘rat’ who should be infected with the coronavirus.
Is what I ask for not ANC economic policy? Why do I have to suffer vitriol and abuse when I insist that the RET Resolutions of the 54th National Conference of the ANC must be implemented? Is the return of the land to the black (specifically African) people who are the rightful owners, also not ANC policy? Suddenly all of this is called ‘factionalism’!
However, it is crystal clear where all of this comes from. From a counter revolutionary self- absorbed small group of self-enrichers, who are callously anti-poor, and the antithesis of everything our revolutionary ANC had ever stood for.
I am all for unity, I am all for fighting factionalism in the ANC, but when we talk unity in the ANC it must be principled, and based on our historical founding principles and documents, these are all pro-poor and emphatically in favor of the empowerment of the majority of black (especially African) South Africans. The foundation of, and pre-condition for, unity in the ANC must be an unambiguous commitment to fight the twin scourges of poverty and unemployment.
I dare any one inside the ANC, or for that matter anyone in South Africa, to show how I have deviated from the founding principles and historical founding documents of the ANC. I dare anyone to show how supporting the RET Resolutions of the 54th National Conference of the ANC, which is the highest decision making body of the ANC, is factional. Furthermore, I dare anyone to show what is wrong, and so-called ‘anti-ANC’ to call for an inquiry into the mounting, and very serious allegations, that huge amounts of money had been used to influence the outcome of our leadership elections at the 54th National Conference at Nasrec. If any of this happened should it not be exposed, is it not fundamentally alien to every principle that the ANC stands for, and should stand for? How have concerns about all of these issues, in pursuance of protecting the very essence of what our ANC should be, now suddenly become ‘factional’?
I challenge anyone who has seen it fit to attack me, and my fellow comrades, for defending the very essence (the true revolutionary heart) of the ANC to an open/public debate on any forum, television, radio, print media, any electronic media platform, and social media to show that in defending these historically principled inalienable ANC positions, we have deviated in any way whatsoever from what the ANC should be.
I dare them to have the courage to do so, and I will expose them for the charlatans that you are. Those of us who call for Radical Economic Transformation are not a faction in the ANC, we are the core and true backbone of our 108 year old Liberation Movement.
We will not waver nor falter, we will continue to fight to defend the true revolutionary heart of our beloved ANC!
VIVA ANC! AMANDLA!

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High tech grabs spotlight at John Deere launchHigh tech grabs spotlight at John Deere launch
John Deere unveiled its latest S-Series combines with larger corn heads and platforms, as well as an automated unloading system called Machine Sync. The company also introduced new tractor lines — from high-horsepower 4-wd tractors to utility tractors.
August 25, 2011
The star of John Deere's 2012 agricultural equipment lineup is the new S-Series combine that showcases a system for automated grain unloading. Deere recently introduced the high-tech combine and unloading system during an event in Indianapolis, IN.
The unloading system called Machine Sync uses GPS signals and automation technology to synchronize the combine and tractor pulling the grain wagon. A high-speed wireless network is set up in the field to handle up to 10 vehicles. The combine operator can see the location of all grain carts while in the combine cab. A ready-to-unload request can be sent from the combine wihen the grain tank is full. Deere expects Machine Sync to be ready for market in early spring 2012.
The new S-Series combines also are equipped with larger corn heads and platforms, plus a luxury cab with amenities like a refrigerator and ice maker.
Also featured in Deere’s new lineup are high-horsepower 4-wd and track 9R/9RT tractors, 6R Series row-crop tractors and 5 Series utility and specialty tractors.
“Across the board, we’ve increased the power and added many features to our new equipment that will make customers even more productive, wherever these machines are used,” says Barry Nelson, manager of John Deere Ag and Turf media relations. “These are the most innovative, technologically integrated and productive farm machines we’ve ever designed.”
Earlier, Deere introduced its new 7R Series tractors for the row-crop market and a self-propelled 4940 sprayer with 1,200-gal. solution tank, 120-ft. booms, and advanced loading and application technologies. The company also revealed its revolutionary Triple-Mounted Mower-Conditioner that cuts a swath more than 28 ft. wide.
For more information about the entire lineup of new John Deere grain-harvesting equipment, tractors, sprayers and more, see your local John Deere dealer or visit www.JohnDeere.com.
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There are several reasons why Miki Purnell’s album Midnight Bloom is a rather good issue. First of course is the wonderful in which she tells us what the songs say to her. We’ve heard many of them before, but when Miss Purnell sings them they sound familiar but almost altogether new – and “Embraceable You” is a superb example of this. Choruses we know and can almost sing along to are interlaced throughout with ones that take off on imaginative flights before bringing us back to familiar ground.
There are some delicious pieces here, my favourite (today) being “Estrada Branca” being sung in a beautifully haunting voice that is high-sprung and lustrous. Her vocal athleticism is almost astounding and she hits the highest notes of her range effortlessly to set up the climax of the song. Moreover, it’s not just that her tuning is astonishing and particularly good when she undertakes those vocals leaps from impossible places in her register. It’s also how distinctively pristine her voice is and how well she interacts with the instruments – especially the glorious pianism of Tamir Hendelman – without losing clarity.
And finally it is also the wonderfully light way she has with rhythm and metre: this is music that can so easily get bogged down in an unremitting jog. Even more important, Miss Purnell never tries to over-egg the music. She just presents it with childlike wonder and constant energy. But somehow she manages to make it fresh – as if you’ve never heard it before. Listen to her take on “Round Midnight” where she weaves her spell together with the inimitable Bob Sheppard keeping her company on saxophone, and you will find yourself duly seduced by both her voice and compelling storytelling.
Track list – 1: There ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time; 2: Embraceable You; 3: No Moon At All; 4: Estrada Branca (This Happy Madness); 5: ‘Round Midnight/This Midnight Madness Called Jazz; 6: Quiet Now; 7: Love Dance; 8: The Night We Called It a Day; 9: Teach Me Tonight; 10:You Are There; 11: Solitary Moon; 12: Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams; 13: Stars (Endless Stars); 14: Midnight Bloom
Personnel – Miki Purnell: vocals; Tamir Hendelman: piano; Dan Koba: drums; Alex Frank: bass; Bob Sheppard: saxophone, clarinet and flute (2, 5, 9, 11, 12); Pat Kelley: guitar (4, 7, 11);Tommy Aros: percussion (3, 4, 7, 11)
Released – 2019
Label – Independent
Runtime – 1:09:32


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Tula: The Revolt (Jeroen Leinders, 2013) tells the story of the 1795 slave revolt on the island of Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies. The titular character, Tula, becomes the instigator and leader of the revolt. Although Tula insists that the rebels remain peaceful so they can demand the governor institute the rule of law, the white colonists and the Dutch army attack them. Tula and his army fight to defend themselves, but Dutch manipulation and firepower ultimately overwhelm the rebels. Tula and the other rebel leaders are captured, tortured, and executed.
Tula is the second film in the CIRS Cinematic Afterlives series where the Haitian revolution unfolds off screen. In both Tula and La Última Cena, this off-screen event forms more than a contextual backdrop. Instead, the events in Haiti spur characters’ hopes, aspirations, fears, and anxieties. The specter of Haiti thus constitutes a driving force of the film.
However, despite the off-screen presence of the Haitian revolution, Tula flattens the importance of the wider Black Atlantic in the praxis of the Curaçao rebels. From the opening narrative cards of the film, Curaçao’s Caribbean and Atlantic context is downplayed, introduced to us as an arid island that one cannot leave. The sequence of events which brings the off-screen revolution into the story of Tula underscores the tension that this misrepresentation renders in the film. Speranza, Tula’s lover, also enslaved on the Knip plantation, overhears the plantation owner van Uytrecht’s conversation with another white colonist describing the fall of the Dutch Republic to the French, and the French National Assembly’s abolition of slavery. Speranza insists she has not heard anything when van Uytrecht confronts her, but quickly races to tell Tula the news. The fact that Speranza knew what to make of the Dutch defeat, Tula’s reaction to her news, and the sudden appearance of French revolutionary slogans among the rebels all hint at a deeper, more sophisticated knowledge of Atlantic politics.
To fully appreciate the significance of the Curaçao revolt in the Atlantic world, a broader context is necessary. Far from being an isolated arid island, Curaçao was deeply connected to Spanish terra firma by both legal and illicit slave trading—and simultaneously, that connection provided avenue for some enslaved people to flee their bondage. It was also a hub for the wider Caribbean. As a commercial hub, the island’s ports were key sites of contact with visitors and travel to other islands—especially to the southern part of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). In part reflective of this commercial status, as well as the difficulties the island’s climate presented to plantation agriculture, Curaçao also had a large free population of color. According to Gert Oostindie, in the years leading up to the revolt, Curaçao had a population of just under 21,000 people—4,410 whites, 3,714 “free citizens of color,” and 12,864 enslaved people. Karwan Fatah-Black’s careful social history of the revolt emphasized the importance of the ties between Saint-Domingue and Curaçao—rumors of military assistance, the sharing of republican ideas, and the movements of enslaved people. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall suggests that Tula himself may have spent time in the French Caribbean, and his right-hand-man Louis was also from Saint-Domingue.
The ability of word to travel so quickly—and when necessary, surreptitiously—across the Caribbean and enslaved communities throughout the Americas underscores the existence of a widespread and well-established network through which news and abolitionist thought circulated through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moreover, enslaved and free Black people did not simply “adopt” revolutionary language from the American and French, but instead took advantage of the fractures they revealed in the plantation system and racial ideologies of freedom to advance longstanding political goals. And, as we see in Tula, political thought and practice among the enslaved was far from monolithic.
The specter of Haiti hangs over the film in another way too: the involvement of American actor Danny Glover, who plays one of the film’s main characters, a man named Shinishi enslaved on the Knip Plantation. While Glover is most widely known for his role in the Lethal Weapon series, he has spent his career developing and telling Black stories on both stage and screen—including working to give the Haitian revolution the epic cinematic treatment it deserves.
Glover has been trying to make a film about Toussaint L’Ouverture, a leader of the Haitian revolution, for a long time. According to Glover, funding has been difficult to secure for a story without the white “heroes” that feature in many films about slavery—Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) perhaps being the quintessential example. Glover’s difficulty has not been singular. Indeed, depicting the Haitian revolution on screen has presented challenges since the “golden age” of cinema, when Paul Robeson was meant to star as Toussaint L’Ouverture in a film by the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. That film never came to fruition. Historian Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall suggests that this relative lack of representation, particularly when compared to the Haitian revolution’s counterparts in the United States and France, can be traced back to the Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s idea of “unthinkability.” The Haitian revolution, Trouillot asserts, was unthinkable “in the framework of Western thought”, which took “each case of unmistakable defiance, each possible instance of resistance” by enslaved people and “drained [it] of its political content.”
Tula: The Revolt despite its limits, does emphasize the political subjectivity of enslaved men, whereas other films depicting slave revolt have often dismissed such motivations or reduced them to rehashings of white European political thought. We see the rebels debate politics and strategy around a dining table in an occupied plantation house. Real, if underdeveloped, disagreements occur about the use of violence, the applicability of laws, and ideas of sovereignty and property. All the serious political discussions happen among the rebels, a refreshing reversal from other films about slavery like Amistad.
But what about the women? When watching the film, I was reminded of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s opening monologue in Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence (2014): “As for gendering, we must ourselves gender ‘the people.’” If Tula: The Revolt is a (true) story about enslaved people claiming the Rights of Man, the role of women is more ambiguous. Speranza’s bravery, in this telling, is what ultimately opens the door of discontent onto rebellion. But what does she think? In one notable moment, she walks out of the occupied plantation house in an extravagant European-style gown. Tula asks her if it was really necessary to steal the dress, to which Speranza replies “I’m not going to be the sort of free woman who wears slaves’ rags.” The camera turns away. Since we are seeing this scene through Tula’s gaze, without elaboration, the moment can come off as frivolous. But thanks to the work of scholars like Stephanie Camp, we know that clothing—especially for enslaved and freed women—was political. Clothes could be a mark of bondage or evidence of freedom. The politics of freedom were gendered. Speranza’s claim that her dress marked her freedom was no less serious a claim than Tula’s claim of equality before the law.
In the end, Speranza, like many of the women, survives. They sing outside the courtroom as their husbands, sons, lovers, and brothers are sentenced to tortuous death stand as a reminder that executing rebel leaders will not bring peace to a slave society—but Speranza’s memory and experience of rebellion is ultimately not the source of future hope. Instead, it is her and Tula’s son, also named Tula, on whom the dream of freedom must rest—a freedom that will not come for nearly seven more decades.
Trish Kahle is assistant professor of history at Georgetown University Qatar, is a historian of the United States. Cinematic Afterlives was developed in tandem with Kahle’s course on Atlantic World history.
 Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (New York: Verso, 2018); Karwan Fatah-Black, “Orangism, Patriotism, and Slave Revolt in Curaçao, 1795-1796,” International Review of Social History 58 (2013): 35-60.
 Gert Oostindie, “Slave resistance, colour lines, and the impact of the French and Haitian revolutions in Curaçao,” in Curaçao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800, Rosemarijn Hoefte and Gert Oostindie, eds. (Leinden: Brill, 2011), 5.
 Fatah-Black, “Orangism, Patriotism, and Slave Revolt in Curaçao, 1795-1796,” and Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021), 49.
 For a full accounting of the efforts to depict the Haitian revolution on screen—and the limits of these efforts, see Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen.
 Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen, 23-42.
 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Books, 2015), 82-83.
 Stephanie M. H. Camp, “The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861,” Journal of Southern History 68 no. 3 (2002): 533-572.
Article by Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar

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Walking tour of Lviv Sights: Market Square (UNESCO World Heritage), Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, Latin Cathedral, Dominican Church, St. George's Cathedral, Armenian Cathedral, Mountain High Castle, Town Arsenal, Kornyakt's House with an Italian courtyard, Assumption Church, Bernardine Monastery, Chapel of Boim, Black Kamenica, Powder Tower, Mickiewicz Monument, Pharmacy Museum. Visit unusual restaurant Krayivka for lunch. Free time. Night in hotel.
Transfer to Drohobych - wooden church Tserkva of Saint George (UNESCO World Heritage, XV). Transfer to Urich and visit fortification Tustan of Kiev Rus time. Transfer to Mukachevo. On the way visit of Bunker Arpad Line in Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia, Schönborn Palace Castle in Karpaty. Night in hotel.
Transfer to Uzhgorod. On the way visit Serednie Bodegas and Transcarpathia wine tasting. Sight of Uzhgorod: Holy Cross Cathedral, Church of St. George, Korzo street and the smallest light house in Ukraine looks same as USA Statue of Liberty. Transfer to Uzhok by road with spectacular views of Uzhansky National Nature Park and visit Tserkva of Synaxis of the Archangel Michael (UNESCO World Heritage,1745). Next visit "Grandfather-Oak" and "Oak Champion" in Stuzhytsa - the oldest oaks in Ukraine age of 1200 and 1300 years old. Transfer to Mukachevo and on the way visiting Nevytsky Castle. Night in hotel.
Sights of Mukachevo: Palanok Castle. Transfer to Kosino Thermal Resort for thermal bath of healing mineral water. Next visit Chizay Wine Tasting Room of 10 type of wines and famous wine "Troyanda Carpathians“. Sights in Hust: Deer Farm. Transfer to Synevyr Polyana. Night in hotel.
Visiting of beautiful Synevyr Lake. Transfer to Center of Bears Recovery. Visit wooden church of Maramorosh style in Kraynikovo: Church of St. Michael (1668). Way on beautiful road on banks of Tisza river to Yaremche. On the way visiting Monument Geographical Center of Europe, Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension (UNESCO World Heritage) in Yasynia, in Mikulichin: Trinity Church (1868) and in Yaremche: Church of St. John the Merciful (1663). Evening dinner at restaurant Hutsulshyna. Night in hotel.
Sight of Yaremche: Probiy Waterfall and local souvenir market. Transfer to Kolomyia. On the way visit Tserkva of Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary (UNESCO World Heritage) in Nyzhniy Verbizh. Sights in Kolomiya: Pysanka Museum. Transfer to Ivano-Frankivsk for Ivano-Frankivsk city tour. Night in hotel.
Transfer to Vyhoda for Carpathian train tour. Transfer to Lviv. Free time.
Trip Ends With Sweet Memories !!!
Kiev, Ukraine experiences all four seasons. It generally has very cold winters and its summer temperatures can sometimes get very hot, especially during July and August. The average winter time temperature in Kiev is in the 20's, while in the summer months the city's temperatures average in the 80's.
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Meal plan: EP - Accommodation only, CP - Accommodation with breakfast, MAP - Accommodation with breakfast, lunch or dinner, AP -Accommodation with breakfast, lunch & dinner
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all hotels on the route according to the Itinerary (Standard Double)
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Ukraine Tour Carpathians and Transcarpatia is for tourists who want to take part in sightseeing tour of most interesting sights and attractions of Carpathians and Transcarpatia. You spend 7 days and 6 nights in high rhythm of Ukrainian life and culture. You travel the most beautiful roads of Carpathians and Transcarpatia over 1300 km/810 miles by comfortable transportation and enjoy Ukrainian food and sights and attractions on the way. You are welcome to Ukraine!

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A coalition of conservation organizations filed a lawsuit today in Superior Court challenging a decision to grant California’s logging industry a broad exemption from California’s Clean Water Act. The exemption applies to industrial logging operations on public and private land throughout the Sierra and affects the municipal water sources for approximately two-thirds of the state’s population.
The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), DeltaKeeper, and Sierra Club filed the lawsuit and are represented by Earthjustice. The lawsuit was filed charges the Central Valley Regional Water Board, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board – Lahontan Region, and the State Water Resources Control Board with violating the California Environmental Quality Act and the state’s water quality control law. These agencies recently issued a broad waiver for hundreds of new logging operations (including clearcuts) to discharge sediment, herbicides, and other pollutants to rivers, streams, and lakes throughout the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.
“The water boards have taken a very limited exception to the state’s water pollution control law and stretched it to the breaking point to allow the logging industry to continue dumping massive quantities of sediment into our rivers, lakes, and reservoirs,” said Mike Lozeau of Earthjustice who is representing the coalition in court. “Because the water boards have failed to enforce California’s water quality law, we are now asking the Superior Court to step in to do so.”
The two regional water boards cover the Sierra Nevada and Cascades and the Central Valley from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Approximately 45 percent of all industrial logging operations in California occur within the Central Valley watershed, the water supply for the San Francisco Bay Area and an important source for Los Angeles. Each regional board has only assigned one staff person to oversee all logging pollution throughout that vast region. Logging activities discharge soils and organic materials that can lead to increased water temperatures, erosion, and stream sedimentation. Logging operations also use herbicides, pesticides, and oil, all of which can impact aquatic ecosystems and water quality. Logging has been implicated in the degradation of some of California’s most precious lakes and rivers, including Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River.
“The water boards have refused to use their authority to strike a reasonable balance between logging and water quality,” said Cynthia Elkins of EPIC. “By adopting the waivers, the water boards have decided to protect the logging companies rather than protect and restore our rivers and streams.”
Sierra Pacific Industries, the largest landowner in California, owns more than 1.5 million acres in the region and announced three years ago that it is converting 70 percent, or roughly one million acres, of this land into commercial tree plantations. As a result, the number of acres clearcut annually in the Sierra expanded from 943 acres in 1992 to 23,823 acres in 2000, an increase of over 2,400 percent. The regulations that govern logging operations on nonfederal land have been harshly criticized by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to protect water quality.
Public lands throughout the region also face increased logging as the Bush administration attempts to weaken federal regulations, including the Sierra Framework and the National Forest Management Act.
The Central Valley and Lahontan Water Boards have not fully scrutinized discharges from a logging operation since they adopted similar exemptions in the in 1980s. In 1999, the State of California enacted legislation that automatically terminated all exemptions on January 1, 2003, unless the regional boards reviewed an exemption and determined it could be renewed in the public interest.
“The waivers represent an illegal attempt by the water boards to grant politically connected timber interests a de facto right to pollute,” said DeltaKeeper Bill Jennings. “There is no right to pollute. Polluting is a regulated privilege, allowable only after the public’s right to clean water and a healthy environment is protected.”
In reviewing the 1980s logging exemptions, both regional water boards found they were not sufficient to protect water quality and should not be renewed. However, both boards adopted new waivers early in 2003, which rely on the same forestry regulations that the boards had previously found inadequate. In adopting the waivers, both water boards claimed that their exemptions had no potential to create adverse impacts to the environment.
“Logging the Sierra has a profound impact on water quality in California,” said Paul Mason of the Sierra Club California. “This lawsuit attempts to make sure that the water boards use their full regulatory authority to protect our priceless rivers and streams.”
Click here to view a copy of the petition filed.
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Located in North of Europe, Lithuania is today an independent country and has now become a fast growing business and a commercial centre. It attracts many tourists, particularly to its capital Vilnius with its cathedral square and Gediminas Tower. Lithuania vacations are also popular due to the cheap package deals that the hotels there provide. The accommodations here are ideal if you are spending within a limited budget and offer all the basic amenities and facilities during your Lithuania vacations.
Lithuania is one of the formal soviet states namely Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Lumped together, these countries are surrounded by the Baltic Sea separating them from Sweden and Finland. However, today they are independent nations with their own cultural identity. One of the oldest cities to be established in Lithuania is Klaipeda, which is also the country’s only sea port. Visitors on their Lithuania vacations can avail facilities provided by some of its famous resorts like Nida and Palanga.
Lithuania is one of the main tourist attractions being home to the Gediminas tower which is located in the most ancient part of Vilnius and also the Cathedral Square known for its parades and street fairs and other entertainment that keeps you occupied during your Lithuania vacations. TV tower in Vilnius is the highest building in the country. Another place with historical importance includes the castle of Trakai. It is an island in a lake called Galve. A museum has been constructed on it after its renovation which features a variety of artistic items and crafts which attracts tourists who come for sightseeing and leisure. The country has a well maintained balance between the classic and contemporary values. The city has some of the best transportation facilities that include Mercedes Benz and also trolley buses as being their main transportation system.
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The peak season to plan your Lithuania vacations is in summer or spring. Hotel bookings are possible online and packages can be availed that provide great opportunities to save money along with a well planned trip. Discount prices are given during the peak season by hotels that flaunt a feel of of the old medieval period and depict the history the country is so proud of. They have the perfect artistic setting and are although low priced, do not compromise on quality. It is better not to visit the place during winter season as it can be harsh, unless you are looking for adventure and not a family oriented trip. Snowfall is ample and there is less daylight time. Since the country offers the famous and the beautiful Baltic Sea, it should be on the top of the visiting sites list. It is a good spot for relaxation and to get sun tanned. There are some gorgeous towns along the seaside where you can plan your stay. With the passage of time, Lithuania is rapidly developing its infra structure and renovating hotels, old buildings and shopping malls to make it a world renowned tourist place. Its hotel accommodations are popularly known to be one of the best.


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Political Hypocrisy is not uncommon. One party spends four-eight years bashing the opposing side, saying the most ridiculous things, which is confronted with a firm rebuttal as to why one should just accept and respect the president in office.
However, when that second party is elected into office, the tables turn, and suddenly members of the prior party are the ones throwing harsh comments and making negative social media posts.
For example, the democrats spent four years infuriated by Trump and his actions, which ultimately lay the foundation for the “not my president,” phrase to be spoken and shared nationwide.
Republicans were highly offended by this and spent a great deal of time holding conversations and Facebook arguments over the positive things President Trump accomplished, and why it is disrespectful to our country to claim he wasn’t your president.
Not long after the 2020 election, however, many Trump supporters were quick to jump on that train of not supporting the newly elected president.
The day of the inauguration Facebook was filled with newly uploaded photos and profiles showing an image of President Biden, that read “not my president.”
Why is it that there is so much political hypocrisy? Although this was a very big election, it happens every time a different party enters into office.
There are two parties for a reason. It is very obvious that a republican is not likely to support democratic views, and vice versa.
With that being said, do people not realize that the Facebook fights and slurs aren’t going to change the outcome of an election?
Each person is entitled to their own opinion and it is going to be very difficult to change their mind, especially when some political issues affect someone morally.
Therefore, all parties need to learn to accept and respect that the world is full of differing opinions and ideas and arguing like children behind a phone screen is not doing anything to help the country.
In fact, rather than spending so much time trying to alter someone’s opinion, one should use that time to better their community in a way that supports their political views, rather than tearing others down.