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Aldrich, Robert 1954–
Aldrich, Robert 1954–
(Robert Joseph Aldrich)
PERSONAL: Born July 29, 1954, in New York, NY; immigrated to Australia, 1981; son of Chester Robert and Frances Aldrich. Education: Emory University, B.A., 1975; Brandeis University, M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1980.
CAREER: Boston College, Boston, MA, instructor, 1979–80; Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Mellon fellow, 1980–81; University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, lecturer, 1981–84, associate professor, 1984–2005, professor of European history, 2005–, and department chair. Harvard University, lecturer, summers, 1980, 1981.
AWARDS, HONORS: Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2002.
Economy and Society in Burgundy since 1850, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1984.
(Editor, with John Connell, and contributor) France in World Politics, Routledge (New York, NY), 1989.
(Editor) France: Politics, Society, Culture and International Relations, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 1990.
The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 1990.
(Editor) France, Oceania, and Australia: Past and Present, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney, 1991.
(Editor, with Garry Wotherspoon) Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney, 1992.
(With John Connell) France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et Territoires d'Outre-mer, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1992.
France and the South Pacific since 1940, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 1993.
The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and Homosexual Fantasy, Routledge (New York, NY), 1993.
(Editor) Gay Perspectives II: More Essays in Australian Gay Culture, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 1994.
Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1996.
(Editor, with Isabelle Merle, and contributor) France Abroad: Indochina, New Caledonia, Wallis and Fu-tuna, Mayotte, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 1997.
(With Connell) The Last Colonies, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998.
(Editor, with Garry Wotherspoon) Gay Perspectives IV: Studies in Australian Culture, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 1998.
(Editor, with Martyn Lyons) The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History, Department of Economic History, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 1999.
(Editor, with Wotherspoon) Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.
(Editor, with Wotherspoon) Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.
Colonialism and Homosexuality, Routledge (New York, NY), 2003.
Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums, and Colonial Memories, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2005.
(Editor) Gay Life and Culture: A World History, Rizzoli (New York, NY), 2006.
(Editor) Age of Empires, Thames & Hudson (London, England), 2007.
SIDELIGHTS: Robert Aldrich is a professor of European history at the University of Sydney and a specialist on French colonial history. He has published numerous books that fall within the larger subject of European and colonial history, and he has also produced several books on gay studies.
France in World Politics reflects the interests Aldrich would pursue in later works. According to a Choice reviewer, the book's three main strengths are the "introduction … [which] is a useful summary of France's main foreign-policy problems; the treatment of France and the Third World is solid; and the chapters on francophonie offer intelligent insights."
In The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940, Aldrich reviews how the area was targeted by French missionaries, then followed by French military and business interests. Within this context, he covers numerous small territories, such as the Establissements Français d'Océanie (now French Polynesia), New Caledonia, Wallis, Futuna, and the New Hebrides, which were colonized with the hope of uncovering natural resources. Aldrich concludes that, while trying to compete with England and the United States in empire-building, France's actions in the South Pacific were not carefully conceived.
Both the methods and content of the book were well-received by critics. History reviewer James W. Haley said that Aldrich "thoroughly traces the interrelationship between these islands, their inhabitants, their colonists, their neighbors, and metropolitan France for the period ending in 1940." In the American Historical Review, Kim Munholland wrote: "This book can be admired as a model of historical synthesis. It is thorough, careful in its judgments, analytical in approach, and based both on wide reading of the secondary literature and on original archival research. Above all, it is balanced and detached in the best sense of historical scholarship." Munholland further noted that the author is "evenly critical of the settlers, of the missionaries, and of administrators who felt themselves condemned to Pacific exile" and that he "made good use of approaches by cultural anthropology to interactions between settler and indigenous populations."
The post-1940 period is the subject of France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et Territoires d'Outre-mer. The geographic span of the book is wider than the South Pacific, and it considers the postcolonial period when France had withdrawn from most of its overseas possessions. The Départements d'Outre-mer (DOMs) and Territoires d'Outre-mer (TOMs) discussed include French Guiana, Guadaloupe, Martinique, Reunion, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, the Terres Australes et Antartiques Francaises, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and Mayotte. The book shows the insularity of these places as well as their diversity. A Journal of Economic Literature contributor noted that the book "examines the history, politics, and contemporary socioeconomic structure of France's remaining overseas empire." A Choice reviewer called it the "first comprehensive survey of the DOMS-TOMs" and "a needed and valuable addition to collections" on the French empire. The reviewer also found that the range of information discussed made the book valuable to several disciplines.
As editor of France, Oceania, and Australia: Past and Present, Aldrich worked with contributors who were affiliated with universities from the South Pacific islands, France, England, Australia, and the United States. The subjects of their papers include educational history, penal colonization, Pacific perceptions of France, and political activism in New Caledonia. Writing for Contemporary Pacific, Alan Ward described the collection by saying it represented "much of the best recent scholarship on French territories in the Pacific."
Aldrich analyzes France's attitude toward decolonizing in the South Pacific in France and the South Pacific since 1940. In comparison to its neighbor and traditional rival, England, France has been slow to decolonize. Aldrich looks at how different territories have had contrasting responses to the prospect of political independence, due in part to geographical distance and ethnic diversity. Notably, French Polynesia and New Caledonia vary greatly in political climate, with the first experiencing autonomy since the 1970s and the latter struggling with bitter division between immigrants and the indigenous Kanaks.
Jack Hayward, writing for the Times Literary Supplement, called France and the South Pacific since 1940 a "well-documented and detached treatment of the emergence of movements for political independence." Hayward noted Aldrich's restraint in drawing conclusions from the events he described: "His circumspection serves him well when considering the exponents of the rather extravagant geopolitical speculations about the significance of these French possessions in a 'scramble for the Pacific.'" A Choice writer valued the study because Aldrich not only presents the history of various French oceanic territories, but also places them within a larger historical context. The reviewer predicted, however, that Aldrich's assertion that "France's policy of attempting to retain its island possessions … has been at least as successful for all concerned as has Britain's hasty withdrawal will certainly be controversial." In the American Historical Review, Raymond F. Betts admired the author's work but had some reservations about his language and style. While Betts described the book as containing "a wealth of information, political and economic, statistical and anecdotal," he also found that it was "not written with the charm and sensitivity to local color" of other studies and that it "often contains 'macro' language to describe 'micro' situations."
Taking a wider look at the French empire in Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion, Aldrich focuses on the impact of colonial events and culture in France, as well as on the individuals who affected French policies. For example, the impact of the Algerian war on both the French and Algerians is considered. The book also features political maps and a bibliographical essay. A Choice critic called Greater France "a comprehensive and effective synthesis" of information and valued it for "[providing] a historical dimension to contemporary events." James E. Blackburn commented in the French Review that "the prose is clean, clear, engaging, and intelligently organized." Blackburn observed that Aldrich "accomplishes the challenging task of compressing the history of a massive colonizing and civilizing effort into a study of modest dimensions…. [with] satisfactory orientation of the players, places, and periods involved in creating and dismembering the French Empire."
The Last Colonies presents the status of the colonies that remained at the end of the twentieth century. Many have or had interesting economic or geographic situations. For example, the British Virgin Islands had, at the time of Aldrich's study, 17,000 residents and 178,000 registered companies; the Cook Islands are the last place open for business during the international trading day. The authors show that these places do not have much in common, except that they are mostly tiny island states and that most do not favor independence. There can be considerable economic advantages to colonial status; therefore, their common goal is not decolonization but rather the end of their inferior treatment as colonies.
Bernard Porter reviewed the book for the Times Literary Supplement, commenting: "It is full of the unusual and the exotic: ingredients that have always been sought by the—at any rate Western—imagination, but have been diminishing rapidly as globalization has proceeded apace." Porter further noted that a considerable amount of the information is "material and statistical" and that the book's appendix on fifty-two dependent territories "will be an invaluable reference resource for travellers, scholars, writers, politicians, and diplomats." The reviewer concluded that the book was proof of the fact that "we are all cogs in the world capitalist machine; some just happen to be smaller than others."
Aldrich has also published several books on gay issues. With Garry Wotherspoon, he edited Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture, which he offered as proof that gay studies had "come of age" in Australia. In the Australian Book Review, Mark Peel called Ald-rich's opening text an "excellent introduction" and identified Aldrich's guiding message to scholars as a "mandate that our subject must be both gay men and the heterosexual matrix that confines them." Peel found that "this collection shows that gay studies have already covered significant ground in Australia, not the least in its insistence that sexual diversity no longer be written out of history or submerged in patronising inflections of Mardi Gras picturesque."
Aldrich's analysis of gay themes in literature and art was the subject of The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and Homosexual Fantasy. Aldrich identi-fies the Mediterranean as a mythological place of gay sexual fulfillment since the 1750s. Using works from as early as ancient Greece, he shows how this idea was represented in writing, paintings, and photography. He also explains how this ideal was deflated by the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Among Aldrich's leading literary examples is Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice, and he goes on to examine some forty other works. Many of the writers cited are Europeans who left their native countries to live in the Mediterranean.
Response to The Seduction of the Mediterranean was mixed. Jonathan Keates remarked in the Observer that Aldrich "quite rightly invokes Mann's book as its point of departure" and that "among the distinguished punters—Corvo, Wilde, Forster and others—whom Aldrich parades, an almost monotonous consistency of aim and ideal establishes itself." Keates did not find that the author's approach succeeded: "The trouble with this book is that by concentrating too heavily on the minutiae of these case studies, it never quite validates its subject." He concluded: "However immaculately researched and elegantly presented, the whole never adds up to the sum of its parts." In the Journal of Historical Geography, Adrian Rifkin also questioned Aldrich's methods and results. "At each stage of his exposition Aldrich is at pains to suggest the ways in which texts and images appropriate the model and mythical ideals of the ancient Mediterranean," Rifkin remarked. In Library Journal, Bryan Aubrey called the book "original and well-researched" and remarked that "Aldrich breaks new ground by revealing a unifying thread in homosexual culture long before the modern term subculture was invented."
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
American Historical Review, February, 1991, review of France in World Politics, p. 305; October, 1991, Kim Munholland, review of The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940, p. 1163; December, 1995, Raymond F. Betts, review of France and the South Pacific since 1940, p. 1593.
Australian Book Review, May, 1992, Mark Peel, review of Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture, pp. 11-12.
Choice, March, 1990, W. Safran, review of France in World Politics, p. 1230; November, 1992, review of France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et Territoires d'Outre-mer, p. 523; September, 1994, C.J. Weeks, review of France and the South Pacific since 1940, p. 180; January, 1997, A.J.R. Russell-Wood, review of Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion, p. 854.
Contemporary Pacific, fall, 1991, Colin Newbury, review of The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940; fall, 1993, Alan Ward, review of France, Oceania, and Australia: Past and Present, pp. 469-472.
French Review, December, 1998, James E. Blackburn, review of Greater France, p. 351.
History, spring, 1991, James W. Haley, review of The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940, p. 130.
International Affairs, October, 1999, Keith Robbins, review of The Last Colonies.
International Review, November-December, 1992, James Kember, review of France's Overseas Frontier.
Journal of Economic Literature, December, 1992, review of France's Overseas Frontier, p. 2272.
Journal of Historical Geography, October, 1994, Adrian Rifkin, review of The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and Homosexual Fantasy, pp. 473-475.
Library Journal, July, 1993, Bryan Aubrey, review of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, p. 80; October 1, 2001, David Azzolini, review of Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History.
Modern and Contemporary France, October, 1990, Jane Bryant, review of France in World Politics; November, 1997, John Hargreaves, review of Greater France.
New Zealand International Review, January, 1999, Malcolm McKinnon, review of The Last Colonies.
Observer (London, England), September 12, 1993, Jonathan Keates, review of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, p. 53.
Pacific Islands Monthly, January, 1994, W. Marvin Will, review of France's Overseas Frontier.
Times Higher Education Supplement, October 2, 1992, Robert C. Hudson, review of France's Overseas Frontier.
Times Literary Supplement, January 28, 1994, Jack Hayward, review of France and the South Pacific since 1940, p. 12; May 28, 1999, Bernard Porter, review of The Last Colonies, p. 30.


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By Nou Fredrick Vada LL.B – Acting Executive Officer – Motu Koita The Way Forward Association
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*MKTWFA IS A DULY REGISTERED ASSOCIATION. OUR LEGAL STANDING UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION IS TO ACT ON ANY AFFAIRS AFFECTING MOTU-KOITABU AREAS AND PEOPLES. WE OPERATE AS AN NGO, AND OUR PHILOSOPHY IS THAT INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS CAN USE THE ORGANISATION AS A VEHICLE TO PERSONALLY CONTRIBUTE THEIR TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERTISE, AND MORAL SUPPORT TO ISSUES AFFECTING OUR MK BESENA.
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Mentors of the cliché "agit-rock", Ton Steine Scherben took their roots from American 60's punk like the Velvet Underground and The Stooges, added a touch of heavy blues and a strong dose of German angst. Presenting their raw aggressive rock frequently at free festivals in the late-60's, none of the German labels would touch them. WARUM GEHT ES MIR SO DRECKIG? was privately issued and contains some of the most anguished, lyrically venomous, raw rock to come out of Germany. Toning down their act a little, KEINE MACHT FÜR NIEMAND put them on a more accessible footing, less intense it also included a few excellent more experimental tracks showing that they could do much more than insult or aurally assault people, they could produce high quality rock too. Their finest moment, as far as we are concerned, was WENN DIE NACHT AM TIEFSTEN, which saw them develop on an even more progressive level, with diversions to Zappa-esque humour, and several experimental moments: most especially the long suite encompassing side 4.
Alongside these activities Ton Steine Scherben have constantly worked as support or backing band to a number of radical theatre and political cabaret acts (including Brühwarm, Kollektiv Rote Rübe and Hofmann's Comic Teater). The recorded results of these collaborations are generally quite odd, and not easy listening for non-German ears.
Ralph Möbius (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Ralph Steitz (guitar), Wolfgang Seidel (drums), Kai Sichtermann (bass)
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SCHERBEN LP Volksmund DVP 999 (1983)
IN BERLIN 1984 (6/84) LP Volksmund DVP 013 (1984)
A talented and revolutionary bassist, Uli grew up through free-jazz in the 60's, working with the likes of the Irene Schweizer Trio, Wolfgang Dauner, and then founding the most innovative of acid-rock/underground power trios: Guru Guru. Feeling left out and dissatisfied with the direction Guru Guru were moving in, he decided to leave and form his own band. Moving away from Berlin, he formed his own band along with Embryo stalwarts and other top musicians. Sessions for a release on Brain were recorded (surfacing as one side of an album in the late-80's) and he also worked with the Release Gruppe. Uli then went on to work live with Neu! and Faust (with whom he toured Britain), and for six months or so as support to the likes of Daevid Allen and Lol Coxhill. Developing an array of gadgets he called the "Spacebox", this eventually led to the formation of a band with this name and two albums. Since then little has been heard from Uli. He did record PHENOTYPE, an album of bass guitar works, for United Dairies in the late-80's, but this only surfaced as a cassette. He since also spent some time in New York, where he discovered American blues, which changed his attitude about music. Sessions from 1989 and 1990 resulted in the album JAZZ MODALITIES, which is an odd relaxed jazzy twist on the Spacebox type sound, though largely instrumental, proving Uli still has what it takes to be original! More recently, Uli is again in Berlin and has plans for a new album.
INBETWEEN (7/74) LP United Dairies UD 024 (UK, 1986) Note: 1/2 of this album is HOT ON SPOT by Guru Guru
Highly acclaimed winners at the Nachwuchs Pop '78 music festival, the Bremen band Tri Atma managed to secure a contract with RCA and gain international marketing. A remarkable feat really, as Tri Atma played a most unusual fusion of jazz and ethnic musics, very much towards the likes of what Between and Embryo were doing at the same time (who were shunned by the major labels) but with even stronger Eastern roots. Their debut TRI ATMA presented a mainly acoustic brand of ethnic fusion, very percussive and full of vitality, whereas MIGHTY LOTUS brought in a lot of electric instruments and more variety, and the use of authentic-sounding Asian-Indian vocals adds yet another dimension. INSTEAD OF DRUGS is their most accomplished work, with the addition of multi-keyboards/synthesizers and a lot of rock awareness, a new vitality is felt as well as a greater dimension in the arrangements. After this they lost any cohesive style. Gyan Nishabda on SEHNSUCHT UND EINKLANG is actually Klaus Netzle and his light synthetic style was at odds with Tri Atma music, and subsequent albums offered a techno ethnic dance music. Since Tri Atma's demise, the various musicians have been quite prolific. Whilst Asim has gone back to his ethnic roots, others have moved on. Jens Fischer has since done some interesting solo work, and especially worth checking out is his AUMAKAÚ. He is also featured on fellow Tri Atma cohort Achim Gieseler's unusual ethnic electronic excursion L'AIR, LA TERRE from 1990.
Asim Saha (tablas, nal, dholok, percussion), Herbert Koschmieder (flute, sax, xylophone, tamboura), Jens Fischer (guitars), Manfred Flathe (sitar, surbahar, guitars)
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TRI ATMA LP RCA PL 28347 (1979)
MIGHTY LOTUS (7/80) LP RCA PL 28402 (1980)
INSTEAD OF DRUGS LP RCA PL 70678 (1981)
SEHNSUCHT UND EINKLANG LP Erdenklang 6.25315 (1982)
Arguably the German ELP, with a Greg Lake clone vocalist, and in Peter K. Seiler an aspiring Keith Emerson soundalike keyboardist, Tritonus made a highly derivative classical rock on their debut LP. BETWEEN THE UNIVERSES showed much more imagination featuring a lengthy cosmic synth-sequencer track "Mars Detection" (hinting at Seiler's later work with Michael Bundt) and also a grand conceptual side-long symphonic rock suite. Also, for a touch more originality, Kin Ping Meh vocalist Geff Harrison is featured on one track. Tritonus existed until 1979 when they split due to apathy from record companies. Peter K. Seiler now works solo and records for the IC label.
Peter K. Seiler (organs, Moog, pianos, Mellotron, celeste), Ronald J.D. Brand (bass, vocals, guitars, percussion), Charlie Jöst (drums, percussion),
Kite / The Way Of Spending Time 7" RBM 7002 (1973)
TRITONUS LP BASF 17 22384-1 (1975)
BETWEEN THE UNIVERSES (3-7/76) LP BASF 20 22946-7 (1976)
The Trojan Horse Race / Timewinds Of Life 7" Acanta AC 13078 (1976)
Originally a classical rock trio, Triumvirat were most obviously inspired by The Nice and ELP, but it has to be said that although some aspects of the Triumvirat sound bordered on plagiarism they did also have their own sound. With a penchant for elaborate concepts, featuring lengthy complex suites, and a song style that was totally unlike ELP, especially so on the LP's featuring Helmut Koellen as lead vocalist, the early albums are amongst the finest examples of highly produced German rock. Latterly, with the return of original bassist Dirk Frangenberg and a constantly changing line-up (becoming a quartet) the albums after OLD LOVES DIE HARD (which was dedicated to Helmut Koellen who had recently died) saw the start of a steady decline to lightweight pop music. More recently Jürgen Fritz has been active as a soloist, doing classical adaptations on synthesizers, and ambitious operas.
Hans Pape (bass, vocals), Hans Bathelt (drums, percussion), Hans-Jürgen Fritz (organ, pianos, synthesizer, percussion, vocals)
Be Home For Tea / Broken Mirror 7" Harvest 1C 006-29 976 (1972)
An obscure mid-70's band, playing a soft symphonic progressive typical of the era, often compared to bands like Novalis and Epidaurus.
Elmar Wegmann (guitar, flute, vocals), Klaus Pannewig (drums, bells, vocals), Wilhelm Weischer (bass), Peter Savelsberg (organ, Mellotron, electric piano)
POINT OF ERUPTION LP Förderturm T-5476 (1976)
Twenty Sixty Six & Then
When Twenty Sixty Six & Then started, they were veritably a supergroup who didn't yet know it! Their lead singer Geff Harrison had decided to stay in Germany after leaving an early incarnation of Beggar's Opera (he also worked with I Drive), he and guitarist Gagey Mrozeck went on to Kin Ping Meh, Konstantin Bommarius went to Abacus and then Karthago, Veit Marvos went to Emergency, Dieter Bauer joined Aera, and Steve Robinson later joined forces with Michael Bundt and others. During their brief year or so existence, Twenty Sixty Six & Then made one of the most touted of heavy psychedelic Krautrock albums, REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE took Krautrock stylisms and hard-rock, added some Zappa touches, riffing aggression of the heavy Bacillus-label bands, and even some off-the-wall electronics. The REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST release features other studio sessions featuring longer or radically different versions of tracks from the album, along with other unreleased works. REFLECTIONS! compiles the best of their oeuvre onto one disc.
Veit Marvos (organ, pianos, Mellotron, percussion, vocals), Steve Robinson (organ, electric piano, vibes, synthesizer, Mellotron, vocals), Geff Harrison (vocals), Gagey Mrozeck (guitars, vocals), Dieter Bauer (bass), Konstantin Bommarius (drums), + Dieter Dierks, Pete Bender, Rainer Marz
REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE (1972) LP United Artists UAS 29314 (1972)
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST (5/71-3/72) 11/2LP Second Battle SBT 001 (1991)
Heavy/melodic prog band, typical of the era, comparable to Harlis or Bullfrog (both on the Sky label), with a mixture of hard-rock, progressive and Hendrix edges. Although they recorded an LP in 1975 it wasn't released until 2000.
Volkar Kramarz (guitar, vocals), Ulrich Hülder (keyboards), Jürgen Bieler (bass, vocals), Roland Glässer (drums)
Country Waltz / Last Night In Verona #1 7" New Blood NLA 1176 (1976)
As A Kid / Kiss Me And Say Goodbye 7" New Blood NPA 3177 (1977)
Tyburn Tall originated from a 60's beat band called The Screamers, eventually changing style when becoming influenced by the likes of The Nice, Colosseum, and other bands that they toured with, like Frumpy and Renaissance, they drew in a wide variety of complex classical and hard-rock influences into their music. Their only album was privately released in an edition of only 200 copies and was thus virtually unknown until the CD reissue, which also contains live recordings of two Colosseum numbers.
Stefan Kowa (bass, vocals), Hanns Dechant (drums, percussion), Klaus Fresenius (vocals), Werner Gallo (guitar), Reinhard Magin (organ, piano, vocals)
TYBURN TALL (1972) LP Lutz Kern 0001-2 (1972)
An unusual mid-70's progressive with folky and psychedelic touches, instrumentally close to Floh De Cologne and Eulenspygel, yet surprisingly instrumental for having three vocalists! Typical of releases on Kerston they were very Teutonic with a very cosmic style and lots of invention. An obscurity that definitely deserves a CD reissue!
Michael Scherf (vocals), Ulrike Schempp (vocals), Susanne Schempp (vocals), Det Fonfara (guitar), Achim Bosch (bass), Günter Klinger (drums)
Suzie Steno / Rachenzucke 7" Big Six (1974)
SEXPHONIE (1-12/4/75) LP Kerston 65025 (1975)
It seems that even in 1973 Amon Düül II still wanted to do double albums! But, instead of making WOLF CITY into a double, somehow this side-line project came in to being, fronted by three musicians who had earlier worked together in Passport (on their debut LP). Although since reissued as an Amon Düül II album, Utopia was in fact a different much jazzier and bluesier offering, focusing on Jimmy Jackson and Olaf Kübler's jazz origins, and more on Lothar Meid's songs. The results (featuring in common slightly different versions of "Deutsch Nepal") were yin and yang of each other, if you know what I mean!
Lothar Meid (bass, vocals, Mellotron), Jimmy Jackson (pianos, organs, marimba), Olaf Kübler (saxes, flute, Moog, gong), + Keith Forsey (drums), Andy Marx (guitars), Renate Knaup (vocals), Ralph Basten (vocals), Daniel Fichelscher (drums, congas), John Weinzierl (guitars), Joe Quick (guitar), Norman Tolbert (congas), Rolf Zacher (voice), George Green (drums), Falk-U. Rogner (organ), Siegfried Schwab (guitar), Peter Kramper (Moog), Joe Nay (drums), George Brown (drums), Edgar Hofmann (soprano sax), Chris Karrer (violin, soprano sax), Christian Schultze (electric piano)
UTOPIA LP United Artists UAS 29483 (1973), United Artists UAG 29483 (UK)
The Vampires' Sound Incorporation
An obscure 60's psychedelic exploitation band, notable for featuring Siggi Schwab, aptly playing a music is of that eccentric Wolfgang Dauner OIMELS style, yet so much more chic and clichéd. As Schwab went on to work with Dauner, no doubt this is where much the eccentric psychedelia came from! A recent CD issue, a film soundtrack called THE SEXODELIC DANCE PARTY, also features The Vampires' Sound Incorporation recordings, along with other cheesy jazz and psychedelic pop.

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on an outlawed militant group in India to withdraw threats to a private satellite channel North East Television (NETV).
The group says the network faces “dire consequences” if it does not substantiate a report that has had links with government in the northern Indian province of Assam. The television station is standing by its story and the IFJ is urging the militants to stop making threats and instead take its complaints to industry regulators.
“If there is a genuine complaint it can be dealt with through normal channels of accountability,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. “What is not acceptable is to try to bully media with threats of violence.”
Last week NETV, the only private satellite channel in Northeast India, said that the outlawed terrorist group United Liberation front of Assam (ULFA) warned the channel either to prove allegations that the group is working with the government or stop broadcasting and to leave Assam or “face dire consequences.” Government officials have also criticised the channel’s reports.
After protests from the IFJ, the leaders of ULFA said they did not mean to threaten NETV but had thrown down a challenge to the channel to prove its allegations. The network says it is confident that its reports have been fair and accurate.
The IFJ says ULFA must withdraw all threats and refrain from issuing ultimatums to NETV or other media and is also calling on the government in Delhi to intervene to stop the harassment and threats against NETV and its staff.
NETV’s reporting has upset government officials in the past leading a few months ago to a raid on its offices by the state government officers. In another case the President of the Congress Youth Wing, a major political force, also pressured the channel over stories which established cases of land-grabbing for which he was responsible.
For more information contact the IFJ at 32 2 235 2207
The IFJ represents over 500,000 journalists in more than 100 countries worldwide


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In my last road trip with my boyfriend we went to Aveiro and we had the amazing opportunity to discover the Museum of Aveiro. It’s located in the building of the Convent of Jesus. In this convent lived Saint Joana in the 15th century. This Portuguese princess wanted to become a noun, even though princesses in her time had to marry to maintain or create political relationships. She managed to convince her family to let her go to a convent and she chose to live in Aveiro.
The Convent opened in 1458 and was closed in the 19th century. Nowadays, it maintains the tomb of Saint Joana and a vast collection of religious art from the convent itself and also from other places in Aveiro. I liked the fact that the Museum tells the story of princess Joana and has some of her objects and at the same time it’s a trip in time to religious art. It has sculptures and paintings from different centuries.
It’s a good museum for those who are interested about religious art and about Joana’s life. I enjoyed my experience with this museum, specially because I admire Joana and it was very nice to walk in the same places as she did once.
To find more about this museum, click here.

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Fan-Favorite Cast to Reprise Roles in Highly Anticipated Franchise Finale
What You Need to Know:
- Today, Eleven Arts, a film distribution and production company, announced that they will premiere the English dub version of the film Gintama THE VERY FINAL on Saturday, October 9 at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2021.
- The L.A. based company known for distributing acclaimed anime films such as Millennium Actress, Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms, and most recently SHIROBAKO The Movie, across North America has appointed Houston based ADR studio Sentai Studios for the English dub of Gintama THE VERY FINAL. The leading roles of the Odd Jobs members are reprised by the cast members from Gintama Season 3 (episode 266-316), currently licensed by and streaming on Crunchyroll. Michael Daingerfield (Sesshomaru in INUYASHA: The Final Act, Koichi Sato in NANA) as Gintoki Sakata, Cole Howard (Kyou Yahagi of Cardfight!! Vanguard, Arashi of Zoids Wild) as Shinpachi Shimura, and Jocelyne Loewen (Merle of The Vision of Escaflowne, Milfeuille Sakuraba of Galaxy Angel) as Kagura.
- Kyle Colby Jones (Dororo, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) will reprise his roles from Gintama The Movie, currently licensed by Sentai Filmworks and streaming on HIDIVE, as Shinsuke Takasugi as well as the Director and ADR Writer for the English dub. (For the full cast list, please see below.)
- The highly anticipated finale to the Gintama animated franchise based on one of Japan’s best-selling manga titles with the same name by author Hideaki Sorachi will be in theaters across the U.S. this November. The Japanese (with English subtitles) and English dub will be in theaters on November 21, and the Japanese (with English subtitles) dub will once again be available in theaters on November 22. Theater and ticket information will be released on October 8, 2021 through Fathom Events.
- U.S. Ticketing Page (Fathom): https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Gintama---The-Very-Final?layout_id=1665&preview=1
- Canada Ticketing Page (Cineplex): Coming Soon
- Gintama / Eleven Arts Website: https://www.elevenarts.net/titles/gintama-the-very-final
- Eleven Arts Social Media
“It was important to bring back as many of the original cast as possible for the fans. I hope having the leads from the Ocean Productions cast will honor the series and make the fans happy. In addition to the leads, we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who was able to return to reprise their roles. We’re so excited to premiere it to the world at NYCC.”
Amelie Khuat, Licensing and Localization Manager of Eleven Arts
About Gintama THE VERY FINAL
From Bandai Namco Pictures (Aikatsu!,Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun) and Director Chizuru Miyawaki comes the highly anticipated “very end” to Gintama! The concluding film to the Gintama anime series features the final chapters of one of Japan’s best-selling manga series by author Hideaki Sorachi.
The countdown to destruction has begun! All will join to reclaim an Edo in grave peril! Earth is facing its darkest days, and the members of the Odd Jobs must come together to save it from an otherworldly menace. Old allies Gintoki, Takasugi, and Katsura strive their hardest for their own ideals, but standing in their way is someone with whom they share a sad history: Utsuro, an alternate personality of their former teacher and mentor, Shoyo. Shinpachi, Kagura, the Shinsengumi, members of the Kabuki District, and even former enemies will join their fight. As Utsuro's power grows, Takasugi fights for his very life. Will Gintoki be able to put an end to all this?!
About Eleven Arts
Eleven Arts is a Los Angeles-based distribution company known for bringing acclaimed anime films to North America. Eleven Arts’ anime titles most recently include SHIROBAKO The Movie, The Wonderland, Millennium Actress, Sound! Euphonium: Our Promise A Brand New Day, Penguin Highway, Liz and the Blue Bird, Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms, and A Silent Voice.
Source: Official Press Release

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Parents in Sport Week: 7-13 October 2019
Active Sussex joins forces with the NSPCC to promote Parents in Sport Week 2019
The NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) and Active Sussex have joined forces to promote the launch of the Sports Parents Promise, as part of the annual national awareness raising campaign - Parents in Sport Week.
The Promise outlines all the ways in which parents can be the best sports parents they can be, by ensuring their child has safe and enjoyable experiences of sport.
Parents can make the Promise online and, in return, they'll be directed to vital information about how to keep their child safe in sport. They can also download a certificate of their own to share on social media or print out and stick up on the fridge.
We want our sports clubs and physical activity deliverers to champion our efforts from October 7-13th to spread the crucial supporting and positive role that parents play, and encourage parents to make the Promise today.
Aims of Parents in Sport Week
We encourage sports clubs and physical activity deliverers to recognise and promote the positive and important role parents play in helping children reach their full potential. To do this, they can:
- work with parents through your club or organisation, letting them know how valuable their contribution to youth sport is and
encourage them to get involved
- work with parents to reflect on the demands they’re encountering and then identify strategies to manage those demands
- use the hashtags #SportsParents to show your support and spread the word online.
Make the Sports Parents Promise
Parents play a pivotal role in sport and young people depend on their support and encouragement. The three point promise highlights how you can be a great sports parent.
You can click each point for advice and tips on ways you can fulfill your promise.
For more information
If you want to find out more about safeguarding in sport in Sussex please visit our pages.
We also run safeguarding workshops for coaches, volunteers and club personnel.

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Red Cherry ( 1995 ) , Telugu
Synopsis: " Red Cherry was made in China in 1995 under the title Hong ying tao starring Ke-Yu Guo, Vladmill Nizmiroff, Xu Xiaoling. The movie was based on the true story of Chuchu, a 13-year-old Chinese girl, and Luo Xiaoman, a 12-year-old Chinese boy, who were sent to Moscow, Russia in the 1940s and enrolled into an international boarding school. There they had so many great and difficult experiences as they tried to survive during World War II. The children's real encounter with fate began as kanikuli (summer break) arrived, Chuchu accompanied her class to a children's camp in Byelorussia, while Xiaoman remained in Moscow. Then, Russia was invaded by Germany's Operation Barbarossa. Red Cherry is basically an account of the two orphans' parallel experiences of the war. "

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A Colorado man who became the first reported person in the US to have a COVID-19 variant that is spreading in the United Kingdom hadn’t been traveling, health officials have said, triggering a host of questions about how the new strain showed up in the Rockies.
Colorado officials were expected to provide more details at a news conference Wednesday about how the man in his 20s from a mostly rural area of rolling plains at the edge of the Denver metro area came down with the variant.
For the moment, the variant is likely still rare in the US. Still, the lack of travel history in the first case means it is spreading, probably seeded by travelers from Britain in November or December, said scientist Trevor Bedford. He studies the spread of COVID-19 at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Now Im worried there will be another spring wave due to the variant, Bedford said. Its a race with the vaccine, but the virus has just gotten a bit faster.
State health officials said that the man is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County. Elbert County is a mainly rural area of rolling plains at the far edge of the Denver metro area that includes a portion of Interstate 70, the states main east-west highway.
Colorado Politics reported there is a second suspected case of the variant in the state according to Dwayne Smith, director of public health for Elbert County. Both of the people were working in the Elbert County community of Simla. Neither of them are residents of that county expanding the possibility of the variant’s spread throughout the state.
Scientists in the UK believe the variant is more contagious than previously identified strains. The vaccines being given now are thought to be effective against the variant, Colorado health officials said in a news release.
Bedford said that being more transmissible is no good, adding that the variant will make it harder to rein in the pandemic.
Its not clear exactly why the variant appears to spread faster. It has an unusually large number of genetic changes, or mutations, particularly in areas that affect the Spike protein, according to reports by Public Health England.
And the variant has a quirk: It fails to light up one of three targets in PCR testing, which has allowed scientists in Britain to more easily sort out and compare the variant infections with those caused by the regular coronavirus. So far, theyve found no significant difference in hospitalizations or deaths.
Bedford said that Public Health England deserves praise for that work, and the United States will struggle to accomplish anything similar because of the fragmented U.S. health care system.
He said you’ll have academics and public health in different states doing their own studies. I wouldnt imagine being able to do anything systematically at the national scale.
The Colorado State Laboratory confirmed the virus variant, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was notified. Gov Jared Polis announced the case Tuesday, adding urgency to efforts to vaccinate Americans.
Public health officials are investigating other potential cases and performing contact tracing to determine the spread of the variant throughout the state.
There is a lot we dont know about this new COVID-19 variant, but scientists in the United Kingdom are warning the world that it is significantly more contagious. The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority, and we will closely monitor this case, as well as all COVID-19 indicators,” Polis said.
The discovery of the new variant led the CDC to issue new rules on Christmas Day for travelers arriving to the US from the UK, requiring they show proof of a negative COVID-19 test.
Worry has been growing about the variant since the weekend before Christmas, when Britains prime minister said a new strain of the coronavirus seemed to spread more easily than earlier ones and was moving rapidly through England. The nation’s first variant case was identified in southeast England.
Dozens of countries barred flights from the U.K., and southern England was placed under strict lockdown measures. Scientists say there is a reason for concern but the new strains should not cause alarm.

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Two Conway residents were killed and one was injured Wednesday in a two-vehicle accident at Highway 365 and Plantation Drive/River Road, according to an Arkansas State Police preliminary crash report.
The collision occurred at 6:28 p.m.
Killed were Joe Lasker, 62, 17 Royal Lane, and Daniel Southard, 35, 333 Old Military Road.
Injured was one of the vehicle’s drivers, Mary Lasker, 65, sharing Joe Lasker’s address.
Southard was driving northbound on HWY 365 when Mary Lasker attempted to pass traffic as she was traveling in the southbound lane.
According to the report, Mary Lasker drove a 2009 Pontiac Vibe into the northbound lane, striking the front of Southard’s vehicle, a 2005 Buick LeSabre.


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The multi-million pound overhaul could also include two stations between Wolverhampton and Walsall, it has been confirmed.
A new train and Metro station at the Merry Hill shopping centre in Brierley Hill could mean passengers from Wolverhampton would be able to get to the shopping centre by train for the first time.
At the moment shoppers from Wolverhampton have to catch a bus to the centre that can take more than an hour.
Meanwhile West Midlands Railway trains would also run on the Severn Valley Railway line to serve a new station at West Midland Safari Park.
The main line would leave the line at Kidderminster and split onto the Severn Valley Railway before stopping at a new station at the West Midland Safari Park, said West Midland Railways spokesman Nick Brown.
The proposals rest on the outcome of ‘feasibility assessments’, say the operator, which has now officially taken control of Wolverhampton Railway Station from Virgin Trains.
There are plans to introduce 20,000 extra seats and standing room for an additional 50,000 passengers at peak time in and around Birmingham, as well as additional late night and Sunday services across the region.
The other three of seven new stations could be in Birmingham at Camp Hill Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell.
The plan is being led by West Midlands Railway, West Midlands Combined Authority, Wolverhampton council and Transport for West Midlands.
Leader of Wolverhampton council Councillor Roger Lawrence said: “The whole thing is really quite exciting and the whole project is moving forward at pace.”

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In-Store Shopping Temporarily Closed Due to Mandatory Lockdown
This striped wool sock collection allows you to get two identical socks!
Separated in two and already wound, the balls are ready to be worked and start at the same place of the pattern to allow you to make 2 identical stockings. Everything to make your life easier!
Fibre: 80% Superwash Merino | 20% Nylon
Yardage/Meterage: 405 Yards / 370 Meters
Needle Size: (US1) 2.5mm
Knitting Gauge: 30 stitches = 10 cm / 30 stitches = 4 ''
Care Instructions: Machine wash cold, dry flat.
Made in Quebec


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On the back of the huge success that Apex Legends has found since it release on 4th February, 2019, Respawn Entertainment have been working on another project – a story driven entry into the EA/Star Wars video game partnership entitled, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
We’ve already had Star Wars: Battlefront (I and II) from DICE, but now it’s Respawn’s turn to show us gamers what they can do with such an important franchise. Fans are clearly hoping for a single-player experience that we haven’t really had since Star Wars: The Force Unleashed days.
Apex Legends has show gamers that Respawn can create pure and fun gameplay with an original IP, but here’s hoping that they can delivery on a character focused story and a true Star Wars experience that people will be expecting.
Judging from the first reveal trailer, we could be in for a treat!
Let us know your thoughts in the comments as per usual.


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This unique wall art features a 3-dimensional design with five winter-frosted trees along a picket fence. Beautiful anywhere in your home, a hook on back makes hanging easy. Some assembly required. Iron. 25 1/2"L x 21"H.
Lighted canvas art features a beautiful park scene with trees in full autumn colors. Six yellow LED lights bring this unique artwork to life by adding a warm glow to the streetlights. Req. 2 "AA" batteries (sold separately). On/off switch on the side. Hook on the back for easy hanging. Polyester and wood. 19 3/4"L x 13"H.
Give your home some country charm with the sweet design of this primitive style wall art. The rustic house is flanked by two trees and a fence, while the windows of the house light with a warm, welcoming glow. Remote included. Req. 2 "AA" batteries (sold separately). Hook on back for easy hanging. Plastic and metal. Measures 19 3/4"L x 2"W x 7 1/2"H.
Elegant cherry blossom branches add color, texture and dimension to your home. Featuring carefully hand-painted cherry tree flowers and beautiful songbirds in a unique, three-dimensional design, this metal wall art adds the finishing touch to your decor. Hooks on back for easy hanging. Iron. 24 1/4"L x 28 1/2"H.
Set of 4 canvases feature a section of a beautiful tree against rich Autumn hues of olive, brown, burgundy and blue. Each panel has a hook on the back for easy hanging. Wood and cotton. Each panel measure 12 1/2"Sq. x 1 1/2"W to form 25"Sq. art.
Display these fun frogs on a wall, fence or tree for a whimsical addition to your home or garden. Set includes 3 hand-painted frogs in different climbing positions. Hooks on back make hanging easy. Resin. Largest frog is 18 1/3"L x 6 1/4"W x 3 1/3"H.
This stunning wall art features metal leaves with an open lacy design along a gracefully arching branch. Hung horizontally or vertically, it's uniquely beautiful anywhere in your home. Hooks on back for hanging. Iron. Measures 30"L x 17"H.
This beautiful autumn scene features colorful trees surrounding a rustic red barn. The lights in the windows and on the fence glow with warm light and the wreath on the barn shines with color-changing, fiber-optic lights. Req. 2 "AA" batteries (sold separately). Includes an on/off switch on the side and a hook on the back for easy hanging. Polyester and wood. 17"L x 13"H.


In addition, season 10 alum Hannah Huston returns for a special 'Amazon homecoming' performance of her new single 'I Alone Have Loved You'
NBC's "The Voice" will welcome its four-time winning coach Blake Shelton to the stage as he performs his new hit single "A Guy With a Girl" on Tuesday, Dec. 6 (8 p.m. ET). The song is the third single from his current album, "If I'm Honest," which is the best-selling country album released this year.
Shelton recently announced plans for next year's "Doing It to Country Songs" tour, which will kick off in February and includes former "Voice" artist RaeLynn as his opener. Shelton also just won the American Music Award for Favorite Male Artist - Country.
Multiplatinum, Grammy-nominated band OneRepublic will also appear on the Dec. 6 live show to sing "Let's Hurt Tonight" from their new album, "Oh My My." The song will also be featured in the upcoming Warner Bros. film "Collateral Beauty."
The quintet recently released "Oh My My," its fourth studio album, on Oct. 7 on Mosley/Interscope Records. The follow-up to "Native," "Oh My My" debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200.
In addition, season 10 finalist Hannah Huston will return to the show on Tuesday for a special homecoming performance. Huston, who advanced to the final four as part of Team Pharrell, will debut her new single, "I Alone Have Loved You." Fans voted through Amazon Echo and "The Voice Official App" to determine which "Voice" alumni artist would return for a homecoming performance.
"The Voice" is averaging a 3.1 rating in adults 18-49 and 12.2 million viewers overall with its Monday and Tuesday editions in "most current" results from Nielsen Media Research, giving it an increases versus the prior cycle of 3 percent in 18-49 rating (3.1 vs. 3.0).
"The Voice" ranks as TV's No. 1 alternative series in adults 18-49, a status the show has maintained over the past four seasons. With both its editions ranking in the top 10 among entertainment telecasts on the "Big 4" networks in adults 18-49 and total viewers, "The Voice" remains a key contributor to NBC's consistent nightlong wins among those networks on both Monday and Tuesday nights.


Oxfam Prostitution Scandal in Haiti Deepens Suspicions of Other NGOs
The sexual misconduct scandal involving Oxfam in Haiti further deepens Haitians’ suspicions of NGOs, which have already contributed to the profound neoliberalization of Haitian society explains Haiti Liberte’s Kim Ives.
SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. The scandal involving the British aid organization Oxfam took a new turn on Thursday when the government of Haiti announced that the group would be suspended from all activity in Haiti for a period of two months. During that time, the government will conduct an investigation into the reports that Oxfam aid workers engaged in sexual misconduct in the period following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.The story of sexual misconduct among Oxfam workers first emerged two weeks ago, when the British newspaper The Times revealed that an Oxfam whistleblower had alerted the organization to the issue back in 2011. Oxfam at the time conducted a secret investigation and six Oxfam workers were forced to leave as a result. Earlier this week, Oxfam’s chief executive, Mark Goldring, issued an apology for the misconduct during a parliamentary hearing.
MARK GOLDRING: I am sorry, we are sorry, for the damage that Oxfam has done, both to the people of Haiti, but also to wider efforts for aid and development by possibly undermining public support. So, I wholeheartedly apologize for those comments, and commit to work in that greater public interest so that Oxfam can make a powerful role in the work that we all believe in.
SHARMINI PERIES: To analyze the broader context in which this aid work scandal has broken is Kim Ives. Kim is an editor for Haiti Liberté and Haiti’s largest newspaper. He joins us today from Brooklyn. Thank you so much for joining us, Kim.
KIM IVES: Thank you.
SHARMINI PERIES: So Kim, tell us more about exactly what Oxfam workers are being accused of in terms of this scandal involving their organization.
KIM IVES: Well, they’re being accused of holding Caligula-like orgies in Oxfam housing. The national director, who I believe was the seventh person forced to resign, also allegedly engaged in prostitution with a 16-year-old. There were many other Haitian minors who were apparently involved, even though Oxfam claims it found no evidence of that. People have also been accused of downloading pornographic material, so it seems to be going fairly far into minutiae. This is within the context, of course, of the post-earthquake disaster, where they were supposed to be helping Haitians, not using them for pleasure.
SHARMINI PERIES: Kim, how is this scandal being received in Haiti? Now, I know this is not new, because the peacekeepers were also charged with and was found to be involved in similar activities. That’s the UN Peacekeeping Forces. The Secretary General actually had to come out and make several apologies related to that, but how is this being an NGO, is it different? Are people more scandalized by these findings?
KIM IVES: I think people knew it. It’s an open secret in Haiti. The NGOs are really just like the good cops next to the so-called peacekeepers, Haitians call them US occupation troops, which are the bad cops. One carries a gun, and the other carries a pen, but they essentially serve the same empire. They’re both parts of the neoliberal domination of the country. The peacekeepers are there to, in a sense, debilitate the state, and the NGOs are there to fill in the gaps created by that debilitation.The reaction on the official level is now great outrage. They’re shocked, shocked that such a thing has happened and they’ve given this two-month hiatus in their operations. But it’s really opening an open door or I should say closing a closed door because Oxfam Great Britain was not functioning in Haiti anyway. And the other Oxfam organizations of Oxfam International, at least three of them, are still functioning in the country. So, it’s a largely symbolic move by the Haitian government to look as if they’re as outraged as everybody else.
SHARMINI PERIES: Does the Haitian government have responsibility for this type of behavior on the part of Oxfam, and I imagine other NGOs working there, as well?
KIM IVES: As I say, this Haitian government, like past ones, is very weak and has been weakened precisely by Washington’s policies in Haiti. This is really a conscious move on Washington’s part. Over the past two centuries, which essentially started with Haiti as the first independent nation of Latin America in 1804, we have seen a lot of former colonies gain independence, but they became in essence neo-colonies. This was through the imposition of… formerly, they did it with dictators, but that created too many revolutions, too many Che Guevaras. So, now they engineer elections in these countries.That’s what they did in Haiti. They engineered an election which put in power a neo-Duvalierist government. This government is basically an appendage of Washington, or I could say a product of Washington’s election engineering. Previous governments I can’t say did much better, but that’s because they are so debilitated by this neoliberal imperial regime that exists not just in Haiti but really throughout Latin America and most of the Third World.
SHARMINI PERIES: Now, last week, President Moïse said that this scandal was the visible part of the iceberg. What did he mean by that? Is there other incidents similar to this involving NGOs that is still come to light?
KIM IVES: Oh yes. I was speaking actually to a PhD doctor who has been working in Haiti for 30 years, and he estimates that at least 50% of the NGO workers and officials in Haiti engage in prostitution of this nature. You know, they’ve gotten six or seven people here. Apparently 26 others are now in the dock for this type of thing. And I think it is just the tip of iceberg, as many have said.
SHARMINI PERIES: That’s a large number of NGOs. Is there evidence of this kind of behavior officially documented that the president is referring to?
KIM IVES: Well, no, I don’t think it’s been documented precisely, although it’s seen by the Haitian people. They see these NGO workers going to parties and hanging out in Pétion-Ville, that’s the chic suburb of Port-au-Prince, having parties, having prostitutes, and so on and so forth.
In a way, I just think we should say that this is almost a distraction,because the harm the NGOs are doing to Haiti is much greater than just using some prostitutes or having some girls over for a party.They have really debilitated Haiti. You have to ask yourself, how is it that Haiti, which is sometimes called the Republic of NGOs, why is this country with the most NGOs per capita in the world also one of the poorest on the quality of life index, while its neighbor, which has the lowest number of NGOs and the most controlled NGOs in the world, has the highest quality of life? I’m speaking about Cuba. So, we can really see a correlation between the presence of NGOs and the very difficult life quality. A lot of exploitative things happen. A lot of offensive things happen. I think people’s dignity is basically trampled when these NGOs come to town, along with the peacekeepers.
SHARMINI PERIES: Now, the NGOs are there because there is no state infrastructure to respond to the needs of the people. And so, if these NGOs were pulled out of the scene, what is left? What is going to be there to actually support and assist people make their livelihood healthy and sustainable?
KIM IVES: I think the Haitian people are capable of self-determination. I think they can govern themselves. They built a country against great odds 200 years ago in 1804. They created many institutions. They created industries, agriculture. But the arrival of the U.S. Marines in 1915 really marked the beginning of a long descent of Haitian agriculture, and industry and culture even. We’re really almost at the nadir now, I believe. And what we’re experiencing with these NGOs who are in there supposedly to fill the void: If they were gone, if the peacekeepers were gone, if all the US and European oppressive presence was gone, I think Haiti would be fine.
And this is what I think countries, not just Haiti, but countries throughout the Third World are asking. They want self-determination. They want the First World off their back. They come to those countries. They suck out the resources. They meddle in the politics. They dictate to the central bank and to the directors of the nation in terms of political and economic affairs, how to conduct their affairs. So, that’s why they’re called neo-colonies, and I think they would do very well without the US big brother telling them what to do.
SHARMINI PERIES: Kim, while I agree with you that Haiti has an incredibly militant revolutionary past which involves the likes of Simón Bolívar and Toussaint L’Ouverture, and others that you can mention, but they’re not there at the moment. And if these NGOs were to be pulled out at this moment, it would leave a huge vacuum in terms of basic health and infrastructure services currently being provided by them. What would actually happen to the people, the children, the young orphans left behind and so on?
KIM IVES: Well, I don’t think there would be the collapse we think. I think, on the contrary, the NGOs have supplanted a lot of Haitian institutions. They’ve pushed out a lot of Haitian institutions. What was happening a lot, really before the arrival of the NGOs, were revolutionary movements, were mass organizations that were fighting to keep and take back control of their country. But the NGOs came in, and they’re very insidious because they use a lot of the same vocabulary: “popular power,” “empowerment,” “bottom up,” “grassroots,” this and that. No, they are fundamentally wolves in sheep’s clothing, I believe. Unfortunately, Oxfam is one of the more progressive of them. We know their index on poverty, where they show that the wealth gap that’s growing in the world under capitalism. So, Oxfam’s to be commended for those good things they did, but fundamentally, they’re part of this NGO phenomenon, which is a part of neoliberalism, of imperialism. They are fundamentally the agents of imperialism, much the way the missionaries back in the 16th and 17th century were the agents of the colonial powers. So, the format has changed, and they’re a little more sophisticated but this is really their role.
SHARMINI PERIES: All right, Kim. I thank you so much for joining us today and this is a very important story. I hope we can come back to it and cover it with you as it unravels itself.
KIM IVES: Thank you very much. I’m glad to be with The Real News.
SHARMINI PERIES: Thank you for joining us here on The Real News Network.


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Systems biology and in vitro validation identifies family with sequence similarity 129 member A (FAM129A) as an asthma steroid response modulator. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 11; 142(5):1479-1488.e12.
A functional splice variant associated with decreased asthma risk abolishes the ability of gasdermin B to induce epithelial cell pyroptosis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 11; 142(5):1469-1478.e2.
A high-throughput chemical screen identifies novel inhibitors and enhancers of anti-inflammatory functions of the glucocorticoid receptor. Sci Rep. 2017 08 07; 7(1):7405.
RNA-Seq transcriptome profiling identifies CRISPLD2 as a glucocorticoid responsive gene that modulates cytokine function in airway smooth muscle cells. PLoS One. 2014; 9(6):e99625.
MicroRNA-10a controls airway smooth muscle cell proliferation via direct targeting of the PI3 kinase pathway. FASEB J. 2014 May; 28(5):2347-57.
Genome-wide association analysis in asthma subjects identifies SPATS2L as a novel bronchodilator response gene. PLoS Genet. 2012 Jul; 8(7):e1002824.
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Circulating microRNAs and association with methacholine PC20 in the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) cohort. PLoS One. 2017; 12(7):e0180329.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Luis Cortes started his career working at a fast-food chain for minimum wage.
Decades later, after a lot of hard work, this Mexican immigrant and DACA recipient made his dreams of owning his own place come true — now the proud owner of Red Bicycle Coffee off Nolensville Pike.
He hopes to bring more diversity and awareness to Latino-owned businesses and hopes to put the area of Woodbine on the Nashville map.
Cortes moved to the U.S. with his parents when he was seven. When he was just 17, his parents were shipped back to Mexico and he was left to make a life of his own.
Cortes is now a “Dreamer.” It’s a fitting title for the man who never gave up, even after he was told several times he would do nothing other than work in construction or mow lawns.
“Why is that the ceiling?” Cortes asked. “I feel we are here to do something greater than ourselves.”
So he did.
He came to Nashville in 2009 and started working for Chipotle Mexican Grill as a dishwasher. After ten years of service, he earned the title of Director of Operations — running 26 locations and opening 48.
He recently met his wife, Cynthia, who is a math professor at Columbia State and loves baking in her spare time. They dreamed of uniting their skills and owning their own place, eventually leading to the purchase of Red Bicycle Coffee.
“This location [Red Bicycle] wasn’t even here when I moved to Nashville. It was filled with auto repair shops and tire shops,” Cortes said.
As he grew as an entrepreneur with the help of several mentors, Nashville grew too.
“It’s on the map but not on the social map and that’s come up now with the Nashville soccer stadium being built. There’s a lot of new development. So, it’s all happening really quickly, and there’s not a lot of local businesses that are I think sewing into the community to support that growth,” Cynthia said.
They both feel the Woodbine area has been left on the back burner and that it’s their opportunity to step up and put it on the map.
“I think my message is for people to not be limited because they don’t have citizenship or they come from a different background. I think America is a land of opportunities. It doesn’t matter where you come from. If you put your mind to it, this country opens the doors for anyone willing to go for it,” Cortes said.
The couple is now focusing on community outreach within the Woodbine community, hoping to make the area a better place to live.
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“A city like Nashville can inspire so much hunger and drive for our community, and how entrepreneurs like us hope to make an impact within,” Cortes said.


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.5 lb homemade or store bought pizza dough in 6 pieces
Coarse salt and ground pepper
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1 large tomato, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lightly brush 6 standard muffin
cups with oil. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out each
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Hypothesis Testing for Shapes Using Vectorized Persistence Diagrams (2020)Chul Moon, Nicole A. Lazar
AbstractTopological data analysis involves the statistical characterization of the shape of data. Persistent homology is a primary tool of topological data analysis, which can be used to analyze those topological features and perform statistical inference. In this paper, we present a two-stage hypothesis test for vectorized persistence diagrams. The first stage filters elements in the vectorized persistence diagrams to reduce false positives. The second stage consists of multiple hypothesis tests, with false positives controlled by false discovery rates. We demonstrate applications of the proposed procedure on simulated point clouds and three-dimensional rock image data. Our results show that the proposed hypothesis tests can provide flexible and informative inferences on the shape of data with lower computational cost compared to the permutation test.
Statistical Topological Data Analysis - A Kernel Perspective (2015)Roland Kwitt, Stefan Huber, Marc Niethammer, Weili Lin, Ulrich Bauer
AbstractWe consider the problem of statistical computations with persistence diagrams, a summary representation of topological features in data. These diagrams encode persistent homology, a widely used invariant in topological data analysis. While several avenues towards a statistical treatment of the diagrams have been explored recently, we follow an alternative route that is motivated by the success of methods based on the embedding of probability measures into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In fact, a positive definite kernel on persistence diagrams has recently been proposed, connecting persistent homology to popular kernel-based learning techniques such as support vector machines. However, important properties of that kernel enabling a principled use in the context of probability measure embeddings remain to be explored. Our contribution is to close this gap by proving universality of a variant of the original kernel, and to demonstrate its effective use in two-sample hypothesis testing on synthetic as well as real-world data.


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Efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate barriers created by social pressures were the topic of a community discussion Tuesday led by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Merced County.
The event at the Hoffmeister Center brought together social service groups, mental health professionals, and business and community leaders to discuss overcoming mental health challenges. More than 170 people attended, organizers said.
“Unfortunately, many people still don’t seek help even when they have health care that covers those services,” said Scott De Moss, Merced County’s acting mental health director.
“I think we’ve seen some really positive changes in the community from (the Mental Health Act) funds that give us the opportunity to create programs designed for local people,” said Marilyn Mochel, a NAMI spokeswoman. Mochel said many people fail to understand the link between mental health and physical health, which she described as “really interwoven.”
“You can’t have real health without both,” she said.
“Historically, I think people with mental illnesses have been kept isolated, and the severely mentally ill were kept in places and treated in ways that others certainly didn’t want to experience or to be treated the same way. People are still concerned about how they’ll be treated today because we don’t talk about mental illness enough.”
Mochel said one in four adults experience mental illness each year, as do one in five children. Frequently disorders such as depression and anxiety stem from common struggles including unemployment, foreclosure, physical disabilities and stress. The difference between coping and sliding into mental illness can be difficult for people to acknowledge.
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- Mentally ill get housing help in Merced (mercedsunstar.com)
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The appeal of wood pellets isn’t lost on many people and its popularity has actually risen in the last couple of years as a viable heating option. With the state of the economy at its one of lowest points and with the rising price of oil and gas – there is no doubt that the market for wood pellet mill continue to grow faster. It is understandable if you are caught in the hype, but you should know that wood pellets are not your only option! In fact, they are not only one but many forms of fuel pellets that are available out there. As an example, there is paper pellet mill. What are your other options then?
Aside from wood, you can actually use other bio materials to be processed into pellets. This may have not crossed your mind, but paper can actually be used as a great material for the pellet mills. Another form of paper that you can use is the cardboard. The amount of paper and cardboard waste in the country is enormous – and most really aren’t used properly and ended up being recycled. Recycling paper and cardboard is quite the obvious option, but why not be creative and use them for something that can heat your house. Making pellet mill paper isn’t that hard – so take the chance to be creative and do something different for a change.
All those paper and cardboard waste that go the landfill sometimes end up being exported to other countries. It is best to try and use it locally instead as the materials for pellet mill. The waste can be turned into pellets which can power hundreds of pellets mills here. Aside from using them in boilers or stoves, it is also possible to make use of the waste as a solid fuel stove.
Paper pellet mill is not really new – but it is true that not enough information is available out there to entice people to start it. While there’s nothing wrong with wood pellet mill, there is no harm in introducing something that is equally good if not better.


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develoPPP Ventures opens application for Idea Competition, winners get up to €100,000
develoPPP Ventures Ghana, a catalyst for change for local impact driven businesses, has opened applications for its Idea Competition, an initiative for Ghana’s innovative startups to scale up and positively impact local communities.
Selected companies can obtain up to €100,000 in grant funding to scale their innovations.
A press release issued by develoPPP Ventures Ghana, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the initial selection would be based on idea competitions, leading to a pitch event.
Successful companies would undergo due diligence before a contract is concluded, and funds are disbursed.
“This time, the initiative targets young, dynamic growth-stage companies in Ghana with innovative business models aimed at positively impacting local communities and ready for scaling,” it said.
“Special emphasis is placed on women-led startups and those promoting gender equality, aligning with the 2X Challenge criteria.”
By applying to develoPPP Ventures Ghana, eligible businesses could benefit in many ways including visibility, where they could tap into the extensive network and expertise of the matching-fund and its partners.
They would also receive tailored support to maximise their chances of success.
Through annual and bi-annual calls for applications in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania, develoPPP Ventures welcomes all startups that meet the eligibility criteria.
The release said prospective participants were required to be registered in Ghana or plan to do so before receiving investment, with at least one annual financial statement provided.
They must showcase a viable business model with a relevant product or service already on the market, generating initial revenues (proof-of-concept).
Applicants must also provide evidence of commitment or investment from other investors equalling the amount of the grant financing (€100,000 in this case).
They must submit, by March 31, 2024, a sound financial and strategic business plans covering a three-year period, outlining how the funds would be utilised for growth and achieving break-even.
The applicant’s business model should demonstrate significant development relevance, scalability, and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“To participate, interested companies should visit this website for detailed participation conditions and application submission,” the release said.
develoPPP is a funding scheme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
It is aimed at companies that want to invest sustainably in a developing or emerging country and expand their local operations.
Prerequisites for support are a long-term business interest in the country and a sustainable developmental benefit for the local people.
The scheme offers customised funding opportunities for already well-established companies as well as aspiring start-ups.

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With barely a ripple of discussion, the Common Council voted Tuesday to approve a residency restriction ordinance that will severely limit where convicted sex offenders can live in Milwaukee.
The 8-6 vote was a shot across the bow to the state’s Department of Corrections, which has resisted city pleas to stop placing sex offenders in Milwaukee and come up with a new statewide system for placement.
Statistics from the Department of Corrections indicate more than 85% of all of the sex offenders living in Milwaukee County reside in the city. Mayor Tom Barrett, Common Council President Michael Murphy and other aldermen have urged Corrections Secretary Edward Wall and Grace Roberts, who runs the state’s sex offender program, to sign a letter asking Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to take legal action against municipalities that enact residency restriction ordinances.
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Effect of unsaturated fatty acids on the biosynthesis of glucose-repressed enzymes in yeast.Biochim Biophys Acta. 1981 Oct 12; 677(2):200-4.BB
In anaerobically glucose-grown yeast isocitrate lyase (EC 184.108.40.206.), and malate dehydrogenase (EC 220.127.116.11.) are repressed by glucose. 24 h cultures still contain 0.3--0.4% glucose in the medium, which is enough to completely repress these activities. Aeration of these cells, in buffer containing acetate, initiates the formation of the three enzymes. Within 16 h, the specific activities of these enzymes increase about 140, 120 and 70-fold, respectively. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was not altered. When the yeast was grown anaerobically, but with a supplement of an unsaturated fatty acid in the medium, synthesis of the three enzymes was much faster and the specific activities after 16 h of derepression were considerably higher. A relationship exists between the number of double bonds in the unsaturated fatty acid molecule and its capability to stimulate enzyme synthesis: linolenic acid is more effective than linoleic acid, which, in turn, is much more effective than oleic acid. Increasing periods of aeration with glucose of anaerobically grown cells prior to derepression results in an increasing stimulation of enzyme synthesis on subsequent derepression. Anaerobic incubation of yeast in the presence of an unsaturated fatty acid in advance to derepression also increased the velocity of enzyme formation. It is suggested that during the aeration period with glucose and during anaerobic incubation with an unsaturated fatty acid a more active protein synthesizing apparatus was formed.

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