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If you are familiar with ancient Celtic symbols, you must have come across the Awen. Let us quickly delve into the history, meaning, and importance of this neo-druid symbol.
Celtic signs and symbols hold exceptional power in the way of life of ancient Celts. The Celts belonged to the Iron Age and lived in small villages led by warrior chiefs. Today, experts refer to the ancient Celts as those who lived in Western Europe and Britain from 500BC and 400AD. As such, Ireland is home to various civilizations, owing to its rich heritage, culture, and history. Celtic symbols like the Awen are a crucial part of Irish heritage. In this modern age, many people who enjoy Irish culture wear it in the form of jewelry, tattoos, or building designs and architecture. Without further ado, let us learn more about the Awen Celtic symbol.
The Awen of the Three Rays of Light
Popularly seen on various designs for artwork, jewelry, and tattoos, the Awen is a neo-druid symbol with multiple meanings. Its design is relatively simple as it contains three rays that lead up to a path that has a high point with three dots from the cauldron of the goddess Ceridwen. The three rays represent a triad and usually come in the colors green, white, and blue.
The triad stands for the three Druid grades; Ovate, Bard, and Druid. The whole symbol is within three circles and has several meanings attached to it. The purpose of each ray of light in the Awen varies from one culture to the next. Similarly, the Awen is the first letter in the English alphabet, from which all the other letters in the alphabet originate from.
The meaning of the Awen
Awen is a Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poetic word meaning inspiration or essence. Often, it is the inspiration for creative people, like poets, artists, or soothsayers. As discussed earlier, the Awen consists of various interpretations, with some cultures viewing it from the circles and others understanding it from the three rays of light perspective.
In the Celtic culture as well as in Druidry, the number three is quite sacred. According to them, everything in the world exists in threefold. For instance, the existence of positive, negative, and neutral, and the philosophy to understand, love, and to maintain the truth, all exist in a threefold sequence.
As such, when interpreting this symbol from the three rays of light perspective, you may have several meanings. In some cultures, the three rays of light symbolize the harmony and balance of opposite forces in the universe. The two outer rays represent female and male energy, with the center ray representing the balance between the two rays.
According to other interpretations, the three rays of light represent the three divisions of the soul (the spirit, mind, and body). Others believe it represents the realms of existence that we live in (sea, sky, and land). Some communities also interpret it as nature, truth, and knowledge, while others take it to mean the upper world, middle, and the underworld. It may also mean love, truth, and wisdom. The interpretation of this symbol depends on the morals and history of the particular community.
Other cultures interpret the Awen by looking at the three circles that surround the symbol. The circles explain the timeless and cyclical nature of the three spheres of creation. Contemporary Druid groups consider the Awen as a symbol that represents divine illumination and inspiration for writers, poets, artists, creatives, and writers. Many people translate it to mean ‘flowing spirit’ as said among the Welsh. Simply put, it means to awaken the spirit and your own energy and stretch it around the energy in our environment.
According to the Welsh and modern-day Druid groups, it means opening one’s self, mind and spirit to deeply see and understand what connects us to the life we live. It is only when we are fully open that we get to receive the divine gifts and the inspiration that flows, whether from nature, a form of diety, or whatever you choose to focus on.
A relationship must exist for Awen to indeed apply. You cannot inspire unless you are genuinely open and vulnerable. Similarly, you cannot be truly open unless there is a substantial relationship/connection to a god, thunder, or nature. The Awen exists in a cyclic nature in that you can only receive your divine gift when you are open and giving to yourself.
The origin of the Awen
The Awen energy dates back to the medieval texts that explain the tale of Taliesin and Ceridwen. According to the history books, the goddess Ceridwen was preparing a special potion for her beloved son, Afagddu. Tended by Gwion Bach, the brew bubbled over, and some drops burnt Gwion as he was stirring the pot. He quickly put his thumb in his mouth to ease the pain, taking the magic that was for the goddess’s son.
When the goddess came to learn of this, she was enraged and chased him, eventually eating him and then rebirthing him again. Upon his birth, he put him on a boat, and after many years he was discovered alive and renamed Taliesin. Due to his famous brow, he became the most popular Bard of Britain. As a result, the Awen was some kind of initiation and transition, like Gwion did through the goddess and her special brew. However, the enlightenment and awareness that comes from the Awen also arise great trials and tribulations.
Similarly, the Awen symbol was an invention by Welsh poet, lolo Morgannwg, in the 18th century. However, according to the tale, many people believe the Awen is older than initially written in history books. More so, the word ‘Awen’ first appeared in ‘Historia Brittonum,’ a 9th-century book, which is thought to be written by Nennius, a Welsh monk.
Due to the adoption of the Awen by Neo-Druids, the symbol is quite famous in these modern times. Numerous artists have gained inspiration from this symbol as it is still highly influential to date. As a result, it is one of the most powerful Celtic symbols in the Irish culture and heritage.
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This August 17th, River City Bangkok will host its monthly musical performance in RCB Artery. You will not want to miss this!
Performed by the students of Mahidol University’s College of Music, the concert will showcase how the country’s most familiar tunes and hits are transformed and reinterpreted for the saxophone. Focusing on “Siam Pop”, you will be able to look forward to songs, such as Joob (Kiss), Jak Ni Bai Jon Niran (Now Until Forever), and Yut (Stop), played live in a completely new and enchanting way.
The quintet to performance includes: Jirut Kattiyakul, Norraphat Thanavisuth, Kitsada Chairattanasak, Yotvaris Sukeebot and Chokwatana Puay-uan; all five are accomplished young saxophonists trained under Wisuwat Pruksavanich and Prof. Shyen Lee.
Sway to the sounds of pop saxophone this August 17 at River City Bangkok, starting at 5:30PM at RCB Artery on the 1st floor.


Dont know what that last guys complaining about. I pop the hood a lot more often now just to look at it. Looks great, got here fast, and everyone compliments/comments on it. Im very happy. Thank you, Wes!
I was looking for affordable seat cover set. This is the one ! The fits great on my car and the material is good. I like it alot. Thank you Ilovebodykits
Speechless! I have installed the hood myself in 30 Min. I love the carbon weaves!
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This just popped up in my inbox and I thought it was hysterical. It’s called the Chicken Lamp, and yes it is really a chicken.
Chilean born, New York based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz created this working lamp using actual taxidermy.
Previously he designed a Duck Lamp out of a taxidermy duck with a broken neck (poor duckie) that he found in the trash of a taxidermy museum. (Museums just toss specimens in the trash? Really?) Apparently he was nervous about presenting the piece since taxidermy was not yet trendy.
Taxidermy is certainly trendy now (with deer heads thankfully disappearing from the design scene), though not sure I’ve seen much in the way of stuffed chickens.
This April IKEA presents its IKEA PS 2014 collection, its eighth iteration. The range, created by 14 young designers from around the world, is for people and homes on the move, with limited space and the need to easily pack up and go. IKEA PS 2014 collection includes pieces for every room in the home, with lightweight materials, bright colors, and multifunctional design. Corner cabinets, a side table with built-in lighting and magazine racks, a standing wall shelf with knobs, and a wardrobe that can be personalized are among the practical offerings.
Following on yesterday’s Montage: Bedroom Sconces post, I’ve spent the snowy evening pulling together 30 modern and industrial bedroom sconces for you. They vary in style, but they’re each appealing in their own way, and would look beautiful on either side of a bed. If you’re into the Serge Mouille style and long articulating sconces, look back to last year’s Get the Look: 22 Scones That Stretch.
LuxDeco, dubbed the “Net-a-Porter of design” by The Daily Telegraph, is a recently re-launched, luxury, member shopping site that offers an elevated, curated collection of high-end furniture and accessories from over 200 home brands. Pieces include lush rugs, colorful throws and pillows, sparkly tabletop, contemporary lighting, luxury chairs and bedroom furniture, mirrors, and framed prints, from brands that include Nanimarquina, Gaia & Gino, Missoni Home, Calvin Klein, Designers Guild, Yves Delorme, Thomas O’Brien and Suzanne Kasler for Safavieh, and Zoeppritz.
LuxDeco’s magazine offers design editorial, and there’s also expert advice from tastemakers, who include interior designer Abigail Ahearn, former Wallpaper* interiors editor Suzy Hoodless, Erin Kleinberg of The Coveteur, and famed product designer Marcel Wanders.There’s even a concierge, not just to make shopping easy, but to offer advice, help track down specific items, and arrange for custom pieces. LuxDeco is based in Britain, but shops internationally, including to the U.S.
Here’s a sampling of a dozen items that caught my eye, all available here.
Following on the heels of the successful launch of their first collection with CB2, (I still LOVE that multicolor Family rug) The Novogratz duo has designed a second batch of furnishings for CB2, dubbed the Brasil Collection. Its inspired by Bob and Cortney’s tree house vacation home in Trancoso, Brasil (above). Accordingly, the pieces have a colorful, playful vibe. The collection launches at CB2 in May.

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The districts in south-western highlands of Uganda, including Kabale, lack a reliable perennial cash crop. Perennial crops are however positioned to provide a regular cash income to households and contribute to better management of natural resources amidst challenges of land degradation in vulnerable landscapes. Tobacco, coffee and pyrethrum were initially introduced during the British protectorate period with frequently boosting post Independence (1962) . These efforts received excitement in Kabale but they all failed to become significant in the local economy. Among fruit crops, avocado was introduced but has remained a subsistence crop with a few farmers having a few trees in their plots. Apple development is a new initiative and embedded in a partnership between World Agroforestry (ICRAF), National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) for increasing farm income under the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA). The initiative has been heavily promoted by national and local Governments and has been received with a lot of enthusiasm and interest from farmers. This story is one of the success stories in Kabale District.
How he started
Mr. Mbarara Erick aged 63 years is a farmer and resident of Ryaruhinda village, Mukarangye ward, Katuna town council, Kabale district. He owns approximately 4 acres of apples and the most varieties grown are Anna, Winter Banana, and Golden rosette.
He started growing apples in 2001 after participating in the field trip that was organized by ICRAF –NARO. During this visit he was impressed by the activities that were going at ICRAF Bugongi sub station. Mr. Mbarara had his own land and this land was suitable for apple growing because it was suitable. He started with only 3 tree seedlings and they did very well
In 2003, he bought 100 tree seedlings from NARO and later NAAD’s gave him more 150. He now has over 400 trees in his apple garden. These were planted in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and he keeps on harvesting. He also has apple root stock about 106 and in total he has like 506 trees
He harvests 2 times a year and in a year there are two seasons.
Production per tree
Each tree produces approximately 500-860 fruits depending on size. One fruit depending on the size is
Sold at different prices
Big size is sold at 1000/=
Medium size is 500/=
Small size ( 3 fruits )sold at 1000/=
1 Kg which in most cases contains 8 or 12 fruits is sold at 5000/=
Erick has been visited by the vice president and president of the Republic of Uganda and was impressed by the excellent Innovations in apple growing. The president donated a vehicle –Pick up worth 15 million Uganda shillings
Germplasm (Seed) is provided by NARO but supplemented the farmers efforts in grafting his own seed from his home near the garden
Apple growing is associated with 2 diseases, Scrub and Powdery-Orusano
Treatment: Scrub is treated by spraying with Road mill while Powdery is sprayed using Nim rod 25 EC.
Nim rod 25 EC is rare in Kabale and when got in Kabale it costs 90,000/=.Most of it is got from outside-Isreal
Other fruit trees
Erick is also involved in grape production in addition to apple fruits production
Erick has one field technician with a diploma in Agriculture who supports his field labour and is paid on monthly basis at 200,000 per month
At first production was low and sold slowly but now market has slightly increased and they sell to Kabale town, Kigali, Burundi, Kenya and local market especially passengers who use buses across the Katuna-Rwanda boarder
When the farmers sells he gets money and use the money to food, pay for labour and pay school fees for the children. This has enabled his family to have food through the year without problems
- Birds which eat the flowers. Currently using school children to scare the birds and when they go back to school will work with the wife
· Skills in Soil testing to understand the acidity rate of the soils
· Limited market. Not enough and prices are still low
· Demand is low especially if production increases
· Currently using inorganic fertilizer. But would prefer organic fertilizer and organic pesticide
· Problem of water especially during sunshine
· Very difficult to understand the type of diseases affecting the fruit
· Pesticides are very expensive
Proposals by Erick
Training of farmers in soil testing, pests and diseases management
- Exposure visit to learn more about apple growing
- Prefer Seed from America called enterprise which is not resistant and is not easily affected by Scrub and Powdery
By Rick Kamugisha, Joy Tukahirwa, Denis Ashapa and Mbarara Erick
Where can I buy the quality seeds from
Paul Kajungu Ntanda from Kirimbe, Nyakishenyi, Rukungiri District. May I know when the Apple fruit matures, I have 850 Apple trees. I need your assistance in this regard Thnx.

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Kalu Weeps At Senate Valedictory Session, Says I’m Not A Thief.
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Burna Boy secures four nominations for the 2023 BET Awards.
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FULL LIST: Burna Boy, Tems, Ayra Starr, Asake for 2023 BET award nominations
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Five longest serving players leaving their clubs in 2022-23 season
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3 Ways Liverpool Could Setup Their Midfield Next Season With Mac Allister If He Signs For The Club
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Four Players Man Utd Shouldn't Hesitate Offloading This Summer Ahead Of Next Season.
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Best Possible Midfield Triad Of Liverpool Should They Use Only Ex-Youth Team Players Next Season
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Former VP Pence opposes Trump's return as president.
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Known primarily for his chart-topping singles, a deeper look into Steve Miller Band’s albums reveal a wide-ranging artist who’s more than a pop virtuoso.
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The main and most important feature of vaccines is the induction of an immunological memory response, which is key to providing long-term protection against pathogens. The current strategies for potent antibacterial and antiviral vaccines employ conjugation of pathogen specific entities onto carrier proteins, and are limited to formulations that suffer from low stability and short shelf-lives, and are thus not viable in developing countries. Strategies for the development of new vaccinations against endogenous diseases like cancer further remain an unmet challenge, since current methodologies suffer from a lack of a modular and tailored vaccine-specific functionalisation. SupraVacc therefore proposes a new design approach for the development of fully synthetic molecular vaccines, using carbohydrate and glycopeptide appended epitopes that are grafted onto supramolecular building blocks. These units can be individually designed to attach disease specific antigens and immunostimulants. Due to their self-assembling properties into nanoscaled pathogen mimetic particles, they serve as a supramolecular subunit vaccine toolbox. By developing a universal supramolecular polymer platform, we will construct multipotent vaccines from glycan-decorated peptides, that combine the activity of protein conjugates with the facile handling, precise composition and increased stability of traditional small molecule pharmaceutical compounds. SUPRAVACC will pioneer the design of minimalistic and broadly applicable vaccines, and will evaluate the supramolecular engineering approach for immunisations against antibacterial diseases, as well as for applications as antitumour vaccine candidates.
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Following up one some questions asked yesterday about the progress of reform and democratization in Egypt, some news. The combined opposition is asking for the replacement of the current cabinet, backed by the army and led by former Mubarak minister Ahmed Shafiq, by a ‘technocratic government’ during transitional period to elections. In addition, they’re asking for an end to the state of emergency, and the release of political prisoners. And they want to stage a demonstration for that (even though the army has indicated no more protests are allowed).
In Egypt, an opposition coalition — including the Wafd Party, the Nasserist Party, the Tagammu Party, the newly founded al-Wasat Party, the Muslim Brotherhood, and youth representatives — has called for the replacement of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq’s government with a technocratic government during the transitional period to elections.
The coalition also demanded a new Constitution for a parliamentary state, the dismantling of the state security apparatus, the ending of the state of emergency, the release of all political prisoners, and the dismantling of the National Democratic Party and of corrupt local councils.
With all the attention focused on Libya, let’s not forget about that other revolution we so happily cheered on: Egypt. Because what happens after the departure of Mubarak might be more important than his departure itself.
How are things going in Egypt? Has the state of emergency already been lifted? Are constitutional reforms underway? Are political prisoners released? Does the opposition play a role? How’s the army Supreme Council communicating with the people?
The answer to those first four questions today: no, or not really, or unsure. Adam Shatz in the London Review of Books (which I recommend to read entirely!):
The fate of Egypt’s revolution – brought to a pause by the military’s seizure of power on 11 February, after Mubarak’s non-resignation address to his ‘children’ – remains uncertain. Mubarak is gone, but the streets have been mostly cleared of protesters and the army has filled the vacuum: chastened, yet still in power and with considerable resources at its disposal. Until elections are held in six months, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will be ruling by decree, without the façade of parliamentary government. The parliament, voted into office in rigged elections, has been dissolved, a move that won wide support, and a new constitution is being drafted, but it’s not clear how much of a hand the opposition will have in shaping it. More ominously, the Supreme Council has vowed to punish anyone it can accuse of spreading ‘chaos and disorder’. The blunt rhetoric of its communiqués may be refreshing after the speeches of Mubarak, his son Gamal and the industrialists who dominated the ruling National Democratic Party, with their formulaic promises of reform and their talk of the nobility of the Egyptian people but ten days ago in Tahrir Square the protesters said – maybe even believed – that the army and the people stood together. Today the council’s communiqués are instructions, not proposals to be debated, and it has notably failed to answer the protesters’ two most urgent demands: the repeal of the Emergency Law and the release of thousands of political prisoners.
So far, most Egyptians have been willing to give the Supreme Council the benefit of the doubt. As in any revolutionary situation, the desire for order and security is nearly as strong as the desire for change, and, after 18 days of protests, the army has provided both – with a decided emphasis on the former.
Egypt’s military rulers swore in a Cabinet with 11 new ministers yesterday, a nod to the protest movement that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
However, three former members of the Mubarak regime retained senior posts.
The move comes as the military leadership overseeing the country’s transition is trying to assure Egyptians that it is committed to democratic reforms.
However, the decision to keep Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Justice Minister Mamdouh Marie — three former Mubarak loyalists — in their posts drew criticism from youth activists who helped launch the uprising on Jan. 25.
And, the Muslim Brotherhood has invited back to the country one Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: a 84-year old popular (television) preacher who is not known for his fondness of the West, Israel, or Jews. While the truth of the assertion, done by some, that this guy is Egypt’s Ayatollah Khomeini is very questionable, Al-Qaradawi does seem to have spoken to a crowd of 1 million in Tahrir Square. This seemed to have overshadowed or blocked a performance by Google executive Wael Ghonim, who became the young face of the revolution during the uprising.
One of the western media’s favorite Egyptian rebels is Google executive Wael Ghonim. No surprise there: if you had to choose among radical clerics like al-Qaradawi, hooligans like those who assaulted Lara Logan, and a suave, Westernized Google exec, whom would you want to interview? Ghonim was present on Friday and intended to address the crowd, but he was barred from the platform by al-Qaradawi’s security. He left the stage in distress, “his face hidden by an Egyptian flag.”
Yusuf Qaradawi, the 84-year-old preacher whose roots are in the old Muslim Brotherhood before the latter turned to parliamentary politics, is nevertheless no Ayatollah Khomeini. Qaradawi addressed thousands in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday. Qaradawi called for Muslims to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda alongside US troops in 2001. On Friday he praised the Coptic Christian role in the Egyptian revolution and said that the age of sectarianism is dead. Qaradawi is a reactionary on many issues, but he is not a radical and there is no reason to think that either the Youth or Workers’ Movements that chased Hosni Mubarak out of the country is interested in having Qaradawi tell them what to do.
And here’s a video of Sheik Al-Qaradawi making some very nasty comments about Adolf Hitler and the Jews, accompanied by commentary from a reader of Andrew Sullivan.
If the recent proclamations from the Muslim Brotherhood about “freedom for all,” “true democracy” and “human rights” aren’t just the convenient talking points of the moment (for political expediency), but represent a genuine commitment to reform, then why would they invite Mr. Qaradawi to return from 30 years in exile and preside over that truly historic event on Friday? Are there no other more “moderate” preachers they could find in all of Egypt?
So, all the more reason to remain ever so vigilant about what happens in Egypt post-Mubarak!
So it has now been two days since Mubarak finally exited the scene. There has been lost of interesting stories emerge since that time. Apparently the army expected Mubarak to resign Thursday night Egypt time. But, notwithstanding pleading from the head of his Party, fighting within his own appointed cabinet and military impatience, Mubarak could not be persuaded beyond the insistence of his son Gamal that “he could still ride out the turmoil“.
And, most importantly, the army has started to make moves. The most significant of these to date have come this morning. The Supreme Council of the Military has announced that it is dissolving the Egyptian parliament, suspending the constitution and calling for elections to be held within six months. The army is also leaving in place a civilian caretaker government meant to ensure the stability of the Egyptian economy and safety of the Egyptian people.
That said, as Al Jazeera is reporting, it is “”quite clear that the power now rests entirely” with the military council”. And, of course commitments for reform are not the same as reform. And at least two points of contention remain it seems. First, it is not clear if the suspending of the constitution is sufficient to end ‘emergency rule’, a clear demand of protestors. There are mixed reports on that point. And second, the same Al Jazeera piece is reporting that there have been some skirmishes between soldiers that are pushing for people to return home and to get back to ‘ordinary’ life and protestors who seem to want to continue to hold Tahrir Square until more is known.
Also, I am not seeing anything at this point about how the military intends to integrate opposition members and representatives of the protestors into the process of democratic reform or about the release of the many people still detained. These are very important points.
Nonetheless, while questions do remain (see this post), I see todays developments quite positively. Each of these moves, while somewhat ambiguous, are all very good news. There is a clear timeline to move to civilian democratic leadership, free and fair elections were simply not possible under the existing, now suspended, constitution and protestors rightly saw Parliament as illegitimate given the record of fraudulent elections and it has been sent home.
- Update: Just talked to a friend in Cairo who is not an organizer but has been at Tahrir Square daily for most of the protests. He is saying two interesting things. First, that he and others still trust the army, suggesting that people still feel safe in the army’s presence. This fits with images on TV of protestors still chanting that the people and the army are united. Second, that the army is now “everywhere” taking up a much more visible presence in the city then merely hours ago. Personally I do not see the army as a neutral force up to this point and am not convinced just yet that a hand off of power to the army is consistent with, or will fulfill, the demands of the protestors so I am less certain about what to make of this. Nonetheless the background noise during the call was truly joyful. Lots of people honking their horns (beyond the incessant horn honking that is normal in Cairo. People chanting and singing. And everybody seemed to be heading towards the square. If the protestors or a sizeable chunk off them reject whatever comes next tonight the result could be overwhelming. At the same time it may risk massive division with the protestors. I ended the call telling him to be safe and to have an amazing time the square tonight; he laughed, told me not worry, and told me how incredibly happy he was. Let’s see what will happen next.
- Update: NYT reporting indicates this is basically an army takeover, a military intervention. Should we be too happy about that?
- Update: Wael Ghonim has written on his Twitter feed:
Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and protest organizer whose anti-torture Facebook page helped spark the movement, wrote on his Twitter feed Thursday evening: “Mission accomplished. Thanks to all the brave young Egyptians.”
“This is not a coup in the traditional sense,” the official said. “But this is a transfer of the system of government from the civilian to military. The military is stepping up, recognizing its responsibility to the Egyptian people.”
“These were all definite and conclusive steps toward a political process under the constitution,” the official said, referring to the effort to implement reforms. “But this political process never received enough support” — neither from Egyptians nor the international community. “Now we have to go outside the constitutional frame.”
Word of this is going to spread and will begin to counter the dominant narrative in Egyptian media about the people and the army being one. The longer this crisis persists, the more difficult for the army to continue either playing a double game or sitting on the fence. With Omar Suleiman’s threats of coups and the protests spreading to work stoppages across the country, decision time will be coming for the protestors to make up their minds about the army (or launch a more pronounced campaign to persuade commanders), for the army’s leadership to decide how it will proceed in a context where it is losing control, and for rank-and-file in the military to decide where they stand in all this.
- Update: There are serious of key issues here that require further clarification before it becomes clear how much change is actually about to occur. They include, but are not limited to: 1) Who will succeed Mubarak?; 2) Will there be constitutional amendments that will actually democratize any forthcoming elections (e.g., allow opposition members to organize and run in elections)? 3) What role will representatives of the uprising have in making those changes?; 4) How fast will those changes and any elections happen?; and 5) What will happen to those who have been, and are currently, detained?
Until some of these questions optimism should be quite cautious folks.
- Update: Al Jazeera English is reporting that nearly 3 million people are now in Tahrir Square!
- Update: Mubarak is live! Doubt he is leaving, his first few minutes is filled with “I wills”.
He characterizes past problems like torture and fraud as “mistakes” that “can happen in any system of government”.
He is relying on previously announced concessions, ‘I promised you that I will not run again for elections’, we are examining the constitution, etc.
“We have lost martyrs”, calling people sons and daughters. This dude is daring those 3 million people to burn down his palace (not that I am endorsing that). What a stubborn bastard.
The crowd is going nuts. What is happening?
He is trotting all the same bullshit he trotted out last speech. How does he think that is going to go with protests that are growing in size as this carries on?
People are chanting Leave! Out! Out! and waving their shoes in Tahrir Square.
He is talking about the determination of Egyptian people wait till this poor bastard wakes up tomorrow!
And that is it for Mubarak with 3 million royally pissed off people in the square. This is about to get ugly.
Soooo… There was not a single new concession in that speech. He had already said that he delegated powers to the VP. He reiterated his commitments to fixing this himself. And he clearly did not step down. I argued last week that Mubarak is misstepping and I believe it even more tonight.
- Update: The Guardian‘s Matt Wells is in Tahrir Square:
At one point Mubarak made a reference to being a young man and understanding the young men of Egypt – basically the people who are here – and at that moment the whole square erupted in anger. At that point, the whole square exploded in anger. The way that Mubarak is comparing himself to the people on the ground infuriated them.
And when it became clear that the that Mubarak intended to stay on until September, the square shook with fury. “We are not going until he goes,” they chanted.
CNN is interviewing a guy saying that Mubarak clearly does not want “to leave the country in one piece” and “has no brain”.
- Update: So what happens tomorrow? The day will clearly start with Friday prayers. After that? Does the crowd swell again? Do they finally march on the palace? Do they move to face Parliament? Does the army stay out of the way or impede protests? Does Mubarak launch another crackdown that includes arbitrary detention, torture and murder using police and/or other thugs?
- Update: CNN is now reporting people are leaving the square and chanting that they are going to the palace? Al Jazeera reports of demonstrations in Alexandria, and people marching towards army headquarters. Mubarak’s infuriating speech may tilt the relationship between the protesters and the army. They’re reporting about extreme anger on Tahrir Square now.
- Update: Well, we here at LSDimension are going to sign off for a bit so that we can try to catch up. But first I wanted to make four points: first, everyone should know that his post is both the work of Adriejan and myself; second, Suleiman is about to speak, though I doubt it will add much of anything; third, I think Mubarak is attempting to goad more extreme protests so that he can justify a more violence crackdown (I am quite worried this is going to get really ugly); and, fourth, what has happened tonight also paints the American intelligence services in poor light again. Senior US sources were behind the false rumours that Mubarak was going. They were wrong. The CIA director also made comments that are now unfounded. After Obama’s comments earlier about watching a transformation and history in the making, the US again comes off looking poor in this.
As they just put in on Al Jazeera: the revolution will start tomorrow.
Today is ‘day of departure’ in Egypt – while people on the street are calling on Mubarak to leave, President Obama is putting pressure behind the scenes to effectuate the same. Vice President Omar Suleiman is poised to take over leadership, and there is talk of inviting opposition groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood, to discuss constitutional reforms. This may seem like victory, but what happens on the background probably has more weight.
Via Andrew Sullivan, a couple of analyses that put the events in Egypt of the past few days in perspective. Basically, they cast a (from our point of view) not-so-favorable light on the Egyptian military, as well as put Mubarak and his son’s decision not to run for president (again) in perspective. I’ll discuss them here in a couple of posts.
Even though the military in the first stage of this uprising has seemed to be on the hand of the people (or at least not striking them down), the extent to which the army dominates Egyptian society – politically, culturally as well as economically – can not be ignored. What happens in Egypt happens through the military – and that, apparently, also seems to go for who runs the country. With Mubarak’s son Gamal gone, the army seems to be in full control of the country again.
Samuel Tadros at The American Interest blog, in a great piece, provides background on the role of the military in Egyptian society, Egyptian politics in the last twenty years, as well as the Mubarak dynasty:
The Egyptian army, incidentally, is hugely popular, due to a well-established myth in Egyptian politics. The army—which is for all intents and purposes the regime—is seen as separate from it by the people. The army is viewed as clean (not like the corrupt government), efficient (they do build bridges fast) and, more importantly, composed of the heroes who defeated Israel in 1973. (It’s no use debating this point with an Egyptian.) Thus people really did think the troops and tanks appearing in the streets were on their side—whatever that might mean. Egyptians, putting their own reading on why the President’s upcoming address kept being delayed, fully expected Mubarak’s resignation.
Mubarak decided to appoint Omar Suliman as Vice President and Ahmed Shafik as Prime Minister. Both are military men, Suliman being the Chief of the Egyptian Intelligence Service and Shafik being the former commander of the Air Forces.
It is no news for anyone following Egyptian politics that Gamal Mubarak, the President’s son was being groomed to follow his father. In reality, the elder Mubarak was never fully behind that scenario. Whether because of a real assessment of his son’s capabilities or because of the army unwillingness to accept such a scenario, Mubarak was hesitant. It was Mubarak’s wife, rather, who was heavily pushing that scenario. Step by step, Gamal started to rise up the ranks of the ruling NDP party.
The army never liked Gamal or his friends. Gamal had never served in the military. And now to add insult to injury, their technocratic, neo-liberal policies were threatening the army’s dominance of the closed economy. The party was becoming, step by step, an actual organization capable of competing with army officers to fill administrative positions.
As long as President Mubarak was there, however, the army stayed silent. The army is 100 percent loyal to the President. He is an October War hero and their Commander in Chief.
As the recent events unfolded, the army was finally able to demonstrate their narrative to the President and get his backing—that narrative being that Gamal and his friends ruined everything. Their neo-liberal policies alienated people and robbed them of their subsidies, and they destroyed the political system by aiming to crush all opposition.
1. The Gamal inheritance scenario is finished.
2. Mubarak will not run for another Presidential term. His term ends in October and either he will serve the rest of his term or will resign once things cool down for health reasons. (These concerns, incidentally, are real; he is in fact dying.)
3. The army is in control now. We are heading back to the “golden age” of army rule. The “kids” are not in charge anymore; the “men” are back in control.
4. Until the economy fails again, neo-liberal economic policies are over. Forget about seeing an open economy any time soon.
Tadros also confirms what I’ve suspected since the beginning: that Mohamed El Baradei, the darling of the Western media, really does not have a role at all in real-life Egyptian politics:
You might, after all of this, be asking yourself where El Baradei and the Egyptian opposition factor into all of this. CNN’s anointed leader of the Egyptian Revolution must somehow be an important figure for Egypt’s future. Hardly! Outside Western media hype, El Baradei is nothing. A man who has spent less than thirty days in the past year and hardly any time in the past twenty years in Egypt is a nobody. It is insulting to Egyptians to suggest otherwise.
And what of the opposition? Outside the Muslim Brotherhood, no opposition group can claim more than about 5,000 actual members. With no organization, no ideas, and no leaders, the opposition is entirely irrelevant to the discussion. It is the apolitical-cum-political generation of young Egyptians that is the real enigma in all this.
- Edit: The NYT confirms this picture. Let’s just forget about Mohamed El Baradei, shall we?
On Friday, Mohamed ElBaradei, who has been authorized by the protesters to negotiate with the authorities, said no one from government had contacted him, but he was still standing by.
So the question is: will the army relinquish power, by opening up free and fair elections in September? Let’s have an honest answer to that…


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Since Klaw is pictured on the cover, it’s no spoiler to reveal that the Black Panther’s oldest enemy has returned. They were introduced in the same story back in the 1960s, and over the succeeding years have clashed numerous times. Ta-Nehisi Coates spends the whole opening chapter sculpting Klaw, presuming some knowledge of his sound mastery on the part of readers, and contrary to what we might have expected from Avengers of the New World Part One, it’s Klaw and his machinations that take precedence. Dealing with the intrusions of elder beings is a matter postponed until The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, although they are connected.
For anyone who’s followed Coates’ Black Panther from the beginning, this volume should be a revelation, the first conclusive proof that Coates can transfer goodwill and his prodigious analytical writing skills to fiction. The curses of his earlier work seem to have been lifted. He’s still working with a large cast and with the repercussions of running a nation, but gone are the multiple florid captions, the pointless detours, and the necessity to explain every minor point. This, however is not at the cost of what have been strengths. Coates still manages to incorporate interesting philosophical moments, a conversation with a Wakandan prisoner resonating, and all the stronger for being individual, not among a succession of such scenes.
Any qualms there may be about the qualities of new to Black Panther artist Leonard Kirk will surely evaporate at the sight of his scenes displaying heroes rising to gods among the early Wakandans. There’s a majestic poise about them, and he impresses throughout, despite having a more traditional approach to superhero action than previous artists. Then, the longer this continues the more it becomes traditional superhero action, which isn’t really something Coates has attempted before, yet he manages to hit all the right beats, and recognises that doing so with what he’s set up requires more than just the Black Panther. While Klaw is probably a known quantity to Panther fans, the second major villain of the arc is someone new to Wakanda, and it’s primarily the likes of Storm and Shuri who cope with them directly. It’s also an emphatic reminder that the Panther is a strategist who anticipates what will be faced and develops coping mechanisms, beautifully reinforced in the final scene when the question is asked how far that steps into manipulation.
This wrap-up proves Coates can simplify his writing style to produce a captivating superhero action thriller while retaining distinctive signature tics. Hopes have to be high for his next arc. This conclusion is also available combined with the first part as a complete edition hardcover.


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[This blog post is part of The Farm Project and showcases a few photos from the summer growing season at Ticonderoga Farm. It includes a recipe for roasted balsamic figs with goat cheese and honey. Visit my photography website to see all the photos from this photo shoot. ~ Andrea]
Summer at Ticonderoga Farms is a big growing season. In addition to the bamboo and figs, they have a large pick-your-own garden as well as a community garden that has been filled by many people from the surrounding area. You can drive out to the farm to pick sweet peppers, chilies, tomatoes, watermelon, corn, and some gorgeous sunflowers. They also sell their award-winning organic honey, organic figs, and organic free-range eggs as well as their bamboo in various sizes, all at their market entrance.
(See all the photos from Ticonderoga Farms: Summer Growing Season.)
The community garden has many different kinds of vegetables, including corn, tomatoes, sweet peppers, chilies, greens, squash, chard, kale, basil, and other herbs. Each garden plot is unique, planted with a wide variety of vegetables and extra touches that reveal the personality of the gardener. Some of the gardens include flowers among the vegetables, decorative rock layouts, signs, and garden ornaments. Plots open in the spring, so check their website for more information.
Figs are one of the most beautiful fruits in the world and make any dish more special. During my last visit I purchased a couple pounds of their Golden and Brown Turkey figs. The figs were soft and ripe, juicy and sweet, and they smelled heavenly. My boys were very excited, especially Top Gun who loves eating fresh figs. After fending off the scavengers in the kitchen, I made a savory/sweet appetizer that can be whipped up in a matter of minutes.
Just about any kind of fresh fig will work with this appetizer. I roasted the figs with white balsamic vinegar from Trader Joe’s because it has a lighter flavor compared to dark balsamic vinegar. The tangy goat cheese pairs well with the savory sweet figs, and I top it all off with just a kiss of Ticonderoga Farms honey. We ate one, then two, then three, then had to stop ourselves. Figs can be addictive.
Roasted Balsamic Figs with Goat Cheese and Honey
- quiche pan or small baking dish, rubbed with olive oil
- 2 pounds fresh figs (rinsed, stems remove, and cut in half top to bottom)
- 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
- 16 ounces goat cheese
- gluten-free baguette (sliced on the diagonal ¼ inch thick)
- Preheat the oven to 375° F/190° C.
- Place the figs cut side down on the prepared quiche pan/baking dish and drizzle the balsamic vinegar over the figs. Roast in the oven until the figs are caramelized and soft, not mushy, about 15 minutes.
- Spread goat cheese on each baguette slice and add a fig half. Put a few drops of honey on each fig and serve.


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Josh Rackley had stroked a par putt like the one he had Tuesday on the second playoff hole of the Haverford Philadelphia PGA Classic hundreds of times before - eight feet, up the hill, dead straight. It's what he called "the easiest putt you'll ever have."
But this was the first time he ever hit a putt like that with $100,000 on the line.
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You can freeze almost anything, from garden goodies to fresh or processed meat, fish and mushrooms. It is not only the healthiest, but also the easiest way to preserve foods – all you need are refrigeration containers or bags for storage of products.
“The demand for refrigeration tools every year grow in the middle of the year – in July, when fresh harvest is the biggest, and Lithuanians fill their refrigerators with ripe fruits and vegetables having the highest content of vitamins. An important advantage of refrigeration is that, unlike preserving, you can freeze berries, vegetables or fruits in any quantities or portions. Maxima stores offer more than 60 different types of containers and sealed bags for freezing from 125 millilitres to 3 litres, so you can accommodate anything from several pinches of herbs to a large amount of food”, says Maxima Commerce Manager Vilma Drulienė.
She notes that the most popular refrigeration containers are about 0.5 litres, and most popular bags among Lithuanians are slightly bigger, 1-1.5 litres. Refrigeration containers are commonly used for soft fruits all of which are consumed once opened, and vegetables, fruits and meat are often placed in sealed bags.
However, there is no single rule about which packages to select for food freezing. If your refrigeration chamber is small, you will save more space when freezing your garden harvest in bags, but containers will allow to better preserve the shape of berries and you can more comfortably serve them on the table after defrosting. Containers with hermetically sealed lids tend to keep odours better, which is especially true for refrigeration of spice herbs and vegetables such as garlic (yes, it can be frozen, too!).
Experts from the Lithuanian Maxima point out six things you need to know when choosing to freeze berries, fruits or vegetables.
- Many foods can be frozen, but not all are worth it. For example, lettuce, radishes, artichokes, eggplants and similar vegetables containing a lot of water will lose their shape once refrigerated and then defrosted, and their taste may change as well.
- Before refrigeration berries, fruits, and vegetables must be washed well and drained. Microorganisms that cause food to go bad will not die in the freezer, just become inactive, so it is best to consume fruits or vegetables after defrosting within one day – otherwise they become no longer suitable.
- You should always maintain the temperature of -18 degrees Celsius in the freezer. You can freeze foods faster and better by placing them in a quick-freezing shelf, neat the refrigeration grilles. Later, you can simply move the containers or bags to another place.
- It is absolutely not necessary to use other preservatives while freezing food, but berries, especially strawberries or cherries, will preserve their shape better if you sprinkle them with sugar. You can also prepare spice sets in your freezer – finely chop the mixture of spices that you like, mix it with butter and keep in the freezer (for example, using a cocktail ice trays or other small bowls).
- It is not advisable to store long-term storage products in the freezer door, as the temperature varies when they are opened, and larger ice crystals can form. In case of power failure, or when the freezer is off for a while, keep it closed: it can stay without electricity all day long without defrosting.
- Berries, fruits and vegetables from the freezer should be consumed within 8-12 months. If you take more food from the freezer than you need at that time, you can defrost the rest if it has been stored at room temperature for less than two hours.
About Maxima company
The strengths of the traditional Lithuanian Maxima chain are low prices and a wide choice of goods, in particular Lithuanian. The networking manager Maxima LT is the largest Lithuanian capital company, one of the major taxpayers and the largest employer in the country. At present, there are 245 Maxima stores in Lithuania employing more than 15 thousand of staff. Its stores are visited by more than 550 thousand customers daily.


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Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem retooled at the forward spots on Wednesday with a pair of signings of players with impressive resumes. Israeli final four MVP Brian Randle and former ULEB Cup winner Moshe Mizrahi join the club, while forward Sharon Shason was released. Randle signed a two-year contract. Mizrahi agreed to terms for one season. Randle (25, 203) arrives from Hapoel Gilboa/Galil Elyon, where he won the Israeli League championships last season under head coach Oded Kattash, who will be his coach in Jerusalem too. Randle averaged 13.3 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game in the Israeli League last season, his second at Galil. Randle first made a name for himself playing college basketball at the University of Illinois before starting his professional career in the summer of 2008 with Galil. He was voted the Israeli League Defensive Player of the Year after his first season in which he helped Galil reach the league semifinals. Last season both Randle and Galil did even better as we earned a spot on the all-league team and helped Galil to its second championship with 19 points and 6 rebounds to stun Maccabi in the final.
Mizrahi (202, 30) was an important reserve player for Hapoel when it won the 2004 ULEB Cup. He arrives from Maccabi Haifa, where he averaged 6 points and 2.4 rebounds last season. Mizrahi has spent most of his professional career in Israel, growing up with Hapoel Holon, suiting up for Jerusalem between 2001 and 2004 and later for Galil Elyon, Ashkelon, Bnei Hasharon and Haifa. He also spent one season in France with Paris Levallois. A regular member of the Israeli national team, he played at EuroBasket in 2003, 2005 and 2009 and was a member of the silver-medal winning team at the Under-20 European Championships in 2000.


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Potential of Jozini smallholder cattle farmers to progress from subsistence to commercial cattle farming for enhanced rural livelihoods.
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Globally, livestock contributes significantly towards domestic production and household food security. Smallholder farmers are cited to won large livestock numbers compared to commercial farmers, especially in South Africa. The potential to commercialise exists however, various factors influence the transition from smallholder to commercial farming. This study assessed nutrition and health status of Jozini cattle, and determined the potential of Jozini smallholder farmers progressing into commercial cattle farming. By identifying the nutrition and health status of cattle, the study seeks to gain insight on what the current position is with regards to animal quality. By determining the potential to progress, the aim is to assess whether smallholder farmers are in a position to progress, and if not what is compromising this transition. Data was collected using purposive sampling and 120 smallholder farmers were purposively selected in Jozini Northern KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. Descriptive statistics were used to present analyse and the results of gender, age, education level, and income level, herd size, farming experience, land size and willingness to progress. Descriptive statistics were also used to analyse the association and significance with regard to socio-demographics as well as factors that determine farmer potential to progress. Majority of the sampled farmers were middle to old age. A total of 70 farmers had an average income of between R100-1500, which came from pension or government grants. Of the sampled farmers, 34 percent had no formal education. Farmers had the necessary farming experience with 50 percent having more than 10 years There were high odd ratio estimates from farming experience and income level. Farmers, who had more years of experience and higher income level, were more likely to progress into commercial cattle farming. Descriptive statistics indicated that farmers were willing to progress into commercialisation; however, factors such as market availability and market access, poor infrastructure, inability to access information, age and poor education contributed to farmer progressing potential being compromised. Body condition score was used to assess the nutrition status of cattle. Other contributing factors that were observed were the role of lactation in relation to body condition and supplementary feeding as a practice which contributes to nutrition status of animals. Similarly a clinical health checklist criterion was used to record information regarding the health status of cattle. The results showed that the majority of cattle had a poor body condition score of 2. There was a significant association between Body Condition Scoring and lactation. Furthermore, descriptive statistics revealed that tick counts were predominantly low in cattle due to a strict dipping programme implemented by farmers. Additionally, there was a significant relationship between tick count and body condition Score. The most common diseases mentioned by the farmers were black quarter and Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Vaccinations were administered to control diseases in the area. The study identified poor nutrition status in cattle in relation to body condition scores, effective tick control me in smallholder cattle farming in Jozini. Farmers relied extensively on agricultural extension services and the study recommends that such support services are improved. Greater attention should be directed towards empowering smallholder cattle farmers in the area through skills and knowledge development. More so, infrastructure, access to functional markets access relevant information and production resources would significantly contribute to smallholder farmers potential to progress into commercialisation.


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(January 17, 2022) — With the 36th Chili Bowl Nationals in the books it is far from time to rest in the sprint car world. As one major event wraps up another is to begin as the 49th South West Conveyancing Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic takes place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Premier Speedway at Warrnambool, Victoria.
The event known as, “the Classic” is the Australian equivalent of the Knoxville Nationals centered around the Australia Day holiday weekend. After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic the Classic has 81 entries filed for the three-night affair. The Classic is just one part of a full week of sprint car racing that includes the President’s Cup on Wednesday and the Kings Challenge on Thursday leading into the Classic Friday through Sunday.
An added twist to the 2022 edition of the Classic is a new racing surface at Premier Speedway. The past several seasons saw an increase in races where the track took rubber. During the off season over 3,000 meters of new clay were added to the racing surface.
Several of the competitors will be familiar to American sprint car fans. James McFadden is the defending champion of the Classic and is entered in the 2022 edition driving for the powerful Monte Motorsports entry. Carson Macedo made the trip down under several weeks ago competing for Dyson Motorsports. Macedo recently won a midget car event Saturday at Archerfield Speedway in Brisbane.
That group will take on Australian sprint car stars that have won the Classic such as Robbie Farr, Corey McCullagh, and Jamie Veal. Australian sprint car stars looking for their first classic include Ian Madsen, Marcus Dumesny, Jock Goodyer, and Matt Egel.
For 2022, American sprint car fans can view the Grand Annual Classic on DIRTvision starting at approximately 1:00 A.M. EST time Friday thought Sunday. In past years getting up around 4:00 a.m. will allow you to catch the main event live.
• During the Chili Bowl Nationals I had some downtime and joined in a Twitter space run by World Racing Group’s Director of Video Content Ross Wece. While in there Knoxville Raceway Marketing Director Kendra Jacobs mentioned that ticket sales for the Knoxville Nationals were ahead of pace from a year ago. With Saturday night being sold out the past two Nationals it might be worth getting your tickets sooner than later.
• While most of us were catching up on sleep after a busy week with the Chili Bowl Nationals, officials that put on the event were busy tearing down the racetrack. As of Monday afternoon, they were down to the last few truckloads of clay to be removed from the facility. (https://twitter.com/cbnationals/status/1483217324706566144)
• The Great Lakes Super Sprints released their schedule on Monday (https://twitter.com/GLSprints/status/1483185474738872320). The seventh season for GLSS sees winged sprint cars return to Owendale Speedway on August 6th, Winston Speedway on July 8th, and first visit to the Dirt Track at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois on May 14th. Ohio fans get to see GLSS on three occasions with two stops at Fremont Speedway June 25th and July 30th along with a stop at Wayne County Speedway April 30th.
The biggest change of the 2022 schedule is the lack of dates at Merritt Speedway, Thunderbird Raceway, and Tri-City Motor Speedway. Tri-City could be the biggest surprise in this list being a mainstay on the GLSS schedule from the beginnings of the series. Also noteworthy are all three tracks have the same owner/promoter in Mike Blackmer. The absence of these facilities also put an end to a potential Michiagn Speedweek that was in the works for this season.
The GLSS campaign kicks off April 22-24 at I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, Michigan and Crystal Motor Speedway in Crystal, Michigan.
• Things are looking good after a few weeks of frigid weather for the Sprint Cars on Ice to have their first Michigan event of the 2022 season Saturday, February 26 on Houghton Lake.
• The Interstate Racing Association also released their schedule recently. While a return to Michigan is no longer in the cards, the series will be making a first visit in over 30 years to Sycamore Speedway in Maple Park Illinois on May 7th. Sycamore has been a mainstay for the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association since changing over to a D2 midget car formula.
The accompanying Wisconsin WingLESS Sprint Cars are slated to make their first appearance at Sycamore on September 9th.


Three men have been charged with attempted murder in Gainesville, Florida, for firing a shot at anti-Nazi protesters after a speech by white supremacist leader Richard Spencer on Thursday.
The Gainesville Police Department released a report Friday saying Tyler Tenbrink, 28, and brothers William and Colton Fears, ages 30 and 28, respectively, were arrested on homicide charges soon after Spencer’s speech.
The three men, all from Texas, were in a vehicle when they began shouting and making Nazi salutes at a group of people holding protest signs at a bus stop, according to police.
A police report said Tenbrink, a convicted felon, got out of the car after one of the protesters struck the back window with a baton.
The report said Tenbrink brandished a gun while the Fears brothers shouted “kill them” and “shoot them.” Police say Tenbrink fired a single shot, which hit a nearby building. In addition to the attempted murder charge, Tenbrink is also being charged as a felon in possession of a firearm.
Police say the suspects fled the scene and were apprehended by police later that evening.
Police said at least two of the three have ties to “extremist groups,” but did not specify which two of the men.
The Fears brothers are being held under $1 million bond each, while Tenbrink is being held under a $3 million bond.
Spencer shouted down
Earlier Thursday, Spencer spoke at the University of Florida when protesters shouted him down.
“You are cowardly trying to shut down a movement that is growing and it’s going to stand up for white people,” Spencer hollered as the crowd chanted “No more Spencer.”
He accused the crowd of not believing in free speech and being unwilling to have a debate. They countered with shouts of “We don’t want your Nazi hate.”
The University of Florida in Gainesville is a public university and could not stop Spencer from speaking. But the school says it did not invite him. School officials say they spent $600,000 for extra security for the speech.
Spencer’s National Policy Institute paid about $10,000 to rent the hall.
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for the entire county where the Gainesville campus is located. It was a precaution against the same kind of deadly violence between neo-Nazis and demonstrators that killed one person and injured at least 30 in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.


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Russian-led forces began their withdrawal from Kazakhstan on Thursday, where they had been sent in support of the government in the face of unprecedented unrest, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping units, having completed the defined tasks, began to prepare military and technical equipment for loading onto Russian aviation aircraft for return to their permanent base,” it reads. in the communiqué.
The President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Yomart Tokayev, had already confirmed on Wednesday that the gradual departure of the more than 2,000 CTO soldiers deployed in Kazakh territory was scheduled for today.
On the 5th of this month, Tokayev asked the CTO for help, three days after the start of the protests in Kazakhstan, initially provoked by the increase in the price of liquefied gas, used in the country as a cheap alternative to gasoline.
The demonstrations, fueled by discontent with the country’s economic and political elites and corruption, quickly turned into riots and were repressed by Kazakh forces in an operation characterized as “anti-terrorist”.
The protests left at least 164 people dead, around 1,000 injured and nearly 10,000 arrested.
Tokayev, who assumed on Tuesday that without the help of the CTO the government could have completely lost control over Almaty, the Nursultan capital, and the entire country, claimed today that the presence of the alliance’s peacekeeping contingent in Kazakhstan “played a very important role in stabilizing the situation.”
Tokayev even ordered security forces to “shoot to kill” during the violent protests, in order to quell civil unrest.
The decision drew criticism from the United States, the European Union (EU) and human rights organizations, but was backed by China and the Organization of Turcophone States, a grouping of four Central Asian countries and Turkey.


Under the direction of a guest conductor, the performance of Beethoven’s Ninth by the Minnesota Orchestra does not elicit joy
If there is a perfect time to experience the journey through the trials of triumph found in Beethoven’s music, this might be it. The collective trauma of COVID-19 continues, with Minnesota now one of America’s hotbeds of new diagnoses. Where to find joy?
Well, joy is on the program at this weekend’s Minnesota Orchestra concerts. More precisely, the “Ode to Joy” which concludes Beethoven’s symphonic swan song, the Ninth. You can’t be faulted for thinking that this is the booster shot your mind needs.
But I left Thursday morning at noon saddened, disappointed that the orchestra had missed the opportunity to deliver the healing touch that Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony can provide. Instead, it was a relatively punchless, oddly quirky Ninth, mostly devoid of that “fair spark of Elysium” sung in the finale.
Not that the singing was not splendid. Although masked, the Minnesota choir was magnificent, and the four vocal soloists – soprano Melody Moore, mezzo Kelley O’Connor, tenor Sean Panikkar, and bass Mark S. Doss – beautifully intertwined their voices, especially on their last slow hauling section.
But guest conductor Juraj Valčuha sometimes chose to accelerate the tempos to speeds that I had never encountered with this work. Therefore, it seemed that the orchestra was having a hard time staying together.
This impression was amplified by some unusual accents in Valčuha’s unbalanced interpretation, such as when the interjections of the winds trampled the main theme in the strings. And pity on poor Panikkar, whose lonely solo was forced into overdrive by the conductor’s haste.
Rhythm doesn’t necessarily mean energy, and there was rarely as much of it as an inspiring performance of the Ninth demands. Fire and intensity were largely absent from the stormy opening movement, as was sharpness and, for lack of a better term, punch. And while the Adagio movement provided a nice respite from the storms that surrounded it, the orchestra’s beautiful wind solos seemed like enjoyable parts that never totaled a hefty sum.
I had high hopes for the performance after a precise and propulsive interpretation of the opening concert Sinfonietta No. 1 by the 20th century American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. It’s a job Valčuha clearly has a passion for, as he has requested on programs he has run elsewhere. He was flamboyant and demonstrative in conducting the orchestral strings, which responded with a thrilling performance that was sad and charming in its central slow movement.
On previous visits, Valčuha has proven popular with the Minnesota Orchestra audience. As a result, there was talk of his candidacy to succeed Osmo Vänskä as Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra. But the Houston Symphony ripped it off.
When my concert mate later asked me to recommend a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth, I told him which one this orchestra and choir recorded with Vänskä in 2006.
Judging by the thrilling performance of the Fifth Symphony which opened the season in September, I know that something magical can still happen when Beethoven, Vänskä and this orchestra come together.
Can the orchestra also play the work of the composer when it adapts to the style of another conductor? May be. Indeed, they can sound great on Saturday night, offering some of that much-needed joy.
Rob Hubbard is an independent classical music critic from Twin Cities. email@example.com.
With: Conductor Juraj Valcuha, Minnesota Choir and vocal soloists. What: works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Beethoven. When: 8 p.m. Fri-SatOr: Orchestra hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. Tickets: $ 30 to $ 114. 612-371-5656 or minnesotaorchestra.org.


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Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah has remarked that apparently it seemed that the previous government’s amendment to the law regarding voting rights to overseas Pakistanis was not in conjunction with the Supreme Court decision, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
He was hearing a petition on Wednesday challenging the government’s amendments to the overseas Pakistanis voting rights law which seek to deprive the latter of their right to vote.
CJ Minallah while observing that the amendments were not aimed at depriving overseas Pakistanis of their voting rights asked the lawyers to present more arguments regarding the maintainability of the petition.
The judge adjourned the case till June 3.
At the outset of the hearing, Chief Justice Minallah remarked that the new amendments and the earlier amendments to the law were same. The only difference is, more explanation has been given in the new amendments, the judge said adding that both the amendments were not seeking to eliminate the voting right of Pakistani diaspora living abroad.
Lawyer Arif Chaudhry told the court that this thing had been going on for the last 30 years and no one could deny right to vote to overseas Pakistanis.
The CJ asked the lawyer to at least inform the court in which constituencies, the overseas Pakistani would cast their votes.
The lawyer said that all institutions came to the Supreme Court and assured it of their willingness to work on it. After their (institutions) assurance, the apex court ordered them to act upon it.
The lawyer said that the amendments which were incorporated during previous government, they were completely fulfilling the SC order.
The court inquired how many Pakistanis were residing abroad. The lawyer replied that 0.9 million Pakistanis were living abroad.
The court further asked about the method of vote casting in America. The petitioner who lives in America and is resident of Mansehra said that he did not know yet.
The chief justice, however, observed that apparently it looked like that the amendments made to the law by the previous government was not in conjunction with the SC decision. But the new amendments do not seem to be abolishing the voting right of the overseas Pakistanis, the judge remarked.
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“They couldn’t tell us how the end would come. Nothing to compare it to.”
If you were told you only had a million words left to speak in your life, what would you say and who to?
The re-launch of Live Theatre’s Short Cuts Studio Sessions kicked off with A Million Short Cuts. Using Craig Taylor’s One Million Tiny Plays About Britain as its inspiration, writers were invited to submit short plays on the theme of ‘Millions’. Four were selected to be read on the night, alongside some of Taylor’s plays, an interview with the writer himself and four plays to be written on the night based on audience suggestions.
My short play, Yackety Yak, was selected to be one of the four performed as a rehearsed reading. It went on to be voted the winning play by the audience on the night.
For the A Million Short Cuts event in Sept 2010 the cast was as follows:
CAROL: Tracy Gillman
JONATHAN: Donald McBride
Directed by Rosie Kellagher
**In January 2011 I was invited to record a re-written, solo version of Yackety Yak for BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. The programme was broadcast later that month.**
**In July 2011 I was invited to perform Yackety Yak as part of Riding Mill Drama Club’s evening of rehearsed readings, preceded by a chat with Hazel Osmond about my career to date and a Q&A with the audience.**
**HEAR IT: Before they let me loose on national radio, The Verb asked me to record the play and send it to them. An audition, if you will. I’ve just been clearing out some files on my computer and I came across this recording. It’s slightly longer than the version I ended up doing and the quality is a bit ropey as I was reading/recording it in my house (the glamour!) – but if you would like to have a listen then please do … [Yackety Yak]