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It's a complete mystery to me how authors of whodunits not only get inspiration, but figure out law enforcement and legal procedures. Luckily, local mystery writers, from the aspiring to the award-winning, can get some clues from the Mystery Writers of America Rocky Mountain Chapter. We caught up with accomplished author and president of the RMWWA, Mark Stevens, and gave him a grilling under harsh lights.
Can you tell us a bit about the types of writers who belong to the RMMWA?
Good writers, funny writers, short story writers, master wordsmiths, poets … is that the type of writer you meant?
Ah, just kidding.
There’s a mystery focus, of course. We are a chapter of Mystery Writers of America (MWA). Most of the writers who come to our meetings are members of MWA. MWA has two key types of memberships! Active members are professional writers in the crime/mystery/suspense field whose work has been published in the United States and who live in the U.S. and who meet specific criteria set by the national board. The other type of members are “affiliates.” In general, affiliate members are not yet professionally published and/or they are fans of crime/mystery/suspense. There's more about application information here.
But, we actually do have poets! And romance writers (plenty of romance novels have mystery elements). And yes, we do have master wordsmiths, including writers who have been nominated for the Edgar Award. It’s a fun, wide-open group of writers. We are eclectic. And you do NOT need to be a member to come to our events. However, we do ask that guests buy a ticket in advance so we know how much food to have on hand (most of our meetings involve dinner, but you may also purchase the non-dinner option). For event information, visit Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America.
What sub-genre of mysteries do you write?
I write contemporary mysteries with environmental, topical themes. My four mysteries to date are in a series featuring outfitter and hunting guide Allison Coil. They are set in the Flat Tops Wilderness in western Colorado (north of Glenwood Springs). In order, the books are Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline and Lake of Fire. The last three were all finalists for the Colorado Book Award; Trapline won. The stories have touched on everything from animal rights and big-game poaching to climate change, fracking, immigration and for-profit prisons. The fifth book in the series is done (no publication date yet), and I’m working on a more urban stand-alone mystery-thriller, too.
Do you have any examples of past speakers, and how they impacted your writing?
Yes! Most of our speakers are experts or professionals from law enforcement. We’ve had county coroners, experts in cyber security, prosecutors, private investigators, state parks and wildlife rangers, instructors in self-defense, and trial lawyers involved in famous cases. (We also occasionally have speakers who focus on the book business and/or writing and/or topics related to the book business). If you are a writer of crime fiction, all access to folks who work in law enforcement, from any corner of the land, is of value. At least, that’s my opinion. You never know what kernel of information might be helpful with what you’re writing. Sometimes it’s the details of a particular line of work, other times it’s how a law enforcement officer thinks.
What are some surprising things you've learned from the speakers? How does it differ from conventional portrayals that you might see on a TV show?
The second question, I think, answers the first. The second question implies—that TV shows are TV shows. I can’t tell you the number of speakers who just shake their head about the difference between the TV version of “reality” and, well, reality. The whole CSI TV franchise is routinely criticized for its head-shaking impossibilities. The speed of processing a crime scene is always longer in real life. The cases take longer. The work is, often, much more tedious. And non-glamorous. What our presentations show us is the gritty, hard work and dedication of these real individuals who are determined to help keep order and justice in our society. One surprising thing is these folks are extremely motivated about their work. They take it personally. That might be the only accurate comparison to a fictional character—the personal drive to ferret out crime. And criminals. To me, it’s all fascinating. And sometimes surprising.
Can you tell us about some upcoming guest speakers?
In February we have an expert from the Human Trafficking Unit in the 18th Judicial District (Arapahoe County) and in March we have a speaker who is an expert in aviation and airport security.
Who are some of your favorite mystery writers, and why?
Do you have an hour? A day? Can we talk? I read a wide variety of writers for all different reasons. Sometimes I want dark and noir. Sometimes I like something more brisk and fun. So: Patricia Highsmith (really dark, very good); Michael Connelly (excellent police procedurals); James M. Cain (dark); Denver’s own Ausma Zehanat Khan (three books featuring a Muslim detective who is based in Toronto); Christine Carbo (outdoor mysteries in Montana); Lori Rader-Day (great suspense); Christopher Bartley (1930’s gangster stuff with a thoughtful lead bad-guy); Elmore Leonard; Richard Price (yes, he writes crime fiction); George V. Higgins; John Galligan (what a writer); Michael Harvey; Rachel Howzell Hall (featuring a feisty L.A. cop); Craig Johnson (a brilliant writer; the Longmire series); James M. Ziskin (featuring a female newspaper reporter set in the 1960’s); Denver’s own Manuel Ramos (noir); Nevada Barr (I think Allison Coil and Anna Pigeon would get along just fine); Boulder’s own Rex Burns and Margaret Coel (a legend); and on and on. And on and on.
Thanks to Mark for those great suggestions, and don't forget to sign up for the Winter of Reading Program!

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26th Annual Bernardo Lecture
November 10, 2016
5:30 Casadesus Hall (4:30 Reception in Green Room)
Ronald L. Martinez, Professor of Italian at Brown University,
Cleansing the Temple: Dante and the Defense of the Church
Readers of the Commedia are familiar with Dante’s severe judgment of contemporary popes. The attacks are explicable as part of Dante’s strategy of defending the Church itself, which the poet saw as imperiled by papal avarice and political ambition. From the reference to the biblical punishment of Uzzah for touching the Ark of the Covenant in Epistola XI, urging Italian cardinals at the 1314 conclave to elect a Pope favorable to Rome, we know that Dante anticipated accusations of meddling in Church affairs. And meddle he did: the representations in the poem of the Church, in guises both historical and typological (Ark of the Covenant, Temple, Bride of Christ, etc.) comprise an ambitious program by which Dante identifies with the role of protector and purifier of the Church, modelled chiefly on scriptural episodes of Christ cleansing the Temple, a longstanding staple of anti-simoniacal reform within the Church itself. A series of passages in the second half of Paradiso (Cantos 15-16, 18, 22, 27) elaborate Dante’s investment in this role, one that is repeatedly linked to the poet’s condition as an exile.

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Bank of America told regulators it would close one of its branches in Boca Raton, adding to its tally of 189 closures in 2013.
The bank (NYSE: BAC) wants to shutter the branch at 8903 Glades Road in the Somerset Shoppes. It had $68.1 million in deposits there as of June 30, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Boca Raton residents shouldn't take it personally. According to SNL Financial, Bank of America had a net decrease of 189 branches nationwide in 2013, the most of any bank.
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Deutsche Bank reiterated their hold rating on shares of Rotork (LON:ROR) in a research note issued to investors on Monday, December 4th. The firm currently has a GBX 255 ($3.41) price target on the stock.
Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the company. reaffirmed a hold rating and set a GBX 250 ($3.34) price objective on shares of Rotork in a research report on Friday, September 29th. Liberum Capital reaffirmed a sell rating on shares of Rotork in a research report on Thursday, November 23rd. Peel Hunt raised their target price on Rotork from GBX 260 ($3.48) to GBX 280 ($3.74) and gave the stock an add rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 31st. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Rotork from GBX 293 ($3.92) to GBX 317 ($4.24) and gave the stock an overweight rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 17th. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group reissued a buy rating and issued a GBX 280 ($3.74) target price on shares of Rotork in a research report on Thursday, August 24th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock currently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus price target of GBX 261.80 ($3.50).
Rotork (ROR) traded up GBX 1 ($0.01) on Monday, reaching GBX 266.90 ($3.57). The company’s stock had a trading volume of 712,353 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,130,000. Rotork has a twelve month low of GBX 221.30 ($2.96) and a twelve month high of GBX 273 ($3.65). The company has a market capitalization of $2,320.00 and a P/E ratio of 2,965.56.
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Rotork Plc is a United Kingdom-based actuator manufacturer and flow control company. The Company operates through four segments: Controls, Fluid Systems, Gears and Instruments. The Controls segment is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of electric actuators. The Fluid Systems segment is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of pneumatic and hydraulic actuators.
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Kuwait will start this year the first phase of a heavy oil field production, aiming to boost heavy crude output to 430,000 bpd from 60,000 bpd by January, the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reports.
Heavy crude oil production from the first phase of an oil field in northern Kuwait, known as “Al-Ritqa” is forecast to hit 11,000 bpd in August this year, KUNA quoted Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) as saying.
The Al-Ritqa oil field project is aimed at boosting heavy crude oil production to 430,000 bpd from 60,000 bpd via multiple production phases by January, Fatama Al-Kanderi, who is responsible for project planning at KOC, said at a recent panel discussion organized by the Kuwaiti oil ministry.
Increasing heavy crude output in northern Kuwait is one of the pillars of the Kuwaiti 2040 oil production strategy, KUNA quoted Al-Kanderi as saying at the panel.
Nearly two years ago, Kuwait announced plans to increase its crude oil production capacity to 4.75 million bpd by 2040, compared to a current capacity of 3.15 million bpd.
In early 2018, the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said that it would spend around US$500 billion by 2040 to boost the Arab Gulf state’s oil production capacity. KPC’s chief executive officer Nizar al-Adsani said in January 2018 that KPC expected to spend US$114 billion over the following five years and another US$394 billion after the five-year period through 2040.
While Kuwait plans to boost its heavy crude oil output and production capacity in the future, it is currently cutting its oil production as part of the OPEC and allies’ deal to remove a total of 1.2 million bpd from the market between January and June, in a bid to rebalance the market.
Kuwait—like another Saudi ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—is strictly adhering and even over-delivering in its production reduction under the OPEC+ deal. Kuwait’s crude oil output in March stood at 2.709 million bpd, according to OPEC’s secondary sources, compared to a 2.724-million-bpd cap under the deal.
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Since last year I've been reading all the HP books to my girls aloud. Last night we finished The Deathly Hallows.
Do you know how hard it is to read books when you're crying? I won't reveal what made me cry but my youngest went and got me tissues. I think it is the strongest of the books, possibly. There was some streamlining that could have been done in the front end, and the one thing that bugged me was the absence of Ginny. It was okay the whole way through but maybe it's just the romantic in me but it needed a scene in the end. Now I know the last chapter had to end with the three of them - Hermione, Ron and Harry - because that's how it began. But before that, I would have loved to have a moment - just a moment - with Ginny. That would have led into the epilogue very well. I'll bet you ten bucks there's such a scene in the movie.
But overall...the rest made it nearly the perfect ending to the series. I finished a little bit like JK herself did - sorry that it was over. With such a sense of finality that I was a little bit sad.

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Longtime Boston Globe writer Bob Ryan has announced plans to retire from the paper later this year.
Ryan will retire from the Boston Globe at the end of the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced Tuesday. Though Ryan will remain with the paper in a part-time capacity, he told an ESPN.com podcast that he will be “scaling it way back” (espn.com, 2/14).
It was not immediately known whether Ryan would continue to contribute to ESPN.
Saying his “time has come and gone,” Ryan reflected positively on his four-decade career. “I very happily say I’ve had a great run,” he told the aforementioned podcast, adding that it is “time for somebody else to have their run.”


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Art and vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist’s records in Switzerland. Since the beginning of its existence, the record has always been used by visual artists as a form of distribution for their sound practice. First experimented by the early avant-garde movements, the role of these sound supports was later redefined in the context of the proliferation and hybridization of forms between sound and language. While recording media such as discs or cassettes were used to document happenings, readings, and Fluxus concerts, these approaches also became a medium in their own right, used by artists to transmit their experiments. Moreover, the current economic and technological context generated a keen interest in editorial and multiple art practices. A-Sides brings into focus a network of actors linked to the scene of the Lake Geneva region—on the history of artistic encounters and exchanges generating sound productions. The produced works, as well as the methods of exploration of this international network, formed the basis of this anthology of artists’ sound publications. A-Sides gives an insight into the conditions and motivations that give rise to the creation of sound recordings as an art form and explores the ambiguity of the relationship between the current technological context, which is moving towards dematerialization, and the persistence of sound practices distributed on tangible recording media.
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UNM professor claims this behavior has deep roots in human evolution
Rape is not typically the crime of male domination as it has been portrayed by sociologists and feminists in recent years, says a University of New Mexico biology professor.
Instead, UNM's Randy Thornhill and Colorado anthropologist Craig T. Palmer have developed a new theory that rape is a complex sexual crime with strong roots in human evolution.
Moreover, contend Thornhill and Palmer, rape "prevention efforts will founder until they are based on the understanding that rape evolved as a form of male reproductive behavior."
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Because women and girls don’t always kick ass, and neither should our heroines:
Bella Swan, by contrast, is a much more honest though cringe-inducing representation of adolescence. She doesn’t know who she is or what she wants. She’s clumsy, obtuse, and aggravating in her helplessness. She is also entirely internal, almost alienatingly so. One of my favorite passages from the novel New Moon is when Stephenie Meyer inserts a series of blank pages to stand in for the months that pass while Bella mourns — out of any reasonable proportion — Edward’s desertion. Bella, kind of wonderfully, takes her time.
The Starbucks-fueled saga of how Jim Romenesko, beloved journalism blogger, took an early retirement.
A look at Andy Warhol’s enduring popularity and power in the art market.
Warhol’s art was not supposed to be a matter of emotion, introspection or spiritual quest; it was to be an image, pure and simple. “During the 1960s,” he wrote knowingly in 1975, “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”
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How the popular and controversial film critic has helped revive the film program at the L.A. County Museum of Art.
Journalists, filmmakers, random people on the street — it seems everyone has an Elvis Mitchell story. Both those who consider themselves Friends of Elvis and those whose relationships with him are sour or worse are happy to dish about him — albeit almost always off the record. Some are afraid of losing current or future jobs in the ever-more-tenuous world of film journalism. Others simply enjoy his admittedly fine company too much to risk losing it.
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India will meet 75.66 per cent of electricity requirement of 1,750 billion units in fiscal 2023-24 from thermal power plants, the government told parliament on Thursday.
“The electricity generation programme has been fixed at 1,750 BU for the year 2023-2024. 75.66 per cent of electricity would be generated from thermal power plant with an average plant load factor (PLF or capacity utilisation) of 66.90 per cent,” stated Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
Further, he also informed the House that there is adequate capacity available in the country to meet the rising demand of power with projected energy surplus of 56,796 million units (3.6 per cent) and peak surplus of 1,717 MW (0.7 per cent) in 2023-24.
In order to increase the power generation capacity in the country, 18 coal based thermal power projects having total capacity of 25,440 MW, one gas-based thermal power project with 370 MW capacity and 42 hydro-electric projects (above 25 MW) having total capacity of 18,033.5 MW (as on 30th June 2023) are under construction in the country, he informed the House.
He also stated that nuclear capacity totalling 8,000 MW is under various stages of construction.
Singh explained that there is adequate capacity available in the country to meet the rising demand of power with projected energy surplus of 56,796 MU (3.6 per cent) and peak surplus of 1,717 MW (0.7 per cent) in the year 2023-24.
During April-June 2023 period, 4,07,762 million units of electricity was supplied against the demand of 4,08,621 million units leaving a deficit of 858 million units or 0.2 per cent, the minister said in another written reply to the House.
There is adequate availability of electricity in the country. There is a negligible gap between energy requirement and energy supplied on account of factors attributable to discoms such as constraints in distribution network, financial constraints, commercial reasons etc., Singh stated.


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There has been a lively response to this article in The Guardian and I was happy to add my name to a list of signatories on an open letter in response written by pianist and musicologist Ian Pace (who is still collecting names – as I write, I understand Sir Simon Rattle has asked to be added to the list).
I share the author of The Guardian article’s concerns about the provision – or lack thereof – of music education in the UK, particularly in the state sector, and I, along with many music teacher colleagues, are fearful that with cuts in funding, music education (along with art and drama) will become the exclusive preserve of the private sector.
Observing the gradual dismantling of music teaching in our state schools from my, admittedly privileged, position as a private piano teacher working in one of the most affluent suburbs of SW London, I’ve come to appreciate that my own introduction to and study of music in the state education system in the 1970s and 80s was truly exceptional – both in terms of provision and quality of teaching – and a lot of what I learnt then, specifically at O and A-level, remains useful in my day-to-day teaching activities. I was indeed very fortunate.
What has really upset many of us about The Guardian article is the author’s assertion that musical notation – the dots, lines and signs on the printed or handwritten page of a musical score – is “a cryptic, tricky language (…) that can only be read by a small number of people“. She infers that the ability to read music is elitist because notation is unintelligible except to those who are privately educated.
In fact, the ability to read music is no more elitist than the ability to read English or Spanish or comprehend simple HTML coding. All skills which can be taught, and taught well, so that students learn and absorb them. Music is a language, with its own grammar and punctuation marks, which can be and is taught in a way not dissimilar to the teaching of, say, French or Latin.
I can’t remember when I first learnt to read music. I must have been around 5 or 6, as that is when I first started piano lessons, and at that time (early 1970s) I was probably taught in a very traditional way (I did music theory homework every week alongside my piano practise). But the method clearly worked as by the time I reached Grade 5 at the age of about 10, I was sufficiently confident in my music reading to start exploring beyond the confines of the piano grade syllabus. I was also a proficient and voracious sight-reader (a skill which I have fortunately retained, but one which must be practised regularly). Being able to read well unlocked an amazing door into a world of adventure and exploration – just as being able to read and understand English well did too (well, hello Chaucer!). As my pianistic skills advanced, so did my reading and pretty soon great thickets of notes or music written across three staves (such as in Debussy’s Preludes – pieces I played regularly as a teenager) became something with which I could engage and enjoy.
The young people, and adults, whom I teach and have taught will all say that one of the primary motivations for learning the piano is also learning to read music. One of my students really put his finger on it recently when he said “I want to be able to read music well enough so that I can open a book of music and play anything I want to” (observe his piano teacher whooping inwardly for joy – because this is my aim too!). This student could appreciate that the ability to read music offers the possibility for independent learning and exploration.
Learning to read music really isn’t that difficult: musical notation certainly has fewer quirks and anomalies than the English language and its “rules” and “grammar” are largely unchanging, which makes it a language which is pretty universal, in my humble opinion. For example, last year, I worked with an orchestra made up of musicians from the former Yugoslavia. My Croatian language skills don’t extend much further than “Zdravo” (Hello, how are you?) or “Doviđenja” (Goodbye), picked up on an exchange trip to Zagreb in my O-level year, but I and the other musicians all had the same score (Bach’s Double Concerto) on the music desks and we were able to “converse” through that: the notes on the pages became our common language. This may sound rather romantic, but musical notation also allows us to transcribe – or translate, if you will – music from other cultures, thus giving us the opportunity to experience this music within a more familiar set of symbols and parameters.
As my experience with the No Borders Orchestra illustrates, notation is not pure “theory” – it’s practical. Those dots, squiggles and numbers on the page are the directions to us, the musicians, which enable us to translate the composer’s intentions into sounds. Notation is also an important tool in understanding the structure, architecture and narrative of the music. It means we can look at original scores by composers like Bach or Mozart and understand them. The ability to read music enables us to play together in orchestras and bands, sing in choirs, read a jazz lead sheet – and the end result is……music. It’s not elitist; it’s simply the way music works – and it’s an efficient system understood by many, used across genres from rock and pop to jazz and classical music.
notation is a beautiful thing in its own right, a way of communicating ideas based on a common understanding and not something just for the privileged (I use myself as the example here, being from a working class, south London background with a very incomplete education)
– Marc Yeats, composer
[…] via Of signs and symbols — The Cross-Eyed Pianist […]
My early musical education was very similar to yours, Fran. I wholeheartedly agree with your article which is beautifully crafted – thanks for saying everything I would have said, and more!
Dear Frances, Thank you so much for your excellent article & counter to the Guardian. How can I add my name as a retired Director of Music, please? And my husband [John Jones] as a retired Professor of Music? And daughter [Rebecca Goss] as Head of Strings? Best wishes, Jo
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On 3 April 2017 at 17:53, The Cross-Eyed Pianist wrote:
> The Cross-Eyed Pianist posted: “There has been a lively response to this > article in The Guardian and I was happy to add my name to a list of > signatories on an open letter in response written by pianist and > musicologist Ian Pace (who is still collecting names – as I write, I > understand S” >
Many thanks for your comments and support. I’ve passed your details to Ian Pace who will add to the list of signatories
The easiest way to add your names is to leave a comment on Ian Pace’s article https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/response-to-charlotte-c-gill-article-on-music-and-notation-full-list-of-signatories/
[…] Pamela Rose , this by Helen Sanderson, this by George Bevan, this by George A. Smith, and this by Frances Wilson. For an utterly contrasting view to that of Gill, strongly advocating reading (and sight reading), […]
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The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has hailed the increase in the ombudsman's free case fee threshold as a positive move for IFA firms.
In a consultation paper published today, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) proposed a modernisation of its funding model which could increase the number of free cases for small businesses from three annually to as many as 25.
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LOS ANGELES, April 9 (UPI) -- Jamie Bell stars as the Thing in a new photo from The Fantastic Four.
The 29-year-old actor will portray the Marvel superhero in the upcoming reboot, and is shown in the character's transformed state in the still.
"Jamie in real life is a tough guy," director Josh Trank told Empire magazine. "He exudes this strength. Ben is Reed's best friend in the archetypal, spiritual way, and you want that character to have that warmth and that strength."
Bell will star alongside Miles Teller as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch. Toby Kebbell will play villain Victor Domashev, aka Doctor Doom.
In the comics, the Fantastic Four are a team of astronauts who obtain superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays. The Thing develops rock-like skin and superhuman strength, Mr. Fantastic gains elasticity, Invisible Woman invisibility and the Human Torch is able to generate flames.
20th Century Fox released a financially-successful Fantastic Four movie with Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans in 2005. X-Men: Days of Future Past writer Simon Kinberg and Jeremy Slater co-wrote the script for the reboot, which opens in theaters August 7.
Bell made his film debut as the title character in Billy Elliot, and went on to portray Jimmy in King Kong and Griffin in Jumper. The actor is also known for Jane Eyre, Snowpiercer and Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, and will return to voice Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun.


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If you’ve had weight loss surgery, hydration is the key to recovery and weight loss. Because gastric bypass, duodenal switch and gastric sleeve surgeries limit the capacity of the stomach, it can be difficult to get the recommended 64 ounces of water each day. In fact, dehydration is a top reason that patients are re-admitted to the hospital after weight loss surgery. If you have had weight loss surgery, here are some tips to help you stay hydrated.
- Don’t drink water with meals. If you do, you could fill up too quickly and not get the nutrients you need from eating. Drink water about 30 minutes after eating. As for eating, be sure to read our blog on Creating a Nutritious Wight Loss Surgery Diet Menu.
- Start drinking water as soon as you wake up. You cannot “catch up” on your water later in the day. It simply does not work like that.
- Because of you limited stomach capacity, never take big gulps. Bring your water with you in the car, to work, etc. and sip on it all day.
- Most bariatric surgeons recommend 64 ounces of water daily. Measure your fluids and keep track to make sure you get what you need.
- Caffeine dehydrates you, so it does not count toward your daily fluid intake. Avoid it as much as possible. A little caffeine, such as 200 MG, is okay if you are getting your daily intake of water.
- Carbonation can cause stomach discomfort, so we recommend avoiding carbonated drinks until after 6 weeks post op.
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i’m watching the cmt artists of the year special.
maroon 5 just covered tswift’s mine.
i LOVED it.
i heart maroon 5.
this is my favorite song.
& i love the video because kelly preston is in it.
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Tuesday October 20,2015 : CALIFORNIA HAS MISSED OUT ON AN ONLINE GAMBLING BONANZA
Legal expert opines that self-interested parties have fought themselves to a standstill and wasted eight years of potential progress.
Well known and respected California legal expert, Martin Owens, authored a telling op-ed article in the Sacremento Bee this week, bemoaning the lack of progress on legalising online gambling over the past eight years which has denied substantial revenues for the state.
Owens says that California has all the elements that could have made it a world-leading licensing and hosting jurisdiction: a large population, a tech savvy society and a tolerant public attitude.
"But for at least the past eight years, we have seen licensed gambling establishments fight each other to a standstill rather than cooperate in building the future," he says, commenting that in the meantime the Internet changed the way games are available to the public...and the federal government passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act with exemptions for fantasy sports which have led to the creation of a multi-billion dollar industry, supercharged by the daily fantasy sports genre.
Owens claims that society's attitude toward gambling has changed over the past few decades, and the legitimate pastime is now widely regarded as a generator for economic growth, with even the major US sports leagues lending support to fantasy sports games.
With the millennial generation and mobile communication now moving to centre stage, current gambling laws are becoming obsolete, and the time has come for a more practical, modern approach, he suggests.
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(ANS - New Delhi) - Some important meetings for the Delegates for the Salesian Family (SF) in South Asia were held in September, first in Delhi and then in Hyderabad. They were led by the Delegate of the Rector Major for the Salesian Family, Fr Eusebio Muñoz, the World Delegate for the Salesian Cooperators, Fr Giuseppe Casti, and the Central Assistant for the Volunteers of Don Bosco and Volunteers with Don Bosco (VDB and CDB), Fr Joan Lluis Playa.
(ANS - Managua) - The Fifth Congress of the Devotees of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA) in Central America took place in Nicaragua from 28 September to 1 October. The motto of the congress was “Mary, Mother and Teacher of the Family”. The main objective was to present the renewal of ADMA with special attention to the family, in the light of developments in recent years, and in harmony with the journey of the Church and the Salesian Family.
(ANS -Torre Annunziata) - The Salesian Oratory and Youth Centre in the southern part of the town of Torre Annunziata, a populous town on the outskirts of Naples, has acquired a football field with synthetic grass for their educational, recreational and sporting activities. The inauguration will take place on 19 October.
Sri Lanka - With Don Bosco, different ethnic groups and religions are building a new future together
(ANS - Kurunegala) - Fr Reginold Fernando is a "multitasking" Salesian as we say today: Vicar of the Vice Province of Sri Lanka, Director of the community of Metiyagane and Dean of the Salesian Institute of Civil and Electrical Engineering, in addition to following, at a distance, a major agricultural project aimed at supporting initial formation communities.
Italy - New eyes and new words to see and narrate the banlieues
(ANS - Rome) - The banlieue, inner-city, or periphery as a space, as a dimension, the periphery, above all, as a lively and vital reality, and not simply a catalyst of social problems and degradation. Because "reality is better seen from the periphery," as Pope Francis said, who has brought the theme of the banlieues into the magisterium of the Church. From this point of view, on March 10th, at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, a formation course was held entitled: "Narrating the peripheries: positive observations, constructive words."
Argentina - At the oratory we are demonstrating ... that change is possible, Amarrando Redes de Solidaridad
(ANS - Córdoba) - In Argentina the Salesians offer assistance to thousands of children and young people in vulnerable situations. In recent years the Sons of Don Bosco have engaged in a typically Salesian project entitled: "Amarrando Redes de Solidaridad" (Connecting Networks of Solidarity) which, faced with a selfish and individualistic culture, wants to prod open "a new culture of solidarity."

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No one, I mutter, No one is.
I tried to prove myself a few minutes ago, as if I hadn’t accomplished anything today or recently or ever. I rambled and forced jokes and tried too hard to be accepted. Was I taken over by a ghost?
Are ghosts made of insecurities? If so, they’re really lame–I mean, they should cause a scare, make someone go AAAAA. They should be able to do cool stuff like make a room cry blood or fracture glass with their own reflection. My dumb ghost is a bunch of stupid memories that make me act badly. It lacks power probably because I lack power. No one is, No one is here:
Bliss and Grief (from poets.org)
Ponsot titles her poem “Bliss and Grief,” both of which seem far beyond my petty concerns. I guess you could say bliss and grief each create a sensation where the self for a time is lost and hard to find. Immense sadness has made me feel disembodied on more than one occasion. If I’ve come close to an all-consuming happiness, I believe I was absorbed in a role, like a character from a movie. No one is here right now comes from trying to talk to oneself—it isn’t just said to others asking how we are.
Still, there are no right answers regarding interpretation. Maybe, at best, better ones. And what really matters is how a poem speaks to you. The original “speak between” of interpretation is a higher priority than some mystical truth which makes for beautiful prose but proves to be little use in life.
So I find myself staring at the form of this thing. It’s like two mounds of words jammed next to each other for the sake of a larger mound. “No is right” is one half, “one here now” the other. There’s some sort of self, a “one here now,” but it’s absorbed in negation. Strictly speaking, it isn’t exactly absorbed, as it lets “no is right” have equal height and breadth.
I imagine “bliss” would be an end to second-guessing myself, but now I’m looking at the literal shape words take. There is no end to second-guessing, as matters great and small make can cause one to feel lost. It’s weird to think it natural to not be yourself, but it seems to be perfectly natural, the only response to overwhelming events or a world which insists the consistent practice of a public face.


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This Christmas day, I am deferring to two who are wiser than I. The first is Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, who said, in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, –apart from the veneration due its sacred origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that, –as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-travellers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it.”
…and Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, whose prophecy about his son’s role in the ministry of Jesus Christ is recorded in the Gospel of Luke:
“For our God is merciful and tender; He will cause the bright dawn of salvation to rise on us, and shine from heaven on all those who live in the shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace.”
Merry Christmas, everyone!
A quick note: I’ll be travelling until Tuesday, 12/29, and not making drama journal or blog entries, but be sure to catch up with me after that. I’m sure there will be lots to tell!


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Ford's Police Interceptor Utility Off the Hook As Brake Investigation Wraps Up
While the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s probe into reports of exhaust gasses leaking into the cabin of certain Ford Explorers continues, the company doesn’t have to worry about the brakes on its law enforcement variants anymore.
After launching an investigation into front brake hose failures — at the request of the Sacramento Police Department — in 2015, the NHTSA returned the verdict this week. Nothing inherently wrong with those front stoppers, it said. It seems the Sacramento PD really, really pushes its vehicles in pursuit training.
Seeking evidence of a defect trend, the agency’s probe looked at “maximum front caliper crimp temperatures under various test conditions” and tested “hose assemblies removed from police interceptor service for any signs of thermal degradation.” The investigation concerned vehicles from the 2013 to 2015 model years.
While it determined that the brake hose failures resulted from “exposure to extremely high heat at the caliper-side hose crimp,” none of the Police Interceptor Utility vehicles pulled from patrol and pursuit duties for testing showed any sign of the condition.
“The low number of hose assembly failure reports and the absence of any verified incidents of heat related front brake hose crimp failures since 2015 suggests that the Sacramento PD incidents resulted from conditions unique to the training program,” the NHTSA said in its rundown. No recall or further investigation is warranted.
In light of the agency’s finding, it’s odd that other police departments didn’t report the same issue. The Police Interceptor Utility is one of the most common pursuit vehicles you’ll see, and trainees put those rigs through their paces from coast to coast.
Another brake hose issue did crop up in 2013, also on the same type of vehicle. However, in 2015 the NHTSA determined that the brake hose failures reported by the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department originated from “a small tear in the outer cover on the body end of the hoses on the outboard side.”
While it couldn’t identify a defect in the hose material, the investigation suggested that improper repair procedures likely contributed to the tears. In other words, the guy tasked with swapping the brake discs allowed the caliper to dangle from its brake hose during servicing.
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Brilly on Nov 26, 2018
If anybody is listening.. I have a 2013 Ford Edge and I have had brake failure twice! Ford replaced booster then it failed again. Now replacing master cylinder. Lots of similar complaints along with Fords lack of responsibility to completely fix the problem!! Personally I feel it is a more expensive fix than a defective booster which ford claims is the reason.I think it is a defective hydraulic control braking unit which Ford would have to pay alot more to replace! Many people have had multiple brake failures and our lives are at risk.Ford only offers an extended warranty on the brake booster and will only replace it twice. Too bad if that does not work...(which it doesnt) Greed and lack of concern for lives are a bad mark for this company. I will never buy another one after owning 4 Ford automobiles. This will be the last time. Fact check this and you will find it true!
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- Jeff S I am not a fan of Tesla and they were niche vehicles but it seems that they have become more common. I doubt if I get an EV that it would be a Tesla. The electrical grid will have to be expanded because people over the long run are not going to accept the excuse of the grid can't handle people charging their EVs.
- AMcA The '70 Continentals and Town Cars may have been cousins to the standard body Fords and Mercurys, they didn't have to be disguised, because they had unique, unbelievably huge bodies of their own. Looking at the new 1970 interior, I'd say it was also a cost savings in sewing the seat. Button tufted panels like the 1969 interior had require a lot of sewing and tufting work. The 1970 interior is mostly surface sewing on a single sheet of upholstery instead of laboriously assembled smaller pieces. FINALLY: do I remember correctly that the shag carpet shown under these cars was a Photoshop? They didn't really go so peak '70s as to photograph cars on shag carpets, did they?
- Inside Looking Out Toyota makes mass market cars. Their statement means that EVs are not mass market yet. But then Tesla managed to make mass market car - Mode; 3. Where I live in CA there are more Tesla Model 3s on streets than Corollas.
- Ltcmgm78 A lot of dirt must turn before there's an EV in every driveway. There must be a national infrastructure plan written by other than politicians chasing votes. There must be reliable batteries that hopefully aren't sourced from strategic rivals. There must be a way to charge a lot of EVs. Toyota is wisely holding their water. There is a danger in urging unplanned and hasty moves away from ICE vehicles. Do we want to listen to unending speeches every election cycle that we are closer than we have ever been to 100% electrification and that voting for certain folks will make it happen faster? Picture every car in your town suddenly becoming all electric and a third of them need a charge or the driver will be late for work. This will take a lot of time and money.


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It was December 2017, north of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. On that day, CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné was inaugurating a gas liquefaction plant in the Arctic. At the time, the oil and gas giant was at the peak of a long and privileged relationship with Russia. That relationship had been consecrated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a few days earlier, in St. Petersburg, during the christening of the company's first LNG tanker, the Christophe-de-Margerie, named after the former CEO who died in a plane crash in 2014.
A few years later, things have changed. The war in Ukraine is dragging on, and the main oil and gas groups (BP, Shell and Equinor, in particular) have long since decided to leave Russia. But TotalEnergies is finding it difficult to say goodbye. And it is biding its time to stay.
Admittedly, in March, and taking into account the European sanctions that will hit Russian oil at the end of 2022, the group's management confirmed that it would stop importing oil and oil products by the end of the year. It also stressed that it would proceed with a "gradual suspension of its activities," but did not set a precise date. Brussels' decision to wait until 2027 to apply an embargo on Russian gas also allows TotalEnergies to stall and justify its presence in the country, while implicitly placing responsibility on political leaders.
But TotalEnergies' business in Russia is primarily gas. In 2021, gas will account for 85% of its hydrocarbon production in Russia. The French group is involved in two gas fields. It also owns 19.4% of Russian company Novatek, which is also its partner in two liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant projects. Novatek is partly owned by two oligarchs close to Mr. Putin, Leonid Mikhelson (24%), the group's founding chairman, and Gennady Timchenko (23%), who is targetted by Western sanctions.
The EU's second-largest supplier of LNG
Although the French multinational is invoking "its position as a minority shareholder" to deny any operational role, it is nonetheless reaping the benefits of gas sales from Yamal LNG, which is mainly owned by Novatek. With a capacity of 17.4 million tonnes (Mt) per year, this liquefaction plant continues to export its LNG at high prices. "Many LNG tankers leave the site," confirmed Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, the director of the energy and climate center at the French Institute of International Relations. "We are seeing ships taking the northern route to China, but as we approach winter, they will be heading more towards Europe."
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|WEIGH IN RESULTS | SERGEY KOVALEV V ANTHONY YARDE | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ON BT SPORT 2 FROM 5PM
|ANTHONY YARDE will take on WBO World Light Heavyweight Champion Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night in Chelyabinsk, Russa live on BT Sport 2 from 5pm.
The fighters are expected to begin their ring walks at 7.30pm just after the Premier League football game between Liverpool and Arsenal on the same day.
Yarde (18-0, 17KOs) and Kovalev (33-3-1, 28KOs) weighed in today.
Here are the official weights from today’s weigh in.
Sergey Kovalev (Champion) – 174.6lbs
Anthony Yarde (Challenger) – 173.9lb
Sergey Kovalev v Anthony Yarde for the WBO world light heavyweight title is live and exclusive on BT Sport 2 from 5pm on Saturday with ringwalks expected at 7.30pm.


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Focused debates, audiences taking notes and raising questions – these were the sounds and sights at Crop Science’s headquarters in Monheim during Bayer’s Future of Farming Dialog 2017. The location, Bayer’s Tropicarium palm house, was filled to capacity. Up to 200 global participants ranging from farmers, scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists and nutrition experts accepted the invitation to exchange ideas about the future of agriculture.
Dialogue to Thrive
The invited panelists discussed a variety of topics, whether it was building consumer trust, the importance of innovation or the need for sustainability. As importantly, the Future of Farming Dialog 2017 provided a platform to exchange diverse agricultural perspectives. In his opening speech, Liam Condon highlighted the importance of this collaborative spirit to his guests: “Food is an emotional topic, and agriculture requires a variety of stakeholders to foster the innovations that will shape the future of farming.”
Four of the panelists – two farmers, one entrepreneur and one nutrition expert – share their observations about what’s happening in agriculture and give direct talk about the challenges that need to be addressed.
Maintaining discussions with consumers
“Maintaining open dialogue with consumers is a priority,” says Marcus Holtkoetter, a farmer from the Muensterland area of northwest Germany. For Holtkoetter, who has been passionate about agriculture since childhood, farming is a calling. To do this work best, he regularly engages with the public to answer their questions – and to provide them with accurate knowledge about farming.
Holtkoetter says the public often has misconceptions. “Many consumers don’t know about the basics of agriculture, such as the amount of crop protection used within a field. This can lead to public prejudice against farming.” Through his social media platform ‘Frag den Landwirt’ (Ask the Farmer), Holtkoetter discusses the public’s questions and provides them with information. “We started this because we often receive private messages and questions after publishing general social media posts. We realized that we needed to clarify the basics of agriculture, such as the purpose of crop protection products.” This first-hand communication pays off, he says. “We communicate directly and honestly. Many followers tell us they’re glad we provided information and the reasons behind our work. That’s our main goal: Engaging in dialogue to earn the public’s understanding of our actual farming practices.” To make this communication happen, Holtkoetter respects the public’s questions and their concerns. “We can’t make everybody like what we’re doing, but we still seem to make most people feel like our work is not so mysterious and certainly not ‘dangerous.’ We can support them in understanding why we are using crop protection products, for example.”
That’s our main goal: engaging in dialogue to earn the public’s understanding of our actual farming practices.
Supporting consumers’ food choices
Retail dietitian and nutrition expert Karen Buch also aims for transparent communication with the public. “My goal is to educate people about food choices that can help them feed their families nutritiously.” While working as a director for a US-based regional grocery retail chain, Buch helped create programs and services to guide consumer decision-making about food right at the point of purchase. “By teaching consumers about food, farming practices and production, consumers gain a better understanding of where their food comes from.” Through her consumer interactions, Buch regularly notices misconceptions: “For example, people may have a perception that no form of crop protection products has been used in organic food, but this is simply not true,” she says. “My role in the food supply chain is to add clarity, not confusion, regarding food and to amplify food truths while dispelling food myths.” Buch also sees a chance for farmers to counter these misconceptions with transparent communication. “The more that the farmers can tell the story, and the more their story is known, the better informed consumers will be. Then, misconceptions will not drive food choices.”
My goal is to educate people about food choices that can help them feed their families nutritiously.
Data and tech talk
As important it is for farmers to communicate with consumers, they should also engage in dialogue with tech experts to develop their agribusiness, stresses panelist Allison Kopf, a young start-up entrepreneur. “Farmers need a baseline of technological knowledge: what’s happening on the innovation scale, and what technology is working to have a real return on investment. And technology companies need to know from farmers and the agricultural industry what’s needed,” she says. “I believe that we have a really exciting opportunity for our future food system that involves people who are not just farmers but dietitians and tech experts and scientists are really all encompassing the food system.”
Kopf speaks from first-hand experience. Awarded the 2016 Changemaker of the Year by the Association of Vertical Farming and Entrepreneur of the Year by the technology news organization Technical.ly Brooklyn, she is the CEO of Agrilyst, a management and analytics platform for indoor farm based in Brooklyn, New York, and founded in 2015. On a fundamental level, says Kopf, farmers need to optimize data analysis in order to reach and maintain profitability. “Many farmers operate on narrow margins. It can take seven years for new farmers to become profitable, but data helps them reach profitability in one to two years, which means more of them can continue this valuable work.”
Data is also crucial, Kopf continues, to maximize profitability. “If farmers aren’t using ten percent of available space, that could equal anything from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue,” she says. “Understanding how to best use their available space can make a crucial difference in the ability to stay in business.”
On a fundamental level, farmers need to optimize data analysis in order to reach and maintain profitability.
Data and tech talk
She also says there is a clear message: Farming has gone past the point of making data optional. “Any company that doesn’t have a data strategy will lose. Farmers need data strategies to react faster, to improve their crops and increase their profitability.” For example, says Kopf, farmers need to know of consumers’ needs, nutrition and behavior. “The data stream of who these people are and how they are consuming food helps farmers to adjust their crops and their crop cycles. Then it affects the input stream of farmers as well. They can address what and how they are growing crops, at what prices the crops are selling at and what they are able to supply.”
The preconditions for digital farming
Another panelist convinced about digital farming’s importance is third-generation farmer Marco Parzianello. His company, Parzianello Agro, based in Sorriso, Mato Grosso, Brazil, grows 11,000 hectares of grains and 10,000 hectares of eucalyptus. Freshly graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture and consumer economics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Parzianello is committed to developing his business by using new technology. “Digital farming tools would allow me to farm more precisely, which would provide more planning security,” he says. However, before these tools can be established in Brazil, another challenge must be addressed, he adds. “In contrast to many developed countries, our big problem here is connectivity. Not all of the farms in Brazil have access to the internet yet.” Just as Brazil’s digital infrastructure must be developed in general, so must its physical infrastructure. “Many roads are unfinished. This means logistics gets affected, which leads to wasted crops.”
Some of the countries represented here, such as the US and Germany, are digital farming pioneers.
Still, for Parzianello, the Future of Farming Dialog is an important opportunity for knowledge exchange about digital farming’s potential and its challenges. ”Some of the countries represented here, such as the US and Germany, are digital farming pioneers,” he says. “It’s invaluable to learn about their digital farming applications, knowing I might apply them at my own farm one day.” Parzianello stresses that it’s essential to overcome the current technical restrictions in his country. “We need an intense information exchange with providers who might support farmers, so we can use digital technologies that could work in, and around, existing infrastructure problems.”
Ultimately, the 2017 Dialog panelists showed that sharing insights and explaining how agriculture works will develop knowledge and trust all along the food chain. As Allison Kopf observes, “All in all, there’s so much opportunity for innovation along the entire agricultural system, from consumer down to producer, and vice-versa.” Driving this innovation is a lot easier when different experts in agriculture look for collaboration and direct communication.

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The Pan-African Congress was a series of five meetings in 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1945 that were intended to address the issues facing Africa due to the European colonization of much of the continent.
It gained the reputation of a peace maker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies. It made significant advance for the Pan African cause. One of the demands was to end the colonial rule and end to racial discrimination, against imperialism and it demanded human rights and equality of economic opportunity. The manifesto given by the Pan-African Congress included the political and economic demands of the Congress for a new world context of international cooperation.
Colonial powers in Africa wanted native Africans to wait patiently for limited political concessions and better career opportunities. Due to their exclusion in the negotiatons of the Treaty of Versailles, black ex-servicemen and educated urban classes became disillusioned. Because Colonialism had been built on the foundation of capitalism, Socialist ideas of equality and global collaboration appealed to these budding revolutionaries.
|“||They had been disillusioned with the European war, they kept on having frightful clashes with English and American soldiers, besides the fact the authorities treated them completely differently from the white soldiers... I was working at that time in London in a communist group. Our group provided the club of Negro soldiers with revolutionary newspapers and literature which had nothing.||”|
1st Pan-African Congress
In 1919, the first Pan-African Congress was organized by W. E. B. Du Bois. There were 57 delegates representing 15 countries, a smaller number than originally intended because British and American governments refused to issue passports for their citizens who planned on attending. Their main task was petitioning the Versailles Peace Conference which was held in Paris at that time. Among their demands were:
Amongst the delegates were:
2nd Pan-African Congress
In 1921, the Second Pan-African Congress met in several sessions in London, Paris and Brussels. There was an Indian Revolutionary who took part, Shapurji Saklatvala and a journalist from Ghana named W.F. Hutchinson who spoke. This session of the Congress was the most focused for change of all the meetings they had so far. At the London session, London Resolutions were adopted, later restated by W. E. B. Du Bois in his Manifesto To the League of Nations:
|“||England, with all her Pax Britannic, her courts of justice, established commerce, and a certain apparent recognition of Native laws and customs, has nevertheless systematically fostered ignorance among the Natives, has enslaved them, and is still enslaving them, has usually declined even to try to train black and brown men in real self-government, to recognise civilised black folk as civilised, or to grant to coloured colonies those rights of self government which it freely gives to white men.||”|
The only dissenting voice was that of Blaise Diagne who was a French politician of African origin. He represented Senegal in the French Chamber of Deputies. He soon abandoned the idea of Pan Africanism because he thought that the London Manifesto declaration was too dangerously extreme.
3rd Pan-African Congress
In 1923, the Third Pan-African Congress was held in London and in Lisbon. This meeting was totally unorganized. This meeting was also a repeat of the demands such as self-rule, the problems in Diaspora and the African-European relationship. The following was addressed at the meeting:
4th Pan-African Congress
In 1927, The Fourth Pan African Congress was held in New York and adopted resolutions which were similar to the Third Pan-African Congress meetings.
5th Pan-African Congress
The significance of the Pan-African movement and the fifth Congress
Pan-Africanism is aimed at the economic, intellectual and political cooperation of the African countries. It demands that the riches of the continent be used for the enlistment of its people. It calls for the financial and economic unification of markets and a new political landscape for the continent. Even though Pan-Africanism as a movement began in 1776, it was the fifth Pan-African congress that advanced Pan-Africanism and applied it to decolonize the African continent.
The people in Manchester were politically conscious and that was one of the reasons why it was selected as the venue for the fifth Pan-African congress. The fifth congress was organized by people of African origin living in Manchester. According to the Mancunian historian Simon Katzenellenboggen it has a great significance as it was an important step towards the end of those imperial powers in Africa. Unlike the four earlier congresses, the fifth one involved people from the African Diaspora including Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Americans. Manchester had a significant part to play in helping the African countries to march forward in their fight to independence.
- Painter, Nell Irvin (2008). Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 355. ISBN 9780393331929.
- The Worley Report on the Pan-African Congress of 1919 by H. F. Worley and C. G. Contee, reproduced in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 140-143
- Lewis, David, W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography, 2009, p 414-415.
- "The Pan-African Vision". The Story of Africa: Between World Wars (1914-1945). BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/13chapter5.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
- 'George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress' by Hakim Adi in George Padmore: Pan-African Revolurionary ed Fotzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis, Ian Randle, Kingston JA 2009
- http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/index-fa.html 1945-Pan-African Congress and its Aftermath
- "Road to Pan-Africanism". Road to Pan-Africanism. The Sowetan. http://www.panafricanperspective.com/pheko.htm. Retrieved 1999-11-15.
- "Black History Month". It began in Manchester. BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/10/14/151005_pan_african_congress_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2005-10-14.
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I really, really, really, really hate this sort of thing. I'm all for there
being organisations that help minorities but I'm dead against any
group that excludes people because of who they are or where they
come from. Perhaps it's because I live with the pain of exclusion but
to me I can see no difference between this group and a city club that
excludes women or a school football team that excludes girls or a
church that excludes gay people from the sacrament of marriage.
This is the church taking a big step backwards. It's inverted racism.

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The Nixon Presidential Library just just released the transcript of Richard Nixon’s grand jury testimony during the Watergate trials, which includes an explanation for the missing 18½ minute recorded conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff.
There are more than two dozen folders and PDF documents from the trial.
In May 1975, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) decided that it was necessary to question former President Richard M. Nixon in connection with various investigations being conducted by the WSPF. Mr. Nixon was questioned over the period of two days, June 23 and June 24, 1975, and the testimony was taken as part of various investigations being conducted by the January 7, 1974, Grand Jury for the District of Columbia (the third Watergate Grand Jury). Chief Judge George Hart signed an order authorizing that the sworn deposition of Mr. Nixon be taken at the Coast Guard Station in San Mateo, California with two members of the grand jury present.


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