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The SFnal Comforts of Being an Apocalypst
"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison." – Heinrich Heine, "Lutetia; or, Paris," Augsberg Gazette, 1842
I have been back from Readercon now for several days, and ideas are still bouncing around in my head. I have a list of topics I want to discuss, all at once. But this week I want to trace a line of thought that popped up unexpectedly during a panel discussion that I was leading. The panel was on "Comforting Fiction: Faux Estrangement in Fantasy" and we were discussing the notion of estrangement versus recognition. John Clute asserted that the distinction is a false dichotomy, that there is no one or the other. My immediate response in my head was "Huh. Maybe this explains my love affair with apocalypticism."
When I think about why I am drawn to and revel in fantastika — SF in particular — the first thought that pops into my head is "because the world is going to end someday, and someday is right up ahead of me." I instantly connect the comforts and joys of reading such literature with the unshakeable idea that the human species has a finite time on this planet, in part due to our own machinations. SFnal literature demonstrates to me, perhaps paradoxically, that we are hurling towards a demise partly of our own making, while haphazardly struggling to prevent it. SF has a number of elements that give me, a battered but undeterred apocalypst, a cornucopia of ideas and images to feast upon.
Many fans of SF frequently assert that the genre gives them hope by opening a window to possible futures, by using scientific postulates to imagine advances that allow the human species to overcome its environmental limitations, such as being stuck on Earth. For some critics, this use of science is heart of the genre; perhaps the best example of this is Darko Suvin's theory of "cognitive estrangement" as the conceptual engine for SF. The literature is for the most part a utopian project that uses rational thought to defamiliarize the world so that we can visualize and ponder new or reformulated possibilities. Sometimes it tries to demonstrate our potential for hubris, excess and myopia, while at other times showing us what potential the species has to remake the world and explore beyond our current boundaries.
And yet, a lot of SF utilizes or responds to apocalypse, in the modern usage of the term as "a cataclysmic event." When I first began reading SF I was more interested in post-apocalyptic works than gung-ho space opera or science-admiring futurism. I devoured stories along the whole spectrum, from 1984 and The Wild Shore to the Traveller series. I sought out doomsday stories in fiction and film; I watched The Road Warrior several dozen times through high school. Even as I discovered the wider world of fantastika I continued to seek out any narrative that was about the world's end or rebirth from some terrible end.
But my seeking wasn't about the end per se; it was about coming to grips with endings. I came to high school as an alien being, ejected (because of parental indiscretions) from a tightly-knit, extremist evangelical community where I had been trained as a child evangelist and preacher. I had been brought up in those years to believe that there was a discernible and inevitable End Times approaching that only we could prepare for. But I had suddenly been cut off from that, and was searching for other ways to look at the future, while also finding some comfort in the present. Fantastika presented this, initially through SF, and I hunted down any story about the end of the world to both assure myself that there was more than one possible end and, weirdly, to assure myself that humans might be able to deal with those endings.
I grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the tail end of the Cold War. Nuclear destruction seemed very possible; I clearly remember nights when I would look up at the sky and wonder if some moving light was actually the beginning of The Last War. The fear of this was lessened during my religious years, when the End was something that was sought after, was a sign of eventual renewal. But through high school and for a few years after I was gripped by occasional bouts of terror that the world was going to end, was going to be destroyed by our own aggressive foolishness, and I needed to know that there was more than one future that could emerge. So I looked to SF, serious and silly, for those futures.
But not for hope. I was a true apocalypst. What I really wanted was that old-time idea of revealing, the root of the word: "'revelation, disclosure,' from Church Latin apocalypsis 'revelation,' from Greek apokalyptein 'uncover, disclose, reveal.'" I wanted to understand other could-bes, test out what they felt like, if they seemed possible. I wanted futures to refute and futures to simulate, futures to reject and futures to sit with. This is why I was struck so powerfully by Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias project, his envisioning of multiple futures in the same place. It's why I found Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home to be a comfort, even after I found it to be deeply problematic in some ways. It's why I later wrestled with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. It's why I so deeply adored Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun novels, so cut off from the present yet still a world dealing with endings. All of them told me that the idea of ending itself was elusive and probably foolish.
SF provides a host of comforts for an apocalypst seeking revelation, because the stories not only talk about the future, but the present of the writer. They also let the reader refract their past and present and future within the play of words and imagination. Critique appears in unlikely places; assumptions are reproduced even as they are supposedly refuted. The ends of the world spiral back to the moment of the work's production and to the reader's interactions with their words. This is why I disagree with those who say that books are only "of their time" and can be only be understood as such. If one looks for revelation, SFnal stories can contain much more than what the author intended, or even what the reader seeks.


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Before we knew a young white man named Dylann Roof existed, my wife and I would get a good chuckle out of a story from Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church in Georgetown, South Carolina. It's the church where my wife grew up, where we said our vows in the summer of 1998, where we recently held a funeral service for her 82-year-old father.
The initials stand for African Methodist Episcopal, a denomination founded by a former slave tired of being discriminated against by white Christians. In the two centuries since its establishment, it has grown into roughly 7,000 congregations along with associated colleges and theological institutions. The World Council of Churches has estimated its membership at roughly 2.5 million.
The area surrounding Mt. Zion is awash in history. It's an hour's drive from where in 1861 Citadel cadets fired upon Fort Sumner, kicking off the Civil War. It's about 15 minutes away from a steel mill that has been shuttered and restarted multiple times over the past decade, where some of the white supervisors in the 1970s were illiterate and required their lower-paid black employees to read the safety instructions on dangerous equipment. It's tucked away in a pine forest containing dozens of modest, well-kept homes owned by a mostly black population. There are also former plantations where enslaved Africans once toiled, properties still owned by wealthy white families who rely upon black labor to keep them operational and clean.
That's where, maybe a decade ago, a strange, disheveled white man decided to show up unannounced during a Sunday morning service, taking a seat near the back. His presence caused a stir and eventually led to someone calling the police. Just the sight of him was out of the norm, upsetting.
It was just a funny, quirky story we laughed about many times—until Roof showed up at Emanuel A.M.E., about an hour away in Charleston, and slaughtered nine black people in an attempt to start a race war.
Now when I sit down with black pastors in South Carolina and they tell me stories about being unnerved by strange white people (and sometimes by white people who aren't all that strange) showing up at their churches, I don't laugh. I listen. They have serious concerns: Should they install security? Lock the doors? Or even allow guns inside their places of worship?
"I cannot speak for churches of other ethnicities, but as the leader of a black church, I am very concerned," Reverend James Cokley of Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church told me. "Since the Charleston nine were murdered, our church has installed complete security with video cameras, recorders, etc., because we have had individuals walk in and sit down but in the middle of worship, they will get up and walk out."
Cokley has been a pastor longer than Roof has been alive, beginning 36 years ago when "we locked the church simply to keep people from wandering in." Now, he says, "No one is turned away… But we do extra surveillance on those who are present. Our members are not totally at ease with visitors not accompanying persons we know."
Other churches have taken active measures. Reverend Joe Washington, of Hope Church in Conway, has considered plainclothes armed security officers, a uniformed police officer, and other measures. He settled, uneasily, on a few tactics. An usher essentially stands guard at the church entrance during the service and often locks the front and side door (while remembering to warmly greet members and visitors). Washington urged his daughter, who is also a preacher, and his wife, a well-known doctor in the area, to get trained in shooting. They initially balked at the idea, as well as at the notion of having guns in the church. But at least two concealed-carry permit holders come armed every Sunday.
"I never know who they are, and we don't announce it," Washington said. "I really struggled with it. The congregation is my first concern. I don't know how that sounds, but it's real. We need to be able to neutralize a shooter."
When he was a pastor in a tough part of New York, he understood there were dangers—he had to tell drug dealers to leave the kids in the church alone—but "it didn't occur to me that some imbecile would come and shoot up the church."
It's hard to tell how widespread among churches the internal tug of war between wanting to be welcoming yet hesitating to embrace strangers has become. But it is real.
Before Roof walked into Emanuel, the potential of racial church violence had faded from the front of the minds of many black pastors. No one had forgotten about the four little girls blown up by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963 inside an Alabama church. No one had forgotten about a spate of church fires in the South in the 1990s believed to be an effort to terrorize black people. (One of the churches burned in South Carolina was a different Mt. Zion A.M.E., that one in Williamsburg, just a short drive down the backroads.) But time had begun to put distance between the memory and the reality.
Roof's murders awakened all those fears, which have been further stoked by the rise of white supremacists who feel emboldened in the era of President Donald Trump.
Though every church leader must balance how best to keep their congregation safe while maintaining an inviting atmosphere, black pastors have unique concerns. They must contend with the racial baggage that comes with discussions about the role guns should play. At the same time, they are also generally ignored by those advocating for an extreme version of the Second Amendment and conflicted by even the thought of allowing killing machines into churches, even when the goal is to prevent the next Dylann Roof. Much of the recent gun debate has centered on whether to arm teachers or how to harden "soft targets." But the black church was designed to be a soft landing place for those looking for solace in a cruel world. To harden it is to strip it of its primary mission.
President Barack Obama's decision to attend the memorial service for Roof's victims and offer a widely praised version of "Amazing Grace" served as a balm to black people's emotional wounds. But psychic scars remain, even though Roof is slated to spend the rest of his life in a federal prison.
It's a feeling black pastors don't want to feel, a feeling they fight against but feel nevertheless.
"My mother was startled by a young white man who came into a Sunday service," said Cheryl Adamson, pastor of Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church in Conway. "It's sad, really. We are supposed to be the kingdom of God but have to be suspicious."
Adamson and her mother aren't easily startled. In high school, she faced white students armed with rotten tomatoes and vile words—white students who would assault black students and trip them for fun and to scare them back to their underfunded schools—as she and others began integrating area schools. Still, white strangers can spook her and her mother. Even when a white family on vacation in nearby Myrtle Beach showed up well dressed, "Initially, it was just jarring."
Similar suspicions have parishioners at Palmetto keeping one eye on the door, the other on the pastor preaching or the choir singing. Suspicions have kept the doors locked during nighttime service and rehearsals and meetings.
But Palmetto's response to the Roof murders has been relatively muted. "We probably err on the gentle as a dove side" instead of the biblical admonition to be "as wise as a serpent," Adamson said. "We have not done anything concrete as far as new safety measures."
Adamson doesn't like guns. Though she owns a rifle "to shoot animals," she also donates to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit in favor of gun control. Like other black pastors, she's struggled with whether to allow members who have concealed carry permits to have guns strapped to their waists under their suit jackets or in their purses.
Should she shun guns no matter what because of the damage they've caused the young black men she's trying to reach? Is armed security the right option? What about her own safety? She's heard rumors that black women pastors are likely to be targeted. The threats in her area post-Roof have been real, including one from Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, a Conway man with known ties to white supremacists who made a series of threats against non-white and Jewish people early in 2017. McDowell was arrested after buying hollow-point bullets and a .40-caliber Glock pistol from an undercover FBI informant. Though he didn't have "good training" and had yet to settle on a location, McDowell said he wanted to do something "on a big scale" in "the spirit of Dylann Roof." (McDowell pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon earlier this year.)
Given what Roof did, pastors like Adamson can't afford to not take all potential threats seriously. Talk of guns, for protection, has been at the top of her mind. She knows at least one member of her church has a concealed carry permit and may have a gun strapped to his waist during service.
"But what do you do when that person is absent?" she asked. "This really is a faith walk, a trust walk. We hope it's not stupid."
Though fears of another Roof are obviously present, church shootings are relatively rare. According to data by criminologist Dallas Drake of the Center for Homicide Research, there were 147 church shootings between 2006 and 2016. Most of those incidents involved people affiliated with the church or its members, often those with mental illness or incidences of intimate partner violence. And they have not been limited to black churches.
A couple recent examples: In November, Devin P. Kelley killed 25 members of the First Baptist Church, a white church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Kelley had a history of threatening violence against his superiors when he was in the Air Force and beat his child and ex-wife.) A month before the Sutherland Springs shooting, a teenager attempted an armed robbery at Grand Strand Baptist Church in Carolina Forest, a short drive from Adamson's church, but was stopped after an exchange of gunfire with an armed man working security in the parking lot.
Those kinds of shootings are more a result of problems in the community leaking into the church, rather than the church or religion being the target. Roof's attack, which was motivated by intense racial hatred and was arguably an act of terrorism—even if it doesn't neatly fit the government's definition—was a severe outlier. Still, pastors such as the Reverend Washington in Conway don't want their churches to be the site of that rare event or be unprepared if it is.
"I don't agree with the NRA about a 'good guy with a gun' and I don't want Hope to be the wild, wild West," he said. "Not in my wildest imagination did I ever think we'd be living in a time like this. But what Roof did was a seminal moment. And I'm not the kind of guy who you shoot at me and I won't shoot at you back."
"When a black man has a gun, he's actually seen as a criminal… What if the cops showed up and I had a rifle in my hand?"
-Reverend Washington
And yet, Washington knows what guns have meant for black Americans. Though Harriet Tubman helped several dozen slaves escape to freedom while armed with a small pistol, guns have more often been used to keep black people in bondage. The "well-armed militias" mentioned in the Second Amendment were often gangs of white patrols whose job it was to keep enslaved Africans in line or to put down black rebellions. When groups such as the Black Panthers began arming themselves in the 60s as a show of force against police who were beating and mistreating black people, white politicians who had resisted gun control, such as California Governor Ronald Reagan, embraced it. When Philando Castile was killed by a Minnesota police officer—after informing the cop he was legally carrying a gun—the National Rifle Association said little in Castile's defense, even though it was precisely the kind of incident the NRA had long warned against. It was lost on no one that Castille was black and most NRA members are white, and that throughout history gun ownership has been entangled in the issue of race, a way for white people to control and subjugate people of color.
Guns have also caused endless heartbreak in the black community, as young black men remain over-represented among those who commit crimes with guns, as well as those who are victimized by gun violence. That's just the group pastors such as Washington want to reach and help. He believes in gun buybacks and other programs designed to reduce the number of guns on the streets, but also believes it is vital for black people to be able to defend themselves. He's not the only one. In the last two years, more and more black people are considering gun ownership as a way to ward off potential attacks.
Even that presents a dilemma. Washington recounted a recent incident when his home alarm went off and a housekeeper couldn't shut it off. "When a black man has a gun, he's actually seen as a criminal," he said. "What if the cops showed up and I had a rifle in my hand?"
Like other pastors, Washington has also had to struggle against the urge to be suspicious of white people, even though some of the original members of the young church were white and a key church principle is for it to be interracial. Before Roof and other recent mass shootings, strangers all of types were welcomed without a second glance, Washington said. It's one of the most critical aspects of evangelism. But now, though everyone is still welcome, "I'm very, very cautious."
When a strange white man showed up during a series on financial literacy, Washington spent extra time getting to know the man, quizzing him about how he heard about the classes.
"It's sad," he said. "But let's face it. Who would have thought a Dylann Roof would sit through a Bible study?"
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The following e-mail went out to Republican activists, consultants, and Washington media types over the name of Perry campaign guru Dave Carney. Among the recipients were consultant Arthur Finkelstein, representatives of the Club for Growth, Washington Post columnist Chris Cizzilla, and prominent Patton Boggs attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, who represented the Bush campaign in legal maneuvering over the Florida recount in 2000. Subject: Hutchison Team Quiet About New Poll The only thing positive that the Hutchison campaign has had to talk about since getting in the Governor's race last year has been public poll numbers showing her with a sizable lead. (Like many of the elite they confuse popularity with electability.) Well today that came to an end and not surprisingly the Hutchison campaign has gone silent. 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[end of release] Click here for the link to the first article and here for the link to the second. A couple of comments: 1. Isn't it a bit odd to issue a statement touting a poll that shows you behind? The obvious inference is that the first two Hutchison polls, showing her with a 25 point lead over Perry, have had an effect on how Republicans in Washington views the race. 2. The release quotes from Wayne Slater's article about the UT poll. It does not quote the next paragraph, which addresses the poll's controversial methodology: The poll was conducted by the Department of Government and the Texas Politics project at UT. The survey was conducted using the Internet rather than live telephone calls, the traditional method of conducting polling. The sample was picked at random and the results weighted to reflect the state's demographics. Some traditional pollsters question the validity of Internet polling. UT Professor Daron Shaw says contacting people via the Internet is a way of countering the increasing number of people who aren't reachable on their land-line telephone. I understand what the pollsters are trying to do. Cell phones and caller ID have, as Slater wrote, made it difficult to reach people who do not have land lines. The Internet allows the poll to reach these people. But you don't get a true sample, and you have to rely on people's word about whether they are who they say they are — "Republican primary voters," for example. The universe of people who are polled on the Internet is different from the universe of people who are polled in traditional telephone surveys. They sign up to be polled. This means that they are more likely to be interested in politics than the people who are polled by random digit dialing. Here is the poll's discussion of favorable/unfavorable and job approval numbers: Two distinct sets of questions allow us some leverage on how Texans view their political leaders. First, respondents were asked to use a 0-100 "thermometer" scale to rate how favorably (or unfavorably) they viewed national and statewide political figures. By and large, Texans were mildly positive towards their leaders. President Barack Obama received a mean rating of 53, while Alaska governor Sarah Palin received a 50. At the state level, Governor Rick Perry and Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst each received a 51, while Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn received 57 and 55, respectively. Newly elected speaker Joe Straus received a 44, but a majority of respondents indicated they were not familiar enough with him to offer a rating. The favorable/unfavorable number in a typical poll represents the percentage of respondents who view the candidate favorably. In thermometer polling, the favorable/unfavorable number represents the strength of the "feeling" respondents have toward a particular figure. A 51% favorable rating in an ordinary poll is a good number–it means that more than half of the respondents view the person favorably. In thermometer scoring, a 51% result means that a respondent is lukewarm toward the person. When I first wrote about the poll, I said that it was good news for Perry, bad news for Hutchison. I'm not comfortable enough with the poll's methodology to let that comment stand.
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CHICAGO – Chicago police are investigating the death of a 56-year-old man from the city's far South Side who was apparently fatally mauled by his daughter's pit bulls.
The daughter told authorities she came home Sunday night and found her father, Johnny Wilson, lying on the living room floor, covered in blood.
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A Time for Survival
The British parliament had finally abolished slavery in 1833 (the trading of slaves had been abolished in 1803) so the 1800s became a period of adjustment for those newly freed. Many people, including descendants of the early settlers, lost touch with the origins of Black Loyalist communities and families in Nova Scotia. Although some people recorded family events in their Bibles or kept community accounts, the origins were largely forgotten throughout the 1800s and 1900s. As one descendant put it, We didn't have time to look for our history; we were too busy trying to survive.


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The attack on Congress President Rahul Gandhi by rivals is visible from the following photograph, which at the very first glance creates resentment for a reader. This photo was not a real one, but flipped, hence showing the right as left hand.
Being circulated by YogiSena Gkp on Facebook, this image was photo-shopped to send out a wrong notion about the Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. See the link (now deleted)
It reads: "This is our future Prime Minister candidate, who doesn't even know how to salute a national flag….Hey Mother India! What will happen to you?"
Using the Reverse Image Search, the original photo was traced to NDTV's Photo used on Aug. 15, 2011 edition featuring the Independence Day event in New Delhi at the Congress Party headquarters. It was taken during unfurling of the national flag. Here's the real picture:
The facebook user Yogi Sena GKP (now deleted) has used the picture to flip horizontally and entered the text as shown in the picture above.
A simple photo-editing technique has been used here to send out a wrong message to people who may believe that the photo was true. Our rating of this message is ????? (Totally false report).


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Timing is everything (at least sometimes) and while it might be argued that we arrived in Peru at an unfortunate time, right on the heels of the worst flooding in a dozen years or more, it could also be argued that we arrived precisely at the best of moments. It was, after all, the first part of February.
What was significant about the timing? Among other things, it was significant because Peruvians celebrate the Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria during the first two weeks of February. And nowhere in Peru is this festival a bigger deal than in Puno. And we would be passing through Puno on our way to Chucuito, where we would be staying at the Taypikala Hotel.
You see, the Virgin de la Candelaria is the patron saint of Puno and Puno is the folkoloric center of Peru. In other words, if one wanted a quick emersion (akin to jumping into the Boulder Reservoir on January 1) into Peruvian culture, being dropped into the center of Puno during the first part of February would do it.
And that is exactly what happened. We were collected at the Juliaca Airport by one of Jorge Luis Delgado's guides, who decided it would be a great thing for us to experience the festival first-hand. Forget jet lag, long layovers, and sleep deprivation. How could we forego such an opportunity? In fact, none of us wanted to forego it. We really had no idea what we were signing up for, but our guide promised to get Jorge Luis' permission to make an unscheduled stop in Puno to see the parade. One cell phone call later, permission had been granted and another cell phone call forged the plan.
We were cautioned to be careful. Pickpockets abounded during the festival and foreigners were easy prey. Our guide had spoken to a friend of his who just happened to live in Puno on the parade route. So the plan was for us to leave the bus under the care of our driver and go as a group to the home of our patron. Once there, we would pass through his house, entering through a back door and exiting through a front door—and right out onto the street where the parade was already in full swing.
But what in the world was this festival about? The festival is a lovely melding of native and Catholic tradition, honoring both Mary and Pachamama. It is held during the first two weeks of February and there are celebrations on a daily basis during this time. The festival includes religious ceremonies, dancing contests, parades, and feasts.
There are at least a couple of legends that place the Virgin on the shores of Lake Titicaca. She is known as the Virgin of Candelaria or Mamacha Candelaria and became the patroness of Puno where, historically, it is said that she saved the city when it was under siege by Tupac Amaru II in 1781. Puno was controlled by the Spanish at the time. The people of Puno decided to take a statue of the Virgin Mary (the Spanish had brought their religion with them) on a procession through the city's streets, complete with candles and musicians, probably as a way of beseeching her for help in the matter.Tupac's warriors left and the reason for their leaving is a bit obscure. The Virgin may have done the job for the people of Puno. In any event, the city seems to have been celebrating on a yearly basis ever since.
Thousands of dancers and musicians parade through the city during this celebration and we were to be witnesses to it. Once in Puno, we filed down the street like a group of kindergarteners on a field trip. We were greeted by our host at his door and led through the house. And when we passed through the front door . . . we entered another world.
The street was packed with people, some sitting in lawn chairs, others standing hunched together, and still others just sitting on the pavement. We had been told we could wander down the street for a block or so if we wanted, but most of us were too stunned by the spectacle to do anything other than stay pretty much where we were. Anyone armed with a camera pulled it out and began snapping pictures with approximately the same glee as the dancers and musicians in the procession were displaying.
And there was plenty to photograph. My own camera was in my carry-on, buried under other luggage on the bus. I knew I'd never get to it, so I resigned myself to seeing the procession without photographing it. It might have been the better way to go because it was in-your-face palpably present. Mardi Gras in the US has nothing on Candelaria! The dancers and musicians had vibrantly colored costumes that in any other context would be thought of as garish.
The older women—the grandmothers—danced through the procession with grace and enough vigor to tip us all off to the fact that this is not a country of slackers. These people are fit—even those who are carrying both age and pounds. They swung their skirts back and forth as they moved in a display that was both feminine enticement and feminine power. They swung their colorful fringed shawls along with their skirts and somehow managed to keep their traditional bowler hats on their heads. The young women wore mini-dresses and boots with thick platform soles that were reminiscent of the 1970s (or Adam Lambert). The musicians were a riot of color and sound. Among the dancers were those in Diablada (devil) costumes and they were gruesomely riveting. These were offset by dancers in stylized armor, the two groups symbolizing the battle between the Archangel Michael and the devil's army.
It is customary for the dancers to have buckets of water thrown at them (ostensibly to cool them off) and the old custom has been enhanced or added to with the practice of foam fights. That is, some parade watchers lurk with cans of foam and splash parade participants and other observers alike in good natured play.
We had but thirty minutes to enjoy the festivities. It was enough. The parade had been in full swing by the time we arrived and was winding down by the time thirty minutes had passed. We piled back onto the bus, made our way through the Puno revelers, and drove for a time along the shores of Lake Titicaca. It was dark by then, so the lake was but a dark presence.
Once at the hotel, we received our room assignments and dragged our weary bodies to them. I was surprised when I opened the door to my room. While I'd had no expectation about the accommodations, I suppose I had been thinking along the lines of a budget motel in the U.S., which is how rooms outside the U.S. often struck me. Instead, I found a room that was beautifully appointed. I walked over to the window, looked out, and gasped, "Holy >#*!!" I was looking down onto a beautiful garden courtyard, well lit by soft lights. There were flowers everywhere, a foot bridge, wrought iron tables and chairs . . . and the roof of the wing across from me was planted as a flower garden. Beyond that, I could just make out the lake.
I hadn't just come home—I was in heaven.
copyright 2010 by Melanie Mulhall


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Knowledge Is Power – Know What Is Needed To Lose The Pounds
Obesity is a concern that, literally, is both a mental and physical burden to the people impacted by it. You need to make changes when your weight is affecting you. This post is packed with hints that will help you jump on track to shed the extra weight that is keeping you back.
Try participating in cardio exercise immediately after you get out of bed and ahead of having breakfast. The process has been confirmed to burn off 300 percent several calories than you would probably when you did your cardio exercises every other time throughout the day.
Replacing your normal beverages with water throughout the day will reduce your overall calorie count. Carbonated sodas, mocha lattes and sweetened teas contain lots of useless calories. Water is definitely the free, zero-calorie alternative drink which enables you feel full.
A good food item to consume is mashed potatoes using cauliflower substitute for people who love potatoes. Steam some cauliflower florets on your own stovetop, mixing in certain diced onions. When it's tender, puree it, including chicken or vegetable stock and a bit of fresh pepper. You can expect to build a yummy side dish for suppers including all of the nourishing capacity in the cole varieties (including cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, yet others) with a modest amount of carbs.
An excellent weight reduction tip when you're receiving the urge to snack is to get some ice and suck upon it. This trick is successful as the desire to eat is often sated simply by having some form of foodstuff in your mouth.
Skip the elevator and tackle those stairs! Whether it is one floor or several, tend not to make use of the elevator. It's a little change that may have achievement. This is ideal for your overall health and shedding weight. Once you get utilized to accomplishing this, you may even want to start running up them!
An incredible weight-loss tip is always to drop foods that are fried from your diet. You will find alternative methods cooking food that could be healthy and that taste good too. By way of example, you can try broiling, baking, poaching or steaming. The slimmer waistline you want can be simply attained by varying your cooking methods.
Should you be trying to lose weight and love coffee, then try decaf coffee. Decaf is a great choice as it's pretty low on calories overall. Also, it can help to get rid of the toxins from your body the advantage
Avocados are secure to eat when you find yourself trying to lose weight. Avacados have a lot of fat however it is good fat. Their rich and silky texture makes it extremely satisfying to a lot of people who are keeping away from bad fats like the ones located in meats. Veggies tacos created using avocado over ground beef are delicious and a lot healthier.
The recommendations in the following paragraphs should have helped to explain the direction forward for your very own weight-loss efforts. Go outside, and fix your lifestyle according to the tips listed on this page. These tips is merely as good as the person following it. It comes down to you taking the steps forward and committing you to ultimately enhancing your body and living a healthy lifestyle..


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These Presidential Election 2012-inspired food art frames will have children inspired by both their country's history the beauty of the way that their food is being presented. The food art is by Flickr user R_Carlisle, who produces immaculate work using the food on his plate. From using cream corn and beans to construct Uncle Sam and working with peanut butter and jelly to paint Mt. Rushmore, this Flickr user is a talented artist.
The Presidential Election 2012 has become one of the most interesting elections to watch and with artists building fun portfolios filled with artwork made of former presidents and USA mascots, they insert fun into the world of politics.


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- 175g gluten free self raising flour (Tesco blend)
- 175g caster sugar
- 175g butter
- Zest of 3 lemons
- 75ml milk
- 3 eggs
- Drizzle syrup- juice of 3 lemons and 2 tbsp sugar
After my last gluten-free baking boob, an old school friend of mine sent me a recipe online. Good old Pete. I whisked up all of these ingredients together and baked for 40 minutes at fan 160 in a loaf tin.
Have to say this recipe was much much better than the potato based lemon cake. You wouldn't know this cake was gluten free! The texture is cakey and lovely. I am happy. Thanks Pete!


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Welcome to www.nwaMotherlode.com, an "online getaway" for Northwest Arkansas mamas. Created by two local mothers who are also professional writers, this site combines your favorite features from women's magazines with the interactivity of the Internet.
Though Gwen and Shannon will be hosting the party, like any great gathering, it's the guests who make it fun. Ask your most pressing questions about life, hair, make-up or anything else that's on your mind. Feel free to offer suggestions. We value your opinions since this a website just for you!
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Here's a sampling of what you'll find on nwaMotherlode:
Giveaways: We've become known for the coolest giveaways for Northwest Arkansas moms! From spa services to date nights (and even a washer/dryer recently!) we like to help out our fellow mamas, who often put themselves last on the list. We also like helping local retailers introduce products to NWA moms. Good luck!
5 Minutes with a Mom: Get to know local moms with our quick, Q & A profiles and pictures.
Beauty Buzz: Seek answers to your most pressing beauty and make-up questions from a self-professed beauty product junkie in our "Ask Andi" segment. Peruse product reviews sent in by NWA mamas just like you.
NWA Calendar of Events: We like to keep the mamas up to date! This calendar lists a month's worth of fun family events around Northwest Arkansas. Email us with information about YOUR event/activity if it's mama-oriented.
Inside His Head: These husbands answer the tough questions and give us the straight scoop on how guys really think. But let us just warn you right here and now that you're about to enter a space where few women have dared to tread. We're going "Inside His Head."
Help Me Rhonda: Help heal your hair woes with practical advice and professional tips from stylist and mama to two, Rhonda.
The Rockwood Files: Enjoy this online compilation of humor columns by Gwen Rockwood of The Northwest Arkansas Times and The Benton County Daily Record.
Drama for Mama: Find out what's happening on our favorite prime time T.V. shows with updates and colorful commentary.
Healthy Mama: Need-to-know info from local health professionals on a variety of topics. Sponsored by Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas.
Devotion in Motion: Use these weekly tips to jump-start your spiritual life.
Mealtime Mama: Borrow dinner ideas from our online collection of favorite recipes.
You'll also find mom blogs, advice on tweens & teens, and info on everything from "good" gossip to the coolest places to surf online. Check out all the rest at www.nwamotherlode.com, "Where Moms click."
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Meet Gwen, co-founder nwaMotherlode
I'm the mama of 3 little ones – 10-year-old Adam, 7-year-old Jack and 5-year-old Kate. But long before the babies came along, I took a job as a receptionist in the newsroom of the Northwest Arkansas Times in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I was fresh out of college and, after several months of paying my dues typing wedding announcements and school lunch menus, my boss promoted me to reporter and editor of the business section and gave me my own personal column, now known as The Rockwood Files.
After nearly four years at the newspaper, I left for a job with an ad agency, got married and spent a year working in St. Louis. My husband and I moved back to Arkansas in 2000, and I worked as director of marketing for The Bank of Fayetteville – a position I held until our son Adam was born in late 2001.
Well, one baby led to another baby who led to another baby. You know how it goes. Between all the diapering, baby burping and errand running, I've kept my newspaper column alive by working part-time from home. I've squeezed out a few freelance marketing projects here and there and published a handful of stories in the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series.
Then one day Shannon called me with this great idea and, well, another kind of "baby" was born – nwamotherlode.com. Like the other babies, it took a while to get it here. It requires constant feeding, and we're always trying to help it grow. But just like life with my real kids, it's an adventure, and it sure is fun.
When I'm not writing, diapering, dropping off, picking up or folding clothes, I love to have dinner out, leave the dirty dishes on the table and go see a movie with my husband and a big box of Raisinets.
Check out Gwen's blog, The Rockwood Files, or e-mail her by clicking here.
Meet Shannon, co-founder nwaMotherlode
My heart belongs to a sweet (and salty) 10-year-old daughter I call Ladybug. I'm a former reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, (Northwest Edition) but have been a freelance writer for a decade.
Gwen and I launched nwaMotherlode.com in May 2008. In doing so, we combined three of our passions: motherhood, writing and the Internet. We wanted to create a website just for Northwest Arkansas moms that we would want to visit every day.
As a newspaper reporter for many years, I covered a broad range of topics at papers across Arkansas including crime, courts, business and education.
While I'm not working or having adventures with my daughter and/or my husband, I love to read novels and psychology books, sing old church songs and 80s music and take walks with my black standard poodle and ice blue iPod. I live far enough away from family that I rely on neighbors, friends and virtual community to help me navigate motherhood and life.
You can read more about Shannon's family adventures on her Motherlode blog "Life With Ladybug." E-mail Shannon by clicking here.
Meet Andi, Beauty Buzz editor
Our resident make-up queen is Andrea Douglas. Feel free to e-mail Andi your beauty-related questions via firstname.lastname@example.com.
We asked Andi to write a little bit about how she ended up in Northwest Arkansas and how her love affair with make-up began. From Andi:
When I married my husband, a native Arkansan, we relocated from fast-paced Dallas to NWA for a new career. About 5 minutes later, I was pregnant and alone in a town that only had one mall (who can imagine?) and no family within 5 hours.
At the time, I thought that having a baby when I felt so overwhelmed by change was going to be impossible to manage, but my son, Brandon, turned out to be my saving grace.Through him, I was able to meet a generous, welcoming, and diverse group of moms that were happy to give me tips on the local hot spots for kids and shopping and shopping for kids! Five years later, I just welcomed baby girl Lexi into my family and have rediscovered the joy of shopping (boys just aren't as much fun to shop for) and the need for great make-up to hide the fact that I have not slept more that 2 hours at a time in the last 2 months!
Growing up as the youngest of 3 girls I watched my older sisters go through all of the latest beauty crazes, from mood lipstick to body glitter, and learned from their mistakes to develop my own sense of style. Somewhere along the line, I became the "beauty guru" of my family and the designated shopping partner on any trips to the make-up counter.
Now that I am a SAHM of two, I am always in search of a fast and flawless make-up routine on a budget and can't wait to share my discoveries with other local moms. What I don't already know, I look forward to finding out as I research the latest trends and beauty hot spots around town.
Find out how I'm managing my new role as a mom of 2 by visiting my blog Baby on the Hip www.babyonthehip.wordpress.com
Meet Rhonda, Help Me Rhonda hair adviser
Okay, mamas. Meet Rhonda. She's Gwen's friend and also her hair stylist. She met her years ago through another friend\ whose hair consistently looked so healthy and fabulous that it was starting to secretly tick Gwen off. So instead of envying her friend's good hair fortune, she finally asked her who was cutting her hair. One month later, Gwen was sitting in Rhonda's magic chair.
Gwen said: "What I really like about Rhonda is that she isn't one of those fakey-fake, syrupy sweet hair stylists who will tell you exactly what you want to hear, take your Mastercard and send you on your delusional way. If you ask for her professional opinion, she'll give it to you. She's never brutal, but she is honest.
"I asked her to host this hair forum because she really knows hair but also because she's funny, she tells a good story and she's got two teenage daughters so she completely understands the complexities of hair drama. When your hair looks like crap, your mood often goes right along with it."
So, if you need hair wisdom or a product recommendation or a good laugh, you've clicked on the right spot. E-mail your hair questions to Rhonda at email@example.com.
Meet Jade, Military Mama blogger
Jade Stone is mom to 4-year-old Jess, wife to National Guardsman Jay and has already endured her husband's first deployment. They're gearing up for a second.
Through this blog, Military Mama, Jade is taking us through the challenges of running a home — often alone –while her husband fulfills his military duty.
Jade tells it like it is and gives us a true snapshot of an American military family.
Meet Sarah, Techno Mama blogger
We love reading Sarah's posts on the latest tech just for moms. She's entertaining, personable and lots of fun. From Sarah:
"I grew up a little bit of everywhere as an Army brat, but I've lived in Fayetteville for nearly 10 years now and am lucky enough to have two handsome boys in my life that I get to laugh with every day – my husband Jeff and our little boy, Colt.
In all honesty, when I started blogging in March 2005, it was a way to keep up with my large, globetrotting family. We could post stories and pictures, and keep in touch in a whole new way. And since those early days on a platform called Xanga, I've really fallen in love with blogging. My writing has definitely evolved since my first blog entry, but I love having a written (and photographic!) record of the last five years as I've grown from single college gal to newlywed to first-time mama. Sometimes I read back through my archives and laugh at myself a little at how young and stupid I was – but I am proud of myself for keeping up with it and plan on keeping blogging a part of my life for the foreseeable future.
Having grown up as one of those nerdy, studious types, I never really thought it would pay off. And now here I am. I'm no professional, just a slightly geeky Mama. But I'm so excited to have a venue to share tips and advice and best kept secrets with all the other Mamas out there who could really use a timesaver here and a cool, new website there. I love keeping up with the latest in blogging, digital networking, and the newest Apple "toys", and I confess that I do everything from pay bills to order lunch online. I'm hopeless!
I love Seinfeld reruns, Chick-fil-A, going to the movies by myself, and peanut butter. My dream job is to organize other people's closets and pantries (alphabetization! color coding!). If that doesn't work out I'll settle for being the person at a cosmetics or paint company who gets to name the colors. Sounds fun, doesn't it? I know!
I'm thrilled to join the team and would love to hear from you with questions or feedback regarding gadgets, technology, or blogging – I'm here for YOU. And, of course, you're always welcome to stop by Musings of Mother Hood to say hello."
Meet Laurie, Getting Healthy for Good blogger
At the beginning of 2010, I decided This is It! for me this year. I made a point of telling everyone I know that I'm making an effort to get healthy. I'm not just talking about it – I'm writing about it. And I'm not just sharing the good stuff, I'm sharing all the failures and screw ups too.
This year I'm turning 45. I have an eighteen-year-old about to graduate from high school (we're still hopeful…) and a 5-year-old who will go to kindergarten this fall. I want to do more than just lose some weight – I want to be HEALTHY. I want to be able to sit on the floor amidst a pile of Legos for twenty minutes and be able to get up to make lunch without having to walk hunched over for five more minutes until my hips loosen up. I want to be able to play basketball in the driveway without my blood pressure escalating faster than paparazzi outside Lady Gaga's hair salon. I plan to be around a long time, but my body needs to be in the shape to carry me along that journey. Right now, it's not.
I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with the readers of Motherlode, and want to hear from you about what kinds of things you find challenging, or tips you might have for making time for healthy choices. I'm going to write about what I'm doing and how it's working (or not!), and hope to inspire you to join me if you want to, or to encourage the rest of us if you're already doing great. This blog will be about us, for us – welcome to Getting Healthy For Good.


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The Mara
Main Aliases:
Evil Ones, the Father of Lies
Affiliated With:
Place of Origin:
First Seen In:
Small Worlds
The Cradle of the Snake
Antony and Cleopatra
The Dreaming
The Terrible
Mark of the Medusa
The Mara
Happy Deathday
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One of the Doctor's most powerful and mysterious enemies, the Mara was a manifestation of pure evil, described as having originated from 'the dark places of the inside', apparently one of many such creatures. The first Mara that the Fifth Doctor encountered existed on the planet Deva Loka, where it had apparently destroyed the civilisation of the seemingly primitive Kinda many times, enjoying their suffering, although The Doctor later learned that the Mara was apparently created on the planet Manussa. Centuries in the past, Manussan scientists created a Great Crystal to focus the energies of the human mind, but it absorbed only the negative energies, the Mara being created when these energies were reflected and amplified by the crystal, although it was eventually contained once again.
As a being of psychic energy, the Mara was only able to gain physical form by gaining access to an unshared dream, with the result that it was contained for centuries as the native Kinda possessed a subtle telepathic link to each other that they primarily used to communicate ("Kinda"). When the TARDIS visited the Kinda homeworld, the Fifth Doctor's companion Tegan Jovanka fell asleep underneath a series of wind chimes, her 'unshared' mind lacking the defences against telepathy that the Kinda had developed, Tegan being left on her own as Nyssa recuperated from a recent illness in the TARDIS While the Fifth Doctor and Adric were captured by an Earth expedition to Deva Loka, strange disappearances had reduced the expedition's numbers by half and the second-in-command was close to breaking point.
After the Mara inflicted various assaults on Tegan's sanity, such as a pair of illusions that dismissed her as the dream and a doppelganger of herself, Tegan was finally convinced to become the Mara's host, allowing it to move from Tegan into a Kinda host. With the expedition members having almost all suffered a mental breakdown – the commander returned from the jungle an infantile and compliant man While his second became increasingly dangerous, to the point that he believed the plants were a danger, The Doctor was forced to escape with the expedition scientist, Todd, when the commander gave them a box containing a telepathic message from the Kinda mystic, Panna, and her young ward Karuna, the only Kinda capable of vocal speech. As the Mara's new Kinda host, Aris, took control of the Kinda tribe, Panna revealed the threat the Mara posed to The Doctor and Todd in a final vision, allowing The Doctor to find Tegan, who retained some memories of the Mara's time in control even after it had left her, although these felt more like a dream to her than a real event. While Todd used the telepathic box to restore the expedition members' sanity, The Doctor was able to defeat The Mara by erecting a series of mirrors around its current host – based on the old superstition of evil being unable to face itself, forcing the Mara to face its own reflection and driving it out of Aris until it collapsed down into itself, returning to the Dark Places of the Inside.
>The Doctor confronted the Mara again when Tegan, still slightly under the Mara's influence, redirected the TARDIS coordinates to land on the planet Manussa, the former location of the Sumaran civilisation that had been ruled by the Mara for around six hundred years after it first manifested from the Great Crystal before it was destroyed by the founders of the Federation of Worlds that now ruled the planet. When they discovered a snake-shaped cave mouth, Tegan fled in fear and fell under the control of the Mara once again, The Doctor's attempts to convince the Federation representatives of the Mara's return meeting with failure as they prepared for a celebration to commemorate the Mara's defeat. Learning of the existence of the Snakedancers, a quasi-religious group that believed that the Mara would one day return and had spent years preparing in secret to purify their minds to resist the Mara, The Doctor and Nyssa determined that the Little Mind's Eye Crystal and its larger counterpart, the Great Mind's Eye, could serve as focal points for energy that would turn thought into matter, allowing the Mara to regain corporeal form.
While Tegan/the Mara took control of Lon, the son of the Federator who ruled the Federation, so that he could rearrange the celebrations to allow the Mara to return, The Doctor and Nyssa escaped with the snakedancers, The Doctor eventually communicating with Dojjen, an ancient mystic of the group. Guided by Dojjen to find the 'still point' within himself, The Doctor was able to confront the Mara even as it began to manifest in the cave, instructing the other people in the cave as the ceremony concluded to avoid looking at it to limit the fear it could feed on. Despite the Mara's attempt to trick The Doctor into looking at it by using Tegan's voice, The Doctor used the Little Mind's Eye Crystal to contain the Mara once again by destroying the Great Crystal, depriving it of the opportunity to spawn again, although Tegan was left particularly affected by her time as the Mara's host and the Doctor himself noted that it was possible that other Mara could manifest in other ways.
The Fifth Doctor faced the Mara for a third time when he, Tegan, Nyssa, and new companion Turlough learned that the Mara retained influence over Tegan, with The Doctor's attempt to banish it from Tegan only resulting in it transferring itself into The Doctor. Having consulted a book in the TARDIS library to learn about its history, the Mara/Doctor took the TARDIS to Manussa – officially claiming that 'The Doctor' wanted a Manussan doctor to take a look at Tegan, arriving on the planet a century before the Sumaran Empre was established, and began a scheme to subjugate Manussa in that time period. With The Doctor as its primary host, it possessed several other hosts, using experimental Manussan technology and blue crystals to project the thoughts of its hosts into solid matter, manifesting a physical form of its usual giant snake. Although it took Nyssa and Turlough as additional hosts, Tegan was able to free Turlough from its influence and subsequently free The Doctor using a circle of television cameras and screens to pull the Mara out of him, similar to the reflective panels he had used when facing it on Deva Loka. Returned to normal, The Doctor attempted to reverse the Mara's physical manifestation by linking the crystal it was using as a link to the physical world to the TARDIS, but the Mara was able to swallow the TARDIS when The Doctor tried to bring the crystal into physical contact with the Mara for the plan to work. In the end, the Mara was only defeated when a young man who had been created by the crystal technology allowed the Mara to swallow him while he was holding the crystal, destroying the Mara and restoring the balance. However, The Doctor noted that the Mara's essential essence remained in all living beings, meaning that it could never be completely destroyed.
The Doctor faced the Mara again in his eleventh incarnation during the Siege of Trenzalore, when The Doctor discovered that Trenzalore was the location of a crack in reality that would allow the Time Lords to return to this universe, leaving him trapped on Trenzalore as various races wanted the planet destroyed to prevent the return of the Time Lords – and thus potentially start the Time War all over again – but couldn't force The Doctor to leave in case he spoke his name and released them ("The Time of the Doctor"). Although Trenzalore was surrounded by a barrier that prevented technology from entering the planet, the Mara's non-corporeal nature allowed it to penetrate the barrier, possessing various residents of the town called Christmas where The Doctor was staying so that they would dig up the body of Jalen Fellwood, one of the first settlers of Trenzalore who had been executed after he tried to sacrifice his wife to his 'gods' ("Tales of Trenzalore: The Dreaming"). Using the dreams of the residents, the Mara was able to turn Jalen's body into a human/snake hybrid form that it could use to physically manifest on this plane, subsequently taking possession of the town's children and threatening to make them harm the adults and then themselves unless The Doctor released the Time Lords to restart the War, creating more darkness for the Mara to feed on. However, its continued reliance on Jalen Fellwood's body allowed The Doctor to defeat it by filling a snow machine with salt and releasing it on the Mara, Jalen's belief in salt's magical properties forcing the Mara to retreat as it drew power from this belief.
Although the Mara has yet to return to the television series, the Ninth Doctor's and the Tenth Doctor's immortal companion Captain Jack Harkness mentioned that a race of fairies that he and his team were dealing with were similar to the Mara ("Small Worlds"), but he may have been referring to the old spirits from Earth mythology rather than this Mara. Regardless, the Mara remains a prominent threat, with the Tenth Doctor mentioning the Mara during his brief meeting with the Fifth ("Time Crash") and Tegan often portrayed as experiencing nightmares of her time as its host even after leaving the TARDIS.


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The case concerned a 1977 contract between and Iranian company and a Swiss company for the purchase of Iranian crude oil destined for three Israeli companies. The contract was governed by Iranian law and contained an arbitration clause.
The case involved an appeal against a partial award issued on January 31, 2008 by an arbitral tribunal sitting in Geneva, with Sebastien Besson as chairman.
The dispute revolves around an industrial complex in Qatar where a company incorporated in Cyprus undertook to perform certain dredging work. A contract to that effect was signed on November 9, 2002. The contract is governed by Swiss law and it contains an ICC arbitration clause.
The case involved two companies, the names of which are omitted, as is standard practice for the Federal Tribunal. However, a clerical mistake on the Court's website indicates that the Respondent was Aventis and the Appellant was an Israeli company.
The dispute involved a distribution agreement pursuant to which an ICC arbitration was initiated in Zurich in 2006. The Arbitral Tribunal was composed of Rudolf Fiebinger as chairman, with Uriel Lynn, Jodk Wicki as arbitrators.
The matter concerned a contract between two professional football clubs containing certain provisions with regard to compensation and other amounts to be paid as a consequence of the transfer of a professional player. The first contract, dated July 17, 2007, was concluded with the assistance of a company active in the transfer of players for one of the clubs.
At issue was a dispute between a company in Singapore and a German company that had entered into a contract in 2004 for the delivery of a plant to manufacture dialyzes. A dispute arose between the parties and the German company subsequently resold the plant to a third party.
The case involved a contract between a Swiss and an Israeli company whereby the Swiss company would obtain certain compensation for the early termination of its distribution rights of a pharmaceutical in Israel and other territories.
The contract contained an ICC arbitration clause with venue in Zurich.
The case involved a dispute concerning services performed in a large development and construction project in Ukraine. Two Cypriot companies were involved. They had concluded a contract concerning the management and the supervision of the project containing an ICC arbitration clause. One of the companies went bankrupt and sought the reimbursement of some payments made to the other by starting arbitration proceedings.
The case involved two contracts of association between a BVI company and an Algerian state entity for oil-related exploration in Algeria.
The case involved the sale of certain goods between two companies in Turkey and Hong-Kong. A Swiss Chambers Arbitration was initiated and the sole arbitrator – a Geneva lawyer whose identity the Respondent's counsel considers confidential – rejected the claim in an award issued on February 25, 2016.


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|Enrique Perez-Terron
|Re: Sub shell mit pipes
|Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:27:30 +0200
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 02:09, Chet Ramey wrote: > Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: > > In any case, the combinations < <(..) and > >(..) should be implemented > > using pipes and so be available on all architectures supporting pipes, > > even if named pipes are not available. Is this the case already? > > No. While these are common idioms, I have not been willing to invent > syntax to encapsulate them. What you're looking at is something like > ksh coprocs, No! It has not been near my mind to have bidirectional communication with a single subprocess! I just commented on the fact that od -c < <(grep root /etc/passwd) is functionally equivalent to grep root /etc/passwd | od -c and therefore, the combination < <(..) can be implemented with a pipe instead of a named pipe or using /dev/fd/%d. By the way, the latter is actually compatible with the use of unnamed pipes since int p[2]; pipe(p); sprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/dev/fd/%d", p[0]) cmd[arg_n] = buf; ... if (!fork()) { ... stdin = open(cmd[arg_n], O_RDONLY, 0); effectively dup()s p[0]. The reason I ask if pipes are already used in this case it that the manpage reminds us that some systems do not have named pipes or /dev/fd/%d style device files. Using pipes would make the combination < <(..) available on such architectures even if <(..) per se is not. The combination < <(..) is not really needed except in the cases where the command outside the parenthesis must run in the main shell. This happens when the command is 'exec'. Otherwise a pipe can be used instead, ie. cmd2 | cmd1 can be used instead of cmd1 < <(cmd2). Now I suggest that cmd | exec be made syntactic sugar for exec < <(cmd) provided that the combination < <(..) is implemented with pipes, so that the translation works in all cases where the user expects the pipe to work. One would still have to document the case as an exception to the job control system, in the sense that cmd | exec works like exec < <(cmd) with respect to job control. Similarly for exec | cmd as syntactic sugar for exec > >(cmd). -Enrique > where Korn invented a syntax to specify them (|&) and > added options to various builtins and created new redirection syntax > to use them. > > I prefer the more general composition of basic features. > > Chet
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It may surprise some people outside of the study of anarchism that, alongside race, sexuality is perhaps the least studied subject within anarchist scholarship. This absence in the scholarly literature is often mirrored in practice, and as such the recent publication of Jamie Heckert and Richard Cleminson's Anarchism and Sexuality provides a necessary intervention. Judged on the basis of the editors' intent to craft a queer book, both in style and in content" (1)
Michael Truscello is an Assistant Professor in English and General Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. His research includes post-anarchism, technology studies, and materialist cultural studies. His recent publications include contributions to A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America from University Press of Mississippi, Post-Anarchism: A Reader from Pluto Press, and Transgressions 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age from Continuum Press. He is also the director of the 2011 documentary film, Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity.