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Your Bibliography: Ulfatin, N. & Mukhadis, A. (2017). Retrospective Tracer Study: Investigation of the Barriers and Fluidity Transdisciplinary to Develop Curriculum for Higher Teacher Education. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 12(10), 2375-2384.
Your Bibliography: Ulfatin, N. and Mukhadis, A. (2017). Retrospective Tracer Study: Investigation of the Barriers and Fluidity Transdisciplinary to Develop Curriculum for Higher Teacher Education. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 12(10), pp. 2375-2384.
Your Bibliography: Ulfatin, Nurul and Amat Mukhadis (2017). "Retrospective Tracer Study: Investigation of the Barriers and Fluidity Transdisciplinary to Develop Curriculum for Higher Teacher Education". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 12 (10):2375-2384.

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'Hi, I several days ago got some AVI videos which sent by my college. For a further editing in Premiere Pro CS5/CS6, errors like 'Unrendered codec' appeared on the screen. My AVI files are all encoded as H.264 and MJPEG. How can I smoothly edit them in Adobe?
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What makes a year memorable? What makes a year successful? What makes a year one you look back at and can’t help but feel proud?
At RDO Equipment Co. it’s not one moment that makes for a great year; it’s all the moments that add up and create a year that’s memorable, successful, and gives the overall feeling of a job well done by all. We invite you to join us for a look back at 2017 and some of the key areas that made this year another one to remember.
One of RDO Equipment Co.’s key stakeholders are the communities in which we do business. Throughout the year, team members gave back with donations of time and money, created special connections with community members, and focused on making a positive impact.
One of RDO Equipment Co.’s biggest events of the year, the annual potato luncheon, RDO Caters Taters for Charity saw great success in its 18th year.
Every summer, several RDO Equipment Co. locations set aside one day and transform their store from a place of business to a place of play.
A unique way team members have found enjoyment and become more involved in their communities is parades.
For the past decade, RDO Equipment Co. has been a proud partner of an organization that helps farming families in need.
From acquisitions to expansions to new facilities, RDO Equipment Co. had a strong year in 2016, and continued that momentum with some exciting areas of growth in 2017.
Looking to serve one of the fastest-growing agriculture markets in the world, RDO Equipment Co. expanded to Africa.
With a larger store in a new, prime location, RDO Water expanded both its irrigation offerings and added Vermeer opportunities for customers in the Oxnard area.
Not only did RDO Equipment Co. invest in a new, larger store to serve the Riverside community, it brought in RDO Vermeer, formerly located in Fontana, to offer even more equipment, parts, and service solutions under one roof.
The TopNETlive network and support offered by RDO Integrated Controls continued to grow in both small and large cities across the upper Midwest.
With social media continuing to be an avenue for creating connections and sharing content, photos, and video, RDO Equipment Co. took the opportunity to engage with customers, fans, and team members in unique, exciting ways.
As a way to give a special glimpse into what it’s like to work at RDO Equipment Co., various team members “took over” the company’s Instagram account to showcase a day in their life. Click on each to see their first photo of the day, then scroll through their additional photos shared on Instagram.
Live from CONEXPO, RDO Equipment Co. team members shared the latest in products and technology from the show floor, as well as gave fans a tour of the John Deere Machine Monitoring Center.
One of the most trusted names in the equipment industry, Greg Peterson, aka Machinery Pete, joined Tony Kramer on the podcast.
For the second year in a row, RDO Equipment Co. teamed up with John Deere to show fans some of the most exciting highlights from the Big Iron Farm Show.
Finally, RDO Equipment Co. and its team members work hard every day to live its Core Values and serve Stakeholders, and would like to recognize a few exciting achievements in 2017.
Vermeer’s top accolade was awarded to the RDO Vermeer team at the annual Dealer Year End Meeting.
Building on a partnership and a passion, MVI, part of RDO Equipment Co.’s irrigation solutions division, celebrated 25 years.
Whether customers or potential partners, current team members or job-seekers, the first place many look for information about RDO Equipment Co. is on its website. To offer users a better experience and easier navigation, the company launched a new website.
Topcon presented four team awards and two individual honors to RDO Integrated Controls, including it’s highest dealer award, Construction Global Dealer of the Year.
With a year like 2017 in the wraps, we can't wait to see what's in store for 2018.

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here I go with a rather odd mixture of a post. I'm starting with a crochet ta-dah but this one also comes with added guilt....I promised you lovelies a tutorial to go with this ta-dah but after uploading tons of pics and gradually adding written instructions something went wrong with the post and it would not save due to "form errors".
I lost the whole darn thing ...arggggh!! I'm afraid I just cannot face re doing it at the moment, it had taken me ages and was nearly finished...I felt like crying when it disappeared !! Instead I will endevour to do a written pattern soon , I hope you lovelies understand.
The wet ,cold weather is still with us at the moment and yesterday seemed like a good day to spend some time in a warm kitchen.As does today !
I followed this simple recipe , I love this sort of baking....not too many ingredients and a simple technique...bung everything in a bowl and mix :0) My version was very economical with just raisins, i used ordinary tea too. Next time I might use a mixture of dried fruit like apricots, dates and cranberries.Chopped nuts would also be good I think.
The slightly odd looking butterfly cakes on the right have lemon curd in them ....very nice !!
do you like my cute owl tea towel, it's flown half way around the world and is from the very talented Claire.
Lastly a bit of running for those of you who are interested. I was surprised and delighted with all your fabulous encouraging comments on my last running post.
O.K. I don't actually go out in a downpour but light rain is not a problem .This picture was taken a couple of months ago and I remember being really elated at the end of this run ,I'd much rather run in the cold than heat...makes me feel ill.
As I've said before I'm not a fast runner , but distance running is not a sprint, it's about pacing yourself and slowly building up your fitness so you can cover greater distances without feeling shattered.
And do check with your G.P. before starting any running programme.
I wish there were more running blogs I found interesting . I've been insipred to add a bit of running to my craft blog by the lovely Fleur, who combines the two very successfully I feel.
When I got home , amazingly, the clouds had parted and there were a few sunny minutes to take some pictures of my latest make............what do you think?
A cute bunny in a bonnet pushing a pram....a Bunny Mummy :0).....the inspiration for this design mostly came from here.
I am disappointed with how my little camera struggles to take a sharply focused image of my collages...it's much better at capturing crochet and flowers...I wonder why ?
The rain is now falling again outside and the conservatory roof has sprung a leak ! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some sunshine this weekend ....I need to visit a bluebell wood this year and I recon they will be at their best at the moment.
Thank you all for your running and crochet comments. My tutorial and Ta dah should be ready soon.
Hello Lovelies, It's been a drippy wet day today. Not good when you have to venture outside but actually rather lovely crafting weather. I've been sat in my conservatory listening to the sound of rain on the roof and playing with all my favorite making bits and bobs.
I picked up my sketch pad first and sketched some ideas. How did I want my version to look ? ummm , maybe I could add a shiny sun, yes that's something I always like to see at the seaside!
What else? I sketched away , trying out ideas as they popped into my mind.Maybe a lighthouse, or a life ring?
These are buttons salvaged from worn out school shirts. They also appeared here.
And I have now finished my decoration . I immediately got out a hammer and popped a nail in the wall for it to hang on , I couldn't wait to see what it looked like hanging up . I'm really pleased with this how this crochet make turned out. It was such fun to design but the light isn't great for a ta- dah so I'll leave that till the tutorial is ready and I can get some better shots ....sorry about that.
Lets hope all this rain helps a bit with the drought we have in most parts of the U.K. at the moment.
It's partly to inspire myself and record my feelings and maybe it could inspire a few of you too.
As you know I love lots of pictures in my posts so I did a little experiment when I was out running on a lovely sunny day back in January . Would I be able to take pictures as I ran along ? Amazingly the answer was yes :0) I took loads and it was great fun. I see lots of great things when I go out and often wish I could share them with you or just take a picture for my own record.
So here are the least blurry .....along with some words ( maybe lots ) about my running journey so far.
Right, where to begin? Well, as a child I was in no way sporty, I hated P.E. with a passion and was a virtual non swimmer.I still hate competitive sports as I always get stressed out about letting the team down or making a fool of myself. That's not to say I hate exercise though.
Two years ago when I started my little blog I was enjoying walking and wrote about it in posts like this.
The other fitness I did was the occasional aerobics class...step was my favourite...I enjoyed getting sweaty to some fun music .
Then in July 2010 I was talking to my friend who is a runner , saying I enjoyed walking but could not run...... I had tried a couple of times and quickly given it up as too strenuous and generally unpleasant . Her reply was " There is no reason why you can't run Jacquie...except in your head."
That really made me think . I am fortunate to be in good general health and my friend is a few years older than me, she only started running in her late forties. Maybe I should try again ?
So I started very gently. Just adding little jogs into my walks. Gradually , oh so gradually , increasing the time spent running.It was hard . Everything wobbled and I would be bright red and gasping for breath within a very short distance.But with reassurance/guidance from my friend I kept going.
After a few weeks I found this and worked to the 5k training plan you can down load.
Eventually I felt ready to take part in a 3k fun run. Of course you don't need to take part in organised events at all but they are wonderful motivators. Knowing you have to be fit enough to cover a certain distance by a certain date really focuses you and the atmosphere on the day is great. They may be races but just enjoying the atmosphere is my main aim. I don't really care how long it takes me ...O.K. I would like improve in the future but it's not that important . I'm never going to be really fast , but I can still enjoy taking part.
So far I've completed two 10k events ( that's 6.2 miles in case you were wondering). My highlight so far was my first half marathon ( that's 13 miles ) last Autumn . Thirteen miles ...THIRTEEN MILES ...it's a flippin long way to run don't you think ? But managing it gave me such a wonderful sense of achievement. I was on cloud nine . All those events were with my running friend for support.
I'm certain I would not have attempted such a big distance without her encouragement.
I don't tend to take risks or challenge myself very much so being able to run that far is a very positive thing for me.
This year I my running firsts will ( hopefully) be completing a 10k then half marathon without my friend for support. My first solo 10k is coming up soon and I'm a bit concerned I will get my pace all wrong ....I don't want to get swept along with faster runners and then collapse before the end !
I'm also conscious I'm lucky to be healthy enough to enjoy running . So another big part of my motivation will be raising money for charity.Loosing my friend to cancer earlier this year gave me even more incentive to run for a cancer charity.
Well done if you stuck with this post .....I'm happy I recorded all this for my own reference in years to come. I do hope some of you found it interesting .
on Good Friday I bought some Daffodils with my shopping. They were twenty stems for £1 ....what a bargain. They were tightly closed when I bought them but I felt sure they would open quickly.Wrong...by Easter Sunday they had hardly changed and I wondered if they would ever open .
I've just been checking and this is my seventh post with Daffodils in it this year !! A little bit obssesed ,me?
Well, you all know of my crochet obsession.
What was I making ? Well ,a recent addition to my ever growing blog list is the lovely Signed With an Owl.There I spotted these pretty Doilies Kate made.
After I had made my four squares and sewn them together I looked at Kate's pictures and guessed how she had done her border. Mine is a row of single crochet (u.s.) in red . Then a row of half double crochet in white . Then a row of alternating s.c. and spike stitch , which in this case, is just a single crochet worked into the base of the h.d.c .
It doesn't look exactly the same as Kate's but never mind.
I've decided to follow some other bloggers I read and answer any questions I get in my comments section using the "reply" option . So if you ask me a question please check back in a day or so and hopefully you will find an answer from me there .
Another change I've decided to make is to blog a bit about my running. There may be running only posts occasionally but I think mostly I will just add a bit of running to my regular ramblings.
It is becoming an other obsession of mine , along with crochet and Daffodils :0).
I hope some of you may be interested ...otherwise you can easily skip the running bits.
Thank you so much for your lovely chatty comments on my last post....I really enjoyed reading them .

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Jenson Books Inc has earned about 650,000 positive feedback ratings, with a current 100% positive overall score. Jenson Books Inc is also rated as a #1 Best Seller in many of the categories that they sell on Amazon. This basically means that they offer both a competitive price, as well as a history of customer satisfaction in those categories.
Jenson Books Inc mainly sells items like books, media, and more.
This is one of those Amazon stores to visit when you want the retail experience. If you’ve been to a book store lately, or even any media store in general, you should be familiar with the brands and styles that they carry.
Items like Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Film Tie-in edition, Dan Greenburg The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition), Armento Message of Ancient Days Teacher’s Edition, etc.
Jenson Books Inc sells brand new merchandise, and does offer a 100% Authentic guarantee, as well as a 100% money back guarantee.
Let’s take a closer look at their recent feedback history. Amazon buyers have a really good way of weeding out the good sellers from the bad. If an item even SLIGHTLY looks like it might be a counterfeit or knock-off, they will leave you bad feedback. And any and all flaws will usually be reflected in a seller’s feedback. With that being said, over the past 12 months, Jenson Books Inc has received about 165,000 positive feedback ratings, compared to just 0% negative feedback comments. With that sort of lop-sided ratio, it definitely appears as though Jenson Books Inc is an honestly run business, selling authentic merchandise.
I purchased two math books (109-0590669-5278613) and you 1 volume not shipped. It has been a week so AI would like an update on shipping.

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Dresses make good presents, right?
I owe my sister-in-law a birthday present and had bought her this vintage Hawaiian dress to wear at my mom’s beach house, where us ladies like to roam the joint in muu-muus. That’s a true story. Mine’s green. Sister’s is red and white, our mom’s is leopard print.
SIL, who loves pink, didn’t have one, so I thought about hemming the original maxidress a little to fit her. It’s really good heavy fabric and has this great scoop back.
What if she and her 4-year-old had the same dress? What if I hemmed the thing to the knee, a length she’s more likely to actually wear, and use the *good* foot of fabric at the bottom to make a dress for my niece?
I pulled out my little girl patterns and found a handful of possibilities for my niece.
The halter patterns on the left are very summer, but I think in the spirit of the muu-muu, I’m going with the dress on the right, the one with the ruffled skirt. I think it’ll fit the fabric I have better, too.
Thoughts while I hem the original dress? 4-year-olds still like to match their moms, right?
I bought this silk sweater set at the Salvy even though at a 1X, it was too big.
The silk was lovely, the muted red color is fantastic and sweater sets are in fact perfect for my work. Also, the bigger size meant the whole thing was longer than normal. And I’ve bought August Silk sweaters before – they last forever if you don’t dry the hell out of them.
Seemed like a worthwhile refashion.
Pulled in the sides. That’s it. Go see the how-to if you like.
The wide neck turned into de facto cap sleeves so I don’t need the top layer in the office.
Thinking now about adding ruffles using the scraps I cut off the sides and this trusty how-to.
And one for big mama, too.
Mama’s shirt took more time and more hair-pulling compared with Poppa’s. I found this Buddha t-shirt for $1 at one of my favorite Salvy’s in the world early in her pregnancy.
Finally got the nerve to chop it right before her baby shower but didn’t quite make the deadline.
Anyway, she had about six weeks to wear it and seems to love it and it turned out a perfect fit.
I had to buy a new craft T and opted with a fitted one from JoAnn because Mama has a small and delicate frame, and I wanted the top of the top to fit her nicely.
So the logo was going over her belly. I thought about chopping the bottom off the plain T, but I ended up chopping the belly out of it, and fitting the logo back on. I also chopped about three inches off the bottom hem off the big logo T to make a tie – and to keep the nice hem.
The logo part got gathered on the sides, to make a pocket big enough for a full-term belly and sewn back on across the front and sides.
Look how cute she is!
This surgery makes a cute maternity top with hip sash from a small plain T-shirt and a giant logo-printed shirt. You use the logo shirt as a sort of pocket for the big belly.
Make sure the top T-shirt fits the top of your lady’s frame.
Measure where the belly starts to protrude (right under the bosom) and mark with chalk. Carefully cut across the front (only the front) of the shirt. To open the sides up, measure about an inch away from the T’s side seam on the front and cut.
Figure out where you want the logo to go.
Cut across the giant T right below the arms, and slice up the back to open up the fabric. Fit the logo into the front and trim accordingly. The logo fabric should hang down below the hem of the plain T a few inches.
Chop off the hem of the giant shirt.
If you have room, chop off a few inches at the bottom of the giant shirt and put that fabric aside to reuse the finished hem.
With a long basting stitch, baste the top of the logo piece and along the sides. Pin the center top of the logo piece to the center of the plain front. Pull the gathering threads until the it fits. Pin. Baste in place if you like.
Finish the bottom. If you chopped off the hem of the giant T, pin roughly the center back of it to one side of the shirt. Pin along so you have a sort of sash at the bottom, easing so the sash ends up longer than the shirt. Remember the front of your new shirt is a lot bigger than the back. Stitch.
Courtesy of my sister in Philadelphia, who transformed a classic Led Zeppelin shirt that had seen better days into two shirts. Zeppelin thrifted by me for $.99 at my favorite Salvy in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. New backing shirts purchased by her on the Kohl’s clearance rack.
Check out the how-to here.
Now that we’re settled into new digs and I have established a one-in, one-out policy, I can pop into the thrifts again. And two of my favorite thrift stores are near my south suburban job. At one in Markham, I scored a big bag of knitting and crochet needles.
I don’t typically spend a whole $4.50 on one item, shopping the sale items even at the thrift store, but the giant size 17 and 19 knitting needles alone made the purchase worthwhile.
Also included were extra long 8s and 9s, shortie 8s and 9s in plastic (better for flying), a slew of smaller crochet hooks, and some giant sewing needles good for weaving in ends.
Original knitting stash came from an amazing yard sale in Haddon Township, N.J., while shopping with my mom and sister-in-law and baby niece. I think that was another $4.50 purchase, which included some giant orange plastic needles and a tapestry case.
My knitting is getting braver. I was only able before to do knit and purl in straight lines. But then this tutorial got me thinking about wavier lines, too. Like most of you, I have stashes of yarn and fabric that wants using – I mean, I acquired this stuff because I wanted to make fabulous things. So let the making continue.
More to come on the fans and feathers pattern results, including a teeny adjustment to make the texture more uniform on both sides (i.e., make my mistakes less noticeable).
I’m dreaming of a very feathery Christmas.
As I write these words I know they’re wrong. I know it’s wrong to deal with emotional turmoil using a shopping cart. I’m also having quite a time at my job, and am tired to singing the same song to my Crafty Mister, who, to his credit, doesn’t tire of hearing it.
My office is in a terrible part of the Chicago area, in a built up McMansioned, retail hell containing fake-blue-water fountains, “upscale” chain stores and restaurants, and flocks of entitled drivers of ridiculous, expensive vehicles. Also, it’s 22 miles from my home and though we changed offices this year, the Powers did not even consider proximity to public trans for the 5 of us (out of 9) who live in the city, close to said public trans. Grrrrr.
The only upside to working in awful materialistic suburbs is the thrifting (grocery shopping is convenient, too) . A-holes who live at malls shed a lot of clothing, and leave all kinds of quality merch at 2 particular Salvy stores – one on the way home, one that requires a little more of a trip. And since my taste differs from the Mexican ladies who shop the one, and the Polish and Palestinian ladies at the other, I usually hit the jackpot.
Last week while passing each store, I stopped in.
Bunch of these goodies will go to Etsy. Bunches of the purple sort will stay in my closet where they await me.
I used to skeeve thrifted shoes because they’re harder to clean than your standard hot-water-washable blouse. But now that most shoes are made so cheaply from “man-made materials,” I prefer the older leather ones. Can’t always drop $90 on a single quality pair, especially a pair meant for fun, and I don’t want to drop that on shoes that only go to the hated office.
Ashamed to say I feel better.
Sleeping standing up. Nose pokes out.
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Installation view, “My Dear Friends” at Depo Istanbul. Photo credit: border_less.
My Dear Friends brings together works by Irish artist Bryony Dunne and Egyptian photojournalist Roger Anis, whose distinct approaches to Egypt’s Giza Zoo feed on each other to portray the contemporary dynamics of Egypt that have been heavily impacted by the region’s colonial past. The zoo is home to flora and fauna that were uprooted and imported to the British colony through the Suez Canal. Over time, it has become a powerful image to address colonial narratives and man-made corridors. The exhibition presents the zoo as a fictionalized space for reflecting on various forms of circulation that have enabled the expansion and dissemination of power. How do living creatures, ideologies and cultural agendas all circulate? How have these movements, initially aimed to exhibit colonial wealth and ownership, intervened on the fauna, flora and marine ecosystems in the larger region? What are their cultural consequences?
The two artists point to situations of dependency in order for both cultural agendas and living beings to survive. While Dunne’s works focus on the man-induced channels, corridors and relocations, Anis provides a closer look at what is on the other side of these pathways. His photographs, in that sense, point the viewer to the present-day repercussions of these historical movements.
Dunne’s Irish background and her four and half-year-long stay in Egypt render her analysis of the zoo and the colonizing narrative it represents more intricate, adding another layer to these migratory movements of animals and plants. Her works provide a postcolonial critique of the connotations of these pathways, eventually culminating in an intersection with Anis’ study of the relationships between the animals and their keepers at Giza Zoo. Anis’ photographs and his Egyptian background act as a zooming lens through which we are introduced to a rather intimate perspective of the bonds the zookeepers build with the captive animals. Their codependent relationship not only ensures their mutual survival but also, as Anis found, this shared captivity results in familial-like intimacy and deep affinity. Through his works, the exhibition meditates on this reality of captivity and feeling of closeness.
The perspectives of the two artists rely on different levels of access and relation to the zoo and what the zoo has come to stand for. However, they intersect in the exhibition space in a way that doesn’t stand against or diverge from one another, but portrays the necessity to address these issues through different lenses in forming a postcolonial narrative in the contemporary moment. Together, maintaining a dependency on the other’s narrative, they offer an alternative view of the designated space. It is a reconstruction of a past rather than its mere retrieval. Scrutinizing the archive and contemplating such spaces of complex dynamics requires looking at the layers of inheritances and history right in the eye.
The Giza Zoo is celebrated as one of the landmarks that signify Egypt’s passage to modernity. The zoo first opened its gates on March 1st 1891, using and expanding on the facilities of the pre-existing Harem Gardens of Ismail Pasha. It displayed his private menagerie and a wide variety of plants and trees, but was also enriched by additions from different British Colonies often transported by ships travelling along the Suez Canal; another emblematic modernisation project with international repercussions. Today, more than 125 years later, the zoo still functions and caters for its public as one of the popular outings for working class families in Cairo. Zoological gardens are often thematized by visual artists, especially by photographers, but My Dear Friendsdevelops a sensitive and complex narrative that raises a series of important questions about the reverberations of colonialism, the ability to create spaces of freedom in confinement, the relation between culture and nature, and the possibility of developing a non-anthropocentric politics and ethics. .
The zoo is a place of display as well as a place of captivity — a place to see and be seen, to present oneself in public space. As such the zoo is a site for producing social relations and identities, constitutive of a specific sense of community that is defined by subordination and othering, not only at the level of social class but also at the level of different species. Building such relations with non-human others presupposes a safe and controlled environment where animals, plants, and people are kept at a safe distance from each other, while their movement is elaborately choreographed in order to give an illusion of spatial openness and accessibility, a dialectic that is carefully organized in corridors of circulation and spaces of enclosure. The juxtaposition of free movement, entertainment and circulation with the enclosure, captivity and display of aging and perhapslonely animals, seems to be an apt metaphor for the human condition but also of the domestication of flora and fauna by science. A related aporia of modernity, thematized by some of the works in the exhibition, might be the realization of the futility and therefore tragedy of human existence — a tragedy that occidental civilization tried to suppress and ignore through expansion and control.
The Suez Canal, probably the event most emblematic of the Anthropocene, is also commented upon at the show. Again My Dear Friends focuses on the unintended and the subtle, rather than the obvious consequences of the piercing of the 75-mile-wide Isthmus in 1869. The show marks its 150 years anniversary (the opening is scheduled for January 2019) by looking at the whole project from a different angle. Apart from making oil more accessible to the Europeans and shortening the distance that ships and troops needed to cover in order to travel to Asia, both extremely important for the entrenchment and the expansion of the occidental dominance, the canal was and remains one of the main corridors used for the movement of plants and wild animals to Egypt and the mediterranean. Some of these were transported to adorne museums, gardens and zoos across Europe and the British colonies, including the Giza Zoo. Others travelled, and continue to travel, by hijacking the man-made infrastructure of commerce while ignoring borders and protocols of international navigation. Similar to the current flows of people trying to enter the European territory, the flows of these ‘Lessepsian migrants’  are the result of capitalist-imperialist projects in which technology, culture and power reconstitute the geopolitical environment. The representations and treatment of Lessepsian fish as an invasive and threatening alien draws an arbitrary dividing line between the human and the non-human other and also between so-called “normal” and “intrusive” behavior (Kompastiaris 2018). My Dear Friends uncovers the fragility of this dividing line by raising a series of questions: How do we draw these lines when we describe a well-functioning ecosystem? Why do the human ideals of equilibrium and control become the ultimate criterion in our analysis of nature? The show develops upon such questions, pushing the limits of kinship towards non-humans — be it animal and plants, domestic or intrusive — tracing their common fate under the powerful influence of history and technology.
Imagining projects of a global scale (as was done for the first time with the Suez Canal) and launching major European international scientific expeditions in the “uncharted parts of the world” were fundamental elements in the constitution of a “planetary consciousness” which in turn became one of the pedestals of modern Eurocentrism and the accompanying intensification of imperial expansionism . These scientific, military and engineering expeditions collected the necessary material for the development of different discourses about the environment. Accordingly, the natural world was broken down into various classifications and categories so as to become an object of exploitation and refabrication according to the needs of western expansion. The cataloguing of flora and fauna anticipated the organization of botanical gardens, zoos and museums as places where the achievements of the combined forces of science and colonialism could be communicated to the general public, manifesting at the same time the virility of the imperialist project. The science of nature contributed to a sense of mastery over the world, enhancing occidental expansionism and underwriting the introduction of racial typologies and the “white man’s burden” ideology. Colonialism sedimented its power in science and sought to extend its grip over anyone, anything and any place organized by a culture and a science other than that of efficiency and control of occidental modernity.
Colonialism has always presented itself as the power of progress and rationality: the self-referential and unstoppable trajectory of history. What is narrated as history is nothing more than the power of colonial administration in its insatiable hunger for control over the natural living world, the supposedly autonomous construction of systems of knowledge and representation by science that aim to vindicate its ability to explain nature by abstracting all disturbing forces.One can recognize here the mechanism of a “modernizing vision” according to which the capitalist vanguard write themselves into the futures of those they aim to exploit as a kind of moral and historical inevitability. Both the Suez Canal and the Giza Zoo are tantamount to the logics in that the modus operandi of their founders and facilitators in their attempt to control nature, thereby ushering Egypt into their version of occidental Modernity. My Dear Friendschallenges those narratives by pointing to the spaces of freedom that open up in the cracks of that modernity while simultaneously speculating on the different forms of relation between nature and culture, where humans and non-humans seek an alternative fate outside of the clutches of technology and economy.
1 I am grateful to Panos Kompatsiaris for sharing his text before its publication.
2 “In post anthropocentric approaches to otherness, the boundary between the human and the animal is presumably blurred, it becomes immeasurable, discontinuous or ‘abyssal’ – to use Derrida’s phrasing – rather than a single dividing line.” Kompastiaris, Panos. “Aliens in the Mediterranean Sea: Monstrous Fish and the (Im) Possibilities of Kinship with NonHuman Others” The Enemy, Vol. 1(1) 2018.
2 The name comes from Ferdinand de Lesseps the French Diplomat who took the concession and later developed the Suez Canal.
3 Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes, 2nd ed. (London; New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 32.
Depo Istanbul’da devam eden “Onlar Benim Dostlarım” sergi görseli. Fotoğraf: border_less.
Onlar Benim Dostlarım, bölgenin kolonyal geçmişinden büyük ölçüde etkilenmiş Mısır’ın güncel dinamiklerinin bir portresini, Kahire’deki Giza Hayvanat Bahçesi’ni farklı yaklaşımlarıyla ele alarak çizmeyi amaçlayan İrlandalı sanatçı Bryony Dunne ile Mısırlı foto muhabiri Roger Anis’in işlerini bir araya getiriyor. Hayvanat bahçesi, yerinden koparılmış ve Süveyş Kanalı üzerinden eski İngiliz kolonisine taşınmış çeşitli bitki ve hayvan türlerini içinde barındırıyor. Giza, zamanla kolonyal anlatıları ve insan yapımı koridorları ele almak için güçlü bir imge haline gelmiştir. Sergi, hayvanat bahçesini gücün büyümesi ve yayılmasını mümkün kılan farklı biçimlerdeki dolaşımlar üzerine düşünmek için kurgulanmış bir mekân olarak sunuyor. Canlı varlıklar, ideolojiler ve kültürel stratejiler nasıl dolaşır? Aslen kolonyal zenginlik ve mülkiyeti sergilemeyi amaçlayan bu hareketler, bölgedeki hayvan topluluklarına, bitki örtüsüne ve deniz ekosistemine nasıl müdahalelerde bulunmuştur? Bütün bunların kültürel sonuçları nelerdir?
İki sanatçı da işlerinde, kültürel gündemlerin ve canlıların hayatta kalmaları için gerekli olan bağlılık/bağımlılık hallerine işaret ediyor. Dunne’nin işleri insan yapımı kanallara, koridorlara ve yer değiştirmelere odaklanırken Anis, izleyicileri bu yolların diğer tarafındakilere yakından bakmaya davet ediyor. Bu bağlamda, Anis’in fotoğrafları izleyiciyi bu tarihsel hareketlerin güncel yankılarını düşünmeye yönlendiriyor.
Dunne’nin dört buçuk sene Mısır’da yaşamış İrlanda asıllı bir kadın olması, canlıların göç hareketlerine kişisel bir katman daha ekleyerek sanatçının hayvanat bahçesini ve yansıttığı kolonyal anlatıyı irdeleyişini daha karmaşık hale getiriyor. Sergideki işleri bu yolların çağrışımlarına postkolonyal bir eleştiri getirerek, Anis’in Giza’daki hayvanlar ve hayvan bakıcıları arasındaki ilişkiyi incelediği işleriyle bir noktada kesişiyor. Bölgeye olan yakınlığı ve yerel kimliğiyle Anis’in fotoğrafları ise tutsak hayvanlar ile bakıcıları arasındaki yakınlığı ve derin bağları ortaya koyan bir mercek. Birbirlerine olan bağlılık/bağımlılıklarıyla beslenen bu ilişkiler yalnızca iki tarafın da hayatta kalmasını sağlamakla kalmıyor, aynı zamanda Anis’in gözlemlediği üzere, bu karşılıklı tutsaklık derin bir sevgi ve şefkat ilişkisi doğuruyor. Sanatçının işleri seyirciyi göründüğünden daha katmanlı olan bu tutsaklık gerçekliği ve sıkışıklık hissi üzerinde düşünmeye davet ediyor.
Dunne hayvanat bahçesini “yaşayan bir kolonyal arşiv” olarak tanımlamakta. Bu mekân belirli bir geçmişin hem bir kaydı hem de neticesi. Bu arşiv nefes alıp vermeye devam ediyor. Dunne’nin taklit tekniklerinden yararlanan müdahaleleri, yapısı gereği tekrara dayalı olan bu arşivi manipüle edilebilir -ve bu nedenle sorgulanabilir- ama bir o kadar da fiziksel ve materyal bir alan olarak düşünmemizi sağlıyor. Bu bağlamda, Derrida’nın öne sürdüğü gibi, “arşiv her zaman, a priori, kendi aleyhine işlemektedir”.
İki sanatçının hayvanat bahçesine ve hayvanat bahçesinin sorunsallaştırdıklarına yaklaşımları erişim ve kurdukları ilişkiler açısından farklılık gösteriyor. Ancak bu farklı perspektifler, serginin içinde bir karşıtlık veya ayrıklık ortaya koymak yerine, günümüzde postkolonyal bir anlatının var olan sorunlarını farklı açılardan ele almasının gücünü vurgulamakta. İki anlatı birbirine bağlı/bağımlı bir biçimde bahsedilen alanın alternatif bir okumasını sunuyor. Yani geçmişin sadece kazılıp çıkarılmasından ziyade yeniden kurgulanmasına alan tanıyor. Arşivi incelemek ve bu gibi karmaşık dengeleri içeren alanlar üzerine düşünmek, tarihe ve geçmişin kalıntılarına cesaretle bakmayı zorunlu kılar.
Depo Istanbul’da devam eden “Onlar Benim Dostlarım” sergi görseli.
Giza Hayvanat Bahçesi, Mısır’ın modernizme geçişini temsil eden tarihi yapılardan biriolarak bilinir. Hayvanat bahçesi kapılarını ilk kez 1 Mart 1891’de açtığında, İsmail Paşa’nın Harem Bahçeleri tesislerini ve çevresini kullanıyordu. Paşa’ya ait vahşi hayvan koleksiyonunun yanı sıra, geniş bir ağaç ve bitki seçkisi sergilenirken, Süveyş Kanalı’ndan seyahat eden gemilerle çeşitli İngiliz kolonilerinden koleksiyona ilaveler geliyordu. Bu koleksiyona ekleme süreci de uluslararası etkileri olan sembolik bir başka modernizasyon projesine işaret ediyordu. 125 seneyi aşkın bir zamandan sonra bugün, hayvanat bahçesi hâlâ açık ve özellikle işçi sınıfından aileler için Kahire’de son derece popüler bir uğrak yeri. Hayvanat bahçelerinin görsel sanatçılar, özellikle de fotoğrafçılar için bir tema haline gelmesi sıklıkla karşılaştığımız bir durumdur. Fakat Onlar Benim Dostlarım, Giza Hayvanat Bahçesi’nden yola çıkanvefarklı kapsamlarda sorular soran hassas ve karmaşık bir kurgu yaratıyor. Bu sorular kolonyalizmin yansımalarına, sınırlamalara karşı özgürlük alanları yaratmaya, kültür ve doğa ilişkisine ve insan merkezci olmayan bir siyaset ve etik oluşturma ihtimali üzerine yoğunlaşıyor. . Hayvanat bahçesi bir tutsaklık alanı olduğu kadar bir sergileme alanı da - görmek ve görülmek için, kendini kamusal alanda sunmak için bir yer. Öyle ki hayvanat bahçesi aynı zamanda sosyal ilişkiler ve kimlikler üretmek için de bir saha; sadece sınıfsal olarak değil, diğer türlerle de aramızda hiyerarşiler kurarak ve ötekileştirerek belirgin bir topluluk oluşturan. İnsan olmayan ötekilerle bu tarz ilişkiler kurulması, güvenli ve kontrollü bir çevre bulunduğunu varsayar. Bu çevrede hayvanlar, bitkiler ve insanlar arasında güvenli mesafeler muhafaza edilir, mekânsal açıklık ve erişilebilirlik illüzyonu yaratmak adına bütün türlerin hareketleri için detaylı koreografiler oluşturulur. Bu durum dolaşım koridorlarında ve kapatılma alanlarında da dikkatlice düzenlenir. Hayvanat bahçesinde, özgür hareket, eğlence ve dolaşım, kuşatma, tutsaklık ve yaşlanmakta olan, büyük ihtimalleyalnız hayvanların sergilenmesiyle yan yana gelir. Bu yan yanalık ise insanlığın günümüzdeki hali ve bilimin flora ve faunayı ehlileştirmesine dair yerinde bir metafor oluşturuyor. Sergideki bazı işlerin değindiği modernizmin bu bağlantılı çelişkisi, aynı zamanda yararsızlığın ve dolayısıyla insan var oluşunun trajedisinin fark edilmesi olabilir. Bu trajedi batı uygarlıkları tarafından, genişleme ve kontrol aracılığıyla bastırılmaya ve görmezden gelinmeye çalışılmıştır.
Sergi aynı zamanda, Antroposen’in belki de en sembolik olayını, Süveyş Kanalı’nı da yorumluyor. Tekrar dile getirmek gerekirse, Onlar Benim Dostlarım, 1869’da 75 mil uzunluğunda bir kıstakın delinmesinin bariz sonuçlarına odaklanmak yerine, kasıtsız olarak yapılana ve hemen göze çarpmayana odaklanıyor. Sergi bu girişime başka bir açıdan bakarken projenin 150’inci yıl dönümünü de imliyor. Petrolü Avrupalılara daha erişilebilir kılmasının ve gemilerle askeri birliklerin Asya’ya ulaşmak için gitmeleri gereken mesafeyi kısaltmasının yanı sıra- ki ikisi de batı hakimiyetinin sağlamlaştırılması ve genişlemesi açısından son derece önemli gelişmelerdir - kanal aynı zamanda geçmişten günümüze bitkilerin ve vahşi hayvanların Mısır ve Akdeniz’e getirilmesi için kullanılan ana koridorlardan biri olmaya devam ediyor. Getirilen hayvanlar ve bitkilerin bir kısmı Avrupa’daki ve İngiliz kolonilerindeki bazı şaşaalı müzelere, bahçelere ve hayvanat bahçelerine ulaştırılmıştır, Giza Hayvanat Bahçesi de bunlardan biridir. Diğerleriyse insan yapımı ticaret altyapısını ele geçirerek, uluslararası navigasyon sınırlarını ve protokollerini görmezden gelerek yolculuklarına devam etmiş ve hâlâ devam etmekte. Günümüzde Avrupa sınırları içine girmeye çalışan insanların oluşturduğu akımlar gibi, bu ‘Lesepsiyen göç’ de teknoloji, kültür ve gücün jeopolitik ortamı yeniden yapılandırdığı kapitalist-emperyalist projelerin bir sonucudur. Lesepsiyen balıkların istilacı ve tehditkâr yabancılar olarak temsil edilmesi ve bu şekilde muamele görmesi, insanlar ve insan olmayan ötekiler ve sözde “normal” ve “istilacı” davranışlar arasında keyfi bir çizgi çizmektedir (Kompastiaris 2018). Onlar Benim Dostlarım sorduğu sorularla bu bölücü çizginin kırılganlığını gözler önüne seriyor: İyi işleyen bir ekosistemi tanımlarken bu çizgileri nasıl çizeriz? Doğaya dair analizlerimizde neden insanların denge ve kontrol idealleri nihai kriterleri oluşturuyor? Sergi bu sorular üzerine konumlanarak, insan olmayan türlerle - domestik veya istilacı hayvanlar ve bitkiler, - aramızdaki akrabalığın sınırlarını zorluyor ve bu türlerin tarih ve teknolojinin güçlü etkileri altındaki ortak akıbetinin izini sürüyor.
İlk defa Süveyş Kanalı’nda yapıldığı şekliyle evrensel projeler tahayyül etmek ve Avrupalıların dünyanın “ıssız köşelerine” büyük bilimsel keşif gezileri düzenlemesi “evrensel bir farkındalık” oluşturmaktaki temel ögelerdendi. Bu ögeler sırasıyla modern Avrupa merkezciliğin ve beraberinde güçlenen emperyalist yayılmacılığın kaideleri haline geldi . Bu bilimsel, askeri ve teknik keşif gezileriyle çevre hakkında farklı diskurların geliştirilebilmesi için yeterli malzeme toplandı. Bu doğrultuda, Batı yayılmacılığının ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak adına istismar edilebilmesi ve yeniden üretilebilmesi için doğa çeşitli sınıflara ve kategorilere ayrıldı. Flora ve faunanın listelenmesi, botanik bahçelerinin, hayvanat bahçelerinin ve müzelerin, bilim ve sömürgeciliğin bir araya gelmiş güçlerinin başardıklarının kamuyla paylaşılabileceği alanlar olarak düzenleneceğini öngörüyordu. Bu düzenleme aynı zamanda emperyalist projenin gücünü gösteriyordu. Doğa bilimleri dünya hâkim olma hissine katkıda bulunuyordu, batı yayılmacılığını başka bir boyuta taşıyıp, ırkçı tipolojilere girişi ve “beyaz adamın yükü” ideolojisinin başlangıcını hazırlıyordu. Sömürgecilik, gücünü bilim alanında biriktirdi, verimlilik ilkesi ve batı modernizminin kontrolü tarafından düzenlenmemiş kültür ve bilim alanlarına dahil olan herkesi, her şeyi, her mekânı kapsayabilecek hale gelmeye uğraştı.
Sömürgecilik kendini hep ilerlemenin ve rasyonalizmin gücü olarak sunmuştu: tarihin kendine referans veren ve durdurulamaz yörüngesi. Tarih olarak anlatılagelen, doğayı ve yaşayan dünyayı kontrol etme konusunda son derece açgözlü sömürgeci yönetimin iktidarından, doğa anlatısında kendini haklı çıkarmak adına tüm rahatsız edici güçleri soyutlayarak bilgi ve temsil sistemlerinin sözde özerk bir şekilde inşa edilmesinden daha fazlası değildir. Burada kapitalist öncülerin, sömürmeyi amaçladıklarının istikballerine ahlakî ve tarihsel bir kaçınılmazlık gibi kendilerini yazmak için kullandıkları” modernleştirici tasavvur” mekanizmasını görebiliriz. Süveyş Kanalı da Giza Hayvanat Bahçesi de doğayı kontrol etmeye ve dolayısıyla Mısır’ı kendi batılı modernlik versiyonlarına yönlendirmeleriyle, kurucularının ve yöneticilerine ait çalışma tarzının mantığıyla eş değerdir. Onlar Benim Dostlarım modernitenin çatlaklarında açılan özgürlük alanlarına işaret ederek bu anlatılara karşı geliyor, aynı zamanda da doğa ve kültür arasında, insanların ve insan olmayan türlerin teknoloji ve ekonominin pençesi dışında alternatif bir akıbet aradıkları farklı ilişkiler üzerine düşünüyor.
1 Metnini basılmadan önce benle paylaştığı için Panos Kompatsiaris’e minnettarım.
dividing line.” Kompastiaris, Panos. “Aliens in the Mediterranean Sea: Monstrous Fish and the (Im) Possibilities of Kinship with NonHuman Others” The Enemy, Vol. 1(1) 2018.
2 Bu isim, Süveyş Kanalı için imtiyaz alan ve daha sonra projeyi geliştiren Fransız diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps'ten gelmektedir.
يجمع "أصدقائي الأعزاء" أعمال الفنانة بريوني دون الأيرلندية والمصور الصحفي المصري روجيه أنيس، لكل منهم أسلوب متميز في تناول حديقة الحيوان في الجيزة ويتغذى من أسلوب الآخر، لكي يصوروا الديناميات المعاصرة لمصر التي تأثرت بشكل كبير بماضي المنطقة الاستعماري.
الحديقة موطن نباتات وحيوانات، تم استئصالها واستيرادها إلى المستعمرة البريطانية من خلال قناة السويس. بمرور الزمن أصبحت صورة قوية تتناول السرديات الاستعمارية والممرات التي صنعها الإنسان. يقدم المعرض حديقة الحيوانات كمكان خيالي لتأمل الأشكال المختلفة للتداول التي مكنت توسع وانتشار السلطة. كيف يتم تداول الكائنات الحية والأيديولوجيات والأجندات الثقافية؟ كيف أثرت تلك التحركات التي كانت في الأصل تهدف لإبداء مظهر الثراء والملكية الاستعمارية، في النباتات والحيوانات والحياة، في النظم الإيكولوجية البحرية في المنطقة؟ ما هي ترتباتها الثقافية؟.
يشير الفنانان إلى أوضاع التبعية التي مكنت الأجندات الثقافية والكائنات الحية من البقاء على قيد الحياة. بينما تُركز أعمال دون على القنوات والممرات والتنقلات التي صنعها الإنسان، يقدم أنيس نظرة عن قرب للجانب الآخر لتلك الطرق. فتشير صوره الفوتوغرافية للتبعات الحالية لهذه التحركات التاريخية.
تجعل خلفية دون الأيرلندية وإقامتها في مصر لمدة أربعة أعوام ونصف، تحليلها لحديقة الحيوان والسرد الاستعماري الذي تمثله، أكثر ثراءً مما يضيف لتلك التحركات التهجيرية للحيوانات والنباتات. تقدم أعمالها نقداً لما بعد الاستعمار، لدلالات تلك الممرات، وفي النهاية تتوج بتقاطع مع دراسة أنيس للعلاقات ما بين الحيوانات وحراسهم في حديقة حيوان الجيزة.
تعمل صور أنيس وخلفيته المصرية كعدسة مقربة تقدم لنا منظور وثيق للصلات ما بين الرعاة والحيوانات الأسيرة. علاقتهم ذات الاعتماد المتبادل لا تأمن بقاءهم فقط ولكن اكتشف أنيس أيضا أن هذا الأسر المشترك ينتج حميمة وقرابة عائلية عميقة. من خلال أعماله، المعرض يتأمل واقع الأسر والاحساس بالقرب.
تصف دون حديقة الحيوان كأرشيف حي للاستعمار. الحديقة نتجت عن ماضي محدد وتسجيل له. الأرشيف مازال يتنفس. من خلال تدخلات دون المتسمة بالمحاكاة، يُقدم هذا الأرشيف، الذي يعتمد بطبيعته على تقنيات التكرار، كمساحة قابلة للتلاعب وبالتالي المساءلة، ولكنها حسية ومادية بنفس القدر. بهذا الشكل، كما ذكر دريدا: "يعمل الأرشيف، بديهيا، ضد نفسه".
يعتمد منظور الفنانان على مستويات مختلفة من القرب والصلة بحديقة الحيوان وما تمثله. ولكنهم يتقاطعون في مساحة المعرض بشكل غير متعارض أو متباعد ولكن توضح ضرورة تناول هذه الأمور من خلال مناظير مختلفة وتكوين سرد متجاوز للاستعمار في اللحظة المعاصرة. يقدمان منظور بديل للمكان مع الحفاظ على اتكالهم على سرديات بعضهم البعض. يتطلب تفحص الأرشيف وتأمل مساحات الديناميات المعقدة، النظر المباشر للمواريث والتاريخ.
تشتهر حديقة الحيوان في الجيزة بكونها أحد معالم دخول مصر إلى الحداثة. افتتحت أبواب الحديقة للمرة الأولى في ١ مارس ١٨٩١ باستخدام وتوسيع مرافق حدائق حريم الخديوي إسماعيل التي كانت موجودة من قبل. حيث كانت تعرض مجموعته الخاصة من النباتات والأشجار وتم إثرائها بإضافات من مستعمرات بريطانية مختلفة، في الكثير من الأحيان تم نقلها عبر قناة السويس وهو رمز آخر لمشروع حداثة ذو نتائج عالمية. اليوم، بعد أكثر من ١٢٥ عام، لازالت الحديقة تعمل وتعتبر أكثر نزهات عائلات الطبقة العاملة في القاهرة رواجاً.
حديقة الحيوان مكان عرض بالإضافة لكونها مكان أسر، مكان تراه وتُرى فيه، ليقدم المرء نفسه في مساحة عامة. ولذلك حديقة الحيوان موقع إنتاج علاقات وهويات اجتماعية، محورية في تكوين الإحساس بالانتماء في مجتمع مُعرف بالتبعية وتحديد الآخر، ليس على مستوى الطبقة الاجتماعية فقط ولكن على مستوى النوع.
بناء تلك العلاقات مع آخرين غير آدميين يستلزم بيئة محكمة وآمنة؛ حيث الحيوانات والنباتات والناس تُبقى على مسافة آمنة من بعضها البعض بينما تُصمم حركتهم بدقة لكي تعطي إيهام بالمساحة المفتوحة والمتاحة، فهو جدلية مرتبة بحرص في شكل ممرات تداول ومساحات مُسَيجة. تجاور الحركة بحرية والترفيه والسياج والآسر وعرض حيوانات مسنة وربما وحيدة، يبدو كأنه تشبيه جيد لحالة البشرية بالإضافة لتأنيس الحيوانات والنباتات من قبل العلم. يتناول المعرض تناقض حداثي ربما يأخذ شكل إدراك عبثية الوجود الإنساني، تلك المأساة التي حاولت كبتها وتجاهلتها الحضارات الغربية من خلال التوسع والتحكم.
يعلق المعرض أيضا على قناة السويس التي قد تكون أكبر رمز لعصر الأنثروبوسين. مرة أخرى يركز أصدقائي الأعزاء على النتائج غير المقصودة والدقيقة بدلا من الواضحة للبرزخ النافذ الذي يبلغ عرضه ٧٥ ميل، في عام ١٨٦٩. يوافق المعرض الذكرى المائة وخمسون (الافتتاح مخطط أن يكون في يناير ٢٠١٩) فينظر للمشروع من زاوية مختلفة. بعيداً عن جعل البترول سهل المنال وتقصير المسافة التي يجب أن يجتازها الجنود والسفن لكي تصل لآسيا، وهما لهم أهمية شديدة في توسيع وترسيخ الهيمنة الغربية، القناة كانت ولازالت من أهم الممرات المستخدمة لنقل الحيوانات لمصر والبحر المتوسط. البعض منها نقلت لتُزين متاحف في أوروبا والمستعمرات البريطانية من بينها حديقة الحيوانات في الجيزة. آخرون يسافرون عبر استغلال البنية التحتية التجارية من صنع الإنسان، عبر تجاهل حدود وبروتوكولات الملاحة العالمية. تتشابه التدفقات الحالية للناس التي تحاول دخول الإقليم الأوروبي مع تلك التدفقات اللسبسية ٣ في كونها نتيجة مشاريع رأسمالية إمبريالية حيث التكنولوجيا تعيد ترتيب البيئة الجغرافية السياسية. التصوير والتعامل مع الأسماك اللسبسية كدخيل مهدد وغازي يرسم حد فاصل اعتباطي بين البشري والآخر غير البشري وأيضا بين السلوك الطبيعي والمتطفل (Kompastiaris 2018).
أصدقائي الأعزاء يكشفون هشاشة الحد الفاصل، عبر إثارة عدة أسئلة: كيف نرسم هذه الحدود عند وصف نظام بيئي يعمل بكفاءة؟ لماذا تتحول الأفكار المثالية الإنسانية حول الاتزان والتحكم، إلى المعيار النهائي في تحليلنا للطبيعة؟ يعتمد المعرض على أسئلة كتلك، ليتجاوز حدود القرابة مع غير البشريين سواء كانوا حيوانات أو نباتات، محلية أو دخيلة، ويتتبع مصيرهم المشترك تحت تأثير التاريخ والتكنولوجيا القوي.
تخيل مشاريع ذات نطاق عالمي (كما حدث للمرة الأولى مع قناة السويس) وإطلاق الحملات الأوروبية العلمية الضخمة في "المناطق المجهولة حول العالم" كانت عناصر أساسية في تكوين "وعي كوكبي" والذي أصبح بدوره أحد أعمدة التمركز الأوروبي الحديث واشتداد التوسع الإمبريالي المصاحب له ٤. جمعت تلك الحملات العسكرية والهندسية المواد اللازمة لتطوير خطابات مختلفة عن البيئة. وفقا لذلك تم تقسيم عالم الطبيعة لعدة تصنيفات وفئات لكي تصبح هدفا يُستغل ويعاد تشكيله وفقا لاحتياجات التوسعات الأوروبية.
فهرسة النباتات والحيوانات بدأت قبل تأسيس حدائق النباتات والحيوانات والمتاحف والأماكن التي تعرض إنجازات تحالف قوى العلم والاستعمار للجمهور، مما يظهر قوة المشروع الإمبريالي في نفس الوقت. أسهم علم الطبيعة في تكوين إحساس بسيادة على العالم، مما عزز التوسع الغربي وضمن إدخال التصنيفات العنصرية وأيدولوجيا "عبء الرجل الأبيض". أرسى الاستعمار قوته في العلم وسعى لإحكام قبضته حول أي شخص أو شيء أو مكان ينتمي لثقافة وعلم غير منتمين لكفاءة وتحكم الحداثة الغربية.
قدم الاستعمار نفسه دائما كقوة تقدم وعقلانية: مسار التاريخ الذي يأخذ نفسه كمرجع ولا يمكن إيقافه. ما يتم سرده كأنه تاريخ ليس إلا قوة الإدارة الاستعمارية وجوعها مستحيل الإشباع للتحكم في العالم الطبيعة الحي، البناء المفترض أنه مستقل لأنظمة المعرفة وتمثيل من قبل العلم، الذي يهدف إلى إثبات قدرته على تفسير الطبيعة من خلال تجريد كل القوى المؤثرة. يمكن أن يلحظ المرء هنا آلية "رؤية تحديثية" ووفقا لها، تقحم الطلائع الرأسمالية نفسها في مستقبل من تهدف استغلالهم وكأنها حتمية أخلاقية. قناة السويس وحديقة حيوان الجيزة بمثابة منطق وطريقة عمل مؤسسيهم ومحاولتهم للتحكم في الطبيعة وبالتالي إرشاد مصر إلى نسخة الحداثة الغربية الخاصة بهم. يتحدى أصدقائي الأعزاء تلك السرديات عن طريق الإشارة إلى مساحات الحرية التي تتفتح في شروخ تلك الحداثة وفي نفس الوقت تأمل الأشكال المختلفة للعلاقات بين الطبيعة والثقافة حيث يسعى البشر وغير البشريين إلى مصير خارج قبضة التكنولوجيا والاقتصاد.
١. أنا ممتنة لبانوس كوماتسياريس لمشاركته بنصه قبل نشره.
٢." في نهج بشرية التمركز في اختلاف، الحدود بين البشري وغير البشري من المفترض أنها غير واضحة وتصبح بلا حدود ومتقطعة أو غويرة كما قال دريدا، بدلا من كونه حد فاصل واحد." كوماتسياريس, بانوس. "غرباء في البحر الأبيض المتوسط: أسماك بشعة و استحالة القرابة مع الآخر غير البشري." العدو، المجلد الأول ٢٠١٨.
٣. الاسم مشتق من فرديناند ديليسبس الدبلوماسي الفرنسي الذي حصل على عقد الامتياز ثم طور قناة السويس.
٤. ماري لويز برات، الطبعة الثانية (لندن، نيويورك:روتليدج، ٢٠٠٧) صفحة ٣٢.


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Gasparini, Dario A. (2009): Charles C. Sunderland and the Diffusion of Prestressing Technologies in the Americas. Présenté pendant: Third International Congress on Construction History, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany , 20th-24th May 2009.
Gasparini, Dario A. (2012): Sunderland, Birdsall and the Roebling Co: Development and Diffusion of Construction Technologies for Suspension Bridges, 1928-1952. Présenté pendant: Fourth International Congress on Construction History, Paris, 3-7 July 2012, pp. 667-674.

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Running with DGLA means improving your running skills and condition. You can practice with guidance of professional coaches, get more opportunities to take part in runs, and of course: nice parties. DGLA is THE athletics club for gays and lesbians in The Netherlands, and is based in Amsterdam.
Twice a year sportive gays and lesbians come to meet and run at the Pink Run, around Kings Day at the end of April, and the Pride Run, on Fridays at the Gay Pride weekend, which is in the first weekend of August. We'll make sure you'll be back before the parties start. And in good shape!

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But “wildly” is a relative term. NCIS: LA, for example, contains an average of six murders per episode. If we multiply that by 24 episodes per season, and if we assume that one season represents a single year, that gives us a total of 144 murders per year. LA’s actual murder rate in 2015 was around 570. So while it’s a bit hard to swallow that one law enforcement unit would be handling such a large proportion of the total homicide cases, at least it’s within the realm of numerical possibility.
The same cannot be said for these other shows.
British series Midsomer Murders takes place in the fictional English county of Midsomer, an isolated place where the the scenery is beautiful and all the locals have something to hide. Some nerd at the BBC calculated that Midsomer has a murder rate of 32 per million–far higher than that of England or Wales, and pretty devastating when you think about how small Midsomer is meant to be. I’ve just crunched some numbers, and it turns out you’re only slightly less likely to be murdered in Midsomer than you are to die in a car accident. Quaint British countryside indeed!
But Midsomer’s got nothing on the fictional town of Cabot Cove. The little hamlet in Maine, home to 3560 residents, experiences an average of 5.3 murders per year, and Jessica Fletcher is present during or immediately after all of them. Mighty suspicious! One might almost suspect she has some personal responsibility for Cabot Cove’s astronomical murder rate of 1490 per million. To put that number in context, the murder rate for the United States as a whole is only 40 per million. It seems the only thing more dangerous that living in rural Britain is living in the same town as Jessica Fletcher.


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PundiX introduces a Bitcoin Point of Sale (POS) terminal in Nigerian shop.
The terminal allows transactions via bank cards and mobile wallets.
Nigeria’s central bank cautions locals against buying and selling cryptos.
In a “first in Africa,” a Nigerian company that imports and distributes agricultural products has installed a Point of Sale (POS) system that allows purchasing in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The move is likely to scale up the adoption and development of cryptocurrencies in Africa’s leading Bitcoin market.
The Point of Sale terminal was launched in collaboration with the Indonesian cryptocurrency and payments company Pundix which will allow users to shop using Bitcoin, Ethereum and two other leading cryptocurrencies besides allowing traditional fiat currencies at the Joetech Systems Ltd.
Pundix is a leading payment service provider and has shipped or is shipping over 5,000 XPOS terminals to different countries including Switzerland, Brazil, Hong Kong, Korea, Colombia, and the UK.
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over 185 million people and is also home to the largest number of cryptocurrency users in Africa with over $260 million worth of Bitcoin traded in a single Cryptocurrency exchange.
However, the crypto community still operates under uncertain regulatory conditions with the Central Bank of Nigeria cautioning against buying and selling of cryptocurrencies only this week.

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Ultra Consultants joins with IQMS, developers of Manufacturing ERP, to present an informative webinar taking place Thursday, Nov. 29 at 2PM ET that helps teams optimize supply chain operations, and cut costs by increasing access to quality data that improves decisions and streamlines audits.
Presented in conjunction with APICS, the session outlines how to improve operations when data processes constrained in silos are integrated across organizations.
Your ERP, supply chain, MES and quality systems gather and store hundreds or thousands of data points every day.
For companies using standalone, legacy and homegrown systems, it’s difficult to get a cohesive picture of supply chain performance.
How to excel by taking an integrated approach to Supply Chain Management, MES, Compliance and Quality Management to improve production efficiency and streamline audits.
Methods to set strategic KPIs that function as an early warning system, providing insight into current or potential problems that may affect revenue or customer satisfaction.
IQMSSteve is responsible for IQMS' brand management, demand generation and product marketing. Prior to IQMS, Steve held senior marketing roles at ERP companies Epicor, Activant and Triad. In addition, he has engineering experience at manufacturing companies Automotive Controls (Echlin) and DIT-MCO International. Steve has extensive ERP experience in the retail, distribution and manufacturing sectors, in both organic growth and M&A oriented businesses. Steve holds an engineering degree from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Business Administration from Rockhurst University.
IQMSMr. Columbus is currently serving as Principal, IQMS. He is also a contributing writer and analyst for Forbes. Previous positions include Director Product Management at Ingram Cloud, Vice President Marketing at iBASEt, Plex Systems, Senior Analyst at AMR Research (now Gartner), marketing and business development at SaaS start-ups. Mr. Columbus’ academic background includes an MBA from Pepperdine University and the Strategic Marketing Management and Digital Marketing Programs at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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second-year summer associate program and lasts for ten weeks. During the ten weeks, the student will perform substantive legal work, learn more about the law and our practice areas, receive constructive performance feedback, and will be mentored by members of our professional staff. We believe that this early training and guidance is invaluable to both incoming legal professionals and our firm. We have had great success with the recruitment and hiring of candidates with diverse backgrounds for our first-year summer intern and second-year summer associate programs, and most receive offers to join the firm.
Please note that our definition of a diverse background is broad, so any students who feel that they qualify for this position are encouraged to apply. In past years, we have focused our recruitment efforts on first-year law students interested in our Food and Drug and/or Environmental practice groups, and we plan to do the same this year. Please note that we plan to hire one first-year summer intern for the upcoming summer. For additional information relating to our firm, please visit our website www.khlaw.com. Interested students should email their cover letter, resume, transcripts (undergrad and law school), and a writing sample to Jennifer Ireland, Recruitment Manager, Keller and Heckman LLP at ireland@khlaw.com.

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Unity has made its popular Unity Pro game engine free for all licensed PlayStation developers.
To take advantage, the company suggested contacting your PlayStation representative. Unity is already free for ID@Xbox developers on Xbox One, as well as licensed Wii U devs.
Unity currently supports PS3, PS4 and PS Mobile platforms.
Ganes set to come to PlayStation platforms using the Unity engine include Assault Android Cactus, Night in the Woords, Shiftlings and BroForce.
"This is another amazing display by SCE of how much they welcome developers, no matter their size and pedigree," said Unity CEO David Helgason.
"Some of the most exciting games are coming from smaller teams who in the past would have been hard pressed to get on so many awesome platforms."

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This morning I stepped out of my comfort zone and took a fitness class. A friend of mine, Liberty, is opening a new gym in Encinitas soon (they are shooting for early November as long as construction and everything goes smoothly).
Learn about the studio HERE!
While they are working on the location itself, they are spreading the word by offering pre-opening FREE fitness classes throughout the week - one on Monday mornings and one on Wednesday evenings. The classes on Mondays are at 10:15am at the Lorna Jane store in Del Mar and the ones on Wednesdays are at 6pm at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas (but this week it will actually be on Thursday).
Today was Liberty's first class she has taught in about 9 months, but let's be honest, you couldn't tell ONE BIT! She kicked my booty! Like legit, I think my glutes (and everything else) will be sore tomorrow! The class was about 55 minutes long and intense the whole time (although there were plenty of opportunities to modify any of the moves depending on your level of fitness, body's ability, etc).
I always think that I will take pictures during classes (and by always I mean the 3 times I've ever taken classes before), but then I am too focused on actually getting a good workout in (and not falling on my face) that I never even get out my phone. We pulled out weights for a bit, got down on the mat for core work, climbed mountains and did a bazillion and a half squats! Suffice it to say, we got our sweat on while combining strength, cardio and stretching.
Thanks to Lorna Jane for letting us workout in their studio!
If I am off on Wednesday morning's (today I don't have to work until 6pm, so I have all morning/ afternoon to get my fitness in), this is totally a class I will make the drive for. And working out on the beach before sunset?! You better believe I am going to try and make those Wednesday evenings as well. And if you are in the area, you should stop by too!
I thought it was a great turnout (especially in the SoCal rain!).
PS If anyone is interested in becoming a member at Liberty's new gym - EnVie Fitness Encinitas - make sure to check out their website (I can also get you in contact with Liberty directly, just let me know and I can make it happen!).

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Iron Chef series: Authentic Nasi Lemak!!
Today's Iron Chef is Ms. Lyndel! Majoring in Hotel, Tourism and Management, Lyndel has experiences in handling big food catering events and restaurant businesses. She hasn't been home for 4 years, and her craving for authentic Malaysian food has spurred her on to create her own recipe list! To date, the inventory boasts a range of cuisines including kiam chai ak th'ng, 3-egg porridge, nasi beriani, wonton mee, etc etc.. and today, I'm featuring her authentic nasi lemak! Believe me, it's super nice. I had a super long reaction after biting into the fresh basmati rice with a hint of pandan and coconut richness, the hot and spicy sambal, the cooling cucumber, and the egg just complete everything in a punch. Literally stimulate my taste buds and send me to heaven.
1. Put all ingredients into rice cooker, mix up well, and let the pot do the rest. Done.
1. Blend onions and mix it with sambal olek w/ garlic. If sambal olek w/ garlic is not available blend in garlic also. Then mix in baby anchovies.
2. Heat up some oil in a big pot and pour the mixture in. Stir until fragrant.
3. Put in chicken stock granules, tomatoes and tamarind concentrate and stir again. Stir constantly under high heat.
2. Take out the next day and deep-fry.
1. When boiling eggs, remember to add salt to the boiling water (~1/2 rice cup worth) so that the eggs won't crack easily.
2. After the eggs are done, transfer them into ice cold water to prevent the membrane layer of the egg from sticking to the albumin (in short, it's easier to peel the eggs).
3. Roast raw peanuts with a little bit of salt to add flavour.
4. Before slicing the cucumber, cut one tip of the vegetable and rub the cut surface together. This helps in getting rid of the latex which is the source of its bitter taste.

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Long title says it all.
Sometimes when an object has lots of layers and it's quite complex, opening it can take a while...and my setup is kind of ok (intel quadcore 2.5ghz, 4gigs ram, 8800gt 512).
I don't need modeler to open the object showing all the layers. Only one, the first one.
Even when we send it from layout to modeler it should open only the selected layer. This would speed things a lot.
Well, I think it should show all the layers for most scenarios but I agree that a heavy object split into multiple layers, it would be good to only show the first layer. Would be a good preference to tick on or off in general preferences.
Not for me!! Perhaps as an option for those Mega Objects, but not as a standard.
of course in heavy objects we could split the layers into other objects, but then layers looses all its point, right?
so yep, I think that a preference tick box would be a good idea.


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MELBOURNE, Florida – A 19-year-old man was arrested on charges of burglary after stealing multiple items from a Melbourne home belonging to his parents while they were away, according to police.
Eric Issac Fernandez was seen at the Melbourne residence without permission, taking numerous items.
Some of the items include multiple televisions, laptop computers, game systems, sound systems, sneakers, clothing items, a purse, and jewelry.
On the date of his arrest, Fernandez was seen at the residence removing two bags of clothing and other items with his girlfriend. Fernandez also gave a purse and shirt to his girlfriend that belonged to his mother.
However, Fernandez told the girlfriend that they were gifts he purchased for her, as well as a pair of sunglasses.
Fernandez was seen wearing multiple pieces of jewelry, a pair of black and yellow Jordan sneakers and a silver Guess watch, which his parents reported stolen earlier in the day.
Fernandez was arrested in Melbourne and transported to the Brevard County Jail on charges of Burglary and Grand Theft. Bond set at $5,000.00.


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DRH2004 speakers are invited to submit their papers for publication in a special edition of the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing. The papers will, as with last year's conference papers, be published as a special edition of Literary and Linguistic Computing. The edition will be edited by Sheila Anderson and Alastair Dunning.
A volume of selected papers from DRH2001 and DRH2002, edited by Jean Anderson, Alastair Dunning and Michael Fraser, were published by the Office for Humanities Communications in August 2003.
A volume of selected papers from DRH2000, Digital Evidence, edited by Michael Fraser, Nigel Williamson and Marilyn Deegan was published by the Office for Humanities Communication in September 2001.
A volume of selected papers from DRH'99, edited by Marilyn Deegan, Lou Burnard and Harold Short was published by the Office for Humanities Communication in December 2000.
A volume of selected papers from DRH'98, edited by Jean Anderson, Marilyn Deegan, and Harold Short, was published by the Office for Humanities Communication in February 2000.
A volume of selected papers from DRH'97, The Digital Demotic, edited by Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short was published by the Office for Humanities Communication in 1998.


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The Lakland Skyline 55-02 is equipped with their familiar MM/J pickup configuration and custom 3-band preamp used in the US-made 55-94. The controls on the 55-02 are the same as on the 55-01 and the master volume pot can be pulled to bypass the active preamp. The 55-02 has a 3-way toggle for coil splitting.
This one is in Tobacco Sunburst with Maple Fingerboard and features a figured Ash Body.


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Designed by Perry Dean Rogers and built in 1987, The Keefe Campus Center was in need of an update to reinvigorate its function as a bustling campus node. Construction was completed during winter break of 2013, requiring accelerated project delivery and a highly integrated design and construction process. The primary goal of the renovation was to open and connect the campus center spaces around the atrium, creating a focused and inclusive central hub.
The short project time frame and the importance of this building as a public face of the campus made the design process intense and the results critical. On the lower level and first floor, offices and layouts were renovated with new flooring, walls, ceilings, and lighting throughout. On the second floor, the changes were more visually dramatic. The original building was designed on a rigid dual axis, with all spaces connected loosely to the central atrium. While a strong aesthetic parti, this arrangement did not offer much for ease of use or quality of space for occupants. One of design goals for C&H was to explode that grid, more closely connecting all of the Campus Center spaces to both the atrium and the outdoors.
In the Friedman Ballroom, a new vaulted acoustic ceiling (as well as new flooring, paint, and lighting) opens and enlivens the space. The new open-plan game rooms on the opposite end of the building promote strong visual and circulatory connections throughout the upper story. A dynamic new suspended light structure transformed the atrium into a bright focal point at the center of the building. Hung in the existing skylight space, the new lights capture the eye and gives focus to the space when the sun is absent. Additional interior rooms were reconfigured to create second floor views through the atrium and beyond to picture windows that frame the Pelham Hills.


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Two weeks ago, I wrote a column that pissed a lot of people off. As a result, I got an e-mail box full of people taking me to task over my insensitivity toward Muslim cultures. Reading some of the responses made me angry that so many people who live in liberal bio-bubbles would presume to tell me how I need to behave in the face of open hostility and discrimination when they don't experience that same thing. Sure, it's easy to be accepting of Muslim culture when you don't live in the middle of the hostility toward Gay people that it has created.
"I am concerned about the tone of your article which seems to ascribe homophobia and violence specifically to Muslims," one person wrote. "Many fundamentalist Christians do this as much as many Muslims."
"We need to avoid stereotyping Muslims as being homophobic," parroted another. "A stereotype is a stereotype."
"You just can't make statements like this about all Muslims," complained another.
Too all of you, I say boo-friggen-hoo, wake up.
While we are all busy hugging ourselves for our ideas about equality, let's not forget the systematic genocide of Gay people occurring every day in Islamic Republics around the world. Today, Gay people are killed in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen. That's killed, outright. In several other countries with areas controlled by courts ruling on law according to Islam, you can expect much of the same treatment. This is systematic, government-driven execution of Gay people simply because they are Gay. Genocide. There isn't a single majority-Christian country in this world which does this to Gay people.
And you all want to tell me that I'm not being accepting enough of Islam? That I can't make generalizations about Islam? Seriously?
I have lived my whole life with the belief that in order to bring full equality to realization, we have to generate that equality ourselves, but now I'm starting to doubt whether that is truly possible. There is a growing scenario in Europe where we find ourselves accepting people who not only don't accept us, but who reject our very right to exist. That is fine for a while, but if integration never happens, what then?
I am not some crazy right-wing wacko advocating the removal of Muslims from Europe. I believe that integrated coexistence is possible, but walking down the streets of Brussels with my boyfriend carrying pepper spray makes me think that perhaps Europe could work a little more on the integration part of this model.
I worry that our equality movement is becoming too soft. If we don't even recognize institutionalized discrimination for fear of being seen as not being accepting enough, then how can we expect to change anything? Aren't we just sitting on our hands and hoping that eventually people will just accept us because we are us? And if they don't, what then?
"It is extremism/fundamentalism within all of the major religious traditions that is the problem and it is the cultural interpretations of these religions that is flawed. I think it is urgently important that we, as Western LGBT folks from the US (who carry all kinds of power in the world because of our cultural context - economic, political - we're even linked to all the military power our gov't uses), are very careful not to make blanket statements about Muslims or Jews, or Christians, for that matter. We need to be very clear that we are respectful of and in collaboration with Muslims who are not fundamentalists."
First, isn't it organizations like the NGLTF who should be standing up for us when we experience discrimination, particularly if we are experiencing it from one of the largest institutions in the world? If the very organizations we set up to fight institutionalized discrimination, like NGLTF, are going to berate me because I complain about the discrimination I get from Muslims, what's the point of them anyway? If that's all they are going to do, they are really just a bunch of overpaid (if hopeful) cogitators who have neither tasks nor force to bring about any meaningful change. They should change their name.
Second, it infuriates me that Rev. Voelkel and others are labeling Muslims who are hostile to Gay people as "extremists." A quick, global look at Islam will show anyone that it is mainstream Muslims who are hostile to Gay people, not "extremists." It's not some breakoff, crazy group outside the mosque enacting hostility toward Gays; it is the mosque itself and the mainstream interpretation of their beliefs. Let's call it what it is. It is "mainstream" Muslims who are hostile to Gay people, and you can try to put all kinds of lipstick on that pig, but it will still be the same ugly pig.
I know we Gay folks like to imagine this view of a peaceful world full of people who coexist without any violence toward one another. It's the very utopian equality we put on our flags for our parades and the idea we trumpet from the rooftops. But while we are celebrating that utopian idea, let's not forget that there are forces in this world which are just as powerful doing exactly the opposite. A systematic genocide against Gays is happening every single day thanks to Islam. It's no more a generalization than pointing out that the sun rises from the east, however we phrase it to make it sound different.
So if it sounds a little general when I complain about Muslim hostility toward Gay people, I think my reaction is probably equal to what we face. Not all Muslims are hostile to Gay people, sure, but a great deal more than not are. That is worth a little complaining.


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Welcome to the June edition of monthly news!
My life has changed again. We moved into an apartment again... in our old neighborhood ironically.
I'm so happy I could bust.
How Can A Landscaping Project Add Value To Your Home?
Congrats on the new apartment! I'm glad you enjoyed Red Queen---I really loved that one.
Ooh, I read the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks back in high school. I'll have to check out the movie!
I love that Wires and Nerve cover! It's on my TBR list!


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New Delhi, September 15, 2009: Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) Ltd., leading manufacturer of premium cars in India, today launched a new feature packed Honda City 1.5V and the new Honda City 1.5S with brand new beige interiors.
The top grade sparkling new variant of the Honda City has been launched as part of the Great Honda Fest promotion and will add to the festivities this season for all the Honda City lovers.
The new City 1.5V (MT & AT) comes with the introduction of attractive 5 spoke Alloy Wheels and elegant Front Fog Lamps for enhanced style and better visibility. The exterior looks of the new City 1.5V gets further stylized by addition of Chrome door handles, new Sporty Exhaust Finisher and Front & Rear mud guards.
The new variant has a complete new interior look with the newly introduced Beige high quality fabric seats, Silver Colored Fan Knob, silver color inner door handles, door lining garnish and power windows panel. The car also gets the Dual front tweeters which will enable the customers to enjoy their best quality music and a driver seat back pocket for added convenience.
The new Honda City will now be available as SMT, VMT and VAT. Additionally, all the variants will be available in 2 attractive types – Elegance and Inspire.
Honda City which clearly dominates the premium sedan segment in India will have an additional colour option Deep Sapphire Blue for a limited period during festive season along with existing colors available in the range.
The Honda City comes equipped with a 1.5L, 4 cylinder new generation i-VTEC engine that delivers class leading power of 118PS. In line with the Honda’s policy of reducing impact on the environment the engine is E10 compliant and has Euro IV emission levels.
The Safety of passengers and pedestrians is a first priority for Honda. Honda City is fully loaded with various active and passive safety features as standard including ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) with Brake Assist (BA), Dual SRS airbags, pre-tensioner seat belts and G-CON (G-Force Control Technology) body with a high integrity survival zone. The front body structure of the Honda City ensures advanced pedestrian safety features.
The All New Honda City is a winner of 12 Auto Awards including the most prestigious ‘Indian Car of the Year 2009’ (ICOTY) Award. The new Honda City’s instant success is testified by the fact that it has sold nearly 38,000 units since its launch in September last year.
This is quite suprising move from Honda!
But any clues of price increase ?
Why an update too early? Alloy wheels is a welcome addition, which should have been in the original car itself.
@CC: I think this is to reduce the reviews stating "high end car without an alloy"
that takes the top end version to be 11.5 lakhs on-road, base version costing 9.5 lakhs, on-road! what is honda thinking??? cant blame them when the car sells like hot cakes.
moreover the alloys look very boring. the ones on the thailand version were much much better.
Boy, this is news!! So many honda city versions on the roads now. God alone knows how the second hand car market valuation will be evaluated with so many versions.
This had to come sometime or the other. But price is still too high.
this is surely the fiat linea's effect which is why after this long time Honda thought to give some addons to their honda city with price rise as well.
I recently came to know that Honda has released a stripped down version of city which is called the "E" variant and comes at Rs. 7.94 Lakhs (Ex. Showroom Delhi). Some of the cost cutting involves black plastic work on exteriors as well as interiors along with dull gray looking seat covers. More details can be found on official website : Honda City India .
After started facing heat from the European competitors, Japanese slashing down the price ?
Great to hear! BTW City is now affordable & VFM.
Am not so sure black bumpers will looks so good on the Honda.
Maybe the targeted segment is the luxury taxi segment, but in that case, the lack of a diesel will hurt.
This is good move. After they reduced 40K on Jazz, now City. It will certainly help to reduce the very costly tag on them.
Though this is good i suspect whether the black bumpers will look good on City as Aditya mentioned! Personally i din like this move from Honda , lets wait for the results of these changes!
With the dying sales of Jazz, It became necessary for Honda to offer the big discount to regenerate all the excitement. About the Honda City it is a great move, City is one of the finest car in segment but pricing was too steep, Though we can see it was selling despite of this fact and hey, I don’t think the Bumpers are black, the other plastic work on exteriors such as door handles, ORVM shell etc are not body colored.
Oh okay if that is the case it is better! They can change some of the interiors also and make it exciting but still even without these changes i see a lots of new gen City's in Chennai!!


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Crumbs, another week gone by? Now if only I could print me some extra days!
In the meantime I will have to settle for printing some fabulous inclusions for projects that I am working on.
Got a cool one to share with you today.


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Prince Hall Masonic Canvas has a rating of 5.0stars based on 3 reviews.
A 20x24 inch Prince Hall Masonic Canvas Wall Hanging that ships ready to hang upon receipt and features the compass and square of Freemasonry, the three cardinal virtues (theological) of Faith, Hope and Charity. It also features the year 1784, which is the year Prince Hall received his charter/warrant from the Grand Lodge of Engalnd for African Lodge #459 in Boston.


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An expanded re-issue of the group’s original 1967 American mono album which charted at #42 in Cash Box and on the Billboard chart at #47 in December.
Following the American release the album was released around the world in a number of different editions. In the UK & Australasia the album omitted the hit single but included ‘Good Captain Clack’, released in America as a single b-side.
In Europe, South-East Asia and South Africa the album omitted the hit single but included their follow up single ‘Homburg’.
In South America the album was altered more radically including ‘Absolutamente Correcto’ (aka Quite Rightly So) and ‘En Lo Que Duran Seis Peniques’ (In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence) as well including a liner note by Keith Reid.
The Italian version of the album was the most distinct variant, substituting the iconic black and white cover for a pink and white version, whilst the record itself included an alternate version of ‘Homburg’ – not the version which was released as a single – and ‘Il Tuo Diamante’ an Italian language version of ‘Shine On Brightly’.


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Believe it, you matter: Be Like Danica Roem.
If the election of November 2016 jolted you into treating democracy more like a part-time job, you’ve since realized how tedious and trying it can be. It certainly can feel like work, and some parts will feel like work no matter how you approach them.
And he was a raging jerk to her, too, refusing to debate her and deliberately using the wrong pronouns when discussing her. He produced campaign ads that attacked her transgender identity.
Roem beat that raging jerk. Soundly. By nearly nine points, all told.
Her opponent did not mention her in his post-election Facebook post.
Once it was clear that Roem had won, journalists asked her about Marshall.
She had every right to drop the boom on him, to scorch him, to rain garbage upon him.
And with those words, she proved that the best person won.
Roem did exactly that. Roem is the living, breathing embodiment of the power of Obama’s words.
You are human. Life is tough, and politics is doubly so.
But Roem is just as human as you are, and at the moment when she could have unburdened her anger on her opponent, a man who did everything he could to make himself her foe, she showed kindness and grace and held her hand out to him.

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*Thank you to the DIYZ® app for sponsoring this post. All opinions are 100% mine.
BUT, we did hang a light above the sink recently, so yay for steps in the right direction!
I instantly loved it and went to buy it. It was $145 and you had to special order it, and it would take almost a month to arrive. Being that my deadline for this post was before that I said “no thank you” and went home to do some Google sleuthing. I ended up finding the exact same light on Overstock for $170 for a set of two. You could only buy them as a set anywhere online, so I figured that was a pretty good deal….now I just have to figure out where to use the other one.
Anyway, I really wanted it to be green like the lower cabinets, so I painted it (SW Oakmoss) and also shortened the chain to be the right height for above the sink.
From there I grabbed my phone and read all about the project on the DIYZ app. So what is the DIYZ app, you ask?
DIYZ is a free mobile app that helps homeowners tackle projects around the house. Each project includes step-by-step instructions in both text and video format, and if you get stuck you can video chat with a licensed professional that will walk you through the process. Projects also have a tools and materials list, where you can add items to your Amazon cart and purchase everything right there in the app.
DIYZ has a large library of projects to help you around the house, and while it’s true that you can go online and find tutorials on how to do these projects, DIYZ does an amazing job of thoroughly describing the steps, and the segmented videos are priceless. The app is straightforward, easy to use, and goes anywhere your phone goes.
Another cool thing about DIYZ is the Pro Adviser feature. If you get hung up at any point in a project or just have trouble getting started can receive guidance from a licensed professional. Using this feature is currently free, and in the future it will be $10 for 10 minutes and a dollar for each additional minute.
Here is my new fixture all hung up! It’s so much better than the hole in the ceiling I’ve had for the last year.
I also made a short video about the whole process and how I used the DIYZ app. I haven’t made a ton of videos in the past (because they are time-consuming and I had no idea how, really), but I recently set aside some time to learn how the heck to use iMovie, and I gotta say, I’m a little proud of this one.
The DIYZ App is free to download and is available in the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android. For a limited time the video chat feature is FREE! You can also follow DIYZ on social media to see the latest project previews and app news – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube.
Thank you for sharing this information, which is very useful.
Good job! It looks great. Can’t wait to see where you decide to put the second fixture. Maybe a bathroom?
The look of your newly designed blog is pretty! BUT the colors are so washed out now the pictures of your home look well, washed-out. A DIY home blog should have vibrant pictures in my humble opinion =) Your green kitchen cabinets aren’t a pretty focal point in pictures, they just kind of fade into the background. Not sure if that’s what your seeing as well ….
They look crisp and vibrant on my computer but my husband just texted and said it looks really pale and washed out on his work computer as well. I don’t see it….would you mind sending me a screenshot? You can e-mail it to me at [email protected]. Thank you for your feedback, and if you see anything else that is off please let me know…we’re still working out the kinks!
That is a great looking lamp!
That light is just perfect! You did great to get such a good deal.
I wish I could use that app here in Australia. For a start it is illegal to do our own wiring and your wiring is different to ours anyway. I wonder if there is an app here in Oz someone has done….Hmmmmm must investigate. My skills are good but sometimes a helper is great.
Did I mention I like the new page? Hee hee, well I do!
Thank you about the new page, it just went live yesterday! We are still working out the kinks but so far I love it. And I had no idea it was illegal to do your own wiring in Australia. So you have to hire an electrician to do simple things like hanging a light fixture?
Yup, Ashley, totally illegal to replace a light fitting (electrically, you can change the actual shade) or any other work like a power point or a fan. Our earth is in the wiring as we have 3 point pin power sockets and in the wiring. So you go touching that you are gonna fry! Hence why a certified contractor must turn off the power and then go ahead and do the job.
Well done on the video! And I like your new page and profile pic, they look great. That’s a nice light fixture. I’m sure if you don’t use the other one you could sell it. It looks really cozy in the night picture.


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