When will B.C. stop logging old-growth trees? – Pique Newsmagazine

First Nations communities have fallen on both sides of the argument. Several Indigenous communities have quietly demanded the B.C. government immediately defer logging its oldest trees, warning it “will ultimately bring about our physical destruction.” At Fairy Creek, where multiple arrests along a blockade have continued to draw the media’s spotlight this week, the Pacheedaht First Nation have said old-growth activists are “not welcome.”

A hundred kilometres across the Salish Sea, another Indigenous nation has been locked in a protracted fight to protect a swath of old growth sacred to their people. They fought back, and in March, won — protecting a 70.9-hectare cutblock of forest from immediate destruction.

As old-growth forests dwindle across the province, their success shows what it takes to walk another path and protect B.C.’s last arboreal giants.

Yellow cedar Dakota BowlElphinstone Logging Focus campaigner Hans Penner at the base of a large yellow cedar in Dakota Bowl. By Ross Muirhead

A LONG HAUL

For the Squamish Nation, Dakota Bowl is one of its last untouched tracts of forests.

Rising up the slopes of Elphinstone Mountain on the Sunshine Coast, its high-elevation yellow cedar forests have been described as a “living museum.”

Prized for its strength and softness as clothing material, some West Coast Indigenous communities would travel great distances to harvest the inner bark of the yellow cedar; some believed the high-elevation trees possess supernatural qualities.

Khelsilem said his nation’s push to protect the 70.9-hectare cutblock required years of research and policy work. He points to 2003 when the nation developed a land-use plan that sketched out how it wanted to use forested lands. Later, the nation sent out its own experts in archaeology, cultural heritage and the environment.

Archaeologists have found evidence that dozens of old-growth trees had been used by the First Nation dating back hundreds of years — in the end, 77 so-called “culturally modified trees” would be mapped in the forest.

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“It’s a common consensus among my co-workers that we prefer not having customers see our faces,” said Becca Marshalla, 25, who works at a bookstore outside Chicago. “Oftentimes when a customer is being rude or saying off-color political things, I’m not allowed to grimace or ‘make a face’ because that will set them off. With a mask, I don’t have to smile at them or worry about keeping a neutral face.”

“I have had customers get very upset when I don’t smile at them,” she added. “I deal with anti-maskers constantly at work. They have threatened to hurt me, tried to get me fired, thrown things at me and yelled ‘fuck you’ in my face. If wearing a mask in the park separates me from them, I’m cool with that.”

Aimee, a 44-year-old screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles, said that wearing a mask in public even after she’s been vaccinated gives her a kind of “emotional freedom”. “I don’t want to feel the pressure of smiling at people to make sure everyone knows I’m ‘friendly’ and ‘likable’,” she said. “It’s almost like taking away the male gaze. There’s freedom in taking that power back.”

Bob Hall, a 75-year-old retired researcher in New Jersey with a self-described “naturally grim countenance [that] tends to be off-putting to others”, concurred. “In the United States there is an obligation to appear happy, and I get told to smile and ‘be happy’ a lot, which is very annoying,” he said. “The mask frees me from this.”

For Elizabeth, a 46-year-old tutor living near Atlanta, Georgia, the mask has accomplished for her social anxiety what years of therapy and medication have not: allowing her to feel comfortable while out in the world.

“I’m short and fat and if I don’t moisturize compulsively, my face is constantly flaking,” she said. “It’s easy to feel like I’m surrounded by mocking, disapproving eyes … Nothing has shielded me from the feeling of vulnerability like a mask has.”

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Vancouver remembers Komagata Maru on 107th anniversary of ship denied entry | Globalnews.ca

Despite being British subjects, the 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus were denied entry to Canada due to laws that discriminated based on race, and were forced to remain aboard for two months before being sent back to India. Source: Vancouver remembers Komagata Maru on 107th anniversary of ship denied entry | Globalnews.ca

Nostalgia de a trăi

Google Translation of introduction: The colors of a cinematic clarity, on the banks of the Nile, serve as the setting for the archeological museum in Luxor.

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Luxor, 2018

Culorile de o limpezime cinematografică, pe țărmul Nilului, servesc de cadru muzeului de arheologie din Luxor.

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Spațiu care s-a dovedit cel mai liniștit loc pe parcursul celor trei zile pe care le-am petrecut în vechea capitală a Egiptului.

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Pare greu să te simți în siguranță în cetatea atât de greu încercată.

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În interiorul amenajat contemporan nu mai era nici un alt turist sau vizitator

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și n-a fost greu să mă las copleșită de o bruscă singurătate,

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ca și cum însingurarea faraonilor m-ar fi molipsit,

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neutralizând grația exponatelor.

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Faraonii erau oameni singuri.

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Ca să aibă o domnie netulburată, ei știau că trebuie să respecte niște reguli stricte:

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să nu aibă încredere decât în ei înșiși,

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să nu conteze pe ajutorul nimănui pentru că, la nevoie, prietenii se evaporă,

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să nu le permită subalternilor să intre în intimitatea lor. Mă urmărește privirea hipnotică a unor statui fixate pe transmiterea unui…

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Manastir svetih arhanđela Mihaila i Gavrila

Google translation: Not far from the city of Prizren, in the basin of the river Bistrica, there is a monastery of the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel.

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Nedaleko od grada Prizrena, u slivu rijeke Bistrice, nalazi se manastir svetih arhanđela Mihaila i Gavrila. Manastirski kompleks, opasan masivnim zidom, nekad su činili: velika crkva, konaci, biblioteka, bolnica, trpezarija i mala crkva Svetog Nikole. Manastir je građen na starijem crkvištu u vremenu od 1343. godine do 1352. godine, kao zadužbina cara Dušana. O izgradnji se starao otac Jakov, kasnije mitropolit u Serezu. Posebnom poveljom car Dušan darovao je Svetim arhanđelima 93 sela i rudnik gvožđa u Toplici. Car Dušan sahranjen je u svojoj zadužbini.

Kad su Turci zauzeli Prizren 1455. godine, manastir je stradao, a od druge polovine 16. vijeka počinje njegovo neumitno propadanje. Lijepo obrađeni kamen ovog manastira, Turci su iskoristili (1615) za izgradnju Sinan-pašine džamije u Prizrenu. Tako zapušten, manastir Svetih arhanđela ostao je sve do 1929. godine, kad je dr Radoslav Grujić počeo obimnija arheološka istraživanja. Poslije Drugog svjetskog rata ostaci manastira su konzervirani.

Glavna crkva…

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Military Radio – Armed Forces Network

Pacific Paratrooper

1943 ‘G.I. Jive’ sheet music by Johnny Mercer

ARMED FORCES NETWORK

Although American Forces Network Radio has officially been on the air for 60 years, listeners began tuning in at the end of World War I.

A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.  Radio was a novelty then, and little equipment was given to overseas military broadcasting until the United States started gearing up for World War II.

playing music for the troops

Bored soldiers in Panama and Alaska created makeshift transmitters and aired records, according to an Armed Forces Radio pamphlet. The U.S. military was unaware of the broadcasts until celebrities wrote asking how to send the stations recordings.

During the first days of the U.S. entry into World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff members set up military radio stations in the Philippines. Their…

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“TOP 10 ARTICLE WRITING WEBSITES THAT WILL PAY YOU MONEY”

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Who doesn’t want money for 5% work and 95% fun? A stupid man perhaps! Well, I will not let you make that mistake.

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أسطورة شهرزاد

حلم الدرويش

شهرزاد هى رمز الخيال والسحر فى الأدب العربى والعالمى ، تحكى الحكايات المليئة بالإثارة والتشويق كل ليلة على مسمع الملك شهريار فتسلب منه العقل وروح الانتقام والبطش والغضب بداخله ويتحول إلى طفل وديع ينتظر أن تنتهى الحكاية ، يمر الوقت وتمر الليالى ولا تنتهى الحكايات أبداً . نشأت شهرة شخصية (شهرزاد) لارتباطها بالكتاب ذائع الصيت (ألف ليلة وليلة) أو (الليالى العربية) كما تم تسميته فى الترجمة للغات الأجنبية . يبدأ الكتاب بقصة الملك (شهريار) وأخوه (شاه الزمان) ، حين يشتاق شهريار لرؤية شاه الزمان الذى لم يره منذ مدة طويلة فيُرسل له يدعوه للحضور فيوافق الأخ ويجمع الخدم ويتوجه لمملكة شهريار ، وفى الليل يتذكر أنه نسى إحضار شيء ما فيعود مُسرعاً للقصر فيجد زوجته فى الفراش مع أحد العبيد السود فيقوم بقتلهما ويتوجه ثانية لزيارة شهريار الذى يسعد جداً لرؤيته لكنه يُلاحظ الحزن والغم على وجه (شاه الزمان) فيحاول التسرية عنه ويدعوه للخروج معه للصيد وقنص الحيوانات لعله يشعر…

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