Precision Aviation Group (PAG) announces FAA Approval in Australia
March 6, 2017 Africa, Aviation, Precision Aviation Group, South Africa
ATLANTA, March 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Precision Aviation Group, Inc. (PAG), a leading provider of products and value-added services to the Worldwide Aerospace and Defense industry is pleased to announce they received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services for various accessories at PAG Company Precision Accessories & Instruments – Australia (PAI-AU).
"This new certification will allow PAI-AU to provide local MRO Services on accessories specifically, wheels, brakes and search lights to operators in the PAC Asia region," said David Mast, President and CEO of PAG. "This certification reiterates PAG's commitment to our customers and provides them with a known and trusted brand in country when looking for an MRO provider," said Mast. "Australia represents a growing aviation market, and we will continue to make capital investments in the coming years."
"Already having a Part 145 CASA & EASA approved repair station in Australia has enabled us to reduce aircraft downtime, improve response time, and has enabled customers to leverage the full scope of PAG services locally in Australia," said Chris Slade, Director of Operations PAI-AU. "The recent approval from the FAA represents another effort to extend our capabilities to international operators," adds Slade. The 15,000-square foot facility strategically located near Brisbane's Airport, allows PAI-AU to provide sales, exchanges and MRO services to mission critical operators in "real time".
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Home MMA News Jon Jones Takes Aim at Georges St-Pierre Over PEDs Comments
Jon Jones Takes Aim at Georges St-Pierre Over PEDs Comments
Georges St-Pierre has long been a vocal critic of performance-enhancing drug use in sports, but his latest comments went a bit too far for Jon Jones, who lashed out at the former two-division UFC champion.
"It sucks when you have to hear someone you've always shown respect to sit and talk foolishness. But that's the nature of the game these days," Jones wrote on Instagram.
His comments were apparently in response to St-Pierre's remarks during an interview with MMAFighting.com.
"Look, I remember there was a fight between two opponents, and one guy said, 'Oh, it's not the performance-enhancing (drugs) that threw the kick. It's me.' Actually, it's not true. That's the performance-enhancing drugs that threw the kick, because you wouldn't have thrown the kick if you would have not taken them. So to give you an example, it makes you more creative. It makes you more hungry. It changes the physique," St-Pierre said, referencing a comment that Jones had made.
"Also, not only the physique, it changes the mind of the person. So with people, they think it's only affecting strength and conditioning and stuff like that. No, it doesn't. It's not only recuperation, it changes the person entirely. It makes him a better athlete. And yes, I think they should be removed from the (discussion about the greatest of all time)."
Jones disagrees with St-Pierre and went on to say so in his Instagram post, blasting St-Pierre's take on performance-enhancing drugs and how they affect a fighter.
"Saying steroids change more than physical performance. 'Make you more creative and hungry.' Do you know how crazy that sounds? I guess brain damage is real out here," Jones wrote.
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"Saying PED metabolites threw a kick? Come on man. It's called training and identifying a weakness. So much in fact, I told him to his face it was coming and then landed it. That's called execution.
"How about rather than campaigning for GOAT status, you get in there and dominate your next fight? I've had nothing but respect for you over all these years. Don't change that now. You're better than this."
Jones is scheduled to return from a UFC Anti-Doping Policy violation, in which an arbitrator determined he had no intent to cheat, in October.
St-Pierre has been on the sidelines since he vacated the UFC middleweight title late last year in order to deal with health issues.
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I Have Trouble With History
"I didn't really buy any of Sun Ra's records because I could just go and hang out when they were performing, or go to one of their rehearsals, so I didn't need the record!"
Lonnie Liston Smith interviewed by Anton Spice .
Well, that's cool Lonnie. The thing is, I've got everything in my little sardine box music screen machine here, so I don't need to go out. Musically, I am staring blankly at the pasta section in a supermarket that stretches as far as the eye can see, marvelling at what I could eat. I'm not eating it, but I'm marvelling at my marvellous "eating future". I'm going to check that out. The trolley's still empty but think of what could fill it. No-Wave, post-punk, fettuccini, stuff my kids listen to, all things I'm going to check out. Really soon. It's a really exciting time. Or it will be. The future's bright.
Not all music, however, is designed for solitary listening, and we know that because people keep going out for it. It's so cheap to have it sent straight into your ears, yet people spend a lot of money to be around other people listening to live music in a field where the wind may all but blow the sound out of earshot, and most of what you can hear is other people singing along to each other as the band do something somewhere out of sight. People do listen, even if it's often with their eyes. Social media has propped up a kind of military takeover of the other four senses by the one that now reigns unchallenged; seeing. Seeing is believing.
As you get away from the festival experience, an event defined by numbers in many ways, immersion in music is more an act of will. Sometimes you have to do that yourself, make a conscious decision, lower yourself into the bath of it rather than wait for an attendant with a big bucket to pour it over you. Jazz has always been like that for me; and this goes for its history too.
My knowledge of jazz came from record covers laid out on the floor like a soap opera storyboard, this follows that, swing-bebop-cool-hardbop etc etc. I knew the accepted story, but my knowledge was not a bodily thing, it wasn't in me, wasn't backed up by any kind of experience. Jazz history played out like the Battle Of Waterloo with toy soldiers, and you just kind of put them in whatever position you felt most likely. The music's past, and the past I would like to have experienced but didn't, was for me a construct, pieced together from the musical fragments available at the time.
It all started around 1983, or thereabouts, The Churchill Library, Bromley, an exploded sonic star where the slowly falling fragments were catalogued alphabetically. Records I took home because they were there. Sun Ra's "Mystery Of The Two". Stravinsky's "Requiem Canticles". One casualty of the move from analogue to digital was the Duke Ellington with Jimmy Blanton album, which now sounds wrong because the scratch that made it jump a beat in 1984 is missing. Nothing was in any kind of order. Earl Hines, for example, he was an early favourite, but nobody had informed me that learning to play jazz required starting with later players, where it's less about playing the piano and more about "information", "content". It was too late for me. Hines, Stravinsky, Ellington, Cecil Taylor – I started a file under "piano sonorities" and staggered on. For me they were connected by sound, as if the sounds themselves lived, went to school, met other sounds and reproduced.
But if I'd seen Hines bump into a young Cecil Taylor at the florist, I might have made that other connection, might have seen those worlds joined for myself. A kind of social bond that ensures the passage of the tradition, where it finds its own winding path, through accident and circumstance, seemingly disparate worlds coming together in a shared taste for daffodils. I had no history, no tradition, no reason to be doing what I did aside from a general dissatisfaction with life as it was presented to me and so, lacking a social connection, I made my history up, a fake news repository of unchecked facts and suppositions, and I surveyed it as I imagine the owner of a train set would, congratulating myself on the detail whilst knowing real engines don't run on tables.
History was never my subject, I just couldn't hold facts or remember names, couldn't visualise the things happening. I never understood how, considering our impressive roster of cruel mistakes when we get together in big groups, we never learnt from them. It's unlikely that lessons in jazz history would have helped me, but I would have liked to have seen where Duke Ellington bought his vegetables, I think I'd have learnt a lot from that.
Posted in arts, Bromley, creativity, Education, improvisation, Music, music, School, Sound, teaching, The Future, The Past
Tagged Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, fake news, Flowers, History, Igor Stravinsky, jazz, Listen, Lonnie Liston Smith, Procrastination, Records, Ron Carter, Sun Ra, vegetables
You'll Get Over It (obscenity warning).
When I was a kid at school my teacher called me something that no teacher would, or could, ever call a pupil today. He called me a ****. I was twelve, and so were the other twenty nine sniggering boys who were in the room at the time.
A bit of background. Every Monday my clarinet lesson was smack in the middle of the morning, which disrupted my Technical Drawing class, a joyless class where we learnt to draw perfect circles with dangerously sharp compasses and dissect them with straight lines. To ask permission to leave the lesson, I had to go through this wretched pantomime of putting up my hand, and him saying;
"What is it Noble?"
And me saying, or stammering rather;
"I've got a…a clarinet lesson, sir."
And every Monday brought a new insult. Here's one.
"Off to your banjo lesson again are we?"
Despite predating by some thirty years my acute interest in Appalachian music, I nevertheless felt it necessary to correct his use of the first person plural "we"….oh no, that was a dream I had….no I was terrified of him actually. And the Boomtown Rats had just released "I Don't Like Mondays". People said about Frank Sinatra, they said it felt like he was singing just for you, and Bob Geldof's piercing whine went similarly to my bobby socked core.
So the **** marked a new development in this man's reign of terror. Often, he would grace our drawings with epigrams like "well done, 3/10", thoroughly deserved when a dissecting line was one or two degrees out of whack. Evidently it was important to start priming the kids who would go on to push Technical Drawing into the future, the men from the boys as it were, the men who were twelve from the boys who were twelve. Many a pre-adolescent boy's dream of a glittering future that was somehow bathed in knowledge of angles and set squares was dashed on the rocks of Mr Wrack's brutal marking system.
Anyway, the word has fascinated me since. It inspires such fear and hushed disapproval. To say this word, you have to be with a social group possessing an almost molecular familiarity with each other, because in any other situation it is a huge risk. It's an admission of baseness, a declaration of debauchery, it reveals in its messenger a complete and absolute lack of consideration for the feelings of anyone else. To say **** is a sacrilegious act.
There are many good hearted people in the world, and some are religious and some are not. Many of the latter (I suppose I would like to count myself among them) take comfort in the smug knowledge that we do not believe in anything that does not conform to hard science, that is received wisdom masquerading as fact, that takes allegorical stories as historical document, that views as obscene anything that breaks rules originating in the faded and remote histories of places unseen and unknowable. Finally, the hard won common sense nurtured by our up-to-date knowledge and enlightened democracy has triumphed over old world superstition, mired as it was in the shock and awe of religious splendour and corruption. We see things from every angle, we refuse to bow to prejudice in any way, and in doing so we walk on brave and strong into a new world of understanding. It's really great.
"Erm, did someone just say the c word? I don't use that word."
"It's ugly."
"Well, you know, it's…."
"Shunt, punt, hunt, grunt, runt."
"It degrades a part of the human body that for some is…"
"Prick. Cock."
It's like arguing for dinosaurs against a Creationist.
Should words have rights? I am angered and upset by the discrimination against this word on the basis of ugliness (this would not work if **** were a person), inappropriateness (oh come on, what does that mean), sexism (in a world where "dickhead" is so often the only word left to describe such a huge range of people in life). ****. Listen to the sound of it, its perfect bluntness, it's over in a moment but it leaves such a glorious dent in any conversation. Maybe it's too good for us? Maybe we have not yet proven ourselves worthy of its use? I think we need to show some humility in the face of a word like this.
So what does this have to do with music? Well, sitting at the piano and trying to find the next section for a piece of music I had written, I found the perfect foil in some Elton John-styled chords, which got me thinking of the eighties, then school, and then this very story. Mr Wrack. Icon of my school days. Immortalised forever in my tune of the same title. Who's laughing now?
What a cunt.
Posted in arts, Bromley, creativity, Jazz, music, arts, improvisation, creativity, composition, Music, music, School, teaching
Tagged atheism, belief, Bob Geldof, C word, creationists, Frank Sinatra, I Don't Like Mondays, religion, technical drawing
Who Do I Listen To?
"Nature then, is just nature. I admit I am very impressed with it. The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can do for is to put some order in ourselves."
The cloud comes down, but too fast and too heavy, more like a blanket, or like jelly just before it sets. It always happens like this. I'm in a room with someone, and I'm teaching them. And they say something, and the room fills slowly up with an imaginary, cloying, sticky liquid. This person is aged between 18 and 21. They say :
"Who should I be listening to?"
I have been trying to think of what to say in reply to this for as many years as I've been teaching. It's the key to everything. When a person says this, and eagerly awaits an answer, they are unwittingly telling you that they think they will never be a jazz musician, pure and simple. They have made this choice. Obviously I can't tell them that. They want answers. Their parents have just forked out twenty seven grand in used notes in exchange for little nuggets of information such as the one I am about to impart. The great spirit of rebellion that spawned this music, the anger and joy coexisting in Bud Powell's recordings, the machismo and feminine battling it out in the mind of Miles Davis, the sheer don't-give-a-fuck fire running through Sonny Rollins's titanic improvisations, Geri Allen's fragile spider-like lines underpinned with the swagger of a New Orleans marching band, has it all ended up here in this room? I am starting to feel a bit claustrophobic.
Look, I'm no writer. The opening paragraph of this blog has, compared to my others, a lot of short sentences. This is because I've just finished James Ellroy's brilliantly nasty, disparaging and fictionalised account of the years leading up to Kennedy's assassination, "American Tabloid". The anger and disgust of the unseen narrator jumps off the page at every turn. And it has lots of short sentences in it. My ear started to like the sound of them. And how they look. And that reminded me of the anger in Bud Powell's music, anger that in his case was transformed into a kind of ecstatic energy. I imagine a lot of jazz musicians had this experience; there was plenty to be angry about, and in some kind of chicken and egg coincidence the way music was made was undergoing an explosive revolution.
With this in mind, I get on the tube; Jesus everyone looks fucking angry. Bill Evans comes on my headphones, even he sounds angry today, a taunted bull rampaging through a room full of rose petals. Ellroy, Powell, Evans, their energy is being let out in order that they can get up in the morning, write a new book, make a new record, they are making things ok.
Then something else happens; I go and see some very close friends of mine for a couple of days. The anger, the idea of anger, drifts away. The energy of friendship, of common ground both musical and personal, the way time passes and we are still here years later, the same and different. Bill Evans sounds different today, like he's reading me a bedtime story. Monk's angles are child-like, sincere, playful, but not quite as belligerent.
At a band reunion, a band in which I played an instrument I no longer even have, there are faces from even further back, the same but different. I remember sitting in the third clarinets playing Vaughan Williams's "Folk Song Suite", medleys of Broadway shows, newly commissioned overtures, "The Rockford Files". From my vantage point, along with five other clarinets playing the same line, I could feel the air move, we were all somehow engulfed in it, embraced by the sound, so different to sitting at a piano, where one somehow hovers above it. (Watching Bill Evans play is, to me, watching someone trying to actually "climb inside" the chords, ear cocked to the keyboard with bird-like attentiveness, anxious to catch anything that passes.)
I remember the impossibility of looking demure whilst playing the bassoon, the irresistible urge to show off that frequently befell the lead trumpet or the percussionists, the way the conductor would lean inexplicably back in his seat for the "jazzy" numbers and then tense up like a cat eying its prey for the Gordon Jacob suite. I remember how, when we played "What I Did For Love" in the Marvin Hamlisch medley, I would feel waves of emotion that were almost physical and in the room, coupled with a teenage, slightly manufactured distaste for such sentimentality (anyone who's ever listened to Keith Jarrett will know what I'm talking about). In particular, I learnt how to play with other people, and from that how to be with other people. I discovered that I wasn't the only freak in Bromley in the 1980s. This is all valuable information that I still think about; well, maybe not the bassoon bit.
Look, I'm no psychologist. But when someone who wants to be a jazz musician asks me what to listen to, I imagine them asking me how to choose their friends. They are almost asking me how and what to feel. And it's not entirely their fault. They are the customers now, and like all customers they are always right. Time is money, they don't have a limitless apprenticeship to figure this out at their leisure, there's no time for accidents, wrong turnings, red herrings. And the amount of energy needed to resist the increasingly conformist, consensual nature of modern culture is enormous. Jazz musicians are not, on the whole, still being beaten up by the police and given electric shock therapy in hospitals. But we are in a bit of a state over this whole role of music in contemporary life thing. Maybe this could, in some way, be our source of anger, our disgust, the unseen enemy that we kick against whilst all the time only putting "some order in ourselves"?
Posted in Bromley, Jazz, music, arts, improvisation, creativity, composition, Music, Sound
Tagged American Tabloid, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Education, friendship, James Ellroy, jazz, Keith Jarrett, marvin hamlisch, Thelonious Monk, Vaughan Williams, willem de koonig, XBY


Stratford's 2016 Modern Drama
This Arthur Miller drama feels a-typical for the company that's made its name on Shakespeare and its money on musicals. Though modern drama isn't Stratford's usual racket, Martha Henry's smartly cast and emotionally wrought production might be the best thing at the festival this year (well, maybe second to Breath of Kings: Rebellion). Lucy Peacock is distractingly big in her performance as matriarch Kate Keller (surely she doesn't need to point at the sky to demonstrate "airplane") but everyone else beautifully evokes an achingly impossible situation and empathetically optimistic people. Henry insightfully employs some of the company's incredible actors of colour (Sarah Afful, EB Smith, Michael Blake) to inform the play's backstory and give the unfolding plot a new layer of social consequence, adding issues of white privilege to an already rich exploration of socio-economic power and the world's fundamental unfairness. The perennially wonderful and perennially under-cast Michael Blake delivers his greatest performance to date as George Deever, a star turn that will hopefully earn him the star designation he's long deserved at the festival, and Tim Campbell similarly breaks out as the emotional core of the production, shattering my heart as golden son Chris Keller. Joseph Ziegler, a proven Miller star with Soulpepper, is expectedly sublime as shady pillar of the community Joe Keller. The production doesn't need all its bells and whistles (the lightning-hit tree splinters and falls onstage to kick off the show), its heart and head could easily stand on its own.
Photography by David Hou.
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Narnia, on the other hand, is very bells-and-whistles dependent. Unlike, say, the Shaw Festival's Alice in Wonderland (or Stratford's Alice Through the Looking Glass, for that matter), there is some substance here behind all the stage magic and that relative substance is supported well by strong performances from Mike Nadajewski (Mr. Tumnus), Tom McCamus (Professor Kirk/Aslan) and all four "children" (Gareth Potter, André Morin, Ruby Joy and Sara Farb as Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy respectively) but the point here really is the spectacle. The trees move, the projections feel immersive, Mike Nadajewski performs on stilts, there's a full-size sleigh pulled by reindeer-people and Aslan, the exiled King of Beasts might be the coolest onstage effect of the year, worthy of the many "ahh"s it elicits from the rapt audience. The perfect kid-friendly extravaganza but perhaps slightly "meh" for a skeptical adult crowd.
I love that Stratford debuted a Hannah Moscovitch play in the studio this year. Young, female, fresh-voiced, prolific and Canadian, hers is the sort of work that really stretches the often repetitive company. And any meaty lead role for the incomparable Maev Beaty is fine by me. But I didn't love this first person relationship memoir, mostly because I didn't love its first person. Krystin Pellerin's crucial best friend character lacks depth, her friendship with Beaty's complicated Sorrel seeming to exist just because she rides up on a bike and says "we're friends". The simplicity of the roster of men that surround Sorrel, on the other hand, is purposeful, memorably played by Tim Campbell, David Patrick Flemming, Cyrus Lane and Emilio Vieira with good differentiation. I just had a hard time connecting with the protagonist (despite her being played by Maev Beaty), perhaps a function of writing that's not quite up to the Moscovitch's beautifully empathetic standard but more likely just a function of my own experience in the world relating in no way to Sorrel's.
I hated this stark, self-serious melodrama with its excessive sound design and inhumanly over-the-top performances. Designer Christina Poddubiuk's pretty costumes are far from enough to make up for the fact that I didn't care for a second about any of the characters onstage.
See also: Shakespeare in Love
Contemporary Theatre
Ibsen
Moscovitch
The Stratford Festival


COVID-19 Updates News Business and Operations Finance
Government's throne speech must signal support for food-service operators: Restaurants Canada
By Colleen Cross
Restaurants Canada (CNW Group/Restaurants Canada)
Toronto – With patio season winding down, Restaurants Canada is calling for the federal government's upcoming throne speech to signal plans to continue supporting Canada's food-service sector. Among other measures, the association is calling for a program similar to the "Eat Out to Help Out" program in the U.K. designed to boost revenue for struggling restaurants.
In a letter to the Prime Minister's office, Restaurants Canada's president and CEO, Todd Barclay, commends the federal government for stepping up to provide significant support to restaurants struggling to survive the impacts of COVID-19 over the past six months.
Looking ahead, Barclay calls for further assistance to ensure business continuity so that restaurants can continue contributing to economic growth: "The recovery of the foodservice industry will not be linear. Despite best efforts to innovate and adapt to the current environment, our sector will experience ups and downs as patios close, consumer behaviour adjusts and areas such as downtowns no longer host office workers and tourists in the same volumes they once did."
Canada's restaurant sector continues to be hardest hit by COVID-19
Restaurants have played a critical role in providing their communities with safe and reliable meal options throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, the restaurant industry was one of the first sectors impacted by the crisis, and continues to be the hardest hit:
One out of every five jobs lost in the wake of the pandemic was in food service. The restaurant industry lost more jobs during the first six weeks of lockdown than the entire Canadian economy during the 2008-09 recession.
Employment in the food-service sector remains 260,000 jobs short of where it was in February, according to the latest Labour Force Survey results from Statistics Canada. No other industry comes close to this level of shortfall.
Total food-service sales in Canada could drop by nearly half in 2020, representing $44.8 billion in lost sales compared to 2019.
Roughly 10 per cent of food-service businesses have already permanently closed due to the impacts of COVID-19 and most are still losing money. More than half of respondents to a survey that Restaurants Canada conducted during the summer said they are continuing to operate at a loss and expect to take at least a year to return to profitability.
Calling for a renewed commitment to food service
Restaurants Canada is recommending the upcoming throne speech signal clear intentions to support the foodservice industry in the following ways:
Extend and adapt the main emergency COVID-19 federal business support programs, including the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program and the Canada Emergency Business Account.
Direct stimulus spending toward the restaurant industry, with a program similar to the "Eat Out to Help Out" program in the U.K., to boost critically needed revenue to struggling restaurants and the sectors of the economy that depend on their survival.
Ensure any new measures under consideration take into account the challenging realities of operating a business during the ongoing pandemic and continue to create conditions that support Canadians returning to work.
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Iran Says Ready to Resume Relations with Saudi Arabia
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaking during the Third Tehran Dialogue Forum in Tehran on Monday.
Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said this Monday that his country is ready and willing to resume relations with Saudi Arabia.
This Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Islamic Republic is willing to open its arms to Saudi Arabia and resume bilateral relations after years of political tensions.
During the Tehran Dialogue Forum in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, Amir-Abdollahian told reporters that normalization of relations between the two countries can happen "when Riyadh is willing to", and that "Tehran is ready to resume diplomatic ties with Riyadh and even reopen embassies,".
The top Iranian diplomat also expressed readiness for holding a joint meeting with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia as well as other Gulf countries on the sidelines of a regional summit on Iraq in the Jordanian capital Amman.
The above-mentioned summit that is planned to be held on this Tuesday, will be attended by Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, France, as well as Bahrain and Oman, which will attend the summit as guests.
Iran-Saudi tense relations from past to present
Iran says it has every reason to resent from Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republic has accused Riyadh of financially supporting the London-based Iran International, a Farsi-language satellite news channel which has been reporting extensively on the protests that erupted in Iran in mid-September. Iran believes the protests are orchestrated by foreign agents, including the U.S. and its regional allies. Also good to mention that the news channel is majority-owned by a Saudi national.
But that's not all; Iran was also irritated by a joint statement issued after an Arab-China summit in Riyadh last week. In the statement, Saudi Arabia and China said they agreed to "strengthen joint cooperation to ensure the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program," while also calling on Iran to respect "principles of good neighborliness and non-interference in internal affairs of states."
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, however, dates back to 1979, when the Islamic Revolution took place in the former. With a majority Sunni population in Saudi Arabia and a majority Shiite population in Iran, the two have been at odds since then. But bilateral relations worsened after the 2016 execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Riyadh, a prominent Shiite cleric put to death in the mass execution of 47 prisoners.
The incident inflamed sectarian tensions in a region and led to massive protests especially in Saudi Arabia and Iran, where demonstrators set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. In solidarity with the Muslims who condemned Saudi Arabia's move, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said back then that Saudi Arabia would face divine retribution for al-Nemer's execution.
Efforts to cool down tensions
Saudi Arabia then announced cutting off diplomatic relations with Iran, giving Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.
In a bid to improve relations after nearly five years, however, direct talks were launched in April 2021, with Iraq hosting the talks and playing the role of mediator. The mere existence of a dialogue was seen as important, even if the only notable result so far has been Iran reopening the country's representative office to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
But now, with Iran's Foreign Minister formally inviting Saudi Arabia for resuming relations this Monday, it is hoped that the two come together once again in Bagdad to hold the sixth rounds of talks to possibly end this political dead-end.
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How far away does the law say you have to keep from the car in front of you?
In order to prevent a traffic accident, a driver must maintain a safe distance behind another vehicle. The New Jersey Legislature has put this duty into law. The law reads as follows:
"The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of the preceding vehicle and the traffic upon, and condition of, the highway."
New Jersey Courts have ruled that this law merely restates the legal standard that judges applied even before the Legislature passed the law. However, by passing the law, the Legislature also authorized certain specific penalties for tailgating. For example, a tailgating conviction comes with five motor vehicle points. Additionally, a convicted tailgater can be fined up to $400. He or she also faces up to 15 days in prison.
If a driver violates the tailgating law and therefore causes a traffic accident, there may be further consequences. A tailgating violation is considered to be negligence. Say the tailgater injured someone else in the traffic accident, and the victim sues. The jury will be instructed by the judge that, if the party being sued violated the tailgating law, then he or she acted negligently.
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If you have been in a car accident due to tailgating contact a traffic accident lawyer a soon as possible.
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Minister calls for 'stable governance' as Bill to keep Stormont running passes
"Stable governance" is needed in Northern Ireland, a Government minister has said while urging the DUP to return to the Stormont powersharing Executive.
Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns made the remarks as legislation which will protect the Assembly from collapse passed its final stage at Westminster.
Northern Ireland was plunged into a fresh political crisis last week when the DUP withdrew Paul Givan as first minister in protest at the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol.
The step also automatically removed Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill from her position as deputy first minister and leaves Northern Ireland without a functioning Executive.
Conservative former Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith told MPs that the latest powersharing crisis at Stormont was a "deeply depressing state of affairs".
The Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill will allow for the Northern Ireland Assembly to continue without a functioning Executive for at least six months.
Its passing has lessened the likelihood of an early election as one of its provisions states the Secretary of State cannot call an election for six weeks after the resignation of the first or deputy first minister.
On Monday evening, MPs passed amendments to the Bill from the House of Lords, one of which allows for the legislation to be applied retrospectively, which will cover Mr Givan's resignation last week.
The Bill is expected to receive royal assent later this week.
Addressing DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson at Westminster, Mr Burns said: "Our message very strongly to the party of the member opposite is we would rather he returned his party to the Executive, a stable Executive, stable governance, is in the interests of the people who matter most in all of this, the people of Northern Ireland."
Mr Smith said: "Having worked with so many others across this House and beyond to get Stormont back up and running two years ago, last Thursday was deeply depressing."
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson criticised the EU for its approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol (Peter Morrison/PA)
Sir Jeffrey said amendments to the Bill will be "irrelevant" if the issues which have led to the impasse are not resolved.
He added: "I would love to see a resolution in the next six weeks because I can assure you if that happens, we will not be found wanting in terms of reinstating those institutions and restoring ministers to office."
Sir Jeffrey went on to criticise the European Union for its approach to the protocol, telling MPs: "If the European Union insisted that your constituents' personal belongings are searched every time you move from one part of the United Kingdom to another, would you hear from your constituents about that? Might they have cause for complaint?
"And yet that is what my constituents will be subjected to if the European Union has its way and the full and vigorous implementation of the protocol is taken forward."
Meanwhile, Stormont politicians have been urged to work to "salvage" what they can from the "chaos" caused by the DUP.
Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Ms O'Neill was speaking in the Assembly after party whips met to discuss how to expedite outstanding legislative Bills through to completion before the end of the mandate.
Ms O'Neill was appearing in the chamber for the first time since she was removed from her post as deputy first minister.
She made particular reference to uncertainty that now surrounds a scheduled state apology next month for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.
"The DUP's actions in unilaterally resigning from the Executive are reckless and have caused concern and uncertainty for businesses, for workers, for families and campaigners on a range of many important issues," she said.
"In terms of the survivors of historical institutional abuse they have caused real hurt and real trauma.
"While the DUP must bear responsibility for that, I am also very conscious that those of us who are serious about showing responsible leadership and delivering for people can and should seek to salvage what we can from the chaos the DUP have caused."
Earlier, Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey told MLAs it was his intention the Assembly passes "as much legislation as possible" in the weeks ahead.
Opening the start of business on Monday, Mr Maskey also said he had had no contact with the Northern Ireland Office about ending the Assembly's mandate at an "early stage", which would see an earlier election than planned.
Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill said there was a wide range of legislation that needed to be passed at Stormont (Brian Lawless/PA)
Ms O'Neill said there was a wide range of important draft legislation that needed to be progressed into law before the Northern Ireland Assembly mandate ended.
She said that included Bills on climate change, organ donation, integrated education, autism, safe access zones for abortion services, a ban on fracking, welfare mitigation payments and stalking protections.
"These are all hugely important issues which all have real-life impacts and real-life consequences," Ms O'Neill told MLAs.
"Sinn Fein wants to work with the other parties to make sure they are taken forward in the limited time we have left in this mandate.
"I stand ready to do this important work, and whilst time is of the essence, progress is still possible across a range of areas. That should be the singular focus of this Assembly in the weeks ahead."
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Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus Value
Outline of Marx's Analysis
– in capitalism, social labor produces surplus-value
– early on: formal subsumption of labor produces absolute surplus-value by extending the working day
– later: real subsumption of labor produces relative surplus-value by reducing necessary labor
– but the means for reducing necessary labor also can increase absolute surplus-value
– by making the working day longer
– amount of potential surplus labor
– determined by natural conditions of labor
– need to master nature leads to development of social division of labor
– determined by requirements of life
– where needs are few, a great deal of surplus labor can be imposed
– Ricardo: saw labor productivity as source of profit
– Mill: affirms source of profits in productivity of labor against mercantilist focus on exchange
In this, the first of the three chapters that take us from analyses in terms of value, to those of the monetary form of the value of labor-power, Marx reminds us of the distinction between absolute and relative surplus-value, of how they are produced and of the relationship between the two. Absolute surplus-value emerges early when capitalists only command or subsume the labor of others formally, that is to say, without taking over and transforming tools and how they are used. Under those circumstances, their only available strategy for increasing the extraction of surplus-value involves getting people to work longer. Because workers control their tools and the rhythm of their work, capitalists have little leverage to extract more surplus-value via the intensification of labor. Relative surplus-value emerges as capitalists do obtain that leverage, by gaining control over tools and organizing them in factories that facilitate oversight and control. Protected by new property laws, they reshape both tools and their use to raise productivity and increase surplus-value—both by reducing the labor time necessary to produce each unit and by increasing the intensity of labor.
Given the increasing centrality of productivity, he also reminds us of how the conditions and meaning of productive labor depends upon the context. At the level of the individual, a productive worker is simply one who produces some product directly, using mind, hands and tools to transform raw materials. That was the generic concept he set out in the first section of Chapter 7. But as human society developed most labor became social, such that individuals came to collaborate in the production of ever more things and in so doing formed a collective worker with a division of labor—that he analyzed in some detail in Chapter 14. With the rise of various kinds of class society, including capitalism, antagonistic relationships develop as some are able to impose surplus work on others and appropriate the resulting surplus product. Within capitalism that surplus product takes the form of surplus-value, so that from the point of view of the appropriating capitalists the only productive workers, i.e., the only workers whose labor makes it possible to impose more work, are those who produce surplus-value, i.e., surplus labor whose products can be used to impose more work in the future. As a result, there is a clear distinction between the vernacular, everyday sense of being productive, i.e., being able to produce something, and the only kind of productivity that matters to capitalists. This is consistent with the emphasis we saw in Chapter 1 between use-value and exchange-value/value. Use-values and the ease with which we can obtain them preoccupy those of us who work; the exchange-value of the surplus production preoccupies those who put us to work.
In illustrating the capitalist case, Marx draws a parallel between those industries that produce things and those that produce services.
. . . a schoolmaster is a productive worker when, in addition to belaboring the heads of his pupils, he works himself into the ground to enrich the owner of the school. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of a sausage factory, makes no difference to the relation.
Given that such "productivity" involves exploitation, he adds that, "To be a productive worker is therefore not a piece of luck, but a misfortune." (1)
Marx then goes on to remind us of the connections that he demonstrated in Chapter 15 between absolute and relative surplus-value. Namely, how the methods used to produce relative surplus-value, i.e., introducing new machines and new technology, also made possible the prolongation of the working day and the intensification of work, both of which added surplus-alue by extracting more work from those subject to the new methods. What he does not remind us of here, is how the shift to relative surplus-value strategies was the result of the success of workers' struggles to shorten the working day and by so doing undermine absolute surplus-value. (2) Nor does he reiterate his previous analysis of how new machines are designed and new technologies are chosen with the objective of undermining those struggles through the reorganization of the labor process. (3)
These reminders are followed by a brief analysis of the impact of natural conditions on the availability of surplus labor, both potential and actual. Where nature has provided plenty to meet limited needs and wants, as has sometimes been the case in the tropics, little work has been required and this resulted in a lot of spare, disposable time.(4) Marx's remarks here have received substantial support from later studies by anthropologists of what Marshall Sahlins called "original affluent societies".(5) Late in his life, partly as a result of his studies of the Russian peasant commune and its potential for providing the basis of a post-capitalist social regeneration, Marx devoted considerable time to the study of pre-capitalist societies. (6) The importance of his recognition of diverse possible paths to revolution and the transcendence of capitalism has been highlighted by Raya Dunayevskaya.(7) The contemporary renaissance in indigenous resistance to capitalism has led to new critiques of the orthodox Marxist dismissal of such struggles and to new appreciation of the insights being offered by those participating in that resistance into alternatives to capitalist ways of organizing the world. The widespread positive response to, and support for, the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico marked a new level of global awareness among those fighting capitalism; that awareness and support has continued for a wide variety of struggles in many parts of the world. Two examples illustrate the spreading support for the indigenous defense of the sacredness of land against capitalist exploitation. First, has been the resistance of First Peoples in Canada to tar sands development and second, has been the resistance of Native Americans in the U.S. to the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines.
In the long-run, Marx suggests that the rise in labor productivity has taken place via the organization of social, collective labor and technological development in response to the need to overcome obstacles presented by nature. A certain Eurocentrism appears implicit in his suggestion that this has been truer in temperate climates than in tropical ones.
The mother country of capitalism is not the tropical region, with its luxuriant vegetation, but the temperate zone. It is not the absolute fertility of the soil but its degree of differentiation, the variety of its natural products, which forms the natural basis for the social division of labor, and which, by changes in the natural surroundings, spurs man on to the multiplication of his needs, his capacities and the instruments and modes of this labour. (8)
His illustrations, however, which include water works in Egypt, India, and Persia as well as Italy and Holland, show that his suggestion here was not Eurocentric. Others, however, have been prone to insist on the climate differences (as they have sometimes done with "racial" differences) between temperate and tropical zones, in trying to explain why early capitalist development seemed to have been concentrated in Europe. Such views have been countered over the years not only by the rediscovery of the independent development of capitalism in places such as India but also by the recognition of the tremendous natural "differentiation" that obtains in the tropics. Such understanding came first as colonialists discovered competitors to suppress and more and more "resources" to exploit. More recently, modern ecological research has revealed the incredible diversity of life in the tropics. To these discoveries we should also add that of long-ignored indigenous knowledge and innovation in the utilization of plant and animal life for artistic, medicinal and nutritional purposes. The onslaught of biopiracy by the pharmaceutical industry out to patent, monopolize and exploit that knowledge provides perverse testimony to its importance. So, while we may accept Marx's intuition that challenges provoke innovation, we must also recognize that the diversity of innovations throughout the world—both social and technological—has been much greater that he recognized.
Marx ends this chapter with a brief, sarcastic attack on Ricardo—and by implication all the classical political economists of his time—and John Stuart Mill, their successor, for the superficiality of their understanding of monetary phenomena. They did seek to explain such monetary categories as profit, interest and rent, but their efforts to understand their origin stalled at the simple concept of labor. Their failure, he argues, lay in their inability to recognize and analyze the origin of surplus-value—a failure he attributes to their instinct that "it was very dangerous to penetrate too deeply into the burning question of the origins of surplus-value". The question was "burning", of course, because with the development of workers' self-organization, came increasingly intense challenges to the injustice of capitalist profit. While recognizing that "the productive power of labor is the originating cause of profit", Ricardo et al. failed to identify the essence of surplus-value in surplus labor and the exploitative nature of capitalism. Despite this theoretical lacuna, their emphasis on labor as the source of value did lead workers to the inevitable conclusion that if the source of value was labor, then all value should belong to them and none to the capitalists. Equally inevitable was the response of economists who set aside the labor theory of value and replaced it, first with utility theory in the late 19th Century and then with preference theory early in the 20th. With this brief evocation of the money form of surplus-value, Marx takes us one step closer to his exposition of the money form of the value of labor-power.
1 Both this and the quoted passage are from Capital, Vol. I, p. 644.
2 Ibid., Chapter 15, Section 2, subsections (b) and (c).
3 Ibid., Chapter 15, Sections 4 and 5.
4 Recall Marx's celebration, cited in my commentary on Section 5 of Chapter 10 of the Quashees of Jamaica thumbing their noses at the capitalist planters.
5 Marshall Shalins,Stone Age Economics, Livingston, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 1974, Chapter 1, "The Original Affluent Society".
6 Lawrence Krader (ed.), The Ethnographic Notebooks of Karl Marx, 2nd edn., Assen: Van Gorcum & Co., 1974.
7 Raya Dunayevskaya, "Marx's 'New Humanism' and the Dialectics of women's Liberation in Primitive and Modern Societies", Praxis International, Vol. 3, no. 4, 1984, pp. 369-81.
8 Capital, Vol. I,p. 649. The "tropical region", it is worth remembering, formally lies between the Tropic of Cancer (roughly 23o27' North Latitude) and the Tropic of Capricorn (roughly 23o27' South Latitude). The precise latitude varies from year to year because the tropics, both north and south, are defined by the most northerly or southerly circle of latitude at which the sun appears directly overhead.


Elizabeth Pipko, One of Donald Trump's Sexiest Followers?
Who is Trump's 23-year-old Jewish Friend Elizabeth Pipko? Elizabeth Pipko is one of the most ardent supporters of Trump, who is the president of the Republican Party. Elizabeth Pipko is a great supporter of Donald Trump and his team with the Republican party slogans shared on social media accounts.
On Tuesday morning, the President tweeted the accompanying, giving as the wellspring of his data "Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus."
"Jewish individuals are leaving the progressive alliance. We saw a great deal of against Israel arrangements start under the Obama organization, and it got worsts and most exceedingly awful. There is hostile to Semitism in the Democratic Party. They couldn't care less about Israel or the Jewish public."
Jexodus is another association that charges itself as the result of "glad Jewish Millennials burnt out on living in servitude to liberal legislative issues."
In any case, the Daily Wire reports that Jexodus was made by Jeff Ballabon, a Jewish 56-year-old who has made his profession as Republican political employable.
Who, at that point, is Elizabeth Pipko, the 23-year-old Jexodus representative? Notwithstanding her colossal web-based media presence, it's difficult to state without a doubt.
In various online meetings, her own site and her profile on the Jexodus site, she is depicted as a long-term serious professional skater who turned into a distributed writer and working model as a more established youngster, and now learns at Harvard.
"Elizabeth Pipko required a year off from minoring in math at Harvard to prepare for the Olympics in figure skating, which makes her a guaranteed mathlete," an Esquire article said of Pipko in 2015.
The facts demonstrate that Pipko is a model — she endorsed with Wilhemina Models at 17 and has showed up in distributions like Sports Illustrated. Furthermore, the facts demonstrate that Pipko has composed two books of verse, however most articles and her site discard the way that the two books were independently published. Also, the facts confirm that Pipko is actually an understudy at Harvard, however not in the manner in which one may think — she learns at the Harvard Extension School, a degree-conceding program through Harvard that doesn't need application for confirmation.
Pipko additionally charges herself as a serious ice skater whose family migrated with the goal that she could seek after figure skating to the Olympic level. In any case, U.S. Figure Skating records show that from 2006-2010, Pipko finished yearly state administered testing at the "Pre-Preliminary" level, which test skating basics for amateurs. In the local and state-level titles where Pipko contended, she didn't decoration. Searches on Youtube for Pipko skating come up void. What's more, in spite of a 2016 Maxim profile that had Pipko preparing "for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics," there is little proof that she contended altogether, or that she ever moved toward Olympic or pre-Olympic level.
The Forward connected with Pipko, just as her ice skating clubs in Florida and New York, for additional data about her skating vocation. Neither Pipko nor the skating clubs reacted to demands when of distribution. A U.S. Figure Skating official affirmed that the association doesn't have rivalry records for Pipko past a provincial occasion in 2011.
In any case, Pipko's profile began to rise recently, when she was the subject of an article in the New York Post named, "I Was A Secret Trump Supporter: Model Feared Politics Would Kill Her Career." In the piece, Pipko uncovered that she chipped in for Trump's 2016 mission yet misled the left-inclining displaying local area that she was occupied with training ice skating. "I never inclined liberal or traditionalist, yet there was something in particular about Trump — the manner in which he talked and his trustworthiness — that had me persuaded he was our next president," she told the Post.
During the mission she met Darren Centinello, a 28-year-old who is currently a staff member on Trump's 2020 mission. The couple marry at Mar-A-Lago in December in a function led by a similar rabbi who had hitched Pipko's folks 28 years earlier; their wedding topic was "Make Marriage Great Again."
Elizabeth Pipko (@elizabethpipko)'in paylaştığı bir gönderi
Since Pipko approached with her story in the Post, she has showed up on shows like the Fox and Friends and addressed outlets like the Daily Caller. She and Centinello, who is dealing with advanced and web-based media outreach for Trump's 2020 endeavors, record their Christmas and fourth of July festivities at the White House via online media. "It's not the size of the canine in the battle, it's the size of the battle in the canine," her Instagram bio peruses, close to the Hebrew words "Am Yisrael chai" — the individuals of Israel lives.
On the Jexodus site, Pipko's life story portrays her Jewish bona fides. "Elizabeth grew up going to Rabbi Schneier Park East Day School, which she acknowledges for ingraining her with an adoration for her Jewish confidence," the bio states. Pipko clearly went to the K-8 school until she was 10 years of age.
The bio proceeds to state that Pipko, "The girl of foreigners and granddaughter of incredibly famous Jewish craftsman, Marc Klionsky, known for his work with Elie Wiesel… has consistently remained firmly grounded in her religion and convictions." Klionsky, who passed on in 2017 at 90 years of age, was an expert at picture who fled Soviet Russia with his family in 1974 because of rising enemy of Semitism.
"I'm quite strict. I'm Jewish," Pipko said in a 2016 meeting with Boca Life Magazine. She likewise uncovered that she applied for Israeli citizenship when she turned 18. "The objective is to contend by one year from now to make the 2018 Winter Olympics. I'm attempting to speak to Israel," she said. In 2013, she posted on Instagram that she had become an Israeli resident. "A year prior today I turned into an Israeli resident which will everlastingly be my proudest achievement," she composed. The Forward contacted Pipko's mentors for data about whether Pipko truly sought after Olympic preliminaries.
Pipko, whose demonstrating vocation has additionally incorporated an enemy of photograph correcting effort, grounds her story as a model and as a Trump ally in mistreatment. "I was seriously harassed in center school," she disclosed to Boca Life Magazine. "I was 4 feet 2 inches and had buckteeth and an insane light Afro. I was chief of the numerical group. There was certainly a touch of harassing, and nobody needed to date me." Elsewhere, Pipko has said she was doing 10-hour long stretches of skating and private coaching during her center school years.
However, presently, the 23-year-old has made harmony with her body, opened up to the world about her MAGA uphold, discovered her voice as an artist and savant, and even got back to skating. As she disclosed to L'Idea Magazine, "The ONLY individual that you required having faith in you, to succeed, is YOU."
Elizabeth Pipko charmed the public's consideration in 2019 when she uncovered she kept her work on Donald Trump's 2016 mission a mystery while at the same time filling in as a model for one of the world's top offices.
Presently, the model and organizer of The Exodus Movement is prepared to uncover significantly more than her traditionalist perspectives in another book named "Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True."
In a selective meeting with Fox News, Pipko, who's been named a "rising star in the moderate development" by certain, says there's significantly more to her than a speedy Google search. In her impending diary, Pipko plans to address a large number of inquiries encompassing her foundation, at the end of the day, her story is one she expectations will summon a feeling of nationalism in perusers in the midst of a political separation she feels has expanded altogether lately.
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Pastor says released soldier has mental toughness to recover
(RNS) "If there's anybody I can think of pulling through this, and doing well, it's Bowe," said Philip Proctor, who was pastor of Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho, when Bowe Bergdahl was a teenager.
Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who was captured during the War in Afghanistan.
Elizabeth Weise
(RNS) The newly freed soldier who spent nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan has the mental and physical toughness to survive the experience, his former pastor said.
Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who was captured during the war in Afghanistan
Bowe Bergdahl grew up in a conservative Christian family in Idaho, studied ballet, was home-schooled, spent time in a Buddhist monastery and finally served in a parachute infantry regiment of the Army's 25th Infantry Division.
"If there's anybody I can think of pulling through this, and doing well, it's Bowe," said Philip Proctor, who was pastor of Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho, when Bergdahl was a teenager.
"He has the mental and physical stamina not to be crushed by this experience," Proctor said.
Bergdahl — the last service member unaccounted for in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — was released Saturday (May 31) after being captured in 2009. The 28-year-old soldier is at a medical clinic in the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, said Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for the Department of Defense. Bergdahl will eventually travel to Germany before heading back to the States.
At the White House on Saturday evening, Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Jani, joined President Obama, who praised the troops and government officials who rescued their son.
"We will continue to stay strong for Bowe while he recovers," Jani Bergdahl said after Obama turned the podium over to her.
Bob Bergdahl said he is not sure whether his son can still speak English, and he made some of his remarks in what appeared to be the Pashto language. "I'm your father, Bowe," he said at one point.
Bob Bergdahl quit his job as a driver for UPS two or three years before retirement so he could spend all his time trying to win the release of his son, Proctor said.
Although raised in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Bowe Bergdahl spent time during his late teens in a Buddhist monastery in the Pacific Northwest.
"He was going through an exploratory phase in life. He'd grown up in a conservative Christian home and he was trying to figure out if this was his faith or his parents' faith," said Proctor.
Bergdahl's decision to join the military wasn't a surprise to people who knew him.
It came partly out of a desire "to better understand a different part of the world and to try to see for himself what was going on," Proctor said. "That would be a very Bowe thing to do."
(Elizabeth Weise writes for USA Today. Also contributing: David Jackson in Washington, D.C.; KTVB in Hailey, Idaho)
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