USA Africa Dialogue Series - FWD: The sanctity of life

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - TF Music Playlist for December 2024

TF Music Playlist for December 2024

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Iran

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Shakespeare

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER, TF!, By Professor Ademola Dasylva

Many Hearty Returns to  Òjògbón Àgbà Pàtàkì Eégun Ológbojò, Ako Erinlá a borí poopo!

On Thursday, 2 January 2025 at 10:33:40 UTC+1 Adebayo Ajadi wrote:

BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER, TF!, By Professor Ademola Dasylva https://toyinfalolanetwork.org/birthday-message-to-my-brother-tf/

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Life ! Life’s foibles, mistakes, mis-taken, misshapen Identities

Structuring Sentences for Dummies

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Dame Judi Dench 

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On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 21:12:30 UTC+1 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing." (Great lines from the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"Speech 

When the dumb-ass idiot reads this he thinks that Shakespeare is talking about him 

On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 18:48:49 UTC+1 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

Important correction:

The very first lines I ever read by him (Itumeleng) accidentally opening the book at page 99 as if I was consulting the I Ching  , the lines on page 99 :

She opens up her legs 

instead of her heart 

        and says

"Here, this is all the love I have to give"

only to wash herself up afterwards.

                   Tell me then,

how could she ever understand 

whenever you felt misused?

No, you opened your heart,

cut it deep with a knife.

Bleeding you offered yourself to ask,

               "Is this enough?",

just as she turned around to spit

                "Tough"

She kisses a like she meant it, 

    and when she thinks 

    you're not looking, 

she turns around to spit  

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And that was the end of page 99; the rest, that's below, was me musing on Kabir saying that he  laughs when he hears that the fish in the water is complaining of thirst: 

Well, over here, love, sex etc 

is everywhere, no reason for you

to drown in the Mediterranean 

for the sake of honey or wanting 

to get some of it. Some hussy. 

N.B. I know quite a few poets in this country 

On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 18:05:51 UTC+1 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

HAFIZ ! 

I'm wondering ,where is Amatoritsero Ede 

and what's happening with his Maple Tree Literary Supplement ?

I'm asking this as I leaf through Rainbow People by Itumeleng / The Journey by Lefifi Tladi 

and wondering why Ede doesn't rope in these two, albeit Itumeleng ( "Tumi" ) posthumously. 

The very first lines I ever read by him (Itumeleng) accidentally opening the book at page 99 as if I was consulting the I Ching  , the lines on page 99 :

She opens up her legs 

Instead of her heart 

        and says

"Here, this is all the love I have to give"

Only to wash herself up afterwards.

                   Tell me then,

How could she ever understand 

Whenever you felt misused?

No, you opened your heart,

cut it deep with a knife.

Bleeding you offered yourself to ask,

               Is this enough?",

just as she turned around to spit

                "Tough"

She kisses a like she meant it, 

and when she thinks 

you're not looking, 

She turns around and spits  

Well, over here, love, sex etc 

is everywhere, no reason for you

 to drown in the Mediterranean 

for the sake of honey or wanting 

to get some of it. Some hussy. 

Kabir says, "I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty" 

Well that's Kabir's opinion  and I have never known anyone,

not even Robert Bly to argue with him about such a things as 

"water is wet" 

Over here too, the idiot feels insulted when he's told that he's an idiot 

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

"I'm a poet, I know it, hope I don't blow it"

"Grandpa died last week

And now he's buried in the rocks

But everybody still talks about

How badly they were shocked

But me, I expected it to happen

I knew he'd lost control

When he built a fire on Main Street

And shot it full of holes"

Just like grandpa, the driver of the vehicle had completely lost all control.

This is what happens when under the midday sun you mix the palm wine, the akpeteshie ( ogogoro) with some rum, jump into your jalopy and tell your wife or wives  that you're going for a drive, or you're going for a run. 

Half a mile down the road he crashed into one of the stalls at Makola Market in Accra.

In no time at all the hungry police were at the scene of the accident. 

If you really want to call things by their proper names, it's known as kalabule. 

In advance, hoping for some bribe money, they said the accident was a crime,

a crime against humanity. 

The driver of the vehicle pleaded his innocence and told the police, pointing at a nearby leper who had witnessed the accident, " Just ask Mr. Leper over there, what happened."

Mr. Leper told the police: 

 "It was insane!",  he said, and pointing at the driver, he continued "He must have been driving at 100 m-p-h , no brakes , no horn, it looked like he didn't know where he was going, crashed into Mama Abie's stall and as you can see, completely mucked up everything!" 

The driver stared at the leper and said, " Tell the truth: Is that what happened?"

The leper returned the driver's stare and asked,"  Is Mr. Leper my name?"

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER, TF!, By Professor Ademola Dasylva

BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER, TF!, By Professor Ademola Dasylva https://toyinfalolanetwork.org/birthday-message-to-my-brother-tf/

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Y2K and Governance

By Professor Heather Cox Richardson

January 1, 2025 (Wednesday) 

 Twenty-five years ago today, Americans—along with the rest of the world—woke up to a new century…and to the discovery that the years of work computer programmers had put in to stop what was known as the Y2K bug from crashing airplanes, shutting down hospitals, and making payments systems inoperable had worked. When programmers began their work with the first wave of commercial computers in the 1960s, computer memory was expensive, so they used a two-digit format for dates, using just the years in the century, rather than using the four digits that would be necessary otherwise—78, for example, rather than 1978. This worked fine until the century changed. As the turn of the twenty-first century approached, computer engineers realized that computers might interpret 00 as 1900 rather than 2000 or fail to recognize it at all, causing programs that, by then, handled routine maintenance, safety checks, transportation, finance, and so on, to fail. According to scholar Olivia Bosch, governments recognized that government services, as well as security and the law, could be disrupted by the glitch. They knew that the public must have confidence that world systems would survive, and the United States and the United Kingdom, where at the time computers were more widespread than they were elsewhere, emphasized transparency about how governments, companies, and programmers were handling the problem. They backed the World Bank and the United Nations in their work to help developing countries fix their own Y2K issues. 

 Meanwhile, people who were already worried about the coming of a new century began to fear that the end of the world was coming. In late 1996, evangelical Christian believers saw the Virgin Mary in the windows of an office building near Clearwater, Florida, and some thought the image was a sign of the end times. Leaders fed that fear, some appearing to hope that the secular government they hated would fall, some appreciating the profit to be made from their warnings. Popular televangelist Pat Robertson ran headlines like "The Year 2000—A Date with Disaster." Fears reached far beyond the evangelical community. Newspaper tabloids ran headlines that convinced some worried people to start stockpiling food and preparing for societal collapse: "JANUARY 1, 2000: THE DAY THE EARTH WILL STAND STILL!" one tabloid read. "ALL BANKS WILL FAIL. FOOD SUPPLIES WILL BE DEPLETED! ELECTRICITY WILL BE CUT OFF! THE STOCK MARKET WILL CRASH! VEHICLES USING COMPUTER CHIPS WILL STOP DEAD! TELEPHONES WILL CEASE TO FUNCTION! DOMINO EFFECT WILL CAUSE A WORLDWIDE DEPRESSION!" 

 In fact, the fix turned out to be simple—programmers developed updated systems that recognized a four-digit date—but implementing it meant that hardware and software had to be adjusted to become Y2K compliant, and they had to be ready by midnight on December 31, 1999. Technology teams worked for years, racing to meet the deadline at a cost that researchers estimate to have been $300–$600 billion. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration at the time, Jane Garvey, told NPR in 1998 that the air traffic control system had twenty-three million lines of code that had to be fixed. President Bill Clinton's 1999 budget had described fixing the Y2K bug as "the single largest technology management challenge in history," but on December 14 of that year, President Bill Clinton announced that according to the Office of Management and Budget, 99.9% of the government's mission-critical computer systems were ready for 2000. In May 1997, only 21% had been ready. "[W]e have done our job, we have met the deadline, and we have done it well below cost projections," Clinton said. 

 Indeed, the fix worked. Despite the dark warnings, the programmers had done their job, and the clocks changed with little disruption. "2000," the Wilmington, Delaware, News Journal's headline read. "World rejoices; Y2K bug is quiet." Crises get a lot of attention, but the quiet work of fixing them gets less. And if that work ends the crisis that got all the attention, the success itself makes people think there was never a crisis to begin with. In the aftermath of the Y2K problem, people began to treat it as a joke, but as technology forecaster Paul Saffo emphasized, "The Y2K crisis didn't happen precisely because people started preparing for it over a decade in advance. And the general public who was busy stocking up on supplies and stuff just didn't have a sense that the programmers were on the job." 

 As of midnight last night, a five-year contract ended that had allowed Russia to export natural gas to Europe by way of a pipeline running through Ukraine. Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that he would not renew the contract, which permitted more than $6 billion a year to flow to cash-strapped Russia. European governments said they had plenty of time to prepare and that they have found alternative sources to meet the needs of their people. Today, President Joe Biden issued a statement marking the day that the new, lower cap on seniors' out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs goes into effect. The Inflation Reduction Act, negotiated over two years and passed with Democratic votes alone, enabled the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and phased in out-of-pocket spending caps for seniors. In 2024 the cap was $3,400; it's now $2,000. As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits. Happy New Year, everyone.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Watch "Frankenstein's Monster in New Orleans" on YouTube

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