The Origins, Context and Political Significance of the Mushala Rebellion against the Zambian One-Party State

The article focuses on the origins, context, and political significance of Adamson Mushala's rebellion against the Zambian one-party state. While making no substantial military gains, Mushala succeeded in destabilizing the North-Western Province, the site of his insurgency, and creating an atmosphere of fear and paranoia among local and national leaders of the ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP). The Zambian postcolonial state was threatened by the enduring relevance of such allegiances. Mushala capitalized on the strength of local systems of ethnic affiliation, following in the footsteps of chieftain authorities, who had expressed their rejection of UNIP's national project by leading their people across the barely visible colonial borders separating an enduring Lunda polit

Hope Against Hope: Future making praxes in the Hudson Valley alternative food movement

The alternative food movement has grown in scope and influence in recent decades. However, its legitimacy and efficacy as a social movement has been critiqued because it lacks a cohesive agenda. Taking one widely agreed upon goal of the movement, to (re)localize food systems, as a starting point, this thesis examines alignments, divergences, and tensions amongst people working to achieve that goal in New York’s Hudson Valley region. As an engaged anthropologist active in this movement, I attend to how food system activism articulates with race, class, and sexuality. Placing the ideals of (re)localizing food systems in a specific historic, geographic, and sociopolitical landscape grounds my analysis and brings debates about (re)localizing food systems into conversation with settler colonial theory. My methodology prioritizes the production of situated knowledges and so adds nuance to existing anthropological research on alternative food systems. Through ethnographic research with chefs, cider makers, laborers, philanthropy professionals, farmers, and seed keepers, I document differing values evidenced by varied praxes of future making. Engaging Bloch’s theories of educated hope and concrete utopias, my analysis of these praxes demonstrates how orientations to the past and the future shape food system advocacy, and I propose two broad categories of future making: determinate and indeterminate. Ultimately, I endorse indeterminate future making, with all of its false starts and idiosyncrasies, as more capable of generating the transformative changes necessary to address the complex and intersecting existential crises of this era. Rejecting the call for a unified agenda, I argue that the proliferation and contestation of utopian food thinking and food projects strengthen the alternative food movement

Ellipsoidal optical reflectors reproduced by electroforming

An accurately dimensioned convex ellipsoidal surface, which will become a master after polishing, is fabricated from 316L stainless steel. When polishing of the master is completed, it is suspended in a modified watt bath for electroforming of nickel reflectors

Conforming polisher for aspheric surface of revolution Patent

Conforming polisher for aspheric surfaces of revolution with inflatable tub

Cover Text Steganography: N-gram and Entropy-based Approach

Steganography is an ancient technique for hiding a secret message within ordinary looking messages or objects (e.g., images), also known as cover messages. Among various techniques, hiding text data in plain text file is a challenging task due to lack of redundant information. This paper proposes two new approaches to embed a secret message in a cover text document. The two approaches are n-gram and entropy metric-based generation of stego text. We provide examples of encoding secret messages in a cover text document followed by an initial evaluation of how well stego texts look close to the plain texts. Furthermore, we also discuss several related work as well as our future work plan

Accuracy of genome-wide imputation in Braford and Hereford beef cattle.

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Lathe converted for grinding aspheric surfaces

A standard overarm tracing lathe converted by the addition of an independently driven diamond grinding wheel is used for grinding aspheric surfaces. The motion of the wheel is controlled by the lathe air tracer following the template which produces the desired aspheric profile

Loneliness in men 60 years and over : the association with purpose in life

Loneliness as a consequence of getting older negatively impacts on the health and well-being of men as they age. Having a purpose in life may mitigate loneliness and therefore positively impact on health and well-being. Limited research into loneliness and purpose in life has been undertaken in older men. This study seeks to understand the relationship between loneliness and purpose in life in a group of older men. Using data from a cross-sectional survey of 614 men aged 60 years and over living in New Zealand, bivariate and multivariate analyses were undertaken to examine the relationship between loneliness and purpose in life using a range of demographic, health, and social connection variables. Bivariate analysis revealed that being unpartnered and having low socioeconomic status, limited social networks, low levels of participation, and mental health issues were associated with loneliness. Multivariate analysis showed that having poor mental health and lower purpose in life were indicators of loneliness. Consequently, improving mental health and purpose in life are likely to reduce loneliness in at-risk older men. As older men are a heterogeneous group from a variety of sociocultural and ethnic backgrounds, a multidimensional approach to any intervention initiatives needs to occur

Editorial: African women's struggles in a gender perspective

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The changing role of china in the global illegal cigarette trade

This study explores the history of the illegal production, distribution, and smuggling of cigarettes in mainland China. Data were obtained from a content analysis of 931 media reports retrieved from LexisNexis for the time period 1975 until 2010, and from other open sources. The illegal cigarette trade first emerged in the form of violations of state tobacco monopoly regulations. In the course of the restructuring of the legal tobacco sector, which occurred under external political pressure to open the Chinese market to foreign competition, an illegal cigarette industry emerged which at first primarily produced fake Chinese brand cigarettes for the domestic black market. At the same time, China became a destination country for smuggled genuine Western brand cigarettes. It was only after effective crackdowns against cigarette smuggling and domestic distribution channels in the late 1990s that the Chinese illegal cigarette industry shifted to exporting large numbers of counterfeit Western brand cigarettes to black markets abroad. China’s current role as a leading supplier of counterfeit cigarettes is a result of the contradictions of the economic reform process and of external licit and illicit forces that worked toward opening up the Chinese tobacco sector to the outside world