Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Friday, September 13, 2019
Nadia Murad, a prominent Yezidi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS gender-based violence, delivers remarks at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.
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Lead Picture (Thumbnail Story below in Thumbnail section)
Friday, September 13, 2019
Nadia Murad in 2018
U.S. Department of State from United States - https://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos/42733243785/
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Commentary
Friday, September 13, 2019
Video Script: Dog said Woof (198 words)
Kat in her stroller, we were walking in the Public Garden, at this moment stopped,
When the friendly, twenty-pound dog strolled over and said, “Woof!”
Baby Kat’s eyes, enlarged with excitement, nine months old those eyes and the same height as the dog’s.
She twisted her neck, her expression asking, “What just happened?”
She not quite speaking yet.
I walked to the front of the stroller and one-knee knelt to recount the event.
“Daddy and baby Kat were walking and the dog came over.
“And the dog said, “Woof!”
She smiled.
She understood.
Her first story from a boundless trove of treasured stories.
To my credit, I recognized the moment: we had a verbal connection that could convey an abstract idea without context, without the support of facial gestures or tone or physical presence.
I took her out of the stroller and repeated the story.
Holding her in my arm, one hand pushing the stroller, I repeated the story again and again as we walked around the lagoon.
And when we got home, again and again.
And of course when I put her to bed,
Again and again.
Bedtime, now become story time.
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Wednesday’s Dinner posted on
Friday, September 13, 2019
We had very tasty spare ribs tonight.
Slow-roasted, finished with a two or three minute stint close to the broiler’s open flame for caramelization.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Blog Publication: Friday, September 13, 2019
Name: Mentoring: Extra Benefit
Length: 1.49
Description:
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Friday, September 13, 2019
This from Sally C:
Dear Dom,
The quote below is in keeping with my comments a couple of weeks ago about the personal and physical distance now promoted between doctors and their patients. I'm not surprised that I'm not the only one who has noticed this. I hope more doctors and patients sit up and take notice of the trend.
(This quotation was included today in Anu Garg's "A Word A Day" - featuring the word "excarnation." (No, it doesn't mean a dead flower. 😁 )
“The move toward excarnation is apparent in what is becoming more and more a fleshless society. In medicine, ‘bedside manner’ and hand on pulse has ceded to the anonymous technologies of imaging in diagnosis and treatment.” - Richard Kearney; Losing Our Touch; The New York Times; Aug 30, 2014.
Sally
Web Meister responds: No. You’re not the only one, Sally.
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Chuckle of the day:
Friday, September 13, 2019
A Dog's Life. You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. - Nora Ephron
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan
Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories! - Dr. Tom Cat
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Today’s Thumbnail
Friday, September 13, 2019
Nadia Murad Basee Taha born 1993) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany.
In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".
In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".[6] She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Poster of Nadia Murad speaking to the UN Security Council at the Yazidi Temple of Lalish, Kurdistan-Iraq
VierterBlick - Dr. Michael Blume
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq.
Her family, of the Yazidi minority, were farmers.
At the age of 19, Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village, killing 600 people – including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers – and taking the younger women and girls into slavery.
That year, Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq.
She was captured on 15 August 2014.
She was held as a slave in the city of Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped.
She successfully escaped after her captor left the house unlocked.
Murad was taken in by a neighboring family, who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State controlled area, allowing her to make her way to a refugee camp in Duhok, northern Iraq.
She was out of ISIS territory on early September 2014 or in November 2014.
In February 2015, she gave her first testimony to reporters of the Belgian daily newspaper La Libre Belgique while she was staying in the Rwanga camp, living in a converted shipping container.
In 2015, she was one of 1,000 women and children to benefit from a refugee program of the Government of Baden-Württemberg, (Germany), which became her new home.
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A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
Acknowledgements
Friday, September 13, 2019
Thanks to Sally for her letter.
And to the Jokes Warehouse for providing today’s chuckle.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Friday, September 13, 2019
I keep images of that horrible day near me at all times.
Sobers me to look at them when I might be tempted to irritation at airport security delays.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon