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Skip to comments.Unfriendly fire
Posted on 09/27/2009 6:36:44 PM PDT by Saije
On Aug. 6, 2001, our vacationing president was warned by the CIA for the 36th time in eight months that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States and that recent intelligence had suggested an attack might be imminent. There were at that moment, George W. Bush was told, 70 bin-Laden-related field investigations being conducted in the country. All right, our president told the CIA officer, youve covered your ass.
On one level, Jon Krakauers Where Men Win Glory represents a detailed look at the tragic tale of Pat Tillman, the football star who quit the NFL to enlist in the Army and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
But Krakauers book is also an exhaustive examination of Americas political and military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Krakauer documents an unsettling history of miscalculation and mismanagement, of tactical blunders, deliberate deceit, and stunning incompetence at the highest levels of leadership. He finds no shortage of examples of the brand of blind arrogance and bad judgment reflected in Bushs dismissal of the warnings by intelligence officers of a possible bin Laden attack. It all makes for painful, infuriating, and required reading. Truth, we learn, is the first casualty of war, and betrayal is a rule of the game.
In July 2002, Tillman, an Arizona Cardinal strong safety, walked away from a $3.6 million contract to become a grunt in the Army. In light of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, Tillman no longer felt that his role as an athlete was important. My voice is calling me in a different direction, he wrote in his journal. It is up to me whether or not to listen.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Hey. Krakauer was one of the idiots on Everest when all those people died, and showed how self-centered he is by his actions.
Sleep well, Jon.
I don’t know anything, I just read the paper, and I knew Bin Ladin was planning to attack the United States. And I knew from the paper that there was a sudden uptick in “chatter” in August.
The problem was knowing when and how. And doing it with pre-patriot-act laws. Gorelick’s “wall”.
Ya think this moron libtard who wrote the review does anything else except slobber all over Oliver Stone movies in his spare time?
Just another reason the Globe is going down, thank goodness.
I almost bought this book the other day when I saw that it was supposed to be about Pat Tillman. I then realized who the author was and bought Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” instead.
The first paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the story, just gratuitous swipes at Bush the “vacationing” President who was dismissive of a threat brief which lacked any specifics....the hallmark of the IC.
So, if we follow Krakauer's logic, bill clinton should be in jail because he and his admin neglected to take bin laden into custody five times, from two different governments
Between this richard cranium, Matthews, Olberman, Schultz etc., the entire left is doing nothing more than mentally masturbating.
I await the book on Obama that details these things.
“The first paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the story, just gratuitous swipes at Bush...”
No, I think we’re supposed to believe that Bush could have stopped 9/11 and if he had then Pat Tillman wouldn’t have left the NFL and joined the Army and wouldn’t have ended up dying on that mountain in Afghanistan.
The writer of this article is right. Truth is the first casualty of war.
Krakauer's book is also an exhaustive examination of America's political and military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Krakauer documents an unsettling history of miscalculation and mismanagement, of tactical blunders, deliberate deceit, and stunning incompetence at the highest levels of leadership. He finds no shortage of examples of the brand of blind arrogance and bad judgment...IOW, another in a long line of left wing screed.
Does he suggest that our current naive, appeasing president is somehow an improvement in national security? Give me a break.
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Diego Arria's connection with the United Nations started in 1991 when he became the Permanent Representative of Venezuela. He remained in that post until 1994, serving as Security Council President on March 1992. In 2003, Mr. Arria was named Special Advisor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Due to Venezuela's role in the Secretary-General's "Group of Friends" and because he served as Venezuela's Permanent Representative, Mr. Arria was involved in the peace negotiations in El Salvador and Haiti.
In this interview conducted after his term as Permanent Representative on 5 September 1997, Mr. Arria recalled the negotiations to bring peace to a civil-war torn El Salvador in 1991 and to relieve political unrest in Haiti in the mid-1990s. He also shed light on the role the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General played in moving the talks along. Finally, he touched upon how the Group of Friends was also valuable in helping to bring peace to Guatemala.
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1. You avoid facing the numbers.
Whether it is what’s in your bank account, how much you weigh, the ROI of your side gig, or something else – if you are avoiding looking at the hard numbers AKA the results, of what you are doing, you are holding yourself back. Yes, it is scary. Yes, sometimes it feels shitty to see the truth, but you can’t improve any of it until you face the facts.
2. You’re a flake.
Do you cancel plans (for no reason) at the last minute and never follow through on the plans you make for yourself (like making that dentist appointment or actually going to the class at the gym)? The hard truth here is that this is called a lack of integrity, it degrades other people’s trust in you and your trust in yourself. This leads to low self esteem. Do what you say you’re going to do, when you say you’re going to do it. Your self worth will get an instant boost.
3. You live in a self-imposed bubble.
If you aren’t getting out of your comfort zone, you are completely holding yourself back. Sticking around inside your comfort zone is going to get you more of the same. To stretch, grow, and live the kind of life you dream about (and if you aren’t doing that, see #10), you’ve got to be brave and get uncomfortable. The good news: outside of your comfort zone quickly becomes inside your comfort zone, meaning that the more you stretch yourself, the more your comfort zone (& confidence) grows and the more skills you master like public speaking, interviewing, first dates, and more!
4. You assume the worst.
About others, about the future, about yourself. I’m sure you’ve heard of the law of attraction? Or the Bible verse that says what you seek, you will find? If you expect the worst, you’re probably going to find the worst. You basically are putting a negative filter over everything that happens to you, so even if it is good, you’ll find something wrong with it.
5. You’re the queen or king of procrastination.
By putting things off for another day or time, you are 100% making life harder for your future self. What can you do now to take care of your future self? Pack your lunch the night before? Write the essay now because your weekend is packed? Whatever you do now, your future self will thank you for!
6. You never say no.
I get it – people pleasing is alluring and to be totally frank, many of us were conditioned to be people pleasers from a young age. The problem is that if you put aside your own goals to help accomplish other people’s tasks, you will never have the time or energy to chase your goals and dreams.
7. You talk shit to yourself.
If you’re constantly telling yourself that you’re an idiot, stupid, not good enough, etc., you are absolutely holding yourself back from your fullest potential. You get to choose whether you are your biggest cheerleader or loudest critic. Think your inner mean girl is motivating? Then why do sports teams have a squad of cheerleaders on the sidelines instead of people booing them?
8. You’re hiding secret shame.
This one sucks, right? Concealing that deep dark secret, that you think would make everyone stop loving you – is actually holding you back. Pull it out, face it, and tell your story to someone you really trust. This is not a situation where you post on twitter for the world to see, this is something you share with your ride-or-die BFF. Shame loses it’s power over you when you share it.
9. You “don’t do” New Year’s Resolutions, goals, vision boards, etc.
This one seems like a no brainer but sometimes we still fall for it. Think about it: if you aren’t working towards anything new, you’re not going anywhere. You’re stagnant. You’re holding yourself back. You must have a direction in life, the goals to help you know you’re on the right track, and smaller bite size goals to celebrate along the way to big goals.
10. You stopped dreaming.
OMG remember when you were a kid and you’d dream about ALL the things you could be when you grew up? You were going to be a marine biologist and save the dolphins, be a famous singer, and also the President. You were 100% going to be living in a mansion, driving a BMW, etc. Remember? It’s ok if your dreams are different now, but if they aren’t still BIG ones that make you excited and a little freaked out, what is life even for? Start daydreaming again.
11. You expect perfection, from yourself, others, and life in general.
You think if you don’t do something perfectly, it isn’t worth doing at all (and you beat yourself up about it). If there is one tiny thing you don’t like about someone you’re dating, it’s over a’la every episode of Seinfeld, ever. If that first job doesn’t pay well and fulfill your passion, you quit. It’s a bummer, but nothing and no one is perfect. Perfect’s not a real thing. Never allowing yourself to fail and never giving another person or opportunity a chance is only going to hold you back.
12. Finally, you don’t read.
Like actual books. There are so many incredible books out there full of ideas and stories that will inspire you to grow, change, and become the best you can be. And for all the problems in the world, we are lucky to be alive in a time when Audible exists. If your time is limited, listen while you fold laundry, commute to work, or workout. If you have no idea where to start, allow me to recommend: You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero, The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, or literally anything written by Brené Brown.
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Ever since campus counseling centers were established in the 1940s, college officials have known that the prevalence and severity of students' mental health problems were rising. They just didn't know by how much.
A pilot study released Monday by the Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health, at Penn State University, hopes to fill that void. Organizers call it a first-of-its kind effort by college counseling centers designed to get an up-to-date picture of mental health trends affecting higher education.
Most schools collect data of counseling center clients on their own. Until now, though, there have been no national data to help study perceived trends, organizers said.
"Mental health affects every aspect of a college student's functioning," said Ben Locke, executive director of the center. "The earlier you intervene in mental health issues, the more likely you are to be successful in treating it."
The numbers will further help colleges and universities equip themselves to support students, Locke said.
The Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors does a separate annual survey of its members. That survey estimated that about 1 in 10 college students seek treatment from campus counseling centers.
But the Penn State study is the first to get data from the counseling center clients themselves, Locke said.
"This is actual data from the counseling centers: the clients who are coming in, what they're saying," said Robert Rando, the director of counseling and wellness services at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. "It's accurate in that way, and no one has done that."
There is concern about the increased severity of mental health problems counseling centers are seeing among student clients, in part because of the increased use of medications such as Prozac by high school students, Rando said.
The collaboration began four years ago, but data collection began only in fall 2008.
The effort had been in the works before the high-profile campus shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois University last year.
The killing of 33 people, including the gunman, at Virginia Tech and five people at Northern Illinois put a spotlight on campus counseling services and risk reduction, said Dennis Heitzmann, director of counseling and psychological services at Penn State.
"What this effort will do will keep our work in the forefront, identify the importance of our function before the administration, parents and students themselves," Heitzmann said.
More than 130 schools nationwide are registered with the center. Of them, 66 participated in the initial study, with responses from more than 28,000 students who received mental health services in fall 2008.
Each counseling center asked clients to answer standardized questions, with the data pooled nationally. All data were anonymous.
Among the study's findings:
– One percent of students who answered a question about binge drinking reported going on a binge 10 or more times in the previous two weeks. Nearly half of those respondents said they had seriously considered suicide in the past.
– The vast majority (93 percent) of students who responded to a question about campus violence had little to no fear of losing control and acting violently.
– The 7 percent considered to have strong fears were most likely to be male and said they had previously harmed another person. They also tended to have experienced a cluster of other symptoms, such as a fear of having a panic attack or suicidal thoughts.
The results "don't translate into a guaranteed assessment or reliable profile at any point, but they offer a starting point in assessing risk in counseling center clients," Locke said.
The center has received $45,000 in funding over the past five years, Locke said. The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that describes itself as trying to reduce suicides and emotional distress among college students, is listed as a past contributor.
The center also requires members to pay a $150 annual fee. In addition, researchers have received about $100,000 in in-kind funding from Titanium Software.
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Posted: 21/04/2012 at 19:08
I'm new to this site and new to gardening.
My garden is south facing and about 6 x 18m in SW Wales. There is a small patio area at the top, then two more levels as the ground falls away. I have a small greenhouse and a small shed (hubby's), and most of the garden is taken up with lawn and a swing and trampoline.
This year I have decided to try some veg. I have started tomatoes, various lettuce, cucumber in the greenhouse and my cauliflower broad beens and carrots come in everynight for the time being. The peas look strong enough to stay out all night and my potatoes are in bags. My caulis and cabbages all failed after I transplanted them into bigger pots, so I planted more... fingers crossed!
I seem to have forgotten about the pretty stuff, so it is off to the garden centre for flowers for hanging baskets tomorrow
I am trying to grow as much as possible in pots or containers because I have no room for a veg patch. I will gratefully accept any tips or advice!
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Bringing people back to basics and nature. Making life a lot easier
than what we see it to be, is the main focus to cleansing the body.
Majority of the world’s population is suffering from some
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Brings us back to the consequences of this drawn out lifestyle.-
Depression, starts to set in, now we are taking anti-depressants
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If only we could start our life all over again, a fresh new start
wouldn’t that be nice. The thought of cleaning ourselves internally
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Bowel motions every 2nd or 3rd day
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(Washington, D.C.) Exploding enemy targets with precision artillery, “lasing” ground targets for drone air attack and waging close-combat urban warfare with hand-carried small arms -- are all scenarios entertained recently in high-tech virtual training wargame designed to closely replicate anticipated future warfare.
The exercise, intended to virtually “create” high-threat, multi-domain modern warfare, was intended to move the Army closer to its goal of engineering a new “force-on-force” mobile training technology designed to prepare soldiers for the risks and perils of a new kind of war.
“This was a computer-based simulation down to the individual model -- using real-time data and responding in a real-world manner,” Col. Chris Cassibry, Maneuver Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate's Concepts Development Division director, recently told reporters.
The August, 2019 experiment, called “Unified Challenge Simulation Experiment,” aligns entirely with the kind of soldier-centric virtual training sought after by the Army, as explained in an Army Needs Statement from earlier this year. In the statement, the Army calls for a specific technical ability to design virtual training systems “based on accurate hit/kill probabilities and on accurate damage and casualty assessments.”
In an effort to present the most realistic, future-oriented simulation, the experiment included weapons systems which do not yet exist, Cassibry said -- such as advanced robots, future combat vehicles and AI-enabled armed platforms. While a large-scale simulated experiment, the Army’s Unified Challenge effort is closely aligned with the Army Needs Statement because it was heavily centered upon individual soldiers and how they can best leverage virtual training for increased effectiveness in combat. Part of this, as explained in the Army needs statement, involves an integration between dismounted soldiers, weapons systems and larger platforms.
Grenade-launcher attacks, land-mine threats, short-range indirect fire operations, mortar combat, small arms engagements and air-ground “networking” for dismounted soldiers are all key details outlined in the Army’s statement of need. The Army’s solicitation calls for technology that can create an “accurate representation of munitions trajectory and time of flight with near real-time data exchange.”
Hosted by the Fort Benning Maneuver Battle Lab with support from Army Futures Command and TRADOC Centers of Excellence, the Unified Challenge Simulation Experiment used virtual training to replicate “penetration through maneuver, disaggregation of an enemies’ mid-range systems and defeating land forces in the close fight,” according to Army officials.
Army industry partners have been working on a range of emerging technical solutions intended to meet the Army requirements for dismounted-soldier virtual training technology outlined in the needs statement.
One example, in development for seven months, is Raytheon’s technical effort to answer the requirements articulated by the Army Futures Command Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team and Army acquisition. Called Synthetic Training Environment Soldier Virtual Trainer (STE SVT), Raytheon's technology seeks to meet the Army’s requirement for weapons, realism and the integration of infantry “dismounts” into a larger multi-domain combat apparatus. The STE SVT system, developed internally by Raytheon, is engineered as a mobile, small form-factor training technology that includes several computers, a virtual reality headset, and advanced software. It primarily uses commercial technology to replicate warfare, including launching artillery fire, tracking dismounted soldiers, hitting targets with a laser rangefinder and even pulling up live drone video -- all presented for the user with an interactive moving map complete with terrain, weapons and graphics showing the location of friendly and enemy forces.
STE SVT and other industry efforts appear to try to mirror the virtual warfare dynamics entertained in the Army’s “Unified Challenge.” A key goal of the Army effort, represented by both the Simulation Exercise and Army Needs Statement, is to not only capture mechanized armored warfare in virtual training but to specifically explore the nuances of air-ground, multi-domain combat operations with a mind to “dismounts,” “scouts” or individual groups of soldiers on-the-move.
“We sought to validate our concept of maneuver and how brigades fight as part of a joint force on an expanded battlefield. We want to converge future capabilities at the tactical level,” Cassibry said.
With this in mind, Unified Challenge was intended to inform Army doctrinal efforts to craft new Tactics, Techniques and Procedures suited for both current and future warfare scenarios, Army leaders said. This included assessments of how an Infantry Brigade Combat Team should operate in distributed future warfare engagements.
Harry Buhl, Business Development Manager, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, told reporters that STE SVT, able to fit and transport in a small, laptop type of form factor, enables ground-based Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTACs) to identify and call out GPS coordinates for attacking aircraft.
“This is designed for ‘dismounts’ in a complex modern environment,” Buhl said. The software and moving graphical displays place individual soldiers and weapons systems into an integrated multi-domain combat sphere to include tanks, helicopters drones and small groups of fighters on-the-move, he added.
“You can now be in that environment with them and do air-ground integration, dismounted and mounted integration. Virtual training, in a dismounted operational environment, enables us to bridge the gap,” Buhl explained.
Operators can, for instance, draw upon live drone feeds to give targeting information to self-propelled ground artillery vehicles, providing fires out to a specific target range at a calculated ballistic trajectory. In an effort to meet Army requirements, Raytheon is developing several different training variants to include weapons engagement, call for fires and force-on-force scenarios.
Raytheon’s call for fires training technology corresponds to the kinds of sensor-shooter-soldier integration sought after by the Army in Unified Capabilities.
“Do we have adequate observation systems for long-range precision fires? How do we see what we are trying to hit,” said Col. Mark Bailey, Futures & Concepts Center's Joint and Army Experimentation Division Chief.
The Army and industry effort is, by design, not restricted to traditional notions of armored land warfare but rather oriented directly toward integrating space, cyber and electronic warfare dynamics.
“For the first time we were able to apply some of the non lethal effects in support of maneuver forces. We also learned that if you enable maneuver with space and cyber, you can enjoy more freedom of maneuver. If you are not dominating the EW in the future, you are going to have a difficult time. We are learning that the threat is willing to attack at this vulnerability,” said Chris Willis, Maneuver Battle Lab's Modeling and Simulations Branch Chief.
Cyber-hardening these kinds of integrated radio-computer-sensor integrations requires a specific focused effort, Buhl said; STE SVT is seeking to offer both secure individual or stovepiped use as well as “distributed” or “networked” opportunities through cloud applications.
“It can operate without being connected to a network, but it is also cloud-enabled, so when you are connected to a network you can perform distributed STE,” Buhl said.
Cloud-based training can bring a range of new advantages by enabling collaborative training, sharing information in real-time across multiple nodes and quickly integrating widespread updates or adaptations across vast networks. STE SVT can allow up to 46 separate soldier nodes, Raytheon developers said.
Army and industry efforts, centered very much upon individual infantry operating in dismounted mobile units, seem to seek a defined synergy between soldier-driven human decision-making and changing combat variables. Interestingly, a recent RAND study takes up this topic, explaining that certain fast-changing war circumstances require attributes unique to human cognition. These could include things such as confronting emerging enemy targets, unexpected terrain, air fires and even incoming fire. The advantage, therefore, is to not only precisely replicate the details and dangers of combat, but integrate them with humans capable of making nuanced, subjective determinations.
The RAND study, called “Collective Simulation Based Training in the Army - User Interface, Fidelity, Costs and Training Effectiveness,” stated that... “the need for these behaviors (subjective human decision making) is intensified in military decision-making contexts and in other domains, such as emergency responding, because these situations often lack clear structure; are subject to ambiguous and conflicting information; and require teams to rapidly detect and diagnose problems and implement, monitor, and revise solutions.”
Extending this concept, the RAND study explores the merits of a kind of “collective” training which calls upon a given “cognitive” or “psychological” coordination among soldiers with a particular expertise; extending this reasoning, the study seems to suggest that this kind of simulation helps refine combat-essential decision making skills and foster a certain “web” or “connectivity” of collaborative individuals contributing to an overall effort.
Posing a specific ground-war scenario as an illustrative point, the RAND study says a collective training exercise.. “might entail distribution of direct fires among the four tanks in a platoon or among multiple platoons to ensure complete coverage of enemy targets and engaging the most dangerous threats first. The focus of this training is on coordination among the tanks or platoons in terms of such behaviors as monitoring others’ actions, providing back-up when others are overloaded, and synchronizing actions.”
By drawing from commercial technology, Raytheon developers hope to engineer something that can keep pace with rapid technical advances and maintain an “open architecture”-enabled ability for fast upgrades as new systems or applications emerge. This strategy is also intended to lower developmental costs, Buhl said. "The state of the market can provide great opportunities to get repetitions for soldiers so that when they train in a live environment, they are training at a higher level of proficiency. They can save time and save lives," Buhl said.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared a major federal disaster for five southwestern Minnesota counties hit by an April ice storm.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Obama declared the disaster for Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles and Rock counties.
Gov. Mark Dayton requested the designation. The storm downed power lines and caused widespread power outages. Preliminary assessments peg the damage at more than $26 million.
The declaration clears the way for federal aid. Governments and certain private nonprofits in the disaster area can get help for emergency work and repairing or replacing damaged facilities.
Assistance also is available to state and local governments and nonprofits for steps taken to reduce risks from natural hazards. All counties in Minnesota are eligible under that program.
FEMA will reimburse 75 percent of approved costs.
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Unit V Homework
Answer the following from the Problems Appendix in the back of your textbook on pp. 330-332, and upload your answers through Blackboard:
Chapter 9: Questions 1, 4, and 9
Chapter 10: Questions 3, 5, and 6
Your completed Homework assignment should be at least three to four pages in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.
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All Horse and Animal Programs
Summer Camp: Three Summer Camp programs are waiting for your child. In all three programs, children get hands-on experience with a variety of barnyard, small animals and miniature horses and learn how to care for them.
At the Summer Horseback Riding Camp each student gets an additional hour long one-on-one private riding lesson on one of our well-trained horses every day. Ages 4-13, Camp runs from Monday - Friday, 9am-3pm.
At the Summer Pets and Ponies Camp, each student gets an additional pony ride on one of our gentle horses each day. Ages 4-13, Camp runs from Monday - Friday, 9am-3pm.
The Summer Barn Buddies and Jr. Farmers Camp is for the youngest and each student also learns how to plant and take care of a garden. Ages 4-10, Camp runs Monday - Friday, 9am-12pm
After School Programs
Saddle Club is a 2.5 hour drop-off class for ages 6-12. It's a program for horse and animal lovers including a hour long one-on-one riding lesson on one of our gentle and well-trained horses. Students also spend time with our variety of barnyard and small animals, learn how to care for them, feed them their dinner and put them to bed.
Pets and Ponies is a 2.5 hour drop-off class for ages 5-10. Beginner horsemanship for true animal lovers including caring and learning about a variety of barnyard and small animals and a pony ride on one of our well-trained and kid-friendly horses. Children also get to feed the animals their dinner and put them to bed.
Advanced Barn Club is a 2.5 hour drop-off class for ages 10-15 that is designed for children who are able to walk, trot and canter a horse. It includes a one hour riding lesson to fine tune their riding skills and learn how to jump, as well as how to fully care about a horse and how much work goes into having a horse. Students also get to spend time, learn and play with our variety of barnyard and small animals.
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Community-Based Participatory Approach to Farmworker Housing, Exposures &Health
Adequate housing is a fundamental human right. However, the limited research that has been conducted demonstrates that inadequate housing is the most basic of all of the unjust and inequitable conditions that farmworkers in North Carolina and the southeast US endure. None of this research has examined how inadequate housing, as an environmental health risk, is related to the health of farmworkers or their families. The proposed research builds directly on our successful project Occupational Skin Disease among Minority Farmworkers (R01 ES012358), as well as several other community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects that have addressed the environmental health risks of farmworkers. Our results document the most prevalence skin problems experienced by farmworkers, particularly infectious diseases, are caused by exposures in houses. Other analyses document that farmworkers and the members of their family are exposed to pesticides in their homes. Together, this work indicates a need for research focused on farmworker housing. The North Carolina Farmworker Advocacy Network has identified farmworker housing as a major concern. The CBPR orientation of our research group requires a focus on farmworker housing conditions and their effects on farmworker health as a response to major concerns voiced by farmworkers, farmworker health care providers, and farmworker advocates. This project is based on a15 year collaboration among farmworkers, farmworker community-based organizations, farmworker advocates, and health science investigators. Within this collaboration, this research study will achieve five specific aims: (1) describe the experiences and perceptions of farmworkers concerning the quality of housing in which they live and how they relate housing quality to their health;(2) evaluate farmworker housing and delineate the associations of farmworker housing with exposures as moderated by resident characteristics and behaviors;(3) delineate the association of exposures in farmworker housing with indicators of farmworker health;(4) disseminate the results of this research to farmworkers in culturally and educationally appropriate formats that farmworkers can use to improve their housing or reduce their health risks;and (5) collaborate with farmworker advocates to affect public health, occupational safety and housing policy to improve the quality of housing in which farmworkers live and reduce the negative health outcomes of substandard housing. The project has four major components. First, it will use a systematic qualitative research design to document farmworker experiences and perceptions of housing quality and its association with health. Second, it will document housing quality in 200 farmworker camps and 200 farmworker family homes, and examine the association of housing quality with health indicators. Third, it will implement a plan to return information to farmworkers. Fourth, it will implement a plan to address state and national farmworker housing policy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families are exposed to numerous environmental and occupational health hazards, and they experience high rates of injuries and illnesses. A major source of exposure for farmworkers and their families is the housing in which they live. This community-based participatory research project will be based on a collaboration of North Carolina Farmworkers Project, Student Action with Farmworkers, Farmworker Advocacy Network, several migrant clinics, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. It will document the housing conditions of farmworkers, determine associations of housing conditions with health outcomes, disseminate information to farmworkers that they can use to improve their housing, and address policy changes needed to improve farmworker housing.
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PISCATAWAY – The Middlesex County Public Health Department is reporting that a raccoon tested positive for rabies in Piscataway, in the vicinity of River Road and Ross Hall Boulevard North.
This is the tenth rabid animal reported within Middlesex County for 2010 and the second rabid animal reported in the municipality of Piscataway.
On June 26, the Piscataway Animal Control Officer responded to a report that a raccoon was observed on a resident’s property. The resident reported that the raccoon was drooling and unafraid of humans. The raccoon was subsequently put down by a Piscataway Township police officer and sent to the New Jersey State Department of Health Laboratory for testing. It was reported today that the animal tested positive for rabies.
The Middlesex County Public Health Department and local Officials are currently investigating as to whether any domestic pets in the area had an exposure to the raccoon. The resident was advised to speak to a physician regarding possible exposure to the animal. Additionally, the department is distributing rabies advisory flyers and fact sheets in the area.
The Middlesex County Public Health Department continues to monitor rabies cases within the County. Residents should report wild animals showing signs of unusual behavior to their local Animal Control Officer. Additionally, it is recommended that residents should avoid contact with wild animals and immediately report any bites from wild or domestic animals to your local health department and consult a physician as soon as possible. Finally, be sure that all family pets are up to date on their rabies vaccinations and licenses.
Rabies is caused by a virus which can infect all warm-blooded mammals, including man. The rabies virus is found in the saliva of a rabid animal and is transmitted by a bite, or possibly by contamination of an open cut. New Jersey is enzootic for raccoon and bat variants of rabies. Bats, raccoons, skunks, groundhogs, foxes, cats, and dogs represent about 95% of animals diagnosed with rabies in the United States.
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According to our exclusive analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new Occupational Outlook Handbook, drugstores are projected to employ about 7,000 fewer pharmacists in 2024 than they do today.
The good news? Pharmacists jobs in non-retail settings—hospitals, doctor’s office, and clinics—will add more jobs than the ones lost from retail.
Read on for our exclusive analysis of these data. And if you are a pharmacist: Plan accordingly! (Have you considered whether a career as a wind turbine service technician or commercial diver is right for you?)
In the annual Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), the BLS publishes detailed employment projections by industry. It draws upon the government’s Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system, which categorizes workers into detailed occupations. I discuss the SOC system in Pharmacist Salaries Keep Rising, Hitting $119K in 2014.
The SOC code for “pharmacist” is 29-1051. Click here to read the “Pharmacists” page from the new OOH.
Using these data, I identified the projections for pharmacists working at retail, mail, and specialty pharmacies by analyzing the following NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) industries:
- Chain and independent pharmacies: NAICS 446110
- Supermarkets with pharmacies: NAICS 445100
- Mass merchants with pharmacies: NAICS 452000
- Mail pharmacies: NAICS 454100
WHERE THE JOBS WILL BE
The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that total pharmacist employment will grow by 3% by 2024. Pharmacist employment at retail, mail, and specialty pharmacies, however, will decline by -0.8% by 2024. (See table below.) The decrease will be concentrated in chain and independent pharmacies, which are projected to employ about 7,000 fewer pharmacists.
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Employment will increase at other outpatient dispensing formats, with mail pharmacies experiencing the largest percentage increase. By comparison, employment in all U.S. occupations is expected to grow 7% by 2024.
So where should pharmacists look for jobs? BLS projects that over the next 10 years, physician offices, outpatient clinics, home healthcare, and hospitals will collectively add 9,300 pharmacist jobs (+11%). Here’s what the BLS says about the job outlook:
"Demand is projected to increase for pharmacists in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals and clinics. These facilities will need more pharmacists to oversee the medications given to patients and to provide patient care, performing tasks such as testing a patient’s blood sugar or cholesterol…Employment of pharmacists in traditional retail settings is projected to decline slightly as mail order and online pharmacy sales increase."Good news indeed, at least for some pharmacists.
P.S. If you're looking for a career change, the fastest growing occupations are projected to be: wind turbine service technicians; occupational therapy assistants; physical therapists; home health aides; and...commercial divers! (Yes, really.)
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Ciudad Colonial in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
María Toledo Square
En su corte llegaron mujeres de alta cuna del Reino de Castilla. Impuso el lujo de los ropajes femeninos, joyas y tocados hasta entonces nunca usados en America y prohibidos expresamente por la Corona. Al lograr la Virreina un permiso especial para tales usos, se convirtió en el personaje central de la sociedad colonial que pretendía replicar las costumbres aristocráticas de la corte en el Nuevo Mundo. De acuerdo a las crónicas, defendió con vehemencia a los taínos del maltrato de los españoles. Doña Maria gozó de una prominente posición de influencia y poder dentro del círculo más importante de la Colonia y sobre su propio esposo.
Con la misma ferocidad que defendió a los nativos, lucho
La Plaza María de Toledo nos recuerda a la más importante figura femenina de la oligarquía española del Siglo XVI en la Hispaniola.
In her court came women of high birth of the Kingdom of Castile. She imposed the luxury of feminine clothing, jewels and headdresses that had previously never been used in America and expressly forbidden by the crown. When the Viceroy obtained a special permit for such uses, she became the central character of colonial society, which sought to replicate the aristocratic customs of laurel in the New World. According to the chronicles, she vehemently defended the tainos of the mistreatment of the Spaniards. Madam María enjoyed a prominent position of influence and power within the most important circle of the Colony and even over her own husband.
The Plaza María de Toledo reminds us of the most important female figure of the Spanish oligarchy of the 16th century in Hispaniola.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Colonial Era • Women.
Location. 18° 28.495′ N, 69° 52.974′ W. Marker is in Ciudad Colonial, Distrito Nacional, in Santo Domingo. Marker is on Calle Las Damas just north of Calle Padre Billini, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Ciudad Colonial, Distrito Nacional 10210, Dominican Republic. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Pantheon of the Nation (a few steps from this marker); a different marker also named The Pantheon of the Nation (a few steps from this marker); The Dávila House (within shouting distance of this marker); Christopher Columbus' Last Residence (within shouting distance of this marker); House of the Jesuits (within shouting distance of this marker); The French Embassy (within shouting distance of this marker); Chapel of Our Lady of the Remedies (within shouting distance of this marker); Las Damas Street (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ciudad Colonial.
Credits. This page was last revised on July 30, 2018. It was originally submitted on March 28, 2018, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico. This page has been viewed 150 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 28, 2018, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico. 4, 5. submitted on March 29, 2018, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico.
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Miami’s Loss; New Orleans’ Triumph
When your grandchildren ask you about the urban myths of a mournful female apparition along a place called Mona Lisa Drive, or whether you have ever encountered a loup guru, or about the story of a couple of business men who stopped over in New Orleans on their way to open a restaurant in Miami, saw a bigger opportunity, so stayed and let the opportunity in Miami go by, you can tell them you aren’t certain about the first two things, but as for the latter, you were here for the entire episode and it’s true – not a myth.
Partners Itai Ben Eli and Doris Reba Chia enjoyed grand success with previous restaurant efforts in Israel, Costa Rica and California.
Before embarking on a new project, Chia came to New Orleans for a bit of rest and a scenery change. After about four days he called Itai and said, “Get over here.” Itai was hesitant, and noted that he had plenty to do with the company’s properties as well as assure that the plan for development of a location in Florida was a workable schedule.
“I’m not asking you to get over here for vacation,” Chia noted. “I think we should do the next project in New Orleans instead of Miami.” Itai was amenable to the trip, but not convinced that the Crescent City was the direction the company should head. He came. And within two days saw what Chia was so excited about. They agreed New Orleans was something very special and the partners’ project could fit perfectly into the dynamic dining and cocktail scene alive all over town.
And they settled on a place that had been for years a breakfast destination, the shuttered Alpine Restaurant on Chartres Street, just off of Jackson Square. Lots of work, but here was an historic building they could fashion for their own purposes.
Doris Metropolitan’s trademark is aged steak. The steaks at Doris are butchered and aged to the restaurant’s specifications. They created a room facing Chartres Street to serve as the dry aging space. According to Itai, “Dry aging beef allows it to develop flavors more slowly and with more complexity. We keep it for a minimum of 21 days and some of our cuts, the bone-in New York strip and the ribeye, are also aged to 31 days. Both time-frames provide the development we’re seeking.”
The surprising discoveries about this steak house menu are the fish offerings. “Look where we ended up,” Itai notes. “We could not turn our back on the finest seafood to be found anywhere that is literally at our doorstep.”
The appetizers are Mediterranean-rooted, with carpaccio, calamari, eggplant, artichoke and sweetbreads all playing central starring roles in various preparations.
In addition to the open kitchen design, the bar also became a point of emphasis, with the usual offerings as well as more innovative creations, such as the Aviation Ball. The wine list is literally on display on all the walls, with bottles placed in individual racks to entice the diner to select the perfect liquid accompaniment from around the world, including the owner’s native Israel.
If al fresco is your mood, the courtyard has been completed with the same excellent and comfortable taste as the interior.
– Tim McNally
BEST OF THE BEST NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANTS
620 Chartres St. / 267-3500 / DorisMetropolitan.com
Ringing In the Harrison Avenue Revival
Definitely on the rebound since the ravages of the floodwaters of Katrina, Lakeview continues unabated with grander homes replacing ranch-style designs, more diversity in commercial activity and new restaurants alongside old standards opening at an upbeat pace.
Cava has been a while in coming but the wait has not been in vain. Cava, replacing the old location of Landry’s, which made a darn fine poor boy but “ain’t there no more” since Katrina, is ringing all the right bells, with due respect to the ones at St. Dominic’s Church practically next door.
Proprietor Danny Millan, longtime New Orleans restaurant host, manager and owner, has put together the place and the team he has long desired. A complete overhaul and redesign of the space has yielded a restaurant that is Cajun/Creole in cuisine style and metropolitan/cosmopolitan in the decor. Modern, with minimalist fixtures and surroundings, the tout ensemble is tastefully integrated, featuring a welcoming bar at the entrance and opening to a 65-seat dining room. Cava even offers a second floor loft that opens to an outdoor gallery seating area.
The cuisine is already knock-your-socks-off stunning. A couple of local guys, executive chef Adam Asher and chef de cuisine Donovan Tullier Sr., are to cooking what computer geeks are to digital code. These guys look at all the angles. Local ingredients, combinations, preparations and presentations are what these incredibly creative and gifted cuisine experts dream about.
Frog legs, tender like you’ve never had them. Crawfish meatball pasta or lobster and wild mushroom risotto are not the dishes you thought about when you came in the door, but now you can’t live without them. Barbecue salmon is something you’ve likely never enjoyed, but see if you can stop talking about it after just one bite.
Keep in mind that while this place is in its infancy, Cava acts like it’s been here a long, long time.
– Tim McNally
789 Harrison Ave. / 304-9034
Blooms Along the Vine
Slotted along a quiet stretch of Magazine Street is Ivy, the small plate and libation lounge established by restaurateurs Patrick and Rebecca Singley. It is helmed by chef Sue Zemanick, who is also the chef at Gautreau’s and on a roll following her 2014 James Beard Award for “Best Chef South.”
If Gautreau’s is the gala, then Ivy is the after-party. Whereas Gautreau’s feels formal, Ivy is celebratory. True, it carries some of the same aura of Uptown pedigree, but the ambiance is far more egalitarian. The small room pops with action and the décor is quirky-romantic, with wallpaper patterned in velvet and a pair of cream-colored banquettes to collect larger groups. On pleasant evenings al fresco tables along the restaurant’s vine-draped flank capture the spillover.
On the menu, refined choices such as Hamachi Crudo with slivers of fennel and jewel-like grapefruit sections share space with eclectic dishes such as Spicy Fried Baby Back Ribs with celery and blue cheese. The later, a riff on Buffalo wings tastes something concocted during the later hours of Service Industry Night. You would never find this on the menu at Gautreau’s but it’s what they might be snacking on in the back.
An array of delicate seafood dishes tempt: the Grilled Lobster, half a crustacean split lengthwise, is complemented by components that enhance its flavor. Corn picks up the sweetness of the lobster while arugula adds peppery notes. It is all bound together with a cilantro-spiked crème fraiche. Simpler dishes, like the chilled Snow Crab Claws with melted butter and snipped chive, let the ingredients shine.
The cocktail menu hews close to the classics and is supplemented by an elegant wine list. Underscoring the romantic vibe is a “Wedding Cake for Two” dessert. Ivy is dinner only but reservations are now accepted. Limited parking is available but fills up quickly.
– Jay Forman
5015 Magazine St. / 899-1330
Tallying The Votes
One of the criteria when determining a Best New Restaurant award is style done properly with excellence in the right place.
Kingfish wins on all counts. The name refers to Huey Long, one of the most flamboyant, outrageous and important political figures in Louisiana’s long history. As you step into the restaurant you’re met with the image of a grand piano; an upbeat, boisterous bar scene; and a more-than-life size photo of Long, all bug-eyed, railing about something. The ex-governor would be proud.
Noted mixologist, cocktail historian and native, Chris McMillian, holds court over the bar area. A wide range of first-rate and historic cocktails is created along with tales of how the drink was created and where in New Orleans it all happened. Classic versions of the Sazerac, Ramos Gin Fizz, Pimm’s Cup and French 75 are as good here as you will get anywhere. The wine list is diverse, decently priced and quite adequate.
The long, narrow dining room is defined on one end by the kitchen behind large picture windows, and at the other features French doors opening onto Chartres Street. The decidedly Creole menu has important notes of Cajun and Southern cuisines.
The kitchen’s king and local lad through and through, chef Greg Sonnier, is a long-time staple of the New Orleans dining scene, and he’s continually altering the menu to reflect the season and what’s freshly available. The gumbo is a must-do, along with the Hoppin’ John crawfish salad. There is a Cajun farmhouse sausage wonton on a bed of creamy cheese grits that will have you considering another order of the same. The chargrilled marinated lamb loin is tough to pass up, so don’t.
Kingfish to its credit is open late most nights, which is fitting given the proclivities of its namesake and its location in the middle of the French Quarter.
337 Chartres St. / 598-5005 / CocktailBarNewOrleans.com
In opening Marti’s on the corner of Rampart and Dumaine streets, restaurateurs Patrick and Rebecca Singley counterintuitively reference the past (a former establishment with the same name operated in the location until the late 1980s) to chart the future. To head up the kitchen, they brought in chef Drew Lockett, a New Orleanian recently returned from Oregon with a resume that includes stints with the Link Restaurant Group as well as Ristorante Del Porto in downtown Covington.
“Our menu is grounded in French brasserie classics but prepared with a contemporary touch,” Lockett says. “We want to cook food that fits the feel of the room.” Seafood figures prominently, with chilled Fruits de Mer platters and some of the best oysters in town. Raw, they come to the table with a trio of accouterments, including an effervescent champagne mignonette. If you prefer cooked, a recommended oyster roast comes topped with pimento, herbed compound butter and breadcrumbs fired at a high temperature.
The dinner-only menu is largely traditional but notably well executed, with great attention to detail. The Gulf Fish Amandine is a case in point. You can find this dish easily enough in New Orleans, but almost nowhere as well prepared as it is here, where the bright acidity of the lemon perfectly balances out the nuttiness of the browned butter. For more contemporary selections, look to the small plates menu, which offers up interesting selections like Grilled Rabbit Sausage with Pickled Peaches and a take on the French-Canadian comfort dish poutine – this version made with short rib gravy and aged goat cheese in lieu of the traditional curds.
Marti’s is enchanting. The elegant restaurant’s feel is old-world genteel, with robin egg-blue walls and gold drapes. And in its establishment a storied location, also once home to Anne Kearney’s Peristyle, has returned to form.
1041 Dumaine St. / 522-5478 / MartisNola.com
Flavors of the Philippines
Chef Cristina Quackenbush started her restaurant Milkfish as a pop-up, serving food at places such as Who Dat Coffee and A Mano (now La Boca). This spring she opened her own space in Mid-City and it’s been a welcome addition to the neighborhood.
Filipino food is often described by its influences, which include the cooking of Spain, China, Malaysia and Indonesia. The menu at Milkfish is full of items that show multiple influences, but each dish together add up to something uniquely Filipino.
Filipino food often has a significant sour component. Adobo, for example, is a dish flavored with garlic, vinegar and soy sauce and served over rice; but depending on where you get it and what other ingredients are involved, it may have be a brothy stew or almost entirely dry. At Milkfish the chicken adobo is more like a stew, whereas the pork version is more like barbecue ribs in appearance. Quackenbush’s sinigang is another tart dish, a soup made with tamarind, guava, pork and spinach.
Every country in Asia has famous noodle dishes, one of which in the Philippines is a rice noodle dish called Pancit. Milkfish has two varieties on offer; the standard can be ordered with chicken, beef, pork or shrimp sautéed with vegetables, while the version named for chef Quackenbush’s Manilla neighborhood, Malabon, combines thick rice noodles with pork belly, shrimp, squid and milkfish, which is both the national fish of the Philippines and not coincidentally the origin of the restaurant’s name.
Milkfish (the fish) shows up in a number of dishes in addition to the pancit; you can have it with the traditional Filipino breakfast, silog, and it’s also an option in the sinigang, but it’s the star of the show when prepared as ginataang isda, where the whole fish is braised in coconut milk with ginger, garlic, chiles and shrimp, then topped with spicy purple cabbage and bean sprouts.
Milkfish (the restaurant) would be noteworthy for being the only Filipino restaurant in New Orleans, but it’s on our list of the best new restaurants for 2014 because chef Quackenbush and her team are making some of the most delicious food – whatever the origin – in town.
– Robert Peyton
125 N. Carrollton Ave. / 267-4199 / MilkfishNola.com
Discovering Nuevo Latin
A couple of years ago I read an article that predicted the next big food trend would be Nuevo Latin, cooking that takes advantage of the wealth of flavors and ingredients beyond the cooking of the Mexican-American border.
Mizado was designed to expose diners to some of the diversity of the cuisines of Central and South America, including by expanding what we think of as “Mexican” food. It is a bold venture, but one that’s been paying off for chefs Hans Limburg, Gary Darling and Greg Reggio (aka “the Taste Buds”) who are also responsible for Semolina and Zea Rotisserie & Grill.
Mizado’s menu begins with a selection of guacamoles and salsas that start simply before taking off on interesting tangents. Adding pistachios to guacamole might not seem like much of a stretch, but the “India” adds about banana, cumin and date and cashew chutney to the mix. Tomatillo salsa is played straight, with just garlic, onion, Serrano chiles and cilantro flavoring the tomatillos; but there’s also a chile de arbol salsa that includes pumpkin and sesame seeds, apple cider vinegar and cloves. Most of the salsas (particularly the orange-habanero) pack a serious amount of heat, another indication that the restaurant isn’t playing to the lowest common denominator crowd.
Tacos range from the traditional (carnitas, chicken with ancho, grass-fed beef and chorizo) to the adventurous (alligator in adobo, duck confit with caramelized onions and pineapple-melon salsa and grilled scallops). Peruvian-style ceviches include salmon with citrus, habanero and avocado and scallop with tomato, pomegranate and melon. A more modern take on the dish called tiradito includes Gulf tuna with citrus ponzu, cucumber and jalapenos.
The restaurant’s wood-burning grill produces an excellent Gulf fish with crema, chimichurri and Manchego cheese smashed potatoes, and is used to finish a beer-braised tri-tip steak served with smoked pork belly potatoes and more of the chimmicurri sauce that graces the fish. The menu is too large to fully address here, but there are similarly innovative recipes throughout.
The Taste Buds have a deserved reputation for restaurants that produce consistently good food, but with Mizado they’re aiming higher. Fortunately, they’re hitting the mark.
5080 Pontchartrain Blvd. / 885-5555 / MizadoCocina.com
Expanding Vietnamese Cuisine
Chef Michael Gulotta has a deep appreciation for the flavors of Vietnam. Before he opened MoPho, his inventive Mid-City restaurant, he was best known locally as the executive chef at August, so his decision to serve more casual fare took some people by surprise.
MoPho is unpretentious, but the plates bear evidence of Gulotta’s background – the menu includes riffs on traditional recipes that sometimes look odd on paper but which invariably work on the plate.
Take the soup that gives the restaurant its name: In simplest terms pho is a light beef broth, flavored with star anise and charred onion, served over rice noodles and cuts like brisket, eye of round and flank. At MoPho you can get those things, but you can also order oxtail and chile-braised tripe. The chicken version allows options like cocks comb, duck sausage and grilled chicken thigh, and other choices include head cheese, pork belly and grilled mustard greens.
In New Orleans we call banh mi “Vietnamese poor boys,” and MoPho takes the local connection to a logical conclusion, stuffing the Vietnamese bread with things such as fried shrimp with Chisesi ham and fried P&J oysters with blue cheese, each “dressed” with house-made mayonnaise, pickled vegetables and a spreadable, spicy pork pâté. They are not authentic, but they’re delicious and that’s what counts.
Specials are where Gulotta’s background is most apparent; clams are cooked with lamb lardo, crispy shallots and basil and served with addictive beignets flavored with annatto seed. Lamb neck is slow-roasted and comes in a green curry stew with smoked tofu and beets as well as a creole cream cheese roti. The menu isn’t extensive, but it’s full of interesting plays on classic Vietnamese and southeast Asian cooking.
514 City Park Ave. / 482-6845 / MoPhoNola.com
Earning the Spotlight
A deal struck between the Dickie Brennan Restaurant Group and the board of Le Petite Théâter in 2011 helped stave off a foreclosure facing America’s oldest community theater. For lovers of fine dining, the gustatory result was Tableau, a quintessentially New Orleans beauty carved out of the rambling three-story building anchoring the corner of Chartres and St. Peter streets.
More akin to a mansion than a traditional restaurant, Tableau sprawls across three floors and nine dining rooms. At the helm is chef Ben Thibodeaux, who served as chef de cuisine at Palace Café before being tapped for the role of Tableau’s Executive Chef. Born and raised in Lafayette, Thibodeaux externed in La Rochelle, France and was a natural fit for the new French-Creole restaurant concept.
The core of Tableau’s menu is classic New Orleans. Tourists will find dishes they expect to see in a French Quarter grande dame, such as Crabmeat Ravigote and Creole Courtbouillon. But Thibodeaux gets inventive with options such as his Creole Scotch Eggs. Poached first then battered with an Andouille crust and flash-fried to order, these are served with a Creole mustard cream sauce and poached oysters.
Dishes that stand out include his barbecue shrimp, as well as his Tournedos Rossini Moderne. “Every time we plate one I think to myself, ‘I want to eat you.’ It is just a tempting, decadent dish,” Thibodeaux says.
Tableau offers a deep list of wines served by the carafe, as well as a craft cocktail menu. Pastry chef Stephanie Bernard’s menu is impressive as well. Try the Tart a la Bouille, a rustic Cajun composition of custard and sweet dough. Tableau offers lunch and dinner seven days a week, as well as a Sunday Jazz Brunch. A three-course Pre-Theater Menu complements this quintessentially New Orleans arrangement between great food and great theater.
616 S. Peter St. / 934-3463 / TableauFrenchQuarter.com
Too New to Review, Yet Deemed Worth Trying
Some restaurants that opened near our press date deserve mention, even if we couldn’t fully evaluate them for the Best New Restaurants list. Here are a sample:
At Square Root chef Phillip Lopez is taking the modernist cuisine he cooks at his Warehouse District spot Root to another level. There are 16 seats at a long bar around an open kitchen, and depending on when you dine you’re either getting eight to nine or 12 to 15 small courses, with wine and cocktail pairings available. It is innovative and ambitious cuisine, and we’re betting locals will take to it.
Michael Brewer’s casual restaurant The Sammich is another innovator that takes the humble sandwich as a launchpad for seriously creative and delicious food. Start with french fries cooked in duck fat or tuna dip made with house-smoked fish, and then move on to sandwiches filled with tempura-fried lobster knuckles and spicy mango cream, or duck confit with brie and foie gras mayonnaise.
Carrollton Market opened this year in the space that housed Riverbend standout One, and chef Jason Goodenough’s menu is already gaining fans. The food is inspired by home-style Southern cooking but dishes are pulled off with the aplomb you’d expect from a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. To wit: New Orleans-style cassoulet replaces white beans with red, and features local smoked sausage as well as duck confit and pork belly.
New Orleans native Cara Benson’s breakfast and bakery spot Toast replaced Laurel Bakery earlier this year, giving the chef-owner a second restaurant in addition to Tartine. The menu at the breakfast-lunch spot features baked goods, crêpes and sandwiches, but the highlight may be the abelskivers, a Danish dish that’s a cross between a pancake and a doughnut, and which at Toast come with things like lemon curd, maple syrup or chocolate sauce. They are light, fluffy and reason enough to visit the place.
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Google Play for Education officially launches personal learning for schools
Back in May at Google I/O, Google first announced that it was planning to create an extension of Google Play designed just for schools. In June, Google Play for Education began accepting app submissions from developers. And today, Google Play for Education is finally ready to go and is officially launching with its ambition to revolutionize education.
Sure, that may be a bit of a troubled ambition given the hold Apple has on education with its iPad, and how much Apple has already done with things like iTunes U. But, Google still believes, and it is aiming its offerings at primary school education. Google has been putting all apps through a review process to ensure not only that apps are suitable for the classroom, but that apps are categorized correctly as far as the grade level it targets. It seems though that Google is relaxing that a bit and will allow all apps marked for education into the app store and will review them afterwards, not before they are listed in the store. Apps that have gone through the review process will be tagged with a special badge to ensure they are content and age-appropriate.
As you would expect, Google has also made a video highlighting a school that has been using Play for Education. The Hillsborough School has given each student in kindergarten through 4th grade their own personal tablet, and not surprisingly the video makes it seem like it has been a rousing success. It shows off how teachers can get apps and have them remotely installed on all of their students' devices. But, the most interesting part to us was that the apps could be targeted to individual students, meaning each child was reading something tailored to their reading level, and the advanced kids ended up helping out the others. That seems pretty cool.
No word on how many apps are available, or how many school systems are on board to use Play for Education, but given the price of a Nexus 7 we wouldn't be surprised to see this expand.
source: Android Developers
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About the Life Story Commons
The Life Story Commons was established in 1988 as the Center for the Study of Lives, a research, educational, and service unit of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Southern Maine.
For the past 20 years, the Commons' mission has been to celebrate individual lives and strengthen community bonds by bringing people of all generations together to share life stories. It has accomplished this through recording and preserving the life stories of people of all ages and backgrounds, while serving as a meeting ground for all people interested in learning from each other's stories.
In all its various activities, including public forums and stage readings of life stories, the Commons has promoted intergenerational and intercultural communication and understanding by encouraging dialogue that examines the benefits of storytelling and personal narratives while also exploring questions of growth and change across the life cycle, the passage of tradition across generations, and the making of meaning across time.
The Commons is founded upon the belief that every person has an important story to tell about the life they have lived. Stories shared between multigenerational and multicultural groups become teaching tools by which we can gain a greater appreciation of both our commonalities and differences. Sharing our stories helps us to recognize that we are all members of the human family.
The Commons offers a proprietary protocol for telling life stories (Share Your Life Story) online along with an ever-expanding archive of life stories, beginning with its existing archive of over 400 life stories, each one averaging about 20 pages in length, that is fully searchable (Life Story Archive).
When you complete your life story here, we invite you to contribute it to the life story archive as your spiritual legacy that you leave for the benefit of the human family. As the archive grows, we will be featuring certain life stories periodically and also selecting excerpts from the life stories to feature in various topic and category sections.
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War is the worst for ordinary folk, they get hurt the most both at home and on the front
Vratislav Šeps was born in 1933 in Hradec Králové. In 1936 he moved to Nová Paka with his brother and parents; his father managed a pub there. His father was devastated when the border regions were surrendered to Germany without a fight; he died in 1942. Mrs Šepsová continued to manage the pub, and the London broadcast was a regular feature of the place. Towards the end of the war the Wehrmacht commandeered the school that Vratislav attended and changed it into a hospital. The witness was given regular homework, but there were no lessons. German civilians fleeing from the approaching front passed through Nová Paka together with transports of POWs and prisoners. The Czech May uprising broke out in Nová Paka on the third day of May, and the witness watched the Wehrmacht give up its arms. The following day a unit of German soldiers entered the town and put an end to the matter. With cannons trained on the town, the group of rebel civilians were only saved from execution by the hospital commander. When the soldiers left, all weapons and military equipment were taken to the Sokol training grounds and gym hall. Vratislav Šeps and his friends continued to find both weapons and ammunition, but toying with their finds cost some of the boys their health or even their life.
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These undertakings provide price transparency and clearer and faster methods of switching. They limit the bundling of loans and accounts.
These undertakings were given under the monopoly provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973. They were signed by the UK’s leading banks and require them to:
- ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can open a deposit account without also needing to open a business current account
- publish details of their tariffs
- meet time targets for account switching services
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THE STORY OF BRITAIN: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
by FRASER, Rebecca
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (2005). First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Small 4to.Quarter dark blue imitation cloth over light blue boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Trivial edgewear, trace soil to front board. Bright, clean, and tight throughout. 829pp.
A very readable & dramatic historical telling of the story of Britain, with a focus on the people who most shaped the nation. (Inventory #: 18024)
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Adventure playgrounds were a feature of childhood/adolescence which passed me by really. I wasn’t brought up in London and they were mostly I think a phenomenon of urban life. I saw plenty of them when I first came to London in 1973 – brightly painted constructions of wood, behind fences, teeming with kids and I had the vague sense of having missed out on something. If you come from a small town, urban life, even the life in what might be called “deprived” areas looks exciting.
So when my colleague Tim showed me a packet of photos of the Notting Hill Adventure Playground in Telford Road that he’d retrieved in the course of an enquiry, I was fascinated by these scenes of communal play. The blogging cells in my brain immediately recognised them assomething you had to see.
Most of these pictures come from a large packet of photographs donated to theLibrary in 2000. They’re hard to date precisely but they seem to fall into two main groups, one from the early 1960s and one from the late sixties or early seventies. The Notting Hill Adventure playground was started in the late 1950s on some waste ground in Telford Road.
The first adventure playground seems to have been built in Copenhagen in 1943 by a landscape architect, C T Sorenson who noticed the propensity of children left to their own devices to avoid purpose built playgrounds and resort to building sites and waste ground. He thought that by making waste building materials available, children could have play that had an element of risk without being life threatening. In pragmatic Scandinavian fashion he showed that this was also a way to reduce vandalism and other forms of juvenile delinquency.
London, which had plenty of bomb sites in the post war period was an ideal place for adventure playgrounds to spring up, and the idea spread to many cities.
This umbrella leap is from 1963 – the image was used as part of an appeal for the London Adventure Playground Asociation.
In the early days children, under the supervision of a warden built from scratch.
Young builders were enthusiastic.
Ambitious structures were erected.
The play began. Climbing, swinging and just hanging around. It reminds me of womble, muck and sneedball – the games played in Quentin Blake and Russell Hoban’s “How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen”. I would have inserted a quotation at this point to convince you but I can’t find a copy of the book right now. Maybe later.
The playground outgrew its original site and the Council provided a larger one where Telford Road and Faraday Road intersected with Wornington Road. The new site was a little more structured.
There was a building for indoor play with on site facilities.
But the playground retained its makeshift character.
That tower visible over the wall in a picture which I can date precisely, from 1969 brings me back to the advenure playgrounds I remember from London in the early 1970s. It has a slight counter-cultural air about it, like many places in North Kensington in that period.
Despite the difficulties in presenting pictures from across a period of ten or more years these images all show that communal play has something timeless about it, whether it involves climbing unsafe structures:
Messing about with building materials.
Or just hanging around with your friends.
These pictures show the irrepressible nature of childhood.
And of course, the adventure:
Despite the changes in the streets around it the Notting Hill Adventure Playground continues to do its work.
I observed last week that Chelsea people have long memories. This also applies to North Kensington people so if you recognise yourself, or anyone else in these pictures let me know.
You can find a documentary about the playground from 1960 here: http://www.nhh50.com/?videos=this-is-our-playground-1960 on the website of the Notting Hill Housing Association and on YouTube.
Next week it’s the annual Halloween story when we stray away from fact and let imagination have a go at some pictures. Don’t believe anything you read.
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Industrial Applications of Combinatorial Optimization by Gang Yu
English | June 30, 1998 | ISBN: 0792350731 | 365 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
Industries rely more and more on advanced technology. Accelerated computer evolution makes large-scale computation practical. Many enterprises are be ginning to benefit from more efficient allocation of resources and more effective planning, scheduling, manufacturing, and distribution by adopting state-of-the art decision support systems.
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If there is something that you can always count upon in Mexico, it is holidays. In the towns and cities you visit, it is almost certain that you will encounter celebrations full of music, food and folklore. The most important festivities are Holy Week (Easter) (at the end of March or beginning of April), the “Grito de Independencia” (on September 15th), and the Day of the Dead (on November 1st and 2nd), the day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (on December 12th), Christmas and New Year.
Merry carnivals take place in February, which begin with the symbolic burning of evil spirits and continue with parades of floats, the crowning of the king and queen, and lots of music and fun. The most popular are those held in Veracruz, Mazatlan and Merida.
During Easter and the so-called “bridges”, the beaches and major tourist destinations receive a large number of visitors, and there are a greater number of cultural entertainment activities. However, if you prefer to avoid the crowds, we recommend traveling during the low season.
Banks are closed on holidays.
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Translating TC4Shell’s user interface
Most people prefer having the user interface (UI) in their native language. Unfortunately, we cannot translate TC4Shell into all possible languages. However, you can translate it into your language to add your name to TC4Shell’s glorious history. :)
You can use the special tool TC4Shell Translate to translate TC4Shell’s user interface.
An important note: TC4Shell Translate allows you to translate TC4Shell’s UI only into the language used as the user interface language in your Windows version. For example, if you want to translate the UI to Japanese, you need to use TC4Shell Translate running on the Japanese version of Windows.
If you launch TC4Shell Translate, the following window with a tree will appear in the left part of your screen:
Each tree item is a group describing all the strings used in the same context. For example, the Column group is a group of strings used as column names in Explorer. Each group’s icon shows whether the group contains any untranslated strings. You can enter your name or nickname in the Translator input field.
If you select a group or subgroup, two additional windows will appear:
The bottom window contains a few input fields for the source strings, and a few empty input fields for entering your translations of the respective source strings. The top window shows you a specific TC4Shell window whose UI you are currently translating. Each translated string in the bottom window immediately manifests itself in the top window, so you can easily see what exactly you are translating.
After translating all the strings, click the Save button. Clicking it will create a file called Translation.XXXX in the TC4Shell Translate installation folder, where XXXX is the target language’s ID. Please email that file to email@example.com, so that we can check your translation and add it to the TC4Shell language resources. If it’s all right, your UI translation will be available in the next release of TC4Shell.
You don’t have to translate each and every string at once. You can save your incomplete translation any time by clicking the Save button. Next time you launch TC4Shell Translate, it will automatically load the previously saved file, so that you can continue your translation from where you left it last time.
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The psychology of food aversions
Written by: David Solot with CNN
Is there a food you just don’t like, and you can’t explain why? Or perhaps a food that made you sick once, and now you can’t come near it? It could be the result of a million-year-old survival mechanism.
When I was about six years old, I started hating cherry Jell-O. There was no apparent reason for it. I liked cherry Kool-Aid and shaved ice, and I was fine with other flavors of Jell-O. But the sight or smell of cherry Jell-O would instantly make me nauseated.
My reaction to it was so bad that my parents used to tell people I was allergic to it, just to avoid my reaction. They even wrote it down under “allergies” on a school form. I just couldn’t touch it without feeling sick.
Perhaps you feel the same way about raw tomatoes, yogurt, or eggs. If there’s a food that makes you feel sick on sight, chances are that your brain is enacting a behavior that’s been passed down for millions of years. It’s called taste aversion, and it’s one of the strongest conditioned reactions in humans.
Here’s how taste aversion works: You and your buddies go out for a few drinks. You’re young and wild and love drinks with the strong coconut flavor of Malibu Rum. Things get a little out of hand, and you spend part of the night praying to the porcelain god. You recover, and next weekend go out for drinks again. The bartender passes you your favorite drink, but this time the smell of coconut immediately makes you want to vomit. You loved Malibu for years, but now, the very thought of it makes you sick.
What you’re experiencing is your brain protecting you from being poisoned. When we were primitive creatures, we weren’t sure what was safe to eat so we tested things out.
If you survived the experience, your brain had to make sure that you never ever ate that same thing again. So, if you ate something that made you feel ill, your brain decided "better safe than sorry," and conditioned you to feel sick anytime you saw, smelled or even thought about that same food.
The next time you went foraging for food and came across a berry that made you feel sick in the past, you would get hit with an overwhelming feeling of nausea and go eat something else. The people who were good at developing taste aversions lived and had children. The ones who were bad at it - well - they largely got poisoned and died. So over the centuries, our ability to form taste aversions got stronger and stronger.
The reason your night of drinking resulted in a hatred of Malibu is due to this same survival mechanism. When you felt nauseated at 3am, your brain sensed that you had been poisoned. Your brain didn’t know for sure what caused it, but it did remember a really strong coconut flavor from earlier that night.
To protect you, your brain decided "better safe than sorry," and assumed that the coconut flavor was to blame. To make sure you don’t poison yourself in the future, it set up a conditioned response so that the smell or taste of coconut will make you feel sick.
That’s how taste aversions work properly - you no longer want to eat the thing that made you sick. But it can get more complicated than that.
You may find that you suddenly hate coconut shavings on ice cream. A year later, you may push away a plate of coconut-battered shrimp at a restaurant, and have no idea why you find it so repulsive. Taste aversions are just that powerful, and they can last for years after only one bad experience.
To make matters more confusing, sometimes aversions form for the wrong food. Imagine that on the way to work one morning you stop off for your traditional cup of coffee. Later that day, your coworkers all go out for Indian food. You’ve never had Indian food before, but you’re up for something new. You have a delicious meal and try lots of new items. But around 3pm, you start feeling queasy. It gets worse and worse, and by the evening you’re sick to your stomach and not able to hold anything down.
Your brain senses that you’ve been poisoned. Once again, it isn’t sure what did it, but it does remember a lot of strong spices and flavors that it never tasted before. To make sure you don’t poison yourself in the future, your brain decides “better safe than sorry,” and conditions you to feel sick any time you smell, taste or even think about Indian food.
The problem is, it turns out that there was nothing wrong with the Indian food - it was the creamer in your morning coffee that had gone bad! “No way,” says your brain, “we’ve had that coffee every day for a year. We know that it’s safe. It had to be that weird new food we ate.”
Suddenly you have a strong aversion to Indian food, even though it tasted good and there was nothing wrong with it. To make matters worse, you’ll probably never know your hatred of Indian food is irrational, because you don’t know that the real cause of your illness was your coffee. You’ll likely think that Indian food makes you sick and avoid it in the future.
This kind of thing is happening to us all the time, and we’re mostly oblivious to it. Have you ever had a really bad cold, and decided to make yourself feel better by eating your favorite food? You might find a few days later that you’ve stopped liking your favorite food. That’s taste aversion in action! Your brain assumes that the illness was caused by the food, and is teaching you to not like that food any more.
This effect is so strong that people undergoing chemotherapy (which can cause severe nausea) are cautioned to avoid their favorite foods. You might think you’re comforting yourself, but what you’re really doing is teaching your brain that "favorite food = feeling sick."
Luckily, our conscious minds are mostly able to overcome this effect. The key is to recognize what is happening and to think about the reason for the reaction.
Consciously reminding yourself that what you’re about to eat is not poisonous can help you to interrupt the automatic survival mechanism. With practice, you may find that you are able to stomach the foods that used to hate. You may even start to like them again.
The key is to go slowly, and expose yourself to the food in positive surroundings. Teach your brain that there’s no connection between the food and feeling bad.
As for my cherry Jell-O aversion, I remembered that back in kindergarten I was served room temperature cherry Jell-O and whipped cream, all swirled together. I got sick to my stomach, and that’s when I started hating it. By thinking about the cause of my reaction, I was able to teach myself to enjoy cherry Jell-O again. But if I put whipped cream on it, I still get a little queasy. A million years of evolution is hard to overcome!
Is there a food that you just can't eat because you got sick from it? Please share below.
There is another website where the scientists are conducting research on food aversion. You can read more about it http://www.answers.com/topic/aversion-to-food.
With my personal experience, I keep vomit bags in my purse in case my husband has to meet with people, and that usually involves a restaurant. I would actually sneak off and vomit because I didn't want to embarrass myself. But, the food smell at the restaurant really bothered me. I haven't been to a restaurant in a while because of that. As a matter of fact, it's been but three days since I've eaten because my stomach is still spasming from botox.
I hope this helps somewhat! But there is a scientific reason behind it - your brain is trying to protect you.
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There is one very big drawback to this book and you will find it on the back cover where it says 'Readers must have the .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio in order to run the CD.' Rephrase that to say that readers must have those products to use this book. Currently that is a pretty big up front investment for a novice programmer. In fact that is the biggest barrier to many who would like to learn C# and makes languages that provide free implementations much more attractive to novices. While the authors cannot do anything about this problem I hope Microsoft will address it in the very near future.
Now the style of this book (along with other books on programming languages in this series) is very much addressed at the novice enthusiast. The underlying theme is to learn programming by writing programs for games. I think this concept is flawed for two reasons. The first is that many people want to learn to program that have no interest in games and do not find the subject enthusing. Actually quite a few games players would find the kind of simple-minded game that books such as this have to use something of a turn-off. The second flaw is, in my mind, much more serious; this kind of book is written for a male mind-set. Programming is already far too dominated by one half of the human race and books such as this one will just make it worse. Anywhere else such a blatantly sexist approach to a technical subject would receive immediate condemnation. Now that this book has made me recognize this problem, I have to wonder how many authors of books for novices ever consider whether their choice of exercise material is strongly biased towards a single sex.
The language coverage and general programming is perfectly reasonable though, in my opinion only suitable for young enthusiasts. If you already know how to program, or you wish to learn to program to professional standards you will need to look elsewhere. I think another flaw in the design of the book is that it focuses on instant gratification at the price of understanding. It would be easy to work through this book without actually writing a single line of original code. Worse, as we know, an important element of learning to program is learning about solving problems and that takes practice.
I think that a book aiming to teach that lacks any exercises is missing a vital element. Granted that each chapter ends with a set of challenges, however none of those is exactly demanding. I have a distinct feeling that the author is more interested in providing readers with a sense of satisfaction than with actually making them think. I note that he manages a Streaming Media Lab in a University Computer Science Department. That leads me to wonder if his view of programming is just as a tool for students working on streaming media.
In conclusion, this book is technically satisfactory for its target readership but I think that its style leaves more than a few questions. If you want to learn about programming there are better books. If you want to learn C# there are much better books but if you want to try your hand and find simple games programming interesting and do not mind being spoon-fed the answers this would be the book for you.
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By NEMS Daily Journal
My son, don’t forget my instruction.
Let your heart guard my commands,
because they will help you live a long time
and provide you with well-being.
Don’t let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.
Bind them on your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will find favor and approval
in the eyes of God and humanity.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
don’t rely on your own intelligence.
Know him in all your paths,
and he will keep your ways straight.
Don’t consider yourself wise.
Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
Then your body[a] will be healthy
and your bones strengthened.
Honor the Lord with your wealth
and with the first of all your crops.
Then your barns will be filled
and your vats will burst with wine.
Don’t reject the instruction of the Lord, my son;
don’t despise his correction.
The Lord loves those he corrects,
just like a father who treats his son with favor.
Value of wisdom
Happy are those who find wisdom
and those who gain understanding.
Her profit is better than silver,
and her gain better than gold.
Her value exceeds pearls;
all you desire can’t compare with her.
In her right hand is a long life;
in her left are wealth and honor.
Her ways are pleasant;
all her paths are peaceful.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her;
those who hold her tight are happy.
The Lord laid the foundations of the earth with wisdom,
establishing the heavens with understanding.
With his knowledge, the watery depths burst open,
and the skies drop dew.
Integrity of wisdom
My son, don’t let them slip from your eyes;
hold on to sound judgment and discretion.
They will be life for your whole being,
and an ornament for your neck.
Then you will walk safely on your path,
and your foot won’t stumble.
If you lie down, you won’t be terrified.
When you lie down, your sleep will be pleasant.
Don’t fear sudden terror
or the ruin that comes to the wicked.
The Lord will be your confidence;
he will guard your feet from being snared.
Don’t withhold good from someone who deserves it,
when it is in your power to do so.
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go and come back;
I’ll give it to you tomorrow,” when you have it.
Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
who trusts and lives near you.
Don’t accuse anyone without reason,
when they haven’t harmed you.
Don’t envy violent people
or choose any of their ways.
Devious people are detestable to the Lord,
but the virtuous are his close friends.
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the home of the righteous.
He mocks mockers,
but he shows favor to the humble.
The wise gain respect, but fools receive shame.
Proverbs 3, Common English Bible
The book of Proverbs, after thousands of years, still gives sound and practical applications for life: Seek the wisdom of God. Embrace faith, love, and loyalty; tie them in your heart. Let God be reflected through everyone for all to see.
Through all of life’s changes, challenges, tests, and tears put trust and confidence in the author and finisher of our faith. We needn’t try to figure everything out, but rather trust God to be God through everythng.
Listen to the voice, and then heed God’s inner direction. Run to God.; turn from evil. We don’t know it all; we should seek God for guidance. God always makes a path for God’s people who diligently seek with a sincere, pure motive.
With acknowledgment to the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
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Wh Auden's Biography (Books)
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues," poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles," poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae." He was born in York, grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. After a few months in Berlin in 1928-29 he spent five years (1930-35) teaching in English public schools, then travelled to Iceland and China in order to write books about his journeys. In 1939 he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1946. He taught from 1941 through 1945 in American universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in the 1950s. From 1947 through 1957 he wintered in New York and summered in Ischia; from 1958 until the end of his life he wintered in New York (in Oxford in 1972-73) and summered in Kirchstetten, Austria.
Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He came to wide public attention at the age of twenty-three, in 1930, with his first book, Poems, followed in 1932 by The Orators. Three plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood in 1935-38 built his reputation as a left-wing political writer. Auden moved to the United States partly to escape this reputation, and his work in the 1940s, including the long poems "For the Time Being" and "The Sea and the Mirror," focused on religious themes. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era. In 1956-61 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford; his lectures were popular with students and faculty and served as the basis of his 1962 prose collection The Dyer's Hand.
Auden was a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays, and other forms of performance. Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential, and critical views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive, treating him as a lesser follower of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, to strongly affirmative, as in Joseph Brodsky's claim that he had "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". After his death, some of his poems, notably "Funeral Blues", "Musee des Beaux Arts", "Refugee Blues", "The Unknown Citizen", and "September 1, 1939", became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts, and popular media.
Auden's stature in modern literature has been contested. Probably the most common critical view from the 1930s onward ranked him as the last and least of the three major twentieth-century British poets, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, while a minority view, more prominent in recent years, ranks him as the highest of the three. Opinions have ranged from those of Hugh MacDiarmid, who called him "a complete wash-out," F. R. Leavis who wrote that Auden's ironic style was "self-defensive, self-indulgent or merely irresponsible", and Harold Bloom who wrote "Close thy Auden, open thy Wallace Stevens," to the obituarist in The Times (London), who wrote: "W. H. Auden, for long the enfant terrible of English poetry... emerges as its undisputed master."
Auden was one of three candidates recommended by the Nobel Committee to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963 and six recommended for the 1964 prize. By the time of his death in 1973 he had attained the status of a respected elder statesman, and a memorial stone for him was placed in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1974. The Encyclopaedia Britannica writes that "by the time of Eliot's death in 1965... a convincing case could be made for the assertion that Auden was indeed Eliot's successor, as Eliot had inherited sole claim to supremacy when Yeats died in 1939." With some exceptions, British critics tended to treat his early work as his best, while American critics tended to favour his middle and later work.
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3rd Millennium BC Artificial Eyeball Discovered in Burnt City
Dec 10, 2006
Historic site of Burnt City, southeast Iran
Discovery of an artificial eyeball belonging to 4800 years ago in the historic site of Burnt City has astounded archeologists.
Tehran, 10 December 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Archeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site.
Announcing this news, director of Burnt City archeology excavation team, Mansour Sajadi, said that this eyeball belongs to a sturdy woman who was between 25 to 30 years of age at the time of death. Skeletal remains of the woman were found in grave number 6705 of Burnt City’s cemetery.
Regarding the material used to make this artificial eyeball, Sajadi said: “The material this artificial eyeball is made of has not yet been determined and will be assessed through later testing. However, at first glance it seems natural tar mixed with animal fat has been used in making it.”
Initial studies on the eyeball also suggest formation of an abscess in the eyelid due to long-term contact with the eyeball. Moreover, remaining eyelid tissues are still evident on this artificial eyeball.
According to Sajadi, even the most delicate eye capillaries were drawn on this eyeball using golden wires with a thickness measuring less than half a millimeter. There are also some parallel lines around the pupil forming a diamond shape. Two holes are also seen on the sides of this eyeball to hold it in the eye socket.
Initial anthropological studies on the remaining skeleton of the woman to which this artificial eyeball belong revealed that she was a hybrid woman who died 4800 years ago between the ages of 25 to 30.
A number of clay vessels, ornamental beads, a leather sack, and a bronze mirror have also been found in the grave of this woman.
Located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Sistan va Baluchistan province, southeast Iran, Burnt City is one of the most important prehistoric sites of the country which was well developed during the third millennium BC.
Spreading over a 300,000 hectare area, Burnt City was recently recognized as mainland-Iran’s largest prehistoric site (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6811). The city experienced four stages of civilization and was burnt down three times, which is why it was named ‘Burnt City.’ Discovery of hundreds of historical sites including 166 satellite villages (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6545) together with large numbers of archeological relics, skeletons, and ancient structures in the archeological site of Burnt City makes it holder of an unparalleled record (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6723) in the history of archeological activities in Iran.
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A measurement framework that uses micro-benchmarks to capture and catalog program-dependent signals at specific frequencies
Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech have developed a measurement framework that uses micro-benchmarks to capture and catalog program-dependent signals at specific frequencies. The end-goal of these inventions lies in preventing potential attackers from penetrating and obtaining sensitive/secret information within the computer. The first invention comprises of a methodology to rapidly discover activity-modulated signals using specially designed micro-benchmarks.
It utilizes recognizable spectral patterns that can identify those signals exhibiting a particular type of behavior such as amplitude modulation. The second invention, called CAMELIA, provides accurate and precise security monitoring of embedded, mission-specific, and traditional computing devices and software while keeping the monitoring and computing systems separate. CAMELIA uses the previous invention’s capability of measuring small signal emanations as the basis of security monitoring activity. This approach is revolutionary in that the monitoring is occurring outside the computing device or system versus current monitoring systems that reside within the computing device. Consequently, no modifications need to be made to the computing device to enable this security mechanism.
Accurately and precisely perform security monitoring of information and data being used by computer devices and systems
Eliminates the need for the security mechanism to be incorporated into the device/system being monitored
Capable of functioning without using resources of the device or system being monitored
Can be used as a means to benchmark and compare the performance of different computing devices used to handle sensitive data
These inventions can be applied in the areas of security monitoring, software profiling, code debugging and overall security enhancement of the device or system under consideration. Other application areas include embedded and mission-critical devices or systems where currently used security monitoring and attack prevention hardware and software tends to be more expensive, time consuming and adds to the overall size and form-factor of the device.
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As fish emulsion is most commonly used as a fertilizer, it is most readily found in stores that carry products for garden maintenance, such as Home Depot. It can also be purchased on eBay.Continue Reading
Fish emulsion is produced from the liquid remains of fish industrially processed for oil and fish meal. It is considered an organic fertilizer because it is naturally derived, and may be used in organic horticulture. It is available in most stores selling gardening products.
It is also possible to make one's own fish emulsion. Use any size of bucket with a lid, and fill it two-thirds full with alternating layers of fish scraps and brown plant matter, such as dead oak leaves. Top with water and seal the lid, then leave to steep for around one month. The resulting emulsion is concentrated and must be diluted before use.Learn more about Gardening & Landscapes
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A tiny polar bear must learn how to cope after moving.
Ice loves her tundra friends, snowy hills, and polar treats. But her mom gets a new job far away, and suddenly Ice must leave everything that she knows. In her new home, vegetation grows thick and green, animals eat strange yellow fruit with a peel, and it is hot. Very, very hot. Ice feels isolated and alone. She can’t even understand what her classmates are saying! Ice tries to make friends, but everyone seems standoffish—until Ice realizes they are busy creating a surprise to make her feel welcome. This chunky little bear (who looks precisely like a chiseled block of ice) slowly finds her way through the anxieties of moving to a new place. One of the most endearing sentiments important for parents to remember: “Only her mother’s hug felt the same as always.” Hofmann-Maniyar, in her picture-book debut, explores a difficult transition that many children face, using a metaphor that rings true. A child experiencing any type of move, whether across the world or across the town, certainly can feel like a polar bear being plopped smack in the middle of a jungle!
Comforting to the littlest of ones who find themselves in a change of surroundings. (Picture book. 4-8)
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This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations amend the Health Practitioners (Election of Members of Nursing Council of New Zealand) Regulations 2009 (the principal regulations). The amendments come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.
The principal regulations require 3 nurses to be elected to the Nursing Council of New Zealand. The amendments allow—
Written notice of the election in September 2014 must be sent by post. Another written notice must be sent by post describing the effect of the amendments (relating to electronic notices and electronic voting) and asking each recipient to provide an electronic address for notices. Written notices may be given electronically to a recipient only if he or she does not object. Postal voting must remain available at an election.
Part 3 of the principal regulations and a related definition are revoked because they are redundant.
Date of notification in Gazette: 26 June 2014.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Health.
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|Publication number||US4701841 A|
|Application number||US 06/633,945|
|Publication date||20 Oct 1987|
|Filing date||25 Jul 1984|
|Priority date||25 Jul 1984|
|Publication number||06633945, 633945, US 4701841 A, US 4701841A, US-A-4701841, US4701841 A, US4701841A|
|Inventors||Gerald O. Goodrich, Michael M. Tehranian, Donald A. White|
|Original Assignee||Digital Equipment Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (47), Classifications (4), Legal Events (7)|
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In general, computer systems employ a central processor unit (CPU), a memory (or memories) and a variety of peripherals sometimes referred to as input-output (I/O) devices. Further, in general, these computer members are connected together by a sophisticated main bus device. When a CPU wants to interrogate a peripheral, a set of address signals is sent down the sophisticated bus to all of the peripherals and the particular peripheral which responds to the address signals quite often sets a latch device or a flag device. Thereafter, a strobe signal, or a read signal, or write signal is transmitted and the selected peripheral in response transmits its message to the CPU or alternatively accepts a message from the CPU.
A major problem in the foregoing arrangement is that the physical distance from the CPU to the peripherals, as measured along the bus, is considerable in terms of transmission time. In other words, it takes a finite amount of time for a signal to travel from the CPU to the furthermost connected peripheral. Even though the selected peripheral may be relatively close to the CPU, the system must wait (before any further action is taken) as though the transmitted signal is being sent to the furthermost peripheral. In addition, the main bus lines provide capacitance to the system and the system must wait until the transmitted signals "settle down".
In reviewing the problem, we recognized that the largest percentage of the signals transmitted were from the CPU to the memory and vice versa. We further recognized that if we located the memory close to the CPU and had the frequently transmitted messages operate at a fast time between the CPU and the memory we would improve the overall speed operation of the system. In addition we determined that the memory could operate with a larger address configuration than the peripherals without expensive alterations to the memory. Accordingly we conceived a new approach to handling of the data transmissions. Our new concept enables the new computer system to determine that the address being transmitted is intended for the memory and, if so, the protocol is changed and the signal speed increased but all of the data flow remains over the main bus so that the protocol and speed of transmission is not changed for the peripherals.
In a preferred embodiment, the present arrangement provides a decoder circuit in memory. When a set of address signals is transmitted from the CPU along the main bus, the decoder circuit decodes at least a portion of the address signals and if it is determined that the memory is being addressed, the decoder generates a first control signal. The first control signal is transmitted to the CPU to initiate a faster set of timing signals from a dedicated "faster" timing signal circuit. In addition, the first control signal acts to block any strobe signals which may be sent later on to the peripherals connected to the main bus. The faster timing signal circuit in turn generates control signals which select different parts of the memory and which select a multiplexer to cooperate therewith. Accordingly the number of data words handled can be doubled in a normal memory cycle thereby providing a greater memory data rate without changing the principal protocol. With this arrangement the memory responds to the CPU more quickly than it would have responded if the system had to wait for the full transmission time (to the end of the peripheral path), and a greater amount of data information can be handled by memory without changing the protocol related to the peripherals.
The objects and features of the present invention will be better understood after studying the following description taken in conjunction with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a portion of the CPU related to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a portion of the memory related to the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is an embodiment of a faster timing circuitry which may be employed with the present invention.
Consider FIG. 1 wherein is shown a CPU 11, a memory 13, and two peripherals 15 and 17. As can be seen in FIG. 1 the CPU 11, the memory 13, and each of the peripherals 15 and 17 are connected to a bus 19. The bus 19 is a sophisticated bus such as the LSI-11 data bus manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and employed in DEC systems. As can be seen in FIG. 1 the bus 19 is shown by dashed lines between the connections of the peripherals 15 and 17 to indicate that a plurality of such peripherals could be connected thereto.
Also in FIG. 1 it can be seen that there is a special timing circuit 21 which is connected through channel 23 to a private memory interconnect (PMI) bus 25 which connects the timing circuit 21 to both the memory 13 and the CPU 11. It should also be understood that the memory 13 is directly connected to the CPU 11 by virtue of the private memory interconnect bus 25. The system shown in FIG. 1 is a portion of a computer system and it should be understood that the CPU can send address signals as well as data signals along the main bus 19. When the CPU 11 is programmed to send a set of address signals down the main bus 19, those address signals pass along each of the interconnects 27, 29, and 31. It should be understood that there can be a large number of interconnects between 29 and 31, all of which would be connected to the main bus 19. If a set of address signals is intended to select, for instance, the remote peripheral 17, then those address signals would pass along main bus 19 and through the proper gate arrangement in the interface of the peripheral 17. The circuitry of the interface would set a latch so that at some later time when the CPU 11 transmits a strobe signal, down the main bus 19, the peripheral 17 would respond.
When a set of address signals is transmitted as just described, it takes a relatively long time for the address signals to reach the interconnect 31 and therefore to reach the peripheral 17. If the entire computer system coupled to bus 15 is rather large, it is conceivable that address signals would reach either the proximate peripheral 15, or the memory 13, long before those signals would reach the remote peripheral 17. However, a conventional system has to wait until enough time has elapsed to be certain that the signals have in fact reached the peripheral 17, especially if those signals were intended to reach the peripheral 17. Accordingly, time is wasted when the address signals were intended for the peripheral 15 or the memory 13.
As mentioned above, we discovered that the vast majority of the signals are transmitted between the CPU and the memory and hence in the preferred embodiment the memory is connected to the CPU by a private memory interconnect 25 which very often is the order of six inches along the backboard wiring. In accordance with the present system, when the CPU 11 is addressing the memory 13, the address signals are still transmitted over the interconnect 26 and along the main bus 19, as with the addressing of other subsystems along bus 19. Decoding circuitry 39 in memory 13 receives and decodes a portion of those address signals. If decoding circuitry 39 in memory 13 determines that the address represented by the address signals is intended for memory then decoding circuitry 39 transmits a first control signal along the private memory interconnect (PMI) 25 to the CPU 11.
The first control signal acts in the CPU 11 to initiate a timing signal, which could also be a different control signal, to the timing circuitry 21. Such a timing signal is transmitted over the PMI 25 and along the interconnect 23 to the special timing circuitry 21. The special timing circuitry 21 in turn generates memory control signals which are transmitted over the interconnect 23, and over the PMI 25, to the memory 13. At the memory 13, some of the memory control signals act to set up bus driver/receivers to accept data from the main bus 19, and some of the memory control signals further act to generate "enable" signals to one of two sections of the memory 13.
The address signals are accepted by memory 13 and applied to two sections of memory 13 simultaneously in the preferred embodiment shown. The timing circuitry 21 preferably further transmits a multiplexer select signal over PMI 25 to memory 13 which acts to select a multiplexer. The multiplexer is connected to operate with the sections of the memory 13 which have been addressed and selects one such section at a time. Accordingly the memory 13 can handle twice the number of data signals within a single memory cycle. Since the number of data signals can be doubled, the effective speed of the memory is thereby increased and hence the system operates to handle more memory information in less time, than under the principal protocol arrangement.
As can be determined by the block diagram of FIG. 1 and the preceding description, the present system provides for changing the mode of data transmission by changing the protocol and by changing the timing signals. This is done without reconfiguring of the system to accomodate the peripherals and without necessitating any additional changes to the main bus.
Consider FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 which show schematic block diagrams of respectively a portion of the CPU 11, a portion of memory 13, and a portion of the timing circuitry 21. The placement of address signals on main bus 19 will be dealt with in more detail when discussing FIG. 2. For the moment let us assume that the CPU 11 has generated the address signals on the main bus 19. We find that in FIG. 2 those address signals pass along the main bus 19 to the right (in the drawing) and appear on main bus 19 in FIG. 3. The address signals will be transmitted over the interconnect 33, through the receivers 35, along the lines 37 to the decoder circuitry 39. The decoder 39 is made up of an NOR gate 41 whose output is connected a NAND gate 43. If we consider, for the purposes of demonstrating a concept of this invention that we desire the high speed memory 13 to respond to addresses from 0 through 03,777,777 (octal), and if we further consider that we have a twenty-two bit memory address, then the data address lines twenty and twenty-one (DAL 20 and 21) should never have a "1" (i.e., should both always be "0"). If either of the data address lines, twenty or twenty-one (DAL 20 or DAL 21), has a "1", then the memory 13 is not being addressed. Accordingly as can be seen in FIG. 3, the decoder employs the NOR gate 41 which is connected to the DAL 20 and DAL 21 output from receiver 35. If both of those lines are "0", or low, then there will be a low input signal on both inputs to the NOR gate 41 and accordingly a high output signal on the line 45. The high signal on line 45 will provide a low signal on line 47. The low signal on line 47 is the first control signal operating in response to the decoding of the signals on DAL 20 and DAL 21. Other forms of decoding arrangements could also be used. It should be also understood that while the decoder circuitry 39 is shown in the memory, it could also be located in the CPU or some other location.
The address lines 37 are further connected to latches of which the latch 49 is exemplary. The description of latch 49 will be provided below.
The first control signal on line 47 is transmitted to the PMI 25, shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 and along the interconnect 51 shown in FIG. 2. The control signal on line 51 is transmitted to the inverter 53 as well as to the NAND gate 55.
It must be remembered that we have briefly dealt with the address signals being placed on the main bus 19. In the normal operation, after the address signals are present on the main bus 19 there is a "bus request signal" transmitted on line 57 (FIG. 2). The "bus request signal" on line 57 is transmitted through the buffer 59 to the delay line 61. In the preferred embodiment circuit elements 59, 61, 65, and 67 make up a delay line, manufactured by Pulse Engineering Incorporated and identified by number 21214. As can be seen in FIG. 2, the delay line 61 has two taps. The first tap being connected to the line 63 while the second tap 65 is at the end of the delay line. As the "bus request signal" travels along the delay line 61 it is tapped off on the line 63 to pass through the buffer 67 to the AND gate 69. The other input to the AND gate 69 comes from the inverter 71. The output from inverter 71 is high unless of course there is a high input signal thereto. Accordingly, for a period of time determined by delay line 61, there can be two high signals present on the NAND gate 69 to provide a high signal to the AND gate 73.
The first control signal which was described earlier as being transmitted on the PMI 25 is further transmitted along the interconnect line 51 to the inverter 53 where it is inverted and buffered as a high signal to the NAND gate 73. Accordingly, when the NAND gate 73 has two high inputs it provides a low output signal which is "Start PMI" signal on line 75. The "Start PMI" signal on line 75 is transmitted, as can be seen in FIG. 4, to the NAND gate 77 of a latch comprising cross-coupled NAND gates 77 and 79. The output of NAND gate 77 is a read signal on line 79.
The read signal on line 79 is an output the NAND gate 81 which is part of a latch comprising NAND gates 81 and 79. The output of gate 81 is an input to the inverter 83 whose output is transmitted on line 85 as a multiplexer select signal. The multiplexer select signal is transmitted on the PMI bus 25 and, as can be seen in FIG. 3, is transmitted along the interconnect 87 to the multiplexer 89. The multiplexer select signal 87 selects the multiplexer 89 so that information signals from either the memory array 91 or the memory array 93 can be transmitted through the multiplexer 89 along the data lines 95. It should be understood that while only one bus driver/receiver circuit 36 is shown in FIG. 3, in fact there is one such bus drivers receiver for each of the data lines emerging from the multiplexer 89.
While we have described the selection of the multiplexer, we have to consider how the memory arrays 91 and 93 are addressed to select the proper information for transmission from those memory arrays. The foregoing is accomplished by an additional control signal from the timing circuitry 21.
In FIG. 4 we find that the read signal 79 is also transmitted along the interconnect wire 97 to the NAND gate 99. The read signal is passed through the NAND gate 99 (assuming INITL is low) to the inverter 101 where it is converted to provide a read signal on line 103. The read signal on line 103 is transmitted along the PMI bus 25 to the interconnect 104 in FIG. 3. The read signal on interconnect 104 is transmitted through the inverter 105 where it is converted to a low signal. The read signal (now low) in turn is transmitted to the latch 49. It will be remembered that the address signals which were present on the main bus 19 and which were transmitted along the interconnect 33, through the receiver 35 were transmitted along the lines 37 to the latch(es) 49. Those signals are present at the "D" terminals of the latches 49. When the read signal on line 107 reaches the gate terminals of the plurality of latches 49, all of those latches are fully conditioned to provide signals to the input terminals of the memory sections 91 and 93. Since the proper address signals have been transmitted to both memory sections 91 and 93, it is only a matter of selecting the output lines 109 or output lines 111 which transmit the particular data signals from the arrays to the multiplexer 89 and therefrom along the lines 95. The information signals being transmitted along the lines 95 are transmitted through the bus driver/receivers 36 back onto the main bus 19 to CPU 11.
When the read signal has been transmitted through the inverter 105 in FIG. 3, it is further transmitted to the inverter 113 as well as to the gate terminal of latch 115. It will be recalled that when both of the input signals on the DAL 20 and DAL 21 are "0" there is a first control signal generated. Above we have discussed the operation of that control signal from the line 47. In addition, as we examine FIG. 3 we find that the first first control signal is also transmitted from line 45, along the line 117, to the D terminal of latch 115. As long as the address signals are present (and decoded) there is signal applied to the D terminal of the latch 115. While the first control signal is present at the D terminal of latch 115, the read signal from the inverter 105 appears on the gate terminal of latch 115 and hence latch 115 provides an output signal to the AND gate 119. Virtually, simultaneously therewith, the output signal from inverter 113 provides a high signal to the AND gate 119. Hence the first control signal is transmitted along the delay line 121. It will be noted that there are three taps along the delay line 121: the tap represented by the interconnect 123, the tap represented by the interconnect 125, and of course the end of the delay line represented by the line 127.
The signal from the first tap, on line 123, passes through the inverters 129 and 131 to the NAND gate 133. At the same time the read signal described earlier on line 104 and output from inverter 113 is present on the line 135 to fully condition the NAND gate 133. The delay window provided by the delay line 121, as reflected in the signal on line 137, provides enough time for the data in the memory arrays 91 and 93 to be read out through the multiplexer 89 to the bus driver/receiver devices 36. In each bus driver/receiver device 36 there is an NAND gate 139 and the input from the line 137 fully conditions these NAND gates to enable the data signals on lines 95 to be transmitted to the main bus 19.
The second tap 125 of the delay line 121 takes the first control signal and transmits it through the inverting buffers 141 and 143 to the NAND gate 145. The other input to the NAND gate 145 is from the end of the delay line 121 via line 127, through the amplifier (inverter) 147. The purpose of having this double delay and the conditioning by the NAND gate 145 is to generate a pulse at the output of NAND gate 145. The output from the NAND gate 145 is transmitted on line 149, along PMI 25, to line 149' the timing circuit 21 shown in FIG. 4.
The signal on line 149', shown in FIG. 4, is transmitted through the inverter 151 to the line 153. The signal on line 153 is transmitted as an enable data signal (ENABLE DATA 1H) to the CPU 11, as can be seen in FIG. 2. The enable data signal on line 153 is transmitted through the OR gate 155 to the gate terminals of the latches 157. As shown in FIG. 4 we find that the ENABLE DATA 1H signal is also transmitted through the buffer 159, through the delay line 161, through the buffer 163, through the inverter 165 and along the line 167, and becomes a clear signal CLR PRDL. In other words, after the system has been operated, all of the latches etc., are cleared via this signal.
Delay line 161 has three taps. The first tap is represented by the line 169, the second tap is represented by the line 171, while the third tap at the end of the delay line is represented by the line 173. The signal on line 169 provides the second multiplexer select signal on line 85. The manner in which that signal generated is that the signal on line 169 passes through the buffer 175, and into the inverter 177, through the NAND gate 179 in a latch comprising NAND gates 179 and 81. In that latch the output of NAND gates 179 and 81. In that latch, the output of NAND gate 179 is line 181 which provides an input to NAND gate 81. The second multiplexer select signal is generated from an output of that latch, at NAND gate 81, which passes through inverter 83 to provide a second timed multiplexer selector signal on line 85.
The signal on line 171, from the delay line 161, is transmitted through the buffer 183 and along the line 185 to provide a second enable data signal, ENABLE DATA 2H. The second enable data signal on line 185 operates very similarly to the first enable data signal on line 153 but the destination and operation are different, as seen in FIG. 2. In FIG. 2 the ENABLE DATA 2H signal signal on line 185 is transmitted to the gate terminals of the latches 187. The latches 157 and 187 provide the de-multiplexed signal to the CPU and they operate in response to data signals being present on the lines 189. As FIG. 2 shows, those data signals are received from bus 19 via bus driver/receivers 203.
As alluded to briefly in the discussion of FIG. 2, address signals are placed on the main bus 19 when the bus request signal was generated. The address signals are actually present on lines 22 prior to the generation of the bus request signal. The address signals remain present on the main bus 19 as long as the NAND gate 24 remains fully conditioned. The high output from NOR gate 197 fully conditions the NAND gate 24.
The bus request signal is transmitted along the line 191 to the AND gate 193. The AND gate 193 will be fully conditioned, until the delay expires, to provide an output signal on line 195 to the NOR gate 197. The bus request signal through the NOR gate 197 is transmitted along the line 199, to the NAND gates 24 of the bus driver/receivers 203. The NAND gates 24 are thus fully conditioned to transmit the address signals to the main bus 19 until the delay expires. When the delay expires the NAND gate 193 provides a low signal to the NOR gate 197 which passes through the inverter 26 to provide a low signal to NAND gate 24 thus terminating the presence of the address signals on the main bus 19.
In FIG. 2 there is also shown a direct memory access logic circuit 205. That logic circuit is not described herein because it is unrelated to the invention but it should be understood that that logic circuit is in operation if the system is operating under the principal protocol. The way in which that logic is enabled is that if the decoder circuit 39 in FIG. 3 does not detect that the address is directed at the memory then there will be no first control signal on line 47. If there is no first control signal on line 47 then no signal is transmitted along the PMI 25 in FIG. 2. However, the resistor 207 shown in FIG. 2 is connected to a high potential and hence the input to NAND gate 55, is held at a high potential, as is the input to inverter 53. With the inverter 53 being held at a high potential there is a low signal applied to the NAND gate 73 and hence that NAND gate is not fully conditioned.
On the other hand, with a high signal being present at the input of the NAND gate 55, when the bus request signal comes through from the AND gate 69, those two high signals provide a low output which is then an input to the NOR gate 209. The latch comprising NAND gate 209 then provides a high signal on the line 211. The logic circit 205 responds to the high signal on line 211 to provide signals to the bus drivers 213 which are connected to the normal bus control line 215 and accordingly the system operates with the principal protocol instead of the special protocol that has been described heretofore. In addition, the output signal on line 206 is high for a longer period of time than that provided by the output of AND gate 193 so that the NAND gate 24 permits the address signals to be present for a longer period under the normal protocol than under the special protocol.
The present system has the advantage of cutting short the time required to transmit data and instructions between the CPU and the memory or indeed between the CPU and the other device if it should be so desired. The system operates to decode addres signals and determine if the memory, in the preferred embodiment, can handle the address that is being sought. If the memory handles the address being sought then the system goes into a mode of operation which provides faster timing cycle and more information in each cycle both of which enhance the overall operation of the computer system.
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The new Draft London Plan is a positive step for the city’s logistics sector, but there are still issues which need to be addressed, advises the Freight Transport Association (FTA).
It says the recognition of an urgent need for more industrial land is heartening, but the growing city will also need additional trucks to service businesses and residents and freight parking facilities must be incorporated into the scheme.
The Draft London Plan was launched on December 1 by London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan and the consultation will remain open until March 2018. The document sets out a proposed strategy, to shape how London evolves and develops. Once adopted, all planning decisions should follow London Plan policies.
“The draft London Plan shows a good understanding of some of the challenges faced by companies transporting goods in and out of the capital. Rising land values and the pressure for housing has left industrial land in short supply. This means logistics hubs have been pushed further and further from the centre, leading to longer journey times and more vehicles on the roads.
“FTA is pleased to see the recognition of a need for more industrial land within London. However, we would like to see space earmarked for smaller logistics hubs close to the city centre, to service the growing use of electric vehicles,” said FTA’s head of policy for London, Natalie Chapman.
“One area which has not been addressed is the impact of congestion on road freight services and the growing need for truck drivers to take their legal breaks within the M25. We’d like the Mayor and his team to address the need for lorry parks in London to allow drivers to take their breaks in a secure and pleasant environment and without causing disruption to residents living along major routes,” she added.
FTA represents members from all modes of freight transport. Chapman says many will welcome the plan’s emphasis on the increased use of water and rail to service the city’s growing population. She also highlights the importance of supporting existing businesses as housing spreads:
“Sadly, some long-established businesses have been forced to close after new housing was built close by and residents complained about noise or other disruption. FTA accepts the need for new housing in London, but those homes also need infrastructure to support them. We’re delighted to see that the plan requires developers to consider the impact of existing industry on new housing developments and places the burden on house-builders to adopt noise reducing design and even in some cases pay for sound-proofing.”
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Ariel Castro was to have spent a millennium in prison. That was his punishment after being found guilty of 937 criminal counts, including kidnapping, rape and murder. To be more exact, he was to serve life plus 1,000 years.
But after just about a month, he tied a bed sheet around his neck and cut short his life and his punishment.
That’s it. No more Ariel Castro. No more temporal punishment. After causing a living hell for the three girls he kidnapped and kept as sexual slaves for over a decade — girls who were continually raped, chained to a wall, locked in a dark room, fed one meal a day, regularly beaten, threatened with death, day after day, month after month, year after year — Castro made the ultimate escape.
Castro had pleaded guilty to the 937 criminal accounts so that he could avoid the death penalty, and then he imposed that penalty on himself.
We need to think about this. Deeply.
First, we need to think deeply about what it was like for the three young women, Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. In 2002, Michelle was 21 when Castro abducted her. A third of her life would be spent in darkness, rape, violence, horror, stench, despair. Amanda and Georgina were thrust into Castro’s hell in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Amanda was 16, and Georgina only 14 years old. The morbid math: Amanda would spend a little over 40% of her life in hell, and Georgina would spend about 44%.
Time feels differently when you are having fun, going out with your friends, watching a good movie and laughing over a meal with your family. It goes fast.
But time crawls when you’re sitting in a dark room smelling your own urine and feces, chained to a wall, waiting for the horror of footsteps coming toward the door, being raped, giving birth in a plastic wading pool. Minutes are hours; hours are days; days are years; years are eternities.
How long did the three young women spend in Castro’s hell? You tell me.
The consideration of time brings up a second consideration: justice. The court sentencing Castro showed an admirable frustration in trying to render a just punishment. A mere lifetime of sitting in a prison cell — a well-lit cell, a cell with a real toilet, a cell where Castro would not be chained to the wall or raped or beaten, a cell where he could watch TV, read and take his three meals a day — was not a punishment that fit the enormity of the crime.
The court therefore added 1,000 years to his lifetime as if to say, “Ariel Castro, for what you did, you should be held behind bars for a span of time equal to that which passed between the kingship of David and the birth of Christ, a time greater than the span between the Battle of Hastings and this very day of your sentencing, a period of punishment almost four times the age of this country under whose laws we now pronounce this verdict.”
Yet, justice isn’t just a matter of time. Justice means giving what is due. Justice means that Ariel Castro should be made to experience, in himself, the full horror of what he did. Not just a sip of it, but the whole cup. Only then would he be able to say, “I see now what I have done. I see the hell that I caused these three women. I have now drunk as deeply as they did from the bitterest depths of their despair, pain, humiliation and darkness, and I am as deeply sorry.”
That’s repentance. And that’s what true justice, with mercy at its heart, aims to bring about in the one punished.
But just as the amount of time due Castro for his punishment exceeds that which a merely human court can give, so also does the depth of punishment.
If that weren’t bad enough, Castro wasn’t truly sorry. Of course, he said he was sorry, sort of, in a rambling 20-minute speech. But he also said he wasn’t really to blame because he was “a victim of sex acts when I was a child,” and so, “I’m not a monster. I’m sick,” and “I am addicted to porn,” and “I’ve been a musician for a long time 20, 25 years. ... I’m a happy person inside,” and “I’m not a violent person,” and “Most of the sex that went on within the house was consensual. These allegations [of my being] forceful on them is totally wrong. There was times they would ask me for sex. Many times,” and “I hope they can find in their hearts to forgive me because we had a lot of harmony going on in that home.”
That’s the Castro who hanged himself, a man without true remorse.
That’s why there is hell.
If there were no hell — no place wherein a moral monster like Castro undergoes the punishment he deserves for as long as he deserves it — then, at least in this case, there would be no justice. But human beings cannot live in a universe without justice, and so they cannot live in a universe without hell as long as there are moral monsters like Castro who escape the punishment they deserve.
Not convinced? Imagine your sense of moral outrage at the violation of justice if the court had actually sentenced Castro to one month in prison.
This is not an argument about revenge. To experience the hell he caused would be — if undertaken in the right spirit — the very thing that could bring Castro to true repentance. He would know what he had done, and that is what he would be truly, deeply sorry for.
Hell is the mercy of justice aimed at bringing about true repentance but refused by the recipient. It is the proper punishment without the proper response.
At the finale to his final ramble, Castro did say, “I’m sorry for everything. I know true Jugment Day is when God comes and judges me. I’ve been reading the Bible. I’ve been asking for forgiveness. … Please find it in your hearts to forgive me.”
So it really may be that Ariel Castro is not in hell. But even if he was truly sorry, that should only be the beginning of his punishment, not just another way (like hanging himself) to avoid it. For his sake, he must still experience the hell he caused, or he isn’t sorry for what really happened.
That’s why there is purgatory.
I believe it was St. Thomas Aquinas who said, if I may paraphrase it, that there is no difference between the fires of hell and the fires of purgatory. The difference lies in how the fires are received. In purgatory, the souls feel the punishment as the redemptive cleansing they desire with all their hearts to undergo. In hell, they feel only the pain.
Benjamin Wiker is a faculty associate of Franciscan University’s Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life and a visiting associate professor at Franciscan University. He is the author of 12 books, the most recent being How To Think about GOD on a Plane. His website is benjaminwiker.com.
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Honestly it is rare to hear the following six statements in the business world. These statements describe what individuals in great sports teams say about one another. They are indicators of a team with a strong shared identity. How does your team compare?
It’s not about me, but the team.
It’s fascinating to hear this statement come out of a star player’s mouth. Are they being humble, not trying to draw attention to themselves? Or do they really believe what they are saying?
When our focus and intention is around winning as a team, we actually have a better chance of doing so. When the team is my focus, I cross the silo, embrace what’s best for the organization (vs. my own P&L), and am not satisfied until we all win. My performance is always less than the team’s performance, and I am not satisfied until the collective team wins. The last thing we would ever do is let down our team members.
I have your back.
Isn’t it great when we hear this? It’s a statement of trust, confidence and safety. We don’t have to worry about the failure, blame or shame that are unfortunately part of many team members’ experiences when something goes wrong.
When I ask my executive coaching clients about their best team experiences, this trait always comes up. It was implicit in the best team they ever worked on. Champion team members know that not everyone will play their best game on every occasion. They raise their game when someone is having a rough game to get the winning result.
We presume the best intent.
Think of a recent ESPN post-game player interview. When was the last time the winning player stated, “I don’t think my teammates wanted to win”? It doesn’t happen. When something blows up at work, what’s the next thing that happens? The blame game quickly follows.
The starting point for great leadership teams is that they always presume that everyone on the team is well-intentioned. We want the same thing. We want the best for one another. No one ever intentionally sabotages their colleague or “throws them under the bus.”
We believe in one another.
I recently heard an Olympic game-winning soccer player say that they never stopped believing, both in the outcome and one another. It’s been a long time since I have heard that in a boardroom. When times get rough, many leaders lose their belief and confidence in one another, instead of rallying with one another through the tougher times. Why is it that so many leadership team members compete with one another than against the competition? Perhaps they have lost belief in their ability to win as a team.
They make me better.
One of the best compliments said of Michael Jordan by his teammates was that he made them all better. What if we could say that of the colleagues on our leadership team?
It requires high trust and candid feedback, and it requires honest assessments of our long and short attributes. Business management writer Patrick Lencioni notes that vulnerability can lead to increased trust in teams. When we trust one another, we tell the truth and the truth makes us better individually and as a team.
We disagree with one another.
The benefit of a great sports coaching staff is that everyone comes with varying approaches, ideas and strategies about how to win. A dissenting vote on any team is a sign of team health. We were born with and develop different points of view. That’s the benefit of having a team — we want to see business issues and opportunities from all sides. Strong teams have many views expressed, discussed, challenged and debated. The diversity of thought and opinion is sought after to gain the best result for the team.
When it’s not working with your leadership team, watch the next post-game interview from a winning sports team. You’ll be inspired to try these approaches that great teams exhibit to win the game.
Interesting article by Evan Roth published in Forbes Inc. Recently a few leadership teams I have worked with have talked about the need to be seen supporting each other. This article contains some ideas on that theme.
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Home security is of the utmost importance to most people. When it comes to protecting your property and your family, there’s no room for cutting corners. That’s why locks are so important. Occasionally, there will be a need to rekey your locks to ensure that feeling of safety. Continue reading to learn more about rekeying locks from the team at A1 Lock and Key LLC.
When Keys Go Missing
We advise rekeying in the event that you’ve misplaced your keys. There is a chance that someone could discover a lost key and use it to enter your home without your knowledge or permission if you can’t account for all of the copies of your keys. Rekeying will make your current keys worthless and no longer open your locks, just as you would cancel a lost credit card to stop others from using it.
Moving into a New House
Rekeying your locks is another good idea if you’re moving into a new house. Unless the house is brand new, there’s a potential that the former owner or someone else they trusted with a key to the place may still have a copy of the keys to the locks. It’s best to rekey the locks to ensure that nobody outside you and your chosen few may access your property.
Updating Older Locks
Rekeying a lock is sometimes necessary when an older lock needs to be replaced. Older locks feature fewer pins than contemporary locks, which makes them less secure and easier to pick. We may add more pins to these old locks when our professionals rekey them, increasing their security and giving you more peace of mind.
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Joint Replacement Surgery
At Regen, it is the sincere endeavour of our doctors to offer the best possible care for bone and joint health. It is because of our team of leading orthopaedic surgeons from across the country, that we are able to offer the best-in-class minor and major treatments pertaining to arthritic issues. Not only are the surgeries offered by us minimally invasive to ensure faster healing, but our renowned post-surgery care also helps in smooth recovery.
We are one of the very few hospitals to offer platelet-rich plasma transfusion for patients suffering from osteoarthritis as well as rheumatoid arthritis. We also specialise in dealing with –
- Injuries caused due to Trauma
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Our doctors believe that it is the initial assessment which is one of the most imperative stages of a Joint Replacement Surgery. Hence, they usually recommend one or more of the below mentioned methods –
- Review of past medical records
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Based on the findings of the investigation as well as the age and activity level of the patient, our specialised doctors design a customised treatment plan for the patient. These may be broadly classified under two heads –
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These include a combination of anti-inflammatory medications, physiotherapy, as well as joint injections. In case of non-surgical course of treatment, most patients are advised to undertake an exercise program at home, designed specifically for them.
- Surgical Treatment
Usually advised for patients suffering from prolonged pain and discomfort of knee, surgical treatments often comprise of joint reconstruction or joint replacement procedures. In some patients however, a simple bone realignment or osteotomy may also be advised. In the case of problems related to the hip, a surgical procedure that helps conserve the bone is most relied upon. In severe cases however, total knee replacement is recommended.
So, if you’ve been on the lookout for effective treatment with respect to any of the following issues, feel free to get in touch with us, or simply visit Regen at the earliest. And when you do, you can rest assured of the best-in-class quality, care and facilities!
- Degenerative Joint Disease
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At Regen, we ensure the best technologies are made available to our patients thus giving them enhanced clinical outcomes. We also take all efforts possible to offer patient centric tertiary care services so that our patients enjoy complete safety and satisfaction.
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‘An incredible achievement’: Victoria’s COVID-19 battle is world success story
A leading health researcher says Victoria’s battle against COVID-19 is a global success story.
Health Program Director at the Grattan Institute, Dr Stephen Duckett, says Victoria has driven down coronavirus numbers as cases surged in other parts of the world.
“This was an incredible achievement,” he told Ross and Russel.
“Singapore came close, then it’s daylight, no one else has done it.
“All these countries in Europe were at the same numbers as us back in July and then they go into summer, where it’s harder for the virus to transmit … and we were in winter and yet we have done it!
Dr Duckett says he has faith that Victoria’s contact tracing system is now up to scratch.
“This Preston wave, the department has now published how it started … who it went to next … really, really detailed stuff and I think that shows they’re on top of it,” he said.
He urged caution, but said things are looking good.
“We’re not out of it yet. There’s always some possibility there’s some virus lurking around there in the background,” Dr Duckett said.
“It’s still cautious items but it’s looking really good and Christmas is going to be great.”
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Christopher Jones - Wild at Heart
by Jan E. Morris
In 1968, life above the Sunset Strip at the Chateau Marmont was a world apart from Jackson, Tennessee where Billy Frank Jones was born (August 18, 1941). The younger son of J.G. and Robbie Jones, Billy Frank spent the first three years of his life living in a cramped apartment over a grocery store. His father earned their living as a grocery clerk. His mother was a talented artist. His father spoke highly of Robbie's talent, "How she could draw! She'd look at a scene or a face and then with a pencil or crayon she would bring it to life again on a sheet of paper. It was a wonder to watch her. And even as a youngster, Billy Frank had the same ability." But Robbie was a fragile soul and the emotional instabilities she struggled with took her away from her sons in 1945 when his father had her admitted to the State Hospital in Bolivar, Tennessee. The treatment of mental illnesses was as harsh as the social stigmas surrounding it in those days and there was little hope for her recovery. She would remain there until she died in 1960. Chris barely remembers her. "I can remember her picking me up once." he's said, "but I can't remember what she looked like."
Without his wife, J.G. was unable to care for his two lively little boys. The boys were split up and Billy Frank was sent to live with an aunt in Mississippi. Two years later he was reunited with his brother, Robert, and the boys were placed in Boys Town in Memphis, Tennessee. Billy Frank lived there until he was sixteen. In spite of his rebellion against the uniforms and the regimentation of life in Boys Town, his intelligence, charm and talent won people over. Other boys looked up to him and he channeled much of his frustration through his sketching. Joe Stockton, the executive director of Boys Town during much of Billy Frank's time there, was impressed with the boy's artistic ability enough to arrange a scholarship for him at an art school. Even though he lost interest with the classes, Billy Frank designed a crest for Kingsbury High School while he was at Boys Town that has been used for many years. "This boy was no punk," Stockton is quoted to have said, "Don't ever believe anything you might read that would make you think that. He was bright and he was good. He should be living proof to other underprivileged boys that you can become a fine man and find your own place in life no matter what has happened, if you just aim for the heights."
Chris remembered one hot summer day when he was called into Mr. Stockton's office. "I must have been 14 or 15 years old at the time and I was sure I was going to be punished for something. Instead, the man handed me a copy of Life magazine with a photo of James Dean [from Giant] on the cover. After a long silence he said, 'You know Billy, you look just like this guy!' and as I studied the picture, he sat staring at me. I saw a resemblance, although I'd never seen a picture of James Dean before." Stockton later took him to see Rebel Without a Cause when the film first came to town in 1955. He'd seen an article about James Dean's death in a car accident, which made the actor more fascinating for a young man who was surrounded with the hot Chevy's and Ford's being produced in the fifties, more than one of his friends had driven those fast cars to their death. In Memphis, Elvis and Rock & Roll and fast cars were KING. His first heroes were Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. "Dean had a sophisticated subtility about him and although people have always compared me to him, at the time I would have preferred to be thought of as more flashy, like Elvis. After seeing Love Me Tender and East of Eden at about the same time, I realized how brilliant James Dean was. I've always been torn between the two role models though."
His father remarried and had three other children, but the boys were only allowed home to visit on holidays. Billy Frank walked away from Boys Town just before his 16th birthday, he went home to Jackson and spent the next year living with his father's new family. He passed the time babysitting for the children and going to the movies. The first time he saw a movie, he knew he would not spend his life in Tennessee. His quote from a 1966 interview, "I adored movies. Everything was so clean and uncomplicated in the movies. All those important people in their big houses. That was my ideal. I wanted to be a movie star. The movies kept me going for a long time. They kept me going until I learned in New York three years ago that there is no ideal, that there are very few people who aren't hypocrites."
His family asked no questions and made no demands on him living at home, but Billy Frank was restless to find out what was beyond the horizon. One day he brought home papers for his father to sign to enlist him into the army. The strict regimentation of military service wasn't what he had planned on and one night, impulsively acting on an urge to go to New York, he walked away AWOL. He stole a car and drove to New Orleans, then on to New York, stopping at James Dean's birthplace in Indiana along the way. It's hard to imagine how many people have walked up to the front door of the Dean's family homestead, but Billy's striking resemblance to Jimmy opened the door and got him invited in to a warm reception.
"The Winslows were very nice people and made me feel right at home." Chris remembers, "Marcus [Jimmy's cousin] was not home, I suppose he may have been in school. They took me up to Jimmy's room where his Levi's were lying on the bed waiting for him to jump into them and there were several pairs of boots on the floor just where he had left them. His Uncle showed me his motorcycle and took me to the barn to see Jimmy's hand print they had put in the cement when he was nine years old. He also told me Jimmy fell while he was playing and his Father made him a plate which he wore for the rest of his life." Years later, Jack Simmons, who appeared with Dean in "Rebel," told Chris sometimes Jimmy would break the plate and could be seen without it at Googies Coffee Shop next door to the famous Schwabs Drug Store on Sunset Blvd.
In New York, a friend convinced Billy to turn himself in to the army and he was shipped off to serve out a sentence on Governors Island. When he was released six months later, he eagerly hit the streets of New York. He met a painter and studied painting for a while, an art form that remains a life long passion for him.
He made friends with an actor studying under Frank Corsaro who talked Billy into going to a couple of classes with him. He fit in with the actors and became serious about acting, soon changing his name to Christopher Jones. Corsaro, having been a close friend of James Dean, introduced Billy to classical music, just like he'd done for Dean a few years before. "I've always felt there was a supreme hand at work during my whole experience in New York. It was as if I'd been sent to fill an emptiness in a void left after Dean's death. Some were men, some were women, some were famous, some had never made it to the business, but Jimmy had left a big impression on them just the same." Even his future wife, Susan Strasberg, had known Dean quite well. Chris had his own ideas, "I never took the resemblance and comparisons to Dean too seriously, I felt that I had talent in my own right."
When Shelley Winters met Christopher on the stage of Tennessee William's Night of the Iguana, it was the beginning of a lasting friendship. Shelley embraced her two young Iguana proteges, Chris Jones and Jimmy Farentino. "Every night we would take the Jaguar out of Shubert Alley and Chris and Jimmy and Alex and I would find belly dancers in the Village, Mabel Mercer on the East Side, and jazz in Harlem. We once broke into Al Roon's Health Club at 3:00 A.M. for a swim. I was able to lock the door as we left, and thus escape arrest. We once ran out of gas on the West Side Highway. Nobody would walk to the nearest gas station. We just sat there, looking at the lights on the Jersey shore. There we sat, three handsome young men and a platinum blonde sitting on the hood of an enormous two-toned gray Jag with a British license plate . "
One night Shelley and the boys were having dinner at Downey's and Susan Strasberg walked in. Christopher recognized her and begged Shelley to introduce him, "That's Susan Strasberg, " he said, "I'm going to marry her." Susan remembered her first impression of Chris, "[Shelley and I] talked for a few minutes and she introduced me to Christopher. He had medium brown hair streaked with gold, deep brown eyes, high cheekbones, and a bowed sensual mouth. He was wearing a shirt unbuttoned to the waist, skin tight faded jeans, and although it was freezing outside, a lightweight leather jacket I hadn't even caught his name."
Christopher's path crossed Susan's several times in the months ahead. He was admitted to Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio as an observer and watched her intensely from the balcony. Susan remembered one weekend in 1961 when a group of friends were invited to Long Island for the weekend. "There was a thunderstorm that night. It was terrifying, yet beautiful. Christopher tore off his shirt and ran onto the beach into the pelting rain. 'I'm going swimming,' he called. 'You're crazy, come back inside ... it's not safe,' we implored him. Instead, he began to do a rhythmic, erotic dance between the flashes of lightning. It was as if in the eye of the storm he became the storm itself. And, like it, appeared both beautiful and dangerous."
Not long after, Susan found herself walking with Christopher on the streets of New York. The afternoon stretched into the next two weeks. It was the blissful beginning of a turbulent lover affair that spanned many years of the most influential decade of a generation, the 1960's. While Christopher was still serious about acting, his association with the Strasberg Actor's Studio and Susan's father, Lee Strasberg, was filled with conflict.
In 1963, Chris and Susan accepted an invitation to drive to Los Angeles with their close friends the Orbach's, Jerry and Marta. While they were on the road they heard the news of the Kennedy shooting, the world they were living in was changing on many levels. When they arrived in Los Angeles, they checked into the Chateau Marmont. The Sunset Strip was already showing signs of the coming of age of a new generation.
Their love affair became more intense, more complicated. Christopher told Susan about the year his mother had died. How he couldn't sleep lying down the whole year after. He would sleep fully dressed, sitting up watching TV. One night he was watching one of Susan's movies, The Cherry Orchard. There was one scene with a close up of Susan's character smiling. Christopher was stuck by her resemblance to a picture he had kept of his mother smiling into the camera. As he watched, the image from the photograph superimposed itself over Susan's. Susan allowed Chris to become the center of her universe never knowing what trigger might turn his tender adoration into jealous violence. To add to the paranoia, the drug culture swirled around them and the lovers found themselves drawn into a lifestyle of all night parties and wasted days.
In 1965, Christopher landed the lead in a TV series The Legend of Jesse James. Susan was sure things would be different, Chris would be the wage earner for the first time in their relationship and he wouldn't feel threatened by her. Within weeks after the show aired, Christopher was receiving more fan mail than any actor at Twentieth Century Fox since Tyrone Power. A few months later, Susan found out she was pregnant with the couple's first child. They were married in September of 1965 in Las Vegas. The TV show was picked up for another season, but even with the birth of their daughter, Jenny, Christopher was never able to break free from the darkness that haunted him.
The series ended after the second season and movie offers started pouring in. Christopher was offered a film called Chubasco and after several difficult attempts to find an actress that Chris would approve to play his character's love interest, they convinced Susan to take the part. In 1967, after the filming ended, their marriage fell apart.
With his personal life in turmoil, Christopher exposed himself full force to the seductive lure of Hollywood. He'd acquired a taste for expensive clothes, sports cars and beautiful women and accepted two key roles that fit his smooth, slow simmering style. Wild in the Streets was an instant success and the release of Three in the Attic followed shortly after, inking in Christopher Jones as the hottest property in Hollywood.
Wild in the Streets hit the screens in 1968. The second wave of baby boomers, more indulgent and more numerous, were teenagers cutting their teeth on the full swing of the cultural revolution. When the long party came to an end in the early seventies, this younger, more flexible group were the first to cut their hair and blend in with the establishment, but they never forgot the one piece of knowledge Christopher's character in Wild in the Streets had made them aware of ... the collective power of their number. In retrospect, Max Frost had a lot of support from the real Establishment. Wild in the Streets may seem a bit campy from our lofty positions in the nineties, and originally it was intended as a spoof on the hypocrisies of its time. Yet, Christopher Jones projected the kind of charisma powerful enough through his character in a silly B-Movie to influence the Mayor of Chicago during the 1968 Presidential Convention to hire security to protect the water supplies of the city from being laced with LSD. Today, it's hard to write about it without sudden outbursts of laughter. Back then they had good reason to worry, in the hot summer of 1968 the American youth were a majority (52% of the population was under the age of 25), making their presence known on the streets of our cities by protesting a war the world has never been able to come to terms with.
Hollywood was a small town back then, it still is. The Doors were riding high on the success of Light My Fire and commanded the attention of the intellectual, rebellious elders of their generation. Away from the spotlights, Jim Morrison divided his time between his girlfriend's (Pamela Courson) apartment in Laurel Canyon and the hotels on Sunset Boulevard. One afternoon, as Christopher pulled his shiny sports car into the garage of the Chateau Marmont, a pretty redheaded girl climbed onto the hood of the car demanding to know who he was. She introduced herself as Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's wife. While Christopher knew nothing about Pamela, Morrison's friends knew the couple was inextricably joined in a love affair that would end only by death. Jim, raised in the same southern traditions as Chris, loved the ladies too and the rapidly changing rules of sexual freedom allowed young men the opportunity to pursue any impulsive desire. It was not cool for a girl to demand fidelity in her lover, Pamela, however, was not above showing Jim she could play the game as well as he and seductively paraded some of the most beautiful men in Hollywood past Morrison to prove it. Chris, thinking Pamela was married, was not interested until Pam admitted she was not legally attached.
Christopher spent time with Pamela on occasion over the course of the next few months. When Christopher flew to London to begin filming The Looking Glass War, Pamela accompanied him. Things went well for a couple of weeks until Christopher wrote a letter to his ex-wife, Susan. Pamela read the letter and flew into a rage, throwing the hotel key at Chris and disappearing with her suitcases. Back in Los Angeles, Morrison came to the decision his breakup with Pamela had gone on long enough. He disappeared without telling anyone, flew to London to find Pamela and bring her home.
The Looking Glass War was Chris' first "big" picture. He had dismissed his previous projects as garbage and longed for a chance to do serious work. The film was released in the spring of 1970 a few months before Ryan's Daughter. During the filming of War, Chris fell in love with his leading lady, Pia Degermark. Perhaps more evenly matched then some of his previous relationships, he considered her a friend as well as a lover. They stayed in Italy together for the filming of a second picture, Brief Season. Chris was again at odds with the filmmakers, for him the shoot was both degrading and frustrating.
As his relationship ended with Pia, Christopher met Sharon Tate. Sharon was in Italy filming 13 (Eye of the Devil). She was already married to Roman Polanksi and carrying his child, but Roman couldn't get a Visa into Italy to be with her. Chris became a close friend of Sharon's, taking it upon himself to watch after her while she was alone in Italy.
In March of 1969, Chris flew to Ireland for the filming of Ryan's Daughter. It was the most anticipated studio film of the year with a big budget ($12 million) and distinguished cast. The coast of Ireland was picked for its location because of its reputation for fierce coastal storms, 1969 proved to be a drenching the filmmaker's were not prepared for. The cast and crew brought their eccentricities along with them. Between the director, David Lean's, hold outs for sun or the right cloud in a scene and the crew growing stir crazy in the remote rural setting, the shoot seemed doomed from the start.
In one of the scenes Chris' character, Major Doryan, first meets Rosy, played by Sarah Miles, in this bar scene. Rosy calms Doryan after an episode of shell shock and the energy between them explodes in a burst of passion. Doryan throws himself against Rosy pinning her to the wall in a passionate kiss.
The film was shot in sequence, so this was the first time Chris and Sarah worked together on the set. They played out the scene and David Lean, the director, asked for a retake. The actors replayed the scene through several more retakes, each time Lean came over to push Chris against Sarah. About the 4th retake, as Chris pushed Sarah against the wall, the glass in the picture hanging behind them shattered and glass fell from behind Sarah cutting Chris' hand as it fell to the floor. The picture was taken away and fitted with plexiglass. Lean continued to cut the scene, leaving Chris to wonder what could be missing in his performance. Some thirty takes later, Lean gave in and angrily yelled "print it".
In the remote location, rushes took several days to send to MGM for processing and get back to the set, and when Lean saw the scene on film, he found Chris to make an apology, telling him he saw where Chris was at with his performance, he couldn't see it until it was on film.
Olivia Hussey arrived for a visit during the filming and stayed in Ireland for weeks on end to be with Chris. At one point Christopher decided to marry the eighteen year old star of Romeo and Juliette, but his managers convinced him to wait until after the release of Ryan's Daughter. Olivia never forgave him for changing his mind. She married Dino Martin (Dean Martin's son) in 1971.
On August 9, 1969 Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by the Manson Family in Benedict Canyon. A darkness fell over the entire Hollywood community. One of Chris' managers owned the property where the murders took place and left immediately for Los Angeles. To make matters worse, Christopher had actually lived in the house. The murder of his close friend was particularly devastating for Christopher. Already isolated from the others, he suffered in silence.
As shooting progressed, Chris had another memorable experience. The filmmakers were working on the scene where Major Doryan stops the revolutionary's truck along side the road. As he played out one of the takes, Chris thought his work was where it should be, the other actors played along and Lean took the scene as it evolved. When the dailies came in, Chris was horrified by how badly he had actually looked in the scene and that Lean would have allowed him to play the scene through.
As a bonus for Brief Season, Dino De Laurentiis gave Chris a silver 1969 365 GT Ferrari, he'd shipped it from Rome against the producer's wishes and that day after seeing the dailies, he impulsively jumped in it to take a drive and cool down. There were very few cars in Northern Ireland in 1969, certainly nothing like the sport scar he was driving. He was alone, Olivia had left for Italy to accept an award for Romeo and Juliette and he'd turned down a request by one of her friends to ride along. The road was paved and he cruised easily at about a 100 mph. He drove through a small village passing a Convent. As he came over a rise, he spotted a pretty Nun walking beside the road toward him, their eyes met as his car approached and he remembers the glint of sunlight from her crucifix as she reached for it when he passed by. The moment struck him as a strange omen, but before he had time to contemplate what it might mean, the road dipped sharply, and formed a sharp L shaped turn with a pole standing straight ahead. Chris slammed on his brakes and the tires began smoking until they blew out, one after another. The car slide sideways toward the pole. Unable to do anything to avoid the impact, Chris pushed himself backward into the back seat. The impact rolled the car sideways over a six foot drop, the windows breaking around him. It came to an uneasy rest, teetering on the edge of a hundred foot drop off. The motor was still running and the music of Monterey by The Animals was still playing on the eight track tape. Fearing the car would catch fire, Chris climbed quickly out of the passenger door. A couple in a Jeep had seen the crash, and a peasant woman came running toward him and he was taken back to the set. Except for a few cuts and bruises, he was unhurt.
A few days later, on the set of the scene where Doryan comes to the hill above Rosy's house and she runs to meet him, Chris was sitting waiting for the shoot and David Lean turned to him and asked "Were you scared?"
In retrospect, for all the years of rhetoric and speculation about the difficulties between Lean and Chris, it should be noted that both director and actor made piece with the experience long before the filming made it the mythological legend it remains today. In his 1997 book, David Lean: A Biography, it is noted there were certain parts of the filming that Lean was very pleased with Chris. He is quoted to say, " he had this extraordinary quality of screen personality which I always find terribly difficult to describe or even to understand." Chris is also quoted in the biography, "But you know, I loved Lean, and he liked me and we got along great most of the time. Just a few times it was head-to-head. But I totally respected him. A brilliant director. The best there was."
When a grueling year of filming came to an end, Christopher Jones flew home to Los Angeles and vanished from the public eye. "I'd had a nervous breakdown over Sharon Tate's death. I had done three pictures in a row in Europe, and had so many love affairs I was exhausted. I was tired, man." Chris explained in a 1996 interview. The Looking Glass War premiered in February of 1970 and Ryan's Daughter opened in November, Christopher Jones was noticeably absent. The two films were not a great success, but Christopher was still sought after for future projects. His managers were wheeling big deals but their star was reluctant to continue with the exhausting pace. He'd moved into his manager's guest house on the property where the Tate killings had occurred in Benedict Canyon. Chris, still very upset over Sharon's death, watched unbelieving as the owner's guests were shown blood stained carpets and repeated grizzly stories over and over. When they suggested he go for a week of retreat in Virginia, putting him through a bizarre attempt to get him back into the swing of things, Chris walked away cold, making himself unavailable to anyone in the industry.
A new decade had dawned, The Age of Aquarius, we were told, but the years of revolution had taken their toll. When Chris returned from Virginia, he took up residence for a while at the Ramada Inn on Sunset Blvd. Christopher may have been alone, but had he known, he was in good company. If you were a part of the Los Angeles hippie culture and focused enough to see through the purple haze, you might have recognized Christopher slumming around the Sunset Strip in 1970. A few blocks over on Santa Monica Boulevard, you might have recognized a bearded Jim Morrison drifting through the strip clubs and reading for hours on sidewalk benches. They had both wanted out long before their professional contracts released them, both Jones and Morrison were at the peak of their careers in 1968. Less than a year later, exhausted by the excesses of his life and the pressures of fame Morrison publicly destroyed his professional career on a Miami stage. Sadly enough, the media covered every inch of his demise and the beautiful young lion grew old before our eyes, less than three years later he was dead at the age of 27.
The news of Morrison's death sent another wave of devastation through an already troubled Jones. "The death of Jim Morrison really upset me more than anything else." Chris has been quoted to say, "I felt empathy for him, and I identified with what he was saying. The fact that he died that young really affected me."
Chris kept a low profile for the next few years. He was very effective at avoiding the media, but rumors within the Hollywood community circulated randomly and the longer he remained unavailable, the more outrageous the rumors became. He owned a home in Doheny Estates for most of the 1970's but spent very little time there, preferring to stay with friends in Hollywood. In 1974 through early 1975 he lived in the Hollywood Hills with Sherry Dodd. To say those years were emotionally difficult for him would be an understatement, he struggled with the reality of his fame and the disillusionment it had left in its wake. He struggled with the years he experienced status as a hot property in Hollywood, years filled with more obligations than time to live life. He contemplated power and his feelings of powerlessness in the aftermath of Sharon's death. Yet, unlike many influential people of his generation, Chris Jones survived, finding his way on his own terms. He'd earned over a million dollars since making Wild in the Streets, he had his Porsche and people he considered his friends. His next role would prove to be his greatest.
In 1974, Chris met Carrie Abernathy and a year later Chris' son was born. Christopher Jr.'s birth in 1975 was another turning point in his Father's life and Chris settled down to play a major role in raising him. "My Dad is a great Father, he would do anything to make his kids happy." his son says today. Relying on money earned during his film career, the family lived in the San Fernando Valley and Chris devoted much of his energy to his son and his painting. Chris has never lost interest in perfecting his talent as an artist, and while he started by sketching, he has painted with oils and watercolors over the years and now prefers to work with acrylic paint, having developed a technique to give acrylics the rich textured appearance of oil painting.
In the early 1980's Chris' relationship with Carrie ended and his financial resources were depleted. He was again adrift, staying with friends, never staying anywhere for long. Then in 1984, he met Paula Mckenna. The couple began a love affair that would last for the next ten years and produce four beautiful children. From time to time a filmmaker would seek Chris out with an offer of work, but Chris was content to raise his new family. "I gave up a lot these last few years, I stayed home and paid attention to my kids." Chris said in a recent interview.
In 1994, Quentin Taratino went looking for Chris hoping to cast him in what would become one of the breakout hits of the mid 1990's, Pulp Fiction. Quentin was a big fan of Chris' in the sixties and although they had long conversations over acting and Taratino's upcoming project, Chris was reluctant to return to acting and on the advice of those close to him, he turned down the offer.
This biography is in the process of being rewritten from Chris' own perspective. This current edition has been published with his personal approval.
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On May 26, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a landmark healthcare bill designed to control escalating healthcare costs, expand insurance coverage to all residents and create the first publicly-funded, single-payer insurance system in the country.
“This law recognizes an economic and fiscal imperative, that we must control the growth in health care costs that are putting families at economic risk and makes it harder for small employers to do business,” said the Democratic governor at the bill signing ceremony as he turned campaign promise into reality.
The law does three main things, says Cassandra Gekas, M.S., health care advocate at the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG). First, it lays out an ambitious vision of health care as a public good that should be publicly financed and cover all Vermonters.
Secondly, it sets the stage for Green Mountain Care (GMC), the name of the new system, in a series of steps, starting with the appointment by October of a five-member independent governing board that will figure out the benefits package, how the system will be funded and how providers will be reimbursed. The next step is to set up the health insurance exchange called for by the federal Affordable Care Act, a virtual marketplace where consumers can comparison shop for health coverage and that will ultimately be transitioned into Green Mountain Care. Every state is required to set up an exchange by Jan. 1, 2014.
Thirdly, the law requires Vermont to seek waivers to allow it to pool federal subsidies, such as Medicare and Medicaid and administer them, like one big bank account, from Green Mountain Care. In essence, GMC will take advantage of federal money to expand benefits, which is key, Gekas says. To get the waiver, Vermont will have to prove it can cover at least as many people at the same level of benefits without more cost. Green Mountain Care is targeted to open for business by 2017 provided the legislature affirms certain milestones.
“The whole goal is to simplify the administration of a system that’s fragmented,” Gekas says. The more a small state like Vermont breaks up its insurance market, the less negotiating power it has. She thinks that’s one reason Vermont’s health care costs are growing 12 times faster than the state economy. Another reason is that fragmentation leads to high administrative costs, which proponents are counting on cutting in their fiscal calculations. The advocacy group Vermont Health Care for All writes in a Frequently Asked Questions pamphlet that savings could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Rep. George Till, M.D., (D-VT Chittenden-8 District) the only practicing physician in the Vermont legislature, thinks proponents have inflated the potential administrative savings in Vermont’s annual $5 billion health care expenditure. He also thinks the term “single-payer” is a misnomer (the term doesn’t actually appear in the bill) because it’s unclear whether a large swath of the federally-managed insurance market, such as veterans’ benefits and self-insured plans, can be compelled to join Green Mountain Care, though advocates are going to try. But the Democratic lawmaker did vote for the bill because he believes in universal access and coverage for all Vermonters. Still, with only 47,000 out of 630,000 residents uninsured, he says Vermont has one of the lowest percentages in the country.
Till is concerned about costs to individuals and payments to providers, as is every doubter. Under Green Mountain Care, public taxes, private premiums and out-of-pocket costs would be rolled into a “public premium,” a major change in how people pay for health care. Providers, per the law, must be paid equitably and amply enough to sustain their practices. Nobody knows exactly what those amounts will be and proponents chafe at being asked because nobody knows how much their current health insurance will cost next year, either.
“We have no dedicated financing for the health care services we expect to be there. My question [to doubters] is always the same: who should pay for that? They can’t answer,” says Deb Richter, M.D., president of Vermont Health Care for All and one of nine nominating committee members that will recommend Green Mountain Board members for appointment by the governor and confirmation by the legislature. “We’re paying, either publicly or privately, for more services than our society needs. And if we do nothing, we’ll be even worse off. We need a system to figure that out.”
According to Gekas, wording in the law guarantees mental health will be part of the benefits package, but as always, the devil is in the details. Richter assures the mental health community that there will be a process in place to assess how such benefits can be included and says it’s understood that prevention and treatment are the best ways to keep mental health costs from escalating. She says providers should look for reassurance to Canada where mental health workers are paid “far better” than in the U.S.
Rick Barnett, Psy.D., LADC, president of the Vermont Psychological Association says 75 percent of VPA members support universal health coverage as long as mental health and substance abuse services are reimbursed at adequate rates that are comparable with physical health care and do not require authorizations in a manner that is discriminatory.
“We are committed to making sure that Vermonters will continue to have access to and receive excellent mental health and substance treatment,” Barnett says. “Anything less than true parity is unacceptable.”
By Nan Shnitzler
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As Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the USA,...
Behind-the-scenes access to Cambridge University churches
Secret corners of Cambridge University famous churches and colleges will now be available to visitors virtually thanks to Google Streetview.
Some parts of the colleges have been open to visitors in the past but many areas have been largely hidden from public view.
Now St John's, Gonville and Caius, Newnham, Queens and Trinity Hall will all feature on an online map.
The photographed behind the scenes images give a 360 degree view into buildings like Great St Mary's, the university church and the part-14th century chapel at Gonville and Caius, the oldest purpose-built college chapel still in use in Cambridge.
Professor Sir Alan Fersht, Master of Caius, said: "Gonville and Caius is one of the oldest colleges in Cambridge, and the exteriors of our beautiful Old Courts are not only open daily for visitors to admire but can already be seen on Google.
"However, as a working community of education and research, we cannot easily welcome visitors to our magnificent library and hall, which are used daily by those who live and work here.
"The new panoramic interior 'tours' allow anyone virtually to explore the previously hidden beauty of some of Caius's finest architectural gems, and perhaps be inspired to visit this historic college in person.
"From its earliest days, Caius has been a place of modern learning and forward-looking ideas, and opening the college up via technology absolutely fits that tradition."
In 2015, the special Streetview team visited Cambridge to capture the photos using special cameras.
These images form part of a group featuring historically and culturally important sites, including museums, art galleries, national parks, monuments and landmark buildings such as the Taj Mahal and the White House.
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Not too long ago, we reported on the decision of an Oklahoma federal court to toss a $951,000 jury verdict against Hillerich and Bradsby, the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger baseball bats. As you may recall, the jury had awarded a 15-year old boy and his parents nearly $1 million after he was struck in the face by a line drive, causing severe facial injuries. In reaching its decision, the jury determined that the aluminum bat was defective and unreasonably dangerous because it could hit a ball faster than its wooden counterparts – a condition for which Louisville Slugger failed to warn. Moreover, it determined that the boy did not assume the risk of injury when electing to play baseball. The court held, however, that there was “no basis for a reasonable jury to find that the bat had ‘dangerous characteristics.’”
In an unpublished decision, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the trial court’s decision to grant Hellerich’s motion for judgment as a matter of law. In a well-written opinion, the Court examined the plaintiff’s theory that the bat was unreasonably dangerous because it hit a ball “too fast.” In order to recover on such a theory, logically the plaintiff would need to show the the speed of a ball off of an “ordinary” bat versus the speed of the ball off of the bat at issue. Because the plaintiff produced no objective evidence of either component, the Court held that the district court judge did not err in correcting the jury’s verdict on defective design. The opinion can be found at Yeaman v. Hillerich & Bradsby Co., No. 12-6254 (10th. Cir. June 30. 2014).
While this case involves a much different set of facts and rests on a different theory of recovery, it is an interesting contrast to the recent flying hot dog opinion in which the court held that the risk of being hit by a flying dog was not inherent to baseball and, thus, a baseball team could not be shielded from liability. The risks of being injured by a ball struck by a bat are clearly inherent to the game. This Louisville Slugger case, on the other hand, attempted to establish that the bat was somehow unreasonably dangerous beyond those inherent risks. An interesting theory, to be sure. While the jury may have bought it, the court saw otherwise.
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Why franchising might not be right for you
Earlier this year my wife and I flew to New York. Despite 22inch fall of snow overnight (yep, you read that right), we had a fabulous weekend and in between the various snow showers, my wife and I escaped into Barnes and Noble on 86th & Lexington Avenue, just down from Bloomingdale’s, for a coffee.
Whilst we were in there I was browsing the magazines rack and I picked up a copy of Inc Magazine. I’ve long been a fan of the Inc.com website, but as far as I’m aware you can’t buy Inc magazine in the UK (not that I’ve found anyway).
Inc’s a great magazine full of very inspiring stories about people who’ve done amazing things and built up businesses from nothing. It even features some unusual twists like the interview with Lorraine Earle of Johnny Cupcakes, the doting mother who runs the back office on behalf of her son, the business’ founder.Very inspiring stuff.
Towards the back of the magazine there’s a whole section on Franchise businesses and reviews of types of franchise business, articles on financing franchise businesses, plus pages of adverts for franchises for sales.
A franchise for those not aware, is where you buy a business blueprint from a successful business (think McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Doughnut’s, Chips Away (car paint repair and Countrywide (grounds maintenance) etc) and in return for the cash you basically get the premises, equipment, training and stock. In return you buy the stock from the franchisor and typically pay an annual license fee, which can be either a fixed amount or a percentage of your turnover.
For many people they get the opportunity to buy into a proven success story. If they become successful they can buy more franchise outlets and replicate their success.
You’ll probably find it easier to get funding too. As banks love lending on Franchise businesses because they have a proven success story and they can see the results that other francisees have achieved.
But hold on a minute
Successful businesses are successful because they follow a plan, execute it and repeat. Which means you get to follow the plan. If you buy a McDonald’s franchise for example, the exterior signage will be specified by McDonald’s, the colours of the walls, the furniture, the cleaning products and of course the way you make the burgers and of course how you “have a nice day”.
Oh yes, the clothes you wear will be specified by McDonalds too. It’s called a uniform.
Last time I worked in an environment like this it was called a job.
But with a franchise, not only do you get to have a job, but you pay for the privilege by investing in the franchise, mortgaging your home or sacrificing your redundancy payment.
With some of the smaller franchises you’re also reliant on the master franchisor or license owner (the business that sells you your franchise) not to go bust or to continue to provide you your stock and invest in marketing the business and passing you leads.
Before you know where you are you’re on the treadmill again, but you’re paying for the privilege by investing your savings in it.
Now, as we discussed in the what kind of entrepreneur are you? Having a job does not allow you to fund your lifestyle, it takes away time from your family or doing what you love. It stops you taking a holiday or vacation whenever you want, you loose your freedom.
A franchise fails all the tests of doing business the Tomato Way. We want your business to generate income regardless of the hours you work – we don’t want you trading your hours for $’s. Above all, we want your business to work without you. We want you to be generating passive income.
Tell us what you think in the comments below. Have you ever invested in franchise businesses?
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Cats have loomed large in Highland folklore with some clan chiefs said to despise the animal for its supernatural links.
Cat Sith is the fairy form of the creature in the storytelling tradition and said to haunt the villages of the north and west. As large as a dog and black in colour with a white spot on its breast, it was a beast largely to be feared.
Many maintain these cats have no connection with the fairies but are instead witches who have the ability to transform into the animal nine times, according to The Gaelic Otherworld by John Gregorson Campbell.
Campbell added: “In the Highlands it was not, as in the witchcraft of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, looked upon as the familiar or attendant imp of the witch, but merely as an animal whose form witches frequently assumed.”
There were other superstitions connected with the animal in the Highlands. A cat would run much faster than normal if it feared being swallowed by the ground, for example.
If cat is taken on a boat, the vessel had instant protection from drowning by witches.
The animal was disliked by the MacGregors while the Camerons of Glenevis could not tolerate it at all, according to Campbell’s text, which originally dates to 1900.
Other accounts suggest that a cat sith could steal the soul of the dead before the gods could claim it.
Great effort was made to keep the body clear of a cat sith before burial. Coffins would be guarded, games - such as wrestling - would be played to distract the beast.
Fires would be extinguished in the room where the body lay to make it unwelcoming to the supernatural cat.
Catnip was also sprinkled through the house to keep the animal entertained ahead to the funeral.
It has been noted that a cat sith could also bring good fortune. If a saucer of milk was left for the animal on Samhain - the Gaelic festival celebrated on October 31 - and taken by the cat, it is said the household would be blessed with good harvests and ample milk for the year.
Tradition notes that cats were also used in one particularly disturbing ritual called Taghairm, or “giving supper to the devil.”
According to Campbell, cats were roasted alive on a spit in a bit to conjure the devil, who was then compelled to grant a wish to those brave enough to perform the ceremony.
Campbell notes of three occasions the ceremony was performed, once in Mull, once in Skye and once in Lochaber by a man called Allan the Cattle Lifter on a piece of land subsequently dubbed Cat’s Field.
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Like Bill Clinton who once famously said 'It all depends on what your definition of is is', Barack Obama's words also often need to be parsed carefully in order to gauge his true meaning!
And even then it sure isn't easy!
Obamacare is the perfect example where for 26+ speeches there was apparently a missing 'if' after the 'you can keep' but before the 'period'.
If only those two letters had been present everything would have been crystal clear for the millions who are currently having their health insurance canceled.
To be fair to the President certainly nobody is perfect and, when you are speaking without notes as he does, mistakes can happen.
It would be something else altogether if he read the speech beforehand and repeated it verbatim off of a teleprompter. Oops1
Then there was his subsequent statement which to paraphrase went something like 'I'm sorry I wasn't clearer about you losing your health insurance but we will do everything in our power to fix it'.
That sounded vaguely familiar to his statements about the Benghazi, IRS and NSA scandals where the President vowed to get to the bottom of things and hold people accountable but never quite seemed to get around to it.
Will it be more of the same with Obamacare? Sadly, you bet your ass it will!
In any event I found this cartoon today that examines a few examples of what Barack Obama has said with the actual translation provided by Orson Wells.
H/T Daily P.AU.L
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy captain Kinross, one would never suspect that he'd built his theatrical reputation upon sophisticated drawing-room comedies and brittle, witty song lyrics. The real star of In Which We Serve is the British destroyer Torrin. Torpedoed in battle, the Torrin miraculously survives, and is brought back to English shores to be repaired. The paint is barely dry and the nuts and bolts barely in place before the Torrin is pressed into duty during the Dunkirk evacuation. The noble vessel is finally sunk after being dive-bombed in Crete, but many of the crew members survive. As they cling to the wreckage awaiting rescue, Coward and his men flash back to their homes and loved ones, and, in so doing, recall anew just why they're fighting and for whom they're fighting. Next to Coward, the single most important of the film's characters is Shorty Blake, played by John Mills. (Trivia note: Mills' infant daughter Juliet Mills appears as Shorty's baby.) Even so, the emphasis in the film is on teamwork; here as elsewhere, there can be no stars in wartime. For many years, the only prints available to television were from the bowdlerized American version, which crudely cut out all "hells" and "damns." Fortunately, this eviscerated American release has since been shelved in favor of the full, glorious 115-minute version.
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Whenever I tell someone that we keep Passover as a Christian, I expect them to ask if I sacrifice a lamb. Sometimes, they actually do ask. Other times, I think I can see them wanting to ask, even if they don’t. Let me put your mind at ease.
No, I don’t sacrifice a lamb. I don’t even kill one.
Technically speaking, that means we don’t really keep Passover, because in Biblical usage, the lamb is the Passover. What we really do is a memorial of Passover, called a seder, which itself is a memorial of the original Passover in Egypt. We usually gather with several other families and read an abbreviated Passover Hagaddah that has been modified to emphasize the prophetic and messianic symbolism of Passover. We have a large meal, including most of the traditional Passover foods (matzah, horseradish, charoset, etc), in addition to lamb and other dishes.
Even though we usually have lamb at our seder, it’s not a real Passover because the lamb wasn’t killed specifically for that purpose. It’s just grocery store lamb. If we were in Jerusalem, we might do things differently.
Let me tell you why that might make a difference, and as I do, please keep in mind that, although everything I write is based in Scripture, it is my own interpretation and I am not always correct. I always reserve the right to be wrong and to change my mind at a later date. 😉
In this manner you shall eat [the lamb]: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
Throughout the Old Testament, the term “Passover” (pesach in Hebrew) refers to the lamb, not to the day, the week, nor any other part of the meal.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats…
The Passover must be an unblemished, male yearling, either a sheep or a goat.
Yep. We almost always speak of a Passover lamb, but the Passover can also be a goat.
“Without blemish” means that it must have no scars, no injuries or past broken bones, no defective parts, and no illnesses. Rabbinic tradition has a long list of characteristics that qualify as blemishes, many of which I’m sure would be familiar to judges in best-of-breed contests at dog shows and county fairs.
“A year old” probably doesn’t mean what you think. The ancient Hebrews counted their days and years differently than we do. The Hebrew for “a year old” is ben shanah, which literally means “son of a year”, and really means that it must be within the first year of life. We usually count our age by the years we have passed, but the Biblical pattern is to count age by the year you are in. A Passover must have been born sometime after the previous year’s Passover. I believe the rabbinical standard is that the lamb must be at least a few weeks old and preferably already weened.
And you shall kill the Passover to YHWH your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that YHWH will choose, to make his name dwell there.
‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
2 Chronicles 6:5-6
Once the Tabernacle had been completed in the Wilderness, God told the Israelites that they must stop slaughtering animals anywhere except at the Tabernacle (Leviticus 17:3-4) to get them out of the habit of performing their own sacrifices independently of the priests whom God had appointed. However, he also told them that, once they were in the land, they could resume slaughtering animals for meat wherever they lived, but they had to bring all sacrifices to one specific place where he would “make his name to dwell” (Deuteronomy 12:13-15).
In Jerusalem, Not Just at the Temple
It took a few centuries, but eventually God designated Jerusalem as that place. Since the time that King David brought the Ark of the Covenant to the Holy City, it has been the only place on earth that God allows sacrifices.
Unlike other sacrifices, though, and contrary to popular opinion, the Passover does not need to be killed at the Temple. Deuteronomy 16:5-6 says that the Passover may only be killed “at the place that YHWH your God will choose”, which sounds like it’s talking about the Temple. However, verse 7 says that it may also only be cooked and eaten at the same place.
According to Josephus, more than 250,000 Passovers were killed in Jerusalem within a few hours in one afternoon. I suspect that number might be an exaggeration, but it seems nearly impossible for even half that many to be killed so quickly at the Temple. How much greater would be the difficulties in all the people remaining there on the grounds to cook and eat their Passovers! So much greater, in fact, that it would be completely impossible. There is simply no way to fit potentially millions of people into the Temple grounds at the same time, which is what would be required if “the place that YHWH chooses” is limited to the Temple.
Whatever the Jews were actually doing in the first century, God’s instructions for Passover requires the lamb to be killed at Jerusalem, but not necessarily at the Temple.
Has the Place of God’s Name Changed?
I have heard the argument that the place where God would put his name has changed since Yeshua’s resurrection, namely that the place is now in us, so that the Passover can be killed wherever we are. However, if the place has become purely metaphorical and not an actual place, then I think the Passover and all other sacrifices must also become purely metaphorical.
There is some truth in that. We have no Temple, no altar, and no Levitical priesthood, but we do have a Tabernacle and Altar in Heaven, where Yeshua is the High and only Priest. Whatever sacrifices that we once would have made at the altar in Jerusalem, we now make solely through worship and good deeds rather than blood. However, no altar or priest is required for the Passover, and as I have demonstrated, the place of God’s name was never at the Temple, but all of Jerusalem.
If you have never participated in the slaughter and butchering of an animal, you should find a way to make that happen. Not because it’s pleasant in any way, but because everyone should know what is involved, what happens when the life leaves one living creature so that another–you and me–can live.
The principles of God’s Law require that the animal be killed as humanely as possible, and it’s blood must be drained out. Fortunately, both requirements can be completed by a quick cut across the throat with a very sharp knife. A lamb won’t necessarily cooperate with you, but if it is held firmly, it will stand relatively still, and allow you to kill it and drain the blood in just a couple of minutes.
Although most English translations say something like “you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD”, there is only a single Hebrew word behind “you shall offer…sacrifice”, zavach. Technically, the word only means “kill”; “offer a sacrifice” is the translator’s interpolation. It’s an understandable rendering, though, because the word is frequently used in the context of holy sacrifices, and Deuteronomy 16:2 says the Passover is to be killed “to YHWH”.
The Passover is very similar to a peace offering (aka thanksgiving offering or zevach shelamim), but unlike the peace offering and the other four kinds of offerings made at the Temple, no part of the Passover or its blood ever touches the altar. At least, not according to God’s instructions. This is yet more evidence that it does not need to be killed at the Temple.
Once the Passover is dead, it is skinned, cleaned inside and out, and prepared for roasting over a fire whole. The simplest method is to put it on a spit with the legs bound up against the body.
For the first Passover in Egypt, the lamb (or goat) was to be selected on Nisan 10 (Exodus 12:3) and kept by the family until Nisan 14 when it was to be killed. I don’t know what the ancient Jews did in later centuries, but Yeshua–whom we knew did it correctly–and his disciples don’t appear to have selected a lamb until just hours before it was to be killed. \
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
I can’t be absolutely certain, because the Scriptures don’t say one way or another, but I doubt that they had been leading a lamb about with them for the prior four days.
We do know, however, that they killed a Passover on Nisan 14. Mark tells us so just a few verses down.
And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
See the section below on The Last Supper for more on that.
Terminology surrounding Passover and Unleavened Bread in the New Testament is a little fuzzy. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all say that the Passover was killed “on the first day of Unleavened Bread”, but the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is on Nisan 15, while the Passover is to be killed on Nisan 14. There are two possible explanations for this apparent discrepancy.
- The terms “Passover” and “Unleavened Bread” were used idiomatically for the the entire holiday season, just as today’s Christians use “Christmas” and today’s Jews use “Passover”. The days leading up to the official start of the ceremonies could be referred to as “the days of” the feast, even though the feast hadn’t technically started yet.
- Although the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on Nisan 15, the eating of unleavened bread begins on Nisan 14, with the slaughtering of the Passovers.
I favor the second explanation, and so I dive into what is probably the most controversial part of this essay.
Between the Sunsets
…and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
The phrase “at twilight” is curious. In Hebrew, it is ben ha’erevim, which literally translates to “between/among/at the sunsets”. Note that it is plural. In most cases, where Torah says to do something at or near sunset, it says b’erev, at evening.
I’m not an expert in Biblical Hebrew–someday I’d like to rectify that, but I have a fairly demanding day job–but the only other place in Torah I could find that uses this same phrase is concerning the morning and evening sacrifices in Exodus 29:39 and Numbers 28:4. In both cases, every day’s sunset is intended, not mid-afternoon. I believe it means the same thing here in Exodus 12:6.
The Passover is to be killed “at the sunsets”, not between 3 and 6 PM.
I realize that the Jewish tradition during the second Temple period appears to have been to kill the Passovers at the Temple between 3 and 6 in the afternoon, but if that’s they way they did it, I believe the did it incorrectly.
I used to enjoy stirring the pot, so to speak, but for the last decade, I much prefer to resolve controversy than create it. So I don’t casually say that the entire Jewish religious system and almost everyone since the first century got something this major wrong.
Besides the unusual phrase in Exodus 12:6, I offer you two other proofs.
First, Deuteronomy 16:6 specifies that the Passover must be killed “in the evening at the going in of the sun”. (Young’s Literal Translation is especially helpful.) Not just in the evening (afternoon), but in that part of the evening during which the sun is passing below the horizon.
The Last Supper
Second–and far more importantly–three of the four Gospels say that the disciples “prepared the Passover” at the beginning of Nisan 14, not at the end when Josephus and the Talmud say it was done. Remember that the Passover is not a day, but the lamb itself. In the first century, the day might have been sometimes referred to as Passover, but there is only one thing that Matthew 26:19, Mark 14:16, and Luke 22:13 could mean when it says that the disciples “prepared the Passover”, they mean that they killed and cooked it.
I don’t think there’s any other reasonable interpretation of that phrase. All of the usual protestations of “that’s not how the Jews did it” are irrelevant if that’s the way that Yeshua did it. The Passover wouldn’t be the only doctrine that he corrected.
Having said all that, I don’t really think the Jewish establishment had the timing of the Passover completely wrong. I have explained why I believe that the phrase ben ha’everim refers to the time at which the sun crosses the horizon, but recall that it is also plural, as in two or more sunsets, just as the daily evening sacrifices also occur ben ha’everim, day after day.
Recall also that the biblical day begins at sunset, not at midnight or sunrise. (See the section entitled “In the Face of the Sabbath” in the article Will the Real Sabbath Please Stand Up.) At the moment that the sun is partly below the horizon and partly above, the day itself is half between one date and the next. The significance, I believe, is that the Passover must be killed while the sun is crossing the horizon on the 14 of Nisan, but it might not matter whether it is crossing the horizon into Nisan 14 or out of it.
Yeshua and his disciples were right to kill their Passover at sunset at the end of Nisan 13 going into Nisan 14, and those who killed their Passovers at the Temple in the final moments as the sun was setting at the end of Nisan 14 were also right. Those who killed it while the sun was still up were not so right.
A Twilight Sacrifice
The Passover doesn’t fit neatly into either category of holy sacrifice or common meat. In some ways the Passover is like the sacrifices made at the altar:
- It is killed at the command of God and eaten under strict conditions.
- It must be unblemished (Exodus 12:5).
- It can be killed and eaten only in Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 16:2).
- It appears to be related to the peace offering, and the rules of the peace offering concerning who may touch or eat it apply (Leviticus 7:19-20, Numbers 9:6, 2 Chronicles 30:17).
But it is also like any other animal slaughtered for food:
- It can be killed by any ritually clean person, not just a priest, a Levite, nor even the person who provided or selected the animal as with other sacrifices (Exodus 12:6, 2 Chronicles 30:17).
- Neither the Passover nor the blood ever touch the altar.
- It must be killed in Jerusalem, but not necessarily at the Temple (Deuteronomy 16:5-7).
Eating the Passover is a community event. No one is allowed to eat it alone. If your family is too small to eat a whole lamb, you are to join with some other family, eating the Passover under one roof, even if it isn’t your own. No part of the Passover may be kept past the morning. If there are leftovers, they are to be burned up. And as you eat, you are to maintain a physical and spiritual attitude of readiness to leave Egypt, whatever Egypt you are in.
This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
God said to keep the Passover as a memorial. In the context of Exodus 12, that means a memorial of that night in Egypt when all the firstborn of Israel who were covered by the blood of the lambs were spared, while the firstborn of Egypt died.
However, God’s memorials never memorialize just one thing.
All of God’s appointed times are prophetic of events past and future, like stones thrown into a pond, sending ripples across time. There are, for example, hints of the Passover in the story of the three angels who visited Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18-19:
- God meets a prophet in the wilderness
- A meal prepared in haste with unleavened bread
- The righteous in the house are saved, while the wicked outside are struck down.
- Escape from the place of oppression
- Doubt and rebellion in the wilderness
The Passover pattern also shows up in the binding and near sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22 and Peter’s escape from jail in Acts 12. If you pay attention as you read the Bible, I’m sure you’ll see more connections.
The Plot Twist
The lamb itself has numerous thematic connections with Yeshua himself.
For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 5:7b
Consider these parallels:
- The original Passover was selected on Nisan 10. Yeshua entered Jerusalem just before the 10th of Nisan and went to the Temple where he was examined by the priests, religious teachers, and common people.
- The Passover must be unblemished. Yeshua is the only man who ever lived a sinless life.
- No bones may be broken on the Passover during preparation or the feast. None of Yeshua’s bones were broken despite the severe beating and crucifixion.
Those aren’t minor things. They contribute to the prophetic confirmation of Yeshua’s identity as Messiah and the Son of God. They aren’t the most important parallels, though.
The Passover’s blood was painted on the doors of the Hebrew homes so that God would see that covering, that atonement, and withhold his judgment from those houses. The next morning, the Hebrews walked through those blood stained doors into freedom and God’s presence in the wilderness. Yeshua’s blood washes away our sins so that when God looks at us, he doesn’t see our sinfulness, but Yeshua’s perfect righteousness. He became the door that we can walk through to escape from slavery to sin into freedom in the presence of the Father.
The Passover in Egypt died so that the firstborn sons of Israel could live, even as the firstborn sons of Egypt died. Yeshua died so that we could all live, and then he became the firstborn of the resurrection of the righteous dead into eternal life.
Without Yeshua voluntarily giving his life, we would have no hope of true freedom. We would be bound in Egypt, living short, meaningless lives, enslaved to sin until we die, when we would be condemned to the second, eternal death of the Lake of Fire. No advocate and no defense.
If you trust him enough to believe his words and follow his instructions, he has become your Passover and your Salvation.
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A pack of more than 40 cyclists making its way through Minneapolis can create quite the impression with motorists.
Bike lanes--formerly little more than de facto passing lanes, right turn lanes, or overflow parking--suddenly become inviolable. A few motorists actually had to slow down. A few chose to stop entirely to enjoy the traffic anomaly of a block-long line of cyclists snaking around turns.
The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition (MBC) hopes the city’s future bike facilities feel more like they did briefly Thursday: more bustling with cyclists and more respected by motorists. The MBC planned Thursday’s Joy Ride Series event titled “The Shape of Minnehaha To Come” to promote just this kind of future.
If only garnering attention with transportation policymakers was as easy as garnering motorists’ attention was for a procession of 40 cyclists.
MBC executive director Ethan Fawley informed Joy Ride attendants that Hennepin County had decided to rule out cycle tracks in the upcoming the Minnehaha reconstruction, despite the MBC’s determined advocacy.
Fawley said the Hennepin County Board received 946 emails and more than 900 postcards in support of a cycle track on Minnehaha.
Ultimately the board settled instead on an improved bike lane with a two-foot painted buffer and green paint at intersections.
“It feels like a single when we should have hit a homerun,” Fawley said.
Fawley explained that the MBC wants bicycle facilities that everyone can comfortably use, not just experienced bicyclists. He pointed out that kids feel much safer on cycle tracks than riding next to traffic unprotected in a bike lane. Moreover, Fawley said the evidence shows that cycle tracks attract new bicyclists, whereas bike lanes do not.
While the news is disappointing, Fawley said cycle track supporters need to express their disappointment to the Hennepin County Board and stay engaged to continue raising awareness.
“We need to let them know we care,” Fawley said.
Although Minnehaha won’t have a cycle track, Fawley said the campaign made the county much more aware of the demand for bike infrastructure.
On other streets the campaign for better bike infrastructure continues and Thursday’s ride also stopped near another avenue where cycle tracks are still a possibility in the near future: Washington Avenue.
During a stop at Gold Medal Park, Rose Ryan, who recently became Hennepin County’s first Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, told joy riders that cycle tracks are the locally preferred option for Washington Avenue and the option Hennepin County staff is recommending to the board (which by no means guarantees its passage but is a huge step in the right direction).
Ryan said some have concerns removing a lane to add a cycle track will increase commute times, but a comprehensive study by traffic engineers showed improved signal timing should allow two lanes to carry just as much traffic just as quickly as the three lanes do presently.
Fawley explained how far bicycle advocates had come. When the MBC was founded in 2009, the Minneapolis City Council had to overrule City staff recommendations for Washington Avenue in the bike plan just so that it would include biking at all. Four years later, a cycle track is a very real possibility along what used to be an officially declared dead zone for bicyclists.
On a lighter note, the joy ride included bike limbo and free subs at Father Hennepin Park (where the ride began) and included stops at Harriet Brewery and Sea Salt Eatery for further refreshments. Participants seemed to enjoy themselves despite some not so good news on Minnehaha.
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Montessori Preschool Programs
The curriculum includes:
The Montessori preschool program we offer has the main starting points of regular Montessori education. We also add some extracurricular activities for children to dive into.
Practical life is the ability to take care of yourself and your environment. Practical life teaches your child the essential lessons of following procedures, practicing preciseness, working through to the end, and finishing well—all crucial elements for succeeding in life. The indirect aim of these exercises is the preparation for writing and reading.
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The young child acquires the sounds of language effortlessly. The ear is attuned. The mind is engaged, and words are released into phrases, sentences, and conversations.
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Include art, story drama, educational videos, board games, computer programs, music, movement, Kid Fit (age-appropriate sports activities), and Spanish Club.
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- Gradually heat the cylinder head in water to 176-212°F (80-100°C), before beginning the replacement procedure.
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Snow Bengal Cats Hypoallergenic
Despite what you may read elsewhere no cat is scientifically proven to be hypoallergenic and Bengal cats silver or otherwise are no different.
Snow bengal cats hypoallergenic. I found a owner looking to part ways with their 1 yo Bengal and asked for a meetup with the potential to buy. The answer is in their coats. Bengals arent hairless and they dont necessarily produce less Fel D1 protein than other breeds so what makes them hypoallergenic.
Is the Bengal cat hypoallergenic. As a result Bengals dont groom themselves as often or for as long so their fur contains less allergen-rich saliva. Bengal cats have uniquely fine pelts that require considerably less maintenance than other breeds.
No matter how you look at it all cats including Bengal cats do produce some sort of dander so this means that you will never find a cat that is totally free of dander or is a totally allergen free cat. The allergen that is to blame for both severe and mild reactions to cats is something that every single cat produces although with some breeds you wont come in contact with the allergen as much. A Bengal cats coat is exotic and low shedding.
It means relatively unlikely to cause an allergic reaction. There is anecdotal evidence from people who say they have had less of a reaction or none at all to Bengals but equally there are others who still do. Over the year we have built an international reputation as reliables breeder who produces some of the most outstanding Bengal cats in the world.
It needs attention and has a love for its owner and as thus will want to spend time with us. Bengal Rescue is a member of a very large community of Bengal Cat enthusiasts which includes other Bengal Cat Rescue Organizations Adopters Fosters Behavioral Experts Medical Experts and yes even. BoydsBengals is a registered cattery both with TICA The International Cat Association and CFA The Cat Fanciers Association.
The correct answer is yes they are hypoallergenic but to fully understand that answer you must realize that hypoallergenic does NOT mean allergy-free. The answer is in their coats. These quiet and affectionate cats have a lifespan of 12 to 16 years.
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Censorship makes me angry (but many things do) and it tends to make me go on the offensive. Instead of my diatribe, I found some words of wisdom by authors on how to handle censorship.
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
Most of the censorship I see is fear-driven. I respect that. The world is a very scary place. It is a terrifying place in which to raise children, and in particular, teenagers. It is human nature to nurture and protect children as they grow into adulthood. But censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anyone. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in darkness and makes them vulnerable.
from author Laurie Halse Anderson in the back notes of Speak
Banned Books Week September 27−October 3, 2015
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. from ALA
Let’s read banned and challenged books with our kids to celebrate Banned and Challenged Book Week. What are your favorite banned or challenged books? Please share! Thanks!
My Top 10 Banned Books for Kids
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
It occurs to me that the “rez” is not that different from the concentration camps Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to during WWII. True, the Japanese Americans were surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire but the boundaries that killed hope and fostered alcoholism are really no different.
Rather than an anti-family, cultural insensitive, violent book about bullying, this book is a story of hope and of rising from the worst of conditions that is, itself, a miracle. [notebook novel, ages 12 and up]
Reasons: anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs/alcohol/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence. Additional reasons: “depictions of bullying”
9. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Silo and Roy are two male chinstrap penguins that live in New York City’s Central Park Zoo. They do everything together: the bow to each other, walk together, sing to each other, swim together and nest together. When Betty, another penguin, laid two eggs, Mr. Gramzay brought the egg to Roy and Silo’s nest where they successfully hatched it … and became a family. [picture book, ages 4 and up]
This is a true story about two chinstrap penguins out of forty-two chinstrap penguins in the Central Park Zoo. There are over ten million chinstrap penguins in the world.
Reasons: Anti-family, homosexuality, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “promotes the homosexual.”
8. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Let’s be clear. Drama is not sexually explicit. There is kissing, yes, but it stops there. What is banned and/or challenged about this book, I belive, is homosexuality depicted in this book. High school boys discover their sexual identity while working on a musical. Their story is a substory but I think it is what is drawing the ire.
Those who oppose homosexuality don’t realize that kids today are totally ok with LGBT. [graphic novel, ages 12 and up]
Reasons: sexually explicit.
7. If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
It was well-known that Dr. Seuss was an eager American propagandist during World War II who depicted Japanese civilians and soldiers as buck-toothed grotesqueries, though Hitler and his German high command got some of that treatment, too. from Pittsburgh Post Gazette
I just figured this out: Yes, Dr. Seuss, lovable Theodor Geisel, was racist. Here are more of the racist cartoons he created.
During the war, Seuss defended his anti-Japanese view, according to his biographer Richard H. Minear:
“… right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: “Brothers!” It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we’ve got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.” from Business Insider
From 8 Asians
But I think the anti-Asian line in If I Ran the Zoo is a good discussion point, particularly if your children are Asian American to show them that racism exists. This line aside, If I Ran the Zoo is still one of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories. [picture book, ages 4 and up]
Reasons: Challenged, but retained at the Vancouver, Canada, Public Library (2014) despite a line in the poem about helpers who “all wear their eyes at a slant,” accompanied by illustrations that are racial stereotypes of Asians. The book is often credited with the first printed modern English use of the word “nerd” in a sentence. The library will no longer read it at storytime or promote it other than as resource material in a study of how the portrayal of other cultures has changed over time.
6. Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
I frankly find it more disturbing that two young kids are left alone and open the door to a complete wacko stranger that trashes their house after releasing two more goons into their home.
The cubs hop on pop and whack each other with tennis rackets. I don’t see reason to challenge this but it’s not much of a story so I would avoid it for that reason. [picture book, ages 2 and up]
Reasons: Challenged, but retained at the Toronto, Canada, Public Library Reasons: (2014) despite a patron’s concern that the book “encourages children to use violence against their fathers.” The patron requested that the library apologize to local fathers and pay damages resulting from the book’s message. Written in 1963, the classic children’s picture book ranked sixteenth on Publishers Weekly’s 2001 list of the all-time best-selling hardcover books for children. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its “Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children.”
5. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter
I actually think this book is about the heroism of a singular person, a female librarian in Iraq, who risked her life to save the books in her library. I didn’t think it was inappropriately violent. You can judge for yourself. [picture book, ages 5 and up]
Reasons: Challenged in Johnson City, N.Y. schools as a suggested reading (2013) because of violent illustrations and storyline. The book is about a librarian who sneaks books out of a library during the U.S. bombings in Iraq. The librarian works with members of the community to keep the books safe until the war is over and a new library can be built.
4. It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie Harris
The ancient Greeks thought that love between two men was the highest form of love.
I think the illustrations and accurate, lucid answers to questions kids about sexuality are what make this book so helpful. The explicit illustrations that make this book challenged pertain to the human anatomy but it’s appropriate for a book on sex education! There is a chapter on Straight and Gay: Heterosexuality and Homosexuality that I wonder is also why this book is challenged?! [nonfiction, ages 10 and up]
Reasons: Challenged, but retained at the Lee County, Fla. libraries (2011) despite the book’s explicit illustrations.
3. The Adventure of Super Diaper Baby by Dav Pilkey
My son is a big fan of Dav Pilkey and of this particular book in general which he bought at his elementary school’s book fair. I am ok with the phrase “poo poo head.”
This is what Urban Dictionary says:
Reasons: Banned from the Channelview, Tex. Independent School District (2011) because it contained the phrase “poo poo head.”
2. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 44 percent of rape victims are under the age of 18 and 46 percent of rape victims are between the ages of 12-15. It makes adults uncomfortable to acknowledge this, but our inability to speak clearly and openly about sexual issues endangers our children. It is immoral not to discuss this with them. Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak back notes. [young adult, ages 12 and up]
Reasons: Challenged in the Republic, Mo. schools (2010) because it is “soft-pornography” and “glorifies drinking, cursing, and premarital sex.”
1. My Mom’s Having a Baby by Dori Hillestad Butler
This informative picture book is consistently on the banned and challenged book list every year. It’s challenged because “it’s is inappropriate for children” which is to say that it is inappropriate for parents who want their kids to think they were delivered by storks and find human anatomy embarrassing. For everyone else, this picture book gives an accurate view of how babies are made. It’s the kind of story that you read to a child and while they understand the entire process, it becomes demystified and therefore “boring.” I’m ok with that. [picture book, ages 4 and up]
Here’s what author Dori Hillestad Butler has to say about authoring a challenged book:
What do I have to say about that?
I know some parents would choose not to answer a question like “how do Dad’s sperm and your egg get together?” But that has never been my philosophy. I believe in giving children honest, accurate information, as much or as little as they want, whenever they ask for it. When it comes to questions about where babies come from, some children are satisfied with a simple one sentence response; others need more. In our house, if a child was mature enough to ask the question, he was mature enough to receive an answer. We wanted our kids to know that no matter what the question, they could always come to us, and we would take the question seriously and answer openly and honestly to the best of our ability. Yes, even if it was a question about S-E-X and even if it was asked at a very young age. from Write All The Words
Reasons: Challenged in the Carrollton, Tex. Library (2011) because it is inappropriate for children. The book won an Editor’s Choice award from Booklist in 2005 and was named a Top Ten Sci-Tech book for Youth by Booklist. Retained at the Hillsborough County, Fla. Public Library System (2011). Published in 2005, the book tells of a little girl named Elizabeth who is curious about childbirth and how her mother became pregnant. Throughout the book’s thirty pages, little Elizabeth learns about these topics in great detail.
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(WTNH) – Schools in every corner of the state gripped in fear in recent weeks. Threats of violence disrupting class for thousands of kids from Norwich to Norwalk, Hamden to Manchester.
These threats made over social media are part of a national trend. Law enforcement says this is common after school shootings like the one in Michigan earlier this month.
A panel including public safety professionals, school professionals, and parents sat down with Dennis House to discuss the recent threats.
This Tuesday marks 9 years since the Sandy Hook massacre. For the families of the victims, this month is hard, especially with headlines about school violence in the news.
Dennis House met with the mother of Sandy Hook victim Ana Marquez-Greene, who wonders if things are getting any better.
Watch the video above for the full segment.
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Preprints (rote Reihe) des Fachbereich Mathematik
- Englisch (50) (entfernen)
- On the distribution of the maximum of sums of dependent random variables (1999)
- The study of queuing theory brings us to the problems of finding to find the limit distribution of the maximal sum of a sequence of random variables and of estimating how close this distribution is to the distribution of the sum.
- Functions of bounded semivariation and countably additive vector measures (1997)
- In the Banach space co there exists a continuous function of bounded semivariation which does not correspond to a countably additive vector measure. This result is in contrast to the scalar case, and it has consequences for the characterization of scalar-type operators. Besides this negative result we introduce the notion of functions of unconditionally bounded variation which are exactly the generators of countably additive vector measures.
- An economic approach to discretization of nonstationary iterated Tikhonov method (2002)
- An adaptive discretization scheme of ill-posed problems is used for nonstationary iterated Tikhonov regularization. It is shown that for some classes of operator equations of the first kind the proposed algorithm is more efficient compared with standard methods.
- Presentation of power-ordered sets (2000)
- Power-ordered sets are not always lattices. In the case of distributive lattices we give a description by disjoint of chains. Finite power-ordered sets have a polarity. We introduct the leveled lattices and show examples with trivial tolerance. Finally we give a list of Hasse diagrams of power-ordered sets.
- Locally Maximal Clones II (1999)
- On the efficient discretization of integral equations of the third kind (1998)
- We propose a new discretization scheme for solving ill-posed integral equations of the third kind. Combining this scheme with Morozov's discrepancy principle for Landweber iteration we show that for some classes of equations in such method a number of arithmetic operations of smaller order than in collocation method is required to appoximately solve an equation with the same accuracy.
- Brakhage's implicit iteration method and Information Complexity of equations with operators having closed range (1999)
- An a posteriori stopping rule connected with monitoringthe norm of second residual is introduced forBrakhage's implicit nonstationary iteration method, applied to ill-posed problems involving linear operatorswith closed range. It is also shown that for someclasses of equations with such operators the algorithmconsisting in combination of Brakhage's method withsome new discretization scheme is order optimal in the sense of Information Complexity.
- Error estimates for band-limited spherical regularization wavelets in some inverse problems of satellite geodesy (1999)
- In this paper we discuss a special class of regularization methods for solving the satellite gravity gradiometry problem in a spherical framework based on band-limited spherical regularization wavelets. Considering such wavelets as a reesult of a combination of some regularization methods with Galerkin discretization based on the spherical harmonic system we obtain the error estimates of regularized solutions as well as the estimates for regularization parameters and parameters of band-limitation.
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This recording features the premiere recordings of works by the late Lou Harrison and the legendary Harry Partch. John Schneider, guitarist and Los Angeles radio personality performs on a wide variety of guitars using such instruments as Partch’s microtonal Adapated Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Fender guitars, a National Resophonic Guitar, and other instruments that feature tuneable fretboards for various types of Just Intonation. Lou Harrison (1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for National Steel guitar, custom fretted in Just Intonation. The Scenes from Nek Chand uses a six-note mode and is based on the sculpure and architecture of Nek Chand in northern India. Harry Partch worked on the adapatation of guitars in the 1930s, using one for his Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers’ Inscriptions (1941) (available on BRIDGE 9041). The opening of Partch’s long lost song cycle, December 1942, begins with a setting of the jester’s song "Come Away Death" from Shakespearre’s Twelfth Night. Three Intrusions (1949) are the first compositions to use Partch’s newly invented Diamond Marimba and the Adapted Guitar 2. Both of these works feature Schneider singing and intoning the vocal parts, as well as performing on copies of Partch’s Adapted Guitars.
Carter Scholz: Rhythmicon I
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand, Tandy's Tango, Cinna, Palace Music, Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine', Serenado por Gitaro
Harry Partch: Letter from Hobo Pablo, December, 1942, Three Intrusions
Terry Riley: Harp of New Albion
John Schneider: Lament
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Those of you who are regular readers of the blog will be aware of the journey we are going on as a school and wider Trust to realise the potential of technology to enhance teaching and learning. One particular focus we’re exploring here at New Bridge is how technology can assist pupils with the most severe communication difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties or visual, hearing or physical impairments to access our curriculum. It was therefore an exciting moment this week to bring together a group of specialist professionals to develop a vision that will support this aim. In addition to our own IT team and Heads of School, we were joined around the table by specialist teachers for the deaf and visually impaired as well as representatives from the fields of speech and language therapy, augmentative and alternative communication technology and assistive technology.
The purpose of the meeting was to explore how we can work in partnership to meet the communication and access needs of our pupils by exploiting to its potential, the iPad technology we are introducing into the school. It was clear from all around the table that there is deep desire to work collaboratively to assess all aspects of an individual’s communication and access needs and build a personalised intervention package that ensures the iPad assists each child to engage with our curriculum and make progress in their learning. What’s even more exciting is that where there are barriers to this, or the technology currently doesn’t exist to support the needs of individual pupils, then our current partnership with Apple allows us to work with their engineers to create the solutions to overcome them. These are exciting times, we truly are working at the cutting edge when it comes to realising the potential of technology for our children to help them achieve their destinations. To borrow a phrase from Graham, “this is how we do it in Oldham!”
Miss Silvester’s Communication Group have recently enjoyed their very own ‘California Week’..
We looked at key areas in California, the Walk of Fame in Hollywood..
..and we created our own surf shack..
We went ‘surfing’ on our class made surf board..
..did our Hollywood handprints..
..and made pizzas..
..for our surf party at the end of the week..
We were put through our paces by the Activ8 circuit and supported through it fantastically – thank you!
Then we did some ‘California dreaming’ in our sensory journey/Sherbourne session..
We had a fantastic week!!
We are very proud of Lucy, one of our Year 7 pupils.
Lucy has very kindly had her beautiful long hair cut so that she can donate it to The Little Princess Trust, a charity who provide real hair wigs to children and young people with hair loss, and fund vital research into childhood cancer.
Well done Lucy, your generous donation will make a real difference to another young lady.
As promised, you can now read Mr Taylor’s report on our very successful Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s expedition here and find out how our young people overcame their personal challenges – a fantastic achievement! Well done everyone and a massive ‘thank you’ to the staff who made the expedition possible.
Have a great half term. See you all soon.
You can find Dawn’s blog for the Learning Centre here
For news on our Key Stage 5 pathway groups at Medtia Square please click here
Click here to read this week’s news from Graham
You can find my previous blog posts here
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Open Blocked sites in office, college & school with useful tricks suggested by us. Many Schools, Colleges and office blocked websites for students & workers. There are many tricks available to access blocked sites. If you searched for “How to Open/Access Blocked Websites“, so many proxy sites & article will come. We had read many and check authenticity of each way to access blocked sites. Now we are combining all tricks about accessing blocked websites. We are explaining these tricks straight away for you. Hope some trick will help you to open blocked sites.
13 Ways to Open Blocked Sites
1.) Open Blocked Sites by using by using Proxy sites
Proxy websites are very famous to surf any website anonymously. You can also open blocked sites by using these proxy sites. This trick is very easy & simple. Sometimes proxy sites will show few or no ads to surf your desired website. Mostly people will not get access to blocked sites through proxy since there School, Colleges & Offices also had blocked these proxy sites. We have other tricks also to access blocked sites, when proxy sites are not working. You simply open the proxy sites, enter the URL you want to visit and access blocked sites. Some popular proxy sites are:
2.) Use The Tor Browser Bundle To Get Access
Tor is a “Network of virtual tunnels that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet”. TBB (Tor Browser bundle) network of virtual tunnels, protects your internet activities from being tracked and will allow you to Open blocked sites. Tor is free browser that open blocked sites.
You can read more about Tor on their website. You can also learn about installing Tor on their documentation page. Tor can make your browser bit slow Since Tor does run through multiple nodes and networks. However, you can bypass that by using Tor only when you are trying to access blocked sites (You can also try Tor Button Add-on to make this more easier).
3.) Using Hotspot Shield Software
Some Countries including Pakistan, China, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Iran, Korea, United Kingdom (UK) and many more had blocked some websites within their country. You can not Access/Open blocked sites with IP address of the blocked regions. The next alternative way to access blocked sites is use of a small software.
Hotspot Shield is both free and paid small software which will change your current IP address to other country IP address. Free and Paid both version works fine & exactly same. Only difference is that a free version will show few ads while paid version is add free. You can access blocked sites by installing this software.
4.) Hola Browser extension for Chrome, MAC (Apple), Mozilla Firefox, Windows & Android
Hola UnBlocker is famous free browser extension for chrome to Open Blocked Sites. A free VPN service that open the restricted or Blocked websites by Schools, Government, offices & colleges. You can simply install the extension for chrome and can enable & disable as per your need.
Hola is available as a Add-on of Mozilla Firefox and MAC Operating system. You can also download it for your android and windows. Hola is ad free service and comparatively fast to access blocked sites.
5.) Use Tunnel Bear To Access Blocked Websites
TunnelBear is another awesome app to access the blocked sites. Tunnel bear comes in free & paid version. With free version you get of limit of 500 MB bandwidth to access blocked sites. Currently they are promoting tunnel bear with free 1 GB data. You can search their website for another promotion currently going on.
You can use tunnel bear on one computer & two mobile phone. You can access blocked sites on you Mac, Iphone & Ipad by downloading tunnel bear. For Mac it supports OSX 10.6.8 or later & for Ipad & Iphone ios 5.0 or later.
You can also access the blocked sites on android, windows xp, Windows 7 & windows 8 with Tunnel Bear. Simply go on to Tunnel Bear download page & select the correct operating system to download.
6.) Use URL Shorter Services to Open Blocked Sites
There are few free URL shorter service available to access blocked sites. You just go to those sites and simply type the URL you want to visit. These websites will convert the URL and give you another link of their website to open blocked sites. Copy that link & paste in to your browser to open blocked sites.
Few Popular URL shorter services are:- SnipURL, MooURL & TinyURL to access blocked sites.
7.) Use Translation Services
Google Translate, AltaVista Babelfish & Bing Translator can also be used to open blocked sites. Simply go to translation websites enter the URL you want to visit and the choose some other language to translate it & you can surf the page in this way. Any time during visit, you can click on show original to see the original content again.
8.) Use Way Back Machine
Way Back machine is a website which will show you that how a website look in past. Usually people use this service to see the design & outlook of famous websites in past. You just enter the URL of website you want to visit and access blocked sites and select some old date to access that website.
9.) Open Blocked Website by using Proxy in Web Browser
Another simple way to access blocked sites in college & school is through web browser proxy. You can use the proxy in your web browser and can access blocked sites.
In Chrome, first go to “Settings” -> Click “Advanced Settings” -> click on “Show Advanced Settings” in the Network. After that click “LAN Settings”. Check the “Use Proxy Server for your LAN” Check box -> Type the desired address and port number to “80” and Click “OK”.
You can see the list of proxy sites here Proxy Sites.
In Firefox, Click on Tool then Options. Now click on the Advanced and select Network tab. After that click on inside Connection Settings. Select Manual proxy configuration. Now, Enter the http desired proxy in the box and enter the port name. Check the box “use this proxy server for all protocol”.
10.) Open Blocked Sites by using IP instead of URL
You can also access blocked sites by using IP instead of URL of the website. Some software or hardware (like routers) used to block the website by using their name (e.g. www.facebook.com or www.google.com). For this case you can find the IP of the website and open the blocked sites by using website IP address. To find the IP address of a website go to RUN prompt from your start menu and type cmd and press enter. For Windows 8, open the RUN prompt by pressing Windows Key + R. MAC user can use terminal.
11.) Open Blocked Sites by using Decimal Number
As we told above to open blocked sites by using IP address. Now we use the decimal system in place of IP address. Find the IP address of any website (as we explained in previous step) and then change IP Address to decimal number. By this way you can also get instant access to the blocked sites.
12.) Access Blocked Websites With Google Cache
You can open the blocked websites with Google Cache. Google always create a fresh cache of the page. When you enter any term in Google for search it will show a small drop down link with the website URL in search result. Click on that drop down link & select the cached. Google will take you to the cache page which recently stored in the Google data base.
13.) Access Blocked Sites with Email Service
Web2Mail is another interesting service by which you can access the blocked sites. You can send a simple e-mail on email@example.com with the website URL in subject line. You can get a return mail from web2mail to read that website in mail. You can also do many thing with web2mail.com like you can search the web with email. You can also subscribe the daily email for selective website.
Update:- Recently US Court rules masking an IP address to access blocked websites violates law. You can read the complete article here.
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Expert backs Tony Abbott's claim that axing carbon tax will save families $3000
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- August 07, 2013
TONY Abbott's claim that axing the carbon tax will save "average families" $3000 over the next six years is not "wildly wrong", a leading economic modeller says.
The Opposition yesterday released a nine-page document called "The Coalition's Policy to Scrap the Carbon Tax and Reduce the Cost of Living" that restated getting rid of a price on pollution would be its "first order of business" should it win Government.
The policy document does not contain any explanation of how the $3000 saving is determined. When Mr Abbott's office was asked to substantiate the claim, it initially said the figure was based on the Gillard July 2015 timetable for moving to an Emissions Trading Scheme, or ETS.
However, since returning to the prime ministership, Kevin Rudd has vowed to switch to an ETS more quickly. An ETS uses a market or "floating" price for carbon - not a fixed price.
At the moment, the market price of carbon is about one quarter of the fixed price on which the carbon tax is operating.
A spokesman for Mr Abbott initially rejected the relevance of Mr Rudd's plan because it would only apply if Labor won on September 7.
"There's no law that says there will be a floating price from next year - there's none," the spokesman said. "It's a moot point."
However, two minutes later the spokesman said the $3000 figure did factor in an early move to an Emissions Trading Scheme and was calculated used Treasury modelling.
The Opposition would not release the calculations. It would not say was an "average family" was.
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling principle research fellow Ben Phillips said: "$3000 would probably be an upper estimate and it would probably not be wildly wrong."
But it all comes down to the future market price for carbon, he said.
"No one's got a clue, really, to be quite frank about it," Mr Phillips said.
The Coalition also declined to respond to queries about a table in its "Scrap the Carbon Tax" policy document which compares the differences between it and the Government. The table appears to use incorrect percentages.
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Your company, EuropeCo (a conglomerate of food, beverages, and consumer products), has announced its intention to purchase S˜ao Paolo Foods (introduced in Question 1). If the German risk-free rate is 5 percent and the beta of EuropeCo is 0.9, what is the cost of capital for S˜ao Paolo Foods once under EuropeCo control?
Answer to relevant QuestionsIn 2009, the median price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 was 11.1. If the long-run return on equity is 13.5 percent and the long-run growth in GDP is expected to be 6.7 percent (3.5 percent real growth and 3.2 percent ...To finance customer purchases, MarineCo recently started a customer financing unit. MarineCo's income statement and balance sheet are provided in Exhibit 12.8. Separate MarineCo's income statement and balance sheet into the ...Using an Internet search tool, locate Procter & Gamble's investor relations web site. Under "Financial Reporting," you will find the company's 2009 annual report. In the annual report's section titled "Management's ...Explain how long-term price-to-earnings ratios in the U.S. stock market of around 15 times are consistent with long-term expected stock returns of around 6 to 7 percent a year in real terms. Give an example of how to boost reported quarterly earnings by using accruals, and describe the implications for reported earnings in the next quarter. What is the risk involved in using accruals to boost earnings?
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A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
- A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
- A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
- Sexual passion.
- Sexual intercourse.
- A love affair.
- An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
- A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
- An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.
- A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
- The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.
- Mythology Eros or Cupid.
- Christianity Charity.
- Sports A zero score in tennis.
- To have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward (a person): We love our parents. I love my friends.
- To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person).
- To have an intense emotional attachment to: loves his house.
- To embrace or caress.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming.
- Theology To have charity for.
- To thrive on; need: The cactus loves hot, dry air.
- To experience deep affection or intense desire for another.
- for love Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
- for love or money Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.
- for the love of For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
- in love Deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love.
- in love Highly or immoderately fond: in love with Japanese painting; in love with the sound of her own voice.
- no love lost No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.
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DALLAS - A Southwest Airlines pilot landed at Love Field Thursday morning after an emotional flight. He bought home the remains of his father who was killed during the Vietnam War.
Air Force Col. Roy Knight Jr. of Milsaps, Texas was fighter pilot who was shot down on a mission in northern Laos on May 19, 1967. His body was never recovered because of the hostile location where his plane crashed.
The Air Force declared him dead in 1974 and his family was forced to move on without closure. That is, until this summer.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Knight’s remains were discovered earlier this year by a team investigating crash sites in northern Laos. DPAA scientists used dental remains to positively identify the missing Vietnam War pilot.
According to Knight’s obituary, he served as a typing clerk in the Philippines, Japan and Korea before becoming a fighter pilot. He and his wife, Patricia, had three children while he served in the military.
Knight's youngest son, Bryan, was only 5 years old when he saw his father for the last time. The two said their goodbyes at Love Field as he left for war 52 years ago.
Bryan Knight, who is now a captain with Southwest, piloted the flight bringing his father’s remains back to Love Field. A large crowd gathered at the airport as his casket draped with an American flag arrived.
“Bryan saw Dad off when he was 5. My sister and I had to go to school that day, “recalled Roy Knight, who shares his father’s name. “For Bryan to be bringing him back was just an amazingly perfect thing.”
Knight will be buried with full military honors in Weatherford on Saturday.
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Boghous Noubar Nounarian was an Armenian engineer and author from Constantinople. He pursued his studies in Switzerland and France, where he eventually became an engineer. He later moved to Egypt and worked in the government, in which time he held several positions including manager of the Egyptian railroad. He contributed to Egypt’s growth by aiding in the establishment of private companies such as the Alexandria tramway network. His writings were published in both French and Arabic.
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SPSS is a comprehensive and flexible statistical analysis and data management solution. SPSS can take data from almost any type of file and use them to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of
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During the first term in Year 4, we have been building up towards a spelling competition based on spellings that the children have learnt each week for their homework and in class.
Today was the grand final! Two finalists were chosen from each class (based on their high spelling scores each week). The competition was fierce to say the least! In the end, there were three children left out of eight.
Our three final contestants (Joe, Holly and Lilia) were simply superb and there was no sign of any of them giving up. Therefore, it was only fair to declare them all as our 'Year 4 Autumn Term Champions'. A huge congratulations to all involved!
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COVID-19 Outbreak Parliamentary Expert Database
We are encouraging academics with relevant research expertise to sign up to a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.
Over the past few weeks, Parliament has seen a surge in need for access to research expertise as it engages with the COVID-19 outbreak.
In this rapidly evolving situation, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both Coronavirus and the wider situation.
Parliament and Parliamentarians use these insights to help carry out their function effectively; that is to say, to represent the people, scrutinise the Government, debate important and pressing issues and pass legislation.
To speed up the process of Parliament accessing relevant research expertise, Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) are creating a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.
Areas of research expertise
The KEU have identified a number of areas which Parliament may need to access research expertise, including:
- Behavioural Science
- Children and families
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- Social security and tax credits
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To see the full list of research areas please visit the sign up form.
If you feel you have any expertise relating to the COVID-19 outbreak or its impacts, the KEU would be very grateful if you would sign up to the database.
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At GCP's 2011 General Research Meeting in Hyderabad, India, group discussions on communications included the possibility of republishing the 2011 GCP book Drought phenotyping in crops: from theory to practice with an open-source online publisher, Frontiers. Republishing this work gave contributing authors an opportunity to update their findings, and to bring state-of-the-art research in phenotyping to the public once more, with each author moving at their own pace. Not all chapters from the original book have been republished in Frontiers in Plant Physiology, but those that were republished were compiled into a Frontiers e-book.
In Part I, different methodologies are presented for accurately characterising environmental conditions, implementing trials, and capturing and analysing the information this generates, regardless of the crop.
Part II presents the state-of-art in research on adaptation to drought, and recommends specific protocols to measure different traits in major food crops (focusing on particular cereals, legumes and clonal crops).
Monneveux, P.; Ribaut, J.M.; Okono, A. Drought phenotyping in crops: from theory to practice. Frontiers, (2014) ISBN 978-2-88919-181-9 [Frontiers in Physiology]
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A Conversation with Marty Natalegawa
JAMES ZIRIN: This promises to be a really exciting program. We're delighted to have Foreign Minister Natalegawa with us.
Just a few ground rules, which I'm compelled to inform you of, even though you've heard them before. Please turn your cellphones off, your BlackBerrys off, if you -- if it has a button, press the button because the vibration interferes with the sound system. And this meeting is on the record. And I think what we'll do is we'll -- the foreign minister and I will have a conversation for about 30 minutes, and then we'll open it up to questioning. And I hope we can go around the table, and everyone will participate.
I met the foreign minister about a year ago when he spoke at the council -- and really interesting program. It was -- I remember it was moderated by Lee Cullum. And then I met him again -- had the pleasure of meeting him again in Jakarta on a council trip that Richard Haass led, which was extremely instructive.
I assume you've all read his biography. Briefly, he was the permanent representative of Indonesia to the United Nations for two years, and then subsequently he became the foreign minister, a post which he has held for the last two years. And he has been a very active foreign minister, and Indonesia has been a country where there's been a tremendous amount of foreign relations activity, particularly in the last year.
You all doubtless have some background in Indonesia. There are -- it's a fascinating country. It consists of 17,000 islands or more, most of them uninhabited. It's the world's largest Muslim country, and it consists of 240 million people. There are at least five religious traditions that exist there, dozens of ethnicities. It's a country of tolerance. It's a country of democracy. It's a model for the developing world.
There -- of course you know its history. A decade or more ago it had autocratic rule under Sukarno. Now it has a vibrant democracy. A decade or more ago it was on the verge of economic collapse. And now it has achieved a growth rate of about 5 percent a year. Its debt-to-GDP ratio is an enviable, I think, around 27 percent. I won't compare it invidiously with ours in the United States. And I think we all have to salute the foreign minister on the economic and political turnaround in his country.
And my first question is what are you going to do for an encore?
FOREIGN MINISTER MARTY NATALEGAWA: Thank you very much, James and Richard, for once again -- once again welcoming me and my colleagues here at the council. I recall with great deal of appreciation our conversation this time last year. And very, very happy to be back at the council.
Yes, it has been -- you know, I mean, when looking back what has happened over the past one year since we last met here in the council, there's been so much change in the international setting. Not least, of course, all of us have been very much preoccupied with what is happening in North Africa, in the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring and possible implications to the geopolitics of the region and beyond and how those particular developments, on the other hand, also reminds of the relative lack of development in the Middle East peace process.
But the point I wish to make, James, is that change is a given, and therefore a country like Indonesia in the conduct of its foreign policy must integrate the reality of change within its foreign policy posture, within its foreign policy outlook. And the fact that Indonesia, as James has said, that -- as you have kindly acknowledged, continue to make robust economic achievements. The economic growth in 2010 was 6 percent annual economic growth, and in 2011 we anticipate 6.5 percent economic growth. In the context of the current global financial economic downturn, I think those kind of figures are especially noteworthy.
So our interests, James, is to be able to transform or based on those economic and solid and sound domestic settings to be able to project that in the conduct of our foreign policy, especially in the regional setting. In ASEAN, I think that you are probably aware in 2011 we are -- have been chairing ASEAN for the past nine months or so. And I believe I shared with some of you who were in Jakarta what our outlook was for ASEAN chairmanship. And I think after nine months or so of that responsibility, we are where we should be in terms of the targets. And I'm very pleased to share with you what those targets have been and where we are if you so wish for me to describe it.
ZIRIN: Well, ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has been the centerpiece of your foreign policy as a trading group and as a political group. And what do you believe you've achieved in the last year since you assumed the chair?
NATALEGAWA: Well, we're always keen to differentiate between chairmanship and leadership. Chairmanship is something that comes naturally in terms of sequence, that it's a particular country's time to chair ASEAN, in this instance Indonesia in 2011. But ever since we assumed that chairmanship, we were keen to ensure that we project a certain kind of leadership. We take ASEAN from one situation to another, a better state of affairs.
And in this connection we have set for ourselves three principal priorities. One is deliberately housekeeping and inward looking, namely to ensure that ASEAN makes significant progress in its attempt to achieve community by 2015. As you would no doubt be aware, ASEAN has set for itself the target of achieving ASEAN community, a political community, security community, economic and social/cultural community by 2015. So we were keen to ensure that during the course of our chairmanship, substantial progress is made in that direction. But what is most noteworthy perhaps is that rather than simply legislating or enacting resolutions, declarations, agreements by ASEAN -- which obviously are already plenty -- we'd rather focus on the implementation of existing prior commitments, especially in the area of conflict resolution.
Now ASEAN has voluminous documents relating to how conflicts should be resolved peacefully amongst themselves, but for the most part, those instruments have not been resorted to, have not been mutualized. And we began a game -- hopefully a game-changing paradigm-shifting approach when we first encountered the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia early in February of 2011. We deliberately and purposefully inject ASEAN's involvement in the conflict between the two fellow ASEAN member states, an issue that was brought of course to the Security Council in February. But this time around we have an ASEAN script; there is an ASEAN answer to the situation, and therefore when the issue was discussed in the council, Security Council, it was a matter of the Security Council endorsing the ASEAN approach. So in the conflict resolution domain, 2011 has been very much the empowering or the enactment of the carrying out of existing principles.
ZIRIN: And it also meditated a dispute with China, the naval dispute in the South China Sea within the past year..
NATALEGAWA: That's correct. Absolutely, absolutely. I was about to say that as well. In the South China Sea, the overlapping claims and disputes in that part of Southeast Asia has been a source of tensions for many, many years and -- between China and ASEAN and the other -- (inaudible) -- powers as well.
Now, this year, after 11 years or eight years of negotiations, finally we agreed to the guidelines on the code of conduct on how countries in the region are to behave, are to conduct themselves in the South China Sea. So that was a very important confidence-building measure. But we are now proceeding to the actual code of conduct itself. We are now moving forward to having a legally binding code of conduct for the countries in the region, how to behave themselves or to conduct themselves on the South China Sea. So whether it's been bilateral, ASEAN -- intra-ASEAN, ASEAN and the other countries, we have injected a more action-oriented, more operational ASEAN.
The second priority has been the regional architecture itself, wider, beyond ASEAN. And here I think -- I remember at this time last year when I came here, we were talking about the East Asia Summit, Russia, United States, how they will participate. And finally we have in a month's time the summit that will be attended by the two presidents of Russia and the United States.
And what we have been doing, James, over the past nine months or so -- we are now identifying basic principles on how the countries of East Asia will conduct themselves, like nonuse of force, transparency measures, confidence-building measures. We hope, in other words, to create a security community almost whereby countries of East Asia -- you could imagine the -- its importance, relations between China and U.S., China and India, Japan and China. These are major axes in the region's dynamics. And through the East Asia summit, through ASEAN, we are -- we are projecting the norms by which these big countries should conduct themselves in a more peaceful and benign manner.
And lastly, just quickly, we are also taking ASEAN to a higher level, ASEAN in the global community of nations. This is, again, Indonesia's initiative. Basically, we have set for ourselves a 10-year program whereby ASEAN after 10 years, hopefully less, will speak with greater cohesion on global issues -- not quite an ASEAN common foreign policy, but certainly as ASEAN common platform on global issues. So there is a deliberate three-pronged strategy that we are pursuing.
ZIRIN: Do you see the summit of East Asian leaders as being a new platform that will displace ASEAN in any way? I mean, here you have world leaders converging on Jakarta next month, or in November.
NATALEGAWA: Yes, well, it is a new forum in this -- as it's revamped. You have there of course the ASEAN 10. You have your India, China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and now with the two additional, Russia and United States. It is deliberately and by definition an ASEAN-led forum, an ASEAN -- in a central role.
But what I have been suggesting to my ASEAN colleagues is that ASEAN centrality or ASEAN-led nature of East Asia Summit cannot be legislated, cannot simply happen by repeatingly saying so. We need to deliver. That is why we have these principles that we have now come forward with, and therefore we have to be proactive in giving substance to the notion of East Asia Summit.
Especially what we are promoting, to be honest, James, in Indonesia is this notion of dynamic equilibrium for our region, certainly a state of affairs where there is no -- (inaudible) -- power, there is no dominant power for our region. But unlike the classic balance-of-power approach where we achieve this by having containment, by having a group of friends or similar, like-minded countries to address, to manage, to contain even a rising country, we create the notion of common security, common prosperity, and basically dilute -- put into context a certain rising country so that that country becomes a part of the -- like, an established -- a country that has a vested interest in maintaining the peace and the stability of the region rather than a (revisionist ?) country.
ZIRIN: Now, Minister, you referred to the Arab Spring, which our own Richard Haass calls the "Arab upheaval." Does -- I wanted to ask you, what is the attitude of Indonesia as an Islamic country that's enjoyed a transition, almost a seamless transition, from -- to make Islam and democracy consistent toward what's going on in the Middle East?
NATALEGAWA: Well, the first thing that we are basically noting out of this whole episode is that so-called governance issues -- democracy, human rights -- issues that traditionally would have been seen as being internal, national -- in a way, soft issues actually can quickly become hard security issues, whether it be -- especially in the Libyan context, and potentially before in the Egyptian context, but certainly in Libya -- and Syria we are yet to see and Yemen we have yet to see -- internal democratic deficit, governance deficit quickly becomes hard security issues, interstate issues, use-of-force issues.
So we are -- we are -- you know, we are fortunate in ASEAN, in Southeast Asia. Ten years ago, we begun the process of making governance issues, human rights, democratization promotion as a part of a region's collaborative efforts. Having said that of course, we support fully the democratic changes that is taking place in the Middle East. We wish very much to see the wishes of the people in those countries be respected.
But for that to happen, we believe that we must create the space for the peaceful transformation of those countries and for the democratic conversation and dialogue to take place. In other words, a country like Libya we suspect -- we assume to be quite -- has a very strong national and traditional -- especially national capacities. And we would not want to be too quick in wanting to, you know, like suffocate its own national process. And for Indonesia as a country, like you have said, Muslim-majority country, at the same time democratic, having undergone its own transformation; we have lessons to impart in terms of problems, challenges. And we are doing that at the moment with our friends in Egypt, with our friends in Tunisia especially -- not by way of telling them what to do simply, but simply by informing them what our problems have been and how we can partner them in promotion of democracy.
ZIRIN: I wanted to ask you about your relations with the United States. Of course, President Obama spent four years of his life in Jakarta. We visited the school he attended in the course of our trip. It was not a madrassa. It was actually a Catholic school. And the -- we -- and now he's making his second trip of his presidency to Indonesia. Do you see a close relationship with -- (inaudible)?
NATALEGAWA: Yes, absolutely. It is -- it is a partnership, and it is a comprehensive partnership, and therefore I think those two key qualities are important to emphasize. A partnership suggests therefore it is truly a relationship of equal, of mutuality of interests and benefits in the nature of the relationship, and comprehensive in that it's not only political, it's not only economic, financial but in a most comprehensive way.
And you are quite correct. It has been -- it has been quite intensive. There's been a lot of communications, a lot of visits. The president of the United States will be visiting Indonesia again in November. So that's in a very close sequence. I've had twice now a full-fledged ministerial meeting -- ministerial commission meeting with Secretary Clinton. Last time was in July of this year in Bali, and prior to that was in September of 2010. So within less than one year I've had two full-fledged bilateral ministerial commission meetings at the -- at the secretary level. And we are now seeing a lot of deliveries -- deliverables in terms of outcomes. Indonesia varies very much it's relationship with the United States as part of -- to deepen its relationship. And whether it's bilateral or ASEAN-U.S. or East Asia Summit, it is, I believe, one of those important stabilizing (factors ?) for our region.
ZIRIN: I think Indonesians characterize their foreign policy as free and active. And certainly the appearances that you were a nonaligned nation and that you really want to be friends with everyone in the world, and seeing how those relations can lead to progress -- you were a very early supporter of Palestine's bid for statehood in the United Nations. Did you feel that was inconsistent at all with your relationship with the United States?
NATALEGAWA: Not necessarily. Well, first of all, the independent -- (inaudible) -- in the past, the most obvious manifestation of such an outlook during the Cold War was not to align oneself to East or West. But in the absence of those East and West divisions, it's no long -- it's not sufficient to be nonaligned, because it's nonaligned vis-a-vis what? There's nothing to align to or to be nonaligned against.
And so independent and active, in the current international setting, is defined as simply being a capacity to make independent decision-making, for us to be able to judge each situation on the basis of its own merit and build like-minded and build commonality and consensus around that fact.
On Palestine, as I have said on many, many occasions, of course, Indonesia is in its outlook deliberately and principally in support of the Palestinian cause. But at the same time, in the same breath, we've always also emphasized that our vision is of the two-states vision, of an Israel and of a Palestine that live side by side in peace and security. And therefore, when we are pronouncing our support for Palestinian statehood, including the current efforts at the U.N., it is, we believe, consistent with that vision of two-state solution.
And by the way, we've always said that, in the final analysis, the issue will be resolved through negotiations, with the support of the Quartet, including the United States. So I think the Palestinian bid at the U.N. is not, you know, burning bridges. It should be seen as being -- to create climate conducive to encourage all parties concerned to actually have a more serious dialogue and negotiations. But we respect very much the U.S. efforts through the -- as a part of the Quartet.
ZIRIN: The relationship with the United States has been somewhat complicated by the issue of human rights.
ZIRIN: And certainly, Senator Leahy and others in our Congress have spotlighted the failure to crack down on terrorists; on the issue of religious freedom on the part of some Muslim sects, which they say is abridged; and the abuses of the military in West Papua. Do you think you're making progress in this area, or is this something that really is nobody's business but your own?
NATALEGAWA: Oh, no -- (chuckles) -- of course, it is an issue of common concern and interest to all of us. The main point I think that must be underscored and appreciated is the fact that, whatever shortcomings that still exist in the area of promotion of human rights, respect for human rights and all of the other very important principles that we espouse, this time around, the government of Indonesia, and especially the civil society in Indonesia itself, are actually calling for those deficiencies to be addressed. So whenever there have been lack of -- I mean where there have been difficulties or there have been incidences involving the abuse or the -- by certain individuals about -- relating to human rights, the government has been very open, transparent, in bringing the matter to the attention of the public and bringing those responsible to justice.
Now, in the prosecution of the matter in the courts, we may have our own views in terms of whether it was sufficient or not sufficient. But given the important principle of the division between the executive and the judiciary, then the government cannot intervene in the -- in the kind of decision that the court has reached based on the evidence before it.
But on terrorism, of course, you know, all of us, unfortunately, continue to be -- to face the prospect or the threat of terrorism which can strike at any time, at any place. But the Indonesian government -- Indonesia has from the very beginning determined -- has been determined to ensure that this problem is addressed -- this challenge is addressed in a comprehensive way, through democratic response, because we believe it is only a democratic response that is -- that can be sustained over the long run.
ZIRIN: One other issue, and then I'll open it up. In President Obama's U.N. address last week, he referred to corruption, and he said no country can afford the corruption that plagues the world like a cancer. And in Indonesia, there seems to be this lurking issue. We discussed it a year ago, and in the last year there have been more scandals that we read about. And I wondered how robustly you're addressing this issue.
NATALEGAWA: Well, yes, I mean this whole issue of efforts to combat and to overcome -- eradicate corruption is part and parcel of good governance, part and parcel of the efforts to ensure democratization, the strengthening of democratic institutions. It is very much work in progress. We are not there yet in terms of having complete -- you know, I mean, to be where we want to be.
But I think the projection -- the projectory (ph) is quite positive, is encouraging based on the corruption index that is widely available. The trend from 2004 -- I was told that it's 2, now in 2010 is 2.8. In other words, the perception of corruption index is getting more positive. But the Indonesian government is very much aware that this is an issue that needs even more serious efforts on the part of the government.
ZIRIN: Well, I know my colleagues are very anxious to ask questions, so why don't we just go around the table, starting on my left with President Richard Haass.
QUESTIONER: I will defer. Got a lot of -- lot of interest here.
QUESTIONER: Thank you. I'm Dan Altman from North Yard Economics. You said that internal treatment of human and civil rights (should/could ?) be fundamental to ASEAN's goals of regional security. I would put it to you that internal treatment of economic rights and institutions may be fundamental to ASEAN goals of economic integration as well. How do you try and take on that issue with ASEAN members, issues like land tenure and property rights in Cambodia, for example? How can you try and promulgate that?
NATALEGAWA: Well, exactly. That's why back in 2003 now, when we began this whole subject of ASEAN community, initially it was only in the economic domain, ASEAN economic community. And it was at Indonesia's initiative that we also brought onboard two other pillars, ASEAN political security community as well as ASEAN social-cultural community, mindful of the fact that all those three elements are very much interrelated. And so nowadays it's extremely difficult to differentiate between what is political, security, social-cultural and economic, and even more difficult sometimes to differentiate between what is local, national, regional and global.
Now, those kind of national level or even subnational level concerns, we are experiencing them to different degrees in ASEAN countries. Indonesia, for example, we have, you know, quite a bit of a challenge in the whole issue of land tenure and land ownership when the government is committed to build infrastructure and roads and rail tracks, et cetera, and there is a problem in terms of freeing up the land for the purpose of building those transportation links. In other ASEAN countries, maybe more -- less publicly engaged, I mean, where the government has more room to be able to get its decision immediately implemented, there's a different degree of -- a different kind of situation.
What we do in ASEAN is to compare notes on these developments and to ensure that the lessons learned in one country is shared with others, and therefore there is this very constant sharing of experience at the subnational level, the national and at regional level.
But the point is, the economic community concept is not only about trade, investment, but also creating equitable development. Because within ASEAN, there are pockets of under-development, pockets of -- within subregion of ASEAN, so we have not only an ASEAN-wide economic community effort in all its facets, but also within ASEAN there are subregions, subregions of East Asia, East Indonesia, South -- Southern Philippines, for example. So we have these little triangles, subregional cooperation within ASEAN, to address these pockets of under-development within ASEAN.
ZIRIN: Right here.
QUESTIONER: Thank you. Peggy Hicks with Human Rights Watch.
Minister, I wanted to ask about Indonesia's voting record at the United Nations, particularly on human rights resolutions, which seems quite a bit out of step with the vision of a model of democracy and good governance which you've outlined. In particular, Indonesia is one of only -- less than two dozen states that has consistently voted against the North Korea resolution, voted for the past three years against the Iran resolution, and the Burma resolution resolution two of the three years.
How -- could you explain that voting pattern to us?
And I'd also like your reflections on how we can expect, I would hope, to see that Indonesia's engagement change in the course of its tenure at the Human Rights Council, to which it's been recently re-elected.
NATALEGAWA: Well, on the -- yes, of course we wish to ensure that the changes that's taking place, the democratization that is taking place within Indonesia is properly reflected in its foreign policy, both in terms of process, which means that the process of foreign policy-making in Indonesia is now even more open and transparent than ever before. In the old days, you know, I mean, foreign policy-making is principally the responsibility of the foreign policy -- you know, foreign -- the Department of Foreign Affairs and other government institutions, but now the foreign -- process of foreign policy-making is more engaging of civil society and the like. So the process of foreign policy-making is even more open.
But the outcome as well, the actual foreign policy as well, is -- we must ensure that it's actually in keeping with the internal domestic human rights reform and changes.
And I think -- you know, it's funny you should ask this question, because I was just asking one of my colleagues the other day to come up with a snapshot, a scorecard of where we are. And I'm keen to get your data as well as from the Human Rights Watch, because I'd like to make sure that where -- we are where we want to be. And I have deliberately and personally begun a process of this recalibration of our voting position on many issues.
We have a bit of a principal problem or principal challenge, by way of approaching these country-based resolutions. Our principal challenge is that sometimes these country-based resolutions becomes heavily politicized in terms of group of countries championing certain outlook against another group of countries. So it becomes very much an interstate -- typical U.N. interstate group bloc politics, developing versus developed, West against developing countries, OIC versus others.
So we have been -- in the past, we have a principal generic blanket objection, opposition to any country-based resolution because of a matter of principle, because we believe in the Human Rights Council the approach should be collaboration, cooperation, not confrontation.
But we've begun to change that. Even when I was here as ambassador at the United Nations, at the Security Council here in New York, when we had the episode in -- the incidences in Myanmar with respect to the -- to the demonstrations by the religious leaders, by the monks, I think that was a time when on Myanmar we shifted our position both on the action -- what it's called -- but --
MR. : (Inaudible) -- action.
NATALEGAWA: -- no-action --
MR. : Motion.
NATALEGAWA: -- no action motion --
MR. : (Off mic.)
NATALEGAWA: -- as well as on the actual voting itself. We had -- we had voted against the submission of the issue. Instead we had in -- voted in favor of bringing the issue to the -- to the General Assembly, and we have now adopted a position of abstaining on the -- on the -- on the issue.
On North Korea, as well -- previously we have voted against, but now we are voting in -- we're abstaining. So on those -- we have three key countries there, Myanmar, North Korea and Iran. On Myanmar and North Korea, we are now -- we have shifted from being against to being -- we abstain. The only lacuna -- the only gap still is the Iran resolution that I'm looking at seriously.
In other words, we have shown a capacity to change, and now what I have asked my interlocutor from the so-called -- the other sides who have sponsored these resolutions -- I have asked them to please also similarly move away from their own comfort zones. And I'm afraid that some of these resolutions are year in and year out basically the same, year in and year out basically the same, adding one or two preambular to say this is this year's resolution, rather than last year's. It is not actually applying themselves to the new situation.
Now if we -- we cannot do a political somersault from one extreme, against, to suddenly becoming in favor, without some kind of application by the sponsors of this resolution to say: Look, we are looking at new settings, whatever that new setting is.
But you know, I'm -- there is inertia sometimes in this whole debate. Countries are so comfortable in just going through the motion of having the same thing year in and year out. We are doing our best to move.
And on those two resolutions, we have changed. On Iran, as I said, I'm looking at that. We -- I'm looking as well on where we are on the issue of human rights, on the issue of capital punishment, this whole debate, because it's a big issue in the United States as well. I am -- we are looking at that as well.
So we are -- one final thought I wanted to impart is Indonesia was elected to Human Rights Council. I think we believe -- if I'm not mistaken, we have the largest support of all the member states of the U.N. We've got the largest support. But that's a huge burden on us to do the right thing. And so we are -- we are keen to ensure that we are where we should be, and I will be very keen to get your data as well from Human Rights Watch so that I can really compare and make sure that we are where we should be.
ZIRIN: Yes, ma'am.
QUESTIONER: Janet Benshoof from the Global Justice Center. First of all, I want to say I really appreciate your frank and transparent remarks. And I think Indonesia's clearly on its way to being not just a regional but a very much of a world leader.
I want to speak to you about the issue of political reform and encouraging political reform in the case of the Republic of Myanmar, and also about stopping inertia. Indonesia president is also the commander in chief, and you can well comply with the ASEAN Charter. The Republic of Myanmar just instituted a new constitution of bifurcated sovereignty which is unlike any in the world. The president and the civilian government are precluded from taking any actions against the military, civil or political, or enforcing anything to do with nuclear energy or weapons. In other words, the president can't even walk on an area of a nuclear reactor without the commander in chief being there.
So I'm not talking about political reforms. I'm talking about Myanmar's legal incapacity to comply with the ASEAN Charter about nuclear-free zone or the Bangkok Treaty. Now given the legal incapacity -- legal incapacity under the constitution, which is radically different than Indonesia, are there any steps -- leadership steps by Indonesia to -- until there's an amendment in the constitution to declare that Myanmar's ASEAN membership is null and void?
NATALEGAWA: Yes, Myanmar in general -- I'm not really -- I'm not knowledgeable of those specific provisions within the Myanmar constitution that you made reference to, and therefore I can't give an informed response to it. But as a general outlook, when we look at Myanmar this time last year, when we meet here and where we are now, I'm always keen to emphasize just one word, basically the development. There's been development in Myanmar over the past one year. I'm not necessarily saying progress; I'm saying development with respect to the release of Aung San Suu Kyi -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with respect to the elections, the formation of civilian authority, of government in a way, as well as the -- subsequently the capacity and ability of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and supporters to conduct political activities, to have dialogue with the president of Myanmar -- these are developments -- and not least the openness of -- the relative openness of the government of Myanmar to receive foreign international envoys and the like. So there have been developments.
But -- and of course, as you are aware, Myanmar is now seeking the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014 after the initial delay of 2005 if I'm not mistaken. But what we have been doing in Indonesia and in ASEAN is to acknowledge those developments, but encouraging them to do some more. And the ASEAN framework provides precisely -- we believe can provide conditions conducive to encourage Myanmar to move forward in its -- in its democratization path -- certain reference points and benchmarks.
And one issue is -- that has recently obtained a great deal of attention is the issue of nuclear energy development or nuclear safety and the like. And in this connection I would like to inform as well, this year, after some eight years of negotiations finally -- or lack of progress and not even any negotiations, finally the ASEAN countries have reached consensus on the position they had to take to the nuclear-weapon states on the zone of Southeast Asia nuclear-weapon-free zone.
So we had a very good discussion with the nuclear-weapon states last August, with a view to getting their ratification of the treaty by November, hopefully. There's another -- sets of meeting this coming October in -- here in New York. So basically, the nuclear dimension in Southeast Asia is becoming more complex. It is no longer now the issue of proliferation or geographical proliferation, deployment of nuclear-weapon states' weaponry in our region, but also the real giving up of the nuclear option from Southeast Asian countries and the safety issues, security issues, and environmental issues as well.
QUESTIONER: Thank you.
ZIRIN: Yes, sir.
QUESTIONER: Drozdin Fischer (ph), Malata Group. Your Excellency, I'd like to ask a question about human capital. Indonesia's seen impressive economic growth and that's lead (sic) to success, and hopefully that will contain (sic) in the future. How are you finding your ability to get skilled Indonesians to meet those challenges?
NATALEGAWA: Precisely. That's what we do recognize, that the development of our human capital, the -- would be key in taking Indonesia's development path to that higher level in a more sustained way and really taking us to where we want to be.
As you are aware, within the Indonesian constitution it is actually provided for that the budget on education is actually strictly set vis-a-vis -- as a proportion of the government expenditure, so there is actually a government constitutional provision for that purpose. And Indonesia is beginning to increase its efforts in the education area, to ensure precisely the development of its human capital, especially as -- in recognition of the rising middle class. Indonesia is -- now has probably one of the world's largest or most substantial increase in the number of middle-class people, population. A young population demographically -- we are yet to reap the full dividend of the young population composition that we enjoy.
And so there is I think a lot of -- a lot of upswing that is to be fully tapped in the years to come, especially -- I was in San Francisco last week, or slightly a week ago, with Secretary Clinton. I attended this conference about the role of women in the economy. And I left that conference with even greater conviction that the promotion of the role of women in the economy, especially in the small and medium enterprise sector, is not only right, but is also smart, because it has a huge growth-driver impact, as well as the right kind of growth. It is a sustainable growth, and also a more equitable growth as well. So we are really focusing in the area of human capital development, especially and not least zeroing in on the education and capital -- human capital development among women in Indonesia.
ZIRIN: Yes, sir.
QUESTIONER: "Selamat Pagi." I'm Drew Ladner, with Pascal Metrics.
NATALEGAWA: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: So consistent with the demographic assets Indonesia has, and as more women enter the workforce, clearly, finding jobs is important. And in Indonesia, like the United States, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to start, to grow, to develop, is key. I'm long on Indonesia, but whether it's the World Bank doing business in Indonesia Index or other experiences, there's some concern about the ability for that growth to happen. What steps is Indonesia taking to address the ability to do business in Indonesia, whether it's starting a business, to have contracts enforced and so on?
NATALEGAWA: Yes. Well, these are all -- actually, the problems or the bottlenecks and the hurdles are very much well defined, and we are very consciously aware of them: legal uncertainty, bureaucracy, corruption. But these are precisely the kind of areas where the government is now really trying to address itself to these problems -- removal of bottlenecks and eradication of corruption, dealing with the -- we've had this pendulum swing from a very centralized system of government, to a very decentralized form of government where the provinces and the regencies enjoy far greater autonomy than before. It has had a huge -- what do you call it? -- a huge growth impact. But at the same time, if it replicates the kind of bureaucracies and the kind of bottlenecks that used to be found at the central level, but also at the regional level, then that becomes problematic. So there is -- we are addressing that central government versus regional government issue as well.
But the key point that I want to emphasize is that despite -- despite all these well-known problems, well-known challenges that we are purposefully and deliberately addressing, despite all that, we are -- yet we are able to achieve the kind of growth that we have, 6 percent last year and 6.5, perhaps, this year.
So we are seeing -- in reminding ourselves about the need to address these problems, we are saying that, look, if we get it right, there is another -- yet more drivers for the higher economic growth for Indonesia, especially Indonesia being -- you know, the most recent financial and economic crisis reminds us how on the one hand, of course, it's important to establish links, globalization -- you cannot opt out of globalization, obviously; it is a reality, a fact of life -- but at the same time, we must have a strong national underpinning. The national economy must be robust, a good domestic market, connectivity, so that whatever happens at the international level, we have that to rely on in terms of engines for growth, the national, domestic driver for growth.
ZIRIN: You had a question, in the back.
QUESTIONER: David Phillips from Columbia University. How would you characterize conditions they have in West Papua? I understand there have been some demonstrations. What kinds of grievances are being expressed? Steps that you're taking, including implementation of autonomy agreements?
NATALEGAWA: This is similar to the other question that I received just now about the human rights situation in general in Indonesia. As you're aware -- or I would like to inform you -- our whole approach on Papua, the two provinces in Papua, has undergone a huge change in terms of paradigm, in terms of outlook, away from so-called law-and-order, suppressive and -- measures, but more towards governance in terms of economic development outlook, through especially the implementation of the special autonomy.
Our problem, to be honest, when we apply -- because when you look at the figures -- I don't have the figures with me -- the two provinces in Papua, both in terms of its own locally or regionally derived sources of revenue as well as the revenue distributed from the central government, is actually per capita one of the highest -- one of the most endowed, well supported provinces.
We have a problem in terms of governance, in terms of absence -- in a way sometimes absence of governance, in the sense that we need to be -- to ensure that all the resources that have been empowered and available as a result of the special autonomy actually bring about improvement, bring out development in the area.
Now, that's the big picture. Of course, there are incidences, difficult incidences, unacceptable incidences of human rights violations, but -- on the one hand. On the other hand, there is genuine, sometimes, law-and-order problem. You know, when we have people -- wherever it is, whether it's in Indonesia, in any part of Indonesia, any part of the world -- you know, when we have situations where there is horizontal conflicts between communities -- and when I say conflicts here, it's not like one of those conflicts that you see in London, the London riots recently where people -- you know, there was a lot of problems and the government in the United Kingdom has to be very forceful in assuring law and order. The type of horizontal conflicts that you can see in Papua are actually real, violent conflicts, people using bow and arrows and killing one another.
Now, any governments must ensure a certain kind of stability and law and order and cannot simply let these kind of situations develop out of control. So it must -- it is a balance between law and order and stability to ensure economic prosperity and development to take place.
But the key thing here, to all our international interlocutors, friends, and both critical as well as supportive: We get it. We know that this is -- this is two provinces in -- is that -- provinces that need special attention, special empowerment, autonomy is the way to go. But when there are problems and they are problems, as we are not immune or exempt from problems, as any other countries, let's address them in a -- in a(n) inclusive way and problem-solving way, rather than simply creating more challenges ahead.
QUESTIONER: Ken Roth from Human Rights Watch again. I wanted to follow up, if I could, on your comments about country-specific resolutions at the United Nations. And I take your point that the proponents of those resolutions need to keep them up to date and should not just, you know, repeat by rote what happened the year before that and the year before that.
But I wanted to address the rationale that you had stated for why Indonesia sort of presumptively opposes those kinds of --
NATALEGAWA: In the past.
QUESTIONER: -- in the past, yes, or even abstains, in the sense that there -- it makes sense to talk about cooperation in the case of a country where the government has a clear policy to respect human rights, but it may lack the technical capacity and therefore cooperatively providing technical assistance makes lots of sense.
But in the case of countries that as a matter of government policy are violating human rights, that kind of cooperative approach doesn't make sense. And indeed we've seen an evolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council. Just in the last year there suddenly have been a whole spate of new country-specific resolutions in the case of countries where there is a policy of violating human rights.
And so my question to you is really whether Indonesia would consider its own distinction as to when --
NATALEGAWA: Yes, absolutely. Yeah.
QUESTIONER: -- because we'd -- you know, ideally would it be possible for Indonesia to vote --
NATALEGAWA: Yeah --
QUESTIONER: -- positively, for resolutions on North Korea or other governments that pursue policies --
NATALEGAWA: For -- yeah, yes. Of course we can differentiate and delineate between those kind of situations, abject failure and utter unwillingness to comply with certain human rights standards.
On Libya, for example, when Libya was -- its status was -- (inaudible) --
MR. : Suspended.
NATALEGAWA: -- suspended, we were in -- we supported that measure. And so we can differentiate that.
But my only problem or my suggestion is to some of our interlocutors -- is that they are so in it, they are so -- this has become like industry of competitions and bloc politics in Geneva. I was sitting next to the Human Rights Council -- (inaudible) --
MR. : (Off mic.)
MR. : (Off mic.)
NATALEGAWA: What's the -- what's the term? Is it "commissioner"?
MR. : The high commissioner.
NATALEGAWA: The high commissioner. (Cross talk.) Yes. I was sitting next to her over lunch the other day, and I was saying that, you know, I feel, whether it's Geneva or here in New York, we need to have less of this "friends of" group, friends of this, friends of that. So who's the enemy?
So you have -- it's self-defined exclusionary groups, and as if -- we need countries that -- you know, Indonesia would like to present itself -- that actually connects people up, find commonalities. And this bloc, we --I mean, groupthink is -- I think it's no longer result-oriented. And therefore when we have like a resolution on Libya or on the situation on Myanmar, and I said, look, we have opposed this resolution before, we want to move forward, we have now done away with the blanket opposition, we want to apply ourself, let's apply ourself.
But if you are simply having the same resolution since 1972 or '73, the same resolution that's simply updated with the preambular, I mean, it won't fly. I mean, you -- we have to apply ourself. Let's just reiterate all the things that we've before. Fine. Recall, reaffirm. We'll support those resolutions, fine. But let's get down to having a real resolution to say: This is what needs to happen.
Just to give a concrete example, Sri Lanka, a country, like Indonesia in the past, that's now going through changes and trying to do the right thing, I believe -- I believe. You know, it's half empty or half full. Myanmar can be seen in that way as well.
But our interests -- based on Indonesia's own experience, we need our international partners to strengthen their democratic constituency back within. So when a country like Indonesia seeks membership in the Human Rights Council, it is not a one-way thing. It is not us trying to tell us the world: This is how we should be. But it's actually to give us -- to strengthen our democratic constituency back home. Look, we belong to this group and that council and this, so we better deliver. We better live up to these commitments.
And this is the point that I'm trying to say, is that some of these countries in transition, they need encouragement and support. And if you are simply to say, look, you know, they already want to report -- say Sri Lanka has certain issues, and they want to report to the council -- informally, perhaps -- but it gets done. It's reported. But somewhere, somehow, someone wants to put the icing on the cake and say, oh, let's have a proper agenda item on this, just to make the point, as if this reporting or this event happened because of their -- at their behest, at their demand.
So it's as if -- trying to put the icing on the cake. Let's just let things happen naturally, you know. I mean, country ownership, national ownership is important.
Indonesia and Timor-Leste, we have this Commission on Truth and Friendship bilateral to address problems of the past. It is probably not the most perfect mechanism, but we are learning as we are doing it. There is a capacity-building, lessons-learned benefit to be had out of it. But if we were to do the shortcut, and then we have some fantastic tribunal sitting somewhere in The Hague, perhaps with all the most prominent lawyers in the world -- but after all is said and done, there is no multiplier; there is no lessons-learned, capacity-building impact for the region.
So in many of these instances, I think it's about diplomacy. It's about take and give. It's not all about take. You know, there has to be some kind of a middle ground. And what Indonesia is saying is that in many of these issues, we are not interested in (accentuating the region ?). "Me first" is very easy. I mean, you know, so -- but let's all have a clean slate and apply ourselves actually to the situations at hand. That's our -- (inaudible).
ZIRIN: Unfortunately in terms of our time, we're neither half empty nor half full, but our cup runneth over. (Laughter.) So I wanted to thank the minister for a really interesting presentation. I think we've all -- (inaudible) -- tremendously enlightened. And we wish you well and a safe and good trip back.
NATALEGAWA: Thank you -- (inaudible) -- so much. Thank you. Thanks -- (inaudible). (Applause.)
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Experience the Harvard Art Museums’ historical collections through fresh eyes in a one-of-a kind installation by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet.
By presenting her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese examples, sculptor Arlene Shechet encourages us to look anew at works of porcelain and other objects from the Harvard Art Museums. Decorative arts are typically displayed in museum galleries dedicated to the same culture and period, often in isolation from other media. In Disrupt the View, however, Shechet draws on her past collaborations with porcelain manufactory workers to speak to a larger history, recontextualizing these remarkable objects as both handmade and industrially manufactured, painterly and sculptural.
Invented by Chinese potters in the Tang Dynasty (618–903 CE), porcelain later became one of the first global luxury products. It was at first available in Europe only to the wealthiest patrons, but by the late 17th century, millions of porcelain objects were being imported each year by the Dutch East India Company. European porcelain production was driven by courtly ambition in competition with Asian markets, and its artisans, who created these objects for lavish celebrations, were largely unknown. The story of porcelain, then, is one of labor, class, and global trade. In 1710, the German porcelain manufactory Meissen was founded, and significant examples of its 18th-century tableware and figurines are now in the Busch-Reisinger Museum collection. Many of these objects have rarely, if ever, been shown.
Among other objects, Shechet has created an unparalleled installation that includes two constellations of tableware that emphasize the unique material qualities of plates as sculptural design. Visible from the exterior of the museums, these arrangements, like the painted decoration on the individual plates, invite the outside in and—literally and metaphorically—disrupt the view.
Organized by Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum; Jessica Ficken, Cunningham Curatorial Assistant for the Collection in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Gabriella Szalay, former Renke B. and Pamela M. Thye Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum (2018–20). Special thanks to colleagues in the following departments: Collections Management, especially Jill Comer, Steve Deane, Francine Flynn, and Elie Glyn; Communications; Design; Editorial; Facilities; Security, especially Nilton Barbosa; Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, especially Cassia Balogh, Angela Chang, Susan Costello, Haddon Dine, Cindy Moreno, and Tony Sigel; and Visitor Services.
This installation is supported by the Charles Kuhn Endowment Fund in the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Two views of moral behavior, one from the source, and one from an English divine:
God: Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
A priest in England: It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to ‘prostitution, mugging or burglary’.
It is true that, under Jewish law, Jews in extremis are allowed to violate God’s rules. The doctrine, known as “pikuach nefesh,” literally translates as “saving of human life.” During the Holocaust, for example, rabbis explicitly told fellow Jews that they could violate kosher laws rather than starve to death. Significantly, however, pikuach nefesh is not a free pass for immorality. Instead, it must apply on a case by case basis, and the person to whom it applies must indeed be facing a mortal threat.
When an Anglican priest throws out wholesale advice to parishioners that it’s okay to go out and shoplift, and then justifies that advice it by saying that “God’s love for the poor outweighs his love for the rich,” he is not practicing pikuach nefesh. He is practicing redistribution of wealth.
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Over 20 years ago when we first came out with materials (see books and videos) on aging deer live onthe hoof, we were criticized by professionals, who said: 1) you cannot accurately age deer live, and 2) if you could we could not teach folks like YOU how to do it! Well, the first year the video was available, we sold 50+ thousand copies, and the book was a best seller. Today, we see almost everyone of these "critics" offering opinions on TV or in magazines about the age of some buck or doe. QDMA and other organizations regularly include this feature in their shows or publications. The problem is, they often use a panel to make the final decision, wihtout even knowing the true age of the deer. So you can learn better, we now include on the front page a photograph each month of a KNOWN age deer, then at the end of the month we will give you the exact age. You can send us your opinion through the Contact Us section. Have fun!
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Abstinence vs. Condoms
public press ridicules the idea that people should control themselves.
It is said that the use of condoms is all that is needed to avoid
pregnancy, disease, and AIDS.
this is not true! The use of condoms can induce pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, and even the most deadly forms of them.
only safe route is to avoid all sexual relationships until marriage, and
to only marry an equally abstinent person.
The following very
excellent statement was made by a knowledgeable, overseas Adventist
reprint it in the hope that it will be shared with young people and
that lives may be saved as a result. Only obedience, by faith in Christ,
to the Ten Commandments can bring happiness in this life.
statement was made by Dr. Paul Wangai, Jr., Director, Health/Temperance
Department, Eastern Africa Division. We would urge you to photocopy this
page and share it with others.
the word go out: Obedience to the Moral Law of God is what the world
are not 100 percent protective. Some latex material in condoms have
pores or channels 5 microns in diameter. In contrast, HIV
measures 0.1 of a micron! [This is 1/10th of 1 micron, or 1/50th of 5
17 percent of the partners, using condoms for protection among married
couples in which one partner was HIV infected, still caught the virus
within 18 months. That is one out of six!
U.S. Food and Drug Administration study duplicated the stresses of
sexual intercourse, to test whether the viruses would leak through the
pores of a stretched latex condom. The study . . showed that between
14 and 29 of the 89 condoms tested leaked a significant amount of test
went on to say that researchers concluded that leakage of ejaculation
[sperm, which can carry the HIV virus] was real and therefore the use
of latex condoms can substantially reduce, but not eliminate, the risk
of HIV transmission.
study has been published in at least three places. If leakage in 29 out
of 89 condoms occurred, that is only 33 percent of the time! And
the leakage was ejaculation [sperm]. The HIV particles are 1/25th the
width of sperm in an ejaculation.
other words if, one third of the time, sperm passes through the condom,
then HIV virus can pass from the sperm and through the condom even more
easily. The present writer found a report in the early 1990s, in which
the University of Texas declared that an HIV study revealed that condoms
consistently leaked HIV virus at least 30 percent of the time.]
these findings on HIV size and leakage, what rational, informed
scientist would place his or her trust 100 percent in such flimsy armor
and risk his or her very life?
is it likely that young people, in moments of unbridled passion, will
stop to remember the 13-steps a U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services publication recommends, including:
Store condoms properly, in a cool, closed container.
Pay attention to expiration date on condoms with spermicide.
Use a water-based lubricant. Petroleum products (e.g. jelly) must be
Be cautious about vending machines, since extreme temperatures reduce
Do not keep condoms in wallet or pocket for more than a few hours at a
time; increased temperature will occur.
Do not open package with teeth, sharp nails, or scissors.
Check to see if condom is gummy or sticks to itself.
Check tip for brittleness, tears, holes, etc. . .
is clear that our AIDS prevention efforts should not offer false
security, by telling people that risk of HIV transmission is removed by
the use of condoms. Abstinence can provide protection which condoms
cannot offer. Let us not fool the people into believing they are safe
when they are not safe.
education programs . . have not shown any significant and consistent
decrease in sexual activity, pregnancy rates, or sexually transmitted
diseases, including AIDS.
so-called safe sex solution to AIDS prevention is a disaster in
the making. Condoms are not the solution; values are! The only common
sense solution is abstinence before marriage, then marriage with mutual
fidelity for life to an uninfected spouse.
that encourage teens to postpone sex until they are old enough have been
very successful [statistics given]. There is a consensus: AIDS is one
disease you don't want to get! Condoms are only 70-85 percent
need to get a strong, clear message: Saving themselves until marriage is
the only 100 percent, sure way to be protected from disease and
pregnancy. Let us be honest with them about the high failure rates of
contraception. Let us teach them skills to help them save sex until
[That concludes Dr. Paul Wangais message. Please accept it as a truth which, if followed, can save you from multiplied sorrow and, very possibly, an early death.]
SHOCKED BY SAME-SEX ACQUITTAL
fallout from the Creech issue is causing committed evangelical pastors
and members to leave the United Methodist Church (UMC). The entire
denomination has been shaken.
September 14, 1997, Jimmy Creech (53), an Omaha pastor, performed a
marriage ceremony (covenanting service he called it) uniting two
women in holy wedlock at his church. This threw the entire denomination
into an uproar, and multiplied thousands demanded that he be fired.
November, he was suspended by Nebraska Bishop Joel Martinez, and
everyone awaited the decision of a 13-man jury of Creechs peers,
selected from Nebraska clergy.
March 13, 1998, after more than three hours deliberation, eight of the
13 jurors voted that he had violated the order and discipline of the
church, but nine votes were necessary in a church trial to convict.
is an elder in full connection in the Nebraska Conference and is
immediately reinstated, the bishop declared.
decision let Creech return to the pastorate of one of the largest
congregations in the state: the First Methodist Church in Omaha.
Following the decision, the case was declared to be closed. As far as a
lot of Methodists were concerned, that closed the denomination to them.
soon as the verdict was announced, the courtroom erupted in joy, on the
part of some, and anger by others. Ron Wright, a open homosexual, jumped
about shouting, We won! We won! He said it had brought justice
and freedom to the Methodists.
church is open to everyone, no matter what their abilities and sexual
orientation, he added. The civil rights of gays and lesbians were
established here. In the future, I hope the church can be even more
were others who, fearing that would happen, decided to do something
on a chair after the verdict, Creech was jubilant. We have a victory
to celebrate, a victory for the church tonight! The jury voted to affirm
the grace of God to all people and the integrity of the pastoral role to
be in ministry to all people, he cried.
Omaha church, with its 1,900 members, was split over the issue. Many
have already abandoned the denomination, and more are planning to do so.
Creech had earlier been refused a pastorate in North Carolina because he
openly advocated gay freedom.
Omaha member, Casey Biehl, said, I feel betrayed . . It does not
matter what we as lay people say. When you shut the billfold, the people
whose salaries we are paying will
listen to you!
leaders knew what they were doing; for, in a related vote, taken the
next day, they agreed that Creech had, indeed, performed a homosexual
union on September 14.
that decision only added to Creechs jubilancy. The church is
willing to stand for the acceptance of gay men and lesbians!
soon as the terrible verdict was announced, Bishop Martinez appealed to
bishops of the denominations eight-state South Central
Jurisdiction, to formally request the Judicial Council the church's
Supreme Court to rule on the status of this matter.
passed while members waited.
the verdict could be reversed. But they were shocked when, despite a
groundswell of protest, on May 6, over the protests of the South Central
Jurisdiction, the highest level the Council of Bishops officially
rejected a request to hold a special session of the top legislative body
to deal with the issue of same-sex marriage.
came as small consolation that Martinez, of Nebraska, announced on May 6
that he would not reappoint Creech as Omaha pastor.)
our own denomination which is pretty much asleep, conservative
Methodists are uniting for
action. Patricia Miller, executive director of the Confessing Movement
(CM), representing 1,100 UMC churches and
500,000 members, declared There will be repercussions if the
United Methodist doctrine is not upheld. They stand in defense of
Biblical beliefs while our people let them be compromised.
next UMC general conference is not scheduled until the year 2000, in
Theological Seminary, two bishops, the Good News magazine,
and CM are demanding action of some kind against this open door to
CM met in Tulsa in April, they unanimously adopted a statement to be
sent to all UMC bishops, to hold each other accountable in teaching
and defending the doctrinal and ethical standards of the Book of
a separate statement the warning was given: If there is any weakening
of these Biblical and disciplinary standards, we will be forced to
reconsider our commitments to the existing structures of the United
Meanwhile, according to a report we have, sizeable numbers of members
are withholding funds or leaving the church. Over half of the members in
Creechs Omaha church have left. In California, 22 UMC ministers are
leaving the denomination, with many
hoping to take their local churches with them.
number of local congregations are withholding all funds from the
Abraham, a professor at Perkins School of Theology, in Dallas, says UMC
moderates realize, for the first time, what their church will look
like if those committed to theological and moral revisionism get their
is time that our own people take a stand for our historic
beliefs before they pass away.
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We all know that having indoor plants can instantly spruce up your home aesthetic, but greenery can have other benefits beyond looking great.
In an often-cited 1989 study, NASA reported that indoor plants could help improve indoor air quality by removing trace organic pollutants — such as benzene, trichloroethylene, and formaldehyde — from the air. NASA’s experiments were done in a controlled, sealed chamber, which doesn’t reflect our real-life homes. So in reality, you would probably need more than a crazy-plant-lady amount of plants to make much of a difference in air quality, but it certainly can’t hurt to have a few extra around. (Plus, other studies have shown that indoor plants can also help reduce stress levels and attention capacity).
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prostatitis is an infection that causes severe
symptoms. It is the most serious and least common type of prostatitis. Men with
this illness are usually very sick, and their symptoms come on suddenly.
A urine test may reveal bacteria, and using a
digital rectal exam, a doctor will find
the prostate to be warm, swollen, and very tender.
Serious complications may develop from acute prostatitis, including
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This beautiful piece of sterling silver was purchased from a very prominent Montecito, California estate. This is an excellent example of early English Victorian silver. It is a hand crafted wine castor which if fully signed with hallmarks attributing the piece to the Angell Brothers and made in 1841 in London. This piece is in excellent original condition. There is a shield for a monogram that was never engraved. It measures 5 1/2 inches in diameter and 3 inches at the tallest part of the scrolled rim. It has a very classical open pierced design which culminates with a styalized shell design separated by double scrolls. It is fully hallmarked, please refer to photos. This remarkable piece of early Victorian silver has not been polished. Most collectors prefer it. This is a fine example of craftsmanship from a bygone era.
Estate Jewelry, Engagement Rings, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Art Glass, Loetz
The Vault Specializes In Rare Antiques and Estate Jewelry from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Period
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ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- CSG/SportsCoatings today announced a major deal that brings its industry-leading antimicrobial products, SportsAide(R) XL and FabricAide(TM), to 25 high schools in Virginia's Fairfax County School District.
"Fairfax County School District is the model for how schools and other major organizations can take proactive steps towards minimizing prevalent bacterial issues like staph and MRSA," said CSG/SportsCoatings CEO Craig Andrews. "Fairfax should be commended for such a proactive approach.
"MRSA has become an epidemic of sorts and is emerging as one of the main causes of critical illness in children including young athletes," said Dr. Thomas Shaney, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
SportsAide XL and FabricAide are widely considered the most proven and proactive method of inhibiting the growth of potentially harmful bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus (staph) and MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) on surfaces and fabrics. The dynamic antimicrobial technology in both products provides continuous protection against the growth of bacteria, mold and fungi. Just one application of SportsAide XL will inhibit the growth of infection causing microbial contamination for up to 30 days. FabricAide, a laundry conditioner, imparts a layer of antimicrobial protection on fabrics such as uniforms and towels for up to 30 washes.
"While a good first step, disinfectants have proven to be ineffective as a long-term solution for potentially harmful microorganisms," said Andrews. "Our products bring peace-of-mind as a long-term solution to bacterial concerns."
Fairfax County School District, the 13th largest school system in America, will be using the products in the regular maintenance of its high schools' athletic facilities. SportsAide XL can be used to treat training tables, weight benches, protective equipment and a variety of other surfaces commonly found in sports. The district can use FabricAide in its athletic laundry such as uniforms, towels and socks.
CSG/SportsCoatings is the sports industry's leader in antimicrobial products and treatments. Specializing in controlling potentially harmful bacteria such as staph and MRSA, CSG/SportsCoatings provides over 250 high school, youth, professional and collegiate teams with proven protection for their facilities and equipment. The company's nationally-renowned fundraising program is the fastest growing fundraiser in America. The highly-acclaimed program has been met with praise throughout country by addressing the monetary needs of fundraising groups as well as prevalent concerns over bacterial contaminants such as staph and MRSA in the community. Visit http://www.csgsportscoatings.com for more information about CSG/SportsCoatings.
Contact: Mike Brinich, Director of Communications, CSG/SportsCoatings
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Published October 31, 2012
This place has always served as a watery junction where human and physical geographies collide. Burma, Laos and Thailand all meet here, as do the great Mekong and its smaller tributary, the Ruak, which tumbles down out of the Shan Hills.
The confluence also served as our base of operations in Southeast Asia, for the excellent reason that nowhere is China’s extensive influence in the region so starkly evident.
GlobalPost was looking to see how China is exerting itself here, how it is trying out a new kind of ‘soft power,’ a phrase coined by Harvard University Professor and retired US Navy Admiral Joseph Nye.
The concept of ‘soft power’ describes the ability for a nation to attract and co-opt rather than coerce, using force or giving money as a means of persuasion. Empires have practiced it since the beginning of history, and here in the Golden Triangle China is using ‘soft power’ to great effect. It is evident in the way China is controlling the river, the energy, the fishing industry and the trade – legal and illegal – that thrives along the banks of the Mekong River.
And perhaps nowhere along the Mekong have the changes wrought by that regional hegemon been so dramatic as in Burma, the shores of which are now lined with illegal sawmills, bordellos, methamphetamine labs and casinos. The photographer Gary Knight and I were on assignment for GlobalPost, trying to find our way into Burma in order to better understand a country beginning a new chapter in democracy and inundated with sudden change.
For much of the last century this region produced most of the world’s opium crop, but in recent years the heroin trade has declined, replaced by equally illicit traffic in everything from humans to timber to meth to rhinoceros horns. But as China began to implement its “Go Out” (or “Go Global”) policy in the late ‘90s, legal trade began to bloom along the Middle Mekong, tripling to roughly 300,000 tons since 2004, according to the Mekong River Commission.
Colorful longtail boats once dominated this trade, running garlic and apples and opium between the villages located along the river. They now share the waters with 100-ton barges originating from China’s Yunnan Province to the north, a powerful symbol of China’s prosperity, reach and influence throughout Southeast Asia.
Much has changed in the Golden Triangle since China opened its borders in the 1980s, and began engaging with its neighbors. It may have begun with trade between the locals in Yunnan and their ethnic counterparts (the Dai of Southwestern China are closely related to the Thai, the Lao and the Shan of Eastern Burma) on the other side of the river, but the relationships have grown more complex with China’s rapid path to prosperity.
Soft loans, arms sales, and the sort of international support that only a UN Security Council member can provide have followed. The results has been that countries like Burma, Laos, and Cambodia are bound more closely to China than ever before.
In recent years the Chinese have been inclined to treat the South China Sea as its own mare nostrum, they have quietly turned the Mekong into their own private river, with five dams built and more in the planning stages. The downstream countries — Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam — are dependent on Chinese goodwill to maintain the flows on which some 60 million people depend for fishing, trade, and irrigation.
“Even during the dry season, we could move our goods up and down the river,” says Bounmy, a 42-year-old Laotian man from Banmom, a small village across the river from Chiang Saen.
Standing on one of the many piers used by the longtail boats, he points to a stone in a wall high above our heads.
“The river used to come up to here in the wet season,” he says. “Now look at it.”
Indeed, in February 2010 scores of boats were left stranded in this northern Thai port city, leaving some $4.6 million in cargo high-and-dry, according to Chiang Saen customs officials. The downstream countries and environmental groups blame the dams for the water shortages, while the Chinese government blamed increasing droughts.
While the summer of 2012 saw record rains (and record trade levels), the long-term forecast calls for more droughts. China exercises what analysts call a “hydro-hegemony” over Southeast Asia.
“Southeast Asia is caught in a pincer movement,” says Richard Cronin, the director of the Southeast Asia program at the Stimson Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank. “They have China making aggressive claims to territory in the South China Sea, and this tight grip on the Mekong to the north.”
The Chinese government has claimed that the dams will benefit all their Mekong neighbors by allowing them to release reserves during the dry season and droughts. Activists, and traders like Bounmy, are skeptical.
Signs of China’s pervading influence in the area are everywhere in the Golden Triangle, from the tourist ferries docked nearby to the massive Chinese-owned and operated casino complex, called Kings Roman, that sits a few hundred yards from where Bounmy stands.
When the casino was first being built, Bounmy says, Laotian officials came and told him to sell his land to the Chinese, 40 acres of rice paddy that had been in his land for generations. They made it clear, Bounmy says, that he didn’t have a choice. Then the buyers — investors, Bounmy says, in league with the casino — turned around and sold his land to other Chinese investors for nearly twice what Bounmy had been paid.
Stories like this are common throughout Southeast Asia, says Cronin. And there’s little recourse for justice, he says, because countries like Burma, Cambodia, and Laos receive millions in cheap loans and investment.
“China will say that it’s helping develop these countries, and raise GDP [gross domestic product]. And that’s true. GDP is growing. But it’s going to developers and people in the cities. The villagers, on the other hand, are losing their birthright,” says Cronin, referring to their land, and as the health of Mekong fisheries decline, their livelihoods as well.
The Mekong flows past Burma on its way to the Golden Triangle, through the very regions occupied by the Chinese “Kuomintang,” nationalist forces that fled into Burma after Mao finally conquered Yunnan Province in 1949. The KMT fought on, using Burma as their base, until 1961. Unsurprisingly, China’s influence is felt strongly in the area, which is still heavily populated by its countrymen.
But as we soon realized, despite its central location, a traveler cannot get from the Golden Triangle to Burma proper. Burma is separated from China by the Shan State, a proud, culturally rich but war ravaged region of beautiful hills that grow some of the best tea — and opium — in the world. Instead, one can cross into the Shan market town of Tachilek, which until recent raids was famed for drawing Chinese that trafficked in illegal animal parts to serve that country’s insatiable appetite for exotic aphrodisiacs and elixirs. The Chinese influence, however, remains.
Instead of pressing further, we turn around. We will first have to go back to Bangkok, then board a plane for Rangon, before finally landing in the heart of Burma — Mandalay.
And, as it turned out, the heart of our story: A new, Chinese-constructed hydroelectric dam and the Sino-Burmese Pipeline, two massive public works projects that embody China’s soft power in a region where it is aggressively extracting vast amounts of natural resources to satiate its voracious, rapidly growing economy.
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When horrible things happen, we mark them. It's a kind of multipurpose mourning behavior that serves partly to honor victims, partly to remind ourselves that we are mortal, too, and partly, maybe, to stand as a lesson of sorts, or even as a way of convincing ourselves those things won't happen again. When horrible things happen on the scale at which September 11 did, with thousands killed as planes crashed into the Pentagon, into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and, in the pictures seen around the world, into the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center, those mourning habits are writ large and even commoditized—Never Forget signs hanging in windows, American flags lifted in remembrance, the images and the tributes and memorials and flowers and even, eventually, the purchasable souvenirs.
Back in September of '01, as searches went on for survivors in a city that was suddenly synonymous with ash and fear, there were other signs, pictures of the missing, in particular, that were anything but commoditized and instead deeply personal and heart-rending. But as a society we moved from those individualized signs of loss crafted in urgency to the yearly remembrances as formal ceremonies, to tributes with celebrity guests and musical accompaniment, to big-business memorials, and, of course, to the business of healing and growing, as exampled by the new World Trade Center Tower, scheduled for completion in 2014.
We've changed a lot in the decade-plus that's ensued since nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, and the world became forever different.
Now, "for the first time in a decade, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars that resulted are not the focus of the presidential election," reports the Associated Press. (The bipartisan stance is, let's not be negative for a day.) Vivian Yee, writing in the New York Times, explains that "after the commemorations reached a peak of sorts for last year’s 10th anniversary, a sprinkling of communities have decided to scale back — prompted, they say, by a growing feeling that it may be time to move on." Also via the A.P., "The reading of nearly 3,000 victims' names in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania continued as usual this year to remember those killed in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. But many felt it was time to move forward after the emotional turning point of last year's 10th anniversary." Yee also quotes Brad Jordan, council chair of the Glen Rock Assistance Council and Endowment of New Jersey, a town that lost 11 residents and won't hold a formal ceremony this year in favor of instead focusing on private reflection. He told her, "We were getting a distinct sense that [residents] were moving past the need to continue to institutionalize that commemoration of loss.”
Our mourning, then, is different this year, though in fairness it's a bit different every year. It's particularly poignant to me that some of those children who lost their parents that day are now grownups; others, babies at the time, are teens. Time moves on. While there is still sadness, it's not quite so sharp, and perhaps most astounding-yet-obvious, many of us weren't even here to experience that sadness first-hand at all. In some ways the nation we were back then seems hardly recognizable. The appearance of that new tower in place of the recent emptiness when you look at the skyline is surprising and heartening, and soon that emptiness won't even be so recent. It all seems to be a sign of survival, that we can and will get over these old wounds.
The ceremonies are smaller, and it's fair to say, so is the sense of catastrophic societal grief. Not that we don't still feel it—and especially for those who lost loved ones, it's an unimaginable heartache they must deal with daily—but it's understandable that the initial terror and shock and early paralysis that those feelings brought would have by now shifted and morphed in order to allow us to, well, survive. At the same time, of course, we don't forget, we don't need posters reminding us not to to feel uncomfortable at the sight of the special-effects-driven destruction of Manhattan for cinematic box-office success, or to suddenly flash right back to those days of post-9/11 panic when we see a group of police officers clustered in the subway or hear of another possible terrorist threat. Yet the concept of New York City being attacked is something we've grown somewhat accustomed to having lived under that premise for so many years now; it's no longer top of mind or present in our every waking moment. It's unclear whether this particular type of numbness, or being, simply "used to it"—after all, if we feel fear or change our lives, as the saying goes, the terrorists have won—is bad or good. Maybe it's just survival. As for those organizations that continue to recycle old shots and video of the World Trade Center towers falling, I think we've gotten to a point that that is a clear disservice. Those shots, once brutal to look at, have begun to act as background noise more than anything else, which probably means it's time to retire them.
Yet each of us, whether we were living in New York City or elsewhere, likely has a visceral, potent memory of where we were that morning—what we were doing, how the sky looked, what the air felt like, the calm and mundane everydayness that proceeded that sudden, unexpected panic. Following the panic came the general sense of terror, loss, and pain, the post-traumatic stress to an entire city and beyond, and the ways with which we tried to deal with all that. Today, we look up at the clear blue sky and channel those feelings again, or over the weekend we noticed the twin lights emerging upward in the dark from downtown Manhattan and felt a lump in our throats and thought, Oh yes, it's that time of year again. No longer a part of our everyday—it hasn't been for years—we remember in that moment those awful days, and then we move on.
Life goes on, as they say. Richard M. Weinberg, a [National Cathedral] spokesman, told the New York Times of 9/11: “I think it’s fair to say that 11 years later, we all felt that it was important still to commemorate it, but to do so in perhaps a less overt, a less somber way — to do so maturely and look forward.” The 10th anniversary is a big one, with lots of buildup, as Jane Pollicino, whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center, told the A.P. There's some relief to have reached "another anniversary that we can commemorate in a calmer way, without that 10-year pressure," she said.
On September 11, 2001, Randy Scott wrote on a piece of paper, "84th floor West Office 12 people trapped." He was working in the World Trade Center that day. Marked with a dark spot of Randy's blood, and thereby his DNA, the note traveled down from the Tower and into the street, and was salvaged, kept first by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where it had been handed to a guard, until it was given to the September 11 Memorial & Museum. It took 10 years to connect the note to Randy. In August of 2011, his family was informed that the note had been his, and that he hadn't died instantly, as they'd believed. Scott's wife Denise explained to the Stamford Advocate, "You don't want them to suffer. They're trapped in a burning building. It's just an unspeakable horror. And then you get this 10 years later. It just changes everything."
Even a commoditized "Never forget" is a way of adding life to the memories of the people we lost and the way we felt, recognizing the history and the impact of what happened. Of course, people like the Scotts don't need a stock phrase on a sign or a clip of the Trade Center to keep from forgetting. The rest of us will inevitably continue to remember September 11 a little bit differently, a bit less intensely and with an ever-decreasing need for the formalized accounting of the grief, as time goes on. After all, we're human; we do move on. But as we talk of moving on and scaling back we should remember that there are plenty of people for whom, since that day in 2001, some things are forever unchanged.
This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.
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It is a common misconception that the Anasazi of the Four Corners region
mysteriously "up and disappeared" at the end of the 13th century. While it is
somewhat of a mystery why these people completely abandoned the region
almost simultaneously, it is fairly clear that a mass migration occurred. The
Anasazi who lived primarily in the drainage of the San Juan River moved southeast
into the drainage of the Rio Grande. Here they continued to flourish for
hundreds of years.
One of the early Rio Grande settlements was in Frijoles Canyon in the mountainous region
of northern New Mexico. The area was once volcanic, and the soft lava and ash
eroded into many steep and well-watered "finger" canyons, ideal for human
habitation. Large structures such as the massive Tyuoni Ruin shown top and right
started going up about 1300. The D-shaped structure which has 300 first floor
rooms and may have been three stories high is not unlike the great houses
built in Chaco Canyon hundreds of years before.
Life revolved around the interior plaza: the rooms opened to the inside, and there was only one narrow
passageway from the plaza to the outside. Note the large kiva (ceremonial
chamber) in the foreground adjacent to the path. It is believed that household
units occupied "apartments" which were a row of rooms aligned horizontally
along the central axis, that is, like a spoke on a bicycle wheel.
Farming was productive here given the volcanic soil and plentiful moisture.
Also, game was plentiful in the nearby Jemez Mountains. The canyon was abandoned
in the early 1500's probably due to environmental changes.
The unusual erosion of the volcanic rock ("tuff") allowed for diverse
structures within the canyon. A huge cliff "based" dwelling known as Long
House was built along the wall of Frijoles Canyon. Shown left, the pueblo may
have had over 300 rooms in five separate sections. Note the many holes in
the very soft canyon walls. The small holes were used for wooden support beams.
The larger holes are small caves gouged out by the inhabitants, possibly for
The many natural caves in the area frequently contain small structures or
elaborate pictographs possibly ceremonial in nature. The photo below right
is the large, ceremonial kiva within the Tyuoni Pueblo (shown at top).
There is even a religious shrine, known as the "Stone Lion Shrine" which is used even
today by local Indians. It consists of two crouching lions carved into a volcanic
boulder. The mountain lion has significance to hunters in the Pueblo religion.
The shrine is several miles from the main sites and is accessible by trail.
The monument offers many miles of hiking trails to ruins and sites far in the
backcountry. Unlike many cultural parks, backpacking is permitted. This offers
opportunities to experience some sites in a remote and natural setting and to
get a feel for what it was like to live here.
Below, an example of northern New Mexico autumn foliage.
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About This Project
My research will focus on archaeological data from sites on the coast of Maine and on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. By examining the composition of shells, I hope to discover how variations in stable isotopic and trace elemental composition in the archaeological shells can be used to reconstruct the past environmental conditions of the Gulf of Maine.
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The latest reports on the Edinburgh Legionnaires’ outbreak show that a person suspected of having the disease has died.
The individual, a man in his 60s from south west Edinburgh, had been unwell for a period of time, and is considered to be part of the original outbreak.
The Scottish Government have stressed that the outbreak has peaked.
The number of cases of Legionnaires' disease recorded in Edinburgh has risen to 95 - an increase of two since Thursday's most recent update. There are 48 confirmed cases and 47 suspected cases.
Two people have died since the first case was identified at the end of May and the authorities are continuing their investigations into the possible source of the outbreak.
The disease is contracted by breathing in small droplets of contaminated water.
Five people are taking legal action over a Legionnaires' disease outbreak which has left two people dead.
The five, who are all understood to have contracted the disease, are seeking answers over what went wrong and have instructed law firm Irwin Mitchell.
Irwin Mitchell said they are receiving ongoing inquiries about the outbreak. Their clients include Terry Holleran, 55, who said he has instructed specialist illness lawyers at the firm to help him find out how the outbreak occurred and what can be done to prevent it from recurring.
"I would like to take this opportunity to again express my sincere sympathy to the friends and family of the patient who passed away yesterday. My thoughts are with them at this very difficult time.
"This is an extremely sad development. However, it is reassuring that the number of cases involved in the outbreak remains static and this is further evidence that the outbreak has reached its peak."
The improvement notice does not mean the National Museum of Scotland has been identified as the source of the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
The museum can appeal against the notice within the next 21 days.
Two other organisations, pharmaceuticals firm Macfarlan Smith and the North British Distillery, have already been served with improvement notices.
These do not mean any of the cooling towers are the source of the outbreak.
The National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street, Edinburgh, is the third place to be served with an improvement notice by investigators.
The notice requires the museum to ensure that key staff members are appropriately trained in the management of water systems, which includes overseeing the ongoing monitoring and maintenance regime undertaken by specialist contractors.
An improvement notice has been served on a museum by health chiefs probing an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has left two people dead. Edinburgh City Council said the notice served on the National Museum of Scotland relates to staff training issues and not the operation of cooling towers.
On Thursday a second person died after catching Legionnaires' disease in the outbreak in Edinburgh.
The man, who had significant pre-existing underlying health conditions, died on Thursday evening in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Health chiefs said it appeared the outbreak has peaked, with figures remaining static. So far there have been 41 confirmed cases and 48 suspected cases in the outbreak in the south-west of the capital. The first man to die was named as Robert Air, 56, from the Seafield area of the city.
Dr Duncan McCormick from NHS Lothian told ITV News that although all the evidence points towards 'no further exposure' to the Legionella infection, those with underlying health problems who are already affected will take longer to recover.
NHS Lothian report that the number of confirmed cases is still 41, with 48 suspected cases, taking the total number of overall cases to 89.
A second person was confirmed dead after contracting the disease in Edinburgh, but has not yet been named.
Terry Holeran "wants answers" after he contracted Legionnaires' disease and had to be treated at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.
The 55-year-old said he has instructed specialist illness lawyers to help him find out how the outbreak occurred and what can be done to prevent it from recurring.
Mr Holeran said: "It has been one of the worst weeks of my life. I'm just so angry about the whole thing and want to know what went wrong to cause the outbreak.
He became ill on June 5th with aches and pains, tiredness and breathlessness. He was treated at Western General Hospital where doctors sent him home with antibiotic treatment.
There are now 40 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' Disease and 48 suspected cases.
Latest ITV News reports
The Scottish Health Secretary says there are 24 confirmed and 37 suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease. She expects this figure to rise.
Legionnaires' is a disease that strikes fear in people and its history shows it can be deadly.
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Topic: user defined collections
For the project I'm currently working on, i have to allow all the users to define their own collections ( models ), with custom attributes( database fields ), having relations between them and also validations. The users should also be able to insert data in their collections, and also use it their mustache views.
Having all this requirements, my first guess would be that a nonsql( linke mongodb ) would be more suitable for this project than a relational database ( like mysql ). To simplify the work, i would use an orm like Mongoid, and i would define a class for mapping each of the user defined collection as the application needs it. But I am not sure if this is the best way to go, as i am not sure how efficient is to have dynamically created classes for each of the collections, in case we have to deal with hundreds, or maybe thousands of them. Any suggestions?
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How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions?
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis we use a rich set of Swiss register data which allow us to distinguish between ex ante effects, the effects of warnings and the effects of enforcement of benefit sanctions. Adopting a multivariate mixed proportional hazard approach to address selectivity, we find that both warnings and enforcement increase the job finding rate and the exit rate out of the labor force. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of a benefit sanction on post-unemployment income is negative. Over a period of two years after leaving unemployment workers who got a benefit sanction imposed face a net income loss equivalent to 30 days of full pay due to the ex post effect. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due to the ex ante effect.
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Posted on: March 19, 2012
A “virtual club”, the Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies (KIAMS) Operations Club’s goal is to gain a good understanding of
Club members said they want to learn “what is really happening in the industry.”
A relatively new Operations club, began in 2011 and consists of 13 members from the seniors, 10 from the juniors, three faculty members and alumni. Because the Operations Club is a “virtual club” operating online, it doesn‘t have any co-ordinators. “We just have initiators – students who started the club,” said club members. Being an online activity, anyone can initiate a discussion and we all participate.” With a forum on Facebook, “We get a lot of responses from the students. For example if we post on a particular topic, students usually give their point of view on that particular topic and will give live corporate examples in which the concept is being used.”
The club has also caught the attention of KIAMS faculty.
“Earlier there was input only from students, but now faculty as well as alumni working in the operations sector also comment on the topics,” said club members. “It’s a two-way interaction. If students have any questions, they can ask their questions on the forum and the faculty/alumni always respond.”
In addition to its online activities the club does organize some events.
“We do have some sub-events happening during Pragati. Even during Operacy we organize some Ops-based quizzes – themes may differ from year to year.” Being in the club, having to manage time for discussions, members have learned if having a face-to-face discussion doesn’t work they can always connect on Facebook and have an online discussion. It’s a continuous process providing daily interaction with classroom knowledge forming the basis of discussion.
As with any organization, there are challenges to be faced. “One challenge that we face is that sometimes new concepts that we post as topics on our FB forum get only bookish answers from students,” said club members. “Earlier, when the faculty and alumni were not a part of this forum, we were not making much progress in terms of real-life examples being given to us. Also, sometimes when we want actual data, or examples of real-time implementations, getting them can get difficult. But with the faculty and alumni coming in, it’s now much better.”
While Prof. R.N. Venkateshwara helped start the club and even held a session on an operations topic to help members to understand the field, students took over the club from there.
“But we do have a lot of support from faculty and alumni on our online page,” club members said. Future plans include converting the club from a “virtual” organization to a physical one, but in the interim they can be contacted at their Facebook thread: https://www.facebook.com/groups/161946767207751/
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Do you have multiples or know someone that does? Check out this amazing resource to help you or a friend connect with a large network of great support groups.
Multiples of America (Also known as The National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs, Inc.) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families of multiple birth children through education, research, and networking. In partnering with local support groups, health care providers, researchers, and educators, and with the highest standards of integrity, respect and professionalism, we endeavor to aid parents of multiples and to raise public awareness of the unique qualities of multiple birth families.
Multiples of America is a network of more than 250 local clubs representing nearly 25,000 parents of twins and higher order multiples. With local chapter across the United States and growing every day you are sure to find a great resource to help on you and provide friendship and support along your journey as a parent of multiples.
Check out www.multiplesofamerica.com to learn more about events put on by other clubs across the United States.
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‘They think it’s all over’ was perhaps the most famous sporting one-liner of all time! However, with our current weather, wildlife could be forgiven for assuming winter is over.
Rooks are back at their rookery nests and preparing busily for a new season. Presumably, recent storms caused havoc at breeding colonies and there is much re-building to do – the rookery equivalent of ridge-tile replacement. Great tits have started calling again in the local woods – as soon as there is a bit of sun and more warmth in the air. On the Cromford Canal, the mallards, spruced up, are very obviously going around in pairs.
If the mild spell continues then who knows, there could soon be baby ducks on local rivers and other water-bodies.
Coots, which are highly gregarious in winter, mostly on lowland, shallow waters, are now back on rivers, canals and ponds or lakes and holding territory. Once back in their breeding areas the birds become very territorial, and particularly aggressive. A pair of coots holding territory will fiercely chase off intruders and potential usurpers.
Even in their big winter flocks, the coots are fond of what a rugby commentator used to describe as ‘argie bargie’, but back on their nesting sites, they are especially intolerant. I have the impression that coot numbers have rocketed in recent decades and this means even more pressure on nesting pairs and their territories. Once established on site, the adult birds will face a season-long battle to maintain their pairing, raise maybe two or three broods of offspring, and importantly, to defend their patch against all comers. It must be hard work being a coot.
A raven calling loudly over Cromford, with ‘prukk prukk pronk pronk’, was again a reminder perhaps of a breeding season to come. Perhaps this bird was announcing its possession of a territory in the area, and with the abundant limestone crags and outcrops around Matlock, that must be highly desirable habitat.
The raven is another bird, along with peregrine and common buzzard, that has made a remarkable comeback in the early 21st century. The rook, on the other hand, has tended to decline as farming systems have changed and urban areas continue to sprawl ever outwards into the countryside.
Another success story is that of the grey heron, again a dramatic recovery in the face of DDT pesticide pollution, damaged watercourses and persecution. A bird rising in its heavy, almost prehistoric manner, from the fast-flowing River Derwent, is a welcome reminder of this phoenix-like return following the gross pollution of the 1960s and 1970s.
Today we can expect to glimpse herons anywhere from the city centre to the Peak Park. Walk along the River Don near Hillsborough to see the urban roost.
n Professor Ian D Rotherham, researcher, writer and broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues, is contactable on email@example.com; follow Ian’s Walk on the Wildside, www.ukeconet.org for more information.
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Earth Day celebration at InterContinental Hotels Group Resorts In Port Ghalib
Following the big success in celebrating Earth Hour on March 29th while minimizing lights and serving candlelight dinners to the guests staying at InterContinental Hotels Group Resorts in Port Ghalib; the management team of InterContinental The Palace Port Ghalib Resort, Crowne Plaza Sahara Sands Port Ghalib Resort, Crowne Plaza Sahara Oasis Port Ghalib Resort and Marina Lodge At Port Ghalib prepared a range of activities to celebrate Earth Day on April 22 in appreciation of Earth’s natural environment and to help increase its community awareness.
Earth Day was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet, as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution. Every year on April 22nd, events are held around the world to raise awareness of the Earth Day cause and to demonstrate the support for environmental protection. In fact, over 1 billion people in 192 countries are now participating in the Earth Day, pledging individual or collective actions, which will help to improve local communities standards and going towards protecting the Earth.
In continuation of the community social responsibility activities, done by InterContinental Hotels Group resorts in Port Ghalib, the management team organized multiple activities on Earth Day, aiming to increase the awareness and appreciation for the earth and environment. The staff & management team planted trees behind Cardamom Beach Restaurant, at Crowne Plaza Sahara Sands Port Ghalib Resort and Crowne Plaza Sahara Oasis Port Ghalib Resort. Also, “Lulee Kids Club” team invited all children for multiple Earth Day themed arts & crafts.
Guests were invited to share some activities with the management team and were also encouraged to reduce energy consumption by choosing not to have their towels and linen changed for one day.
Area Director of Sales and Marketing, IHG Resorts In Port Ghalib
Tel: +2 (02) 240 42 7 28
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Discounts for children on London transport are straightforward for children aged 10 and under. For children aged 11-15 it’s slightly more complicated.
Children under 5
Children under-5 travel free on all types of transport in London when travelling with an adult.
- up to 4 children are allowed per adult on London buses, the underground (tube), DLR and London Overground.
- up to 2 children under-5 travel free per adult on National Rail (trains)
Children aged 5-10
All children aged 5-10 travel for free on:
- the underground (tube), DLR, London Overground and some National Rail services as long as an adult accompanies them. Up to 4 children can travel per adult
- London’s buses with or without an adult
Children aged 11-15
Children aged 11-15 travel for free on London’s buses and at child-rate Pay as you go Oyster fares on the underground (tube), DLR, London Overground and most National Rail services IF they have an 11-15 Zip Oyster photocard.
The child-rate single fare with an 11-15 Zip Oyster is 85p (peak) or 75p (off-peak) for zones 1-6.
Like the ordinary adult Oyster card, there’s a daily cap. This is the maximum amount deducted from the card in one day. It’s £3.30 peak and £1.50 off-peak for zones 1-2.
This is the cheapest deal for 11-15 year olds, but it’s not easy to buy for visitors. It’s not available from underground stations, and if you don’t live in London you’ll need to apply at least 4 weeks in advance. There’s a non-refundable £15 administrative charge.
Without an 11-15 Zip Oyster, there are other options:
- Young Visitor Discount on an Oyster card.
- Child-rate one day Travelcard (from an underground or train station)
- Child-rate weekly/monthly Travelcard (from a train station). This is worth buying if you want the 2 for 1 offers at London attractions – anyone aged 5-15 can buy these.
- Paying the child full-fare.
Bus-only travel for 11-15 year olds
If an 11-15 year old doesn’t have an 11-15 Zip Oyster, Visitor Oyster Discount or child-rate Travelcard the best option is to buy a £5 adult-rate one day bus pass. See London bus tickets & passes for details.
Young visitor Oyster discount
If you don’t have time to apply for an 11-15 Zip Oyster, the next cheapest way for 11-15 year old visitors to travel is the Young Visitor Oyster Discount. This is a special discount applied to an ordinary Oyster card. It’s valid for 14 days. After 14 days, the discount expires and the card can be used as a ordinary adult Oyster card.
There’s a £5 refundable deposit for the Oyster card. Single fares and the daily cap for the underground and buses-only are 50% cheaper than adult fares.
- Unlimited travel by underground in zone 1-2 is £3.30 per day
- Unlimited travel by bus is £2.25 per day, for the whole of London.
It’s available from:
- Underground station ticket machines but you need to get a member of staff to help you.
- Transport for London Visitor Centres (not Gatwick)
- Victoria train station ticket office
For visits of 5-7 days (and/or if you plan to visit lots of tourist attractions), it’s cheaper to buy a child weekly Travelcard from a train station.
Children aged 16-17
Children aged 16-17 can apply for the 16+ Zip Oyster Photocard. With this they:
- pay Oyster Pay as you go fares at half the adult rate on the bus, tube and most National Rail services in London. (Children resident in London with a 16+ Zip travel free on the buses)
- can buy a child-rate weekly or monthly Travelcard.
There’s a non-refundable £20 administrative charge for the 16+ Zip Oyster. If you live outside the UK you must apply for your card at least 4 weeks before you arrive in London.
Without this, a 16 or 17 year old is classed as an adult and must either pay the adult fare, buy an adult-priced Travelcard, bus pass or use an ordinary Pay as you go Oyster card.
There are no other discounts for students not studying and living in London.
Child ticket prices (11-15 years)
11-15 Zip Oyster pay as you go single fares (PAYG) 2017
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If you’re in London for 3 or more days, a Child Weekly Travelcard is cheaper.
Off Peak: Valid for travel after 09.30 am Monday–Friday and all day Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays.
Anytime: Valid for travel before 09.30am Monday–Friday.
See London’s Transport Zones if you’re not familiar with the zones and the areas they cover.
Child-rate weekly and monthly Travelcards are available from train stations. Any child aged 5-15 can buy one.
All you need is proof of age and a passport-sized photo – it doesn’t have to be photo quality – it could be something you print from your PC, but there are usually photo booths at train stations. They will make a free photocard for you on the spot.
Child single full fares 2017
These are the full fares for the underground for children aged 11-15 if they travel without an 11-15 Zip Oyster card, Visitor Oyster Discount or a Travelcard.
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As a medicinal plant, chamomile has been in constant use since the times of ancient Egypt.
German chamomile is the most common and has been studied more extensively than the Roman or English variety. The health benefits listed on this page refer to German Chamomile.
Chamomile was often used as a remedy for nausea, diarrhea, gas, anxiety, fevers, asthma, colic and a host of other conditions.
Most often, it was taken as a hot tea. For skin conditions such as hemorrhoids it was used topically.
The part of the plant that is used for healing and that tea is made from are the flowering tops. Many years before the availability of gas relief medicine, chamomile tea was a popular remedy.
The people of ancient Egypt used chamomile as an effective remedy for menstrual cramps. It is also very popular for treating bowl pain, stomach flu and even migraine headaches.
One of the most well knows benefits of chamomile is it’s ability to calm the nervous system. It’s a great anxiety reliever and will also relax the muscles. It’s often taken before bedtime to help get to sleep.
Chamomile is often taken during the cold season. It has antibacterial properties and is a good immune system booster.
The oil in this plant has anti-inflammatory benefits and can be used for many types of skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, infections, bug bites, burns and wounds.
Some beauty creams contain chamomile as it is effective for reducing dark circles under the eyes.
If You Are Over 30If you are over 30, you'll want to take some GF20 with this. Then you'll be able to run circles around people your own age. What is GF20?
- Reduce aches and pains
- Treat anxiety
- Treat colds
- Treat menstrual cramps
- Treat nausea
- Treat abdominal pain
- Treat heartburn
- Treat irritable bowel syndrome
- Reduce gas and bloating
- Treat indigestion
- Treat burns
- Treat acne
- Treat skin allergies
- Treat diaper rash
- Treat eczema and psoriasis
- Treat skin infections
- Treat insomnia
- Treat headaches
- Reduce flatulence
- Treat diarrhea
- Treat hemorrhoids
- Reduce stress
- Promote sound sleep
- Treat canker sores
- Treat gingivitis
German chamomile, wild chamomile
Where It Grows
Chamomile is native to Asia, Africa and Europe
Which Part Of The Plant Is Used
Flower heads, oil
How It Works
The essential oils in the chamomile plant are what gives it its healing properties.
How It’s Used
Chamomile can be taken as a tea or in capsules.
Precautions and Side Effects:
Be careful using chamomile if you have allergies like hay fever. This plant is a member of the ragweed family and may cause an allergic reaction is sensitive individuals.
Description and History Of Chamomile
German chamomile is a shrub with thick foliage. It can grow up to three feet in height. The plant has erect stems and narrow, long leaves. The flowers are white with yellow florets.
This plant has a very long history of healing uses. The ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks used it for many health problems. It was thought to be a gift from the gods.
I often drink hot chamomile tea in the evenings just before bed. It is very relaxing and soothing to the nerves and muscles. It makes it easier to get to sleep. I also drink this tea to sooth any digestive upsets. It’s beneficial to drink it right after dinner.
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Ozone, a gas very similar to oxygen, can both help and harm humans, yet a problem has recently risen as levels of "good" ozone is being depleted. However, the source of this depletion created a big controversy when it was discovered, and, although it is now rarely mentioned, a dispute still exists. The problem arises that not all scientists, and other people for that matter, believe that chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) are enhancing the problem, which is the commonly accepted theory. Yet before the problem can be understood the composition of the ozone layer must be discussed.
While ozone is a gas made of the same atom as oxygen, it has a different number of these atoms, altering its physical characteristics slightly. For example, ozone has a very pungent smell and a slight blue color. The ozone layer is in the stratosphere, the second layer of the atmosphere, and is located approximately ten to forty kilometers (six to twenty-five miles) above the earth.
While there is only one chemical form of ozone, it can serve to both help the environment and hurt it.
"Bad" ozone is found close to the ground, in the air which humans and other life forms breathe, acting as a pollutant. Automobile exhausts and other chemicals can create this type of ozone. Another major problem, besides pollution, which the harmful ozone contributes to, is smog on roads, making it hard for drivers to see. When sunlight shines on ozone, it creates smog, which has a brownish-yellow color. This can cause people to cough and make eyes water, as well as damage lungs, which can eventually kill people who already have lung diseases. However, this ozone can be beneficial by absorbing ultraviolet rays that reach the earth.
Contrary to this, "good" ozone is found high in the...
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Litchi–associated Acute Encephalitis in Children, Northern Vietnam, 2004–2009 - - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC
Table of Contents
Volume 18, Number 11–November 2012
Litchi–associated Acute Encephalitis in Children, Northern Vietnam, 2004–2009
Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a major public health problem in Asia. The main etiologic agent is the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a positive-sense single-stranded flavivirus transmitted by Culex spp. mosquitoes. It is responsible for ≈50,000 encephalitis cases every year in the region (1). Recently, the Nipah and Chandipura viruses were identified as responsible for acute encephalitis outbreaks in Malaysia and India (2,3). In addition, many other viral encephalitis cases of unknown etiology exist throughout Asia (4).
AbstractSince the end of the 1990s, unexplained outbreaks of acute encephalitis in children coinciding with litchi harvesting (May–July) have been documented in the Bac Giang Province in northern Vietnam. A retrospective ecologic analysis of data for 2004–2009 involving environmental, agronomic, and climatic factors was conducted to investigate the suspected association between the outbreaks and litchi harvesting. The clinical, biological, and immunologic characteristics of the patients suggested a viral etiology. The ecologic study revealed an independent association between litchi plantation surface proportion and acute encephalitis incidence: Incidence rate ratios were 1.52 (95% CI 0.90–2.57), 2.94 (95% CI 1.88–4.60), and 2.76 (95% CI 1.76–4.32) for second, third, and fourth quartiles, respectively, compared with the lowest quartile. This ecologic study confirmed the suspected association between incidence of acute encephalitis and litchi plantations and should be followed by other studies to identify the causative agent for this syndrome.
In Vietnam, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), the annual incidence rate for AES in the general population was 2.24–2.90 cases per 100 000 inhabitants during 1998–2005. This rate corresponds with 1,800–2,300 cases per year, two thirds of which occurred in northern Vietnam. Since the inclusion in 1997 of the JEV vaccine into the Extended Program on Immunization by the World Health Organization (WHO), the relative proportion of non-JE cases has increased substantially among patients hospitalized with AES in Vietnam, from ≈40% in 1996 to ≈90% in 2009 (P.T. Nga, unpub. data).
In northern Vietnam, unexplained outbreaks of non-JE acute encephalitis have been documented since 1999. These outbreaks are unusual because of their specific location (Bac Giang Province), their strict seasonality (92% of unexplained AES occur during May–July), the restricted age group of persons at risk (88% are <15 years old), and the clinical features (abrupt febrile onset, rapid progression to coma, and higher case-fatality rate than for JE). Approximately 50–100 children are referred to the provincial hospital each epidemic season, but the actual number of cases could be underreported because some patients might have died at home.
The local population and public health practitioners have anecdotally attributed the emergence of AES to the recent intensification of litchi production in the province: production rose from 870 tons during 1985–1989 to 400,000 tons during 2000–2005. Bac Giang Province has the highest litchi production in Vietnam, three fourths of which is consumed domestically and the rest is exported mainly to People’s Republic of China (5,6). Vietnamese litchis are mostly of the Thieu variety, which has a short harvest period of ≈1 month during May–July (7), which coincides with the epidemic season of the outbreaks in Bac Giang.
Because of the distinct early clinical manifestations (8), the syndrome has been locally termed Ac Mong encephalitis (AME), after the Vietnamese word for nightmare. The typical clinical illness starts with headache and fever, followed by seizures (often during the night); approximately one third of cases progress to coma and death.
The causative agent of AME has remained unidentified and may be responsible for unexplained acute encephalitis elsewhere in the world, particularly in regions sharing similar ecology and environment. Litchi is widely distributed throughout subtropical and tropical regions. The 5 leading litchi-producing countries are China, India, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam (9).
Our first objective was to describe the epidemiologic and clinical features of this severe encephalitis among children in northern Vietnam. Our second objective was to strengthen or weaken the hypothesis that litchi cultivation is associated with acute outbreaks of AES in Bac Giang Province. We investigated this suspected association using a retrospective ecologic analysis for 2004–2009 in Bac Giang Province that involved various environmental, agronomic, and climatic factors. Confirmation of this association would pave the way for further hypothesis-testing studies investigating the causal mechanisms behind this ecologic correlation.
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Enter The Dragon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
It should be noted we are not fans of the vast majority of remakes, especially when it comes to classic movies. If the movie was great to begin with, if it’s a classic, then why to try to redo it … except for money. That’s not a good enough reason to try. There has to be something else gained besides money.
Not saying that no remakes should ever be made. There are cases, a very small percentage, where a remake is justified.
Also, doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a remake like Greta Gerwig’s take on Little Women in 2019, but there are some movies where the star is so utterly iconic that there is no suitable replacement for the role.
Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon is one of those people.
Seriously, who can possibly ever replace the martial arts sensation? I don’t like to use the word “never” very often, but Lee was an extremely rare individual and there will never be another Bruce Lee.
There is also the time era that the movie was made, the early 70s, the fact that Bruce Lee fought to make his first film to show the Asian culture and fought against Hollywood racism and intolerance. Lee fought to change a ton of things in the film.
There is a really insightful podcast by Lee’s daughter, Shannon with a guest of Bruce Lee’s wife Linda Lee Cadwell where they discuss the making of Enter The Dragon (see: Linda Lee Caldwell: Making “Enter The Dragon” – October 2018). You’ll most certainly learn things, as I did, behind the scenes of this movie that you didn’t know about. It’s quite a story.
The article quoted below is from 2018, so no idea where things are at two years later. Most production of movies have been impacted by the current events of 2020 — and not for the positive. Heck, even Netflix is canceling production of projects that I had previously greenlit. Something tells me if there is an Enter The Dragon remake on somebody’s table, it’s gathering significant dust.
Some films are sacrosanct that ought to be left untouched and for many, Enter the Dragon falls into that category. Despite the purists’ argument that both Fist of Fury (1973) or The Big Boss (1971) probably have better character arcs or narrative, it’s unquestionably Enter the Dragon that brings greater joy. A large part of the audiences’ connection with Enter the Dragon is essentially emotional as this was the film that Lee never lived to see. Irrespective, a remake of the film might ultimately not be as controversial as ‘who would play Lee’s character’ in it.Remake of Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon could get complete overhaul in post-Black Panther world – Entertainment News , Firstpost
This leads to the question asked in the headline: should Enter The Dragon ever be remade?
My answer is no.
Probably not in my lifetime, anyway, am I interested unless some young martial arts sensation comes along that could fill the role not only on talent but also the cultural history, importance and raw passion that Lee brought to the project. Bruce Lee’s name literally means “little dragon” and the title refers to him. It’s not only professional, it’s personal.
Jackie Chan is far too old — and he was already in the original film anyway. Jet Li comes to mind, but not sure he’s young enough either. I think the youth, although this sounds ageist, matters quite a bit. Could Shannon Lee be in it? She says no in the podcast, but that is kind of an unusual and somewhat intriguing concept. Too bad her brother Brandon didn’t survive because he could have been an interesting choice to star in his dad’s place. We’ll never know.
What do you think? Is Enter The Dragon one of those rare films that should probably never be remade?
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Unprecedented canonisation of two pontiffs takes place amid controversy over whether John Paul II deserves the honour.
It has been dubbed "the day of the four Popes", an unprecedented occasion in the 2000-year history of the Catholic Church.
It promised to be the biggest Vatican event since millions of pilgrims descended on St Peter's Basilica for the funeral of John Paul II in 2005.
Last night (NZT), under the gaze of a billion Catholic faithful around the world, the Polish pontiff was made a modern saint with one of his predecessors, Pope John XXIII, nicknamed the "Good Pope", who presided over crucial reforms to the church during the 1960s.
The ceremony was led by Pope Francis, 13 months into his ground-breaking papacy, and was attended by 87-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who has rarely ventured out of seclusion since last year becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to step down.
A nun embroiders in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, before John XXIII and John Paul II were honoured. Photo / AP
"This is an event that Rome has never seen in its history - the canonisation of two Popes in the presence of two living Popes," said Monsignor Liberio Andreatta, the head of the Vatican agency for pilgrims.
Benedict's presence was a reflection of the balancing act that Francis envisioned when he decided to canonise John and John Paul together, showing the unity of the church by honouring Popes beloved to conservatives and progressives alike.
Francis made that point clear in his homily, praising both men for their work associated with the Second Vatican Council, the groundbreaking meetings that brought the 2000-year-old institution into modern times. John convened the council while John Paul helped ensure its more conservative implementation and interpretation.
Rome had prepared for the event, dubbed by one Italian newspaper "il grande P-Day", for months. Twenty giant screens were set up throughout the city to relay the ceremony in multiple languages to those unable to squeeze into St Peter's Square, hundreds of thousands of Catholics poured in from around the world, and more than 4000 coaches converged on Rome from across Europe.
Polish pilgrims carrying the red and white flags of John Paul's beloved homeland were among the first to press into the square, held back by human chains of civil protection workers trying to maintain order.
Most of those who arrived first had camped out on air mattresses and sleeping pads in side streets leading to the square. Others had not slept at all and took part in prayer vigils hosted churches in downtown Rome.
The ceremony was attended by 19 heads of state, 24 heads of government and dozens of cardinals.
Two giant tapestry portraits of the new saints had been draped from the front of St Peter's Basilica. Relics of the two former pontiffs were presented to the giant crowds - for John Paul, a vial of his blood. Rather more gruesomely in the case of John XXIII, it was a piece of his skin, removed from his corpse when it was exhumed for his beatification in 2000.
But a day of triumphant celebration for the Holy See was overshadowed by deep-seated controversy. There is intense debate over whether Popes should be made saints in the first place, and in particular over whether John Paul II is deserving of the honour.
Many Catholics feel it is wrong to canonise Popes because doing so is inherently political - that factions within the church push for sainthood for their favourites in order to strengthen their legacy. Conferring sainthood implies that some Popes are more worthy than others.
There is also disquiet among some Catholics about the speed with which John Paul II has been canonised. Normally, a person has to be dead for five years before the process can start. That period was waived by Benedict, in response to the Pole's huge popularity.
Benedict was keen to fast-track John Paul II, a fellow conservative, in order to validate his own vision of the church, many Vatican observers say.
Francis had little say in the matter of making John Paul II a saint - his job was simply to name the date.
But it was his decision to combine the canonisations in what is seen as a political masterstroke - a deft way of balancing the conservative, some would say authoritarian, papacy of John Paul II with the more liberal, reforming reign of John XXIII.
In his determination to hold the double canonisation, Francis waived the normal two-miracle requirement for John XXIII - he was made a saint with just one under his belt.
Critics of John Paul II accuse him of failing to tackle the scandal of paedophile priests. But the Vatican argues that sainthood does not imply perfection - that no saint in history has been free of faults.
- Additional reporting: Independent, AP
Four steps to heaven
Step 1: Once you have been dead for five years someone can propose you become a saint. Your local bishop will check that there is no huge scandal in your life and the "purity of doctrine" in your writings. Witnesses are called. A report is sent to Rome.
Step 2: The Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome will check that you have lived a life of "heroic virtue". If satisfied, it will ask the Pope to declare you Venerable.
Step 3: Next you have to perform an indisputable miracle from beyond the grave. This is an "immediate, complete and spontaneous" cure of a serious disease or condition which medical science cannot explain or refute. You do this to someone who has prayed to you. If you were a martyr you can skip this step. Once the miracle is verified, you are beatified and called Blessed.
Step 4: Another miracle is needed for canonisation. Again you cure someone who has prayed to you to intercede with God for them. This proves you are in heaven. Once the miracle is certified, a Canonisation Mass is held, you are given a Feast Day and thereafter called Saint. The decision is infallible and irrevocable.
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After research found nearly a third of lamb takeaways and curries contained other cheaper meats, Britain's Food Standards Agency ordered a new wave of tests.
The FSA found that 43 out of 145 samples of lamb takeaway meals contained other meat such as beef, chicken and turkey, with 25 of them consisting purely of beef.
AdvertisementNone of the samples, taken from July to December last year, contained horsemeat.
The FSA said local authorities were being asked to test 300 samples from takeaway restaurants -- a staple for British pubgoers on their way home -- as a priority, starting next month.
"Substitution of lamb for cheaper meats in takeaway food... is unacceptable," said FSA chief operating officer Andrew Rhodes.
"We are working closely with local authorities to ensure robust action is taken against any businesses misleading their customers.
"The recurring nature of the problem shows there needs to be a renewed effort to tackle this."
In a separate study, consumer watchdog Which? tested 60 takeaway lamb curries and minced lamb kebabs from restaurants in London and Birmingham and found that 24 of them -- and 16 out of 30 in Birmingham -- contained at least five percent of other meats.
Seven contained no lamb at all, while the meat in five could not be identified at all, probably due to overcooking.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?, said: "More than a year on from the horse meat scandal, our research uncovers shocking evidence of food fraud."
He urged the authorities to crack down on offenders.
"This is vital to restoring trust in the industry, which is not only good for consumers but good for businesses too," he said.
The findings follow a Europe-wide scandal last year when horsemeat was found in millions of ready meals labelled as containing only beef.
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