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The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it. Treasury of Scripture Luke 16:29,31 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them... Matthew 11:9-14 But what went you out for to see? A prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet... John 1:45 Philip finds Nathanael, and said to him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth... Acts 3:18,24,25 But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled... Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. Luke 10:9,11 And heal the sick that are therein, and say to them, The kingdom of God is come near to you... Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 10:7 And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, Luke 7:26-29 But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet... Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you... Mark 1:45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city... John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. John 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive you how you prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him. ContextThe Law and the Prophets 14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it. 17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one pronunciation mark of the law to fail. 18Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery. Parallel VersesAmerican Standard Version The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it. The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it. Darby Bible Translation The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it. King James Bible The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Young's Literal Translation the law and the prophets are till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

|GOD'S WORD® Translation (© 1995)| Pour out your fury on the nations who don't know you and on people who don't worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes. King James Bible Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. American Standard Version Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. Young's Literal Translation Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate! Jeremiah 10:25 Additional TranslationsAcknowledge Completely Consumed Desolate Destroyed Devoured Dwelling-Place Eaten End Families Fields Fury Habitation Heathen Homeland Jacob Laid Meal Nations Peoples Pour Waste Worship WrathAcknowledge Completely Consumed Desolate Destroyed Devoured Dwelling-Place Eaten End Families Fields Fury Habitation Heathen Homeland Jacob Laid Meal Nations Peoples Pour Waste Worship WrathGOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Copyright 1995. Jeremiah 10:25 Parallel Commentaries Jeremiah 10:25 Mobile Bible Jeremiah 10:25 Bible Suite Jeremiah 10:25 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 10:25 Chinese Bible 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don't know God. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 He will take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge God and on those who refuse to respond to the Good News about our Lord Jesus. Revelation 16:1 I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Pour the seven bowls of God's anger over the earth." Job 18:21 This is what happens to the homes of wicked people and to those who do not know God." Psalm 14:4 Are all those troublemakers, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on the LORD? Psalm 69:24 Pour your rage on them. Let your burning anger catch up with them. Psalm 79:6 Pour your fury on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.

An Ode To ParisParis, Summer 2012 I reached my one-week anniversary of being in Paris yesterday, in which I celebrated with pistache and caramel buerre salé ice cream from Paris’s best, Le Berthillon. It’s unbelievable how much appreciation you gain for life when you solely eat bread, cheese, meat, butter, and dessert. But this wasn’t the typical anniversary. I didn’t order myself a dozen of freshly-picked roses, schedule a lovely dinner on the Seine with a bottle of champagne and a fresh baguette, tell myself that I’m just the most beautiful woman in the world. No, this anniversary is one that’s familiar to all of you (don’t even try to deny it): it’s the kind that sneaks up on you, and after which, you say “oh sh*t!” But the element of surprise wasn’t as much about the fact that I’ve been here for a week, but more about how this life I’m living abroad is inevitably stamped with a date of expiration; while my “anniversary” is a marker of how long I’ve been here, it’s also a marker of how little time I have left. So while I’m on that “this is my real home and I’m actually not going back to Indiana” note, I’d like to say that this blog’s for you, Paris. I love your food. I love the crunch of a freshly baked baguette and that every street in Paris is warm with the smell of rising yeast. My body no longer needs vegetables or fruits after you’ve deprived me of them; just give me one of those gooey cheeses you sell at the fromagerie. I’ve even gotten used to your ridiculously overpriced cups of café that are not even coffee, but a shot of espresso. And how will I ever go a day without my one euro, “in-between-class-snack” of pain au chocolat from the patisserie down the street? I love your way of life. I love your innocent dedication to hedonism, for bliss is found in the times that your people dedicate to rich red wines and hour-long meals shared with friends. In a city that is so bustling during times of economic crisis, your pursuit of happiness is very much alive. I no longer mind taking a shower sitting down with what is essentially a hose. I no longer mind waiting until nine for dinner. And a city where all men wear slim-fitted suits and women rarely wear anything above the knee? I would quickly throw away my shorts for you. But most of all, I love you, Paris. I love your ancient buildings that are rich with history that goes back before America was even America. I love that while I read Paris est une fête by Ernest Hemingway, I can walk to the cafes, the roads, all the places that he frequented. I love that when I walk down a cobblestone street, I smell pungent cheese as I walk past the fromagerie, and salt and brine as I pass the poissonnerie, during all of which the smell of old cigarettes draws out nostalgia for a time of the past. I love being surrounded by picturesque sights, and the beauty of your language parallels the beauty of your ville. So as I lie in my squeaky twin bed, gazing out my port-fenêtre, the somber thought that my time with you is limited looms over me. But while I must eventually leave, I know that a piece of you will always be with me. So as Hemingway once said: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” And that, I would say, is belle. You May also like:

Burger Shoppe takes up former Gridiron spot If you miss Gridiron Burgers, you might check out Rocky Top Burger Shoppe. The family-owned eatery opened June 29 at 11605 Parkside Drive where Gridiron was previously located. "We came out here with the intention of opening a restaurant. This spot came up and it was great," said Tammy Dolak, who along with her husband Gregg moved to Knoxville from Phoenix. The Burger Shoppe sells burgers, of course, but Dolak said they have an expanded menu that includes Italian sausage, turkey and veggie burgers and salads. If Rocky Top Burger Shoppe reminds you of Gridiron, there might be good reason. The Dolaks hired former Gridiron manager Patrick Leonard and some of the staff. They also acquired some of Gridirons tables, chairs and patio furniture at auction. "They did a lot of things right and had quite a following," Dolak said. "We've got a lot of Gridiron regulars and a lot of new followers.

Collier Bridge[Map] Pony truss bridge over Turman Creek on IN 154 Open to traffic Built 1946; rehabilitated 1984 CR 300 S Culvert[Map] Concrete culvert bridge over Branch of Busseron Creek on W. CR 300 S Open to traffic East County Line Road Bridge Lost concrete arch bridge over an unnamed ditch on East County Line Road Replaced by new bridge Built 1925; replaced 1999 Four-Way Bridge[Map] Concrete deck girder bridge over Unnamed ditch on CR 350 South/CR 900 East Open to traffic Built 1930 Hamilton Bridge[Map] Through truss bridge over Busseron Creek on CR 300 South Abandoned with portions of deck missing Built in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co. Hutsonville Bridge[Map] Lost self-anchored suspension bridge over Wabash River on IN 154 at Hutsonville Replaced by modern bridge Built 1939; replaced 1988 Indiana Railroad Wabash River Bridge[Map] Through truss bridge over Wabash River and two county roads on Indiana Railroad (former Illinois Central Railroad) Open to traffic Built 1910, Through Truss center Swing built for another bridge in Kentucky in 1890, later moved & fabricated to fit this bridge, later Swing span replaced with plate girder with center wheel left in place in 1965 Kelley Bridge[Map] Through truss bridge over Sugar Creek on CR 550 West Abandoned with deck removed Built in 1902 by the Vincennes Bridge Company

The first is from Mother Jones and is about why people will refuse to believe well-substantiated things that contradict existing belief systems. They’ll do this sometimes in the teeth of amazing evidence. This “motivated reasoning” drives a lot of wooly-headedness, from religious fruitbattery to “birther” fruitbattery. And then when people do persist in believing nonsense, you get consequences like this: an outbreak of whooping cough in an “alternative” school with mostly unvaccinated students. Not vaccinating against diseases like this means you get to enjoy early 20th century style quarantines, weeks of antibiotic treatments, and possible lifetime consequences in the form of lung damage. What I particularly like about that second link are the people in the comments spewing anti-vaccination talk of the it-causes-autism kind. There, the study that got that nonsense started has been debunked as an elaborate fraud designed to make its author, Andrew Wakefield, a lot of money. But does that shake their refusal to protect their kids from nasty diseases? No. Man does not reason. He rationalizes.

MORE CHO AND ADDED PROTEIN/AMINO ACIDS PRODUCE BETTER GLYCOGEN STATES IN CYCLISTS Van Loon, L. J., Saris, W. H., & Wagenmakers, A. J. (1999). Optimizing post-exercise muscle glycogen synthesis carbohydrate and amino acid/protein feedings. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 31(5), Supplement abstract 298. On three occasions, trained cyclists (N = 8), ingested a control or either of two beverage compositions, and were tested. The beverages were: A glycogen-depleting exercise was performed and then a muscle biopsy of the vastus lateralis was taken. Another biopsy was taken five hours later. Plasma insulin values were significantly different in all trials, the highest being in the CHO + PRO diet condition and the lowest in the CHO condition. Net muscle glycogen was highest in the two experimental conditions and lowest in the CHO condition. Implication. CHO ingestion should be at a concentration much greater than the recommended 0.8 g/kg/hr to achieve optimal glycogen synthesis rates. The addition of protein/amino acid to a CHO supplement accelerates glycogen synthesis. Return to Table of Contents for this issue.

“One’s love, grief and religion” should always be private. Thus, spoke my father, a fount of wisdom. And, I believe, thus speak most Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Christian Scientists, Baptists, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, etc. In short, all Americans. The last time this country was so afraid, so paralyzed and so ineffective in stopping public cruelty that masqueraded as “politics” was in the 1950s, during the communist scare. The most vociferous anti-communist “Red hunter” was Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Many lives were scarred, careers ruined. And in the name of finding the “Reds,” the nation exhibited more fear than fortitude. Then, one man, and then another, finally stood up to the “momentum” of the character assassination that so defined McCarthyism. That man was Army Counsel Joseph Welch. In the midst of the Army-McCarthy hearings, while McCarthy was in full tilt terrorizing the country with “guilt by association” and lists of “communists” working in the State Department, he accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. In the famous Army-McCarthy hearings, the senator continued his trademark accusations against a young staffer when, Welch, finally indignant, rebuked the senator with two short, pithy lines: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” The television audience turned on McCarthy. And those two lines effectively ended his political career. The shame was palpable. That question needs to be asked again. Have we no sense of decency? Have we left no sense of decency? With a nation on its knees, economically speaking, the contemporary political headlines scream about Satan, aspirin as birth control, moon colonies, singing with the stars, religious authenticity and patriotism. Surely, Americans deserve more. Surely, someone, somehow needs to elevate the debate with a question like Welch’s. Where is America’s decency? In an earlier presidential election cycle, with big questions unanswered, the sex life of a candidate generated non-stop headlines. At that time, a French friend of mine offered a withering critique of America’s obsession with the private lives of their presidents. “Why do Americans care so much? You are not voting for him to be your husband.” Nor your pastor. True. But, we have increasingly been voting for candidates to be our entertainment. Sing. Dance. Be cool. Be passionate. Make reckless but quotable statements. Accuse others of being not Christian. Not patriotic. Not genuine. Accuse the press of being lame. Accuse the voters of being stupid. Accuse the process of being rigged. All sensational accusations but rarely instructive ideas. Twenty or so debates into the Republican nominating process, the reality-TV aspect of the race is obvious. So, too, is the talking-point nonsense of the biased bloggers and talking heads who pose as objective. And the Wizard of Oz quality of candidates backed by billionaires and Super PACs has made a mockery of anything close to direct democracy. Someone, somewhere might rise to the occasion—of a nation in need of a leader. One with ideas, not pejoratives. One with character, not shameless pandering. Still unknown is if, and when, the “decent” candidate will, à la Joseph Welch, vanquish those currently exploiting their love, their grief and their religion—for an understandably diminishing base of voters. Surely someone will be asked the 21st century equivalent of: Have we no decency? Have we no decency at all?

Ezra Klein, responding to this blog and others, lists off the five bloggers whom he misses most. Prominent among them, of course, being the Fafblog, “the only blog that’s ever really mattered.” See also Dan Nexon on how “the fact of the matter is… and now I’m going to get choked up and grieve for a minute about the gaping hole its lack of updates has left in the blogmarch… almost any random selection from Fafblog would beat out the competition.” Which is so completely and obviously true. But even as the Library of Congress is cataloguing and preserving blogs of “historical importance to the Congress and to the American people,” the Fafblog’s archives, a genuine national treasure if ever there was one, are 404ing (I’m sure that both Brewster Kahle and Google have them stashed away somewhere but what a pain). In order to collate and preserve material of vital historical significance, I ask you, Crooked Timber readers, to link to, quote in extenso, and thus preserve your favourite Fafblog posts of all time. As my contribution – this reminder of how, long before there were glibertarians, there were Gibletarians. Nothing Says “I Care” Like A War on Poverty! Giblets is a compassionate Giblets. He has been moved by the plight of poor people, which were believed to be extinct, like the ivory-billed woodpecker, until they were rediscovered fairly recently. Like the ivory-billed woodpecker, they live a delicate and tenuous existence, endangered by predators and modern man alike. Unlike the ivory-billed woodpecker, Giblets rarely attempts to chase them down and cook them in a giant quiche. This is because of the compassion. Giblets has so much compassion he has decided to declare war on poverty and destroy it forever! Behold his three-step plan – NO! – his three-compassion plan – to hunt down poverty and kill it where it lives! COMPASSION THE FIRST: FREEDOM! Poverty hates our our way of life: that is why it is always harassing Giblets on the street for his precious dimes and nickels.1 The only way to fight it is with freedom! Thus Giblets will liberate the poor from the Medicaid and food stamp programs which have oppressed for so many years! No longer will they be terrorized by the tyranny of having food! Instead they can experience the heady up-from-the-bootstraps independence of chasing small animals for their own food! No longer will they suffer at the slavery of subsidized health care. Instead they can use just scrape the mold off the remnants of their drowned homes and pound it into penicillin! Don’t bother to thank Giblets, poor people – your newfound liberty is thanks enough. COMPASSION THE SECOND: FLYPAPER! Giblets’s multi-billion-dollar tax cuts for the rich will continue unabated! By slashing local wages and maintaining fat tax cuts for the rich, Giblets will cleverly trap poverty in isolated pockets of poor people, far from our own mammonite shores. We must ignore poverty over there so we don’t have to fight it over here. COMPASSION THE THIRD: HUMANITARIAN AID! These have been trying times for our nation’s wealthiest, who have lost vacation homes and tourist destinations and have been forced to endure the painful spectacle of thousands of homeless on television night after night. Giblets promises swift relief in the form of more giant tax cuts. Stand strong, mammonati! You’ll buy that extra yacht yet. We will defeat poverty, and we will do so by creating a perfect, classless society: one where the upper class has risen so far above the lower class that it has left the earth as a space-faring race of celestial beings made entirely of money, and the lower class has gradually transformed into rock-dwelling cannibalistic sewer mutants which disintegrate in the harsh light of a wasteland sun. On that scorched earth, whoever remains will stand as equals, victors in the war on poverty! 1 Poor people will receive Giblets’s commemorative Idaho quarter when they EARN his commemorative Idaho quarter. and Chris, fafnir, Giblets and the Medium Lobster, if you are still out there somewhere, please come back. Your people need you.

Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Hebrews 5:7-9 In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. • Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. • And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, • being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. New American Standard Bible Copyright ? 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. Daily Study Bible

Date of this Version The Department of Food Science and Technology is located in the Food Industry Complex on East Campus at UNL. The department started out as a part of many departments in the College of Agriculture, the most important being the Department of Dairy Science. Up until 1960, food processing was incorporated in the various College of Agriculture departments of dairy science, agronomy, animal science, poultry science, and agricultural engineering and in the Foods and Nutrition Department of the College of Home Economics. In 1960 the new Food Technology major was approved as an inter-departmental major involving all departments with food processing interests. In 1968 the Department of Food Science and Technology was started. Those members of the Department of Dairy Science who focused on manufacturing were automatically transferred to the new Department of Food Science and Technology to form the basis of the new department. The first undergraduates from the new department were in 1968. Master’s and Ph.D. students followed shortly. Today the Department is part of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR).

Common Entrance Examination ||This article needs additional citations for verification. (July 2012)| Common Entrance Examinations (commonly known as CE) are taken by some children in the UK as part of the admissions process for academically selective secondary schools at age 13 or (for girls) 11. Most of the secondary schools that use Common Entrance for admission are public schools; most of the schools that routinely prepare their pupils for Common Entrance are preparatory schools. Both kinds of schools are normally fee-paying, that is, they are particular kinds of independent schools. The name comes from the fact that, unlike many other selective secondary schools which each set their own entrance examinations, the secondary schools concerned agree to use a common set of examination papers. However, the marking of the scripts and all other aspects of the admissions process is still done independently by each secondary school. English, Mathematics and Science are compulsory core subjects. Other papers can be chosen from French, German, Spanish; Latin, Greek; Geography, History and Religious Studies. Most senior schools expect candidates to offer Geography, History, Religious Studies and one or two languages, but pupils from schools which do not offer the traditional range of subjects or weaker pupils can offer a reduced number of papers: entrance requirements are dictated only by the senior school, not by the examination but some state schools do not require Common Entrance. Sometimes, it can even be up to 70% in every subject. There can also be different levels, in Mathematics and in Latin, Level 1 is the easiest, Level 3 is the hardest and sometimes it is Levels 1 - 2. School usually state their preferred level. The Common Entrance examination has been criticised by headteachers who complain that it uses 3 to 4 years of the children's time at prep school preparing for an exam - this ties into criticism that the British education system (in both state and private sectors) is too exam based and does not encourage dynamic learning with the 'tick-box' system that is currently used. Other teachers have also said that this type of exam is simply too stressful for a 13 year old. The youngest child to pass this examination was Lincoln Ken Ramkissoon at the age of 9 from Trinidad and Tobago in 1977. Taking the test Candidates usually sit the CE exam papers at their own prep schools, at a fixed date; but papers are marked by the preferred senior school, who mark them immediately and will, if necessary, arrange with the prep school to forward the papers to a second-choice school should the performance fall below the acceptance level of the preferred first-choice school. Many schools also use the CE exam as the basis for awarding entrance scholarships and bursaries, but often also apply their own further interviews, tests, or examinations. Likewise artistic, musical or sporting achievements are not examined by Common Entrance, but may be taken into account by reports or other means. Children often have to attend interviews at their preferred secondary schools, in addition to taking the Common Entrance examination. Headteachers' reports are also considered. Some secondary schools, particularly the most competitive, also require candidates to take a pre-test several years before Common Entrance. Role in admissions The exam has no official standing, because it is used only by the independent sector as a transfer exam to senior schools and it is not nationally standardised. Independent schools may naturally determine their entry requirements, generally or in individual cases, but the Common Entrance allows preparatory schools to teach almost all pupils to a common syllabus, and provides common basis on which a public school can compare candidates from different prep schools. There is no standardisation in marking and every senior school has its own mark scheme and own 'pass' threshold. This varies considerably between schools and therefore no reliable comparisons can be made between results achieved at different schools. In practice, the Common Entrance exam, while providing valuable discipline and motivation, only rarely determines admission, and failure should be an exceptional event. It is in the interests of neither the schools nor the pupil for a candidate to either be admitted to a 'too-demanding' school, or to fail an exam. Prep schools should be able to assess and report their candidates' prospects accurately. Parents should be rightly disappointed if a prep school advises that a pupil can attempt Common Entrance to an inappropriate school, or if a public school allows an excessive number of candidates to sit the exam. Past papers can be ordered online or by mail. - Independent Schools Examinations Board website - Independent Schools Council information - Graham Jones (Spring 2007), "The Changing Face of Common Entrance", Conference Common Room 44(1), p. 18 (frame 20/56 of the pdf) - review of the first one hundred years of the exam.

[Church of England] A letter thanking Her Majesty The Queen for 60 years of service has been delivered to Buckingham Palace today (Monday, September 24th). The Big Jubilee Thank You, coordinated by the Church of England and HOPE Together, was signed by the public in churches and cathedrals throughout the year and contains thousands of signatures from all over the country. Dr Rachel Jordan, National Mission and Evangelism Adviser for the Church of England, said: “It was a great honour to deliver The Big Jubilee Thank You – a moving collection of messages and letters created during the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in cathedrals and churches across the UK and Europe, to express our gratitude to The Queen for her faithful service and Christian witness over her 60-year reign.” Letters of thanks were first signed by bishops, vicars and pastors, before being made publicly available in churches for the public to add their own comments and signatures. They have been pouring into Church House in London for several months, some dioceses and churches choosing to use the Big Jubilee Thank You downloads available from the Church of England website, others choosing to create their own ways of saying thank you: - The Dioceses of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, York, Chichester, Birmingham, Blackburn, Carlisle, Leicester and Truro were among those saying thank you to The Queen via large packs of pages utilising the ‘official’ Big Jubilee Thank You downloads (see picture – Flickr link below). - Durham Cathedral and the Diocese of Europe chose to present signatures of thanks in beautifully bound books (see picture). - Ellie Davidson from Brighstone Church of England Primary School on the Isle of Wight won a competition to design a striking cover for the Diocese of Portsmouth’s thank you letter (see picture). - The parish of Great Horton St John’s in the Diocese of Bradford, and the parish of Ottershaw in Guildford Diocese, designed particularly striking covers for their letters (see pictures). - The people and churches of Foulsham, Guestwick, Stibbard, Themelthorpe and Wood Norton in the Diocese of Norwich designed their own thank you card, with crowns by the children and adults of Wood Norton Messy Church (see picture). - Hornchurch Methodist Church was one of many churches choosing to illustrate its thank you’s with pictures from its Big Jubilee Lunch event (see picture). - A child from the parish of Earsham in Norwich Diocese contributed a poem to her thank you: “Much experience you have gained, 60 years you have reigned, You wear a lovely gown, You wear a Shining Crown, You Sit on a Golden Chair, Which Makes Me Look and Stare, I wish I was just like you, I wish I could meet you too.” - Comments from adults included: “You have been the one person we can all depend upon. May you enjoy many more years on the throne”; “Thank you for a wonderful 60 years of dedication and loyal service”; “When even my children in their 20s are staunch royalists, I realise what an amazing job you have done throughout your reign.” - Comments from children included: “Thank you for keeping the country safe and for lots of other things. PS I really like your hats: )”; “Queen Elizabeth is great! Uniting the country. Everyone adores you. Nation celebrating loads!”; “Dear Queen, I hope Prince Phillip is feeling better now.” There were contributions to the Big Jubilee Thank You from Church of England, Baptist, Methodist, ELIM, Catholic and independent churches; Churches Together from around the country; Boys’ and Girls’ Brigades; church schools and academies; Guides and Brownies; Cubs and Scouts; and Mothers’ Unions. Compiled together into one huge Big Jubilee Thank You, the contributions were delivered to Buckingham Palace by Dr Rachel Jordan, the Church of England’s National Worship and Evangelism Adviser; Roy Crowne, the Executive Director of HOPE Together; and the Revd Ian Bunce, Head of the Mission Department for the Baptist Union of Great Britain. They were received by Christopher Sandamas, Chief Clerk, Buckingham Palace. Pictures of the delivery of The Big Jubilee Thank You are available to download here. Pictures of some of the contributions to The Big Jubilee Thank You are available here.

Here is an exerpt from the RC Catechism 1127 Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify.48 They are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies. The Father always hears the prayer of his Son's Church which, in the epiclesis of each sacrament, expresses her faith in the power of the Spirit. As fire transforms into itself everything it touches, so the Holy Spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power. 1128 This is the meaning of the Church's affirmation49 that the sacraments act ex opere operato (literally: "by the very fact of the action's being performed"), i.e., by virtue of the saving work of Christ, accomplished once for all. It follows that "the sacrament is not wrought by the righteousness of either the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God."50 From the moment that a sacrament is celebrated in accordance with the intention of the Church, the power of Christ and his Spirit acts in and through it, independently of the personal holiness of the minister. Nevertheless, the fruits of the sacraments also depend on the disposition of the one who receives them. 1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation.51 "Sacramental grace" is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature52 by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Savior. Contrast this now from Luther's Small Catechism How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things? It is not the eating and drinking, indeed, that does them, but the words which stand here, namely: Given, and shed for you, for the remission of sins. Which words are, beside the bodily eating and drinking, as the chief thing in the Sacrament; and he that believes these words has what they say and express, namely, the forgiveness of sins. Who, then, receives such Sacrament worthily? Fasting and bodily preparation is, indeed, a fine outward training; but he is truly worthy and well prepared who has faith in these words: Given, and shed for you, for the remission of sins. But he that does not believe these words, or doubts, is unworthy and unfit; for the words For you require altogether believing hearts. As can be seen Luther, was quite precise as to where faith is directed. Whereas in the RC, faith is not defined and is rather vague, which allows for wiggle room in 1128. In 1128, there is the "nevertheless" clause which is confusing, because on the one hand it does not depend on the rigteousness of the recipient yet it depends on his disposition. If the RC does not object any longer to Luther's catechism, perhaps they have reformed themselves in this area and conceded they were wrong. Similarly in in 1129, the sacraments (and the RCs have more than 2 to 3 , I remember 7) are necessary for salvation. My Reformed brothers do have the right to be alarmed at such a talk. In fact the Apology registered these protests (just examples)... III. 155 Just as,therefore, the Lord's Supper does not justify us ex opere operato, without faith, so alms do not justify us without faith, ex opere operato. III. 165 In this manner they also distorted the Sacraments, and most especially the Mass, through which they seek ex opere operato righteousness, grace, and salvation. XII. 11 They falsely assert that the Sacrament itselfconfers grace ex opere operato, without a good disposition on the part of the one using it; no mention is made of faith apprehending the absolution and consoling the conscience. 1128 is now a compliance to XII. 11 but again, there is no official definition of what that "disposition" is supposed to be, you may correct me if I miss such definition or clarification in the RC Catechism. When I contemplate that section of the RC Catechism I quoted, I come out confused. Somehow I can not help but think of double talk and I mean no disrespect, just an honest frank opinion. It seems such wording allows the RC to say -- we have not changed since the old terms are there, ie. justifying ex opere operato, and in the other sense, they can say - they have changed since they added more clarifications on the teaching that sounds Lutheran. In logic, we have a maxim that says, from a contradiction you can prove anything. That is right, you can prove anything you like under the sun. In summary, Lutherans do not believe in ex opere operato on sacraments. I hope my Reformed friends take note of that.

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CHAPTER XXV. HENRY VII. A.D. 1485 - 1509. Henry Tudor married the Lady Bessee as soon as he came to London, and by this marriage the causes of the Red and white Roses were united; so that he took for his badge a great rose - half red and half white. You may see it carved all over the beautiful chapel that he built on to Westminster Abbey to be buried in. He was not a very pleasant person; he was stiff, and cold, and dry, and very mean and covetous in some ways - though he liked to make a grand show, and dress all his court in cloth of gold and silver, and the very horses in velvet housings, whenever there was any state occasion. Nobody greatly cared for him; but the whole country was so worn out with the troubles of the Wars of the Roses, that there was no desire to interfere with him; and people only grumbled, and said he did not treat his gentle, beautiful wife Elizabeth as he ought to do, but was jealous of her being a king's daughter. There was one person who did hate him most bitterly, and that was the Duchess of Burgundy, the sister of Edward IV. and Richard III.: the same who, as I told you, encouraged printing so much. She felt as if a mean upstart had got into the place of her brothers, and his having married her niece did not make it seem a bit the better to her. There was one nephew left - the poor young orphan son of George, Duke of Clarence - but he had always been quite silly, and Henry VII. had him watched carefully, for fear some one should set him up to claim the crown. He was called Earl of Warwick, as heir to his grandfather, the king-maker. Suddenly, a young man came to Ireland and pretended to be this Earl of Warwick. He deceived a good many of the Irish, and the Mayor of Dublin actually took him to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where he was crowned as King Edward the Sixth: and then he was carried to the banquet upon an Irish chieftain's back. He came to England with some Irish followers, and some German soldiers hired by the duchess; and a few, but not many, English joined him. Henry met him at a village called Stoke, near Newark, and all his Germans and Irish were killed, and he himself made prisoner. Then he confessed that he was really a baker's son named Lambert Simnel; and, as he turned out to be a poor weak lad, whom designing people had made to do just what they pleased, the king took him into his kitchen as a scullion; and, as he behaved well there, afterwards set him to look after the falcons, that people used to keep to go out with to catch partridges and herons. But after this, a young man appeared under the protection of the Duchess of Burgundy, who said he was no other than the poor little Duke of York, Richard, who had escaped from the Tower when his brother was murdered. Englishmen, who came from Flanders, said that he was a clever, cowardly lad of the name of Peter (or Perkin) Warbeck, the son of a townsman of Tournay; but the duchess persuaded King James IV. of Scotland to believe him a real royal Plantagenet. He went to Edinburgh, married a beautiful lady, cousin to the king, and James led him into England at the head of an army to put forward his claim. But nobody would join him, and the Scots did not care about him; so James sent him away to Ireland, whence he went to Cornwall. However, he soon found fighting was of no use, and fled away to the New Forest, where he was taken prisoner. He was set in the stocks, and there made to confess that he was really Perkin Warbeck and no duke, and then he was shut up in the Tower. But there he made friends with the real Earl of Warwick, and persuaded him into a plan for escape; but this was found out, and Henry, thinking that he should never have any peace or safety whilst either of them was alive, caused Perkin to be hanged, and poor innocent Edward of Warwick to be beheaded. It was thought that this cruel deed was done because Henry found that foreign kings did not think him safe upon the throne while one Plantagenet was left alive, and would not give their children in marriage to his sons and daughters. He was very anxious to make grand marriages for his children, and make peace with Scotland by a wedding between King James and his eldest daughter, Margaret. For his eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales, he obtained Katharine, the daughter of the King of Aragon and Queen of Castille, and she was brought to England while both were mere children. Prince Arthur died when only eighteen years old; and King Henry then said that they had been both such children that they could not be considered really married, and so that Katharine had better marry his next son, Henry, although everyone knew that no marriage between a man and his brother's widow could be lawful. The truth was that he did not like to give up all the money and jewels she had brought; and the matter remained in dispute for some years - nor was it settled when King Henry himself died, after an illness that no one expected would cause his death. Nobody was very sorry for him, for he had been hard upon everyone, and had encouraged two wicked judges, named Dudley and Empson, who made people pay most unjust demands, and did everything to fill the king's treasury and make themselves rich at the same time. It was a time when many changes were going on peacefully. The great nobles had grown much poorer and less powerful; and the country squires and chief people in the towns reckoned for much more in the State. Moreover, there was much learning and study going on everywhere. Greek began to be taught as well as Latin, and the New Testament was thus read in the language in which the apostles themselves wrote; and that led people to think over some of the evil ways that had grown up in their churches and abbeys, during those long, grievous years, when no one thought of much but fighting, or of getting out of the way of the enemy.

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself." - Edmund Lee (via callmemax) (Source: , via callmemax) have you ever been so lonely that it actually hurts to exist (Source: , via hold-youdown) "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald (via infinitives) "It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection." - The Bhagavad Gita (via thatkindofwoman) (Source: sorakeem, via ap0strophe) "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." - Jiddu Krishnamurti (via c-oquetry) (Source: troubled, via ap0strophe)

School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin University of Science & Technology, Trikakkara, Cochin – 682022, Established in year 1962, School of Legal Studies is one of the oldest departments of the University. It was founded as a part of Kerala University, offering postgraduate courses and research in law. School of Legal Studies (NLSIU) has been ranked 13th amongst the Top-25 law schools in the country by India Today. This law school is one of the prestigious institutions engaged in law teaching and research in India. Since last 47 years of its glorious existence, School of Legal Studies (SLS CUSAT) has been emphasizing on the development of the qualities of innovations, responsibility, self learning and adaptability of each student. Candidates are shortlisted with a rigorous selection process based on a national level written test, interview and group discussion. SCL provides the students with placement facilities and the basic qualification for the participation in the placement programme is LL.B.Degree. School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology Admission Application Form 2013 Admission to both LL.B. and LL.M. courses is done through a Common Admission Test (CAT) of CUSAT which is followed by group discussion and interview. - Five Year B.B.A., LL.B.(Honours) Course - Ph.D. Programme

Use of free radical inhibitors or antioxidants to increase the overall yield of organic synthesis steps. kilomentor | 25 March, 2011 13:30 The use of radical inhibitors or antioxidants to improve yields does not appear to have many precedents in organic synthesis. A key word search provided only two references both related to the stabilization of m-chloroperbenzoic acid to thermal degradation during the epoxidation of resistant olefins.Y. Kishi, M. Aratani, H. Tanino, T. Fukuyama and T. Goto, J.C.S. Chem. Comm. 197264 and D.M. Tal, Steroids (1989),54(1), 113-22.Synthetic chemists apparently assume that free radical reactions do not occur unless free radical initiators are present in the reaction mixture or unless the reaction mixture is irradiated. It might seem they think it can’t happen unless they are intending it to happen. Obviously this is not true! Free radical reactions can take place not just during the contemplated reaction phase but during the work-up of the reaction when we might think that all the reacting is stopped. Actual the opportunity is greater in the work-up phase this phase usually takes more time, particularly when the process is being scaled up.Are free-radical reactions inhibited by particular pH ranges of the solvent medium? No they are not. The most frequent type of free radical reaction is oxidation and only the relative amounts of different species that can be oxidized are affected by pH not particularly the oxidation rates.Oxidation often produces coloured products when it can introduce new unsaturation into molecules. The presence of unexpected colour in a reaction is suggestive of an unanticipated oxidation. I recall that in the preparation of some aniline compounds the procedure teaches the addition of hydrogen sulfide to the aqueous phase during isolation to prevent colour development from exposure to air during work up and crystallization. The usual response to coloured product is to use charcoal in the recrystallization rather than trying to prevent coloured by-products in the first place.The knock against the prophylactic (preventative) use of free radical inhibitors is that they are just one more substance to have to clean up during the work up, isolation and purification. Perhaps these radical inhibitors could be immobilized on an insoluble polymer so they could be filtered off after use. Has this been done to anyone’s knowledge?

Pro Portfolio: Two houses on one lot, a separate-but-equal approach for friends in Silver Lake Architect: Carter C. Bravmann, InterForm, Los Angeles, (323) 656-7316. Contractor: Mark Blanco, Westmont Construction, Glendora, (626) 485-0912. Project: Westerly Terrace Location: Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles Goal: To create two separate yet equal modernist residences for two longtime friends on a lot zoned for a duplex. Architect’s description: Zoned for a duplex (R-2 in city of L.A. zoning parlance), this property has been owned by two best friends for years. One friend and his wife lived in one unit; the other friend in the second unit. Because both worked at home and needed additional space, we devised a means to create two separate single-family houses on the lot. The property is still classified as R-2 with two newly reconfigured units of housing. The rear portion of the property accommodates a new residence. The existing duplex at the front of the property was converted to a single-family home. Each friend contributed 50% to the cost, decision-making and coordination efforts. It was a truly collaborative and democratic process. The completed homes also were meant to be examples of the evolution of the Los Angeles archetype: the single-family home. The reconfigured property has ample space and privacy, yet at a higher density than is found elsewhere in Los Angeles. It is also 100% solar powered and 100% solar-hot-water heated. Each house reflects unique personalities, aesthetics and functional requirements. Each one relates to the other and fosters a sense of community and shared semi-private/public space for impromptu gatherings. To see more of both homes, keep reading ... Looking back toward the front door. The stairs, as seen from the lower level media/family room. Textured embossed glass provides acoustical separation from the media/family room yet allows light to reach the stairs. You can see House No. 1 through the glass doors. The family room, off the kitchen on the main floor. Corner sliding-glass doors yield another connection to House No. 1. Upstairs, a den. In the master bathroom: a stone tile shower and bath and maple cabinets. -- Lisa Boone Photo credits: Michael McNamera Pro Portfolio appears here every Monday. Submit projects to [email protected].

Climate Promises for the Next Ten Years The Copenhagen Accord has legs – so far 36 industrialized countries including the United States, members of the European Union, and Russia; and 23 developing countries, including China, India, Brazil and South Africa have signed on. A further 28 countries, mostly those considered least developed such as Mali and Palau, associated themselves with the Accord. That makes 87 nations willing to be listed on the agreement that was drafted in forty-five minutes by a small group of heads of state, including US President Obama, at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. What do these pledges add up to? The actions pledged are legally binding only to the extent that countries enact domestic legislation. They do not add up to the reductions that climate scientists believe are necessary to maintain a “safe” climate. They are, however, an indication that no major contributor to climate change is willing to reject international cooperation. Developed countries pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, economy-wide, by as little as 5% to as much as 40% by 2020. The United States offered an emissions cut “in the range of 17%” dependent on domestic legislation (for more on this, see Cara’s post and my ASIL Insight) In contrast, the European Union countries have already adopted a target of 20% by 2020 through EU and domestic law. The EU and Norway promised additional reductions (30% and 40%, respectively), if other developed countries commit to comparable reductions. Most industrialized nations chose 1990 as their base year; the United States and Canada use 2005, Australia selected 2000, and Kazakhstan uses 1992. Developing countries volunteered to take “nationally appropriate mitigation actions”. These include China’s intention to improve its carbon intensity by 40-45%, increase use of non-fossil fuel energy and increase forest cover; Brazil’s pledge to reduce deforestation (with other actions, expected to reduce projected emissions by 36.1-38.9%); and India’s proposal to reduce non-agricultural emissions intensity by 20-25%. Not enough, yet, to stabilize the climate, but a basis to keep moving forward.

The Marymount community is thrilled to announce that one of its own members has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah Gbowee, peace activist and mother of a Class XII Marymount student, was recognized by the Nobel Committee for her “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights and (her) true participation in peace building work.” She shares the award with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy activist. Ms. Gbowee’s work in organizing both Christian and Muslim women to stand up for the safety and civil rights of the families and children of Liberia during the country’s second Civil War brought about political change and moved the country from the dictatorship of Charles Taylor to its first Presidential elections. She was a featured speaker at both Marymount’s 85th Founder’s Day celebration as well as the School’s 2011 commencement. In a recent religious studies assignment meant to identify prophets in our midst, students reflected upon Leymah Gbowee’s contributions to further the cause of peace in our world. Brittany M. (Class of 2012) wrote, “As an activist, Leymah Gbowee has exhibited many characteristics of the prophets we see in the Bible; this includes being an iconoclast, using explosive, emotional language, and being austere and compassionate.” Kristen W. (Class of 2012) identified Ms. Gbowee thus, “Although she witnessed countless incidences of suffering among her people inflicted by the armies of Liberia, (she) was equally affected by each injustice and thus was motivated to fight for peace.” Gbowee’s efforts to bring about peace in Liberia are featured in the documentary film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, produced by Abigail Disney mother of two Marymount alumnae. The film premiers on PBS on October 18, 2011.

Imagine a huge ball. A ball the size of a house. It is clear, see through. Every single hurt, joy, sadness, grieving, memory from your whole life is inside of it. Every single issue that you ever have grappled with and likely ever will grapple with is in there. All your karmic streams streak wildly about. Now place yourself inside of the ball. You are in the middle of it. There is no separation from your sense of you and everything in there with you. There is no protection. There is no way to get away or tune out any of it. You are without choice, without defense. Everything is omnipresent, ceaselessly swirling. Now imagine being able to step outside of it and shrink it down. Imagine all that information and emotional content and karmic streaming information shrinking down to the size of seven softballs and then put one each where one of your chakras is located. There. You now have created a pathway for your learning. Your body/heart/mind/spirit are now inseparably linked. Your mind acts as a regulator. Your sense of self, which is not identified as all that is in those chakras, is ignorant of what is there. This is by design. Things are structured this way so that things will expand and release in a managed fashion. The amount of seeing it would take to see all of this at once without having a place of respite would be unbearable. You would not be able to live the life you had before, if all this opened at once. A Kundalini Awakening or Kundalini Crisis is when everything opens at once and you find yourself with no regulating identity with which to allow a gradual unfolding. At once you find yourself inside the ball, instead of it being contained within. You are in the great wide open and it never ends. This kind of awakening isn’t just described as “ceaseless” to sound dramatic. It refers to the nature of energy. When does energy ever stop moving? When we have an identity it helps blunt the awareness of how everything is ceaselessly in motion…about how life is unburdened life and death in each second. Kundalini Crisis is when you suddenly, without warning, find yourself in this ball…and you never leave again. It is the energetic space of unregulated you, uncensored fears, unmet pain, inexplicable bliss and a kind of grounding in the real of reality that feet cannot stand on. It honestly isn’t something that can be explained well enough to someone who has not been through it. It isn’t “awakening” per se…not at all…not on the conceptual or cognitive level. It is more like an explosion of everything. It is like a star exploding in the middle of who you are and then you are the dust and all the space in between. All of who you were floats around you. Transcendance isn’t moving beyond who you thought you were. It is in resting and finding peace within the remains of who you thought you were. Making peace with Kundalini Crisis and life inside the sphere of everything you brought in with you is akin to learning how to knit inside of a maelstrom. One must find balance in the most trying of spiritual arduousness. There are many easier pathways to peace besides this one. Everyday is integration for the rest of your life. It is not a curse. It is the chance to fall in love with all that is in a deep and complete way. It is the chance to live in alignment with how things actually are, without regard to the perception of the mind that seeks to keep one grounded by NOT allowing one to see how things actually are. What I have observed from supporting people who have been through this, as I have, is that it is similar and different for everyone. But the one common thing for everyone, is what happens to them when they do not embrace it. If it is feared instead of loved…if it is shunned instead of celebrated…things do not go well. That is the difference between a Kundalini Awakening and an awakening. I refer to “Kundalini Awakening” to express the chaotic depth and no chance of a return to who you were. Whereas “Awakening” I see as a profound increase in understanding…but the mind is still regulating-Realization happens and wisdom ensues, and the sense of self undergoes a gradual reduction and peace takes place. I would not change what has transpired for me. But I never look at someone and hope they have a Kundalini Awakening. If someone tells me that they want to wake up I pray that they have the kind that I didn’t get. The greatest joy for me, since this occurred for me though, has been how I am given the chance to support others who have been through a Kundalini Awakening. There is still so very little and limited understanding about it in any culture. I rarely have picked up a book by anyone and read it and thought “yep, they get it, I would recommend this book to a client”. I have rarely seen a website that I’d recommend. I always come back to the same thing…love. I rarely see a support book or site for Kundalini that feels based in love and compassion for the person in the midst of it. Instead I see that it is described rather “sciencey” “spiritual sciencey”. There is very little regard to how it is a deeply love driven process. I feel the approach most often seen is that Kundalini is regarded as a “thing”, as a “force”. To me, this is like looking at the ocean and saying “look, it is water” instead of looking at the beauty and vastness of what all that water is doing. There is also an inherent trust issue at work. The fact is..is that if you haven’t had a full blown awakening and found love in the midst of it…your hands will be tied by your fear when someone approaches you with their own crisis. What I observe is that they already have an agenda or protocol they recommend before they even meet the person in the midst of the moment. They never stopped wanting it to stop, so their goal will be to help you slow it down. I am pointing to the sense of separateness. As long as we feel that we must understand Kundalini or harness it somehow…this is indicative of fear. And if we have fear about it, we approach it very much like the way a doctor approaches an ill patient. The awakening is seen to be something to Manage…as if somehow perfection needs a helping hand from us. This is like telling a tree how to grow. What a Kundalini sufferer needs, more than anything…is to know that they are not alone, that others have been through it, and that it is a love driven process. And those three tenets, are not what I see when I view books or sites. Instead I see long descriptions of symptomology. I see that people get caught on those quite often and end up trying to have a cessation of symptoms, instead of looking at what is driving the whole thing karmically. And this is no different than someone wanting to stop being depressed…but never exploring why they are depressed. Kundalini symptoms are living information…instant biofeedback, not some random awful thing that must be managed. Well, I may have overstayed my welcome on the soapbox here. I will step down now…

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A cordless phone is a telephone where the two parts are separate and not joined by a curly cord like some telephones are. The main bit, called the base, is plugged into the wall and it is where the calls come in. Each call then gets sent in radio waves in the air to a handset with buttons and places to speak and listen. Cordless phones have only been around for a short time, but with some cordless phones the handset can be moved 100 metres away from where the base is. The telephone is something that people use to talk to others that are not near by. You can speak to almost anyone around the world with a telephone. A guy called Alexander Bell invented a very simple machine in 1876 that was the very first telephone. Since then, people have made changes to the telephone until it was like it is now. The telephone is very amazing. When you speak into it, the telephone changes your voice into an electrical signal so it can travel through the phone lines and underground phone cables. The electrical signal is then turned back into your voice at the phone of the person you are talking too. If you are talking to someone who is a long distance away, like a country on the other side of the world, your voice travels as an electronic signal through undersea cables and is bounced off satellites in space like bouncing a basketball against the ground! A mobile phone is a phone that can be taken almost anywhere. In the last couple of years mobile phones have become smaller and smaller! Mobile phones can do heaps of things. Some mobile phones can be used to send short-word text messages, take photographs which you can send to friends as picture messages, do things that you do on a computer and keep a diary of appointments and meetings. A mobile phone turns your message or your voice into radio waves which travel through the air to tall transmitters. These transmitters take you message to computers which will send the message to the person you have sent it to or the person you are talking to. In many countries there are mobile phone transmitters in every town and suburb.

Welcome to the Career Development Section. We provide and promote superior human resource services to enhance personal growth essential to excellence in policing. Tenure is the mandatory rotation of personnel after a specified period of time in a tenure position. A Tenure Policy is now in place and is reviewed regularly in order to ensure our program remains current and in keeping with our Organization’s high quality of service to our community. These reviews also allow for continued support of our membership in becoming experienced and well rounded. Please make yourself familiar with the policy and new updates as they are posted. Our team is led by S/Sgt Dan Longpre and our responsibilities consist of: - Succession Planning - Performance Management - UN Peacekeeping Mission Tenure is the mandatory rotation of personnel after a specified period of time in a tenured position. The desired outcome of the Tenure program at OPS is that it provides a greater number of opportunities for officers to gain operational experience, while increasing the officer experience on patrol. Tenure creates a more fluid organization that addresses staff movement with increased fairness, openness, objectivity and transparency while increasing our ability to get the right person, in the right place, at the right time. By leading a successful Tenure program, our team strives to support the organization in following our mission and values and providing a high quality of service to the community, while continuing to supporting our member’s growth and career progression. Current Tenure postings are available online. The internal password is provided to all members in the 2012 Annual Tenure Update and will be bring you to a table listing all current internal Tenure positions which have been recently posted. (User name and internal password are the same). Applications for these positions will be accepted from internal OPS sworn members only. Please note the closing date for application. If you are an eligible OPS sworn member and you are interested in any of the postings, please contact Kendra Campbell, Career Management Specialist at ext. 5001, or S/Sgt Dan Longpre, Career Development at ext. 5113 for more information.

The Department of Pediatrics currently offers trainees a three-year path to achieve broad clinical competency in general pediatrics (our Categorical Track). We are committed to clinical training in both pathways emphasizing a well balanced, hands-on experience in pediatrics that prepares residents equally well for careers as pediatric generalists or pediatric subspecialists. The Department of Pediatrics categorical training program provides all residents with: The categorical pediatric training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In 2012, the program received renewal of its priority designation by the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education recognizing both its preparedness and effectiveness in training residents for careers in primary care medicine.

Richard C. “Dick” Price has practiced divorce and family law in Fort Worth since 1976 and has been Board Certified as a Specialist in Family Law since 1984. He has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly Magazine five times and has been designated a Top Lawyer in Tarrant County by Fort Worth Magazine for seven years. Dick graduated in 1976 from the UT School of Law after previously earning a Masters degree in Speech – Communications at TCU in 1973 and a B.A. from UT in 1972. A debater in undergraduate school, he was an assistant debate coach at TCU before serving a year each as head debate coach at UT-Austin and at TCU in the mid-to-late 1970’s. Dick has used his communication skills in practicing Collaborative Law and as a frequent speaker for the State Bar of Texas, the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, the Tarrant County Bar Association and various other county bar associations and organizations, speaking on Collaborative Law, family law and law practice management issues. He was also on the Research Committee of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Early in his career, Dick was an active trial lawyer, handling Family Law, Criminal, Personal Injury and other cases. He did pre-trial preparation, picked juries, tried the cases and did a few appeals. After about 15 years of practice, Dick noticed that most cases settled, rather than going through trial. Although the traditional emphasis was on preparing for trial, very few cases actually went to trial. That may have been in part because the use of mediation was becoming more widespread and successful. After noticing the trend toward out of court settlements, Dick started looking around for ways to improve his negotiation skills. Eventually, he discovered Collaborative Law when it first came to Texas. He helped found the Tarrant County Collaborative practice group after he attended some of the first Collaborative Law seminars in Texas. Although he still does some litigation, he prefers Collaborative Law with its challenges and rewards. He is a charter member and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. Dick was one of the first six lawyers in Tarrant County to be trained in Collaborative Law, and he was a founding member and leader of the Collaborative Lawyers of Tarrant County. He is also a Fellow of the College of the State Bar of Texas. In addition to being active, and a former Board member, in the Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association, Dick has served as a temporary Associate Judge for each of the family courts in Tarrant County and has mediated a number of cases. Dick has lived in Fort Worth for over 35 years. He has been married for over 20 years and has a son in high school. He and his wife had an antique business on the side for several years, but closed up shop to allow them more time with their son’s school and other activities. In his spare time, Dick has been a Scoutmaster and little league baseball coach. He also has a goal of participating in the Amazing Race on TV.

Day in history for February 24, 2003 - 1853 -- 150 years ago - N.B. Buford was advertising two well broke yoke of oxen for sale. They could be seen at the Andalusia farm. - 1878 -- 125 years ago - The Old Settlers' Association observed the anniversary of Washington's Birthday in the Harper House. An interesting address was made by James Taylor, retiring president. - 1903 -- 100 years ago - The Rock Island completed and placed in successful operation a gas plant for use in the foundry. The plant does away with the coal furnaces. - 1928 -- 75 years ago - Selection of Rock Island as a site for a Quad-Cities river terminal was a closed matter, Gen. T.Q. Ashburn, head of the Inland Waterways Corporation, stated. - 1953 -- 50 years ago - Davenport Park Board announced it will ``crack down'' on violators of park regulations in the future, with second offenders subject to a fine of $100. First offenders will be given a warning, after that the ``boom will be lowered.'' Park police will issue a white ticket, similar to the pink ticket so familiar to motorists. - 1978 -- 25 years ago - Sally Goodwin of Silvis, harpist with the Tri-City Symphony, made her ``official'' New York recital debut Feb. 4 in Carnegie Recital Hall, and reviews published since then have been glowing in praise of her talent. The New York Chapter of the American Harp Society said of her performance: ``Sally Goodwin's Carnegie Recital Hall debut was a triumph. Her playing was brilliant.'' Back: Available days in February 2003

They are named English Roses, but everyone calls them David Austin Roses. Why are they so unique? What makes them so popular with the rose buying crowd? Who is this man named Mr. David Austin? He was born in England in 1926 and went into the nursery business in the 1960′s. This was the time when hybrid tea roses were the trend, for their new colors and perfect forms. David Austin wanted rose breeding to take a different path. He was looking for roses that would meet the needs of the gardener, remarkably beautiful, yet easy to prune and tend. He began to combine the best characteristics of the old roses (shrubby habit, cupped, rosette flower form and delicious scent) with those of the modern roses (repeat blooming and wider color range). He wanted his roses to mingle well in a mixed border with herbaceous perennials, creating a traditional English cottage garden. From his beginnings as a humble farmer, David Austin has come a long way. His roses are now sold worldwide and his rose garden at Albrighton in county Shropshire, is home to over 800 varieties of roses. He has introduced many famous roses such as Graham Thomas, Mary Rose and Constance Spry. David Austin has also collected a number of awards during his life. He won the Victoria Medal of Honour from the Royal Horticultural Society in 2003 for his services to horticulture and the Dean Hole Medal from the Royal National Rose Society. He also received an Honorary MSc from the University of East London for his work on rose breeding. He received the lifetime achievement award from the Garden Centre Association in 2004 and was most recently appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, which makes him David C.H. Austin OBE. On this esteemed award he says: ‘I am honored and delighted to be awarded an OBE for services to horticulture in the Queen’s birthday honors list. Every day, I marvel at my good fortune to have been able to make a life out of breeding roses, but of all the many days in my professional life, this is surely the most special. It is always a source of great satisfaction to see the pleasure my roses give to gardeners and rose lovers worldwide’. David Austin 16th June 2007 Long live the beautiful, versatile, elegant, delicious, velvety, radiant rose!

kjv@Jeremiah:41:16@ Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: kjv@Jeremiah:41:17@ And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, kjv@Jeremiah:41:18@ Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land. kjv@Jeremiah:42:1@ Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, kjv@Jeremiah:42:2@ And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) kjv@Jeremiah:42:3@ That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. kjv@Jeremiah:42:4@ Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. kjv@Jeremiah:42:5@ Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us. kjv@Jeremiah:42:6@ Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God. kjv@Jeremiah:42:7@ And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah. kjv@Jeremiah:42:8@ Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, kjv@Jeremiah:42:9@ And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; kjv@Jeremiah:42:10@ If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. kjv@Jeremiah:42:11@ Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. kjv@Jeremiah:42:12@ And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. kjv@Jeremiah:42:13@ But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God, kjv@Jeremiah:42:14@ Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: kjv@Jeremiah:42:15@ And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; kjv@Jeremiah:42:16@ Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. kjv@Jeremiah:42:17@ So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. kjv@Jeremiah:42:18@ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. kjv@Jeremiah:42:19@ The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. kjv@Jeremiah:42:20@ For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. kjv@Jeremiah:42:21@ And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you. kjv@Jeremiah:42:22@ Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn. kjv@Jeremiah:43:1@ And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, kjv@Jeremiah:43:2@ Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: kjv@Jeremiah:43:3@ But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. kjv@Jeremiah:43:4@ So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah. kjv@Jeremiah:43:5@ But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; kjv@Jeremiah:43:6@ Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. kjv@Jeremiah:43:7@ So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes. kjv@Jeremiah:43:8@ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, kjv@Jeremiah:43:9@ Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; kjv@Jeremiah:43:10@ And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. kjv@Jeremiah:43:11@ And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword. kjv@Jeremiah:43:12@ And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace. kjv@Jeremiah:43:13@ He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

Southwest Airlines Celebrates 20 Years in St. Louis Airline Celebrates Growth and Education! Southwest Airlines and its more than 250 local Southwest Employees celebrate 20 years of service and growth at Lambert St. Louis International Airport today. "Our Employees have made the St. Louis market incredibly successful for Southwest, and we are thrilled to celebrate 20 years here," said Greg Wells, Southwest's vice president of ground operations. "We are pleased to bring our legendary low fares and frequent service to the St. Louis Customers year after year." Southwest Airlines began service to Lambert St. Louis International Airport in 1985 with 17 daily nonstop departures to Chicago Midway, Houston Hobby, Kansas City, and New Orleans. Currently, Southwest operates 63 daily nonstop departures to 21 cities nationwide. The airline occupies 12 gates at Lambert St. Louis International Airport and employs more than 250 workers in St. Louis. Other St. Louis statistics: - Over the last 20 years, Southwest has grown to capture more than 27 percent of the St. Louis market share. - Between third quarter 2003 and third quarter 2004, Southwest Airlines carried more than 2.4 million Customers at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. - In 1990, the average one-way fare paid in St. Louis was $149. As of third quarter 2004, the average one-way fare paid was $135. A decrease of 9.5 percent! - In 2004, Southwest's direct economic impact in St. Louis was more than $64 million (salaries and benefits paid to Employees, fuel, landing fees, and other expenditures). Southwest also has an investment commitment of approximately $206 million in Company resources dedicated to St. Louis. "The Southwest Airlines Employees are to thank for our tremendous success in St. Louis," Wells said. "Our 250 plus local Teammembers work feverishly to ensure our continued growth in St. Louis." Southwest Airlines LUVS the St. Louis community and giving the gift of education is a great way to celebrate the Company's momentous anniversary. Today, Southwest Airlines is celebrating St. Louis' 20th anniversary with 20 Hancock Place High School students. The airline is flying the special school district students to Chicago to tour the Hancock Observatory and the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. Southwest Airlines thanks the people and travelers of St. Louis for 20 wonderful years! Getting great deals on airfares has never been easier on Southwest. Currently, Customers who book their travel via the Internet can subscribe to Southwest's Click ‘n Save e-mail updates as well as Southwest's newest technological innovation, DING!, delivers Southwest's hottest deals directly to Customers' desktops allowing Customers to get a jump on the latest southwest.com sales! For more information, visit www.southwest.com/ding. Media Please Contact: Public Relations at 214/792-4847

Self-Esteem for Educators Course DescriptionSelf-Esteem For Educators is the first program ever designed to assist teachers in integrating self-esteem principles and methods into curriculum content areas. This course was written in collaboration with members of the National Council for Self-esteem, by Ken Miller, author of the highly successful Teacher Effectiveness Training curriculum. The purpose of Self-esteem For Educators is for teachers to increase content area learning of students by first learning and applying a model for enhancing self-esteem and then integrating that model into the curriculum they are currently teaching. In Self-esteem For Educators, teachers learn specific techniques and skills for assessing and improving their own self-concepts, then collaboratively develop strategies and lesson plans to incorporate these concepts into their daily activities with students. - Develop an operational definition of self-esteem - Apply Maslow's theory of human need - Compare and contrast Maslow's theory and Branden's definition of self esteem - Compare and contrast intention and self-esteem - Assess individual strengths and weaknesses - Assess the impact of strengths and weaknesses on teaching and learning - Distinguish between cognition and emotion - Create a lesson plan relating to self esteem - Compare techniques for effective communication - Evaluate the outcomes of practicing effective listening - Evaluate the relationship between negative communication and self-esteem - Practice effective self-disclosure and analyze the results - Use self-disclosure to acknowledge and motivate students - Assess the role of nurturance in the enhancement of self-esteem - Hypothesize key sources of support and nurturance - Evaluate personal relationships - Assess the quality of relationship networks, personally and for students in the classroom - Create specific intentions for improving the quality of networks and relationships - Implement and judge strategies for maintaining self-esteem - Create strategies for maintaining student self-esteem - Design and apply a new model for integrating self-esteem into instruction Curriculum Design & Time RequirementsSelf-esteem For Educators utilizes a four-step experiential learning model called SIPA. In addition, there are instructor presentations, discussions, role-plays, exercises, demonstrations and written assignments. Homework assignments require participants to do outside reading and preparation of class reports, audio tape projects and specific one-to-one and group self-esteem interactions on the job or at home. Self-esteem For Educators is a 3 credit graduate level or forty-five hour professional development course taught on weekends or over five full days. Course MaterialsThe required text for this course is Enhancing Self-esteem by Diane Frey, Ph.D. and Jesse Carlock, Ph.D., 3rd Edition. In addition to the course text, students will receive supplemental material. Session OutlineSession 1: Assessing Personal Styles - Purpose Statement - Self-esteem Introductions - Course Objectives and Session Outline - Forward and Preface to Enhancing Self-esteem - The Name Game - Goals and Expectations - Self-esteem Is... Session 2: Identity-Phase I - Self-esteem Norms - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Self-esteem - Four Phases of Intervention: A Developmental Model of Self-esteem - Who Are You, Really? - Self-esteem Materials Assignment - The Importance of Self-esteem for Content Area Learning Session 3: Strengths & Weaknesses Phase II - Opening: What I Was Like in High School - Homework Discussion: Chapter 3 - Phase II-Strengths and Weaknesses - Characteristics of Healthy Adults - Story Exchange - Typical Self-Talk - Resistance to Change Session 4: Communication - Affirmations and Visualizations - Communication and Self-esteem - Hidden Messages and Self-esteem - Criteria for Self-esteem Communication - Experiencing Negative Communication - A Model for Effective Communication - Feelings Versus Thoughts - Self-esteem Dyads - Listening to a Student: Role Play Session 5: Forgiveness & Anger - Listening to Another - Wish List - Asking for What You Want Dyads - Satir's Communication Stances - Exploring Issues of Anger - Homework and Study Time Session 6: Feedback - Observing What Is - Giving Positive Feedback - Taking Positive Feedback - Practicing Visualizations and Affirmations Session 7: Nurturance - Phase III - Homework Review - Nurturance-Phase III - Assessing Your Relationship Network - Helping Students Think - Significant Others - Life Stories Session 8: Instruction - Speech: My Three Best Traits - Recalling a Nurturer - Content Area Criteria Brainstorm - Content Area Curriculum Review - Content Area Lesson Plan Design Session 9: Content Area - Opening: Something I Noticed About You - Lesson Plan Presentations - What Teachers Can D - Ideas for Improving Content Area Instruction - Final Exam Preparation - Telling Jokes Session 10: Maintenance - Phase IV - Final Exam - Presentations on Audio Programs and Book Reports - Self-esteem Action Plan - The "Real" Final Exam - Overview of Self-esteem for Educators: Part II GradingTo receive a "B" in the course: - Attendance: No more than two hours of class time can be missed. - Participation: Participate in all class activities, small group work and structured exercises. - Assignments: Read the following pages in the text: - Chapters 1 & 2, pages 3-86 - Chapter 3, pages 87-144 - Chapter 6, pages 251-286 To receive an "A" in the course: - Complete all of the above requirements. - In addition, choose one of your behaviors that may not serve you well, one that relates to your self-esteem; examine it to determine its disadvantages for you. Make your intention to change the hindering behavior for one week; and write about the results (maximum of two pages). Example: You consistently avoid confrontation. Examine this behavior and determine whether this serves you well in the area of self-esteem enhancement. Make it your intention to confront and get your needs met for one week and write about the same. How did it effect your self-esteem, etc. |1.||Attend all class sessions for the requisite number of hours (45) and actively participate in all class activities.| |2.||Assignments as noted in the Grading section above.|

The second largest city in West Tennessee stands on land acquired by treaty from the Chickasaws on October 19, 1818. The city is located in the geographic center of Tennessee's western district in Madison County, created by the Tennessee General Assembly on November 7, 1821, shortly after settlers began moving into the area. The town of Alexandria was designated as the county seat, and in 1822 the name was changed to Jackson to honor Andrew Jackson, who had negotiated the secession treaty with the Chickasaws. Jackson's central location on the Forked Deer River made it a natural crossroads for the western district. In the early years, the rich alluvial soil of the surrounding region fostered a cotton economy and supported a plantation culture. By 1860 Madison County included 11,400 whites, 10,012 slaves, and 83 free persons of color. Even today, the rural landscape surrounding Jackson is dotted with cotton fields, and the population still reflects the early racial mix. Transportation played an important role in the development of Jackson from a small frontier outpost into a major regional commercial and cultural center. In the antebellum period the Forked Deer River, which was large enough to accommodate keelboats, flatboats, and even small steamboats, served as the chief transportation artery. Traffic on the Forked Deer carried crops to market in New Orleans and brought consumer goods to plantation households. In 1857 the first rail transportation arrived in Jackson and opened a new commercial era. The Mississippi and Tennessee Central and the Mobile and Ohio were the first railroads to serve Jackson. The Civil War interrupted rail development, but in the postwar years, new construction, the expansion of connections, and the consolidation of rail lines redefined the systems serving Jackson. The three largest rail companies serving Jackson were the Louisville and Nashville, the Illinois Central, and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio. Jackson's most legendary figure is Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones, who lost his life in a collision with a freight train near Vaughn, Mississippi. Transportation development continued into the twentieth century as Jackson was linked with major state highways. The Memphis-to-Bristol Highway (later designated as U.S. 70) passed through Jackson, where it joined with U.S. 45, a major north-south highway corridor. In the late 1960s came Interstate I-40, while in the 1990s the expansion of U.S. 412 to a four-lane highway linked Jackson with the Mississippi River bridge of Interstate I-155 west of Dyersburg. The city suffered little physical damage during the Civil War, although events in the surrounding area significantly influenced people's lives. A few small skirmishes were fought around Jackson, and Federal troops occupied the town for approximately one year. Both sides used the main building of West Tennessee College as a military hospital. The city also served as an important recruiting station for Confederate forces. Robert Cartmell, a prominent citizen of Jackson, kept a diary during the period that provides a firsthand look at Civil War life on the homefront. The impact of industrialization on Jackson began with its development as an important rail link between the commercial centers of the Midwest and the Gulf coast port cities. The key player in this process was the Illinois Central Railroad. In the final two decades of the nineteenth century the Illinois Central completed acquisitions that extended its service from Cairo south to New Orleans. It established an engine shop in Jackson that represented the city's first major unionized industry. By the turn of the century, the earlier cotton crossroads community of Jackson had been transformed into a bustling commercial and industrial city. Other significant industries were Southern Engine and Boiler Works, Southern Seating and Cabinet Company, and Jackson Fibre Company, a subsidiary of Bemis Brothers Bag Company. Built in 1900 three miles south of Jackson, this textile mill soon became the largest single employer in the county. The parent company also established a planned self-sufficient community named Bemis. Jackson's long educational tradition began with the establishment of Jackson Male Academy in 1823. Other schools, including some female academies, appeared shortly thereafter. In 1844 West Tennessee College began operations as the city's first institution of higher education. Postwar concerns for the education of freedmen led to the opening of the Colored Methodist High School in 1882; this soon evolved into Lane College, an institution of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Jackson's education tradition continues today with a consolidated city-county public school system, four primary/secondary private schools, and four institutions of higher learning: Jackson State Community College, Lambuth University, Lane College, and Union University. The Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Baptists organized the first churches in Jackson. In 1820 the Tennessee Annual Conference appointed two Methodist ministers to serve in the newly opened western district and report on the needs of the area. Six years later, the members organized First Methodist Church in Jackson. Records of the Western Tennessee Presbytery indicate that the Presbyterians organized St. Luke's Parish in Jackson on July 23, 1832. Although Baptists formed congregations in rural Madison County during the 1820s, Jackson's First Baptist Church was not organized until 1837. Catholic families apparently settled in Jackson prior to the Civil War, but St. Mary's Parish did not record baptisms and marriages until 1867. A small Jewish community organized a congregation named B'Nai Israel in 1885. Emma Inman Williams, Historic Madison: The Story of Jackson and Madison County Tennessee (1946); Emma Inman Williams, Marion B. Smothers, and Mitch Carter, Jackson and Madison County: A Pictorial History (1988). Published » December 25, 2009 | Last Updated » January 01, 2010

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Thank you to all who participated on It's My Park Day! Saturday May 15th was a beautiful day for the event. Many thanks also to Rob Kleinbardt of New Heights Realty, for the bottled water. Beginning at 11:00am, the Isham Park Restoration Program 1970, Inc. in Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden hosted Pre-School on the Planet, whose members planted in the garden. Volunteers for Isham Park lead the way on the south slope of the park, by clearing small dead trees and invasive brush on the south slope near the Isham Park entrance path. The Volunteers also began the process of creating erosion control barriers using the brush and trunks of the cleared debris. Yes We Can Inwood weeded and cleaned the southwest slope on the retaining wall, a herculean effort! Then at about 1:00pm, the Volunteers with Yes We Can Inwood moved on to the planting and watering of the Marigolds, donated by Isham Park Restoration Program, 1970, Inc., and the annuals, provided by the Partnerships for Parks and the NYC Parks Department, along the Park Terrace West sidewalk beds. It all looks so beautiful! Everyone who sees it thanks us...

Herodot of Halikarnassos (griech. Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos, approx. * 484 v. Chr., † 425 v. Chr.) were a Greek historian, geographer and a Völkerkundler. It became from Cicero (De put. 1,5) at the same time as a “fatherthe historiography " (lat.more pater historiae) and than storytellers of “countless fairy tales” (lat. innumerabiles fabulae) designates. Table of contents Herodot (lat. Herodotus) was born in Halikarnassos in small Asia, today Bodrum/Turkey. It undertook according to own datalong journeys to Persia, Egypt, Babylonien and to the black sea. Occasionally it lived also in South Italies in Thurioi, in whose establishment it was involved. Approx. 447 v.Chr. he came to Athens, where he probably confine contactto large personalities of this time maintained. In addition Sophokles and Perikles belonged. work and author Herodot wrote a history of the argument between Greeks and Persern at the beginning 5. Century v. Chr. (Perserkriege), underthe title histories (equivalent to: Investigations, research) admits are. Originally Herodot spoke individual contentwise sections closed in itself (so mentioned logoi) a public. Its writings were recognized as a new form of the literature soon after their publication. Herodots Prosawerkbesides on a high literary level one wrote, so that its style should exert still lasting influence on the future historiography. Herodot as theoreticians in histories is the condition debate, in that the particulars Systems of government to be weighed out against each other. They have today an important until meaning in the democracy research (Herodot 3.80-84 ). geographer and Völkerkundler in the context of his papers become before the statement of the process of the Perserkriege as it were as stage of theHappening the panorama of the countries and peoples of the entire at that time well-known world stretched. Thus Herodot made early contributions to people customer. Herodot states, how a map of the world should look according to its opinion, and provides for us thus view of the world horizoneducated humans of its time. Its description belongs to the earliest beginnings of cartography. philosopher and storyteller before Herodot gave it only to chronicles and Epen as forms of the historical description. Herodot was however first, which notonly the past registered, but it additionally as philosophical problem or research project treated, which knowledge of the human behavior result in could. The composition of histories follows thereby usually less “scientific” criteria than rather artistic and philosophical considerations. Of parts of the researchHerodot is seen very critical in addition. Was accused to him between myths and historical events to have differentiated whereby as counter project the work of the Thukydides could be considered; over the question, which value histories have as source, is inthe research to today no agreement obtained (Lit.: see. Bichler/Rollinger, S. 161ff.). Herodot differentiates the guidance conceptions of human self value search with respect to histories. Free, heedless acting, like in the Rhampsinit - history, in the two brothersinto the vault of the king break in and, in order to be discovered, who reduces the other one the head, after he had stepped into a trap from which it any longer release cannot places himself it consciousness for responsibility andGuilty knowledge (see.Gyges - history) opposite. An important aspect in histories is also the Hybris. It is repaid with Nemesis, with barrier infringements, or Tisis, with injustice, - this warning of pride pulls itself through like a guidance motivethe entire work and probably addresses itself to the Athener, whose great power politics evaluate Herodot very critically. It wants to warn its readers obviously by the example of the failed attack of the Perser on Greece to commit a similar error. Herodot personally historical facts wants to arrange author and rationalist in histories, interprets, causally to connect and in the connection represent. This is an aspect of the contrast between the rational world view Herodots and for example Homers archaischer opinion. Homer steps as a storyteller göttlichenNature opposite back and lets it report. Exemplary comparison of the introduction: Proömium of Herodots histories of Herodot from Halikarnass is this research report, so that neither what resulted from humans, becomes extinct by the time, still large and wunderliche acts, thoseby bright ones and barbarians were implemented, become fameless, and for what reason they fought against each other. Proömium of Homers Ilias the anger sings, goddess, the Peleus son Achilleus, the perishable, the ten thousand pain over the Achaier brought and many strong souls thatHades accused from heroes, it however to the booty created to the dogs and the birds to the meal, and it fulfilled itself the Zeus advice conclusion… Proömium of Homers odyssey the man calls me, MUSE, the much-turned,…. important quotationsfrom histories - humans are ball of the göttlichen fate. (pan esti anthropos symphoré) - humans are fate-arrested and mortal and have a consciousness for it. - The Gods are completely envious and wankelmütig. (tons theion pan phthoneron width unit dock of tarachodes) - Zeugt von einer anthropomorphen Göttervorstellung, die dem subjektiven Empfinden eines Geschädigten entspringt. Der Mensch wird durch göttliche Eingriffe in Grenzen verwiesen =>explanation searchhumans for each happening - nobody will be so stupid that it selects war instead of the peace. (oudeis huto anoétos esti, ostis polemon per eirénés hairëetai) - in peacetime sons bury their fathers. In the war of fathers their sons. - the historical work of the Herodot of Halikarnassos. Island, Frankfurt 2001. ISBN 3-45834-443-8 - Herodot: Histories. Reclam, Ditzingen 2002. ISBN 3-15018-221-2 - Herodot: Histories. Total expenditure (book I-IX). H. W. House victory (Hrsg.). Kröner, Stuttgart 1971. ISBN 3520224046 - Herodot: Histories. Hrsg. and over. from Josef smirk. Library of the old persons world. Kind-badly & Winkler, Duesseldorf 2004 (dt.). ISBN 3-7608-4111-2 - Reinhold Bichler, Robert Rollinger: Herodot. Olms, Hildesheim and. A. 2000. (The present standard work) ISBN 3-487-10931-X - H. Pea: Fiction and truth in the work Herodots. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Goettingen 1991. - James A. S. Evans: Herodotus, explorer OF the past. Three essay. Princeton 1991. - Detlev Fehling: The source data with Herodot. Berlin, New York 1971. (Onejust as influential as disputed work, which represents the thesis, Herodot has the data reported fictitious and/or. invented and the alleged Forschungsreisen never undertaken.) - John hard: Herodotus and Greek history. London 1993. - Walter Marg (Hrsg.): Herodot. A selection from the newerResearch. Ways of the research. Bd 26. Darmstadt 1982 (3. Aufl.). - Martin trousers: At the beginning was the lie? Herodot, the “father of the historiography”. in: Martin trousers (Hrsg.): Large texts of old cultures. Wiss. Buchges., Darmstadt 2004, S. 153-174. ISBN 3-534-17561-1 - Werner cellar: There however Herodot was astonished. Zurich 1972. ISBN 3-426-05571-6 - William K. Pritchett: The liar school OF Herodotos. Amsterdam 1993. - Wolfgang Schadewaldt: The beginnings of the historiography with the Greeks. Bd 2. Frankfurt A. M. 1990 (3. Aufl.). (To the introduction) ISBN 3-518-27989-0 - Aubrey de Sélincourt: The world Herodots. Wiesbaden 1967. Web on the left of - Herodots historical work (English) - entry (English) in the Encyclopædia Iranica (inclusive For literature data) - Web portal to Herodot (English) - German translation of histories of Friedrich be enough, 1885 (pdf, 21MT) - Herodots book II (German) |Wikisource: Herodot - source texts| |Wikiquote: Herodot - quotations| |NAME||Herodot of Halikarnassos| |SHORT DESCRIPTION||Greek Weltreisender, Völkerkundler, geographer and historian| |DATE OF BIRTH||485 v. Chr.?| |PLACE OF BIRTH| |DYING DATE||425 v. Chr.?|

Sunday, January 1, 2012 Happy New Year! YA novelist Beth Cooley invited me to join her at the Get Lit sponsored reading at Auntie's Bookstore in Spokane's Riverfront Plaza -- part of the town's "First Night" new year's celebration last night. I was so grateful to have that opportunity, in part because it's good to promote my new books, but more because I needed to remember I wasn't quite so all alone. Writing can be such a solitary endeaver -- must be. And that's okay. I tend to do very well in isolation, most of the time. I moved a lot when I was a kid, and being alone was my only choice. No one likes the weird new kid, at least not right away. But even someone who is good at being alone gets lonely now and then. Joining my writing friends -- many incredibly accepting and kind (some not so much) -- reminds me that I have a place in the world, even when I am afraid I don't. And aren't we all afraid of that, from time to time? Joining Beth and John Bladek, another writer on the very edge of a brand new year was connective and therapeutic. Thank you so much for making it possible, Beth and Melissa at Get Lit. Thanks to the kids in the audience who are always accepting and great. May we all have the happiest of New Years in 2012.

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Bursary for Evangelical Mennonite Conference Students at CMU Ron and Ruth Penner Want to Keep Anabaptist-Mennonite Faith Alive in Their Denomination Concern that their denomination is losing its Anabaptist-Mennonite distinctives has prompted an Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC) couple to create a bursary at Canadian Mennonite “We have a shortage of pastors who are well versed in our Anabaptist-Mennonite understanding of the Christian faith,” says Ron Penner, a retired EMC pastor. “Many of our pastors are taking their theological training at non-Mennonite schools,” adds his wife, Ruth. “Some are not identifying with our Anabaptist-Mennonite theological The purpose of the new bursary, called the EMC Graduate Studies Bursary at CMU, is to support students from that conference who are preparing for pastoral ministry, missions or Christian service by taking graduate-level courses at the university. The bursary will cover half of the tuition costs for eligible The Penners believe it is important for EMC members to study at CMU, a school that promotes an Anabaptist-Mennonite understanding of faith. “We believe that we, as Mennonites, have been given a unique perspective on scripture and the Christian faith—a perspective that combines justice, peace, discipleship, evangelism and community,” says Ron, who grew up in the Prairie Rose EMC Church in Landmark, Man. and served as associate pastor there from 1973-85. He pastored Winnipeg’s Braeside EMC Church from 1992-2002. “It’s like God has entrusted us with a jewel. But we are in danger of letting that jewel be tarnished, or slip through our fingers.” For them, losing this “jewel” would be sad since “the message of our Anabaptist-Mennonite faith is what so many people so badly need and are looking for today,” he adds. The Penners, who are graduates of the EMC-sponsored Steinbach Bible College, also studied at Mennonite Brethren Bible College, one of CMU’s predecessor colleges, and at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, VA. “We’re big proponents of theological education,” says Ruth, who co-pastored a Mennonite church in Virginia with her husband. “We know the value of solid biblical training.” Adds Ron: “We cannot take a careless attitude towards our faith. Developing a firm biblical foundation is key to providing solid church leadership. We need leaders who are articulate about the Bible.” In addition to supporting those who are already planning to be pastors, the Penners hope the bursary will also encourage some young people to consider church ministry. “We are grateful to the Penners for making this bursary possible,” says CMU Director of Development Abe Bergen. “It will help support our mission of helping to train men and women for church leadership from an Students interested in applying for the bursary should contact CMU at 487-3300 or e-mail Posted May 21, 2008. For more information contact the CMU Communications Director, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3P 2N2, telephone: 204-487-3300 ext. 630, fax: 204-889-1694,(www.cmu.ca)

Recently, I authored and published a posting regarding Lane Kiffin's ill-considered and erroneous comments about Urban Meyer. This posting was intended as humorous, and I believe that, for the most part, it came off as intended. However, a conscientious commenter from the Gator faithful who graciously gave me the benefit of the doubt called my attention to the fact that I inadvertently may have done the very thing Coach Kiffin did by making comments about Coach Meyer which were mistaken to the point of being insensitive. The following is the pertinent passage from a response to the Lane Kiffin story: We don’t know for sure how Urban Meyer reacted to this statement. He’s up in Ohio with his dad Bud, who has been battling cancer. Obviously, I would not have made so much as a passing allusion to Coach Meyer's relationship with his family, even in jest, had I been aware of the situation with his father. The jokes I made were made in ignorance rather than with ill will, but that does not change their effect and I apologize to anyone who was offended. Whatever differences divide us on the football field are meaningless in circumstances such as these. Please keep Bud Meyer and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Athletics rivalries are inconsequential in moments such as these, and all good people, of whatever team affiliation, ought to remember Coach Meyer and his family during this trying time. Our best wishes go out to Bud Meyer, and my thanks go out to ufsm, both for calling my attention to this fact and for doing so in the way that he did.

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THE TIGER - Panthera tigris Although scientists no longer classify tigers into subspecies, these names are commonly used to describe "races" of tigers from different regions that have slightly different physical characteristics. There were 8 subspecies of Tiger at the beginning of the 20th century. 3 are now extinct, leaving 5 existing subspecies. Here they are... Bengal tiger is the most populous type, with between 2500 and 4700 remaining in the wild. Most live in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans in eastern India and Bangladesh. Some also live in the neighboring countries Bhutan, Myanmar, and Nepal . There are about 333 Bengal tigers in captivity. Males typically weigh around 500 pounds; the females about 300. All white tigers are male Bengals and have a double recessive gene that causes the coloration. Official status: Indochinese tigers are centered in Thailand, but also in surrounding countries - Myanmar, southern China, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and peninsular Malaysia. They are smaller and darker than Bengal tigers, averaging around 400 pounds for males and 300 for females. Males average about 9 feet long and females about 8 feet in length (not counting the tail). Numbers in the wild are estimated to be in the range 1227-1785. There are about 60 in zoos. Official status: ENDANGERED. smallest and darkest subspecies, Sumatran tigers are reddish and have closely spaced stripes. The males average 250 lbs. About 400-500 remain in the wild, exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. About 210 of this subspecies are captive around the world. Official status: ENDANGERED. guys are the largest of the big cats, weighing in at 675 pounds and stretching a full 11 feet. The heaviest Siberian Tiger on record was 1025 pounds (Guiness Book of World Records). Only about 360-470 exist in the wild and there are roughly 490 captive. Their habitat is mostly Northeastern Russian. Despite their size, they have been known to jump as far as 33 feet. Official status: ENDANGERED. more on Siberian tigers, see www.siberian-tigers.com - a general resource of information with numerous links to other Siberian tiger there are perhaps only 20-30 South Chinese tigers left in the wild and 47 in Chinese zoos. They are found in central and eastern China. China joined CITES in 1981 and passed the Wild Animal Protection Law of the People's Republic of China in 1988. Official status: ENDANGERED. the extinct ones... Javan tiger once roamed the Indonesian island of Java. The last one was seen in 1972 and is now believed to be extinct. Caspian tiger once ranged from Turkey to Central Asia, including Iran, Mongolia, and Central Russia. They went extinct in the 1950's. Bali tiger existed on the island of Bali. The last one was killed in 1937. There are no existing photos of a live Bali tiger.

Axis has several uses. In mathematics, an axis is a straight line around which a geometric figure can be rotated. An axis of symmetry is a line with respect to which a body can be symmetrical. The term is also applied for the axis of a graph; the horizontal axis x-axis, the vertical y-axis and the z-axis is a possible third axis used for three-dimensional graphing. In anatomy, the axis (C2) is the second cervical vertebra of the spine. Its articulation with the bone above, the atlas, allows rotation, and its articulation with the bone below (C3) allows a lesser degree of flexion, tilting and rotation. In history, Axis can also be used to denote an alliance or partnership. When talking about the Axis (capitalised), usually the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II is meant (see Axis Powers). George W. Bush also coined the term Axis of Evil, although the three countries listed (Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Iran, and North Korea) may not have been working together.

Artistic Director Tim Perrino realized recently that the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts was nearing its tenth anniversary as a west-side venue for live theatre, and rather than planning a celebration, he went looking for a new challenge. He has already shepherded the Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre program through three decades, and he has been managing the Showboat Majestic, the last working showboat on the Ohio River if not in the entire country, for twenty-two years now. He also received a Cincinnati Acclaim “Trailblazer Award” a few years ago, and no one in Cincinnati can match the trail he has blazed through local theatre. Now he has found another trail to blaze: building a theatre from the ground up in the new entertainment district in East Price Hill’s Incline District. It seems that starting from scratch was the only big challenge left for Perrino, and he has big plans. “We’ve been approached with a lot of crazy ideas about creating another theatre and we’ve looked at different areas of town. But my roots are in the west side.” In fact, when he was born his parents lived in a building just across the street from the planned site for the new theatre, near the Primavista restaurant and the Incline District Pub, which will open in October, at the northeast corner of Mt. Hope Drive and West Eighth Street, near Matson Place. “It’s the next great neighborhood,” Perrino believes, and he wants theatre to be a part of it. The East Price Hill Improvement Association was enthusiastic when he approached them for support, and word of the planned theatre leaked out a little sooner than they might have preferred. But Perrino says they took the opportunity to get their plans out in the open earlier this summer rather than allowing a lot of speculation. The plans call for a purpose-built building; Perrino says his organization has become expert in retrofitting buildings into theatres, so they knows what a theatre should have, and this new theatre will have it all, albeit in a small setting. The theatre will feature a 200 to 225 seat theatre (about half the size of the Covedale) and will operate year round. And it will be more eclectic in its offerings than either the Showboat or the Covedale. “A fun, varied slate of offerings,” is what Perrino described, with comedy nights, touring shows, summer series, special and one-off events, and concerts all using the space. There is also a plan to provide children’s programming and outreach education in the arts to area youngsters. Oyler School, with a kindergarten through high school program, and Holy Family Elementary School, are both located nearby. “Part of our mission from Day 1 is to provide a continuum of theatrical activities for all ages,” Perrino says. The timeline for the new theatre is fairly short; if all goes well, the new $3 million theatre will open in summer or fall of 2014. The funding for the theatre will be drawn from the capital stock of resources available to nonprofits in the area, including some grants from umbrella foundations and government-sponsored arts funding, as well as individual large donors and smaller patrons of the arts. “We’re thrilled with the response so far,” Perrino reports, and there is already funding in hand to begin predevelopment work and preliminary architectural plans. Cincinnati Landmark Productions, the company that operates the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts and the Showboat Majestic, was the first organization to offer support for the new theatre project with funding and in-kind services; the board of directors voted recently to provide seed money for the project, and at least 10 percent of the funding will be in the form of donated in-kind services. Enthusiasm for the project is growing, and Perrino is convinced the theatre will be built on schedule and within budget. “The great part about this is that it isn’t our first ride on the pony—we know how to start a theatre,” Perrino notes. So, in about two years’ time, a brand-new venue will open to anchor the new entertainment district—encouraging other development in the area—and you can bet that the curtain will go up right on time.

From flower shops and auto repair to bed and breakfasts, substantial numbers of Iowa farm families start and operate businesses in addition to their regular farming operations. If they succeed with their long-range growth plans, they can have a considerable impact on local employment and income, and improve their community’s overall social and economic vitality, says Peter Korsching. The ISU professor of sociology examined information from 144 farmer entrepreneurs who responded to the 2007 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll. “Some farm families operate businesses for additional income or to take advantage of perceived investment opportunities. Others see it as a way to expand their operations and bring their children into the business,” Korsching said. The 2007 Survey Report on Farmer Entrepreneurship focuses on responses to a series of questions farmers were asked in the 2007 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll on the nature, problems and prospects of their entrepreneurial activities. This report and others from the poll are available from Extension’s online store. More than one-half of these businesses have been in operation for more than 20 years, Korsching said. Some were extensions of existing farming enterprises, but many are not. Networking is important to a majority of the business proprietors, especially those expressing a growth trajectory for their businesses. The farmer entrepreneurs reported that their businesses provide 369 full-time and 201 part-time jobs in their communities. About one-third of the proprietors are interested in growing their businesses to the extent that they will have an impact locally, statewide or even nationally. More than 1,000 agricultural producers responded to the 2007 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, voicing their opinions related to entrepreneurship, the bioeconomy, bias among sources of information about ethanol, grain storage and transportation, alternative energy, land use issues and farming plans. For more information contact J. Arbuckle, ISU Extension sociologist and co-director of the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, [email protected].

Bad Company 2 - Gossamer's Config Launcher v3.00 File Info: Bad Company 2 - Gossamer's Config Launcher v3.00 Description: Bad Company 2 - Gossamer's Config Launcher v3.00This tool is meant for players to be able to modify settings that are not changeable from the In-Game settings menu. These are normally found in the settings.ini file in your MyDocuments\BFBC2. What this application does is load all your settings in and allows you to change them all, save them directly back to the settings.ini file then directly launch your game. - Fixed connection port sometimes crashing the launcher - Added Links to File Planet and The Game Wardens (Shameless Advertising anybody?) - Added a warning label above the connection port entry - Render Ahead Limit is now a drop selection instead of text input to prevent invalid entries - Preset Quality auto selects Custom if settings are changed (was broken in 1.2a) - DirectX 9 is limited to 1x Anti-Alising (was broken in 1.2a) - Minor re-organization of the "Graphics Settings" Area - Fixed an issue where the launcher would not save settings sometimes - Reorganized layout to better suit lower resolutions - Launch button works again - Added a connection port option - Reorganized the layout - Fixed a few rare crashes - Changed the donate link to the proper site - Changed the header logo - Improved the read/write code for better stability - Graphics drop down boxes' sizes increased so the setting "medium" is not cut off - HSAO has been corrected and is now written as HBAO - If the user has DX 9 on, Anti-Ailiasing is set to 1x and the slider is disabled - Removed DXVersion "AUTO" setting. Users have to specify their DX Version (defaults to Dx9) - Added in all three preset qualities - If a user changes a setting from a preset quality, it will automatically set it to "custom" so the customized settings work - Added in Render Ahead Limit under "General Settings" - Fixed Read/Write for the settings.ini file not closing properly, ending in crashes - Added in a check to ensure the user has a settings.ini file (They have ran the game once) - Added a button that links to Rulesy's FOV Calculator Turn Dead Island into a true zombie apocalypse and prepare to face over 100x more zombies, including enough ammo you need to fight them off. These beautiful wallpapers are more than scenic shots of Minecraft, but actual in-game creations from its fan-base.

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MARTYN, Eileen M. – Funeral: Jun 13 Eileen M. Martyn (nee Jones), a resident of Philadelphia, formerly of Collingswood, died on June 6, 2009, aged 60. The wife of Charles R. Martyn, she was a longtime school crossing guard in Haddonfield. The family invites relatives and friends to visit on Wednesday, June 10 from 7 to 9pm at Foster-Warne Funeral Home, Haddon and Lees Avenues, Collingswood. The funeral service will be held on Saturday, June 13 at 11am at Grace Church and the Incarnation, 2645 E. Venango Street, Philadelphia PA. Interment will be private. The family suggests that donations in Mrs. Martyn's memory be made to Animal Welfare Association, 509 Centennial Boulevard, Voorhees NJ 08043. Alvin R. Schomer, was Human Relations chairman Alvin R. Schomer, a resident of Haddonfield and the founding chairman of the Haddonfield Human Relations Commission, died on Monday, February 8, 2010. He was 86. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Camden, Mr Schomer graduated from Camden High School in 1942. He received his law degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 and worked for more than 50 years as an attorney, 20 of them as a municipal judge. To honor him, the Human Relations Commission in 1994 established the Alvin R. Schomer Award for Outstanding Human Relations Service to the Community of Haddonfield. The award is given annually to middle- or high school-age students who excel or best exemplify the following characteristics: • Accomplishments in Public Service: The person has performed outstanding acts to foster tolerance and understanding of human differences in the schools, the local community, the work place, or the broader community. As a result of this person’s activities against intolerance, bigotry, ignorance, or lack of understanding, the place where we live or work is a better place. • Individual Development: The emphasis should be on the recognition of those who are committed to the best development of their individual talent and ability with special attention given to those who have overcome the greatest obstacles in the course of their development. • Character: The focus should be on leading, by example, a life of principle, tolerance, and understanding, even though it may present personal risks and challenges. Nominations are for an individual’s service, rather than a group’s service. Mr. Schomer is survived by his wife, Eleanor (nee Slutsky). Relatives and friends will be welcomed after 12:30pm on Friday, February 12, at Platt Memorial Chapels, 2001 Berlin Road, Cherry Hill. The funeral service will begin at 1pm. Burial will be at Crescent Memorial Park, Pennsauken. ERRICKSON, Louis Y. Louis Y. Errickson, a resident of Haddonfield for 55 years, died on October 1, 2008, aged 84. Reception: Saturday, October 4 from 9:30 to 10:45am at Grace Bible Church, 887 Clements Bridge Road, Barrington. Funeral Service: 11am. Interment: Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery. Mr. Errickson graduated from Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1949, where he was President of Sigma Phi Epsilon. During WWII he served in the U.S. Army in China, Burma & India. For over 35 years, Mr. Errickson worked for Strawbridge & Clothier in Philadelphia. Additionally, he was an avid Haddonfield Memorial High School sports fan. Survivors: wife, Jeanne L. (nee Bresett); children, Glenn S. (Alice) of York PA, Neil C. (Denise) of Cherry Hill, Ted D. (Christina) of Hummelstown PA, Leslie J. Smart (Ben) of Enola PA, and Claudia E. Kern (Glenn) of Bethlehem PA; 18 grandchildren, Peter and Andrew Boyajian, Ryan, Tyler, and Douglas Errickson, Megan, Lindsay, Hilary and Kelsey Smart, Keith, Scott, and Brian Errickson, Julie and Brian Kern, Sarah, Ashley, Kaitlin, and Emily Errickson; brother, Cliff Errickson of Tinton Falls. He was predeceased by a daughter, the late Barbara E. Boyajian. Memorial Donations: Grace Bible Church, 887 Clements Bridge Road, Barrington NJ 08007. Phyllis Smart (nee Deitch), a resident of Cherry Hill, died on April 12, 2007, aged 62. Survivors: son, Philip (Julie) of Haddonfield; daughters, Jackie Galaida (Rob) of Mt. Laurel and Carolyn of Merchantville; brother, Joe Deitch of Horsham PA; sisters, Marge Krzeminski of Cherry Hill and Patti Deitch of Glenside PA; 5 grandchildren. Family Visitation: Tuesday, April 17 from 9:30 to 10:45am at Kain- Murphy Funeral Home, 15 West End Avenue. Memorial Service: 11am. Memorial Donations: Autism Speaks, 2 Park Avenue, 11th Floor, New York NY 10016 or at www.autismspeaks.org Mary Stuart Fisher, a resident of of Haddonfield, died on April 24, 2006, aged 83. Survivors: husband George Ross Fisher III; sons George IV and Stuart; daughters Miriam Fisher Schaefer and Margaret; 8 grandchildren and 1 great- grandson. Memorial Service: Saturday, May 13 at 2:00pm at Haddonfield Friends Meeting. Memorial Contributions: Doctors Without Borders or Haddonfield Friends School, 67 Haddon Avenue N, Haddonfield NJ 08033. Dr. Fisher was a woman of “firsts.” Born on August 12, 1922 in Binghamton NY to Stuart Banyar Blakely MD and Miriam Brothers Blakely, Dr. Fisher was first in her Binghamton NY high school class, first in her class at Bryn Mawr College, and first in her class at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was the first woman president of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society (the oldest radiological society in the world), and the first woman physician to have her portrait commissioned and hung at Temple University Medical School. Married to George Ross Fisher III MD in 1950, she spent 50 years teaching diagnostic radiology to generations of Philadelphia medical students and residents. One of her notable former students, New York University professor of radiology, Hildegard Toth MD, was quoted in the spring/summer 2005 issue of Radiata (New York University radiology news magazine) as saying: "Radiology became my choice and Dr. Mary Fisher was my reason. She was elegant, beautiful, and very smart. She simply flipped up the (chest X-ray), told the patient’s story and was always certain of the diagnosis. How did she do that? What did she see that others did not? I wanted to do this too. She still has no idea of the influence she had on my career choice." She was offered the chairmanship of the departments of radiology at nearly all of the hospitals in Philadelphia and declined them all, remarking that she “didn’t want to be the chairman of anything.” Her first teaching appointment, after completing her internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, was at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital under the tutelage of George Wohl MD. She then spent 15 years at Philadelphia General Hospital, which had affiliations with all of the medical schools in Philadelphia. In a June 2005 interview, Dr. Fisher stated that, if she were in a vegetative state and were asked where she worked, she would probably still say “PGH!” After PGH closed in 1975, she joined the staff of Temple University Medical School where she served on the staff of the Diagnostic Imaging Department and continued to train medical students and residents as Professor of Radiology until her retirement in 2003, at the age of 80. Dr. Fisher was a diplomat of the American Board of Radiology since 1953; a member of the American Medical Association, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society (President 1982-83), the Radiological Society of North America, the Association of University Radiologists, the Association of Women in Radiology, the Pennsylvania Radiological Society, the Society of Thoracic Radiologists; a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and of the American College of Radiology; and a consultant for the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Fisher published nearly 50 articles and book chapters, and over 35 papers, presentations, and exhibits on radiology, spanning a wide range of subjects; she commented that one paper or article per year was ‘about right.’ She was honored throughout her career for her contributions to the field. These honors include the Russell P. Moses Memorial Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching (Temple University, 1980); Honored Radiologist (Pennsylvania Radiological Society, 1985); Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (Temple, 1985); “Golden Apple” (Temple medical students’ award for favorite teacher, 1990); Marie Curie Award (American Association for Women Radiologists, 1992); Outstanding Educator Award (Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society, 1992); and Physician of the Year (Temple University Hospital, 1996). Born under the annual August Perseid meteor shower, Dr. Fisher traveled widely throughout the world to see the Perseids in different locales. She attended Haddonfield (NJ) Friends Meeting for the past 50 years, and served on the school committee of the Haddonfield Friends School long after her children graduated. She spent 25 years caring for, in turn, her mother; her aunt, and her mother-in-law. She loved gardening, music, and her family. HIGGINS, John J. John J. Higgins, a resident of Barrington, formerly of Cherry Hill, died on October 7, 2008, aged 85. Reception: Saturday, October 11 from 9:15 to 10:45am at Christ the King Church, 200 Windsor Avenue. Funeral Service: 11am. Interment: Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill. Mr. Higgins grew up in Philadelphia as the oldest of nine children. He served in the US Marines during World War II as an electrician. After the war, he raised his family in Philadelphia and was a partner in a private night club called the Irish War Veterans. Mr. Higgins moved his family to South Jersey in 1962, working as sales manager for the Yellow Pages and as a real estate agent. He was an active member of the Knights of Columbus Santa Maria Council #1443 (3rd Degree Knight), a member in the BE Assembly (4th Degree Knight), and a volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden. Survivors: Children, John J. Jr. (Maureen) of Sarasota FL, Charles J. (Gail) of Cherry Hill, Anne Marie Wiler (William) of Lansdale PA, Paul J. (Patti) of Philadelphia, Maureen Finkle (Robert) of Mullica Hill, Barbara Heinze (Thomas) of Woolwich Township, Joan Dunn (Joseph) of Haddonfield, and Patricia Riviera (Nelson) of Washington Township; 17 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; brothers, Donald of Broomall PA and Al of Folsom PA; and sister, Jane Puttbach of Jacksonville FL. Mr. Higgins was predeceased by his wife, the late Mary Rita (nee Campbell). Memorial Donations: LARC School (in memory of Lauren Beth Higgins), 1089 Creek Road, Bellmawr NJ 08031. Arrangements: Kain-Murphy Funeral Services. Madeleine L. Brown, a resident of Falmouth ME, formerly of Haddonfield, died on February 18, 2010, aged 87. She was wife of H. Walcott "Wally" Brown, Jr.

Posted by unlucky on October 18, 2000 at 13:32:08: So I was diagnosed with Chlamydia about two months ago. The diagnosis came about 2 weeks MAX. after I got it, so I didn't have it for long. The doctor gave me and my partner a set of pills (4 of them), take them all at once. Then, 10 days later we had sex (stupid) so we went and got the pills again. Took them and no sex for a couple of weeks. Doc says we should be ok. Just curious, how do I know for sure (other then being tested again, doc says to do in 2 months) that this has gone away? I no longer seem to have any abnormal discharge (no that white stuff in the morning, just a tiny little clear (precum) which looks normal to me), no more pain after urination or ejaculation, no more sore testicles. All that seems to be gone. Anyone ever have a re-occurance of this infection? Are the drugs known to give a rash or something? Any other side effects? Thanks.

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Jubilee Round up - cross section of local church Jubilee celebrations Here are a few snapshots from around the country sent to the HOPE office by churches where HOPE’s Diamond Jubilee resources were used. 5,000 at South Reading street party TV camera’s recorded the events as 5,000 people enjoyed a huge Big Jubilee Lunch in South Reading. The local Churches Together have become known for their family fun days and service to the community. As a result the council asked them to lead the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Visitors willingly took 2,000 Diamond Jubilee New Testaments from among sandwiches and quizzes set out on the tables stretching a quarter of a mile. A council representative who saw the army of church volunteers setting up before the event said she had a lump in her throat, she was so moved by the sense of purpose and fun. Local vicar, Vernon Orr, said: “It felt like the whole community turned up and a well-organised army of volunteers meant clockwork organisation in getting the free food distributed. We were thrilled it was opened by well-known local John Madejski, owner of the Reading Football Club.” Silver band in Bilton, Warwickshire Churches in Bilton, south of Rugby, worked together to hold a huge street party and Jubilee lunch. A silver band played the National Anthem and the churches provided a free barbecue, giving away souvenir mugs and Diamond Jubilee New Testaments to locals who attended. Richard Street, an organiser, said: “Nothing has been done on this scale here before. We had nearly 2,000 people all having a fantastic time, despite the rain. Each gazebo-covered area had a host from a local church to make people feel welcome. It was generosity, care and attention from hosts that people were most touched by. One lady said she will try out Bilton Evangelical Church because she felt so comfortable.” A BIG Thank You Pastor Wunmi Oladunjoye, of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, started their Diamond Jubilee celebrations on London’s Old Kent Road by saying the Diamond Jubilee Grace before their buffet lunch. They used HOPE’s Big Thank You sheets so everyone could write a message of thanks or a prayer for the Queen, and they gave away copies of the Diamond Jubilee New Testament. Pastor Lola Ayeni, said: “Despite the rain, we had an amazing time... Everyone that got the Jubilee New Testaments was delighted with their gift.” Neighbours now on first-name terms For many the celebrations brought neighbours together for the first time. In Richmond Avenue, Benfleet, Essex, a street party on Monday brought together about 140 adults and children. They created a Facebook page for the street and more are joining each day; many were amazed at how many children there are in the street! Most people did not know who their neighbours were so they each wore a name badge with their house number and first name. As a result people now greet each other by name in the street! “There is now a completely different atmosphere in our road now,” was one comment. Eleven churches work together in Portishead Thousands flocked to Portishead’s Big Jubilee Lunch organised by the town’s churches. Eleven churches joined together to put on the free extravaganza at Battery Point to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Activities included a coconut shy, beat the goalie, face painting and crown making. Debbie Bonne of Gordano Valley Church said: "We have all been baking like mad.” (They baked 4,000 cakes.) “It is the first time all the churches have worked together to put on something like this,” she added. “We all think it's a great idea. The Big Lunch was a huge success with a multitude of people turning up with picnic blankets and chairs. People from all parts of our community could be seen enjoying lunch provided by the churches in the town." Other tents served up jerk chicken and rice, filled croissants and burgers and hot dogs. Portishead Parish curate, Rev Jeremy Putman, entertained the children with his balloon modelling tricks while Air Cadets ran the drinks stall and local teenagers ran the beat the goalie game. “Loaves and fishes moment” for Croydon church catering team A street party planned by Croydon’s Ruskin Road New Life Christian Centre was moved into the centre’s main hall due to bad weather. Croydon’s Mayor dropped in and said he was stunned by the scale of the operation. Kay McCabe, one of the organisers, said they had invited the local community and received 260 confirmed responses so cooked lunch for 300: “We experienced a loaves and fishes moment as by mid-afternoon we had fed over 1,000 people with a cooked meal and desert followed by cake and tea or coffee. We were overwhelmed by the response of the local community many commenting that ‘no-one has ever done anything like this’ for them.” One of the highlights of the day was a portrait of the Queen made by children from the New Life Christian School using discarded, recycled and donated buttons. The portrait is now on show at Croydon’s central library. The church also gave away 200 copies of the Diamond Jubilee New Testament. For many local people it was their first time in the church building. Some asked about the Alpha course held at the centre and one signed up to attend. Kay summed up the day: “We are SOOOOO excited!” Visions of heaven Local events each had their own special features. In Maidstone, the Royal Engineers provided a mini assault course for the 150 who gathered. In the Vale of Glamorgan, sumo wrestling and bouncy castles were highlights for the 250 guests at the tea party staged by Coastlands and St David’s Methodist churches in Colcot, Barry. A handbell group played the National Anthem at the St Barnabas Big Jubilee Lunch in the London Borough of Sutton. More than 180 church members, local residents and Scout and Guide Association members and their families attended the Sutton event. Janice Clarke, one of the organisers, said: “The whole day was a ‘God moment’. Seeing people who did not know each other all enjoying themselves together, sharing food together and having lots of fun together could surely be said to be a ‘vision of heaven’.” In Farnham thehighlight was water balloon volley ball! More than 200 people took part in the Big Jubilee Lunch they arranged. Local organisers said, “The biggest thing was the effect on the community, the conversations, the love and the care. It’s just the beginning; people are so hungry for community.” Church catering facilities were put to good use in St Andrews Church, Devizes, where the church was set out in the style of a traditional ‘street party’ complete with bunting and union flags; even the church flowers were red, white and blue. Church members invited their neighbours, friends and anyone they knew who might be alone on the day. The free two course meal for 120 included the loyal toast. There were prizes for quiz winners and children who had made crowns to wear. Pin the tail on the corgi Wendy Broom of Worcester Baptist Church wrote to tell HOPE: “Thank you that you inspired others to act.” The church held a party for the neighbourhood. “We were delighted to see many people respond so positively,” Wendy said. “The place was buzzing.” Local people were amazed that the party was free. As well as food made by church members, there was a bouncy castle, treasure hunt for the Queen`s jewels, pin the tail on the corgi and craft activities - making flags and crowns. All the children were given a helium balloon to take home. For many it was a first-step in building stronger community. “Thank you for all you have done in both inspiring and enabling us to go forward with this small step of outreach and praise,” said Nigel Nichols of Princes Street United Reformed Church in Yeovil, Somerset. They held a special church service, using HOPE’s Jubilee quiz and giving away the souvenir New Testaments. For more seasoned local church community event organisers, HOPE’s support gave them courage to put faith into words at the parties. Tyrells Way, Chelmsford, Essex has a reputation for good street parties and this year they offered the souvenir New Testaments as gifts wrapped in red white and blue tissue paper with a Union flag as a stamp. Including a God-dimension to the day was “down to the inspiration of HOPE,” they said. One of the organisers commented: “People wanted the book that the queen loved. One child went home and asked ‘Mummy will you read it to me?’ Thank you letters were received from adults and children. Later that night a family came knocking for another two. We hadn’t got enough!” Similarly, St Paul's English Methodist Church in Abergele, North Wales, held a Jubilee Garden Party “through the inspiration of your [www.hopetogether.org.uk] website”.

Sited on the Southern slopes of Mount San Giuliano, Caltanissetta lies right in the heart of Sicily. Its wealth of monuments includes: the Cathedral of Caltanissetta, the Church of St Sebastiano, the Church of St Domenico, the Church of St Agata, Palazzo Moncada and Pietrarossa Castle. The city has a number of interesting museums including the Archeological Museum and the Mineral Museum. Gastronomic traditions feature wild rabbit, maccheroni with sardines, mostaccioli, pupi made from sugar, mustards, and the DOC wine Cerasuolo di Vittoria. Among the numerous events held in Caltanissetta, the celebrations for the holy week are the most important with various processions such as the Corteo della Real Maestranza, the Processione delle Vare, the Processione del Cristo Nero and the Scinnenza. In the vicinity of Caltanissetta one can visit Mount Sabucina, Gibal Gabel (Mountain of death) and Marianopoli. Caltanissetta: suggestions from the hotels (Amministratore - Proprietario) Thanks to its location right in the heart of Sicily, Masseria Susafa is an excellent base for a culture-rich holiday spent visiting Cefal¨, the towns of the Madonie (Polizzi Generosa, Petralie) and Sicily's splendid capital, Palermo... (Masseria Susafa) → Caltanissetta: places to see in the area Sicily: other destinations - Eolie Islands - Valle dell'Etna - Valley of the Temples - Mazara del Vallo - Giardini Naxos - Egadi Islands - Pelagie Islands - Piazza Armerina

Product Code: T-0154 This 20 piece Baking Set is ideal for all budding young chefs! This authentic looking bakeware set is perfect for role play and encouraging new vocabulary. It includes stainless steel utensils, a rolling pin, chopping board, oven mit and more! Length of rolling pin: 19cm - 20 piece baking set for all budding chefs - Authentic looking bake ware for role play - Stainless steel utensils, plus rolling pin, chopping board, oven mitt and more How cute is this little baking set? My girls(who are 5 and 8) are addicted to it after receiving it from the big red man at Christmas and want to bake for real every time they get their hands on it- which at the moment is every day! I think watching me baking has made them into real little chefs. As I let them play with sugar paste when I am decorating cakes they now have their own sets to play with. It's great that this baking set includes the real tools that grown ups use to make real cakes. They can measure out ingredients properly, make their own star cookies and the little triangular pallet/spatula (which I have my eye on!) is so great for lifting dough off of the surface and onto baking trays without breaking their cookies. They always used to get upset when they broke before. It's a great gift and I'm so glad we got a set for each of my daughters so there's no arguing and twice as many biscuits to eat! My little girl, 8 years, enjoys this baking set and we bake very frequently now. It is perfect for little hands and my son 3 is after one himself. Especially nice is oven mitt and the little teddy mould. The rolling pin is ideal for children. The entire set is of a high quality and is a must for all budding chefs. It is a perfect starter set containing all the pieces required for baking. Highly recommended.

Delphia Lorene Harvey Lipker Delphia Lorene Harvey Lipker the daughter of Edwin Earl and Ethel May (Johnson) Harvey was born October 20, 1920 at Republic County, Kansas. She departed this life on Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Parkview Haven Nursing Home in Deshler, Nebraska at the age of 92 years. Delphia known to family and friends as Lorene attended Star school in Republic, KS and graduated from Hardy High School with the class of 1939. After high school Lorene received her elementary school teaching certificate from the state of Nebraska. Lorene taught grades 1-8 at Kelly School, 15 miles from Hardy, NE. Lorene lived with an older couple Sunday through Thursdays and went home from the weekends while teaching. While she taught Lorene was her own janitor, carried water and did all associated work that went along with teaching in a one room school house. Lorene held spelling bees, arithmetic matches and special programs for all the holidays. On June 18, 1941 Lorene was united in marriage to Edwin F. Lipker at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wichita, KS. This union was blessed with the birth of two sons. After their marriage Lorene enrolled in confirmation class was confirmed on March 29, 1942 at Wichita, KS. On July 1, 1990 Lorene was baptized by Pastor David Loeschen at Centennial Lutheran Church. Lorene was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and dearly enjoyed being a homemaker. In 1943 Lorene and Ed moved to a farm at Ruskin, NE and spent their entire lives in this vicinity. Lorene and Ed enjoyed spending many winters in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Lorene had been a long time member of Centennial Lutheran Church, Superior, NE. Lorene always worked alongside of her husband Ed on the farm, but had a passion for decorating wedding cakes for many years, but she will be remembered for her love of quilting. Her grandchildren and great grandchild will cherish her hand quilted blankets. While in Texas Lorene would organize kitchen band skit musical programs for the camp they stayed at. Lorene loved to make Christmas decorations for her grandchildren and enjoyed meeting new people from all over the United States. Lorene suffered a stroke in late 2000, her husband Edwin took care of her for many years until his declining health did not allow him to do so. In 2005 Lorene moved to the Nelson Good Samaritan Center and later moved to Parkview Haven in Deshler to be nearer to her family. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Ed; brothers Carroll and Dean Harvey. Survivors include sons Harland Lipker and wife Ruth of Shakopee, MN and Dorrel Lipker and wife LeAnn of Oak, NE; grandchildren: Sarah Lipker of St. Paul, MN; Sonia Lipker of Anchorage, Alaska;, Nikki Drohman and husband Dustin of Ruskin, NE; and Corey Lipker of Oak, NE; great granddaughter Molley Lorene Drohman of Ruskin, NE; sister Donna Peterson and husband Norman of Bennington, NE; sister in laws Sarah Harvey of Superior, NE; and Dorene Harvey Bella Vista, AR; nieces, nephews other relatives and a host of friends Funeral services will be held this Thursday 10:30 AM, January 17, 2013 at the Centennial Lutheran Church in Superior, NE. Pastor B.J. Fouts will be officiating. Burial will be held in the Spring Creek Cemetery, Ruskin, NE. Condolences may be sent to the family at wmsfh.com. Williams Funeral Home of Superior, NE is in charge of the arrangements. Williams Funeral Home 402 879 3123

The Japanese Table Taishu Shokudo—Eating Houseby Isao Kumakura "Japanese cuisine" can mean so many different things, depending on where one goes to eat! As we continue our series on Japan's various dining styles, we introduce the taishu shokudo, the kind of neighborhood eatery where the locals go for a hearty—and inexpensive—meal. From the end of the sixteenth and through the seventeenth centuries, a variety of restaurants appeared in Kyoto, then Japan's imperial capital. Genre paintings of the life and customs of the city in those days illustrate some restaurants where men can be seen eating standing up, as well as others where noodles are being made in the front of the shop. These images show not only fine restaurants for the wealthy, but reveal that popular eating places for the common people came into being during this era. In the late eighteenth century, as the population of Edo (now Tokyo), the political center of the country, grew to over a million people, the number of popular-style eating establishments grew exponentially. It is said there was at least one such eating place for every block in the city. Many of them specialized in various types of noodles, while a new kind of shop, called ni-uri-ya, served rice and soup accompanied by a variety of simple side dishes. Benches were provided in the front of the shop for people stopping by to eat. In the nineteenth century, yatai, stalls consisting essentially of a portable kitchen and counter where customers stood to eat, proliferated throughout the city; these offered such popular foods as sushi, tempura or grilled eel. There were also vendors who carried cooking units for boiling water and sold soba noodles in the streets. Several thousand such soba vendors are said to have been operating in the city of Edo alone by the middle of the nineteenth century. This figure tells us how rapidly the culture of eating away from home had developed by that time. With the advent of the modern age, the numbers of young workers and students in the cities increased, and popular-style restaurants catering mainly to single men began to open throughout the country. These establishments seem to have evolved from the ni-uri-ya of the Edo period. Called taishu shokudo—"people's dining halls" or "public restaurants"—some of these shops offer a varied menu of side dishes, including simmered or grilled fish, chilled tofu with seasonings (hiya-yakko), simmered vegetables, blanched greens (ohitashi), simmered seaweed dishes, and so on. Customers serve themselves from a selection of these, picking up their own dishes from a shelf, to accompany rice, miso soup and pickles; prices are calculated depending on which dishes are selected. These restaurants resemble Western-style cafeterias, but are small in scale, catering to no more than fifteen or twenty people at a time. Many have an established clientele and are run by the proprietor and his wife. As suggested by some of the other names for this type of restaurant—ichizen-meshiya ("meal-on-one-tray shop") and teishokuya ("set-meal shop")—other types of taishu shokudo offer set meals of simple, traditional foods: rice, miso soup, pickles, grilled fish, a simmered vegetable or main dish such as tempura or deep-fried fish, and one other small side dish (kobachi). Donburi-mono (meal-in-a-bowl dishes) and curry and rice are standard items on the menu as well. Informal in atmosphere and inexpensive, these restaurants serve sake and beer, but unlike izakaya and other establishments where people go primarily to drink, the taishu shokudo is intended to offer cheap and substantial midday or evening meals. Their shop fronts tend to follow a distinctive style: a noren curtain hung across the entrance and signs indicate that noodles or donburi-mono are served. There is often a display case in the front where inarizushi (deep-fried tofu pockets stuffed with rice) or other take-out foods are sold. In recent years, old-fashioned taishu shokudo have gradually begun to disappear. Small family-run neighborhood restaurants, where one can go for a quick and inexpensive meal, remain in some old areas of Kyoto and other cities, but in Tokyo they are increasingly hard to find. One reason is that customers are increasingly drawn to spacious, American-style family restaurant chains with parking lots. The younger generation tends to favor Chinese, Italian or American-style cuisine over traditional Japanese fare, and in many ways, fast-food hamburger and fried-chicken chains have taken over the role once played by taishu shokudo. While the numbers of traditional taishu shokudo do seem to be dwindling, various kinds of popular restaurants serving original or specialized cuisines have increased. Many feature ramen noodles, tonkatsu (deep-fried pork cutlet) or curry and rice; then there are shops that focus on "Japanized" Italian or Chinese cooking. Today there is quite a diverse range of restaurants where one may find a lunch for 500-600 yen (US$5-6.00) and supper for around 1,000 yen. A variety of restaurants specializing in Japanese-style dishes with attractive interiors and inexpensive standard-fare menus are twenty-first century taishu shokudo in a new guise. Japan's once-typical image of the small neighborhood restaurant has slowly begun to fade: vertical lattice facade, signboard and noren printed with the characters for taishu shokudo, reliable menu of standard Japanese-style dishes and a simple, hearty meal . . . all evoke a distinct aura of nostalgia in the face of today's rapidly changing cities. Isao Kumakura was born in Tokyo in 1943. He taught at Tsukuba University from 1978 to 1992, and then held the position of Professor of Japanese Culture at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. Since 2004, he has been director of the Hayashibara Museum of Art, Okayama. Among his many publications are Tea in Japan and The History of Japanese Food.

The line paintings have their roots in digital photography, industrial technology processes, and classical painting. Using personal photographs from Nature as source images the paintings represent a sample of digital information from these images expanded to create an abstract work while maintaining the emotive essence of the organic view. These paintings are created using a process I developed for paint application that utilizes both commercial and proprietary manufacturing technologies and software applications. I execute the work in acrylic or oil paint using colors mixed specifically for the image. The paint is applied one color at a time, one line at a time. While time consuming, the process allows for a high level of detail and resolution without which the paintings would fail to reach their potential. The resulting paintings capture and amplify the essence of the view by focusing on their organic rhythms and color relationships while removing other objective information.

Jack Bradley Clayton Jack Bradley Clayton, 48, of Cherryville, died Jan. 10, 2012. Funeral services will be held at Carpenter’s Funeral Home Chapel today at 4 p.m. with burial to follow at a later date. The family will receive friends today from 2:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. Carpenter’s Funeral Home, Cherryville is serving the Clayton family. Terry Simmons, 46, of Bessemer City died Jan. 10, 2012. A memorial service will be held Jan. 15, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Lawing’s Chapel Baptist Church, Maiden. Burke Mortuary in Maiden is serving the Simmons family. Donna Stoudt Wilent Donna Stoudt Wilent, 78, of Cherryville died Jan. 11, 2012. Visitation will be from 9:45 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Jan. 14, 2012 at Stamey~Cherryville Funeral Home with funeral services to follow at 11 a.m. at Stamey~Cherryville Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Cherryville City Memorial Cemetery. Stamey~Cherryville Funeral Home is serving the Wilent family. Robert ‘Robbie’ Eugene Hight Robert ‘Robbie’ Eugene Hight, 44, of Lincolnton died Jan. 10, 2012. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Jan. 14, 2012 in the Warlick Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Hollybrook Cemetery. Warlick Funeral Home is serving the Hight family. Charles Thomas Van Goor Charles Thomas Van Goor, 100, of Maiden died Jan. 12, 2012. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Warlick Funeral Home. Derek Cornelius, 31, of Lincolnton died Jan. 12, 2012. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Warlick Funeral Home. DENVER — Paul Franklin Hicks, 64, of Mack Ballard Rd., Denver passed away Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at his residence. Born September 30, 1947 in Catawba County, he was the son of the late Roy Oscar Hicks and the late Julia Jones Hicks. Paul was a lifelong member of Mt. View Baptist Church in Maiden and was a US Army veteran serving in Vietnam. Survivors include, wife, Maurice B. Hicks of the home; four brothers, James and Shirley Hicks, Mack and Faye Hicks, Doug and Judy Hicks, Floyd and Dodie Hicks; four sisters, Frances and Bill Burke, Doris Propst, Teresa and Danny Adams, Rene and Clell Seitz; step-children, Sible Winebarger, Dee Dee Bruce, Duffy Johnson; large number of nieces nephews and grandchildren; special friend, Steve “Tank†Holbrooks. Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Mt. View Baptist Church in Maiden with the Rev. Raymond Hamrick officiating. The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to the service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with graveside military honors by American Legion Post 16 of Newton. The family will receive friends tonight from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Mt. View Baptist Church in Maiden. Serving as pallbearers are Brad Hicks, Brian Hicks, Jamey Burke, Ricky Hicks, Macon Seitz, and Shannon Burke. Memorials may be given to: Mt. View Baptist Church, Building Fund, 5045 East Maiden Rd., Maiden, NC 28650. Visit www.burkemortuary.com to register your condolences. Burke Mortuary in Maiden is serving the Hicks family. Everette Earl Dellinger CHERRYVILLE — Everette Earl (Red) Dellinger, of Cherryville, passed away Monday, January 9, 2012. Red was born in Lincolnton, on January 25, 1926, to the late Marshall and Addie Jane Chapman Dellinger, the seventh of their ten children. Patriotism and adventure led him to enlist in the Army in World War II, at the age of 16. He fought in both the 1st Battalion, 3, 79th Infantry of the US Army as well as the 551st AAA AW Battalion. He served in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theatre of Operations including participation in the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, the liberation of Buchenwald, and the infiltration of the Siegfried Line. His country recognized his service with: the American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with four Bronze Service Stars, Good Conduct Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Button, World War II Victory Medal, and the prestigious Bronze Star Medal. Red was also awarded the French commendation “De La Reconnaissance de la France.†Those with whom he served were lifelong friends who gathered at annual reunions until 2006. He returned to complete his education at Lincolnton High School, where he met a young Frances Patricia Lineberger, who was to become his wife of 61 years. He coached Golden Glove Boxing, managing Larry Boyles in his efforts, all the way to his bout at Madison Square Garden. Red was a member of the Cherryville Volunteer Fire Department, taught Bible Training Union classes, and was a lifetime member of the American Legion. Red was a longstanding figure in the Cherryville business community, owning and operating Cherryville Dry Cleaners. He also worked for Carolina Freight Carriers for 32 years. Family was always foremost in Red’s life. His personal values, gentle humor, and generous nature personified this honorable citizen, friend, husband, and father. He appreciated his city and its people. His dear wife Frances Patricia Lineberger Dellinger precedes him in death. He is survived by his loving daughters, Sherry Dellinger Bingham of Cherryville, Debbie Dellinger Harllee of Winston-Salem, Anita Dellinger Trisch of Troy, Mo. and son James Marshall Dellinger of Marina Del Ray, Calif.; four grandchildren, Brandon Edward Bingham, Justin Blake Bingham, Bryan Jennings Byers, and Hannah Everette Dellinger; great-grandson, Parker Blake Bingham; and great-granddaughters Riley Olivia Bingham and Amanda Staton. His sister Edna Dellinger Lutz also survives him. Visitation will be Sunday, January 15, 2012, at 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Carpenter’s Funeral Home. Service is at 3 p.m. at Cherryville First Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. Vince Hefner. Memorials may be directed to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Betty Jane Silvester Betty Jane Silvester, 88, of Denver, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, in Lincolnton. Betty was born October 23, 1923 in Akron, Ohio to the late Fred and Arlene Guinther. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 14, 2012 at Westport Baptist Church, Denver. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Jack Guinther of Sturgis, Mich., and son James Silvester of Los Angeles, Calif. Betty is survived by her daughters, Beverly Weston (Tom Weston) of Denver and Kris Ann Monroe (Tim Monroe) of Manitou Springs, Colo.; four grandchildren, Steven Weston of Roanoke, Va., Shelly Milburn (Chad) of Powhatan, Va., Sarah Monroe of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Benjamin Monroe of Chico, Calif.; one great grandson, William Weston of Lincolnton; three great granddaughters, Ruthanna Witter of Cary, Macy and April Milburn of Powhatan, Va.; and several nieces and nephews. In Betty’s younger days she traveled with Buster Crabbe Water Follies of 1944 entertaining our WWII Veterans. Betty also worked as a telephone operator for many years and held various secretarial positions. She was a wonderful mother and an even better grandmother! Betty lived in Denver the past 17 years and never met a stranger! She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

Europe is building an ‘electric economy’. Electricity is set to become the dominant source of energy. It will drive transition to a low carbon, high growth future. By 2050, most of our transport could be powered by electricity, with the possible exception of some heavy commercial vehicles. As part of this transition, electricity grids will no longer be seen as a national resource. They will become international corridors of trade bringing renewable energy generation from northern marine and southern solar generation to European centres of population. At an average growth rate of 2%, Europe’s demand for electricity will double by 2050. At a 3% growth rate, that demand will more than treble. If we are to reduce carbon emissions by 80% then all of this increased demand will have to be met by renewable energy. Existing coal, oil and gas generation will have to be phased out – completely. By 2030, there will be no more fossil fuel plant built in Europe. New build will consist only of renewable and nuclear. Already we can see that trend develop with more wind energy installed in Europe in 2008 and 2009 than any other form of electricity generation. If we are to fully exploit these renewable resources, and deliver power on a continental scale, then the energy sector has to significantly reduce investment costs through a whole series of innovations from plant design to voltage source technology. In offshore wind, scale will come from combining large clusters of simplified turbines into wind-fires power stations. These stations are the modules on which the Supergrid will be built.

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Accounting & Austrian Economics Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Volume 3.2, Summer 2000 1. Current Developments in Cost Accounting and the Dynamics of Economic Calculation by Thomas C. Taylor (Wake Forest University) "The problem of cost is the cornerstone of economic calculation. Entrepreneurs act upon the cost implications of their decisions and depend on cost data that represent the actual pattern of resource consumption. These theoretical generalizations are essential; however, they do not elucidate the complexity of cost assignment and how cost accounting is driven to change when cost structures shift and operating segments multiply. Neither do they provide concrete illustrations of how actual decisions are influenced by the available cost information. Cost determinations, whether accurate or not, have their say about the way resources are actually directed in our economy by myriad companies like Whirlpool and Carrier. The need for improved output from cost accounting is a result of changing market conditions. More accurate costing and strategic cost management are now required and made available through advances in information technology. More costs are indirect and not unit-based–that is, more costs are fixed and tied to resources bought in large chunks of service-ability. More sophisticated cost analysis is needed to 'slice and dice' cost data across diverse segments or objects. By examining fundamentally new approaches to cost accounting, we see the operation of competitive market forces upon the quality of economic calculation itself. A critical facet of Austrian analysis is elucidated and clarified, showing that economic calculation is not perfunctory or static." 2. "Radical Subjectivism": Not Radical, Not Subjectivist by John O’Neill (Lancaster University) "The running debate in Austrian economics between radical subjectivists and their 'moderate' opponents is one that follows a subjectivist script. On one side the radical subjectivists accuse their more moderate counterparts of a failure of theoretical nerve in taking subjectivism to its proper conclusions. On the other side, the moderates accuse the radical subjectivists of abandoning the proper subjectivist insights of Mises and Hayek for a 'radically subjectivist nihilism.' In this article I argue that the whole debate is misconceived because it follows this subjectivist formulation. I do so by focusing on what is usually taken to be the core claim of radical subjectivism which is taken to define the essence of the position and which underlies its more specific claims questioning the existence of coordinative or equilibrating tendencies within market economies. I show that the core claim of radical subjectivism, as it is presented by its proponents, is neither radical nor subjectivist." SYMPOSIUM: PUBLISHING IN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS, Part 2 3. Austrian Economics and the Mainstream: View from the Boundary by Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham) "As a mainstream economist who is sympathetic to some, but by no means all, Austrian themes, I wish to offer an interpretation of the difference between Austrian economics and the mainstream that differs from some of the ones I have found in the literature. It is my view that mainstream and Austrian economists should pay more attention to each other, but to do so requires a clearer understanding of what distinguishes these approaches. It is my view that the distinctive feature of mainstream economics, distinguishing it from Austrian economics, is model-building, and the important point about models is that they are not the real thing. This may seem a trivial and obvious point but it has been ignored in much of the literature comparing Austrian economics with the mainstream, even though, as I hope to show, it has great implications." 4. Austrian Journals: A Critique of Rosen, Yeager, Laband and Tollison, and Vedder and Gallaway by Walter Block (University of Central Arkansas) This piece critically examines four major articles discussing the place of Austrian theorizing in economics today, and defends the need for and contribution of journals devoted to internal development of a particular school of thought. It concludes that Austrian journals are accomplishing exactly what they hoped to accomplish when Murray Rothbard founded the Review of Austrian Economics: putting the mainstream on notice. 5. The Drama Revisited The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research by John P. Cochran and Fred R. Glahe (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999) Reviewed by Ludwig Van den Hauwe "Careful study of the book under review is a rewarding experience. As Roger Garrison points out in the Foreword, Austrian capital-based business cycle theory has lost nothing of its relevance and timeliness. The theory identifies monetary mismanagement as a major source of economy-wide distortions in the intertemporal allocation of resources by focusing on the relative-price effects–and the corresponding quantity adjustments–of a monetary disturbance, as compared to tracking the movements in macroeconomic aggregates that conceal those relative price effects. It thus gives us a superior understanding of the real coupling between the short-run and the long-run macroeconomic pictures and of the nature of business cycles. Despite the book’s title, and although the authors treat Keynes’s ideas not unsympathetically, the outlook adopted in the book is Hayekian rather than Keynesian and the authors’ thesis is basically that 'Hayek was right'." 6. The Market: Ethics, Knowledge, and Politics by John O'Neill Reviewed by David Gordon "Professor O’Neill raises a large number of issues in this important book, including the value and nature of autonomy, the merits of equality, and whether political institutions should be neutral between differing conceptions of the good. (He think they should not be.) Although our author sympathizes with socialism, he greatly respects the work of F.A. Hayek, and he is particular concerned to examine Hayek’s epistemological arguments for the market." 7. Dinor, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos by Jesús Huerta de Soto (Madrid: Unión Editorial, 1998) Reviewed by Jörg Guido Hülsmann "The significance of Jesús Huerta de Soto's new 681-page book (Money, Bank Credit, and Business Cycles) is precisely that it is the first Misesian treatise on money and banking to appear since the publication of Mises’s original work eighty-years ago. De Soto's book is both more restricted and much more ample in scope than Mises's. De Soto does not systematically deal with the principles of money, but explains them rather cursorily in his many brilliant discussions of specific issues relating to fractional-reserve banking. Although his book in sound on economic priniciples, it does not, strictly speaking, set forth a theory of money. Its primary focus is the analysis of money and banking from a legal, historical, and economic point of view, with a heavy emphasis on the business-cycle effects of fractional-reserve banking. Mises developed his theory of fractional-reserve banking by first analyzing the principles of money and then proceeding, step by step, to the examination of the economically relevant problems of banking. De Soto, by contrast, first examines the legal character of certain banking activities like credit banking and deposit banking, and then goes on, step by step, to spell out their economic implications.... Dinor, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos is the most comprehensive analysis of fractional-reserve banking and of business cycles in print. All serious students of these subjects matter will have to become acquainted with it. Let us hope, therefore, that it will soon be translated." 8. Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory by Cormac O Gráda (Princeton University Press, 1999) Reviewed by Mark Thornton "The subject matter of this book is one of the great tragedies in human history. During the late 1840s more than one million Irish died and many more emigrated, with the Irish population not returning to its form level for more than a century. Author Cormac O Gráda would appear to be well suited to write about this tragedy. He is professor of economics at the University College in Dublin and is considered Ireland’s premier economic historian and leading authority on the Great Irish Famine. Despite his credentials and the fascinating nature of his subject matter, this book will be a big disappointment to many economists. It is a work of history, not economics... accepts the historical view that the famine was just a natural disaster." See also the archives of the QJAE, with a two-issue moving wall

Pepsi Centre contract will build bridge The Pepsi Centre in Corner Brook, seen here adjacent to Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, will now be operated as a separately incorporated entity of Memorial. Memorial University of Newfoundland and the City of Corner Brook signed an agreement for the lease of the Pepsi Centre on March 23, 2006. The agreement was the culmination of eight months of negotiations between city and university officials. Memorial University assumed official responsibility for operating the facility on May 1, 2006 and will do so until the five-year lease is up for renewal on April 30, 2011. "The City of Corner Brook views this partnership as an excellent opportunity for the entire community," said Mayor Charles Pender. "It is a win-win situation for both organizations as we both share a common vision for the growth and betterment of the facility and what it can provide to residents of Corner Brook and the region." "It's one of our strategic directives to build bridges and foster our relationships with the community we serve," Dennis Waterman, director of Administration and Finance, said following the signing ceremony. "As operators of the Pepsi Centre, we'll bring the resources of the university with us; we hope to stabilize the delivery of services." The total property, which includes the Pepsi Centre, Pepsi Studio Annex and adjacent parking areas, will be managed as a Separately Incorporated Entity (SIE) of Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Works, which encompasses the Field House and Aquarena in St. John's, is an example of a recreational facility that serves both the university and the public. It also operates under an SIE board. Appointments were made to the board of directors of the Western Sports and Entertainment Inc.on April 25, 2006. The board of directors of the Pepsi Centre includes: six directors from Memorial University of Newfoundland, including five directors from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College (recommended by the SIE committee of the Board of Regents): Brian Colbourne, director, Financial and Administrative Services (St. John's campus); Dr. Rob Gallant, faculty member; Janice Galliot, wellness co-ordinator; Dr. Holly Pike, vice-principal; Mary Sparkes, co-ordinator, Student Affairs; and Dennis Waterman, director, Finance and Administration. From left, Dr. John Ashton, Dr. Axel Meisen, Georgina Hedges, Charles Pender and Mike Dolter pose in front of the main ice surface at the Pepsi Centre while figure skaters practise in the background. Other directors include: Jamie Schwartz, general manager of the Deer Lake Airport and community recreation volunteer (chair of the Pepsi Centre board and recommended by the City of Corner Brook and SWGC); Kent Brothers, lawyer and community recreation volunteer (recommended by City of Corner Brook and the SIE Committee); Richard Dennis, owner and general manager of Dennis GM (public nominee - recommended by SWGC); Wayne Ryan, director, Operational Services, City of Corner Brook (recommended by City of Corner Brook); Vic Simmonds, regional manager, Aliant Communications, and community volunteer (recommended by the Corner Brook Civic Centre Association); and Allan Skanes, educator and community leader (public nominee - recommended by SWGC). Appointments to the board of directors of the Western Sports and Entertainment Inc. are for two- and three-year periods. Directors may be reappointed. The chair of the board has been appointed for three years. "I am very pleased that the Pepsi Centre has a strong board of directors," said Dr. Georgina Hedges, acting chair of the university's Board of Regents. "In addition to extensive business experience, this broad selection of community, educational and business leaders has the skills and knowledge related to the recreation area and they are also particularly aware of the needs of both Corner Brook and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and the province's western Newfoundland region. Having such a strong team in place to guide the Pepsi Centre's future will undoubtedly ensure the success of the initiative."

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Santa Monica Apartment Rental Market Household Income City State City Compared to State Less than $10,000 10.1% 8.4% +1.7% $10,000 to $14,999 5.5% 5.6% -0.1% $15,000 to $19,999 5.2% 5.6% -0.4% $20,000 to $24,999 4.6% 5.8% -1.2% $25,000 to $29,999 5.0% 5.7% -0.7% $30,000 to $34,999 4.9% 5.7% -0.8% $35,000 to $39,999 4.8% 5.4% -0.6% $40,000 to $44,999 5.3% 5.2% +0.1% $45,000 to $49,999 3.8% 4.6% -0.8% $50,000 to $59,999 7.6% 8.6% -1.0% $60,000 to $74,999 9.3% 10.6% -1.3% $75,000 to $99,999 10.3% 11.5% -1.2% $100,000 to $124,999 7.1% 6.8% +0.3% $125,000 to $149,999 4.1% 3.6% +0.5% $150,000 to $199,999 4.6% 3.3% +1.3% $200,000 or more 7.8% 3.6% +4.2% Cost of Living Share of Household Income Spent on Rent City State City Compared to State Less than 10.0% 9.4% 4.8% +4.6% 10.0% to 14.9% 13.3% 9.8% +3.5% 15.0% to 19.9% 14.4% 13.6% +0.8% 20.0% to 24.9% 12.0% 13.1% -1.1% 25.0% to 29.9% 9.7% 11.0% -1.3% 30.0% to 34.9% 6.6% 8.2% -1.6% 35.0% to 39.9% 4.7% 5.9% -1.2% 40.0% to 49.9% 6.5% 8.0% -1.5% 50.0% or more 18.9% 20.2% -1.3% Not computed 4.5% 5.4% -0.9% Age Demographic of Renters Age Demographic of Renters City State City Compared to State 15 to 24 years 4.6% 9.6% -5.0% 25 to 34 years 28.0% 29.3% -1.3% 35 to 44 years 26.2% 25.8% +0.4% 45 to 54 years 17.4% 16.5% +0.9% 55 to 64 years 8.8% 8.0% +0.8% 65 to 74 years 6.6% 5.3% +1.3% 75 to 84 years 5.9% 4.0% +1.9% 85 years and over 2.5% 1.6% +0.9% Travel Time to Work Travel Time to Work City State City Compared to State Less than 30 minutes 34.5% 30.9% +3.6% 30 to 44 minutes 32.8% 24.5% +8.3% 45 to 59 minutes 14.0% 13.8% +0.2% 60 or more minutes 18.7% 30.8% -12.1% Source: 2000 Census Santa Monica, California Originally developed around 1900 as a seaside resort area, Santa Monica today is a city of just under 100,000. When built, people arrived by railroad from Los Angeles. Now, its city limits are surrounded on three sides by that giant city. With Western frontage on the Pacific and beautiful beaches, it is one of the favorite beach side communities in Southern California. View of the Pacific Before the railroad created such popularity, Santa Monica had already been settled, the first pier built and developments were underway. A mansion called the Miramar was built in the 1880s which, today, is the Fairmont Miramar. When starting the search for your Santa Monica apartment, you will likely start the search in Ocean Park or Midtown. Both neighborhoods are a combination of single-family houses and both low rise and higher rise apartments. Close to the ocean, close to shopping and walkable promenades, you'll find choices ranging from pre-war architecture to some of the most modern in the L.A. area. Santa Monica is most of all a beach town. Many business and activities are located either on or near the great beaches. The boardwalk at the Santa Monica Pier is famous and fun for both locals and tourists alike. The old fashioned amusement park with its ferris wheel is always popular as is the pier itself for fishing and hanging out. The arts are amply represented with places like the Bergamont Station Arts Center which houses over 30 galleries. The old main street area lies adjacent to the community of Venice and provides great shopping, dining and a weekly farmer's market. There are a number of activities which center around the beach. Play speed chess, volleyball (it is said to have been developed in Santa Monica in the 1920s), bike, hike, run and swim. Taco Stands to 5 Star Restaurants With its large Latino population in the Pico District, there are fabulous taco stands all around. Take out or sidewalk style eating is popular in all of Santa Monica and you'll find plenty of places for coffee outdoors as well as high end restaurants. There are a number of chef oriented restaurants like Michael's and Melisse which are worth spluring on too. Once in your Santa Monica apartment, you'll find many great places within walking distance. Dancing Near the Beach Going out at night is just as easy. There are neighborhood bars, clubs and upscale places all along the beach area. Try Main on Main for music and good drinks, and just next door is O'Briens which always has some live music playing. The Cock n' Bull pub is quintessentially English so catch some soccer games and English beer there. You Santa Monica apartment will easily be near some great places that you'll want to find on your own. 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Search apartments by neighborhood to find where your Santa Monica apartments should be: - Mid-City Apartments - North of Montana Apartments - Ocean Park Apartments - Pico Apartments - Sunpark Apartments - Wilshire Montana Apartments Map & Local Information Get answers about Santa Monica from local experts or tell us what you love about it. I've got dogs. What are the best places in Santa Monica for being outdoors with pets? Airport Park, located on Airport Avenue in Santa Monica, is a popular hangout for local pooches and their favorite companions. The park is clean and well-maintained, with water fountains for both the two- and four-legged visitors, and ample parking; it is easy to see why Airport Park is a local favorite for pet owners. Another great spot, Joslyn Dog Park, is situated on Kensington Road. This is a smaller park with a charming landscape, ample seating areas, separate parks for large and small dogs, and friendly, responsible pet owners. Please note- all dogs must have proof of Santa Monica licensing to take advantage of the city's dog parks. What neighborhoods in Santa Monica are good for eating out? Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Downtown Santa Monica is a top-notch entertainment destination. An outdoor collection of restaurants reside in the lovely downtown Third Street Promenade. With gems like Trastevere Trattoria Italiana and Leonidas Chocolate Cafe you will not leave Downtown Santa Monica with an empty stomach. Home to the Santa Monica Pier, Ocean Avenue is an upscale neighborhood recognized for the many world-class restaurants located here. Visit the sophisticated Ocean Avenue Seafood for fresh, top-quality seafood and the best raw bar in town. Rent in Santamonica. 2 bed room condo. I will be divorced soon and will receive kids from Chicago on an occasional basis. I travel a lot for work and to see kids so the safety is must. Santa Monica is generally a very safe city, known for being one of the safer areas in the greater LA region. Like all cities, residents are advised to make smart decisions and use common sense when it comes to their safety. Panhandlers can be found closer to the beach and many locals try to avoid Pico Boulevard at night, but overall Santa Monica is a decidedly clean, attractive, and walkable city. How is the school system in Santa Monica? Receiving a prestigious score of 8 out of 10 on Greatschools.org for their superb test scores, the Santa Monica school system is highly esteemed. The district consists of nine elementary schools, two middle schools and three high schools. Some of the best include Canyon Elementary, Franklin Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Lincoln Middle School, and Santa Monica High School. These top schools are universally recognized for their principal leadership, teacher quality, extra curricular activities, parent involvement, safety, and discipline. Several renowned private schools are also within the community including Carlthorp School, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, New Roads School, and Santa Monica Catholic High School. How far is the airport from downtown Santa Monica and can I get there easily and cheaply? The major Los Angeles International Airport, LAX, is conveniently located just seven miles from downtown Santa Monica, with a one-way driving cost of less than $1. Bob Hope Airport in Burbank is the next closest major airport, about 15 miles from downtown, or about a $2 one-way drive. John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana is 43 miles from Santa Monica, with an approximate $5 cost of driving. Ten smaller local airports are also located with 25 miles of town including Van Nuys Airport, Clark Regional Airport, and Glendale Airport. For those who would prefer not to drive to the airport, an array of alternative modes of transportation are available including shuttle buses, local taxis, and limousine services. What would an ideal weekend be like in Santa Monica? An ideal weekend in Santa Monica would be spent enjoying the beautiful weather and the great outdoors. Santa Monica Beach is a must-see and a favorite among TV and movie producers. After a trip to the beach be sure to check out the Third Street Promenade- a three-block stretch of shops, restaurants, movie theaters, street entertainment and more. The Santa Monica Pier is another must-see, and don't forget to take a ride on the famous wooden rollercoaster. For more outdoor fun head to the South Bay Bicycle Trail or the Santa Monica Mountains. Or for some indoor fun, check out the art galleries at Bergamot Station, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, or the California Heritage Museum.

Wayland Neighbor Brigade is the founding chapter of Neighbor Brigade and started in 2003 as “Wayland Angels.” It all started with a small group of friends helping friends. Today we are 400+ volunteers strong! Many thanks to our volunteers who have always jumped to action when they learn of a friend or neighbor in the community who could use some TLC. Why do we do what we do? Because it feels good. Because we care. We have delivered over a thousand meals and countless rides, helped with dog walking, local errands, and grocery shopping for our neighbors. And we gladly support our local churches with their holiday meals for families in need. Neighbor Brigade has become a household name in our community…thank you to all of our local volunteers and supporters for being a part of what we do!! Anne is co-leader of the founding chapter of Neighbor Brigade. She has lived in Wayland for 27 years, with her husband Mark and four sons. Anne grew up in Baltimore and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in psychology, but has adopted New England as her home. She owns a private preschool in Lincoln and enjoys her days teaching four-year-olds and serving as co-director. Anne was inspired to join Neighbor Brigade in its mission after meeting Pam Washek and Jean Seidon, the founders of this incredible community support system.

Evidence for using magnesium supplements with PPI therapy Magnesium deficiency or ‘hypomagnesaemia’ has been associated with long-term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). Case reports indicate that stopping the PPI is the best way to normalise magnesium levels. Taking a magnesium supplement with the PPI may not be enough to correct the magnesium deficiency. Limitations of evidence No studies have investigated the use of a magnesium supplement to prevent magnesium deficiency during PPI therapy. A magnesium supplement should only be considered if a PPI has caused a deficiency in magnesium that requires treatment. Evidence for using a supplement with a PPI to treat magnesium deficiency is based on case reports. Cases of magnesium deficiency with PPI therapy have been reported in the literature and to regulatory authorities worldwide.1–13 The first published reports were in 2006, based on 2 Australian cases of severe magnesium deficiency with omeprazole.2,3 Up to March 2011, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia had received 6 reports of hypomagnesaemia with PPIs.2 In 2011 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety announcement about this potential adverse effect following a review of published cases and 38 cases reported in their Adverse Event Reporting System.4 The first cases published in 2006 had received high-dose magnesium supplementation for a few months while continuing omeprazole.3 Stopping the PPI normalised magnesium levels rapidly without the need for further supplementation.3 Further cases also reported to have resolved after stopping the PPI, generally within 1–2 weeks.1,5 Magnesium levels usually dropped again when therapy was restarted or switched to another PPI, while substitution with a histamine-2 receptor antagonist like ranitidine brought levels back to normal.1–5,7–11,13 Magnesium supplementation while continuing PPI therapy was at best only partly effective in resolving the cases of deficiency, even after months of treatment.1,3,5–7,10–13 More than a quarter of cases reviewed by the FDA did not improve with supplementation alone.4 People who may be deficient in magnesium or at risk should see their doctor first People should be referred to their doctor if they have symptoms of deficiency, or if they’ve been on long-term PPI therapy and may need their magnesium levels checked. This is particularly important for people at high risk of magnesium deficiency from other causes — these include gastrointestinal conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease and chronic pancreatitis, and medicines like digoxin and loop and thiazide diuretics.14 Seeing a doctor also provides an opportunity to review the need for ongoing PPI therapy and whether this can be stepped down or stopped. While predictors of magnesium deficiency with PPIs are yet to be established, reported cases mostly occurred after continuous long-term therapy for at least 12 months (usually more than 5 years) and were largely unrelated to dose.1–13 Certain conditions or medicines may also have contributed to the magnesium deficiency in some of the cases.1,4 Magnesium deficiency can cause non-specific symptoms like nausea, tiredness or confusion, and some people don’t get any symptoms.1,2,14 Severe cases are usually easier to recognise when symptoms like muscle spasms, convulsions, and irregular heart beats (arrhythmias) occur.1,2,14 A doctor will manage underlying causes(s) of magnesium deficiency in addition to supplementation.14 Intravenous rather than oral magnesium may be necessary for some people, especially if the deficiency is severe or causing considerable symptoms.14 Supplements can have side effects and interactions Side effects with magnesium, particularly diarrhoea, may be an issue for some people, especially if they need high oral doses to help treat a deficiency.1,5,14 Magnesium supplements can also affect the absorption of certain medicines (including tetracycline antibiotics and bisphosphonates used for osteoporosis) so they need to be taken at least 2 hours apart from these other medicines. - Cundy T, Mackay J. Proton pump inhibitors and severe hypomagnesaemia. Curr Opin Gastroenterol 2011;27:180–5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856115 - Therapeutic Goods Administration. Medicines Safety Update Volume 2, Number 3, June 2011. www.australianprescriber.com/magazine/34/3/81/4 (accessed 27 September 2011) - Epstein M, McGrath S, Law F. Proton-pump inhibitors and hypomagnesemic hypoparathyroidism. N Engl J Med 2006;355:1834–6. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065651 - U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA Drug Safety Communication: Low magnesium levels can be associated with long-term use of Proton Pump Inhibitor drugs (PPIs). www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/ucm245011.htm (accessed 27 September 2011) - Mackay JD, Bladon PT. Hypomagnesaemia due to proton-pump inhibitor therapy: a clinical case series. QJM 2010;103:387–95. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378675 - Cundy T, Dissanayake A. Severe hypomagnesaemia in long-term users of proton-pump inhibitors. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2008;69:338–41. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221401 - Shabajee N, Lamb EJ, Sturgess I, et al. Omeprazole and refractory hypomagnesaemia. BMJ 2008;337:a425. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.738981.BE. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18617497 - Kuipers MT, Thang HD, Arntzenius AB. Hypomagnesaemia due to use of proton pump inhibitors — a review. Neth J Med 2009;67:169–72. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581665 - Broeren MA, Geerdink EA, Vader HL, et al. Hypomagnesemia induced by several proton-pump inhibitors. Ann Intern Med 2009;151:755–6. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19920278 - Hoorn EJ, van der Hoek J, de Man RA, et al. A case series of proton pump inhibitor-induced hypomagnesemia. Am J Kidney Dis 2010;56:112–6. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20189276 - Regolisti G, Cabassi A, Parenti E, et al. Severe hypomagnesemia during long-term treatment with a proton pump inhibitor. Am J Kidney Dis 2010;56:168–74. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20493607 - Furlanetto TW, Faulhaber GA. Hypomagnesemia and proton pump inhibitors: below the tip of the iceberg. Arch Intern Med 2011;171:1391–2. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21555654 - Quasdorff M, Mertens J, Dinter J, et al. Recurrent hypomagnesemia with proton-pump inhibitor rechallenge. Ann Intern Med 2011;155:405–7. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21930865 - Wu J. Magnesium: the forgotten electrolyte. Aust Prescr 2007; 30:102–5. www.australianprescriber.com/magazine/30/4/102/5 (accessed 26 September 2011)

In the continuing effort to understand the human brain, the mysteries keep piling up. Consider what scientists are up against. Stretched flat, the human neocortex -- the center of our higher mental functions -- is about the size and thickness of a formal dinner napkin. With 100 billion cells, each with 1,000 to 10,000 synapses, the neocortex makes roughly 100 trillion connections and contains 300 million feet of wiring packed with other tissue into a one-and-a-half-quart volume in the brain. These cells are arranged in six very similar layers, inviting confusion. Within these layers, different regions carry out vision, hearing, touch, the sense of balance, movement, emotional responses and every other feat of cognition. More mysterious yet, there are 10 times as many feedback connections -- from the neocortex to lower levels of the brain -- as there are feed-forward or bottom-up connections. Added to these mysteries is the lack of a good framework for understanding the brain's connectivity and electrochemistry. Researchers do not know how the six-layered cortical sheet gives rise to the sense of self. They have not been able to disentangle the role of genes and experience in shaping brains. They do not know how the firing of billions of loosely coupled neurons gives rise to coordinated, goal-directed behavior. They can see trees but no forest. They do think they have solved one longstanding mystery, though. Most neuroscientists are convinced the mind is in no way separate from the brain. In the brain they have found a physical basis for all our thoughts, aspirations, language, sense of consciousness, moral beliefs and everything else that makes us human. All of this arises from interactions among billions of ordinary cells. Neuroscience finds no duality, no finger of God animating the human mind. So what have neuroscientists been doing? Like a child who takes apart his father's watch, they have dissected the brain and now have almost all the pieces laid out before them. There are thousands of clues about what makes the brain tick. But how to put it back together? How to understand something so complex by examining it piecemeal? Even harder, how to integrate the different levels of analysis? Some brain events occur in fractions of milliseconds while others, like long-term memory formation, can take days or weeks. One can study molecules, ion channels, single neurons, functional areas, circuits, oscillations and chemistry. There are neural stem cells and mechanisms of plasticity, which involve how the brain changes with experience or recovers from injury. New research tools continue to drive progress. In the late 1970's, researchers mostly placed sharp-tipped electrodes into single cells and measured firing patterns. By the 1990's, they had machines that could take images of brain activity while people spoke, read, gambled, solved moral dilemmas or, in a recent study, had orgasms. Unfortunately, studies like these, while fascinating, tend to feed the fires of a huge disagreement within the brain sciences: is the brain made up of discrete modules that pass information among themselves? Or is it more loosely organized so that varied pockets of distant neurons fire together when called upon to perform a particular task? In mapping the brain, some researchers say that areas dedicated to aspects of language, arm movements or face recognition are hard-wired modules. Other researchers say that such areas are surprisingly flexible. For example, the human face recognition area is where expert bird watchers distinguish features of closely related species or car experts decide if a 1958 or 1959 Plymouth had bigger fins.

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- Ivan Krastev: A political exhaustion - Adam Szostkiewicz: The iron rule of history - Vladimir Tismaneanu: The end and the beginning - Krzysztof Bobinski: On the move - Alexander Rahr: A great reversal - Rein Müllerson: Old walls, new fences - Emily Lau: An indelible mark - Tibor Dessewffy: In the mirror of the future - Neal Ascherson: How it ended - Patrice de Beer: Two worlds - Takashi Inoguchi: A view across continents - Katinka Barysch: Timebends - Goran Fejic: The trial and the wall - Arthur Ituassu: A time of fusion A political exhaustion Ivan Krastev is chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is visiting fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, from June-December 2009 Also by Ivan Krastev in openDemocracy: "Sleepless in Szczecin: what's the matter with Poland?" (19 October 2007) "Europe's trance of unreality" (20 June 2008) "Europe's other legitimacy crisis" (23 July 2008) "Russia and the Georgia war: the great-power trap" (19 August 2008) "The guns of August: non-event with consequences" (30 July 2009) 1989 was "the best moment in European history" - or at least it used to be. In a 1999 reflection on the historical significance of central Europe's "velvet revolutions", Robert Cooper wrote that "the year 1989 divides the past from the future almost as clearly as the Berlin wall divided the east from the west." The west's victory in the cold war was a fivefold achievement: it meant the triumph of liberalism; the end of empire in Europe; the end of geopolitics (the "grand strategy"); the reunification of Europe; and the return of values-guided foreign policy. Now, a decade further on, there is a growing ambiguity about the historical significance of 1989. Liberalism is in crisis (and the crisis is most severe in central Europe); the five-day Russia-Georgia war of August 2008 marked the return of geopolitics; Europe's unity is in question; Henry Kissinger's "realism" is back in fashion; and the global economic crisis has challenged the major assumptions of the post-1989 era. The result of this ambiguity is that while, officially, "1989" is celebrated all over Europe, the fall of the Berlin wall is losing the meaning it had of (in Robert Cooper's formulation) establishing a clear dividing-line between the past and the future. Indeed, it seems that the political energy of 1989 has both in the east and in the west of Europe been exhausted. Central Europe's new generation of political leaders (populists and technocrats alike) feel disconnected from the ideas and inheritance of the 1989 revolution. It is not their revolution. Populists prefer to seek legitimacy in the traditional (pre-second-world-war) nationalist narratives; the new generation of liberal pragmatists does not care about symbolic politics. The disconnection is felt by citizens too. A current survey suggests that only 14% of Hungarians believe that they have benefited from the change. What was meant to be the revolution of the people more and more looks like the emancipation of the elites. The communist experience - and totalitarian experience in general - has lost its centrality for democracy's self-identification. The ideas of 1989 are perceived as irrelevant in the face of the emergence of new kinds of challenges: among them immigration, terrorism and climate change. It is symptomatic that in this twentieth-anniversary year a new bestseller entitled Reflections on the Revolution in Europe hit the continent's bookstores; but in contrast to Ralf Dahrendorf's classic 1990 pamphlet, Christopher Caldwell's title refers not to the events of 1989 but to the prospects of Europe's gradual Islamisation. So, is it possible that 1979 - the year of Iran's Islamic revolution and of the beginning of China's economic reforms - will remain in history as the real modern turning-point, and 1989 will recede even further in significance? The fair answer is that we do not know. But it is not an exaggeration to claim that the degree to which 1989 has already faded is the clearest evidence of Europe's crisis of self-confidence. Adam Szostkiewicz, Polityka, Warsaw The iron rule of history It was not velvet after 1989 - but a tough ride. Adam Szostkiewicz is a writer and journalist with the weekly magazine Polityka in Warsaw Also by Adam Szostkiewicz in openDemocracy: "The Polish lifeboat" (22 September 2005) "Poland marches: the people sound the alarm" (12 October 2006) "Bronislaw Geremek: Polish and European liberal" (15 July 2008) "Leszek Kolakowski, 1927-2009: a master figure" (21 July 2009)On 4 June 1989 I was a witness to both the joy and the horror of world history. In Warsaw, the joy was that my Solidarity was winning free general elections which had come as a result of a negotiated agreement between the authorities and the movement's leaders, who embodied the nation's hope for radical change. And then the horror. I watched the news of what had happened on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A thought flashed through my mind: maybe we were wrong to strike a deal with the authoritarian regime. How can we be sure that tomorrow they will not backtrack on all fronts and use force to clamp down on people's aspirations? But there was no Polish Tiananmen. The unthinkable - a peaceful transition from unfreedom to the beginnings of a liberal democracy - was to be. There were many roads more or less travelled leading to this outcome in Poland, and also in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union, in Hungary, in hardcore Czechoslovakia and East Germany. There was also a broader context of an entire historical cycle. The eastern bloc could not survive much longer in the absence of leadership, legitimacy and economic clout. In a way, it was an end of history: the total failure of a utopian project that had been forced on people behind the "iron curtain". What we saw in Berlin in November 1989 was spectacular. We were happy, we felt the winds of change blowing harder in Europe; but we didn't cry then. We cried when Vaclav Havel waved to hundreds of thousands of people from a balcony in Prague. For us in Poland that was the final act of liberation, the completion. It is natural that twenty years on the emotions have faded, and that the afterthoughts are mixed about the legacy of that miraculous year, 1989. Not all the opportunities were used, nor all the dreams and hopes fulfilled. The price we paid was less social democracy and generational solidarity than was expected. Central Europe is much better, the scars of cold-war separation have started to heal thanks to European integration, but the pace of the radical shift proved too difficult to control and absorb. By no means was it velvet, and it continues to be a tough ride. But I don't think there was much to be done about this. Isn't there an unwritten ‘'law'' of history that it's always otherwise than we believe it will be. Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park). In 2006, he served as chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. His books include Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1998) and (as editor) Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe (Central European Press, 2009). His website is here The end and the beginning Two decades have passed since the chain of dramatic events in east and central Europe that led to the accomplishment of what most regarded as unthinkable: the collapse of communist regimes, the end of a system that had seemed destined to last forever. In fact, the very idea of a post-communist situation appeared before 1989 to be a mere fantasy. Its possibility was widely dismissed, both in policy and academic circles, in the name of pragmatic realism. True, some dissidents (such as Andrei Amalrik) and scholars saw the end coming. In 1988, I published a book called The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia in which I argued that two factors were leading to imminent collapse: the ideological erosion that had engendered a fatal "legitimacy crisis" of the communist regimes, and the rise of alternative movements and ideas ("civil society"). It was clear to me by then that the ruling elites - those bureaucracies that Stephen Kotkin calls "uncivil society" - had lost the indispensable self-confidence that their ideological commitment required. There was no zeal anymore; the Marxist-Leninist official creed was just a collection of trite slogans. The Mikhail Gorbachev factor (at heart, a renunciation of the Leonid Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty) and Pope John Paul II's emphasis on the sacredness of truth further catalysed the revival of social forces aiming to dismantle the system. The prevailing bleak outlooks dissolved in the course of months, then weeks, then days. The revolutions of 1989 irretrievably shattered Leninism and opened the path to the self-empowerment of the citizens of the eastern European countries. In doing so they made a vital intellectual breakthrough: the rethinking of the notion of citizenship, which had been systematically subverted and negated by communist regimes. [To read more of Vladimir Tismaneanu's analysis, click here] On the move Krzysztof Bobinski is the president of Unia & Polska. He was the Financial Times's Warsaw correspondent (1976-2000) and later published Unia & Polska magazine. He writes for European Voice and is an associate editor on the Europe section of Europe's World Among Krzysztof Bobinski's articles in openDemocracy: "European unity: reality and myth" (21 March 2007) "Europe's politics of self - and others" (20 October 2008) "The Polish summer, 1989: a farewell salute" (2 June 2009) History didn't come to an end In 1989. It merely paused. It wasn't a year of revolution but more one of restoration. Mikhail Gorbachev created the political space for change and Soviet-dominated Europe took the opportunity to break free. The miracle was that the change was a peaceful one. Revolutions need visions. Restorations are less imaginative. But where could these societies go after Soviet-style state-planning had drained the enthusiasm for utopias of any kind? Easy. To the bright lights of the west! Anyone who travelled at night by train between East and West Berlin before 1989 will know what I mean. Desperate gloom on one side (the eastern), a bustling flood of light on the (western) other side. Luckily for central Europe in 1989 (and in contrast to the Balkans) there were institutions to go to (the European Union and Nato) and models to follow. The question for reformers was always: "how do they do it over there?". The only choice they had to make was which western state model (French, German, Anglo-Saxon) they wanted to follow. Twenty years later history is on the move again. A completely new generation of 20-year-olds has been born. Suckled and educated in conditions of freedom of speech and freedom to travel, they now stand at the verge of the job-market. They are self-confident as individuals but they have yet to articulate a future vision of their societies for themselves. Meanwhile their elders - who should know better - are beginning to scratch at historical sores. Old antagonisms are beginning to re-emerge: Poles and Lithuanians, Italians and Slovenes, Hungarians and Slovaks, Ukrainians and Poles, Croats and Slovenes. President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has expended energy in making the "Benes decrees" a political issue. Then there are the Russians. At the same time post-cold-war western societies now see no common enemy, and ask what the EU and Nato - those anchors for the post-Soviet states, are for. The main thing to remember about 1989 is that it was a time of non-violent change. Let's hope we manage to defend that legacy in the coming years. A great reversal The break-up of the Soviet Union almost two decades ago opened the possibility of a period of freedom for Europe which the continent had never before witnessed. The two main positive elements of the new European peace order were the inclusion of twenty-seven (and rising) European states in a joint European Union, and the emergence of a new cooperative and non-totalitarian Russia. Russia chose to open herself up and eventually ally herself with the west. The EU became Russia's main trading partner and Russia emerged as the EU's main energy supplier. President Yeltsin and his foreign minister Andrey Kozyrev even proposed creating a joint democratic system across the northern part of the planet consisting of Russia, the United States, the European Union, and Japan. They thought that this was the only way to protect Russian civilisation from challenges from the global south. During an early state visit to Poland, Yeltsin officially stated that Russia does not object to Poland's membership of Nato. The west gained great advantage from the dramatic changes of the 1990s in Russia. It welcomed Russia's revolution and the end of communism. The cold war ended peacefully. The US and the EU supported Russia with financial credits and other assistance, out of fear that a weak Russia may collapse and throw Europe into chaos. Now, in 2009, things look completely different. Vladimir Putin has returned Russia to authoritarian rule, but also strengthened the country's economic system. The mentality of the Russian elites and population has changed. In 1989-91 they celebrated the gain of freedom alongside the other nations of the former Warsaw Pact. Today, Russia sees these years not as its victory but as its defeat. Why did things go so wrong? Old walls, new fences 1989 symbolises a period that was anything but dull. At twenty years' distance, a definitive balance-sheet of these years of excitement is still elusive. Rein Müllerson is the Rector of Tallinn University Nord. He was professor and chair of international law at King's College, London (1994-2009), a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (1988-92), visiting professor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1992-94), and first deputy foreign minister of Estonia (1991-92) Rein Müllerson's books include Human Rights Diplomacy (Routledge, 1996) and Central Asia: A Chessboard and Player in the New Great Game (Kegan Paul, 2007). His latest work is Democracy - a Destiny of Humankind? A Qualified, Contingent and Contextual Case for Democracy Promotion (Nova, 2009) Also by Rein Müllerson in openDemocracy: "The world after the Russia-Georgia war" (5 September 2008) "Democracy: history not destiny" (27 November 2008) "Europe, America, Russia: the world-changing tide" (29 July 2009) If for Confucians who value stability and order the ancient Chinese phrase "May you live in interesting times" may have sounded like a curse, for people in eastern and central Europe - whose states were part of the Soviet bloc - these were years full of promise. There was a lot of idealism and naivety in the air and expectations were high. It is natural that not all promises were fulfilled. For many the glass seems half empty; for some it is indeed emptier than before. Thus in trying to answer the question "do we live better now than twenty years ago?", it would be difficult, even preposterous, to speak on behalf of every person, every social group or even every nation. There is certainly more freedom today, both in Europe and in the world as a whole. Most countries have also become more prosperous. However, quite a few societies have become less equal and several bloody conflicts have emerged whose facilitating circumstances at least (if not their roots) lay in those transformations. For the grieving mothers, sisters and daughters of Srebrenica there is no consolation in the aggregate increase of freedom. True, for the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, as well as for most people in former Soviet central Asia and the Caucasus, the collapse of the Soviet Union (for Vladimir Putin "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century") meant coveted independence; but many women in (say) Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan don't feel at all that they have become freer than when they were ruled from the Kremlin. Independence does not always lead to an increase in freedom. The Caucasus has seen several bloody conflicts that have created immense human tragedies, where many find it hard to see the benefits of the post-1989 changes. The unravelling of federal states like the Soviet Union and socialist Yugoslavia left many ethnicities discontented. It is indeed difficult to explain (I know it since I have tried it) why the Croats, Slovenes or Georgians (for example) deserve independent statehood while the Kosovars, Abkhazians or South Ossetians don't; and, when the latter have (thanks to external support) also declared themselves to be sovereign nations, why some deserve recognition while others don't. After all, the "uniqueness" of a case seems to be only in the eye of the beholder. A lesson of these twenty years is that authoritarian, multiethnic states may not survive transition intact; but that attempts to encourage dissolution and attempts to hold together entities whose parts don't want to live together can be equally dangerous. There aren't any ideal solutions; a choice between lesser evils is often all that is available. The enlargement of the European Union has in general been a blessing for those newly independent states already under Brussels's umbrella (or close to it). The EU is criticised on account of its bureaucracy, its waste, its democracy-deficit and other (real and exaggerated) sins; but it has benefited those who were lucky to be close to this postmodern union. Nato's role has been more controversial, and its transformation from cold-war alliance into a collective-security entity has been too slow. The processes of transformation in Europe that peaked in 1989 came in the decade after their tenth anniversary to be overshadowed by other developments: 9/11 and the "war on terror", the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the end of the unipolar moment and the rise of China, the global financial and economic crisis, nuclear proliferation, and acute environmental crisis. All have impacted on central and eastern Europe. The full influence of the Barack Obama administration is still to be felt; but in the region, its less confrontational attitude and more pragmatic foreign policy are not always to the liking of those who, having dismantled the old walls to the west would prefer to erect new fences to the east. Where one stands depends on where one sits. During these twenty years I have lived in three capitals (Moscow-Tallinn-London, and now again in Tallinn) and worked for a while for the United Nations in central Asia. This experience has given me a multi-perspectival view of the developments unleashed by the attempts of Mikhail Gorbachev to reform the Soviet Union. Such a view is not better or worse; it is simply different. An approach that may lack passion, and be capable of noticing the strengths of opposing policies and attitudes, tends to conclude in a recipe for reflection rather than a call to action. So be it. In any event, the balance-sheet is in my view positive, and not even every unintended consequence has been wholly negative; though with hindsight we see that sometimes too much was lost in the transition and too many left behind. The year 1989 has a different significance to many Chinese people than it has for those in Europe. The fact that the most important event of that year happened on the same day as the first democratic elections in Poland makes clear why. Emily Lau is a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco), representing The Frontier political group. Her website is here Also by Emily Lau in openDemocracy: "Hong Kong's long march to democracy" (14 March 2007) "Tiananmen, 1989-2008" (4 June 2008) "Tiananmen, 1989-2009" (4 June 2009) On 4 June 1989, the People's Liberation Army turned its guns on unarmed Chinese citizens who were demonstrating for clean government, social justice and civil liberties. The atrocities rocked Hong Kong to its foundation. Eight years later in 1997, Britain handed Hong Kong over to Chinese rule. During all these years, the Hong Kong people would neither forgive nor forget the bloody crackdown. This year, on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, more than 200,000 people flocked to Victoria Park to attend the candlelight vigil. The events in Beijing two decades ago have left an indelible mark on the psyche of many Chinese people. They have sharpened the people's awareness of the need to condemn violation of human rights and strengthened the people's resolve to struggle for democracy. In 1989, many people were thrown into jail without a fair trial and others were forced into exile. The Chinese government insisted the crackdown was necessary in order to avert chaos. Internationally, China became a pariah. In the past decade, significant economic advancements have turned China into a world power, with many countries queuing up to enter its enormous market. There is concern that economic development may make political reform even more remote and unattainable. However, an increasing number of Chinese people recognise that democracy, human rights and the rule of law are core values cherished by civilised countries. They also know - as did the citizens of eastern and central European countries in 1989 - that these core values are not manna, and will not just fall from heaven. If China wants to become a respected member of the international community, it must adopt the international standard of behaviour and drastically alter the brutal way it treats its own people. The June 4th massacre brings back painful memories. Hopefully the victims did not die in vain. In the mirror of the future One of the most amazing aspects of the magic year of 1989 is that no one really seems to care about it anymore. The happy feelings of those legendary months have clearly disappeared somewhere along the way. The manichean dichotomy of the world - west vs east (or reds), good vs evil - vanished too, leaving us all with a more complex and confusing world devoid of a universal "grand narrative". Tibor Desseffy is president of Demos Hungary, and a member of the European Council of Foreign Relations Also by Tibor Dessewffy in openDemocracy: "Jumping into the shining dark: the hope of European enlargement" (15 October 2002) "What's Left now?" (15 April 2009) In the west, the general sentiment regarding this undivided Europe is rather mixed, and even shows a touch of resentment towards the newcomers from the east; a subtle taboo may make this difficult to express openly, but in the fifteen countries that composed the European Union before the big enlargement of 2004 there is a widespread feeling that "we should not have let the barbarians in". By contrast, the people in question - the liberated, elevated populations of the east - tend to forget and ignore the freedom they claimed so recently. In the early 1990s the favorite metaphor to describe this stage was that of a hangover: after the carnival of history, dizziness and disorientation. Now it seems that we are caught up in a permanent and growing condition of distrust, social and political polarisation, rising extremism and a frustrated, violent public discourse. This, perhaps, may be the real (if hidden) relevance of 1989. Instead of the westernisation of the east, the easternisation of the west: that is, the general spread of a crisis of legitimacy, growing mistrust in political institutions, and the disaffection from democracy itself. These problems are no longer the property of an exotic other, but increasingly appear (in various stages and degree) all over the developed world. But eastern Europe, lacking the democratic tradition of checks-and-balances, arguably faces a harder time in coping with these dangerous trends. The tabloidisation and increasing asininity of the public sphere, for example, has an even more harmful impact in the region than in areas where quality segments of the media have had time to develop. But a famous comment attributed to Zhou Enlai - that it is too early to judge the French revolution's impact on world history - certainly applies to the mere two decades since 1989. It is indeed impossible to say whether Europe's east and west alike are sinking further into ineffectiveness and indifference, or whether they have touched bottom and can find a road back towards a vital, operating democracy. The good and bad news is that, characteristic of an age when everything has speeded up, we will not have to wait 200 years for an answer. How it ended Neal Ascherson is a journalist and writer. He was for many years a foreign correspondent for the (London) Observer, and reported on events in east-central Europe. Among his books are The Struggles for Poland (Random House, 1988), Black Sea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996; reprinted 2007), and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland (Granta, 2003) Also by Neal Ascherson in openDemocracy: "Tbilisi, Georgia: the rose revolution's rocky road" (15 July 2005) "The victory and defeat of Solidarnosc" (6 September 2005) "Ryszard Kapuscinski: from Poland to the world" (25 January 2007) "Poland after PiS: handle with care" (26 October 2007) "The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968" (1 February 2008) "After the war: recognising reality in Abkhazia and Georgia" (15 August 2008) What amazes me now is how long it took us - we in the west - to see what was happening. For journalists, it was a case of a great story blotting out a world-changing one. The communist regimes of Europe were transforming themselves, quarrelling openly. In the first part of that year, the East Germans snarled at the Poles, the Hungarians hinted that they would license free political parties, the Czechoslovak regime became slightly more tolerant to protest demonstrations. It was all very exciting. Careful sources cultivated over years were suddenly becoming wildly indiscreet, while Mikhail Gorbachev and his spokesmen muttered about "the Sinatra doctrine" ("I did it my way"). But it would be naive, wouldn't it, to think the Soviets meant literally that any communist country could now take any course without fear of Soviet tanks. So we thought that several nations - Poland, Hungary at least - would become almost free societies, communist in name and Warsaw Pact allegiance, but democratic in their tolerance of diversity. The East Germans and the Czechs would become angry and isolated, but would not succumb to the new freedoms around them. Above all, Moscow would never let go of Germany. Communism in Europe was brain-dead, but still had huge muscles. It wasn't until June that I realised what was underway. In the Europejski Hotel in Warsaw, we journalists read the inrush of election-result printouts and realised - suddenly - that Polish communism had collapsed. And even then, realising that a non-communist Polish government was about to upset the whole balance of Europe, we did not quite get it. Even then, none of us understood that the whole imperium from the Bug to the Rhine was no more than an old wasps' nest hanging from a roof - dried-out, abandoned by the stinging hordes, ready to fly to dust at a blow. But the people did get it. They had lost something - not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution. As they poured into the streets in Leipzig and Prague and Tbilisi and Riga, did they think they might be shot? Yes, possibly. In Georgia and Latvia and Lithuania, many were. But, with their patience, the people in the street had also lost their respect for the men with guns, the portly idiots in uniform. They could kill, but they were no longer real. A future without them had all at once become very real. We know so much more now about how 1989 happened. The fall of the wall was consequence, not cause: it was made inevitable by the opening of the Polish roundtable the year before. Above all, by Gorbachev, who went round Europe and the world unlocking the gates and telling everyone that the tanks would not come. Western diplomats and journalists didn't take him seriously. The party leaderships beyond the Elbe did, and they knew real fear. It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back? Patrice de Beer is former London and Washington correspondent for Le Monde Among Patrice de Beer's articles in openDemocracy: "May ‘68: France's politics of memory" (28 April 2008) "Sarkozyland: France's inward politics" (16 June 2009) "France's monarch-president: on the frontline" (20 October 2009) It is only in retrospect that great historical events§ seem inevitable. If anyone had been asked in 1988 what would happen in 1989, who would have mentioned the fall of the Berlin wall, or the Tiananmen massacre? The fact that what did happen came as such a surprise is a lesson in the follies of prediction and political judgment. The respected anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died at the age of 100 on the eve of this anniversary, deeply regretted having been a pacifist in 1938; he said about himself that when you have made such blunders you should never indulge in politics. In Europe, the events of 1989 led to the establishment of new nation-states, political freedoms and the extension of the European Union to the east. In China (and in other dictatorships - China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba) there was retrenchment. The difference is symbolised by the results of Mikhail Gorbachev's visits to that year to East Berlin and Beijing. He was welcomed with great public enthusiasm in both cities; but whereas in East Germany the hardliner Erich Honecker was soon replaced and the German Democratic Republic collapsed, in China what followed was the ousting of the relatively liberal CCP general-secretary Zhao Ziyang and the Tiananmen repression. We are still living with the results of that epic year. In France, 1989 was the 200th anniversary of the revolution of 1789. The president, François Mitterrand, organised a huge show on Bastille day, 14 July; at the last moment, a homage was added to those who on 4 June had paid in blood for having dreamed of loosening the post-Maoist regime. Perhaps, when political freedom comes to China, it too will come to seem inevitable. And then 1989 will again change shape in retrospect. A view across continents Takashi Inoguchi is professor emeritus, University of Tokyo and president, University of Niigata Prefecture Also by Takashi Inoguchi in openDemocracy: "The Japanese decision" (6 August 2003) "An ordinary power, Japanese-style" (26 February 2004) "America and Japan: the political is personal" (16 June 2004) In Europe, the year 1989 was momentous: it saw the fall of the Berlin wall, unleashed freedom, and even seemed for a time to promise the "end of history" in the continent. In Asia too it was a year defined by a single event with great consequences: the massacre of the Tiananmen demonstrators in Beijing, which crushed hopes of democratic change and unleashed a period of rampant wealth-creation. This contrast between Europe and Asia in political direction is striking. The crackdown in China reverberated across the region; it helped usher in an era of authoritarian democracy (or pseudo-democratic authoritarianism) which influenced most east Asian and southeast Asian countries. The economic aspects of 1989, however, suggest a deeper affinity between Europe and Asia. In both regions, the opening of borders and markets heralded the "end of geography". In Asia, this trend was symbolised by the crucial Plaza accord of 1985, which led to the easing of regulations on currency-trading. As a result, Pacific Asia and north America drew closer. The consequences for Japan were profound. Indeed, 1989 was also the peak year of Japan as Number One. From 1991, Japan's economy slowly deteriorated in a long recession that was to last for sixteen years.The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 hit the region hard, while the great American financial crisis of 2008-09 negatively affected east and southeast Asia as well as the rest of the world. Both emphasised the cross-border power of markets and currency-systems. The impact of the "end of geography" on political life is profound, if still being worked through. In Japan, the long-term hegemony of the Liberal Democratic Party ended in 2009. This reflected not just temporary disillusion, but the party's gradual loss of power over groups and individuals below the state level. The steady penetration of globalising forces into what was the much-vaunted organic unity of the nation-state is transforming politics in Japan. In this respect, Europe and Asia twenty years after 1989 do not seem so far apart. The Soviets force Germany to leave Nato in return for accepting reunification. The alliance languishes. The German capital remains in Bonn; Berlin's crumbling state is a constant reminder of the shattered dreams of 1989. The European Union accepts only three central European states as members. A fourth one never reached a democratic settlement after the soldiers fired at peaceful protesters in January 1990. Estonians and Bulgarians need visas to go to Paris or Warsaw, and they are unhappy. European integration stalls because France and Britain do not overcome their misgivings over German reunification. Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform Also by Katinka Barysch in openDemocracy: "Turkey: the constitutional frontline" (15 April 2008) "Europe and the Georgia-Russia conflict" (30 September 2008) "The real G20 agenda: from technics to politics" (16 March 2009)Timothy Garton Ash, marvelling about our lack of imagination, likes to quote Henri Bergson's phrase "the illusions of retrospective determinism". We assume that things could only turn out the way they have turned out. But of course it could have been so different. Tiananmen Square did happen and Mikhail Gorbachev ended up under house-arrest two years later. Many Europeans thought the European Union should not offer membership to countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. Nato membership for Poland and its neighbours seemed such a long shot. German reunification was supposed to take decades. Perhaps the outcome could have been even better. Yugoslavia could have joined the EU as one country in 2007. Slovakia could have grown by an average of 7% a year since independence, instead of the 5% it actually managed. Russia could have continued on the path towards democracy. What is the yardstick against which we measure the transformation of central and eastern Europe since 1989? Surely the fact that we have a reunified Germany in the middle of a more deeply integrated and prosperous European Union of twenty-seven countries can only be called a success? Most people in western Europe would probably agree. But the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD's) Life in Transition survey suggests that a lot of people in the former communist countries are ambivalent about what has been achieved. In the new EU members, fewer than half of the people say their lives are better now than in 1989, or that their political situation has improved. I hope that the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall makes more people remember how uncertain the outcome of the "velvet revolution" looked back than. The trial and the wall When they arrested Radovan K he knew that the times had changed. They did not arrest him because of the charges brought against him by a remote international tribunal. Those charges had been there for years, collecting dust. And those who decided that he should be arrested despised that tribunal as much as he himself did. But, the country that had sheltered him for so many years, the country that had allowed him to walk freely through its capital city, disguised as a picturesque witch-doctor and to ridicule international prosecutors, suddenly decided that it had other, more pressing priorities, such as joining the European Union. These new priorities happened to be incompatible with the hospitality accorded to RK. Being arrested because of changing times is something he probably felt as a major insult, judging by the sad "offended dignitary" mask he displayed to the judges in The Hague. It is a good sign that times are changing in Serbia. But, times have not changed in Srebrenica, quite the opposite. Time had stopped running there fifteen years ago and remained frozen since. The "international community" tried to repair the clock: it financed expensive forensic investigations; set up sophisticated laboratories to track and compare tiny samples of DNA, to attribute fragments of bones, reconstitute bodies and allow families to bury their loved ones. It was a costly investment; it did help, but not enough. For the widows and orphans of Srebrenica, the page has not been turned as yet. The trial could help to do so: an effective and transparent trial of RK, followed by an equally effective trial of his macabre executor RM, both brought to their logical conclusions in the form of unambiguous convictions. That, perhaps, could help to turn the page and reset the clock in Bosnia. This is the least one can hope for. But, the Hague trial(s) could do more than that. While we celebrate - and rightfully so - the tumbling of the Berlin wall and while Europe seems to be waking up again after a period of doubts about itself and its role in the world, it may be sobering and wise to remember that Srebrenica too is part of Europe's history after the fall of the wall. On the surface, the violent collapse of the former Yugoslavia seemed to be an exception, an ugly, confusing and absurd stain on the bright horizon of reunited Europe. The Balkan wars were spoiling the happy re-encounter of democracy and capitalism. Europe was shocked but unprepared to respond. Then, as the fires were gradually extinguished and the new borders set, the propensity of Europe to draw lessons from the Balkans tragedy faded away. The new democratic consensus made the fundamental debate of ideas almost obsolete and the analysis of conflict focused on the "deep-rooted and immutable" issues of cultural and ethnic identity. In a vicious circle of self-fulfilling prophecy, ethnicity and identity indeed started being looked at as hard facts in politics rather than fictional categories. The shift was reinforced by the economic crisis, raising unemployment and social marginalisation of ever larger groups of people - the existential uncertainty of impoverished and disempowered consumers who once used to be citizens. They sought refuge and shelter in identity. The temptation to resort to identity-politics remains latent in Bosnia, the former/late Yugoslavia and beyond. It takes different forms, from the harassment of Roma communities in parts of the "new Europe" to the "criminalisation" of illegal immigrants in "old Europe" (and their occasional forceful repatriation to war-zones such as Afghanistan). Europe still radiates the image of a land of peace, relative prosperity and tolerance. But strange monsters resurface from its past and stain that image. Rather that an exception to an otherwise merry-go-happy European journey towards continent-wide democracy, Srebrenica and the current trials at The Hague should be seen as a warning against complacency, an incitement to think about the broader and longer term effects of political manipulation of identity. Rewinding the nationalistic script and the sequence of events that led to Srebrenica should help understand these linkages and the current trials at The Hague could provide valuable food for thought. The Balkans are never far away. Arthur Ituassu is professor of international relations at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His website is here Also by Arthur Ituassu in openDemocracy: "Brazil at the crossroads" (15 August 2006) "Brazil: democracy as balance" (15 November 2008) "The price of democracy in Brazil" (21 May 2009) "Brazil's new political identity" (2 November 2009) A time of fusion The significant changes that took place in Brazil's politics and society in 1989 and afterwards are deeply connected to the larger global processes launched that year. In fact, they can be understood not as the product of the end of the cold war in the country but as the end of the cold war itself in Brazil. Brazil's self-image at the time was of Shakespearean proportions. After twenty years of a military regime (1964-85), it was preparing for the first democratic presidential elections of a new era amid a deep economic and social crisis. A race of twenty-two candidates was won by Fernando Collor de Mello, who defeated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a run-off (Lula eventually reached the office in 2002 after two more defeats). The whole experience generated a convulsive political debate in Brazil, in which a great number of ideas about Brazil's economic model and international integration circulated. The effect was a frontal challenge both to the framework of development that had prevailed since the 1950s (which continued Brazil's traditional economic isolation) and the export model established with the approval of the IMF after the debt crisis of the 1980s. But this challenge was made possible only by the exciting context of 1989: namely, the notion of an unprecedented crisis in Brazil, and of a world in a process of radical transformation as the cold war ended and borders (and markets) opened. The experience of 1989 in Brazil opened spaces for the arrival of new ideas focusing on the need for a more integrated economy and a major reform of the state. This crucial moment in Brazil's history belongs, in my view, within the wider dynamics of transformations of 1989. This approach, I believe, allows Brazil to be seen both as part of the global processes of the period yet also making its own contribution to it in terms of the development of a new political language and democratic framework in the country. Also in openDemocracy on 1989: Krzysztof Bobinski, "The Polish summer, 1989: a farewell salute" (2 June 2009) Fred Halliday, "What was communism?" (19 October 2009) Anthony Barnett, "Our normal revolutions: 1989 and change in our time" (30 October 2009) Also in openDemocracy, a series on the legacy of 1968: Neal Ascherson, "The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968" (1 February 2008) Todd Gitlin, "Regaining the kinetics of 1968" (11 April 2008) Sophie Quinn-Judge, Vietnam's 1968: a dissident's shadow" (30 April 2008) Paul Hockenos, "The 1968 debate in Germany" (2 May 2008) Patrice de Beer, "May 68: France's politics of memory" (28 April 2008) Fred Halliday, "1968: the global legacy" (11 June 2008) Also in openDemocracy in 2009, two symposiums on global events in the United States and Iran: "Barack Obama: hope, fear... advice" (19-23 January 2009) - contributions from thirty-seven authors, including Paul Rogers, Antara Dev Sen, Paul Gilroy, Ehsan Masood, Mariano Aguirre, Dejan Djokic, Emily Lau, Michele Wucker, John Hulsman, Onyekachi Wambu, Arthur Ituassu, Bissane El-Cheikh, Sergio Aguayo, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Noriko Hama "Iran's election: people and power" (15-18 June 2009) - contributions from Ramin Jahanbegloo, Anoush Ehteshami, Nazenin Ansari, Omid Memarian, Grace Nasri, Nasrin Alavi, Rasool Nafisi, Sanam Vakil, and Farhang Jahanpour

|Publication No: 4930||Search all ORC publications| Structural and surface characterization of cold deposited zinc sulfide thin films Saafie Salleh, M.N.Dalimin, and H.N.Rutt Zinc sulfide thin films with the thickness of about 0.5 μm were deposited using a thermal evaporation system onto oxidized silicon substrates at cold temperature (Tcold = -50°C) and at ambient temperature (Tambient = 25°C). A special substrate holder with a thermoelectric cooler was used to cool the substrates. The crystalline structure and the morphology of the films were investigated by X-Ray Diffraction and atomic force microscopy, respectively. XRD results show that the structure of the cold deposited ZnS thin film was completely amorphous. The ambient deposited ZnS thin film has a mixture of amorphous structure and polycrystalline structure with the preference orientation of (111) plane. The crystallite size of ambient deposited ZnS thin film was about 10 nm as calculated using the Scherrer formula. The AFM analysis revealed that the estimated grain size of cold deposited and ambient deposited ZnS were about 360 nm and 1220 nm, respectively. The surface roughness of the cold deposited ZnS thin film was greater than the surface roughness of the ambient deposited ZnS thin film. ICSSST 2010 Sarawak Malaysia 1-3 Dec (2010) Copyright University of Southampton 2006

2007 ORS § 358.905¹ Definitions for ORS 358.905 to 358.961 - • interpretation (1) As used in ORS 192.005 (Definitions for ORS 192.005 to 192.170), 192.501 (Public records conditionally exempt from disclosure) to 192.505 (Exempt and nonexempt public record to be separated), 358.905 (Definitions for ORS 358.905 to 358.961) to 358.961 (Time limitations on actions or proceedings) and 390.235 (Permits and conditions for excavation or removal of archaeological or historical material): (a) "Archaeological object" means an object that: (A) Is at least 75 years old; (B) Is part of the physical record of an indigenous or other culture found in the state or waters of the state; and (C) Is material remains of past human life or activity that are of archaeological significance including, but not limited to, monuments, symbols, tools, facilities, technological by-products and dietary by-products. (b) "Site of archaeological significance" means: (A) Any archaeological site on, or eligible for inclusion on, the National Register of Historic Places as determined in writing by the State Historic Preservation Officer; or (B) Any archaeological site that has been determined significant in writing by an Indian tribe. (c)(A) "Archaeological site" means a geographic locality in Oregon, including but not limited to submerged and submersible lands and the bed of the sea within the state’s jurisdiction, that contains archaeological objects and the contextual associations of the archaeological objects with: (i) Each other; or (ii) Biotic or geological remains or deposits. (B) Examples of archaeological sites described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph include but are not limited to shipwrecks, lithic quarries, house pit villages, camps, burials, lithic scatters, homesteads and townsites. (d) "Indian tribe" has the meaning given that term in ORS 97.740 (Definitions for ORS 97.740 to 97.760). (e) "Burial" means any natural or prepared physical location whether originally below, on or above the surface of the earth, into which, as a part of a death rite or death ceremony of a culture, human remains were deposited. (f) "Funerary objects" means any artifacts or objects that, as part of a death rite or ceremony of a culture, are reasonably believed to have been placed with individual human remains either at the time of death or later. (g) "Human remains" means the physical remains of a human body, including, but not limited to, bones, teeth, hair, ashes or mummified or otherwise preserved soft tissues of an individual. (h) "Object of cultural patrimony": (A) Means an object having ongoing historical, traditional or cultural importance central to the native Indian group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual native Indian, and which, therefore, cannot be alienated, appropriated or conveyed by an individual regardless of whether or not the individual is a member of the Indian tribe. The object shall have been considered inalienable by the native Indian group at the time the object was separated from such group. (B) Does not mean unassociated arrowheads, baskets or stone tools or portions of arrowheads, baskets or stone tools. (i) "Police officer" has the meaning given that term in ORS 181.610 (Definitions for ORS 181.610 to 181.712). (j) "Public lands" means any lands owned by the State of Oregon, a city, county, district or municipal or public corporation in Oregon. (k) "Sacred object" means an archaeological object or other object that: (A) Is demonstrably revered by any ethnic group, religious group or Indian tribe as holy; (B) Is used in connection with the religious or spiritual service or worship of a deity or spirit power; or (C) Was or is needed by traditional native Indian religious leaders for the practice of traditional native Indian religion. (L) "State police" has the meaning given that term in ORS 181.010 (Definitions for ORS 181.010 to 181.560 and 181.715 to 181.730). (2) The terms set forth in subsection (1)(e), (f), (g), (h) and (k) of this section shall be interpreted in the same manner as similar terms interpreted pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq. [1983 c.620 §1; 1993 c.459 §1; 1995 c.588 §1]

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U.S. financial transaction tax bill introduced in Congress By Hazel Bradford | February 28, 2013 4:08 pm Legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., would impose a 0.03% tax beginning in 2014 on non-consumer financial trading, including stocks, bonds and other debts after their initial issuance, and would include derivative contracts, options, puts, forward contracts and swaps. The backers say the law would discourage speculative and high-speed trading and raise as much as $352 billion over 10 years, according to estimates for a similar proposal floated in the last Congress. “We need the new revenue that would be generated by this tax in order to reduce deficits and maintain critical investments in education, infrastructure and job creation,” Mr. Harkin said in a statement. Previous versions of the idea have differed on whether to exempt pension fund transactions from the tax, and congressional aides said many details have yet to be addressed. Observers say it would take a lot of tweaking to get broader support. “With transaction taxes gaining traction in Europe, it is hardly a surprise that Sen. Harkin and Congressman DeFazio have decided to reintroduce their bill. But with many within the Obama administration — not to mention many or even most of their Democratic colleagues in Congress — opposed to this concept, it seems highly unlikely their bill will ever become law,” said Derek B. Dorn, partner in law firm Davis & Harman and former senior Senate tax aide.

Today’s PSO2 maintenance update brings us a new Emergency Quest called “Desert Guerrilla Warfare” (砂漠遊撃戦), plus a long list of other gameplay additions (including improvements to Hunter class, a new Client Order and more). Read on for the full scoop. “Desert Guerrilla Warfare” Emergency Quest Campaign Emergency Quest Campaign Date: 20 Feb 2013 (after maintenance) – 27 Feb 2013 (11:00 AM JPT, click to convert) Details: Save the cute Lilipa planet inhabitants in the new Emergency Quest that takes place in the Desert Area. Plus, complete this Emergency Quest in any of Normal, Hard or Very Hard mode within the campaign period above to receive special presents as gifts! Emergency Quest Level Requirements: - Normal: None - Hard: Class Level 20 - Very Hard: Class Level 40 “Desert Guerrilla Warfare” is set to appear at the following date & times (in JPT, click on times to convert): - 20 Feb 21:00, 24:00 - 22 Feb 14:00, 21:00, 24:00 - 23 Feb 14:00, 21:00, 24:00 - 24 Feb 14:00, 21:00, 24:00 - 25 Feb 14:00, 21:00, 24:00 - 26 Feb 14:00, 21:00, 24:00 Rewards: Grinder x99, “White Gift” (ホワイトギフト) room goods x2, Grinding Risk Reduction (-1) x4 *Rewards will be sent on 6 March (after maintenance) to all characters which have completed the campaign requirements. New Client Order A new Client Order called “How to Edit Your Arks Card!” (アークスカードの編集方法！) has been added for the NPC Jan (ジャン). Game Balance Updates Hunter Class Revisions The following revisions have been made to the Hunter class: - Increase in PP gain from normal attacks for Sword, Wired Lance and Partisan weapons - Quicker Just Attack input speed for Sword and Wired Lance - Increase in Gear Gauge gains from normal attacks for Sword and Wired Lance - Wired Lance Photon Art “Cerberus Dance” (サーベラスダンス) can now be guard-cancelled mid-execution Changes to Requirements for Equipping Certain Units A portion of Rarity ★2～★3 Units have had their equipping requirements changed. Matter Board Revisions The following Matter Board changes have been implemented: - Matter Board “The Day I’ve Been Waiting For” (この日を迎えるため): E-1 Garuf (ガルフ), A-5 Fongaruf (フォンガルフ) target levels have been changed to “Level 5 and above”. - Mater Board “Broken History, Once More” (壊れた歴史をもう一度): C-7 can be completed even without clearing all of NPC Zeno’s (ゼノ) client orders. Client Order Revisions Changes have been made to Client Orders for the following NPCs: - Coffee (コフィー): Changes in clear conditions, requirements and rewards for her client orders - Hans (ハンス): Enemy level requirements for a portion of his client orders have been reduced - Ravuel (ラヴェール): Enemy level requirements for a portion of her client orders have been reduced - Echo (エコー): Increased rewards for a portion of her client orders - Franka (フランカ): Changes in appearance of a portion of her client orders based on her Good Will level (the colored face next to the character icon) - Zeno (ゼノ), Echo (エコー), Afin (アフィン), Orza (オーザ), Lisa (リサ), Maloo (マール―), Hans (ハンス), Laura (ローラ): Changes to clear conditions for client orders at the beginning of the game for the above NPCs. - Conditions for the client orders to unlock Fighter, Gunner and Techter class have been revised. Story Quest Revisions Changes have been made that allow for easier attainment of a higher clear rank for the Story Quest “Beginning of the End” (終わりの始まり). Level 20 and below enemy HP levels have been reduced. Normal Mode: Cataderan (キャタドラン) and Snow Banther (スノウバンサー) behavior changes, Vol Dragon (ヴォル・ドラゴン) parameter regulations All Modes: Changes to behavior and reduced difficulty to Wolgada (ウォルガーダ) Emergency Trial Revisions Increase in Rare drops pattern for the Emergency Quest “Defeat Dark Falz Elder!” (ダークファルス・エルダー討伐). Medical Drink Revisions Addition of “Premium Effects” when drinking Medical Drinks while in possession of a Premium Set. Changes to a Portion of Item Names The characters α, β, γ, δ, ε that appear after Unit names have been changed to a, b, c, d and e respectively to allow for easier name input while searching. Changes to Matter Board Design & Search Functionality Improvements to the “Search for Parties in Other Blocks” (他のブロックへのパーティーを探す) Function When moving blocks to parties found using the “Search for Parties in Other Blocks” (他のブロックへのパーティーを探す) function, it is now possible to be immediately added to the parties that appeared on the list, instead of having to search for them again after moving blocks. Addition of 2 New Party Play Styles Addition of 2 new Party Play Styles, “Laid Back” (まったりと) and “Bustling” (にぎやかに), have been added New Story Quest Indication Changes Changes in how the 「！」 mark is displayed under the Quest Type selection list in the case of a divergence in Story Quests. Addition of Boss Drop Items for Falz Hunar (ファルス・ヒューナル) in Escape Quest Changes to Floating Island (浮遊大陸) Background Graphics Este “Make Pattern” Changes It is now possible to select the same Makeup Pattern for “Make Pattern Selection 1″ (メイクパターン選択1) and “Make Pattern Selection 2″ (メイクパターン選択2) at Este. Selecting the same pattern for both Make Pattern Selections will have subtle changes compared to individual Make Patterns (such as a deeper color makeup). Premium Set Revisions - Addition of “Premium Space” 「プレミアムスペース」 for common blocks on ships. Even if a block is full, it is still possible to move to that block, provided that a Premium Set is possessed and that there is space in that block’s Premium Space. - After using an Este Pass (エステ利用パス), it is now possible to continue editing a character for 60 minutes without consuming a new pass. Keyboard Settings Revisions It is now possible to specify the sensitivity of the input for the Step/Dodge action (long 長、medium 中、short 短、not used不使用) when hitting the same directional key twice on the keyboard. Arks Card Design & Editing Revisions Black List Revisions It is now possible to Black List someone from the Arks Search function at the Visiphone. Symbol Art Changes Symbol Art history will no longer be lost upon logging out or closing the game client. Addition of Start a New Game (はじめてゲーを開始する) Option Emergency Quest Notification Messages Will Now Specify Which Area They Will Take Place In Addition of “PSN Online ID/Player ID Name” (PSN オンラインID/プレイヤーIDネーム) Character Name Display Log Window Revisions - PA/Technic Disks picked up during quests will now also display their levels in the log window - In notifications to party members, Rare Weapon names will appear in yellow, and ? Special Weapon names will appear in light blue Target Information Revisions During quests, it is now possible to identify the number of Weapon and Unit slots as well as any attached abilities, from looking at the Target Information box on the top-left of the screen. Already used Tickets for Accessories, Voices and other additions will now display as grayed-out/black, to allow for better judgment when sorting/searching/purchasing Tickets. 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Norcross, Georgia: Twisted Guy - Not a Muffler ManTwisted Guy is an homemade, potbellied, gap-toothed hillbilly on a pedestal, with what looks like an American flag stuck to his face. - 4600 Buford Hwy, Norcross, GA - Stands on a pillar at the entrance to U Wrench It, an auto salvage yard. Northeast of town on the south side of US 23/Buford Hwy. Take I-85 exit 102, drive north on Beaver Ruin Rd, turn right onto US 23/Buford Hwy, then drive around 1.5 miles. On the right. - RA Rates: - Worth a Detour Visitor Tips and News About Twisted Guy - Not a Muffler Man I was reading about the Muffler Men and realized I have a photo of the one from Norcross, Georgia that Kim mentioned. The photo was taken on 11-23-97. I don't think he's a muffler man, more of a homemade version. He stands in front of a salvage yard.[Brannon, 03/08/1998] Nate Etheridge sent some 2002 pix of the deformed giant hillbilly. An American flag appears to be stuck to his face. I don't know whether he would qualify as a true muffler man, but "Chaz" located on Buford Hwy (SR 13) in Norcross, Georgia, appears to be a muffler man gone to seed (the height is right but the proportions are a little off). With his beer belly, you might consider him a "redneck" muffler man.[Kim, 02/04/1998]

PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION OF BLESSED JUNIPERO SERRA O Lord Jesus Christ, reward the apostolic zeal of Your servant, Blessed Junipero Serra, who departing his native Spain, labored for the salvation of souls in Mexico and California. Grant that, as we honor him for his dedication to You, he may be recognized as a saint in the Church. Through Blessed Junipero Serra's intercession, kindly grant the favor I request. Amen. The following is a translation of a letter, dated July 3, 1769, addressed by Junipero Serra to his future biographer, Father Palu: "MY DEAR FRIEND:--Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego , truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. The brethren, Fathers Cresp, Vizcaino, Parron and Gomez, are here with myself, and all are quite well, thank God. Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two. The San Antonio, although she sailed a month and a half later, arrived twenty days before the San Carlos, losing on the voyage eight sailors. In consequence of this loss, it has been resolved that the San Antonio shall return to San Blas, to fetch sailors for herself and for the San Carlos." "The causes of the delay of the San Carlos were: first, lack of water, owing to the casks being bad, which, together, with bad water obtained on the coast, occasioned sickness among the crew; and secondly, the error which all were in respecting the situation of this port. They supposed it to be thirty-three or thirty-four degrees north latitude, some saying one and some the other, and strict orders were given to Captain Villa and the rest to keep out in the open sea till they arrived at the thirty-fourth degree, and then to make the shore in search of the port. As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. For they were quite unable to launch the boat to procure more water, or to do anything whatever for their preservation. Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well. We have not suffered hunger or other privations, neither have the Indians who came with us; all arrived well and healthy." "The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. There are, however, many hills, but they are composed of earth. The road has been good in some places, but the greater part bad. About half-way, the valleys and banks of rivulets began to be delightful. We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile." "We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. The latter they carry on by means of rafts or canoes, made of tule (bullrush) with which they go a great way to sea. They are very civil. All the males, old and young, go naked; the women, however, and the female children, are decently covered from their breasts downward. We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives. But when we offered them any of our victuals, they always refused them. All they cared for was cloth, and only for something of this sort would they exchange their fish or whatever else they had. During the whole march we found hares, rabbits, some deer, and a multitude of berendos (a kind of a wild goat)." " I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." " From this port and intended Mission of San Diego, in North California, third July, 1769." " FR. JUNPERO SERRA." [excerpt from Seventy-five years in California , page 371, by William Heath Davis; see the Library of Congress website, American Memory ]

versión On-line ISSN 0718-0764 MORALES, G.V.; TIRADO, G.M.; CABRERA, D.E. y MERCADO, L.. Simulation of the Natural Gas Sweetening Process. Inf. tecnol. [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.6, pp. 33-36. ISSN 0718-0764. doi: 10.4067/S0718-07642005000600006. A simulation was carried out of the gas sweetening process (partial elimination of carbon dioxide) using the HYSYS simulator. Also, a parametric sensitivity analysis to identify the sensitive operational variables required to achieve quality specifications for commercial natural gas in relation to carbon dioxide content, while also improving the process efficiency, was performed. The gas sweetening process was carried out in a plate tower, using an absorbent solution of 40% w/w methyldiethanolamine (MDEA). The simulation was conducted using data streams from wells located in Salta (Argentina). The simulation showed that the MDEA solution flow, the MDEA temperature and the MDEA solution regeneration temperature were the most sensitive variables for obtaining important changes in the product values. Palabras clave : natural gas; gas sweetening; process simulation; HYSYS; methyldiethanolamine.

International Medical Corps Honors Humanitarian Partners at Annual Awards Celebration; Recipients Include BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Wells Fargo, Capital Guardian Trust’s Andrew Barth, Actress and Activist Sienna Miller International Medical Corps will pay tribute at its 2011 Annual Awards Celebration to a select group of dedicated supporters who have worked tirelessly to help the organization provide humanitarian relief in the world’s toughest environments. At this year’s event, to be held Tuesday, November 8 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the honorees are: Andrew Barth, receiving the Humanitarian Award for his extraordinary compassion and inspirational generosity. Actress Sienna Miller, International Medical Corps Global Ambassador, will receive the Global Activist Award for her remarkable commitment to and advocacy for those in greatest need. Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry® smartphone, will be presented with the Global Impact Award for its critical role in International Medical Corps’ emergency response in Haiti. Wells Fargo will receive the Global Citizen Award for its exceptional philanthropic investments in the global neighborhood. And Dr. Solomon Kebede, International Medical Corps’ Country Director in Darfur, Sudan, will accept the Founder’s Award for his many years of tireless dedication and commitment. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to honor these remarkable individuals and organizations, whose efforts have been critical to our lifesaving work said, Nancy A. Aossey, President & CEO of International Medical Corps. “During a tremendously challenging year that saw dramatic and often devastating change throughout the world, they all stepped forward and enabled us to respond to disaster, conflict, and disease, helping those most vulnerable to heal and rebuild.” Jarl Mohn, whose Mohn Family Foundation is a long-time supporter of International Medical Corps, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Since its founding in 1984, Los Angeles-based International Medical Corps has delivered more than $1.2 billion in emergency relief and health care services to tens of millions of people in more than 65 countries, including during the Rwandan genocide, the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the Indian Ocean tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti, and the current famine in East Africa. To purchase tickets or find more information about the 2011 Annual Awards Celebration: https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=595 Since its inception 27 years ago, International Medical Corps’ mission has been consistent: relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster, and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated populations to self-reliance. For more information visit: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org. Also see on Facebook and follow on Twitter.

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WASHINGTON, Forty U.S. non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are calling on Congress to fully fund Washington's share of U.N. peacekeeping operations, many of which have been promoted by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Throughout the twentieth century, the list of the world's great powers was predictably short: the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, and northwestern Europe. The twenty-first century will be different. China and India are emerging as economic and political heavyweights: China holds over a trillion dollars in hard currency reserves, India's high-tech sector is growing by leaps and bounds, and both countries, already recognized nuclear powers, are developing blue-water navies. The National Intelligence Council, a U.S. government think tank, projects that by 2025, China and India will have the world's second- and fourth-largest economies, respectively. Such growth is opening the way for a multipolar era in world politics. The US uses its aid budget to bribe those countries which have a vote in the United Nations security council, giving them 59 per cent more cash in years when they have a seat, according to research by economists. South Korea's former foreign minister Ban Ki-moon assumes duties as the new U.N. secretary-general on Jan. 1. Ban takes over a cash-strapped organisation described- rightly or wrongly- as mostly mismanaged, inefficient, over-staffed and politically-manipulated primarily by the United States, and to a lesser extent by the remaining four veto-wielding big powers: Britain, France, China and Russia. 10 December 2006 marks the 58th birthday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. During the last 60 years many achievements have been made in the name of human rights, but considerable challenges still remains to be fulfilled in making human rights an irreversible reality in the world.

Re: [About Unicode] Why the symbol LOGICAL NOT is missing from > I've never heard of those... I take it you are not a mathematician. I don't read Arabic (or Hebrew or Russian or Chinese or several other languages that don't use a latin alphabet), so I wouldn't comment on the usability of the symbols used in those languages. mathematics uses a very rich alphabet, perhaps you don't read mathematics, which is fine, but in that case you probably shouldn't comment on the usability of its alphabet. for example http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf (the upside down A for "forall" is the first character on that chart) > it's not so much about like or dislike... but rather doing markup in such > a way that the xml can easily handle what we do most... It's odd that you should say that as I thought you were proposing a data format that looked a bit like XML but unable to be read by XML parsers due to unescaped &'s?. > and for many that is transporting business data around the place. the original poster gave no indication that was what he was doing. It was a perfectly reasonable question. he had used LOGICAL AND and LOGICAL OR (which by the way look like ^ and v more or less) presumably in a mathematical expression and was looking for the not operator so searched for it (in vain) under the name LOGICAL NOT which wasn't a bad guess. But the Unicode names of characters (even characters used for expressing logic) have more to do with history than logic and so this character is called NOT SIGN so he didn't find it, hence the posted question. David (Co chair of the W3C Math Interest Group, and co editor of the MathML spec, so I have an interest in using Mathematical symbols in XML documents:-) ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY! Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE! Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format

San Antonio Ledger, 12 December 1857 To the editor of the Ledger: In numbers 27 and 28 of the month of December 1853 of this newspaper, the author of these notes wrote about the invasion of General Bernardo Gutiérrez and other events occurring in 1812 and 1813. It was Gutiérrez who brought from the United States those six hundred or more North Americans and volunteers, intrepid auxiliaries of Mexican independence. They fought more than ten months against the troops of the king of Spain at the walls of Goliad and on the fields of the Rosillo and Alazan. The insurgents finally succumbed in the bloody battle of Medina on the 18th of August, 1813, defeated by the superior force brought by veteran Spanish General Joaquin de Arredondo from the interior of Mexico. It seems that this history would be of no little interest for your readers, especially for the present residents of Goliad, San Antonio, and the surrounding area, where their delightful meadows and crystalline springs were splattered with the blood of defenders of liberty that was spilled many years ago. It would seem to be of no little interest to read and understand now, through the mouth of an eyewitness, about the origin of the many conflicts in which the heroic native scions of San Antonio took an active part beginning in the year 1811. I write this booklet as an inveterate devotee to historical materials, without literary pretensions, against all mercenary purposes, and feeling myself free and above those who do such for profit. The events I narrate were fixed in my retina at the time they occurred, and I have no need to resort to periphrases or allegories, as in mythological accounts. Paper, pen and ink, and an ardent desire that some able and conscientious future historian will have the materials to enhance the history of this my beloved land, have caused me to write this which is, without pecuniary return, the basis of my moral ambition. The public will have seen the history of Texas written by the deceased Yoakum. While in many respects the work is appreciable and precise, it is plagued by a number of inexactitudes, such as this example: having Governor Antonio Cordero among the fourteen Spanish officials dying on the Rosillo by having his throat cut. It is certain that Cordero lived at least until 1821 in Mexico. Likewise, Yoakum says that the father of Captain Antonio Delgado was shot in San Antonio and his head put on public display---yet we know well that the venerable man died of old age and sorrow at the Trinity River while Elizondo was pursuing the fugitives from the battle of Medina. In this manner, Colonel Yoakum falls into other small errors which, although they do not damage the substance of his history, do impart an inconceivable inconstancy, such as when he says: that because of wars with the Indians, the troops of the Alamo were compelled during the year 1785 to remain within the walls of the mission. It is true that this happened, but it occurred when these troops were at Alamo de Parras in Mexico, long before they came to this Valero mission---which was called by that name since its foundation. It only took on the name "Alamo" after the troops of Alamo de Parras came to the Valero Mission, which was during the years of 1803 to 1804, and they remained at this mission continuously until the revolution of . These motives and the urging of some of my friends, who have desired to know about the most important contemporaneous events that happened in our city, have persuaded me to write this brief chronicle. I do not write for the heartless nor for the egoists-to whom the glories and misfortunes of men of another origin and language matter little or not at all. I write for the humanitarian and cultured who understand how to respect and empathize with the tribulations of a valiant people who have struggled in the midst of their own ignorance guided only by an instinct for their liberty, against enemies so superior that they may be placed alongside the most free and fortunate nations of all mankind-such as the nation with the flag of stars. I write in order to inform our Americans, however indignant some of them among us may be, who with base, aggressive pretexts want to uproot from this classic land its legitimate people who are the descendants of those who fifty years ago spilled their blood searching for the liberty of which we now vaingloriously boast. Beginning with the years 1807 and 1808, when it appeared that the Spanish nation was breathing its last gasps as a result of the invasion by that prodigious conquistador, Napoleon I, Mexicans began quietly planning to shake off the ominous yoke of the mother country. Not because it was dismembered and nearly absorbed by the formidable conquistador, but because they could no longer tolerate the swarms of petty Spanish tyrants. These, in their angry impotence, in their frenetic delirium which caused the ruptures in the Spanish peninsula, inflicted unimaginable cruelties on the peaceful scions of Mexico, accompanied with violent pecuniary extortion in order to divide the booty among the tumultuous juntas and governments which were the provincial governments of Spain. Never have people of the land seen a mosaic more confusingly inlaid with orders and decrees, all intended for the oppression and plunder of the unfortunate Mexican people. On the 8th of September, 1808, a French General named Octaviano D'Alvimar arrived in San Antonio. It was said he had traveled incognito through the United States and entered Texas through Nacogdoches. It was precisely D'Alvimar whom Napoleon had sent as the proclaimed viceroy of Mexico. We saw him enter the plaza of San Antonio with his flamboyant uniform. Covered with insignia and brilliant crosses, it challenged the amiable sun-which nevertheless continued to illuminate the plaza of San Antonio until its decline in the west. But it appears that General D'Alvimar was yet unaware of the reverses in fortune of his master the emperor, and that the arrogant and indomitable Spanish people were struggling through rivers of blood to throw off the French domination. He was unaware that astute inquisitorial orders, peculiar to Spanish diplomacy in emergent transactions, were now anticipated by the viceroyalty to the end that D'Alvimar be taken prisoner and sent under guard to the capital of Mexico. This was the determination of Antonio Cordero, governor of the province. It appears that this incident was accompanied by Spanish triumphs on the Peninsula and more terror for the conspirators' activities in America, but nevertheless the Mexicans continued their secret conspiracies to win independence from their colonial rulers. On the other hand, reports that were arriving from the peninsula each day were gloomy and alarming. The troops of Napoleon triumphed everywhere and thousands of Spaniards were swearing obedience to the French emperor. Finally it was learned that a French magistrate, sent by Napoleon, would soon come to receive and take charge of the Viceroyalty of Mexico. The priest of the town of Dolores, Miguel Hidalgo, was one of the conspirators. The shout for independence was prepared for a certain day, but a Mexican Arnold entrusted with the secret gave the warning the Viceroy of Mexico had anticipated. The priest Hidalgo gave the shout at midnight of the sixteenth of September-even a delay of two hours probably would have seen him a prisoner on the way to Mexico, with all hope of independence dashed. sdct Viva Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe; and mueran los Gachupines. This was the first invocation that occurred to him in those portentous moments. Upon such fragile auspices a revolution of fruitful results was born that has raised a federal republic that is a member of the family of nations. Let those who judge these anomalies with astonishment pause and contemplate the times and the capacities of the people there. Let them put themselves in the place of the patriot Hidalgo, already denounced as a traitor before the implacable despot, the Viceroy of Mexico. Imagine being in a pressing situation without the slightest plan of operation, without money, arms, or troops, having no more than a few hundred Indians from his own village. Neither the rigorous mind of a Washington nor the iron will of a Napoleon I could have led these chaotic, backward masses to so great an enterprise without motivating them by means of vengeance and superstition, just as this illustrious and unfortunate patriot was compelled to do. The plunder and slaughter, a necessary consequence, began at that point. But how powerful are the instincts of a people who fight for a just cause! The Mexicans, in the midst of those inevitable disorders, triumphed everywhere by the end of 1810. All across the kingdom the people arose in mass, expelling, imprisoning and putting Spaniards to the sword. The echoes of the insurgent triumphs were heard into all the most remote provinces and this day arrived in San Antonio de Bexar. A garrison of two thousand soldiers of the king covered. this city and military points across to the Sabine River, their principal orders being to guard the Province of Texas at all hazards against initiatives by the United States. Here the officials and troops were more clever than those of Nuevo Leon and Nuevo Santander. Each soldier, one could say, was a citizen---capitalist---a distinguished calling to which the Viceroy of Mexico was passionately devoted. Is it surprising that at this time San Antonio was at the height of its prosperity? Hundreds of thousands in gold and silver coin came into the city every two months for the diligent maintenance of the troops. It was a common sight to see a soldier expend a hundred pesos on a meal and with the same nonchalance with which today we invite a friend to have a glass of beer. San Antonio Ledger, 19 December 1857 Despite all these individual pleasures that were being enjoyed, the life of a great people is rooted in the totality of human society. The citizens and troops of San Antonio began .to manifest some anxiety about the political fortune of Mexico, and rumors and accusations against the Spanish governors now were noted in conversations among friends. The descendants of the first Islanders, the settlers of Bexar, its legitimate original masters, found bold and daring ways to humiliate the arrogance of the Spanish governors. The Delgados, Arochas, Leales, Traviesos and others had established privileged families in Bexar that were considered nobility from the time their fathers sailed from the Canary Islands to settle in the Province of Texas in the year 1730. Here their well-honed pride and zealous indignation against the despotic actions of the Spanish governors germinated. There could have been no opportunity more suitable for these belligerent nobles than the one provided by the reports from Mexico regarding the triumphs gained by the priest Hidalgo and the other leaders of the insurrection. There was, nevertheless, considerable resistance to declaring a military rebellion. The principal military leaders were of Spanish origin. There were others of Mexican origin, but they restrained themselves with respectful delicacy from initiating the first rebellion against the rights of the monarchy that had ruled for three hundred years. To avoid this conflict of interest, the citizens chose individuals from the army who were neither officials of high rank (for the delicacy of the situation would make them useless for the enterprise), nor simple soldiers whose awareness of their inferiority would compel them to waver in the hour of danger. Thus three sergeants were selected to seduce the army: Miguel Reyna, Blas José Perales and Trinidad Perez. They put all the troops under arms in the barracks that were located in La Villita, to the east of San Antonio. At dawn on January 22, 1811, they offered command of this army to the militia captain of Nuevo Santander, Juan Bautista Casas, who accepted and put himself at the head of fifteen hundred men. Casas marched in columns toward the plaza of government. Accompaning him as representatives of the citizens, were Gavino Delgado, Francisco Travieso and Vicente Flores. Dawn was just beginning to break when the battalions, now in closed column, faced the plaza of government. Captain Casas, as ranking officer, entered and made prisoners of the Governors Salcedo, Herrera and other Spanish officials, who still slept the placid sleep of twilight, confident that no one would move against their omnipotent persons. This memorable day of January 22, 1811, was the first occasion in which the Mexicans of San Antonio de Bexar announced their desire to break forever the chains of their ancient colonial slavery. This was the day in which they no longer attempted to, restrain the trembling, guttural voice that pervades the long and servile life, and they were able to speak out loudly to those who had been the absolute masters of the Mexicans. But the sudden transformation of that day, in which the slaves were elevated to masters and the arbiters of their oppressors and masters of yesterday, generated a bitter vanguard directed against those called gachupines. Captain Casas hastened to send the fourteen Spanish officers, well laden with chains, to the interior of Mexico. The sixteenth of February of the same year a formidable guard, commanded by the same Don Vicente Flores and sergeant Miguel Reyna, set out from Bexar with orders to deliver the prisoners to the insurgent Brigadier Pedro Aranda, who was at the Presidio del Rio Grande. Everything seemed to indicate the sure triumph of Mexican independence, and there was scarcely anyone who did not envy the glory of those who had dared to put the Spanish oppressors in chains. But human nature being what it is today, the more vehement the outbursts of the courageous spirit, the more fleeting its duration may be. Very few days passed before ominous signs appeared that were badly disguised---like the sick person who affects not to know the gravity of his illness in order to deny the approaching end of his existence. No omens could have signified more tragedy than those of January 22. Casas and the other Coryphaeus feigning not to recognize the pervasive danger, freely permitted the masses of the town and the troops of the garrison to discuss the news that was arriving from Mexico, news which exaggerated the setbacks suffered by the priest Hidalgo and which painted a desperate situation for the armies of independence. It was unfortunately the truth! The glories of Hidalgo, Allende, Abasolo and other illustrious captains of independence had been eclipsed near the capital of Mexico and, with their defeated army, they were in retreat toward the provinces of Coahuila and Texas. They were hauling more than five million in gold and silver coin with the goal of reaching the United States and raising a large army of American volunteers. What inscrutable judgments of Providence on high! What mortal man dares to question its divine dispositions? But permit us, brazen in our filial sentiment, to ask: why did you not permit those unfortunate heroes and their rich cargo to reach the classic land of the United States of the North, thus avoiding those ten years of cruel war in which more than five hundred thousand Mexicans disappeared, dead on the battlefield and by execution? But let us throw a respectful veil over mysteries that should not be exposed by human reason and continue with the events that took place in San Antonio de Bexar. Captain Juan Bautista Casas was a native of San Fernando in the old province of Nuevo Santander. He was a member of the militia company of Croix and still was when he died at the age of thirty-six years. A capitalist in his country, he nevertheless served the military calling with honor, and his talents while moderate were disinterested and honorable. He accepted the command offered by the citizens and the military garrison of San Antonio because he believed that the time had arrived to fight the natural enemies of his country, and because above all he was a man of the type whose excessive urbanity made him incapable of resisting overtures and importunity. This is the man placed at the head of that revolutionary volcano which burst forth from a people without a war strategy, without political principles, and with no guide other than the blind impulse for vengeance. These discordant elements enabled the Spaniards to introduce their emissaries and proclamations, with which they easily manipulated the revolutionary spirit into what was called the counter-revolution---the return to the obedience of the tyrant-king of Spain. Father Juan Manual Zambrano, a native of Bexar, was designated to effect the counter-revolution in favor of the Spaniards. Gigantic and obese, arrogant in manner, dynamic and volatile as mercury, he possessed a special talent for total disorder. It is not my intention to rebuke the conduct of those who took part in this counter-revolution that hastened the unfortunate Casas to the execution block, but rather to deplore and pity the errant reasoning of those who, imbued with the false honor of being faithful to the most detestable tyrant of Europe, made an ostentatious show of plunging the fratricidal dagger into the heart of their Mexican brothers. Thus they hammered the rivets of their own chains, condemning themselves to trudge sorrowfully behind the plodding Spanish ox to earn their daily bread. sdct On March 3, 1811, Juan Bautista Casas was surprised and taken prisoner by the said priest, Juan Manuel Zambrano, in the same government offices where, thirty-nine days before, he had imprisoned the governors with the aid of these same troops. Casas surrendered with the serenity of a courageous man. But upon seeing himself surrounded by bayonets of the same men who a few days ago had been his friends and conspirators, he spoke to them in anger: "Are you the same individuals who placed me in this office and now you must add infamy to treason by capturing me and delivering me to the execution block?" "Silence, wretched traitor," replied one of his captors with the same fanatical and wordy judgments used by the inquisitors when they were going to burn the so-called heretics on a pile of green wood in the holy name of God. "Silence, and submit to the justice and mercy of our most beloved sovereign, our Lord, Fernando VII. Long live the king!" At this thunderous shout the bells began ringing continuously, the cheers from the troops and the people altogether created a pharisaic bedlam, like savage cannibals surrounding the victim they are about to sacrifice. Then it was announced that the unfortunate Captain Casas was in chains, and the inhabitants of San Antonio returned to the status of vassals of the king of Spain. San Antonio Ledger, 2 January 1851 Let us leave poor Casas, groaning in his chains within a filthy and lonely prison cell, and survey what was happening at this time on the other side of the Rio Grande. We have already said that, since February 16, Governors Salcedo, Herrera, and other officers had been confined in prison-making a total of fourteen prisoners. Upon their arrival in Monclova, the Mexican Colonel Ignacio Elizondo declared in favor of the king, and Salcedo, Herrera, and the officers were set at liberty. Together, they plotted with cunning schemes the surest way to lure the priest Hidalgo with his army, which was still in the city of Saltillo, in order to take him prisoner by means of deception. If successful, it would follow as a matter of course that all the provinces of Northern Mexico would, one after the other, declare for the king's cause. President Zambrano foresaw all this from Bexar and with cunning revolutionary strategy immediately dispatched two spies, Captains José Munoz and Luis Galan. They set out March 8, with adequate double instructions to be utilized in the event that they should encounter the priest Hidalgo or the generals of the king-for the idea was to be well received if stopped by either of the belligerent parties. It inspires compassion rather than horror to contemplate the bewildering entanglements to which the Machiavellian education of the superior Spanish leaders had led the unwary Mexicans. They encouraged among them the most contemptible deeds of weak wills and of treason with the base purpose of destroying every generous impulse in their bosoms, converting them into wretched instruments of their own destruction. Upon arrival in Monclova, Munoz and Galan saw that everyone was already disposed in favor of the king. They told the Spanish governors the agreeable news that the traitor Casas was imprisoned in Bexar and relayed the congratulations of the faithful vassals of His Majesty from all of Texas. Immediately they dispatched an express courier to inform President Zambrano of the happy result of his diplomatic mission and at the same time requested that he send the prisoner Casas to Monclova as soon as possible, where he was to await trial for the crimes he had committed against the king. But Zambrano was now a consumate master of intrigue, more so than his Spanish teachers, and he delayed sending Casas until having assured himself of the state of affairs in the interior of Mexico. When he received a reliable report about the well-organized plan in Monclova by which the entire army of the priest Hidalgo would without doubt be made prisoner, Zambrano transferred the illustrious captive on the 2nd of July, 1811, under a guard headed by the sergeant of La Bahia, Juan José Calderon. Zambrano also departed on the 26th of the same month. Accompanied by his government junta and all the troops of San Antonio, he advanced to the city of Laredo. Casas arrived at Monclova around the middle of July. Cordero and the other Spanish governors were there. Monclova was the focus for all the illustrious Castilians, and how they looked forward to Sicilian vespers for the unfortunate Hidalgo. Casas faced criminal charges before a military council of war, of which Cordero was president, and was unanimously condemned to face the firing squad. When the prosecutor read the death sentence Casas knelt, listened to it, and then according to custom kissed that paper containing the fatal message. Poor Casas! He was a traditional and sincere Christian. When he was asked if he had anything to say concerning his sentence, he replied, "No! because I know that I have failed my sovereign. I wish only one favor of his royal clemency, and that is that a small portion from the sale of my property be given for the support of my poor aged mother during her few remaining days. The royal treasures of His Majesty are enormous and it would not affect them in the slightest degree if a small sum were deducted from my own estate. Likewise, I would request that two hundred pesos which I owe be paid which I am in no position to pay if you confiscate all my property after my death. I have nothing more to ask." As it was already known that the army of the priest Hidalgo was due to arrive at Acatita de Bajan, the execution of Casas was postponed. On July 27, the priest Hidalgo was made prisoner with thirty-two generals, his entire staff, two thousand soldiers, and a little more than three and one-half million pesos in gold and silver coin. Everything fell into the hands of Elizondo and the governors. Hidalgo and most of the generals were taken to Chihuahua and were shot. After this event, that is to say, on August 1, Casas was placed in the death cell, and on August 3 he was executed in Monclova at the foot of Zapopa Hill. His head was ordered to be cut off and sent to San Antonio. Although it arrived in only three and one-half days, the head had already decayed and it was necessary to bury it. General Bernardo Gutiérrez, then a colonel in the army of Hidalgo, upon learning what had happened July 27, became a fugitive. After traveling through the deserts of Texas, he arrived in the United States from whence he brought the American volunteers for the campaign of 1812 and 1813. We have seen the ephemeral duration of Mexican Independence in Texas in 1811, the tragic end of Casas, and how all hopes of liberty were extinguished. Thus the Spanish governors returned from Monclova to assume their former positions of command. President Zambrano and the government junta delivered the command over to the officials of the king. The people of San Antonio returned to their limited options of blindly obeying one king of Heaven, another of the earth, and laboring to earn their daily bread. If we contemplate this complacent conformity, of an untutored community which entrusted its entire ambition and both its worldly and eternal happiness to the pleasing of both a celestial and terrestrial sovereign, the question naturally arises: But even if such complacent peace resulting from blind obedience were to be desired, new aspirations were already entering the impetuous hearts of the noble Islanders, transmitted from the neighbor republic to the north, across the seas and through the narrow trails of what then were the unsettled lands of Texas. The appeal of ideas and customs from beyond the mountains faded before the incomparable satisfaction of a people king in the Americas; the tottering Spanish rulers would very soon be broken apart by the moral strength of republican institutions. These noble Islanders harbored such ideas, but acted on them much later and then with no more success than to bring ruin upon themselves and to be nearly exterminated from the land which had given them birth and which their forefathers had conquered. In November of 1812, barely sixteen months after the catastrophe of Acatita de Bajan, Bernardo Gutiérrez entered Texas. With that little army of Leonidas North Americans he took La Bahia and later San Antonio, on April 1, 1812. Immediately the Delgados, Arochas, Traviesos, Leales, and many others, recalling how much they had suffered the previous year for the cause of independence, joined Gutiérrez and his army, body and soul. They fought with passion and zeal against the might of the terrible Arredondo. But Arredondo triumphed in the famous battle of Medina, and these patriots lay dead in the fields of battle and at the places of execution. A few emigrated to the United States never to return. These courageous souls lost everything. Mexican independence, germinated in the blood of these martyrs, was finally declared in September 1821. But what ingratitude! Not one single murmur ever crossed the mountains of Anahuac to console the broken remnant of those brave patriots. Such is the end for heroes! Perhaps their renown would be more complete if they were to receive the miserable compensation due from their fellow men. To complete the picture of misfortune, the few descendants who survive in San Antonio are disappearing, murdered in full view of a people who boast of their justice and excellence. Consolacion Leal heroine of those days, died a few months ago, killed by a Spaniard, and Antonio Delgado was riddled by bullets from the rifle of an American bastard. May Divine Providence use these historical commentaries to stir generous hearts to treat with more respect this race of men who, as the legitimate proprietors of this land, lost it together with their lives and their hopes, to follow in the footsteps of those very ones who now enjoy the land in the midst of peace and plenty. sdct SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS

Sensor Web: Integration of Sensor Networks With Web and Cyber Infrastructure Source: University of Melbourne As sensor network deployments grow and mature there emerge a common set of operations and transformations. These can be grouped into a conceptual framework called Sensor Web. Sensor Web combines cyber infrastructure with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and sensor networks to provide access to heterogeneous sensor resources in a deployment independent manner. In this chapter the authors present the Open Sensor Web Architecture (OSWA), a platform independent middleware for developing sensor applications. OSWA is built upon a uniform set of operations and standard data representations as defined in the Sensor Web Enablement Method (SWE) by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

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My efforts to save the old hall clock In answer to John Wood's query regarding the De Montfort Hall clock, it was taken down in the 1960s as being unsafe, during a refurbishment. It languished in a storage area along with the old steel stackable chairs for many years until I heard word that, along with the chairs, it was going to be scrapped. Not wishing to see this happen and working for Gent, the company which originally made and installed it, I persuaded the company to take it on board and see if we could restore it. The clock was initially stored in the warehouse in the old Temple Road factory, awaiting a management decision to go ahead. Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.ukView details Our heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs. Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk Contact: 01858 468192 Valid until: Friday, May 31 2013 Over a number of years, the company was subjected to a number of takeovers. The clock was moved to a factory in London Street, to which Gent had moved part of its production. Wood-cased products were made for the company by a firm also housed in one of the units in London Street, which offered to restore the case and the complete clock was taken by them. Gent Company ownership and management changes led to a cessation of clock manufacturing. Gent moved to a new factory and office building on the Hamilton industrial park in 1989 and the old factory, along with the London Street operation, were sold off. The woodworking firm also changed hands, moved and eventually ceased trading. During this time, all traces of the clock's location were lost and it may have been scrapped, as was the original intention 40-odd years ago. I doubt that the clock now exists, but it would be interesting if it did turn up. In December this year, I am putting on a pictorial display at the Wigston Records Office which illustrates Gent's involvement in designing, manufacturing and installing clocks from 1900 to the 1980s, when they ended this part of the business. Copies of the history of the company and other clock-related publications will be on sale. Colin Reynolds, FBHI, retired Gent employee and company historian.

For some obese people, cutting food intake merely hikes up the amount of food being digested. To be indelicate, instead of a lot of food passing out as turds, bowel movements diminish drastically because almost all is being digested. Worse, sometimes dramatic cuts in food intake can lower blood sugar to the point of weakness, yet stored body fat is still untouched. The problem seems to be not just that obese people have to eat a lot to support the weight, and if they don't their blood sugar drops too low, before fat reserves can be converted. It seems to be the case that fat cells may not give up the reserves till the equivalent of starvation sets in. Dieting is one thing, but practically starving yourself is another. I'm not so sure we can redcue this to a simple lack of will power. Perhaps the people whose fat cells are less stubborn are more fortunate than strong-willed? I've read that the body can even start absorbing protein from muscle before it can access some fat reserves, particularly the kind called "brown fat." This seems rather extreme and I don't know if this is reliably confirmed. One early report I read said that obese people often had a more varied suite of intestinal bacteria. Since these bacteria play a role in digestion, the implication is that the food they ate was more efficiently digested, providing a surplus of energy than others with a more impoverished intestinal flora. The result is that the same, normal seeming diet results in weight gain. It's not really a secret that weight gain has a ratchet effect, where it's harder to lose than to gain. How much harder, again, seems to have more to do wtih physiological factors than will power. There is a very high noise-to-signal ratio in nutrition, which historically has been a paradise of cranks and cultists. As such, it is remarkably easy to incorporate social prejudices about personal responsibility, which usually means an imputation of personal inferiority. I think it would be wiser to be cautious. Is weight gain while aging truly a sign of degeneration of character? Or is it a side effect of slowing metabolism?

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A Facelift for Title IX? The Department of Education is tweaking the law to encourage single-sex schools. 12:00 AM, May 10, 2002 • By BETH HENARY ON WEDNESDAY, the Bush Education Department signaled its willingness to examine the rigid limitations that Title IX, the federal non-discrimination policy concerning sex in education, has placed on school districts wanting to establish single-sex schools and classes. Education secretary Rod Paige said the department's goal is to "provide schools with as much flexibility as possible to offer students programs that meet their needs." Passed thirty years ago, Title IX's language is straightforward: "No person in the United States, on the basis of sex, can be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." At a press conference announcing the proposed policy change, Assistant Education secretary for civil rights Gerald Reynolds, who is charged with enforcing Title IX, praised the law for its impact on opportunities for girls and women: "Because of Title IX and changes in societal attitudes, we've made a lot of progress," he said. But the current understanding of the law, he added, hinders "people of good will who want to try new things." Take, for example, a hypothetical proposal for a girls-only math and science high school. Currently, the department's guidelines for Title IX state that schools can exclude members of a sex only if the same single-sex opportunity is offered elsewhere for the other sex. A district that sees the need for an all-girls math and science school risks a Title IX lawsuit. Such a suit by the ACLU over an all-girls leadership school in Harlem has raged since the school opened seven years ago. But what if girls, but not boys, benefit from learning in a single-sex environment? What if coeducational classes do not provide equal opportunity for learning? Paige and Reynolds are seeking comments from public educators, civil rights groups, and parents to try to address these questions. The department is taking responses from the public for 60 days, after which it will decide how to deal with Title IX restrictions on communities that want single-sex programs. Last year, Congress advanced the idea of experimentation with single-sex education. A provision of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 allows local education authorities to put federal "innovative education funds" toward all-girls and all-boys schools and classrooms. So the Education Department is only doing what Congress told it to. In many ways, the debate of single-sex public education is a reenactment of an old battle. In its notice of its intent to change the rules, Education's Office of Civil Rights readily admits that when Title IX was passed, institutions used policies that "reflected outdated and stereotyped notions . . . of the limited abilities of girls and women." Gerald Reynolds, the assistant secretary for civil rights, stressed yesterday that his office will be "vigilant" in ensuring the new policy interpretation denies no one the opportunity to learn because of his or her sex. Beth Henary is an editorial assistant at The Weekly Standard.

A survey carried out by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, whose Consumer Renewable Energy Index (CREX) ranks companies according to their voluntary renewable energy procurement, states: "Historically, the bulk of investment has been in large-scale clean power generating projects, particularly wind, due to its technological maturity and relative economic competitiveness. In the past few years, however, small-scale distributed generation projects have started to play a major role, accounting for about half of the growth in total investment since 2009." In spring 2013, electricity generated by four Nordex 2.5MW turbines will come online to power car manufacturer BMW's Leipzig plant in Germany, where its first all-electric car is made. According to the firm, corporate social responsibility is starting to play a larger role in encouraging companies to invest in wind-power generation. Jochen Mueller, BMW spokesman for the Leipzig plant says: "It is not enough to just offer an environmentally sound electric car. The whole process down the chain should be sustainable." Working with developers At Leipzig, BMW does not own the turbines. Instead, it has entered into an "intelligent co-operation" with wind-power developer WPD. The developer runs the turbines and BMW has a long-term contract to use the electricity. When there is no wind, the electricity for the plant must come from traditional sources, and when there is an excess it can be shared. Mueller explains: "The turbines produce more energy than is needed to manufacture the electric cars - they produce 26GWh per year. If more wind is produced than is needed for car production it can be used immediately in other facilities on the plant, such as paint jobs. All the energy stays within the plant." The car manufacturer's business model is similar to the one used by supermarket chain Walmart at a distribution centre and camera manufacturer Fujifilm at a plate-producing plant. In August, Walmart introduced its first on-site wind turbine as a pilot project at its distribution centre in Red Bluff, California. A Walmart spokeswoman says: "The GE SLE 1MW wind turbine is projected to produce approximately 2.2GWh annually. Over the term of the power purchase agreement (PPA) the project will contribute to energy expense savings as well as provide price certainty for the electricity produced. Under a PPA arrangement, Foundation Windpower (a US developer) installs, owns, and operates the wind turbine and Walmart purchases the power produced under a long-term agreement." If the technology at Red Bluff proves successful, Walmart will evaluate the potential for turbine installations at other distribution centre sites in the US, says Greg Pool, senior manager of renewable energy and emissions at Walmart. In the case of Fujifilm, Eneco, a Dutch energy provider and developer, invested in about 95% of the on-site wind farm. Fujifilm adapted its private network to make the feed-in of 10MW of wind power possible, and provided the required land and infrastructure for the turbines. This allows it to feed all of the generated power to Fujifilm's main power station on its site. The five 2MW turbines have been online since September 2011. "The cost of the wind power is favourable for Fujifilm compared to the power from the national grid," says Jef Verboven, a spokesman for Fujifilm. "When wind power occasionally exceeds the company's demand, Fujifilm delivers it back to the grid by a separate contract with the grid supplier. "About 16% of the annual electricity demand of the total site is provided by the wind turbines," he adds. The remainder comes through combined heat-power gas turbines and the national grid. "Our experience of this innovative construction, which is so far unique in the Netherlands, is very good, and has been proven feasible after one year. As a result, Eneco is rolling out the concept in other industrial areas," Verboven says. Land availability is one obstacle to the roll-out of wind turbines at every manufacturing plant. Alfonso Vazquez Caro, head of commercial partnerships at manufacturer Vestas, explains: "Large-scale wind power is not something we can put up anywhere. There are many considerations that need to take place, such as wind conditions at a given site, proximity to neighbours and grid accessibility, among others. However, there are ways to overcome these issues." At BMW, Mueller adds: "Leipzig was chosen because there was enough land to install the turbines and the wind conditions are conducive to generating sufficient power. At our plant in southern Bavaria this is not the case. However, BMW is considering installing turbines at its new plant in Shenyang in northeast China, which was opened in May." However, there are those who are sceptical about this trend becoming a major driver in the market. Caro acknowledges that while some companies, such as Ikea and Google, are making substantial commitments to direct investments in generation, many corporations are entering into long-term off-take contracts - where they buy in electricity generated by wind turbines elsewhere - in an attempt to manage costs in a world of highly volatile power prices. Andrew Perkins, a member of Ernst & Young's energy and environmental finance team, thinks the self-generation phenomenon will stay on the periphery of the industry. "We've worked with lots of companies who have considered generating energy in this way, but most have gone direct to long-term power purchase agreements instead," he says. "Companies don't know how to assess the risk of installing wind turbines on an industrial scale." However, with maturing technology and financial incentives making wind ever-more financially viable, consumer demand, corporate responsibility and the need for energy security could see more companies installing turbines to generate their own power. MINING COMPANIES EYE UP WIND TO SAVE MILLIONS - BY DIANE BAILEY Diavik Diamond Mines is using wind energy to reduce its dependence on diesel generation at its mining operation on an island in a remote subarctic lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. The company brought four Enercon 2.3MW turbines online at the mine site, located about 210 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, in September. The turbines, designed to operate down to -40 Celsius, are integrated into an existing diesel-powered system that until now was the only source of power in one of the harshest environments on the planet. Economics were key to the decision, says Doug Ashbury, Diavik's communications advisor. The company expects the C$33 million investment to be paid back in fuel cost savings within eight years. It will provide 17GWh of electricity annually, shaving diesel consumption by 10% and cutting the mine's carbon footprint by 12,000 tonnes of CO2. Diavik will also see a significant reduction in the risk and expense of transporting fuel to the mine site, says Ashbury. The company resupplies the mine across a 353-kilometre ice road that is open only 8-10 weeks a year, and diesel is the largest commodity it has to truck in. The wind farm will reduce its annual winter haul by about 100 truck loads, says Ashbury, and help protect against years like 2006, when above-average temperatures shortened the life of the ice road and forced Diavik to fly in fuel. The project is the first large-scale wind facility in the Northwest Territories, but Diavik and Enercon are hoping it will not be the last as mining activity picks up across Canada in response to high commodity prices. With Diavik up and running, other firms are showing interest, says Marc-Antoine Renaud, Enercon's business development manager in Canada.

Permanent Support Staff MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand The Health & Population Division wishes to employ a part-time (75%) Accounts Assistant who will be based in the School of Public Health at Wits University. The Division hosts the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) rural field site in Mpumalanga Province with a health and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS). The Unit supports a range of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, collaborating with scientists from European, North American, African and Asian institutions; serves as a satellite secretariat of the INDEPTH Network concentrated in Africa and Asia; and is committed to research training particularly at doctoral level. The successful candidate will join a talented, diverse and hard-working team. The Accounts Assistant will assist the Unit Accountant with the following: processing of journals, invoices, etc; reconciliations of the IMPREST account, petty cash account and fleet card account; checking of purchase orders and invoices; maintaining the asset register; and updating of expenditure reports for grants. The successful candidate requires the following: previous bookkeeping experience, must be accurate, meticulous and reliable, excellent communication and time-management skills, good Excel skills, University and Oracle experience preferable. Dependent on qualifications, experience and level of appointment. Total cost-to-company package includes Provident Fund, Medical Aid, generous leave and thirteenth cheque subject to the University’s conditions of employment. Please attach a letter of motivation describing your suitability for the position, detailed CV with names, addresses and contact numbers of 3 referees (including e-mail addresses), and certified copies of degrees/diplomas and identity document via i-Recruitment https://irec.wits.ac.za Closing date: 30 April 2012

Sub category, book review. I'm interested in hearing what the rest of you consider worth reading, and I hope that book recommendations will become a fairly regular feature here. The The Wreck of the Medusa , by Alexander McKee, describes the disaster that befell the crew and passengers of the French warship Medusa when it ran aground off the coast of Africa in 1816. Due to incompetence on the part of those in leadership positions, 150 men and one woman were placed on a raft which was then set adrift. Two weeks later, fifteen of them were rescued, after going through what might be called indescribable suffering, except that McKee describes it in painstaking detail. For the first day or two those on the raft maintained a degree of unity, but after that civilization crumbled quickly, and murder, cannibalism and mass insanity broke out. The book closes with an examination of similar disasters, examines the psychological affects on those involved, and discusses the different ways groups of people react to high stress situations. Although he does not spend a great deal of time on the topic, McKee suggests that group cohesion is an important factor in surviving a disaster. 45 minutes ago

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has maintained a strategy to manage chaparral at the wildland-urban interface thru the use of prescription fire. The wildland-urban interface occurs where large natural areas border human communities. A fire’s prescription is the window within which a fire may be ignited. These conditions maximize the ability to control the fire and minimize smoke in local communities. These fires are intentionally set to meet certain objectives and achieve specific goals. The timing and scheduling of these fires depends on a variety of factors, including fuel conditions, weather, air quality and other events occurring in the county. Prescribed fires helps reduce heavy fuel loads. Fire is also used to enhance native plant communities, cultural landscapes, and improve wildlife habitat. Another goal is to provide defensible space for communities and developed areas where firefighters may have a chance to protect life and property during a wildfire. The strategy encompasses historic wildfire frequency and Santa Ana wind corridors combined with scientific validation. This wildland-urban interface area has always been a major focus for fire management in Los Angeles County. Hazardous fuels reduction to reduce wildland fire hazards and education about fire safety and fire ecology are high priorities. Fuels reduction and fire education are aimed at reversing trends of increased human-caused ignitions, losses of homes, and damage to natural and cultural resources. The goals of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Prescribed Fire & Fuels Management Program are: The Prescribed Fire & Fuels Office currently has approximately 12,000 acres planned for treatment in 2005-2006 and is consistently searching out projects that have validity and will provide for the ultimate goal of protecting life and property.

"Should Be Made in America" "Should Be Made in America" is a new campaign launched by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM). The new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and dozens of other major infrastructure projects nationwide are being built with foreign steel and manufactured materials. The sad fact is that there are workers here in America who could have crafted those materials with pride and precision. But it's not too late. Our state and federal leaders need to know that we want to rebuild our nation using American steel and manufacturing. Federal and state taxpayer dollars should not be used to reward companies who have moved their operations, investment dollars, and jobs to foreign countries. We're the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a labor-business partnership that is committed to rebuilding our nation and strengthening our manufacturing base. It's time to make your voice heard. Tell your leaders that you want your tax dollars to rebuild our nation, putting men and women to work here in America. The blueprint for the future should be Made in America. Come back soon to see our next billboard location and access the expanded website, which will include an interactive map of major infrastructure projects around the nation, tools for activists to engage your federal and state lawmakers, and stories about the men and women who want to rebuild America. Related recent Blogs - Maine State Senate Passes Buy American Legislation • by scapozzola • 06/19/2013 - Generally favorable manufacturing survey for New York state • by scapozzola • 06/18/2013 - President Obama talks about China on Charlie Rose. • by scapozzola • 06/18/2013 - Checking-in from manufacturing conferences in Wisconsin • by LDonia • 06/17/2013 - Make the right choice for your pet -- buy American-made • by TGarland • 06/17/2013 - A Discussion on the Obama-Xi Summit • by TGarland • 06/13/2013 - Chart of the Day: A tough three months for America's manufacturing sector • by LDonia • 06/13/2013 - Manufacturing employment will level off, says report • by mmcmullan • 06/12/2013 - The Relationship Between the U.S. and China • by TGarland • 06/12/2013 - Could U.S. tech manufacturing see a mini-rebound? • by LDonia • 06/11/2013

Category: Andalucia travel destinations For many people Andalucia is all that they imagine Spain to be. Great climate, sun, sea and beaches, bullfighting, sherry and flamenco. Covering over 33,000 square miles and running the length of mainland Spain’s southern coast it is the largest and most populous of the 17 autonomous regions of Spain. Andalusia is crossed by the [...] Andalucia is probably one of Spain’s most varied areas with its mountainous regions leading down to the Costa del Sol, Costa Tropical, Costa de Almeria and to the far west bordering Portugal, the beautiful Costa de la Luz. It is ideal for a holiday in winter as well as summer as there is skiing in [...] Andalucia is the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Its capital is Seville and it is bordered on the north by Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; on the east by Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea and on the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. For almost eight centuries, the Iberian Peninsula lived one of its most privileged moments, not only with regard to Spain, but also to Europe as a whole: the age of Moslem Spain, which the Arabs called Bilad al-Andalus. The mixture of races, religions and cultures gave rise to a brilliant civilization, where both the Arts [...] The Axarquia, on the easternmost part of the Costa del Sol, is situated next to Malaga, the capital of the Costa del Sol and its seaport and airport, which are amongst the busiest in Spain. The city is also well-connected with the rest of Spain by road, thanks to the modern communication network. All of [...] After the traditional mass tourist destinations in Spain, like the Costa del Sol or the Costa Blanca started to become saturated and the impact of the increasing degradation of their natural setting caused by the spectacular urban and demographic growth of the small towns located along the Mediterranean coastline became clearer, many travellers started to [...]

A pouch full of brand-new cells may one day reduce the need for people with Type 1 diabetes to take daily insulin shots. ViaCyte Inc. of San Diego has already used its technique to cure diabetes in hundreds of mice, says Eugene Brandon, one of the company's directors. ViaCyte hopes to begin human trials of its implants, which are made from embryonic stem cells, by 2013, aided by $26 million in grants and loans from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem cell funding agency. The treatment is aimed at people with Type 1 diabetes, who typically fall ill as children or young adults when their bodies attack the insulin-producing beta islet cells in the pancreas. Type 1 diabetes affects between 1 million and 3 million Americans. People with Type 1 diabetes rely on insulin injections or an insulin pump to regulate their blood sugar. It works, but it's inconvenient, says Dr. Vivian Fonseca of Tulane University in New Orleans, the American Diabetes Assn.'s president-elect for medicine and science. Better therapies, he says, are sorely needed. ViaCyte's plan is to slip a an envelope filled with pancreatic cells under the skin. These pancreatic cells would turn into beta islet cells. "We're essentially creating a replacement pancreas," Brandon says. Embryonic stem cells can turn into any other kind of cell. Type 1 diabetes, researchers say, is a particularly appealing target for stem cell treatments because only one cell type needs to be replaced. The issue is trickier for people with Type 2 diabetes, because they do make insulin — their body just doesn't respond to it properly. But even with this group, Brandon says, the treatment may have potential for the fraction of, Type 2 diabetes patients who use extra insulin to control their blood sugar. Over the last decade, ViaCyte has learned how to make what it calls pro-islet cells: ones that are on the way to becoming islet cells but haven't fully matured. The company started with stem cells from blastocysts — very early stage embryos — that were destined for destruction at a fertility clinic. It then used natural growth factors to encourage the cells to turn into pancreatic cells. Once under a mouse's skin, the cells mature into beta islet cells. After a couple of months, they start making insulin. Brandon hopes the implants would work the same in people. But simply dropping stem cells into a person is fraught with uncertainty. The cells might become the wrong type. Many researchers worry that stem cells could form tumors. Additionally, the recipient's immune system will attack the new cells. To sidestep those issues, ViaCyte has developed a thin membrane envelope that allows sugar in and insulin out. But the cells can't escape, and cells of the immune system can't get in to attack them. Doctors could monitor the cells via ultrasound and remove the device if there were any problem. "The safety factor is pretty high," says Alan Trounson, president of CIRM. In mice lacking islet cells, the device successfully delivers insulin and controls blood sugar for more than a year, which is the lifetime of the animal, Brandon says. He hopes the transplanted cells would last for many years in people, although he speculates that people with diabetes would still want to sign up even if they had to get a replacement every six months or so. The approach looks promising, Fonseca says, although he's reserving judgment until human tests are done. The first trials will test the safety of the implant in a handful of people. Though ViaCyte is in an ongoing patent dispute over part of the stem cell procedure with Geron Corp. in Menlo Park, Calif., Brandon says the clinical trial will go ahead regardless of outcome. Should Geron prevail, ViaCyte would pay to license the protocol, he says. The stem cell approach is one of several that are aimed at getting people with Type 1 diabetes off the insulin pump. Pancreatic transplants are an option, usually in extreme cases. It's major surgery, and recipients have to take immune-suppressing drugs so that their bodies do not attack the transplant. Half of the transplants fail, and 10% to 20% of recipients die within a year, according to the American Diabetes Assn. An alternative is to simply transplant islet cells into the liver, which is easy to reach via a tube. It's a safer, relatively minor procedure, but immune blockers are still necessary. For most people, it does not fully relieve the need for insulin shots. The main problem with either approach, Fonseca says, is that "there are not enough islets to go around." He estimates an islet transplant requires cells from five organ donors. Another tactic is to wipe out the diabetic person's immune system and then restore it with blood stem cells that form a new immune system. The new immune system should not attack beta cells like the old ones did. Researchers in Brazil have reported using this treatment on a trial basis in more than 20 people with diabetes. Many participants lived without insulin injections for nearly three years before they required supplemental insulin again. But these data are preliminary, and destroying and rebuilding the immune system is a serious procedure. Researchers can also try to force the pancreas to make more islet cells, but it's too early to know if this will work, Trounson says. "What people want is a single, one-time cure," Fonseca says. "I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future." But, he adds, stem cell treatments might be a step in the right direction.