I remember when The Mini Page, do you, Dear Readers? See my retrospective blog here about what the Mini Page looks like a few years ago. Today it is much different. I know not everything can stay the same, but when I was visiting my Dad a couple of week ago, I saw this in the paper.
Who remembers The Mini Page from the 1980s and 1990s? What was your favourte part, Dear Readers? I love the Mini Spy and the mazes.
Next, here's a new shot of the August Tree. It's a late evening shot, but you can still see some of the colour. She's a little more red. Its almost like a slow blush as if she realizes that people are watching her. The leaves are falling and it's been very dry. Could use some rain though. It's ironic since we started the summer with a lot of rain.
This weekend, weather permitting will be a trip to Seabreeze for some frolicking and the following weekend 24 Hour Theatre with KLP (Monopoly Edition).


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0s and 1980s, represented an assault on peasant and small farmer agriculture across the continent. Social and economic relations between rural people and the state deteriorated as the state carried out a flurry of moves to transform food into an export commodity that would earn foreign currency, at the same time as heavily indebted governments were forced by the IMF to cut services — including education and social supports — in order to borrow from Northern capital markets. As markets opened up, as commodity-based agriculture became more dominant, and as cheap, subsidized food from the North was dumped in the South, prices paid to farmers serving local and regional markets declined.
The relationship between associations and networks of farmers collapsed as governments withdrew their support. The destruction of old patterns created a political space within which new questions were posed and a fresh analysis carried out. As capital became more global and concentrated, and as free-trade agreements emerged, the livelihoods of farmers were threatened. Simultaneously, the rapid growth of an energy- and water-intensive monoculture of cash crops was destroying the natural health of the land upon which sustainable food production depended.
This analysis is reflected in the Declaration of Quito, a statement that emerged from a major conference of mainly indigenous people from across the Americas in 1990. The declaration articulated a strengthening resistance to the extensive plans of governments to celebrate the arrival of Columbus 500 years earlier. It also depicted the moral foundation of the movements out of which La Via Campesina emerged.
> We do not own nature...it is not a commodity...it is an integral part of our life: it is our past, our present and our future. We believe that this meaning of humanity and of the environment is not only valid for our communities of Indoamerican people. We believe that this form of life is an option and a light for the people of the world oppressed by a system which dominates people and nature.
Continental organizing of peasants and farmers coalesced in 1992 with the formation of a Latin America-wide network that aimed to resist destruction and build a new model that brought food production home from the grips of the global market. In Europe, India, and even North America, more and more farmers were coming to the same conclusion. The brutal impacts of free trade, declining prices, and industrial agriculture were hollowing out rural life in communities across the globe. A new round of enclosure was underway. Global capital and the big "M" Market were well into privatizing for profit the control of everything from seeds to water. As peasants and small to medium-size farmers began to understand the forces at work, the organizing across borders, cultures, and languages accelerated. In May 1993, 70 leaders of peasant and farmer organizations met in Mons, Belgium, and -liberal assaults on their role as the world's food producers.
From the outset, LVC strategically set its terms of membership to ensure that the voices of grassroots peasant and small-farmer organizations would not be compromised or muted:
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•Financial support with conditions is rejected, as are attempts of outside agencies to influence LVC decisions.
•LVC maintains a deep suspicion of constant attempts by international agencies to involve it in consultations, multi-stakeholder dialogues, and conflict resolution.
•It speaks in its own name. No one else can represent member interests at any international forum or negotiating table.
•It is militant, makes clear demands, and views conflict — aggressive debate and protest —
However, LVC's oppositional strategies and tactics are balanced by a wide range of positive propositions for change. These are hammered out through extensive democratic discussion and debate. This core commitment to deliberative process has shaped the political and developmental character of what today is the largest global social movement in human history, involving some 500 million families who are members of one of 148 organizations in 69 countries. Members come from the ranks of organizations representing peasants, the landless, rural workers, family farmers, artisans, fisher folk, indigenous people, rural women, and youth.
The central proposition of LVC is food sovereignty, a formulation it inserted into the debate of the World Food Summit of 1996 (Table 9.1 illustrates the stark contrast between the food sovereignty model and the dominant neoliberal system). La Via Campesina rejects the view that food is just another exchangeable commodity, to be traded to the highest bidder in a world market. It sees local and national markets as the priority and states that countries have the right to define their own food, farming, and agricultural policies, no matter what the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules say. It argues that food has a central role to play in addressing goals related to poverty reduction; preservation of rural life, economies, and environmentices must be fair to the producer and consumers, and the practices that undercut fairness must be changed. Accordingly, LVC seeks a ban on food dumping, the enforcement of anti-monopoly rules nationally and globally, the effective regulation of overproduction in the large agro-export countries, and the elimination of direct and indirect, open and hidden subsidies that enforce low prices and overproduction. It proposes maximum limits on farm size; equitable local control over seeds, land, water, and forests; and the abolition of seed patenting by private interests. The broad strategic range of LVC's propositional measures and oppositional aims is impressive.
**Table 9.1 Dominant Model versus Food Sovereignty Model**
**Issue** | **Dominant Model** | **Food Sovereignty**
Trade | Free trade in everything | y | Agro-exports | Food for local markets
Crop Prices | What the market decides (leave mechanisms that create | Fair prices that cover costs of py
Market Access | Access to foreign markets | Access to local markets; an end -business
Subsidies | While prohibited in the T | Subsidies are okay if they do not damage other countries via dumping. Subsidies should only be to family farmers for direct marketing, price-inc.
Food | Chiefly a commodity; in practice this means processed food full of fat, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and toxic residues | A human right: specifically, food s.
Ability to Produce | An option for the economically efficient | A right of rural peoples
Hunger | Due to low productivity | Problem of access and distribution due to poverty and inequality
Control over Productive Resources (land, water, forests) | Privatized | Local, community controlled
Access to Land | Via the market | Via genuine agrarian reform
Seeds | Patentable commodity | Common heritage of , "no patents on life"
Rural Credit and Investment | From private banks and corporations | From public sector; designed to support family agriculture
Dumping | Not an issue | Must be prohibited
Monopoly | Not an issue | The root of most problems
Overproduction | No such thing, by definition | Drives prices down and fthe US and Europe
Farming Technology | Industrial, monoculture, green revolution, chemical intensive, uses GMOs | Agro-ecology, sustainable farming methods, no GMOs
Farmers | Anachronism, the inefficient will disappear | Guardians of culture and crop germplasm; stewards, repositories of knowledge, internal market, .
Urban Consumers | Workers to be paid as little as possible | Need a living wage
Genetically Modified Organisms | The wave


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I am a big believer in the idea that change starts in one's own community, which is why I'm harder on White, liberal, Jewish people than any other group!
What happened next in Greenville, a de-evolution of sorts, is a lesson for another Mississippi town, Cleveland, now wrestling with a federal court order to merge its historically black and white schools — and a warning siren for the rest of the nation ... years of research underscore what the Coleman Report pointed to 50 years ago, a real correlation between segregation and an educational achievement gap along lines of class and race. In fact, a 2006 re-analysis of the original data, using more sophisticated statistical techniques, found that schools with concentrated levels of black and poor students do even more harm to black students' achievement than Coleman originally conceived. The collapse of Greenville's integrated school system not only shows how fragile racially balanced schools are, but also why they're surely worth protecting.


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This is the first time NUS (National University of Singapore) host an ACM ICPC Regional. Singapore is a very strategic place for Asian teams because of free VISA (for ASEAN) and many direct planes to Singapore are available. This attracted many great teams all over Asia to join regional Singapore which made Regional Singapore one of the toughest Regional in Asia.
The surprise prize for the champion team of this regional is 3 Lenovo (each worth around 3000 SGD)! This is a very attractive prize!!
I'm sure the next 4 years (when NUS host the ACM ICPC Regional again), there'll be even more teams join Regional Singapore merely to get the prizes.
This time I represent NUS instead of BINUS UNIVERSITY.
My team name is TOKIERS 020606 which consist of 3 TOKI (Tim Olimpiade Komputer Indonesia) members:
Aditya Kristanto Goenawan, from TOKI 2006 (Engineering under-grad, first year). Daniel Aris Pandu Prasetia, from TOKI 2006 (Engineering under-grad, first year).
FYI, TOKI is a government organization from Indonesia that manage, train, and select
four Indonesian high-school students to be sent to IOI (International Olympiads in Informatics) contest every year.
Surprisingly, there were a lot of TOKI alumnis (total 18 person) joined this year Singapore Regional contest.
It's like a reunion of TOKI-ers :) If we count the total number of Indonesian contestants, it's is even greater:
6 universities from Indonesia (BINUS, ITB, Parahyangan, UI, USU, Telkom) + 1 from NUS (TOKIERS 020606) + 1 team from NTU (Ivory Gull), and several other teams also contains Indonesian contestant. Indonesian students are getting better and better in algorithm skills.
After registration, the 47 teams (except JiLin University who didn't manage to come due to VISA problem) went to the practice room. A bottleneck happened during the move so the practice session was delayed a bit. In this practice session, there were 3 easy problems given. However the last one is troublesome. My team and several other teams didn't manage to get it Accepted! The reason is the scanf problem.
Those who used scanf("%d\n",&n) to read the number of testcases will never get this problem Accepted. Examine a C code below:
The "\n" in scanf actually read two new lines! This is something unexpected.
This is a lesson to never use scanf("%d\n", ...) if the input can be a blank line!
There are several teams got trapped with this kind of thing including mine.
Other than this issue, the rest of the practice session went smoothly.
The contest starts at 8:30am and ends at 1:30pm.
I got there Just in TimeTM :D
to give a little excitement to the other teams.
They thought I wouldn't come because probably I joined the last night SRM and was too tired to get up in the morning
but then I dissapointed them by showing my face, hihihi.
Whereas the fact is: I woke up late :P, causing panic to my own team :P
Then the contest starts. As usual, I coded the template REP, FOR, using std, etc... just like
TopCoder style (see my code below). Then the fun begins!
The 7 problem statements of this regional contest can be found here.
When I started reading, Aditya KG asked me if I know something about big-mod and pointed me to Problem A.
With years of experience, looking at the big-mod was like going back to childhood :P. With no further ado, I coded and submit it. It's not a surprise that the other teams also get this problem accepted very quick.
The problem asked to compute x^y mod n. Where y can be as large as 2^31 - 1.
The must-know-rule of big mod is: (a*b) mod c is equal to ((a mod c) * (b mod c)) mod c.
The solution is to divide the y into two until it reaches the base case of y = 0. Then
construct the solution based on the result of the smaller y. The dynamic programming goes like this:
Another DP (Dynamic Programming) problem. Hmm... It's really strange that this kind of problem is now becomes not interesting anymore. In early days when I was just starting to learn programming,
I always thought that Dynamic Programming problems are hard, but nowdays these kind of problem
starts to lose it's value. It's already becomes an easy-standard problems. Once you know the
trick, the rest is just coding skills.
As we all know we have two ways to do DP: bottom-up and top-down.
The bottom-up DP can save memory and more efficient but the code is not intuitive sometimes.
The top-down DP is very easy to code (intuitive) but takes up more memory and run time.
The code for both kinds of DP is presented below.
There are t trees with the same height h. There are acorns distributed in different heights of any tree. A squirrel is currently at the top of a tree and want to go down and collect
as many acorns as possible. The squirrel can choose to go down one step from height x to height x-1
or it can choose to fly to another tree from height x to height x-f (f is given).
The question is what is the maximum number of acorns the squirrel can collect?
#define REP(i,n) for (int i=0,_n=(n); i<_n; i++)
#define MAXN 2007
IIRC, Aditya KG was doing problem F and I was doing problem G while Daniel was looking for another problem.
The ranklist at this time is not good :(
Our team solved 2 problems while more than ten other teams solved 3+ problems.
What made me hot was that YoiMon was above us! This team should not be allowed to go any further!! :P
Problem G was also a typical problem: given a simple graph,
you must select and remove a set of edges from the graph
such that the graph has no cycle in it and the total weight of the removed edges is minimum.
I thought problem G can be solved using greedy by finding the smallest edge
and check whether it is possible to create a cycle using that edge (using DFS).
If can then I can just remove that edge and find the second smallest edge and so on.
When I submit it, I got Wrong Answer. I was quite sure that this should work.
Many teams already got this problem accepted, I was quite frustrated and decided to try the other problem.
Then Aditya KG took over the keyboard to code problem F while I'm hunting for another problem.
Problem B (Jones) got my attention. By this time, Aditya KG had submit problem F several times
but keep getting Wrong Answer.
Problem B is about Indiana Jones want to cross a river by hopping through stones.
Each stones can sink at certain interval and can resurface in another interval or stand still.
The exact interval of the sink/resurface is given. The question is what is the earliest
time Indiana Jones can reach the other side of the river by jumping through these "magic" stones.
Problem B seemed too simple at the beginning and I was underestimating the problem.
I thought the solution was just a simple DP (again):
The Indiana Jones can jump forward to the next stone anytime he can or wait for the next stone to resurface (if it's currently sinking) and choose the best outcome.
I robbed the keyboard and coded simple top-down DP "in no time" and then submit it
(when I said "in no time", it actually consumes about 5 to 15 minutes :P).
Then gave the keyboard back to Aditya KG as if Problem B already accepted, hehe :P.
To my surprise, my solution for problem B got Wrong Answer. I was too confident.
When I printed the code, I realized that my code is totaly wrong: the variable name was switched (doh!).
I fixed it and resubmit. Those of you who know the solution should know already that this submission will also get Wrong Answer.
My algorithm was missing something important.
That is: Indiana Jones can also jump back to the previous stones besides waiting or jumping forward.
Realizing this mistake, I slipped in a few lines of code to the top-down DP to allow Indiana Jones to jump backward,
and resubmit. At this time, the code was having too many patches and got Wrong Answer again :(.
During this time, I bothered Aditya KG several times when he coded problem F. Maybe this is the reason he couldn't get problem F accepted :D, sorry Aditya.
I calmed myself, and start to simplify Problem B code, resubmit and got it accepted at last.
#define FOR(i,a,b) for (int i=(a),_b=(b); i<=_b; i++)
if (con[i][idx+1]) ret <?= rec(i+1, idx+1);
if (idx>0 && con[i][idx-1]) ret <?= rec(i+1, idx-1);
REP(i,t-1) if (con[i][0]) res <?= rec(i+1,0);
The ranklist at this point was also not good, no need to tell the details (I'm embarrassed :P).
Feeling guilty to Aditya which keyboard got robbed by me several times, I decided to rob his problem as well (how cruel me!!) since I didn't have clue for other problems yet.
I asked Daniel to re-explain the problem F again. He explained to me:
There is a box which can be inserted up to certain amount of dollar coins in it.
This box is passed from the usher to several parishioners and the parishioners can add
certain amout of dollar in it and pass it back to usher or other parishioners and so on.
The box passing stops when the box is full of coins.
Every time the usher get the box, he will remove one coin,
add it to his pocket and the passing continues. Usher never add coin to the box.
The question is what is the maximum number of coins the usher can get?
Floyd Warshall algorithm immediatelly popped out from my mind (FYI, it's another DP algorithm).
That is, just find the minimum cost cycle from usher to parishoioners and back to the usher again.
The result is the box capacity divided by the cycle cost.
I immediatelly coded it "in no time" again and submit it.
I had a feeling that simple division wouldn't work but Daniel was fine-fine aja with that so I submit it anyway.
It's my fault that I didn't tell Daniel my doubt :(. After got Wrong Answer, Daniel then remembered that he forgot to tell me that after dividing the box capacity with the shortest cycle length (or cost), we need to calculate again the possibility of having more cycle
(because the usher removed a coin). Thus, the usher may end up having more coins. Aditya KG already have the formula to calculate this, I can just use his, resubmit and got it accepted.
It was just a slight error, anyway, good work Aditya and Daniel.
Below is our code for problem F:
if (con[i][b]==-1 || a<con[i][b]) con[i][b] = a;
cycleLen <?= con[0][i] + con[i][0];
This time, our team was still below YoiMon but we have the same number of solved problems :).
However the rank was still bad enough, we need to solve more problems to get to the top 10.
Fortunately, out of the blue, Daniel mentioned something about Minimum Spanning Tree for problem G.
When I think about it again, the algorithm seemed fit to the problem!
Since we need to remove the cycles from the graph by removing edges, this description is like
creating a tree. When I think about what the tree should look like, it "clicks" with the Maximum Spanning Tree.
Knowing this, coded problem G, again, "in no time", submit it and got it accepted, Yatta!!
At least there wass some period of time where TOKIERS 020606 managed to surpass YoiMon :D
Below is our code for problem G:
vector<pair<int,pair<int,int> > > junc;
After having lunch and city tour in the afternoon, the award ceremony begins. Only the top 5 teams got awards. The award ceremony was merged with the other three SoC competitions. This made ACM ICPC Singapore looked a lot less prestigious (seemed only a small part of SoC event). It was funny to see high-schoolers and middle-schoolers came up from nowhere, got awarded then paired with the champion team of ACM ICPC. We were totaly un-aware of those competitions and it felt awkward. Anyway, below is the official standings.
The light-green-ed teams contain Indonesian contestants.
RankUniversity NameTeam NameCitation# SolvedTime
1Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityPrimeFirst Place7569
2Zhejiang UniversityOthelloSecond Place7641
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversitySofasquadThird Place6470
3Peking UniversityExcaliburThird Place6603
4Zhongshan(Sun Yat-sen) UniversityZSU_PhecdaFourth Place6650
5Fudan UniversityMetaphorFifth Place6757
5BINUS UNIVERSITYYoiMonFitth Place6765
5National Tsing Hua UniversityB.F.WFifth Place61044
8Nanyang Technological UniversityNTU Ivory GullEighth Place5328
8Taiwan Universityrand N-SATEighth Place5379
8Nanyang Technological UniversityNanyang EaglesEighth Place5607
8National University of SingaporeTOKIERS 020606Eighth Place5812
9Institut Teknologi BandungGanesha ITBNinth Place5813
9University of the Philippines DilimanUP Fighting MoronsNinth Place5854
9Shanghai UniversityLarvaNinth Place5871
10Saitama UniversityMaximum-CoffeeTenth Place5925
10Saitama UniversityMaximum_TGMTenth Place5934
11National University of Singapore12TIN@NUSEleventh Place51046
13National University of SingaporeeagleThirteenth Place4382
14National University of SingaporeCode WarriorFourteenth Place4488
14Nanyang Technological UniversityKhANFourteenth Place4664
15Nanyang Technological UniversityY2FFifteenth Place4718
15National University of SingaporeNUSSOCFifteenth Place4719
15Nanyang Technological UniversityGeJeFifteenth Place4778
15BINUS UNIVERSITYACMonFifteenth Place4847
15City University of Hong Kong9.99 AcceptedFifteenth Place3219
15Nanyang Technological UniversityHiWorldFifteenth Place3234
15National Tsing Hua UniversityROHFifteenth Place3369
15Kasetsart University, ThailandT2BFifteenth Place3385
16Nanyang Technological UniversityTMNQSixteenth Place3393
16International Islamic University MalaysiaAl-KhawarizmiSixteenth Place3440
16Parahyangan UniversityH&&HSixteenth Place3495
17Soongsil UniversityInspirationsSeventeenth Place3525
18Universitas IndonesiaMakaraEighteenth Place3532
21University of Sumatera UtaraUSU - The Last OneTwenty-first Place284
22National Chiao Tung UniversityFreshfoxTwenty-second Place2168
23Parahyangan UniversityKiWiChanTwenty-third Place2307
Ateneo de Manila UniversitycxxCHonorable Mention
Informatics EducationPolymorphicHonorable Mention
University of Sumatera UtaraUSU - The Last TwoHonorable Mention
National University of SingaporeCoding BunniesHonorable Mention
Soongsil UniversityNewFaceHonorable Mention
Multimedia University, Malaysia!Honorable Mention
Nanyang Technological UniversityCODE BREAKERSHonorable Mention
Multimedia University, MalaysiaInfinityHonorable Mention
Prince of Songkla UniversityPSU-PKTHonorable Mention
Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi TelkomSTT01Honorable Mention
The judge reference solution was wrong. The reference solution assumed that Indiana Jones cannot jump at Interval 0 (zero).
Thus for a certain testcase which has a possible path using Interval 0 (zero), the reference solution won't select that path.
The judges should've suspect something fishy when the top teams which can get a problem accepted in a single submission, got this problem wrong for more than 10 submissions! As the result, few days after the contest was over, all the solutions submitted for Problem B was re-judged
and the ranklist was updated. The above ranklist is the latest and final one. This is a very common problem
in programming contests. Even in ACM ICPC World Finals, this kind of mistakes still happened.
The best way to deal with this problem is that the judges must be aware of fishy problems during the contest.
For example by examining the source codes of the contestants, not only by looking at their output only.
It's possible that their code will give hints to find out the problems (especialy top teams codes!).
However, if the judges didn't manage find the mistakes during the contest time and after the award ceremony...
Then there are two choices to remedy this problem: Leave the standing as if there was no problem and decide it's final or keep trying to find out the fishy problem and try to fix (if possible, re-judge) and annouce it to the contestants.
I'm happy that NUS Contest Director chose the latter. The changes of the standings will impact on the wild-card decision
later on (which is crucial for some top teams).
Looking at the changes of the standings, I can tell that the re-judge was done by removing the test-cases which contains Interval 0 (zero) solution. By removing test-cases which solutions involving
Interval 0 (zero), this will Accept both solutions that consider or not consider Interval 0 (zero).
In other words, those teams who already got Accepted will still remain get Accepted and those teams
that got Wrong Answer may get Accepted after it's re-judged.
Other than the Problem B issue, I enjoyed the ACM ICPC Singapore since I can meet the other Indonesian coders and have fun with them.
The problem set in overall was very easy. If there were no issue with Problem B, perhaps the champion team can solve
all the 7 problems in only three out of five hours. Those teams literally code "in no time" :D.
Registration (any) committees, Steven Halim et. all. Judges, Melvin Zhang et. all. and the problem setters.


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“First, we have had more than 60 financial institutions that applied to expand or set up in Frankfurt,” he says. “More than 30 of these decided to make Frankfurt their new EU hub. Even more significant is that four out of six biggest USA banks and four of six biggest Japanese banks made those decisions.”


Lucky Charms is undoubtedly God-tier cereal—everyone knows this. However, part of the reason it's so good is down to those delicious little crunchy marshmallows that are sugary-sweet and indescribably tasty. So why not cut out the middle man and just buy a 2.5-pound jar of pure cereal marshmallows and go to town on them?
You don't even need to add milk. Sure, you could pour these puppies in a bowl and eat them as a bowl of cereal, but that's time-consuming and not always convenient. Why not just throw some in a little Ziploc baggie (or something more earth-friendly) and take them with you on the go?
They go great with lots of things. Whether you're eating them as a snack in their own right, using them as an ice cream topping, or even putting them in a cup of hot cocoa, there's not a lot you can't do with a 2.5-pound bag of cereal marshmallows. The sky's the limit!


The City of Kyoto- luxury and ancient culture at one place
By James Nov. 21st, 2012	Kyoto is an ancient city once serving as the capital of the Japanese states from the Heian period in 794 to the end of the Tokugawa period in 1868. The old capital has a rich history and many traditional buildings which are well-preserved due to largely being spared as a target during WWII, although it was considered for a possible site for a nuclear strike. Luckily that never came to pass and today some parts of Kyoto have been preserved almost exactly like they were a few hundred years ago, giving the whole city an antique feel. Kyoto has served as a center of intellectual development and was the place where many scholars and some of the elite of the Japanese society made their homes.
Today Kyoto standoreigners visiting the archipelago and its often a better deal than spending your time in Tokyo since the way of life here is not exactly as frantic and dynamic as it is in the current capital. The temperatures throughout the year are mild enough with very few serious winters or bouts of heat which contributes to the pleasant feel one gets from simply being here.
· Central Kyoto
Popular attractions in town include the former palace of the shogun – Nijo Castle in central Kyoto accompanied by the Imperial Palace as well. If you want good, fresh and tasty seafood you should take a stroll around the stalls of the Nishiki Market where you'll have a good choice of fish and other marine life to pick from for your meals as well as some nice local food joints. Apart from those there are quite a few Imperial residences and the relatively recent Manga Museum.
· Eastern Kyoto
One of the places you must absolutely visit while being here is the Kiyomizudera Temple, located on one of the eastern hills. The ancient temple offers an unparalleled view to the rest of Kyoto 4. Also, take a walk through the Hagashiyama district – a very well-preserved historic part of Kyoto where one can find many traditional shops and goods, cafes and restaurants which have been serving travelers, Buddhist and Shinto pilgrims from around the world for centuries. Other places in the area are the famous Philosopher's Path (Tetsugaku no michi) which leads to Ginkakuji Temple also known as the Silver Pavilion.
· Northern Kyoto
Home of Kinkakuji, one of the most popular Zen temples in Japan, also known as the Golden Pavilion which served as a favorite place for one of the shoguns of the Ashikaga Shogunate – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. The area also serves as a home to multiple other temples worth visiting and apart from those you should really enjoy the local food whenever you can as we promise you'll never have Japanese food quite as good anywhere else in the world than at the source.
· Western and Southern Kyoto
Take a ride on the Sagano Railway for a scenic, slow ride down the Hozugawa river, especially during the autumn season so you can catch the changing colors of the forest here. Another route you may take in the west parts of the old capital is the river cruise offered down the same river for a parallel, yet completely different experience. Another place you might visit if you are a Japanese movie buff – the Toei Uzumasa Eigamura, the museum of Toei Company, known for the production of the classic Kamen Rider series as well as the Battle Royale movie.
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Mr. Walwyn declared that even though the exportation of sugar no longer exists, the federation is no stranger to exporting Kittitians with brains.


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* New events have been added.
* Due to Nintendo Switch Online, There is a new option for casting Mii<nowiki/>s known as "Default" which gives Miis tis from the Wii U/3DS era.
* It's no longer possible to combine in-game screenshots.
* The US version's tagline as seen in the official Nintendo website is "Your friends. Your adventure. Your rules.", a call back to ''Tomodachi Life'''s tagline "Your friends. Your drama. Your life." in the same region. Meanwhile, the European version omits the "Your rules." part, rendering the tagline as "Your friends, your adventure!"
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Advocates will give speeches in a downtown Whitefish park the day before Zinke’s address, calling on the interior chief to better protect public lands.
Eleven governors, their staffs, lobbyists, business representatives and special interest groups will meet in the resort town near Glacier National PaSupporters of the Trump administration’s plans to review and possibly loosen existing land and wildlife protections are dismayed by the heavy investment that environmentalists are making to confront Zinke on his home turf.
Zinke is reviewing it and 23 other monuments in a report that will recommend whether they should be resized or eliminated.
Opponents of changes, such as Epstein’s Hold Our Ground group, say the review is a waste of taxpayer money by rehashing already settled arguments. Supporters like Poertner are worried they’ll be squeezed off the land and say presidents have too much.


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"" "H" "What does equity in education really mean?"
We are hopefully beginning to see this cultural shift in the way we go about the practice of public education and create a system that does not continually exclude students, but one that unconditionally accepts and incorporates all students into a learning community. I sincerely hope that we are finally able to have these conversations without being afraid of the words 'racism,' 'inequity,' 'low-income,' and 'cultural competence.'
What's in the discipline bills, why is there three (why not combine them into one?), and why can't these be passed at the school board level?


The presence of Shakespeare looms tantalisingly close. Wilson is believed to be that "Jack" Wilson named in stage directions in "Much ado about nothing". The words of this piece are often attributed to Shakespeare, although there are several candidates, Davenant (reputed by Aubrey to be Shakespeare's natural son) amongst them.
From the fair Lavenian shore
Muse not, though so far I dwell,
And my wares come here to sell.
Such is the sacred hunger of gold:
For here it is, to be sold.
And what else thou would'st request,
Even the thing thou likes the best.
Then come to me lad,
White and red you may have in this place,
First let me have but a touch of your gold,
Like a wench of fifteen,
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The Recycled Shakespeare Company returned to the stage...and the House of Pizza...and the fields of Limestone!Our cast traveled 250 miles from one location to the next with the goal of sharing the magic of Shakespearean Theater throughout Central and Northern Maine. Photos and videos from our performances will be available on our Facebook Page. This show was dedicated in loving memory to Emily Rowden Fournier. Huzzah!


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Po correct filesystem errors on hard disks. If a computer is shutdown incorrectly (e switched onWhy should I not run this disk checking software ?
As mentioned in the above paragraph,They are not and can not correct non-filesystem errors on hard disks.
Where many people become confused is that because their computer is triggering a disk checking utility, they automatically assume (as does the software) that they have a problem with the file system. Infact they may have a problem with their hard disk that has in turn caused a problem with the file system. So, although the symptoms are in most cases identical (ie. the automatic triggering of Scandisk etc), the cause of the problem is rather different. In these instances, running disk checking software is to be avoided at all costslesly able.
But my disk is triggering this utility, what should I do ?
Do not allow the utility to run (watch the boot process and press ESC to cancel the utility when prompted – you have 10 seconds to do this), instead the computer will continue to boot into the Operating System. Then back up your important files to another different media (eg. CD ROM).
If this utility is triggered but fails to run (the computer hangs, or the screen appears to freeze etc), this often indicative of bad sectors on the hard drive. Using our EMAC data recovery hardware tool, we should be able to recover the data successfully for you.
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Judge Bernie Bouchard is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati. His parents, doctors who practiced in Western Hills for over 30 years, instilled in him the values of hard work, education, and high moral standards. Judge Bouchard in 2006. He represents District 6 which includes Colerain Township, Green Township, Cheviot, and Springdale Township. Through his experience as a lawyer and magistrate, Bouchard possesses the legal knowledge and integri with respect.
Judge Bouchard graduated from Saint Xavier High School, Xavier University, and Ohio Northern University College of Law.
Judge Bouchard is actively involved in his community. He volunteered as a Green Township Magistrate from 2000-2005, he speaks at local schools about sexual offender issues, is a referee for grade school and high school football games, and a member of St. Ignatius Parish. He and his family reside in Green Township.
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The designs draw on stylish artwork from original advertising posters to evoke the romance and excitement associated with ocean travel.
The four stamps in this issue give us a glimpse of tourist ships in the early to mid 20th century. Many fabulous posters were designed from the 1920s advertising the delights of ocean travel. During this period Australia was a destination for many, including migrants, and more adventurous travellers from Europe. At the same time Australians were increasingly travelling abroad, particularly to the United Kingdom.
The Awatea was launched in 1936 at the outbreak of WWII it was drafted into war service as a troop carrier and was attacked and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1942.


"Joseph's life encompasses all of this and more—and in it all, the overarching theme is that of the sovereign hand of God manifesting itself in His providential care over His dearly loved children and bringing about all that He has purposed in the affairs of time."
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At my ordination into the ministry 50 years ago, my Uncle Gene gave me a copy of J.B Phillips' paraphrase of the New Testament. Inside the front cover he had written, "Make the Word of God plain to those you teach— God will convict them if they hear Him clearly. This is my favorite translation—it is plain."
I'm not sure that I agree the Phillips"translation" is plain, but I do find it to be beautiful. And, as I did again last Sunday morning, I've often quoted Romans 8:18 from it. s."
Paul does say, but Peterson may get just a little too picturesque."more joyful our expectancy."
"These are frequently called 'irrational fears', as if they were completely groundless, when in fact some of them may be well grounded indeed, though not based in the visible world. These I prefer to call metaphysical fears, or cosmic fears, and they are of a spiritual nature. I."
"As his awareness of the presence of evil in the world expands, we must help him to overcome his real and imaginary fears with courage based upon faith that God is more powerful than evil. Just as my mother led me and my brother to destroy the dragon, so God leads us forward in battle against the enemy. We do not overcome evil with our own power, of course, but with Christ. Our children's fears provide opportunities to learn this."
"In every decision we make, we are affirming a worldview. We may think we are just acting on our feelings of the moment, but in reality we are expressing our convictions about the cosmos. Either we are expressing a biblical worldview or we are being co-opted by a secular worldview. The secular moral revolution is built on the conviction that nature has no moral meaning, and that we are inherently disconnected, autonomous atoms connecting only by choice. As Morse writes, (in The Sexual Revolution Reconsidered) 'We act as if we believe that we are alone in a meaningless and indifferent universe, as if we ourselves have no intrinsic value, that our sexual acts have no meaning apart from the meaning we assign them, that our sexual acts are simply the actions of mindless particles bumping into each other from no particular cause at all, and with no particular purpose in mind.'
Each one of us was loved into existence, and we have the high calling of inviting others into the astonishingly rich experience of living in a cosmos centered in love."


On the sidelines of the “Road and Belt Forum” held in Beijing, President Putin made statements on various issues including Syria.
Putin decisive to work with YPG
Putin said Russia will maintain its partnership with Syrian Kurdish forces (YPG) in an effort to defeat ISIS and there is no need for Turkey to worry. He reminded that President Erdoğan had voiced his concern over Russia’s corporation with YPG when they met in Soçi and he clarified the situation to ease Erdoğan’s concerns.
Asked on whether Russia could arm the Kurdish fighters at any stage he replied, unlike the US, Russia sees no need to supply weaponry to those groups as they have own sources.
He continued: “It is time to work out technical details. Russia, Turkey and Iran will work together in Ankara, keeping in touch with Syrian side, to map out the safe zones and set up the monitoring process- who will control what and where.
According to Hurriyet Daily, Erdoğan told the Turkish journalists that Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar, Head of Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın had gone to the US to inform the American authorities in advance on Turkish side’s views regarding US’s decision to arm YPG and this issue will top the agenda of his meeting with President Trump.
He continued: “Initial exchange of views done by the officials, now we will make the final decision. If we are strategic allies we should act accordingly. If our alliance overshadowed by this disagreement, we will look for ways to fend for ourselves. We will not let the alliance suffocated by the approaches going against Turkey’s interests.”


The American Physical Society (APS) has elected Judith Yang to the position of Fellow. APS President Homer Neal cited Yang's selection: "For seminal contributions tohe fundamental understanding of metal oxidation and the application of nanomaterials and catalysis." Yang joined 14 other members of the APS Division of Materials Physics to be named Fellows this year. The APS caps the number of new Fellows elected each year to one half of one percent of its 51,000 members internationally. The Fellowship committee evaluates each nomination based on a criteria of, application, leadership or service and contributions to education related to the field of physics.
"I feel honored in, but I also look forward to the attention and recognition it will bring to the University of Pittsburgh," said Yang. "We have only recently been able to see the dynamic processes of oxidation at the nanoscale by; we are starting to gain a new fundamental understanding of oxidation that challenges classical theories.


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SYMPOSIUM WEDNESDAY 22nd – FRIDAY 24th FEBRUARY 2017
Melbourne Film Walking Tour
numerous commercial car parks are.
Capitol Theatre, 113 Swanston Street Melbourne
For more information on the theatre and a map, visit http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/Placestogo/Cinemas/AllCinemas/Pages/8442.aspx
Salvation Army Heritage Centre, 69 Bourke St
For more information on the Limelight Department film studio, visit Treasury Theatre, 1 Macarthur St


RB taught in Indianapolis which translates into five Barnes and Noble hours. When we arrived, we realized my computer case was still at home. I panicked at first, then realized God knew my mind needed a rest.
The four grands came for an oh-so-fun lunch yesterday. They love sloppy joes on homemade rolls. I keep waiting for them to get tired of them, but that's what they continue to ask for.
Praying for:  RB had a 28-year-old student die in his sleep with a heart attack. We are praying for his family.
Standing on the promises: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10).
Thankful for: Emily's on spring break next week!
Postmark Fun: Working on this week's list. I was blessed with a fun envelope of goodies from a friend this week -- things she made herself and, my favorite, Scripture cards.
I'm reading: My Earth Psalms by Francine Rivers. I rarely read a devotional book like it was intended. I'm always too excited to read the next one.
Part of Eleanor's gift for my birthday was a gift certificate for Books and a special bookmark from Hawaii from their cruise.
Favorite Quote:  Free grace can go into the gutter and pull out a jewel. Charles Spurgeon
Today: Nothing too exciting happening here today -- which is exciting in itself.
On the weekend: RB and I had a date on Saturday. Ivanhoes -- home of 100 different milkshakes and 100 different sundaes. Then on to Taylor University for an evening of "Antigone" by the drama department.
At my writing desk: I have two projects I am working on. Carving time out to work on both of them this week.
Praying for:  My Aunt Posie and Aunt Jean.
Standing on the promises: "Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart." (Psalm 37:4).
Thankful for: Francine Rivers! Her book Earth Psalms: Reflections on How God Speaks through Nature is released today. This is her first nonfiction. I've had it pre-ordered for a long time. I had 4 classes with her at a writer's conference, and she's lovely -- a true lady.
Postmark Fun: I'm caught up! 20 pieces of mail ready to go out today. We've started postmarking shelter to veterans this week. If you have a veteran who needs encouragement or just a "thank you," send a private message to me on Facebook (Pamela Cessna Kuhn).
I'm reading: Designed to Pray: Creative Ways to Engage with God by Kelly O'Dell Stanley. Another book I've pre-ordered is Ann Voscamp's The Broken Way: A Daring Path to the Abundant Life.
Favorite Quote: God is an artist, and the earth and the universe are his canvas. Francine Rivers
Pamela's Daybook: October 1st
Today: Up early to write. And that's about all I did except for supper. Oh, and cookies--that, too. Which wasn't much since they were the three-ingredient peanut butter ones. Made RB happy.
At my writing desk: I may (or not) have happy danced all over my house. At least my heart was happy dancing. Deadline reached. Feel free to join my happy dance.
Praying for:  The needs on my Postmark list. So many...
Standing on the promises: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:1).
Thankful for: My computer. Can you imagine how hard it was to write on a typewriter. Every time I made a mistake I'd have to stick that little white corrector thing in. And lining it up to fix mistakes after it was out of the machine was nearly impossible.
Around the House: The dust bunnies have been having a party around here. I have plans for those fluffy things that have been multiplying.
Postmark Fun: I sat tonight and worked on cards. This week we are starting to shelter some veterans -- those who have fought to keep our country free.
I'm reading: My reading club assignment for October is to read a book from the bottom of my to-read stack. For me that means the last one on my Kindle carousel -- Abandoned by Warren Craig Shan. I think I got the book free. (I hope I did!) I downloaded it last December. At first I thought there were mistakes in the book, but as I got into it, I realized it was supposed to be a Scottish accent -- except it wasn't consistent. There's a lot of telling instead of showing.  I'm about 3/4 of the way through, so we'll see how it ends.
Favorite Quote: God takes us down paths we never want to travel and roads we never want to see, to get us to a place we never want to leave. Oswald Chambers
Pamela's Daybook: September 27th
Today: Anyone else feel hung over today? Too much angst over the great debate, I guess. The best part of the debate was the texting circle with my daddy, brother and sister. Daddy sent us a picture of all his snacks for during the debate, and I have two things to say -- I wish I had been there, and I want his kind of diabetes. My strawberries were delicious, though. RB was teaching in Portland, so I missed having someone to boo and hiss with me.
At my writing desk: I'm on track to meet my deadline. May all my family and friends hold their emergencies until after Friday.
Praying for:  Protection for traveling family. And a big answer to prayer for a friend's son.
Standing on the promises: “You shall serve the Lord your God only; then I will bless you with food and with water, and I will take away sickness from among you" (Exodus 23:25).
Thankful for: Texts that keep me in touch with my children. My daughters hate the phone as much as I do. Texting doesn't demand an immediate answer. We can connect even when we are busy. These girls-of-mine are funn-eee. Sometimes it's a prayer call. There's nobody I'd rather have pray for me than my family -- including my grandchildren. Both girls send pictures of their daily lives.
Around the House: I was making rolls for supper, and decided to make half the recipe into pecan rolls for RB. I put the tray on top of the pan to turn it -- and it slipped. Not only the rolls got on the stove, but the sticky brown sugar/karo and rolls. It was a mess, but I was thankful for my flat top. (And RB who cleaned up the mess.) They still tasted good!
I'm reading: The Power of a Praying Grandparent.  I've been waiting for it to be released, and thought I had it pre-ordered. When it didn't come, I checked -- nope, it was released August 30th.
"Grandchildren are a gift from God to you. And your prayers are a gift to them that can touch them for a lifetime -- even after you are no longer around to see all the good results."
Favorite blessing: Dear Grandson, May you be more than a conqueror, an overcomer, a soldier in the army of the true God. May you stand firm in the face of the enemy and the presence of your peers. May you delight in the sword  of the Lord, always ready to wield it to defeat Satan. You are valued, prayed for, and loved. Mawmaw
Pamela's Daybook: September 26
Today: Master Camron came to my house this morning. He keeps us laughing. I was reading about Moses today, and Camron told me, "Moses led the people, and God led Moses."
At my writing desk: I met my writing goals last week by the skin of my teeth. After the end of the week, I won't be so pressed. Even with pressure, I love what I do. I find myself writing away with a goofy grin on my face.
Praying for:  A pregnant friend of one of RB's students. An ex-husband shot her twice in the back and once in her stomach. (then killed himself). They were able to save her baby, but they need a lot of prayer.
Standing on the promises: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10).
Thankful for: A fun date with our friends, Kevin and Linda Jones, on Saturday night. There is nothing like being with friends who share your love of God and ministry.
Around the House: Nothing much going on around the house. I promised RB that if I got through this week, I'd do some deep-cleaning next week. Thank the Lord for fall candles. They make me forget the dust!
I'm reading:  I bought two books with the gift certificate Jonathon and Emily gifted me for my birthday.
Everyday Grace: It's a beautiful book -- one I'll probably buy a couple for gifts.
Gratitude: A Prayer and Praise Coloring Journal: It spoke my name when I saw the page, "God will shelter you."
Postmarking: For the first time, I am behind in my cards. I hope to catch up tonight. And one came back without a stamp. (Insert frowny face.) I have a boy with autism who loves Christmas on our list this week. We're sending Christmas cards in September! So fun. I'll be happy to share the address if I or one of the team knows you.
Favorite quote: Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Dale Evans
Pamela's Daybook: September 22
Today: Today is the first day for me to teach my grandson, Camron, kindergarten. Those who follow me will remember three years ago when I had a part in Morgan's kindergarten journey. Camron's Nana gets a day, and Melanie does the rest.
At my writing desk: I had some lessons that a writer didn't complete. I've really enjoyed working on them. Usually I'm editing or rewriting -- I enjoyed starting from "scratch." I hope to write my daybook more often, but life seems extra busy (not to mention the age thing that seems to be making everything take longer than it used to.)
Praying for:  Beth -- A family from the school where she teaches had a collision with a school bus. The father, baby and 4th-grade daughter died and the mom is in critical condition. The 2nd-grader was injured. They had two teens who weren't involved. Please help me pray for Beth. Her own daddy was killed in an automobile accident, so it's extra hard for her.
Standing on the promises: The Lord is a strong fortress. The godly run to him and are safe (Proverbs 18:10).
Thankful for: Time with our friends, Ben and Sue Colburn. RB taught in Louisville Tuesday night. The university provided a room at the Holiday Inn Express.Wednesday we met Ben and Sue for a long lunch.
Around the House: My son-in-law, Jonathon, took two personal days to help me with a project to surprise RB while he was at his annual faculty retreat. We surprised him!
I'm reading: Emily gave me a gift certificate for my birthday. So many choices!  I'll be at Barnes and Noble for 6-7 hours tonight so that should help me decide!
Here's a couple I've been looking at on Amazon:
Creating A Ripple: The Guide to Serving Millions with Mercy & Compassion through Hospitality (Kindle)
Made Well: Finding Wholeness in the Everyday Sacred Moments (October 4 release date)
Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul (not yet released)
Postmarking: We have sent over 3,000 encouragement cards this year. Almost every day I hear from people who have been touched by this ministry.
Favorite quote: Let God’s promises shine on your problems. Corrie Ten Boom
Pamela's Daybook: September 13th
Today: Today is my mother's birthday. I wonder how they celebrate birthdays in Heaven.
Last week: Celebrating Bee-utiful Corrinna Joy
At my writing desk: Last week I used my mother's chair for my writing desk. I stayed a week with my daddy and was pleased to meet every day's goal. I have fallen in love with the book of Esther again. Sometimes I think I know everything there is to know about a Bible book. Then in studying it, new truths pop up everywhere. I loved researching about the times and customs, and about the God unmentioned.
Praying for:  My prayer list grows with the cares and burdens. I sometimes feel like a failure in keeping up with the needs. And then I get reports of prayers answered and my heart is filled with joy. Today I focused on a dear friend of mine. I've never met her, yet she's a sister of my heart. So I was honored to offer prayers for her and her family to my Heavenly Father through the name of His son, Jesus Christ.
Thankful for: Dentists, Jersey Mike's, the License Branch, my chauffeur RB, and the promised prayers of Melanie and Emily.
Around the House: You can smell the fall candle, and from where I am sitting I can see the flowers Emily brought me in memory of her grandma -- purples with a big yellow sunflower. "Healthy colors because that's what Grandma would have chosen."
I'm reading: I just received Marilyn Feinberg's "Flourish" in the mail. The cover is amazing. It's a 52-week devotional with coloring pages. My friend, Sue, shared Marilyn Feinberg with me, and I've become an avid follower. This is the book I would have gifted to my mother for her birthday.
Postmarking: We've been encouraging pastor's wives the last few weeks. If your pastor's wife needs encouraged, drop me her name and address in my Facebook message box: Pamela Cessna Kuhn. (We don't want their addresses floating around.)
Favorite quote: We flourish when we pursue the life God intends. Marilyn Feinberg
I’m Pamela Kuhn and my passion is encouragement (I call it shelter). I’ve created this space to count postmarks – postmarks on my letters, cards, postcards and happy packages. I’m counting postmarks as a way to continue the legacy of my mother, the queen of mailbox sheltering. I'd love for you count with me.


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Moving along redoing furniture and surprising myself a bit.
Finally found this table with great lines and a plate glass top. Every other aspect of the table was in need of a redo. Satin black paint did the trick - emphasized the nice
silhouette and resulted in a table that could serve as a nightstand, an end table, or even a cocktail table.
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While newspaper owners have a lot of thinking to do to arrest the decline, digital publishers have a lot to celebrate in the 47 percent CAGR.
by Hansa Research and is the research tool relied on by marketers in the country to understand media consumption in India.
In a nutshell, digital is a great story and the Cable & Satellite story is a good one too, clipping along at 12.4 percent.
But the truly big story in the IRS is the state of the newspaper industry. While, overall, consumption of press has shown a 1.3 percent CAGR (see table), a look at the performance of the top ten newspapers in the country will worry newspaper owners.
Overall, the top ten newspapers in India have de-grown by 0.003 percent. Of the ten publications, seven have registered negative growth, while those who have shown growth have done so in fractions of one percent.
What is notable is that the negative growth or stagnation is not limited to English language newspapers. Indeed, only one of the top ten publications – The Times of India – is published in English.
 The 12.4 percent growth in C&S, too, is heartening as this is a figure which is likely to keep rising as the country shifts from analog to digital.
The cracks in Team Anna are on full display. Now Anna's former blog writer has come out hard against the rest of Team Anna in an interview. They aren't just undemocratic, he says. They are also endangering Anna's health.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani might just have the world's most thankless job. His much awaited speech to the Pakistani parliament about the Abbottabad debacle was a perfect example of that. It pleased no one.
From presidential committees to new photo-sharing features to helping Kuch Kuch Hota Hai go viral in 2011, Twitter's making headlines.
A columnist for The Times says the west is “looking eastward in disgust.” The reaction to the gangrape in Delhi has reverberated around the world as if they've suddenly discovered the dark underbelly to India Shining.
Is Mamata's no-confidence motion that went nowhere going to backfire on her? Didi says she stood up for her principles. But one of her own MPs says she got a political thappad. And other MPs are speaking up.
The Calcutta High Court has rapped Mamata Banerjee's government on the knuckles for ignoring its own human rights commission's recommendations. But is Didi listening or too busy filing defamation suits?
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How many times has the World Cup been in Africa?
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How many times south Africa been in the world cup?
How many times have south Africa been winners of the world cup?
How many times has the FIFA Cup been played in South Africa?
Where is this years world cup been held?
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The fingernail sensor system features strain gauges attached to the fingernail and a tiny computer that collects accelerometer data, samples strain values, and communicates with a smart watch. This smart watch also uses machine learning to rate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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On the one hand, tennis is blatantly sexist. Like many sports, most of the markers and rules for achieving success are geared around masculine ideals of strength, stamina, power and speed. Because women cannot compete on these terms, tennis enforces a strict gender segregation, with two totally different competitions for each gender, two separate world rankings, and even different sets of tactics and rule variations. Women’s matches are shorter and rely less on the power of one’s serve (though the closer to a male-type serve you can achieve, the better you will do). Until 2007, men earned more prize money than women for the same accomplishments.
Furthermore, tennis can be a forum for female empowerment, to an extent. Many top women players, like the Williams sisters or Sharapova, have inspiring life-stories and provide amazing role models for women seeking to be the best they can be. Such players clearly push themselves to fulfill their absolute potential, and dedicate their hearts and souls to their sport, and in a way they prove that women are capable of just as remarkable feats as men, albeit at a personal level if not an objective, overall one.
Perhaps this is another reason why tennis is a good case-study for gender issues: the sport itself encapsulates these two sides of athleticism. Stength vs skill, speed vs accuracy and power vs grace – would it be an oversimplification to say that these binaries are analogous to male vs female? Will we continue to see a reinforcement of the gender binary by greater attention to strength for men and agility for women, or will a renewed focus on a fusion of these two sets of qualities bring about a challenge to the binary? Unfortunately, the last great player who seemed to balance both sides of the sport to perfection, Roger Federer, appears to be towards the end of his career, defeated this year by a Czech player with (you guessed it) a massive serve in only the 1/4 finals. Nadal, meanwhile, is still in his ascendency, though in my opinion his success is based just as much on his ridiculous top-spin and accuracy as his brute strength, though this latter is indeed formidable. Who knows what next year will hold.
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The Catholic Church: Midwife and Nursemaid to Science
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Also, being a teenage boy, Logan will often take the most adamant of stances on subjects that he knows the least about. In fact, the vehemence with which Logan will defend his opinion is inversely proportional to how much he knows about it.
2016 was full of big events for Logan, including getting Eagle Scout, getting his first job, and, consequently, getting his first phone. Let’s hear what he has to say about it. This interview was, of course, done while Logan was driving.
Q: So, Logan what did you think of 2016?
A: What? I dunno. Don't ask me questions while I am driving!
Q: It's OK, son, just calm down.
A: DAD! Yes, I guess. But it won't matter if you don't stop distracting me because we'll be in a HEAP OF BURNING METAL!
Q: Your project was building a marquee for the local elementary schoLOGAN LOOK OUT! YOU ARE DRIFTING INTO THE RIGHT LANE AGAIN! GET OVER!
A: AHHHHH! DON'T YELL AT ME WHILE I AM DRIVING! So, you want me to keep the car in this lane and not go off the road to the right? I am pulling over.
Q: (After we both calm down and get out of the car.) You like Pink Floyd now, right?
Q: Neat. Is this why you've started playing the drums?
A: Yup. Drums are the best musical instrument. All other musical instruments are sins against humanity and should be melted down and used to make more drums.
Q: Hmmm...that's, um, something. It's not that funny, is it?
A: WHAT? This is the ONLY funny thing in the world right now. There is nothing else that is funny.
Q: You like to play Pokemon Go, right?
A: (He is looking at his phone and swiping up.) There is a Pikachu on your head, Dad. Don't move. Oh, and look at this video I found on the internet! (He shows me a clip of some kid flipping a water bottle which lands right-side up. ) Isn't that AMAZING?
Q: Not really. What's so great about it?
A: WHAT? This is likely the single greatest feat of our generation!
Q: Well, that I can believe. Did you go on any cool trips this year?
A: Yes! I went on a cruise with my friend for Spring Break.
Q: Wow! Where did you go on the cruise?
A: It was great! I went to the 24-hour free ice cream place, the 24-hour free pizza place. I went to the restaurant, too.
Q: No, I mean, where did...never mind. Let's go, you wanna drive?
A: NO! Let's just walk from here.
The interview kind of died from there, as Logan got lost shuffling between catching Pokemon and convulsing in laughter about (often mildly offensive) memes. To wrap up, I’ll quickly mention that Logan is doing well in school (he’s a Sophomore) and started shaving this year.  Logan plans to start his own Uber-like business in 2017 called Don’t Yell at Me While I’m Driving.


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The Story of Christian Theology by Roger Olson. This is the book that convinced me to attend seminary. I read a TON of fiction after graduating from college. I picked this book up shortly after it was published in 1999 and enjoyed it so much I thought, "Hey, if I enjoy reading about historical theology, maybe I should go back to school!
I think I'm supposed to tag some more people, so now it's your turn Becky and Lisa!
What disturbs me most about the above quote is the assumption that a reduction in children born with Down Syndrome is beneficial. I wonder if researchers would make the same claim about other diagnoses that are given after birth. For example, would we consider a 50% reduction in those who suffer from cancer to be beneficial if the only cure was to euthanize those who are diagnosed?
I think we are too quick to dismiss our own strength and our ability to handle situations we never thought we could. While I was pregnant with Elijah I did not think I could handle a child with a disability. When we received Elijah's pre-natal diagnosis of Down Syndrome I kept saying, "This is not what I wanted. This is not what I planned for our lives!
Elijah is two and half now and brings us much more joy than frustration. Yes, sometimes we get tired, but who doesn't get tired when they have toddlers?
Now I am the Rights Manager at InterVarsity Press. I work fewer hours, but travel more often. Now we have two kids, one in Kindergarten and the other getting ready to start preschool. Our spoons are scratched up from getting stuck in the garbage disposal and our first set of dishes was so chipped we recently replaced them with something durable enough for our kids to drop without breaking or chipping them. We are living in our second townhouse and the furniture we bought eight years ago looks okay, but is showing wear and tear (We bought the furniture before we had kids. It's all white. Well, actually, it used to be all white). Our media cabinet is overflowing, mostly with Blue's Clues, Wiggles and Signing Time DVDs and videos. We check out the movies we want to watch from the library and spend our evenings watching movies or reading books (some things don't change!


Amine-functionalized mono- and diphosphines have been used to prepare a series of ruthenium complexes which exhibit a variety of coordination modes depending on the number of donors possessed by the ligands, the degree of amine methylation, the solvent system used, and the oxidation state of the metal. Reactions of the monophosphinoanilines, Ph2PAr or Ph2PAr′ (Ar = o-C6H4NHMe, Ar′ = o-C6H4NMe2), with 0.5 equiv of [RuCl(μ-Cl)(η6-p-cymene)]2 in dichloromethane result in the formation of [RuCl2(η6-p-cymene)(P-Ph2PAr)] or [RuCl(η6-p-cymene)(P,N-Ph2PAr′)]Cl, respectively. In refluxing methanol, [RuCl2(η6-p-cymene)(P-Ph2PAr)] gradually undergoes chloride ion dissociation to afford the P,N-chelate, [RuCl(η6-p-cymene)(P,N-Ph2PAr)]Cl. This chelate can then be deprotonated to afford the amido complex, [RuCl(η6-p-cymene)(P,N-Ph2PAr−)] (Ar− = o-C6H4NMe−), which is an active ketone transfer hydrogenation catalyst. Reactions of the diphosphines, Ar2PCH2PAr2 (mapm) or Ar′2PCH2PAr′2 (dmapm) with 0.5 equiv of [RuCl(μ-Cl)(η6-p-cymene)]2 result in the formation of [RuCl2(P,P′,N,N′-mapm)] or [RuCl(η6-p-cymene)(P,P′-dmapm)]Cl, respectively, in which increased methyl substitution in the latter actually inhibits amine coordination with retention of the p-cymene fragment. Reaction of mapm with 1 equiv of [Ru(CO)4(η2-C2H4)] in dichloromethane initially produces [Ru(CO)4(P-mapm)] which, over a 24 h period with exposure to ambient light, is completely converted to the P,P′-chelate, [Ru(CO)3(P,P′-mapm)], by photodissociation of carbon monoxide. The same reaction with 2 equiv of [Ru(CO)4(η2-C2H4)] generates a mixture of [Ru3(CO)10(μ-P,P′-mapm)] and the mononuclear P,P′-chelate. The trinuclear complex can also be synthesized by direct reaction of mapm with 1 equiv of [Ru3(CO)12].


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PLR Consultation
Date: May 14, 2012Author: stelladuffy 4 Comments	I’m aware some writer friends aren’t quite clued-in on what’s going on with the proposals around PLR, and so aren’t entirely sure what to say as comments on the Consultation Documents. It’s pretty simple, in a bonfire of the quangos type thing, the coalition would like to save some money by having the organisation that runs PLR (9 people and a CEO) subsumed into a larger org, like the British Library or the Arts Council.
There is also, of course, an underlying question – as there always is about anything being paid out as a right rather than a subsidy – as to the need for PLR at all. It’s not being taken away at the moment, but there are some of us who feel being taken over by an umbrella org isn’t the best way to keep the need for PLR in the public eye. So, here’s the page to download and read the docs from the DCMS (they’re very short and simple), and here’s what I’ve sent as my comments – the comments email and postal address is also on the link above. 1. PLR payments are a vital form of income for very many writers in the UK, where the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s figures have suggested that the average writer in the UK earns around £9000 pa. Safeguarding the RIGHT (not subsidy) that is PLR, safeguards some of those writers who might otherwise have to give up their writing work. It is vital that, as a nation renowned for our literary prowess, and the depth and breadth of our literature, we do not make it even harder for new writers (of any age) to get started, and for mid-list writers to continue. Most writers are not paid the much-vaunted advances the press like to write about, and many of us rely on PLR monies to supplement our income, and it is also hugely important to keep the range of writers we currently enjoy. Making it harder for people to afford to write, simply makes it harder for anyone who isn’t independently wealthy to write. The last thing we want is to return to a time of ‘gentlemen writers’.
2. PLR has actually gone down in real terms for several years, as the rate has not kept pace with inflation.
4. PLR is currently run well, efficiently, and successfully by a small team of hard-working people who know their job and the writers of Great Britain. If the organisation of PLR is to be subsumed into a larger body (like the British Library for eg) there is no certainty that it would be run as well, or as efficiently. It would also, more than likely, mean moving jobs from Stockton-on-Tees to London, hardly appropriate in the current financial climate.
5. If any organisation must take over something that is already working well, already running well, already coping well with the restrictions and problems of a recession, perhaps the ALCS – which does a very similar job, but for other forms of copyright (documents, radio broadcasts etc), would be better placed to incorporate the PLR organisation. I suggest you don’t copy and paste these comments wholesale, we are writers after all! – but if you find this prompts you to make an effort with your own comments and to take the time to tell the Govt how useful and important PLR is, then get to it!
Of course, you might simply want to say – it works well, it doesn’t waste money, it does a good thing, why on earth waste time AND MONEY consulting on getting rid of it?
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writerlywitterer says:	May 14, 2012 at 6:13 pm	Couldn’t agree more, Stella. Perfect piece.
stelladuffy says:	May 14, 2012 at 6:23 pm	thank you xx
cath staincliffe (@CathStaincliffe) says:	May 14, 2012 at 7:41 pm	Thanks Stella, just the nudge I needed. Done and dusted.
stelladuffy says:	May 14, 2012 at 8:23 pm	brilliant. thanks Cath. x


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