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Gesture Controls Get a Huge Boost with New 'Leap' Interaction System
From the Wii Remote to the Microsoft Kinect, gesture-based controls have been about gaming. The Leap brings the technology to computers with an impressive amount of accuracy.
Technology is always chasing after science fiction. Star Trek communicators became the cell phones in our pockets, and the wireless in-ear headset Uhura wore eventually became the Bluetooth headset. And now the futuristic, gesture-driven computer interface portrayed in Minority Report is being tackled by today's technology.
On Monday, Leap Motion introduced the Leap gesture-based computer interaction system. Similar to the Microsoft Kinect, the 3D motion-capturing device tracks an 8-cubic-foot area for movements, and recognizes the differences between fingers, thumbs and even pencils simultaneously.
The USB device is roughly the size of a pocket knife, and sits directly in front of a computer's display. Leap Motion says on its site that the technology behind the Leap could be added to cars, medical devices, and lights.
According to Leap Motion, its gesture recognition is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market, and can track movements down to 1/100th of a millimeter. Sorry Kinect.
The genesis of the Leap was born out the co-founders frustration with creating 3D models using current software and input devices: "Something that took 10 seconds in real life would take 30 minutes with a computer" states a quote on the Leap website.
The Leap is available for limited pre-order now for $70, and will ship this Winter. In the meantime, check out the video below of the Leap in action.
Roberto test drives electric vehicles for WIRED. He's a journalist and musician based in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Q: Building symbolic link shared library in a shared folder of VirtualBox I am now building a C++ library in Windows and Linux. For windows I am now using Visual Studio for development, and for Linux I am now using Ubuntu via Virtual Box. In order to make develop much easier, I shared the folder of the project in Windows with Linux via the shared folder function of Virtual Box. I compile and run the project in Windows first and if it succeeds I will compile it in Linux. This is made possible thanks to CMake. The problem I have is that if the shared library to be built is a symbolic link one it cannot be compiled in Linux as this page suggests. If it is not a symbolic one, it is fine. Then my questions are as follows:

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*Is symbolic link property important for a library in Linux?

*Are there some solutions that can build the symbolic link library successfully in shared folder?

A: Configuring your project outside of shared folder may help.
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A: The issue is that the shared folder's permissions are set to not allow symbolic links by default. You can enable them in a few easy steps.

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*Shut down the virtual machine.

*Note your machine name at Machine > Settings > General > Name

*Note your shared folder name at Machine > Settings > Shared Folders

*Find your VirtualBox root directory and execute the following command.
VBoxManage setextradata "<machine name>" VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/<shared folder name> 1

*Start up the virtual machine and the shared folder will now allow symbolic links.

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Nuclear fusion and fission are two things that get people very flustered. They sound the same, yet they have almost directly inverse interpretations. Nuclear fusion happens when two smaller nuclei fuse into a bigger, which transmits colossal supplies of energy. On the other hand, nuclear fission happens when weighty, erratic nucleus fuse into two smaller, lightweight nuclei. In simpler terms, this means that in nuclear fusion, nuclei detach from each other, and in nuclear fission, two nuclei unite to form a bigger one. Also, in nuclear fission, the process of there being a chain reaction is present. However, in nuclear fusion, the process of a chain reaction is absent. Perhaps the most important to the environment, in nuclear fusion, there is no nuclear waste emitted. Notwithstanding, in nuclear fission, there are is a possibility of nuclear waste emission into the environment. This can lead to detrimental effects to all living organisms.
Nuclear radiation can be a baffling subject. There are many details about it that make it hard to comprehend. However, it is quite straightforward. Nuclear radiation is just referring to the energy molecules that are emitted from the radioactive substance. Nuclear radiation can have many negative impacts on our health. For example, alpha particles, which poses the smallest amount of harm on the skin, poses the possibility of developing into lung cancer (if brought into the body through nasal passage). Beta particles pose a threat of being even more deadly (because they are smaller than alpha particles). Beta particles are deadly because they can cause severe scorches and can also be a factor of tissue devastation. Finally, the feared and terrifying gamma particles has its drawbacks. Gamma particles are the most destructive and dangerous particle of all three because just a petite exposure to it can absolutely devastate every single part of your body, from the tiniest cells, to even your bones and muscles.
The Manhattan Project was a project that was originally intended for use against Nazi Germany in World War 2. Although a great plentiful of people don't know this, the name Manhattan was not a secretive name meant to mislead people (for example, Operation Overlord, was given the name so that the Germans couldn't figure out what the Allies were going to do), for the project's original "expansion" actually did happen in Manhattan. Manhattan was the inaugural headquarters of the project, and that is where the project's first laboratories that rifted the atom. Fun fact, the skyscraper that held all the laboratories and everything was located directly across the street from the New York City Hall. Although Manhattan was the birthplace of the Manhattan project, there were places that were by far important. For example, you have Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee (probably the two most famous sites of the Manhattan Project). Los Alamos was the staging grounds for most of the research and the actual construction of the bomb. Oak Ridge was the home to the reactor, the diffusion plant, and the uranium enrichment plant. In par, the Manhattan Project's success was in due to the expert thinking, developing, and engineering of the bomb by the ingenious scientists involved. Although there were numerous numbers of them (more than 130,000 people contributed to the job), the most famous and important scientists were J.Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the head man of the Manhattan project at the Los Alamos facility. He was appointed as the head by General Leslie Groves, the ultimate leader of the project (of the construction and forth, but not whether or not to use it). Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-German-American scientist (physicist and inventor to be precise), who patented the perception of a nuclear reaction (along with Enrico Fermi). He was the famous man who wrote the letter to American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, which later became the deciding factor in which the Manhattan Project was started. Last but not least, Enrico Fermi was one of the masterminds behind the Manhattan Project. He led the team that assembled the Chicago Pile-1, the world's first self-supporting nuclear chain reaction. There were a lot of important events that affected the project, but the most important events were: the Trinity test, the dropping of Fat Man, and the dropping of Little Boy. First, the successfulness of the Trinity test was a major stepping stone in the development of the bomb. This is because this test entered the world into the nuclear age. Equally important, the dropping of the bombs Little Boy and Fat Man was important. This is because this spelled the ending of World War 2. If the Allies had chosen to invade Japan (Operation Downfall), the total estimated casualties (combined for both Allies and Japan) was about 14 million. However, the dropping of the two atomic bombs only took the lives of about 226,000 (a lot of deaths, but hardly anything when compared to 14 million).
In the movie "The Manhattan Project", I gained an enormous amount of information. However, the one key "advice" that stood out to me was: decisions made in the present can have devastating impact in the future. Although I had known about this advice, the movie very visibly conveyed that message. For example, General Leslie Groves' decision to hire J.Robert Oppenheimer later proved to be the proper decision, for he brought the precise balance between each scientist's creativity and the ability to pull together every scientist into a successful team. If a different scientist other than Oppenheimer had been appointed as the head scientist, then there is a possibility that the atomic bomb would have never been built, or the timing of the construction of the bomb could have been too late. Therefore, the fact that General Groves chose Oppenheimer was a key example of how a decision made in the present can have a devastating effect in the future.
Ethical and moral were two key words that dominated throughout the movie. The definition of moral is how someone can relate to whether or not something is right or wrong. The definition of ethical is how someone judges something depending on its morality. There are a great many of people who holds responsibility for ethical use of technology. However, I believe that the people who are most responsible for the ethical use of technology is you. The decision that one person makes can later effect millions and millions of other people. The leaders of the movie were: the presidents of the U.S. (Roosevelt and Truman), General Leslie Groves, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. These people all played an important role in the dropping of the bomb by: Franklin getting the construction of the bomb started, Truman, for actually giving the orders to drop the bomb, General Groves, for hurrying the scientists and overseeing the ultimate construction of the bomb, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, for inventing the bomb itself. Finally, I believe that it was moral to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. True, multitudes civilians died, but as stated earlier, the total estimated casualties (combined for both Allies and Japan) was about 14 million. However, the dropping of the two atomic bombs only took the lives of about 226,000 (a lot of deaths, but hardly anything when compared to 14 million).
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Indonesia jails man who grew marijuana for cancer-stricken wife
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JAKARTA: An Indonesian man who grew marijuana to ease the pain of his seriously-ill wife was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday, despite an outcry from right groups and activists.
Fidelis Arie Sudewarto was found guilty of growing marijuana without permission by the Sanggau district court in West Kalimantan, even though it acknowledged that he did it to help his wife, who suffers from syringomyelia, a rare disorder which causes a cyst to form within spinal cord.
The case attracted nation-wide attention in Indonesia, where some world's toughest anti-drugs laws are imposed, including capital punishment for traffickers.
"We are very disappointed with the verdict because the judges admitted themselves in their consideration that our client is not involved in drug trafficking, he's not a dealer, he's not even a user," Sudewarto's lawyer Marcelina Lin told AFP Wednesday.
Lin said multiple drug tests proved that the 34-year-old civil servant did not consume any drugs.
The court also ordered Sudewarto to pay a fine of 1 billion rupiah ($75,000) or serve one additional month in jail. Prosecutors previously only sought five months in prison for him.
The lawyer said Sudewarto began to grow marijuana after reading some articles on the internet that claimed the plants could ease his wife's pain. He knew that he would be breaking the law.
After consuming the marijuana, his wife Yeni Riawati began to feel better and and the gaping wound on her spine began to heal, Lin said.
Despite Sudewarto's explanation, the local narcotics agency arrested him in February. Riawati died a month after her husband's arrest.
The widowed father of two, including a toddler, tearfully told his lawyers he was thoroughly disappointed by the court's verdict.
"Our client said no matter what the verdict is, it would not bring his wife back to life," Lin said.
Activists and human rights groups condemned the case against Sudewarto.
"The law itself is flawed, what he (Sudewarto) did indeed violated the law, but he did that to save a human life," human rights lawyer Ricky Gunawan told AFP.
Indonesia has executed several foreign and Indonesian narcotics convicts by firing squad in the past few years. -AFP
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Climbing behind the wheel means freedom and independence for teenagers. Kids everywhere wait impatiently for the day they hit that special age and their parents finally hand them the keys to the family car. But studies by The Allstate Foundation have found that teens are particularly susceptible to dangerous distractions, highlighting the need for parents to sit down early on with their teens to discuss safe driving.
These days, more and more teenagers own up to using their cell phones to text while driving. According to The Allstate Foundation, two thirds of teens admit to texting and instant messaging behind the wheel! Yet nearly 81% of teens rate parents as their number one driving influencers. Knowing this, how can we as Moms not take steps to ensure we set a good example and make safe driving a priority? Especially when recent research by Virginia Tech's Transportation Institute reveals that texting while driving can increase the risk of an accident by 23 times.
Allstate's "X the TXT: Thumbs Up to the Safest Holiday Ever" campaign challenges teens and parents alike to make the pledge not text and drive. By joining the cause at www.causes.com/thumbsup, you're pledging to put your cell phone down behind the wheel. For each person who takes the pledge, Allstate will donate $1 to the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) – a collaborative network of national organizations and federal agencies that serve youth and focus on youth safety and health – for safe teen driving programs.
As part of the campaign, a 30-city "X the TXT," tour kicks off this holiday season during which teens and their families can add their thumbprints to a pledge banner as a public commitment not to text and drive.
Head to Allstate's website to download the Allstate Family Texting Pledge and start the conversation with your family!
Disclaimer: I received no compensation or incentive for sharing this valuable information with my readers.
I've seen a few of these posts going around the blogosphere and I think this is an AMAZING program!
Actually, as of today in IL it is illegal to text and drive. It's even illegal to LOOK at your phone while driving!


What is the cost of training to be a pilot in Japan and what is the duration?
I honestly don't know anything about pilot schools in Japan. Search for suitable schools online and look at the costs and durations on their websites. Most programmes will be taught in Japanese so unless you are fluent in Japanese you should probably start with studying at a Japanese language school. Then your language school could also help you to find a suitable pilot school.


Yeah, Yeah, I know there are so many jQuery lightbox plug-ins available today; however, if you want to create your own for any reason, I have created this video tutorial to show you the basic functionality of a jQuery lightbox. There are a lot more advanced features that may need to be added to this lightbox; although, for the sake of simplicity I wanted to keep this short and easy. If you are still a jQuery beginner, perhaps you may benefit from reading the article, jQuery 101 - The Basics.


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Sat-n has his own trinity—the devil, the beast, and the false prophet (Revelation 16:13). He has his own church, "a synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9)... He has his own throne (Revelation 13:2) and his own worshipers (Revelation 13:4). So he has developed a thorough imitation of Christianity, viewed as a system of religion. In his role as the imitator of God, he inspires false christs, self-constituted messiahs (Matthew 24:4-5). He employs false teachers who are specialists in his "theology," to bring in "destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them" (2 Peter 2:1). They are adept at mixing truth and error in such proportions as to make error palatable. They carry on their teaching surreptitiously and often anonymously. He sends out false prophets. "And many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many" (Matthew 24:11)
I. Trinitarian Dogma": What Is It?
The expression, "trinitarian dogma," refers to the classical "Christian" doctrines of the "trinity" or "triunity of God" and the "incarnation" (of God) or "deity" of the Messiah, which (doctrines) normally go together and constitute the core doctrines of most Christian denominations today, including Messianic Judaism. The term, "dogma," refers to the "dictatorial" [1] behavior associated with trinitarianism.
The doctrine of the "trinity" or "triunity of God" refers to the idea that "there is one G-d, eternally existent in three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit" [2] or somehow "triune" at the same time that He is "one." The three "Persons," according to the classical dogma, are "co-equal, co-eternal, co-omniscient," etc., i.e. equal in every way, but they are also distinct from each other, each "Person" having a discrete existence and function of his own. Because the Son has a discrete existence of his own, he is not identical to, i.e. the same Person as, the Father; hence the idea of the "plurality of the Godhead." The dogma of the "deity" of the Messiah, however, is unequivocally the emphatic assertion that the Son is God in the full sense of the word, that he is God incarnate, God in the form of a man, "ontologically," i.e. actually, God, rather than that the Son is merely figuratively God, not God in the full sense of the word but a portrayal of God, like a painting rather than the actual subject of the painting. The doctrine of the "deity" of Yeshua ("Jesus"), therefore, actually contradicts the doctrine of the trinity because it implies a oneness of identity between the Father and the Son in contrast to the duality of the Father and the Son asserted in the doctrine of the trinity. This is the fulcrum of trinitarian dogma, the dogmatic insistence on both the complete identity or equality and the simultaneous duality of Yeshua and Yah'weh, which trinitarians believe is an accurate and authoritative description of all that scripture says about the Messiah and God and to which, they say, all Christians must subscribe in order to go to heaven.
What's Wrong with Trinitarian Dogma?
Many Christians accept trinitarian dogma because many books seem to support it and because trinitarians have a lot of control in Christianity and exert immense, sophisticated, sometimes even violent pressure on Christians in order to keep them in the trinitarian corral. Because of the many books which do indeed seem to support trinitarian dogma, many Christians are not inclined to argue with it and may even become ardent trinitarians themselves. The relatively small number of sheep who choose to question trinitarian dogma are normally easily reined in by trinitarian membership requirements, which are used as a kind of fence to keep the sheep from breaking out of the trinitarian corral. Those who persist in such non-conformity may be expelled from congregations, and those who go to the extreme of actively, effectively opposing trinitarian dogma face such obstacles as employment discrimination, slander, possibly even violence.
Perhaps this dogmatic atmosphere surrounding trinitarian dogma should be the first thing listed in answer to the question, What's Wrong with Trinitarian Dogma? Such dogmatism is symptomatic of an underlying weakness, resulting in the defensive or even "dictatorial" behavior of trinitarians.
One weakness of trinitarian dogma is its subtle, or sometimes not so subtle, deviation from scripture. The Messiah Yahushua once said, for example, that it is not for him to decide who will sit on his right and left hands in his Kingdom "but for whom it is prepared by my Father" [3]. There is at least one area, then, viz. determining the positions of individuals in the Kingdom, in which the Father, i.e. Yah'weh, has authority that Yahushua does not have. This is not just due to the three Persons of the trinity having different functions or domains in the Kingdom, like the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the American government, which "balance" each other. The Messiah Yahushua cannot do anything "of himself." [4] He only does and says what Yah authorizes. The very life of Yahushua comes from Yah', [5] a fact which trinitarians deny. [6] The dominion of Yah'weh, therefore, is all-inclusive. It includes and exceeds the domain of Yahushua's authority. They are not separate and equal. It is misleading, therefore, to speak of the "deity" of Yeshua or to say that he is "fully G-d," "true G-d from true G-d . . . of the same substance as the Father" and so forth. To impose such dogma, finally, and to discriminate against or persecute those who fail to conform to such false standards is atrocious.
Another discrepancy between scripture and trinitarian dogma is the insistence that one must believe that the Holy Spirit is a "Person" or at least has a measure of autonomy in the Godhead such that G-d is to be regarded as triune, rather than just dual, not to mention one. Never does the Holy Spirit appear as a distinct man or person in scripture. The mere fact that three "men" met Avraham when "Yah'weh" appeared to him in Gen 18:1-2, for example, does not necessarily mean that one of the "men" was the personification of the H-ly Spirit Ruach hakadoš. The Bible does not tell us that one of the three men is the H-ly Spirit, and to make such an assumption is presumptuous, especially in the light of all of the evidence concerning trinitarian dogma.
The mere fact that scripture speaks of the Holy Spirit as thinking, talking and acting also does not necessarily mean that he, or it, is a "Person." Spirits think, talk and act, too. Demons, i.e. evil spirits, for example, speak, as when they told Yeshua that they were "Legion" when he healed the man with an unclean spirit in the country of the Gadarenes. [7] The Spirit of Yah' also dwells in some people and may be transferred from one to another, as when Moshe (Moses) laid hands on Aharon (Aaron) [8] or when Eliyahu (Elijah) gave a "double portion" of his spirit to Elisha. [9]. Scripture routinely describes spirit(s) as "wind" or "breath" or as being "poured out" or "entering into" or "dwelling in" people, not as the people themselves. Perhaps spirits could or did appear as persons, but there seems to be a difference between persons and spirits. It is tendentious, therefore, to insist that the H-ly Spirit is a "Person."
Nor does the fact that the Holy Spirit seems to have a certain measure of autonomy show that God is triune. Everybody's spirit has a certain measure of autonomy precisely because spirit is not perishable flesh and is not subject to the same constraints, e.g. distance, heat, cold, etc., as flesh. Just because we have spirits, though, does not make us dual. One's spirit is like the gas in a car: It is what makes us run, and if someone has no spirit, that person is dead. A car is not dual because it has gas in it and one if it doesn't have gas; neither is an individual dual because he or she has a spirit and one if he or she doesn't have a spirit. Neither does the freedom of the Holy Spirit make God "triune."
The argument (of trinitarian dogma) is contrived. The Bible is being made to fit some preconceived philosphy or religion, and it is not true that trinitarian dogma faithfully conforms to all of the Biblical data. The more closely one scrutinizes trinitarian dogma in comparison to scripture, the more one sees the discrepancies between the two, which is precisely why a continuous train of people, including some of the most pre-eminent in history, such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, Joseph Priestly, John Adams and others, have opposed trinitarian dogma. Trinitarian dogma, therefore, contrary to the claims of its adherents, does not promote unity in Christianity, much less the attractiveness of Christianity to non-Christians, especially Jews. Just the opposite is true: Trinitarian Dogma is probably the deepest source of division within Christianity, and it is certainly one of the main factors which alienates Jews and others from the Truth.
To add insult to injury, finally, trinitarians have actually changed the Bible itself to try to force scripture to preach trinitarian dogma, even though it is alien in both letter and spirit to scripture. A case in point is 1 Jn 5:7, an alleged trinitarian proof-text, which for centuries now has been shown by scholars to be a complete fabrication. [10] Another case in point is 1 Tim 3:16, in which the word, "God," was substituted by forgery for the word, "who," in an attempt to bolster the doctrine of the "deity" of the Messiah. [11] Mat 28:19, the famous "Great Commission," also appears to be another very early trinitarian substitution. [12]
What these more egregious discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture, these desperate attempts to force the Bible to become trinitarian, highlight so well is that trinitarian dogma does not really come from the Bible! If sincere Christians will pay attention to the proponents of trinitarian dogma, they should be able to notice that trinitarians only highlight those scriptures and ideas which support trinitarian dogma. If someone makes a point which does not support or even opposes trinitarian dogma, trinitarians immediately jump to another scripture or idea which, again, supports the trinitarian point of view. Trinitarians, in other words, are one-sided. They will not look at another side, and they will not allow another side to be heard. They are like the monopolists earlier in this century, who sought to control segments of the economy and used any means necessary to keep others from encroaching on their commercial empires. The spirit of trinitarian dogma, in effect, is a spirit of intolerant, monopolistic domination, absolutely convinced of its own righteousness, absolutely unwilling to listen to another point of view and willing, if necessary, to resort to any extreme, from simple dishonesty to political chicanery to blatant violence, to keep trinitarian dogma in the ascendancy in Christianity. Trinitarian Dogma, in other words, is not really Christianity in the true sense of the word.
Since Trinitarian Dogma Is Not Really Christianity and Does Not Really Come from the Bible, What Is It, Really, and Where Does It Come from?
Several years ago I went to the public library to look for books about the Arian or Trinitarian Controversy of the fourth century in which trinitarian dogma finally took over in institutional Christianity, and I happened to check out a book by Cardinal John Henry Newman, a famous Anglican turned Roman Catholic, entitled, The Arians of the Fourth Century. That was the beginning of a new era in my life and has a lot to do with why I am writing this tract. Before I read Newman's book, I opposed trinitarian dogma because of the obvious discrepancies between scripture and trinitarian dogma and because I detected something abominable in trinitarianism. After I read Newman's book, I began to discover why the discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture exist and why trinitarianism is an abomination. Newman, an ardent trinitarian, did not hesitate to admit that trinitarian dogma does not come from the Bible but from the "mystery cults" of antiquity and from the "dispensation of paganism." [13] The "secret tradition" of the mystery cults, wrote Newman, was "perpetuated" in the "early Councils," meaning that the "secret tradition" of paganism was used to solve the Arian Controversy by superimposing trinitarian dogma on Christianity. The famous Nicene Creed, in other words, the foundation of Roman Catholicism and most Protestant denominations, including Messianic Judaism today, and the basis of later trinitarianism, is the very "secret doctrine" of the ancient "mystery cults" in disguise!
Newman's statement arrested my attention. I realized that this was a revelation so I began to study further. What was this "secret tradition"? I read other books like Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop and The Mysteries of Mithra by F. Cumont. Now, some four years and many books and articles later, it is painfully obvious what the "secret tradition" really is, where it came from and why trinitarian dogma has the devious, "dictatorial" character that it has. A number of eminent church historians, notably Prof. Johann Laurence von Mosheim and the great physicist, Sir Isaac Newton, traced the secret tradition back to its origin in remote antiquity. [14] The secret tradition began in ancient Babylon. From the Babylonians it spread to Persia, and from Persia it spread to ancient Greece and thence to ancient Rome. It was invented and kept alive by the magi, the ancient Babylonian priests. It is in fact magic, [15] i.e. the secret essence of the power of the magi. This is why many are fooled by it. It is like the magic tricks, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat or the sleight-of-hand tricks, of magicians. Another word for it is witchcraft, but the Biblical term for it is the very "MYSTERY BABYLON" of Rev 17:5! It is the "mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth," i.e. the covenant with Satan made by those who, unlike Yeshua, choose "all the kingdoms of the world and their glory" [16] instead of the Kingdom of Yah'weh. Trinitarian dogma, in other words, is the gospel of Satan, which leads, not to heaven, as the deluded trinitarians believe, but to "condemnation."
Now That We Know the Truth about Trinitarian Dogma, What Shall We Do?
What is the Truth? It is so simple: Yah, the God of Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), is the one, true God, and He is echad, one, not "triune" or "plural." We must cleave to the exact Word of God, i.e. scripture, and not be fooled by any deviations from the Word, such as "God the Son," "fully God and fully man," "of the same substance as the Father," etc., however "orthodox" such expressions may seem.
Sat-an is more clever than any human being. By quoting scripture, though, and by being unwilling to subscribe to anything more or less than the unadulterated, verbatim Word of G-d, we have a way to escape from Sat-an's tricks, no matter who we are.
[17]: One must not subscribe to the trinitarian membership standards or doctrinal statements of Messianic or other organizations. This is the meaning of the commandment of the angel in Rev 18:4 for us today to "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues!" [18] Those who subscribe to trinitarian dogma have the name of the "whore" on their foreheads and are driven to persecute the saints and to suffer the judgements poured out on those who "do not have the seal of God," i.e. the Sh'ma, "Hear, O Yisrael, Yah'weh is our God, Yah'weh is one" (not "triune"), "on their foreheads." [19] Yah' commanded the Yisraelim (Israelites) to "bind [the Sh'ma] as a sign" on their hands, and "they (the Mitzvot (Commandments) of Yah) shall be as frontlets between your eyes," [20] meaning that the righteous look upon the Sh'ma on the"hand" and obey the Mitzvot. Obeying Yah'weh is the point, but those who insist on tampering with the Truth and "making the Mitzvot of no effect," [21] neutralizing the Word with their infernal alterations, compromises, creeds, dogmas, and manipulative "doctrinal statements" and membership standards, censorship, inquisitions, forgeries, murders, plots, greed, and so forth, are the "children of disobedience" [22] who do not have the seal of Yah'weh on their foreheads. Confess only the very Word of Yah; do not be fooled by the "unrighteous deception" [23] of the enemy! Choose Life! [24]
If you, too, recognize the discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture, if you deplore the calculated, manipulative imposition of trinitarian dogma in Messianic Judaism and Christianity today and believe, as I do, that this is the very "MYSTERY BABYLON " of Rev 17:5, please join with me in exposing this "accursed Babylonian garment" hidden among us. Please tell others about this hidden atrocity. Copy this information and pass it on to others. If the Restoration we seek is to occur, the problem of trinitarian dogma and "MYSTERY BABYLON" cannot remain an unmentionable "taboo." This gateway to the Restoration must be opened. Christianity must be de-paganized so that Judaism may be set free from anti-Messianic bondage. The whole world is waiting in misery and degradation for liberation from the slavery of its "Babylonian captivity." Please don't make them wait any longer.
Shalom b'Shem Yeshua Adoneinu (Peace in the name of Yahushua ("Jesus") our Lord).
1. "Dogmatism" means "positiveness in assertion of opinion esp. when unwarranted or arrogant" or "a viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises." "Dictatorial" is synonymous with "dogmatic" and "stresses autocratic, high-handed methods and a domineering manner" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, Mass., 1989), pp. 373 and 352, emphasis mine).1
2. "By-laws of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations," 9/83, Appendix I, p. 6. It is my understanding that the pertinent standards 2 & 3 have not changed from this 1983 revision.2
15. The word "magic" comes from the word "magi".15
16. Mat 4:8.16
17. 2 Th 2:15.17
18. Rev 18:4.18
19. Rev 9:4.19
20. Deut 6:4-9.20
21. Mat 15:6.21
22. Col 3:6.22
24. Deut 30:19.24
II. To Those Who Have Ears . . .
One of my main fields of study has been the paganization of the early church, exactly how far this process extended and whether it was malignant or benign. I have done some research on this topic, and I have discovered something, which I believe must be publicized. The "secret doctrine" of the ancient mystery cults, according to Cardinal Newman, was "perpetuated" in the "early Councils." [1] The "secret doctrine," according to other sources, e.g. Alexander Hislop, etc., was, in its simplest terms, the doctrine of the triunity of G-d:
"Now, viewed in this light," Hislop wrote, "the triune emblem of the supreme Assyrian divinity shows clearly what had been the original patriarchal faith. First, there is the head of the old man; next, there is the zero, or circle, for "the seed"; and lastly, the wings and tail of the bird or dove; showing, though blasphemously, the unity of Father, Seed, or Son, and Holy Ghost. While this had been the original way in which Pagan idolatry had represented the Triune God, and though this kind of representation had survived to Sennacherib's time, yet there is evidence that, at a very early period, an important change had taken place in the Babylonian notions in regard to the divinity; and that the three persons had come to be, the Eternal Father, the Spirit of God incarnate in a human mother, and a Divine Son, the fruit of that incarnation . . . ." [2]
Also central to the secret doctrine was the doctrine of the equality and even the identity of the Father and the Son:
"This lamented one," Hislop went on, speaking of the basic Babylonian myth of Nimrod, Ninus and Semiramis, the father, son and mother of the Babylonian trinity, "exhibited and adored as a little child in his mother's arms, seems, in point of fact to have been the husband of Semiramis, whose name, Ninus, by which he is commonly known in classical history, literally signified 'The Son' . . . . Now, this Ninus, or 'Son,' borne in the arms of the Babylonian Madonna, is so described as very clearly to identify him with Nimrod . . . . Now, assuming that Ninus is Nimrod, the way in which that assumption explains what is otherwise inexplicable in the statements of ancient history greatly confirms the truth of that assumption itself . . . . Thus, then, looking at the fact that Ninus is currently made by antiquity the son of Belus, or Bel, when we have seen that the historical Bel is Cush, the identity of Ninus and Nimrod is still further confirmed.. . ." [3]
When the languages of the world were confounded at the Tower of Babel, this "mystery Babylon," according to Hislop, spread all over the world and formed the basis of the various mysteries such as those of Dionysus, Eleusis, the Phrygian mysteries, the cults of Adonis and the Egyptian mysteries (hence the apostolic expression, "mother of harlots" [4]. The names varied according to locality, but the underlying "mystery" did not change:
"In every case [of the mystery cults] there is a basic pair of deities dissimilar in rank. Of these two, the female figure embodies fertility itself, whereas her male companion (who is intended to portray fecundity, the result of fertility, i.e., the abundant growth of plants and animals) is represented sometimes as her son, sometimes as her lover, and hence exhibits a peculiar hybrid character." [5]
It is easy to recognize in this description the basic elements-Nimrod the rebellious father, Semiramis the lascivious "Queen of heaven" and Ninus the illegitimate, incestuous son-of the pagan trinity, the "mystery of iniquity," as described by Hislop. The "peculiar hybrid character" of the male deity corresponds to the Babylonian maxim, "Ninus is Nimrod," referring to the "miraculous" replacement of the dead father, Nimrod, by the bastard, Ninus, who becomes his mother's husband and thus exhibits the "peculiar hybrid character" of son-lover. It is easy to see, in other words, that the data in the New Catholic Encyclopedia corroborates both Hislop and Newman concerning the identity of "mystery Babylon." Three weighty authorities, two Catholic and one Protestant, thus agree in regard to "mystery Babylon," and these three authorities base their scholarship in turn on many other specialists in ancient civilization. We can, therefore, presume that additional research will simply bear out past research and that we can be confident that "MYSTERY BABYLON" has been identified.
"If it be inquired what was the object and design of these ancient "Mysteries," it will be found that there was a wonderful analogy between them and the "Mystery of iniquity" which is embodied in the Church of Rome . . . . These Mysteries were long shrouded in darkness, but now the thick darkness begins to pass away. All who have paid the least attention to the literature of Greece, Egypt, Phenicia, or Rome are aware of the place which the "Mysteries" occupied in these countries, and that, whatever circumstantial diversities there might be, in all essential respects these "Mysteries" in the different countries were the same." [6]
Here Hislop is just echoing the previous quote from the New Catholic Encyclopedia to the effect that the basic trinitarian pattern is ubiquitous in paganism. When Newman says that the secret doctrine was "perpetuated" in the "early Councils," what he is saying is that the Alexandrian faction at Nicaea, long noted for their gnosticizing tendencies, [7] cast the secret doctrine, or "MYSTERY BABYLON," in Biblical terms, though it took some wrenching to do this:
"The decisions of Nicaea," according to Henry Bettenson, "were really the work of a minority, and they were misunderstood and disliked by many who were not adherents of Arius. In particular the terms ek ths ousias ["of the substance"] and homoousias ["of the same substance"] aroused opposition, on the grounds that they were unscriptural, novel, tending to Sabellianism [i.e. tending to exaggerate the divinity of Yeshua to the point that the distinction between the Father and the Son ceased to exist] and erroneous metaphysically." [8]
This wrenching at Nicaea immediately led to 50 years of war, followed by recurrent storms throughout history up to the present. Thus, the secret doctrine was preserved or "perpetuated," unbeknownst to any but the elite initiates into the mysteries. Newman's entire book, in fact, incredible as it may seem, defends Nicene orthodoxy, the very centerpiece of Roman Catholicism and much of Protestantism, on this basis! There had always been certain striking resemblances between Biblical and pagan religion, but there had always been certain critical differences, too. When the Apostolic faith came along in antiquity, the pagan priests, feeling mortally threatened, sought to efface the differences between pagan and Biblical religion. Paganism, according to E. L. Woodward, "could only rival Christianity by using the methods and even the doctrines of the church, and . . . These new elements could never really attach themselves to the old pagan foundations." [9] This statement by Woodward is extremely important to understanding what really happened in and after the Trinitarian Controversy of the fourth century. Now that we can see what the secret doctrine was, clearly it is evident that an attempt was made at Nicaea, contrary to the objections of many, to bridge the gap between "the old pagan foundations" and the new Apostolic faith, to effect a compromise, and that the hue and cry that followed was and is simply the inability, as Woodward put it, of the "new elements" to "attach themselves to the old pagan foundations."
The "secret doctrine," therefore, was foisted on the bishops at Nicaea and possibly on Constantine as well by the so-called "orthodox" fathers, e.g. Ossius (Hosius), bishop of Cordova, Spain, who was Constantine's key religious advisor, Alexander, bishop of Alexandria and opponent of Arius the presbyter, Athanasius, Alexander's successor, etc. Nimrod, Zeus, Osiris, Baal, etc., were all lumped together to become "the Father." Hislop also explains how "the Mother" or "Queen of heaven," Isis, Hera, Astarte, etc., came to be identified as "Mary," the "Mother of God" and the Holy Spirit, and the place of "the Son," otherwise known as Ninus, Apollo, Horus, Bel, etc., was taken, of course, by "Ye-Zeus," i.e. "Jesus." The infamous "homoousion," which was the cause of so much "strife about words," was simply the translation of the basic pagan doctrine that "Ninus is Nimrod," i.e. the son is (of the same "substance" or "essential being" [10] as) the father. With a relatively small amount of manipulation and subsequent dissent, the Biblical data was forced at Nicaea into the foreign mold of the secret doctrine creating a perfect, though monstrous, marriage of Biblical and anti-Messianic elements which had the double "virtue" of not provoking a wholesale revolt by the faithful and reconciling pagans with the mushrooming new religion from the Middle East. The secret doctrine, "MYSTERY BABYLON," the "doctrine of the Nicolaitans," the "mystery of iniquity" and "anti-Messiah" apparently are all terms for the same thing.
What Newman is really saying, therefore, is that the secret doctrine, which is really " MYSTERY BABYLON," was and is the basis of the very trinitarian or "triunitarian" dogma which continues to predominate in most Christian denominations, including Messianic Judaism. Not only is it the basis of trinitarian dogma: It is trinitarian dogma. The pagans had no problem with changing the names of the gods whenever it suited them. It was no great hurdle, then, to annex the New Testament terminology so long as the critical elements and spirit under the surface continued to advance the basic pagan agenda, following the Tower of Babel, of world domination and control, irrespective of, or rather in opposition to, the Kingdom of Yah. "Constantine," as Newman put it, "in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed in their own." [11] The heathen world possessed traditions, Newman wrote, "too ancient to be rejected and too sacred to be used in popular theology." [12] The doctrine of the trinity, he said, was:
A "shadow," a "representation, . . . necessarily imperfect, as being exhibited in a foreign medium, and therefore involving apparent inconsistencies or mysteries;" it was given to the Church by "oral" tradition "contemporaneously with those apostolic writings, which are addressed more directly to the heart;" but it was "kept in the background in the infancy of Christianity, when faith and reason being disproportionately developed, and aiming at sovereignty in the province of religion, its presence became necessary to expel an usurping idol from the house of G-d." [13]
Here, in his oblique way, Newman names the secret doctrine of which he had been speaking. It is the doctrine of the trinity, which comes, not from the Bible nor even from Judaism but from the "dispensation of paganism"-the mystery cults. Here Hislop and Newman are in agreement; they both identify the secret doctrine as the same thing. First, in the "infancy of Christianity," this "mystery" was in the background, viz. in the pagan mystery cults. Later, when the opportunity arose, when there were no more Apostles around to speak authoritatively against it, it leapt into the mainstream of Christianity and has been there ever since. Far from expelling an usurping idol, it was and is an usurping idol-the very idolatry from which all the other idols came.
Just as the devil told Chava ("Eve") that it was ok to eat of the forbidden fruit, today he is still secretly trying to trick people into eating of the forbidden fruit of "MYSTERY BABYLON" by confusing it with Biblical faith. [14] So likewise today, it is still a fatal mistake to subscribe to both trinitarian or "triunitarian" dogma and the doctrine of the Apostles. They are two different things, as different as night and day. The basic doctrine of Biblical Christianity or "Messianic Judaism" is that "Yah'is our G-d, Yah' is one," which does not mean three or "triune" or "plural," and that the Messiah Yahushua is the yachid (unique, one-of-a-kind, beloved) Son of Yah'. That Yeshua did not claim to be Yah' is abundantly clear in the New Testament. He claimed to be one with Yah'weh. There is a difference between being someone and being one with someone. Yahushua said he was "in" the Father, and the Father was "in" him, [15] just as all believers are "in" Yeshua and Yeshua is "in" all believers. [16] There is a sense, then, in which believers are Yeshua and a sense in which they are not. If believers express their oneness with Yeshua wrongly, if they claim to be the Messiah in the sense of taking his place rather than obeying him, they may be guilty of spiritual aggression, a kind of ambition contrary to Godliness. Indeed, they may not even be believers but have a wrong spirit. The same kind of spiritual aggression or ambition is fostered by the dogmatic notion of the "deity" of Yahushua, not taking into account all the pertinent scriptures and projecting the idea that Yeshua is "G-d" in an aggressive, ambitious sense rather than in the correct sense in which the term "G-d" is applied to Yeshua in the New Testament. This aggressive ambition to take Yah'weh's place comes from the enemy, i.e. Satan, not from scripture, and trinitarian dogma, alias "MYSTERY BABYLON," is S-tan's hidden way of promoting his agenda of "[sitting] as God in the temple of G-d, showing himself that he is G-d." [17] The "head" of the Messiah is Yah'weh. [18] "My Father is greater than I," [199 Yahushua said. The same "God" who is our God is also the "God" of Yeshua. [20] These and many other pertinent scriptures which highlight the inequality of the Father and the Son are being hidden in the dark cloud of trinitarian dogma in Messianic Judaism today just as they have been suppressed in Christianity ever since the monstrous "early Councils" of the fourth century. The question might also be asked: How can God be eternally triune when He will be "all in all" when the Son in the end "delivers the kingdom to God the Father"? [21] When Yah' is "all in all," there won't be anything but Yah. So Yah' in the end is not "triune" or "plural." He is echad, one, or first, and echad does not mean "triune."
The scarlet beast under the whore in Rev 17:3 is "full of blasphemous names." The mysteries and their gods, therefore, are blasphemous. How much more, then, is the mother, the source, of these mysteries and gods, "MYSTERY BABYLON," blasphemous, so much so that the name on the forehead of the whore, " BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH," is written in all capital letters in the New Testament. So long as trinitarian dogma continues to be a predominant membership standard in contemporary Messianic Judaism, not to mention Christianity, "MYSTERY BABYLON" continues to be written on its forehead, and Messianic/Christian organizations continue to be in the infernal "whore" of Rev 17-18. When the "voice from heaven" says, "Come out of her, my people," [22] what this means for us today is that we must replace trinitarian dogma in Messianic and Christian membership standards with the fundamental Biblical principles of the deity and oneness of the Father and the acceptance of the Messiah Yeshua as the yachid (unique, one-of-a-kind, beloved) Son of Yah'weh, the "Word," as described in the prologue of the book of Yohanan, the "image of Yah'weh," [23] and so forth, according to the scriptures, but "Babylonian" expressions such as "G-d the Son," "fully God and fully man," the "deity" of Yeshua, the "triunity" of God, etc., which are not found expressly in scripture, must be eliminated. These are the "accursed Babylonian garments" hidden in our midst, which, like the accursed Babylonian garments in the time of the conquest of the promised land under Yehoshua (Joshua), [24] will only bring us defeat and misery in the form of the "sins" and the "plagues" of the iniquitous "whore" in the perilous days ahead and which, like those ancient Babylonian abominations, must be burned and buried. Only in this way can we elevate the Word to its proper place, viz. the "head," in contemporary Messianic Judaism and Christianity, and put "mystery Babylon" in its proper place, viz. the garbage heap, even the "Gehenna" of "unquenchable fire." [25]
III. 666: The Symbol of Trinitarian Dogma
The Initial Identification of 666 as Trinitarian Dogma
Towards the end of the summer of 5985(?)(1995), suddenly the thought occurred to me that the three sixes in the yet "unsolved puzzle" [1] of the infamous "number of the beast . . . 666" of Rev 13:18 might stand for the "three Persons of the Godhead" of the trinitarian dogma of classical Christianity. [2] Because most of the Christian world has been and still is officially trinitarian, the rather obvious [3] idea of a connection between "666" and trinitarian dogma seems to have been completely overlooked: One of the best places to hide something is precisely where nobody would think to look because it is obvious that no one would hide something right in plain sight. Such a tactic, though, is perfectly consistent with the macabre character of Satanic humor, which delights in laughing as a further refinement of torture and hate.
The "Equality" and "Oneness" of the Three
Two of the central features of classical trinitarian dogma are the alleged "equality" and "oneness" of the "three Persons of the Godhead." In the authoritative "Athanasian Creed," for example, Athanasius, the aggressive [4] bishop and champion of trinitarian dogma during the Arian Controversy in Alexandria, Egypt in the fourth century, wrote that "Whosoever will be saved" must "hold the Catholic faith," which is "that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity . . . . For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one [5]: The Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal . . . . And in this Trinity none is afore, or after another: none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together: and co-equal. So that in all Things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must think thus of the Trinity . . . ." [6] So, just as the "three Persons" of the classical dogma are "equal" and "one," the three sixes of the "number of the beast" are equal and one in that they are all the same number, viz. six.
The Significance of Six
There is another striking connection between "666" and trinitarian dogma, viz. the number six itself, which, according to many scholars, represents imperfection, incompletion, and evil. "As a symbolical number," as Bullinger put it, "[six]
denotes imperfection, non-completeness, falling as it does just short of seven, which denotes perfection . . . . [Seven is God's perfect number=3":, to be or become satisfied, filled; the number that satisfies God's work in nature, as in sound, in colours, and light.] Six (::, with an unknown root) is a perfect number, the first and the only number that equals the sum of the three figures that will divide it, and these the first three digits, 1, 2, 3. But it just falls short of God's, as does everything human . . . ."7 666 is "a concentration of evil," according to J. B. Phillips, "six being the number of imperfection." [8] Jacques Ellul thought 666 actually meant 666..., i.e. an endless string of sixes, denoting the illegitimate attempt of the imperfect to reach perfection, to be God, [9] not by faith and righteousness but by sophistry, sorcery, violence, etc. Donald Richardson called 666 "triplicated evil." [10] The whole purpose of the Lord's using the number six in Rev 13:18, these scholars imply, was to point to something striving to be perfect, even something or someone striving to replace God, but failing to do so, falling short due to imperfection and sin and ending up accomplishing just the opposite, viz. "ultimate evil."[11]
666: The Perfect Symbol of Trinitarian Dogma
From these initial observations it should be obvious that "666" at the very least could symbolize trinitarian dogma. Why "666"? Swete asks. Why not "66" or "6666," etc.? Why three sixes? [12] One obvious possibility, noted by more than one scholar, [13] is that the three sixes could be a reference to trinity. To continue Swete's line of questioning, though, why not "621" or "642," etc.? Why three equal numbers? Again, the connection between the equality of the sixes and the alleged equality of the three "Persons" of the Godhead of trinitarian dogma is an obvious possibility. Even trinitarians, if they are willing to be honest, must, just on the basis of what has been said so far, admit the possibility that "666" could symbolize trinitarian dogma. If there is any doubt at all concerning the orthodoxy of trinitarian dogma, not to mention even the possibility that trinitarian dogma is, or is even just connected with, "mystery Babylon" or "666," moreoever, this is reason enough to steer a wide path around even the idea of including trinitarian dogma within the domain of modern Messianic Judaism and Christianity, too, as it is written:


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MKAD (, kurz für  / ; deutsch Moskauer Autobahnring) ist die Bezeichnung des Autobahnrings um Moskau. Er wurde 1962 fertiggestellt und hat eine Länge von 108,9 km. Ursprünglich war er vorwiegend vierstreifig und hatte noch einige niveaugleiche Kreuzungen. Mitte der 1990er Jahre wurde er zu einer abschnittsweise zehnstreifigen Autobahn ausgebaut, wobei die rechten Fahrstreifen teilweise von Bussen des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs befahren werden.

Die zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit auf dem MKAD beträgt 100 km/h.

Geschichte
Der Bau der Autobahn begann Ende 1956 bei der Jaroslawler Chaussee. Das erste Teilstück wurde 1960 für den Verkehr freigegeben.

1962 war der ganze Ring befahrbar. Der Autobahnring bestand ursprünglich aus zwei Doppelfahrbahnen mit jeweils 7 Metern Breite. Auf der Route wird die Moskwa zweimal überquert:
 Bessedinski most: 1960, Ing. R. M. Galperin, Arch. G. I. Kornejew
 Spasski most: 1962, Ing. W. D. Wassiljew, Arch. K. P. Saweljew

Bis ins Jahr 1980 stellte der Ring auch gleichzeitig die Stadtgrenze von Moskau dar, dies änderte sich nach 1980, als Gemeinden außerhalb des MKAD eingegliedert wurden, wie der Verwaltungsbezirk Selenograd.

Gegenwart
Heute gehören auch einige Wohnviertel und Flughafenareale weit außerhalb des MKAD offiziell zum Gebiet der russischen Hauptstadt. Mitte der 1990er Jahre wurde die MKAD auf Initiative des Moskauer Bürgermeisters renoviert und auf jeweils fünf Fahrstreifen in beide Richtungen ausgebaut, der Mittelstreifen wurde mit Betonbegrenzungen versehen. Die Kilometrierung der MKAD beginnt auf der Höhe der Chaussee Entusiastow. Heute ist die Ringautobahn häufig überlastet, was auf die Dimensionierung der Abfahrten und zu wenig Platz für Einsatzfahrzeuge zurückgeführt wird.

Verlauf

Siehe auch
 Boulevardring
 Gartenring
 Dritter Verkehrsring
 Vierter Verkehrsring

Weblinks

Autobahn in Russland
Ringautobahn
Straße in Europa
Europastraße 105
Europastraße 115

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What are you learning from Uber's real-time analytics?
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What are some of the things you might do with that data?
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Bradley Voytek: We anonymized some of our data a few months ago for a data visualization competition to see what people could do with it, but so far we haven't shared our data too broadly. I've been working hard to mash up our data with other public data though, to see if I can uncover something cool. For example, a few months back I wanted to see if I could predict which neighborhoods in San Francisco had the most rides based on some demographic information. At first I thought the obvious answer would be population density, but what we see is that people don't always take a car from their home, they take it for business or pleasure, from one social location to another. So, I used public crime data as a surrogate measure for the amount of "activity" in a neighborhood, and that predicted rides much better than population density.
How do you think your neuroscience background shapes the way you do your data work at Uber?
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You ran out of time during your Ignite presentation while you were discussing an idea about correlating reaction times (of a brain task, via your work with Lumosity) with automobile accidents. Can you tell us what you found?
Bradley Voytek: Okay, this is very preliminary, but obviously exciting. The data I'm looking at with Lumosity measures attention and cognitive control. They've shared tens of thousands of users' worth of data with me from all over the world. After learning geolocation at Uber, I began to think about what kinds of location-based questions I could answer with the Lumosity data. Given that we're looking at attention and cognitive control, I thought maybe less "attentive" states would have a slightly increased risk of car accidents.
And that's what I'm finding, but with the huge caveats that these data are preliminary, not peer-reviewed, and, of course, complex in that there are a lot of potential factors that may explain the apparent relationship between the Lumos attention measure and car accidents. As I've gathered more state-level data, you start to see interesting correlations among factors like state, age, income, health — all with the usual caveats about interpreting correlations as causation.
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The year has ended with most winter wheat (Relay and JB Diego) establishing well and plant numbers higher than expected. Weed control has been good where we were able to get on and spray.
During November, soil conditions or wind meant the sprayer stayed parked up. As nothing was drilled until mid-October, after several pre-drilling glyphosate applications, the weed burden is not too high on the untreated crops. As I write, we could either do with some spraying days or colder weather during December.
The wet November at least gave me time to re-dry our beans prior to loading out of store. As much as I like beans for what they add to the rotation, they are very time-consuming to get to a marketable quality.
We never seem to be able to harvest them at an acceptable moisture content, always in excess of 17% moisture content, so I put them over the drier and get them down to below 16% in the first pass, put them into store with pile dry ventilators before putting them through the drier for a second time, aiming to get them down to 14.5% moisture content.
It's a slow process as you cannot use too much heat. It is not a factor taken into account when looking at the comparative crop margin data produced by various seed companies trying to lure you into growing their crops.
With the farm split 50:50 between winter wheat and spring-sown crops, we have to look yet again at what will be in the rotation for 2016; gone are the days when I had a five-year cropping plan.
Beans will be included as we need a certain area for our 'greening', but they will not be grown in any field where we have potential black-grass or charlock problems, as the available chemistry either does not work or stunts the crop. (So no Laser (cycloxydim) or Basagran (bentazone) in 2016).
We have always done well with spring wheat, but in 2015 at least 50% of our crop was decimated by gout fly, reducing its yield to about 5t/ha, so although it might not happen again, we will be reducing the area in 2016.
The wheat will be replaced by oats as we understand there is an expanding market for oats, added to which they suit our reduced tillage system.
The bigger and wider machinery gets so it needs a more weighty structure just to make it work. There comes a point when using two units might be better even if means employing more labour.
My brother's overall impression was most of the machinery on offer was designed at a time when wheat was £150/t, not at £100/t as it is today.
I believe 2016 might just be the turning point to better times ahead. Season's greetings to one and all.


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L'Irlande, État indépendant depuis le Traité de Londres de 1921, est membre du Commonwealth britannique jusqu'en 1949. À ce titre, elle participe aux Jeux du Commonwealth à deux reprises.

Les premiers Jeux ont lieu à Hamilton au Canada en , sous le nom de « Jeux de l'Empire britannique ». Depuis 1921, l'île d'Irlande est divisée entre l'État libre d'Irlande (indépendant) et l'Irlande du Nord (qui a choisi de rester membre du Royaume-Uni). Pour ces premiers Jeux de l'Empire, les deux Irlandes envoient une délégation commune. En 1934, à l'inverse, l'État libre d'Irlande et l'Irlande du Nord envoient chacun leur propre délégation. L'État libre d'Irlande ne participe pas aux Jeux de 1938. Les Jeux de 1942 sont annulés en raison de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de même que ceux de 1946. Devenue indépendante, l'État d'Irlande quitte le Commonwealth en 1949, et ne participe donc plus aux Jeux. La Fédération des Jeux du Commonwealth attribue aujourd'hui rétroactivement à l'Irlande du Nord tous les résultats obtenus par des athlètes irlandais en 1930 et 1934.

Jeux de 1930
L'équipe d'Irlande unifiée est représentée par cinq athlètes, tous masculins, concourant tous aux épreuves d'athlétisme : Joe Eustace, W. Dickson, M. O'Malley, William Britton et Jack O'Reilly. Le seul médaillé est William Britton, qui décroche l'argent au lancer de marteau avec un lancer de 46,89 mètres, derrière l'Anglais Malcolm Nokes (47,13 m). Les résultats ne précisent pas si Britton est originaire du Sud ou du Nord de l'Irlande, mais il pratique dans un club à Cavan, dans l'État libre d'Irlande, près de la frontière. O'Malley et Dickson (respectivement du Sud et du Nord) manquent leurs épreuves, leur bateau ayant été retardé par de la brume. Joe Eustace (du Sud), terminant sa course troisième dans l'épreuve du 100 yards, manque de peu de se qualifier pour la finale. Enfin, O'Reilly (du Sud) termine  (sur quinze) au marathon.

Jeux de 1934
Les Jeux de l'Empire britannique de 1934 se tiennent à Londres. Paddy Bermingham semble y avoir été le seul athlète représentant l'État libre d'Irlande, et ses résultats sont aujourd'hui officiellement attribués à l'Irlande du Nord. Il prend part à l'épreuve du lancer de disque. Son résultat n'a pas été enregistré, mais il n'obtient pas de médaille.

Références

Jeux du Commonwealth
Jeux du Commonwealth


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Penny Blue - From the Collection of Proof Impressions of Rowland Hill
The Penny Blue, a one-penny postage stamp released in 1840 has been frequently mistaken as one of the many postage stamps issued by Britain. The wrong impressions often stem from the fact that the stamp carries an image of a regal lady with a crown. The stamp is actually a part of a collection of proof impressions designed and released when Roland Hill was looking for new inspirations for colors that can be used on stamps, as the replacement for the Twopence Blue and the Penny Black. The decision to change the colors of the stamps had already been approved, and the color of the ink for use in cancellations had been identified as black. While it was already agreed upon that the two pence value will still sport the color blue, the authorities still planned on using a different ink... Read More
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French Colonialism in Stamps
The French were once one of the leading powers and explorers. Starting in the 18th until the 19th century, they expanded their 'spheres of influences' outside of the continent. But starting the 1960s, the territories began to reclaim their independence. The French influence may have waned in terms of administration, but its contribution to world arts and affairs persisted in many spheres, stamps and philately as well. The market is loaded with French stamps including mint inexpensive stamps that are accessible for all types of collectors and enthusiasts. The challenge is to spot these on collections since French colonial stamps are arranged in order, before France. For example, French Morocco comes before France in many stamp listing and collections.
The French Colonies
Stamp, French Postal History, Postal History
Mail Rail - Rediscovering London's Old Post Office Railway
London's Old Post Office Railway
The streets of London are always filled with buses, cars and people busy with their daily transactions. The cityscape has changed through the years, with new and modern buildings and vehicles that continue to amaze both the visitors and London residents alike. But beneath the capital's streets is a 6-mile tunnel that plays host to an almost-forgotten mode of transportation - the London Post Office Railway, or affectionately called the Mail Rail. Erected more than a century ago by an act of the Parliament, the Mail Rail was primarily used to carry almost 12 million postal items starting from White Chapel in the East End to Paddington in the West.
Getting ready for tourists
The train was just one of the dozen trains in the tube platform but this one was special, and in a... Read More
Stamp, British Postal History, Mail Rail
Inverted Jenny - The Story Behind a Rare Find
Postage stamps aren't just items you place on envelopes so that these can be air-mailed to choice destinations and recipients. Stamps are also treasures that can be collected and used to tell a story or explain a country's history. Take the case of the popular 'Inverted Jenny' stamp, also known as Jenny Invert and Upside Down Jenny. This is one stamp that tells a loaded story, a story that has been told and retold, each retelling adding to its charm and overall value. This stamp is now considered the most famous (and sought-after) stamp in American philately and for all the right reasons. The stamp has been sold and resold for large sums of money, including the block of four 'Jenny' stamps that sold for US $2.7 million in 2005! This stamp is rare, treasured and valuable, but how... Read More
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It's A Man's Man's Man's World
It's A Man's Man's Man's World (live)
In the same key as the original: Em
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Lyrics of It's A Man's Man's Man's World
as made famous by Christina Aguilera
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This title is a cover of It's A Man's Man's Man's World as made famous by Christina Aguilera
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Spinning the Wheel
Look at Her Now
Crazy in Love (Live I Am... World Tour)
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z
Mamma Knows Best
Disco Tits
Tove Lo Explicit Lyrics
Sexy Silk
Heart By Heart


What if not all victims were victims? What if public opinion was the judge, jury and executioner that condemns men without the chance to defend themselves?
The Victim is a tale of lies, murder and betrayal where people play to win using social justice for their own ambition.
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, nom complet amb patronímic Iuri Valentínovitx Trífonov, , fou un escriptor soviètic i rus, mestre de l'anomenada "prosa urbana". Fou una de les figures principals del període literari comprès entre els anys 60 i 70 a la Unió Soviètica. Fou considerat un ferm candidat per al Premi Nobel de literatura el 1981, però va morir mesos abans que el jurat dictaminés el seu veredicte.

Infantesa i família
Trífonov va néixer als luxosos apartaments del Carrer Arbat i, amb un interval de dos anys a Taixkent, va passar tota la seva vida a Moscou. El seu pare, Valentín Trífonov (1888-1938), era descendent dels cosacs del Don. Veterà de l'Exèrcit Roig, comandant dels cosacs al Don durant la guerra civil i després oficial soviètic, va ser arrestat els dies 21/22 de juny de 1937  i assassinat el 15 de març de 1938. Fou rehabilitat el 3 de novembre de 1955.

La mare de Trífonov, Ievguénia Abràmovna Lurie (1904-1975), enginyera-economista, era de mitja descendència russa i mitja jueva. Va passar vuit anys en un camp de treball per no denunciar el seu marit. Va ser alliberada el 1945 i va tornar a Moscou el 1946. Més tard, va treballar en una biblioteca escolar i va escriure llibres infantils sota el nom d'E. Taiurina. Fou rehabilitada el 1955. Durant l'empresonament de la seva mare, Trífonov i la seva germana van ser criats per la seva àvia materna, Tatiana Aleksàndrovna Lurie (de soltera Slovatínskaia, 1879-1957), que havia estat una revolucionària professional i va participar en la Guerra Civil Russa. L'avi matern de Trífonov, Abram Pàvlovitx Lurie (1875-1924), havia estat membre d'un grup menxevic clandestí, i cosí d'Aaron Soltz. Després de la purga, la família de Trífonov es va traslladar de la famosa Casa del Terraplè  Dom na naberejnoi (just a l'altre costat del riu des del Kremlin), a una kommunalka.

A l'escola, Trífonov va editar periòdics de classe, va compondre poesia i va escriure contes curts. Va passar 1941 i 1942 a Taíxkent, capital de la RSS d'Uzbekistan. Durant la guerra, el 1942-45, De 1942 a 1945 va treballar a una fàbrica d'avions a Moscou, primer com a instal·lador, i després despatxant al taller. El 1945 va editar el diari de la fàbrica.

Carrera
Trífonov va assistir a l'Institut de Literatura Maksim Gorki entre 1944 i 1949. La seva primera novel·la, "Els estudiants",  Studenti, es va publicar a Novi Mir el 1950, i amb ella va guanyar el Premi Stalin. La seva següent novel·la, "Apagant la set"  Utolénie jajdi, només va aparèixer el 1961.

El 1964-1965, Trífonov va publicar la novel·la documental "La resplendor de la foguera"  Otblesk kostrà on Trífonov va tractar primer el tema, que després es va convertir en una de les principals idees del seu treball: la comprensió de la revolució i les seves conseqüències per al país i el poble, tot i que el principal motiu del llibre era la justificació del pare rehabilitat de l'escriptor. Posteriorment, va escriure diverses històries que van ser publicades a Novi Mir, incloent "Vera i Zoika"  (1966) i "Tardor de bolets"  V gribnuiu ossen (1968).

El cicle Novel·les moscovites  Moskovskie povesti, iniciat a la fi dels anys seixanta, va marcar el començament de la "prosa urbana", que mostrava la vida quotidiana dels habitants de la ciutat. El cicle inclou les novel·les "L'intercanvi"  Obmén (1969), "Resultats preliminars"  Predvaritélnie itogui (1970), "El llarg comiat"  Dólgoie prosxánie (1971), "Un altra vida"  Drugaia jizn (1975), i "La Casa al terraplè"  Dome na naberejnoi (1976). L'última novel·la descriu la vida dels residents de la Casa del Terraplè als anys trenta, molts dels quals van ser assassinats durant la Gran Purga de 1937.

El 1973, Trífonov va publicar la novel·la històrica "Impaciència"  Neterpénie. La novel·la descriu l'assassinat d'Alexandre II de Rússia en 1881 per part del partit Naródnaia Vólia. Va ser Va ser nominat al Premi Nobel per Heinrich Böll. Un altra novel·la històrica, "El vell"  Stàrik, va ser publicada el 1978. El 1981 Trífonov va acabar la complexa i multifacètica novel·la "Temps i lloc"  Vrémia i mesto, que seria publicada poc després de la seva mort el 1981. El 1987, va ser publicada pòstumament la novel·la "Desaparicions"  Istxeznovénie.

Trifonov també era conegut com a periodista esportiu. Va publicar nombrosos articles sobre esports; durant gairebé vint anys, va ser membre del consell editorial de la revista "Educació física i esport"  Fizkultura i sport.

Vida personal

Trífonov va estar casat, de 1949 a 1966, amb la cantant d'òpera Nina Nelina (nascuda Niurenberg), filla del reconegut artista Amxei Niurenberg. El matrimoni va acabar amb la mort de Nelina. El 1951, van tenir una filla, Olga (Tanguian). Més tard, va estar casat amb Al·la Pàvlovna Pàstukhova, una editora. El 1975, es va casar per tercera vegada, amb Olga Romànovna Miroixnitxenko (b. 1938), escriptora antigament casada amb l'escriptor Gueorgui Berozko. El seu fill Valentín va néixer el 1979.

Després de la mort de Trífonov, Olga Miroixnitxenko-Trífonova va publicar els diaris i els quaderns del seu marit, que tornava als dies escolars de l'escriptor i que acabava el 1980. Va publicar les seves memòries de Trñufonov el 2003.

Mort
Iuri Trífonov va morir el 28 de març de 1981 a causa d'un tromboembolisme de l'artèria pulmonar. Va ser enterrat a Moscou, al cementiri de Kuntsevo.

Llegat
Es va col·locar una placa commemorativa dedicada a Trífonov a la Casa del terraplè el 2003.

Notes

Referències

Bibliografia complementària

  (Reminiscències de la filla de Trífonov)

Traduccions al català
 Una altra vida. Traducció catalana de Josep Maria Güell. Plec de setze, Edicions Grijalbo, 1a edició, 1985

Enllaços externs
 Biografia de Trífonov a biografii.ru
 Trífonov a krugosvet.ru

Escriptors soviètics
Escriptors moscovites
Guanyadors del Premi Stalin
Escriptors russos en rus
Alumnes de l'Institut de Literatura Maksim Gorki
Morts a Moscou
Naixements del 1925


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The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Type of Work Publication Tone Summary
Text of the Poem Theme End Rhyme Meter
Writing Topics Author's Biography
......."The Dead Man Walking" is a lyric poem centering despair and pessimism. A lyric poem presents the author's imaginative or emotional response to a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Unlike a narrative poem, a lyric poem does not tell a story.
......."The Dead Man Walking," completed in 1890, was first published in London in 1909 by Macmillan and Company in a collection of Hardy's poems entitled Time's Laughinstocks and Other Verses.
.......The tone of the poem is gloomy. The speaker is in such deep despair that he compares himself to a dead man.
.......The speaker tells the reader the following:
.......I am a walking dead man, although people take me for a living being when they say hello to me. I am just a shape without a heartbeat. My death did not happen all at once, but gradually.
.......When I was young, I roved about like a troubadour. Life was my musical instrument, my lyre, and I had fire in me. But when I noticed the goals that others pursued, I grew a little cold and I died a little. When the people around me went to the grave and left me behind, I died a little more. When my beloved started hating me—for what reason, I don't know—I moved still closer to death.
.......I still am not sure exactly when I became a dead man. But I do know that now—when I walk or talk or smile—I am not alive.
By Thomas Hardy
They hail me as one living,
But don't they know
That I have died of late years,
Untombed although?
I am but a shape that stands here,
A pulseless mould,
A pale past picture, screening
Ashes gone cold.
Not at a minute's warning,
Not in a loud hour,
For me ceased Time's enchantments
In hall and bower.
There was no tragic transit,
No catch of breath,
When silent seasons inched me
On to this death ....
— A Troubadour-youth I rambled
With Life for lyre,
The beats of being raging
In me like fire.
But when I practised eyeing
The goal of men,
It iced me, and I perished
A little then.
When passed my friend, my kinsfolk,
Through the Last Door,
And left me standing bleakly,
I died yet more;
And when my Love's heart kindled
In hate of me,
Wherefore I knew not, died I
One more degree.
And if when I died fully
I cannot say,
And changed into the corpse-thing
I am to-day,
Yet is it that, though whiling
The time somehow
In walking, talking, smiling,
I live not now.
1.. bower: Boudoir; bedroom.
2..Troubadour: Wandering minstrel. A troubadour composed lyric poems that he sang.
3..lyre: Stringed instrument.
4..Last Door: Death.
5..Wherefore: Why.
Theme: Despair
.......The speaker suffers from deep despair, dwelling only on the negative and seeing nothing at all in life to cheer him. Observing the questionable practices of others in the pursuit of their goals precipitates his gloominess. The loss of friends and loved ones, followed by his beloved's rejection of him, deepens his gloom. Unlike others who mourn losses and experience disappointment, the speaker seems unable to rebound.
.......The poem appears to reflect the author's own tribulations. He endured criticism of his novels (most of which today enjoy the favor of critics), struggled with crises of faith, and had a troubled marriage. His marriage problems were partly due to his wife's negative reaction to his controversial novels—such as Jude the Obscure, which attacks the institution of marriage. He and his wife became estranged, although he grieved profoundly for her after she died in 1912.
End Rhyme
.......The second and fourth lines of each stanza contain end rhyme. All of the end rhymes are masculine except the end rhyme in lines 10 and 12, which is feminine. In masculine rhyme, only the final syllable of one line rhymes with the final syllable of another line. In feminine rhyme, the last two syllables of one line rhyme with the last two syllables of another line. In the feminine rhyme in lines 10 and 12, hour technically has only one syllable. However, it is pronounced as if it has two. It rhymes with a two-syllable word, bower.
.......The meter generally alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic dimeter. The lines in iambic tetrameter end with a catalectic (incomplete) foot, giving them seven syllables instead of the usual eight.
.......The first stanza demonstrates this pattern.
......1.................2..............3..........4
They HAIL..|..me AS..|..one LIV..|..ing,......................(iambic tetrameter with an incomplete foot at the end)
.......1...................2
But DON'T..|..they KNOW.........................................(iambic dimeter)
....1..............2...............3..............4
That I..|..have DIED..|..of LATE..|..years,....................(iambic tetrameter with an incomplete foot at the end)
..........1....................2
Un TOMBED..|..al THOUGH?....................................(iambic dimeter)
.......Line 17 departs from the pattern. It has eight syllables, consisting of an iamb, an anapest, an iamb, and a catalectic foot.
.......Following are examples of figures of speech in the poem. For definitions of figures of speech, click here.
A pale past picture, screening (lines 6-7)
When silent seasons inched me (line 15)
Wherefore I knew not, died I (line 29)
Not in a loud hour (lines 9-10)
Throughout the poem, the speaker compares himself to a corpse. Here are other metaphors:
With Life for lyre (line 18)
Comparison of life to a lyre
Through the Last Door (lines 25-26)
Comparison of death to "the Last Door"
The poem is about a living dead man.
In me like fire. (lines 19-20)
Comparison of heartbeats or the rhythms of existence to raging fire
Write a short poem centering on a gloomy or pessimistic theme.
Identify examples of alliteration other than those listed under Figures of Speech.
Do you think the use of the word bower in the third stanza alludes to the author's problems with his wife, Emma? Explain your answer
Do you know any "dead persons walking"? If you do, tell your class about them. There is no need to mention names.
What would you advise the speaker to do to revitalize his life?


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"As the robust development of Sino-Thai trade and investment, there has been an increasing stronger request among our clients that the trade be directly settled between the Chinese currency and Thai baht, without the involvement of U.S. dollars. Many clients from other Southeast Asian countries have made the similar appeal -- the RMB's direct settlement with their local currencies," said Wichai after a ceremony by the Bangkok Bank to mark the launch of Thailand's first credit card that adopts the standard of China Union Pay (CUP), the largest credit card provider in China.
The "Bangkok Bank China UnionPay" credit card itself, said the vice president, is an example that allows direct settlement between RMB and baht.
"Because when a client uses this card in the Chinese mainland, he is consuming with RMB, but when he repays the money back in Thailand, he is using Thai baht. Of course this is a special case only when using this credit card. But what is undeniable is that the tie between the two currencies is getting stronger and stronger," said Wichai, who is in charge of Chinese business of the Bangkok Bank, the largest commercial bank in Thailand.
His remarks came after the Bank of China Hong Kong said earlier this month that it has signed the "clearing and settlement agreement of Yuan-denominated trade transactions" with a number of commercial banks in the ASEAN and other relevant areas.
After signing the agreement, the Bank Central Asia, Bangkok branch of the Bank of China, Manila Branch of the Bank of China, Jakarta Branch of the Bank of China, Singapore branch of the Bank of China, Malaysian branch of the Bank of China will become participating banks of Renminbi business in the ASEAN region.
Actually with little fanfare last year, Beijing had embarked on the first step on a long road toward making the yuan one of the world's top currencies, allowing Chinese exporters and importers to start settling trade in yuan rather than dollars.
Wichai believes that after the launching of the ASEAN-China FTA in January, how to push forward the RMB-dominated trade settlement would become an immediate issue in this area.
The FTA, the largest one in the world that will cover 1.9 billion people and 6-trillion-U.S-dollar GDP in this region, pledges to phase out most tariffs among ASEAN countries and between the ASEAN and China by January 1, 2010.
Also in a related development that coincides with the FTA's launch, the Bangkok Bank recently has received a license from the Chinese government to operate the Bangkok Bank (China), a locally incorporated bank in China.
To open on December 28 in Shanghai, this bank will be one of the about 30 fully-foreign-owned banks in the China mainland, said Wichai, adding that this indicates Bangkok Bank's resolution to get more involved in Sino-Thai cooperation in financial sectors under the larger framework of ASEAN-China FTA.
He said as a regional financial institution, the Bangkok Bank definitely benefits from the two huge economies of China and ASEAN's free trade and investment. "The cooperation and integration of China, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, and the ASEAN, with a population of about 6,000 to 7,000 million, is a huge opportunity for banks."
"We are glad to see the FTA is finally to be realized in early next year, for which every party has been working very hard for a long time," Wichai said.
And the Bangkok Bank, he said, hopes to play an important role in the development of this free trade area. "The development of our business largely depends on clients' demand. We set a branch or sub-company not out of our own will, but following the business outreach of our clients. And I believe the Bangkok Bank can get more benefit as the bilateral trade and investment between the ASEAN and China grows."