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At its best, a travel memoir documents not only the writer's journey to a destination, but also how that place changed his or her life. The account is as much about foreign travel as it is about the writer's inner self. What I most appreciate about my travels is not the souvenirs, but how the experiences have shaped me as a person: business trips to London and Paris; conferences at Oxford, Durham, and Cardiff; punk shows in Toyko, Bremen, and Hamburg; romantic getaways to Amsterdam, Toronto, and Montreal. Memoirs chronicle life's journeys.
For family historians, travel documents like passports, diaries, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and mementos record the trips of loved ones. While I discuss the ways to protect these materials in my book, Creating Family Archives: How to Preserve Papers and Photographs, I also want to help people forge memories--now, in the present--that they can pass on to others.
I've crafted a travel memory workbook with 30 questions to capture family memories about their travels. The questions are crafted to give you more than yes or no answers and are tailored to uncover information about your loved ones. You can ask family members about their favorite trips, or use it yourself to write the next Eat, Pray, Love.


1)Rinse and dry 5 pieces of KAWA Vegetarian Cod Fish Steak, put them into the hot oil pot, fry them till golden brown, get them out and put on a strainer for a while, then leave them on a plate.
2)Clean and peel the bamboo shoot and carrot, and cut them in slices; remove the roots of fresh golden mushroom, and clean the fresh mushroom.
3)Clean dried mushroom, soften them in hot water, and cut them in slices; wash green pepper, remove the seeds inside, and cut it in slices.
4)Put one soupspoon of black soy oil into the heated pot, pour all the ingredients above prepared into the pot, mix them, stir fry the mixture till the nice smell comes out; then add some seasoning; lastly pour the ¼ glass of water into the pot and cook till boiling, get them out and put on a plate. The dish is ready for serving.


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SA's political brands must polish their image
AS WE gradually pick up speed heading towards the 2016 local government elections, we shall see our political parties – big and small, established and wannabes – begin to increase the sound and visibility of their courtship dances.
On the one hand, those already in power, starting with the ruling African National Congress followed by the Democratic Alliance, will begin to look around the turf already under their control to see which domains are vulnerable for possible takeover by their rivals, and to determine consolidation and expansion strategies.
The official opposition, the DA, and the contender for its position, the Economic Freedom Fighters, followed by the smaller parties, will be seen shooting more political pellets at one another and the ruling ANC with the hope of dislodging their rivals from some of the domains they currently hold.
Judging by the way it's been punching way above its weight since entering the political arena a mere two years ago, the EFF already sees itself as a government-in-waiting – a claim often made by the official opposition. But Julius Malema's party is not shy to state this claim even on its social media platforms. In fact, it is probably the EFF's seemingly reckless confidence that often seems to rattle the more established parties, including the ANC.
But to make their dreams come true, all of these political parties have to start paying a little more attention to their own image and how it is perceived by us, those who will vote for or against them when the time comes. Our collective eyes are on their conduct.
The ANC
This, the oldest liberation movement in Africa and now a ruling political party since the advent of South Africa's democracy, should be the most threatened by what could come out of the 2016 elections. After 21 years in power, and having led the country's transition from the dark years of apartheid into the new era with relative stability, the ANC has also gathered some unwanted battle scars along the way.
In the early years, under the almost perfect stewardship of the inimitable and widely loved Nelson Mandela – together with his generation of liberation stalwarts – the ANC couldn't go wrong. To win our hearts and minds, all it needed to do was point us back to where we came from, reminding us through song, dance and images as well as heroic and painful anecdotes of what we had left behind.
The silent driving slogan has been "backwards never; forward ever," and it worked each time. Up to the last general elections, it has been relatively easy for the ANC to win the hearts and minds of the older generation of black South Africans who lived through and retained vivid memories of the hardships of apartheid.
For this generation, voting for another party would have been tantamount to betrayal reminiscent of those who spied on behalf of "the enemy" during the struggle years, and put the lives of fellow comrades and their loved ones in peril.
But much has since changed, and so has the post-Madiba ANC in the eyes of many. The young, so-called born frees are less easily won over through song, dance and anecdote. Increasing numbers of their parents are also less happy with what many consider betrayal in the form of rampant corruption, too many failed cases of cadre deployment and endless strings of bad, indefensible decisions.
With its mixed record, the ANC must work harder to clean up its tarnished image and start developing forward-looking reasons to win voters' hearts and minds. It can no longer rely on reminding us ad nauseam of its fast receding anti-apartheid bravery, let alone claiming to be continuing the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
The official opposition – and contender
The jury is still out on whether the new DA leader has what it takes to continue growing the party's turf, as begun by his predecessor. How he plays his cards between now and next year will determine the extent to which Mmusi Maimane will manage to convince more South Africans, especially traditional ANC supporters, that the party he leads will not use them for voting fodder while catering to the needs of its traditional white voter base.
This is an accusation the DA's detractors continue to throw in its face in the Western Cape and elsewhere. Perceptions being what they are, Maimane has his work cut out for him to use successes garnered in the Western Cape to good account, to demonstrate that he can be the kind of leader increasing numbers of South Africans are hungry for.
If he does it right, he could also convince some of those unhappy with the ANC but scared off by EFF rhetoric to swing in the DA's direction.
But he has to oppose the ANC while keeping one eye on the fast-approaching EFF, which will continue using all sorts of tricks to make him feel unsure of himself. Having managed to last as long as it has by challenging established parliamentary decorum through a combination of dress sense and a fearless, bombastic approach to parliamentary debate, the EFF might still surprise many.
But to do so, it too will have to expand the thematic content of its parliamentary and public pronouncements to avoid being seen as a one-issue party, even though this might not be so.
The smaller parties, many of them one-man shows as far as perceptions go, will either gradually be eclipsed, like Patricia de Lille's Independent Democrats, or remain mere kingmakers at local level.
In the end, as the disillusioned South African voter becomes increasingly informed, militant, discerning and opinionated, our political parties will have to raise the bar and learn to blow more than just hot air.
They must genuinely work on their image and respect our independent institutions of democracy if they want to win our love.
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On Wednesday, the Association of Iraqi Private Banks organized a workshop entitled "Automated Accountability for Direct Deduction Tax" at the headquarters of the Association, with the participation of a number of employees in private banks.
The director of administration and training in the Association of Iraqi Private Banks, Ahmed Hashemi, in his speech during the opening of the symposium and attended by "Economy News", "The workshop was joined by the Association of banks in cooperation with the Tax Authority to inform the workers in the Iraqi banking sector on the latest systems and updates handled by the General Assembly For taxes with banks and companies on the mechanism of direct tax deduction and the shift in the process of tax correspondence from the paper or manual system to an electronic program to facilitate work and completion during standard periods.
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By investing in the future of Beauaraba Living, you are offering us a donation gift that will help us grow and develop. Achieving this calls for careful financial management. While the Government provides a level of funding to Beauaraba Living, this support does not cover all of the costs required to provide the best level of care and support.
Beauaraba Living is a thriving community where each person is respected and valued. One very practical way of helping Beauaraba Living Foundation is by structuring your estate planning so that you include a bequest to Beauaraba Living Foundation in your Will.
If you make the generous decision to make a bequest to Beauaraba Living Foundation, you will be helping us to not only deliver personal care to our residents each year, but also ensure a physical needs are met, nurtured and valued, and their independence respected.
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The monument consists of a prehistoric fort located on a flat-topped knoll and known locally as Dun Scriben.
The fort is oval in plan and measures 26m WNW-ESE by 30m N-S. It is defined by the tumbled remains of a drystone wall, the outer face of which is visible on its W and E sides. Stone has been cleared away from the W face, which survives to a maximum height of 1m; it is built of small thin slabs roughly coursed.
To the N the wall appears to have slipped down the slope and to the S it is obscured by tumble. There are some possible traces of the inner face of the rampart, which suggest a total width of between 3.5m and 4m. The position of the entrance to the fort is not obvious. The footings of a modern wall overlie the wall of the fort to the E and a modern shelter is built against it.
The area to be scheduled measures 80m N-S by 60m E-W, to include the fort and an area around in which traces of deposits associated with the construction and use of the fort may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric defensive architecture and domestic life.
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Q: Using Process in java I'm converting some c# code to java
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c " + command);
// The following commands are needed to redirect the standard output.
// This means that it will be redirected to the Process.StandardOutput StreamReader.
procStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
procStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
// Do not create the black window.
procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
// Now we create a process, assign its ProcessStartInfo and start it
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
proc.Start();
// Get the output into a string
string result = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
// Display the command output.

This is the code that i try to convert it to java.
I dont know how to run a command  and use process in java. I googled it and i found something like that :
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
Integer result = process.exitValue();

In the line
process.exitValue()

it gives me java.lang.IllegalThreadStateException: process has not exited.

A: After exec you need to wait for the command to finish with process.waitFor().

A: process.exitValue() gets the number from System.exit(number)
The error is thrown since the process hasn't exited yet.
From the c# code it looks like you want to get the command's output, this can be done by:
int i=0;
String result = new String();
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    result += (char)i;
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At Synergy Merchant Services, we speak to Canadian business owners each and every day. Many of these individuals started their companies off with a dream. And while not all who have had this dream realize it, starting your own business is something that can be very rewarding if you put in the work to make it successful.
Some people dream of owning their own businesses so that they can work from home. Why get up early to go into the office every day if you don't have to, right? Well, that's not exactly a sentiment that is shared throughout Canada. At least according to QMI Agency's Julia Skikavich and Sheena Goodyear.
Earlier today, they reported that most people actually prefer to clock in hours at the office rather than work from home. Based on a just-released Statistics Canada report, only 19 per cent of those polled work from home instead of at the office. Even though technology allows for more work to be done outside of the office, this hasn't deterred employees from showing up at work.
Self-employed individuals, however, tend to work at home more often. According to StatsCan, 60 per cent of business owners who were polled work from home. Their employees, however, are just fine showing up to the office. The QMI report notes that the number of employees working from home in 2008 was 1,748,600. That's a small jump from 1,425,700 from eight years priors.
Interestingly, the study did find that employees who worked from home did not have a better sense of balance between their jobs and their home lives. If fact, in 2008, those who worked at home for more than 10 hours a week reported that they were more dissatisfied with their work-life balance than those who did not work from home.
Apparently, many people feel that when the lines between one's work life and personal life are not clearly drawn, it causes problems. Perhaps, those who clock hours in the office every day shouldn't be so quick to wish they were back at home during the work day!
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Autumn, and the rustling of a thousand permission slips, signifies that National Schools Film Week is upon us. The annual event gives pupils the chance to see - free - the sort of films rarely found in the multiplex and teachers ample ideas for lessons.
Post-cinema discussion might just be a little livelier this year. Film Education, which organises the event (from October 30 to November 3 in Scotland), has teamed up with Amnesty International UK to present films that highlight human rights issues and abuses across the world.
"Films are such a powerful and effective medium," says Amnesty International UK's campaigns director, Tim Hancock. "They can inspire, motivate and inform.
"We hope that the films which these young people will see, and the workshops, will inspire them to get involved in standing up for human rights."
Screenings will be accompanied by discussions and an immediate opportunity to take action; perhaps by sending a postcard on behalf of a prisoner of conscience or signing up to an Amnesty youth group, says Jo Cobley of the organisation's education team.
"Films move people and bring issues to life," she says. "They give us a chance to reach new audiences, young people in particular."
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Films being shown across the UK which raise controversial issues include Capote, about the author's relationship with a killer during his research into the murder of a Kansas family, and The Road to Guantanamo, about three British Muslims held at the US detainment camp for two years and freed without charge.
Film Education would argue that such films act as a touchstone for debate and discussion, rather than the final word.
Nick Walker, the film week events manager, sees this as a natural part of its remit. "With these films, we can raise issues that tie strongly into the curriculum.
"There are many organisations we'd like to bring into the programme and we are talking to Amnesty about other possible partnerships."
Such partnerships could include the Rwanda Survivors' Fund.
Amnesty International UK is introducing Hotel Rwanda in Edinburgh (also screening in Dunfermline). This terrible true story, well told, of the 1994 atrocities and how a Kigali hotel manager gave refuge to hundreds of Tutsis and Hutus from the Hutu militia, should have won Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo awards for the integrity and grit of their performances.
At the Glasgow Film Theatre, Amnesty will present Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices, the story of Chava (Carlos Padilla), a boy whose 12th birthday will be marked by forced recruitment into the El Salvadorean Army. This unsparing depiction of a young life scarred by tragically narrowed horizons , based on the experiences of screenwriter Oscar Torres, should touch many a nerve among its audiences.
This effort to "touch nerves" seems to be appreciated. "Teachers in Glasgow and Edinburgh told us they wanted to see films that were edgy and gutsy, with more world cinema and less mainstream films," says Mr Walker.
This more daring approach to programming suits Jennifer Armitage, the education officer at the Glasgow Film Theatre. "It is important for GFT Education that the films screened during National Schools Film Week represent what happens at GFT throughout the year," she says. "So we are giving young people in Scotland an insight into the lives of young people around the world."
Such insights are also to be found closer to home. The History Boys (Edinburgh, Glasgow) by Nicholas Hytner, director of The Crucible and The Madness of King George, and Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood (Edinburgh, Glasgow) offer older pupils a perspective on their own lives. The History Boys questions notions of opportunity and self-advancement, while the happy-slapping, chemical culture of Kidulthood is the heart of darkness to this year's British Board of Film Classification masterclass on film censorship.
There is a variety of tones and tastes in this year's programme. Of the serious sort are An Inconvenient Truth, former US vice-preseident Al Gore's exploration of climate change (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh), The Wind that Shakes the Barley about Ireland's troubles in the 1920s (Glasgow) and Tsotsi, set in a Johannesburg township (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow). More light-hearted are Amelie (Aberdeen), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Edinburgh) and (if you really must ...) The Da Vinci Code (Ayr).
Insight and establishing common ground are particularly important for younger audiences. The use of storytellers to contextualise films such as Spirited Away (Aberdeen) or Howl's Moving Castle (Dumfries, Glasgow) is one of the event's strongest innovations. A culture can be foreign and circumstances vastly different, but children far from Mongolia have fallen for The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow) a shaggy dog story that plays as well here as it does in Ulaanbaatar.


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StarWars.com honored World Space Week, an international celebration of science and technology, with a series of special guest-posts on the Official Star Wars Blog.
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Depths is the debut studio album by American deathcore band Oceano, released April 7, 2009 through Earache Records. Music videos were made for the songs "District of Misery" and "A Mandatory Sacrifice". The song "District of Misery" is featured as downloadable content in Rock Band 2 via the Rock Band Network

Track listing

Personnel
Oceano
 Adam Warren - vocals
 Jeremy Carroll - guitars
 Andrew Mikhail - guitars
 Jason Jones - bass
 Daniel Terchin - drums

Production
 Joey Sturgis - producer, keyboards, programming, mastering, mixing, engineer

References

2009 debut albums
Earache Records albums
Albums produced by Joey Sturgis
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import lombok.ast.Expression;
import lombok.ast.IMethod;
import lombok.ast.IType;

import static lombok.ast.AST.*;

/**
 * @author Andres Almiray
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    private Expression<?> defaultJpaProviderInstance() {
        return Call(Name(DEFAULT_JPA_PROVIDER_TYPE), "getInstance");
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    public void addJpaProviderField(final TYPE_TYPE type) {
        addField(type, JPA_PROVIDER_TYPE, JPA_PROVIDER_FIELD_NAME, defaultJpaProviderInstance());
    }

    public void addJpaProviderAccessors(final TYPE_TYPE type) {
        type.editor().injectMethod(
            MethodDecl(Type(VOID), METHOD_SET_JPA_PROVIDER)
                .makePublic()
                .withArgument(Arg(Type(JPA_PROVIDER_TYPE), PROVIDER))
                .withStatement(
                    If(Equal(Name(PROVIDER), Null()))
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                            .withStatement(Assign(Field(JPA_PROVIDER_FIELD_NAME), defaultJpaProviderInstance())))
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        );

        type.editor().injectMethod(
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                .makePublic()
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        );
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        delegateMethodsTo(type, METHODS, Field(JPA_PROVIDER_FIELD_NAME));
    }
}

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So, new Troop and first time to have any experience with OA outside of Camporee Campfires. Two boys were elegible, so we held Elections. After they cast their ballots, the OA representative takes me to the side to tally the votes and then let me as SM sign some paperwork. As we are doing so, he marks both boys as being Elected. "What gives? I thought only one boy was allowed per year" I asked him. He goes on to explain that more than one can be elected if they each recieve half the votes in the election. I tried to understand this, but just couldn't really get past the fact that I always thought only one per year.
So could someone explain this to me. Can you send more than one boy and under what conditions?
Also, I was asked if I wanted to be nominated as an adult to help get the OA built in the Troop by his parents. I said I would have to give it some thought. But how does one go about that process also. I asked the boy thinking he was the one to talk to, but he said he knew nothing of the process. They left before I could talk to his parents again.
Current rules: all scouts eligible may be elected. To be elected your name must appear on more than half the ballots cast. Each voter may vote for all, some or none of the candidates. He can also decline to turn in a ballot which doesn't count against anyone.
Until about '97, scouts could only vote for up to half the slate: 5 or 6 eligible meant no more than three elected. If you had six voters, two eligible and it was a 3-3 tie, I think they went to another round of ballots before decarling no one was elected.
Adult rules just changed this year: Scoutmaster may be nominated if he has a year in the position and the camping time. Otherwise: one adult for every three scouts elected (or fraction) may be nominated.
Used to be one adult nomination for every 50 scouts in the unit. Troops with 51 or more could send 2 adults, etc.
I'm sure others will respond but I'll start. Election procedures for youth OA members have changed over the years. Current rules have been in affect for quite a few years. Once the Scoutmaster creates a list of qualified candidates for the Troop's OA Election (including he Scoutmaster's Approval), he invites an OA Chapter Election Team to execute an election. They will explain the election rules to your Scouts. Yes, you can vote for more than one.
As far as adults being selected (not voted), usually the Troop Committee decides this, after applying the adult qualifications. I believe the Scoutmaster and the assistants can participate as well. You can have one OA election per year, and can only select an adult candidate, if your Troop has a youth election (and actually elect a youth member). You can actually select more than one adult per year, if you have a larger Troop membership (maybe after 50 Scouts or so). I'm sure others will expand on this.
ntil about '97, scouts could only vote for up to half the slate: 5 or 6 eligible meant no more than three elected. If you had six voters, two eligible and it was a 3-3 tie, I think they went to another round of ballots before decarling no one was elected.
Actually I know of one troop that used some type of formula to elect everyone into the OA when they had an odd number of scouts eligible under the old method. Don ask me what it was, but I saw it happen when I supervised an election and it blew my mind. Some time after the election, I heard the SM bragging about how he figured out how to get everyone elected and told his troop how to vote..
back to the original post. As 00Eagle pointed out, they recently changed the rules and made it easier for adults to get in.
The adult election rule I read recently...which was reiterated by our OA election rep...was that a troop may appoint 1 adult for every three scouts elected. The SM, if not a member, may also be appointed BUT if he is already a member (or declines the offer) then you cannot send someone in their place.
So for the example above, if you elected 2 youth then you can send one adult; two adults if the SM is not a member.
As for who decides, I think this varies from troop to troop and I have not seen any directive from the OA. As long as the Scouters meet the same criteria as the youth then they are eligible. In our troop the Scouters each cast a secret ballot for the available slots (in our case we could send three). So of the 15 ASMs there were 5 eligible and three could be elected.
BTW, we do our own tap out. The boys really like it and it allows us to do a better job than in a large District or Council event.
@Bigbovine: Here are the links that talk about the OA requirements. I am not a member and have decided to go this year. Our OA ranks were dwindling and I wanted to make sure as SM I was promoting OA. NOTE: My own Council has noted the "new" adult election guidelines and posted a note from the National OA, HOWEVER, if you look at the National OA site you will find references to more than one process for "electing" adult members. Go figure, BSA being vague.
Sorry for the extra post...here is the official guidance from my Council. Note they say this is a new national policy for 2013. When in doubt I would contact your local Chapter and ask them what they know.
CHANGES TO ADULT SELECTION TO THE ORDER OF THE ARROW FOR 2013!
The national Order of the Arrow committee has modified the requirements for the nomination of adult unit Scouters as candidates for induction into the Order. The changes will increase the number of currently-serving Scout Leaders and Varsity Team Coaches and other unit Scouters who can be nominated as candidates. These modifications apply only to adult leaders in Scout troops and Varsity teams who are 21 years of age or older. They are effective at the beginning of each lodge's 2013 elections season or January 1, 2013, whichever comes first.
There is no change to the current youth requirement or unit election process. The change is in the adult selection process for each unit. There are two changes.
First Change - Upon holding a troop or team election for youth candidates which results in at least one youth candidate elected, the unit may nominate adults for consideration and approval of the lodge. The number of adults nominated is no more than one-third of the number of youth candidates elected, rounded up where the number of youth candidates is not a multiple of three.
Second Change – If the registered unit leader is not a member of the Order, the unit may nominate the currently-serving registered unit leader (but not assistant leaders), as long as he or she has served as the registered unit leader of that unit for at least the previous twelve months. This nomination is separate from the adults nominated based on the youth election results.
Up to this date the number of adults nominated was based on a successful youth election and then the number in the unit for every 50 youth members. The new process bears no consideration to the size of the unit, only the results of the youth election and the qualification of adults nominated.
Examples - A unit that elects 12 youth may nominate up to 4 adults + the unit leader if the unit leader is not a member of the Order (or) If a 51 member unit elects 2 youth. The unit may nominate 1 adult + the unit leader if the unit leader is not a member of the Order. If the unit leader is a member then the unit may nominate one registered and qualified adult.
If the registered unit leader is a member of the Order, the unit cannot replace that nomination with anyone else. Only the registered unit leader qualifies for this nomination if they are not a member and have served as the registered unit leader for the previous 12 months. The unit leader nomination is separate and does not count toward the unit nominations for adults based on the results of the youth election.
• Selection of the adult is based on the ability to perform the necessary functions to help the Order fulfill its purpose, and not for recognition of service, including current or prior achievement and positions.
• The individual will be an asset to the Order because of demonstrated abilities that fulfill the purpose of the Order.
• The camping requirements set forth for youth members are fulfilled.
• The adult leader's membership will provide a positive example for the growth and development of the youth members of the lodge.
Something! ha ha, seen this in another.
Bye the way thanks, you guys answered my question. I do not know why my misunderstanding of the election. In fact, I was given this information by what I thought was a reputable source. Once again, thanks!
I'm finally catching on. I was wondering why I saw all of the "Write something here" posts. Now I know.
The notion that only half could be elected under the old system was/is a very common misconception. One simply needs to read the form and do the math to figure it out (this includes the OP).
People will make up rules regarding adult selections, too. Whatever they come up with won't be spelled out on the form, so don't believe it. There are as many ways to do it as there are ideas.
The most important thing to do regarding elections is to get your teams trained, and to get your troop leaders to trust them and let them do their job. It takes both to make it successful.
Very true. I was told by at least several SMs (same district, same council) in other troops adult selection "had to be done" a certain way. Guess what? There were as many "ways" as there were SMs. I finally asked out Council office. Their reply: "As long as the number of adults nominated adheres to the candidacy criteria (15 nights, long term camp, etc) and does not go over the number alloted by the latest formula, we can use whatever method we want (SM appointment, Committee appointment, vote, secret ballot, etc.)."
Always helpful to have the Council office so close and available to answer questions. We did a secret ballot among the SMs to elect our candidates. We (I) will keep them secret, as we will the youth candidates, and tap all of them our together at our troop-based tap out. This works for us and is in line with OA guidelines...so it works all around.
If I could only get the adult leaders in my district who went through ordeal as youth to pay their lodge dues, there would be no need to elect / nominate adults. Of course then they would need to be faithful active arrowmen. The last time I thought I should nominate an adult, I found out he was a member.
This is something needs needs looked at again. OA selection is no longer nuch of an honor, and many of those elected are not "good scout/camper role models" the program was deisgned to promote. Additionaly, manhy elected are not old enough, or mature enough to be of much use to the order. BSA has destroyed this core program, and I can't fathom why.
This is something needs needs looked at again. OA selection is no longer much of an honor, and many of those elected are not the "good scout/camper role models" the program was deisgned to promote. Additionaly, many elected are not old enough, or mature enough to be of much use to the order. BSA has destroyed this core program, and I can't fathom why.
Well, this is the whole problem with BSA now. More Eagles. More Arrowmen. More leaders. More MBs. Less quality. It's almost as bad as a youth sports team where everyone gets a trophy. It has all become so watered down and boys have so many other activities that the real purpose of Scouting is lost in the noise.
I do disagree about only inducting adults who were Arrowmen as youth. There are many fine Scouters who never were Scouts and can be, or are, excellent Arrowmen. But I would be in favor of having them re-do Ordeal if they lapse in dues or participation.
But you are right, OA is a shadow of its former self. Certainly no longer an honor society of elite campers. Just another popularity contest.


Women's Ministry Wednesday – More Tablescapes!
My church had our second ministry fair this past Sunday, so I took some pictures of a few of the tablescapes. I love tablescapes! All you need is a table and theme, then let your creativity go wild! Here are 5 considerations for your ministry's tablescape.
1. Simplicity – Our women's Discovery Bible Study group went with a simple, understated, but cozy tablescape. This perfectly represents the "feel" of these small groups that meet on Wednesday nights. They limit their groups to about 4 women, and meet in intimate settings where they study the Bible together.
2. Unique Backdrops – One component of creating tablescapes that I always struggle with is the backdrop; I never can decide how to create an appropriate backdrop for my tablescape. I liked how the flower ministry team created these beautiful banners to use as their backdrop. It doesn't have to be a solid backdrop; it can be more simple and eye-catching! They also gave flowers away to those who stopped at their booth – very clever!
3. Strategic Planning – Our Women on Mission (WOM) used a "fair" theme for their booth. They had a motive for this – our town's annual Strawberry Festival is slated for next weekend, which is where our WOM will be planted to host one of their largest fundraisers for mission work. Smart idea!
4. Using Themes – Here is a shout out to our Men's Ministry. Their theme is "Iron Sharpens Iron" which is why they went with this workbench/tool shop tablescape. I love the use of crates and tools.
5. Showcasing – Use neat props to showcase items. For our Women's Involvement Ministry "Joppa", I used a DIY chicken wired window frame to showcase our ministry's newsletters. This way prospects can see some of the ministry projects we have worked on in recent years.
I also used a retro suitcase to display our T-shirts and totes.
Tablescapes are so fun! I have to also show off the Champion ribbon for Joppa's tablescape – BOOM! My elder daughter, Kassie, and I hosted the Women's Involvement Ministry table. I think she made the difference, because I did not win a thing last year – not even honorable mention! Thanks, Kassie!
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Author Gina Duke is a wife, mother and Director of Women's Ministry at her local church. With a B.S. in Organizational Leadership, she is able to bring a clear word for authentic Christian living. Through her book, "Organizing Your Prayer Closet: A New and Life-Changing Way to Pray" (Abingdon Press), she imparts 1 Peter 4:7 with the gift of structured prayer journaling. Ms. Duke also blogs and offers numerous videos and resources at GinaDuke.com. You may also follow her on Twitter and Instagram @TheGinaDuke.
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ok if you have dry skin then get nivea lotion and aloe verda gel and mix til it has green swirls and put it on you're face for 2 or 3 min. and after put tooth paste my friend said to put toothpaste it will help so it was to boring so i did this recipe and it works perfectly well... for me try it and by the way leave toothpaste on for a minute it might burn but that's ok.vote if it works.
Toothpaste helps to dry out blemishes only if it has benzoyl peroxide. Toothpaste will not help replenish your skin of oil. Dry skin is lack of oil, dehydrated is lack of water. Toothpaste won't help either.


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After-Education
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning
Deborah P. Britzman - Author
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Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.
In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question, What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic arguments over the nature of reality and fantasy for thinking through the force and history of education. Drawing from the theories of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, she analyzes experiences of difficult knowledge, pedagogy, group psychology, theory, and questions of loneliness in learning education. Throughout the book, education appears and is transformed in its various guises: as a nervous condition, as social relation, as authority, as psychological knowledge, as quality of psychical reality, as fact of natality, as the thing between teachers and students, as an institution, and as a play between reality and fantasy.
"This book addresses the very grounds of teaching and learning, in terms of intrapsychic and intersubjective possibility. The thought presented is brilliant, down-to-earth, and compassionate." — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of A Dialogue on Love
"After-Education continues Deborah Britzman's research on 'difficult knowledge,' which she explores in her two earlier books. In her new book, she inquires into the relevance of child analysis to the field of education. Whereas most psychoanalysts have felt that they must make a choice between Anna Freud or Melanie Klein, Britzman shows how they both contribute in different ways to an understanding of education. Britzman's keen insight, maturity, and compassion are evident throughout her new book. A close reading of After-Education will enrich anyone's education." — Jeffrey Berman, author of Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
"Britzman moves within and through the fields of psychoanalysis and education with rare fluency. Her ability to elicit the implications of a very wide range of ideas and to explore the interrelations among very different perspectives on psychic life makes reading this book an intellectually and emotionally rich experience. Illuminating." — Murray M. Schwartz, coeditor of Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis
Deborah P. Britzman is Professor of Education, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University. She is the author of Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning, both published by SUNY Press.
1. Difficult Education
2. The Freud-Klein Controversies As a Problem of Education
3. Why Return to Anna Freud?
4. "Thoughts Awaiting Thinkers": Group Psychology and Educational Life
5. Theory Kindergarten
6. Loneliness in Education: Toward a Compassionate Inquiry
Learning Theory
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Education Feminism
Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy
Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life
Play and Intervention
Looking for Home
The Structure and Agency of Women's Education
Breaking into the All-Male Club
Tenure in the Sacred Grove
Reforming Schools


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Con il termine indici di sviluppo si intendono tutti quegli indicatori che misurano il livello di sviluppo umano e sociale alternativi o complementari al prodotto interno lordo, coerenti con il concetto di sviluppo sostenibile o altro ancora. Tra questi indicatori si ricordano:

Descrizione
 Qualità di vita
 Indice di sviluppo umano
 Indice di sviluppo umano (Rapporto 2005)
 Indice di sviluppo umano (Rapporto 2006)
 Indice di sviluppo umano (Rapporto 2009)
 Benessere equo e sostenibile
 Indicatori di sostenibilità ambientale
 Indice di benessere economico sostenibile
 Genuine Progress Indicator
 Felicità interna lorda
 Benessere interno lordo
 Prodotto interno lordo verde

Piani e statistiche del millennio sono discussi nelle seguenti voci:
 Rapporto sui limiti dello sviluppo
 Obiettivi di sviluppo del Millennio
 Programma delle Nazioni Unite per lo sviluppo
 Stati per indice di sviluppo umano
 Stati per indice di sviluppo umano (2009)

Voci correlate
 PIL
 Crescita economica
 Sviluppo economico
 Progresso sociale

Demografia
Sociologia_economica
Econometria


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F1 Season Preview: Your guide to the grid
15th March 2013, 8:40 am
Updated: 15th March 2013, 8:42 am
Who will take the chequered flag in Australia this weekend?
Three months and 18 days have passed since Sebastian Vettel was crowned world champion for the third successive year but, finally, Formula One is back!
There may have been only minimal rule changes to the sport during the winter period, but that hasn't stopped the teams from chopping and changing their personnel and constructing their latest cars.
There has been a lot of movement on the grid with F1 losing a team in HRT, but it welcomes five new faces to the sport, plus one familiar one in the shape of the returning Adrian Sutil at Force India.
Elsewhere, Lewis Hamilton will be looking to get one over on his old McLaren team-mates as he prepares to make his Mercedes bow, while Ferrari will be hoping to start the season strong as they try to wrestle the driver's and constructors' titles from Red Bull's grasp.
To get our head around the new look grid, we called on Sky Sports' F1 experts David Croft and Ted Kravitz to give us their thoughts on the teams ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix…
DC: Last year they were hamstrung because their car took a while to get going and to reach its full potential. I don't think they are going to be suffering the same problems [in Australia] this year. Why should we believe that Red Bull have a bad car, they shouldn't have.
TK: They seem to be in front at the moment. We won't actually know until qualifying in Melbourne, but they have to be up there as favourites. However, you've got people who are only going to get faster and faster, like Ferrari, McLaren and potentially Lotus as well. Red Bull need to make hay while the sun shines because after the first few fly-away [races], I think we're going to see the stronger teams coming back at them. I'd be amazed if Red Bull don't take the constructors' championship this year.
TK: They're certainly not as bad as they were last season. I think it's tightened up, the difference between Red Bull and Ferrari. They are my tip for the championship, because they focus only on one person. You can never discount Ferrari. They have a solid car and they've put a big stress on being right up there for the first race, which is where they always struggle. They've got a big upgrade package coming for Melbourne.
DC: I've got a feeling about Fernando Alonso this year, I think he's in the peak of his form. He makes the right decisions in a race and he has the team behind him. One criticism is that he tends to infer that he is outperforming the abilities of the car a little too often. If I was a team principal, the first driver I would go to is Alonso. He delivers.
DC: I think they're off the pace at the moment. No team plays catch up better than McLaren, it's just how quickly they start to catch up. If everyone else has gone for evolution, they've gone for revolution. It's bold and brave and you hope it comes off, but for teams to have strong seasons, someone's got to have a bad year and you hope it's not McLaren, who are setting themselves up for a bad year. It's not looking great for them heading into the first race.
TK: McLaren have gone backwards a little bit to go forwards. They've reversed out of the development direction they've been going in for the last year. They admit the danger with that is they'll be slightly undercooked when it comes to the first race, but if they'd stayed with their old development direction, they say they would have run out of ideas and performance by Silverstone this year. McLaren is all about the appliance of science and they've got enough clever people there to make it work. It is a fact that any team is weaker without Lewis Hamilton, but how much weaker, we'll have to wait and see. For Jenson Button this is going to be a season dominated by tyres again and if he can make a little bit of headway in one of his strengths, which is driving to the tyre rather than destroying it, then he can be on the podium every weekend.
DC: They've got a really good car for qualifying and they probably still don't know how good it is in the race. There was a theory that colder temperatures would help them, as it did in China last year, but I don't know how true that is. If McLaren have lost out by losing Lewis Hamilton, then they [Mercedes] have signed at least two-tenths of extra performance per lap in him. As a result, Nico Rosberg will raise his game as well. People at Mercedes are massively impressed with Lewis' work and commitment. He has gone down a storm in the garage.
TK: I'm convinced Mercedes are going to score at least one or two race wins this year. There are some events you can point to right now where either Lewis or Nico have a very good chance, perhaps ones that aren't so aero-dependent.
TK: Lotus finished fourth last year and their target now is to finish third. That means beating everyone apart from Red Bull and Ferrari, or Red Bull and McLaren. That is a big target. When their car has been running, they've had a very good winter test programme. The car has been quick, but the only problem is that it's been unreliable.
DC: They need Romain Grosjean to stay on the road. If he stays on the road that target is achievable.
DC: What interests me is that it was between Adrian Sutil and Jules Bianchi [for a race seat]. They've gone with Sutil, so we can assume they are going to stay with Mercedes as a technical partnership. I expect Paul Di Resta to spend the first six races beating Adrian and then Adrian to start showing what he can do. Let's see what a year out of the sport has done for him.
TK: Sutil is what they call a 'points vacuum cleaner'. He'll finish seventh or sixth every race and by the end of the season you'll look at his points and think 'where did that come from'? He is there and will do a job for them. He's not the next Sebastian Vettel, but he is a very solid driver. I would expect Paul Di Resta to beat him, because Sutil has spent a year out of the car. Di Resta will be eyeing a podium [in at least one race this season] and it is not out of the question this year.
DC: There is a lot of potential at Sauber. Nico Hulkenberg has gone there thinking there are more podiums to be had. I hope he's right, because I want to see Hulkenberg going upwards. They don't have as strong a driver line-up as they did with Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi. Instead, what you've got is a good driver and some potential [in Esteban Gutierrez]. The car looks reliable, but I'm just not convinced yet.
TK: I've got huge hopes for Hulkenberg this year. I think he can be a multiple podium visitor. I think Gutierrez will struggle, he seems mentally inexperienced at the moment.
TK: They are the dark horse of the season for me. Technologically, they have an adventurous car and are trying some things that haven't been done before. It's nice to see that from Williams, who have produced cars a bit more tank-like over the years, and there's no reason that with a Renault engine and two quick drivers they can't leapfrog into a top five team, which is their target for the season.
DC: We know Pastor Maldonado can be quick, we know he can be a bit inconsistent, but like Grosjean, if he can stay on the track, he's going to be there or there about this season. He's a good qualifier, and a good racer.
DC: The car looks good, it wasn't particularly quick, but Jean-Eric Vergne has been able to push it and it was responsive. They've got some stability and direction in their technical department and it's a big year for them. [Team owner] Dietrich Mateschitz is spending a lot of money, so they've got to deliver, and the two drivers want something to attract Christian Horner's attention [at Red Bull]. I just don't know what to make of them. I'd like to say they've made the step up and could score more points and get into [qualifying] Q3 a little bit more than last year, but then everyone else making the move up is going to affect Toro Rosso as well.
TK: I don't know what to make of them' is the classic response to Toro Rosso. None of us know. What the drivers have said is that last year they were given a car that would only show its best 10% of the time. It had a very narrow set up window. That's what Toro Rosso have tried to change this year. Will it work? We don't know.
TK: They've got to be the disappointment of recent seasons. With a Red Bull gearbox, a Renault engine and quality people like John Iley and Mark Smith at the team, it really shows just how hard it is to make a top car. They haven't impressed in testing so far, but they say to wait until the upgrade comes for the Spanish Grand Prix [in May] before we judge them, so I'm willing to give them a break.
DC: The thing about Caterham is they had the buffer of KERS [last season] and Marussia didn't have that. Now they haven't got that buffer any more. You want to see them do well, but look at their driver line-up. Charles Pic is good, but he's not Heikki Kovalainen, who they've lost, and Giedo van der Garde is a rookie. They've arguably got a weaker driver line-up and they need to deliver. In many ways they were very lucky last year to beat Marussia in the championship.
TK: It's a nice car, with some nice touches on it. Mechanically it seems good. Aerodynamically they are way behind the leaders, but that will only come with time, research and money. In Jules Bianchi they have a guy who could score a point for them this year. At the moment they are looking more like scoring a point than Caterham.
DC: To beat Caterham has to be their target. Their driver line-up has suffered through losing Timo Glock because of financial pressures. They've designed a car which looks longer and squatter as well, but it seems to be doing the job at the moment and looks a lot easier to drive than the Caterham does. Marussia need to show progression. The car is getting quicker and they need to find some more sponsors. The team have to be getting more funding in, which is harder than winning a world title.


Architectus has completed a new K-Year 12 educational building for St Michael's Grammar School, known as The Gipson Commons.
Rising over three levels The Gipson Commons includes spaces for Knowledge, Science, Food Technology and School Café within an urban context of adjacent apartments, townhouses and individual residences amid a busy road.
At ground level the building works seamlessly with the ground plane of the School campus – revealing a cafeteria space that is almost part of the landscape – a space for refueling, recreation, learning and social interaction.
The stairway to the upper levels marks the transition into more dedicated spaces for learning.
These 'spaces for possibilities' are premised on the Balinese House – consisting of a spacious courtyard (atrium) with small pavilions (pods), and ringed by a wall (façade).
These visually and acoustically screened pods are the structural framework and also provide a further array of learning environments and opportunities.
This is not a single building but a neighbourhood of purposeful spaces.
The dual-level blending of Science Technology and Knowledge is part of a reimagining of Science through 'socialising' it and making it more attractive to students by seamlessly combining research with experimentation and discussion so that teaching and learning synergies are fully supported and encouraged.
The central atrium 'connects' the specialist and general learning spaces, promoting 'possibilities' through varied and targeted use of space. This central space is the physical manifestation of "The Commons" as an area that is used and enjoyed by all.


The word Narayanhiti actually is made up from two words "narayan" and "hiti". Narayan is a form of Hindu god Lord Vishnu, whose temple is located at the palace and hiti means water sprout, which is also located to the east of the main entrance in the grounds of the palace, and which also has legends associated with it.
It is located in the north-central part of Kathmandu, and the entire enclosure surrounded by a compound wall, it is called the Narayanhiti Palace. Built in 1970 in the form of a contemporary Pagoda, it was a new palace, in front of the old palace of 1915. This palace was built on the occasion of the marriage of the then heir apparent to the throne, King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah. This was the palace where on June 1 2001, at the hall in the palace where the Crown Prince Dipendra in a drunk state gunned down his family consisting of King Birendra Bir, his mother Queen Aishwarya, his brother and sister, and also five other relatives. He later gunned himself, but died only two days after. The next and probably the last king to live in this palace was king Birendra's brother, Gyanendra and his family. After Nepal was declared a secular and inclusive democratic republic, the king was asked to vacate the Narayanhiti Royal Palace. It has now been turned into a Museum and is open for all to see.


Your first painting priority should be the exterior. The exterior of your home is its protection from the elements, and deserves careful protection. When the paint shell is intact and all cracks are caulked (and the roof is in good condition without leaks), the integrity of the structure is protected from water damage, thus protecting the finish and decoration of the rooms inside.
The occupants of this home were ill from mold, despite a new roof. When Surfside Painting began to prep, we discovered a rotted windowsill. We recommended a carpenter, and moved our work to another side of the house while extensive rot was repaired.
The rot began with a leak in the oval attic window, and water ran down inside the walls undetected. With new boards in place and the attic window rebuilt, Surfside Painting can begin work. The new clapboards were primed before and after installation.
Not only does the house look beautiful when the job is finished, it is now watertight, and the occupants are regaining their health.
Preparation is key to a superior paint job. Pressure washing, scraping and sanding a dirty and peeling surface allows the primer to adhere properly. Dirt or oily deposits (from nearby traffic) on the surface interfere with adhesion, as does salt - always in the air in this area. Pressure washing saves time and effort scraping and sanding.Though proper prep can take longer and cost more (depending on the condition of the house) than a coat of paint, it is necessary to the beauty and longevity of the finished paint. Surfside painting preps carefully, often catching unrelated problems in the structure and bringing them to the homeowner's attention so that they can be fixed.
Prepping begins. Bush and driveway are covered with a drop cloth. Clapboards and trim will be sanded with sander in lower left.
Pressure washed and sanded, garage is ready for solid stain on body and prime and 2 top coats of paint on the trim.
Finished paint job is new and crisp.
After the prime coat, careful caulking is important for keeping the water out and heat in.
Prepping of entrance trim has just begun. Note that siding has not yet been pressure washed.
After pressure washing and stripping down entrance, it is ready to paint.
Finished door and an inviting entrance.
Shutters are falling apart and covered with layers of cracked, peeling lead paint. Some are held together only by the old paint.
Paint is melted with a heat gun and scraped off the shutter. Surfside Painting repaired the shutters after stripping them.
With 2 prime and 2 top coats of new latex paint, the shutter is much lighter. Here Sue takes it up to give its window that finished look.
From flagpoles to clothesyards, from cellar bulkheads to cupolas, Surfside Painting can take care of the details of your house's exterior.
This flag pole survived the '38 hurricane in Watch Hill and had many coats of paint. It was lowered by Shawn Monument's crane, and Surfside Painting stripped it to bare wood and applied 4 coats of new paint.
An example of Surfside Painting's attention to detail, and unique flair. Note that the cables are painted to match the colors behind them.
After pressure washing, Sikkens sealer is applied to a clothesyard fence and gate in Weekapaug.


This panel discusses building partner capacity in remote warfare.
Martijn van der Vorm is an Officer Royal Dutch Army is PhD-researcher Netherlands Defence Academy. His fields of interest include counterinsurgency, military adaptation and Special Operations Forces.
Captain Ivor Wiltenburg is a PhD candidate in Military Operational Science at the Royal Netherlands Defence Academy.
Daniel Mahanty is director of the U.S. Program for the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC). Through research and advocacy, he promotes the adoption of U.S. government policies and practices that serve to protect civilians and to minimize the harm they experience in armed conflict.
Abigail Watson is a Senior Research Officer at the Remote Warfare Programme.
Emily Knowles is Director of the Remote Warfare Programme.
From 28 February to 1 March, the Remote Warfare Programme held a two day conference entitled 'Conceptualising Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future'. This panel discusses the geographies of remote warfare.


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Pink and Reese Witherspoon reveal a lot in 'Never Have I Ever' with Ellen
We would never think of Pink and Reese Witherspoon hanging out together, but they were a pair with many similarities when they came together to play 'Never Have I Ever' with Ellen DeGeneres.
The singer and the actress, both happily married mums, were put to the test by Ellen as she gave out a series of scenarios about "who they really are" by answering either "I Have" or "I Have Never".


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Paul Oz
Paul Oz is an explosive British portrait artist - focused on the maximum 3D impact and energy in thick oil paint. Well known for travelling the world live painting with Formula One - recently Paul has also created work with Team Sky on the Tour of Britain, Chelsea FC to celebrate their 2017 title win, and for Lamborghini at the launch of their Urus. Headline commissions include for Muhammad Ali's 70th, by Star Trek to celebrate 50 years, and a portrait of Bruno Mars presented to him in Las Vegas to mark his 24k Magic World tour.
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by productofsociety August 31, 201510:20 pm September 1, 2015
Coward Kills Two Journalist LIVE On Television
Unfortunately every week in America another bizarre incident occurs to inevitably increase racial tension among Americans. The latest event tragically involves WBDJ reporter Allison Parker (24) & videographer Adam Ward(27). Both journalist were reporting with Vicki Gardner to commemorate the 50th anniversary for Smith Mountain Lake located in Moneta, Virginia. At approximately 6:45AM on August 8, 2015, an ex-reporter of WBDJ, identified as Vester Flanagan, opened fire on Allison, Adam, and Vicki. As a result Allison and Adam were found dead on the scene. Vicki Gardner, however, managed to stay alive after undergoing surgeries at a local hospital. A few hours later Vester Flanagan was said to have died from gun inflicting wounds after local police found him during the imminent man hunt.
The eerie thing about this fatal shooting was that it was shown LIVE on television. Moreover, Flanagan also recorded the shooting in first person using his own recording device. The motive behind this attack was said to have manifested after Flanagan had his job "taken" by Allison Parker.
Flanagan's alleged Twitter account
[Excerpt of WDBJ manager Jeff Marks via Vox.com]
"-We employed him as a reporter, and he had some talent in that respect and some experience, although he'd been out of the business for a while," Marks said. "He quickly gathered a reputation as someone who was difficult to work with."
He added, "Eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. And he did not take that well, we had to call the police to escort him from the building. Since then, well, he then filed an action with the Equal Opportunity Employment Committee in which he made all kinds of complaints."
The complaints were allegedly about "racial comments." But Marks said that "none of them could be corroborated by anyone, we think they were fabricated."-
While many people focus their attention around this incident on gun laws, we actually want to focus on Flanagan's attempt to start a "race war". According to many sources, the ex-WDBJ reporter sent over a 23 page manifesto that said his past experience with the news company as well as the latest church shooting in South Carolina, sparked Flanagan's rage. The irony. Unfortunately Mr. Flanagan, you're no different from the various Dylann Roofs or Seung Hui-Chos that continue to plague our society. The majority of us would rather spend our time finding solutions to end these tragic incidents, however, it is people like you that make it very difficult.
Ask yourself, how many more people do you now think have hatred for black men due to recent actions of violent killings. Our plan of action is to not ponder and think about the various reasons, however, it is to find preventative measures to move forward.
Prayers up for the families of every victim lost including Mr. Flanagan's who now have to bare the burden of an incident they probably never will be able fathom.
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This map shows the migrant trafficking routes of the group that was just arrested | Photo: ANSA/CARABINIERI
Human traffickers
Italian cops bust international migrant trafficking gang
By ANSA Published on : 2019/11/22
Italian police carried out a major operation across the country to bust a group of human traffickers. The suspects allegedly smuggled migrants from Asia to Western Europe for up to 8,000 euros per person.
Police conducted a major operation across Italy early on Wednesday morning, arresting seven men. Four of the suspects were sent to jail, two were placed under house arrest, and one is now required to regularly sign in with police. They are accused of aiding illegal immigration, aggravated by transnational operations.
Among the suspects are men from Italy, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. The group reportedly trafficked people from Asia to European countries (France, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Norway), using fake documents and permits. They charged as much as 8,000 euros per person.
One of the suspects is Luca S., a Turin attorney who was allegedly paid to facilitate the process of obtaining political asylum permits.
Referred to migrants as 'stuff' to make money from
Investigators conducted wiretaps, which revealed that the suspects referred to the migrants as "stuff" to make money from.
Col. Francesco Rizzo, provincial commander of the Turin Carabinieri police, said the suspects "took care of providing false documents, false declarations of hospitality, and false applications for family reunification." He said they also presented false requests for political asylum and stay permits in Brescia and Genoa.
The suspects reportedly crowded migrants into apartments in the Turin neighbourhoods of San Salvario and Barriera di Milano, and in some surrounding communities, before they were send to their final destinations a few weeks later.
'Dozens of journeys each month'
"We're talking about dozens of journeys each month," said Carabinieri operations director Giuliano Gerbo. "The shorter distances cost between 400 and 500 euros. [Migrants paid] up to 8,000 euros if they wanted to go as far as Northern Europe."
The investigation, coordinated by public prosecutor Chiara Maina, began in April 2018 after a Bangladeshi man filed a complaint. He told investigators that his sister had been beaten by her husband because she refused to falsify a marriage certificate and documents for two children, pretending they were their own children. During searches, police seized hundreds of false documents and twenty blank credit cards.
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During the last week I've seen three people that work at my work that have lost a fair amount of weight. One man I had trouble recognising as he had a chubby face that has lost its chub and looked quite different. The other two people were still recognisable but just skinnier.
The man without the chub in face said he'd stopped eating all those bad carbs and because he's done so well he is nearly at his goal weight.
I've cut down on my carb intake and have lost a bit of weight but if there's a scrumptious piece of cake being offered to me, I'm hardly going to say no. Similarly, I like icecream and have found no low carb version of it that I like. For me, I've had to weigh up enjoying eating and not enjoying eating and I've chosen to enjoy eating but not be a complete fool about it.
It seems that the people whose weight has dropped off dramatically, as in the three people I mentioned earlier, a lot of discipline and sacrifice comes into play and I'm not ready for that.


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My Former Life as a Radical
Gerfried Ambrosch
To understand what it's like to be a radical, it helps to speak to those once held under the sway of a radical ideology. Broadly defined, radicalism implies a rejection of compromise and incremental progress in favor of radical change, and for years I believed that Western capitalist society was beyond redemption and in need of a sweeping revolution. There were those who perpetuated a system of oppression and exploitation, and those who sought to overthrow it.
In The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, the philosopher Roger Scruton outlines the fallacies underlying this mindset, such as "the best case fallacy," which "imagines the best outcome and assumes that it need consider no other," and "the utopian fallacy," which insists that the perfect is the enemy of the good. These can be summed up under the rubric of "unscrupulous optimism," a concept originally coined by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Assuming that intentions translate directly into results, radicals tend to be unscrupulous optimists in that they operate on the premise that well-intentioned radical change, however destructive, can only lead to improvement.
They forget, however, that "human societies may retrogress disastrously," as the economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell puts it in his analysis of Marxism. "Ignoring the dangers of retrogression can mean sliding into the belief that 'nothing could be worse' than the existing society being criticized." This belief is reinforced by a tendency to compare the status quo not to history but to an imaginary future of human perfection. Any society that falls short of this fantasy is seen as an abomination. This can lead to false and dangerous equivalencies. It may, for instance, obfuscate the distinction between democracy and autocracy, between being governed and being ruled, which, from a utopian standpoint, can seem like a distinction without a difference.
This attitude often goes hand in hand with what Scruton calls "the born free fallacy"—the view that the laws and institutions of modern civilized society reduce human freedom. In fact, as the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker expertly demonstrates in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, these laws and institutions free us from living in constant fear and danger of violent death. Much the same is true for poverty, famine, and a host of other scourges, which have also declined thanks to what the MIT scientist Andrew McAfee calls "the four horsemen": capitalism, technological progress, public awareness, and responsive government.
The widespread misconception that the reverse has been the case partly explains radicals' unscrupulously optimistic assumption that the existing social order can be overthrown without detriment to the social fabric and human wellbeing. In short, peace and prosperity are assumed to be the natural order of things; it's the capitalist system that disequilibrates society. The anarchist authors of Contradictionary: A Bestiary of Words in Revolt thus describe capitalism as "[o]ne of the most advanced forms of disorder," a "disruption" of the "anarchic harmony" that would otherwise characterize our world.
In my experience, this is typical of the radical mindset. Radicals tend to conceive of the world as a fallen place while believing themselves to be on the side of virtue. This means, in Sowell's words, that "opponents [can] be simply labelled and dismissed as moral lepers or blind reactionaries." Similarly, the fact that radicalism does not usually receive broad public support is taken as a sign of "false consciousness." This imbues radical activists in their special role of promoting the "true" interests of "the exploited and oppressed masses," to borrow Lenin's phrase. After all, "the masses would have neither the experience nor the theoretical insight to cope with anything as momentous as a change in the whole institutional structure of society," explains Sowell.
Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, thus argued that "[c]lass political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without." According to Sowell, this approach, which led to tyranny, bloodshed, and economic devastation, "represented the hubris of imagining that a whole society could be constructed from the ground up on the vision of one man, rather than evolving from the experiences of millions, spread over the generations or the centuries." I found this same hubris to be prevalent among modern radicals. Convinced of the nobility of their mission, they imagine themselves to be the vanguard of a redemptive revolution that will finally remedy all social ills and conflicts. In short, they believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Political radicalism appealed to me because it seemed to hold the solution to society's most deep-seated problems and injustices. However, the so-called "revolutionary struggle" turned out to be largely a struggle against reality—facts and evidence carried little or no weight. What mattered was the grand vision. Like many others, I "miss[ed] the point that a vision that departs from reality must be either abandoned or changed," as Sowell argues. Even worse, I condoned the use of violence as a necessary means to the pursuit of that vision.
The neuroscientist-cum-philosopher Sam Harris once remarked that "the true horror of religion" is that it "allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions what only lunatics could believe on their own." And as Voltaire warned us, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Radical ideology has a similar effect—it inspires and justifies immoral actions. After all, morality is, according to Lenin's fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky, only "a product of social development" that "more than any other form of ideology has a class character." In other words, it's nothing but "bourgeois ideology." Radicals are, therefore, not bound by it. As a Ukrainian communist paper wrote in 1918, "To us, all is permitted, for we are the first in the world to raise the sword not in the name of enslaving or oppressing anyone, but in the name of freeing all from bondage."
From the Bolsheviks' Red Terror to Germany's murderous Red Army Faction (RAF), the radical Left has a long and bloody history of justifying violence and inhumanity. Even today, many radical leftists and anarchists condone violence as a political tool. They consider themselves to be at war with the capitalist system and, as Saul Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, "in war the end justifies almost any means." This dangerous mindset makes radicals prone to another pernicious fallacy—that their enemy's enemy is their friend.
Initially, the September 11th attacks, which killed 2977 people, elicited in me a feeling not of horror but of excitement. After all, a devastating blow had been dealt to American hegemony. My moral compass was completely thrown off by the notion that the terrorists' jihad was best understood as a liberation movement against Western capitalist imperialism—the chickens had come home to roost. This view was quite common among radicals. A friend of mine even got a tattoo of the burning World Trade Center captioned "FWT": Fuck World Trade. At the time, this didn't strike me as particularly obscene.
When it finally dawned on me that the jihadists' goal was diametrically opposed to my own idealistic vision, I briefly endorsed the then-fashionable conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an "inside job" executed to provide a pretext for the suspension of civil liberties and the waging of wars. This sentiment was captured in slogans like "Bush is a Nazi," which implied that American democracy under George W. Bush was tantamount to fascism. False equivalencies of this kind allow radical leftists and anarchists to hide behind the guise of antifascism. I participated in a number of "antifascist" protests myself, some of which escalated into riots and violent confrontations with law enforcement. Often, however, the targets of these protests weren't fascists as commonly defined, but political adversaries who had simply been branded as fascists. This meant that they were fair game. As Mark Twain said, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I also participated in a number of squattings (occupying vacant buildings without permission in order to create a rent-free, public-use space). The outcome was always the same: The police were called, and the squatters were forcibly evicted. I remember a young police officer asking me if I really thought they'd just give up and withdraw, as he pulled me away from the human chain we had formed in front of the building. I wasn't that naïve. But I was convinced that our eviction was unjust, even though we were the ones violating property rights. My attitude at the time reflected the radical view that "property is theft." A combination of economic illiteracy and moral confusion, this belief implied that it was ethical to take from those who "withheld" from us what was "rightfully" ours. So, like many of my radical peers, I turned to shoplifting in protest against the capitalist market economy. Needless to say, when I eventually got caught my father, a police officer, gave me an earful. Though I no longer lived with my parents, I had to inform him right away in order to preempt police gossip.
My radical attitude didn't sit well with the fact that my own father was a policeman. After all, the prevailing view among radicals is anti-cop. In radical circles, the police are generally seen as the guards of an oppressive social order. This is not to deny that some police officers abuse their power. What many radicals, especially anarchists, assert, however, is something else entirely—that we would be better off without law enforcement and the penal system. Again, the underlying assumption here is that humanity would thrive in the absence of such institutions. But as Pinker and others have shown, such assumptions mistake the cure for the disease. One afternoon, two friends of mine, both fellow radicals, sat me down and suggested that I disown my father on account of his profession. I heard them out, even agreed with what they said, but in the end, blood proved to be thicker than ideology.
Radical ideologues have sought to undermine the family for centuries. Many decry it as a patriarchal institution that acts as a unit of capitalist consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy. What they ignore, however, is that most people find meaning in family (for which there are good evolutionary reasons). This relates to radicals' contempt for liberal democracy. In a liberal democracy, people are free to choose what they think is right for themselves as long as their choices don't infringe on the freedom of others to do the same. Furthermore, each individual is protected by rights, enshrined in laws and institutions, and therefore cannot simply be sacrificed for the collective or a "higher cause."
These principles violate the radical mindset, which assumes that the end justifies the means, and that ordinary people can't be trusted to make the right choices for themselves. But why would ordinary individuals, in a future utopia without institutional regulation or capitalist incentive, make the "correct" choices, given that human nature would remain unaltered? And how exactly would such a society work? Since it's much easier to criticize and tear down existing structures than to develop functionally better alternatives, "technicalities" of this kind are typically postponed until "after the revolution."
As a former radical, I understand the appeal of this mindset. But I also know that there is a way out of it. An appreciation of reason and evidence and a willingness to consider the other side of an argument offer a good start. Alas, these qualities are not sufficiently encouraged in today's society. We increasingly live in a partisan culture, in which beliefs function as signals of loyalty—"the more improbable the belief, the more credible the signal," as Pinker puts it. Radical culture is the same, but on steroids.
None of this is to suggest that radicals are wrong about everything. However, their radicalism tends to alienate those who might otherwise be on their side. When, for example, the radical environmental group Extinction Rebellion chants slogans like "System change not climate change" and "Only revolution will save us now," they not only display their true colors, but they discredit the environmental movement as a whole. There is widespread agreement that CO2 emissions must be reduced, but that does not imply the end of the capitalist economic system. Particularly troublesome is radical environmentalism's tendency to slide into misanthropy: Humans are portrayed as a plague upon the planet, which implies an environmental imperative to drastically reduce their numbers. This has a dehumanizing effect: People are treated not as moral agents to be reasoned with but as obstacles to be removed.
I've seen the same thing happen in the animal rights movement. A slogan like "It's OK to kill humans to save animals" is clearly not designed to convince ordinary people to support animal rights. Rather, it serves to radicalize those who are already on board with the movement. It also functions as a loyalty signal: a belief so radical that if you express it no one will doubt your commitment. I was guilty of this too: I would wear a vegan T-shirt bearing the image of a machine gun captioned, "This is a fucking war." A friend of mine recently told me a disturbing story from his past as an animal rights radical: "There was a professor at Indiana University who had published some articles which made it clear that he did some sort of animal testing. So I showed up at his house with a baseball bat and threatened him." Before long, however, my friend found himself on the receiving end of fanatical anti-vivisectionist agitation: "Once I got cancer, friends from the animal rights scene told me that I should rather die than benefit from medicines tested on animals."
Is there any point in reasoning with radicals? From my own experience, I believe Pinker is right when he says that although people tend to "dig in and double down when evidence challenges a sacred belief that is close to their social identity … evidence can change people's minds, even on highly politicized issues." When I was faced with contradictory evidence, my echo chamber started to crack, and my ideology began to crumble. It's certainly possible to persuade radicals out of their radicalism. But it's difficult. Their ideological beliefs are not just "close to their social identity"; often, they are their social identity. Their social life is centered around those beliefs. Thus, they feel a strong social pressure to reject outside criticism.
Not coincidentally, the prevailing mentality in radical circles is "us versus them." We should be careful not to make their same mistake. It's tempting to condemn radicals as enemies of society, to dehumanize them, or to write them off as lunatics. But if we're serious about opposing radicalism, with its disregard for human life and its contempt for liberal democracy, we have to treat them as independent human beings capable of rational thought and action.
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Gerfried Ambrosch is a heterodox academic and writer with a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies. You can follow him on Twitter @g_ambrosch
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