Day 1: On arrival at the International airport, you will be warmly greeted and transferred to your hotel in Colombo (Approx. 30 Mins drive). While in Colombo take a panoramic tour of the city which like many capital cities in developing countries is fast changing its face. Yet in some parts, the old world charm is retained. The tour through the Colombo fort which also is the commercial hub, has some colonial English built buildings yet preserved. The city tour will take you through some affluent streets passing the Chinese gifted BMICH, the Galle Face Green, Independence Square and the newly built Independence Arcade.
Day 2: After breakfast proceed to Habarana (Approx. 4.5 Hrs drive). Check in at the hotel and relax.
Day 3: After breakfast drive the short distance (Approx. 30 Mins drive one way) to climb Sigiriya Rock Fortress, a UNESCO world heritage site. It is commonly called the 'Fortress in the Sky' and is probably the most fantastic wonder of Sri Lanka. It is also known as Lion Rock because of the huge lion that used to stand at the entrance to the Palace on the summit of the 600-foot rock.Proceed for a village visit where you will then be taken on a bullock cart ride through a banana plantation where you could taste and savour the ripe bananas there. You could opt to take a ride to cross a scenic reservoir in an "oruwa " (traditional boat) to visit a Chena cultivation. This experience will give an opportunity to meet and interact with the villagers in the area to know about how they go about with their farming and cultivation. You may even opt to help them in some of their daily activities such as farming and cooking.
Day 7: Today you will be taken to the Peradeniya station to board the train from Peradeniya to take one of the most scenic train journeys through hills and tea plantations (Approx. 3.5 hrs journey). You will be picked up at the Nanu Oya station by your chauffeur guide who will drive you to the overnight hotel. Check in at Grand Hotel to spend a relaxing time in the hill country.
Day 8: Breakfast at the hotel will be followed by a panoramic tour of the Nuwara Eliya city which opens up to a breathtaking panorama of colour with beautiful gardens, cascading waterfalls, lakes and sweet smelling mountain air.
Day 9: After breakfast, transfer to Yala (Approx. 4.5 Hrs drive). The journey would take you through the Ella gap, where on a sunny day you can get wonderful views of Sri Lanka's southern coastal plains. En route you can visit the holy town of Kataragama, a place of worship for Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims, to witness pooja (offerings) take place at the temple.
Day 10: Early this morning, proceed to the Yala National Park for a game drive at Sri Lanka's famous wildlife National Park. The best chance to see a leopard is generally first thing in the morning and then again at dusk. Apart from the leopards, there are a large number of elephants living in the park. Spotted deer, sambar, wild board, wild buffaloes, sloth bear, jackal and mangoose can also be seen. The bird life there too is fantastic.Enjoy the second safari in the evening.
Day 11: After breakfast transfer to the Southern capital of Sri Lanka, Galle (Approx. 4 Hrs drive), passing small fishing villages and you could witness the ever famous stilt fisherman carefully balanced on the stilts. While in Galle explore the Galle Fort with its low lined streets and the history behind its Rampart. The Fort remains a hive of activity and is one of the few World Heritage listed sites in which a bustling population continues to thrive.There are a number of restaurants, shops, galleries and boutique hotels making this a pleasant spot to while away a leisurely day.
Day 12: In the afternoon today, you will be taken to Colombo (Approx. 2 Hrs drive) where you could also opt to indulge in some shopping whether it is value for money clothes or impressive antiques.Later in the evening you will be transferred to the airport to catch the flight to onward destination (Approx. 45 Mins drive).


With 225km of Mediterranean coastline, as well as numerous rivers throughout the country, Lebanon offers many salt- and fresh-water sporting activities. Lebanon's rocky coastline and underwater terrain make it a unique destination for snorkeling and diving. A 600m deep underwater valley runs from Beirut to the Bay of Jounié, creating interesting rocky gorges and underwater cliffs and dropoffs for divers to explore. Another popular diving area is at Chikka (near Tripoli), which offers some of the best marine landscapes and flora and fauna off the Lebanese coast.
Exploring the underwater ruins near Jbail (Byblos), Saida (Sidon), and Sour (Tyre) is another popular activity for divers and snorkelers; however, you are required to obtain a special permit to dive near archaeological sites. There are also several world-class shipwreck sites, including "le Souffleur" (a French submarine from World War II) near Khaldé, for underwater exploration.
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While water sports in Lebanon are centered on the coast, there are also a number of freshwater activities, including rafting, kayaking, and canyoning. These are concentrated on the rivers Nahr Litani and Nahr Ibrahim, which typically swell as the spring weather melts the mountain snows, creating great deep, fast water conditions. Many ecotour operators offer guided rafting and water sport activities on Lebanon's rivers.


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"What will you eat?" Israel asked her.
"I'll probably get a yogurt later today," she replied.
Eventually, the family split to all corners of the Jewish world, and Abraham's parents went to New York. The Goldene Medina gave Abraham opportunities for education and success, but he never forgot what it felt like to be hungry.
He asked R if there was anyone else she knew who was as hungry as she was. It turned out that her neighbour was also hungry. The neighbour was reluctant to let R and her new friend into the flat, but Israel could see through the crack in the door its emptiness and the mattresses propped against the wall – where the children slept at night.
It was with an initial group of seventeen hungry Israelis that Abraham Israel began Hazon Yeshaya, a network of soup kitchens that has grown from its 1998 beginnings to feed, today, more than eight thousand people.
And Israel has just purchased the premises of a defunct supermarket in Ashkelon, from which he hopes to produce food for a further thousand, that will be distributed all over southern Israel.
The truth is that the gap between rich and poor in Israel is wide and growing, and Abraham Israel doesn't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Now, the economy is booming. But Netanyahu slashed allowances for food. Indeed, R – the "index patient" – had a food allowance. The subsidy, however, went to pay for her multiple sclerosis medications. And Israel sees government as part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Sayat Nova, , "König des Gesangs", auch Arutin Sayadan; gebürtig Arutin, Harutjun , (* 14. Juni 1712 in Tiflis; † 22. September 1795 in Haghpat) war ein armenischer Aschyq (Sänger, Dichter und Komponist) und Geistlicher.

Leben
Sayat Novas Mutter stammte aus Sanahin im Norden Armeniens. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er in einem Dorf in der Nähe der georgischen Hauptstadt Tiflis. Er war schon in jungen Jahren ein begabter Schreiber lyrischer Gedichte, Sänger und Spieler auf der Kamantsche. Später leistete er seine Dienste im Hofe des Königs Heracle II. von Georgien, wo er u. a. als Diplomat tätig war. Er verlor seine Position, als er sich in die Tochter des Königs verliebte. Daraufhin verbrachte er sein restliches Leben als fahrender Sänger sowie als Barde am Hof von Karim Khan im persischen Schiraz. 1795 wurde er von den Soldaten des Aga Mohammed Khan getötet.

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Obwohl er insgesamt mehrere tausend Lieder geschrieben hat, sind lediglich 220, die Sayat Nova zugeschrieben werden, überliefert worden. Diese Lieder haben bis heute nichts von ihrer Popularität verloren. Von den überlieferten Liedern sind 70 in armenischer, 128 in aserbaidschanischer und 30 in georgischer Sprache. Die meisten seiner Songs sind noch vorhanden in aserbaidschanischer Sprache. Er war auch des Arabischen und des Persischen mächtig.

Sayat Nova wird im kaukasischen Gebiet offiziell als der größte Aschyq (aserbaidschanisch; armenisch: Gusan), Volkssänger und Liederschreiber, seiner Zeit gewürdigt. Der armenische Komponist Alexander Arutiunian schrieb ein Opernstück mit dem Namen "Sayat Nova" als eine Hommage auf ihn. Heute tragen einige Einrichtungen und Organisationen, wie die Jerewaner Musikschule, des Weiteren ein lang bewährtes armenisches Tanzensemble in den Vereinigten Staaten und ein jährliches Musikwettbewerbs-Programm sowie ein Krater auf dem Planeten Merkur, seinen Namen, um nur einige zu erwähnen.

1969 wurde unter der Regie von Sergei Paradschanow eine filmische Biographie mit dem Titel "Цвет граната" (Zwet granata, deutsch "Die Farbe des Granatapfels") veröffentlicht.

Literatur
 Charles Dowsett: Sayatʻ-Nova: An 18th-century Troubadour: A Biographical and Literary Study. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium) Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2005, ISBN 978-9068317954

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 Armenianmusicarch.com
 Classical Composers Database

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Komponist (Armenien)
Sänger
Kamantschespieler
Autor
Literatur (Armenisch)
Lyrik
Person (Tiflis)
Armenier
Geboren 1712
Gestorben 1795
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About this journey The average travel time between Bologna and Vienna is 12h13 minutes. The quickest route is 10h20 minutes. The first train leaving Bologna is at 07:10, the last at 15:52. There is an average of 2 trains a day between Bologna and Vienna, leaving approximately every 2h40 minutes.


Nico is a delightful 6 year old young man who has been attending the San Jose Scottish Rite Childhood Speech and Language Disorders Clinic twice per week. Nico is currently in kindergarten, has two older brothers and loves to play games. He and his family have been a delight to work with over the course of his treatment here at the clinic.
Nico has what was previously classified as a severe articulation disorder. It was highly difficult to understand his speech, even for those familiar to him such as his family members. Nico has a long history of speech and language services. He has been seen by many different speech and language therapists over the years due to staffing changes. His mother felt it had been hard for him to progress in his treatment because it had been interrupted so many times by changes in the consistency of his therapy services.
Nico is a normally developing, healthy boy and his articulation disorder has been the only concern in his development. It's impossible to put a reason or cause to his problem. Nico has had difficulty with many phonological processes which have caused his speech to be hard to understand. Phonological processes are the patterns that some young children use while their speech and language are developing. It is a way for children to make sounds "easier" to produce. At certain ages, we expect these processes to stop and for children to begin making the correct speech sounds. If children continue to use these processes and are using many different ones, their speech can become difficult to understand. For example, children may leave off the final consonant from words, so "soap" becomes "so." Sounds are divided into different classes depending on their features and how they are produced. Phonological processes are produced when sound features are changed or sounds within one class are substituted for another. Nico was using many of these processes and as his language skills were growing, he had a lot to say. Unfortunately because of these sound errors, it became increasingly difficult to understand him.


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Home › CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Plate No. 4. Catching the Wild Horse
CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Plate No. 4. Catching the Wild Horse
Hand-colored lithograph heightened with gum arabic by John McGahey (active 1835–1855) after George Catlin (1796-1872) printed by Day & Haghe
From the first edition of Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Praries of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America. London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844
Paper dimensions: approximately 16 ½ x 22 ¾ inches
Catlin provided the following description to accompany this subject:
PLATE No. 4.
CATCHING THE WILD HORSE
Taking the wild horse and "breaking him down" is one of the proudest feats of the Indian and requires the sudden rallying and desperate use of all his manly faculties and even with the complete exhaustion of all these he is often compelled to relinquish his pursuit in despair. The most frequent mode of catching the horse is by "throwing the laso" from the back of a horse at full speed as is seen in the distant part of this picture and by "choking the animal down" as is seen in the group in the foreground. For this desperate feat the Indian prepares his laso, which is a braided thong made of raw hide fifteen or twenty yards in length and coiled upon his left arm, with a noose at the end of it which when he throws out its coil drops over the horse's neck. This done, by holding back upon the other end of the laso, or by having it fastened to the girth of his own horse, he gradually tightens it upon his running victim's neck until its speed is materially checked by the stoppage of its breath. He then dismounts, and leaves his riding horse, balancing on his feet as he is dragged along by this strangling prize, until it falls from exhaustion. He then instantly rushes game, and fastened a pair of hobbles on its fore-feet, and a short halter, with a noose, firmly around its under jaw, loosens the laso around the neck, enabling the horse to breathe; and leaning back with the weight of all his body strength, at the end of the halter, to prevent the horse from rising upon its feet or from throwing itself over and receiving an injury by falling upon its back.
In this struggle, which is called "breaking down" and generally lasts about half an hour, there is a desperate contention for the mastery, which is easily seen to be decided by reason and invention, rather than by superiority in brute force. The Indian leans back upon his halter, which is firmly held in both hands, and as the horse is getting breath and strength to rise, repeatedly checks it, preventing it from gaining any advantage; and gradually advances, hand over hand upon the tightened halter towards the horse's head, until poor affrighted, trembling, and conquered animal, covered foam, allows the caressing hand of its new master to pat nose, and in a few minutes to cover its eyes, when the exchange of a few deep-drawn breaths from their meeting nostrils seems to compromise the struggle; the animal discovering in its conqueror, instead of an enemy, a friend, who has from that moment little else to do than mount upon its back, with halter around its jaw, and ride it into camp, his willing slave for the rest of its life.
In these desperate struggles the finest and the fleetest of the band are seldom overtaken; nor would such misfortune befall the hindmost, were it not that the pursuing horse gets advantage of the ground, and shortens the distance, by the superior judgment and guidance of man.
George Catlin (1796-1872)
George Catlin was the earliest great artist to travel extensively among the Plains Indians of North America and visually record their customs and artifacts. Through the important body of paintings and graphics he created and his carful written observations he sought to persuade his contemporaries that Native American culture should be honored and preserved.
In 1830 Catlin began his first journey up the Missouri River accompanying General William Clark on a diplomatic mission into Native American territory. His travel was inspired by his longstanding interest in Native American culture and by his observation of a delegation of Native Americans who were on their way to Washington, D.C. In doing so left behind earlier careers as a Philadelphia attorney and a portrait miniaturist. His goal was perhaps best expressed in the preface to the first edition of his North American Indian Portfolio: "The history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian."
St. Louis became Catlin's base of operations for five trips he took between 1830 and 1836, eventually visiting fifty tribes, the Pawnee, Omaha, Ponca, Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet among them.
The artist's hundreds of portraits, scenes, and landscapes and extensive collection of Indian artifacts he accumulated on his excursions became famous as Catlins "Indian Gallery", when it started touring the United States in 1837 and prior to its London debut two years later.
Having established a name for himself with the success of the "Indian Gallery", Catlin focused his attention on finishing his first book, The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians… which first appeared in the autumn of 1841. This book was to become one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Catlin's project filled a great need. Following Lewis & Clark's celebrated expedition up the Missouri River into the Pacific Northwest, Europeans read avidly of the sights and experiences of the voyage. They traced the route followed by the explorers, using the map that accompanied the wildly popular printed volumes on the journey.
Lacking, however, from the accounts of the expedition of Lewis and Clark was pictorial documentation and its audience (both American and European) were unable to visualize the journey. This lacuna meant that the people, landscapes, and customs of the vast American frontier remained abstract ideas, much less vividly imaginable to anyone who had not personally experienced the voyage. When first issued in 1844, Catlin's portfolio presented animated, colorful, sympathetic views of Native Americans finally filled the void of imagery.
Its arrival brought about the ability for Europeans and Americans to visualize the people and customs of whom they had read so extensively, and to gain a level of respect for the Native Americans, so often feared, misunderstood or misrepresented. The artist's stunning lithographs ranged from portraits to depictions of tribal ceremonies, from the anecdotal to the idealized. Catlin appealed to his readers with the thrill of the hunt and the mystery of ritual, and conveyed his respect for his subjects masterfully. The immediacy of his images is irresistible, drawing viewers into the scenes and portraits with unprecedented intimacy. But even when Catlin issued the North American Indian Portfolio, just fifteen years after his expedition, his crusade to preserve America's "Noble Savage" was failing. The Indians were beginning to give way to the expansion of the American frontier and to European disease. Because most of Catlin's paintings and collections were destroyed by fire or neglect, his lithographs remain the principal medium by which his message was conveyed, and they have come to hold even greater significance today than when they were first published.
Description compiled by Erik Brockett who is pleased to provide additional information relating to this or other examples of the work of George Catlin available at Arader Galleries. He can be contacted at erikbrockett@aradergalleries.com
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Geroge Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Hunting Scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. 25 25 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE lithographs. First edition, with exceptionally fine hand-colouring.
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CHAPTERS' BEST DEFENSE IS FOR MEMBERS TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER
by James Eterno, Chapter Leader, Jamaica High School
The Chief Leader civil service newspaper reported last week that there was a substantial increase in the number of teachers rated unsatisfactory in NYC public schools. In 2006-07 there were 1,333 teachers rated unsatisfactory compared to 981 the previous year. This amounts to a 36% increase in U ratings over the span of just one year.
Of the 1,333 rated U last year, The Chief reported that 918 were tenured up from 662 the year before. This means the increase in tenured teachers rated U is 39% over that same one year period. Also, the number of teachers denied tenure more than doubled last year when compared to the previous year and the amount of teachers who had probation extended increased almost fourfold in 2006-07. While statistical changes over one year are hard to use scientifically, it is fairly clear that the Bloomberg-Klein administration armed for a full school year with a new Contract that severely weakened our rights (no more letter in file grievances, suspension without pay, etc...) is using its punitive provisions to unfairly blame teachers for problems in education. We cannot wait for another increase in U ratings before we fight back assertively.
When the attack on teachers comes to your school, your only defense is to be a strong Union Chapter. Union solidarity has been tried in many ways since Bloomberg and Klein took over control of the schools. In too many schools, the UFT Chapter is now a union in name only. The grassroots level UFT will be tested over and over again in the coming months as Klein's "gotcha" squad of prosecuting attorneys and the data driven accountability system will most likely lead to an acceleration of the unwarranted attacks on educators.
ICE urges all UFT members to aggressively enforce all Contractual rights immediately by filing and supporting grievances as well as taking whatever other actions are possible when the Contract is not adhered to by administration (see the November 19 post on this blog). If we do not stand up for each other and protect what rights we have left, the consequences will be dire. We must stick together by fighting collectively if we are to survive.
If members are in a Chapter where they do not believe they can get support from their Chapter Leader, then they need to form their own groups of UFT members and work together to uphold their collective rights. If anyone needs help, please contact ICE and we will do what we can to assist. If we show the Chancellor, the Mayor and UFT leadership that we are not going to take unwarranted attacks against us lying down, they will have to start to seriously reckon with us.
Don't expect Randi to bail us out. We must begin the counterattack ourselves at the school level and then force the UFT leadership to climb on board.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 11/25/2007 09:06:00 PM 13 comments: Links to this post
Randi to Bloom-Klein:Apologize to Teachers for Witch-Hunt
ICE To Randi:Fight Back for Real This Time
The "first I love you then I hate you, then I love you" saga between UFT President Randi Weingarten and the Bloomberg-Klein administration seems to be moving back to the "I hate you" mode. Chancellor Joel Klein announced last week the creation of a new witch hunt office of prosecuting attorneys whose job will be to help principals go after ineffective teachers. Randi wrote a response that she sent to Chapter Leaders where she names the new office the "gotcha unit" and she calls on Bloomberg and Klein to "retract it and...apologize to the hard working teachers of this city."
Randi is so incensed that she has decided to support U Rated Teachers who have called for a vigil at Tweed headquarters on November 26, the night of the next meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy. ICE endorses the vigil and is glad to have Randi's support. However if this is to be more than the usual public relations' push to show UFT members that she feels our pain, then it is time for the UFT leadership to finally come to the realization that there can be no collaboration with this administration and we must fight back for real. You see we've seen the "Randi is Angry" show before and we didn't like how it ended.
Just as Randi is ticked off now as Klein's "gotcha" squad is announced one day after dismal test score results from national tests are released, she was incensed in 2003 only a few months after the UFT supported Bloom-Klein's first school reform. Soon thereafter, Klein was attempting to micromanage everything including how teachers should use classroom rugs. Randi challenged Klein to teach and then there was the UFT's protest that the city should "Let teachers teach." There was a giant UFT rally at City Hall with that theme.
Then, there was the protracted Contract fight from 2003-2005 where Randi was angry with the proposal to have an eight page Contract that would have eliminated virtually all of our rights, but she still ignored strong warnings from ICE members of the Executive Board and went to non binding arbitration where the UFT lost. She ended up standing next to Klein for that famous kiss as she gave away so many of our rights in the 2005 Contract (longer day, school in August, no right to grieve file letters, return to hall and cafeteria patrol, suspension without pay based on Office of Special Investigations' Reports that are often biased against teachers, no more seniority or SBO transfers so schools have become Principal's patronage fiefdoms, no placement for excessed teachers and more) in exchange for salary increases that were the same as every other Municipal Union received except that we work more hours and get paid at the same rate for that extra time. Since then, it's been mostly a love fest as the next Contract was negotiated a year early.
There was the bus route change fiasco earlier this year. Bloom-Klein were having a real hard time as the UFT joined with parent organizations in opposing Klein's latest reorganization of the schools. A major rally was planned for the spring, but was cancelled when Klein made some minor changes to the reorganization that appeased Randi. By the start of this school year, she was joining with Bloom-Klein to say how smooth the opening was and the UFT had commercials on the radio urging collaboration between management and UFT Chapters. Simultaneously, Klein was rewriting rules for School Leadership Teams which were rendering Leadership teams powerless.
Now, Randi's furious one more time and demanding an apology from Bloom Klein over the "gotcha" team of prosecuting lawyers who are being sent in to help principals get rid of tenured teachers. Randi is supporting the vigil that U rated teachers had already planned and demanding an apology as well as the end of the "gotcha" squad. We are happy to see Randi supporting the vigil. However, Randi has gotten on and off the Bloomberg -Klein bandwagon so many times that it is quite difficult to figure out where she really stands.
Those of us who work in the schools have continually seen teaching and learning conditions deteriorate under Bloom-Klein. ICE has consistently opposed their anti-education, anti-union agenda and we have supported the parent groups opposing the administration. We have also called for an end to Mayoral Control of the schools to be replaced with real School Based Shared Decision Making between administration, parents and teachers with accountable oversight that is not tyrannical. Randi's support for the vigil and call for the apology are great but woefully inadequate. We need this to be the starting point to rebuild the UFT as a viable trade union.
Specifically, here is a ten point plan to revitalize the UFT which we would like implemented immediately:
1. Revitalize the trade union purposes of the UFT by sending out to the schools teams of UFT officials to encourage members to use the grievance process to protect our rights. No more officials coming to schools to push for the latest Department of Education "flavor of the month." Too many members feel little or no real union presence in their schools. That must change immediately if members are to have the confidence to stand up for their rights with rank and file actions.
2. The UFT created an award for Principals who collaborate with UFT Chapters; we would like to see an award and publicity in every issue of the NY Teacher for Chapters or individual members who stand up for their rights in the face of unwarranted attacks from administrators. Why should people be calling Norm Scott or ICE about their issues? They should be calling the UFT and the Union should be fighting assertively for its members.
3. Use the harassment provision of the Contract aggressively. Right now members are told to keep an extensive log before an intimidation/harassment case is lodged against a principal under Article 23 of the Contract. Why not make these cases routine as soon as the harassment of our members begins? Two negative file letters/observation reports should set a pattern and be enough for us to fight back and file a harassment/intimidation special complaint in most cases.
4. Encourage Chapter Leaders to tell their members that the Contract calls for us to be treated equitably and fairly (Article 22A) and if we are not, let's file grievances that are all moved forward quickly by the UFT and insist that the DOE follow time limits outlined in the Contract.
5. If the DOE refuses to hear grievances in a timely manner, let's go to court to force their hand.
6. Take the DOE to court or to the State Education Commissioner against U ratings that are unwarranted if the Chancellor will not overturn them. We have nothing to lose but our members must know that we are fighting for them with every weapon at our disposal.
7. Picket in front of schools where the UFT Chapter is not being respected by administration and call in the press.
8. Publicize the failures of management. For example, show how there is a huge problem with students who are mis-programmed in the high schools because there isn't enough time between the end of summer school and the start of the school year. Show examples of great teachers who can't get jobs because of a political hiring process that has turned schools into principal patronage fiefdoms. Tell the world about teachers who have PhDs who are watching students in cafeterias. Publicize how extra money that has been added to the education budget in NYC is not going to classrooms (Where are the lower class sizes from the CFE settlement?, etc...)
9. No more standing next to Bloom-Klein if they back off a little on their "gotcha" plan. We don't need any incremental gains. It's time to renounce their mismanagement of the schools and abuse of our members forever.
10. Demand an end to Mayoral Control of the schools. The system does not need to be fine tuned; it needs a major overhaul and now is the time to push for it as the law permitting the mayor unilateral control of city schools sunsets in 2009 and must be renewed by the State Legislature. We should not give a penny in UFT political contributions (COPE money) or any kind of support to any politician who does not oppose Mayoral control. It's time to mobilize our members to end it and not merely try to mend it.
We welcome our readers to add more suggestions to the list.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 11/19/2007 05:37:00 AM 27 comments:
AT DA RANDI ADOPTS ICE-LIKE POSITION ON ACTIONS TO SAVE FAILING SCHOOLS
At the November 7, 2007 Delegate Assembly Meeting, UFT President Randi Weingarten motivated two amendments to a resolution that basically criticized the report card grades that the Department of Education is giving schools. She made a long argument about how the UFT would oppose any school being closed based on the report card data and said she would support schools who want to challenge their grade with Union actions. She turned down a similar request on fighting school potential school closings with Union actions just three weeks earlier.
Specifically the first of Randi's "President's Amendments" called for alternative accountability measures that would be fair and more transparent than the report cards that came out last week that gave schools an overall grade of A to F.
The second amendment read as follows: "That, the UFT will support any school community that believes its score on the progress reports was not a fair or accurate reflection of the school's achievement or the hard work of it's educators; that support could involve appeals, demonstrations and other actions." This wording sounds somewhat familiar. A few weeks earlier at the October DA, Jeff Kauffman introduced two amendments to a resolution on Absent Teacher Reserves.
The original resolved clause in an October 18 DA resolution talked about a hiring freeze until all ATR's are placed in a regular position. ICE added two new resolved clauses as amendments to this resolution. The first one tried to strengthen the UFT's position on school closings so that the closing of schools would be banned until it was proven to be educationally sound. The second ICE amendment said: "Resolved, that the UFT use all available means including a publicity campaign, a mobilization of the membership, an appeal to the City Council, the State Legislature and the State Education Department to put maximum pressure on the Department of Education to implement the above Resolved clauses." The Unity Caucus majority turned down these amendments on October 18. Randi gave a speech saying we have lost the fight in court on schools being closed.
Fast forward three weeks and now Randi is writing her own amendments saying that the UFT will take strong actions to protect schools that feel they are being unjustly graded. Remember Chancellor Joel Klein has said that he would close schools based on negative report card grades. Thanks Randi, it's good to have you taking an ICE like position on fighting actively to oppose failing grades that could lead to the closing of schools.
We would gladly welcome Randi to take the ICE position on fighting to win back all of the horrific givebacks from the 2005 punitive Contract such as ending merit pay and starting school for us after Labor Day so schools can be fully prepared to open. In addition, we would welcome Randi's support to help us win back the right to grieve negative file letters and observations, bring back seniority and/or School Based Option Transfers and get us out of hall and cafeteria patrol as well as ending suspension without pay based on biased Office of Special Investigations Reports.
In other DA news, ICE had its own resolution to present on Merit Pay that we did not get a chance to bring forward at the November DA because Randi ran the clock out on the ten minute motion period, allowing just one motion to be brought up.
Members of ICE also pointed out that a resolution that would help mobilize UFT members to support disaster relief efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic left out victims of recent hurricanes in Mexico, Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean. When this resolution was finally raised, there were very few delegates remaining in the hall and Jeff Kaufman called for a quorum (A quorum is the minimum amount of members necessary to conduct business and for UFT bodies that means 20%.) The quorum call was ignored by Special Assistant to the President Michael Mendel who at this time was chairing the meeting as Randi had left for another engagement. (We saw her about an hour later on NY1's Inside City Hall program.) The original resolution passed but Mendel did come to us after the meeting to assure members of ICE that he would draft a new resolution that would encompass all hurricane victims to be included in the UFT disaster relief efforts.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 11/14/2007 11:27:00 PM 12 comments:
Letter from Chicago
By George N. Schmidt
Report Cards Spell Closings -- Welcome to Chicago
Colleagues and friends:
After reading the Sun story about the future fate of the "D" and "F" public
schools in New York City, my first thought was "Welcome to Chicago." We'll be
publishing a seven-part series on how Chicago has pioneered many of the most
odious aspects of No Child Left Behind since the imposition of the mayoral
dictatorship model of corporate "school reform" here in 1995. I'm starting the
series with a story about how many schools were closed, how many teachers were driven out of their professions, and how many kids (almost all black, here) were destroyed by that process, which began here in a big way in early 2002.
If you were to ask for two suggestions, here they are:
1. Fight like hell against any closings based on these rankings and sorting,
and fight like double hell against the system that is now in place to rank and
sort schools, but not capitalist exploitation in the community, as a way of
doing "accountability." Ultimately, our ruling class holds everyone but itself
accountable.
2. Get all of the names, addresses, and other contact information of everyone
in every school before everyone is dispersed. Do not rely on professors or
other professional studiers of such things. In Chicago, a key component of the
destruction of more than 20 all-black schools (and their staffs, the majority
of whom in each case were black) required that the university people claim in
the press that they were going to "track" every child to make sure no one was
"hurt."
That was a lie, and I personally heard Tony Bryk (then at the University of
Chicago; now at Stanford) tell it to a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times
during the press briefing that launched the school closings (for "failure")
iteration of corporation school reform here in 2002. Bryk, along with Melissa
Roderick and John Easton (all of the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research) was a key player in covering up the destruction of so many children's lives in that process. The conflicts of interest for the three of them (at the time, Roderick and Easton were working for Chicago's Board of Education as well as for the Consortium, and Bryk's wife was head of a group that was getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts) was a small scale version of the contracting and corruption scandals elsewhere (like Reading First) in the current education world.
I would expect that BloomKlein will roll out some professors to assuage any
guilt about how they results will impact kids, and unless you are constantly
ready to challenge those professors (even the ones who talk sweetly and come
with a "progressive" pedigree) you will be weaker in this horrifying process.
I know you've already challenged some of the nonsense that's come with school semi-closings, like John Lawhead's work around the "small schoolsization" of Bushwick. There, too, you have to challenge the professors. Here in Chicago, Billy Ayers and Mike Klonsky's "Small Schools Network" got more than a half million in CPS contracts in the late 1990s to dismantle minority schools and often attack the local union leadership -- as at Bowen High School where I was union delegate. If you are mesmerized by people who write books and prance around in front of university seminars as "progressives", you're in for a terrible shock. But it will be the children who suffer most from this next and ugliest iteration of "school reform."
George N. Schmidt
Editor, Substance
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 11/06/2007 06:51:00 PM 4 comments:
Drawing a line in the sand: Stop making concessions on vital education issues!
What's wrong with making an extra $3,000 dollars?
By: Lisa North
As a union that represents the profession of educators, we have the responsibility to speak for the profession. What are we saying when we agree to a plan that will reward educators for test scores? The Bloomberg/Klein/Bush administrations believe the answer to improving urban education is for teachers to work harder to raise test scores. Despite our union leaders' claims that indicators like attendance, graduation rates, and parent surveys will be used, 85% of the bonus money will be based on scores. Our union, the voice of professional educators, has now signed on to that premise.
It is well known, as recently pointed out by Diane Ravitch, that test scores fluctuate from year to year based on how easy or hard they are (Daily News article 9/4/07). The UFT High Stakes Testing Committee spent a year studying the issue and concluded, "those who advocate for the misuse of student test scores to evaluate individuals, schools, and entire school systems are ignorant of or choose to ignore the fact that the makers of these tests never intended them to be used for those purposes."
Our union told us that by signing this bonus/merit pay program we avoided individual merit pay. Where is the line in the sand? Do we continue to make concession after concession until we have lost the battle for high quality education?
Improving urban education requires addressing the social and economic inequalities of our society. Our students need better health care, housing, and jobs for their parents. Our schools need more resources to lower class size, provide real time to collaborate on how best to improve teaching (not collaboration to raise test scores), high quality summer and after school programs in every school (not test prep programs), and high quality parent education programs.
School wide bonus/merit pay plans are a retreat in the face of this mission.
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Fearing Their Kids Will Inherit Dead Coral Reefs, Scientists Are Urging Bold Action
Published May 27, 2021 at 2:05 AM PDT
Scientists expect increasing marine heat waves to cause coral bleaching, which can result in reefs dying off.
Coral reef biologists are often asked the same question again and again: "When my kids grow up, will there still be coral reefs?"
"That's a question I ask myself," says Christopher Cornwall, a research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. "The greatest fear is that all the coral will be gone at a certain point in time."
New research shows that, in a hotter climate, urgent action will be needed to prevent the vast majority of coral species from collapsing by the end of the century. Humans will have to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases, but that alone likely won't be enough. Reefs may also need a helping hand through efforts like restoration or coral breeding, which cultivates heat-resistant varieties.
Without that, the picture looks increasingly grim. Coral reefs are biodiversity hot spots, supporting around a quarter of all fish species. Millions of people around the world also rely on them for food, jobs and flood protection, since reefs help prevent storm surges from inundating coastlines.
The dramatic impacts come from a climate triple whammy: marine heat waves, ocean acidification and overall warming. The oceans have borne the brunt of climate change thus far, absorbing the vast majority of heat caused by human impacts.
Marine heat waves are expected to become more intense, and high temperatures cause corals to turn ghostly white in what's known as "coral bleaching."
Corals live in a domestic partnership, of sorts, with microscopic algae. The algae provide food for corals, not to mention their vibrant colors. But under periods of intense heat stress, the corals expel the algae, leaving only white skeletons. Some reefs can recover over time, but many die as a result.
These mass bleaching events have been devastating in places like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which has experienced three in the last five years.
"It's quite traumatic to see these events in person," Cornwall says. "What happens is only a small fraction of that coral will be able to recover from those events, and a large proportion of those, depending on the heat stress, will die."
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Repeated bleaching threatens to kill the majority of coral species by the end of the century if climate emissions aren't reduced, according to new research.
Once absorbed by the oceans, carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels reacts with the water to make it more acidic. The increased acidification can erode reefs and makes it harder for corals to build their skeletons. Overall warmer water temperatures also reduce the reefs' growth rates, even without a marine heat wave.
Corals have to continually grow to counteract erosion from both waves and storms and consumption by other animals such as sponges, sea urchins and parrotfish. But according to a new study, climate change may halt coral growth altogether.
Cornwall and his colleagues looked at three climate futures where human-caused emissions are low, medium or high. Under the medium and high scenarios, the majority of coral reefs are no longer growing by the end of the century. Instead, they'll be eroding away.
Even under the lowest-emissions future, coral growth rates would still be reduced by 76%. Reefs that have experienced less pollution or overfishing will likely do better.
"If we miss this low-emissions-scenario target, the coral reefs are essentially doomed," Cornwall says.
Those dire scenarios have scientists looking for ways to give reefs a helping hand.
"This is just the first major ecosystem that we feel could collapse," says Joanie Kleypas, a scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federally funded research institute. "So we have to do something. The eyes are on us."
Like many other scientists, Kleypas is studying coral species that seem able to handle higher heat or higher acidity. At her field site in Costa Rica, she has seen some hopeful results after major bleaching events.
"The corals survived," she says. "They were completely bleached for months and there was some mortality, but by and large, they survived. So they have some kind of secret."
Scientists are looking at breeding these resilient corals, which could be used to restore reefs. Other protections, such as preventing pollution and overfishing, are also key, Kleypas says.
Still, all these efforts to help corals adapt to hotter temperatures won't be enough if greenhouse gas emissions remain high. In a study published this month, Kleypas and others found that adaptation strategies could buy corals more time if emissions are lowered. But under high emissions, corals still largely disappear.
"If we act fast enough to execute that plan and we bring carbon dioxide emissions way down, then we do — we believe we have a chance that this is the way forward for saving the ecosystem," she says.
Time is short, she says. For coral reefs to survive, emissions would have to fall to zero before 2100, and restoration and adaptation tools would have to be rolled out in a widespread way in the next 20 to 30 years.


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Ephedra californica
Taxonavigation: Gnetales
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Classis: Gnetopsida
Ordo: Gnetales
Familia: Ephedraceae
Genus: Ephedra
Species: Ephedra californica
Ephedra californica S.Watson, 1879
DistributionEdit
Native distribution areas:
Continental:Northern America
Regional:Southwestern USA
Regional:Mexico
Mexico Northwest
References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
Watson, S., 1879 . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston, MA 14:300. 1879
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Ephedra californica in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 15. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Ephedra californica in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Ephedra californica. Published online. Accessed: Apr 15 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Ephedra californica. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 15.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Ephedra californica in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
IUCN: Ephedra californica S.Watson (Least Concern)
Vernacular namesEdit
English: California jointfir, California Ephedra, California Mormon Tea, Desert Tea, Mexican Tea, Mormon Tea
español: Cañatillo
For more multimedia, look at Ephedra californica on Wikimedia Commons.
Retrieved from "https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ephedra_californica&oldid=7502593"
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A reverse merger is a method by which a private company that has restricted access to capital may seek better funding by gaining access to U.S. capital markets. They do this by merging with a company that is publicly traded in the U.S. This method is typically employed by wholly privately owned companies or companies that operate in foreign countries and thus are outside the United States. Another name that transactions of this type may go by is "reverse takeover."
Typically when a reverse merger transaction is executed, an existing public reporting company acquires a wholly owned private company. The public company, which is called a shell company, will have few if any operations. During the course of the transaction, the private company's shareholders will typically swap shares of the private company for shares of the publicly traded company in large enough amounts to give them a controlling majority of the publicly traded company.
At the conclusion of the transaction, the public shell company will still exist, but the shareholders of the private company will end up with the controlling interest in it. Not surprisingly, the shell company's board of directors, and indeed the management of the shell company, are also taken over by the private company's management team and leadership. Essentially, though the public company will still exist post-merger, it does so in name only. and all assets and business operations are subsumed by the private company.
Reverse mergers are normally used to facilitate a private company's access to public funding, because it is typically quicker to do a reverse merger transaction than going the traditional route of offering an initial public offering, typically referred to as an "IPO."
These are some risks associated with reverse mergers. Companies interested in exploring this option may benefit from contacting a business law firm for more information about the process.
Source: SEC, "Investor Bulletin: Reverse Mergers," Accessed November 18, 2014
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Artefacts discovered in UNESCO-recognised citadel
The Conservation Centre for the Ho Citadel and the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology recently revealed the results of an excavation in the northeastern area of the Ho Dynasty Citadel and the Xuan Dai mountain archaeological relic in Vinh Loc district of central Thanh Hoa province.
VNA Wednesday, January 23, 2019 18:18
Cultural heritage sites help drive tourism growth
US aid to help conserve UNESCO-recognised citadel
Friday, October 26, 2018 19:30
US funds 92,500 USD for Ho Dynasty Citadel conservation
Monday, October 08, 2018 08:40
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 10:30
Ancient citadel in Thanh Hoa province faces erosion
Sunday, July 08, 2018 15:59
Thanh Hoa approves excavation of UNESCO-recognised citadel
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The Ho Dynasty Citadel (Source: VNA)
Thanh Hoa (VNA) – The Conservation Centre for the Ho Citadel and the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology recently revealed the results of an excavation in the northeastern area of the Ho Dynasty Citadel and the Xuan Dai mountain archaeological relic in Vinh Loc district of central Thanh Hoa province.
From September 2018 to January 2019, archaeologists excavated an area spanning 400sq.m near the northeastern wall of the citadel and Xuan Dai mountain.
After five months of work, a collection of artefacts was discovered, mainly ancient building materials like bricks, stones, decorations, and daily tools such as porcelain and metal coins used in the Ly, Tran, Ho, and Le dynasties.
On Xuan Dai mountainside, various artefacts were unearthed, including pottery, bricks with Chinese characters, decorative bricks, and many types of tiles.
The results of the excavation are hoped to serve future historical, archaeological, and cultural research, as well as provide scientific foundations for the improvement of the Ho Citadel's northern gate and the structure inside its stone walls.
The newly-discovered exhibits will be showcased to local residents and visitors in the coming time.
The Ho Dynasty Citadel in Vinh Loc district was Vietnam's capital under the Ho Dynasty (1398-1407). The dimensions of the citadel, which were built in 1397, are 870m by 883m.
It is the only citadel in the country built entirely of stone that has remained mostly intact throughout the nation's turbulent history.
According to experts, the structure is an outstanding example of a new style of construction for a Southeast Asian imperial city. It was recognised as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO in 2011. –VNA
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If your aging parents were to have a medical emergency, could you provide the vital information doctors would need to care for them? Do you know the names of your aging parents' doctors? Is your mom taking any medications? Has your dad ever had any surgery. If you are like most people, you don't have some of this vital information at your fingertips. The fact is most seniors and their adult children are not prepared for what lies ahead. In addition, the country itself is not prepared. Did you know that 3.5 million Americans reach the age of 55 each year? Or that one-third of our country's population, or 70,000,000 people will be on Medicare and benefiting from Social Security by 2030 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Today's medical infrastructure is (number of geriatric specialists and others with geriatric training) simply is not adequate to deal with a mass influx of older patients. Our government has not been able to articulate a solution to the current and future financial needs of this age group. Individuals are better off relying on their own planning.
It would be nice if we all lived to a ripe old age with no bumps along the way. If you are concerned about aging relatives or if you are a senior citizen, this book can provide invaluable guidance. An old line goes, "I want to die like my grandpa – peacefully in my sleep, not screaming like the other three people in his car." But the end of life likely will involve more complexity.
We live in a time where many adult children find themselves needing to be responsible for their aging parents care. Their care may include all aspects of life; physical, mental, emotional, and financial. The roles of the parent to child can become reversed as the adult child's responsibility increases through needing to make decisions that impact the parent's daily life. The family dynamics can quickly change leading to increased stress. The added stress caused by such change can cause conflict, hurt feelings, and in extreme cases, a total breakdown of the relationship.
The amount of stress can be reduced with proper planning focusing on how to best meet their needs. With proper planning, when a crisis occurs, everyone can navigate the difficulty and avoid many of the traps that result in poor decision making and damage relationships.
Proper planning can occur when working with a Certified Financial Planner that specializes in helping deal with aging parents. A counselor with experience working with families can also be a valuable asset. The financial planner and counselor provide a whole person team approach aimed at meeting the needs of the aging parents and the adult children.
1. The life expectancy of a senior citizen with a fracture is significantly reduced.
2. The average cost of long-term care nationwide is approaching $56,000 per year.
3. Among 80-year-olds, 50 % will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.
As a financial planner, much of my profession focuses on investment returns. So why would a financial planner write a book about aging? Here's the answer: In my career I've seen the effects of a financial services industry that plans for the future without taking into account the future mental and physical condition of the individuals it aims to assist. Contrary to popular belief, the greatest risk facing retirees is not the stock market, nor inflation, nor the solvency of Social Security. The future health of a client is the single greatest factor in determining the success or failure of their financial plan.
A stroke, or fall or the onset of Alzheimer's can eat up almost any size estate, but money is only one contributing factor of this issue. One-third of all senior citizens' caregivers are relatives or friends who many times put their lives on hold to fill that role. Their labor of love often leaves them exhausted. Decisions regarding the type of care or physical placement of an ailing senior often create a crises environment since the need typically rises without warning. The chaos that erupts when family members are told that an aunt can't live on her own is beyond description.
The impetus for this book stems from a combination of the things I have witnessed in 25 years of giving financial advice and interviews with physicians, social workers and family members of ailing senior citizens. Amazingly, much of this chaos and stress is almost entirely preventable.
Marilyn Meyers was preparing dinner for her family of four when the phone rang. It was her mother's neighbor, Fran.
"Is she OK? What's going on?" Marilyn asked, starting to feel more frantic.
Picturing her mother alone in a hospital with complete strangers around her — or worse with tubes going all over the place — Marilyn's heart sank. Marilyn lived in Atlanta with her husband, a successful attorney, and their two teen boys. Her mother lived in Jackson, Mississippi, in the same house Marilyn grew up in.
Her mind was swirling. She already had a full plate with her civic duties and both boys in sports and scouts. She hung up the phone with Fran and called her husband. He rushed home to be with his wife.
"Is she OK? What's wrong?" Marilyn said, trying hard to conceal her panic.
After confirming that Marilyn's mother's vital signs were stable, though she had been going in and out of consciousness, the doctor asked for the name of the older woman's primary physician. The conversation began to reveal the many complications associated with a simple hospital visit.
"No, I'm in Atlanta," Marilyn replied.
"I presume you have power of attorney for health care?" Dr. Fortney asked.
"Yes, she took care of all that a year ago," Marilyn said of her mother's pre-made arrangements. Still, without copies of the document granting her power of attorney and other authorization forms, she was left helpless to aid her mother.
Marilyn's husband arrived home from work and embraced his hysterical wife without saying anything. With an 81-year-old widowed mother, one would hope a daughter would be prepared for such an emergency. Marilyn and her mom had always been close, and her mom had traveled, played cards, and lived a full, active life until this particular morning.
Both knew a sudden out-of-state trip would disrupt work schedules and plans to attend their son's playoff soccer games, but the situation had to be taken care of immediately.
Hurriedly, Marilyn caught the first flight the next morning and called Fran from the car to ask her to pick her up at the airport. Marilyn arrived tired, frazzled and wearing one earring.
They rushed to the hospital and found out her mother was being kept in the intensive care unit. A different doctor was on duty, Dr. Parvez Mashti.
Fran held her hand gently as Marilyn tried to process what she just heard. It happens all the time, but this time it was HER mother. And once again, she felt helpless having no information to give the doctors.
Fran was asked to stay in the waiting room while Marilyn went to see her mother, who was resting comfortably but must not be excited or agitated, according to the hospital staff. Marilyn held her mothers' hand. She opened her eyes and looked directly at Marilyn but didn't recognize her.
Later that night, as the two women drove to the house, Marilyn realized she hadn't even called her sister, Cathy, who lived out of state and traveled all over the world. She was single, a free spirit who owned a pottery business. Every few years, Cathy would save up to go on a journey until she ran out of money. She was great fun, but hardly someone you could rely on in a crisis. Marilyn called Cathy and left a message. Meanwhile, Marilyn and Fran searched her mother's house, frantically looking for medicine bottles and legal documents.
One week later, Marilyn's mom regained her speech but had very little long-term memory and was unable to walk. The doctors felt she would regain most of her physical abilities with months of specialized rehabilitation. Marilyn found the document granting her power of attorney, but it was unsigned. It was in a package, prepared and ready to be executed. She also found ten different bank accounts, but only one with both of their names on it.
Unfortunately, without the powers of attorney, Marilyn couldn't access her mother's accounts or check her into a rehab facility. In addition, her mother had bills coming due that needed to be paid, her answering machine was full, and Marilyn had no idea who would finance the rehab while keeping up her mother Betty's home. What if they had to sell it? What should they do with mom's car? Unanswered questions flooded Marilyn's mind. She flew back to Atlanta and collapsed in bed. The next day her husband explained that if her mother didn't regain her mental functions soon they would need a court appointed guardianship and that the court would supervise her mother's finances from that point forward.
The next day, her husband explained that if her mother didn't regain her mental functions soon they would need a court-appointed guardianship in order to make medical and financial decisions on her behalf. A guardianship meant that the court would supervise her mother's finances from that point forward.
This story plays out many times a day all over the country. Clearly, the failure to plan caused Marilyn and her husband to bear an enormous amount of unnecessary stress at a time when they already were torn by her mother's physical and mental condition and questions about the future.
The lesson here is that this unnecessary stress can be avoided by following the suggestions in this book and the guide contained within the workbook.


A short time into the meal we had at Martín Berasategui, the maître d' asked me if I was left handed. (I am. They then amend the placement of the cutlery to take this into account). This attention to detail for me encapsulates the highest level of service here, one of the best restaurant experiences we've ever had. The food too is beautiful, there is nothing here we don't absolutely love from start to finish. Make no mistake, €225+ drinks and service is a lot of money (for us) so it is absolutely vital that we go somewhere that is perfect. In our experience not all Michelin star restaurants are worth the money. Some seem to survive on hype and a high number on the World's 50 Best. Martín Berasategui however is well worth the price. Both the food and service were up there with the best we've ever experienced, anywhere.
We opt for The Great Tasting Menu. (The dates in brackets are the year of origin of the dish).
A selection of bread and butters: boletus, spinach, beetroot and salted.
Rhubarb crunch with "Balfegó" tuna tartar and yuzu gel. (2017).
Mille-feuille of smoked eel, foie gras, spring onions and green apple. (1995).
Ham and truffle 'tortilla'. (2017).
Red Shrimp Royale and dill with Venta del Barón oil. (2014). This was probably my favourite.
Caviar gel with pickles of asparagus and its cream, salted with Añana's salt. (2017).
Lightly marinated oyster with iced cucumber slush and K5, and spicy apple. (2015).
Tarama with beetroot and sour horseradish. (2017).
Vegetable hearts salad with seafood, cream of lettuce and iodized juice. (2001).
This was quite a few of our party's favourite dish.
Crayfish over an aniseed sea bed and coral mayonnaise. (2017).
'The Truffle' with fermented wild mushrooms and collard greens with 'Alma de Jerez' oil. (2015).
Gallo Celta Galician egg and citrus chicken stock with corn. (2017).
Grilled hake loin, coconut, red curry and liquid and crunchy razor shells. (2017). We recognise the 'Tortillitas de Camarones' element straight away, a variation of the bar snack from Andalucia.
Grilled Sirloin 'luisimi' over a bed of Swiss Chard chlorophyll and cheese bonbon. (2011). This was our requested replacement for the usual pigeon dish.
Desserts. Lemon with basil juice, green bean and almond. (2016).
Almond honeycomb with brittle bits and iced cinnamon. (2016).
Two of our friends had the wine flight to accompany the food whilst we shared a clean and fresh bottle of Mauro Godello (2014). Another lovely touch was when they poured out two glasses of dessert wine " a present from your friend Fernando." A pal from twitter and a friend of the restaurant had messaged them to tell them we were dining with them that day. This was the icing on the cake of a perfect meal for us.
Sometimes I question why we do this, flying abroad a great expense just to eat a meal. Restaurants as good as this one provide the answer to that. If I am paying the price I realised lately that I don't really want to be 'challenged' as a diner. I just want to eat the most beautiful food imaginable and this is what we got at Martín Berasategui.
Probably the best looking meal you`ve ever posted. I would probably fly from the UK to eat that.
I reckon it's worth it, the food was just so bloody good! No weak courses, it was absolutely perfect for me, I would go back in a heartbeat!
I agree. We went there as a group of three. Bill came to 1200euro with wine pairings and cava, but we did not begrudge them. I was left handed and they changed my settings. One of the best meals I have had. Two days later we went to Murgaritz which rates as one of the worst meals and The worst service the group had come across. This place is a hidden gem.
That is not the first time we have heard these reports too but agree, MB is a dead cert.


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NAKIVO Blog > NAKIVO Backup & Replication > Data Backup Solutions: The Most Trending Features in 2021
by Grace Norman
Data Backup Solutions: The Most Trending Features in 2021
As this year draws to a close, business owners reflect on the main challenges of 2020 and assess the key trends of 2021. The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of this year has dramatically changed the business landscape. Small companies and big enterprises had to look for technologies that would facilitate their shift to remote work and make it more secure.
2020 Challenges for SMBs and Big Enterprises
Many businesses were not ready for the sudden shift to remote work or for the associated vulnerabilities. Therefore, the risk of data loss has naturally increased since the start of the pandemic. The new situation presented new opportunities for malicious attackers to compromise data and disrupt critical business operations. According to Check Point Research, in the last three months, the daily average of ransomware attacks has grown by 50% compared to the first half of 2020.1
Rapid digital transformation that we witnessed in 2020 not only affected the way businesses operate but also how they approach data protection. According to a new Kaspersky report, IT investments in cybersecurity have significantly increased — from 23% in 2019 to 26% in 2020 for SMBs, and from 26% to 29% for big enterprises.2 This shows that businesses realize the importance of strengthening their cyber defenses to prevent data loss and corruption.
What Data Protection Features Will Dominate in 2021
There are a few pandemic-related trends that have dominated the entirety of 2020 and are most likely to shape the cybersecurity landscape for the years ahead. Consider these trends when choosing the right backup and recovery solution and planning for data protection in 2021.
Multi-Cloud Backup
Modern businesses heavily rely on cloud storage as a backup destination due to its lauded flexibility and cost-effectiveness. In 2020, many IT decision-makers realized the benefits of keeping business data in multiple clouds. 2020 IDG Cloud Computing Survey revealed that 66% of enterprises and 47% of SMBs currently use multiple public clouds.3 Apart from high availability, multi-cloud backups also ensure data redundancy, which helps eliminate a single point of failure and minimize business disruptions. With such high demand for multi-cloud environments, businesses need to look for a scalable backup solution that can ensure unified data protection across private, public and hybrid clouds.
Remote workforces are expected to remain a lucrative target for cybercriminals throughout 2021 and beyond. As ransomware attacks keep growing in their frequency as well as complexity, IT admins find it more challenging to detect or prevent them. A study by Sophos found that 51% of companies were hit by ransomware this year, and 25% of them could only get their data back by paying the ransom.4
Unfortunately, even with a comprehensive backup solution in place, there's no guarantee for successful ransomware recovery as cybercriminals are now targeting backup data as well. To prevent data backups from being compromised, modern solutions offer built-in immutability which can significantly reduce the attack surface for big enterprises. This functionality ensures that backups and their copies are stored in the cloud using the write-once-read-many (WORM) model to prevent data from being encrypted, deleted or altered.
Apart from that, a backup solution should have the necessary tools to constantly monitor and analyze backup data. Once suspicious activity is detected, IT admins get the opportunity to identify a ransomware infection in its initial stages and employ the critical resources to contain it.
This year proved that there's always a potential for disruption. COVID-19 pandemic, transition to remote work, lockdown, the record-breaking hurricane season — all these events drove demand for reliable DRaaS solutions, especially among enterprises. According to the Global Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) Market 2020-2024 report, the DRaaS market is expected to grow by almost $28 billion in the next few years.5
DRaaS allows businesses to partner with a third-party service provider and use its cloud-computing infrastructure to ensure comprehensive data protection and recovery in case of a disaster. DRaaS helps relieve the stress of disaster recovery planning, minimize IT downtime and disruption with automated failover and failback, keep your production environments safe without overstraining the budget.
To be always ready for any type of crisis, business owners need to understand the problems they currently face and find the data protection solution that can help resolve them once and for all. The best backup solution vendors are those that proactively respond to existing data protection trends and emerging threats by continuously expanding their functionality.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a leading solution that delivers all the powerful backup and recovery functionality required for seamless protection of virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments. With the 6 new product versions rolled out this year alone, NAKIVO Backup & Replication is determined to enhance its backup and recovery capabilities and deliver the best enterprise-grade protection on the market.
1. Global Surges in Ransomware Attacks. Check Point, 2020.
2. Investment adjustment: aligning IT budgets with changing security priorities. Kaspersky, 2020.
3. 2020 IDG Cloud Computing Survey. IDG, 2020.
4. The State of Ransomware 2020. Sophos, 2020.
5. Global Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) Market 2020-2024. TechNavio, 2020.
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 The only country in Wuchangli that has no money to build an aircraft carrier, the United States can't afford it, and its military strength is not worse than that of China.
The only country in Wuchangli that has no money to build an aircraft carrier, the United States can't afford it, and its military strength is not worse than that of China.
Every country attaches great importance to its military strength. In ancient times, it was mainly land warfare, while modernity paid more attention to naval warfare and air warfare. This is also the main theme of future warfare, so everyone attaches great importance to developing military power at sea. For the Navy, the aircraft carrier is the most important weapon and equipment, and all countries are pursuing the development of high-end aircraft carriers. However, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations does not have its own aircraft carrier. What is going on?
The current aircraft carrier is also The carrier has a higher gold content than during the Second World War. During World War II, Japan had more than 20 aircraft carriers, which can be said to be very powerful. But if the United States is to exchange more than 20 of its current nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the United States will certainly disagree. Because the current aircraft carrier is too advanced, the US aircraft carrier uses nuclear power, which is the most developed aircraft carrier in the world. It can be used for 10 years in the case of replacing the fuel, and can be driven at a very high speed. Said very powerful. Japan's aircraft carrier during World War II was sunk by the United States at the time, not to mention the current aircraft carrier.
UN Wuchang must be clear to everyone, and only one of them has not developed its own aircraft carrier. It is Russia. The other four countries have their own research and development. Even the countries with the late development of the Chinese aircraft carrier already have their own domestic aircraft carriers. So why is Russia not?
There is only one aircraft carrier built in the Soviet Union in this country. It is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier with a displacement of about 60,000 tons. Nowadays, this aircraft carrier has been used for a long time, and it has not been well maintained and repaired. As a result, the aircraft carrier has already had many problems. It can be said that it is scarred and urgently needs to be repaired as a whole. If repairs are made, then Russia will face a situation in which no aircraft carrier can be used for several years, which is very unfavorable for it. So why is Russia no longer developing a new aircraft carrier?
The reason is simple That is, Russia has no money and people to develop aircraft carriers. The first problem facing the development of the aircraft carrier is the problem of capital. However, Russia's economic situation is not good, and it has been greatly affected by the economic sanctions of the United States and other Western countries. Therefore, Russia's budgetary military expenditure is not much, and it is not enough to develop an aircraft carrier. Can't have your own aircraft carrier. Moreover, Russia also lacks the talents that can develop aircraft carriers. The large shipyards in the Soviet period were in Ukraine. Now, because of the previous Russia-Ukraine crisis, the relationship between the two countries is very tense. Naturally, there is no way to carry out military cooperation.
Although Russia cannot afford its own aircraft carrier, the military strength of this country is still very strong, because there are still The bottom line is, and has also been vigorously developing the military, and even military strength is even stronger than our country. The United States is also very jealous of this country and has always regarded Russia as its own threat. Although it sometimes harasses the country, it does not dare to provoke it easily.
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The next article:The new aircraft carrier has three sea trials, the Liaoning ship has completed the mid-repair, and the double aircraft carrier strike group is about to debut!


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