While starting the duscussion, the First question will rise that, What is Science? What do we understand by the term SCIENCE? The term SCIENCE is derived from the latin word SCIENTIA which means KNOWLEDGE. And it is ourself who judge it as BOON or BANE. I am remembering a thought SHAKESPEARE(the father of Poet) said, "NOTHING IS GOOD OR BAD BUT THINKING MAKES IT SO!" So it depends on ourself what we think about. According to my point of view SCIENCE is BOON for us. There are many advantages of Science. For SCIENCE and only for SCIENCE we have reached in such a position that we are able to answer each and every question. For e.g. 1. In how many days the EARTH rotate around the sun? 2. When we fell a dubstance or a thing why it goes downwards? We all know the answer to these questions(WHY?) Only because of SCIENCE. And the last thing i would like to say IF WE UTILISE SCIENCE IN A PROPER WAY,"THE WORLD WOULD BECOME BED OF ROSEs" So think about it whether is it BOON or BANE?
Anyone who want to comment. PLEASE COMMENT IT. Whether am I RIGHT or WRONG?
Atanu you are absolutely right. Most of the pepole say that it is bane for us. But your point of view is absolutely right.


We need to setup a cloud solution in google cloud that has a few virtual machines with the specifications will share with you.
1.VPN with 2Mb so we can load data to those servers. Also to access remote desktops from the inside and outside network.
2.Migration of current servers, they are currently in vmware.
3.Simetric bandwith. Remember all users access the servers from Internet.
4.We need a backup of all the job done to be delivered once it is finished.
looking to build a database management system in SQL. Will need to be able to query by data points we designate, as well as sort and match.
PHP BB API creation and Modification.
We want to build api's for phpBB, which will be used for our angular forum frontend.


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St. Scholastica speakers' series on ethics features Nicole Johnson
Nicole Johnson (center in gray sweater) spoke to students at the College of St. Scholastica's Sandbulte Center for Ethical Leadership. She is standing next to Arend "Sandy" Sandbulte.
Nicole Johnson, ALLETE vice president of Human Resources, was featured recently as part of a speakers' series by the Sandbulte Center for Ethical Leadership at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth.
Johnson spoke to students, many from the college's School of Business and Technology, and faculty members on Nov. 1 as part of the series that includes entrepreneurs and executives. Special guests were Al Hodnik, ALLETE chairman, president and CEO; Bethany Owen, senior vice president ALLETE and chief legal and administrative officer; and Arend Sandbulte, former Minnesota Power CEO and ALLETE board chairman and the center's namesake.
ALLETE is the parent company of Minnesota Power.
Johnson, who joined ALLETE as an intern in 1996 and was named vice president in 2016, spoke about her leadership journey; ALLETE's business of providing security, comfort and quality of life; and how ALLETE incorporates ethics and integrity in everything it does. She encouraged students to take personal responsibility, be intentional in what they do, find mentors, pay attention to their own growth and development, be their authentic selves, and maintain and live out their values.
"It is critical we cultivate an environment — at work, at home and in our community — that reinforces the importance of integrity and values in all that we do," Johnson said. "I was humbled and honored to represent ALLETE and share how Mr. Sandbulte's legacy lives on."
Johnson is the latest of several ALLETE leaders who have participated in the Sandbulte Center's speaker series. Hodnik spoke in 2014, retired CFO Steve DeVinck spoke in 2016 and Owen spoke in 2017.
"It is so helpful for our students to meet and learn from real-world leaders like Al Hodnik, Bethany Owen and Nicole Johnson," said Rick Revoir, interim dean of the CSS School of Business and Technology and director of the Sandbulte Center. "Their speeches are inspirational for students because Al, Bethany and Nicole have achieved great success through their hard work, teamwork and actions that are guided by strong values and ethical behavior."
Audio of Johnson's speech and other Sandbulte Center speakers is available through the Sandbulte Center's webpage. Click here for more information about the Sandbulte Center, which works to help strengthen St. Scholastica's focus on teaching ethics to integrate sound decision-making in many facets of students' lives.

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...in Plato's cave, watching the shadows. Outside, ze knew, there were people buying and selling. Capitalism saw them trading goods for goods, services for services. And oh, most beautiful of all, the exchange of goods for services, whereon the economy turns. What supplies! What demand! Capitalism blushed to think of it all.
And then zir chains were loosed. Ze turned, a breath half indrawn, barely daring to hope. Ze rushed out into the open air, eager to offer zir labor on the open market for a fair value.
Suddenly Capitalism saw it everywhere. It seemed no one was selling services. They sold whiteness, sold gender, sold fashion. They sold flattery and the image of success. They sold access to their personal lives. They sold evidence of lifelong conformism. An employer wanted to see Capitalism's facebook profile, but Capitalism didn't have one. So Capitalism went on the Internet and saw the ads. Capitalism knew there would be ads for goods and services. But the ads weren't selling goods or services. They sold false authority, sold romance, sold titillation. They sold smug half-truths and comfortable lies. They sold sexual violence and racial hatred and progressive ideals.
These people are so stupid! cried Capitalism in vain. They don't understand the truth about the exchange of value! But no one heard zem. Maybe only the common people are so wrong, ze thought. Surely if someone gets ahead in the world, they must be smart enough to understand. So Capitalism went to the stock market. Ze peeked in the mighty doors and watched in awe as the numbers flew past. Here they bought ignorance and sold promises, bought hopes and sold tragedy, bought politicians and sold souls. Capitalism strode up the golden hallway and demanded to see the greatest of all traders. The greatest of all traders was wheeled out. The greatest of all traders was a computer. Capitalism opened zir mouth, but before ze could speak one word, the computer had made $150 million buying vague knowledge and selling transient guesses. Capitalism hung zir head and slunk away in shame.
Capitalism didn't know who to trust. But Capitalism still had some hope left. Capitalism went and knocked on the door of Science. Why do people do such terrible things?! demanded Capitalism. Science told Capitalism to take a seat. Science told Capitalism about risk aversion. Science told Capitalism about unconscious racism. Science told Capitalism about cognitive dissonance. Science told Capitalism about the Milgram experiment. Just then the floor shook and a thunderous roar boomed out. Oh no, said Science. I left the door to the basement open. Science rushed to close the door, but it was too late.
Seven glowing eyes glared from the darkness and seven mandibles clicked loudly as the room filled with that destroyer of hopes, that deliverer of final answers, that child of formless gods whose names must never be spoken, Mathematics. Mathematics seized the two and pinned them to the ground. Mathematics turned its dreadful eyes on Capitalism and began to speak in a voice that grated the boundaries of zir sanity. Mathematics told Capitalism how enforcing contracts can decrease social welfare. Mathematics told Capitalism that markets aren't efficient unless P=NP. Mathematics told Capitalism that no uniformly applied non-aggression principle can prevent all game-theoretic situations where individual rational self-interest leads to a terrible result, with or without unlimited contract enforcement. Capitalism fainted dead away.
When Capitalism woke, Mathematics was nowhere in sight, so Capitalism tried to make a run for it. But Capitalism was in a police station. Mathematics was in the next cell over. The police had raided Science's house, and they were both being deported. Mathematics growled that you can't claim to be upholding a non-aggression principle based on your ownership of the land if the land was stolen from its traditional owners, but the police ignored Mathematics. The police put Capitalism on a bus and sent zem all the way back to Plato's cave where ze started. That didn't seem so bad. Capitalism never wanted to see Mathematics again.
But someone was waiting there in the cave. Who are you, asked Capitalism. The person said, I'm the one who broke your chains.
Capitalism stared in bewilderment. Why did you do that, said Capitalism. Did you hope to make a profit off my actions? Did you sell me out to the police? Did you bet money on my incomptence?
The person said, I did it because I believe everyone deserves a chance.
And Capitalism began to weep.


We all know teachers are pretty much all-around awesome, but every now and then we have to remind everyone. We do a lot with little pay. We make people smile on a daily basis. To kids, we don't have a social life, but we all know that is what keeps us sane sometimes. The dating scene might not be the greatest invention of the modern world, but if you have to date someone, it should be a teacher.
1. We possess all those attributes you want in a person: passionate, caring, loving, dedicated, a decision maker, tough under pressure, punctual, etc.
2. We can fit into any situation you throw at us. Nothing scares us.
3. You will get a lot of alone time. Grading papers and lesson planning takes a lot of time.
4. Any gift you give will be amazing. We are used to cupcakes and hand-painted rocks.
6. Summer vacation. Well, for that one week we are all yours.
7. Saturday mornings will consist of sleeping in, coffee, and Netflix, guaranteed.
8. Thrifty and economical. We don't spend a lot of money, because we don't have it.
9. Creative. How many people do you know can make 100 things out of a toilet paper roll?
10. Any meal you cook that doesn't involve smiley faces or square pizzas will be considered gourmet.
11. You will be pretty much dating a superhero.
12. Extremely patient. We are used to waiting and waiting and explaining, and explaining again.
13. We will keep you laughing. You will hear some of the most unbelievable stories you could ever imagine.
14. You will feel famous in public, especially at the grocery store, Wal-Mart, and the local Mexican restaurant.
15. We are simple. If it involves coffee, wine, a conversation about anything but dinosaurs, and doesn't involve girl drama, we are good to go.


Re: Well blow me down with an anchovy.
One of the Godfathers and I saw the film Saturday night at the AFI Silver. There's a lot wrong with it. There's a lot right with it. Probably more of the former than the latter, depending on your L&H IQ. It's a film made for a general audience by a bunch of folks who clearly loved L&H, and even with the factually-challenged plot and the hoked-up dramatic tension and the supporting characters who are just caricatures (one or two bordering on slanderous), that affection comes through on screen. The two leads are very, very good, and the audience we saw it with laughed loudly at all the routines, and the visual comedy was perfectly timed.
A mixed bag, to be sure. But worth seeing, especially with an audience. Here's hoping the film finds one.
After reading early reports that the animosity between Stan and Babe were underplayed and only marginally figured into the plot, I was surprised that the emotional arc of the whole damn film hinged on their mutual antagonism. I'm not saying to avoid the film, but if you know Laurel & Hardy's history, it's hard to overlook the fact that the dramatic conflict is built on a fiction. Screenwriter Jeff Pope had a predicament: he wanted to make a film about Laurel and Hardy in their later years and needed a dramatic arc that just didn't exist in real life. So like any good dramatist he cooked one up. No sin (see Shakespeare, William), but you'll enjoy the film more if you forget everything you know about the historical Laurel and Hardy.
On the plus side both Coogan and Riley do amazing jobs, tho I would give top acting honors to Coogan's Stan. Riley's prosthetics are amazing, but Coogan's Stan is the heart of the film. Supporting actors Nina Arianda (Ida Laurel) and Rufus Jones (Bernard Delfont) turn in hilarious performances that almost steal the show from the two leads. And when was the last time you saw James Finlayson and Harry Langdon portrayed as characters in a major film? So go, support an earnest attempt to dramatize comedy history, and have fun.
Rob Farr wrote: After reading early reports that the animosity between Stan and Babe were underplayed and only marginally figured into the plot, I was surprised that the emotional arc of the whole damn film hinged on their mutual antagonism.
I fear there may be spoilers ahead, so if you haven't seen it yet and want to, stop right here.
The emotional arc, as I saw it, wasn't so much mutual antagonism as it was that these two guys are flat-out using each other: Stan to keep on creating film comedy, and Babe to subsidize his racetrack addiction. And neither is above lying to the other, as well as to their wives, to keep their fantasies fueled. Meanwhile, genuine dramatic tension - Babe's precarious health - was right there all along, but is relegated to subplot status.
Rob Farr wrote: ...when was the last time you saw James Finlayson and Harry Langdon portrayed as characters in a major film?
The guy playing Langdon was meh, but Finlayson! On and off in a flash, but totally convincing for all of those few seconds. As is true of every genuine Fin appearance, I wish he'd stuck around a bit longer.
I feel like if they stuck to the true dramatic arc of Laurel & Hardy's actual lives and careers between 1939-1957 it would be too tragic for celluloid.
Chris, I disagree completely, because we would have seen that the British tours were really a triumph for them, and that they both struggled through them, and became great friends for the real reasons, not the phony baloney weakly made-up reasons in the film, and realized the public didn't forget them, and even in America, the new generations were discovering them on television and loving them all over again.
Orson Welles said the problem in getting a happy ending in any story is that to get it, you gave to stop before the story's over. Everyone's story really ends with "and then they died". It's what goes on before that line that makes the difference.


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— While a fever generally is not something to be overly concerned about, some cases require a doctor's intervention, the Nemours Foundation says.
If — despite a fever — your child is still playing, eating and drinking; is alert, smiling, has a normal skin color and looks well when the body temperature returns to normal, there probably isn't a need to call your doctor, Nemours says.
A rash or purple spots that look like bruises (that weren't there before your child got sick).
The child's soft spot on the head appears to be bulging or sunken.
Trouble breathing that doesn't get better when the nose is cleared.


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Elon Musk Calls Fortune's Newest Article Part Of An Anti-Tesla Conspiracy
Justin T. Westbrook
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is suggesting that a recent report from Fortune claiming the company may have kept a fatal accident out of the public during its huge stock sale is part of a conspiracy against the company.
Just so everything is clear, last month The Daily Kanban reported on a non-disclosure agreement between a Tesla owner and the automaker that seemed to suggest the company was preventing owners from going to government regulators over safety issues. The NHTSA later convinced Tesla to change the language of its owner agreements.
Elon Musk suggested in a tweet storm that some media members were profiting from reporting on the issue. Even Tesla's official press release accused a journalist directly of attempting to affect the company's stock price.
Elon Musk Suggests A Conspiracy Against Tesla Over Model S Suspension Claims
Elon Musk has broken his Twitter silence over the recent claim that Tesla attempted to cover up…
Then Tesla held a stock sale raising billions in capital before revealing that the NHTSA was holding a preliminary investigation into an accident involving a man dying at the wheel of a Model S while in Autopilot mode, which occurred before the sale but wasn't announced publicly until after.
Tesla Did Not Disclose Autopilot Death Before $2 Billion Stock Sale
Joshua Brown fatally crashed into a tractor trailer turning in front of his Tesla Model S on…
Following the fatal accident involving a Tesla Model S in its semi-autonomous Autopilot mode failing to detect a tractor trailer back in May, Elon Musk is again suggesting that mysterious individuals are financing an attack on Tesla via various articles published, this time, by Fortune Magazine.
Here's one of Musk's tweets:
While it may initially seem that Musk is suggesting his linked article from Electrek is sponsored, he is actually suggesting that Fortune's articles are sponsored, as relayed to Jalopnik by the author of the linked Electrek article Fred Lambert.
Electrek's article critiques a report by Fortune that found issues with Tesla's sale of $2 billion worth of stock without revealing the potentially catastrophic fatal accident. The issue led to an argument over whether the fatal crash was "material" to the massive stock sale.
The Electrek article tweeted today by Musk suggests that Fortune's conspiracy against Tesla's stock sale practices is streaming from a sponsorship involving the Koch brothers' anti-electric initiative, which is actually a thing. From Electrek:
As we mentioned in our last article on this scuffle between Fortune and Elon Musk, the publication participated in the Koch brothers' multi-million dollar PR offensive on electric vehicles by providing them sponsored articles in the magazine. It appears to be a huge battle between publications fighting for those big Koch/Oil dollars.
Fortune did publish an article arguing that taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize electric vehicles back in March of this year, which was written by Koch Industries board member Jim Mahoney.
However there is nothing to suggest that the most recent Fortune article criticizing Tesla's stock sale had any direct sponsorship or motivation other than to question the company's intentions about raising $2 billion in capital while keeping the fatal accident a secret for two months.
You can read Tesla's response, creatively titled 'Misfortune,' here.
It's understandable that a CEO would be frustrated with the accusations being tossed against Tesla and its recent practices. But it's also equally crazy for the CEO to turn around and directly accuse multiple outlets of unethical reporting practices.
Perhaps that's why some of Tesla's investors are trying to loosen Musk's control of the company.
This article was updated to include Tesla's response blog post.
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When we (me and my husband) are free and don't want to stay at home, we usually prefer to go out for some household shopping or visit nearby mall or visit my sister's home as we don't have any relative except her at Bangalore. Not so interesting right, yes I agree😏. So last week we went out for some household shopping at Dmart and with other required things, I also picked up a packet of gem stone multicolored sticker. These stickers are decorative items for kids used in schools mostly for DIYs in art and craft classes. The packet was about 18-19Rs.
Few weeks back, I bought a Money Plant for my living room and put it in a glass bottle. This bottle was so simple that I wanted to do something decorative on it. Yes, this is why I picked up that sticker. I had something in my mind with it, not too decorative but better than this clean and clear bottle.
Hmm, not so good but better than the plain glass, right. I think it is looking better now. This was my simple and easy DIY of the day. Well, I did it too simple but you can do some art work on this plain bottle. You can paste some more gems in different pattern on it or if you know how to paint, you can do some painting on it with Acrylic Enamel colors.


Length Overall 22' 11 3/16" 25' 11 3/16"
Width Overall 11' 5 3/4" 11' 5 3/4"
Inside of Columns 121 1/2" 121 1/2"
Height of Columns 6' 5 3/4" 6' 5 3/4"
Width of Runways 22" 22"
Height of Runways 7 1/2" 7 1/2"
Width Between Runways (max.) 46" 46"
Lifting Capacity 18,000 lbs. 18,000 lbs.


Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Cabinet closeted themselves with former Gov. Parris N. Glendening and out-of-state planning experts yesterday to hash over ways to reinvigorate Smart Growth, the state's decade-old sprawl-fighting effort that some say has failed to live up to its promise.
"The public is crying out for this," O'Malley said in opening the two-day internal workshop on growth management at an Annapolis hotel.
Though welcoming up to 60,000 new jobs to the state from military base realignment, the governor said Maryland needs to figure out how to accommodate the new people while still preserving its environment and quality of life.
The state's population has increased by 30 percent since 1973, O'Malley noted, while the amount of land developed has doubled.
"If in the next 30 years we grow like that again, I shudder to think about the future we're going to leave for our kids," he said.
The governor said he hoped the workshop, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts, would help his administration tweak state development policy so that it protects Chesapeake Bay and saves taxpayers money but also is "predictable," so businesses, farmers and residents can all get behind it.
The workshop was organized by the Governors' Institute on Community Design, a Washington-based nonprofit group formed two years ago by Glendening and Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and former EPA administrator.
Since leaving the State House five years ago, Glendening, who launched Maryland's Smart Growth policy in 1997, has carved out a career for himself as a national advocate for curbing sprawl.
The institute has held similar growth-management workshops in Delaware, Virginia, Arizona and Rhode Island.
But Glendening said that because he got Smart Growth going in Maryland, "this one has kind of a special interest and affection for me."
Though the press was notified of O'Malley's remarks to the workshop, reporters were barred from the rest of the workshop. Christine Hansen, deputy press secretary, said it amounted to a work session of the governor's Cabinet, which can be held behind closed doors under the state's Public Meetings Act.
Glendening said that he had offered to work with O'Malley to restore what he said is the state's faded prominence in the nationwide effort to curb sprawl.
Some have faulted former Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. for neglecting or undermining the effort, but others have questioned whether state funding alone is a powerful enough incentive to counter market forces and local zoning practices that seem to favor development in green fields over rebuilding faded urban communities.
Under Smart Growth, state laws and policies give priority to funding roads, water and sewer and other public infrastructure in designated growth areas, where homes and buildings are to be densely clustered.
But most of the tracts on which houses were built were outside of designated growth areas, and the share grew from 1992 through 2004, the latest year for which data are available, according to the state Department of Planning.
Among those invited to advise the O'Malley administration was Robert Liberty, former president of 1000 Friends of Oregon, who was recently elected to the council governing the Portland metropolitan area.
Oregon's stringent development controls have curbed sprawl but were loosened by a voter backlash over property rights a few years ago.


Dubai: The Kuwait Business Council in Dubai and the Northern Emirates (KuwaitBC) announced on Saturday that it is inviting social entrepreneurs and companies from Kuwait to participate in Expo 2020 Dubai initiatives.
The council is looking for people to join in with the Expo Live Innovation Impact Grant Programme, which grants and supports innovative solutions that have a positive impact on society, the environment, or both; and the Expo 2020 e-Sourcing Portal, which comprises more than 24,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large companies from 145 countries around the world.
Expo Live is an innovation and partnership programme launched by Expo 2020 Dubai based on the idea that innovation can come from anywhere, to everyone. Its goal is to fund, accelerate and promote creative solutions. The initiative supports and cultivates creativity to achieve a meaningful goal that serves the common interest and provides a collaborative platform to attract innovative ideas. Early registration is available via the link on KuwaitBC's official website or directly through the programme's page.
The e-Sourcing Portal is the main gateway to procurement activities at Expo 2020 Dubai. The portal provides an easy electronic experience to organise centralised procurement. This way, everyone can participate from all over the world, easily offer their tenders and benefit from a larger market and a wider range of opportunities.
Registration is available to all companies, particularly small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which can access a number of additional facilities as part of Expo 2020's goal to ensure they have the opportunity to support this major regional event. The initiatives include exemption from paying a tender bond or an advance payment guarantee, and up to 50 per cent advance payment for the cost of goods and materials or 25 per cent advance payment for the cost of services.
"Kuwait Business Council's collaboration with Expo 2020 Dubai will enhance Kuwait's presence and participation in Expo Live's innovation programmes, especially as our young people have creative ideas that are in line with Dubai's ambitious vision, which is characterised by Dubai's openness and the diversity of cultures it embraces in all fields," said Luma Bourisly, chairwoman of the Kuwait Business Council.
"We want Kuwaiti companies from all sectors to be part of this important global event, which will be hosted in the region for the first time. Our team encourages Kuwaiti firms of all sizes to register on the Expo 2020 eSourcing Portal and to make the most of the many opportunities on offer," she added.
Fatma Ebrahim, spokeswoman for Expo Live, said funding and support had been granted to 70 Global Innovators from 42 countries during the during the first three cycles of the Expo Live Innovation Impact Grant Programme.
"We hope the next cycle of grantees will include Kuwaiti initiatives. I am sure there are many social entrepreneurs in Kuwait with great solutions to make our planet a better place, and we are excited to offer them our support," Ebrahim said.
Since its establishment in 2016, the Kuwait Business Council has sought to enhance the expertise, opportunities, and relationships of Kuwaiti businessmen and companies operating in Dubai and the Northern Emirates — Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah, and Fujairah. It welcomes all Kuwaiti business leaders, employees, and companies located in the UAE or those wishing to expand their business there.
Expo 2020 runs between 20 October, 2020 and 10 April, 2021. About 70 per cent of the 25 million expected visits are predicted to come from outside the UAE — the highest proportion of overseas visitors in the 167-year history of World Expos.


A performance of theatre and dance.
Hilarious and mesmerising, terrifying and absurd, A Brief History of Evil is a duet about lies and where they can lead us.
Who hasn't embroidered the truth, or pretended to be someone they're not? When all the lies are stripped away, who is left? When we look in the mirror, who looks back? Which version is really us?
In A Brief History of Evil two men take us on a hallucinogenic white-knuckle ride to find out what happens when we listen to the voices inside us, or don't.
Created and performed by Ewan Downie and Jonathan Peck, with directorial assistance from Al Seed, A Brief History of Evil combines Company of Wolves' electrifying movement style with the vulnerability, mockery, and satire of clown and buffon.
The result is a performance that is dangerous, relentless, and very, very funny.


The holidays are over, but the real feast is just about to get started. Gigantic "sale" signs all over the fashion metropolises of the world, and the hungry fashion victims are willing to give up all their manners just to put their hands on anything which has a "%" label on it. But not true London bois and gals, who know well: the end of the season brings fresh new blood in the circulation of the charity shops.
Travelling to London there is nothing more stressful than walking in to a fully packed, crowded shopping temple, and try to see trough the mess the sales-hunters built up in the name of the new year resolution: changing their wardrobes, entirely. Well, okay… the chance of meeting Katie Price in real life is actually more stressful, but let's not be pessimists. Back to style: who wants to wear the discounted stuff, anyways, knowing that it just a matter of time, when will it appear on a stranger on the street in front of us, or – even worse – on one of the party people, rocking your fav club, wearing the exact same outfit as yours. However, no one can leave the Brit's capital at this time of the year (and any other time, of course) without stuffing a huge bag full of clothing and accessories… it's London, baby! In the city, where Johnny Rotten, Twiggy, Debbie Harry and Harry Potter are the local heroes, you don't need to go "bling-bling" to get attention: forget the high streets and get yourself into the much less posh, but much more interesting style-states: charity shops. In the UK the charity shop phenomenon is larger than life and cheaper than dirt: you can dress up from top to bottom, for 22 Sterlings. Walking around East London, from Hackney Central up to Clapton Pond there are five treasure caves, each and every one of them is supporting a different organisation. Civil rights, animal care, homeless issues, and religious foundations are the inspirations for the dedicated volunteers to collect money in these small shops, presenting a wide range of goods: not to be missed vintage stuff from local old peeps, and brand new goodies from youngsters who just didn't like their Christmas presents as much as they love to do good. True fashionistas must check out the bookshelves as well: fashion photography and illustration albums are often sold for ridiculous prices.
Check out the listing here, and you'll understand why Oxford and Regent streets are full of tourists, while the real cool Londoners are hopping on bus 38, heading to Hackney with an organic textile bag and a huge smile on their face… almost covered by a "to-die-for" vintage sunglasses. And where did they get them? The answer is always charity shops, my love!


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Wawa hopes to jump on beer bandwagon
Bill Hangley
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More than a decade after its West Philadelphia store sold its last cold brew, Wawa is trying to get back into the beer business.
The company has applied for a license to sell beer from its Naamans Creek Road location in Chadds Ford, Delaware County. And it has said that sales could expand to other stores if the Delco experiment is a success.
It's a proposal that would put Wawa in step with its biggest competitor in Pennsylvania, Sheetz, which dominates the central and western parts of the state. Sheetz has been selling beer at some locations since 2007, fighting a number of legal and political battles along the way.
Wawa's decision to enter the fray excites critics of Pennsylvania's labyrinth of liquor laws, including Lew Bryson, author of the guidebook, "Pennsylvania Breweries," and a longtime advocate for liquor sales statute reform.
"Wawa getting in on this is huge. You've got two of the three biggest convenience chains pushing for what should be a no-brainer," Bryson said via email. "Buying beer at a convenience store or gas station is no more 'dangerous' than buying it at a distributor or bar or grocery store … last time I looked, they all have parking lots."
If its application is approved, Wawa will join the growing number of food retailers selling beer in Pennsylvania, including Wegmans, Giant, Whole Foods and Acme. Like them, Wawa will have to arrange its store to accommodate the technicalities of Pennsylvania's liquor laws, which prohibit sales in grocery stores and gas stations.
Statewide trend: One store, two cash registers
Retailers typically get around these prohibitions by selling beer from special sections of their stores, complete with their own cash registers, so that the alcohol and gas (or groceries) are technically sold separately.
Tom Mehaffie of the Malt Beverage Distributors Association of Pennsylvania said his group has challenged those kinds of licenses before, and could well do so again if the Delco store is approved by Concord Township officials when they vote on the proposal later this month.
The intention of Pennsylvania lawmakers is clear — food stores and gas stations shouldn't be selling alcohol, he said.
"We have intervened on numerous applications in front of the Liquor Control Board that are selling liquid fuels and also selling alcoholic beverages. The Legislature codified … and ratified that [law] to say, [stores] 'shall not' sell at the same place, property and location," Mehaffie said.
Mehaffie's group recently challenged Sheetz's right to sell six-packs from its Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, location. The court ruled in the company's favor, finding that the separate cash registers and other store design elements satisfied Pennsylvania's requirements. The store is now back to selling beer while the association appeals.
In the long run, Mehaffie said, opening the beer market to food retailers will cost consumers. Food stores can undercut independent distributors and bottle shops, he said, and have less of an incentive to keep their businesses clean and free of loiterers and panhandlers.
As a beer distributor, "if I lose my license, I lose my business," Mehaffie said. "If they lose their license, they don't."
But where Mehaffie worries about big chains putting mom-and-pop beer distributors and bottle shops out of business, Bryson said the next step is to completely eliminate what he calls the "silly legal games" that retailers must play to comply with the code.
"A distributor can sell a 12-pack with no cafe, but a grocer needs seating and a menu to sell two sixpacks?" Bryson wrote. "The state liquor code needs a thorough and modern revision; instead we get unending tinkering."
Wawa's record with beer sales in Pennsylvania isn't spotless. The company sold beer for years from its 38th and Spruce Street location, near the University of Pennsylvania; multiple citations for underage sales led state officials to oppose the renewal of its liquor license. In 2003, the license was transferred to Campo's Deli in Old City, a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spokesman said.
But even so, Wawa's local reputation as a solid corporate partner could help it win support for expanding beer sales beyond Delaware County.
Asked if her group would oppose the sale of beer at the new "flagship" Wawa set to open at Broad and Walnut, the heart of the Avenue of the Arts, Maggie Lund, president of the Center City Residents Association, said she could see the advantages.
"We enjoy a beer as much as the next person," Lund said. "We would just look that any local establishment that's selling beer is respectful of the neighborhood, makes sure they're not selling to underage people and makes sure there's not trash on the street.
"I wouldn't have a problem with Wawa selling beer," she said. "As long as it's within the city and state ordinances."
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In the run up to the general election of 2005, several polling organisations carried out opinion polling in regards to voting intention in Great Britain (i.e. the UK excluding Northern Ireland, which is usually excluded from such voting intention surveys). Results of such polls are displayed below.

The election took place on 5 May 2005. The previous general election was held on 7 June 2001.

Details of opinion polling
Since each MP is elected separately by the first past the post voting system, it is impossible to precisely project a clear election outcome from overall national shares of the vote. Not only can individual constituencies vary markedly from overall voting trends, but individual countries and regions within the nation may have a very different electoral contest that is not properly reflected in overall share of the vote figures.

Therefore, the first past the post system means that the number of MPs elected may not reflect the overall popular vote share across the parties. Thus, it is not necessarily the party with the largest share of the popular vote that ends up with the largest number of MPs. (See details of the elections in 1951 and Feb 1974) Since 1935 no party has achieved more than 50% of the popular vote in a British general election. The voting system favours parties with relatively concentrated support: a widely distributed vote leaves a party at risk of getting a large vote share but doing poorly in terms of numbers of seats (as the SDP–Liberal Alliance did in the 1980s), whereas parties with localised votes can win seats with a relatively small share of the vote.

That said, in previous elections, approximate forecasting of results were achieved by assuming that the swing in each individual constituency will be the same across the country. This system, known as uniform national swing (UNS) is used by much of the media in Britain to assess and extrapolate electoral fortunes from opinion poll data, though there has been criticism that such predictions may be naive and unreliable, even from providers of such data.

Normally governments can easily survive for a full parliamentary term on a majority of more than 20 seats over all other parties. Below that level there is a danger of by-elections and MPs crossing the floor of the House reducing the government to a minority such that it would be at increased risk of losing a vote of no confidence.

Election battleground

The 2001 general election, which had the lowest turnout of any general election for more than 80 years, saw the Labour government of Tony Blair re-elected with a second successive landslide majority, which left the political landscape almost completely unchanged. William Hague resigned as leader of a Conservative opposition which failed to make any real progress from its heavy defeat in 1997, and was succeeded by Iain Duncan Smith.

The Labour government remained ascendant in the opinion polls, but its popularity began to suffer from Mar 2003 as a result of Tony Blair's decision to send British forces to collaborate with the American forces in their invasion of Iraq, which led to the end of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, as well as his eventual capture, trial and execution by a new democratic Iraqi government. However, there was a public outcry that the invasion of Iraq failed to uncover weapons of mass destruction which had long been believed to exist in Iraq. By the summer of 2003, several opinion polls were showing a narrow Conservative lead for the first time since the fuel protests of 2000, and the Liberal Democrats were also shown to be enjoying a surge in support, largely seen to be the result of Charles Kennedy's anti-war stance.

However, opinion polls showed that Iain Duncan Smith was not a popular choice with voters as a potential prime minister, and there was also the fact that Labour still had a huge parliamentary majority, while the Tories would have to almost double their share of seats in parliament to form a majority. Duncan Smith was ousted as leader in Nov 2003 following a vote of no confidence by his own party, was succeeded uncontested by the former Home Secretary Michael Howard, who helped the Tories keep close behind Labour in the opinion polls and oversaw strong showings in the local council and European parliament by-elections of 2004.

A general election was called for 5 May 2005, with Labour winning for a third successive time, but its majority dropped from 160 seats to 66 seats, with both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats enjoying substantial gains.

Tony Blair had already decided that the 2005 general election would be the last he would contest as Labour Party leader if re-election was achieved. Michael Howard announced his resignation shortly afterwards, feeling that he was too old to lead the party into the next general election (knowing that it was unlikely to be held until he was almost 70 years old), and Charles Kennedy stepped down eight months later following revelations about his personal life.

Graphical summary

Poll results
Poll results are initially listed in reverse chronological order showing the most recent first, using the date the fieldwork was undertaken, as opposed to the date of publication.

The figure given in the 'lead' column is the lead held by Labour or the Conservatives over the second placed of the two parties.

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

References

External links
 Guardian/ICM polls: every one since 1984

2005 United Kingdom general election
Opinion polling for United Kingdom general elections
Opinion polling for United Kingdom votes in the 2000s

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This epistle might be referred to as 3rd Thessalonians, but not really. There may have been a forgery supposedly from Paul but actually from an imposter, and that might have been why the Thessalonian church was confused on certain matters. This was alluded to in 2 THESS 2:2 ("not by letter as by us").
Theme: The Day of the LORD (This phrase is also seen in JOEL 1:15; 2 PETER 3:10 and REV 19:19 and elsewhere). This phrase refers to that period of time when God actively and openly begins to deal with the people of the Earth in judgment, beginning with the Jew and then the Gentile as portrayed in REV Ch. 6–19.
It begins with (1) the translation of the church or rapture ("bride of Christ") from Earth to Heaven and culminates at (2) the Great White Throne Judgment with the 70th week of Daniel ("time of Jacob's trouble" Jer. 30:7) in which the world will see the 7 year reign of anti-Christ or "the man of sin" (2 THESS 2:3) occurring between those two points.
The saints at Thessalonica were anxious because they thought that the Day of the LORD was upon them, but Paul corrects this misunderstanding in explaining that two crucial events must first happen before this occurs; we will see what those things are in 2 THESS 2.
Intro:1:1-4; SECTION I – Comfort in persecution:1:5-12; II – The Day of the LORD vs. the man of sin: 2:1-12; III – Exhortations and instructions:2:13-3:15; Conclusion:3:16-18.
The most famous leaders who have gone this way are Bill Hybels and Rick Warren.
Rick Warren, whose book The Purpose Driven Life is the best-selling non-fiction book of all time, has become a member of the religious advisory council of Tony Blair's Faith Foundation, an organization devoted to interfaith spirituality and religious coexistence. Warren is also a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations. His P.E.A.C.E. Plan is an attempt to mobilize millions of Christians to conquer what he calls the five global giants of spiritual emptiness, self-serving leadership, poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
Bill Hybels hosts an annual Global Leadership Summit, inviting world leaders such as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, and Tony Blair to his Willow Creek Church to speak to Christian leaders. This year's guest is Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Hybels says his goal in having the summit is to develop Christian leaders who can participate in "God's plan to restore our world through the power of the local church." Elmbrook Church of Brookfield is participating as a satellite location for this year's August 5-6 meeting.
Recently, Jim Wallis was invited to be a guest speaker at Lifest, an annual Christian rock festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This caused a stir because Q90 FM, a local Christian radio station which usually sponsored the event, withdrew their support based on Wallis' participation.
Cornerstone Festival, another Christian rock gathering in Illinois, also came under fire for the content of its seminars on social justice, interfaith activism, monasticism, sexuality, Catholicism, and many other controversial subjects.
Last year there was also a divide over the" Manhattan Declaration." This was a statement put out by leaders in the evangelical, orthodox, and Catholic faiths which proclaims unity on the moral issues of the sanctity of life and marriage. While some, such as Chuck Colson, claimed "co-belligerency" (a term coined by British abolitionist William Wilberforce indicating his willingness to work with anybody, even his enemies, if they helped him to oppose slavery) was a good thing in the fight against evil, others, such as John MacArthur, were less enthusiastic about the statement's characterization of Catholics and Eastern Orthodox as fellow Christians, and were unwilling to put their name on a document which lumped them all together as members of the faith.
The move toward Catholic mysticism, in particular "contemplative" spirituality, is also a hot-button issue in the great divide. While many in the evangelical church are moving toward the "wisdom" of the ancient desert fathers and other mystics such as Teresa of Avila and Brother Lawrence, as revived by Celebration of Discipline author, Richard Foster, and promoted by Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen, others are trying to hold the movement back, as can be seen in the controversy involving author Max Lucado and evangelical teacher Beth Moore's appearances on the contemplative video Be Still (which was available for rental at local Movie Gallery stores). The use of popular phrases such as "spiritual formation" (a term used by Eastbrook Church of Milwaukee) and "the spiritual disciplines" have become the latest trend in churches across the country.
Those who oppose this trend are concerned that transitioning the evangelical church from a faith based on absolute truth and historical fact to an experiential religion will make it more difficult to differentiate Christianity from any of the other world religions-many of which are also based on mystical experiences. This would make the blending of religions much easier, since there are no divisive fundamentalist beliefs to hinder the development of Tony Blair's vision of interspirituality or British rocker Bono's dream of coexistence.
Thrown into this mix is the emergent church, led by Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, Leonard Sweet, Donald Miller (who prayed at the last Democratic Convention), and a slew of others whose main message is that there needs to be "a new kind of Christianity" with a "generous orthodoxy." Targeting the younger generation and trying to be "relevant," the emergent church also leans to the political left and is less concerned about abortion or gay marriage (issues of concern to the "religious right") than it is with poverty, global warming, and sexuality/gender issues. They are also moving towards contemplative prayer, as McLaren reveals in his book, Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices.
Leading the charge against these "new evangelicals" are people like Ingrid Schlueter, host of Crosstalk, a Christian radio show based out of Milwaukee and played on the VCY America radio network, Brannon Howse, founder of the Christian Worldview Network based out of Tennessee, and Minnesota-based Olive Tree Ministries with radio host Jan Markell. Pastor Bob DeWaay and Warren B. Smith are two of the most popular authors writing against the purpose driven movement and the emergent church. There are also web sites such as Lighthouse Trails, Let Us Reason, and Apprising Ministries contributing to the battle against what they believe is deception and even apostasy in the Church.
At issue is the role of the Church in the world. Is it the Church's mission to "restore" the world or spread the gospel? And what does the gospel "of the Kingdom" mean? Does it only apply to salvation after death or is there a "peaceable kingdom" (some call shalom) that Christians should be trying to bring about on the earth?
If we are to bring about the peaceable kingdom, what form should it take? Is it only found within the human heart or does it take a physical form? If it is physical, how can it be ushered in while there are still other religions that reject Christ in the world? Does the restoration of the earth involve the acceptance of other faiths into the kingdom or even universal salvation for all?
These are issues that the average Christian, indeed the average pastor, may need to know more about in the near future since, as the divide grows wider, each person will have to decide which way they will go." Read more!


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Michael Isaacson
Michael Isaacson earned his doctorate in composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Warren Benson and Samuel Adler. He then taught and conducted at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and in California at Loyola Marymount, California State University at Long Beach, and U.C.L.A. He also founded the Israel Pops Orchestra and has produced and conducted various recordings with them as well as other orchestras. Well known as a composer of both liturgical and secular Jewish music, Isaacson has published more than 400 works and produced more than forty recordings.
Special recognition is due composer Michael Isaacson who served as a catalyst to the Archive's creation, and collaborated with the Milken Family Foundation in its work during the Archive's early years.
Adonai ro'i (Psalm 23)
As the Hart Panteth | Thou Art Enthroned Above
Aspects of a Great Miracle
Avinu malkenu
Enosh
Gratitude and Praise
Liturgical Settings
Liturgical Settings I
Liturgical Settings II
Our Guardian Slumbers Not
Seder Songs
Selections from the Spicker-Sparger Anthology
Shiviti
Sim shalom
Vay'khullu
Yizkor Prelude
Z'MIROT SHEL SHABBAT
From left to right: Michael Rendish, Jim Anderson, Mark Pinto, David Clark, Jonathan Klein, Herb Pomeroy, Robert Stoloff, Greg Badolato, Tony Lada, and Michael Isaacson. Hear O Israel recording session. Boston, Massachusetts.
Credit: Milken Family Foundation
Michael Isaacson and David Spear. Hear O Israel recording session. Boston, Massachusetts.
Michael Isaacson and Jonathan Klein. Hear O Israel recording session. Boston, Massachusetts.
Michael Isaacson and Robert Starer in studio, Brooklyn College. New York, New York. 1968. Isaacson started graduate studies at Brooklyn College under the tutelage of Robert Starer.
Michael Isaacson and Robert Starer, Brooklyn College. New York, New York. 1968.
Michael Isaacson and Jack Gottlieb. Four Sabras recording session. University of Rochester, New York. May 1993.
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Deep Purple To Headline Slavkov Open Music Festival Next July
Bing Ni November 24, 2022 Deep Purple To Headline Slavkov Open Music Festival Next July2022-11-24T10:32:26+01:00 Art & Culture, Czech Republic / World
The entrance fee for each day is CZK 1,890. A new feature is the possibility to buy a two-day ticket for a discounted price of CZK 3,490. Photo credit: LiveNation.
Czech Republic, 23 Nov (BD) – On 15 July 2023, British rock legends Deep Purple will perform at the castle park in Slavkov u Brna after ten years. A day later, Slavkov will welcome Johnny Depp as a member of the U.S. supergroup Hollywood Vampires, which also features Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and proto-punk icon Alice Cooper.
The British rock stalwarts Deep Purple will come to Slavkov u Brna to celebrate their 55 years on the music scene. Currently, the band is touring with a lineup that includes the three founding members of the band, vocalist Ian Gillan, drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover. The line-up is completed by keyboardist Don Airey and Irish guitarist Simon McBride.
The supergroup Hollywood Vampires was formed 10 years ago by Depp, Perry and Cooper to honour the music of rock stars who died in the '70s. The band therefore pays tribute to many such artists at their concerts, including John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors and others. Some of the band's covers include Hendrix's "Manic Depression" and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
Discounted two-day festival admission is CZK 3,490; a one-day ticket is CZK 1,890. Idnes pre-sale from 23 November at 11am, Ticketmaster from 28 November 9am, and Ticketportal from 28 November at 11am.
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The Aral Sea embodies the fears of a generation of environmentalists.
Here the Soviets planned and carried out the assassination of an entire lake ecosystem. " The Aral Sea must die", they used to say, "in the name of progress".
I greet the Mangystau desert, with its breathtaking peaks and surreal dreamlike scenery, and I get on a night train that will take me to Uzbekistan while I take a nap. At least, that's what I'd like to do…
NIGHT TRAIN TO UZBEK. READ THE STORY
I get on a crowded train and I push myself towards my bunk. A couple of Kazakh gentlemen welcomes me with a shy smile and bright eyes. They don't say a word, but their actions speak of a deep sense of hospitality. The woman goes through her purse, pulls out a candy and hands it to me.
Without having the courage to smile at me, she invites me with a resolute gesture to serve me. "Thank you! You shouldn't have!" I answer embarrassed. A few moments later, seeing me snort from the heat (the windows are closed and, apparently, so they must stay until departure), the man pulls out of an envelope a portable fan, of those that run on batteries. He smiles at me with his eyes full of light and invites me to refresh myself.
"Thank you!" I answer more and more embarrassed because of such kindness. " Do you want to adopt me?" I chuckle. They chuckle, too, without knowing why. I don't want to forget about them, so we take a selfie!
Giulia peeks out of the hallway. "Andrea, we were wrong. This is not your place. You have to return the ticket". It's true. The name on the note in my hand does not bear my name. I'm occupying another's bed. I'm ranting and mumbling about how I have inalienable human rights and that I have a new family now, but my friend is adamant and rips me off my new parents. She shows me my new cabin, where I unwillingly store my luggage.
"Would you like to check where the others are?" Giulia asks me now with an angelic voice. " Ok", I answer. We enter the corridor again, unaware of what lies ahead. We are about to fall into a spiral of terror. Army officers stand between the train cars and stop people to check their passport, as we will cross the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan overnight. They take it seriously, as we will soon find out. The officers are busy photographing the passengers of the carriages with a strange camera connected to a laptop. Giulia is so focused on the purpose of her expedition that she does not pay attention to the police and forces the checkpoint. She bumps into a mountain-sized cop who stops her with his arm and uses his physical size to stop her. "Excuse me!" protest Giulia outraged. " I'm going to see my friends! They are over there! Giovanna, do you hear me? Are you all right?"
The man wrinkles his forehead in a severe and authoritarian expression. I whiten. I try to say "Giulia, maybe it is not the case to insist", but the words get stuck in my throat. " Giovanna, do you hear me?" Giulia shouts in the empty hallway. "Guys! Are you okay? They won't let me through! There's some guy here who won't let me out!" No one peeps from the booths. Giulia's call ends up in a vacuum. If I hadn't just made a scene to hold onto two imaginary parents, maybe I would tell Giulia not to behave in such an inappropriate way. But the truth is we have had a long day, we are tired and not lucid.
"Passport, please!" the policeman yells at us.
" Excuse me?" asks Giulia who finally realizes the trouble she has put us into. The guy writes something on his phone, then shows it to us and we read two words that make us tremble "CHECKPOINT VIOLATION".
Giulia looks at me with beaten-puppy-tearful eyes. " Andrea, did you read what he wrote down? We violated the border! Andrea, I think we are about to get arrested!" Cops take our passports and confiscate them. They talk to each other for a few minutes, while Giulia and I wait as stiff as plaster statues. I think of the Kazakh prisons, their wet and dirty cells, the moldy meals, the acts of bullying… and above all, I have a fixed image in my mind -Chunk of the Goonies, interrogated by the Fratelli's gang, with his hand pressed in the blender, shouting from the top of his lungs "No, please! I'm too young! Not my hands! I want to play the violin!"
It's only now that I know what he must have felt.
Finally, the man comes back with our passports in his hand and returns them to us. On his phone he writes "Go back to your cabins". We sneak down the hall to our bunks, with curved shoulders, low chin, quietly. I settle in bed, in fetal position, and I sleep deeply until dawn. Happy to still be a free man, happy to still be able to study violin. And determined never to follow Giulia on her strange missions again.
[Unfortunately I will not keep this purpose and will soon end up in a case of international corruption]
Moynaq, a seaport on a missing lake
My first stop during my trip to Uzbekistan is in Moynaq, a small town 210 km from Nukus. It was once one of the main seaports on Aral sea and a thriving center of fish production. Today, however, it is only the silent witness of one of the worst environmental and social disasters on a world scale. The progressive retreat of the lake has indeed brought the local economy to its knees and, despite several attempts to keep open access to the lake through a network of artificial canals, today the town is more than 10 km from the shore of the lake and the fishing boats lie stranded on a sandy bottom full of unhealthy chemicals.
But how was that possible?
I get to in Moynaq on a sunny August morning. A triangular monument breaks the monotony of the landscape, indicating that I have reached the Aral Sea Memorial. A small bar was built at the side of the monument, to meet the needs of the few tourists who stop there. Before leaving I thoroughly studied the history of this place, fixing everything in my mind. I don't want to forget any details: Lake Aral is the most striking case of an ecosystem intentionally destroyed by man.
Aral Sea Memorial testifies to a planned disaster
The Aral Sea was a salt lake of oceanic origin, formed 5.5 million years ago and located in an area ranging from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. Although it has not completely disappeared, today we talk about it in the past. In just 60 years man has managed to destroy its delicate ecosystem, leaving instead a desolate poisoned desert. Not surprisingly, Al Gore called it "the most serious environmental disaster of all time caused by man".
Since the 1950s, the Soviet regime has decided to divert the lake's emissaries elsewhere and the evaporation of the water has had no other means of compensation. The purpose of the Russians was to use the lake's water to irrigate the cotton fields, in a project of intensive cultivation that aimed to turn the USSR into its main European producer. The rush to express the will of communist power was such as to lead to the construction of inefficient irrigation channels, with a water loss along the pipelines ranging from 30% to 70%.
Between 1950 and 2000 the water level of the lake dropped dramatically, reaching an average of 80 cm per year in the 1980s.
The Soviets never made any decision to protect the lake's ecosystem, nor were they alarmed by the drastic changes they were making. Indeed, the disappearance of the lake had been planned from the beginning: once reduced to a swamp, the area would be used for the cultivation of rice. The Aral Sea was defined by the Soviet government as a "useless waste of water resources", an "error of nature" to be corrected.
"My aim is to make the Aral Sea die peacefully," Grigory Voropaev, the head of the agricultural plans, said.
So the lake did die. But it was neither a sweet nor serene death.
Aral Sea, a case of uncontrolled pollution
From 1982, fishing activity in the lake was stopped. To keep the production chain alive and to prevent the abandonment of the fish processing plants in Moynaq, for a few years the Soviet government transported here the fish caught in the Baltic Sea, but the high transport costs made this strategy highly unproductive and was soon abandoned.
In 1991, when Uzbekistan declared independence from the Soviet Union, it maintained its system of intensive exploitation of the region and continued to draw from the lake. Crops were not properly rotated, with soil depletion requiring massive use of chemical fertilizers. The water used to irrigate the fields returned to the lake, increasing pollution levels to the point where it became a health hazard.
By 2007, the lake had lost 90% of its surface area. In some places the shores of the lake are set back even 150 km, giving way to a desert of salt sand soaked with pesticides. The wind that regularly beats the region raises toxic dust, causing severe respiratory and kidney disorders in local populations. Traces of pesticides have been found up to the glaciers of the Himalayas.
Today the city of Moynaq has become a destination for cultural tourism. A handful of tourists wander daily among the wrecks of old fishing boats, now stranded on what was once the bottom of the lake. Since 2011, the historical archive edited by the Uzbek government to witness the disaster has been declared Memory of the World by UNESCO.
I wander into this graveyard of abandoned boats, I enter their stripped bellies. I imagine the local youth who come here at sunset to imprint their thoughts on the hulls with colored spray shots.
All around me, desolation.
I find no comfort in knowing that it is still more convenient today to divert elsewhere the rivers that once fed the salt lake rather than attempt a recovery of the original situation. Cotton farming employs five times as many workers as it used to be for fishing; natural gas deposits were discovered on the very soils that once formed the seabed.
The wind rises and fills my eyes with sand… who knows what poisons are entering my bloodstream. In any case, there is no need to be afraid: it is only the price of progress.
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Whistleblowers are promised more protection and new jobs – trying to change a culture of fear. Trusts to commission "Exit Interviews"?
Chris Smyth in The Times 7th August 2014 reports: Whistleblowers are promised more protection and new jobs
Give him credit, Sir Robert Francis is trying to change a long-established culture of fear and disengagement. It will however take a lot more than he plans, and one suggestion from NHSreality is for routine exit interviews. In any large organisation these are done and felt to be useful especially at higher levels. In the NHS it would not be appropriate for the interviews to be done in-house and behind closed doors (unless the leaver wishes), and there should be the option to go public. Interviews should be conducted by the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and a depersonalised report published for each trust annually…. until the culture changes.
NHS whistleblowers could have their claims judged by independent regulators and be shepherded into new jobs under plans to end a "climate of fear" in the health service.
Sir Robert Francis, QC, is pledging to prise open an NHS "closed ranks culture" that harms patient care as he launches a review into staff victimised for speaking out. Today he urges doctors and nurses to tell him what is going wrong. Campaigners welcomed the pledge, saying it was vital to stop whistleblowers from being blacklisted and demanding the government takes responsibility for protecting them.
Writing on thetimes.co.uk today, Sir Robert says: "There are far too many reports of professionals reporting they have been victimised or forced from their jobs because they spoke out… The fear generated by all this is very real. Fear feeds on fear, which inevitably deters others from coming forward."
Sir Robert chaired a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire scandal, where he concluded that appalling suffering had been inflicted on hundreds of patients by bullying managers who ignored the concerns of workers. He writes today that he was "struck by the fear some staff had to voice their concerns", citing a consultant who insisted on meeting secretly at his home and a nurse whispering in terror at making an "innocuous suggestion" for change.
His review will scrutinise prominent whistleblowing cases from the past as well as exploring the experience of staff still working in the NHS in an attempt to make sure that doctors and nurses feel free to raise concerns, that they are listened to and that they are not victimised as a result.
"We need to do more to ensure that staff who are worried that something is going wrong feel totally free to talk about it," Sir Robert writes, outlining a series of solutions he is considering.
These include making it easier for staff to raise concerns with someone independent and "arms-length scrutiny where conflict arises when someone speaks up" so that bosses are not marking their own homework.
Acknowledging that many whistleblowers struggle to find work again, he says there must be "better means of retaining the services of those who have unfairly lost their jobs for doing the right thing", including mechanisms for staff who win tribunals to get back in to the NHS.
Cathy James, chief executive of the charity Public Concern at Work, said: "Getting jobs in the NHS is a key problem. Although there are lots of different employers, once someone is labelled a whistleblower that's akin to a troublemaker and they can be blacklisted."
However, Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association Council, said: "Putting protections in place for staff who raise concerns is a vital part of the solution but it does not fix the underlying issue. It is in the interests of both staff and their patients to look much more closely at the culture across the NHS, which has left staff unwilling to provide feedback or raise concerns for fear of reprisals."
Kim Holt, of the whistleblowers' group Patients First, agreed that the "bullying culture" needed to be tackled at root, insisting that "things go wrong when concerns aren't addressed early enough".
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said: "We still hear of staff concerns being ignored. That's why I have asked Sir Robert to undertake this review, which will look at what more we can do to create an open culture where NHS workers are protected and encouraged to speak out in the best interests of patients."
This entry was posted in A Personal View, Commissioning, Gagging, Stories in the Media on August 7, 2014 by Roger Burns - retired GP.
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nVidia wants it all
nVidia wants to spearhead the adoption of 3D graphics for as many applications as possible
By Pat Fox | September 5, 2000 -- 11:43 GMT (04:43 PDT) | Topic: Innovation
nVidia appears to be subtly altering its strategy in the battle with rivals 3Dfx and ATi for leadership of the 3D accelerator market.
While a recent patent infringement suit filed against 3Dfx has heated things up a little and nVidia's involvement in Microsoft's Xbox project is a definite coup, it's the firm's decision to go after alternative markets that could well be the decisive blow.
Leading edge, high-cost cards such as the recently announced GeForce2 Ultra are great for nVidia's image with gamers but aren't so good for profit margins, according to Alain Tiquet, nVidia's European marketing director. So while the company will continue to develop this type of product, the focus for the next couple of years is set to be on finding new buyers for existing technology.
The first product in this new strategy was the GeForce2 MX, released a couple of months back, which boasts better performance than a GeForce 256, but at a price that makes it appealing for volume PC vendors -- an area that, right now, rival chipmaker ATi has pretty much to itself. The idea isn't just to go for gamers. By providing fast 2D rendering and features such as dual-display support, the hope is that it'll be seen as a viable option for business desktops too. That's just the first step, though. In time, nVidia hopes to adapt the same technology for use in mobile PCs and also for Apple platforms.
And that's not all. "We want to grow the 3D market," Tiquet stated. "We want 3D to be everywhere." By making the hardware cheap and widely available, nVidia wants to spearhead the adoption of 3D graphics for as many applications as possible. Of course, it wants to dominate these new markets too.
What about future technology, though? Well, lips were tight when it came to revealing details of the next generation of high-end cards. It seems that by reducing the die size for the GeForce2 Ultra, nVidia was able to attain its goal of doubling performance every 16 months with a minimum of effort, and without offering any new features.
But hardware, apparently, is not the issue. "We know that we can get a chip with say 50 million transistors at a certain size, at a certain price, in a year's time," said Tiquet. "What we must do is decide what we want those transistors to do." Beyond that, he refused to be drawn. The ultimate goal, however, remains to offer "Toy Story [-type graphics] on your PC, in real time, within a year." So that means improvements to features like per-pixel shading, beefing up of the Transform & Lighting engine, and even exploration of technologies such as ray tracing in real-time.
For now, however, nVidia's goal is -- only! -- to take the lead in the 3D accelerator market. So watch out...
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El castillo de Sully-sur-Loire() es un château francés situado en el borde del Loira, en la comuna de Sully-sur-Loire, departamento de Loiret de la Región central de Francia.

El castillo fue clasificado como Monumento Histórico en 1928 y está abierto al público desde 1933. Actualmente forma parte del conjunto de castillos del Loira que fueron declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco, como «Valle del Loira entre Sully-sur-Loire y Chalonnes», en 2000.

Geografía
El castillo está situado en el centro de Sully-sur-Loire, en la ribera izquierda del río Loira, cerca de la puente en la esquina de la ruta la Salle verte, avenida de Béthune y del camino del foso. El agua que rodea el estanque proviene de Marcon. Se puede acceder al castillo a través de las líneas 3, 7 y 12 de la red de transporte Ulys.

Historia
El castillo fue mencionado por primera vez en 1102; controlaba un puente sobre el Loira que desapareció en el siglo XIV. Ha pertenecido durante siglos a tres familias: los primeros señores de Sully, la familia de la Trémouille y la familia de Béthune.

En 1218 Felipe II de Francia construyó una gran torre. Luego, en 1396 Guy de La Trémouille inició la construcción del actual castillo, cuyos planos fueron diseñados por Raymond du Temple (arquitecto del rey y del duque de Orleans). En 1524 un edificio se sumó al sureste del edificio.

Fue comprado en 1602 por Maximilien de Béthune, el gran Sully, primer duque con ese nombre. Entre 1602 y 1607 transformó el castillo para su propio uso, edificando también un parque. En marzo de 1652, el joven Luis XIV de Francia se refugió en el castillo durante la Fronda de los príncipes.

En 1715 el castillo albergó a Voltaire, tras huir de París. A mediados del siglo XVIII, un edificio fue construido al norte de la entrada principal.

El castillo sufrió un incendio en 1918 y durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial sufrió dos bombardeos, en junio de 1940 y en agosto de 1944. Permaneció en la familia del  duque de Sully hasta que en 1962, el Consejo General de Loiret lo adquirió y restauró.

Descripción
Esta edificación se encuentra en la confluencia de los ríos Loira y Sange, y está rodeada por un foso que aún mantiene dos partes bien diferenciadas: la torre y un pequeño castillo.

El torreón, edificio de planta rectangular flanqueado por cuatro torres circulares y con una puerta y dos torres al sur, corresponde a la campaña de Guy Trémoille; el interior fue totalmente reformado por Maximilien de Béthune. En el primer piso se encuentra una gran sala con puertas de madera del siglo XVII, una pintura del Castillo de Rosny-sur-Seine en la repisa de la chimenea, y una puerta de hierro que da acceso al «gabinete» de Sully. Enmarcado bajo el techo se encuentra una notable obra del siglo XIV en la bóveda de cañón.

El pequeño castillo se cierra al sur de la mazmorra e incluye un edificio y dos torres; la del sureste fue construida a mediados del siglo XV sobre una torre más antigua, mientras que la otra, llamada «torre de Béthune», más base y terrazas, es una torre de cañón construida en 1605. La casa, construida en la primera mitad del siglo XV, fue a partir del siglo XVI la residencia habitual de los señores de Sully. Los interiores fueron reformados (decoración y muebles) a finales del siglo XIX. El cuerpo que se une al pequeño castillo con la mazmorra fue añadido en el siglo XVIII, y reconstruida tras un incendio en 1918.

El patio trasero, al este, actualmente sin edificaciones, contenía anteriormente un calabozo construido por Felipe II de Francia poco antes de 1219, con ocasión de la confiscación de la señoría y la colegiata Saint-Ythier, transferidos por M. de Béthune a la ciudad.

Parque y jardines
El parque, que actualmente continua acaparando una vasta superficie, está rodeada de canales que M. de Béthune realizó para mantener el sitio al margen de las inundaciones del Loira.

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Enlaces externos

 Expediente del castillo de Sully-sur-Loire en base de datos del Ministerio de Cultura de Mérimée (en francés).
 Castillo de Sully-sur-Loire en el sitio del Consejo General de Loiret (en francés).
 Castillo de Sully-sur-Loire en el sitio de la ciudad de Orléans (en francés).

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Castillos del Loira de la asociación Châteaux de la Loire, Vallée des Rois
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Castillos renacentistas de Francia