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The south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa grossed over VND12,800 billion in tourism revenue over the first nine months of the year, an increase of over 28.7% against the same period last year, according to the provincial People's Committee.
The province welcomed more than 4.3 million visitors (up nearly 19%), including over 1.5 million foreign arrivals (up over 72%) in the reviewed period.
At a recent meeting with representatives from the tourism sector, Tran Son Hai, vice chair of Khanh Hoa People's Committee requested that the local tourism sector launch Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa special tours increase service quality, and work out solutions to attract traditional international visitors.
At present, traditional foreign arrivals coming from the US and Europe have decreased 20-30% compared to the same time last year. The numbers of arrivals from the US, Australia, France, and Germany dropped 30%, 20%, 22% and 26%, respectively.
Nguyen Van Thanh, vice chairman of Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa Tourism Association, predicted a stable rise in the number of foreign arrivals from now to the end of the year, that is the peak season for international visitors.
Chinese and Russian visitors have accounted for more than 80% of foreign arrivals to Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa.
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For those of you who loved the movie Gandhi — or those of you who have never seen it — there is a 25th anniversary special edition DVD. it came out in 2007 but I just found out about it! the 2-disc set has interviews about filming in India, about finding the right actors, along with archival footage, plus the picture and sound have been digitally remastered.
Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, a labor of love that took nearly 20 years to make it to the screen, is one of the last true epics that spans decades yet keeps you tied to an emotional, human anchor. That anchor would be Gandhi himself, Mohandas Gandhi or Mahatma "Great soul" Gandhi as he was referred to later on in his life by the people of India.
Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture (1982), Best Director (Attenborough) and Best Actor (Ben Kingsley as Gandhi), Gandhi has been released for a second time on DVD, this time however as a glorious 2 disc set celebrating its 25th anniversary that has to be one of the best DVDs released in 2007.
I have never been to north India where Gandhi spent most of his life. but what many people don't know is that he also spent time in Tamil Nadu, the state that I travel to in India. I have been to Madurai twice, the last time just this past January, and I always make time for the Gandhi Museum. It is a place where I find peace in the riotous city of Madurai. the exhibits tell the story of Gandhi's life in south India and how important Tamil Nadu was in the India's struggle for independence. the last exhibit is in a room that is painted black — it is a glass case that contains the dhoti that Gandhi was wearing when he was assassinated and it still contains his blood stains.
I can not describe how much I love spending time at the museum, just walking around the grounds, visiting the bookstore, buying chai from the chai seller, who can't speak English but always has a big smile for me when he gives me free pictures of Gandhi.
The Partition is still a very sensitive subject for many Indians. my compartment mate told me that many Indians hate Gandhi the same way that many Americans hate George Bush. those of us who know how much Martin Luther King, Jr. admired Gandhi will find this sentiment shocking.
some photos of the Gandhi Museum, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India….
I learn something new from your site all the time! Keep up the wonderful writing and congrats on being recognized by a "published author"Loved Ghandi the first time, will watch the re-release..


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Diamonds and Dust
The Story of a Million-Acre Cattle Queen
By: Sheryl McCorry
Narrated by: Catherine Milte
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18, Broome beckoned, and it was there that - only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank - she locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a romance that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers.
Gripping from first word.
By Lisa OBrien on 05-08-2019
House of Memories
By: Monica McInerney
Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are those that matter most. Following a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to the other side of the world in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoilt half-sister. In London Ella is taken in by her beloved uncle Lucas, whose extraordinary house holds many wonderful memories for her.
I struggled to put it down
By Aimee on 01-04-2018
Outback Spirit
Inspiring True Stories of Australia's Unsung Heroes
By: Sue Williams
Cheryl flies sick patients from rural areas to emergency medical treatment in cities; Sue is often the only one between life and death for her patients in the Kimberley; Ricky trades city comforts to connect with kids through sport in remote communities while Eileen overcomes great challenges to protect remote land for generations to come - these are some of the characters who embody the spirit of the Outback.Inspiring, stirring and touching by turn, these people draw on enormous personal reserves to preserve Outback values for the future of all Australians.
At the Valley View Motel in South Australia's picturesque Clare Valley, 84-year-old Lola Quinlan is up to her usual mischief. She's sent her family away for Christmas and invited a number of mystery guests to come and stay. But who are all these people, and why aren't they spending the festive season with their own loved ones? As the big day draws closer and Lola's personal family dramas threaten to unravel her plans, she discovers that at a special time of year, magic can happen in every family.
great read....
The Dig Tree
A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
By: Sarah Murgatroyd
> In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to become the first European to cross the Australian continent. A few months later, an ancient coolibah tree at Cooper Creek bore a strange carving: 'Dig Under 3ft NW'. Burke, Wills and five other men were dead.
Good but not great
By Jon on 04-06-2017
The Alphabet Sisters
Anna, Bett and Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars, the Alphabet Sisters. Years later, Lola, their larger-than-life grandmother, summons them home for her 80th birthday extravaganza and a surprise announcement - she wants them to revive their singing careers and stage a musical she has written. Rehearsals get underway, and family secrets begin to be shared and revealed. But just as the rifts begin to close, the Alphabet Sisters face a test they never imagined.
A lovely story
By 1fun on 16-12-2020
Family Baggage
A funny, warm and moving novel of family secrets, dilemmas and dynamics from the best-selling author of The Alphabet Sisters. Tour guide Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. She's arranged hundreds of them for the travel agency her family runs. But when her work colleague and foster sister Lara disappears on the eve of a big overseas trip, Harriet finds herself in uncharted territory.
Can anyone edit these days
How to Break Your Own Heart
By: Maggie Alderson
Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby. Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated but simply not interested in parenthood. He likes his life neat and tidy. And he likes having a wife who attends solely to his needs.
This latest addition to Bolinda's range of Monica McInerney titles is a wonderful collection of stories to add to any audio library. This is a collection of short fiction written over the past 10 years by one of Australia's most popular writers.
Women of the Outback
Cheryl lives in such a remote area, she had to winch herself and her three children across the Murray River to get the eldest to school. Alice admits she couldn't even tell a cow from a bull when she first went to live in the outback. These women are only some of the 12 extraordinary women who have overcome incredible hardships to survive and thrive in some of the most extremely remote parts of Australia. Sue Williams has uncovered some remarkable subjects in this work.
A Scout Davis Investigation, Book 2
By: Maggie Groff
Intrepid investigative journalist Scout Davis has given herself a holiday, but when Hermione Longfellow floats towards her in the supermarket, wanting to engage her services, she stops to listen. Most people in Byron Bay are aware of the eccentric Anemone sisters. Always dressed in black, they rarely leave their home nestled in the hills - but Scout is sure that the drinking of chicken blood is just idle gossip. When Hermione asks Scout to track down sister Nemony's AWOL husband, Scout jumps at the chance.
Fabulous follow up Scott Davis story
By SusieB on 08-10-2017
The Idea Generator & Accelerator
By: Ken Hudson
Ideas are the lifeblood of any business, but have you ever been stuck for one? Do you ever have enough time to come up with enough of them? The Idea Generator & Accelerator provides the ultimate audio resource that will benefit anyone involved in business and will assist you to become more confident in your creative abilities. The results will be immediate.
Stars over Shiralee
By: Sherryl McCorry
In Stars over Shiralee, Sheryl brings her story up to date, picking up from the death of her husband Bob McCorry. Having moved from the Kimberley to a property called the Shiralee, Sheryl is rocked by the death of her ex-husband. While continuing to run the Shiralee, Sheryl at first leans on her parents and her children for comfort.
next please
By Sam on 10-05-2016
Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman
By: Odo Hirsch
Antonio S is a boy who knows all sorts of things. Scarrabo the Magnificent is a magician. Professor Kettering is a doctor. They live together at the top of a grand old house built long ago for a duke. But who is Theodore Guzman, the secretive old man who lives downstairs? What mysterious things does he know? It takes someone like Antonio S to find out.
The Fine Colour of Rust
By: P. A. O'Reilly
Single mother and dreamer Loretta Boskovic lives in Gunapan, a town lost in the scrubby Australian bush. She has fantasies about dumping her two kids in the orphanage and riding off on a Harley with her dream lover. Her best pal is a crusty old junk man called Norm. She needs a lawnmower; he gives her two goats called Terror and Panic. Loretta's a self-dubbed 'old scrag', but she's got a big heart and a strong sense of injustice. So, when the government threatens to close down Gunapan's primary school, and there's corruption wafting through the local council, Loretta stirs into action.


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Canada and Ontario invest in accessible public transit for Greenstone, Kenora and Machin
KENORA—The safety and well-being of Canadians are top priorities of the governments of Canada and Ontario. That's why the Governments of Canada and Ontario are taking decisive action to help families, businesses and communities as they adapt to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and support the creation of good, middle class jobs.
Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities; Marcus Powlowski, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Rainy River; the Honourable Greg Rickford, Member of Provincial Parliament for Kenora-Rainy River, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines; Minister of Indigenous Affairs, on behalf of the Honourable Laurie Scott, Ontario's Minister of Infrastructure ; His Worship Dan Reynard, Mayor of the City of Kenora; His Worship Renald Beaulieu, Mayor of the Municipality of Greenstone; and His Worship Gordon Griffiths, Mayor of the Township of Machin announced funding for three projects that will improve the accessibility of public transit in Greenstone, Kenora and Machin.
These investments will ensure each community has the infrastructure they need to provide reliable and accessible public transit services, and get residents where they need to be on time. To support these projects, the Government of Canada is investing more than $141,945 through the Public Transit Infrastructure Stream (PTIS) of the Investing in Canada plan, the Government of Ontario is providing $118,276 and the municipalities are contributing $94,642.
In Greenstone, the purchase of a 14-seat accessible bus will help modernize and expand the transit fleet, and increase services to seniors. The purchase of one handi-transit bus and the construction of a new bus garage in Kenora will expand the paratransit service and provide more accessible transit options for residents. In Machin, the construction of a bus storage shelter will ensure the quality and safety of the stored vehicle, which provides reliable transit services for senior residents.
All orders of government continue to work together for the people of Ontario to ensure the safety and resiliency of communities through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through the Investing in Canada plan, the Government of Canada is investing more than $180 billion over 12 years in public transit projects, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, trade and transportation routes, and Canada's rural and northern communities.
$28.7 billion of this funding is supporting public transit projects, including $5 billion available for investment through the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Ontario is investing $10.2 billion under the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program to improve public transit; community, culture and recreation; green, and rural and northern community infrastructure.
Across the province, Ontario is investing more than $7.3 billion in public transit infrastructure over 10 years through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.
To date, the Government of Canada has invested more than $8 billion in over 2,700 infrastructure projects across Ontario under the Investing in Canada plan.
"Public transit allows Canadians to get around in ways that are cleaner, faster and more affordable. These investments will help improve public transit service in Kenora, Greenstone and Machin, by ensuring they have the fleet and facilities they need to provide accessible, safe and reliable transit services to residents in their communities. Canada's infrastructure plan invests in thousands of projects, creates jobs across the country, and builds cleaner, more inclusive communities."
- The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North
on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
"Modern and accessible public transit systems are essential for building sustainable communities of tomorrow. Improving public transit services for residents of these three communities helps to get them where they need to go, whether it be to access essential services, get to work, or visit with loved ones. The investments announced today will benefit the communities, residents, and the environment for years to come."
- Marcus Powlowski
Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Rainy River
"Northwesterners deserve modern, affordable and accessible community transportation options. That is why our government is proud to deliver this important funding to upgrade and improve public transit infrastructure in Kenora, Machin and Greenstone in partnership with Municipalities and the Federal government."
- The Honourable Greg Rickford, Member of Provincial Parliament for Kenora-Rainy River, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Minister of Indigenous Affairs, on behalf of the Honourable Laurie Scott, Ontario's Minister of Infrastructure.
"Our accessible specialized transit service is an essential service for our community that supports citizens of Kenora who may require accessible assistance. This funding for the purchase of an accessible bus will expand this specialized service and the construction a new bus garage will ensure vehicles remain safe and reliable. Both of these projects are key to the vitality of this important service for our citizens and we are thankful for this joint federal and provincial funding through the Investing in Canada infrastructure plan.""
- Mayor of the City of Kenora
His Worship Dan Reynard
"The Municipality of Greenstone is extremely grateful to Infrastructure Canada and the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario for approving our request for funding for this important project. The purchase of the 14 seat paratransit bus will allow us to improve and expand our assistance to our local seniors."
- His Worship Renald Beaulieu
Mayor of the Municipality of Greenstone
"I would like to thank the Federal and Provincial Governments for their financial support helping us construct a Bus Shelter that will extend the life of our Seniors Bus."
- His Worship Gordon Griffiths
Mayor of the Township of Machin
Canada and Ontario invest in accessible public transit infrastructure for residents of Greenstone, Kenora and Machin
Investing in Canada Plan Project Map
Federal infrastructure investments in Ontario
Investing in Canada: Canada's Long-Term Infrastructure Plan
Greg Rickford, MPP
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Fort Frances Office
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Kenora Office
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Oh no, Android 8.0, say it ain't so!
Being the bearer of bad news isn't pleasant -- but with Android 8.0, Android's 10 ms Problem is worse than ever. You read that right: Android 8.0 Oreo has worse latency than Android 7.0 Nougat.
If you're building interactive audio applications that will be embedded in an Android substrate: AR/VR, voice assistants, VOIP apps, conferencing apps, virtual instruments, DAWs, karaoke apps to name a few: the performance of those sorts of apps will be impacted negatively.
Our testing shows that Android 8.0 has demonstrably and materially worse round-trip audio latency performance than previous Android versions, when audio input is not mono. We've shared our findings with Google's Android audio team and updated our latency test app. Data and methods below.
A Developer Advocate at Android Audio has responded to our claims, our response is here.
Read this if you care about the boring technical details on how we discovered and fixed things.
The more interesting part begins here.
A few weeks ago a member of the Android audio team notified us that our Superpowered Audio Latency Measurement app was behaving strangely on Android 8. The variance between the latency measurement steps was too great, and the latency results were also higher than Google's own measurements.
There are two apps to measure round-trip audio latency on Android. Google's own "Rick'O'Rang app" (source and APK) and Superpowered's Latency Test (source and APK). Both are fully open-source. Their respective measurement methods are different, but the results have always been similar, in fact, virtually identical.
Google's Rick'O'Rang app requires a special hardware dongle known as the Loopback Connector to be connected into the headphone plug. The app emits a signal, which loops back via this connector, causing audio feedback (the "Larsen Effect"). The app calculates the round-trip audio latency from the periodicity of this feedback. It also measures "audio continuity" to detect glitches.
The Superpowered Latency Test app works without any special hardware. It can work using the built-in speaker and microphone, a USB sound card, the Loopback Connector or any other audio device. The app emits a signal on the audio output, then measures the elapsed time until it's received back into the audio input. This process is repeated 10 times to filter out dispersion and other factors.
It bears restating: the results of both apps have been historically similar, virtually identical. In this way, they were a natural check-and-balance on one another.
The number of consecutive inputs or outputs fluctuated between three and five. This behavior is unexpected and abnormal. In fact, so unexpected, that both the Google and the Superpowered latency apps were using only 1 buffer. But one buffer is not enough to cover five, therefore all measurements become erratic and inaccurate.
The fundamental impact of non-monotonic scheduling of input/output callbacks is that it increases round-trip audio latency since an app is unable to react to an input buffer with an output at the next callback, since the next callback may be an input again.
Our app displayed a latency value fluctuation. Every Android 8 user could immediately see that something is wrong - yet Google's app displayed good, plausible, and moreover, low latency values.
Although Google's glitch measurement feature suggested that something was wrong, many users simply overlook this, as glitch detection is not as "exciting" as latency measurement (it's a separate feature). The number of glitches should be zero, but it's two or three in every case now (under Android 8, on the Nexus 6P).
We have modified the Superpowered Latency app to be able to handle the anomalous buffering, up to 128 buffers (which is extremely high). Our implementation is not Android 8 specific. Our goal is that it works on every Android version without any adjustment.
We've carefully tested it in previous Android versions on multiple devices to make sure that it still provides the same, trusted values on those.
During the past few years our latency app has collected the largest mobile audio latency database in the world with more than 320,000 measurements on almost 8,000 different device models/builds, so we've had plenty of data to benchmark against.
We've sent our findings to the author of Google's Rick'O'Rang app. We'll update this article when the fix for Google's app is ready.
What happened to the fast flag?
The fast mixer is denied for the audio input. The fast mixer is available for the output with AAudio only, but the frame count is too high, equivalent to the "non-fast" frame count.
It is worth noting, AAudio doesn't go through the "fast mixer" in exclusive mode (we're using that), but talks to the HAL directly.
It's clear that something has happened in the bowels of the Android audio stack.
Android 8 comes with the new API, AAudio, which is much better than the older OpenSL ES API. It's easier to understand, it's easier to work with and it provides tighter, shorter code as well.
On the Nexus 6P you get much better audio latency with Android 7, regardless of which API is used on Android 8.
Important to repeat: this workaround works with mono input only. No improvement over Android 7 still.
Google is trying to convince us that mono is a good solution, but we think it's not. Mono input is not an option for several apps (such as multi-track recording or DVS DJ), but more importantly: really???
If you simply build with the AAudio library, your app will crash on older Android versions. There is no "official" way published on how to create apps which are compatible with older Android versions yet.
In the Superpowered Latency Test app we show a way to create apps compatible with older Android versions. Our method also saves you from having to maintain two distinct native libraries and code bases.
The solution in a nutshell: although CMakeLists.txt will create two distinct libraries (one with and one without AAudio), the source for both will be the same.
This is not unknown for audio driver developers, but for regular app developers it may be shockingly unexpected.
If you wrote the "1 buffer" OpenSL ES thing for audio I/O, then you should update your app immediately, because it outputs garbled audio under Android 8. It receives garbled audio too.
If you used SuperpoweredAndroidAudioIO for audio I/O, then you are completely safe. It has a mechanism inside which is not affected by the issue. It just works.
Hold off with AAudio until we see how it works on non-Google devices with Android 8, and how Google addresses the latency issues on the Nexus 6P and Pixel devices.
As of October 2017, SuperpoweredAndroidAudioIO will not support AAudio, but we're following the situation closely, and if it improves, we'll make it happen.
We interrupt our broadcast for a moment. We've removed SAPA (Samsung Professional Audio SDK) support from the Superpowered Latency Test app, because even it's latest update doesn't support 64-bit.
Maintaining a separate codebase and library for 32-bit devices with SAPA support is not worth the effort anymore. Fact, that the effort was too high for most developers anyway.
SAPA was an interesting try by Samsung to solve Android's audio latency problem, but unfortunately it never really took off. We've tried to support it as long as we could. Vaya con Dios old friend!
Google has been trying to satisfy pro audio developers for a long time now. An announcement has been regularly made every year from 2011 onwards.
The Music Category in Google Play is much further behind the Music Category in the App Store. Yes, Google Play revenue is generally lower than the App Store, but the Music Category in Google Play is much much lower than expected. The technological problems of Android audio are prime contributors to this.
The situation is getting better, the number of pro audio Android devices are accumulating to the point where it makes sense for me to do something in Android pro audio. I'm closely watching how it progresses.
"The situation is getting better in general, but the major hiccups on the road are preventing the accumulation of pro audio Android devices to the point where it makes sense for me to do something in Android pro audio. Unfortunately, many Android devices are not getting updates past some point. The devices stopping at or updated to Android 7.0.1 or Android 8 have been lost. I'm closely watching how it progresses.
We'll continue helping Google with everything we can. We'll continue providing pro audio tools to make pro audio Android projects happen. Our sincere hope is that Android matches iOS audio performance some day soon, giving tools and opportunity to the billions using this platform.


Carn Mor was completed in 2013 and is designed on a traditional Hebridean Longhouse style.
Carn Mor was recently awarded a 4 Star VisitScotland rating.
It has large picture windows and patio doors giving a delightful southerly outlook over Loch Fada.
The cottage is situated in Upper Kilchattan, 4 miles in either direction from the harbour, shop and hotel, and 2 miles from the stunning Kiloran Bay.
The house accommodates 6 people comfortably in 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.


Was born 24.09.1965 Komsomolsk of the Poltava area. Graduated From Ukrainian academy of arts (1994). Works in the field of monumental painting. Major works: painting restaurant "Gostiny dvor" (1991-99), the iconostasis and murals of the church Sv. Daniel in with. Костобобров Chernihiv region. (1996-98), the iconostasis and murals of the Central chapel of st. Michael's golden domed cathedral (1998-2000), fasade of the icon of the Dormition cathedral of Kyiv-Pechersk lavra (1999-2001). Member NUAU (1999).


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Iconic New Zealander of the Year named
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was recently named the Iconic New Zealander of the Year at the 2012 World Class New Zealand Awards. The annual awards are a celebration of New Zealand innovators and entrepreneurs who have made significant contributions to the country's growth and development. The Iconic New Zealander of the Year Award is a new special category launched this year at the World Class New Zealand Awards.
Kea Global board member and Chair of judges John Stace said New Zealand is proud of Kiri Te Kanawa, who has conquered the hearts of people worldwide with her beautiful voice and outstanding singing talent. "Kiri is undoubtedly an iconic New Zealander who makes us all feel proud with her magnificent success and achievements that cross international boundaries."
Accepting the award Dame Kiri told guests that her main focus now is working with the Foundation to bring through the next generation of classical singers. She was delighted with the depth of talented singers she has been working with. To view the presentation and interview with Dame Kiri >>>
Photo caption – Left to right - David McLean, General Manager of Private Wealth and Insurance at Westpac who presented the award with Dame Kiri, Sir Don McKinnon
Passionate deputy chair steps down19 Dec 2013
2015 NZ Singing School will have a special focus18 Dec 2014
Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge28 Feb 2011
Masterclass at Opera Studio Melbourne17 Nov 2011


Hi there, I'm currently working on an app which should support spatial audio. In my last apps for Gear VR, audio wasn't that important.
I think "Unable to find libAudioPluginOculusSpatializer" is the problem, but I found no useful information in world wide web to solve my problem. My test was in Unity 2017.3 - then I updated, I imported the OculusAudioSDK (shouldn't be necessary) and tried some other things, but nothing helped.
Hope, someone has an idea...?
Meanwhile I tested a ambisonic wav file in my project and this seem to be played back correct. It could be, that this mentioned adb error is just irritating.
Meanwhile I asume, that the the problem is to playback a video with ambisonic audio track. It's interpreted like a normal stereo track - no spatial effect. This could be a problem of unity, that i cannot flag the audiotrack as ambisonic.
In general there are few information about playing a 360 video in unity with spatial audio... maybe you or someone else has some more experience.
Maybe your SDK could support also mp4 with spatial audio?
I also recognized, that the fb encoder in experimental matroska settings converts the audiotrack always to 10 channels, but in my case I just need standard first order with 4 tracks. In general I would love to get more options.
Another thing: I wanted to download the Oculus Ambisonics Starter Pack 1.0 from the download section. I tried it two times, but at the end I can't open the zip files. It is corrupt.


Natalie Dormer plays the part of a young Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) in Madonna's W.E.
"She's the icon who spans three generations – you might as well be in a room with Elvis Presley.
As a child I used to prance alone in front of the mirror to 'The Immaculate Collection' dressed in a rah-rah skirt, so it was really difficult walking into that room for the recall.
It was terrifying, but you had to switch that part of your brain off.
I'm an actor and she's my director, so there is a democracy there, there is an equality.
"Her sense of humour – a very, very sharp, dry sense of humour, which on a set is very important.
She obviously knows what she wants.
I don't have to comment on that in an interview in 'The Independent'… everyone knows how and why Madonna is the phenomenon that she is. But I take my hat off to her – she was on a very steep learning curve.
I know from Anthony that a director gets asked hundreds of questions on a daily basis.
"There is going to be so much air whipping around it because it's Madonna.


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*Not alone, and not in a home!
It's easy to lose yourself in your own academic bubble thinking when you're doing a PhD. Hence a post to let a little daylight / other people into my world at the moment.
I spent from April till the end of last year doing fieldwork in the Berlin, essentially interviewing, observing and generally hanging out with some different groups of (mainly) older people who have formed intentional communities together, in these cases various models of Co-Housing (see earlier post). The background to this is that I'm interested in how community-based housing models might offer some responses to the challenges of an ageing, increasingly isolated population.
As noted in previous blogs, intentional communities, Co-Housing, building groups (Baugruppen), and other forms of living that have some community or shared element are pretty common in Berlin, and Germany. But what isn't common is groups who are specifically older getting together to do this. I found three in total. Or I thought I had – it turned out to be a bit more complicated.
Of the three, the first one hadn't quite played out as the groups founders had planned, in that members often had primary homes and lives elsewhere, making their shared Berlin project more of a pied-à-terre. The second one I'd come across – a group who live in a 'cluster-apartment' or WG that's part of the larger and well-publicised co-operative development at Spreefeld – isn't strictly a group of older people at all. The age range is roughly 50-somethings to 70-somethings (plus a couple of younger folk) and they didn't set out to be an age-based project. These may seem like fine distinctions, but when you're picking this apart for a PhD, such distinctions become important.
So while the first two groups have certainly 'informed my research', I've focussed mainly on the third one. They're called "Allein Wohnen in Gemeinschaft". Or "AlWiG" for short. Or "Living alone in community", for long again.
They've been together as a group for over a decade now, whereas the most established comparable group in the UK (OWCH – Older Women's CoHousing) moved in together not much more than a year ago.
They were explicit about being a group of older people, who would be there for each other as they grew older.
Very unusually, for a co-living group of any age, they didn't construct a bespoke housing project with individual apartments with a central, shared facility at its core (generally the model for Co-Housing), but instead, they rent a 'cluster' of apartments on an existing (social) housing estate in a less affluent area of south-east Berlin.
I feel like this third thing is especially current at the moment, as co-housing just isn't going to scale up in any real way if it remains something that involves the huge palaver of in effect becoming a developer: finding a site, BUYING that site, building the housing, and all self-financed while still needing an existing home to live in. Many drop out along the way, and if you're doing this as an older group, some members might not make it at all. And not least of course, all this makes it very exclusive, limiting the model to those with a lot of (economic) capital.
Adapting existing buildings has got to be at least a part of the answer, a so-called 'retrofit' approach that I know the UK Co-Housing Network were talking about a while back.
As noted above, the group also rents, which in Germany is a far more secure tenure than it is in the UK. I can't ignore the fact however that some of those I interviewed in other groups did regard full ownership (or a tenure that amounts to it) as important, in terms of security as a retired person.
A couple of images of the Spreefeld co-operative. Architecture!
I still have memories of the site before the project was built – Sunday afternoons spent dancing on top of (or inside) the boathouse at Kiki Blofeld, across the river from Bar 25 (which now of course the newly emergent Holzmarkt development, which I'll write about another time, promise).
Here's a picture of the Rollberg estate, where AlWiG live. Doesn't look much from this view, but it's (also) quite an interesting development in architectural terms, completed in 1982 and something of an exemplar of its day. A separate post on this, maybe.


I have to change my logic board due to defect. Where can I find spare one ?
It is an Ipad Air 32Gb.
You could always try to send it to a repair company. However choose wisely, as there are plenty of cowboys with cheap soldering irons.
Can you replace components? I have Ipad Air wifi + cell 128GB that I screwed up usb flex cable on mobo side. Or rather, would you sell you defective board so I can attempt to fix?
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Afanasij Afanasjevitj Fet (), född 5 december 1820 vid Orjol, död 3 december 1892 i Moskva, var en rysk författare.

Fet föddes i ett enligt rysk lag ogiltigt äktenskap mellan en rysk godsägare Sjensjin och en tyska med familjenamnet Foeth. Han brukade under större delen av sitt liv moderns släktnamn, och det blev det namn han kom att bli känd under, trots att han 1876 genom kejserlig nåd fick tillstånd att använda sin fars namn. Fet studerade filologi i Moskva, och inträdde därefter i armén i syfte att kunna erhålla ryskt adelskap, en tjänst som han 1856 lämnade sedan han uppnått rang av gardeskapten. Till sin död levde han sedan som godsägare. Fet möttes vid sin författardebut på 1840-talet och lång tid framöver ringa uppskattning. 1860-talets författare betraktade hans poesi med förakt, men han kom senare att få sitt erkännande och var i början av 1900-talet sedd som en av landets främsta lyriker. Hans naturskildrande småpoem utmärker sig genom artistisk utformning och ett musikaliskt tonfall. Efter 1863 kan man urskilja en mera metafysiskt betonad diktarperiod. Fets älsklingsfilosof var Arthur Schopenhauer. Hans ålderdoms lyrik gömmer flera av stor passion uppburna kärleksdikter.

Tiden före 1847 tillhör den starkt visuella drömdikten Fantasi.

Förutom diktverken har Fet även utgett två memoarsamlingar. De berättar ganska lite om hans inre liv men ger många intressanta skildringar av ryska förhållanden under 1800-talet och ger intressanta upplysningar om Fet och samtida litterära gestalter.

Bibliografi (urval)
 Liritjeskij panteon, 1840
 Verser (2 band, 1850-56)
 Vetjernie ogni, (4 band, 1883-1891)

Källor
 Svensk uppslagsbok. Malmö 1932.

Ryska författare under 1800-talet
Ryska poeter
Ryskspråkiga författare
Födda 1820
Avlidna 1892
Män
Personer från Orjol

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A 4-year-old boy ran into the street when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver Sunday afternoon in El Paso's Lower Valley, police said Monday.
Jace Contreras remained hospitalized with serious injuries Monday at El Paso Children's Hospital, officials said.
The Special Traffic Investigations Unit still is searching for a man driving a dark-colored sport utility vehicle that hit Jace on Sunday afternoon in the 9400 block of Ariel Rico Court.
Jace ran into the street and was hit by the SUV, police said in a news release.
The vehicle did not stop after the collision and was last seen heading north on Burgundy Drive.
No further description of the SUV was released.


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All Pretoria News
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WATCH: Human rights champ quits LHR
Pretoria News / 1 February 2018, 07:42am / zelda venter
Jacob van Garderen, who has been the national director of Lawyers for Human Rights for the past 10 years, is stepping down to go into private practice. Former Labour Court Judge Urmila Bhoola will take over from today. Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency/ANA
CHAMPION for human rights, Jacob van Garderen has fought for the rights of the most vulnerable in our society for nearly two decades, 10 years of them as national director of Lawyers for Human rights (LHR).
Now he is stepping down to go into private practice, but he says his heart remains within the LHR "family", with whom he will continue to work on an ad hoc basis.
His colleagues, who bid him farewell during a function held in his honour last Thursday, all agreed that he would be remembered for his more than 19 years with the organisation as a person set on treating others with dignity and respect.
Human rights is his passion and what he has fiercely worked to achieve for the vulnerable.
He has fought many legal battles over the years to obtain some rights and dignity, especially for the refugees who have little or no voice in the country.
Van Garderen started off his career at LHR in 1999 by working on the refugee project.
J acob van Garderen. Video: Zelda Venter
He later headed this programme and developed it into the successful Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme it is today.
Elizabeth Matsosa, or Aunty Lizzie as she is fondly known, who is now retired but worked for LHR for 27 years, recalled how Van Garderen was during the start of his career at LHR as the hero of the refugees.
"When he came into the office we used to say 'here comes the Jacob of the refugee masses'. This is because they used to wait for him at the office in their scores. When he arrived, they knew their problems would be solved."
Judge Jody Kollapen , who previously served as commissioner of the SA Human Rights Commission and was also a member of LHR, hailed Van Garderen as a man of good standing, yet humble.
"The task of leading a pivotal human rights and public interest law organisation such as LHR is no easy task. Managing feisty and independent lawyers, raising sufficient funds, making strategic choices on cases to litigate and advancing the public profile of the organisation are all vital to its very existence."
"Jacob has done that so remarkably well for the past 10 years and with great dignity and humility but with a steely determination which he is able to disguise quite effectively with his gentle smile.
"I fondly recall the two of us taking the Lindela train to Mozambique some years ago to monitor the deportation of migrants and other opportunities to work together which always demonstrated a humanity that was centred and committed to both the recognition of the dignity and self-worth of all and the improvement of the quality of lives of all," Judge Kollapen said.
Urmila Bhoola. Video: Zelda Venter
World-renowned professor of human rights, Christof Heyns, also a former director of LHR, described Van Garderen as an exceptional person.
"He is one of those exceptional people whom one sometimes finds in NGOs - totally dedicated to the idea that the world can and must be a much better place, but who understands and allows for the constraints that need to be negotiated to get there, without allowing that to slow him down. He is a trooper."
Van Garderen said it had been a privilege to have been with LHR for almost two decades.
"I have learnt so much during this period.
"The organisation is doing incredible work in promoting and advancing human rights.
"While it is sad to leave the organisation, I am happy that Urmila Bhoola is taking over as the new national director.
"I am confident that she will steer the organisation to greater heights."
Bhoola, a veteran in the field of law, who also has a passion for human rights, said she was very excited to take over.
"I look forward to starting this role at LHR. It is an organisation that is reflective of the fact that human rights is under threat and it has worked consistently to ensure compliance with human rights and social justice. "
"I look forward to continue to lead the organisation the way Jacob has done."
Bhoola, a former Labour Court judge, is among others, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.
She is also a seasoned human rights lawyer and author of various publications.


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Paulo Evaristo Arns, né le  à Forquilhinha au Brésil et mort le  à São Paulo, est un cardinal brésilien, franciscain et archevêque émérite de São Paulo.

Biographie
Paulo Evaristo Arns est le frère de Zilda Arns, médecin, spécialiste de santé publique et fondatrice de la Pastorale des enfants.

Après avoir terminé son cursus de formation dans sa congrégation des franciscains, il a poursuivi sa formation à Paris où il a obtenu un doctorat en lettres classiques à le faculté des lettres de Paris. Après son doctorat, il a enseigné dans diverses institutions franciscaines.

Il a prononcé ses vœux solennels le  et a été ordonné prêtre le .

Le , il a été élu vice-provincial de sa congrégation. Il a contribué à la rédaction de diverses publications périodiques franciscaines au Brésil.

Cardinal de São Paulo et apôtre de la théologie de la libération
Nommé évêque auxiliaire de São Paulo le , Paulo Evaristo Arns est consacré le  suivant par le cardinal Agnelo Rossi. Le , il devient archevêque de ce diocèse.

Il est créé cardinal par le pape Paul VI lors du consistoire du  avec le titre de cardinal-prêtre de Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana. Il devient ainsi le dix-septième évêque de São Paulo, le cinquième archevêque et le troisième cardinal. Il participe aux deux conclaves de 1978 qui voient successivement les élections de Jean-Paul  en août et de Jean-Paul II en octobre.

C'est un évêque progressiste et partisan de la théologien de la libération, qui encourage le développement des communautés ecclésiales de base, ce qui ne lui facilite pas les relations avec le Vatican, surtout à partir de l'élection du pape Jean-Paul II. Il a 11 évêques et un millier de prêtres pour le seconder, car son diocèse rayonne sur  d'habitants. Il peut également s'appuyer sur des dizaines de milliers de militants laïcs engagés dans l'Action catholique ouvrière, la JOC, ou dans les communautés ecclésiales de base. Il démissionne de ses fonctions d'archevêque le  pour raison d'âge, il a alors 76 ans, après 27 ans passés à la tête de son diocèse.

La rencontre du pape Benoît XVI avec Paulo Evaristo Arns lors de sa visite au Brésil en 2007 a été considérée comme un moment de réconciliation après leur différend antérieur sur la théologie de la libération.

Il perd sa qualité d'électeur du pape le jour de ses  le , mais il participe aux congrégations générales préparatoires  aux conclaves de 2005 (élection de ) et de 2013 (élection de François).

À la mort de son compatriote Eugênio de Araújo Sales le , Paulo Evaristo Arns devient le prélat le plus ancien du collège cardinalice. En , il participe à la messe de béatification de . Il est alors l'un des trois derniers cardinaux vivants créés par ce pape (avec Joseph Ratzinger, qui a perdu ce titre quand il a été élu pape sous le nom de Benoît XVI). Au décès de William Wakefield Baum le , il devient le dernier cardinal vivant nommé par Paul VI.

Paulo Evaristo Arns meurt le , après  et  de cardinalat, ce qui en fait l'un des plus longs de l'histoire. Il repose dans la crypte de la cathédrale métropolitaine de São Paulo.

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Articles connexes
 Composition actuelle du Collège cardinalice
 Cathédrale métropolitaine de São Paulo

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Cardinal brésilien créé au XXe siècle
Cardinal créé par Paul VI
Archevêque de São Paulo
Évêque catholique brésilien du XXe siècle
Évêque catholique brésilien du XXIe siècle
Franciscain brésilien
Théologien de la libération
Étudiant de la faculté des lettres de Paris
Docteur honoris causa de l'université de Brasilia
Docteur honoris causa de l'université pontificale catholique de São Paulo
Docteur honoris causa de l'université Radboud de Nimègue
Docteur honoris causa de l'université de Münster
Lauréat du prix Niwano de la paix
Naissance en septembre 1921
Naissance dans l'État de Santa Catarina
Décès en décembre 2016
Décès à São Paulo
Décès à 95 ans


Winter Jars around your neck?!
Did you had your magical holidays? I did and I enjoyed it as much as i could, so I tried to capture some of that magic. I already had a little glass jars saved for a creative stroke so I кnew this was it!


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UHRP Reports and Briefings
UHRP in the News
CHINA DEFENDS RECORD ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
China Digital Times
On Tuesday, International Human Rights Day, spokesperson Hua Chunying mounted a familiar defense of China's rights record at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' regular press conference:
Q: It's the Human Rights Day today. Certaincountry raises concerns over and criticize human rights in China. How do you respond?
A: Relevant country has made irresponsible accusations about China's human rights situation in disregard of basic facts. China is firmly opposed to that.
The Chinese people have the best say in the human rights situation in China. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The past 70 years witnessed sea change in China and historic progress in its human rights cause. Seventy years ago, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people realized liberation and became their own masters. Over the past 70 years, the Chinese nation has found its feet and become prosperous and strong. The Chinese government and people attach great importance to human rights cause, espouses a people-centered view of human rights, integrates the principle of universality of human rights with national conditions, and regards the rights to subsistence and development as its primary and basic human rights, opening a new path of human rights protection with Chinese characteristics based on its national conditions. We ensure enough food and clothing for nearly 1.4 billion people, cut impoverished population by 850 million, provide employment for 770 million people, and offer basic security to 250 million elderly, 85 million persons with disabilities and more than 60 million persons that receive urban or rural minimum living subsidies. We have made a historic leap from poverty to adequate food and clothing, and to a moderately prosperous society for around 1.4 billion people. Besides, we have developed the largest national education system, largest social security system, largest medical system and largest community-level democracy system in the world, which composes an epic of China's human rights progress, offers solutions for international human rights protection and enrich the diversity of human civilization. This is an undeniable truth for all impartial persons. [Source]
Hua went on to note that the MoFA and State Council Information Office would host the "2019 South-South Human Rights Forum" this week "with a view to adding new dimensions and injecting impetus into exchange and cooperation in the field of human rights." Her comments also included notice that the cases of detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been referred for prosecution on charges involving state secrets. She also responded to a question about American officials' comments on China's ongoing mass detentions in Xinjiang:
The remarks made by relevant people on the US side once again remind us of the fact that the US is not only a superpower in today's world, but also a super liar.
[…] The Uighur ethnicity is part of the big family consisting of 56 ethnic groups in China, tightly united together like the seeds of a pomegranate. They are living a better life and fully enjoy the freedom and rights. China also enjoys friendly and close relations with the vast majority of Muslim countries in the world. It is understandable for the US to be envious. However, it is unacceptable if it is spreading rumors to smear and slander us. [Source]
Hua's argument that "the Chinese people have the best say in the human rights situation in China" echoes the claim made by Xi Jinping in Moscow in 2013 that "'only the wearer knows if the shoe fits.' As for whether a country's developmental path fits, only the people of that country have the right to say." A number of online commenters subsequently complained that they had not been adequately consulted about the figurative comfort of their footwear. One, Wuyuesanren (@五岳散人), commented on Weibo:
My take on the shoe-and-foot question: Whoever buys the shoes has the last word. The common people pay taxes, so they have the right to say whether or not the shoe fits, as well as the style they want. A well-chosen pair of shoes also comes with a warranty and the privilege to exchange or return the items. The shoes themselves don't have the qualifications to say whether they fit or not. Shoes that do aren't shoes, they're shackles. [Source]
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UYGHUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
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UAA & UHRP Reports
UHRP REPORT: Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines
A new report presents evidence of the complete or partial destruction of over 100 mosques by the Chinese government. Researcher Bahram Sintash and the Uyghur Human Rights Project cross-reference satellite imagery, photographs, and witness testimony to document the Chinese government's campaign to wipe out the physical sites of Uyghur Islamic practice.
UHRP BRIEFING: The 2022 Winter Olympics and Beijing's Uyghur Policy: Sports in the Shadows of Concentration Camps
In 2015, Beijing was awarded the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. While the government of the People's Republic of China has overseen preparations for the 2022 Games under the motto of "joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow," the same state has also overseen the development of a network of concentration camps in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang).
UHRP BRIEFING: Testimony of Nury Turkel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang
UHRP REPORT: Repression Across Borders: The CCP's Illegal Harassment and Coercion of Uyghur Americans
UHRP calls for greater protection of Uyghur Americans against Chinese state harassment.
UHRP BRIEFING: UHRP Presentation, Senate Human Rights Caucus
Presentation by UHRP Director Omer Kanat at the July 24, 2019 U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus Briefing "Religious Freedom in China: Assessing the Role of Surveillance Technology in Abuses Against the Uyghurs and Across China"
UHRP BRIEFING: The Mass Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques by China: Remarks by UHRP Director Omer Kanat
International Religious Freedom Ministerial Side Event: The Mass Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques by China. Remarks by Omer Kanat, Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
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OLED TVs May Cost $8000!
Beauty comes at a price and that's definitely true for the OLED screen. I first encountered an OLED screen at a Chroma shop in Pune when I was looking at the range of mobile phones they had to offer. I stumbled upon the Samsung Wave phone and instantly fell in love with it. I loved the screen so much that I came back home quickly and began searching for the screen's specifications. Now, it looks like the SAMOLED, SAMOLED-HD screens have become a norm for most of the smartphones.
...and I admit that I often dreamed of a OLED TV! But the manufacturing costs involved and the availability of the material required to produce large OLED panels is much high; which adds a lot to the cost of the televisions. South Korea's LG electronics is set to introduce the OLED TV for a price of about $8000. If that's true, it's going to be beyond the common man's reach at least until the time someone invents a cheaper manufacturing technology.
Do you think the world is ready for the $8K OLED TV?
Beauty comes at a price and that's definitely true for the OLED screen.
PS: Are OLED TVs supposed to be incredibly thin?


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Innbox: The Stevensons
Tori here! I thought I would take a break from updating you on the sordid details of my life to dig into our inbox. Since I set up the new account we've had some correspondences with a few fellow Inn victims, some of whom have agreed to share their stories but don't want to make themselves regular contributors here (not that they wouldn't be welcome.) In fact, our first write-in comes from someone who was at the Inn not long after one of our familiar faces...
Don't forget, if you have an experience you'd like to share with us, please contact us at TradingPostStories@outlook.com! All are welcome!
Dear Trading Post,
I have spent weeks attempting to decide whether this site is legitimate or not, whether I could feel comfortable sharing my story. But reading over the accounts from this summer, the timing and details line up. I can tell that what happened to me was indeed shared by people who are writing at this site. I feel satisfied that we are in, as much as can ever be expeted from the internet, a safe space. But all the same, I will proceed cautiously.
My name, by birth, is Glenn Stevenson. I work in middle management at a delivery company in Illinois. I am 47 years old, balding, with a wiry frame and angular features. At least, that's the image I have of myself in my mind's eye. The story in the mirror is quite different, albeit not as much so as some of those who write here. I would never compare what I have gone through personally with some of the traumas many of you have faced, but the curse did hit those around me quite badly.
I was a visitor to the Inn in late July 2015, just after Tyler and Meg were there according to this blog. I was visiting with my 17-year-old son, Mason (not his real name, but I will use it henceforth) and a friend of mine, Leon, whom I had befriended at a support group for divorced men. Which is to say, he needed a drinking buddy, and glommed onto me. When someone from our group recommended a trip to Maine to clear my head and bond with my son, Leon tagged along.
It was important to me to spend quality time with my son this summer. His mother and I split up when he was very young, and I did not see him very much because they moved often. Then a year ago, she accepted a position working with underprivileged communities in Central America and he wanted to stay in the States, so he moved in with me. Suddenly I was a full-time father again for the first time in nearly a decade - and my son was practically a stranger. It was a very difficult school year for him - he is (or was) quite overweight, shy and introverted, and while I don't necessarily oppose the way his mother raised him, I would like to think I would have helped him learn to get out of his shell if I was around, a valuable skill when you are always the new kid in town. Instead, he seemed behind, a bit immature for his age, smart but not socially comfortable yet.
From the moment we arrived, I struggled getting much interaction with him - he is very enamored of screens and not so much the beach - and neither of us were particularly fond of the rustic, almost haunted stillness of the Inn. Leon seemed unfazed, though, and started drinking as planned as soon as we arrived. It became clear that I had to spend more time attending to my friend than my son, especially when he would leer and make comments at some of the female beachgoers. There was a single woman in our age group, Cathy, in one of the rooms, but Leon dismissed her (a shame since she seemed interested in him and I didn't see him doing any better,) and focussed on younger ladies to the point of almost starting a fistfight at one of the bars in town with some college boys whose girls he was chatting up. I did my best to run interference and not encourage him.
It was a few days in. I had taken to letting Leon sleep in my room so that I could keep an eye on him, and Mason was sleeping in Leon's room a couple of doors down. I woke up at 4 AM to various cries for help and some shuffling in other rooms. I tried to shake Leon awake, to no avail. Sensing something amiss, I immediately rushed to my where my son as sleeping to make sure he was ok.
I knocked on the door and called in, "Mason? It's dad..." I started to turn the knob and softly open the door, in case he was asleep. "Mason? I'm coming in."
"Dad?" answered a decidedly unfamiliar voice. "What's happening?"
I clicked on the light and I did not see my son. I saw a very thin girl with curly brown hair propped up in bed wearing my son's Wolverine tee shirt.
"Who are you? Where's Mason?" I was in some proportion angry and scared, but mostly confused because it wasn't like my son to invite strange girls to sleep in his bed.
Especially when the next words out of her mouth were "I'm Mason. Who are you?"
I was about to say "No you're not," which seemed absurd to have to say, but she seemed shocked at the sound of her own voice. She held out a long strand of hair in her fingertips, pulling its curls straight, which she gaped at in awe and horror, like it was the first time she had ever seen it. I could see a strange wave of understanding come over her face.
She whipped the covers off her legs and examined them, as if for the first time. I wasn't sure what I was looking at at all, but she was wearing my son's boxers, which were way too big for her. She pulled the elastic band away and gaped for a moment at what she found, in further surprise.
"No way, no...!" she gasped. "What? What happened?"
I turned my head away, modestly.
She stood, grabbed the shorts to hold them up, then sat down woozily. She just stared in space.
"Listen, I want an explanation," I demanded. "Where is my son? Where is Mason Stevenson?" Around this moment, when I raised my voice, I started to notice its timbre wasn't quite right. And neither was the hand I was waving at him, which lacked my telltale wristwatch tan and (ahem) hairy knuckles. I got distracted examining it.
"Is it you? Dad?" the girl asked. "Are you Glenn Stevenson?"
"How do you know my name?" I asked with suspicion and irritation.
"I'm your son," she said, looking at me, seemingly on the brink of tears, "I'm Mason. Is this a dream, or did this really happen?"
And so, the day proceeded. It took me a moment to fully process, but seeing the face of one Peter Malinowski in the mirror (so the matching I.D. later informed me,) a rather ruggedly handsome individual with a strong hairline and jaw, if a bit of a paunch that I was starting to become aware of as I moved about more during the day. My concern was for my son - something strange had happened to all of us at the Inn, and as a young man now in the unfamiliar body of a female, he was at the most vulnerable, emotionally. I mustered every bit of parenting I could to get him through that day. And he just sat there, quietly detached, with this blank look on his new face, trying to process it. And I had to pretend like I knew everything would be ok.
I returned to my room and held my breath as I flicked on the light, unsure what I would find: there lay a middle-aged woman sprawled face-down on the side of the bed where Leon had been sleeping. Leon was now Peter's wife, Meredith. And when he woke up, he was not pleased about it.
I tried to break it to him gently, watching over him until he stirred, and asking "Leon, are you awake? I've got some bad, weird news, so brace yourself." He seemed to understand and accept that we had transformed, pretty quickly all things considered, (after a lengthy round of "What the fuck, what the fuck, holy shit, I've got a p*ssy," etc.) He would not stop complaining about it, saying I should be the "chick" and he the "dude." I told him I didn't know how we ended up like we did.
A couple of girls - the real Lauren and Tasha, who had arrived at the Inn under the guise of a young married couple (I had seen them but paid no mind) - took us aside and explained the finer details, after we had picked up most of the broad strokes. While we were conferring, I caught my son fidgeting and examining parts of his body.
"Mase!" I hissed, "Don't touch--- uh, I mean, go someplace private, okay?" He went back to the room, sullen and embarrassed. I wasn't sure what the protocol should be, but I didn't want to give him the impression that his body wasn't his to touch. Still, if I had a daughter, I wouldn't want her fidgeting with her breasts in a crowd of strangers. Leon as doing the same, but I couldn't stop him from doing so. I just wanted him to set more of an example.
"Okay, I'm a chick but do I have to be such an ugly one?" Leon said, examining Meredith's face in the mirror. I wouldn't describe her as ugly, only that she looked her age, which incidentally was still younger than Leon by a bit. She was in her early 40's, with short, light-colored hair, and a few frown lines, bags under her eyes... with a thin waist, but very round hips and thighs, and breasts that Leon described, disturbingly, as "Sag-a-licious."
"Leon, I understand we're all shocked, but could you keep your attitude more appropriate while my son is around? Try to be positive? He doesn't need to dwell on the negatives situation."
Leon scoffed and used some more vulgar language to describe his new appearance. He started drinking quickly.
Tasha and Lauren instructed us that we could probably find some kind of letter or note explaining who the Malinowskis were and what had become of them, and an impassioned plea to safeguard their lives. It seemed the responsible thing to do, if burdensome. But their letter made no mention of a daughter, only a son - Trevor. I had seen a strapping teenage boy around the Inn over the morning but hadn't had time to ask who he was or anything. That turned out to be Cathy, whose appearance inspired jealousy in Leon. She didn't seem too fazed by it either, all things considered.
The note that Trevor had left her was the one that chilled me... because the Malinowski didn't have a daughter. The girl my son now appeared to be was a local girl who snuck away from her parents to spend the night with Trevor. That explained why the baggage we found there wasn't for her, and there was only the barest minimum of personal effects for her stashed away in Trevor's room: one clearly worn set of clothes, and a clutch purse containing a hastily-written note that agreed with Trevor's. It identified her as Brooke Shaner.
I had even seen a posting asking for information on her whereabouts. People were looking for her, and if my son was now her, then taking him across state lines, either to the Malinowski's home in Delaware or mine in Illinois, would be a felony. My heart completely stopped as I realized my only options were to break the law or surrender my son to strangers, leaving him alone and vulnerable and trapped in a strange body that didn't match his mind.
I mulled it over for a bit and concluded Mason was old enough to be involved in the discussions. So at the end of the day I sat him down on the bed. He was a sad sight, shoulders hunched, hair tangled over his girlish face, which was red and streaked by dried tears he clearly didn't want me to see.
"Hey, buddy, listen. We are in a really tough situation right now. You understand, right? What's happened to us?"
"Uh huh," he sighed. "I'm... I turned into a girl."
"Right," I said, "A specific girl. Someone who is missing, someone whose parents are worried right now. And as a parent, I understand what they're going through. And if you walked through their door right now, they would be very happy, very relieved. But if I let that happen, I would feel like I was abandoning you. I have a responsibility to you. And if you don't want to go, I will do my best to protect you and keep you safe."
"I'm so confused," he sniffed, choked up, "You want me to go live with strangers?"
"No I don't want that at all," I insisted, "But like I said, it's a tough choice. And we're going to make it together. I can't get us back to our own lives, our own bodies, but that doesn't mean... I don't think it means we're stuck. Not forever. I'm going to get us out of this."
He froze for a moment, then said quietly, "I don't want to go."
I wrapped my arms around him. He resisted at first - hugs were always kind of an awkward moment between us and now he was in a body that wasn't his and clearly uncomfortable just being touched - but he wrapped his thin arms around me, and I said into his ears "It's going to be okay, I love you, it's going to be okay."
I didn't sleep at all that night. Partly was that after waking up to such a shock, you find it difficult to get comfortable in the Inn. Partly, I was head-to-toe with Leon and had his Meredith-feet in my face (he first demanded I sleep on the floor but I told him that wasn't feasible.) Mostly I was trying to come up with ways to smuggle my son out of the state. Would we go to Illinois first, or Delaware? Would they be looking for her at the airport, or would we have to drive? What if we cut her hair, disguised her with make-up... would we have to hide her in the trunk?
KNOCK KNOCK.
A loud rapping at the door at 6 am. Oh, no, I thought, what now.
My worst fears: a pair of police officers were canvassing the Inn holding a picture of Brooke. "Sorry to wake you sir, but we got a tip that this girl might be at this Inn."
I had to think quick and stammered, "I, um... I think..." I sighed, reluctantly, "Yeah, I think I saw her but I don't know if she's still here."
"But she was here?"
I tried to backpedal "I don't know, there was a girl here but I didn't get a... uh, good look at her."
"Do you mind if we search your room? Just as a precaution."
"I, um... yeah, sure." I gritted my teeth, trying to figure out a way to stall them.
Leon stirred, deeply hung over, "What the fuck, Glenn?"
"These cops are looking for a missing girl... honey," I said, playing husband.
One of them asked, "Your name, sir?"
"P-Peter..." it took me a moment to recall "my" new last name, "Melanski." I got it wrong, but they didn't check. They also didn't ask why my "wife" had called me "Glenn." Leon just laid there, muttering "Fuckin' pigs" under his breath while I tried to hush him.
As soon as they left I scrambled for my phone to text Mason, but I paused... if I warned him, it could be incriminating. If I did anything I could be in trouble. I froze.
I watched them bring my son outside to the Shaner family, who were waiting for their daughter.
I had failed.
When Mason turned to look at me, with a look of fear and confusion on his face, I mouthed, "I tried, I'm so sorry. I love you."
I felt like the worst father, the worst person ever.
I had waited a day to contact the real Malinowskis, currently in Albany, because I didn't know what my plan was going to be. Now it felt like nothing I did mattered, so I agreed to take Leon and Cathy to Delaware. The real Peter is an amenable person, which probably is partly due to currently feeling helplessly trapped in the body of a ten-year-old girl. We started working on plans right away to get everyone back where they belonged, but I could only think of my son.
I worried the whole way about how I was going to contact him, how I was going to rescue him. I didn't have a phone number for Brooke, and he had left his phone in his/Leon's room. But Cathy reminded me that kids today have a huge social media presence, and he would probably still check his own Facebook profile.
I sent him a message from mine: "We are in Delaware. Tell me if you're OK. I still want to help you, to fix this."
It wasn't until the next day that I got a reply: "I'm ok."
I didn't press him for more details, but if I'm being honest, I wanted to shake him until he told me everything he had been through. I had a hard enough time getting two words out of him when things were normal, and now we were separated and there was a chance I'd never see him again. I asked for more details as politely as I could and he just said "Don't really wanna talk about it. Sorry."
I want him to feel like he can come to me, but now there's this huge wedge between us... he's going through something that I can't fully comprehend, and we're so far apart it's like I'm not even his dad. I don't know what to do... but I'm determined to do something.
Anyway, that's my story. So far. Thanks for hearing me out.
-Glenn, "Peter Malinowski" Stevenson
Postscript: I have invited Mr. Stevenson to take part in our blog, and would extend that invitation to any member of his "family." His response was that it took him so long to compose this letter that he didn't see regular contributions as practical, but would consider checking in when he was able to, hopefully when there is good news. Best of luck! -T.
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I recently read an article about a Philadelphia dad's response to a school's letter over kids' absences.
The dad, a radio personality took his children out of school to watch him and his wife run in the Boston Marathon. He turned this opportunity into a family vacation, visiting historical hot spots in Boston.
Days later, he received a letter from his kids' school principal warning him about the inexcusable absences by his children. What the dad did could be an eye opener for most of us.
While he appreciated the concern the school had for his children's education, he wrote back to the school stating how much more the children learned in the five days they were in Boston than they would ever learn in the entire year at school.
It was touching to see the dad write how the children learnt about dedication, commitment, love, perseverance, overcoming adversity, civic pride, patriotism, American history culinary arts and physical education apart from the absolute delight of seeing their father overcome injury, bad weather, death of a loved one and many other obstacles to achieve his goal.
Having said this, think about all the education we received in the years we spent in high school, college, university and beyond.
Education gave us the sensibility to see the right and wrong in things, understand the world we live in, gave us the confidence to live in the society that is always ready to throw challenges at us.
But, when you look back at life, most critical learning is not what is gathered at school, but by experiences that life has thrown at us. Does that make education any less valuable? Perhaps not. But, formal education no longer teaches life skills that will help people carry with them after school.
Think of the role that communication has in your job, business, family, relationship, life in general. It can make or break your life, and yet this most important aspect of life is not taught enough at school. Drowned in the new age media, youth today have lost touch with communication, especially verbal communication. Schools could do much more by imparting communication skills on students.
Strangely while every school is eager to see its students graduate with flying colours and land themselves in plum positions in their careers, they never teach the students how to handle personal finance. How to earn better, how to budget your house hold expenses, when to plan for loans, how to save — are what life's experiences teach you.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them. World today has become a complex platform, the challenges today need critical thinking, creative solutions and problem solving capabilities. With the monotony built in the curriculum, Schools leave very little option for students to explore and use imagination that will further their creative thinking & problem solving capabilities.
As much as schools promote competition and co-operation, young minds are first robbed of their confidence at school, when they are often compared with one another, be it in their academic grades, sports or other activities. You may have had the most brilliant idea, but if it does not find place in the rule book, your idea is scrapped and thrown in the bin, along with your confidence. This experience could corrupt the idea of innovation in many, bruise confidence and belief in self.
If you can't be flexible in life, you become irritable with life. It is the flexibility in the stem that makes the tree stands in the storm. It is flexibility in behaviour that makes a human win hearts. Most Organisations look for people who are ready to adapt to situations and learn or pick new skills rather than losing relevance by sticking to the job description they were hired for.
The role of school and education cannot be undermined. They for sure are the pillars of success. No matter how much we hated waking early in the morning, especially on a chilly day or how much midnight oil we burnt before exams, school will hold the best memories for us and show us the path to success. So, couple your school education with life skills that will help you climb the ladder of success.
Mr Sriram is the founder and chief mentor of Kuza Biashara Limited, a capacity building organisation coaching youth and SME owners in Kenya. Sri chairs Entrepreneurs' Organisation for Africa and can be reached at sri@kuzabiashara.co.ke and via Twitter: @Sbharatam.


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One of my best memories form last October was pulling rocks out of the ground to get the garden started. It was a real therapeutic experience for me. Every time I pulled a rock out of the ground, I would think; "One less rock in the garden!". So simple, so tangible, so real... ...so awesome! That's when I realized I didn't work with my hands enough at home and acknowledged that humans have a need to build and grow things. I think that a lot of us are losing touch with that aspect of being human, including me. Many of the things we do these days happen on a desk or on a screen and we don't get to experience the satisfaction of watching something we created come to life. Coming back to see the state of the garden 8 months later was truly satisfying. It looks beautiful. At least once a day, I take time to walk through, look, touch and smell... It's amazing to witness how it changes from one day to the next. Not to mention it will provide food for the kids. If you've never done it, try growing something!


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Being that sort of nerd, I have always tried to find a way that someone who has achieved philosophical mastery of a skill (the iconic example being Musashi and swordsmanship) to be able to reflect how that mastery affects the other things they do. This is one of those ideas that's either really obvious or makes no sense, depending on how you think about it.
I've spent an unreasonable amount of thought on this, but the other night realized I've made my life too complicated. It's as simpel as this: Make the skill an aspect. Invocations kick in when you can spin the tale of how the mastery transcends.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2013 by Rob Donoghue.
Have you ever started a new endeavor, and gone "Oh, hey, this is just like !" and gotten utility out of that insight? Sort of "Oh, hey, baking is just like programming!" It's that, writ dramatically large.
Both (I think) – the effect will still probably be a +2, the tale spinning is more about how to describe the (possibly non-obvious) ways that the aspect applies to the situation – like why my basket-weaving skill is helping my swordsmanship.
So, like this, I am Musashi and I have "Swordsmaster of the school of the strategy of two heavens as one" aspect.


I've been weaving for about 18 months now and still exploring the possibilities of my rigid heddle loom and my 4 harness table loom. I've also discovered that weaving is a good complement to my woodworking interests, so I can switch between projects and the woodworking has contributed needed items for the weaving work. Lease sticks, pick up sticks, and even boat shuttles have come out of the shop.
The latest projects on the table loom were placemats. Some went for Christmas gifts and others ended up on our table. I've just finished a set of placemats in complementary plain weave from Tom Knisely's book, Handwoven Table Linens. I had some questions as I planned the projects and I was thankful for the help and advice from the WGM staff and other members who were willing to help a novice.
I've done a couple of projects using the same draft, but with different yarns and/or colors. It's been very enlightening and enjoyable to see the weaving appear on the loom and to see the interplay of color, pattern, and yarns in each project.
Here are a couple of pictures of my table loom and the latest placemats to come off the loom. The last photo is my wife modeling the shawl I wove last summer for our 50th anniversary trip to Paris. She really adds to the look of the shawl.
I registered for a couple of WGM classes this winter, and there are a few new projects already lined up for Spring. Fun, fun, fun.


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A Tribute To MaryLee Allen
By Matthew Melmed
On June 13, MaryLee Allen, the Children's Defense Fund's longtime Director of Policy and a dedicated voice for children across the nation, passed away.
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The children's advocacy community was profoundly saddened by the recent death of a highly esteemed and much beloved colleague, MaryLee Allen. While she worked across many policy areas—and could frequently be heard exclaiming that "children don't come in pieces"—her greatest influence was in the child welfare area. For those of us who work on these issues, MaryLee was the beacon we all followed, and it is difficult to imagine going about our work without her wisdom and leadership. Yet, even as we grieve over her loss, we celebrate the exemplary life she led and how much she gave, not just to the children whose lives she helped improve, but to those of us who were fortunate enough to work with her. In ZERO TO THREE parlance, we cannot think of anyone who better embodied our touchstone: how you are is as important as what you do.
MaryLee was the longest-serving staff member at the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and during her 42 years there, helped build CDF into the iconic children's organization it is today. Her career there started with data collection, conducted with future First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham, on why children were out of school in the United States. This work influenced the enactment of what we now know as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the first in a long line of major transformational legislation to which MaryLee's work contributed, the most recent being the Family First Prevention Services Act.
In a tribute on the Children's Defense Fund's website, Marian Wright Edelman called her "a brilliant, passionate, persevering, caring servant leader—not a self-serving leader—committed to helping build a world fit for children." These words capture the essence of MaryLee. She was not interested in being at the top of a pyramid, even though her grasp of child welfare policy was revered by all, but rather a key part of an interwoven web of advocates and policy makers. She was adept at encouraging others to venture into areas she saw needed attention. In ZERO TO THREE's case, she encouraged our formation of and enthusiastically participated in an ad hoc working group on infants and toddlers in the child welfare system that led to the report, A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers. She was a supporter of our Safe Babies Court Team™ work from its early days. As the leader of the Child Welfare and Mental Health Coalition, she created a welcoming space to convene advocates, share knowledge among ourselves, and learn about the major issues and legislative currents of the day. Her mentorship and leadership in the coalition ensures the legacy of her work will continue to endure and grow for the years and decades to come.
The role of mentor will be one of the most lasting parts of MaryLee's legacy. Over her four decades at CDF, she helped hundreds of staff and interns find their footing, learn how to do their jobs with integrity, and grow into confident leaders themselves. She was a trusted sounding board and guide for Congressional staff over many decades, providing both institutional policy knowledge and sage advice, never a hard sell. You would be hard pressed to find an children's advocacy organization without the fingerprints of MaryLee's generous leadership and mentorship on it, and ZERO TO THREE is no exception.
As we go about our work, it is important to remind ourselves that great things can be accomplished through kindness and generosity as long as we always keep our sights on the children whose lives we strive to improve. While we feel this loss keenly, we can honor MaryLee by continuing to act on our commitment to policies that ensure every baby has the opportunity to realize their full potential.
Matthew Melmed


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