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Category: Spirit of Georgetown
Title: What It's Like To Attend Georgetown as a Non-Catholic: Takeaways From Current and Former Students
Date Published: January 25, 2022
Students of all religious and non-religious backgrounds have the opportunity to explore spiritual life at Georgetown. As part of our Spirit of Georgetown storytelling series, we spotlight students who found their faith deepened through community connections, academic study and encounters with other faith traditions.
The oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the United States, Georgetown provides Catholic community members plenty of opportunities to engage with Ignatian spirituality and Catholic traditions through services, retreats, dialogues, immersion programs and more.
But with the largest and most diverse Campus Ministry in the United States, Georgetown is committed to serving students of all religious and non-religious backgrounds in their intellectual and spiritual formation and deepening interreligious dialogue and understanding.
Ari Filler (SFS'23) grew up "fairly religious" in the reform wing of Judaism. His mom worked at their synagogue, he had a bar mitzvah and he went to Hebrew school once or twice a week, but it was never a big deal if he missed a Friday evening Shabbat blessing. And while Filler felt connected to his faith, it was a peripheral part of his life back home.
That would soon change at Georgetown.
During his first year, Filler went with his roommate to a Shabbat service at the Makóm, an on-campus gathering space for Georgetown's Jewish community. He kept going back, drawn to a Jewish community of students his age.
"Growing up, religion was something I was handed — I gained a lot from my faith, but I was Jewish because I was born Jewish," says Filler. "At Georgetown, Judaism is something I've chosen, and honestly it's been an easy choice. Getting to come together at Shabbat services with a group of people as warm and lively as Georgetown's Jewish community is always the perfect way for me to end a long week."
Ari Filler with his rabbi and cantor followed by his moms and sister during his bar mitzvah in 2013.
Filler continued his weekly practice of attending Shabbat, and recently attended the Shabbaton: Jewish Life Retreat at the Calcagnini Contemplative Center — Georgetown's retreat center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The first Catholic university to hire a full-time rabbi, Georgetown offers lots of opportunities to participate in Jewish life through services, retreats, co-curricular groups, academic engagement and more.
Filler was also eager to learn about other faith traditions at Georgetown. He attended services in the Georgetown Masjid and Copley Crypt, and looks back fondly on the mini Catholic mass his first-year residential minister would say in his New South apartment before serving brownies on Thursday nights.
"I think there's a lot you can learn not just about other faiths, but also about your own faith and the value of faith to you by interacting with people from other religions and learning about other religions."
In doing so, he found connections between the Jesuit values and his own faith — particularly the Jewish concept of b'tselem elohim — that all people were made "in the image of God."
"We cannot have any sort of hate in our hearts because all humans are made in the image of God," says Ari. "I think there's definitely a meaningful overlap there with the concept of cura personalis — care for the whole person, care for every person — which seems to be inherently because we're all children of God in some sense."
Jesuit Values By Another Name
Doha Maaty at Georgetown's Masjid in front of the Ayat-al-Kursi, the 255th verse of the 2nd chapter in the Quran. "It is considered a prayer and a treasure and is recommended to be memorized and recited daily, especially after waking up and before going to sleep as a form of protection," says Maaty.
Doha Maaty (NHS'23) moved from Egypt to Montana when she was five years old. She grew up practicing Islam with her family, but did not know many other Muslim Americans her age. When choosing a college, Maaty was looking for bigger Muslim and Arab communities to feel a part of.
"The journey that I was on was one that I think a lot of Muslim Americans face because we tend to not see a lot of representation in our broader communities," says Maaty. "By going to college, it's something that helped push me, and I'm sure others as well, to find my own path and my own representation and spark for my religion."
Before she made her final decision, she was surprised to find a handwritten note from Georgetown's Muslim chaplain, Yahya Hendi, expressing his excitement about her acceptance and welcoming her to the Georgetown community.
"I didn't realize that that was something that people had on campus — an Imam, like an actual Muslim leader to be there, especially at a Jesuit institution."
In fact, Georgetown was the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain in 1999. Encouraged by Imam Hendi's note and excited about the prospect of studying in Washington, DC, Maaty chose Georgetown.
In one of her first acts as a global health major, Maaty enrolled in CURA: A Healthcare Pre-Orientation Program, which leverages Georgetown's Jesuit values to help explain the obligations of a career in health care. While she was expecting more of a focus on medicine than Jesuit identity in the program, she was surprised by how much the Jesuit values intersected with many in her own faith.
"The Greater Glory of God is also something that can be seen throughout Islam and the history and practices — even as simple as just being able to be there for something bigger than yourself," says Maaty. "Women and men for others — being there and listening and taking care of people, serving them, visiting the sick, being kind, and so many other beliefs and practices — those are such big points in Islam that represent a lot of how we carry ourselves as Muslims."
"We cannot have any sort of hate in our hearts because all humans are made in the image of God. I think there's definitely a meaningful overlap there with the concept of cura personalis — care for the whole person, care for every person — which seems to be inherently because we're all children of God in some sense."
— Ari Filler (SFS'23)
Maaty found a Muslim community at Georgetown, and is now president of the Muslim Student Association, where she often brings together different religious organizations. In pursuing a Justice and Peace Studies (JUPS) minor, Maaty hopes to connect her faith, academic interests and extracurricular work to bring about a more peaceful world.
"That's one of the reasons I ended up going into the JUPS minor," says Maaty. "I wanted to understand how I can look to the 'other side' and integrate justice and peace into conversations and have that holistic understanding of who people are and what 'different' communities can do to help each other."
'The Common Goal of Humanity'
Shana Shin (MSB'22) describes her parents as "very Buddhist." In coming to Georgetown, she was curious to gain an academic perspective on her family's Buddhism tradition. In her junior year, Shin enrolled in Buddhism and Film, taught by Professor Francisca Cho.
Shin was surprised to learn how many of her own values — values she thought she held independently of any religion or culture — were actually informed by Buddhism. She was also surprised to find how interested non-Buddhist students were in learning about her religion.
"In class where a lot of non-Buddhist students expressed their interest in learning Buddhism and showing their understanding of…the religion that has a very different view of the world was very inspiring," Shin says.
Shana Shin and her parents meditate on prayer mats at a meditation center in South Korea.
Following the class, Shin wanted to learn more — about Buddhism, about Buddhism on a Catholic and Jesuit campus and about the benefits of interreligious understanding. So she started a blog project in partnership with Campus Ministry.
"In a broader sense, there are so many conflicts in the world that are caused by different religious beliefs," says Shin. "Focusing on understanding the differences but at the same time understanding the commonalities and emphasizing the common goal of humanity in general will be important for us to deal with the conflicts in the world and ultimately collaborate with each other."
"I wanted to understand how I can look to the 'other side' and integrate justice and peace into conversations and have that holistic understanding of who people are and what 'different' communities can do to help each other."
— Doha Maaty (NHS'23)
Georgetown was the first American university to hire a full-time Hindu chaplain, who also serves students of other Dharmic faiths such as Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism as the director of Hindu and Dharmic Life.
A December 2021 graduate, Shin takes her next steps toward building a more peaceful world with a greater appreciation for the role religion plays in her life and the lives of others.
"I'm very confident that my Georgetown experience helped me to develop understanding not only Buddhism, but also other religions as well," she says.
Writing Your Own Life Story
Grace Smith (C'18) did not choose Georgetown because she is Catholic. In fact, she chose Georgetown in large part because she's not.
Smith grew up celebrating holidays across all types of religious and cultural traditions that were important to those around her: Christmas and Easter for her dad; Passover for her dad's best friend; Diwali for her best friend; and Chinese New Year for herself.
"My mom would always say that we grew up on the combo platter of religions," says Smith.
When it came time to pick a college, Smith wanted to find a place where she could continue to challenge and refine her beliefs.
Though Georgetown was the first Catholic university to establish an LGBTQ Resource Center in 2008 — a center Smith would go on to be be very involved with during her time at Georgetown — she was worried about how her queer identity and "combo platter" religious background would fit with Georgetown's Catholic and Jesuit values.
Grace Smith promised to "be brave" during Coming Out Day in Georgetown's Red Square in 2015.
Ultimately, Smith decided she wanted that tension — a place where she could further her own personal and academic growth by discovering how her identity fit into Georgetown's.
"Attending Georgetown as a non-Catholic student means challenging yourself to figure out who and what you are going to show up for," says Smith. "It's a powerful opportunity for self-definition."
She was surprised by what she found.
When Smith arrived on campus, she found stability and familiarity in regularly attending Shabbat services, just as Filler did. But she continued to explore other services that were meaningful to her friends as she had when she was younger.
Ultimately, Smith found that exploring different faith traditions was not contrary to Georgetown's Jesuit, Catholic mission — it was essential to advancing interreligious understanding.
"It didn't feel antithetical to the Catholic mission or Jesuit mission of the school in so much as I feel like it embodied the best hope that Georgetown could have," she says.
Filler's exploration of his faith deepened not only his connection to the Jewish community at Georgetown, but began to change his outlook, too.
"I've definitely become more religious since getting to Georgetown," says Filler. "In high school, I don't think anyone would have characterized me being this way, but now a lot of people I meet describe me as wildly optimistic, or just always seeing the sunny side of things. And I think that's in large part because of Judaism."
Like others who deepened their faith through community connections, academic study and encounters with other religions, Maaty understands through her own Muslim faith tradition that the journey toward interreligious understanding is deeply personal — but Georgetown will help each person along the way.
"Interreligious understanding means and symbolizes a lot to me because of my religious background," says Maaty. "In Islam it's very important to understand where others are coming from and meet people where they are. And it's one of the biggest things that we take away when interacting with others — every person has their own life story."
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Kat st. Kat	in Life, North Carolina, Throwback	 October 13, 2014 October 13, 2014 700 Words
Unhappiness: The Movie
The first script I ever completed (not counting the handwritten childhood plays I put on in my living room wearing my mother's sequin dresses for an audience of exactly zero) was as short film I co-wrote with Alex in 2007 for our group project in the Carolina Production Guild. The film was called "Unhappiness," and starred the two of us as an even more bitter and disaffected version of our post-teen selves. Actually, I had only just turned 18 at the time. The premise, I guess, is that the two of us are best friends who hate everyone and everything and can't seem to get anything right. I slip in the shower getting ready for school. We sit in the quad complaining about how sunny it is. We force-feed ourselves at the local sludge buffet while complaining about the food. We make fun of a homeless guy. Then, at the end, we both call our parents and cry about how hard college is and how depressed we are because we have no friends.
When it came time to actually shoot the film, the production was a huge mess. Alex and I couldn't focus on anything and fucked around the entire time. The rest of our crew were actually interested in producing a movie, so they effectively wasted a weekend standing around disgruntled watching two totally vain underclassmen obnoxiously act out a movie they wrote about how obnoxious they are. By the time the sun was setting on the last day, we'd only shot about 3/4 of our scenes, and Alex and I waged a french fry fight in the courtyard across from the Franklin Street McDonald's while our three-person crew sat around, equipment in hand, bored and annoyed. It was amazing.
When we got to the editing lab, we realized that in addition to not even shooting our entire script, there had also been a major audio fuck up for the scenes we actually filmed. As in, none of it had been recorded. No audio whatsoever, out of two whole days of not working really really hard. We had to re-record every scene in voiceover and dub over each individual shot. By that I mean, Alex and I provided the voices in between singing songs from Britney's "Blackout" while Brandon, our director, did most of the actual, technical work. Looking back, the two of us must have had major undiagnosed cases of ADD, because at points we were just blurting out lines that weren't in the script and INSISTING they were funny enough to make it into the final cut.
We presented the movie at the CPG screening by standing up in the auditorium, giggling.
"This is a movie by assholes, for assholes" we said to the crowd.
Embarrassed by the fact that it wasn't really a movie at all, we watched the final product while slumped down in our seats, laughing hysterically, hiding our blushing faces.
When it was the next group's turn to present, they made their own announcement:
"Well we're not assholes, so we decided to make something beautiful."
The group then unveiled their film, a dramatic period piece set in the Depression, sepia toned and everything, about a man whose wife dies from Typhus or something.
It was the hardest I laughed in 2007.
Now, seven years later, and I often wonder what became of our movie. There is no record of it having ever existed – Alex and I don't even have a copy of our original script. We never did another year of CPG, because at that point we were pretty sure they all hated us. I hope if we are ever a success someone from the Guild will dig it out of whatever old hard drive it may be in and put it on youtube for us and the world to laugh at.
In any case, we had attempted to make something funny based on real experiences. It didn't turn out so beautiful, because we were just disorganized kids making fun of ourselves. But it was honest. And I guess if the only thing I ever achieve in life is a volume of bad but honest work, well, that'll suck. But it wouldn't be the worst thing.
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Explore Ancient Rome on a walking tour of the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill, and skip the lines to enter the popular attractions with an expert guide. Learn about the Roman Empire, see the tomb of Julius Caesar, and stop at the Via Sacra.
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Skip the long lines to see the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill in Rome
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Avoid the long lines outside of some of Rome's most popular ancient attractions and get skip-the-line entry to the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill. The tour is led by professional guides who will explain the history of Rome and introduce you to some of the most notorious Roman emperors.
Included with your privileged priority entrance to the archeological areas are headsets that will help you to hear your guide better. You will visit one of the most famous monuments in the world, the Colosseum, the immense amphitheater that was the largest ever built by the Roman Empire. Imagine the gladiatorial fights and public spectacles that took place in the arena.
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Transgender woman attacked last month found dead in East Dallas
By Jaime Dunaway|2019-06-04T09:33:20-05:00May 20th, 2019|Crime Reports, News|5 Comments
A transgender woman was found fatally shot in East Dallas on Saturday morning, about a month after a viral video showed her being attacked outside an apartment complex, authorities said.
Police identified the woman as 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker. Officers found her body face down in the 7200 block of Valley Glen Drive around 6:40 a.m near the Tenison Park Golf Course.
In a press conference Sunday, police said they did not have any leads in the case. They do not know if the slaying was a hate crime.
In April, an online video showed Booker being punched and kicked outside the Royal Crest Apartments in the 3500 block of Wilhurt Avenue in Oak Cliff. The fight, in which Booker received a concussion and broken wrist, began after a car accident, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Edward Thomas, 29, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He posted bond and was released from jail, police said.
Booker's death was one of 23 homicides so far in May, police said at the news conference. Eighteen of those cases have been solved.
"We hold human life dearly," assistant police chief Avery Moore said. "But we recognize not everyone does. We will actively and aggressively pursue you."
Mayor Mike Rawlings also responded to the slaying on Twitter.
I am deeply saddened to learn of the murder of Muhlaysia Booker. I call on anyone with information on this homicide to please contact the Dallas Police Department.
— Mike Rawlings (@Mike_Rawlings) May 20, 2019
About the Author: Jaime Dunaway


Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened-meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border.
Francisco X. Stork is the author of Marcelo in the Real World, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens and the Once Upon a World Award; The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, which was named to the YALSA Best Fiction for Teens list and won the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award; Irises; and The Memory of Light, which received four starred reviews. He lives near Boston with his wife. You can find him on the web at www.franciscostork.com and @StorkFrancisco.
*Starred Review* As a reporter for El Sol newspaper in Juárez, Mexico, Sara tirelessly writes reports on las desaparecidas-girls who suddenly vanish from their homes. It's more than just a job: her best friend, Linda, disappeared several months ago. Meanwhile, her younger brother, Emiliano, is hard at work earning what he can from small jobs to help support Sara and their mother. When an opportunity arises to increase his family's finances, he jumps at the chance, only to find out that his dreams of a better life lay in the town's most lucrative industry-the drug trade. Both siblings find out how much danger they are in when Sara receives threats on her life that may involve Emiliano's potential business partners. Together, the siblings flee to safety toward the U.S. border. The plight of las desaparecidas is all too real for girls all over Mexico, and Stork does not shy away from the facts of human trafficking, the drug industry, and the senseless violence that accompanies them. Stork uses parallel story lines to flesh out the two protagonists and then slowly brings them together to a harrowing climax. Not only does this result in a riveting story, it also highlights the harsh complexity of young Mexicans' lives. Readers will find this thrilling as well as eye-opening. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
Sara Zapata and her brother, Emiliano, do their best to survive with their integrity intact while their beloved Juárez is overrun and endangered by a web of criminals that even involve the police and local government officials.Sara is a journalist who writes about her best friend, Linda, the latest girl kidnapped by the cartels. The heartfelt story sends ripples through the community, and the paper receives grateful letters from the families of other kidnapped girls—and death threats warning her to drop her investigation. Meanwhile, Emiliano is prospering after his foray into petty thefts and subsequent capture ushered him under the wing of Brother Patricio, the leader of his explorer club, the Jiparis, and his soccer coach. Emiliano's a star soccer player and has started a side business selling some Jiparis' artisan crafts to shop owners. Despite this, he's still too poor to date his crush, Perla Rubi, so when he's tempted into the same web of criminals that are c oming after Sara and have taken Linda, the pull of wealth and a future with Perla Rubi is stronger than his need to do the right thing. Stork deftly writes criminals who aren't monsters but men who do monstrous things, and while his understanding of Emiliano's coming-of-age is fully engaging, he really impresses with his evocation of Sara's need to navigate the advances of men she knows and doesn't know and the powerful women equally dangerous to her. A tense thriller elevated by Stork's nuanced writing and empathy for every character, including the villains—superb. (Thriller. 12-adult) Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
Sara clicks on the third e-mail and her heart stops. The subject line says puchi. That's Linda and Sara's secret word. Heart racing now, Sara clicks on the attachment. It's a picture. It isn't Linda, but another beautiful young woman, about sixteen or seventeen, grimacing as if she smells something bad. She's sitting in what looks like a nightclub booth, next to an older man whose bald head has fallen to his chest as if he's passed out. On the table in front of them are an empty bottle of expensive Scotch whiskey and two thick crystal glasses. Next to the man is an ashtray with a cigarette still burning. Everything looks expensive in a cheap kind of way. The picture is off-center, rushed, like someone got up, leaving his cell phone behind, and someone else snapped a picture and sent it. Someone else. Linda. Linda knew that one of Sara's jobs at El Sol is checking the hotline. And only Linda would use "puchi" for the old man. Sara's head spins. She doesn't recognize the nightclub, but she doesn't go to places like that often. And this wouldn't be just any club, otherwise Linda would come home. This must be a place where girls are kept against their will. If Linda was at the table with the puchi guy, she must be kept by these men too. Then she realizes: Someone deleted the hotline e-mails. That means the criminals know Linda sent the e-mail. The thought of what they might do to her takes Sara's breath away. She calls Ernesto. "Hey," she says, struggling to keep her voice calm. "Any way you and the Jacqueros can find out who the guy in the picture is?" "Hold on. Okay, I'm looking at it now. It's kind of hard to see his face. I'll send it to my guys. There's a ring on his finger that might help. That e-mail address is clearly an alias. We'll see if we can trace it. What are you thinking? Is the girl in the picture a Desaparecida?" "I'm about to check the files now. She looks familiar for some reason. But the e-mail was definitely sent by my friend Linda." Sara swallows. "You know, the one I talk about all the time." "You positive?" "Puchi was a special code word we used. Ernesto, this is really serious and... urgent," she says. "The bad people know the e-mail was sent. They had someone in here delete it. So Linda and the other girl-" "I know," he interrupts. "I know what that means."


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OOTP 20: A Review
We're back for our annual review of the latest version of Out of the Park Baseball and, as cliche as it sounds, this game really does get better every year. There are a handful of really impressive new features this year, in addition to the usual improvements surrounding the graphics, sim accuracy, and AI decision making. This season, for the first time ever, you have the ability to start a new game at any point during the real MLB season and have up-to-date rosters, standings, stats, and ratings that have evolved since the beginning of the season. Also new this year is the ability to employ the opener-follower strategy with your pitching staff without having to manage every game of the season to prevent your AI manager from screwing it up. Finally, the Perfect Game mode has really been expanded after its successful release late in the life cycle of OOTP 19.
I try to dig into a different feature of the game every year, and I was tempted to go with Perfect Game this time, but ultimately decided to put together a tournament of the best Astros teams of all time to see how they would stack up against each other. I took the top 8 Astros seasons, as determined by pythagorean record, and set them up in with a first round, double round-robin followed by two best of seven rounds. Our contestants are, in chronological order, 1981, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2015, 2017, and 2018.
Right off the bat the entire tournament was completely flipped against my expectations, as three of the top four teams failed to make it out of the first round. No teams went undefeated or winless, but the 2018, 2017, 1999, and 2015 squads are already done.
The next round saw both "home" teams prevail, though in very different fashions. 2003 breezed past 1994 with a sweep, while 1998 had to grind out a thrilling 7 game series against 1981.
Our thrilling tourney wrapped up with the 2003 squad finishing their steamrolling of the rest of Astros history, sweeping 1998 in a series that saw an average of over 15 total runs scored per game.
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Q: Formula to calculate fastest minute of a horse race I though of a problem (which is more of a fun to do than anything else), that it's the following:
Is it possible to find a formula (or something similar) that calculates the fastest minute of a horse in a race?
For example, let's take the example of an English Pure Breed.
If we have the horse weight (500kg), average speed (65km/h), and the distance that it ran (400m), can we know the minute it ran faster? If not the minute, a period of time that it went faster, or even the fastest meter or 10 meters?
I know the formula for average speed, but i don't know how that can help with this problem.
I thought of this because when i run with Endomondo app, if i run 10 km, it will give me the average speed for each km, so i know when i went faster and slower, can we produce a formula based on weight, average speed and distance covered?
I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to put this question, if not, please advise where should i put it.

A: No.
With just the averaged and total values, you can not say anything about shorter timeframes. Your app tracks much more than start time and end time and thus can reconstruct a function $s(t)$ describing your path. That function can be differentiated to get values for maximum speeds, etc.
Consider this: The horse could've run at an exactly uniform speed, changed direction or stood still then teleported and you'd have gotten the same average and total values.
BTW: At 65km/h, the 400m are covered in less than half a minute, so technically, you already know the minute it ran the fastest.

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EBT 2018 Stop 03 in Dublin
Published on 21 January 2018 by Kim Thorsgaard Jensen
Anthony Simonsen from USA won the jubilee edition of the Irish Open, which were conducted in Leisureplex Stillorgan as the 30th Irish Open Championships in association with Storm.
The tournament, which appeared in the European Bowling Tour 2018 as Stop 03, was conducted on 14-21 January 2018 in Dublin
It was Anthony Simonsen's first EBT Title and his first highest ranked position.
Nicole Sanders from the Netherlands, who left the tournament in the Quarter Final, became the highest ranked in the women's division for the 9th time in her career.
189 athletes had found their way to Dublin to compete for the 62 spots available for the final steps of the tournament.
Step 1 included 54 bowlers playing 3 games starting from scratch, Step 2 included 32 bowlers playing 3 games starting from scratch and Step 3 included 16 bowlers playing 2 games matches in a pyramid system including Eighth Finals, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and a Final.
The outcome of the three last matches became as follows:
Semi Final 1
Barry Foley, Ireland: 212 + 226 = 438
Edwin van Aarle, The Netherlands: 214 + 187 = 401
Anthony Simonsen, USA: 259 + 205 = 464
Stephen Joyce, Ireland: 226 + 181 = 407
Sin Li Jane from Malaysia is leading the women's division of the tour with 239 points in front of her fellow countrywomen Shalin Zulkifli at position 2 with 208 points and Daria Pajak from Poland at position 3 with 195 points.
Jesper Svensson from Sweden is leading the men's division of the tour with 270 points in front of Rafiq Ismail from Malaysia at position 2 with 260 points and Anthony Simonsen from USA at position 3 with 219 points.
Click here to see the ranking in the Women's Division
Click here to see the ranking in the Men's Division


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Fabrizio's team of physicians advised him that without new kidneys, he would need continued dialysis; but this was only temporary. After extensive medical testing, Fabrizio was placed on the active transplant list at University of Wisconsin Hospital. After many months of prayers and support from his family, Fabrizio received the telephone call that would save his life, and on January 30th, 2016 he received the gift of life, his kidney transplant. After over a week in the ICU, Fabrizio is still in the hospital and slowly regaining his strength and recovering day by day.
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As I ended my last program, I was describing how children in Brave New World were taught moral principles to guide their lives and decisions through the mechanism of "sleep teaching" in which slogans were repeated in their ears thousands of times while they were asleep. It is interesting to note that when "sleep teaching" was first discovered they thought that it could be used to transfer information but they soon discovered that it most effective use was in the shaping of attitudes. Huxley wrote: "They thought that sleep-teaching could be used to teach facts, whereas, it was far more effective in moral education which shapes attitudes. Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstance, to be rational, (that is, based on facts rather than feelings.)"
Although, as far as I know, "sleep teaching" has never been demonstrated to really work, the repetition of slogans in the shaping of attitudes is a well known and effective technique. Our advertisers use it all the time, especially on our children who are constantly bombarded with advertising messages and slogans while watching programs designed for their entertainment. And the effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by the "crazes" and "fads" that sweep the nation and the world as the children bombard their parents with requests for the newest "must have" item that the technicians of advertising have planted in their minds. Pokeyman, Cabbage dolls, Harry Potter, etc… just to mention a few.
However, this is not limited just to the very young. Teenagers, too, are constantly manipulated and influenced through similar methods. Recently I heard two teenage girls say on national TV that their parents would probably be shocked and surprised to know that their values were shaped more by MTV than by their families. And it isn't even necessary for MTV to influence all teenagers because once those who are most visible and out-spoken begin to move in a certain direction, the rest will be drawn to follow. This is what the producers of advertising know as "the bandwagon effect" or the "herd instinct" or what sociologist call "peer pressure." I often refer to it as the "fish effect" based on an experiment that I once saw.
A group of scientists who were studying fish that traveled in schools want to know how its members knew how to change direction with almost lightning speed. Was there a lead fish who, like a drill sergeant, communicated commands like, "Right flank march… left flank march… to the rear march?" To study the question they took slow motion pictures so that they could more closely observe how changes took place. What they discovered was that, although it looked as though all the fish were traveling in the same direction, in reality, there were minor deviations on the edge of the school where fish would break away from the direction of the school. They soon discovered that this happened whenever the fish took his eyes off of the school or the fish in front of him. If others behind were attracted by him, they began to follow and the larger the group, the greater was the pull on others in the school. However, if no one followed the fish that broke off from the school noticed that he was out there all alone, he became frightened and returned to the school. It was like a mathematical equation but it was happening so fast that it was not discernable to the naked eye.
Anyone who has ever been in a group that was asked to vote on an opinion by raising their hands, know the kind of pull that the group can have on its members. First, a few opinioned hands go up. Then those who see them or are closest to them start to feel a pull to raise their hands. The greater the number of hands are raise, the greater is the pull on those with their hands down. On the other hand, if one person raises his hand and no one else follows, he feels a pressure to lower his hand.
It almost seems to be a natural law since even in physics, the larger a body is the greater is its gravitational pull. My point is that the belief that we always think for ourselves is greatly overrated and parents who minimize the effect of these outside pressures that come from the media , other people, or their peers, on their children's behavior are out of touch with their own human nature.
People in general, and young people in particular, are very susceptible to group pressure and those who wish to shape the future know that the most effective way is to shape the young and that is why they target the media and educational institutions to propagandize their views. Notice that they are simply using methods directed at our basic human nature. They didn't invent "the bandwagon effect" or "the herd instinct" or "peer pressure", they merely observed and named them. These inclinations were put into us by God as necessary for group cohesiveness.
So, it would be foolish to deny their existence or to attempt to eradicate them based on the faulty premise that we are suppose to think for ourselves because in many instances this is not possible or feasible. The world is very complex with so many areas of knowledge that we are forced to subdivide realty into many areas of expertise because no one person could master all of it. Thus, in fields like medicine we have specialists and even sub-specialists. Therefore, whether we like it or not, most of us don't have the knowledge, time, or skill to master all of it and we are forced to depend on others who are more highly qualified to inform us on how we should think. This is not something for which we should apologize or be ashamed. It is simply part of our reality. Thus much of our life is based on "faith" which was defined by Brother Elyfus Lewis of LaSalleUniversity as "the assent of our mind on the authority of another."
So the real issue for most of us is "on whom or what do we place our faith?" The idea that we are independent thinkers or are suppose to be independent thinkers is one of the most highly over-rated claim held by human beings. We have all been influenced and are being influenced by others either knowingly or unknowingly.
Atheists like to believe that they are intellectually superior to religious believers because they don't depend on faith when in reality it requires more faith to be an atheist than to be a theist. I often say that I don't have enough faith to be an atheist because I would have to believe that this universe, based on mathematical laws, and loaded with signs of rational intent is the total result of accidental forces. I just don't have enough faith to believe that. Thus, whether we are atheist or theist, in the final analysis, it's all a matter of faith and the issue eventually becomes what is the quality and consequences of the faith. If I am an atheist, I, like the atheist Jean Paul Sartre, am forced to conclude that the universe is accidental, absurd, and without meaning or purpose and, like Sartre, I might be driven to consider suicide when life becomes difficult. If I am a Christian I believe that a loving God created us and the universe and that he so loved us that He sent His only Son to show us the way to the fullness of life and life eternal by learning to sacrifice ourselves out of love for others. It's a "no-brainer". In the Bible, God's final instructions to Moses was "Tell the people that today I put before them life and death, the blessing and the curse. Tell them to choose life!" Only a fool would choose to believe in a path that was meaningless, purposeless, and lifeless.
So my point is that we are forced by the reality of our conditions to depend on others to inform us about our world and, since the full explanation of the experts is often too complicated or technical for the average person, we either accept their conclusions based on faith or we try to encapsulate it in a simple slogan or saying that seems to summarize the major point. Thus Einstein's theory of relativity, which even some scientists don't fully understand, is passed down to us as "It's all relative" and we begin to misapply it into many areas of life without any further understanding or analysis. This sloganize conclusion then gives birth to another unanalyzed conclusion, "Who's to say?" which then gives birth to yet another, "Different strokes for different folks!" And the next thing we know, objective truth has been replaced with subjective feelings which many don't feel any need to analyze or test against reality because the slogan has become an axiomatic fact that needs no further proof. The fact that Einstein, a scientist, believed in an objectively true universe based on mathematics is completely lost to those who misapply his theory. And through their slogans they past on their unexamined conclusions to future generations who also fail to logically examine them. Thus, are the powers of slogans to create mindless acceptance of unexamined statements.
Today we see so-called intelligent people base their conclusions on such slogans as "I don't believe in abortion. I believe in Choice." For example, President Obama, who just recently ordered the release of suspected terrorists from Guatanemo Bay, Cuba and the cessation of techniques considered to be torture, on the basis that, no matter what the threat, we should not resort to methods that undermined our basic beliefs in human rights, blindly failed to see that his support and furtherance of abortion in our country and the world was based on the premise of "there are humans and subhumans, and subhumans have no right that humans need to respect", a premise on which the Dred Scott Decision and the Holocaust was based. In his mind, this premise is totally trumped by the word "Choice!" without any analysis of what is being chosen.
Or what about how catchwords like "equality" that have been subverted and applied in ways that totally undermine "common sense." According to those who misuse it, any type of discrimination is a violation of "equality." Thus, according to them, to deny homosexuals the right to marry is discrimination and a violation of "equal rights." They fail to see that every law discriminates against someone because it denies them the right to do something that they might be inclined to do. Speeding laws discriminate against fast drivers; fraudulent laws discriminate those that falsely represent themselves; laws that set standards of any kind discriminate against those who don't meet the standards. If my lifelong ambition was to be "Miss Black America" the rules preventing my entrance into the contest discriminate against me on the basis of sex and race, a rightly so.
Marriage is a social institution created to regulate and enhance the reproduction, care, and rearing of children and that is why it was directed towards heterosexual couples. It was not created to have the government put its seal of approval and support through marriage on any type of loving relationships that might be formed by its citizens. If that was its purpose, then marriage should be available, and the benefits that go with it, to any loving relationship, such as brother and sister, a sister and a sister, a brother and a brother, a mother and son, a father and daughter etc... and the list goes on and on with any type of loving relationship that the human imagination is capable of creating. To deny any of them would be a form of discrimination and thus a denial of equality to those involved. Such is the logical absurdity of those who argue that marriage should serve a different function than that for which it was really created.
The real objective of those who support homosexual marriage is the normalization of that which is abnormal. It has very little or nothing to do with benefits or any of the other economic perks that accrue to those who are married since homosexuals in general, having no children to support, are financially better off than most married heterosexuals. They are often intelligent and talented people who are well represented in the professions and have little need of the tax benefits or supportive programs offered to heterosexual married couples. And even if they did, there are many single heterosexuals who could claim an equal or greater need.
Thus, the leaders of Brave New World were partly right when they said that moral education should be based on repetition and slogans, never on rational understanding or thought. I said partly right because from the Church's point of view moral principles based on memorization of answers found in the Catechism was alright when we were children and lacked the knowledge and experience to understand. Thus many of us learned as children to memorize answers like "God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in heaven." What most of us didn't know was that the conclusions were a synopsis of the deep analytical thinking of St. Thomas's Aquinas' Summa Theologica.
It was the intent and hope of the Church that the blind faith we had a children would be replaced by rational understanding as adults. Unfortunately for many Catholics it was a hope that never materialized and when they finally reached the age where they were expected to think for themselves, they either rejected the rote answers of childhood as being childish or indefensible or they bought into some other philosophy or church. Like Jesus, and contrary to the leaders of Brave New World, the Church wants us to grow in wisdom and age and knowledge. So let me now conclude my review of Brave New World.
You might wonder how, according to Huxley, Brave New World came about. As the students are finishing their tour of the Hatcheries, where babies are created, it is announced that one of the world Ten Controllers, Mustapha Mond has arrived and he is going to address the students. The book continues:
"His Fordship, Mustapha Mond!" The eyes of the saluting students almost popped out of their heads. Mustapha Mond! The Resident Controller for Western Europe! One of the Ten World Controllers...and he sat down on the bench with the Director, he was going to stay, yes , and actually talk to them... straight from the horse's mouth. Straight from the mouth of Ford, himself.
"You all remember," said the Controller, in his strong deep voice," you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's:' History is bunk!' That's why you're taught no history. But now the time has come..."
The Director looked at him nervously. There were those strange rumors of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller's study. Bibles. poetry... Ford knew what.
"It's alright, Director. "Mustapha Mond said, "I won't corrupt them."
Mustapha Mond leaned forward, shook a finger at them. "Just try to realize it, " he said. "Try to realize what it was like to have a natural mother. " That dirty word again. But none of them dreamed this time of smiling.
"Try to imagine what "with one's family' meant. and do you know what home was?" they shook their heads.
"Home, home- a few small rooms, stuffy, overcrowded. No air, a space, and under-sterlized prison; darkness, disease, and smells." His description was so vivid that one of the students got sick.
"It was a rabbit hole, reeking with emotion." Our Ford- or Our Freud (this is a take-off on Sigmund Freud whose psychoanalytic theory had the same effect on the theories of human behavior as Henry T. Ford's had on the production of goods and services) as, for some unknown reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychoanalytic matters had been the first to reveal the awful dangers of family life (Oedipus Complex). The world was full of fathers- was therefore full of misery; full of mothers- therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts- full of madness and suicide. And there was also husbands, wives and lovers. There was monogamy with one husband or wife and romance. Though you probably don't know what those are, "said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads.
"Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of energy and impulse. 'But everyone belongs to everyone else,' he concluded, repeating the '"sleep teaching" proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with statement that upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
"No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take thing easily without a struggle ; didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the moral laws they were not conditioned to obey; what with the temptation; what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly, how could they be stable? Stability, said the Controller, "stability". No civilization without social stability. (Order) No social stability without individual stability. "Fortunate boys!" said the Controller. "No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy (soft slavery?)- to preserve you, so far as possible, from having emotions at all…"
"Consider your own lives, "said Mustpha Mond. "Has any of you ever had any difficult problem?"....
"I once had to wait nearly four weeks before a girl I wanted would let me have her," a young student said...
"And you felt a strong emotion as a result?"...
"Horrible." said the student.
"Horrible! Exactly," said the Controller.
"Our ancestors were so stupid and shortsighted that when the first reformers came along and offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions, they wouldn't have anything to do with them. Take the Hatcheries. Would the government look at it ? No! There was something called Christianity. Women were forced to have their own children. Sleep-teaching was actually forbidden in England. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the individual. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole. The resisted the Caste System. Every time it was suggested, it was rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal." (Here Huxley is referring to B.F. Skinner's observations about humans.)
"Then came the Nine years' War, the great Economic Collapse. There was a choice between world control and destruction (Note: Will Durant, the historian, said "When freedom destroyed order the need for order will destroy freedom.") Government's an affair of sitting, not hitting. You rule with the brains and buttock, never with the fists. For example, there was a law requiring consumption (buying goods and services). Every loyal citizen was required to buy as much as he could. There was conscientious objection on a large scale. They did anything not to consume. There was a movement back to Nature. Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read."
(In the Nurseries on the floor above them, the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson was over, and the voice of the tape recorder was adapting future demand to industrial supply)
"I do love flying," the tape whispered. "I do love flying, I do love having clothes, I do love clothes. But old clothes are awful," continued the untiring whispered. "We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending; ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches; the more stitches' the less riches. I do love flying...I do love..." The Controller continued:
"Eight hundred Simple Lifers (People wanting to go back to nature) were mowed down by machine guns. Then came the famous British Museum Massacre. Two thousand culture fans gassed with poison gas. In the end," Said Mustapha Mond," the Controllers Realized that force was no good. The slower but surer method of artificial birth, Pavlovian conditioning, and sleep-teaching were introduced. Then there were blowing up of historical monuments and the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150(After Ford). There were books like the Bible and Shakespeare. You've never heard of them of course. Such are the advantages of a really scientific education. Then came the introduction of Our Ford's first T-Model which was chosen as the opening date of the new era. There was a thing, as I've said before called Christianity. It was the ethics and philosophy of under-consumption (e.g. Mother Theresa of Calcutta). It was necessary when there was under-production; but in the age of machines, it was positively a crime against society. All crosses had their tops cut off and became "T's". There was also a thing called God. We have the WorldState now, and Ford's Day celebration,`and Community Sings, and Solidarity Services. There was a thing called a soul and a thing called immortality. But the people used to take morphine, cocaine, and heroin.
"Two thousand pharmacists were paid by the government in A.F. 178 to find a perfect drug. Six years later it was being produced commercially. All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of the defects. Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache."
It only remained to conquer old age. Today at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to retire, take to religion; spend their time reading, thinking, thinking. (Note: the word amusement means "without thought and Gehenna, the Old Testament's word for hell means "empty thought") Now- such is progress - that the old work; the old men have sex; the old men have no time. No rest from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think. And if by some chance they should find time to think and worry (face an antithesis?), there is always "soma pills" (happiness pills)- "a gram is better than a damn!" he said, repeating the sleep-teaching slogan that had been programmed into their heads with over two thousand repetitions. "A gram for a weekend, two grams for a longer trip."
"Go away, little girl!" shouted the Director angrily. "Go away, little boy! Can't you see His Fordship is busy? Go and do your erotic (sexual) play somewhere else."
"Suffer the little children to come unto me." said the Controller. (This is a takeoff on a scene in the New Testament of the Bible where Jesus' Apostles are shooing children away and he reprimands them with the same words.)
As I said, Huxley meant Brave New World to be an example of an Anti-Christ society based on the concept of "soft slavery". Most of us, whenever we thought about an Anti-Christ world dictatorship probably thought of whips, chains, imprisonment, and death. Thus, we get blind-sided by the more insidious "soft slavery" because it, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, seems so gentle and appealing. And that is why it is more dangerous.
The problem may be that we don't understand why Jesus came or what salvation is. Let me suggest that the reason goes way beyond just satisfying the justice demands of an offended God. The natural man, as part of the animal kingdom, is born in Mental Darkness where he, like them, is ruled by blinds passions, drives, and instincts. His rational nature, which makes him in God's image, is a potential more than an actuality. He lives in Gehenna, the place of "empty thought" which is the Old Testaments word for hell. As such, he can never please God, even when he does the right thing, because he is ruled by hedonistic principle based on "pleasure and pain", "reward and punishment." He doesn't love goodness, or God, for its own sake but rather for the reward he might receive or the punishment he might avoid. In order to be acceptable to God, he must be "born again" from the natural to the supernatural level where knowledge and understanding replace feelings, passions, drives, and instincts. To do this he must be willing to follow Wisdom or Truth out of Gehenna, the Kingdom of Darkness, into the Kingdom of Mental Light or Understanding. But he can't to this until he willingly chooses to deny his lower, animal nature and follow his higher rational one. Thus, Jesus, the Wisdom, Logos, and Truth of God, came to show us the way to eternal life through his life, death, and resurrection by rejecting the terror in his flesh experienced in the Garden of Gethsemene and choosing to follow his Father's will. By carrying his cross, dying, and rising from the dead to a higher level, he assured us that his Father's plan for us is that after every crucifixion there will come a resurrection that will take us one step closer to the "fullness of life."
As a result Western Christian society has expressed this vision through its arts, especially its music. Songs like Climb Every Mountain, The Impossible Dream, The Wind Beneath My Wings, are some of the examples of this theme that runs through our culture as a result of our Christian heritage. So I would like to end my program today with another song, You Raised Me Up by Josh Grobin.


Just in the "Nick" of time DIY Hostess Gift!
Need a hostess gift? There is no time left for an elaborate project?
Christmas is coming upon us rapidly. Yikes!
The below project is super easy, a very useful gift and it will cost you very little. 4 wee coasters and a nice candle votive wrapped in basket wrap.
2. Sew 1/4" around the perimeter of your quilt sandwich, leaving a 1.5" opening for turning.
3. Clip corners and turn your coaster to the right side.
4. Press and top stitch 1/8" from the edge to close your opening and make your square look finished. You can also quilt in the center if you like.
Voila! A very useful and pretty hostess gift made in the "Nick" of time!


Site Description The Penrice Castle Ring is an embanked oval enclosure, c.40m by 28m, close to the westen end of the village green inn Penrice. The defining ditch remains only to the west but elsewhere its line may be perpetuated by hedgelines. It is thought to be the castle founded by Henry de Beaumont in 1099, the predecessor to Penrice Castle (Nprn94534). Wooden stakes were found in, or under the bank in around 1927.


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"We who share one mind and soul obviously have no misgivings about community in property." – Tertullian, 160-225 A.D.
"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make you understand that your wealth comes from their weeping?" – Basil of Caesarea, 330-370 A.D.
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This is a great post. Thanks so so much. Where did you get all of these quotes. I am a Prof at a Graduate school I teach Community Development. My classes are all about poverty and Theology. Could you send me your sources so I can find more similar quotes.
Great post. This makes you take scope of your life.


We created this video as a personal project for Amalia's younger brother. To commemorate his 21st birthday, we used great underwater footage he got the summer before, while visiting us in Dénia, Spain and going sailling.
Nothing like video to treasure and share great memories!
Shot with a GoPro 4.


Created on 17 December 1997, through the merger of Grand Metropolitan plc and Guinness plc, Diageo has become a global leader with our products being sold in 180 countries around the world.
Since 1997, our share price has increased by 340%, market capital has grown 440% and our earnings per share (pre-exceptional items) are 220% higher.
To mark this great milestone our 30,400 employees around the world are celebrating, from a time capsule ceremony at Cardhu distillery in Scotland, the home of Johnnie Walker, to employees in Lagos, Nigeria and Sydney, Australia toasting the occasion with a dram of Johnnie Walker Black Label.
On Friday 15th December, our Chief Executive, Ivan Menezes, along with the talented team of Scotch Whisky Blenders and fellow members of the senior leadership team opened the market at the London Stock Exchange.


The new Audi A4 Avant range has a starting price of £23,790 with prices finishing at an estimated £31,490 on the road. The A4 Avant has a top speed of 140mph, will get from 0-60mph in 7.3seconds and will give 42.8mpg on a combined cycle. The standard safety features included on the new A4 Avant are Twin front, window & side airbags, ESP, ABS and traction control.
The petrol engines on the new A4 Avant are a 158bhp 1.8-litre TFSI and the 263bhp 3.2-litre V6. Diesel engines start with the 141bhp 2.0-litre TDI and also encompass a 188bhp 2.7-litre and the gutsy 238bhp 3.0-litre TDI.


JAKARTA (VNS) — Agriculture and food security should play a central role in any country's development strategy, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia in Jakarta yesterday.
Governments around the world needed to make strong commitments to agricultural development, Phuc said. He spoke at a debate session of the WEF that focused on ways to improve food security in Asia.
Viet Nam has worked continually to restructure its agriculture and build an environmentally friendly sector with highly competitive products, Phuc said.
He underlined the need to design appropriate policies to mobilise investment and seek new markets for farm exports. Promoting co-operation among nations was necessary to ensure food security and agricultural development, he said. Countries also needed to manage their water supplies in a sustainable manner, especially when it came to international rivers.
Phuc also briefed participants on Viet Nam's agriculture goals, saying the sector held a strategic position in the country's industrialisation and modernisation process. Viet Nam had carried out a number of reforms in the field.
Viet Nam had backed and implemented agricultural initiatives, Phuc said. Signing free trade agreements with foreign countries would open new markets and create new opportunities for enterprises to invest in the field. He called on international investors to funnel their capital into agriculture in Viet Nam.
In 2014, Viet Nam shipped more than 6.5 million tonnes of rice and large volumes of other agro-forestry-aquacultural products to foreign markets, raking in US$31 billion.
In a talk with the theme East Asia in the New Global Context, the Vietnamese Deputy PM highlighted the close co-ordination between nations in East Asia. They helped enhance connections between economies to establish a regional economy adaptable to new contexts.
Viet Nam was doing everything it could to restructure its economy and growth model, fully establish market economy mechanisms, help set up the ASEAN Community and negotiate free trade agreements, Phuc said.
East Asia had a number of opportunities for co-operation, he stressed, but stability and development in the region faced challenges caused by climate change, strategic competition, territorial disputes and security. Sea disputes must be solved peacefully based on international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Viet Nam always co-operated with other nations and partners on the principles of honesty and mutual trust, the Deputy PM asserted.
Earlier, Phuc met with Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla. The guest and host reviewed the two nations' Strategic Partnership relations. They agreed to co-operate on organising activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties. They also decided to work together on investment, trade and sea disputes.
At a meeting with Russian Deputy PM Akardy Dvokovic, the two officials consented to launch agreements reached during PM Medvedev's visit to Viet Nam, especially on trade, energy, oil and gas.
WEF Executive Director Philipp Rosler and Deputy PM Phuc also discussed ways to promote Viet Nam in WEF activities and strengthen co-operation on national competitiveness.


Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm. For our Academy it includes such things as student safety, bullying, racist abuse and harassment, educational visits, intimate care, children missing education and internet safety, etc. The witnessing of abuse can also have a damaging effect on those who are party to it, as well as the child subjected to the actual abuse, and in itself will have a significant impact on the health and emotional well-being of the child. Abuse can take place in any family, institution or community setting, by telephone or on the internet. Abuse can often be difficult to recognise as children may behave differently or seem unhappy for many reasons, as they move through the stages of childhood or their family circumstances change. However, it is important to know the indicators of abuse and to be alert to the need to consult further.


73 corvette 390hp 454 numbers match!
Have run across alot barn finds thru the years but this one has me stumped. It's a 73 454 corvette, number matching engine, trans ect.. The plate on the shifter says 390 hp, 10.25.1, this car has been sitting since the 80s. All the interior looks original and is in good shape. The vin shows big block 4 speed car but heres the weird part, I pulled the engine and it has the gm hi comp pistons, pink rods and steel crank. Also 4 bolt mains, the block numbers show 73 454. Production numbers don't show this engine for that year. This car still has the factory paint and am fm stereo. Can't see why someone would change the plate and not modify the rest of the car. Factory exhaust manifold, Ac tilt, pb, ps ect. Going to drop the tank this week to look for build sheet. Did they produce any Vettes with this engine in 73?