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Street in Atlantis, Cape Town
Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Industrialisation, City planning
There are now more than 600 houses completed and occupied by employees of new industries at Atlantis.
House of Representatives, Tricameral Parliament, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), South Africa. Tricameral Parliament, Segregation
New House: The new National Party Ministers' Council in the House of Representatives got down to business with its first official meeting today. Council chairman, centre, Mr Jac Rabie and Reverend Andrew Julies, left, Minister of Health and Welfare, are in front with Mr Patrick McEnery, Director General of the House. In the back row are Mr Pieter Saaiman, Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture, Education and culture Minister Mr Abe Williams, Budget Minister Mr Gerald Morkel, and Mr Cecil Heradien, Deputy Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture.
Parking at D.F.Malan Airport, Cape Town, in the 1970s
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, City planning, Architecture
"Frustration Centre". Lack of covered space at D.F.Malan Airport in which cars and buses can off-load passengers out of the weather is illustrated in this picture of the entrance. Also shown is part of the parking area, which stretches a long distance from the terminal. Mr. Michael Chambers, who has just completed a thesis on airport design, believes that the money being spent on alterations to the airport could be better used on another design system.
Government officials pose for a photograph, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Dr Diederichs and Executive: The state president Dr N. Diederichs, with the Executive of the Coloured Representative Council and the CRC Executive chairman designate, Mr Sonny Leon, after the presidential inauguration at the weekend. From left are Mr Leon, Mr P.J. Pietersen, Mr W.J. Bergins, Dr Diederichs, Mr W.J. Louw, Mr S.S. Cloete and Mr A.J. Domingo, the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) secretary.
Black woman petrol attendant, Parow, Cape Town
Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Women, Influx control, Transport,
An African petrol attendant, one of six employed on the same driveway, fills up at a BP service station in Parow.
Political detainees and house arrest, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Political detainees, Cape Town.
Films and filmmaking, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Motion pictures, Apartheid
Films and filmmaking, Cape Town.
Agricultural control boards in the apartheid era , Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Agricultural shows, Agricultural industries, Apartheid, Commerce
The Agricultural Control Boards Hall which was redecorated for the Cape Show at the Goodwood showgrounds.
Former Robben Island prisoners, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Former Robben Island prisoners at Table Bay harbour soon after their release this morning. The three, from left, Mr Theophilus Cholo, Mr Maqina Mpanza and Mr Sandi Sijake, spent 15 years on Robben Island after they were convicted in 1973.
Crispian Olver, local chairman of End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Dr Crispian Olver, local chairman of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), seen yesterday with false posters he said had been distributed as part of an anti-ECC smear effort.
Marching band, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Girls marching band, Cape Town
Athlone , Cape Town
Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Lindy Wilson, Cape Town
Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Mrs Lindy Wilson with the film on Crossroads, which was banned at the weekend. Mrs Wilson directed the documentary.
Cape Action League signage in bin, Cape Town
Cape Action League signage in bin.
Adult night school student, Cape Town, 1950s
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Adult education, Apartheid, Blacks--Education--South Africa, Race discrimination, Training
African night school student in the early 1950s, before the Department of Bantu Administration denied permission for the Cape Non-European Night Schools Association to continue running four of its ten adult night schools
New Democratic Party leaders, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Democratic Party (South Africa)
The three political leaders who will jointly lead the new Democratic Party. They are, from left, Dr Denis Warrall (Independent Party), Mr Wynand Malan (National Democratic Movement) and Dr Zach de Beer (Progressive Federal Party).
Last meeting of Ministers' Council, House of Representatives, Cape Town
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For Old Time's Sake: Minister of Housing Gerald Morkel, Minister's Council chairman Jac Rabie, Minister of Sport Abe Williams and Minister of Education and Culture Pieter Saaiman drink a toast on the last meeting of the minister's council of the House of Representatives.
Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Daily life in Crossroads squatter camp.
Philippi farmers, Cape Town
Philippi (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Agriculture, City planning, Roads
Philippi farmers are up in arms as a result of the Divisional Council's closure of New Eisleben Road. The farmers claim the closure poses serious organizational problems to their agricultural business. Some of the farmers, who have sent a petition to the council, are seen here from left: Mr Harry Crawford, Mr Gerald Moss, Mr Manuel Dias, Mr Cecil Cook, Mrs Alfie Galloway, Mr Derick Galloway, Mr Hilton Stead, Mrs Irma Schultz and Mrs Rosie Engelke.
General Smuts, Cape Town, 1940
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, United Party (South Africa), Governments, World War, 1939-1945
Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts (centre front) with supporters outside Parliament, Cape Town, 1940


For those of you who are local, S.T.A.R. Guild astrology study group meets on Feb 26th, Tuesday at the library in Cocoa, at 6 pm. We will look at the charts of Supreme Court Justices and other charts of topical interest.
This past month we looked at Venus in our charts and started a little research project. We are watching our own Venus type events and watching Venus move around our charts. We are looking to see if we have important social events etc. when Venus is in important places in our charts, for example, the angles.
This past month we had notable events.
The government shutdown started with troublesome Mars squaring and opposing the angles at midnight on Dec. 22nd. There was a Full Moon on the next day.
China landed a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on Jan. 3rd with the Moon in long distance travel sign, Sagittarius. The Sun was in goal sign, Capricorn with goal planet, Saturn. Also on the 3rd, newly elected Congressmen and Senators were sworn in. Capricorn is a government sign and Saturn a government planet.
The buzzfeed story came out on Jan 17th and was called inaccurate by the Mueller probe on the 18th. Both days the Moon was in Gemini, Trump's Sun sign. His Sun trines Jupiter which is very lucky, and the story started badly for him and ended well.
There was another shooting in Sebring on Jan. 23rd. There was a T square between the Moon, extreme Neptune, and Venus and Jupiter in shooting sign, Sagittarius. Due to the involvement of Neptune and the Moon, I think he will be found to be off mentally.
Next month Saturn continues to near Pluto, making for rather extreme difficulties. Mars joins Uranus at mid-month; This joins the qualities of trouble and surprise. This is when the continuing resolution ends.
New Moon in Aquarius on the 3rd, 4th, and most of the 5th brings a new start in our social & intellectual lives.
Full Moon in Virgo on the 19th and 20th contrasts mission and vision.
Fairly good days this month: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 somewhat, 14, 18, 23, 24, & 25.


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LCMS chaplains, World Relief respond to Fort Hood shootings
By Linda C. Hoops
"It's been an awful week."
These are the words of Chaplain Dann Ettner, one of four Missouri Synod chaplains assigned to Fort Hood, in the wake of the Nov. 5 shootings there. Ettner, an active duty reservist, lost five members of his division during the rampage that left eight others dead and 42 wounded.
Because all five of the dead in his division were from other states, chaplains in their home areas were responsible for notifying their families. Ettner's duty "turned to comforting the living."
In an e-mail, he wrote, "I spent the first night in the ICU with four of my [injured] soldiers. On Friday morning I attended the military ramp ceremony where they loaded the 13 caskets into a military aircraft bound for Dover Air Force Base, Delaware."
The base serves as the transit point for slain soldiers prior to their funerals.
"We continue to work with the hospitalized, their families who have traveled here, as well as the soldiers who were released from the hospital and returned to their units," he added. "Survivors' guilt is huge right now. Soldiers are starting to say, 'I should have, could have, would have.'"
It fell to LCMS Chaplain Oliver Washington to notify the family of the death of a civilian employee who worked with his Army National Guard division.
"When the initial news reports went out about the shootings, there was no mention of any civilians who had died," he said. "Therefore, when I showed up with the CACO [Casualty Assistance Calls Officer] at the home of [the civilian], his wife was caught off guard by the news."
"I assisted [his wife] in making phone calls to tell loved ones, and made sure a friend would be staying with her until her family arrived. They are a strong, Christian family," Washington said.
In the days immediately following the shootings, he and mental health providers conducted debriefing sessions for anyone directly related to the incident, then served as host to the three victims' families during the memorial services.
"The whole event has been surreal," he said. "I find myself often reflecting on God's good grace in what He has brought me through in the past, through my deployments, to have me serve here at this time."
As part of the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's (CRDAMC) mass casualty team, Chaplain Joe Pederson, who retired from active duty as an Army chaplain in 2005 but was voluntarily recalled in 2008, reported to the emergency room at 2 p.m. that Thursday while the wounded were still being brought in.
"I worked in the ER until all the soldiers had been forwarded from the emergency room to the operating room, the third floor, or sent on to other hospitals," he wrote. "I stayed at CRDAMC until 9 p.m., visiting the wounded."
On Friday, Pederson counseled the soldiers and civilians in his battalion who had been either at the hospital, in the building with the shooter, or who came from the graduation ceremony next door to the site of the shooting and rendered first aid.
"That evening I was assigned to the Fort Hood Spiritual Fitness Center from 6 p.m. until midnight. A woman who was very upset came in with her husband. I ministered to her for about 40 minutes," he wrote.
Chaplain Mark Schreiber, director of the Synod's Ministry to the Armed Forces, said all the chaplains will continue their ministries by visiting the wounded who remain hospitalized and their families for several weeks until the trauma has settled and the families are better able to cope.
"All chaplains are trained in mass casualty exercises and stress management and know what to do in these terrible, traumatic events," Schreiber said.
But while the chaplains have the training to respond efficiently in these types of situations, they, too, may need some assistance in processing their experiences.
To that end, Dr. Robert Preece, first vice president of the Texas District and pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Dallas, hosted a breakfast Nov. 23 in Killeen for the four LCMS chaplains assigned to the base, several pastors of nearby congregations, and a circuit counselor.
Preece began the breakfast with questions: "What were you doing when you heard what was happening on the post? What was your reaction? What would you erase from your memory, if you could? What was hardest to handle?"
Along with the other pastors, he said, the chaplains described what they saw, did, and felt as the day's events unfolded.
"It was a chance for them to process what had occurred, because for them, this was a combat situation. It also was an opportunity for me to do something — not only for Christ, but also for my country," he added.
The breakfast concluded with a devotion, with each pastor and chaplain offering a collect appropriate to the time of war.
Rev. Carlos Hernandez, director of districts and congregations with LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC), flew to the base Nov. 9 to assist area LCMS pastors and their congregations in responding to the shootings.
On Nov. 13, he wrote in a message that has been posted on WR-HC's Web site (www.lcms.org/?16049): "Probably the most intense moments of the week were during the memorial ceremonies when 'roll call' began and the [names of the] deceased are called — three times — and there is no answer. The silence was a powerful and poignant reminder that precious lives were senselessly silenced."
"These ceremonies tear your heart out," Hernandez said that same day in a radio interview on KFUO-AM. "To see a ll these young people, just children practically, whose friends and comrades have been taken away, it's so emotional."
WR-HC has provided a $5,000 initial grant to Grace Lutheran Church and School, Killeen, one of four LCMS congregations near the base, to assist a Family Readiness Group (FRG) that is assigned to the 20th Engineer Battalion. Four of the battalion's soldiers were killed and 11 wounded.
The FRG, which provides a supportive network for the spouses of deployed soldiers, is using the grant money to help families of the wounded as they stay in the area to be close to their loved ones.
"Most of them came in with limited resources on a moment's notice," said Nancy Ingenloff, leader of the FRG and a pre-kindergarten teacher at Grace. "We are trying to help them with food, gas, housing, and other basic needs while they are here."
The FRG also assembled activity packets for the children of the families, which included materials that tell of Christ's love for them, said Ingenloff, who is the wife of a company commander in the battalion.
"When people are hurting, we would like them to seek comfort in Jesus' arms," she said. "They need to know there is a just and loving God, even in times like these."
Grace's pastor, Rev. Andrew Greene, told WR-HC staff that the majority of the church's congregation is in some way connected to army life, with about 15 to 20 members having spouses deployed.
Hernandez visited the three other LCMS congregations that surround the Fort Hood base: Trinity and Immanuel Lutheran Churches in Copperas Cove and Immanuel Lutheran in Temple, whose members already have contributed more than $1,100 toward helping the victims and their families.
Rev. Bernard Schey, pastor of Trinity, Copperas Cove, said that, although no one in the congregation had family members injured or killed, the event still affects the congregation indirectly, as many are either retired military or employed on the post.
One Trinity member is a respiratory therapist and was on duty at the hospital where the more seriously wounded were taken. "Not only was she treating the young men and women who were wounded, but then she also had to treat the alleged shooter, an obviously difficult position, and she became extremely upset," he said. Schey added that he has been ministering to her through phone calls and visits.
"The work here has just begun," Hernandez wrote in his Web site message. "We know that recovery is a long-term process. But we are blessed to be here in the early aftermath of this tragedy. As the chaplain said in his meditation at the memorial ceremony for the soldiers, 'We are to make God real for each other in our grief.'"
To help WR-HC assist the families of the wounded:
Make a credit card gift online at http://givenowlcms.org (click on "LCMS World Relief and Human Care Disaster Response," then "Fort Hood Shootings Relief").
Make a credit card gift by phone at 888-930-4438.
Send a check to LCMS World Relief and Human Care, P.O. Box 66861, St. Louis, MO 63166-6861. (Make checks payable to LCMS World Relief and Human Care, and note "Fort Hood Shootings Relief" on the memo line.)
To learn more about LCMS chaplain service, visit the Web site of Ministry to the Armed Forces, a division of LCMS World Mission, at www.lcms.org/?1224.
Linda C. Hoops is a freelance writer and a member of Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, Sunset Hills, Mo.
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Distance and cultural differences haven't stopped Canadian Michael O'Brien and Croatian Maté Krajina from exchanging letters over the years. Their private correspondence from May 2012 to February 2014 – recently published by Justin Press as The Donkey Dialogues (2014) – finds two friends focusing increasingly on issues of marriage and fatherhood through the eyes of their shared Catholic faith.
O'Brien, 66, is the bestselling author of novels such Father Elijah (1996), Island of the World (2007) and A Father's Tale (2013), all published by Ignatius Press. He and his wife of 39 years, Sheila, have six adult children and eight grandchildren. Krajina, 50, is editor of the Croatian Catholic magazine MI. He has four children with his wife of 25 years, Renata. Both men corresponded recently via email with Fathers for Good's Jason Godin about The Donkey Dialogues.
Fathers for Good: Aside from the connection with the title, what reasons led to the selection of the book's cover image?
Michael O'Brien: William Kurelek, a Catholic artist, was a mentor to me in my youth when I had made a commitment to painting only Christian works. In "Donkey Carrying God," Kurelek presents the donkey carrying a tabernacle on its back as it crosses the desert, with the Holy Eucharist illuminating the ground ahead. Because it was made as a Christmas gift in the 1970s, it likely portrays symbolically the journey of the Holy Family to Bethlehem or the flight into Egypt. It struck us that in the mystery of married life in Christ, the Lord is within our sacrament and in our hearts, and his presence is the light for the journey ahead as a family. In another sense, too, each child is a kind of Christ given to us by God, to be carried with love and faith. For these reasons, along with its themes, the image was a natural choice for the book cover.
Mate Krajina: Michael selected the cover, yet it is exactly the scene one might have easily come across in Croatia or Bosnia-Herzegovina well into the late 19th century. Missionaries, most frequently Franciscans and Dominicans, used donkeys as their means of transportations for all sacred objects – folding altars, monstrances and the like – as they traveled throughout the mountainous regions. Another dimension is a spiritual message: Continue suffering in silence; God knows why man's life has to be such penance (and what its fruit will be).
FFG: Your letters make reference at times to the family as "the heart of Nazareth." How does this phrase deepen our understanding of the family as the "domestic church," particularly in the role of fathers?
O'Brien: The thirty years when Jesus lived the "hidden life" in Nazareth was composed of thousands of ordinary things. God dwelling among us, with Mary and Joseph, lived with humble attention to simple tasks and duties. As a result he sanctified everything, showing us that nothing is really ordinary. Every small act of love in family life is, in fact, great, a path to holiness, demanding everything from us, especially the challenge to overcome our innate selfishness. This is the way for most of mankind – to give life by sacrificial dying to oneself.
Krajina: You'll come across the phrase immediately, at the beginning of our correspondence in the book. I was very deeply touched by it; it has given me a new understanding my own family life. I long for the atmosphere of Nazareth, inevitably associated with the Holy Family. It stands for quiet work and prayer, love and mutual respect; actually, for everything that needs to be accentuated in our spirituality.
FFG: What – or who – most influenced the both of you to see fatherhood as a universal fraternity defined by heroic courage, total trust, sacrificial giving to the point of shedding and sharing tears?
O'Brien: Much of my own coming to this understanding was a gradual education in family life at the ground level – the Great School of Love, St. John Paul II called it. His writings on family have been very influential on me. The example of St. Joseph also especially taught me learning to listen for the quiet promptings of God in my heart and soul, obedience to the Lord and the teachings of the Church, risking the loss of everything for the sake of following God's will.
FFG: What makes The Donkey Dialogues the "End (of the Prologue)" (p. 182)?
O'Brien: Maté and I have been writing letters to each other for many years, but it seemed to us that our recent letters were examining crucial issues with a new urgency – issues that might concern all Catholic fathers. Maté suggested that we consider making our exchange better known, so that other fathers of families might take heart and know that their struggles were not unique and that they were not carrying heavy burdens in isolation. Ending The Donkey Dialogues as a "Prologue" was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that our personal communications would continue, many adventures lie ahead, new understandings and graces will come, and that fathers everywhere will be experiencing the same if they always turn to Jesus Christ for light, strength and consolation.
Learn more about The Donkey Dialogues at Justin Press.


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We are thrilled to give you the opportunity to embark on an adventure through this city with this fantastic new endless runner game called Subway Surfers: Havana! Havana is the capital city of Cuba and one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world, but it's also a city that most people can't travel to how they want and when they want to.
Our administrative team is excited to continue the Subway Surfers World Tour by inviting you to the most recent exotic location in these 3D endless runner games, which is the wonderful Peru, where we know you will have a blast from beginning to end.
Bali, one of the world's most well-known tourist destinations, is the current location of the Subway Surfers World Tour Games series. You can now visit Bali through this 3D endless runner game without ever having to leave your seat in front of your computer or phone. Are you prepared for a brief online vacation?
How to master Subway Surfers
Our administrative team is excited to share with you the game called Subway Surfers Zurich, where you visit this very important city in Switzerland, right now. We want to give you the opportunity to travel the entire world in our series of Subway Surfers Games online for browsers, which you can find on our website.
Without a doubt, Saint Petersburg ranks among the most picturesque cities in all of Russia, particularly in the winter. Since not all of you have access to easy travel, the next best thing you could do is explore this city by playing online Subway Surfers World Tour Games, like you are doing right now with this edition that features this city!
The Subway Surfers World Tour Games series, as the name implies, takes you on a journey through the largest capital cities in nations all over the world where you get to explore their subway systems while being pursued by a police officer for doing graffiti. The most recent location we invite you to explore is Marrakesh.
Houston, there is no problem; only good news! The most recent city that players on our website have the chance to enjoy exploring through new Subway Surfers World Tour Games, games that we always make sure to bring over as often as possible, is this highly-popular city from Texas, from where NASA sends people out into space on rockets!
Honk Kong is the newest city you can explore through the Subway Surfers World Tour Games series on our website. We are extremely happy to be able to share it with you all for free because we have all thoroughly enjoyed playing it from beginning to end. So why wouldn't the same be true for you too, even if you've never played any of these endless runner games 3d before?
You will need to sprint through the streets of Havana with the graffiti artist character of your choice, dodging any obstacles that get in your way because doing so will slow you down and if you get caught by the people chasing you, the game is over and you have to restart it.
Use the up arrow to jump over obstacles, the down arrow to slide under them, and the left and right arrows to move into any of these directions to dodge them.
Instead, keep moving forward while running or skating (you can activate the skateboard using the spacebar), and try to collect as many coins as you can to raise your score and use the coins to buy new skins or hoverboards in the shop.
Since this is an endless running game, try to cover as much ground as you can before being caught. However, you should also try to collect as many coins as you can to raise your score. If you can, try to collect the power-ups, upgrades, and bonus items that are scattered throughout the tracks.
As you would expect from the format, you need to try collecting as many coins along the course as you can because the more of them you have, the bigger your score becomes, allowing you to unlock new boards, skins, and characters! Grab the surfboard upgrade and press space to activate it, using it to get ahead even faster!


Reminder – The Foremost Musical Event of the Season!
Performing on one evening only!
A celebrated duo from New York, Anna Maria Baeza, clarinetist and Joachim Woitun, cellist are in Yellowknife, brought by Classics on Stage Yellowknife, thanks to funding provided by the Festival of the Midnight Sun and the City of Yellowknife.
They will perform a concert tomorrow evening, 9th June at 7pm at Holy Trinity Anglican Church together with local musicians, Maureen Crotty-Williams, flute, and Barbara Fortin-Clinton, violin and Carmen Braden, piano, which will include the Première of a commissioned piece for flute, clarinet and cello composed by Carmen Braden.
Tickets available from ROY'S until 4pm on Friday, or at the door if there are any left!


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Food and Farm Forum will be virtualBy SENTINEL STAFF
The Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum will be a virtual event this year held on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23.
The forum brings together farmers, ranchers, and agricultural advocates to benefit from networking and agri-business workshops focused on innovative soil, crop, livestock, and financial management practices, according to the press release.
Live Q&A sessions, a film screening and a virtual happy hour are scheduled to keep the conference's tradition of providing informal networking and dialogue opportunities. Sponsors and vendors will be showcased in virtual rooms. Registration enables flexible and longterm access to all workshops recorded via the online platform, the press release states.
The theme of the 2021 Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum is, "Ag Management that Works: People, Place, Planet."
Sessions will highlight successful production practices that focus on how agriculture can be profitable and continue to feed the world, while stewarding the planet's ecosystems. Farmers, ranchers, ag-students, gardeners, and those interested in food issues will among those listening in.
"We are using this year's need to go virtual as an opportunity to not only learn from local and state experts but to also tap into a couple of international speakers we could not bring otherwise," Harrison Topp, conference chair, said in the press release.
Zoom meeting is on school boundaries
School District 51 will host a Zoom meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday about changes to high school attendance boundaries.
This piggybacks off the meetings in December about Grand Junction High School and Fruita Monument High School boundaries. Thursday's topic adds a new scenario that would move future students east of Highway 6 & 50, west of 25 Road and south of Interstate 70 from FMHS to GJHS boundaries. According to the district, this won't impact current students.
You can visit d51schools.org/news to find the news release about the meeting and the Zoom link.
Based in Africa and New Mexico, the keynote speaker, Allan Savory, is an internationally recognized farmer and change agent whose paradigm shifting ideas on holistic management have been implemented worldwide on 32 million acres. He offers hope for humanity by outlining how agriculture can shift from being a contributor to climate change to playing a significant role in combating it through food security while regenerating communities, the environment and economies. Savory received the Buckminster Fuller Institute's award and Australia's International Banksia award.
His keynote will address the crucial role holistic decision-making plays in the production of food through the complexity of institutions, nature and economies, the press release states.
Richard Perkins will also join the conference from 59° N Sweden to share how key management and financial strategies can be profitable and debt free despite challenging economics, climate and regulations. His session, "Making Small Farms Work" details how sales, marketing, and a diversified set of enterprises can be integrated using key decision-making and financial planning tools, the release states.
2020 graduation rate highest in a decade
DENVER — Colorado's graduation rate reached its highest level in a decade with the Class of 2020, despite school closures and disruptions caused by the pandemic.
The Colorado Department of Education on Tuesday said 81.9% of high school seniors, or 55,220 students, graduated from public and charter schools last spring, The Denver Post reported.
Colorado's high school graduation rate has increased 9.5% since 2010, the department said.
The number of student departures also fell during the 2019-2020 school year, when 8,561 seventh- through 12th-graders, or 1.8%, left the education system. The figure was the lowest in a decade, the department said. There were 716 fewer students leaving the system compared to the previous year. About 83% of school districts reported dropout rates at or below the state average.
The pandemic disrupted the spring semester by closing schools and postponing many commencements but likely did not impact how many seniors graduated, said Andy Tucker, education department director of postsecondary and workforce readiness.
Aspen to close indoor restaurant dining
ASPEN — The Aspen area will close indoor dining at restaurants on Sunday as the county reports the highest incidence rate for the coronavirus in Colorado.
The Pitkin County Board of Health's unanimous decision on Monday will also limit lodging capacity in Aspen and Snowmass Village to 50%.
Ski mountains will remain open without a reservation system, the Aspen Times reported.
"We've communicated until our eyes are falling out," Pitkin County Commissioner and Board of Health Member Greg Poschman said. "Yet we still have a lot of people … not agreeing with us. It's time. We have to do this. It's painful. It's not forever."
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Original title deeds and bonds may, for various reasons, get lost from time to time. This can, for example, be due to an owner losing his original title deed or a mortgage bank misplacing the title deed and/or bond held as security for their loan. In such instances, an application (and affidavit) can be made, to the relevant Deeds Office, for the issue of a "deeds office copy" or "lost copy" of the missing deed, in terms of Regulation 68 of the Deeds Registries Act 47/1937 (the Act). This "copy" would then become the (new) original deed once issued by the Registrar.
Certain amendment to Regulation 68 of the Act was published in the Government Gazette on Friday 25 January 2019. These amendments will come into force and effect 30 days from date of such publication.
These amendment stipulates that, in addition to the existing application process, an application (and affidavit) for a Deeds Office copy of a lost deed, in terms of Regulation 68 must now be attested by a notary public, published in the Government Gazette and lie for inspection in the Registrar's office for a period of two weeks.
These new requirements may have an adverse effect on registration turnaround times in the case of deeds being lost. It will further create additional cost implications. The indication is that a Notary Public will be entitled to a fee of R 2,000.00 for such attestation. Further to this still there will be additional costs involved in GG advertisement.
It is therefore important to establish the whereabouts of the original deeds at the outset of the sale, or as soon as possible thereafter, so that proactive measures can be taken if need be.


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How do I watch a Livestream?
Under the "For You" section in the app, tap the LIVE to join the event. Once the Streamer who created the event joins, then your Livestream Shopping will begin.
You can also save upcoming Livestreams to Your Watchlist. In the "For You" and "Upcoming" sections, simply tap on the plus sign, "+," and the Livestream will automatically save in Your Watchlist.
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On the livestream post, tap the Invite icon that looks like an arrow. Tap on the Share to directly send a link (via text, email, Instagram or Facebook) to your friends who are iOS users. Android is coming soon.
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Can I add additional items to my cart after the Livestream ends?
You can add other items outside of the Streamer's collection to your cart to purchase at the same time. However, the discounts offered during the Livestream will not be applied to these other items.
Does everyone in the Livestream need to buy an item for me to get the discount?
Nope! The Livestream offers are available during and 30 minutes after the Livestream's scheduled end time.
What brands are excluded from the discount?
Livestream offers are converted to credits, making them applicable to all brands and products. See "Livestream Shopping" listed in the Terms of Service.
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As the Streamer shares their screen, you can tap Add to Bag or Buy Now on the app. Add to Bag will save the product to your cart. "Buy Now" opens Apple Pay to purchase the item immediately. You can also tap on the product image at any point and add the item to your cart from the product landing page.
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Friday, May 17th – Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has launched a new programme on a pilot basis – the Energy Efficiency and Transition Programme – as a new element of the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (CTCCS).
The Energy Efficiency and Transition Programme will offer advice to turf cutters on how to maximize the energy efficiency of their homes and on renewable energy measures that may be suitable. The introduction of the programme has been recommended by the Peatlands Council, established by Government in 2011.
"I am glad to be able to bring forward a new element to the compensation scheme for turf cutters. The idea for this programme was conceived by the Peatlands Council, and I am happy to support it as it has significant potential to help people reduce their home energy costs.
Participation in the pilot programme is free to turf cutters who, on the basis of self-certification, meet the qualifying criteria of the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme. The programme will give advice on the energy efficiency of the home, options for upgrading heating systems and insulation within the home, and renewable energy solutions which may be considered. The pilot programme is being managed by RPS Consulting Engineers on behalf of the Department.
By providing this information, expertise and advice, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht hopes to work with turf cutters who want to use some of the financial compensation they receive under the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme to improve the energy performance of their homes.
Over the coming days the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will be writing to offer turf cutters from these four bogs the opportunity to participate in the pilot programme. This pilot programme will cover approximately 60 homes. If the programme is oversubscribed then the households chosen to participate will be those which are felt to be a representative selection of the overall group of applicants.
Compensation: Nationally, approximately 2,668 applications for compensation have been received, in the region of 2,200 payments have issued and more than 200 deliveries of turf have been made to date. The total expenditure on the compensation package to date is approximately €3.6 million.
Relocation to Alternatives Bogs: The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Bord na Móna have established a working group to advance the provision of relocation solutions. Of the total number of raised bog SACs, arrangements have been made or are at an advanced stage for turf cutters from four bogs to transfer to relocation bogs where they can continue to cut turf legally.
One group commenced turf cutting in the relocation site last year and further cutting has taken place there this year. Of the remaining 49 raised bog SACs, potential relocation sites have been identified for 32 bogs. These sites are being assessed for their suitability. Relocation is unlikely to be required, or will be small in scale, for 16 SACs due, for example, to the small number of turf cutters who have been active on these sites.


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Tanya and Kim of Girl XOXO have posted the Master List of Book Challenges for 2018.
Although I read the 400 books for my Goodreads Challenge for this year, I did not follow the challenges I had listed back in December of last year. I read in most genres, but I wasn't organized at all.
This year I plan to be more disciplined about my reading. I am signing up for 12 Reading Challenges and am looking forward to taking part in a wide variety of them – from scifi to key words to memoir.
Hosted at Mommy Mannegren, this is a new challenge this year, with 52 books to read, based on different genres and themes.
Check here for the guidelines.
I have tried this challenge before, but have never completed it. This year I hope to read the 26 books required, letter by letter.
I have taken part in ROW 80 on and off for several years – the challenge that encourages us to post goals and then achieve, recognizing that we do have lives to lead.
I like the idea of this yearly challenge posted by Laura and Michelle, that requires us to post bookish resolutions, for reading, writing and blogging, as they rlate to books only..
Read at least 52 books from my overflowing TBR pile.
Write one book review a week.
Develop my author online presence.
Write at least 1000 words a day.
Submit at least once a month.
I hope to read at least one creative book a month, especially on art and writing.
I love reading memoirs, as biographies. I am also working on my own memoir.
We are asked to read at least 5 memoirs and Jamie has given us 32 possible categories to choose from.
I hope to read at least 12 – one a month.
At Modern Mrs. Darcy, this year's challenge lists 12 categories to read for the year.
This challenge will add a bit of research, as opposed to just picking up any book!
Each month there are several key words to choose from – so a book a month is quite doable.
Check here for guidelines (and the key words).
Tanya and Kim have come up with 12 different categories to read this year – some will definitely be a challenge.
Check here for the guidelines and the motifs.
This is the most necessary challenge – as I have wayyyy too many books not read. I collect books instead of jewellry or makeup. Only trouble is that they take up wayyyy more space!
I hope to read more, but this would mean at least a book a week. Doable!
I have wanted to read all the Newbery winners – but still have a ways to go. This year I want to read many more.
I especially like their goal of encouraging everyone to read more.
So 50 books to read – with lots of variety.
Check here for the list and guidelines.
I love reading fantasy and science fiction, so although I will read a lot of this genre, this challenge appealed to me for its variety.
There are twenty challenges – so 20 books to read.
Check here for the checklist and guidelines.
There are so many challenges – a master list is posted here. Be sure to check it out.
What challenges will you pareticipate in this year??
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Thanks for joining my creativity and memoir challenges.
Thanks for signing up for Swords and Stars! I'm so happy and excited to get started, Loved reading about your 2018 goals. I'm gonna have to join you in writing at least one review a week. Good luck on your goals and challenges!
I'm excited for this challenge as well. I love Fantasy. thanks for stopping by. All the best to you as well.
Thanks for visiting and commenting Bev! I saw in your post, that you read 400 books last year! You must be a very fast reader!
Thanks Gabriele. I am retired so I do have lots of time to read and a lot of pix books too.


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Liam's Best of 2020
Liam Mallia· January 27, 2021
Despite its late release and all of its issues, Cyberpunk 2077 showed enough to take Liam's vote as 2020's Game of the Year!
Amelia's Best of 2020
Spiritfarer gets its second Game of the Year vote, this time from Amelia, who spent much of the year in a geography-induced "indie phase"!
Luke's Best of 2020
Liam Mallia· January 12, 2021 ·0 Comments
Among Us took the gaming community by storm during the COVID-enforced lockdowns, and it's taken Luke's Game of the Year vote as well!
George's Best of 2020
George is fascinated by Greek mythology, so it's little surprise that Supergiant's take on it, Hades, was his Game of the Year!
Ryan's Best of 2020
The Last of Us Part II may have been quite divisive, but it's good enough to get Ryan's vote as 2020's Game of the Year.
Ty's Best of 2020
Liam Mallia· January 9, 2021
Sucker Punch Productions' phenomenal samurai fantasy, Ghost of Tsushima, gets Ty's vote for Game of the Year 2020!


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Olaus Henrici (1840-1916), de nom complet Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, va ser un matemàtic alemany que va treballar a Anglaterra.

Vida i Obra
Henrici va cursar els estudis secundaris al institut de la seva ciutat, Meldorf, fins al 1856. Després, mentre treballava com aprenent d'enginyer a Flensburg, Alfred Clebsch va descobrir el seu talent i el va portat al Institut Politècnic de Karlsruhe, on donava classes, perquè estudiés matemàtiques. El 1862, Clebsch, va convèncer Otto Hesse perquè l'admetés com estudiant de doctorat a la Universitat de Heidelberg. Henrici es va doctorar el 1865 amb una tesi sobre equacions diferencials.

El 1865 va emigrar a Anglaterra on va exercir de professor, fins que el 1867 va ser nomenat professor ajudant de Thomas Archer Hirst al University College de Londres. El 1870, havent resignat Hirst, el va substituir en la seva càtedra, en la que va romandre durant deu anys fins que va ser transferit a la càtedra de matemàtiques aplicades. El 1884 va sol·licitar i obtenir la càtedra de matemàtiques del City and Guilds of London Institute, més conegut com a Central Technical College (i avui formant part del Imperial College London), càrrec que va mantenir fins a la seva jubilació el 1908, quan es va retirar a Hampshire.

Henrici és recordat perquè desaprovava la forma d'ensenyar matemàtiques de Cambridge i va promoure un estil molt més europeu continental. Entre d'altres coses, va incorporar als programes d'estudi la geometria projectiva, el càlcul vectorial i l'estàtica gràfica, essent considerat com un professor extraordinari, de gran claredat en les seves exposicions.

En el seu vessant més d'enginyer, Henrici va ser l'inventor d'un aparell, que portà el seu nom, per mesurar els harmònics de les ones sonores, i que es va fer servir fins als anys seixanta del segle XX. El 1878, Lord Kelvin ja havia proposat un analitzador harmònic mecànic, però era poc pràctic per mides i per complexitat. La idea d'Henrici de 1894 és un mecanisme molt més simple, que comença a ser explotat immediatament per la firma suïssa Coradier amb un cost gens elevat.; de fet, la seva idea era molt més amplia, ja que el que va inventar va ser una màquina que permetia resoldre de forma mecànica determinades integrals.

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Matemàtics del segle XIX
Membres de la Royal Society
Alumnes de la Universitat Humboldt de Berlín
Alumnes de la Universitat de Heidelberg
Morts a Anglaterra
Persones de Slesvig-Holstein

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"Leave me and my reproductive organs alone", Rousey said.
"I honestly don't know why [anyone] feels like [they're] an authority to speak on the plans for my uterus".
Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer reported in his latest newsletter that there is a "very good chance" Rousey is planning to make her final appearance with the WWE at WrestleMania 35 in April. After dominating the UFC for years, Rousey took over the WWE and could start looking for the next challenge in life.
Prior to Rousey signing with WWE, the agreement on both sides was a one-year full-time deal, and Rousey has made it clear she intends to settle down with her husband, Travis Browne, and raise a family, something which might prevent her from working full-time for WWE. Rousey is expected to defend her title against Becky Lynch and possibly Charlotte Flair on April 7 at MetLife Stadium.
However, since then a source from WWE has confirmed that Rousey is contracted to WWE until 2021. Ronda informed WWE that she might be taking a break from the company after Mania, but nothing is set in stone quite yet and her contract lasts until 2021.
What do you think the future holds for Ronda Rousey after WrestleMania 35?
Rousey suffered her first WWE loss Monday in a tag team match against Sasha Banks and Bayley.
Express Sport will bring you complete coverage of the event which gets underway at midnight in the UK. "I've never had a baby before, I don't know these kinds of things", she said. The outlet reports that Rousey is serious about starting a family, which is where the rumors seemed to stem from, but will likely remain with the company in some fashion while she steps away from the ring to have kids.
Rousey has defended her title against Alexa Bliss, Nia Jax and Natalya.
WrestleMania is considered one of the most important PPVs that takes place every year. The chick that's playing Daenerys and the chick that's playing Cersei, those actors don't actually hate each other but the more that they can get you invested in it, the more successful Game of Thrones is.


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End Stage Renal Disease Studies
The Effect of Loop Diuretics on Severity and Outcome of Acute Kidney Injury
a study on End Stage Renal Disease Kidney Disease Acute Kidney Injury
study started December 2010
estimated completion October 31, 2022
The primary objective is to safely determine if the investigators can identify the severity of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) early in the course of the disease. Once enrolled the investigators will draw blood and urine for novel and standard biomarkers. The investigators are attempting to determine if these biomarkers can forecast the course of AKI (need for dialysis, death and renal recovery). The investigators seek to determine how well physicians caring for those with AKI can predict the clinical course compared to these novel biomarkers of AKI and if there is an association between clinical course and 3 year patient outcomes.
AKI is a very common disease in the setting of critical illness and carries an extremely high morbidity and mortality rate (over 50%). Currently there are no FDA approved therapeutic agents for the treatment of AKI. There is limited prospective evidence to guide nephrologists in terms of which patients will progress to more severe AKI in the setting of early AKI. Similarly, there is no evidence to guide nephrologists in terms of which patients will completely recover their renal function after AKI. Thus we need to know very early in the course of AKI which patients will progress and go on to require renal replacement therapy (RRT). Additionally we will investigating the long term patient outcomes, 2-3 years after the index AKI admission.
Acute Kidney Failure Renal Replacement Therapy Diuretics Biomarkers Renal Insufficiency Furosemide Therapeutic Uses Physiological Effects of Drugs Biological Markers Acute Kidney Injury Lasix
18 yrs or older
increase in serum creatinine of 0.3 mg/dl within 48 hours or an increase of greater than or equal to 150% from baseline or sustained oliguria (UOP < 0.5 cc/kg/hr for 6 hours with the last 48hours)
written informed consent
patients with an indwelling bladder catheter
Voluntary refusal
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease - as defined by a baseline glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 30 ml/min (MDRD)
history of renal transplant
Pregnant patients
Allergy / Sensitivity to Loop diuretics (furosemide)
Pre-renal AKI
defined by a Fractional Excretion of Sodium (FENa) of < 1% and no urinary casts
under-resuscitated as per the treating clinical team
active bleed
Post renal AKI
evidence of hydro-ureter
clinical scenario wherein obstruction is considered a likely possibility
University of California-San Francisco
Chicago Illinois 60637 United States
October 31, 2022 (estimated)


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Q: Android SQLite CREATE TABLE not working CREATE TABLE is not creating table
From here I am taking table name
private static  String getTableName() {
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Calcutta"));
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    String date = df.format(calendar.getTime());
    return date;
}

//table name
private String TABLE_DATE = getTableName();

Here is the code to create table
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    String CREATE_ENTRY_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE " +TABLE_DATE + "("
            + KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY," + KEY_ROLL + " TEXT,"
            + KEY_DATE + " TEXT," +  KEY_TIME + " TEXT" + ")";
    db.execSQL(CREATE_ENTRY_TABLE);
}

Error
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.jagdishchoudhary.iitgandhinagarmesssystem/com.jagdishchoudhary.iitgandhinagarmesssystem.MainActivity}: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "20180119": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: CREATE TABLE  20180119(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,Roll TEXT,Date TEXT,Time TEXT)
                                               at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2659)
                                               at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2724)
                                               at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)
                                               at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1473)
                                               at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                                               at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
                                               at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6123)
                                               at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                               at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:867)
                                               at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:757)
                                            Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "20180119": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: CREATE TABLE  20180119(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,Roll TEXT,Date TEXT,Time TEXT)

Please see the logcat.

A: I am pretty close to 100% sure that 20180119 is an invalid table name, which seems to be what the error log is referring to.
Add an underscore to the start of your returned table name and I think you will find it works like you would expect.
Ex:
private String TABLE_DATE = "_"+getTableName();

This shouldn't be needed, but if that doesn't work for some odd reason, try appending a letter to the underscore like this:
private String TABLE_DATE = "_T"+getTableName();

A: Try using the trim() function with the date.
In the CREATE_ENTRY_TABLE variable use :
String CREATE_ENTRY_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE '" + TABLE_DATE + "' (...);";

Notice the single inverted commas before and after the table name.

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Tracking your brand awareness is a vital tool in building your equity. Here are some of the top metrics you should be benchmarking with your brand tracker.
Survey questions that measure brand awareness should cover both your business and your competitor landscape. Use aided and unaided questions to capture the respondent's prior awareness of your brand as well as their reactions to questions that actively trigger their awareness.
And also move into areas that link the brand and product with personal values, e.g.
Quality is a huge area when it comes to brand perception. The markers of quality are a result of product or service attributes, and a respondent's opinion tends to be made up of a variety of experiences and perceptions of these.
At this point you are laying the foundation for a business intelligence program that will inform your decisions, potentially for years to come. So when you're selecting metrics, consider which types of data you'll want to refer back to and benchmark against in the future.
Your study should also extend to the wider landscape of your brand. That includes your competition (direct and indirect), consumer habits that form the context of use for your products and services, and the status of related factors like your raw materials or core technologies.


Founded in 1993 as one of the subsidiaries of the multi-media conglomerate Fairchild Media Group, Fairchild Television was the first Chinese media corporation to operate nationwide in Canada. With the head office located in Vancouver, Fairchild Television has set up two other regional offices in Toronto and Calgary. In order to better serve the increasing number of Chinese immigrants, Fairchild Television constantly works towards bringing viewers the latest and most popular Asian dramas, entertainment programs, variety shows, investigative reports and news and current affairs programs. Through Fairchild Television, Chinese immigrants can be updated on the latest news and cultural trends of Asia every minute of the day. FairchildTelevision also puts its best efforts into producing local daily news and other programming to assist new immigrants in quickly adapting to and immerging into Canadian culture and lifestyle. Fairchild Television also takes pride in its annual productions of variety shows such as Miss Chinese Vancouver and MissChinese Toronto Pageants, and New Talent Singing Awards. Through both satellite and cable services, Chinese Canadians are able to enjoy over twenty hours of high-quality Chinese television programming daily.
Popular Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwanese dramas, situation comedies, cartoons, variety shows, and current affair programs.
Daily broadcasting of satellite news produced by Television Broadcasts Limited(TVB) direct from Hong Kong.
News and Current Affairs Department produces daily newscasts featuring the latest international, national, and local news and weekly current affairs programs and investigative reports.
Locally produced programs include travelogues, culinary programs, beauty programs, sports and wellness programs, nature programs and information programs.
Miss Chinese Vancouver and Miss Chinese Toronto Pageants, New Talent SingingAwards, and TVB Fairchild Fans Party are some of the most popular variety shows hosted annually by Fairchild Television.
Modern media focus highly on audience connection. Therefore, the recording studios at FairchildTelevision's head office, located at Aberdeen Center in Richmond, BritishColumbia, are designed to be open and accessible. The newsroom's glass walls enable passerby's to look into the studio and watch the processes of the program's live production. Programs such as Leisure Talk and What's On are recorded in studios with floor to ceiling windows, showcasing a beautiful backdrop of the city landscape. When viewers see their own city as the backdrop of the show, they are able to better relate to the programs, creating a more comfortable and personal atmosphere.
Fairchild Television had spent a lot of time and invested considerable resources into researching and developing the new HD channel to bring to viewers better quality programming that comes straight from Hong Kong. The new Fairchild Television 2 HD channel was officially launched on May 23rd 2013 offering a wide range of television programs that are broadcast in steps with Hong Kong and other programming such as variety and game shows as well as travelogues, just to name a few. Among allAsian broadcasters in North America and Europe, Fairchild Media Group was the first broadcaster to feature HD Asian programming. This achievement had been recognized and highly regarded by other Chinese stations worldwide.


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Krøkjebreen ("The Bent Glacier") is a glacier in Torell Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of nine kilometers. Krøkjebreen is part of the Liestølbreen glacier complex, situated between the mountains of Arrheniusfjellet and Wijkberget.

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Camps, Clinics & Leagues
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In Memory of Mark Kaish
Lacrosse played a huge role in Mark's life, especially as a coach - coaching his own children and hundreds more in the community. Growing up in Syracuse, New York, he grew up playing the game and in 2004 began coaching in the Atlanta area. Mark continued to coach lacrosse until he passed away from a battle with Melanoma in 2019.
In those 15 years Mark coached East Cobb Lacrosse, Greyders, Walton Jr. Raiders, Walton High School off-seasons and most recently Mt. Bethel U11. Coach Kaish, as he is best known, passed his love of lacrosse on to so many including his son, Ned, who started LaxRats in 2016 as a way to continue to grow the game in Georgia.
Coach Kaish was a catalyst to a 2011 Walton State Championship Team, as most of the team had been coached by him from their middle school years through high school falls. Donations will go toward tournaments or events that LaxRats will put on in Memory of Coach Mark Kaish with all proceeds going toward Melanoma Research.
If you would like to donate by sending a check instead of PayPal please send to the address below. Checks should be made out to LaxRats LLC. Donations go toward Melanoma Research and putting on the Mark Kaish Night of Champions.
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Study at the University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a London-based public institution that counts fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Burberry's chief executive officer Christopher Bailey, and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, among its former students. The university dates back to 1838, when the English engineer and aeronautics expert Sir George Cayley, founded the Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street. It was the first polytechnic in the UK and became the University of Westminster in 1992.
The university prides itself on its pioneering ethos and has been home to a number of notable moments in history. For example, in 1841 it opened the first public photographic portrait studio in Europe and hosted the first UK public moving picture display, organised by the Lumiere brothers, in 1896. More recently, it became the first UK partner university for UN-Habitat, the agency dealing with human settlement and development.
Students: 16,226 (2021)
Campus: Four (Cavendish, Marylebone and Regent Street, Harrow )
TEF Ranking: Bronze
THE Ranking: 81st in the UK (801 -1000 in the World)
The University of Westminster covers a broad range of subjects at foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. Find out more about what they offer and why it's great to study at the University of Westminster.
Art, Design and Visual Culture
Construction Management and Urban Planning
Criminology and Sociology
Data Science and Informatics
Nutrition and Public Health
Tourism and Events Management
According to Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021, the University of Westminster is ranking at 801-1000 in the world.
It is arranged across four campuses, three in central London (Cavendish, Marylebone and Regent Street) and one (Harrow) in north-west London, and comprises five faculties: the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Westminster Business School, Westminster Law School, and Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design.
The university's central London location benefits from nearby access to the city's many cultural attractions, while a recent £20m investment in its facilities has resulted in Westminster being able to offer fully-equipped sports facilities to students, as well as specialist resources, such as the purpose-built Financial Markets Suite. It also has its own gallery spaces for the display of contemporary art and architecture, where exhibitions, events and public talks regularly take place.
Cavendish Campus 101 New Cavendish St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 6XH
Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5LS
Regent Street Campus 309 Regent St, Marylebone, London W1B 2HT
Harrow Campus Watford Rd, Northwick Park Roundabout, Harrow HA1 3TP


These unique paintings are lit up with LED's and can light up any color you'd like, based on RGB format. It is on remote and on an app on your phone that dims changing the brightness of the light coming through the stones. I really wanted to highlight the stones in order to bring out there true, natural brilliance. Shown is only a few colors, yet this has endless possibilities.


Jean-Philip Grobler, known by his stage name St. Lucia, is a South African-born, Brooklyn-based musician.
After releasing his second album "Matter", the indie electronic/synthpop artist shared the music video for the new single "Help me run away".
The hero of the clip, directed by Jose Norton, is a pair of sneakers who hit the highway to hitchhike across the States when they're separated from their love interest – a pair of red stilettos – after their owners split.


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Editors' Forum | Uptown silence … Affluent communities have 'false sense of security', not sharing info with Crime Stop
Published:Sunday | September 22, 2019 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson - Staff Reporter
Sandra Glasgow, chairperson of Crime Stop.
Brian Schmidt, director of Crime Stop Jamaica programme.
The implementation of zones of special operations (ZOSOs) in some hard-pressed communities has caused an uptick in the number of calls to Crime Stop's '311' hotline.
However, there are concerns that residents of more affluent areas continue to keep quiet about crimes in their space.
These persons, according to representatives of Crime Stop Jamaica (CSJ), are victims of a "false sense of security" – mistakenly thinking they are safe behind high-tech security systems and the confines of their locked homes or gated communities.
"Even though people like to say that persons from the inner city are afraid to call or whatever, that is where we get most of our information from. We get little or zero information from upper St Andrew or St James, or wherever," explained Sandra Glasgow, chairperson of CSJ.
"It is like, because they are living in this so-called safe community, they think that nothing can happen to them. I know people who have said 'I'm sure the person living next to me is a drug runner', and I ask 'so what are you doing about it?', and they say 'nothing'."
Spurning the chilling silence from some residents' 'cocoons', director of the CSJ programme, Brian Schmidt, argues that, "Unless somebody is directly affected by a crime, it is somebody else's issue. But the instant it becomes their issue, then they understand the value."
The sentiments were expressed in a Gleaner Editors' Forum last Thursday, where Schmidt said the 'informer-fi-dead' culture continues to thrive across Jamaica – not just in the inner-city communities – and that CSJ has been exploring various means to collect information.
HIDING FROM THE POLICE
England-based dancehall entertainer Jason McDermott, also called Stylo G, was last Monday detained by cops who turned up and searched premises in which he was staying inside the upscale Caymanas Estate residence in St Catherine. The police were reportedly called by residents of the community.
According to the residents and management of Caymanas Estate, the incident was the culmination of a slew of concerns regarding unscrupulous persons who were renting properties and disobeying general rules – including noise abatement and security access.
Their anxiety was reflected in a report published by the Jamaica Constabulary Force's National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), which, two weeks ago, confirmed that criminal gangsters were hiding from the police in gated communities in the Corporate Area and St Catherine.
"This is mainly because whenever persons want to enter these communities, permission must be granted by the resident they wish to visit," stated the 2018 National Gang Assessment by the NIB, which also noted that organised gangsters continued to employ drones, explosives, migration, and threatening witnesses to avoid sleuths.
On Thursday, Assistant Police Commissioner McArthur Sutherland, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch, told The Sunday Gleaner that information about criminal suspects hiding out in high-priced communities is a phenomenon that his team has been probing.
"But remember, criminal suspects move around. They assess their situation and they move around to ensure that they evade capture. Sometimes they will be somewhere where the next-door neighbour does not even know who they are. That's the reality," he said.
corey.robinson@gleanerjm.com
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Lawrence Kiptoo Saina (* 4. August 1981) ist ein kenianischer Marathonläufer.

2004 gewann er den Prato-Halbmarathon, beim Madrid-Marathon belegte er 2005 den vierten und 2006 den siebten Platz. Im gleichen Jahr gewann er den Porto-Marathon mit persönlicher Bestzeit von 2:09:52 Stunden, die gleichzeitig einen neuen Streckenrekord bedeutete. 2007 wurde Saina Achter beim Seoul International Marathon, im Jahr darauf folgten ein sechster Platz beim Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, ein fünfter beim Peking-Marathon und ein dritter beim Taipei International Marathon. 2010 wurde er Zweiter beim Tiberias-Marathon.

Persönliche Bestzeiten
 Halbmarathon: 1:01:38 h, 12. April 2004, Prato
 Marathon: 2:09:52 h, 15. Oktober 2006, Porto

Weblinks

 Athletenporträt auf marathoninfo.free.fr

Marathonläufer (Kenia)
Kenianer
Geboren 1981
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Chrysler's Future: A New Minivan, A New Compact Sedan, And Crossovers
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Chrysler's plan for the next five years includes a radical shift in its product lineup--one that doubles the number of Chrysler-badged vehicles, while the Dodge brand refocuses on performance.
In a reversal of the past two decades, the Chrysler brand will now be marketed as a mainstream brand--not premium.
ALSO SEE: Dodge Five-Year Plan: Musclecars Rule, Grand Caravan A Goner
In a press conference at its U.S. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Chrysler executives confirmed the following new products will be launched through the 2018 calendar year:
2015: The 2015 Chrysler 200 sedan is the brand's big launch this year; the Town & Country minivan and 300 sedan are carryovers--except the Chrysler 300 SRT, which ends production after the 2014 model year.
2016: A new Chrysler Town & Countryminivan becomes the company's only sliding-door people mover, as the Dodge Grand Caravan is being cancelled. A plug-in hybrid version will get up to 75 MPGe.
In the same year, the Chrysler 100 compact sedan will be added to the lineup. It's unknown if it will live on the same architecture as the current Dodge Dart--which is only four cubic feet smaller inside than the Chrysler 200.
2017: A full-size crossover with plug-in hybrid technology will be introduced, as a sort-of successor to the old Chrysler Pacifica.
2018: A new Chrysler 300 bows, some 13 years after the first version was introduced in 2005. There's no word on what will underpin this new sedan, or if it will remain essentially a rear-wheel-drive car. In the same year, Chrysler will also introduce a new mid-size crossover.
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Q: LMB + CTRL disable
My question is about that after pressing  LMB + CTRL I have weird Green Circle (Linux Mint)
It's disturbing me in playing games a lot, because when I'm trying to do something with comibination of this any of my commands are not being done.

There is an img what shows what I meant.

A: This is probably the result of a setting in the desktop environment designed to make it easier to find a small pointer on a HiDPI screen.  Normally it's just the control key that triggers it (that's what pretty much every other system I've seen does), but it wouldn't surprise me if the Mint developers changed it.
If you go into the mouse settings, there should be an option near the top that says something along the lines of:
'Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed'
That's probably the setting you need to toggle (possibly on and then off again).


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Q: How can I get `reduce` to divide values in the stream by one another? I have a stream of Integers and the source of the stream is a list: [3, 27].
When doing list.stream.reduce(1, (a,b) -> a/b)), how do I get the reduce to divide 3/1 = 3 then 27/3 = 9 and return 9?

A: One should not use reduce with an accumulator function that is not associative. This has been especially highlighted in the JDK documentation of the API as well.

The accumulator function must be an associative function.

You don't really need to rely on streams for this manipulation, in fact, streams are not good in persisting intermediate states(as in this case), so a simple for loop solution shall work for you :
int reduce = 1;
for (Integer integer : List.of(3, 27)) {
    reduce = integer / reduce;
}
System.out.println(reduce);

To test out the inconsistency in terms of using the stream API for this purpose, just change your code to the following and notice the output!
Integer reduce = List.of(3, 7).parallelStream().reduce(1, (a, b) -> b / a);
System.out.println(reduce);

A: You have to swap a and b:
System.out.println (Stream.of(3,27).reduce(1, (a,b) -> b/a));

output:
9


A 3D-printed material that gets its inspiration from shark skin can be used as an anti-bacterial coating in hospital settings.
Google's new Edge Tensor Processing Unit is a processor for running high-performance machine learning applications directly on mobile and embedded devices.
MIT researchers have developed a new prosthetic foot that is low-cost and can be customized to help a wearer walk with a normal gait.
Reliability Physics provides a way for design engineers to predict reliability and improve product performance.
A team has successfully 3D-printed the first human corneas for transplant using seaweed-based bio-ink.
Researchers at MIT and NJIT fabricated soft structures that can move by magnetic control and can be used for a variety of novel biomedical applications.
UCLA researchers have developed a technique for 3D printing multiple biomaterials by combining two types of printing methods.
Researchers in North Carolina have developed technology that makes prosthetic wrists and hands easier to use by taking commands from neuromuscular signals.


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In her solo show, Elementals, at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), artist Karen Hochman Brown draws upon the elemental building blocks of life:
air (AER), water (AQUA), fire (IGNUS), and earth (TERRA). Hochman Brown alternately departs from the aluminum substrates on which her works have been previously printed. The mixed media works in Elementals are custom printed charmeuse, silk dupioni and include laser cut wood, acrylic and wool.
They have been designed on computer like Hochman Brown's previous work but are presented using a combination of many techniques, tracing her history as an artist up to and including her use of a new tool, the Glowforge laser cutter. These new works are embedded with laser etched, hand painted QR codes that when activated by viewers, present interactive media such as the work's source material and a video tracing its process of creation. The works in Elementals not only continue to push the boundaries of new media, but also highlight harmonious relationships between nature and humanity.
37" x 59" mixed media, custom printed satin, silk dupioni, wool, wood, aluminum, and acrylic paint—$3,750
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Cinema Road: Part I | Ope Olum'degun
This is part one of a three month series of excerpts from Ope Olum'degun's forthcoming novel.
Before MC Hammer became a vigilante in Sagamu, he worked at a bottling plant in Lagos. For nine hours every day, Dad told me, he would sit on a stool in front of a conveyor belt and watch bottles ghost by. He was to look out for anything unusual in the soda in each bottle before it got capped in another line, and slouching or dozing at the job increased the risk of someone knocking back a cockroach with their Pepsi. He would stay alert by listening to loud and fast songs on his Walkman, which eventually made him restless. Soon he quit and joined the OPC. But he eventually fled Lagos because of something that happened between him and a Hausa soldier's wife. That's how Dad put it. "And when you're old enough and get married," he added, "always be leery of MC Hammer. Even if he's old and grey by then."
When MC Hammer returned home to join the vigilantes, he was placed on night duty first on Cinema Road, and later in other parts of town. Nothing escaped his watch. He knew who lived in what house; he knew who was out of town; who had a visitor; which kids snuck out of their parents' houses; who was sleeping with whom; everything. Everyone respected and feared him, and he rose through the ranks until he became the head of the local vigilantes.
He walked briskly around town often wearing nothing but a towel around his waist, flip flops on his feet and his AK47 slung across his shoulders. If you saw him before noon, he would likely have a long chewing stick in his mouth.
He was chewing one of those when he drove up in his fairly used Peugeot 504 with Kokonsari and picked me from church. Olawuyi was on the radio again, but it was a repeat of his Saturday show, so no one was paying much attention.
"Did you pray for us?" MC Hammer asked with a grin as I settled in the back seat and he drove off.
"Beeni," I said, trying avoiding my uncle's gaze. Kokonsari reached back and rubbed my head.
"Good boy."
I smirked. "Where are we going?"
"Iledi. There's something we should show you."
I'd never been to Iledi, the town jail, even though my grandfather had built it. He had taught government at the local high school where he was also the principal. He had also trained as a mason, which is why he was contracted by the Security Council, the vigilante group that was formed by the OPC when robbers took the town by storm in the late 70s, according to Grandmother. The police were by then, as she put it, "as useless as a monk's penis."
The jail was a story building. It was built at the mouth of a gully turned gutter and looked like an image out of a second grader's drawing book, except for the lack of colour. The only lustre it had was its brown rusted roof, the sheets for which were purchased at the Mile 12 market in Lagos. The gutter was bridged with a large plank that supported the weight of the vigilantes' rickety station wagon, which brought in new offenders and carried out lifeless ones every week. The building seemed to sink in the sand and float in the air at the same time. Bricks were stacked at the entrance to help you walk up through the front door – the only door. But once you were in, as Mukaila told me, you felt like you were underground. The 'offices' were on the ground floor. You could hear loud gossip and idle chatter and Haruna Ishola playing on the radio when you passed by in the afternoons. As the sun set, it was raucous laughter and the clanging of beer bottles. But once darkness fell, you had no business in the vicinity.
Olawuyi signed off and Micho Ade broke into the chorus of Oju Ogun Laye, his voice desperate and afflicted. My eyes lit up. Kokonsari turned up the volume and clapped. Grandmother said Micho complained too much, but his songs were my favourite. That morning, he was sad no one had told him that life was a warfront. He would have come prepared. He wouldn't have left heaven for his mother's womb unarmed. He would have made a bow and stocked thousands of arrows, bought bullets and gunpowder, and he would have commissioned Sokoti, the blacksmith of heaven, to make him a rifle with six barrels.
"…six barrels, to fight for my freedom," we sang along. I had drawn what I thought the gun would look like in the back page of Dad's old bible, which I kept in my schoolbag. And Grandmother beamed whenever she saw me fingering the drawing because she thought I was reading the bible.
Two vigilantes were playing mancala on a bench when we pulled up in front of Iledi and alighted. They got up and prostrated before MC Hammer, who waved at them to continue their game. The building was dark inside and sunlight stopped just short of the doorway. But it was just enough that I could see that each of the doors were unpolished and without a knob. A few voiced sang or argued behind the doors, punctuated by an occasional jangling of chains. A wooden staircase crawled up into the second floor without banisters. I'd heard Kokonsari joke that it was built that way to prisoners wouldn't attempt to struggle while being taken up or down the stairs. "Or they can try to and get their heads smashed into the concrete floor," he'd said.
We went up the stairs and opened the first door to the left. MC Hammer pushed me inside and flipped a switch. My eyes adjusted and settled on a huge portmanteau, the biggest I've ever seen. Otherwise, the room was bland; unpainted, unplastered and windowless.
"Open it."
Only a dead body could be in something that large in a place like this. But what did I have to do with it? And why was it being hidden and not buried or thrown away like the ones whose families didn't claim out of shame? I turned and looked at them both.
"What is inside?" I stammered.
"Just open it."
"Who is inside?" I pressed, trying to blot out the image of anyone I loved lying in the huge leather coffin. Kokonsari shook his head and motioned towards the portmanteau. "Don't waste time."
I lifted the lid and removed the white cloth that draped the bodies. There were four of them: two placed side by side with another piled on top of each, but none looked immediately familiar. My stomach sank. The eyelids had been cut off and their eyes plucked out, and despite the empty orifices, they looked angry. There was that bitterness on their lips I thought I saw when Mom's body was being fitted into her burial clothes. I sat on the floor and looked away from their faces. I wondered what had been done to the rest of their bodies that were wrapped in tarpaulin.
MC Hammer pulled me up and turned me to face him, while Kokonsari closed the portmanteau and sat on the lid.
"You know who those are?"
I nodded nervously. The incisions on their temples were unmistakable. They were the same ones Kokonsari and MC Hammer and the two men downstairs had. And Dad too.
"Now you see why we needed those kittens?"
I nodded more vigorously and wiped my eyes. I wasn't sure why I was crying.
"It has started, Bobo," he said. "The gambari soldiers have started it again like a casual conversation. And it's because of the deaf that the skies darken before rain falls. This is a clear signal, don't you think?"
"Where did it happen?" I asked between snorts and sniffs.
Kokonsari squeezed my shoulders. "You can't tell anyone about this, do you hear? As far as anyone knows, these people are still in Lagos. We don't want people to panic before we are fully ready to protect them."
"But the Hausas…"
"They want us to openly strike first so they can put the blame on us. They have all the soldiers, remember? And their man is running the country. That's why they are quietly killing OPC members in Lagos or anyone associated with them."
"And we're letting…"
"We're safe here, Bobo. Don't be scared."
I wondered why everything that happened to us always involved Lagos. The OPC ran the local vigilante groups from Lagos, MKO was arrested in Lagos, the June 12 riots happened in Lagos, Dad fled to Abroad through Lagos, Mom was always afraid of going to Lagos, and now vigilantes were getting killed in Lagos. It was an entirely different place than the Lagos I'd been to with Dad. And I was sure I didn't want the new Lagos.
They dropped me off at home and reminded me to keep mum. "You're you father's son, Bobo," MC Hammer said. "Be ready to do anything for him."
Ope Olum'degun is a fiction writer who prefers to read non-fiction. He moved to the US from Nigeria in 2009 and is currently in the MA in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University. When he isn't selling books and magazines to finicky Washingtonians, he's developing and writing a radio drama series for the National Museum of African Art.


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Hugh Bowman The Star Attraction At Grafton Luncheon
Clarence River Jockey Club has announced champion Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman will be one of two guest speakers at its Barrier Draw Luncheon to be held at Grafton Racecourse on Monday 10th July.
Bowman will join former international jockey, trainer and current Sydney-based trainer Gary Moore at the microphone.
The ticket-only event is one of the social highlights of the Grafton Carnival and commences at 11am where the barrier draw for both the Grafton District Services Club Ramornie Handicap (1200m) and the McKimms Real Estate Grafton Cup (2350m) will be conducted.
CRJC's Executive Officer, Michael Beattie, said: "I could not be happier with the line-up of guests we have been able to attract this year.
"Hugh Bowman has been the leading Sydney jockey for two seasons since 2012 and remains in a battle for the current Sydney Jockeys' Premiership. With one more Group 1 winner this year he will break the Australian record for the most Group 1 winners in a season.
"When you add those facts to his long and successful association with Winx he really is the man of the moment in Australian racing.
"Gary Moore, on the other hand, is known across the international racing world as a man of exceptional talent where he has experienced outstanding success in both Europe and Asia and is making his mark for the second time as a trainer in Sydney.
"I know from my time in Macau where he was the premier trainer for many years he will have some very entertaining stories to tell."
Tickets can be purchased from the CRJC by phoning (02) 6642 2566. Visit - Clarence River Jockey Club


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Relationship between job creation and exports in Korea
Jobs are at the center of everyone's attention. President Moon Jae-in has also put job creation as a top priority for the new administration
Moon's new stance on North Korea
After the ruling on the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye in March, Moon Jae-in won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide on Tuesday, May 9. The new president said his victory was the result of the Korean people's desire for a regime change and he would accomplish the two main tasks, reform and national unity.
President, you may regret not reading this
Seeing the flood of Open Letters to President Moon reminded me of a few years ago when a flood of Open Letters were directed at former President Park. She received advice from so many sides that she must not have known which way to turn, like the main character in ''The Marriage of Figaro" (''The Day of Madness"). It turns out she turned the wrong direction, ending up in jail.
Everything has a price
Suppose that South Korea offers Kim Jong-un of North Korea the presidency of South Korea as well as all the rights to control everything South Korea has in return for Kim reversing his nuclear program and dismantling all his nuclear weapons. I have no doubt that Kim will gladly accept the deal. Now, suppose that South Korea offers Kim Jong-un one dollar in exchange for Kim te...
Stay away from Trump
As President Moon Jae-in already knows, Korean history demonstrates repeatedly that big powers with interests in Korea have always acted on their own interests before Korea's. This is a basic lesson in international relations. Meanwhile, in emerging from their biggest crisis in years, South Koreans have shown the power of the rule of law and self-governance. And even though S...
First Korean president who can truly say no to US
Few Korean presidents have said no to their U.S. counterparts. Roh Moo-hyun tried with little success. Would the new president, Moon Jae-in, be different? Likely. Moon we know is often taken in the context of Roh, his friend, partner and mentor. Roh got elected thanks to anti-American sentiment after two girls were crushed to death by a U.S. military vehicle. Roh was a believ...
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Don't let Trump, Xi decide Korea's future
The spectacle of the leaders of the world's superpowers getting together to discuss what to do about Korea has been a constant throughout Korean history. We only have to go back to the division of the Korean Peninsula by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1945 to understand the thoughtlessness of foreigners toward Korea's fate. That was 40 years after the Taft-Katsura ...