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A Jewel in the Crown: Masjid Diraja Sultan Suleiman
Located in Kampung Jawa, Masjid Diraja Sultan Suleiman was built in 1932-33 in the Royal Town of Klang, Selangor and has been gazetted as National Heritage under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). In November 2017, the mosque was reopened to the public following its restoration and refurbishment. This talk will cover the history of the building, the conservation and restoration work and the construction of new amenities to respond to the present day needs of the qariah.
Speakers will include members of the conservation team, architects Ar. Dr. Helena Aman Hashim and Mariana Isa from Badan Warisan Heritage Services Sdn Bhd, the consultant architect, Ar. Hafizi Tan Sri Mohamed from Linea Architect Sdn Bhd and Musrizal Mat Isa from Balai Seni Negara who was involved in the restoration of the bas-relief features in the mosque.
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Betel Boxes- Symbol of Wealth, Status & Social Standing
Posted on July 5, 2017 Updated on July 29, 2017
A betel box with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
The habit of betel chewing is believed to have started way back into the Neolithic Age, and for a long time, it was thought to be native to India because of several literary references including a Pali text dating from 504 BC describing this practice. Recent linguistic studies and archaeological finds, however, point to another origin, i.e., southeast Asia.
A carry-on Peranakan Betel Box, used by men. It is hooked onto the belt.
This conclusion is based on the discovery of traces of the piper betel seeds found in various caves in Thailand and Indonesia dating back to 5,000- 7,000 BC and the discovery of a male skeleton with betel-stained teeth in the Duyong caves in the Philippines dating back to 2680 BC. This habit (betel chewing) spread to cover a large area which included mainland southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia and a custom which was enjoyed by both men and women.
Over the years several accounts of the habit have been written by countless travellers and writers including references to betel and areca in Chinese accounts which date back to the 7th century. They believed that the betel and areca had many medicinal qualities most popular being that of a mouth freshener and it was said that its popularity in China only declined with the introduction of opium in the 19th century. In the "The Travels of Ibn Buttute" in the 13th century he described how he was welcomed by a plate of betel leaves and areca nuts on arrival at the palace of the Sultan of Mogadishu, clearly indicating its association with hospitality.
The foreigners were fascinated and at the same time repelled by the black teeth and the red saliva describing the habit as vile and disgusting, but the habitual users considered these very same things as beautiful. Chewing betel which is a mild narcotic evokes a mild euphoria and a general feeling of well-being. The British anthropologist, Tom Harrison claimed that a few minutes of betel chewing after an hour of hard climbing in Sarawak sent waves of energy through his body.
Carry-on betel boxes used by Malay Men
There are three main ingredients necessary for betel chewing, the betel leaf (from the piper betel vine), lime (from limestone or crushed incinerated sea shells) and the areca nut. One starts with the betel leaf to which the lime is smeared, and a few slivers of areca nut added. The leaf is neatly folded into a small parcel which is called a quid or a "chew" and then popped into the mouth between the gum and the cheek. The Malays add gambir as a fourth ingredient which is said to enhance the flow of saliva, but its primary export value was for tanning leather. Tobacco and spices can also be added depending on taste and custom.
A basic betel box, carved out of wood.
A receptacle was therefore required to house and transport the different ingredients mentioned above, and the Betel Box was born. This can be in the form of boxes, trays, baskets, and bags, fashioned out of silver, gold, brass, bronze, lacquer, wood, ceramic, glass, textile, etc. The shapes and sizes vary to reflect preference gradually becoming a status symbol to indicate the wealth and social standing of its owners.
An exquisite 200-year old Betel Box made out of silver & gold, brought over from Sulawesi by Pn. Zuraidah's grandfather.
The grandest usually made of gold were reserved for royalty, and this then became part of the royal regalia in countries such as Burma, Thailand and the Malay sultanates. Over time the popularity of betel chewing waned, and when Malaya became independent from the British in 1957, the betel box was excluded from the royal regalia because it was considered old-fashioned. What has remained is its association with respect and hospitality in Malay custom and tradition and the Betel Box, therefore, plays an important role especially in Malay weddings
Equipment used for betel chewing (from left) areca nut cracker, mortars & leaf container
From what was described as an "unlovely practice" by Sir George Scott we have fortunately been left with a very rich inheritance of beautiful Betel Boxes and the various wonderful paraphernalia which were necessary for betel chewing. These include the betel cutters, tobacco boxes, spittoons and mortars which the elderly and toothless needed to pound the ingredients.
A brass betel box, from the personal collection of Puan Zuraidah Ghani
This post is written by Puan Zuraidah Ghani, long-time member of Badan Warisan Malaysia and avid collector of Betel Boxes, otherwise known as Tepak Sirih in Malay.
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Colours of Asia by William Harald-Wong
Colours of Asia
William Harald-Wong
'Colours of Asia' was the first in a series of studies to examine the idea of 'Asian-ness' in the broad field of design—a particular way of thinking and doing, its cultural and spiritual affinities, profound philosophical and aesthetic concepts—that can give multiple meanings and depth to contemporary design.
The research on colours covered 13 Asian countries/regions, exploring significant dimensions of culture such as beliefs and rites of passage that define society, design and the built environment, crafts, food, language and literature, traversing from a rich cultural past to an equally relevant and exciting present day.
'Colours of Asia' was a project undertaken by The Design Alliance Asia in collaboration with Hong Kong Design Institute and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wei Lee), with generous funding from CreateHK, Hong Kong SAR Government.
'Colours of Asia' comprised an exhibition, student workshops, forum, seminar, research papers and a publication. It was presented during Hong Kong Year of Design 2012 and in 2014 won the prestigious Special Award for Culture at the Design for Asia Awards in Hong Kong.
Curators: Prof. Ahn Sang-soo (South Korea) and William Harald-Wong (Malaysia)
Research team for Malaysia: Ezrena Marwan, Suzy Sulaiman and William Harald-Wong
William Harald-Wong is an urban identity designer, working at the intersection of brand, culture, city and community. William is also the Founder and Chairman of The Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia), a collaborative network of prominent designers in 13 Asian countries / regions.
He won in the prestigious Design for Asia Awards in Hong Kong twice in a row—2015 Grand Award Finalist and Gold for Museum Sultan Abu Bakar (Malaysia) and 2014 Special Award for Culture for 'Colours of Asia'.
He was awarded the International Design Achievement Award, China (2010), the Lifetime Achievement Award by DDEC Malaysia (2011), Designomics Leadership Award, India (2012), and Distinguished Chinese Award by Chinese Who's Who Society, China (2013).
William served as Vice-President of Icograda from 2001 to 2013 and co-founded wREGA, the Graphic Design Association of Malaysia.
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Turtle Tales Talk & Exhibition
Turtle Tales: Talk & Exhibition at Badan Warisan Malaysia is in conjunction with World Turtle Day! The exhibition will be on going for 1 month from 13 May to 13 June 2017 whereas the talk will be on 21 May 2017.
This month long exhibition features paintings and drawings from the book ' I love Sea Turtles', a collaboration between sisters Yi Xuan, 15, the writer of the book and Yu Jing, 11, the illustrator of the book.
The paintings and book were created after the sister's witnessed the sea turtles laying eggs, which then ignited the sister's passion and dedication in helping to save these sea creatures. The sisters will be at Badan Warisan Malaysia on 21 May to share their experiences and talk about their adventure and future projects.
The talk will take place on 21 May 2017, given by the Turtle Conservation Society of Malaysia. The talk will feature a presentation of the different species of sea turtles found in Malaysia, their conservation status, feeding habits and threats that they face.
Audiences will also get to know TCS, their objectives, the research, conservation, education and awareness programmes that have been conduct.
The talk will also focus on the two critically endangered species of fresh water turtles in Malaysia that TCS is focused on.
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Architecture & Nation Building: Multiculturalism & Democracy
The talk focuses on how architecture can contribute towards the creation of an 'imagined community' called 'Malaysian' through a discourse of multiculturalism and democracy as the main reference points of design. Historically, the call for a national architectural identity was received with great interest by Malay architects who produced many traditional revivalist buildings and also by non-Malay architects with emphasis on climate and local materials. Neither of the two extremes had taken multi-culturalism and democracy into their design approaches and discourses. What we find are either simplistically interpreted post-modern attempts and at the other extreme we find literalist modernism products with a number of architects engaging in regionalism using climate and material in a more daring manner.
Although the regionalist in Malaysia has a better edge in terms of a more creative and meaningful design, their approach would be most inspiring if the aspects of multi-culturalism and democracy were integrated. Many architects either seemed too frightened of political backlash or they are uncertain how these two aspects can be used in architecture. I will concentrate on these two aspects of multi-culturalism and democracy in my criticism of housing, mosques and administrative buildings in Malaysia by reinterpreting the rituals and values within a more inclusive view of politics and society and the early modernist framework of design.
Professo r Dr Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi is a prolific writer in architecture, politics, social issues, religious matters and education. Prof Dr. Mohamad Tajuddin was educated in the USA at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where he obtained his Masters and Bachelor of Science in Architecture.
He was Professor of Architecture at UTM for 10 years and now at UCSI University. Professor Tajuddin has authored and published 40 books to date on architecture concerning Islam, the mosque, housing, community building and planning of administrative centres. He was a columnist for several years with the Utusan Malaysia and with The Star. Prof Tajuddin is also responsible for writing hundreds of articles in architecture for the encyclopedia of architecture published by the national publication.
He has written many articles in the media concerning various issues of architecture, democracy, multi-culturalism and education. He is also frequently interviewed by online media news like malaysiakini and Freemalaysiatoday on national political and social issues.
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Posted on March 16, 2017 Updated on November 9, 2017
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#CVFRC Updates
Posted on November 10, 2016 Updated on November 10, 2016
New acquisitions at www.chenvoonfeerc.org
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SAVE MY HERITAGE INITIATIVE #SMHI by BADAN WARISAN MALAYSIA
Posted on July 26, 2016 Updated on July 26, 2016
Save My Heritage Initiative (#SMHI) is a platform created by Badan Warisan Malaysia to extend our message of heritage appreciation and conservation and to promote the significance and value the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Malaysia.
Working with cultural practitioners, heritage professionals and educators, #SMHI will introduce a varied programme with opportunities for people of all ages from school children, students, academics, professionals and the general public to participate in, and enhance their understanding and knowledge of our heritage. Activities will include talks and lectures, walks and visits to heritage places, training workshops, seminars and events for a wide audience to better understand and be involved in caring for their heritage.
Badan Warisan Malaysia has been championing our nation's built and cultural heritage since 1982. Our role has been that of a civic trust, building preservation advocate, heritage consultancy and charitable institution with the mission to Educate, Engage and Empower our fellow Malaysians.
To complement and amplify our objectives we will soon launch a new website called SAVEMYHERITAGE.ORG which is an informative and interactive platform where the public can identify heritage assets under threat and generate support for them.
The series of talks and live presentations around the theme Save My Heritage will kick off on 30 July 2016 with Restoring Fort Alice by Ar. Mike Boon.
This entry was posted in Save My Heritage, Uncategorized and tagged Architecture, badan-warisan-malaysia, Buildings, discoverywalk, heritage, heritage walks, kuala lumpur, savemyheritage, walks & talks.
Save My Heritage Initiative- Conserving Fort Alice by Dr. Mike Boon
Ar. Mike Boon will begin his talk begin by giving a context on conservation practice in Sarawak. He will cover the controls and guidelines for conservation projects by looking at some of his earlier restoration works such as the Courthouse, Square Tower, Fort Magherita, and an old shophouse house.
He will then share his experiences on 'place making' when designing a new public building and facilities at the foothill of Fort Alice as well as through the restoration and conservation of this Fort. These two projects which took over 10 years to be realised, have created a landmark and returned a green open space to the people of Simanggang (Sri Aman).
A public engagement programme, coined "Reminiscing Forgotten Treasure…Simanggang", was conducted in parallel with the restoration work, which provided participation of the local community and helped instil a 'sense of belonging'
He will conclude by touching on his involvement in restoring the Sarawak Museum and the other buildings in the Museum Garden.
Mike Boon graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and has been practicing in Kuching since then. Following his involvement in the restoration of the Kuching Old Court House project in 2002, Mike has been actively promoting heritage conservation in Sarawak.
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Talk By Dr Sandra Khor Manickam "Mr. Inquisitive": Ivor H. N. Evans' life in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Posted on June 17, 2016 Updated on June 17, 2016
"Mr. Inquisitive" was the title given by anthropologist Ivor H.N. Evans (1886-1957) to his autobiography before he changed it to the more straightforward title, "The Years Behind Me". Housed in the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology archives, the manuscript has never been published.
Now, in conjunction with NIAS Press, an annotated version of the memoir relating to his travels in Malaya and Borneo is planned for future publication along with illustrations and maps where available. Evans has left an indelible mark on scholarship relating to Malaya and Borneo with his anthropological works on both areas and his involvement with the Federated Malay States Museums and journal. This talk will discuss selected chapters of his autobiography, what insights it brings to the workings of British Malaya and Borneo, and the complications of using biography to elucidate history.
Dr Sandra Khor Manickam is a historian of colonial Malaya, with an emphasis on the history of ideas of race and colonial anthropology of indigenous peoples, and the history of the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia. She is currently Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and has held positions as Junior Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, National University of Singapore. Her book, Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya (NUS Press) was published in 2015. She may be contacted at skmanickam@hotmail.com
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I made my mistake, and it cost me. But communication pratfalls don't necessarily indicate a lack of knowledge or skill. Things happen. Cut candidates some slack.
What's it like to watch your reputation dismantled in a very public forum? I'm not referring to the #MeToo movement but to a moment in my own life in 2006, when I was campaigning for lieutenant governor.
We were in a busy coffee shop and I didn't hear him the first time, so I asked him to repeat the question. Initially, I thought he was asking about a local roadway — East 85? Local roadways are a big issue in greater Minnesota, and candidates often get asked about them. But that didn't register, and I thought maybe it was an unfamiliar education acronym.
I drew a blank, then did the unthinkable — I said so. I made a joke about bombing out on the quiz bowl, and as I walked away, the reporter said he was referring to ethanol. Ahhh. Yes. I had been state auditor for eight years, and ethanol investments were a concern. My office had examined how several counties had used tax-increment financing to support ethanol operations. I had visited ethanol plants. I knew the financial impact of ethanol production throughout the state. But in that coffee shop, I blew it. The reporter and the camera had moved on, and we soon did, too, but not for long. Our opponents got the recording and pounced.
My two terms as state auditor, four years at the helm of a statewide charitable organization, my University of Minnesota law degree, my seven years as a prosecutor evaporated in days.
I was helpless to slow down, let alone stop, the swift dismantling of my public reputation by the members of the opposition, who questioned my intelligence and competence. The campaign didn't handle the fallout well and, after a tumultuous week, we lost.
This all happened in 2006, more than a decade ago. I've never spoken about it publicly, and I thought I never would until last week, when another candidate failed to answer the E85 question. I decided I wanted to offer my perspective as a former candidate and, more important, as a Minnesotan who cares about good governance.
I believe we want elected officials who are honest, sincere and authentic, and I hope the sense of schadenfreude many feel when we see a politician stumble is somewhat muted by the understanding of the sacrifice many make to step forward to serve. It is often extremely difficult to campaign in a 24-hour "gotcha" environment when every word is parsed and every utterance evaluated. I encourage voters to look at candidates in full and understand that they are real people and that they sometimes make mistakes. If we want genuine, honest people in office, maybe we need to give them slack.
To err is human, to forgive? — TBD.
Judi Dutcher is executive director of the Bentson Foundation.
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This time, our enemies may sit it out. But our 'allies' have a lot at stake.
Singer didn't appear to be racist, but some are convinced of it today.
Often, that means a lot of time and effort, and sometimes, that's fueled by righteous anger, which isn't the same as "negativity."
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2018 will see the launch of our budget day tour to Sinujiu, the North Korean border city with China!
This is our cheapest ever trip in to North Korea at just 355€ (includes NK visa) and would be suited to anyone already travelling in China who wants to take a glimpse in to life in the DPRK.
The tour runs every day excluding Mondays and can be booked with just a weeks notice. We can also extend the tour with an overnight stay in North Korea for a total price of 455€.
This tour is hot off the press, we'll be adding photos to this page soon.
There is no option for Hungarian speaking tour guide on this tour!
- We can arrange accomdation for you in Dandong on the Chinese side of the border for £20 a night in a twin room.
Our tour meets in Dandong at 8:00 am, the Chinese border city with North Korea, where a Lupine rep will answer any questions you have and help you join the tour. You will join the daily bus into North Korea with a mixture of other tourists from both China and abroad. Please note a Lupine tour leader does not normally join this tour, unlike our group tours in to North Korea.
After clearing North Korean customs at the border, you will go to the main square of Siniuju train station to see the large statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Next you'll head to the Korean revolution museum and Sinujiu art musem before taking a break for an included lunch.
In the afternoon we'll make a visit to a local school to see a performace by the students and have a chance to grab some unique souvenirs before heading back across the bridge into China, arriving around 16:30.
We also have an option to extend the tour with a overnight stay in Sinujiu for an extra 99€. If you stay overnight the bus will then take you to Donglin, a county near Siniuju. You'll check-in to the Donglin holiday hotel and have diner there with a performance. In the morning you will climb Donglin mountain and then after an included lunch visit the Yalu river park right on the border before crossing back to China.


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Q: Compiling Lisp code with read macros I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what becomes of read macros when compiling a file of lisp code into a bytecode or raw assembly (or a fasl file for that matter). Or maybe I do understand it but don't know. I'm just really confused.
When you use a read macro, don't you have to have the source available?
If you do, then you have to be executing the source code that makes up the function of the read macro. If you don't, then how can they work when you can do stuff like read-char?
To do that, if you want to have the read macro use aforedefined variables, you have to be executing all the code before it, so this becomes runtime which messes up everything.
If you don't run the code before it, then the stuff defined above it won't be available.
What about functions or compiler macros that define read macros? I would assume they wouldn't work at all unless you require or load a file or something that isn't compiled. But if they were compiled, then they wouldn't be able to use them?
If some of my guesses are correct, then it means there is a large difference in "what data will be available to macros" and "what macros will be available to functions" depending on whether you are compiling an entire file to be run later or interpreting a file one line at a time (that is, reading, compiling, and evaluating one expression after another).
In short, it seems like that to compile one line to a form where it can be executed without further macro processing or whatever, you have to read, compile, and run the previous lines.
Remember again that these questions apply to compiling lisp, not interpreting it where you can run each line as it comes in.
Sorry for my rambling, but I am new to lisp and want to know more how it works.

A: This is actually an interesting question, and something that a lot of beginning Lisp programmers struggle with. One of the main reasons for this is that everything mostly works "as expected" and you only really start thinking about these things when you start using the more advanced features of Lisp.
The short answer to your question is, yes, in order for the code to be properly compiled, some of the previous code has to have been executed. Note the word some, that's the key. Let's make a small example. Consider a file with the following content:
(print 'a)

(defmacro bar (x) `(print ,x))

(bar 'b)

As you have already figured out, if you run COMPILE-FILE on this file, the resulting .fasl file will simply contain the compiled version of the following code:
(print 'a)
(print 'b)

"But", you might ask, "Why was the DEFMACRO form executed during compilation, but the PRINT form wasn't?". The answer is explained in the Hyperspec section 3.2.3. It contains the following sentence:

Normally, the top level forms appearing in a file compiled with
  compile-file are evaluated only when the resulting compiled file is
  loaded, and not when the file is compiled. However, it is typically
  the case that some forms in the file need to be evaluated at compile
  time so the remainder of the file can be read and compiled correctly.

There is a form that can be used to control exactly when a form is evaluated. You use EVAL-WHEN for this purpose. In fact, this is exactly how the Lisp compiler implements DEFMACRO itself. You can see how your Lisp implements it by typing the following from the REPL:
(macroexpand '(defmacro bar (x) `(print ,x)))

Obviously different Lisp implementations will implement this differently, but the key important thing is that it wraps the definition in a form: (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute) ...). This tells the compiler that the form should be evaluated both when the file is compiled, but also when the file is loaded. If it didn't do this, you wouldn't be able to use the macro in the same file as it was defined. If the form was only evaluated when the file was compiled, you wouldn't be able to use the macro in a different file after loading it.

A: Compilation of files is defined in Common Lisp: CLHS Section 3.2.3 File Compilation
While compiling: to make use of a form using a read macro, you have to make that read macro implementation available to the compiler.
Typically such dependencies are handled with a defsystem facility, where the dependencies between various files of a system (something like a project) is described. In order to compile a certain file, another file (preferably the compiled version) must be loaded into the compiling Lisp.
Now, if you want to define the read macro and have forms using its notation in the same file, then you again need to make sure the compiler knows about the read macro and its implementation. The file compiler has compilation environment. It does not load the compiled functions of the same file into this environment by default.
To make the compiler aware of certain code in a file it compiles Common Lisp provides EVAL-WHEN.
Let's look at a read macro example:
(set-syntax-from-char #\] #\))

(defun reader-example (stream char)
  (declare (ignore char))
  (let ((class (read stream t nil t))
        (args (read-delimited-list #\] stream t)))
    (apply #'make-instance
           class
           args)))

(set-macro-character #\[ 'reader-example)

(defclass example ()
  ((name :initarg :name)))

(defvar *examples*
  (list [example :name e1]
        [example :name e2]
        [example :name e3]))

If you load the above source, everything is fine. But if we use a file compiler it does not compile without loading it first. The file compiler for example is invoked by calling the function COMPILE-FILE with a pathname.
Now compiling the file:
(set-syntax-from-char #\] #\))

Above will not be executed at compile time. The new syntax change will not be available at compile time.
(defun reader-example (stream char)
  (declare (ignore char))
  (let ((class (read stream t nil t))
        (args (read-delimited-list #\] stream t)))
    (apply #'make-instance
           class
           args)))

The above function gets compiled, but not loaded. It implementation is not available to the the compiler in later steps.
(set-macro-character #\[ 'reader-example)

Again, the above form is not executed - just code for it gets generated.
(defclass example ()
  ((name :initarg :name)))

The compiler notes the class, but can't make instances of it later on.
(defvar *examples*
  (list [example :name e1]
        [example :name e2]
        [example :name e3]))

Above code triggers an error, since the read macro is not available at compile time - unless it has been loaded before.
There are now two easy solutions:

*

*put the implementation of the read macro in a separate file and make sure that it is compiled and loaded before any file which uses the read macro.

*put an EVAL-WHEN around the code which needs to have effect at compile time:
Example:
(EVAL-WHEN (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
  (do-something-also-at-compile-time))

Above will be seen by the compiler and also executed then. Now you have to make sure that the code has everything it calls (all needed definitions) at compile time.
Needless to say: it is good style to reduce such compilation dependencies as much as possible. Typically put the needed functionality in a separate file and make sure that this file gets compiled and loaded into the compiling Lisp before you compile a file which uses it.

A: Macros (including read macros) are nothing but functions, and they're treated just the same way as all the other functions. You do not need to retain a source code once a function or a macro had been compiled.
Many Lisp implementations would not do any interpretation at all. For example, SBCL by default  will only compile, without switching to an interpretation mode even for eval. An important nuance is that Common Lisp compilation is incremental (opposed to the separate compilation, common in many Scheme implementations and languages like C and Java), which allows you to compile a function or a macro and use it straight away, in the same "compilation unit".

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Disneyland is this family's business with…
Disneyland is this family's business with more than 100 years of service
Three generations and seven family members of the Reilly clan have worked at Disneyland with at least one family member on the payroll every year since the Anaheim theme park opened in 1955.
Jack Reilly, front, paddles an Indian War Canoe along Disneyland's Rivers of America in 1956 with Walt Disney aboard and Joe Fowler paddling in the rear. (Courtesy of Disney's D23)
PUBLISHED: February 27, 2020 at 6:33 a.m. | UPDATED: February 28, 2020 at 12:13 p.m.
Vin Reilly has a framed black-and-white photo in her office showing her grandfather paddling a canoe carrying Walt Disney around the Rivers of America that serves a constant reminder of her family's more than 100 years of service to Disneyland.
Reilly's grandfather and father were both 55ers, a designation bestowed on Disneyland cast members who worked at the park on opening day. Her mother and all three of her siblings also held jobs at Disneyland. Reilly herself has worked at the park for 44 years. All combined, the Reilly family has contributed 101 years of service to the park.
Now a show producer, Reilly relishes maintaining a family tradition of working at Disneyland that stretches back to 1954 during the construction of the park.
"I always want to uphold that," said Reilly, who lives in Long Beach. "It's important."
Reilly's latest project: The new Magic Happens parade debuting Friday, Feb. 28 at Disneyland.
Vin Reilly in Disneyland's parade warehouse in front of a "Magic Happens" float. Reilly serves as a show producer on new parades, fireworks shows, nighttime spectaculars and theatrical productions at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. (Photo by Joshua Sudock, Disneyland Resort)
That black-and-white photo hanging on Reilly's office wall captures a classic Disneyland moment with Walt Disney surveying the new location for the Indian Village along the Rivers of America on the Fourth of July in 1956.
Reilly's grandfather, Jack, sits in the front of the boat with an oar as a crew of men in suits and ties take a journey aboard the new Indian War Canoes, which would later be renamed Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes.
At the back of the canoe was Joe Fowler, a retired ship builder tapped by Walt Disney in 1954 to lead the construction of Disneyland.
"Joe was an admiral in the Navy. He was a can-do guy," Reilly said. "He and my grandpa were best friends up in San Francisco."
SEE ALSO: Disneyland's Magic Happens parade costumes and makeup take inspiration from fashion runways
One of the first people Fowler called to help on the fledgling Disneyland project was his old friend Jack Reilly, who ended up becoming the theme park's chief engineer.
"It was just a wild ride trying to get this thing open," Vin Reilly said during an interview near the Disneyland castle. "It truly was all hands on deck and everybody doing everything. If it had to get done. Everybody was jumping in."
Jack Reilly, a naval engineer who served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, stuck around after Disneyland opened and helped grow the park during the 1950s and '60s, his granddaughter said.
"They had so much more that they kept wanting to do," Reilly said.
SEE ALSO: Disney's Avengers Campus stunt show is looking for a few good Marvel superheroes
Reilly still has a journal from the 1960s that her grandfather used to keep track of Disneyland construction projects.
"It was a daily log of everything that he did," she said.
Disneyland expanded at a rapid rate with the Submarine Voyage, Monorail and Matterhorn in the late 1950s and the Enchanted Tiki Room, It's a Small World, Carousel of Progress, Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion in the 1960s.
"He finally retired in the early '70s," Reilly said of her grandfather. "But then they were building Walt Disney World, so he came back out of retirement to go down there."
SEE ALSO: Disneyland's Magic Happens parade taps 'American Idol' alum Todrick Hall for new musical score
Reilly's father, Bob, followed his own father to Disneyland, joining the operations team prior to the park's opening. Bob Reilly eventually ended up as Disneyland's operations director, helping out along the way on Disney's involvement with the 1960 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies and the 1964 World's Fair, his daughter said.
Reilly's mother, also named Vin, soon joined her husband and father-in-law at the park as a tour guide, serving as a navigator for early Disneyland visitors who didn't understand the concept of a theme park.
"When the park opened they kept getting requests for tours because people didn't know what the park was," Reilly said. "She was from the South, and if you know people from the South, they really can tell a good story. They really can just open their mouth up and start talking to you and you're hanging on every word."
SEE ALSO: Disneyland diver finds lost wedding rings, tossed turkey legs and mysterious sunken head under the sea
Reilly's mother later traveled the world as a chaperone for a pair of young Disneyland ambassadors who spread the word about Walt Disney's new theme park in places like Russia and South America. Her mom eventually settled into a retail job in Frontierland after the kids were born.
Reilly's two brothers and sister eventually got in on the Disneyland family tradition as well while they were in school.
"For them it was more of a stepping stone through college," Reilly said.
SEE ALSO: Why there's never been a Mickey Mouse ride at a Disney theme park
Reilly started working at Disneyland as a teenager in the mid-1970s, never planning to spend her entire career at the Anaheim theme park.
"It was my first job," Reilly said. "When I first started it was like, 'I get paid for this? I'm having so much fun.'"
She worked on Disneyland parades during summers and Christmas breaks all through high school and college.
"I actually had graduated from Cal State Long Beach and I was teaching at Edison High School, but I was also still working here," Reilly said while overlooking Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A. "Finally they said, 'You know what? We need somebody to manage the parade department. Since you've been doing it, why don't you go do that?'"
She eventually became a production manager on Disneyland's entertainment team.
"They didn't have producers at the time, so the production manager really was pretty much doing everything from the finances to the logistics to the timelines trying to get it to the finish line," Reilly said.
SEE ALSO: Disneyland's Magic Happens parade brings dancing trees, flowers and waves to Main Street U.S.A.
Disney's D23 comes to Anaheim in September — here's how to get tickets
Today, Reilly serves as a show producer on new parades, fireworks shows, nighttime spectaculars and theatrical productions at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
Disneyland parades have come a long way since Reilly first started at the park. The new Magic Happens parade coming to Disneyland has more technology incorporated into one float than an entire parade from the 1970s.
"It's new. It's fresh. It's got a fresh sound to it," Reilly said of the Magic Happens parade. "It's just really stunning."
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Financial experts worry that that the Bank of Japan's shockingly low interest rates could affect Japanese banks' business, as a Reuters survey disclosed on Wednesday.
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda pointed to this possibility when he referring to a "reversal rate" or the decisive level where major bank rate cuts can painfully impact the Japanese economy by simply squeezing lending margins to a level where Japanese banks lose interest in making loans.
The previous week, Kuroda told that the BOJ might cancel its crisis-mode stimulus, warning of the risk that excessive stimulus could undermine financial institutions' health.
28 of 36 market experts surveyed during December 4-12 told that they worried about the negative impact the BOJ's policy could have on financial institutions. Five experts told they nearly didn't care about it.
Additionally, 17 of 35 market experts told that recent remarks by BOJ board members on the reversal rate wouldn't impact the BOJ's monetary policy. However, 13 are assured that such comments suggest Japan's key financial institution refrains from extra easing.


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Q: @CachePut does not work in @Configuration for pre cache I was trying to use spring stater-cache in spring boot 1.3.5, everything works fine except pre load cache in @Configuration class.
Failed tests:
  CacheTest.testCacheFromConfig: expected:<n[eal]> but was:<n[ot cached]>

Please take a look at the code as below, if you met this before, please share it with me :)
@Component
public class CacheObject{

    @CachePut(value = "nameCache", key = "#userId")
    public String setName(long userId, String name) {
        return name;
    }

    @Cacheable(value = "nameCache", key = "#userId")
    public String getName(long userId) {
        return "not cached";
    }

}

@Component
public class CacheReference {

    @Autowired
    private CacheObject cacheObject;

    public String getNameOut(long userId){
        return cacheObject.getName(userId);
    }
}

@Configuration
public class SystemConfig {

    @Autowired
    private CacheObject cacheObject;

    @PostConstruct
    public void init(){
        System.out.println("------------------");
        System.out.println("-- PRE LOAD CACHE BUT DIDN'T GET CACHED");
        System.out.println("------------------");

        cacheObject.setName(2, "neal");
        cacheObject.setName(3, "dora");

    }

}

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = BootElastic.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
public class CacheTest {

    @Autowired
    private CacheObject cacheObject;
    @Autowired
    private CacheReference cacheReference;

    @Test
    public void testCache(){

        String name = "this is neal for cache test";
        long userId = 1;

        cacheObject.setName(userId, name);
//        cacheObject.setName(2, "neal"); // this will make test success
        String nameFromCache = cacheReference.getNameOut(userId);
        System.out.println("1" + nameFromCache);
        Assert.assertEquals(nameFromCache, name);

    }

    @Test
    public void testCacheFromConfig(){
        String nameFromCache = cacheReference.getNameOut(2);
        System.out.println("4" + nameFromCache);
        Assert.assertEquals(nameFromCache, "neal");
    }
}

A: @PostConstruct methods are called right after all postProcessBeforeInitialization() BeanPostProcessor methods invoked, and right before postProcessAfterInitialization() invoked. So it is called before there is any proxy around bean, including one, putting values to cache.
The same reason why you can't use @Transactional or @Async methods in @PostConstruct.
You may call it from some @EventListener on ContextRefreshedEvent to get it working


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The purpose of this study was to determine the dimension of surface microgrooves on Ti substrata that shows the greatest positive influence on characterizing specific cell behaviors.
Commercially pure Ti discs with surface microgrooves of monotonous 3.5 μm in depth and respective 15, 30, and 60 μm in width were fabricated using photolithography and used as the culture substrata in the 3 experimental groups in this study (TiD15, TiD30, and TiD60 groups), whereas the smooth Ti disc was used as the control substrata (smooth Ti group). Human gingival fibroblasts were cultured on the four groups of titanium substrata on successive timelines. Various cell behaviors were compared between all groups using crystal violet stain, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), XTT assay, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
SEM demonstrated that the cells were able to readily descend into the microgrooves of TiD30 at the early phase of culture and showed abundant filopodia formation towards the acid-etched surface inside the microgrooves. TiD15 significantly increased the cell viability and proliferation compared with the smooth Ti substrata after 72 h of culture. Up-regulation of fibronectin and α5 integrin genes was noted in cells cultured on TiD15 and TiD30. Gene expression pattern specific to the cells in 3D-matrix culture, such as down-regulation of α-smooth muscle actin gene along with up-regulation of fibronectin and p21 genes, was pronounced in cells cultured on TiD30.
This study indicates that surface microgrooves of both 15 and 30 μm in width and a monotonous 3.5 μm in depth on Ti substrata increase various cell behaviors of cultured human gingival fibroblasts.


The Rangers Reserve Designed by the world renowned architect John Hay on the lines of famous Safari lodges in Kenya and South Africa, the luxuriously appointed guest lodges include 33 units comprising spacious Studios with single king sized bed to accommodate two adults, Duplex Suites offering family style accommodation for up to four guests and Luxury Suites with two bedrooms to accommodate four adults. All rooms have a spacious private balcony overlooking the panoramic views of the forest reserve, having its own typical village cot for outdoor seating to relax after the day's activities.
Day 01: Delhi - Corbett (235 kms / 5-6 hours) : Pick up from Airport /Railway Station directly proceed to Corbett on arrival, check-in to the hotel. Later visit for Gajria Temple. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 02: Corbett : Early morning after breakfast later proceeds for sightseeing visit to Jim Park Corbett National Park. Also enjoy elephant safari/Jeep Safari (additional cost). Overnight stay in Hotel.
Day 03: Corbett - Delhi(235 kms / 5-6 hours) Early morning after breakfast directly proceed to Delhi.
- Outdoor & Indoor games like table tennis, badminton, soft ball cricket etc.
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4.Insurance, Baggage Claim & any related charges.
BY ROAD: New Delhi - Corbett Park is 250 Km via Hapur bypass - Moradabad bypass - Rampur Doraha - Kashipur Tiraha - Thakudwara - Kashipur-Ramnagar City. Jungle Lore is 2 Kms from the City right next to the main Aamdanda gate of Corbett Park.
BY AIR:- Nearest Airport is Pantnagar Civil Aerodrome (75 Km) due to be operational in the Summer Season. Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi is 265 Km.


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KDE's Commissioner's Student Advisory Council discusses return date for in-person classes
Jim Gaines - December 8, 2020
Opinions are mixed among members of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Commissioner's Student Advisory Council (SAC) on whether Kentucky schools should be allowed to resume in-person classes in January, and on who should make that decision.
Commissioner's Student Advisory Council discuss equity, anti-racism with KDE's new chief...
Jacob Perkins - October 27, 2020
The Kentucky Department of Education's Commissioner's Student Advisory Council spent the majority of their Oct. 27 virtual meeting getting to know Thomas Woods-Tucker, KDE's first chief equity officer and the new deputy commissioner of the Office of Teaching and Learning.
Louisville junior selected as first student member on Kentucky Board of...
Staff - October 2, 2020
The Kentucky Department of Education announced Oct. 2 that Solyana Mesfin of Louisville was selected as the first active public school student in the Commonwealth to hold a seat on the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE).
Kentucky's new education commissioner joins Student Advisory Council for roundtable on...
Jacob Perkins - September 15, 2020
Members of the Commissioner's Student Advisory Council were joined by the Commonwealth's new Commissioner of Education Jason Glass and Lt. Gov. and Secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Jacqueline Coleman during their Sept. 15 virtual meeting.
KDE's Commissioner's Student Advisory Council recommends more mental health support during...
Staff - August 11, 2020
At its Aug. 11 virtual meeting, members of the Kentucky Department of Education's Commissioner's Student Advisory Council shared their ideas for helping students with their mental health when school starts for the 2020-2021 school year.
KDE's Commissioner's Student Advisory Council discusses mental health, non-traditional instruction
Sky Carroll - July 29, 2020
The Commissioner's Student Advisory Council – comprised of 29 high school students throughout Kentucky – met virtually on July 29 to discuss concerns and hopes for the 2020-2021 school year. It was the first meeting for the 2020-2021 council.
Nineteen new students selected for 2020-2021 KDE Commissioner's Student Advisory Council
Staff - July 20, 2020
Nineteen Kentucky public high school students have been selected to join the Commissioner's Student Advisory Council for the 2020-21 year, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) announced on July 20.
Lt. Gov Jacqueline Coleman offers words of encouragement to KDE Student...
Jacob Perkins - May 5, 2020
Members of the Kentucky Department of Education's (KDE) Commissioner's Student Advisory Council – which advises the Commissioner of Education on issues relevant to high school students – got a bit of surprise during their May 5 virtual meeting.
And then suddenly … everything changed due to COVID-19
Sarah Davenport - April 23, 2020
Fleming County's Sarah Davenport shares how COVID-19 impacted her senior year and she learned to cope with the changes.
KDE seeks applications for 2020-2021 Commissioner's Student Advisory Council
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is seeking high school applicants for the 2020-2021 Commissioner's Student Advisory Council.


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An agreement between Peru and Russia recently signed has come into effect. The agreement between the two governments was signed on November 13, 2010 in Japan's Yokohama.
Under the agreement, Russian and Peruvian tourists are not required visas for entry, exit, transit or stay on the territory of another state for up to 90 days within each 180-day period from the first entry.
Many states in Latin America scraped visa requirements for Russian citizens, including Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Guatemala and Brazil.


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Elluel is a new place introduced in the Legends patch. It is near Ellinia. In fact, the place is actually in the Ellinia hunting grounds. This place is a job-advancement town where a character, Mercedes is a Queen of Elves here. To save themselves from the curse of the Black Mage, Mercedes casted a freezing spell that freezes herself and everyone else in the town. When Mercedes wakes up, she becomes Level 10 again and she starts training again. The place here is just like Rien and Ereve, except that it is not an island. There is a portal that takes players to other towns in Victoria Island. Mercedes has a skill that can be used to transport herself back into this town.
Fairy Forest : Elluel Plays music.
Fairy Forest : Elluel Potion Merchant.
Fairy Forest : Elluel Sells weapon and armor.
Fairy Forest : Elluel Storage.
Fairy Forest : Elluel Transports you to other towns in Victoria.
Fairy Forest : King's Seat Warps you to Advent of the Great Spirit.
Fairy Forest : Advent of the Great Spirit 2nd job advancement for Mercedes.
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Sheehan v. Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, 15 A.3d 1247 (Del. 2011) http://sol-reform.com/sheehan.pdf
Delaware's 2007-2009 SOL Window
The Delaware Window (Source: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20101230.html)
Delaware enacted SOL "window" legislation for child-sex-abuse claims against medical providers. The new law arose in response to revelations about the formerly beloved pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley, who is alleged to have abused at least 100 children as part of his practice. When the news surfaced about Bradley's alleged abuse of his patients, it became clear that many of the victims were going to be forestalled from suing by the statutes of limitations. Previously, in 2007, Delaware had enacted its Child Victims Act (CVA), which (1) eliminated the SOL for civil child-sex-abuse cases, and (2) created a two-year window during which civil child-sex-abuse cases on which the SOL had already expired could still be brought in court. The cases that were brought during that SOL window are now moving through the Delaware courts. The CVA did not cover health care providers, as it turned out, and so Delaware enacted this new window for health care providers. Delaware remains the leader in the country for the protection of child sex abuse victims.
2013-10-10 – Waterhouse – (Del. Super. October 10, 2013 ) (sex abuse not time barred actionable post CVA)
October 10, 2013 /in Cases, Cases (DE) /by SOL Reform
sex abuse not time barred actionable post CVA
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Jordan Walsh, The Children of America Have Lost A True Hero: RIP Maj. Beau Biden., Hamilton and Griffin on Rights
Beau Biden did more for child protection in this nation than arguably any other state-level politician of his era
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Kay Steiger, What Beau Biden Wanted Everyone To Know About The Issue That Defined His Career, Think Progress
RIP Beau
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Craig Anderson, Keeping sex out of education: Local schools seek ways to stop abuse of students, Delaware State News
According to former United States Department of Education Chief of Staff Terry Abbott, review of media reports nationwide found 781 reported cases of school employees accused/charged or convicted/sentenced for inappropriate relationships with students.
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The Progress We've Made -- and Haven't Yet Made -- on Child-Sex-Abuse Statutes of Limitations: 2010, the Year in Review by Marci A. Hamilton
Fortunately, the pace of legal reform regarding child-sex-abuse…
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In its two years, Child Victim's Act brings 170 lawsuits alleging abuse
07/10/2009, In its two years, Child Victim's Act brings 170…
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12 People Share The Weirdest Things They've Thought About During Sex
By Suzannah Weiss
Ashley Batz for Bustle
Why does it always seem like you're daydreaming about sex when you're supposed to be doing something else, but then when you finally get to have sex, other thoughts suddenly crowd your mind? If you've had weird, random thoughts during sex, you're not alone. The truth is, we can't always control our thoughts as much as we'd like, and that's OK.
It's common for your mind to wander during sex, Astroglide's resident sexologist Dr. Jess O'Reilly, tells Bustle. "Whether the thought of your grandmother or your upcoming tax return pops into your head, there is no need to worry," she says. "Sex isn't always overwhelming, and it can be pleasurable and fulfilling even if intrusive thoughts make their way into your mind."
However, there are ways to gain greater control over your thoughts if you wish. "If you find your mind is wandering, try focusing on your breath for a few inhales and exhales; pay attention to the way the air feels moving in through your nose and out through your mouth," Dr. Jess says. "Alternatively, close your eyes to use sensory deprivation as a way to tune into the physical experience of touch; feel your lover's skin against yours, taking note of the texture, temperature, pressure, rhythm of movement, and shape. Don't try to banish thoughts. Instead, refocus on the present moment."
In case you were scared you were the only one, here are some of the weirdest things people have thought about during sex.
1. Chad, 30
"The burger my girlfriend just shared with me before we started having sex. I got the salad, and she got a barbecue burger. I was nonplussed when the server delivered the burger to me and the salad to her."
2. Bianca, 34
"Back when sex was a thing I happened to do at least every once in a while, when I felt like a premature end to the act was looming, I'd solve math problems in my head. Surprisingly high success rate of extending the moment."
3. Meg, 35
"Chandler's mom. Because of the episode of Friends where he can't stop seeing his mom. This crossed my mind, and then I couldn't stop seeing his mom."
4. Heather, 44
"I've done things like meal planning and thought about holiday/birthday gifts for family members during sex. Chores! During sex!"
5. Lisa, 64
"When I was in my early 20's, my super cute boyfriend used to sing or recite stuff during sex to keep from orgasming sooner than he wanted to. One time, he started spelling M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i, and not only did it hold him off, it gave me time — for my very first orgasm during intercourse. It was a sweet moment. Plus now, every time somebody spells Mississippi, I get sorta turned on."
6. Andrea, 50
"I am a lesbian and I often think of gay men. Not sure if that's weird because my wife does, too."
7. Rebecca, 48
"Like 'oh god please don't let me fart' weird but contextual or 'I think the car insurance needs to renewed on Wednesday. I should probably check when I'm done here.'"
8. Casey, 32
"I had just woken up from a dream in which velociraptors were swimming. So then, I was having sex (with my husband, for the record) and wondering if velociraptors or other dinosaurs could swim. (This was before Jurassic Park came out.)"
9. Melissa, 39
"One time when I was having sex for money I looked down and realized the guy was sweating on my throw pillow from Anthropologie. It cost $88 and I really liked it and him sweating on it really made me mad."
10. Adiba, 41
"Back when I first started having sex, my boyfriend was really bad at it. And I was really bad at math. So to pass the time, I would go over various math formulas, theorems, and numbers. Pythagorean Theorem, slope of a line, Avogadro's numbers — all of it. I even used the sex as cues. 'You're so hot = Hot = temperature rising = rise/run = slope of a line.' 'Oh baby = BB = b^2 = a^2+b^2+c^2 = Pythagorean theorem.' He eventually got much better, and I ended up failing math."
11. Christina, 42
"I had sex with someone new (who is a nice guy), and it was the second time in my life I was manic rather than hypomanic. My mind wouldn't slow down, and I kept imagining a parade with one of those military trucks carrying a missile, only it was shaped like a penis. And some other strange stuff like that. It was so distracting that it ruined the moment. Luckily, we've since talked — when I was calm! Thanks, bipolar type 2!"
12. Syd, 26
"I've been everywhere in my head during sex. Most of the time, I go hiking through a dense forest and find a huge log cabin, which is apparently where I live in this sex-world. Also, I've been to a Mexican restaurant and ate burritos. Have also gone through every step to pack my suitcase for a trip. Have mentally listed out changes to make in the second edit of my novel-in-progress. The list goes on. It doesn't make the sex less enjoyable. It's just weird how I'm always whisked away into some random situation or environment."
Clearly, there are few things that have not been thought about during sex. Whatever you yourself have thought about, rest assured that it's normal.


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Newlands Stadium
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Location Cape Town, South Africa
Using guitars, drums or vuvuzelas is prohibited on the ground of this stadium.
Located in Cape Town, South Africa, Newlands Stadium is the oldest rugby stadium in its continent and the second oldest in the world. It is also referred to as the DHL Newlands for sponsorship reasons. It was in 1888 when the 'Western Province Rugby and Football Union' bought the land to build this stadium. The first permanent concrete stand was built here in 1919. Later on, during the 1950s, numerous renovations have been made to make this stadium up to the mark. At present, the stadium has four main stands. The Craven stand has a large terrace area whereas the Pickard stand is alcohol-free and also has stadium's video screen. It is the home stadium of South African professional rugby union team "Stormers". However, "Western Province" also plays its home games here.
The first official match at Newlands took place on 31 May 1890 when Stellenbosch defeated Villagers there in front of a crowd of about 2,400 people.
The capacity of the stadium is for 51,900 viewers. It is not an all-seater stadium.
The stadium witnessed the tenants "Stormers" bagging their first victory in Super Rugby in season 2012.
In 1995, the stadium hosted the Rugby World Cup matches including two pool games of Pool A, a quarterfinal match between England and Australia, and the semi-final match between England and New Zealand.
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The Other Victims
Trigger warning: suicide
Michael and Frances have been good friends for years. They live in the same suburb in Melbourne's south-east, went to the same high school and finished year 12 in the same year. And both, while in their teens, had parents who died by suicide.
It isn't easy to talk about a loved one killing themselves. But between calculated sips of coffee and milkshakes, that's exactly what the two friends do—in such a matter-of-fact way it belies the misfortune they've both endured.
Both Frances and Michael's parents had a history of mental illness before taking their own lives, but that's pretty much where the similarity ends. The circumstances surrounding suicide differ from one victim to the next, as do the experiences of those they leave behind.
Frances' mother died on Boxing Day 2011, but had been suffering from her illness for almost 7 years.
"Because of that, as a young child, I was subjected to a lot of crap that most people my age wouldn't have been," she says. "When she died, my world came crumbling down—I never thought she would have committed suicide—but it wasn't like I had absolutely no understanding why it happened. I'd kind of adjusted to not having mum in a parental capacity."
Michael's father died last year, in what he calls "a completely different situation" to Frances'.
"Around Christmas two years before, he had a kind of heart attack," he says. "He never really healed mentally from that, but like, it was never really picked up."
Michael says after his father's health issues began he saw him make minor attempts on his life.
"Still, we never thought he'd actually do it. You can never say, 'This is the day he's gonna do it.'"
Michael recalls the day his father died, and how his finding out about it was foreshadowed by another death. That day, he came home on the train, which had been delayed because someone had suicided on the tracks.
This also delayed Michael learning of what occurred at home.
"I didn't realise what had happened until I turned the corner and saw the police cars outside the house," he says.
That neither Michael nor Frances foresaw their parents' early death despite their struggles with mental illness shows that no-one is ever ready for suicide, and they both say as much.
"I feel as though you can't prepare yourself for it," Michael says. "Like… it's… it's…"
"You never expect them to do it," Frances finishes.
This inability to prepare means when a person takes their own life, people around them are exposed to a surge of strong emotions that can be damaging if not managed properly.
Frances explains the direct aftermath of her mother's death as "anger and agony and stress, and being upset and just confused".
Michael agrees.
"So many things run through your head you can't understand," he says. "Dad was the main breadwinner in the family, and when he passed I had no idea if we'd be okay financially. We had a pretty big mortgage at the time, I thought I was gonna have to get a full time job."
Statistical representation of suicide is notoriously good at taking the emotion out of a very emotional issue.
When you hear that around 2100 people die by suicide in Australia every year as a bereaved person, it can trivialise your loss. When you hear it as anyone else, it makes it even harder to understand what sufferers are going through.
But in this case, two such statistics have particular relevance. One is from Mindframe Australia, which observes people aged 40-54 have among the highest rates of suicide in the country. Both Michael and Frances' parents were in this age group when they died.
The other, from a 2010 study by the John Hopkins Children's Centre in the US, is even more significant: children and teens who lose a parent to suicide are three times more likely than other young people to die the same way. That study also says these people are also at increased risk of major psychotic disorders.
"Having a supportive social network is really important in grieving, especially because people can feel particularly isolated when this happens," says Louise Flynn, director of the Richmond-based Support After Suicide community. "Also to have people consider the trauma of their loss when judging their feelings and behavior. That level of understanding is really helpful but quite often it doesn't happen."
This is where Michael and Frances became especially important to one another. After Michael's father's death, Frances made sure she spoke about it with him.
"When I was dealing with mum's death, I found a lot of peace getting my emotions out—through counseling and stuff—but also by confiding in other people who had lost their parents at a young age," she says. "So I made it very clear to Mike that everyone copes with this in their own way, but I want you to know I'm 100% here for you, because I knew how much speaking to someone who understands you on every level helps your recovery."
Michael says having Frances there as someone to talk to was crucial.
"I went to footy the night after it happened, and a few guys at the club had been through similar things. So to have Fran and people at the club come and talk to me was good, if only because I saw how you could actually cope with it and how it heals over time."
Having a solid routine to fit into is also an important distraction for people in the first few months afterward, according to Flynn. Michael both embodies and endorses this theory.
"I was always doing something after it happened," he says. "I got really heavily into footy. I was training maybe three times a week, going to the gym four times. It was a good withdrawal, and like, I think you've got to have people around you all the time you can talk to as well."
Michael says talking to his girlfriend at the time and best friend was also beneficial to the healing process.
"Just constantly texting me, keeping my mind off it was super helpful. I used to talk to her for like two hours before I went to bed just so I didn't keep reminding myself about it.
"And I'd call up my best mate all the time to see what he was doing—and it'd be 12 o' clock at night, he'd never be doing anything—and I'd ask, 'Do you wanna come over and just hang?' and he would. It was just good to have that connection, because it's when you're alone, that you feel it most."
Frances turns her attention to the stigma towards suicide. As it turns out, she has some bones to pick with the way society handles the issue, and how relatively little they understand about it.
"What many people don't understand about suicide is when a family member suicides, you not only have to deal with the fact they've passed away, but also with the fact they were in a position mentally where they chose to do that," she says. "My mother left my brother and I two notes before doing what she did, one at home and one on her person, and you could tell from it that she wasn't in her normal place mentally. But you could also tell she felt everyone else would be better off with her gone."
Frances says suicide is often portrayed as selfish.
"Most people view suicide as an act on face value without considering the different circumstances and reasons why people choose to end their lives," she says. "They'll be like, 'How can they leave their loved ones behind? What a selfish thing to do—'"
"It's not selfish, not at all," says Michael, staring down into his empty glass.
"No, not at all," says Frances. "In fact a lot of suicides are committed when people are thinking irrationally and that everyone will be better off if they do this."
Louise Flynn agrees the public perception of suicide lags well behind the reality.
"There is a stigma around suicide still, and many people have simplistic or incomplete understandings of suicide," she says. "That then results in an inaccurate judgment on those who take their own lives, which of course, then affects those left behind."
I ask Michael and Frances what they think of people saying things like "I know how you feel" or "It must feel terrible" to try and comfort them. The response is unanimous.
"Don't do it," they say. "You don't know how we feel."
Flynn rolls her eyes when I ask the same thing of her.
"I know people are trying to be supportive in saying that, but they're really not. The depth of the experience is such that no-one else can really understand it, so it sounds simplistic and trite to say that."
Flynn isn't as worried with people saying the words "I'm sorry".
"Some people don't actually mind hearing that, it depends. It's difficult to come up with a response that works in every situation, it really depends on how well you know the person in question."
There's a parallel from the literary world to understand how Michael and Frances are moving on from their parents' suicide present day. For English in their final year of VCE, both studied Life of Pi, the tale of an Indian boy who survives eight months at sea with only a tiger for company.
Having survived great suffering and grief, Pi, the protagonist, thinks of his experiences in a way that allows him to move on productively with his life, something both Michael and Frances have had to do.
"My mother put herself in front of a train: when I found that out, I had to sit and think for a while about why she chose to end her life that way," Frances says. "I concluded that mum did it that way because she knew no-one who loved her would have found her—because she wouldn't have wanted that for anyone—and by doing it that way, she was sure she'd be successful."
Michael explains his experiences in a similar way.
"I've kind of come to terms with it now," he says. "I have no anger towards Dad at all because, in the end, he did it for me: he thought that if he took his life the rest of our family would be happy and get to keep all we had.
"As much as I hated this happening to me, there's kind of an upside, because like, I'm able to help my friends if something like this ever happens to them. I'll know how they feel and what they need to get through it, and they can see I've gotten through it so that might give them hope."
By Alexander Darling
@DARLING_I_AM
For help or information, contact Suicide Helpline Victoria on 1300 651 251 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Michael's name has been changed for privacy reasons.
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Tea With Jackie: An Interlude
Jackie's cooking was intergalactically famous - for being utterly inedible. In its wake, The Doctor sat on the sofa in the living room of the Tyler flat trying not to think about what his Gallifreyan digestive system was making of her lasagne. Rose was sitting on a cushion very close in front of the television, watching the DVD of James Cameron's Titanic. The Doctor grimaced as he remembered the dark reality that film didn't quite live up to. He could still feel the numbness of trying to survive in the sub-zero waters and the terrible aching feeling of being utterly alone amongst sudden death.
"Doctor.…" He looked up as Jackie held out a coffee mug to him.
"Thanks," Curiously, having tasted some of the best and worst cuisine in the universe, instant coffee with powdered cream actually was something he liked the taste of. "World's greatest dad?" He looked at the words on the brightly coloured mug. "This isn't your late husband's is it?"
"Oh, no," she assured him. "It came in a job lot from the car boot. I didn't even look which one it was. It's ok isn't it?"
"It's fine… it's just…." He paused and looked at the mug again and took a sip from it. "World's greatest dad…. We didn't really go in for souvenir mugs on Gallifrey…. But there was a time… a very long time ago… when somebody might have thought that applied to me."
"You've been a dad?" Jackie's surprise was evident on her face. "I didn't know that."
"Nobody does." His glance at Rose indicated that by 'nobody' what he meant was that ROSE didn't know. "I don't even know why I mentioned it. I must be going soft. All this fantastic lasagne and people bringing me coffee on the sofa in front of the telly – I'm getting domestic." He made light of it, but he knew he had let the cloak of mystery about himself fall and Jackie was not going to let him put it back up just yet.
But maybe some secrets needed to come out in the open.
"Well, if you've been a dad, does that mean you've been married? Do people from - where you said - do they get married?" Jackie settled beside him on the sofa with her coffee as she asked the question.
"Yes, they do. Our ceremonies are a bit different to Earth ones. They last twelve hours for one thing. But, yes, we do. I did once. We had a son. My wife died. I spent a long time missing her."
"I understand," Jackie sighed. "That I DO understand. Rose was six months old when her dad died."
The Doctor smiled wryly.
"Yes, you DO understand. Except my son was 60 years old when my wife died of old age at 83 years old."
Jackie nearly choked on her coffee.
"Come again?"
"I'm not Human, Jackie. I look Human. My race looks the same as humans on the outside. But inside we have two hearts, blood that contains no haemoglobin, a number of more advanced higher brain functions, extra components in our eyes and a couple of other biological differences."
Jackie gave him a look that was just a bit TOO interested in those biological differences. "No," he assured her quickly. "In THAT area we're about the same." Jackie looked away but he caught her blush and smiled. Jackie disconcerted was something to be savoured.
"Anyway, the most important difference is that we live exponentially longer than humans. I am nine hundred and forty nine and that is no more than middle aged. I was a young, idealistic, two hundred years old when I fell in love with a Human woman. My father warned me that I was setting myself up for the inevitable heartbreak. He knew because he had ALSO married a Human woman – my mother - who I barely remembered because she died when I was only a boy. But I told him I knew what I was doing. And I DID know. But two hearts sometimes overrule one head. I married my beautiful Human woman. I loved her dearly. We were happy. We were devoted to each other. Our son was a perfect child. And even at an early age we knew he would become as high placed in Gallifreyan society as I was, and my father before me. Life was as good as it gets."
He paused and sipped coffee as he contemplated the rest of this story.
"There's a 'but' here, isn't there?" Jackie wasn't the brightest woman in the world, but she could see something in his eyes that wasn't a fairytale happy ever after.
"A big one," The Doctor answered with a half smile, glad Jack wasn't around to insert an innuendo there. "At two hundred a Gallifreyan looks about the same age as a twenty five year old human. I married a twenty-three year old human woman and if we lived down this street nobody would think anything of it. But twenty years later, I still looked thirty and she looked forty-three. Twenty years after that, she was an old woman and I was STILL a young man. Twenty years after that, she was a frail, elderly whisp of a shell of herself and I could lift her from her bed without feeling the weight of her at all. When she died … just of running out of life…. You don't know the meaning of heartbroken until you've had two hearts broken at once. I missed her so much. The time we had together seemed so short and the future so long and empty."
"God, I know how that feels," Jackie told him. "When Pete was killed, I felt like my world had ended. If I didn't have Rose…."
"Yes," The Doctor said. "Yes. My son was my one reason for going on. He was a reason to be proud. I watched his progress through the Time Lord Academy and knew his mother would have been as proud as I was. He became a brilliant, acclaimed philosopher and a respected politician. A credit to our family, despite a great many who had muttered darkly about our watered DNA – if I was half human through my mother, then my son ought to have been even more so. Except it doesn't work that way. Gallifreyan DNA overwrites any lesser DNA – I am my father's son, born of my mother. My son was born by my wife, but MY blood ran in his veins. We were ALL pure Gallifreyan. There was no weakening of pedigree…." He said that last word so forcefully that Jackie was startled.
"The high caste families of Gallifrey mixed the political and the personal too much." He sighed deeply as these memories came back to him. "When my son married the daughter of a rival family it was a match that was politically, intellectually and financially advantageous and approved of by all. All except one other suitor for my daughter in law. My granddaughter was only a baby – like Rose was - when my son and his wife were murdered."
"Oh!" Jackie gasped out loud. She looked at Rose but she was still watching the film and hadn't noticed the conversation between them. "Oh, I am sorry." She reached out and touched his hand and he smiled at her with something like gratitude. From somebody who was not even born when the dreadful deed had happened that "I'm sorry" might sound trite, but he appreciated the simple human empathy.
"The murderer was caught and executed according to Gallifreyan law," he went on. "Justice was done. But… for me, it was the last blow. I could no longer care about the family position in Gallifreyan society. Or the very idea of Time Lord rule. I began to question our inactivity. I hated the fact that we, with our power over time and space, sat back and let the power hungry crush the innocent. I wanted to right wrongs. I wanted to fight what was wrong in the whole universe. But it was against our law to do anything but observe. I tried to argue it was not enough. But they wouldn't listen. I just got labelled as a political radical and lost a lot of credibility in the hierarchy."
He paused. This was a story he had rarely told to anyone in the intervening years.
"The family name still counted for a lot, so I wasn't deposed or discredited completely. But a lot of people I counted as friends started to act very cold. I stuck it out for a few more years, but finally, I decided I had to make a stand. I took the TARDIS and my granddaughter and I left Gallifrey – forever we thought, for what I had done meant banishment. But I was free to travel in time and space and right wrongs, free oppressed races, fight for justice. My granddaughter was my companion in all my efforts, loyal, faithful, loving – even though I was so wrapped up in my own obsessions I forgot to return her love so often. But it was a futile fight. I was Don Quixote tilting at windmills. The task was too great. The universe contained so much injustice. I had no more than scratched the surface. We eventually found our way to Earth, and she liked the idea of being 'normal' – Earth normal, attending a school, even though there was NOTHING they could teach her, listening to pop music, flirting with boys. So we stayed on Earth and I let my bitterness, my rage against the whole imperfect universe fester. It made me pretty unpleasant company for a young girl. But she never wavered in her love for her crotchety old grandfather. And she had faith in what I was doing even when I lost it."
"So where is she now?" Jackie asked. "Is she dead, too?"
"No. From THIS present she isn't born yet. She followed in her granddad's footsteps only too well. SHE fell in love with a human man – and stayed on Earth in the twenty-second century – she's about two hundred years ahead of us here."
Jackie tried and failed to grasp the fourth dimension in personal relationships. But one thing she did understand.
"You could see her if you wanted? Your TARDIS can go anywhere."
"Yes. I could."
"But you haven't…."
"She has her life. I'm just her grandfather. She doesn't need me."
"On Earth we call that cutting off your nose to spite your face,"
"And with a nose like mine.…" The Doctor smiled despite himself.
"You said it." There was a silence for a while, broken only by Leonardo de Caprio's struggles with a locked stairwell on a sinking ship that made The Doctor feel glad to have his sonic screwdriver in his pocket.
"You never thought of remarrying?" Jackie broke the silence, and broke down yet another of the emotional walls he had put around his hearts long ago. "I know it's none of my business. But I never planned to be a single parent. If I could have found a bloke who was interested in me with a kid in tow…. Didn't you ever.…"
"No. I never wanted to go through that again. I have had friends... companions… people who have shared my travels with me as Rose has. I cared for them deeply, but not so deeply that it would tear me apart if I lost one of them. I kept them at a distance."
"How old did you say you were?" Jackie asked.
"Nine hundred and forty-nine."
"And you lost your wife when you were…."
"Two hundred and sixty-nine," The Doctor said.
"That's.…" She tried to calculate those empty years but her maths was not up to it. "That's a long time to be that alone." Jackie paused in thought. "Intergalactic space traveller is not one of the ambitions I had for Rose when she was growing up. One ambition I DID have was that she would meet a good man who would take care of her. One who would love her all her life, till the day she died, and never look at a younger model." Jackie paused again, wondering if she was making herself clear enough.
Yes, she seemed to be.
"Jackie…." The Doctor began. "I…."
"What I'm saying is," Jackie cut in quickly. "You're not what I ever imagined for her. But she could do worse. And so could you."
"I've never,…" The Doctor began again as the startling idea played havoc with his superior brain functions. "We're not.…."
"I know," Jackie said. "But maybe you shouldn't shut out the option. That's what I'm saying."
He looked at her. Higher brain functions or not, he had no answer to her, but maybe he didn't need one. She pulled a tissue from a box by the sofa. "Before Rose sees you," she said, and reached to wipe the tear that had escaped down his cheek despite his efforts not to show his feelings.
"You know what," she said. "I think you ought to take Rose to see your granddaughter. Family should stick together."
"What was going on between you and my mum back there?" Rose demanded as they set off back to the TARDIS. "Was she trying to cop off with you?
"I wouldn't put it past her. She is still pretty, young looking and I know she flirts with my boyfriends…."
"Rose…" The Doctor stood still suddenly. She stopped and looked at him. "Rose… I'm NOT your boyfriend…"
"No," she replied. "You're much more than that to me. Boyfriends come and go. But you're… you're forever."
"I can live with that. No, your mum wasn't trying to "cop off" with me. Your mum - who cares about you a lot - your mum and I had a long talk that made me realise a few things about myself, and about what I ought to do."
"You don't even like my mum."
"That's not true. I like her very much. And I think maybe she's coming around to me a bit."
"So what did you talk about?"
"Family," The Doctor said.
"Family?" Rose questioned suspiciously. "Sounds domestic. You don't DO domestic."
"I did once." They reached the TARDIS and he took out the key, looking for a moment at the symbol on the fob. It was the constellation in which Gallifrey was before it was destroyed in the Time War. "That's why… that's why I need to tell you a lot more about me. You need to understand some enormous things that might frighten you. And then… if you understand those things… and you still want me to be your boyfriend…. Well, then at least you will understand what a big thing that would be. And maybe…."
"Doctor?" Rose only half understood the reason for this strange mood of his. She knew he was trying to tell her something that mattered a very great deal. She wasn't quite sure what, yet. But she had hopes.
"I think when we get back to 2007 we'll go to supper with an old friend of mine who cooks better than Jackie," he said with a smile she couldn't begin to interpret.


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PM Koirala said so while inaugurating the Koshi Bridge at Mainamaini in Udayapur today. He further said that the political parties were committed to deliver a democratic constitution at the earliest so as to usher the nation towards the path of development.
Inaugurating the 261 metres long bridge linking Sunsari and Udayapur district, the PM expressed his confidence that the Bridge would contribute towards the social, economical and tourism growth of the Eastern Region.
The bridge was built by the government of Nepal with the grant from the Asian Development Bank at the cost of around Rs 760 million.
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Stating development works pick up the pace as the democratic values are institutionalized, he said delivering the constitution with the focus to develop the country was underway.The PM ensured that the new constitution would protect the rights of all Nepalis, including women, marginalized communities, Dalits and Muslims among others.


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