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Abelard and Heloise are one of the most celebrated couples of all time, known for their love affair and for the tragedy that separated them. In a letter to Abelard, Heloise wrote:
"You know, beloved, as the whole world knows, how much I have lost in you, how at one wretched stroke of fortune that supreme act of flagrant treachery robbed me of my very self in robbing me of you; and how my sorrow for my loss is nothing compared with what I feel for the manner in which I lost you."
Who Abelard and Heloise Were
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was a French philosopher, considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 12th century, though his teachings were controversial, and he was repeatedly charged with heresy. Among his works is "Sic et Non," a list of 158 philosophical and theological questions.
Heloise (1101-1164) was the niece and pride of Canon Fulbert. She was well-educated by her uncle in Paris. Abelard later writes in his autobiographical "Historica Calamitatum": "Her uncle's love for her was equaled only by his desire that she should have the best education which he could possibly procure for her. Of no mean beauty, she stood out above all by reason of her abundant knowledge of letters."
Abelard and Heloise's Complicated Relationship
Heloise was one of the most well-educated women of her time, as well as a great beauty. Wishing to become acquainted with Heloise, Abelard persuaded Fulbert to allow him to teach Heloise. Using the pretext that his own house was a "handicap" to his studies, Abelard moved into the house of Heloise and her uncle. Soon enough, despite their age difference, Abelard and Heloise became lovers.
But when Fulbert discovered their love, he separated them. As Abelard would later write: "Oh, how great was the uncle's grief when he learned the truth, and how bitter was the sorrow of the lovers when we were forced to part!"
Their separation didn't end the affair, and they soon discovered Heloise was pregnant. She left her uncle's house when he was not at home, and she stayed with Abelard's sister until Astrolabe was born.
Abelard asked for Fulbert's forgiveness and permission to secretly marry Heloise, to protect his career. Fulbert agreed, but Abelard struggled to persuade Heloise to marry him under such conditions. In Chapter 7 of "Historia Calamitatum," Abelard wrote:
"She, however, most violently disapproved of this, and for two chief reasons: the danger thereof, and the disgrace which it would bring upon me... What penalties, she said, would the world rightly demand of her if she should rob it of so shining a light!"
When she finally agreed to become Abelard's wife, Heloise told him, "Then there is no more left but this, that in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall be no less than the love we two have already known." In regard to that statement, Abelard later wrote, in his "Historica," "Nor in this, as now the whole world knows, did she lack the spirit of prophecy."
Secretly married, the couple left Astrolabe with Abelard's sister. When Heloise went to stay with the nuns at Argenteuil, her uncle and kinsmen believe Abelard had cast her off, forcing her to become a nun. Fulbert responded by ordering men to castrate him. Abelard wrote about the attack:
Violently incensed, they laid a plot against me, and one night while I all unsuspecting was asleep in a secret room in my lodgings, they broke in with the help of one of my servants whom they had bribed. There they had vengeance on me with a most cruel and most shameful punishment, such as astounded the whole world; for they cut off those parts of my body with which I had done that which was the cause of their sorrow.
The Legacy of Abelard and Heloise
Following the castration, Abelard became a monk and persuaded Heloise to become a nun, which she didn't want to do. They began to correspond, leaving what is known as the four "Personal Letters" and the three "Letters of Direction."
The legacy of those letters remains a great topic of discussion among literary scholars. While the two wrote of their love for each other, their relationship was decidedly complicated. Furthermore, Heloise wrote of her dislike of marriage, going so far as to call it prostitution. Many academics refer to her writings as one of the earliest contributions to feminist philosophies.
Abelard, Peter. "Historia Calamitatum." Kindle Edition, Amazon Digital Services LLC, May 16, 2012.
Lombardi, Esther. "Abelard and Heloise." ThoughtCo, Jul. 29, 2021, thoughtco.com/abelard-and-heloise-735128. Lombardi, Esther. (2021, July 29). Abelard and Heloise. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/abelard-and-heloise-735128 Lombardi, Esther. "Abelard and Heloise." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/abelard-and-heloise-735128 (accessed January 28, 2023).
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Cannot believe the long awaited year has finally arrived. Now it is really a count down to our great big adventure. But until then life will run along as usual. The end of 2016 was more of flood than a gentle stroll but what else do you expect at the end of the school year?
After our crazy weekend in the Rocklands we finished the last few weeks of school with a gymnastics party, a swimming carnival and Olly's long awaited arrival before running into the heady madness that is Christmas.
This year we decided on an early family Christmas morning so the drunkenness was kept to a minimum and the kids' heads didn't implode at having to wait to open presents. It was the usual mad rush but then it wouldn't be Christmas if Jamie didn't lose his bits at least once.
Abi got herself a brand new room, which she is nuts about. The only downside is I think she and Jack miss each other – they lasted 2 days before he went for a sleepover. My downside is she blares her radio and keeps the door shut so no matter how loud I shout she doesn't hear me – little sneak preview to the teenage years!
Jack was given a basketball net to practise his shooting. He's currently on 17 in a row, and plus point I don't have to listen to him bounce a ball around the house non stop for hours. Zachary is happily stuck in a corner playing paw patrol vs Octonauts. They are so much easier to buy for when they are little. But it was lovely day, so lucky we have lots of people to share it with.
Christmas slid into New Year. We went to see the Port Fairy Parade – the kids loved the Shark float (so did I).
Then a few friends came back to ours for cocktails, crazy dancing and trampoline performances. There was an ample supply of Mojitos and Jagerbombs….
Zachary just made the New Year before turning into a zombie. We snuck down to his bedroom and I persuaded him into bed by claiming I wanted a lovely snuggle and of course he could get up once we were done. He's lucky I got up after 2 minutes really!
The kids even made 1am, mostly because it's like trying to herd cats. Once you get a one in and turn around to get more the first one is out and scoffing marshmallows.
Now we are a few days into 2017 and I am lounging on my bed after a hard day watching the kids learn to surf. The last day was the best, with the sun finally emerging.
They had a 3 days, 2 hr per day, course they joined. Abi did it last year so she just tagged off with another girl and disappeared into the great blue yonder leaving me having heart failure on the shore as I could only just see her between waves. Jack did great, despite occasionally emerging shivering. He's now asking for a wet suit and surf board so Jamie can take them down in the morning before work for some practice.


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Q: Comparing three softwares As part of my research I have developed a software and I wanted to test it with 2 other softwares that does similar work. The problem is I could find only few users of these two softwares (20 users for software 1 and 10 users for software 2 and 5 users used both software 1 and software 2). This is what I have done

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*Defined a 4 questions that covers different aspects of the software.
These questions can  be answered in a Likert scale of 1-5

*These 30 users are asked to answer these questions based on my
software and  other software (this 30 included users of software 1 or software 2. So I Considered software 1 and 2 as a single set)

*Done wilcoxon test to find the statistical significance
I want to know whether the procedure followed by me is good. Or is there any better procedure for my task at hand ? is it ok to consider software 1 and 2 as a single group to compare with my software ?

A: Did the 5 users who are familiar with both software 1 and 2 form part of the 30 total? In other words, is the total number, $n$, of answers for the ratings $30$ or $35$? If there were $35$ binary comparisons, then you could use $35$ as the $n$ for comparison, with the result being a comparison of your software with "other" software, where "other" is weighted by frequency of use of "other."
Edit: OK, please confirm that you asked about each users experience with "any and all other software." In that case the comparison is paired between your software and the sum total experience for each user with other software, and, Wilcoxon signed-rank test is appropriate for $n=30$.

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Hollywood, not patriotism, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. And there are scoundrels aplenty in Tinseltown.
Other than for cinematography, film editing and sound mixing, "Unbroken" did not garner any award nominations. And Mrs. Brad Pitt was persona non grata for the best director nod.
All Angelina did was to make Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling biography of Louis Zamperini come to vivid life on the silver screen. Under her astute and nuanced direction, British actor Jack O'Connell captured Zamperini's Italian wit, grit and grace under fire.
In only her second directing go-round, Jolie turned in a tour de force, evoking Frank Capra, John Ford and Steven Spielberg at their cinematic best. And ultimately, the film resonated with audiences, earning $115,129,195 at the box office domestically (and $159,929,195 worldwide).
But Angelina's forthright depiction of a gutsy Italian-American Olympian turned bombardier, which struck a balance between can-do American derring-do and the dehumanizing savagery of war, may have soured liberals on "Unbroken."
Zamperini also served his nation when more than 600,000 Italian-Americans had been classified as "enemy aliens" under FDR's Executive Order 9066. (Many were persecuted, interned and lost their civil liberties.) There's also possible squeamishness over Takamasa Ishihara's visceral depiction of Sgt. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Zamperini's savage Japanese torturer.
Central Casting prefers fictional criminal cretins such as Don Vito Corleone and Tony Soprano over Italian-American warriors like Zamperini who saved the world.


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Neural Stem Cell Discovery May Aid in Treatment Research for Deafness
Jul 22, 2014 | Research |
Researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine have for the first time shown that a polysialylated glycoprotein that regulates neurodevelopment exists on the surface of cells in the adult inner ear. This biomarker of early cells allows researchers to identify immature cells so that they can be used for further research and possible treatment. The research, published online in the May 17 edition of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, opens the door to developing stem cell replacement treatments in the inner ear to treat certain hearing disorders.
Frederic Troy, PhD
"Hearing loss is a complex process and is usually regarded as irreversible," said Frederic A. Troy II, principal investigator of the study and professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and a member of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Finding this molecule in the inner ear that is known to be associated with early development may change that view."
Having a biomarker for immature stem cells could make it possible to isolate neural stem cells from the adult inner ear in a person with hearing loss, induce their replication and maturation in the laboratory, and then re-introduce them back into the inner ear as functioning neurons. It is postulated that they may recolonize and establish themselves, thereby improving hearing.
During development, certain glycoproteins (carbohydrate-protein linked molecules) that are expressed on cell surfaces serve critical functions essential to the normal growth and organization of the brain. One member of the class of cell-surface glycoproteins is an unusual molecule called polysialic acid (polySia). Its large size fills up spaces between cells and its strong electric charge repels other molecules—qualities that help to prevent cells from adhering or attaching to one another and thereby promoting cell movement to other areas.
The predominant carriers of polySia in the brain are neural cell adhesion molecules (NCAMs), which are glycoproteins expressed on neuronal cell surfaces. As their name suggests, NCAMs by themselves are important in helping cells stick together and stay in one place. But when an NCAM becomes modified with polysialic acid (becomes "polysialylated"), the cells gain the ability to migrate to new areas. Re-expression of the "anti-adhesive" polySia glycan on the surface of many adult human cancer cells, for example, facilitates their detachment, thus enhancing their metastatic spread. PolySia found on human leukocytes also modulates immune function.
Neural stem cells with these polySia-NCAMs on their surfaces are important in embryonic development because they are able to travel throughout the body where they can differentiate into specialized cells. During adulthood, neural stem cells with polySia-NCAMs may migrate to injured areas and promote healing.
"The landscape of the cell surface of developing cells is decorated with a bewildering array of informational-rich sugar-protein molecules of which polysialylated NCAMs are of chief importance," explains Troy. "During the life of a cell, these surface molecules are critical to cellular proliferation, self-renewal, differentiation and survival—essential processes for normal embryonic development and tissue regeneration in adults."
Although it was already well known that cells expressing polySia-NCAM exist in the central nervous system, this study is the first to document that they are also in the peripheral nervous system, specifically in the spiral ganglia, groups of nerve cells located in the inner ear that are essential to hearing.
Working with adult cells isolated from the inner ear spiral ganglia of guinea pigs, Troy's team was able to show that they expressed both polySia and NCAM. The polySia component was abundantly present on neural stem cells but markedly reduced on mature cells, implicating the polySia-NCAM complex as being present on immature cells and able to serve as a biomarker to identify these cells.
"Finding polySia-NCAM— a functional biomarker that modulates neuronal differentiation— on adult inner ear neural stem cells after differentiation gives researchers a 'handle' to identify and isolate these cells from among the many cells taken from a patient," said Jan Nolta, PhD, director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and the university's Institute for Regenerative Cures. "This discovery will enhance research into spiral ganglion neurons and may bring treatments closer to patients with hearing deficits."
The article is titled "Expression of polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecules on adult stem cells after neuronal differentiation of inner ear spiral ganglion neurons."
Lead author Kyoung Ho Park, a professor at Catholic University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea, initiated the research for this article while on sabbatical leave in Troy's laboratory at UC Davis. With his colleague and co-author, Sang Won Yeo, he is now planning clinical trials, based on the findings, in Korea with individuals who suffer from hearing disorders.
The work was supported by the Catholic Institute of Cell Therapy Basic Science Programs Foundation, Research Fund Of Catholic University ENT Alumni, the National Institutes of Health Grant GM 55703 and Mizutani Glycoscience Foundation #130097.
Source: UC Davis Health System
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Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. (born September 26, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker & Green, a firm headquartered in New York City, and previously represented Connecticut's 12th Senate district in the Connecticut Senate between 2015 and 2019. He is the son of Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy from Massachusetts and nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Ted was born to Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy Sr. and Joan Bennett Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts during the Presidency of his uncle John Kennedy. He is the brother of Kara (1960-2011) and Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967).
In 1973, when Kennedy was twelve, osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer) was diagnosed in his right leg. The leg was surgically amputated on November 17, 1973. On that same day his father had escorted his cousin Kathleen down the aisle at her wedding and rushed back to the hospital. A made-for-TV movie, The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986), concentrated on this event in young Kennedy's life.
In 1982, his mother Joan revealed that Kennedy missed by just ten minutes being aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed into the Potomac River on January 13 of that year, killing 74 people. Kennedy was delayed on the drive to the airport and missed the flight.
Kennedy graduated from the private St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.. He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984. He continued his studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, earning a master's degree from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He then attended the University of Connecticut School of Law at night, earning a Juris Doctor degree. On May 19, 2013, Kennedy received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of New Haven.
After graduation he worked at the New Haven law firm Wiggin & Dana specializing in disability issues. He later co-founded and served as president of the Marwood Group, a firm that advises corporations about health care and financial services. He left the Marwood Group in 2014 to join the law firm of Epstein Becker & Green where he advises health care providers, commercial insurers, and life science companies on critical issues related to health care reform policies.
Kennedy is on the board of directors of the American Association of People with Disabilities.
On April 8, 2014, Kennedy announced his candidacy for a seat in the Connecticut State Senate representing the state's 12th district. He was elected on November 4. He was re-elected on November 8, 2016.
On June 26, 2017, Kennedy announced that he would not run for Governor of Connecticut in 2018. On February 28, 2018, Kennedy announced he would not seek re-election to the Connecticut State Senate. On November 6, 2018, Democrat Christine Cohen won the general election to replace Kennedy after defeating Republican Adam Greenberg. She was later sworn in on January 9, 2019.
Kennedy was first sworn-in to serve in the Connecticut State Senate on January 7, 2015.
On October 10, 1993, he and Katherine Anne "Kiki" Gershman (b. 1959)[verification needed] were married on Block Island, Rhode Island. She is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine at Yale University and an environmental advocate. She serves as spokeswoman for Stop the Pipeline, which successfully blocked the Islander East natural gas pipeline across the Long Island Sound. They live in Branford, Connecticut.
The couple have a daughter, Kiley Rose Kennedy (born August 7, 1994, in New Haven), who is a competitive snowboarder and a student at Wesleyan University, and a son, Edward Moore "Teddy" Kennedy III, (born February 25, 1998, in New Haven) who graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 2016 and now attends Wesleyan University.
Kennedy gave a tribute to his father at his father's public funeral on August 29, 2009.
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1:1Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. 1:3But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? 1:4Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed. 1:5And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? 1:6And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. 1:7And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? 1:8And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 1:9Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. 1:10And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 1:11Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. 1:12And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 1:13And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. 1:14Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight. 1:15And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. 1:16And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. 1:17So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. 1:18Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2:1And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.2:2And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.2:3And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.2:4And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.2:5And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.2:6And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.2:7And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.2:8And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.2:9And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.2:10And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.2:11And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.2:12And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.2:13He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;2:14And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.2:15And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.2:16And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.2:17And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.2:18And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
How did God protect Elijah from Jezebel and the king of Israel?
How would you describe Elijah's relationship with God from today's reading?
What can you learn from Elisha's seeking and asking for the blessing of God?
What was the result of Ahaziah seeking after other gods?
Pursue the blessings found by walking with those who have fellowship with God.


LASIK eye surgery is considered to be such a painless procedure when compared to surface procedures such as photorefractive keratectomy (PRK).
After uncomplicated LASIK, the majority of patients have minimal to no pain, burning and tearing for the first 2 -3 hours, slight foreign body sensation, light sensitivity, and discomfort. These symptoms are more common after LASIK enhancements that require flap lifting, as compared to primary LASIK treatments.
Despite the high efficacy, safety, and fast epithelial healing in LASIK, some patients still complain of disabling pain during the early period (24-48 hours) after LASIK. Rarely, the pain can also result in involuntary spasm of the eyelids which may cause flap dislodgment.
It is possible that anxiety may play a role in lowering the pain threshold. Irritation of the eyelid structures and the eye surface due to the pressure exerted by the speculum (eyelid holder) and suction ring may be the source of both eyes pain and orbital discomfort experienced by the patients during and after LASIK surgery.
You should know that it is normal to feel pressure from the speculum and suction ring as the eyelid structures cannot be adequately anesthetized during the procedure with topical anesthetics.
You should expect mild discomfort that should resolve within a few to several hours. Also you should know that the two eyes may have different amount of discomfort.
If you experienced severe pain associated with generous tearing, you must contact your doctor immediately. Severe or persistent pain after LASIK may indicates flap dislocation, significant epithelial disruption, or even total loss of the flap.
Your doctor will examine your eyes at the slit-lamp to ensure that the flap is intact and determine the cause of pain. The Management will vary depending on the underlying cause.
In general, generous use of artificial tears eye drops is helpful. Narcotic analgesics are not necessary after LASIK eye surgery, though sedatives or Non-Narcotic pain medications may be recommended by your doctor if you cannot tolerate the pain.


7. Decides to extend until 30 June 1978, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 11 of General Assembly resolution 194 (III), the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
5. Requests the Secretary-General, after consulting with the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, to report as soon as possible, and whenever appropriate thereafter, but in any case not later than the opening date of the thirtieth session of the General Assembly, on Israel's compliance with and implementation of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the present resolution.
1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/9613).
2/ Ibid., Twenty-ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item 38, document A/9740.


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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (click for my review) is about the child's mind telling a story to that of the adult. It reaches back through memory and speaks in a language that children know much better, and many adults have forgotten. Fortunately, the Milk does the exact opposite of that. Cory Doctorow sums it up neatly in his review over at Boing Boing: "a magnificent tribute to the fatherly art of trolling kids with straightfaced, outlandish tales".
Quicksilver is a book that defies with ease any attempts at writing a pithy and flashy review. Swatting-a-lame-old-fly is the kind of ease I'm going for here. Read the blurbs if you are looking for that, a review of this type just wouldn't really be a review, but rather an extended blurb.
It is time to engage in a little bit of blog resurrection. My reading has been somewhat haphazard in the last few months, so choosing a book to review is not an easy task. The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson is a novel I finished more than half a year ago; maybe I could have written a proper, detailed review in the beginning of 2013, but that's not the case now. I feel, though, that I must write something about it. For this is the sort of novel you discover unexpectedly, like a hidden treasure buried in the piles of rubble you were distractedly raking through. Such gems must not remained unmentioned. The distance of time may not permit me analytical sharpness, but effusive enthusiasm I still have aplenty, so I will focus on that and try to tone down the effusive bit as much as possible.
Everybody knows that there are two layers to the sky, four to the world. The downsky goes to two-three miles plus a biscuit above the railsea and after it comes the upsky, prowled by odd alien flyers. It is fortunate that dirt and mist hide that horrible scenery and only sometimes, when the clouds disperse, are you in danger of glimpsing any of those creatures. That Apt Ohm forbid one of them tumbling down dead on your head.


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Fiscal Fiasco: Will a Shutdown Cause a Stock Meltdown?
Wall Street has seen this circus before. That's why, as the clock ticked closer to a partial shutdown of the federal government, investors had been fairly sanguine in the face of the ongoing high-wire act. Even with a shutdown looking increasingly certain, the markets are far from panic mode, though investors are clearly showing signs of worry and a mounting aversion to risk.
It wasn't all that long ago that the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average reached new closing highs on word that the Federal Reserve wouldn't yet ease up on its monthly asset purchases meant to stimulate the economy. But since Sept. 18, the day of the Fed's announcement, the S&P has now fallen about 2.5 percent, including a dip of more than 1 percent last week and losses in seven of the last eight trading sessions.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries have slipped from 2.72 percent to 2.64 percent as investors moved into U.S. government bonds – still seen as a safe bet despite the growing chances of a shutdown.
Even if the wolf is real this time, investors still hope that it doesn't have sharp teeth. A shutdown might cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, depending on how long it lasts. But many analysts still expect any shutdown to be resolved quickly, and not cause massive economic disruption.
That history may present an opportunity for investors, some analysts say. The S&P 500 fell 3.7 percent from peak to trough during the mid-'90s shutdown drama and then rebounded 10.5 percent in the subsequent month, according to S&P Capital IQ.
By contrast, analysts are much more alarmed by the debt-ceiling deadline looming next month, when the Treasury is set to exhaust the extraordinary measures used to avert a default by no later than Oct. 17.
"A government shutdown would be temporary and probably make only modest dents in fourth-quarter growth, whereas failure to agree on raising the debt ceiling in a few weeks could put the U.S. in technical default and be massively disruptive to the economy and global financial system," Russ Koesterich, chief investment strategist for BlackRock, wrote in emailed comments.


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Wisconsin court ends probe of presidential hopeful Walker
Wisconsin Club For Growth
Republican presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during a campaign event at a Harley-Davidson dealership Tuesday, July 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) more >
By Todd Richmond - Associated Press - Thursday, July 16, 2015
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Presidential candidate Scott Walker won a major legal victory Thursday when Wisconsin's Supreme Court ended a secret investigation into whether the Republican's gubernatorial campaign illegally coordinated with conservative groups during the 2012 recall election.
No one has been charged in the so-called John Doe probe, Wisconsin's version of a grand jury investigation in which information is tightly controlled, but questions about the investigation have dogged Walker for months.
Barring an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the ruling makes Walker's campaign that much smoother as he courts voters in early primary states.
"Today's ruling confirmed no laws were broken, a ruling that was previously stated by both a state and federal judge," said Walker's spokeswoman Ashlee Strong. "It is time to move past this unwarranted investigation that has cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars."
The case centers on political activity conducted by Wisconsin Club for Growth and other conservative organizations during the 2012 recall, which was spurred by Democrats' anger over a Walker-authored law that effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.
The justices cited free speech in effectively tossing out the case, ruling state election law is overbroad and vague in defining what amounts to "political purposes."
Justice Michael Gableman, part of the court's conservative majority, praised the groups for challenging the investigation.
"It is fortunate, indeed, for every other citizen of this great State who is interested in the protection of fundamental liberties that the special prosecutor chose as his targets innocent citizens who had both the will and the means to fight the unlimited resources of an unjust prosecution," Gableman wrote in the majority opinion.
Prosecutors accused Walker and the groups of illegally coordinating their campaign efforts in violation of state law. They denied wrongdoing.
Gableman wrote that prosecutors alleged the groups and the campaign illegally coordinated on issue advocacy, communications that don't expressly call for a candidate's defeat or victory.
"Political purposes" must be limited to express advocacy, that is, advertisements and communications that clearly call on voters to defeat or elect a specific candidate, he wrote. With that limitation in place, the law doesn't prohibit any of the coordination the prosecutors believe was illegal.
"To be clear, this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the … prosecutor's legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law," Gableman wrote. "Consequently, the investigation is closed."
Lead prosecutor Francis Schmitz had no immediate comment. He said he had just obtained a copy of the ruling Thursday morning and wanted a chance to skim it.
Justice Shirley Abrahamson, one of two liberals on the seven-member court, sharply disagreed in a dissent that accused the majority of a faulty interpretation of state law.
"The majority opinion delivers a significant blow to Wisconsin's campaign finance law and to its paramount objectives of 'stimulating vigorous campaigns on a fair and equal basis' and providing for 'a better informed electorate,'" Abrahamson wrote.
Republicans had called the investigation, launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat, a partisan witch hunt. Wisconsin Club for Growth and its director, Eric O'Keefe, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last year seeking to halt the probe, arguing the investigation violates their free speech rights. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa sided with the club but a federal appellate court later tossed out the lawsuit, saying the issue belonged in state courts.
The club and O'Keefe then turned to the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by a four-justice conservative majority.
Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said before the ruling that prosecutors could seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court, possibly arguing bias, if they lost. Schmitz in February asked at least two justices to recuse themselves to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but the justices didn't respond.


I find his choice of words inflammatory, but I guess when you're worth $16.8bn (Forbes) you can write what and how you please. In past CBBs I took strong exception with Ray Dalio's "beautiful deleveraging" thesis. Data these days speak incontrovertibly to the fact that from a systemic standpoint there has been a huge accumulation of additional debt – at home and globally. The notion of deleveraging is a myth. It is the unprecedented inflation of "money" at the very foundation of global finance that is real. As for "wonderful monetary policy," at best the jury's still out. I'll be shocked if we look back in five or ten years and tag this period's monetary management in a positive light.
Dalio is somewhat of an enigma. Highly intelligent and hugely successful in the markets ($160bn hedge fund empire), he is one of this era's foremost "deep thinkers". I enjoy reading his analysis and share his concerns for social and geopolitical instability. But I see flawed monetary management - and resulting Bubbles/busts and wealth redistribution/destruction - as a major agent to these instabilities. Dalio sees "wonderful monetary policy" as a positive force, while I see radical policy experimentation with disastrous consequences.
It's what Dalio doesn't address that I find most intriguing: How much financial sector leverage has accumulated over the past nine years of near-zero rates and unprecedented central bank market liquidity injections and backstopping? How has the expansion of global financial sector leverage (including central bank balance sheets and speculative leveraging) distorted traditional indicators of systemic stability – such as corporate and household debt, debt service capacity and market risk premia.
Monetary policy and associated financial leveraging have significantly reduced debt service burdens for going on a decade, in the process lessening overall debt growth for households and businesses alike. I would also argue that Trillions of liquidity injections into the markets have flowed into real economies, again working to mitigate private-sector debt accumulation. The massive inflation of central bank and government balance sheets has indeed improved the outward appearance of private-sector finances. This has superficially "brought about balance sheet repairs" for traditional weak-link household and corporate borrowers. I'm just not convinced these remain the most germane structures for gauging global Bubble systemic fragilities.
Dalio has been a hedge fund "risk parity" pioneer. "Risk parity is a portfolio allocation strategy based on targeting risk levels across the various components of an investment portfolio… Risk parity considers four different components: equities, credit, interest rates and commodities, and attempts to spread risk evenly across the asset classes. The goal of risk parity investing is to earn the same level of return with less volatility and risk, or to realize better returns with an equal amount of risk and volatility…" (Investopedia).
Few strategies have so greatly benefited from nine years of radical monetary management. A portfolio of diversified asset classes (most notably equities, bonds and corporate Credit) - all enjoying simultaneous central bank-induced price inflation - has been a huge and surefire winner. The more leverage the better. And, importantly, no drag on performance from hedging or de-risking during recurring bouts of market instability, not with the inherent market "hedge" from managing a diversified portfolio with a significant bond component. It's just been the best of all worlds.
"Wonderful Monetary Policy" has ensured that any successful strategy is inundated with financial inflows. Dalio's Bridgewater has seen assets under management swell to $160 billion. Hundreds of billions more have gravitated to similar strategies. The proliferation of diversified multi-asset class strategies (leveraged and otherwise) has been a powerful force behind the synchronized inflation of prices for securities and corporate Credit across the globe. As central banks prepare to remove aggressive stimulus, I would expect many strategies that have enjoyed long (nine years!) and consistent success to now face significant challenges.
The problem is that tea leaves reading "head for the exits" risk inciting a stampede. These fund complexes and speculative strategies have become gigantic within an overall marketplace structure more vulnerable than ever. In what will now be a common theme, who will take the other side of the trade when the enormous "risk parity" crowd moves to de-risk. Who will have the wherewithal to step up and buy when asset prices across the board come under pressure? How quickly will perceived low-risk strategies face major redemptions when performance turns sour? This has become a systemic issue, recognizing the massive flows into equities, bonds and corporate Credit – with the ETF complex surpassing $4.0 TN of assets. There has never been anything similar to trend-following (speculative) finance so dictating market dynamics.
This is not some nebulous issue going unexplored by market players. There are, however, three key aspects to this issue that are unknowable – and have, to this point, been easily dismissed in the exuberance of a central bank-administered marketplace: First, how much leverage has been employed throughout the securities markets – in the U.S. and globally? Second, how much embedded leverage has accumulated in global derivatives markets? And third, what is the scope of market risk that has (or expects to be) offloaded to dynamically hedged derivatives trading strategies (that will be forced to sell into declining markets to hedge exposures)?
I have issues with such analysis. "Central bankers" trying to get things "exactly right"? The next downturn comes when they "don't get it right"? Well, let's not lose sight of the reality that central bankers are nine years into an unprecedented reflationary experiment. To this point, rightly or wrongly, they've orchestrated historic securities and asset market inflation. Yet central banks will at some point lose control of the global financial Bubble, at which time they will have fully lost control of inflation and growth dynamics. The notion that this continues so long as they "get it right" really suggests that central bankers must remain pro-Bubble.
It's these days not difficult to explain how the structure of the U.S. household balance sheet appears in good shape (net worth approaching $100 TN!). The structure of the corporate balance sheet is surely solid as well, at least from the perspective of strong earnings and cash-flow. With rates so low and markets abundantly liquid, it's easy to argue that the federal government balance sheet, while having ballooned massively, remains quite manageable. Conventional analysis, then, views the entire structure of the greater U.S. balance sheet as solid and immune to crisis dynamics.
Over nine years, this has led to deeply embedded market misperceptions, perhaps most importantly that risk assets enjoy money-like attributes of liquidity and safety. Moreover, that central banks will ensure rising asset prices. These misperceptions have spurred Trillions of flows, with a major chunk jumping aboard the equity and fixed-income bull markets via the ETF complex.
Within the leveraged speculating community, hundreds of billions flowed into "risk parity," CTAs ("a CTA fund is a hedge fund that uses futures contracts to achieve its investment objective") and other trend-following strategies. Meanwhile, zero rates and central bank control over securities markets have ensured a derivatives boom like no other – derivatives to leverage securities, to employ international "carry trade" speculations, to exploit Credit spreads, to write myriad variations of market "insurance," to hedge risk and to implement about whatever strategy imaginable.
I would posit that global market Bubbles today rest tenuously upon the false premise that central banks can get it right when it comes to managing market risk and liquidity. In reality, central banks have created an Unsustainable Market Structure with increasingly acute latent fragilities. It's impossible to "get it right," because Bubbles are by their nature unsustainable.
Today's global Bubble works only so long as securities values continue to inflate. Market inflation is dependent upon unrelenting central bank stimulus and backstops. It will all falter badly in reverse. And all the "money" that has chased central bank-induced market returns – from "risk parity" to corporate bond and equity index ETFs to derivatives strategies – creates vulnerability to an abrupt shift in perceptions, followed by illiquidity and market dislocation.
Markets this week were again showing indications of vulnerability. Global yields remain on the rise. German bund yields jumped 11 bps to an 18-month high 0.57%. French yields rose 13 bps to 0.94%. The largest yield spikes, however, were at the "periphery." Italian and Spanish 10-year yields surged 19 bps to 2.34% and 1.73% - with Italian yields near two-year highs.
It's also worth noting that emerging bond markets faced increased selling (EM bond ETF down 1.3% this week). Local EM bond markets were under heavy selling pressure. Ten-year yields surged 28 bps in Turkey, 21 bps in Indonesia, 21 bps in Russia, 22 bps in Colombia, 12 bps in Brazil and 11 bps in South Africa. Dollar-denominated EM bonds were not spared. Yields rose 20 bps in Turkey, 19 bps in Argentina, 13 bps in Brazil, 12 bps in Mexico, 15 bps in Colombia and 10 bps in Russia.
When it comes to Market Structures vulnerable after nine years of runaway global monetary stimulus, look no further than EM. Despite all the corruption, fraud, political turmoil and nonsense that one would anticipate from a prolonged period of egregiously easy "money," finance has nonetheless flowed lavishly to EM (with its relatively high-yielding debt markets and growth opportunities). Over recent months, with blow-off dynamics enveloping risk markets worldwide, huge flows gravitated to EM. Much of this "money" was intermediated through the ETF complex. How much was purely trend-following?
While traditional analysis would look first to U.S. economic fundamentals (including household and corporate debt, earnings, employment and inflation) for indications of underlying market vulnerability, I would point instead to Global Market Bubble Dynamics – while reminding readers that the current backdrop is distinct to previous Bubble experiences. As such, market indicators this week at the periphery – EM as well as European – were flashing heightened susceptibility to de-risking/de-leveraging and the potential for liquidity challenges. Considering the enormity of recent flows, perhaps EM will provide an early test for the thesis of Market Structural Vulnerabilities.
Here at home, 10-year Treasury yields rose eight bps to 2.39%. In equities, there was more of this choppy topping-action rotation away from tech/high-flyers and into financials/laggards. Corporate debt markets are beginning to feel the strain of rising global yields. High-yield bond funds saw another $1.1bn of outflows, though investment-grade corporates are still attracting large inflows. The high-yield ETF (HYG) traded near a two-month low. Commodities, as well, seemed to support the thesis of fledgling "Risk Off" and waning liquidity. With crude down almost 4%, the GSCI Commodities Index dropped 1.8%. Copper fell 2.4% and gold lost 2.3%. But it was wild trading in silver (down 7.2%) that might have provided a harbinger of more general market liquidity issues to come.
That Treasuries, equities, corporate Credit and commodities all seem to be indicating a (thus far subtle) shift in market liquidity, we can look to "risk parity" - and similar multi-asset class strategies that incorporate leverage – as a possible weak link in a Vulnerable Global Market Structure. And we're supposed to savor this moment and pay a debt of gratitude to courageous central bankers? Strange world.
The S&P500 was little changed (up 8.3% y-t-d), while the Dow added 0.3% (up 8.4%). The Utilities declined 0.8% (up 5.4%). The Banks jumped 1.6% (up 5.8%), and the Broker/Dealers added 0.6% (up 0.6%). The Transports rose 1.4% (up 7.2%). The S&P 400 Midcaps were unchanged (up 5.2%), and the small cap Russell 2000 was little changed (up 4.3%). The Nasdaq100 increased 0.2% (up 16.3%), and the Morgan Stanley High Tech index added 0.2% (up 20.5%). The Semiconductors recovered 1.9% (up 16.4%). The Biotechs gained 1.2% (up 27%). With bullion sinking $28, the HUI gold index fell 3.7% (down 1.9%).
Three-month Treasury bill rates ended the week at 101 bps. Two-year government yields added two bps to 1.40% (up 21bps y-t-d). Five-year T-note yields gained six bps to 1.95% (up 2bps). Ten-year Treasury yields rose eight bps to 2.39% (down 6bps). Long bond yields jumped nine bps to 2.93% (down 14bps).
Greek 10-year yields were unchanged at 5.36% (down 166bps y-t-d). Ten-year Portuguese yields rose 13 bps to 3.16% (down 59bps). Italian 10-year yields surged 19 bps to 2.34% (up 53bps). Spain's 10-year yields rose 19 bps to 1.73% (up 35bps). German bund yields gained 11 bps to 0.57% (up 37bps). French yields jumped 13 bps to 0.94% (up 26bps). The French to German 10-year bond spread widened two bps to 37 bps. U.K. 10-year gilt yields increased five bps to 1.31% (up 7bps). U.K.'s FTSE equities index gained 0.5% (up 2.9%).
Japan's Nikkei 225 equities index slipped 0.5% (up 4.3% y-t-d). Japanese 10-year "JGB" yields were unchanged at 0.09% (up 5bps). France's CAC40 gained 0.5% (up 5.8%). The German DAX equities index rose 0.5% (up 7.9%). Spain's IBEX 35 equities index added 0.4% (up 12.2%). Italy's FTSE MIB index recovered 2.1% (up 9.3%). EM equities were mixed to lower. Brazil's Bovespa index declined 0.9% (up 3.5%), while Mexico's Bolsa increased 0.4% (up 9.7%). South Korea's Kospi fell 0.5% (up 17.4%). India's Sensex equities index gained 1.4% (up 17.8%). China's Shanghai Exchange added 0.8% (up 3.7%). Turkey's Borsa Istanbul National 100 index dipped 0.4% (up 28.1%). Russia's MICEX equities index rallied 1.8% (down 14.3%).
Junk bond mutual funds saw outflows of $1.155 billion (from Lipper).
Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates jumped eight bps to 3.96% (up 55bps y-o-y). Fifteen-year rates rose five bps to 3.22% (up 48bps). The five-year hybrid ARM rate gained four bps to 3.21% (up 53bps). Bankrate's survey of jumbo mortgage borrowing costs had 30-yr fixed rates up nine bps to 4.10% (up 46bps).
Federal Reserve Credit last week declined $4.1bn to $4.427 TN. Over the past year, Fed Credit dipped $2.8bn. Fed Credit inflated $1.616 TN, or 58%, over the past 243 weeks. Elsewhere, Fed holdings for foreign owners of Treasury, Agency Debt gained $8.2bn last week to $3.316 TN. "Custody holdings" were up $86.6bn y-o-y, or 2.7%.
M2 (narrow) "money" supply last week jumped $35.7bn to a record $13.546 TN. "Narrow money" expanded $708bn, or 5.5%, over the past year. For the week, Currency increased $2.1bn. Total Checkable Deposits surged $45.6bn, while Savings Deposits declined $10.9bn. Small Time Deposits were little changed. Retail Money Funds dipped $1.8bn.
Total money market fund assets gained $4.7bn to $2.627 TN. Money Funds fell $74bn y-o-y (2.7%).
Total Commercial Paper dropped $26.8bn to $946.8bn. CP declined $93bn y-o-y, or 8.9%.
The U.S. dollar index recovered 0.4% to 96.008 (down 6.2% y-t-d). For the week on the upside, the Brazilian real increased 0.8%, the Canadian dollar 0.7%, the Mexican peso 0.2%, and the Swedish krona 0.1%. For the week on the downside, the South African rand declined 2.3%, the Japanese yen 1.3%, the Australian dollar 1.1%, the British pound 1.0%, the South Korean won 0.9%, the New Zealand dollar 0.7%, the Swiss franc 0.6%, the Singapore dollar 0.4%, the Norwegian krone 0.3% and the euro 0.2%. The Chinese renminbi declined 0.36% versus the dollar this week (up 2.05% y-t-d).
The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index dropped 1.8% (down 8.3% y-t-d). Spot Gold lost 2.3% to $1,213 (up 5.3%). In wild trading, Silver sank 7.2% to $15.425 (down 4%). Crude fell $3.91 to $44.23 (down 18%). Gasoline declined 1.0% (down 10%), and Natural Gas sank 5.6% (down 23%). Copper dropped 2.4% (up 6%). Wheat gained another 1.7% (up 31%). Corn rose 3.0% (up 12%).
July 5 – Financial Times (Heba Saleh and Simeon Kerr): "The four Arab states that have imposed an extraordinary embargo on Qatar, on Wednesday lambasted Doha for its 'negative' response to their demands in a sign that the month-long diplomatic crisis is deepening. After meeting in Cairo to discuss the dispute, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt said Qatar's response showed 'a lack of seriousness in dealing with the roots of the problem' and a 'failure to appreciate the dangers in the situation'. Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, warned that additional steps against Doha could be taken at the appropriate time."


Step: Start with clean, dry hair. Part as desired for the end result and then divide into four quadrants for control.
Step: Start in the thinner of the front quadrants. Divide out a 1" Section and spray throughly with holding spray. Brush through.
Step: Take a 1/2" curling iron and clamp into the top of the section, as close to the root as possible, with the movable handle toward the head. Open and close iron a few times, sliding forward toward the face, then wrap up, 1 1/2 turns, and release.
Step: Flip iron over so that the barrel is closer to the head, just below the wave you ceased, slide iron into hair and roll the opposite direction, 1 1/2 times.
Step: move down the section, alternating directions, to create deep waves. When one quad is complete, place duckbill clips in waves to strengthen and spray.
Step: Repeat over the entire head. Remove clips, brush through, and tousle as desired with finger and refinish.


There are two types of cats that live in Port de Sóller on the Balearic island of Mallorca.
The first type is feral and lives near the restaurants where they get enough food from tourists to go about their day. These cats are often very timid.
The second type consists of house cats that couldn't care less about the proximity of tourists.
The cats in the pictures below were napping in the Carrer de Santa Apollonia, a small and picturesque alley right behind the Port de Sóller.
P.S. If you can't find these cats, they are probably hanging out on the terrace of the restaurant So Caprichos.


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Q: How to implement voice encryption over gsm? I am trying to create an encrypted voice-over-GSM communication system.
As we can't use Android, I think it's better to use a RaspberryPI-like solution. (e.g. RaspberryPI + battery + usb modem)
So, the general plan is:

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*record voice

*encode it with some sort of codec, that allows better compression, than GSM

*encrypt w/AES

*modulate it back to sound

*send modulated sound trought the GSM

So, the general question is: Is there encoding & modulation algorithms, that able to transmit encoded/encrypted voice over GSM?
Or is there a better way to do this using only GSM, not VoIP.


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Category "International"
Brexit ushers in carnival of reaction
The victory for the Leave camp in the EU referendum was a huge blow to progressive causes in the UK. Having been touted as a referendum on leaving the EU, the politics of UKIP and sections of the media turned [...]
Syria: the end game begins
What will be left of Syria this time next year? Already so many of its people have fled or have been slaughtered. Already its infrastructure, its treasures and wealth have been obliterated. Fighting over the rubble in Aleppo, Dara'a and [...]
Save whose Steel?
By Edmund Potts
A well-known aphorism holds that in government, a politician wakes up each morning and decides what they are going to do; in opposition, they wake up each morning and decide what they are going to say. Normally, of course, pronouncements [...]
Barış Hemen Şimdi – Peace Now
The truth of who was behind Saturday's atrocity in Ankara may never be uncovered. Supported by the ascendant left-wing and pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the rally at which over 100 people were killed represented some of the most progressive forces extant [...]
Against the UKIP devil and the EU deep blue sea
By Dave Landau & Will McMahon
This is the first in a series of articles that The Project will carry debating issues around the EU referendum. Here, Dave Landau and Will McMahon set out the case for an active abstention. What should socialists be saying about the European [...]
Europe. The very word conjures up pictures of unelected bureaucrats and no-mark politicians sitting in a distant parliament passing laws on how much a banana can bend and imposing dodgy things like human rights on us. The European Union (EU) [...]
Remembering CND and the anti-nuclear movement
By Rodney Kaykreizman
Socialists argued about nuclear wars in the 1950's and concluded that, on numerous grounds, nuclear wars would be a total disaster for millions of innocent people, poisoned and maimed, and the planet itself would suffer irreparable damage to its environs [...]


Hey, love this D-mod, but I'm hopelessly stuck in the 3rd temple. I got past the gate and now I need the yellow key. What am I missing?
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Mark Elliott
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Mark Elliott is a thirty-year veteran of the Nashville-based singer-songwriter scene, author, blogger, and podcaster. He is also a principal vocalist/guitarist for the Americana band Runaway Home and has written for Nashville's top publishing houses, including Sony-Tree, Maypop, and Bluewater Music. Independent and major-label artists have recorded Mark's songs, and he has received airplay on radio and TV in the United States and abroad. His songs have hit the Billboard Top Forty Charts, highlighted by the hit single by Neal McCoy, "Every Man for Himself." Billboard Magazine called it "a song with rare lyrical and musical edge and the best cut on the album." He's a winner of the coveted Kerrville New Folk Award. He has a string of 2020/2021 solo singles out, including: "Craziest Thing," "Watch Out Man," "On My Way To See You," "Talk To Yourself," and "Drunk for Nothin'." 3 Minutes Away Publishing signed Mark as a staff writer in 2021. Mark is also an author. Kirkus Reviews heralded Mark's current book, The Sons of Starmount: Memoir of a Ten-year-old Boy (out in paperback and audiobook), as a "Joyful book, permeated with a gentle humor that brings to life the exuberance of youth." Check out Mark's weekly Substack literary newsletter, Words from the Hollow, and Conversations On Cub Creek podcast.
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/* Name:
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#include <stdio.h>
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int main(){
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South Africa's education system is a dual one. On the one side 25% of schools offer a high-quality education to mostly privileged citizens and the other 75% offers the kind of education that won't get you into university, and won't equip you with the skills to choose a job that involves anything more than basic labour.
As an education reporter it's my job to visit places both well known and obscure, to show our readers what this dual system is like as experienced by all of South Africa's citizens.
I have seen that those experiences are strikingly different – depending on whether the school is in an urban or rural area, which province it is in and what the pupils' socio-economic backgrounds are.
This observation is not new. Experts, academics, activists and journalists have made the same observation many times in national and international media.
Their message is the same: education in South Africa is failing millions of young people every year.
Citizens and governments do different things with this information. Some citizens, acknowledging the importance of education in uplifting people, sacrifice their own wellbeing to research, protest, and create awareness about the deplorable learning conditions of many of the 12-million pupils in South Africa.
Others feel pity and carry on working towards the attainment of their own, personal goals.
Some governments question policy, engage with civil society and make informed decisions about how the education budget is spent. Other politicians make sweeping yet empty promises to citizens to garner votes.
The people who have been selected to appear in this section of the 200 Young South Africans 2014 are mostly regular South African citizens and some government officials.
They all know that education is a vehicle out of poverty and a weapon against mounting inequality, but unlike so many people in positions of power, these nominees don't just talk about this, they also take action.
Tebogo Sephakgamela and other recipients of the award, such as Lwando Mzandisi, did not go to schools that had all the resources that are crucial to getting an education. They didn't have all the teachers they needed, or textbooks. They had to walk long distances to get to their schools and when they got home at night it was not always to a hot meal.
Sephakgamela, who lives in rural Limpopo, spends much of his time and money hitching rides or catching taxis so he can get to schools to check if they have the textbooks they need. Mzandisi lives in Khayelitsha – a township in Cape Town whose residents live in different conditions to their city centre neighbours because of a large discrepancy in basic service provision by the government. He knows all about inequality and devotes his energy to organising campaigns to raise money and awareness about the learning conditions of the disadvantaged pupils there.
Gabrielle Wills and others, such as Jason Brickhill, came from privileged backgrounds of top-quality education and economic security. Instead of building their own wealth, as they surely could have done by taking well-paid jobs in the private sector, they went in a different direction.
Wills used her position to raise money for and mentor disadvantaged pupils as well as play a leadership role as the governing body chairperson at an under-resourced school.
Brickhill shirked the corporate law firm life and the paycheques that come with it so that he could help others to use the courts to make sure, for example, that hundreds of teachers in the Eastern Cape get paid their salaries and thousands of pupils have desks and chairs.
The challenges that all these people are facing might seem insurmountable at times because there are no quick fixes for a system whose inequalities are rooted in the centuries-old oppression of black people by white people.
Some of this oppression was legislated and South Africa is still in the midst of its struggle to rid itself of this legacy. It's a legacy that some might say does not exist anymore, post-1994 democracy, but if anyone has been into the schools that I and the people in this section have been into, they will know they are wrong. Thousands of schools still look like and operate with the same inadequate resources as they did 100 years ago.
Some of them are made of mud, some of them do not have toilets, others are so overcrowded that 120 pupils are forced to squeeze into one classroom.
Somewhere along the timeline of these people's lives they became aware that those learning conditions would have the effect of consigning millions of young people to a life of poverty, limited choice and potential crime and disease. This could not happen. Not after so many had fought so hard for a democracy.
The action these people took is exceptional in its selflessness and compassion. What strength and vision was in them to move them towards action?
You could say that they are a unique and special kind of people. But could it be they have the kind of strength and vision we all have inside us? Is the flame they have inside them that burned for justice not the same flame that is innate in every human ignited in some as a result of chance but smothered in others through the compounding of everyday violations of dignity?
Some of the people in this section knew that the Constitution specifically protects the right to a basic education for all South Africans. Others knew from consuming media that their plight was not isolated or insignificant. They all believed in themselves enough to put some plans on hold, take risks on others, pick themselves up when they made mistakes and keep going. They might have had a role model to draw inspiration from. They might have had someone believing in them, bolstering them, and offering advice and support when the going got tough. They might not even have drawn much on the support from others, but rather relied on their own agency.
But many of the pupils I have spoken to, especially in rural areas, simply do not know how wronged they are by the learning conditions they endure every day. Disempowered and marginalised, they do not know the power of their own agency. This is where the problem lies. If all pupils were at least aware of their rights and aware of what exactly constitutes a basic education they would have a frame of reference to hold their own learning conditions up to.
If they tapped into their agency, if they were listened to, if they were included in the discussions around solutions for the education crisis, then their power would increase further.
If they were given the resources to engage and organise, their voices would be so loud it would be impossible to silence them. This is where South Africans need to lean in – to the potential that young people hold. We need to acknowledge young people's voices and agency. We need to acknowledge that they might not have the body of experience that a 50-year-old has, but they have the kind of invaluable experience of someone who feels the everyday experience of a leaking roof on their skin.
Let us respect that these young people have ideas and solutions for the education crisis, which has the most immediate effect on them. Let us listen to their ideas. Let us include them in the planning for a better education system. Let us ask them what help they need, and let us always prioritise the thing that will help them when we can't – empowerment through the acquisition of skills and knowledge.
If we do this, we might grow a generation where everybody sees injustice and is equipped to do something to change it.


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Patricia Briggs's Silence Fallen (book ten in the Mercy Thompson series) claimed the top spot on the hardcover list, followed by New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. The new runner-up was Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan (Orbit US), the first book in a new fantasy series, set in the same world as McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy. There were 51 nominated titles, down from 56 last month.
With a commanding lead, new release Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire (book six in the InCryptid series) nabbed first place on the paperback list over second place finisher Ben Aaronovitch's The Hanging Tree (book six in the Rivers of London series). There were no new runners-up. There were 67 nominated titles, up from 57 last month.
Edging out second-place finisher Revenger by Alastair Reynolds, first place on the trade paperback list went to A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in her Shades of Magic trilogy. The new runner-up was Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames (Orbit US). We had 71 nominated titles, up from 65 last month.
Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End (the third book in the Star Wars: The Aftermath trilogy) returned to the top spot on the media-related & gaming-related book list, with Forgotten Realms: Hero by R.A. Salvatore (book three in the Legend of Drizzt: Homecoming trilogy) a respectable second. There were no new runners-up; 26 titles were nominated, up from 22 last month.


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#capitalism
How the Poor Continue to Die
by Kevin Van Meter
Of the numerous realities the pandemic has uncovered, few are as stark as how front-line, essential, service industry workers are not just seen as replaceable but as expendable. And many are out of work. When a member of the working-class is without wages and the paltry handouts from the government vanish, reproduction of one's biological functions and faculties are still required. Working in front-line, essential, service industries is work as is seeking to obtain work in such sectors.
Categories Featured, IAS Blog, Perspectives: Pandemics from the Bottom Up
Mutual Aid Speakers list
The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) has revamped and updated our list of speakers. Our speakers bureau, called the Mutual Aid Speakers, are all available to come to your town and assist in your organizing efforts.
Take a look at all the awesome folks below. Many of them received an IAS writing grant, or have written books or essays over the years for the IAS. Some are either current or past IAS board members, while others are comrades, and people whose work we respect.
Categories Mutual Aid Speakers
Beyond the Crisis
The world is on fire. It has been, for quite some time. If you've done any organizing, you've felt it—that sense of racing about, extinguishing this flare up or that, spending precious energy and resources surviving the immediate emergency and hoping the future will somehow … Read more
Categories Publishing 1 Comment
An Anarchism of the Working-Class: A Review of Whither Anarchism?, by Kristian Williams (To the Point/AK Press, 2018), Reviewed by Miriam Pickens
I appreciate Kristian Williams' pamphlet, both the thought put into it and the challenge it represents. I learned a lot from its history, and in particular gained insight into the behavior of anarchists I meet today. Williams traces some practices of contemporary US anarchism back to pacifism, looking at how contemporary anarchists unthinkingly accept much of that philosophy. In my view, that influence led to the movement prioritizing providing comfort to its participants, rather than organizing to change the circumstances that led to the discomfort they feel with society in the first place. This emphasis accepts the inevitability of capitalism and is therefore a strategy to live within its parameters. But I don't think capitalism will allow us these spaces. Instead, it has to be overthrown and not allowed to come back.
Categories Educational 8 Comments
Between Everyday Resistance and Overt Rebellion: Revolutionary Possibilities!, A conversation between Alexander Riccio and Kevin Van Meter
Alexander Riccio, a labor organizer based in Corvallis, Oregon who co-hosts the podcast LabourWave Revolution Radio, talks with Kevin Van Meter, author of Institute for Anarchist Studies/AK Press book Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible, available here!
Alexander Riccio: Some have read your book, Guerillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible, as an attack on organized labor in general, or as one that poses an either/or decision between supporting Left organizations, such as unions, versus championing forms of everyday resistance. What do you say to these criticisms?
Kevin Van Meter: I don't see my work as an attack on organized labor per se, but as a critique of where organized labor has been and how it is currently functioning. I think one of the major problems with organized labor, at least in regards to business unions, is their inability to innovate, their inability to learn from their own historical lessons, and their inability to listen to the actual needs and desires of the working class outside of the union's organizational frame.
Unions have a very particular way of going about organizing: a steward system, a contract vote, provide services, conduct a corporate campaign. For thirty years, labor unions have hired people predominately out of college rather than from within their own ranks, and during the same period, there has been a focus on corporate campaigns rather than building substantive relationships on the ground. The fact is that building relationships on the job and in communities is necessary for the Left to bounce back, pass legislation, organize unions, and be successful in the streets against forces like fascism. All of that means it's necessary to reweave the social fabric, but unions have largely ignored this necessity.
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Friendship is a Root of Freedom: from Joyful Militancy, by Nick Montgomery & carla bergman
"To become what we need to each other, and to find power in friendship, is to become dangerous."
—anonymous [1]
"I have a circle of friends and family with whom I am radically vulnerable and trust deeply – we call it coevolution through friendship."
—adrienne maree brown [2]
"These are not just words; they are clues and prods to earthquakes in kin making that are not limited to Western family apparatuses, heteronormative or not."
—Donna Haraway [3]
(art by Pete Railand)
Categories Anarchist Interventions Books, Publishing 1 Comment
The Seeds of Anti-Capitalist Revolt Found in Everyday Resistance: A Review of Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter (AK Press, 2017), Review by Scott Campbell
Back when I first began selling my labor for a wage in the wasteland of suburbia's strip malls, I can recall the tedium of stocking shelves, summoning up insincere courtesy in the face of entitled customers and obnoxious bosses, comparing the stacks of money counted at the end of the day with the totals on our paychecks, and feigning adherence to whatever motivational façade management cooked up to mask the reality of our exploitation.
Yet I also remember, much more vividly and fondly, the latent and occasionally eruptive defiance among my co-workers. This included the constant collective complaining about the job, taking more and longer-than-approved breaks, working as little as possible, fudging time sheets, stealing, and the intermittent screaming matches with the boss in the middle of the store. Underpinning all these actions was an unspoken but broadly understood code of silence when it came to such transgressions and, when appropriate, expressions of support for them.
At the time, I didn't think much about this, it was just how things happened and I've encountered similar experiences to varying degrees in every workplace since. Our actions weren't guided by a political framework nor was there any attempt to organize them in a directed manner. It was more a spontaneous, innate reaction to experiencing the coercion of capitalism. I had cause to reflect upon this anew while reading Kevin Van Meter's new book, Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible, published by AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
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Guerrillas of Desire Book Tour!
Following the release of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown, and Walidah Imarisha's Angels with Dirty Faces, which won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Institute for Anarchist Studies is proud to announce the publication of Kevin Van Meter's Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible, published in conjunction with AK Press. Join Kevin as he reads from and talks about his book on these upcoming dates!
Categories Educational, Publishing, Upcoming Events
The Fourth Star: The New Junior Wobblies and the Next Generation of Union Militants, by Sadie Farrell and M.K. Lees
Several factors played into our collective decision not to run a print issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory for the current year. We sincerely thank all inquiries and submissions sent for what was hoped to be an issue on Play. A call for submissions for a Beyond The Crisis print issue of Perspectives (2018) is here.
This is an article written by two Wobblies in response to our call for Play essays. These organizers bridge the gap between play and the practice of organizing skills via educational skits and fun activities led by the New Junior Wobblies, the young members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
The IWW globe logo holds three stars representing Education, Organization and Emancipation. This article looks at Recreation – a fourth star – from challenging uneven relations of power, to making joy central to organizing against capitalism, regardless of age.
Shortly after a wave of government repression and internal splits nearly destroyed the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as a functioning labor organization, a group of Wobblies felt the immediate need to find new ways to raise the next generation of revolutionary unionists. As a part of solidarity support for striking IWW coal miners in Colorado, children of union members were invited to join an IWW organization of their own. These Wobbly kids formed "locals" to organize support for their striking parents, and alongside them, develop a rudimentary understanding of the world and how they might soon be a part of organizing to change it. To the IWW tripartite motto, "Education, Organization, Emancipation" they added "Recreation," and in 1927, the Junior Wobblies Union was born.
(Junior Wobblies in the 1920s)
Categories Perspectives 1 Comment
Guerrillas of Desire: New IAS Book on Everyday Resistance and Organizing Available for Preorder!
Silvia Federici says it is "beautifully written" while illustrating "the power of the refusal of work of those capitalism has subjugated." George Caffentzis believes it is an "important exploration of the revolutionary possibilities of our time." Kevin Van Meter's Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible is the latest Institute of Anarchist Studies book to be published in concert with AK Press.
Categories Publishing


Canadian songstress Avril Lavigne is back in the charts again with her latest single 'Here's To Never Growing Up', the first release from her forthcoming fifth studio album, due later in the year.
After premiering at No.16, it rose to No.15 the following week before slipping back four spots to No.19 on this week's charts.
But a new video is sure to help its cause – and said video premiered on Vevo less than an hour ago.
And it looks like, true to the song title, she never wants to grow up, heading back to the senior prom where she takes the stage to entertain the minions dressed in a pair of killer heels and her trademark dark eye makeup. Naturally, there's a bit of a middle finger towards the establishment as she and her cohorts do a bit of destroying and vandalising – and there's even a little expletive in there, so you know she's serious.
Super catchy tune, but it sounds most familiar.
I hate this song so much.
I know Goodbye Lullaby didn't exactly set the charts alight, but at least there was a touch of depth there.


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Secret bases? What is the situation now as Syria is targetted?
The most extensive media account seen, to date, has been a 2011 article in the Washington Post. Later, at the height of drone activity, the Sunday Times published this graphic, but little news of further covert building is in the public domain.
Reports of a base in Saudi Arabia (see BBC online and others), supported by public satellite images but officially denied, may be added to an earlier revelation by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who accidentally stated that the U.S. was flying its robotic aircraft from Pakistani soil. Google Earth's archives [2006-2009] show Predator drones sitting on a runway not far from the Jacobabad Air Base in Pakistan.
And reports are coming in that the US government is now looking for ideas on how to build its very own 'helicarrier'. This, and other links, however, lead only to the notice on the left, on the website of America's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA]. This agency is working on the conversion of existing aircraft into flying aircraft carriers, holding drones – which have a limited flying range – near to where they can be launched, retrieved and maintained. The Washington Post reports that companies, universities and other organizations interested in participating have been invited to submit "system-level conceptual designs," including a feasibility analysis.
Using military documents, press accounts and other open source information, an in-depth analysis by AlterNet identified over 60 bases integral to U.S. military and CIA drone operations. AlterNet alleges that other bases are already under construction or in the planning stages.
In April, news of a joint investigation by the German news magazine Der Spiegel and The Intercept was published. A top secret U.S. intelligence document obtained by The Intercept, contained slides had been provided by a source with knowledge of the U.S. government's drone program who declined to be identified, fearing retribution. These confirm – after years of official denial – that the U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany, is the site of a satellite relay station that enables drone operators in the American Southwest to communicate with their remote aircraft in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other targeted countries. The top-secret slide deck provided the most detailed blueprint seen to date of the technical architecture used to conduct strikes with Predator and Reaper drones.
Amidst European criticism of America's targeted killing program, U.S. and German government officials downplayed Ramstein's role in lethal U.S. drone operations, but slides show that the facilities at Ramstein enable lethal drone strikes conducted by the CIA and the U.S. military in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa.
Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a relative of men killed in a drone strike in the Yemen, testified in a German court, alleging that Germany is violating a constitutionally enshrined duty to protect the right to life by allowing the United States to use Ramstein Air Base as part of its lethal drone operations. His case was dismissed at the end of may, but he has leave to appeal.
Is the tide turning? One key drone launching base in Syria closed – how many more to go?
In February the US decided to evacuate its remaining personnel from Yemen, including 100 Special Operations forces from a military base seen as key in the drone war against al-Qaeda.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the United States was also closing its Syrian embassy and World News quotes an account of its withdrawal of 100 Special Operations forces from a military base seen as key in the drone war against al-Qaeda by Iona Craig, a journalist who was based in Sana'a for four years as the Yemen correspondent for The Times of London.
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