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Forts and Palaces with Magnificent Indian Wildlife 10 Nights
A royal affair: hop around India's best forts and palaces
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India is a land with untold historical riches, evident in the different types of architecture dating back to the Bronze Age. Check out these magnificent architectural testaments to the yesteryears with a customized trip to India's best forts, palaces and museums. End the tour feeling like a royal going on a hunt at Ranthambore, where you track and shoot tiger. With your cameras of course!
On arrival in Delhi, guests will be met at the aero bridge and will be assisted through customs / immigration baggage collection. And you will be transferred to your Hotel
Delhi: The planning of New Delhi started in 1911 under the guidance of Sir Edwin Lutyens; this was following the declaration made by King George V at the Delhi Durbar.
Delhi is steeped in history, which dates back to 3000 years. 'Indraprastha', the seat of the Pandavas in the early centuries of the era, was situated in Purana Quila and is believed to be Delhi's earliest city.
The Imperial:The Imperial, New Delhi's landmark Hotel, is located on Janpath, the erstwhile Queensway. The restored 1930's Victorian – style building is a perfect confluence of old-world charm and modern day conveniences.
Spend Two overnight at The Imperial. Accommodation is in a Heritage Room with en suite facilities. Your stay is on bed & breakfast basis
Morning at leisure for independent activities.
Afternoon proceed on tour of Old Delhi visiting:
Chandni Chowk: Take a rickshaw ride in Chandni Chowk which was once the grandest of markets in India. Even though today Chandni Chowk appears choked with congestion, it retains its historical character.
Spice Market: Khari Baoli is a street in Old Delhi known for its wholesale grocery and Asia's largest wholesale spice market selling all kinds of spices, nuts, herbs and food products like rice and tea. The market is operating since the 17th century.
Jama Masjid: The Jama Masjid of Delhi is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is the largest and best-known mosque in • India. It lies at the origin of a very busy central street of Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk.
And end your tour with High Tea at Dharampura Haveli where the children have the opportunity of flying kites or have Heena painting.
Haveli Dharampura: with its distinctive features is attributed as Late Mughal style though parts of it has the influence of the 20th Century architecture. During Mughal and late Mughal Period, a large numbers of Havelis were built by the courtiers.
Evening visit to Dance Academy, for a small interaction with a bollywood style dance teacher, and a small dance class over Bollywood songs
Delhi - Agra
Morning drive to Agra.
Agra: The city of Agra flourished under the patronage of the emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan and attracted artisans from Persia and central Asia. Agra is where Emperor Shah Jahan engraved his immortal love for his Empress in marble, the Taj Mahal.
On arrival check in at ITC Mughal.
Afternoon proceed on Mughal Heritage Walk with a guide.
Visit the small village of Kachpura, a rural settlement, with a stunning backdrop of the Taj Mahal. The youth from the community, who have been trained up as tour guides, take you through the village allowing you to real get a feel of village life.
Sunset visit of Taj Mahal from Mehtab Bagh Side ( Located across river Yamuna / Taj Mahal close on Friday)
Taj Mahal: Said to be one of the most elegant and a harmonious building in the world, Taj Mahal is the manifestation of the wealth and luxury of Mughal art as seen in its architecture, garden design, painting, and calligraphy.
Spend Two Nights, Accommodation is in a Royal Mughal Suite, Your stay is on Bed & Breakfast Basis
Re- visit Taj Mahal at Sunrise.
After visit to Taj Mahal Return to Hotel for breakfast. Later proceed on a city tour of Agra, visiting Itmad-Ud-Daulah:
After Taj Mahal and Agra Fort, the monument that is most important in Agra is the Tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah or "Baby Taj" as it is called sometimes. A highly ornate edifice, this mausoleum is considered as the imminent precursor of the Taj Mahal as far as elaborate carvings and inlay work are concerned.
Though the structure does not have much to offer architecturally, it makes a clear departure from the earlier Mughal tombs built during the period and is softer with lot of inlay carvings.
After visiting Itmad-Ud-Daulah, drive onto the Agra Fort in a decorated horse carriage,
Agra Fort: The red sandstone Agra Fort was renovated and converted into a palace during Shah Jahan's time, and reworked extensively with marble and pietra dura inlay. Notable buildings in the fort include the Pearl Mosque, the Diwan-e-Am and Diwan-e-Khas (halls of public and private audience), Jehangir's Palace, Khaas Mahal, Sheesh Mahal (mirrored palace), and Musamman Burj.
Agra - Bharatpur - Ranthambhore
This morning you will be transferred to Bharatpur Railway Station for train to Ranthambhore. (Dep 1030 / Arr 1255 Hrs / Golden Temple Mail Air Conditioned Sleeper Class)
Ranthambhore National Park: - Ranthambhore National Park is known for its small population of friendly tigers, who do not seem to shy away from the approach of humans. Tucked between the rugged Aravalli and Vindhya hills, the reserve also boasts a spectacular landscape filled with border-strewn highland plateaus, lakes and rivers. A hunting ground for the local maharajahs until 1970, the park has since become a refuge for hundreds of species of birds, mammals and reptiles.
On arrival transfer from Railway Station to Hotel Khem Villas, Ranthambhore.
Khem Villas - the lodge's 20 acres of grassland, lakes and forest were hand-planted years ago, cultivating a flourishing natural habitat for myriad wildlife and Because of its proximity to the Ranthambore National Reserve, you can occasionally witness the pug marks of various wild animals such as jackals, leopards and tigers.
Afternoon game drive by exclusive jeep.
Spend Two nights at Khem Villas. Accommodation is Cottage with en suite facilities. Yours stay is on Full board with schedule game drive.
Ranthambhore
Morning and afternoon game drive in an exclusive jeep
Ranthambhore - Jaipur
Morning game drive by exclusive Jeep. Later drive - 3 ½ Hours to Jaipur.
Jaipur: Founded in 1728 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, Jaipur is where modernity and tradition exist side by side. The walled city, vibrant with colours, houses the City Palace, an astronomical observatory and a bustling bazaar where artisans fashion puppets, silver jewellery, lac bangles and other handicrafts in their workshops.
Upon arrival in Jaipur, you will check-in at The Taj Rambagh Palace.
Taj Rambagh Palace: In the finest tradition of Rajput hospitality, the Rambagh Palace offers its guests a taste of royal living – a luxury and extravagance that was once the sole preserve of kings.
Evening enjoy short tour of the Palace organized by the Hotel for all the In- house with a glass of champagne /Wine followed by Cultural program.
Spend Three Nights at The Taj Rambagh Palace, Jaipur. Accommodation is in a Palace Room. Your stay is on Bed & Breakfast Basis
This morning guests will be taken on a guided tour of the Amber Fort and Albert hall.
The Amber Fort is located 11 km from Jaipur. It was the ancient citadel of the ruling Kachhawa clan of Amber, before the capital was shifted to present day Jaipur.
Albert Hall Museum: In Jaipur is the most stunning museum. This beautiful museum is modelled along the popular Albert Museum of London and deeply represents the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture. The museum houses the unique collection of ancient stuffs like beautiful crafts work, ceramics objects, sketches, models, wood work, toys, dolls, common history examples, such as Egyptian Mummy and the well known Persian Golden Carpet.
Afternoon at Leisure. Evening visit to Dera Amer.
Upon arrival at Dera Amer, guests will be greeted by the Elephants and they get the opportunity of feeding the Elephant.
Elephant ride will come to an end at the camp where guest will be served Dinner.
Dera Amer situated behind the hills of the famous Amer Fort is the ideal location for outdoor recreational and adventure activities in very close proximity to the city of Jaipur.
Morning Visit City Palace. The whole complex is wonderfully laid out with large courtyards, balconies, cupolas, arched entrances and gardens, which are prime examples of Rajput architecture.
During the tour of city palace, guests will have the opportunity of visiting the private chambers, which are normally not accessible by the general public.
Later, you will have the opportunity of embarking on a walking tour of the market in the old city.
You will visit the Maniharon ka Rasta (Bangle makers lane), then walk to the Thada market (wholesale area) followed by a walk through the wedding market selling various things for Indian wedding.
Afternoon at leisure
Jaipur - Delhi
Morning transfer to Jaipur Airport for your flight to Delhi
Upon Arrival check in at hotel, The Imperial, New Delhi. Afternoon proceed on a orientation tour of New Delhi driving past
India Gate: This 42m high stone arch of triumph stands at the eastern end of the Rajpath.
Rajpath: The Kings Way is another focus of Lutyens New Delhi. It is immensely broad and is flanked On either side of ornamental ponds.
Rashtrapati Bhawan (President House): The official residence of the President of India stands at the opposite end of the Rajpath from India Gate. To the west of the building is a Mughal garden, which occupies 130 ha.
Later visit the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, the temple of the Sikhs. Their turbans and beards make the men easily identifiable with the sect. Sikhism developed as an antithesis to the caste ridden and ritualistic forms of Hinduism and developed as a simple religion whose foundation was "sewa" – socially responsibility irrespective of a person's social standing.
Humayun's Tomb: Humayun's tomb is a complex of buildings built as the Mughal Emperor Humayun's tomb, commissioned by Humayun's wife Hamida Banu Begum in 1562.
Late evening departure transfer from Hotel to the International Airport in time for your flight back home
Depart Delhi
Morning departure transfer from Hotel to International Airport for flight back home
Amer Fort
Albert Hall Museum
Humayuns Tomb
Top Attractions of Forts and Palaces with Magnificent Indian Wildlife 10 Nights Tour
The Masjid-i Jehan Numa commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi is one of the largest mosques in India. It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 at a cost of one million rupees and was inaugurated by Imam Syed Abdul Ghafoor Shah Bukhari from Bukhara.
The Chandni Chowk is one of the oldest and busiest markets in Old Delhi India. It is located close to Old Delhi Railway Station. The Red Fort monument is located at the eastern end of Chandni Chowk. It was built in the 17th century by Mughal Emperor of India Shah Jahan and designed by his daughter Jahanara. The market was once divided by canals to reflect moonlight and remains o
Taj Mahal is on top among the 7 wonders of the world and it is pride of India. Taj Mahal is said to be the symbol of love. In the first look itself anyone can fall in love with this ivory white marble mausoleum. On your trip to India Taj Mahal is a must visit place because if you missed it then you missed the best travel experience in India. This over 400 years old site attracts over 7-8 millions of visitors every year. It is located in the heartland of the city of Agra, India.
Agra Fort is a historical fort in the city of Agra in India. It was the main residence of the emperors of the Mughal Dynasty until 1638 when the capital was shifted from Agra to Delhi. Before capture by the British the last Indian rulers to have occupied it were the Marathas. In 1983 the Agra fort was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famo
Amer Fort or Amber Fort is a fort located in Amer Rajasthan India. Amer is a town with an area of 4 square kilometres located 11 kilometres from Jaipur the capital of Rajasthan. The town of Amer and the Amber Fort were originally built by the Meenas and later it was ruled by Raja Man Singh I. Located high on a hill it is the principal tourist attraction in Jaipur. Amer Fort is known for its artis
Amer Fort or Amber Fort is a fort located in Amer, Rajasthan, India. Amer is a town with an area of 4 square kilometres located 11 kilometres from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. The town of Amer and the Amber Fort were originally built by Raja Man Singh and additions were, later, made by Sawai Jai Singh.
The Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur is the oldest museum of the state and functions as the state museum of Rajasthan India. The building is situated in Ram Niwas garden outside the city wall opposite New gate and is a fine example of Indo-Saracenic architecture. It is also called the Government Central Museum.
Gurudwara Bangla Sahib is one of the most prominent Sikh gurdwara or Sikh house of worship in Delhi India and known for its association with the eighth Sikh Guru Guru Har Krishan as well as the holy river inside its complex known as the Sarovar. It was first built as a small shrine by Sikh General Sardar Baghel Singh in 1783 who supervised the construction of nine Sikh shrines in Delh
The India Gate is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath on the eastern edge of the ceremonial axis of New Delhi formerly called Kingsway.It stands as a memorial to 70000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in between 19141921 in the First World War in France Flanders Mesopotamia Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East and the thi
The Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence of the President of India located at the Western end of Rajpath in New Delhi India. Rashtrapati Bhavan may refer to only the 340-room main building that has the presidents official residence including reception halls guest rooms and offices also called the mansion it may also refer to the entire 130-hectare Presidential Estate that additionall
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My stuff is in storage, and at the moment I am living off the kindness of friends, but this is due more to my lack of a vehicle and a need / promise to continue with dance classes at least until the end of May than to destitution. I have resources and plans, just a strange set of circumstances coupled with a growing need for adventure.
I'd planned to rent a room for May, but couldn't find anything within walking distance of the dance studio so I will need to continue relying on friends for another few weeks. The distance wouldn't have mattered if I had my car, but it's still at the body shop. The original estimate on my car was that it would take three weeks to be de-dented, de-rusted, and painted. Four weeks have gone by, and now the auto body guy says three more weeks. Luckily, my friends don't seem to mind my company. And if they did? Well, I'd figure out something. Use my vehiclelessness as an excuse to go on some sort of adventure by bus, perhaps.
I am learning something during this time — the foolhardiness of my making plans. Every time I make any sort of plan, it changes. Not just concerning my living situation but about taking off on a trip. I'd planned to leave June first, but a friend asked me to housesit the first couple of weeks in June, so I'll be staying around here a bit longer than I'd originally intended. Makes life interesting, just going with the flow.
And for now the flow is toward . . .
I was going to say the flow was toward homelessness, but the truth is, now that I don't have a permanent place to stay, I feel less homeless than at any time since Jeff died. He was my home, and I knew that to ever be happy I'd need to find 'home' within myself. To be home wherever I am. And if I am home, I can never be homeless even if I don't have a set place of residence.
If you're one of those who are worried about me, I truly appreciate it, but there's no need to be concerned. I'm just experiencing a close encounter of the unhomed kind.
Kind of exciting what you are doing.
Maybe, write a story about your adventures. Biography? A novel?
Ah Pat what an adventure! I think its absolutely brilliant what you are doing. Sending you applause and cheers and a big hug.
I like your outlook, Pat. Although mail is less important than it was before the internet, it helps to maintain a mailing address even if it's a PO box. Best wishes as you venture into this new phase of your life.
John, you are so right about a mailing address. I do have a long-standing mailing address with a forwarding service, which has made my life significantly easier these past few years. I'm looking forward to when I head your way.


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Paradise est une municipalité américaine située dans le comté de Cache en Utah.

Lors du recensement de 2010, sa population est de . La municipalité s'étend alors sur une superficie de .

Le nom de la localité (« paradis ») fait référence à ses collines vertes et ses fleurs sauvages lors de sa fondation en 1860. Paradise devient une municipalité le .

Notes et références

Municipalité en Utah
Localité dans le comté de Cache

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Q: Adding a unique feature id to GeoJSON in QGIS or Python According to the GeoJSON Format Specification
"If a feature has a commonly used identifier, that identifier should be included as a member of the feature object with the name "id"."
My question is how do I add this to my GeoJSON?
If I create it as an attribute and then save it as GeoJSON in QGIS it ends up in Properties instead of in Features.
This is what I want to do:
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84" } },

"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "id":"1", "properties": { "Namn":.................

This is what QGIS produces:
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84" } },

"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "id": 1, "Name"..................

I have also tried PyGeoj https://github.com/karimbahgat/PyGeoj. This has a function to add a unique id but it also adds it under properties.
If I open the GeoJSON and write it in by hand then it works but I don't want to do this for all of my layers, some of which contain many features.

A: Thought I would write here how I have solved it in case anyone else comes across the same problem.
A simple python script:
#create empty file to be writen to
file = open("kommun_id.geojson", "w")
count = 0

#read original file
with open('kommun.geojson', 'r')as myfile:
    for line in myfile:

       #lines that don't need to be edited with an 'id'
       if not line.startswith('{ "type": '):
            file.write(line)
       else:
            #lines that need to be edited
            count = count +1
            idNr = str(count)
            file.write(line[0:20] + '"id":'+ '"'+ idNr + '",' +line[21:])

file.close()

It might not work for all geoGJSONs but it works for the ones I have created with QGIS

A: You can fix this by using the preserve_fid flag in ogr2ogr. You're going to "convert" the bad GeoJSON that QGIS dumps to the format you want, with the id field exposed.
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON fixed.geojson qgis.geojson -preserve_fid

Here qgis.geojson is the one the QGIS created and fixed.geojson is the new version with the exposed id field.

A: This is due to ogr2ogr not knowing which QGIS field to use as the geoJSON ID.
Per this QGIS issue (thank you @gioman), a workaround is to manually specify the ID field in Custom Options --> Layer Settings when you do the export:

If you need to do this to geoJSONs that have already been created, you can use the standalone ogr2ogr command-line program:
ogr2ogr output.geojson input.geojson -lco id_field=id

If you need to convert the IDs from properties inside multiple files, you can use the command-line tool jq inside a Bash for-loop:
for file in *.geojson; do jq '(.features[] | select(.properties.id != null)) |= (.id = .properties.id)' $file > "$file"_tmp; mv "$file"_tmp $file;done

A: I had the same problem and i managed with this little python script.
 import json

 with open('georef-spain-municipio.geojson') as json_file:
      data = json.load(json_file)
      i = 0
      for p in data['features']:
           i+=1
           p['id'] = i

 with open('georef-spain-municipio_id.geojson', 'w') as outfile:
 json.dump(data, outfile)

I hope it helps

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Why do baby clothes have pants pockets?
I tried Flintstones vitamins. I don't feel any better but I can stop the car with my feet.
Why is there handicapped parking at the roller rink?
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One nice thing about Allegiant Airlines: terrorists are afraid to fly with them.
How do you explain someone with a "Save the Planet" bumper sticker right next to their exhaust pipe? That's sulphur dioxide.
Must have taken a lot of courage, or maybe desperation, to discover that frog legs are edible.
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Massimo Oddo and Giuseppe Iachini proving their worth in Serie A
by Chloe Beresford / 03 January 2018, 11:15Tweet
When a team is struggling for results, it can sometimes seem premature when clubs decide to fire the manager, especially if there are other contributory factors to consider. Serie A clubs can often be guilty of this and – after placing a Coach on gardening leave – routinely bring the first boss back, after the new man does no better or sometimes even worse than the original.
Yet there are two clubs in Italy whose decision to fire their respective bosses has paid off in spectacular fashion, as both Udinese and Sassuolo have enjoyed a huge upturn in fortunes since making that choice. The former removed dinosaur Luigi Delneri and appointed Massimo Oddo after just four wins in their opening 12 matches by November 21, while Sassuolo fired the wildly inexperienced Cristian Bucchi for Giuseppe Iachini just one week later.
While Udinese needed someone young with fresh new ideas, Sassuolo were crying out for some stability and experience after Eusebio Di Francesco had been appointed at Roma this summer following five successful years in Reggio Emilia.
Officials at the two clubs can be pleased that they seem to have got both the timing and the personnel correct for their sides' individual circumstances, something that so many get wrong in the trigger happy sacking culture that exists in modern football.Taking Udinese as an example, Oddo has brought a more positive attitude to the Friulian side after previous boss Delneri gave out a continuous stream of excuses for his side's abject performances.
"We can be like Atalanta were last season," said the man who won the World Cup with Italy as a player to the Corriere dello Sport newspaper.
"At the moment, the players and fans are feeling this atmosphere of positive enthusiasm. I'll never try to shut that down, because enthusiasm is at the heart of everything and not just football."
Yet it is not just attitude that has improved at the Stadio Friuli. Oddo's opening league encounter was an expected 1-0 defeat at home to Napoli, but since then the 41-year-old has won five out of five domestic encounters. This included a stunning 3-1 win over Inter, ending an unbeaten run of 16 matches for the Nerazzurri.
Udinese's last 5 Serie A games under new coach Massimo Oddo.
5 wins, 14 goals scored, 2 goals conceded, 3 points away from the Europa League.
Oh, and Kevin Lasagna has scored in 5 consecutive games.
— Matteo Bonetti (@TheCalcioGuy) December 31, 2017
While Udinese have benefited from the youthful enthusiasm of Oddo, Sassuolo are beginning to enjoy life after Di Francesco with the appointment of the experienced Iachini. This was a man who had achieved promotion from Serie B to the top flight with four separate clubs, and had also enjoyed a previous football career of his own.
He too lost his first match in charge – comprehensively beaten 3-0 by Fiorentina at the beginning of December – but has since taken the bull by the horns to improve his new side's fortunes. Their first home win of the season versus Crotone was to follow before three shock results in Serie A.
Wins versus high-flying Sampdoria and a 1-0 win over Inter were to come next, while his hard-working side ensured that a return to the Mapei Stadium for former boss Di Francesco with new team Roma wasn't a happy one. The Neroverdi battled to a 1-1 draw, looking an entirely more resilient side that had taken to the field under previous boss Bucchi. Iachini hailed an improved workrate and team spirit from his players, the Coach having instilled the kind of belief that saw Sassuolo take points from higher opposition.
"We've got to improve in terms of possession, but there was great spirit and without that you won't get a result," Iachini told Mediaset Premium after the draw with the Giallorossi. "It doesn't matter what system you use if you don't have a positive attitude."
This focus on positivity shown by the duo of bosses highlights that – whether experienced or not – a good mindset is the most important factor when turning a failing side around. It is unlikely that either side will carry on their respective unbeaten runs in the long term, but their appointments demonstrate that sometimes sacking a Coach really is for the best.
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Gulf Cooperation Council Publishes Its GHS Standard
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February 9, 2022 • Regulatory Research Group • Blog
During the third week of January 2022 the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) finally officially published its standard on the implementation of the Global Harmonized System (GHS) in the region through the GCC Standardization Organization (GSO).
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After years in development, the GSO published the standard GSO 2654:2021 Global Harmonized System (GHS) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries that aims to ensure the safe production, transport, handling, use, and disposal of hazardous materials with the intention to be in alignment with the requirements of the United Nations' GHS.
The standard applies to all substances and mixtures supplied, used, or manufactured in the GCC countries. However, available GCC legislation that sets down more specific classification and labeling requirements would take precedence. The following are exempted from the application of the standard:
Radioactive substances and mixtures
Non-isolated intermediates
Substances and mixtures intended for scientific research and development
Mixtures in the form of medicinal and veterinary products, cosmetic products, food, or feed stuffs
Articles (safety data sheets (SDSs) may be provided on a voluntary basis)
The published standard adopts the list of hazardous substances provided in Table 3 of Part 3 of Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 on Classification, Labeling, and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (CLP Regulation). In general, it follows provisions from the CLP Regulation, specifically the 11th Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP) of the CLP, and from industry best practices.
When it comes to language requirements, information communicated through SDSs and labeling should be provided in both Arabic and English.
The standard still has to be implemented into the GCC member states' national legislation in order to become a mandatory standard to be followed by economic operators. This process might take a couple of years.
The GCC has been working on finalizing and publishing this standard for several years. As matter of fact, in 2019, it was assigned as a project with a deadline set to 26 July 2020. Nonetheless, due to various circumstances, national and global, the process had been extended.
It is worth mentioning that the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemical Association (GPCA) played a vital role in the process of developing a GHS standard for the region. In April 2017, it published a code of practice introducing the GHS system in the GCC countries that mainly referred to the 6th Revised Edition of the GHS (GHS Re. 6, 2015). Afterward, the GPCA provided a draft standard in August 2018. Finally, in February 2020, the GPCA called for a region-wide adoption and implementation of GHS in the GCC region through a government-industry roundtable.
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The GCC has taken a big step forward by publishing its GHS standard GSO 2654:2021.
Economic operators are advised to follow the latest updates concerning the adoption of the standard by each member state of the GCC.
The standard is available in both English and Arabic languages in the GSO standards store.
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It was an exceptionally beautiful evening—and a stunning location with views of the Mediterranean and the Beirut skyline. The main attraction at the 2019 President's Scholarship Reception, however, were the scholarship students and donors—the men and women who, in the words of AUB President Fadlo R. Khuri, "increase our ability to empower those less fortunate, to help them meet the increasing financial demands of a transformative education." Scholarship donors contributed more than $11 million last year making it possible for AUB to award a total of $32 million to 3,495 students in 2017-18.
More than 50 scholarship donors and 200 scholarship recipients attended this year's reception on the rooftop of the Munib and Angela Masri Building on lower campus. Mrs. Anna El-Hassan, founder and president of the Wissam Al Hassan Foundation and one of the 1,388 donors who made gifts to support scholarships at AUB in 2017-18, was the featured speaker at this year's reception. She spoke eloquently about how important it was to ensure that all young people with intelligence and drive have the opportunity to get a good education, noting, "Human capacity determines the wealth of nations and is the foundation on which nations are built."
In his remarks, Khuri also spoke about the importance of providing young people with the opportunity to pursue their educations. He noted that for many students, the financial support they receive "is the difference in being able to pursue their studies or not. This is more precious than any precious stone. For each student it opens the pathway to pursue a more abundant life throughout their lives, for themselves, and the communities around them."
Several students talked about what receiving a scholarship had meant to them and their families. Kinda Ghazal, who is a second-year economics student, described AUB as "not just an educational institution, but also a home." Final-year medical student Hisham Wehbe spoke for many scholarship recipients saying, "Without your generous support, many of us would not have made it this far."
"The numbers are impressive—$32 million, 3,495 students, 1,388 donors—but what's most impressive is the people behind those numbers, the individual donors and scholarship students. They are the ones we celebrate this evening," said VP for Advancement Imad B. Baalbaki.


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Counselor to presidents and governors, Stanford University's Michael Boskin is one of the most prominent members of that elite group of economists who work the terrain where theory meets the real world.
He is a go-to guy for Republicans -- and, from time to time, Democrats as well -- when it comes to making decisions on how government should tax, spend and borrow. A forceful advocate of low taxes and limited government, he's sat at the table as budgets are drafted and tax bills written.
Under the first President George Bush, from 1989 to 1993, Boskin was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. When George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, Boskin helped put together his economic platform. Later, Boskin and several colleagues from the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank affiliated with Stanford, joined a council of experts that helped frame Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's economic policy.
Boskin is especially known for his work on inflation. As chairman of the Commission on the Consumer Price Index in the mid-1990s, he argued that the government's chief inflation yardstick overstated inflation.
He recommended modifications in the way the index is calculated that would have reduced cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other programs, changes regarded by supporters as prudent and by critics as callous.
Boskin earned his economics degrees at UC Berkeley and then crossed the bay to Stanford, where he has taught for more than three decades. The following interview has been edited for space and clarity.
Q: How is the economy doing?
A: It's been remarkably resilient. In the very short run, the economy has taken several hits. It's growing a bit more slowly, partly because of energy prices and the hurricanes. There's a whiff of inflation concerns. The best guess is we'll grow for a couple of quarters in the 2 percent range, down from 3.5 percent. We should see some modest improvement next year. We should get some benefits from the rebuilding of the gulf.
Q: What about such problems as the nation's low savings rate, the federal budget deficit, the trade deficit?
A: The trade and budget imbalances are issues. The current account deficit (the broadest measure of the nation's trade and related deficits with the rest of the world) can't be 6 percent of GDP forever. But there's no need for it to reverse abruptly and end in a hard landing.
There is an excess of saving in the rest of the world relative to the domestic investment opportunities in Europe and Japan and the Middle East and non-Japan Asia.
Some of that is finding its way to the United States. Ask where would large amounts of capital be deployed in a place that's fairly safe and has good growth opportunities.
It would be hard to be more optimistic about the long-term growth of Europe or Japan than about the United States, given their even more challenging demographics and (the) far more advanced welfare states in Europe, the combination of which will make it very hard for Europe to grow at any decent clip for the foreseeable future.
Q: What about the federal budget deficit?
A: It's important to get the budget on a path to balance, properly measured and properly accounting for the need for temporary debt-financed spending. A lot of the problem is that people focus just on the headline deficit numbers, and that can be very misleading.
Q: Is the United States living above its means, consuming too many imported goods and not saving enough?
A: We need to continue to work with the rest of the world to encourage their growth and their increased consumption and investment. We have a relatively low private saving rate, although official statistics understate the extent of the saving for technical reasons. I think we were working on these things.
We should be concerned. We shouldn't be complacent. But people who argue that we are on the verge of becoming Argentina have overstated things considerably.
Q: How can we encourage Americans to save more?
A: One of the main areas we have been focusing on in recent years is the tax structure. The tax code has a complex series of incentives and disincentives to save. Cleaning up the tax code and making it less inimical to saving would be one area.
Q: Were President Bush and Congress irresponsible to allow the budget deficit to rise so high in the last few years?
A: The increase in the deficit from 2001 to 2003 was probably the best-timed counter-cyclical fiscal policy ever. It helped the economy. It shortened the recession and made it less severe. Fewer jobs were lost. The natural resilience of the economy, an aggressive monetary policy and an aggressive fiscal policy made what could have been a very ugly situation far less severe.
Deficit finance exceeded tax revenue in World War II, but we left a safer world. War and recession are the times you want to debt finance. The notion that deficits are bad is way too narrow. Deficits can be a serious problem over the medium and long term. There are times it's good to see the deficit worsen or the surplus turn into a deficit. We would not want to raise taxes or cut spending abruptly in a recession. You'd worsen the recession.
The idea was to get the budget moving back toward balance, to get the deficit cut in half. The president was on that path until the last few months, and then, of course, we got hit with the hurricanes.
Seeing through the short-term storm, the president and Congress have to get back on a path to getting the budget back in balance. There is obviously going to be a large amount of one-time spending.
The deficit highlights the need to get some tighter cost/benefit criteria applied to government programs. I think we primarily have a spending problem.
It would be a good thing if we moved the budget back into a situation where, over the medium term, it did not increase the ratio of federal debt to gross domestic product. That would be a deficit in the 2 percent of GDP range. We ought to be heading back there once we're through the short-term turbulence of the hurricanes.
Q: The Economist magazine recently wrote: "Mr. Bush has increased spending more than any president since Lyndon Johnson and cut taxes with the enthusiasm of Ronald Reagan." Is that accurate?
A: It's probably an exaggeration. Some of this was thrust upon him -- the need for homeland security spending, Katrina, some of the terrorism spending. There was a widespread view that we had to rebuild the military.
Still, we're probably spending too much, on balance. The way I tend to think about these things is to net out needs for temporary expansions and contractions.
Net of that, I think the record on spending is better. The major big expansion has been the addition of the prescription drug program in Medicare. The major alternative was not doing nothing, but a still larger program that the president's political opponents had proposed.
The drug benefit is large. It has some good reform elements in it. But it was unfunded and will be added to budgetary pressure starting next year. And we'll have to figure out how to pay for it.
Q: Does it make sense to push for making tax cuts permanent now that the economy is solidly expanding again?
A: My own view, strongly held, is we all have a very, very large stake in having a modest -- not a large -- hand of government in the economy. There are many reasons why we are more successful than the Europeans or the Japanese over the long term. I don't want to put all of it on taxes and spending and regulation and so on. But surely the policy does matter.
It is a lot better to have an economy with 4.9 percent unemployment than an economy with 11 percent unemployment. It is much better to have an economy that tends usually to grow in the 3 to 4 percent range than one that usually grows at 1 to 2 percent.
We're going to have to keep taxes modest. And that's going to require some rigorous control of spending and entitlement reform. The president had it about right in the package he was trying to put together. Getting the debt-to-GDP ratio stabilized over the next few years is the right thing to do. It will be at levels well below Euroland and way below Japan -- not a level that needs to cause any alarm.
But if we never have any spending control, if there is never any rigorous testing, never any relooking at programs, but we just keep adding and the public sector grows faster than the economy, that may satisfy other needs, but our collective interest in a more vibrant economy, a more rapidly growing economy generating more jobs and incomes, will be set back considerably.
The worst thing in the world would be to turn the United States into France or Germany. That's a recipe for economic and social disaster.
Q: Couldn't a rational person argue that maybe you trade a little bit of economic growth for providing health care to all citizens, improving public education, building public infrastructure and reducing income inequality?
A: That's certainly a legitimate point of view. But there are two issues in it. What is the potential trade-off? How severe is it? And secondly, what programs are likely to produce outcomes in the real world?
The record is at best mixed. We spend immense amounts on education in the United States. The places where there is the largest spending per pupil have the worst schools -- New York City, for example. You've got to look for ways to make the public sector more efficient. When you just throw money at problems, it greatly reduces the pressure to do that.
Q: Can we afford to cut taxes when there's a war in Iraq?
A: I think it is sustainable for a few years. There was a much more rapid buildup of the military under Reagan. People whom I respect a lot believe that was a big part of the reason the former Soviet Union wound up going peacefully. In retrospect, it proved to be a very savvy investment.
Looking just in the short run can be very misleading. If this was going to go on for 25 years, then a much higher fraction of it should be taxed than debt-financed. If you think of it as something that's going to be a few years, then it makes sense primarily to borrow the money and spread the cost. That avoids wild swings in taxes.
Q: Are you a candidate to replace Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman?
A: I have given my suggestions. There are several very good people. I'm sure the president will find somebody who is an able successor to the very tough shoes to fill on Alan Greenspan's departure. The people who I have recommended are people who are being talked about.
Q: Do you believe that housing prices are in a bubble?
A: In some geographies, there is a minibubble. The Bay Area has been one of them, particularly at the higher end. That is starting to unwind a little bit. I don't think it needs to be a collapse, but I think you won't see housing prices rise as rapidly. They will flatten or maybe decline slightly in some geographies.
Q: Is the rise of a housing bubble the Fed's fault?
A: You have to go back to why the Fed lowered interest rates so aggressively and kept them low for such a long time. If you go back to the bursting of previous bubbles -- the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression, the bursting of the Japanese stock market and land market bubbles -- all the analysis, the history, suggests that the cost of allowing the economy to degenerate, and especially to allow the risk of outright deflation to occur, (carries) with it such substantial costs that it was worth taking out some extra insurance. The aftermath of the bursting of the bubble, as well as 9/11, the corporate scandals, as bad as they were, were much less severe than they otherwise would have been.
Q: How high do you think the Fed will go in raising rates?
A: They are going to go two or three more times. Going far beyond that would imply that we had a lot of inflation pressure that was unlikely to be purely temporary, that the inflation pressures from energy prices were spilling over into a lot of other commodities. That bears watching. Who else is going to be concerned about inflation if not the central bank?
Q: Are you worried about the growing gap between rich and poor in the United States?
A: Widening income inequality is an issue, not primarily because it's less equal, but because you'd like to see people at the bottom do better. The primary focus of most economic policy, especially at the federal level, ought to be on maximizing noninflationary growth.
A rising tide may not lift every boat, but it lifts a lot more than any other. If we, in pursuit of these other goals, wind up with an economy that looks like France or Germany, we will wind up having done the people we are trying to help a disservice.
There's been a widening gap based on education. So should we be trying to figure out ways to get more disadvantaged people not only into, but successfully completing college? I would be in favor of activity designed to do that at the federal, state and local level that was likely to succeed.
Q: You're not just a theoretician. You're also a policymaker, aren't you?
A: I have advised every governor of California and every president of the United States since the 1970s, with the exception of Gov. (Gray) Davis.
A: I will leave it to you to draw the obvious correlation.
Q: And look what happened to the first Bush in the White House. So it comes around both ways.
A: I'd be happy to talk about that, by the way.
Q: What are you doing for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger?
A: Gov. Schwarzenegger put together a group that George Shultz chairs. We talk about the state of the California economy. We've been looking at how the state got into the mess it got into, a situation where revenues rapidly rose and it all got spent and built into the baseline and got into this kind of unsustainable fiscal mess.
Q: Schwarzenegger has famously taken taxes completely off the table in dealing with the state's fiscal situation. Is that wise?
A: Thus far, it's been quite successful. He inherited a horrible mess, he dealt with some of the most pressing short-term problems, and he has put us on a path to dealing with this. He's managed to get some control over spending. We refinanced the inherited debt in a more sensible way.
Revenues are growing. The projections show still further increases on very reasonable economic assumptions. He's taking that extra revenue and devoting some of it to some key needs in transportation and education. But some of it is going to more rapidly pay off the debt.
There has been a surge of revenue for a year or so, as the economy has done a little better than people thought. He wants to have a prudent management of that and not just spend it all.
There are a variety of ways to deal with taxes and spending and deficits, all of which depend on the state of the economy. Republicans tend to believe that, if you limit taxes, you put some pressure to limit spending. And there is some validity to that. It's important to limit the tendency for automatic growth to go on without thinking whether you're getting very much back for the bucks you're spending.
The notion that anytime there is a budget imbalance to go to raising taxes is wrong. You wind up with a ratcheting up of the role of government over and over again. And you wind up as a France or a Germany, or California's version of that.
If you look at what happened in the 1990s, Gov. (Pete) Wilson put in some very strong spending controls. By the late 1990s, those had dissipated. We had a bubble concentrated in Silicon Valley. We had massive gains in capital gains revenue and stock option income.
Gov. (Gray) Davis and the Legislature spent almost everything. Now you try to get that to something reasonable, even if it is more generous than in 1997, you're cutting, and (critics say) you can't do that, it's unfair. The whole vocabulary that has developed to talk about taxes and spending in the budget in Washington and in California is not the kind of vocabulary that is conducive to intelligent decision making.
Q: Should California be taking on so much debt to pay its expenses?
A: Gov. Schwarzenegger inherited tens of billions of dollars of short-term debt. He refinanced it, and it's on the road to being paid off. We took a horrible crisis -- he took a horrible crisis -- and made it into something that was manageable, something that could be worked through. It would not have been possible -- the credit rating of California was below that of Puerto Rico -- to have financed the spending. He had to play hardball with the Legislature. Now, he's trying to deal with some of the structural issues that have a lot of spending on automatic pilot.
We're going to have to control the growth of spending in virtually every category. It doesn't mean spending can't go up. It just means it can't go up as rapidly as is projected. Limiting overall spending to the growth of population and inflation would over a few years, with the current tax base, solve the problem.
Q: What's the difference in views between you and a liberal economist such as San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen?
A: I know and like Janet. On many things, we would agree. On the need for strong, noninflationary growth, we would be dead on. That the Fed needs to be very careful about leading to a climate of price stability, we would be totally in agreement. On that taxes can get too high and cause problems, we would agree. On the need to have a social safety net that's humane, cost effective, we would agree.
Where we would probably disagree is on how limiting to growth and prosperity and low unemployment taxes are as they get higher and higher. There certainly are some people who the press describes as liberal Democrats who worry about it less than I do.
On the effectiveness of some of these programs, I think we want to try to get assistance to people who need it, I think we would agree on that. On what actually happens in the political process and what fraction of those dollars actually serve that goal as opposed to just going out there and getting spent, we probably would disagree.
Q: Isn't it ultimately more a question of values than facts?
A: It's not just values. It's a question of how the economy operates. I think we have really strong natural experiments. If we move from our level of spending and taxes to that in Western Europe, there's no doubt in my mind that the probability that we would be worse off is 100 percent.
There is tremendous value in trying to represent the collective good, the collective value to everybody in our society of having a modest role of government and trying to force serious social cost-benefit analyses on spending decisions, keeping tax rates as low as possible, regulating where we need to but making it as flexible as we can, reining in excessive lawsuits, having open but rules-based trade, sound monetary policy -- that's the prescription.
The costs of not doing that -- maybe not instantaneously, but over time -- are immense.
What is your morning routine? I read four newspapers (The Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times) over breakfast. I often have an early teleconference.
How do you recharge your batteries? Tennis, skiing and sports in general. Reading and discussions with interesting people.
When do you do your best creative thinking? After dinner, when there is less interruption.
What is the best professional decision you have ever made? Choosing economics over law, starting my career at Stanford and returning to Hoover and Stanford when I left the White House, which provided continuous intellectual stimulation from great colleagues, terrific students, interaction with Silicon Valley, wonderful San Francisco Bay Area.
What was your biggest mistake? I've made too many to choose one.
What are you currently reading? David McCullough's "1776."
What is your favorite vacation spot? We love everywhere we travel, domestic and international, for the variety, but if we had to choose one, Italy.


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Picking up where we left off in Akaroa, it was afternoon on our last full day. We enjoyed a delicious seafood chowder overlooking the harbor and perused some shops (well, Andy mostly waited outside). Then we decided to take a hike to Newton's Waterfall.
Just a short distance outside of town, the walk to the falls starts out on quaint, meandering back roads. Autumn was just starting to touch some of the trees.
As house-lined streets turned into rural plots, we enjoyed the scenery and hills rising above us. We didn't pass too many people, but sometimes you just get that feeling you're being watched…
Not long after the peeping sheep, we came to the start of the Newton's Falls Track. The path lead uphill through forest, branching off to go further up into the hills, but we didn't have far to go before reaching the waterfall. At 9 meters (30 feet) tall, it was pretty impressive, coated in moss and surrounded by greenery.
The view from behind the falls was pretty fantastic too, with lush ferns clinging on and drinking up the never-ending supply of fresh water.
Definitely a worthwhile expedition if you're in Akaroa!
That afternoon, we relaxed at our Airbnb before having an early dinner of classic Kiwi fish and chips on the couch, while watching a nature documentary. It was the perfect way to spend our last night.
After a leisurely morning of lounging for a bit, I snapped some keepsake photos before we said farewell to our amazing little oasis.
It was really hard to leave this place.
Until next time, Akaroa! We headed up and out of town, bound for the aptly named Summit Road. There are a few nature reserves dotted along the road, so we planned to check out a couple. It was really windy, but the views were worth it.
You can see the serpentine road we drove up, as well as the route ahead of us, hugging the hilltops.
Time for some photo ops!
The Banks Peninsula has views in every direction, and just over a rise, the Pacific stretched out to the horizon.
Back on the Summit Road, we made our way to Ōtepatotu Scenic Reserve and set out on the muddy path. The track takes you through some original forest to an incredible viewpoint. There's a longer loop, but we settled for the shorter option so we could explore other places.
The name Ōtepatotu roughly translates to "place of the fairies," and it's easy to see why.
Luckily, Andy was happy to pull over whenever the view called for it.
I wouldn't mind spending some time on that bench.
After the Summit Road merged onto the main thoroughfare from Akaroa to Christchurch, we stopped in Little River for a delicious lunch of home-made pies and milkshakes outside a combined cafe and art gallery. We decided to take the scenic route to the city, too, winding over the Port Hills.
On the way, we stopped at Allandale Reserve, on the opposite side of the same harbor as Lyttelton. Even at low tide, it was gorgeous.
A historic bridle path stretches along this inlet, from Teddington to Governors Bay – another must-do when we next pass through with more time on our hands.
Threatening clouds rolled in as we drove into the Port Hills, up toward Dyers Pass and Sign of the Kiwi. At the crest of the hill, before the road continued downhill into Cashmere and the Christchurch suburbs, we parked up outside the historic cafe. Despite the sky, we thought we'd take a "quick" walk on the nearby path, for a view and because I hoped to find a photo spot from my visit with family 14 years ago. Needless to say, it was hard to determine the exact location after so much time had passed, but I found a similar rock.
Since we'd already set out, we figured we might as well do the full loop and just hope we'd stay dry.
I could take a million photos of Lyttelton Harbour and never grow sick of it.
The views in the other direction were just as breathtaking, looking toward Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains.
Of course, you can drive up here, but walking is more satisfying.
We didn't manage to fully outrun the rain, but it wasn't too bad. Back at Dyers Pass, we popped into Sign of the Kiwi for some hot drinks before heading to the airport. A historic spot and popular tourist destination, the cafe was built in 1916-17 as a rest house, along with Sign of the Bellbird, Sign of the Packhorse and Sign of the Takahe. All still remain in some form today, two as cafes, one as a tramping hut and the other as a scenic lookout.
That wraps up our equal parts action and relaxation-packed adventure to Christchurch and Akaroa. Although my blog has focused on NZ destinations for the last couple years, I'll finally have something different to share soon. Andy and I are headed to the UK a week from today, so stay tuned for Devon, Staffordshire and Scotland! Lots of adventures to come.
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Susan Fly May 21, 2022 — 9:53 pm
From peeping sheep to Sign of the Kiwi (still so cool), such a great bunch of photos of a fabulous trip.
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Jeff Bezos and soon-to-be-ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Bezos has announced their divorce on Twitter. Picture: Getty Images
World's richest man to divorce
by New York Post, Staff writer
It's over for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wife, MacKenzie, the billionaire has announced.
"We want to make people aware of a development in our lives," he shared on Twitter.
"As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separate, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends."
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— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) January 9, 2019
The tweet suggests that the divorce is amicable, with Bezos stating, "If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again."
The response from the Twitterverse was greeted with both heartfelt sympathy and some amusement and speculation, including whether or not Bezos and his wife had a prenup, and how the announcement will affect the company's worth.
Bezos, 54, and MacKenzie Bezos (nee Tuttle), 48, married in 1993.
Amazon, the multinational e-commerce and technology company, was founded in 1994, when Bezos started it from his Seattle garage as an online bookstore.
According to Forbes real-time ranking of the world's richest billionaires, Bezos is worth $136.6 billion ($A190bn).
They first met at a New York City hedge fund where they both worked in 1992, and married six months later.
Mackenzie is a novelist and the founder of Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organisation.
They are the parents of four children.
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Police Search For Serial Arsonist
Weekend Fire Marks 9th In Series Of Fires Connected To Religious Community
Fire investigators once again are looking for someone they're calling a serial arsonist.Firefighters were called out in the early-morning hours Saturday to douse a blaze in the basement of an old fraternity house near the University of New Mexico campus used by the Telos religious community.Police said the fire was the ninth in a string of similar arsons."They are all early-morning fires, they all are of ordinary combustibles -- no accelerants are used --and they all usually are in the basement or closet, or something to that effect," said Capt. Mike Paiz of the Albuquerque Fire Department.Fire investigators said the string of arsons started in the fall of 2008. Over the next two years, properties occupied by the Telos religious community were hit eight times by arson.Paiz said they all are connected to the Telos religious community, though he's not sure why."We don't know," said Paiz. "Basically, are disturbed if they've lit this many fires. Our biggest concern is there are a lot of residents in this home, and we want to make sure they are protected."Paiz said they have had surveillance on the properties, but each time the arsonists have been able to dodge it.Paiz is asking anyone who ma be able to help, to give fire investigators a call at 505-872-1493.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
Fire investigators once again are looking for someone they're calling a serial arsonist.
Firefighters were called out in the early-morning hours Saturday to douse a blaze in the basement of an old fraternity house near the University of New Mexico campus used by the Telos religious community.
Police said the fire was the ninth in a string of similar arsons.
"They are all early-morning fires, they all are of ordinary combustibles -- no accelerants are used --and they all usually are in the basement or closet, or something to that effect," said Capt. Mike Paiz of the Albuquerque Fire Department.
Fire investigators said the string of arsons started in the fall of 2008. Over the next two years, properties occupied by the Telos religious community were hit eight times by arson.
Paiz said they all are connected to the Telos religious community, though he's not sure why.
"We don't know," said Paiz. "Basically, [the arsonists] are disturbed if they've lit this many fires. Our biggest concern is there are a lot of residents in this home, and we want to make sure they are protected."
Paiz said they have had surveillance on the properties, but each time the arsonists have been able to dodge it.
Paiz is asking anyone who ma be able to help, to give fire investigators a call at 505-872-1493.


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THE REAL REASON WE CAN'T STAND PRESIDENT OBAMA!
I have studied the Constitution as a student; I have taught it as a teacher; I have been bound by it as a lawyer and legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never – ever – turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake."
-President Barack H. Obama, May 21, 2009
I often question how a man who spoke those words not five years ago could become the despot he is today.
Conservatives and constitutionalists have dubbed him a tyrannical president, an arrogant, smug politician who acts without consequence or accountability. History warned us of a president who would rule with nothing more than his "pen and phone." President Barack Obama, himself, warned of a president who led according to that philosophy.
So what happened? Why does even the quiet mention of one word—"Obama"— skyrocket our blood pressure?
Contrary to what Democrats will claim, it's not because of his race, though I should remind you Obama is only half black and was raised by his Caucasian mother and maternal grandparents. It's not because we resent a politician with an Ivy League education, or that we're holding a grudge against his falsely championed "hope and change" slogan.
It's something much simpler– his explicit affront to the U.S. Constitution and laws established by the greatest country in the world, or at least, what WAS the greatest country in the world.
In Federalist 46, James Madison warned, "The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Madison's passage has become the primary justification for opposing Obama's leadership strategy of ruling by "pen and phone."
But Obama supporters will argue he hasn't abused his executive authority any more than his predecessors. They'll cite his 168 executive orders issued so far, compared to Bill Clinton's 364 orders, or George W. Bush's 291. But what Obama's loyalists don't mention is the incessant controversy surrounding them.
Throughout Obama's presidency, the historic and proper purpose of the executive order has been widely debated. The Framers imagined a president should retain the authority to issue written directives and proclamations, as opposed to strictly oral directives. Thus, the "executive order" was born.
Former presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton infamously abused these executive orders to establish new laws too contested to garner congressional approval. Now the current president is harnessing the executive beast and abusing his power to impeachable levels.
Obama unilaterally raised a federal minimum wage, imposed costly preparations for impacts of climate change and dissembled and rebuilt the 21,000-page law that is the Affordable Care Act. He's challenged our values of religion and a free press, and crippled our freedom to defend ourselves against foreign and domestic enemies. He's utilized his administration to target citizens based on political ideology, cover up a premeditated terrorist attack on an American diplomatic building, and downgraded America's image from the globe's sole authority and watchdog to a powerless parcel of indebted land.
Why do we oppose Obama? Because in five years he's decimated the country and culture we've grown to vivaciously revere.
A president is as much a figurehead for the American people as he is a leader of a political party. This president is neither. He belabors shared hardship rather than championing American opportunity and stifles the centuries-old American spirit.
For the next two years, we must seize our country back. We must hold Obama and his dangerous administration accountable for their offenses to the Constitution and the American people. And in 2016, we must exchange this despot for a true "president"— an elected head of a republican state.
Will we be able to hold President Obama accountable?
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Learning Wisely – Living Virtuously: From the mountain to the valley
High-level cohesion, pulling values from the vacuum, or simply "Why Tertiary should pick up on child-centred learning".
Yesterday Mona Siddiqui, professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at Edinburgh University, presented her talk Learning Wisely, Living Virtuously: the challenge of Modern Education at the Thomas Paine Study Center, University of East Anglia. A big thank you to the Keswick trust for making this event available at no cost.
Those familiar with Professor Siddiqui's BBC4 programmes will recognise many of the themes. It thrilled me that she opened with the issue of teaching values in a society without authoritative meta-narratives. This lead to a critique of the atomisation of education, its focus on the quantifiable over qualitative, as well as the narcissistic self-feeding-frenzy of contemporary consumer culture, which never stops to ask the question "Why?"
Treading carefully, Professor Siddiqui even managed to subtly juxtapose this lack of critical questioning with modernity's all-pervading question-everything anti-authoritarian ethos, which today makes any discussion of solutions from a religious perspective difficult, if not impossible.
But distrust of authority, however, goes far beyond religion; She described a session where the question "What are your values?" had drawn blank stares from a lecture hall of university students. After coping with this novel concept, it finally transpired that they got their values not from their parents or teachers, but from their peers.
All in all, the Professor echoed my own reflections on this blog, tying together cultivation of values, engagement in deep and meaningful relationships, and the support this would offer community building and cohesion.
Given the title of the talk and the Professor's engagement, intelligence and scholarship, I was genuinely interested in her ideas about how to translate this into a classroom experience – getting the sage down into the valley, so to speak. Therefore, in the following Q&A, I asked how such demanding human skills (including "humility, respect for hard work, thankfulness") were to be taught in this context of narcissism, void of narrative and common reference points beyond the latest viral fad.
Alas, the answer here stayed on high ground, circling around the importance of adult role models, balancing the individual vs. community and semantics of values and morals when positioned to children. All highly intelligent and insightful, but nebulous nonetheless. After a few tries, I let it go.
This is in no way a critique of Professor Siddiqui, rather a realisation that she is as much a victim of the atomisation of the education system as the students. It is just not embedded day-to-day practice for researchers and philosophers to sit down with teachers and heads to operationalise ideal education, in spite of teachers actually having a lot of quite amazing solutions, but no theoretical framework with which to describe them and develop them.
Caught in the revolving doors?
In reality, the most enlightening part of the evening took place later: Before I had even risen from my seat, I was whirled up in conversation with a 22-year-old MA student at the UEA and a local Primary teacher in her 50s. Between myself and these two women, one in the spring and one at in autumn of life, choice, consequence, internalisation of learning, caring control versus freedom to fail, experience, art, expressiveness, identity; it all ignited.
On the way out, outlining my own work in relation to these topics, I had only to say the word Cooperative Learning, and the MA student burst out with "Oh, I'd love to have some of that. That's exactly what we need at university!"
It just so happened that a gatekeeping member of UEA staff stood only eight feet away, and I jokingly suggested she present her ideas to someone who actually had the power to do something, which I suppose is frightfully Scandinavian of me. Unfortunately, said academic needed to escort Professor Siddiqui from the centre, so this opportunity to cross-fertilize between a live student, a decision-maker, two practitioners and a government level philosopher was lost in a revolving door.
With staff and guests gone, the three of us continued the chat in the empty hall of the Thomas Paine Centre, doing what in Danish is referred to as "redde verden"; i.e. "saving the world" – vernacular for solving universal problems over a cuppa.
The hip bone's connected to …
I realised in all this the underlying importance of the educators' workshop Healing Fractures II: Aside from hopefully inspiring and enlightening all participants on the subject, I wish to find a model in which stakeholders in any area may meet in something that is at once a chit-chat cafe and a ground-breaking, result-oriented down-to-business meeting – both of the highest caliber.
I was very generously offered a proper panel speech by one of the participants, Dr Lee Jarvis, who could easily have filled the Thomas Paine Center by himself. It was very tempting for a host of reasons, but in the end, I feel the format of panel-question/answer is not the answer here, even by a Senior Lecturer in International Security or a Professor in Islamic and Interreligious Studies:
Healing Fractures II is first and foremost about looking at information and information processing in another way and harnessing the power of didactic strategies to let a wide variation of stakeholders construct and funnel knowledge through highly complex networks – and secondly to capture that processing as clear, effective, next-action steps. The atomised take on knowledge is not an option in the 21st century.
And it is about equality, it is about exploring with genuine interest (facilitated by the format of Cooperative Learning) other people's reflections, negotiating meanings and reality-checking ideas. And, in that, perhaps discovering that while we may think ourselves mountains of knowledge, we may be someone else's valley floor. Whether this is wisdom is hard to say, but I remember when I was taught the Islamic sciences at the hand of a traditional Moroccan teacher: "Knowledge always flows downwards."
Professor Siddiqui's most important statement came as an afterthought, reflecting on our questions at the very end of the Q&A:
"…I don't know how we can get out of this,
except to re-analyse the purpose of education."
First thing to do on a Monday morning, 16 March 2015, in the beautiful rooms of the Norwich Wellbeing Centre.
"OK – Wow, I really am lost."
This small clay figure is the handy-work of said primary school teacher,
scanned from her business card.
P4C? No, P4U! – Mr Lawson on enframing.
What comes out of the Birmingham "Trojan Horse"? – Critical thinking to go.
Empowering communities through Student-Centred Learning – The Palestinians seem to get it…
Transcript of "The Student- Centred Classroom & The Self-Centred Student…" – Paper presented at the BRAIS inaugural conference, Edinburgh University, 11 April 2014.
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"Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count."
— Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956), Guardian (London),
If you read last month's column … I nailed it. Democrats in key states managed to "find" enough votes to push Comrades Biden and Harris over the finish line … for now, anyway.
Despite the contested nature of the race, the media gods have anointed Comrade Biden as the Chosen One.
Now we hear them using the terms "baseless" and "not widespread" and all their dupes sound like parrots. These are the same dupes that ran around for three years saying, "Russia collusion, Russia collusion!"
The pathetic irony is that the party that impeached President Trump on the hearsay word of a third party, who remains anonymous to this day, is telling us that named witnesses who have given sworn statements and are willing to testify about voter fraud doesn't amount to evidence? You can't make this stuff up.
Then we hear them say, "no evidence of widespread fraud" with the key word being "widespread." Of course it's not "widespread." No one thought that the Democrats would try and pull off fraud in every state. They didn't need to. They only needed to pull it off in certain states, states that they knew they had operatives who could get it done.
Nevada, Georgia, Michigan and, of course, Pennsylvania with the notoriously corrupt Philadelphia Democrat machine. They didn't need "widespread" fraud, they only needed "right-spread" fraud.
What you know and what you can prove are often two very different things. The feds spent years trying to prove Al Capone was involved in organized crime. Everyone knew it, but they had to settle for convicting Capone on tax evasion since they could never prove any of his other many crimes.
We'll see how the voter fraud investigations pan out. It's not over yet. We could renew confidence in the election system with voter ID laws and in-person voting. The picture accompanying this column is an actual voter ID from Mexico. Even the third-world narco-state of Mexico requires its citizens to have IDs to vote, but every time voter ID laws are passed in this country, the Democrat Party files lawsuits to have them struck down. Now you understand why.
Mexico also bans mail-in voting unless the citizen lives abroad and applies at least 6 months in advance. Many European countries do likewise.
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, of the 27 countries in the European Union, 63 percent ban mail-in voting unless living abroad and another 22 percent require a photo ID to obtain a mail-in ballot. Twenty-two percent ban the practice even for those who live abroad. The remaining 16 countries in Europe are even more restrictive. Every single one bans mail-in voting for those living in the country or require a photo ID to obtain a mail-in ballot. Sixty-three percent don't allow mail-in ballots even for citizens living abroad.
So, most of Europe has banned mail-in voting because they know that it's a recipe for cheating, which, not coincidentally, is the same reason that Democrats filed hundreds of lawsuits in the past year to put mail-in voting on steroids using C-19 as the excuse. Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
With the media anointing Biden as the winner, BLM and ANTIFA put their Molotov cocktails and bricks away and put on their dancing shoes. The RESIST, RIOT and RIG crowd suddenly became the GLEE, GLOAT and GET ALONG crowd.
After four years of calling Trump and his supporters hateful names; attempting a coup with a fake scandal conjured by Hillary Clinton; spying on an opposing political campaign based on that fake scandal; lying daily about Trump being a Russian "asset," they suddenly want everyone to hold hands and support their guy?
Those genies can't be put back in the bottle. They did everything they could to create hatred for Trump, and hatred for me as a supporter of Trump. They spewed hate and intentionally divided the country; they lied about everything he did and outright made things up about him – all while blaming him for the division and calling him a liar – and now they want me to forget all that? No-no, now it's our turn to RESIST!
At the same time some Trump-haters are calling for unity, Comrade AOC and others are calling for lists of Trump supporters. There's even a website dedicated to it. The Trump Accountability Project is a list of Trump's supporters that the Marxists are compiling. Why are they making lists?
Yuri Bezmenov was one of the highest-ranking defectors from the Soviet KGB in the 1980s. In presentations still accessible on YouTube, he details the stages of "Ideological Subversion" used by Marxists to destroy a country. He tells of how the North Vietnamese Army took over Hue City and within a few short days they managed to round up and execute 3,000 to 6,000 anti-communists.
American intelligence was stunned that they could identify and find those people so fast but, as Bezmenov explains, they had been compiling those lists for months and years prior to the attack on Hue. U.S. Marxists are now compiling these lists for future use. It's what they do.
Seventy-two million Americans voted for Trump – the most votes for a sitting president ever – and for them, the election isn't over. The overwhelming majority of those 72 million will forever believe that Trump won the election, while Comrade Biden won the count.
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