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Afghanistan Takes a Bloody Path to Pursue Peace
The recent carnage notwithstanding, the government has called for talks with the Taliban.
By Krishnadev Calamur
Afghan security forces stand guard near the site of the blast in Kabul on April 30. (Omar Sobhani / Reuters )
The years keep passing with the United States in Afghanistan—nearly 17 in all now—and the death toll keeps climbing. This week it was twin suicide bombings in Kabul that killed 25 people, including nine journalists, plus an attack on a military convoy in the country's south that wounded several Romanian service members and killed an unknown number of children nearby. American soldiers, too, despite having drawn down their presence, continue to die there—two of them have been killed in the country this year, most recently a 22-year-old Army specialist who died east of Kabul this week. All of this comes as the government makes overtures to seek peace with the Taliban. The natural question after a week of violence like this is: Is the pursuit of peace growing hopeless?
The battle has been complicated by the fact that it's not simply one between the government and the Taliban. A branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for Monday's attack. Soon after the group had appeared in Afghanistan, U.S. defense officials had dismissed its numbers, repeatedly claiming that U.S. strikes had decimated the group. A year later, ISIS is not only alive in Afghanistan, it has repeatedly shown its ability to strike at the heart of the Afghan state.
The Taliban, meanwhile, hasn't been idle. The group announced its annual spring offensive on April 25, two months after President Ashraf Ghani made an unconditional offer of talks with the militant group. The fact that the Taliban did not reject the offer outright was seen as a sign of promise, but in recent days and weeks, the militants have attacked several sites across Afghanistan, targeting civilians.
Speaking Monday at the U.S. Defense Department, James Mattis, the defense secretary, said both the Taliban and ISIS have a goal to "destabilize the elected government." And he played down expectations, however modest, that Ghani's offer of talks could help the country move toward peace.
"We said last August NATO is going to hold the line, we knew there would be tough fighting going forward," he said, adding: "The murder of journalists and other innocent people is a great testimony to what it is we stand for and more importantly what we stand against. We anticipated and are doing our best and have been successful at blocking many of these attacks on innocent people, but unfortunately once in a while they get through."
If that sounds too modest for the Afghans dying as a result, it's also true that the increase in Taliban-related violence does not necessarily mean that any incipient peace process is dead. Laurel Miller, who until last year was the acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. State Department, told me that "it's not unusual for there to be peaks of violence" even as a side considers entering negotiations. The violence, she said, is one way to try to gain more negotiating leverage.
"I wouldn't draw a conclusion that a spike in violence means that prospects of peace have necessarily diminished," Miller, who is now a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, said. But, she added, such violence does shrink the political space the parties have to reach out to the other side. "It is possible that the high-profile attacks could limit President Ghani's space for being seen to be reaching out to the Taliban," she said.
At the same time, the three main parties to the conflict—the Afghan government, the Taliban, and the U.S., whose 2001 invasion ousted the Taliban regime—are locked in a military stalemate. The Afghan government might not be strong enough to hold the country on its own, its defense force might be shrinking, and it may still be far short of its military recruitment goals, but the U.S. military presence—in the form of 15,000 personnel—helps. On the other hand, while the Taliban might be at the receiving end of U.S.-supported firepower, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the independent U.S. government watchdog, it controls 14.5 percent of Afghanistan's districts. (SIGAR says the Afghan government controls about 56 percent; the rest are contested.) The number of districts controlled by the Taliban is the highest recorded by SIGAR since it began receiving such data. Conversely, however, the Afghan government was found to control or influence about 65 percent of the population between October and January. It was previously 64 percent. (The Afghan government controls all the large cities and towns.)
Writing in The National Interest last week, Miller and Stephen Watts pointed out that "military stalemate is an essential precondition for negotiated conflict resolution, and the war has been stalemated for nearly a decade already." Miller acknowledged to me that that it is hard to start a "major diplomatic initiative and see it through to a successful conclusion." But, she said, it is "necessary to go down that path."
The Trump administration's own view of what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan is hard to decipher. Donald Trump, as a presidential candidate, said repeatedly he believed the U.S. should withdraw from the country. But one of his first foreign-policy speeches was his unveiling of a new South Asia strategy that called for more troops, increased pressure on Pakistan to curb the Taliban, and helping the Afghan forces fight the Taliban "in order to drive them to the negotiating table." And then The Washington Post reported this week that Trump told Senator Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, that U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan soon. No specific date was discussed.
When asked about Trump's reported remarks, Mattis said U.S. plans in Afghanistan had not changed. "We're there to do a job. We're not there to stay forever. But the job comes first," he said. "Matter of fact, we have a number of nations looking to add forces as we speak."
Additionally, the president has two new members of his national-security team: John Bolton, who took over from H.R. McMaster as national-security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, who replaced Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Neither man has said anything publicly about his view on what U.S. policy in Afghanistan should be. "The team is newly in place so it's logical that there will be fresh consideration about the administration's policy approach to Afghanistan generally and toward mounting a peace process," Miller told me.
Meanwhile, though, there are the frequent and violent reminders of "what we stand against," in Mattis's words. Americans continue to pay with their lives for that. But as ever, it's Afghans who will keep bearing most of the costs, with or without the United States.


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But there's just one problem: you still have to lead worship on Sunday. And the Sunday after that, and the Sunday after that. Next thing you know, Easter will be right around the corner and it's back to the whirlwind.
If you're not prepared for it, the first few weeks of January can easily turn into a post-Christmas slump. Many are tempted to "phone it in" for the first part of the month, but if the church's leaders are marked by fatigue or a lack of passion, we fall short of our calling to serve the body of Christ. And trust me, your congregation can tell when you're going through the motions!
If you're like me, when things start to get busy, one of the first things you put on the backburner is spending time in the Word. It's easy to justify: with all the extra work required of us this time of year, we're spending plenty of time reading Scripture! But reading for work and reading for spiritual nourishment are two different things.
If you've fallen off in recent weeks, now is the perfect time to get back on track. Spiritual fatigue is far more perilous than physical fatigue, so give your devotional habits extra attention this month.
On the administrative side of things, try giving your team a break! Working with a cranky worship team can add to the post-Christmas snowball effect. Chances are, you're not the only one who went over-and-above for your church last month. Reward your musicians with a week off.
For the last several years, I've led a solo acoustic set on the first Sunday of January. Not only does this give my team a break, but it gives our church an opportunity to hear each other sing God's praises in a special way. I used to dread this Sunday every year, but now I look forward to it.
Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is take a Sunday off. Even the most capable worship leaders get tired, so make sure you're evaluating your spiritual health on a regular basis. Occasionally, our leadership suffers not because we don't plan well or because our hearts aren't in it, but because we're tired!
While taking a week off may not be possible for you right now, try to carve out some additional time for rest in the coming weeks. Sabbath is one of the most important practices for pastors; you can't serve well if you're constantly running on empty. And consider planning some downtime for after Christmas next year, especially if you're feeling extra ragged right now.
How are you handling the post-Christmas season? What works for you? Do you have any traditions or special methods of combatting malaise in the new year? Let us know in the comments!


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NZ Herald 19 November 2005
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This article was published on 19 November 2005. Some information may be out of date.
How well do share funds perform?
Comparison of investment performances.
QI have been intrigued by your constant remarks suggesting that your readers and the public in general use the services of fund managers rather than rely upon their own intelligence.
A survey carried out by the Financial Times two years ago and subsequently confirmed by KPMG showed that over five, ten and twenty year periods over 90 per cent of fund managers underperformed the various indexes against which their performances were measured, ie Footsie 100, 250 and small cap indexes.
I am not sure whether the survey was measured against any American indexes so cannot comment in that respect, but probably the American counterparts were no better.
You may be interested to read the attached article taken from Investors Chronicle and use some of the more salient points for a future article. But please do not keep harping on about fund managers (small m).
Any intelligent person can do as well as or even better than them by setting up their own tracker portfolio which, without the entrance fees and monitoring fees, would outperform the great majority of the professionals (small p).
AI, in turn, am intrigued to be told that I suggest readers use the types of funds you are writing about, i.e. "active" funds whose managers select what to invest in. When did I say that?
Whenever I recommend a type of share fund, it is always index funds. These simply invest in the shares in a market index.
Their performance roughly matches the sector of the market represented by their index, for example big or middle-sized shares — although they often lag the index a little because of the expenses of running the fund.
As you say, and I have said many times, over longer periods most active funds perform worse than indexes — and hence worse than index funds — because they cost much more to run and so their fees are higher.
Your attached article quotes John Bogle, founder of America's Vanguard Group of mutual funds, who points out how active funds' higher fees hugely eat into investors' returns over the years.
I've quoted Bogle before, too. And I invested in a Vanguard index fund more than 20 years ago when I lived in the US. You're preaching to the converted.
Whether it makes sense for "any intelligent person" to set up their own tracker portfolio ("tracker" is another name for index fund) depends on several factors.
You can certainly do it yourself if:
you have, say, $50,000 or more;
you are happy to deal with dividends and other administration;
and you will rebalance your portfolio every now and then to keep track of share price changes.
If you have less money, or you want to dripfeed money into the investment over the years, or you want someone else to run things for you, a low-fee index fund would probably suit you better.
QThe reason New Zealand investors are so committed to property and term deposits can be found each week in the Business Section of the Herald preceding your column, labeled "Managed Funds: Prices and Performance".
I have taken the largest five groups by number of funds and calculated a simple average of the five-year returns to investors (worksheet attached). The average of these five groups is minus 1.2 per cent (post tax and fees).
Yet their descriptions — diversified balanced unit trusts (average 1.4 per cent); international equity (minus 6.9 per cent); diversified bonds (1.6 per cent); diversified balanced superannuation (0.8 per cent); and Australian unit trust international equity (minus 2.7 per cent) — all have names and presumably objectives aligned with what investors have continually been told: Diversify across markets — equity and bonds by country. A fat lot of good it has done these poor mugs!
These are truly appalling outcomes. It really does make dismal reading given the five years covers very strong equity markets and a global commodity boom.
You can today get over 7 per cent for one year (and more given they will pay interest quarterly) from our largest domestic banks.
So why would you invest in a managed fund, where their track record would indicate that if anyone is prospering it certainly isn't the investors?
Risk equates with returns. So why aren't five-year managed fund returns substantially above what are effectively safe pre-tax returns from the trading banks?
Term deposits have no entry fees, no exit fees, no transaction fees, no management fees, you pay tax at your marginal rate not 33 per cent, and you will get all your capital back for certain (as certain as certain can be) at the end of the period.
The managed funds industry has a lot to answer for. Yet because so many are at the trough it seems to persist as another lot of suckers find out who is really paying for the high salaries, high stock market turnovers, high advertising and high management fund returns.
What's good for the croupier is not always good for the gambler, to quote one Warren Buffett.
While these sort of outcomes continue — and I can see no reason why they would change — investors will continue to invest in property and term deposits.
AThe recent performance of many managed funds has certainly been really disappointing.
And I'm not going to rush to defend funds that include actively managed shares — which would be the case for the vast majority of the funds you looked at except the bond funds.
As I said above, I recommend index funds rather than active funds, largely because their fees are lower.
All the same, when I look at the five-year performances of SuperLife, which runs a super scheme for individuals and employees using index funds, some of their funds did little better than the averages you sent me — although their bond funds did considerably better.
But is your analysis fair? We should note that:
You didn't include commercial property funds or New Zealand share funds. And SuperLife's funds in those areas performed really well in the last five years.
The property fund averaged 10.1 per cent a year and the NZ share fund 10.3 per cent — both after fees and taxes. That's well above term deposits after taxes.
You say that the five years covers "very strong equity markets", but that's far from true for international shares.
Over the five years, the MSCI international share index fell an average of 10.1 per cent a year after tax. Even when the index was hedged, to cancel the effect of the rising Kiwi dollar, it still fell 4.4 per cent a year after tax.
I'm sure all the funds you looked at, except the bond funds, would have included international shares. The shocking performance of that sector no doubt pulled down all the fund performances.
But things have improved radically. Over the last three years the hedged international index rose 13.3 per cent a year after tax, and the unhedged rose 5.1 per cent. And for the year ended September 30 the numbers are 18.1 per cent and 15.2 per cent. Take that, term deposits!
Note: Generally, five-year data gives a fairer picture than shorter-term data. But we really need at least 10 and preferably 20 or 30 years to draw sound conclusions.
The last five years include a huge market plunge, making it far from typical. It's a bit like a 1-in-25-year flood.
You compare managed funds unfavourably with property. But property, too, has its bad five-year periods.
In the five years ending June 2001, for example, house prices (excluding apartments) grew an average of less than 1.2 per cent a year, according to QV.
That doesn't include rent, or the value of accommodation if you own the home. But nor does it include the expenses of buying, owning and selling houses.
And house prices fell over sustained periods three times in the 1990s. It took a full two and a half years for the QV house price index to get back to its September 1990 level, and four years for it to regain its December 1997 level. How soon we forget!
Concentrating on those periods is, of course, unrepresentative. But the same could be said for your calculations.
Taking all this into account, I suggest readers don't turn their backs on at least one type of managed fund, the index share fund.
Long-term returns on these funds have been well above term deposits. And, if we're subjected to unexpected inflation, shares will fare better than fixed interest.
Over the long term, too, index fund returns average more than property — although, as noted in last week's column, comparisons between shares and property are tricky.
One thing is certain, though: Investing in an index fund is much less work than owning a rental property. I know which I prefer!
PS: I should declare that I have investments in SuperLife — because they use index funds and charge low fees.
Homes as investmentsInvestment returnsManaged fundsPropertyShares and share funds


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Google Mulls Ways to Banish Bad Ads
By David Jones
April 22, 2017 10:40 AM PT
Google has been working on a plan to install an ad blocker onto its Chrome browser for both desktop and mobile versions, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
It also has been considering a collaboration with Microsoft, Facebook and other firms to develop a set of standards that would determine which types of advertising to block from websites, according to AdAge. That effort presumably would aim at enhancing the consumer experience in a way that would not jeopardize ads from legitimate firms.
Google has been working closely with the Coalition for Better Ads and industry trade groups to explore a multitude of ways to support the Better Ads Standards, said a company spokesperson who declined to comment on the Chrome ad blocker rumor.
A group of major social media, advertising, trade and other groups last year formed the coalition to help standardize a set of protocols for eradicating malicious, fraudulent or annoying advertising from websites, while making sure consumers could see legitimate Web ads. Online advertising is the revenue lifeblood of many online firms, and the most attractive way for advertisers to reach their customers, particularly younger people.
Google and other companies in the Web search and browser arena have struggled to find ways to eradicate abusive advertising in recent years.
Ad Purge
Google earlier this year announced that it had removed more than 1.7 billion bad ads from its various websites in 2016 — more than double the prior year totals.
Facing several major suits and investigations related to abusive advertising, Google launched a crackdown on advertising from payday loan operators' trick-to-click ads, ads that injected malware, ads that peddled illegal pharmaceuticals, and other types of fraudulent or abusive advertisements.
Two-thirds of more than 1,000 ad-blocking consumers polled said they would remove the blocking tools if they were convinced the ads did not contain malware, would not slow down their browsers, and would neither block content nor unleash annoying music or video, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported last year.
It was on the heels of that report's release that advertising firms, trade organizations, search engines, social media companies, traditional media companies and others — among them IAB, Facebook, Google, The Washington Post and News Corp. — formed the Coalition for Better Ads with the goal of improving consumers' online advertising experience.
The coalition last month released Initial Better Ad Standards, a comprehensive report based on research involving 25,000 desktop and mobile Web consumers in North America and Europe.
The coalition ranked four types of desktop ads — pop-up ads, autoplaying video ads with sound, prestitial ads with countdown and large sticky ads — as falling below consumer standards.
The study showed a total of eight mobile ad types that fell below standards, including ads with density greater than 30 percent, flashing animated ads, full screen scroll-over ads, and postitial ads with countdown.
"This is a good move by these organizations, as malicious ads have been a good way to drop ransomware and other threats on unsuspecting victims," said Jon Clay, global threat communications manager at Trend Micro.
"There have also been a number of cases where third-party ad blockers have been used as a disguise for malicious apps," he told the E-Commerce Times.
The use of ad blockers raises a question of gatekeeping, however, Clay pointed out. Who would determine which ads would be allowed to display and which would not? One solution might be to allow the end user to be in charge of the types of ads allowed.
Although it's not likely that installing ad blockers would harm Google enough to hurt the company's bottom line, it could make the return on posting to Google sites less attractive for publishers, noted Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at Poynter.
It's "another illustration of the gulf between the interests of publishers and platform companies," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Google, Facebook, et. al., are all concerned with a smoother user interface. If there is collateral damage to publishers, so what?"
Microsoft, which reportedly has been working on ad-blocking software for Edge, declined our request to comment for this story, saying it does not comment on rumors and speculation.
David Jones is a freelance writer based in Essex County, New Jersey. He has written for Reuters, Bloomberg, Crain's New York Business and The New York Times.
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Expressly says:
Google have their own brand to protect, and getting rid of annoying ads is one way to do that.
As usual, online marketers are going to have to come up with innovative new ways to create effective methods of advertising online.
One method lies in a network of eCommerce sites that help each other in their marketing needs. In forming alliances, partners within the network can display highly targeted ads for each other that will not fall foul of new regulations.
In addition to not breaking rules, the ads will promise high conversion rates and ROI for the site owners.
Jiteshd says:
That's a very good initiative by Google as ads must be according to the user generated search queries.
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package io.crate.execution.ddl.tables;

import io.crate.execution.ddl.AbstractDDLTransportAction;
import io.crate.metadata.NodeContext;
import io.crate.metadata.cluster.AlterTableClusterStateExecutor;
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.AcknowledgedResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterState;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateTaskExecutor;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlockException;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlockLevel;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetadataCreateIndexService;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetadataMappingService;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.allocation.AllocationService;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Singleton;
import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.IndexScopedSettings;
import org.elasticsearch.indices.IndicesService;
import org.elasticsearch.indices.ShardLimitValidator;
import org.elasticsearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService;

@Singleton
public class TransportAlterTableAction extends AbstractDDLTransportAction<AlterTableRequest, AcknowledgedResponse> {

    private static final String ACTION_NAME = "internal:crate:sql/table/alter";

    private final AlterTableClusterStateExecutor executor;

    @Inject
    public TransportAlterTableAction(TransportService transportService,
                                     ClusterService clusterService,
                                     ThreadPool threadPool,
                                     MetadataMappingService metadataMappingService,
                                     IndicesService indicesService,
                                     AllocationService allocationService,
                                     IndexScopedSettings indexScopedSettings,
                                     MetadataCreateIndexService metadataCreateIndexService,
                                     ShardLimitValidator shardLimitValidator,
                                     NodeContext nodeContext) {
        super(ACTION_NAME,
              transportService,
              clusterService,
              threadPool,
              AlterTableRequest::new,
              AcknowledgedResponse::new,
              AcknowledgedResponse::new,
              "alter-table");
        executor = new AlterTableClusterStateExecutor(
            metadataMappingService,
            indicesService,
            allocationService,
            indexScopedSettings,
            metadataCreateIndexService,
            shardLimitValidator,
            nodeContext
        );
    }

    @Override
    public ClusterStateTaskExecutor<AlterTableRequest> clusterStateTaskExecutor(AlterTableRequest request) {
        return executor;
    }

    @Override
    public ClusterBlockException checkBlock(AlterTableRequest request, ClusterState state) {
        return state.blocks().globalBlockedException(ClusterBlockLevel.METADATA_WRITE);
    }

}

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AppleInsider and Apple Authorized Reseller Adorama have teamed up this week to give away a Free Apple TV and instant discounts of $119 to $469 on nearly 90 different 21- and 27-inch iMac configurations with AppleCare extended protection, all of which also ship free with no sales tax collected in 48 states. To take advantage of this offer, first make sure that you take 20 second to register & login to Adorama's free VIP customer program. Then use the special pricing links in this article to add an iMac with AppleCare & Apple TV bundle to your cart. During check out (right after shipment info and before payment info) click the link that says Do you have a gift card or promo code? and then apply Promo Code APINSIDER. This promo code will deduct the price of the Apple TV plus an additional $12.05 ($80 total) from the price of the already-discounted bundle. The savings listed below in red typeface reflect the total discount when compared to Apple's current price for that iMac model with AppleCare before factoring in the free Apple TV and any tax benefits. For instance, if you live outside NY & NJ, Adorama also won't collect sales tax on your order (another $90-$270 depending on the model).


Awareness of the world around you has been the start of many businesses.
The business world is filled with examples of people who started a busines based on watching, reading and listening to things around them. Being aware may lead in many directions. Sometimes the product is already around, but it just takes the right person to see the opportunities such as 3M's Post-it ® note.
Such awareness can arise from focused research to random chance. The key is to always be attuned to your surroundings. Small town business owners often acknowledge their success came as they drove through other communities and made mental notes of what they saw and what was working.
However, developing an opportunity from an observation is more than just luck. Awareness of the present is just one part. A second element, imagining the opportunity, also is part of finding a good idea. This second part often is much harder than the first part, though.
How often have you said when a new product or idea comes out, 'I could have done that!'? Just think of the invention of the Popsicle ®. How many of us have let a drink freeze accidently? An 11-year-old boy, Frank Epperson, did. But he saw the opportunity.
The third piece to this process is envisioning the future.
This is what Ray Kroc saw in McDonald's ®. Here is an example of imagining where an idea, if successfully developed, might go. We also see that these moments come at any age, from the 11-year-old boy to Kroc, who was over 50 years of age when he started.
All three pieces – the idea, the opportunity and the vision – need to be part of a business owner's effort as he or she explores business ownership. Realizing that these three elements can happen almost instantaneously or be part of a long, drawn-out process is important.
Even when all three elements come together into a perfect plan of what might be, owners must remember that solid opportunities do not connect automatically with the consumer in the marketplace. Hard work still remains.
Yet the first step in the process is that ah-ha moment. Probably the best advice for the person searching for opportunities is to be aware. In every situation, think about what might be. When you find one that makes your mind whirl with possibilities, it is time to do some further exploration.
The idea, the opportunity and the vision – all essentials as you say, but would love it if there was more support out there for start-ups and individuals. So many people have great ideas and clear visions of where they see things going, but only a select few get the opportunity to make it happen.
That's one of the reasons we write at this site. We want to provide the support we can from a distance, and we want to encourage as many towns as we can to offer better local support to their entrepreneurs. When your local entrepreneurs prosper, they help your town prosper.
As Becky commented, we try and provide support to those looking to develop a business idea. Communities can help by ensuring mentors and coaches are available plus by being aware of individuals and networks that exist. The aspiring entrepreneur must also be a part of the mix through researching where help can be found. And don't forget to start with business owners in your own community. They are often willing to share and can bring the "been there, done that" conversation to the table.
I agree. Learning with every step you take whether you succeed or fail is important. The first most important thing is noticing. Then, the next important thing is taking note of that and following through with action.


Leonard Eröd was born in Graz in 1977.
He studied first with Michael Werba at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and then with Richard Galler and Marco Postinghel at the University Mozarteum Salzburg where he passed his master's examinations in 2008 with distinction.
As a soloist and chamber musician (with the CrossNova Ensemble, the ensemble "die reihe" and the RSO bassoon quartet Fagotes Locos among others) his playing has already been heard in Austria and abroad. In addition, he has been involved in playing on historical instruments in recent years.
Besides his work as a musician, he is also an arranger and often teaches courses in chamber music and holds sessions for youth orchestras. He is also regularly involved in Jeunesse projects.
After four years with the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz he has been principal double bassoonist with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2007. In addition he runs the "RSO music lab", a series of educational workshops for school classes and guided concerts.


R.I.P. Fr. Benedict Ashley, OP. I knew Fr. Benny in St Louis during my studium years.
The Church and the Order have lost a great mind.
Not even the gates of hell. . .
Like most every other Catholic in the world, I was at once surprised and distressed by Pope Benedict's renunciation of the Petrine office. Why is he resigning? Is he ill? Who will take up this ministry after him? What does it say about the Chair of Peter that a pope would renounce his ministry? I also began to fret about how this news would be spun in our anti-Catholic media. Every lie, every rumor, every scandal would be trotted out and commented upon with the same fulminating bile and willful ignorance that the Church has been subjected to in the last 40 yrs. by our media betters. And just as all this anxiety and catastrophizing was slowly boiling into some serious fear, I remembered something, something perfectly simple and instantly calming: this is Christ's Church. We belong to Christ. Benedict and the next pope—whoever he will be—serve the Church. And the Church serves the mission of Christ. "And the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it." If the denizens of hell cannot defeat the Church, then the potentially precedent-setting resignation of Benedict XVI; nor a less-than-ideal papal successor; nor a bigoted, ignorant media is going to cause much of a dent in the faith of God's people and our determination to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Our Lord asks his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" And Simon Peter answered for the group, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." At that moment, the Rock of Christ's Church was set into the bones of the world, and we have been building the house of God ever since. No matter which of the Church's bishops walks out onto that balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square in a month's time; no matter what name he chooses, or where he was born, or how smart or good-looking or athletic or pastoral or fat or old he is, he will be Peter the Rock. That is the guarantee of steadfastness in faith that Christ has given to us. And no matter who sits in Peter's Chair, our baptismal mission doesn't change. We are vowed by the death and resurrection of Christ through the holy water of baptism to preach and teach and live the Good News of God's mercy to sinners. Let nothing and no one shake your foundation in the Church. Let nothing and no one rattle your determination to love as Christ commanded; to grow in holiness through grace; and to use your gifts for the good of the least among us. Upon this rock Christ has built his Church and not even the gates of Hell can touch her.
"Domini canes" beg for help!
How much does it cost to create a Dominican friar?
From novice to solemnly professed Dominican friar it costs approx. $250,000. . .
The American bishops require that all men proposed for priestly ordination hold the M.Div. degree. That's a professional ministerial degree that requires academic work in theology, philosophy, scripture, Church history, pastoral theology, several supervised ministry practica, etc.
Getting the M.Div. means four to five years of private Catholic grad school. While a student, friars are not allowed to earn a salary, so all of their expenses fall to their respective provinces: food, clothing, shelter, insurance, travel, tuition, books, etc. Everything. It's like having all your grown children back at home!
So. . .we need help!
Dominicans are mendicant friars, meaning we beg for our living. Yes, we work too, but the largest portion of our annual budget comes from generous benefactors who want to be part of our preaching charism. For the Province of St Martin de Porres that means preaching the Gospel in the Protestant South.
Every year we beg for help through the 1216 Campaign. And what better time to consider donating to the Hounds of the Lord (Domini canes) than Lent?
We pray everyday--twice a day--for our benefactors!
*Co-operator brothers generally follow the same academic track as clerical brothers sans those courses required for ordination.
Jesus is offering us a pretty good deal! Ask and receive. Knock and the door opens. Seek and we will find. What could be easier? You know there's got to be a catch, right? Of course. And we'll to that soon enough. But first we need to understand the context of this most excellent deal. The early Church Fathers write about this passage from Matthew as if it refers to seeking after the truth of scripture. For example, want to know what wisdom the Book of Esther imparts? Ask for enlightenment and receive it. Knock on the door of the Word and it opens. Seek wisdom and you will find it. For the Fathers, studying scripture is a necessary step in uncovering its wisdom but study alone is not enough. Asking, receiving, knocking, seeking, and finding are all forms of prayer that require us to submit our pride to some healthy humiliation so that God's wisdom can get a foothold in us. What does this sort of prayer look like? Well, speaking of Queen Esther, she prays, "Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, O Lord, my God." Esther shows us the way to wisdom through prayerful humility.
Queen Esther is "seized with mortal anguish" b/c she's discovered that her husband, King Xerxes I of Persia, has authorized the slaughter of all her fellow Jews under his rule. Her uncle, Mordecai, asked Esther to intervene with her husband on behalf of the Jews but doing so would mean her death. To prepare herself and her people, Esther asked that all the Jews in the empire fast with her for three days. After this empire-wide, three-day fast, she summons the courage to approach her husband. She prays earnestly to God—this evening's OT reading—the night before she visits the king, ". . .come to help me, an orphan. Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion [the king] and turn his heart to hatred for our enemy. . ." Here's what we need to notice about Esther's prayer. First, though she is seeking courage for herself, she is seeking that courage in order to save her people from destruction. Second, her prayer (the longer version) recalls the history of God's relationship with His chosen people and calls on Him to honor His covenant with them. Third, she freely confesses her powerlessness, her need for divine help. And lastly, she accepts fulls responsibility for the outcome of her meeting with the king; in other words, she's expecting no miracles from God, just all the help she needs and no more.
Now, back to Jesus. Ask and receive. Knock and the door opens. Seek and you will find. This is exactly what Esther does. And God answers her with abundant wisdom and her people are saved. Earlier, I mentioned a catch. Here's the catch. Jesus notes that even the wicked do not give their children a stone when they ask for bread, or a snake if they ask for a fish. He continues, ". . .how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him." There's the catch. For humility in prayer to work as it ought, we must ask for good things. Not just anything we happen to crave, not just anything that we think we might one day want or need, but only those things that we know to be good. Esther asks for the courage she needs to save her people from death. She asks as an orphan child living in a foreign land married to a ruthless king. She freely admits her helplessness and accepts that nothing good will happen unless she takes up the task to see it done. She submits her pride to some healthy, public humiliation and receives all the divine wisdom she needs. Ask, knock, seek in humility and you will find behind every door closed to you the all the wisdom and courage you will ever need.
NB. After the fifth phone interruption, I just gave up on today's homily and edited an older one. I'm getting even crankier in my dotage.
I was lost in Nice, France. I had decided to take a bus from Villefranche to Nice. When it was time to head back to the cruise ship (where I served as chaplain), I took a bus to the station and waited for the transfer back to Villefranche. And I waited and I waited. Three or four buses stopped but none was mine. I asked a woman at the station how to get back to Villefranche. I should say, I mimed and shouted and grunted and wildly gestured b/c at the time I didn't speak or read French. The poor woman energetically responded to my desperation with what I can only assume was beautiful French. Let's just say, her gestures were impressive! She repeatedly pointed to the signs on the bus stop and the signs on the street corners and the signs on the many construction barriers along the road. No good. I wandered the Garibaldi area of Nice for an hour or so—illiterate and lost. Finally, I found my bus and made it back to the ship in time. The moral of the story? All the signs in the world will do you no good if you can't read them.
Jesus says that no signs will be given to this unfaithful generation. Why is he being so mean about a request for a sign of his identity and power? Why is he being so stubborn all of a sudden?
There are at least two ways of interpreting Jesus' signs. First, they can be seen as magical events, mysterious tricks that tickle the imagination and satisfy some sort of basic human need for the mystical. Second, the signs can be seen as helps, as divine assistance for and confirmation of our initial trust in Jesus' word that he is who he says he is. Signs as magical tricks have to be repeated, done again and again, and rarely if ever do they establish anything resembling faith in the human heart. Signs as help for our trust in Jesus' word require faith first. They cannot confirm in us what does not yet exist in us.
Looking out over the crowd, Jesus knows that those clamoring for a sign are really clamoring for a circus trick. They will not believe even if he stops the sun and calls angels by the thousands. The only sign he will give them is his death, his three day stay in the grave, and his resurrection. The sign of Jonah. They will either read this sign as a trick, or it will confirm their faith. If they fail to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, they will be condemned by the queen of the south and the Ninevites at the judgment. She came looking for the wisdom of Solomon not knowing that the Messiah had come. How could she? No one believed, so no one witnessed. The Ninevites repented at the sign of Jonah. They believed and were confirmed in their faith. They will judge this evil generation for its stubbornness and willful ignorance. Christ risen from the tomb three days later is a greater sign than Jonah's three day stay in the belly of the fish.
Do you clamor after signs? Look for indications that your faith in Christ is justified? Are we running after apparitions or miraculous events or private revelations or internet prophecies to confirm what we already know to be true? Will we be like the Ninevites who hear the Word preached and repent? Or will we be like those of the evil generation and chase after signs to have confirmed what we do not believe in the first place? We are set free in Christ. Do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. The greatest sign of Christ's fidelity to us—greater than Jonah and Solomon—is the Christian living a holy life of sacrificial witness and service. This is a sign easily read and universally understood. No magic. No tricks. No stage. No drama. Just charity in action—the surest sign that Christ is among his people.
To the sheep on his right our Lord will say on the Last Day, "Come, you who are blessed of by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you…" To the goats on his left our Lord will say on the Last Day, "Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels." As we might expect, the accursed goats object to this judgment and Jesus lays out the reasons for his judgment against them. What's interesting (and unexpected) is that the blessed sheep are surprised by their judgment. After welcoming the sheep into the kingdom, our Lord explains his judgment saying, "…I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink…" When the goats object to their sentence our Lord justifies his judgment by pointing out the chief failures of the goats, "…I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink…" What these two groups have in common is their surprise at having served or not served the Lord unawares. Both groups ask, "Lord, when did we see you a stranger and welcome you (or, not welcome you), or naked or thirsty and give you drink (or, not give you drink)?" Jesus' resounding answer is almost harsh in its clarity: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did (or did not do) for one of these least brothers of mine, you did (or did not do) for me." Always the good Jew, Jesus is showing his disciples how the Law is worked out with the Messiah in their midst.
Not a few Christians dislike this part of Matthew. I've found it to be a particularly sore subject for more tradition-minded Catholics who see the emphasis on "social justice/good works" as a possible danger to sound doctrine and proper devotion. They are not wrong to worry about this. I've heard many an eager Catholic say, "Oh, all we need to do is feed the hungry and clothe the naked. Leave all that rigid dogma stuff and sentimental devotional nonsense alone. Just help the poor!" Unfortunately, both groups miss the point entirely. This apocalyptic scene of sheep blessing and goat roasting from Matthew is most certainly about the Last Judgment and what counts as a ticket to blessing or roasting. However, this scene is also—and I would bet mostly about—Jesus being a good Jewish teacher and showing his disciples what it means to not only follow the letter of the Law of the Decalogue but to fulfill its spirit for Christ's sake. For—Christ's—sake. That phrase is the difference that makes the difference btw an eternal life of bliss or an eternal life of blisters.
When faced, at last, with our Lord on his judgment seat attended, let him see your joyful heart, your enlightened eyes. . .and your callused hands and sore back, your body bent from doing NOT the just thing or the pious thing, but all the merciful things that make us just and pious sheep.


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Outdoor play areas would not be the same without traditional items, such as the see saw. This piece seats 4 and is still incredibly popular with children of all ages and abilities and is a valuable addition to any play space design. The materials on this timber play equipment allows the product to fit into any natural play environment.


If you're stuck in Game Boy Advance Video: DreamWorks Shark Tale, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
GBA Video: Shark Tale brings the popular feature film to your GBA. Access the hit animated comedy wherever you go! A small fish lies about the time he fought a shark and won to impress a girl. It comes back to bite him when he's asked to fight one for real. Playable on the Game Boy Advance and compatible systems.


Jaeyoung is a kid struggling at home to find some space between his abusive father and his religious mother. His dad, remote at best, has little time for any of his kids, but he does seem to have lots of attention for his precious dogs, JinJin and Akida. It's not all that surprising that Jaeyoung is actually jealous of the dogs, but it is very, very sad to behold, and so kind of understandable when one day Jaeyoung gets it into his head that releasing one of the beloved dogs will, if not actually solve the problem, at least gain his father's attention.
Director Cho Jong-Duck sets his adventure story amid the backdrop of the rapidly changing South Korea of 1983. It's developing economically but Jaeyoung's father still works in the fishing industry of a small village. There are lots of such conflicts crossing Jaeyoung's path. Western influences are crowding in but the traditional Confucian Korean culture still has a stronghold on its people. All of these things put strains on a family already in transition.
The animation style is quite simple but the story is richly observed. There were so many scenes that were really moving in their ordinariness: Jaeyoung's mother's use of holy water as a deterrent to her husband's abuse; the neighbours overhearing but not interfering with the fights going on in Jaeyoung's house. Make no mistake: this may be an animated film, but it's no happy-go-lucky Pixar offering. The kid deals with serious, heart breaking issues and there's no easy out to the problems that plague his family.
This entry was posted in Movie Reviews and tagged animated movies, Cho Jung-Duck, Ottawa International Animation Festival, subtitled on October 1, 2017 by Jay.
This sounds absolutely heartbreaking… Asian animation is usually a lot more poignant than Western one and this one is no exception. Great review!


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The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing
Revised and Updated
Michael Ruhlman (Author), Brian Polcyn (Author), Yevgenity Solovyev (Illustrated by)
An essential update of the perennial bestseller.
Charcuterie exploded onto the scene in 2005 and encouraged an army of home cooks and professional chefs to start curing their own foods. This love song to animal fat and salt has blossomed into a bona fide culinary movement, throughout America and beyond, of curing meats and making sausage, pâtés, and confits. Charcuterie: Revised and Updated will remain the ultimate and authoritative guide to that movement, spreading the revival of this ancient culinary craft.
Early in his career, food writer Michael Ruhlman had his first taste of duck confit. The experience "became a fascination that transformed into a quest" to understand the larger world of food preservation, called charcuterie, once a critical factor in human survival. He wondered why its methods and preparations, which used to keep communities alive and allowed for long-distance exploration, had been almost forgotten. Along the way he met Brian Polcyn, who had been surrounded with traditional and modern charcuterie since childhood. "My Polish grandma made kielbasa every Christmas and Easter," he told Ruhlman. At the time, Polcyn was teaching butchery at Schoolcraft College outside Detroit.
Ruhlman and Polcyn teamed up to share their passion for cured meats with a wider audience. The rest is culinary history. Charcuterie: Revised and Updated is organized into chapters on key practices: salt-cured meats like pancetta, dry-cured meats like salami and chorizo, forcemeats including pâtés and terrines, and smoked meats and fish. Readers will find all the classic recipes: duck confit, sausages, prosciutto, bacon, pâté de campagne, and knackwurst, among others. Ruhlman and Polcyn also expand on traditional mainstays, offering recipes for hot- and cold-smoked salmon; shrimp, lobster, and leek sausage; and grilled vegetable terrine. All these techniques make for a stunning addition to a contemporary menu.
Thoroughly instructive and fully illustrated, this updated edition includes seventy-five detailed line drawings that guide the reader through all the techniques. With new recipes and revised sections to reflect the best equipment available today, Charcuterie: Revised and Updated remains the undisputed authority on charcuterie.
"This book reminds me what a hopeful time it is for cooking in this country. In fact, this may be the most exciting time ever to be a cook and a chef in America. And Charcuterie is a perfect example of why." — from the foreword by Thomas Keller, chef /owner of The French Laundry and Per Se Restaurants
"Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn are doing God's work: making the noble art of charcuterie accessible and easily understood. Charcuterie is an important and definitive work that deserves to stand proudly and forever in every serious cook's kitchen." — Anthony Bourdain
"Good charcuterie recipes are as closely guarded as family secrets. As a young cook in Moissac, France, I had to spy and even participate in the killing of my neighbor's pig just to get his pâté recipe. In Charcuterie, Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn demystify all of this and share with us the best techniques to cure, smoke, and preserve meat in the tradition of the best charcutiers out there." — Eric Ripert, chef/co-owner of Le Bernardin Restaurant, New York
"Chock-full of sound practical advice and a wide range of recipes that cross cultures and traditions, Charcuterie provides an open window on the delicious possibilities available to the home cook and professional chef alike." — Paul Bertolli, founder, Fra' Mani Handrafted Salumi
"Charcuterie surpasses my most extravagant hopes for what such a book could be. It will inspire droves of cooks. If it doesn't tell you everything you need to know about making charcuterie, it certainly establishes a gold standard for how to say it." — Judy Rodgers, author of The Zuni Café Cookbook
Also By: Michael Ruhlman
JGV: A Life in 12 Recipes
Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Michael Ruhlman
One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.
Pâté, Confit, Rillette: Recipes from the Craft of Charcuterie
Brian Polcyn, Michael Ruhlman
The best-selling team behind Charcuterie deepens our understanding of an ancient craft.
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
Michael Ruhlman, Brian Polcyn
The craft of Italian salumi, now accessible to the American cook, from the authors of the best-selling Charcuterie.
Also By: Brian Polcyn


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Poroshenko explained what it means bezviz for Ukraine
May 14, 2017 IMMPolitics
President Petro Poroshenko believes that granting Ukraine a visa-free regime is a huge step to Europe for our country. He stated this at a press conference.
"Bezviz is much more than a simplified way of crossing the border. We are talking about an event much more profound significance. This is a huge step to Europe, the assertion of human freedom, of independence of our state. If you want, it is overcoming the effects of Pereyaslovskaya Rada, this way, finally, of Ukraine from post-Soviet States in Russia disrespectfully called "near abroad". And Vice versa – is an even greater involvement of Ukraine in joint European civilization. Now is that crazy to consider Ukraine as a part of the so-called "Russian world". Ukraine is part of a United Europe from Lisbon to Kharkov", – said Poroshenko.
We will remind, on may 11, the Council of the European Union approved the granting of a visa-free regime for Ukraine – it was the last of the European court, which had to make a decision on granting Ukraine the visa regime liberalization.
In turn, Petro Poroshenko next week to go to Brussels, where he will participate in the ceremony of signing the agreement on visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU. As he himself said, this event will occur on may 17, but bezviz will begin to act for Ukrainians around June 11.
The U.S. Senate will vote for the admission of Montenegro in NATO next week
In Ukraine, the growing number of counterfeit money
Poroshenko promised to charge the instigators of the blockade of Donbass for the loss of Ukraine
Lavrov said the words Turchynov on the promotion of Ukrainian troops in Donbass
In Scotland hope to hold a referendum on independence at the final stage of Brexit
Sudden change in the weather in Ukraine: forecast for the week
Regular stress destroys the brain – scientists
In sewage in Tokyo have discovered cyanide
Poroshenko: the Course of European and Euro-Atlantic integration remains unchanged
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Q: order of calling expressions within a defun* Tried to use the persp-mode https://github.com/Bad-ptr/persp-mode.el/blob/master/persp-mode.el to retrieve the emacs windows session after restart. Unable to get it working.
So trying to understand the datastructure used to store the state of the emacs by reading the source code.
The following is the function which is used to store the session state.
(defun* persp-save-state-to-file (&optional (fname persp-auto-save-fname)
                                            (phash *persp-hash*)
                                            respect-persp-file-parameter)
  (interactive (list (read-file-name "Save perspectives to file: "
                                     persp-save-dir)))

In the above function two unusual things are observed using edebug (unusual according  to my current understanding of elisp).

*

*The optional argument expressions are evaluated.

*The expression "(interactive..." is evaluated first and then the optional argument expressions are evaluated.
Any ideas how to debug the code. Also the emacs documentation says "defun*" is related to common-lisp, but no further information is available in emacs docs on how defun* is different from defun. Is there a quick tutorial oh what defun* does without having to learn common-lisp.

A: Emacs says:

Define NAME as a function. Like normal `defun', except ARGLIST allows
  full Common Lisp conventions, and BODY is implicitly surrounded by
  (cl-block NAME ...).

Common Lisp arglists provide optional, rest, keyword and aux arguments. Historically this comes from Lisp Machine Lisp and Mumble - two earlier Lisp dialects.
For details see: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/cl/Argument-Lists.html

A: Have a look at this post for a simplistic snippet explaining
how optional works. The gist is that e.g. persp-auto-save-fname will be the value of fname
if none is given.
And obviously interactive has to be run first, because it provides the arguments.
So if interactive doesn't provide a value for fname it will be persp-auto-save-fname.

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Denim Jackets aren't the easiest item to pull off, but when you nail it, it's well worth the investment. Taking a look around the local scene here in Auckland, New Zealand I haven't noticed many guys taking up denim jackets as they can be a bit daring and hard to master for the unconverted. Maybe, just maybe I can lend a helping hand on this one.
First up, there's a few factors one needs to consider before purchasing a denim jacket. Much like a great pair of jeans you've not only got to locate the right shape and fit, you've got to get the wash right to allow you some flexibility with what you pair the jacket with. One simple rule that I find works is, if it's light on top it's gotta be dark on the bottom and then follow the same in reverse. If you fail on this one, you're basically reliving the 80's which was a brilliant decade but I'm not entirely convinced we're all ready to wear it all over again.
Like any new venture into something different, inspiration can provide some examples of how to pull together various looks and give you the confidence to try it on yourself. There's loads of suave examples of guys nailing denim jackets, some that rock the casual street style and others that add sophistication for a more dressed up look.
David Beckham, well the man is one of the best dressed on the planet, and for me I'm always keen to see how he puts himself together, whether it's his weekend looks or his high flying social life attire. The man knows how to do style. Plain and simple.
Here's a few ways you can make the denim jacket work with a range of styles. Hopefully there's something in the mix that you're willing to wear.


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