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Scottie Pippen Refusing to Go Into Playoff Game vs. Knicks Shocked Steve Kerr: 'He Quit on Us'
After a contentious season plagued by injury and trade rumors, the 2017-2018 Chicago Bulls collapsed in their first game of Round One, losing to the Knicks. Scottie Pippen refused to enter Game 5 against New York even though his team was up 3-1 heading into Friday's contest.
The "steve kerr bulls" is a team that was shocked by the decision of their star player to not play in the postseason game against the Knicks. The Bulls were going into the playoffs with high expectations, but when Scottie Pippen refused to go into the game, they lost.
During the 1993-94 NBA season, Scottie Pippen earned headlines for both good and bad reasons. Michael Jordan has been the greatest player on the Chicago Bulls since retiring to play baseball, and he had an unbelievable statistical season.
Pippen, on the other hand, was in the press for two bad reasons. Not only was he jailed for possessing a loaded revolver in his vehicle, but he also refused to play in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference playoffs against the New York Knicks in 1994.
Steve Kerr, who won three championships with the Bulls, has mentioned in multiple interviews that he liked playing with Pippen and that he was one of his favorite teammates of all time. However, when Pippen sat out the last play against the Knicks on May 13, 1994, current Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was taken aback.
"He quit on us," says Steve Kerr of Scottie Pippen.
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In Game 3 of the 1994 playoffs against the Knicks, Pippen was furious at Phil Jackson for setting up the game-winning play for Toni Kukoc instead of him. He declined to participate in the game because he needed to communicate with the Zen Master.
Kerr discussed his emotions watching Pippen sit out on purpose in Episode 7 of ESPN's The Last Dance docuseries. No one expected Pippen to ever refuse to play, so it was a shocking scene.
"We don't know how to react because Scottie is one of our favorite teammates and individuals in the world," Kerr said. "He walked out on us, and we couldn't believe it. It was a disaster."
In Game 3, Kukoc hit the game-winning shot at the buzzer. Pippen remarked in The Last Dance that if he could do it all over again, he wouldn't alter a thing, and the Hall of Famer explains why in his book, Unguarded.
"There was one individual with whom I was enraged," Scottie Pippen said.
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When Jackson directed Pippen to send the ball to Kukoc, who was in his rookie season with the Bulls in 1993-94, he felt ashamed and insulted, he wrote. Even after all these years, the six-time winner feels he made the correct decision by sitting out.
"Phil informing me I'd toss the ball in bounds was the most embarrassing part," Pippen wrote. "At least you can be a decoy while you're on the floor." The Knicks would have defended me with two defenders. Someone would have caught a glimpse. I did the right thing not simply for myself and my dignity by refusing to return to the game. For the players that would come after me, as well. Who knows, maybe one day they'll be in the same situation."
In the end, the Bulls were defeated by the Knicks in seven games. In the summer of 1995, Pippen sought to be dealt, but Chicago refused, which turned out to be the correct decision.
In 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Bulls added three additional rings to their collection.
Near the close of the 1994-95 season, Jordan returned to the Bulls. Before the team was disbanded in the summer of 1998, Chicago won three more titles in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
Kerr would go on to win two more championships with the San Antonio Spurs, giving him a total of five rings in his career. As the Warriors' head coach, he has also won three championships.
Meanwhile, after The Last Dance, Jordan and Pippen are said to be on bad terms. Nothing, though, can alter how dominating they were as a team. The Bulls went 6-0 in the Finals and three-peated twice during the Jordan-Pippen era.
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Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that's why they'll win
Once you can only buy the apps you need as containers, it's game over
Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Wed 23 Jun 2021 // 12:00 UTC
Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday.
During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the embedded poll, choosing whether you're in favor or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular. It's up to our writers to convince you to vote for their side.
This week's motion is: Containers will kill virtual machines
And now, today, arguing FOR the motion is SIMON SHARWOOD, The Register's APAC region editor...
Independent software vendors (ISVs) will build the case for containers' long-term dominance, while also — perversely — building a case for the virtual machine's long-term relevance.
To understand containers' imminent dominance of new applications, consider the lot of an ISV. Today, your humble ISV must package its products for many different environments and their VM-centric paradigms.
ISVs need to be relevant to the largest number of customers, and therefore package their wares for Linux (which means RHEL and SUSE for starters) and (probably) Windows Server. ISVs also need to make sure their products play nicely with ESXi, Microsoft's Hyper-V. The Xen and KVM hypervisors can't be dismissed out of hand.
Next: packaging for clouds. AWS and Azure are no-brainers, Google can't be dismissed and one in twenty enterprises will have decided on Oracle or IBM.
Software vendors need to target a lot of platforms and that's expensive and tedious
ISVs keen to chase Asia's emerging economies will also need to consider Alibaba cloud, because it's won substantial market share in South East Asia and of course in China. The Middle Kingdom's other big clouds — Huawei, Tencent and Baidu — each have colossal addressable markets, so will deserve an ISV's attention and perhaps customisation.
The big tech distributors have also built clouds and by their very nature offer another route to market that is hard to ignore. So add Ingram Micro's Cloud Blue and Tech Data's StreamOne to the list.
I could go on and discuss smaller clouds like OVH and Digital Ocean, but you probably get the idea that ISVs need to target a lot of platforms — and that doing so is expensive and tedious.
What if there were a way that ISVs could package their products once for many platforms?
Oh wait, there is. It's called containers and Kubernetes — which also happen to be a fine way to package applications for delivery as SaaS.
It's therefore well and truly in ISVs' interests to sell you containers rather than continue to package their products in so many forms. ISVs can also argue that shifting you into containers will mean they spend less time on multiple versions of their products, and more time innovating on your behalf.
Analysts and even VMware have told me they see commercial software vendors as the key driver of container adoption. They suggest it won't be long before ISVs politely but firmly insist your next upgrade will also be a re-platforming project — from however you run an app today into containers.
Over time, ISVs' shift to containers will build an estate that comes to dominate the enterprise and makes container management capability non-negotiable.
Containers' affinity with agile software development techniques is a huge bonus
Ironically, this shift will also preserve the life of the virtual machine. Many IT shops that have chosen a VM-centric view of the world will be most comfortable running their initial containerised apps inside VMs.
The virtual machine will live on, perhaps for longer than it deserves to. But VMs are already a well-understood, mature, technology for almost everything other than delivering easily iterated applications. But because applications are the reason we bother with IT, and containers' affinity with agile software development techniques is a huge bonus, containerisation is on track to become the most important and exciting abstraction.
At least until whatever comes along next comes along, and we get to go through another cycle of change. ®
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It had been the heartfelt desire of Isha meditators and volunteers in Europe to have a physical presence that can act as a hub of inner transformation. One volunteer recalls the logistics involved in conducting Inner Engineering programmes until we opened the centre: from shifting all the materials in vans and lifting them across several floors, cooking the programme food in a separate building and moving it to the venue couple of streets away or pleading with the venue watchman to give them more time as they rushed to wind up the programme late on a Sunday night!
So, when after 12 years of efforts, the doors of the first Isha Yoga Centre in Europe opened in November 2017, it was met with tremendous joy. Tucked away in a serene location in the heart of London, an industrial floor was reshaped using warm earth-coloured brick walls to create a welcoming and loving atmosphere - exuding a feeling of all-inclusiveness. Though it had humble beginnings - only a couple of tables and no central heating - the willingness of the volunteers had enough fire in it to get things warmed up and running.
The first few months were a period of intense growth with the centre finding its feet, slowly building up its infrastructure - both physical and individual! Even today, visitors are charmed by the aesthetics and the thoughtfulness that went into designing the interiors during the initial days.
It only seems appropriate that Mahashivaratri in February 2018 was when the centre truly came into its own, when packed to its full capacity it hosted a nightlong celebration that combined explosive meditations with rapturous dance and food! From then on, the pace of happenings swiftly picked up with a plethora of programmes getting scheduled at the centre.
Free Offering Sessions were introduced with the intention of bringing Isha to a wider range of audience. Realising the importance of constantly refining and deepening the practises, the centre made guided Hatha Yoga sessions and guided Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya corrections a recurring fixture in its schedule. The following months saw the range of activities being expanded even further with 'Food for Wellbeing' workshops that provided participants an opportunity to learn simple wholesome recipes the Isha way! Perhaps unsurprisingly, Yoga for Children became one of the most popular workshops at the centre, with the laughter and giggles of the young ones bringing out the inner child in everyone!
In late July, Guru Purnima marked another major milestone in the story of the centre. The celebrations commenced with the releasing of the butterflies that underwent a surprisingly rapid transformation from caterpillar larvae in the turbo charged atmosphere of the centre. The occasion also marked the beginning of Sadhanapada – a unique opportunity offered by Sadhguru for meditators to benefit from doing their daily practices in the consecrated space of the centre. It was very well received with meditators moving to London from as far as Hungary and Romania to be a part of it.
The advent of August marked the beginning of a new phase of growth with a Samyama Sadhana Yantra consecrated by Sadhguru adorning the hall! Many people felt their experience, be it the practices, programmes or volunteering, rose to another pitch by the sheer presence of the yantra. September was when the volunteers got actively involved in outreach efforts to spread the word about Isha and its newly opened centre in various social and cultural events across London. During the Diwali Celebrations at the iconic Trafalgar Square, Hatha Yoga teachers mesmerised the crowd with an exquisite display of the ancient system of Angamardana! Spurred with a sense of momentum, the centre started hosting Isha Cultural Evenings, celebrating Indian classical music and its deep linkages to spirituality.
As we look back at the past one year we are humbled at the evolution of the centre and the impact it has made. We can only bow down with gratitude at Sadhguru's grace and guidance that made such a growth possible. There has been a spectacular transition from offering just 3 programmes in the first month to over 70 now. Perhaps there is no greater joy than to see new meditators initiated into Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya at the centre come back to volunteer and make this transformation possible for others! We have an increased visibility in the London wellbeing space and are expanding quickly. The seed that was planted over a year ago has started to blossom, but still is yet to flower and reach its full potential. We have big plans for the centre, for it to become a beacon for spreading tools of self- transformation across Europe - and we have only just started!
Editors Note: The Isha Yoga Centre at 1-2 Silex Street SE1 0DW, London offers Inner Engineering Programs regularly and also conducts various Hatha Yoga workshops. Tucked away in a serene location in the heart of London, it offers a tranquil space to meditate and rejuvenate amidst the fast pace of modern life. We invite you to come and visit the nurturing atmosphere of the centre and experience the joy of the space first-hand.


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Ice cream shop bids to take over Innerleithen Post Office services
Christine Grahame MSP at Caldwell's in Innerleithen.
Kathryn Wylie
Townsfolk in Innerleithen are demanding that a permanent post office be reinstated as they are unhappy about the part-time mobile service currently on offer.
The town is temporarily being served by a mobile outreach van service every Friday between 9.30am and 1pm after the town's DayMart store ceased to act as a post office following the resignation of the post master there on Thursday, February 9.
DayMart in Innerleithen, which used to host the town's Post Office.
However, residents are critical of the reduced service and are calling for a full-time post office to be run in the town again.
Many welcome this week's news that long-established High Street shop Caldwell's Ice Cream Parlour has applied to take over the running of the service.
Owner Andrew Caldwell said: "I felt the town needed more than a van sitting in a layby for three hours a week.
"When we heard the place was closing, we thought it was important to apply. We would have went for it before, but it was all advertised online, so we missed out last time."
Caldwell's Ice Cream Parlour, Innerleithen.
Mr Caldwell is now expecting a visit from the Post Office within the next two weeks but will not expect to hear any news on his bid until after an ongoing consultation on the mobile van service ends on March 24.
He believes his shop, established in 1911 and run by three generations of the Caldwell family, has enough room to comfortably host post office services, and he hopes they would create further jobs.
"We would need the support of the town to keep it going and for this to work," Mr Caldwell added. "We are asking people to put in their views, and we need as many people as possible to do that and reply to the consultation that the post office is running."
His bid has already been backed by Tweeddale East councillor Graham Garvie, Tweeddale MP David Mundell and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale MSP Christine Grahame.
Ms Grahame said: "I have been in touch with the Post Office and Innerleithen Community Council since the news of the post office's withdrawal from Innerleithen first broke.
"It is absolutely essential that a thriving, growing town like Innerleithen has a full range of postal services – and not just for a few hours once a week.
"The news that Caldwell's, a popular and well established local business, is considering hosting these services is a promising development, and I stand ready to help with that bid in any way I can."
Borderer Christine and family reach for sky to raise funds
Mr Mundell added: "It is clear, with Innerleithen being a growing town serving those who live there and beyond in terms of vital services, that a mobile service for a few hours on a Friday simply isn't going to meet the demand from residents.
"I have made it clear to the Post Office that it needs to come up with a far better solution that will deliver services on a much more regular basis in Innerleithen to meet locals' needs."
However, former postmaster Kashief Ali, who ran the post office service from his DayMart store until last month, has warned that anyone taking on the running of the service should be prepared for a challenging time.
He said: "Since we took on the post office, we have had problems. People have been shouting at us, and we have had threats from people when we've asked them for ID.
"People were complaining about us having our two-year-old baby in the shop, but it is a family-run business. What do they expect?"
Mr Ali and his wife, who have lived in the town for over six years, set up the post office within their DayMart general store in February 2015 after the High Street post office closed down.
"We took over the running of the post office for the sake of the community," he added.
"I know a lot of people have been affected by this, but we could not keep going with it under such abuse.
"We received no support from the Post Office at all.
"I got in touch with the post office union and even the chairman of that didn't get back to me."
Mr Ali says he had already registered his intention to give up the post office back in August, months before the burglary that saw his shop raided and a five-figure sum of cash and a quantity of cigarettes taken overnight on Wednesday, February 8.
"I had made up my mind already," he said. "I have had two years of stress. Hopefully I will come back to my life. It was the worst decision of my life."
"If someone has £20,000 to £25,000 in their pocket to subsidise the Post Office then I would recommend it."
Residents have until March 24 to share their views on postal services in the town by contacting the Post Office through email: comments@postoffice.co.uk, calling 03457223344 or through their website www.postofficeviews.com.


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Telltale Games will be resurrected as a brand with some property licenses from before studio's closure last year.
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PS Plus subscribers are in for a treat in September with two action-packed games.
Telltale Games are to be revived, at least in brand name, after the studio's heart-breaking and high-profile closure due to bankruptcy last year.
Talking to GameDaily.biz, new owners of Telltale Games Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle have outlined their intention to reopen the maligned studio while working on some of the properties that they still retain the rights to.
"I would say for the current games, we're definitely focused on creative and maintaining them," Ottilie told GameDaily. "We didn't acquire the company -- we acquired the assets, which means all those people are gone, the publishing team's gone, and there's a void that needs to be filled there."
In a separate interview with Polygon, Ottilie said that some of Telltale's original staff would be offered freelance roles, with full-time positions possible in the future. He also confirmed that the new studio would retain back-catalog rights to The Wolf Among Us and Batman, as well as original Telltale games such as Puzzle Agent.
However The Walking Dead, possibly Telltale's most well-known and high-profile franchise, will not be returning from the grave. The license for the property, which spans comic books, TV shows and other games, is now owned by Skybound who have already outlined plans for their own schedule of releases. The unreleased Stranger Things series has also reverted back to Netflix.
Other franchises, including Tales From The Borderlands, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy and Minecraft have not been confirmed by Ottilie or Waddle, however Ottilie did tell Polygon: "There are some other expired licenses that we're looking at."
GameDaily reports that other backers behind Telltale Games' return to the land of the living include Chris Kingsley (Rebellion Games), Tobias Sjögren (formerly White Wolf), Lyle Hall (Heavy Iron Studios), Athlon Games (named as publisher for Telltale's existing IP), and other unnamed investors.
Chris is the captain of the good ship AllGamers, which would explain everything you're seeing here. Get in touch to talk about work or the $6 million Echo Slam by emailing chris.higgins@allgamers.com or finding him on Twitter.


Pennfest is a popular local festival with plenty of Marlow residents, so after many, many recommendations, MyMarlow went along to check it out this year. Friday looked great, with headliners The Kaiser Chiefs, but we visited on Saturday – and what a fantastic event!
There was plenty going on all over the site, including family friendly activities, although our photos concentrate on the main attraction – the music!
We saw the great headline set by Manic Street Preachers plus many others including Leftfield, Badly Drawn Boy, Star Sailor, Mel C and The Sugar Hill Gang. If you went along, we hope you enjoy our photos – we'll be back for more next year for sure!
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Physicalist theories are either reductive or non-reductive. I argue that two of the reductive theories, eliminativism and the identity theory, do not succeed. My point is that if we were to use a physical description of the brain to explain behavior, we must be able to individuate brain states in terms of mental states. Human actions are most often defined in terms of intentional states. The other reductive physicalist theory, the identity theory, seems to be supported by some recent experiments. However, the multiple-realization argument is considered as a devastating argument against any kind of identity between the mind and the brain. Nevertheless, I believe that this argument is flawed, but that the identity theory is nevertheless inadequate for other reasons. In the end, I present but dismiss a structural identity theory as an alternative to the classical identity theory.


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Increasingly common nowadays is the "open" adoption process, in which the adoptive parents actually meet and usually stay in touch with the birthparents. Each adoption is a unique experience and the degree to which there is openness and interaction between adoptive parents and birth parents varies. It depends on how comfortable all of the parties are with the process and circumstances. However, most adoption agencies now encourage some degree of openness.
For both birth parents and adoptive parents, the open adoption process can remove the mystery from the adoption process, and can permit a greater degree of control in the decision-making process. The open adoption process also allows adoptive parents to better answer their children's questions about who their birthparents were, and why they were adopted. Open adoptions can also help the child come to terms with being adopted, because the child's concerns can be addressed directly by everyone who was involved in the adoption process.
"It removes the mystery, but it doesn't remove the grief," said Claude Riedel, a psychologist and family therapist who co-directs the Adoptive Family Counseling Center in Minnesota. "The reality is that, at certain stages, it's normal to have questions: why did you choose not to parent me, not to keep me? And there may be complexities: have you kept your other children, but not me?"
To be sure, open adoption gets rave reviews from the many social workers and families who champion it. Since the mid-1970s, open adoptions have been widely accepted as more compassionate and enlightened than the secretive adoptions of a previous generation. Indeed, the confidentiality that once defined adoption is no longer the norm. While international adoptions remain mostly closed, as do many public agency adoptions, domestic adoptions increasingly involve contact between adoptive parents and birth parents.
Taylor is an OA&FS birthmom who placed her son, August, in 2011. She shared her heartfelt open adoption story of friendship, love and connection for publication in the Rational Enquirer . The Rational Enquirer is a youth sexual health magazine that covers a wide variety of topics meant to inform and connect people in conversation. It's created by a collaboration of the Oregon Teen Pregnancy Task Force and the Youth Sexual Health Program. We appreciate the partnerships OA&FS has with these organizations.
Before the 1980s, most adoptions were kept closed. This is because women who go through unexpected pregnancy simply relocate while pregnant, give birth and then return to their homes. The doctor or an agency then looks for an adoptive family for the child without the mother knowing. This kind of setup can bring about a lot of complications and confusion within the adoptive family, particularly on the adopted child.
The social stigma of unmarried mothers, particularly during the Baby Scoop Era (1945-1975) rendered them social outcasts. By the 1980s the situation improved greatly and the vast majority of unwed mothers kept their babies.[7] In a mother driven society after WWII infertile couples were also seen as deviant due to their inability to bear children. The social experiment of taking the children from "unmarried mothers" and "giving them" to adoptive parents became the norm during the BSE. These adoptions were predominantly closed. The records were sealed, biological mothers were told to keep their child a secret, and adoptive parents told to treat the child "as if born to".[8][9]
Closed adoption refers to an adoption process where there is no interaction of any kind between birth mothers and prospective adoptive families. This means that there is no identifying information provided either to the birth families or adoptive families. However, non-identifying information such as physical characteristics and medical history may be made available to those involved.
No, American Adoptions has established relationships with some of the best adoption attorneys in the nation. Because adoption laws vary from state to state and between counties, it is important to utilize the services of an adoption attorney who specializes in the state where the adoption will finalize, which is unknown until you match with an expectant mother. You have the right to retain your own attorney, but doing so may be an additional, unnecessary expense.
Reunion registries were designed so adoptees and their birth parents, siblings or other family members can locate one another at little or no cost. In these mutual consent registries, both parties must have registered in order for there to be a match. Most require the adoptee to be at least 18 years old. Though they did not exist until late in the 20th century, today there are many World Wide Web pages, chat rooms, and other online resources that offer search information, registration and support.
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All states allow an adoptive parents access to non-identifying information of an adoptee who is still a minor. Nearly all states allow the adoptee, upon reaching adulthood, access to non-identifying information about their relatives. Approximately 27 states allow biological parents access to non-identifying information. In addition many states give such access to adult siblings. Identifying information is any data that may lead to the positive identification of an adoptee, biological parents, or other relatives. Nearly all states permit the release of identifying information when the person whose information is sought has consented to the release. Many states ask biological parents to specify at the time of consent or surrender whether they are willing to have their identity disclosed to the adoptee when he or she is age 18 or 21.5. If consent is not on file, the information may not be released without a court order documenting good cause to release the information. A person seeking a court order must be able to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that there is a compelling reason for disclosure that outweighs maintaining the confidentiality of a party to an adoption.[24] In Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Kansas, New Hampshire, and Oregon, there is no requirement to document good cause in order to access their birth certificates.[25][26][27][28] Some groups, such as Bastard Nation, One Voice,[29] and Origins USA,[30] campaign for adoptees' automatic access to birth certificates in other US states.
Although practices vary state by state, most adoptions start with the birth mother reviewing dozens of adoption profile books [11] or online profiles of prospective adoptive parents. Usually, these are adoptive families who have retained that agency or attorney to assist them in the adoption process. Most US states permit full openness not just regarding identities, but also personal information about each other. Just as the adoptive parents want to learn about the birth mother's life and health history, so does the birth mother want the same information about the people she is considering as the parents for her child.[12]
Choosing between an open and closed adoption depends entirely on the adoptive family's preferences. It's strongly advised that couples that do not entirely support an open adoption should not engage in one. However, it's more rare to find an agency or attorney that is completely comfortable with a closed adoption and will not suggest a semi-open adoption to a birth mother.
Closed adoption was once the most common type of adoption, but now after decades of research, nearly all adoption professionals agree that closed adoption is the least beneficial of all the types of adoption relationships. Only in necessary situations will a closed adoption be recommended for a birth mother, and adoptive families should always be open to at least a semi-open adoption.
Likely the most common arrangement in open adoptions is for the adoptive parents to commit to sending the birth mother photos of the child (and themselves as a family) each year, and short written updates, until the child reaches the age of 18.[19] Often these photos and updates will be sent more than just once a year, such as the child's birthday or other significant events. Sometimes an intermediary is selected to receive and forward the updates, and sometimes it is done directly. This can be through mail or email. Some adoptions are more open than just sending photos and updates and include face-to-face contact. The amount of contact can vary greatly from just once in the first year, to multiple times annually throughout the child's life.[13][20] Some of the adoptees raised in open adoption are now in adulthood and are writing about the experience of growing up in an open adoption.[21]
"The challenge we have is getting the media and people outside our immediate family to understand that open adoption is the best choice we've ever made," said Jill Dillon, a resident of southern Oregon, whose daughter, Carly, is eight years old. "We feel that it's a healthy, safe way for our child to grow up, knowing her birth family and her 'real' family, as we think of ourselves."
Another way older children can be placed for adoption is where the birth parents' rights were terminated by a court due to improper parenting or abuse. Although the child may still foster idealized feelings for that failing parent it is not uncommon in these adoptions for there to be no contact between the child and adoptive parent, and the birth parent.
Birth and adoptive families are counseled about the importance of honoring one's word in open adoption agreements through American Adoptions. If, for some reason, contact is lost and one party is unable to reach the other, we'll hold any correspondence intended for them for up to 18 years in case they notify us and request to receive that communication and want to get back in touch.
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Fortunately, prospective birth mothers today have the power to choose the type of relationship they want to have with the adoptive family and their child during and after the adoption process. Some prospective birth mothers still feel that closed adoption in Texas is the best option for them, and this is entirely their choice to make. However, more and more women today are choosing open adoptions in Texas and across the U.S.
Locate the county you were adopted in and contact the county clerk. She will be able to tell you the process of seeking access to your sealed adoption records. There may be certain restrictions and varying orders of procedure--such as a rule that you must be of legal age to make the request on your own--but you will have to go to court no matter what, and the process for arranging that appointment is by filing a petition.
Closed adoption has been increasingly criticized in recent years as being unfair to both the adoptee and his or her birth parents. Some people believe that making the identities of a child's parents quite literally a state secret is a gross violation of human rights. On the other hand, the birth mother may have desired the secrecy because of the circumstances of the child's conception.
A 1996 study reported in Child Development found that all the children studied "reported positive levels of self-esteem, curiosity about their birthparents, and satisfaction with the openness situation" regardless of whether their adoptions were closed, semi-open, or open. What this seems to mean is that the child's sense of security in his adoptive family is more important than contact with the birth family.
Although open adoptions are thought to be a relatively new phenomenon, most adoptions in the United States until the twentieth century were open. Until the 1930s, most adoptive parents and biological parents had contact at least during the adoption process. In many cases, adoption was seen as a social support: young children were adopted out not only to help their parents (by reducing the number of children they had to support) but also to help another family by providing an apprentice.
"Although I'm very open, [his birth mother] drops into and out of our lives as she needs to," Miller said. After one long absence, when her son was nine years old, she paid for his birth mother to fly from Colorado to California and stay with them for ten days. Miller doesn't give up, she said, "because I think we need to honor the pieces that we didn't provide in the makeup of the child."
It's important to keep in mind that, while adoption relationships can change, it is more complicated to increase contact than to decrease it. If a birth mother starts with an open relationship and then decides later that she needs distance, she can do this at any time. However, if an adoption is closed and a birth mother wants more contact, then she has to come to an agreement with the adoptive family. Therefore, it is especially important that a birth mother choosing closed adoption is sure that it is what she wants.
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The Margin: Apple's AR glasses could be pushed back to 2025 or 2026 amid 'design issues,' says analyst
Apple Inc.'s rumored augmented-reality glasses may not appear until 2025 or 2026, according to Jeff Pu, an analyst at Haitong International Tech Research.
The tech giant's augmented- and virtual-reality moves are being closely monitored, with Apple
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reportedly working on an AR/VR standalone headset and AR glasses for everyday wear.
In a note reported by PC Mag earlier this year, Pu said the glasses would be announced in late 2024. However, he now believes that they will debut later than that. "We now expect the AR Glass to be postponed to 2025-2026, due to design issues," he said in an email to MarketWatch.
Apple has been teasing AR for a number of years, fueling talk about the company's plans for glasses. Citing analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, MacRumors reported last year that Apple AR glasses could appear by 2025.
Now read: Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts AR will have 'profound' impact, downplays metaverse
In a recent interview with the Dutch media outlet Bright, Apple CEO Tim Cook described augmented reality as a "profound technology" that will affect everything. Apple is expected to announce its own AR/VR headset in the coming months, with the device likely available next year.
Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment from MarketWatch on its plans for AR glasses.
The global VR market was valued at $21.83 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15% between 2022 and 2030, according to data from Grand View Research.
But Paolo Pescatore, technology analyst at PP Foresight, told MarketWatch that the market for VR and AR is still nascent. "It still feels like a solution looking for a problem," he said via email. "While there seem to be numerous use cases, adoption and awareness remain lackluster."
Opinion: Apple, more than Meta, holds the key to unlocking a 'metaverse'-type world of AR
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A product geared toward smart glasses feels like a sensible approach and would also be consistent with Apple's focus on wearable devices linked to its core product, the iPhone, Pescatore said. "Furthermore, this feels less intrusive and offers more scope for differentiation," he added. "It builds upon its growing developer community and media partners who are now starting to release features for smart glasses."
"The company has placed strong focus on the iPhone as a gateway to the Apple universe," said Pescatore, noting that this might suggest it is behind the curve on new hardware. "All rivals have been seeking to differentiate with new product categories such as foldable devices, smart glasses, VR and more," he said.
But just as Apple technologies such as the iPad and Apple Watch have revolutionized their respective product categories, Pescatore is confident that Apple can do the same with AR glasses. "Ultimately, when the device launches, Apple will kickstart consumer demand for smart glasses and the AR landscape in general," he said. "For sure, a new device will provide much-needed excitement for the entire developer and creative communities."
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The stage is set for "An Evening with CBS Sunday Morning"
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On October 1, CBS Experiences (or CBSX) debuted its first presentation, a live version of its well-heeled newsmagazine CBS Sunday Morning at Manhattan's Town Hall. "An Evening with CBS Sunday Morning" was hosted by some of the morning show's famous correspondents, and featured interviews with the likes of the director and star of the upcoming film The Front Runner, Jason Reitman and Hugh Jackman; the cast of Murphy Brown; subjects from favorite past stories such as Georgia widower Dan Peterson and Norah Wood, the little girl who asked to hug him in the supermarket; plus live performances by Late Show with Stephen Colbert bandleader Jon Batiste, David Yazbek of the Broadway show The Band's Visit, David Brown's The Harmony Project, and more.
Stay tuned for more announcements of unique CBSX experiences, which I hear are planned thru 2019 and beyond.
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Q: Setting up VSCode to include/exclude folders for C++ intellisense I often have a project with CMake to manage my build system. So you can imagine I would have a load of third-party headers, and my own headers within my install folder.
This is extremely troublesome when I have 2 copy of the same header: one in my install folder (old one) and the one I'm modifying right now (new one). When that happens, sometimes intellisense won't know which is the correct one and might think that my function signature is wrong (because it is looking at the older version).
Same problem when you trying to Ctrl + Left click into a class/function in order to quickly navigate to its definition. It might direct me to the wrong file (in install folder) and thus modify that file won't have an effect in the project (since the "real" file will quickly modify the old one).
An example of what my include folder structure in my install folder:
- boost
    |- fake_boost_header.h
- eigen
    |- not_reap_eigen_header.h
- abseil
    |- real_fake_abseil_header.h
- my_header.h
- my_other_header.h

I have tried the following solution, but seems like it is not working:
Have includePath in c_cpp_properties.json to be install/include/<all_third_party_folder>.
Any idea is welcome. I'm more than open to use third-party plugin...

A: It seems to me your install/include/<...> solution does the opposite of what you want, in that it will guarantee VS Code finds the headers in your install folder first.  You probably want include/** so that it searches all subdirectories in your include folder, assuming that's where the headers are that need editing.
I'm not sure why you'd want VS Code to know about your install folder, as that's the output of your build / code generation process.  If you need versions of third-party code in your install folder, have your build process copy them in from somewhere in your source tree, so that you're not mixing (external) source code and generated code in the same directory.  That is, treat the third party code as source code in itself, even if the only thing you do with it is copy it into your install folder.  Then you can add the install folder to the list of excluded folders in .vscode/settings.json to avoid VS Code searching those directories:
{
    ...
    "C_Cpp.files.exclude": {
        "install/**": true,
        ...
    },
    "files.watcherExclude": {
        "install/**": true,
        ...
    },
    "search.exclude": {
        "install/**": true,
        ...
    },
    "files.exclude": {
        "install/**": true,
        ...
    },
    ...
}

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Q: Accelerometer data I am tring to build an app that will log accelerometer data from this link :
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-barometer-logger-acquiring-sensor-data/
Thing is that I am getting some error and don't understand why am I getting these errors.
I am pasting my code below:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import android.hardware.Sensor;
import android.hardware.SensorEvent;
import android.hardware.SensorEventListener;
import android.hardware.SensorListener;
import android.hardware.SensorManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.support.v4.app.NavUtils;

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements SensorEventListener {

    SensorManager sensorManager = null;
    Sensor sensor = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER);
    SensorEventListener myListenerInstance = null;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
    @Override
    public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
    @Override
    public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        sensorManager.registerListener(myListenerInstance, sensor,
                SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
        long timestamp = event.timestamp;
        float value = event.values[0];

        // String res=String.valueOf(event.values[0])+"#"+String.valueOf(event.values[1])+"#"+String.valueOf(event.values[2]);

        // Log.d("test", res);
    }

    protected void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
        sensorManager.registerListener(myListenerInstance, sensor,
                SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
    }
    protected void onStop(){

        sensorManager.unregisterListener(myListenerInstance);
        super.onStop();
    }
}

The error that I am getting is here:
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.rasam.sampleproject/com.rasam.sampleproject.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at com.rasam.sampleproject.MainActivity.<init>(MainActivity.java:26)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl(Native Method)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java)
06-22 21:44:27.322: E/AndroidRuntime(9918):     ... 12 more

Can anyone tell me why this is happening???

A: SensorManager sensorManager = null;
Sensor sensor = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER);

Immediately after you initialize sensorManager to null, you try to call one of its methods, something which can only result in a null pointer exception.
You must be sure that this later line of code which initializes your sensorManager is always executed before you try to use the sensorManager:
sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);

Likely you should be initializing sensor to null as well at the top of your class, and then getting yourself a real sensorManager, and subsequently a real sensor only in your onCreate() method.
SensorManager sensorManager = null;
Sensor sensor = null;
SensorEventListener myListenerInstance = null;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);
    sensor = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}


mmm drooling over that roasted garlic!
I love mushrooms too, pretty much any way, any time. I have never had them stuffed with ricotta, though: it sounds like a very nice idea.
I would make myself a meal out of those!
Fantastic recipe! Have you given up meat for good, or just for the short term? Either way, congratulations on a thoughtful approach to dining.
Am I ever busy! This recipe looks great - - ricotta again -- isn't it great in just about everything, both sweet and savory?
I agree with Peabody - this is a meal, except that my husband would want meat. And yes, BC, ricotta is amazing and versatile.
It looks lovely - but mon mari would want the meat, too. And I can't get such big mushrooms.... so we'd have to have lots more LOL!
Wow Jan this is a lovely one to add to my growing list of how to make a mushroom into meat! We're really great fans of the big mushrooms and how can you go wrong with that roasted garlic. Wonderful dish.
Beautiful plate, Jann! The mushrooms and the roasted garlic I mean. I'm a huge fan of both. As you may have guessed from my blog's silence, I'm waaaay too busy these days. I get 6 weeks off this summer and can't wait.
I do love stuffed mushrooms would would eat it often but alas, we only get the imported variety and it is not always regular and then the price is usually ridiculous.
Love roasted garlic and meaty mushrooms. We're trying not to have so much meat but all credit to you for cutting out fish and chicken too.
I'm not an experienced cook but I am definitely going to try this!


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A problem that many people face as they get older is osteoporosis. Bones become more fragile and brittle making them more susceptible to fractures. It is also common for seniors' bones to become less dense as they age, which also contributes to risk of injury or disability. The good news is, there are many steps you can take to protect your bones and keep them strong as you age.
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Exercise regularly: Regular exercise can help to strengthen your bones and reduce bone loss. It also supports better balance and coordination to prevent falls that can lead to broken bones. Try incorporating some weight-bearing exercises such as walking, jogging, dancing, or weight lifting. Yoga, bike riding, stair climbing, and swimming can be effective too. Many gyms or rec centers offer classes specifically geared toward seniors to help you exercise more safely and effectively.
Talk to your doctor: If you are concerned that you're not getting enough vitamins and nutrients, talk to your doctor about changes you can make to your diet or whether taking supplements could be beneficial. Also discuss any exercise routines or activities before you start so you can ensure that they are safe. You may need to make modifications depending on your current bone health or any existing conditions.
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Princess Penelope Dewdrop Higginbottom-Roberts, (or Penny for short) is the naughtiest Princess in the kingdom. One day after mailing the Queen's corgi to the North Pole, Father Christmas and the Queen decide to do something to mend her errant ways..
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U.S. Team Players Announced for The Spirit International
September 21st 2015 -
TRINITY—U.S. Team Captain Rob Addington and Assistant Captain Alli Jarrett on Monday announced their team member selections for The Spirit International. The 2015 U.S. Team includes Hannah O'Sullivan of Chandler, Ariz.; Mariel Galdiano of Honolulu, Hawaii; Phillip Barbaree of Shreveport, La.; and Will Zalatoris of Plano, Texas. The talented foursome, along with Addington and Jarrett, will represent the U.S. at The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship, a biennial amateur team event to be played Oct. 10-14 at Whispering Pines Golf Club.
In 2013, the U.S. Team won the gold medal in the coveted International Team competition for the third consecutive time. To keep the streak alive, Addington knew he needed to start at the top of the national amateur golf rankings when he and Jarrett began the player selection process.
"Anytime you are defending an International Team Championship title, you better assemble a team of players who have proven themselves at the highest levels," Addington said. "Fortunately, each of the invited U.S. Team members has won a National Championship. So the 2015 team is a true powerhouse."
The U.S. Team has enjoyed tremendous success during recent Spirit Internationals. In 2009, former Spirit International player and LPGA sensation Paula Creamer captained U.S. Team members Alexis Thompson, Jennifer Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Ben Martin to the gold. That effort was followed by another gold medal in the International Team competition in 2011. Former USGA Executive Director David B. Fay, captained U.S. Team members Austin Ernst, Emily Tubert, Kelly Kraft and Nathan Smith to the title.
At the 2013 Spirit International, the U.S. Team was captained by another former Spirit International player and LPGA star: Paige MacKenzie. She led Ashlyn Ramsey, Ally McDonald, Jordan Niebrugge and Scottie Scheffler to the top of the leaderboard in a closely contested 54-hole event that gave the U.S. team its third straight victory in the International Team competition.
Since its inception in 2001, The Spirit International has become recognized within the international amateur golf community as a prestigious golf event that showcases the best amateur players from around the world. Almost all of the 80 participants – 40 women, 40 men – have earned National Championships in their home countries.
Four National Champions Comprise U.S. Team
Hannah O'Sullivan, 17 – 2015 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion…Currently ranked second in the Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings…Won 2015 LPGA Symetra Tour Gateway Classic…Won her first AJGA event and qualified for U.S. Women's Amateur at age 12…Member of the 2015 Junior Solhiem Cup Team…Verbally committed to attend University of Southern California in 2016.
Mariel Galdiano, 17 – 2015 Canadian Women's Amateur Champion…Currently ranked 12th in the Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings…Three-time Hawaiian High School Athletic Association Champion…2013 Callaway Junior Girls World Champion...Member of the 2015 Junior Solhiem Cup Team…Verbally committed to attend UCLA in 2016.
Phillip Barbaree, 17 – 2015 U.S Junior Amateur Champion…Won the AJGA's 2015 Rolex Tournament of Champions. Runner-up at 2015 Trans-Miss Championship…2014 Louisiana Junior Amateur Champion…Ranked in the top 25 in Men's World Amateur Golf Rankings…Verbally committed to attend Louisiana State University in 2017.
Will Zalatoris, 19 – 2014 U.S Junior Amateur Champion…Sophomore at Wake Forest University…2015 All-ACC Team, ACC Freshman of the Year and Ping All-Freshman Team…2014 Texas Amateur Champion, 2014 Trans-Miss Champion…Two-time TAPPS State Tournament Champion…2013 Antiqua National High School Champion.
The Spirit International features 80 participants from 20 countries, representing six continents. Each country's team is comprised of national amateur champions and top-ranked players. The format of play for the competition is Four-Ball Stroke Play. The men's and women's Four-Ball score is combined for the International Team competition. There is also a separate men's and women's team competition.
The host course for The Spirit International is Whispering Pines Golf Club, located 80 miles north of Houston, in Trinity, Texas. Whispering Pines has been ranked the No. 1 course in Texas from 2006-14 by The Dallas Morning News and is ranked by Golf Digest, Golf Magazine and Golfweek as a Top 100 Course in America. For more information visit www.whisperingpinesgolfclub.com.
The Spirit Golf Association, a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization, is responsible for the Whispering Pines Membership Program and tournament management of The Spirit International. The Texas Golf Association is the governing association for The Spirit International competition.
For more information on The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship, please contact Tournament Director Eric Fredricksen at 281-298-2664 or efredricksen@spiritgolf.org. The official website for The Spirit International is www.thespiritgolf.com.


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Introduction : Since the founding of the PRC in 1949, China has formed a comprehensive transportation system comprehending railways, highways, civil aviation and water transport, and a posts and telecommunications network accessible from all directions. As the market economy system was established after the initiation of the policies of reform and opening to the outside world in 1978, historic changes took place in transport, posts and telecommunications-they have developed quickly and are heading for openness and competition, emerging from a closed and monopolistic state. By the end of 1999, the total length of transportation lines in China had reached 3.55 million km, 16.3 times and 2.88 times the lengths in 1949 and 1978, respectively; the total length of optical cable lines had reached 194,000 km from zero in 1978. In 1978, there were no mobile telecommunications in China; however, in 1999, the mobile phone users reached 43.24 million. Mobile telecommunications have developed to the extent of using analogue and digital networks, and realized automatic roaming with some countries and regions. Data telecommunications have grown from nothing to the stage of having an efficient network. The level of technical equipment of transport, posts and telecommunications is continuously rising. By the end of 1999, the length of double-track railways had reached 20,935 km, with a double-track rate of 35.7 percent, a nearly 20 percentage points increase over 1978; and the length of electrified lines had reached 13,629 km, with an electrification rate of 23.4 percent, a 20.4 percentage points increase over 1978. Developing from nothing, the length of expressways has reached 9,083 km. The numbers of railway engines, civil vehicles, motor transport ships and airplanes have all doubled or redoubled. New berths at major harbors total 1,236, of which 347 are 10,000-ton-class berths, and the number of new civil airports is over 90. With the improvement of transport capacity and expansion of posts and telecommunications, transport, posts and telecommunications have developed by leaps and bounds. In 1999, the various transport means carried 4,023.5 billion tons/km of freight, and 1,125 billion persons/km-4.1 times and 65 times increases over 1978, respectively. The posts and telecommunications volume totaled 331.1 billion yuan, 109 times that of 1978 in constant prices.
In 1949, the length of highways in China was just over 80,000 km, and more than one third of the counties nationwide were not accessible by road. However, by 1999, the total length of highways opened to traffic had reached 1.352 million km. Now, all counties, towns and townships are accessible by road. After 1978, China began to build a large number of major expressways, including the Shenyang-Dalian, Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu, Guangzhou-Shenzhen, Jinan-Qingdao, Chengdu-Chongqing, Yichang-Huangshi, Beijing-Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, Shanghai-Ningbo and Taiyuan-Jiuguan expressways. In 1999, there were 58,000 km of newly built highways, 2,825 km of which were expressways.
China's mainland coast is over 18,000 km long, and its rivers total 220,000 km in length. Such excellent natural conditions provide convenience for developing inland river transport and ocean shipping. The major inland navigable rivers in China are the Yangtze, the Pearl, the Heilongjiang, the Huaihe, the Qiantang, the Minjiang and the Huangpu, not forgetting the Grand Canal between Beijing and Hangzhou. In 1999, navigable inland waterways in China totaled 110,300 km, the volume of cargo transportation was 2,126.3 billion tons/km, and the volume of passenger transportation was 10.73 billion persons/km.
Now there are more than 5,000 berths at some 70 major inland river ports. The Yangtze, the "golden waterway" of China's inland river transport, has considerable annual volume of both freight and passenger transport. Nanjing Harbor, the largest river harbor in China, has an annual capacity of more than 40 million tons. Ocean shipping in China is divided into two major navigation zones: the northern and the southern ones. The northern one has Shanghai and Dalian as the centers, and the southern one has Guangzhou as the center. Harbors (including inland river ports) built after 1978 have an annual capacity of 497.26 million tons. There are more than 20 major coastal harbors in China, with an annual capacity of 1.05 billion tons, and the passenger turnover of 64.01 million Shanghai Harbor ranks among the 10 largest trade harbors in the world, with an annual capacity of over 100 million tons. China has an ocean fleet with a capacity of 22 million tons of goods, sailing among 1,100 harbors worldwide.
In 1949, there were only 21,800 km of railway lines in China, with only 11,000 km opened to traffic. Between 1979 and 1999, newly constructed lines opened to traffic reached 17,919 km, of which electrified lines totaled 11,783 km. In 1999, the length of railway lines opened to traffic reached 57,900, a 19.1 percent increase over 1978.
There are north-south and west-east trunk lines in China. The north-south line, with Beijing as its hub, consists of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway and Beijing-Harbin Railway. The west-east line, with Zhengzhou as its hub, consists of the Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway and Lanzhou-Urumqi Railway. The latter has been extended westward to link up with the railways in Kazakhstan. Thus Asia and Europe are linked by railways from Lianyungang in China to Rotterdam in Holland. New railway lines have been built in mountainous areas in southwestern China, mainly the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Baoji-Chengdu Railway, Chengdu-Kunming Railway and Nanning-Kunming Railway. Besides, the Turpan-Kashi Railway has been newly built in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Between 1949 and 1978, China invested several billion yuan to construct and expand a group of airports, laying the foundation for civil aviation in the country. Since the initiation of the policies of reform and opening, a group of airports have been built and expanded to satisfy the needs of economic development. By the end of 1998, there were over 140 airports opened to civil airplanes. Of them, more than 80 could accommodate large airplanes such as Boeing 777s, 767s, 757s, 747s and 737s, and A340s. By 1999, the total length of civil air routes in China was 1.522 million km, 3.5 times that in 1978, and 1,122 air routes had been opened, 128 of which were international air routes.
The domestic airlines radiate from Beijing to all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, all open cities, and border and remote areas. The international airlines reach more than 50 cities, including Tokyo, Bangkok, Jakarta, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, London, New York and Vancouver.
Since 1978, the development of posts and telecommunications has entered a new historical stage. The scale and volume of the telephone network, and the level of technology and services have all realized qualitative leaps. China has built up its public telecommunications network to cover the whole nation and link it up with the rest of the world.
The public postal network now boasts complete services and multiple transportation means. Many advanced methods are used, including optical cables, digital microwave networks, satellites, program-controlled exchanges, mobile telecommunications and data telecommunications. By the end of 1999, the nation's total mobile telephone exchange capacity had reached 160 million circuits, and the number of mobile telephone users had reached 43.24 million, making China the third-largest market for mobile phones in the world. The total number of telephone users in China reached 110 million in 1999, accounting for 13 percent of the nation's population, while the percentage in 1978 was 0.38 percent; and in urban areas, the percentage in 1999 was 28.4 percent, while in 1978 it was only 1.9 percent. In rural areas, 79.8 percent of the administrative villages now have telephones. China has 102,000 post offices nationwide, and the total length of postal routes and rural mail delivery routes reaches 6.215 million km. All large and medium-sized cities provide international express mail service, and have developed international automatic telex, data transmission, express fax, and TV program transmission services. Besides, various services via the Internet, including e-mail and e-commerce, are now available.


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