During the Great Madness of 2010, when the lords and ladies of teabaggery did loudly drag their knuckles across the land, we were treated to the spectacle of one Sharron Angle, a homo moronicus so deeply de-evolved she was unable even to correctly spell her first name.
From out of the desert, she did come, to warn the people that fluoridation would sap their precious bodily fluids. She wished to go to Washington DC, there to cleanse the waters, and also to revive Prohibition, meanwhile publicly fellating the likes of Augusto Pinochet, because, you know, "sometimes dictators have good ideas," and therefore they should be Rewarded.
But alas, the people of Nevada, in the end they decided they would prefer Ms. Angle keep to her own good froot loop, and refrain from representing them, as US senator, in the nation's capital.
It was only after her campaign had run its course—that is, into the ditch—that we learned how truly peculiar be this woman and her people. We were informed, for instance, that nominally sane members of the Nevada Republican Party referred to Angle's "brain trust" as "The Island Of Misfit Toys." And that although we had known heretofore that Angle was allergic to the media—sometimes, when she saw them coming, she would literally run, and faster than Richard Pryor with his body on fire—we now discovered that Angle actually considered them The Enemy.
For her campaign workers were put through a three-hour indoctrination course, in which they were vouchsafed details of a Secret Code they were to use, when Enemies, like the media, were believed to be about.
At the time, I believed this to be a code peculiar to Angle alone.
But no longer. For last night, perusing a Certified Ala Tome, I was confronted with evidence indicating that Angle probably came to this code by way of the Camorra, an organized-crime outfit originally out of southern Italy, but now Known to be active in Nevada; that is, the land of mutant sand, wherein the rough beast of Ms. Angle was born.
Remember: truly: there are no coincidences.
In all there are said to be about five thousand words in the Camorrist vocabulary; but a large number of these are simply Neapolitan slang, for inventing which every Neapolitan has a gift.
So. It is good that the Angleoids determined it was but "time to water the plants." For if they had chosen instead to bring "water to the beans," there would have been a bloodbath. Many walls would have needed to be excavated, to extract the remains of media-beings gone missing.
Maybe next election. For Achtung Angle, she has vowed to, at some point, slouch from out of the waterless wastes, to seek elective office once more.


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Developing a Plugin on iOS

A plugin is an Objective-C class that extends the CDVPlugin class.

Each plugin class must be registered using the config.xml file, as a <plugin> tag under the <plugins> key.

Plugin Class Mapping

The JavaScript portion of a plugin always uses the cordova.exec method as follows:

exec(<successFunction>, <failFunction>, <service>, <action>, [<args>]);

This marshals a request from the UIWebView to the iOS native side,
more or less boiling down to calling the action method on the
service class, with the arguments passed in the args array.

The plugin must be added under the <plugins> tag of your Cordova-iOS
application's project's config.xml file.

<feature name="LocalStorage">
    <param name="ios-package" value="CDVLocalStorage" />
</feature>

The feature name='name' should match what you use in the JavaScript
exec call, and the value matches the name of the plugin's
Objective-C class. param name should always be "ios-package".
Otherwise the plugin may compile but would not be
reachable by Cordova.

Plugin Initialization and Lifetime

There is one instance of a plugin object that is created per-UIWebView, and the lifetime of the instance is tied to the UIWebView. Plugins are not instantiated until they are first referenced by a call from JS, unless the onload attribute set within config.xml. E.g.:

<plugin name="Echo" value="Echo" onload="true" />

There is no designated initializer for plugins. Instead, plugins should use the pluginInitialize method for their start-up logic.

Plugins with long-running requests, background activity (e.g. playing media), listeners or internal state should implement the onReset method and stop or clean up those activities. This method is run when the UIWebView navigates to a new page or refreshes, which reloads the JavaScript.

Writing an iOS Cordova Plugin

We have JavaScript fire off a plugin request to the native side. We have the iOS Objective-C plugin mapped properly via the config.xml file. So what does the final iOS Objective-C Plugin class look like?

What gets dispatched to the plugin via JavaScript's exec function gets passed into the corresponding Plugin class's action method. A plugin method has this signature:

- (void)myMethod:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command
{
    CDVPluginResult* pluginResult = nil;
    NSString* myarg = [command.arguments objectAtIndex:0];

    if (myarg != nil) {
        pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_OK];
    } else {
        pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_ERROR messageAsString:@"Arg was null"];
    }
    [self.commandDelegate sendPluginResult:pluginResult callbackId:command.callbackId];
}

CDVInvokedUrlCommand.h

CDVPluginResult.h

CDVCommandDelegate.h

iOS CDVPluginResult message types

Using CDVPluginResult you can return a variety of result types back to your JavaScript callbacks, using class methods that look like:

+ (CDVPluginResult*)resultWithStatus:(CDVCommandStatus)statusOrdinal messageAs...

You can create String, Int, Double, Bool, Array,
Dictionary, ArrayBuffer, and Multipart types.  Or, don't attach
any arguments (just send a status).  Or, return an Error.  You can
even choose to not send any plugin result at all, in which case the
callback does not fire.

Notes

messageAsArrayBuffer expects NSData* and converts to an ArrayBuffer for your JavaScript callback (and ArrayBuffers sent to a plugin from JavaScript are converted to NSData*).

messageAsMultipart expects an NSArray* containing any of the other supported types, and sends the whole array as the arguments to your JavaScript callback.

Quirk: this is not just syntactic sugar (though it is sweet).  This way, all of the arguments are serialized/deserialized as necessary.  e.g. it is safe to return NSData* as multipart, but not as Array/Dictionary.

Plugin Signatures

The new signature supported beginning in Cordova 2.1.0 is:

    - (void)myMethod:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command;

The old (deprecated) signature is:

    - (void)myMethod:(NSMutableArray*)arguments withDict:(NSMutableDictionary*)options;

Basically, the options dictionary has been removed for the new signature, and the callbackId is not the 0th index item for the arguments array, but it is now in a separate property.

Echo Plugin iOS Plugin

We would add the following to the <plugins> tag of the project's config.xml file:

<plugin name="Echo" value="Echo" />

Then we would add the following files (Echo.h and Echo.m) to the Plugins folder inside our Cordova-iOS
application folder:

/********* Echo.h Cordova Plugin Header *******/

#import <Cordova/CDV.h>

@interface Echo : CDVPlugin

- (void)echo:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command;

@end

/********* Echo.m Cordova Plugin Implementation *******/

#import "Echo.h"
#import <Cordova/CDV.h>

@implementation Echo

- (void)echo:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command
{
    CDVPluginResult* pluginResult = nil;
    NSString* echo = [command.arguments objectAtIndex:0];

    if (echo != nil && [echo length] > 0) {
        pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_OK messageAsString:echo];
    } else {
        pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_ERROR];
    }

    [self.commandDelegate sendPluginResult:pluginResult callbackId:command.callbackId];
}

@end

Let's take a look at the code. At the top we have all of the necessary
Cordova imports. Our class extends from CDVPlugin - very important.

This plugin only supports one action, the echo action. First, we
grab the echo string using the objectAtIndex method on our args,
telling it we want to get the 0th parameter in the arguments array. We
do a bit of parameter checking: make sure it is not nil, and make
sure it is not a zero-length string.

If it is, we return a PluginResult with an ERROR status. If all of
those checks pass, then we return a PluginResult with an OK
status, and pass in the echo string we received in the first place
as a parameter.

Finally, we send the result to self.commandDelegate, which executes
the exec method's success or failure callbacks on the JavaScript
side. If the success callback is called, it passes in the echo
parameter.

Threading

Plugin methods are executed in the same thread as the UI. If your
plugin requires a great deal of processing or requires a blocking
call, you should use a background thread. For example:

- (void)myPluginMethod:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command
{
    // Check command.arguments here.
    [self.commandDelegate runInBackground:^{
        NSString* payload = nil;
        // Some blocking logic...
        CDVPluginResult* pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_OK messageAsString:payload];
        // The sendPluginResult method is thread-safe.
        [self.commandDelegate sendPluginResult:pluginResult callbackId:command.callbackId];
    }];
}

Advanced Plugin Functionality

See other methods that you can override in:

CDVPlugin.h

CDVPlugin.m

For example, you can hook into the pause, resume, app terminate and handleOpenURL events.

Debugging Plugins

To debug the Objective-C side, you would use Xcode's built-in debugger.
For JavaScript, on iOS 5.0 you can use
Weinre, an Apache Cordova Project or
iWebInspector, a third-party utility

For iOS 6, you would use Safari 6.0 to simply attach to your app
running in the iOS 6 Simulator.

Common Pitfalls

Don't forget to add your plugin's mapping to config.xml. If you forget, an error is logged in the Xcode console.

Don't forget to add any hosts you connect to in the whitelist. If you forget, an error is logged in the Xcode console.

Deprecated Plugin Signature Note

The old (deprecated) signature is:

    - (void) myMethod:(NSMutableArray*)arguments withDict:(NSMutableDictionary*)options;

The Objective-C plugin method's options parameter is deprecated, and
should not be used. For legacy reasons, the last JavaScript object
passed in the args array is passed in as the options dictionary of
the Objective-C method. You must make sure that any JavaScript object
that is passed in as an element in the args appears as the last item
in the array. Otherwise it throws off the array index for all
subsequent parameters of the Objective-C array. Only one JavaScript
object is supported for the options dictionary, and only the last one
encountered will be passed to the native method. Errors stemming from
this problem are the reason options has been deprecated.

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package org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialog;
import org.eclipse.jface.operation.IRunnableWithProgress;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.pentaho.di.core.ProgressMonitorAdapter;
import org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseMeta;
import org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseMetaInformation;
import org.pentaho.di.i18n.BaseMessages;
import org.pentaho.di.ui.core.dialog.ErrorDialog;
import org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon;

/**
 * Takes care of displaying a dialog that will handle the wait while we're finding out what tables, views etc we can
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 *
 * @author Matt
 * @since 07-apr-2005
 */
public class GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog {
  private static Class<?> PKG = GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog.class; // for i18n purposes, needed by Translator2!!

  private Shell shell;
  private DatabaseMeta dbInfo;

  private List<DatabaseInfoProgressListener> listeners;

  /**
   * Creates a new dialog that will handle the wait while we're finding out what tables, views etc we can reach in the
   * database.
   */
  public GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog( Shell shell, DatabaseMeta dbInfo ) {
    this.shell = shell;
    this.dbInfo = dbInfo;
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  }

  /**
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   * @param listener the listener to be notified
   */
  public void addDatabaseProgressListener( DatabaseInfoProgressListener listener ) {
    listeners.add( listener );
  }

  /**
   * Removes a Database progress listener
   * @param listener the listener to be removed
   * @return true if the removal is successful. false otherwise.
   */
  public boolean removeDatabaseProgressListener( DatabaseInfoProgressListener listener ) {
    return listeners.remove( listener );
  }

  private void notifyDatabaseProgress( IProgressMonitor progressMonitor ) {
    listeners.forEach( listener -> listener.databaseInfoProgressFinished( progressMonitor ) );
  }

  public DatabaseMetaInformation open() {
    final DatabaseMetaInformation dmi = new DatabaseMetaInformation( dbInfo );
    IRunnableWithProgress op = new IRunnableWithProgress() {
      public void run( IProgressMonitor monitor ) throws InvocationTargetException, InterruptedException {
        try {
          dmi.getData( Spoon.loggingObject, new ProgressMonitorAdapter( monitor ) );
        } catch ( Exception e ) {
          throw new InvocationTargetException( e, BaseMessages.getString(
            PKG, "GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog.Error.GettingInfoTable", e.toString() ) );
        }
      }
    };

    try {
      ProgressMonitorDialog pmd = new ProgressMonitorDialog( shell );
      pmd.run( true, true, op );
      notifyDatabaseProgress( pmd.getProgressMonitor() );
    } catch ( InvocationTargetException e ) {
      showErrorDialog( e );
      return null;
    } catch ( InterruptedException e ) {
      showErrorDialog( e );
      return null;
    }

    return dmi;
  }

  /**
   * Showing an error dialog
   *
   * @param e
   */
  private void showErrorDialog( Exception e ) {
    new ErrorDialog(
      shell, BaseMessages.getString( PKG, "GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog.Error.Title" ), BaseMessages.getString(
        PKG, "GetDatabaseInfoProgressDialog.Error.Message" ), e );
  }
}


Maya Evans was the second winner of the uVolunteer Travel Scholarship for 2016. She was awarded a free trip including airfare to our program in Costa Rica. During her trip she wrote a daily journal about her experiences and we will be sharing these journal entries with you over the next few weeks. We hope you enjoy them and that they give you an inside perspective of live as a volunteer in Costa Rica.
Today I start my four week journey in San Ramon, Costa Rica with uVolunteer! It is my first time ever traveling out of the United States. I anxiously waited in line for Customs and Border Patrol to give me my first country stamp.
To be honest though, I was very sad leaving this morning; my mom and I sat at the airport for 30 minutes just saying our goodbyes. I am also used to traveling with at least forty other people on my track team, so it was weird traveling alone and not knowing anybody when I got here. But, all the nerves are gone now, and I am extremely excited!
Exiting the airport was very overwhelming. It felt like, as I would imagine, a celebrity walking down the red carpet with a mob of paparazzi surrounding them. Instead of flashing cameras, there was a huge crowd of people waving signs with passenger's names. It took about fifteen minutes before I finally found Gaby, my uVolunteer program coordinator!
As a welcome into the country, Gaby and I got lunch at Deli Malinche with traditional rice with chicken, salad, and plantains. I love plantains, but I typically do not prefer to eat rice. Little did I know, however, that I would be eating rice every day in Costa Rica. I had to wait another two hours for another uVolunteer to arrive, so during this time I tested out my Spanish-speaking skills with Gaby and the taxi driver, Eddie.
I was scared to speak at first, and when I did, many of the things I said were often premeditated. I will definitely have to improve on my confidence to hold long conversations. Driving to our dormitory from the airport I realized Costa Rican driving is crazy!! The speed limit was 90 mph, and the ticos (what they call natives of Costa Rica) weave in and out of traffic without caution. Pedestrians also do not have the right away, so I will have to be careful with this. On the other hand, there was a beautiful view of the mountains on the route home.
Thankfully, we arrived home safely and met two more volunteers; the others were away traveling for the weekend. We didn't do too much on the first night except walk through the mall and into town.
I was extremely surprised though to see a Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and McDonald's in the mall's food court. The currency here is colones and on the bill it is measured in milliones. There are about 546 colones to the United States dollar. I will have to get used to seeing the numbers in the thousands for food and clothing prices. I have to admit I was very nervous coming into a new country not knowing anybody, but now I am excited for what is to come!


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Building and Climate Change, Status, Challenges and Opportunities
The building sector contributes up to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from energy use during the life time of buildings. Identifying opportunities to reduce these emissions has become a priority in the global effort to reduce climate change. "Buildings and Climate Change"provides an overview of current knowledge about greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, and presents opportunities for their minimisation.The report describes sources and distribution of greenhouse gas emissions across different stages and functions of buildings, and the technical measures available for their reduction. Examples of policies and tools applied in different countries to improve energy efficiency in buildings are presented, as are selected case studies on initiatives to reduce energy use in buildings. This report also reviews the relevance of some regional and international agreements to the building sector to curb greenhouse gas emissions, in particular the Kyoto Protocol. A number of recommendations on how to progress the knowledge and understanding of this issue, and how to encourage action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings are also proposed.


This random selection (odd page, final paragraph) is from J. C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (Matthew 21:23–32).
Let it be a settled principle in our Christianity that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is infinitely willing to receive penitent sinners.—It matters nothing what a man has been in time past. Does he repent, and come to Christ? Then old things are passed away, and all things are become new.—It matters nothing how high and self-confident a man's profession of religion may be. Does he really give up his sins? If not, his profession is abominable in God's sight, and he himself is still under the curse.—Let us take courage ourselves, if we have been great sinners hitherto: only let us repent and believe in Christ, and there is hope. Let us encourage others to repent; let us hold the door wide open to the very chief of sinners. Never will that word fail, 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1:9).
—J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Matthew (Banner of Truth, 2012), 220.


We opened gifts tonight. I had asked for books—a whole slew of them on Amazon—and a couple of people got me some books. One of them I already have, and two others that I'd sooner use to fix a wobbly table than read. I don't have the heart to tell either of the gifters how I feel. I hope they couldn't read the disappointment on my face, because they are both so sweet and thoughtful. (I don't think either of them had access to my list, and that's cool.) I'm hoping to exchange the one I already have (because I'm sure I was with her at the store when she bought it) and donate the others to Goodwill. I'm sure she won't mind. (They're the book-equivalent of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. Goodwill seems like the right fit for them.) Anyone else having to put extra work into your "Thank you" faces? Anyone else genuinely sorry they can't enjoy the thoughtful gifts someone else has given them?
And of course tonight my brother got a power tool that all the other guys in the room were jealous of. Suddenly they were quoting 1990s Tim Allen.
Who knew that would hold up? Also, is it me, or is Tim Allen looking like Alan Rickman....?


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Giant squid on the beach?
Remains of an alien from outer space?
No, none of those. Rather, this is what happened to my giant Zantedeschia aethiopica when we got our first freeze earlier this winter. Sometimes gardening isn't pretty friends!
Had I known, I would have brought it to you!
Interplanetary travel can be really hard on one's system!
Fortunately, I did what I often do in my garden, turned my back, marched inside and ignored the slimy mess. It's now disappeared. Laziness or inspired organic practice; you decide.
I Google "Zantedeschia aethiopica". Come to find out it's Calla lily... hard to recognize at this stage of decay but it'll be back. I realized this lily's strength when I move it to a difficult spot (Semi shady dry slope under an ancient pine needle). I still get lots of (undesired) starts in the old location, while the mother plant kept going without skipping a beat!
It always dies back in the winter but this year, because of the freeze, it just collapsed into this gelatinous mass. It always returns.
I can practically smell it.
I went out right after things had thawed so it didn't have an odor yet. I stayed inside long enough for it to disappear into the soil because I sure didn't want to play with that puddle of slime.
Wow. Just wow. Oh, and icky too.
Normally I love a plate of calamari, but I doubt breading and frying would improve this particular mass. This is why I like woody plants. Yeesh.
I didn't even think of breading and frying this. Where was my head?
But if you framed it and put it in a gallery it would be art.
I'm laughing because it's true!
You mean to tell me if I had just turned my back instead of desliming plants yesterday, the results would have been the same? I may sue.
I hate it when you're bored. Hurry, Spring.


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The Stay in a Pub Guide to Enjoying January
Skating, strolls and city runs: the Stay In A Pub guide to enjoying the UK in January
January can seem a long, dark month after the hectic whirl of Christmas, so book in a few treats for yourself with family and friends. Wrap up warm for walks in wintry landscapes, or enjoy some of the festive activities that passed you by in December such as ice skating or pantomime. Whatever you do, think about adding a night in a great British inn from Stay In A Pub, www.stayinapub.co.uk the website that lists more than 1,500 pubs across the country.
Stay In A Pub also offer gift vouchers – minimum order £20 – which can be redeemed at any of their pubs for overnight accommodation, food or drink. So if you know someone in need of a January getaway, why not treat them to a night in the pub of their choice? Available from www.stayinapub.co.uk.
SKATING ON THICK ICE
Nothing says 'winter' better than skating, especially if you can do it outdoors and follow it with a hot chocolate or mulled wine. Many seasonal ice rinks close straight after New Year, but here are a few that stay open into January:
The Eden Project: the domes of Cornwall's iconic eco-attraction, not far from St Austell, make a spectacular setting for ice-skating, complete with penguins to help you glide across the ice. Open until February.
Suggested pub: Rashleigh Arms, St Austell (pictured below). Sink into the leather sofas in the welcoming lounge bar, enjoy locally-sourced food in the restaurant and sleep well in one of the eight comfortable bedrooms of this 150 year-old pub. From £55.
Brighton's Royal Pavilion, open till 17 January. This rink, with the ornate Regency pleasure palace as its backdrop, is a great way to round off a day of sale shopping.
Suggested pub: The Bull at Ditchling: 450 year-old inn with open fires, cosy corners, a range of beers including 'Bedlam' from their own brewery and four newly-renovated, luxurious bedrooms. Double rooms from £100 per night.
PERFECT PANTO
Song, dance and cheesy jokes make a trip to the pantomime the perfect post-Christmas outing for all the family, so book now for one of the Stay In A Pub picks below.
Aladdin at Birmingham Hippodrome, till 31 January: Starring Julian Clary, Lee Mead and Marti Pellow, this panto promises sensational special effects, a magical 3D flying carpet ride and laugh-out-loud comedy.
Suggested pub: The Coleshill Hotel (below). Located in the market town of Coleshill, this friendly high-street pub and hotel has 24 bedrooms, including a couple of family suites. From £80.
Peter Pan at Wimbledon Theatre, till 10 January. Hollywood actor Verne Troyer is joined by comedians Jarred Christmas and Marcus Brigstocke, making his pantomime debut as Captain Hook.
Suggested pub: The Fox & Grapes, Wimbledon. Overlooking Wimbledon Common, this traditional pub offers award-winning food and three luxurious rooms. From £125.
HERE FOR THE BEER
Manchester Beer & Cider Festival, 20–23 January. Beer lovers will be spoilt for choice at this fest, held at the iconic former Manchester Central Station, offering more than 500 beers and ciders from the UK and, at the Bieres Sans Frontieres bars, brews from abroad.
Suggested pub: The Abel Heywood (below). Situated in Manchester's central Northern Quarter, the Abel Heywood has 14 stylish bedrooms, and serves delicious food and a good selection of wines and beers. From £65.
RESOLVED TO RUN?
If getting fit is on your list of New Year's Resolutions, then dust off your trainers and join one of the Winter Runs organised by Cancer Research UK. Last year's inaugural 10K runs saw 15,000 people run through SnowZones and hug polar bears, and the city routes take runners past iconic landmarks.
Liverpool Echo Arena, 17 January.
Suggested pub: Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight. A Grade 11 listed pub, set in this picturesque village, originally built as a 'temperance hotel' by Victorian industrialist and philanthropist William Hesketh Lever in 1900. From £40.
Central London, 31 January Suggested pub: Sanctuary House, Westminster (below). Conveniently located for the Winter Run's start and finish, this welcoming pub has 34 comfortable rooms offering a relaxing stay in the heart of the capital. From £130.
WINTER WALKS
Bright skies and frost-tinged foliage make for striking winter landscapes, so wrap up warm for an invigorating walk. Many of our national parks and other outdoor spaces are well-served for pubs offering a warming pint, a bite to eat and a comfortable room for the weary walker!
New Year's Day Holly Hike, Sheffield Park, Uckfield: Start the year as you mean to go on with this refreshing New Year's Day walk on a beautiful National Trust property. The guided hike is led by Sheffield Park's longest-serving member of the team and affords stunning views of the estate.
Suggested pub: Griffin Inn, Fletching (right). Lovely village pub with 13 individually designed bedrooms including some with four-poster beds, and fine food with influences from London's famous River Café, which has family associations with the Griffin. From £70.
Yorkshire Moors: inspirational landscapes and beautiful villages make this ideal walking terrain.
Suggested pub: The Star at Harome: on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, a Michelin-starred inn with nine bedrooms. From £150.
Pembrokeshire Coastal Path: a 186-mile long path through a landscape of ragged coast and golden beach, backed by rolling hill and low mountains. No wonder it was voted the world's second- best coastal destination by National Geographic magazine in 2012. Suggested pub: Stackpole Inn, near Pembroke: within the National Park, and close to hte Coastal Path and stunning Broad Haven beach, this inn has four comfortable rooms, two of them ideal for families. From £60.
CELEBRATE IN SCOTLAND
Whether you can claim Scottish lineage or not, Burns Night on 25 January is a great excuse for a party towards the end of a long month! Why not join the celebrations in Edinburgh, where the Bard penned many of his famous works. Poetry readings, supper of haggis, neeps and tatties and the sound of bagpipes make for an unforgettable experience.
Suggested pub: Sun Inn, Dalkeith. Award-winning pub with four individually styled bedrooms, including the Signature Suite with four-poster bed and copper bath – ideal for a romantic getaway. Rooms from £90.
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Providing a sauna, this luxury hotel is an easy drive from Ras Al Khaimah. It features a spa and wellness centre, as well as 24-hour room service, a ballroom and free bicycle rental.
There are a range of amenities on offer to guests of The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah Al Hamra Beach, including valet parking, a kids club and a coffee bar. Guests are able to relax with a book in the on-site library. The hotel also offers a well-equipped gym.
This hotel features rooms with an en suite bathroom, air conditioning and a TV. Each room has a private terrace which gives direct access to the pool. Also included are a pillow menu, a coffee maker and a mini bar.
The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah Al Hamra Beach's on-site eatery provides a convenient option for guests preferring to dine in. In the evening, guests can enjoy a drink in the cosy lounge bar.
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Al Marjan Island14.1 km
Iceland Water Park14.3 km
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RAK Mall24.3 km
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Guests with existing The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert reservations for any future arrival date, including reservations with pre-paid rates, can make full changes or cancellations without a charge up to 24 hours prior to arrival, as long as the change or cancellation is made by June 30, 2020. For guests making new reservations at The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert for any future arrival date, including reservations with pre-paid rates, between today and June 30, 2020, reservations may be changed or canceled at no charge up to 24 hours before your scheduled arrival date. For more information, visit the Mariott Response to COVID-19 page.
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The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert is located at P.O. Box 35288 Al Mazraa, 28.2 km from the center of Ras Al Khaimah. Al Marjan Island is the closest landmark to The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert.
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The Tyranny of History
('Lenin Statue'© keystricken, 2006)
In this essay, one of two runners-up in the 2018 THRESHOLDS International Short Fiction Feature Writing Competition, FARAH AHAMED examines the shifting nature of political and historical events in satirical short stories by R.K. Narayan and Ivan Vladislavic.
Comments from the judging panel:
'A very engaging piece – alert to the interesting ironies and unchanging truths of our cultural biases and blind spots.'
'I enjoyed the yoking together of these two political satires, and the writer skilfully darts from one to the other.'
'This is a rich and deep piece which connects history and commemorative statues to the shifting nature of political and historical events. So a very ambitious and worthwhile piece..'
Farah Ahamed's stories have been published in various anthologies and journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Missing Slate, Enkare Review, Kwani? and Out of Print. She was highly commended in the 2016 London Short Story Prize, joint winner of the inaugural Gerald Kraak Award and has been nominated for The Caine and The Pushcart prizes. She was shortlisted for the Screen Craft Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize, DNA/Out of Print Award, Sunderland Waterstones Award and The Asian Writer Short Story Prize.
By FARAH AHAMED
If, one wintry afternoon, you were to find yourself walking in Bloomsbury, and you decided to take a stroll in Tavistock Square, you might see a woman in a black winter coat and red hat standing in front of the monument in the middle of the square. Nothing unusual about that, you might say, except that, if you were to stare long enough you might see her dusting the snow from the statue, removing dead flowers from its neck and replacing them with a fresh garland. If you were to go closer and observe more carefully, you would see her wiping away the cobwebs from the statue's ears and nostrils, and lighting candles in the hollow base of the pedestal. If you were curious enough to walk around the monument, you would find yourself looking at the sculpture of an emaciated, half-naked old man, seated in a posture of contemplation. Peer at the inscription, and you would discover it is none other than: Mahatma Gandhi.
If by chance you pass through the square on International Women's Day and see the purple-and-green banner, More Statues of Women, on the railings near the statue of Virginia Woolf, you might ask yourself: after fifty years in the square, should Gandhi be replaced by the statue of a woman who changed history? And if so, what would happen to the monument of him?
The significance, symbolism and legacy of monuments are the premise for two short political satires: 'Lawley Road' by Indian writer, R.K. Narayan, written in 1943, and 'Propaganda by Monuments' by South African writer, Ivan Vladislavic, published in 1996. Coincidentally, Gandhi lived in both India and South Africa.
In these stories about administrative absurdities the writers examine how history is acknowledged and resisted: Narayan's story is about the legacy of colonialism, while Vladislavic looks at the burden of communism and apartheid. In both stories, the characters resist the constraints of their pasts and attempt to negotiate the paradoxical changes of the present. On one level, the narratives are about the ambitions of the individual, and on another, they illustrate how characters are embedded in, and influenced by, their particular political histories and landscapes.
'Lawley Road', told from the first-person point of view, uses unpretentious, simple language and a conversational style. It shows with descriptive realism and humour, the challenges faced by the Municipal Council of Malgudi, an imaginary Indian town. None of the characters are named, and the narrator is simply referred to as the Talkative Man.
Narayan believed 'society presses upon us all the time', and no more than in Malgudi, where the Chairman of the Council is thinking about how to erase the memory of colonialism. It is the week after the Independence Day celebrations and he feels he has not done enough. He would like to leave a legacy. He proposes the names of streets, parks and localities be changed, and of course, because patriotic names like Mahatma Gandhi Road, Nehru Road and Netaji Subhash Bose Road are the most popular, the Council ends up giving more than one street the same name, causing great confusion.
The real problem starts when the Chairman decides that the colonial statue of Sir Frederick Lawley, 'with breeches, wig and white waistcoat and that hard determined look', which is in the Lawley Extension, now Gandhi Nagar, ought to be removed. He announces his decision and 'people dropped their normal occupations and loitered around the statue wondering how they could have tolerated it for so many years.' The statue is twenty feet high and fixed on a lead pedestal.
Written fifty years after Narayan's story, Vladislvic's 'Propaganda by Monuments', is a parody of Lenin's 'monumental propaganda', which used monumental art, slogans and sculpture to transmit communist ideas. In contrast to R.K. Narayan's linear storytelling, Vladislavic's story is divided into five chapters. In an interview with 3a.m. Magazine Narayan said: 'The internal organisation of the text, its structure, the proportion of its parts, questions of symmetry and so on are important… Intuition plays a large part — something you develop through practice.'
Apart from a chapter detailing Lenin's motivations in the monument project, stating that they should be 'intelligible to the masses', and appropriately unveiled, the four other chapters alternate between the main characters, Pavel Grekov, a Russian English–specialist, and Boniface Khumalo, a tavern owner in Pretoria.
When Khumalo reads in the Pretoria News that the Moscow City Council had taken down sixty-two of the sixty-eight statues of Lenin and was giving the 'surplus' away, he has a brainwave. Apartheid has ended and his establishment 'needed more than a change of name to face the future in; it needed a change of clothes.' He responds to the advertisement, asking if he could be gifted, or purchase on 'favourable terms', a 'spare statue' for his 'V.I. Lenin Bar and Grill'. The letter is passed to Grekov, a 'bored' translator in the Administration of Everyday Services who translates this 'important' document using his own method of personal speculations 'that exceeded the bounds of his responsibilities', including 'guesses at meanings, useful turns of phrase culled from memory and the dictionary, corrections of spelling mistakes.' Grekov hopes the assignment will lead to a promotion in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 'Lawley Road', tenders for the removal of Lawley's statue are invited, but the Council cannot even afford the lowest quote and eventually offer it free of charge to the Talkative Man, provided he remove it at his own cost. The Talkative Man hopes to melt the statue and make a profit from the metal. He hires a dozen men to bring it down and bullocks to cart it away. But despite being hacked at for ten days, the statue won't budge. Finally, it is blasted off its foundation and, with great difficulty, is transported to the Talkative Man's house. Here it lies, 'head and shoulders in the front hall and the rest stretched out into the street through the doorway', and despite the obstruction on the street, none of the residents of Kabir Lane mind. However, it is soon discovered there has been a case of mistaken identity regarding Sir Frederick Lawley.
There was a Sir Lawley, during the time of Lord Warren Hastings, who had been a cruel and ruthless tyrant. But this Lawley, whose statue has just been removed, had been a kind man and a friend of the people of Malgudi.
The government orders the Chairman to reinstate the statue. The public is furious and pickets outside the house of the Talkative Man, shouting slogans and demanding the statue be restored it to its original place. But the Talkative Man says he will not part with it unless the Council reimburses his removal costs, and defiantly advertises the metal from the statue for sale, 'as an ideal gift for a patriotic friend.' The Council issues him with a notice under 'The Ancient Monuments Act', and a legal battle begins.
While R.K. Narayan illustrates how the fortunes of a monument could change because of incompetence, Vladislavic contemplates what happens when statues are discarded by deliberate government policy. In 'Propaganda', Grekov sets out to look for the unwanted statues. He finds himself at the place where the largest head of Lenin in Moscow is being removed. He studies the statue and finds its eyes are
…kindly, if not quite grandfatherly…but as the mouth came into focus, beneath the sculpted wings of the moustache, the whole face changed; it became severe and irritable; it took on the expression of a bachelor uncle who didn't like children. And then…as he came closer…the face foreshortened into friendliness again.
One of the workers tells Grekov the statues are being deposited in the 'scrap heap… of history'. The material they were made from would determine their end, except those made by famous artists which were to be 'preserved' and stored, 'behind the bus terminus.' After the statue is removed, Grekov looks for an inscription, but finds none. He reflects on 'how soon people become bored with the making and unmaking of history', and tries but fails to imagine what will take Lenin's place.
Grekov responds to Khumalo's letter, which he has carbon copied and handles with gloves, and gives him the proportions of the monument: seven metres high and seventeen metres in circumference. He writes that it will 'necessitate Herculean efforts in the transportation, but [will be] well worth it', and adds a humorous post script- '…do you question why monuments, large and small, have no hats? The head of Lenin in history was fond of hats, precisely caps.' Grekov is confident the endeavour will end positively.
In 'Lawley Road', six months after the legal battle began, Lawley's statue has still not been reinstated. The Chairman receives a query from the government. Afraid now that, if the Council were dissolved and fresh elections held, he could lose. The Chairman is persuaded by the Talkative Man to use his own funds to buy the statue, and also the Talkative Man's house. He converts it into a National Trust Property and renames Kabir Lane, Lawley Road. The reader wonders, will the people of Malgudi refer to it as new Lawley Road or old Kabir Lane? Narayan takes the reader in a full circle of bizarre twists.
In 'Propaganda', the question of reconstruction of the environment and identity in the post-apartheid era is more central. When Khumalo receives Grekov's letter detailing the scale of the project, he tells himself that 'The Total Onslaught' of apartheid is over. He drives through Van Riebeecksvlei to Pretoria and recognises the neighbourhood is white even though 'there wasn't a white face in sight'. He stops at a building site, sees an old man taking away unbroken tiles and bricks in a wheelbarrow, and reflects on the deterioration around him.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Vladislavic discusses the idea of an environment being continually in a state of flux, and describes Johannesburg as 'rising and falling simultaneously everywhere'. He meant it not metaphorically, but was referring to how heritage buildings sometimes disappear over the weekend, when few people are likely to notice. He reflects on how this affects people's sense of identity and belonging.
Khumalo examines the monument of J.G. Strijdom, an Afrikaaner nationalist and strong proponent of apartheid. He is pleased to find it has a look of 'stupefied terror', and from the inscription learns the monument was unveiled by Strijdom's wife. He realises with a shock that his Lenin statue is at least three times bigger and will be impossible to accommodate in the tavern. In a comic moment, Khumalo decides to donate it to the community as a tourist attraction, install it on the empty plot of land near the police station, put his own name on the plaque and unveil it himself. He sees the sun shining through the statue's 'finely veined bronze ears' and begins to understand 'how, but not necessarily why, the impossible came to pass.'
Every society feels it has evolved a greater understanding of a truth and seeks to entrench this belief, forgetting that in time new realisations will lead to a new dismantling, discarding and repositioning to find a hard-won balance that will also prove temporary. 'Lawley Road' and 'Propaganda by Monuments' can be read, at least in part, as a way of understanding history as an attempt to order and re-order things that cannot be controlled, and comprehending a society which for Vladislavic was 'trying to control and letting things go, between order and chaos'. For R.K. Narayan, it was forcing its demands on confused citizens.
Fifty years from now, if you take a stroll in Tavistock Square, what will you find? Will there be only statues of women or more statues of men? That there will be monuments, as Grekov says, 'is the one certainty we have.' That we will want to alter them is another.


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On Sunday 3rd of November 2019, the Chairman of Aramco Oil company announced that it would be going public and shares of the company would initially be available in the Riyadh exchange in Saudi Arabia. According to some officials, the company is initially offering it's 5% stakes in the stock exchange, 2% would be offered in the Saudi stock exchange and 3% would be offered in some foreign exchange.
The Chairman said that, "Today marks a significant milestone in the history of the company and important progress towards delivering Saudi Vision 2030, the kingdom's blueprint for sustained economic diversification and growth." Analysts believe that the company can be valued at around $1.7 billion. The oil giant caters for 10% of the global demand and is critical for the global oil supply.
The chairperson said that the final price of the offering would be determined after the book-building period. The chairman did not confirm the dates for the foreign offerings and said that Riyadh offering is open to all Saudi citizens, foreign residents in the Kingdom and Gulf citizens.
The listing shows that the Saudi prince Mohammad Bin Salman is set to materialize his promise of shifting the country's financial reliance from oil and is diverting resources for tens of billions of dollars worth of mega projects.


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The "building electrification" movement is coming for your Colorado home. Here's what you need to know before giving up gas.
Fighting greenhouse gases means switching out fuel-burning furnaces, water heaters and stoves for models running on clean electricity. Coloradans will have to adapt.
by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on May 11, 2021 5:11 PM MDT on Sep 21, 2022
Con Frank at his home where he has installed multiple electrification systems, including a geothermal heat pump shown here, heat pump water heaters, and an induction cooktop. Frank is a contractor who helps others electrify their homes in a growing environmental and home efficiency movement. (John Leyba, Special to The Colorado Sun)
They are indeed coming for your gas stove.
And your trusty 40-gallon tank of hot water sitting atop a natural-gas bonfire.
And the belching, fuel-burning furnace in the basement that makes a Colorado winter survivable.
Home and office building electrification — switching out gas or propane appliances for electric versions powered eventually by 100% renewable sources — is on its way to Colorado neighborhoods as a key element of combating greenhouse gas emissions. State officials and environmental groups have spent years clamping down on climate-changing emissions from power utilities and vehicles. So the next frontier is defossilizing the four walls surrounding you.
"It's a significant quantity of climate pollution, and a really important area to tackle if we want to hit the goals that we have to reduce climate-change pollution," said Danny Katz, executive director of the environmental and community advocacy group CoPIRG.
Home and commercial building emissions contribute about 13% of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The primary legs of climate-changing emissions from fossil fuels are power generation, transportation, oil and gas activity, and building use.
Colorado has about 2.2 million homes — 1.6 million of which are heated by natural gas or propane, Katz said.
It's one thing for the distant electric utility to change from coal to solar. Most consumers couldn't care less what's on the other end of the transmission line as long as their TVs and phone chargers work when plugged into the wall.
But switching out appliances that sit at the heart of the home, through a policy called "beneficial electrification," will be a complex and time-consuming process. For starters, many typical consumers have no idea what it means.
When they or the market are ready, electrification advocates say, consumers will find out that the replacement devices can cost the same as — or less than — fuel-burning devices, run more efficiently over time, and rid living areas of locally hazardous emissions such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
"They just don't know," said Conald Frank, a contractor in Foxfield, near Parker, who installs geothermal heat pumps and other replacement appliances in homes and apartment buildings across the metro area. "They go, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it's got to be too good to be true.'"
Removing all fossil fuel-burning appliances from homes and buildings is one of the next big goals of advocates working on climate change emissions and energy efficiency. Replacing gas-burning stovetops with induction tops like this one at Con Frank's home are a key part of the effort. (John Leyba, Special to The Colorado Sun)
What consumers may have missed so far is that the largely invisible infrastructure of building design, supply and regulation have been moving toward electrification while they were thinking of shopping for an electric vehicle.
Denver, for example, is in charge of the largest and often most influential set of building codes in the state. The city is developing a plan to require all-electric basic appliances in new-home construction within three years. A follow-up plan to accelerate electrification in existing homes — largely through incentives to replace aging appliances — will be ready by this summer, Denver officials said.
Denver planners are responding to the climate-change concerns of voters and consumers, said Katrina Managan, buildings team lead in the city's Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency.
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"Our community is really excited about helping us figure out how to meet our climate goals, and they want us to find that really kind of reasonable stepwise path to these ambitious goals," Managan said.
Critics of ever-broadening government climate-change regulation are not so excited.
They note that for at least the next decade, consumers using electricity in Colorado will still be benefiting from coal-burning power plants until renewables take over. They also point to the February cold wave's crippling of the Southwestern economy as evidence that the world still needs reliable fossil fuel power as a backup.
Moreover, they say, when policy is, in effect, demanding consumers to buy a lot of new things, one way or another, the impact is bound to be unfair.
"Some consumers will be harmed by this policy, and some will receive benefits that exceed the cost," said William F. Shughart II, an economist and the J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University. "But not everyone is in the same situation. I don't like one-size-fits-all policies, which restrict freedom of choice."
Three major areas need work, advocates say, as Colorado moves toward electrification of homes and buildings:
The state will need to move faster to write the practical rules and regulations that fulfill goals set by Gov. Jared Polis' Greenhouse Gas Roadmap and House Bill 1261, the 2019 law that set up a phased-in approach to slowing climate change in Colorado. The Air Quality Control Commission and the Public Utilities Commission will need to sanction utility rebates and incentives for consumers to use electric appliances instead of gas, and to let them recover that money from all ratepayers.
Colorado also needs stronger incentives for building EV charging stations, and a more efficient way to build power transmission lines serving expected solar and wind generation growth in the southern third of the state. Many of the environmental advocates' hopes are bound up in this year's Senate Bill 200, which key legislators continue to push even though Polis is threatening a veto. The bill would put hard deadlines for emissions-reductions goals passed in 2019 and build environmental-justice issues into future rules.
Telling local builders, renovators, landlords and consumers what needs to happen inside commercial buildings and homes is largely the job of local building code writers. Cities such as Denver will need to fit beneficial electrification standards into their regular code updates and to ensure that new sets of regulations don't make unaffordable housing costs and bureaucracy even worse.
Cities, utilities and the state will also have to cooperate with nonprofits and the private sector on social-justice aspects of electrification. Changing out a major appliance such as a furnace or water heater takes thousands of dollars. Lower-income residents who already suffer disproportionately from climate-change impacts and pollution shouldn't be the last to get electrified homes, advocates say.
Consumers and building contractors will have to get educated on the new market reality. New heat-pump units, which actually act as reverse air conditioners, are hard for consumers to understand. The same technology can be used to replace traditional hot water heaters, although many smaller-tank, instant-electrification models a la Europe are already on the market. Gas stoves, to which many cooks are deeply attached, must be replaced by magnetic induction cooktops that feel like a whole new way of operating in the kitchen. Induction works only with certain types of pans, meaning some cooks will have to buy new sets.
Even contractors and engineers are often way behind in learning about efficient, practical alternatives that work well in Colorado, Frank said. He frequently installs geothermal heating and cooling, which runs water pipes underground at a constant temperature of about 60 degrees. The water is piped into heat exchangers in winter to reach comfortable temperatures in either summer or winter.
"Mechanical engineers go to school and they don't learn crap about it," Frank said. Electrification needs to move beyond highly educated, high-income consumers who have the money and free time to do the research, he said. Right now, he said, "People that want to find it, find it."
These days, Frank is teaching clients about heat pumps for hot water tanks, which he has just installed in his home. The heat pumps, which are ducted to pull excess heat from near the ceiling of the house, provide ample hot water while running for far-less cost than a conventional water tank, Frank said.
Consumers need to hear realism about products if advocates want them to come along for home electrification and for the fight against climate change, Frank said. A few years ago, he tried European-style instant-heating water tanks that hold far-smaller amounts than Americans are used to.
"If someone's taking a hot shower, as soon as you open up one faucet, you've got almost half the flow rate, and if you open up a second, you're maxing that unit out, and as soon as you open the third faucet, you're trickling water, because it can't heat water that fast," he said.
Air-source heat pumps, which often reverse function as air conditioners during warm months, are currently readily available for builders and homeowners at prices comparable to traditional gas furnaces. Heat pump water heaters are also comparable in price to gas-fired water tanks, although installation can be more expensive to cover heavier-duty electrical supply and backup electrical power.
Induction cooktops are still a few hundred dollars above midlevel gas cooktops, but they are coming down in price as mainstream appliance companies put out more models.
Although use of electrified furnaces, water heaters and cooktops is growing, they're starting from near zero, said Meera Fickling, senior climate-policy analyst for Western Resource Advocates. Heat pumps are currently used in only about 2% of Colorado homes, she said.
Studies show that gas furnaces can last up to 27 years before replacement, and water heaters up to 20 years, she said. Such long turnover makes it all the more important to start new construction mandates as soon as possible, she said.
"The speed and scale of market transformation is really why we need policy — from our state and local governments and our electricity utilities — to meet this challenge," Fickling said. "To be able to advance building electrification in line with our overall climate target."
Tagged: City of Denver, CoPIRG, Danny Katz, Electrification, Jared Polis, Western Resource Advocates
Michael Booth is a Colorado Sun reporter covering health, health policy and the environment. Email: booth@coloradosun.com Twitter: @MBoothDenver More by Michael Booth


What are the Twelve Days of Christmas, Anyway?
Many are familiar with the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' through the fast-paced, entertaining holiday carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Featuring what most assume to be a starstruck lover bestowing upon the subject of his infatuation, absurd gifts like, turtle doves, french hens, and a partridge in a pear tree.
However, the true twelve days of Christmas mark the period, for some Christians, from the date of Jesus' birth to the 'Epiphany' on the 6th of January. The actual song, however, was written during a time of duress for the Catholic church. When the English government outlawed Catholicism, and practice of the religion resulted in death. The Catholics still practiced their religion, but they did so in secret.
One of the ways they did was by writing a song in code that talked about the love of God and the Christmas story as they believed it. This song was one of the most potent teaching tools for the church at the time. Children and families could sing praises out loud under the guise of a silly holiday song. Each gift symbolized a different aspect of the Catholic beliefs. The giver, the true love, not being a starstruck young man but God himself.
The song gained traction among the Christians, and ironically, by the king, his clergy and non-Catholics alike. They were unknowingly doing just what they were punishing Catholics for. To non-Catholics, it was just an amusing song.
To this day the song is a widely known carol typically conveyed in a nonsensical tone. Those who wrote the song many hundreds of years ago may have wanted the actual meaning of the Christ-centered song well known, but still, the song prevails through the centuries with only a few knowing the real meaning.
Enter our "12 Days of Christmas Giveaway!" From the 1st of December to the 12th, we will be giving away a Rice Love product every 24 hours. And no, to win, you do not have to sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" in one breath.
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Differences Between an MBA & a Bachelor's in Business Administration
2 MBA vs. IMBA
3 MA Economics Vs. MBA
4 Course Requirements for an MBA in Healthcare Management
Universities offer students interested in business administration a variety of degree options. A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, or BBA, is a degree that allows students to take applied business courses at the undergraduate level. Students who pursue other majors as undergraduates and/or want to expand their knowledge of business administration also have the option of pursuing a professional graduate degree called a Master of Business Administration, or MBA.
A BBA as an undergraduate degree typically offered by a university's School of Business. Unlike a traditional academic degree, like a bachelor's in economics, the BBA is an applied degree that focuses on the applications of economic theory to the real-world corporate environment. Requirements for a BBA vary, but most universities require students to take 120 credit hours, of which 30 to 50 are directly related to the business administration major.
BBA: Course Requirements
As an undergraduate degree, the BBA requires students to take a large number of general education requirements and electives prior to enrolling in business administration courses. For example, the BBA program at Miami University requires students to take 60 general education courses in areas such as philosophy, literature, science and English. These courses ensure that the students who graduate with this degree have exposure to a number fields and leave the university with a broad liberal arts education. In addition to general education courses, students are also required to take a number of core business requirements and electives. Examples of major-related requirements include study of the principles of micro and macroeconomics and business statistics. Students will also complete major-related electives, such as microeconomic theory, fundamentals of finance, operations management and organizational behavior.
An MBA is a graduate professional degree that, like the BBA, is offered by the university's school of business and focuses on the applications of economic theory. Unlike the BBA, the MBA is a graduate degree that requires students to have a bachelor's degree in order to gain admission. MBA requirements vary across programs and universities, but most are approximately 50 to 60 credit hours and take two full-time years to complete.
MBA: Course Requirements
Unlike BBA programs, which do not have any prerequisites, most MBA programs expect students to have a good understanding of undergraduate level calculus, statistics and microeconomics so that they are prepared to take core requirements. Most MBA programs require their first-year students to take a certain number of required courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics, marketing, operational management and strategy. These courses ensure that students have a thorough understanding of business prior to taking electives in their chosen area of concentration during their second year in the program. Examples of MBA electives include advanced courses in accounting, finance, real estate and marketing.
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Go to chapter: Coalitions and Coalition Building for Advocacy and Policy Development
Coalitions and Coalition Building for Advocacy and Policy Development
This chapter helps the reader to be familiar with the role coalitions play in advocacy and policy development and to understand the various types of coalitions that affect the policy landscape. It also helps the reader to be familiar with the various roles that exist within groups and coalitions that contribute to the success or non-success of the group process. A number of strategies can be used to develop initiatives to impact one's advocacy efforts. These strategies can be used to promote the development of new programs and services and can include the use of and/or development of coalitions, the media and media advocacy, and consumer advocates. The chapter addresses each of these strategies in greater depth. It outlines a variety of issues related to coalitions, group development, and coalition building for aging policies and programs.
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The Social Security Act
This chapter provides a backdrop to our current social security program and an overview of some models for social security programs in Europe and Canada. It explores the genesis of the social program in the United States. The chapter also explores contents of the original social security act (SSA) and compares the titles and programs mandated through the current SSA. It offers some guidelines for the current administration of the program, examines the debate around current proposals for revision, and reviews why these proposals are current issues for consideration. The chapter then presents the current social security system, which provides for older adults, but has also grown to cover dependent women and children. Although many people have argued for their vision to privatize the system, the reality is that there is much more political support to maintain the program as a safety net program rather than a means-tested program.
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Social, Political, Economic, and Demographic Factors and Historical Landmarks Impacting Aging and Disability Public Policy
This chapter helps the reader to be familiar with the demographic and social factors that influence and shape aging and disability policy over time and to be aware of policy changes over the past century within disability and aging public policy. It explains the contrast between advances in science and technology and public policy related to people growing older and people with disabilities. Landmarks serve as essential tools to help us recall specific historical events in time. Historical landmarks, science, and technology have played significant roles in the evolution of social policies; however, aging and disability policies may not have made as many strides as other areas throughout history. The chapter briefly discusses: the role of historical landmarks in shaping social trends and public policies; the relationship between historical landmarks and aging and disability-related policies; and trends in policy, social, and political influences and landmarks in the United States.
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Philosophical Paradigms and Policy Frameworks Impacting Aging and Disability Policy
Aging policy is shaped by a variety of demographic, social, and economic factors. However, these factors are not the only influences on the development of public policy or aging/disability policies. Philosophical paradigms and theoretical frameworks also influence the actual development of policy and play a strong implicit role in how public policy is drafted. Values and philosophies guide the development of specific philosophical paradigms and shape how aging and disability policy is developed and implemented. This chapter explores how these realities play a role in the development and implementation of public policy and aging/disability policy. It showcases some of the realities that may prevent the implementation of the policy or program as envisioned. As a safeguard against a subjectively devised policy and program base, objective evidence and empirically driven initiatives can be developed by aging and disability policy advocates.


Whatever you can do to visualize someone within a demographic—even give him or her a name—makes communicating infinitely easier. That's a persona. In short, personas put faces on data. And everyone on your content creation team will come to rely on them for more effective communication and better end results.
Influence. Is she an influencer [LINK TO http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/influence-marketing-infographic/], or more likely to be influenced? And by what? Word of mouth? Media placements? Or, by you—i.e., success stories about your brand?
Lifestyle. Busy, but in control? Aging, but still loving life? Overwhelmed with parenthood, but engaged in the community? Are there obvious categories? Problem solver? Frugality rules? Independent thinker?
Activity. An obvious question like "What do they do?" can lead to insights on how they might like to interact with your brand. Spend lots of time outdoors? She may tend to gravitate to your organic lawn products. Big into DIY? Let him know more about the benefits of your bamboo-flooring product. Crafty? Give her fun ideas on how to repurpose old T-shirts into a quilt. When she needs new T-shirts, she'll remember your clothing label.
How do they use technology? All the time, with multiscreens? Sparingly, because of a lack of confidence? Does technology define their entire social spectrum? Do they use it to find deals, or to find the brands to which they already have a connection? Knowing this information means knowing how to push your content to your audience effectively.
How do they view your brand? Relevant? If not, engaging content can start to chip away at that barrier and show them exactly how it does have a place in their lives. If yes, then build on that relevancy by encouraging advocacy (see Influencers above).
It's just a start. But remember: Creating then utilizing your customer personas should start in your content planning stage. The right content management tool will include devices such as surveys and templates to assist you in information gathering.


Other Information AMAT/ENI part number 0190-36274 Rev. P4 .
The DPG is a solid-state, RFIDC power generator intended for use in trapping and neutralizing undesirable exhaust particles.
To make simple field servicing possible this generator is designed in a modular fashion.
The DPG can produce up to 1.25kW RF output and is internally adjustable.
The DPG allows control and monitoring through a 15-pin D-subminiature interface.


Intermittent gentle snowfall continued in most components of Kashmir on Saturday night time, however clouds made means for the solar on Sunday morning even because the MeT workplace forecast primarily dry climate for the week forward.
A MeT official stated that moist spell introduced some aid to Srinagar, which recorded minimal temperature of minus zero.four diploma Celsius.
Well-known ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded minus 9.zero diploma Celsius. The Pahalgam hill station in South Kashmir that serves the bottom camp of Amarnath Yatra recorded minimal temperature of minus 2.eight diploma Celsius.
Qazigund, the gateway city to the Kashmir valley, recorded minus zero.9 levels Celsius.
Jammu recorded 7 levels Celsius adopted by Udhampur that recorded minimal four.four levels Celsius.
Contemporary snowfall introduced aid to the residents of Ladakh as nicely. Leh recorded minimal temperature of minus 6.5 levels Celsius on Sunday, 5.four notches above than earlier night time that was recorded minus 11.9 levels Celsius.
The 434-km lengthy Srinagar-Leh freeway and 86-km lengthy Mughal highway that connects south Kashmir's districts with the Poonch and Rajouri district's of Jammu area remained closed as a result of accumulation of snow on floor at a number of locations.
Kashmir is at present underneath the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan' the 40-day harshest interval of winter when the probabilities of snowfall are most frequent and most and the temperature drops significantly.
'Chillai-Kalan' ends on January 31, however the chilly wave continues even after that in Kashmir. The 40-day interval is adopted by a 20-day lengthy 'Chillai-Khurd' (small chilly) and a 10-day lengthy 'Chillai-Bachha' (child chilly).


On 13 August a tabletop sale was held in the churchyard at St Andrew's. It was the first event of a series planned by a group of people drawn from the wider village community, the objective being to make more use of the church and at the same time raise funds for its upkeep. We were blessed with glorious sunshine and the event was well supported. Tea and cakes in the church was a particular success.


To apply for full-time degree courses, foundation degree courses (England only), HNDs and Diploma of Higher Education courses, you acn simply apply through Universities and Colleges Admission Service or UCAS. Applying through UCAS gives you an advantage to apply to at least six different universities and courses. This saves you time, money and hassle of applying to individual universities. Each university and college makes its own decision on whether to offer you admission but the UCAS procedure guarantees that the system works efficiently to a strict timetable.
You can apply through UCAS using the online system which is a web-based online application system. Using this system gives you the opportunity to apply anywhere, at any time of the day. The internet automatically checks important details like course codes and date of birth and alerts you immediately if you have left any missing field.
There are three application deadlines for courses through UCAS - 15 October, 15 January and 24 March - it is important to check the deadline for your chosen course(s). Contact your nearest British Council office to know the exact dates for application.
Being an international candidate, you need to be aware of the three application deadlines but at the same time you should also be aware that not too many universities and colleges will consider your application up until 30 June 2010.
15 January 2010 : Application deadline for the receipt at UCAS of applications for all courses except those listed above with a 15 October deadline, and art and design courses with a 24 March deadline.
24 March 2010: Application deadline for the receipt at UCAS of applications for art and design courses except those listed with a 15 January deadline.
30 June 2010 : If you send your application to us by this date, we will send it to your chosen universities and colleges. If we receive your application after this date, you'll be entered into Clearing.
Note: Clearing is a service available between July and September, but for most people it is used after the exam results are published in August. It can help people without a university or college place to find suitable vacancies on higher education courses.
If you are flexible and you have reasonable exam results, there is still a good chance you will find another course through Clearing.
Most of the courses start from September or October while some start between January and May. For courses that start between January and May, you may need to apply before the three application deadlines above, as the universities and colleges will need time to consider your application.
Outstanding marks from one of the two Central Boards (CBSE or ICSE) or their equivalent or the first year of an Indian degree programme are usually required for direct entry into an undergraduate programme in UK.
For most courses and universities, Indian students are required to take the IELTS (International English Language Test), which is regularly administered by the British Council. Some universities may accept TOEFL as an alternative. Some universities may waive IELTS if your studies to date have been in English and they are convinced that you are proficient in English.
The current fee for applying through UCAS is £9 GBP for a single choice and £19 for up to six choices. You can make only one application a year through the UCAS application process.
UCAS provides each applicant with a unique Personal Identification Number (PIN) enabling them to monitor the progress of their application and to record choices through its 'Track' service available 24 hours/seven days on the UCAS website.
If you are a postgraduate student, you need to apply directly to the college or university. You can apply for as many different programmes as you want. Apply as early as you can as institutions start processing applications up to 18 months before the start of the course.


In 1829, Baltic German aristocratic brothers from the Ungern-Sternberg family built a broadcloth factory that operated in Kärdla from the following year. The wool needed for the broadcloth was mainly imported from outside the island and the factory's products were exported. That was the reason behind the construction of Kärdla's port in 1849: to serve the factory's needs for goods.
As the settlement around the factory had quickly become the largest settlement on the island, passenger shipping lines started calling at the port around the turn of the century. In the 1920s and 1930s, commodities and broadcloth products continued to be shipped to and from the plant, and there were also flows of passengers and cargo such as livestock and agricultural produce.
The port was heavily damaged in 1944 by wartime military activity and a storm in 1947 finished off the remnants of the pier.
A new marina began to be constructed in Kärdla in 2013. The port was opened in May 2014 and there are 58 berths for recreational craft.
Rescue station located near the port in the 1920s and 1930s.
Passenger steamers by the pier.
Passenger steamers Dagmar and Solid by the Kärdla pier, 1930s.
A ship is launched in Kärdla Port around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Estonia's first fishing association was founded in Kärdla in 1898 by factory workers.
Building of the breakwaters at Kärdla marina in 2013.


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