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Trekking New Zealand: The South Island beyond the Great Walks
Hiking New Zealand
Olivia Dwyer
Olivia Dwyer has chiller alternatives to the six Great Walks on the island.
New Zealand has nine designated Great Walks — networks of trails and backcountry huts — six of which are on the South Island. While these tracks live up to the title, lesser-known walks on the island are just as pretty, cost less, and see smaller crowds.
Setting the Scene: The South Island's 6 Great Walks
1. In the northern part of the South Island, the Abel Tasman Coast Track is famous for golden-sand beaches and is mobbed by hikers of all abilities in the summer due to its gentle gradient.
2. The Heaphy Track is the longest Great Walk and starts north of the Abel Tasman, winding from Golden Bay through forest and along coastline to the wild West Coast.
3. The next cluster of Great Walks straddles Fiordland and Mt. Aspiring National Parks in the southern reaches of the island. The Routeburn Track starts near Glenorchy, a town at the far end of Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown. It traverses dramatic valleys past alpine lakes and views of the jagged Fiordland peaks, finally hitting the Te Anau-Milford Highway, which leads into Milford Sound.
4. Also with a terminus at the highway is the Milford Track, but during the high season it can only be trekked one way, beginning at the trailhead on Lake Te Anau via water taxi.
5. The Kepler Track starts at the southern end of Lake Te Anau and is remarkable for its alpine ridges that offer stunning views of the Fiordland sounds.
6. Stewart Island is a southern annex to the South Island, and home to the Rakiura Track. It takes an hour on the ferry from Bluff to reach the island's single town, Oban, and birdwatchers like to travel here to see kiwi and other native species.
6 Lesser-Known Walks on the South Island
I visited New Zealand looking for a wilderness that diverged from the price tags, gentle trails, and crowds found on the Great Walks during the peak summer season.
I wandered the South Island for three months. Here are my favorite lesser-known hikes, beginning with Stewart Island and working towards the Abel Tasman. Check out the websites linked for trail info.
1. The Department of Conservation describes the Rakiura Track as an "introduction" to Stewart Island. For the real thing, start at Oban and walk two days to Mason Bay, the meeting point for hikers returning to civilization from the difficult 10-day Northern Circuit and those on the shorter but challenging Southern Circuit.
This makes for great story swapping in the pristine 20-bunk hut, and there's a 12-mile beach and rolling dunes for birdwatching. I woke up to kiwis pecking at the grass outside my bunkroom, a common experience if the logbook is to be believed.
2. I found the best Fiordland has to offer on the Gertrude Saddle, a day hike off the Te Anau-Milford Highway. The trail rises from a gentle valley to steep sections — complete with chains bolted over bare rock — to Black Lake and bare rock slopes to reach the saddle.
I had a clear day, and from the top we could see the blue of Milford Sound peeking through the angular mountains.
3. To experience scenery similar to the Routeburn but with an extra shot of adrenaline, climb the Cascade Saddle.
I spent the night in Mt. Aspiring Hut, starting the steep climb to the saddle before sunrise. As I scrambled up one side of the Matukituki Valley, the sun's warmth crept over the mountains at my back.
Above treeline, the tussock slope feels almost vertical, and the path wanders along cliffs that plunge straight to the valley floor. The endorphins surging through me at the end of this climb made me feel as if I could fly off the 1,000-meter cliff at the top and soar across the valley to the summit of Mt. Aspiring.
The descent via the edge of Dart Glacier was a unique experience, and the Dart Valley mirrors the look of the Routeburn Track.
4. None of the Great Walks on the South Island offer a brush with Aoraki (Mt. Cook), New Zealand's highest peak. To get a taste of the serious mountaineering that goes on in the Aoraki area, I went with Mt. Ollivier, the first mountain Sir Edmund Hillary summited.
It's a steep climb to reach Mueller Hut at 1,800 meters, and then a short jaunt over scree slopes and boulders to the summit. The reward is panoramic views of Mt. Cook and the surrounding ranges, valleys, and glaciers.
On my descent, I joined the friendly volunteer wardens at Mueller Hut for a cuppa while we listened for avalanches and they shared photos of record snowfall from years past.
5. The two starting points for the Heaphy Track are in isolated locations, and it takes about five hours to drive between the trailheads. For a more flexible route with equally breathtaking landscapes, I suggest the Travers-Sabine Circuit, which is rich in side trips and alternate paths.
I began along Lake Rotoiti's edge, climbing the Cascade Track along Hukere Stream to Angelus Hut — "the purist's way," a man I met on the trail called it.
The Mt. Cedric Route from Angelus to Sabine Hut is an alpine ridge walk that rivals the views found on the Kepler's ridges, while the Travers Saddle is a gentler cousin to the Cascade Saddle. Along the whole circuit were the clearest rivers and most beautiful waterfalls I had seen outside Fiordland.
6. The sun, beaches, and wildlife of the Abel Tasman are so alluring that it's difficult to bypass it altogether. For a small sampling of what sets it apart, I'd recommend a visit to the Whariwharangi Hut.
The best way to reach it is by driving from the nearby town of Takaka to Totaranui Beach and picking up the Abel Tasman Track there. Totaranui is the last stop for water taxis, meaning this is where most hikers end their trip.
I start here, heading north to visit the seal colony at Separation Point and winding my way to Whariwharangi. From there, the overland track back to Totaranui offers views of Wainui Inlet and Golden Bay.
Planning a trip at the beginning or end of the November-March peak season will improve the odds of having trails and huts to yourself.
Carrying a tent opens up more options when planning a route, and staying at campsites on Great Walks is less expensive than bedding down in the backcountry huts.
Use the website of New Zealand's Department of Conservation, which protects and manages parks and reserves in the country. DOC offers advice on how to plan a trip in the backcountry, including what gear to take and how to use its system for classifying a track's difficulty.
Take Matador's advice on 5 Essential Rules for Low-Impact Hiking and 10 Tips for Safe and Comfortable Winter Hiking.
To make time to explore all of the routes listed above, consider learning How to Work New Zealand's Wineries.
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The United States Transportation Security Administration has recently come under scrutiny for, among other things, its use of X-ray full-body scanners in airports to see through clothes and to detect non-metallic explosives. But are they safe? A group of UC-San Francisco professors recently raised a number of safety concerns regarding these scanners. While the Obama administration attempted to address these worries, its assertion that the scanners are safe appears to fall short.
The TSA has slowly been implementing the use of X-ray scanners in airports (so far, 38 airports have 206 of the machines) in order to see through passengers' clothes and check them for explosive devices. Officials have asserted that the machines are okay to use on the basis of the everyday use of X-rays in medical offices. However, a group of four UCSF professors pinpointed several important differences between the medical X-ray machines and those used in airports. They described the issues in a letter to Dr. John P. Holdren, the assistant to the president for science and technology.
A normal X-ray image is a familiar sight—depending on the exposure, an X-rayed person typically appears only as a skeleton. This is because the X-rays used in those machines penetrate the skin and can only scatter off of the larger atoms in bones.
Unlike a medical X-ray, the TSA X-ray machines are a sci-fi fan's dream: they are lower-energy beams that can only penetrate clothing and the topmost layers of skin. This provides TSA agents with a view that would expose any explosives concealed by clothing. But according to the UCSF professors, the low-energy rays do a "Compton scatter" off tissue layers just under the skin, rather than the bone, possibly exposing some vital areas and leaving the tissues at risk of mutation.
When an X-ray Compton scatters, it doesn't shift an electron to a higher energy level; instead, it hits the electron hard enough to dislodge it from its atom. The authors note that this process is "likely breaking bonds," which could cause mutations in cells and raise the risk of cancer.
Because the X-rays only make it just under the skin's surface, the total volume of tissue responsible for absorbing the radiation is fairly small. The professors point out that many body parts that are particularly susceptible to cancer are just under the surface, such as breast tissue and testicles. They are also concerned with those over 65, as well as children, being exposed to the X-rays.
The professors pointed to a number of other issues, including the possibility that TSA agents may scan certain areas more slowly (for example, the groin, to prevent another "underwear bomber" incident like the one in December 2009), exposing that area to even more radiation. But the letter never explicitly accuses the machines of being dangerous; rather, the professors encourage Dr. Holdren to pursue testing to make sure that the casual use of these X-rays is safe.
Dr. Holdren passed the letter on to the Food and Drug Administration for review. But, in the FDA's response, the agency gave the issues little more than a data-driven brush off. They cite five studies in response to the professors' request for independent verification of the safety of these X-rays; however, three are more than a decade old, and none of them deal specifically with the low-energy X-rays the professors are concerned about. The letter also doesn't mention the FDA's own classification of X-rays as carcinogens in 2005.
The letter concludes that "the potential health risks from a full-body screening with a general-use X-ray security system are minuscule." But the increased surface area and volume of absorption area, plus the frequency with which many people travel, suggests that this use at least bears further scrutiny. US pilots' associations have also encouraged their members to opt for the pat-down in the meantime.
Of course, these pat-downs have recently become rather invasive, so now travelers must choose between a little irradiation and being felt up by a non-doctor.
However, the TSA does have a potential solution in hand. Of the 68 airports scanning for explosives, 30 are using millimeter-wave scanners that don't use X-rays at all; they hit the surface of the body with safer radio waves. If the TSA committed to using only this type of equipment, it could avoid the safety concerns regarding the X-ray full body scanners completely.


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Марко племенити Будисављевић — Приједорски, (рођен у Лици 1714) био је српски граничар, надпоручник и аустријски племић. Потиче из угледне личке фамилије Будисављевић.

Биографија
Марко је био син Манојла (1684) и унук Тошин (1650). Чукунунуци су му били: највећи српски научник Никола Тесла, српски књижевник и велики жупан Буде Будисављевић, командант аустроугарске ратне морнарице Станислав Будисављевић... Био је крајишки надпоручник (оберлајтнант) у Личкој граничарској регименти од 1746, стационаираној у Госпићу. Са својом четом личких јунака прелазио је границу ка турској територији која се протезала дуж Пљешевице. Нарочито се истакао у рату између Аустрије и Турске 1787, када је са 500 граничара, међу којима су била и његова два сина (Томо и Петар) и још девет Будисављевића, потукао турску војску код Кључа. Послије те битке додијељена му је титула фон Приједор. За храброст и ратне заслуге аустријски цар Јозеф II Хабзбуршки додијелио му је племићку титулу, грб и право на племићки придјевак (Ehrenwort) Приједорски, на свечаности у Бечу 26. јула 1787. године. Цар Јосиф (Јозеф) II био је син Марије Терезије и цар Светог римског царства, а касније насљедник крунских земаља Угарске и Чешке. На титулу су имали право и насљедници - потомци и они су је користили. Тако је на споменику Станиславу Будисављевићу на аустроугарском Морнаричком гробљу у Пули на њемачком језику, поред осталога исписано и VON PRIEDOR, а вијест о вјенчању Мине, ћерке великог жупана Буде, се у новинама објављивало под навођељем пл. (племенити) између имена и презимена: ...са гдјицом Мином пл. Будисављевић, кћерком пресвјетлог госп. Буде пл. Будисављевића - Приедорскога, великог жупана...  Грб који је додјељен Марку има штит чији је облик савремени француски, са два вертикална поља. Плави (праведност, оданост, истина, вјерност) дио штита има златног лава (неустрашивост, достојанство, снага, правда) на зеленој подлози са сабљом кривошијом у десној шапи, а изнад је златна шестокрака звијезда. Звијезда, са пет, шест или осам кракова, знак су посебне мислости владара у знак признања за храброст, оданост у ратовима за одбрану земље. На црвеном (љубав, храброст, великодушност, војничка храброст, промишљеност у борби, побједник у боју) пољу је оклопљена десница с мачем. Шљем - кацига с накитом (украсом) је саставни дио грба, а са стране шљема висе плаштеви. Изнад златне кациге је златна круна оклопљена десницом са сабљом крившоијом.

Марков млађи син Петар (рођ. 1756) погинуо је с Наполеоновом војском код Вероне 1805. године, а у Верони је и сахрањен. Старији Марков син Томо (рођ. 1750.) био је прадјед Николе Тесле, јер је његова ћерка Софија била мајка Теслине мајке, Георгине. Био је протојереј и одликован је од Наполеона, као и од цара Франца II.

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Рођени 1714.
Личани

Срби у Хрватској
Српска историја под хабзбуршком влашћу
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Denkoe Dharma Talk
A Talk by Kyogen Carlson on Koun Ejo and the Denkoroku
Note: Dharma Talks during the Denkoe Sesshin are usually reserved for those attending the retreat. This year the Wednesday talk was open to anyone who wished to attend, and Kyogen included information on Keizan and the context for the creation of the Denkoroku.
On the 11th day of the 1st month, in the year 1300 Keizan gave a talk to the monks of Daijo-ji about Shakyamuni Buddha. This talk became the first chapter of the Denkoroku. He had recently been installed as Abbot of Daijo-ji, succeeding his teacher, Tettsu Gikai. Gikai was elderly and ill, living at the temple with Keizan looking after him. He would die nine years later.
The founding teacher of the newly forming Japanese Soto Zen tradition, Eihei Dogen, had been born just 100 years earlier, in 1200, living only 53 years. Now, 47 years after Dogen's death, the Soto tradition was in trouble. It was in real danger of fragmenting into several idiosyncratic lineages away from Eihei-ji, and a hide-bound, very conservative monastic core inside Eihei-ji, following a practice more Chinese in flavor than Japanese, and mimicking the founder without his powerful, dynamic presence and teaching.
This is not uncommon after a very strong founder leaves the scene. If those that follow can't measure up to the dynamic personality that went before, they often simply mimic that person, following the "What would the founder do?" method.
Eihei-ji had a strong leader to start in Dogen, and a good Dharma Teacher in his successor, Koun Ejo, who is the subject of this year's Denkoe Sesshin. Still, the time of strong leadership was short. Ejo was older the Dogen, and retired in 1267, returned in 1272, died in 1280.
In the Denkoroku chapter on Dogen, Keizan describes the great Founder's years in China. He had travelled to various teachers and engaged them in dialog, but couldn't find someone who could match is brilliant intellect. In his chapter on Dogen Keizan says, "Having thus engaged in dialogue with various teachers, Dogen became very conceited and thought there was no one in Japan or China equal to himself. As he was about the head back to Japan, someone told him, 'The only one in China with the eye of the Way is old Rujing – you will surely benefit by seeing him.' Even so, it was over a year before he had the opportunity to call on Rujing. At that time Zen master Rujing had just become abbot at a certain public monastery, replacing the recently deceased former abbot. Considering circumstances met, Dogen went to him to resolve his doubts. At the very outset his attack was blunted, and hence he became a disciple of Rujing." Dogen was brilliant, very well educated, and confident. He found someone who could best him, someone he could learn from. With such a teacher he would eventually "drop off body and mind" and awaken deeply.
The chapter on Ejo describes another very bright and competent man who became learned in several Buddhist traditions, and who had many profound insights. Keizan describes his encounter with Dogen.
"Priest Eihei Dogen returned to Japan and Kennin Monastery in 1227 to refine his practice. There was a rumor that he transmitted the True Dharma from China and privately wanted to spread it. The master got wind of this and thought, "I understand the Tendai teaching of the three cessations and three contemplations and have grasped the essential practices of the one approach of Pure Land Buddhism. Moreover, I studied at Tonomine and grasped the essence of seeing essential nature, becoming a Buddha at once. What could Dogen have brought from China? He visited Dogen in order to find out. During the several days when they first talked, they thought they saw things the same way and discussed the inconceivable knowledge of seeing essential nature. The master was overjoyed, thinking that his understand was the same a Dogen's and genuine, and he praised Dogen all the more. After several days passed, Priest Dogen revealed an extremely different understanding. At that time the master was surprised and was about to raise an argument, but he realized that there was something beyond his own truth and quite different. Therefore, … he again aroused a determination to rely on Dogen and hear his teachings."
Koun Ejo
Ejo went on to a profound awakening of the fundamental point of our tradition, and would later awaken many others. More on that at the end of this talk.
With this strong foundation, why was the Soto tradition in trouble less than 20 years after Ejo's death? Several factors are involved. One is Dogen's early death, after establishing a very strong and strict monastic practice. Had he lived longer he could have added some breadth to the depth of the practice he advocated. That was certainly true of Shakyamuni himself, who lived long enough to have taught a great variety of styles. Another factor is that Dogen brought a Chinese style monasticism to Japan, and he didn't live long enough to bring in more Japanese elements. A third factor is that Dogen converted monks from other traditions to his style. In fact nearly all of them had extensive training in Tendai and Shingon Buddhism, and many of his key disciples were ordained and some transmitted in the Daruma-shu tradition, a controversial and unorthodox lineage.
After Dogen's death, Ejo became Abbot at Eihei-ji. Immediately questions of "orthodoxy" vs. "heterodoxy" arose, not unlike what happened 100 years after the Buddha's death at the second council. The argument there was whether or not any of the minor vinaya rules could be changed. That dispute led to the split that developed into the Mahayana and Theravada division. At Eihei-ji, it led to the controversy that would become known as "Sandai Soron," or the third generation controversy.
Ejo himself had been a Tendai monk, practiced and studied Shingon (esoteric tantric) and Jodo-shu (pure land), and had been with the Daruma-shu monks when he decided to join Dogen. Later, many others from that tradition would join Dogen's community. He was accomplished and led others to awakening, but he was not the great founder himself. He held the community together, but the tension between adaptation and innovation on one side and strict orthodoxy on the other was already strong.
Tettsu Gikai was headstrong, and not always known for diplomacy. He was also a Daruma-shu monk, and in fact received transmission in that lineage from his old teacher, who was also studying at Eihei-ji. This transmission happened well into Gikai's years at Eihei-ji. Nonetheless, Dogen saw great potential in him, and eventually Ejo also gave him transmission in Dogen's lineage, then made him successor at Eihei-ji. Gikai was an innovator and wanted to bring ritual elements from Shingon and Tendai into the practice at Eihei-ji. In fact, this would have been advisable in order to maintain a strong connection to their donors, but he was ousted by the conservative faction. There followed some back and forth, with both Ejo and Gikai returning as Abbot for periods of time. Gikai returned, was ousted again, so Ejo returned from retirement. Just who really was the legitimate "third abbot" is the sandai soron, or third generation controversy. Eventually the abbotship went to the monk Giun, a disciple of Jakuen, a Chinese monk who followed Dogen to Japan from China to practice with him. Eihei-ji remained in this very conservative line until 1468, almost 200 years.
Tettsu Gikai
So, let's go back to the year 1300. Gikai is ill and will die soon. Eihei-ji has declined, having lost vitality and donor support. Most of the other descendants have mixed lineages and could well blend back into the dominant traditions. Keizen starts the Denkoroku.
The Denkoroku is unique in Zen literature. Most other "lamp records" are collections of koans, stories from many different lineages, formed for studying various types of encounters and teaching styles. This one follows one lineage exclusively, and it focuses on the transmission of the essential matter rather than a variety of things. The closest things to it are two Chinese texts, the Chuan Deng Lu and Wu Deng Hui Yuan. These follow one line from Shakyamuni through Hui Neng, and indeed this is where Keizan got the material for the Indian and much of the Chinese line. His style is different, however, expanding the stories to be more warm and human, and putting central emphasis on the fundamental awakening. The Chinese texts, however, branch out after Hui Neng to cover the many lineages developing in China. Why did Keizen stick with just our line?
Keizen recognized the profundity of Dogen's teaching, and especially the fundamental point in the master-disciple transmission. This text makes that abundantly clear. Keizan was about to renounce the Daruma-shu lineage he had also inherited to focus on this one. In the Denkoroku, as in his own life and teaching, he shifts the primary emphasis away from monastic forms to the matter of awakening itself, which is right where it should be.
Later, after his old teacher Gikai died, Keizan founded another monastery, Yokoji. Keizan passed Daijoji on to his successor Meiho Sotetsu, and spent most of the rest of his life at Yokoji. It was at here that an important event took place. Until this time, Keizan and others still held transmission documents from Dogen and the Daruma-shu. By this time Keizan was the most eminent of these monks, indeed, the most eminent of Dogen's descendants, and he decided to focus only on the lineage tradition through Dogen and Nyojo. In 1323, at the age of 56, Keizan had a remarkable monument built on the hillside behind the main temple buildings at Yokoji. Called the Goroho (Five elders mound), it is, basically, an earthen Stupa, or reliquary, for the five founding teachers of the lineage through Keizan. The Goroho is a natural looking hillside with trees, shrubbery, grasses and stones, but it also stores discourse notes by Tendo Nyojo, some of Dogen's ashes, Koun Ejo's blood-copied sutra, Tettsu Gikai's Shisho (primary transmission document), and later, Keizan's Shisho was added. Some modern scholars say that, in many ways, the Japanese Soto School took form at this time. Although Keizan continued the adaptations started by his teacher, Gikai, it brought an end to the controversy concerning the Daruma-shu influence, and led to the integration of the lineages in later years. Keizan's grave is also at Yokoji, and along with the Goroho, this makes the temple an important place in Soto Zen.
Keizan would spread Dogen's teaching far and wide because he was able to adapt Soto practices to the Japanese landscape. Soto became increasingly successful, and Eihei-ji also recovered. Keizan had studied with Rinzai teachers after his transmission with Gikai, a practice Gyokuko and I both followed by studying with Shodo Harada after transmission with Jiyu-Kennett. Keizan's influence made Soto Zen warmer and more human in general, appealing to the general public, while retaining a strict monastic core. Soto Zen eventually would become the largest Buddhist sect in Japan.
Monk Jakuen
So, back to the Denkoroku and this retreat: What did Ejo realize when he was studying with Dogen? Ejo had been studying a koan, "Shishuang's a single hair pierces many holes," one of the 300 koans Dogen used with his students.
Shishuang Chuyuan was once asked by Senior Monastic Quanming, "When does a single hair pierce innumerable holes?"
Shishuang said, "Ten thousand years later." Quanming said, "What will happen ten thousand years later?"
Shishuang said, "It is you who will pass the examination and excel among people." Later Quanming asked the same question of Zen master Hongyin of Jingshan [Faji]. Jingshan said, "You personally will have to shine your sandals and harvest the fruit."
COMMENTARY A single hair piercing innumerable holes is a formidable task requiring diligent effort and relentless perfection. Raising the bodhi mind, practice, and realization—whether in sacred or secular realms—require the same single-minded dedication. Quanming's question is: when is the goal reached? Shishuang says, "Ten thousand years later." What is his meaning? [My answer: Non-arriving, endless practice – this is "many holes."] If you wish to appreciate Shishuang's teaching, you must first realize that the process and the goal are a single reality, and then you must understand that to attain one dharma is to penetrate one dharma, and to encounter one activity is to practice one activity. This is called one-practice samādhi [Ejo had studied this. It is a principle the the Mohe Zhiguan]. In it there is no past, present, or future. There is just this single moment that transcends all space and time [This is the single hair]. Ultimately, this is not the doing of self or other but, rather, the myriad dharmas advancing and realizing the self. But say, what does Jingshan mean when he says, "You personally will have to shine your sandals and harvest the fruit?" I ask, what are you calling your self?*
The clue is fairly simple. It's about the one and the many, the single hair the many holes. It's about the minute and transcendent all at once. "So minute, it enters where there is no gap, so vast it transcends all dimension."
Ejo had studied material that the koan refers to, but this was expressed in a way he had not heard before. The key is deep zazen: stillness, original mind, and bright awareness penetrating to the core. It is one thing to grasp the meaning. It is another to experience it with the whole body and mind.
This difference is what Keizan is pointing to with the Denkoroku. It is, ultimately, what really matters.
We are in a period of transition. Not just to a new property, but new teachers are stepping forward. Keizan's writing the Denkoku and establishing the Goroho speak to me deeply right now. As we go forward, as grow and the branches of this Dharma Cloud family spread, let us keep this essential matter clearly and firmly in mind.
* Translation by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Daido Loori. This commentary is adapted by Daido for this translation.

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Consumer panel: We don't need to be separated from the Legal Services Board
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Davies: limited resources
There are "clear benefits" in the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP) remaining part of the Legal Services Board (LSB), the panel's chair has argued.
Elisabeth Davies said the status quo allowed the LSB and the approved regulators to "access consumer insight on tap".
Responding to a Ministry of Justice review of the LSB, Ms Davies went on: "Being embedded within the LSB does not weaken the panel's independence. Our statutory footing preserves our independence and gives us added confidence and protection in terms of voicing our dissent.
"It means that we can represent the interests of consumers without fear or favour. The value of our statutory independence is often hidden as we influence the LSB's thinking before it is ready to test this with stakeholders."
Ms Davies said separation from the LSB could lead to "competing demands on its time" in a way inevitably faced by organisations having to respond to "an economy-wide policy agenda" with limited resources.
"Indeed our operational budget for the year ending March 2015 was less than £40,000. It is doubtful whether such value could be achieved for a body that sits outside the LSB."
Ms Davies stressed that remaining part of the LSB did not preclude differences of view between organisations, such as on how to improve price and quality transparency in the legal market.
The panel has repeatedly called for law firms to be required to publish average prices and most recently, responding to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) interim report this summer, suggested that family lawyers could be forced to work under fixed fees.
If the LSCP were to be made fully independent of the LSB, Ms Davies said it should also be "independent of providers", and "sufficiently funded to deliver its outcomes", with a dedicated budget.
"The legal sector is well-resourced and strongly positioned to put its case to the regulator, so a dedicated consumer voice is needed to provide the consumer counterweight."
On the future of the LSB, Ms Davies said the panel was "of the firm opinion" that the oversight regulator should be allowed to continue until the legislative framework was reviewed and "potentially a single regulator is established to oversee the regulated sector".
The panel chair said that "at this juncture, we would recognise that the LSB's role as the oversight regulator would no longer be needed".
Ms Davies praised the LSB's "commitment to evidence-based policy", which was needed both to "build the case for change" and provide a model for the approved regulators.
"Its recent research on the price of legal services provided much needed evidence and a starting point for the CMA's review into how efficiently competition is working in the sector."
Ms Davies added that she would like to see the oversight regulator follow up evidence-gathering with a "drive towards policy changes" and more consideration of the use of statutory powers to improve regulation.
The Ministry of Justice announced its "tailored reviews" of the LSB and Office for Legal Complaints last month, while stressing that it had "no intention of dropping its plans to separate the legal regulators from their representative bodies".
On the OLC – the corporate name of the Legal Ombudsman – the consumer panel indicated that the review should look at the extent to which it has succeeded in raising industry standards.
It also highlighted its disappointment that the OLC did not apply to become a certified alternative dispute resolution provider under the EU ADR Directive.
"The OLC's decision has led to consumers being signposted to multiple providers, leaving room for confusion. Arguably, it has also had an impact on due consideration being given to LeO's role in handling complaints from unregulated legal services providers."
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Five days ago, they closed a Stockholm institution, the Lydmar Hotel. Kinda funky, definitely hip in its way, nice lunches, great for afternoon drinks, and we put up my family there when they came for our wedding.
According to the husband, the bank that owns the building wanted the space for offices, or something like that. Which is typical bank behavior, actually.
The Swedish phrase for the day is vad trist. It means, more or less, how depressing.


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February 8, 2019 / jlambright
Looks like a pretty standard photo of a Soviet flag-grade soldier, approximately World War Two era. Just goes to show you what horrors lurk beneath seemingly prosaic images. Today's piece was inspired by the reading I did in "Bloodlands," a book I discuss in the post below.
The man illustrated in the photo above is Vasily Blokhin, history's most prolific mass murderer via direct involvement, i.e. pulling a trigger or tightening a noose. In his case, it was usually pulling a trigger, although I am sure he got more creative on occasion.
This guy makes Jeffery Dahmer or John Wayne Gacy look like pikers, kids at play. In one night on just another day he killed more people than those two sickos combined and multiplied. Blokhin is an indictment of the Stalinist era, the embodiment of tyranny run amok.
He would look more in character if his official image showed him dressed in his working garb, a blood splattered leather apron, long leather gloves and a leather hat.
I'll throw a statistic out there that gives the magnitude of exactly how big of a sociopath and freak this guy was.
In April of 1940, a decision was reached by Stalin that all of the Polish officer POWs in Soviet hands should be liquidated. Blokhin got his orders. He packed some sandwiches and vodka, and a suitcase full of German Walther pistols. Over the course of the next 28 days, he averaged one execution per three minutes with a self-imposed quota of 300 per night. When the last shot rang out in the specially insulated execution chamber, Blokhin had personally shot in excess of 7000 prisoners. Doing the math, he must have run short on quota on one or two nights. Wonder if he was tired, or just ran out of ammo. In any case, I'll bet he was pissed when he ran out of victims.
And this is just his most famous and well documented killing spree. Who knows what lurks in the state archives of the former USSR.
To add insult to injury, he lived to old age and eventually succumbed to "psychosis." His official death certificate says he committed suicide. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, really.
This gentleman holds a Guinness World Record for killing, and post-mortem he has a small measure of notoriety. I know of at least one work of fiction where he was a minor character, John Birmingham's Axis of Time books where he made a true-to-life cameo as Stalin's head executioner.
Blokhin was a denizen of the Bloodlands, a ghoul that haunted its ruins. The Nazis deserve their murderous, hideous reputation, and the Soviet NKVD should be spoken of in the same breath.
Seriously, where do they find these people? Do their historical eras make them? Do they find the "job," or does the job find them? If you're looking for a Blokhin, what do you do, place an ad in the Sunday paper? What? "Soulless psychopath wanted, must look like an ordinary Joe. Interesting and rewarding work."
Probably the most frightening part is that I'll bet Blokhins are probably easily found and cultivated, and they're on the payroll of numerous entities and governments. Mostly I suspect they're usually kept on a tight leash, unlike in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
The good news? They are mortal, just like all of their victims. The Walther he loved could have been turned against him.
Eventually, it was. And he pulled the trigger. Probably. One never knows with official Soviet documents. I wonder if he took his own life with the same equanimity that he displayed on so many other occasions.
Who knows, who cares. He's gone.
But what monster will break his record?
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Agree completely. Where do people like this come from. Maybe the time they live in unleashes something inside that couldn't come out otherwise.
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Yeah, his era had a lot to do with it. A veteran of the Czar's army, he latched onto the budding Cheka in 1921. The organization grew, and so did its terror, directed by the rising star Stalin. By the early 1930's the Cheka had transformed into first the OGPU and then the NKVD, one of the most ruthless and murderous organizations ever designed by man. They needed executioners, Blokhin fit the bill and went far. If it wouldn't have been for the accident of birth, it's hard to tell how Blokhin would have turned out. Maybe the annoying neighbor who runs your dog over and doesn't say anything.


Thanks Chris. There was indeed audio all the way through the tour and I cut it not so much for time reasons but because it was very noisy and with the mic I was using it is very hard to isolate the speaker from the background. I haven't seen any legume-based beers on the market yet, but I'll keep my eyes open.


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Q: BIND and OpenVPN on the same port (different IP and interfaces) I have 2 network interfaces: eth0 has IPv4 104.x.y.44 and eth1 has 104.x.y.38.
BIND is listening on 104.x.y.44:53 and I want OpenVPN to be on 104.x.y.38:53 (udp mode).
However OpenVPN fails to start:
Sat Jun 13 20:12:02 2015 us=287547 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [AF_INET]104.x.y.38:53: Address already in use

But why? Bind is listening only on 104.x.y.44:53.
Can you also explain me why do these servers use TCP ports if they both work with UDP?

A: Removing query-source address * port 53; from BIND config solved the problem.

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The Slow Death of Coachella's Local Vendor Economy
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Ivan Fernandez | April 25, 2016 | 8:15am
The sight of bacon-wrapped hot dogs sizzling atop metal trays, their fatty aroma intermingling with desert dust and the odor of dead grass, has been a familiar part of the Coachella Valley Music Festival for many years. But not this year.
Where they once could be found along any entry path at any hour of the day, the hot-dog vendors can now only be found at the very end of each night in the northeast parking lots at the end of the Yellow Path.
"You could still buy hot dogs almost anywhere out here up until about two years ago," explains pedicab driver Nahná. This year marks his fourth year in a row working at the festival, and he's noticed many incremental changes during that time. "Now you can only buy them over at Yellow Path, but I think they can only sell at the end of the night."
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It's a stark contrast to what I remember from when I attended Coachella religiously from 2003 to 2009. The sight of hot dogs sizzling on grills was common from day to night in what was a functioning, miniature economy of bartering and reselling, fueled by the ingenuity of both locals and festival-goers.
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Kids as young as 10 would post in a spot close to the entrance with stacks of 24-packs of bottled water at their side. Catering to thirsty festival-goers, they could easily make a small fortune in a day, much less an entire weekend.
Another common sight was local families posted up under the shade of a tree in the parking lot areas, spending time together while someone kept a barbecue grill going to sell hamburgers and hot dogs to folks walking through the lot. I recall one year when an attendee who brought his own grill bartered with another starving music fan nearby: three burgers for three pills of ecstasy.
The expansion of and changes to the parking areas in recent years has destroyed that old, DIY economy, with much of the action now confined to the camping areas only. Nahná pointed out some of the safety concerns that brought about the changes.
"There's too much traffic between bikes and the carts around here," he says waving a finger towards the Blue Path and Green Path parking lots south of the Empire Polo Club. As he spoke, a pair of volunteers in neon yellow vests stopped foot traffic into the festival to allow three carts to zip by on a muddied path.
"There's a lot more foot traffic up at Red [Path] and Yellow [Path]," he continues. "That's why there's more bikes down here than up there. It's too difficult to ride through those narrow areas."
Perhaps the biggest change at Coachella in recent years has been the absolute elimination of foot traffic on Madison and Monroe Streets between Avenue 48 and Avenue 52. Coachella organizers AEG/Goldenvoice cited safety as the reason for change (and it's true that being a pedestrian near Coachella can be dangerous — last weekend, an attendee was struck and killed by a motorist at a nearby intersection), but keeping pedestrians off Coachella's two busiest entry and exit streets has, intentionally or otherwise, effectively shut down most of the local underground economy that used to spring up around the festival. The sight of a local resident basking in the shade of her own umbrella on the sidewalk or dirt paths leading into the polo fields, with a large cooler filled with bottled water and snacks for sale, is a thing of the past.
Other festival policy changes concerning pick-up and drop-off locations, shuttles, taxis, and Uber rides have also negatively impacted parts of the local economy. In their OC Weekly story "What's It Like to Live Right Next to Coachella?", Denise De La Cruz and Candace Hansen met a resident who is a member of a local church that would raise funds during festival weekends by offering shuttle services to festival-goers.
"The revenue from the limo service provided much needed funding for the church programs," they wrote, "but unfortunately when Coachella changed their parking and drop-off procedures and regulations last year, the church became unable to operate their limo service, which negatively impacted their yearly budget."
Ironically, the bicycle cab drivers (whom many at the festival assume are locals) also take part in Coachella's economic gentrification. As Nahná explains it, AEG/Goldenvoice has a contract with two companies. Those two companies hire bike cab drivers from around the country to work as independent contractors, a sort of Uber for bike cabs.
"I'm actually from Houston," he admits, "and I'm working out here with guys from Chicago, Austin, and from all over the country. The money you make both weekends is worth coming out for."
That's not to say that there aren't local hustlers out there still making a buck, too, such as the small band of hot-dog vendors on the Yellow Path each night, as well as scalpers trying to buy up wristbands from early departers. And of course, Airbnb has created an even bigger economy for locals willing to rent out their homes to festival-goers (though this mainly benefits wealthier Coachella Valley residents who own a second place to sleep).
There is, however, a strong, concerted effort by AEG/Goldenvoice to protect their economic interests by shielding their contracted food, beverage, and transportation vendors from having to compete with enterprising locals, under the guise of safety and convenience concerns.
Meanwhile, the small band of hot-dog and bottled-water vendors at Yellow Path continue their hustle despite the challenges against them: a combination of wind and dust attacking their food, ambivalent festival-goers with a shower and a nap their main focus, and a powerful corporation that appears determined, slowly but surely, to force them out of existence.


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R.I.P: Iron Butterfly bassist, Lee Dorman, dies at 70
Lee Dorman, bassist for Iron Butterfly, gone at 70-years old. R.I.P.
Anybody who knew me in 1969 has to remember my 1963 Chevy's sound system – I had a Craig Pioneer Eight-Track with eight 10- inch speakers – and anywhere I went you could hear rock music blaring.
One of my favorite eight-tracks was "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," by Iron Butterfly. I cranked those speakers up so loud my ears practically bled, but boy was I cool!
Good memories. Thanks Lee Dorman, you rocked! Peace out Brother!
"Another great soundmaker has been silenced. Lee Dorman, bassist for proto-metal rockers Iron Butterfly, died today at his home in Orange County, Calif.. He was 70. The county coroner's office tells E! News that Dorman, who had a history of heart trouble, was found in his car at around 9 a.m., dead of what appeared to be natural causes.
Iron Butterfly's biggest hit was the 1968 jamfest " In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," off the album of the same name, and Dorman's booming bass figures prominently in the classic tune. Buoyed by its 17-minute title track, more than 30 million copies of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" have been sold over the years.
The St. Louis, Mo., native, born Douglas Lee Dorman, joined Iron Butterfly in 1967 and played with multiple incarnations of the original lineup on and off over the years. Drummer Ron Bushy, onboard since 1966, has had the longest tenure overall.
Though the acid-rockers' last studio album, "Sun and Steel," came out in 1975 (Dorman didn't play on that or "Scorching Beauty," also released in 1975), the group continued to tour and "Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly" was released in 1993.
Also in the 1970s, Dorman formed Captain Beyond with guitarist Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, British singer Rod Evans and drummer Bobby Caldwell." (Source)
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May 1, 2017 May 1, 2017 Oleg Komlik
Joan Robinson: Solutions offered by economists are no less delusory than those of the theologians
The brilliant Joan Robinson concludes her insightful book Economic Philosophy:
"The neo-classical heritage still has a great influence, not only on the teaching of economics but in forming public opinion generally, or at least in providing public opinion with its slogans. But when it comes to an actual issue, it has nothing concrete to say. Its latter-day practitioners take refuge in building up more and more elaborate mathematical manipulations and get more and more annoyed at anyone asking them what it is that they are supposed to be manipulating.
In so far as economic doctrines have an influence on the choice of objectives for national policy, on the whole it is obscurantist rather than helpful. (p. 122)
Social life will always present mankind with a choice of evils. No metaphysical solution that can ever be formulated will seem satisfactory for long. The solutions offered by economists were no less delusory than those of the theologians they displaced.
All the same we must not abandon the hope that economics can make an advance towards science, or the faith that enlightenment is not useless. It is necessary to clear the decaying remnants of obsolete metaphysics out of the way before we can go forward.
The first essential for economists, arguing among themselves, is to 'try very seriously', as Professor Popper says that natural scientists do, 'to avoid talking at cross purposes' and, addressing the world, reading their own doctrines aright, to combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count." (Robinson 1962: 122, 137)
Joan Robinson (1903 – 1983) was a British post-Keynesian eminent economist well-known for her work on monetary economics and wide-ranging influential contributions to economic theory. Robinson's gender and her expertise in Marxism prevented her from winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and have slowed her advance in academia. She taught at Cambridge University from 1928 until retiring in 1971, but in spite of a very prolific career and intellectual impact, she received a full professor only in 1965. In 1979, though, she was the first woman to become an honorary fellow at King's College.
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Dave Ashelman says:
I generally agree with Robinson's assessment: that Economics has blurred the line between ideology and dogma. However, there are two points of contention that I have in Robinson: false equivalency, and the use of invalid Popper.
First, Robinson equates metaphysics with theology. They are not the same. Metaphysics asks about the existence of subjectivity and objectivity, regardless of religious beliefs. We would not have the research methods both in natural and social sciences today were it not for metaphysics. Metaphysics allowed Einstein to invent quantum mechanics, re-theorize gravity, and discover atoms. Metaphysics allowed us to understand colonization, reflexivity, and economy in anthropological terms. Imagine our ignorance as a species without Metaphysics.
The concept of the "invisible hand" was not about metaphysics, but about theology. It was specifically metaphysics that told us that there was no such thing as an "invisible hand." Metaphysics also gave us ethics – where the means were more important than the ends, and engaging in HOW we did things was important.
So Robinson's call for (as an extension of Popper) the end of Metaphysics means an end to research methods, and ethics. Not surprising considering my second point of contention.
Second, Karl Popper, it could be argued, is the Josef Mengele of Philosophy. Popper was one of the founders of Neoliberalism, and one of the founders of a social movement to promote neoliberalism. He was very good friends with Hayek, Friedman, and von Mises. If Hayek and Friedman were the public face of neoliberalism, then Popper and von Mises were the brains behind them. I have recently joined a number of scholars in agreeing that there has been no system more responsible for more suffering in the world than neoliberalism; suffering that Popper certainly did not have a problem with. The ends always justified the means for Popper.
Popper's idea of falsifiability is not just an assault on metaphysics, but on knowledge itself. By eliminating metaphysics through falsifiability he also eliminated the need (in his mind) to study ANYTHING. Under his claim of falsifiability, not only can climate change not exist, but neither does the sun. Under Popper, there is no such thing as objects that exist outside of ourselves. That sets up axioms that never have to be proven, taken as truth. And we all know how much economists love their axioms. Popper is partially responsible for the "post-truth" world we live in – where truth never has to be proven (because of axioms) and you can make it up as you go along.
So of course one of the Founding Fathers of Neoliberalism would want metaphysics dead. The end of ethics and methods is fundamental to the neoliberal worldview. This way, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that neoliberalism tortures and kills people, there is no one to care if it does, or even question the evidence.
Robinson's assessment is valid – economics is indeed a dogma. However, she proposes replacing one dogma with another – free of ethics.
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CAMBRIDGE, Md. — The mayor of a town on Maryland's Eastern Shore has been charged in a suspected case of revenge porn.
On Monday, the Office of the State Prosecutor released a 50 count indictment accusing Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw of posting explicit photos of an ex-girlfriend to the website Reddit.
Charging documents say Bradshaw distributed the photos in dozens of posts on the forum between April and May of this year.
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Security Forces Balance Politics and Neutrality
Sharan Grewal
Despite low turnout, the smooth participation of Tunisia's security forces in their first-ever election may lead to calls for greater voting rights in future contests.
Sharan Grewal, a PhD candidate in politics at Princeton University. Follow him on Twitter @sh_grewal.
On April 29, the military and internal security forces voted in Tunisia's municipal elections. This was a historic event, representing the first time in Tunisian history that these forces have been permitted to vote. While registration and turnout were even lower than among civilians, the vote proceeded smoothly.
Tunisia's founding president, Habib Bourguiba, had banned the military and national guard from voting, fearing that involvement in electoral politics would politicize these forces and thereby facilitate a coup d'état. His successor, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, concurred, extending the ban to cover the remaining internal security forces. However, in 2017, the parliament, pushed by security unions and secular parties expecting to gain their votes, granted the military and security forces suffrage in the 2018 municipal elections.
To preserve their neutrality and respect their functions, Tunisia's electoral commission developed several restrictions on the security forces' suffrage in consultation with the Ministries of Defense and Interior. The security forces voted one week in advance of civilians, allowing them to provide full security for the May 6 election. They were not permitted to participate in any part of the electoral campaign, including attending partisan meetings—although some political parties such as Nidaa Tounes still attempted to court their votes. To prevent the public from knowing which security personnel registered and voted, there were no lists of registered voters posted outside polling stations, no inking of fingers, no media interviews, and no exit polls. The ballots themselves were mixed with those of civilians before being counted to prevent knowledge of how the security forces voted.
These restrictions received mixed reactions from the military and security forces. While one retired army Colonel-Major was optimistic that with the restrictions, "the neutrality of the military will be observed,"1 others found the restrictions "insulting." Retired Colonel-Major Mahmoud Mezoughi, president of the retired officers association, argued that "either the military should not have been allowed to vote until the transition to democracy was complete, or they should have been allowed to do so with the full rights available to the rest of the voters."2
The internal security forces witnessed a similar division. While the National Union of Tunisian Security Force Syndicates (UNSFST) encouraged officers to vote despite these restrictions, the National Syndicate of Internal Security Forces (SNFSI) urged their members to boycott. Chokri Hamada, spokesman for the SNFSI, explained that their right to vote was "conditional:" if they cannot participate in the campaign, "how would they know who they are voting for and what their platforms are?" The SNFSI also argued that the police should remain neutral by abstaining, though at the same time contended that politicians did not deserve their vote since they had not yet passed the "Repression of Attacks on the Armed Forces" bill. Ultimately, out of 111,152 total military and security personnel only 33 percent registered to vote, and only 12 percent of those registered (4 percent of all personnel) showed up to vote. The low turnout in part reflects these forces' historic neutrality, frustration with the aforementioned restrictions, and—like their civilian counterparts—little general interest in the municipal elections.
Yet while turnout was low, the voting itself proceeded smoothly, with few violations of the restrictions. With this precedent set, it is possible that the security unions will push for the right to vote in upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections as well—this time, with equal rights as their civilian counterparts.
1. Correspondence with the author, April 27, 2018.
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Business supports UN emergency relief efforts in China and Myanmar
In June 2008, responding to an urgent appeal by the UN Global Compact Office, French reinsurer SCOR Group donated USD 200,000 to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support relief efforts following the devastating natural disasters in China and Myanmar.
"We are very pleased that our call to action has resonated so well", said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. "While philanthropy is not at the center of our work, it is an important component of responsible corporate citizenship, especially in times of crisis.".
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- Insert the charging plug of the charger to the watch's USB port.
Note: When Battery is low, the screen will display warning information, when battery is empty watch phone will automatically turn off. Don't keep the battery empty for a long time, it will damage the quality & longevity of the battery. Use the designated charger to ensure the watch to work well.
- Slide down from the top of the screen to drag the status bar, click on the upper right corner of the icon view WIFI, Bluetooth, Battery power, GPS State. Slide-up to put away the status bar.
- Long press "Power on/off" button will display the operation interface: Power Off; Restart; Airplane mode and at the bottom, there are: Silent mode, Vibrate mode, Normal mode. Choose the "Airplane Mode"


In the Kingdom it was Thursday. While the western world was gorging on turkey with all the trimmings – and wondering how they were going to cover off their maxed out credit cards – life carried on as usual.
Being of a bah-humbug nature I didn't want to do anything Christmasy. The Nurse was working because it was Thursday. Andrew – her partner – Constance – a friend who was born in Singapore – and I decided visit the people who live under a tree and get them some food with Down in the Dumps money. So off we tuk-tuked.
Street 108 was almost deserted. The police had done a raid and the homeless had scattered in all directions.
We learned Lin had gone back to the provinces with her kids. Jive was already there with her sister, as she had sent him shortly after Tran died.
Having been to the family shack – http://www.j-hanson.com/transplanting-trees-to-the-provincial-forest/ — there was no question that she was desperate.
There were a couple of older girls and a bunch of kids, about ten in total. Andrew went off to get the rice and egg while Constance and I went to the market to buy apples and oranges, which are exotic here. Bananas and passion fruit and durian are readily available, but this was imported and exotic, which was ideal for the occasion, even though nobody knew what it was.
Then a woman came up with her baby and said he couldn't sit down as he had an infected bum. We went to the pharmacy down the street and I rang the Nurse. She couldn't say much without seeing him so we got some anti-fungal cream and wet wipes.
Back at the tree the mother wiped his bum and I got in up-close-and-personal to get photos to show the Nurse. Then it was time for lunch, but not before a good hand scrub.
We ended up at Fish & Co. on the riverfront, a place that specializes in sea food. Across from us I noticed tanks of what looked like guppies on the floor. I asked Constance about it and she said the garra rufa eat the dead skin off your feet.
In a leap and a bound I kicked off my shoes and plunged my feet into the water. The sensation was unusual, rather like being slightly tickled or having an army of ants crawling on my feet. Constance joined me, but Andrew and Nick weren't prepared to take off their shoes.
Later I read about it. At spas people in the UK pay $55 to have their feet nibbled. Other reports said it has been banned in some states as it isn't considered hygienic. The jury is out, but it is one of those glad-I-did-it-but-won't-repeat-the-experience.
Then we called Vichika and told her we were on our way to the dump. Alex – a guy sitting next to us who was born in New Zealand, but lived in Switzerland – was on his own so we invited him to join us. Andrew decided he would pass on the dump as every time he went there people tried to give him their babies to take back to Australia.
It was quiet at the dump as the kids were in school and the adults were sleeping so they could go out and scavenge at night. We left the fruit we'd brought with Vichika and wandered around. There is more construction going on and the houses seemed to have improved slightly as there are more people with flowers and decorations. There are also more carts and small motorcycles.
It was a pleasant way to spend Thursday with people who didn't know it was Christmas. But that is going to change. Commercialization is creeping in and there are artificial Christmas trees and decorations all over the place. Having to listen to Jingle Bells and I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas at the supermarket is an endurance test.
Since I have decided to move to Cuba at the end of January – Headed for Havana blog to follow – I will get things organized with the Nurse about the finances. I will write a report about the work we have done with the $7241. people have donated.
Neil and Emma have put us on automatic payment and Andrew covered the Christmas lunch under the tree. The total now sits at $479.06. The next project is that Nick has arranged a bus and we are going to take 37 kids to the water park next Saturday.
I hope you had a merry and that a happy is coming up. Then it is on to the Year of the Sheep.