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An Interview with Voices
Christian Le March 29, 2018 Tagged christian le, Heavy Metal, Metallica
Voices is a melodic-metalcore band hailing from Indianapolis. Soundigest recently had the opportunity to interview their lead singer, Blaine Gaiser, so that they could chat about all of the awesome stuff they've been working on. For example, they just dropped their latest EP called Resurgence near the end of last year! We spoke to Blaine about how they first formed, their love for aliens, and what we can expect from the band this year. Take a look:
What was one song from when you were a kid that made you want to play music?
For me, I think it was either Kiss's Detroit Rock City or Metallica's Fade To Black. Something about those songs lit something within me and really made me want to be a musician.
How did Voices meet and form?
The band formed after my previous band disbanded. I wanted to get back into the metal scene, but being a somewhat soulful singer I wanted to do it right. So, I jumped on Facebook and Craigslist and just started looking. I contacted Drake because I knew he wasn't doing anything at that time, and our previous guitarist came with me from my prior band. Everything else just fell into place!
What's the creative process like when you're writing a song?
This album's process was a bit different than we had done prior, we went into the studio with ideas and fleshed them out while recording the songs.
What comes first when you are making a song? The instrumentation or the lyrics?
Typically, we will start with the chorus instrumentation and work around that to build a song. Then, lyrics are added to the part, and we move forward like that as the song comes to fruition.
What's your favorite song to perform off the EP?
Even though I love every track on the EP, My personal favorite is "Back to Life". Its got a lot of emotion to it.
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I heard the cover for the Resurgence EP was inspired by the band's love of aliens. Does anyone in the band have any alien stories?
Lets just say… I Want To Believe.
What inspired the band to make your incredible cover of Shawn Mendes' song, "Mercy?"
We have a band chat and someone shared the song, then someone suggested we cover it. We knew that Voices hadn't been active due to losing members, finding permanent replacements, and then getting into the studio, so we wanted to give the fans something to sink their teeth into until we could finish the EP.
What do you think separates Voices from other metalcore bands?
I think one of the biggest things that sets up apart is our professionalism. We all know that while bands are supposed to be fun, we also have to treat it like a business, too.
If you weren't making music, what do you think you would be doing instead?
For me personally, I would just be grinding away at my full-time gig as a graphic designer and doing a lot more personal travel.
What is something about Voices that most of your fan would be surprised to find out about?
They may not be surprised about it, but everyone of us appreciate the support they have given us, as well as every single like and share they have shot out on our behalf. Without them we wouldn't be able to do this.
What can we expect from Voices this year?
We really want to start booking outside of Indy, getting out of state for shows is a very big must this year, also a new video or two… The possibilities are very open.
Want to know more about Voices? Check out their Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!
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Q: Close TCP connection on Linux ungracefully Is there a way to programmatically close a TCP connection in C/C++ ungracefully on Linux?
For testing, I would like to simulate the case when an endpoint is just powered down without transmitting any FIN and/or RST, and neither flushing any buffers.

A: If you're opening a socket via socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); then its unpredictable to implement an ungraceful shutdown sense even killing the process will still give the kernel domain over closing the socket.
You can either externally block network access to that socket (ie ifdown, iptables), which you can call from your program. Or you'll have to implement custom TCP code using socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 0); so that the kernal doesn't try to close it gracefully (as it wouldn't know it's even a TCP socket).

A: The easiest way to simulate the machine with the connection "going away" without notice is probably to block(drop) the incoming packets on the connection.  A netfilter command like
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport $PORT -j DROP

will do that -- replace $PORT with the connections local port number.  The won't block outgoing packets (which may be an issue if you have keepalives or periodically send stuff.)  You can do that with
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport $PORT -j DROP

Be sure to remove these filtering rules when you're done, as otherwise they'll stick around and cause problems.

A: I would prefer To act on the net driver irq processing.
The Linux kernel provides a way to set the affinity of an IRQ to specific CPUs, so that the IRQ can only be processed by those CPUs. By setting the affinity of an IRQ to an empty set of CPUs, you can effectively disable the IRQ.
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then forbids any cpu To process the nic irq :
echo 0 > /proc/irq/N/smp_affinity

A: You can use the close function from the unistd.h library to close the file descriptor associated with the socket. However, it is important to note that this method may not immediately terminate the connection, as the underlying TCP protocol has its own mechanisms for closing connections, and these mechanisms may take some time to complete.

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In this tough labor market, where the job hunters have become the hunted, employers can't rely on the hiring tactics of yesteryear. They have to ditch poorly placed "Help Wanted" ads and stop hiring every candidate who walks through the door. Instead, they must be thoughtful about who they want to hire, where and when they will advertise for open positions, how they want to onboard them, and why professional development matters.
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On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn't the ultimate goal -- it'...
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WORK ETHIC IN AMERICA is fast declining, plaguing young and old alike. But in Reviving Work Ethic, Eric Chester shows that managers ...
WORK ETHIC IN AMERICA is fast declining, plaguing young and old alike. But in Reviving Work Ethic, Eric Chester shows that managers and leaders do best to focus on their young employees -- those whose habits and ideals can still be influenced.
He presents an incisive look at the root of the entitlement mentality that afflicts many in the emerging workforce and shows readers the specific actions they can take to give their employees a deep commitment to performing excellent work.
Reviving Work Ethic is the culmination of years of research as well as presentations to over two million youth. Chester's experience shows in his confident analysis of the seven components of work ethic and in his proven strategies for handing them down to young employees.
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According to the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, by 2012 there will be a shortage of more than two million front-line service workers in retail sales, customer service,...
According to the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, by 2012 there will be a shortage of more than two million front-line service workers in retail sales, customer service, and food preparation. Only a fraction of the restless Generation Y workers who typically fill these positions stay with their employer longer than a year! Dubbed ""kidployees,"" these 16- to 24-year-olds share an entirely different set of values, expectations, and skills that must be reckoned with if you're among the millions of business owners and managers in America.
In Getting Them to Give a Damn, nationally recognized Generation Y expert Eric Chester shows readers how to hire, train, manage, and motivate a workforce that won't blindly conform to traditional standards and time-honored company policies and standards. Chester reveals the management techniques that leading-edge employers are using to get these quirky, book-smart, and streetwise kidployees to contribute in innovative and entrepreneurial ways.
Eric Chester Profile
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He is frequently mentioned or quoted in the national and international media such as Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, Fox News, NPR, and CNBC and in publications like Forbes, USA Today, and the Huffington Post.
He is a bestselling author of 5 published leadership books, several of which have become national bestsellers. Eric Chester has delivered more than 3000 paid keynote speeches on three continents. He is a Certified Speaking Professional and was inducted into the National Speakers Association's acclaimed Hall of Fame in 2004.
Eric lives in Golden, CO with his wife and family.
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After interviewing highly acclaimed C-level leaders across all industries, Eric Chester has uncovered the practices and principles that Best Places to Work award-winning companies and great leaders are using to go beyond merely engaging today's rapidly changing workforce, but to ignite what he terms "On Fire performance." Through a highly entertaining multi-media presentation, audience members discover the best practice ideas, tactics, and strategies these esteemed employers use to consistently attract and retain top talent, encourage innovation and collaborative thinking, and inculcate the desire to out-perform yesterday's best. Based upon the groundbreaking research in his fifth leadership book, On Fire at Work: How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People without Burning Them Out (Sound Wisdom, Oct. 2015), leaders, managers, and supervisors walk away with actionable ideas for building an invincible army of entrepreneurs who take pride and ownership in their work.
Uplifting, inspiring, and content-rich, it's impossible to experience "On Fire" without catching fire and igniting the passion for achieving excellence in those around you.
Helping Leaders End Entitlement and Restore Pride in the Emerging Workforce.
The Golden Rule instructs us to treat others the way we want to be treated. But what if the other person doesn't want the same things we do? What if treating others the way we want to be treated only creates friction between us?
In a perfect world, business leaders would employ a workforce that's engaged, enthused, and ethically unassailable. The reality, of course, is that the new emerging workforce is streetwise and techno-savvy, but they've not been taught how to succeed in the workplace, at home, or at school.
Eric Chester is the leading authority on developing work ethic in young adults and leading Gen Y employees to achieve at their remarkable potential. His presentation will illustrate why the work ethic in America has declined, and he'll provide solid, actionable ideas and tools for developing the young worker and restoring the pride of a job well done, instilling within them the work ethic they should have received at home and in school – but didn't.
From Rookie to Superstar:
Secrets of Getting Your Front Line to Perform Better, Work Harder, and Stay Longer
Research proves that most business leaders are not satisfied with the performance, productivity, and the service they are getting from their emerging workforce. The problem is not so much a skills gap as it is a values gap, which is apparent when analyzing the core work ethic values a growing number of employees are bringing to the job. This is the cause--and the effect--of Eric Chester's compelling presentation based on his breakthrough leadership book, Reviving Work Ethic – A Leader's Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce. With his hilarious and unconventional style of delivery, Chester will help you build the seven essential work ethic values within your people to ensure their success, and the success and sustainability of your business.
How to Find and Keep Great Employees in the Worst Labor Market Ever
The biggest threat facing today's business owners and managers is not how they can get new customers and improve sales, but rather how they can find, develop, and keep qualified employees to do the tough, vital work that keeps them in business.
(Short-order cook. Drywall installer. Call center service rep. Bus driver. HVAC technician.) These are the kinds of jobs you rely on to keep the wheels of your business moving. They're also the kinds of jobs where employee turnover is pandemic. The (name of client/industry/etc.) needs to find and retain competent workers, but those workers are hard to find—hard to train—and even harder to keep.
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Discover how savvy employers have made bold moves, implemented guerrilla-recruiting tactics, and transformed the way the hiring and retention game is played. Eric's presentation will delight, surprise, and get you thinking—and the strategies and methodologies he illustrates will inspire you to change the way you recruit, hire, and lead your employees so you, too, can proudly say you're FULLY STAFFED.
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Cycling Offences – Jumping Red Lights
Under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s.36 and the Traffic Signs Regulations and Directions and Directions 2002 regulations 10 and 36(1), road users must not cross the stop line when the traffic lights are red. This offence, also known as 'red light jumping', applies to cyclists as well as motorists. The maximum penalty for red light jumping is a £1,000 fine and six penalty points endorsed on the driver's licence however, in most cases, a driver will get a Fixed Penalty Notice (On-the-Spot Fine) of £30[1] whilst the maximum would only ever be imposed if the Fixed Penalty Notice is contested and taken to court. The punishment is also applicable to cyclists who, if caught, can be issued a Fixed Penalty Notice of £30.
However, there can be more serious consequences as was seen in December 2013 when a cyclist was jailed for twelve months after jumping a red light, knocking down a nine year old girl and leaving the scene. The cyclist collided with the girl at, what eyewitnesses estimated to be, 30mph after he failed to stop at the red light and she stepped out onto the pedestrian crossing. The judge told the cyclist that he was the only one to blame for the "incredibly selfish criminal act" after the cyclist admitted to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm. Despite the potentially serious consequences, only 4% of all pedestrian injuries as a result of red light jumping have been caused by cyclists with the remaining 96% involving motor vehicles.[2]
Yet, cyclists appear to frequently jump red lights with over 4,000 cyclists being issued Fixed Penalty Notices after being caught jumping red lights or ignoring other road signs in 2013.[3]The Institute of Advanced Motorists have also revealed in their research that 57% of cyclists admit to running red lights[4] whilst a YouGov poll revealed that 35% of cyclists at least "occassionally" ignore red lights[5]. But if it is illegal for a cyclist to jump a red light, as it is for any other road user, why do so many cyclists think that it is acceptable and frequently do it?
The National Cycling Charity believes that some cyclists jump red lights as they feel safer moving into the open spaces at junctions rather than waiting with fellow road users who often accelerate into the junction once the traffic light turns green.[6] However, statistics show that in 2012, 'Disobeyed automatic traffic signal' (which includes red light jumping) was assigned by the police to 1% of pedal cycles involved in reported incidents where a contributory factor was assigned to one of the vehicles involved. [7] This is roughly the same percentage assigned to cars and suggests that red light jumping is just as dangerous regardless of whether the perpetrator is a cyclist or a motorist.
However, PC James Aveling, a City of London bike patrol officer of nine years, argues that the statistics disguise the size of the problem caused by cyclists jumping red lights because there is no legal obligation to report collisions between bikes and pedestrians.[8] Nevertheless, contrary to popular belief, cyclists are not the only road users who regularly jump red lights. According to the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, red light jumping in London is prevalent amongst motorists with 47,932 fines issued in 2006 for drivers caught jumping red lights (that is 130 drivers a day!).[9]
Although there has been much said about allowing cyclists to jump red lights absolutely, in certain situations, or reducing the fine for the offence; cyclists are under the same laws as other road users when it comes to obeying road sign and signals. Jumping a red light is dangerous behaviour regardless of whether you are behind a steering wheel or handlebars. In London, between 2001 – 2005 (the most recent data available), 3 cyclists and 7 motor vehicle occupants were killed when a motorist jumped a red light whilst two cyclists were killed by red light jumping.[10]
[1] The Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) Sch 1, Table 5(9)
[2] Transport for London 'Travel in London, Report 4' (2011). Available at: <www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/travel-in-london-report-4.pdf> accessed March 2014.
[3] Massey and Thomas, 'More than 11,000 cyclists caught running through red lights and riding on pavements in just one year' MailOnline (18th January 2014). Available at: < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541739/More-11-000-cyclists-caught-running-red-lights-riding-pavements-just-one-year.html> accessed March 2013.
[4] Institute of Advanced Motorists, 'Do cyclists jump red lights?' (14th May 2012). Available at <www.iam.org.uk/media-and-research/media-centre/news-archive/1054-more-than-half-of-cyclists-jump-red-lights> accessed March 2014.
[5] W Jordan, 'Most London Cyclists Don't Run Red Lights – But Many Do' YouGov (21st November 2013). Available at < http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/11/21/London-cyclists-red-lights> accessed March 2014.
[6] The National Cycling Charity, 'Cyclists' behaviour and the law' (January 2014), 9
[7] Department of Transport, 'Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2012' (September 2013), Table RAS 50005. Available at <www.gov.uk/government/publications/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2012> accessed March 2014.
[8] P Walker, 'Why do police target cyclists who jump red lights?' The Guardian (16th April 2010). Available at <www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/apr/16/police-cyclists-red-lights> accessed March 2014.
[9] Questions to the Mayor (Ken Livingstone), 18th October 2006 from Jenny Jones. Available at <http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/public/question.do?id=15763> accessed March 2014.
[10] The National Cycling Charity, 'Cyclists' behaviour and the law' (January 2014), 10
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After being denied federal support, community rallies behind vet through GoFundMe page.
Wayne Moore's plan was set.
The Vietnam veteran intended to work at least until he was 70 as a limousine driver in Pennsylvania. He sometimes worked 60 hours per week chauffeuring those who often had a smile on their face upon his arrival.
Then he and his wife, Holly, would live full-time in the retirement home they bought three years ago near Lewes.
But not all plans work out the way they are intended. And at 68, Moore's changed dramatically after a trip to the doctor.
He hadn't been feeling well for months. He started to lose his weight and his appetite, but it didn't stop him from working.
On Oct. 23, in his work uniform — a suit — Moore went to his scheduled doctor's appointment. He had a client to pick up later in the day.
But the doctor told him news that put an unexpected detour not only in his day, but the months to come.
He had to quit his job right away.
The chemotherapy Moore initially received to combat the cancerous tumors was doing well.
But when the cancer spread to his liver, more aggressive treatment was needed.
The new approach, as Warren put it, sucked the life out of her father. The 6-foot, 4-inch Moore has lost 84 pounds.
"I haven't had an appetite since October," he said.
For someone who insisted on being active, even a walk around the neighborhood or mowing the lawn was no longer a possibility. He thought he could bounce back quickly.
"He's not the kind of guy that just sits around and watches TV, so it was very traumatizing," Warren said.
Because he quit his job, Moore could not collect unemployment. When he applied for benefits, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denied the request in June, saying he didn't qualify. Because he collects Social Security, he couldn't collect disability insurance.
With income suddenly an issue, he had trouble paying the bills.
When Warren found out her father was denied financial help from Veterans Affairs, she sprang into action. She created a GoFundMe page as a way to raise some immediate funding.
Warren set the fundraising goal at $5,000. Within a week, more than $9,000 was raised by over 100 people.
"I couldn't believe all the generosity of the people," Moore said.
"It's very overwhelming to have people reach out to you like that when you're in such a bad situation," Warren added.
In the meantime, the Moores continue to try to get money from the VA. It acknowledged that past water contamination at Cape Lejeune, where Moore trained before heading to Vietnam, may be eligible for health benefits for 15 conditions, including esophageal cancer.
It's something they believe could take years to resolve.
"Not only me, but other veterans that are worse off than me," Moore added.
Moore has been grateful for what his family has done to help him.
To contribute to the GoFundMe campaign to support Wayne Moore, visit http://www.gofundme.com/3nu9ucac.


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JAN ERIC CARTWRIGHT
FLOYD W. TAYLOR
Reaffirms "Attorney General Opinion No.81-069, which states that the Open Meeting Act prohibits a single member of a public body from meeting privately with each of the other members to obtain their signatures on a document and use that document to take an action otherwise required to be taken in an open meeting."
Question Submitted by: Mr. Jackson R. Jones, Chairman, Polygraph Examiners Board
¶0 The Attorney General has received your request for an official opinion, wherein you ask, in effect:
May an applicant for an intern polygraph examiner's license obtain approval of his license application by hand-carrying his/her application individually to a majority of the Board and obtaining their approval, in order to begin the intern program on a temporary basis, subject to approval by the full Board at the next ensuing meeting of the Board? Does this procedure violate the Open Meeting Act?
¶1 The Polygraph Examiners Act is found at 59 O.S. 1451 – 59 O.S. 1476. Section 1463 provides for issuance of an internship license:
"1463. Internship license.
"A. Upon approval by the board, the secretary shall issue an internship license to a trainee provided he applies for such license and pays the required fee within ten (10) days prior to commencement of his internship…."
¶2 By the clear language of 59 O.S. 1463(A), Board approval is required for issuance of an internship license, and such approval must come prior to commencement of the internship. There is no provision in the Act for issuance of an internship license on a "temporary basis," pending subsequent approval by the Board. As stated in Syllabus 3 of Lingo-Leeper Lumber Co. v. Carter, 161 Okl.5,17 P.2d 365 (1932):
"Public officers have and can exercise only such powers as are conferred upon them by law…."
¶3 An internship license cannot lawfully issue unless and until the license is approved by the Board in open meeting as an official action of the Board.
¶4 Since the Board has no authority to issue internship licenses on a temporary basis pending later Board approval, it is not necessary to answer your question as to whether the methodology employed to accomplish such unauthorized action violates the Open Meeting Act. However, you are referred to Attorney General Opinion No.81-069, which states that the Open Meeting Act (25 O.S. 301 (1977), et seq.) prohibits a single member of a public body from meeting privately with each of the other members to obtain their signatures on a document and use that document to take an action otherwise required to be taken in an open meeting.
¶5 It is, therefore, the official opinion of the Attorney General that finder 59 O.S. 1463 (1971), the Board of Polygraph Examiners has no authority to issue internship licenses on a temporary basis, pending later approval by the Board.
FIRST ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL


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• Reduce the amount of water, fats, and sugar stored in the liver.
• Reduce health problems that might happen after the surgery.
• Recover quickly after the surgery.
• Divide the portions of food and fluids for the whole day.
• Drink at least two liters of fluids per day.
• Stop smoking and drinking alcoholic drinks.
• Take vitamins and minerals daily.
• If you suffer from diabetes, consult your physician to reduce the amount of medicine because eating less food, your body doesn't need the same amount of medicine per day.
• The preparatory diet is usually with little amounts of calories, starches, and lipids. It contains balanced amounts of protein.
• This system depends on limited amounts of all types of foods to provide a balanced diet with fewer calories.
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Rudolf Minsch is chief economist of economiesuisse, the top business organization in Switzerland. He is Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and leads the department of economic policy and education. He is still associated with the University of St. Gallen where he is lecturer at the Executive School. Furthermore, he is visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur (Switzerland). Rudolf Minsch is an Alumni of the University of St. Gallen where he has studied economics. Subsequently, he successfully completed the 'Program for Beginning Doctoral Students' of the Study Center Gerzensee, a foundation of the Swiss National Bank. Furthermore, Minsch has extended his studies at the Boston University. In 2002, he obtained a doctoral degree for his work on 'Relative Prices and Inflation. An Empirical Analysis of Firm-Level Price Data from Selected Swiss Service Industries.' Since many years and together with different partners, Rudolf Minsch does applied research in the fields of monetary policy, business cycle analysis, payment systems, tourism and international economics. Rudolf Minsch lives with his family in Klosters.


WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- The U.S. government said on May 10 it has imposed sanctions on a Taiwanese firm and its CEO for their connection with North Korea's weapons proliferation activity.
The Treasury Department designated Trans Multi Mechanics Co. Ltd. and Chang Wen-Fu "for their links to a North Korean procurement agent, Alex H.T. Tsai," according to the department's press release.
Alex Tsai was designated by the Treasury Department in 2009 for providing support to North Korea's premier arms dealer, Korea Mining Development Trading Corp.
"It is essential that we continue to make it as difficult as possible for North Korea to facilitate its nuclear and ballistic missile programs by exposing key cogs in North Korea's procurement network," said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen. "We will continue to work with our partners in Federal law enforcement and our friends around the world to expose anyone assisting the North Korean government's illicit procurement activities."
The Treasury said Chang Wen-Fu, CEO and general manager of Trans Multi Mechanics Co. Ltd., has been actively involved in the procurement of dual-use machinery for North Korea.
Alex Tsai has used the Taiwanese company to procure and ship hundreds of thousands of dollars'worth of equipment to North Korea and to negotiate contracts on behalf of North Korean parties, it added.
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- An international hacking group that had previously claimed it hacked North Korean Web sites said on May 12 it launched more cyber attacks into about a dozen sites based in the communist state.
The group called "Anonymous" said on its Twitter account (@AnonyOpsKorea) that it successfully hacked the Web site for the North Korean radio station called "Voice of Korea (VOK)." Anonymous released the photo of the opening page of the Web site, with the "VOK" logo at the top right-hand corner and the word "Hacked" positioned at center.
Anonymous also said it targeted www.uriminzokkiri.com, the North's propaganda site, and the homepage for the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), but didn't say whether these attacks were successful.
The hacking group said Sunday's attacks were part of only a small operation and that they will launch a "very huge" operation on June 25, the anniversary of the Korean War.
In April, Anonymous released the list of some 9,000 subscribers to Uriminzokkiri, including about 2,000 members using e-mail addresses provided by South Korean portal sites, companies and newspapers.
Anonymous also claimed in April to have hacked into the network at Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) and released the list of people that it said were the bank's customers. KEB later rejected Anonymous' claim, saying the personal information on the hacking group's list didn't match details of its clients.
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- The number of North Korean escapees reaching South Korea will likely decrease by about 20 percent in 2013 from a year earlier, mainly due to improvements in the communist country's food supply, an official said on May 13.
The official at the Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees under the Ministry of Unification told reporters that as of early May, 556 North Korean nationals have safely arrived in South Korea.
"The total for the entire year is expected to reach 1,200, which is smaller than the 1,509 tallied for 2012," said the official, who declined to be identified.
He presumed that more food availability in the country is making it less likely for people to risk their lives to escape. The front-line official also claimed tighter control of the border region by Pyongyang is exerting influence on the overall number of people fleeing the country.
"Last year's floods were not so severe, resulting in less damages to crops, while Pyongyang's move to force more people into large public farm-related projects starting in 2011 seems to be affecting escapee numbers overall," he said.
The projected drop will mark another year that escapee numbers have fallen compared to the previous year. The number of North Korean escapees arriving in South Korea surpassed the 1,000 mark for the first time in 2001, and peaked at 2,929 in 2009 before falling steadily ever since.
The official also said that more severe penalties and tighter monitoring of border regions, particularly in the Hamgyong province region that had been the main conduit of escape in the past, may be affecting the outflow of people.
Meanwhile, he said that the number of North Korean escapees reaching Seoul within a year of fleeing the North has dropped significantly, while people who stayed in a third country for an extended period of time before reaching the South has increased sharply.
"At present, the number of people heading straight for South Korea make up 55 percent of the total, compared to 45 percent for those who have resided in another country for more than 5 years," he said.
He said the fact that latter numbers have risen can be a sign that less people have escaped in recent years.
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Historic sites in North Korea's border city of Kaesong are almost certain to be added to the world heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), according to the U.N. body's Web site on May 13.
The historic monuments and sites in the ancient North Korean tourist city of Kaesong were recommended for registration on the world heritage list by an advisory panel conducting on-site surveys of nominations for UNESCO.
UNESCO unveiled a report on the result of the surveys conducted by the Paris-based International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) ahead of the 37th World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from June 16-27.
The results of the non-governmental body's examinations of nominations have a decisive influence on the UNESCO's decision on new world heritage listings.
Pyongyang requested that the many monuments of the city be registered as a global heritage in mid-2012.
Kaesong was the capital of the Goryeo Dynasty that ruled the Korean Peninsula from 918 until 1392 when it was replaced by the Joseon Dynasty.
In 2004, North Korea added tombs of the ancient Korean kingdom of Koguryo (37 B.C.-668 A.D.) to the world heritage list.
The historic monuments and sites in Kaesong, when officially designated during the WHC session, will become the second world heritage listing for the North and the 12th on the Korean Peninsula.
The nominated property is located within the built-up area of Kaesong and extends into the foothills of the mountainous area to the west of the town, according to the ICOMOS report, available on UNESCO Web site.
They comprise 12 separate property components, including five separate sections of the Kaesong City Walls.
The report said the other seven are the Manwoldae Palace archaeological site and remains of the Kaesong Chomsongdae, an astronomical and meteorological observatory; the Kaesong Namdae Gate, the main southern city gate; Goryeo Songgyungwan, a former high state education institute where Koryo national officials were educated; Sungyang Sowon, a Confucian private school; Sonjuk Bridge and Phyochung Monuments, the latter being two commemorative steles; the Mausoleum of King Wang Geon, the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty, with seven associated tomb clusters and the Myongrung tomb cluster; and the Mausoleum of King Gongmin, the 318th king of Goryeo.
The monuments and sites "exhibit the synthesis of cultural, spiritual and political values of pre-existing states unified under the Goryeo and the interchange of such values with other neighboring states," the report said.
It also called them "an outstanding example of a capital city in transition from Buddhism to neo-Confucianism as a guiding philosophy for government."
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- The U.S. government said on May 14 that Japan's latest outreach to North Korea is part of a "broad frame" of ongoing diplomacy with the socialist nation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dispatched one of his key advisers to Pyongyang.
Isao Iijima, special counselor in charge of crisis management in the Abe administration, flew into Pyongyang on Tuesday (local time), according to the North's state news agency, KNCA. It did not provide additional information.
The Japanese official's visit was kept secret until his arrival and it's unclear whether Tokyo had consultations with Washington and Seoul on the move. His itinerary and intent remain unknown, but could involve the abduction of Japanese nationals decades ago.
"I really don't have more information about his particular visit, but that's the broad frame in terms of engagement with the DPRK (North Korea)," Patrick Ventrell, deputy spokesman for the State Department, said at a press briefing.
He said diplomacy on North Korea is ongoing, in that the U.S. maintains close coordination with the other four nations involved in the now-suspended nuclear talks with Pyongyang. The four are South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.
Glyn Davies, the Obama administration's special representative for North Korea policy, is traveling to Northeast Asia. Speaking to reporters in Seoul, Davies said he had not heard about the Japanese official's trip to Pyongyang.
"So that will obviously be something that I will discuss with the Japanese when I have a chance to talk to my counterparts there," he said.
The envoy also plans to visit Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, and other officials.
"He's going to continue to make the same case that we've been making (to) the Chinese consistently, which is that they should continue to put pressure on the North Koreans to take a different course," Ventrell said.


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By Rachel Coker • Nov 3, 2011 • Features•
At Binghamton University's Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, scholars view the world through a unique lens.
• Where others see individual, independent nations or, say, clusters of countries making up an economic region such as the Third World, these scholars see one world-system.
• Where others take note of what appear to be dramatic developments in history, for instance the Industrial Revolution or the Space Age, these scholars view such change as rooted in a set of fundamental structures that have remained recognizable for 500 years.
• And where others consider recent recessions to be detours on a path toward continued worldwide economic growth, these scholars observe a crisis that may mean the end of historical capitalism as we know it.
This perspective, called world-systems analysis, was advanced in the 1970s by sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, founder of the Fernand Braudel Center, and is today the subject of intense debate around the globe.
"An important aspect of what we do is that we see the world on the largest scale not as a collection of states, but rather as a single and historically unique system," says Richard E. Lee, professor of sociology and director of the Fernand Braudel Center. "It makes it both easier to understand the world and more difficult to study it."
A core principle of this perspective, Lee explains, is that what we see and experience in the world is formed by our relationships. "World-systems analysis," he notes, "is just a special case of the very largest of these sets of possible relationships."
Take, for instance, married people. "You became a different person when you got married," he says. "Not because you're different, but because the relationship, manifested in legal and social constraints, remade or 'restructured' you. Relationships are what make us who we are."
A port city offers another example of this way of thinking. A port must have a deep harbor, protected in such a way that wind doesn't batter the ships. "But if you don't have ocean-going trade, you're not going to have a port city," Lee says. "The harbor and the buildings could all look the same, but the day that there's no trade, it's not a port city."
World-systems analysis deploys this way of thinking by focusing on long-term processes rather than short-term events. Its proponents argue that the current world-system arose during the 16th century, in part because they see the structures of geopolitics, economics and knowledge as fundamentally similar during the past five centuries. "Although I may disagree with him on many counts, I do feel I live in the same 'world' as Descartes," Lee says. "He is a man of my own time, whereas the philosophers 200 or 300 years earlier inhabit a different social universe."
Seeing history with this long-range vision reveals how unsettled life is at the outset of the 21st century. Indeed, Lee says, the world appears to be going through a shock equivalent to the one last experienced 500 years ago. "The globalization perspective that everybody hears so much about suggests that there is a way to a future that would look much like the world of today, that things are bad now but they could get better," he says. "Alternatively, we see enormous, probably insurmountable, difficulties in restructuring the political economy of the world to keep it growing over the long term in the same way it has for the last five centuries."
The kind of accumulation and concentration of wealth that was possible in the past can't continue, in part because there are no new pools of low-cost labor outside the system to be brought in at the bottom of the international wage hierarchy. Everyone's in already. And as the poorest classes clamor for a bigger share, there's no way to put off responding to those claims.
Charles Lemert, a senior fellow with Yale University's Center for Com- parative Research, says this insight sets world-systems analysis apart. "There is no other social scientific tradition — or figure for that matter, besides Wallerstein and the world-system group — that understood, almost immediately, that the world was changing in dramatic ways right around 1990," Lemert says. "Now it's almost commonplace." Arriving at that conclusion before the rise of the Internet and global finance as it's now known was the result of a rigorous approach to studying the previous half-millennium, he says.
"The system in which we live is the only system in all of world history that has expanded to cover the whole world, and that's why we say it is a singular system," Lee notes. "If you see one of the key driving forces of that system as expansion, then it follows that when there's no place left to go, you're going to have a crisis, one that leads to the demise of the system itself." Fundamental ruptures are happening in every arena that world-systems analysis addresses, including the structures of knowledge as well as geopolitics and economics, he says.
There is a fundamental structure shaping knowledge production during the past 500 years, an epistemological division based on the separation between "facts" and "values." Today this separation has become untenable, both in theory and in practice. If this seems esoteric, think just for a minute about your computer or even your cell phone. "More important than any progress in communications that we have experienced over the past generation, as a result of advances in search-engine technology, every thing on the Internet is equidistant from every other thing in cyberspace, as well as from every single individual user," Lee says. "The scholar no longer inhabits a privileged space in the world of knowledge. No literature can remain proprietary; academics and non-academics alike can and do access literature, and intervene directly in debates, without regard for scholarly discipline or institutional status. The disciplines themselves, indeed all institutions and the 'status' they enjoy, are thus deprived of much of their gate-keeping function and thereby destabilized."
This situation is the focus of Lee's latest book, Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World-System, published earlier this year. Lemert sees the new book and Lee's other scholarly work as filling in what many considered to be a gap in world-systems analysis: the role of culture. "In effect, what he has shown is that knowledge or the production of knowledge is both constituted by the world system that goes back to the 16th century and a constituent of it," Lemert says. "That's to say that knowledge isn't just an afterthought. … He has shown how modern culture really is tied to the global economic system."
What's next, then, from the vantage point of world-systems analysis? Wallerstein wrote years ago of a period during which individuals would have an opportunity to influence the next historical system through their ethical and political choices. He calls this process of imagining and evaluating various courses of action "utopistics." Lee and other scholars in world-systems analysis contend that we are living through this period now.
"We need to find new ways of thinking about the future, indeed, of ascertaining what scenarios for the future are actually possible," Lee says. "We are all searching for an understanding of the reality of the world and are moral — and thus political — agents obliged to work for the making of a better world as we see it."
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While this guy's analysis are somewhat interesting, his politics are extremely vague and based on the idealist notion of world historical projects rather than the actual movement of the masses that is tied to a very diverse field of clearly and not so clearly defined projects, hopes, aspirations and fears, as well as and especially actual material necessity.


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Q: c# custom date format I would like to have the word "day(s)" displayed in the output.  I've tried putting escape characters in front of just the "-", in front of all the characters and spaces in "days".  Any ideas or pointers.
This is the line I'm working with, totalTimeInRoom is a TimeSpan:
totalTimeInRoom.ToString(@"dd\.hh\:mm\:ss");

EDIT:
Just tried this, no luck:
totalTimeInRoom.ToString(@"dd \"Days(s)\" \- hh\:mm\:ss");

A: As explained here, you can use single quote characters to embed a literal string in your custom date format:
totalTimeInRoom.ToString("dd' Day(s) 'hh':'mm':'ss");

A: I've struggled with this before and always ended up "cheating" using String.Format:
// extend with minutes, seconds etc. if needed
var text = String.Format ("{0} day(s), {1} hour(s)", totalTimeInRoom.Days, totalTimeInRoom.Hours);

Of course, you could make it much more advanced and only show 'days' if there's actually 1 or more days in the timespan and also instead of unconditionally using "day(s)" you can dynamically append an 's' when the number of days is more than 1.


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What will be the hot issues in the next years, and what current challenges will persist well into the next decade? Where is European higher education heading and how do the global changes impact its future? This book, which is a collection of articles by renowned experts in international higher education, attempts to provide a number of responses to these questions through scrutiny of themes that will not lose their centrality at the end of this decade: student mobility, alternative delivery of international education, funding of higher education, and the impact of labour market changes on higher education. The articles in this volume are based on papers prepared for the ACA Conference Beyond 2010, held in Tallinn in June 2008.


Police are appealing for information after a Catalytic Converter was stolen from a car in the town.
Between 12pm noon on Saturday 30th March and 9.30am on Thursday 4th April, a Catalytic Converter has been cleanly cut, removed and stolen from a Silver Ford Ranger vehicle on Stationdale in Newton Aycliffe.
Do you know who did this? Did you hear anything, or see anyone acting suspiciously in the area that may be responsible?
If you have any information at all regarding this, please call 101 and quote reference number DHM-05042013-0104.
Alternatively you can message the Neighbourhood Police Team on Facebook by clicking here.
I keep stating this we need cameras all over the town, these are being stolen for the titanium in the converters and sold to scrap yards I would think.


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Kambala season begins to enthuse local folks in coastal Karnataka
Kambala, the traditional buffalo race event popular in the coastal Karnataka districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasaragod of Kerala, has embarked on a new season, entertaining tourists and the rural population in the region known as Tulu Nadu.
The first kambala (buffalo race in slushy paddy fields) of the season was set in motion at Kakkepadavu in Bantwal taluk of DK district on November 26.
Priest Raghavendra Bhat performed the rituals and temple pujari Yogindra Bhat inaugurated the 'Sathya Dharma Kambala' at the venue, which entered its decennial year. A total of 22 competitive kambalas have been tentatively scheduled for the 2022-23 season till April 8 next year, according to district Kambala committee president Rohit Hegde Yermal.
The last Kambala has been scheduled at Panapila in Moodbidri on April 8, 2023.
The events to be held at Bolangala near Mudipu and Panapila are the two new Kambalas which have been added to the season's calendar. The kambala track at Bolangala is getting ready while the track at Panapila has already been prepared, sources said. Kambalas are usually held at 18 to 20 places in the region on behalf of the committee every year.
The number rose to 22 this season due to the apparent enthusiasm among the youth who are more attracted to the event in recent years. The sixth edition of Mangaluru Kambala under the aegis of Capt Brijesh Chowta will be held on January 22 at the Goldfinch city ground. Former MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik said Kambala sport needs to be preserved for future generations and youth need to be actively taking part in it.
The rich culture of the coastal belt through Kambala should be maintained, he said, seeking the support of all for the sixth Mangaluru kambala.
Two Kambalas at Katapadi (Beedu kambala) to be held on February 11, 2023, and Aikala (Bava Kambala) on January 28 are more than 100 years old and were once traditional events which later turned into competitive ones.
The competitive kambala events are held on two parallel race tracks filled with slushy fields. Buffalo owners and farmers in the region take good care of their buffalos and the best of them are well fed, oiled and nurtured for a race in kambala. Buffaloes are usually raced in pairs during a kambala event, held together with ploughs and ropes. The best of Kambala buffaloes can cover a 140-meter race track in around 12 seconds. The jockey or kambala runner is the man commanding the buffaloes and races along with them and only the most athletic youth can handle the animals.
The runner stands on a wooden plank (known as halage) supported to the setup that holds two buffaloes together (called Negilu). The Kambala runner controls the buffaloes with a whip or ropes.
The runner also entertains spectators by splashing water as high as possible during the race. Two teams of buffaloes along with their jockeys race towards the finish line on the two parallel race tracks. Race goes on all day and winners qualify for the next rounds. Kambala events usually begin in November after the October paddy harvest is done. More than 45 villages in coastal Karnataka celebrate the traditional, non-competitive kambala race every year. Major Kambala events are held at Aikala, Katapadi, Pilikula, Mangaluru, Moodbidri, Puttur, Paivalike, Kakkepadavu, Kulur, Surathkal, Uppinangadi, Vamanjoor and Venur.
Kambala has become an organised rural sport, with elaborate planning and scheduling to accommodate competitions at different places. While traditional Kambala was non-competitive with pairs running one by one, in the modern event, the contest generally takes place between two pairs of buffaloes. The winning pair of buffaloes were usually rewarded with coconuts and bananas. At present, winning owners earn gold and silver coins and in many competitions, cash prizes are also awarded. The length of the kambala tracks varies from 133.5 metre to 150 metre and has width from 15 feet to 17 feet.
The competitions are held in six categories of Kane halage, adda halage, hagga senior, hagga junior, naegilu hiriya and naegilu kiriya. More pairs of buffalos are expected this year for the hagga junior competitions as many youngsters are showing more interest in taking part in the events, a Kambala committee member said. The kambalas for the 2021-22 season, which began on November 27 last year, had to be temporarily cancelled due to the weekend curfew and other Covid-19 restrictions, after holding only six of the 19 scheduled events.
The events resumed on February 5, 2022 after the lifting of the curfew with a renewed calendar, listing 11 kambalas between February 5 and April 16. The kambala committee counts at least 100 jockeys taking part in the events in the region. Of them, 8 to 10 are top performers while around 20 have already displayed their brilliance in the sport. One of the jockeys, Srinivas Gowda, a construction worker, had shot into the limelight in 2020, when he covered 142.5 metres in 13.62 seconds, which when back-calculated, equates to 100-metre run in around 9.55 seconds. It was 0.03 seconds faster than Usain Bolt's record time of 9.58 seconds. Many compared his feat to that of Bolt and Gowda was termed as the 'Usain Bolt of Kambala.'
Later, he himself said putting him on the same plane as Usain Bolt would be a bit of a stretch. The race involves the athlete maintaining momentum with some help from his racing buffaloes.
Kambala had also stirred controversy in the past with the charge of ill-treatment of animals. In 2016, the event was banned for the first time by the High Court, based on a petition by animal rights activists group PETA. Just like the row over jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, a heated debate followed with arguments of people supporting the event and those against the rural sport. The state government later brought an ordinance in 2017 to pave the way for the continuance of kambala. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka second amendment) Act, 2017, permits kambala to be organised with restrictions to protect the animals from mistreatment. The Supreme Court has also issued several guidelines to ensure that kambala buffaloes are not harmed, tortured or ill-treated during the races.
Deve Gowda praises Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo', says Cong leader is fighting hatred and violence
Bengaluru, Jan 24: Conveying his "best wishes" to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday complimented him for fighting hatred and violence by spreading the message of harmony among people.
The JD(S) supremo has also expressed his inability to participate in the concluding function of the Yatra in Srinagar on January 30.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has invited leaders of several like-minded parties to join the concluding function in Srinagar.
In a letter to Kharge, thanking for the invitation, Gowda said, "It is appropriate that the function is being organised on the day the father of the nation (Mahatma Gandhi) attained martyrdom."
"I may not be able to attend the function in person, but my best wishes are with Rahul Gandhi. He is fighting hatred and violence and has walked 3,500 kms from Kanyakumari to Kashmir spreading the message of harmony among people.
Please convey my deep appreciation to him," the 89-year-old leader said.
PM Modi's meeting with BSY prompts leadership talk in poll-bound Karnataka
New Delhi, Jan 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a 15-minute meeting with Karnataka's former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday on the sidelines of the BJP national executive.
Karnataka is one of the states going to polls this year. Poll strategy for these nine states was the key agenda of the ongoing two-day executive meet in New Delhi, which is being attended by PM Modi and the key leaders and ministers of the party.
Since being removed from the top post in Karnataka - the only southern state where the BJP has made a breakthrough - Mr Yediyurappa, who has a large base of Lingayat supporters, has been keeping a low profile. But with the polls approaching, the BJP's original strongman in the south has been elevated to the parliamentary board - the party's highest decision-making body.
The meeting with PM Modi has raised speculation about a turn in fortune for the four-time Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Mr Yediyurappa's successor, Basavaraj Bommai, has been in news more for the wrong reasons than right.
Mr Bommai's tenure in the top post had looked shaky last year as the opposition heaped corruption allegations against him and started the PayCM campaign. But the party had maintained that there will be no change and the state will go to polls under his leadership.
Amit Shah, the BJP's chief strategist, has handed the Karnataka unit a "Mission 136" - winning 136 of the state's 224 seats. But it could be an uphill task in the backdrop of the Congress challenge in Karnataka, one of the few states where the party has ground-level support.
The BJP came to power in the southern state for a third time in Karnataka as the alliance government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular collapsed following an exodus by its MLAs. The ruling alliance had accused the BJP of running an Operation Lotus - - toppling an opposition government by poaching on its MLAs.
Mr Bommai and the party's state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel also met the state general secretary in-charge Arun Singh.
Air travel to and from Mangaluru Airport to get costlier as AERA approves UDF hike
Mangaluru, Jan 15: The Mangaluru International Airport, controlled by Adani Airports, is all set to set to increase the user development fee (UDF) for the period up to March 2026 after the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) gave the green signal.
With this the passengers flying from this airport will have to pay more from February.
Previously, only passengers departing or embarking from MIA had to pay UDF. However, beginning February 1, all passengers arriving from various airports and leaving from MIA will be charged UDF.
MIA had moved Airports Economic Regulatory Authority, seeking a revision in the aeronautical tariff for a control period of five years from April 1, 2021, up to March 31, 2026.
MIA had pitched for a revision of airport charges, including user development fee (UDF) from passengers flying in and out of this coastal city. The fee will be hiked every financial year, both for domestic and international passengers.
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International travellers arriving at MIA will have to pay Rs 330 as UDF between February and March of this year which will be hiked to Rs 435 from April 2023 till March 2024 and further to Rs 480 after April 2025.
Starting April, domestic travellers will also have to pay Rs 560 towards UDF. This fee will go up further to Rs 700 from April 2024 and to Rs 735 from April 2025. Similarly, international travellers will have to cough up Rs 1,015 from April which will go up to Rs 1,120 from April 2025.
For the first time, domestic passengers arriving at MIA will have to pay an UDF of Rs 150 from April 2023 which will further go up to Rs 240 from April 2024 and Rs 315 from April 2025.


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Excitement mounts! About to complete forms for Pembrey test and for Brands Hatch rounds 1&2, time to get into the garage and start seeing what the bike needs (other than a good service!).
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A country must effectively, or actually, encode in its laws the provisions of any Bilateral Trade Agreement that is ratified, e.g. Microsoft must obey the conditions of any Trade Agreement that is ratified between the US and China.


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The Healing Hand of Nature
Roy Carr
The Power of Being in the Natural World
By Roy Carr
"Have you been to Pits Woods yet?" Annabelle asked.
"No, where is it?"
"Up by the 'old age' and through the park"
I didn't recognise where she meant, and, feeling slightly embarrassed about my ignorance, I didn't ask.
But there was something in that conversation which registered. She had described a beech wood, animatedly telling me how beautiful it was. I squirrelled away this kernel of knowledge, leaving it dormant in my head for some future forage.
Bedlinog, the small Welsh village in south Wales where I live, is surrounded mainly by oak woods, twisting away through the mist in autumn. These are interspersed with birch, and ash, and alder. They are splendid, but the thought of a beech wood lingered. In my last home, on the edge of the Vale of Glamorgan, my daily dog walk took me past an enormous beech, four hugs in diameter, which cast a spell on me. She invited me to hunt for her beech neighbours which I found with relish, and each of them left their mark as I discovered their particular magic: the vivid greens of spring; the golden oranges of autumn; their sentinel appearance in winter and the breathing of life in summer. There, the thick blanket of leaf mould fed first the delicate wood anemones beneath them, and then the wild garlic which grew outside the shade of their canopy, injecting a different green into the wood and a scent which made me hungry.
Four weeks later, on an impulse, I went in search of Pits Woods.
Full of anger and distress my head jangled. The night before I read through a letter from a Psychiatrist about my brother who, just two weeks earlier, had taken his life. The letter, as previous ones, failed in so many ways, fanning my flames of despair. I struggled to shake them off.
Poppy's bark pulled me out of myself. Tail wagging, stick in mouth, demanding that I throw it for her. I walked past houses where once canaries had been kept in the front window to warn the householders of the dangers of the gas, rising hidden from the vast coal spoil heap which had stood there. The spoil heap was long gone, along with the mines.
Maybe this is where Annabelle meant as I approached a complex of flats towards the 'top park'. Passing through a kissing gate, I picked up a cinder track on the left, instinctively following it. Then another kissing gate; over a stream and on to a 'living wall', from which a host of ferns sprouted, taking this old railway siding wall, another reminder of mining history, into their possession. I threaded my way over rough, rocky ground which hinted at stream bed, though late spring had dried it out.
In front of me was a fence. In front of that. a huge beech which had fallen into oblivion, blocking my way. Poppy darted beneath this carcass, through a small, dog sized, hole in the fence, beckoning me with her loud excited bark, while I struggled to work out how I would clamber my way over this dead sentry. Eventually, I straddled and breeched the trunk and then over the fence which had been denuded of its style by the fallen tree.
I paused long enough for the despair and anger to seep back into my too-full head. It had been such a battle to try to get people to listen to me and my brother. For him, it had become just too much. He could bear the pain no more. I was left behind, trying to respect his choice to let go of life, though I had so desperately wanted him to live.
My eyes adjusted to the dappled light as it trickled through the vivid green beech leaves of late spring. Tiny light pools glinted on the fallen leaves of previous years. My body welcomed the shade, cooling me from the warmth of the day and my physical effort. Tall mature beech trees rose sixty feet or more from the escarpment in search of sunlight, spreading out and contorting their limbs to soak it in, and to feed their hungry young leaves. I exclaimed out loud at this place of magic as I began to take in the splendours of Pit Wood..
The illusion of silence dispersed as I listened closely. Nant Llwynog made her presence felt as she moved gently over the rocks in the stream bed. (I would hear her loud, exultant voice much later when the heavy rains came some months on from this first encounter.) Occasionally the soft breeze would rustle up a barely discernible sound as it blew through the leaves. Sheep called to their young as they grazed on a nearby farm. Then, from the hill above, the ululating call of the curlew, moved through the wood, resonating in the trees, filling my head with wonder, pushing aside despair. I stood, mesmerised, trying to take it all in, exulting in being in this place at this time.
Poppy barked again. Impatient. Desperate to move on. There were more sticks to find, scents to seek. I hesitated, resisting her shout, taking it all in before continuing uphill. And then a pause, arrested by a sudden movement not much above head height. It happened so quickly, and I struggled to recognise what I was seeing. Was this a buzzard flying through the trees? The browns of its plumage certainly suggested this, and I had heard buzzards calling way above the canopy, but this was such a surprise. A good surprise, which prised more space away from my worried head.
As I worked my way to the top of the wood, a short walk, some of the trees changed in character, now stunted by the battering of the winds on exposed ground, forcing me to duck as I made my way beneath their low branches.
And then, as the wood opened out again into open fields and open sky, a red kite jinked on the wind, fine tuning his hover as he eyed up the world beneath for food, mewling as he did so, tempting his pray into the open and pushing aside more worry in my troubled head.
I knew from this first encounter that I would be back to Pits Woods, camera in hand, challenged to capture just a hint of this special place which had cleared my head of troubles, if only for a moment. Those two hours had taught me that I could lose myself in this place, that I could spend the rest of my life getting to know its intimate secrets as it changed with the weather, the seasons and the time of day. I knew too, that this was a place which would bring me solace and refuge when I needed it.
"…this walk itself was about the colour of the autumn leaves, the scent of a fern, the texture of lichen between my fingers, the feel of rain on my skin. It is just that when I come to reflect on the walk that I have taken that I cannot help but delve further, deeper. This is the person who is walking: I carry all these memories and experiences within me. I may choose to travel empty handed, but I have a stuffed backpack of life that comes with me wherever I may go. Most of the time it is buckled up tight, but as I write it is as though I have chosen to sit on some mossy stump and start to unpack, pulling things out one by one and examining them. And as I turn each thought, each memory between my fingers, I ask myself, what is this thing? What is it doing in my baggage? Why do I carry it with me, always, rather than having just discarded it along the way?"
Neil Ansell from "The Last Wilderness, A Journey Into Silence"
It was not a girly thing to walk through the drifts, but boys were fascinated by the trucks, smell, dirt, noise.
My gang, in Mary street, would have expeditions to the wood and build dens. We would collect fallen branches to add to our bonfire for November 5th – ideal for arsonists. At that time, the tip alongside Bethel, the Pentacostal chapel, extended toward the railway line probably as far as the Post office. It formed a sort of headland because thousands of tons had been excavated and taken away during World War 2. That was the site for the bonfire.
The dens in the woods and tips were normally partly excavations and then covered with branches and any materials we could purloin, legally or ????? The material of conveyor belts were ideal. Pieces would sometime come out of the Drift with the coal and shale. Since there was no distance between there and the wood, it was ideal to sneak it away and then camouflage it.
We were basically feral. We could be out of the house for hours and our parents would have no idea where we were and what we were up to. It was marvellous. Some would say our parents were uncaring and irresponsible. My answer to that is nonsense. BUT we did break every rule in the Health and Safety Handbook currently available. Few adults would trouble us in the Pits Wood. We were either attacking Germans or Indians depending on the film being shown in the Workmen's Hall. Tarzan films would also stir the imagination. The conveyor belting sometime would be 'available' in 1 or 2 ins strips and a long piece of that would be fixed to a branch and the Tarzan call would accompany the wild swing into space.
At the top of the wood is Love Quarry. A lot of stone was excavated for Bedlinog buildings there. It is Pennant Sandstone, sometime blueish when fresh but the iron content rusts to brown. There used to be large crows nesting up there, but few below in the wood.
Some of the village gardeners would dig leaf mould in the wood particularly for prize potted flowers and plants. It was free and did the job peat-based composts do now. It was not unusual to see people carrying a sack of the leaf mould. Some people used it to improve the fertility of soil. Environmentalists would be jumping up and down if they knew.
Carwyn Hughes, 84
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The Success Principles
Author: Jack Canfield
6 Audio CDs, 96 page Guidebook
In The Success Principles, Jack Canfield brings together 30 principles of the world's highest achievers, and breaks them down into easy-to-apply action steps that will enable you to create a compelling new life in just 30 days' time. No matter where you seek improvement, The Success Principles will give you a proven, universal solution.
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It's been said that success in life is a lot like a connect-the-dots game. So many successful people who have gone before have left clues about how to replicate their success. All you have to do is connect the dots.
Master motivator and Chicken Soup For the Soul co-creator Jack Canfield has collected those clues for you in one single, incredible system. In The Success Principles brings together 30 principles of the world's highest achievers, and breaks them down into easy-to-apply action steps that will enable you to create a compelling new life in just 30 days' time.
No matter where you seek improvement, The Success Principles will give you a proven, universal solution. You'll discover how to:
Start on your journey to a more successful life (Principle #1)
Motivate yourself when you're surrounded by negative people (Principles #1, #9, and #19)
Get started and complete an overwhelmingly big project (Principles #13 and #14)
Stay focused on your goals, when everyday stresses at work and home take away your best time and energy (Principles #8 and #16)
Prepare for an opportunity that would skyrocket your business (Principle #17)
Have fun and fulfillment in virtually everything you do (Principle #3)
Make migraines disappear, depression lift, and aliveness return—even look younger! (Principle #27)
Win back customers (Principle #25)
Delegate the work activities that rob you of time – and what's the best leverage of your time and talent (Principle #8)
Anything you need to know about success in vital areas of life, including your career, money, relationships, time management, health, and personal fulfillment can be found in this one, amazing system. It's like an encyclopedia of success! The Success Principles will bring you astonishing opportunities and extraordinary results, and pave the way for a lifetime of wealth, achievement and abundance.
Jack Canfield is the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, an empire that encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. But behind this empire is America's leading expert in creating peak performance for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, corporate employees, and educators. For the past 30 years, he has been a psychotherapist, an educational consultant, and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation, and peak performance. He has shared his success strategies in the media and with companies, universities, and professional associations in more than 20 countries around the world. Jack's background includes a B.A. from Harvard University, a master's degree in psychological education from the University of Massachusetts, and an honorary doctorate in human behavior from the University of Santa Monica. He also has a nationally syndicated newspaper column that's read in 150 papers worldwide. He's the host of his own radio show syndicated throughout North America. And he has been a featured guest on more than 1,000 radio and television programs in nearly every major market worldwide – many of them on a repeat basis. A sample of these shows and stations are The Oprah Winfrey Show, Montel, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Larry King Live, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC, and many others.
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A podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, the community is secured for the safety of memory care patients that might be prone to wander, caregivers at Gowin Parc of Paris Memory Care Community can address potential disorientation presented by residents, Gowin Parc of Paris Memory Care Community has the training to resolve any aggressive behavior that residents may have, and full-service medication administration is available.
This pet-friendly community can help care for your pet, nourishing meals are provided to residents, a dentist visits this community regularly, Bickford of Lafayette can handle behavioral issues that residents might have, and Bickford of Lafayette has the skill to resolve any aggression that residents may present.
An on-call doctor is available to help, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this facility, the facility has staff that can administer insulin to manage diabetic needs, this community has been built specifically for the purpose of memory and dementia care, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, staff is available help with your blood sugar management, caregiver staff can deal with any wandering issues residents may have, hospice is an option available at this location, and residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become.
This community can provide pet care, they serve vegetarian food at Brownsburg Meadows, residents who drive will find parking available to them, the staff speaks Spanish at this location, and this community was built in 2014.
Staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be dealt with, the community can handle injectable medicine, residents who drive will find parking available to them, this community provides complimentary transportation, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location.


It is quite possible that I will never own a Montblanc Fountain Pen but that doesn't stop me from collecting all of their ink releases.
This one is a bit different however, apparently not available in the Montblanc Boutiques but only from BMW dealerships with pens to match, or on the secondary market (I sourced this bottle from Germany via eBay at great expense).
My bottle came nicely packaged. The Montblanc ribbon was a bonus, it is very classy, with the lettering being embossed.
Very minimal design, pure white box with black lettering.
The now standard 30ml glass cubed Montblanc bottle. The label on the bottle says blue in several languages.
This ink is blue. Is it BMW's shade of blue? Maybe.
I choose a Sailor Music Stub for this ink's first outing, something that would give it a chance to show any shading. BMW Blue didn't disappoint, thought the scan below doesn't do it justice, this ink shades very well with the dark areas having a red highlight just like the best of the shading blues from Sailor or iroshizuku. This is one very nice blue, I look forward to using it at the office this week.
Even though I have it in my collection I think this ink is wasted as an exclusive to BMW, with its very nice shading I believe it should be part of Montblanc's standard line up.


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With so many marvellous carpet tiles from some of the best brands in the business, you wouldn't be blamed for feeling a little bit spoilt for choice. That's why we've put together a little collection of some of the most suitable tiles, as well as a couple of our handy guides for you to peruse at your leisure. Entrances are all about creating a great visual impression and ensuring your flooring solution can stand up to heavy contract use and high traffic so keep reading.
When it comes to entrance areas in commercial environments, there are a few specific qualities you need to look out for. Go for something with a sturdy construction rib, rubbing fastness properties and a dark colour to conceal a multitude of sins.


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Star is back for new Ghostbusters movie
Sigourney Weaver will be back for the new Ghostbusters movie. Picture: Getty
When Ghostbusters 3 arrives in theatres next year, Sigourney Weaver will be along for the ride.
The actress confirmed she'll join co-stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in the sequel, as she reprises her role as cellist Dana Barrett.
Sigourney Weaver as the possessed Dana Barrett greets Bill Murray in the original Ghostbusters. Picture: Supplied
"It's going to be crazy working with the guys again!" Weaver told Parade magazine in a lengthy feature about her life and career.
Weaver introduced the role of Barrett, whose apartment was haunted by an evil spirit, in the original 1984 film. She had a feeling the movie would be a hit.
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd in the original film. Picture: Columbia Picutres
"I knew it would be big. The script was so funny and full of heart," she said. "Ghostbusters changed my life."
The Oscar-nominated actress - whose career has also been remarkable for her leading role in the smash-hit Alien franchise - wouldn't give any secrets away about the new entry. But we do know it's being helmed by Jason Reitman, son of original director Ivan Reitman.
Sigourney Weaver smiling with the alien. You never saw that in the movies. Picture: Supplied
The next instalment - slated for a July 2020 release - won't be associated with the 2016 all-female Paul Feig-directed reboot, which starred Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
The all-female Ghostbusters of 2016 starred Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. Picture: Columbia Pictures
Ghostbusters 3 is written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, and will be a follow-up to the original film, which made $420m at the box office.
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The first sequel, Ghostbusters 2, was released in 1989 and made $310m at the box office.
Saturday marked the 35th anniversary of the release of the original on June 8, 1984. To mark the occasion, there was a star-studded Ghostbusters Fan Fest presented by Wizard World at Sony Studios in Culver City, California.
Sigourney Weaver with Bill Murray in Ghostbusters 2. Picture: Supplied
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Do you want to start a business as a refugee in The Netherlands? Try to do it! There are many possibilities, but of course also many rules and regulations that you have to know about. But with info, network, help, brains and skills, you can do it. Speaking the language or working together with Dutch people is really helpful and predicts a better future. How to start? Here you can read more about the first steps. If you have a klantmanager, contact him or her about your plans.
Talk first with existing entrepreneurs and Inform yourself about the market, plan, target group and legislation.
Do you need to follow special laws or meet conditions in your field?
Does your talent match the business? Do you need to involve others?
Who wants to buy your service/product?
Who are your competitors and how are you special?
How is your price comparing to the price of your competitors?
What do you need concerning investments?
Who is your target group? Do you meet their demands?
Do you need insurance for your work?
It is not always obliged to start up an official company. You can also try first to do it more easy. Many Dutch also don't know this, but in many cases you can officially earn up to around 10.000 per year and send bills without always having to register as an official company. Note: income tax you need to pay from the earned money after the year in which you earned.
Work and send someone a bill (without adding VAT / btw).
You have to keep a copy of the bills for yourself.
Save about 30-35 per cent of the amount.
Keep the coupons / tickets of the costs you have made for this work.
Also the amount of kilometers if you drove by car.
After the year, around March, you have to fill in your personal tax form.
– You deduct the costs of which you kept the coupons. And 0,19 eurocent per kilometer.
– Over the left over amount you will have to pay income tax. You will receive a message from the Belastingdienst after submitting the Tax form.
You work as a DJ and you ask 300,-.
You pay for the train and you hire equipment for 100,- in total. Keep the tickets with you.
You make an official bill with bill number (001-2016) date, address and description of the work and you put 300,- as the total amount.
You send the bill to the person and you keep a (digital) copy for yourself.
After the year you will have to fill in your tax form.
– There you add that you earned 300,- as 'Inkomen uit overige werkzaamheden'.
– You also fill in that you had 100,- costs (train and equipment).
The Belastingdienst will later charge around 30% of 200,- = around 60,-.
But if you do this you earned officially and contributed to society!
Another option to work for someone is to be paid through a payrolling company. The custumor pays this payroll agency, and they pay you officially as wages. You can negotiate on the percentage the payroll agency earns for this sometimes.
If you have an "uitkering"/aid, you always have to report extra earned income at your municipality. In some municipalities you can keep part of it. In Amsterdam for example, you can keep 6 times per year, up to 185,- per month on top of your "uitkering". If you earn more, this will be asked back by the municipality. But do not hesitate – it is taking care of yourself and if you earn more than the "uitkering", you can be living independently! Something to be proud of.
If you have the skills, speak a little bit the language, know how to arrange things and have a good business plan, starting up your own business officially can have many tax advantages. But it is a responsibility as well. Prepare well with market research and a good business plan! Especially if you are planning to work more than 1225 hours per year (more than 3,5 days per week, with not many vacation weeks) and meet some other conditions, it is interesting to check if it is a good step for you. And in the first 3 years it is extra interesting, because starting entrepreneurs have to pay less tax during these years.
If you hire people, this brings responsibilities. You have to apply rules and regulations concerning minimum wages, labour laws and circumstances, insurance, health care and pension payments. Ask experienced Dutch for advice or hire an administrator of accountant to do the financial work. The wages (pay people) is easiest through a payroll company. They arrange the payments and they can keep an eye on the labour laws and work contracts. Inform yourself well about labour legislation if you start hiring!
The tax system for businesses is quite complicated. But do not do it all alone. Ask advice at a tax advisor, entrepreneur or accountant about what is most smart to do and what you will have to arrange.
There is VAT (btw) that you have to add on top of ALLwhat you sell (most of the time 21%).
You have to pay this VAT (btw) back to the Belastingdienst – most of the time every 3 months.
After a year, you deduct the costs from what you earned and some fixed amounts (called ondernemersaftrek, startersaftrek and/or investeringsaftrek).
If you yourself are the company, you have to pay income tax about the amount that is left.
TIP: always keep at least 35% of what you earn to later pay tax!
TIP2: hire an administrator to do this work for you!
Always ask help you start up an easy administrative system for this.
Keep track of ALL the hours you spend preparing and working. De Belastingdienst can ask for it.
If you have the uitkering / aid from your municipality, there are options for help with starting / preparing your own business. The municipality has an extra form aid (Bbz) and can look at if they think your business has a future. If they think your idea is good, you can prepare to start it up. Then you do not have to apply for jobs in the mean time. For this you could have 1 year.
Ask at your local municipality for this possibility and the conditions.
What if the Business Fails (Bbz-uitkering)?
If you get in trouble financially, under conditions, you can have help again of the municipality. Help to get some money on top of what your earn to at least have the same amount as the "uitkering". If you have financial problems, contact your local municipality and ask for the possibilities for a temporary "Bbz-uitkering".
If you have a good business plan, you could ask some banks to invest. But as a starting entrepreneur, the municipality can sometimes also give you a loan (without paying interest) to start up your business. Ask for the possibilities and conditions at your local municipality.