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Education attainment gap widens
Poverty: Still affecting children's opportunities
THESE days a huge amount depends on how well a young person does at school in year 11.
Whether they can go on to study A levels or even do an apprenticeship often depends on getting the golden ticket of 5 A*-C GCSEs. Yet the latest 2016/17 GCSE Examination results show that a huge proportion of our young people are not getting to this level, with those who are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) doing much worse.
The cohort sitting their GCSE exams last year were the first to take the new versions of GCSE Maths and English. The overall proportions of year 11's achieving 5 A*-C GCSEs including maths and English/Welsh first language have dropped from 60.3% in 2015/16 to 54.6% in 2016/17. There is also a dramatic drop in students achieving any 5 GCSEs A*-C, from 84% to 67%.
Many more young people who are eligible for FSM are leaving school without the qualifications they need. The proportion of year 11's that were eligible for FSM who achieved 5 A*-C GCSEs including maths and English/Welsh language dropped by 7 percentage points since 2015/16, and more worryingly have dropped by 30.3 percentage points for any 5 A*-C GCSEs, compared to 5.8 and 15.4 percentage points for those who were not eligible.
The attainment gap between students eligible for FSM and those not eligible for FSM is nothing new in Wales. There have been numerous statements and educational strategies centred around closing this gap and increasing the achievements of students eligible for FSM. However, as the data shows – the gap between those eligible for FSM and those who are not has increased.
Last year the gap between the two was 32.4 percentage points for 5 A*-C GCSEs including maths and English/Welsh language, compared to 31.2 in 2015/16, and 32.3 percentage points for any 5 A*-C GCSEs, compared to 17.4 the year before.
Reasons for the changes
Maybe students had not adjusted well to the changes to GCSE exams last year; early entry into exams might also have played a role. The Welsh Government advises that comparisons to previous years should not be made due to several changes to performance measures data. However, do these changes explain why the drop in achievement between last year and the year before is larger for those eligible for FSM and why the attainment gap is still not shrinking?
Effect it could have on young people
Many opportunities for young people are reliant on them achieving 5 A*-C GCSEs. Taking A-levels and most further education courses and even some apprenticeships require young people to have those crucial GCSEs. So, what about young people who leave school without those qualifications, which this year has increased?
We are working on a project looking at this, asking that exact question. We know that opportunities are limited and that the lack of them can seriously impact a young person's life. The lack of good opportunities can increase their chances of earning low wages and in turn, increasing their chances of living in poverty.
The Bevan Foundation's project is currently ongoing with findings due out early next Spring. To find out more on the better opportunities for young people project, please go to http://bit.ly/2CerDNH
Becoming a teacher
Awards evening celebrates success
Examination crisis: teacher's predicted grades to be given to students
THE Welsh Government has announced today (Mon, Aug 17) that AS, A level, GCSE, Skills Challenge Certificate and Welsh Baccalaureate grades in Wales will now be awarded on the basis of Centre Assessment Grades.
This occurred after the outrage of students, causing protests outside the Senedd after hearing that a total of 42% of A-level grades predicted by their teachers had been lowered when the Welsh results were published last week. This was due to the decision to process these grades through an algorithm.
Education Minister Kirsty Williams said she took the decision to maintain confidence in the system.
Speaking on the decision, Kirsty Williams said: "Working with Qualifications Wales and WJEC we have sought an approach which provides fairness and balances out differences in the standards applied to judgments in schools.
"Given decisions elsewhere, the balance of fairness now lies with awarding Centre Assessment grades to students, despite the strengths of the system in Wales.
"I am taking this decision now ahead of results being released this week, so that there is time for the necessary work to take place.
"For grades issued last week, I have decided that all awards in Wales, will also be made on the basis of teacher assessment.
"For those young people, for whom our system produced higher grades than those predicted by teachers, the higher grades will stand.
"Maintaining standards is not new for 2020, it is a feature of awarding qualifications every year in Wales, and across the UK.
"However, it is clear that maintaining confidence in our qualifications whilst being fair to students requires this difficult decision.
"These have been exceptional circumstances, and in due course I will be making a further statement on an independent review of events following the cancellation of this year's exams.
"Other Awarding Bodies across the UK are involved in determining the approach to vocational qualifications. This continues to be the case but it is important that I give assurance to GCSE, AS and A level student at the earliest opportunity."
This was a decision welcomed by Suzy Davies, Shadow Education Minister.
Commenting on the Decision, Suzy Davies said: "This has been an exceptional time, and this news will come as a very welcome relief for the thousands of A-Level students who last week were looking at grades lower than they were predicted to receive. It will also be a relief to pupils expecting results this week as well as an acknowledgement of quite how much effort teachers put into this.
"It is reassuring that the Minister has listened to the Welsh Conservatives and other parties in the Welsh Parliament, but especially pleasing that she heard the voices of young people up and down the country.
"These students – at A, AS, GCSE, Skills Challenge Certificate, and Welsh Baccalaureate level – will now have the confidence to plan their future education or career aspirations, and reach their potential."
The Education Minister also promised an independent review of the events "following the cancellation of this year's exams".
Students who received higher grades than those predicted by teachers will keep them.
Swansea University appoints new governing body Chair
Swansea University is pleased to announce that Bleddyn Phillips has been appointed as its new Chair of Council.
Mr Phillips, who joined the University's governing body in May 2017, has been appointed Chair for a four-year term replacing Sir Roger Jones, whose term of office came to an end in September 2019.
Mr Phillips said: "It is a great honour to be appointed Swansea University's Chair of Council. As a Welsh-speaker, with strong roots in Llanelli and Gower, and with both parents having studied at Swansea, I have long felt an affinity with the University and have been delighted to serve on the Council.
"I want to acknowledge the contribution made to the University by Sir Roger Jones over almost 14 years and I very much look forward to working with, and serving, the University as it celebrates its centenary in 2020 and beyond."
Professor Paul Boyle, Vice-Chancellor of the University, said "It will be a privilege to work with Bleddyn as we develop our new strategic plan and look forward to beginning our second century in 2020."
Mr Phillips is a lawyer by profession, a former commercial director at oil companies BP and Total, and later Global Head of the Oil and Gas practice at the international law firm, Clifford Chance LLP. He is Director of Llanelli Scarlets RFC and was a trustee of the Wales Millennium Centre from 2012-2018.
The Council is the University's governing body, which approves the mission and strategic vision of the University, long-term academic and business plans, key performance indicators and overall standards. The Council assures that the University discharges its duties in accordance with the Welsh Quality Assessment Framework.
Experts attack Welsh Government's proposed smacking ban plan
PROMINENT academics have criticised the Welsh Government's bill to criminalise parental smacking during a public debate at Swansea University.
Tonight, experts from the fields of sociology and criminology and parenting studies poured scorn on the plan during an Academy of Ideas debate on state intervention in the family.
A panel of three academics discussed the merits or otherwise of the smacking legislation, which is due to be debated by AMs for a third time in January next year.
Dr Stuart Waiton, a senior lecturer in sociology and criminology at Abertay University and outspoken critic of the Scottish smacking Bill, said: "No longer treated like citizens, as adults who have an opinion and a basic level of autonomy to raise our children, we have culture change imposed from on high – we are made 'aware' by the new authoritarians holding the stick above us.
"The smacking act is a disgrace. It is a form of brutality that undermines parents, weakens the meaning of freedom, and will go on to destroy many loving families who dare to think and act differently to the modern elitists."
Dr Waiton added: "The brutality of the smacking act will mean that a light smack on the hand or bottom of a child will be a criminal offence. Hard smacking is already illegal, but to the middle-class anti-smacking zealots that was not enough. Children, they argue, need equal protection from assault. The very language they use is alien to the millions of parents who occasionally smack rather than assault their children.
"Parents know that smacking a child is a form of discipline often done out of love and concern rather than something that is abusive and criminal."
Criticising the way politicians at the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly have engaged with parents on the smacking legislation, he said: "The new elite think a lot about consultation and inclusion. The reality is a process run by a small section of society, politicians and professionals, who exist in their own bubble and are distant and disconnected from ordinary people."
Ellie Lee, Professor of Parenting Research at the University of Kent also spoke out on the Welsh Government's plans.
"Within the context of an authoritative child rearing relationship, aversive discipline including smacking is well accepted by the young child, effective in managing short-term misbehaviour and has no documented harmful long-term effects."
She added: "It should be the concern of professionals who work with parents to respectfully offer them alternative disciplinary strategies rather than to condemn parents for using methods consonant with their own, but not the counsellors beliefs and values."
The Professor accused the Welsh Government of using the "full force of the criminal law to attack people who disagree on the comparative merits of using smacking rather than something like timeout", saying it is a "bureaucratic imposition on parents".
Only one academic – Dr Gideon Calder, Associate Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at Swansea University – spoke in favour of Government interventions like the smacking ban.
Dr Calder argued that intervention is justifiable in some instances and said something like the smacking ban is not necessarily authoritarian. He said: "the point of the legislation is to safeguard children from potentially harmful interactions."
Commenting on the debate, Jamie Gillies, spokesman for the Be Reasonable Wales campaign, said:
"The criticism levelled at the Government's smacking plans tonight by experts in the fields of sociology, criminology and parenting studies should be a wakeup call to Ministers.
"Experts are not convinced that the plan to outlaw parental smacking is viable, needful or helpful in terms of improving child protection.
"I hope AMs hear the concerns of these academics as well as their constituents and scrap the smacking ban bill when it's voted on in January."


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Een wierdijk was een dijk die voornamelijk bestond uit zeegras, een plant die vroeger tot de zeewieren werd gerekend. Wierdijken waren beter bestand tegen storm dan aarden dijken omdat het gedroogde wier onder druk samenpakte tot een stevige massa en daardoor minder te lijden hadden onder afslag. Doordat deze massa enigszins flexibel was konden zettingen van de ondergrond goed gevolgd worden, en werden golven makkelijker gedempt dat het geval zou zijn bij een verticale (houten) damwand. Het zout in de wierplant zorgde bovendien voor goede conservering.

Constructie

Al in 1319 wordt wier genoemd als bouwmateriaal voor een dijk. Een wierdijk werd aangelegd op een stevige ondergrond van bladriet, waarop het wier werd gestapeld over een breedte van circa 8 voet. Dit werd een wierriem genoemd. Aan de landzijde stortte men klei. Aan de zeezijde werden op een afstand van 4 voet van de dijk palen gezet, de krebbingen. In de ruimte tussen het wier en de palen, tot aan het dagelijkse waterpeil, plaatste men sparren, afgedekt met houten delen. Op dit geheel werden keien gelegd.

Het wier had, zeker net na de aanleg, de neiging in te klinken. Er moest regelmatig worden opgehoogd. Het hele proces was bewerkelijk. Voor een strekkende meter dijk met een hoogte van 2 meter was circa 14 kubieke meter zeegras nodig. Vanwege de sterke samenhang van het wier kon bij storm de dijk over tientallen meters scheuren. Ook kruiend ijs kon flinke schade toebrengen.

Paalworm
Dergelijke wierdijken werden in de middeleeuwen op vele plaatsen langs de toenmalige Zuiderzee en de Waddenzee aangelegd. Zij functioneerden lange tijd naar behoren, tot in de achttiende eeuw de paalworm toesloeg die de houten balken opvrat en daarmee het skelet van de dijk vernietigde. Daarop werd op advies van twee ingelanden van de Noorderkoggen ( Pieter Straat en Pieter van der Deure) besloten de buitenzijde van deze dijken te verstevigen met opgestapelde stenen. In eerste instantie werden vooral zwerfkeien uit Drenthe gebruikt, maar later ook klipsteen (basaltblokken), die uit Noorwegen werden aangevoerd. Veel later ging men ertoe over de dijken van een glooiend talud met deze basaltblokken te voorzien, waardoor ze beter bestand waren tegen het beuken van de golven.

Wieringen
Ook aan de zuidelijke oever van het voormalige eiland Wieringen, die glooiend afloopt, werd in de middeleeuwen een zeewering aangelegd bestaande uit een dubbele rij palen, die aaneengesloten verticaal in de grond werden gezet. Deze palen ondersteunden een circa twee meter dikke muur van samengeperst zeegras. Deze zoutwaterplanten werden vlak in de buurt in de Waddenzee geoogst.

De wierdijk aan de zuidkant van Wieringen is gedeeltelijk gereconstrueerd, waarbij de drie fasen van de ontwikkeling van de dijk ter educatie zichtbaar zijn gemaakt. Het zeegras dat voor dit project nodig was, groeit nauwelijks meer in de Waddenzee en moest geïmporteerd worden van de Duitse Oostzee.

Rond 1930 verdween het Groot Zeegras uit de wateren rond Wieringen. Oorzaak was een schimmelziekte. Veranderingen in de stromingen en in het zoutgehalte vanwege de aanleg van de Amsteldijk (1924) en de Afsluitdijk (1932) hebben mogelijk ook aan het verdwijnen bijgedragen.

Galerij

Literatuur
 J.T. Bremer, Wiringherlant, 1979, Schoorl
 Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen, Amsterdam 1777 in dbnl
 A. van der Werff & K. Boonenburg, Verdwijnen van het zeegras rond Wieringen. Uit: Het Peperhuis, 1961, nummer 11-12

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Star Wars - Admiral Piett
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Ruthless and terrifying, the military forces of the Galactic Empire are the means by which Emperor Palpatine enforces and maintains his rule of terror throughout the galaxy. In the waning days of the Old Republic, the ability of the Jedi Knights to maintain peace and order among its citizens was put to the test in the face of the droid armies of the Separatist Movement. Under the direction of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, a Grand Army of the Republic was created to counter the increasing Separatist threat. Fueled by the onset of the Clone Wars, the resulting military buildup provided Palpatine with a standing army of over a million clone units that were completely loyal and unquestioning in their obedience. Revealing himself to be a Sith Lord, Palpatine used his army to wipe out the Jedi Knights and cement his position as the tyrannical leader of the newly formed Galactic Empire.
No longer comprised exclusively of clones, the Imperial Military now adds to its massive numbers through forced enlistment and volunteer recruitment through the Imperial Academy. Whether the vast ground forces of the Imperial Army garrisons or the skilled pilots of the Imperial Navy, the soldiers of the Empire are the most highly trained and well-equipped fighting force in the galaxy. Fiercely devoted to the will of Emperor Palpatine, they have earned their reputation as merciless and unflinching troops and commanders who carry out their orders with grim efficiency or face the ultimate consequence.
As an attentive Captain aboard Vader's Super Star Destroyer, the Executor, Piett was more creatively minded than his by-the-manual superior, Admiral Ozzel. After Ozzel committed a fatal mistake during the hunt for the Rebels, Darth Vader rather dramatically 'dismissed' Ozzel, and promoted Piett to Admiral. Piett served in this capacity during the Battle of Endor, where he perished when an A-wing starfighter crashed into the Executor's bridge.
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The events depicted in Star Wars media take place in a fictional galaxy. Many species of alien creatures (often humanoid) are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are generally built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a Galactic Republic, later reorganized as the Galactic Empire...
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The EOS Forex EA website refers to this automated trading algorithm as the Empire of Scalping Forex. It further praises it as the "best automated forex trading solution" that they claim helps you rake in profits consistently. Introduced to the market in 2015, its developer "a team of expert software programmers with a passion for trading" hoped to help everyone else reap the same "large profits" the auto trader had helped them achieve.
According to the site, its profitability and consistency has been well received in the market with both individual traders and "well known multi-national banks" depending on it to turn profits in this industry. To join this bandwagon, these developers require you to part with $399 for a single license package or $599 for the full license packages.
But how accurate is this? How reliable and profitable is the EOS Forex EA? We understand this after probing how it works and confirming these claims.
How does EOS Forex EA work?
Ordinarily, you would expect the automated trading software provider to give a hint of the trading strategy forming the base of their system. For instance, do they use the grid or the martingale strategy? Does their system take such factors as stop loss and target profit? And more importantly, how do they arrive at the maximum level of tolerable risk? These play a key role in helping a trader decide on whether to invest in the software or not.
Such secrecy raises serious questions about the expert advisor and its developers. But it is not enough to verify the legitimacy or virility of the algorithmic trader thus the need to vet its backtest results and real trading history.
The empire of scalping –EOS – Forex EA website claims to have backtested the performance of their trading system using trading data collected over a decade. They, however, don't have screenshots or links to verifiable web pages where you can confirm the system's effectiveness.
To cover for this, they give out a free demo account trader for both subscription packages they have on offer. Traders can, therefore, decide to first test the effectiveness of the trader using the demo trader before transferring it to the live account. The downside to this is that EOS EA doesn't have a free trial period.
You will also notice that even after being actively involved in the money markets since 2015 there are no reliable customer reviews to support their backtesting theory. In an ideal situation, you would expect a few of their previous clients to have reviewed the auto trader, positively or negatively, on the different online forums.
EOS EA developers are quite transparent in their trades as they maintain an active real account whose trading history is publicly available on their Myfxbook page. Started in June 2016, the €1200 account currently reports an absolute gain of 85.82% with a maximum drawdown of 50.9%. This translates to a mere 0.14% and 4.18% in average daily and monthly gains respectively.
Such poor returns are a huge juxtaposition of the "large profits" the system developers promise plastered all over the company website. It also raises such questions as to how 'transparent' these developers have been with their clients. For instance, while they claim to have introduced the system to the market in 2015, and have patented website content since then, it is strikingly suspicious why they only have trading history account for accounts opened in 2016.
One would wonder, did the auto trader truly exist before 2016? And if it did, why were its previous trading history scrapped, especially when there are no backtest results to affirm the performance claims? Was the performance of previous accounts so dismal that the developers couldn't help but pull them offline?
In an industry where transparency is so rare with automated trading services providers failing to update bad months on Myfxbook or fooling users with demo account results, you can't help appreciate EOS Forex EA for standing the ground with their EA's performance, however unattractive.
No one fancies a bad investment. Plus the last thing you want is to invest $600 in a trading robot and even bigger amount as minimum deposit only for it to blow the account or constantly post losses. The fact that EOS EA trader is constantly posting negative monthly gains is an indication that the algorithmic trader is a bad investment. For instance, trader is having a hard time turning profits since September 2018 as all the subsequent months reported net losses.
The auto trader's website further claims that their algorithmic trader is being used by both individual and institutional investor's like banks. If that were the case, you would expect the system to be hosted by a valid company or entity with verifiable contacts and business address. There is however no mention of the EOS EA creators or sponsors safe for the all too familiar but vague "team of expert developers" statement used by every other player with questionable backgrounds.
There is a thin line between running a legit and a rouge auto trading system. And while there are different ways of smoking out scam trading systems, we are more interested in the developer's transparency in trading history and their company, the profitability of the based verifiable backtest and Myfxbook history as well as a recommendation, or lack of it, within the online community of forex traders. EOS Forex EA doesn't fulfill these requirements and while we believe it is premature to call the system a scam, we advise that you remain cautious when dealing with it.
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Lali Ayguadé Company premiered virtually its latest production HIDDEN at Festival Temporada Alta (Salt, Girona) on the 19th of November. We feel so grateful we could make it to the end of this intense creative process. HIDDEN is the last part of Lali Ayguadé Company's trilogy investigating the concept of identity after Kokoro (2015) and iU an Mi (2017). As Lali says: "It is really strange to do a premiere without an audience' however we are excited and looking forward to performing and sharing this piece with an audience in March 2021 at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Before that, we'll be heading to POLE SUD in Strasbourg in France to perform 'iU an Mi' on 13th and 14th of January 2021.
iU an Mi, the second piece of the trilogy of Lali Ayguadé is going to Avignon for the Festival "Les Hivernales". The performance is the Thursday 13th of February at 19:30 in the Theatre Benoit …info


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Game of Thrones used in attempt to lure tourists to Aleppo
BY: Loop Entertainment
10:30, October 3, 2016
Bashar al-Assad's regime released a promotional video Friday with panoramic views of government-held parts of Aleppo, accompanied by an acoustic version of the theme music to the popular HBO television series.
Showcased in the video are aerial shots of wide green boulevards and swimming pools. It's a far cry from the rebel-held eastern part of the city, where 250,000 people live with daily airstrikes, according to the UN, and where whole blocks of neighborhoods have been destroyed.
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Evolving peacekeeping landscape requires stronger global-regional partnership
BY: Quintina Naime
11:41, August 20, 2015
Also to include the States concerned in solutions, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
"At the same time, regional organizations should continue contributing to United Nations peace and security efforts. We count on them for political leverage as well as civilian and military capacities," Ban told the Security Council, during an open debate on the subject of regional organizations and contemporary global security challenges.
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Would you like to become a Buddha? It will be a wonderful experience, and how the neighbors will talk about you! There are two kinds of Buddhas so you can take your choice. One belongs to the Theravada school of Southern Buddhism where they tell of a Buddha who spent most of his enlightened years making rules and telling other people what to do.
Oddly enough, before he became an enlightened Buddha, we are led to believe that he spent his life either silent or speaking very little. This could have been his most interesting period and more intimate details of his life and experience which led to his great realization could have been of much practical value to his followers. But practically nothing is recorded of this period, only the latter part where we are overwhelmed by sermons.
The other Buddha belongs to the Zen tradition and reveals a wiser man and one who had the wisdom to keep quiet. Zen does have scriptures passed on from ancient tradition, but they are from Mahayana sources, and thereby tactfully, have rejected the whole of the Pali Canon. Although Zen does have these scriptures, now translated from the original Sanskrit, none are accepted as being an authority or final word. The Buddha of Zen presents a different and wiser type. The Pali Canon relates that soon after the experience of Awakening (Bodhi), the Buddha rushed to the Deer Park near Varanasi to preach and convert his former associates. Zen has a very different viewpoint and tells us the Buddha "never said a word". This must not be taken to imply the Buddha lived a life of complete silence but rather that Truth cannot be expressed in words.
Thus the viewpoint of Zen must be that sermons and sutras can never in themselves express the final Truth. Zen had little regard for chronology or history and never tried to invent any. They tell a wonderful and beautiful story which serves to illustrate their viewpoint rather than as an event in history.
The story is told that the Sage Gautama was sitting quietly beneath a tree surrounded by disciples, a curious public and odd sight-seers. Then suddenly a local panjandrum waddled into the scene, paid his respects, gave his dakshina or offering, and presented the Buddha with a beautiful yellow flower of golden hue. Then, perhaps with a sincere desire for spiritual food or the mere intention to get something for his money, he begged the Sage Gautama to preach a sermon on the golden flower which he held in his hand. When the official was seated, all listened intensely for the sermon. The Buddha held up the flower so that all the audience could both see and gaze at it. Gautama himself did precisely the same thing and sat silently gazing at the flower and smiled to the mystified mob to indicate the sermon was finished. But practically everyone betrayed a puzzled countenance and revealed their bewilderment. When-the glance of the Buddha fell on the face of Mahakashyapa, his leading disciple, their eyes met and they both smiled. Then the Buddha knew that of all the congregation, only Kashyapa got the message. Zen calls this the transmission of mind to mind.
Thus Zen dragged Buddhism out of the relative ruts into which it was rapidly sinking. The cult of Zen Buddhism first came to bloom in China and became known as Ch'an. It was the real Golden Flower and had grown on a spectacular plant which had its roots in the Tantra of the Hindus, Taoism and Buddhism of the Indian school of Mahayana. The Hindu roots are there, and most obvious, but seldom is any reference made because scholars, especially foreign scholars, who write most of the Zen books, have never yet studied the higher Upanishad teachings, and less so the Agamas of ancient India and the expressions of these which are found in the teaching of Sri Dattatreya. So vivid are these relationships and so similar the fundamentals that it would not now appear odd if Bodhidharma, who is said to have taken the Dhyana cult to China, was proved to be a Hindu. He himself never claimed to be a Buddhist but it could easily have happened that the Chinese thought all monks or sadhus from India were all Buddhists. Prior to Bodhidharma, they had all been so. Certainly the pattern of his visit to the Chinese court, his answers and general behavior were not the usual pattern of a Buddhist of any school. The story of Bodhidharma being the twenty- eighth Patriarch of Indian Buddhism is doubted even by the Zen people themselves and no Indian records of his period even mention him. Buddhism in India never did have an exclusively Dhyana school or cult but always existed in -mixed patterns. Ch'an tradition tells us that he arrived in China about 520 A.D. Zen, however rises above all these things, because it is the living lamp which gives the light and not the burnt-out wick of tradition.
Ch'an flourished in China for about 800 years and terminated as a monastic sect with its own Masters in the 13th century. In spite of its brilliance it reached a stage of weakness and became transformed into the very relativistic Pure Land school. Earlier it had spread into Tibet Korea and Japan and only in the latter country was it able to continue as two separate but related schools of Zen. Its existence in Japan in the present day is well known but Ch'an in China never completely died. It continued with separate monks who had access to its vast literature, records and teachings. But nearly all Chinese schools began to merge and the late Patriarch was known by the title of Patriarch of the Five Schools. It also existed in Malaysia where a very fine monk had a temple in Kuala Lumpur and identified himself completely as a Ch'an monk.
People have become somewhat conditioned to think of Buddhism as an atheistic religion. In some schools this could be so, but the interesting feature of early Ch'an is that the Patriarchs and Masters so rarely used the word Buddha or Buddhism. Instead, we find them talking and thinking in terms of the Tao and the Supreme Reality. Lao Tzu was generally the most quoted, not by name, but by the teachings he had expounded in the Tao Teh Ching. The Meditation Master Fa-Yung tells us: "No-thought is the Absolute Reality." He correctly used the term Ultimate Essence for the Sanskrit word Sunyata, though it later degenerated into being regarded as "nothingness" or "void". He also used the term of one's "Original Nature" to mean this "Ultimate Essence", but it too became changed, in time, to "Buddha's Nature".
The oldest Zen poem, by Seng-Ts'an, the Third Patriarch begins with the words "The Perfect Tao is without difficulty," and "Follow your nature and accord with the Tao." The early period of Ch'an was much neglected by the recorders, but having become more Buddha-conditioned, they might have neglected what was obviously Ch'an's earlier Tao period. As time passed, the Tao of Supreme Substance was thought of as Nothingness – a void. Perhaps rivalry with the existing Taoist religion may have had something to do with the change.
Zen values are infinite. It helps one to better understand Yoga Vidya, and Yoga Vidya helps one to better understand Zen. Both can play important parts in man's attainment of Immortality. Now that Zen no longer exists as an organized cult in China, it is useless for Western people to go there to find it, also, unless you are a ping-pong player, you might have potential difficulties. While Japan still retains the Zen cult, even in a modernized form, the country does present great difficulties to the foreigner. Zen training today has now developed into a system of hardening and character building for young Japanese gentlemen and is considered an excellent introduction to a business career. To become involved in this system is not what the sincere seeker of wisdom really wants. The scanty diet and bitterly cold climate in the winter season do not provide the ideal conditions for any foreigner to spend two or three years in meditation. Language is also an insurmountable barrier and even where English is spoken it is not easy for teachers to translate into those subtle idioms of English which Zen requires.
Yet there is still an answer to the inherent desire of the awakened man to find the Supreme Absolute. To do this does not require any fixed religious or cult patterns. One need not join a new religion or even seek an entirely different way of life. Though these things have their values to the local people of different lands, they might be impediments to one from abroad. It is like trying to put the wind in a bottle. this must not be taken to imply that the cultural patterns and conventions of your own land will provide you with the ideal conditions. You must get the mind and body disentangled from these also. Zen, Yoga-Vidya and Tao all teach a Supreme attainment but one which is only attainable by a natural man or woman. Stories you can read in books, but to acquire naturalness, to be natural, and to revert to your own primitive nature, this you must do yourself and empty the mind of wrong ideas and free the body from its obligations and impediments. Thus Zen can help us much by a study of the teachings and injunctions of those who walked the path, achieved success and became competent as guides for others.
Zen and Yoga-Vidya lie close together. Zen is only the Japanese, but now the most universal form of the Chinese Ch'an. This in its turn is taken from the Sanskrit Dhyana and was the Chinese equivalent to the colloquial form (which generally drops the last letter) of Dhyan. Yoga-Vidya is a rather modern form of Brahmavidya or Atma-Vidya. It only means the Science of Attainment. Although popular opinion associates it with the highest form of Hinduism it actually comes from the ancient pre-Aryan Tantrik cult. But these associations should not mislead anyone into thinking of them as cult concepts of a separate religion. They arose in Ancient India long before people thought of themselves as Indians and lived without any ideas of separateness or nationalism. They lived in a world without fences, frontiers and borders. The cult of Yoga-Vidya, of which Zen become another expression, is international and .belongs only to the cosmos. Thus it becomes the Science of the Microcosm attaining the Macrocosm. Yoga-Vidya expounds only the One Supreme Reality (Paramatman), the Cosmic Soul. Belief in relative gods and goddesses were only, necessary to people of lower wisdom.
Zen was imported into Japan and developed as two separate but related schools. Soto-Zen is exclusively a meditation sect and tends to imply gradual awakening through mind training. Rinzai-Zen came through a monk who studied under Huang Po and Lin-Chi. It is the "Sudden" school of Zen which utilized the verbal and mental conundrums known as the Ko-an plus the well-directed application of a big stick. This amusing process assumes that some people behave better when battered. At least, it keeps the boys awake, if not "awakened".
Truth does not become more valid because it is seen by the light of a Chinese lantern or wrapped in a Japanese kimono. The Masters may have been distinguishable because they wore Mongolian masks, but the real souls of Absolutism were universal and cosmopolitan. Take them out of the Oriental environment and they are still great Masters. Many of the greatest are probably unknown, preached but little, did not seek disciples and were never entangled in monastic life. They lived like leaves blown by the wind. If realization does not give real freedom, then it is not realization. Liberation has no entanglements and involvements and those who permit them are not liberated.
Japanese Zen was much reflected in Japanese art, yet the favorite subjects of the artists were Patriarchs and Masters revealed in their Absolute expressions and not as conventional preachers and seat-sitters. Instead they were presented in wild abandonment, shouting, laughing, yelling and scolding. They became the insane ideals of Japanese spiritual life. It may also be noted that the characters most commonly represented were not the big names in Zen, but the obscure hermits Han-Shan and Shih-Te, dirty, ragged vagabonds of the hills and forests.
Another was the fat-bellied folk-god of the Chinese, Pu-Tai, whom Zen transformed into a Zen Bhikshu to make him more welcome on Japanese soil. Here was the real cult of Zen and the men of real value, living in just the same way as their forerunners had lived in India and the true pattern of drop-outs all over the world. One cannot become real Yog, Zen or Tao, until one reaches the stage of Naturalness (Chinese Tzu jan; Japanese Shizen; Sanskrit Sahaja). So if one distinguishes natural differences, then the thinking must be at fault.
Zen maintains complete identity with Yog as both are based on roll-realization as being their essential principle: and that meditation is the method to attain it. I cannot recommend Zen books which should be read but I can recommend many which should be burned.
The worst books in English have been written by Japanese with Europeans panting up behind. Zen literature, translated into English has its own real values. But one does not actually read real Zen but rather absorbs it. If you cannot understand it, then you are not ready for Zen. Too many find Zen, like Yoga-Vidya, beyond them. To make things easier the only practical steps one can safely recommend is for you to kill yourself and try for a better rebirth where you can grow up less conditioned, brainwashed and have less rubbish-soaked brains. You might have to do this several times.
Zen is an excellent approach to the Absolute but it is not the only one. Realization of the Supreme Reality is latent in each and every individual. People like to think that books help them but actually they become an obstacle. This is most true in the West where people have become conditioned to imagine that knowledge and wisdom must always be somewhere presented in black and white. Yet the Supreme Absolute which they seek has not a single word, phrase or sentence which is appropriate to describe it. How then, can it be conveyed by the printed word? Meditation is an experience and improves only with practice while "all-about-it books" lead only to confusion. So where do we go from here?
Once-a-week Zen is just about as useless as once-a-week Yoga. The Science of the Soul is a way of life and must permeate your thought and action for twenty-four hours of every day. Eat less, sleep less and meditate the more. You will not find it in societies and classes but only within. No guru can help you unless he is a Realized Soul- a Buddha himself. Only the awakened should be the guides to awaken others. Otherwise you are trying to buy purgatives from constipated doctors. Now that someone has already written "Teach Yourself Zen", we are but a short time away from someone who will start teaching Zen by correspondence courses. Then tapes and gramophone records. While there are worms there will always be cunning birds looking for them.
In Christian patterns talk like this would have had them burned. It is only where there is real strength of teachings that a religion or path can freely express itself. Zen never produced holy or pious men in the usual accepted meaning of the word. Piety was even recognized as a defect and an outward show which need have no relationship to ones inner understanding.
Niu-T'ou Fa-Yung was one of the Ch'an Masters who lived in the early part of the 7th century. Having passed through considerable study of Confucianism, and Chinese History, he embraced Buddhism. Soon after, he went to live in a cave on Niu-T'ou Mountain as a hermit. Here he spent his days in the conventional patterns of Buddhism and developed such a condition of piety and holiness that a hundred birds would come every day and drop flowers and other things which birds drop, into his lap as he sat praying or meditating. Fa-Yung should have been in a glass case. He might well have died and rotted away in the odor of sanctity if the Fourth Patriarch, Tao-Hsin, had not chanced to pass that way and visit him.
The Zen Masters did not always use the word Buddha in the sense it came to be used in Theravada and Mahayana schools, yet their use was more in accord with the real meaning. The medieval courtesy title of Buddha only meant an Awakened One. It was identical to the stage of Pratibha – awakening, insight or illumination and in Japanese they use the term Satori and the Chinese Tun-Wu Thus, when a Japanese student attains Satori it means he has become an Awakened One, but this does not imply or mean that he has reached the stage of Moksha or Enlightenment and is free from rebirth. Zen did not really intend to make men into Buddhas of the Theravada type, although the Theravada attitude is somewhat inconsistent, for the fundamental basis of the whole Buddha. story is to demonstrate that what one man can achieve, others can do also.
The Theravada outlook is that a Buddha appears only once in millions and millions of years but this has the germ of its own degeneration and only presents the ultimate goal as being impossible for ordinary men. They also think of a Buddha as only being a man but cannot explain why there could not be a female Buddha. Zen is much aloof from these relative entanglements but it is important to understand what they actually meant and implied by "Buddhahood".
Zen is not achieved by a calculating mind, nor by the intellect. Men become trapped by their own thoughts and these lead to other thought traps. Like Master Nan- ch'uan's goose in the bottle, it is not really the goose which needs liberating from the bottle but man himself.
People all over the world have shown an interest in Zen. Many must feel it has something they want. But how can they grasp it? From a world of names, symbols, forms, classifications, groupings and mechanical packaging, it is not easy to grasp something which cannot be grasped easily and defies not only reason and classification but thought itself. To such people an attempt to understand Zen can only be like trying to get horse dung from a rocking horse. But there is no law to prevent one trying. Realization is always something outside and beyond normal control.
As Sri Dattatreya taught about 4000 years ago, "It is spontaneous and comes of itself." It cannot come to "normal" people, because the civilized "normal" man is so artificial. He will strive for something and make efforts which prove to be obstacles. He will try to reason, debate, memorize and wrangle to improve his knowledge and the Essence only gets further and further away. To become natural and stop reasoning and calculating often proves to be impossible because he has been conditioned and educated that way. He is always tempted to seek knowledge from someone he thinks has studied more and read more books than himself. This leads to more confusion.
The time will soon come when the simple expression Zen will have common usage, and be used in a general sense to express the essence of a new freedom, previously unknown in the West. Hitherto, the Western approach to Zen has been much too conventional as it has been presented as an orderly, scrupulously clean and neat temple and monastic life with strict disciplines. None of this is really Zen and it can have no outward forms or patterns Most of the ancient Indian gurus were more Zen than much which is found today in Japanese temples. The same is also true of the celebrated dropouts of European history, not to mention many of the tramps and hobos of Europe and America. Zen can have no fixed patterns and it is a Truth which needs no robes. Japanese Zen is too much entangled in Confucian and other ethics. The real Masters are the hermits, vagabonds, and disembodied rogues who live in nature's wilds, blown about like leaves in the wind.
Thus Zen must be the simplest of all simple patterns. It can have no methods beyond the spontaneity of natural people. It cannot be preached, for there is nothing to preach. It is the Golden Flower beyond explanation or definition. Children and insane vagabonds are nearer to Zen than most of the people who call themselves Zen masters. Its real history and records are written in the trees, plants and stones, and its only temples and monasteries are the hills, mountains, rivers and clouds. It belongs to nature and to natural man. You will not find it in the cities because it cannot live or survive there.
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A native of St. Louis, he is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson School in Sunset Hills, MO. He later attended Union College in Schenectady, NY, graduating with honors in 1985. Beginning in college and throughout his twenties, he played Division 1 and Select-Side Rugby. The sport took him all over the world, including to Hawaii, where he competed against Manu Samoa; and to England, where he played for the University of Bath.
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1.06 Brave Heart - 16/2/99
1.06 Brave Heart – 16/2/99
S1 E6 (16 Feb 99) : Brave Heart by Tony McHale
Nick is beaten up in the lift by someone he doesn't know and his lip is bleeding. When he tells Ellie about it, she says it was her boyfriend who had found out about them. Meanwhile, Julie has been fired from her job because she stole out-of-date food and shouted at her manager. Jasmine is still angry at Carl.
Victoria's in big trouble with Meyer because the man she operated on immediately is going to sue because he still cannot speak. She is also still taking drugs. Meyer's also battling with Muriel over the number of beds, and Karen's also getting involved.
Nick is late to turn up to an operation and Karen is angry with him. She says that seven years ago he was late seeing to a patient and he thinks it was because he was sleeping around with a nurse. The girl died and Karen had to cover up for him.
Kirstie has been receiving flowers all day from an "admirer" and she eventually phones the florist to try to find out who sent the flowers.
Nick tells Karen he's changed, and when Kirstie finds out that it was him that sent her the flowers, she dumps the presents on him and makes comments about him sending them. Karen says sarcastically "You've changed!" and walks off.
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Khiloh is headed to Austin with Doug and Diane.. He is a beautiful dog and what they were looking for.. More importantly they will be there when he needs them.. Thanks to Carey for the home visit and congratulations to our newest foster home Jordan for a job well done..
Khiloh is a sweet black tri boy weighing approximately 50 lbs. and almost two years old.. Here is what his foster mom says about him.."Khiloh is almost two years old and full of personality. When he first came to us, he did not know basic commands and loved to counter surf. His previous owners did not have enough time for him, but took care of him the best they could. In the weeks we've had him, he has shown us that he is very loving, smart, clingy, and stubborn. He gets along well with other dogs his size, but not smaller dogs or cats. His previous owners stated he was good with children of all ages, though we do not have children in our home to verify. His personality shows this may be true, however.
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Steven Lilako, No. 29, passes ball upfield to a teammate in the Lions' 1-0 overtime win over Northeastern State.
The Lindenwood men's soccer team defeated MIAA conference opponent Northeastern State University by the score of 1-0 in overtime on Sunday afternoon at Harlen C. Hunter Stadium.
Just 41 seconds into overtime midfielder Noah Savage crossed the ball into the box that was headed in by forward Steven Lilako past the Riverhawks' goalie, winning the game for the Lions.
While he was in the air, Lilako knew he was going to score.
This was Lilako's third goal in the last two games as he finishes the season with four goals on the year.
Northeastern State outshot the Lions 10-9 during the game with Lindenwood having four shots on goal and the Riverhawks having three, according to Lindewood Athletics.
Lions goalie Tim Licht had three saves on the afternoon, and with this shutout he finishes the year with five shutouts and a record of 9-3 in goal.
Three players on Lindenwood were issued yellow cards during the game: Gabriel Jaimes, Lilako and Savage.
With this win, Lindenwood finishes the season with a record of 10-7 and a record of 5-3 in the MIAA conference.


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Freedom Day in Portugal in 2020
Freedom Day
Street art depicting the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal. Image by Jeanne Menjoulet , via Flickr
How long until Freedom Day?
This holiday next takes place in 96 days.
Dates of Freedom Day in Portugal
2022 Portugal Mon, Apr 25 National Holiday
2021 Portugal Sun, Apr 25 National Holiday
2020 Portugal Sat, Apr 25 National Holiday
2019 Portugal Thu, Apr 25 National Holiday
2018 Portugal Wed, Apr 25 National Holiday
Celebrates the 1974 Revolution that ended the Dictatorship and started Democracy
When is Freedom Day in Portugal?
Freedom Day on April 25th is a national holiday in Portugal, with official commemorations.
It celebrates the 1974 Revolution that ended the dictatorship and started a democracy. It also commemorates the first free elections that took place a year later on April 25th 1975.
History of Freedom Day
Known as the Carnation Revolution, this was a virtually bloodless, leftist, military-led coup.
It ended the rule of Marcello Caetano, who had assumed the country's leadership from dictator António Salazar five years earlier.
The revolution began on April 25th 1974, in Lisbon and transformed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy.
It followed a long period of social change and power struggles between the left and right wing political forces.
The military coup was started by an airing of Portugal's entry in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. This was a secret signal that alerted the rebels to begin their coup.
Whilst the government forces killed four people before surrendering, the revolution was somewhat unusual in that the revolutionaries didn't resort to violence to achieve their goals. The population, holding red carnations, convinced the army not to resist and the soldiers swapped their bullets for flowers.
The revolution marked the end of the longest authoritarian regime in Western Europe.
While April 25th is a public holiday, the majority of stores will remain open to the public, though banks and government offices will be closed. Buses will operate on weekend schedule. In Portuguese look for 'Todos os Dias and Sábados, Domingos e Feridos' schedules.


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'Baseball bat fight' leaves Derbyshire man seriously ill in hospital
Two people have been arrested
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The fight happened in Holbrook Street, Heanor (Image: Google Maps)
One man is in hospital and two men have been arrested following a fight in Heanor.
Police were called to Holbrook Street shortly after midnight this morning after a 999 caller reported two men fighting in a passageway between two houses.
According to police, a third man then intervened.
Two men, aged 44 and 26, were injured during the incident, which is alleged to have involved a baseball bat.
The 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, as has a 58-year-old man.
The 44-year-old man remains in hospital in a serious condition.
A police spokesman said: "We want to hear from anyone who witnessed or heard what happened, or who has any information they think could help the inquiry.
"Contact DS Sean Grainger on the below methods, quoting reference 19*618894."


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Pafnuty Chebyshev
Pafnuty Chebyshev, in full Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, (born May 4 [May 16, New Style], 1821, Okatovo, Russia—died November 26 [December 8], 1894, St. Petersburg), founder of the St. Petersburg mathematical school (sometimes called the Chebyshev school), who is remembered primarily for his work on the theory of prime numbers and on the approximation of functions.
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev. Sovfoto
Chebyshev became assistant professor of mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg (now St. Petersburg State University) in 1847. In 1860 he became a correspondent and in 1874 a foreign associate of the Institut de France. He developed a basic inequality of probability theory called Chebyshev's inequality, a generalized form of the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality, and used the latter inequality to give a very simple and precise demonstration of the generalized law of large numbers—i.e., the average value for a large sample of identically distributed random variables converges to the average for individual variables. (See probability theory: The law of large numbers.)
Chebyshev proved Joseph Bertrand's conjecture that for any n > 3 there must exist a prime between n and 2n. He also contributed to the proof of the prime number theorem (see number theory: prime number theorem), a formula for determining the number of primes below a given number. He studied theoretical mechanics and devoted much attention to the problem of obtaining rectilinear motion from rotary motion by mechanical linkage. The Chebyshev parallel motion is a three-bar linkage that gives a very close approximation to exact rectilinear motion. His mathematical writings covered a wide range of subjects, including the theory of probabilities, quadratic forms, orthogonal functions, the theory of integrals, gearings, the construction of geographic maps, and formulas for the computation of volumes. His important work on the approximation of functions by means of Chebyshev polynomials advanced applied mathematics. His Teoria sravneny (1849; "Theory of Congruences") made him widely known in the mathematical world and was used as a textbook in Russian universities for many years.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Erik Gregersen, Senior Editor.
Article Title: Pafnuty Chebyshev
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 12 May 2019
URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pafnuty-Lvovich-Chebyshev


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The newly released registers on TheGenealogist are: The Register of Tonbridge School, Kent, 1826-1910; Repton School Register Supplement to 1922 edition 1933; Allhallows School Register and Record 1908-1932; A History Of Wigton School 1815-1915; Alumni Felstedienses, Boys Entered at Felsted School, 1897-1903; Leeds Grammar School Registers 1820-1910; The Sherborne Register, Third Edition, 1550-1937; The Roll of St Edwards School 1863-1939; The Lancing Register 1932; Sussex, The Lancing Register, 1848-1900; Chigwell Register 1653-1907; Bury, Directory of the Technical School, Acting Teachers' Classes and School of Art, 1909-1910; Tonbridge School Register 1847-1926; Epsom Girls Grammar School, Auckland 1928; New Zealand, School List Christ's College Grammar School 1850-1921; The Edinburgh Academy Register 1824 – 1914; Summer Fields Register 1864-1929; Lancaster Royal Grammar School; Schola Novocastrensis Newcastle Royal Free School 1545-1699; Cambridge, Leys School, Handbook and Directory 1920; Bromsgrove School Register 1553-1905; Cambridge, The Leys School Directory 1912; Register of Oakham School 1875-1929; Merchiston Castle School Register 1833-1903; The Whitworth Book; Scholars And Teachers Of Ackworth School 1879-1900; A Biographical Register of Peterhouse Men Part I 1284-1574; Album Aberhonddu 1755-1880, Brecon Memorial Book (In Welsh); Bootham School Register, 1935 and Charterhouse Register, 1872-1900.
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She also suggested that anyone who felt moved to be more involved is to do so through Girl Rising, which uses storytelling to inspire action that can help get girls into classrooms all over the world. The hashtag to go along with the campaign is #62MillionGirls.


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Czesław Andrzej Janicki (ur. 19 lipca 1926 w Korytnicy, zm. 29 grudnia 2012 w Poznaniu) – polski naukowiec, zootechnik, nauczyciel i wykładowca akademicki, profesor nauk rolniczych, minister rolnictwa i wicepremier (1989–1990), poseł na Sejm X kadencji.

Życiorys

Młodość
W czasie II wojny światowej od lipca 1944 pracował jako robotnik przymusowy w Gądkach koło Poznania przy kopaniu okopów strzeleckich i rowów przeciwczołgowych. Od sierpnia tego samego roku był przez trzy miesiące więziony w obozie karno-śledczym w Żabikowie. 5 stycznia 1945 przeniesiony do prac przy kopaniu okopów pod Wieluniem.

Po wojnie skończył Szkołę Rolniczą w Bojanowie (1947). W 1951 zdał dodatkowo egzamin z przedmiotów pedagogicznych w Liceum Pedagogicznym w Krotoszynie. Był nauczycielem i kierownikiem gospodarstwa w Szkole Rolniczej w Psarach; rozpoczął też działalność w Polskim Stronnictwie Ludowym. W kwietniu 1950 został aresztowany przez funkcjonariuszy Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa pod bezpodstawnym zarzutem sabotażu – był więziony w Krotoszynie do marca następnego roku, a następnie przeniesiony do pracy w Liceum Rolniczym w Wolsztynie. W tej szkole pracował w latach 1951–1955 (do czasu zmiany jej specjalizacji), po czym został zatrudniony w Technikum Rolniczym w Koźminie Wielkopolskim (mieszkał tam wraz z rodziną do 1969).

Równolegle z pracą pedagogiczną studiował w Szkole Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie (1952–1956; studia inżynierskie) i Wyższej Szkole Rolniczej w Poznaniu (magisterium w 1964).

Działalność naukowa
Po skończeniu studiów magisterskich rozpoczął pracę naukową. W 1967 uzyskał stopień naukowy doktora na podstawie pracy zatytułowanej Zmienność składników białkowych mleka krów w chłopskich oborach zarodowych bydła biskupińskiego. W październiku 1968 jego promotor, profesor Witold Folejewski, zaproponował mu pracę na uczelni. Od 1 września 1969 zajmował w Wyższej Szkole Rolniczej w Poznaniu stanowisko adiunkta w Katedrze Genetyki i Podstaw Hodowli Zwierząt. Zajmował się genetycznym doskonaleniem wydajności i jakości mleka krów, prowadził zajęcia dydaktyczne ze studentami. W 1973 uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego, a w 1987 otrzymał tytuł profesora nauk rolniczych. Jest autorem publikacji na temat leczenia bydła mlecznego.

Działał w Polskim Towarzystwie Nauk Weterynaryjnych, Polskim Towarzystwie Zootechnicznym im. Michała Oczapowskiego oraz Poznańskim Towarzystwie Przyjaciół Nauk. W latach 1975–1977 był przewodniczącym koła Polskiego Towarzystwa Zootechnicznego przy Akademii Rolniczej w Poznaniu. W 1997 został odznaczony Honorową Odznaką PTZ.

W okresie 1978–1984 zajmował stanowisko prodziekana Wydziału Zootechnicznego, a w latach 1981–1990 – kierownika Katedry Genetyki i Podstaw Hodowli Zwierząt. W 1984 został prorektorem uczelni, jednak po nowelizacji ustawy o szkolnictwie wyższym w 1985 minister odwołał go z tego stanowiska – był uznany za "nie nadającego się do socjalistycznego wychowania studentów". Pracę naukową i dydaktyczną przerwał okres kilkuletniej aktywności politycznej. Po jego zakończeniu na początku lat 90. wrócił do pracy naukowej.

W Katedrze Genetyki i Podstaw Hodowli Zwierząt Czesław Janicki kierował badaniami nad doskonaleniem użytkowości mlecznej bydła w drodze krzyżowania z bydłem rasy holsztyńsko-fryzyjskiej. Był autorem publikacji Hodowla zwierząt (Wydawnictwa Radia i Telewizji, Warszawa 1973) oraz Związek beta-laktoglobulin z niektórymi cechami użytkowości mlecznej krów (Wydawnictwo Uczelniane Akademii Rolniczej, Poznań 1973). W 1990 był promotorem dwóch prac doktorskich – Próba analizy oceny wartości hodowlanej buhajów szacowanej metodą równoczesnego porównania (CC) w oparciu o stada testowe i stada wielkostadnej hodowli zarodowej Ireneusza Dymarskiego oraz Szacowanie korelacji genetycznych i odziedziczalności cech mleczności bydła czarno-białego Tomasza Szwaczkowskiego.

Działalność społeczna i polityczna
Był długoletnim działaczem Zjednoczonego Stronnictwa Ludowego, od 1990 krótko należał do Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego. W wyborach w 1989 uzyskał mandat posła na Sejm kontraktowy w okręgu Poznań-Stare Miasto (mandat nr 305). Wybrany został w drugiej turze głosowania z 18 czerwca 1989, pokonując w ponownym głosowaniu Dobrochnę Martin. Pod koniec kadencji należał do Parlamentarnego Klubu Chrześcijańsko-Ludowego, związanego z Polskim Forum Ludowo-Chrześcijańskim "Ojcowizna". Jako poseł pracował m.in. w Komisji Łączności z Polakami za Granicą oraz dwóch komisjach nadzwyczajnych.

Podczas formowania rządu Tadeusza Mazowieckiego ZSL chciało, aby ministrem rolnictwa został Kazimierz Olesiak. Nowy premier odrzucał jednak kandydaturę osoby ściśle związanej z gabinetem Mieczysława Rakowskiego. W rezultacie wybór padł na Czesława Janickiego, mającego poglądy bliższe "Solidarności". W konsekwencji 12 września 1989 Czesław Janicki został wicepremierem oraz ministrem rolnictwa, leśnictwa i gospodarki żywnościowej w rządzie Tadeusza Mazowieckiego (od 20 grudnia 1989 był wicepremierem oraz ministrem rolnictwa i gospodarki żywnościowej). Pod koniec urzędowania w resorcie doszło do nasilonych protestów rolników. 27 czerwca 1990 grupa rolników rozpoczęła okupację budynku ministerstwa. Dwa dni później w godzinach porannych premier podjął decyzję w sprawie szturmu Policji. Czesław Janicki sprzeciwił się tej decyzji, co doprowadziło między nim a Tadeuszem Mazowieckim do sporu. 6 lipca Czesław Janicki został odwołany ze stanowiska. Tymczasowym kierownikiem resortu został Mieczysław Stelmach. 14 września 1990 premier mianował na urząd ministra Janusza Bylińskiego. W 1991 Czesław Janicki nie ubiegał się o poselską reelekcję.

Odznaczenia, wyróżnienia i upamiętnienie
Postanowieniem z 26 lipca 2012, za wybitne zasługi na rzecz budowy demokratycznego państwa polskiego, za osiągnięcia w działalności państwowej, publicznej i naukowo-dydaktycznej, został odznaczony przez prezydenta Bronisława Komorowskiego Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski. Dekoracja odbyła się 11 listopada 2012.

Odznaczony również Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (1989), Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (1984) i Medalem 40-lecia Polski Ludowej (1984).

10 maja 2016, podczas uroczystości z udziałem m.in. Grzegorza Skrzypczaka i wdowy po profesorze, odsłonięto tablicę pamiątkową ku jego czci na terenie Muzeum Narodowego Rolnictwa i Przemysłu Rolno-Spożywczego w Szreniawie.

Życie prywatne
Syn Andrzeja i Agnieszki. W 1952 Czesław Janicki ożenił się z Cecylią Adamczewską; miał dwie córki: Ewę i Barbarę; mieszkał w Poznaniu.

Pochowany na cmentarzu parafialnym św. Jana Vianneya w Poznaniu (kwatera św. Barbary–31–6).

Przypisy

Absolwenci Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego
Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego w Poznaniu
Członkowie Polskiego Towarzystwa Nauk Weterynaryjnych
Członkowie Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
Działacze Zjednoczonego Stronnictwa Ludowego
Ministrowie rolnictwa III Rzeczypospolitej
Ministrowie rolnictwa PRL
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (III Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Medalem 40-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
Politycy Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego
Politycy Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego (1945–1949)
Politycy PSL "Odrodzenie"
Polscy nauczyciele
Polscy zootechnicy
Posłowie na Sejm kontraktowy
Posłowie z okręgu Poznań Stare Miasto (PRL)
Wicepremierzy III Rzeczypospolitej
Wicepremierzy PRL
Więźniowie obozu karno-śledczego w Żabikowie
Więźniowie polityczni w Polsce Ludowej 1944–1956
Wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego w Poznaniu
Pochowani na Cmentarzu parafialnym św. Jana Vianneya w Poznaniu
Urodzeni w 1926
Zmarli w 2012


By who's standards is it too young?
Thread: By who's standards is it too young?
It never changes though. When i had my first at 19/20 yrs old, and I went anywhere with my Mum, people would talk to her about the baby and not me. She would always tell them she was the nana, but secretly it made her feel great as she was 39 when Jordan was born. It really annoyed me though.
I am now 30 and have 4 kids and still people are shocked, I say to them get over it. I am married now, have a house and have clean kids who are fairly well behaved (they are when they are at school/kinder anyway LOL), and even if I wasn't married it wouldn't bother me. Too many people need to spend too much time worrying about things that have nothing to do with them.
I am 22 and my partner is 23 .
All good points, I guess if my 15 yo daughter came home pregnant I wouldn't be to happy, I would support her and be there for her no matter what, but would consider her to be to young.
There are of course other girls who are probably a lot more mature than she is, and it is everyone's own choice when they want to start a family.
I was 23 when I had my first and by the time I was 27 had 3 little rug rats.
Also probably has something to with whether you yourself feel/felt mature enough to be a parent at 21 (or whatever age, for that matter) would probably make a difference in whether you think another person is too young to be a parent at that age.
I guess if you tell someone you had your first child at 18, they would probably try picturing themselves at 18 with a child and thinking that they would hvae been way too young then and not ready emotionally, financially etc. I definately dont think that being a teenager or early 20's means youre too young, because its about whether you feel mature and ready enough, not when the girls from school , work , family do/did.
I am 20 and want to be a parent very much, and i definately think i feel ready. I have talked about this with David (my DF) and he wants to as well. He is a bit older than me (32) and doesnt say I am too young. My school friends, however, think its crazy and say that i am too young to get married, buy a home, have children and all that. I am not sure why because when I ask, they cant explain why, but i thought it might be because they havent yet done or dont want to do those things in their lives yet. The people i went to school with are all older than me but I just tell them I have been out of school for 3.5 years - i have qualifications, a well paying job, just bought a home and getting married later in the year. Out of my "group" at school i am the only one that has done all those things, and none of them before i was ready to.
So basically, i guess its just your own perception an how you feel about it.
I am 24... Have been with my now DH for nearly 4 years and we are trying for a baby... My sister is 29 and is pg with no.4 and she had her first at 18... My best friend has 2 kids, I have plenty of other friends that have children. Honesty I do not understand where this idea came from that you have to be over 25 to start thinking about children.
I have wanted to have a baby for years and only put it off until now because we wanted to get married first. DH and I agreed that we'd go off the pill right after the wedding. Fell right away but m/c'd at 14 weeks and now we're trying desperately again.
I think about when she had her first baby at 19 and how many others of her generation were having children at a similar age and think "who are you to tell me Im too young!". They go on about things being different now - ok I agree, but that doesnt change your desire to have a child and your ability to be a great mum!
Ok, got that out. Feel better now guys!
I think much of it comes from the fact that these days we live in a society where career takes presedence over family and to many it does not seem possible that there are those out there who do want to start a family earlier.
I myself am not a career person... never have been. Never will be. DH is the career person here. Nothing wrong with concentrating on career and having children later, but it does not suit me and evidently it does not suit many others either.
I don't know. It's all stupid if you ask me. I think it is wrong that they are forcing women to go back to work once their children are over a certain age. I refuse flat out to ever put my children in daycare and what gives the government the right to put this kind of pressure on women who want to stay at home.
I could go on about these issues for hours... It pi$$es me off to no end.
Oh yes, I totally agree with all of that. In my opinion, 17 or under is too young, however.
DH & I met when we were 18yo & 17yo respectively & thought 21/22yo might have been the right time to start. This then became 26yo, but that was then pushed to 'before 30', coz I just started a new career. Got engaged few mths later (Dec 01), bought our first home July 02 (just as the market was starting to go up), married Oct 03, went off pill Nov 03, given go ahead to start Mar 04 & here we are, still trying. I turn 30 in Oct & DH turns 31 on Good Friday.
So I really wish we had planned all of this earlier. My Gyn said that your chances of conception gradually/slowly decrease from 30yo.
I really just wish someone had pointed this out to me when I was younger, so I say go for it when your younger.
On the other hand though, my sister was pg at 19, is now a single mum (with a fiance), works part time & never has any money. Rent going up & she can't afford to move nor buy a house & so wishes she had saved for a house sooner.
Thankfully DH wants to have a baby and is ignoring everyone on his side.
It is so bad though that when I fell PG the first time he didn't want to tell them for fear of their reaction.
I've lways wanted to have children young for varying reasons. Oh, and i am not saying its bad to wait till mid 30's to start having children. As i said, i totally believe its 100% up to the parents/parents-to-be.
Wow - i have just found this thread and it has meant so much ready your messages. I am 24 and DH just turned 26. I had my whole life planned from a very young age and i was to have had two kids by the time i was 25 - first at 23. So it didn't happen - We have been married since Nov 04 but have been together for over eight years - he is the old fashioned type who wanted to be married first so i waited, and waited.
Someone mentioned career orientated - Yeah i used to want a career but it didn't fit into what i wanted but unfortunately i have "fallen on my feet" I have THE job - I became a manager of a retail support department for the largest supermarket chain in in the South Island of NZ - great pay car travel staff etc all at age 22 (they took a gamble). i was taking over from a women of 39 who was going off to have her first baby....I think they thought that as i was 22 they had a good 17yrs out of me before i went off and did baby things. It is a great Job for people who want to have a career not someone who wants to have babies right now - stress is also another negative factor.
There is noone near to us in age - all above 30 in the rest of the department so i have no one to turn to - peoplethat i work with have children and/or grandchildren my age!
Was that for me widdly? Even if not - i'll take the compliment!


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Myrtle és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Mississipí. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 407 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Myrtle tenia 407 habitants, 162 habitatges, i 117 famílies. La densitat de població era de 275,7 habitants per km².

Dels 162 habitatges en un 42% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 48,1% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 19,1% dones solteres, i en un 27,2% no eren unitats familiars. En el 25,9% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 12,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,51 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,01.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 32,7% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 7,9% entre 18 i 24, un 27,8% entre 25 i 44, un 18,7% de 45 a 60 i un 13% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 32 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 76,8 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 28.125 $ i la renda mediana per família de 34.583 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 25.227 $ mentre que les dones 20.875 $. La renda per capita de la població era d'11.268 $. Entorn del 12,1% de les famílies i el 15,3% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població de Mississipí


The Republicans opened the Alberche Dam to thwart a Nationalist advance.
Father Charles Coughlin increased his rhetoric against the Roosevelt Administration. Coughlin called the President "anti-God" and said he would advocate the use of bullets if an "upstart dictator" voided the ballot.
The New York Giants made the 1936 World Series a Subway Series, clinching the National League pennant with a 2-1 win over the Boston Bees.


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Q: Is "\/" valid inside a javascript regex? Is the following code valid?
function test() {
  return /\//.exec("\/");
}
alert(test());

It seems that many javascript minifiers (including jsmin at http://jscompress.com/) consider the "//" on the second line to be the start of a comment. I assume it's a bug in the "trivially" implemented minifiers, since all the browser implementations I tried run it without a problem. Try it on jsfiddle.

A: Yes, that is valid javascript :) That is a bug in the minifier, and should probably be fixed. You could get around it if you wanted by making your regex have something stupid at the end of it like:
return /\/(?:.|$)/.exec("\/");

Which basically says, either the end of the string, or not the end of the string, without capturing. But I don't think that's a good solution and I wouldn't use it myself haha.

A: Yes, this is legal. \/ matches a literal /. The first \ escapes the /. The line:
/\//.exec("\/");

Evaluates to:
["/"]

A: I was interested in looking it up in the specs, and according to it it is valid:
RegularExpressionLiteral ::
    / RegularExpressionBody / RegularExpressionFlags
RegularExpressionBody ::
    RegularExpressionFirstChar RegularExpressionChars
RegularExpressionChars ::
    [empty]
    RegularExpressionChars RegularExpressionChar
RegularExpressionFirstChar ::
    RegularExpressionNonTerminator but not * or \ or / or [
    RegularExpressionBackslashSequence
    RegularExpressionClass
RegularExpressionChar ::
    RegularExpressionNonTerminator but not \ or / or [
    RegularExpressionBackslashSequence
    RegularExpressionClass
RegularExpressionBackslashSequence ::
    \ RegularExpressionNonTerminator
RegularExpressionNonTerminator ::
    SourceCharacter but not LineTerminator

The \/ is considered a RegularExpressionBackslashSequence, and hence is part of RegularExpressionBody, and as a result cannot be part of the // comment marker.