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go-funk
=======

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``go-funk`` is a modern Go library based on reflect_.

Generic helpers rely on reflect_, be careful this code runs exclusively on runtime so you must have a good test suite.

These helpers have started as an experiment to learn reflect_. It may looks like lodash_ in some aspects but
it will have its own roadmap, lodash_ is an awesome library with a lot of works behind it, all features included in
``go-funk`` come from internal use cases.

You can also find typesafe implementation in the godoc_.

Why this name?
--------------

Long story, short answer because ``func`` is a reserved word in Go, I wanted something similar.

Initially this project was named ``fn`` I don't need to explain why that was a bad idea for french speakers :)

Let's ``funk``!

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<3

Installation
------------

.. code-block:: bash

    go get github.com/thoas/go-funk

Usage
-----

.. code-block:: go

    import "github.com/thoas/go-funk"

These examples will be based on the following data model:

.. code-block:: go

    type Foo struct {
        ID        int
        FirstName string `tag_name:"tag 1"`
        LastName  string `tag_name:"tag 2"`
        Age       int    `tag_name:"tag 3"`
    }

    func (f Foo) TableName() string {
        return "foo"
    }

With fixtures:

.. code-block:: go

    f := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Foo",
        LastName:  "Bar",
        Age:       30,
    }

You can import ``go-funk`` using a basic statement:

.. code-block:: go

    import "github.com/thoas/go-funk"

funk.Contains
.............

Returns true if an element is present in a iteratee (slice, map, string).

One frustrating thing in Go is to implement ``contains`` methods for each types, for example:

.. code-block:: go

    func ContainsInt(s []int, e int) bool {
        for _, a := range s {
            if a == e {
                return true
            }
        }
        return false
    }

this can be replaced by ``funk.Contains``:

.. code-block:: go

    // slice of string
    funk.Contains([]string{"foo", "bar"}, "bar") // true

    // slice of Foo ptr
    funk.Contains([]*Foo{f}, f) // true
    funk.Contains([]*Foo{f}, nil) // false

    b := &Foo{
        ID:        2,
        FirstName: "Florent",
        LastName:  "Messa",
        Age:       28,
    }

    funk.Contains([]*Foo{f}, b) // false

    // string
    funk.Contains("florent", "rent") // true
    funk.Contains("florent", "foo") // false

    // even map
    funk.Contains(map[int]string{1: "Florent"}, 1) // true

see also, typesafe implementations: ContainsInt_, ContainsInt64_, ContainsFloat32_, ContainsFloat64_, ContainsString_

.. _ContainsFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ContainsFloat32
.. _ContainsFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ContainsFloat64
.. _ContainsInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ContainsInt
.. _ContainsInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ContainsInt64
.. _ContainsString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ContainsString

funk.IndexOf
............

Gets the index at which the first occurrence of value is found in array or return -1
if the value cannot be found.

.. code-block:: go

    // slice of string
    funk.IndexOf([]string{"foo", "bar"}, "bar") // 1
    funk.IndexOf([]string{"foo", "bar"}, "gilles") // -1

see also, typesafe implementations: IndexOfInt_, IndexOfInt64_, IndexOfFloat32_, IndexOfFloat64_, IndexOfString_

.. _IndexOfFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#IndexOfFloat32
.. _IndexOfFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#IndexOfFloat64
.. _IndexOfInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#IndexOfInt
.. _IndexOfInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#IndexOfInt64
.. _IndexOfString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#IndexOfString

funk.LastIndexOf
................

Gets the index at which the last occurrence of value is found in array or return -1
if the value cannot be found.

.. code-block:: go

    // slice of string
    funk.LastIndexOf([]string{"foo", "bar", "bar"}, "bar") // 2
    funk.LastIndexOf([]string{"foo", "bar"}, "gilles") // -1

see also, typesafe implementations: LastIndexOfInt_, LastIndexOfInt64_, LastIndexOfFloat32_, LastIndexOfFloat64_, LastIndexOfString_

.. _LastIndexOfFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#LastIndexOfFloat32
.. _LastIndexOfFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#LastIndexOfFloat64
.. _LastIndexOfInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#LastIndexOfInt
.. _LastIndexOfInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#LastIndexOfInt64
.. _LastIndexOfString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#LastIndexOfString

funk.ToMap
..........

Transforms a slice of structs to a map based on a ``pivot`` field.

.. code-block:: go

    f := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Gilles",
        LastName:  "Fabio",
        Age:       70,
    }

    b := &Foo{
        ID:        2,
        FirstName: "Florent",
        LastName:  "Messa",
        Age:       80,
    }

    results := []*Foo{f, b}

    mapping := funk.ToMap(results, "ID") // map[int]*Foo{1: f, 2: b}

funk.Filter
...........

Filters a slice based on a predicate.

.. code-block:: go

    r := funk.Filter([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) bool {
        return x%2 == 0
    }) // []int{2, 4}

see also, typesafe implementations: FilterInt_, FilterInt64_, FilterFloat32_, FilterFloat64_, FilterString_

.. _FilterFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FilterFloat32
.. _FilterFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FilterFloat64
.. _FilterInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FilterInt
.. _FilterInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FilterInt64
.. _FilterString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FilterString

funk.Find
.........

Finds an element in a slice based on a predicate.

.. code-block:: go

    r := funk.Find([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) bool {
        return x%2 == 0
    }) // 2

see also, typesafe implementations: FindInt_, FindInt64_, FindFloat32_, FindFloat64_, FindString_

.. _FindFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FindFloat32
.. _FindFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FindFloat64
.. _FindInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FindInt
.. _FindInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FindInt64
.. _FindString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#FindString

funk.Map
........

Manipulates an iteratee (map, slice) and transforms it to another type:

* map -> slice
* map -> map
* slice -> map
* slice -> slice

.. code-block:: go

    r := funk.Map([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) int {
        return x * 2
    }) // []int{2, 4, 6, 8}

    r := funk.Map([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) string {
        return "Hello"
    }) // []string{"Hello", "Hello", "Hello", "Hello"}

    r = funk.Map([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) (int, int) {
        return x, x
    }) // map[int]int{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3, 4: 4}

    mapping := map[int]string{
        1: "Florent",
        2: "Gilles",
    }

    r = funk.Map(mapping, func(k int, v string) int {
        return k
    }) // []int{1, 2}

    r = funk.Map(mapping, func(k int, v string) (string, string) {
        return fmt.Sprintf("%d", k), v
    }) // map[string]string{"1": "Florent", "2": "Gilles"}

funk.Get
........

Retrieves the value at path of struct(s).

.. code-block:: go

    var bar *Bar = &Bar{
        Name: "Test",
        Bars: []*Bar{
            &Bar{
                Name: "Level1-1",
                Bar: &Bar{
                    Name: "Level2-1",
                },
            },
            &Bar{
                Name: "Level1-2",
                Bar: &Bar{
                    Name: "Level2-2",
                },
            },
        },
    }

    var foo *Foo = &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Dark",
        LastName:  "Vador",
        Age:       30,
        Bar:       bar,
        Bars: []*Bar{
            bar,
            bar,
        },
    }

    funk.Get([]*Foo{foo}, "Bar.Bars.Bar.Name") // []string{"Level2-1", "Level2-2"}
    funk.Get(foo, "Bar.Bars.Bar.Name") // []string{"Level2-1", "Level2-2"}
    funk.Get(foo, "Bar.Name") // Test

``funk.Get`` also handles ``nil`` values:

.. code-block:: go

    bar := &Bar{
        Name: "Test",
    }

    foo1 := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Dark",
        LastName:  "Vador",
        Age:       30,
        Bar:       bar,
    }

    foo2 := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Dark",
        LastName:  "Vador",
        Age:       30,
    } // foo2.Bar is nil

    funk.Get([]*Foo{foo1, foo2}, "Bar.Name") // []string{"Test"}
    funk.Get(foo2, "Bar.Name") // nil

funk.Keys
.........

Creates an array of the own enumerable map keys or struct field names.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Keys(map[string]int{"one": 1, "two": 2}) // []string{"one", "two"} (iteration order is not guaranteed)

    foo := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Dark",
        LastName:  "Vador",
        Age:       30,
    }

    funk.Keys(foo) // []string{"ID", "FirstName", "LastName", "Age"} (iteration order is not guaranteed)

funk.Values
...........

Creates an array of the own enumerable map values or struct field values.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Values(map[string]int{"one": 1, "two": 2}) // []string{1, 2} (iteration order is not guaranteed)

    foo := &Foo{
        ID:        1,
        FirstName: "Dark",
        LastName:  "Vador",
        Age:       30,
    }

    funk.Values(foo) // []interface{}{1, "Dark", "Vador", 30} (iteration order is not guaranteed)

funk.ForEach
............

Range over an iteratee (map, slice).

.. code-block:: go

    funk.ForEach([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) {
        fmt.Println(x)
    })

funk.ForEachRight
............

Range over an iteratee (map, slice) from the right.

.. code-block:: go

    results := []int{}

    funk.ForEachRight([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) {
        results = append(results, x)
    })

    fmt.Println(results) // []int{4, 3, 2, 1}

funk.Chunk
..........

Creates an array of elements split into groups with the length of the size.
If array can't be split evenly, the final chunk will be the remaining element.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Chunk([]int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, 2) // [][]int{[]int{1, 2}, []int{3, 4}, []int{5}}

funk.FlattenDeep
................

Recursively flattens array.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.FlattenDeep([][]int{[]int{1, 2}, []int{3, 4}}) // []int{1, 2, 3, 4}

funk.Uniq
.........

Creates an array with unique values.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Uniq([]int{0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 12}) // []int{0, 1, 2, 3, 12}

see also, typesafe implementations: UniqInt_, UniqInt64_, UniqFloat32_, UniqFloat64_, UniqString_

.. _UniqFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#UniqFloat32
.. _UniqFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#UniqFloat64
.. _UniqInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#UniqInt
.. _UniqInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#UniqInt64
.. _UniqString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#UniqString

funk.Drop
.........

Creates an array/slice with `n` elements dropped from the beginning.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Drop([]int{0, 0, 0, 0}, 3) // []int{0}

see also, typesafe implementations: DropInt_, DropInt32_, DropInt64_, DropFloat32_, DropFloat64_, DropString_

.. _DropInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropInt
.. _DropInt32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropInt64
.. _DropInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropInt64
.. _DropFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropFloat32
.. _DropFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropFloat64
.. _DropString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#DropString

funk.Initial
............

Gets all but the last element of array.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Initial([]int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // []int{0, 1, 2, 3}

funk.Tail
.........

Gets all but the first element of array.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Tail([]int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // []int{1, 2, 3, 4}

funk.Shuffle
............

Creates an array of shuffled values.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Shuffle([]int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // []int{2, 1, 3, 4, 0}

see also, typesafe implementations: ShuffleInt_, ShuffleInt64_, ShuffleFloat32_, ShuffleFloat64_, ShuffleString_

.. _ShuffleFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ShuffleFloat32
.. _ShuffleFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ShuffleFloat64
.. _ShuffleInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ShuffleInt
.. _ShuffleInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ShuffleInt64
.. _ShuffleString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ShuffleString

funk.Sum
........

Computes the sum of the values in array.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Sum([]int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // 10.0
    funk.Sum([]interface{}{0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // 10.5

see also, typesafe implementations: SumInt_, SumInt64_, SumFloat32_, SumFloat64_

.. _SumFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#SumFloat32
.. _SumFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#SumFloat64
.. _SumInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#SumInt
.. _SumInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#SumInt64

funk.Reverse
............

Transforms an array the first element will become the last, the second element
will become the second to last, etc.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Reverse([]int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}) // []int{4, 3, 2, 1, 0}

see also, typesafe implementations: ReverseInt_, ReverseInt64_, ReverseFloat32_, ReverseFloat64_, ReverseString_, ReverseStrings_

.. _ReverseFloat32: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseFloat32
.. _ReverseFloat64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseFloat64
.. _ReverseInt: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseInt
.. _ReverseInt64: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseInt64
.. _ReverseString: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseString
.. _ReverseStrings: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk#ReverseStrings

funk.SliceOf
............

Returns a slice based on an element.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.SliceOf(f) // will return a []*Foo{f}

funk.RandomInt
..............

Generates a random int, based on a min and max values.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.RandomInt(0, 100) // will be between 0 and 100

funk.RandomString
.................

Generates a random string with a fixed length.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.RandomString(4) // will be a string of 4 random characters

funk.Shard
..........

Generates a sharded string with a fixed length and depth.

.. code-block:: go

    funk.Shard("e89d66bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb", 1, 2, false) // []string{"e", "8", "e89d66bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb"}

    funk.Shard("e89d66bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb", 2, 2, false) // []string{"e8", "9d", "e89d66bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb"}

    funk.Shard("e89d66bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb", 2, 2, true) // []string{"e8", "9d", "66", "bdfdd4dd26b682cc77e23a86eb"}

Performance
-----------

``go-funk`` has currently an open issue about performance_, don't hesitate to participate in the discussion
to enhance the generic helpers implementations.

Let's stop beating around the bush, a typesafe implementation in pure Go of ``funk.Contains``, let's say for example:

.. code-block:: go

    func ContainsInt(s []int, e int) bool {
        for _, a := range s {
            if a == e {
                return true
            }
        }
        return false
    }

will always outperform an implementation based on reflect_ in terms of speed and allocs because of
how it's implemented in the language.

If you want a similarity gorm_ will always be slower than sqlx_ (which is very low level btw) and will uses more allocs.

You must not think generic helpers of ``go-funk`` as a replacement when you are dealing with performance in your codebase,
you should use typesafe implementations instead.

Contributing
------------

* Ping me on twitter `@thoas <https://twitter.com/thoas>`_
* Fork the `project <https://github.com/thoas/go-funk>`_
* Fix `open issues <https://github.com/thoas/go-funk/issues>`_ or request new features

Don't hesitate ;)

Authors
-------

* Florent Messa
* Gilles Fabio
* Alexey Pokhozhaev
* Alexandre Nicolaie

.. _reflect: https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/
.. _lodash: https://lodash.com/
.. _performance: https://github.com/thoas/go-funk/issues/19
.. _gorm: https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm
.. _sqlx: https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
.. _godoc: https://godoc.org/github.com/thoas/go-funk

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Dish 'Do Not Call' suit: Dish Network's 57M telemarketing calls, what you can do
Dish Network's violation of the "Do Not Call" registry included 57,606,609 illegal telemarketing calls. A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that the satellite TV company Dish Network is liable, and it all began because consumers had enough of getting telemarketing calls from Dish. According to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report on Jan. 21, one of those consumers who brought upon the lawsuit was a woman who worked at night and who was on the Do Not Call list, but was still pestered by Dish's telemarketing calls.
For most people, the first line of defense (after being put on the Do Not Call list) is simply not answering the phone. For the North Carolina woman who helped initiate the lawsuit against Dish, ignoring the phone was not an option since her husband has a serious medical condition.
After having had enough of unwanted telemarketing calls, the woman described in the FTC report went from being a victim to taking action. "After getting repeated calls about Dish service, she took steps to put an end to the annoyance. She listened to the whole recorded sale pitch, hoping a live person would pick up so she could beg them to stop calling. When she finally got somebody on the line, she told them to put her on their Do Not Call list. She started sleeping on the couch with pencil and paper in hand so she could document the calls when they woke her up. Ultimately, she filed two complaints with her State AG."
The woman's complaints against Dish Network's illegal telemarketing calls, along with the complaints of other consumers, led to the ongoing case file against Dish. The Department of Justice is pursuing the case on behalf of the FTC and in cooperation with the states of California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio.
The complaint against Dish alleges that the satellite TV company violated the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, related rules, and state telemarketing laws. On its website, Dish offers customers the chance to get off its sales-call lists. However, as the North Carolina woman and the FTC discovered, that actually never happened.
One of the loop holes that companies like Dish Network might use to get around the Do Not Call regulation is pretending to call someone because of service issues, billing, or similar topics related to one's service. However, the FTC informs that a company has to comply if a person says that they do not want to be called anymore. The Illinois judge ruled that Dish was responsible for 1,043,595 of those types of illegal calls.
In addition to fake "service calls" being illegal, so are abandoned calls. If you run out of your shower or drop everything to answer a phone call just to find out that nobody is on the other line – abandoned calls are also illegal.
"Under the Telemarketing Sales Rule, companies that place a call have to connect people to a sales rep within two seconds after the consumer finishes saying hello. The Court found Dish liable both for calls it abandoned and for abandoned calls by its retailers."
"The Court found Dish responsible for 49,738,073 abandoned calls."
The Dish Network Do Not Call lawsuit – initiated by consumers who have had enough of illegal telemarketing calls – is ongoing and a trial is set for July in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Penalties for violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule can be up to $16,000 for each instance. "Some of the penalties attached to these types of telemarketing violations can also include payments to consumers who got the unwanted calls." The Federal Trade Commission National Do Not Call Registry allows consumers to register their home or mobile phone number — and to file a complaint.
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Dish: 'Do Not Call' fiasco involves millions of illicit calls, telemarketing
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Asheville Inns offer stay, shop, play holiday packages to suit all
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text:
Keep your brain in mind
& your Brain
Brain Health Matters
A Public Health priority
Impact of Brain illness
Breakthroughs in neurosciences
Toward an e-society
About SBHI
SBHI's story
SBHI's vision
SBHI's mission
SBHI governance
Brain is a key organ
a- Statutes
A non-for-profit organisation registered in Brussels Belgium in March 2015
As a point of convergence on Brain Health
for global leaders, key experts, leading multi-stakeholders (public institutions, private corporations…) and their constituents
interested in working towards sustainable Brain Health Promotion as well as Brain Disorders & Cognitive Impairment Prevention
SBHI is conducted by a Board of Directors from the Scientific, Business and Policy communities
The "Founding Members", the Founders of this Association, set and validate the Association Plan and determine the rules of procedure of the Association. Members of the General Assembly with voting rights.
b- Board of Directors
The Board of Directors a group of international experts
President, Professor François Boller, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology of the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, DC USA
Vice President, Methodology and Social Science Professor Anne-Marie Aish, Social Sciences London UK
Vice President, Corporate Relationship Dr Charles Marciano PhD, Paris France
Vice President Dr. Veronique Narboni MD, Paris France.
Vice President, Scientific Education Professor Viviane Kovess Epidemiology Psychiatry, Paris France
Vice President, European Affairs Ms Xenia Schneider, MBA, Strovolos, Cyprus
Treasurer, Ms. Helen Bengtsson, Health & Medical Communications, London UK
Secretary General and Executive Director, Ms. Pauline Harper, B.Comm, L.LB, Paris France
c- Biographies
Anne-Marie Aish
Helen Bengtsson
Pauline Harper
Francois Boller
Viviane Kovess Masfety
Véronique Narboni
Xénia Theodotou Schneider
Charles Marciano
Anne-Marie Aish,
is a Research Consultant in Quantitative Social Research and continues to teach specialised courses on different methodological issues.
She was Research Director at the Centre for Electoral Research of University of Louvain (Belgium) and Visiting Research Professor at NASP (the Swedish National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm).
She has been teaching Structural Equation Modeling at several European Universities (Brussels, Louvain, Essex, Budapest, Lille and Paris, at the Zentral Archive of the University of Cologne, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm) and HK Universities (HKU, HKUST, City University).
She has offered methodological advice on a large number of research projects in different academic institutions. Anne-Marie Aish's interests are both substantive and methodological. Her current interests cover mental health related problems and delinquency related problems, applicability issues in structural equation modeling, causal explanation in the social sciences, causal interpretation of statistically based results and measurement problems in cross-cultural research.
Helen Bengtsson,
is a science graduate and has worked in healthcare all her life, in various roles including sales, advertising, marketing and communications.
She has a passion for delivering life-changing healthcare, working in partnerships to deliver integrated, strategic communications, through innovative multi-channel media to physicians, patients and payers.
Brain health has become increasingly important to Helen, as her family ages. She is excited to be involved with the Sustainable Brain Health Institute to help decrease the negative impact of brain disorders on society and make a difference for people across the globe.
Pauline Harper,
has a background in Law and Business and over 23 years of experience at senior executive management levels in the communications sector, including leadership roles with Saatchi and Saatchi, BBDO and Publicis.
Most recently, she is Director Advisory for a Brussels-based non-governmental organisation created in 2011 for the prevention of childhood obesity across the globe.
She helped define its vision and ensure the alignment of its strategies with senior global public and private multi-stakeholders from leading health, nutrition and physical activity fields, as well as with educators, industry professionals and government officials in order to advance obesity and NCDs prevention efforts.
She is an expert in Public Private Partnerships Interfacing and Fundraising. She has participated in EU co-funded applied research projects. She is co-author of several publications on overweight and obesity prevention.
She is a Canadian who has resided in Paris, France since 1999 with her husband, Joseph Moussalli, a Gastroenterologist at La Pitié Salpétrière Hospital and her two children, Georges aged 14 and Gabrielle aged 9. She is fluent in English and French.
Francois Boller,
M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology of the George Washington (GW) University Medical School in Washington, DC.
He was born in Switzerland and educated in Italy where he obtained a Medical Degree at the University of Pisa. After specializing in Neurology at the University of Milan, Dr. Boller spent several years at Boston University Medical School, including a Fellowship under the direction of Dr. Norman Geschwind.
He obtained a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH where he was in charge of Neuroscience teaching at the Medical School and was nominated Teacher of the Year.
In 1983, Dr. Boller became Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where he founded and directed one of the first NIH funded Alzheimer Disease Research Centers in the country.
In 1989, he was put in charge of a Paris-based INSERM Unit dedicated to the neuropsychology and neurobiology of cerebral aging. He returned to the United States and joined the NIH in 2005, before coming to GW in July 2014.
Since he was a medical student, Dr Boller has always been interested in research and in dissemination of knowledge. He graduated summa cum laude with a thesis on the neurophysiology of REM sleep in animals. Following graduation, Dr. Boller's initial area of interest was aphasia and related disorders; he later became primarily interested in cognitive disorders and in dementia.
He is particularly interested in the correlates of cognitive disorders with pathology, neurophysiology and imaging, and was one of the first to study the relation between Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, two processes that were thought to be unrelated.
His current areas of interest include cognitive changes related to such different conditions as age, brain injuries and air pollution. He is also interested in the history of Neurosciences and is Past President of the International Society for the History of Neurosciences.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Neurology, the official Journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (now European Academy of Neurology).
He is co-Series Editor of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, the leading reference in the field. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the American Neurological Association. In addition, he has been an officer for the International Neuropsychological Society, for the International Neuropsychology Symposium and for the World Federation of Neurology (WFN).
Viviane Kovess Masfety,
is a psychiatrist and epidemiologist.
After finishing her medical studies in France, she completed her training at Mc Gill University in psychiatric research and transcultural psychiatry and she is a Mc Gill associated professor.
She co created the Psychosocial research Unit at Douglas Hospital (Montréal) where she was a FRSQ researcher for years working on mental health epidemiologic surveys.
She is the author of various international publications and the editor of an international review of psychiatric epidemiology (SPPE).
Her fields of interest have been: psychiatric epidemiology methodology, urban/rural comparisons, services research, international and European comparisons, among them gender and school children mental health.
She is the President of the Public Health Epidemiology section in the World Psychiatric Association, and a guest professor at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University.
She has been the PI in a EU funded report on mental health in the European Union (ESEMED) which is the European part of a worldwide consortium of survey leaded by R.Kessler (Harvard and WHO) , she is leading the religion and use of care work group .
She has been the head director of the epidemiology and biostatistics department at the EHESP (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique) and the head of a PhD students supervisor at Paris Descartes University (EA4069) "Epidemiology, Evaluation and Health policies".
She leaded a governmental expert group on stress and mental health and has been the designer of the French plan for Mental health and Psychiatry in France.
She is also a member of the French Haut Conseil en Santé Publique an institution, which aims to advice health policies in France.
Dr. Véronique Narboni,
studied Medicine in Montpellier, France.
She graduated in 1991 as a General Practitioner. She began her career in the pharmaceutical industry with Pierre Fabre in Castres, first as a Medical Advisor, then as Medical & Product Manager working with psychotropic medication.
She moved to Scandinavia in 1995 to work for Lundbeck. She was involved in the development of the Lundbeck International Psychiatric Institute and worked on the development of new international tools to train psychiatrists from across the globe and share best practices in CNS.
In 1999, she became a Guest Researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, joining the National Swedish and Stockholm County Centre founded in 1993 by Professor Danuta Wasserman. She collaborated in the development of the WHO project SUPRE, including the leaflet on "Preventing suicide: a resource for school-teachers and other school staff".
She then focused her attention on the impact of educational programmes on the attitudes and behaviour of general practitioners with regard to suicide prevention.
In 2000, she moved back to France where she spent several years as the President of the Lilly Institute in Paris.
In 2006 she turned her attention to international communications agencies, first as Medical Director for EURO RSCG (Havas group) and then as Global Medical Strategy Director for PHCG (Publicis Group).
In 2012, she became the Managing Director of HAPPYneuron a start-up specialized in Brain training. In 2015, she shares her time between her GP practice in Paris and her consulting activities with All About Brain Connections (A2BC) and Sustainable Brain Health Institute (SBHI).
Xenia Theodotou Schneider,
has a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Business Administration and she specialises in business strategy, innovation and knowledge management.
She has worked for 10 years in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries reengineering their processes.
She is an independent consultant of business strategy and the founder of XPRO Consulting Limited.
She is an adjunct professor of Business Strategy and Change Management at Ecole Supérieur de Commerce a Pau.
Since 2007 Xenia is an independent expert evaluator and technical auditor of innovative EU-funded projects in the scientific areas of information technology, environment and biotechnology.
She has participated in several EU-funded environmental projects for facilitating the science-policy-industry communication and knowledge transfer.
Also, she is the National Representative of Cyprus in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Programme for the action "Interdisciplinarity in Research Programming and Funding Cycles".
She has a multicultural background and working experience in several European countries.
She speaks English, Greek, Danish, Italian and French.
Charles Marciano,
Charles Marciano is an Alumnus of the Maimonides School (1956-1960: 4th level to BAC) and a Pharmacist Biologist.
He holds a PHD in Pharmaceutical Science, a Diploma from the Institute of Industrial Pharmacy and an Executive MBA from HEC.
Over the course of Charles' illustrious career, he has assumed senior level responsibilities in Operations and other functions in pharmaceutical companies including in R & D, Marketing, Sales, Management, Production, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacy.
He was CEO of SCAT laboratories from 1979 to 1986 and President of Leo Pharma-France from 1986 to 2006.
Charles has been a Member of the Board of Directors of LEEM, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute (IFIS) Health Industries, Founding President of the MERI Association and is currently its Honorary President.
MERI is recognized as a key forum with all national decision makers in health. Charles is also a Member of the Board of Directors of ORT.
In recognition of Charles' dedication and leadership, he has received the prestigious Order of Agricultural Merit and the Prince Henrik of Denmark Medal. Charles is also a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Charles is currently the Coordinator of the Collective Works devoted to the the Pharmaceutical Industry Trade (Research and Development, Pharmaceutical Regulation, Marketing).
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Pierre d'Argyll
Introspection & Memory
L'oeil qui voit n'est pas innocent.
Il voit conditionné par tout ce qu'il a déjà vu;
muni de cette mémoire visuelle, il reçoit ce qu'il voit de neuf et l'assimile
Since 2010, Pierre d'Argyll has been developing an art research project on how memory influences the genesis of artwork from the perspective of the artist's subject; and alternatively, on how this memory analysis shapes his own creativity, which consists mainly in a series of paintings and writings. The working hypothesis is the methodological approach to the analysis of the artwork's creation through an introspection process by the artist himself based on fragments of memory from her/his personal, cultural and emotional experience.
In the recent years, Neuroscience has brought about a real revolution on the functioning of the mental processes of memory, remembrance and creative synthesis and on the biochemical nature of memory. A recent scientific movement led by Francisco Varela proposed the need to study the mental processes, inherently subjective, as is the case of artistic creation, through new tools of introspection (analysis in the first person). Pierre d'Argyll's work is a translation of this line of scientific thought to the field of art through his painting.
In one series, Pierre d'Argyll has made paintings directly related to the subject of study: the brain, as a source of inspiration.
In a phase of experimentation at the Polytechnic School of Madrid, Pierre d'Argyll has made a research on neuroaesthetics with records of his own brain activity by magnetoencephalogram after differential cognitive stimulation to discriminate the activation of different brain areas associated with aesthetic perception (manuscript in preparation). The murals brains tag designs (see figure below) allude to this investigation.
In another phase, Pierre d'Argyll makes works that intermingle elements of collective memory out of the posters with fragments of his memory (memories of his childhood, characters and key dates in the context of his analysis in the first person and depending on each work). In this new stage he wants to give a priority to the development of this work to a message related to the freedom to choose with the potential that each of us have.
Pierre d'Argyll's work use strictly personal concepts with global elements (advertising, communication, cultural myths), critical thinking over global thinking.
visite his website
D'Argyll P & Fernández D. La Introspección en la Convergencia del Arte y la Neurociencia. Bellas Artes. Revista de Artes Plásticas, Estética, Diseño e Imagen. | 2015 (in press).
D'Argyll P & Fernández D. Traslación de la teoría de Francisco Varela al arte: Análisis de la creación artística a través de la introspección. Revista Hispanoamericana. Publicación digital de la Real Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras. 2014: 4: 1-16.
D'Argyll P & Fernández D. A New Proposal on Analysis of Artistic Creativity through Introspection | Journal of Arts and Humanities 2(5) 2013: 20-27.
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Search expands for evidence in Wisconsin homicides and girl's disappearance
Matt Sepic
Barron, Wis.
As many as 2,000 volunteers are expected to take part in a grid search of the Barron, Wis., area, in an expanded search for Jayme Closs.
Evan Frost | MPR News
Updated: 4:30 p.m. | Posted: 5:30 a.m.
The search for a missing 13-year-old Wisconsin girl whose parents were killed in the family's home was expanded Tuesday, with as many as 2,000 volunteers taking part in a grid search of the area.
Items recovered by the volunteers are being assessed, but so far none appear to be connected to the case, the Barron County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. A press briefing will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the sheriff's office, the post said.
Law enforcement officials say they haven't determined a motive for why someone fatally shot 56-year-old James Closs and his 46-year-old wife Denise in their home early on Oct. 15. But Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald says their daughter Jayme was home at the time of the homicides and he believes the missing girl is still in danger.
Volunteers arrive to help authorities search for evidence.
A long line of vehicles streamed into a staging area near Barron on Tuesday morning as volunteers gathered to begin the search for clues.
Photos:Army of volunteers searching for Jayme Closs
Fitzgerald said Monday that investigators had received more than 1,300 tips and have closed 1,100 of them. Some of the tips led to the decision to resume the ground search, he said, though he declined to elaborate. Authorities mapped the area by helicopter in preparation for Tuesday's search.
"We've determined we'd like to search a bigger search area based on information our investigators have collected," Fitzgerald said. "These tips have led us to this."
The sheriff said volunteers are walking about 10 feet apart as they search the area for two to three miles.
Two students hug after singing at a community vigil for missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs on Monday night in Barron, Wis.
"They're being briefed to look for anything that they feel is suspicious, out of place. You know, brand new, laying in the ditch or the field or wherever. Anything like a piece of clothing. Obvious things like a firearm. Something like that."
Meanwhile, authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for two types of vehicles that were picked up on surveillance video from residents and businesses near the Closs home: a 2008 to 2014 red or orange Dodge Challenger and a black SUV, either a 2006 to 2010 Ford Edge or a 2004 to 2010 Acura MDX.
"This is a good time, now that we have some vehicles of interest, to look for changes in routine or behavior of people," Fitzgerald said. "We have the two cars described. Either they don't drive them anymore. They've changed their routine on what they drive or where they drive."
Fitzgerald also asked residents of the area to check their property, and for hunters to look in their cabins. The FBI and the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation are also helping with the search.
As the sun set in Barron Monday night, people anxious for Jayme's return gathered at the high school football field for a vigil. The combined middle and high school choir — of which Jayme is a member — sang as community members cupped their hands around small candles, trying to keep them burning in the gusty wind.
Barron Area School District Administrator Diane Tremblay speaks at the vigil for Jayme Closs at the high school football field in Barron.
"We intentionally chose to call this event 'a gathering of hope,' " said Ron Matthews, pastor at Barron's First Lutheran Church. "Because hope moves us against the facts of circumstance and beyond despair, fear and anxiety."
Gene Rick was one of hundreds of Barron residents who attended the vigil.
"Maybe I'm hopeful by nature, but you see other news stories that come out where people have gone missing and there are good endings," he said. "And so it's not always a hopeless situation and I'm hoping for the best."
Barron Area School District Administrator Diane Tremblay says the last week has been tough for students, but she says the community remains strong.
"I think hope is probably the most important thing," she said. "We have to let go of what we can't control. And we can control if we have hope. And we're going to bring Jayme home."
Tremblay says the schools have made counselors available, and therapy dogs are on hand, too. She says that's led to a lot more smiles from students at a particularly anxious time in their young lives.
Courtesy Barron County Sheriff's Department
A 2008-2014 red-orange Dodge Challenger is one of the vehicles of interest in the search for Jayme Closs.
A 2004-2010 black Acura MDX is one of the vehicles of interest in the search for missing Wisconsin teen, Jayme Closs.
A 2006-2010 black Ford Edge is one of the vehicles of interest.


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Pomacanthus annularis is more commonly known as the Blue Ring or Annularis Angel. As juveniles they are found singly and adults can be found singly or in pairs. They live in and around coastal reefs, caves, shipwrecks and similar cover anywhere from a few feet below the surface down to roughly 200 feet deep. Juveniles tend to select the shallower range, adult pairs being more common on the deeper end. They are most common throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, and some are found on the east coast of Africa, though some say that range is erroneous and based on specimens that were misidentified.
Like pretty much all the other fish in the genus, they feed on a variety of benthic invertebrates, primarily sponges, tunicates, tubeworms etc, but they will also take copepods and other inverts suspended in the water column. Also like other fish in the genus, they undergo a dramatic color change between the juvenile and adult stages. The record size for this fish is just about 13 inches, but are much more commonly seen at eight to ten inches.
Annularis Angels are often overlooked for their more flamboyant cousins, which is a shame. These are hardy, gorgeous fish. The are known for being very shy initially, especially juvenile specimens. As they grow into adulthood they can grow into semi aggressive fish, most notably with similarly shaped fish. They can live a very long time, having been kept in captivity for over 15 years by some hobbyists. While they grow to a large adult size, they tend to do so slowly if fed a diet rich in sponge and algal matter (which is suggested). Regardless, of this fact provide lots of swimming space as these are very active fish.
They easily take a variety of food, though there are some reports of very small juveniles and very large adults being initially finicky about processed foods. Feed as many times a day as is possible and feed a good mix of food, making sure to include a solid portion of sponge/algal matter. A good practice for keeping any larger angel fish is to change up the dominant food over time, meaning you should occasionally change up the proportions of your mix. In the wild, individual fish will focus on different foods throughout the year, try to mimic this in your feeding schedule and you'll be rewarded with a robustly healthy, colorful angel.
Keeping Pomacanthus genus fish in reef tanks is a risky proposition. I am sure you've seen photos of them in SPS dominated reef tanks and in very large and very well fed systems, this may work. It is, however, a chance that I wouldn't suggest taking. This is a fish that nibbles on things to see if they are edible, this habit means they are likely to irritate all your corals, sometimes all the way to the demise of the coral.
Aquacultured specimens (photo top right) are being produced on commercial scale in Bali, and are available to retail outlets and public aquariums through us here at Quality Marine. These fish are in robust health and eat just about everything, even when very, very small. They also frequently have aberrant patterns and coloration. If there was ever a Pomacanthus worth trying in a reef tank, these little aquacultured beauties would be the one to try it with.


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A Medieval account on the apostle Matthew speaking in tongues.
The following is a modified version of William Caxton's 1483 English translation of the Latin work, Legendae Aurea, commonly known in English as the Golden Legend. A highly popular book during the Medieval era.
Matthew appeared with two names: Matthew and Levy. Matthew is meant a hasty gift, or a giver of counsel, or Matthew is said of the Latin 'magnus,' and Greek 'theos,' that is God, as it were a great God. Or of the Latin 'manus,' that is a hand, and the Greek 'theos,' that is God, as it were the hand of God. He was a gift of hastiness by hasty conversion, a giver of counsel by wholesome preaching, great to God by perfection of life, and the hand of God by writing of the gospel of God. Levy is interpreted obtained, or applied, or added, or appointed. He was obtained and taken away from gathering of taxes, he was applied to the number of the apostles, he was added to the company of the evangelists, and appointed to the catalogue of martyrs.
Here is the original Latin text.
As taken from Jacobi A. Voragine. Legendae Aurea: Vulgo Historia Lombardica Dicta. Dr. Th. Graesse ed. Lipsiae. 1850. Pg. 622ff.
Matthaeus binomius exstitit, scilicet Matthaeus et Levi. Matthaeus autem interpretatur donum festinationis vel donator consilii. Vel dicitur Matthaeus a magnus et theos, quod et Deus, quasi magnus Deo, vel a manus et theos, quasi manus Dei. Fuit enim donum festinationis per festinam conversionem, donator consilii per salubrem praedicationem, magnus Deo per vitae perfectionem, manus Dei per evangelii conscriptionem. Levi interpretatur assumtus vel applicatus sive additus aut appositus. Fuit enim assumtus ab exactione vectigalium, applicatus numero apostolorum, additus consortio evanglistarum et appositus catalogo martirum.
Matthaeus apostolus in Aethiopia praedicans in civitate, quae dicitur Nadaber, duos magos nomine Zaroen et Arphaxat reperit,  qui ita homines suis artibus dementabant, ut, quoscunque vellent, membrorum officio et sanitate privare viderentur. Qui in tantam superbiam eruperunt, ut se quasi Deos ab hominibus facerent adorari. Matthaeus autem apostolus praedictam civitatem ingressus et apud eunuchum Canadacis reginae, quem Philippus baptizaverat, hospitatus ita magorum praestigia detegebat, quod quidquid ipsi faciebant hominibus in perniciem, hoc ipse converteret in salutem. Eunocho autem sanctum Matthaeum interrogante, quomodo tot linguas loqueretur et intelligeret, exposuit ei Matthaeus, quod spiritu sancto descendente omnium linguarum scientiam reperisset, ut, sicut illi, qui per superbiam turrim usque in coelum aedificare volebant, prae confusione linguarum ab aedificatione cessaverunt, sic apostoli per omnium linguarum scientiam turrim non de lapidibus, sed de virtutibus construant, per quam omnes, qui crediderint, in coelum adscendant.
The above narrative describing Matthew speaking in tongues is a later addition to the tongues doctrine. The narrative is from the Legendae Aurea which can draw from some very old oral traditions, and others more recent to its time. Although this does not reflect the actual life of Matthew, it gives a valuable insight on how the late Medieval Church understood speaking in tongues. In this case, it was the supernatural ability to speak in foreign languages.
For more information on Medieval Catholic literature on speaking in tongues, see the following introductory article, Late Medieval Speaking in Tongues.


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Kamperpoort is een woonwijk in de Overijsselse plaats Zwolle. Samen met de Veerallee vormt het de wijk Kamperpoort-Veerallee.

Geschiedenis
De wijk was van oorsprong een volksbuurt die net buiten de oude Stadsgracht ligt. Kamperpoort ontleent zijn naam aan de stadspoort die nabij de wijk stond: de Kamperpoort, ook wel Voorsterpoort genoemd. Deze stadspoort bestaat inmiddels niet meer. Net buiten deze stadspoort begon de weg naar Kampen en Kasteel Voorst¹. Deze Voerstensteinstraete heet tegenwoordig Hoogstraat en wordt voor het eerst genoemd in 1377. De Hoogstraat vormt het centrum van de huidige wijk. In de Hoogstraat, ook wel gekend als de 'Hoogstroate ligt het overbekende Café Meijberg, beter bekend als De Kippe.

Kamperpoort werd ook wel Kamperpoortenvoorstad (rond 1700) en Wijk K (rond 1900) genoemd.

Demografie
Volgens een onderzoek dat werd uitgevoerd tussen 1905 en 1909, was 25 procent van de woningen in deze wijk destijds overbevolkt.²

Er woonden in die tijd vrijwel enkel werklieden en sjouwers. Van de oude wijk is vrijwel niets meer over door sloop en grootschalige nieuwbouw.

Verkeer en vervoer
De A28 loopt langs de noordkant van de wijk. De Hoogstraat verbindt Kamperpoort met het stadscentrum.

Wijk in Zwolle

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Michelle Wie Wins First LPGA Event
November 16, 2009 Administrator 0 Comments golf blog, ladies golf, lpga, michelle wie, pga, rockbottomgolf.com
Michelle Wie "finally" won her first LPGA Tour event last weekend, shooting a 3-under 69 in the final round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico. After a stellar amateur career that saw her qualify for a USGA event as a 10-year-old, it took the now-20-year-old more than five years to notch her first victory on tour.
"It's a huge monkey off my back. A huge gorilla, really. I didn't think I would cry but I did. It was everything I expected and more. I'm really proud of myself for not giving up and pushing through. It has been so long overdue," said Wie.
But that's not to say it's been a quiet couple of years for Wie. Since turning pro a week before her 16th birthday, she's battled the high expectations her early success brought, signed endorsement deals worth millions, and famously competed in several PGA Tour events against an all-male field. But with this win over established contender Paula Creamer, Wie and her fans may finally be able to focus on her performance and less on the distractions and hiccups she's encountered so far.
Other golf fans remain skeptical and are quick to point out that one win, while certainly a milestone worth celebrating, does not guarantee that the worst is behind her. This Caveman is quick to recall Anna Kornikova, another famous female athlete who sizzled on red carpets and magazine covers while cashing big endorsement checks but failed to play her sport at a championship level.
My take? There are a lot of 20-year-old golfers who haven't won so much as a Nassau on a golf course yet, let alone a professional event. If she stays healthy, keeps working and doesn't get distracted, Michelle Wie can still become an elite-level golfer – but it's going to be up to her to put in the work. Here's hoping her next tour victory doesn't take another 60+ tries!
-Scratch
PS: Lookin' for more about Michelle Wie? Get just the facts at Wikipedia or check out some of her glamour shots, then leave a comment here or on Twitter!
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"Vaisnavas, or devotees, are usually very compassionate upon conditioned souls. Without even being invited, a devotee will go from door to door to enlighten people and to bring them out of the darkness of nescience by injecting knowledge of the living entity's constitutional position as a servant of Lord Krishna. Such devotees are empowered by the Lord to distribute devotional consciousness, or Krishna consciousness, to the people in general. They are known as authorized spiritual masters, and it is by their mercy that a conditioned soul gets the seed of devotional service. The causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is first appreciated when one comes in touch with a bona fide spiritual master who can bring the conditioned soul to the highest position of devotional life. Therefore Lord Caitanya said that by the mercy of the spiritual master one can achieve the causeless mercy of the Lord, and by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can attain the mercy of the bona fide spiritual master.
"Thus by the mercy of the spiritual master and Krishna, one receives the seed of devotional service. He has only to sow the seed in the field of his heart, just as a gardener sows the seed of a valuable tree. After sowing this seed, one has to water it in the form of chanting and hearing the holy name of the Supreme Lord or by taking part in discussions about the science of devotional service in a society of pure devotees. When the plant of devotional service sprouts up from the seed of devotion, it begins to grow freely. When it is full grown, it surpasses the length and breadth of this universe and enters into the transcendental atmosphere, where everything is bathed in the effulgence of the brahmajyoti. The plant even penetrates this brahmajyoti and gradually enters the planet known as Goloka Vrindavana. There the plant takes shelter at the lotus feet of Krishna. That is the ultimate goal of devotional service. After attaining this position, the plant produces fruit, which is known as the fruit of love of Godhead."


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Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict In the context of International Law
This article deals with the international legal aspects of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In reference to this conflict, the author examines such burning questions of modern international law as the principle of territorial integrity of states and the right of peoples to self-determination, makes assessment of this conflict from the angle of international law, and considers various state-legal aspects of its settlement.
Background to the Conflict
The conflict known throughout the world as the "Nagorno-Karabakh" conflict arose parallel to the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. Favorable conditions for its development were created by processes that were at work in the Soviet Union from the mid-1980s. At the same time, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, encouraged by the U.S.S.R. authorities led by Mikhail Gorbachev, served as a catalyst of centrifugal processes, triggering off numerous ethnic and territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet space and transforming the evolutionary process of the U.S.S.R.'s disintegration into a revolutionary breakup.
From the very beginning of the events in Nagorno-Karabakh, the term "conflict" was used as a cover for the aggressive policy pursued by the Republic of Armenia toward its neighboring country. This concept continues to be used today in the peaceful settlement process despite the existence of international documents in which the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by the Republic of Armenia has already been given an objective political and legal assessment. Let us note that the term "conflict" contains a certain degree of "neutrality" in determining the party guilty of the fact in question. Nevertheless, we use this term in this article so as not to be accused of bias from the very beginning.
The active phase of the conflict started in February 1988, when the separatist forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAR) of the Azerbaijan Republic, instigated by the Republic of Armenia, began to stage rallies, strikes and other civil disobedience actions, seeking a secession of the region from the Azerbaijan Republic and its incorporation into the Republic of Armenia. It should be noted that the NKAR's legal status—according to the Constitution of the U.S.S.R. and the Constitution of the Azerbaijan S.S.R.—was determined by the Law on the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, adopted on 16 June, 1981, by the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Republic on the motion of the NKAR Soviet of People's Deputies.1On 20 February, 1988, a session of the NKAR Soviet of People's Deputies adopted a decision On the Petition of NKAR Deputies for the Transfer of the NKAR from the Azerbaijan S.S.R. to the Armenian S.S.R.2Ethnic cleansing of Azeris began in the Republic of Armenia and in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with the creation of monoethnic Armenian areas.3
As a result of the first stage, on 1 December, 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian S.S.R. adopted a resolution On the Reunification of the Armenian S.S.R. and Nagorno-Karabakh. In its resolution of 10 January, 1990, On the Inconsistency with the Constitution of the U.S.S.R. of the Acts on Nagorno-Karabakh Adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian S.S.R. on 1 December, 1989, and 9 January, 1990, the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet unequivocally stated that "the proclamation of the reunification of the Armenian S.S.R. and Nagorno-Karabakh without the consent of the Azerbaijan S.S.R. is a direct violation of Art 78 of the U.S.S.R. Constitution."4The Azerbaijan Republic abolished the NKAR and extended its uniform administrative-territorial division to that territory.5
All of that was the result of a deliberate policy pursued by the Republic of Armenia, the Armenian Church and diaspora in order to annex, including by force, the mountainous (Nagorno) part of Karabakh from the Azerbaijan Republic and to incorporate it into Armenia. The conflict moved into a new phase—the phase of active hostilities—in late 1991 and early 1992, when the U.S.S.R. had ceased to exist as a subject of international law and when the last legal and organizational (except international legal) barriers to the annexation of the desired territories had been removed.
By mid-1994, the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, supported by the illegal Armenian armed formations of Nagorno-Karabakh, occupied areas of the Azerbaijan Republic bordering on the Republic of Armenia, the territory of the former NKAR proper and other areas of the Azerbaijan Republic adjacent to it, totaling about 20% of the entire territory of the Azerbaijan Republic. All Azeris were expelled from these territories, tens of thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands wounded. As regards the scale of destruction, let us merely note that Armenian-occupied territories not inhabited by Armenians are now a desert: everything has been wiped out. Incidentally, this was established in the spring of 2005 by an OSCE fact-finding mission.
In the territory of the former NKAR and other occupied areas of the Azerbaijan Republic, we have seen the establishment of a so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" with its own government bodies and attributes of power. However, not a single state or international organization in the world has recognized such a state as the "NKR."
International Legal Assessment of the Conflict
In the modern world,the emergence of new states is a process and phenomenon not encouraged by the world community,so that in practice such cases are very rare. This happened, for example, in the first half of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell apart into 15 independent states, when new countries emerged in place of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (C.S.S.R.), and when Germany was unified. Despite the dramatic events that accompanied these processes, the emergence of new independent states was based onlegal treaties(in various legitimate forms), i.e., agreements on the creation of these states recognized by the world community. This made it possible to go over in a civilized way from state entities created by force of arms, through violence, conquest and subjugation (U.S.S.R., SFRY, C.S.S.R.) to independent states set up on the basis of voluntary treaties and therefore recognized by other democratic states.
In that period, other events took place as well. On the tide of democratic processes in the Southern Caucasus, nationalist forces using democratic and national-liberation slogans as a cover tried to create new states by force, by revising borders, i.e., by violating the principle of territorial integrity and inviolability of borders (Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, Transdniestria in Moldova and Chechnia in Russia). However, none of these cases has to do with a legal treaty recognized by the world community. The reason is obvious:the modern world community does not regard violence or coercion as a way or method of creating a new state. The creation of a new state in today's democratic world is possible only in the presence of a legal treaty, when all the parties concerned come to a voluntary agreement to revise their borders.A treaty can have no legal force if one of the parties is coerced into altering its borders by force of arms; such a treaty is legally null and void and, sooner or later, it will be violated and denounced. In addition, it will constantly be a potential source of instability in the region.The fact of international recognition of a state created through the occupation of another state's territories could be regarded in the world as a precedent, entailing unpredictable consequences for the global community.It is no accident that none of the above-mentioned entities have been recognized by a single state, including the Republic of Armenia.
An international conflict can be resolved only when the world community makes anobjective political and legal assessmentof that conflict. An allround, full and exhaustive study of the root causes of the conflict and an assessment of the situation at the time of decision making is absolutely essential for:
(1) the adoption of a fair decision by the parties (with the participation of mediators);
(2) legally correct and effective use of generally recognized rules of international law;
(3) the establishment of a stable and lasting peace guaranteed by the international community.
The world community, as we know, is represented by authoritative international organizations such as the United Nations, OSCE, European Union, Council of Europe, NATO and others, whose immediate duty is to maintain and restore peace and stability both on a global scale and in various parts of the world, and to apply sanctions against the aggressor country.
On 25 January, 2005, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted its Resolution 1416 (2005), The Conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Region Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference (rapporteur David Atkinson), acknowledging the occupation of a significant part of Azerbaijan's territory by Armenian troops and emphasizing that "the occupation of foreign territory by a member state constitutes a grave violation of that state's obligations as a member of the Council of Europe."6The Resolution can be hopefully regarded as only the first, albeit belated, step in this direction. Such documents containing a political and legal assessment of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should also be adopted by other international organizations, primarily the OSCE, which provides the framework for the ongoing Minsk negotiation process.
The lack of an objective political and legal assessment does not encourage, in the first place, the parties to the conflict to show goodwill for the purpose of its resolution. The lack of such an assessment also serves (as is the case today) to prolong the conflict and to create illusions among certain forces that in this way it is possible to overstep the rules of international law, to occupy a sovereign state's internationally recognized territory and, once these acts have been committed, to achieve the desired results in the negotiation process. Let us recall that the Azerbaijan Republic and the Republic of Armenia signed the Helsinki Final Act, so recognizing, in accordance with their constitutions:
(1) the supremacy of the provisions of this Act in both internal and external legal relationships;
(2) the principles of inviolability of borders and territorial integrity of states.7
Only an objective position of the world community can make it possible to withdraw the armed forces deployed in the conflict zone and to resolve the conflict by peaceful means, without military pressure and on the basis of the principles of international law.
International Legal Potential for Resolving the Conflict
In view of the need to resolve the conflict, questions about theform of government(state structure) arise with increasing frequency. The doctrine of constitutional and international law is sufficiently conservative in its definitions. That is why scholars have tried for many decades to fit all the models of actually existing states into the framework of the concepts of "confederation," "federation" and "unitary state." At the same time, a political and legal analysis of empirical reality shows that in pure form these categories are virtually nonexistent: their elements are interlinked to such an extent that one can speak of the emergence of various hybrid forms. For example, there are generally recognized federal states whose constituent entities are nevertheless entitled to conclude international treaties (Austrian lands, territorial entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina).
Inductive methods used to investigate these problems lead to certain definitive generalizations. In our view, an analysis of various existing ways of state organization suggests the conclusion that, depending on the relations between the state and its component parts, today we can identify the following generalized forms of government: confederation, federation, unitary regional state and unitary state with special autonomous status for some of its territories. In this context, a "blind" approach to traditional concepts, definitions and classifications often produces an opposite effect. An attempt to fit current realities into a definitive framework could lead to a simplification or, even worse, to a distortion of the existing constitutional diversity, and in the process of conflict resolution this could become an obstacle blocking the way to a settlement. That is whyin settling an ethnoterritorial or ethnopolitical conflict one should bear in mind the doctrinal concepts and definitions of constitutional and international law, consider the constitutional and international legal realities existing in the world, and be prepared to make unorthodox, non-routine decisions in order to resolve the given conflict.
A few words aboutthe right of peoples to self-determination, so mercilessly exploited by Armenian politicians. It should be noted that Azerbaijan, relying on the norms of international law, from the very beginning categorically rules out the possibility of applying the "self-determination of peoples" principle to the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh based on a whole range of fairly well-known arguments.
First,Nagorno-Karabakh is a territorial region of Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijan Republic as a sovereign state is the result of an expression of the will and self-determination of the entire Azerbaijani people (including ethnic Armenians) living throughout the whole territory of the Azerbaijan Republic, and certainly not of a part of this people. A part of the people cannot make decisions that are crucial to the future of the whole people. In accordance with U.N. General Assembly Resolution 47/135 of 18 December, 1992, Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities,the principle of self-determination of peoples is not included among the rights of national minorities:the international community did not consider it possible or necessary to reflect this principle in the Declaration.8
Second,having signed the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, the countries of Europe, the U.S. and Canada tied in the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, as written into the Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (24 October, 1970), with the principle of territorial integrity of states. The Declaration says that effective application of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples "is of paramount importance for the promotion of friendly relations among states, based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality." The principle of self-determination can find its application only in the context of the principle of territorial integrity of states. The Declaration proclaims that "any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a state or country or at its political independence is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter."9This is precisely why the Helsinki Final Act put this principle in eighth place (out of ten) and called it "the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples."10
Third,Nagorno-Karabakh is a region of Azerbaijan where, prior to the ethnic cleansing carried out by Armenians, there were two communities (Armenian and Azeri). They constitute the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, but by no means a "people." "People" is a political category, and peoples in this context are "the Armenians" and "the Azerbaijanis," who have already implemented their right to self-determination within the framework, respectively, of the Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Republic. The term "people" cannot be applied to the population of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Fourth,even if we assume the impossible and say that the population of Nagorno-Karabakh consisting of Armenians and Azeris is a people with a right to self-determination, this will not mean that Nagorno-Karabakh should secede from the Azerbaijan Republic. Under section five of the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law, advocacy of the principle of self-determination is not equivalent to encouragement of secession or fragmentation of countries. This Declaration explicitly states that the principle of self-determination can and must find its solution within the framework of the principle of inviolability of borders and the principle of territorial integrity of states; this principle "should not be construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent states… Every state shall refrain from any action aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of any other state or country."11
Andfifth,neither the theory nor the practice of international or constitutional law has ever had to deal with cases of repeated exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. If we assume the impossible and suppose that such a precedent is actually created in practice, many countries in the world (including Russia, the U.S., France, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Iran, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Spain, Holland, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Syria and others) will be faced with the inevitable need to somehow resolve the issue of Armenian self-determination.
The possibility of recognition of "NKR" independence.Some political forces seek to provide a number of reasons allegedly sufficient to recognize the independence of the "NKR" and to split it off from the Azerbaijan Republic. The main argument in this matter is that the "NKR," in the opinion of its founders, is a "more democratic entity" than the Azerbaijan Republic and that these "democrats" need greater "freedom and independence."
Without comparing the democratic situation in the Azerbaijan Republic and in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that is no longer under its control, let us merely take a look at how "democratic" is the self-proclaimed "NKR."
Lawyers, diplomats, political scientists, historians and many other specialists are well aware that the concept of "state" includes three main components: sovereign power, population and territory. Consequently, in order to recognize the so-called "NKR" as capable and worthy of existence as an independent democratic state, the world community will have to ascertain that all these three components are in evidence. Leaving aside the will of the Azerbaijan Republic and its people on this issue, let us examine each of these components.
First, sovereign power.But undoubtedly, its source should be the people. We have already shown that the population of Nagorno-Karabakh is not a people. Sovereign power should be independent. But there is reason to believe that no self-respecting politician, lawyer, diplomat, political scientist or historian will try to prove the independence or sovereignty of power in the so-called "NKR," if only because of the presence in its life of the Republic of Armenia.
Second, population.Who inhabits the "NKR" today? From the beginning of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by the Republic of Armenia, the territory of the former NKAR was abandoned, under threat of force, by all ethnic Azerbaijanis (Azeris), who made up in that period about one-third of the NKAR's inhabitants (over 60 thousand people). In addition, a part of the ethnic Armenian population (about 25-30 thousand people) also left Nagorno-Karabakh because they did not want to take part in the hostilities or acts of lawlessness in its territory. Considering the facts of illegal settlement in Azerbaijani territories occupied by the Republic of Armenia, the population of the so-called "NKR" is about 100 thousand. Clearly, none of the above fits into the framework of democratic processes. How about the Azeri population of Nagorno-Karabakh? What is to be done about their rights in the process of "recognition of NKR independence"?
Third, territory.What kind of territory should be borne in mind in determining the territory of the "NKR"? The former territory of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of the Azerbaijan S.S.R. or the entire territory occupied by the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, which includes, apart from the territory of the former NKAR, seven other administrative districts of Azerbaijan? If we take the territory of the former NKAR alone, then how about the rights of the expelled part of the population? And if we take the territory of the NKAR plus seven administrative districts, then how about the rights of over 700 thousand Azerbaijani citizens expelled from their lands for the sake of the security of 100 thousand Armenians? It is unlikely that any "democrat" will be able to answer these questions.
Sergey Markedonov, head of the International Relations Department at the Moscow Institute of Political and Military Analysis, said in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: "…There is no need to appeal to history in current conflicts. History? Let us leave it to historians, and let them search through the archives. Evidently, the future cannot be built by appealing to the past. Frankly speaking, the historicization of a conflict is not the best way to overcome it."12
But if one has to appeal to history, this should not be done selectively, when certain pages are torn out of the peoples' common book of fate, but based on a uniform, objective scientific approach to the whole range of historical facts and phenomena.
Unfortunately, this is often forgotten when it comes to the falsified "1915 genocide of Armenians." Honestly, it is amazing how easily, in case of need, we are distracted from history, from historical experience. How can the future be built without regard for the past? How can lasting peace be established in Nagorno-Karabakh and in the Southern Caucasus without taking into account past historical mistakes? A poor memory is precisely what enables conflicts to flare up again and again. Building peace without regard for history is precisely what made this peace short-lived. Evidently, someone was interested in this. Today we are witnessing an attempt to repeat history. Peace should be built with due regard for history and past historical mistakes. Peace in the Southern Caucasus should be built so as to ensure that no one reaps any dividends (but only draws lessons) from what has taken place, because otherwise after a short historical time someone will be tempted to repeat these events and to seize some more land. If anyone thinks that their problems (including territorial problems) can be resolved by force of arms, there will be no peace—lasting peace—in the world or in our region.
1See:O Nagorno-Karabakhskoi avtonomnoi oblasti. Zakon Azerbaidzhanskoi S.S.R., Azerneshr, Baku, 1987.Back to text
2See:Nagornyi Karabakh: razum pobedit. Dokumenty i materialy, Azerneshr, Baku, 1989, pp. 81-82.Back to text
3See: The Conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Region Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference. Resolution 1416 (2005) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, available at [http://assembly.coe.int].Back to text
4See:Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, No. 3, 1990, Art 38.Back to text
5See: "Ob uprazdnenii Nagorno-Karabakhskoi avtonomnoi oblasti Azerbaidzhanskoi Respubliki. Zakon Azerbaidzhanskoi Respubliki ot 26 noiabria 1991 goda,"Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Azerbaidzhanskoi Respubliki, No. 24, 1991, Art 448.Back to text
6See: [http://assembly.coe.int].Back to text
7See: Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki, 1 August, 1975), available at: [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/addm/oscefr.htm].Back to text
8See: [http://www.un.org/russian/documen/gadocs/convres1990.htm].Back to text
9See: [http://www.terralegis.org/terra/act/b252html].Back to text
10See: [http://www.terralegis.org/terra/act/b252html].Back to text
12See: "Karabakhski konflikt: vzgliad izvne,"Zerkalo, 13 August, 2005, p. 10.Back to text
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Welcome to Part 2 of my Walt Disney World trip recap. In case you missed it, you can find Part 1 here. On Wednesday we visited some of the resorts located near the Magic Kingdom. First on our list was the Wilderness Lodge and Villas. This is a huge resort with an Old West theme.
We were greeted in the lobby by two giant totem poles and learned that they were carved by artist Duane Pasco and three assistants, over a period of six months. One is the Eagle, located near the registration counter, and the other is the Raven, located near the Whispering Canyon Café. The lobby is beautiful and is filled with Native artifacts.
The resort has a quick service restaurant, two table service restaurants and general store. There is a huge swimming pool complete with a slide, as well as a smaller, more secluded pool near the Villas.
The beach area has chairs set up to view outdoor movies that are shown in the evening.
I could easily spend my entire vacation at Wilderness Lodge, without ever leaving. It has everything I would need to enjoy my stay.
Although the Lodge seems secluded, the boat ride to Bay Lake Towers and the Contemporary Resort only took about 10 minutes.
Bay Lake Tower is very fresh and modern. It is everything people say it is and more. The lobby and furnishings are very cool and sleek looking. We took the elevator to the observation deck outside of the Top of the World Lounge and what a view! I could even see a bit of Epcot. After a quick peek into the lounge, which was very nice, we headed over to the Contemporary Resort.
Along the walkway to the Contemporary, we passed a fountain that was built as a tribute to the Disney Vacation Club Members. We the found the Mullets' name plate too!
We had a quick lunch at the Contempo Café (right next to Chef Mickey's), then caught the monorail to the Grand Floridian, where the new DVC building is still under construction. It is slated to open September 2013.
This resort is indeed grand – from stained glass windows in the ceiling, to a grand sweeping staircase that leads down to the main lobby where you'll find a baby grand piano. There are shops, several table service restaurants, and even a beauty salon.
The grounds of the Grand Floridian are full of bright colorful flowers, trees and walkways.
For dinner, we went to the Coral Reef at Epcot. The Coral Reef restaurant is very unique as one entire wall in the dining area is the actual aquarium. It is filled with a large assortment of fish including sharks and sting rays, as well as lots of plant life. If you are a licensed diver, you can even scuba dive in the tank during off hours.
We dined on a variety of seafood dishes that were very enjoyable. Dessert and five cups of delicious coffee finished off another awesome Disney day.
On our last full day at Walt Disney World we were determined to see Animal Kingdom, ride some coasters and take in the fireworks at Magic Kingdom come night fall. Our first stop was Animal Kingdom where we boarded the Kilimanjaro Safari truck and enjoyed a very special ride. The animals were out in their entire splendor from giraffes, lions, monkeys, elephants and several different species of birds. Our driver was very knowledgeable about the animals and all aboard were snapping photos as quickly as they could. The safari is definitely a must see! It made a big impression on me.
Expedition Everest was our next attraction. It's on the opposite side of the park from the safari and couldn't be a more different experience. What a great ride up the mountain, stopping in the nick of time and then going backwards at breakneck speed. Phew – but what a lot of fun! A bit tamer, It's a Bug's Life was an entertaining finish to our time at Animal Kingdom.
Hollywood Studios was next on our itinerary. We saw Muppet Vision 3D and went on the Rockin' Roller Coaster. My absolute favorite attraction, from any park, was the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. That was thrilling! To say that I was surprised was an understatement. I can tell you my lungs got a good work out that day.
Believe or not, we actually made it to 3 different parks that day. Our last stop was the Magic Kingdom. I remember the first time that I saw Cinderella Castle and how magical it really was. I hoped the magic would be the same on this trip and it was. To me, this is what Disney is all about. I bought a pair of Mickey Ears and wore them with pride as I posed for a picture in front of Cinderella Castle. As much as Walt Disney World had changed since my last trip, it still remained the same. All the new resorts, shows, rides and theme parks just made the magical experience all the more magical.
At Magic Kingdom we had a great time on Space Mountain and Splash Mountain. We dined on pogo bites (that's Canadian for Corn Dog Nuggets) and coke – very yummy. We saw Mickey's Philharmagic and rode the Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan's Flight and the Little Mermaid. I'm sure there are a few more that I have missed, but nothing beats Tower of Terror!
To end the evening, we watched the "Wishes" fireworks show at Cinderella Castle. I enjoyed watching Tinker Bell "fly" through the air and the spectacular display of fireworks. One of my tasks from my co-workers while at Disney was to try not to smile while watching the fireworks, but that is impossible. All the people standing and watching the show while Jiminy Cricket narrated the story made me smile and remember what it's like to be a kid again and I felt everybody there was doing the same thing. It was a pretty special moment to look around at the crowd and see old and young looking up at the sky in the same appreciation. This is what I think they mean by "Disney Magic".
Our last day arrived way too soon. What an awesome trip – the whole experience was amazing! I can't wait to go back. My family is planning a trip for September 2014. Until then, I have wonderful memories and 445 pictures to look back and enjoy anytime I need a Disney fix! Thank you to Cathy and Melissa for sharing all their Disney knowledge with me. I learned so much and have many happy memories to share.


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With access to a dedicated team, the client can control the human and technical resources engaged in his project execution. We can develop a highly talented team of performers, necessary equipment and infrastructure based on a client's specific business requirements. By hiring a dedicated team, a client can free himself from employing any in-house team of developers, thereby saving substantial costs.
This model is ideal for long-term projects where the offshore support services are sought continually.