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Are physicians prohibited from billing Medicare for all professional services provided to immediate family members. If so, I would appreciate the reference where this can be located.
I do not believe that physicians are specifically prohibited from treating family members. That having been said, however, the usual federal guidelines would definitely apply when billing Medicare: medical necessity and fraud/abuse guidelines. For example, it would not be wise to waive copayments or bill for a condition that was not medically necessary or that was non-covered (like a cosmetic procedure). I can see where it might be tempting to write off grandma's copay.
There's an ethical bend to this question, though, in terms of health boundaries. Too close for comfort, in my book, but not everyone has a problem with it, I guess.
In my mind....services provided to immediate family members were not covered by Medicare. This may have been my misinterpretation of something I read in the Stark Law.
Ethical questions have been raised about physicians who treat members of their own families. Incomplete physical examinations, medical records, and immunizations are undesirable consequences of physicians' treating their own children. The 1901 code of ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA) noted that a family member's illness tends to obscure the physician's judgement and produce patient timidity. In 1989, fearing financial abuse by unscrupulous providers, Medicare barred payment to physicians who care for "immediate family members."
Who counts as a family member? Medicare's list of "immediate relatives" includes spouses, parents, children, siblings, stepparents, stepchildren, stepbrothers, stepsisters, children-in-law, siblings-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, and spouses of grandparents or grandchildren. Since 1989, Medicare has not paid for patient care charges by immediately related physicians, their associates or their professional corporations. Blue Cross—Blue Shield, which has a stricter definition of "family member," has not paid for these charges since 1976.
Last edited by sbicknell; 09-01-2010 at 11:59 PM.
Just to add an FYI -- in every (non-Medicare) policy I have ever read, there is an exclusion for services where there is no expectation for the patient to pay the doctor in the absence of insurance.
In other words, unless you would bill your employees (or relatives and friends) your full fee, don't submit it to health insurance. And, if you only intend to collect what insurance pays and then waive the rest, it's fraud.
We have a physician trying to bill services performed on himself, by himself. Same scenario I'm assuming?
Correct. Even worse than billing for a family member.
Billing Cardiologist visit w/ family member??


Generally, when a reader sees a reference to a work published in 1926 or 1927, years in which Tadeus Reichstein published some of his earliest papers, he or she assumes that the author has long since departed this earth.
But this is a false assumption in the case of Reichstein, who at age 95 is still publishing. Reichstein, who shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, is still hard at work at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland, actively participating in international collaborations.
His 1992 paper "The phloroglucinols of Dryopteris stenolepis" (C.J. Widen, P. Ayras, T. Reichstein, Annales Botancici Fennici, 29:41-54), for example, was coauthored with Finnish researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku. In the United States, a change in a federal law may make nonagenerian researchers like Reichstein more common on university campuses. January 1 of this year marked the end of the exemption for university faculty to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which in essence will prohibit mandatory retirement for professors (see story on page 1).
Now that U.S. faculty members don't have to retire at age 70--the mandatory age at many schools before the law went into effect--they can continue to work indefinitely. And, indeed, scientists who are remaining vital and active into their 90s can already be found on American soil. It's hardly surprising; scientists, after all, possess a boundless curiosity. Their quest for new knowledge is timeless.
New Providence, N.J.-based R.R. Bowker Co.'s directory American Men and Women of Science lists more than 350 scientists who are 90 years old or older and living in North America. Many are no longer actively involved in their profession. Many are in poor health. But a select few continue to defy time.
While most interviewed for this article acknowledge that they don't quite get around the way they used to--they rarely attend conferences or give lectures, for example--they all agree that they continue to work because they love what they do.
"I'm a scientist, and I keep working because I enjoy it," says ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agazziz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, who will turn 90 in July. "I'm interested in science, in finding new things out, and in communicating with the public. Why shouldn't I continue to work?"
Their continued high productivity notwithstanding, many of these active nonagenarians approve of a mandatory retirement age. They contend that scientists can continue their work in other venues, and that retiring is often necessary to allow younger researchers and scholars the opportunity to make their own marks.
Take Mayr, for example. His official university retirement in 1975 "has been a godsend" to him, he says. He's busier than ever lecturing, consulting, and writing. In fact, says Mayr--who received the National Medal of Science in 1969 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)--since age 64 he's published nine books, and he has two more that will go to the publisher this year. He still writes some five to 10 scientific papers a year.
This past January, Mayr spent the month as a visiting scientist at the Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Fla.
"I have a very active mind," says Mayr. "Any person worth his salt should know what to do when he retires; if he doesn't, he probably wasn't any good in the job to begin with. People should retire so young people can have opportunities."
Mayr has written some 17 books. His latest, One Long Argument (Harvard University Press, 1991), focuses on the philosophical founda- tions of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution.
Few scientists' careers rival that of 93-year-old Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes (for chemistry in 1954 and for peace in 1962). His 1970 book, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (New York, W.H. Freeman & Co.), helped make him a household name. When he was 73, he founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., where he has continued studying vitamins and disease. He maintains a rigorous schedule, despite having been diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago.
"I don't lecture much anymore, but I continue to write and collaborate with colleagues at the institute on their research on vitamins," says Pauling, speaking from his ranch at Big Sur, some 200 miles from the Palo Alto institute, where he spends most of his time. He likes to devote two or three weeks of "high energy" at a time to a project.
Last year, he published the second edition of his book Cancer and Vitamin C (Philadelphia, Camino Books), and he's currently collaborating on a second edition of his 1986 book, How to Live Longer and Feel Better (New York, W.H. Freeman & Co.).
"Age 70 may be too early for people to retire, with people living longer and healthier," Pauling says. "The previous policy seemed a good one. But a professor who is retired at one university is occasionally offered a job by another university . . . the rule never prevented another university from hiring you.
"Professors who were handicapped by age could retire; others, if they were healthy and wanted to continue to work, could [do so]," Pauling says. He retired from Stanford University when he was 73 rather than further abuse the university's retirement policy, he says.
"There was no pressure on the administrators that way." Why does Pauling continue to work? He has few financial worries; he's paid a salary from the institute under a lifetime appointment. He also receives a pension from his days on university faculties at the California Institute of Technology, Stanford, and the University of California, San Diego.
Pauling, an NAS member, contends there's little left for him to do, save visiting with family. "I've always been interested in learning new things, and have always liked research," he says. "I've always taken pleasure in discovering something new and thinking of something that no one had."
Today, he keeps up with major scientific journals; in February, he published a "Technical Comment" in Science ("Triethylsilyl cations," Science, 263:983). He continues to be interested in the fields of atomic structure and nuclear physics.
John T. Edsall, 91, a professor, emeritus, of biochemistry at Harvard University, still walks to work daily in Cambridge, Mass., weather permitting. But when the biochemist-physician officially retired in 1973 from teaching at Harvard, he decided not to continue his bench research. "I had seen other people who continued their research into their old age, but it inevitably was less significant than in their youth," says Edsall.
Edsall's retirement from the classroom hardly seems to have slowed him down. He has turned to the history of science, an old interest of his. Edsall also has written extensively on the history of the study of blood and hemoglobin. His latest publication came out this past December: a review of a biography of Nobel laureate Hans Krebs for Nature (366:417-8).
Like Pauling, Edsall has been deeply involved in social issues. In 1973, the American Association for the Advancement of Science asked him to help develop its proposed Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, which he later chaired. Edsall, an NAS member, also serves on the academy's committee that addresses human rights violations.
Edsall's expertise is in the chemistry and structure of blood and muscle proteins. During the 1940s, he and his colleagues helped develop new uses of blood plasma proteins and blood fractionation processes in medicine and surgery.
Edsall says he's "somewhat concerned" about the abolition of mandatory faculty retirement. "Older faculty may want to hang on," he worries. "There may be too many holding on and not enough opportunities for young people."
Mathematician Dirk J. Struik, who will turn 100 in September, has little doubt he could still teach a college class in calculus. However, he no longer does mathematical research. Though early in his career he focused on tensor analysis and differential geometry, in the 1960s he turned to the history and sociology of mathematics and science. "Creative mathematics is for the young," he says, "but historical insight can last till the end."
Struik, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught at MIT from 1926 to his retirement in 1960, save the five-year period during the McCarthy era when he was accused of subversive activities and suspended from the faculty.
Struik continues to work every day, "perhaps three hours, answering calls from colleagues and students, writing letters or articles and book reviews, as well as some biographical notes" for a planned autobiography. He remains an associate to the history of science department at Harvard.
"Tons of people can do good work after age 70 or 75," says Struik. "I didn't necessarily want to retire when I did, but I had to. Of course, it goes the other way, too. There are those who should retire at age 50."
"We spend a lifetime in a career doing something [we] like, and you don't just give that up," says Ernest R. Hilgard, a professor, emeritus, of psychology and education at Stanford who will turn 90 in July.
Hilgard, who retired from teaching in 1969, continued an active research program for another decade. Today he attends a conference every so often and lectures on occasion. His most recent books include a history of psychology in the United States, which was published in 1987 (Psychology in America: A Historical Survey, San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.).
Hilgard, a member of both NAS and the American Philosophical Society, sees nothing wrong with mandatory retirement. "If you want to continue to work, the university will almost always let you," he says. "I liked the option of a formal retirement. That way the administration doesn't have to make the decision."
Pioneering plant physiologist Paul J. Kramer, James B. Duke Professor of Botany, Emeritus, at Duke University, who will celebrate his 90th birthday in May, believes that the ending of mandatory retirement will "create an embarrassing situation" for university administrations.
"It was easy for administrations; once you turned 70, they could say it's time to retire," he says. "Now they will have to give a great deal of thought to this."
Kramer, an NAS member and one of the founders and past presidents of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, currently is collaborating on a fourth edition of his 1949 textbook Water Relations of Plants (New York, McGraw-Hill Inc.).
Meanwhile, in Canada, Gerhard Herzberg believes that retirement should be left to the individual, although, he says, "it's perfectly acceptable to have an age of retirement--say, 65 or 70." Herz-berg is Distinguished Research Scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa, which is a member institute of the National Research Council of Canada. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1971 for his pioneering work in spectral analysis and molecular structure.
Herzberg plans to retire when he turns 90, on Christmas Day. Although there is no longer a mandatory retirement age for Canadian government workers, there was a mandatory age of 65 at the time of Herzberg's 65th birthday. (In Ontario, university faculty currently must retire at age 65, though other provinces may differ.) The mandatory age notwithstanding, Herzberg has kept on working past his 65th year. He was still discovering new molecules when he was 75.
"There should be allowances in special circumstances for some people to continue working," says Herzberg. In his own case, the Nobel Prize was just the ticket.
Steven Benowitz is a science and medical writer for Penn State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.


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43rd President of the United States: 2001 ‐ 2009
Remarks Following Discussions With Secretary General Lord Robertson of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters
President Bush. It's my honor to welcome Lord Robertson back to the Oval Office. I think we've met, gosh, five—four or five times since I've been the President. I've enjoyed every meeting. He does a great job at NATO. NATO is an incredibly important part of U.S. foreign policy. I appreciate the alliance.
We are mainly discussing issues that we will confront and/or deal with in Prague, including NATO expansion. He's soliciting the views of the administration. I told him that we would give him a definite answer about our views on expansion in a couple of weeks, and that timetable seemed satisfactory with him.
But Lord Robertson, welcome back. I appreciate you being here. Thanks for your strong leadership.
Lord Robertson. I'm delighted to be again in the Oval Office, Mr. President.
And the President has shown, not just by meetings with me but in every other way possible, his and his administration's commitment to NATO and to the strength of this trans-Atlantic alliance that has bound together these democratic and freedom-loving states over all of the years.
We're now a month to the day away from the Prague summit, probably the most important summit meeting in NATO's history, a transformation summit where NATO has to transform itself to deal with the threats and the challenges of the 21st century. And I believe we will have a good package on new members, a robust enlargement, new capabilities to deal with terrorism and to deal with the other challenges and nightmares that we may face ahead in the future, and new relationships with Russia, with Ukraine, with our partner countries, building the world's largest permanent alliance and one which the world can rely on.
President Bush. Three questions. Fournier [Ron Fournier, Associated Press].
Q. Sir, is North Korea an imminent threat to the United States, and what consequences, if any, will it face for hiding its nuclear program from you?
President Bush. One, we had a bit of troubling news when we discovered the fact that, contrary to what we had been led to believe, that they were enriching uranium with the idea of developing a nuclear weapon. I say "troubling news," obviously, because we felt like they had given their word they weren't going to do this.
I view this as an opportunity to work with our friends in the region and work with other countries in the region to ally against proliferation of serious weapons and to convince Kim Chong-il that he must disarm. To this end, I'm going to be talking to Jiang Zemin at Crawford. I look forward to a good discussion with the President of China about how we can work together to take our relationship to a new level in dealing with the true threats of the 21st century.
I will see the leaders of Japan and South Korea and Russia the next day, in Mexico. I intend to make this an important topic of our discussions. This is a chance for people who love freedom and peace to work together to deal with a—to deal with an emerging threat. I believe we can deal with this threat peacefully, particularly if we work together. So this is an opportunity to work together.
Q. They're not an imminent threat, though?
President Bush. You know, that's an operative word. We view this very seriously. It is a troubling discovery, and it's a discovery that we intend to work with our friends to deal with. I believe we can do it peacefully. I look forward to working with people to encourage them that we must convince Kim Chong-il to disarm for the sake of peace. And the people who have got the most at stake, of course, in this posture are the people who are his neighbors.
Arshad [Arshad Mohammed, Reuters].
Nature of Iraqi Threat
Q. Mr. President, can you explain so the boys in Lubbock can understand——
President Bush. Crawford or Lubbock?
Q. Lubbock or Crawford, both——
President Bush. Lubbock is a little more sophisticated than Crawford, Arshad. [Laughter]
Q. Okay, let's do Crawford, then.
President Bush. Or Scotland, for that matter.
Q. Why——
President Bush. Yes, Arshad.
Q. ——why you threaten military action against Iraq, but you believe that Korea's nuclear weapons program only merits diplomatic efforts?
President Bush. Absolutely. Saddam Hussein is unique, in this sense: He has thumbed his nose at the world for 11 years. The United Nations has passed 16 resolutions to deal with this man, and the resolutions are all aimed at disarmament, amongst other things. And for 11 years, he said, "No, I refuse to disarm."
Now, what makes him even more unique is the fact he's actually gassed his own people. He has used weapons of mass destruction on neighboring countries, and he's used weapons of mass destruction on his own citizenry. He wants to have a nuclear weapon. He has made it very clear: He hates the United States, and as importantly, he hates friends of ours.
We've tried diplomacy. We're trying it one more time. I believe the free world, if we make up our mind to, can disarm this man peacefully.
But if not, there's—we have the will and the desire, as do other nations, to disarm Saddam. It's up to him to make that decision, and it's up to the United Nations. And we'll determine here soon whether the United Nations has got the will, and then it's up to Saddam to make the decision.
Stretch [Richard Keil, Bloomberg News].
Regime Change in Iraq
Q. Mr. President, again, for the good people of Crawford——
President Bush. Yes. It's been a big day for Crawford.
Q. If you can explain this in a way that they and the rest of us will understand, there is some hints over the weekend, the possibility that taking weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq is our goal, raising the possibility or the implication that he could somehow remain in power.
Can you say authoritatively and declaratively whether we can achieve—you can achieve—if you can achieve your aims there in a way that leaves him still in office?
President Bush. The stated policy of the United States is regime change, because for 11 years MDNMSaddam Hussein has ignored the United Nations and the free world. For 11 years he has—he said, "Look, you passed all these resolutions. I could care less what you passed." And that's why the stated policy of our Government, the previous administration and this administration, is regime change—because we don't believe he is going to change.
However, if he were to meet all the conditions of the United Nations, the conditions that I've described very clearly in terms that everybody can understand, that in itself will signal the regime has changed.
NOTE: The President spoke at 3:35 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to General Secretary Kim Chong-il of North Korea; President Jiang Zemin of China; Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan; President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea; President Vladimir Putin of Russia; and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
George W. Bush, Remarks Following Discussions With Secretary General Lord Robertson of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/213924
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An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world's coffee according to Co-op Coffees, and in the past, Fair Trade has ineffectively tried to support farmers with gender equality. "If food sovereignty is to have an intellectual future within critical agrarian studies, it must reconcile the inherent contradictions of the 'we are all the same' discourse, taking analysis of social differences as a starting point" said Third World Quarterly, continuing "women's rights are seen as central to food sovereignty".
In 2016, Natural Resources Institute's global research on Fair Trade observed, "In terms of improving gender equality and equity in POs we found little positive change." They saw that one PO had a significant change, but the overall programs for equality are just not working for Fair Trade.
The Fair Trade focus on exporting food stands in direct opposition to a more critical topic for LATAM countries – food sovereignty. Food sovereignty is a grassroots, global movement coming from farmers, rural workers, fishers, indigenous peoples, and landless workers.
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.
One regional program with data showing success for gender equality and food sovereignty is The Movimento Sem Terra (MST), in Brazil, which is Latin America's largest social movement, organizing landless, rural workers and urban, slum dwellers to settle and camp on unused land to cultivate food for Brazil's population. With settlements organized in 24 states, in the five regions of the country, approximately 350,000 families have been assembled for rural work in mixed cropping, using the agroforestry model.
In regards to impactful changes for gender equality, the MST stated, "the decision-making bodies are oriented to ensure the participation of women, always with two coordinators: one man and one woman." And, everyone has the right to vote.
Also, creating MST settlements aids "towards the realization of Agrarian Reform" and food sovereignty, which is much more relevant than the export-led agribusiness model with monocultures like in Fair Trade scenarios. Traditional farming methods are respected and passed down within the community, using local knowledge to better address local situations.
Lastly, not a movement but a company with a conscious, Cultivando Futuro was born in Bogota, Colombia by Co-founders Carlos Castellanos and Edisson Aguilar, accompanied by CEO Dario. They are keen on disrupting agriculture with both Big Data and forming relationships to address personal, unique social needs.
CEO Dario Gonzalez said in a recent interview that most people just see the market access problem and stop there, never questioning contributing factors that pose as barriers to food sovereignty. Dario said that Cultivando Futuro wants to know about if the community's truck needs repair, if the farmer 20 minutes away from here has a different elevation that makes for different problems like no road access for a truck, or if they struggle with no availability of phone or internet access.


To the world for the first time?
Bernard charged forward. He approached the enemy in his dragon form.
He was not very high off the ground, so his former battle companion's dying form was overhead.
He honestly had few memories of speaking with that Illusory Dragon.
But seeing off the departed and praising their life of combat was the dragon way.
He showed respect for the path his brethren had walked and he approached a new battlefield as a tribute to the departed.
The Terrestrial Dragons protecting Paris's wall nodded at those words.
There were two of them. Paris's forces were being sent to the east.
The enemy was moving below. The three airborne light warships were forming a wall along with the one already on the ground to protect the transport ship.
They placed that ship behind cover, but Bernard did not care.
He split into multiple dragons.
True to his title of Swarm Dragon, his giant form split into a thousand smaller dragons.
That full swarm attacked the enemy's barrier.
First, they moved straight ahead to crush the light warships blocking the way in the sky.
Koroku clenched her teeth within Genbu.
…So that's how they're doing it.
The dragons' movements were far too steadfast.
There were two light warships in the air to the west with her and three to the east. Looking at that, the west would have been the standard choice.
But the enemy had chosen the east.
That defense from the night before last had been strategically necessary. A certain idiot had been stupid enough to use one of their own as bait, but those materials had been necessary.
But that had led the enemy to mark her as a dangerous foe. And they would be even more wary with the ground forces remaining.
She was not listening. But Takenaka had judged their enemy the same as Koroku had.
Their opponent wielded prideful strength, but he was also steadfast in his pursuit of a solid win.
At any rate, explaining the current situation was a pain.
Just as Koroku muttered that, a large explosion of light appeared in the eastern sky.
There was another explosion not caused by the dragon cannon destruction.
There was a reason the bursting light had turned to flames: the explosion spells set up inside the light warship had been activated.
The rumble of the self-destruct attack on the small dragons reached Koroku through Genbu's auditory devices.
Kiyomasa saw the result of the light warship's self-destruct.
It happened to occur just as she destroyed Henri's second sword.
…It didn't reach the dragon swarm!
The swarm of small dragons had moved as if they saw the explosion coming. By the time the ship detonated, the swarm was already spread out a good distance away. Bernard had predicted their move and avoided a direct hit.
The small dragons spiraled higher into the sky.
They avoided the explosive blast but rode the wind along a spiraling path up into the night sky.
They likely intended to view the entire battlefield from above and select their next target.
…And there are sure to be attacks in the meantime.
Her fears proved accurate. Two Terrestrial Dragons sprinted from Paris's wall.
She knew what they were doing. They were covering for the airborne Swarm Dragon while he was away from the surface.
Without a word uttered, a sword dropped from overhead. It was Henri. And she had two swords lined up side by side.
This was ridiculous, but Kiyomasa also hated that she was honestly impressed by her opponent's creativity. Still, she had to respond to this.
All of a sudden, she realized she was floating.
It was the wind. The wind blowing across the battlefield had scooped her up.
The next thing she knew, Kiyomasa found she had been moved away from Henri's blade.
It was a distance of about 7 meters. That was still within range of Henri and her swords, but her timing was thrown off. And Kiyomasa saw the identity of the wind which had carried her.
There was surprise in her voice, but not because that girl had picked her up and swept her away.
It was due to how badly injured Fukushima was.
Her face was scraped and stained with dirt while blood still flowed from wounds on her left chest and left side. The injury on her left chest was especially bad. When Kiyomasa placed an arm around Fukushima's back, she felt the slippery blood of an injury on the reverse side of the left chest wound. The smell of blood rose strongly from her left leg as well.
That was obvious just from looking at her, but Fukushima had more to say.
Henri held her right palm out and protested.
But Fukushima adjusted her grip on Kiyomasa and lowered her head toward Henri.
Fukushima did not even listen to those words.
Katagiri saw battles both large and small on the eastern battlefield.
His position in the south gave him a full view of the gentle slope up the eastern hill.
He wished his instructions were not so demanding and vague.
One thing was clear: the overall battle was being pushed higher.
The warriors to the east were somehow managing to hold back the middle gods of war, but the heavy gods of war were wearing them down. But even with those efforts, they were forced to fall back when the Terrestrial Dragons made their charge.
Perhaps due to the pressure of having only one shot at this, the eastern group climbed the hill and gathered around the landed light warship.
And they formed a dense formation.
Hachisuka's words brought him back to his senses.
The Terrestrial Dragons were coordinating their actions.
First, one of the two moved forward.
After sending himself halfway up the eastern hill, he stood up a bit. He aimed his dragon cannon up the slope to the light warship at the top.
The middle gods of war protected him despite their considerable damage.
Several middle gods of war layered defense barriers, aimed them toward the heavens, and guarded the dragon.
The charging heavy gods of war supported them in groups of two. The metallic sounds continued as the weighed-down middle gods of war planted their feet firmly on the ground once more.
The middle god of war unit had originally been vassals for the heavy god of war unit, so they knew how to respond to their superiors' support.
And those shields held their position. The attack was launched before the aerial bombardment could break through their defense barriers.
That attack was a dragon cannon.
The light flew toward the landed light warship acting as a barrier, but defense barriers opened in its path.
Just then, the other Terrestrial Dragon suddenly twisted around.
The light warship's defense barriers blocked the first dragon's dragon cannon at almost the same moment the second dragon launched his own.
When the second dragon cannon was launched, the Hexagone Française gods of war did not understand what had happened.
That second dragon cannon blast should have been a sure thing, but it was launched into the sky instead of at the enemy light warship.
"Did he miss?" they wondered while they each tried to find an explanation.
Had the dragon tried to shoot at one of the airborne light warships?
Did he do that because the aerial bombardment was in the way and damaging them?
It did not last long, but the god of war pilots did find those convenient explanations.
Then reality intruded on their thoughts.
The dragon who had fired the dragon cannon was forcefully thrown to the ground.
A wide-range explosion spread out from there, blowing away the gods of war.
Katagiri listened to Takenaka while watching the result on the eastern hill.
That hill displayed on his telescope lernen figur had literally collapsed.
More than 20m of the slope had crumbled and there was a shallow crater at the starting point. Also, the dirt had been torn up and the grass stripped away.
…They must still not know what happened.
But Katagiri knew what that attack from the sky had been.
This attack had been fired from a distance of approximately 18 kilometers.
"Azuchi" paused for the span of a breath.
"Oh," was all Katagiri could say.
The result before their eyes prevented that from sounding like simple bragging.
They scolded him for his suggestion. "Hmm," he groaned in thought.
…So if Hexagone Française wants to attack my area, they would have to worry about the distant Azuchi as an enemy too?
And if they extended the battle line that far, they would end up neglecting their attacks on the other three directions.
As soon as he saw those words, he saw the color red on the eastern hill.
The light warship, which had landed to protect the transport ship, had exploded.
Koroku saw it while rushing to the east with the moderately-damaged Genbu.
That high-power dragon cannon had punched through and destroyed the transport ships she had been riding the night before last.
It had possessed the power of a large dragon, but she had failed to see anything in the firing location.
That Swarm Dragon just fired the same thing here.
The trick was simple: the many small dragons had fired their dragon cannons while fusing them together.
That explained the Swarm Dragon name.
Swarm Dragon Bernard was a single dark blue winged dragon, but he could also split into countless small dragons using ether division. That made him both an individual and a mercenary force of more than a thousand.
And something happened when the thousand dragon cannons gathered together instead of scattering.
Those small dragon cannons were compressed into a Celestial Dragon's large dragon cannon.
The explosion on the hill had blown away the entirety of the light warship.
Its armor, frame, and other materials were tossed by the wind and stripped away into the sky.
And Koroku saw the color of the sea beyond the breaking warship.
That meant the transport ship was exposed.
Immediately, Bernard split back apart from his concentrated large dragon form.
Bernard's more than a thousand pairs of eyes saw the enemy's counterattack.
One of the two light warships remaining in the sky was charging toward his swarm.
It did not intend to self-destruct like before. Since the deck was deserted, it must have been remotely controlled, but it was firing its cannons and charging in with its belly exposed.
It intended to knock his swarm from the sky.
He could see the other ship descending to protect the transport ship.
He could not fire that concentrated dragon cannon very rapidly.
Still, he fought back against the charging light warship. He flew toward it and crashed into it, doing damage to the armor and cannons. Then he gave a command to the Terrestrial Dragon below. That lone survivor had not received a direct hit from the earlier bombardment.
He was answered with noise.
Something had hit the Terrestrial Dragon on the battlefield slope.
It was an enemy ground unit made up of normal students.
The Hashiba students in charge of protecting the eastern hill did what they could do even as their injured grew in number.
Those with the Schau Essen divine protection took the lead and crashed into the dragon.
The M.H.R.R. students no longer used assault spears or guns. Nor did the P.A. Oda students.
Those simple words set them all in motion. They formed four rows and collided with the side of the Terrestrial Dragon who was fixed in place thanks to the cannon blast. And those who hit first raised their voices.
The light warship descending in front of the transport ship began a volley with the secondary cannons on its side.
The dragon's armor burst off and his giant body tilted.
But the dragon sent his fore legs and hind legs further down the slope. This kept his neck and head aimed at the transport ship.
They all raised their voices as one.
More than 200 people used that spell, but they did not cast it on themselves.
They cast it on the dragon.
The Terrestrial Dragon's great volume was converted into weight and his giant form could no longer support its own weight.
Their commander and the rest pushed more on the dragon who had lost his balance and then fallen as the slope crumbled.
The dragon rolled, but at the same moment, they heard a voice in the wind.
It was a male voice coming from the west.
After running over, Armand raised his arms to fight.
His wide-range gravitational control gave a horizontal pull on the earth's crust below the dragon's feet.
To keep the dragon from falling, he pulled along a table of compressed dirt with the dragon on top of it. It was more than 3 meters thick and longer than the dragon.
Just as he said that, his arms swelled out and burst. Radiators opened all across his body and overheated lubricant squirted out. His red clothing was stained black in no time and he fell to his knees.
But even as he trembled and stopped moving, he faced forward.
His eyes were weak, but they focused on the dragon.
He was answered with light. The Terrestrial Dragon had fired his dragon cannon on the transport ship.
Confident this would hit, Armand shut off all his functions. He entered preservation mode.
She restricted all of Genbu's armor to simply preserving itself. Instead, she sent all the power to the engine system.
The white light shot out faster than anyone could turn around and raced toward the transport ship.
"Is there no stopping it?" they muttered.
But then the dragon cannon curved slightly.
It was a miniscule thing, but its trajectory did shift just a bit up and to the right.
Koroku's attack had shaken the dragon cannon.
But the white blast was still on its way to the transport ship. It would hit the top of the transport ship that had landed atop the hill. It had originally been aimed at the center, but this would still be a direct hit.
However, something moved in the way. An airborne light warship moved to cover the transport ship.
The dragon cannon collided with the bottom of the warship.
The light warship's armor broke with the sound of a wind instrument. After breaking in through the bottom of the ship, the dragon's attack smashed it from the inside out.
The great noise caused the ocean to burst and blasted ether light into the sky, but the people watching it had two different reactions. The split was between the Hashiba and the Hexagone Française students.
But the responses were all identical. Both sides raised their weapons, defense barriers, and voices.
Then another explosion erupted in the sky.
The light warship attempting to ram the Swarm Dragon had been hit by a counterattack.
The thousand small dragons' tackles and dragon cannons decorated the night with a massive explosion.
Smoke rose from the falling ship while it only managed to sound its alarms and open uncontrollable lernen figurs like a voiceless scream.
The small dragons swarmed its surface and looked down at the transport ship below.
Hashiba's eastern group had lost its light warship barrier.
Bernard saw the result of his actions.
Five of the six Terrestrial Dragons he had brought with him were no longer able to fight, but they had fulfilled their role splendidly.
…The events of this battle will be passed down to future generations.
With that in mind, Bernard prepared for his next move. He spread all the small dragons' wings to abandon the sinking warship and dive toward the transport ship visible below.
This was odd. They just kept appearing and rose up in front of him.
They rose up precisely in front of his thousand forms as if to oppose him.
What is this bringing? he wondered.
Then he saw the light burst. All the signe cadres that had appeared in front of him shattered, but that light took a certain shape.
The white ether structures took the form of a maid Belle de Marionnette.
These thousand beings had appeared to oppose him and the transferred program's name was displayed.
Mitsunari perceived the outside world.
This was a first for her. Seeing things, hearing things, and touching things were all new experiences.
She did not know what to do right now.
No, she did know what her objective was.
But as a program, she felt like she should do something to commemorate her first appearance in the world.
Small dragons existed within arm's reach in front of her.
They were a Celestial Dragon. These enemies were composed of ether, so they could interfere with a program like her.
That meant the dragon's attacks could hit her.
I am in danger, she concluded. And, she thought. I am sorry.
She really should have thanked everything for working properly now that she was out here in the world, but she would have to shorten the process given the situation.
But she did speak to everything out there.
She gave an abbreviated greeting to the entire world. That was her boot-up signal.
She knew that. And the enemy was already attacking.
The thousand small dragons used dragon cannons, tackles, or kicks. A direct hit would fully destroy her and that was likely her fate.
Mitsunari used the light warship's divine transmission system which was clearly still functioning since it had transferred her here. And as a Hashiba ship, that system was quite capable, so she used it to call to a friend. She spoke to her virus friend who had been rolled out ahead of her.
There was a pause long enough for a sigh, but he responded soon enough.
Mitsunari nodded. And after ending the divine transmission, she realized she had forgotten to thank him.
But the situation was already underway, so she took action. She used the last of the light warship's power.
Koroku saw a thousand intersecting attacks overhead.
…She pulled out an ether weapon.
The sword looked out of place with her automaton appearance and the attacks clashed with the dragon attacks.
Just as Mitsunari's voice vanished into the static, the light warship produced a deep explosive sound.
It was obvious what had happened. Mitsunari had hunted down a third of the Swarm Dragon while all of herself had been destroyed.
…I can worry about that later!
The Swarm Dragon flew up into the air.
The explosion whipped the wind into a spiral as the enemy arrived high in the sky.
There were fewer of them, but Koroku saw something through Genbu's vision. With a third of their number missing, the small dragons turned to face the ground below.
They intended to do this. No, they had to do it here.
They spread and flapped their wings to make a powered dive.
And they produced countless lights in midair.
They fired a concentrated dragon cannon while descending so rapidly.
The transport ship was below them, so who could possibly stop them?
Koroku shouted the person's name.
The Schwarz Hexen's mobility brought her straight down.
She had raced here from Kantou while stopping to resupply just once.
Yoshiaki had suggested it when Kani had arrived.
…She told me to go join the attack on Paris.
The thought of working apart from Yoshiaki had brought a sense of loneliness, but that trust had made her happy. So she had smiled and nodded.
She had liked seeing Yoshiaki smile and nod back.
She had done what that smile had asked for. After watching Yoshiaki leave for the battlefield, she had left and arrived in time.
And without lowering her speed in the slightest, she sent Schwarz Fürstin down from high in the sky. Because she knew what to do here.
It only took an instant. She saw the dark blue dragon gathering itself together with the ground in the background.
She shot right past him, but that was fine. A Schwarz Hexen's greatest attack came from the rear muzzle.
While descending, her schale besen's muzzle was aimed skyward. So she spun herself around in the powerful wind. And she stuffed a roll of 500-yen coins into the muzzle. Amazingly, it was 50,000 yen's worth in all.
Bernard realized the shell had scored a direct hit.
He had swung his head to dodge, but it had torn away the position of his right lung.
But he could keep going. Half his body was breaking, but the small dragons had yet to fully gather.
…So I can make it!
He fired his dragon cannon from 300 meters above the surface.
He did not know if this one attack could destroy the transport ship.
The Swarm Dragon launched his dragon cannon while essentially holding his remaining self together.
A white light shot out. It was headed toward the middle of the transport ship's top surface. If it blasted through the ship, it would likely stop the creation of the virtual ocean.
But he saw two people on the same hill as the transport ship.
Kiyomasa hurriedly prepared her weapon.
Fukushima was still on the verge of collapse and she slowly lowered to her knee next to Kiyomasa.
Kiyomasa was also worried about Wakisaka who had fallen into the forest. She had been laughing very oddly.
But she had a task to complete now. She combined Caledfwlch's two halves, faced the dragon cannon falling from the sky, and raised her voice.
A white slash was launched heavenward to pierce the dragon cannon.
Caledfwlch's power moved to slice through the opposing attack.
As everyone watched on, Caledfwlch's long blade broke and shattered in the sky.
And they saw what had caused it.
The falling light was growing denser.
The weakened Swarm Dragon's dragon cannon was clearly regaining its strength.
Just as some on the battlefield called it impossible, everyone saw it pierce the transport ship.
The Swarm Dragon fell into the forest, leading to a few seconds of silence.
And after that dense period of time, there was a definite reaction.
The ocean created in the eastern sky vanished and the blast blew away the water and ether light.
And everyone realized that Paris had lost its bright light behind them.
The greatest of Paris's defenses was the Roi-Soleil's divine protection.
It came from the Testamenta Arma named Corpus Prudentia – Vetus.
Everyone turned toward that male voice.
A shining nudist stood at the foot of the eastern hill.
He was the Roi-Soleil and he raised his Testamenta Arma up for the Hashiba forces on the slope to see. The silver structure floated behind him like a disk and he gestured up at it with his hands.
Their unified retort was not enough to stop that true nudist. He looked across the entire group and spoke.
Katagiri heard the Roi-Soleil's voice over the divine transmission.
The Roi-Soleil spoke with a thoughtful tone.
He was most likely counting on his fingers. He could be even heard humming a counting song.
Will that work? wondered Katagiri. It's supposed to take around 8 hours to reach Kantou.
She no longer heard anything in the night. But there was movement in bright Paris.
People were gathering on the city walls.
They were all facing eastward from that elevated position.
That's right, thought Henri. Their princess was in a distant eastern land participating in a battle to determine their future.
Henri placed a hand on her chest and spoke along with the Roi-Soleil.
No one raised their voice.
They simply spoke it as a known fact – as something that would be universal from now on.
And the Roi-Soleil said more.
Kiyomasa heard the Roi-Soleil calling to them.
They all felt great exhaustion weighing on their shoulders. While enemy and ally stood up and tried to figure out what to do, the Roi-Soleil spoke and illuminated his surroundings.
Kiyomasa and the others tilted their heads. But the Hexagone Française group was different. Their heavy gods of war and everyone else gestured eastward with their chins or fingers.
Seeing that, the Roi-Soleil stepped forward and looked up at the Hashiba forces while shining on the earthen ground.
That was why the Roi-Soleil had pointed out how both sides' win conditions had been met.
Welcoming Hashiba had been his way of proving that Hexagone Française's win condition had been met. And he was saying neither Hexagone Française nor the Testament would allow Hashiba to fight any longer.
Kiyomasa nodded at Katagiri's use of the word "safer".
They had to leave here soon and they wanted a safe route back.
The Roi-Soleil looked around again and spoke.
It might be possible. It might not be. But a lernen figur suddenly appeared overhead.
It was Hashiba. She used the lernen figur to speak.
The Roi-Soleil looked up at the signe cadre floating overhead.
He felt some slight disappointment at the relief in her voice.
He then spoke to everyone who had fought in the battle.
Kiyomasa watched the Roi-Soleil as he walked away. Paris's gates opened upon his arrival.
The main gates, secondary gates, and every other entrance opened.
He raised his right arm in response to the voices.
The cries of "oh" and "testament" blended together.
The people and gods of war stood and lined up on the battlefield.
They too walked into that light.
"Now, now," said Kiyomasa on the divine transmission.
Wakisaka laughed. She was clearly exhausted and battered, but she laughed while looking at each of them in turn.
Everyone exchanged a glance at that. After a while, they all nodded and bumped fists with someone nearby.
That was right. After seeing everyone sigh and stand up, Fukushima spoke from her kneeling position.
"No, you will not," quietly warned Kiyomasa, but Wakisaka only laughed some more.
Hashiba clenched her fists in protest, but she soon opened a lernen figur.
The surprised "eh?" reactions did not come from the Hashiba forces.
It was the Hexagone Française forces. The heavy gods of war, middle gods of war, and all the others looked to the Roi-Soleil.
That was true, but separate from all of this, the ocean spread across the night sky.
And the Terrestrial Dragon at the base of the hill stood up. He looked up to someone who stood in front of the forest on the hill.
He had been broken by Wakisaka's attack, but the concept of individual body parts did not mean much with him. His clothes were unchanged, but the right sleeve was empty as he beckoned toward the Terrestrial Dragon.
There were definitely those who had fallen. On both sides. The Roi-Soleil included them in what he said next.
There was no answer. But Kiyomasa saw this as the end of one battle and the beginning of the next.
What was happening in Kantou right now?
About two hours before the conclusion between Hexagone Française and Hashiba, the Siege of Odawara ended in Kantou and the Siege of Kanie Castle began.
Kakei, Unno, and Mochizuki of Sanada stepped forward.
The three of them prepared to intercept the Musashi forces using the forest terrain.
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Q: Why isn't the variable available? Background
I would like to apply this idea of having a common class that includes all the specific info about my setup.
So I have created /etc/puppet/modules/common/manifests/init.pp with
class common { include common::data }
class common::data { $ntpServerList = [ 'ntp51.ex.com','ntp3.ex.com' ] }

and installed this ntp module and have created a node like so
node testip {
  include myconfig::ntpp
}

Problem
/etc/puppet/modules/myconfig/manifests/init.pp contains
class myconfig::ntpp {
  include common
  class {'ntp':
      server_list => $ntpServerList
#          server_list => ['ntp.ex.com']    # this works
  }
}

and I would have expected that $ntpServerList would be available, but it isn't. The error is
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template ntp/ntp.conf.erb:
  Filepath: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/parser/templatewrapper.rb
  Line: 64
  Detail: Could not find value for 'server_list' at /etc/puppet/modules/ntp/templates/ntp.conf.erb:25
 at /etc/puppet/modules/ntp/manifests/init.pp:183 on node testip

Question
Can anyone figure out what is wrong with my myconfig::ntpp class?

A: You need to fully qualify your variables; $common::data::ntpServerList.
As it is, your code is looking for a variable called ntpServerList in the local scope ($myconfig::ntpp::ntpServerList) which doesn't exist, so it falls back to the top scope ($::ntpServerList) where it also doesn't exist.
See here for more details.

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Music for two violas is one of the most underexplored media in the chamber repertoire. The tradition dates back to at least the early eighteenth century when J.S. Bach wrote his Brandenburg Concerto No.6. Over the intervening three hundred years many composers have been drawn into its distinctive sound-world. This CD, which includes works receiving their first commercial recording, focuses on twentieth-century repertoire influenced in one way or another by two great pioneers of the instrument: Lionel Tertis and Vadim Borisovsky. It ranges from the sublime Lament of Frank Bridge, himself a virtuoso player, to the thought-provoking Meditations of Edmund Rubbra, from Borisovsky's arrangements of such classics as Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet to the dramatic and deeply moving Sinfonia a Due of Fyodor Druzhinin, one of Borisovsky's most brilliant students. Music for Two Violas takes the listener on a journey of unforgettable musical discovery.


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Wimbledon 2019: Anderson stunned by crafty Pella
Guido Pella gave Kevin Anderson a tennis masterclass on centre court to produce a sensational Wimbledon upset.
in Sport, Tennis
South Africa's Kevin Anderson reacts after a point against Argentina's Guido Pella during their men's singles third round match on the fifth day of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 5, 2019. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)
Kevin Anderson suffered a shock exit in the third round at Wimbledon going down 4-6, 3-6, 6-7 to Guido Pella of Argentina.
In the early going Anderson's serve was more accurate and while both players held serve in the opening exchanges there were early signs that Pella's serve was the shakier of the two. Anderson showed quick feet but couldn't craft an opening in the early going.
In the fourth game of the first set, Pella took the first two points off big man's serve with the second point won with a glorious lobbed passing shot but the big-serving Saffa powered back to hold his serve and take the set to 2-2.
Pella used his courtcraft to attempt to counter the power and size of Anderson and in the early going the match remained even and the contest was engaging. The Argentine set out to make life as difficult as possible for the eighth-ranked player on the ATP tour and proved difficult to break.
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The match was played out in sweltering heat and both players took their time when they were allowed to.
Anderson secured the first break point in the ninth game of the first set but Pella rushed the net and saved the point. The cracks were beginning to show though and Anderson earned another break point later in the game. Pella would double fault when serving to close out the longest game of the match so far but eventually held on to take a 5-4 lead.
Pella started the next game with a stunning return that set him up to earn two set points having successfully thrown Anderson off his serve and volley game. Now it was Anderson who had to dig deep, he saved two set points before surrendering a third to Pella. Anderson looked in trouble after a good return from Pella but came up with a winner to bring things back to deuce. In the end, though Anderson's serve couldn't bail him out and an unforced error gave Pella the first set 6-4.
A Wimbledon upset on the cards
Anderson's forehand let him down on the big points in the first set which allowed Pella the opening he needed to nick the opening stanza. It was the first set the SA number one has dropped at Wimbledon this year.
Pella grew in confidence as the match wore on and Anderson looked increasingly unsure of how to approach a match against an opponent who varied his game very well.
Anderson's first service game of the second set went awry and Pella claimed a second successive break to take a 2-0 lead in the second, serving for a 3-0 advantage. Pella held his serve with ease and left Anderson struggling to find a way back into the match.
The South African's serve gave him some respite as he blew Pella away in game four of the second set to get on the board, he trailed Pella by three games to one and one set to love. By the second set the 29-year-old looked the better player by far and certainly seemed to be enjoying the occasion more. Luck also seemed to favour the world number 26 with even his mishits somehow working out for him.
Anderson was definitely not going down without a fight though and looked to put pressure on the Pella serve immediately and earned a break point. Pella got cheeky while trying to save the break and handed Anderson back the break.
Last year's runner-up blasted through another service game to level the set but Pella still held the attacking advantage, looking better from the baseline and at the net. Anderson's return was wayward though allowing Pella to retake the set lead 4-3.
Pella's subtle touches were enough to keep Anderson on the ropes and prevent his serve from becoming overwhelming and Anderson struggled to adapt and began to play hesitantly surrendering another break to give the Argentine the opportunity to serve for the second set at 5-3 up.
There were few a jitters but Pella held serve to take the second set 6-3 leaving him one set away from reaching the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.
Anderson looked every bit a player who has only played 15 matches this year and it was clear that Pella could sniff an upset and it was just a matter of whether he could hold his nerve.
Pella offered Anderson a number of half chances on his serve but the South African looked rusty and couldn't make the most of his opportunities. While there were no questions about Anderson's fitness his sharpness in the match was severely lacking.
Early in the third set Anderson offered Pella another two break points, and twice had to produce an ace to get himself out of trouble.
Pella was able to avoid getting into a slugfest with Anderson but continued to offer chances to the rusty top ten man as Anderson looked to be more aggressive.
Anderson missed out on a break point at 2-1 in the third set and really began to cut a frustrated figure on the court.
Pella levelled the third set at 3-3 enjoying better luck against an opponent who seemed to be finding a way back into the match without earning the critical breakthrough.
The left-hander kept finding a way to hold his serve and his confidence was sky high. Pella backed himself to play some remarkable shots and had the crowd firmly behind him.
Anderson's serve was good enough to keep him in the match and he led 5-4 in the third set, a great opportunity to reverse the pressure onto Pella. Pella has just one tour victory to his name but showed a varied game that looked at home on Wimbledon's centre court.
For the sixth time in the third set Anderson held his serve to leave the ball in Pella's court, with the crafty Argentine needing to hold serve to force a third set tie-breaker.
Despite a great challenge from Anderson, Pella was able to force the third set into a tie-breaker.
Pella raced to a 3-0 lead in the tiebreaker before Anderson served up a pair of rockets to get on the board and back into it at 3-2 down. Pella won a huge sixth point as Anderson missed an attempted winner by inches.
Crowd favourite
The crowd were on their feet as Pella produced some blinding play to set up two match points.
The roar when Pella concluded the win showed how he had won the hearts of the Wimbledon crowd.
Pella described his progression to the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time as an 'unbelievable feeling.'
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Welcome, because the "clear blueprint The Belt and Road" being put out economies grow together. Whether it is to help Argentina from the "granary of the world" to "World supermarket" is a positive transformation, with Spain's "Asian Development Strategy" and "the Mediterranean corridor" docking, or with Portugal to carry out maritime cooperation, the development of "blue economy", "The Belt and Road" are effective docking national development strategies. At the same time, "The Belt and Road" is also promoting countries form a closer community of interests and responsibilities of the community, community of destiny.
Welcome, because "The Belt and Road" conforms to the historical trend of economic globalization. Although the world economy has twists and turns, but the interests of all countries, integration and common destiny, win-win cooperation is represent the general trend. The global supply chain, industry chain and value chain closely, every country is part of a global cooperation in the chain. "The Belt and Road" is a win-win way, is to build a community of destiny of mankind on the road, will take practical action to promote the economy to strengthen economic and trade cooperation, the release of growth potential. Practice has proved that the "The Belt and Road" initiative is not only in conformity with the laws of economic development, but also conforms to the historical logic of the development of human society.
Economic development and social progress, a better life, is the common aspiration of all peoples. "The Belt and Road" initiative, is China provided to the international community public products. Chinese will work together with other countries, to jointly sharing, high quality, high standard and high level construction "The Belt and Road", to create more opportunities for the development of the world.
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Black and white photograph - Parupa Park homestead, 1925.
Parupa Park Homestead, owned by the Moreton family, 1925.
Una and Eva Knight at their family home, "St Mary's", on the east bank of Lake Bolac.
Black and white photograph - Lake Bolac state school, No 854. Grades 3/4, 22/09/1933.
Lake Bolac State School, No 854. 22/09/1933. Miss Dorothy Baker (teacher) and Grades 3/4. Students, back: Eric Robertson, Margaret Kinnersley, Arthur Osborne. Front: Geoff Meek, _________ , Jock Hucker, Miriam Meek, _________ .
Black and white photograph - Lake Bolac, Carting hay at "Wyvern"
Carting hay at "Wyvern", McInnes' of Lake Bolac.
Black and white photograph - Wickliffe, c. 1900.
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Mr WH Clarke & Mrs Clarke, Mrs Moreton & Mr JK Moreton of Boswell Park, Lake Bolac.
Josiah and Mary Park, (1867) of Lake Bolac.
Black and white photograph - Thomas and Dorothy Peters, with Horace and Victor, 1910.
Thomas and Dorothy Peters with sons Horace and Victor. !910. Lake Bolac.
Black and white photograph - The Misses Howlett of Wickliffe, 1963.
The Misses Howlett of 'Wynawang' Wickliffe, 1963. Pillars of the Wickliffe Presbyterian Church.
Black and white photograph - The Howlett Family of 'Wynawang', Wickliffe.
Mr and Mrs Howlett of 'Wynawang', Wiuckliffe, with daughters, Margaret and Frances (Fanny). Circa 1900.
Black and white photograph - 'Eloora', the Bassett home.
The Bassett family home at 'Eloora', Lake Bolac. The original house was burned down in the 1944 fire and this was the replacement building.
Black and white photograph - 'Eilyer', built in 1871.
'Eilyer' homestead, built 1871. Run by Albert Austin, Albert Sidney Austin, Ronald Austin, Derrick Austin, his daughter, Kaye Blackburn, then Michael Blackburn.
Black and white photograph - Albert Austin, "Eilyer", 1834-1916.
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Colour photograph - Lake Bolac township. 1963.
Crossroads at Lake Bolac, 1963. Junction of the Ballarat/Hamilton and Ararat/Mortlake roads. Starting centre left, the large building on the south-east side of the Ballarat road is Goodall's garage. Next door is the original Bush Nursing centre, then Dalgety's, the Bakery, the Milkbar and on the corner is the Bank of New South Wales building, Elder's, Green's drapery shop and the Lake Bolac Memorial Hall. On the traffic island in front of the Hall is the War Memorial and across the Woorndoo road is the Hotel (with the maroon roof) with stables behind. Across the road again is the Stanbury's General Store with their large warehouse behind.
Aerial view of Lake Bolac township, looking towards the north-east, taken circa 1968. The freshwater lake is top-right, the salt-lake is centre-left. The Presbyterian church, bottom right, is surrounded by Cyprus trees on the Woorndoo/Mortlake road. The hotel and general store are opposite each other on the crossroads of the Mortlake/Ararat and Ballarat/Hamilton roads and the sporting complex is behind the store next to the salt lake. The Primary School, No 854, is between the footy oval and the Ararat Road, centre left.
Colour photograph - Aerial view of Lake Bolac and village. After the rain, 2010.
Aerial view of Lake Bolac after the drought had broken in late 2010. The fresh-water lake is now full, as are the wetlands. Note the edge of the salt-lake in the bottom right, the Industrial Estate bottom left and centre, the golf course, the current footy oval, Bowling Club, tennis courts and swimming pool with the P-12 College through the trees on the bank of the lake. An Archaeologist might be able to discern the original footy oval bottom centre, built on what was once the town Common (below the industrial buildings),and the second oval (above the salt lake.) The houses are spreading along the west bank of the lake beyond the school.
Black and white photograph - Lake Bolac State School No 854, students of 1921.
Lake Bolac State School students in 1921. Back: Laurie park, Eileen Graham, Maisie Lindonh, Nell O'Rorke, Sheila Murray, Lillian Murray, Emily Wileman, Beryl Peters, June Wileman, Alma Eastick, Chris McKenzie, Innes Geddes, Eunice Wills. 2nd Row: Eddie Kinnersley, Ivan Scott, Colin Graham, Marg. Graham, Dulcie Gange, Del Veale, Joy Gange, Faith Murray, Lorna Peters, Edna Cordy, Enonie Park, Mabel Cordy, Greta Sandford, Lin Cameron, Bert Peters. 3rd Row: Claude Balkin, Graham Murray, Mav Peters, Dave Geddes, Ewan Murray, Wal Dear, Len Park, Arthur Knoght, Frank Graham, Leo Balkin, Alan McCrow, Ray Gale, George Wileman, Joe Cook, Hurtle Eastick, Frank Eastick. Front Row: Horrie Peters, Harold Peters, Alex Scott, Jim Peters, Fred Dear, Bill Kinnersley, Dave Pitkethly, Neil Graham (Rusty), Don Graham, Lou Duncan.
Black and white photograph - Wickliffe, main street, circa 1920.
Wickliffe, main street, taken from pine tree opposite the hotel. Presbyterian Church on the hill centre-left. 1920's.


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