Bold and savvy property buyers will not miss an opportunity to step in to relieve high end property owners wanting to let go of their assets, given the right price.
Is it time to go treasure hunting for property?
In the current sluggish market, the high-end property sector which was buoyed by luxury home collectors in the mid to late 2000s, is beginning to lose some of its sparkle.
Huge losses have been reported for a handful of properties in the high end residential areas.
The Top 10 2016 property losses, all high end homes from the City Central Areas and Sentosa Cove, were bought during the boom years - seven in 2007 and others in 2011 and 2013.
At that time, foreign interest in the high-end home segment peaked because of the exciting plans envisaged for the integrated resorts and the plans to transform the Central Business District.
A Japanese tycoon took a whopping hit, losing over S$15 million in a penthouse sale at St Regis Residences.
Seascape Condo at Sentosa Cove: ultra-luxury apartment with sea view.
Bought for $11M in 2011 and sold for $6.35M in October 2016.
A luxury apartment in Cairnhill Road was sold at a loss of over $3M in March 2016.
A unit was sold at a loss of over than $3M in June.
In a cyclical downturn where market sentiment and employment prospects are poor, unprofitable property deals will become increasingly common.
With a slowing economy, more than 800 condo transactions were sold at a loss this year, double the figure in 2015.
Going forward, expectations of a US interest rate hike by the end of the year may drive down prices and drive up these loss-making sales.
Luxury properties have and will remain a status symbol. The higher the cost of the luxury home, the higher will be its prestige value. Bragging rights, the indulgences of living in these luxurious apartments and the savings in rent, will go in no small way to ameliorate part of its monetary losses.
Foreign exchange gains from a strong Sing dollar will help to offset some of these losses.
Additionally, by liquidating a property, the bulk of the proceeds could be rewarded by a more profitable investment elsewhere. Seen in this light, a loss may not end up as a loss because it could be mitigated or managed. But it will take a very smart investor to play this game.
In its Financial Stability Review released last month, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has cautioned property investors to take note of rising vacancy rates, declining rentals and impending interest rate increases.
Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) statistics show that there were nearly 6,000 resale non-landed private property transactions in the first three-quarters of this year.
When there is doom and gloom, when confidence is low and there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel, it's time to step up.


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Nearly $2,000 Raised For 12-Year-Old Lake Wales AML Leukemia Survivor
by James Coulter
More than $1,800 has been raised for a 12-year-old Lake Wales boy previously diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Autumn Taylor, 12, a sixth-grade student at Bok Academy South, had been tasked with completing a community service project for her class led by her teacher, Kari Richards.
Taylor decided to dedicate her project to raising money for Dailyn Campbell, a local 12-year-old boy and former Spook Hill Elementary School student who required a bone marrow transplant upon being diagnosed with AML leukemia.
She and her mother, Sabina, who works as a teacher at Spook Hill Elementary, ordered several hundred arm bands that they then sold to students and staff at local schools for $2 per band.
Half of the proceeds were initially planned to be donated towards Dailyn to help his family cover his medical expenses, while the other half would be donated to the Leukemia Foundation.
However, the other half of the proceeds will now go towards the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society rather than the Leukemia Foundation, as the former is based within America while the latter is based within Australia, Sabina explained.
Over the past six weeks, Autumn has been selling her wristbands by visiting several local schools, including her own school at Bok Academy South, as well as Bok Academy North and Lake Wales High School.
Since then, they have nearly sold out of their wristbands, with only 200 left by Thursday, and have raised an estimated $1,800, Sabina said.
If they sell the remainder of their 200 wristbands at $2 each, they will have raised an overall $2,200 for Dailyn and towards the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Though they plan on wrapping up sales by Friday, even if they do sell out of wristbands, they will order more if there is enough public demand for them, Sabina said.
Sabina has been more than astounded by the support that her daughter's community project has received from the local schools, especially those where the students did not know Dailyn personally.
At the high school alone, the Seahawks football team managed to help sell enough wristbands to raise $390, she said.
"They do not even know Daylin, but they have opened up their arms to him and trying to help out in the high school," Sabina said. "They do not know him, they have never played with him, and they heard what we were doing, and they have been selling the arm bands there."
Seeing the whole community come together to help support a young boy, even if they never knew him personally, by helping buy and sell her daughter's wristbands have been nothing short of inspiring and endearing for Sabina.
"I just feel that the community has come together as a whole for this family to help them out, and I am just so proud to call myself a Lake Wales resident," she said. "I love this community and how they can take something like this for a person that they don't even know and just come together as a town."
Dailyn was diagnosed with AML leukemia (a more advanced and aggressive form of the bone marrow cancer) in May, and was hospitalized at St Joseph's Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, later transferred to the Florida Hospital in Orlando in August.
Unable to find a local good match for his bone marrow transplant, in spite of their "Be The Match" Bone Marrow drive, his mother, Candice, transferred her own bone marrow through a transplant in September.
Since then, in spite of the slim 10 percent chance that the transplant would be successful, and in spite of him only being given three months to live, his transplant has proven successful. He is now cancer-free and is in full remission, Sabina said.
Even then, the road to his recovery has been a long and tenuous one for both him and his family, as he has required more than six rounds of chemotherapy, as well as several biopsies, feeding tubes, and other treatments.
His mother has since stopped working to remain by his bedside. He had remained within the hospital for up to five months, having only been home for a total of 10 days.
"It was a journey," Candice said. "I took a lot of time off of work. I was out of work for five months."
Currently, he is residing at the Ronald McDonald House in Orlando, and is set to be discharged in two weeks.
Unfortunately, his family has since been forced to re-locate, thus leaving him currently homeless and in need of a new residence.
As such, he and his family are currently seeking anyone who has a connection to help them find a new place to live.
Until then, the biggest hope for his family, especially his mother, is that Daylin remains cancer free and healthy.
"I hope that Daylin will keep staying in remission…and that he can go back to his normal life," she said.
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Queens message will resonate with nation in lockdown
Written by Skywave Radio News on May 8, 2020
The comments have come from the managing editor of Majesty magazine
The Queen's message to the nation as part of the VE Day anniversary celebrations will resonate with the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, a royal expert has said.
Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, said of the address: "This is as relevant today as it is for the occasion it's commemorating 75 years ago."
He added: "The Queen is the only surviving head of state to have served during the Second World War and this is an appropriate reaction to something that is so personal to her."
The Queen tells of how the message on VE Day in 1945 was: "Never give up, never despair."
"It very much resonates with the situation we find ourselves in right now," Mr Little said.
"There are some remarkable similarities, where the Queen says 'Never give up, never despair'.
Long term lockdown could mean behavioural changes are here to stay professor
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MONTHLY MUST-SEE CINEMA: PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!
Director: John Quested
91 minutes, U.S.A., 1975, Digi-beta
This month we present an American film adaptation of the play which launched Irish playwright Brian Friel on the international stage.
A young man, Gar O'Donnell, debates with his alter ego whether or not he should leave the depressing environment of his home town of Ballybeg where he works in his father's shop and migrate to Philadelphia to live with his aunt. Donal McCann delivers a truly great performance as Public Gar, the repressed antagonist who is manifested openly on screen by his extroverted (but unseen to others) alter-ego Private Gar – played with panache by Des Cave.
Friel himself wrote the screen play which John Quested directs with flair. Exploring common Irish literary themes of alienation, exile and the search for one's true identity and capturing fine performances from Irish theatrical giants it is a definite must-see for all fans of Irish culture. Featuring: Siobhan McKenna, Donal McCann and Des Cave.


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Street Rod 3 => Development => Topic started by: auguches on April 09, 2012, 10:31:49 am
Title: Licensing - Code - Distribution
Post by: auguches on April 09, 2012, 10:31:49 am
I have some questions:
- Do you licensed the original games or it will be an unofficial version of the game?
- Do you release it for free as GNU but not Open source right?
- The game would be only downloadable trough this site?
Title: Re: Licensing - Code - Distribution
Post by: megariffer on April 09, 2012, 12:51:24 pm
right now, we are only in the planning phase of restarting the project, so it's difficult to say what will be done, and how.
as for your questions:
- the game is an unofficial sequel to the street rod series.
attempts were made to find the copyright and license owners, but we were unsuccesful.
so it's most likely, that the game will remain an unofficial version.
- the game started as a GNU project, and went open source in 2004 i think.
since we are yet discussing the technologies to be used, we can't say anything for sure.
open source is likely, but that remains to be seen.
- you will be able to download the game from streetrod3.com, but i'm quite sure it will be mirrored on other sites as well. however, it's advised to use the "official" download sources, which will be listed on streetrod3.com at a later time. these locations will always contain the latest version of the game.
if you have further questions, please ask!
Post by: TSJ on May 17, 2012, 12:50:16 pm
I think that SR 1 and 2 are so old now that any copyright issues are outdated.
This means that we should be able to use the music and graphics like stickers from the old SR 1 and SR 2 games.
I made SR 3 versions of all SR 1 stickers some years ago.
Recently I stumbled upon a guy who claimed he had redone all the SR 1 stickers in a higher resolution, so I will try to find out more about this.
Post by: jpz79 on October 03, 2012, 08:45:56 am
This game can do well, because there is much else like it. The release almost looks like it could have been done in OPENGL, but lacks the anti-aliased fonts and textures. I understand SR3 isn't near being finished.
Post by: cdoublejj on October 05, 2012, 03:17:31 am
Technically it hasn't truly began development.
Post by: Marco on October 08, 2012, 06:24:08 am
Be careful, the copyright hasn't expired. You still need to get permission from the current copyright owner.
Even if you cannot find the owner you cannot copy or use anything, not even create something that resembles the original Street Rod series. (Calling it 'unofficial' won't make it legal either)
I'm sorry, that's how copyright works.
You can however try to go on without asking permission and hope it won't get noticed.
And if it gets noticed, hope the original owner won't make a fuss.
Post by: Vaelor on October 15, 2012, 01:57:26 am
Well, look who's here... the "competition". =)
No, I'm kidding. I've looked at your site and I'm very pleased to see that what you're doing is nothing like what we're attempting, so you're absolutely no threat to us. In fact, your publicity is our publicity and vice versa - we should maybe think about a link exchange or something similar.
Thanks for the heads up about the copyright. Which method did you use to justify your SRO project? Contact the copyright owner, fly under the radar, or forge ahead and found that the IP owner didn't make a fuss?? After all, your project resembles the original Street Rod's much more than ours would - if I'm not mistaken you're making an exact copy of the game for the web?
By the way, I read your history on the companies behind Street Rod 1 & 2. Who is the current copyright holder then? P.Z. Karen?
Thanks for the warm welcome. I wanted to stay low profile but I couldn't resist the urge to reply.
It's good to see you acknowledge we're aiming for the same goal. Not being competitors but we're all enthusiasts who want to create/see a sequel to Street Rod (whether in 3d or not).
You're absolutely right. As far as copyright concerns, I've hit the jackpot because I'm re-using everything.
It's indeed a version for the web.
I'm doing it for fun right now so I would probably get away with it although they could still sue me if they want to.
When I get to the point where I think it's getting too serious (as in, I can release a finished product) I really need to get the legality sorted.
Therefore I'm on the hunt to get/buy the original rights (you won't like this part). I've made a lot of progress but no results as of yet.
What I can tell is the original copyright isn't registered. It still belongs to the original owner but he needs to register it first (which can take up to 6 months in case it's part of a lawsuit) before he really can sue anyone for infringement.
So that's a hurdle for the original owner and that's what I meant with: hopefully the original owner won't make a fuss.
Post by: Marco on October 16, 2012, 01:44:08 pm
Something to worry about even more: How can we use real car brand names in Street Rod?
That'll be nearly impossible without paying huge sums of money and follow strict guidelines set out by the manufacturers.
I'm not sure that is the case as there are other open source racing games using real names. Also Hellmark in the past had mentioned we wouldn't be using damage (not sure if we will stick to that rule).
Post by: Maxaxle on November 04, 2012, 09:16:25 pm
Quote from: cdoublejj on October 17, 2012, 12:06:42 am
Also Hellmark in the past had mentioned we wouldn't be using damage (not sure if we will stick to that rule).
Wait, why?
Post by: cdoublejj on November 08, 2012, 06:59:10 am
Well this thread is quite interesting. Unfortunately as devoted SR fan I view someone else hunting down and buying the rights a threat to a true and proper sequel and possibly competition but, no matter who finds the copy right the owner several problems stand in the way money being the the major issue and big publishers being the second as there is good chance that is who owns the I.P.
EDIT: there is more to this post and it is possible it could be taken the wrong way but, I think it conveys my thought well.
Post by: Marco on January 10, 2013, 07:02:02 am
Last december I acquired copyright ownership of Street Rod and Street Rod 2.
Who's the product owner of Street Rod 3? We need to get in contact.
Post by: K52 on January 11, 2013, 02:31:21 pm
top job man, if your remaking 1/2 in 2d may i suggest cruising usa type racing
Post by: Maxaxle on January 13, 2013, 01:25:52 pm
Quote from: StreetRodOnline on January 10, 2013, 07:02:02 am
1. I hope you don't go commercial with SR1/SR2!
2. I doubt anyone licensed the term "Street Rod 3" or "Street Rod III".
Quote from: K52 on January 11, 2013, 02:31:21 pm
cruising usa type racing
*Cruisin' USA-style racing
What do you mean by that? Also: Since when are SR1 and SR2 being remade?
Post by: cdoublejj on January 16, 2013, 12:49:08 am
You can contact Venomous or my self.
Quote from: Maxaxle on January 13, 2013, 01:25:52 pm
Check out the other threads he has posted in and his website. He making a 2d remake of them kind of a sequel or spin off if you will.
Post by: Vaelor on January 16, 2013, 02:52:30 am
That would be me. You can PM me here, or email me at me@52k.net. Congrats on securing the rights (I think!). Hope we can work something out that's mutually beneficial to both our projects.
ever played any crusin games?? about the only 3d thing in that game is the cars but it still races... ok... haha, so it might work as a good base for a simple street rod remake because lets face it the 2d racing didnt work well
ever played any crusin games?? about the only 3d thing in that game is the cars but it still races...
Well actually, all of the tracks and cars are fully 3D. The people and most of the effects, not so much.
Quote from: cdoublejj on January 16, 2013, 12:49:08 am
Can't seem to find the threads...
scroll through it, http://streetrodonline.wordpress.com/ (http://streetrodonline.wordpress.com/)
I't actually pretty cool.
scroll through it, [url]http://streetrodonline.wordpress.com/[/url] ([url]http://streetrodonline.wordpress.com/[/url])
Oooooh. I wonder how the old-style, rudimentary 3D will be handled?
Post by: cdoublejj on January 19, 2013, 10:02:05 pm
idk but, apparently he has dissembled the old games to some point AND spoken with an old developer from the SR2.
Quote from: cdoublejj on January 19, 2013, 10:02:05 pm
Heard about the second bit, but I wonder how he managed to "disassemble" (reverse-engineer?) the games.
Hahahaha lol you and me both! It's sure is neat as hell. With SR3 so slow going it's neat to go back to the original games for entertainment. I remember one time we started randomly editing our save games with hex editors.
One guy managed to figure out how to give your cars black paint jobs and few people managed to adjust how worn out there cars/parts were. I some how managed to make un wearable parts worn out, like my carburetors became 25%worn out.
Interesting game mechanic, to say the least. What if the new version allowed for such things, and included a way to change the way the game worked (i.e. press tilde to open a console or open a menu to mess with what can happen, what can't happen, etc. etc.).
I do not know but, i do know being a remake it will have more stuff like black paint and possibly more parts but, this is just my speculation.


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Пілле Раадік (;  12 лютого 1987, Таллінн, Естонська РСР) — естонська футболістка, захисниця фінського клубу «Аланд Юнайтед» та жіночої збірної Естонії.

Клубна кар'єра
Футбольну кар'єру розпочала 2004 року в «Піраая Кера». У 2009 році приєдналася до талліннської «Флори». Разом з командож двічі ставала віце-чемпіонкою. На початку 2011 року фінський клуб «Аланд Юнайтед» підписав Піллу Раадік. Разом з «Аланд» виграла чемпіонат Фінляндії 2013, 2014 та 2020 років, а також кубок Фінляндії 2020 та 2021 році.

Кар'єра в збірній
З 2009 року викликалася до національної збірної Естонії. У 2012 році визнана найкращою футболісткою Естонії.

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 Профіль гравчині на сайті soccerdonna.de
 Профіль гравчині на сайті soccerpunter.com
 Профіль гравчині на сайті worldfootball.net
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Ethiopian Airlines has chosen Safran's SFCO2® service, jointly developed by two of its companies, Safran Aircraft Engines and Safran Electronics & Defense. Designed to reduce fuel consumption, the service will be deployed in 2016 and will cover the entire fleet deployed by the Ethiopian flag carrier, based in Addis Ababa.
Fuel is the leading expense for an airline, accounting for 25 to 30% of its direct operating costs. In addition to reducing fuel consumption through technological innovation, Safran is exploring another path via its SFCO2 service, namely the implementation of best operating practices.
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Yesterday's Market Rally Was a Short Squeeze, Not a Reaction to Powell's Speech
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 5, 2019 ~
Jerome Powell Is Sworn In As Federal Reserve Chairman on February 5, 2018 by Fed Vice Chairman Randal Quarles.
It felt like headline writers were out to engineer a stock market rally yesterday by scaring hedge funds that had shorted the market to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. When traders who are short the market act simultaneously on breaking news, (news that suggests the stock market is going to rally), by buying back stock to close out their short positions, that causes a big upward spike in the stock market. In Wall Street parlance, it's called a short squeeze. It happens a lot in a secular bear market and is a head fake to investors desperately looking for a bullish trend.
A number of major business publications put a bullish spin on what the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, actually said in his opening remarks yesterday morning at a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. What Powell actually stated was this:
"I'd like first to say a word about recent developments involving trade negotiations and other matters. We do not know how or when these issues will be resolved. We are closely monitoring the implications of these developments for the U.S. economic outlook and, as always, we will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion, with a strong labor market and inflation near our symmetric 2 percent objective."
Powell's promise to "act as appropriate" could mean many things other than an interest rate cut. But here's how his statement was reported by the business press.
The Wall Street Journal reported Powell's statement this way: "Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank is closely monitoring the recent escalation in trade tensions and indicated it could respond by cutting rates if the economic outlook deteriorates." Powell never once mentioned the words "cutting rates."
Bloomberg News put a caption under its YouTube video on the issue that read: "Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell discusses the Fed's preparedness to act on cutting interest rates if necessary due to trade and other risks. He spoke at a conference at the Chicago Fed." Again, Powell said nothing about cutting interest rates.
Dow Jones' MarketWatch ran this headline: "Powell suggests interest rates could be cut if trade tensions damage economic outlook."
The Federal Reserve may, indeed, be inclined to cut rates if the GDP numbers continue to falter. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow forecast is currently showing a weak 1.3 percent GDP growth in the second quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis. But the headline writers have forgotten that it was less than six months ago, on December 19, that the Fed actually raised interest rates and suggested that there could be additional rate hikes in 2019. The statement from the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee read as follows at that time:
"The Committee judges that some further gradual increases in the target range for the federal funds rate will be consistent with sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term. The Committee judges that risks to the economic outlook are roughly balanced, but will continue to monitor global economic and financial developments and assess their implications for the economic outlook.
"In view of realized and expected labor market conditions and inflation, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent."
Typically, at the end of a long economic expansion, the Federal Reserve has taken interest rates to a sufficient level to have plenty of room to cut interest rates to assist in alleviating a deep recession.
In 2007 the Fed began cutting interest rates from a level of 5.25 percent on its benchmark Fed Funds rate. As the financial crisis deepened in 2008 and thereafter, it had plenty of room to make multiple ½ point and ¾ point interest rate cuts. Beginning in December of 2008, the Federal Reserve held Fed Funds at zero or almost zero until December 16, 2015 – an astounding 7 years. It has been delicately raising rates by a mere ¼ point since that time to reach its current 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent benchmark rate. (Fed Funds actually trade within that targeted range. As of yesterday, they were trading at 2-3/8 percent.)
The delicacy with which the Fed has acted is commensurate with a heart surgeon operating on an extremely weak patient. That comes as a result of the devastating blow to the U.S. economy that Wall Street delivered with its 2008 implosion which took down the U.S. housing and jobs markets along with it. It was the largest economic collapse in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Fed's secret response to the crisis was exponentially far greater than its actions during the Great Depression.
The Fed has been correctly restrained by legislation from secretly sluicing another $29 trillion to miscreants on Wall Street to allow them to resuscitate zombie banks as it did from 2007 to 2010. The Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation that was passed in 2010 prevents the Fed from invoking its "emergency powers" to make those kinds of wild-eyed funding decisions in secret without approval from Congress.
As we reported on May 1, the former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke; former Treasury Secretary under G.W. Bush and Ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson; and former New York Fed President and Treasury Secretary under Obama, Tim Geithner, who orchestrated the massive bailout of Wall Street during the financial crisis, are now engaged in a massive lobbying effort (in drag as a book tour) to strong-arm Congress into restoring the unlimited bailout powers of the Fed before the next crisis – which they obviously sense is coming.
The trio clearly understands that the Fed cutting interest rates from the already anemic level of 2-3/8 percent is not going to offset the blow to the U.S. economy from the unchecked financial bombs that are hiding in the dark recesses of Wall Street's mega banks and, potentially, U.S. insurance companies.
The Fed's gunslinger holster currently has just nine ¼-point rate cuts. The American people are in no mood for more Wall Street bailouts and Congress, facing a fierce election in 2020, knows that. What every American should be demanding from Congress this time around is a meaningful restructuring of Wall Street instead of throwing more trillions of dollars at a sick market structure that continues to threaten the national security of the nation.


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The Deir Balyzeh Papyrus (or Der Balyzeh Euchologion) is a 6th-century papyrus, coming from Egypt. It contains early fragmentary Christian texts: three prayers, a short creed and a portion of Anaphora (i.e. a Eucharistic Prayer).

Manuscript tradition
The fragments of this papyrus, composed of three leaves written on both sides and now in the Bodleian Library, were found in 1907 in the ruins of the Deir Balyzeh monastery in the village of Al Balyzeh (or Balayzah, Bala'izah, ) in the Asyut Governorate: this monastery, which had an estimated population of 1000 monks, was in use from about the 500 and was abandoned after the 750.

The fragments are in Greek written in uncial script, and are dated to the end of the 6th century. These fragments were published by P. de Puniet in 1909. Other fragments were later discovered and the texts were re-edited in 1949 by C.H. Roberts and B. Capelle.

Anaphora
The anaphora included in the Deir Balyzeh Papyrus belongs to the Egyptian type, but it shows a different development from the Anaphora of Saint Mark, even if both are built on same ancient material. Similarities with the anaphora of Serapion suggests the second half of the 4th century as possible dating of the contents.

This anaphora has a definitely consecratory epiclesis placed before the Words of Institution, as in the Roman Canon, in the anaphora of Barcelona and in the Cathecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem, while other Egyptian texts such as the Anaphora of Saint Mark have here a less developed epiclesis that simply asks the Holy Spirit to fill the bread and cup. The content of this anaphora, which initial and final fragments are lost, is:
 ... (lacuna) ... Pre-Sanctus,
 Sanctus, without the Benedictus as usual in early Egypt,
 an Epiclesis directed to the Holy Spirit, with an explicit request to change the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ,
 a text similar to that found in the Didache about the gathering of the Church as the becoming one of the scattered bread on hills,
 a short Institution narrative,
 the Anamnesis ... (lacuna) ...
The fragments ends with a final Doxology, which could belong also to a thanksgiving prayer after the Communion.

Creed
The Deir Balyzeh Papyrus contains a short Christian creed which could have a baptismal use. It can be dated no later than the 4th century, even if it could be more ancient. The text is:

I believe in God the Father almighty
and in your only begotten Son our Lord,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the Holy Spirit,
in the resurrection of the flesh,
in the holy catholic Church.

Three Prayers
Apart from the anaphora and the short creed, other three prayers are included in the Deir Balyzeh Papyrus, which are not directly linked to the celebration of sacraments, but can be considered as prayers for all times. The prayers begin as follow: "You, our help...", "May he give us charity..." and "We pray you, o Master...".

Notes

Anaphoras (liturgy)
Greek-language papyri
6th-century manuscripts


Note-Taking in the Visitors' Gallery in Parliament: 2002…Yes! 2017…No?
Last week Friday (November 10, 2017) I went to Gordon House to observe the continuation of the Senate's deliberations on the National Identification & Registration (NIDS) Bill.
When I reached the entrance to the Parliament building, a police woman was conducting a search of women's handbags. I placed my handbag on the table and then was told, as others were before and after me, that note-taking wasn't allowed in the Visitors' Gallery and that I would have to leave my papers downstairs if I wanted to go up to the Gallery. The large envelope of papers I was carrying included not only my notebook, but also my copy of the Bill being debated, the Amendments List tabled in the Senate the Friday before and other documents about amendments that we hoped would be made.
I was very annoyed and expressed my annoyance loudly. In exchanges with the police personnel and with the Marshal, I indicated that the rule against note-taking had been challenged years ago and had been changed to allow people in the Gallery to take notes. I was informed that it had been revised last year, that note-taking was now banned and could only take place with the permission of the President of the Senate. Another member of the public and I decided to remain downstairs while the Marshal went to see if we would be allowed in with our papers.
While we waited, we saw Senator K.D. Knight entering and approached him and informed him of what we had been told. He said he would check to see what was happening.
Not long afterwards, the Marshal returned and indicated that we could go up to the Gallery, which we did, taking our papers and notebooks with us. A number of colleagues who entered after I did relayed similar accounts of being told they couldn't take notes and one had had to leave his papers downstairs.
Later on, prior to starting his presentation on the NIDS Bill, Senator Knight raised the matter of people being told they couldn't take notes in the Gallery. The President of the Senate, Senator Tom Tavares-Finson, responded saying that he wasn't clear what the origin of this no note-taking rule was, that it apparently required his permission for notes to be taken and that he was giving his carte blanche permission in that regard. His decision was a much appreciated one.
The reasons for my frustration and annoyance were twofold. Firstly, a rule against note-taking in the Gallery makes no sense. It is hard to see any logical reason for it. Members of the media are allowed to take notes. The Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ) broadcasts the proceedings live, including streaming on the internet. What is the danger that is being protected against?
The other reason for my frustration is that in 2002 – fifteen years ago – Jamaicans for Justice (of which I was and still am a member), Transparency International (JA) and the Farquharson Institute wrote to Parliament asking for a meeting to discuss the no note-taking convention, which we felt should be repealed. We wrote to the Clerk of the House on March 28, 2002 and received a reply on June 13, 2002, indicating that in the interim a meeting of the Standing Orders Committee of the House had discussed the issue, had decided that the convention should be abolished and that a motion to this effect had been put to the House on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 and had been agreed to.
In 2002, the Government and Opposition members were in agreement that members of the public should be allowed to take notes in the Gallery. By their response to Senator Tavares-Finson's decision, Government and Opposition Senators seemed to agree last Friday.
A number of us intend to follow up to find out why the no-note taking convention is once again in effect and to ask that it be removed…again. Hopefully, the problem will be quickly corrected.
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This morning I saw a Gleaner report that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is now actually using body cameras in some divisions.
This seems to follow on from the launch of a pilot project last summer and I wondered if the promised protocol to regulate their use had been completed.
The protocol regulating the police use of body cameras will to a great extent determine their usefulness as a tool to support both accountability and crime fighting. This has been clearly seen in other jurisdictions, probably best known in cases in the USA. Regulations regarding when cameras are turned on and off, how data is stored and protected, who has access to the footage and sanctions for failure to comply with the regulations are all extremely important. Also, a particular issue which has arisen in many instances in the USA is that of release of footage to the public. It is not tenable that body cameras are in use, but regulations have not yet been finalised and made public.
The importance of such a protocol has long been acknowledged. In January 2014, then Minister of National Security Peter Bunting "noted that a protocol will be established, making it mandatory for the officers to engage the cameras once they are going on an operation." (JIS report, January 24, 2014) Similar assurances were given last year when the body camera launch took place. Perhaps Minister Montague or Acting Commissioner Grant could give a public update regarding the current status of this essential protocol.
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Q: split the date range into multiple ranges I have data in CSV like this:
1940-10-01,somevalue
1940-11-02,somevalue
1940-11-03,somevalue
1940-11-04,somevalue
1940-12-05,somevalue
1940-12-06,somevalue
1941-01-07,somevalue
1941-02-08,somevalue
1941-03-09,somevalue
1941-05-01,somevalue
1941-06-02,somevalue
1941-07-03,somevalue
1941-10-04,somevalue
1941-12-05,somevalue
1941-12-06,somevalue
1942-01-07,somevalue
1942-02-08,somevalue
1942-03-09,somevalue

I want to separate the dates from 1-oct-year to 31-march-next-year for all data. So for data above output will be:
1940/1941:
1940-11-02,somevalue
1940-11-03,somevalue
1940-11-04,somevalue
1940-12-05,somevalue
1940-12-06,somevalue
1941-01-07,somevalue
1941-02-08,somevalue
1941-03-09,somevalue

1941/1942:
1941-10-04,somevalue
1941-12-05,somevalue
1941-12-06,somevalue
1942-01-07,somevalue
1942-02-08,somevalue
1942-03-09,somevalue
1942-10-01,somevalue

My code trails are:
import csv
from datetime import datetime

with open('data.csv','r') as f:
    data = list(csv.reader(f))

quaters = []
year =  datetime.strptime(data[0][0], '%Y-%m-%d').year
for each in data:
    date =  datetime.strptime(each[0], '%Y-%m-%d')
    print(each)

    if (date>=datetime(year=date.year,month=10,day=1) and date<=datetime(year=date.year+1,month=3,day=31)):
        middle_quaters[-1].append(each)
    if year != date.year:
        quaters.append([])

But I am not getting expected output. I want to store each range of dates in separate list.

A: I would use pandas dataframe to do this..
it would be easier..
follow this
Pandas: Selecting DataFrame rows between two dates (Datetime Index)
so for your case
data = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
df.loc[startDate : endDate]

# you can walk through a bunch of ranges like so..
listOfDateRanges = [(), (), ()]
for date_range in listOfDateRanges:
   df.loc[date_range[0] : date_range[1]]

A: For this purpose you can use pandas library. Here is the sample code for the same:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('so.csv', parse_dates=['timestamp'])   #timestamp is your time column
current_year, next_year = 1940, 1941
df = df.query(f'(timestamp >= "{current_year}-10-01") & (timestamp <= "{next_year}-03-31")')
print (df)

This gives following result on your data:
   timestamp      value
0 1940-10-01  somevalue
1 1940-11-02  somevalue
2 1940-11-03  somevalue
3 1940-11-04  somevalue
4 1940-12-05  somevalue
5 1940-12-06  somevalue
6 1941-01-07  somevalue
7 1941-02-08  somevalue
8 1941-03-09  somevalue

Hope this helps!

A: Without external packages... create a lookup based on the field of choice, and then make an int of it and do a less that vs greater than to establish the range.
import re

data = '''1940-10-01,somevalue
1940-11-02,somevalue
1940-11-03,somevalue
1940-11-04,somevalue
1940-12-05,somevalue
1940-12-06,somevalue
1941-01-07,somevalue
1941-02-08,somevalue
1941-03-09,somevalue
1941-05-01,somevalue
1941-06-02,somevalue
1941-07-03,somevalue
1941-10-04,somevalue
1941-12-05,somevalue
1941-12-06,somevalue
1942-01-07,somevalue
1942-02-08,somevalue
1942-03-09,somevalue'''

lookup={}
lines = data.split('\n')
for line in lines:
    d = re.sub(r'-','',line.split(',')[0])
    lookup[d]=line

dates=sorted(lookup.keys())

_in=19401201
out=19411004
outfile=[]
for date in dates:
    if int(date) > _in and int(date) < out:
        outfile.append(lookup[date])

for l in outfile:
    print outfile

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Most people spend the whole time at Yosemite Valley and surrounding area - missing out on wonderful nature and amazing adventures. If you have the adventurous spirit, leave the crowds behind and go visit places like: Hetch Hetchy Valley and Dam; Tioga Pass; Tenaya Lake; Tuolumne Meadows.
If you are driving to Yosemite from the east you probably already experienced this breathtaking road through the Sierra Nevada mountains (Hwy 120). The road winds through many mountain peaks, passes, meadows and lakes. It reaches an elevation of 9,945 ft. at the Tioga Pass - making it the highest Pass in California. Driving through this pass during winter could be dangerous and the road is subject to closures.
If you missed this drive coming it, then plan on spending a day on this road trip from the Yosemite Valley.
After leaving the valley floor and finally turning into Tioga road you will first come across Tenaya Lake. The lake sits at an elevation of 8,150 ft. and provides stunning views and a sense of tranquility. It is surrounded by granite peaks and domes.
You can have a picnic by the lake or if you planned on it, you can enjoy kayaking, fishing and other watersports. Although swimming is permitted, don't plan on swimming here - the water is freezing cold.
You can also take a 2.5-mile hike around the lake for best views and photo opportunities. This hike is very easy because the trail is level - no elevation gain. Other hiking trails start here or pass by the lake.
The next stop on the Tioga road is the Tuolumne Meadows. The meadows are a large expanse of vegetation created by shallow groundwater. The water mainly comes from the Tuolumne River and its tributaries.
Start your visit at the visitor center for restrooms, information or snacks. The center also offers ranger-guided nature walks. You can keep your car at the center and go exploring through the meadows or take a longer hike.
Most of the hikes through the meadows are easy. They are more like a stroll than a hike. Some of the easy hikes are May Lake; Tuolumne River; Lambert Dome.
The Tuolumne River hike is very easy and takes through great views of the meadows and to some nice cascades and waterfalls. You can have a picnic or go for a dip in the cold water.
If you are looking for a more challenging hike you can try: Elizabeth Lake; Cathedral Lake or John Muir Trail.
The famous John Muir Trail passes through the meadows and goes all the way to Yosemite Valley - crossing Nevada and Vernal Falls and ending at Happy Isles. This hike is not for the casual hiker. It is about 28 miles long on rough terrain and large elevation changes. It could take from 2 to 4 days to complete this hike. You will need to buy a wilderness pass ahead of time from the website. Those passes are sold out quickly so get yours early.
Other points of interest along the Tioga Road are Cathedral Lakes; Mono Lake; Lambert Dome; Tuolumne (Giant Sequoia) Grove; Olmstead Point.
One way to enjoy this road trip is to get one of the audio tours at Yosemite-Tours.org. You can load the mp3 file to your phone or other player and enjoy detailed information about the major points of interest.


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Shabaab official justifies attacks on civilians while preaching the sanctity of Muslim blood
Abu 'Abdurahman Mahad Warsame, as pictured by Shabaab.
Abu 'Abdurahman Mahad Warsame, a senior Shabaab official, addresses the issue of jihadist violence directed at Muslims in a newly released audio message. Shabaab's propaganda arm, Al Kata'ib Media, produced the recording, which is accompanied by English subtitles. Warsame alternates between Arabic and Somali throughout his lecture, which is peppered with references to Islamic texts.
Al Qaeda and its regional branches, including Shabaab, have long sought to draw a fine line between what they see as legitimate violence and operations that violate Islamic doctrine prohibiting the shedding of Muslim blood. It is a thorny issue that al Qaeda has addressed multiple times. And Warsame returns to the matter in his audio address, which is titled, "The Sanctity of Muslim Blood."
Warsame begins by setting forth what he sees as the religious justifications for Shabaab's jihad in Somalia and East Africa. He says the "commandments of Allah" deem it necessary to "fight the disbelievers who are hostile towards our religion, our land and our people and who are misguiding our youth, massacring our weak, plundering our resources and propagating disbelief and debauchery in the Muslim society." Thus, the "call of Jihad that we constantly reiterate is a holy struggle aimed at achieving the pleasure of Allah and His reward."
The jihadists' goal is to build a "righteous Muslim society that adheres to the laws of the Quran and Sunnah, upholds the teachings of Al-Wala' Wal-Bara' [meaning loyalty and disavowal] and disassociates itself from all forms of disbelief."
Warsame claims that "victory" is within reach despite the fact that the "mujahideen" face "an enemy greater in number and more technologically advanced."
He then discusses two Shabaab operations. The first is a raid on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya that was carried out in January. Shabaab said at the time that this operation was conducted as part of "Operation Jerusalem will never be Judaized," a campaign authorized by al Qaeda's global leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Shabaab's decision to attack a civilian hotel ran the risk of causing indiscriminate Muslim casualties – a fact that the group and Warsame have to recognize. However, Warsame defends the terrorist operation, arguing that this "blessed attack" killed "a number of crusaders and Jews." The "blessed attack" was orchestrated "in defense of the Islamic sanctities (Al-Quds)," which is "considered one of the great modern-day battles of Islam" and "will be recorded in the pages of history." The assault in Nairobi was also "part of a series of operations aimed at defending our religion, [the] honor of our beloved Prophet Muhammad and protecting the sanctities of Islam," Warsame argues.
The second attack referenced by Warsame occurred last November, when Shabaab's men killed Sheikh Abdiweli Ali Elmi Yare and more than one dozen other civilians in the city of Galkayo. Shabaab's jihadis indisputably killed Muslim civilians, but Warsame attempts to justify the massacre anyway.
Warsame describes Abdiweli, a Sufi leader whose method of worship contradicted Shabaab's puritanical creed, as the "great liar of Somalia." Shabaab even accused Abdiweli of being a "false prophet" — a charge repeated by Warsame.
The Shabaab ideologue argues this "blessed operation" was necessary to defend "the honor of our beloved Prophet," because Abdiweli has supposedly violated Islam's teachings. Warsame claims, somewhat implausibly, that "Muslims all over the world rejoiced and celebrated upon hearing the news of this blessed operation." There is no real evidence to support this claim, as Abdiweli's death was a minor news story at the time.
Warsame ties Abdiweli's supposed apostasy to the Somali government and the US, claiming that the "apostate Somali regime…served as the guardian and protector of this false prophet" and it was "their American-backed apostate militia who immediately rushed to his defense." In addition, Warsame says, other Somali "apostate leaders…condemned the attack and criticized those who were defending the honor of our beloved Prophet."
Despite defending the terrorist assault in Nairobi and Abdiweli's assassination, Warsame is keenly aware that Shabaab's violence can easily transgress even the group's own bounds. Therefore, he tries to set some limits.
Warsame claims the "apostate regime and the invading crusaders have barricaded themselves in hotels and set up their headquarters and ministries in populated neighborhoods in the midst of the civilian population in an attempt to protect themselves from the attacks of the Mujahideen."
Although "fighting the hostile disbelievers who have invaded our lands is an individual obligation," Warsame offers some brief, non-specific "guidelines" for jihad. Considering that "the Jihad we are waging today against the enemies is concentrated in or around residential areas where Muslims live," the "mujahideen…must take extreme caution and beware of unjustly shedding the blood of Muslims." Citing Islamic texts, he warns that "it is forbidden to take the issue of Muslim blood lightly" and the jihadists "must understand the severe consequences of killing a Muslim unlawfully."
The jihadists should continue to attack their enemies' "bases and ambush them wherever they are," but "extremely cautious with regards to the blood and sanctity of your Muslim brothers, for illegally killing a Muslim will lead you to Hellfire." Warsame adds that "it is obligatory upon us to safeguard our Jihad from all traits of Ghulu' [extremism] and Irja' [negligence]."
Even so, the jihadists should "[s]trive hard in carrying out martyrdom operations and constantly remind one another of its virtues, for there is nothing more detrimental and harmful to the disbelievers than martyrdom operations and landmines."
Toward the end of his discussion, Warsame warns Somalis to stay away from enemy targets. The people should "know that the target of our operations are the Christian invaders and the apostate regime, foremost among them being the apostate leaders, soldiers, army officials, members of parliament, ministers, members of the judicial system, apostate spies and all those who work in the different sectors of the apostate regime."
Of course, the targets Warsame identifies as being in the "Mujahideen's theater of operations" encompass much of Somali society — and some of them serve in a civilian, non-combat capacity. But that is no accident.
Warsame says that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (also known as "Farmajo") and "his cohorts are enemies of Allah and disbelieving apostates." They have supposedly "sold the land's resources to Ethiopia and Eritrea and handed over the seaports to them."
"In no regard are they considered your leaders, nor are they competent enough to assume such positions," Warsame says. "Therefore, it is obligatory upon you to wage Jihad against the apostate government and topple their regime."
This regime-toppling effort requires Shabaab to kill Muslim civilians — and Warsame will undoubtedly continue to justify such acts.
Tags: Abu 'Abdurahman Mahad Warsame, Al Qaeda, East Africa, Shabaab, Somalia


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Elemér Pászti (Szolnok, Austrohongria, 20 de desembre de 1889 – Budapest, 27 d'octubre de 1965) va ser un gimnasta artístic hongarès que va competir a començament del .

El 1912 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics d'Estocolm, on va guanyar la medalla de plata en la prova del concurs complet per equips del programa de gimnàstica. En aquests mateixos Jocs disputà el concurs complet individual, que finalitzà en 13a posició.

El 1928, als Jocs d'Amsterdam, disputà set proves del programa de gimnàstica, amb uns resultats força discrets.

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Gimnastes artístics hongaresos
Medallistes hongaresos als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1912
Esportistes hongaresos als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1928
Esportistes austrohongaresos
Gimnastes artístics de Budapest
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Ukrainian soldiers shoot down 24 Shahed drones during night
Ukrainian defenders shot down 24 Iranian-made kamikaze drones on the night of 25-26 January.
Source: Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on Facebook
Quote: "Russian occupiers resumed attacks on Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones on the night of 25-26 January. The UAVs were launched from the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov.
According to preliminary data, the enemy launched 24 Shahed drones. All 24 were shot down by anti-aircraft missile units, fighter aircraft, mobile fire groups of the Air Force in cooperation with air defence units of other components of the Defence Forces of Ukraine."
Details: Air Force Command reported that the majority of kamikaze drones were destroyed in the centre of the country, that is, in the area of responsibility of the Air Command Centre.
Updated at 07:15. Kyiv City Military Administration reported the shooting down of about 15 Shahed drones over Kyiv.
"The enemy again attacked Kyiv from the air at night. About 15 enemy UAVs were shot down in the airspace. Previously, there were casualties and no strikes at infrastructure facilities," Serhii Popko, Kyiv City Military Administration, said.
Ukrainian air defence forces repelled attacks from Russian troops in the airspace over Kyiv and Cherkasy Oblasts on the night of 25-26 January.
An industrial enterprise was damaged in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast following the night air-raid by the Russian forces.
On the evening of January 25, Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President's Office, said that the Russian occupiers are trying to overload the Ukrainian air defence system, and aerial targets are already being shot down over Ukraine.
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Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex
Green, Lelia. Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. 2002. ISBN 1 86508 048 9 [paperback]. 254 pages. Reviewed by Thomas E.R. Maguire, Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Lelia Green provides a comprehensive and refreshingly non-messianic theory of culture and …
Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East
Sakr, Naomi. Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., 2001. 266 pages. Soft cover ISBN: 1-86064-689-1. US$22.50 soft cover, US$69 hardbound. Reviewed by Dr. Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo. If Satellite Realms merely documented transnational broadcasting in the Middle East, and the …
Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends
McPhail, Thomas L. Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends. Paperback. Allyn and Bacon: Boston. 2002. Paperback. 272 pages. ISBN 0-205-5635-5. US$49. Reviewed by Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo. Just as media delivery systems are converging from separate mass media subtypes, so are the once-distinct, unhomogenized fields of the …
Voyeur Nation: media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture
Clay Calvert. Voyeur Nation: media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2000. 274 pages. ISBN 0-8133-6627-5. US$25. Reviewed by Dr. Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo. As transnational broadcasters rush toward privatization, calling for more democratization and transparency by more laissez-faire governments, Clay Calvert's Voyeur Nation should be thoughtfully …
Communication and Race: A Structural Approach (1998)
Gandy, Oscar H. Jr. Communication and Race: A Structural Approach. London: Arnold, 1998. Reviewed by Brian Shoesmith, School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. This book is an attempt to achieve a comprehensive survey of the current state of race and the media. The book comprises six …
Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations: A Comparative Study (1999)
Donald R. Browne: Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations: A Comparative Study. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999. Reviewed by Keval J. Kumar, University of Poona, India. Broadcasting systems in both the industrialized and developing countries have witnessed revolutionary changes during the last two decades. Cable, satellite, and digital technologies have …
Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Case Studies (1999)
Westland, J.C. and Clark, T.H.K. (1999) Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Case Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press. Reviewed by Tino O. Fenech, School of Marketing and Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. The version of the book reviewed was the fourth reprint of the 1999 first edition. Because it was released …
Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East (2002)
El-Nawawy, Mohammed and Adel Iskandar. Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002. Reviewed by Douglas A. Boyd, Professor, Department of Communication, and School of Journalism and Telecommunications. Director, Office of International Affairs, University of Kentucky I must start with a disclaimer: …
Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development and Discourse (1999)
Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development and Discourse. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. Reviewed by Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo The international waters through which global communicators sail is fraught with dangers: differing concepts of what is news; competing notions of public and …
Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television
Brinkley, Joel (1998). "Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television." New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. 447 Pages. ISBN: 0-15-600597-2. US$27 [hard cover], US$12.00 [paperback]. Reviewed by Dr. Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo In the early 1980s US broadcasters faced two major headaches spawned by …
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Ben Okri has been described as both a 'literary visionary' and 'irritatingly pseudomystical'. In his latest novel, Starbook, he continues his quest to capture the reality of Africa
Maya Jaggi
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When Ben Okri was down and out in London in the 1970s, sleeping rough after his Nigerian scholarship dried up, he made a pact with himself. "It seems you have nothing - no money, no friends", he says. "But at the edge of the abyss, you find you have a choice; that life isn't a given, it's a choosing." He willed himself to keep writing, and by 21 had published his first novel. By 32 he had won the Booker prize.
His resolution partly mirrors that of Azaro, the child protagonist of his Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road (1991). An abiku, or spirit-child of Nigerian lore, is destined to die in infancy, but can remain poised between the living, the dead and the unborn. Azaro chooses the adventure of life, yet retains his insight into the spirit world and the aspirations of the struggling - from his street-hawking mum and carpenter dad to the bar-owning brothel-keeper and politician Madame Koto. Set in the run-up to Nigeria's independence in 1960, and shifting from the tangible world to its spiritual, supernatural parallel, The Famished Road revealed the plight of a country perpetually struggling to be born, by portraying the faith and betrayed dreams of its poor.
The novel "took a long time and was a heck of a gamble", Okri recalls. "I put everything on it. I had to break my hands to remake them." Among the pay-offs was that, if a British literary establishment can be said to exist, Okri, aged 48, is now an influential insider. A former board member of the Royal Society of Literature, a vice-president of the writers' association English PEN and a patron of the Caine prize for African literature, he was made an OBE in 2001, and is the sole novelist on the advisory committee that recommends honours in arts and media. He has also worked as a BBC radio broadcaster and poetry editor of West Africa magazine.
Looking back on the "feast" that followed The Famished Road, he says, "I was hungry, then I wasn't. I got to know a lot of people. I travelled. I had the opportunity of making friends on the page." As importantly, the Booker conferred an artistic freedom. "I'm now Ben Okri - I can be what I am," he says. "It means I can find new methods and attempt impossible things in tranquillity. I've left the gravity of what's felt to be the only way stories can be told."
Okri, who sees his books as "stations on a journey", has published 10 since The Famished Road, including novels, essays, poetry and "aphorisms". The writer Ali Smith is among those who see him as a "literary and social visionary". Others have found his later work by turns profound and portentous, some objecting to a growing abstraction that can tip into what one admirer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, found to be an "irritatingly pseudomystical New Age mode".
Starbook, published this month, is subtitled A Magical Tale of Love and Regeneration. It is Okri's first book with Rider, a Random House imprint that has previously specialised in Mind, Body, Spirit. "You go where your work is appreciated," he says. Set in an ancient kingdom, Starbook tells of a prince joining rival suitors for a maiden who hails from a tribe of master artists, amid intimations of encroaching enslavement by "white winds". While public displays of affection towards an emblematic dying royal seem, at one point, reminiscent of the death of Princess Diana, the book is a parable or fairy tale - though, Okri insists, "one with iron teeth".
There are clear allusions to the onset of the slave trade, but the tale's origins lie, Okri says, in the myth of an ancestor who is captured or disappears, which he likens to the Pied Piper of European lore. "There's a lot about the past that we can't know except by stories," he says. "If these are not passed on, how can we understand who we are, and what we can become?" For him, the book is a mythic attempt to reconfigure a disrupted past, not least through its art. "It is not loss that defines us, but recovery. One has to read the clues of what seems to be lost, in art, artefacts, intuitions, dreams. The artist is a conduit through which lost things are recovered." While on the most obvious level his subject is Africa, its resonance is larger, he insists. "Loss is an inextricable part of what it is to be human."
Okri describes himself as a "universal spiritualist", who draws on Taoism (he is also schooled in martial arts) but finds value in all religions. This book, he says, was "the fruit of a personal transformation through fire and suffering, and eventually through humility". He admits a link to a period of bereavement, when his mother, Grace, died in 1996 (an "appalling, emptying experience") and his father, Silver, in 1998. "It's Mum, it's Dad - it's Africa," he says. "Africa's pain, invisibility, misconception. One's living it all the time. Not just the media perception of it, but in terms of individual lives - the stuff you see in people's eyes. How Africa's perceived; how we perceive, and fail to perceive, one another."
Okri lives by the canal in London's Little Venice, and has a long-term partner, Rosemary Clunie, a painter. "Not a great fan of flying", he loves trains, and went by QE2 to the US. He has not been to Nigeria for some years. "I'm used to Mum being there, and I've got to absorb that," he says. "Home is not just a country, but where you're unconditionally protected and loved."
Born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, he was brought to England aged 18 months. His father was a railway clerk who won a scholarship to study law in London. Okri grew up in Peckham, "a bit of a scamp, a wild kid and trouble-maker". When the time came for him, aged seven, to return to Nigeria with his parents and three siblings, he had to be tricked on to the boat. Lagos was "both a shock and a delight. I saw it was possible to be a human being in a totally different way. It was like going into a multidimensional world. That gave me my aesthetic matrix, where a sense of alternatives became natural. There was no one world-view, but as many worlds as there are ways of seeing."
He was eight when the 1967-70 Biafra war broke out, after a failed coup for which the Igbo people were blamed. Okri's father was an Urhobo southerner, but his mother, "from a royal family", was half-Igbo. "We had to move constantly, hiding Mum," he says. What he witnessed fed child's-eye short stories in Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988), in which civilians are slaughtered for speaking the wrong language and the river swells with bloated corpses. "At the time you don't know what you're seeing; it's too monstrous, but the image is fixed," he says. "I'm very slow to deal with these things; it took me 17 years. I'm crammed full of painful things I witnessed." It confirmed his refusal to "buy into anybody's ideology or worldview. I can't accept any single creation myth. I'm entirely suspicious of majority perceptions. I know from my own life it depends on who you are - what family, what race."
His father represented the residents of the Lagos ghetto where they lived. "There was a heartbreaking procession of people through our house seeking justice," Okri says. "Living among the poor, I came up against murderers, the semi-sane, people who'd had their legs chopped off in factories and nobody would take their cases. It was a great education, and inclined my heart towards the hard-done-by. I saw how easy it was to trample on them, and how we carry on living as though they're not there. That pain never left me."
His parents were Christians, his father an evangelical preacher who showed "the same flair and persuasion as in law". But "Dad re-embraced the religion of his ancestors and became an animist. It made me see that Africa can't be looked at truthfully through an external ideology. You can't wander through the marketplace without noticing both the market women and the goddesses they believe in." It was a "seriously revolutionary moment in my life - though it took time to filter through. I realised you cannot evoke a place truly till you find a tone, a narrative, in tune with the dimensions of that place. You can't use Jane Austen to tell stories about Africa."
When Okri was a teenager his parents separated, and he moved between Lagos and his father's home in Warri, in the Niger Delta, speaking several languages. "Many rivers meet in me," he says. While his father had a library of ancient Greek, French, English, Russian and Chinese classics, Okri also read from "our great tradition", including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka of Nigeria and Ngugi wa Thiong'o of Kenya. Yet his greatest influence, he says, comes from the streets. "An influence is something that liberates you from the prison of your aesthetic. I want to be out of the cage of my own perception."
Okri left school at 14, and wrote journalism "out of a sense of outrage", as well as poetry and stories. Moving to England aged 19, he had to abandon a degree in comparative literature at Essex University when his funding failed to materialise. His bouts of homelessness were reflected in stories such as "Disparities", in which a man dizzy with hunger is moved on by police and beaten up.
His early novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), skewered corruption and the scum-filled squalor it fostered. Although his later style was likened to Latin American magical realism, others dubbed it "spiritual realism", with a nod to Yoruba literary forerunners such as Amos Tutuola and DO Fagunwa. "Our job as human beings and writers is perpetually to ask questions about reality," Okri says. "One can describe people as they are now, but that's a diminishment. I'm more interested in what they're capable of - what's in their spirit. A camera that shows famine is not showing Africa's people and possibilities."
Recalling his early crisis, when "I sensed the value of life, and what I could do with it", he says, "almost every day the world kicks open that place, and you have to choose again. A rejection, misunderstanding, personal or racial insult reminds you that you're choosing whether to be defined and judged by other people, or to define yourself." For him, paying heed to prevailing views of how stories should be told would be "artistic suicide. You may as well cut your throat as a writer, because you've killed your own inner truth."
The Great Sphinx of Giza
The Odyssey by Homer
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Magic Flute by Mozart


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India develops sea-launched cruise missile
By Dinka 2007-09-05 14:16
India has developed a submarine launched supersonic missile, a modification of the BrahMos Russian-Indian cruise missile, the Press Trust of India quoted Defense Minister A. K. Antony as saying. He said the missile has yet to undergo trials before it can be adopted by the Navy.
The PTI quoted experts as saying that the submarines in service with the Navy, namely the German HDW series and the Russian Kilo class, do not have the capability to launch such missiles.
India has asked Russia for a loan of submarines to carry out test trials of the BrahMos underwater-launched missiles, or alternatively, that the trials be carried out in Russian waters, Naval sources said. India's Army adopted the BrahMos missile for service in late June.
The missile was developed as a joint venture set up by DRDO and Russia's Mashinostroyenia science and production association.
BrahMos is designed to engage targets flying at an altitude as low as 10 meters (30 feet) and at a speed of Mach 2.8, which is about three times faster than the U.S.-made subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile.
The company is currently working on an airborne version, which could be installed on the Sukhoi-30MKI air superiority fighters of the Indian Air Force.
Experts estimate that India might purchase up to 1,000 BrahMos missiles for its Armed Forces in the next decade, and export 2,000 to third countries during the same period. - RIA Novosti


In this speech, given in Chicago on February 23, 1903 to celebrate Washington's Birthday, Jane Addams (1860–1935), social reformer, community organizer, and political activist, uses the occasion and the memory of Washington to inspire her listeners to what she calls "wise patriotism." She speaks about the moral spirit of great men, discusses the moral spirit of Washington as soldier, statesman, and citizen, and suggests the paths that Washington would follow "were he bearing our burdens now, and facing our problems at this moment." Not surprisingly, her Washington rather resembles Jane Addams herself.
What exactly does Addams mean by "wise patriotism," and how does it differ from the "patriotism of the tribe"? What, according to Addams, was Washington's guiding moral spirit? Which guiding principles does she emphasize in Washington as soldier? As statesman? As citizen? Addams' Washington appears to have been animated more by equality than by liberty: is that a fair representation? Do you find this speech inspiring? Why, or why not?
We meet together upon these birthdays of our great men, not only to review their lives, but to revive and cherish our own patriotism. This matter is a difficult task. In the first place, we are prone to think that by merely reciting these great deeds we get a reflected glory, and that the future is secure to us because the past has been so fine.
In the second place, we are apt to think that we inherit the fine qualities of those great men, simply because we have had a common descent and are living in the same territory.
As for the latter, we know full well that the patriotism of common descent is the mere patriotism of the clan—the early patriotism of the tribe. We know that the possession of a like territory is merely an advance upon that, and that both of them are unworthy to be the patriotism of a great cosmopolitan nation whose patriotism must be large enough to obliterate racial distinction and to forget that there are such things as surveyor's lines. Then when we come to the study of great men it is easy to think only of their great deeds, and not to think enough of their spirit. What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history. . . .
If we go back to George Washington, and ask what he would be doing were he bearing our burdens now, and facing our problems at this moment, we would, of course, have to study his life bit by bit; his life as a soldier, as a statesman, and as a simple Virginia planter.
First, as a soldier. What is it that we admire about the soldier? It certainly is not that he goes into battle; what we admire about the soldier is that he has the power of losing his own life for the life of a larger cause; that he holds his personal suffering of no account; that he flings down in the gage of battle his all, and says, "I will stand or fall with this cause." That, it seems to me, is the glorious thing we most admire, and if we are going to preserve that same spirit of the soldier, we will have to found a similar spirit in the civil life of the people, the same pride in civil warfare, the spirit of courage, and the spirit of self-surrender which lies back of this. . . .
Let us take, for a moment, George Washington as a statesman. What was it he did, during those days when they were framing a constitution, when they were meeting together night after night, and trying to adjust the rights and privileges of every class in the community? What was it that sustained him during all those days, all those weeks, during all those months and years? It was the belief that they were founding a nation on the axiom that all men are created free and equal. What would George Washington say if he found that among us there were causes constantly operating against that equality? If he knew that any child which is thrust prematurely into industry has no chance in life with children who are preserved from that pain and sorrow; if he knew that every insanitary street, and every insanitary house, cripples a man so that he has no health and no vigor with which to carry on his life labor; if he knew that all about us are forces making against skill, making against the best manhood and womanhood, what would he say? He would say that if the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.
Let us take George Washington as a citizen. What did he do when he retired from office, because he was afraid holding office any longer might bring a wrong to himself and harm to his beloved nation? . . . What were his thoughts during the all too short days that he lived there [Mount Vernon]? He thought of many possibilities, but, looking out over his country, did he fear that there should rise up a crowd of men who held office, not for their country's good, but for their own good? . . . He would tell us that anything which makes for better civic service, which makes for a merit system, which makes for fitness for office, is the only thing which will tell against this wrong, and that this course is the wisest patriotism. What did he write in his last correspondence? He wrote that he felt very unhappy on the subject of slavery, that there was, to his mind, a great menace in the holding of slaves. We know that he neither bought nor sold slaves himself, and that he freed his own slaves in his will. That was a century ago. A man who a century ago could do that, would he, do you think, be indifferent now to the great questions of social maladjustment which we feel all around us? . . . A wise patriotism, which will take hold of these questions by careful legal enactment, by constant and vigorous enforcement, because of the belief that if the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights, then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights, is the only patriotism by which public-spirited men and women, with a thoroughly aroused conscience, can worthily serve this republic. Let us say again that the lessons of great men are lost unless they re-enforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; that they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideals.


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CMO Council Launches Major Campaign to Address Subscriber Complexity in Global Communications Markets
Initiative and Industry Survey Explore Issues and Opportunities for Service Providers and Cable/Satellite System Operators to Handle Increasing Challenges of Change and Choice
(Palo Alto, CA - March 23, 2011)
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council announced a major new thought leadership initiative to examine the extent and effects of a demanding new world of subscriber complexity and choice in today's communications services market. The new global program will profile and benchmark where and how companies are experiencing and addressing diverse needs, preferences, and behavior patterns across a multiplicity of device types, plans, and pricing options in the complex market for telecommunications, wireless, and digital media services.
The new initiative: "Bringing Dexterity to Subscriber Complexity: Managing the Challenge of Change and Choice in Communications and Media Markets," is a multi-channel thought leadership program undertaken by the CMO Council and its Customer Experience Board and sponsored by Openet (www.openet.com) that examines how senior marketers, line of business leaders, and technology professionals can get a better handle on today's dynamic landscape of convergence and subscriber expectations. The initiative looks at new practices in customer interaction and engagement, subscriber data management, and alternative service packaging and pricing.
Initial information on the initiative and a new whitepaper are available on the program microsite site at www.subscribercomplexity.org. The microsite also features initial leadership committee members, supporting facts, articles, content, and other resources.
"With more than five billion global subscribers, the communications market is a huge opportunity for those who can effectively engage and retain customers amidst exploding expectations and new disruptive competitors," commented Donovan Neale-May, Executive Director of the CMO Council. "Communications providers must innovate and improve how they identify and address diverse customer needs, create more compelling and individualized subscriber experiences, and market and deliver new services and payment options."
Bringing Dexterity to Subscriber Complexity is reaching out to senior marketers and technology leaders around the world on a qualitative and quantitative level to analyze and highlight the incidence of complicating factors and the industry requirements for improved processes and systems to enable cost-efficient and rapid delivery of new devices, apps, programs, services and packages to address every market segment.
The CMO Council launched its Subscriber Sense-Ability Audit Questionnaire, a landmark industry survey of communications marketing and IT professionals to determine the forces and factors that are contributing to operator aggravation and the best practices to address the issues head-on. In addition to the global survey, the CMO Council is conducting strategic discussions with a leadership committee of senior marketers and other executives at many of the world's prominent operators that are involved in insights and innovation around the customer experience to gather critical insights and best practices.
A new CMO Council whitepaper: Making Sense of Subscriber Complexity: The Need to Get a Handle on Chance and Choice in Global Communications Markets, is available for free download from the program site atwww.subscribercomplexity.org/xxx. The whitepaper outlines the causes and implications of subscriber complexity, supported by third-party facts and stats, including:
In India alone, more than 20 million cell phone accounts are opened every month, accounting for nearly 600 million mobile users in the country. That number is expected to explode to more than one billion by 2013. (Informa)Annual industry churn rates average between 10 and 67 percent (Database Marketing Institute)Forty percent of consumers who highly value telecom customer service said they would purchase from another merchant based on a poor customer service experience (Jupiter Research)96 percent of customers who put forth high effort to resolve their issues are more disloyal (CMO Council Customer Experience Board)Roughly 75 percent of subscribers signing up with a new wireless carrier every year are coming from another wireless provider and hence are already churners (Database Marketing Institute)
In addition to the Council, other CMO Council strategic interest groups will also participate in the subscriber complexity initiative. These groups include the Customer Experience Board, the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME), and strategic media and organizational partners, which combined serve a vibrant global ecosystem of communications service providers and cable and satellite operators.


Curly bridesmaid hairstyles are among the most popular nowadays. Did you know that in ancient Greece curly hair was associated with a special attitude towards life – love of freedom, activeness, and purposefulness? Besides, curls were considered to be a blessing from gods. No wonder the Olympians have been always portrayed with curly hair. You can also become the goddess of your wedding ceremony. Our bridal curly hairstyles in pictures below will help you to choose the most beautiful wedding hair idea. Curls look good in any hair hue – from platinum blonde to raven black. Moreover, curly hair appears lovely in hairstyles of any length. We have sorted out the cutest curly hairstyles for bridesmaid with short, medium and long hair. Enjoy.


When it comes to New Year's Eve there are two stand out locations to head for in the Philippines. There's a lot happening in Manila, but if you need spectacular beach sunsets too, Boracay is by far your best bet.
It's easy to find people to celebrate with, as the bars that line the beach are always packed, especially on New Year's Eve, when a huge firework display takes place near Station 2. While it may be true that tourism has taken away some of Boracay's natural charm, there's still plenty to appreciate, from scenic strolls along the beach to adventure sports.
In a guest submission for a private jet charter website, I recently wrote that my New Year's Travel Resolution for 2016 is to do my divemaster training and, with that in mind, I spent the first few days of 2016 testing out Boracay as a potential location with the excellent dive shop New Wave Divers.
Located directly on the beach near to Station 1 and Willy's Rock, what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in personality. Its staff and clientele are as multinational as the flags that line the beach outside. There's a really energetic buzz as soon as you walk through the door and you're guaranteed a warm welcome. They also have a resident underwater photographer who's produced some fantastic videos for the shop display. If you're interested, you can pay extra for her to accompany you and take high-quality photos of you and your dive.
Some of the top dive sites include ship and aeroplane wrecks, as well as the well-known Yapak – a deep dive with great corals, where close encounters with sharks, rays, turtles and large fish are not uncommon.
Camia is a 30-metre long cargo boat that was sunk purposefully in 2001 to help attract corals and marine life. This artificial reef has since attracted bluefin trevallies, scorpion fish, huge red bass, trumpet fish, squid, pygmy seahorses, ghost pipefish, frogfish and nudibranchs.
One of the exciting resident species at Balinghai is the sea krait. Its venom is among the most toxic of any animal on the planet, but thankfully they don't tend to give divers a second glance, let alone show any signs of aggression towards us. You also have a good chance of spotting sharks, tuna, anthias, triggerfish, lionfish, puffers and gobies here.
At Yapak, even if you're not fortunate enough to see the big stuff, it's an exciting descent through deep open water to reach the reef, where you can swim through huge shoals of angel fish, as well as dogtooth tuna, napoleon wrasses, groupers and giant trevallies.
While sadly the quality of the diving is not on par with some of the most acclaimed dive sites in the Philippines, and the visibility can sometimes be disappointing, it's still well-worth taking a trip out to the reefs with New Wave.
If you like the adrenaline buzz, you'll have a blast at Ariel's Point, where a selection of diving boards have been set up along the cliffside at various heights from 3 to 15 metres. You have to take a boat to get there as it's located on the mainland. Tours leave daily from White Beach and it's about a 40-minute journey. They usually combine the cliff jumping with other activities like kayaking and snorkelling, so you can make a full day of it.
There's a really huge kitesurfing crowd in Boracay. While the west of the island is popular for sunbathing, banana boats and boat rides, its the east side that gets the strong coastal breeze, which makes it perfect for wind-based sports. A beginners class of three to four hours costs around 6000 Php. If you're not interested in trying it yourself, it's fun to grab yourself a spot on the sand and watch the experts whizz by. If you're lucky you might even get to witness an international competition.
Freediving is a popular sport throughout the Philippines, and Boracay is no exception. Conditions just offshore are perfect to have you diving down to depths of around 20 metres after just two days of lessons. For around 12,000 Php you can also get yourself a professional qualification.
If you like to see Boracay from a different perspective, there are plenty of options, from island hopping and snorkelling tours to booze cruises and romantic banca boat rides. Head out just before 6 pm to experience one of Boracay's famous sunsets in style.
Most people who visit Boracay stay on White Beach. Generally speaking, the accommodation at Station 3 is made up of small villa apartments, Station 2 is where you'll find the most lively bars and hostels, and Station 1 is home to the more upmarket hotels. For real luxury and isolation, you can also head to one of the less popular beaches.
I stayed in three different places. At almost 2000 Php a night, Ocean Breeze Inn near Station 3 felt a bit too far away from the action and a bit overpriced, although it was a refreshing change to have a comfortable private room and functioning WiFi. The room also could have slept three. If you're travelling with friends this could be a good option. The Box and Ladder Hostel sadly suffered from rude-mannered staff and ridiculously claustrophobic dorm rooms with beds like coffins, although the showers – when they had water – were warm and powerful. Frendz Resort was a top choice for backpackers with a very welcoming atmosphere, a good social area and free pasta nights.
Most people fly into Kalibo International Airport. There are regular flights there from Manila. Caticlan is closer to Boracay and also has an airport. Until recently, flights to Caticlan were more limited and generally much more expensive, but airlines have increased the frequency of this route so it's definitely worth comparing the two before you buy.
Travelling from Iloilo to Caticlan by bus takes around six hours and costs between 280 and 350 Php depending on whether or not you want air con. From Kalibo it takes up to two hours.
The final leg of the journey is a 10-minute boat ride from Caticlan to Boracay's pier on the south of the island. There's a limited service on public holidays so if you plan to visit on New Year's Eve it's a good idea to aim to get there by midday. At the ferry terminal, you'll need to visit three booths. At the first, you'll pay 25 Php for your ticket, followed by a terminal fee of 100 Php and an environmental fee of 75 Php. Boats are small and leave pretty much constantly.
For more information on arriving in Boracay from elsewhere in the Philippines, this Philippines travel guide is useful.
Hi Laura! Thanks so much for this additional information. I'm sure it'll be very useful. I'll update the post so I don't mislead anyone!


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