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A Doubting Claus
Willemien van Duijn
Doubt was the theme of the evening. 'Doubt is an important aspect of our work as architects and designers of public space,' said Felix Claus on September 13 at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.
Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan Architecten, Amsterdam) shared his doubts candidly. When is a building good? Are you even doing it all right? Does it fit into the logic of the project? To him, doubt means having to choose, for there are tempting sirens ready to send you off on false trails. The architect even doubted whether he lay awake from doubt or simply from good ideas.
Claus admitted he felt uneasy in the decor. Indeed, he looked like a DJ about to serve up a heavy session. All the same, he knew he had a good set sure to thrill his audience. We were moved by 'how it all started with Claus en Kaan', swayed by the razor-sharp images of the municipal archives in Buitenveldert and the fire station in Leidsche Rijn. He let us snigger at marzipan kohlhasen. We were provoked and/or perplexed by his disapproval of the assertiveness of Dutch architects in China. And in the end we were reassured, for Felix Claus too entertains doubts.
But there was no evidence of doubt in the projects he showed. He even came out with a very self-assured comment about the fire station in Leidsche Rijn: 'The building is what it wanted to be.' Only to add disappointingly: 'The tough firemen wanted light-blue flooring.' Did Claus do well here? Who or what determines whether the building is what it wanted to be? The architect, the occupant, the context, the time?
From behind his turntable the architect pulled out three books, the first of which was 'New French Cuisine' by Paul Bocuse. He confided to us that he would actually rather talk about food. Like architecture, it's something you must experience. Later on Claus quoted Herman Hertzberger: 'Architecture is just like cooking; you can only make what you've bought.' This sounded like an excuse, but he'd already explained that an architect must ensure he knows everything since he has to use this rational knowledge to make emotional decisions.
Gibraltar photo: Christian Richters
Gibraltar photo: Roemer van Toorn
On the table next to Paul Bocuse was the little red book by the great leader, as a silent witness to the suffering of China. Even though it seems that there's so much going on in China you'll never achieve anything there, argued Claus. The architecture hype and the stories from the mostly young visitors make his stomach turn. But even the architect of the biggest propaganda bastion in China, whom Claus clearly didn't want to mention by name, got blasted. For the buildings in the new China are rising from the ground in 24-hour shifts, details are irrelevant, there are no preconditions. Greasy multimillionaires and ex-generals are controlling affairs. They are creating a super-capitalism in which public space as a binding agent will disappear. This worries him. Public space must be designed very carefully to safeguard ties with the neighbourhood. Buildings don't have to be beautiful but should be interesting and positioned correctly. That's why we should keep faith in the street, for it gives architecture a footing, according to Claus.
This connected nicely with the third and oldest book, the 'Amsterdam Yearbook', which stood for things that will never change. And that's good. It's always about money, poor weather, shoddy builders and so on. Just like cooking, architecture is always about the same things: gravity, comfort and shelter.
Showing his designs for the extension to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, the exhibition building at Camp Vught, and the extension to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Felix Claus explained how discoveries and studies that take place during earlier projects are developed further and completed in later projects.
The Gibraltar social-housing building on Oostelijke Handelskade in Amsterdam was discussed at length. Suddenly the fact that Claus was once a student of Russian literature in Amsterdam seemed so fitting. The building is dear to him. It is explicit. Through the application of severe repetition, even during construction, something unintended is revealed, the epiphenomenon. Asked what he really thought of the building he replied: 'I can only distance myself, not detach myself.'
Claus en Kaan Architecten


The top 10 picks in last year's National Football League (NFL) draft signed contracts that guaranteed an average of $18.7 million over the lifetime of their contracts, usually four-to-six years. This is the guaranteed amount; that means they could earn even more, perhaps much more, if they perform to their billings. The average salary per season in 2008 for Major League Baseball (MLB) players was over $3M! The average salary for the 2008-2009 season for the National Basketball Association (NBA) players is $5.3M! The average earning of the 120 major-college football coaches in 2007 was over $1M! Among the 65 colleges that made the NCAA Basketball Tournament in 2006, at least 20 of those colleges' basketball coaches were making over $1M for 2006-2007!
How do the above salaries compare with the average salary of full professors in doctoral-granting universities in the U.S.? For the academic year 2007-2008, the average salary of full professors in public doctoral-granting universities in the U.S. was $109.6K, and the corresponding salary in private doctoral-granting universities in the U.S. was $144.3K. Furthermore, this average salary for the two highest-paid universities in the U.S., Rockefeller University and Harvard University, was respectively $191.2K and $184.8K.
If we compare the above salaries for professional athletes and major-college football and basketball coaches with those for full professors in doctoral-granting universities, it is clear that there is a huge gap. What are the social implications of this huge gap? This article discusses the social implications of this huge gap in terms of the athletes themselves, our youths, ordinary citizens, and the competitiveness of our country.
Before we discuss the social implications, there is another important set of statistics that we also need to know, i.e., the salaries of athletes who in every respect are excellent athletes but for one reason or another have not yet made it to the top level of the professional hierarchy. For example, there are various levels of minor league professional baseball, with the highest minor league level being the AAA level, which is just below MLB. For a AAA baseball player who has not reached playing in the Major League level yet, his salary is usually only a few thousand dollars per month, with the minimum being $2,150 per month, although a AAA baseball player who has played in the Major League but has been sent down to the Minor League could be making significantly more. Thus there is a huge drop in salary, as much as a factor of 50 to 100, from the Major League to AAA which is just one level below the Major League. Another example is the Arena Football League (AFL), which is just one level below the NFL in the U.S. The average salary in the AFL is only about $30-50K per year. A third example is professional basketball in the NBA Development League, which is considered the closest to the NBA in the U.S. Lance Allred and Andrew Bogut went head-to-head in college, and were evenly matched in points and rebounds. As a matter of fact, they competed in 2005 for the NCAA Men rebounding title, with Bogut finishing second and Allred third. Bogut was picked first in the 2005 NBA college draft and makes $4.6M a year, and is now the starting center for the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA. Allred, however, was not one of the 60 players drafted by the NBA, and now plays for the Idaho Stampede in the NBA Development League and makes $15K per year.
The financial compensations of the top-notch athletes and coaches are so phenomenally large, so that the earnings from one, two, or three years are already more than most people can earn in a lifetime. On the other hand, if an athlete does not make it to the highest professional level, then there is a huge drop in salary, like a reduction of at least by a factor of 10 and often by a factor of 100. Furthermore, the amount of fame and endorsement money that they can get is also strongly coupled to where they end up in the professional hierarchy. Under these circumstances there are tremendous rewards and pressure on the athletes to try to make it to the highest professional level or to the highest performance in that professional level. Is it then surprising that they may do anything, including taking forbidden performance enhancing drugs, to try to get a competitive edge? Thus we see so many top-notch athletes being exposed to have taken illegal drugs to enhance their performance in baseball, football, track and field, cycling, swimming, etc. This drive is often achieved with single-mindedness so that they neglect their education, learning to get along with other people including their teammates, learning to manage their finances, and learning to survive successfully in the real world. The end result is that so many of these athletes can not survive, and definitely not thrive, in their post-athletic life in the real world.
Seeing the glamour and riches of the athletes who make it to the top of their professional sport, many of our youths also aspire to be like them, without understanding the tremendous odds against them. For example, what are the chances of becoming an NFL Player? The answer to that question can be found in the NFL Players Association website's FAQs: "While many young people every year set their goals on becoming NFL players, it is extremely difficult to reach that level. Statistically of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football every year, only 215 will ever make an NFL roster. That is 0.2%! Even of the 9,000 players that make it to the college level only 310 are invited to the NFL scouting combine, the pool from which teams make their draft picks. As you can see, most people who want to become NFL players will not. Therefore it is very important to come up with alternative plans for the future." Similar odds also exist for other sports. It is also important to know that the average playing time in professional sports can be very short. For example, the average length of an NFL career is only about three and a half seasons!
In MLB, we have all-time greats like Barry Bonds (the all-time homerun hitter), Roger Clemens (seven-time Cy Young Award winner as the best pitcher), and Alex Rodriguez (highest paid baseball player who several years ago signed a 10-year contract for $250M) either being accused of (and with very creditable evidence) or having admitted to taking illegal performance enhancing drugs.
In the NFL, we have Plexico Burress (star receiver of the 2008 Superbowl champion New York Giants and who caught the winning touchdown in the 2008 Superbowl) being arrested for criminal possession of a handgun and for accidentally shooting himself in the leg in a nightclub in late 2008, and who has been suspended by the New York Giants. We have Adam "Pacman" Jones (star cornerback and return specialist of the Tennessee Titans and more recently of the Dallas Cowboys) being involved in numerous off-the-field incidents, including assaults, shootings, threats, public intoxication, and being suspended twice by the NFL. We have Terrell Owens (star receiver of the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys) who had repeatedly destroyed team unity via his verbal outbursts and antics.
In the NBA, we have Jayson Williams (former star player of the New Jersey Nets) involved in several shooting incidents and an accidental shooting death of his limo driver and subsequent cover ups. We have Stephon Marbury (who until this week was under contract with the New York Knicks for the current season for $21M), but for various reasons (including feuds between Marbury and the Knicks' front office and coaches, and the Knicks wanting to build a harmonious team for the future), the Knicks decided not to play him during the current season. Furthermore, due to injuries to other players, when the Knicks wanted to play him during a 11/26/08 game, Marbury refused to enter the game, incurring a $400K fine from the Knicks. Finally during this past week, the Knicks and Marbury agreed on a financial buyout on their "divorce" and terminated their contract with the Knicks paying him about $19M even though he didn't play a single game this season!
In Track and Field, we have Marion Jones (probably the most celebrated women's track and field athlete and winner of three gold medals and two bronze medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics) finally admitting taking forbidden steroids after repeatedly denying so, including in testimonies in front of two grand juries. She had to relinquish all her Olympic medals. We have Ben Johnson (the Canadian national hero after he beat one of the all-time greats Carl Lewis for the gold medal in the 100 meter dash in the 1988 Olympics while breaking his own world record) was stripped of his gold medal and world record a few days later with a positive test of steroid use.
In cycling, the 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis of the U.S. was stripped of his championship, and for the 2007 and 2008 Tour de France several race leaders from several other countries were also removed from the competition after testing positive to illegal performance enhancing drugs.
Good Role Models for Our Youths to Emulate?
This list can go on and on for other sports at the professional level as well at the top-tier college level. Of course, there are many top-notch professional and college athletes who are ethical, follow all the rules, and are great role models for the youths. But it seems that the great disparity in recognition and financial rewards between the champion and the runner-up, or the intensification of the winner take all reward system, has created an environment that drives many athletes to be willing to risk everything, including their ethics and their health, in order to increase their chances of reaching the performance pinnacle. Furthermore, these top athletes are often so pampered that they never learned how to behave as decent human beings after their limelight is over. It seems then that the current professional athletes are not good role models for our youths to emulate.
Who Can Help Our Country Compete Economically in a World of Global Competition?
University professors are the people teaching our youths the skills and intellectual creativity to drive our economic engine so that we can compete successfully in the world of global competition, which is especially important when the U.S. needs to compete successfully at the top of the economic food chain due to our relatively high cost of living. Our professional athletes are not going to be the people who can help our country to maintain or regain our position as the richest and most powerful country in the world, but our university professors will be among the most important people who can help our country achieve that objective. It seems then that the potential positive social impacts on our society from our university professors are significantly larger than from our professional athletes. Yet as we pointed out at the beginning of this article, the average salary of professional athletes is greater than the average salary of university professors by an order of magnitude or more. To further illustrate this point, the highest paid professor in the field of physics for the whole University of California 10-campus system is David J. Gross, a Nobel Prize physicist and the Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His salary for the academic year 2007-2008 was $254,900, which pales in comparison with the salaries in professional football, basketball, or baseball, and is less than two-thirds of the 2008 minimum salary of $390K in MLB! This clearly makes us wonder whether our society has misplaced our priorities.
Is It Simply Just the Consequences of Supply and Demand?
One may argue that the salaries of professional athletes are just the consequences of supply and demand. Their high salaries are just reflective of the fact that there are great public interests for professional sports. One may also hear that the large financial compensations for football and basketball coaches are justified because a successful football or basketball program can help student recruitment and alumni contributions. All of these actually point to the underlying issue, i.e., has our society as a whole misplaced our priorities? Why should a school kid who is a top-performing athlete gets much more recognition and press coverage than a school kid who is a top-performing student in the classroom or a student who is a leader in doing community activities? Why should our media always put significantly more coverage on negative-behaving events than positive-behaving events? We should understand that notoriety is also something that youths want to emulate even if the events leading to notoriety are not something to be proud of. We know from sociology and child psychology that positive role models can do wonders to young minds and negative role models can destroy young lives. Doesn't winning a Nobel Prize or other prestigious academic honors also help with student recruitment and bring in research contracts? Doesn't achieving academic distinction also help with alumni contributions? Doesn't achieving academic breakthroughs results in positive impacts on our society? Perhaps if our society has consistently emphasized and recognized the activities and achievements that can impact our society in a positive way, especially from a longer-term perspective, there will be a corresponding change in the supply and demand equation.
Does It Impact the Pocket Book of Ordinary Citizens?
There is also the issue of whether the high salaries and endorsements of professional athletes also financially affect ordinary citizens who do not attend or watch these sporting events? The answer is definitely yes for the following reasons. The government at all levels usually subsidizes building sports stadiums either directly or indirectly. Direct subsidies include city, county, or state funds allocated as part of the stadium building budget. Indirect subsidies include various tax incentives, such as reduced property tax from the local government and tax-exempt bonds issued by the federal, state, and local governments. These government subsidies are funded by taxpayer dollars. The local government also needs to spend money on various infrastructure projects, such as building new sewers and roads, or public transportation lines and stations.
Professional team owners want the media broadcasting of their games to reach as many people as possible to maximize the media broadcasting revenue. For example, broadcasting certain professional team's games may be included as part of the basic cable package, which gives cable companies an argument to raise the rate of the basic cable package. This means that all subscribers of the basic cable package have to pay the higher rate even if they don't plan to watch any of that professional team's games.
New stadiums are built not necessarily because the existing stadiums do not have sufficient seat capacity or are in disrepair, but because the owners want more and better luxury boxes which can bring in significant amount of revenue. Furthermore, unlike gate receipts, a team does not have to share the revenue from luxury boxes with the league and other teams; so 100% of the luxury box revenues remain in the home team's pocket.
There is of course the counter argument that a professional sports team brings people to the games and increases tax revenues for the local government, and professional sports teams make a city more attractive for other businesses to locate in that city. There is some validity to such a counter argument, but my guess is that if one does a detailed analysis, the financial gains do not match the expenses, except for the owners, the players, and businesses that are located in the vicinity of the sports stadiums or are directly involved with those professional sports teams. The real winners usually are the team owners and the players. Both groups are already making a lot of money; so we are asking ordinary citizens to use their tax dollars to make these rich people even richer.
There is also a cascading effect on the pocket of ordinary citizens, independent of whether or not they watch the professional sports. Televisions and various sponsors, such as companies who make sneakers, apparel, various foods and drinks, and many other products being pitched by these high-paying athletes, all raise the prices of their products in order to pay for the high endorsements received by the athletes. Thus even old ladies in tennis shoes who never watch any of the sporting events share in paying these professional athletes and coaches the phenomenal salaries they are now receiving.
There is great disparity between the salaries of top professional athletes/coaches and people in other professions, including top-notch academics. The chances of becoming a major league professional athlete are extremely small, and the salaries of professional athletes just one level below the major professional leagues, together with the corresponding recognition and endorsement revenue, are no longer large, and perhaps non-existent for endorsement revenue. It is really unrealistic for the majority of our youths to aspire to become top-level professional athletes. Furthermore, the top-level professional athletes as a group are not the idols that our youths should emulate. The high salaries and endorsements of top level professional athletes and coaches affect the pocket book of ordinary citizens independent of whether they attend or watch any of the sporting events. It is clear that the top-level professional athletes are not the ones who can help our country to compete successfully economically in a world with global competition. Our society should examine carefully our priorities, because the social implications are huge in determining the characters and welfare of our children and grandchildren.
 There has not been much exposure about NBA players, but the NBA has the weakest drug testing policy.
 For a more detailed discussion of "Negative Versus Positive Media Reporting," see the article with this title in http://www.dontow.com/Archived_PS_Articles/APS7-Media_Reporting.html.
Don, thanks again for your thoughtful analysis of an interesting subject. You make many good points that I agree with. I have one observation to add: In a free society supply and demand determine results. The reality is that people are more interested in sports than academic achievements and thus are willing to pay big bucks to attend the games etc. Society after all is made up of individuals. Your goals are commendable but not likely to happen.
Rich, thanks for your comments. Yes, the priority of our current society is such that sports heroes are more important, more famous, and more rewarded than academic heroes or other heroes that have greater impacts on the society. But how much of that kind of priority is nurtured by what we emphasize at home, in schools, in the mass media, etc. I doubt very much that small children will naturally have that kind of priority. That kind of priority is nurtured.
That is precisely the point I am trying to make. From a long-term strategic planning point of view, is that the way we want it? If not, then we should seriously analyze how we have been nurturing that kind of priority, and take steps to change it. Or do we need to wait till our society deteriorate to great depths before we are willing to make changes?
I agree that my goals are probably less likely to happen than to happen. But so many important events in history occurred against great odds, and the wise ones will anticipate and try to head off danger at the pass.
Furthermore, the big bucks received by the athletes, coaches, and owners are not just being paid by the people who attend or watch the games, but by even ordinary citizens who do not attend or watch these games.
Don, again I agree with your premise. But how do we go about making the changes that you envision? Who will do what? The K-12 education system is not well. I do not see any attempt to make it better at present. The media reflects what people want etc. Will the new president address this issue? I doubt it. Will the congress do something? Will parents?
We have a materialistic society. Sports is very important to most people (myself not included). What steps to you advocate to begin a change?


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But when I publish same code in IIS then only 27043 rows are getting read, not all rows. (Issue seems with filesize not with no.of records)
I checked at other question at stackoverflow which has answer to change IMEX value to 1 but this change not helping me.
All the code working fine in debug mode so I wonder why its not working after publish??
If any of you have faced such issue, please assist.
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Home Society California hairstyle discrimination law signed by Gov. Newsom
California hairstyle discrimination law signed by Gov. Newsom
Vanessa JanvierJuly 4, 201900
California hairstyle discrimination. The state of California has just banned hairstyle discrimination in the workplace, with a law that allows residents (mostly black) to wear their hair however they want.
Californians will no longer be denied work because of their hair. The Golden State became, Wednesday, July 3, the first US state to ban "discrimination based on hair" with a law that prevents organizations from refusing people for wearing the Afro cut, braids or dreadlocks at school or at the workplace.
New York City passed a legislation at the beginning of the year similar to the California hairstyle discrimination law.
Written and carried by Sate Democratic Senator Holly Mitchell, the California Crown Act as it is officially called was passed unanimously by both California chambers and is scheduled to come into force on January 1.
"[ This law protects black Californians who choose to wear their hair in its natural form, without pressure to comply with Eurocentric norms," the senator says. "I'm excited to see the cultural change guaranteed by this law. For us, it's a symbol of who we are. When I was doing dreadlocks fifteen years ago, I knew it was a social and political statement addressed to the outside world," she add.
According to the text, hair "remains a widespread cause of racial discrimination with serious economic and health consequences, especially for black individuals". They can no longer be used to refuse employment, housing, etc., like it is the case with gender, religion or ethnicity. Employers will still be able to enforce certain safety and health regulations, such as wearing a safety net on the hair, as long as they are not discriminatory and apply to everyone, the Governor Newsom says in a statement.
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The California Crown Act is sponsored by a national alliance compromised of the National Urban League, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Color of Change, and Dove. The bill would also extend protections in the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the California Education Code.
"Many Black employees, including your staff, members, will tell you if given the chance that the struggle to maintain what society has deemed a 'professional image' while protecting the health and integrity of their hair remains a defining and paradoxical struggle in their work experience, not usually shared by their non-Black peers," Mitchell said when she first introduced the bill in April. "Members, it is 2019. Any law that sanctions a job description that immediately excludes me from a position, not because of my capabilities or experience but because of my hair, is long overdue for reform."
Sociologist Chelsea Johnson, who completed her Ph.D. in sociology with a graduate certificate in gender studies from USC, believes that bill SB-188 is a "much needed first step toward protecting women of color's rights to wear their hair in its natural state and according to common cultural traditions across the African diaspora."
California governor Gavin Newsom, on the basis of the law, recalled a high school student who was forced by a referee to cut his dreadlocks in New Jersey last December if he wanted to take part in a wrestling competition or being declared forfeit.
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According to the Huffington Post, the New Jersey High School wrestling and athletic tournament rules state that wrestlers must have a short hairstyle. However, he or she can fight with a wrestling helmet that completely covers the long hair. An alternative that does not seem to have been left to the young wrestler.
The teenager had the choice between "losing a sporting competition and losing his identity," said Newsom. "It's happening in the workplace, in schools, not just at sports competitions, every day across America, in veiled or flagrant ways. "
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Business Fed Official in No Rush to Raise Interest Rates
Fed Official in No Rush to Raise Interest Rates
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 10:03 pm | כ"ח אייר תשע"ד
(Los Angeles Times/MCT) -
A top Federal Reserve official says he's "not in a rush" to start raising the central bank's rock-bottom interest rates despite his view that the economy is improving after a weather-related winter slowdown.
Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Tuesday night that he anticipates the first increase would not come until the second half of next year and would "begin a cycle of gradually rising rates" designed to prevent harm to the recovery.
His comments, in a speech at Louisiana State University's Graduate School of Banking, come as pressure mounts on central-bank policymakers to take the next step in tightening monetary policy as they wind down their monthly bond-buying stimulus program.
The Fed has kept its benchmark short-term interest rate at near zero since late 2008, to try to encourage economic growth. But the move has hurt savers and, critics have warned, risks fueling high inflation.
Fed Chair Janet L. Yellen and other central-bank officials have suggested that they could start raising rates in the middle of next year, but that the increases would be gradual to keep monetary policy loose for a while as the economy continues to recover.
Lockhart, a non-voting member of the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, said he had a "pretty optimistic outlook" for economic growth for the rest of the year.
He forecast an annualized growth rate of about 3 percent, with the unemployment rate continuing to drop and inflation remaining below the Fed's yearly target of 2 percent.
The economy's poor performance in the first three months of the year "can be explained mostly by bad weather," Lockhart said.
Economic data from March and April are consistent with a rebound from the slow winter, he said.
But although such improvement "will likely bring about conditions in which higher interest rates will be appropriate," Lockhart said more evidence is needed for him to consider the economy strong enough to take that step.
"One quarter's data isn't enough. I expect it will take a number of months for me to arrive at conviction on that account," he said.
With the Fed set to end its bond-buying program by the end of the year, Lockhart acknowledged that there's lots of speculation "about the timing of 'liftoff' – the date when the FOMC will begin to move the policy interest rate higher."
"For the reasons I have discussed, I, as one policymaker, am not in a rush to get to liftoff," he said.
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Phase 06 - To Change the World
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED - The Power to Protect
February 14th, CE 72 - PLANT Aprilius 1, Lagrange Point 5
The dull roar of the crowd filled the audience hall of Aprilius 1's largest university as the audience slowly trickled in. Flak-jacketed ZAFT guards toting assault rifles were standing at all corners of the hall, watching the audience carefully. An array of Councilors and ZAFT officers were already on the stage, seated behind the podium in a lazy semicircle.
Among the politicians, Gilbert Dullindal sat back and smiled. It was almost time.
He glanced down at his PDA, looking over his itinerary. He would of course have to show up for an emergency council vote, the vote that he was certain would put him in power. But after that was all done, and he had solidified his position as first the interim Chairman— and then the Chairman in earnest— he had one more thing to attend to.
He smiled down at the grim young face of Shinn Asuka. The boy's red eyes glared back at him through glossy locks of black hair. Gilbert could see suffering in the shimmering crimson eyes in that simple ID photo, taken at his enrollment into the ZAFT Academy. He looked over the boy's grades— in regards to pure training and performance, he was unstoppable and impeccable. However, the instructors had tempered his statistical impressiveness with less than glowing comments about his personality— he was "antisocial and moody;" he was "overly hotheaded and gets into fights with classmates often;" he was "undisciplined and disinclined to follow orders."
In short, Gilbert thought, he was an asshole.
Well, that was all right. Gilbert could think of other great figures of the past who had been assholes.
He pocketed his PDA with a smile.
I am looking forward to meeting you, Shinn Asuka.
Kira crossed his arms and immediately cringed as he felt the handgun concealed in his uniform. He glanced over the ZAFT soldiers, armed to the teeth, staring dourly at the audience as they slowly filtered into the audience hall. They were all going to witness something horrible, yet they seemed completely oblivious.
Valentine came up next to him, glancing at him meaningfully. He nodded; they both turned and slipped into the shadows together.
"Ramirez is moving into position," Valentine whispered. "I have no idea when he'll fire, but knowing the Commander, it'll probably be at some really dramatic point."
"Does this have to be so theatric?" Kira asked. "I mean…" He trailed off and shook his head.
Valentine watched him carefully. "Don't falter now," she said sternly. "We're too far along, and Canaver will do whatever she can to stop us unless we remove her."
Kira looked down at the floor and said nothing more.
Djibril Manor, Vermont, Atlantic Federation
Scratching his black cat's chin as it sat purring in his lap, Lord Djibril ignored the blathering newscaster as he watched the live footage of Chairwoman Canaver's speech. The stage was still devoid of the star herself, instead filled with councilors and ZAFT officers. There were guards all over the place— Djibril wondered how any assassination could possibly take place with so much security.
He shrugged. Rau would figure that out.
The anchor said something about this being an important time for the Coordinators. Djibril swallowed the feeling of distaste— he would have to put up with the obnoxious sentimentality of a mob of wailing Coordinators if he was ever going to see the assassination itself.
There was some motion at the back of the stage, and a roar of applause rose from the crowd as the Chairwoman stepped out.
Djibril smiled and settled into his chair.
"It's showtime."
Chairwoman Eileen Canaver made her way from the back of a red-curtained stage to the podium at its front, emblazoned with the bold logo of ZAFT. She stepped up to the bushel of microphones before her, as the applause filled the hall, drowning out everything, and raised her hands for calm— slowly, the applause died down, and she smiled at her audience kindly.
She paused, looking around at the faces. They were young and hopeful.
"Two years ago," she began, "nobody looked so happy." She put her hands on the sides of the podium. "Two years ago, we mourned the loss of thousands of our own, in one terrible act of destruction. I remember those days, when I was a young junior Councilor in a frenzied government preparing for war. The Supreme Council sent an enormous bouquet of flowers to the site of the tragedy— a flower for every person whose life was lost there." She paused. "I personally oversaw the shipment of it to Junius 7. And I saw before me exactly 243,721 flowers. And, looking at all those rows and rows of flowers, it was then that I truly realized just how many people had lost their lives…and just how terrible a tragedy it was.
"We all know what happened after that," she went on. "The Bloody Valentine galvanized us, and we invaded the Earth. The Earth fought back, until six months ago, when we finally put our weapons down, before we could destroy each other in our rage. And now we have had six months to heal from the scars of the Bloody Valentine and the war. We have still more healing before us. But we have made progress."
Ramirez's heart pounded as he slipped through the shadows, clutching his sniper rifle in a death grip, praying it would make no noise. He darted up a staircase, past a guard distractedly watching the speech on a television monitor overhead. He slipped through a door, gently closing it behind him and silently hoping that no one had seen him.
He scanned the balcony— it was perfectly recessed in the shadows, as the lights were dimmed for the Chairwoman's speech. He looked across to the other side— there was a dark staircase that appeared unguarded, and led to a door that, he recalled from the map, could lead him out to an alley that would wind its way away from the audience hall, and eventually take him to freedom. Rau would meet him somewhere in that alley, and hide him, and protect him.
He shook his head. This was the perfect place for a sniper to hide. He checked his sniper rifle one last time, making sure the silencer and flash suppressor were tightly fastened where they were supposed to be. He checked the cartridge again, looking over the six barb-like bullets inside. He checked the scope one last time— perfectly colored and tinted to reduce the glare from reflected light anywhere else.
And with that, he crept over to the guardrail and took up his position.
The curtains behind her slid apart, displaying a panorama of the wreckage of Junius 7.
"This was our symbol of war," Canaver continued. "We told ourselves not to forget Junius 7, not to forget the Bloody Valentine, and we found the strength to fight. But with that strength came anger, and with that anger came yet more tragedy. We inflicted on the Naturals the same suffering that they inflicted on us. We forgot the preciousness of human life— we became the monster we sought to destroy.
"But we fought on anyway," she went on. "And we were driven back, inch by inch, to the border of our territory. And at the end of the war, at the height of our anger, the Alliance used nuclear weapons on us again. But this time, we went too far, and answered their nuclear weapons with one of our own. And it took the actions of outsiders to stop us from doing something we would all regret.
"Now we have made peace, but the process of building this peace is painful. But it is worth the struggle."
It was almost providential, Rau mused, that the audience hall was set up this way. He stood on one balcony, arms crossed, watching the speech from the darkness. He glanced across the hall, at the opposite balcony— he saw the dim shape of Ramirez, taking aim with his sniper rifle.
Rau gazed from Ramirez's position to Canaver's podium— it was a perfect shot.
He reached into his uniform, smiling as he felt the hard metal of a handgun tucked into his shirt. He had promised Ramirez that he would send him somewhere where ZAFT could never find him.
He slipped a fresh clip into the pistol, chuckling as he heard it click into place. He would hate to go back on his word.
"Many of you here were on the front lines of that war," Canaver said. "And many more of you watched loved ones go off to far-flung battlefields around the world to fight and die. We all suffered, sacrificing our families and friends, but we thought that sacrifice was worth it, until the very end of the war, when finally, someone was there to remind us that it wasn't." She gestured to the drifting, haunting wreckage behind her. "The people here died because of a terrible, needless war. It is our task, as the survivors, to ensure that others shall not have to make that sacrifice again.
"No one is denying that we have a hard road ahead of us. The scars the Naturals left on us, and the scars we left on the Naturals, are deep indeed. But we cannot let that stand between us and the prospect of final, permanent peace…or else it will not be long before we are leaving more and more scars on each other.
"On this day two years ago, many people came to hate the Naturals. And many still do. But I urge us all, everyone, to swallow your anger and join is in creating a lasting peace for this world. The people who died here died to show us the price of such a war. We must not impose that price on anyone, ever again."
In the crowd, arms crossed and one leg draped over the other, Valentine snorted in annoyance.
"A politician taking an opportunity to stump for her policy," she grumbled.
"But she's talking about peace," Kira murmured. "Isn't that a universal message?"
Valentine glanced at him oddly. "If she really wasn't trying to push her peace plan, she wouldn't have 'urged us to swallow our anger' or whatever." She looked back at the speaking Chairwoman. "She's a politician. They're all the same."
"But she wants peace," Kira protested. "And so do we…isn't that the point of remembering Junius 7?"
Valentine smirked. "That's one way of looking at it."
"For six months, we have been involved in difficult negotiations with the nations of the Earth Alliance. But it is to be expected that these negotiations are difficult. We have many grievances with the Alliance, and the Alliance has many grievances with us. But already we have made important progress towards a lasting treaty between the Coordinators and the Naturals, a treaty that will become a testament to the will between us for an end to conflict.
"This goes beyond politics and debate," she continued. "The struggle to create a peaceful world is the objective of all people, regardless of their method, and now that we have that objective in reach, I urge us all to put aside our differences and embrace the Naturals, as we embraced each other during the war. There is no reason for us not to. The Naturals sacrificed their families and friends to this war just as we did. They felt the same anguish at those losses, just as we did. And they too call for peace, just as we do.
"Our people are different in many ways," she went on, "but we are all still people. We have made great strides in medical and space life technology— for what purpose did we build them, if not to share them with others and better their lives? The Naturals have minds as brilliant as ours, untouched by genetic modification— why should we ignore their genius simply because their lives began in a womb, not a test tube? The Naturals are greatly important, and it would be to our great shame to disregard them."
Gilbert Dullindal smiled as he saw the dim form of Rau's assassin take aim from a darkened balcony high overhead. It was almost time.
He glanced back over at the Chairwoman, as she thundered out praises for the Naturals. It made no difference to him, of course— Newtypes had power far beyond a Natural or Coordinator.
Or, he mused, scanning the audience and picking out a certain boy in a red uniform, the Ultimate Coordinator.
Closing his eyes, he sat back and waited.
"Today is a day of remembrance," Canaver said, "as well it should be. Many lives were lost on this day. But it would be a disservice to all those who died if we were to simply mourn, and do nothing to build a world where their sacrifice will never have to be made again. Today should be a day of progress, and celebration of our newfound peace, as much as it should be a day of mourning. In just six months since the end of the war, we have come far.
"My call for national unity today is not a partisan maneuver," she continued. "If we are to have progress, no matter what the politics of that progress are, we must make peace with the Naturals. We must not be menaced— we must embrace them, join them, and together we can move forward. Who among us would want otherwise?"
In the shadows, Rau smiled.
"There is nothing to justify further war!" Canaver cried. She extended her arms. "We must reconcile, and together we can walk forward towards a new future!"
Canaver fell silent— the audience, and the politicians and officers behind her, stared at her quizzically as she was motionless. Finally, she pitched backward, collapsing onto the stage as the audience gasped and the officers rushed around her, blood pouring from a bullet hole in her heart.
As the calm turned to chaos, Gilbert masked his smile and rushed in towards the Chairwoman.
Djibril grinned as the dead Chairwoman collapsed onto the stage in a pool of blood. The officers and politicians rushed in around her, trying to save her, but everyone could see that it was too late. The Earth Sphere had just watched Chairwoman Canaver, herald of peace for Coordinator and Natural alike, get gunned down. There was no way to undo the damage now.
But, he mused as he stood, his cat leaping off his lap in annoyance, there was still a lot of fanning these flames needed.
He rang up a number, and a lined face appeared on his screen.
"Mr. Vermilyea," he began with a sinister smile. On the other end, Adam Vermilyea turned from his screen, emblazoned with the image of chaos around the Chairwoman's corpse, towards Djibril. "I see you just saw our wonderful opportunity."
"Did you order this?" Vermilyea asked, gesturing at the screen.
"I didn't order it," Djibril answered, "but I knew about it."
"How?" Vermilyea pressed on pointedly. Djibril grinned.
"You'll know soon enough," he said airily. "No, I didn't order this, but I have every intention of taking advantage of it." He sat back down in his chair. "I recall you saying you had connections to a Blue Cosmos cell near the PLANTs?"
"Something like that," Vermilyea answered, arching an eyebrow at Djibril. "Why?"
Djibril's grin flashed feral. "Make those connections sing," he said. "Have them get a video up to the PLANTs, telling them that Blue Cosmos is responsible for this."
"But we're not," Vermilyea protested.
"So what?" Djibril shot back. "We'll present the PLANTs with an image of our organization resurgent, and test the mettle of the PLANTs' next leader."
Vermilyea paused for a moment, and then smiled. "I'll make a few calls," he said.
Djibril smiled back. "You do that."
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"I saw a flash up there!" one of the soldiers cried, pointing off towards one of the balconies.
"But it hit her from the other side! Move!" another shot back.
The crowd was in a panic, scrambling for the exits, as the soldiers rushed around, struggling to find the assassin and maintain order. In the depths of the chaos, Kira drew his gun and leapt over a row of empty seats, onto the stage. It was time to play his part.
"Councilors!" he shouted, brandishing his gun and looking around, as if still seeking the assassin. "It's still dangerous here! Please evacuate!"
A team of ZAFT soldiers shouldered their way through the crowds, bearing a stretcher, as a handful of officers and desperate Councilors struggled to revive the Chairwoman.
"Is the assassin still there?!" one of the Councilors shouted.
"Where is he?! Have you found him yet?!"
Kira wrenched himself from their grip. "We haven't found the killer yet!" Kira shouted back. "Until we do, it's still dangerous to be in the open like this! Please evacuate, there are soldiers standing by to take you to safety!"
From the crowd rose Gilbert Dullindal. "We should do as he says," he exclaimed. "This assassin killed the person most crucial to the peace process. We should evacuate before he can kill anymore."
Another swarm of ZAFT soldiers swept in to seize the politicians and officers and pull them away from the corpse, as the first team loaded the dead Chairwoman onto the stretcher.
Kira glanced over his shoulder and took off backstage, leaping down a staircase and heading towards an open door, manned by a squad of riot gear-equipped guards herding the panicking crowds by. Valentine was nearby, brandishing her gun and shouting orders at the fleeing civilians.
"The troops are pulling the other Councilors off the stage," Kira said quickly. "Any luck out here?"
"We'll never find the killer here," Valentine answered. "He could be anywhere in this crowd."
Kira glanced back as the ZAFT soldiers rushed past, the Chairwoman on their stretcher, towards a waiting ambulance. A horrible feeling of guilt and sickness welled up inside him.
He squeezed his eyes shut, shaking his head, and turned to rush back towards the stage.
Ramirez stumbled blindly through the alleys, the shouts of ZAFT troops and panicking civilians ringing in his ears. He glanced in terror over his shoulder, finding no one there— he rounded a corner, staggering through a grimy puddle and crashing up against a wall.
"They're gonna find me…" he breathed, climbing back to his feet and shouldering his rifle again. "Rau! Where are you?!"
Footsteps sounded from the shadows— Ramirez whirled around, training his rifle on the darkness.
"Is that you?!" he demanded.
The figure emerged, chuckling.
"Yes," Rau answered, arms crossed, "it's me."
Ramirez lowered his rifle with a sigh of relief. "Thank God, man," he sighed. "Now get me outta here. They're gonna tear me apart if they find me. You promised, man."
"Indeed I did," Rau said. "Did anyone follow you?"
Ramirez looked around worriedly. "'course not," he said, "now come on, quit screwing around, we gotta go!"
Rau raised a gun in his right hand. Ramirez stared in disbelief at the weapon, trained on his chest.
"What the— you said you'd send me somewhere where they wouldn't find me!" he cried, backing up against a wall.
Rau smiled. "I did," he agreed. "And trust me, they will never, ever find you."
The gunshot rang out through the alley.
Kira went barreling through the alleys, a squad of armed ZAFT soldiers right behind him, guns drawn. There had been a gunshot somewhere in the alleys behind the audience hall, but nobody had reported in about it. And so Kira and the men behind him went racing through the labyrinthine back paths, when Kira already had an inkling of what they would come upon when they got there.
They rounded a corner and came to a halt as they came upon a corpse, dressed in ragged brown and gray clothes, stained with blood, a silenced sniper rifle slung over his shoulder.
"What the hell is this?!" one of the troops exclaimed. "He's already dead?! Who killed him?!"
"Get a medical team out here," Kira said, pocketing his gun, glancing back at the soldiers, as one of them went for his radio. "Someone get the rifle, too. This must be the guy."
As more soldiers poured into the alley, swarming over the corpse, Kira watched stoically.
"This is the part where I can't kill anyone to make it better," Rau warned Gilbert, standing in the shadows outside the Supreme Council building. "You'd better make this work. We can only kill so many Interim Chairmen."
"I understand," Gilbert said. He glanced over his shoulder. "Get going. We're going to take the vote soon."
Rau disappeared into the shadows, and Gilbert emerged to be instantly mobbed by a throng of reporters, desperate to know what had happened. A squad of soldiers rushed in to shove them back, as Gilbert made his way towards the Council building.
All that influence, he thought, would have to come to a head today.
Valentine looked up at the screen above her and smiled as a scowling man in a camouflage jacket replaced the familiar face of the PLANT anchor. The soldiers and the panicking civilians stopped, looking up in surprise.
"Earlier today, Interim Supreme Chairwoman Eileen Canaver of the PLANTs was assassinated during a speech," the man declared, his voice booming over the heads of the citizens. "And the trigger was pulled by us of Blue Cosmos!"
Angry shouts rose up from the crowd, as the Blue Cosmos guerilla grinned wickedly.
"Canaver had tried to build a false peace where we Naturals would be subjugated by the unnatural order of the Coordinators!" he shouted. "We will not stand for such barefaced oppression and treachery! See our power, Coordinators! You thought we had died with the end of the war, but we have returned, and this time we will fight with strength a hundredfold! You will tremble, and your hourglasses will shatter, before the might of our blue and clean world!"
The screens went dark— the shouts grew angrier— and Valentine slipped into the shadows to laugh.
The Supreme Council chamber was quiet as the members of the Supreme Council took their places. Gilbert sat down at his own space, watching the grim faces of the still-shocked Councilors as they filed in. There was no one to rival him in political influence and goodwill, but that did not make his election a sure bet. But there was nothing he could do now.
"This has been an eventful and tragic day," one of the Councilors began, as the doors slid shut. "Not a year has passed since the end of the war, and already blood is being spilled again."
"It was Blue Cosmos," another Councilor spat. "I knew we couldn't make peace without them doing something, but to think they'd go this far…"
"Enough," the first Councilor said. "We have not come here to commiserate; we have come here to select a new leader, to take us out of these dark times. Cast your votes as to who among us you believe is best suited to lead us in this new age."
There was silence. Gilbert steeled himself and cast his own vote, for an ill-known Councilor he doubted anyone else would vote for.
The first Councilor watched his screen carefully. At last, he looked up meaningfully at Gilbert.
The dark-haired Councilor stood.
"Councilor Dullindal," the first Councilor said, "the votes are in and you are the man we have selected. Do you accept the Chairmanship?"
Gilbert smiled.
The PLANTs were still rocked by confusion and fury when Kira found himself back in his dark hotel room, staring at his television set. It showed no news reports, speeches, or investigations, but instead a single tape.
Kira watched lifelessly as he watched the grainy, broken video of hundreds of men, hunkered down in a huge earthen trench, huddling together as explosions showered them with loose dirt. Gas masks hung around their necks, and they looked as though they had not eaten in days. They stared with haunting emptiness at the camera, as rats scurried by them. He watched an army of men, phantom-like figures steeped with weapons and wearing intimidating metal helmets, snapped open a fence and streamed into an open field, with planes droning overhead and tanks mercilessly crushing whatever was in front of them; all under the steely watch and the stiff, outstretched arm of a man in a brown uniform with a red armband. He saw a terrifying, towering cloud billow up over a city— and the city disappearing beneath it. He saw soldiers wandering through the empty, dusty courtyard of a camp, surrounded by rotting bodies strewn all over. He saw men moving mechanically through a jungle, their eyes empty and their faces blank, loosely holding rifles as they tramped on like toy soldiers. He saw skyscrapers falling; he saw soldiers in the desert, in dusty, impoverished cities; he saw clouds of gas looming over cities; he saw soldiers gunning down the unarmed, the sick, the elderly, those who needed protecting.
Finally, the image settled on the specter of a dead soldier, killed on a battlefield somewhere, his sacrifice consigned to the dusty depths of history. He stared with a gaping mouth and blank eyes, as the breeze blew through his hair and over his unfeeling face.
And, closing his eyes, Kira saw Fllay die again.
A hand touched his shoulder gently— Kira looked up in surprise, finding Valentine sitting next to him, looking at him inquisitively.
"You're looking at it again?" she asked. Kira nodded solemnly and looked back at the screen.
"This is why we did it," he said, "right?" He pointed at the screen, at the slain soldier's soulless face. "So these kind of things don't happen again?"
"Human history is doomed to repeat itself, and all the suffering and carnage it wrought on itself, without ever learning to stop," Valentine said, putting her arms around Kira. "We're going to stop that pain."
Kira looked back at the screen.
The empty eyes of the dead soldier stared back.


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Cube digit pairs
Each of the six faces on a cube has a different digit (0 to 9) written on it; the same is done to a second cube. By placing the two cubes side-by-side in different positions we can form a variety of 2-digit numbers.
For example, the square number 64 could be formed:
In fact, by carefully choosing the digits on both cubes it is possible to display all of the square numbers below one-hundred: 01, 04, 09, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, and 81.
For example, one way this can be achieved is by placing {0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} on one cube and {1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9} on the other cube.
However, for this problem we shall allow the 6 or 9 to be turned upside-down so that an arrangement like {0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} and {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7} allows for all nine square numbers to be displayed; otherwise it would be impossible to obtain 09.
In determining a distinct arrangement we are interested in the digits on each cube, not the order.
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} is equivalent to {3, 6, 4, 1, 2, 5}
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} is distinct from {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9}
But because we are allowing 6 and 9 to be reversed, the two distinct sets in the last example both represent the extended set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9} for the purpose of forming 2-digit numbers.
How many distinct arrangements of the two cubes allow for all of the square numbers to be displayed?
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We are a family team with two decades of experience teaching authentic Thai Massage.
We founded Thai Healing Massage Academy in 2001, and later developed a successful and effective online training system.
We are committed to bringing you the best training and the true spirit of Thai Massage right to your home through our unique online training, directly from Thailand!
What do our students have to say about our online Thai Massage training?
" Thank you for your dedication and teaching of online Thai Massage. I cannot express how glad I am that I have taken several of your courses.
The learning has opened doors I never thought possible… what I accomplished was amazing…I am now marketing Thai Massage as much as Swedish massage. "
" I have to admit that I would never have believed I could receive such a good training online. I have always been one of those folks who prefer to go to trainings or immersions.
Yet here I am, learning, practicing and engaging. I LOVE the pacing of the course, and the fact that I can go back and look at something again and again, often in a slightly different way. "
It is the most therapist-friendly massage style! No stressing your thumbs and wrists, no danger of burning out your hands. You learn to work elegantly with many body parts.
It's one of the hottest and most in demand massage therapies worldwide with an excellent income potential.
It adds an entire world of therapeutic value through stretches and manipulations which don't exist in most other massage systems.
"I have really been sinking into the essence of this bodywork and why it is so effective compared to other modalities.
New clients often remark that it is the best massage they ever had, and that it is hard to put into words the depth by which they feel transformed or moved by it."
Why learn Thai Massage Online?
You might not be able or may not want to spend thousands of dollars on high-cost live Thai Massage courses. Also there are no travel/accommodation costs and no time off work.
No good Thai Massage school or teacher near you? Online training is available wherever you are! It fits into your daily life, you study at your own pace without pressure or deadlines.
Do you have a job, obligations, family to take care of, young children, or simply don't want to leave home and travel?
With online training you don't have to go anywhere!
After a live course you have no more access to the information and can easily forget what you learned. However you own our online material and can review it any time - even years later.
Thanks for being a great teacher and organizing your courses the way you do.
They are really so well laid out and logical. Best of all, I can hit replay and watch it several times, try it, watch it again, and so forth.
I am continuing to learn and experience the wonderful art you have taught me. Without you I never would have been able to have such an experience.
How Does Our Online Course Compare To A DVD?
"Well, I am hooked already. I just signed up for the Complete Thai Massage course and watched module one. I am most impressed!
Fantastic quality of content and extremely well taught. Shama, you make it fun, interesting and professional. It's a pleasure to have you as a tutor."
We Are A True Online Learning Academy!
Thai Healing Massage Academy specializes in high quality online training. This is not just our back-end product - it is our expertise and priority to teach students from all over the world online.
We have many years of experience in providing the best online training environment. And we have earned a high level of trust by our students.
For me personally this is much more than a business – it is my passion and my labor of love. My commitment is to bring you the best, most comprehensive and most effective Thai Massage online training you can find anywhere!
I have been teaching students successfully since 2001. Want proof? There are over 16000 posts in our forum from students writing about their experience with our training materials.
What makes our style of Thai Massage unique?
It focuses on excellent body mechanics to preserve the health of your body, your hands and wrists. This makes it about the most therapist friendly system you can find.
It provides a profound, enjoyable, pain-free healing experience for your clients.
This course is much more than a set of mechanical massage techniques.
You will learn to creatively, intuitively and gracefully adapt the techniques to the needs of your clients.
It is a journey into the world of Asian healing arts and mind-body transformation.
This course teaches you the actual living, breathing healing art which has been practiced in Thailand for centuries to help people with their health issues.
This is a proven system where you will learn highly refined therapeutic skills which have been successfully used by millions of Thais for hundreds of years.
Complete Thai Massage is a sophisticated, convenient and effective online training program. It is not just a basic course, but covers all levels, including very advanced material.
It is suitable for beginners AND experienced Thai Massage therapists.
PLEASE NOTE: The Complete Thai Massage course is NOT a compilation of all our training programs. It is a stand-alone program, different from all our other courses.
How can you learn Thai Massage online?
Unlike DVDs, which are impersonal and have NO structured learning process, NO support, NO interaction, and NO community, we use a much more effective learning format which is not much different from an actual classroom. The main difference is that you practice with at partner at home instead of in a live classroom.
" For me this course is perfect. I couldn't be more pleased. You have really provided a wealth of value: The best training with unsurpassed support and friendship, all at a very fair and reasonable cost.
This allows this gift to be attainable by so many who would otherwise not be able to have access to learning this beautiful art.
You learn in an interactive environment with teacher support, access to fellow students, in the comfort of your home, at your convenience.
Thousands of our students from all over the world have successfully learned Thai Massage through this system.
Our success rate is much higher than the average online course. We have over 16,000 posts in our forum to prove it!
This course is much more than just learning techniques and sequences. It is more like a learning experience of a beautiful healing art, it's therapeutic value, it's cultural background, and the healing system of Thailand.
This element consists of the training where you learn the entire system of Thai Massage - all the techniques, positions, skills, body mechanics, etc. This is also the section that counts for certification.
This element includes additional training, preparations for practice, tips about choosing a mat, contraindications, certification, dealing with pain issues, and interviews with other Thai Massage teachers.
This element is a fascinating virtual journey to Thailand.
You can watch actual Thai Massage sessions in Thailand, observe Thai festivals, and learn what makes Thai Massage different and unique.
All your courses materials are accessed in your own membership portal. One new course module becomes available every 3 days.
You own all the course materials. Your access does not expire. If you want, you can also download the training materials.
The 35 main training modules take 3.5 months to complete. With all bonus materials, the total course duration is 5.5 months.
You don't have to keep up with the course, but work at your own pace and take as long as you like. You own the course for life.
Yoga teachers who want to add Thai Yoga Massage to their classes or want to create a new income stream by offering Thai Massage sessions to their students.
It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I am writing to endorse Shama Kern's Complete Thai Massage online course. I have enormous respect for his skills as an educator as well as for his hands-on Thai Massage skills.
After viewing his comprehensive course, I feel that he has the qualities of a natural educator: genuiness, warmth, compassion and integrity. In short, he is the most remarkable educator I have ever met.
If you want to experience the ultimate in Thai Massage online training... this is the program for you! I have always wanted to learn more about Thai Massage but have been disappointed by some of the short 'in person' classes or DVDs that are on the market.
Shama has such a reassuring approach to Thai Massage. You see each move broken down into slowly repeated pieces which are easily remembered.
The offering of alternative move options gives you the flexibility to take what you learn and adapt it to your own style and routine. This material has brought my bodywork skills to a whole new level!
From the first video I felt that Shama was a caring, heartfelt teacher. I loved the course!
I learned so much that is relevant and I have totally changed the way I work with people.
I love working on the floor, using other parts of my body. And even when I am working on a table, there is so much that I have been able to assimilate into my work with clients.
Need Certification Or CEUs? We Got You Covered!
2. Continuing Education Certification - 30 NCBTMB approved CE hours. This program is for licensed US therapists only.
We believe in our work and we stand behind this course 100 percent. We want you to get excellent value and total satisfaction from this course - otherwise we don't want your money! We only want happy students!
We don't want you to feel that you are taking a risk. Try it out for 30 days. If you decide that this course is not for you for any reason, we will promptly refund your money within the first 30 days.
A complete Thai Massage training system with 35 multi-media training modules with highly detailed, easy-to-follow instructions.
ALL positions: face up, face down, side and sitting. You also learn highly effective therapeutic techniques, client communication, energy techniques, and developing a 'magic touch'.
The course is very therapist friendly with a strong focus on correct body posture and working with least effort. This Thai Massage training can literally prolong your career and protect your health.
No matter if you are big or small, or if your clients are light or heavy, or flexible or stiff - you will learn how to deal with all these scenarios effectively.
If you ever need help or have questions, you are in good hands: You have unlimited online support by a live, caring instructor.
This is the only fully supported, interactive Thai Massage online training course on the market!
We have an inspired community of course students, therapists and yoga teachers. You can join us in our facebook group and/or in our forum. Meet other course students, network, ask questions, share your experiences.
Have questions? Need help? Can't figure out a technique? You will have an answer within hours!
You won't be talking to a faceless support agent, but to the instructor himself. This free support is a priceless feature.
Would you like to learn a systematic and effective way to develop a 'magical touch'? This course will show you a step-by-step system to accomplish this.
This unique and specialized training teaches you the most effective, safest, and ergonomically best ways to work with your hands, forearms, elbows, knees and feet.
This is an advanced and unique training program (5 hours, 12 modules). THE ART OF THAI MASSAGE teaches you highly specialized skills for top-level Thai Massage mastery.
This is a huge benefit! You can read the content of the training videos in text format along with corresponding pictures. This makes it really easy and convenient to find what you are looking for. Now you don't need to take notes anymore!
Want to listen on the go - in your car, while you exercise, when you are walking? Put the audio mp3 version in your phone and listen to it anywhere you want to!
This brings Thai Massage alive! Watch actual Thai Massage sessions in Thailand. Learn about the fascinating background and cultural environment of this healing art. See other healing arts in Thailand. This is an experience - the next best thing to visiting Thailand!
In this course you will learn a lot more than Thai Massage techniques. You will get a real education about many related subjects: What mat to buy... contraindications... training tips... simulating a face cradle on a floor mat... dealing with pain and serious diseases... marketing tips... you even get to listen to interviews with other Thai Massage therapists.
1. There is a SUPPORT icon at the top right in your membership portal.
There is also a HELP section on our website with answers to many commonly asked questions.
3. You can ask questions in our private facebook group.
What happens right after I purchase the course?
As soon as your payment is processed, you will instantly get a welcome email with login information for the membership portal. The email will come from Thai Healing Massage Academy.
If you don't see it within 15 minutes, check your spam folder. This is almost always the culprit when emails 'don't show up'.
If you use gmail, check your promotions tab and drag the message from there to your primary tab to ensure that in the future all our emails will land in your primary tab.
The course is taught in the traditional Thai way, on floor mats. This allows for better ergonomics, more power with less effort, and more techniques than can be done on a table.
However many of our students adapt some of the course material to table work and blend it with other massage styles. This can easily be done with a little creativity.
Does the course access ever expire?
Your access never expires. If you want to be totally sure that you will always have the course materials, you can download them.
Thai Healing Massage Academy has been in business for a long time (since 2001), and we plan to stay in business for many years to come.
However nobody can guarantee that a website will be literally available "forever". Therefore if you want to be 100% sure that you have lifetime access to the course materials, the only sure way would be to download it all.
However we plan to be around for many more years, so you won't have to worry about losing access to the membership portal anytime soon.
Where are your certificates valid?
Can I get access to the entire course at once?
No, this is not possible. It wouldn't make any sense. There are around 200 elements in this course - video, audio, and text.
It would go totally against our concept of providing a real education like in any real school. It would be a recipe for overwhelm and it would defeat the entire course structure.
The material is organized so that it lets you build your skills gradually in a logical way. You do need practice time between the main modules.
You can get a refund within 30 days from the purchase of the course by filling out a support ticket on the membership portal, or by emailing shama@thaihealingmassage.com. The refund will be processed within 24 hours normally.
Refund requests after 30 days will not be honored.
Why should I buy this course and not another?
This course is unique. There is really nothing else like it available. It is not just information, it is education. It provides a multi-media Thai Massage learning experience which is much more in-depth than most live training.
There is no other online Thai Massage course which offers interactive and gradual learning with full instructor support, a forum, a facebook group, a student community, certification and CEUs, plenty of additional support material, and the genuine 'Thailand experience'.
You can even call the instructor - just try this with any other online Thai Massage training!
What if I cannot keep up with the course?
You don't have to keep up! It is entirely up to you how long you take to go through the training.
Let's say you get sick, or get married, or have a baby, or need to travel, or whatever else might happen - this course will always be there for you to pick up where you left off - and the support will also be there for you!
I am not so computer literate - is this a problem?
Our membership portal is very simple and easy to use. The first thing you see after you log in is a video which walks you through the site. It is not difficult at all.
In addition we have an extensive help section on our website which walks you through most common issues. If that's not enough, you can always get personalized support from us quickly.
So far every single one of our students managed to figure out the online learning system. So don't worry about that! And if you do need help, we are always happy to assist you.
Does this course include all your other courses?
No, all our courses stand on their own. While this course teaches the entire system of Thai Massage, you can decide to specialize in certain therapeutic applications or areas of the body. That's where our many other courses come in.
Don't see the answer to a question you have?
You can get friendly, speedy and helpful support by emailing shama@thaihealingmassage.com or ?using the support section in your membership portal.
You will not talk to a support agent who doesn't really care about you, but you will get a response from the course instructor himself.
The completion of this program is just the beginning of something special in my future life, as I feel it. It was a very useful material, logically structured, easy & very interesting to learn. I am really impressed with your skills, energy & spiritual level.
I am really loving the way you have laid out the videos! I also like the focus on how things feel as opposed to just memorizing a bunch of moves.
I think that is how to really become good at anything that has to do with the body - feeling and tuning in.
I am so excited to have completed the Complete Thai massage course. This has been an enjoyable and remarkable addition to my massage career. I am grateful for you and all that you have to offer to those you teach.
You have a very calming voice and such a graceful flow of techniques. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your time and amazing lessons. I am blessed to have come across your course.
The most important things that I appreciated in this course are the emphasis in doing the practice as an art, the rocking techniques which relax my clients instantly, and to do the work with focused intention.
It has been so valuable to me doing a whole 90 minute session with very few stretches and still have my client totally satisfied with it. Having bought this online course has been most valuable to me.


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The expected October volatility really kicked into the Sterling markets yesterday
Rob Bastin
After a relatively quiet start to the month, the expected October volatility really kicked into the Sterling markets yesterday as speculation on Brexit outcomes by end of the month begin to play out. The day began with losses for the pound following figures for UK Services sector which showed a 6-month low contraction at 49.5. The 50 level divides growth from expansion in this reading. UK combined PMI when taking into consideration construction and manufacturing is now at 48.8 from 49.7 previously, indicating that the UK economy may have shrunk by 0.1% in Q3 which would officially put the UK in a recession after 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth. These figures will be confirmed later this month.
The afternoon session, however, was a different story, as Boris Johnson delivered details of his Brexit deal proposal to the house of commons. Markets took some positivity from the new proposal with some speculation beginning that he just might be able to pull off a deal after all, however any degree of optimism in the media headlines has been quickly met by many other views that the proposed deal is simply for the sake of appearing to be trying for a deal and that the details are still a long way off from being agreeable by the EU. When currency movements occur on pure speculation (with little substance) then they are often short-lived and very fragile to being reversed, which is worth keeping in mind in these unpredictable and choppy markets. As with most information in the last few years when it comes to Brexit, we can find suitable opinions and predictions that suit all agendas or desired outcomes, and therefore the reality is the Brexit outcome by the end of this month remains as uncertain as ever. Will Boris really get a last-minute deal from the EU at the summit? Even if he does will parliament actually back it? If he doesn't then will he abide by the new law and request an extension on 19th October? If he won't then how does he plan to leave on 31st October? Will we see a vote of no confidence before the month is out?
No one can accurately answer these questions, and as such no-one can fully predict where the pound will come November. One thing for sure is that markets more than ready to react to the upcoming developments, and the current rate could be a pivotal level for not just the next few months, but the next few years. As such anyone with upcoming requirements would benefit from staying in close contact with your currency consultant so we can help you not be caught out with any adverse movements. For those who are brave enough to gamble the upcoming events, ask about our STOP-LOSS orders that could at least manage your risk should the gamble not pay off.
Today the main release of note is the all-important non-farm payroll employment figures for the US at 1:30 pm. The USD has enjoyed a strong year but is its strength coming to an end? The greenback has recently seen 34-year highs against GBP, 10 years highs against AUD, and 3-year highs against EURO. Many analysts feel these levels will be a turning point for the dollar with further rate cuts from the Fed expected in coming months as US employment and manufacturing output comes under renewed pressure. We can expect further volatility in cable this afternoon depending on these results.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime;
using Windows.ApplicationModel;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
using Windows.Phone.UI.Input;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

// The Pivot Application template is documented at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=234227

namespace ContosoCookbook
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            this.Suspending += OnSuspending;
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