A U.S. Appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that taxpayer funding of human embryonic stem cell research can continue. The ruling overturns a federal judge's injunction that temporarily stopped funding, though funding was allowed to continue while the injunction was appealed.
Judge Douglas Ginsburg, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, wrote that it was "entirely reasonable" for the NIH to interpret the law as "permitting funding for research using cell lines derived without federal funding, even as it bars funding for the derivation of additional lines."
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, said the federal law was clear about banning funding for human embryonic stem cell research and that the court majority was engaging in "linguistic jujitsu" to back it.
The case emerged from two researchers who opposed work with embryonic stem cells and sued to block such funding. They argued that they were at risk of being squeezed out of federal grants for their own work with adult stem cells, which do not involve the destruction of embryos.
The researchers, Dr. James Sherley, a biological engineer at Boston Biomedical Research Institute, and Theresa Deisher, of Washington-based AVM Biotechnology, could appeal the ruling to the full appeals court, a lawyer involved in the case said.
The Windsor Star has an updated report on Baby Joseph, the terminally ill Canadian child who was transported to St. Louis for a tracheotomy after Canadian doctors almost took him off life support.
Only months ago, the fate of 15-month-old Joseph Maraachli was a question mark. Doctors at London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont., sought to take the infant off life support as he battled a progressive neurological disease.
But on Sunday, the round-cheeked baby was home in Windsor, resting in a cradle packed with plush toys. Now and then he opened his eyes or wriggled a little, or moved his arms beneath father Moe Maraachli's occasional touches and kisses.
When Maraachli held out a finger at one point, Joseph's own stubby fingers curled around it.
He's breathing without a ventilator, Maraachli said, after surgery in St. Louis ? the airway-opening tracheotomy his family sought but couldn't get in Canada as they battled to bring Joseph home to die.
"I feel victorious," Maraachli said, smiling broadly as he stood by Joseph's crib. "I feel I won and my baby's alive."
But he's also been left with questions about why he and wife Sana Nader had to go to the U.S. for help.
"That's what makes me mad," he said. "Why I have to travel to St. Louis?
On April 27, more than 350 prolife people from across Michigan came to Lansing to let their voices be heard as they learned about important prolife legislation, got tips on lobbying from the Right to Life of Michigan Legislative team, Ed Rivet and Mollie Schweppe, and discussed legislation and prolife issues with their state legislators during lunch. The keynote speaker for the event was Yvonne Florczak-Seeman from Illinois.
Yvonne shared her moving testimony of past abortions and her journey to healing. Her desire is to bring a message of hope and healing to post-abortive women and help women who are facing unplanned pregnancies. The message is found in her organization, Love from Above.
The National Review is featuring an interview with Carol Tobias, the newly elected president of the National Right to Life Committee. Carol discusses NRLC's work, prolife legislation and the importance of defeating Planned Parenthood.
LOPEZ: Why do you do what you do? What motivates you to work on this issue?
TOBIAS: Our Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." I believe that: that life is an unalienable right. For me, personally, I oppose abortion because all human life is created by God; innocent human life should be respected and protected. Unborn babies are being killed by having their arms and legs torn from their torsos, or are being sucked into a vacuum machine. Elderly men and women, and disabled persons, are being starved to death because someone believes they cannot contribute to society. How can anyone know this is happening and not get involved?
LOPEZ: What do you make of all this "war on women" talk?
TOBIAS: Pro-abortion groups like to create rhetorical smokescreens that distract the public from the real issues at hand. When they say pro-lifers have launched a "war on women," what they're referring to (but don't want to say straight out) is pro-life efforts to stop the flow of federal dollars to Planned Parenthood — the nation's largest provider and promoter of abortion. Pro-abortion groups know that if they talk about what really happens in an abortion, they'll lose the argument, so they have to resort to inflammatory rhetoric that portrays pro-lifers as militants attacking women.
On April 21, Baby Joseph flew from St. Louis to Windsor, Canada with his family. Baby Joseph is a terminally-ill 1-year-old whose case made international headlines after a hospital in Canada refused to perform a tracheotomy and nearly removed his life support against the wishes of his parents. For the last month, Baby Joseph has been cared for at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. A tracheotomy was successfully performed and he has been off a ventilator for more than a week.
Joseph Maraachli left Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis before dawn and flew with his parents and 7-year-old brother to their home in Ontario, exactly one month after receiving a tracheotomy aimed at extending his life, the hospital said in a statement.
Baby Joseph suffers from the progressive neurological disease Leigh Syndrome. Doctors in Canada had refused to perform the tracheotomy, saying it was futile, and an Ontario court decided doctors could remove the child's breathing tube.
His family sought help from American hospitals, and Cardinal Glennon agreed to treat Joseph.
The hospital said the tracheotomy was a success and that Joseph has been breathing without a ventilator for more than a week.
Yesterday, Judge Denise Langford Morris ruled that Alberto Hodari's WomenCare abortion clinic in Lathrup Village can stay open for at least two weeks to give time to both sides to develop their cases.
At issue is the Freestanding Surgical Outpatient Facilities license, required of certain medical facilities not associated with hospitals that perform surgeries and procedures such as endoscopy, cosmetic surgery and abortions, provided that abortions make up more than 50% of the patient load per year.
WomanCare of Southfield had been licensed since 2008, but in 2010, Hodari opted against renewing the facilities license.
A 2009 MDCH inspection found numerous health and safety violations, all of which Hodari fixed except one -- building an additional fire exit to service the split-level building on Southfield Road.
A lawyer for Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari has told the Detroit Free Press he will appear in court to fight efforts by Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Michigan Department of Community Health to close down one of his abortion clinics.
Last summer, based on the cost of fire code compliance tied to the license, Hodari decided against renewing. The doctor, whose medical license is separate and valid, applied to have the building grandfathered, as it is older than the codes, but was denied, according to legal filings.
Hodari's attorney said the doctor has gone to great lengths to recruit gynecological patients to keep his abortion services under 51%, and that the state is unfairly imposing itself on the clinic, which has been in the spotlight before for improperly disposing of medical records.
The prayers of prolife sidewalk counselors were answered on April 16, 2011, when two moving trucks pulled up to WomanCare Downriver Medical Surgical Center and the equipment in the abortion clinic was loaded into the trucks. After everything was loaded into the trucks, a closed sign was taped to the door and the door was locked.
This abortion clinic was owned by infamous abortionist Alberto Hodari and formerly had been up for sale. One of Hodari's other abortion clinics is currently being sued by Michigan's attorney general and the Michigan Department of Community Health for operating without a license.
Prolife legislators in Michigan are hoping to pass legislation which would require universities who take part in embryonic stem cell to report a variety of items, including the number of human embryos they have, how many human embryos they've killed, etc.
Some Republican lawmakers want to know exactly how Michigan's research universities are using stem cells. They want the universities to report how many human embryos they have and how many stem-cell lines they have created using them.
The measure was tucked into the higher education funding bill passed last week along a party-line vote in a higher education subcommittee. The same method was tried last year to get the measure passed, but it failed.
"We want to know exactly what's going on with stem cells," said state Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, chairman of the subcommittee. "It's still a pretty big issue. We can at least keep a grip on what's going on."
He said those who led the drive in 2008 to get voters to approve the use of stem cells from human embryos promised the move would create jobs.
"Some of us feel duped," he said.
On Thursday, April 14, the majority of U.S. House of Representatives voted to de-fund Planned Parenthood, but when members of the U.S. Senate had the opportunity, a majority voted to continue funding, with our tax dollars, the number one abortion business in the United States, Planned Parenthood.
By a vote of 58-42, the U.S. Senate voted against a bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood, America's #1 abortion provider. The U.S. Senate also voted 53-47 on party lines against a bill to de-fund the health care law passed in 2010 which contains a plethora of anti-life provisions.
The roll call of the vote to de-fund Planned Parenthood is here. Both Senator Levin and Senator Stabenow voted against de-funding Planned Parenthood and against de-funding the health care law.
The U.S. House is expected to vote on Resolution 36 (the Pence Amendment to de-fund Planned Parenthood) this Thursday. Rep. Justin Amash voted "present" the last time it came up (equivalent to a "no"vote).
Please contact Rep. Amash immediately - today if possible - to ask him to vote YES on Resolution 36 - the Pence Amendment to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Amash's Grand Rapids district Office number is: 616-451-8383 and his D.C. office number is: 202-225-3831.
We must impress on Rep. Amash the importance of de-funding the largest abortion provider in the nation and remind him that he considers himself to be prolife and committed to protect the unborn.
Over the weekend, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) board of directors voted to elect Carol Tobias as NRLC's new president.
The battle to de-fund Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in the United States, continues. Prolife U.S. House Speaker John Boehner has negotiated cutting taxpayer funding of abortion in the District of Columbia and guaranteeing a straight up-or-down vote in the U.S. Senate on the Pence Amendment.
House Republicans have already approved the Pence Amendment to remove tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood. Now, it's the U.S. Senate's turn to take a vote.
This is what we know: Throughout the debate on de-funding Planned Parenthood, representatives of Planned Parenthood have claimed women who use Planned Parenthood's non-abortion services will have nowhere to turn if Congress votes to prevent federal tax dollars from going to Planned Parenthood.
Despite Planned Parenthood's claims, there are more than 140 community health centers in Michigan which served nearly half a million people in 2008. Planned Parenthood is not the only game in town. Now is the time to clearly state to our U.S. Senators we do not want our hard-earned tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood.
Contact our two U.S. Senators today and let them know: "I support the Pence Amendment. I do not want my tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood."
If you have contacted U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and U.S. Senator Carl Levin already, please contact them again. While both are pro-abortion, they need to hear that federal funding for Planned Parenthood is not acceptable.
Several media outlets are reporting that a provision to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood, which performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, is a major sticking point in budget negotiations to avert a government shutdown at midnight tonight. Vote on whether you think Planned Parenthood should be defunded at the link below.
In an ad placed in various Washington-area newspapers today, the prolife Susan B. Anthony List asks, "Should Planned Parenthood really force taxpayers to fund the convictions of Margaret Sanger?" and then lists a variety of quotes from Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. The ad also discusses how Planned Parenthood's business model relies on abortion and that "98 percent of Planned Parenthood's services to pregnant women were abortions."
Researchers at the University of Michigan announced over the weekend they killed more human embryos and created two new embryonic stem cell lines which have the genes of human embryos with genetic mutations.
Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, "It is a sad day when researchers triumph over the destruction of vulnerable, innocent human life."
In 2008, Michigan voters were promised a plethora of cures with the passage of Proposal 2. The result is not what people expected, Michigan's Constitution was negatively altered to allow for the destruction of human embryos. Researchers are now saying the cells they created by killing human embryos aren't "necessarily going to drive us toward discoveries of stem cell replacement therapies, but will give us information we've never had before with regards to how the diseases form and progress."
Instead of providing the previously promised cures, researchers now admit they wanted to kill human embryos so they could do basic research on how diseases form and progress.
How many Michigan voters were manipulated into voting for Proposal 2 based on the illegitimate promise that allowing Michigan researchers to kill human embryos would revolutionize medicine? It seems researchers knew all along that the destruction of human lives would merely help them gather more information.
The University of Michigan is also in the process of attempting to collect more human embryos with genetic diseases which they hope to kill for their stem cells.
Ed Rivet, Legislative Director for Right to Life of Michigan said, "If you look at the history of ethical research, we don't destroy an individual with a disease in order to find cure for the disease.
Human life starts at the moment of conception. Tiny human embryos have unique genetic blueprints that have already decided if they will be a boy or a girl and if they will have blue, green or brown eyes. These are facts that we cannot forget.
Listing said, "We reject the taking of innocent human life to resolve the challenges of life itself."
The Oakland Press recently covered the efforts of prolifers in Oakland County to open Birth Choice Pregnancy Resource Center in the same building as an abortion clinic.
Besides confidential counseling, free infant supplies and adoption referrals, Birth Choice offers free pregnancy tests, childbirth and parenting information and post abortion support. In the next few months, Schupbach said they will also be offering free ultrasounds, and, until then, they will be referring expectant mothers to clinics with free ultrasounds.
Executive Director of Birth Choice Brenda Savage, who has a background in health service administration, legislation and politics, said she is very pleased with how quickly the center has grown and by the support of the Independence Township community.
What does it mean to be prolife?
To me, being prolife means that I recognize that life is a sacred gift from God and is intended to be preserved from conception to natural death.
View all of Representative Walberg's answers.
April is Abortion Recovery Awareness Month and its goal is to educate the public on abortion's effects on individuals and family and offer hope, healing and help to individuals suffering from an abortion experience.
Abortion Recovery Awareness Month (ARAM) (aka: Abortion Recovery Month) was established in April 2005 by Abortion Recovery InterNational, Inc. (ARIN) as a way to encourage and extend healing opportunities to individuals and families hurting from an abortion experience.
Co-founders Stacy Massey and Christine Jackman believed abortion recovery was just as significant as other awareness efforts.
During the month of April, ARIN Affiliates and Advocates enlighten society by reaching out to others in their community through many different venue.


well i have xbox 360 controller for windows. i have Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10240) i tried everything but it doesnt work on this game rest games works fine. so dont know can it be fixxed or updated ?
xbox 360 controller should works fine even on win10, if you're missing the buttons of xbox 360 go in the options and change the scheme from keyboard to Gamepad, now if your control doesn't works only in this game then I don't know what to say, I have both x360 here, one of them is wireless, and both works.


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Re-Volt — гоночна відеоігра, розроблена Acclaim Studios London та опублікована Acclaim Entertainment для Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, PlayStation та Dreamcast.

У жовтні 1999 року Acclaim Entertainment випустив Re-Volt Car Editor, який дозволив гравцям експортувати та редагувати або створювати нові машини для ПК версії за допомогою 3D-студії.

На початку 2000 року було оголошено продовження під назвою RC Revenge, а згодом було змінено на RC Revenge, і було випущено в серпні 2000 року для PlayStation, після чого через кілька місяців був покращений порт гри під назвою RC Revenge Pro для PlayStation 2.

Порти та перевипуски

Бета-версія Xbox
Версія Xbox під назвою Re-Volt Live розроблялася з дуже обмеженою бета-версією, що поширюється на закриті бета-тестери. Ця врізана версія Re-Volt була видана бета-тестерам служби Xbox Live до запуску послуги в оригінальній системі Xbox, але на розчарування шанувальників — більш повна версія так ніколи і не вийшла на консоль Microsoft. Повна гра була скасована будчи майже завершеною. Незважаючи на те, що вона не була офіційно випущена, повна версія розробки доступна і її можна грати на модифікованому Xbox, який здатний запускати ігри зі зберігального пристрою.

Аркадна версія
У вересні 2004 року Tsunami Visual Technologies випустила модифіковану версію Re-Volt для аркадних машин. Цей порт гри відзначався декількома змінами у геймплеї та графіці. Він працював на Microsoft Windows 98 і випускався у двох версіях: TsuMo Standard Non-Motion Sit Down Re-Volt і deluxe model. Як і у режимі Time Trial та багатьох інших аркадних гонках у версії Dreamcast, існує глобальний таймер. Ця версія також містила додаткові траси, серед них, зокрема, розроблена фанатом Венеція від Габора, та нова траса, створена Куртом Арнлюндом, колишнім співробітником Tsunami.

Порти мобільних пристроїв
У липні 2010 року WeGo Interactive Co., Ltd., розташована в Сеулі, Південна Корея, придбала всі IP-адреси, пов'язані з Re-Volt, RC Revenge Pro та RC de Go (розроблені та належать Taito) у компанії Throwback Entertainment, заснованої в Торонто.

У липні 2012 року Re-Volt було анонсовано для мобільних платформ iOS та Android. У жовтні 2012 року Re-Volt був випущений для iOS як "Re-Volt Classic". Версія для Android була випущена 24 квітня 2013 року в корейській T-Store, а пізніше в Play Store.

Перевипуск ПК
3 жовтня 2013 року ПК-версія Re-Volt була перевипущена за допомогою цифрового розповсюдження на GOG.com. Випуск базувався на розробленому спільнотою 1.2 Beta-патчі з додатковою підтримкою оригінальних треків компакт-дисків як MP3- файлів. 14 січня 2014 року гру витягнули на замовлення розробників патчу 1.2 Beta через непорозуміння з видавцями WeGo Interactive, в якому компанія використовувала частини коду, написані спільнотою без належної згоди.

Спадщина
Хоча Acclaim Entertainment не працює з 2004 року, шанувальники продовжували підтримувати та розширювати гру, створюючи нові машини та траси, а також керуючи багатокористувацькими серверами. Шанувальники створили крос-платформний клієнт чат/лобі з відкритим кодом, який називається "RV House", що дозволяє гравцям підключатися та грати в Інтернеті. Ця платформа безпосередньо пов'язана з вебсайтом "Revolt Race", на якому, серед інших особливостей, обирається щомісячний набір трас, який служить базою для випробування на час. Крім того, спільнота створила канал Discord, який слугує головним центром для розмов про гру, розміщення, рекламування та приєднання до перегонів, обмін вмістом/модами або навіть допомога в розробці нових інструментів та оновлень для гри — найновіша ітерація складається з "RVGL", крос-платформного перезапису/порту вихідного коду Re-Volt, який працює в основному як в Windows, так і в GNUтрек/Linux.

Сприйняття
Тільки в Сполучених Штатах, було продано 16,528 копій комп'ютерної версії Re-Volt в 1999 році.

Примітки

Посилання
 Міжплатформенний порт Re-Volt (RVGL)
 Офіційний форум введення / виводу Re-Volt і та місце розробки RVGL

Ігри для Windows
Відеоігри, розроблені у Великій Британії
Ігри для PlayStation
Ігри для Nintendo 64
Ігри для Sega Dreamcast
Платні ігри з відкритим рушієм
Ігри Acclaim Entertainment
Відеоігри 1999
Сторінки з неперевіреними перекладами

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Q: Reuse ElementTree.iterparse I have two xml file one containing product information other one product description.
I'm having problem reusing ElementTree.iterparse multiple times and haven't found any evidence so far if it is even possible iterating over ElementTree.iterparse multiple times.
So far I've solved my problem by reading part of the second xml into a dict which is not very memory efficient keeping so much text data in memory, but at least it is fast.
My question is it is possible to iterate ElementTree.iterparse multiple times or extend ElementTree to allow multiple iteration?
Reading product description
desc_iter = ElementTree.iterparse(
    desc_filename, events=('start',))
row_id = 0
desc_list = {}
for event, elem in desc_iter:
    if event == 'start' and elem.tag == 'record':
        row_id = elem.attrib['num']
    if event == 'start' and elem.tag == 'DESCRIPTION' and elem.text is not None:
        desc_list[row_id] = elem.text
    elem.clear()

Using product description and iterating through product data
    data_iter = ElementTree.iterparse(
        data_filename, events=('start', 'end'))
    result = copy.deepcopy(self.default_result)
    result['downloader_id'] = self.downloader_id
    for event, elem in data_iter:
        if event == 'start' and elem.tag == 'record':
            pass
            ....
        if event == 'end' and elem.tag == 'record':
            print(result)
            print('='*200)
            result = copy.deepcopy(self.default_result)
            result['downloader_id'] = self.downloader_id
        elem.clear()
    del data_iter

A: The iterparse method return an iterator which will by definition be closed when the end is reached.
If you want to read the data multiple times, there are only two solutions:

*

*Store the data in a list or a dict (your solution so far)

*Call the iterparse once again each time.

Eventually, if you seek for a specific information each time, you could use methods like Element.find()

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Government has turned its back on workers – McDonald
Speaking today at a press conference with Irish Regional Secretary of the Unite Trade Union Jimmy Kelly, Sinn Féin Vice President Mary Lou McDonald said that the "Lisbon Treaty was a bad deal for workers and would drive down wages across the EU." She said that the government's non-legally binding declaration on workers' rights was worse than useless and had as much credibility as an election promise the week before polling.
Ms. McDonald said:
"Over the last few years there has been a deeply worrying trend within European Commission proposals to hollow out hard won gains on workers wages and conditions. A series of highly controversial rulings by the European Court of Justice known as the Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg judgements have made the situation even worse.
"Concerns about the driving down of pay and conditions were central to the no vote in the first Lisbon referendum but the government has completely failed to address them. Their non-legally binding declaration is worse than useless. It has as much credibility as an election promise the week before polling, laced with false sincerity and destined to be forgotten the moment the ballot boxes are closed.
"Neither the government nor EU leaders have any intention of altering the current direction of EU policy and the European Court of Justice both of which fundamentally undermine the pay and conditions of workers. The Lisbon Treaty is clear – it contains specific provisions that will strengthen the hand of the European Commission in its anti-worker drive and compel the European Court of Justice to make more anti-worker judgements in the future.
"The Lisbon treaty is a bad deal for workers and will result in further and stronger downward pressure on wages across the EU if ratified and implemented. On October 2 stand up for workers rights, and for decent pay, by voting No to the Lisbon Treaty.' ENDS
Commenting on today's opinion poll in the Irish Times Ms. McDonald said:
"With a week to go people are starting to look at the facts and the real implications of this Treaty. It is telling that the yes side have failed to put forward even one reason to support the treaty and instead are trying to frighten people. It is no surprise that those who are suffering most as a result of government and EU policy are those who are most strongly against this Treaty. The fact is that this is a bad deal for Ireland and it should be rejected." ENDS
Note to editor:
The 2007 Laval case upheld the right of a Latvian company operating in Sweden to pay Latvian workers to do the job at Latvian rates rather than compelling them to pay agreed Swedish rates. This ruling undermines the viability of collective wage agreements that pay above a statutory minimum wage.
The 2008 Rueffert upheld the right of a Polish company to pay less than 50% of the agreed wage rate for construction work in a local government contract. This ruling effectively prevents public authorities from putting conditions respecting collective wage agreements in tenders for public contracts.
The Lisbon Treaty Protocol on the Internal Market and Competition provides the EU with a stronger mandate to remove what it calls "distortions" to the operation of the "internal market" In the Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg the removal of so called "distortions" to competition was central to the determinations European Court of Justice judgements . In each case, the rights of employers to free and undistorted competition overruled the rights fo workers and the applicability of local wage agreements.
'The inclusion of the "freedom to conduct a business" in Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights will also undermine any future application of the "right to collective bargaining" contained in Article 28 of the Charter should a future Irish government legislate for such a right.
'The Lisbon Treaty protcol will not only enshrine the primacy of so called free and undistorted competition, but will empower the Commission and compel the Court to implement more policies and make more judgements that will actively undermine the wages, terms, confitions and rights of workers.

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Boeing 737 Max On Track to Fly in Europe Again
The European Union's civil aviation regulator is prepared to recertify the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 737 Max passenger jet to return to service in January, according to the agency's director.
In an interview with a French newspaper on Saturday, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) head Patrick Ky said the agency's studies "show us that the plane can return to service" and that it is "likely" that the agency will decide in January to put the plane back into service.
Ky's statement follows last Wednesday's announcement from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the grounding order on the 737 Max issued in March of 2019 had been rescinded and that the planes could begin flying again after meeting certain other guidelines.
The major change to recertification in both the United States and Europe is that the two civil authorities will conduct their own safety assessments of Boeing airplanes and that those assessments will occur earlier in the certification process.
The FAA will require that each airplane be certified by the agency rather than by Boeing, as had been past practice. The agency took a lot of heat from congressional investigations for allowing Boeing personnel to conduct final inspections of the planes before they were delivered to customers.
The EASA recertification means that Boeing can once again begin to deliver planes to European airlines and, critically for Boeing, get paid. Ireland-based Ryanair, for example, has unfilled orders for 135 of the planes, and leasing firm AerCap has 71 unfilled orders.
Boeing still faces some headwinds. Transport Canada, that country's airline regulator, has not yet approved the 737 Max for recertification. In the past, the Canadian agency generally followed FAA certification decisions, but Transport Minister Marc Garneau said last week that there will be differences this time between FAA and Canadian requirements. Three Canadian airlines have unfilled orders for a total of 69 737 Max aircraft.
Another major market for Boeing, China, has remained silent on lifting its grounding order on the 737 Max. China was the first country to ground the 737 in 2019, and the country's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) already has said that Boeing will have to meet the CAAC requirements before the planes can fly again. Boeing's most recent orders and deliveries report indicates that Chinese airlines have unfilled orders for 104 new planes.
Boeing's problems with China go beyond the safety of the 737 Max. Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia told CNN recently that Boeing is not in control of its fate in China: "In China, Boeing is prisoner to forces beyond mere aviation market dynamics. It would be impossible for Boeing to not be wrapped up in this giant mess, involving trade barriers, [intellectual property] disputes, and tariffs."
Because China plays such a large role in the growth of the passenger plane market, Boeing has got to come up with a way to regain a solid foothold in the country.
Boeing stock traded up about 2% shortly after the opening bell Monday, at $203.37 in a 52-week range of $89.00 to $374.77. The price target on the stock is $200.55.
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Istanbul Airport Became the "China Friendly Airport"
Istanbul Airport, which became a global hub and took Turkey to the summit of aviation, has been deemed worthy of the "China Friendly Airport" document. Developing special products and services for its Chinese guests, Istanbul Airport has become the first terminal building in the world to implement the "China Friendly Airport" project comprehensively.
Successfully representing Turkey with its unique architecture, strong infrastructure, superior technology and the highest level passenger experience that it offers, Istanbul Airport has been awarded the "China Friendly Airport" document thanks to the measures that it has brought to life to improve the travel experience for Chinese visitors.
In the ceremony attended by the Consul General of the People's Republic of China, Cui Wei, Istanbul Airport was deemed worthy of a "China Friendly Airport" document awarded by the consulate, successfully becoming the first terminal building in the world to have implemented the project in this field comprehensively. The project has been designed to transform the time spent at the airport for Chinese guests into a unique experience and to ensure that they have a pleasant time at Istanbul Airport.
Chinese speaking staff and Chinese signs at Istanbul Airport ...
To make every moment at the airport more comfortable and enjoyable for Chinese guests, many "passenger-friendly" applications have also been put into practice. While dedicated check-in areas are provided for passengers arriving from China, there are other new steps taken such as operating flights to China from the same area, having flight information screens in Chinese, and translating ticket processing screens into Chinese.
Some measures such as opening accounts for Istanbul Airport on social media platforms such as Weibo & Wechat used by Chinese passengers, having the iGA Istanbul Airport mobile application available in Chinese, the presence of hot water dispensers on the arrival and departure floors, "Welcome" signs on the passenger bridges and Chinese speaking staff wearing special uniforms were put into practice to make Chinese guests feel more comfortable at the airport.
With Chinese announcements made inside the airplanes coming from China and Chinese signs in almost every area of the airport, every detail has been considered for Chinese guests.
The aim is to make Chinese guests feel at home…
Making a statement at the ceremony, iGA Airport Operations Chief Executive Officer Kadri Samsunlu stated that they aim to make Chinese guests feel "at home" with the "passenger-friendly" applications they have put into practice at the airport.
Stressing the ancient friendship between China and Turkey, Samsunlu emphasized that they provide a positive contribution to the relationship between the two countries with Istanbul Airport becoming a "China Friendly Airport".
"We aim to increase the number of Chinese airline companies and passengers coming to Istanbul Airport"
Speaking at the ceremony, Samsunlu said, "We are happy that Istanbul Airport has received the "China Friendly Airport" document. China is an important country for us, we have historical, cultural and economic relations. We have been working on reviving the historical "Silk Road" between the two countries by air. We would like our Chinese guests to talk about the unique experience they had at Istanbul Airport, how they have felt at home in a way that would contribute to our country's tourism. Our goal is to increase the number of Chinese airline companies organizing flights to Istanbul Airport in the following years and to ensure more passengers from the People's Republic of China visit our country. We also aim to create a network where Chinese passengers traveling to Europe can use Istanbul Airport as a transfer point. Accordingly, we have been planning to further increase our "passenger-friendly" applications in the upcoming period."
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Signs Kim is Leading N.Korea His Way
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Evidence is mounting that North Korea's Kim Jong Un will lead the isolated nation very differently from his secretive father.
By Jean H Lee 18 July 2012
From Mickey Mouse and a mysterious female companion, to the whiff of economic reform and the surprising ouster of his military mentor, evidence is mounting that North Korea's Kim Jong Un will lead very differently than his secretive father.
Seven months after inheriting the country from Kim Jong Il, the 20-something leader suddenly began appearing in public with a beautiful young woman. Dressed in a chic suit with a modern cut, her hair stylishly cropped, she carried herself with the poise of a first lady as she sat by his side for an unforgettable performance—Mickey Mouse grooving with women in little black dresses jamming on electric violins.
A few days later, video showed her flirting with Kim Jong Un during a visit to a kindergarten. She quickly became the subject of fervent speculation—Is she his wife? Girlfriend? A friend?
But the scent of change extends well beyond Mickey and miniskirts. A change of the guard in North Korea's powerful military is taking place, as Kim retires his father's confidantes and elevates a younger generation of generals. He promoted a group of younger economists to key party positions, part of a stated push to resuscitate an economy that has lagged far behind the rest of Asia.
Bureaucrats have been dispatched to draw new foreign investment. A rare admission of failure came when Pyongyang's vaunted rocket failed to make it into orbit. Kim Jong Un has delivered a pair of public speeches when his father avoided such displays.
To the outside world, these changes may seem trivial. In North Korea, they represent a seismic shift. For decades in this country built on a philosophy of "juche," or self-reliance, shutting out the West was a state policy. So was shielding the private lives of its leaders from the masses.
On the streets of the capital city, change is afoot. Pop songs jangle from the now-ubiquitous cellphones carried by Pyongyang's well-to-do. A wave of construction has transformed the skyline. Singapore it is not, but the city has a handful of sleek new edifices looming over its tree-lined river banks.
Whether these cosmetic things translate into real policy change remains to be seen.
Long at odds with the US and its allies over a nuclear program that Pyongyang refuses to abandon, North Korea has struggled to feed its population. A recent UN report said two-thirds of its 24 million people face chronic food shortages, and access to clean water, regular electricity and medicine is still remote for most of those living in the underdeveloped countryside. A US-based rights group also estimates tens of thousands of prisoners remain held in Soviet-style penal camps.
Still, there's a glimmer of hope in the baby steps that North Korea is taking, said John Delury, an assistant professor at Yonsei University in South Korea, who has visited Pyongyang several times in recent years.
"That's the subtle kind of way Deng Xiaoping signaled a new direction in the 1970s in China," he said. "It doesn't start with someone saying, 'OK, we're going to abandon communism.' It starts in smaller ways like this."
But it's too soon to talk about economic and political "reform," said Daniel Pinkston, an analyst with the International Crisis Group. North Korea needs to begin making real, lasting structural changes before that word can be used to describe the movement.
However, by acknowledging that problems exist and encouraging government officials to find solutions, there are hints that Kim is headed in that direction, Delury said. "It's not a policy change, but it's a governance change in the attitude, and that could be the start of something significant."
Is it Kim himself who is behind the changes, or the cadre of advisers that surround him—some of whom were in the inner circle of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder? Like most things in North Korea, it is very likely a carefully choreographed campaign.
In its own, sometimes cryptic way, Pyongyang is trying to portray its 20-something chief as a 21st century leader in touch with his people's modern-day lives.
That is a marked contrast from his father, Kim Jong Il, who ruled for 17 years under a veil of secrecy. Discussing the first family was strictly taboo. The leader's consorts, including Kim Jong Un's mother, were kept from the public eye.
His children, said to include three sons and a daughter, were never mentioned in state media dispatches. And anything that wasn't sanctioned with an official blessing by the government's propaganda organs was widely known to be dangerous to discuss. Even Kim Jong Un was virtually unknown, and seldom discussed, before his formal introduction to the world in the autumn of 2010.
As North Koreans cautiously navigate the changes taking place and gauge how safe it is to veer off long-proscribed paths, a sense of fear still pervades every interaction. And some things remain secret, including the identity of mystery woman and her relationship to Kim Jong Un.
But her simple presence beside Kim in public has made it OK to gossip about his personal life. North Koreans may not know who she is either, but they're no longer shy about showing their interest. They were quick to gather around TVs in recent weeks for their first glimpses of North Korea's version of Britain's William and Kate.
"We're dying to know, too," said one North Korean, with a shrug and a smile, when asked whether Kim was married.
If the father was remote and surrounded by soldiers, the son is trying to position himself as a man of the people—more like his grandfather. Kim Il Sung built homes, parks and schools and was often shown alongside his wife, Kim Jong Suk, and with children in his arms.
Kim Jong Un is a child of the 1980s. He grew up—possibly in Switzerland—with action films and pop music, video games and junk food.
Could "Rocky," the theme song of which was featured in the Mickey Mouse concert, have been a childhood favorite? Or could it have been another of the songs on the program that night: Frank Sinatra's "My Way?" A song from a different generation, for sure, but perhaps a metaphor for this new mode of leadership.
Jean H Lee The Associated Press


Coasts of Dreams. By Sarah Mirams.
If you're not familiar with the work of Australian poet Edwin Brady, you're not alone. He had some reputation as a composer of sea ballads in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, but confining consideration of him to his literary output would be unfair. He was above all restless, full of wild schemes. He worked as a shipping clerk, a publicist and journalist; he married a number of times, travelled the continent, and published accounts of his wanderings. He was a socialist and bohemian who knew Henry Lawson and many other well-known writers. He settled, more or less, at Mallacoota, where he tried to establish a community farm during the Depression. It failed. Sarah Mirams' biography originated in a doctoral history thesis; it's quite readable and gives the flavour of an Australia nearly unrecognisable, though not long gone.


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At my office all the morning and home to dinner, my head full of business, and there my wife finds me unexpectedly. But I not being at leisure to stay or talk with her, she went down by coach to Woolwich, thinking to fetch Mrs. Barbary to carry her to London to keep her Christmas with her, and I to the office. This day one come to me with four great turkies, as a present from Mr. Deane, at Harwich, three of which my wife carried in the evening home with her to London in her coach (Mrs. Barbary not being to be got so suddenly, but will come to her the next week), and I at my office late, and then to my lodgings to bed.
Patricia on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
I'm wondering if these turkeys were plucked and cleaned, or still in their feathers. Also, who can tell me if people back then made use of the cold weather to keep fresh meat longer? It would take quite awhile for Sam's household to consume 4 great turkeys.
Ruben on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
Before refrigeration birds and fish were kept alive till the last moment possible.
A. Hamilton on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
At my office all the morning and home to dinner, my head full of business, and there my wife finds me unexpectedly...
Bess has been listening to a voice in the air that sings:
If thou shouldst wed a businessman, be wary, oh, be wary.
He'll tell you he's detained in town on business necessary,
His bus'ness is the bus'ness with his pretty secretary,
Sam, do not tell us you're thinking of leaving Bess alone on Christmas.
"You're a mean one, Mr. Pepys. Your heart is full of coal. You're as slippery as a eel..."
JonM on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
As the link from the diary entry says, Turkeys used to be walked from Norfolk (& to a lesser exent Suffolk) to London in time for Christmas. Harwich is in Suffolk. They often started out in October to get there on time. They were fed on the stubble and spilt grain after the crops were harvested.
Daytime outside temperatures in December aren't typically much different from inside a refrigerator anyway, particularly as the little ice age in Europe was in full swing in the late seventeenth century.
Eric Rowe on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
JonM I'm afraid Harwich is in Essex. These were the goose-girls, fattening their geese on the way down from Norfolk. Turkey were more of a problem as they had to be fed and has sore feet problems.
So when the rhyme was going around in Henry VIII's time:
Goosey, goosey gander where shall I wander...
everyone knew who was being talked about.
"This beats walking, eh Burt? And the lady's not too hard on the eyes, despite the human neck. Now this is the life, I guess we're going to grace some wealthy fellow's estate lawn...Sweet. Gobble-gobble...Uh, Pardon me, ma'am." nod to Bess sitting opposite
"You're living in a dream world, Cecil. This is all subterfuge, we're being led unprotesting to slaughter."
"But..." Cecil nods to indicate coach's plush interior.
"This is nice...When do we eat?" Nevil, the third member of the group.
"Get eaten, you bloody fool!" Burt fumes.
"But, it's almost Christmas. Joy and good fellowship and all...Are you saying that sweet girl'd be cruel enough to wring our necks and cut off our heads at Christmas?" Cecil, anxiously. Gobble-gobble.
"In a heartbeat...But it'll probably be some servant girl who does it."
"Ah..." Cecil relaxes. "We're fine, then. I know the family. Their girl Jane let me go a year or two back. The famed Jane you've heard tell of. You're much too suspicious, Burt."
"No longer in their employ, moron."
"Good ole Jane, our people's heroine? Canned?!"
"Left, I hear. Something about the brother being sent off."
Cecil, anxious look at Bess, deep in carried novel. "They're eating their own now, too?"
"Lord knows. But there's no doubt we're on the menu."
"I like to eat. When do we eat?" Nevil, cutting in.
"Stop perpetuating the stereotype, Nevil. We're dead as those geese cackling away outside if we don't do something."
"But..." Cecil.
"There's only one of her...Thanks to that money-grubbing, skirt-chasing husband of hers." Burt eyes the reading Bess...
Right, that Pepys fellow, Cecil nods.
"...And three of us."
cgs on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
keeping of ducks geese and turkeys: In my ill gotten youth before all the mod cons when electricity was as available as hens teeth, we had home made caves filled with straw and hay, where we kept the plucked fowls, before taken them up to London town. 'Twas best to pluck them in cool of the evening, using a blow lamp [torch] to get those loose down that be hard to pluck with cold fingers. Turkeys had to wait till dinner to be near before their necks be cut, along with boars and sows , does not take long for the meat to get lousy and ready to poison 'umans.
Oh! how the WWII changed the habits of living, the baker, butcher, grocer, iron monger, fish monger, onion seller, tailor, milkman etc..
Oh! 'wot' e'er happened to fresh meat, fresh veggies, fresh fruit, bread, cakes pies , milk never more than 8 hours old.
Of course Christmas pud be made in November and brewed in good old preservatives, rum & silver sixpences, along fully flavoured fruit cake.
Ralph Berry on 24 Dec 2008 • Link
"Oh!'wot' e'er happened to fresh meat, fresh veggies, fresh fruit...."
I think these memories may be a little rose tinted. The meat was very often not fresh which was why strong spices were used to disguise the "offness" With a very cold winter like 1665 I am not sure how many green vegetables would have still been around for Christmas, no peas or beans to take out the freezer and the cabbages would probably have been stunted and frozen. If the ground could have been dug there would have been carrots, sweeds and parsnips stored in the ground in straw. However what was available in season would have been natural, without chemical fertiliser or sprays.
Here in New Zealand with the economic threat and the desire to move to natural food there has been a resurgence of home vegetable gardens and farmers markets yet at the same time we are importing masses of produce from China. However I think our modern palates would find it a little hard to eat alongside Sam but I would like to try one of his fine venison pies.
Seasons greeting to all.
"...no peas or beans to take out the freezer..."
Part of fun in life be de-podding peas into colander and one could enjoy the seasons. Pull a carrot fresh from the soil, and not eat them their foreign 'carrits' from all corners of the world.
Alfred Siley's Goose girl
http://www.alfredsisley.org/Goose-Girl-large.html
My grandfather was once offered a turkey much in the same manner as Sam gets these turkies. The giver said he would send in to my grandparents from his farm in the country on Christmas Eve. My grandmother expected a killed, plucked and drawn turkey as it was not going to be delivered until the 24th. Alas, when the pony and trap drew up, a very live turkey was delivered to the house and my grandmother had to face her cook with the news and persuade the garden boy to kill it, my grandmother's cook being the sort that did not kill her own fowl, expecting poulterer's assistants to do this. The cook nearly gave notice and my grandmother blamed her husband for not listening to the details about the "gift". This tale used to come out every Christmas when my grandmother was in her 80's.
John Evelyn's Diary (Dirk's not having posted it)
23. To Wotton to see my Wife, & kept Christmas with my hospitable [elder] Brother [George Evelyn of Wotton Park, FSA (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London)} :
Louise Hudson on 24 Dec 2018 • Link
Ralph Berry wrote, "I would like to try one of his fine venison pies".
You can make one or have someone make it for you. Here's one recipe, though it is probaby much better than anything Pepys ever had.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/game-recipes/…
There are many other recipes online, too.
San Diego Sarah on 26 Dec 2018 • Link
Merry Christmas Louise ... I haven't made it to O.C. all year! Hope you are well, and dry.
Mweey Christmas ro you, too, SDS. We are well and dry and more important, unburnt. We made it through the latest fires unscathed, though some friends lost their houses.
It has been an "interesting" year for many of us! Nuff said. 2019 must be better.


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Set in a spectacular location, surrounded by the highest mountains in the Swiss Alps, Saas-Fee is made even more magical by the glaciers rising above it, which are snow covered year round, making it popular for summer skiing. Open from mid-July straight through to late April, it has one of the world's longest ski seasons.
The village's high altitude and the dizzying heights not only give Saas-Fee a world-class skiable vertical, but also snowsure slopes. In addition to its natural beauty, it's also relatively peaceful thanks to its car-free status.
Although Saas-Fee has successfully retained its traditional charm, it is also at the cutting edge, particularly with its mountain infrastructure. On the Mittelallalin, the resort holds three world records: the highest underground funicular railway train rising from 3,000m (9,842ft) to 3,500m (11,480ft), the world's highest revolving restaurant and the world's biggest ice cave.
At the end of the day the runs merge with the resort's pedestrisanised streets, lined with enticing restaurants, shops and bars running down away from the snow front to the heart of the resort. The village has spread out over the years and today offers a rich range of accommodations as well as non-skiing attractions.
Saas-Fee is the largest and highest village in the Saas Valley, which is part of the Alps. The resort can be found within the German-speaking sector of the Swiss canton of Valais in central-southern Switzerland.
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Saas-Fee's ski season runs for around nine months of the year, with a unique duration from mid-July straight through to late-April the following spring.
Saas-Fee's extensive ski area is divided into three sectors: Morenia, Plattjen and Längfluh, together offering 100km (63 miles) of runs. Just over a quarter of these are marked easy, half are moderate and the rest are classified as difficult.
Beginners will find nursery slopes next to the village that, thanks to the altitude and snow machines, are usually open all season long. Intermediates have the full area to enjoy, whilst experts will find plenty of challenges, including numerous off-piste routes accessible with a guide. After heavy snowfalls, there are also official freeride slopes that have powder runs. These then develop into moguls as they are never groomed.
Freestyle skiing has been popular here for decades and it's easy to see why with a top quality halfpipe in the summer and parks throughout the year to explore, alongside slopes to suit all abilities.
The Saas-Fee ski pass includes the whole valley with the slopes in Saas-Grund, Saas-Almagell and Saas-Balen – although most guests prefer to spend all of their time solely on Saas-Fee's slopes. There is also an increasingly integrated reciprocal agreement with nearby Zermatt, which may be worth considering for those who are in Saas-Fee for a longer stay.
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Relationships are central to this form of artistic work. In participatory art, we speak of relational aesthetics. It deals with 'the processes of love'. Elements of these aesthetics are part of our everyday lives, while at the same time being components of an unusual – because ultimately invisible – sculpture. Beuys called this approach 'invisible sculpture': formations that initially occur in the invisible relational space before materialising and becoming concrete. No one can ever see them as a whole.
Came out of a longing to make a work with the formless.
La actitud flâneur a través de dos acciones artísticas propias: Mujer-anuncio (2016) y Mujer-árbol (2017).
I aim to map an unknown territory, to deal with my own disappearance. For the past years, I've tried to understand death and our dying bodies through my work. I'm interested in the identification of the being with its matter, weight and transformation, and how we deal with our own demise. Tied to my future dead body, trying to be contemporaneous to my own death, I performed reflections and exercises in sculpture, writing, drawing, performance and video that helped me increase my comprehension and involvement with time, space, and decay.


There is no containing the fear which gripped her heart the moment her swollen sies began to quake. The tell tale trembling of the life inside desperately trying to get out. She had hoped she could last long enough, for what she could not say. An omen perhaps? That the Gods had not abandoned them as the World crumbled and blackened beneath their hooves?
No omen had come, and that optimism had bled away into grim feelings of abandonment and despair. As her knees bent down toward the grass of the meadow, she realized that those dark marks upon her heart only turned another shade darker. She would bring a life into this world, as the world in turn lost it's own. A agitated nicker escaped her as she laid her head between the vivid flowers that seemed more muted than she remembered and set to work pushing the life from her.
Sweat lined her chimeric body and each push she willed herself to give set her body alight with both pain and concern, her feathered wing lifted and gently fanning her side whenever she had the energy to spare. Nephele had almost forgot what birth was like, her children were grown and hopefully far away from Helovia by now. Caught by the same case of wanderlust she had when she was but a babe ready to spread her wings and fly. Hopefully, she could do the same for this one, some small part of her still hoped. Take them far away from the troubles which ailed around them, back to the place she had called her home in the years following her original departure.
Her thoughts distracted from the pain long enough for the last push to break through, one last lanced jab of pain as the child slipped from her and into the grassy bank she had chosen. In an instant, with more effort than she would of liked, her head lifted to glance at the small feathered mass. Gangly, she noted as she shifted enough to right her body, nose outstretched to gently to press against her child's side. The foal gave a stifled whinny, downy wings half-flapped as her daughter gasped her first few lungfuls of air as her legs set about finding their purchase. There's no denying the father, as if she had ever doubted the paternity, her dalliances with the Sultan were the only ones she'd bothered to entertain, but the skull which had gifted it's grim visage to her face confirmed that she was one of Volterra's own.
Given the amount of births he has attended, one could be forgiven for thinking that Volterra would be rather blase about the introduction of a new child into life. This is not the case - each time a foal of his is born, it is a miracle of its own, one that he cherishes as though it is the first one he's ever seen.
Today is no different as the onyx leviathan marches through the Meadow towards Nephele. This child wasn't planned - he and the antlered warrioress had a friends-with-benefits situation intended for pleasure rather than reproduction, but Volterra's rampant virility had other ideas. Regardless of the foal's status as a 'whoopsie', it will be loved and adored, raised to be a miniature warlord. The beast's stride is strong as he moves through the land, trying not to worry about the fact that this child is being born into such dark, twisted times.
The corrupted atmosphere has had an affect on Vérzés - he's started breathing toxic fumes in addition to his frost. He does this with gusto, causing his prey to tumble, dead, to the floor without him even needing to touch them. He demonstrates his new ability as he and Vadir soar above their mammoth bonded, their eyes trained on the birthing mare in front of them. The golden queen is less enamoured with her red brother's fledgling talent - she'd thought herself special with her ability to breathe both fire and shock.
Volterra lurks a safe distance away during the birth itself, knowing better than to get within kicking range of a female in labour. Only once he hears the familiar thud of a wet new body hitting the loam does he shift towards Nephele, swiftly drinking in the newborn's appearance. It's a filly, winged like her mother, and she is swiftly given the name Antiope. "A strong beauty," the beast booms, his blessing given easily to the newborn.


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I agree Tower Hamlets is not alone in the way it carries out its consultation but it could try taking a leaf out of Hackney's book. While not saying Hackney gets it right always, there is an acknowledgment that consultation needs to consider some basics, such as extended weekday drop-in sessions and weekend sessions to allow those (like myself) to actually attend. And surveys are only useful if the range of questions are thought through, are targeted and not a series of general questions.
The LBTH Parks survey does not ask enough questions or the right ones. I can imagine the results of ranking of what is important will be manipulated as there are key questions not asked. And it is so general that it becomes meaningless.
If Tower Hamlets really wants to involve its community and consult then it needs to do it through on-going dialogue that can really address what is important to residents and the wider community. Not one-off bland boring statutory tick-box exercises. I do think consultation is necessary and does work but only when thought goes it to it and there is genuine desire to listen and respond to what the community says. For those who have not yet responded to the TH survey, they should take a look at it, it really is quite pathetic.
Consultation/Community Engagement is just that though; it's just some tick-box exercise to get the populace to feel as though they have been part of the decision making process, when infact the decisions have already been made.
In recent years the only community engagment led activity that translated into action based on decisions by the community, that has worked in Tower Hamlets is the participatory budgeting.
Ted, is it appropriate to have guest posts from anonymous contributors? Surely if you are offering people an opportunity to make an argument or statement with political overtones, then the author should be identified. This writing sounds like someone involved in TH politics so I think they should be identified for the beenfit of those who agree and disagree with them. If there is a reason why they cannot be indentified e.g. they are a Council officer, it would be helpful if you could give an indication of this.
Yes, it is appropriate. Maybe you're not that familiar with the blogosphere. I know who the contributor is and it's not someone involved in TH politics. I wouldn't allow a politician to use a pseudonym. But I do allow people like you to use them, despite giving me false email addresses.
'Scriptwriters', the biggest oxymoron in TH is "consulting specifically"! This is never done by council planners. The Viccy Park situation is also saddled – no reference to those donkey rides at the 2009 consultation event – with the HLF grant. The consultation was the usual tell-us-what-you-think-so-we-can-ignore-it; but the architects also had the HLF grant to consider so lots of drawings of the proposed Chinese Pagoda and Chinese Bridge. And none of their plans for the renewal of the two existing playgrounds. Perhaps because these works are hardly heritage related.
I wonder though that even if residents/parents/user groups are consulted specifically, we should be specifically catching botches in architects' plans. This responsibility shouldn't be down to us, even if we are experienced enough to look at plans, or have the time to do it.
"low evergreen hedging between islands of earth modelling topped with wooden logs which range from 0.5m – 1.0m in height. This less formal barrier will prevent toddlers from leaving the play area and offer additional play".
The planning officers had two years to rethink this – like they did the Urban Beach – but they didn't. So here we are in 2011 with an open path exit/entrance to a playground and low evergreen hedging where there won't be mounds, sorry earth modelling, with logs stuck on top. And who will now pay if there are any remedial works to the approved fencing? Us. And all because of the actions over the last two years of officers, already paid by us.
It's Trinity Square Gardens all over again but at least the planning officer(s) who did not know enough planning law to nix the proposal to put a temporary structure on a Protected Square, took only eight months wasting our money.
Have to add that another reason these TH planners approved this playground fencing back in 2009 could be the current obsession with all planners to remove barriers, fencing etc. See Mile End Park, next to Nando's. Or the proposals for the front of the Ocean Estate on Mile End Road to remove the fences for earth mounds…yes, they're all the rage…and TH planners just whoop with delight at such archibollocks as permeability and public/private space interface and urban/green space interaction.
Ted, is this an open secret: Mile End Park Stadium has already been hired out for the Olympics? Allegedly (and this is second-hand via a council officer) it will be occupied by Team USA as a pre-training camp and for the duration. If true, the security required to counter the insecure, sorry permeable, surrounds of Mile End Park will be intense. Can't imagine residents being pleased about losing part of Mile End Park as well as Viccy Park.
'Scriptwriters', that Parks/Open Space Survey was as useless as any TH consultation. Could have done with some hee-hawing donkeys. Still filled it in though. What a mug.


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More on not saying anything further "about these deep maps …."
This post should be read as an extension of the previous one.
In a world where we are all expected to treat our every interest and enthusiasm as 'cultural capital' for potential exploitation, I should not have been surprised that four different people have contacted me to tell me about a call for contributors to a proposed Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) special issue on "Deep Mapping". Obviously it's kind of them to take the trouble, but starting to read a recent book – which sees itself as utilising deep mapping – had already begun to confirm my earlier sense that I should not to respond to that call.
Margaret Somerville's Water in a Dry Land: Place-Learning Through Art and Story was recently recommended me as having a certain amount to say about deep mapping. Early on the reader is told that 'deep mapping' has been adopted from cultural mapping techniques and developed in collaboration with Gumbaynggirr people who live on the mid north coast of New South Wales (p. 17). We are then told that the project used a method "we named 'deep mapping'" in order to map walking trails that are the basis of story lines that travel that same territory (p. 72). Later still a print by an Aboriginal artist is described as a type of deep mapping, one that materialises the connectivities between structures of knowledge, representation, country, water, and life forms (p.136). This is taken to present an alternative approach to mapping, namely an inclusive deep mapping that includes the temporalities of both present and the deep time of creation within a single frame (p. 137).
The publisher's blurb on the back of the book informs me that Margaret Somerville is "internationally renowned for her creative and experimental writing and research about place" and that: "she is Director of the Centre for Educational Research, which focuses on researching sustainable futures at the University of Western Sydney". Be that as it may, it appears to me that this is a book written by someone still locked into a conventional disciplinary outlook, one so lacking in curiosity, and ultimately so self-concerned, that it can be taken to excuse the fact that she is unaware that 'deep mapping' is a term (albeit a contested one) with international currency. Worse still, a term that already has a distinguished application in Australia. Indeed, Professor Gini Lee's Deep Mapping for the Stony Rises (2009) has been taken as an exemplary work in the deep mapping tradition, an assemblage of "topographies and topologies encountered in the making of a cross-landscape environment for six particular places in the Stony Rises of Victoria and the Flinders Ranges of South Australia"; "an experiment in the superpositioning of gathered and invited material interleaved with a stratigraphy of text – as a kind of writing" (see http://thestonyrisesproject.com/the-exhibition/the-works/). To point out that Margaret Somerville might reasonably be expected to know this is not to make any kind of judgement about the social or environmental value – or otherwise – of her specific project. (Although it may be to question the level of professional awareness and relevant scholarship required as the Director of a university Centre for Educational Research). Rather it is to call into question the efficacy of the disciplinary mentality and the lucrative publishing trade that serves it.
My real concern is not with Margaret Somerville then, but rather with the academic and publishing systems that allow examples of increasingly archaic and ill-informed disciplinary thinking to go out into the world unquestioned and unchecked. Water in a Dry Land: Place-Learning Through Art and Story is published in what is claimed to be an 'Innovative Ethnographies' series by Routledge, by any standard a major international publisher. But we need to ask by what criteria and on the basis of what understanding did those employed by Routledge to ensure the value and scholarly standards of their publications – academic Readers, editors, etc. – judge that this book was worth publishing? (I have in mind that it was back in 2001 that Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks' Theatre/Archaeology was published, for many of us a primary source with regard to deep mapping and one that showed even then just how outdated many of Margaret Somerville's assumptions are now). The web site for Routledge's new 'Innovative Ethnographies' series – http://www.innovativeethnographies.net – is quite revealing however. It appears we are to believe that:
"No longer unsecure about their aesthetic sensibilities, contemporary ethnographers have expanded upon the established tradition of impressionistic and confessional fieldwork to produce works that not only stimulate the intellect, but that also delight the senses. From visual to reflexive ethnography, from narrative to arts-based inquiry, from hypertext to multimodal scholarship, and from autoethnography to performance ethnography, fieldwork has undergone a revolution in data collection practice and strategies of representation and dissemination".
In short, and given the commodification of scholarship, there is always the possibility of marketing yet another 'revolutionary' approach – to fieldwork or whatever else – to those ethnographers and their students anxious not to miss the possibilities of the 'aesthetic turn'. Even if, twelve years earlier, you published a book that is both central to the so-called 'revolution' you're now selling all over again and that shows up the scholarly inadequacy and methodological naiveté of the book you're now promoting.
But of course to assume for a moment that publishers like Routledge, or indeed the academics paid to ensure the quality and contribution to knowledge of its publications, are not deeply enmeshed in that same commodification is itself ridiculously naïve. As, its seems, is the assumption that intellectual breadth, coherence, and rigour are proper and necessary concerns in research and publishing if there is economic advantage to be gained by ignoring them.
It's in this context that I suggested in the last post that what I previously called 'open' deep mapping is now best seen as simply the trace of a 'feint', of a largely intuitive manoeuvre intended to divert attention away from the semi-conscious working through of a particular mentalité. One that increasingly needs to avoid any clear identity because we now know that, given the current state of the institutions of art, the academy, and the publishing trade that both supports and exploits them, any mentalité or orientation "which signals the desire to question existing power relations" at once renders itself renders incredibly "vulnerable to the process of recuperation" (Rendell 2013: 136).
In my view it's now time to leave 'deep mapping' behind and move on into unnamed territory.
This entry was posted in Assorted mappings, Provocations on January 25, 2015 by Iain.
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Update from Acts: The apostle Paul is en route to Rome where he will stand trial. His ship runs aground near the island of Malta (south of Italy). God protects him, and he seizes the opportunity to witness.
Psalm 53 is a slightly revised version of Psalm 14 and perhaps is included here because of themes found in the two psalms following it. While each psalm stands alone (with a few exceptions), internal evidence suggests that here and there certain poems are grouped together and share common themes.
In this psalm, the righteous are encouraged to rejoice and be glad even though they live in a world where fools abound. Fools live like there is no God; they do whatever they want and think they are getting away with it. But God looks down from heaven and sees the corruption of evil men. In time, He will scatter the bones of those who attack His people. Israel and Jacob can be happy in the knowledge that God sees all that is happening and will care for His people.
David cries out for vindication even as he hides from those who want him dead. He knows that God will protect him: "Surely God is my help, the Lord is the one who sustains me" (v. 4). He knows that God will make evil return upon his aggressors. "Let evil recoil on those who slander me" (v. 5). And so, even now, he starts to praise God: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good" (v. 6).
David mourns the pain of betrayal. "If an enemy were insulting me I could endure it, "but when it is a close friend, it is almost unbearable (v. 12). He has learned the hard way that he cannot trust everyone (vv. 20-21).
David is so pained he just wants to get away from it all. "Oh that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest" (v. 6). But he cannot. One thing he can do, however, is to put his trust and hope in the Lord. "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall" (v. 22). This is sound advice for us, too. When we cannot get away from all our cares, we can place them on the One who cares for us. He will sustain us.


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Women for Refugee Women: leadership news
Today, 4 December, Women for Refugee Women says a huge thank you to our outgoing chair of trustees, Liz Page, and welcomes our new chair, Rachel Krys.
Liz Page has been the chair of our board of trustees for five years and steered the charity through a period of growth. She says:
"Being Chair of WRW has been a very special opportunity to work with women brought together by their commitment to ensuring that women seeking asylum in the UK are treated with justice and dignity. The energy and drive of staff, volunteers and most of all the refugee women is inspirational. As I handover to Rachel Krys I want to wish everyone associated with WRW the very best in continuing to create change."
Women for Refugee Women is very grateful to Liz for all she has done for the charity. We have really valued her good judgement and generous support throughout all our successes and challenges over the last five years.
We are also glad to welcome Rachel Krys as our new chair. Rachel was co-director of the End Violence Against Women coalition for three years and has been chair of governors for a federation of primary schools in south London for seven years. She is currently an equality and diversity consultant for the Bar Council.
"It's a real honour to be joining the board of Women for Refugee Women, an incredible organisation which has been campaigning with and empowering refugee women for many years. How our society responds to and supports women who are seeking refuge from persecution and violence says so much about who we are and aspire to be. I am excited to work with an organisation providing life-saving services, sharing the stories and lifting up the voices of women and holding the state to account."
At the same time, Women for Refugee Women is glad to announce a new initiative, the Refugee Women Lead programme for asylum seeking and refugee women who are interested in joining charity boards. WRW, along with other charities, is very aware that we need to do more to ensure refugee women's leadership. We are therefore putting resources and energy into a new programme to support refugee and asylum seeking women develop and consolidate the skills and confidence needed to become effective board members. This short course of four classes will be open to an initial six refugee and asylum seeking women in the first course, which will open May 2020. It will cover themes such as the duties of trustees, financial oversight for trustees, safeguarding, campaigning and strategic planning. All travel expenses and childcare expenses will be covered. For more information and expressions of interest, please email nahzley@refugeewomen.co.uk
Natasha Walter, director of Women for Refugee Women, says:
'I would like to express my thanks to Liz for all she has done for Women for Refugee Women and all the support she has given the staff team. I'm looking forward to working with Rachel Krys, our new chair, over the coming years. It's also exciting for me to be able to announce this new initiative aimed at developing the skills and leadership of refugee women in a programme that we hope will enable this charity and others to be led in the future by those with experience of the challenges that we are trying to tackle. The activities of Women for Refugee Women are so vital – more than ever we need to build solidarity and speak out with women who cross borders seeking safety. '


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Usually I'm a very patient person with respect to people owing me money. I pay my bills on time, I donate to charity regularly and fulfill my pledges when I receive the invoice. But what irks me alot these days is when people who owe me money don't give me the same consideration.
Case in point – the State of Maryland. This year I happened to get a refund from the State of Maryland because I apparently overpaid my taxes a couple of years ago (and didn't realize it). Anyway, this year, instead of owing the state money I was entitled to a refund of around $240. I filed my tax return on April 15th, paid the money I owed the federal government and waited. It's now June 15th (some two months later) and the state of Maryland has yet to send me a check or deposit the refund in my account. If I owed the state $240 and didn't pay on time they would tack on interest and fees…but since they owe me they apparently can take their sweet time in deciding when they want to pay me back. What would add insult to injury would be if the State of Maryland didn't pay me my refund and then sent me a W-2 (yeah, here in Maryland they send you a W-2 for any state taxes that are refunded and you have to declare it as income to the IRS) for the money…hope they don't try to pull that nonsense.
Perhaps I'm too patient with both the State of Maryland. Perhaps I should start charging interest and fees to them…maybe that will get them to be punctual with paying what they owe…just like I am with what I owe.
After speaking with Syngress Press it turns out that royalties are paid on a semi-annual basis. In previous work I had done for other publishers there was a period of three months before royalties were paid and then they were paid monthly after that (so long as the amount of royalty to be paid exceeded a specific limit). I had assumed that Syngress followed the same schedule. Now that I know the schedule I realize that I jumped the gun on Syngress in the original version of this post. I have chosen to revise this post to remove my complaint against Syngress since it was due to a mis-understanding regarding the royalty payment schedule. My beef with the State of Maryland, however, still remains.


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Q: Git Not Pushing So I have a project checkout out and the master branch points to one repo, while the site-development branch points to another repo.
The site-development branch points to a repo with a remote name of site.
When I do a git pull site master I see:
$ git pull site master
From github.com:AdamKyle/freya-framework-site
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

So when I do a git push site master I get:
$ git pull site master
From github.com:AdamKyle/freya-framework-site
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
vagrant@vagrantpress:/vagrant/wordpress/wp-content/themes/freya-theme$ git push site master
To git@github.com:AdamKyle/freya-framework-site.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:AdamKyle/freya-framework-site.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote
hint: counterpart. Check out this branch and integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g. 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

Both this branch and the master branch are up to date. What's going on?

A: I believe that your local copy of master is behind the master on "site".
I made two repos for demonstration:
$ git status
On branch asdf
nothing to commit, working directory clean

$ git pull site master
From file:///tmp/site
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

$ git push site master
To file:///tmp/site
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'file:///tmp/site'
hint: Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote
hint: counterpart. Check out this branch and integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g. 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
$

Local "asdf" is up-to-date with "site's" master, but my local master is not.
Pushing local "master" to "site" fails, since remote master is ahead.

A: Use the --force flag.
git push site master --force


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