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Pressley Apologizes to Migrant on Behalf of America for 'Criminalizing Families'
Democrat tells woman Trump is practicing 'human rights abuses on US soil'
on 12th July 2019 @ 1.00am
Far-left Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley apologized to a migrant on behalf of Americans
Radical Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) apologized on behalf of Americans to a migrant, whose child died a few weeks after she entered the United States illegally, telling the woman Trump's administration is practicing "human rights abuses on US soil."
During a House hearing on Wednesday, Pressley told the woman, Yazmin Juarez, whose toddler daughter died in a hospital weeks after being released from a border facility, that she had done "nothing wrong" by entering the US illegally.
Far-left Rep. Pressley apologized to Juarez on behalf of America, telling her that the Trump Administration has "criminalized families."
Yazmin Juarez's toddler daughter died in an American hospital weeks after they crossed the border illegally
According to Breitbart, the House Oversight and Reform's Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing, entitled "Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border," had Yazmin Juarez as the sole witness on the first panel.
Juarez's 19-month-old daughter had died of a respiratory infection.
"Ms. Juarez, I just wanted to state for the record that you did nothing wrong," Pressley said.
"And you certainly did nothing to deserve this.
"Seeking asylum is a human right."
"You did what any mother or parent would have done for their child," Pressley said to Juarez, who is from Guatemala.
"You sacrificed everything for your safety and the safety of your baby."
"You left everything you knew for the chance of a better life," Pressley said.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the radical, far-left wing of the Democrats
Pressley said Juarez was "embodying every American ideal that we espoused that we do."
"And I thank you for that," Pressley said.
"It is unfortunate that our country is no longer standing by its promise of being a beacon of hope and haven for those like you seeking asylum."
"Instead this administration has criminalized families and is now operating a fundamentally flawed system that is systemically separating families and engaging in human rights abuses on U.S. soil," Pressley said.
"I am so very sorry that we have failed you," Rep. Ayanna Pressley told a Guatemalan asylum seeker whose daughter died of a respiratory illness 6 weeks after their release from ICE custody. https://t.co/i484b5PJLw pic.twitter.com/gkakYTQuJB
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 11, 2019
Pressley then apologized to Juarez.
"So all I want to say to you from the bottom of my heart, as a mom, as an American, and as a human being is that I am sorry," Pressley said.
"I am so very sorry that we have failed you."
Juarez told Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), ranking member on the subcommittee and the only Republican to ask a question at the hearing, that she wanted to stay in the United States.
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Background: Cannabis use in young people is common and associated with psychiatric disorders. However, the prospective link between cannabis use and bipolar disorder symptoms has rarely been investigated. The study hypothesis was that adolescent cannabis use is associated with hypomania in early adulthood via several potential etiological pathways. Methods: Data was used from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK birth cohort study. The prospective link between cannabis use at age 17 and hypomania at age 22-23 years was tested using regression analysis, adjusted for gender, early environmental risk factors, alcohol and drug use, and depression and psychotic symptoms at age 18 years. Path analysis examined direct and indirect effects of the link and whether gender, childhood family adversity, or childhood abuse are associated with hypomania via an increased risk of cannabis use. Results: Data were available on 3,370 participants. Cannabis use at least 2-3 times weekly was associated with later hypomania (Odds Ratio: 2.21, 95% CIs: 1.49-3.28) after adjustment. There was a dose-response relationship (any use vs. weekly). Cannabis use mediated the association of both childhood sexual abuse and hypomania, and male gender and hypomania. The cannabis use-hypomania link was not mediated by depression or psychotic symptoms. Conclusions: Adolescent cannabis use may be an independent risk factor for future hypomania, and the nature of the association suggests a potential causal link. Cannabis use mediates the link between childhood abuse and future hypomania. As such it might be a useful target for indicated prevention of hypomania.


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If you've been listening to the Everyday Jesus podcast, you will know that we've been discussing ways in which we can follow Jesus everyday. Following Jesus sometimes requires us to inquire of the Lord. Meaning we need to seek him for guidance.
To see what this looks like, let's look at a snippet in the life of King David in the Old Testament. We are going to look at 1st Samuel 23. For a little background, David at this point in his life has been anointed King of Israel, but as of yet, has not ascended to the throne. Saul is still king and he is hunting David down to kill him. We pick the story up with David on the run with a couple of hundred men with him.
4 Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the Lord answered him, "Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand." 5 So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah.
David in the midst of running for his life, is told that the Philistines were fighting against Keilah. David stops what is doing and asks the Lord if he should go and fight. The Lord answers him and David obeys. This is the first time in the narrative of 1st Samuel that David sought God for guidance. Let's look at three takeaways from this passage.
Keep it short and to the point! David understood that prayers don't have to be long and elaborate when you are looking for guidance. Sometimes we think that we can talk God into giving us direction. God will either give direction or He won't. God know what's best for us and that includes what He tells us. David asks a simple question and God responds immediately.
Do not ask what God can do for you, but what you can do for God! David's first recorded inquiry of the Lord was not a request for himself. He could have asked God if He would save him from Saul. Or maybe if he would strike down his enemies. Perhaps he could have asked for the best place to hide. But here, in the midst of running for his life, he asks if he should go and help Keilah. David knew that stopping and helping someone would put his life at risk. It would give Saul time to track him down. But, he asked God anyway. We need to look for ways to help others. We need to ask God in what ways can we serve our neighbors. God will be faithful to lead us.
David obeyed. The hardest part of asking things of God is that we have to be ready to obey. When we ask the Lord for guidance, we need to be ready to step out in faith and follow him. Following Jesus requires radical obedience. It requires us to get out of comfort zones. We have to put down our smartphone and get off the couch. We have to "go" if we want to follow him. David obeyed. He didn't question God. He simply obeyed.
No matter where you find yourself in life, I pray that you will seek the Lord's guidance and I pray that the Lord will lead you. Here at Everyday Jesus we want to find ways to follow Jesus everyday. If you are interested in hearing more and haven't checked out our podcast, be sure to click on the link below!


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Home >> June 2013 Edition >> A Case In Point: Emergency Communications
A Case In Point: Emergency Communications
By Michel Zimet, Director Marketing & Strategy, ND SatCom
Telecommunication infrastructure provides thecritical path for relief in emergency and disastersituations. Communications connect and help move logistical, rescue and first responder resources in any region of the world facing orrecovering from natural or man-made disasters.
Deploying wireless communications is typically among the first priorities in any emergency response, rescue, or relief situation. However, terrestrial wireless equipment (cellular phones or land mobile radios) is only useful when communication towers and other fixed equipment are in place to connect wireless handsets to the local and globalcommunications backbone. In the majority of emergencysituations, this infrastructure has either been destroyed by the disaster or is not available in the first place. This reality makes it critical for local government and emergency workers to have access to a wireless communications network that is independent of terrestrial infrastructure.br />
Satellite-based communication allows first responders at a disaster site to work independently from any terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure. Generally, a satellite link is the only means to guarantee reliable communication under all circumstances.
ND SatCom's SKYWAN satellite network solution for emergency response and disaster management provides terrestrial independent communications capabilitieswherever and whenever they are needed. The solution combines high quality VSAT connectivity matching the performance of terrestrial networks with simultaneous support for data, video and voice traffic to multiple locations while guaranteeing quality of service. In addition, the inherent flexibility of the SKYWAN platform allows the emergency response network topology to be tailored to the network's Emergency Communications Network Topology changing communication requirements at a moment's notice by enabling any-to-any single-hop connectivity between remote locations, regional command centers and emergency management headquarters.
The Customer Challenge
The Chinese Earthquake Administration Bureau is currently operating an ND SatCom SKYWAN satellite network to support their emergency response and disaster management communication requirements. Prior to implementing a SKYWAN solution, the Earthquake Bureau was running a star based VSAT network supporting very low bit rate (up to 76.8kbps) SCADA applications to approximately 100 sites. However, the Bureau, needed an emergency response and disaster management network solution that could support the following requirements:
� A satellite network that is fully independent of existing infrastructure with no terrestrial backhaul facilities between satellite hub locations and regional or headquarter emergency response centers
� Highly flexible broadband any-to-any connectivity capabilities between remote sites, regional centers and emergency management headquarter locations, to support applications such as video conferencing and high quality video transmission from affected sites
� Data, voice and video traffic support with guaranteed quality of service
� Support for both mobile and transportable stations in order to provide access to any remote location in affected areas
� Pre-configured satellite terminals with quick deploy antenna systems
After evaluating a number of alternatives, the ND SatComSKYWAN platform was selected as the satellite network solution that best fulfilled these needs.
The SKYWAN based emergency VSAT satellite communication network supports coordinated relief efforts between Chinese first responders in affected sites, regional command centers setup in proximity to disaster areas and the Earthquake Administration Bureau's headquarters in Beijing.
The nationwide network consists of a central hub/master station in the headquarter site with a geographically redundant backup master in Kunming, 19 provincial capital fixed stations (each of which can be configured as regional hubs for provincial command center operations), five Communications-On-The-Pause (COTP) vehicle stations, two Communications-On-The-Move (COTM) vehicles, and 14 Flyaway stations.
The nationwide network is split into two sub-networks:One for daily conventional data traffic and one dedicated to crisis communication with the hub station in Beijing. Fixed terminals as well as various vehicle-based stations and transportable Fly-Away antenna systems can be rapidly deployed to disaster impacted areas for communication to the regional command centers.
The ND SatCom SKYWAN solution supports one-way high quality video transmission, two-way video conferencing, VoIP, data communication, file transmission, and Internet access 24/7 from any site in the network. Without the use of any terrestrial facilities, and only by means of the SKYWAN high bandwidth network infrastructure, a large number of images and videos of an earthquake affected area can be transmitted from the disaster site to Earthquake Administration Bureau headquarters in a matter of seconds. During disaster situations, video conferences are held on a continual basis giving the central command unit a much better understanding of the disaster situation.
The Bureau had originally planned to implement a fixed configuration for their emergency response satellite network, as shown in the diagram.
Following the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008, and using the SKYWAN platform's inherent flexibility, the network was rapidly reconfigured to accommodate the much more dispersed and complex communication requirements that needed to be deployed in the wake of this disaster.
Although these requirements were much more complex than previously envisaged by the Earthquake Administration Bureau, the SKYWAN based network was able to seamlessly deliver the necessary connectivity and bandwidth with less than 100ms of reconfiguration time.
With the latest earthquake incident in Sichuan province causing repeated destruction to the area's telecommunication infrastructure, the Chinese Earthquake Administration Bureau was, once again, able to put its emergency response and disaster management satellite network to good use.
The solution's high level of reliability, along with its ability to deliver broadband connectivity between all sites in the network independent of existing terrestrial facilities, has allowed the Chinese Earthquake Administration Bureau to rapidly respond to this latest disaster in a highly coordinated and effective manner.
Today, thanks to a satellite communication network built around the highly flexible SKYWAN platform, emergency responders in China are gaining a new edge in situations where access to critical information at a moment's notice can mean the difference between life and death.
SKYWAN: Enabling Agile Networks
http://www.ndsatcom.com/skywan

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PGDIS 2018 is planned to start on 03 May and end on 06 May 2018.
The Conference will take place at Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld in Bangkok, Thailand.
PGDIS 2018 is likely to be a base where lots of very important subjects will likely be talked about. Some of these tend to be Medical, Health Care, Genetic Diseases, Mitochondrial Metabolism and Genetic Diagnosis.
PGDIS 2018 is organized annually.
This Conference is organized by Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society.


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Telluride '14: The Imitation Game
**½/****
starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear
screenplay by Graham Moore
directed by Morten Tyldum
by Walter Chaw Benedict Cumberbatch is amazing, truly, in Morten Tyldum's better version of A Beautiful Mind, The Imitation Game. Based on the life of logician and mathematician Alan Turing, the Bletchley Park genius who broke the Enigma code but was later pilloried for his homosexuality, the film is conventional in every way save Cumberbatch, who, frankly, had never particularly appealed to me before now. His Turing is clearly (to a guy in the middle of all this sudden awareness of Autism) somewhere on the Autism spectrum, incapable of building relationships and understanding metaphors, making him the perfect person, in his (mis)understanding of the world, to break codes. All language and every subtlety of human interaction is a puzzle for him, you see; breaking the unbreakable German Enigma cipher is simply another of the same variety. The Imitation Game, however, is crystal clear, lockstep in narrative and exposition and careful to leave no child behind as it explains how Turing and his team of irregulars managed to build the first computer and defeat the Nazi war machine by intercepting its communications. At the end, its message is the same as The Incredibles', though housed in a far more conventional motor: different is good, and you shouldn't criminalize homosexuality, because what if a gay guy is the saviour of the free world and you just chemically-castrated him and caused him to kill himself? As messages go, that's not a tough one to get behind.
The Imitation Game is what it is--the difficult version of it has already been done, and done well, with Darren Aronofsky's Pi. What The Imitation Game is, then, is that movie where breathless reading-glass heroes race from desk to desk, analyzing sheets of numbers and reading off encrypted missives in breathless, almost sexual huffs. It's the one where epiphanies are had at unexpected times, set to an excited orchestra and widened eyes, Marvin Berry-like, to underscore the eurekas. The one where although the conclusion is foregone, it's still carried off in such a way as to bring on the tingle when the moment of truth comes. In the middle of it, Cumberbatch remains affecting and vulnerable, even as the character's ever in danger of slipping into camp. He's a superhero, it's true, but the alien kind orphaned on Earth, trying to build a machine to take him home while the military wants to exploit him and scientists attempt to dissect his brain. In a wonderful moment, more wonderful if true, the picture takes a WarGames twist (the second in a movie this year) and defines the Rosebud of Turing's longing. I almost wonder if The Imitation Game isn't more jagged because Turing as Cumberbatch plays him is so easy to embrace?
Set against him are handsome foil Hugh (Matthew Goode); Denniston (Charles Dance), the commanding officer who doesn't get it; and the brilliant young woman mathematician who must fight against the "decorous" dictates of a sexually-repressive society so as to better save the world, Joan (Keira Knightley). Cut-outs, but inoffensive ones, largely, save for the function of one otherwise marginal lad (Matthew Beard) who spells out the dread cost of war in the film's only genuinely contrived moment. I criticize The Imitation Game for its biopic conventions and safe messaging, but really, I don't condemn it overmuch for them. The picture's motto is a thrice-repeated line about the most amazing things authored by the most unlikely of sources; its reason-for-being is thus this simple manifesto against homogenization. But given that, it did cause me to think about how humans tend towards comfortable gestalt and abhor difference--about how the reduction of variance in our species is perhaps the blueprint for our endgame. It's a good conversation to have before medicating our children into docile "normality" in order to better "fit in" with all the other kids. In any case, The Imitation Game is a bracing bit of the old familiar that has the benefit of that one marvellous performance--and if we're being honest, it's something I'd want my preteen children to see before they get too much more sophisticated. The spoonful of sugar is sweet, and the medicine is just about the right dose.
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Biden Coronavirus Adviser Questions Fauci on Double Masks: It 'May Actually Be Counterproductive'
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Hannah Bleau
Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus adviser to President Biden, appeared to question Dr. Anthony Fauci's seeming embrace of double masking, or wearing two masks at once, suggesting during an appearance on MSNBC Thursday that the practice "may actually be counterproductive."
"There's a lot of talk that double masking is going to become an official [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] recommendation," MSNBC's Chuck Todd said, asking Osterholm where he falls on the subject.
Unlike Fauci, who in recent interviews did not dismiss the idea of double masking, Osterholm warned it could be "counterproductive."
"In terms of using the face cloth coverings, doubling them, actually, we need to be very careful about that," he told Todd. "That may actually be counterproductive, not helpful."
"We know, and I'm not an aerobiologist, but we know that, in fact, they may actually impede the movement of air in and out and causing it to actually escape in the big crevices between the cloth and your face. That's a bigger problem, not a lesser problem than one," he continued, warning that "too thick of a cloth" will prevent air from moving efficiently, causing the feeling of suffocation.
"And the air then moves in and out of the cracks. So that's why we have to be very careful about people making recommendations right now about double masking and so forth without really having the data to support that," Osterholm added.
His rebuttal comes days after Fauci, chief medical adviser for President Biden on the novel coronavirus, appeared to support the prospect of double masking, telling TODAY's Savannah Guthrie it "just makes common sense that it would likely be more effective."
"You know, it likely does because, I mean, this is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in," he said when asked if the practice makes a difference.
"So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it would likely be more effective, and that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95," he added:
"We don't want to get complacent."
Watch @SavannahGuthrie's full interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci on vaccine shortages, new coronavirus strains and what comes next. pic.twitter.com/15plEBZ5e1
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 25, 2021
During a Tuesday appearance on America's Newsroom, Fauci again failed to rule out double masking, even for those who have been vaccinated.
Fauci's current position on masks and double masking stands in sharp contrast to the opinion he held in March 2020, suggesting masks provided more psychological relief than practical.
"Right now, people should not be walking, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask," Fauci said at the time.
"When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is," he continued, mentioning the "unintended consequences."
"People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face," he added:
The debate over double masking has been rising in recent days, particularly as virus variants continue to spread.
"Wear your mask is becoming wear your masks," the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
"The discovery of highly transmissible coronavirus variants in the United States has public health experts urging Americans to upgrade the simple cloth masks that have become a staple shield during the pandemic," the outlet continued, adding that the change could be "as simple as slapping a second mask over the one you already wear, or better yet, donning a fabric mask on top of a surgical mask."
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NOTE: In U.S. Navy parlance, all tankers (AOs) are officially termed "oilers," though unofficially the term is often used to describe only those AOs fitted to refuel at sea; others not so equipped and used to carry bulk oil from port to port are popularly referred to as tankers. This convention will be followed throughout this text.
Well before construction was started on either ship, the decision was made to equip the Maumee with diesel engines, then a relatively new technology that appeared to offer better fuel economy than could be obtained from the best steam plant then available.6 This was the golden age for marine engineering--a time when the U.S. Navy was experimenting with a variety of new developments in engine technologies in an effort to find out which would provide the best performance. Placing diesels aboard the Maumee would afford an excellent opportunity of comparing the performance of this type engine with the conventional machinery then in common use, since the two ships would be identical in all other respects, would burn the same grade fuel, and were expected to be employed in the same type of duty.
that could be gained from installation of new types of propulsion machinery.
not unusual for a naval vessel such as the Maumee, which had a relatively small crew.
After an extended shakedown cruise (cracking of some cylinder jackets forced her return to New York Navy Yard), Maumee participated in fleet training exercises then being conducted in the Caribbean where she was actively engaged in the business of delivering oil and water to all types of vessels, both large and small.16 Under the doctrine then in effect, fueling between ships at sea was conducted only in protected waters while both vessels were moored together. As the crew gained proficiency in the use of the Maumee's specialized fueling gear, the officers on board began to discuss the possibility of refueling ships at sea while under way and made tentative plans to test this concept. However, the ship was much too busy supporting the fleet to conduct experiments at sea.
only a matter of time before the United States would be drawn into the conflict then raging in Europe and the problem of getting destroyers across the Atlantic may have been foremost in the minds of the Maumee's officers as they worked out the details of the means proposed for refueling these short-legged warships.
Nimitz, who was officially mentioned for his role in preparing and operating the gear employed by Maumee, credits Dinger, whom he characterized as a "superb seaman with a strong engineering background," for the concept, design, and execution of the fueling-at-sea technique used by the crew.23 Dinger later suggested that it would even be practical to eliminate the towing lines, letting the fuel ship maintain a steady course while the destroyer adjusted her speed and helm to stay abreast of the fuel ship. His observation that "this would require very expert judgment and most constant watchfulness" would prove to be most fitting.24 Remarkably, the procedure developed on board the Maumee, less the towing lines predicted by Dinger, was essentially that which would be used by the U.S. Navy in World War II--although it would be many years before the methods developed by Maumee were accepted as standard doctrine.
additional trips to Europe to refuel U.S. naval units, her days of glory were over and she was decommissioned in June 1922--most probably because her engines proved extremely difficult to maintain.
the war. Twenty years would pass before he would again become involved in the development of fueling at sea in an unexpected though important role, the description of which will be saved for later chapters.
SOURCE: Navy Yearbook 1916, 480-82.
in the Naval Appropriation Act of 1916 were retained, their construction was delayed until the end of hostilities and they were not completed for a number of years. The last to be built, Pecos, was finally delivered on 23 April 1921--more than two years after the armistice and five years after she was first authorized. Commissioned on 25 August 1921, she was assigned hull number AO-6 and immediately entered service with the fleet where she was to serve for the next twenty years.


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Q: How to give space between paragraph elements with display:contents ("unusual element")? I'm given paragraphs such as these below.

Eren Marie, passed away on Friday, April 23, 2019.

She was born on March 23, 1987 to Jeffrey and Susan. Erin is survived by her loving husband, Peter Stevens, and daughter, Rose Irene; father Jeffrey and mother Susan; brother Seanand sisters Lauren

To force my site to display the paragraphs, my CSS is this.
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But the repercussion is that all the paragraphs have no spacing in between them. They just look like one long paragraph.
I tried margin-bottom, padding-bottom and nothing works. I can't remove the sr-only class cos it's in thousands of profiles as of now.
How do I create the space in between?

A: You can use CSS to add a pseudo-element in between each paragraph. If you then set the display of this to block you can add whatever padding you wish.
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A: You can try this approach.

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Eren Marie, passed away on Friday, April 23, 2019.

She was born on March 23, 1987 to Jeffrey and Susan Staton. Erin is survived by her loving husband, Peter Stevens, and daughter, Rose Irene Stevens; father Jeffrey Staton and mother Susan Staton; brother Sean Staton and sisters Lauren Staton

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Буковица Горња је насељено мјесто и мјесна заједница у граду Бијељина

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Референце

Спољашње везе

 Сајт града Бијељина
 Мапе, аеродроми и временска ситуација локација (-{Fallingrain}-)
 Гугл сателитска мапа (-{Maplandia}-)

Насељена мјеста Града Бијељине
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Trade Issues, Investment, Europe & Eurozone
How to weather the Brexit storm? Focus less on trade, more on investment
"Strong and stable" seems of a world so far, far away. The recent Daily Mail headline "PM slaps treacherous Chancellor down" portrays a government in political chaos. Thanks to open, unresolved intra-Brexiteer warfare, ministers are unable to agree the basics of how to exit the European Union. This state of uncertainty intensifies just as the risks to British jobs and living standards are becoming starker and more potent. Ironically, just as we teeter towards the cliff, ONS data reveals that exports of goods to the EU grew over the last three months, while those to the rest of world fell back, a fact not devoid of dark humour.
UK, Investment, Fiscal Policy
OECD ignores deficit hawks, backs higher public investment in infrastructure & people
This morning, the OECD has published its latest Economic Outlook, which includes individual country forecasts. It is pretty downbeat about the UK's near term prospects, and implicitly critical of the Conservative government's policy plans. It argues that there is "fiscal space", and that higher public investment should be considered
The policies supported by the OECD, in the context of Brexit, are in essence the same as those which the 130 economists have backed in their letter to the Observer – and whom the FT's economics editor Chris Giles thinks should be "disregarded".
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UK, Investment, Inequality
Forgotten macroeconomics in the manifesto debate
The assessment of the impact of the policies in the election manifestos in the media is rather static as comments mostly ignore their positive impacts on growth, investment and productivity. This policy brief on the Labour Party's manifesto brings the forgotten macroeconomic principles into this debate. The manifesto's economic policies can lead to higher private investment and productivity, and help to rebalance the economy.
UK, Employment, GDP & Economic Activity, Investment
2015: Productivity Unpuzzled
In his contribution to "the Cracks Begin to Show: a Review of the UK Economy in 2015", Jeremy Smith looks at the development of labour productivity. Unlike the dominant supply-side approach to productivity (which remains important for the long term), data show that it is demand and economic activity that drive shorter term changes.
The government is caught on the horns of a dilemma. Should it celebrate the (real but skimpily-remunerated) increase in employment over the last 3 years? Or see this as the result of a dysfunctional low productivity economy, increasingly of its own shaping?
Investment, Financial Architecture
Central bank policy rates and the real economy
A letter by PRIME's Director Ann Pettifor, published in the Financial Times last Thursday (10 December), discusses central bank policy rates and the real economy.
In her letter Ann argues that Larry Summers is right to point out how few tools central bankers have to "delay and ultimately contain the next recession". (FT, 6 December, 2015). "We share his pessimism. However his analysis of the so-called 'neutral rate of interest being lower in the future than in the past' is based on the flawed notion of a 'growing relative abundance of savings relative to investment'".
Americas, Asia Pacific & Africa, Trade Issues, Investment, International & World, Economics & Ideology
The secret, anti-democratic and (new-style) protectionist TPP
I do not have any pretension to detailed knowledge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the newly finalised "free trade" (sic) deal between the US and other (mainly Asian) countries, which excludes China as an act of policy. I am not alone of course in my ignorance, as the deal – shockingly, given its enormous scope and implications - still remains a state secret.
Fiscal Policy, Asia Pacific & Africa, UK, Investment
"Living within our means": deficits & the business cycle
If there is one thing that unites Members of Parliament of left, centre and right, it appears to be a strange religious faith in the dogma, "we must eliminate the deficit and live within our means".
In a current article in Socialist Economic Bulletin, John Ross writes:
John McDonnell, the new Shadow Chancellor, has created something of a stir by his firm opposition to budget deficits to cover current expenditure – writing 'let me make it absolutely clear that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is committed to eliminating the deficit and creating an economy in which we live within our means.'
Climate Change, Investment, UK
Today's Budget and the crisis in Ukraine
In response to a letter from MP Caroline Lucas, Bank of England governor Mark Carney hinted in the Financial times today that the Bank of England could potentially invest in a programme of 'Green Quantitative Easing'. The idea of 'Green QE' is that the Bank of England would – with the agreement of the government - buy bonds from e.g. the Green Investment Bank, which could then use the financing to subsidise low carbon projects.
Investment, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy
Governments must fix financial imbalances
ABC Sydney´s "The Business Programme" asked Ann Pettifor for an interview on the current situation in international finance. Ann made a strong case that nothing is being done to fix the structural imbalances in the global financial system, in particular the high debts that have accrued in advanced economies across all sectors – government, business and households.
A National Plan for the UK - from Austerity to the Green New Deal
Ann Pettifor is a member of the Green New Deal Group, which today, 8th September, 2013 published its fifth anniversary edition - a National Plan for the UK. The first report was published in July, 2008, before the collapse of Lehman's and was (in our humble view) far-sighted in its analysis and recommendations.
Recovery? UK capital investment hits new low in 1st half of 2013
On Friday, the Office for National Statistics published its latest estimate of GDP for the 2nd Quarter of 2013. The previous quarter-on-quarter 'growth' estimate (in volume terms) was raised from 0.6% to 0.7% (and 1.5% year-on-year). This has sparked a veritable bubble in reports of a great British economic recovery.
Fiscal Policy, Investment, UK
The scale of the Coalition government's ambition
Ed Davey's announcement (on behalf of the government) on the eve of the Budget was a little breathless. All agog, he painted a picture to the BBC of cabinet ministers listening gratefully and with relief to the chancellor's announcement at cabinet that morning.
IMF backs 'delusional' infrastructure spending
In a debate on BBC's Newsnight last week, Matthew Hancock MP, former chief of staff to George Osborne, accused me of being "delusional" when I called for a new major programme of infrastructure spending on projects with a positive social and economic return. Today's IMF Concluding Statement from their latest consultation mission calls for
"fiscal space for further (sic) growth-enhancing measures…[which] could be used to fund higher infrastructural spending, which has a high multiplier and raises potential output." (my emphasis)
Crowded out?
Today's chart from the Office for National Statistics on UK construction investment tells it all - falling public investment does not "free up" the private sector. On the contrary....
GDP & Economic Activity, Investment
Latest UK GDP data even worse than it looks
The latest release for British GDP in the 3rd quarter was unrevised – but the composition of that growth was awful. GDP rose by 0.5% in the quarter and is just 0.5% higher than a year ago. But analysis of the components of growth suggests the outlook is deteriorating. Household consumption did not grow at all in the quarter and contracted by 1.5% over the course of the year. Investment (gross fixed capital formation) fell by 0.2% in the quarter and by 1.8% from a year ago. In terms of domestic expenditure only government spending rose in the quarter, up 0.9% on the quarter and 2.9% over the year. This is testimony to the multiplication of 'austerity' measures: If unemployment and poverty are increasing at a faster rate even than you cut welfare benefits your total welfare bill will rise.
GDP Data Show UK Stagnation Is Due to Home-grown Policy, not Eurozone Woes
Publication of the latest estimate of UK GDP data shows that the recession was much sharper than previously thought. The revision shows that GDP contracted by 7.1% rather than the 6.4% previously estimated. The recovery which began in the 3rd quarter of 2009 was also slightly stronger than previously estimated, the economy expanding by 2.8% until the 3rd quarter of 2010. From that time onwards the economy has stagnated completely, with zero growth in the three quarters since. The result is that the British economy is 4.4% below its peak level before the recession, which is now estimated to have begun in the 2nd quarter of 2008.
How To Wreck A Recovery- Coalition government policy and Q1 GDP Data
The latest publication of the British GDP data for the 1st quarter of 2011 (Q1 2011) is unrevised - the economy expanded by 0.5% having contracted by 0.5% in Q4 2010. However the much fuller data provided in this third estimate of growth, as well as revisions to prior quarters, gives a clear picture of the dynamic of the economy. The economy has effectively stagnated since the Coalition government introduced the Comprehensive Spending Review in October (in fact it has marginally contracted). In the previous four quarters to Q3 2010 the British economy had expanded by 2.5%. By examining the data in detail it is possible to determine the causes of that stagnation.
GDP & Economic Activity, Investment, UK
GDP figures: the verdict
The 0.5% rise in GDP is hardly any rebound from the same contraction in the economy in the previous quarter. Government policy has turned 2.8% growth into economic stagnation. Zero growth over the latest six months clearly reflects the initial impact of the cuts. For example, construction is now in a "double-dip" recession – two quarters of negative growth having expanded in the middle of 2010. That prior expansion was led by the government's construction investment, reflecting the impact of Labour's previous efforts to stimulate the economy. As a result, the economy grew 2.8% in the previous 12 months.


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San Francisco Points of Interest
Engine Company No. 24
100 Hoffman Avenue
Designed by John Reid Jr., this two-story building has an exposed brick facade with an arched entryway and simple cornice of brackets and dentil molding. Original drawings for the building were revised so that the building could accommodate motor-driven apparatus with no provision for horses. This alteration signaled the beginning of the changeover from horses to motors.
Engine Company No. 24 remains in service today at this location offering fire protection to the Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, and the Mission District.
Vintage San Francisco Firehouses
Engine Company No. 1, 451 Pacific Avenue
Engine Company No. 2, 460 Bush Street
Engine Company No. 7, 3160 16th Street
Engine Company No. 8, 1648 Pacific Avenue
Engine Company No. 9 and Fire Boat House, Pier 22½, Embarcadero at Harrison
Engine Company No. 13, 1458 Valencia Street
Engine Company No. 14, 1051 McAllister Street
Engine Company No. 16, 909 Tennessee Street
Engine Company No. 21, 1152 Oak Street
Engine Company No. 22, 1348 10th Avenue
Engine Company No. 23, 3022 Washington Street
Engine Company No. 24, 100 Hoffman Avenue
Engine Company No. 25, 3305 Third Street
Engine Company No. 27, 52 Waller Street
Engine Company No. 30, 1757 Waller Street
Engine Company No. 31, 1088 Green Street
Engine Company No. 33, 117 Broad Street
Engine Company No. 37, 2501 25th Street
Engine Company No. 40, 1249 Clayton Street
Engine Company No. 43, 724 Brazil Avenue
Engine Company No. 44, 3816 22nd Street
Engine Company No. 47, 1298 Girard Street
Engine Company No. 48, 798 Wisconsin Street
Dennis T Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home
Pumping Station No. 2
Underwriter's Fire Patrol, 147 Natoma Street
GuardiansofTheCity.org is the definitive Web guide to San Francisco firehouses, both vintage and modern.


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Q: How to dynamically change attribute of an xml node with c# I have a c# application that saves user's data to an xml document.  I want to be able to dynamically change the attribute of an xml node based on a user entering different criteria into a text box and choosing to save/overwrite the existing file save.  The problem is that I can't simply delete the node and recreate it with the new attribute as the node has child nodes that can't be deleted.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
the XmlNode.Attributes method does not provide a way as I can tell to delte just the attribute of a node and reassign it.  I could be wrong though.

A: Cast your node to an XmlElement and use the element.SetAttribute(...); method.
((XmlElement)node).SetAttribute("name", "value");

Also I believe there is a way to do it without the cast if you know the attribute already exists:
node.Attributes["name"].Value = "value";


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Taking advantage of online bets means you'll have access to the latest events across the globe. There's also a huge variety of wagering options, which makes the deal that much sweeter.
Don't let those numbers confuse you. Baseball bets use American odds, which are really simple once you get the hang of them. What you'll notice here is that the Red Sox have a negative number, while the Yankees have a positive number. A negative number indicates the amount of money you need to wager in order to make a $100 profit. A positive number shows you the amount of money you'll win by placing a $100 bet. That means if you bet $125 on the Red Sox and they win, you'll get $225 back for a real money profit of $100. At the same time $100 internet gambling baseball bets on the Yankees will yield $205, or a $105 profit.
In this example, you need to consider two sets of numbers. The -1.5 and +1.5 are the run line or margin of victory. A negative number in this situation refers to how many runs a team must win by for the game to count as a victory. Likewise, the positive number indicates how many runs a team must come within for the game to count as a win. When wagering on baseball, online gambling fans who pick the Royals will only be paid if the Royals win by more than 1.5 runs, as there are no half runs in baseball, the required margin of victory is 2. At the same time, the Giants don't need to win if you bet on them. They simply need to lose by less than 1.5 runs. The second sets of digits work just like we described above, but factor in the margins we just mentioned. For example, you'll make a $150 profit by betting a $100 in real cash on the Royals but you would need to wager $170 on the Giants to be up $100 in real money. The spread is the best bet more often than not.
In this example, you are either betting on whether the Dodgers and Marlins score over or under 8.5 combined runs. The over is considered the more likely outcome here since you'll need to wager $120 for a $100 profit. At the same time, you can win $100 from a $100 bet by betting on under. As you can probably tell O and U stand for over and under respectively.
When online gambling, baseball bets and odds are dependent on the starting pitcher. In fact, your bet may be cancelled if the specified pitcher doesn't start the game due to injury, scheduling change or otherwise. Although you will get your money back in such situations, you can choose to place bets on the pitcher action in baseball. Online gambling sites will adjust the odds accordingly. If you happen to have inside information about a pitcher's inability to start, you can profit handily by ensuring that your wager is valid no matter who starts.
Now that you're familiar with the basics, you just need to find the best odds on the web. Fortunately, we've already done all the legwork. Every site we recommend offers a brilliant online betting experience as well as great odds on the biggest baseball events. On top of that, we've also got great articles, like our Backroom Heroes piece, on MLB.
It's easy to get the hang of gambling on baseball games because the way you do it is so simple. All you have to do is pick one of the top baseball betting sites from our list above, choose the game you want to bet on and place the bet you reckon is going to pay out.
Yes, it sure is. You're allowed to play at international online sports betting sites and on regulated fantasy sports sites too because there are no laws stopping you from doing so.
For gambling online, Baseball betting odds use the American odds format and they show you how much you can expect to win based on an initial stake of $100.
For example, if the New York Yankees are playing the Los Angeles Dodgers and the odds for the Yankees are +120, then if they win you'll pocket $120 on top of your initial stake of $100.
Money line bets are just bets on who you think will win.
Run line bets are when the team that is the favorite to win in a baseball game is assigned a negative amount of runs to counteract the fact they'll probably win.
If this value is –4 for example, then the team will have –4 deducted from their total number of runs and the betting site will pay out based on the team achieving that new number of runs (i.e the total –4).
What leagues & games can I bet on?
The most popular league to bet on is Major League Baseball and you can bet on any of the games during the season. You can also choose to gamble on the World Series, the American League and the National League.
Which ones offer the best opportunities?
The MLB definitely offers the largest amount of high quality winning opportunities because it's the most popular league to bet on. There's also a huge quantity of match analysis and past betting statistics to base your betting decisions on.
Yes. All the leading baseball betting sites will have live broadcasts of every game streaming on their site, so you won't miss a single second of the game.


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Forty odd years ago the drug Thalidomide, an anti anxiety medication often prescribed to pregnant women to help with their morning sickness, caused significant birth defects, with babies often being born with short arms or legs, if they had limbs at all, and many dying due to deformity.
Niko von Glasow was one of these babies, born in Germany, one of the last countries to ban the distribution of the drug. At the beginning of the documentary, Niko's son asks him why his father won't go swimming at the beach with him. Niko cannot really answer this question, as, in many ways, he is unable to truly examine his disability. He comments that, like those born without disability, he is only allowed to take a furtive glance at his short arms, embarrassment at staring and being stared at blocking any exploration of his self image. So, confronting this concept head on, von Glasow seeks out eleven other 'Thalidomides' to pose in a nude calendar.
The people Niko then goes on to meet are a diverse cross section of the generation of children, now middle aged, who were victim to Thalidomide's effects. Despite this, the disability that draws them together more often than not takes a backseat in their day to day lives. In some ways the entrance of von Glasow, himself disabled and therefore able to ask frank and uncushioned questions that others cannot, is what forces the other models to think hard about their disabilities, and what part it plays in their lives. Some, such as Belfast councillor Kim Morton are nonplussed about Niko's deep thought and conflicted views on the subject of himself – her short arms and legs have never stopped her from achieving her goals, and she would not have her life any other way. Conversely, and late on in the film the shy and unconvinced Doris emerges, a friend of Theo, the reserved gardener. The meeting of other Thalidomides to her is a revelation, having hidden herself away for so many years, as her parents hid her before that. Then again there's British actor Mat Fraser, who hears the words 'Nude Calendar' and comes running, making sure first that the money made off it is not going to go to a charity, questioning why events like this need to automatically 'turn into a big orgy of compassion'.
The real interest in the piece is the frankness of the subjects. Niko jokes with the others with a complete lack of political correctness, just as he is equally open with the hard questions. It is this openness that feeds the project: he tells the public to look at these nude figures, to stare and scrutinise in a way that is not normally allowed by social conventions. After that, von Glasow decides, the audience may be able to move past the disability and see the person behind it. The more important movement, however, is in Niko himself, who is able to realise and come to terms with how he feels about his disability, rather than not feeling anything at all.
NoBody's Perfect plays at Cinema Nova, Sunday, May 02, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
NoBody's Perfect official website
Original Post: http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/reviews/film-tv-radio/nobodys-perfect-181122?sc=1
Posted in Arts Hub, Film, Reviews
Me, my gypsy family and Woody allen
Me, My Gypsy Family and Woody Allen is a film documenting the first tentative steps a Romany girl living in Italy, Laura Halilovic, takes into the world of filmmaking. This is not a completely alien landscape; the camera she uses to document her life and the lives of her family when she is 19 was given to her by her father, who himself filmed their celebrations and lives when Halilovic was just a girl.
The documentary, winner of the UCCA Prize 2009 at the Bellaria Film Festival in Italy, acts primarily as a diary, a diary of a people, and a diary of a girl who has come of age, perched on the edge of adulthood in a culture where marriage and family are an essential part of life. Me, My Gypsy Family and Woody Allen is a an act of Halilovic finding her voice, going from the shoe gazing mumblings of teenagehood – demonstrated especially when the subject of marriage first arises – to a final and more eloquent expression of her own plans for her future and how they relate to her culture and family.
We are introduced to Halilovic's family gradually, framed through current portraits of her parents, brothers and sisters, her family having migrated to Italy from Bosnia and Herzegovina decades before. They live in a public housing flat, a big step in the Romany community, who traditionally are forced to camp in large numbers, shifted from site to site on the whims of the local councils. This fixed address created better opportunities for Laura to attend school and have a complete education.
The pain of a persecuted people is at first demonstrated historically – the holocaust, the systemic destruction of the Romany people throughout predominantly Eastern Europe. These are her relatives – her grandparents and great grandparents. But it is soon after that the continued persecution of the Romany's by the Gagé, anyone who is not a Roma, is highlighted. Camps are evicted and bulldozed, they are called thieves and bandits on the street, or, from the point of view from an excited little girl at her first day of school, she is whispered about and ostracised from her peers. That concept of 'integration' is brought up again and again, its insidiousness coming from its lack of clear meaning. This is most obvious when the word is brought up during the potential eviction of sixty people, including Halilovic's grandmother and uncles, from land that they themselves had purchased, the charge of building without a permit as an excuse. Every year Halilovic, born in Italy but not officially an Italian citizen, must give her fingerprints in order to renew her visa.
A lot of the craft in this film is a bit clunky, but entirely forgivable given the filmmaker's age and the message the film is trying to give. You can see her future potential in the framing of her shots, the imagery within a scene that holds the most poignancy. This film is about her, but she is hidden behind the camera, perhaps unable to combine this foraging for identity with the strong culture of the Romany, her teenage stargazing at Woody Allen combined with the first act of making her own film, her own body of work.
Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody Allen screens on Friday, May 07, 2010 at 9:30 PM at Cinema Nova in Carlton. It screens with the short film Bingo
Part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
Original Post: http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/reviews/film-tv-radio/me-my-gypsy-family-and-woody-allen-181126?sc=1
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The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (tr. Edward G. Seidensticker)
The Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata is perhaps best known for Snow Country, the story of a doomed love affair between a wealthy city-based man and an innocent young geisha who lives in a remote area by the mountains. It is a work of great poetic beauty and subtlety – and yet there is something strange and elusive about this novella, a quality that makes it hard to pin down. The same could be said of The Sound of the Mountain, written in the early fifties and translated into English in 1970. Once again, I find myself being drawn into a world that feels so different from my own, delicately conveyed like the brushstrokes of a watercolour painting.
The novel focuses on Ogata Shingo, a sixty-two-year old man who lives with his wife, Yasuko, in the city of Kamakura, just south of Tokyo. After thirty years, any feelings of love or passion have long since disappeared from the couple's marriage, leaving Shingo preoccupied with a number of things – mostly concerns about his family, the inexorable march of time and his failing memory. There is a sense that life is gradually slipping away from Shingo; the world around him is changing and not necessarily for the better. In this scene, he has just been struggling to do up his tie.
Why should he suddenly this morning have forgotten a process he had repeated every morning through the forty years of his office career? His hands should have moved automatically. He should have been able to tie his tie without even thinking.
It seemed to Shingo that he faced a collapse, a loss of self. (p. 195)
Shingo is at an age where several of his contemporaries are succumbing to various illnesses, some of which end in death – a strong sense of loss pervades throughout the novel. Moreover, there are times, especially at night, when Shingo is visited by the sound of the mountain, a distant rumble that seems to suggest that his own passing might not be too far away.
It was like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth. Thinking that it might be in himself, a ringing in the ears, Shingo shook his head.
The sound stopped, and he was suddenly afraid. A chill passed over him, as if he had been notified that death was approaching. He wanted to question himself, calmly and deliberately, to ask whether it had been the sound of the wind, the sound of the sea, or a sound in his ears. But he had heard no such sound, he was sure. He had heard the mountain. (p. 4)
Also living with Shingo and Yasuko are their wayward, unsympathetic son, Shuichi and his long-suffering wife, Kikuko, a beautiful, sensitive young woman who represents the main source of brightness in Shingo's life. In short, she reminds Shingo of Yasuko's sister, the long-lost love of his youth who died before he decided to get married.
Kikuko was for him a window looking out of a gloomy house. His blood kin were not as he would wish them to be, and if they were not able to live as they themselves wished to live, then the impact of the blood relation became leaden and oppressive. His daughter-in-law brought relief. (p. 25)
Even though he has only been married to Kikuko few years, Shuichi already has a mistress, Kinu, whom he visits after work, frequently leaving Shingo to travel home alone from the Tokyo office where the two men are based. Like Shingo himself, Kikuko also feels rather lonely and isolated in her life. In the absence her husband, she enjoys Shingo's company, helping him to unwind on his return from the city. That said, there is nothing overtly sexual about Shingo's relationship with Kikuko; for the most part, it seems more a case of mutual respect coupled with a deep sense of empathy. In other words, their attraction is predominantly spiritual rather than physical. Nevertheless, there are occasions when Shingo's fondness for his daughter-in-law starts to raise questions in his mind.
There was an undercurrent running through his life the abnormality that made Shingo, drawn to Yasuko's sister, marry Yasuko, a year his senior, upon the sister's death; was it exacerbated by Kikuko? (p. 78)
Yasuko, for her part, is more forthright than Shingo, and she urges her husband to tackle Shuichi head-on over his affair and subsequent neglect of Kikuko. Furthermore, Yasuko believes her husband to be soft, particularly in his favouritism for Shuichi over their other child, Fusako. Shingo, however, has a tendency to procrastinate over familial relationships, preferring instead to avoid any unnecessary conflict. That's not to say that he doesn't feel guilty about his lack of intervention here – in fact, he feels it very deeply – but in spite of this, he allows the situation to fester.
This same sense of procrastination also characterises Shingo's relationship with his rather disagreeable daughter, Fusako, who has recently come back to the Ogata family home following the breakdown of her own marriage. Moreover, Fusako has two young children in tow: a petulant toddler who clearly takes after her mother, and a more placid baby who spends most of her time asleep. Once again, guilt-ridden passivity is the order of the day as Shingo opts to let matters run their natural course.
He knew that as her father he should step forward to give Fusako advice; but she was thirty and married, and matters are not simple for fathers in such cases. It would not be easy to accommodate a woman with two children. A decision was postponed from day to day, as if the principals were all waiting for nature to take its course. (p. 25)
Kawabata paints a very nuanced portrait of Shingo here, a man troubled by the tensions and difficulties in the relationships that surround him, especially those in the modern world of post-war Japan. One feels great sympathy for this individual in spite of the inherent flaws and shortcomings in his character – after all, we are all human with our own particular weaknesses and failings. Central to the novel is the question of how much responsibility a parent should take for the happiness of his or her children, particularly where their marriages are concerned. As the consequences of complications in Shuichi's and Fusako's respective marriages unfold, Shingo finds himself haunted by a sense of guilt. While he tries to do the right thing, especially for Kikuko and Shuichi, a number of unanswered questions continue to prey on his mind.
How many times would Kikuko, now in her early twenties, have to forgive Shuichi before she had lived with him to the ages of Shingo and Yasuko? Would there be no limit to her forgiving?
A marriage was like a dangerous marsh, sucking in endlessly the misdeeds of the partners. Kinu's love for Shuichi. Shingo's love for Kikuko – would they disappear without trace in the swamp that was Shuichi's and Kikuko's marriage? (p. 96)
All in all, this is a beautiful, delicate novel laced with a sense of longing for the past, a time when human relations and emotions seemed more straightforward, certainly as far as Shingo is concerned. In several respects, I was reminded of The Gate by Natsume Söseki, a story of urban angst in early 20th-century Japan which I wrote about last year. At first sight, The Sound of the Mountain might seem a relatively uneventful story of an ordinary Japanese family trying to get by from one day to the next. Nevertheless, in reality, there is a lot going on here; we just have to tune in to the author's rhythm to see it.
The book also contains some lovely writing on the natural world. A majestic display of sunflowers in neighbouring gardens; a flock of buntings taking flight; the sight of fresh buds on a Gingko tree – all of these things represent moments of beauty and simplicity in Shingo's life.
For more reviews of Japanese literature, see Dolce Bellezza's event which is running to the end of the year.
The Sound of the Mountain is published by Penguin Books; personal copy.
This entry was posted in Book Reviews, Kawabata Yasunari and tagged #TranslationThurs, Book Review, Classics Club, Edward G. Seidensticker, Fiction, Japan, Literature in Translation, Penguin Books, Penguin Modern Classics, Yasunari Kawabata on October 10, 2017 by JacquiWine.


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the man on the ladder
I used to imagine a silent Japanese man, sitting at the top of a ladder. He stared down at a giant, empty white canvas. It seemed he was there for days, never hung or sleepy. He was waiting. And then, all at once, he dips a giant paintbrush in a mammoth inkjar. The painting leaps free, finished in a handful of minutes. This idea of patience, and an effortless moment when everything is realized - it became a myth I had created, maybe to mock myself. It seemed impossible. I am far more used to the struggle, the whittling away, the nose and the grindstone, the hard wall, the chipping away, the thirteenth attempt at the first sentence. That is what I know. That is where I live.
A year ago, I launched into a project called Blackbetty, supported by a small army of friends and strangers. Pen went to paper as a new president was elected, as so many familiar aspects of life began to recede, replaced by daily question marks and no answers. I cast the best actors I could find, wrote to their strengths, ran around in the snow and forests with cameras and a sound man. The work was complicated and ambitious, but it always felt right. The project grew larger than a feature film, and it takes months to edit, and paint out the bad reflections of a microphone in a window, and mix the audio, and color correct, but the work is joyous, that familiar finessing, that polishing the stones until they shine in the dark.
I left a few gaps, a few fragments I would shoot last. Last chances to glue things together, a few hail Mary passes to throw when the time was right. Last week, I gave E a script, barely longer than a page. She would speak some Norwegian in it, a language she has been learning completely on her own for the past months. She liked that idea, and the story worked for her. A teenager alone in an apartment, while the world is going to hell outside the front door. In the story, she reaches out and tries to connect, self-edits, becoming her own worst enemy. She naps on the floor. She plays ukulele, without knowing how to tune it. There is a wild snowstorm outside, sudden and fierce. She thinks for some time, she cries for a moment then wipes her eyes. She decides to put some curlers in her hair, just the sort of random things a kid will do when no one is home.
The shoot was done in two hours, and I edited it the next day. Some stories from this project take me weeks to get right. This one required no wrestling match to solve. Before my second morning coffee was finished, I had a first edit.
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Men's Basketball: BU Burns Out in Colgate
by Chris Lynch
By: Chris Lynch
After an emotional game on Monday night against Loyola, Boston University made a quick turnaround to go to Colgate to play the Raiders, who were 4-2 in Patriot League play to start the night.
The teams played an even first half, trading buckets and the lead for most of the first half. With the half coming to a close, Colgate scored on two straight possessions. Austin Tillotson made a three pointer and Fransisco Amiel got his only points of the game on a layup with 34 seconds in the half. Colgate took a two point lead and momentum into halftime.
When the second half began, BU's offense came out firing, leading by as many as six points in the first four minutes of the half. The Raiders responded by taking a lead on a 24-6 run over the next five minutes of play. BU trailed by double digits for most of the rest of the game and never got closer than the final margin of seven.
Cheddi Mosely continued a strong return to form in his second game back from injury, leading the Terriers in scoring with 17 points for the game. Nathan Dieudonne put up another double double, totaling 14 points and 10 rebounds. Two other Terriers totaled double digit points. Eric Fanning and Kyle Foreman both scored 10 points each. The Terrier's offense was much colder in tonight's game than it was against Loyola on Monday. BU only shot 47.2 percent from the field for the game and 31.8 percent from three point range, including only 22.2 percent from three point land in the second half.
BU's defense also did not make they plays needed to win. Colgate shot 58.3 percent from the field and 56 percent from three point range for the game. They also shot 65.2 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from three point range in the second half. Austin Tillotson led the Raiders in scoring with 22 points in the game, and he had plenty of help. Both Jordan Swompshire and Alex Ramon totaled 16 points in the game, and Malcolm Regisford scored 10 points of his own.
With the final score of 85-78, BU falls back under .500 in conference play on the season. Their record is 3-4 in the Patriot League, and 10-10 overall. They return home to play the Conference leading Bucknell Bison at home on Saturday at 1 PM.
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Molly Shannon Have a Dance-Off to 'We Are Family' - and It's Just the Best!
By Jackie Willis 8:04 AM PDT, May 11, 2017
Sarah Jessica Parker and Molly Shannon clearly like their jobs.
On Wednesday, the Divorce co-stars shared videos on Instagram of them seriously getting down to Sister Sledge's 1979 song, "We Are Family," while on set of their HBO show. While Parker had some issues dancing with her "sticky" shoes, Shannon couldn't get up out of her chair fast enough to do "the robot."
From our "scene" and heard column on @divorceonhbo. Sister Sledge, "we are family" while moving the camera takes on new meaning with @theofficialsuperstar. X, SJ
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Being silly and making up a little dance on the set of @divorceonhbo a little robot mixed with some choo choo Charlie and a classsssss act. @sarahjessicaparker
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The actresses slowed things down when they started singing Jeffrey Osborne's 1982 hit, "On the Wings of Love," and even got the crew in on the singalong. "I ❤ working with @sarahjessicaparker," Shannon, 52, gushed on Instagram. "Next time I wanna try to get her to sing something from Annie with me. Like, 'HARD KNOCK LIFE' or 'MAYBE.'"
Part 1 from our "scene" and heard column on @divorceonhbo. Shutting out the world with @theofficialsuperstar and @officialjeffreyosborne. X, SJ
Part 2 from our "scene" and heard column on @divorceonhbo. Flying high upon the wings of love with @theofficialsuperstar and @officialjeffreyosborne. X, SJ
Ahead of Divorce's series premiere last October, Shannon shared with ET why she signed on to star alongside Parker in the dramedy. "What I love about it, and I told this to Sarah Jessica, is that when the emotional elements are truthful, you can go along with the comedy," she explained. "But I never like when such a wonderful, rich subject matter gets too silly. What I love about the show is how real the emotional stuff is."
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"Molly is so dedicated, so committed to the detail, which is a quality I particularly admire," Parker, 52, also bragged about her co-star to ET. "And she is such wonderful company off-camera as well. She brings a tenderness to the role that I think is so necessary and always a surprise."
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As I mentioned in my last post I recently bought a couple of makeup bits from The Body Shop and I thought I'd do a First Impressions post for any of you that are interested! Be warned it contains pictures of my makeup-less face.
Before - no makeup. I had simply wiped over my face with some Garnier Miceller Water.
During - This is straight after I has applied The Body Shop All-In-One BB Cream in the shade 00.
I applied a small amount to the back of my hand and then applied this to my face using the Real Techniques Buffing Brush. This product went on very easily with minimum amount of effort required to get a really nice effect. Initially I was quite worried that the BB Cream might end up orange on my very pale skin but I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely added a bit more colour but the finished result looked like more of a healthy glow I thought! The cream felt very light weight on my face as if I had simply applied a moisturiser. The only downside being the smell isn't great but it's bearable!
After - This is when my makeup was completely finished.
Once my base makeup was complete I did add a dusting of powder as I tend to have quite a shiny t-zone as it is but once this was complete I did not touch up throughout the day as this isn't something I tend to do on a daily basis. I was really impressed with the finished look and found the colour to be a really nice match for me. The BB Cream really blurred my imperfections and other products blended really well on top.
The Lip & Cheek tint looked a bit black when I first applied to my lips (the bullet is black) but this wore off ones I rubbed my lips together. After a few seconds this gorgeous purpley-pink developed and I really thought it suited the overall makeup look! Once dried the tint went very quite matte but still felt very creamy and not at all drying!
On the cheeks this also came out very well and a really similar colour if anything a bit pinker. One thing I would mention is you have to blend fast! Nonetheless I was very happy with the finished result.
9 Hours Later - After a day of shopping etc.
After a day of shopping, cinema and eating I thought I would check back in (no touch ups remember!) and I couldn't be more pleased.
Yes, my t-zone was very shiny but as mentioned earlier it does tend to be anyway and with a powder touch up I really don't think this would have been a problem. The tint had worn off in places and definitely needed a touch up but there was still a small amount of colour there.
For 9 hours, 3 outfit changes and a lot of general activities I really do think these products lasted well.
So that's it! Have you tried any of these products? Let me know what you think!


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Home AFRICA Men jailed for murdering Scots woman in Mauritius
Men jailed for murdering Scots woman in Mauritius
Two men have been jailed after they were found guilty of murdering a Scottish woman during a robbery at her home in Mauritius.
Janice Farman was killed in front of her 10-year-old son in July 2017.
The 47-year-old, from Clydebank, had been in the Indian Ocean country since 2004, where she was working as a director of a data services group.
Kamlesh Mansing, 27, and Anish Soneea, 20, were jailed for 33 and 23 years respectively by a judge in Port Louis.
Mrs Farman died of asphyxiation after being attacked by masked robbers on 6 July 2017.
Report says the judge had condemned the cruel act.
Judge Veronique Kwok Yin Siong Yen said it had cost Ms Farman her life and that her son would have to "carry the dreadful memories of the horrendous night throughout his life".
A third suspect, Ravish Rao Fakhoo, is claiming a reduction in his charge and will face a separate trial.
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America's drug laws are capricious and entrepreneurs who once specialized in cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana now transport "undocumented immigrants" instead. The diversity of the peoples leaving Tijuana for the north is astounding. The rich cultures of Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Afghanistan and even Chechnya all blend in Tijuana and become one with their guide who leads them to America.
Yes, The Cartel, with all that implies, is now running the people smuggling business and "undocumenteds" are assisted by real professionals in their crossing of the border.
The cost for a Mexican to be led across the Tijuana area frontier is about $2,000. The cost for someone from Iran or Afghanistan can be well over $20,000.
To make matters worse, militant Islam is now flooding Mexico and even gaining substantial numbers of converts. The interlinking of these Muslim cells is called the "Jihadi Spider Web." Most of these cells operating in Mexico link directly to cells in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Another way one can measure the level of cooperation between the drug lords of Afghanistan and the drug cartels of Mexico is in the new sport of beheading. Human heads are washing up on the beaches of Acapulco. They are being plopped on the dance floors of popular nightclubs. They are even rolling down the streets of Tijuana.


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To assist entities tasked with coordinating project review, the Texas Historical Commission (THC) has developed guidance and agreement documents for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the Antiquities Code of Texas. This material provides supplemental instructions beyond the general overview in the Project Review portion of our website, and in the case of agreement documents, streamlines consultation for specific programs and agencies. For general updates regarding our project review procedures, please see How the THC Reviews Projects. To download the updated Request for SHPO Consultation form, please see What to Send for a Project Review.
The THC has developed fact sheets for Section 106 consultation for certain project types and agencies. When applicable, please consult these guides before submitting a project for review.
General guidance documents:
Section 106 for Homeowners
This document is for homeowners who receive federal assistance for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or other construction activities at their homes. It provides an introduction to the National Historic Preservation Act and answers frequently asked questions about the THC's role and review process.
Streetscape Guidelines for Historic Commercial Districts
This document provides an overview of how the THC reviews streetscape improvement projects, including guidance on the design of elements such as street and sidewalk replacement, street lighting, and accessibility upgrades.
Guidance documents by federal program or agency:
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (updated 2015)
This document explains the nationwide programmatic agreement with FCC and how to coordinate an FCC project with the THC. As of Monday, September 14, 2015, the Texas Historical Commission no longer participates in the FCC E-106 system.
U.S. Department of Energy, Guidance Memorandum for Funding Administered by the State Energy Conservation Office
In Texas, the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) administers Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants and State Energy Plan grants to county and municipal governments. This guidance document gives grant recipients an overview of how to submit their projects for THC review. Additional information, including a consultation list that outlines what project types require THC review, is available on SECO's website.
U.S. Department of Energy, Guidance Memorandum for Funding Administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
In Texas, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) administers Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) grants to government and non-profit entities for weatherization of homes. This guidance document gives grant recipients an overview of how to submit their projects for THC review. Additional information on the program is available on TDHCA's website.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Guidance Memorandum for State and Local Officials Receiving HUD Funding or Assistance (updated 2014)
Intended for use by local and state government agencies administering HUD funds, this guidance document provides an overview of the Section 106 process, explains how to coordinate with the THC, and lists routine project types that do not require THC review.
Program Alternatives
Section 106 regulations at 36 CFR 800.14 allow federal agencies to establish specific measures for implementing the review process. These alternatives may take the form of alternate procedures, programmatic agreements, or program comments, among others. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) maintains information on nationwide program alternatives at https://www.achp.gov/program_alternatives.
Further, the THC has entered into programmatic agreements to guide consultation on projects in Texas. Please consult the following list of active agreements prior to submitting a project for review, to ensure that the proper review process for your agency or project is followed:
This agreement with FEMA and the Texas Division of Emergency Management provides for expedited review of emergency response following a presidentially declared disaster, and also covers non-emergency coordination of mitigation grant programs.
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
The DOD has created internal policies in the document Instruction 4715.16: Cultural Resources Management, which requires that each installation develop an Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan. Further, the ACHP has issued multiple program comments for the DOD and its branches, and the Army makes use of alternate procedures, all of which are available via the ACHP link above. In addition, the THC has entered into programmatic agreements for consultation at Fort Bliss in El Paso and Joint Base San Antonio, which encompasses Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, and Randolph Air Force Base.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
This agreement covers DOE grant programs, including the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG), State Energy Plan (SEP), and Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). In Texas, the State Energy Conservation Office (part of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) administers EECBG and SEP grants to county and municipal governments, while the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs administers WAP grants for the weatherization of homes. The DOE agreement is an umbrella for state-level agreements with these agencies and makes their terms applicable to direct recipients of DOE grants. For more information, see the applicable guidance documents, above.
The THC has multiple agreements pertaining to HUD-funded programs. In most cases, HUD has delegated its responsibility for Section 106 compliance to the state or local government receiving HUD funds. The THC has entered into agreements with the Texas General Land Office (GLO) for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds, Texas Department of Rural Affairs (TDRA), and other HUD-funded programs. For all other entities administering HUD funds, please see the Guidance Memorandum, above.
Project-specific agreements exist in addition to the agreements enumerated above. For more information or to obtain a copy of a programmatic agreement applicable to your project, please contact the appropriate reviewer for your agency or region.
Memoranda of Understanding for the Antiquities Code of Texas
Projects involving state or local public land require review under the Antiquities Code of Texas. Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with other state agencies for compliance with the Antiquities Code include agreements with:
Lower Colorado River Authority
Texas Department of Transportation
Texas Water Development Board
MOUs with the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Water Development Board, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are included in Rules of Practice and Procedure for the Antiquities Code of Texas (Texas Administrative Code, Title 13, Chapter 26), available under Statutes, Regulations, and Rules.


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