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Harold Acton
The Exile of Capri
by Roger Peyrefitte, translated by Peter Fryer
Fleet, 284 pp., $4.95
The Prince's Person
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 212 pp., $4.95
Though Gallic wit will always continue to flourish even if it is driven underground, it has become increasingly hard to seek in modern French literature. Possibly this may be due to the last war: a heavy pall of bleak pretentious boredom has descended—one hopes only temporarily—on the purveyors of contemporary fiction. The recent winners of prominent French literary prizes reinforce a suspicion that these are allotted by masonic agreement between publishers and critics. Politics may also play its deleterious part, and the personal magnetism of such avantgarde exponents as M. Robbe-Grillet and M. Le Clézio, but the Muses are seldom present at the coronation. The prizes insure a large sale, if not an enduring reputation. The crowned novels are read, or rather skimmed, in a spirit of curiosity by a public eager to keep abreast of the times. How many readers are doomed to disillusion! Surely never before has there been such a spate of pompous drivel parading as creative literature. Let us then be all the more grateful to M. Roger Peyrefitte, who upholds the virtues of crystaline lucidity, barbed wit, subtle insight, observation, and elegance of style which have distinguished the best French writers in the past. These virtues even percolate through translation, though le mot juste is most difficult to render.
M. Peyrefitte is a peculiarly French phenomenon, for one can think of no parallel in other countries. In England he would become involved in endless lawsuits; behind the Iron Curtain he would be liquidated. He collects violent protests instead of literary prizes, in fact he thrives on them. His books, which grow longer, bulkier, and more expensive, continue to sell like hot cakes in spite of being so well written. Their subject may be scandalous, but not his treatment of it. His language is never coarse. Schoolboy passions have seldom been described with such delicate sympathy and understanding as in his Special Friendships. His Death of a Mother is another haunting document which all psychologists should read. In these earlier novels M. Peyrefitte's seriousness is more apparent than his wit. Diplomatic Diversions, on the other hand, is a rollicking satire on the antics of certain pre-war diplomats. Here his wit is paramount, but I confess I have not read it in translation. Several of his older colleagues still turn purple when Les Ambassades and La Fin des Ambassades are mentioned, but in strict confidence they are bound to admit the underlying truth of his observations. Greece strengthened his devotion to Hellenic culture during his fruitful period in the diplomatic service. His translation of The Loves of Lucian of Samosata reminds one of his kinship with that pioneer satirist, who wrote that the historian should be "fearless and incorruptible, independent, a lover of frankness and truth…indulging neither hate nor affection, unsparing and unpitying, not shy nor shamefast, an impartial judge…."
In middle age he remains an enfant terrible who delights in provoking the Establishment. Sometimes he suggests a learned Jesuit; at others (as Auden said of T. S. Eliot) "a twelve-year-old boy who liked to surprise over-solemn wigs by offering them explosive cigars." In his later novels, beginning with The Keys of St. Peter and ending with Les Juifs, wherein he maintains that most of us, including General de Gaulle, are of Jewish extraction—a book which has kindled the fierce resentment of the Rothschild family and not a few literary colleagues such as Marcel Jouhandeau—one cannot be sure where fiction ends and history begins; for he combines fictitious with real characters. The novelist seems to be writing history and vice versa. This may help to account for his great popular success: he supplies neither footnotes nor index to distract that important customer, the common reader. After the highly controversial Keys of St. Peter, followed by his erudite tome on The Knights of Malta, M. Peyrefitte produced an elaborate period piece with the island of Capri as its background and foreground, for he was naturally drawn to this picturesque outpost of Hellenism. The period, often misnamed la belle époque, is the two decades preceding the first World War, and M. Peyrefitte has chosen to concentrate on its seamier side, its domestic scandals, perversities, frivolities, and florid bad taste.
The Exile of Capri is a romanticized biography of Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, poetically described by Jean Cocteau as "an Icarus whose wings melt in the sun of vainglory"—a poor little rich boy with whom it is hard to sympathize in spite of his inherent pathos. One regrets that a writer of Peyrefitte's caliber should have wasted so much powder and shot on this third-rate exhibitionist, yet one cannot fail to admire his skill in marshaling relevant anecdotes, his architectural sense, and ability to administer and excavate so many buried facts. His aim was to satirize the flamboyant decadence of his hero's environment, yet for once his satire is gentle, suffused with an undercurrent of nostalgia which gives the book an elegiac tinge. Compassion replaces Swift's savage indignation, for Peyrefitte has a humanist's kind heart. Hence the satire is not wholly successful.
In his autobiographical excursion, Looking Back, Norman Douglas remarked that Compton Mackenzie had caught the comic side of Fersen's personality in Vestal Fire, but there was a tragic side as well. M. Peyrefitte had portrayed both aspects in this chronicle of a Capri long extinct—the sybaritic "Nepenthe" of Norman Douglas's South Wind. Fersen, who might have been a good actor in another walk of life like his contemporary De Max, craved notoriety at any cost and was consumed with self-pity as soon as he achieved it—by giving absurd tea parties for schoolboys "to glorify the pagan religion." Trouble with the police in consequence impelled him to settle in Capri, where he could indulge his taste for ephebes with less danger of interference. Even there his Neronian love of ostentation got him into hot water, for he was an irrepressible Captain Grimes under his thin veneer of greenery-yallery aestheticism. But his favorite color was pink, an attentive reader might object. Be that as it may, the effect was greenery-yallery. M. Peyrefitte describes his apartment in Paris as follows:
Jacques had put in electric light, a novelty at the time, and had daffodils painted on the milky glass lampshades. His big central room, its walls hung with Liberty silk, had been furnished with Louis Quinze day-beds, Turkish divans, Chinese pedestal tables, and Persian carpets. A piano and a harp confronted each other across it. A painting attributed to Boucher depicted "Venus among her nymphs." There was a bronze group entitled, "Two Loves striving for a heart fallen at their feet." A nielloed frame contained a photograph of Sarah Bernhardt swaggering as l'Aiglon. Two columns bore figures, one of Apollo, the other of Minerva. The bedroom was decorated with licentious prints and chasubles. The bathroom tiles and furniture were decorated with nosegays of roses, [etc.]
A lush and lurid conglomeration to dazzle his juvenile guests. Those milky glass lampshades adorned with daffa-downdillies might still make a few mouths water, since art nouveau is returning to fashionable favor. The Exile of Capri is a literary counterpart of the products of Gallé and Lalique.
Incapable of self-criticism, Fersen scribbled insipid verses and sentimental novels with such titles as Lord Lyllian, of which Norman Douglas remarked that it had "a musty, Dorian-Grayish flavor." Jean Lorrain, whom he seems to have taken as a literary model, saw nothing in him but "the hypertrophy of an insufficient ego." When he realized his failure as an artist he took to drugs. Perhaps opium helped to illude him that he was a creative genius: from opium he went to cocaine. The genial Norman Douglas, who discerned "some lovable streaks in him, some touches of genuine sensibility," tried to give him some sound advice but he realized that the case was hopeless. Whereas opium could stimulate certain writers, including Cocteau, who contributed an eloquent Foreword to The Exile of Capri, it appears to have intensified Fersen's mythomania: his pink roses turned blood-red in the Capri sunset.
Though Peyrefitte has delved with Teutonic patience and thoroughness into the sordid scandals of the characters who flit through his pages, The Exile of Capri is far from scandalous. It might even be described as a well documented sermon on the penalties of sexual aberration. As M. Cocteau, de l'Academie Française, exhorts us in his Foreword: "May The Exile of Capri serve to teach youth that beauty exists only if an inner beauty and hard work strive against and exorcize its arrogance!" And one is tempted to add: "Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds." Certainly Peyrefitte has squeezed Capri like a sponge. The hordes of more or less standardized tourists who throng that island today offer meager grist to any potential rival's mill.
Peyrefitte's more recent book, The Prince's Person, is scandalous indeed. Only those familiar with the original documents printed privately in Florence (II Glornale di Erudizione, 3 vols. 1886, I vol. 1893, with a preface by Giuseppe Conti) will be able to appreciate fully the comic art with which M. Peyrefitte has retold this historical anecdote, hinging on the sexual potency of Don Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua, after the non-consummation of his marriage to the Duke of Parma's grand-daughter, who was very reluctantly relegated to a convent. Though for reasons of state Don Vincenzo appeared to be an eligible bridegroom, the Medicean Grand Duke Francesco I required positive proof of his virility before entrusting his daughter Eleonora to his conjugal embraces. The Farnese had spread a rumor that Don Vincenzo was to blame for the failure of his first marriage and the diplomatic démarches between prelates and princes, including a future saint, to investigate the truth, followed by the sacrifice of an innocent virgin who was used as a guinea-pig in the experiment, are related with ironical gusto by M. Peyrefitte in The Prince's Person, of which Peter Fryer has produced an excellent translation. Don Vincenzo vindicated his sexual prowess under circumstances where many another prince equally potent might have failed through modesty. But the Renaissance, early and late, had little modesty, and publicity flourished long before the proliferation of the Press.
More by Harold Acton
Bird or Devil?
January 6, 1966 issue
Harold Acton (1904–1994) was a prolific Anglo-Italian writer, poet, novelist, and translator. He lived in China from 1932 to '39, teaching English literature at the University of Peking.


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RA's Daily Russia News Blast – April 15, 2016
By Citizen M | Published: April 15, 2016
TODAY: Putin's three-and-a half hour phone-in follows standard formula; economic and domestic questions dominate; some observers suggest the President's performance lacked zing in comparison to other years; raids carried out on IKEA and Onexim group; Browder to be questioned over Magnitsky case; Kremlin denounces new U.S. report.
More than 3 million questions were apparently submitted to President Putin's annual direct line question and answer session which offered little in the way of surprises, with the President mainly taking pains to assure worried citizens that Russia's reserve funds were not on the verge of exhaustion and that GDP would grow by 1.4%. 'Putin this year was very focused on domestic issues', professor Nikolai Petrov has observed, since 'there's a major electoral campaign and people are far more interested in what is happening at home than abroad'. One caller addressed Russia's lack of political pluralism, asking, 'What's the point in voting if the ruling party – United Russia – always wins?' You can find Putin's answer here. The President's comments about the United States, the West, and Turkey were 'tempered', Bloomberg says (he called Obama a 'decent person' for admitting mistakes in Libya). One commentator suggests that the President was in fact rather subdued: 'he read economic statistics from a piece of paper, while previously he had made a point of demonstrating his impressive memory'. The Guardian argues that Putin gave the appearance of leader on top of the key issues, 'though that is hardly surprising given that there are almost no probing questions'. A 12-year-old girl provided one of the more provocative foreign policy questions – whether Putin would save Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Turkish President Recep Erdogan if they were drowning. 'If someone decides to drown, there's no one that can help him', he replied. RFE/RL's Brian Whitmore has identified his favorite Putin quote from the call in: 'Siberia is safer than Brussels. Anyone who says otherwise will be sent there'.
Somewhat ironically, given that Putin assured two entrepreneurs he was working on stopping the harassment of business by government inspectors, the FSB has carried out a raid at the headquarters of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim investment group whilst the police undertook one at the Russian headquarters of furniture maker IKEA. The Investigative Committee reportedly has plans to question British-American investor William Browder about the murder of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. Two leading opposition politicians, Ivan Zhdanov and Ilya Yashin, have announced their withdrawal from election primaries being organised by the PARNAS democratic coalition. The Moscow Times investigates the possibility that the murder of a St Petersburg journalist was motivated by homophobia.
Russia has denounced the U.S. State Department's latest Kremlin-critical human rights report as a 'bossy' document replete with ideological 'cliches' and 'anti-Russian stereotypes.' Russian state news agency website Sputnik has apparently been blocked by Turkey. The Economist praises the work of Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina.
PHOTO: Vladimir Putin during his marathon phone-in TV show in Moscow. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AP)

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John Turnbull graduated as a forester from the University of Wales in 1962. He was a forester with the Woods and Forest Department of South Australia before he joined the Forestry and Timber Bureau in 1965. In 1974 he was placed in charge of the Seeds Section of what was later known as the Division of Forest Research, CSIRO. For his doctorate at the Australian National University he studied the genealogy of Eucalyptus cloeziana.
John Turnbull has made extensive seed and botanical collections of tree species, particularly eucalypts. He visited many parts of the world, including Mexico, the Philippines, Timor, Italy, Israel, Tunisia, Malta and Thailand.
Until 1976 he was the Australian representative on the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) Forest Tree Seed Committee, and leader of the ISTA Working Group on Tropical Tree Seeds. He is a panel member on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources.


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Q: Django - check if two password hashes are of same raw password I want to keep track of user password change history, and display a warning if their current password is used by them before. To note, I don't want to prevent a user from setting a password if it is used before, I want to let them set the password, but just display a warning afterwards. So what I'm looking for is NOT a password validator.
I know that while Django saves user passwords in the db, it creates a hash of the password, using a random salt. So 2 hashes of the same password will not be the same. Still, is it possible to tell if 2 different password hashes are created with the same raw password as the input?

A: I don't know that, I understood your situation correctly or not.
Here is the solution based on what I understood from your question.
You can compare the new password with the password which is already in use by using the check_password() method which is associated with the User model in Django.
 @api_view(['POST'])
 def some_function(request):
    new_password = request.data.get('password')
    # get the user from the request
    user_object = request.user
    if user_object.check_password(new_password):
       # check_password() will hash the new_password in the same way how it hashed the password which is already stored in the db and it will compare the new_password with that password.
       print("Both the passwords are same")
    else:
       print("Passwords are not same")

If the request is not authenticated then it is not possible to get the user from the request. On that case this code will not work.
Hope it will give the solution to your problem.

A: If you don't have access to the plaintext password and all you have are the hashes, you cannot make any comparisons between them. That's precisely on purpose to make the passwords irreversible, and especially entire databases of them. You may be able to brute-force one password given enough time and computing power, but you can't apply that knowledge to any other hashes, so brute-forcing an entire database of them is prohibitively expensive.
You could make such comparisons at the time of registration, login or password reset, when the user has input their plain password. At that point, you just need to hash the password with the salt of the existing one(s) and then compare the hashes.

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Online journalist found dead in Mexican home after receiving new car gift from mystery benefactor
National newspaper print ABCs: Daily Star overtakes Daily Telegraph for first time in over a year + full figures for Jan
Jailed Reuters journalists appear in Burmese court on same day they receive press freedom award
Two journalists have appeared in a Burmese court facing charges of breaching the Official Secrets Act on the same day it was announced that they had won a major press freedom award.
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo face up to 14 years in jail if convicted after they were arrested in Myanmar (formerly Burma) on 12 December for acquiring "important secret papers" from two policemen.
Reuters last week published the story of the "massacre" of ten men from Myanmar's minority Rohingya Muslim population on which the two journalists were working.
The literary and human rights organisation PEN America announced on Wednesday that it was giving the pair its Freedom To Write Award, which honours those who have risked adversity in the cause of free expression.
PEN America executive director Suzanne Nossel told the Associated Press: "Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were unearthing dark truths with the rigor of professional journalists: interviewing eyewitnesses on all sides and collecting physical and photographic evidence.
"The prosecution of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for the crime of exposing alleged atrocities is a jarring reminder that the fight for free expression in Myanmar remains incomplete and urgent."
Wa Lone told reporters as he left the court on Wednesday: "I can tell you we worked in accordance with media ethics. I totally believe that."
Than Zaw Aung, a lawyer representing the journalists, said after the hearing that it had included evidence from the fourth prosecution witness, a police officer who said he took part in the men's arrest, AP reported.
The defence challenged the officer's evidence, and questioned whether he was even at the arrest.
Aung added: "So far, the court case is going normally and the article that Reuters has published did not really affect the court case. According to the law and the legal process, we are trying as hard as we can to get things done."
He said the court had agreed to the defence's request that two prosecution witnesses, rather than a single one, should give evidence at the next hearing.
Reuters has said that the court proceedings will "show the innocence" of the two journalists and has called for their prompt release.
Picture: Reuters/Jorge Silva
Reuters says Myanmar court hearings will 'show innocence' of its two jailed journalists


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SALE NO. OA2111
NFT Online Auction
Andreas Ivan (Russian Mauritian, B. 1989)
Estimate Upon Request
Executed in 2021
Funkie is one of the only five Smoochies that are accompanied by creatures that roam our world. On the surface, Funkie is colourful and attractive. However, like in the world of insects, sometimes the most colourful are also the most dangerous or poisonous. Funkie exists to remind us not to judge a book by its cover.
Andreas has risen to NFT stardom through his original creation, 'Smoochies'. Earlier this year, he launched a debut collection of 36 'Smoochies' that sold out at record-breaking Ethereum valuations, breaking NFT sales records in Asia. The unprecedented demand propelled 'Smoochies' into NFT folklore: 'Smoochies' are now featured in NFT-spotlight articles in Business TIMES Magazine and Bazaar Art. Andreas' creations were featured alongside the works of fellow NFT heavyweights Beeple and Pak in China's first global NFT Exhibition held in Shanghai.
As an expat living in China, Andreas is separated from his parents thousands of miles. This distance has been extremely challenging. His mother's longing to have him by her side led to the creation of 'Smoochies'. As a sign of appreciation for his mother, Andreas created 'Smoochies' to replicate the kisses his mother imparted in times of difficulty. The pouting design of 'Smoochies' is meant to convey the same love, comfort and support that the young Andreas received from his mother. Andreas hopes that the loving message underlying 'Smoochies' can bring a smile to its viewers and collectors.
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Q: Stopping an animation then restarting it I have no idea how I can stop this animation when the mouse is over it
http://jsfiddle.net/xRcwH/14/

A: Is this the effect you need : http://jsfiddle.net/xRcwH/24/ ?

A: The following should hopefully work like you want it to:
var $marquee;

var reset = function() {
    "use strict";
    $marquee.css("margin-left", "0%");
    $marquee.animate({ "margin-left": "-100%" }, 4000, 'linear', reset);
};

var func = function() {
    "use strict";
    $marquee = $("#marquee");
    $marquee.css({"overflow": "hidden", "width": "100%"});
    $marquee.wrapInner("<span>");
    $marquee.find("span").css({ "width": "50%", "display": "inline-block", "text-align": "right" });
    $marquee.append($marquee.find("span").clone());
    $marquee.wrapInner("<div>");
    $marquee.find("div").css("width", "200%");
    reset.call($marquee.find("div"));
};

$(function() {
    "use strict";
    func();

    $marquee.hover(
        function() {
            $(this).stop();
        },
        function() {
            $(this).animate({ "margin-left": "-100%" }, 4000, 'linear', reset);
        }
    );
});

See updated fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/xRcwH/27/
I have cleaned up your code a bit and moved things around. The reset function should not be declared in the function func so I moved that out.
Furthermore I changed:
marquee.find("span").css({ "width": "50%", "display": "inline-block", "text-align":"center" });

to
$marquee.find("span").css({ "width": "50%", "display": "inline-block", "text-align": "right" });

as this makes it animate over the whole screen.

Lastly I'm using .hover() because this is what it is made for, .hover() is the same as doing:
$(selector).mouseenter(handlerIn).mouseleave(handlerOut);

A: You should also post your code here, but here is what makes it stop:
$(this).find('div').stop();

instead of
$this.stop();

Because the animation is on the div inside the marquee.


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Once again, this week, we read two combined parashiot Behar-Bechukotai. In the first of this coming week's parashiot, parashat Behar, we read in Leviticus 25:35, "V'chee ya'mooch ah'chee'cha, u'mah'tah ya'do ee'mach, v'heh'cheh'zak'tah bo." And if your brother becomes impoverished, (literally, crushed) and his means falters in your proximity, you shall strengthen him. This verse teaches the unambiguous positive mitzvah to help the poor, and especially to help them before they become destitute, when it becomes so much more difficult to help them.
Rashi (1040-1105), in his commentary, says that the situation with helping the poor may be compared to a load on an animal that has begun to slip from the animal's back. As long as the load is still on the animal, a single person can adjust it and keep the animal from falling. But once the animal has fallen, even five people cannot get it back on its feet.
As many of you know, the word tzedakah, does not mean charity, but rather justice and righteousness. It is not an act of charity to be generous, it is the correct thing to do. That it why parashat Behar is so full of statements encouraging Jews to help the poor.
Many years ago I learned a profound lesson about charity when I attended the wedding of one of my students, whose family was part of the Mir community in Brooklyn. Many members of this community had escaped the Nazis by fleeing to Shanghai, and relocating to Israel and America.
Although the groom's father was a prosperous caterer, and could have chosen to schedule the wedding in any of the fanciest New York City ballrooms, he chose to have his simcha in the Gruss Educational Center, which was at that time a relatively new High School building in the heart of Boro Park.
Because the wedding was held on Tuesday night (the day that the Torah in Genesis says is "doubly blessed"), I arrived late, after teaching my Tuesday night class. It was a wintry night and the guests were just filing out of the gymnasium, which was off the main lobby, where the chupah was held. The main lobby was terribly crowded, and I had difficulty finding a hanger for my coat. As soon as I hung up my coat, a hand, a shaking hand, was thrust in to my face, below my nose. I looked up and saw that it was the hand of a poor person asking for charity. I took out a nickel, a dime or a quarter, from my pocket and gave it to the poor fellow. Before I even had a chance to move, another hand was in my face, and another, and another. I looked around and saw that the whole lobby was swarming with poor people who were begging for money. I thought it odd. But what was more unusual was that I seemed to be the only one who was giving coins, everyone else was giving the poor people dollars! I duly noted the unusual generosity, and proceeded downstairs to the dining room.
The dining room, which was the High School dining room, of course, had a heigh ceiling, and a large elegant chandelier in the center. I noticed that on either side of the ballroom were two elegantly appointed tables. Seated at these tables were the poor people–on one side the men, on the other side the women. Many of the needy people were dressed in shabby and tattered clothes. Some even had their shopping bags lying near them. It was not a pleasant sight to behold. The host however felt that his family could not celebrate a simcha, a joyous occasion, without inviting the poor, who were to be given an honored place at the celebration. I was duly impressed, but the best was yet to come.
I proceeded to my table. It was an all mens table, and I knew not a soul. After the first course, a young man stood up and announced to those present, "My name is so and so, I have taken upon myself to support a poor family in Jerusalem, and I expect you to help!" He did not say "I hope you will help." I thought it was odd, but I realized that I was dealing with quite a different culture.
Trying desperately to fit in to this unusual subculture of Jews, I took out my wallet and pulled out a crispy $5 bill, waved it in front of everybody so they could all see how generous I was, and gave it to the young man. Nobody gave less than $20, except for me! I was flabbergasted.
After the next course of food, a group of young men came down dressed in pink rabbit uniforms, and performed a dance. After the dance, the young people circulated throughout the hall, going from table to table giving out little cards, which read, "We are students of the Mir Yeshiva. In the month of Adar, which precedes Passover, we go to all joyous occasions to collect Maot Chittim, money for wine and matzot, for the poor for Passover." Again, there was an enormous outpouring.
I had been to charitable events before, but I was stunned by this unprecedented generosity. And it impacted on my own perception of giving.
There is one thing worse than being on a Mafia hit list. When the Mafia comes to get you, they shoot you in the head, put on you their proverbial concrete boots, and toss you into the river. In most instances, the pain is brief, the suffering, only for an instant. However, if you are on the charity collectors' hit list, the pain is constant and unending.
I live on the Upper West Side in a "fancy" doorman building. My doorman is a very nervous type. When he sees the men with the beards coming, he gets frazzled. "The fuzzies are coming! The fuzzies are coming!" he screams. They usually come en masse, 3 or 4 at a time. They traipse in to your home, at the least opportune time, when you're about to put the children to sleep, or in the midst of an important conversation, or studying Torah. There doesn't seem to be a truly opportune time for them to come.
The collectors come armed with documents, showing how vital their needs. They may even come with cancelled checks from previous years to prove that you gave a larger amount last year than you intend to give this year. It's not easy.
After my experience with the Mir wedding, I tried to be more sensitive with my charity. I spoke to my family, and we decided that when the poor come to collect, we will treat them kindly, ask them to sit down, offer them a glass of water, a fruit, a piece of cake. Ask them about their cause, and their needs.
My wife and I felt that it was important to have the children involved in giving the money, so that they can learn to be charitable. Several times during the year when we write out large numbers of checks in response to the many envelopes we receive, we sit down as a family and try to decide how much to give, and to which causes to give, in order to involve the children. It doesn't happen by osmosis. We even have a so-called "homeless person" who comes to our home every Wednesday night and stays until the wee hours of the morning, eating, reading, using the computer, listening to tapes, etc. Although having him in our home is not always easy or convenient, it has had a profound impact on our lives. After all, this is exactly what our parasha said (Leviticus 25:35), "V'chee ya'mooch ah'chee'cha," And if your brother will be crushed, "V'heh'cheh'zak'tah bo," strengthen him, raise him up!
It is this sensitivity that is implied by the very beautiful and subtle verse that Jews read every Friday night in the Ode to the Woman of Valor, Ayshet Chayil, from Proverbs 31:20: "Kah'pah par'sah l'ah'nee, v'yah'deh'hah shil'cha la'ev'yon." The Woman of Valor opens her palm to the poor and sends forth her hand to the needy. When a poor person approaches the Woman of Valor, she opens her palm-her pocket and her pocketbook. But when she beholds a truly needy person, one who is languishing, she does not wait–she extends her hand.
May the People of Israel become so charitable that the Al-mighty will be forced to banish need and deprivation from all of Humankind.
Tagged: -The Extraordinary Mitzvah of Tzedaka (Charity), 2002, 5762, Behar-Bechukotai, charity, Judaism, justice, mitzvah, Rabbi Buchwald, righteousness, tzedakah.


Under his Larry Fisherman moniker, Mac Miller goes behind the boards to produce his latest release, "Amen." Featuring verses from Ab-Soul, Vince Staples, Da$h and RetcH, the four rappers abandon a hook and spit one-after-another over the eerie beat. With notable lyrical exercise over the occasional gong of a cathedral bell, this cut is easily a banger. No word on where the track will appear.


Chautauqua Rails to Trails (CR2T) is a non profit corporation whose reason for existence is to acquire, develop and maintain multi purpose recreational trails for public use on or near abandoned railroad rights of way. CR2T provides safe, attractive trails for non motorized trail users. The trails wind through wetlands, pine forests, hardwood forests, pastures and vineyards. Observing and learning about nature, about the history of the area and getting healthy physical exercise is what trail users can expect.
Chautauqua County is blessed with beautiful unused rail corridors winding through picturesque countryside and villages. In an era preceding paved roads and mechanically reliable cars and trucks, railroads were essential for transportation and for moving agricultural and manufactured goods and supplies through rural areas. In recent decades, railroads have abandoned most of their lines serving rural areas. CR2T is preserving these abandoned rail corridors for conversion into safe off-road trails for recreational use: walking, running, hiking, bicycling, cross country skiing, bird watching (over 170 species identified) and horseback riding. These trails provide public access through scenic woodlands, wetlands and flowering meadows, offering trail users opportunities to observe the plants, animals and birds found in areas otherwise remote from highways and roads. The trails are available for outdoor recreational activities and environmental study for the public at large and for group outings sponsored by schools, scouts, churches and service organizations.


In the absence of the illustrious Ted Lenk, I will endeavor to write the world a quick bloom report for Rhododendron State Park.
As of this week, the blooms seem to finally be in full swing at Rhododendron. However, as Ted observed in his previous report, there seems to be more vegetative growth this year than flowering buds.
Although the majority of the buds are in full bloom, there are still those that are dragging their feet and others that are racing ahead. I have seen one or two rhododendron that are already in the later stages of flowering, as well as one or two that were just beginning to make their way out of their buds.
Even though the new growth has detracted somewhat from the floral display, there are still plenty of blooms out, especially for those with a keen eye. One group of visitors came to me after their tour of the park and told me to encourage everyone to "walk through the park twice", claiming that it was only on the second viewing that they realized how many rhododendrons were really out there. Another tip I received from a group was to look up, many of the blooms are just above eyeline and could be missed.
The above picture is a sure sign that Rhododendron blooms are overhead, and a reminder to come visit Rhododendron State Park before the bloom is gone.
We were there Sunday, and there were a lot of dried old buds/flowers. We called first, and were told past bloom by staff who had been out there and that most were already gone. So this conflicts with what we heard and then saw???
It doesn't bloom until mid-July, typically. Try another visit. I think you'll be surprised.
We were there today 7/20/18. Saw a few blooms, but we were disappointed. Felt the July 19th report was misleading. Sign at park says full bloom mid July, did not see that. Guess we are going to try again next year, maybe a little earlier. I think it will be beautiful when seen at the right time.


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Mitch Sorensen February 23, 2017
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Colin Champagne said he sees the Board of Governors Representative position as one where you can put 10 hours per week in and do the job, or put 100 hours per week in and still not achieve everything you wanted.
I have to agree with him. First and foremost, it is a volunteer position. Whereas the rest of the Students' Union's executives are compensated with approximately $35,448 per year, BoG Rep doesn't see a cent. When you take into consideration that the board votes on most of the issues of significance that the university deals with throughout the year, the importance of Champagne's position cannot be understated.
In addition, it should be noted that the BoG Rep position has, in the past, been occupied by members who were accused of pushing individual agendas, or those of their faculties. Champagne did no such thing, and said he believes it is the responsibility of the BoG Rep to vote in the best interest of all students. In addition, he took to heart his role as part of the highest level of university administration, saying that the best interests of students and the best interests of the university were, more often than not, in alignment. For example, Champagne not only voted against rising costs to students (such as international tuition), but he also voiced concerns at the Board of Governors about meal plans and costs of living when other board members expressed frustration when students resisted said costs.
Champagne extended this even-handed approach to Students' Council. He was a leader in chambers, pushing members when they needed to be pushed, and always ready with succinct responses when inquiries were made of him. Most importantly, Champagne grounded debate in how it would be perceived by the university and public at large, arguably making the policies and bylaws brought forward by council much more effective at being heard in other areas of university governance. His ability to check the somewhat long-winded and occasionally risky talking points in council also cannot be understated; he was the one who pushed council in camera when VP Sandare began discussing SU political strategy in an open council session.
Champagne is a seasoned veteran of student governance, and it showed throughout his term as BoG Rep. He pushed discussions when they needed to be pushed, and backed off when they didn't. He was an active participant in council, and played his role perfectly on the Board and its committees. It's evident that he took his position extremely seriously, and put in an unbelievable number of unpaid hours for the student body at large.
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Looks Like Electronics Stores Will Be Less Crowded This Holiday Season
By Brad Tuttle @bradrtuttleSept. 13, 2012
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Last year, shoppers camped out in front of Best Buys for days to be among the first in line for Black Friday sales, and flooded into electronics stores to buy tablets, smartphones, and surprisingly large number of TVs throughout the holiday season. While epic shopping events like Black Friday weekend are sure to draw monster crowds yet again this year, consumers can expect considerably more elbow room in electronics stores for most of the upcoming holiday shopping season.
A new study from ShopperTrak, a research firm that tracks and analyzes retailer foot traffic, predicts decent growth for the Christmas shopping season ahead. Overall, it expects retail sales to grow by 3.3%, and foot traffic to increase 2.8%. The latter is especially significant, considering that foot traffic actually decreased 2.2% from the 2010 holiday season to last year's season.
But not all stores will see an uptick in shopper visits. "ShopperTrak expects foot traffic to drop steeply by 8 percent in the electronics and appliance sector," the report states. At the same time, though, electronics sales are expected to creep up slightly, rising 1.5% over the 2011 holiday season.
The discrepancy—fewer in-store shoppers, yet higher sales—can at least partially be explained by the rising preference to purchase electronics online:
"Some of the traffic decline in the electronics and appliance category can be attributed to consumers going online to research premium-priced purchases or to purchase items at discounted prices," said [ShopperTrak founder Bill] Martin.
One of the biggest shopping trends for the 2011 holidays (and it goes well beyond holiday shopping, of course) is the ongoing rise of e-commerce. Online shopping experienced an impressive 15% rise in sales during the 2011 Christmas season, compared to a 3.8% increase overall. Retailers should expect strong growth in online purchases during the upcoming holiday season as well.
But while shoppers are clearly becoming more and more comfortable buying electronics on the web—or at least doing research online, then hitting the store once to purchase, thereby also cutting back on foot traffic—other merchandise doesn't lend itself as well to online shopping. It makes perfect sense that ShopperTrak forecasts an above-average increase of 3.5% in foot traffic for shoppers seeking apparel and accessories, which many consumers feel compelled to see, touch, and try on in person before purchasing.
(MORE: Could Showrooming Actually Be Good for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers?)
In a Consumer Reports piece on where to buy electronics published last December, shoppers not only indicated that their gadget purchases were made online (34% vs. 27% the year before), but also that handling the transaction via the Internet was just a plain better experience:
Online shopping scored higher in almost every respect than did shopping at walk-in stores. The gap extended even to satisfaction with buying televisions, which many consumers might not necessarily think of buying online.
(MORE: Big Box Shrinkage: Retailers Embrace Sales on a Smaller Scale)
In light of survey info like that, it's understandable that primarily brick-and-mortar electronics retailers like Best Buy are struggling mightily, and are likely to continue to struggle through the oh-so-important Christmas shopping period ahead. At least for shoppers who venture into these stores, the aisles won't be so crowded.
Brad Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. A pilot herself, Erin now struggles with the shattering losses both of her friend and of her own confidence in the cockpit. With pilot error speculated as...
Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. A pilot herself, Erin now struggles with the shattering losses both of her friend and of her own confidence in the cockpit. With pilot error speculated as the cause of the accident, Erin fights to save Mick's reputation for the sake of the family he left behind. But that fight pits her against Addison Lowe, the crash investigator. Like Erin, he is determined to get at the truth of the disaster. But his conclusions could ruin Mick's good name and the future of Mick's family. Clashing over the details of the disaster, Erin and Addison discover an unexpected, mutual attraction for each other. But it could go down in flames as the investigation spins out of control. Broken Wings is part of the Second Chances series by award-winning suspense novelist Terri Blackstock. Combining fast-paced reading with realistic characters and situations, Second Chances takes readers to where the conflict between good and evil becomes the proving grounds of faith.


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By Jane Shin
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Berkeley officials say more than $200,000 from the city's general fund has gone toward the protests concerning the Marine recruiting center controversy.
Since Feb. 12, the city has spent $210,814 from the general fund as part of overtime costs to provide additional support and safety for the protests, said city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross.
The controversy stems from a Jan. 29 decision by the City Council to call Marine Corps recruiters in Downtown Berkeley "uninvited and unwelcome" intruders.
When the council met on Feb. 12 to reconsider their decision, more than 2,000 protesters had gathered outside the City Council chambers.
Approximately $93,000 of the $210,814 went towards providing enforcement that day, Clunies-Ross said.
The council voted to rescind the language calling the recruiters "intruders," but did not apologize for their vote.
Since then, protests from both
pro-military and anti-war groups have continued in front of the center.
Overtime costs for police who must monitor the protests have cost the city $205,924. The remaining $4,890 went towards food for the officers, Clunies-Ross said.
Since the $200,000 is taken from overtime costs as part of the general fund, more anticipated spending for routine things are cut, said Lisa Caronna, deputy city manager.
"Two hundred thousand dollars is a huge chunk of money for any unforeseen circumstance," she said. "The overtime we budget for is what we need in a normal course of life."
Caronna said the costs impact the general fund because the budget is limited and the unexpected cost of $200,000 could have been spent elsewhere.
"Generally, here is $200,000 we could have spent on something else, but we spent it now on ... the protests and Marine center ...," she said. "We don't like to spend frivolously, and there's a shopping list of things that we want to see happen, a million things that $200,000 won't pay for."
Some council members say Berkeley taxpayers may be impacted because the general fund comes from various taxes.
"It's too bad, and it may affect how people feel about tax measures this fall when we vote," said Councilmember Betty Olds. "It's our extra money, and there isn't too much of it."
Councilmember Gordon Wozniak also expressed concern over how taxpayers would be affected.
"I don't think it's fair to have this thing going for (long)... It'd be a huge burden for Berkeley taxpayers to cover," Wozniak said. "You can make your point without being there every day or every week."
Tags: MARINE RECRUITING CENTER, CITY COUNCIL, BERKELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT
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Whispers of Light
Joy Mead £8.99
A new collection of poems from Joy Mead. Her poems celebrate what it is to be alive and also, perhaps, what it is to contemplate death.
The Very Life of Life
Tom Gordon £11.99
A year of daily readings, offering simple and direct reflections for facing the joys and sorrows, challenges and decisions of each day.
Katie Munnik £8.99
A collection of short stories told by vivid voices, charting the changing cycles and seasons of the year, and reflecting the liturgical patterns of the church and all the weathers of our hearts.
Walking Our Story
A collection of favourite Joy Mead poems, many of them selected by the author's readers and friends, who ask 'Where can I find -?' when they want a poem for a special occasion. Also includes some new works.
Poem update – Glimpsed in Passing (free PDF download)
A free download providing an updated version of one of the poems in Glimpsed in Passing.
Glimpsed in Passing
Poems from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment - a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture - The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.
Look Well to This Day
A year's worth of stories and reflections to encourage us to 'look well' to the insights and inspiration we might need to live each of the 365 days as best we can, with a more hopeful vision for tomorrow.
A Way of Knowing
A book about small things and little occasions, the smells, colours, sounds, the looking, perceiving, thinking, remembering of our lives and the love that makes them significant. In a mix of poems, stories and material suitable for private or public reflection it explores our knowing and our unknowing. It celebrates the validity of all experience,...
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Unfortunately a page was omitted and then appears in the wrong place when Welcoming Each Wonder by Tom Gordon was printed for the first time, for which we offer many apologies. To help rectify this, the complete chapter is available as a free download. Just put it in your basket and check out as usual. You will not be charged. The problem was corrected for later print runs, so this corrected chapter should not be necessary if you have only just purchased the book.
With An Open Eye
The third in the series of books of modern parables after A Blessing to Follow and Welcoming Each Wonder. By drawing us into the lives of ordinary people Tom Gordon offers insights into issues of universal relevance in an immediate, contemporary and imaginative way. Relates to lectionary cycle B.
Di Williams £10.99
This full-colour book offers a unique insight into labyrinths in the UK and wider, combined with Di's own stunning photography. It begins with a potted history of the labyrinth and hints for walking one, shares personal reflections and stories from the labyrinth and explores the variety of settings in which labyrinths are now to be found. It includes a section on how to create your own labyrinth and lead your own labyrinth walk.
Welcoming Each Wonder
A second book of thought-provoking stories and reflections for every week of the Christian year, and a few more besides. Relates to lectionary cycle A.
A Blessing to Follow
A collection of original and contemporary parables - the first of a series of three - using the framework of the Christian Year to offer a story for every week, and a few more besides.
Janet Lees £10.99
Presents a method of using remembered (oral, not written) versions of the Bible with people of all ages and abilities, in which telling and interpreting the stories in light of the participants' own lives become inextricably linked.
Where Are the Altars?
Joy Mead £10.99
This collection of incarnational poetry from the author of A Telling Place, The One Loaf and Making Peace in Practice and Poetry explores a spirituality that engages with people, things, and the joys and sorrows of daily life.
The Dream of Learning Our True Name
Kathy Galloway £10.99
These poems provide a powerful resource for personal contemplation and many of them can be used in a group or worship setting.
A Telling Place
Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men.
The One Loaf
A book which explores the making and the mystery of bread - growing, making, baking, sharing - in story and recipe, poetry and prayer. In bread we see the true connectedness of all life - the uniting of body and soul, spirit and material.


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The China-Asean Free Trade Area: Propaganda and Reality
ON JAN. 1, 2010, the China-Asean Free Trade Area (Cafta) went into effect. Touted as the world's biggest Free Trade Area, CAFTA is billed as having 1.7 million consumers, with a combined gross domestic product of $ 2 trillion and total trade of $ 1.3 trillion.
Under the agreement, trade between China and six Asean countries including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore has become duty-free for more than 7,000 products.
By 2015, the newer Asean countries, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, will join the zero-tariff arrangement.
The propaganda mills, especially in Beijing, have been trumpeting the FTA as bringing "mutual benefits" to China and Asean.
A positive spin on Cafta has also come from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who hailed the emergence of a "formidable regional grouping" that would rival the United States and the European Union.
The reality, however, is that most of the advantages will probably flow to China.
At first glance, it seems like the China-Asean relationship has been positive. After all, demand from a Chinese economy growing at a breakneck pace was a key factor in Southeast Asian growth beginning around 2003, after a period of low growth following the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998.
For Asia as a whole, in 2003 and the beginning of 2004, noted an Unctad report, "China was a major engine of growth for most of the economies in the region. The country's imports accelerated even more than its exports, with a large proportion of them coming from the rest of Asia."
During the current international recession, Asean governments are counting on China – which is expected to register growth of 7-8 per cent when the figures for 2009 are final – to pull them out of the doldrums.
A More Complex Picture
Yet the picture is more complex than that of a Chinese locomotive pulling the rest of East Asia along with it on a fast track to economic nirvana.
There have been widespread fears that China's growth is, in fact taking place at Southeast Asia's expense.
Low wages, many in Southeast Asia fear, have encouraged local and foreign manufacturers to phase out their operations in relatively high wage Southeast Asia and moving them to China.
There appears to be some support for this. China's devaluation of the yuan in 1994 had the effect of diverting some foreign direct investment away from Southeast Asia.
The trend of Asean losing ground to China accelerated after the financial crisis of 1997.
In 2000, foreign direct investment in Asean shrank to 10 per cent of all foreign direct investment in developing Asia, down from 30 per cent in the mid-nineties.
The decline continued in the rest of the decade, with the United Nations World Investment Report attributing the trend partly to "increased competition from China."
Since the Japanese have been the most dynamic foreign investors in the region, much apprehension in the Asean capitals greeted a Japanese government survey that revealed that 57 per cent of Japanese manufacturing TNCs found China to be more attractive than the Asean-4 (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines).
Snags in a Trade Relationship
Trade has been another, perhaps greater, area of concern.
Massive smuggling of goods from has disrupted practically all Asean economies.
For instance, with some 70-80 per cent of shoe shops in Vietnam selling smuggled Chinese shoes, the Vietnamese shoe industry has suffered badly.
In the case of the Philippines, a recent paper by Joseph Francia and Errol Ramos of the Free Trade Alliance claims that the local shoe industry, along with the vegetable industry, has also been hit badly by smuggling of Chinese goods.
Indeed the range of goods negatively affected is broad, including steel, paper, cement, petrochemicals, plastics, and ceramic tiles.
"Many Philippine companies, even those that are competitive globally, had to close shop or reduce production and employment, due to smuggling," they write.
It is owing to massive smuggling that few analysts take seriously official trade figures with China released by the Chinese Embassy in Manila that show the Philippines enjoying a positive trade balance.
Now there are fears that Cafta will simply legalize smuggling and worsen the already negative effects of Chinese imports on Asean industry and agriculture.
The Thai "Early Harvest" Debacle
Local vegetable producers complain that they have already been badly hit by Cafta's experimental "early harvest agreement" that went into effect in December 2005. A similar result has apparently emerged in Thailand, where the impact of the early harvest agreement with China has been better documented.
Under the agreement, Thailand and China agreed that tariffs on more than 200 items of vegetables and fruits would be immediately eliminated. Thailand would export tropical fruits to China while winter fruits from China would be eligible for the zero-tariff deal.
The expectations of mutual benefit evaporated after a few months, however, with most Thai commentaries admitting that Thailand got a bad deal.
As one assessment put it, "despite the limited scope of the Thailand-China early harvest agreement, it has had an appreciable impact in the sectors covered.
The "appreciable impact" has been to wipe out northern Thai producers of garlic and red onions and to cripple the sale of temperate fruit and vegetables from the Royal projects."
Thai newspapers pointed to officials in Southern China refusing to bring down tariffs as stipulated in the agreement while the Thai government brought down the barriers to Chinese products.
Resentment at the results of the China-Thai "early harvest" agreement among Thai fruit and vegetable growers was, in fact, one of the factors that contributed to widespread disillusionment with the broader free trade agenda of the Thaksin government; and opposition to free trade was a prominent feature of the popular mobilizations that culminated in the ouster of that regime in September 2006 by a military coup.
The Thai early harvest experience, in fact, created consternation not just in Thailand but throughout Southeast Asia. It stoked fears of Asean becoming a dumping ground for China's extremely competitive industrial and agricultural sectors, which could drive down prices owing to cheap urban labor that was continually replenished by dirt cheap labor streaming from the countryside.
These fears at the grassroots have, however, fallen on deaf ears as Asean governments have been extremely reluctant to displease Beijing.
The Chinese View
For Chinese officials, the benefits to China of an FTA with Asean are clear. The aim of the strategy, according to Chinese economist Angang Hu, os to more fully integrate China into the global economy as the "center of the world's manufacturing industry."
A central part of the plan was to open up Asean markets to Chinese manufactured products. In light of growing popularity of protectionist sentiments in the US and European Union, Southeast Asia, which absorbs only around 8 percent of China's exports, is seen as an important market with tremendous potential to absorb more Chinese goods.
China's trade strategy is described by Hu as a "half open model," that is, "open or free trade on the export side and protectionism on the import side."
Asean: A Net Beneficiary?
Despite brave words from President Arroyo and other Asean leaders, it is much less clear how Asean will benefit from the Asean-China relationship.
Certainly, the benefits will not come in labor-intensive manufacturing, where China enjoys an unbeatable edge by the constant downward pressure on wages exerted by migrants from a seemingly inexhaustible rural work force that makes an average of $285 a year.
Certainly not in high tech, since even the US and Japan are scared of China's remarkable ability to move very quickly into high tech industries even as it consolidates its edge in labor-intensive production.
Will agriculture in Asean be a net beneficiary? But, as the early harvest experience with the Philippines and Thailand has shown, China is clearly super-competitive in a vast array of agricultural products from temperate crops to semi-tropical produce, and in agricultural processing.
Vietnam and Thailand might be able to hold their own in rice production, Indonesia and Vietnam in coffee, and the Philippines in coconut and coconut products, but there may not be many more products to add to the list.
Moreover, even if under Cafta, Asean were to gain or retain competitiveness in some areas of manufacturing and trade, it is highly doubtful that China will depart from what Hu calls its "half open" model of international trade.
The Thai early harvest experience underlines the effectiveness of administrative obstacles that can act as non-tariff barriers in China.
What about raw materials? Yes, of course, Indonesia and Malaysia have oil that is in scarce supply in China, and Malaysia does have rubber and tin and the Philippines has palm oil and metals.
But a second look makes one wonder if the relationship with China is not reproducing the old colonial division of labor, whereby low-value-added natural resources and agricultural products were shipped to the center while the Southeast Asian economies absorbed high-value added manufactures from Europe and the United States.
The Cafta-Afta Double Blow
For the Philippines, in particular, Cafta will add to the erosion of manufacturing and agriculture triggered by its hasty incorporation into the ASEAN's free trade scheme, AFTA-CEPT (ASEAN Free Trade Area Common Effective Preferential Tariffs Arrangement).
The country has consistently charted agricultural trade deficits with ASEAN, and as early as the first quarter of 2009, the country's negative agricultural trade balance with Asean already reached US $ 410.15 million. In terms of total trade, imports from Asean in 2008, valued at US $ 21.47 billion, far exceeded the country's total value of exports in the same year of US $ 7.09 billion.
These trends are likely to accelerate under Cafta, but with a difference: China will beat out the country's Asean neighbors in achieving control of the domestic market.
To sum up, despite the official propaganda, the China-Asean trade agreement that came into effect on Jan. 1, 2009, is likely to disadvantage Asean.
Even with the temporary exemptions of certain from full trade liberalization, Asean would be locked into a process where the only direction that barriers to super-competitive Chinese industrial and agricultural goods will be downwards.
Being one of Asean's weaker economies, the Philippines has already seen itself driven into a massive deficit in its relations with other Asean countries under the Asean-Cept free trade scheme.
Cafta is likely to accelerate this negative trend, but with China, instead of the Philippines' Asean neighbors, being the eventual winner.
*Walden Bello is a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing Akbayan (Citizens' Action Party), president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and senior analyst at Focus on the Global South. –Walden Bello, INQUIRER.net


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Individual Paper Purpose of Assignment The purpose of the assignment is to develop students' abilities in using datasets to apply the concepts of sampling distributions and confidence intervals to make management decisions. Assignment Steps Resources: Microsoft Excel®, The Payment Time Case Study, The Payment Time Case Data Set Review the Payment Time Case Study and Data Set. Develop a 700-word report including the following calculations and using the information to determine whether the new billing system has reduced the mean bill payment time: •	Assuming the standard deviation of the payment times for all payments is 4.2 days, construct a 95% confidence interval estimate to determine whether the new billing system was effective. State the interpretation of 95% confidence interval and state whether or not the billing system was effective. •	Using the 95% confidence interval, can we be 95% confident that µ ≤ 19.5 days? •	Using the 99% confidence interval, can we be 99% confident that µ ≤ 19.5 days? •	If the population mean payment time is 19.5 days, what is the probability of observing a sample mean payment time of 65 invoices less than or equal to 18.1077 days? Format your assignment consistent with APA format. Please plagiarism free, she is acting to show how we got to the numbers we got so show work. Must have excel worksheet also.


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Why It's Important
The Documentary
Why Do Research In Children?
Why Clinical Studies Are Important
Research Versus Care
How Children Benefit
Terms You Should Know
Participation Considerations
Safety and Protections
Rights of Families in Studies
You Can Say No at Any Time
Minority Interests and Questions
The Research Team: Who's Who
The Cost of Participation
Do Children Get to Consent?
Once in a Study
Effect on the Family
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Leaving a Study
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Parents often try to determine what will be difficult, or what won't be, for their child. But sometimes parents and researchers get it wrong.
Depending on age and maturity, many children have a great ability to understand basic facts about a clinical study and often want to have a say. Parents should always ask questions and get the details they need, but it is important to talk with your child and let him or her ask questions too.
But what do kids say about being in a study?
While parents and doctors may focus on drugs, or needles, or asking difficult questions, kids may be worried about staying overnight, how much school they will they miss or if there are other kinds of testing or physical exams. There may be things that scare your child about being in a study. Ask your child to talk with you about them and answer as honestly as you can. Across the board, children want very much to be able to ask their own questions and feel at ease with the answers.
The point is that kids get it.
And because they do, it's important to listen to their concerns and questions to give them a voice.
One thing researchers have found is that children in clinical studies are often interested in participating in future research to help other kids. They understand that it is a charitable activity.
Whatever their point of view is, find out. More than likely, they'll have a lot to say.
"So I guess the reason why I was so comfortable with it [was] because they told me everything off the bat and they didn't keep me in the dark about anything."
Bianca, child in kidney disease study
"And I chose to because I wanted to do pretty much anything I could to help and also help with the study to help for future generations as well."
Sawyer, child in Fabry disease study
"You bet they (kids) get to ask questions! You're surprised about the number of questions they ask. And you have to be ready to answer those questions honestly."
William Rodriguez, Pediatrician
"Bianca was having cramps and she said, 'I want to speak to my doctor.'' You know I'm a registered nurse, but Bianca wanted to speak with 'her' doctor!"
Sherry, mother of child in kidney disease study
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Richard represents Ireland in Transplant games
Kilkenny native Richard McEvoy (age 31) will represent Ireland for the first time as part of the 29 strong Transplant Team Ireland when he participates in the European Transplant & Dialysis Sports Championships in Vantaa, Finland this July.
Richard, the youngest of six siblings, hails from Jenkinstown in Kilkenny. Most of his family still reside there as well as his widowed mother Margaret McEvoy.
After finishing school, Richard went to live in Limerick where he secured a degree followed by a PHD in Engineering from the University of Limerick. He continues to live in Limerick in Castletroy and commutes daily to his workplace BCD Engineering in Charleville, Co. Cork.
Richard endured kidney problems since he was a young child and spent much of the first decade of his life at the Children's Hospital in Crumlin but his condition was stabilized until his college years. He has been on the transplant waiting pool for the past six years.
For the past two and a half years Richard has been undergoing haemodialysis treatment. He attends the dialysis unit at the University Hospital Limerick three times weekly for four hours at a time.
Richard is looking forward to taking part in the European Games in Finland.
He will participate in the 30-39 years age category in the following events: Discus, Darts Singles, 10 Pin Bowling, Badminton singles and doubles.


Asia as the world's largest continent is very rich course with a variety of resources, including natural and cultural richness unusual western world's attention. Look at how the Asian food has become fashionable in many countries, starting from China food, Japanese sushi, to fried rice from Indonesia who was known everywhere.
Probably not much we know, but Asia has definite 10 places recognized immediately as the places that can only be found in Asia, because of its beauty. These places are well known in the world and known as the 10 Asian Natural Landmark.
This mountain is an active volcano is the highest in Japan, 3776 meters. Various poems, paintings and other works created for the worship of beauty and splendor of this mountain. Fuji Yama (Yama means mountain in Japanese) are at the border Shizouka and Yamanashi prefectures in western Tokyo. At the time of sunny days in spring and summer, this mountain can be seen clearly from Tokyo or Yokohama. If you want to visit this magnificent mountain, try to come to Japan in around July or August, at the height of summer.
For you are diving lovers, Tubbataha Reef is a group of obligatory destination if you're able to visit the Philippines. The ocean is full of coral clusters can be reached easily from the beach Palawan, Philippines. Beautiful place to dive an area of 33,200 hectares is filled with beautiful marine life. But because of its beauty, as a diver, you should be extra careful in the diving, because the balance of reef ecosystems in the clusters is very soft.
This one "Forest" really made up of rocks that make up the scenery like a stone forest. This area is located in Yunnan Province, Shilin district, Southwestern China. 'Tree of Stone' that make up this forest really seemed to grow from the ground. Rock formations are believed to have existed since 270 million years ago, formed by erosion patterns that come alternately, thus forming the unique rock formations that seemed to grow up like a forest. Kunming station, there is a special tourist train that will take you to enjoy this magical forest.
Although located in the continent of Australia, now in the middle of this land remains in the natural landmarks of Asia. Stone in the original language is called Uluru Aboriginal is located in the Northern Territory, Central Australia. This high stone with a length of 348 meters line of the outer reaches 9.4 kilometers. Uniquely, these stones sometimes seem to change color. The locals advise you not to climb events, but instead, your adventure in this stone can be replaced with a camel ride or look at stones from a height in the helicopter.
Hot springs this one has the largest production capacity in Japan. Hot springs in Beppu city, Oita prefecture has its own uniqueness. One of the hot water source dubbed "Hells of Beppu '(Hell Beppu), because boiling water and steam that poured from the depths of 200-300 meters from the ground (the source of this burst clearly not for bathing). The beauty of 'hell' this one is really interesting for many photographers mengabadikannya.
Although called the Gorge, this does not mean a small or isolated places. Taroko Gorge national park that is centered on the valley along 19 kilometers. The valley is composed of marble and granite rocks, with deep ravines, several waterfalls, mountains and some challenging water flow for exploration. Taroko Gorge is also famous for the production of unique marble that can only be found exclusively in Taiwan.
Name of place (Reed Flute Cave), which is translated as flute Cave Imperata is drawn from the weeds to grow around the mouth of the cave. Underground scene in the cave is very unusual, to say the most beautiful in Asia. Various rock formations, stalactites and stone pillars that seemed to form a view can not be forgotten easily. The cave is located about 5 miles north of Guilin City in Guangxi Province, China is enriched with the effect of extraordinary light, make a variety of rock formations that have increasingly bewitched the audience. Make sure you took time to see the formation of the Dragon and Pagoda Red Curtain when visiting this cave.
Various works of literature and painting capturing the beauty of China Huangshan mountains for several generations. Unique rock formations, waterfalls, pine forests that seemed to grow over the rocks, and clouds that seemed reluctant to leave this mountain peaks make it appear to be one of the most beautiful scenery in the world. If you want to experience an unforgettable sensation, try to go Bright Peak (Bright Summit Peak) summit at sunrise best among a sea of clouds, unforgettable experience is not it?
Gobi Desert is the largest desert in Asia, with an area of 1,296,000 square kilometers reaching. Temperatures in the center of this desert are extreme, cruel wind whipping at any time, with a view only of rocks and sand and gravel must be less fun. Even the oasis and the desert life is very rare. In the language of Mongolia, the Gobi means "covered with gravel plains", and the Gobi desert was very unique. This desert region is divided into five very unique. Eastern Gobi desert steppa, with only grass and sand decorate the surface of the ground, then Plato Alashan semi desert, the Gobi Lakes Valley found only pasture and sand, a semi Valley Junggar desert and mountains of the Tian Shan can you meet in the desert This giant sand.
One of the mountain in the Himalayan mountain range is the world's highest mountain, this mountain reaches height 8848 meters. Local residents, known as Sherpa mountain called by the name of Chomolungma (Mother Goddess of the World). Expedition to reach the top of Everest can cost up to half a billion rupiah, and the extraordinary proper preparation.


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