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Degremont Wins $50 Million USD Cairo East Wastewater Plant Contract
17 Dec 2007- 09:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent CAIRO, Egypt — Degremont has won the $50 million USD design, build and operate (DBO) contract for the Gabl El Asfar wastewater treatment plant east of Cairo. The contract includes construction of an extension to the 1.5 million cubic meters per day
DEWA Denies Rate Hike
11 Nov 2007- 22:26 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates — The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is refuting local media reports that it was poised to raise water and power tariffs. DEWA Managing Director and CEO Saeed al Tayer said reports that the state-owned utility
GCC Stock Markets Buck Worldwide Trend
20 Aug 2007- 11:45 by OOSKAnews Correspondent united arab emirates, ABU DHABI- While stock markets around the world were hitting lows earlier this month, shares in the Arab Gulf have been on the rise. In Abu Dhabi's stock exchange, a rise of 0.2 percent has been attributed mainly to a 1.4
Dubai P Station Contract Award Imminent
13 Aug 2007- 10:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates — The consultancy contract on the P station power and desalination plant is expected to be awarded this month, according to officials of the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA). The $4 billion USD project has
Dutch Government, Companies Cooperate to Compete in the Gulf
16 Jul 2007- 10:09 by OOSKAnews Correspondent RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Persian Gulf region — with high financial liquidity and a booming water industry driven by ever-growing demand — has become one of the main targets of international water sector investors and companies.
Gulf's Construction Boom Increases Pressure on Desalination Industry
25 Jun 2007- 10:09 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates — The exponential growth of the real estate and industrial sectors in the Persian Gulf region, due to high oil and gas revenues, could threaten water sector development. Analysts at the Emirates Environment Group said
Dubai Plans Huge New Desalination Plant
4 Jun 2007- 09:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates — Dubai, the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates, plans to build a power and desalination plant, one of the largest in the world, at an estimated cost of $12 to $15 billion USD. The state-run Dubai Electricity &
Nairobi Water Company Adopts Procurement Rules
21 May 2007- 10:09 by OOSKAnews Correspondent nairoBi, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, MANAMA, Bahrain, RAS AL ZOUR- The Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company has adopted procedures to stamp out corruption in its procurement department. The utility adopted the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005 and
Water Contamination Persists in Port Said
30 Apr 2007- 10:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates, CAIRO, Egypt — Health experts in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Port Said warned that if the quality of drinking water in the governorate didn't improve, it would lead to a health disaster. In a seminar in Port Said
Water Management Issues Could Impede Economic Growth in Mideast
16 Apr 2007- 10:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent duBai, united arab emirates — Middle Eastern countries face constrained economic growth if water management issues are not dealt with in an appropriate way. International financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
UAE: Abraaj Capital's Fund Closed With $500 Million USD
19 Feb 2007- 09:08 by Local Press Report duBai, united arab emirates Al Bawaba — The first closing of Abraaj Capital's Infrastructure and Growth Capital Fund concluded with $500 million USD in commitments. On final closing, the fund will have raised $2 billion USD. The fund targets
UAE: Borouge Increases Plastics Production
11 Feb 2007- 21:36 by Local Press Report duBai, united arab emirates The Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) — Plastics manufacturer Borouge plans to increase its capacity to produce polyolefins (polyethylene and polypropylene) by 8 percent by the end of next year. That will bring the Abu Dhabi
Activists Criticize Kenya's Water Privatization
28 Jan 2007- 02:37 by OOSKAnews Correspondent nairoBi, Kenya — Thousands of activists and protesters from all over the world appealed to governments and international financial institutions to halt further moves to privatize water services in Africa. The groups gathered in Nairobi for a the-week


You will need GELOUS Advanced Nail Gel Coat from Sally Beauty Supply, ANY nail polish color of your choice, and ANY clear top coat of your choice.
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5. Apply another coat nail polish. Let it dry.
6. Apply one layer clear top coat. Let dry. DONE.
To remove your gel nails, use acetone nail polish remover, and it's a breeze. Enjoy your beautiful nails! Watch in HD for best quality video.
gorgeous nails. I luuvvv that color! Great post, will give it a try.
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Your videos rock- I love GELOUS.
I love how you used Wet n wild nail polish! Not Butter London or any other expensive brand. It's beautiful.
YES! Thanks Elsa. I love Wet n Wild! Most of my nail polishes are Revlon, WetNWild, or Sally Hansen. Love it!
Ahhh! Amazing. Glad I found this. I've been looking for a way to do it for a while. Great post.
How long do you wait between coats of paint? thanks!
I tried this pin exactly as she stated above and it works really well! I have tried all of the gel nail pins on pinterest and hands down this one is the best!! The only difference is I used Sech Vite as my top coat. Will definetly be doing this again!
Do I have to wait for the color to completely dry before I move on to the next step?
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Great tutorial!! I'm trying this now and i'm on my 5th day! Only a few minor chips on the edge of one finger and i break down boxes at my job!! Usually my nail polish doesn't last two days! Love this!!!!!
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She just Finshed her nails.
Tried this two weeks ago. I was able to keep this manicure for about 10 days without chips. I was so impressed since my manicures usually only last 2-3 days.
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My granddaughter and I just finished your method! We love it! Works fabulously and will do it this way again.
I am going to try this tonight!! I knew there was a way to do it yourself.
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Could you tell me what color this is? I love it!
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CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI) has once again been acknowledged as a global leader for its actions and strategies in fighting climate change. The Company has been included in the Climate "A" List by CDP, the international not-for-profit organization that provides the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share essentialenvironmental information. CNH Industrial has also earned a score of 100/100 for the ransparent communication of its actions to fight climate change.
Thousands of companies submit annual climate disclosures to CDP for independent assessment against its scoring methodology. CNH Industrial is among the top 5% of the corporations participating in CDP's climate change program to be awarded a position on the "A" List, in recognition of its actions to optimise energy consumption, reduce CO2 emissions and mitigate the business risks of climate change in the 2014 reporting year.
As part of its strategy to fight climate change, CNH Industrial conducted 153 projects throughout the course of 2014 to improve its global energy performance, investing 7% of energy spending. The investment has led to a reduction of approximately 307,000 GJ in energy consumption, corresponding to 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions saved.
For the first time this year, the Company also participated in the CDP Water assessment, which evaluates water management strategies adopted by companies. CNH Industrial has received a "B" score for 2015. The evaluation is conferred according to four levels starting from D for disclosure, C for awareness, B for management, and A for leadership.
In addition to being recognised Industry Leader and Capital Goods Industry Group Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World and Europe, CNH Industrial is also admitted in other important sustainable indices including: ECPI Global Agriculture Equity, ECPI EMU Ethical Equity, ECPI Euro Ethical Equity, ECPI Global Developed ESG Best in Class Equity, Euronext Vigeo World 120, Euronext Vigeo Europe 120, Euronext Vigeo Eurozone120, FTSE4Good, FTSE ECPI Italia SRI Benchmark, FTSE ECPI Italia SRI Leaders, MSCI Global, Global ESG Environmental Leaders Index, STOXX Global ESG, Social Leaders Index, STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index, STOXX Europe Sustainability Index and EURO STOXX Sustainability Index.


National Income refers to the total money value of the output of goods and services produced by the factors of production owned by a particular country over a one-year period.
The National Income of a country can be measured in three ways.
It measures the total value added by each economic activity in the production of country's annual output of goods and services.
The sum of value added at each stage of production is called as GDP. On to it is added the NIPA (including net profits, rent, dividends etc) to arrive at GNP. Depreciation of country's stock of capital is deducted form the GNP to give NNP/National Income.
It measures the total of incomes (wages and salaries, rent, interests etc) earned by the factors of production used in the production of country's annual output of goods and services. But, it does not include the transfer payments such as pensions and social security benefits. The sum of factor incomes is called GDP onto it is added the NPIA to arrive at GNP. Depreciation of country's stock of capital is deducted form the GNP to give NNP/National Income.
It measures the total expenditure on the consumption of goods and services.
We spend on Imports and we earn from Exports. Similarly, Taxes raise the value of expenditure and Subsidies reduce the value of expenditure.
add the value of subsidies.
NPIA should be added to GDP to arrive at GNP. Depreciation of country's stock of capital should be deducted form the GNP to give NNP/National Income.
It is worth noticing that all three methods give the same figure as all three methods measure the same.
1. It provides the government with necessary economic information: National Income provides the government with the following information.
Changes in the National Income are not always a good indicator of general prosperity.
The calculation of NI does not include Black Market transactions as they are not recorded.
Per Capita Income refers to the Average National Income. PCI = Total National Income / Total population. PCI indicates the country's general prosperity.
The Per Capita Income expressed in a common currency is the most commonly used indicator in comparing the living standards in different countries.
The following are some problems associated with measuring National Income in terms of PCI.


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Un arabista és l'estudiós especialitzat en la llengua i la cultura àrab. De la llarga llista de noms importants, poden enunciar-se clàssics com Lévi-Provençal, Dozy, Miguel Casiri, Arberry, Ahlwardt, o els espanyols Diego de Guadix, Julián Ribera, Serafin Fanjul, Miguel Asín Palacios o Emilio García Gómez.

A la península ibèrica
Al llarg de la seva història, Espanya ha desenvolupat una variada escola de arabistas, des de personatges com el teòleg Juan de Segòvia al , o ja en el XVI Diego de Guadix o el lexicògraf Pedro d'Alcalá.

A partir del  la Il·lustració, va recuperar i en certa manera va redescobrir l'important llegat de la civilització hispanomusulmana en la península ibèrica, d'aquest període caldria destacar a Miguel Casiri autor del va catalogar els manuscrits de la biblioteca de Sant Lorenzo de l'Escorial. El seu deixeble José Antonio Conde, va escriure una Història de la dominació dels àrabs a Espanya. L'erudit Pascual Gayangos (1809-1897) va continuar aquesta tradició al . El seu més important deixeble va ser Francisco Codera Zaidín (1836-1917), en la càtedra d'àrab de la Universitat de Madrid. Est va editar els deu volums de la Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana.

I ja a la base de l'escola de arabistas espanyols (i amb el posterior suport de les revistes Al-Andalus i Al-Qantara, van sobresortir alúmnos de Codera com Julián Ribera (1858-1934) i Miguel Asín Palacios (1871-1944), que van posar l'arabisme espanyol a nivell europeu, amb la continuació en la tasca del seu deixeble Emilio García Gómez (1905-1995), primera autoritat en l'estudi de les kharges i primer director de l'Escola d'Estudis Àrabs de Madrid. Un dels seus seguidors va ser Julio Cortés Soroa (1924-2009) , traductor de l'Alcorà, i autor d'un Diccionari d'Àrab Culte Modern. En un plànol menys acadèmic podrien esmentar-se els assajos d'escriptors com Juan Goytisolo, Cansinos o Luciano Rubio.

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You've probably heard the numbers: according to the CDC, about 40% of adult Americans are obese, costing about $147 billion annually. And as many of us know firsthand, it's not easy to stay in shape, especially if you're working a desk job in today's busy cash-strapped world. But something has to change, or we'll end up looking like our future selves in WallE.
But how? While exercise helps, experts say what we eat is the main factor in weight management. Diet plans are easy to find, but they only work if people stick to them, which the obesity stats prove isn't happening enough. So I propose we hack the system with behavioral design to persuade people to eat better, even if they don't really want to.
What's behavioral design? It's designing a product, system, or environment to persuade people to perform an action more (or less) often than they normally would. While it has gotten a bad rap lately for phone and tech addiction, habit experts Nir Eyal (author of Hooked) and James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) teach and advocate using these techniques for good.
Problem: Even if people want to eat right, nutrition labels are confusing, and product labels are misleading.
Solution: The Food Grade system: Have the FDA require a 1" color-coded food grade (eg, A through F) on the FRONT of the package.
While we can't force people to eat well, this would make each food's quality painfully obvious to everyone (including kids and nutrition-ignorant people) both when choosing what food to buy in the store, and when choosing what food to eat at home. No one would need to understand nutrition labels or get tricked by packaging half-truths. Simple diet plans - even ones for kids - could be easily based on them (eg, eat only 1 "C-food" or worse per day). Restaurants could also label their offerings this way. The FDA has a long history of food labeling requirements, so this is not too big of an ask, except that the sugar/junk food lobbies would probably oppose it.
Food grading would need to be done with either a mathematical formula (ie something based on sugar / fiber / protein / additives, etc content), or by an unknown (thus bribe-free) panel of government-paid nutrition experts. Fooducate.com is already doing a great job with grading, but people must discover their app and remember to use it. To impact obesity on a national level, we need to influence everyone's eating habits, whether they want to or not.
Problem: Healthy food often costs more / Junk food is cheaper and/or more convenient.
Solution: Add a prorated Health Tax.
For example, "F" foods add 30% tax, D adds 20%, C adds 10%, B & A adds nothing. The additional health tax must be included on the grocery shelf price (rather than "hidden" at checkout) to change purchasing behavior by making healthy foods become cheaper than junk foods. Health Tax revenues could go toward national obesity treatment and education costs, and/or universal health care. This is similar to the Sugar Tax that some cities have adopted.
Another possible solution is government subsidies for the production of healthier foods (eg wheat and vegetables), and end any subsidies on low-quality food sources like sugar and corn (which becomes corn syrup). Or, ban the "enrichment" process (ie, refining a high-quality fiber-filled wheat grain into a low-quality fiberless white grain, such as with white bread, white rice, and many crackers) to remove those low-quality options from consumers.
If the food grade and tax succeeded in decreasing sales of low-quality foods, an additional benefit is that food-makers would probably respond by adjusting their recipes to get higher food grades. Currently, food makers really have no incentive to improve the health of their customers — if people keep buying Cheetos, they'll keep making them and profiting from it.
Problem: Many people eat more than a single serving size, often without realizing it.
Solution: This one's a little tougher.
The FDA could require that servings be separated in the package so people would easily know what one serving size is (eg, if you buy a box of cereal, instead of there being one big plastic bag of it, there'd be, say, 12 individually wrapped single-serving bags). This would probably succeed in informing people of the serving size, but it would increase packaging costs, and increase environmental waste (ie, trash). So, unless we come up with cheaper environment-friendly packaging, probably best to see how Solutions 1 and 2 do first, and backburner this one.
Whatever the solution is, this is an important problem to solve. So far, the pure capitalism of our current food system is not solving the problem, so I believe some FDA-mandated tweaks are needed to push people toward healthier eating. But I'm just one man with ideas, if you have feedback or ideas on how to actually get these solutions implemented, let me know or comment on Medium. Thanks!


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00501 Prem Das
Huichol Cosmology $18.95 Prem Das explores the Huichol world and vision of the universe. Through two of their myths, the Story of Creation and the Return to the Gods, he describes their peyote ceremony and spiritual history. - 1977 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
01701 Munn, Henry
The Fable Of Vissionary Drink $11.95 Munn relates the many myths describing the origin of yag� (ayahuasca), the potent visionary hallucinogen. - 1977 Esalen - One Audiotape
02302 Sheldrake, Rupert
Resonance and Myths Of Nations $11.95 Sheldrake's main topics are myths, rituals and national myths of origin. These myths of origin contribute to the cohesion of a social group and create a collective vision with enormous effects on the reality of that group. Sheldrake says that through the morphic resonance of ritual, followers of the path are helped and connected with all past followers to come into resonance with the entire tradition. - 1988 Esalen - One Audiotape
04006 May, Rollo and Sam Keen
Loss Of Innocence $11.95 This lively spontaneous dialogue looks at myths of the West, focusing on death and tragety as the elements that give a story the depth of mythology. Keen claims America has been trying to live without myth and without a past - in denial of death and the transcendent. The two esteemed teachers take this as a starting point to ask, "What does America need? What's the new myth?" - 1974 Esalen - One Audiotape
Goodness Of The Devil $11.95 Naranjo talks about mythology, theology, poetry, psychological states and drugs in relation to the "devil." - 1969 Esalen - One Audiotape
Dante's Way To The Stars $11.95 Midway in our life's journey I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. Thus Dante begins his journey, which may lead one to one's full spiritual goal after knowledge of hell. Naranjo relates Dante's way to mystical schools, religions and modern psychology. - 1968 Esalen - One Audiotape
04206 Naranjo, Claudio and Dana Rudhyar
Symbols Of Spiritual Unfoldment and Transformation $18.95 Why speak of symbols and not of the actual process of spiritual unfoldment? Naranjo responds by recognizing symbols as real tools, maps that help us navigate reality. Using examples from mythology, legends and literature from all over the world, Rudhyar and Naranjo delve into the origins of particular symbol systems and explore many dimensions of working with symbols in a spiritual practice. - 1969 Berkeley - Two Audiotapes
05101 Steindl-Rast, Br. David
Overview Of Christian Myths $18.95 Myth can present truths and insights into the human condition that are so weighty they must be expressed in poetic terms because no other language is strong enough. Brother David gives an overview of the way in which Christian tradition and mythology speak about the divine life of mystical experience. - 1984 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
12501 Ravenscroft, Trevor
Spear Of Destiny $11.95 Sharing many parallels with legends of the Holy Grail, the spear used by a Roman soldier at Christ's crucifixion became the focus of a long succession of legends, as a symbol of worldly authority and destiny, for good or for evil. Ravenscroft traces the mythic history of the Spear of Destiny through Roman times into the Middle Ages, when it disappears from sight, through its re-emergence in the 20th Century in conjunction with Hitler's rise to power - 1978 Esalen - One Audiotape
Journeys Of Gilgamesh $11.95 The legend of Gilgamesh, the most ancient recorded tale of a hero's journey, introduces motifs found in hero myths from all over the world. Naranjo relates the story, with commentary on its psychological and spiritual implications, emphasing the transformations that underly the journey. - 1993 Berkeley - One Audiotape
40011 Hoeller, Stephan
Joseph Campbell - American Sage $11.95 Hoeller speaks of Campbell's regard for art and artist as prophetic agents, expressing our culture's "myths of eternity and the future," and emphasizing "the incredible importance of that aesthetic revelation, without which the entire mytic reality has no ability to come forth." - 1987 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
40016 Hoeller. Stephan
Magic and Animal Powers $11.95 "The overwhelming preoccupations of the Western mind bears the stamp of magic - to bring things out of dark into the light, to bring the unconscious into consciousness." Joseph Campbell`s work the Way of the Animal Powers provides Hoeller a starting point for this exploration of the role of magic in Western culture, and the importance of animals in mythology and in our psyches. - 1992 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
Joseph Campbell and The Gnostic Challenge $11.95 As we approach the end of the 20th Century, the need to integrate what Hoeller calls "the Mythic Imagination" into our world-view grows ever more desperate. Without this integration, unconscious forces could promote inconceivable catastrophes. The mythic traditions of Gnosticism and the visionary efforts of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell can provide us sources for the transformative wisdom we need to survive. - 1992 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
Angels - Messengers Of The Future $11.95 How much does an experience with angels depend on the experience? This talk examins the history and mythology associated with angel visitations, emphasizing how we respond to the experience - what it can mean personally in our lives, whether er can see we are not in charge, how to recognize sngels as messengers between the Devine and the human. - 1991 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
Magic and Mystery Of Angles $11.95 Hoeller considers reacquainting ourselves with archetypes from our culture, such as angel myths, a vitally important step in assimilating new experiences. As our culture becomes more complex and specialized, a "crisis of fragmentation of life in general" makes us increasingly susceptible to something in the character of magic, and we should know how to respond. - 1991 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
CJ017 Segal, Robert
Campbell and Jung On Myth and Personality $26.95 Segal describes Campbell as being chiefly concerned with the similarities amoung myths, Jung with the differences. Campbell saw myth as an antidote to therapy, Jung as an aspect of it. This illuminating talk and seminar discussion examines how each viewed the origin, function and meaning of myth. - 1994 Chicago Jung Institute - Three Audiotapes

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This weekend was my birthday weekend and as we had decided to celebrate this with a trip to the renowned winter destination Harbin I was more excited than normally at this time of year. Harbin is the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in the far north east of China and besides from the famous winter festival Harbin is known for having the most cold-to-the-bone winter in all of China.
It's a busy time of year and as we have just returned from Winter Holiday in Denmark we decided to keep this trip within a weekend's duration. It sometimes seems like a weekend away is too little, especially if you have to fly but I find that a well-planned weekend away makes me feel so re-energized and inspired that I come back to everyday life happier, healthier and with the feeling I've been away for more than a weekend.
This time we filmed a little video during our China trip so you can get a better feel of what it's really like in Harbin - enjoy!
We were 6 people going and left Shanghai Saturday morning at 7am and arrived 3 hours later in Harbin: Blue sky, sunshine, bitter coldness and fresh air! Our pre-booked driver picked us up and we went straight to our hotels for a quick change (read: adding layers) and to our first stop: The Snow Sculpture Park (approximately RMB 240).
This park is absolutely beautiful and everything you dream if you love Disney's Frozen (and have watched it 10 times like me....). It's a proper winter wonderland and with the beautiful Saturday birthday weather we were blessed with, it was almost magical. Not too over-crowded as well which is something you always fear/expect when traveling to famous spots in China.
Next stop was the The Siberian Tiger Park (approximately RMB 90). This is the largest natural park for wild Siberian tigers and a 20 years old tiger breeding facility built to protect this endangered animal.
We were all very excited to visit the Siberian tigers and we were not disappointed. Our visit started with the change to hold a baby tiger in the entrance (something we couldn't resist even though the baby tiger might be better off without our loving touch).
We continued in buses through the tigers' large outside areas that to a certain extend has the feel of "natural conditions". My expectations of finding super sad "zoo'ed" tigers was definitely not met and what surprised us the most was the amount of tigers. The park has over 500 tigers which is around 1/8 of the entire world population of tigers... Though only around 100 tigers are viewable for guests iT felt like there was tigers everywhere. And they are enourmous! The Siberian Tiger can be up towards 320kilos... Hello big cute cat!
During our guided tour, a zoo car was driving around between buses and tigers to feed the tigers with living fesans which was quite entertaining. As the buses drive inside the fence and the tigers seemed pretty chilled about this, we got a chance to get really close to those amazing creatures. Absolutely fascinating.
I was expecting to see heaps of white tigers - that's a Siberian tiger in my head, but what I learned was that the existence of white Siberian Tigers has never scientifically been proved! Most White "Siberian Tigers" are actually a mix of a Siberian tiger and a Bengal tiger (the most known tiger species which are smaller than Siberian tigers) born of parents with special genes. The white fur color is due to the lack of pheomelanin pigment (the pigment giving orange color fur).
In order for a white Bengal tiger to be born, both parents must have this gene for white colouring, which only happens naturally about once in 10,000 births. In captivity it happens more often as this distinct color makes the tiger super attractive! We only saw 1 white tiger and he seemed so sad to be honest, I'm wondering if he was missing some friends. He was in the walking tunnel part, which is also where you can feed the tigers with living animals - if you come early that is (I heard goats are a popular one this year, it's about RMB 1200 to buy your tiger friends one of these and get to watch nature in action). In the park you also get the change to see lions, leopards and my BF saw a liger (tiger lion mix) at his last visit.
Our ambitiously packed day continued to the Snow & Ice festival (Approximately RMB 300) as we wanted to be there for the sunset and get a change to see this part in both daylight and after dawn.
This place was absolutely packed with people who might have had the same idea as us and our over-crowded Chinese tourist attraction became a reality! But nothing a couple of Harbin Beers and home-made brownie can't ease so while it took us over an hour to get parked and get tickets (meaning we were sitting in the back of the car while our driver fixed all this) we made it to the festival.
This place is probably the biggest attraction in Harbin and also the most expensive. In my opinion it's been over-done. Too much happening, too many unnatural colored UV lights are covering the beautiful ice sculptures and too many people! Still, the grandness of the castles, the famous buildings and the sculptures made out of ice is absolutely incredible.
After lots of ice, snow and fun in the cold we enjoyed a traditional Russian meal at a super cool central restaurant with half Russian owners and simply crashed out at our hotels. Oh yes that means we skipped the Russian disco experience and my birthday shots buuuut as Harbin has lots more than snow & tiger attractions our Sunday was planned to be a cozy chilled sightseeing day in the old city center (read: without being hungover).
I really enjoyed a day with no tight schedule and no fixed plans. Also knowing that the following day was Monday and a new week with late working hours.
Harbin City Center: Visit the Sofia Church, try the famous dong-bei dumblings, stroll through one of the small city parks, go check out the frozen river and aaaall the crazy activities going on, try the yummy dong-bei noodles and just enjoy this beautiful Russian Chinese spot!
Hire a driver: Super efficient and super convenient having a warm car waiting in between activities. He also sorted all our tickets for the different parks. You can call Mrs. Song (Samantha 187 4575 9496) and book one - we paid 700 for a day (6 people) without the airport transfer. We paid 4-500 for the airport transfer which is way too expensive as the taxi our hotel fixed for the return was only RMB 150.
If you start exploring around midday like us you should save one of the major attractions for Sunday. 3 was a bit too much with our tight schedule..
Me and my BF stayed at the hotel Ibis and paid less than RMB 400 for the night. The location was super central and the hotel absolutely fine!
If you are looking for something more fancy Holiday Inn is in the same amazing location and both rooms & service is super nice but expect double or triple price from Ibis.


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Q: Expected number of balls when they are repeatedly distributed between a pair of piles with probabilities depending on number in said piles. Suppose we have two bins A and B by iteratively distribute batches of m balls between those bins.
Let $|A|,|B| =$ the number of balls in A and B respectively at the beginning of a time step
Initially, $|B| = 0$ $|A| \geq 4$ (In the data $|A|$ would have tens of thousands)
Every step we take exactly m balls and with $$p_A = \frac{|A|}{|A|+|B|}, p_B = \frac{|B|}{|A|+|B|}$$
Add each ball to the selected bin, and add m balls to B.
How many balls should we expect to find in B after this process repeats n times?
I have been thinking of this as a tree, Because every step there are m ways the new balls can be arranged.
So the tree branches m times at every branch but because of the number of ways to reach any given value for $|B|$. I suspect that the number of paths might be multinomial coefficients but I am well and truly stuck by that point.

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What is the most compelling evidence of General Relativity in the presence of matter and energy?
The most oft-cited triumphs of GR are things such as the shifting perihelion of Mercury, gravitational redshift experiments, and gravitational lensing. But, as far as I know, these are only verifications of Einstein's equation in a vacuum: $$R_{\mu\nu}=0.$$ (In fact, I think the former two are predicted in the Schwarzchild metric, the spherical solution to the vacuum equation.)
But what do we have as far as compelling evidence that the Einstein equation is valid in the presence of matter and energy? i.e. $$R_{\mu\nu} - \frac{1}{2} R g_{\mu\nu} = 8 \pi G T_{\mu\nu}.$$
Are we simply happy with this because it is the simplest form of an equation in the presence of matter and energy where the left hand side has the same conservation law as the right side (due to the Bianchi identity)? Or are there actual experimental/observational verifications of solutions to this equation where $T_{\mu\nu}$ is not trivial?
EDIT: I just want to be clear. There's a difference between "in the presence of matter and energy" and "near the presence of matter and energy". People keep on citing verifications of the vacuum field equation $R_{\mu\nu}=0$ that happen to have nonzero curvature because of nearby matter (the Schwarzchild metric is an example of this). The full Einstein equation comes to play when $T_{\mu\nu} \ne 0$, and this describes the expression of the metric tensor at the same point in the manifold where T is nonzero, not just a nearby point. I'm asking if anybody knows of any tangible verification of a solution to the Einstein equation for a nonzero energy-momentum tensor, so that excludes most of the examples people gave. And if there is none, how confident are we to assume the full equation just by symmetry arguments alone? I hope this makes things clearer.
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$\begingroup$ Related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/10484/2451 and links therein. $\endgroup$ – Qmechanic♦ Dec 17 '14 at 17:01
$\begingroup$ How about precision measurements on pulsars? That's a lot of matter... You can, by the way, easily extend GR. The most straight forward extension is Einstein-Cartan, which allows torsion. $\endgroup$ – CuriousOne Dec 17 '14 at 17:01
$\begingroup$ I don't know the details, but the metric used in GPS calculations might not be a vacuum solution--this page seems to say the solution takes into account the actual ellipsoid shape of the planet. $\endgroup$ – Hypnosifl Dec 17 '14 at 17:17
$\begingroup$ The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment $\endgroup$ – John Rennie Dec 17 '14 at 17:35
$\begingroup$ Good question, not a duplicate, and as the OP is right to note all suggestions in the comments are tests only of the vacuum field equation. $\endgroup$ – user10851 Dec 17 '14 at 17:41
The most compelling evidence of GR in presence of matter is, in my opinion, in neutron stars. These objects have a surface gravity $SG$ that is (geometric units):
$SG_{NS}=GM/c^2 R \simeq 0.1 $
This value is telling us that we can't use Newtonian gravity because we are in the strong field limit. For comparison, the sun has $SG_{SUN}=GM/c^2 R \simeq 10^{-5} $ and we are in the weak field limit.
So inside a Neutron star the usual equations of stellar structure derived from Newton are not accurate. Just for reference, the Newtonian equations are:
\begin{equation} \begin{cases} {d\over dr} M(r)=4\pi r^2\rho_M\\ {d\over dr} p(r)=-\frac{M \rho_M}{r^2}\\ p=p(\rho_M) \end{cases} \end{equation}
in which $M(R)$ is the mass of the star, $R$ the radius of the star, $\rho_{M}$ the mass density, $p(r)$ the pressure. The last equation is the Equation Of State (EOS).
Now, let's go to GR. Let's represent the neutron star as a spherically symmetric (and static) object. (you can study a dynamic star, like I've done in my master's thesis, but the formalism is much more complicated). The metric is:
\begin{equation} \boxed{ ds^2=-e^{\nu(r)}dt^2+e^{\lambda(r)}dr^2+r^2(d\theta^2+\sin^2{\theta}d\phi^2) } \end{equation}
Let's assume that the star is composed by a perfect fluid. In this case:
\begin{equation} T^{\mu\nu}=(\epsilon+p)u^{\mu}u^{\nu}+pg^{\mu\nu} \end{equation}
in which $\epsilon$ is the energy density. Now solve the Einstein equations. It's rather easy, and you find the TOV equations (Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff) that generalize Newton equations. They are:
\begin{equation} \boxed{ \begin{cases} {d\over dr} m(r)=4\pi r^2\epsilon\\ {d\over dr} p(r)=-\frac{(\epsilon+p)(m+4\pi r^3p)}{r(r-2m)}\\ \end{cases} } \end{equation}
Of course you have to add an EOS again. You can use a simple polytropic form like $p=\epsilon^{\gamma}$. (actually in real calculations you use tabulated data of the possible internal structure: degenerate gases of neutrons and electrons, quarks, heavy baryons, and so on).
Now it's time to solve numerically. You get for example predictions for mass and radius of a star of given central pressure. These predictions of GR nicely fit the experimental data.
Directly from my thesis, I can show you the (non particularly spectacular) functions $m(r)$ and $p(r)$ inside the star.
In the horizontal axis you can see the $r$ coordinate in $Km$. In the vertical one the ratio $m(r)/M_{SUN}$. The function m(r) is roughly speaking the mass inside a sphere of radius $r$, so the value $m(R)$ is the mass that you can measure from outside. The radius of the star is determined with the pressure graph:
When the pressure goes to zero it means that we have reached the surface of the star. So in this case, the star as a radius of $\simeq 14 Km$ and is mass is $\simeq 1.5 M_{SUN}$. (every star is uniquely identified by his pressure, or equivalently his energy density, at the center of the star).
To be more explicit, here there is a parametric graph of the mass and the radius of the star when we change the central pressure. Every point in the graph is a stable stellar configuration predicted by GR (the blue line). The yellow and purple line are predictions from some scalar tensor theories of gravity (possible alternative theories to GR).
For example, an immediate prediction is that the maximum value of the mass for a neutron star is below $2.5 M/M_{SUN}$. (of course the precise value depend on the EOS you use). This is absolutely confirmed by experimental data.
-Schutz, A first Course in General Relativity cap.10 (static stars)
-Hartle (1967), Slowly rotating relativistic stars
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$\begingroup$ Could you add a little something on what kind of experimental evidence there is that these curves are accurate for real astrophysical neutron stars? $\endgroup$ – Hypnosifl Dec 17 '14 at 19:24
$\begingroup$ Thank you! May I ask how you got the mass-radius curves by observation? Also, is there a good source in where the TOV equations are derived? $\endgroup$ – Bridgeburners Dec 17 '14 at 19:33
$\begingroup$ @Bridgeburners Wikipedia has a derivation. As for getting masses and radii for the same objects -- that has proven rather difficult. There aren't any particularly good datapoints in that parameter space... yet. Also, predictions for such data points are influenced not only by pure GR, but also by your assumed equation of state. $\endgroup$ – user10851 Dec 17 '14 at 20:15
Frame-dragging effects are dependent on the spin of the central object, have been measured by experiments such as Gravity Probe B, and are definitely not dependent on the central metric.
Also, any effects on a galactic scale are best quantified in terms of a continuous matter distribution, since the central black hole is a small fraction of the galaxy's mass.
Also, you have all of the predictions of cosmology, which explicitly invokes a spatially constant matter density.
You also have the prediction for Chandrasekhar-style mass limits for neutron stars and white dwarfs, which have not been contradicted by observation, and are confirmed by the presence of white dwarf and neutron star supernovae. There would be no theoretical explaination of their utility as standard candles without Einstein's equation in the presence of matter.
Finally, even the predictions of the schwarzschild metric applying to solar system observations is dependent on the equation satisfying Birchoff's theorem. A different coupling to matter would not have to respect this.
Also, the hulse-taylor binary radiation effect is in no way dependent on either the schwarzschild solution or a matter-free distribution. It is a test of the gravitational radiation equation, which has a time derivative of the quadrupole moment of the matter source in it.
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$\begingroup$ Thank you. I'll have to look at these things in more detail, but I think this captures the spirit of what I wanted. $\endgroup$ – Bridgeburners Dec 17 '14 at 19:26
The field equations of general relativity give rise to a phenomenon called gravitomagnetism, which is related to "monopole" gravity in the same way that magnetism is related to moving electric charges by special relativity. There is conclusive evidence for gravitomagnetism just in the past five years, weakly from the Gravity Probe B mission, and more convincingly from lunar laser ranging.
Gravity Probe B was a very carefully-designed satellite which tracked the precession of gyroscopes in low earth orbit; GR predicts that the precession is different if the orbit goes to the east, with Earth's rotation, or to the west. It's profoundly non-Newtonian effect, but required very precise measurement; the final error bar was a little disappointing.
The lunar laser ranging experiment measures the time delay for a laser pulse to return from the retroreflectors left on the moon by Apollo astronauts. It turns out that because the moon and earth are both very massive, there are gravitomagnetic effects that change the moon's libration by roughly ten meters; the position precision on the timing technique is a few centimeters.
John Rennie linked in a comment to a review by Clifford Will; the PDG review is also useful.
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$\begingroup$ And there's also GPS, which explicitly models relativistic (special and general) effects. $\endgroup$ – David Hammen Dec 17 '14 at 19:35
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I can't imagine how this is possible. My sugar-hyped children have fallen asleep. Thank God.
I look around the house. Some dishes from dinner are still on the counter; we barely gobbled it down before heading out to Trick or Treat.
The table is covered in neatly sorted piles of peanut butter cups, Smarties, and Mike and Ike's, all set out and ready for the breakfast rush.
The couch and living room are strewn with costume parts and candy wrappers.
I am wearing a red union suit, the base layer of one ridiculous clown costume. Plus, I can't quite get the red lipstick hearts off of my cheeks. Will anyone miss this package of Twizzlers?
And I have a blog article to write. Something to do with literacy.
I push the costume parts aside and pull my computer onto my lap.
Usually, by the time I sit down to write, I have a whole post all worked out in my head. But this week, it was all I could do to get through today.
The sugar pulsing through my brain has rendered me numb. All I can think about is how grateful I am for the public education system, which will take my exhausted but candy-fueled children off of my hands tomorrow.
I have sucessfully removed all of the dark chocolate from the kids' stash and squirreled it away where only I can find it.
Post-sugar low. A few blog post ideas considered and rejected. Halloween makes me dumb. Must…go…to…sleep.
The Day After Halloween 8:30 a.m.
They're gone. I can't believe it. They are finally gone.
Plus, I spilled my coffee tripping over my very own clown shoes that I left in the middle of the living room last night.
If the kids are affected the same way I am, then good luck teachers.
It looks like our nation's children will be taking a day off from learning. I hope it doesn't set them back as much as summer.
The Day After Halloween 8:45 a.m.
Conclusion: Halloween and education are not friends.
Frankly, I don't know why we allow it.
After the daily grind of whole foods, homework, and responsibility a once-annual candy carnage is really fun!
Even if it does make us dumb. Temporarily.
Consider this new campaign from author Neil Gaiman – All Hallows Read. Neil advises in addition to giving candy this time of year, you should also give books. Scary ones. He makes it easy for us all by provide a trove of booklists on his website. You can also watch the video below, in which he make a compelling argument for sharing books this time of year (while presumably ignoring the grisly crime going on behind him…).
Do you see these beautiful children? Oh, they are a handful!
In between breaking up fights, encouraging kindness, bandaging rope burn (from the laundry basket incident), and laughing at knock-knock jokes, I feel I should also try to keep the house from becoming rancid, provide fresh healthy meals, check the batteries in the fire alarm, volunteer at school, de-clutter my home, walk off five pounds, and make Halloween-themed cake pops (those last three invaded my head while I waited patiently in the check out line at the grocery store).
Oh. And then beat myself up a little bit for being slightly overwhelmed.
Sometimes I get the feeling that this is something that our generation is doing to ourselves. This feeling is exacerbated by some women of my mom's generation (not naming any names, Mom) who tend to imply that when they were at this stage in their lives they had everything well in hand. They were as cool as cucumbers.
When I hear this, I think, "Really?" Oh, what am I doing wrong?
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Thank you Erma Bombeck for showing up in my life today!
Thank you for reminding me that the highs and lows of parenting – the joy, laughter, frustration, mess and heartbreak – are all natural and normal, and timeless.
Thank you for reminding me that my generation is a part of a long line of parents doing their best and making some mistakes along the way.
And thank you for making me laugh at the whole thing. It's like a balm on my busy soul.
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At Halloween I just put brown grocery bags over the kids' heads, cut two eyes in them, and told them to tell everyone their mother was having surgery.
If it hadn't been for neighbors, I'd have flunked my ink blot tests years ago!
THE LOOK OF DEATH: This is used on a child with a busy finger up his nose. (It is similar to the Frozen Stare usually employed to catch a waiter's eye, but is somewhat different.) It's a steady gaze, unflinching and unyielding. The brow is furrowed, the lips are firm with no trace of a smile. The face remains in a hypnotic state until the finger is removed from the nose.
I began to think about motherhood. There seemed to be several avenues open to me: a) take myself seriously and end up drinking gin right after the school bus left; b) take the children seriously and end up drinking gin BEFORE the school bus left; c) admit to the fear and frustration and have a good time with it.
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For those of you who aren't familiar with Erma, she was a humorist and syndicated columnist who wrote from 1965 to her death in 1996. In between she generated some of the funniest and wisest articles about family to be found anywhere. She has many books, but I recommend Forever Erma which is a collection of her columns published after her death. Each column is short enough to read in between band aids and knock knocks and meaningful enough to be worth your while.
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Sure, there are those beautiful fall days with high, clear blue skies that set off the colors of the trees and just make your heart sing.
Roald Dahl would be wasted on those days.
And anyway, if we have any of those days left, PUT YOUR BOOKS DOWN AND GO OUTSIDE!
When I mention Roald Dahl in the fall, I am talking about the days when the dry leaves swirl up into the air and the wind whistles at the windows. When darkness comes much earlier than you hoped and a chill gets in your bones. If you feel the impending sense of doom that is the coming of winter, that is the time to pull out Roald Dahl.
Roald Dahl is the master of the dark and disturbing. His stories for children (and their parents) combine an amazing sense of humor – think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – and an uncanny knack for facing childhood fears head on.
He is quirky, creepy, silly, scary, wry, righteous, and at all times, brilliant.
Today, dark clouds hung overhead all day. It was so gloomy. A perfect day for Matilda. Matilda battles gloom with a perky goodness that belies her situation as she contends with Ms. Trunchbull, the evil headmistress of Crunchem Hall School. There is nothing like a brave heroine in a truly terrible situation. The gloom outside helps heighten the mood, and then the book itself raises your spirits and leaves you cheering. I could have used a spot of that today!
If I am lucky, thunder and lightning will boom overhead and I won't be able to put it down.
A slightly less scary story is James and the Giant Peach. This story of the boy who escapes from his evil aunts, Spiker and Sponge, is filled with good friends and funny personalities. But there are some terrifying mishaps along the way, and, of course, the constant sense of foreboding surrounding the reappearance of the aunts. It's still Roald Dahl, after all.
Dahl has a knack for creating child heroines that you love with tenderness; orphans, the lonely, the neglected, and the scared. He pairs them up with someone they (and you) can trust, and then challenges them to overcome their fears. Though the antagonists are certainly creepy, imposing and always absurd, you can rest assured that good will prevail, and a child will find his true strength in the process.
Of course, Dahl doesn't need any help setting the mood. He is an expert at foreboding, after all. But if you read him on these darkening days of fall you meet him half way and its all the more fun.


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(I have [placed] my confidence), 188, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and probably first performed it on 17 October 1728.

History and text
Bach composed this cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity. However, the score was "cut to pieces and sold to private individuals" in the 1800s; the work as it now exists is a reconstruction.

The prescribed readings for the day were , and . The text for movements 2 to 5 was written by Picander. The sixth movement is an anonymous chorale, "Auf meinen lieben Gott", written before 1603.

Scoring and structure
The work is scored for four solo voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), a four-part choir, two oboes, taille, two violins, viola, organ, and basso continuo.

The piece has six movements:
 Sinfonia
 Aria (tenor):
 Recitative (bass):
 Aria (alto):
 Recitative (soprano):
 Chorale:

Music
The opening sinfonia for solo organ and orchestra derives from the third movement of Bach's keyboard concerto in D minor, BWV 1052.

The tenor aria has been compared to movements from both the French Suites and the Fifth English Suite. It opens with a string ritornello doubled by oboe; the two parts move into counterpoint after the tenor enters. Formally, the movement has an extended two-part A section before moving to a B section remarkable for its emphasis on instrumental arpeggiation.

The bass recitative is secco and concludes with a pastoral arioso.

The alto aria is "dark and dramatic", in E minor with cello and organ obbligato. The organ line is complex, contributing to a movement that is "a complex and ever-changing kaleidoscope of richly entwined rhythms and melodies".

The soprano recitative is short and accompanied by chordal strings. The final movement is a four-part setting of the chorale tune, doubled by oboe, taille, and strings.

Recordings
 Gächinger Kantorei / Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Helmuth Rilling. Die Bach Kantate. Hänssler, 1983.
 Holland Boys Choir / Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink. Bach Edition Vol. 5. Brilliant Classics, 1999.
 Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner. Bach Cantatas Vol. 11. Soli Deo Gloria, recorded 2000.
 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman. J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19. Antoine Marchand, 2003.
 Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki. J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 49. BIS, 2010.

References

External links

 Ich habe meine Zuversicht BWV 188; BC A 154 / Sacred cantata (21st Sunday after Trinity) Bach Digital
 BWV 188 – "Ich habe meine Zuversicht": Cantata notes, Emmanuel Music
 BWV 188 Ich habe meine Zuversicht: English translation, University of Vermont
 BWV 188.6 bach-chorales.com

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Dear Secretary Napolitano,
We are deeply concerned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using sequestration as a vehicle to further the Administration's disregard for enforcing our immigration laws. Specifically, we are troubled by recent reports that DHS has released hundreds of illegal immigrants, rather than finding cost savings elsewhere in the agency.
Your agency's decision to release "low-risk" illegal immigrants back into the public under the guise of saving money is unprecedented and dangerous. The inability of DHS to prioritize resources for potential cuts suggests this decision was either politically motivated to further the Administration's amnesty goals or, at best, demonstrates agency incompetence.
Given the public safety and national security concerns this decision raises, we respectfully request you halt any further action to release detained illegal immigrants. Also, please respond to the following questions, regarding individuals already released, pending release, or anticipated to be released:
The number of detainees released and the geographic location of where the releases took place;
Any plans for future releases, and the geographic location of where those releases will take place;
The name of the DHS official who authorized the review of detained illegal immigrants for release;
The criteria used to determine who is eligible for release;
The number of reviewed detainees denied release and the specific reasons for such denials;
A list identifying cuts to the DHS budget implemented prior to the release of the detainees, the budget savings achieved, and why these savings were insufficient;
How DHS is tracking illegal immigrants released under this plan, and whether they will be ordered back to detention centers if funding becomes available.
Source: Letter from 37 Members of Congress 14_Lt_Imm on Mar 1, 2013
Voted YES to ban DREAMer immigrants from military service.
Salmon voted YEA Gosar Anti-DACA Amendment to H.R. 5293
Congressional Summary: The House voted on an amendment by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to H.R. 5293, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2017. The amendment would prohibit funds from being used to extend the expiration of, or reissue a new expiration date to, the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program.
Recommendation by Heritage Foundation to vote YES:(6/16/2016): The MAVNI program is a pilot program authorizing "military services to recruit certain legal immigrants whose skills are considered to be vital to the national interest." However, a DoD memo has made it clear that DACA/DAPA recipients are eligible under this program, essentially opening up a pathway to amnesty for illegal aliens who enlist. By ensuring that this guidance ends, DOD will no longer be able to enlist illegal immigrants through MAVNI.
Recommendation by the ACLU to vote NO: (6/28/2011): The DREAM Act promotes fundamental fairness for young people by allowing access to affordable post-secondary education and military service opportunities, regardless of immigration status, and would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, have lived here for at least five years and have graduated from high school. The DREAM Act could result in billions of dollars in additional tax revenue from tapping the potential of DREAM-eligible students and future service personnel. Since September 11, 2001, more than 69,000 immigrants have earned citizenship while serving, and more than 125 who entered military service after that date have made the ultimate sacrifice in war by giving their lives for this nation.
Legislative outcome: Failed House 210 to 211 (no Senate vote) Source: Congressional vote 16-H5293 on Jun 16, 2016
Analyze terrorism and criminal threats on southwest border.
Salmon co-sponsored H.R.4482
This bill calls for a southwest border threat analysis that includes an assessment of:
terrorism and criminal threats posed by individuals and organized groups seeking to unlawfully enter the US through the southwest border
improvements needed at and between ports of entry along such border to prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the US
gaps in law, policy, law enforcement, or international agreements that hinder effective and efficient border security, counterterrorism, anti-human smuggling and trafficking efforts, and the flow of legitimate trade along such border; and
the current percentage of situational awareness and of operational control of US borders achieved by DHS of the international land and maritime borders of the US.
The bill requires, every five years, a Border Patrol Strategic Plan that includes consideration of the southwest border threat analysis and an assessment of principal border security threats.
Source: Southwest Border Security Threat Assessment Act 16-HR4482 on Feb 4, 2016
Declared English the official language of the US.
Salmon co-sponsored declaring English the official language of the US
Amends Federal law to declare English to be the official language of the US Government.
Representatives of the Federal Government have an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government.
Requires such representatives to conduct official business in English.
Prohibits anyone from being denied Government services because he or she communicates in English.
Requires that all officials conduct all naturalization ceremonies entirely in English.
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the preservation or use of Native Alaskan or Native American languages.
EXCERPTS FROM BILL:
The Congress finds and declares the following:
The US is comprised of individuals and groups from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
The US has benefited and continues to benefit from this rich diversity.
The common thread binding individuals of differing backgrounds has been a common language.
The Federal Government should maintain a language common to all people.
English has historically been the common language and the language of opportunity in the US.
The purpose of this title is to help immigrants better assimilate and take full advantage of opportunities in the US.
By learning the English language, immigrants will be empowered with the language skills and literacy necessary to become responsible citizens and productive workers in the US.
The use of a single common language in conducting official business of the Federal Government will promote efficiency and fairness.
English should be recognized in law as the language of official business of the Federal Government.
Any monetary savings derived from the enactment of this title should be used for the teaching of the English language to non-English-speaking immigrants.
Source: English Language Empowerment Act (H.R.123) 99-HR0123 on Jan 6, 1999
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In comparison to the previous year the variable went up by 25.29%, according to revised figures issued by United Nations Statistical Office. The indicator increased by 3 510 345 US Dollar, as it follows the tendency of the prior year when it rose by 10.63 percent. Hong Kong saw a rise of 1 983.6% in electrical equipment export during the last 25 years. Furthermore, it has attained the compound annual growth rate of 0.09 percent over the five years with a modest overall increase since the 1993. It averaged 12 842 397.4 US Dollar from 1993 to 2017 and it attained its all-time high of 36 314 704 US Dollar in 2009 and record low of 834 693 US Dollar in 1993.


I received this mascara for my birthday a month ago and I thought it was time I reviewed it! Mascaras are probably one of my favourite products to try out. I absolutely love my L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara (review here) which is my go to everyday mascara but I was still very excited to try this one out!
Usually I prefer volume rather than length from my mascaras, however I may have changed my mind since using this one! This mascara is extremely lengthening, it's amazing! It makes my eyelashes look so much longer but still natural. It does also achieve enough volume to stop my lashes looking too thin and just spidery long.
The wand is great because it's small enough that I can easily coat the corner and bottom lashes! This mascara lasts all day. My lashes are still very long at the end of the day which is great and it doesn't dry up or flake during the day either! I curl my eyelashes before applying this as I think it looks better if they are curled.
This is one coat! Sometimes I will wear two.
This mascara also claims to strengthen, nourish and promote lash growth. I haven't been using this everyday for long enough so I cannot comment on whether this works or not, but I will let you know!
Have you tried this mascara? Do you have any recommendations for me to try next?
Makes your eyelashes look amazing!!
This is really great! Havn't tried this mascara before so defo going to give it a go!
I really like it! I've been wearing it most days :) Thank you.


The first speaker on the second day is Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is to present several lessons for today from the Anabaptists.
We can learn from the Anabaptists regardless of our views on Baptist origins (some believe that modern Baptists are heirs of the Anabaptist tradition, while others believe that today's Baptists can trace their line through the English Separatists in the Reformed Tradition.
Dr. Patterson is obviously speaking from a well-prepared manuscript and is speaking rapidly. I assume that the complete manuscript will be made available at some point in the future. When it is available I will provide a link. For now, I will provide a simple overview of what I can pick up through listening (i.e., the main points).
A Redeemed Disciplined Church – Contemporary Baptists who have bloated membership rolls and worldliness in their members lifestyles can learn from the practices of the Anabaptists. While the Anabaptists baptized with confidence those who professed faith in Christ, but with the understanding that baptism symbolizes the death of the old man and the resurrection of the new man. When baptized believers manifested a lifestyle contrary to the gospel, the "ban" was practiced and they were forbidden to partake of the Lord's Table. Church discipline, while difficult, must be practiced to maintain the proper idea of the church.
The Confession of Baptism – Those baptized have submitted themselves to the rule of Christ and to the authority of the church. Churches must once again emphasize the significance of baptism. It must be more closely associated with the profession of faith.
The Authority of the Bible – For the Swiss Anabaptists, every farm was a school in which the Old and New Testaments were taught. For many Christians today experience is exalted above the Holy Scriptures as the authority. We need to recover the Anabaptist emphasis on the authority of Scripture.
The Church Looks Different from the World – Church discipline was practiced to protect the purity of the church. The church was to function differently than the world. The church is to be made up only of Christ's disciples.
The Supper as a Fellowship Trust – While the Lord's Supper was primarily seen as a memorial of Christ's death, it was also an appropriate place to practice the "ban." The Lord's Supper is an important place to emphasize the fellowship of the Lord's body. This concept needs to be recovered.
Courage of Conviction – Anabaptists were willing to die for their convictions.
They believed in preaching the gospel to all, maintaining a pure church, practicing the Lord's Supper, saw the Word of God as an authority, and practiced church discipline. Their courage was exemplified by their willingness to die for their convictions. May God grant a recovery of these principles of the 16th Century Anabaptists by 21st Century Southern Baptists.
Thanks for taking the time to blog this conference.


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No access to USB Device after programm update.
After upgrading MaximumSecurity last week, my backup software (MacriumReflect) gives me error on event 513 when trying to make a backup to my external Intenso 5TB USB drive.
The USB drive is only connected during backups.
I had Folder Shield activated for USB devices before upgrading.
I added backupsoftware to allowed software and deactivated Folder Shield. But i still get the same error. All went fine before upgrading MaximumSecurity.
Fehler beim Kryptografiedienst während der Verarbeitung des "OnIdentity()"-Aufrufobjekts "System Writer".
AddLegacyDriverFiles: Unable to back up image of binary Microsoft-Verbindungsschichterkennungsprotokoll.
I found THIS on Macrium KB regarding error 513.
I tried the instructions and got the success message. But i still get the same error when trying to make a backup.
Hi, order. Welcome to the Home Users Community!
Can we try temporarily disabling the Trend Micro program before using the backup software again just to isolate the issue? There's a Trend Micro icon on the system tray that gives you an option to "Exit" when you click on it.
I already disabled TM and got the same error..
Did you restart the MSLLDP service (accessing services.msc)?
It seems to be a Macrium user service permission issue.
A simple question: can you manually access this disk and create, modify (write something and save) and delete, for example a notepad text file?
If yes, it is Macrium related for sure, I suggest you to reinstall Macrium.
Another simple question, can you check what happens with a different disk/backup path?
to make it short: I NEED a backup - urgent - so i don ́t have time to fiddle around.
I did a quick-format on the USB device (lost all prior backups *eeck*) and am now running a complete new backup with a fresh definition.
Right know the backup is still running (will take 4h anyway) - before the backup aborted just in the beginning.
We wish you good luck with the results of the back up.


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Mikey Weinstein is President and Founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. A Jew, a former Reagan Whitehouse attorney and an honors graduate of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, he spends his days fighting back against what has been called an "Evangelical coup" in the U.S. Military. (See Jesus Killed Mohammed 5/09.) Mikey writes letters, makes phone calls, lobbies and, when all else fails, files lawsuits on behalf of religious minorities and mainline Christians who are being subjected to relentless proselytizing from fundamentalist officers and peers. One routine part of the reaction is letters like the one he received above.
Liberal anti-Semitism is more subtle and sophisticated. Even at our worst, we don't talk about Jews, we talk about 9/11 conspiracies orchestrated by agents of Mossad. We talk, as our medieval Christian and Christian Nationalist predecessors did before us, about undue Jewish control of the monetary system. Mostly we talk about Zionists, and every Jew who has a more complex perspective on the Middle East than Amy Goodman is one.
I'm not a Jew. I am a psychologist. One of the things I learned as a therapist was to respond not just to surface words but also the feelings and implications behind them. As a therapist, you listen to your body–your intuitive emotional response to what is being said, and then use your mind to sort things out. I can't say how many comments about the Israel-Palestine situation I've read on liberal blogs. What I can say is that the comment threads often make my stomach hurt–and not because of what is going on in Israel and Palestine. Here is the tread that triggered this post.
The plight of the Palestinians is anguishing. And yes, Israel has violated international law and may well be guilty of war crimes. But at a visceral level I often have a hard time experiencing my own pain and moral sensibilities about the Middle East situation. I get so overwhelmed by the flood of thinly veiled anti-Semitism that I can't respond to anything else.
Let me state for the record: I categorically do not believe that criticizing Israel is inherently anti-semitic. There is plenty of reason to protest Israel's part in the seemingly endless Middle Eastern cycles of violence and suffering. What I am talking about is a certain quality of this conversation — a distancing from Israelis explicitly or Jews more broadly as people, an exceptionalism that characterizes liberal American disgust at and demands of Jews, a pattern of silence toward some things and outrage toward others that suggest bias. And subtle or not-so-subtle versions of traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes that escape criticism (except from offended Jews) on liberal blogs.
Perhaps I am projecting my Seattle experiences onto the net. One sweet, progressive activist neighbor refused to come to a panel discussion I hosted because, along with an atheist, a Christian minister and a Sufi minister the panel included a rabbi. A friend equated the invasion of Gaza with the Holocaust. A political teammate couldn't see the difference between Obsession's bitter flow of misogynist verses and the forged conspiracies in the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They do all love Amy Goodman. So maybe my gut is wrong.
1. The failure to focus on the log in our own eye. Two towers come down and 4000 people die, and the majority of our population (who suddenly feel unsafe) bless the destruction of 100,000 Iraqi citizens, their basic infrastructure, their museums and their schools. Yet we mock the Israelis' sense of threat and demand inhuman perfection in their reaction. Granted, American liberals have worked long and hard against war in Iraq, but we were more conflicted about Afghanistan. And in both cases the protests lacked the absolutism of our reactions to Israel. I hear the Israeli attack on Gaza described as genocide. I never hear the American attack on Iraq described that way.
2. Our silence when it comes to the role of the surrounding countries, who want the Palestinians to remain right where they are as pawns in a global power struggle. Palestinians don't have the option to leave because Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and others don't give them that option any more than we do. Israeli-Gaza border closures work only when Egypt keeps her border closed as well. Within any group of refugees there are those who don't want to sacrifice their children on the altar of their politics–who simply want to go away and start a better life. But they are denied resettlement rights elsewhere. The Palestinian people are bandilleras in the flanks of a Spanish bull–goads that feed the pain and rage needed to sustain a battle of civilizations.
3. Our indifference to Jewish post trauma dynamics and conditions that reactivate trauma. In Israel, men who spent their teenage years dragging bodies out of gas chambers and burying them in trenches are only just dying off. To make matters worse, threats of annihilation are ongoing. When a woman who has been molested has someone hit on her, she often gets triggered, under- or over-reacting because she is re-experiencing the earlier trauma. When people who have been the targets of genocide hear surrounding leaders pledge their extinction, I might imagine they would get triggered, too. If we Liberals are willing to assume that it takes a people generations to recover from slavery, can we not assume the same of genocide? I grieve at Israeli reactivity just as I grieve when African American young people say that success is White. But grieving and demanding that they be over it are two different things.
4. A double standard for Middle Eastern Countries. When Arabs or Muslims engage in mass political extermination, we say little. The same with smaller cruelties. Yet we hold the Israelis to a higher standard. Why is this? Why do we scream about Israeli rockets and yet we're mum when Hamas and Fatah are murdering each other? How about the slaughter of the Kurds or on a smaller scale, the execution of female teachers in Afghanistan. (Sometimes I wonder if it is actually a form of racism against Arabs and Muslims, like when we assume that a kid is fated to be a low-achiever and we write them off.) But consider: How would we react if the Israelis treated their women like Saudis do? If they treated their Hindu servants like Omanis do? If they treated their religious minorities like the Iraqis do? If they pledged the extermination of Palestinians the way that Hamas pledges itself to the extermination of Jews?
5. Our lack of comparable passion about other suffering in the world. How come the Palestinian plight taps deep feelings for so many liberals, and yet brutalities in Sudan or Sri Lanka don't have the same power to arouse us? To draw an analogy from my work opposing fundamentalism, when Evangelicals cite Leviticus to justify their attitudes toward homosexuals but then ignore the rest of Mosaic Law, something other than biblical literalism is at play. When the suffering of the Palestinian people arouses the kind of venom that seeps through in Liberal blogs while other suffering leaves us cold, something more than compassion is at play.
I loathe the kind of ignorant right wing rant that kicked off this article. But the subtle bigotry of some fellow liberals feels worse. It violates the very humanitarian rhetoric that gives it cover. As a progressive, it shames me. And it makes me scared.
Christians and their cultural descendents have been finding reasons to single out Jews since the First Century. Always there is some social issue that makes the antipathy seem justified to many people in the short run. And always to date anti-Semitism seems obvious in retrospect.
We humans are probably hard-wired for tribalism, and we need little excuse to see the "other" as disgusting or evil. But we also are capable of thinking more complexly. One who suffered much, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had this to say: "If only it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." Maybe in addition to looking at the dividing lines in the Middle East we could be looking more at the dividing lines in our own hearts.


It's 2019, I want to start my year expressing my gratitude to my family on MetaFilter. Over the years you've comforted me in sorrow, laughed with me, answered my questions, shared your dogs and your cats, let me into your own lives, made me smile, brought forth tears, listened to my music and shared your music with me, educated me, and enlightened me. Thank you! I turned 70 years old this year, survived a fall down the stairs that should have killed me had it not been for my wife and son's quick response, it made me step back and evaluate what I truly value. We're all here on MetaFilter for a reason. My reason is this community and each of you. I hope this new year brings each of you peace.
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Happy Christmas! Happy Hanukah! Happy Saturnalia! Happy Kwanza! Glad Yul! Happy just another day of work or rest! Whether you celebrate the Christian religious holiday Christmas, or not. I wanted to have a place for us to share some happy with each other. Stay safe and warm. Hug your loved ones and know that you matter. Cheers!
What's one change to Metafilter that you'd like to see made, or tried?
What is something that you wish worked differently, and how would it work?
Should MeFi have the capacity for geoblocking content?
Though I know we typically rail against its use in the overwhelming majority of cases, I only ask because this post being viewable from a location where the news it involves is subject to a suppression order is... troubling.
An impatient pony: queuing FPPs?
I find that a lot of why I don't post as many FPPs as I used to is that I prefer to post them in the earlyish morning, although I might write them at other times, and in the afternoon I wind up going "well, I'll just submit it tomorrow." I also tend to get into spates of writing FPPs, and when I've just submitted one is (bar none) the time most likely for me to get excited and want to write another one. I would love the ability to be able to submit my FPP of the day before the 24-hour delay is up, so that it will be posted either at a time of my choosing or else when the 24-hour delay has ended. I think this would be something that would make posting FPPs easier, at least for me. Thoughts?
Fanfare and a Tone (?) question.
A fair amount of the time, when I post something a little lower profile on FF, it does not properly load the poster. This is particularly true in the case of films. Is there a way we could verify the poster image (and/or upload one if one doesn't autoload) while making the post?


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Teleconference discusses national, ASEAN one-stop shop mechanism
The Finance Ministry held a teleconference in Hanoi on July 24 to discuss developing national and ASEAN one-stop shop mechanisms and trade facilitation.
Scene at the conference (Photo: VNA)
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc; Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue; as well as leaders of ministries, agencies, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), and World Bank (WB) attended the event.
Speaking at the event, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung said as of July 15, 11 ministries and agencies connected and conducted 53 administrative procedures with over 1.34 million files by 11,812 businesses via the national one-stop shop mechanism.
All customs procedures have now connected with the mechanism, with 99.65 percent of firms joining.
By the end of 2018, an additional 143 procedures will be launched on the mechanism, raising the total to 196, or 78 percent of the total 251 procedures which will be launched between now and 2020.
Regarding the ASEAN one-stop shop mechanism, Dung said as of January 1, 2018, Vietnam officially exchanged form D certificates of origin (C/O) with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. As of July 15, Vietnam received 32,949 certificates from the above countries while sending 14,214 ones to them.
Vietnam is working with Brunei, Cambodia and the Philippines to establish a system to pilot the exchange of form D C/O, and is partnering with Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia to launch a pilot system to exchange ASEAN customs declarations. Apart from the ASEAN, Vietnam is also negotiating to complete protocols and build a system to share information with the Eurasian Economic Union about customs declarations and C/O.
VCCI Vice President Doan Duy Khuong said the business community wishes that the Government would further expand the scope of the national one-stop shop mechanism and make sweeping reforms on specialised inspection.
Representatives of international organizations and development partners such as the WB, the European Union, the US, Japan, and the Republic of Korea spoke highly of the Vietnamese government's reform in the field, hoping that with the help of technical support projects, Vietnam will soon join the global supply chain.
A WB representative reported that the customs clearance for Vietnam's exports at border gates was brought down from 58 hours to 55 hours last year, and from 62 hours to 56 hours for imports into Vietnam. The cost of customs clearance for a batch of goods at border gates was reduced by $19.
With over 11 customs declarations last year, businesses saved upwards of $200 million and over 16 million hours of storage for exports and more than 34 million hours for imports.
According to the WB's "Do Business" report for 2016-2017, Vietnam continued to be one of the four countries with the highest trans-border goods exchange in ASEAN.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Quoc Khanh suggested improving the technological capacity and agreeing on the principles for specialised inspection among ministries and agencies.
Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management Nguyen Dinh Cung called for reducing more goods subject to specialised inspection, saying that 4,000 kinds of goods exempt from specialised inspection in the next four years is a modest figure.
According to him, half of the goods are currently subject to overlapping inspections by two or three ministries, or two or three agencies under a ministry, which, he said, should be changed soon.
He requested that 350 legal documents should be revised soon, including circulars regarding unreasonable business costs.
There should be a further step toward standardising and digitalising procedures in order to complete the e-government portal by 2020, he said, adding that it will be a strong breakthrough for the economy.
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Teleconference national ASEAN one-stop shop mechanism
Ca Mau facing affordable houses crisis for low-income people
Overseas Vietnamese pay tribute to Ly Kings in Bac Ninh
NA attends meeting of female ex-soldiers in Ben Tre
Traffic accidents reduce after new drink-driving law takes effect
Vietnamese, Chinese top leaders hold phone talks
Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper wins four prizes at Bua Liem Vang Press Award 2019
Vietnam eyes greater partnership with UN Resident Coordinators' Office
The Ca Mau Province in the southern tip of Vietnam is facing an affordable houses crisis for low-income people while many urban districts in the province are uninhabited.
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