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Is the China-South Korea Honeymoon Over?
Features | Diplomacy | East Asia
Beijing-Seoul ties had been warming considerably, at Japan's expense. Will the ADIZ row derail them?
By J. Berkshire Miller for The Diplomat
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China seemed to take the air out of the Geneva Accord on Iran with its simultaneous announcement last week that it is creating an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea. The ADIZ will be implemented by the Chinese Ministry of Defence and obliges all aircraft flying in the zone to accommodate a number of rules including: the identification of flight plans, the presence of any transponders and two-way radio communication with Chinese authorities. Predictably, the move was strongly condemned by both Tokyo and Washington and escalates the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands row to an even more dangerous level. This development also signals Beijing's indifference to the continued descent of Sino-Japanese relations as well as a closed-fisted challenge to Washington's rebalancing to Asia. Calibrating a firm and united response to this is a crucial test for the U.S.-Japan alliance. The U.S. has already signalled its displeasure with a B-52 flight across the disputed islands.
Yet, while the bullish move is predominantly a shot across the bow to both Tokyo and Washington, there are other interesting layers of the ADIZ, which may produce negative externalities for China's other relationships in the region. For example, the imposition on the ADIZ has likely reinforced for several Southeast Asian states – Vietnam and the Philippines in particular – the image of Beijing as bent on throwing its weight around to achieve a desired end state on its maritime disputes in the South China Sea. The action has also further cooled once budding ties between China and Australia. Canberra summoned China's ambassador to Australia this week and released a statement blasting the ADIZ as "unhelpful to regional security." And the ADIZ, which also covers Taiwan's airspace, has widened the cross-Strait rift with Taipei – a tussle that became more knotted following Japan's fisheries agreement with Taiwan in the East China Sea earlier this year.
But there is fallout from the ADIZ that has the potential to be particularly harmful to China's interests. In an apparent blunder, Beijing stretched its ADIZ boundaries to include South Korean airspace. Specifically, this zone covers a submerged rock in the East China Sea named Ieodo and parts of airspace surrounding Jeju Island. While Ieodo is not allowed, under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, to be claimed as territory by either state due its status as a submerged rock, both Seoul and Beijing argue that the reef falls under their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
The reaction from Korea to the ADIZ announcement has been bristling. Seoul reportedly summoned a minister from the Chinese Embassy in Korea to denounce the unilateral ADIZ and has warned Beijing that it will not comply with these rules. In fact the Ministry of Defense in Korea released a statement earlier this week stressing that it "will fly aircraft over Ieodo as usual without informing China." Korea maintains an ocean research center on Ieodo and has insisted that it is determined to defend its claimed EEZ. China for its part has been backpedalling quickly to mitigate the diplomatic fallout with Seoul, indicating that the intention of the zone is not to box Korea in on Ieodo. The row is further complicated by the fact that Japan also has an ADIZ over Ieodo, but one that is largely benign due to the fact that it does not require Korea to identify aircraft.
The ADIZ dispute between Korea and China comes amid a mini-honeymoon in bilateral ties. Korean President Park Geun-hye made a landmark four-day trip to China this past June and seemed to be at ease with Xi Jinping. Park appeared willing to quarantine historical differences over North Korea and instead focus on enhancing economic relations with Beijing. This included kick-starting long awaited bilateral free trade talks as a complement to trilateral talks with Japan. And Seoul and Beijing have appeared in lockstep with their harsh condemnation and censure of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statements on historical issues. Indeed, China has reveled in the widening rift between Tokyo and Seoul and secured a diplomatic coup when Park made an unprecedented snub of visiting China while ignoring Japan's call for a summit with Abe.
Korea's disenchantment with Japan has become so pervasive that it has prompted Washington to get involved in an attempt at mending fences. Yet calls for a patching up of ties have thus far fallen on deaf ears in Seoul, and Park recently dressed down Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel when he suggested that South Korea needs to cooperate with Japan on pressing security issues such as North Korea. Park also reportedly dismissed U.S. President Barack Obama's call for stronger trilateral cooperation on Pyongyang, opting instead to prompt him on the need for trilateral cooperation with China. A fractured trilateral relationship has been a long-held goal for China, which aims to defang the U.S. alliance structure in East Asia – a system that protects against Chinese regional hegemony. This has also flustered U.S. attempts to reassure Japan and Korea on its extended deterrence commitments, as both sides have different threat perceptions and some are even interlinked, in the case of Seoul's unease with Japan's defense reforms.
But now, five months after the Park-Xi summit, it seems that relations between China and South Korea may be creeping back to their normal state: opportunity coupled with mistrust. The ADIZ flap has the potential to exacerbate other simmering coals in the China-Korea relationship, such as their dispute over Baekdu Mountain or concerns over cyber security. While both sides will look to mitigate this disagreement, the ADIZ still elevates the potential for a miscalculation that would effectively erase the goodwill from the June summit. Meanwhile, there are other variables that are outside Seoul and Beijing's control, such as a provocative action by North Korea aimed at leveraging a break in consensus between the two. Finally, while bilateral ties with Japan will remain cool, this action may ironically resuscitate the languishing trilateral relationship with Tokyo and Washington, simply out of necessity.
J. Berkshire Miller
J. Berkshire Miller is an international affairs professional with significant expertise on security, defense and intelligence issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is defending itself after revelations staff are being trained to create multiple fake identities online.
It sounds like something out of a spy movie, with government workers posing as multiple personalities online to "harvest information".
But MBIE says it's all to do with online safety for workers involved in investigations and the Government says so long as it's all above board it is sometimes necessary.
Documents show MBIE spent $112,000 on a contract with ZX Security Limited to teach staff how to take material from online platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, maintain multiple online personas and extract GPS coordinates from photos.
Duty Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says sometimes going incognito is required for the job.
"Government agencies do need the ability to carry out investigations for instance, investigating tax evasion or ACC fraud," he says.
"Where investigations are being carried out, they have to be carried out in a lawful and appropriate fashion we expect to hear back from MB once they have reviewed this work they are doing."
The contract with ZX Security was published to the MBIE website on the 18th December 2018, although it was signed by ZX Security and MBIE a year ago.
The contract details elements of the workshops, and what employees are expected to learn.
"The provider will deliver an advanced social media training course to Ministry workers using false personas on social media for verification and investigation purposes," the document states.
Modules such as "harvesting information from social media and other sources with minimal programming knowledge" and "how to maintain multiple identities across various social networks by creating a backstory for your personas" are detailed in the contract.
Employees will also be taught "systems and processes for sending and receiving anonymous messages (SMS and email)" and "how to extract meta-data from images such as GPS coordinates and device information (e.g mobile phone/camera model)".
As well as maintaining false identities, MBIE staff learned how to identify people on social media by their use of language and how to "harvest information from social networks".
At the end of the course, a workshop is offered. The workshop aims to have attendees "use the skills gained during the course to create a detailed dossier on a group or individual".
Last month, the State Services Commission released a scathing report into the use of consultants Thompson and Clark to spy on the public.
As a result the screws were tightened and Mr Lees-Galloway says MBIE knows that.
"The PM made it very clear that she doesn't expect Government agencies to be spying on ordinary citizens," he says.
MBIE says it has strict controls in place when it comes to digital media being used for investigation purposes.
In a statement, the Ministry says as a result of the Health and Safety at Work Act it is better for workers to remain incognito online - especially if it helps lessen the risk of violence and aggression from those being investigated.
And an internet watchdog agrees.
"I think this is an important part of MB doing its job and I'm sure they are thinking about the best way of doing this as well," InternetNZ outreach and engagement director Andrew Cushen says.
So far 70 staff have been through the course which is set to continue through to 2021.


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NFL owner accused in prostitution sting
Mr Kraft with New England quarterback Tom Brady
The billionaire owner of the New England Patriots has been charged with soliciting prostitution in a Florida massage parlour, police say.
Robert Kraft, 77, is accused of two misdemeanour charges in Jupiter. He has denied the allegation.
The owner of the Super Bowl-winning franchise allegedly paid for sexual services at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in the beach resort, police said.
Mr Kraft's net worth is estimated at $6.6bn (£5bn).
The tycoon was snared as part of a human-trafficking sting operation in Jupiter about a month ago, said police.
Jupiter Police chief Daniel Kerr said at a press conference on Friday that the charges stem from "two different visits" to the spa, resulting in two counts of "soliciting another to commit prostitution".
A spokesperson for Mr Kraft said in a statement to the BBC: "We categorically deny that Mr Kraft engaged in any illegal activity.
"Because it is a judicial matter, we will not be commenting further."
The spa was among 10 closed by authorities after a months-long investigation found women there were in "sexual servitude", according to charging documents.
A detective told TCPalm.com that the alleged sex acts were captured on surveillance camera.
Warrants have also been issued for over 170 people who were swept up in the dragnet, police say.
Who is Robert Kraft?
He is the head of the Kraft Group, which has investments from sports to real estate.
Mr Kraft bought the Patriots for $172m in January 1994.
Under his 25 years of ownership the NFL team has played in 10 Super Bowls and won six championships.
He has four sons. His wife Myra died in 2011.
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Danielle Legros Georges' "Only"
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Nature hides
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"Only" from The Dear Remote Neamess of You. Copyright 2016 by Danielle Legros Georges. Reproduced by permission of Barrow Street Press.
Writing Prompt:
Consider how notions of singularity and community are in relation. Why community? Why singularity? What are their roles, beauties, pathways to solidarities and freedoms? Make a poem of your thoughts.
Danielle Legros Georges
Danielle Legros Georges is an academic, translator, and author of several books of poetry including The Dear Remote Nearness of You, winner of the New England Poetry Club's Motten book prize. Her awards include fellowships and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Boston Foundation, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. She was appointed the second Poet Laureate of the city of Boston, serving in the role from 2015 to 2019. She is a professor of creative writing, and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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COSMETIC group Avon, which has 300m customers worldwide, celebrates its 125 year anniversary today. Avon is the world's largest direct seller, with over 3.5bn products sold each year in more than 100 countries. The cosmetics giant has 6.5m independent representatives – its famous "Avon ladies" – and profits of £2.9m a year. Avon was launched in 1886 with a line of five fragrances, and now creates nearly 1,000 products every year.


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Rory Dean Macpherson
Formerly: National Council of Provinces
Democratic Alliance (DA)
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About Rory Dean Macpherson
Positions held
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)
17th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial KwaZulu-Natal Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014
Delegate at National Council of Provinces (Parliament) from 7th May 2009 until 29th May 2009
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NLC Chairperson appointment process: deliberations continued 25 Nov 2020
Mr D Macpherson (DA) added historical context of how this Committee had dealt with urgent matters like this in the past. He was concerned that the timelines that had been proposed by Ms Hermans were extraordinarily long. The Committee should look to deal with this process in a truncated system ...
NLC Chairperson appointment process: deliberations 24 Nov 2020
Mr D Macpherson (DA) said that the Committee must determine its own process for the interviews and for the shortlisting. Those two issues were intrinsically linked that needed to have their own defined and agreed processes. The CVs should not be looked at on face value. There needed to be ...
NRCS and SABS on its turnaround strategy 26 Nov 2019
Mr D Macpherson (DA) welcomed Ms Fubbs, the previous Chairperson of the Committee, who was seated at the back of the room. He said that when people were asked how they went bankrupt, they always said that it went slowly at first and then rapidly. He had said publicly that ...
SACUM/UK Trade Agreement: briefing & consideration; Implementation of Competition Amendment Act 29 Oct 2019
Mr D Macpherson (DA) congratulated the Minister and the Department on the agreement. He said the new agreement should be seen as an opportunity to increase the volume and variety of goods traded with the UK, and hoped that the Department was developing a long term plan to take the ...
Trade & Industry Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report 17 Oct 2019
The Chairperson accepted apologies from Ms P Mantashe (ANC), Mr D Macpherson (DA) and Mr M Cuthbert (DA). The Committee then considered the conclusions of its Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) point by point.
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Questions asked to the Minister of Trade and Industry 1 Aug 2014
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Hon Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
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77 Flavor is especially popular in France and the UK as a smooth vape and is also considerably cheaper than the local flavours available in those two countries, African Mango being the most popular variant from their brand. Many consider this an all day vape.
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Mystree (some of you may also be familiar with Kryptic, by the same manufacturers) is a high quality blend of blackcurrant and cream infused with menthol. Mystree has been around for as long as we can remember, widely regarded as a legendary juice amongst local enthusiasts. Many of our clients have been vaping this e-liquid exclusively for the past two years.
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"Says Who?" author, Ora Nadrich shares her personal journey from Grief to Deep Healing and Transformation.
"Losing a loved one is a type of heartbreak that can only be known by those that have experienced loss themselves. It feels like a hole in your heart that can never be filled up again, and you are reminded of its gaping void at all hours of the day and night.
You can suddenly feel as if you now exist as half of a human being, or for some, less than half; maybe just a fraction of themselves is able to function because they too feel as if they could die, and that's as much as they can muster.
But there is something very valuable that comes from grief, and it is hard to know it when one is in the grips of tremendous sorrow and anguish, and that is a deep healing and transformation that the loss of a loved one leaves us to experience, when we are ready to.
When I lost my beloved sister, Esther last year, my heart felt as if it were breaking into a million pieces, and the sadness I felt was more than I could bear at times. I had experienced loss before with both my father and brother, Daniel, but this felt different, and I wasn't sure why.
What I realized when I allowed myself to go deeper into my pain, as opposed to trying to quicken the grieving process so that I could be more present for my family and work, was that my sister's death had given me much to learn from, and it caused me a type of healing that included wisdom and compassion, of which I hadn't understood in quite the same powerful way until she was gone.
Death and grief can be our greatest teachers, if we allow for it, but we must keep our heart open and available, even when it feels as if it can't endure one more thing being asked of it. But our heart needn't do anything other than to feel our pain and heartache, and if we surrender to it as if it were a gift left by a loved one, as opposed to feeling that they caused us suffering in their leaving, then we can let them help us heal by being unafraid to go deeper into our own hearts, and discover even more of who we are, which includes a greater understanding of life, and how it can be best lived without our loved one who has courageously travelled to the "great beyond" before us.
We have a wonderful opportunity to learn from death, and realize that it can help transform us to be better and wiser people because of it. And we must believe that our deceased loved ones would not only want us to heal our hearts from their passing, but also rise from our suffering like a phoenix rises from the ashes, and soar higher than we ever have before.
Our loved one would want nothing more than for us to live our life as fully as we possibly can, and to know that this life is meant for us to realize who we are, and discover what our greatest purpose is. Their death can help shine a light on what we are meant to do, and give us a greater strength and belief in ourselves to go after what we want, but perhaps were not ready to do while they were alive.
My sister Esther's death has gifted me in ways that has helped me feel stronger and less afraid to face things that make me grow and evolve as a human being. She has taught me to be brave and more fearless like she was, and face each day with even more appreciation and gratitude. What would she want for me, I have asked myself many times after her death? She would want me to live my life as authentically as I possibly could, and follow what stirs in my heart and soul. She would also want me to live my dream, and she has helped me do that. She has become my greatest inspiration, along with my husband, and two magnificent boys.
Because of her death, I choose to live each day to its fullest, and when I do something I am proud of, I know that she would even be prouder of me.


Who knew you could make amazingly delicious and crispy steak fries in the oven with just a little bit of olive oil? You can! This Oven Steak Fries recipe is a perfect example of minimalist cooking with maximum flavor!
You'll only need potatoes and a few standard pantry ingredients to whip these up. And the best thing is they only take about 30 minutes from start to finish!
This recipe only uses five ingredients. That's it. It's a super simple side that's awesome with just about any backyard barbecue meal you can come up with.
I like to leave my potatoes unpeeled, but you can peel yours if you want. If you do, you might need to reduce the cooking time just a little to keep them from getting mushy.
And now – without further ado – the Oven Steak Fries recipe!
This Oven Steak Fries recipe is a perfect example of minimalist cooking with maximum flavor! You'll only need potatoes and a few standard pantry ingredients to whip these up.
Cut the potatoes into about 8 wedges per potato.
In a large bowl, add the oil and all the seasoning and stir them well. Then add in the potatoes, stir to coat well.
Place the potatoes on a non-stick baking sheet and place them in the oven. Bake for about 20-25 minutes and flip half way through so they're browned nicely on both sides.
Need some main dish ideas to serve with these steak fries? Try Coffee Spice Rubbed Steaks, Slaw Burgers, Fiesta Burgers, or Honey BBQ Chicken Wings. Just be sure to have plenty of ketchup (or if you are like me and my kids… Ranch!) on hand!
If you need a few supplies to make this delicious recipe at home, stock up on these kitchen essentials!
I've never made oven steak fries before. That sounds like a really yummy recipe.
Your oven steak fries look like they came out of a restaurant or were pre-made. Very appetizing…I'd like to make some that looked half as good. I think I've been cutting them the wrong way.
These oven steak fries sound awesome! The thyme and oregano would give them an extra kick of great flavor for sure!
Steak Fries are seriously my favorite! They are so easy to make too.
My mom used to make these all the time but not in such a healthy way. Love the change up on this!
These fries look amazing!! I love steak fried but have never made them myself, I bet they taste so much better than anything you buy from the store!!
I love making steak fries! My son loves it too! We pair it with steak and chicken, so awesome!
I never used to be a fan of roasted potatoes but in the past few years they've become one of my favourite things to eat! I love the addition of spices on these!
Omg these fries look so yummy!!!! Fries are always a huge hit in this house. I will have to give them a try!
My husband love any dish with potatoes so he would love this! I think I will make this for the weekend.
These look really good. I usually call them potato wedges. I'll have to try out your recipe soon. I'm sure they taste great.
These look so delicious and easy to make. I will have to try making these on the weekend. My kids are going o love them.
Both the hubs and I love roasted potatoes. Never tried this one. Bet it's delicious! Can't wait to try it!
These looks super yummy! I wonder if these would freeze well, if I flash froze them? I would love to have these as a more natural alternative to store-bought frozen steak fries with all their gross preservatives.
I love making my own fries at home. They are so much better for you and you can add tons of special ingredients to each one. We make cajun fries all the time!
That looks so yummy. I have to try this using higher temperature next time.
I honestly addicted to fries and seeing this post makes me want to buy a bunch of fries right now.
Yours came out perfect! I will have to try your tip of raising the oven temperature! My family loves potatoes and this would make for great sidings!
These are my favorite kind of potatoes! I make them all the time. My son begs for them at least once a week.
Your steak fries look amazing! Mine never crisp up quite like this, so I'll be trying your recipe next time, as there's obviously something I'm doing wrong.
Actually, we have done this long time ago and I forgot how to do it. So, thanks for the recipe.
Those look so good! I love steak fries, especially if you can bake them in the oven and have them be a little healthier than normal.
I love steak fries but I never thought about making my own. This sounds like a great recipe to try making them! Can't wait to try it!
OMG, yes! Steak fries are the best! I can't wait to cook some of these up. Thanks for sharing. Yummo.
We are big on fries in our house. Steak fries are the BEST!
Looks good! I think my husband has made something similar to this.
These look so good, and it's even early morning for me right now!
My other half (=husband) looooooooooves oven-fries-potatoes so I'm gonna try your way this week.
I'm going to try this recipe. Mine always turn out mushy – but I never bake them at 500 degrees – that must be the key!
I make those, but yours look so much better! LOL The higher oven temperature must make a big difference.
So simple and soooooo much healthier! I wonder if you could do sweet potatoes the same way?


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Property is Broker Owned, and priced well below appraisal. motivated seller. Seller financing is available with pre-approval.
Custom home and 79 acres of pasture and timber. This Property must be seen to be believed. The Sellers has moved to the coast and no longer needs the home. Property is located in historic Abbeville County and is between Abbeville and Calhoun Falls. There are 4 major lakes within a few miles of property as well as great wildlife, historical sites and historical Abbeville Opera House. Come enjoy the best of country living.
This is the last remaining parcel of Double B Ranch. Double B Ranch was a working cattle ranch until 2012. The Majority of the property was sold in 2013 to a local rancher and is being still being utilized as a cattle ranch. The land that is remaining is the best grass land of the whole property. Property has been owned and managed by the same owner since 1995 and has not been offered on the real estate market in 19 years. The Sellers has moved to the coast and no longer needs the home. Property is located in historic Abbeville County and is between Abbeville and Calhoun Falls. There are 4 major lakes within a few miles of property as well as great wildlife, historical sites and historical Abbeville Opera House. Easy access to anywhere on Hwy 81 or Hwy 72. 30 minutes from Anderson SC or 1 hour to Greenville SC and Athens Ga. Come enjoy the best of country living.
This custom built home was built by the owner in 2008 as his personal home .It has a very open floor plan to allow nature light and is centrally located on the property with unbelievable views. It is a two story home with full walk out basement, 5 bedrooms, 4 and ½ baths, oversized two car garage, front and back porches and 360 degree views of the property. The features are too many to list but here are a few. Brazilian cherry hardwood floors throughout majority of main level. Costume tile and marble work. Custom Kitchen with granite countertops and cabinets, double oven, LP 5 burner gas cook top. Room break out is a follows. Main Level has 3000 sq ft with high ceilings and 3 bedrooms 2 ½ bathrooms, kitchen, living room, sun room, formal dining room, office, mud room with own shower. Second floor has 1450 sq ft and 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and very large great room. Basement has 3000 sq ft with 1 bedroom, 1 ½ bath and an open floor plan along with a 8 ft ceilings and a solid concrete room for protecting valuables. Home is double insulated, has 1 gas fire place, 2 gas water heaters, 2 HVACs gas packs, and is prewired for exterior generator.
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What is the difference between Marketing and Promotion?
What role does Public Relations play in the scheme of things?
What gets customers in the door?
Sometimes people confuse promotion with marketing. If someone advertises, they may think they are marketing.
To have this as a philosophy only weakens an overall campaign. There is a very distinct difference between them both.
To understand that difference, lets explore what each one is.
Marketing - is the entire conception and packaging of a specific product that gets brought to the general public. It means to prepare and take to and place into the marketplace in such a way as to obtain maximum potential and recompense.
Promotion - is the art of offering what will be responded to. It consists of what you are offering and how to offer it so that it will be responded to by the public.
Many times people jump right to the promotion step without consideration to the marketing cycle. This has left people thinking that promotion doesn't work, only word of mouth works.
In this case, what one has done is gotten good word of mouth marketing. But without sound research and a solid plan, right from the beginning, the chances of failure are increased.


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If you're like me and love the idea of sporting a golden tan all year round, you'll understand the predicament I'm in when it comes to locating a decent tanning cream here in the 'Kong. Actually, forget about decent, any tanning cream will do! It's one of those things on the 'to do' list. Whenever I return to my hometown in Australia, I ALWAYS make it top priority to stash a few bottles of Dove Summer Glow, Holiday Skin or Garnier Body Summer (basically whatever I can get my hands on) in the suitcase, along with sunscreen of course (check out our top sunscreen picks here).
As for the real deal – no not a 'fry myself in the sun' kind of tan, but a good old sun-safe 'spray tan' – well, I hadn't had the luxury of one of those since arriving in this mighty metropolis four years ago. In fact, I wasn't even sure spray tan salons existed here, with much of the city preferring a more luminous shade of milky white. And while there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, let's just say that whilst I'm fair, my skin is by no means luminous or milky white.
So, when Sassy Mama asked if I'd like to review Forever Tanned Hong Kong, my interest was definitely piqued; and when Elle arrived at my door, the memories of sun-kissed skin in a flash came flooding back (not to mention the rather mortifying process of getting naked in front of a total stranger)! But alas, this is the price we pay for beauty and Elle made me feel completely at ease as she sprayed me with that "Every day is Summer Time" shimmer.
Forever Tanned Hong Kong's salon is in Cyberport, but they're also mobile, so firstly let me sing the praises of a 'mobile' spray tanning system! Yes, this means you can have Elle and her magic makeover machine come right to your door and do the deed in less than half an hour. Brilliant! As long as you've got enough space to erect a shower size tent, you're in business (just quietly, my 3-year-old was very pleased that Elle's tent resembled a slightly bigger version of her pink Minnie Mouse tent!).
I went for the Express option, which allowed me to wash it off in the shower within three hours. Excellent if you need to go out and don't have all day to lie around in loose clothing. There are several other options, including the AVIVA six to eight hour wash off, the Express Tan one to three hour wash off and the Super Express City Tan – one hour to 90 minutes wash off (this is the first in the world that can be washed off after just 30 minutes!).
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Nicole was a newsreader with Sky News Australia for a decade, before stepping outside the box (literally) for a change of pace in Hong Kong with her hotelier husband. It was just as well she was in the 'city that never sleeps' because swapping the news desk and microphone for a change table and nappy bag with a new baby in tow, meant sleep was limited. Eventually emerging from the sleep-deprived bubble, 3 years on, Nicole now works as a freelance journalist, copywriter, presenter, master of ceremonies and media trainer across Asia.


Fighting Irish takes down Haynes at the Jamboree, 26-0!
In an exciting start to the 2017 football season, our Fighting Irish went up against Haynes Acaedemy in the Jamboree and emerged victorious, 26-0. During last night's game, Fighting Irish threw two touchdown passes, recovered two fumbles and had two interceptions! We're looking forward to a stellar season cheering on our boys! Geaux Irish!
Come out to support the Fighting Irish football team tonight as they take on the Bonnabel Bruins tonight at 5:30 PM! Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door.
Fighting Irish Football Schedule is UP!
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The following blog post was written on 11/6/16 by Nancy Sajben, MD for her website. You can visit her website by clicking here.
To find detail and sometimes depth, check the alphabetical lists on either side column [on Nancy Sajben's website] until you see the category or tag when I first posted on that. Or simply plow through 7.5 years of detail with references. You do the work to check the side columns as I have no time to embed links below, taken from throughout this site.
For now just a list of medication players that may be strikingly important in trying to bring intractable pain into remission even after 20 years. Yes, even chronic for decades. The list applies to intractable pain of all causes. I omitted listing standard interdisciplinary approaches commonly used by every pain specialist around the world. My patients have failed all those.
Vitamin D is anti-inflammatory. Important. Helps pain, depression. If bone loss is an issue, you will not absorb calcium from food if D is low. Mayo Clinic's publication in 2012 showed more morphine is needed for pain if D is low. Huge literature of its benefit for depression. First topic I posted on – it is that important.74.
Vitamin B6 can cause burning pain from scalp to toe, a toxic neuropathy. It can be toxic to brain. It is loaded in tons of soft drinks, "energy" drinks, supplements.
MTHFR mutation may be present. Body cannot process the B12 and folic acid you are eating or taking in supplement. A simple blood test, costly. Treatment is as simple as buying methyl folate and methyl B12 – no prescription needed. Folic acid in particular is profoundly important for one of the major energy cycles in the body. Can cause multiple conditions, some fatal, all from one single cause.
Minocycline 100 mg/day is the dose I use but higher doses could be given. It is used daily for decades for acne. I may prevent spread of CRPS if given before surgery, dental work, even minor procedures. I start 24 hrs before, and continue for days after full recovery from surgery.
Testosterone in either male or female is depleted by opioids, it may be depleted by stress. Low T is a risk for depression, weakness and osteoporosis.
Naltrexone low dose (LDN) – profoundly important. A glial modulator. Lifelong use.
Memantine – double the Alzheimers dose for CRPS. Like ketamine, it blocks the NMDA receptor.
Ketamine via nasal spray, under tongue combined with IV or not, works on glutamate-NMDA receptor. Not an essential drug. Where ketamine has stopped working, patients have become pain free after years of CRPS.
Creams combinations, so many. Most of my CRPS pts very much like Mg++/guai 10% each. You may or may not trial various combinations lido/keto/keta, etc. Numerous. DMSO 50%.
Medical Marijuana (CBD, THC, terpenes) Marijuana saves lives. Entire issue of Science, November 4, 2016, devoted to pain. NAC and alpha lipoic acid are noted by research from the Netherlands.
The glutamate NMDA receptor – ketamine, memantine.
Glia, the innate immune system – glial modulators.
Most importantly, I did not have time to relay a very special message from my patient in Brooklyn: "Surround yourself with friends and family who love you. Never give up hope." She had her first 2 or 3 pain free days this week, as she slowly increases doses of medication. She's not yet at maximal effect and even then there can be increases. Sending love and courage.
Watch this on the RSDSA video [to be posted soon], afternoon speakers, the parents of young ones who had RSD discussed today all the toys and games they had to devise to slowly force yourself to move through the pain, every single day, several times a day, all day, begin to move the body as much as you can. Set goals and slowly, at a pace you set, do the work. Make progress. Go forward. Keep moving. Do whatever you can to keep moving.


The District Clerk is the custodian of the two District Courts' Records.
We are actively e-Filing in Civil, Family and Criminal cases. Our office is paperless in civil, family and criminal cases. Our scanned documents will be recognized as the original documents and not retain the source documents. All documents that are eFiled must be accompanied with a Civil/Criminal Process Form (pdf).
We summons juries for all of the courts--Justice of the Peace, County Court and District Courts. The jury questionnaire may now be filled out online and it is sent straight to our office. Saving the county postage and time. If you are unable to come on the day you are summonsed, please give us a call and we will be glad to reschedule you.
We work closely with the Attorney General on child support cases. The Child support tab gives directions on child support cases and Income Withholding for Support instructions and the blank forms for custodial, non-custodial parents, pro se parties and attorneys.
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Upside down days
Full-time work is defining. How could it not be, swallowing such a large part of time and energy? Defines me: tired, frustrated work machine. Nothing ticks inside a stopped mechanical, so ticking through the past few days was just the small, uncertain part that's not machine. Upside down, out-of-sorts days these have been, moving jerkily from inaction to action and back again. Tick. Hesitation. Tock. In the hesitation, things disappear: glasses, money... me. Finding my own rhythm would take so much longer than a week. The clocks went back last night. The mind treads water, while the body pushes forward and away [away until 9 April].
Upside down photo of Poise by Angela Conner at the Fitzwilliam.
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At the Fitzwilliam
Yesterday was a lovely day, spent at the Fitzwilliam Museum with my friend L who lives near Cambridge. We saw the exhibition of Netsuke: tiny, exquisite, curly-whirly genius in every piece. Some of the figures reminded me fiercely of Michael. The newly refurbished Greek and Roman galleries are coolly organised and spacious and a joy to wander in. A selection of Sargent, Sickert and Spencer had much that was no more than pleasant (or unpleasant in Spencer's case), but the luminous clarity of a couple of portraits - including the one here - and one architectural study by John Singer Sargent continues to glow in my head.
Passing between galleries, as rain alternated with sunshine and provided some nice lighting effects, we took in the Sculpture Promenade in the museum's front garden. Some pieces currently displayed work exceptionally well there. The one in the foreground above is by Rob Ward. More of these, and some other quick glimpses of Cambridge (no photography allowed inside the museum, alas) in my small photoset.
Footnote - different ways of seeing
Dave Bonta's podcast, which now appears weekly on his blog Via Negativa, this week takes the form of a tribute to the poet Ai, who has sadly died. Ai was a fine poet and I'm not drawing a literary comparison with unashamedly populist works, but the poems Dave reads and some of his comments speak directly to what I was groping for in the post below about the novels and films of the Millenium Trilogy - how there are depictions of violence that just perpetrate further violence, and then there are depictions that bear powerful, necessary witness in quite a different way.
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Men Who Hate Women
Scenes of snow, sea and forests float through my mind. Good and evil, horror and safety, shadows of history and intriguing, compelling characters. Landscape and plot in black and white, but grey shades too, dreamy and resonant: a hugely pleasurable couple of hours in the cinema, which isn't something I have too often these days.
I'd been waiting eagerly for the release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film of Volume 1 of Stieg Larsson's wonderful Millenium Trilogy (everyone should read the novels - an absolute must for our times!) about radical journalist Mikael Blomqvist and angry hacker Lisbeth Salander crusading against horrific crimes of past and present that lurk in Sweden's lovely countryside, cosy small towns and hi-tech, cosmopolitan cities. Like all the trilogy's many fans, I expect, I waited with trepidation too. The 'film of the book' most often disappoints, for obvious reasons: you've already cast and directed this film in your head. There were other reasons too, in this case, for trepidation: the books' gut feminism and anti-capitalism, the super-unconventional heroine, the long digressions scattered through the main, fast-paced narrative of these very long books (digressions not appreciated by all readers, but much appreciated by me). A huge risk, surely, that the films (two sequels coming soon) would lose or fatally compromise all these, to focus only on pace, special effects and the extreme violence which is also in the novels.
My hope of something better lay in the fact that the films were being made in Sweden (I hold out a lot less hope for the promised Hollywood remakes). As it happens, Sweden is not for me an unknown land of dark, dramatic beauty like Norway. I've long had Swedish friends, been a few times to that country for work and holidays, found much to like and admire in the open landscapes and peaceful islands, in people often gentle and ironic, and in the social democratic society, even while suspecting that comfortable state provision breeds a certain conformism which might give a bloody-minded loner like me a hard time, and also being aware of an undoubted dark underbelly of disaffection, corruption and crime.
My visits to Sweden were some years ago, but I'd begun to dream of the place again recently. British journalist Andrew Brown's fine book, Fishing in Utopia, about the years he lived in Sweden is the kind of book we need more of in this age of superficial globalisation. As each appeared in English translation, I've also devoured all of Henning Mankell's books about Inspector Kurt Wallander and crime in a small southern Swedish town. The popularity of 'Nordic crime' novels, which are mostly founded in uncompromising social criticism, seems to me a rather good thing, despite my qualms about the extent to which the publishing industry - and the small translation industry too, these days - are in thrall to the all-too-saleable crime fiction genre at the expense of more varied fiction, and about the way it panders to some of our worst instincts for vicarious horror and violence.
Late last year my Finnish friend came back from Finland with a boxed DVD set of the Swedish TV Wallander films (made by the same production company as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and better, to my mind and my Finnish friend's, that the British TV films with Kenneth Branagh) and when she'd watched them all back to back I borrowed the box and did the same, revelling in the somewhat different take on a familiar genre, the landscapes and the wry, singing Swedish language, the quiet scripting and acting, and most of all the matter-of-fact portrayal of women which made me realise anew how stereotyped the 'strong' heroines of British or American cop shows still are.
So, might the film of Stieg Larsson's first novel just be less compromised, less compromising than I feared? After all, they had kept in Sweden the book's original title, Män Som Hatar Kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women), too bald and uncommercial for the anglosaxon market. I wasn't disappointed. I was spellbound. This may well be the only time I'll unequivocally experience the pleasures of an action thriller, the kind of thing I'd usually find a complete turn-off for its noisy, illogical violence and sexism. Just for once, oh my goodness, here's an action thriller with a heroine who is not objectified, a solid but vulnerable hero, and its heart and soul firmly in the right place.
Not everybody thinks so. Some critics have accused the film of sadism and misogyny. Excuse me? These reviewers need to look to their own ingrained reactions if they felt the film was propagating violence against women rather than than exposing it. Stieg Larsson's stories deal with terrible acts of violence against women, perpetrated by sick individuals and by organised crime. They are lurid tales of horrific deeds. Some people will therefore want to avoid the films as gratuitously upsetting in spite of the perspective taken, and that's a legitimate reaction. But for those not too sensitive to this, who can watch and hear about violence in a stylised, almost cartoonish setting and find their visceral upset adequately held by the equally visceral structured resolution of the form - well, this is as good as it gets.
When Lisbeth is mugged in the subway, the impact is personal and emotional. I gasped and tears came to my eyes. But the graphic scenes of her sadistic rape and subsequent violent revenge, though they horrified and repelled me, didn't have the same emotional effect. I don't know enough about film technique (soundtrack, camera angles?) to account for this, but I think it was deliberately, successfully achieved.
I've never seen a film more faithful to the book it was based on, though sadly and inevitably without the digressions. But of course, of course, if you've read the books, imagined your way through those three long volumes, the film actors will not be the characters of your imagination. Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist are not much like Lisbeth and Mikael as I imagined them, but they are the screenwriter's, and the actors', legitimate and sensitive versions. They work. They are, perhaps, more interesting than 'my' versions, especially the depiction of Mikael as tough but almost passive in comparison with Lisbeth's vivid unpredictability. Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist are both terrific actors, as is every one of the supporting cast (and, gosh, the women in their forties and fifites actually have a few wrinkles). Characterisation, in an action movie, is necessarily sketchy. But here you don't feel you've seen all there is to a person, but that you've just caught a glimpse of a complex character about whom you can continue to speculate, you'll perhaps find out more in the sequel, but that will still not be all...
Indeed, I do continue to speculate. I've not stopped thinking about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and would happily see it again - an uncommon reaction, surely, to a thriller, which once climaxed and resolved has generally done its stuff, and a tribute to a rather amazing film. Three cheers. Unalloyed enthusiasm. Not a lot of that about.
Swedish trailer with subtitles. Avoid the English-language trailer, which is terrible - one of those horribly cliched and overdone voiceovers.
(review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in progress - there's rather a lot to say)
I've just read The Photograph, by Penelope Lively, a perfect small novel, pretty close to perfect anyway, the story of a perfectly beautiful and charming woman whose life, in spite or perhaps because of this, is not a happy one.
In the back of a cupboard, successful 60ish academic Glyn Peters finds a photo in a sealed enveloped marked 'do not open', so of course he does. The photo shows his dead wife, Kath, holding hands with her brother-in-law and comes with a scrawled note to 'my love'. A cliched start, almost, to a story wherein Glyn sets out, with the scholarly researcher's thoroughness, to investigate this secret infidelity: a tour of their mutual friends and family, each of whom has a chapter, remembering what they knew of Kath, who turns out to have been rather far from what she seemed.
Nothing very original here, but it's entrancingly well executed, gripping as a thriller. In fact it is a thriller, circling closer and closer to how Kath lived and why she died. The characterisation is fabulous: each of these people has feet of clay, and is not less engaging for that, but more. The writing is fabulous too. It's the sentence structure and the rhythm, I think.
" And so, on this day so much later, when Mary watches Glyn get out of his car, look around, open the gate and walk up her garden path, she sees a man who carries baggage - the baggage of all those years. He is freighted with her own initial mistrust - the mistrust which gave way eventually to tolerance. She sees a man she once disliked, and then got used to, because there was no alternative and he was by then an unavoidable feature of her friend's life. She sees a man she sparred with, on occasion, a man she thought too ready with an opinion, a man inclined to talk everyone else into the ground. She is startled to see that this man is now an older man, and then remembers her own grizzled head. All the same, he is palpably the same man, and all around him there float other times, and other people. He brings Kath; he brings Kath's voice saying Glyn this, Glyn that, Glyn's away for a few days so I'm going to play hookey and come to see you, right? He brings that house of theirs in Melchester which Mary seldom visited and always found in some way a house without a heart, a house in which two people came and went but in which they somehow did not live... "
So it's written in the present tense, of which I am emphatically not a fan, often returning books to the shelf in the bookshop when I find this. The first time I noticed was on page 188. It hadn't obtruded because it was so natural, written in the present because this is in the present, the ongoing moment of somebody thinking, remembering, realising, the reader in the moment with them, waiting to see what this one hasn't remembered yet, but might remember any time now.
The Photograph is a remorselessly clever, sharp-eyed book about some rather common ways of being limited and selfish, but more kind than cruel, more sad than cynical, and very affecting. This was superb. This was why I don't think I'll ever abandon reading fiction.
When I dropped the champagne glasses yesterday evening (we'd been toasting a new PhD - no, I only had a sip), it seemed prudent to conclude that I was too tired to keep working. So, not for the first time, a holiday begins with Saturday in the office. Bah. Just finished, and off through the rain to see this.
Weather for umbrellas and wellingtons
Rain is forecast for every day until next Tuesday at the earliest. Oh well, so I can legitimately stay in bed late, pore over the computer screen and generally slob around for the first few days of my break.
OK, we're still in 'here is a nice but unrelated photo' territory. In part because I went to the British Museum last weekend and had a good day for photos; in part because there's a break coming up, so this week is surreally busy. I did try, without success, to think of something to say about fingers…
At the BM I was reminded that there's really nothing better than very ancient stuff for taking you out of yourself – it comes from somewhere very far off, so I guess it quickly also takes you to somewhere very far off, or at least to a level of presence that is timeless and different.
Dark in the park
Dark, muddy earth with gold crocus nuggets. Dark, rainy sky with cartoon crows in bare trees.
Behind me, heavy footsteps in the gravel and a dog panting. Shrieks from the distant playground.
Friday afternoon. So bloody tired. There's something* I wanted to write. But after a couple of paragraphs it stalls. Fruitless engine-revving. Broken down. And broken up, the fragments of thoughts crushed and scattered. Somebody, wrap me in plastic sheeting, rebuild me.
*and I didn't mean to post it, of course, barely started... if anyone has that in their feed-reader. sigh.
The second, and more coming...
...another two, three, four buds waiting to burst. A new bloom makes my day: their lush, gentle softness, so like young human skin. Having these on the office windowsill reminds me of all that is warm and simple and unforced, all that is lacking in computers - much as I love them, in bureaucracy - much as we need it; that ultimately people are more like orchids than like computers - well, I hope we are.
Well, I think I hope we are. Gentle and fragile isn't always good. If I receive one more email today with a subject line: 'Help!' (oh, no, look, the latest one says: 'HELP!!'), I may delete it unread. Alas, I don't mean that - there is a hypothesis that only some of us, like me and my helpless correspondents, are orchid types.
Muttering to myself
Was it the wind?
Was it the wind? Or can I just catch their shadows, here outside the bar, if I narrow my eyes against the biting cold? The bare knuckles of their white hands holding cigarettes to blue lips. Warming herself on her own temper, she fizzes, shouts, jumps up and knocks over her chair, walks away unsteadily on high heels.
The astonishing urban chaos is more tolerable if you shift your focus from any purported meaning or wholeness, allow what you see to separate out into pattern, colours, shapes, signs. (all these within yards of my office)
Bare trees by the Thames
Lined up like shivering kids beside a swimming pool
Waiting for Spring to come with warm, enveloping towels.
Norwegian things
The first Norwegian thing is Martin, my moose with the endearingly worried expression. Here he is in a video of his natural habitat, in that mysterious 'dark light' which also characterises my other Norwegian things.
If the long, morose muzzle of the moose always makes me smile, it's perhaps for the same reason that Ǿrnulf Opdahl's dark, dark paintings fill me with light and joy. The rush from work on Friday evening to see this exhibition before it ended was worth it: I thought I'd like the work, didn't know how much. His paintings are like polished marble shot through with mineral colours.
Ǿrnulf Opdahl exhibition at Kings Place - click to enlarge
Opdahl lives in the landscape, by the seascape that he paints, knows them, treads them, breathes them. The writer of the exhibition catalogue finds a contrast between this daily material knowledge and immersion and the spiritual quality of the paintings. I don't. He's just there, deeply there. There is such subtlety, and the light - the deep, dark light. It's this dark Winter light that seemed perhaps to go out for me this past grey February. So I exult to see it in these paintings of Norway, even farther from the sun.
photo by me:mo, via GoodMorningLight.com
(the website of another wonderful young Chinese photographer)
I chanced on the same dark Norwegian light a day or two later in some pictures taken in Norway by a young Chinese photographer known as me:mo. The dark light, the blue verging on black. It's present too, if more diffuse, in the Norwegian novel I've just read, my first by the much praised mystery writer Karin Fossum. I happened to start not with one of her well known Inspector Sejer series, but with a slight and touching one-off novel, Broken.
Slight is the word that occurred to me recently as a criticism of The Winter House. My problem was not with its slightness as such, though - I like novels of all sizes and complexities. I found The Winter House too slight to bear its broad, heavy themes. Broken is a simple tale, pared down, cool but affecting: not really a crime story, more of a wry look at the failngs and redemptive qualities of character. The lonely, inhibited protagonist works in an art gallery (synchronicity). Spare prose evokes a sparse life. There's space enough to comfortably hold the novel's second strand, a low-key conceit of dialogue between character and author. Slow and spaciously atmospheric, it all feels muted, but not snuffed out - quite the opposite - by the dark light and intense cold of Winter in a small Norwegian town. The somewhat unattractive characters, unemotionally dealt with, are nonetheless, through the force of telling detail, engaging. This was a quiet novel that worked beautifully. I look forward to reading more by Karin Fossum, and feel drawn to Norway every time I look up and smile at my moose.
February is the hardest month
The first day of March is a shock. February, for all it's the shortest month, seemed eternal. An even greater shock is today's blue sky. February is the hardest month. The British winter isn't cold or long, compared with many, but yegods it's grey! This year especially: the grey skies low over rain and snow and death. Like four months shut inside a low-ceilinged room with the curtains drawn. The sky's grey has been just the grey of those inert plastic curtain linings that bar the light in the bedrooms of soulless chain hotels, and suddenly today the curtains are swished back.
So, blinking, noticing in the new light that this was a season of getting older. I've noticed before that I don't age gradually, but chug along for years much the same, then a shuddering shock and abrupt tipping over into older, falling into new folds of inelastic flesh. This winter I tipped. Daft to take aging personally, and on the whole I don't. But I could wish it was a steady, gradual shift, not these sudden falls. It wouldn't be this way, perhaps, if I wasn't so clenched against life.
Time for a bit more sunshine!
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Otra cosa es como enviar una URL en su documentacion la ponen quemada pero no encuentro como enviar una??
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Hellerhof ist der südlichste Stadtteil der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf und wird überwiegend durch Wohnnutzung in Einfamilienhäusern geprägt. Es ist der Stadtteil mit der jüngsten Bevölkerung. Hellerhof hat rund 6.050 Einwohner (Stand: 12/2016) und gehört zum Stadtbezirk 10.

Geographie

Im Süden grenzt Hellerhof an den Kreis Mettmann mit den Städten Monheim, (Stadtteil Monheim-Baumberg) sowie Langenfeld. Nördlich liegen die Düsseldorfer Stadtteile Garath und Urdenbach.

Verkehrswege

Die Autobahn A 59 (über eine schallgeschützte Brücke) sowie die Landesstraße 219 verlaufen mitten durch Hellerhof und trennen diesen Stadtteil in zwei Hälften, Hellerhof-Ost, wo neben der Wohnbebauung auch Gewerbebetriebe existieren und das durch eine Brücke für Fußgänger und Radfahrer, die über die L 219 führt an den S-Bahnhof angebunden ist, und Hellerhof-West, wo nur Wohnbebauung und das Einkaufszentrum vorhanden sind. Von der S-Bahn-Haltestelle Hellerhof-S fahren die S-Bahnen der Linie S6 in Richtung Essen (über Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof) – die Innenstadt von Düsseldorf ist mit der Bahn in 19 Minuten zu erreichen – sowie in die Gegenrichtung nach Köln über Langenfeld und Leverkusen. An vier Bushaltestellen verkehren Busse der Linie 789 in Richtung Monheim und Düsseldorf-Holthausen, eine fünfte – die "Eichsfelder Straße" – verbindet das Industriegebiet Hellerhof-Ost mit Monheim.
Mit der SB57 ab "Eichsfelder Straße" ist innerhalb von 19 min ein direkter Anschluss zur Heinrich-Heine-Universität vorhanden.

S-Bahn-Haltepunkt

Der im Dezember 1982 in Betrieb genommene S-Bahn-Haltepunkt Düsseldorf-Hellerhof () liegt etwa 14 Kilometer südlich des Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhofs. Er befindet sich an der Bahnstrecke Köln–Duisburg und gehört zur Preisklasse 4.

Der Bahnhof liegt in zentraler Lage im Stadtteil Düsseldorf-Hellerhof. Er befindet sich in Hochlage oberhalb des Hellerhofwegs.

Er besitzt einen Mittelbahnsteig mit Zugängen zum Hellerhofweg sowie einen Aufzug zu den Bahnsteigen.

Zurzeit wird der Bahnhof von zwei Linien der S-Bahn, der S6 und S68, sowie der Schnellbuslinie SB 57 und der Buslinie 789 angefahren.

Geschichte

Da Hellerhof erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem südöstlichen Drittel des damaligen Stadtteils Garath gebildet wurde, hat dieser Stadtteil keine ältere Geschichte. Allerdings hat neben Garath auch ein großer Bauernhof auf dem Gebiet von Hellerhof eine lange und ältere Geschichte. Dieser Hof wurde bereits 1447 in einer Urkunde als "Hoff zum Hellendaill" erwähnt. Der Name leitet sich vom Tal des Garather Baches ab, dessen Ufer im Bereich des Hofes schluchtartig steil abfällt. Das Tal wurde Höllental genannt und ist damit der Namensgeber.

In der bereits angeführten Urkunde von 1447 wurde der Hof durch Vererbung Eigentum des damaligen Eigentümers von Haus Garath. In einer weiteren Urkunde wird der Hof auch 1503 erwähnt. Weil der Hof zu dieser Zeit an der Durchgangsstraße von Düsseldorf nach Mülheim (Köln) lag, wurde er im Dreißigjährigen Krieg durch häufiger durchziehende Gruppen von Landsknechten völlig verwüstet. Die Straße wurde 1670 um etwa 500 m nach Osten verlegt. Der Hof lag ab diesem Zeitpunkt abseits der Straße und wurde wieder aufgebaut und verpachtet. 1676 wurde erstmals der Name eines Pächters in einem Kirchenbuch angeführt. 1788 wurde der Hof an Gottfried Klein verkauft und war nun ein selbständiges Bauerngut. Später wurde unter Zukauf von Ländereien der Hof in die zwei Höfe Neu- und Althellerhof aufgeteilt. Die Gebäude des Neuhellerhofes wurden im 19. Jahrhundert auch Haus an der Chaussee genannt. Um 1850 erwarb Fürst Peter von Arenberg den Neuhellerhof und verpachtete diesen 1895. 1909 übernahm Paul Poensgen, der bereits 1890 Haus Garath erworben hatte, auch den Neuhellerhof. 1936 endete das Pachtverhältnis des Althellerhofes. Nach der Aufhebung des Pachtvertrages des Neuhellerhofes 1939 wurden Neu- und Althellerhof wieder zu einem Gut zusammengelegt. Der letzte Besitzer des Hofes aus der Familie von Burgsdorff verkaufte 1962/1971 Flächen auf beiden Seiten der Koblenzer Straße an die Stadt Düsseldorf für eine Bebauung. Der Name des Stadtteils leitet sich vom als "Musterhof" bekannten Althellerhof ab.

Da Hellerhof relativ spät gebildet wurde, hat es die bei weitem jüngste Bevölkerung aller Stadtteile von Düsseldorf. Mit der Bebauung des Stadtteils wurde 1976 begonnen. Es gibt in der Regel meist Ein- und Zweifamilienhäuser und es sind nur wenige Mehrfamilienhäuser und Hochhäuser gebaut worden, um südlich von Garath eine gut ausgebildete, wohlhabende Bevölkerung, die vor allem aus jungen Familien besteht, ansiedeln zu können, die sonst in die südlichen Nachbarstädte Langenfeld und Monheim am Rhein abgewandert wäre. In den 1980er und 1990er Jahren lautete der Werbeslogan: "Wohnen in Düsseldorf – grünes Hellerhof.". Das dazugehörige Logo stellte einen rosa Schmetterling im Grünen dar, der früher am Einkaufszentrum als Skulptur aufgestellt war.

Wohnen
In Hellerhof wohnt man sehr ruhig, die Straßen im Viertel sind großteils verkehrsberuhigt durch Bremsschwellen und von den Durchgangsstraßen B 8 und Hellerhofweg sind die Wohnviertel durch Lärmschutzwälle abgeschirmt. Oberhalb der Lärmschutzwälle ist in Hellerhof-West eine Brücke für Fußgänger und Radfahrer errichtet worden, über die der Hellerhofweg gefahrlos überquert werden kann.
Von Hellerhof-Ost führt eine oberhalb des Lärmschutzwalles beginnende Fußgängerbrücke, die die B 8 und ein Fließgewässer überquert, zum S-Bahnhof Hellerhof. Außerdem wurden viele Grünflächen an den Straßen in den Wohngebieten angelegt.

Gewerbegebiet Hellerhof

In Hellerhof-Ost gibt es seit den 1990er-Jahren ein großes Gewerbeflächen-Gebiet mit verschiedenen Produktions- und Dienstleistungsbetrieben wie z. B. die Unternehmen A. u. K. Müller (Produktion von Magnetventilen für die Medizin-, Sanitär- und Lebensmitteltechnik), die Firma Bilfinger HSG FM Rhein-Ruhr (Facility Management und Dienstleistungen), die Firma Eifeler Werkzeuge (Hightechbeschichtungen für die industrielle Anwendung) und das Unternehmen Rhein Biotech/Dynavax Europe (Entwicklung von Impfstoffen und Biopharmazeutika), die Großbäckerei Pass sowie weitere Handwerksbetriebe und Bürobetriebe weiterer Unternehmen, die hier ihren Firmensitz haben.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Kirchen
 Evangelische Kirchengemeinde mit dem Gemeindezentrum Hellerhof und dem Familienzentrum Düsseldorf-Hellerhof.
 St. Matthäus ist eine katholische Pfarrkirche im Düsseldorfer Stadtteil Garath, die auch im Stadtteil Hellerhof zwei Objekte betreut: die Jugendfreizeiteinrichtung St. Matthäus und das Johannes-Haus, ein Versammlungsraum der Pfarrkirche St. Matthäus.
 Die Kirche für Düsseldorf hat seit 2021 einen Standort auf der Duderstädter Straße.

Umgebung

Die nahe Baumberger Aue (bzw. Urdenbacher Kämpe), die der Urdenbacher Altrhein durchfließt, umschließt den Stadtteil und wird am Wochenende gerne als Ausflugsziel und zum Sporttreiben, meist Fahrradfahren und Joggen, genutzt. Ein Reiterhof ermöglicht Pferdesport.

Freizeitmöglichkeiten

Im Hellerhofer Sportverein e.V. können die Hellerhofer Bürger Sport treiben. Der Verein hat über 500 Mitglieder und bietet u. a. die Sportarten Hockey, Tennis, Volleyball, Beachvolleyball, Bogensport, Walking und Wandern an. Sponsor ist das BWM-Autohaus Hans Brandenburg GmbH, dessen Stammsitz sich in Hellerhof befindet. Für Freizeitsportler wurden zwei Fußballplätze und ein Basketballplatz eingerichtet. Im Oktober 2006 wurde ein neues Tartan-Kleinspielfeld mit vier Basketballkörben und zwei Toren gebaut. Kindergerechte Spielplätze sind in Hellerhof in großer Anzahl vorhanden. Die Kleingartenanlage KGV Am Alten Rhein 1987 e.V. wurde für Naturliebhaber angelegt.

Der Bürgerverein Hellerhof e.V. setzt sich für den Stadtteil ein und bietet regelmäßige Ausflüge an.

Seit 1985 gibt es den Kleingartenverein Hellerhof 1985 e. V. mit eigener Anlage auf der Graf-von-Stauffenberg-Straße.

Einmal im Monat findet auf dem Parkplatz hinter ALDI an der Carlo-Schmid-Straße ein Trödelmarkt statt.

Einkaufsmöglichkeiten
In Hellerhof ist der Einzelhandel durch eine Aldi-Filiale vertreten. In der ehemaligen Edeka-Filiale gibt es seit dem 3. Februar 2022 eine Filiale von Denns BIO mit einem Bio-Vollsortiment. Weiterhin findet man hier einen Kiosk mit Lotto und Poststelle, eine Apotheke, ein Blumengeschäft, ein Fachgeschäft für schlesische Spezialitäten und eine Filiale der Bäckerei Busch. Im Sommer 2017 wurde eine neue Fahrschule im Einkaufszentrum eröffnet.

Eine Facharztpraxis für Allgemeinmedizin befindet sich im Obergeschoss links neben der Filiale Denns BIO, gegenüber Aldi gelegen. Seit 2021 gibt es eine neue Logopädiepraxis im Untergeschoss. Nachdem es seit Ende 2020 keinen Geldautomaten der Stadt-Sparkasse Düsseldorf mehr gibt, bietet seit dem Frühjahr 2021 ein Sparkassenbus jeden Donnerstag Vormittag in der Nähe des Aldi-Marktes seine Dienste an. Die Gastronomie besteht aus einem Döner-Schnellimbiss und einem Restaurant-Café. Vor der Aldi-Filiale befindet sich ein großer zweiteiliger Parkplatz, wobei der größere vordere Parkplatz zum Aldi-Einkaufsbereich gehört und Parkscheibenpflicht besteht. Gegenüber dem Einkaufszentrum befindet sich die Firma Hans Brandenburg GmbH Düsseldorf, der einzige BMW-Händler in Düsseldorf-Süd.

Weblinks

 Offizielle Homepage von Düsseldorf
 Offizielle Homepage des Hellerhofer Bürgervereins e.V.
 Offizielle Homepage des Hellerhofer Sportvereins e.V.

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Uncategorized | August 28, 2015
Rain ruins first day as hosts strike twice
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Only 15 overs were possible on day one of the third and deciding Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo on Thursday, with the visitors reaching 50 for two before the rain brought an early end to proceedings.
After winning the toss and deciding to field first, Sri Lanka made a good start when seamer Dhammika Prasad clean bowled opening batsman Lokesh Rahul with the second ball of the match to leave the tourists on two for one.
A good start became a great start when the other seamer, Nuwan Pradeep, trapped number three batsman Ajinkya Rahane in front for eight in the fourth over innings.
With the away side on 14 for two, their captain Virat Kohli (14*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (19*) steadied the ship somewhat as they took the score to the half-century mark before the heavens opened.
Both teams made two changes to their starting line-up from the last Test. India was enforced as injuries ruled out opener Murali Vijay and wicketkeeper Wriddihman Saha.
Pujara and keeper Naman Ojha, making his Test debut, were called into the team. Sri Lanka replaced the retired Kumar Sangakkara with Upul Tharanga while Jehan Mubarak made way to let Kusal Perera also make his debut in the whites.
The hosts won the first Test by 62 runs while India won the second match by a convincing 278-run margin.
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giving alms for nuns and monks, the offerings are usually rice, soup, rice cakes (mochi 餅) or nuts and sweet cakes. Rice is usually freshly cooked or in form of rice gruel. Soup should be sweetened or contain beans. The offering in form of the fruits from trees, the nuts, is an old habit in Buddhist food offerings.
The bowls used for these offerings have their origin in the normal food containers.
These bowls are used to offer the food on the altar in front of a Buddha statue. In the beginning, the begging bowls where put there on a special tray. In esoteric Buddhism, two bowls where offered as a pair, usually in the same decoration as the other ritual items on the altar.
These bowls are also used in the private home altar.
They have a high foot (takatsuki, koshidaka, koodai). They are sparcely decorated, sometimes just a band of lotus flowers or Chinese arabesques. At the bottom of the foot there can be eight lotusflowers showing toward the ground.
Gold, iron or other metals.
Their origin is in the normal bowls used by monks and nuns on their daily round of begging (takuhatsu) in India. Nowadays in Japan we can still see the monks on certain days walking through a neighbourhood, chanting their sutras in front of the door and waiting for an offering (usually money these days).
The begging bowl is a symobl of the vow of non-possession. Apart from the cloths it was the only personal belonging of a monk or pilgrim.
A round bowl, the shoulder a little wider than the opening. It is carried in a kind of scarf (hatsufuku, hattai, hatsunoo), which the monk has around his shoulder during the begging walk. Sometimes the bowl is covered by a special cover (hachigai), to keep the food clean.
Usually iron or simple pottery (gahatsu), usually green, red and blue. Other colors were not allowed.
According to Hamada the following materials should NOT be used for begging bowls, since they do not agree with a monk's vow of poverty: bronze, silver, wood, dry laquer (kanshitsu 乾漆) and stone.
The four heavenly gods (shitennoo) wanted to present Shakyamuni with four golden begging bowls, but he refused. He also refused to take bowls with emaille covering. Finally they brought him simpel bowls of stone which he accepted, but miraculously changed into one so that none of the gods would be offended.
He simply put the four bowls one into each other and held his hand above them, so they changed into one.
Nowadays a begging bowl should be of a simple material. The one on the picture are of simple laquer, with spoon, chopsticks and chopstsick-holder for the daily use in a Zen temple.
Monks also use four or six bowls, one smaller then the next to hold each other, sometimes even eight bowls are used (yae mari 八重鋺). The smallest one is called "Eating Bowl" (kenshi, kenji, kunsu) in the Zen sect. They can also be used to measure rice and beans.
These bowls are often seen in Northern Japan in temples of the mountain ascetics (yamabushi).
They are used to hold offerings or to wash rice. Sometimes they are small buckets with three feet or a high foot (koodai), about 20 cm high.
To support a round begging bowl on the altar, so that it does not topple over.
It has a wide rim, short body and one shoulder. It is just a little smaller than the corresponding begging bowl.
Bronze, iron, ivory, horn, pottery, stone, bamboo or wood, sometimes with a laquer finish.
In Kamakura we could see the monks from the great Zen temples often, walking in the neighbourhood, chanting sutras in front of a home and waiting for a while. If they did not get an offering, they would bow quietly and walk over to the next.
At the exit of the station, they would stand all day almost motionless and hold the begging bowl in their hands. If they got an offering, again, thay chanted the Heart Sutra and bowed deeply.
In many Asian customs it is a much more common sight. The perishable food must be eaten on this day before noon, since monks are not allowed to eat after midday and can not keep food in the heat. They also get cloths and other necessities on their begging trip.
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Some of the Japanese monasteries still send out their monks to beg in the streets on a monthly or weekly schedule , and I had found it an important practice to me when I was in Japan...more in harmony with my spirit then sitting still endless hours ..
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Unsui (Japanese: 雲水), or kōun ryūsui (行雲流水) in full, is a term specific to Zen Buddhism which denotes a postulant awaiting acceptance into a monastery or a novice monk who has undertaken Zen training. Sometimes they will travel from monastery to monastery (angya) on a pilgrimage to find the appropriate Zen master to study with.
"To drift like clouds and flow like water."
Helen J. Baroni writes, "The term can be applied more broadly for any practitioner of Zen, since followers of Zen attempt to move freely through life, without the constraints and limitations of attachment, like free-floating clouds or flowing water."
According to author James Ishmael Ford, "In Japan, one receives unsui ordination at the beginning of formal ordained practice, and this is often perceived as 'novice ordination.'"
.komusoo 虚無僧 Komuso wandering begging monks .
Himalayan Singing Bowls are a different matter.
Our friend Geert Verbeke has written a book about it. He explains almost anything you would like to know in alphabetical order.
Most of the information quoted above is from my book on Buddhist Ritual Tools.
Rotsu had left his bag with a set of five bowls at a lodging in Osaka. The proprietor of the inn delivered it seven years later to Awazu (Shiga) and its owner was overjoyed.
When Basho heard this story, he wrote this hokku. It is a rare story of kindness and goodwill, even at the time of Basho.
The cut marker YA is in the middle of line 1.
The kigo here is suzuharai 煤払ひ wiping of the soot for New Year preparations.
. - Yasomura Rotsuu 八十村路通 Rotsu - .
. gooshi, gōshi- goosu 合子 incense container .
Thanks a lot for this wonderful pictures and informations.
I have learned to use Oryoki by a sesshin with Kobun Chino Roshi, but I must say, that I have forgotten the right form.
The Pictures from Sogenji enjoyed me too, because I will meet Shodo Harada Roshi in June 2005 in Germany.
Many heartly thanks to you for this wonderful work.
Thank you, Mario, for bringing this to my attention.


Power generation is a leading cause of air pollution and the single largest source of U.S. global warming emissions. Coal is the worst offender, a dirty energy source that produces less than half our electricity but nearly 80 percent of all power plant carbon emissions.
Coal = Reliable Energy . What makes a fuel source reliable? ... Within the U.S., coal is the largest domestically produced source of energy. In 2013, coal was .
Natural gas surpassed coal last year as the most common source for electricity generation in the United States.
Nonrenewable and renewable energy sources. ... - Coal - Uranium (nuclear energy) Nonrenewable energy sources come out of the ground as liquids, gases, and solids.
Coal is a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years to create. It is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed mostly.
Electricity. Electricity cannot be mined from the ground like coal.So it is called a secondary source of energy, meaning that it is derived from primary sources, including coal, natural gas, nuclear fission reactions, sunlight, wind, and hydropower.
America has vast coal reserves that provide nearly half the country's electricity. Though abundant, coal is a dirty energy source that is responsible for more than a quarter of the nation's total global warming emissions, including 80 percent of all those from power plants.