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2. Bolivian Altiplano & Salar de Uyuni
Day 1: Hito Cajon -> Laguna Blanca, Laguna Verde -> Salvador Dalí Desert -> Sol de Mañana -> Laguna Colorada
Our tour through the Altiplano begins in Hito Cajon, the Bolivian border post high in the Andes. For political reasons, Bolivian tour providers are unable to cross into Chile and vice versa, so we had to find a way to Hito Cajon from San Pedro. Thankfully, we found a tour agency in San Pedro de Atacama which agreed to take us from our hotel to Hito Cajon via the Chilean border, which is a mere ten minutes from San Pedro. After getting our passports stamped, we ventured into the barren wilderness, ascending along a mountainous road.
The Bolivian side of the border is forty minutes from the Chilean side. Even in the early morning, 4×4s from different tours had already congregated.
The "border" at Hito Cajon is really no more than a tiny shack occupied by two immigration officers. After a smooth border crossing and with tourist visas in hand, we boarded the 4x4s which would be our mode of transport across the Bolivian Altiplano for the next three days. With our luggage (along with sleeping bags, extra water, and even food) strapped precariously to the top of our jeeps, we entered the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve.
The entrance to the national reserve against a backdrop of the Andes and mesmerizingly blue skies.
The incredibly clear skies were no surprise – the Andean Altiplano is one of the driest regions in the world. The Atacama Desert and Altiplano are situated between two mountain ranges, preventing moist air from the Pacific Ocean or the tropical rainforest from reaching this isolated region. Some areas only receive a few millimetres of precipitation each year.
The barren lifelessness of the Bolivian Altiplano. In the background, the Licancabur Volcano and Ollagüe Volcano are clearly visible.
We meandered around various lifeless lagoons at the foot of the towering Licancabur Volcano, including Laguna Blanca and Laguna Verde. Just by looking at the lakes, it is not difficult to imagine why NASA has planned expeditions to these lagoons. These harsh environments harbour unique extremophiles, organisms which can thrive under even the most unforgiving conditions. Fascinatingly, the lakes surrounding the Licancabur Volcano are thought to be analogous to the ancient lakes found on Mars. The arid, cold, and wind-swept landscape was the training ground of choice for NASA, and was where they developed engineering strategies for planetary exploration and scientific sample collection. Indeed, the out-of-this-world landscapes look as though they were lifted straight from the surface of exoplanets.
The salt lakes are characteristically coloured due to their different mineral compositions. For instance, Laguna Verde is green because of lead, sulphur, and arsenic deposits. Depending on the wind speed and direction, the lake's sediments can be agitated and whipped up from the lake bed, leading to mesmerizing colour transformations throughout the day.
We then visited the Salvador Dalí Desert, a muted and desolate valley so named because of scenes resembling Dalí's surrealist paintings, only without the melting clocks.
Oddly-shaped rock protrusions dot the landscape amid maroon mountain ranges. Many of the isolated rock formations are the result of thousands of years of wind erosion, as wind is funnelled from surrounding regions into the valley.
Our jeeps then brought us to Termas de Polques hot springs, a small bathing area overlooking a salt lagoon. Upon being informed that this would be our last realistic chance to shower in the next two days, we all changed into swimwear and hopped in. The lukewarm springs were certainly a welcome change to the harsh Andean winds.
After a brief soak and a quick lunch, our tour continued on to Sol de Mañana, the highest geyser fields in the world.
While somewhat less spectacular and less expansive than the El Tatio geysers, Sol de Mañana is made up of bubbling mud lakes and simmering steam pools. Filling the air with a thick sulphurous odour, the geyser field offers an up-close and personal view of the effervescing mud pools.
The downside of the lack of barriers is that extreme care must be taken while walking around in the geyser fields, as any damped and cracked earth is potentially dangerous. Unsuspecting tourists have been known to fall into boiling mud pools.
After briefly reaching 5000m above sea level (where we breathlessly took a customary group photo), we descended to Laguna Colorada. Endangered James's flamingos, endemic to the Andean Altiplano, feed on the red algae, giving rise to the characteristic pink feathers. We strolled along the shores of the lagoon, hoping to catch a closer glimpse of the flamingos, but the rapidly cooling air and the effects of altitude sickness soon caught up to us.
Laguna Colorada derives its name from the crimson sediments and algae populating the lake. The lagoon is incredibly shallow, and is dotted with white islands of borax deposits, left behind as the water evaporates.
As the sun descended beneath the nearby mountains, we retreated to a nearby village, where we spent the night under the starry Andean sky, the frigid cold unable to deter us from briefly heading outside for another spectacular view of the Milky Way.
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4. Sources within the FBI have told him that an indictment is "likely" in the case of pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, "barring some obstruction in some way" from the Justice Department.
5. FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.
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The thousands of refugees in the Thailand-Burma border camps have lived in a protracted situation for years, even decades, with no way out. Their prolonged confinement in the camps has created not only many protection concerns but also social and psychological problems. As the Thai authorities have prohibited refugees from travelling, farming, or collecting firewood outside the camps, the refugees' coping mechanisms have been severely eroded. During the year 2015, TBC reports that around 3,300 people returned to Burma, whilst another 6,297 refugees were resettled to third countries (TBC, 2016a). The population decrease was slightly less than anticipated by the TBC. The UNHCR's planning figures are substantially higher with the agency's key figures for 2016 indicating that 45,000 refugees from Burma, nearly half of the camp population, is "targeted to depart through assisted voluntary repatriation" (UNHCR, 2016b). For refugees, life in the camps has recently become more uncertain than ever as there are ongoing significant reductions in aid and food rations given to refugees because international aid has shifted from the border to central Burma; rumours of repatriation are spreading across refugee communities; and increasing travel and living restrictions in the camps have made refugees' lives even more constrained since the Thai military coup in May 2014 (see e.g. Saw Yan Naing, July, 2014a).
Inside the Karen State in eastern Burma, it is easy to see why thousands cross the border to Thailand to escape impoverishment. In 2010, TBC completed a food security and poverty assessment in the area and reported that over two-thirds of households were not able to meet their basic needs (TBC, 2011). In 2012, TBC found in a comprehensive study that 59% of people on rural southeast Burma were impoverished and 73% lacked access to safe drinking water (TBC, 2012c). Another TBC survey conducted during March and April 2013 (TBC, 2013e) found similar results. These statistics are particularly troubling considering that Burma is a resource rich country where the standard of living for the population should be considerably higher than this. Through economic mismanagement (or deliberate concentration of wealth in the hands of Burmese generals) and military terrorisation of the civilian population, Burma had been transformed from one of the wealthiest southeast Asian countries to one of the poorest, having even been listed as one of the world's least developed countries in 1987 (Booth, 2003).
Due to difficulties in entering the camps and the restricted nature of life in the camps, an overwhelming majority of Burma's exiles, including de facto refugees, live in Thailand as illegal aliens. For generations, they have lived under constant fear of deportation and abuse, trying to build their lives in the peripheries of Thai society, often working in unsafe conditions, underpaid and at risk of exploitation and human trafficking (Green-Rauenhorst et al., 2008). Meanwhile, thousands of refugees have died in the border camps never able to return to their homeland. And all the while, a new generation of refugees has been born in the camps, many of whom have never left the gates of the only home they know. Since 1991, the UN has passed annual resolutions calling on the Burma Government to respect human rights (e.g. UN General Assembly, 2014a, 2015), and whilst the conflict and abuse continues, the EU recently stated that they will abandon the submission of another UN resolution criticising the country's human rights record (see e.g. Kaspar, September 2016).
Although there is a framework of international principles that recognise and protect the inherent dignity and equal, inalienable rights of humanity, these principals have little significance to refugees from Burma who live in Thailand. According to Article 14 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution". The 1951 United Nations Convention and its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees include the principle ofnonrefoulement; "No Contracting State shall expel or return a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." Thailand is not a party to the 1951 Convention or its 1967 Protocol, and as such, there are officially no refugees or refugee camps in Thailand. Instead, the terms used have been 'Persons of Concern' and 'temporary shelters'.
On the other side of the coin, one must acknowledge the immense difficulty in dealing with a refugee situation as vast and protracted as the one along the Thailand-Burma border. Accordingly, in 2008, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) pleaded the international community to increase support for essential services to unrecognised refugees. IRC stated that the Thai government should not have to shoulder the responsibility of hosting the refugee population on their own (Green-Rauenhorst, Jacobsen, & Pyne, 2008).


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Extra pension payments cut by Senate committee to balance budget
by Len Lazarick | March 10, 2014 | General Assembly, Governor, News | 7 |
Senate Budget and Taxation Committee (MarylandReporter.com file photo)
The Senate Budget Committee voted Friday to take $500 million over the next five years from extra payments into the state pension system to balance the budget this year and for the next four.
The money comes from annual $300 million supplemental payments into the state retirement and pension system promised in 2011 when legislators forced state employees and teachers to increase salary deductions for their pensions and pension benefits were reduced for future employees.
"I know how we agonized over this," said Sen. Jim Robey, D-Howard, who made the motion to amend the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act.
The motion came after a $238 million write-down in revenues for fiscal 2014 and 2015 on Thursday, meaning even the current year's budget was facing a deficit.
The same Senate committee last year had reduced the extra pension payment by $100 million, and Gov. Martin O'Malley had proposed a similar $100 million cut next year and permanently into the future.
The committee cut an additional $100 million payment in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015, reducing each year's payment from $300 million to $100 million. In fiscal 2016, the payment will be cut by $150 million; in 2017, it will be cut by $100 million, and in fiscal 2018 by $50 million. Only in fiscal 2019 does it return to the $300 million payment promised in 2011.
Along with small cuts in other programs in the $39 billion budget O'Malley proposed, the committee wound up with an estimated surplus (called a "fund balance") of just $120 million, three-tenths of 1% of the total budget.
Employee, teacher unions worked with committee
Senate Budget chairman Ed Kasemeyer thanked the public employee unions for their cooperation and consultation.
"State workers understand the hard realities" of the budget, said Sue Esty, legislative director of AFSCME. The reduction in the pension payment allowed state employees to keep the 2% cost-of-living increases and merit pay increases they had just ratified in a collective bargaining agreement, along with health insurance premium breaks.
"This improves on what the governor presented you," said Sean Johnson, for the Maryland State Education Association, because there is a commitment for a path back to the full $300 million payment. It also avoided any cuts in funding to local school systems, one of the largest items in the state budget and a priority for MSEA.
Johnson thanked the committee "for including us and working with us."
Committee members and the unions emphasized that the cuts in supplemental pension payments did nothing to affect retirement benefits for employees or teachers.
"Even with this reduction, we have more than enough to pay out in the long term," said Sen. Rich Madaleno, D-Montgomery. The value of the total pension fund was $43 billion on Dec. 31; it paid $3 billion in benefits in the last fiscal year.
"The system is strong and sound," said Robey. "I don't believe anyone is going to lose" benefits with this.
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Underfunded Future on March 10, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Do I see a future of underfunded liabilities? If it wasn't needed, why was the state making these payments to begin with? So by jipping the pension fund we have a surplus? The boys and girls in Annapolis are treating our money like Monopoly money. Just goes to show how fiat currency has no real value except "zero" when you can create a surplus on paper…but I guess this is for future campaign stumping by our Guv.
Barnadine_the_Pirate on March 18, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Apparently you are under the impression that the State of Maryland mints its own money. Or maybe you just have some sort of libertarian Tourette's Syndrome that forces you to throw meaningless buzzwords like "fiat currency" into conversations even when they have no relevance.
abby_adams on March 10, 2014 at 5:26 pm
So AFSCME traded short term gains for long term stability. If this master plan doesn't work out then who, just who, will be on the hook for the shortfall? Maryland taxpayers of course. It's predictable that year after year the legislature's pronouncements abt balancing the state budget NEVER works as promised. People from all over the state have tried to tell these clueless bureaucrats that we're hurting out here! What's left to tax? The air we breathe?
Dale McNamee on March 10, 2014 at 1:37 pm
From the article : " The money comes from annual $300 million supplemental payments into the state retirement and pension system promised in 2011 when legislators forced state employees and teachers to increase salary deductions for their pensions and pension benefits were reduced for future employees."
The operative word here is "promised" and WE ALL know that promises are made to be broken with impunity… And the unions will still vote Democrat…
Anonymous on March 10, 2014 at 10:05 am
This is a disgrace and a betrayal.
md observer on March 10, 2014 at 9:56 am
This is a deal made possible only by collusion between "professional" legislators and their co-conspirators, the state unions. This kind of deal is the opposite of "arms length" and is illegal in all venues except politics.
Really? Collective bargaining agreements between unions and management are illegal? Does the NFL know this?

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From sunset to sunrise, across aeons of time, usually flashes by in Schoenberg's polystylistic epic. Not last night at the Proms: Simon Rattle is too much in love with the sounds he can get from the London Symphony Orchestra - here verging on a Berlin beauty - to think of moving forward the doomed love of Danish King Waldemar and the beautiful Tovelille. Still, occasional stickings in the gold-studded mud apart, the variety and vividness of the work, the Albert Hall coming into its own as it often does for big chorus-and-orchestra events and the steady addition of more ideal soloists than the ones with which we started, worked their magic.
It may be because two nights earlier I'd heard Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give such a white-heat performance of Sibelius's Second Symphony - another work of huge originality from around the same time as Gurrelieder's 1900 inception - that the unfolding of Schoenberg's gorgeous love-themes came across as self-conscious, narcissistic even. The same had been true of Rattle's Wagner Tristan Prelude with the LSO at the Barbican earlier this summer. But then these two lovers weren't quite right in their roles, either.
Waldemar needs to be a baritonal heldentenor with vivid involvement in the texts of what in effect are five Lieder interlaced with four from the soprano; Simon O'Neill's delivery was under-nuanced, the tone unballasted, so that when he did let rip at the top - which happened much more effectively in his later monologues - it came as a surprise. And Tove needs to be luminous, sensuous; Eva-Maria Westbroek is such a sympathetic, engaged performer that I wanted to love her, but the tuning was awry in what should be the bewitching echo of clarinet at the declaration of love, the wide-spread tone too monochrome. Miscasting, in short. Everything we'd been missing came in spades as mezzo Karen Cargill (pictured above) turned the lamentatory screw in the Wood-Dove's plaint for the murdered Tove: here at last was a wealth of colours from cavernous chest-voice to bright high notes, and a commitment to match. Cargill's was the true vocal triumph of the evening, matched at the other end of the mood-spectrum by Thomas Quasthoff's narration of redemptive nature: such projection, such inflection of Jens Peter Jacobsen's strange visionary text in German and such ecstasy at the invocation which finally brings in the crowning sun-chorus.
Combined forces of the London Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orfeó Català - Barcelonan choristers whose home thoughts must have been sombre indeed - seemed to rise up to the rafters behind the orchestra, filling every available space there, but to be honest they didn't quite make a noise to match. The men as God-cursing Waldemar's ghost riders should have raised the hair on our necks; they needed an injection of the raucousness we got from the National Youth Choir of Scotland in last week's Berlioz Damnation of Faust. In any case Rattle's brass - always resplendent, it has to be said, from the first trumpet solo onwarrds - was so much on the rampage that they proved stronger than the riders, and even the umpteenth percussionist whose duty it is to rattle chains couldn't be heard. But what a miracle Rattle made of those portions of the score completed in 1911 after the discovery of a new Expressionism, above all the summer-wind sequence with Quasthoff and the cosmic cabaret as Klaus the Jester bowls forth to complain of his part in the wild ride. This is a part made for the splendid Peter Hoare, who would have been even more vivid still if he'd been onstage and liberated from the score. Here, and in Quasthoff's narration, it's most essential that audience members don't have their heads buried in their programmes and are able to follow the English translation on the big screens we'd had for the only time this season in Khovanshchina two weeks earlier. So for a third time this season, a plea must conclude the review - write to the BBC if you think surtitles should be obligatory for the big vocal works at the Proms - alongside immense gratitude that such a massive assemblage of musicians should be possible, and in the right place. The biggest, of course, is last: a blazing affirmation of the C major that Schoenberg had abandoned by the time his hymn to universal love stunnd Vienna in 1913.
Listen to this concert on the BBC iPlayer for the next month.
I think you mean Simon O'Neill, David? No issue with brass-obscured riders from where I was standing, so maybe a quirk of the ever-fickle acoustic. I know the piece primarily from Rattle's recording so I wasn't so aware of his tempo manipulations. Still, I'd like him to give in to the temptation to go wild once in a while. It's no mean feat to balance a lot of that texture, though - a less carefully prepared 2012 Proms performance came off as quite a lot of exciting noise.
Thanks, both - corrected. I know him well but blame a late night and an early start. My first Gurrelieder was Michael Gielen's at the Proms, and though advance press labelled him a rather pedestrian conductor, how it surged and flowed. Of other performances - and there have been a lot, surprisingly - I remember Hans Hotter as the Sprecher and Margaret Price towards the end of her career for Nagano in Paris - that was impressive too.


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Every so often I take a panoramic photo of the garden, to see how much has changed.
A garden is never 'finished,' but we've made a lot of progress in the last 18 months. Putting in pathways and arches, pruning and editing and replanting the garden bit-by-bit is starting to make a real impact. I'm taking an agile approach, by tackling areas in small projects, learning lessons and making frequent changes, while having an overall 'plan' in mind.
The plan is to make a garden that delights, with colour, scent and sound, that is a comfortable and comforting place to be, and provides flowers and herbs and fruit and vegetables for the table. It should have minimal environmental impact and benefit wildlife as much as people.
Some parts of the garden can be wilder than others, and the right plant in the right place is the subjective objective. By which I mean we get to choose what is 'right' for our garden.
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The acorns collected from Victoria park's oak tree on 6/10/17 are coming along nicely. I've potted them on into teacups from the charity shop.
I've been picking posies from the garden, and the roses are particularly fine at this time of year. The colours remind me of tequila sunrise, and the blue bellflowers, red geums and purple geranium set them off nicely.
Well, the garden maybe looking rather lovely, but the house is still a work in progress.
Whatever you're up to I hope your plans and plants are coming along nicely!
Wow, it's looking even more beautiful than last summer! And that is one lovely posy.
What specie are those oaks? Are they native? Viable acorns are rare here because the squirrels get them first; but they seem to be a problem for others in other regions. In Oklahoma gardens near oak woodlands need to be weeded for oak seedlings.


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NU Ticket Update Heading Into November
By NUHighlights Oct 29, 2013, 3:26pm CDT
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I only have a few quick notes this week as the team attempts to find their offense and keep the defensive dominance going for a third consecutive week.
There was some good news that came out of the Minnesota game two weeks ago and that was attendance. While there were still about 11,000 empty seats and a half-full student section, the official attendance of 36,587 was a 40% increase from Minnesota's last visit in 2011. That game was played in mid-November at the end of a pretty rough season and drew just 26,215.
We're down to just two remaining home games. End zone seats for the Michigan game are sold out, but there are still a fair number of corner ($110) and sideline ($135 upper deck) seats available on NUPurplePricing.com. With Northwestern's losing streak and Michigan's defensive struggles, prices on the secondary market have fallen in the last month. StubHub currently shows 1,294 tickets to the Michigan game, which is not a lot, but the get-in price for a pair of tickets is $75 each before fees and shipping. That is barely above face value. The cheapest pair of sideline seats is going for $80 each before fees and shipping in row 52 of section 126. Face value for these tickets is $70. We'll almost certainly have an official sellout, but if Michigan loses one of their next two games (at Michigan State, home vs. Nebraska), prices on the secondary market may continue to fall leading up to gameday. I'm expecting Michigan fans to buy up any cheap seats regardless of what happens in Lincoln on Saturday, similar to what happened when we hosted Nebraska last season.
Only 32,172 saw the 2011 regular season finale between the 11th ranked Spartans and the 6-5 Wildcats. That was a big drop from the 41,115 that entered Ryan Field in October of 2010 to see 5-1 Northwestern host an 8th ranked Michigan State. The current seat availability on NUSports.com looks pretty similar to what we saw against Minnesota and the get-in price on StubHub for a pair of tickets is $19 each before fees and shipping, so we'll probably only top 40,000 if Michigan State keeps winning. They host Michigan and travel to Nebraska between now and the game on November 23. Again, expect the cheap tickets to be bought by Michigan State fans.
Finally, it's worth calling out the efforts of the season ticket sales staff with basketball season right around the corner. No numbers have been released and I cannot find any past figures with which to establish a benchmark, but Northwestern announced via email and Twitter a couple of weeks ago that men's basketball season ticket sales are at an all-time high. They stated that only "limited" availability for season ticket sales remain, but this is likely because they just put individual tickets to non-conference games on sale last Thursday.


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My Nightingale Is Singing (original title: Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal) is a children's book written by Astrid Lindgren.

Plot
When Maria is eight years old, her parents die from tuberculosis. Therefore, Maria is brought into a poor house. People live an isolated  and sad life there. There is nothing beautiful there and no joy.

Pompadella is the manager of the poor house. Since she expects to get more things while begging when she takes a child with her, she asks Maria to come with her. From now on, Maria accompanies Pompadella when Pompadella goes begging. Together they are very successful.

But Maria also supports the other residents. She helps Hen-Helen to tie her shoes, gives Dearie-Dearie her wool when she has dropped it or consoles Joey Squint when he gets scared because he hears voices. But she finds no comfort for herself because Maria is not able to discover something beautiful.

One day when she goes begging with Pompadella she hears a story that gives her strength and comfort. She wants to keep the story in her mind forever. But the only thing she can remember is the line "My linden plays, my nightingale is singing". At first, all the miseries and sorrows disappear from the poor house when Maria thinks about these words. But the words are not enough anymore, then Maria wants to have a real linden with a real nightingale.

One day Maria sees a pea lying on the floor. She plants it on the poor house's potato field, hopes and prays for it to become a linden. She tells Joey Squint that as soon as the linden sounds and the nightingale sings, he won't hear any more voices.

The next morning there is a linden in the field. But it doesn't sound and there is no nightingale sitting on the tree. The linden can not comfort the residents of the house. Maria runs to the linden at night. She feels that the linden is dead, that there is no life and that no soul lives in it. Then Maria decides to give the tree her own soul. From now on she continues to live in the linden and hears the nightingale singing every evening.

The next morning, Maria has disappeared. But the linden is full of life. The most beautiful music sounds from it and a nightingale sits on it. So it suddenly becomes beautiful and joyful in the poor house. The residents often ask about Maria. Only Joey Squint hears the linden whisper "It's me, Maria".

Characters
Astrid Lindgren describes the type of people who were living in poor houses at that time. They were old, poor, frail, sick, unable to work, starving, having mental disorders or were orphans.
 Maria is eight years old. Her parents have died from tuberculosis. Since people are afraid of getting infected, nobody takes care of her. Maria has to live in the poor house.
 Pompadella is the manager of the poor house. She is the only one who has her own room, which she only shares with the bedbugs.
 Joey Squint is an old man who has lost his mind. He hears voices, which is why he often hits his head against the wall.
 Fuggy is the ugliest person in the whole village. The people scare their children with stories about him. He is actually harmless, very kind and would never harm anyone.
 Gaffer has a wooden leg.
 Hen-Helen has a bleary eye and crooked fingers.
 Dearie-Dearie is old and often drops its balls. She wraps its yarn from one ball to the next. It is her only occupation.

Background
My Nightingale Is Singing was first published in 1959 in the Swedish magazine Vi. In 1960 it was published in the fairy tale collection Nils Karlsson Pyssling.

In 1984 Rabén & Sjögren published My Nightingale Is Singing (Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal) as a picture book, illustrated by Svend Otto S. English, Danish and German editions of the book followed later. In the Swedish edition of the book Maria is called Malin.

The lines "My linden plays, my nightingale is singing" which make Maria so happy can be found a Swedish fairy tale. In the fairy tale, a woman is separated from her husband and child. Full of longing she searches for her family and asks: "Does my linden play? Does my nightingale sing? Is my little child crying? Will my husband ever be happy in his life again? "

In 1995 Jörn Arnecke wrote a German children's and youth opera of the book. Between 1995 and 1998, the prologue, the final scene and other parts of the opera were performed in theaters. In Denmark a musical of the book was made.

Reception
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung author Monika Osberghaus introduces My Nightingale Is Singing in the series My Favorite Fairy Tales. To her is the saddest of all Lindgren fairy tales. It allows the reader "to grieve uncontrollably and to feel sorry for the characters with great and serious dedication". However, it also tells of the consolation and comfort that literature can give.

Søren Fanø wonders what the target audience of the book is. Svend Otto S.'s drawings clearly appeal to children, while Astrid Lindgren's text suits a more mature target group. In any case, he would not recommend the book to children less than nine years old.

As a child, the Danish crime writer Lotte Hammer was deeply touched by the story and the words "Does my linden play? Does my nightingale sing?". The story showed her how far a person can get if the person has hope and faith.

References

Swedish children's literature
1959 children's books
20th-century Swedish literature
Works by Astrid Lindgren
Rabén & Sjögren books
Novels about orphans

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Friday, July 12, 2019 - 06:40 AM
Intense turbulence struck an Air Canada flight sending passengers flying into the ceiling and forcing the plane to land in Hawaii.
The flight from Vancouver to Sydney encountered "unforecasted and sudden turbulence," about two hours past Hawaii, Air Canada said.
The Boeing 777-200 was carrying 269 passengers and 15 crew members and was diverted to Honolulu.
The next thing I knew there's just literally bodies on the ceiling of the plane
Passenger Stephanie Beam said the plane "just dropped".
She said: "When we hit turbulence, I woke up and looked over to make sure my kids were buckled. The next thing I knew there's just literally bodies on the ceiling of the plane."
A woman behind her hit the ceiling so hard that she broke the casing of an oxygen mask, said Ms Beam, of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Andrew Szucs, right, who was on the Air Canada flight that made an emergency landing (Caleb Jones/AP)
Of the 37 passengers and flight crew members injured, nine had serious injuries, emergency services said, with 30 people taken to hospitals.
Llyn Williams was travelling with his wife Erica Daly back to their home in Sydney, Australia.
His wife was injured and taken to the hospital.
He said: "Everybody who was not seated and belted in hit the roof, almost everybody in our cabin."
My child was sleeping on me, and I went straight up into the ceiling
He described the cabin afterward as frightening, with plastic lying around and oxygen masks dangling. "A lot of blood everywhere," he said. "It was really quite scary."
Andrew Szucs, originally from Ontario but now living in Sydney, said the pilot came on the radio and said they did not see the turbulence on radar and had "no warning this kind of air drop was going to happen."
Babies and children were crying as crew members went through the cabin assessing injuries.
Sandy Marshall of Sydney was injured, with her two children unhurt.
"I didn't have my seat belt on at the time. My child was sleeping on me, and I went straight up into the ceiling," she said.
Most of the impact was to her head, but she also suffered a laceration under her right eye, bruising and muscular pain in her neck.
Honolulu Emergency Services Department spokeswoman Shayne Enright said injuries included cuts, bumps, bruises, neck pain and back pain.
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Washington Post article about FISA warrrant for Carter Page --- is old news confirmed
"EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT ME.... I DON'T HEAR A WORD THEY'RE SAYIN'... ONLY THE ECHOES OF MY MIND..."
--- HARRY NILSSON "MIDNIGHT COWBOY" VERSION
WA-PO F.I.S.A. WARRANT REPORT SORT-OF "PROVES" THE TRUMP "WIRETAPPING" TWEET
"Low level" Trump "campaign adviser" Carter Page has long been rumored to be one of the targets in the Obama administration surveillance of the Trump Campaign in 2016 --- the Wa-Po's attempt to put some fuel on the fire of the narrative about some alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 campaign, like everything else reported so far, comes up with no evidence, old or new, of any collusion and/or coordination --- BUT THE WA-PO REPORT ABOUT AN FBI-REQUESTED FISA WARRANT IN THE INVESTIGATION DOES CONFIRM THAT THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF TRUMP CAMPAIGN OPERATIVES DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN
Whether it involved "wiretapping" by Obama himself on a telephone pole outside Trump Tower, multiple levels of ultra-sophisticated electronic surveillance and/or message retrieval technology by U.S. and/or allied spooker-snooper agencies, or more mundane kinds of hacking and phishing; the very thinly sourced Washington Post article about the FBI obtaining, and renewing, a FISA warrant to snoop on Carter Page during the 2016 campaign reveals nothing new by way of evidence against Trump and/or the Trump Campaign --- BUT --- if accurate, it is more evidence that crimes against Americans were probably committed by members of the Obama Administration, all or most of it to benefit the presidential run of Hillary Clinton.
How about a special prosecutoer looking for evidence of collusion and/or coordination between the Obama Administration and the Clinton Campaign ???
So Trumps tweets were correct. The Obama White House was spying on him and his campaign staff. It may not be as big as Bob planning to set up a website but its still news.
The Democrats oversold this Trump-Russia investigation as worse than Watergate. The problem is that today's Democrats don't really know the truth about Watergate, what was behind what the Nixon White House was doing, and what was powering the investigation into the Watergate mess. To start with the "Plumbers" were arrested in the act of a burglary; and there was immediate physical evidence found that linked the "Plumbers" to the Committee to Re-elect the President. What followed were a series of bad attempts to cover the whole thing up, including an attempt to cloak it all under "National Security," which was he abuse of power thing that eventually got Nixon.
RESPONSE: THE "CONCENTRATION CAMPS" EDITION
Since that's exactly what the crooks in the Obama administration did with the Trump surveillance and investigation stuff; and what all of the Democrats in congress, along with their allies in the media are still doing, there won't be enough Club Fed spots to hold them all in formal prisons. Re-orientation camps will have to be built for all the Democrat lawbreakers along the U.S.-Mexico border, where the Democrats will have to take a therapeutic timeout.
Since one of the walls will already have been paid for by Mexico, the other three sides and a few tents will be the only extra expense for this solution to what will be a growing Democrat operative detainee problem. Since people might think these temporary holding centers are "concentration camps"; by putting all of the expenses for these holding pens into a newly "fixed" Obamacare, they can be characterized as rehab facilities.
These camps will be very bare bones operations, the most that will be provided in the way of sanitation will be buckets, as a result, the obvious nickname for these camps will be "Pooh-lags."
CNN has confirmed British Intelligence was spying on Page Carter. So trump was right.
RESPONSE: THE "NAPOLITANO" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 10:50 PM"
ACTUALLY, IT WAS JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO FROM FOX NEWS THAT HAS BEEN VINDICATED..... OH, AND VLADIMIR PUTIN.....
SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT --- IT'S BAD FOR RUSSIAN SPY "HACKERS" TO INTERFERE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION --- BUT --- IT'S GOOD FOR BRITISH SPY "HACKERS" TO INTERFERE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN MUCH THE SAME WAY ? ? ? [MAKE THAT: "! ! !" ]
THE ABUSES OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN ARE STARTING TO LOOK WORSE AND WORSE
Remember, when the folks at Fox News hung their "Legal Specialist" - Judge Andrew Napolitano -- out to dry, because the whole Fox News team couldn't "independently source" Napolitano's scoop that the Obama Administration was using British reports from electronic intelligence of Trump's campaign as cover for their own surveillance operations using U.S. intelligence, internal security and law enforcement personnel.....
Now, according to multiple reports from the U.S. MSM and British journalists, it looks like the Brits and their intelligence operations were doing to Donald Trump's folks exactly what the Russians and their intelligence operations did later to Hillary Clinton's.....
The kicker was that the Obama Administration used the former to jump-start their own anti-Trump "investigation".....
So to commenter "... 10:50 PM" above: it wasn't "Trump [who] was right" it was Andrew Napolitano who Trump cited at a press conference..... But even more than that, it sort of proves that Putin is right when he says that the U.S. elections are all phony and not on the up & up.....
was napolitano the guy who ran against santo for leader in the 49th?
No to 7:58
I think Napolitano was the Judge who ran for Borough President.


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Closing of Vivenne Westwood: Anglomania.
And thus ends Audi Fashion Festival 09′.
It's back to gritty, depressing assignment-filled reality for me and Huishan.
Fashion has always been described as an escape, and I can't begin to describe how appropriate it is for us at the moment. In fact, the amount of work we've neglected for AFF began to haunt us at VW's Anglomania.
The Fashion Festival was nothing short of awesome- we were immensely inspired by what we saw, and we really enjoyed the company of the people we met!
Photos and event coverage will be up very soon!


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In times of crisis, solidarity between workers and employers is paramount
Collective efforts and solidarity between Employers' and Workers' Organizations is critical to respond effectively to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world of work, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.
COVID-19 has in many parts of the world jeopardized the health and safety of millions of people, and put immense pressure on businesses, jobs, and livelihoods. In crisis settings, collaboration and dialogue between employers and business membership organizations (EBMOs) and workers' organizations can boost economic and social progress and enable accelerated recovery.
The study, Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration between Employers' and Workers' Organizations , highlights specific cases where joint (and sometimes spontaneous) actions taken by social partners helped to mitigate some of the worst consequences of natural and human-made disasters, speeding up recovery and strengthening resilience to cope with future crises.
"Business leaders have a vested interest in peace and stability and in being well prepared for crisis situations," explained Deborah France-Massin, Director of the ILO's Bureau for Employers Activities (ACT/EMP). "Unions, in turn, have a huge mobilization potential through their members; either to lobby for legislative and constitutional changes in favour of the workforce, or to act swiftly and effectively when humanitarian assistance is required."
ILO Recommendation No. 205 on Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience (2017) is a useful reference in this context, the report says. It provides a framework for crafting appropriate responses to address crisis situations arising from conflicts or disasters.
In Côte d'Ivoire, for example, workers and employers jointly negotiated a mechanism to ease the burden on workers temporarily laid off amid a severe economic downturn in 2002, caused by an armed conflict that effectively split the country into two. A solution to extend the period of paid temporary unemployment and other measures helped to ensure that the smallest possible number of workers were laid off, while maintaining needed working capacity. Collaboration occurred through a bipartite forum (the Commission Indépendante Permanente de Dialogue) consisting of representatives of workers' and employers' organizations.
During this current COVID-19 crisis, bipartite social dialogue and joint social partner initiatives in response to COVID-19 have been documented across the world including in Belgium, Latvia, Morocco, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden and Uganda. Social partners are critically reinforcing and supplementing the actions of public health authorities and governments and re-confirming their role in mitigating risks and responding to situations of crisis.
"It is our hope that this report inspires social partner organizations globally on the unique and complementary role they play and can play in complex situations of disaster and conflict, as well as pandemics like COVID-19," said Maria Helena Andre, Director of the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV). "The ILO will continue to harness our organization's strength – our normative mandate and tripartism – and channel our resources to support this shared agenda."
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Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in 2020, compared to the year 2000, a new UN report revealed on Friday.
'Migration is part of today's world'
International Migration 2020 Highlights, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that the pandemic may have slowed migration flows by around two million people last year, cutting the annual growth expected since mid-2019 by around 27 per cent.
Since the year 2000, however, there has been a major increase in migration. That year some 173 million people lived outside of their countries of origin. Twenty years later, that figure had risen to 281 million.
In a statement, Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said "The report affirms that migration is a part of today's globalized world and shows how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the livelihoods of millions of migrants and their families, and undermined progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals."
Less money sent home
The economic crisis that following in the wake of the pandemic has had a major impact on remittances, the money migrants send home to their countries of origin. The World Bank projects that remittances sent back to low- and middle-income countries may see a $78 billion dip, around 14 per cent of the total amount.
This will negatively affect the livelihoods of millions of migrants and their families, especially in those countries with a big diaspora. India, for example, has the largest diaspora in the world: 18 million people born in India live outside the country. Other nations with significant diasporas include Mexico, the Russian Federation (11 million each), China (10 million) and Syria (eight million).
US and Germany top destinations
Unsurprisingly, high income countries are the most coveted destinations for migrants. The US takes the top spot with 51 million migrants hosted in 2020.
Germany hosted the second largest number of migrants worldwide, at around 16 million, followed by Saudi Arabia (13 million), the Russian Federation (12 million) and the United Kingdom (nine million).
Many migrants do not travel far, however. Nearly half of them remain in the region from which they originated. For example, in Europe 70 per cent of migrants come from another European country. Similarly, some 63 per cent of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa come from a country in the same region.
Most refugees in lower income countries
Contrary to some perceptions, the vast majority of refugees, around 80 per cent, are hosted in low- and middle-income countries, and constitute some 12 per cent of all international migrants.
The number of refugees is rising faster than voluntary migration: the number of people forced to leave home due to conflict, crises, persecution, violence or human rights violations has doubled from 17 to 34 million since the beginning of the 21st Century.
In recognition of the need to better manage migration, the General Assembly has adopted several landmark agreements, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. DESA says that around 60 countries have begun to adopt measures to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration.
Poll workers carry ballot boxes during the 27 December 2020 presidential elections in the Central African Republic. MINUSCA/Leonel Grothe
"Worsening" election violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced 120,000 people from their homes, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
In an appeal for an immediate end to all bloodshed – which has included deadly clashes with UN peacekeepers – UNHCR also said that mass displacement has continued outside the country since the 27 December Presidential poll, reversing a trend of people returning to CAR in recent years.
"What is clear is the situation has evolved, it has worsened, we have seen that the number of refugees has doubled in just one week", said spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov, during a scheduled press briefing in Geneva.
Despite attempts by rebel groups to obstruct presidential and legislative elections, on 27 December, nearly two million Central Africans successfully cast their votes.
UNHCR and partners in CAR "are gathering reports of abuses by armed groups, including of sexual violence, attacks on voters and pillaging", Mr. Cheshirkov continued, underscoring the agency's call "for an immediate return of all parties to meaningful dialogue and progress towards peace".
"We were reporting 30,000 refugees last Friday, today it's already 60,000, and much of that is the increase we've seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This is coming with reports of intensified violence, people are being forced to move from their home and the situation has not calmed down for the moment."
'Fear and dread'
Echoing concerns for the deteriorating situation, the UN-appointed independent rights expert for CAR called on Friday for the arrest and prosecution of all those "who continue to fuel violence" there.
Because of them, the country's people live in "fear and dread", said Yao Agbetse, before deploring the fact that Central Africans "were unable to exercise their right to vote and that many were victims of torture or ill-treatment and death threats for exercising their right to vote in the first round of elections".
Calling out the so-called Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), Mr Agbetse alleged that the group had "obstructed the country's electoral campaign in December, prevented the deployment of election materials, disrupted the mobilisation of voters to carry out their democratic right and burned polling stations".
The CPC had also recruited children for its work, the rights expert maintained, "a crime under international law".
Several localities were targeted, including Kaga Bandoro, Bossangoa, Batangafo, Bozoum, Bocaranga, Koui, Carnot "and other locations in the centre, west, and east of the country", along with the capital, Bangui on 13 January, said the rights expert, who reports to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
In his statement, Mr Agbetse noted that CAR's "already fragile humanitarian situation" had worsened, with "more than half of the population in vital need of humanitarian assistance".
Prices soaring
The premises of some humanitarian organisations had been ransacked, he added, while basic necessities "are becoming scarcer and their prices are soaring in Bangui because of insecurity on the supply routes to the capital".
Today, schools and training centres are closed outside the capital "and pastoralists and farmers can no longer carry out their activities because of insecurity and fear. Ultimately, food insecurity and extreme poverty are likely to worsen," Mr. Agbetse said.
10,000 cross in just 24 hours
On Wednesday alone, 10,000 people crossed the Ubangui river that separates the two countries, UNHCR's Mr. Cheshirkov said.
He added that in addition to the 50,000 refugees in DRC, another 9,000 have reached Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of Congo in the past month.
In an appeal for funds, the spokesperson said the inaccessible terrain and poor infrastructure along the Ubangui river where people have sheltered, has complicated aid access.
"UNHCR was already seeking $151.5 million this year to respond to the CAR situation. The needs of the recently displaced Central Africans are mounting, and we will soon face a substantial funding shortfall," Mr. Cheshirkov explained
Inside the Central African Republic, another 58,000 people remain displaced.
Ethiopian refugees fleeing clashes in the country's northern Tigray region, rest and cook meals near UNHCR's Hamdayet reception centre after crossing into Sudan. © UNHCR/Hazim Elhag
The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday expressed his deep concern over the humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including its impact on Eritrean refugees hosted there.
The conflict between the Ethiopian Government and regional forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) began in early November, when the Prime Minister ordered a military offensive after rebels attacked a federal army base. Government forces reported that the region had been secured at the end of November, but TPLF resistance has continued amid accusations of extrajudicial killings and rights abuses.
Despite some positive developments in accessing and assisting vulnerable populations, since the start of the Government operation, UNHCR's repeated requests to access the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps have gone unanswered.
"I am very worried for the safety and well-being of Eritrean refugees in those camps", said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. "They have been without any aid for many weeks".
UNHCR continues to receive many reliable reports and first-hand accounts of ongoing insecurity and allegations of grave and distressing human rights abuses, such as killings, targeted abductions and forced return of refugees to Eritrea, said Mr. Grandi.
Moreover, the agency has learned of additional military incursions over the last 10 days that are consistent with open-source satellite imagery showing new fires and other fresh signs of destruction at the two camps.
"These are concrete indications of major violations of international law", the High Commissioner spelled out.
Doubly distressed
Ethiopia has long given refuge to people fleeing conflict and persecution.
The federal Government has provided assurances of measures are to minimize the impact of the conflict on civilians.
"I have impressed upon the Ethiopian leadership, the urgency of ensuring the protection of refugees, preventing forced return and keeping refugee camps safe from attacks and other threats from armed actors", said Mr. Grandi.
Equally distressing, he said, is that UNHCR teams have been unable to assist the thousands of Eritrean refugees who continue to flee the camps in search of safety and support.
"Refugees arriving on foot to Shire town in Tigray are emaciated, begging for aid that is not available", recounted the High Commissioner.
Against the backdrop that refugees who had reached Addis Ababa are being returned to Tigray, some against their will, he reiterated the UN-wide call for "full and unimpeded access" to explore "all options to safely provide desperately needed assistance".
Unwavering commitment
In line with the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality, UNHCR stands committed to work with the Ethiopian Government in protecting and assisting those forced to flee.
"We remain available to seek solutions – together – to the current humanitarian problems in a spirit of collaboration and constructive partnership", said the UNHCR chief. "Safe access and swift action are needed now to save thousands of lives at risk".
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The Anglistentag 2019 is being organised by the Department of British Studies at Leipzig University. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the organising team.
The open-call panels are not organised by the Leipzig team but by those who proposed them. A full list with email addresses is available on the programme page.


Today, software teams can deploy new software versions to users at an increasing speed -- even continuously. Although this has enabled faster responding to changing customer needs than ever before, the speed of automated customer feedback gathering has not yet blossomed out at the same level. For these purposes, the automated collecting of quantitative data about how users interact with systems can provide software teams with an interesting alternative. When starting such a process, however, teams are faced immediately with difficult decision making: What kind of technique should be used for collecting user-interaction data? In this paper, we describe the reasons for choosing specific collecting techniques in three cases and refine a previously designed selection framework based on their data. The study is a part of on-going design science research and was conducted using case study methods. A few distinct criteria which practitioners valued the most arose from the results.


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Kamloops is beautiful country for cyclists. However, drivers are not always used to sharing the roads with cyclists, and our roads were not all built with the cyclist first in mind. While it is good exercise, and it is good for the environment, it can be dangerous and you should know the law. Our Kamloops lawyers at Forward Law LLP can guide you to resources explaining the legal rights and responsibilities of bicycle riders and vehicles around them – but more importantly, we can give you the legal advice you need if you are involved in a bike accident.
A person operating a bicycle has the same rights and duties as a driver of a vehicle. We encourage you to inform yourself about the laws for cyclists. www.bikesense.bc.ca/bikesense-manual is a useful resource which provides a summary of the requirements set out in the Motor Vehicle Act, B.C.
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Although at very first glance this space appears far more country style , the open floor plan has a wealth of conventional elements. Don't forget that the classic style has its roots in the same period as the nation designs, so combining components of these designs can nevertheless result in a traditional appear. The traditional feel is carried out by means of the symmetry around a focal point , which is the fireplace. Casual touches are added via the use of colour, patterns and lighter woods.
With the holidays weeks away, I know a lot of of us are working to get our homes ready for guests and guests. Some of you might have relocated or are in short-term residences for work…or maybe you're just beginning out and don't have a lot in the way of furnishings but. We all have our own circumstances and the good news is that just simply because you have moved or otherwise, you never have to sacrifice style and a cozy living space this vacation season. These days I want to share with you 3 Living Room Design and style Ideas that I created all making use of furniture and pieces from CORT Furniture Rental !
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These homeowners wanted to let their guests be the color to their space, so they painted all of the background surfaces, like the brick fireplace, a clean shade of white. A vintage advertisement and an Arkansas license plate hang on the wall. The casual furniture is covered in washable slipcovers for simple cleanup when inevitable spills happen.


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Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
May 8, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The arrest this week of a Sudanese woman from the country's troubled western region of Darfur on charges of alleged "Christianization" of minors at displacement camps has elicited condemnation from Darfur lawyers and a refugee spokesman.
Photo of Hawa as it appeared on the pro-government website SMC
The Sudan Media Center (SMC), an online news agency believed to be run by the country's security apparatus, reported this week that the authorities in Darfur had arrested Hawa Abdella, a woman identified by SMC as the first-rank operative of the military office of the Darfur rebel faction Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abdel Wahid Nur.
According to SMC, Hawa was caught as she was carrying out "extensive Christianization" of children inside camps of Internally Displace People (IDP). The website quoted an informed security source as saying that the accused was planning to carry out "new sabotage operations" in north Darfur and that she had recently held meetings with Nur while he was in Entebbe in Uganda. It also said that Hawas's meeting with Nur was facilitated by the UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for which the accused works as a translator.
The report on Hawa's arrest featured a photo of her holding a copy of the Holy Bible and an ID card purporting to be from UNAMID.
Meanwhile, the SLM's Nur faction has denied that Hawa was a member of the group. The spokesperson of the SLM's chairman office Mustafa Tamboor told Sudan Tribune that the accusation aims to drive citizens away from her and the SLM after the series of protests the movement recently organized in Darfur.
Tamboor said that security authorities had targeted Hawa because she was trying to spread awareness among refugees.
The Darfur Bar Association was quick to react, saying that it had conducted its own investigation and concluded that the story reported by pro-government media outlets was "conflicting and inaccurate."
Darfur lawyers further said that Hawa's alleged deed does not fall within the category of criminal acts. They further criticized the publication of her photo, saying that such display at this early stage goes against the proper application of law and endangers her life.
An IDP spokesperson, Hussian Sharati, told Sudan Tribune that the security authorities had been targeting Hawa for a long time and that they had seized the opportunity to arrest her during the demonstrations organized by the SLM at Abu Shuk IDP camp last month.
Sharati strongly denied that Hawa had any relation with proselytization activities in Darfur, adding that Hawa learnt Quran by her father who was a known Islamic scholar administrated a Koranic school in eastern Jebel Marra.


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Your online ecommerce store needs the best package to ensure your business runs smoothly. WordPress Ecommerce plugin available for users has grown dramatically over the years. In such an encouraging scenario, figuring out which wp plugin will fit your store requirement best can be a fairly daunting task and might also be confusing to many people who are not from technical background. This article is written with a very clear intention of making things easier for our readers by simply giving them the right kind of information about the best wordpress ecommerce plugin.
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ECWID – Ecwid WordPress Ecommerce Plugin Cart is a robust, stable and easy to use addon for any wordpress based site. It is highly secure and digital downloads are safe from any authorized access. ecwid is compatible with all popular theme and is responsive so that you do not miss any prospective customer. Ecwid is actually a SaaS solution for online eCommerce web stores.Everything is managed from your central ECWID account, including product inventory as well payment transactions. You can mirror your store on your wordpress site easily. While this is a great for many to able to use plug and play feature, but it limits your control about how your store works and look.


I truly travel from our home through out the whole year and I at any time I purchase presents for Christmas. Some presents I have purchased from Reader's Digest back in February but I have had to pay over three months for the gifts. No doubt whom I have bought for they will truly love the gifts. Even now in November and in December I will still be buying new gifts for relatives. And naturally my husband especially if he decides that he would like something particular that would be excellent. Every fortnight we save money into our Christmas account and we receive it all on November 1st. Definitely wonderful.
Dora says: I love Christmas shopping. Though for me Christmas isn't about the gifts. its about being with family & going to Church together on Christmas eve.
Decorating the tree & cooking up Christmas treats all together as a family whilst carols play in the background.


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Quality goals are specific targets that are set to improve the quality of a product, service, or process. They are often developed as part of a broader quality assurance strategy or as part of a performance management system. Quality goals are designed to help organizations identify areas where they need to improve and to establish clear targets for improvement. By setting specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) quality goals, organizations can more effectively track progress and ensure that they are making progress towards their desired quality outcomes. The following are examples of quality goals.
Defects: Reducing the number of defects discovered by quality control.
Quality Control: Improving the quality control process itself.
Measurement: Measuring new quality metrics.
Benchmarking: Comparing your product or service quality to your competitors and industry.
Reporting: Capturing valuable measurements and communicating them.
Durability: Increasing the durability of products with new designs, materials and methods.
Service Quality: The quality of services is typically measured with intangible elements such as wait time.
Customer Ratings: Improving ratings on external sites such as a hotel that is concerned with improving review scores on a popular travel site.
Customer Experience: Internal measures of the customer experience such as turnaround time for requests.
Customer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction is a common way to measure quality for both products and services.
Availability: The availability of services, particular digital services.
Data Quality: Addressing data quality issues such as the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of data.
Process Quality: The quality of process outputs such as a billing process that produces monthly customer invoices.
Supply: The quality of supplied components, parts and materials.
Traceability: Improving the tracking of things so that quality problems can be investigated, isolated and managed.
Consistency: Making products and services predictable, stable and consistent.
Standards: The implementation of external or internal quality standards.
Human Error: Reducing human error with improved policy, procedure, processes, systems and training.
Information Security: In many cases, a quality assurance team acts as oversight for information security issues, particularly security issues related to compliance.
Safety: Reducing health and safety risks.
Compliance: Compliance to laws, regulations, standards and internal policies such as best practices.
Monitoring: Implementing controls to monitor processes, procedures and other elements that impact quality.
Logistics: Improving inbound and outbound logistics where this impacts quality. For example, a firm that views late deliveries as damaging to the customer experience.
Training: Training designed to reduce incidents or improve service or product quality.
Incident Management: The process of responding to customer impacting issues.
Problem Management: The process of investigating and fixing the root cause of incidents.
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Here's the process the club has set up for its 2019 debut season in Major League Soccer.
Season ticket members get first priority in seat selection, according to a league release.
Fans who don't have season tickets now can purchase pro-rated 2018 season tickets through June 30 and qualify for higher priority next year.
FC Cincinnati will being taking deposits for 2019 season tickets on July 2.
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Remember that FC Cincinnati will continue to play in Nippert Stadium, which seats 35,000 for soccer, at least through 2020. Its new stadium in the West End - with 14,000 fewer seats - is not expected to be ready until 2021.
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Math-Challenged Democrats Call Republican Oil Tax Bill "Radical And Reckless" Based On Fraudulent Numbers
March 18, 2013 Rob Port
Because they apparently didn't get a number that was shocking enough the first time they were grandstanding on this issue, North Dakota Democrats re-calculated the numbers (which in and of itself inspires no small amount of skepticism, their original figure was $596 million) and concluded that a Republican plan to restructure the state's oil taxes would "cost" North Dakotans $1.32 billion over five years.
You have to love how Democrats talk about tax dollars as though they belong to the government, and cutting taxes is a "cost." But I digress. Here's Senate Majority Leader Mac Schneider smack-talking the proposal through the power of alliteration:
"These new numbers, which are unquestionably conservative, really lay bare the radical and reckless nature of the GOP's oil tax plan," said Senate Dem-NPL Leader Mac Schneider, D-Grand Forks. "The billions in lost revenue under this bill should be used to improve infrastructure, address oil impacts, and continue property tax relief. That the majority would have these priorities shelved in favor of a sharp reduction in the extraction tax is stunning."
To hear Senator Schneider tell it, you'd think this bill gives away the farm at a time when the state is short on funds. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The $1.32 billion "cost" they find over five years = stipulating to the idea that it's a fair number, which it isn't, more on that in a moment – breaks down to $264,000,000 or less than half the amount of personal and business income tax cuts already passed by the state House for the coming biennium.
And keep in mind that earlier today the state Office of Management and Budget found that statewide tax collections had exceeded last biennium's collections by more than $1.6 billion to date. The state has collected, to date in this biennium, 64.6% more in tax revenues than last biennium including a 399.6% increase in oil tax revenues.
There is more than enough room in the state budget to shore all up the needed areas of state spending, to support local governments and infrastructure, and to give significant tax relief to individuals, businesses and the industry which is bringing all this prosperity to the state even when we use the math the Democrats are using.
But let's take a closer look at that math.
Below is the full press release Democrats sent out. On page 3 you'll note two charts showing how Democrats arrived at their figure for the impact of the oil extraction tax. They make some assumptions about oil production that are pretty strange.
I spoke with an official at the Department of Mineral Resource's Oil and Gas Division who said "I have no idea where they got this information." According to them, 2012 was an unusually active year for new wells with 2010 added. Yet even as exploration in the oil patch is slowing, Democrats project that the state will still be adding 1,750 new wells in 2017, four years from now, and will continue adding 1,750 wells every year for five years after that through 2012.
That is not a growth projection that is founded in fact. Democrats are projecting boom-times growth in oil wells eight years hence at a time when it appears as though exploration may be peaking.
But by inflating the future well counts and production numbers, Democrats can arrive at a much bigger scary number to throw into their press release.
This is policy fear mongering, which is bad enough, but even worse it's fear mongering based on fraudulent data.
ND Democrat Oil Tax Press Release
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The walls of the trailer are made from 5.2mm lauan plywood with a 1×2 / 1×3 /1×4 frame.
Laid out a sheet of lauan.
Marked/measured where the galley wall will be.
Cut the lauan so that the galley wall will be on the plywood joint.
Cut/Glued 1/4's to frame the outside, clamping glued pieces for 1/2 hour until dried.
Cut out door with Rotozip tool. I used the 1×3's that I had cut for the door frame as a guide to be sure the cut was straight.
Put a 1×4 at the location of the galley wall and the cabinet wall in the front of the trailer. I will be making a dado cut in these locations once the inside plywood is in place.
Placed braces where the galley counter and interior rear cabinet will be located. I also put a vertical brace half way between the back of the trailer and the galley wall so I will have an attach point if needed.
Skinned the interior side of the walls. I used 1/4″ oak plywood for the cabin area and lauan for the galley area. The galley will be covered in Laminate when completed.
I routered a 1/2″ notch for the galley wall and a 3/4″ notch for the cabinet.
Cut a 15/16″ rabbet 1/4″ deep into the top inside edge of the cabin portion of the walls. This will hold the inside skin of the ceiling (3/16″ lauan) and the roof spars (3/4″). To do this I made an adjustable fence for the router and used a 3/4″ bit.
Trimed the galley portion of the side walls down 3/8″ to make room for the gasket seal. I did this by using the fence I made for cutting the rabbet and cut a rabbit about 1/2 way into the wall. Then I turned the wall over and used a trimming bit to finish it up.
Epoxy Coat 1. Sand. Epoxy Coat 2. Sand. Get really frustrated with epoxy. Break down and buy the expensive stuff. Epoxy coat 3. Realize why people are willing to pay $100+ per gallon for the "good stuff" (i.e. West Systems Epoxy – low viscosity – low odor – long setting time).
Attached the walls to the floor/chassis. I first made pilot holes with counter sunk holes for the screws. Then I put down a bead of Silicone II roofing caulk along the corner between the frame and the floor then I set the wall in place. Then I tacked it with two screws. The first side I also tacked in pace with a brace so it wouldn't fall over during the rest of the process. Then, dipping each screw in wood glue I securely fastened walls to the floor. I added a temporary spar when installing the second wall to keep it in place.
The walls in place. Progress I can see!
Rabbet edge with beginning for notch for the galley spar.
The insulation is cut and fit into place. It doesn't need any glue as the fit is tight and it will be enclosed by the interior plywood.
Glueing the framework in the galley area.
Measuring out the frame on the teardrop curve.


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