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describe('Geometry.InfoWindow', function () {

    var container;
    var eventContainer;
    var map;
    var center = new maptalks.Coordinate(118.846825, 32.046534);
    var layer;

    beforeEach(function () {
        container = document.createElement('div');
        container.style.width = '800px';
        container.style.height = '600px';
        document.body.appendChild(container);
        var option = {
            zoomAnimation: false,
            zoom: 15,
            center: center
        };
        map = new maptalks.Map(container, option);
        eventContainer = map._panels.front;
        layer = new maptalks.VectorLayer('vector').addTo(map);
    });

    afterEach(function () {
        map.remove();
        REMOVE_CONTAINER(container);
    });

    it('infowindow has methods to change itself.', function (done) {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content'
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        w.setContent('content2');
        expect(w.getContent()).to.be.eql('content2');
        w.setTitle('title2');
        expect(w.getTitle()).to.be.eql('title2');
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        w.setContent('content3');
        expect(w.getContent()).to.be.eql('content3');
        w.setTitle('title4');
        expect(w.getTitle()).to.be.eql('title4');
        function onZoomEnd() {
            done();
        }
        map.on('zoomend', onZoomEnd);
        map.zoomIn();
    });

    it('setCenter and show', function () {
        // test infowindow's position with frame offset
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center.add(0.01, 0.01));
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        map.setCenter(marker.getCenter());
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        var position = w._getViewPoint();
        expect(position.round().toArray()).to.be.eql([633, 25]);
    });

    it('custom infowindow position', function () {
        // test infowindow's position with frame offset
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center.add(0.01, 0.01));
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: '
this is a customized infowindow.
',
            animation: false,
            custom: true
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        map.setCenter(marker.getCenter());
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        var position = w.getPosition();
        if (maptalks.Browser.ie) {
            expect(position.round().toArray()).to.be.eql([433, -86]);
        } else {
            expect(position.round().toArray()).to.be.eql([433, -109]);
        }
    });

    it('autoOpen on click', function (done) {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            autoOpenOn: 'click',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker._fireEvent('click');
        setTimeout(function () {
            var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
            var position = w._getViewPoint();
            expect(position.round().toArray()).to.be.eql([400, 300]);
            done();
        }, 2);
    });

    it('autoOpen multipoint infowindow on click, #739', function (done) {
        var marker = new maptalks.MultiPoint([center]);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            autoOpenOn: 'click',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker._fireEvent('click');
        setTimeout(function () {
            var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
            var position = w._getViewPoint();
            expect(position.round().toArray()).to.be.eql([400, 300]);
            done();
        }, 2);
    });

    it('close when layer is removed', function () {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
        layer.remove();
        expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
    });

    it('auto close infowindow on click', function () {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            autoCloseOn: 'click',
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
        happen.mousedown(eventContainer, {
            clientX: 10,
            clientY: 10
        });
        happen.click(eventContainer, {
            clientX: 10,
            clientY: 10
        });
        expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
    });

    it('reopen infowindow at right position', function (done) {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            autoCloseOn: 'click',
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        var pos = w.getPosition().toArray();
        marker.closeInfoWindow();

        marker.setCoordinates(map.containerPointToCoord(new maptalks.Point(20, 20)));
        marker.fire('click');
        setTimeout(function () {
            var pos2 = w.getPosition().toArray();
            expect(pos2[0] < pos[0] - 100).to.be.ok();
            expect(pos2[1] < pos[1] - 100).to.be.ok();
            done();
        }, 2);
    });

    it('auto close infowindow on touchstart', function () {
        var marker = new maptalks.Marker(center);
        marker.addTo(layer);
        var options = {
            autoCloseOn: 'touchstart',
            title: 'title',
            content: 'content',
            animation: false
        };
        marker.setInfoWindow(options);
        marker.openInfoWindow();
        var w = marker.getInfoWindow();
        expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
        happen.once(eventContainer, {
            'type': 'touchstart',
            'touches': [{
                'clientX': 10,
                'clientY': 10
            }]
        });
        expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
    });

    describe('all kinds of geometries can have a infowindow', function () {
        it('set an infowindow', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content'
            };
            var geometries = GEN_GEOMETRIES_OF_ALL_TYPES();
            for (var i = 0; i < geometries.length; i++) {
                geometries[i].setInfoWindow(options);
                expect(geometries[i].getInfoWindow()).not.to.be.ok();
            }
            layer.addGeometry(geometries);
        });

        it('set an infowindow with an infowindow instance', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content'
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geometries = GEN_GEOMETRIES_OF_ALL_TYPES();
            for (var i = 0; i < geometries.length; i++) {
                geometries[i].setInfoWindow(infoWindow);
                expect(geometries[i].getInfoWindow()).to.be.ok();
            }
            layer.addGeometry(geometries);
        });

        it('showed at the center of geometry in default', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null,
                roundPoint: true
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo);
            infoWindow.show();

            var c = map.coordinateToViewPoint(map.getCenter()).round();

            var dom = infoWindow.getDOM();
            var offset = infoWindow.getOffset().round();
            expect(!offset._isNaN()).to.be.ok();
            var p = infoWindow.getPosition();
            expect(p.toArray()).to.be.eql([c.x + offset.x, c.y + offset.y, 0]);
            var t;
            if (maptalks.Browser.any3d) {
                t = 'translate3d(' + p.x + 'px, ' + p.y + 'px, 0px) scale(1)';
            } else {
                t = 'translate(' + p.x + 'px, ' + p.y + 'px) scale(1)';
            }
            expect(dom.style[maptalks.DomUtil.TRANSFORM]).to.be.eql(t);
        });

        it('set and open/close and remove a infowindow', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null
            };
            var geometries = GEN_GEOMETRIES_OF_ALL_TYPES();
            layer.addGeometry(geometries);
            for (var i = 0; i < geometries.length; i++) {
                var geo = geometries[i];
                geo.setInfoWindow(options);
                geo.openInfoWindow();
                var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
                expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
                geo.closeInfoWindow();
                expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
                geo.removeInfoWindow();
                expect(geo.getInfoWindow()).not.to.be.ok();
            }
        });

        it('set and open/close and remove a customized infowindow', function () {
            var options = {
                custom: true,
                content: '
this is a customized infowindow.
',
                animation: null
            };
            var geometries = GEN_GEOMETRIES_OF_ALL_TYPES();
            layer.addGeometry(geometries);
            for (var i = 0; i < geometries.length; i++) {
                var geo = geometries[i];
                geo.setInfoWindow(options);
                geo.openInfoWindow();
                var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
                expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
                geo.closeInfoWindow();
                expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
                geo.removeInfoWindow();
                expect(geo.getInfoWindow()).not.to.be.ok();
            }
        });

        it('hide when geometry is hided', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null
            };
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            geo.setInfoWindow(options);
            geo.openInfoWindow();
            var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
            expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();

            geo.hide();

            expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
        });

        it('hide when layer is hided', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null
            };
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            geo.setInfoWindow(options);
            geo.openInfoWindow();
            var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
            expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();

            layer.hide();

            expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
        });

        it('create and hide when layer is hided', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo);
            infoWindow.show(geo.getCenter());
            var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
            expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();

            layer.hide();

            expect(w.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
        });

        it('move when geometry is moved', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: null
            };
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            geo.setInfoWindow(options);
            geo.openInfoWindow();

            var w = geo.getInfoWindow();
            var pos1 = w.getPosition();

            geo.setCoordinates(map.getCenter().add(0.1, 0.1));

            var pos2 = w.getPosition();
            expect(w.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
            expect(pos2.toArray()).not.to.be.eql(pos1.toArray());
        });

        it('animate', function (done) {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: 'fade,scale',
                animationOnHide: true,
                animationDuration: 50,
                autoPan: false,
                roundPoint: true
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getCenter());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo);
            infoWindow.show();

            var p = infoWindow.getPosition();
            // expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style.opacity).to.be.eql(0);
            // expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style[maptalks.DomUtil.TRANSFORM]).to.be.eql('scale(0)');

            setTimeout(function () {
                //show animations
                expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style.opacity).to.be.eql(1);
                expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style[maptalks.DomUtil.TRANSFORM]).to.be.eql('translate3d(' + p.x + 'px, ' + p.y + 'px, 0px) scale(1)');
                expect(infoWindow.isVisible()).to.be.ok();
                infoWindow.hide();
                expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style.display).to.be.eql('');
                setTimeout(function () {
                    //hide animations
                    expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style.display).to.be.eql('none');
                    expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style.opacity).to.be.eql(0);
                    expect(infoWindow.getDOM().style[maptalks.DomUtil.TRANSFORM]).to.be.eql('translate3d(' + p.x + 'px, ' + p.y + 'px, 0px) scale(0)');
                    expect(infoWindow.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
                    done();
                }, options.animationDuration + 2);
            }, options.animationDuration + 2);
        });

        it('autoPan', function (done) {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: false,
                autoPan: true,
                autoPanDuration: 100,
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var center = map.getCenter();
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo);
            infoWindow.show();

            setTimeout(function () {
                expect(center.toArray()).not.to.be.eql(map.getCenter().toArray());
                done();
            }, infoWindow.options['autoPanDuration'] + 1);
        });

        it('disable autoPan', function (done) {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: false,
                autoPan: false,
                autoPanDuration: 100,
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var center = map.getCenter();
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());
            layer.addGeometry(geo);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo);
            infoWindow.show();

            setTimeout(function () {
                expect(center.toArray()).to.be.eql(map.getCenter().toArray());
                done();
            }, infoWindow.options['autoPanDuration'] + 1);
        });

        it('single mode', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: false,
                autoPan: false,
                autoPanDuration: 100,
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());

            var infoWindow2 = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo2 = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());

            layer.addGeometry(geo, geo2);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo).show();
            infoWindow2.addTo(geo2).show();

            expect(map._panels['ui'].children.length).to.be.eql(1);
        });

        it('disable single mode', function () {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: false,
                autoPan: false,
                autoPanDuration: 100,
                single: false
            };
            var infoWindow = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());

            var infoWindow2 = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo2 = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());

            layer.addGeometry(geo, geo2);

            infoWindow.addTo(geo).show();
            infoWindow2.addTo(geo2).show();

            expect(map._panels['ui'].children.length).to.be.eql(2);
        });

        it('isVisible', function (done) {
            var options = {
                title: 'title',
                content: 'content',
                animation: false,
                autoPan: false,
                autoPanDuration: 100
            };
            var infoWindow1 = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());

            var infoWindow2 = new maptalks.ui.InfoWindow(options);
            var geo2 = new maptalks.Marker(map.getExtent().getMin());
            layer.addGeometry(geo, geo2);

            infoWindow1.addTo(geo).show();
            infoWindow2.addTo(geo2);

            setTimeout(function () {
                infoWindow2.show();
                expect(infoWindow1.isVisible()).not.to.be.ok();
                done();
            }, 80);
            infoWindow2.addTo(geo2).show();
        });
    });

});


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Q: Gmail API : resultSizeEstimate gives odd numbers https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/list
The Gmail API allows to retrieve an estimate for the number of message for a given query (from:send1@gmail.com is:unread). Somehow the number that the API returns seems very different from the one shown on the webmail.
Any idea on how to return the actual number?

A: resultSizeEstimate is only an estimate and isn't guaranteed to be accurate for general queries.  It should give more reasonable (still estimated) numbers for queries on specific labels ("label:MYLABEL" or "label:MYLABEL is:unread").
Unfortunately, there currently isn't a method of getting the actual numbers, other than retrieving all of them and looking at the size of the list returned.

A: Partial answer - I was hitting the 103 limit as well.
I've noticed that by playing with the maxResults parameter of the Google API I get different, yet still invalid, results.
With this value of maxResults:
request = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id, labelIds=formatted_labels)

--> resultSizeEstimate = 103
With this value of maxResults:
request = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id, labelIds=formatted_labels, maxResults=100)

--> resultSizeEstimate = 103
With this value of maxResults:
request = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id, labelIds=formatted_labels, maxResults=1000)

--> resultSizeEstimate = 511
With this value of maxResults:
request = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id, labelIds=formatted_labels, maxResults=50)

--> resultSizeEstimate = 52

A: This is not exactly the solution to all cases but it may help. You can get the exact number of emails under a given label using Users.labels:get
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/labels/get
The messagesTotal value gives you that number.
Unfortunately, as others notice, listing messages with Users.messages:list or doing a search do not return accurate results.

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It happens every January. The hype of the holiday season has come and gone, and we're left feeling isolated in un-decorated houses, regretting those indulgent choices that somehow led to thicker bellies, trying to muster the energy to exercise and tackle a brand new year. It's enough to make you want to hide away and eat another entire loaf of that delicious pumpkin bread.
Let me steer you in the direction of a healthier, happier choice: plan a girls' night out. With a new twist.
Recently, I was amazed by a phenomenon that caught fire on social media. It was the "secret sister" Facebook post, and the idea behind it was basically to create a "chain" of holiday gifts and keep it going among friends. This met with some criticism—a few warned that it was essentially a pyramid scheme.
But the proponents of the "secret sister" posts defended the idea, pointing out that the post was shared only with people they already knew—friends that would simply benefit and enjoy some fun by participating. And this got me thinking.
At your next girlfriends' gathering, why not add a little something extra?
1. Go around the table and number yourselves, then ask each friend to write her number on a blank envelope.
2. Ask each friend to fill out a short list of "favorites" (click on my example in the "Resources" list below) and place the list in her numbered envelope.
3. Throw all of the envelopes in a pile and shuffle them.
4. Each friend will select an envelope and take it home (make sure you don't select your own number).
5. At home, each friend will open her envelope, review the enclosed list, and set a reminder to put together and deliver a SMALL (i.e., inexpensive) gift box filled with items from the list.
6. Within the next few days, each friend will then leave a gift—along with an encouraging note—on her designated friend's doorstep.
Voila! Each of you will be surprised to find something you truly love on your doorstep, and you'll be encouraged by the uplifting note. And it's not a pyramid scheme… it's a simple act of kindness and friendship!
Instead of falling prey to the post-holiday blues, plan some girls' time now… and look forward to some extra fun with a "favorites list" exchange this year.


I have been in practice since 2007. I am certified as a Master ART Practitioner by the International Society of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (IS-ART ); I have practiced ART for 6 years. I am also a student at the Hartford Family Institute where I have studied psychotherapy for 7 years.
I did my undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame. I later added a Master's Degree in Business Administration from UConn, and another in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Finally, I completed my Ph.D. in social work from the University of Connecticut in 2015.
I am licensed to practice psychotherapy in Connecticut (LCSW) and in Vermont (LICSW).
I know the world of business; I ran my own successful computer consulting firm for 25 years, serving most of the large financial institutions in New York. You can still find some of my publications on-line for that period, such as the Redbooks I participated in writing for IBM. I know about the pressures of project management; I hold a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. In 2006 I took a new direction,choosing to work from my heart rather than my head. That's when I began studying at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and finished my degree in just one year. In 2009 I returned to enter the doctoral program, and completed my Ph.D. in Social Work in December 2014 (the award date is May 2015).


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Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy
John Higley and Michael Burton
This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic types of elites and associated political regimes. They canvas political change during the modern historical and contemporary periods to identify circumstances and ways in which the sine qua non of liberal democracy, a consensually united elite, has formed and persisted.
The book considers an impressive body of cases, examining how consensually united elites have fostered forty-five liberal democracies and how disunited or ideologically united elites have thus far prevented liberal democracy in more than one hundred other countries. The authors argue that obstacles to the emergence of elites propitious for liberal democracy are more formidable than democratization enthusiasts recognize. They assess prospects for the transformation of disunited and ideologically united elites where they now exist, ask whether current challenges to Western liberal democracies will undermine their consensually united elites, and explore what the rise of the distinctive elite clustered around George W. Bush may portend for America's liberal democracy. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
978-0-7425-5360-6 • Hardback • July 2006 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-0-7425-5361-3 • Paperback • August 2006 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
978-0-7425-6855-6 • eBook • July 2006 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Series: Elite Transformations
Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General, Political Science / General
John Higley is professor of government and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and chair of the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association. Michael Burton is professor of sociology at Loyola College in Maryland.
Chapter 1: Elites and Regimes
Chapter 2: Disunited Elites and Unstable Regimes
Chapter 3: Elite Settlements
Chapter 4: Colonial Origins of Consensually United Elites
Chapter 5: Convergences among Disunited Elites
Chapter 6: Elites and Liberal Democratic Prospects
This culmination of decades of work by Higley and Burton on elite politics is a major contribution to modern social science. . . . One notable feature of the book is its realism: liberal democracy is not likely to spread easily, for elite agreement is very hard to achieve. A second notable feature is the empirical range: the conceptual apparatus covers, with real insight, an astonishing number of cases, making for superlative comparative political inquiry quite as much as major theoretical contribution. Highly recommended.
— John A. Hall, Dartmouth College; Choice
Higley and Burton . . . have written a stimulating, well argued, empirically grounded book . . . an historically based study that provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the qualities within political elites that lead to the establishment of stable democratic rule.
— Contemporary Sociology
To understand the primary features of . . . neo-elitism, one must read the important work by John Higley and Michael Burton.
— Revue française de science politique
This important study represents the culmination of Higley and Burton's work—the first book-length exposition of the mature version of their elite theory buttressed by the close examination of an astonishing number and variety of historical cases. Well argued, clearly written, and astute, this book is easily accessible for undergraduates, general readers, and all those interested in elites or democratic transitions.
— Thomas A. Baylis, University of Texas at San Antonio
Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy marks a major contribution to the literature on the role of elites in regime changes. John Higley and Michael Burton present a superb treatment, which combines broad historical and comparative overview and in-depth theoretical analysis. The book is required reading for anyone interested in studies of democracy and democratization.
— Vladimir Gelman, European University at St. Petersburg
Higley and Burton provide a comprehensive and rigorous framework through which scholars can make sense of the varieties of elite rule. Their hard-headed analysis of the forces that lie behind liberal democracy is all the more necessary given that U.S. foreign policy is now dedicated to the spread of such institutions around the world.
— Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
• Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007

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Ajay Devgn, Kajol attend a charity event in London
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Ajay Devgn, Kajol and Tanishaa recently attended a charity event in London to raise awareness about the injustices widows face and to remove stigmas associated with it
Ajay Devgn, Kajol and Tanishaa recently attended a charity event in London to raise awareness about the injustices widows face and to remove stigmas associated with it.
Kads feels the plight of widows is unthinkable. Without financial means, it is even more scary and education is the only way forward.
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Changing your posture and the way you breathe. Changing your breathing and you will change your nervous system. This is one of the greatest lessons of Yoga: Everything is connected—your hip bone to your ankle bone, you to your community, your community to the world.
What health benefits can you expect from Yoga?
Healthy Joints: Yoga helps the synovial fluid circulate in your joints – this fluid lies in a capsule that surrounds synovial joints. This system (capsule and fluid components) helps to cushion the ends of the bones, allowing them to glide over each other, lessening the friction.
Stimulation Of Organs: Internal organs take part and are stimulated with yoga. The functioning improves and increases resistance to diseases. Also, once you are attuned to your body, after years of practice, you will be able to tell instantly if your body doesn't function properly.
Increased strength and endurance: Yoga uses the weight of your own body to build overall strength. Core strength is especially important for good posture and balance.
Look younger and delay ageing: Everyone has to age, but it is important you age gracefully, and not before time. Yoga helps you detox, thereby eliminating toxins and free radicals. This, apart from other benefits, helps delay aging too. Yoga also relieves stress, which is another important factor to beat aging.
Mind-Body Connection: Regular practice reinforces the mind body connection. Many yoga practitioners are so in tune with their body that they are aware at first sign if something isn't functioning properly. This allows for quicker response to head off disease and other ailments.


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An Historic Day: Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland Sworn in to Congress
by Native Business Staff | Jan 3, 2019 | Featured, Legislative / Policy, News |
Native Business Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis with Rep. Deb Haaland, D-New Mexico, at today's swearing-in ceremony for the new Congress in Washington D.C. (Native Business)
Today, two Native American women made history. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, and Rep. Deb Haaland, D-New Mexico, were sworn into the 116th Congress at noon. The new faces of the Democratic Party represent a significant milestone in American politics—as the first Native American women elected to Congress, and among merely 300 representatives of Native American descent out of approximately 12,000 total Congress members elected since 1789.
To put their appointments in perspective, the United States government didn't grant citizenship to Native Americans until 1924, and Haaland's home state of New Mexico was the final state to grant Natives the right to vote in 1962.
Prior to taking office on the Hill, both leaders have made their agendas clear.
Native Business Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis with Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, today at the swearing in ceremony for the new Congress in Washington D.C. (Native Business)
Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, was sworn in to represent Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, home to more than 670,000 people and the economic heart of the state.
An attorney and former mixed martial artist, Davids earned her law degree from Cornell Law School and began her legal career at an international law firm as a corporate transactional attorney focused on mergers and acquisitions and Indian law deals. She went on to serve as the Deputy Director of Thunder Valley CDC in Porcupine, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where she managed operations, acted as in-house legal counsel, and laid the foundation for a social enterprise program. She recently served as a White House Fellow during the Obama-Trump transition.
Davids campaigned on an economic platform that included a tax cut for the middle class, incentivizing health care benefits for small businesses, and creating a childcare tax credit. An advocate for addressing climate change, she considers Kansas uniquely poised to capitalize on wind energy. She has supported tax incentives that promote wind and similar energy sources.
In her new role, Rep. Davids has said she will prioritize economic and community development in Native communities.
Davids also recently told MSNBC that the United States will gain a better understanding of Native American issues and priorities with her and Rep. Haaland on the Hill. "Congresswoman Haaland and I will… raise awareness and opportunity to share the historical aspects and how Native communities are experiencing life today in the modern era. I think not enough people understand Native communities and the federal-tribal government relationship that exists. …We are going to see a new era of information, understanding and change," she told Morning Joe during a live interview.
Rep. Deb Haaland, D-New Mexico, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, will organize her colleagues on issues relevant to New Mexico and Indian Country.
Haaland was the first Chairwoman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation Board of Directors, overseeing business operations of the second largest tribal gaming enterprise in New Mexico. She successfully advocated for the Laguna Development Corporation to make policies and commitments to earth-friendly business practices.
Haaland has professed her commitment to make climate change a priority, including embracing renewable energy and resource efficiency, and to address economic inequality.
On DebforCongress.com, she states:
"I'll also fight with everything I have for a national public infrastructure bill that creates millions of jobs and rebuilds America's crumbling roads, parks, bridges, energy, schools, and technology infrastructure. This bill should include massive investment in updating America's energy grid to prepare us for 100% renewable energy, and millions of good union jobs that include living wages, full benefits, and fair scheduling. Infrastructure improvements should be especially targeted towards poor, black, and brown communities who have been historically neglected by our government."
Haaland has also promised she'll fight for the U.S. government to fund critical Indian programs—for housing, education, health care, sovereignty, self-determination and safety—under the government's legal trust responsibility to Indian Country. In an opinion piece penned for The Hill, a non-partisan policy and political media outlet, she wrote: "When the historic members of our new congressional class take office in January, our bold policy agenda will make sure no one is left behind."
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Bayonne Rotary has been distributing personal dictionaries to Bayonne's third graders in every public and private school for the past 14-years because reading is the most important skill of all. Reading and the word knowledge it brings is the starting point for all the economic and social opportunities this world has to offer. Educators such as Supt. of Schools, Dr. Patricia McGeehan – also a Rotarian – see third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn.
Bayonne Rotary as part of Rotary International is a major sponsor of the Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. The goal of this program is to assist all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come. The Dictionary Project gives 95 cents of every dollar donated toward the purchase of dictionaries.
The Dictionary Project Sponsors such as Rotary are part of a tireless effort to improve literacy and the quality of life in their communities. These volunteers are the breath of life of The Dictionary Project. Through The Dictionary Project, people feel empowered to affect change and improve education so that the children will grow up better prepared to compete in the global economy.
The idea for the Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, Georgia gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. Mary French, a Rotarian and former school secretary, admired Annie's work and took up the crusade in Charleston, South Carolina. Under Mary's leadership, Annie's idea has developed into The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization. Since Annie's death in 1999, millions of children have received dictionaries because thousands of people saw the same need in communities all over the United States.
Rotary International believes that "Kids who read succeed".
• Five to six year olds have a vocabulary of 2,500-5,000 words.
• 33% of children in California will not finish high school.
• Disadvantaged students in the first grade have a vocabulary that is approximately half that of an advantaged student (2,900 and 5,800 respectively).
• The average student learns about 3,000 words per year in the early school years (8 words per day).
• 14% of all individuals have a learning disability.
• 54 percent of all teachers have limited English proficient (LEP) students in their classrooms, yet only one-fifth of teachers feel very prepared to serve them.
• The educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don't read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough.
• It is estimated that more than $2 billion is spent each year on students who repeat a grade because they have reading problems.
• Since 1983, more than 10 million Americans reached the 12th grade without having learned to read at a basic level. In the same period, more than 6 million Americans dropped out of high school altogether.
• Over 50% of NASA employees are dyslexic. They are deliberately sought after because they have superb problem solving skills and excellent 3D and spatial awareness.
• Over one million children drop out of school each year, costing the nation over $240 billion in lost earnings, forgone tax revenues, and expenditures for social services.
• It is estimated that the cost of illiteracy to business and the taxpayer is $20 billion per year.
Reference: United Way, "Illiteracy: A National Crisis"
• More than three out of four of those on welfare, 85% of unwed mothers and 68% of those arrested are illiterate. About three in five of America's prison inmates are illiterate.
• Approximately 50 percent of the nation's unemployed youth age 16-21 are functional illiterate, with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs.
• 44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child.
• Dyslexia affects one ot of every five children - ten million in America alone.
• U.S. adults ranked 12th among 20 high income countries in composite (document, prose, and quantitative) literacy.
Reference: According to a separate report released by the Educational Testing Service.
• More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level - far below the level needed to earn a living wage.
• Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3 - 4 times more likely to drop out in later years.
• Nearly half of America's adults are poor readers, or "functionally illiterate." They can't carry out simply tasks like balancing check books, reading drug labels or writing essays for a job.
• 21 million Americans can't read at all, 45 million are marginally illiterate and one-fifth of high school graduates can't read their diplomas.
• To participate fully in society and the workplace in 2020, citizens will need powerful literacy abilities that until now have been achieved by only a small percentage of the population.
• 15 percent of the population has specific reading disorders. Of these 15 percent as many as 1/3 may show change in the brain structure.
Reference: Albert M. Galaburda, M.D., Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
• It is estimated that as many as 15 percent of American students may be dyslexic.
• There are almost half a million words in our English Language - the largest language on earth, incidentally - but a third of all our writing is made up of only twenty-two words.
Reference: Paul Kropp "The Reading Solution"
• 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine.
• In a class of 20 students, few if any teachers can find even 5 minutes of time in a day to devote to reading with each student.
• 56 percent of young people say they read more than 10 books a year, with middle school students reading the most. Some 70 percent of middle school students read more than 10 books a year, compared with only 49 percent of high school students.
• 15% of all 4th graders read no faster than 74 words per minute, a pace at which it would be difficult to keep track of ideas as they are developing within the sentence and across the page.
• Forty-four percent of American 4th grade students cannot read fluently, even when they read grade-level stories aloud under supportive testing conditions.
• 50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.
• Out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year.
• The average reader spends about 1/6th of the time they spend reading actually rereading words.
Reference: No reference information is available for this statistic.
• Students who reported having all four types of reading materials (books, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias) in their home scored, on average, higher than those who reporter having fewer reading materials.
• Good readers in 5th grade may read 10 times as many words as poor readers over a school year.
• In 1999, only 53 percent of children aged 3 to 5 were read to daily by a family member. Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read aloud to everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above the poverty line.
• According to the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 37 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders cannot read at the basic level; and on the 2002 NAEP 26 percent of twelfth graders cannot read at the basic level. That is, when reading grade appropriate text these students cannot extract the general meaning or make obvious connections between the text and their own experiences or make simple inferences from the text. In other words, they cannot understand what they have read.
• When the State of Arizona projects how many prison beds it will need, it factors in the number of kids who read well in fourth grade.
• First grade children with good word recognition skills were exposed to almost twice as many words in their basal readers as were children who had poor word recognition skills.


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How do you quantify pain?
"It goes without saying that we are capable of noticing changes to our bodies, but it's perhaps less obvious that the way we perceive our bodies can affect them physically. The two-way nature of this link, between physicality and perception, has been dramatically demonstrated by a new study of people with chronic hand pain. Lorimer Moseley at the University of Oxford found that he could control the severity of pain and swelling in an aching hand by making it seem larger or smaller."
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Brain exercises are 'waste of time'
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"Professor says that nobody should be fooled by 'dangerous' myths about boosting creativity"
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UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release X-Files
Baptism Of Christ By Aert De Gelder
"UFO enthusiasts are pressing Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, encouraged by support from within the President-Elect's own White House team."
via Telegraph.UK
UFOs aliens and ghosts are believed in more than God
The two presidential candidates who believe in UFOs
UFObama
Anatomic Basis for Being Change-Friendly
'…[P]eople who actively seek lifestyle changes may have a more developed connection between two specific brain areas: the hippocampus, a site for storing and retrieving new and old memories, and the ventral striatum, a reward system which is responsible for those carpe diem moments, said researcher Dr. Bernd Weber of the Life & Brain Center at the University of Bonn in Germany. Turns out, if the hippocampus identifies an experience as new, it then relays signals to the striatum to release neurotransmitters which lead to positive feelings.
"The strength of the connection is positively correlated to novelty seek[ers] …'
via Yahoo! News
150 whales die in stranding off Australian coast
"Mass strandings of whales occur periodically in Australia and New Zealand for reasons that are not entirely understood. Theories include disturbance of echo-location, possibly by interference from sound produced by human activities at sea."


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Q: What is the difference between Zend & CodeIgniter I would like to know what is the different between CodeIgniter and Zend MVC Framework in regarding to coding style?
e.g. Retrieving/Inserting values in the database etc.

A: The concept are similar but the coding style is different:
Zend Framework uses both table gateway pattern and row gateway pattern but CodeIgniter only uses the later.
If you are asking about the conventions used in naming variables and methods then Zend is different from CodeIgniter. Therefore the coding style are not the same!
Hope it helps!


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Contents in this Issue:
I. Napsnet
1. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Program
2. US-ROK Relations
3. US-ROK Security Alliance
4. US-ROK Military Exercises
5. Russian Violation of ROK Airspace
6. ROK-Japan Trade Relations
7. Comfort Women Issue
8. Japanese Territorial Disputes
9. US Military in Japan
10. Sino-Japanese Relations
11. PRC Nuclear Arsenal
12. Cross Straits Military Balance
13. Taiwan UN Membership
II. ROK Report
14. DPRK Human Rights
15. ROK Policy Toward DPRK
Preceding NAPSNet Report
Reuters ("CHINA IN EFFORTS TO BRIDGE U.S., N.KOREA DIFFERENCES", Beijing, 2008/03/06) reported that the PRC is in discussions with the United States and the DPRK on how to bridge differences and restart the six-party talks, Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told reporters on the sidelines of the PRC's annual parliament session on Thursday. "China has raised all kinds of means with both the American and the DPRK sides. We are still discussing these means," Wu stated. Wu said North Korea and the other parties disagreed over what constituted "complete and accurate," in reference to any declaration of its nuclear programs.
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Donga Ilbo ("BUSH TO HOST LEE AT CAMP DAVID", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that ROK President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. President George W. Bush will meet at Camp David, a U.S. presidential retreat near Washington, in mid-April. President Lee and the First Lady will have a private dinner with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Lee will have a summit meeting with the U.S. president after staying overnight at Camp David. This is the first time that a summit meeting between the leaders of ROK and the United States have been held there. Until now, all ROK presidents have attended official dinners at the White House with their attendants.
Chosun Ilbo ("KOREA FACES FRESH CALL TO PAY MORE FOR USFK UPKEEP", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that Washington wants Seoul to shoulder a greater share of the upkeep of the U.S. Forces Korea, U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow said Wednesday. "The U.S. would like Korea to share the level of support up to 50 percent in terms of non-personnel stationing costs," he said. Vershbow told the Korea Defense Daily, a newspaper published by the Defense Ministry, that Seoul's new administration could reach an agreement "for a longer term, instead of having to negotiate every year or a year and a half."
Korea Herald ("TO N.K.'S IRE, JOINT DRILLS EVINCE STRONG D.C.-SEOUL ALLIANCE", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that the ongoing joint military exercise by the ROK and the United States is a clear sign of President Lee Myung-bak's determination to enhance the bilateral military alliance and to convince the DPRK to comply with international agreements on denuclearization, ROK experts say. Cho Seong-ryoul, director of the Institute for National Security Strategy, which is affiliated with the National Intelligence Service, explained that "the United States wants to show its commitment to the Lee Myung-bak government's goal of enhancing the South Korea-U.S. alliance. The drill embodies the principle which both countries agree on." "With the launch of a new government in South Korea, the United States also expects to refresh bilateral relations. There was a rift during the previous, anti-American government. The enthusiastic promotion by the United States of the current drills can be interpreted as an effort to take the initiative, so as to bring the ties between South Korea and the United States to a higher level," said Kwon Jae-sang, a board member of the Korea Defense and Security Forums, a private security think tank.
Korea Times (Jung Sung-ki, "KOREAN, US FIGHTERS INTERCEPT RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that a Russian reconnaissance aircraft approached a U.S. aircraft carrier on the eastern waters off the Korean Peninsula Wednesday, entering the ROK's air defense safety zone, a military source said Thursday. Two U.S. F/A-18 fighters from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier participating in annual drills by ROK and American troops successfully intercepted the Russian aircraft, a Tupolev TU-142 BEAR-F and escorted it out of the area, the source said. Four F-16 fighters of the ROK Air Force also conducted maneuvers to support the U.S. fighters, he added.
Chosun Ilbo ("SEOUL TO WORK WITH TOKYO TO REDUCE TRADE DEFICIT", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that during ROK President Lee Myung-bak's first visit to Tokyo, planned for next month, the government and business leaders will formally ask Japan to cooperate in reducing Seoul's trade deficit with Tokyo. Knowledge-based Economy Minister Lee Youn-ho on Wednesday said, "Before President Lee's scheduled visit to Japan, we and the Federation of Korean Industries are trying to find ways to drastically reduce the trade deficit with Japan, with focus on the materials and components industry."
Chosun Ilbo ("WOMEN'S DAY BRINGS GLOBAL PROTEST FOR 'COMFORT WOMEN'", Seoul, 2008/03/06) reported that Marking the 100th International Women's Day on Saturday, rallies condemning the Japanese military's wartime sexual enslavement of women from Asian countries were held around the world. Rallies were staged in the ROK, as well as Japan, the U.K., the Philippines, Australia, Taiwan and Indonesia. In Australia and at Britain's University of Warwick, there were campaigns to collect signatures for a parliamentary resolution denouncing Japan's enslavement of women during World War II.
Asahi Shimbun ("MAN SHOOTS SELF IN FRONT OF DIET", Tokyo, 2008/03/06) reported that an apparent right-wing activist carrying protest letters fatally shot himself in front of the Diet on Wednesday. One of the letters was addressed to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda calling on him to be more assertive in his dealings over the abduction and territorial issues.
Associated Press (Chisaki Watanabe, "4 MARINES TOGET COURTS-MARTIAL IN JAPAN", Tokyo, 2008/03/06) reported that the U.S. military will court-martial four Marines in Japan for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman, a Marine Corps official said Thursday. The four Marines — accused of an attack on a 19-year-old woman in October — were charged by the military in December. Japanese authorities investigated the incident but local prosecutors dropped the case in November. Officials refused to provide reasons for not pursuing prosecution.
Asahi Shimbun ("TOKYO, BEIJING TO POSTPONE HU'S VISIT UNTIL MID-MAY", Tokyo, 2008/03/06) reported that Japan and the PRC plan to postpone PRC President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan from April to mid-May apparently because of fallout from the food-poisoning scare over imported gyoza dumplings, sources said. The planned visit of PRC Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to Japan in late March to prepare for Hu's visit will also likely be postponed, they said.
Washington Times (Bill Gertz, "U.S. TO BROACH NUKE CONCERNS WITH CHINA", Washington, 2008/03/04) reported that the Pentagon is set to begin strategic arms talks with the PRC amid concerns outlined in an annual report questioning Beijing's control over the military's growing nuclear arsenal. The report said the PRC's new road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic-missile submarines "will create new command and control challenges for China's leadership, now confronted with a different set of variables related to release and deployment authorities." It added that the PRC's military "has only a limited capacity to communicate with submarines at sea and the PLA Navy has no experience in managing [a nuclear missile submarine] fleet that performs strategic patrols." "Pentagon concerns over China's command and control of nuclear forces are growing," said a Pentagon official.
Associated Press (Christopher Bodeen, "CHINA SAYS US EXAGGERATING TAIWAN THREAT", Beijing, 2008/03/06) reported that the Chinese Communist Party's main newspaper said Thursday that the U.S. is exaggerating the PRC's threat against Taiwan to justify arms sales to the island. A recent U.S. Defense Department report also overstated the PRC's space weapons and cyberwarfare capabilities and glossed over the People's Liberation Army's steps toward greater transparency, the paper said in a signed editorial. The editorial called U.S. warnings of a growing gap in military capabilities a "hackneyed phrase" that appeared each year in the Pentagon report. The article said the PLA had boosted transparency by issuing annual reports on its overall status, publicizing spending and engaging in joint drills with more than 20 nations. It pointed also to Beijing's constructive role in hosting talks on dismantling DPRK's nuclear capability and dispatch of engineering troops to Sudan's Darfur region.
Washington Post (Edward Cody, "U.S., CHINA RESIGNED TO TAIWAN VOTE", Taipei, 2008/03/05) reported that the PRC and the United States have resigned themselves to Taiwanese plans for a referendum on whether the self-ruled island should apply for UN membership under the name Taiwan. Neither country has abandoned its strong opposition to the referendum, officials said, but U.S. and PRC officials hope the measure will be defeated by the island's voters.
Good Friends ("DPRK: 'THIS SHOOTING IS TO PREVENT ILLEGAL BOARDER CROSSINGS'", 2008/03/06) reported that one DPRK government official said that the open execution of 15 criminals at Onsungkun was a forewarning action made to prevent increased illegal boarder crossing in spring season. He said, "Even those who had money are crying they are having difficult days. Those who barely survived the days are hopeless. And geographically speaking, people are disappearing after everyday. Some illegally cross the boarder on their way back from their cousin's house, and even graduating class students are disappearing everyday. Therefore, we made the gunshot to give people a right understanding."
Hankyoreh Newspaper (Seung Joo-bek, "WE MUST NOT OVERREACT TO DPRK LEADER'S MOOD", 2008/03/05) carried a commentary by a researcher from the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses which said that in inter-Korean relations, the positions of the DPRK and ROK supreme leaders have absolute influence. However, even if this is acknowledged, the policies toward the DPRK should not be planned according to how DPRK leaders feel. Fortunately, we have "constitutional principles" more important than "the President's feeling." Different policies and positions needed for coping with DPRK should ultimately be set up with optimistic human relations based on standards of "peaceful unification, justice, morality, and fraternity." Constitutional principles must be the guideline for policies toward the DPRK.
Donga Ilbo ("DPRK SHOULD CAREFULLY READ CHANGES IN ROK", 2008/03/06) wrote that the ROK government's attitude toward the DPRK, compared to that of the old administration, is definitely changing. We hope that this can be an opportunity for the DPRK to realize that the new administration is different from the Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Mu-Hyun administrations at a fundamental level. Inter-Korean relations should loosen up the tensions and focus on whether it would be effectual for improving human rights in the DPRK. The DPRK must carefully read the message of change Lee Myung-bak administration is sending.
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On November 23rd I introduced the season of Advent (questioning Christmas) the start of the church year and a time for preparing our hearts and minds for the celebration of Jesus birth. As a change from the traditional advent themes (hope, peace, joy, love) I have selected the traditional Carmelite themes of waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing (as suggested here) for a series of Advent reflections. This week I (and hopefully you will join me) reflect on accepting, inspired by Luke: 26-38.
I wish Mary was alive today so that we could be friends. I suspect she and I would get on well from the peeks into her personality that Luke offers us. From what Luke does say we see a young girl who probably had introverted thinking tendencies, with a deep sense of calm that I find attractive. We are shown a girl who doesn't just blindly accept things as they are, she is intellectually active and curious. We see this demonstrated in a verse that I have always liked, Luke 2:19 "But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." I think like me she was someone who has to chew things over in her mind, probe, figure things out, perhaps she was a thinker a ponderer, a wonderer.
Unfortunately so much myth and legend has been built up around Mary that we will never know what she was truly like. If only Luke had spent more time on her story so that we could know her better. She is often held up as a role model for acceptance and willingness, and often portrayed as passively submissive to God's will. I am not sure that she was as submissive as the stereotype suggests, as I can see lots of hints in Luke 1 that challenge that assumption. When she is greeted by the angel Gabriel she is perplexed (or some translations have confused and disturbed).
How encouraging Mary is to those who of who spend lots of time being perplexed, confused and disturbed, by the things that God says.
Luke has set this story up so that we immediately compare and contrast with the angel's visit to Zechariah. On the surface both Mary and Zechariah respond with questions. But we can tell by the angel's different response that they must have completely different attitudes. You can just hear poor Zechariah who had perhaps already accepted his childlessness, saying "But God? How is that going to work? What a relief it is to know that despite Zechariah's response, God in his grace is still active in Zechariah and Elizabeth's lives.
My responses are so much more like Zechariah's than Mary's my questions come demanding answers and with a tinge of doubt. My acceptance of God's activity so often becomes dependent on my understanding. I need to understand the big picture, I need to understand how God is at work in the world today, I need to understand how I can use my gifts, I need to understand how I can use my questions. All summed up in that plaintiff cry that I have uttered so many times "But God, I need to understand".
But Mary didn't let her questions, doubts, and concerns get in the way of accepting God's invitation.
Mary didn't need to put her questions aside or stop her investigations or find all the answers to accept God's invitation. To any of you who have been told that you ask too many questions, or to stop asking questions, be comforted as you meet Mary here in the pages of the Bible. She held her questions, she kept them close and pondered them for YEARS, but she was able at the same time to accept this unexpected, complex mystery of God being at work in the world and at work in her. She had the ability to hold her willingness and her questions together, one did not cancel out the other.
Mary would have had limited understanding of what was to come and limited resources that she could offer. Yet she was still able to give the powerful response of "Here am I, the servant of the Lord". She doesn't say (as perhaps I would) yes I will do it, what do you want me to do now, and already be halfway on the road to make it happen.
Her acceptance says here am I, full of questions and wondering but still willing.
Her acceptance says here am I, with little resource beyond who I am.
Her acceptance offers her own self just as she is, not the tasks that she can achieve.
Perhaps the most powerful thing we can say to God as we prepare for Advent is here am I, messy, depleted, full of questions and full of doubts, but still willing.
What does it mean to accept that the best we have to offer God this Advent is not our resources, our training, our sense of vocation, it is not our gifts or the gifts we make to others, but is simply us?


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Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert, né le  à Paris, est un orientaliste français, spécialiste de l'histoire du bouddhisme au Japon et de ses antécédents chinois. Ses travaux concernent en particulier le bouddhisme Tendai et la philologie des textes bouddhiques sino-japonais. Il est l'auteur de la traduction française du Sūtra du Lotus, texte fondateur du bouddhisme mahāyāna 大乘 (grand véhicule), à partir du texte chinois ancien.

En 2011, il est nommé professeur au Collège de France pour y devenir titulaire de la chaire Philologie de la civilisation japonaise.

Biographie
Diplômé de japonais de l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales en 1970, Jean-Noël Robert fut, de 1974 à 1975, pensionnaire à la Maison franco-japonaise de Tōkyō. De 1975 à 1990, il fut chargé de recherche au CNRS et, depuis 1979, chargé de conférences, puis directeur d'étude à la cinquième section de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Docteur ès lettres et sciences humaines (1987), il est, depuis 2010, directeur de l'Institut des hautes études japonaises des Instituts d'Asie du Collège de France. Le , il est nommé professeur au Collège de France et où il devient titulaire de la chaire de Philologie de la civilisation japonaise.

Jean-Noël Robert est membre de nombreuses sociétés savantes et commissions spécialisées : Société française des études japonaises de Paris, commissions des spécialistes de l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (université ), commission scientifique de l'École pratique des hautes études (), conseil de la Société asiatique, conseil d'administration de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient.

Il est en outre rédacteur en chef du Hôbôgirin, dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme d'après les sources chinoises et japonaises, et membre des comités éditoriaux et scientifiques de la , du Journal asiatique et du magazine Religions & Histoire. Il a été élu, le  2006, membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, au fauteuil d'André Caquot. Il a présidé cette Académie pour l'année  2019. Il pratique également l'écriture en latin sous le pseudonyme Alexander Ricius.

Publications
Lectures élémentaires en style sino-japonais (kanbun), Paris, éd. Université Paris 7, 1986
Doctrines de l'école japonaise Tendai au début du  : Gishin et le Hokke-shû gi shû (thèse de doctorat), Paris, éd. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1990
Contempler le sanctuaire du cœur : le bouddhisme vu par un bouddhologue français, Paris, éd. L'Obs, 1995 (publié en japonais en 1997)
Kanbun for the XXIst Century : The Future of Dead Languages, Tokyo, éd. Noël International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2001 (en japonais)
Sûtra du Lotus, suivi du Livre des sens innombrables et du Livre de la contemplation de Sage-Universel, Paris, éd. Fayard, 2003 (traduction)
Quatre courts traités sur la Terrasse Céleste, Paris, éd. Fayard, coll. « Trésors du bouddhisme », 2007
Petite histoire du bouddhisme, Paris, éd. Librio Document, 2008
La Centurie du Lotus : poèmes de Jien (1155-1225) sur le Sûtra du Lotus, Paris, éd. Collège de France / Fayard, 2008
La hiéroglossie japonaise, Paris, éd. Collège de France / Fayard, 2012
Langue et science, Langage et pensée [sous la dir. de], Paris, éd. Odile Jacob, 2020

Distinctions

  Étoile d'or et d'argent de l'ordre du Soleil levant

Notes et références

Liens externes
 Jean-Noël Robert sur le site de l'Institut d'études avancées (IEA) de Nantes

Japonologue français
Orientaliste français
Philologue français
Historien du Japon
Historien français du XXe siècle
Historien français du XXIe siècle
Historien des idées
Historien des sensibilités
Professeur émérite
Professeur au Collège de France
Enseignant à l'École pratique des hautes études
Professeur des universités
Universitaire français
Universitaire français du XXe siècle
Universitaire français du XXIe siècle
Membre de la Société asiatique
Membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite
Commandeur des Palmes académiques
Récipiendaire de l'ordre du Soleil levant de deuxième classe
Docteur en histoire
Élève de l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Auteur publié par les éditions Maisonneuve et Larose
Auteur publié par les éditions Fayard
Auteur publié par les Éditions Odile Jacob
Naissance en décembre 1949
Naissance à Paris

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Tabriz (perz. تبریز) je glavni grad iranske pokrajine Istočni Azarbajdžan koja se nalazi na sjeverozapadu zemlje. Grad je smješten na sjevernim padinama Sahanda odnosno na ušću rijeke Kuri koja se ulijeva u Adži, na nadmorskoj visini od oko 1350 m. Osnovan je u sasanidskom razdoblju (3. ili 4. stoljeće), a njegova strateška važnost porasla je tijekom dominacije abasidskog kalifata. Tabriz je bio glavni grad Irana u vrijeme vladavine Ilkanata, Kara Koyunlua, Ak Koyunlua, Safavida i Kadžara. Klima područja u kojem se grad nalazi je umjerena: ljeta su općenito umjerene temperature, a zime su hladne. Prema popisu stanovništva iz 2006. godine grad je imao približno 1,400.000 stanovnika, od čega su većina etnički Azeri. Tabriz je četvrti po veličini grad u Iranu, nakon Teherana, Mašhada i Isfahana. Također, nakon teheranske prijestolnice smatra se drugim najznačajnijim industrijskim središtem u zemlji: poznat je po proizvodnji automobila, strojeva, nafte i cementa. Tabriz obiluje brojnim povijesnim spomenicima od kojih je među najpoznatijima Tabriški bazar, povijesni kompleks uvršten 2010. godine na UNESCO-ovu listu svjetske baštine.

Poveznice
 Zračna luka Tabriz

Vanjske poveznice
 Službene stranice grada Tabriza
Ostali projekti

Gradovi u Iranu
Gradovi na Svilenom putu
Istočni Azarbajdžan


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Pride of St. Vincent Ready To Make Bigger Impact
Features October 10, 2019
BC Lions receiver Jevon Cottoy during warm-ups at Montreal's Molson Stadium on Friday, September 6th. Photo: Marc Bourget
The Canadian Football League is littered with individuals that took an inspiring path to strapping on the pads for a living. Enter Jevon Cottoy. Growing up on the island of St. Vincent, he never thought he would eventually be playing pro football; let alone leaving the Caribbean at all.
"It's been quite the ride, to be honest. I never expected that I would be here," said the Lions rookie receiver.
"Growing up as a little kid in St. Vincent, I always wanted to be a police officer. Now to be playing football in the greatest country in the world, that's a blessing."
This time last year, he was helping the Langley Rams go all the way to the Canadian Bowl where they ultimately came up short against the Saskatoon Hilltops. Now he represents likely the most pleasant rookie surprise on a 2019 Lions squad that has gotten hot at the exact right time, racking up 341 receiving yards in 14 games and scoring his first CFL touchdown in Regina on July. When asked to reflect on his journey from being one of those training camp unknowns to a likely candidate for the team's Most Outstanding Rookie nomination.
"It's a blessing to be able to come out here every day and practice with the teammates that I have, for the coaches that I have and to play in front of these great fans," he said.
And now Cottoy gets to really experience the life and expectations that come with being a pro football player. After missing one game with a tweaked hamstring, he will be counted on for even more production with Lemar Durant on the shelf with his foot injury. Given what he has overcome to get to this point, Cottoy has no issues accepting the challenge in this vastly improved offence.
"Big-time," stated Cottoy.
"I'm ready to step into his role and it's not just me. This receiving group has a whole needs to come together and play as one and not only execute but play for Lemar. We've got a good game plan this week to beat the Eskimos and the plan is to execute it come game day."
As someone who also had to cut his teeth in junior football with the London Beefeaters and later had to prove himself as a rookie, Shaq Johnson can't help but be impressed with how Cottoy has conducted himself from day one. More importantly, he feels the rookie has been noticeable outside the passing game.
"Jevon, he's a different cat man. He took on an extremely big role, especially protecting Mike and knowing the other team's front seven, the blitzes all of that," explained Johnson.
"The fact that he can come in his first year out of juniors, and I'm familiar with what that's like, is tremendous. He just needs to continue what he's been doing and we're going to be alright. He's got a long career ahead of him."
Cottoy was nine years old when his mother moved the family to Calgary. Young Jevone played a lot of soccer as a youth but got fixated on the North American version of football when he saw some Randy Moss highlights. His first major obstacle on the gridiron came when he tore both the ACL and MCL in his knee, an injury that ended his quest to suit up for the University of Calgary. His plan then shifted to enrolling at the Southern Alberta Insititute of Technology and becoming a firefighter.
Alas, things typically happen for a reason. After giving the game another shot and playing one year of junior football with the Calgary Colts, the family moved west where he would continue his career with Langley. The move also meant his territorial rights would belong to the BC Lions. Being the latest example of a junior player that has gone on to make a CFL roster is something Cottoy really takes pride in.
"I went out there to a game earlier this season to show my support for the team," said Cottoy.
"It's good to see that they're on a roll right now, they're 9-0. I can't wait to see them finish the job after we came close in the national championship game last year."
Now he and the Lions have gone from 1-10 to being very much in the playoff discussion with three weeks to play.
"It's pretty exciting," he said.
"Starting out, we had a bunch of new players and some new coaches. I figured we needed a few weeks to mesh and click together. As of late, we're coming together as one."
A victory in Edmonton would just be another key piece to the puzzle.


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Home Health Canadian family rides out COVID-19 pandemic on remote tropical island
Canadian family rides out COVID-19 pandemic on remote tropical island
TORONTO — A Canadian family on a round-the-world trip plans to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific despite the risk of dengue fever.
Emmanuel Samoglou, his wife Nicole Adoranti and their two-year-old daughter are staying in a small home in idyllic Rarotonga, part of the Cook Islands.
"It makes more sense to stay here," said Samoglou, 41. "We want to stay away from airports and we feel in a small way this country has been very grateful and opened its hearts and arms to us and if we can help here, we're going to help."
The islands, with about 13,000 residents, have no confirmed cases of COVID-19, but the government has raised its emergency levels and is operating under the assumption the virus is circulating there. Three people were recently tested, but two came back negative while the third test has yet to come back.
The couple have lived abroad for years, including the last five in the United Arab Emirates, before having their daughter. They wanted to spend more time with their little girl and saved up before beginning their journey last June.
They visited family in Italy, Greece, South Korea and Thailand. Then they visited Bali and New Zealand before landing in Rarotonga in mid-February, Samoglou said.
He worked in Cook Islands as a reporter in 2013 and 2014, so they have friends there, but the country is now practising social distancing like much of the world.
"We've got the beach to ourselves, but it's rainy season, so we're inside much of the time," he said.
Before the novel coronavirus began sweeping across the globe and killing thousands, the family's main worry on Rarotonga was mosquito-borne dengue fever, which is circulating on the island. Unlike Canada, he said, the only run on supplies appears to be mosquito coils.
"There is plenty of toilet paper," Samoglou said with a laugh.
The family thought about returning to Canada after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put the call out last week for Canadians abroad to come home. But the Cook Islands began shutting down its flights last week in an effort to keep the virus at bay.
Now the only flights are to and from New Zealand, which has closed its borders to outsiders — although Samoglou said New Zealand would allow his family to transit if they wanted to leave.
"We actively considered going back to Canada but what kind of situation would that be?" he said. "We'd be in quarantine for two weeks, and fearful we'd infect family or vice versa. Although we're alone here, we made the decision that it just might be better to stay."
They also worry about the health-care system, which could not handle a large outbreak. The country plans to send anyone testing positive to COVID-19 to New Zealand should they need treatment.
Otherwise, the family plans to hit the beach when the sun shines as their daughter learns to swim. Food is also plentiful.
"There's bananas and papayas that are growing in our backyard," he said. "And it takes me a long time, but I can husk a coconut."
The surrounding waters also provide a bounty of fish from tuna to mahi-mahi to marlin, he said.
"There's tension with the virus at our doorstep, but there's really this nice mentality here of working together and trying to do our best to deal with the situation," Samoglou said. "We gotta do what we gotta do to stay healthy and to stay positive."
Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
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