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Location: Barcelona, Spain
Educational programs: Bachelor's, Master's, MBA, Preparation courses
Type of accommodation: residence, apartment rental.
The well-known and popular GBSB Global Business School offers students from around the world balanced and demanded higher education programs:
Bachelor's;
Master's;
MBA's in business and management.
Thanks to the comprehensive, systematic approach, as well as the observance of the principle of globalization, graduates of the university are really qualified specialists who are ready to work in any country in the world - they easily find work in the first six months after graduation and build a successful career in the chosen field.
Due to the fact that GBSB Global Business School operates according to the Bologna system of higher education adopted in 46 European countries, its diplomas are highly valued and listed in a variety of countries, especially in Western Europe. Students can choose for themselves the most priority direction and place of work. Among the most popular specialties are the following:
Communications and Public Relations
The GBSB Global Business School programs are taught entirely in English, with a very international mix of students - representatives of many countries and cultures from around the world. This gives an opportunity to educate a person in a real cosmopolitan atmosphere, develops tolerance and respect to a foreign viewpoint and unfamiliar culture.
The mentoring institute is actively practiced, much attention is paid to the development of personal and leadership qualities, without which it is simply impossible to succeed in the modern business environment. In addition, students actively study the ecological situation in the world, learn to respectfully and carefully treat nature.
In addition to the basic academic program, there are various language courses that do not require additional payment:
Chinese;
Russian;
Spanish and other modern languages.
This not only increases the cadre value and relevance of graduates, but also provides an opportunity to learn more about the specifics of doing business in different regions of the world: Russia and the CIS, African countries, in Asia or Latin America, Western or Eastern Europe.
Bachelor of International Business (BBA)
The program of higher education is designed for students planning to build their careers in the business environment of the modern globalized world.
Completely the program takes 3 academic years: during this time each student must earn up to 180 credits (educational credit units) - 1 credit is approximately equal to 30 hours of study. The year lasts from October to June and is divided into three roughly equal quarters, during each one you can get 15-20 credits.
You can apply for admission all year round: the beginning of classes is provided in October, January or April. Studying is conducted on weekdays (Monday-Friday), entirely in English, full-time.
The following specialties and directions are provided:
1) "Public relations", the discipline of the course:
Management of the international brand
Critical thinking and creativity
Globalization of Mass Media
Culture of management and communication management
Features of building relationships in an international company
Communication in the field of marketing
International relations with the public.
2) "International Marketing", subjects of the course:
Entering New International Markets
International Sales Management
Marketing in an online environment and social networks
Management of the international brand.
This course is aimed at a global, thorough study of the modern market and its segments. Students will learn to position services and goods, to regulate supply and demand, to observe a change in this proportion, learn how to manage a company, to plan the distribution and movement of goods and services around the world.
3) "International Management", subjects on the course:
Management of International Staff
International Business Strategies
Project management for global development.
The most appropriate course is aimed at future managers, for those who want to occupy high and prestigious leadership positions. Students will master the methodology of global business management, financial and personnel management, marketing, sales.
4) "International entrepreneurship", subjects of the course:
Development of the international market
International management (sales)
Internet Marketing and Social Networks
Entrepreneurship in the global economy
Design and organization of business.
In addition, students are offered the opportunity to obtain a double diploma, which is issued jointly with the Swiss university UMEF. This is a great chance to get a diploma, highly regarded in Europe, and a Swiss degree! The duration of the studying is 4 years: three students spend in Barcelona, 1 in Switzerland (UMEF campuses are in 6 different cities of the country, so you can make a choice yourself).
The cost of studying at Global Business School Barcelona traditionally depends on the chosen program, its intensity and duration.
The second, more in-depth and thorough stage of higher education, allowis you to focus on the more subtle and highly specialized aspects of the chosen direction and specialization. The following specialties are offered:
Marketing of the future and communication
Magistracy for the fashion industry
International Management.
The duration of study is 1 academic year (9-12 months, depending on the date of admission).
The MBA degree (master of business administration) is the way to the highest and most prestigious positions, to employment in the largest and most successful companies. The following specialties are offered:
Current management
Duration of studying is 1 academic year (9-12 months, depending on the date of receipt), classes can begin in October, January or April. The whole course is taught in English. The cost of studying at Global Business School Barcelona traditionally depends on the chosen program, its intensity and duration.
Digital and innovation
from 1 800 € / 2 weeks
Summer School "Digital and Innovations"
Bachelor online
Several faculties are available to study online:
Entrepreneurship;
Management;
Finance;
Digital Business;
Pr & Communication;
Fashion & Luxury Business;
Sports Management.
Master in English online
Several master's degree programs are available:
Fashion Business & Management;
Tourism and Hospitality Management;
Communication and Future Marketing;
Business Innovations;
Operation and Supply Chain Management;
International Business Management;
Digital Marketing & Ecommerce;
Marketing Management;
Financial Management;
Digital Banking and Internet Finance;
Digital Business.
For students of GBSB Global Business School, you have the opportunity to choose the most suitable and convenient option for living while studying: it can be a common residence, rented apartment or room, private apartment. Specialists will listen attentively to all your wishes and choose the option that best suits your needs and possibilities.
Please note that the cost of accommodation is not included in the price in the programs, its price is specified individually in each case.
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Global approach: here they bring up real citizens of the world, ready to work in any country of the world, receptive and tolerant to all cultures and nationalities. One of the main principles: "Think globally, act locally";
Encouraging students to corporate and business ethics, fostering personal responsibility and the ability to take on responsibilities and be responsible for their words and deeds;
Guarantee of subsequent employment: both students and graduates can count on the comprehensive help of the business school in finding a place for internships, practice and work;
Modern methods and approaches to teaching, active use of modern programs, innovative methods, the latest technical achievements, orientation to the practical application of knowledge;
Individual approach: small studying groups, curriculum flexibility, attention to Individual characteristics and talents of each student.
Barcelona, where the campus of business school is located - one of the most beautiful, developed and at the same time cozy and distinctive European cities. Here there is a favourable Mediterranean climate, a large number of sunny days a year gives an opportunity not only to learn effectively, but also to have a rest with pleasure. In Barcelona, a fairly high standard of living, an excellent interesting and diverse culture, an abundance of interesting leisure opportunities. For business, Barcelona is also very interesting: in attracting international investment, the city takes the 4th place in the world ranking, includes a huge number of libraries and research centers, more than 300 branches and headquarters of international companies and corporations.
The GBSB Global Business School campus is located in the central, lively Eixample district: the territory has everything you need for a modern, productive education. There are spacious and comfortable classrooms and lecture halls, modern computer laboratories, classroom for independent work, conference rooms with the latest equipment, and for relaxation and communication after classes there is a well-kept picturesque garden.
In addition, the cost of the programs is not included and paid separately:
Air tickets in both directions
Transfer in both directions
Consular fee (to be paid at the embassy)
Visa fees and services, translation and courier delivery of documents
Personal pocket expenses
Medical insurance.
Registration fee (for a programme/course) 200 EUR
Deposit for a course/programme 4950 EUR
Application fee 950 EUR
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school registration form
recommendation letters from Teachers of foreign languages, mathematics and a class teacher. Additionally, an educational institution may request a recommendation from the principal
Testing for knowledge of mathematics, language, other subjects
Interview with a representative of the school (possibly in person or by Skype)
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motivation letter (not for all schools)
passport size photo (depending on the school from 1 to 12 pcs)
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birth certificate of the schoolboy (s)
copy of the page 1 passport of the passport
school certificate for the bachelor, diploma of Higher education for the master
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Musical musings from the dark corner of a pub
May 19, 2014 April 2, 2020 sayitwithgarageflowersLeave a comment
Crime writer Mark Billingham's latest novel, The Bones Beneath, includes a 40-song playlist intended to soundtrack a road trip that occurs in the book. I spoke to him about his love of country music, Elvis Costello and Morrissey and what makes the perfect pop song…
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"Country music is perfect for crime fiction – the stories are so dark, but also beautiful and entertaining," says Mark Billingham, sipping a pint of lager in his favourite North London pub, The Spread Eagle, in Camden.
I've lured one of the UK's top crime writers here to talk about his brand new book, The Bones Beneath, which is the twelfth novel in the bestselling Tom Thorne series – but also to quiz him on his love of music.
And quiz him I will, because he's no stranger to having his music knowledge tested. In the last few months he's won TV's Celebrity Mastermind – his specialist subject was Elvis Costello – and triumphed on the game show Pointless Celebrities. He scored a pointless answer thanks to his knowledge of 1970s Elton John album tracks. But more about that later…
Mark – like his fictional creation Tom Thorne – loves country music, both dark and cheesy, although, as he is quick to point out, he hates Garth Brooks. Their mutual taste in music has manifested itself in a 40-song playlist, which is included in the hardback version of The Bones Beneath – published by Little, Brown on May 22. The list also includes explanations as to why each particular song was chosen.
The Bones Beneath sees Thorne coming up against his old nemesis, serial killer Stuart Nicklin, and is partly set on a remote, windswept Welsh island that harbours some dark secrets. The first section of the book is a long road trip, which involves a six-hour drive, as Mark explains:
"At one point, early on, the character Holland says to Thorne, 'what are we going to be listening to?' They joke about it – Thorne says that he's got a Hank Williams playlist that will last all the way there. However, 'stuff ' happens and they never get to listen to anything. Thorne would've had the playlist ready – obviously – so I just put it in at the end of the book, as a bonus for people who buy the hardback. It gave me a chance to include some of my favourite music and to talk about it.
"There were certain artists that were always going to be on there – Hank Williams, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams – but I also wanted to put a few newer people on it, who maybe Thorne doesn't listen to yet. So, I had to have some Richmond Fontaine and My Darling Clementine on there.
"The playlist is Thorne's, it's not mine, but a lot of those songs would also be in my list of my 40 favourite songs – He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones and Galveston by Glen Campbell – but I'd also have God Only Knows by The Beach Boys and any number of songs by Elvis Costello, The Smiths and The Beatles, who are bands I grew up with. I'm still inordinately fond of every piece of music that meant something to me from the age of 13. The stuff I listen to now tends to be country, but I'll always have a place in my heart for Slade, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Morrissey.
"I went from glam rock – I was watching it on Top Of The Pops when I was 12 – to prog. I was probably the world's biggest Genesis fan…and then I got into punk, although it wasn't an overnight thing. It wasn't like I threw away all my Yes albums when the first Clash album came out!
"I went to see Television, supported by Blondie, at the Birmingham Odeon. That was a massive moment for me. From then on, I was into the tail end of punk…by the time punk reached Birmingham [where I grew up], everyone was already into post-punk. When I heard the first Elvis Costello album, I left prog behind, but it wasn't always easy. I once got beaten up in Birmingham by two blokes and their girlfriends for wearing skinny jeans…"
I'd like to ask you about My Darling Clementine – a contemporary country act that we both love. You first got into them by reading an interview with them on my blog, didn't you?
Mark Billingham: Yeah – you turned me on to them. They [husband and wife duo Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish] are the modern George Jones and Tammy Wynette. They're a married couple and they're both fantastic singers and brilliant songwriters. They have an incredible chemistry and they put on a fantastic show. They're just a kick-ass band – one of the best country acts I've ever seen. I've put 100,000 Words by My Darling Clementine on the playlist – it was the first song of theirs that I heard. I've always been a big fan of country duets.
One of My Darling Clementine's big influences is Elvis Costello. Wasn't it Costello's 1981 album Almost Blue – a record of country cover versions recorded in Nashville – that first got you into country music?
MB: Exactly – it completely opened my eyes. That album was massively important for me. I was vaguely aware of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, but when I first heard Almost Blue, I became a true believer. I bought it because I was a Costello fan, but it completely turned me on to country music and I think I'm right in saying it did the same for Michael and Lou from My Darling Clementine.It's the reason that the playlist in the book finishes with Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do?) which is the first track on Almost Blue.
You're also a big fan of The Smiths and Morrissey, aren't you?
MB: I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard This Charming Man. I had some speakers rigged up in the bathroom of my student flat and I connected them to a radio. I used to listen to John Peel in the bath. It was me that was in the bath, rather than John Peel. I can remember having one foot in the bath and one foot out of it when he played This Charming Man – I thought, 'what the fuck is this?' I went out the next morning and bought the first Smiths album. It absolutely changed everything – I adored The Smiths and I always will. I'm still a massive Morrissey fan, though I don't think I'd want to meet him – I've heard a few stories about him…well, it's all there in his book. The world needs Morrissey – I think he's unique. He's as good a lyricist now as he's ever been. I saw The Smiths at a GLC gig [Jobs For A Change festival – County Hall, London, 1984] and can remember it vividly. They were incredible…
Have great lyricists like Costello and Morrissey influenced you as a writer?
MB: I've actually written a short story about Costello and Morrissey, and maybe one day I'll find a home for it. It's about them meeting at Heathrow airport on the day that Thatcher dies. They're trying to get out of the country because they're being hounded by the press for quotes because they wrote Tramp The Dirt Down [Costello] and Margaret On The Guillotine [Morrissey]. They're just sitting there in the airport lounge. Actually, I don't refer to them by name, I just call them The Hat and The Quiff – and they're having a slightly awkward conversation about anger and notoriety, with Morrissey complaining about the tea…
What is it about crime writers and music? Some of your contemporaries, like Ian Rankin, who writes the Rebus novels, and Peter Robinson, who created Inspector Banks, also fill their books with music references. Music is very important to the central characters in those books, as well as to the authors themselves…
MB: I think it's a particularly male thing. There was a radio show called Music To Die For a few years back, which was about crime writers and music. Ian Rankin presented it and it featured the likes of me, John Harvey and American writers like George Pelecanos and Michael Connelly. It was really hard to find female crime writers who used music quite so much [as men do] in their books. There's that kind of slightly tragic, sad, male thing going on. When male crime writers get together, they give each other compilation CDs! We don't talk about books – we talk about music, almost exclusively. We can sit and talk for hours.
It's a lot of fun hanging out with crime writers – it's like being a member of a really cool gang. Somebody once described crime writers as being the smokers of the literary community – ever so slightly on the outside. They're naughty, but they're clearly enjoying themselves.
So many crime writers are basically frustrated musicians and the love of music that's there in their books is not just a gimmick. Ian Rankin does genuinely adore Mogwai and The Rolling Stones and Peter Robinson loves the music he writes about. I'm equally passionate about country music. It's great, because it means I can get characters to take the piss out of Thorne [for his country music taste]. I get the piss taken out of me too, but I'm not ashamed to say that I also really love the cheesy country stuff, too. He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones is consistently voted the best country song of all time and I'm not arguing. It's got everything – a cheesy choir, a voiceover – Billy Sherrill [producer and arranger] basically threw the kitchen sink at it. It's a fantastic story, with a brilliant twist. It breaks your heart…
Have you been on Desert Island Discs?
MB: No, but I've been on several shows like it, and strangely, one of the songs I always pick is I Did What I Did For Maria by Tony Christie. It's about someone who is about to be executed for killing the man who raped and murdered his wife. A nice, cheery pop song. It was actually the first single I ever bought – I must have been 12 or something like that. Maybe I liked it because of his voice or the horns, but the truth is it's a really dark story. It's weird that it was the first song that I wanted to go out and buy with my own money.
Maybe that's what started off your interest in crime stories and dark tales….
MB: I've always loved story songs, like Ode To Billie Joe by Bobby Gentry. That's another fantastic story hidden behind a gorgeous melody. I listen to music for pleasure – not necessarily to hear interesting chord progressions. Does the song do something to me?
He Stopped Loving Her Today makes me cry. Honey by Bobby Goldsboro –which is one of the cheesiest songs of all time – makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I can't explain it.
Books and films and plays have moved me, but nothing can affect me like the perfect three-minute pop song – like God Only Knows by The Beach Boys. They have the power that some literature or films simply don't have. Whether it's Wichita Lineman, I Want You or There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – they're all twisted love songs and they're all on my list [of favourite pop songs]. If you can write the perfect pop song… It's like writing a wonderful short story. I think that a great short story is better than a good novel. If I had the choice of writing an opera that people would still be performing in 100 years' time, or the greatest pop song ever written, I'd go for the pop song every time.
Would you like to write song lyrics?
MB: Oh god, yes. I'd love to. That's the dream – Costello phones me up and says, 'I've got this tune, but I can't write any lyrics for it'. Like that's ever going to happen…
Elvis Costello and Mark Billingham (left to right).
You're a big Nick Lowe fan, aren't you?
MB: Nick Lowe is awesome – he's a master class in elegance – a quite brilliant songwriter. Lyrics like, 'That untouched takeaway, I brought back the other day, has quite a lot to say' – from his song Lately I've Let Things Slide. It's just perfect.
What new music artists are you into? Have you bought any records by new bands recently?
MB: Well, I tend to wander round Fopp for an hour and just end up coming out with old stuff – some of which I've already got on cassette and vinyl. I must have every Costello album in six different versions…
What's your favourite album of all time?
MB: If you made me pick one now it would probably be Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello. If I could only take one album out of a burning house it would be that. I think Costello is the finest singer-songwriter of his generation, bar none.
You like The Beatles, too, don't you?
MB: I'm a massive Beatles fan. How can you not be? Whenever I meet people who say they hate The Beatles, I want to slap them! Even if you don't like what they were doing in '62 or '63, you've got to like Rubber Soul and Revolver! There's never been another band in history that has progressed quite so much in five years. They were incredible – they turned the world upside down, like no other band has ever done. I'm actually working with someone right now who professes not to like The Beatles at all. He knows who he is!
Are you a Bob Dylan fan?
MB: I'm a Dylan fan, but I'm not a Dylan obsessive. For me, I can do with four or five of his albums – Blonde On Blonde, Blood On The Tracks, Desire.… There are a few other artists who I feel like that about – Tom Waits, Neil Young… Their back catalogues are so huge and too daunting. I'm much more excited about finding a band like My Darling Clementine [who've only had two albums out] – I'm in on the ground floor. And in five years' time, when they're massive, I can get quite cross about it. Tell people I was there at the beginning…
You've recently been showing off your superb music knowledge on the TV shows Celebrity Mastermind and Pointless Celebrities…. You won both of them.
MB: I've been a shameless whore. The sad truth is that I just love quizzes. Anything where there's a buzzer involved, I go mental. On Pointless, it was a magical moment. Up came 'Elton John albums' and I leant across to my partner and I said, 'I've got this'. I grew up with those albums and I had them all. I knew every track on them. I like doing music quizzes and I love setting them. If I'm on a long road trip with a friend, we'll make huge playlists and play beat the intro. I have no life…
Maybe you could have incorporated a music quiz into The Bones Beneath?
MB: Actually, I would have loved to have made the playlist into a CD, but it's a logistical nightmare. I've used song lyrics in my books a couple of times. In my first book, I used a lyric from Costello's Radio Sweetheart – I had to pay for that. Like Elvis hasn't had enough of my money over the years! Morrissey let me use lyrics from Bigmouth Strikes Again for free – good old Mozza. But most of the time it's very tricky, so I try to avoid it where I can
So, what's next for Mark Billingham?
MB: I'm doing a secret book, but I can't say very much about it. I've written it with three other people – the crime writers Martyn Waites and Stav Sherez and the comedy writer and music journalist David Quantick. It's a music book and there are some jokes in it. I can't really say a lot more than that at the moment. I can say that we've all had enormous fun writing it…
Are you working on a new Thorne novel?
MB: I'm halfway through a new Thorne book – it will be out a year from now. I'll finish that in September – hopefully – and it will come out in May 2015.
Do you think certain members of the literary community look down on crime writers?
MB: Well, there's occasionally that slight element of literary snobbery, but sometimes it goes both ways and I think the lines between the two genres are becoming increasingly blurred. It's fine by me – I'm very happy to be a crime writer. I don't have pretensions to be anything else. I'm never going to deny that I'm a crime writer, in the way that some people do, even though their books are full of murder. The ones who claim to feel constrained by the conventions of crime fiction or say that they're 'transcending the genre'. We all want to push the boundaries, but it doesn't need 'transcending'. If you don't want to write it, fuck off and do something else. No one's putting a gun to your head…
Here's a Mark Billingham inspired Spotify playlist
Mark Billingham's latest novel, The Bones Beneath, is out on May 22. It's published by Little, Brown.
http://www.markbillingham.com
country, crime fiction, Elvis Costello, Morrissey, My Darling Clementine
'I wear my songs on my sleeve, so anything that happens in my life will come out in them'
'We're too country for the indie scene and too indie for country – we're 'urban country''
'This project has been such an interesting learning curve for both of us – it's exciting'
Jangle all the way
'Fame would have been fun, but would I still be around to tell the tale? I'm not sure…'
'The next record will be a 'livelier' collection of songs, but it's never going to go down as my party album…'
Once More Into The Darkness
'I wanted sad bastard songs sitting alongside frivolous rock 'n' roll'
'I hope my next album will sound like Scott 4. You've got to aim high'
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Dead Flamingoes: "Fairport folk, sea shanties and murder ballads"
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Sea shanties and storm ballads
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'I would like to be remembered as the guy who never gave up'
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"Get the Mayor Out!" – Dr Harding tells PPP Gov't
Dr Faith Harding.
By Fareeza Haniff
Dr Faith Harding
[www.inewsguyana.com] – Former Presidential hopeful and member of the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR), Dr Faith Harding says she will consider voting for the People's Progressive Party (PPP) if they can manage to return Georgetown to its former pristine glory.
During the radio programme, 'Hard Talk' on 90.1FM, Dr Harding told PPP Parliamentarian, Odinga Lumumba that the PPP would lose heavily if they called snap elections, given the current state of the capital city.
"Because you have an opportunity here to show people that you still care about them, you could make Georgetown the most pristine, beautiful place. You've got it but you've done absolutely nothing. Get the Mayor out! With elections, do something, don't just sit there," Dr Harding passionately said.
She pointed out that the current government has the people of Georgetown living in a death trap.
"If I were in the administration of this nation, my capital city would be the place that would be a show piece given the circumstances of this nation. You have us in a death trap, who live in this city. Every day, somebody comes dumping garbage in my residence. I have to pay someone to clean it up."
Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green.
According to Dr Harding, "You feel very unsafe, you feel very unhealthy living in Georgetown. You couldn't be closer to the PPP in 1994 than the current Mayor [Hamilton Green]. He was in bed! Everything was Janet Jagan. This city should be your pristine example of your governance. Clean up the city. Clean up Georgetown. Make it beautiful PPP and people will vote for you. I might even consider you PPP," Dr Harding said.
The government is currently expending $1B to rid the country of its excess garbage, with $500 million being spent on Georgetown alone.
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Gray July 7, 2014 at 1:45 am
only after pnc give you the boot in your backside you seeing all this stench
CAR July 7, 2014 at 12:42 am
WOW! I can't believe what I'm reading! Here's a "5,000." idea, let's get rid of EVERY government Minister in Guyana. They are like the stagnant waters in the drains of Georgetown. Just there, clogging up the sewer, taking in, but not letting out. Guyana needs new blood, new ideas, bringing back the dignity and respect to our Beautiful Land and it's people. It would have been fantastic to have a foreigner run for Office.
Moses Parrot July 6, 2014 at 5:33 pm
We all have an expiry date.
The Government must be cautious and do its homework.


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Plastic microbeads
·What are plastic microbeads?
Plastic microbeads are defined as any intentionally added, water insoluble, solid plastic particles (5 mm or less in size) used to exfoliate or cleanse in rinse-off personal care products.
Why are plastic microbeads used in cosmetics and personal care products?
Historically, manufacturers have added plastic microbeads to wash-off personal care cleansing products because of their safe and effective exfoliating properties—these help remove dry, dead cells from the surface of the skin as well as help unclog pores. Many consumers value plastic microbeads for their ability to produce clean, smooth skin.
What is the concern over plastic microbeads?
There is concern that the quantities of plastic litter in our marine environment can harm eco-systems and, in particular, microplastic particles that enter the marine environment can be consumed by sea-life. Plastic microbeads are one type of microplastic that are said to contribute to this problem. It must be noted that plastic microbeads from cosmetic and personal care products represent a very small potential contribution to the overall marine microplastic litter. A study conducted in 2012 estimated the potential contribution of the European cosmetics and personal care sector to be between 0.1 % and 1.5 % of the total amount to aquatic plastic litter. However, this contribution has reduced significantly between 2012 and 2015 as a result of the industry's voluntary commitments.
What actions has the cosmetics industry taken on plastic microbeads?
Many companies that previously used plastic microbeads are looking to replace them, or have already done so, with alternatives including those made from beeswax, rice bran wax, jojoba waxes, starches derived from corn, tapioca and carnauba, seaweed, silica, clay and other natural compounds.
In October 2015, Cosmetics Europe recommended to its members to discontinue, by 2020, the use of synthetic, solid, plastic particles (microbeads) used for exfoliating and cleansing, that are non-biodegradable in the aquatic environment; this was despite the extremely small role they play in micro plastic litter. This recommendation built on voluntary initiatives already taken by individual member companies of Cosmetics Europe.
A Cosmetics Europe survey, conducted in 2016, and covering use during 2015, assessed the effectiveness of these industry voluntary actions. The Cosmetics Europe membership survey found a rapid and substantial 82% reduction in the use of plastic microbeads for exfoliating and cleansing purposes in wash-off cosmetic and personal care products when comparing use in 2012* with use in 2015.
In 2018, the strength and effectiveness of the Cosmetics Europe recommendation and the industry voluntary action were re-confirmed. New data gathered by Cosmetics Europe in 2018 shows that 97.6% of plastic microbeads used for exfoliating and cleansing purposes in wash-off cosmetic and personal care products were phased out between 2012* and 2017.
As part of the industry's commitment to a more sustainable future, we continue to work with various stakeholders to find real solutions to plastic debris in waterways, for the benefit of our consumers and the marine environment we all share.
* Gouin et al, 2015, "Use of Micro-Plastic Beads in Cosmetic Products in Europe and Their Estimated Emission to the North Sea Environment" found that in 2012 4360 tons were used.
Do cosmetics and personal care products contain plastic ingredients besides microbeads?
Other than the plastic microbeads used for cleansing and exfoliating purposes, no ingredient used in cosmetics and personal care products has been associated with marine plastic litter.
The vast majority of ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products are in the form of liquids or waxes, not solid particles. Unless an ingredient is in a solid form, it is not plastic and will therefore not contribute to marine plastic litter. Importantly, you can't determine whether cosmetic or personal care products contain plastic just by looking for an ingredient name on the label: Ingredients sharing the same name may be used as solid particles in one product or as a liquid in another. Polyethylene is an example of such an ingredient that can be used as a solid plastic or a liquid polymer. The names on the label do not mean they are plastic.
What are the sources of microplastic litter?
A number of studies have identified different sources of marine litter and their relative contributions. Moreover, a very significant proportion of microplastic litter can be effectively removed from water by wastewater treatment plants. In studies conducted in Europe and the U.S., treatment facilities were found to remove 99 percent of microplastic particles.
A report* prepared for the European Commission includes a chart showing different sources of microplastic litter and their relative contributions.
This chart clearly shows that most plastic litter comes from land-based sources of larger plastic items. All of these will eventually break up, adding to the micro plastic burden of the marine environment.
What is a polymer and does it contribute to microplastic litter?
You may hear that products containing 'polymers' are sources of microplastic litter, but that is misleading. Polymers exist in many forms, including solids, liquids and waxes. The same polymer may be used as a liquid in one product and a solid in another. Plastics are an example of solid, man-made materials made from polymers but while all plastics are polymers, not all polymers are plastics. For example, starch, protein and DNA are solid polymers but they are not plastic.
The vast majority of polymer ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products are not plastics but are in liquid or other form that cannot become microplastic litter. Polymers provide important benefits in products, such as making products water-resistant or longer-lasting.
What is glitter made from?
Glitter is often used for visual effects in cosmetic products. Such glitter effects are achieved in a number of ways.
Some glitter is made by fixing colours between thin layers of plastic. These glitters would be classed as a plastic. If these types of glitters are used in rinse-off cosmetic products they will be covered by the UK ban on plastic microbeads.
However not all substances that provide a glittery effect are based on plastic. Some glittering effects are provided by coloured mica, which is a naturally mined mineral. Other glitters are minerals based on silica (a constituent of sand) mixed or coated with colours.
Source: With thanks to the Personal Care Products Council and Cosmetics Europe for this information.
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http://www.cosmeticsinfo.org/microplastic
https://www.cosmeticseurope.eu/how-we-take-action/leading-voluntary-actions/all-
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It's been over a month since I did parts two and one. And here's finally the last part of somewhat-early look on the best picture candidates.
Hidden Figures tells a story of "a team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions." (IMDb). It's starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson from Empire (series) and Janelle Monáe who has a part in this year's Moonlight that has gotten great reviews. The trailer looks nice mix of emotion and vibe, not too serious but not too light either. It'll be interesting to see how this one turns out. There's music made by Pharrell Williams, so at least the best song category should be a lock.
Hacksaw Ridge has Rotten Tomatoes score of 85% and tells a true story of "WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to win the Medal of Honor without firing a shot." (IMDb) Andrew Garfield seems to be having a strong year with this and upcoming Scorsese's Silence.Hacksaw is said to be a comeback of Mel Gibson who directed the film. The film even has a average of 8.7/10 at IMDb which means it's liked by audience and critics, so it'll be hard for the Academy to pass it by.
I'm not sure if this should be on the list or not. It might be too much of sci-fi and to be honest, I'm not sure if Chris Pratt is that kind of an actor who'll stars in Oscar-worthy films but I didn't think of that of Bradley Cooper, who is now a three-time nominee, so… But anyway, Passengers also stars bona fide Oscar-girl, Jennifer Lawrence, and is directed by Morten Tyldum, who's last film, The Imitation Game, got eight nominations, so let's not count this out yet. IMDb describes the film: "A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early."
Live by Night is a film I just don't want to count out as it's directed by Ben Affleck and as a director he hasn't made a bad film. He hasn't even made an OK film, he has only made really good ones. So no way I'm not including this one too. The film opens widely in January but has it's limited run in December to be an eligible. IMDb synopsis says: "A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime." The cast is promising, besides Affleck there's Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Brendan Gleeson and Elle Fanning. If the film delivers, one or two of them will be surely nominated.
And the last but not the least, there's Hell or High Water that is out on DVD this week (the States). It's raved by the critics and has RT score of 98% and impressive cast of Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. And apparently all of them deliver. For some reason this reminds me of No Country for Old Men. I guess that's a good thing. Synopsis says: "A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas."
Here we are. Those are my picks for the Best Picture of 2017. I have already dropped one of them, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as it sank when it opened and is rotten in Rotten Tomatoes, so let's just forget it. And La La Land got another lovely trailer:
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Courtney Young says:
I think you can add Moonlight and Arrival to this list, honestly. I still need to see Hacksaw Ridge, but it just doesn't really interest me…
Satua says:
Arrival and Moonlight are there, aren't they? I think I commented on them on Best Pic #1 part. 🙂
dbmoviesblog says:
I think La La Land will win, though I think most people think that too. But I also think that because it is just that kind of a film which the Academy particularly favours. The more time passes the greater my conviction of Silence NOT winning. It just looks like Scorsese self-indulging.
I think Moonlight is riding high as well. But as I believe that I will absolutely love La La Land like I did with Whiplash already, I don't mind.
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Mr. Kubiak also noticed a void in the commercial real estate industry, which despite an obsession with tech tenants that have transformed urban neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco, had not been as fully integrated with new technology as other traditional industries.
Honest Buildings, which launched last March, remedies that problem by essentially providing a social network for real estate players and the tenants who rely on them. Asked how he would pitch the platform to potential investors or Luddite users, he went with "LinkedIn for the commercial real estate industry," with a hint of Yelp-style reviews and Match's ability to bring complementary parties together.
Today, the site has 1.6 million building profiles, up from 30,000 when it launched, and it has been the conduit for over $30 million in deals, Mr. Kubiak claims. Its growth came through a first round of financing that closed last September, with commitments from RockPort Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures. The company announced last month that it had raised $5.5 million in Series A financing from backers including RockPort and the Westly Group, bringing total investments to $7.5 million.
Yet Mr. Kubiak was frank about the challenges facing his and other startups that temper an often-glamorized depiction of a field rife with overnight 20-something billionaires.
The structural problem that Honest Buildings addresses is the industry's opacity and reliance on old-fashioned word of mouth, which hinders the ability to "connect people making decisions on buildings, whether they involve roofing or technology." Mr. Kubiak says the Honest Buildings network can realistically shrink that decision-making time frame from six months or a year to one week. On that note, Mr. Kubiak described the company's competition less in terms of specific corporate rivals than a cumbersome deal-making and problem-solving apparatus mired in hearsay.
The quantum leap in efficacy promised by Honest Buildings could transform every real estate market, and Honest Buildings widened its scope in March, opening a London office. "We really want to be in the global real estate capitals where the most decisions are made," Mr. Kubiak said. The company's offices across the pond are in the Open Data Institute, a tech firm incubator in Shoreditch. Its New York home base is at 137 Varick Street, a small business incubator supported by NYU-Poly and the Economic Development Corporation.
Even as it spans two continents, Honest Buildings counts just 12 employees. And while an office in the Bay Area or another location swarming with startups (and expensive real estate) might seem apt down the road, for now the company will "continue to grow in [its] two core markets." It does, however, cover commercial and multifamily buildings in markets including Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Portland and Los Angeles.
That growth depends on luring the best employees from a pool of aggressively courted developers and marketers. Honest Building's small team currently includes alumni of Colliers International, the U.K. Green Building Council and the U.S. State Department.
Regardless of how tech-friendly the next New York (or London) mayor is, Mr. Kubiak will remain focused on building Honest Buildings' database and strengthening his team. Recruiting, he said, is one way in which the young technology scene mirrors the more buttoned-up real estate industry.


When I first set out in pursuit of fantastical agrarian aims, pig farming wasn't exactly at the top of my list. But when fate and a fellow farmer placed a pair of Berkshires on our burgeoning family farm, my wife and I knew we were destined for a porcine life.
For a while, we purchased piglets from a trusted breeder of high-quality stock, but eventually economic pragmatism and a poorly managed struggle with control issues led us to online listings, where we quickly found and purchased a pair of registered Berkshire breeding pigs.
The first litter was a bit of a surprise. We'd bought the sow bred, and the seller's dates had been wrong by about a month. The babies arrived on the coldest day of that winter, and we scrambled to get piglets warm and nursing. Farrowing in February is, generally speaking, an ill-advised venture for a pastured-pig operation, but our first experience as hog breeders ended successfully—we lost two, but 12 piglets survived and thrived until their processing date.
Our second farrowing was borderline easy. Equipped with limited experience, we predicted the due date (pigs gestate for 114 days), prepared well in advance and welcomed nine piglets on a warm, summer day. And we kept nine piglets, too—in fact, we took the last of them in a few days ago.
And so we embarked on our third farrowing feeling pretty confident. We'd braved the worst and come out on top. We were pig farmers.
When the time came for our sow to deliver a third time for us, the winter weather hung high in the upper 50s, a sure sign this litter was destined for greatness. We kept an eye on mama, noting all the stages of her labor, but with the weather cooperating, we'd resigned ourselves to stay as hands-off with this birth as possible. So when I walked out for morning chores and discovered she'd delivered while we slept, I counted it fate that our family had missed it. I counted 13 little wigglers at the sow's teat! The piglets' first day was the warmest we'd experienced yet, and the tiny trotters were up and active. The sow kept lying on her bottom teats, but by mid-day, all seemed well.
I've been told that a piglet 24 hours old can survive anything, but, in truth, piglets don't begin to regulate body temperature until at least 2 days old. Even then conditions should remain somewhat consistent.
That night the temperatures plunged into the 20s, and the new piglets wouldn't stay under the heat lamps. By morning, a few were dead; by mid-morning, half of them. I watched mama, also disoriented by the violent weather shift, sit on one and trample another. When we were down to just three, we grabbed one that was obviously struggling and brought him inside. By the next morning, he was the only survivor.
Despite our veritable library of books on farming and animal husbandry, not to mention the mentorship of some trusted farmer friends, I've come to understand there's really no substitute for experience when it comes to agriculture. And I understand that not every experience ends in a resounding success—oftentimes, the best lessons are the hardest ones. I also know that in losing a pig litter, our farm is hardly alone—it happens to the best of them, and it's never easy. So, after a few days of mourning, mama rejoined the boar and set to work on producing a replacement litter due in early summer.
We were due another new pig farming experience too. Since stumbling into this mucky life, we've been told numerous times of farmers raising piglets by hand, and that's what the weeks following the litter loss held for us. At first we didn't know if the lone piglet would survive, but after a few hours in front of the wood-burning stove, the tiny animal rallied, attacking a pan of milk with a ferocious appetite. In the ensuing weeks, he took over the house; finally, when our home adopted the odor of the barn outside, we moved him into the sunroom. When the weather warmed enough, he relocated to a pen outside, and now he's grazing in a pasture adjacent to his mother and father.
And we kept him a boar, opting to forgo castration: This gives him an occupation alternative to "main course." Sometimes it's too hard to eat a friend.
1. Don't farrow in February.
Winter litters are valued by 4-H clubs and spring hog roasters, but the stress and increased expenses of a cold-weather birth don't pay off for a market farmer. Instead, I'll watch the calendar and mind my schedule to make sure the boar is nowhere near a sow 114 days before the coldest time of year.
2. Hands-off isn't a necessary goal.
Although pastured-pig farmers often speak of a pig's "pigness," farrowing is one area where pigness doesn't always pay. In future deliveries, I'll plan on closer monitoring and being available to help struggling newborns.
3. Hand-raising a piglet isn't that difficult.
Simply warm up some cow's milk, adding in a bit of light corn syrup to aid in digestion, and provide the feed in a dish (and keep a towel handy—it's a messy affair). Add oatmeal after a week or so. Also, piglets are trainable to a litter box … sort of. Finally, don't forget the iron: Indoor piglets need either an iron shot or a box of soil to root around and nibble on.
4. There's no perfect way.
Industrial pork farms maximize profitability by reducing litter loss, but we aren't industrial farmers. Barns get cold, weather patterns shift, and piglets aren't predictable. Sometimes litters die despite the best efforts. I'll do my best with what I have.


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Contrary to the provisions of the third paragraph of this article, the seller can not charge additional costs if the change or supplement is the result of circumstances that can be attributed to him.
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The buyer is obliged to inspect the delivered goods at the time of delivery, but in any case within as short a time as possible. In doing so, the buyer should investigate whether the quality and quantity of the delivered goods correspond with what the parties have agreed, at least that quality and quantity meet the requirements that apply to normal (commercial) traffic.
Complaints regarding damage, shortages or loss of delivered goods must be submitted in writing to the seller within 10 working days after the day of delivery of the goods by the buyer.
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Complaints relating to a certain product have no influence on other products or parts belonging to the same agreement.
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The buyer is obliged to take delivery of the goods at the moment that the seller delivers them or has them delivered to him, or at the moment at which these items are made available to him according to the agreement.
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Force majeure in any case means any circumstance with which the seller could not take into account at the time of entering into the agreement and as a result of which the normal execution of the agreement can not reasonably be demanded by the buyer, such as, for example, illness, war or war danger, civil war and riot, molestation, sabotage, terrorism, power failure, flooding, earthquake, fire, occupation, strikes, workforce exclusion, altered government measures, transport problems, and other failures in the seller's business.
Furthermore, the parties under force majeure understand the circumstance that subcontractors of which the seller is dependent for the implementation of the agreement, do not fulfill the contractual obligations towards the seller, unless this can be blamed on the seller.
If a situation as referred to above arises as a result of which the seller can not fulfill its obligations towards the buyer, these obligations will be suspended as long as the seller can not meet his obligations. If the situation referred to in the previous sentence has lasted 30 calendar days, the parties have the right to dissolve the agreement in writing in whole or in part.
In case the force majeure lasts longer than three months, the buyer has the right to dissolve the agreement with immediate effect. Dissolution can only be done by registered mail.
Rights of a party to this agreement can not be transferred without the prior written consent of the other party. This provision applies as a clause with a property law effect as referred to in Section 3:83 (2) Dutch Civil Code.
The goods and items and items supplied at the seller shall remain the property of the seller until the buyer has paid the entire agreed price. Until then, the seller can invoke his retention of title and take back the goods.
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The seller undertakes to insure the goods delivered to the buyer under retention of title and to keep them insured against fire, explosion and water damage as well as against theft and to make the policy available for inspection on first request.
If items have not yet been delivered, but the agreed prepayment or price has not been paid in accordance with the agreement, the seller has the right of retention. The case will then not be delivered until the buyer has paid in full and in accordance with the agreement.
Any liability for damage arising from or connected with the execution of an agreement is always limited to the amount that is paid by the closed liability insurance (s) in the relevant case. This amount is increased by the amount of the excess according to the relevant policy.
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Buyer is obliged to immediately report complaints about the work performed to the seller. The complaint contains as detailed a description as possible of the shortcoming, so that the seller is able to respond adequately.
If guarantees are included in the agreement, the following applies. Seller warrants that the sold goods comply with the agreement, that it will function without defects and that it is suitable for the use that the buyer intends to make. This guarantee applies for a period of two calendar years after receipt of the sold item(s) by the buyer.
The guarantee in question is intended to create a risk distribution between seller and buyer so that the consequences of a breach of a guarantee are always fully at the expense and risk of the seller and that the seller can never breach a guarantee in this respect. appeals to Section 6:75 BW. The provisions of the previous sentence also apply if the infringement was known to the buyer or could have been known by conducting research.
The said warranty does not apply if the defect arose as a result of injudicious or improper use or if – without permission – the buyer or third parties have made changes or attempted to make changes or used the purchased goods for purposes for which it is not intended.
Dutch law is exclusively applicable to this agreement between seller and buyer. The Dutch judge is competent.
If one or more provisions of these general terms and conditions are regarded as unreasonably onerous in legal proceedings, the remaining provisions will remain in full force.
All disputes arising from this agreement are exclusively submitted to the competent court of the District Court of East Brabant.
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Évènements

Janvier

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 Entrée en vigueur « prévue » de la garantie universelle des loyers pour les nouveaux contrats de location.

Février

Mars

Avril

Mai

 10 mai : malgré les fortes grèves et manifestations à son encontre, le Premier ministre français Manuel Valls fait adopter la Loi Travail sans vote à l'Assemblée nationale avec l'Article 49-3 de la Constitution de la Cinquième République française.

Juin

Juillet

Août

Septembre

Octobre

Novembre

 20 novembre : journée internationale des droits de l'enfant célébrant l'anniversaire de la convention internationale des droits des enfants (CIDE) adoptée le .

Décembre

 10 décembre : journée internationale des droits de l'homme pour honorer l'adoption par l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies et de la proclamation le  de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme.

Naissances

Décès
 13 février : Antonin Scalia, juge de la Cour suprême des États-Unis pendant presque trente ans (1986-2016), né en 1936, mort à 79 ans.

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 Liste des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies adoptées en 2016

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Q: Xcode: Invalid Assembly Instruction I can compile fine on the iOS Simulator, but when I switch the device to my iPhone and build , I see the following error. When I click on this error, it doesn't direct to any code.

The problem might be coming from the __asm__ instruction in this bit of come, but I have been able to use DebugBreak when I'm running on the simulator:
#ifdef DEBUG
    // this code found in http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2008/03/break-into-debugger.html
    static bool AmIBeingDebugged(void)
    // Returns true if the current process is being debugged (either
    // running under the debugger or has a debugger attached post facto).
    {
        int                 junk;
        int                 mib[4];
        struct kinfo_proc   info;
        size_t              size;

        // Initialize the flags so that, if sysctl fails for some bizarre
        // reason, we get a predictable result.

        info.kp_proc.p_flag = 0;

        // Initialize mib, which tells sysctl the info we want, in this case
        // we're looking for information about a specific process ID.

        mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
        mib[1] = KERN_PROC;
        mib[2] = KERN_PROC_PID;
        mib[3] = getpid();

        // Call sysctl.

        size = sizeof(info);
        junk = sysctl(mib, sizeof(mib) / sizeof(*mib), &info, &size, NULL, 0);
        assert(junk == 0);

        // We're being debugged if the P_TRACED flag is set.

        return ( (info.kp_proc.p_flag & P_TRACED) != 0 );
    }

    #if __ppc64__ || __ppc__
        #define DebugBreak() \
        if(AmIBeingDebugged()) \
            { \
            __asm__("li r0, 20\nsc\nnop\nli r0, 37\nli r4, 2\nsc\nnop\n" \
            : : : "memory","r0","r3","r4" ); \
            }
        #else
        #define DebugBreak() if(AmIBeingDebugged()) {__asm__("int $3\n" : : );}
    #endif

    bool AmIBeingDebugged(void);
#else
    #define DebugBreak()
#endif

A: int $3 is an x86 instruction. You can't run that on an ARM device like an iPhone.

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← Tapfer im Nirgendwo am Reformationstag
"Musik allein ist die Weltsprache und braucht nicht übersetzt zu werden." →
Open letter from Gerd Buurmann to the Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Veröffentlicht am November 1, 2016 von tapferimnirgendwo
During a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Bishop Bedford-Strohm and his Catholic colleague, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Chairman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, removed their crosses. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm justified the decision by saying: "We acted out of respect for the wishes our hosts."
Bedford-Strohm told journalists, that he normally wore his Bishops' Cross during visits to mosques. "I think that's normal." In interfaith dialogue it would be wrong to deny one's faith. In this particular situation in Jerusalem, however, it would have been wrong not to meet the wishes of our Islamic hosts, he explained.
Dear Heinrich Bedford-Strohm,
I would like to disagree. Especially on the Temple Mount, it was particularly wrong of you to remove your cross, because there was someone who said that this place "will be called a house of prayer for all peoples". Do you know who said that? Jesus! If you didn't know that, then look up Mark 11:17.
Did you also know how Jesus dealt with people who didn't treat the place where you removed your cross as a place of prayer for all? Then you may look up John 2:15 where Jesus became irritated:
"He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area."
I admit, Jesus was a bit tough that day. Otherwise, he wasn't violent. But, Jesus was consistent: He stood by his convictions, and he never denied his faith. He didn't allow himself to be dissuaded from his faith either in the desert or from the Sanhedrin. But hey, who was that guy called Jesus, Mr. Bedford-Strohm? Jesus was a Jew and your religious founder, Martin Luther, let the world know what he thought of Jews.
"That is what I had in mind when I said earlier that, besides the Devil, a Christian has no more bitter and galling foe than a Jew."
"The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows seven times higher than ordinary thieves."
"I shall give you my sincere advice: First, set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn so that no traces are visible. (…) Second, I advise the destruction of their houses."
Martin Luther is on a line with Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of the entire Jewish people, as stated in Article 7 of the Hamas Charter. The Deputy Minister of Religious Foundations of Hamas, Abdallah Jarbu, says:
"Jews want to present themselves to the world as if they have rights, but, in fact, they are foreign bacteria – a microbe unparalleled in the world. It's not me who says this. The Koran itself says that they have no parallel: 'You shall find the strongest men in enmity to the believers to be the Jews.' May He annihilate this filthy people who have neither religion nor conscience. I condemn whoever believes in normalizing relations with them, whoever supports sitting down with them, and whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people. They have no religion, no conscience, and no moral values."
Fatah is also no friend of the Jews, and is therefore in line with Martin Luther. Bethlehem is indeed the city where the two Jews, Jesus and David, were born, but that was a long time ago. David was king of Judah and Israel some 3000 years ago. Yes, Israel and Judah. These countries were in existence three thousand years ago. So much for the so-called Israeli occupation.
In Bethlehem today, Muslims and Christians are aware of the persecution of Jews thanks to the Palestinian Authority and many Christian non-governmental organizations. The city is "judenrein" (Jew-free), to use a word once used by the Germans who were also sure to act in the sense of Martin Luther.
At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Christians can feel safe only because the Israeli government protects and guarantees universal accessibility to the site. However, Israel does not receive praise from many Christians because the country is run by "jucky" Jews. By the way, the Temple, named after the site where you, Mr. Bedford-Strohm, removed your cross, is Jewish. It was the Romans who destroyed the Temple and covered that which didn't burn with earth whereby there's hardly a visible trace today. All that remains of the Temple Is the Wailing Wall, a site made universally accessible by – yes – Israel.
Today, the Temple Mount is controlled by the so-called Religious Foundation of Islam (Waqf). Analogue the Nazi prohibition for Jews to access public parks, the Waqf limits Jewish access to the Temple Mount several days a month up until this day. Eleven gates on the north and west sides of the Temple Mount are open only to Muslims. If there is any doubt, foreign Muslims must prove their affiliation with Islam. For other believers, access is permitted only from Saturday to Thursday through the Moroccan Gate near the Wailing Wall. It is only possible to enter the building after intensive security checks outside prayer times. Jews are admitted, if at all, only in small groups and often with supervision. Only Muslims may enter the Rock of the Dome! It is forbidden for non-Muslims to carry books and religious objects, and even to pray openly. Jews at the Temple Mount are often threatened.
Even Christians are molested at the Temple Mount.
Imagine if the Vatican would refuse entry to the country for Muslims during Christian holidays, or Jews and Muslims would be prohibited from entering the square in front of Cologne Cathedral on Sunday. Christians no longer behave so disagreeably. They once did, but the Enlightenment pulled out that medieval tooth. This didn't occur without the guillotine.
Islam is much less tolerant as proven by the exclusive Muslim claim to the Temple Mount. This claim goes back to a battle 1400 years ago, whereby the site was captured using brutal force and has since been maintained by an acute intolerance towards other religions. Religious hatred, especially of Jews, has no limits. During the last few years, over 7500 rockets and shells have been fired at Israel, in accordance with the declared intention of the Hamas Charter to destroy the entire Jewish people. Fatah and Hamas honor murderers of Jews as martyrs and financially support their families. This is the attempted genocide and ethnic cleansing as demanded by Martin Luther.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about Christianity:
"The Christian faith from the beginning is sacrifice, the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation."
"Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity."
"Christianity is the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race."
Bertrand Russell explained:
"Religion rests first and foremost on fear. I regard religion as a disease, a source of unquenchable misery for the human race. "
"The worst feature of the Christian religion, however, is its attitude towards sex."
"Christianity has been distinguished from other religions by its greater readiness for persecution."
"The assertion that Christianity has an uplifting effect on the morale, can only be maintained if you ignore all the historical evidence or falsify it."
"The Christians assure us that their religion is a religion of love, but the adoption of Christianity by Constantine did nothing to reduce war, and in our day, many of the most fanatic warmongers are Christians."
Heinrich Böll wrote:
"German Catholicism is lousy and dirty in appearance, stupid and brazen in its methods."
Heinrich Heine blasphemed:
"If your right eye offends you, pluck it out. If your right arm offends you, cut it off. And if reason offends you, become a Catholic."
Thomas Jefferson knew:
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
Albert Camus explained:
"Christianity is immoral."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau taught:
"Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. True Christians are made to be slaves."
Islam hasn't yet faced this intensity of criticism. That's why the Waqf can practice pure intolerance at the Temple Mount. Your submission, Mr. Bedford-Strohm, to intolerance is perhaps Islamic, but it's certainly not Christian and certainly not enlightened. From the Enlightenment we have religious freedom, which came with a lot of blood-letting.
When Heinrich Heine was in Paderborn, he wrote as a German poet, a Frenchman and a Jew, born in Dusseldorf, one of the most beautiful poems on Christianity. With these poetic words, I would like to end this letter, hoping that you, Mr. Bedford-Strohm, if not your faith, at least you may consider the enlightenment seriously.
And as the morning mists dissolved,
Just as the day was flowering,
The man who was crucified on the cross
I saw by the road-side towering.
Whenever, poor cousin of me, I see
Your image, I'm filled with sadness–
You, who would fain have saved the world,
A world-redeemer, what madness!
And ill indeed they've entreated you,
The gentlemen high in council;
But why on the subject of church and state
Could you not keep your counsel?
'Twas unlucky for you that the printing-press
Had not yet been invented;
On the problems of heaven a book you had writ
And to a publisher sent it.
The censor would have deleted therefrom
Any portions to this world applying,
Kindly the censorship would have quashed
The case for crucifying.
(Had you preached but your Sermon on the Mount
From a text of a different bias!
You had genius and talent enough to know
That one ought to spare the pious!)
Changers of money and bankers forsooth
You lashed from the temple scorning,
Unhappy dreamer! And now you hang
On the cross as a dreadful warning.
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Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown
The Wining and Diving series sees Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown embark on a tour to tickle the taste buds as well as to discover amazing dive sites in wine-making regions around the world. Some of the best wines are influenced by sea breezes and a coastal climate, allowing two of Nick and Caroline's passions to be combined into one epic journey.
**Please note, Nick and Caroline are not encouraging drinking before diving! The two activities are kept well apart on each of these trips.
South Africa's coastline is wild and rugged and has some of the best marine encounters and diving in the world! It is also home to some superb vineyards and so this is a top destination for Wining & Diving! If you have enough time, then try to fit in several destinations on a tour; take in the Sardine Run, go Great White Shark cage diving, snorkel with Blue and Mako Sharks, try to find Sevengill Sharks in the kelp forest, meet the raggies and oceanic shark species near Aliwal Shoal and make sure you dive with the Cape Fur Seals just down the road from Cape Town. Head north for the stunning reefs of Sodwana Bay and even fit in a land safari too! But make sure you make time to visit some of the top vineyards at Stellenbosch and Constantia too, which are just a stones throw from Cape Town and can be done on a day trip.
Our tour took in the lot and this is an experience to be shared with friends. You have to be lucky with the Sardine Run, but the rewards are great if you are there at the right time, with dolphins, sharks, whales and seabirds all competing for the feast of sardines that migrates up the coast in early summer. It is fast and furious, but can also involve long days out on the boat bobbing and waiting for the action to happen.
Flying into Durban you can often combine Aliwal Shoal to start your Sardine Run trip, to get the chance to dive the famous Cathedral Rock and then drift out into the blue for Blacktip and Tiger Sharks.
Gaansbai is the most famous place for Great White Shark cage diving, although recent years have seen numbers falling away, possibly due to the presence of Orca.
Cape Town offers penguins, Blue and Mako Sharks, Sevengill Cow Sharks, Great Whites and the chance to mess about with Cape Fur Seals, who will seek out divers and play among the kelp fronds for as long as you can stay in the cool water. It is here that you can add a few days visiting vineyards and touring the stunning countryside before you head home.
We would love to go back and spend more time in South Africa, as we did not have time for the Mako Shark snorkeling and would like to try again for the cow sharks too. South Africa has so much to offer it is very hard to fit everything into a single trip! It is a high energy and super-productive trip under the water and a wonderful place to relax with your favourite glass of wine in the evening.
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Accommodation we loved: Grootbos Private Nature Reserve & The Vineyard
Dive Centres: Shark Explorers & Blue Wilderness
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Diving Mauritius in 2022
Jeff Goodman
In this exclusive Zoom interview, Jeff Goodman, Scubaverse Editor-at-Large, chats to Esther Jacobs from Fire Island Conservation – Mozambique.
Once ravaged by poachers, Ilha do Fogo is now the centre of conservation on the north-east coast of Mozambique. Soon, it will be opened up as an exclusive, luxury retreat, focused on scuba diving and eco-tourism. You can read our story on this HERE.
Find out more at www.fireislandconservation.com
Rather listen to a podcast? Listen to the audio HERE on the Scubaverse podcast channel at Anchor FM.
Jill Holloway
Mauritius, a dive destination in the heart of the Indian Ocean
Britain is, hopefully, winning the battle against COVID, and Mauritius is waiting with open arms to welcome divers from the UK to enjoy our magnificent Indian Ocean reefs. After the dramatic crash landing of the 300 metre bulk carrier ship Wakashio the island is fully restored to its pristine glory.
From the moment you arrive, you are among friends. English, French and Creole speaking, Mauritius has the best of many cultures. British, since from 1815 until 1965 Mauritius was administered by Britain, who took over from the French so the French flair and culture has remained, and the gentle influence of the dominant Hindu religion creates a harmony that makes it a wonderful, serene place to live. I wake up every morning to the scent of frangipanni outside my window, and walk down to the beach with my dogs, where we swim in the palm fringed lagoon. The air is clean and fragrant, with a whiff of cinnamon, a breath of curry and a hint of expensive sunblock.
You check in, and its time to explore. There is a wonderful site called https://bryandiscoversworld.com/blogs/ that will show you around Mauritius, so you can plan after diving activities.
Then its time to go to the dive centre, which is 800 metres from my house. We meet at 8.30, so I have plenty of time for breakfast. The dive centre is clean, well equipped and hospitable, with a coffee shop on the premises that serves food as well. Most diving centres in Mauritius are similar.
We are greeted at the front desk by a knowledgeable young woman who asks us to complete a qualification and health questionnaire. Mauritius diving centres like to be sure they provide the most appropriate service. If you travel alone and need a buddy, they will provide one. If you are nervous after a long break, they will gently assist you through a lagoon refresher session. If you want strong currents and drifts they will make sure these are part of the planning for your visit. Best of all, Mauritians love to dive, and it shows in their passion to show you their fabulous undersea world.
Diving in the North is year-round, with excellent visibility, plentiful variety and easy boat access. Many of the macro reefs are within five minutes from shore. But the best diving and most pristine reefs are to be found on the Norther off-shore islands. We dive with sharks in circling washing machine waters in cathedral- like hollowed out caves.
We dive on Djabeda, a coral encrusted wreck that was deliberately sunk and lies at 30 metres. Or the Silverstar, and advanced dive at 40 metres, where batfish shoals hang out.
We dive the spectacular drop offs on Coin de Mire Island, where sea fans and butterfly fishes abound. Rays and turtles, huge shoals of fusiliers, blue banded snappers and glow fish blend with white and yellow goatfish on many of the reefs.
We dive a reef 3 minutes from the dive centre where morays are plentiful, and there are at least 11 species on one of the reefs, some un-described. Look out for the beautiful lionfish and scorpionfish, there are some species here that are very rare indeed.
The West coast has an abundance of rays dolphins and whales, but care has to be take if you want to book diving there. The bulk of the Mauritius rivers drain into the ocean on the West coast and visibility can be poor to very poor.
The East and South coasts also offer excellent diving, but again, care has to be taken with booking dive packages as tide, wind and weather can be a prohibiting factor.
Most dive boats are comfortable, and all are registered and licensed with the Mauritian Tourism Authority, so there are few cowboys, and every dive centre must show its credentials on its walls.
This is the best time to book diving in Mauritius, where a wealthy First World environment meets Third World pricing for dives. The Mauritian diving industry is way behind the curve and has not yet registered that paying £150 for a 10-dive standard package is way lower than the norm for first class boat diving. Accommodation prices vary from £20 a night for a registered basic studio apartment, to £ 100 plus a night for 4- and 5-star resorts, all within easy distance of the dive centres. Its worth noting that apartments are booked by the room and can in some cases sleep up to 3 people.
You need a vaccination card, and a negative PCR test taken 72 hours before boarding. Flights are around 11 hours, and subsidized by the Mauritian government so shop around.
Words: Jill Holloway
Copyright Ocean Spirit Ltd
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Remembering "The King"
Matt Redinger, Reporter|October 2, 2016
Courtesy of ESPN
His career was one for the ages, and I was deeply saddened by the news of his death."
— Eli Buto
On Sept. 25, 2016 we lost a great man. His name was Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest players in professional golf history.
His career includes 95 professional wins. He even has a drink named after him, a mixture of iced tea and lemonade.
"Arnold transcended the game of golf. He was more than a golfer or even great golfer. He was an icon. He was a legend. Arnold was someone who was a pioneer in his sport. He took the game from one level to a higher level, virtually by himself," stated fellow golf great Jack Nicklaus upon hearing of Palmer's passing.
Any fan of golf was saddened by Palmer's passing including members of GM's golf team. "He was a role model for many young golfers, me included. I wish I would've had the opportunity to meet him," stated junior Adam Hushon. Another golfer, sophomore Eli Buto added, "His career was one for the ages, and I was deeply saddened by the news of his death."
He was the type of character that would bring a smile to anyone's face and lived every day to the fullest. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. RIP AP.
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