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How to end the polarising two-thirds gender headache - at the ballot
AMEND CONSTITUTION
Five times, the feckless National Assembly has failed to enact legislation to effect the two-thirds rule; legislation not the answer
• In a clever move and a demonstration of political deftness, Ruto has pulled out the two-third gender rule card as his plank for opposing the constitutional review.
• Article 81 (b) of the Constitution requires that "not more than two-thirds of the members of elective bodies shall be of the same gender."
by OCHIENG' KANYADUDI Political and Public Policy Analyst
The country is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Constitution.
The celebration has been marked by, among other initiatives, commentaries and opinion pieces by prominent leaders across the political divide, assessing the achievements, pitfalls and failures of the Constitution.
The verdicts have been varied, mostly depending on the political standpoint of the commentator. Coming at a time the BBI activities are set to resume in earnest, interest groups have taken advantage of the anniversary to woo leaders of different persuasions to their sides.
There have emerged two distinct sides at this epoch moment — those pushing for the review of the Constitution and those against.
Many of those promoting constitutional review are in the BBI brigade led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. They aver there are few but fundamental flaws that need to be fixed. They have invariably picked on the structure of the Executive and state functions to demonstrate their argument.
It is considered that the presidential system has been responsible for the cyclic electoral violence because of the winner-take-all premise of the system.
On the other hand, the anti-review team covertly led by Deputy President William Ruto considers the BBI process selfish. They consider the review to be a hidden Raila presidency agenda. This agenda is backed by Uhuru to camouflage his betrayal of the Jubilee gentlemen's pact of 2013.
Ruto is bitter with the mainstream Jubilee for reneging on the promise to support him for the presidency at the end of Uhuru's second term. The relationship between Uhuru and Ruto has hit rock bottom.
A referendum and push therefore provides a perfect chance to settle scores preliminarily and gauge the strengths of either side ahead of the 2022 General Election.
However, in a clever move and a demonstration of political deftness, Ruto has pulled out the two-third gender rule card as his plank for opposing the review.
Article 81 (b) of the Constitution requires that "not more than two-thirds of the members of elective bodies shall be of the same gender." Five times, the National Assembly has attempted to enact legislation to effect this provision without success.
Under the current circumstances, it is not feasible to expect the National Assembly as constituted to provide a solution to this stalemate. What is lost in the hullabaloo are the MPs' individual selfish interests and the intrinsic male chauvinism pervading society. The solution to gender inequality can only be constitutional not legislative.
Our Parliament has a fixed five-year life. That means the failure of any Parliament cannot be assumed by the succeeding one or any other. That is why no Parliament has been and will never be dissolved because of inability to breathe life to this novel constitutional provision.
Each Parliament made efforts to provide the enabling legislation but lapsed before any tangible law is enacted. The gender agenda debate has also been polarised and lost objective grounds for lobbying. Every leader appears to advocate gender equity and equality during the day, but when the time comes for them to vote and demonstrate by deed, they either abscond, abstain or outrightly oppose.
Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee chairman Jeremiah Kioni has declared that this constitutional requirement is not implementable. He argues that no one should enact laws that can tamper with Kenyans' choice at the ballot.
Clearly, the failure of Parliament to provide leadership in creating a legal environment for the enjoyment of this right is fodder for resentment. Political forces opposed to the constitutional review will most likely latch onto this vacuum to rally women to their side.
n such a scenario, Kenyans will miss another grand opportunity to rectify constitutional anomalies that have been the bane of our national stability and cohesion.
It is in this context that it has been proposed the question of representation be evaluated within the constitutional context. Currently, the laws provide that universal suffrage be applied uniformly in electing representatives to the legislative organs at the county and national levels.
There is a modest attempt to redress gender imbalance through nominations after the electoral outcome. Parties are allowed to nominate members to the National Assembly, the Senate and county assemblies based on their performance at the ballot.
The National Assembly has an additional provision for competitive election of 47 women MPs, each representing a county. But these efforts have achieved far less than the anticipated gender parity.
As the country awaits the final BBI report, it is hoped that the question of representation has been addressed to fix the gender disparity problem in electoral politics.
Kenya should abandon the First-Past-the-Post system and instead adopt the Mixed-Member-Proportional representation. This will help address the gender agenda adequately as well as entrench party democracy and discipline.
Proportional representation refers to electoral systems designed to approximate the ideal of proportionality in converting citizens' votes into legislative seats. All proportional representation systems require multimember constituencies.
The degree to which the system approaches proportionality increases with the number of representatives elected per constituency. In the most common form, list proportional representation, electors vote for lists of candidates designated by the parties. Any of several formulas allocate seats to parties, and parties select winning candidates from their lists according to predetermined rankings.
In the mixed-member proportional (MMP), about half the representatives are elected from single-member districts (SMDs) and half from party lists, but seats won in SMDs are subtracted from list allocations so they do not diminish overall proportionality.
Compared with electoral systems based on plurality or majority rule, proportional representation is conducive to multiparty legislatures and coalition governments. The MMR has been used in South Africa successfully though not on the half-half scale.
In a referendum, Kenyans should simultaneously consider the MMR model to sort out the elusive gender parity in leadership. In this proposal, the total number of electoral constituencies would be two-thirds of the total number of MPs.
At the general election, electors would be offered two votes. One vote would be for the candidate at the constituency while the other for the elector's preferred political party. Parties will also be required to publish the list of their preferred nominated MPs in order of priority before elections.
The party lists would be half women and half men in alternating order. It is thus possible that at a constituency polling station, a voter would cast a vote for a Jubilee MP but give ODM the party vote. The constituency MPs would be declared as per the FPTP, while the nominated MPs would be determined according to party electoral vote strength.
The remaining third of Parliament's membership will be filled by MPs nominated by parties. If all the elected two-third constituency MPs are women, for example, then all parliamentary parties will be compelled to nominate only men in their party lists.
The review should also seek to address the concerns that Kenyans are over represented comparatively. There are also complaints that taxpayers are overburdened by the cost of maintaining the legislators.
Prof Francis Aduol, a leading mathematical modelling expert, recommends that going forward, Kenya should have a national assembly of 360 members, 40 of elected from constituencies delineated on the basis of population and geographical expanse. The remaining 120 members should be nominated by the parties in accordance to their strength of national vote tally.
This approach would forever ensure that at no time will there be either gender of more than a third. Kenyans may choose to be bolder and legislate that only 180 members are elected from electoral constituencies. The other half be nominated under the MMR by parties. This would assure gender equality in Parliament and the formula would be replicated at the county assembly and senate levels.
Gender lobbyists should find this proposal plausible and worthy of consideration by political leaders from both divides.
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Wow, what a Shabbos, what a weekend! Boruch Hashem, this past Shabbos, TGA was privileged to plan and experience a Shabbaton to remember. We were so excited to have the senior class from Mesorah High School in Dallas join us here in Houston. It was a real treat for our girls!
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Q: Java code on Android Studio has errors saying "Cannot resolve symbol 'Button'" and the same thing for a TextView Here is my strings.xml code for the button and text view.
<string name="calculate">Hitung</string>
<string name="result">Hasil</string>

Here is the Java part
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private Button btnCalculate;
private TextView tvResult;

Please let me know the mistake.

A: Did you import the views in the code? If not,in code part use in the top of the file:
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

A: I think you didn't just import the libraries for Button and TextView Class in your .java file. Simply just move your type blinking cursor on word Button and hit alt + enter then from the dropdown menu select import. Do same thing for TextView. Hope your problem solve.

A: If I'm not wrong,  you need to give the button an id as well, like

And in your activity you need to link it
button button = FindViewById(R.id.button_id)
Check this as well, https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Button

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"I feel it is extremely important to come to you and absolutely deny any link with the events described in relation to the allegations of match fixing," he said in a statement to the press.
"Unfortunately all tennis players are public figures and we are exposed to having our good name used beyond our control.
"For that reason I will do everything within my power to defend myself against any such false accusations.
"Marc and I had immediately contacted the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) to fully cooperate and they have confirmed that there had been no investigation about that match at Wimbledon 2017.
"We have full faith in the TIU and the role they play protecting our sport."
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RODEO HOUSTON…YEE HAW!
Friday, April 18 – We went "Rodeo Houston". We watch the rodeo and a concert by Alan Jackson. Tonight Alan Jackson will sing to his one millionth concert goer. We're not huge Alan Jackson fans even though we listen to country music.
We parked off site and rode the train to the Reliant Center to avoid the traffic. We were cutting things close because Carrie, our youngest daughter, was returning from Chicago. She travels as an Exxon employee. Our plan of avoiding traffic didn't work....US-59 was PACKED.....what a mess.
The 79th edition of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ended on a record-breaking run, with 2,262,834 in total attendance. The Rodeo is the largest in the country. Now you can understand why all the traffic.
But Carrie was sitting in the airport.....her flight arrived late....surprise, surprise, surprise. Kelly was already at the parking garage, so we decided to move on and meet Carrie at the Rodeo. Thank goodness, Kelly knew where and how to find the train station. The train ride was awesome. We really like mass-public transportation in big cities.
We arrived at Reliant Stadium, along with thousands and thousands of other people. Since Paul and Kelly's birthdays are coming up in the next couple weeks, Carrie paid for the tickets......thanks girl! The seats were actually pretty good.....a little high, but as the commercial goes...."No bad seat in the house!" The stadium roof was closed, and the air conditioning was cooling things off nicely. And of course we had the huge screen TV's giving us up close views of the action, if needed!
View from our seats.
The rodeo was GREAT! We saw Tie Down Roping, Some pictures are enlarged from the zoomed in version of the original picture. They may be a bit fuzzy but not bad.
Bareback Riding. While we were looking at the TV, Carrie noticed something on this cowboy's helmet.
I zoomed in and there as big as day is Chief Wahoo. Our Cleveland Indians mascot. GO TRIBE!
Team Roping. This was really exciting. Two cowboys…one had to rope the calf around the neck and the other had to catch a hind leg in a rope.
We also watched steer wrestling, bucking broncos, bull riding, barrel chases, and even Mutton Bustin'. That last event was hilarious. It involved little boys and girls, all dressed-up in their cowboy outfits, riding lambs.....bare back! It was sooooo cute! And a 5 year-old GIRL WON! Way to go.....girl!
Notice how all the sheep are running to the opposite end of the pen. They are trying to get away from the kids.
The Chuck Wagon race was fast and looked dangerous! They first had to work their way through the barrels, and then race around the track.
The last event was the Calf Scramble. Twenty-eight teenagers scrambled after 14 calves in the 4 acre arena of the Reliant Stadium. The teens that rope one of the calves received a $1,250 certificate to purchase a registered beef heifer or steer and will return to Houston next year to exhibit the heifer. All year long a record book is kept. Awards are given based on the records and scrapbooks kept, as well as scholarships. It was hilarious watching these kids chase these calves. They really had to work to rope them.
One lucky winner.
After the rodeo was the Alan Jackson Concert. They had set up a stage in the middle of the arena floor, and it even rotated around.....again, not a bad seat in the house.....especially with the Jumbotron TV's.
The concert was fabulous. He sang so many familiar favorites, and the crowd really enjoyed the show!
Even fireworks…inside…roof closed!
His last song brought the house down. He sang, "Where I Come From", but put a twist on it and made it a Texan version.
We walked around a bit looking for the dance hall, but alas, we couldn't find it. So, we joined the crowd heading home. The train ride (free on rodeo weekend by-the-way) was packed, but everyone was enjoying the ride and we were soon back at the parking garage and on our way home. US-59 was open and moving freely. Instead of the 90 minute ride during rush hour, we were home in 20 minutes.
For those of you, like Marsha's dad, that like to know what some of the livestock sold for at auction, get a load of these prices! Remember…these are kids selling to members of the community, be it private or commercial. Great job kids!
2011 Grand Champion Junior Market Steer
2011 Price: $350,000
2011 Reserve Grand Champion Junior Market Steer
2011 Grand Champion Junior Market Lamb
2011 price: $200,000 (world's record)
2011 Grand Champion Junior Market Goat
If you can make it to Houston in the month of March, DO NOT miss the Rodeo/Livestock Show. Another one of those…Must See Events.
Can you tell that we had a great time?
Kelly, Marsha, Carrie, Paul


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Убить «Шакала» — фильм режиссёра Григория Кохана. Экранизация повести Николая Оганесова «Визит после полуночи».

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В Алуште совершено разбойное нападение на инкассаторов, оперативникам известна только кличка одного из нападавших — «Шакал». Тем временем, в Киев из Алушты на поезде возвращается компания людей, один из которых убит. Прибывший на поезд сыщик Петров после проведения следственных действий связывает эти два преступления и, понимая, что Шакал один из пассажиров и именно он убил потерпевшего, приступает к отработке версии «убийца всё ещё в поезде».

Под подозрением оказываются все члены компании, поскольку так или иначе у каждого из них был мотив для убийства, но кто из них Шакал? Эту головоломку Петров должен решить до прихода поезда в Киев, чтобы оперативно задержать бандита.

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Художественные особенности
Детектив поставлен в камерной манере, сюжет практически полностью развивается в вагоне поезда в течение одной ночи, и в некотором роде повторяет завязку романа Агаты Кристи Убийство в «Восточном экспрессе».

Ранее был снят фильм «Дополнительный прибывает на второй путь», в котором расследование также проводится в поезде.

См. также
 Убийство в «Восточном экспрессе» (фильм, 1974)
 Дополнительный прибывает на второй путь
 Мы, нижеподписавшиеся

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I thought D-list had the most obscure celebrities but this happy couple are even less famous. My Kroger checkout lady and her asthma is bigger news.
She probably wouldn't have lost her breasts to cancer if she hadn't been shooting up hormone while trying to get preggers.
Who ARE these people? Never heard of 'em.


Architect: Edward Larrabee Barnes Assoc.
The spacious glass atrium with full-sized bamboo trees.
The entrance to the IBM Building.
The Garden Plaza inside the IBM Building.
Stainless steel and resin painted with acrylic urethane. Sculpture inside IBM building in January of 2002. See also public art on the streets of New York.


Eventually, my right thumb just stopped working. It could not muster the strength to press down on my phone. It was both numb and achy. And the pain that had started in my hand was now shooting down my arm. I had a problem, one I later learned was becoming common.


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Raelene Boyle was inducted into The Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 as an Athlete Member for her contribution to the sport of Athletics.
She was Elevated to become the 39th "Legend of Australian Sport" on Thursday 12 October 2017.
To this day, Raelene Boyle remains one of the modern era's greatest female sprinters.
Selected in every Australian Olympic and Commonwealth Games team between 1968 and 1982, Boyle won a total of 12 medals. She reached the finals of five individual Olympic short sprints finals (during her 6th, she was unfortunately falsely disqualified), winning three silver medals.
Boyle won 14 individual Australian championships, taking out the 100m and 200m double in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976 and 1977, and the 400m in 1980 and 1982. Throughout her career, Boyle set a number of Australian and Commonwealth records, and was a member of two world record breaking Australian relay teams.
A Melbourne local, Boyle first took to the international stage at the age of 16 when she won silver in the 200m at the Mexico City 1968 Olympic Games. It was during those Games that Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals at the Berlin 1936 Olympics, watched the young Australian sprinter in action and offered the opinion: "I have not seen a girl so beautifully balanced."
At the Munich 1972 Olympics she was beaten twice into second place by an East German athlete whose credibility was later stained by allegations that she had been part of a systematic doping program.
And four years later, in her target event at the Montreal 1976 Olympics, the 200 metres, Boyle was disqualified after being ruled guilty of two false starts. Film footage later demonstrated that she hadn't jumped the gun in the first of them. Earlier, she had become the first Australian woman to be selected as flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony. Boyle also dominated sprinting events at the 1970 Edinburgh and 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games, winning gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. At the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games, Boyle only contested the 100m sprint due to injury, and won silver.
The controversy of the 1980 Moscow Olympics led to much indecision amongst prospective competitors, however Boyle had decided prior to withdraw from the Moscow Olympics due to personal reasons. Perhaps the greatest moment in Boyle's career was her last competitive run at the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, which saw her win gold in the 400m. In 1974, Boyle was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her service to athletics.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she remained involved with sport in a variety of capacities, ranging from being a member of the Victorian State Sports Council to Assistant Manager Australian World Junior Athletics team. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, she has worked assiduously since that time to raise awareness of the disease and in 2007 Boyle was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the community through a range of roles with organisations that support people with cancer, particularly Breast Cancer Network Australia.


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A bucolic Thai beach, full of unsmiling, tattooed, European bodybuilders.
March 24, 2015 March 25, 2015 / Eric Brown	/ 4 Comments
After several joyful days in Bangkok, we decamped for the beach. The water was lovely, the hotel was charming, and the guests were, how shall I put it? Weird.
We spent four days at this charming little beach resort on Koh Samui, a perfectly good island off the east coast of Thailand in the South China Sea, but I am left scratching my head about why so many strange people are attracted to this place. For starters, there seemed to be a disproportionate number of Eastern European body builders. There was one couple, covered head to toe with tattoos, who kept their kickboxing apparatus on the bench in front of their room. We never actually saw them beat each other up, but that seems to be their hobby. They're both ripped up like, well, Herr and Frau Universe. And they never seemed to speak. Herr Universe would wade out into the water and put his head down and stand there for twenty or thirty minutes at a time, just pacing back and forth in the water. Then he'd hop onto a small floating pier and pace back and forth some more. Either he was thinking very deep thoughts or he was searching in vain for a contact lens.
On the plane on the way back to Bangkok there was another fellow who was bigger and broader than Herr Universe, with even more tattoos, if that's possible. (Speaking of tattoos, on the beach the other day, we saw an older gentleman with a massive tattoo on his back of an extremely well-endowed naked man. I tell you, this place is just plain weird.)
Another woman who might have been Turkish or Russian walked around the property photographing or taking video of herself with her selfie stick almost constantly. Then there was the other unsmiling bearded gentleman with the prohibition-era haircut (y'know, shaved on the sides but the top flops downs over it) who sat in the restaurant staring ahead (or occasionally at his ipad), his leg in constant motion, as if he were stomping on imaginary cockroaches. Every so often his female companion would sit down next to him, but he seldom seemed to notice. There were a few European-looking gentlemen of a certain age accompanied by what appeared to be non-European women not of a certain age. There was another guy with a big Smith Brothers beard and a man bun who looked like he should be pouring cocktails in Bushwick. He never smiled either, or made any obvious expression. And then there were our roommates. Well, they might as well have been our roommates because the walls provided shockingly little noise reduction. The fellow never spoke. His significant other had a Midwestern accent out of the movie Fargo, which we were easily able to identify as she carried on an extended Skype call late one night. The next morning she was rather less articulate, but no less noisy. Happily, they were quick about it.
The sunbathing rituals of the resort's inmates were impressive. Each morning, round about 8ish, the guests would scope out their chaises, put a towel or some other item that marked the property as theirs, and then have a quick breakfast before returning to their claimed territory, where they would proceed to crispify themselves for the rest of the day. Many of them turned purple before our very eyes. If I had some extra money I'd invest it in German skin cancer clinics.
A perfectly nice beach resort in Thailand.
And as bizarre as this sullen, territorial, tonsorially unusual assembly of Teutonic sun worshipers was, the staff was warm, welcoming and gracious. I would not be surprised to learn that they hire zen masters to work at Koh Samui resorts, just because normal human beings would surely go stark raving mad.
Despite the cultural gulfs between us and our fellow guests, Janine, our friend John (who joined us at the beach) and I had an embarrassingly good time. We kept ourselves quite busy by moving with alacrity from the restaurant to the beach to the pool, never pausing long enough to seem lazy. And we were quite responsible in our appetites as well, almost never drinking beer before noon. One day we even ventured into what passes for town. Why, you may ask, would we waste the opportunity to take advantage of the myriad cultural opportunities that Thailand has to offer in favor of a prosaic trip to the beach with a menagerie of semi-disgruntled European melanomics? Well, John was cold after a cruel East Coast winter, and after seven months of busy, culturally thoughtful travel, we had hit the sweet spot between tired and lazy that cried out for a restorative trip to the beach. I'm happy to report that it appears to have worked.
Meandering from Sydney to Melbourne – with a David Lynch casino, squeaky beaches, and an Alzheimer's benefit (contains brief descriptions of perfectly safe for work nudity).
February 23, 2015 March 24, 2015 / Eric Brown	/ 3 Comments
Australia is a very big country. With only two and half weeks to spend in it, we had too many options. There's the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback, Tasmania – the list goes on, and on, and on. Barry Schwartz calls this phenomenon the paradox of choice. Faced with a hundred brands of cereal, the paralyzed consumer begins to whine and bleat, and scurries home empty handed, where he prepares a breakfast of dry toast.
We were starting to feel like we were standing in the cereal aisle at Safeway. How on earth should we allocate our precious time in Australia? Sydney was great, and we knew we had to end up in Melbourne, because that's where our next flight leaves, but we had no idea what to put in the middle of the sandwich. With any number of exotic and complicated air, sea, and land itineraries in front of us, we decided to just rent a car and drive to Melbourne, stopping along the way at places that seemed interesting. It's kind of like traveling to the U.S., driving from LA to San Francisco and pretending that you actually saw the U.S., but so be it. After 182 days away from home, sometimes the simple choice is the best choice.
Besides, after almost three weeks of hitting the open road in New Zealand, we were getting used to being footloose and fancy free. Driving in Australia has not been without its challenges, however. For one thing, the car rental company only had cars with manual transmissions. We both have driven stick shift cars for years, and we've been driving on the left side of the road since South Africa, but having to shift with our left hand threatened to add a layer of complexity that resembles patting your head, rubbing your belly, and reciting the alphabet backward while tap dancing. I should add, respectfully, that Aussie drivers seem ever so slightly more caffeinated than Kiwi drivers do. Basically, the speed limit appears to be a floor, not a ceiling. If you drive at the speed limit, expect to see someone very close in your rear view mirror, looking impatient.
No matter – we're intrepid! It's only about five hundred miles from Sydney to Melbourne, but we decided to take a week to meander down the coast, stopping when the spirit moved us to stop, if it even works that way. Our first stop was Jervis Bay, a white sand crescent about a couple hours south of Sydney. We found a cute little cottage on airbnb and watched the sunset on sand so fine that it squeaked underfoot.
On a squeaky white sand beach on Jervis Bay.
The next night we wandered into little Huskisson and discovered a tiny village movie theater holding a special showing of Just Alice, the Julianne Moore movie about Alzheimer's. I really have to be in the mood for downer movies. ("Hey honey, what do you want to see tonight? How about Shoah? Ooh, sounds good!") Janine has been on a quest to see as many Oscar performances as possible before the awards are announced, and it was the only thing playing, so we went.
The Alzheimer's gala in Huskisson, near Jervis Bay.
The showing was part of a fundraiser for the local Alzheimer's nonprofit, and fifty or sixty concerned members of the community showed up, ate potato chips and little squares of cheese, and asked thoughtful questions in the talkback after the show. Frankly, we don't get nearly as many chances as we should to breathe the same air as folks who have nothing to do with the tourist industry. We were in a shy mood, though, so we merely lurked, but it was nice to see real people going about their real lives for a change. Mostly we spend time with waiters, cabdrivers, innkeepers, and other tourists. The two questions that everyone asks are "Where are you headed? and Where are you coming from?" Sometimes we give minimalist answers and sometimes, if we're feeling expansive, tell people that we're on a nine month trip, which tends to get the party started. By the way, we've run across more than a few people who are on similar journeys. One Dutch couple we ran into was traveling for twenty months, and they brought their own tricked-out Range Rover, which they'd converted into a travel camper, and which they would load on a cargo vessel and ship from place to place. They had already spent a year driving around Australia and were now in New Zealand for the next several months. I'm happy to report that they still seemed to be having fun.
Our next stop was a little burg called Narooma, where we stayed at a funky, slightly dowdy motel that was redeemed by the show put on by a group of flamboyantly colored parrots that live there.
The resident parrots at our funky motel.
For dinner, the owner of the motel also recommended something called Club Narooma. Okay, this was a cultural experience to be sure. I'm not quite sure I fully understand the concept, but anybody can "join" the club by signing a piece of paper, so I don't really know what makes it a club. I suspect that it's a way to circumvent liquor licensing laws. Anyway, the place felt more or less like your basic not-quite-ready-for-Las Vegas casino, with cheap food and drinks, slot machines, and a country western singer warbling on the outside patio. There, a single pair of seniors two-stepped with serious concentration. The food won't win any awards, but for local color and David Lynch-y strangeness, it couldn't be beat.
On our way out of town, we took a detour toward the teeny village of Tilba, which is one street of Victorian buildings that house tiny shops and tea houses and a small hall that was holding a smaller farmer's market, where we bought veggies for dinner, a smashing little asparagus and tomato tart, and pair of knitted Australian wool gloves for Maggie, who is currently freezing her patooky off in New York. Tilba looks like the hippie enclaves that dot the Northern California coast, complete with a shop that featured lots of tie-dye and hemp products (and which was showing a loop of a pro-hemp documentary just in case you didn't get the memo).
Sweet little Tilba, which has the munchies.
From there, we detoured to Mallacoota, where we stayed at the Karbeethong Lodge, an absolutely perfect little hotel high on a hill overlooking a gorgeous inlet. The building has been an inn since the 1920's, and it has retained all of its charm. There's a long covered porch with comfy chairs and a big communal kitchen for guests, like me, who like to cook.
The view from the Karbeethong Lodge in Mallacoota.
I could spend a month on that porch, staring out at the water and doing nothing at all. Mallacoota is next to a beautiful national park with great hiking trails, the golf course is overrun by kangaroos, and there are more squeaky white sand beaches than you can count.
Here's something you don't usually see at the golf course.
One, called Shipwreck Beach, is at the end of an 8 km dirt road and is as isolated as it sounds. When I was certain we were alone, I took off my suit and danced around in the altogether, just because I could.
Shipwreck Beach, where the great unveiling occurred.
After two days in Mallacoota, we pressed on, stopping at yet another goofy motel in a place called Lake's Entrance. There's not much to do here, but we stopped because Janine wanted to watch the Oscars (we're nineteen hours ahead and the Oscars were on in the middle of the day on Monday), so we grabbed the first place with a television we could find. I like the Oscars as much as the next guy, but this was my chance to sneak in nine holes of golf. I was able to find a nearly empty golf course next to the ocean where my round, including greens fees, balls, tees, and club rental, came to a whopping seventeen bucks. I tried my best to keep the ball in the fairway, since as I was heading out to the first tee, the woman in the golf shop warned me to be on the lookout for snakes.
And so we make our final push for Melbourne, having seen the tiniest tip of an enormous iceberg. But I have eaten surf and turf at an Australian casino, watched a paranoid pro-hemp video, attended an Alzheimer's fundraiser, and danced without any pants on a vacant beach, so there's that.
Food, Culture, Burlesque, and a Girlfriend Named Itchy – the Joys of Wellington
February 4, 2015 March 24, 2015 / Eric Brown	/ 1 Comment
After spending the morning padding around a perfect black sand beach in the entertainingly named town of Whanganui, we felt that we were missing something.
On the black sand beach at Whanganui
The sand was amazingly fine – like powdered sugar, but black.
Where are all the sword swallowers, we thought?
Okay, we didn't think that, but we were ready for a little city life to balance all this fresh air. We were pointed toward Wellington, which people say reminds them of San Francisco. We were hoping for a little culture, maybe a nice meal. Oh, and while we're at it, maybe we'll take in a burlesque show.
Okay, that's not what we were thinking, but how do you pass up the chance to see a Kiwi burlesque show? It turns out that there are countercultural hipstery types wherever you go, and New Zealand is no exception. As anybody who's been to Brooklyn in the past decade knows, there has been a revival of semi-ironic versions of old burlesque. On the last Saturday night of the month, Wellington puts on its version, which may not put it in the big leagues, but which was worth an evening just for the cultural weirdness of it all.
The evening was hosted by a British woman who called herself Miss Behave, and she got the festivities going by shoving the stem of a fake rose through a hole in her tongue and twisting it about. She followed that by swallowing a sword (although the retired burlesque performer seated next to us said that Miss Behave once swallowed a table leg with the table still attached). Later in the show, she set a man's head on fire.
She tossed it to a petrified close-up magician, whose hands shook so much he almost dropped his playing cards. After him was a woman folksinger who looked like she got cold feet in the middle of her last haircut – only half her head had been attended to. She proceeded to warble a song of love and loss that was clearly about a former lost love – a girl called Itchy, which sent the mind spinning in deeply unfortunate directions. At least she wasn't called Stinky. Then came the David Lynch moment when Voluptuous Twinkle took the stage. VT did her best to keep step to Barry Manilow's Copacabana up to the moment when she revealed what may be among the world's largest pasties.
Next was the most unfunny standup comic I've ever been subjected to, a woman from our own San Francisco. To say that she died onstage would be unfair to the dead.
The hero of the night was a scatological poet. With his beautifully sculpted Smith Brothers beard, suspenders, and touring cap, this guy riffed on New Zealand niceness, men who fancy his girlfriend, and he concluded with the funniest dirty poem I've ever heard, whose topic I'll only reveal in person.
It was funky, weird, and like any funhouse, lots of fun if you don't expect the comics to be funny, the strippers to be sexy, or the magicians to be magical. Keep up the good work, Kiwis!
Wellington is a fantastic city. For starters, it's a fine place to park your RV. The city council, in its wisdom, runs an RV park right on the waterfront within easy walking distance to almost everything you want to see. The waterfront is full of restaurants, bars with beanbag chairs, and really terrific museums.
The Wellington waterfront ain't beanbag – wait, yes it is.
The Te Papa Museum is the national museum of New Zealand and has sections on natural history, social history, modern art, among others. And it's free! So is the Museum of the City of Wellington, which had a fascinating film on the sinking of a ferry between the islands (which we'd be taking the next day!), and a year by year history of the city. The City Gallery museum (also free!) featured a retrospective on the work of Yvonne Todd, New Zealand's version of Cindy Sherman. We just stumbled in, not knowing what the place was, and were delighted.
On to the food!
Our first stop in Wellington was the Mt. Vic Chippery, the best fish and chips place I've ever been to. You have a choice of four or five different fishes, a bunch of frying styles (tempura, beer battered, panko coated and a few others), and a choice of fries. They also have a bunch of dipping sauces. People who have difficulty making decisions should stay far away. As it was, we turned to the tatted fellow manning the fryer who recommended the gurnard (also known as the sea robin), a bottom feeding fish with a skull and wings (seriously) cooked tempura style, and holy christmas if it wasn't the best damned fish and chips I'll ever eat. The fry guy told me about the fish's taste for what he called "apex crustaceans" and pantomimed how it flaps its wings. How can you not love a place like this? We ordered two pieces, which turned out to each be the size of a surfboard, and made quick work of them. If they sold beer it would be one of the world's great meals.
Breakfast in Wellington is similarly exciting. The food was as good as the service was bad at Duke Carvell's, but I didn't care. I had a dish of baked eggs, cherry tomatoes, roast red pepper, black pudding, chorizo and mozzarella, with the fruitiest, hoppiest beer I've had since New York and I didn't care if the server never came back with the bill. The next day we went to the breakfast place next door, Floriditas, which was just as good, except with nice, smiling waitstaff. In two days we had two better breakfasts than we had in eleven years in Palo Alto. Sigh.
We had a smashing three course bistro menu at Logan Brown, which is housed in a converted 1920s bank. There was a perfectly cured salmon appetizer with a horseradish panna cotta, of all things, and a lamb entrée that was good because it was great, but bad because it's hard to imagine that we'll have a better one while we're here. On our last night, we had the Sunday Roast dinner at the Boulcott Street Bistro. It was a perfect porchetta-like roast pork, with a crackling, sticky pork skin and a fatty, juicy inside. Bring on the Lipitor.
Porky, fatty, crispy, yummy.
The short of it is that they can cook here, and how.
Oh, and the glorious thing about English-speaking countries is that they show English-speaking movies! We stumbled into the Embassy Theater, a 20's movie palace that has two cocktail bars and will bring a cheese plate to your seat. Why, oh, why does one have to travel to New Zealand to get a decent moviegoing experience? Oh, we saw Birdman and The Imitation Game. Liked 'em both.
There's Wellington for you – funky, weird, yummy. They know how to show a movie, how to make breakfast, and how to fry fish. They're still working on the burlesque, though.


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Second Letter from Vietnam Tourism Chairman on COVID-19
Letter from Vietnam Tourism Chairman, Feb. 12, 2020
Updates on Vietnam Tourism's proactive action in controlling the impact of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)
On behalf of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam, I would like to inform all our supporters, business partners and friends about the most updates and concrete measures of the Government of Viet Nam in response to the outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) situation.
As of 10.00AM today, Viet Nam has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, in which 6 cases have been cured and released from hospitals. The patients are from 4 provinces namely Vinh Phuc, Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hoa and Khanh Hoa and most of them returned from Wuhan. The secondary infections in those 4 over 63 provinces of Viet Nam are family members or those who have close contact with patients. Since the first day when the disease was recognized until the epidemic was officially announced by the Government of Viet Nam on February 1 st , 2020 and now, Viet Nam has controlled the situation very well by promoting infection prevention, while isolating and quarantining Vietnamese citizens, who have travel history to China within 14 days and people with close contact to patients. Treatments and prevention measures have been effectively implemented, therefore there is absolutely no spread of COVID-19 within the community in Viet Nam.
At present, attractions, heritage sites and restaurants are still open for tourists as usual. Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has collaborated with local authorities and tourism enterprises to apply infection prevention and control measures aiming at protecting tourists. Numerous attractions are well-prepared to prevent the infection by spraying disinfectant on-site, giving free masks and enhancing hygiene promotion for tourists.
During the time of the epidemic, tourism has to live up to its responsibility as an integral part of wider society and prioritises people and their wellbeing. Therefore, we understand why some countries issued warning advisory for their citizens on travelling to certain countries and territories in Asia, where confirmed COVID-19 cases and isolate themselves 14 days after travelling to these destinations. Nevertheless, with the effective control of the Government of Viet Nam and active prevention measures being implemented to all provinces and tourist attractions, we affirm that tourists visiting Viet Nam at this time are safe.
Vietnam National Administration of Tourism commits to accompany our partners in any circumstance to ensure the best for tourists. We will continue to update information and are ready to help and connect with related authorities on further enquiries regarding the COVID-19 situation in Viet Nam.


Perculia, please get a real microphone. It's quite annoying to listen something that sounds like my speakers are broken.
I use a Blue Yeti USB which is considered pretty good for streaming.
Like the weekly pod, always listen to it.
Are you using the audio boost from the software?
It's considered to be a really good microphone for streaming\/filming and I bought it and the camera based on recommendations from other streamers specifically for the show. If something doesn't sound right, it's likely on the post-production end. There was an audio imbalance issue around Legion's launch on the video which wasn't present in the livestream, which we corrected a few months back. Not sure if something similar is going on, I'll ask Panser to take a look.
I just tried listening to the above video on my phone, sound came in loud and clear.
It's pretty awesome too see the Manager caring for the referred issue brought by the community. It just shows how one cares.
In the gaming genre mostly targeted to boys\/men\/males, it's so nice to see the progression of time and equality of genres to actually have women leading the #1 community site, imo, for the best mmo.
Good times to live in. Keep up the good work!


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Q: What are some basic methods to solve a recursive function of the shape $f_n = \alpha f_{n-1} + \beta f_{n-2}$ where $\alpha, \beta \in\mathbb{R}$ I want to understand a little bit more about determining the determinant of tridiagonal matrices. These determinants are (mostly) of the form
$$f_n = \alpha f_{n-1} + \beta f_{n-2}$$ where $\alpha, \beta \in\mathbb{R}$.
I have a hard time finding literature on how to solve this. Anyone that can help me out?


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A deeply felt meditation on girlhood
Melissa Febos's new collection offers gripping stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become
Melissa Febos | October 29, 2021
#Literature #books #gender #feminism #society
Bloomsbury / 336 pages
Melissa Febos wowed readers and critics with her 'Whip Smart: A Memoir' (2010). It was followed up by another collection, 'Abandon Me: Memoirs' (2017). This year, with 'Girlhood', she has now turned her preference for personal essays and memoirs to explore what it means to grow up as girls and come to terms with the body.
Febos, an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program, "examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them."
Written with her characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, 'Girlhood' is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Here is an excerpt from what the New York Times Book Review described as "the feminist testament to survival":
L E S C A L A N Q U E S
I HAVE SEEN PICTURES of Cassis, and so am unsurprised though still seduced by its beauty—the narrow winding roads and stucco buildings that lead downward, the shocking turquoise blue of the bay, or the castle-topped cliffs that rise around the nestled port town. No one has told me about the cicadas, though. When my taxi from Marseille stops at my destination and I open the door, I startle at their song. It surges from the trees, blankets everything in its pulsing whir. It sounds machinelike, though I know it is thousands of giant insects, their bodies heaving with desire.
I have come to Cassis for a month, along with ten other artists. I will live alone in a small apartment on the top floor of a building whose tall windows overlook the bay with its green-eyed lighthouse (Fitzgerald finished 'The Great Gatsby' not far from here, and it is rumored that its green light was inspired by this one), the cliff of Cap Canaille that changes color with the position of the sun, the town beach crowded with bodies, and the relentless blue Mediterranean that stretches to the horizon where it meets the relentless blue sky.
Every morning I pull open the windows and bathe in the early-morning breeze off the water. I have recently suffered a back spasm whose symptoms cascaded down my body in a manner so painful no medicine could assuage it. While no longer in pain, I have learned something of my body's fragility. At thirty-seven years old, I do not expect it to reverse.
When all of the windows are open, I eat a perfectly ripe peach over the porcelain sink in the tiny kitchen, its juice streaming down my forearm. Then I perform a series of gentle stretches that were not possible eight weeks ago. By the time I finish, the cicadas have risen with the sun, its heat engorging their abdominal membranes enough to produce that sound. I meditate for twenty minutes. My eyes closed, I imagine their thrumming as a ring of light that surrounds the building, each insect body a bright ember.
The call of a male cicada can be heard by a female a mile away, and some are so loud they would cause hearing loss in humans were the insect to sing close enough to the ear. Cicada nymphs drop from the trees in which they hatch and burrow into the ground, often eight feet below the surface. The cicadas in southern France spend almost four years underground, though a brood rises every summer to sing and screw for a few months before they die. All of the souvenir shops in Cassis sell porcelain cicadas, wooden cicadas, tea towels with cicadas
printed on them. North American species of cicadas, those of my own childhood, have longer life cycles and often spend seventeen years underground before tunneling their way to the sunlight and climbing out of their old bodies.
It has been seventeen years since my last visit to France, a trip I haven't thought about in a long time, but whose details start returning to me the way the language does. Words emerge from my mouth at the market that I didn't know were buried there—seulement, les fenêtres, désolée— jostled loose by the voices around me, risen from wherever they have been sleeping for nearly two decades.
IN THE SUMMER OF 2001, before my final semester of college, I got a job at the New Press, an independent leftist publisher whose list included works by Noam Chomsky, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Simone de Beauvoir. My job was to sit in the air-conditioned Manhattan loft and, among other light administrative tasks, respond to the novelists who often mailed us their entire printed manuscripts for consideration. "Dear Author," I would type. "The New Press rarely publishes novels and never those by American authors." This fact was immediately obvious if one simply glanced at our catalog. Still, myself an aspiring novelist, I pitied them as I dropped their manuscripts into the recycling bin with a funereal thunk. Most mornings I wandered through the cavernous store-room with its twelve-foot industrial shelves of books and selected one or two to read that day at my desk. If I liked a book especially, I brought it home in my purse. I still have my stolen copy of Studs Terkel's Working. It would have been a great job for the person I would have been if I had not been addicted to heroin.
I was only twenty, but already beyond the charmed phase of believing I could outsmart the drug. I had begun trying to stop and still thought I might be able to do so without help. […]
[Excerpt reproduced with permission of the publishers.]
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Home / Camping / Almost Spring!
fabulous…fall is just around the corner here and believe me, I'm not looking forward to it!!!
Great shot and I'm aggree with Heather above; 'Almost Fall' here in Sweden and dark months to come….
We are just exiting the dark months and looking forward to some warmth. Sweden in winter sounds colder than Tasmania.


Last season the strong and pacy midfielder had loan spells at Blackpool and Doncaster and this season has come off the bench for Arsenal in the League Cup, Premier League and Champions League.
He started 20 games last season scoring 6 goals whilst in the Championship.
"Off on loan, Goodbye Arsenal, Hello Cardiff City." Cardiff City have since confirmed the move.
Sounds like a good addition to the squad.


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L'Open de Franche-Comté (ou Internationaux du Doubs) est un tournoi international de tennis masculin se déroulant chaque année à Besançon.

Classé depuis 1999 parmi les tournois du circuit Challenger (174 dans le monde en 2007), quatrième niveau des tournois ATP, il est considéré comme le  indoor masculin de France après ceux de Paris-Bercy, Marseille, Metz et Lyon, .

L'Open de Franche-Comté a été créé en 1996, mais n'a pas été disputé en 2001 et 2002. Pour « raisons budgétaires », l'édition 2010 se voit annulée et le tournoi disparaît du calendrier.

Palmarès

En simple

En double

Site du tournoi
Le tournoi se déroule sur le site du pôle espoirs du Trébignon à Thise. Trois courts sont nécessaires à la tenue de l'Open : un court central, un court annexe et un court d'entraînement. Les tribunes offrent aux spectateurs un total de 660 places.

Primes et points ATP
Le tournoi des Internationaux du Doubs est un tournoi Challenger bien rémunéré avec une dotation globale de  selon les années. Le tableau suivant présente les primes durant le tournoi de 2008 :

Joueurs célèbres ayant disputé le tournoi
 Rafael Nadal (1/16 de finale en 2003)
 Tomáš Berdych (vainqueur en 2004)
 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1/4 de finale en 2007)
 Richard Gasquet (1/4 de finale en 2003)
 Julien Benneteau (1/2 finale en 2003 et 2004)
 Gaël Monfils (vainqueur en 2005)
 Nicolás Almagro (1/16 de finale en 2004)
 Michaël Llodra (1/2 finale en 2004)
 Fabrice Santoro (1/8 de finale en 2005 et 2008)
 Ernests Gulbis (vainqueur en 2007)

Liens externes
 Site officiel du Tournoi Challenger de Besançon
 Site de la FFT de Franche-Comté


Stress is contagious so let's manage it.
No matter what your role is, stress is incredibly hard to deal with at the worst of times. It is definitely a part of every day life but that doesn't mean we should let it contaminate the work space, affect our learners and colleagues. Here's some ways to deal with your stress so that you can work towards a stress-free life.
Leave home 30 minutes earlier than normal. Studies find that the less rushed you feel in the morning, the less stressed you'll be for the rest of the day. Getting that extra bit of time to get your classroom sorted, to catch up with other teachers over a coffee and just prepare mentally for the day ahead will give you a good mind set and prepare you for what ever may be thrown at you.
Bring a spill-proof coffee cup filled with your favourite brew to the office, and have a bag of nonperishable snacks on hand (try protein bars, dried fruit and nuts, juice boxes, or pretzels). Going for more than a few hours without a snack can cause your blood sugar levels to drop, and you'll end up exacerbating stress. This way, even if you have to work through back-to-back classes, you'll be able to grab some fuel.
Close your classroom door or go sit in an empty room and think about what's stressing you out. Bring a sheet of paper and divide it into three columns: My Worry; Why It Worries Me; Worst Thing That Could Happen. Once you confront the worst-case scenario, and realize that it probably won't ever happen, you can get back to work with your worry load lightened.
With about 5.5 trillion emails sent each year, it's no wonder your inbox is overflowing. To keep from stressing out, cut down the amount of time you spend reading and sending emails. Don't waste a message acknowledging receipt of an email, and put responses in the subject when possible so you don't have to compose a new message. Finally, use the "rule of three": if you've gone back and forth on a topic three times and you're still confused or have questions, pick up the phone.
Try lifting your legs up and stretching them for 30 seconds. This movement reduces the risk of blood clots that can result from sitting too long in one position. Another useful exercise is to put one arm behind your neck and stretch it by holding on to the elbow with the opposite arm. Switch sides and repeat.
Stress can overpower you at times, but your troubles are smaller than they seem. To remind yourself of that, keep a picture in your class —the earth taken from space, a starry night or the ocean—and look at it whenever you feel overwhelmed. Amid countless stars and the timeless crashing of waves against the shore, how important is that little worry, really? Don't be so hard on yourself. Everything is relative and that means everything can be dealt with in one way or another.
Suggest a once-a-week gathering with your co-workers where you can talk about a particular issue, like trouble students or a classroom conflict that is affecting the environment of your classroom negatively. Use your collective brain to figure out how to do something better, enhance productivity, or improve relationships.
Most importantly – remember that your students feed off of your energy and being able to cope with your stress will reduce the chance of taking it out on those around you. Take a step back and just approach any challenge with a clear mind.
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From my trip to Old Brookville and Oyster Bay with my father in June 2010. This cemetery is tiny and overgrown, sitting on a hill overlooking the Upper Brookville police department, with a few new headstones but mostly old, weathered ones. Many of the residents of this cemetery are Tappens, a common family name in the area dating back to at least the 1700s. The cemetery also sits across the road from the site of a double murder that occurred in the 1883 - two of the original suspects were brothers, Ed and John Tappen.