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package me.manage.domain.service.wuliu.topic;

import me.manage.domain.model.wuliu.topic.LogisticsTopic;
import me.manage.infrastructure.persistence.hibernate.generic.Pagination;
import me.manage.interfaces.wuliu.topic.command.CreateLogisticsCommand;
import me.manage.interfaces.wuliu.topic.command.EditLogisticsCommand;
import me.manage.interfaces.wuliu.topic.command.ListCommand;

/**
 * Created by savion on 2015/4/29.
 */
public interface ILogisticsTopicService {

    LogisticsTopic findById(String id);

    Pagination<LogisticsTopic> pagination(ListCommand command);

    void create(CreateLogisticsCommand command);

    void edit(EditLogisticsCommand command);

    void delete(String id);

    void changeStatus(String id, String status);
}


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From Nature Nuts to Celebrity Big Brother, Julian Clary has become something of a national trinket on television with his perfectly-timed one-liners and waspish wit. Already a best-selling author for adults, he recently turned his talents to children's fiction. His debut novel, The Bolds, is an hilarious account of a family of hyenas holed up in suburban Teddington, illustrated by Dirty Bertie creator David Roberts.
Julian, what inspired you to venture into children's writing?
Contacting my inner-child and writing The Bolds has been a source of great joy for me. I loved writing it and have just finished a sequel. It's hard to be taken seriously as a writer when you're a comedian so it made sense to write a funny book. As a comedian my inner child is perhaps better preserved than some, but it was very easy and indeed enjoyable, to slip back into being my younger, imaginative self, and the story of The Bolds tumbled out of me with hardly any effort or prodding.
Why did you decide to write about animals?
Children like and understand animals. My own childhood imagination was filled with the idea that animals are just as clever as human beings, just misunderstood. This seems an idea worth pursuing.
And why hyenas? They don't often crop up in children's books...
I like hyenas because they laugh so much – I loved the idea of laughter being their primary concern. Much like myself. There are lots of other animals in the book too, though.
...and why Teddington?
I grew up in Teddington. It is a pleasant, cheerful place, eminently middle class.
You're a big animal lover. What pets do you have and how did they inspire the way you characterised Mr and Mrs Bold?
I have dogs and chickens. I did have ducks, too, but Mr Fox paid a visit. I won't upset your readers with the grizzly details. It is quite clear to me that animals can communicate, experience emotions and express themselves with an intelligence that is different from, but equal to, ours. Human beings assume superiority and The Bolds aim is to restore the balance. The fact that animals are as smart as us is the big secret. Children will understand this because they haven't yet been conditioned.
The book is beautifully illustrated by David Roberts. How did that collaboration come about?
David is famous and much sought after in the world of children's illustration. He was my first choice for The Bolds and I was thrilled when he agreed to do the book. He understands my humour and his drawings have added a whole new dimension to the text.
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Categorial Type Logics
by Michael Moortgat - Handbook of Logic and Language , 1997
"... Contents 1 Introduction: grammatical reasoning 1 2 Linguistic inference: the Lambek systems 5 2.1 Modelinggrammaticalcomposition ............................ 5 2.2 Gentzen calculus, cut elimination and decidability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3 Discussion: options for resource mana ..."
Contents 1 Introduction: grammatical reasoning 1 2 Linguistic inference: the Lambek systems 5 2.1 Modelinggrammaticalcomposition ............................ 5 2.2 Gentzen calculus, cut elimination and decidability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3 Discussion: options for resource management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 The syntax-semantics interface: proofs and readings 16 3.1 Term assignment for categorial deductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2 Natural language interpretation: the deductive view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4 Grammatical composition: multimodal systems 26 4.1 Mixedinference:themodesofcomposition........................ 26 4.2 Grammaticalcomposition:unaryoperations ....................... 30 4.2.1 Unary connectives: logic and structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4.2.2 Applications: imposing constraints, structural relaxation
Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
by Mark Steedman , 1998
"... The paper proposes a theory relating syntax, semantics, and intonational prosody, and covering a wide range of English intonational tunes and their semantic interpretation in terms of focus and information structure. The theory is based on a version of combinatory categorial grammar which directly p ..."
The paper proposes a theory relating syntax, semantics, and intonational prosody, and covering a wide range of English intonational tunes and their semantic interpretation in terms of focus and information structure. The theory is based on a version of combinatory categorial grammar which directly pairs phonological and logical forms without intermediary representational levels.
... Ajdukiewicz, Bar-Hillel, Lambek, Geach, Lewis, Montague, van Benthem, Cresswell, and von Stechow, to many of which the conclusions of this paper also apply. In particular Oehrle 1987, Moortgat 1988, =-=Morrill 1994-=-, and Hendriks 1994, 1998 explicitly relate Lambek-style categorial grammars to prosody. 4 D R A F T 3 . 3 p.195) and others. Of course, the reverse does not follow. Not all surface syntactic boundari...
Combinators and Grammars
by Mark Steedman, Categorial Grammar - Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures , 1988
"... The term Categorial Grammar (CG) names a group of theories of natural language syntax and semantics in which the main responsibility for defining syntactic form is borne by the lexicon. CG is therefore one of the oldest and purest examples of a class of "lexicalized " theories of grammar which also ..."
The term Categorial Grammar (CG) names a group of theories of natural language syntax and semantics in which the main responsibility for defining syntactic form is borne by the lexicon. CG is therefore one of the oldest and purest examples of a class of "lexicalized " theories of grammar which also includes HPSG, LFG, TAG, Montague Grammar, Relational Grammar and certain recent versions of the Chomskean theory. The various modern versions of CG are characterized by a much freer notion of derivational syntactic structure than is assumed under most other formal or generative theories of grammar. All forms of CG also follow Montague 1974 in sharing a strong commitment to the Principle of Compositionality—that is to the assumption that syntax and interpretation are homomorphically related, and may be derived in tandem. Significant contributions have been made by Categorial Grammarians to the study of semantics, syntax, morphology, intonational phonology, computational linguistics and human sentence processing. Since the problem of formalizing the grammar of natural languages was first defined in its modern form in the 1950's, there have been two styles. Chomsky 1957 and much subsequent work in generative grammar begins by capturing the basic facts of English constituent order exemplified in (1) in a Context-free Phrase Structure Grammar (CFPSG) or system of rewrite rules or "productions " like (2), which have their origin in early work in recursion theory by Post, among others.
...ions of the words of any sentence it accepts. This forces the advocates of the Lambek calculus into the "multi-modal" systems involving many distinct slashes encoding multiple notions of implication (=-=Morrill 1994-=-), and forces the advocates of rule based systems to impose type restrictions on their rules. (Nevertheless, Joshi et al. 1991 show that certain rule-based CGs remain of low automata-theoretic power.)...
Probabilistic Syntax
by Christopher D. Manning , 2002
"... istic methods for syntax, just as for a long time McCarthy and Hayes (1969) discouraged exploration of probabilistic methods in Artificial Intelligence. Among his arguments were that: (i) Probabilistic models wrongly mix in world knowledge (New York occurs more in text than Dayton, Ohio, but for no ..."
istic methods for syntax, just as for a long time McCarthy and Hayes (1969) discouraged exploration of probabilistic methods in Artificial Intelligence. Among his arguments were that: (i) Probabilistic models wrongly mix in world knowledge (New York occurs more in text than Dayton, Ohio, but for no linguistic reason), (ii) Probabilistic models don't model grammaticality (neither Colorless green ideas sleep furiously nor Furiously sleep ideas green colorless have previously been uttered -- and hence must be estimated to have probability zero, Chomsky wrongly assumes -- but the former is grammatical while the latter is not, and (iii) Use of probabilities does not meet the goal of describing the mind-internal I-language as opposed to the observed-in-the-world E-language. This chapter is not meant to be a detailed critique of Chomsky's arguments -- Abney (1996) provides a survey and a rebuttal, and Pereira (2000) has further useful discussion -- but some of these concerns are still importa
CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank
by Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman , 2007
"... This article presents an algorithm for translating the Penn Treebank into a corpus of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) derivations augmented with local and long-range word–word dependencies. The resulting corpus, CCGbank, includes 99.4 % of the sentences in the Penn Treebank. It is available fro ..."
This article presents an algorithm for translating the Penn Treebank into a corpus of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) derivations augmented with local and long-range word–word dependencies. The resulting corpus, CCGbank, includes 99.4 % of the sentences in the Penn Treebank. It is available from the Linguistic Data Consortium,and has been used to train widecoverage statistical parsers that obtain state-of-the-art rates of dependency recovery. In order to obtain linguistically adequate CCG analyses,and to eliminate noise and inconsistencies in the original annotation,an extensive analysis of the constructions and annotations in the Penn Treebank was called for,and a substantial number of changes to the Treebank were necessary. We discuss the implications of our findings for the extraction of other linguistically expressive grammars from the Treebank,and for the design of future treebanks.
...ork. For lexicalized grammars, it may in some cases be possible to translate the subcategorization frames in the CCG lexicon directly into the target theory. For type-logical grammars (Moortgat 1988; =-=Morrill 1994-=-; Moot 2003), this is little more than a matter of transducing the syntactic types for the lexicon into the appropriate notation. For formalisms like LTAG, the relation is more complex, but the work o...
Structural Control
by Natasha Kurtonina, et al. - SPECIFYING SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES, PATRICK BLACKBURN, MAARTEN DE RIJKE (EDS.) , 1988
"... In this paper we study Lambek systems as grammar logics: logics for reasoning about structured linguistic resources. The structural parameters of precedence, dominance and dependency generate a cube of resource-sensitive categorial type logics. From the pure logic of residuation NL, one obtains L, N ..."
In this paper we study Lambek systems as grammar logics: logics for reasoning about structured linguistic resources. The structural parameters of precedence, dominance and dependency generate a cube of resource-sensitive categorial type logics. From the pure logic of residuation NL, one obtains L, NLP and LP in terms of Associativity, Commutativity, and their combination. Each of these systems has a dependency variant, where the product is split up into a left-headed and a right-headed version. We develop a theory of systematic communication between these systems. The communication is two-way: we show how one can fully recover the structural discrimination of a weaker logic from within a system with a more liberal resource management regime, and how one can reintroduce the structural flexibility of a stronger logic within a system with a more articulate notion of structure-sensitivity. In executing this programme we follow the standard logical agenda: the categorial formula language is enriched with extra control operators, so-called structural modalities, and on the basis of these control operators, we prove embedding theorems for the two directions of substructural communication. But our results differ from the Linear Logic style of embedding with S4-like modalities in that we realize the communication in both directions in terms of a
Partial Proof Trees as Building Blocks for a Categorial Grammar
by Aravind K. Joshi, Seth Kulick - Linguistics and Philosophy , 1997
"... We describe a categorial system (PPTS) based on partial proof trees (PPTs) as the building blocks of the system. The PPTs are obtained by unfolding the arguments of the type that would be associated with a lexical item in a simple categorial grammar. The PPTs are the basic types in the system and a ..."
We describe a categorial system (PPTS) based on partial proof trees (PPTs) as the building blocks of the system. The PPTs are obtained by unfolding the arguments of the type that would be associated with a lexical item in a simple categorial grammar. The PPTs are the basic types in the system and a derivation proceeds by combining PPTs together. We describe the construction of the finite set of basic PPTs and the operations for combining them. PPTS can be viewed as a categorial system incorporating some of the key insights of lexicalized tree adjoining grammar, namely the notion of an extended domain of locality and the consequent factoring of recursion from the domain of dependencies. PPTS therefore inherits the linguistic and computational properties of that system, and so can be viewed as a `middle ground' between a categorial grammar and a phrase structure grammar. We also discuss the relationship between PPTS, natural deduction, and linear logic proof-nets, and argue that natural ...
Features and Agreement
by Sam Bayer, Mark Johnson , 1995
"... This paper compares the consistencybased account of agreement phenomena in 'unification-based' grammars with an implication-based account based on a simple feature extension to Lambek Catego- rim Grammar (LCG). We show that the LCG treatment accounts for constructions that have been ..."
This paper compares the consistencybased account of agreement phenomena in 'unification-based' grammars with an implication-based account based on a simple feature extension to Lambek Catego- rim Grammar (LCG). We show that the LCG treatment accounts for constructions that have been recognized as problematic for 'unification-based' treatments.
...ard LCG connectives '/' and 'V as directed implications, so we construct our system so that a//~ fl~ can combine to form a if fl' is logically stronger than/~. Formally, we adopt Morrill's treatment (=-=Morrill, 1992-=-) of the (semantically impotent) Boolean connectives '^' and 'v' (Morrill named these 'lq' and '11' respectively). Given a set of atomic features 5, we define the set of feature terms 7- and categorie...
Combinatory Categorial Grammar
by Mark Steedman, Jason Baldridge , 2007
...utation completeness if added as axioms (Moortgat 1988), a fact that has motivated the development of multi-modal varieties of categorial grammar within the typelogical tradition by Hepple (1990) and =-=Morrill 1994-=-, cf. Oehrle, this volume. While such rules do not cause a collapse in CCG even without the modalities, the present use of slash-types to provide finer control over the rules is directly inspired by m...
Categorial Grammars, Lexical Rules and the English Predicative
by Bob Carpenter - Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation , 1995
"... this paper, we will study the possibilities for applying lexical rules to the analysis of English syntax, and in particular the structure of the verb phrase. We will develop a lexicon whose empirical coverage extends to the full range of verb subcategories, complex adverbial phrases, auxiliaries, th ..."
this paper, we will study the possibilities for applying lexical rules to the analysis of English syntax, and in particular the structure of the verb phrase. We will develop a lexicon whose empirical coverage extends to the full range of verb subcategories, complex adverbial phrases, auxiliaries, the passive construction, yes/no questions and the particularly troublesome case of predicatives. The effect of a lexical rule, in our system, will be to produce new lexical entries from old lexical entries. The similarity between our system and the metarule system of generalized phrase-structure grammar (GPSG, as presented in Gazdar, et al. 1985) is not coincidental. Our lexical rules serve much the same purpose as metarules in GPSG, which were restricted to lexical phrase structure rules. The similarity is in a large part due to the fact that with the universal phrase-structure schemes being fixed, the role of a lexical category assignment in effect determines phrase-structure in much the same way as a lexical category entry and lexical phrase-structure rule determines lexical phrase-structure in GPSG. Our lexical rules will also bear a relationship to the lexical rules found in lexical-functional grammar (LFG, see Bresnan 1982), as LFG rules are driven by the grammatical role assigned to arguments. Many of our analyses were first applied to either LFG or GPSG, as these were the first serious linguistic theories based on a notion of unification. In the process of explaining the basic principles behind categorial grammar and developing our lexical rule system, we will establish a categorial grammar lexicon with coverage of English syntactic constructions comparable to that achieved within published accounts of the GPSG or LFG frameworks. Language, at its most abstract level, i...
...t being employed. If it is some kind of noun phrase shift, then these examples would naturally be handled with the same syntactic mechanisms as are involved in unbounded dependency constructions (see =-=Morrill 1987-=-b, 1988, Gazdar et al. 1985). If the alternation between the examples in (106) and (109) is not an example of heavy shift, then an alternative explanation is required. One possibility would be to simp...


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Every morning, some way or the other, one has to see his or her face in the mirror, whether it's brushing your teeth or washing your face. However, the scenario is not a pleasant one, when the image reflects ageing process. Just like other body structures, deterioration of the skin is also a sign of aging. However, medical research and advancement have given us the ability to battle out these problems. The solution to the skin ageing problem is to opt for dermal fillers in Toorak. The practice of dermal filling is an anti-ageing approach, where certain substances are injected into the skin to improve sagging of the skin, decrease wrinkles and to enhance the lips.
Skin ageing issues like, wrinkles and sagging do not indicate any uncommon disease. They are natural, although the extent of their impact varies from person to person. In the course of our daily life, we do a lot of facial movement through chewing, talking and laughing. As a result, with age, the dedicated component fails to hold the skin tight giving birth to wrinkles and sagging of the skin. External factors like, sun exposure can enhance these effects.
The elements responsible for holding onto the skin, thereby, providing support, are collagen and hyaluronic acid. As one gets older these elements diminish, and fail to rejuvenate. The hyaluronic acid present between the skin's layers holds in the moisture and the collagen provides strength, and structure. Experts in dermal fillers in Toorak, inject these elements under the surface of the skin. The filling is done in lines and the wrinkles. The supplement injections restore the youthful appearance of the skin temporarily as the skin is held tight in its position. The effect of the collagen injection lasts up to four months and that of the hyaluronic acid lasts up to nine months.
If one wishes to have a longer effect of these injections, one has to resort to other injections that use tiny, round, smooth particles known as the mesosphere as a filler. Mesosphere is suspended in liquid or gel material. The more temporary treatment can have an effect of up to eighteen months and the longer lasting ones up to five years or more.
There are a lot of people who are unsure about the safety and effect of these proceedings. However, nowadays, a lot of dermatologists have ensured that the treatment is long-lasting and safe. These dermal injections are a quick process. The medical assistant carries out the process by massaging the treated area after a couple of injections, before moving onto other spots that are to be treated. Soon the effect becomes visible. The treated person can go back to the normal activities. There would be some temporary bruising, redness, and swelling of the skin. There can also be some short-lasting pain and tenderness.
The process of using dermal fillers in Toorak is a fast-growing treatment, which people have started acknowledging.


These platform partners have configured their effects plug-ins for use with KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboards, MASCHINE, and the KOMPLETE KONTROL software.
The development marks an important milestone for NKS, the industry standard paving the way for seamless integration of effects plug-ins from all manufacturers in the KOMPLETE KONTROL musical workflow. Musicians and producers will be able to browse, load, and control effects directly from their hardware, and create effects chains within the KOMPLETE KONTROL software.
Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) is an extended plug-in format that enables a unified creative experience across hundreds of virtual instruments – and now effects – from Native Instruments and other leading developers. It simplifies the musical workflow with universal, tag-based browsing, instant sound previews, and seamless integration with KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE. More than 400 instruments from over 50 leading manufacturers already support NKS.
More details about the NKS vision will be shared with media and industry peers at the 'Native Summit' partner conference, held at this year's NAMM event in Anaheim, CA, from January 25-26.


We think of identity as the identity of a person. But people are far from one thing only, just as identity is far from always the same. In fact we could debate, and many do, whether or not there even is such a thing as identity.
It's been said, I don't recall by whom, that we experience ourselves as complex and differentiated, but that we see others as whole. I don't know if this tendency also permeates how we think of users and consumers. But in the interest of pushing a little on the assumptions we in social media make about the user and his or her interests, I'd like to unpack this a bit.
Philosophically, I'm more interested in becoming than being. Much more interesting, to me, is not the identity of who we are, but the question of how we become. For we become not by staying the same, but by relating to something different. If identity is a valid concept, then to me it is still a process. If identity ever "is," then it becomes so by identifying.
The aims of socially-mediated branding are to capitalize on the many and different ways in which companies can leverage relationships. Relationships through which consumers identify themselves, with or through a brand, friends and peers, values, and other kinds of interests.
The relationship is formed on the basis of identifying with something. This might be the brand itself, or its products, but also its principles, reputation, or values. In the case of a popular brand, and a lifestyle brand in particular, this relation usually involves relating to social perceptions of the brand.
Brand identity is not how the brand sees itself but how consumers relate to it: how they identify with it, and which facet or brand attribute it is that interests them (again: product, brand, values, reputation, etc).
Let's take the example of a user interested in a football team. We say the fan identifies with the team. If this fan is a particularly fanatic one, then this identification may even be called an identity. It's not who the person is, but how he or she sees themselves.
Identity might also be how the person represents him or herself to others, may be clear in how they talk, and will most certainly be involved in who they relate to and how. Other fans will be said to have the same identity. Fans relate to each other as fans of the same team, sharing a common identity.
Identity then is social. How we see ourselves is social. We see our own identities reflected in the social scenes we relate to and with which we identify. It's never enough to ask "what's the consumer's passion" and stop there. Passion is social. It is expressed in how the person relates to others and to the social world of things that he or she identifies with.
We have left the information age and are now in the age of communication. That's where our technologies and "industries" currently show much of the most interesting innovation. And in this age of rapidly socializing media, communication itself becomes a commodity.
Online talk, once it's been captured, can be circulated and distributed, and can attract the value and attention that drives non-money social economies. As social currency spent, and as social capital accumulated, communication on social media represents a very disruptive shift to the uses of media for marketing, branding, and sales.
Whether we like it or not, the commodification of communication by means of social media will be used. It will be used to the consumer's advantage, in some cases and by some brands. And exploited in others. This is how media work, when bound to the math of the bottom line.
As users identify themselves by means of media, as their relationships expose both individual tastes and preferences, as well as social affinities and common social identities, we should be advised that identity is not a fixed property. It is a work in progress and always in play. A dynamic of social identifications by which many and different relationships take shape through interactions and communication.
Brand identities, too, are socially determined. And brands interested in socially-mediated branding would be well advised to spend less on their identity. The brand's view of its identity is not the same as the consumer's. Brands, instead of communicating their identity, and identifying themselves, would do well to embrace the dynamic of identity through identification. Which is, in short, to identify with their consumers.


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New Golden Age For UK Jewish Film?
October 28, 2011 By Joseph Burke
The film historian Kevin Gough-Yates once asked: "Why is it that UK cinema, which has continued to have a large number of Jews working within it, should have produced so few films with Jewish themes?"
Certainly, U.K. cinema would not be what it is but for the contribution of ground-breaking Jewish directors and producers such as John Schlesinger and Alexander Korda. Yet these contributions did not translate into a proportionate number of films with Jewish themes and characters. As academic Nathan Abrams has noted, the British Jew has been "hidden."
However, the past decade has seen increased awareness of celluloid Jewry with homegrown productions like Paul Weiland's "Sixty Six" and Josh Appignanesi's "Song of Songs." Between 1908 and 1981 there were only 36 U.K.-made films with significant Jewish characters or plotlines but as many as 17 from 1990 to 2006. Now, this November, UK Jewish Film will celebrate its 15th annual festival with over 70 features, shorts and documentaries from 16 different countries to be screened in 13 London venues.
In 1997 Judy Ironside, founder and executive director of UK Jewish Film, opened the first festival in the seaside town of Brighton, home to many early film pioneers. Over time, the group's mission extended to Holocaust education, film-maker workshops and advising emerging festivals abroad — a wide scope that was only formally acknowledged in September with a name change to "UK Jewish Film."
The festival has been praised for its sensitivity, humor and creativity. "For a Jewish film festival over the years it could, obviously, have been difficult with pressures from the right and or from the left," Ironside said. Nevertheless, she continued, the festival thrived because "we have really tried to demonstrate an openness and a genuine concern to promote constructive dialogue about films that we show."
This year's program does not shirk any topic but neither is it enveloped by any. "The Collaborator and His Family," brings a documentary focus on Middle Eastern politics. Meanwhile, "Five Brothers" is a French crime thriller set among an Algerian Jewish community and "Mahler on the Couch," a German-Austrian co-production, addresses the therapeutic relationship between the composer and Sigmund Freud.
UK Jewish Film's balancing of different perspectives reflects a flexible attitude to the medium: "We are always film-plus. We are film plus discussion, film plus social events, film plus photography, why not?" Ironside said. In this spirit one of the organization's new pilot programs has been to bring women of Jewish, Christian and Muslim backgrounds together to watch films that explores an aspect of their identity. "Hopefully, there are ripples into their communities that continue after these events," Ironside reflected
As part of organizing the festival, Ironside now receives around 350 new films each year that consider some aspect of Jewish life. After the difficult task of whittling down this year's batch to just 70 films, she insisted that choosing a festival highlight would be akin to picking a favorite child. In the hands of UK Jewish Film, it seems safe to say the curtain will stay raised for Jewish film in the U.K.
This story "New Golden Age For UK Jewish Film?" was written by Joseph Burke.


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This historic Spanish Parador in Pontevedra (Galicia) is an original Renaissance palace dating back to the 16th century. Today a 4 star hotel, it boasts a glamorous interior design, summer terrace and central Old Town location.
Right at the north-western tip of Spain hugged by the Atlantic Ocean, this Parador is a real highlight on any tour of Spain's Paradors or a trip to Galicia. The smart 4 star hotel is located within the Old Town of Pontevedra. Inside, a wonderful antique décor dominates this glorious castle hotel, which is only trumped by the monumental stone staircase in the entrance hall. Three extravagant salons with a traditional, historic flair can be booked at the Parador de Pontevedra for parties and celebrations. The Parador de Pontevedra is also just 55km from the pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela.
This 4 star hotel in Galicia offers refreshments in its lounge bar and on the idyllic sun terrace with views over the garden of the Parador. The restaurant knows how to impress with its first-class wine menu and regional specialties. The garden veranda is also the perfect place for a relaxed breakfast brunch.
The 47 rooms and suites at the Parador de Pontevedra are spacious and charming, with lovely wood floors, hand-crafted beds, elegant armchairs and antique furniture. On request you can also enjoy a lavish breakfast in your room. For added luxury, book the junior suite with two rooms and balcony.


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The LCD back screen, though, was pointing into the digital future.
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Directed by Christopher Blauvelt, 'Good Morning' is the latest video from LA rockers Grouplove who enlisted Hollywood actress Elle Fanning to star in the visual. The single is from their third album 'Big Mess', which they are currently promoting on their US tour which culminates in an appearance at Coachella festival.
BIG MESS WORLD TOUR
11/15/16 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues*
11/16/16 - Houston, TX - House of Blues*
11/18/16 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater*
11/19/16 - Austin, TX - Stubbs BBQ*
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1/31/17 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel+
2/01/17 - Saxapahaw, NC - Haw River Ballroom+
2/03/17 - Charlotte, NC - Fillmore Charlotte+
2/04/17 - Columbia, SC - Music Farm+
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2/07/17 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room+
2/09/17 - Tampa, FL - Ritz Ybor+
2/10/17 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle+
2/11/17 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City+
2/14/17 - Springfield, MO - Gillioz Theater+
2/15/17 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom+
2/17/17 - Lincoln, NE - Bourbon Theatre+
3/16/17 - Richmond, VA - The National
3/17/17 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
3/18/17 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
3/21/17 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
3/22/17 - Port Chester, NY - The Capitol Theatre, "107.1's The Peak 13th Birthday Celebration"
3/24/17 - Cincinnati, OH, Bogart's
3/25/17 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
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3/28/17 - Wichita, KS - Cotillion Ballroom
3/29/17 - Sioux Falls, SD - Mammoth Live
3/31/17 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up
4/01/17 - Park City, UT - Park City Live
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Mar 30, 2018 . Peter Munk, the Canadian who built the world's largest gold mining company, years after suffering one of his country's most notable business failures, died on Wednesday in Toronto. He was 90. Barrick Gold, the company he founded, announced the death but did not give a cause. Mr. Munk wore a.
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Prior to Panoro he worked as Vice President and Exploration Manager for companies such as Trafigura Beheer Group, Andean Gold Ltd, Minera Penoles, Andean American Mining, Minera Aurifera Retamas among others and exercised the consultancy in others. He is familiarized with the geology and mining projects in.
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The Louisiana Downs 2016 meet that opens this Saturday, May 7. The 84-date season at the Bossier City oval will run through Sept. 24.
The highlight of the season will the Super Derby, its richest race, on a card of five stakes, to be run on Sept. 10. The program, worth a total of $700,000, will again include a pair of one-mile turf stakes for 2-year-olds, the $75,000 Sunday Silence and the $75,000 Happy Ticket. The Super Derby will be run over 1 1/8 miles, and the purse remains $400,000. In a change, the Super Derby will be contested as a Grade 3 race this year after holding Grade 2 status last season, when it was won by Mobile Bay.
Louisiana Downs will group seven stakes together Aug. 6 for the annual Louisiana Cup. There will be six divisional stakes for horses bred in Louisiana, led by the $75,000 Louisiana Cup Turf Classic and the $75,000 Louisiana Cup Distaff. The program also includes the $100,000 Prelude, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds that serves as the local prep for the Super Derby. Purses for the races will total $450,000.
Louisiana Downs will race Wednesdays through Saturdays at this meet, with special Monday cards May 30, July 4, and Sept. 5.


The Car Scheme is for people who are unable to use public transport, to get to community facilities or medical appointments. This may be because of mobility problems or other special needs.
Ring & Ride is primarily for local trips to leisure facilities and operates on weekdays only. Wheelchair accesible.
Hire service: Hertsmere residents who are wheelchair users are particularly encouraged to hire the vehicle using their own relatives and friends as drivers. Full training is given in the safe use of wheelchair restraints.
Shopper Scheme: People are collected from their homes by an accessible minibus and taken to their local supermarket for about an hours shopping and then taken home.


As promised here is a post looking in a little more depth at the features of the Hosted UC Pilot from Microsoft.
Firstly I will look at some of my favourite features and then will take a look at what is not available.
The first thing that strikes you as you log into Outlook Web App, is that you now have a fully fledged Exchange 2010 mailbox.
This is accessed using the https://mail.uctrial.com URL.
In my previous post on this subject I showed the process of logging into Office Communicator. Having done so I started poking around, and the first thing I tried was adding a federated user.
Surprisingly this worked as can be seen below, the globe icon shows up next to Brett which means that Federation is working for users at Microsoft but not external domains.
I then tried a bunch of other UC functionality such as desktop sharing, and peer to peer voice calls. Everything worked well! Sadly, one thing that is not available is Enterprise Voice which means that you can't go making phone calls on the system.
One major thing that is really important to understand is that this is a multi tenant system on which you can see all the other accounts that people have created! There is NO segregation at all!!
So all in all this is a great service for anyone wanting to test out the full range of Microsoft UC functionality minus of course Enterprise Voice.


I don't believe the coils need to be replaced when you do the spark plugs unless a coil is not performing, defective or broken. OKD makes a higher performing coil for our M's but they are $2,500-$2,800 for a set.
So you bought new coil packs as well?
Do you need to replace the coil packs when installing new spark plugs or can you leave the old ones in there?
No need to change your coils. Unless you break one or one not functioning properly. I didn't change the coils. One more thing I noticed after changing the spark plugs is the gas consumption is way better. I don't know if its my imagination but, the best I could do with a full tank of gas (in the city) was only 230-240km. After I changed the spark plugs I filled up and I just past 220km and I still have a quarter of tank left. mm....!!
Same experience for me. Only miles per gallon!
I'm currently in the process of changing the plugs now and improvised a new strategy to remove the rear-most coil packs. Also, I received a tip from a BMW Service Manager: Pull a rag through the clips and pull on it instead of using a socket extension. It makes sense because an extension would put all of the load on a single pin-pointed area on the clip - increasing the chance of breaking it. Well that strategy worked great until I got to the final two and I simply couldn't pull straight up on the coils due to their location, so I devised a plan.
Take the coils out of the cylinders just in front of the last two.
Install a spark plug socket with extensions onto the plugs in those cylinders, the goal here is to have about 2" of extension protruding out of the valve cover.
Pull a rag through the coil clip and apply some force with it by pulling once it's looped.
Put together a length of socket extensions roughly 18" long, make sure you use a 3/8" extension to go through the clip as it's the closest fit to the hole in the clip and will most evenly load the curved section of the clip.
While pulling on the rag, use the length of extension through the clip and push down on the extensions protruding from the next cylinders spark plug bore. This acts as a fulcrum to add force and give you the "straight upwards" pulling force.
Make sure to put the rag between the extensions and the clip as this will further distribute the load the extensions will be placing on the clip.
I struggled for about 10 minutes on the drivers side rear coil and nearly gave myself a hernia trying to pull it out before I thought up this strategy. After doing this it popped right out! Best part is it applies load to the thickest part of the head instead of to the valve cover directly as I'm sure the cover is thin aluminum.
mdyaman and screech like this.
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And another quick FYI, torque specs for the plugs are right on the boxes for them. Its 23 Nm, which equates to 17 lb/ft. The info in the DIY says 22 lb/ft, that's way too much!
Just did my plugs yesterday on a RHD car. To get the rear-most coils out I used a small block of wood (maybe 0.5 by 0.75 by 1.5 inches) stood on end against the cylinder head cover and used that as the fulcrum with a 12" extension as a lever. The coils popped out quite easily. I was able to get at the left rear plug by moving the ECU harness slightly and then I was able to use 2 extensions coupled with a universal joint. Space for the right one is tighter still so I used a 3/8s drive spark plug socket connected to a 3/8s universal joint connected to a 3/8s to 1/4 adapter connected to a 1/4 extension connected to a 1/4 inch universal joint connected to a 1/4 inch ratchet. All easy peasy lemon squeezy.
A tiny bit of rubber lube on the inside of the "top hats" on the coils helped them pop in very positively. Engine definitely runs smoother when cold - curious if the MPG climbs at all.
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Didnt need all those extentions. All u had to do was to remove the internal air filter assembly under the windshield and that gives u access to the last two spark plugs. Remember its german engineering. They always leave simple solution!!


The Bourdelle Museum in Paris is a gem for sculpture lovers. It was French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's former studio, preserved as a museum with indoor halls, studio, and gardens.
The Rodin Museum has been reviatlized and reopened this November 2015.
Located in Rodin's previous studio and home, which has been maintained as a self-financed museum. On the grounds, there are numerous bronze sculptures, including the Thinker, Gates of Hell, Burghers of Calais, and many more lesser known works.


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Chinese Mint Panda Gold Coins are available on an annual basis in five weights. The series, which launched in 1982 with four weights, has been available in five weights as of 1983. The collection used to include a 1 oz gold coin along with four fractional-ounce gold coins, but now the coins are marked and measured in Grams instead. Today, you have the chance to get Chinese Panda 1 Gram Gold Coins online at Provident Metals in near-perfect condition.
Arrives with the PCGS or NGC protective plastic slab!
Offered in 1 Gram gold since 2016!
Limited number of certified gold coins available!
Contains 1 Gram, .0322 Troy oz, of .999 pure gold.
The face value of 20 (Yuan) is backed by the Peoples Republic of China.
Graded Mint State 69 by the Professional Coin Grading Service or Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
Hall of Prayer for Abundant Harvests on the obverse.
Giant Pandas on the reverse.
Please note that buying more than one can result in receiving several matching coins.
From 1982 to 2015, the Chinese Mint offered its Chinese Panda Gold Coins in five weights. 1982 saw the introduction of 1 oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz, and 1/10 oz gold coins. A fifth coin, the 1/20 oz gold coin, was launched in 1983. Starting in 2016, each of these coins transitioned to weights in Grams as the official unit of measure. The 1/20 oz gold coin became the Chinese Panda 1 Gram Gold coin.
The Hall of Prayer for Abundant Harvests is featured on the obverse of the Chinese Panda 1 Gram Gold Coins each year. This design has been on the reverse every year since the start of the collection and is accompanied by the nation of issue inscription in Mandarin and the date mark.
Giant Pandas are synonymous with the Peoples Republic of China and act as an unofficial mascot of the nation. The Giant Panda features on the reverse of all Chinese Panda 1 Gram Gold coins and is the source of the name for the bullion series. This side of the coin has a new design element every year, which helps to generate interest in the series from one year to the next.
The transition from Troy ounces to Grams meant some small changes for each of the coins. The 1/20 oz Gold Coin underwent some of the more drastic changes in appearance to become the 1 Gram coin. Its overall weight was 1.5552 Grams as a 1/20 oz coin, but dropped to a flat 1 Gram in 2016. More drastic was the change in diameter. The 1/20 oz gold coin had a diameter of 13.92 MM, while the 1 Gram coin has a diameter of just 10 MM.
These Chinese Panda 1 Gram Gold Coins are available in Mint State 69 condition. Coins in this condition have full, original mint luster with a maximum of two minor detracting flaws. Those flaws are located outside the primary focal points of the coin and include only minuscule contact marks or hairlines.
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In 1981, author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote that death is the only remedy to "the morning agony of facing the blank page," aka the dreaded writer's block. While that might sound a little extreme, anyone who's ever had to write anything knows that writer's block is a frustrating wall to hit.
Writer's block can cause inspiration and creativity to feel stifled and productivity levels to drop. It may seem difficult to pinpoint too, but writer's block stems from your psyche — everything from writing something daunting to having too many thoughts can disrupt your writing flow, according to Psychology Today.
So what's a writer to do? Below are several tips to get back on your writing flow.
Former ESPN blogger Paul Shirley wrote Can I Keep My Jersey for Random House in 2007, according to the Washington Post. In order to keep himself on track and producing, he set deadlines — sometimes with deliberately low expectations, he told Mashable.
Supernatural writer Brian Moreland recommends getting up and doing something active like yoga, going for a walk or even breathing exercises to help relax and open up your mind, according to Writer's Digest.
You know how it goes: You don't know what to write so you hop on Instagram, and the next thing you know it's bedtime. Avoid that by moving all distracting things far, far away, and working in a quiet space, Moreland suggested in Writer's Digest. As brazen as it sounds, consider disconnecting from WiFi too.
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Alain Anton Joseph Adolf Ignaz Maria Fürst von Rohan1
M, #466411, b. 26 July 1893, d. 2 September 1976
Alain Anton Joseph Adolf Ignaz Maria Fürst von Rohan was born on 26 July 1893 at SichrowG.1 He was the son of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg.1 He married Margarethe Ernestine Elisabeth Aglaé Johanna Prinzessin von Schönburg-Hartenstein on 29 September 1921 at Vienna, AustriaG.1 He died on 2 September 1976 at age 83 at Vienna, AustriaG.1
Children of Alain Anton Joseph Adolf Ignaz Maria Fürst von Rohan and Margarethe Ernestine Elisabeth Aglaé Johanna Prinzessin von Schönburg-Hartenstein
Princess Marie-Jeanne Margarethe Gabrielle Michaela de Rohan1 b. 20 Jul 1922
Princess Marguerite Johanna Gabrielle Michaele Daniela de Rohan+1 b. 21 Jul 1923
Princess Mabile Therese Gabrille Michaela Maria de Rohan1 b. 2 Oct 1924, d. 22 Jan 1982
Princess Adelheid Michaela de Rohan1 b. 1 Jun 1927, d. 26 Mar 1931
Princess Gabrielle Karoline Marie Michaela Martha de Rohan1 b. 5 Mar 1929, d. 10 Feb 1991
Princess Aliette Franziska Bertha Michaela Pauline Maria de Rohan1 b. 29 Jun 1930, d. 1 Feb 1968
Princess Josseline Bertha Johanna Michaela Maria de Rohan1 b. 15 Apr 1934
[S5227] Charles de Rohan, "re: de Rohan Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 25 February 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: de Rohan Family."
Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan1
M, #466412, b. 8 January 1853, d. 23 February 1914
Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan was born on 8 January 1853 at Budapest, HungaryG.1 He was the son of Prince Arthur Carl Benjamin Victor Ludwig de Rohan and Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein.1 He married Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg, daughter of Adolf Wilhelm Daniel Prinz von Auersperg, on 10 October 1885 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1 He died on 23 February 1914 at age 61 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1
Children of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg
Princess Gabriele Berthe Johanna Ernestine Marie Geneviève de Rohan1 b. 18 Jun 1887, d. 9 May 1917
Princess Bertha Ernestine Aglaé Severine Johanna Maria de Rohan1 b. 5 Jan 1889, d. 9 Aug 1977
Princess Johanna Marie Berthe Gabriele Ernestne Daniela de Rohan1 b. 16 Jul 1890, d. 15 Mar 1961
Alain Anton Joseph Adolf Ignaz Maria Fürst von Rohan+1 b. 26 Jul 1893, d. 2 Sep 1976
Princess Marie Anna Antonia Johanna Ernestine Gabriele de Rohan1 b. 26 Jul 1893, d. 20 Jun 1966
Prince Karl Anton Adolf Julian Viktor Maria de Rohan+1 b. 9 Jan 1898, d. 17 Mar 1975
Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein1
F, #466413, b. 10 September 1827, d. 14 January 1890
Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein was born on 10 September 1827 at StiahlauG.1 She married Prince Arthur Carl Benjamin Victor Ludwig de Rohan, son of Prince Benjamin de Rohan and Stephanie Prinzessin von Croÿ, on 18 June 1850 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1 She died on 14 January 1890 at age 62 at Florence, ItalyG.1
From 18 June 1850, her married name became de Rohan.1
Children of Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein and Prince Arthur Carl Benjamin Victor Ludwig de Rohan
Karl Viktor Alain de Rohan1 b. 21 Dec 1851, d. 26 Jul 1852
Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan+1 b. 8 Jan 1853, d. 23 Feb 1914
Joseph Arthur Ernst Viktor de Rohan+1 b. 15 May 1854, d. 16 Mar 1926
Viktor Benjamin Ernest Arthur de Rohan1 b. 7 Jul 1856, d. 20 Jan 1882
Benjamin Alain Raoul Meriadec de Rohan1 b. 15 Feb 1858, d. 14 Jan 1889
Gabriela de Rohan1 b. 3 Jan 1862, d. May 1862
Ernst Meriadec Camillus Maria Philipp de Rohan1 b. 1 May 1863, d. 27 Aug 1895
Eduard de Rohan1 b. 5 Apr 1867, d. 13 Jun 1892
Marie-Bertha Franziska Felicia Johanne de Rohan1 b. 21 May 1868, d. 19 Jan 1945
Karl Viktor Alain de Rohan1
M, #466414, b. 21 December 1851, d. 26 July 1852
Karl Viktor Alain de Rohan was born on 21 December 1851.1 He was the son of Prince Arthur Carl Benjamin Victor Ludwig de Rohan and Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein.1 He died on 26 July 1852.1
Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg1
F, #466415, b. 17 September 1860, d. 17 February 1922
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Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg was born on 17 September 1860 at TeplitzG.1 She was the daughter of Adolf Wilhelm Daniel Prinz von Auersperg. She married Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan, son of Prince Arthur Carl Benjamin Victor Ludwig de Rohan and Gabriele Gräfin von Waldstein, on 10 October 1885 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1 She died on 17 February 1922 at age 61 at SichrowG.1
Children of Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg and Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan
Princess Gabriele Berthe Johanna Ernestine Marie Geneviève de Rohan1
F, #466416, b. 18 June 1887, d. 9 May 1917
Princess Gabriele Berthe Johanna Ernestine Marie Geneviève de Rohan was born on 18 June 1887 at AlbrechtsbergG.1 She was the daughter of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg.1 She died on 9 May 1917 at age 29 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1
Princess Bertha Ernestine Aglaé Severine Johanna Maria de Rohan1
F, #466417, b. 5 January 1889, d. 9 August 1977
Princess Bertha Ernestine Aglaé Severine Johanna Maria de Rohan was born on 5 January 1889 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1 She was the daughter of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg.1 She married Ottokar Wolfgang August Picot de Peccaduc Freiherr von Herzogenburg on 17 June 1920 at SichrowG.1 She died on 9 August 1977 at age 88 at Prague, Czech RepublicG.1
From 17 June 1920, her married name became Picot de Peccaduc.1
Ottokar Wolfgang August Picot de Peccaduc Freiherr von Herzogenburg1
Ottokar Wolfgang August Picot de Peccaduc Freiherr von Herzogenburg was born on 7 April 1871 at BestwinG.1 He married Princess Bertha Ernestine Aglaé Severine Johanna Maria de Rohan, daughter of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg, on 17 June 1920 at SichrowG.1 He died on 23 May 1955 at age 84 at Vienna, AustriaG.1
Princess Johanna Marie Berthe Gabriele Ernestne Daniela de Rohan1
F, #466419, b. 16 July 1890, d. 15 March 1961
Princess Johanna Marie Berthe Gabriele Ernestne Daniela de Rohan was born on 16 July 1890 at SichrowG.1 She was the daughter of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg.1 She married Rudolf Graf von Colloredo-Mannsfeld on 20 September 1922 at SichrowG.1 She died on 15 March 1961 at age 70 at Vienna, AustriaG.1
From 20 September 1922, her married name became von Colloredo-Mannsfeld.1
Rudolf Graf von Colloredo-Mannsfeld1
M, #466420, b. 16 August 1876, d. 21 March 1948
Rudolf Graf von Colloredo-Mannsfeld was born on 16 August 1876 at SierndorfG.1 He married Princess Johanna Marie Berthe Gabriele Ernestne Daniela de Rohan, daughter of Alain Benjamin Arthur Fürst von Rohan and Johanna Prinzessin von Auersperg, on 20 September 1922 at SichrowG.1 He died on 21 March 1948 at age 71 at SierndorfG.1


Equipo Nizkor - Court tell-alls tie the elite to Colombia's paramilitary killings.
As the razor-wired gates slid open, an armored SUV escorted by police sharpshooters on motorcycles roared out of the prison yard.
The motorcade is part of the morning routine at this mountainside penitentiary. One by one, jailed leaders of Colombia's paramilitary death squads are whisked off to court to confess their crimes.
Their testimony has confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the cream of Colombian society -- senators, business leaders, army generals -- promoted and financed the paramilitaries, who committed hundreds of massacres during their 20-year dirty war against Marxist guerrillas and became major cocaine traffickers in the process. More revelations about the links between the outlawed gunmen and the country's elite are expected in the coming weeks.
"Do you think an irregular force of 17,000 fighters armed to the teeth could move throughout the country without anybody knowing? Without anybody collaborating?" paramilitary leader Ivan Duque asked in a jailhouse interview.
"That's why I call this a country of hypocrisies," he said, "a society of lies."
The most damaging allegations were leveled last week by Salvatore Mancuso, the commander-in-chief of the now-demobilized paramilitary army, during three days of testimony that shook the government of President Alvaro Uribe, the Bush administration's closest ally in Latin America.
Mancuso accused small-town mayors, big-time congress members and Uribe's vice president and defense minister of collaborating with the gunmen.
He described active-duty police officers piloting paramilitary helicopters packed with cocaine. He said businesses ranging from Colombia's state-run oil company to U.S. banana exporters regularly paid the paramilitaries for protection from the guerrillas.
What's more, Mancuso laid much of the blame for the outlawed militias' expansion at the Colombian government's feet.
His accusations will be investigated by Colombian authorities, but political analysts say many seem accurate.
In March, Chiquita Brands International pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to paying $1.7 million to the paramilitaries. Thirteen Colombian congressmen -- 12 of whom are political allies of Uribe -- have been jailed on charges of collaborating with the militias, and dozens of current and former government officials are under investigation.
"The government always said that we were making these things up," said Omaira Gomez of the Colombian Commission of Jurists, a human rights group that has long accused government officials of links with the paramilitaries. "What Mancuso did was to confirm what we've been saying for the past 10 years."
Daniel Garcia-Peña, a former government peace commissioner, noted that the paramilitaries have a strong incentive to tell the truth, because, if they lie under oath, they stand to lose benefits like reduced prison sentences of between five and eight years.
"The fact that their judicial futures are at stake gives a lot of credibility to what they are saying," he said.
President Uribe, who has not been directly linked to any wrongdoing, remains wildly popular here. But the scandal has tarnished his reputation among Democratic leaders of the U.S. Congress and hurt chances for congressional approval of a trade deal between the two countries.
In a defiant speech Friday, Uribe blasted the U.S. Congress for portraying his government as a pariah. "This is unacceptable," he said.
The paramilitaries were formed by landowners and drug dealers in the 1980s to fight Marxist guerrillas who carried out widespread killings and kidnappings at a time when the army was undermanned and outgunned. Some paramilitary operations were coordinated with the government troops, many of whom viewed the gunmen as allies.
But as they pacified regions of Colombia, paramilitaries began smuggling drugs, extorting and manipulating politics.
Most of the paramilitaries have disarmed under a government-sponsored peace deal. In the process, new documents and testimony have revealed the extent of official support for the death squads.
One of the jailed warlords who has testified to court officials is Duque, a pugnacious 50-year-old former teacher and mayor who became a top political leader for the paramilitaries. He now lives at the Itagui prison, a gray, cinderblock complex built on the green hills outside the city of Medellin.
Duque spends his days in a small cell surrounded by books, writing his memoirs on a computer. He has access to e-mail and cell phones -- now a bone of contention after recordings of calls made by several paramilitaries at the prison revealed that they were still running drugs and ordering killings.
As guards listened in and women were fingerprinted before conjugal visits with inmates, Duque spoke for hours about the cordial ties between the paramilitaries and Colombian powerbrokers. He scoffed at the way many are now denying having anything to do with the militias.
"When the guerrillas were expelled from these zones, it provoked relief among landowners and big business and happiness among the politicians," said Duque, who like other prisoners wore civilian clothes: jeans, sneakers and a red-and-blue baseball cap.
Referring to protection payments that he said the paramilitaries collected from all business owners in areas they controlled, he added: "They preferred giving money to the paramilitaries than paying taxes to the government because our security system was very efficient."
Last week, five Congress members were arrested for attending a 2001 meeting with paramilitary leaders where they signed a document pledging to "refound" the nation. Some of the legislators later insisted they were forced at gunpoint to attend, a claim that provoked a belly laugh from Duque.
"There was total collaboration," Duque said. "Some politicians were complaining because they weren't invited to the meeting."
The extent of nationwide support for the paramilitaries was made clear by a recent poll published by the Bogota newsweekly Semana. In the survey, 33 percent said the militias were necessary to combat the guerrillas, and 51 percent said it made sense for the Colombian army to collaborate with the gunmen.
"For the vast majority of Colombians, there is a little paramilitary hidden in their hearts," wrote columnist Maria Jimena Duzan in the Bogota daily El Tiempo.
For relatives of the thousands slaughtered by the gunmen, such tolerance is hard to fathom.
Standing outside the courtroom in downtown Medellin where Mancuso testified last week, Gilberto Ramirez hung a laminated black-and-white photo of his 21-year-old daughter, Angela, around his neck. Six years ago, paramilitaries pulled her off a bus, and she was never seen again.
"I feel so sad when I look around and see the families of the victims and all the orphans who were left behind," he said. "My only hope is that they tell us why they were killed."


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Emeritus Professor Dick Baldauf was to be co-chair of the international applied linguistics conference that was held in Brisbane in August 2014. The theme of the conference encapsulated the core of Professor Baldauf's scholarship, "Our theme, One World, Many Languages highlights the importance of the richness of linguistic diversity and recognises the role that applied linguists have in shaping the ways in which the world responds to this richness."
Emeritus Professor Dick Baldauf was appointed at The University of Queensland in July 2003 as an Associate Professor with special responsibility for TESOL and language education. He was promoted to Professor in January 2008 and maintained a very high profile as researcher, scholar and teacher, with outstanding contributions to postgraduate student supervision and especially the supervision and mentoring of international students. His contributions were recognised in 2007 with a UQ teaching excellence award in postgraduate supervision.
The Prize was awarded for the first time in 2015. We are pleased to be able to remember our friend, colleague and mentor in this special way.
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Schedule of Lok Sabha election 2019 Announced
LokSabhaElection2019 to be held in 7 phases beginning April 11, results to be announced on May 23.
Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh will also take place. The Model Code of Conduct has come into force in the entire country with the announcement of the polls.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced the poll schedule in New Delhi last evening. He said the counting will be held on the 23rd of May. Twenty-two states and Union Territories will have single phase elections, while 4 states will go to polls in two phases.
States undergoing three phases are Assam and Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand while Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha will have four phase polling. Jammu and Kashmir will have five phases and West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh will have seven phases.
The much-awaited 2019 Lok Sabha elections are just around the corner. While the Bharatiya Janata Party will look to consolidate their hold at the Centre for a consecutive second term, the Congress party would aim to bounce back after their abysmal performance in 2014.
The National Democratic Alliance government had formed a majority government in 2014 with 336 seats in the Lok Sabha after the BJP secured an absolute majority by winning 282 seats out of the total 545 seats (2 nominated). The Congress party was humbled after 10 years in power, won a measly 44 seats.
However, tables have turned for the Congress in the past five years, with Congress president Rahul Gandhi taking over as the head of the grand old party and spearheading the Opposition's campaigns.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Sunday announced the dates for the crucial Lok Sabha elections at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. There are approximately 10 lakh polling stations this year compared to 9 lakh last time. Total electorate in this Lok Sabha elections will be 900 million, of which 15 million voters are in the 18-19 age group.
Election Commission has asked political parties to advise their candidates and leaders to desist from displaying photographs of defence personnel in advertisements as part of their election campaign.
The poll panel has written to the Presidents of all parties in this regard. In its letter, the Commission said, it has been brought to the notice that some parties are using the photographs of defence personnel as part of their political campaign.
The Commission cited its 2013 advisory in which it had said that the armed forces are apolitical and natural stakeholders in a modern democracy.
It said, it is necessary that parties and their leaders exercise great caution while making any reference to armed forces
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