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New York Mayor Giuliani Announces Withdrawal From Senate Race
New York's Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has announced his withdrawal from this year's Senate contest against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
After some weeks of indecision following the announcement that he has prostate cancer and that he is separating from his wife, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani finally confirmed what most political observers had been predicting.
The Republican Party is now most likely to endorse Congressman Rick Lazio, the member for New York's Second District in the House of Representatives.
Transcript of Giuliani's Press Conference announcing his withdrawal from the New York Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
GUILIANI: Thank you very, very much. I'm a very fortunate man and this is one demonstration of why I'm a very fortunate man. God has given me a lot and whatever obstacles that are placed in your way, I think the way to deal with it is to try to figure out how to make it, make it make you a better person. The reason I'm such a fortunate man is that I have people that love me and I love them and they care for me and I care for them. And that's the greatest support that you can have in life. And I think I'm fortunate because I probably have a few more people like that. Governor Pataki told me once a long time ago that your real friends are the friends that will love and care about you after you're the mayor, the governor, the senator or the president. And I have some friends like that. And I'm a very fortunate man. So whatever I decide, and I'm going to tell you what I decided, I feel very, very lucky.
I'm also very, very fortunate because not only I have very good friends and people that I love and love me, but I have, I have a job as the mayor of New York City, being the mayor of the city that I love very much — people that I've always had a great deal of connection to and love for. And over the last few weeks, they've given me a great deal of support. There isn't any place I can go in which they don't come up to me and give me notes or cards or, and tell me I hope you get better. And I thank God for that.
When I was, when I was first told that I had cancer, I thought this was going to be a much easier decision. I thought all of it was going to be easier. I thought the decision about treatment would be made like I, you know, like I've made lots of other decisions in my life, some of them real tough, none like this, but — and I thought the decision about running would be sort of a calculation that you would make about how tired you would be or not be, and I've found that it's much, much more difficult than that. And I find myself unable to make, really make the treatment decision yet, even though I've been over and over it. And about the decision to run, I was almost in the same position, not being able to make it, which has never really happened to me. I've always been able to make decisions.
I've also found in thinking about it, suffering over it, that something, it's very painful and very difficult, but something very beautiful happens. It makes you, it makes you figure out what you're really all about and what's really important to you and what should be important to you, you know, what, where the core of you really exists. And I guess because I've been in public life so long and politics, I used to think the core of me was in politics, probably. It isn't. The — when you feel your mortality and your humanity you realize that, that the core of you is first of all being able to take care of your health and make sure that you, that you're in good health, and to deal with a disease like cancer in the most effective way possible so you can be useful to the people that you really care about and really care about you, then your obligations are the people that love you and you love them. In my case, I also have an obligation to the people of New York City that elected me and as the mayor to do my job with the time and the energy and what I have left in going through the cancer.
And then I have, and I felt this very, very strongly and still feel it, I feel that I have obligations to all the people that supported me and helped me and assisted me in the race for the Senate because there were many of them and they gave a lot of their time and energy and money and support. So it's a very difficult set of decisions.
I've decided that what I should do is to put my health first and that I should devote the focus and attention that I should to running — to being able to figure out the best treatment and not running for office. This is not the right time for me to run for office. If it were six months ago or it were a year from now or the timing were a little different, maybe it would be different. But it isn't different and that's the way life is.
I don't feel that if I take on the commitment to run that I have the kind of confidence that I should have, that I'd be the candidate that I should be. I don't know that I'd be able to campaign the way I should. I don't know that I'd be able to concentrate on it the way that I should. And I don't know completely whether in August or September that I'd be able to continue. You know, sometimes I think yes and sometimes I think no. And it isn't right to take on that commitment if you don't feel a strong sense of certitude that you can complete it.
So I called Governor Pataki and I called Bill Powers and I called Joe Bruno and many other people and I told them that I would not be able to make the race and that I would do anything that I could to help them support and assist the candidate that they support and that becomes the candidate of the party. I called Rick Lazio and told him that if he's the candidate of the party, he can count on my help and my support.
And the focus that I'm going to have now is going to be of fighting cancer, making a decision about my treatment. I'm not going to give daily updates about it and I'm not going to deal with it as a political matter. I'm going to deal with it clearly and completely as a personal matter. And you know, when I feel it's appropriate to announce a decision, since I'm the mayor of New York City, I certainly am going to announce it. But I'm going to ask you to give me a little space to be able to make that decision properly.
I also believe that, you know, things happen in life of — for reasons that sometimes you only figure out afterwards. And there is something good that comes out of this. A lot of good things come out of it. I think I understand myself a lot better. I think I understand what's important to me better. Maybe I'm not completely there yet. I would be foolish to think that I was in a few weeks, but I think I'm heading in that direction.
And I thank God that it gives me another, really another 18 months to be the mayor of New York City, which I love very, very much. It's really my deep passion, the love for the people of this city and the love of this city. And I'm going to devote the time that I've been given, the extra time that I've been given, not only to do the things we have done and the things that we've accomplished together and the remarkable things that have been done, but to overcome, maybe, some of the barriers that maybe I placed there, and figure out how to overcome them. I don't know the answer to that yet, I don't know exactly how you do that. But I'm going to try very hard to do that. I want — when I got re-elected and I became — I gave my inaugural address, I said that — and when I was running for re-election, I kept saying that I wanted — I don't want — people in this — many people in the city have felt a big change, a great sense of optimism, they've gotten a lot of help and they've gotten a lot of benefits and they feel very differently. But it hasn't reached everyone in this city. And there are a lot of people that haven't felt that. And I'm going to dedicate myself to trying to figure out how we can get them to feel that too, including maybe changes I have to make in the way I approach it, the way I look at it.
It doesn't mean there's going to be a new Rudy, I think that's silly. I think maybe it's going to be a different, maybe somebody who grows from the fact that you confront your limits, you confront your mortality. You realize you're not a superman and you're just a human being.
And in addition to turning my attention to straightening out the health situation, I'm going to try to make sure that I'm a better mayor, that this is a better administration and that it accomplishes the goal of, you know, reaching every person that we can reach and making sure that every New Yorker feels that I'm dedicated to them, that I want to protect them, that I want to help them. And that I want my time as mayor to count for everybody.
And again, you know, I don't — I have to express a tremendous sense of gratitude and even — and I feel like I should apologize to the people that wanted me to run, the people that, when I went in last night to the town hall meeting and I saw the people outside saying, "Run, Rudy, run, Rudy, run, Rudy," I had, you know, half the time last night I felt like I wanted to run. And the half the time I felt like I shouldn't do it. And when I stayed up last night — I don't usually sleep very much, so I didn't sleep very much last night at all. And I stayed up last night going back and forth about what's the right decision and what isn't the right decision. I believe this is the right decision. And I think somehow, somewhere, some way this is all for the best. And it's going to mean that I can be a better mayor.
I believe this is the right decision and I think somehow, somewhere, some way, this is all for the best and it's going to mean that I can be a better mayor. And I'm going to try to use it for that, and a better — maybe most important, be a heck of a lot, you know, more focused on what are the important things in life.
Q: When you said that your decision is dependent upon your treatment . . .
GUILIANI: No, no, what I, what I — I realized that in doing that, I think I said that, I realized that a couple of days ago and I think I said that last night. I didn't organize this, I mean, I didn't understand the impact of this. It was, what I thought at first was, O.K., I'll take a week or two, or three, whatever it takes, to figure out what the treatment is. I will then decide on the treatment, I'll then look at the treatment and I'll figure out, does that mean I can run or I can't run.
You know, I, I thought, I thought of it as a budget, I know it sounds silly, but I thought of it like a budget decision or a — or a legal decision, or a — and the reality is that I can't make the final decision about the treatment if I'm not sure what the right approach is yet. I'm getting there. And I realized that under either approach, that there are risks that I can't be, substantial risks, that I can't be the candidate that I would like to be.
And it doesn't really matter very much which form of treatment that I take. My concentration isn't going to be there. That nobody can tell you in percentages, you know, what the side effects are going to be. You can be fine, you can be terrific, or you can have problems and then you won't be able to carry out your commitment. So I realized that that was probably the wrong way to look at this, or at least that's how it evolved in a human way. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's the way it happened.
Q: Is this the end of your political career?
GUILIANI: I don't — I don't think I'm thinking about politics, Gabe. I don't know, I'm thinking about, you know, I'm thinking about deeper, deeper things than that. Will, you know, life — right now what I'm thinking about is number one, let me have a little room to decide on the medical treatment. I'm going to go through it. I'm going to go through it with a sense of optimism and then I'm going to get through it.
But I want my full strength and, to be able to do that, I'm going to think about how I can be better as a person. I'm going to think about how I can be better as being mayor of New York City and I'm — the way in which I think I can use this to grow is to do that. And I think if I were to run, I would not be able to put the concentration on those things, and those are the higher priorities. And politics, politics, you know, it isn't as important as I thought it was. I used to think, I used to make, you know, many of my life decisions for the last 10 years, around politics and they should have been made, and I'm going to make them in the future, around the other things that I'm talking about.
Q: (Inaudible)
GUILIANI: Pardon me? I'm going to stay here. I'm not, you know, I'm not going away. Let me just have Gabe finish what —
Q: More introspection and less politics.
GUILIANI: Well, right now there's no politics, except the decision that has to be made politically and —
GUILIANI: I hope so. I hope, you know, I think that I'm finding out more about what I think is important in life. And politics is important, but it is by far not the most important thing in life. Your life is more important, your health is more important, the people you love, your family, the people that are close to you and really care about you. You know, those are the most important things in life. And then, after that comes politics. And it's important because you serve other people, you know, but there are a lot of ways to do that, including being a better mayor.
Q: . . .wanting to be a better mayor, does it bother you that you lack support in some of the minority communities and are you going to make a new, make an attempt to reach out and —
GUILIANI: Yeah, I'm going to find a way.
GUILIANI: Yes, I'm going to try to do that. I think that, I think that one, that the things that I can do is to overcome that barrier and figure out how I've placed it there and what I have to do to overcome it, to see what I can do about increasing the number of people that are covered with health care. I mean, one of the things that — one of the things that I felt from the beginning of this and continue to feel is a tremendous sense of compassion for the people that have to make decisions like this alone. I mean, you know, the — people have given me tremendous help, tremendous support, tremendous encouragement, practical help, emotional help. You're all alone and you get confronted with a life-threatening disease of any kind, that's a horrible thing. And one of the ways we can, one of the things maybe that I can do is figure out how we accelerate making sure that people are covered, they have health care coverage. I mean, there are a lot of things that I think I can accomplish that I haven't accomplished before and you know, that doesn't mean that we won't try to keep the things that in place going in that direction.
GUILIANI: One more.
GUILIANI: I don't know. I want to extend, I want to extend my mayoralty and try to overcome some of the barriers that are there. That's the way I feel about it. I don't understand, I don't completely have in my head exactly how I'm going to do that. I haven't — that has not been the primary thing that I'm thinking about and maybe I'll talk more about that in a week or two weeks or something like that. Right now what I've got to do is to concentrate on the medical decision which is what I'm going to do and that — and concentrating on that and asking questions about your mortality and, you know, what's going on with you makes you raise other questions about maybe you can, maybe you can find a way to be a more complete person and a better person.
GUILIANI: There's other questions about — maybe you can find a way to be a more complete person and a better person. Yeah. Shhhh.
Q: …a total turnaround for you, Mr. Mayor. Do you feel like you're dying, respectfully, and is this decision in part due to your personal problems?
GUILIANI: Do I feel like I'm dying?
Q: Do you feel that you're dying? When you said you're overcoming barriers, it sounds like you're reaching out to the . . . almost as if you want to die.
GUILIANI: I don't know — I don't — no, I don't feel like I'm dying. And I feel like I've been a very effective and a very successful mayor. But I also think there are more things that I can do.
Q: Did your personal life play a role in your decision?
GUILIANI: This decision is a health decision. I — my personal life is my personal life. It's, you know, it's something that people, I think, don't have the kind of concern with that sometimes is indicated by the intensity of the media interest and, you know, I would like to keep that as much my personal life as possible.
But that is not the reason for the decision. If, you know, if there were 10 different variations of my personal life, I would make exactly the same decision about the necessity to put the focus on my health and recovery from cancer.
And you know part of it is if you're going to go through something like that, you think about, you don't want to add extra things to your life during a time you're going through that. You certainly want to remain active, you certainly want to remain involved in positive things. But suppose I was a lawyer, you know, in private law practice and I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. And I had to go through one of the forms of treatment. That would not exactly be the time to take on, let's say, you know, one of the big cases of your career. That would be the time to continue in law practice, remain involved with your friends and family and everyone else, but maybe cut back a little bit and give yourself a little more room, a little more space.
So, you know, I think that's the reason for the decision. And you know, life is life and things surround you and they go on, but that's the main — that's the reason for the decision. I think I would have made it that way no matter what.
Q: Mayor, when you say you want to reach out to communities who've been left out in New York's economic boom, does that mean talking to your political adversaries like Reverend Sharpton?
GUILIANI: I don't know exactly what it means. It means that I'm going to try and reach out to more people to try to help more people and try to, you know, when you look at the way in which people feel about what's happened in New York City, most people feel it's been very positive. Most people feel it's been very useful, very helpful. Some people feel that it hasn't been. This isn't — I'm just not capable of doing it as a racial, ethnic, religious thing, divisions. But I'll do it based on people. There are people in all different groups that feel that way. Maybe more in one group than another, but there are people in all different groups and the way we group people that feel that they've been left out or they haven't had a chance. That's the way I have to do it.
I have — the only way I'm going to be able to do this is honestly and based on me. And I think there's too much group identification in our society and too little human identification. So I'm going to have to find a way to do it based on — I'm the mayor of New York City. Every New Yorker is entitled to me trying to help them and that's the basis on which I'm going to help them. Not in this kind of group and subgroup analysis. Shhh. We'll go back there, yes.
Q: How difficult is your (inaudible)
GUILIANI: Well, if you've observed me for the last three weeks you would figure out how difficult it is. It's been very, very difficult. It's been so far the most difficult decision of my life, the most painful, the one that I've agonized over the most and had the most difficult time making. Except for the decision about exactly what to do about the cancer. So that might give you a sense of the priorities.
And I also think now that I've made it that it's probably been the most useful thing that's every happened to me in getting me reoriented or oriented around what is important in life. I think somehow something good is going to come out of this, really good for me, for the people around me and maybe for the people of the city.
Q: Mayor, how much . . . done to anticipate . . .
GUILIANI: I don't — I have not — I decided I would make this decision first and then that's a complex legal, ethical, all sorts of questions and I'm going to need people to advise me on how to, just exactly how to do that and we'll make — first of all, we'll make the legal decision, we'll make the ethical decision and we'll figure out the best way to do that.
GUILIANI: No. I mean, last night when I left I thought, gee, I really — I mean this is — I don't know how I can walk away from this. You know, this is so exilarating. But you know, then I got home and thought about it some more, talked to a few people, couldn't sleep until the early hours of the morning. Woke up this morning and said that there are more important things in life. There are just more — there are more important things in my life. You know, everybody makes the decision differently.
GUILIANI: Pardon me?
GUILIANI: I've made the decision in my mind different ways over the last week. I mean, I've gone one way, I've gone another. I thought about what is it going to be like if I do and will I be able to handle both things going on at the same time, the medical treatments and the campaigning? Is it fair to do it? Is it fair to the people that supported me? I've made the decision a number of different ways and then last night when I did the town hall meeting, most of the time I thought, gee, I should do this. But I had before thought I shouldn't. And then this morning, I decided this is not the right thing to do. It's not the right time, it's not the right decision. It's not the right priority for me right now.
GUILIANI: I was pretty sure before the radio show. When I got up this morning, I was pretty sure that this is what I wanted to do. I talked to a few more friends this morning. I kind of made the decision in my mind, but I didn't make it completely because I've changed my mind a few times. And then I decided right after the radio show and said I'm going, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do this. I told a few people I thought I was going to do it and then I decided I was going to do it. The report, I mean, I don't want to get critical, but the report that was out that I announced it at the morning meeting this morning is incorrect. I did not. I wasn't, I wasn't ready to do it then. I decided it right after the radio show.
Q: Who did you call first?
GUILIANI: I'm not going to get into who I called first and, I talked to all the people that are close to me. I called all of them.
GUILIANI: Well, I tried to reach each one of them and I got them, you know, as they called back, I got them and I, you know, I'll give you the three or four, I talked to Governor Pataki and I told Governor Pataki that I was very sorry that I couldn't, couldn't do this. And he said he understood completely. He's been wonderful about this from the very, very beginning and tremendously compassionate and understanding. And I told him and then I talked to, I talked to Bill Powers. In fact, I had them both on the phone, they were both on different phones and I went back and forth and talked to them. And then I spoke to Joe Bruno and I told them that I would, consistent with the medical treatment and what I can do and consistent with my responsibilities, personal and, and as the mayor, that I would do everything that I could to help the candidate that's elected and that I would be willing to help in other ways because I feel I owe them a real debt for the patience that they've had. And said that I, you know, we all need some time to figure out exactly what that means and how that'll work itself out but I wanted them to know that I would be very supportive and very helpful to the extent that I could be.
And I also, I spoke to Senator Lott and I spoke to Senator McCain and I spoke to Senator McConnell and explained my decision to them. And I spoke to Governor Bush and told him that, that I would not be able to do this and that I felt very bad about it and that I certainly wanted to help him in any way that I could, any way he thought I could be helpful. And then I spoke to, you know, many, many of the, my close friends and explained it to them.
Q: . . .what you're going through right now because of the marital situation, did that have any impact?
GUILIANI: Yeah, I don't discuss my children. And, you know, the reason that I don't do it is I think what you say to your children and what your children say to you is a — has got to be, for me, a personal thing. I'm not capable of doing that publicly, at least not right now.
Q: . . .past two weeks, are you looking back at your mayoralty and saying, geez, maybe I shouldn't have done this, maybe I should . . .
GUILIANI: No. I'm saying, I'm looking back at my mayoralty but I'm not really looking back, I'm looking forward in my mayoralty and I'm saying that, think that one of the reasons, that I can be very — that I feel that I'm a very fortunate and a very lucky man is that I'm the mayor of New York City. And I want to improve it. I believe it's been a very successful mayoralty. I think it's done a lot of things that had never been done before in the city. I think there's room for improvement. And I think that, and there's room for improvement inside me, I, as a person. And you, you use, you've got to use an experience like this to do that for you. And I hope that that improvement I make in myself is going to make me even a better mayor and I can leave this city even in better shape, you know. That's, at least that's the challenge that I want to set out for myself.
GUILIANI: Am I closer to God?
GUILIANI: I hope he's closer to me.
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You will have amazing experience driving on the roads of Chandigarh as they are beautiful and covered with trees. You will never be stuck in traffic jams like the Delhi and Mumbai traffic jams. The city is actually very small that you can reach from one place to another in minutes.
Chandigarh is the first well planned city of india. Swiss-French Architect Le Corbusier has designed the master plan, however Chandigarh Capital Project Team has designed most of the government buildings and housing under the leadership of Pierre Jeanneret.
Chandigarh is the perfect combination of ethnicity and modernisation. You can find variety of food at different food courts, cafes, hotels, dhabas, university sasta cafes, bistros etc.
Chandigarh is a union territory so you can enjoy liquor at a very reasonable rate. But yea traffic rules in Chandigarh are very strict so please don't drink and drive.
Even after construction of a lot of malls like Elante Mall and many other Sector 17 remains the most happening place in Chandigarh. The cool breeze from the wide open sky will let you relax when the temperature is low at night.


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This is the first post in the Thailand! travel series of my eats in Bangkok.
Even people who hardly know a thing about Thai cuisine know the national dish Pad Thai.
I was really curious whether pad Thai was actually a really a common dish in Thailand, or it was something that was ubiquitous in America, but didn't really exist in Thailand.
As it turns out, pad Thai is all over Thailand now, though it wasn't always that way.
Pad Thai derives its roots from Vietnam, created when one stir fries Vietnamese "Pho" noodles together with Chinese ingredients such as preserved radishes, Chinese chives, dried bean curd, and shrimp. The humble noodle dish became a national dish in Thailand in the 1930's and 1940's under Prime Minister Luang Phibunsongkhram, who put on a massive campaign for the dish in an effort to promote patriotism, support local rice farmers, and unify the nation.
He disseminated the recipe for pad Thai around the country, encouraging people to sell this new national dish (renamed Pad Thai), on street carts all around the city. He encouraged Western cultures, such as the use of forks and spoons for eating and Western clothing.
The dish became a national sensation, and people began associating the dish with Thailand itself.
To this day, pad Thai is a dish that is mostly enjoyed in casual street stalls. Many will argue that proper, formal restaurants just don't serve good enough pad Thai. It's a dish that's meant to be enjoyed on the street.
So Bryan and I made the journey to seek out the most famous pad Thai in Bangkok.
A healthy walk from Democracy Monument, this roadside unassuming restaurant called Thip Samai employs over a dozen people. It's fascinating to walk by and see all of them furiously churning out pad Thai.
The restaurant opens at 5:00 PM, so don't expect to come for lunch. You will be sorely disappointed if you try (as many tourists have).
There are seemingly workers making pad Thai everywhere, even this guy cooking pad Thai out on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant!
We sat inside, though you can see that the front of the restaurant is just open to the street. Because we came pretty early (close to 5:00 PM), we were able to easily grab a seat.
Every plate of pad Thai is served with a side of fresh bean sprouts, lime wedges, and other greens I couldn't identify.
We ordered the Original Pad Thai, which was tasty and a bargain for the quality. The above dish costs 50 baht, or about $1.67 USD and was filled with all sorts of delicious ingredients, such as dried tofu, cilantro, Chinese chives, and eggs.
Thip Samai uses Chanthaburi Noodles, rice noodles that are dried out in the sun (instead of with machines). These noodles were a bit thinner than what I see in the States, and had a nice, chewy texture. The red color comes partly from the use of shrimp oil, which is made by cooking either dried shrimp or shrimp heads in hot oil.
Pad Thai is cooked to order in steel woks on traditional charcoal stoves.
Bryan, who doesn't love sweet dishes, still found the pad Thai to be a bit sweet for his tastes, and told me he preferred other dishes in Thailand to this one. However, a few sprinkles of the chili pepper flakes made things much better for him.
We also tried the "Superb Pad Thai" (70 Baht, or $2.30 USD), a twist on the original dish because the pad Thai noodles are wrapped in an egg omelet.
Everything was quite tasty, served fast, and cost next to nothing. I thought that the pad Thai reached a nice balance between salty (from the fish sauce), sweet (from the palm sugar), and sour (from the tamarind). I liked how the noodles were nice and chewy, and overall, the dish was very good.
I'm not sure if it's the best pad Thai I had in Thailand. I took a few cooking classes while I was in Bangkok, and I would argue that some of those home cooked versions rivaled this one.
However, I do want to mention that I had just eaten at another street side restaurant prior to this, so the fact that I was already a little full may have also influenced my overall enjoyment of the meal. I bet if I were famished before coming here, I would be raving a lot more about this meal.
I still think it's totally worth coming to visit. It's a Bangkok institution, and it's fascinating just to see all these people making their crazy volumes of pad Thai the old, traditional way. Plus, the dish is really good, and it won't hurt your wallet the least bit.
Come early, to beat the lines. We came right at 5PM and had no trouble finding a seat.
Pad Thai is the only Thai dish I enjoy in the States. In Singapore, I found another dish, fried stuffed chichen wing. Did you find it?
No I did not, though I had some excellent Northeastern style deep fried chicken wings that were fantastic!
Thanks for the review. I went there about 20 months ago, after a bit of a trek around the area, not knowing the exact location, and really enjoyed it. Will be there again next month.
Hi Jen – thanks for all your tips for Tokyo & Bangkok. I went to Tokyo earlier in the year and found your reviews really helpful! Am going to Bangkok later this year for 6 days. Did you have any additional tips for restaurants and also side excursions? I think 5 days in Bangkok is probably a little too long (we're meeting up with friends in Krabi afterwards) but I'm traveling with my daughter and after our long haul flight from NYC, am a little hesitant to get on the plane immediately for another city.
This post (link below) gives an overview of our trip including our excursions (scroll to the bottom to see links to all the individual Thailand posts). We went to see the floating markets as well as the market that's situated right on the train tracks!


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So I recently stopped using the Acne.org regimen after almost 2 months. Unfortunately, my skin and the BP was not a harmonious match. The discomfort from my dry, flaky, itching skin was becoming too uncomfortable and unsightly AND these small red pimples were beginning to appear.
So my question is...what are some product lines or other regimens former users of Acne.org regimen transitioned too?
Have you tried homoepathy? I have been doing it for 3 months and my acne has improved about 50% The homoepathic doctor told me by the end it would improve by 90% and then just a simple oil could keep me clear. Find a homoepathic doctor. If my acne improves 90% I will tell you guys but so far im happy with 50% I don't break out nearly as much no big pimples very small ones and thats because of exam stress right now so Idk I got high hopes!
There's still plenty of things that can help. Firstly, the Regimen was not quite enough to clear up my son. So in addition to the Regimen, he also took 100 mgs minocycline for 3 months, plus several weeks of tretinoin (.05% cream). Now he maintains his clear skin with the Regimen alone.
If the Regimen alone did not help, this can provide some benefit! Good luck with whatever you decide!!


Last Friday night, I found myself in an empty airport in the-middle-of-nowhere, Alabama, without my luggage, wondering how my airline, US Airways, managed to screw things up so completely. I'd left Boston earlier that day to fly to New Orleans to visit my sister, scheduled to arrive by 8:00 p.m., yet it was midnight and I definitely wasn't on Bourbon Street. Bad weather, airplane malfunctions, and security slowdowns were not factors in my being two states away from my intended destination, either. It all came down to poor customer service and disorganization.
I missed my connection in Philadelphia because the boarding process in Boston took an hour. The flight was sold out, all of the overheads were filled before the plane was half boarded, and an argument ensued between flight attendants and passengers over whose bags would get checked.
US Airways representatives were hopeless in rebooking me after I missed my connection. I opted to fly to Mobile, Alabama (about two hours from New Orleans) rather than spend the night in Philly with no guarantee of flying the next day. When I got there, my bags were missing. The airline had no idea where they went and was unable to give me information at any point. Thank God my sister and I are the same size. I eventually found my bag several days later while hunting around a missing-luggage room in the New Orleans airport.
US Airways' failures nearly derailed my trip, but they didn't surprise me. U.S. airlines have a long track record of failing their customers, and recent studies show they're getting worse, not better. This past April, the Airline Quality Ratings survey showed poorer performances for 16 of 18 U.S. carriers over the year before, and this Tuesday, J.D. Power and Associates released the results of the 2007 North America Airline Satisfaction Study, which included similar findings.
The new report shows customer satisfaction rankings for seven out of nine major airlines, as well as low-cost carriers JetBlue and AirTran, dropped this year. Among the major carriers, Continental is the top rated, having gained seven points over its 2006 rating. Northwest Airlines is ranked last, dropping 10 points. JetBlue is still the number one low-cost carrier, despite losing 10 points. Interestingly, all five of the low-cost airlines rated had higher scores than Continental. The study takes into consideration cost and fees; the quality of the flight crew, in-flight services and aircraft; boarding, deplaning, and baggage handling; and check-in and reservation services.
There's been a lot of noise lately about a possible Passenger Bill of Rights, but I think the U.S. airlines, especially the major carriers, need to take it upon themselves to develop more streamlined processes for nearly everything they do: booking, rebooking, check-in, boarding and deplaning, and tracking luggage. One of the reasons many carriers do a poor job of serving customers, I believe, is because they are generally working with older, archaic company structures and computer systems that don't adapt well to increased demand.
I'm not sure what needs to happen to make the airlines change, though. It seems as long as the demand for flying remains high and consumers remain unwilling to pay more for better service, there's no impetus for improvement.
As for me, the list of airlines I refuse to fly just got longer.


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this blog began as posts from my hitchhike to Israel (2010). Then from my once in a lifetime trip to the Arctic. Now back in London the journey continues.
sod off. SOD OFF
A really encouraging truth is that people who are intellectually terrifying often have a wicked sense of humour. The joy that there is more than one way to relate to someone – that I don't have to match their intellect so long as we can have a laugh.
Geoffrey Hill made me laugh during a poetry reading at the Serpentine (video posted below). Minutes before imitating the angel of Poetry who yells SOD OFF, he told London's cultural elite:
"My belief that nothing more demonstrates the nature of the plutocratic anarchy that we are currently inhabiting than something by De Sade, such as The 120 Days of Sodom."
At university I wrote my dissertation on his poetry and later I was blessed to become his friend. The way he used language gave words integrity.
Below I post an extract of an interview he gave and two of his poems (which happen to be my favourite).
"My interest in the Elizabethan Jesuits, and in particular Robert Southwell and Edmund Campion, is that they seem to me to be transcendently fine human beings whom one would have loved to have known. The knowledge that they could so sublimate or transcend their ordinary mortal feelings as to willingly undertake the course they took, knowing what the almost inevitable end would be, moves me to reverence for them as human beings and to a kind of absolute astonishment. The very fact that they lived ennobles the human race, which is so often ignoble."
Funeral Music VIII
Not as we are but as we must appear,
Contractual ghosts of pity; not as we
Desire life but as they would have us live,
Set apart in timeless colloquy.
So it is required; so we bear witness,
Despite ourselves, to what is beyond us,
Each distant sphere of harmony forever
Poised, unanswerable. If it is without
Consequence when we vaunt and suffer, or
If it is not, all echoes are the same
In such eternity. Then tell me, love,
How that should comfort us—or anyone
Dragged half-unnerved out of this worldly place,
Crying to the end 'I have not finished'.
Lachrimae Amantis
What is there in my heart
that you should sue so fiercely for its love?
What kind of care brings you
as though a stranger to my door
through the long night and in the icy dew
seeking the heart that will not harbor you,
that keeps itself religiously secure?
At this dark solstice filled with frost and fire
your passion's ancient wounds must bleed anew.
So many nights the angel of my house
has fed such urgent comfort through a dream,
whispered "your lord is coming, he is close"
that I have drowsed half-faithful for a time
bathed in pure tones of promise and remorse:
"tomorrow I shall wake to welcome him."
RIP Geoffrey Hill
"It doesn't take an expert to diagnose the whole stinking system. I talk to a taxi driver from Pakistan and they're saying the same thing as me. Everyone's feeling it. David Attenborough's feeling it; all the people we trust are feeling it. Can we address it? Can we inhale it? Can we withstand it?" ANOHNI
There's something to be said about what we feel when everyone's feeling it and how we relate to each other and to grief.
Maybe that's the silver lining. In violence erupting on the street we see beyond our bubble and we feel what matters to us. We want people to stop being so shitty to other people and we want the future to be less of this mad dystopian energy that Brexit released.
Knowing what we don't want – experiencing what we don't want – reading it on our newsfeeds, having it happen to people we know. It might be the start of figuring out what kind of relationships we need to build with ourselves, between each other, to address the stinking system and withstand it.
Because this is the mess we will spend our lives sorting out. And it is probably just beginning.
One of the most serious promises I ever made was spoken between me and two others after we had known each other just 24 hours. We were together during the Ende Gelande action that shut down a coal mine and power station.
We reached a massive piece of mining machinery and climbed to the top of it. As we looked out over the vast open cast mine we felt overwhelmed by the fossil fuel industry and the absolute inadequacy of our resistance to it.
I don't think I will ever see those two people again but this is the promise that we made:
"I promise that I will be there, physically or spiritually, as often as I can."
One week ago we made public some ugly truths about ourselves, but it isn't just Little England that we revealed. None of us exist in isolation and right now we are being bent into shape by our new awareness, our nationality, our shared humanity, the conversations we are having and the ways we are finding to cope.
How do I relate to myself in the world that is being revealed? And how do I relate to you – you whose fear is terrifying and in whose company hope – so slow and fragile – exists?
'Everything starts as a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Every political movement begins as a counter-narrative to an existing narrative.' Jeanette Winterstone
I suppose it is worth saying that we don't have to sit on social media all day. And that if we see hate, we can oppose its isolating power through the strength of solidarity and shared love. To be encouraged that each moment we choose not to be resigned to the facts, but to recover from them instead, we are more than ourselves, we are hope.
In your memory we will not rest.
"The truth is our world is changing and not for the better." Patti Smith
It has been difficult to keep a clear head or heart when so much is wrong.
The massacre of the gay community in Orlando. The murder of a woman who was really good. The murder of 24 "mostly women" at a village funeral in Nigeria.
The facts of so many lives destroyed and then the despair: that we – humanity – collectively attempting to create a safe and prosperous world have created something much more brutal. The strange beauty of the world made less because such acts are possible.
What kind of people are we?
Three massacres in one week – particular people or groups of people chosen to die. Acts of terror that erupt from our society because of our context: our politics, our leaders, our culture, our direction of travel.
When Kim Leadbetter asks us to be part of her sister's legacy she's inviting us to be better than we have been:
"They have been vocal and passionate and have spoken from the heart with genuine emotion and no hidden agendas. We have to continue this strength and solidarity in the days, months and years to come. As part of Jo's legacy." Kim Leadbetter, Jo Cox's sister.
We have been told such a relentless story of competition that it is now radical, counter-cultural, anti-capitalist and extreme just to trust that putting each other first is the only practical way to resolve our anxieties. Like if we see, accept and love the humanity in ourselves and everyone then someone somewhere is pulling the wool over our eyes.
The opposite is true. We are exhausted by a system that tells us our human value is best achieved by keeping our heads down. We lose connection – the basis of our humanity – in the obsessive individualism that engulfs our planet: the dread that my future is endangered by the flourishing of yours. When we stay distracted, when we don't act, when we keep silent, we give permission to those who are most capable of extreme destructiveness. And when we give permission to the darkness we lose our hearts.
Paying attention is serious and can be really sad, but if we avoid it now then we lose the only silver lining – the possibility of turning pain into experience and that experience into the foundation for a different way of doing life.
Attention is an act of connection – of relating to each other and of seeing the relationships between things. Every night I write a gratitude list of ten things that happened that day because it pulls this world and my humanity into focus. It allows me to build and perceive of myself as something that is not alone – that relates to others and the world – that is connected and plugged in.
It's never been more important.
Stretch out to resist the temptation to stay safe. We are not safer curled up inside ourselves. Stretch out and allow ourselves to be defined by others. Stretch out and connect directly with the world.
"The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us but silence." Audrey Lorde
Tragedy has hit my community. Mine because I am queer and have experienced hate. But not mine because the experience of being Latino and poor in the USA is so far from my privilege that to comment or identify feels completely mad.
Untangling the facts of the massacre from my outrage at the media response and from the imperative to tell Facebook 'what's on my mind'… It feels claustrophobic with no room to experience the anguish or process the incomprehension.
"I really wish I could think of something to say that was hopeful, that was useful, that was not simply a net of rats blocking the force of the sun." Sean Bonney
I don't mean to condemn the posting of online responses to human tragedy, but there is something grotesque in the volume of them combined and scroll-thru-able. Facebook: the keeper of our curated self and today (or yesterday) a platform for a community's grief.
As though the act of posting sorrow to Facebook turns a statement from grief or memorial or gut reaction into a self-conscious performance of those things. Like this blog – it's words put together following the event to let the world know that we have an opinion about this thing: to join the debate, to prove to ourselves by the collection of 'likes' that our feelings are a valuable part of our self.
I have read the news and almost in the same instant I have read the news filtered through the online reactions of my peers. With each piece of information discovered, the process of mass reaction goes on repeat. The net of reactions reaches wider and the noise of mourning sounds blunt and thoughtless.
Can responding to human tragedy, to a particular oppressed group, to being oppressed ourselves and to needing to recognise our role as oppressors be adequately contained in a status update?
We don't give ourselves a moment to be offline, free from self scrutiny, to be humans that feel and ache.
I long for solidarity marches where instagram is banned, where we must be with each other without the lens of social media, where we can stand side by side in solidarity, feel our grief free from telling our networks about it, where we can remember the dead and just feel what it is to mourn.
Because it isn't just real contact, communication and debate that is being corroded by our constantly updating feed. If we don't give ourselves time to process the questions then the answers we come to will always be inadequate.
Responding to fear, isolation and hatred can't be done in the echo chamber of our online worlds. For that we need to step beyond the worlds we know and the communities we click like to. We will need to resist systems of oppression that benefit when we consume and are consumed by a world in two dimensions. We will need to meet people who scare us and get real with them.
ENDE GELÄNDE: being part of climate change activism
There have been a couple of times in my life when I have felt physically very close to climate change. The first was in 2011 on a cargo ship in the Barents Sea, hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle and approaching Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost settlement.
It had been so warm on deck that I'd taken off my coat and my sweater and was standing next to the Captain, wearing a vest. That temperature, at that time of year, at that latitude, freaked me out.
It freaked me out because such uncannily warm weather in such an unspoiled environment took climate change from the remote future and made it, for me, present; its destruction inevitable and any resistance to its man-made momentum – futile.
But worse than the futility I felt about our efforts to curb climate change was the overwhelming sorrow about the total impact of the species I belong to – that we should not be trusted with the beauty and abundance of this planet. We really have wrecked it.
Two weeks ago I was looking from a local tourism viewpoint into Germany's biggest open cast mine. This is what I saw:
It's not often that I have to feel myself so close to climate change. Like most people in the global north I don't experience climate change as a daily reality and the world I inhabit encourages me to sidestep awareness of and responsibility for my carbon intensive life. Although it adds up – collapsing into my anxiety and my unconscious – I can choose to forget the planet being plundered, the species' gone extinct, the nations and peoples – on the move – who are already being devastated.
But when I resist our culture's imperative to close my eyes and forget – when I take myself to the mine and feel that close to climate change – there is no escaping how it makes me feel.
I am hurt by the devastation of this planet to fuel a way of life that causes more stress that it does joy. It just fucking hurts. And when I tune into that reality – the reality of us so distracted by what we want that we don't notice we are destroying what we need – well first I have to hide and hold myself tight, and then I have to do something about it, even if the something that I choose to do won't be quantified as 'a practical solution' by the yard stick of this current system.
This society that tells us again and again and again to believe in a future of absolute injustice and the end of the world rather than believe, care, demand and create a society that redistributes wealth globally and stops burning fossil fuels.
To me the story of humanity that begins today with our fear of the unknown and ends – in a century or so – with social chaos and environmental collapse is a total failure of imagination.
We are extraordinarily resilient and biologically programmed for survival. We are also nothing without each other.
Later today I will join ENDE GELANDE in a camp outside Europe's biggest lignite coal open cast mine. Over the following days we will go to the coal mine to shut it down. We will risk arrest to be part of this mass act of civil disobedience. In joining in this act I will be given grace from my feelings of despair.
Our system is built on the assumption that no disruption will topple it. Mass resistance, mass movements of peoples, massive failures of the banking system – nothing can disprove the 'logic' of neo-liberalism. Our system thrives when we stop believing in the creative spontaneity that exists when two or more humans connect: the faith that anything can happen and probably will.
Over the coming days I will go somewhere and be part of an environment where some thousand people might find the courage and opportunity to shut down one of Europe's biggest polluters. That miracle of David and Goliath – over the coming days I might get to part of something like that.
There is no such thing as 'impossible'. The 'logic' of the society in which we compete, and call that competition 'life' is unraveling. This is why I am going to the pit. In a world experiencing the impacts of climate change – to be part of moments that scrape, resist and depend upon trust and connection – it's where I go to remember and to be part of hope.
Dreaming Green
"There are other worlds. Other kinds of dreams. Dreams in which failure is feasible, honourable, sometimes even worth striving for."
We're told that people are sick of politics. We don't identify with the people in the Houses of Parliament and why should we bother when we get all the identification we need via our online following or by the brands we buy.
We're told that there is nothing that we can do to change the world. That those who imagine a different world, or who daily live an alternative within this world, are a naïve minority. The status quo is the status quo and anything different has been proven not to work so don't imagine change as part of our future.
Our opinions and our voices are excluded from a lot of the spaces where power is defined. We are allowed to exercise dissent in a piecemeal way as one of a million consumers or one of a thousand voters. But whether we boycott or we vote with conscience, we know that our actions are a drop in the ocean and will not shake the established order or be part of a sustained movement change.
And yet – from the fringe of the political establishment – a political party is growing, faster than any party membership has for a long long time. A party that has a vision of a fair future and the policies that if put into place could take us there.
This party is unlike any of the others because it is upfront and honest about where we are now. Unlike the others which want to keep you calm and consuming; to prolong the way things are – or create an exclusive myth of how things were – the Green Party begins with science that punctures every assumption in our present way of life: our one planet can no longer support the lifestyles that the West has assured us to expect.
With this fact established the Green Party invites us all to get very deeply involved – in recognising the failures of the current system, in protesting its injustice and in building our role in what the future must be.
In a world where power is male, it is the only party that has successfully challenged barriers and enabled women to lead. It is a party that accepts the world as it is whilst pushing forward voices that are marginalised and so speak with the dreams of what a different world could be.
Excluded from the television debates, the Green Party has complicated answers to complicated questions about how we will live together and live well with fewer resources on a less hospitable planet. They do not underestimate our need for better answers to difficult questions – and our readiness to fight to rediscover a more nourishing model of human success. So as Green Party membership soars and more people are involved in dreaming and designing this world turned on its head – the establishment is left in the past, neither asking nor answering the right questions.
Charlie Hebdo and our online feed
"I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world."
My online world is a clash of opinions. The debate that began 2015 was 'who should we blame for the Charlie Hebdo murders'. And now there is so much more content to debate: the cynicism and hypocrisy of the world leaders' photo-shoot; the populist news anchor calling for retribution and more death; our Prime Minister's sleight of hand as he demands that we give up privacy to secure our freedom.
The articles, posts and memes have spiralled in feeds that filter – for our personality – the information we receive. And then we repost as we read our most recent and most passionately held opinion reflected back at us. The hashtags trend whilst, in the real world, the victims of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack are today laid to rest.
In the time between their shooting and their funeral the online world has stopped to have its say and what a say it has had. There is no resolution just a series of 'final words' directed at a limitless audience with a very limited attention span, and it makes me wonder if any of us are saying anything much at all, because we are definitely not listening.
Rather than proving who we are by our actions, we so much prefer to build our identities by the likes we notch up for the opinions we post online. As though at least online we can be who we want to be, untroubled by our journey into work that we silence through our headphones, or by the exhaustion of considering who we are and who we dreamt we'd be, or by the fact that time always seems to be running out.
And still vast distances continue to open up between us and all the people who are not our facebook friends. And these distances become unreconcilable gulfs if they are left, if we do not reach across. If we continue to polarize debate by having our say on the hashtag of today – and do not get out from behind our screens to find the places that are open for us to be together and be human.
The online world is where I react to things that I cannot control. If I stay in front of my computer for too long I forget that beyond this screen there is a world where I can do more than react. That there are more important ways to define my self than by what I will and will not 'share'. That there is a need I feel so deeply that will never be met through this carefully constructed online version of me.
Two years ago I posted films and words from the cargo ships that took me to – and the sailing boat that sailed me around – the High Arctic.
Whilst waiting at Longyearbyen port for the first of the cargo ships home, I was amazed to watch the Arctic Sunrise dock. Asking the captain whether they could take me with them to their next port of call: Amsterdam – he said, 'if you can volunteer as a deckhand then yes'.
So that's how I came to travel for one week with the Arctic Sunrise and how I met that expedition's crew, some of whom are now in a Russian prison.
One week ago I read Open Democracy's article about the seizure of the Arctic Sunrise, the arrests of the crew, journalists and activists – and the West's muted response.
Every day new battle lines are drawn in the fight for our future. Almost imperceptibly those with power – those exploiting our planet and exploiting us – crumple stories that could inspire and give people hope.
The arrest of the Arctic 30 and the West's acquiescence – our leaders' acceptance that innocent people – doing the right thing – will be punished, breaks away at our understanding of what democracies depend upon and should fight to protect – our planet, human rights, a protest ship.
When I was on board the Arctic Sunrise welcomed me and made me feel part of their crew. John, Po Paul and Paul – all sailors – are now in prison. Below is some footage I took of them.
Don't Frack Our Future – Doreen's Story
This is Doreen. She came to speak to the Lush UK shop managers in February about the situation of fracking in Lancashire. Lush decided then to host a Frack Off campaign in 105 UK and Irish shops. Now resistance to fracking is kicking off in Balcombe – West Sussex, with the Reclaim Power 'climate camp' pledging to stop Cuadrilla's drills between 16th-21st August.
Make their presence your reason to come to the Balcombe camp – it is safe, peaceful and creative (with a kids' space, safety in numbers and the media's eyes fixed on the protest). Make your promise to the future and to a line that we should never cross.
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Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire
Stetchworth, a parish, with a village, in Cambridgeshire, 1¼ mile E of Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Newmarket section of the G.E.R., and 3½ miles S of Newmarket. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newmarket Acreage, 2891; population, 722. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ellesmere, who is principal landowner. Stetchworth House is a chief residence, standing in a park of 40 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £224 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ellesmere. The church consists of chancel (Norman and Early English), nave and aisles (Late Perpendicular), and tower with five bells. The nave and aisles have been restored, and the chancel was restored in 1895. The church contains some good stained windows and a fine monument of white and black marble erected in 1674 in memory of Richard, son of Lord Gorges, interred (together with his father and mother) in a vault beneath.
Ecclesiastical parish Stetchworth St. Peter
Hundred Radfield
Poor Law union Newmarket
We have transcribed the entry for Stetchworth from the following:
Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stetchworth (St. Peter))
Online maps of Stetchworth are available from a number of sites:
District East Cambridgeshire
Postal district CB8
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Q: Connecting Rooms I've created a simple algorithm for a game I'm working on that creates a cave like structure. The algorithm outputs a 2 dimensional array of bits that represent the open area's. Example:
000000000000000000000000
010010000000000111100000
011110000000011111111000
011111110000011111111100
011111111001111111111110
011000000000001111000000
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(0's represent wall, 1's represent open areas)
The problem is that the algorithm can sometimes create a cave that has 2 non connected sections (as in the above example). I've written a function that gives me an array of arrays that contain all the x, y positions of the open spots for each area
My question is, given a number of lists that contain all of the x,y coordinates for each open area what is the fastest way to "connect" these area's be a corridor that is a minimum of 2 thickness wide.
(I'm writing this in javascript but even just pseudo code will help me out)
I've tried comparing the distances from every point in one area to every other area in another area, finding the two points that have the closest distance then cutting out a path from those 2 two points but this approach is way to slow I'm hoping there is another way.

A: Given two caves A and B, choose a point x in A and y in B (at random will do, the two closest or locally closest is better). Drill a corridor of thickness 2 between A and B (use Bresenham's algorithm). If you have multiple disconnected caves, do the above for each edge (A,B) of the minimal spanning tree of the graph of all the caves (edge weight is the length of the corridor you'll drill if you choose this edge).
Edit for the edit: to approximate the distance between two caves, you can use hill climbing. It will return the global minimum for convex caves in O(n) rather than the naive O(n2). For non-convex caves, do multiple iterations of hill climbing with initial guess chosen in random.

A: If you need the exactly minimal solution, you can consider first building the frontiers of your caves and then applying O(nm) algorithm. This will eliminate the need to compare distances between interior points of your caves. Then as soon as you know the distances between each pair of caves, you build the minimal spanning tree, then you drill your tunnels.

A: Since I don't know too much from your description, here are some hints I would consider:
How do you look for the pair of nearest points? Do you use a naive brute-force approach and thus obtain a run time of O(n*n)? Or are you using a more efficient variant taking O(n log n) time?
If you have obtained the closest points, I'd use a simple line-drawing algorithm.
Another approach might be that you generate a structure that definitely has only one single connected area. Therefore you could do the following: First you take a random cell (x,y) and set it to 1. Then, you traverse all it's neighbours and for each of them you randomly set it to 1 or leave it at 0. For each cell set to 1, you do the same, i.e. you traverse it's neighbours and set them randomly to 1 or 0. This guarantees that you won't have two separate areas.
An algorithm to ensure this could be the following (in python):
def setCell(x,y,A):
    if x>=len(A) or y>=len(A[0]) or x<0 or y<0:
        return
    A[x][y] = 1

def getCell(x,y,A):
    if x>=len(A) or y>=len(A[0]) or x<0 or y<0:
        return 1
    return A[x][y]

def generate(height, width):
    A = [[0 for _ in xrange(width)] for _ in xrange(height)]
    from random import randint
    import Queue
    (x,y) = (randint(0, height-1), randint(0, width-1))
    setCell (x,y,A)
    q = Queue.Queue()
    q.put((x,y))
    while not q.empty():
        (x,y) = q.get()
        for (nx, ny) in [(x+1,y), (x-1,y), (x,y+1), (x,y-1)]:
            if randint(0,8)<=6:
                if getCell(nx,ny,A)==0:
                    setCell(nx,ny,A)
                    if randint(0,2)<=1:
                        q.put((nx,ny))
    return A

def printField(A):
    for l in A:
        for c in l:
            print (" " if c==1 else "X"),
        print ""

Then printField(generate(20,30)) does the job. Probably you'll have to adjust the parameters for random stuff so it fits your needs.

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Ever since my move here to LA a month and half ago, my skin has changed from dry and sensitive to dry and oily ( mixed skin ). Dry from the constant sunshine and dry air and oily from all of the pollution from the traffic and due to the fact that I walk absolutely everywhere for many miles a day.
This green tea mask was the most amazing "in-home" treatment I've ever experienced. It wasn't a regular kind of mask that I'm used to ( think Lush and Alpivita masks ) but instead it came as a "jelly-pamphlet" that you put on your ( wash and towel-dry beforehand) face, hold for 20 mins and then just take it off and you're good to go. My skin was singing "hallelujah" afterwards and I could def. feel that a "dirty layer" was taken off of my face.
I still have to try the cleansing gel, but judging by this amazing mask, I'm sure that I'll like it. 🙂 It's without the parabens, sulphites, promises to cleanse your pores while not stripping your skin and keeps it hydrated.
Next up is Ole Henriksen's serum "Truth serum – collagen booster". I can say that I've been pretty good in terms of taking care of my skin and using only the right and the best products for it, as well as never falling asleep with my make up on, drinking enough of liquid on daily basis and such, I am getting closer and closer to 30s and I think that it's never too early to start adding some more extra care to my skin by introducing some more "powerful" serums than the ones that I've been using by now. I still have some of my Chanel serum left, but when that's finished I'll test the Truth serum and will let you know how it works for me. It promises to support natural collagen production, brighten and minimise fine lines and leave your skin healthy and protected.
One of new, cool "discoveries" in LA was the Drybar saloons! If you haven't heard about them or are living outside the States, it's a hair saloon but they only do the blowouts and hairstyles. They don't colour or cut your hair. Let's say, you have a date, a job interview, an event to attend at, just go to the Drybar, tell them what you need and they'll do a perfect blowout or even an "uptini". 🙂 When I saw that Sephora sells their products I've decided to pick up this hairspray and heat protector cream. So far so good, thumbs up for both of these products!
I was in need of some eyeshadow brushes, so I've picked up 3 different ones from Hourglass. Totally worth every penny!
Last thing from this haul is my long time trusted charcoal mask by Origins. It's hands down, one of the best face masks and beauty products in general that I have ever used. I can see that it will be more than beneficial product in my beauty routine here in LA since it's the most powerful mask to get out all of the toxins and dirt that get "stuck" on my skin. Without masks like these and clearing up the top "layer", no matter how great serum or cream you put on your face, nothing will go through and the effect of both will be minimal.
I love all Benefit's products ! It's such a lovely post !
Great haul, I'd love to try that mask.


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MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has called for closer international cooperation in fending off cyberattacks.
Speaking Friday at a cybersecurity conference in Moscow, Putin said it's important to develop common cybersecurity standards that take into account interests of all nations. He noted that cyberthreats have mounted around the world.
The Russian leader noted that the number of cyberattacks on Russia has increased by one-third in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same period last year.
He said that Russia would work to develop an automated system facilitating information exchange between businesses and law enforcement agencies to help enhance cybersecurity.
Putin didn't address allegations that government-sponsored Russian hackers have meddled in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. Moscow has strongly denied interfering in the vote.


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The effectiveness of interventions related to the use of illicit drugs: prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery. A 'review of reviews'
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Drug-related intimidation. The Irish situation and international responses: an evidence review
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Directory of courses and training programmes on drug misuse in Ireland 2017
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Scoping review of case management in the treatment of drug and alcohol misuse, 2003–2013
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Jerusalem Post Opinion Columnists
Think About it: Netanyahu and the US election
Israel-US relations are in need of serious repair, and upcoming elections will play an important role.
By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at cabinet meeting 370
(photo credit: Pool/ Emil Salman )
I am sure that when Binyamin Netanyahu gave his recent interviews to US TV networks CNN and CBS he had Israel's security at the top of his mind. I also have no doubt he is sincerely concerned about the possible results of the US failing to set a red line for the Iranian leaders regarding their nuclear program.
Nevertheless, what he did is simply "not done."
It is not clear whether the non-violent interference by a government in elections being held in a foreign state can be considered an outright breach of international law. However, it is generally accepted among democratic states that such interference is unacceptable, though it is perfectly legitimate for the leaders of one state to have their preferences regarding the identity of the leaders of another.
What would Netanyahu say if two months before the elections in Israel, TV channels 22 and 10 were to hold interviews with a foreign president or prime minister in which they criticized Israel's settlement activities in the West Bank, and its reported plans to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities with or without American backing, arguing that all this constitutes a threat to human justice and world peace? Not only would Netanyahu be furious, but also those of us who do not support him would feel that the foreign leader had overstepped himself, though it would be perfectly legitimate for him to express his misgivings to Netanyahu personally, or in a joint press conference in which Netanyahu would have the opportunity to reply.
What Netanyahu said in his interviews about the need for the US to set clear red lines for the Iranian authorities regarding their nuclear program, he and other members of his government explained to the US administration on numerous occasions in the months that preceded the interviews, and their American interlocutors made it crystal clear that they rejected the Israeli demand.
Against this background, repeating the demand in the US media, when an election campaign is going on, and the Republican candidate is believed to be more partial to the Israeli position, cannot be seen as anything but blatant interference against the acting president of the United States, and in favor of his Republican rival.
Though many US Republicans, including Jewish supporters of the Republican Party, were undoubtedly pleased with Netanyahu's interviews, especially in a week when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was caught "putting his foot in his mouth" and the opinion polls have been giving him cause for concern, it should be recalled that close to 50 percent of Americans and at least 70% of American Jews support Barack Obama, and they view the interviews as Israeli chutzpah at its worst.
But beyond Netanyahu's gaffe, I find it extremely disturbing that the prime minister of Israel appears to openly support a Republican Party that has taken a sharp turn to the extreme – almost wacky – Right, which is causing deep concern among many moderate Republicans and has made parties such as Angela Merkel's CDU in Germany and David Cameron's Tories in the UK seem leftwing in comparison.
I feel extremely uncomfortable with the thought that my prime minister (and he is my prime minister, even if I did not vote for him) supports a party that objects to national health insurance, whose leader pooh-poohs the 47% of the US population that allegedly does not pay federal taxes (which says a lot not just about Romney, but also about the extreme and unbearable social and economic gaps in the US), which supports the continued free sale of weapons to everyone despite several massacres of innocent citizens that it has led to, and which refuses to take responsibility for the economic crisis of 2008, that took place when George W. Bush Junior was president, and was aggravated by economic policies that Mitt Romney openly supports today.
Had Benjamin Nitai (the name Binyamin Netanyahu assumed when he lived in the US) decided to remain in the US back in the 1970s, it would have been perfectly OK for him to join the Republican Party and even run for office (though not for president) within its framework. But he made other choices, and must accept the consequences of those choices.
It is not difficult to guess that irrespective of the result of the US presidential election, but certainly in the case of an Obama victory which today seems more than likely, Netanyahu's gaffe will further distance liberal American Jewry from Israel, emotionally, culturally and financially.
Israel-US relations are already in need of some serious repair, and let us just hope that we are not in a situation of "all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again."
The one positive outcome of Netanyahu's gaffe is that in the coming elections it will be much easier to try to convince the Israeli public that it should do what it did in the elections to the 15th Knesset – namely, decimate the Likud (in the 15th Knesset, after Netanyahu's first premiership, it went down to 12 Knesset seats).
Netanyahu might still curse the day that he gave his TV interviews in the US, and even more that he canceled the elections he announced back in April, when he was at the peak of his popularity, in order to set up a coalition with Kadima.
The writer teaches at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and was a Knesset employee for many years.