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Mark 1: 1-3:
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mark did not start the story of Jesus with birth, but began with the dreams of the prophets long ago. the word "gospel" is an English word. It is a translation of the Latin bona adnuntiato, which was a translation of the Greek word used in one text. Its original form was gospel, god being the Anglo-Saxon subjective "good," and spell meaning "news." The Greek word, of which the English word "gospel" is a translation, was used in classical Greek for the reward given to a man who brought good news; but in later Greek it was used of the good news itself. Throughout the whole New Testament, the whole Gospel is "the oral proclamation of God's plan of salvation as made known and realized by Jesus." As verb or substantive the word occurs in the New Testament more than 70 times. The underlying idea is always "good news" or "joyful annunciation." The biographer of Michael Angelo tells that he was once seen standing, chisel in hand, gazing intently on a rough block of marble. Upon being asked what he saw there, he said "I see a beautiful angel imprisoned, and I mean to set it free." So God gazing on the rough undeveloped mass of humanity saw there the vision of the Ideal Man. The Incarnation of the Divine Son was, the deliberate beginning of God on the plane of time to develop the thought of man that was His in all eternity. Because Jesus Himself is the good news, because He is what He is, Jesus belongs to His gospel not as a part of it, but as its embodiment. He is the personal realization and its power. And such will always be felt to be. In placing the person of Christ as the work of the Gospel histories, we speak in accordance with the spirit of those books and of the whole ensuing system of doctrine/. Jesus Christ created the Gospel by His work; He preaches the Gospel by His words; but He is the Gospel Himself.
Mark 1:4-11:
4John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 5Then all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. 7And he preached, saying, "There comes One after me who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. 8I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
9It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. 11Then a voice came from heaven, "You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Mark 1:12-13:
And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
There is no such thing as an un-tempted servant of God. To be a servant of the highest God is to follow Jesus down this same road. We will suffer temptation, we will suffer trial and pain, we will experience tribulation as we seek to do God's will in our fallen world. And as the more extended descriptions of this event tell us in Matthew and Luke, the central focus of this temptation is to do God's will but not in God's way. Do you catch that? If you mere to identify the areas of temptation and trial in your own personal life it will be immediately clear to you that the desire of Satan the adversary is for you to seek to do or seek to bring about what you know is God's will but to not also then do it in God's way. Because, because God's way was and still is the way of suffering not the way of force. And this would be Satan's push again and again. And that is why the response of Jesus to his adversary both directly and through the words of the people through whom Satan spoke were again and again, I will not do it your way but trust in the way of the Father. And so when Peter declared that he would never let Jesus be arrested and crucified, Jesus rebuked him in no uncertain terms, Get thee behind me Satan! I had a rather unpleasant discussion with someone recently because in the midst of our conversation they shared how easy life seemed to be. Everything was moving along with seemingly no bumps in the road. After listening for a while to a whole list of good things in their life, I asked for permission to speak frankly with them. I asked them not as their pastor but as a brother in Christ if the smoothness in life was more a result of their choice to again and again to turn away from the path of Jesus to avoid the discomfort and stress. Several months later our relationship is strained at best.
Forty, in their minds, was a "fourspace number suggesting the idea of a foundation for something to follow, and idea of completeness. So the number forty is frequently used in the scriptures to indicate a completed preparation for something to follow.
These two verses contain Mark's account of the temptation of Jesus. He does not describe the three separate temptations which are given in the book of Matthew. But he has some features of his own. They are expressed in the words "immediately," driven," and "wild beasts."
The word "immediately" is also translated "straightway." Mark uses the expression 41 times in his gospel account. The temptation happened immediately after Jesus' baptism. Immediately after what? Immediately after the baptism. The initiative in this temptation was not taken by Satan; it was taken by the Holy Spirit. He did not wait til the tempter came, but obliged the tempter to come. He forced the fight., We ought to follow his lead far more there. Most of us just wait until we are tempted, and then half scared , seek for help. But we could always pray ahead and take the ground before the Evil One can come. That is what the Holy Spirit does here.
It is impossible, in this life, to escape the assault of temptation. Temptation, however, is used for the good in that it strengthens the nerve and sinew of our minds and hearts and souls. The ancient Hebrew writers made a practice of using numbers to symbolize ideas.
And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.  But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred."
"Why did Jesus call money deceitful? It's not what it seems. It's like a fish line that looks attractive to a fish until he gets it in his mouth. When he finds out, by then it's too late. He's been tricked." --Ralph Doudera ("Wealth Conundrum" p37)
Mark 1:14-15: Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."
The American Heritage Dictionary says, "to feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it." Vine's says, "A change of mind that involves both a turning from sin and a turning to God. Always, in the New Testament, repentance involves a changing of the mind for the better and always of repentance from sin.
What is wrong with Vine's definition? He says that repentance involves.... repentance from sin. He tries to define the word using the word.
The Greek word that Jesus uses in our text for repent is the verb metanoeo. This word, along with the noun metanoia (repentance), are the main words used in the Greek New Testament for repentance.
--Berean Bible Church: Repent and Believe
Repent! "I have sinned" are important words, but do not necessarily mean repentance. Pharoah said "I have sinned," in mere terror and hardened his heart the moment the judgment was removed. Achan said "I have sinned," like some criminal on the scaffold who confesses only when the consequences of his iniquity stares him in the face. Balaam said "I have sinned," but still went on in spite of the drawn sword of the angel, dazzled by the gleam of Balak's gold. Judas said "I have sinned," but in him was despair and remorse as he flung down in the temple the accursed pittance for which he sold his soul. Saul said "I have sinned," but only to return to his demoniac ways. Job said "I have sinned," and humbled himself under the mighty hand of God and God exulted him. David said "I have sinned," and in a wailing in his heart went on to discover that God restores to godly sorrow a clean heart and a free spirit, The prodigal son said, "Father, I have sinned," and rose weeping and into his fathers arms.
This is the mystery of the Kingdom: that the Kingdom of God has come among men and yet men can reject it. The Kingdom will not experience uniform success. Not all will receive it. This was a staggering thing to one who knew only the Old Testament. When God's Kingdom comes, it will come with power. Who can resist it? Who can withstand God? But precisely this is the mystery of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is here, but it can be rejected. One day God will indeed manifest HIs mighty power to purge the earth of wickedness, sin and evil; but not now. God's Kingdom is working among men, but God will not compel them to bow before it. They must receive it; the response must come from a willing heart and a submissive will. God is still dealing with us in this same way. God will not drive you into His Kingdom. It is not the business of those who are called to the ministry of the Word to speak with authoritarian compulsion. We speak as emissaries of God, but we plead and do not demand, we persuade and do not drive. We implore men to open their hearts that the Word of His Kingdom may have its fruitage in their lives. But men can reject it. They can spurn the Gospel of the Kingdom. They can scorn the preacher of the Word; and he is helpless.
- George Eldon Ladd, The Gospel of the Kingdom, pp. 56-57.
Mark 1:21-26:
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, 24 "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!"
25 "Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!" 26 The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
You have to wonder – did the people in the synagogue around the demon-possessed guy have any idea about his possession? Did the man greet people, make normal chit-chat, etc., before the spirit inside him was provoked by Christ?
Respected Bible teachers who have encountered demonic activity report that there is no one-size-fits-all profile for people who are suffering from demonic affliction. Those who have written on the subject include author and pastor Chip Ingram who describes his encounters with demons in his book The Invisible War, Dallas Seminary professor and theologian Merrill Unger who has written widely on the subject concerning his personal interactions with the demonic, and well known pastor Chuck Swindoll who wrote in his small book entitled Demonism: "On a few occasions I have assisted in the painful process of relieving them [people who come to him for spiritual help] of demons." -Robin Schumacher
(Charles Swindoll, Demonism (Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1981), pp. 18-19. )


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Uomini e cose della vecchia Italia è un'opera letteraria di Benedetto Croce.

Pubblicata per la prima volta, in due diverse serie e in due distinti volumi, nel 1927 dalla Laterza, la stessa casa editrice l'ha ristampata in edizione riveduta dall'autore nel 1943 e, infine, nel 1956. La pubblicazione verrà riproposta, per Bibliopolis, nell'ambito dell'edizione nazionale del filosofo.

Dedicata a Francesco Ruffini, l'opera raccoglie una serie di saggi scaturiti, nella maggior parte, dalle ricerche eseguite dal filosofo per le stesure della Storia del Regno di Napoli del 1925 e della Storia dell'età barocca in Italia del 1928. Tali saggi, che non potevano rientrare nei predetti volumi, perché sarebbero usciti «fuori del loro disegno», rappresentavano per Croce quasi dei ricordi di famiglia, ma «di quella più grande famiglia che ciascuno di noi si compone, mercé le ideali parentele di affetti e di pensieri, con gli uomini del passato, o…con gli uomini che vissero e operarono nello stesso paese dove noi siamo nati».

Si tratta, in particolare, di biografie di letterati, scrittori e politici e di vicende storico-letterarie dell'Italia meridionale, in un lasso di tempo che va all'incirca dall'Umanesimo ai prodromi dell'unificazione nazionale.

Indici dei volumi
I serie: Umanisti meridionali (I versi di un reo di stato: il conte di Policastro; Un umanista gaudente: Pietro Gravina; Francesco Elio Marchese e il suo opuscolo sulla nobiltà napoletana; Un maestro di scuola e versificatore latino del Rinascimento: il Cantalicio) – Il "paradiso abitato dai diavoli" – Angelo di Costanzo poeta e storico – Scene della vita dei soldati spagnoli a Napoli – I Caracciolo di Avellino: note in margine ad alcuni libri di Maiolino Bisaccioni – Ludovico Zuccolo e l'italianità – Un difensore italiano delle libertà dei popoli nel Seicento – Cultura spagnola in Italia nel seicento – La letteratura dialettale riflessa, la sua origine nel seicento e il suo ufficio storico – Giambattista Vico, scrittore di storie dei suoi tempi (La "Storia della congiura di Macchia"; la "Vita di Antonio Carafa"; Schizzo storico della guerra di successione di Spagna) – Shaftesbury in Italia.
II serie: L'elemento italiano nella società europea del Settecento - Sentenze e giudizî di Bernardo Tanucci - Il marchese Caracciolo - La vita religiosa a Napoli nel settecento (Dalla religiosità popolare ai giansenisti; L'arcivescovo di Taranto) - La signora di Staël e la regina Maria Carolina di Napoli - Il duca di Serracapriola e Giuseppe de Maistre - Il principe di Canosa - Cultura germanica in Italia nell'età del Risorgimento - Maria Cristina di Savoia, regina delle due Sicilie - Il romanticismo legittimistico e la caduta del regno di Napoli - Alessandro Dumas nei primi anni dell'unità italiana - Dal carteggio di un ex-ufficiale dell'esercito napoletano - Gli ultimi borbonici.

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Opere di Benedetto Croce
Saggi di letteratura
Saggi storici
Regno di Napoli
Storia di Napoli

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The ART OF WAR Cyber Series: Know Thy Enemy
By Michael O'Neill
In Cybersecurity, Network Security
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu is among the most famous works on military strategy. Over the coming weeks, Accellis will adapt many of these timeless lessons to the modern cybersecurity theater. By understanding fundamentals of security and military theory, firms will be in a better position to respond to these threats.
Sun Tzu said, "…if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
Throughout the work, a recurring theme is putting oneself beyond the possibility of defeat. Several of our posts will explore this concept. Today, we explore this concept as it relates to knowing the nature of the threats you face.
Sun Tzu is saying that, if one understands his or her strengths and weaknesses, and understands (for us, by a first approximation), those of their enemy, then most of the necessary data are ascertained. One knows what they need to know, all things being equal, to put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat or, since perfect security is impossible, beyond the possibility of an easy-defeat.
Almost invariably, whether targeting the White House, Sony, or the DNC, hackers get in by exploiting unpatched or unprepared systems, or by fooling well-intentioned employees and contractors. Social engineering attacks and exploits against unpatched systems account for a majority of the threats to the average business.
Rather than be intimidated, one should be empowered by this news. It tells you exactly what you need to know. Listen closely. The majority of threats to the average business are unpatched systems and socially engineered attacks. If the U.S. or any other country knew the precise location and nature of a surprise attack, wouldn't it lack the quality most needed for success – surprise?
Don't be surprised. Windows, JAVA, Silverlight, Adobe, and other updates address known vulnerabilities. Don't be fooled. That UPS, QuickBooks, Alumni, or Bank of America spam email is just that – spam.
Our next posts will include lessons drawn from the following famous quotes:
Sun Tzu said, "…water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows…just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
Sun Tzu said, "…there are not more than [three] primary colors…yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been [sic] seen."
Sun Tzu said, "…He wins battles by making no mistakes…making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory."
Cybersecurity, Law Firm Cybersecurity, The Art of War
As the Director of Sales & Marketing, Michael manages all new and existing business opportunities while ensuring a well-coordinated implementation effort and client satisfaction for all of Accellis' products and services. He is highly experienced with Worldox, Time Matters, Amicus Attorney and the N-able IT network management platform. Michael has an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice from Cuyahoga Community College and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from the University of Akron. He also received the President's Education Award for outstanding academic achievement in 2002, graduated magna cum laude in 2010, and co-owns a real estate investment & property preservation company.

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Q: Is there a way to migrate *just* server settings from IIS 7 on one PC to another? I'm not a system Admin (as evidenced by this question :).
I just need to configure my new IIS 7 client to connect to our web server. I'd like to just export the settings (but NOT the website which is now out of date on the old computer) from the old computer to a new computer.
Any pointers to good instructions on that?

A: Seems like msdeploy could be used here.  It's pretty powerful and seems to be my go-to tool for IIS tasks.  Maybe someone more versed in msdeploy can chime in with an exact command that would do what you want.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/346/web-deploy/

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All these towns have such interesting nicknames! So I was just in Huntsville and had a really great time. Thanks must first go to Suzie Wiley at WYAM-TV in Decatur! I had such a great hour with her and her crew on Valley Talk discussing The Rebel Wife. And thanks, too, to Meredith Wood at WAAY-TV in Huntsville. It was wonderful to talk on the afternoon news program!
I also had an incredible event at the Huntsville Public Library yesterday evening. Thank you Ann Marie Martin and the Library for being such great hosts! There was a good crowd who came for a talk about The Rebel Wife--and many of those present were neighbors from over 30 years ago when I was growing up in Huntsville. It was amazing and so moving, so thanks go out to the Kings, Stiles, Irvines and Lesleys. It was wonderful beyond words to see everyone there!
And to continue down memory lane, I visited the Burritt Museum up on Monte Sano mountain. The curious and impressive house was built in 1938.
The eccentric Mr. Burritt collected local art, including cobweb paintings, William Frye portraits and watercolors by Maria Howard Weeden.
There are historic pioneer homes like this old house with a dogtrot (breezeway).
And Mr. Burritt's custom-ordered mint green 1949 DeSoto. Quite a car.
Here's an old country store in Lacey's Spring, Alabama.
And here's a chair in the middle of the woods.
I hope Clovis got to be on TV too!


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William "Bill" M. Wolf (September 24, 1935) is a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represented the 112th district from 2007 to 2013.

Committee membership
 Commerce and Labor
 Transportation
 Agriculture and Natural Resources

Major donors
The top 5 donors to Wolf's 2008 campaign:
1. Koch Industries 	$1,000
2. Kansas Medical Society 	$1,000
3. Kansas Bankers Assoc 	$1,000
4. Kansas Republican Party 	$1,000
5. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation 	$1,000

References

External links
 Kansas Legislature - William Wolf
 Project Vote Smart profile
 Kansas Votes profile
 State Surge - Legislative and voting track record
 Campaign contributions: 2008

Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Living people
1935 births
21st-century American politicians


Vote for "After Three Thousand Years Apart, The Jewish People are Here to Stay" in the Inspired by Israel video contest!
Although the Obama Administration and Supreme Court refuse to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, the Jewish People didn't make it up. It's hard to make up 3000 years of history, archeology, scriptures, and tradition. When Jerusalem and the holy Temple that was built there, were destroyed by the Romans over 2000 years ago, the Jewish People, scattered in exile to the four corners of the earth, continued to build their synagogues and pray facing Jerusalem. At every wedding celebration, the groom breaks a glass as a remembrance of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. At the end of the day of attonement prayers, for 2000 years, Jews have sang "Next year in Jerusalem". At the end of every Passover Seder Jewish families sing "Next year in Jerusalem". Could there be any question in the collective mind of the world that upon the return of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel they would make Jerusalem their capital? After all, the decision was made by King David three thousand years earlier.


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Reading announce pre-season friendlies
Date: 19th May 2012 at 3:49pm
Reading have announced two pre-season friendlies, against Crystal Palace and AFC Wimbledon.
The game with League Two outfit AFC Wimbledon will take place on Saturday 14th July at the Cherry Red Records Stadium, kicking off at 3.00pm. It will be the Royals' first pre-season game before jetting off to a pre-season tour of Portugal four days later on the 18th July.
Our final pre-season game against Palace, before the Premier League campaign starting on the 18th August, will be held at the Madejski Stadium a week before on the Saturday 11th August, kicking off at 3.00 pm. Reading played Palace in their final home game of the current season, with the match finishing 2-2.


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Porträtt av Sir Thomas More är ett porträtt av Thomas More från 1527 som målades av den tyske konstnären Hans Holbein den yngre. Den finns idag på Frick Collection i New York.

Målning gjordes under perioden från 1526 då Holbein bodde i London. Han blev där vän med den holländske humanisten Erasmus av Rotterdam som rekommenderade honom att bli bekant med More, en mäktig och till riddare dubbad talman vid det engelska parlamentet.

Det finns flera nära relaterade målningar av Thomas More, en gouacheskiss av Holbein tillhör de kungliga samlingarna och en kopia, troligtvis "målad i Italien eller Österrike i början av 1600-talet", finns på National Portrait Gallery.

Bildgalleri

Källor
 Bätschmann, Oskar & Griener, Pascal. Hans Holbein. Reaktion Books, 1999.

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Målningar av Hans Holbein den yngre
Målningar i Frick Collection
Målningar från 1500-talet
Porträttmålningar


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Great Spangled Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary - Euptoieta claudia
Variegated Fritillary - Berwick, N.S. - 2015-08-03
Photo © Ron Wilson
Status in Nova Scotia
Accidental. One record.
Flight Period
Observed August 3, 2015.
Larval Foodplants
A wide variety of plants, including violets, pansies, flax, stonecrop, plantains and plants from at least six other families [Butterflies of Canada].
Similar Species in Nova Scotia
One individual was discovered in a garden in Berwick in August, 2015. This was the first record for Nova Scotia, and the only recent record for the Maritime Provinces. This species normally migrates north from the USA and is regular in the prairie provinces, southern Ontario and southern Quebec.
eButterfly site
Butterflies of Canada site (n.b. As of May 2021, many portions of this site not working properly.)
Comments? Write to feedback@novascotiabutterflies.ca


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The VCA-2P is a stereo (dual channel) voltage controlled amplifier. VCA LEFT and VCA RIGHT can work in linear or logarithmic mode. The panning VCA can be coupled as panning VCA between VCA LEFT and VCA RIGHT (PAN switch in position "IN" and controlled manually by knob and/or by signal inserted to LEVEL CV, PAN input) or as an stand-alone dual voltage controlled amplifier (PAN L, PAN R). The pannig VCA's are different from main VCA's in the sense that amplitude modulation acts with both positive and negative control signal and around zero.
The depth of amplitude modulation is dependent of amount of controlling signal. The left and right VCA has an build-in BLEND function; in position "0" the signal is not affected by level controls and successively in position "10" the amplifier is fully controlled (greatest dynamic range) by LEVEL CV controls.
The VCA LEFT and VCA RIGHT are controlled by CV LEVEL signals inserted to inputs AMOUNT (left and right) and LEFT (VCA LEFT) and RIGHT (VCA RIGHT). The AMOUNT (actually another two VCA's) controls the amplitude of LEFT and RIGHT control signals. An example; the envelope generators amplitude, inserted to the LEFT or RIGHT, can be controlled by another positive going signal inserted to the AMOUNT inputs.


Each week I look forward to seeing what the next Great Wake Up experiment has in store for us. As with previous weeks, I opened up the video in eager anticipation to hear what I would be doing over the coming days.
I always find it interesting to notice how I react as I watch Chris telling us what is involved. Sometimes there is a real sense of excitement, whilst on other occasions I feel a slight resistance. This time my reaction was pretty clear cut. When I heard that I would be cutting out coffee, alcohol and refined sugar from my life, my heart sank.
Anything that involves food feels particularly hard for me. I am an extremely fussy eater so my choices are already fairly limited. I know what I like, and I know what I don't like - and there's very little movement in between.
But after I'd sat and thought about it, it occurred to me that I don't even drink coffee and I only have alcohol on social occasions so I knew there wouldn't be any time over those few days where I would be tempted to have a drink. So was it really going to be as bad as I thought?
Yes. Deep down I knew it would be. I have a sweet tooth and this was where the experiment was likely to hit me hard. I probably consume quite a lot of refined sugar in my daily diet without even realising it.
At any other time, I'd throw myself into this task even knowing it would be difficult for me. But as I'm running the London Marathon next week, I was reluctant to make any big changes to my diet at such a late stage in my training. So I decided a good compromise would be to focus on a couple of things - I'd cut out the bar of chocolate and fizzy drink I consume each day. It doesn't sound much but those two things have become a daily routine in my life. A small bar of chocolate after my dinner has grown from what used to be an occasional treat to becoming a regular occurrence. Both things have become a bit of a habit that I wanted to try and kick, and this seemed like a great opportunity to tackle it.
Even though I'd decided to focus my efforts on a couple of specific areas, I noticed that I was more aware of what else I was putting in my body. I thought twice before I ate certain things which showed me that making a slight change to my diet could help me change the way I approach food more generally. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have continued since, but it was interesting to note at the time.
I have, however, noticed a definite decrease in my consumption of chocolate and fizzy drinks now that the experiment has officially finished, so I just need to make sure this continues and I don't fall back into my old habits again!


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Cancún este un oraș din Mexic, situat în peninsula Yucatan, cu o populație ce depășește 500.000. Este o stațiune balneoclimaterică foarte populară pe coasta Golfului Mexic.

Clima
Cancún are o climă tropicală, cu temperaturi ce nu scad sub 15 °C, dar nici nu depășesc 35 °C.

Legături externe
 Cancún – perla din Yucatán, 6 septembrie 2011, Claudia Moșoarcă, Descoperă - Travel

Orașe din Mexic


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Op-Eds and other opinions, Straw Man
Yesterday the Washington Post hosted one of those "pro and con" sets of op-eds. The issue, "ending" the "war" in "Iraq." Sorry about the quotes, but the disagreement about the issue was the issue. Arguing for the "pro" (end the war in Iraq) was Carter administration National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. He maintains that a precipitous and irresponsible withdrawal is just what America needs right now. Well, that's what Max Boot, the con in this scenario, maintains.
And this amounts to a classic waste of time. Boot actually addresses Brzezinski's claims–or what Boot claims are Brzezinski's claims–so the Post editors ought to have intervened. Here's what Zbigniew Brzezinski said:
Terminating U.S. combat operations will take more than a military
decision. It will require arrangements with Iraqi leaders for a
continued, residual U.S. capacity to provide emergency assistance in
the event of an external threat (e.g., from Iran); it will also mean
finding ways to provide continued U.S. support for the Iraqi armed
forces as they cope with the remnants of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The decision to militarily disengage will also have to be accompanied
by political and regional initiatives designed to guard against
potential risks. We should fully discuss our decisions with Iraqi
leaders, including those not residing in Baghdad's Green Zone, and we should hold talks on regional stability with all of Iraq's neighbors, including Iran.
Take it or leave it. As usual we're agnostic about that position. We'd like to point out, however, that Brzezinski isn't advocating "precipitous" withdrawal from Iraq, which, as you can see from the following, Boot thinks he does. Boot writes:
The consequences of withdrawal and defeat in Iraq are likely to be even
more serious, because it is located in a more volatile and
strategically important region.
It warned: "If Coalition forces were withdrawn rapidly … we judge
that the ISF [Iraqi Security Forces] would be unlikely to survive as a
non-sectarian national institution; neighboring countries — invited by
Iraqi factions or unilaterally — might intervene openly in the
conflict; massive civilian casualties and forced population
displacement would be probable; AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] would attempt to
use parts of the country — particularly al-Anbar province — to plan
increased attacks in and outside of Iraq; and spiraling violence and
political disarray in Iraq… could prompt Turkey to launch a military
incursion."
. . . nothing would be more calculated to aggravate other countries than a precipitous pullout.
An early American departure is the last thing that most Iraqis or their elected representatives want.
An even more important sign of progress is the willingness of hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis to take up arms to fight Sunni and Shiite
terrorists alongside American troops. Imagine their fate if we suddenly
exit. I, for one, hope that we do not betray our allies in Iraq as we
did in Southeast Asia.
So according to Boot, Brzezinski advocates a sudden, early, rapid, precipitous, withdrawal and defeat in Iraq. Of course that's silly, as Brzezinski didn't use any of the weaselly temporal qualifiers Boot imputes to him. And so there is a classic straw man. Can't the editors at the Post point that out?
It really ought to be beneath grown up discourse to engage in this kind of adolescent distortion. There's more that could be said about Boot's abysmal piece–such as dubious analogies with Vietnam. Maybe tomorrow.
For today it ought to be said that gainsaying isn't argument.
George Will, Straw Man, Things that are false, Weak Analogy
Write No More Forever
3/28/2008 pmayo	10 Comments
We normally try to keep current around here, but amidst the revelry and excess of our Spring Break, we missed something. Okay, we missed a few things, but George Will's performance of March 16, on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolous," is worth back-tracking a bit. Will is holding forth on matters of race and politics and then this happens:
If you want to know what America would look like, if liberals really had their way in running it, look at what they're doing in their own nominating process on two counts. First, they cannot get to a majority because they have exquisitely refined rococo rules about how to achieve fairness. Secondly, they have worked for 20, 30, 40 years to make us all exquisitely sensitive to slights real or imagined, so that you run a 3 AM ad and someone says there's not enough black people in it or where's the Hispanics and it must be a racist ad. Hillary Clinton says something absolutely unexceptionable which is it took Lyndon Johnson also to pass the civil rights act. Denounced as racist. The Democrats are reaping what they have sown.
Fairness?! Equality?! Sensitivity?! Heaven forfend!
Ye gods. This logic is going to make Bright Eyes cry.
First, the primary process is to liberal governance as our making a mean Guinness stew is to operating a restaurant. Sure, it's part of the process, but just as our Guinness stew prowess doesn't indicate our ability to take over for Vongerichten, neither does the Democratic primary process indicate the inability of either Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton–or any other liberal politician, for that matter–to properly govern the country.
Second, snide attacks and smug elitism are no argument. Will's tritely insulting claim about sensitivity treats as a disadvantage an awareness that has, at least in part, helped us to advance from a country where blatant displays of racism and sexism and the genocide of indigenous persons are the norm, to a country where no matter what happens, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States will be either a woman or an African American man. Without specific attempts to make people aware of the deep race and gender divides in this country, we never get to the place where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the nominees for President. Yet Will dismisses these effects with a wave of the hand, instead twisting liberal social policies in service of an undergraduate view of liberalism and democratic process.
Ad hominem tu quoque, George Will, Straw Man
Cheapskates
In yet another variation of his standard line, today George Will argues that when it comes to charity, liberal people and places lag behind conservatives and so "liberals" are little more than disingenuous bleeding hearts. This combines Will's love of the ad hominem tu quoque–the irrelevant charge of hypocrisy–with his love of the straw man–the purposeful distortion of his opponent's view in order to knock it down (look here for a description of these particular logical errors). His argument goes like this:
Liberals, judging by their bumper stickers in Austin, Texas are self-described bleeding hearts (they are motivated by pity and pity alone).
Self-described conservatives are more charitable than self-described liberals.
By their own self-description, liberals ought to be more charitable (on account of their bleeding hearts), so liberals are either:
(a) hypocrites for being all hat and no cattle (this is Texas we're talking about); or (b) dumb to wait around for government to do the work that can be done by charity right now.
This argument sounds vaguely familiar. Megan McCardle, a "liberatarian" blogger for the Atlantic Monthly, has made similar charges (discussed here and here on Crooked Timber). She argues that if liberals want the government to tax so much, then why don't they just give extra money voluntarily. They don't. So there. It also sounds like any similar charge of hypocrisy–if you cared so much about it, then why don't you do something (for it, to stop it, etc.)?
But that's not really the point. By any measure, liberalism is a broad political view about the just structure of government and the just distribution of goods. Liberals will differ about the meaning of either of those things (They'll differ to the same extent that conservatives will differ about the proper role of government).
More importantly, liberals will also differ about the reasons for their "liberalism." Indeed, some liberals–some–might qualify as the "bleeding heart type" who fit Will's perpetual caricature. They whine about injustice, but they really don't care. Pointing out their hypocrisy might be entertaining, but it's basically worthless. They don't represent all that is the liberal position. Nor does their hypocrisy demonstrate anything about their broader political view.
One can be liberal for reasons that have nothing to do with bleeding hearts, pity, or care. And the strength (if it has any) of the liberal position has nothing do with the feelings and action of individual liberals–any more, at least, than the weakness of conservatism is demonstrated by the appallingly bad arguments of a pundit for the Washington Post.
Neal Gabler's NYTimes piece about John McCain's success with the media is entertaining. Here's snippet:
Seeming to view himself and the whole political process with a mix of
amusement and bemusement, Mr. McCain is an ironist wooing a group of
individuals who regard ironic detachment more highly than sincerity or
seriousness. He may be the first real postmodernist candidate for the
presidency � the first to turn his press relations into the basis of
his candidacy.
He's right about McCain's easy treatment in the media. Just look at how often reporters attach McCain's own branded adjectives to him–"maverick" or "straight-talker." See Gabler's piece for more.
I don't think the post-modern part is true, however. Candidates for office have been in the post-modern mode for a long time now. I remember even Steve Forbes remarking on his "message," as if he were himself a political commentator describing the success of his own candidacy, rather than the candidate actually making his own pitch.
But the post-modern mode, one might call it, infects much more than just political reporting. One can find it all over liberal punditry–never making an argument, merely remarking on arguments made.
Lack of Evidence, Richard Cohen, Thomas Friedman
If we have learned anything from the war on terror, it's that individual Middle eastern taxi, livery, and car service drivers have no special insight into world affairs. Someone on the web has kept track of how often Tom Friedman used that kind of anecdotal evidence to characterize the opinions and feelings of the entire Middle East. Now it's time for Richard Cohen, liberal pundit of the Washington Post. He writes:
In the end, the photos taken at Abu Ghraib produced an explosion of
outrage. When I visited Jordan in 2005, my driver — Bassam was his
name — brought it up himself. Just as the military's interrogators
knew the intense shame Muslim men feel when stripped naked and viewed
by women, or when forced to wear women's underwear on their heads, so
did Bassam deeply feel that shame himself. "We are Muslims," he said.
No offense to Bassam, but what makes Cohen think this guy represents anything more than his own view? There is little question, by the way, that Cohen is right–he's just not right on account of the testimony of this or of every conveyance driver he meets.
Formal Fallacies, General discussion, Illicit major
Socrates is mortal
Check out this entertaining trope from William Kristol's op-ed today in the New York Times. He gives three arguments that have the form of the enthymeme–the argument missing a conclusion or premise–but none of the validity necessary to make such arguments effective. He writes:
But orators often ask themselves the convenient questions, not the difficult ones. And Barack Obama is an accomplished orator.
After all, politicians sometimes indulge in ridiculous and unfair
comparisons to make a point. And Barack Obama is an able politician.
But ambitious men sometimes do a disservice to the best in their own communities. And Barack Obama is an ambitious man.
As you can see, these have the form of a categorical syllogism–a two-premised deductive argument consisting of categorical statements. Here's a more famous example:
All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man.
Same form, save for the first premise. For Kristol's arguments here to be valid deductive ones (and perhaps sound ones as well), he needs to drop the qualifier (the "often" or "sometimes"). For his arguments might as well say:
Sometimes men are mortal, and indeed Socrates is a man.
Is Socrates mortal? Can't really tell by that argument. Does Barack Obama do the things in the arguments above? Can't really tell. He might or he might not. But it doesn't follow from the fact that he is a politician that he will engage in "ridiculous and unfair comparisons to make a point."
Well, ok. If we stretch the principle of charity to the breaking point, we might read the first premise another way:
All orators often ask themselves convenient questions. . . .
All politicians sometimes indulge. . . .
All ambitious men sometimes. . . .
That would make Kristol's enthymemes valid, but ridiculously unsound. Besides, that's not what he means.
Begging the Question, George Will, Suppressed Evidence
On the merits
We're back from Spring Break. Opening up today's Washington Post, we noticed that George Will holding forth on the judiciary. For those who don't know, George Will has one thing to say about the judiciary: it shouldn't be in the business of making social policy. Of course that's a silly view, because it purposely ignores the questions the courts must resolve: what is the law? What does it mean to "bear arms"? What does "free speech" mean? What is "equal protection"? These are unavoidable social policy questions.
Today he animates his usual complaint with the following statistic:
The denial of annual increases, Roberts wrote, "has left federal trial
judges — the backbone of our system of justice — earning about the
same as (and in some cases less than) first-year lawyers
at firms in major cities, where many of the judges are located." The
cost of rectifying this would be less than .004 percent of the federal
budget. The cost of not doing so will be a decrease in the quality of
an increasingly important judiciary — and a change in its perspective.
Fifty years ago, about 65 percent of the federal judiciary came from
the private sector — from the practicing bar — and 35 percent from
the public sector. Today 60 percent come from government jobs, less
than 40 percent from private practice. This tends to produce a
judiciary that is not only more important than ever but also is more of
an extension of the bureaucracy than a check on it.
I wonder what "government job" means in this instance. Could it mean they were judges? That's a government job. And I'd hardly call that particular government job "an extension of the bureaucracy" (since, after all, the judiciary is a branch of the government).
But what silly conclusion does Will draw from this?
Upon what meat hath our judiciary fed in growing so great? The meat of
modern liberalism, the animating doctrine of the regulatory and
redistributionist state. Courts have been pulled where politics,
emancipated from constitutional constraints, has taken the law — into
every facet of life.
Even though the "government job" set-up is silly, this is even sillier. But it's the typical Will complaint about the courts. Courts, Will complains, have been pulled around by politics, etc. etc. That's a silly objection. Here's why: the courts decide political issues. They have to. It's their job. When they decide these questions, they give arguments, called "opinions." These contain what they consider the legal rationale for the position they take. If Will doesn't like this legal rationale, then he owes the courts an argument, as they say in legal circles, "on the merits." To ignore this obvious fact, as Will does, is what one might call "begging the question."
For the one or maybe two conservatives who may stumble upon this, I'm not arguing that the opposite of Will's view (whatever that might be) is correct. I'm merely suggesting that his complaint about the judiciary is hollow. There probably are some pretty good conservative positions on the judiciary. It's a shame that shallow whining of the Will variety has achieved such prominence.
Sorry if you thought that title meant something–perhaps a play on "spring" or "break" or something like that. Perhaps you also expected it to followed by commentary on some crazy op-ed article very few people even read let alone take seriously. Nope. While we're gone, comments will continue to be appreciated, though not monitored or responded to (by me at least). Have a good week everyone, especially you, op-ed writers of America.
Bad Explanations, David Brooks, Michael Gerson
Let's say someone very well known for his virtue turns out to have some hidden vices–an anti-prostitution crusader himself sees prostitutes. Few could really be surprised by that–such hypocrisy is familiar to all. Well, maybe not to David Brooks. Recent events have led him to ponder the depths of human failings. He comes up with one basic answer–successful hypocrites suffer from from being nerds. He writes
They go through the oboe practice, soccer camp, homework marathon
childhood. Their parent-teacher conferences are like mini-Hall of Fame
enshrinements as all gather to worship at the flame of their incipient
success. In high school, they enter their Alpha Geekdom. They rack up
great grades and develop that coating of arrogance that forms on those
who know that in the long run they will be more successful than the
beauties and jocks who get dates.
They also stand too close to other men:
Then they go into one of those fields like law, medicine or politics,
where a person�s identity is defined by career rank. They develop the
specific social skills that are useful on the climb up the greasy pole:
the capacity to imply false intimacy; the ability to remember first
names; the subtle skills of effective deference; the willingness to
stand too close to other men while talking and touching them in a manly
Seems like the military, with actual ranks, ought to have been mentioned. Moving on, however, I'm beginning to wonder whether this is meant to be some kind of confession on David Brooks's part, as this has a not too subtle ring of irony to it:
And, of course, these people succeed and enjoy their success. When
Bigness descends upon them, they dominate every room they enter and
graciously share their company with those who are thrilled to meet
them. They master the patois of globaloney � the ability to declaim for
portentous minutes about the revolution in world affairs brought about
by technological change/environmental degradation/the fundamental
decline in moral values.
Still More confessional:
But then, gradually, some cruel cosmic joke gets played on them. They
realize in middle age that their grandeur is not enough and that they
are lonely. The ordinariness of their intimate lives is made more
painful by the exhilaration of their public success. If they were used
to limits in public life, maybe it would be easier to accept the
everydayness of middle-aged passion. But, of course, they are not.
And he's not really trying with the evidence here yet. Here's the evidence (as best as I can surmise). First, such people are inelegant when drunk–David Brooks has seen it!
I don�t know if you�ve seen a successful politician or business tycoon
get drunk and make a pass at a woman. It�s like watching a St. Bernard
try to French kiss. It�s all overbearing, slobbering, desperate
wanting. There�s no self-control, no dignity.
Add to that a semi-oblique reference to some recent embarrassments:
So when they decide that they do in fact have an inner soul and it�s
time to take it out for a romp … . Well, let�s just say they�ve just
bought a ticket on the self-immolation express. Some desperate lunge
toward intimacy is sure to follow, some sad attempt at bonding. Welcome
to the land of the wide stance.
Finally, they have pictures of themselves on their walls!
I once visited a home in which the host had photos of himself
delivering commencement addresses lining the stairway wall. I�ve heard
countless presidential candidates say they are running on behalf of
their families even though their entire lives have been spent on the
campaign trail away from their families.
I doubt the "countless" there. Brooks has only been alive so long. In any case, we all love explanations for cinematic hypocrisy. But there are good explanations (the ones that refer to stuff that's real) and bad ones (the ones that just are pulled out of one's hat). This one–so it seems–belongs to the latter category.
John Hagee, Post hoc ergo propter, Religion
King of the Faeries
Sometimes it gets rather tiresome sorting through the nuanced yet sloppy reasoning of the typical national newspaper pundit, so let's just gaze with wonder at how bad things could be. Enter Pastor John Hagee, unrepudiated and unrejected friend and supporter of John McCain, maverick:
HAGEE: All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are — were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
Let's say it was. Now the parade might have been canceled, but lots of non-gay people had their lives and homes destroyed. I suppose they were just collateral damage.
UPDATE 4/26/2008
Pastor Hagee has retracted this claim.
John HageeKatrinaReligion


CHRISTIAN BENTEKE will still be at Liverpool next season, his agent claims.
The striker's future at Anfield has been the subject of intense speculation following a disappointing first season on Merseyside.
Liverpool are open to selling the Belgian and have slapped a £30m price-tag on him, amid interest from several clubs including Crystal Palace, West Ham and Atletico Madrid.
But Benteke's agent, Kismet Eris, is not expecting his client to be moving any time soon.
"Yes [I expect him to stay at Liverpool]," he told Sport Witness.
"[There's] nothing at all with any team [at the moment]."
Benteke became Liverpool's second-most expensive signing when he joined last summer from Aston Villa in a £32.5m deal.
He struggled to display his best form and the arrival of Jurgen Klopp in October saw him slip down the pecking order behind Daniel Sturridge, Divock Origi and Roberto Firmino.
He managed just 10 goals in 42 appearances and only three of those came in 2016 as he went through a 13-game scoring drought.
Beteke's future has come under further doubt following the £30m capture of Sadio Mane from Southampton on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the 25-year-old said he wanted to remain at Liverpool would would move on if not in Klopp's plans.
"At 25 years old, I'm neither old nor young but it's important to play," Benteke said.
"If that's not the case, it will become difficult to stay. I'll think about if after the Euros."


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Tolerancia cero es un tipo de política de castigo. El término también puede referirse a:

 Tolerancia cero (comercio)
 Tolerancia cero (escuelas)
 Tolerancia Cero (película de 1995)

 Tolerancia Cero (película de 1999)
 Tolerancia cero (programa de televisión)
 Tolerancia Cero (videojuego)
 Beyond Zero Tolerance
 Tolerancia Cero, un álbum de Pastor Troy.

Véase también
 Tolerancia  desambiguación.
 Intolerancia  desambiguación.


Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, has announced plans to launch flights from Belgrade to New York JFK in June 2016.
Subject to government and regulatory approval, it will be the first non-stop service between Serbia and the United States in 24 years, to provide a new air-link between the two countries which share deep cultural and commercial ties.
New York JFK will be Air Serbia's first long-haul destination since its launch two years ago and the aircraft will be the first wide-body to enter the fleet of the Belgrade-based airline.
According to recent surveys there are more than 200,000 people of Serbian ethnicity living in the United States, including New York and Chicago, which has the biggest Serbian diaspora in the United States, and the number increases significantly when including other Balkan countries.
Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of Serbia, said: "The launch of non-stop flights between Belgrade and New York in June next year will be a hugely proud and significant moment in the short history of Air Serbia, demonstrating the growth and ambitions of the airline.
Siniša Mali, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Air Serbia, and Mayor of Belgrade, said: "The introduction of non-stop flights between Belgrade and New York is another milestone in the evolution of Belgrade as a regional hub and the growth of Air Serbia.
"The New York service will bring large numbers of business and leisure travellers from the United States to Serbia providing a significant boost to the economy.
James Hogan, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Air Serbia and President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, said: "In addition to creating a safe and commercially-sustainable airline, one of the pledges we made when Air Serbia was launched in 2013 was to re-connect Serbia with major Serbian population centres around the world.
"We are naturally delighted, therefore, to announce the launch of the New York service which, as well as enhancing business and cultural ties between the two countries, will provide a major boost to inbound tourism to Serbia.
Dane Kondić, Chief Executive Officer of Air Serbia, said: "The launch of the Belgrade-New York non-stop service is a fantastic example of the positive impact of the Air Serbia strategic plan, which is progressing well and continues to be on-track to meet and surpass its targets.
The five flights-a-week service will be operated by a leased two cabin A330-200 aircraft. Air Serbia is currently considering lease options with Etihad Airways Partner airlines as well as with other external companies.
The Air Serbia New York flight schedule will offer guests convenient connections from many of the airline's regional destinations across the Balkans and Southern Europe, including Istanbul, Athens, and Tirana.


You've already heard a bit about some of Travelpayouts team members and ends and outs of other Aviasales team workflows. But we haven't introduced our head of Travelpayouts Affiliate Program — Ivan Baidin. So, we clean up our act. Finally, we fished Vanya out from an infinite stream of tasks and asked about his work and life on the island.
Please, tell us, what are you working on? Are you «the Affiliate Program Boss»?
What did you do before Travelpayouts?
How do you manage to balance your business with your main job?
How would you describe your workday?
Alright, and when do you relax then?
What do you think are the advantages of living in Phuket?
For sure, the Bounty Island has its negatives, isn't it?
How did you get to Phuket and settled in Aviasales?
So you're 4 years abroad. Do you miss your home?
Tell us about Travelpayouts team. Some of your teammates work distantly from Russia. How do you communicate?
Are you the one to hire new team members?
How difficult is it to be interviewed by you?
And last, but not least, what are Travelpayouts plans for capturing the world?
I'm trying to develop the Affiliate Program, specifically improving the product, increasing the conversion rates, and entering the foreign markets. Besides strategic planning and setting targets for developers, together with managers I answer the questions asked through Technical Support, attract new partners and communicate with advertisers.
In the past I've already been engaged in the Internet activities, to be specific, Affiliate Programs, mostly foreign. A friend of mine once «brought» me to the Internet, gave a link to an online money making forum and said «Read this». So, I started reading, gradually turning the accumulated knowledge into money. In other words, I was a regular affiliate member of different Affiliate Programs. Somewhere I've managed to get into the top, somewhere I haven't.
I took part in creation and promotion of several Affiliate Programs, almost all of them are already closed as they exhausted themselves.
But my own project, which I myself initially launched, is still alive and it's related to foreign offers promotion. Then I found a partner and we started to grow and hire people. Now our team consists of 43 designers, copywriters, developers, and SEO experts. All of them work remotely. They are mostly from the CIS, but we also have a teammate, for example, from Puerto Rico. I gave up the major part of the action and delegated all the operational activities to my partner, with me engaged in making strategic decisions only. In brief, we have a network of websites, blogs, and forums that attracts a lot of traffic, which is then sold to advertisers like Amazon and eBay.
As I've already said, for my own project I do strategic planning only. On average, I spare like 1–1.5 hours a day on it and sometimes I don't for a couple days. By the way, we don't try to get in travel related business to exclude the competitive interests. In other words, doing my own business don't interfere with my main job in Travelpayouts.
I get up between 7 and 8 am, answer my email and browse statistics. Then I have breakfast and go to the gym. After doing sports I head to the office and then get back to the gym in the evening. Sometimes I skip my evening workouts. Before going to sleep, when at home, I check my email, Skype, and Facebook again. Well, this is my everyday routine.
My mind winds down very well while I'm in the gym. Possibly those are the only hours when I really don't think about my work at all. Anyway, for me, doing sports is another proof showing that everything is possible. You know, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but being stubborn and working persistently on reaching the goal may result in growing muscles and bringing success in business. The main thing is not to draw back and breathe easy.
Over time my mind becomes apathetic, cause the island lifestyle is really slow paced and laid-back. In a word, it's like living in a countryside.
So that's when I call for some impulse. To get that impulse, for me it's just enough to get out for a weekend to some neighbor Asian megalopolis — Singapore or Hong Kong — where I can get charged with an «energy of a city». This charge is quite enough for a month of life on the island. That's why I try to travel somewhere every month. All in all, I am satisfied with my life in Thailand.
Phuket is a perfect place to live with your family and raise your kids. Sun, sea, fresh air and fruits all the year around. Here you need fewer clothes than in Russia — no need to buy furs, boots and hats. It's always summer here.
There are almost no traffic jams. Even if there is, they usually happen at around 8–9 am or 5–7 pm. And our office hours are 12 am till 9 pm Thai time, so we don't get into local congestion.
Besides, there's multilingual surrounding here, so since their birth, children communicate with same-age foreigners speaking Russian, English, Thai or Chinese. In future they will become tolerant individuals perfectly speaking several languages.
But to be honest, when children born, I'd try to move to the USA to get education, but only after they are 5–6 years old.
Sure. First of all, it's a closed community. Your colleagues, who are also your friends, you work together in the office and spend your weekends together as well. Many girlfriends or wives who come to the island with our fellows have no job and suffer because of this. It's a great luck if your lady-love already has some remote job or a kid to dedicated all her time to, otherwise a guy will have a lot to bear. It's difficult to get a legal job in Thailand and for sure it will be a low-paid one. That's why we had a couple of situations when guys had to return back home to Russia, start working remotely or even quit.
Secondly, there are a lot of things that you get used to when living in Russia but you don't have them here. For example, for girls there's no place to wear high-heels or evening dress, no place to have a walk except of shopping centers. You can't even have a walk on the street cause there're no sidewalks and the weather is too hot.
First time I came to Phuket for wintering far back in 2008 with my friends. I liked the island a lot, though I had almost nothing to compare with. Before I took a batch tour to Hurghada and been to Montenegro as an independent tourist. After that wintering I started to go to Phuket every winter.
To the point, I met Kostya Kalinov (founder of Aviasales) during my first wintering. I moved for permanent residence here 4 years ago and have been working in Aviasales already for 3,5 years. Kostya offered me to join him several times but I had my own business that brought me nice profit, so I didn't want to burden myself with some extra work and what is moreover go to the office (!!!). I've never done that before in my life. But all in all it happened that I considered all pros and cons, thought about it and decided to give a try.
When I came to the company, there were about 10 thousand affiliates there and the Travelpayouts team was just formed, so it was decided to separate the Affiliate Program itself into a single project, because formerly it was just an Aviasales Affiliate Program.
I don't miss Russia and go there rarely. For instance, last September I've been to a conference in Kazan for 3–4 days. This year I will be travelling to my native Tomsk, Staryi Oskol to see my grandma, and Moscow to attend my friend's wedding, but not longer than for 6 days.
Currently our team counts 16 people: developers, managers, designers. We also reach out to freelance illustrators, translators or developers for help. I am very proud of all of our guys. Our team is probably the most solid among all those teams from Aviasales.
In our office we have a big TV and all the remote part of team is connected to us by Skype all the time, in other words, we all see each other during the whole working day and can discuss issues anytime. Yes, many of us are scattered all over the world and have different time zones. For instance, recently we had: Bali, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Khabarovsk, Samara, Barnaul, Kazan, Izhevsk, Phuket, London. Of course, it's difficult for some of us to get up at 8 am Moscow time, because every day at 9 we have a standup meeting which everyone should attend. But remoteness doesn't affect us doing our jobs well. All of us cope with it and can plan our time.
Yes, I personally select suitable candidates and interview them. And then I send them to our HRs to sign papers and clarify contracts.
I remember how we were looking for our first manager, Lena. We posted a job on hh.ru and wrote a post on Facebook. To be honest, I can't remember where we found her. But in general I think that Facebook is enough to search for employees.
Now I can easily entrust our managers with a task to find a business developer or a developer-freelancer. And they perfectly cope with it, so I don't even need to take part in the process.
Of course, they regularly write us even if we don't have open positions. In this case we communicate to the applicant but he will need to convince us that we won't cope without him. As for now, nobody has managed to do it.
An interview is divided into a couple of different stages. The first one is emailing, then maybe some test, and a Skype interview (maybe even several calls). I often talk on life's topics by Skype, for example, about achievements on previous position or what the one could bring into our team. It's important for me to find the psychological compatibility. We have a very solid team and it's important to get a person who will perfectly fit in working processes and all the rest of activities as well. All of us go in for sports — surfing (for example, Igor, our developer, is a member of National Surfing Team of Russia), snowboarding, motorcycling, and travel together.
Generally, interview structure is developed individually and strongly depend on mood. I don't have any prepared scripts. Let's say, I may ask some nonsense like «What kind of seasoning are you?» or start to dissuade from getting this job because life on Phuket is not as easy as it may seem after spending a two-week vacation here.
Now we actively work on the White Label. We already have 50 affiliates engaged in alpha/beta testing. I think that in September we will release the flight booking part and then go on with the hotel one. But it has lower priority as it's less popular.
For sure we will improve API and add more data into it. By the end of the year we want to totally redesign the user account, improve the statistics and its layout, make affiliate's funds flow more transparent, totally redesign statistics interface and improve integration with 3rd party advertisers.
It's difficult to plan the work too far out in the future since travel services market constantly changes and we need to stay synced with it. There is a general trend, but we basically are aimed to work in the international market, since abroad they have really poor travel partner market — webmasters use product affiliate programs, like Booking.com or some definite flight company program. We also have competitors emerging in Russia so they keep boosting us to develop quickly and efficiently.
What questions would you like to ask Vanya?


During the spring of 2018, Friends of Guild Park has received numerous comments spring from park visitors about the state of the forest, woodlands and trees at Guild Park. Specifically, about the number of fallen trees throughout the site is a source of public concern.
Friends of Guild Park recently asked Guild Park officials for an update about current forest conditions in the park and specific questions about what is being done.
Below is a file with the information and responses received on May 17, 2018 from members of the City of Toronto's urban forestry division. This is the group responsible for forest areas across the city, including those at Guild Park.
For about two hours, Bob Kortright of the Toronto Field Naturalists showed examples of Guild Park's biodiversity - from butterflies to a butternut tree, mushrooms to mulberries, Cooper Hawks to cornflowers. The photos from today show participants listening Bob describe the life cycles of various types of vegetation and wildlife. On the bright and sunny autumn afternoon, he took folks along some little-used public trails atop the bluffs, into Guild Park's Carolinian Forest and through the formal gardens of the 36-hectare public park. Everyone gained a new appreciation for Guild Park's amazing environmental features people who came were greeted by a 4-point buck ambling along the park's Waterfront trail. When the deer turned around to return down the hill, he showed a wound on his haunch. Not sure if it was the result of an attack or a wound. The animal didn't appear limping so it's hoped the injury won't be serious. The rest of the tour was full of identifying fungi, trees and birds.
Thanks the tour leader Bob Kortright of TFN for arranging the memorable tour and to the 2 dozen folks who braved the zero degree weather to enjoy Guild Park.
Another follow-up to the Native Plant Give-Away that Friends of Guild Park hosted in August, was a Native Plant Workshop for everyone interested in learning about native plants and how to incorporate them into your garden. The event was free and hosted by Park People and Carolinian Canada.
The workshop was led by native plant specialist, Ben Porchuk of Carolinian Canada. Ben has over two decades of experience in ecological systems recovery and is a strong advocate for restoring urban ecology to create greater resiliency. All workshop attendees were invited to stay for the North American Native Plant Society's Annual General Meeting. The AGM keynote speaker was Dr. Jon Johnson of First Story Toronto. First Story is a program at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto devoted to researching and sharing Toronto's Indigenous heritage through popular educational initiatives. As a part of this work, Jon leads tours about the Indigenous heritage in the GTA. Earlier this year, one of Jon's special tours with Park People included a visit to Guild Park.
The City of Toronto's Arts Services division of Economic Development & Culture provides the latest details about the work now underway to re-open a unique arts facility, along with arts programming, at Guild Park.
The website includes updates on the architect, Taylor Hazell Architects, selected to create the multi-use design for the building. This online resource also includes the history and describes many of the architectural features now on view at Guild Park's Monument Walk.
Funding for Guild Park Trail Master Plan approved, January 2017.
However, the group is hoping to see E.B. Cox's sculpture collection relocated to the Rose Garden, which is just south of the Bandshell at Exhibition Place.
John Mason highlights a link between the 1912 ceiling mural rediscovered at Queen's Park and Guild Park.
"The newly-found paintings of 104 maple leaves above the Ontario Legislature was the work of Gustav Hahn, the older brother of Canadian sculptor Emanuel Hahn.
Emanuel Hahn's two sculptural designs that once graced the Bank of Montreal's downtown Toronto headquarters are among the pieces of public art now at Guild Park. He designed the panels for the Arctic and Northwest Territories displayed near Guild Park's formal gardens.
The younger Hahn also created the design for the Bluenose schooner on the Canadian dime and the caribou head on our quarter.
Both Hahn brothers went on to teach at what was then the Ontario College of Art. It was there that Emanuel taught Elizabeth Wyn Wood, the sculpture student whom he married in 1926.
Elizabeth Wyn Wood went on to become an exceptional sculptor, whose works are displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery in Ottawa, and also at Guild Park (the "provincial panels" depicting Manitoba and Saskatchewan)."
The Toronto Star article by Robert Benzie about Gustav Hahn.
The information and ideas are meant to start the discussion about the type of arts programs and arts facilities that are appropriate for Guild Park - its legacy as the Guild of All Arts and the environmental and physical constraints within its 88 acres.
This report has already been provided to the City's officials involved with Guild Park. We thank everyone who's already provided input and look forward to more ideas and comments about returning the arts to Guild Park.
Guild Park designated an official Guildwood Village Community Clean Up Area this year.
Beautiful weather for a Spring Cleaning day at Guild Park. Thanks to the Guildwood Village Community Assn. (GVCA) for including Guild Park as part of the morning clean-up. Local MPP Mitzie Hunter was among the people who came out to support the cause. Dozens of bags of trash got picked up by volunteers, with City of Toronto crews making the rounds later to dispose of all the refuse.
Many Guild Park visitors today got to see the two new park noticeboards now installed - one at the Livingston Road entrance (pictured); the other at the start of the park's new Monument Walk off of Guildwood Parkway.
Nuit Blanche has had a positive effect on the City of Toronto and visitors who attended the spectacular event. The City of Toronto reported last fall that through an Ipsos Reid survey Nuit Blanche 2015 "generated an economic impact of about $41.5 million for Toronto...with an estimated attendance of over one million people, including 205,000 out-of-town visitors."
As the planning for the Nuit Blanche 2016 is underway, I would like to take this opportunity to expand the experience into Scarborough for the 2017 season, specifically in the Guild Park and Gardens. The gardens would accommodate the event perfectly. Within its 88 acres stands a Greek amphitheater, several monuments and artifacts from great buildings across Ontario including a historical monument walk installed last year by our City Cultural division. The Guild Park and Gardens would be the perfect setting to expand the Nuit Blanch experience east of the City and is supported by the Guildwood Village Community Association.
The site would be suitable for artistic installations and support visitors for the 2017 season to coincide with the revitalization for the Guild Park and Gardens and Guild Inn (Bickford Residence). The Nuit Blanche theme works well with the objectives of the Guild Park and Gardens which hosts, historical walks, an annual artist's festival, annual outdoor theatre performances. The revitalization will also bring art programs offered by the City of Toronto Cultural division.
1. City Council direct the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture to explore including Guild Park and Gardens as a venue for Nuit Blanche 2017.
The City is looking for your input. What types of art programming would you like to see at Guild Park and Gardens? Are you interested in taking a course? Do you have an idea for the name of the new arts and culture facility? Share you opinions and suggestions with the City.


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Each company creates a customer survey to ask the opinion about their performance. Through this survey, the people can voice the issue related to the service and product offered by the company. The feedback from the public can be a valuable tool to improve their business. Both small and large business offers an online survey for their customers. One of them is Wendys. As a great fast food outlet chain, Wendys has TalktoWendys Survey. Wendy's survey can help the business to increase the standard of service. Besides, it can increase the revenue as well since the customers are satisfied with the service.
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Firstly opened in 1969 in Ohio, Wendy's becomes a popular fast food chain now. Wendy's also grows as the third biggest burger fast food outlet in the world. It is because Wendy's owns more than 6650 restaurants worldwide. With a large number of outlets, Wendy's employs more than 640.000 workers. Besides, Wendy's also has many loyal customers around the world. The people like their menus such as burger, sandwich, fries, and beverage. Wendy's menu can attract many customers. It is because of its authentic recipe and good quality ingredient.
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Ragnhild Grønning has a BA in Political Science from the University of Oslo and a MA in International Affairs from George Washington University, where she recieved a grant from the Fulbright Program. She has been an intern at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a research associate at the Arctic Institute in Washington, D.C. Before becoming a research adviser, Ragnhild worked as a research assistant at ARENA (2017-2018).
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Raspotnik, Andreas; Grønning, Ragnhild & Herrmann, Victoria (2020). A tale of three cities: the concept of smart sustainable cities for the Arctic. Polar Geography. ISSN 1088-937X. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2020.1713546
Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen & Grønning, Ragnhild (2019). From Humanitarian Needs to Border Control: Norwegian Media Narratives on Migration and Conceptions of Justice. The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs. ISSN 0393-2729. 54(3), s 90- 106 . doi: 10.1080/03932729.2019.1641364
Grønning, Ragnhild & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018, 11. juni). Critical voice and constructive partner? The role of civil society in EU foreign policy. [Internett]. GLOBUS.
Grønning, Ragnhild & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018, 27. juni). Do human rights limit state sovereignty?. [Internett]. GLOBUS.
Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie & Grønning, Ragnhild (2018, 23. mars). Crisis management without conflict resolution: EUFOR Tchad/RCA. [Internett]. GLOBUS. Show summary
The EU's approach to crisis management is characterised by a prioritisation of state consent and neutrality rather than engaging in conflict resolution and giving local stakeholders a voice, argues Ben Tonra.
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