I recently had the most fascinating consultation with a gentleman who was interested in the possibility of my representing him as his lawyer.
I recently had the most fascinating consultation with a gentleman who was interested in the possibility of my representing him as his lawyer. The situation involved ongoing parental conflict regarding his relationship with their child. As I understood matters, their child's mother has consistently interfered with his parenting time and made his life so difficult in that regard, that many fathers might have "voluntarily" disappeared from the child's life by now. They broke up before their now teenage child was born and have been to court more times than the child's age.
Rather than get into the current state of affairs, I decided that I needed a better understanding of how their relationship ended all those years ago. The mother and her family lived in the Los Angeles area and he and his family lived outside of California. The two of them started dating and the mother eventually relocated and moved in with him. She became pregnant shortly thereafter.
Early in her pregnancy, the mother told him that she wanted to move back to Los Angeles to be closer to her family, which she did. I then asked the father whether he broke up with a pregnant woman. He responded that he did no such thing and that it was the mother who ended the relationship. I then asked him whether she had ever told him that she was breaking up with him. He thought about my question for a while and said, "No." I once again asked him if he had broken up with a pregnant woman. He then told me that he couldn't have just left his job and moved to Los Angeles. I asked the question again and he said that he hadn't been the one that ended that relationship. I asked him to think back and try and remember whether she had broken up with the venue or with him. He thought about it for a while and said, "Oh my God, she broke up with the venue, but not with me." I responded by telling him that he had, in fact, broken up with a pregnant woman.
I told him that most conflicts occur as a result of misunderstandings and that people should never assume anything. He then told me that after she moved back to Los Angeles and before giving birth, she asked him if he was going to come and see her. Since he assumed that she had ended the relationship, he never visited her. I told him that whether or not he realized it at the time, he had broken up with a pregnant woman. I then said that I had recently attended a meeting for the Family Law Section of the Pasadena Bar Association and a psychologist and child custody evaluator had mentioned what typically occurs when a man breaks up with his pregnant wife or girlfriend. Needless to say, father's experience in this case is text book. As an aside, I didn't need the psychologist to tell me this information because it is so obvious.
In any event, almost immediately after the child was born, mother asked father when he was going to come and see his child. By that point, father had already retained counsel, who was preparing a paternity action in order to obtain court-ordered visitation, among other things. Father decided not to take mother up on her offer because he had already retained counsel. I told him that he could have stopped the legal process at any time, especially since nothing had yet been filed with the court. Father looked into my eyes and said that he was much younger at the time and didn't know any better.
I then told him that he broke up with a pregnant woman who was still allowing him access to their child and he commenced legal action against her instead. Under the circumstances, I asked him if he is really surprised at what has gone on for all these years.
I then told him that he can continue with his same approach, but I just don't see how he can expect a different outcome after all these years, or he can try something different. We discussed shame, bitterness and betrayal. I also provided him a copy of my recently published article titled "Family Law Matters Must Be Handled With Care," wherein I discussed these very issues. We talked about what needs to be done in an effort to try and address those toxic emotions all these years later.
I asked him to tell me what he understands empathy to mean. He gave me his understanding, which was superficially correct. We then discussed the concept of empathy in great detail, which can be found in my article titled "The Power of Empathy." I told him that they will be parents of this child for the rest of their lives and that I only see one way of changing the dynamics of the situation. I said that he must give great thought as to how he would feel if he had been in mother's shoes under these circumstances. He then has to write her a very empathic, heartfelt letter in which he takes personal responsibility for all of his mistakes and gives a proper and sincere apology.
He responded by expressing concern that doing so might be considered stalking. I asked him if mother had a restraining order against him and he said she didn't. I then asked him how such a letter could possibly be considered stalking. I told him that I can't think of one possible downside to his writing her such a letter, and that it had the potential to possibly make a crack in the wall that mother has built up over time. I said that if he followed my advice, he might put things into motion that could change the dynamics between them. I'm afraid that you can't do that in litigation. Furthermore, I don't know of any other lawyers who would have provided him with such advice.
My client liked the idea and acknowledged that it gets to the source of the conflict, rather than just the symptoms. I strongly advised that he have me or a well-qualified mental health professional review his letter before he sends it because he only has one chance to do this right.
These and other concepts are part of a presentation I have been giving to family law litigators titled "De-Escalating Conflict Through Service Delivery." I most recently gave this program on April 15, 2015 at one of Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & Klein, LLP's monthly lunch continuing legal education meetings at their office. I am very pleased to report that the program was very well received and that the attorneys had me cover a few other concepts, even after the one-hour time frame had lapsed. The questions and comments were very thoughtful and a number of the attorneys approached me afterwards to tell me how much they enjoyed the presentation and that they found the information very interesting and useful.
Later that evening, an intern of theirs who is currently an LLM student at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine sent me the following email: "I really enjoyed your presentation today at FMBK and wanted to thank you for taking the time to speak with me afterward. It was a pleasure to meet you and I will look forward to reading more of your work in this area." She also told me that one of her professors at the Straus Institute program provided a copy of my article titled "The Perfect Storm: Lawyer Limitations and the Adversarial Model in Family Law" to his students to read. I was absolutely thrilled to hear that, especially considering that the Straus Institute has been ranked number one in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the 11th consecutive year. The next day, I received the following email from the Marketing Manager at Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, LLP: "Thank you for such a wonderful presentation yesterday. Everyone loved what you had to say! Thanks!"
As I keep saying, you can only give what you have and teach what you know. It is very promising that some family law litigators are receptive to this type of information.


Canberra – Are You Ready to Rock??
Get ready to party Canberra as Bjorn Again will perform there on Friday July 28th at The Southern Cross Club.
The World's No 1 and most popular ABBA show Bjorn Again will perform all the biggest and best ABBA hits in a sing-along dance-along frenzy. A Bjorn Again show is the best night anyone can have in platform shoes and flares so RING RING your friends and come on down.
Tickets ON SALE NOW but are selling very fast and will sell out soon so be quick!


We've tried our best to make our CSA program as simple and straight-forward as possible. That being said, we'll try and clear up any details or "what if" scenarios here! If you have a question that's not answered here please email us and we'll get right back to you!
What if I'm uncertain about committing to 15 weeks?
If you've never tried our CSA before and want to test us out or if you're just unsure about whether you can commit to 15 weeks, you may purchase a single week CSA and have the opportunity to purchase more weeks once you've been convinced of our quality and freshness!
What types of food can I expect?
For Smaller size 1 staple item (carrots and potatoes alternated weekly when available) plus 3-4 short season veggies and for Bigger size 2 staple items (carrots and potatoes every week that they're available) plus 3-4 veggies of whatever is currently in season. The bounty of our season fluctuates from week to week depending on weather and crop ripeness. While the first few weeks of the season may be smaller, we reach our peak for most crops from late July to mid September. Check out our products page to learn more about our peak season.
When / Where can I pick up my bounty?
When you sign up, be sure to choose the location that is most convenient for you. You must pick up your bounty every Thursday. Pick up hours depend upon on your location of choice.
What happens to my delivery if I can't pick it up?
If you know you'll not be able to pick up your bounty, you're free to send a friend or family member in your place. Just give us a heads up with their name so we can add them to your order notes as someone who is approved to pick up your bounty. If no one is able to claim your bounty, it will be donated to a local charity by end of business on Thursday by your pick up location. If you know what weeks you'll be on holiday, consider choosing our week-to-week ordering option. It may be the right choice for you!
Can my business or company be a pickup location?
If you think your business would be a good fit with our CSA values, we'd love to talk more with you. If you work in a building where you and 29 of your coworkers would like to participate in the CSA, we offer a company drop off service. Provided 30 people sign up to the program, we'll deliver your veggies right to your office. If your company is interested in this option, give us a shout. We'd love to chat.
I don't like (insert veggie here). Can I request a substitution?
Sorry, there are no substitutions. While you may not have loved Brussels sprouts or kale or fennel in the past, we ask that you give our veggies a try. We'll do our best to give you creative ways to eat veggies you may not have thought of before. If you absolutely and unequivocally don't like a particular veggie or you have an allergy to one, our recommendation is to gift it to a friend. After all, who doesn't love free, fresh, local veggies?!
We are well known for our carrots and potatoes and they are our "staple" items. Depending on your chosen CSA bounty size, you will receive one or both of these most weeks. If you do not eat potatoes and/or carrots, you might be better off visiting us at one of our Farmer's Market booths to purchase the veggies of your choice.
Can I come work at the farm?
Each year we hire field staff for the spring and summer to take care of your veggies. We're always on the look out for great people to employ. If you're not looking for a full summer work commitment, we do have a few opportunities for our community to come check out the farm. We'll announce these opportunities through our emails, so keep an eye out for them.
While we'd love to be able to have people pop in to visit at any time, our focus on safety and quality requires us to keep visits scheduled. We are a working farm and the safety of our employees and visitors is of the utmost importance to us.
Our U-Pick, honour system, Saskatoon orchard is open from late July to mid August every year and customers coming to pick berries may come to the orchard unannounced at any time during the Saskatoon season.
What happens if the crops get hailed/rained/snowed out? What if there is a drought or pests and no veggies grow?
Part of the risk-reward structure of a CSA means that our CSA partners accept the bad with the good. Weather in Edmonton is fickle and hard to predict. What we can tell you is that in the 50+ years we've been farming these fields, we've logged an amazing track record when it comes to crop failure. When much of the city is still covered in snow late into the spring, our fields are insulated by the river and our micro climate allows us to plant earlier than most farmers in the area.
When the June rain begins to drown city gardens, our loamy soil and sloped fields allows the water to drain into the North Saskatchewan. When the summer sun is shrivelling all other signs of life, our proximity to the river means we can irrigate life back into our crops. Does each season work out perfectly? No. But Riverbend Gardens has the unique advantage of being heavy on the reward and low on the risk.
Is Riverbend Gardens organic? Do you use pesticides?
We are not an organic farm but we farm sustainable and only use pesticides minimally and cautiously. Last year we used a pesticide called Decis twice only on the crops that attract the white butterfly/moth. It has a post harvest interval of one day but we wait several days before harvesting after using that product and we only choose to do this as a last resort.
We don't use any herbicides as our weed management system is done entirely by hand. We irrigate from the North Saskatchewan river and we ensure the water is very clean by getting it tested every year.
When it comes to fertilizers, we only use organic matter compost on our fields. Most of what we use in this regard is simply the leftovers of our harvest that don't keep. We also have an agreement with Northlands where they bring out a few loads of their used straw from the horse pens and we cultivate it into our fields. While the manure in the straw is obviously good for the soil, the organic matter of the straw itself breaks down into important nutrients for our fields.
Since we are a family farm that sells all our produce directly to consumers, we are committed and connected to our customers and want them to eat and be healthy. It is important to us that customers know their farmers and create a relationship with them so you are able to know and trust where your food comes from.
How do I cook/eat (insert veggie here)?
We want to celebrate our veggies and highlight their best qualities. Each week you'll receive an email with cooking recommendations and facts. These will be collected on our site so you can find them back later. We're always looking to try new recipes with our veggies so if you have a way to eat RBG veggies that you just love, we'd love if it you shared your tricks, tips and recipes with us too.
How do prices compare to Farmers' Market prices?
We make sure that the CSA is at least equal value to purchasing at farmer's market for the 15 week subscription. While the early weeks may be similar to what you'd get at Farmer's market for the price, at full season, the CSA bounty is often about $5+ better value. That's like getting a free bag of perfect potatoes or melt in your mouth carrots!


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Turkmenistan: Niyazov Names New Appointees
By Lowell Bezanis
Ashgabat, Teheran; 13 February 1997 (RFE/RL) - Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov has issued a decree appointing Akmurad Mulkamanov First Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. Mulkamanov, who earlier headed an unnamed body which coordinated the country's national security agencies, replaced Annamurad Soltanov, who previously held both positions.
Niyazov yesterday also issued a decree effectively abolishing what was described as the government Press Committee, and creating a state-run publishing house subordinated to the cabinet.
Niyazov today concludes a visit to Teheran for talks focusing on regional problems, specifically Afghanistan and Tajikistan. He is also expected to discuss enhancing cooperation in several areas, notably transport, the oil-and-gas sector and trade.
In the past six years, Niyazov has visited Teheran more than a dozen times, and signed more than 100 bilateral agreements. Bilateral trade is estimated at 100-million dollars, and Iranian investment in Turkmenistan is estimated at 250-million dollars.

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Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back, il sequel di Beach Head, è un videogioco sviluppato e pubblicato nel 1985 dalla Access Software per gli home computer Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 e ZX Spectrum.

Il gioco è noto per la presenza di voci sintetizzate, rese in ottima maniera per l'epoca. Notevole anche l'aumento di difficoltà, comunque regolabile su tre livelli, rispetto al predecessore.

Trama
È il 1947 e il sanguinario dittatore detto "il Drago", scampato alla guerra nel Pacifico, si è asserragliato su un'isola con un esercito personale. Gli Alleati, comandati da J. P. Stryker, tentano di espugnare la sua base.

Modalità di gioco
Come il primo Beach Head, il gioco è composto da livelli con meccanica di gioco completamente diversa tra loro. Una importante novità è la modalità a due giocatori, uno dei quali controlla gli attaccanti e uno i difensori, mentre in giocatore singolo si può scegliere chi controllare a ogni livello, tranne il terzo in cui si possono controllare solo gli Alleati.

Consta di quattro livelli:
Attack: dei soldati paracadutati devono raggiungere una grossa mitragliatrice controllata dalle forze nemiche comandate dal dittatore ove si trovano i prigionieri.
Rescue: lo scopo è difendere i prigionieri controllando la mitragliatrice che deve fermare le forze nemiche che si pongono davanti.
Escape!: il giocatore controlla un elicottero che deve mettere in salvo i prigionieri alleati dai carri armati del dittatore.
Battle: il comandante alleato si trova faccia a faccia con il dittatore in una grotta; un duello a distanza con il lancio di coltelli determinerà il vincitore e lo sconfitto, che cadrà nel vuoto.

Note

Bibliografia
Riviste

Manuali

Collegamenti esterni

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Perhaps you have a burning intellectual curiosity about something, wish to advance your career or even change career direction and increase your employability and earning capacity. Either way you can be sure that studying towards a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Education, or Doctor of Musical Arts will give you fresh knowledge, allow you to discover new things and develop new skills.
A doctoral degree is the highest academic degree offered at UC. Those who earn it must demonstrate significant intellectual achievement, high scholarly ability, and great breadth of knowledge.
The UC PhD is a research-only degree (no coursework) which can be completed in over 80 disciplines, carried out under academic supervision and using world class facilities.
In addition to your thesis research, UC offers a number of workshops and seminars for thesis students to develop general skills such as career planning, time management, networking, and communication skills. See the 'Further study' section below for more details.
A number of scholarships and awards are available for doctoral students.
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The minimum requirements to apply for doctoral study are that you should have completed, or be in the process of completing, a research-focused honours degree or master's degree. For PhD study you must achieve this degree at either the level of First-Class or Second-Class Division I (or equivalent).
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A Doctor of Philosophy involves extensive and sustained original research in a subject of your choice, with the results being presented in a thesis. It is normally the highest academic qualification available and is a mark of intellectual ability and independence, critical thinking, self-discipline and commitment. PhDs are offered in a wide range of subjects at UC, and are by thesis only.
A Doctor of Education is a specialised doctorate designed for professionals in education, health sciences, and related fields. Built on a cohort model of inquiry, the Doctor of Education provides a structured, supportive, rigorous approach to doctoral study. The Doctor of Education builds leadership and commitment, fosters scholarly excellence, and allows candidates to connect educational research with questions of professional practice, in particular leadership. International students will need to pay international fees for this doctorate.
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Чудово — название населённых пунктов в России.

 Чудово — деревня в Верхнекамском районе Кировской области.
 Чудово — деревня в Ковернинском районе Нижегородской области.
 Чудово — деревня в Семёновском районе Нижегородской области.
 Чудово — город, административный центр Чудовского района Новгородской области.
 Чудово — деревня в Окуловском районе Новгородской области.
 Чудово — деревня в Калининском районе Тверской области.
 Чудово — деревня в Старицком районе Тверской области.

См. также
 Чудово-Кировское
 Чудово-Московское
 Чудово-Новгородское


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Vishumenon's Blog
Truths often upalatable
WHY ISN'T THE 'WEST' HELPING ASSAD?
April 6, 2016 April 6, 2016 ~ vishumenon
This is my reply to quora.com to the question
"Is al-Assad more dangerous than ISIS? If not then why is the West not supporting him?"
The answer, in a nutshell, is simple,
The right and the most obvious thing to do is that all the warring parties other than Islamic State join together to defeat the Islamic State and then call for a free and fair election in Syria under the UN auspices. I doubt if President Bashar Al-Assad could reject that offer and yet claim that he is the rightful President. In fact, Assad had himself suggested such an election and offered to run for the President again "if people are not against it".
However, that wouldn't happen because even if Obama proposes it – if he tries that, not just the Republicans, but even many Democrats will probably join together to impeach him. A war in one or more corners of the world is essential for the American weapon industry – the one that creates the most jobs – keep going and growing. Like it or not, much of American affluence since the Second World War has been dependent on wars overseas.
Take a look at what has been happening in the war against Islamic State till now is
United States supplies arms to all belligerents of both sides through direct and clandestine channels
United States also bombs Islamic State that rose from the ashes of Iraq war (most of its senior officers being from Saddam's Army), but is too cowardly to 'put boots on the ground'. This policy makes sure that you can never win and thereby put an end to the war.
Al Assad fights the Syrian rebels as well as Al Qaeda factions on the ground while also fighting Islamic State.
Saudi Arabia, and its allies (Islamic Coalition) , supposed to be fighting Islamic State alongside the US, bombs Assad's fighters, Shia Houthis and civilians – in essence, all those who are opposed to Islamic State.
. Saudi Arabia and its allies also bomb Yemen to oust Houthis who are Shias, armed by Iran. However, Human Rights Watch investigated several coalition airstrikes in which there was no evident military target in the vicinity, such as strikes on the markets at Muthalith Ahim and Amran.
Iranian volunteers, Assad's army, Kurds and Shia Militia fight Islamic State on the ground.
·Turkey bombs Kurds who fight Islamic State.
Russia gives military assistance to Assad and makes bombing sorties (probably suspended for now).
Turkey also helps Islamic State to augment its human guided missiles (suicide bombers) by welcoming them at its airports and allowing them free passage through its border to Syria
Both American and Russian bombers cause havoc with civilian lives in hospitals and schools, but deny reports.
Islamic State destroys historical monuments, beheads journalists, members of international aid agencies, hostages, own fighter-volunteers who try to go home in disgust and kill over 1700 civilians including women and children. Yazidi men and married women are killed; younger women are enslaved and used as sex objects; some are supposed to be married off to willing soldiers.
Get the picture? It is pretty mixed up, like a Picasso painting. United States no longer risks the life of its soldiers – not that they were ever considered un-expendable.
How did this senseless war begin? An unlawful attack, prohibited by a UN resolution, on a sovereign Nation by the United States under President George W Bush and United Kingdom under Tony Blair on blatantly false ground which, if Nuremberg example sand jurisprudence were to be followed, would have hanged them both.
Bush explained the reason for the senseless and vicious attack to a Palestinian delegation:
"God told me: George, go attack Iraq and end the tyranny":
Disgusted at his successor's ineffectiveness to enter a full-scale war, he alsosaid
"In order to be an effective president … when you say something, you have to mean it," said George Bush. "You gotta kill 'em."
You gotta kill 'em is a favourite American expression – spoken and practiced,
George W. Bush said this in a private conversation that was heard all over the world. By that reckoning, Bush was an effective President. So was his father, HW Bush who started the first Iraq War in 1990 and meddled with so many other nations waging their own wars. Another effective President was Ronald Reagan of Iran-Contra fame. In some measure, all Presidents starting with General Eisenhower till G W Bush have been effective in keeping America's weapons industry bustling at the cost of millions of expendable lives and untold suffering at distant overseas places.
Bush also predicted (probably God told him that too): "You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren…That's how Americans should view the deal."
Moral? Make plenty of wars so our grandchildren can flourish. By the time Obama clued in on to these maxims, it is unfortunately time for him to leave the oval office that decides the fate of human race but for a couple of trouble makers such as Russia and China.
By West, what you mean is the United States. The rest of those from Europe are its tail-board passengers. Britain has been a major partner in the war crimes of invading distant countries (at least 35 of them – see the list quoted below), conspiring to destabilize duly constituted governments (many of them democratically elected or supported by the populace, and in any case of no direct consequence to the invaders). Among the achievements of the 'West' are carnage in North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq to name only those nations where United States involved itself in full scale war. This, apart from supplying conventional, chemical and biological weapons to Saddam's Iraq, Shah's Iran and Everyone's Israel . The US is still supplying to, among others, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Pakistan – some of the most dangerous nations in the world that train and fund terrorism of one type or another. It is well known that many of those weapons (other than aircraft – so far) are transferred to terrorists under the care of these nations. The sole aim, evidently, is perpetuating wars in some part of the world or another with a view to keep its colossal weapon industry and the ancillary businesses ticking. There is no business like weapon business.
Why was the United States under Barack Obama – a winner of Nobel Prize For Peace – so excited about the so-called Arab Spring when it bloomed in 2010? Wouldn't the CIA, the intelligence agency reputed for its cutting-edge surveillance and espionage technology have known that replacing a few benevolent despots like Muammar Gaddafi (who ran a welfare state of zero poverty), Hosni Mubarak (at least less despotic than, say, King Abdullah) would only lead to murderous sectoral wars in every Arabian nation. Isn't it strange that there was no Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia, the most despotic countries of all, with its terrible human rights records? To offset the fallout, the king duly ordered a a couple of notional reforms.
Islamic State shows off its methods of execution, particularly beheading of innocent victims on the social media for gaining wide publicity. Are they the most vicious? Saudi Arabia carries out on the average one beheading or stoning (including, or especially, women and foreigners) every second day. Click here to watch the video if you're above 18 and have the stomach. (You may have to agree to bear with the ghastly show).
Its record for 2015 was 157 which is less than the number of civilians (other than Yazidis) known to have been beheaded by Islamic State. Rapes, murders and amputation of servants and employees by private Saudi employers are not uncommon. The government-appointed moral police roam the streets to look for, arrest and punish (jail, amputate, execute) defaulters by Sharia Law
Compared to the United States record, all these might seem trivial. 25 to 30 men and women and children are shot by private guns every day; quite a few – about one or two a month – black citizens are shot by white cops with impunity. The country has the largest prison population in the world at over 1.57 million prison inmates and at least some 2.4 million under some form of incarceration. The methods of judicial execution may range from electrocution, lethal injection (giving scope for doctors to experiment and innovate for maximum suffering), gas chamber, firing squad and hanging according to the whims of individual states. The image here shows the botched lethal injection that caused terrible suffering for hours to Romell Broom, who, happily, had to be retuned to the death row – at least until someone could find a vein.
Which of these hitech executions is more humane than beheading can only be judged by one who had undergone them all – which leads us to what is scientifically known as the Uncertainty Principle. In February 2016, Brandon Jones. another black man suffered for more than 45 minutes and had to be injected several times before he succumbed. If you have the stomach, read the gory details of botched up judicial murders here.
Torture and newly invented methods of torture were written into law and signed by the US President (George Bush, who else?) in 2002 and was practiced with further innovations and vigour on suspected prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in the island of Cuba, Abu Gharaib in Iraq as well in as in several secret prisons across the world.
Many years after their capture and regular torture, most of the victims were let off without even being charged. The ghastly experience they recount make terrible coffee-table reading, but no one dares ask the perpetrators – the United States – for an explanation. Justice system, based on Jury decision, discriminates against Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. President Obama who lost the audacity of hope in his first term has even failed to close down Guantanamo Bay where such Christian treatment is meted out to humans (mostly Muslims). If you think them all to be obnoxious violations of human rights and decency, United States has a new Presidential hopeful – Mr. Donald Trump – who promises to introduce techniques more vicious than the dreaded waterboarding as soon as he takes office.
SYRIA AND THE ARAB SPRING
It is conceivable that Saudi Arabia, along with the CIA moles who are everywhere, engineered the so-called Arab springs of 2010 that turned out to be a long and bloody winter for the citizens. Syria was a special target because its President was from the Alawi sect of Shia denomination – an anathema to the Saudis who are out to propagate by force their kind of intolerant Sunni- Wahabi Islam all over the world. The concept of a Wahabi Caliphate that rules the world as per stringent Sharia Laws is the driving force behind the new menace known as Islamic State. The only Saudi objection to this concept is presumably that the self-styled Caliph. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is an usurper and claims to be a descendant of the Prophet whereby he alone has the right to be a Caliph, which dislodges any future claim of the King of Saudi Arabia or of Jordan or the President/Prime Minister of Turkey to ascend the throne that would rule the world. Even if Islamic State is finally defeated and sent into oblivion, the hope and armed designs for establishing a world-dominating Caliphate is unlikely to die with it. Thereby rests the future growth of the weapon makers in the US and some of its fellow-passengers like UK, France etc.
THE WAR RECORD OF THE UNITED STATES
After the end of WWII, the United States invaded, without provocation, several countries and instigated, armed and installed several dictatorships. Read a list of those wars by William Blum, an American author, here.
1. KOREA
At the end of Korean War, General Curtis Lemay , later a vice presidential hopeful, boasted that inside of three years, the US destroyed 20% of the Korean population. Typical of American attitude towards human life, Lemay also said : "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting....But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
That very well spells out the policy of the US administration through its history – starting with the killing of American natives till there was none left to fight.
It is estimated that the Korean war killed about 3 million in all.
Brian Wilson, Vietnam war veteran and author, "Korea, Global Research" of Canada (October 2006), wrote :
"North Korea is portrayed in the international media as a threat toglobal security, but there is absolutely no evidence to that effect. On theother hand, North Korea is the only country in the world that has lost up to aquarter of its population in recent history [during the Korean War, when theNorth Korean population was wiped out by US bombings],"
Even US actions find their reactions, however late they come, and however suicidal it could be. North Korea is still practicing its own brand of 'Dictatorship of Proletariat'. If its brand of Communism was a threat to South Korea at the start of the war in the fifties, it is now poised at striking the United States with nuclear weapons risking its own annihilation. If that happens, 9/11 would be remembered by the surviving humanity as children's pranks with toy guns.
Michel Chossudovsky, the head of the Center for Research on Globalization, an independent Canadian think tank, states about the Korean War:
The US has on countless occasions violated the Armistice Agreement. It has remained on a war footing. Casually ignored by the Western media and the international community, the US has actively deployed nuclear weapons targeted at North Korea for more than half a century in violation of article 13b) of the Armistice agreement…The armistice remains in force.The US is still at war with Korea. It is not a peace treaty, a peace agreement was never signed.
Chossudovsky's intention was to persuade the government to enter into a peace treaty with Korea after more than 60 years after signing the armistice, but that advice has obviously fallen into deaf ears. (Chossudovsky is a Canadian, not a Russian).
2. VIETNAM.
Human casualties, nearly 3 million again. (Not counting US veterans who went back neurological disorders, murder syndromes, and those who committed suicide or turned criminals). The shameful history of atrocities like that involved the psychopath officers and men such as Lieutenant Calley who shot nearly 400 women and children in cold blood . (A grateful US government commuted his sentence to house arrest).
Result? Defeat and shame-faced withdrawal. Not to forget the use of billions worth weapons – albeit at the expense of the taxpayer.
3. AFGHANISTAN
By 1986, the Soviet Union had withdrawn, and Dr. Mohammad Najibullah had become the President. His fault, if any, was that he had once worked as an intelligence chief when the country was under Russian occupation. In any case, Communist Soviet Union was crumbling under its own weight and Gorbachev was hastening the process. A man of peace, a pediatrician wary of Islamic extremism,Najibullah had actually written to President HW Bush of the impending doom.
"After the fall of the Berlin Wall," he told Alan Brody of the UNICEF who was then visiting Najibullah while the latter was hiding in a UN building,, "I wrote to Bush. I explained all of this, I told him that the Reds are finished, and the enemy of the United States is no longer the Reds, it is the Greens. I offered to work together with him."
By the'Greens', Najibullah meant Taliban, the Pakistan-trained extremist Muslims who had been equipped with stinger missiles, recoil-less rifles and other high-tech weapons by the United States. He also foretold the catastrophe that was to befall the United State ten years later:
""Dear Alan," Najibulla told Alan Brody of the UNICEF. "Do not be naïve about what you are facing. They will bring a destruction you cannot imagine." He said that a decade before 9/11, soon after which he was dragged out of the UN building, castrated and dragged along the streets tied to a truck and finally hanged in a public place. Those who should have listened to him did not feel sorry, for they had branded him a communist puppet.
Alan Brody concluded:
""It was an anomaly, throughout the 1980s, that the West was empowering Mujahidin groups who were burning down schools, banning girls frombeing educated, trying to cut women off from basic opportunities or even healthcare, and preaching ideologies of xenophobic hatred. The CIA and others did all of this in the interest of bringing down a government that, in the areas of social development at least, stood for secular and progressive Western values. "
What was the consequence of this first Afghan War by the US? The Taliban and other rebels got a huge stockpile of arms and ammunition to fight the United States in 2001 and thereafter.
4. IRAQ WAR BY H W BUSH (GULF WAR OR OPERATION DESERT SHIELD)
The US supplied weapons, napalm, anthrax and nuclear know-how to Saddam Hussein and encouraged him to go to war with Iran, which only boomeranged in more ways than one. Why did H W Bush turn against Saddam? Was it because he attacked Kuwait, claiming it to be a district of Iraq (which it once was) ? Hardly. The attack was at the instance of Saudi Arabia, the worst autocratic and theocratically extremist monarchy in the world. Saddam had always thought that the Americans won't turn against him (because he knew too much), but HW Bush was the man who was three shades worse than Reagan who once said that the rebels of Nicaragua who overturned a democratic government with arms supplied by him was like America's pioneers. Reagan was not wrong, of course, considering what the 'pioneers' had done to the native owners of the land.
The first Iraq war was seen across the world like a fireworks display by CNN on its newly introduced TV technology. As per a study by Beth Daponte, then a US government Census Bureau demographer, it caused the death of at least 200,000 humans, most of them civilians. Another 1.7 Million , many of them children, perished in hunger and deprivation due to the 'sanctions' enforced by the US, bullying the rest of the world to join in the sanctions – in defiance of the United nations.
5. ATTACK ON AFGHANISTAN AFTER 9/11
Nobody really knows whether Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi Arab himself, and funded by Saudis really had anything to do with 9/11 although, while the going was good and Muslims were hailing it as a victory for Islam, he obliquely stated (in a video that wassuspect) it was indeed planned by him. On the other hand, what is well known is that:
15 of the 19 hijackers of airliners on 9/11 were Saudi Arabas.
There was no proof of any of the hijackers having met Osama Bin Laden. I 2006, Al Jazeera showed a video where Osama Bin Laden was supposed to be meeting 'some of the hijackers'. The faces of the hijackers were not visible; apart from Al Jazeera's words, there was no proof that they were really the hijackers.
On the other hand, Mullah Omar, then the rulerof Afghanistan and Taliban supremo had offered to hand over Osama to the US ifthey could show him any proof that the latter was involved. A month later, whenBush started bombing Afghanistan indiscriminately, there still was no proof.
It is incredible that Musharraf did not know,and through him Bush did not know that Osama was under the safe keep of Pakistan army. Exposing Osama would have blown the lid off the claim that the war was waged to capture Osama Bin Laden and that he masterminded the attack on World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Bush needed an alibi to go to war – and here was the murder of over 3000 Americans by Saudis, but by some sleight of words could be attributed to Afghans.
If Osama was the kingpin, why are the Americans detaining Khalid Shaikh Mohammad – the plotter of 1995 failed attempt at a similar hijack -still in the Guantanamo Bay?
What was the result of the 13-year long war? 2232 US soldiers died; at least 4000 civilians were bombed and shot to death which Bush dismissed as "collateral damage". Afghanistan is still smouldering.
6. IRAQ WAR BY GW BUSH
The Second Iraq war claimed 601,027 deaths, 2.5% of the population
What was the excuse for going to war with a country that was rendered hungry and defenceless through murderous sanctions and repeated warnings? Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein was holding weapons of mass destruction.
Physicians for SocialResponsibility (PRS) of Washington DC , in a study released in 2011 stated: "the death toll from 10 years of the "War on Terror" since the 9/11 attacks is atleast 1.3 million, and could be as high as 2 million.
Those killed. Or maimed for life included children in schools, pregnant women, and patients in hospitals – the violent death of all of whom was summarily disposed of by Bush as "Collateral damage".
It was well known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. In fact, Saddam was made to destroy practically all heavy weapons in his armoury under threat of attack and further sanctions. A UN inspection team certified that there were no WMD in Iraq. Children of Iraq were dying under a farcical and dysfunctional oil-for-food program.
The Nobel-Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility reported that of the 1.74million Iraqi civilians who died due to the cruel sanctions (a euphemism forblockade of goods and services), more than half were children.
What was the outcome of this senseless pogrom? Birth of Islamic State and eternal strife with no end in sight.
7. SYRIA
Obama, probably for fear of too much unpopularity among the weapon makers who decide Republican voting, helped the Wahabi opponents to al-Assad's regime by supplying them weapons and equipment most of which went to the hands of Al Qaeda who were also fighting against Assad. Presumably some of those weapons land up in the hands of Islamic State that the 'Free World" is supposed to be fighting.
Almost immediately after receiving a warning from Barack Obama that use of chemical weapons by Assad, the US will treat it as 'crossing the red line' (meaning it will result in a direct attack by the US), chemical weapons were used in Syria. Who had the motivation? Not Assad, who had to fear the promised attack by the most powerful nation on earth. On the other hand, the rebels had all the motivation in the world – use of chemicals would help end the Assad regime. Many of the rebels were Sunni deserters from Assad's own army who knew how and where the weapons were stored, and how to use them. The motives clearly lay with them – Assad would be blamed and defeated by the Americans,
Assad denied using those weapons, but it was decided that accepting his plea was not convenient, but Obama did not want to join the fray if he could help it. Russia's Putin came to Obama's rescue – he proposed a formula that all remaining chemical weapons be removed from Syria. Nobody was as happy as Assad was at that suggestion.
Yet this man whose audacity and hope lies in ruins on account of a belligerent Senate funded by weapons trade, has his back against the wall and fights on. It suits the weapon makers and agents and traders of the 'West'..
So now you know why Obama can't help Syria defeat Islamic State and then call for election. World Peace is bad for business.
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The EasyDooz are a five-piece band dedicated to the love of Louisiana roots music, combining accordion and fiddle-driven zydeco, Cajun, and swamp pop. Veteran musicians Don Carpenter (accordion), Karen Sellers (drums), Mark Trichka (guitar), and Lisa Brande (fiddle) are all full-time and part-time residents of Louisiana's Lafayette area. This show will also feature Sarasota resident Mary Morella on rub-board. Lisa Brande says, "Be assured, we will be playing all great music to DANCE to, and mostly Zydeco and Swampy stuff".
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A five story, 175 unit, mixed use complex is in the works for 761 South C Street, in Oxnard. Aldersgate Investment is behind the project. The development will require the demolition of a 27,000 square foot educational training building. The working title for the project is "C Street Apartments."
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Work has been approved at 2714 East Vinyard Avenue. The project, entitled "Rio Urbana," is part of the ongoing expansion near The Riverpark, a planned community in North Oxnard, next to the 101. Aldergate Investments is the developer behind the project. The firm is based out of Oxnard and responsible for several other developments in the county.
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Today's bill of the day would require Child Protection Services to contact the appropriate Military Installation Family Advocacy Program, if abuse or neglect is reported in a foster home with one or more active duty parent or caretaker.
SB 2048 was authored by Senator Younger to amend current language in CPS'S responsibility on reporting abuse and or neglect to a child.
In addition, if the Department of Child Protection Services determines that a parent or other person responsible for the care or welfare of an abused or neglected child maintains active duty status within the military, the department shall notify the applicable military installation family advocacy program that there is an allegation of abuse or neglect that relates to that child.
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Major Liver Meeting Points to Continued Progress in Hep C Fight
Highlights from presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco.
For the last several years, the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) has heralded exciting scientific developments in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment. Today, as many such advancements have come to fruition and hep C is increasingly easy to treat, news of further scientific progress continues to roll in.
The major pharmaceutical players in the field, including Gilead Sciences, AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), and Merck, all presented findings at the conference about drug regimens that fine-tune treatment for the virus and address the needs of certain segments of the hep C population that still don't respond as well to therapy as the majority.
In addition, researchers presented results from research that adds greater understanding to the liver health-related benefits of a hep C cure.
Below is a summary of major research presented at the conference. To read about each study in greater detail, click the hyperlinks.
Two studies in particular illuminated how curing hep C may improve the health of the liver and dial back some of the damage inflicted by the virus. One found that people with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis who kick the virus to the curb often see their fibrosis score drop by at least one point. (Fibrosis has five stages in the so-called Metavir scoring system, from F0 to F4. F3 means advanced fibrosis and F4 is synonymous with cirrhosis.) Other researchers concluded that curing hep C may keep people with decompensated cirrhosis, the more advanced form of cirrhosis, from needing a liver transplant.
Hep C industry kingpin Gilead flexed its muscles at the conference, showing considerable evidence that the company will continue to dominate the field in 2016. In September, Gilead released an overview of findings from its four-part Phase III research program, called ASTRAL, investigating the once-daily, fixed-dose combination of the nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) and the investigational pangenotypic NS5A inhibitor velpatasvir for the treatment of genotypes 1 through 6. This combo tablet is essentially an upgrade of Gilead's Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir), swapping velpatasvir for ledipasvir to allow treatment of all the major genotypes of the virus.
Gilead applied for FDA approval for the new tablet in October.
The trial results provided in September showed that Sovaldi/velpatasvir essentially works as well as Harvoni (which is approved for genotypes 1, 4, 5, and 6), curing most study participant groups 94 to 100 percent of the time.
The AASLD conference saw more detailed results from the ASTRAL trials, including the ASTRAL-4 study, which included 267 participants with decompensated cirrhosis who had all genotypes except 5. They were randomized to take: 12 weeks of Sovaldi/velpatasvir; the tablet plus ribavirin for 12 weeks; or 24 weeks of the tablet alone. Eighty-three percent of the first group was cured, compared with 94 percent in the second group, and 86 percent in the third. There was no statistically significant difference between these results, however, meaning that the difference between them could have occurred by chance.
Results were also presented at the conference from a study of Harvoni paired with Gilead's investigational NS3/4A protease inhibitor vendroprevir, with or without ribavirin, given for eight weeks to people with genotype 1 and advanced liver disease. The regimen boasted a 96 percent cure rate.
To follow up on Viekira Pak (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir; dasabuvir), AbbVie is developing a regimen including the NS3/4A protease inhibitor ABT-493 and the NS5A inhibitor ABT-530. Researchers presented selected findings at AASLD from the ongoing Phase II SURVEYOR-I and -II trials of eight- and 12-weeks of the regimen, given with or without ribavirin. Both presentations only looked at results of those treated for 12 weeks.
The SURVEYOR-I study results focused on people with genotype 1, both with and without cirrhosis. Between 97 and 100 percent of them were cured. The SURVEYOR-II results looked at people with genotype 2 or 3 who did not have cirrhosis. Between 96 and 100 percent of those with genotype 2 were cured, as were 93 to 94 percent of those with genotype 3.
In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a combination of BMS's Daklinza (daclatasvir) and Sovaldi to treat genotype 3, the first treatment regimen green-lit for that genotype.
At AASLD, researchers presented findings from the Phase IIIb ALLY-3+ study of 12 or 16 weeks of Daklinza and Sovaldi plus ribavirin among hard-to-treat people with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis. All those with F3 fibrosis were cured, regardless of treatment length, while a respective 83 percent and 89 percent of those with cirrhosis were cured when treated for 12 and 16 weeks.
Looking at treatment for those coinfected with hep C and HIV, researchers conducted a systematic literature review of the ALLY-2 trial of Daklinza and Sovaldi and the PHOTON-1 and PHOTON-2 studies of Sovaldi and ribavirin. After pooling the results, and adjusting the pool to account for differences between the various groups of participants, the researchers found that 12 weeks of Daklinza and Sovaldi cured HCV in 99.99 percent of coinfected individuals, while the cure rate after 12 weeks of Sovaldi and ribavirin was only 84.6 percent.
Merck applied for FDA approval in June of the fixed-dose combination of the NS3/4A protease inhibitor grazoprevir and the NS5A replication complex inhibitor elbasvir to treat those with genotypes 1, 4 and 6 of the virus. A decision is likely in the coming weeks.
At AASLD, researchers presented findings from the double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III C-EDGE CO-STAR study of elbasvir/grazoprevir among people with genotypes 1, 4 or 6 who inject drugs and who are receiving opioid agonist therapy. In a modified analysis, 96 percent of those with genotype 1a, 97 percent of those with genotype 1b, 100 percent of those with genotype 4 and 60 percent of those with genotype 6 were cured. (There were only five people with genotype 6 in the study, so the cure rate for that group is not the most statistically reliable.)
Three-Week Treatment
It may be possible for some individuals who respond very quickly to hep C drugs to get away with just three weeks of treatment. Researchers presented findings from the pilot, response-guided, open-label SODAPI study of triple therapy involving an NS3 protease inhibitor plus dual NS5A-NS5B nucleoside inhibitors, given to 26 non-cirrhotic individuals with genotype 1b. They were treated with: Harvoni and BMS's experimental asunaprevir; Sovaldi, Daklinza and Janssen's Olysio (simeprevir); or Sovaldi, Daklinza and asunaprevir.
Eighteen participants whose viral loads dropped below 500 after 48 hours of first being treated received just three weeks of treatment. All of them were cured. The other participants were treated for eight or 12 weeks.
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Q: Need to be able to download a PDF given a BASE64 String upon componentdidmount I am trying to give the ability to download a PDF given a Base64 string.  I am able to view the PDF using "react-native-view-pdf".  Just unable to figure out how to actually get the file to download.  This is going to need to work for android and ios.
I have tried various forums and am just getting no where sadly.
Note: the this.props.pdf is the Base64 string.
Attempt 1)
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I am expecting to see that when the screen loads, that the user can download the PDF. I already have it displaying to the user, just want them to have the ability to download the file as well.

A: For downloading files you can use RNFetchBlob.fs.writeFile api from rn-fetch-blob as shown below. You can also refer to other filestream apis from their documentation https://github.com/joltup/rn-fetch-blob#user-content-file-stream
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Detecting a stud and nailing the plywood sheet down.
The goal of the project was to create a robot that could nail down plywood sheeting on roofs.
The final product wasn't very polished. It was easy to think of how everything should work, it was much more difficult to actually build it and work out all the real world details.
Raspberry PI to control all the other components.
Motors with encoders to perform turns and go straight using PID control.
Ultrasonic sensors to sense the roof edge and align with it.
Stud finder to sense the joists.
Linear actuator to press down the nail gun.
Solenoid to trigger the nail gun.
Coded mostly in python, using pigpio for things needing better performance like the encoders.
Preparing to put in the next row of nails. Turn, forward, turn, align, forward.
Using only the encoders to get ready for the next row would have led to an accumulation of error in the robots angle. A routine had to be created to align the robot with the edge.
Aligning routine states. The black dots are ultrasonic sensors. The line is the edge of the roof.
We used some ultrasonic sensors and a simple state based program to align it with the edge of the roof. This solution was cheaper and simpler than our other options: computer vision or a local positioning system.
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Q: Merge sort in java and copying array, still nlogn? I've taken a look at a few implementations of merge sort in java, and it seems like the splitting part is commonly done by creating 2 new arrays, left and right and copying the left and right parts to those arrays respectively.
My question is: This still gives us nlogn time right? Because now each split would have n+n time (n time for splitting the array, n time for merging the array) and there are logn splits, so we have 2nlogn which is still nlogn. Is this correct?

A: Which implementations were you looking at? The primary sorting algorithms used by the JDK are DualPivotQuicksort (for primitive arrays), TimSort and ComparableTimSort (for Object arrays/collections), and the incomprehensible wizardy in ArraysParallelSortHelpers for concurrent sorts.
All of these classes provide highly-tuned implementations of QuickSort or MergeSort (or in the parallel case "CilkSort", which sounds like a concurrency-friendly MergeSort). These algorithms are all generally O(n log(n)) - it's impossible to do better than O(n log(n)) without additional constraints on your inputs.
As to whether these algorithms generally spend O(n) time copying values back-and-forth between temporary storage, it's very much a case-by-case question. Where possible these implementations will certainly try to avoid using O(n) extra memory and time to do linear copying, but oftentimes such work is not actually the bottleneck. For example CilkSort uses a secondary "workspace array" to copy values back and forth from in successive stages, which makes it easier to enforce invariants since the "prior" stage is always in a reliable state. Even so the implementations try to avoid unnecessary array-copies whenever possible.
At the public API level we'll notice that Collections.sort() calls .toArray(), sorts the array, and then copies the values back into the original List. This is similarly just a practical optimization - it's faster to sort an array and do two linear copies than to deal with all the method invocations (and potentially inefficient List implementations, such as LinkedList) of modifying the List in-place.


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HJR (Hedjaz Jordan Railway) http://jhr.gov.jo.
GMT+2 (GMT+3 last Sunday in March to last Saturday in October). Dial code +962.
www.visitjordan.com. Things to see in Jordan.
UK citizens need a Jordanian visa. You can get this in London from their embassy at 6 Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London W8 7HA, Tel. 020 7937 3685, www.jordanembassyuk.org. UK, US & most western European citizens can buy a visa on arrival at the border, cost around 20 dinars or £22.
UK to Jordan by train?
Before the war in Syria, it was perfectly possible to reach Jordan and Petra overland from London & Europe via Istanbul & Damascus, without flying. In the hope that it will one day be possible again, I've left this page pretty much as it was before the war. This page explained how to plan, book and make this wonderful overland trip both there and back. Jordan is an amazing place to visit. Amman is worth a day or two, but the prime attraction is of course the fantastic lost city of Petra (pictured, right).
Things to see in Jordan: Amman, Azraq, Petra, Aqaba, Wadi Rum.
Hotels in Amman, Petra, Aqaba & Jordan Hotel search.
This is how it used to be done. Of course, with the war making Syria a no-go zone, it's sadly now impossible.
The train journey from London or Paris to Istanbul takes 3 nights with daily departures all year-round. See the London to Turkey page for train times, fares and how to book.
Step 2: Istanbul to Damascus - check current travel advice for Syria!
You can travel from Istanbul to Adana in southeastern Turkey largely by train, as shown here. Spend the night in Adana then take a bus onwards to Aleppo next day. Total journey time Istanbul to Aleppo 2 nights, 2 days. Several air-conditioned 100mph trains link Aleppo with Damascus every day, and there's a sleeper train too. See the London to Syria page for train times, fares, how to book and other information.
There was (see the update below) a wonderful train service from Damascus to Amman twice a week over the historic Hedjaz Railway. This train ride should not be missed, although if time presses there are also daily buses which are faster. Both options are explained below. There are buses and taxis from Amman to Petra.
If you are new to independent travel, planning a trip like this can seem daunting, but it's not that difficult. This may help you can plan a journey like this: How to plan an itinerary & budget.
A narrow-gauge train used to link Damascus in Syria with Amman in Jordan, running over part of the famous Hedjaz Railway, although it hasn't run since 2006. This historic train ride cost a mere $4, even though buses are faster and run daily. The Hedjaz line was originally built by the Turks to link Damascus with Medina in what is now Saudi Arabia, and it was the line attacked by T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Arabs during the Arab Revolt in 1917. For more information about the history of the Hedjaz Railway, see http://nabataea.net/hejazad.html.
My wife and I took the Damascus-Amman train in late 2005, when it ran twice-weekly. But by mid-2006 it was reported that it was no longer running because 'something is broken' - Syrian tank manoeuvres destroying the tracks, according to one source. The train has never run since. In May 2010 it was reported that a weekly Deraa-Amman passenger train had started running, making one round trip on Saturdays, though this went unconfirmed, and at present there is definitely no Damascus-Amman train at the running - or indeed any other trains in Syria, given the conflict.
If you have any feedback about this train service, please e-mail me.
Damascus to Amman is 223 km (139 miles).
Trains are operated by Syrian Railways (CFS) and Hedjaz-Jordan Railway. The Damascus-Amman train was in fact two trains, and you had to switch from a Syrian train to a Jordanian train at Deraa while your passports were being checked. The Jordan Hedjaz Railway website is http://jhr.gov.jo.
The Hedjaz station in Damascus was being rebuilt. The Amman train started from Damascus Kadem station 3-4km southwest of the city centre, reached by taxi for less than $2.
Amman railway station is 2.5km east of Amman city centre, taxis are available.
There was no need to reserve in advance. In fact, it was not even possible to buy tickets in advance, as tickets were only sold on the day of travel an hour before departure at the station. They may not bother selling you a ticket even then, but tell you to board the train and pay later. So you just turned up half an hour before departure with $4 in Syrian pounds, asked about tickets and saw what they said.
For the record, this section describes the (currently cancelled) Damascus-Amman train as it was in 2005.
The Jordanian train from Deraa to Amman has two passenger coaches, with bench seats along the coach sides... You get great views (and covered in dust) from the open verandas at the end of the coach.
Arriving by taxi at Damascus Kadem station, you walk over the footbridge to the narrow-gauge Hedjaz Railway platform on the far side of the station, behind all the mainline trains.
At first, with the platform empty, you may think your train hasn't yet arrived from the sidings. Then it will slowly dawn on you that the ancient freight train standing one track over from the platform line actually IS the twice-weekly train to Amman.
At the head of a long line of grey bogie boxcars is one solitary passenger coach, built in Nuremburg in 1905, with open verandas at each end and a 'clerestory' roof. It has a narrow side-corridor and a number of 6-seater compartments, the ancient seat springs trying to burst out of what's left of the upholstery. Ahead of the passenger coach is one 4-wheeler guard's van, a flat wagon and a Romanian-built diesel locomotive. This is the Syrian train that will take you as far as Deraa.
The train leaves at 08:00 or maybe later, heading slowly out of the industrial suburbs of Damascus and then out into the arid countryside, descending a shallow valley. There are military outposts in this area, so the policeman travelling with the train may ask you not to take photos. The train twists and turns on its narrow-gauge tracks across the desert, at no more than 30-35 mph. Eventually, it arrives at Deraa.
At Deraa, passports are collected and passengers told to transfer to the Jordanian train standing alongside. The Jordanian train has two wooden passenger coaches of similar vintage to the Syrian coach, also with open verandas at each end. Inside, these cars are open-plan with bench seats along the coach sides. Two small guard's vans bring up the rear. The train is hauled by a beefy-looking General-Electric locomotive marked 'Hedjaz Jordan Railway'.
After a long wait, passports are shown to their owners and handed straight over to the Jordanian policeman who has now joined the train. With a long low hoot the train leaves Deraa. You'll see the road frontier and all the wire fences that mark the actual Syrian/Jordanian border, which the train passes straight through. Some distance after the actual frontier the train reaches the little station at Mafraq, and here there is also a long stop while passports are processed by the Jordanians.
South of Mafraq there is more desert, a river, bridges (including one rebuilt after being blown up by Lawrence in 1917) and a few hours later the train reaches the suburbs north of Amman. The train seems faster in Jordan, often travelling at 40-45mph. Now the train heads straight through the middle of a busy town market, past tenements and rubbish dumps. The policeman is riding on the leading coach veranda, shaking his finger at any kid by the tracks who looks as if they might throw a stone. Most Jordanian kids simply like waving at the train and love it when you wave back! The train follows a cultivated river valley between hills covered in houses, and finally rounds a curve into the pleasant little station in Amman.
If you're interested in the history of the Hedjaz Railway, see http://nabataea.net/hejazad.html.
In Jordan en route to Amman.
Although nowhere near as interesting an experience as the train journey on the famous Hedjaz Railway, the Damascus-Amman buses are faster (4 hours) and run daily. It's possible to travel from Aleppo to Amman (or Amman to Aleppo) in one day, combining an Aleppo-Damascus train with a Damascus-Amman bus.
JETT = Daily air-conditioned buses operated by Jordan Express Tourist Transportation, www.jett.com.jo, call +962 6 562 2430 fax +962 6 560 5005.
Karnak = Daily air-conditioned buses operated by Karnak bus company, Syria.
Damascus to Amman by road is 180 km.
The Hedjaz Railway no longer operates south of Amman, except for freight trains. But there are regular buses and minibuses from Amman to Petra (Wadi Musa is the name of the modern town next door).
* = Departures from both Amman (Abdali bus station) southbound & from Aqaba northbound are at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00, 14:00, 16:00 & 18:00. Journey time 4 hours. Additional departures run several times daily from Amman's Wehdat, Tabarbour & 7th Circle bus stations.
JETT = Jordan Express Tourist Transportation, www.jett.com.jo, +962 6 562 2430 fax +962 6 560 5005. Air-conditioned buses. The fare is 8 JD Amman-Petra, 7.50 JD Amman-Aqaba.
Taxi = service taxis, usually 25-seater minibuses. The taxis leave when full and usually operate throughout the day. The fare from Amman to Petra is 3 JD or less, journey time about 2 hours 40 minutes. These minibus taxis leave from Amman's Wahedat bus station.
Hiring a private taxi to take you to Petra will cost about 40-50 JD (£36-£46) after negotiation.
For ferries from Aqaba to Nuweiba in Egypt, see below.
Amman is a sprawling modern city which has grown very rapidly from what was once a small village. Built on a number of hills and valleys, it does have a centre with a citadel and Roman amphitheatre, but isn't worth more than a day if you're passing through. The Al Saraya Hotel, near the centre, is a good choice for budget travellers.
T E Lawrence fans will want to visit the castle at Azraq, an hour's drive east of Amman. The castle was used as the headquarters of the Arab Revolt for a while in 1917, and Lawrence slept in the room immediately above the gatehouse.
Azraq castle. Lawrence of Arabia slept in the room above the gatehouse in 1917.
Jordan's premier attraction, and deservedly so. The famous ruined city of Petra nestles in a valley surrounded by mountains and approached through over a mile of narrow defile.
A ruined Roman city in northern Jordan, well worth a visit.
Now Aqaba is a modern town and holiday resort, but when Lawrence and the Arabs attacked it was little more than a fishing village. The fort they captured from the Turks is still there and can be visited.
A beautiful area of desert and rocky outcrops, it enthralled Lawrence, and much of the film 'Lawrence of Arabia' was filmed here. You can visit on a jeep safari as a day trip from Petra or Aqaba.
Brewing up in Wadi Rumm.
It used to be possible to go to Israel by sea from Greece, then travel overland from Jerusalem to Amman. However, all ferries from Piraeus via Cyprus to Haifa in Israel were suspended in 2001 and show no signs of restarting.
An air-conditioned bus leaves Amman (JETT terminal) on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays at 14:00, taking some 20 hours to reach Cairo. Fare 75.5 JD (about £69 or $102). It is run by Jordan Express Tourist Transportation (JETT), www.jett.com.jo, telephone Amman 662722, fax 601507. This bus crosses Israel - remember that you won't be able to re-enter Syria with any sign of a visit to Israel in your passport.
It's also possible to travel from Jordan to Egypt avoiding Israel, using a ferry. Here are details for the southbound journey - details for the northbound journey are shown on the Egypt page.
Travel from Amman or Petra to Aqaba by bus or service taxi as shown above.
AB Maritime (www.abmaritime.com.jo) operate ferries from Aqaba in Jordan to Nuweiba in Sinai, Egypt. A daily fast catamaran leaves Aqaba at 13:00, crossing 1 hour, and a daily conventional ferry sails at 15:00, crossing 3-4 hours. The fare by regular ferry is US$65 economy class, $70 first class. By fast ferry it's $75 economy class, $95 1st class. You must check in at least 2 hours before the ferry sails. It's reported that you need to buy the ferry ticket in Aqaba town, not at the ferry terminal, which is a little way out of town. There may also be an Jordanian exit tax to pay, about 10JD.
There are buses from Nuweiba to both Cairo and Sharm el Sheik, taking several hours, although it's reported tourists may no longer be allowed on the direct coast road but may have to detour around Sinai with a change of buses Dahab, please check locally. For trains within Egypt, see the Egypt page.
I recommend planning a trip with the relevant Lonely Planet guidebook - I've found that the L-P guides are the best out there for the independent traveller.
Or buy direct from the Lonely Planet website, with shipping worldwide.
The Middle East guidebook covers Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Israel and several other countries.