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What happened to my Australian accent
I spent the summer of 1983-84 in the Philippines. During this time I fell in love with the Philippines and its people and felt ashamed to be Australian.
I can't remember exactly why I was ashamed, but I think it had something to do with Australia's misplaced sense of superiority in South East Asia. It was the era in which Singapore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew felt he had to warn Australians that we were in danger of becoming the 'white trash' of Asia.
I decided that I did not like the Australian accent because it reflected this ugliness, which we ourselves did not seem to be aware of.
Not entirely tongue in cheek, I worked to modify my spoken English. I wanted a neutral accent that would ensure I was not immediately recognisable as Australian. When overseas these days, I still get told that I don't sound Australian.
After three and a half decades, my shame is not what it was. But I am keenly aware that every week there are new reasons for me to feel even more ashamed. A few days ago it was news of the planned overhaul of Australia's national security laws that could lead to journalists being jailed for doing their jobs.
Indeed if there is such a thing as an international shame index, Australia would have to be much more prominent today than it was in the 1980s. We are punching below our weight in so many areas. Examples include the promotion of human rights and acting to mitigate the effects of climate change.
I tell myself that Australia is a work in progress and that for every step backwards there is arguably a step forward.
We had Paul Keating's 1994 Redfern speech on the treatment of Indigenous Australians, which was broadly accepted by the general population. It gave us a lasting sense of national contrition that led to the 2008 Apology.
Now we have genuine and widespread criticism of the Australia Day celebration as inappropriate because it represents invasion and the beginning of annihilation for the first Australians. The celebration is on the nose to the extent that the online advertising and marketing website Mumbrella is warning brands that they should not risk damage by endorsing Australia Day.
I'm not against Australia Day, as long as it evolves to include an element of contrition alongside the self-congratulation. Shame is not a bad thing, to the extent that it acts as a reality check. And it could even bring the nation together.
Actual slow travel is better than watching a long train journey on TV
In recent weeks we've seen the surprising success of SBS TV's experimentation with the Slow TV genre. They've screened three and 17 hour versions of their documentary on The Ghan rail journey from Adelaide to Darwin.
The three hour 'director's cut' was the station's highest rating program for the past year. The popularity of the three hours was such that they broadcast the 17 hour version the following weekend. Perhaps they will even try for 54 hours, which is the actual length of the journey.
But it's one thing to watch a long slow train journey on TV, and another to actually do it.
About this time last year, I was at Strathfield station in Sydney and saw an ad for NSW Trains Discovery Pass. I bought one the next day.
For $550 first class and $420 economy, the ticket allows six months travel on NSW country trains and buses that travel north to Brisbane, west to Broken Hill and south as far as Melbourne. I did one trip from Sydney to Brisbane, one from Sydney to the Gold Coast hinterland, one to Albury, and about four day trips to Canberra.
Friends thought I was a bit odd. Most people write off long distance rail travel in Australia because it's 'too slow'. But for me, slow is the best way to go if I can make the time to do it.
I think most people can if they really want to and make it a priority. Those who say they don't have the time to do such things probably pack too much into their busy lives and can't see the wood for the trees. They're the people who don't have the time to read novels.
Those who only have time for travel by air, or fast trains overseas, will never get to take in the meditative experience of the gradual change of landscape and vegetation over many hours and days. For me it is the equivalent of a religious retreat, and Australia's lack of enterprise in not building fast trains can be construed as a virtue.
Slow travel can also take the form of a long drive.
I discovered that it awakened something deep inside of me in 2003 when I drove from the east to the west coast of Australia. I had always wanted to do it because it's a thing many Australians 'must' do once in their life, just as Muslims go to Mecca.
The drive across Australia was such a peak experience for me that six months later I was off on a driving holiday through the wide open spaces of the USA.
I flew into San Jose and drove through the California Desert and along the old Route 66 to the Texas pan handle. I then went north towards Wyoming and Montana before returning to San Jose from Washington state close to the west coast. Around 9000 kilometres.
I also enjoy very long distance slow bus trips. In 2015, I took a bus for 25 hours through the windswept terrain in southern Peru between Lima and the Chilean border town of Arica. Then a day or so later I travelled in another bus for around 32 hours, through the Atacama desert - the world's driest - to the city of Valparaiso, not far from the capital Santiago.
Of course I do 'drop in' travel as well. But there's nothing like taking lots of time to reach a destination. Or not having a destination at all, which was actually the case when I set out from Albury for my 2003 road trip that ended up taking me as far as Meekatharra in Western Australia.
Parisian attitude that is nurturing
It's time to return to Sydney after being in Paris for most of October and November. Somebody asked me if I felt I could stay longer or if it was time to move on.
I said that I was looking forward to being back in Australia but pleased that I am coming back here in three or four months time. I went on to explain that life for me is not complete in Sydney and neither is it complete here in Paris. But between the two cities it is.
I'm very aware of how fortunate I am to be able to establish myself in two cities. I believe it's important that we all use our imagination and resources to seize the opportunities and challenges that our circumstances offer.
I think it's about finding an equilibrium in my state of being, which is something we all need. The term sure-footed comes to mind. I feel that I am excessively sure-footed in Sydney and not at all sure-footed in Paris.
People face this kind of challenge in various ways. Some establish themselves in their professions and social circles, and then they welcome children into their lives even though they know it will upturn their established order. Others don't have children and look to extend themselves in different ways.
I find it easiest to write these letters when I feel there is order in my life. That is why they've been few and far between during these two months.
Here my energies are focused on tasks such as getting the right pieces of paper that will allow me to establish accounts with the electricity utility and the bank. My bank account works but I still have to jump through one more hoop before the debit card they sent me will work in ATMs and supermarkets.
Years ago I used to hear it said that the French are rude and unhelpful. My experience has been the opposite. I have found them nurturing.
I remember telling a shop assistant that I did not need a bag. I said 'pas sac', and he corrected me by indicating that 'pas de sac' is how it's said. His tone was nurturing, not a put down. That experience was repeated multiple times, most recently when the woman at the Bastille Market told me I wanted 'une carotte', not 'un carotte', which is how I'd put my request.
I feel affirmed by these exchanges, and each is a small step towards becoming more sure-footed in my new surrounds.
Years ago I remember feeling small after an offhand remark from a guide at the United Nations building in New York City.
'Is this where you get to see how the UN works?', I asked, stating the obvious because that's what came into my head. 'That's the general idea' was his put down response, which reflected the kind of attitude that I'd grown up expecting to get from the French.
The value of intransigence in Paris fairyland
This morning a Facebook alert welcomed me to Paris, four weeks to the day since my arrival.
I've easily engaged with the fairyland version of Paris that the tourists come to see. I have come to see that as well.
But on Saturday, I walked past the shopfront of the Parti Socialiste and was reminded that the main reality is something else. The rough sleepers and other disadvantaged people visible on the streets are part of a society increasingly divided into haves and have nots. Just like Australia.
I can't understand much about French politics when I watch the news on TV, as I imagine the French scratch their heads when they hear about the possible fall of Australia's government because some of its members are dual citizens of another country.
But I did get a sense of it when my vendor put me in touch with a young Ukrainian-Russian immigrant who was passionate about politics. I enjoyed the conversations we had when we visited bars on two occasions before he returned to his family in a village near Lyon.
In our discussions, we discovered that we shared a lot of common ground. We bemoaned the fact that nations across Europe - and also Russia - were becoming increasingly divided because their governents were catering more for entrenched elites than the good of the whole.
But I didn't like what I heard when I asked him who he supported in this year's French election and he said Marine Le Pen.
When I spent my first weekend in Lille, I admired my Australian friend for choosing an immigrant neighbourhood to buy an apartment for his part-time residence in France, even though I did not feel safe walking the streets.
He could have opted for something smaller in a more salubrious part of Paris. Like me. But I assume he was following the principles of the Catholic workers movement that he has been involved in and is the subject of his academic study.
My contact with reality has more to do with getting connected to the utilities and services that will allow me to live here part-time. On Friday I walked 40 minutes to the nearest shop of the majority state owned electricity company EDF. But they were closed, having had Thursday and Friday added to Wednesday's All Saints Day public holiday to make a five day long weekend.
I was consoled when it reminded me of then US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's 'old Europe' insult when France refused to sign up for the Coalition of the Willing to invade Iraq in 2003. It was a sign that America had not completely exported its 'can do' culture to France.
I think that, despite the frustrations, there is something to like about intransigence that weakens productivity but upholds the rights and conditions of the ordinary people whose efforts achieve it.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité and inferior coffee
A friend referred to the image of Parisians 'smoking Gauloises and reading Le Monde with their coffee and croissant'. I've always been fascinated by the portrayals of Parisian cafe culture, especially in the French New Wave movies of the 1960s, which are more concerned with atmosphere than story.
But the reality is now different. In 2017 you don't see Gauloises packets because French cigarettes now come with olive green plain packaging like Australia's, and Parisians look at smartphones rather than newspapers just like people everywhere.
I'm reluctant to make too many observations, as they will be superficial and inconclusive because of the short time I've been here. I've also been consumed by mundane activities such as getting a bank account and an insurance policy. However it's arguable that consumer norms and practices tell you more about a country than just about anything else.
However I do notice signs that there are values worth noting and prizing. Among the magazine posters on the sides of the kiosks in public places, the more prominent are promoting specialist titles on subjects including philosophy, psychology and sophisticated political satire (Charlie Hebdo).
There is obviously a market for these things, or the posters wouldn't be there. They have equal billing with sport and gossip that are more dominant in other countries. It's probably true that Parisians sitting together in cafes are more likely to be discussing philosophy than Australians. But I'd suggest that most don't, and that it's effectively confined to a niche, albeit a much larger one than in Australia.
One of my favourite places to loiter is the square in front of the Sorbonne University (pictured), with its philosophy bookshops and cafes. Twice when I've been there I've noticed film crews recording interviews with learned professor types probably discussing philosophy.
There are certain things we want to believe that are not entirely true. Philosophy is in fact discussed in cafes around universities in Australia, and the cafe culture in Sydney and Melbourne is also vibrant. It also has to be said that the coffee is far superior to that in Paris, which is notably underwhelming.
But I like it that learning and human rights and open discussion seem to be a valued, along with good food and dress.
The words Liberté, égalité, fraternité adorn French public buildings in the way references to the monarchy are attached to public institutions in the UK and Australia (in Sydney I live near the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital).
When buying my property here, my vendor said to me a few times 'French people don't stand for this kind of thing. They are aware of their rights'. An awareness that could come from philosophy being more in public consciousness.
The good life in Paris might be sustainable
Yesterday was the two week anniversary of my new part-time life in Paris.
I've been absorbed with making my small five square metre room my own. For me that means throwing things out rather than acquiring them. It had most of what I needed but was full of excess bedding and crockery and other space fillers that didn't fit my minimalist aspirations.
I think the most important thing to do when you're in new surroundings for any length of time is to establish a routine to frame your life and give it some continuity and purpose. To this end, my early morning in-bed activity is to spend about half an hour doing French language exercises with the Duolingo app on my smartphone.
Unfortunately it has displaced writing this letter. But I hope that is temporary and the language work will find some other time slot in my day. The app's 'nag' feature to get users to do the daily exercises is too effective.
I am quite relaxed in my approach to learning the French language, which is really building on the grounding I got at school. Duolingo says I'm 59 per cent of the way there, but I don't think there is a point in which I will be able to say I have acquired French.
I get a small thrill when I say something in French and am understood. I like to watch TV with the French subtitles intended for the hearing impaired turned on. More and more I can understand what's going on. They are my 'trainer wheels' and eventually I hope to be able to turn them off.
The other thing that's important to me is the food and the culture.
The front door of my building is less than a minute's walk to the square around the Fountain of the Innocents. Currently it's the location of a two week exposition and market of food from various French regions. On Sunday evening I took the opportunity to sample a dozen snails, which is something I'd always wanted to do.
For me the intensity of the sensation was equal to that of good oysters. I especially like to wrestle with food to get the taste. They give you a small plastic fork for this purpose. One end has a single prong to extract the snail from the shell, while the other has three for eating.
Every day I go to a patisserie and ask for a 'demi-' (half) baguette. Before coming here, I'd not eaten bread regularly for more than a year. Being white bread, baguettes have almost no nutritional value and too many calories. But I can't resist them - and a cake - each day at the patisserie and boulangerie.
I like to think that this enjoyment of the good life is sustainable, which is why the other part of my routine consists of an ambitious goal of 20,000 steps each day and an hour at the gym in the late afternoon.
My tiny room in the centre of Paris
Years ago I remember a friend telling me that he'd just bought a house in a NSW country town for the price of a car. I've just done something similar with my purchase of a tiny room in the centre of Paris for less than the price of a car parking space in Sydney.
At the end of April, I spent three days staying in an airbnb maid's room near the Luxembourg Gardens. I'd just arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport and I was headed to England to spend a month with my sister.
I thought to myself that I would like to own a room like this. I mentioned that in conversation with a friend in Lille who once worked selling real estate in Sydney. He's bought and sold several apartments in France, and he told me that it was easier than I imagined.
So with his help, I found online a five square metre room on the sixth floor of a building without a lift, for sale for 65,000 euros. It's in Châtelet in the First Arrondissement, a few minutes walk from either the Louvre or the Pompidou Centre. One of Paris's priciest locations.
I had my offer accepted in late June and signed the final papers and received the key at the notaires' office in Paris on Monday.
The room has a single bed, a shower, a toilet, a kitchen sink, a fridge, a wardrobe, and not much else. Just about all I need.
Five square metres is about the size of the bathroom in most Australian houses. I've stayed in capsule hotels in Japan in the past, and the room I lived in when I spent five weeks in Tokyo around August measured exactly five square metres.
Most buyers would probably classify the property as a renovators' delight. I could spend tens of thousands of euros gutting the room and engaging professionals to transform it into a designer showpiece. But I like it the way it is, at least for now.
It's too small to rent legally, and the low purchase price means I don't have to earn an income from it. I will just spend a few months here each year getting to know Paris, and offer it to friends who don't mind simple accommodation for one person in a ramshackle building.
The notaire was intrigued and described the purchase as 'interesting', the same word an Australian lawyer friend used a couple of months ago. Before I signed, he also warned me of some of the things that could go wrong. For example the Marais - the Paris City Council - could decide that it is too small for human habitation and force me to rent it as a storage room.
It seems it's not wired to make it easy to connect to fast internet. So until I find a better solution than my current 3G mobile phone data plan, my online life will be in the slow lane. Which doesn't have to be a bad thing.
Visiting a Flemish region that speaks French
On Friday I found myself arriving at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport after a flight from Sydney, for the second time in six months. I have a commitment in Paris on Monday and decided to spend the weekend visiting an Australian friend who lives in Lille, an easy 55 minute journey north from the airport on the TGV fast train.
I'd had the impression of Lille as an uninteresting industrial hub. But a few months ago a friend surprised and intrigued me by describing it as a 'handsome' city. He was right.
The most interesting fact I learned about Lille is that it was once part of Belgium. Flanders to be precise. Long before Belgium was created. It was annexed by Louis XIV of France in 1668, a year after the Siege of Lille by his army.
As a result, aspects of Flemish culture remain. Most visible to me is the Flemish (or Dutch) gable at the top of the facade of many of the older buildings.
Because Lille is only 16 kilometres from the Belgian border, I was interested in crossing that border and exploring a Belgian city. We decided to take the half hour regional train journey to Tournai, one of the oldest and most culturally significant cities in the country.
Language and ethnic identity are very complex in the artificial and much unloved administrative construction that is Belgium. I marvelled at the contradictory reality that Tournai is a French-speaking Flemish city. It is located just within Wallonia, the southern half of Belgium that is aligned to French culture.
There was a lot to do there. It is a beautiful city that could be made even more beautiful and spoiled at the same time if they decided to put it on the tourist map like Bruges.
On our walk from the station, we came across a busy Saturday morning farmers' market, where my eyes first gravitated towards the strings of hanging garlic, some of which was smoked.
On the walk through town, I was struck by the number of patisseries. It was like towns in Australia and elsewhere that had a pub on just about every corner. There were also charcuteries, selling prepared meat and other products. Vol-au-vents, which appeared to be a local specialty were plentiful in both the patisseries and charcuteries.
I read afterwards that in France, vol-au-vents are served as an appetiser, whereas they're larger and a common main dish in Belgium. I saw both in Tournai. I wanted to buy one for lunch but the woman in the charcuterie insisted that it had to be eaten after heating in the oven at home, and it was not an option for me to buy and eat on the run.
But the main highlight of Tournai was the huge Cathedral, which we were able to enter even though it was under serious large-scale renovation. It is still a place of worship, and indeed adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was taking place in a side chapel while we were there.
But like the rest of Europe, its congregation is obviously ageing and much diminished. It is good that large renovation and maintenance of cathedrals are being funded by bodies such as the European Union.
Increasingly in these post-Christian times, they are also being used for other cultural activities. I noted that the main coming event is not religious, but a projection of the 1920 German silent a horror film Le Cabinet du Docteur Caligari with accompaniment from the cathedral organ.
The pros and cons of screens in bed
It occurs to me that I don't really organise my day. Instead one or two particular circumstances give it a shape, and that may or may not help me to achieve goals for a given 24 hour period.
During my recent five week stay in Tokyo, my bed was a thin foam mattress on the floor. It was comfortable for sleep, but not to sit up and look at the screens of my tablet and phone.
So when I climbed into bed, I fell asleep almost immediately. When I woke up, I got up and went for a healthy eight kilometre power walk around the lake. I avoided the discomfort of being before a screen and so did not read and write in bed.
That was good, especially if there's truth in what they say about looking at screens in bed being detrimental to our general health and wellbeing.
The sleep data in my Fitbit app showed that I was getting up to an hour's more sleep than when I'd been in my screen friendly bed at home. Comparing the 'before' and 'after' graphs (above and below) shows that staying away from screens in bed puts me on the cusp of being in the blue 'recommended' zone for my age group.
But it was not entirely good. What I'd done previously when I woke up was to research and write my blog. Doing the blog was no longer a natural wake up activity and instead became something of a chore. I'd have to choose to write later in the day and it would compete with other enjoyable activities such as sightseeing.
Nevertheless when I returned home to Sydney, I made a new rule for myself. No screens in bed. As a result, I've maintained my improved sleep patterns. Instead of walking around the lake in the morning, I've been exercising at the gym, something that had fallen away in the winter months before I went to Tokyo.
The blog writing is having to compete with other activities during the day proper. But I take the view that it is something I need to nurture like a plant that has been moved from one part of the garden to another.
But whatever happens, it will then be shaken up once more, when I transplant my life to another city for two months from early October.
Japanese creativity and isolation
In Tokyo, Summer is over and there's already a slight chill in the air. It got as low as 16 degrees the other morning as I got up for my walk around the lake in nearby Inokashira Park.
I've been starting my day there, along with the large groups of people practising tai chi and others making a visit to the temple dedicated to the Japanese Buddhist goddess Benzaiten.
I was also in the park on Saturday afternoon to see the Ghibli Museum, the popular tourist attraction that showcases the work of one of Japan's most famous animation studios. It's mostly booked out months in advance but I was lucky to secure one of the handful of tickets that they release online on the 10th day of the preceding month.
The museum is a tribute to the creative process. It goes from how the animation makers are inspired, to the screening in its cinema of a 16 minute sample of their finished work. On the lower level there was a large room of mechanical gadgets that reminded me of the steampunk museum I visited in Oamaru (NZ) in January, and also some of the exhibits at MONA in Hobart.
I went to museums most days last week. On Friday it was MOMAT - the National Museum of Modern Art - to see the exhibition The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945. I was pleased to find there an explanation for why most Japanese houses in the city appear as uninspiring concrete boxes.
According to the principle spelled out in the notes to one exhibit, houses are intended to harmonise with their surrounds. If that is urban, they are concrete ('Tough conditions make for a tough appearance'). But houses built for families of wealth and nobility are surrounded by parks and gardens and therefore more beautiful.
On Thursday I went to the extensive NHK Museum of Broadcasting (NHK is the equivalent of Australia's ABC). It included technology dating from the beginning of radio in the 1920s, and also personalities and programs familiar to Japanese audiences over the decades. Aside from my particular interest in the technology, I was fascinated by the intersection of war and broadcasting.
It presented another dimension of the story I'd gleaned from my visit to the Yasukuni War Museum a week or so earlier. I was interested in that because the Yasukuni museum led me to form an almost sympathetic understanding of the rationale for Japan's entry into World War II (it was to redress Western colonial exploitation in East Asia).
My impression was qualified a few days later when I read a blog just posted by John Menadue, who was Australia's Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1981. I worked with him a few hours a week for several years until a few months ago.
John wrote that 'the 200 years of Japan's isolation pre-Meiji (1868-1912) also meant that ultra-nationalism had become deeply entrenched in Japan with fear of foreigners and isolationist policies'. His point was that - in contrast to Germany - the US post-war occupation of Japan was superficial and did little to change Japan's pre-war isolationist mindset.
That explains why Japan is the most 'foreign' country I've travelled to. It doesn't 'get' globalisation. Arguably this makes it a poor global citizen, even though the isolation enables its culture to remain distinctive, ensuring that it is an interesting country for people like me to travel to.
Link: Menadue


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Q: Problems in values.xml to update appcompat-v7:21 I know there are similar questions, but none of the answers solved my problem.
this is the error when upgrading to version 21

in \appcompat-v7\21.0.0\res\values-v11 and values-v7 \values.xml
Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionModeShareDrawable'.
in \appcompat-v7\21.0.0\res\values-v21\values.xml
Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:overlapAnchor'.
there is my build.gradle
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion '21.1.1'
    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 21
        renderscriptTargetApi 21
        renderscriptSupportMode true
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    buildTypes {
        release {
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}

repositories {
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}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21. 0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:+'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:21.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.1.11'
    compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:21.0.0'

    compile 'com.github.chrisbanes.photoview:library:1.2.3'
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:5.1.0'
    compile 'com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg:appmsg:1.2.0'
    compile 'com.github.flavienlaurent.datetimepicker:library:0.0.2'

}

and there is my sdk manager

Any ideas? thanks

A: reinstall android studio and sdk and the problem was solved

A: Update your android & SDK to the latest, in SDK install Intel x86 Atom _64 System Image or Intel x86 Atom System Imagebase on your Operating system (x86/32bit or x64/64bit). And if you are using Google API then install Google API Intel x86 Atom _64 System Image or Intel x86 Atom System Image
hope it may help.

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Prime Minister Meets with Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Agencies to Outline Operations of Special Zones
Posted on July 31, 2017 August 2, 2017 by OPM Communications
The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister
Prime Minister Andrew Holness today (July 31) met with Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Agencies across Government to emphasize the necessity for an all of government approach to the requirements set out in the Special Zones bill. The roles of the various MDAs in the implementation, particularly with respect to the Social Intervention component were discussed.
The Law Reform (Zone of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) Bill was signed into law on Friday, July 14. The Zones of Special Operations Act provides for special security measures in high crime areas while simultaneously ensuring social intervention and community development.
Prime Minister Holness gave an extensive address during the meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) where he stressed that "The Government is treating national security as its priority". He indicated to the meeting that once a zone is declared the MDAs must make the needs of the Zone their priority.
Prime Minister Holness reminded the meeting that Zones will have a joint operational command between the JCF and the JDF and that the social intervention committee will be established within five days of the zone being declared. "Critically, the Government must provide the social services once the area has been cleared and normalized so we can go in with the social services to rebuild a secure community," explained the prime minister.
He said the Government and Cabinet are prepared to deal with priority procurement matters pertaining to the Zones as a matter of urgency.
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You are here:Home-News-Shanghai Unisex toilets
Gender politics is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when discussing waste management, however a recent decision made in Shanghai, China has just changed the narrative.
To coincide with World Toilet Day (yes that is an actual event) unisex toilets will be unveiled in Shangai on the 19th of November. Ten stalls will be installed in Pudong New Area at the intersection of Zhangjiabang Road and Pudong Road which is a popular area for both joggers and walkers. The new toilets will boast both attendants and higher partitions between stalls helping to ensure user safety and privacy. They will also be far more spacious than standard public toilets, and the new facilities will also include some urinals (in a separate room) as well as a private stall for with disabled access.
For the time being, these will be the only unisex toilets as Chinese authorities are unsure as to how citizens will react to the changes. The local authority will be accepting feedback from local residents and if all goes to plan hopes to have 105 unisex toilets by June 2017. It is meant to solve the current inequality that sees women having to wait far longer than men for toilets.
The introduction of these toilets on World Toilet Day is no coincidence. Not only does it act as some pretty powerful PR, but World Toilet Day has traditionally been used as a vehicle by feminists as well as LGBT activists to highlight toilet inequality. In fact, in 2012 a female University students in Guangzhou launched an "occupy men's toilets" movements due to frustration at long lines and a lack of stalls. In 2014, a group of 23 activists petitioned the government to mandate 3 women's toilet for every two men's toilets. Due to this pressure gender neutral toilets have been popping up all over China including Shenyang city, Chongqing Municipality and Qingdao city. And in June a number of bars in Beijing installed "all-gender toilets." Meanwhile the China National Tourism Administration asked tourist sites to allocate more toilets for women to meet the needs of those visiting from abroad.
That being said, many have expressed concern that shared toilets could lead to an increase in peeping or sexual assaults, with a broken lock causing significant concern. Whilst, quite frankly, many Chinese people simply do not wish to share toilets with those of the other sex.
For those wondering about the future of our British loos, the team at Brantlegh Waste have done some research and it would seem that the traditional British sensibility reigns supreme. This is seen in a recent controversy in South London where a decision to create a "combined unisex space" in Chelsea Sports Centre has caused some furore, with many residents and athletes voicing significant objections. That being said it does look likely that the planned changes will go ahead. It remains to be seen if this sort of stance will be adopted by the rest of Britain.
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Peruvian police have busted a drug ring that used divers to attach cocaine shipments to the hulls of boats, an innovative and hard to detect smuggling technique that appears to be spreading across the continent.
Twelve people have been captured and face trial for their involvement in the ring, including two Peruvian naval officers. The network trafficked cocaine to Europe from the Peruvian ports of Pisco, south of the capital Lima, and Chimbote, on the country's northern coast. The group used divers to weld sealed packets of the drug into vents in the hulls of ships, America TV reported.
Up to 600 kilograms could be smuggled per ship, without the crew's knowledge. The technique allowed the traffickers to evade port security checks, and the need to pay off dock workers to collaborate in stowing the drugs on board.
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The ring was headed by Colombians, in collaboration with local Peruvian facilitators. A Colombian specialist known as "Fantasma," or "Ghost," was allegedly responsible for the underwater welding operations, according to America TV.
Similar tactics have been seen in Colombia since at least 2014. There, traffickers use a method known as "parásito" (parasite), in which drugs are sealed into metal cylinders that are welded directly onto the hulls of container vessels.
In June, police in Ecuador also warned that drug traffickers may be targeting the undersides of ships. The announcement followed the arrest of a man swimming through the waters of Guayaquil port, in southern Ecuador, dragging cases containing 138 kilograms of cocaine. He was intercepted 70 meters away from a ship preparing to set sail for Spain. Police believe he intended to hook the drugs to the hull, to be hauled on board by crew members once out at sea.
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Attaching drug shipments to the hulls of boats is a cunning tactic which makes the illicit substances nearly impossible to detect using standard inspection procedures. The proliferation of the technique raises concerns about how prepared the region's police forces are to combat it.
The frontline of defense comes from teams of police divers, specially trained to inspect the undersides of ships. This strategy has resulted in important seizures in Colombia, and has also allowed Peruvian police to intercept a shipment on route from Colombia to Chile.
But the teams work against almost impossible odds. Divers report poor visibility, and traffickers are finding ever more ingenious ways to conceal the subaquatic "parasites." In Colombia, tubes are sometimes painted to resemble part of the ship's structure. The latest technique seen in Peru, in which criminals insert the drugs into vents, makes the consignments still less visible to divers.
SEE ALSO: Pacific Drug Routes From South America More Popular Than Atlantic
Diving teams also suffer from lack of resources. In Ecuador, anti-drug police employ only 30 divers across the country. Eight are stationed in Guayaquil, where they carry out an average of four weekly inspections, El Telégrafo reported. This represents only a tiny fraction of the ships that pass through the country's busiest port.
This is particularly concerning given Ecuador's increasing importance as a departure point for cocaine shipments. In 2018, Plan V reported that 39 tons of the drug had been seized over the previous two years in Guayaquil alone.
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The Kingswood Arms, the start for the walk on 25 January 2019, is conveniently located next to Kingswood station and four walkers duly arrived by train for an hour's preparatory refreshment. Those arriving by car quickly boosted numbers to 17 although John Marshall, had to withdraw before starting the walk as beer failed to mollify the effects of too much goose fat on his spuds the previous day. Even so the 16 who actually set off, including walk debutant George Taylor, set a new record for any January walk - and only one short of the all-time record of 17, established in June 2018.
The route led up a short stretch of road and across the busy A217 before entering woodland, following a path parallel to the Dorking Road and then reaching the open spaces and grassland of Banstead Heath. A further stretch through woodland proved tricky as recent rain had left muddy patches on the path before emerging on to flat farmland in sight of the houses in Lower Kingswood.
Pedestrian traffic lights aided the re-crossing of the A217 as the walkers headed up Babylon Lane then turned left on to attractive narrow pathways and lanes leading northwards. They entered the hamlet of Mugswell, named from a contraction of St Margaret's Well, and were reassured by Dave the Navigator that although the refreshment stop was still some way off, the route was scenic and downhill. A mile later, the group exited a narrow path beside the charming Well House Inn and dived inside to join social walker Ted Mouat.
Extremely Tall Roger is a regular at this pub and was soon chatting to the manageress, Donna Nobis-Pacem. The first pint morphed into a second and the well-balanced group started to serenade Donna with a selection of appropriate love songs. Donna exclaimed that we had "made her afternoon" and hoped we would return before too long to entertain her and her customers again.
The long first stretch of the walk meant that there were only 1.5 miles to go on the return leg. Buoyed by Donna's appreciation and bright wintery sunshine, the group gamely ascended the steepest hill on the route and emerged on to the deserted fairways of Kingswood Golf Club. The path led through the majestic mansions of the Kingswood estate and crossed the railway under the shadow of the enormous but now nearly deserted Legal and General headquarters. A few minutes later the group were back in the Kingswood Arms for another pint or two and, for many, an excellent three-course dinner.


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The Lilly Endowment has announced the appointment of ROBERT SMITH as vice president for community development. Smith will succeed WALLACE YAKEY, who is retiring from the endowment on June 30. Smith joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1996 and served the company as financial analyst, minority business coordinator, manager of investor relations, and director of corporate communications. In 2005, he moved into his current role as senior director of corporate responsibility and president of the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. Yakey joined the endowment in 1997 as program director in the community development area and in 2012 was elected vice president for community development. Before joining the endowment, he served as president of the Indianapolis Economic Development Corp., a nonprofit corporation that works to retain and help grow businesses in the Indianapolis area.
The Walton Family Foundation in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced two additions to its leadership team. LISA MONTEZ, who has been involved in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors for fifteen years, will join the foundation as general counsel and, in that role, will guide its deployment of philanthropic tools to maximize social impact, provide advice on a wide range of legal matters, and advise program staff. In her new role as people director, FRANCES WOODARD will be responsible for developing and implementing an integrated strategic program for all people-related functions at the foundation. Woodard previously served in a number of senior roles at organizations such as Human Rights First, ONE Economy Corporation, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation has announced the appointment of ANTHONY ERVIN as chair of its board of directors. Ervin, a biopharmaceutical industry pioneer, longtime venture capital investor at Venrock, and philanthropist, has served on the Lasker board since 2013. He also serves as a member of the boards of overseers and managers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, as a trustee of the Jackson Laboratory, as a director of the New York Genome Center, and as a trustee emeritus of Rockefeller University and Princeton University.
The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities has announced the appointment of JESSICA BOEHLAND, DON HICKMAN, and ELIZABETH LOVE to its board of directors. Boehland is a senior program officer at the Kresge Foundation, where she leads the foundation's grantmaking and other activities related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy resilience. Prior to joining Kresge in 2008, Boehland, who co-chairs the TFN GREEN! steering committee. served as managing editor of Environmental Building News and editor of GreenSource magazine. In 2017, she was named one of Midwest Energy News' 40 Under 40. Hickman is vice president for community and workforce development at the Initiative Foundation in Little Falls, Minnesota, where he administers approximately $2 million in grants annually and supervises the foundation's programs. He has been active in TFN since 2006 as a member of the River Partnership of Community Foundations and in the Philanthropic Preparedness, Resiliency, and Emergency Partnership (PPREP) cohort. Love serves as senior program officer for the Houston Endowment, where she oversees the foundation's health and environmental grantmaking portfolios as well as a portion of its arts and culture portfolio.
The organization also announced the departure of board members JOHN MITTERHOLZER, CHERYL CASCIANI, WENDY LEWIS JACKSON, ELIZABETH LYNN, and TEDD VOGEL, and the election of a new slate of officers: TOM WOIWODE, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, chair; CRAIG MARTINEZ, The California Endowment, vice chair; ALECE MONTEZ, Orton Family Foundation; treasurer; and DARRYL YOUNG, Summit Foundation, secretary.
USA for UNHCR, a 501(c)(3) established by American citizens to support the UN Refugee Agency, has announced the election of YASMIN CAUSER and VIRGINIA TENPENNY to its board. Causer is a partner in the Private Client Services Group at KLR, an accounting firm in Boston, Massachusetts, where her focus is on helping high-net-worth individuals and families manage, monitor, and evaluate their financial situation. Tenpenny serves as vice president of Global Social Impact at Starbucks Coffee Company and is executive director of the Starbucks Foundation.
The Helios Education Foundation and Arizona State University have announced JOE O'REILLY as director of the Decision Center for Education Excellence, which is dedicated to addressing the challenges facing the state's public education system. In the newly created role, O'Reilly will lead the center's efforts to elevate the use of education research and data in Arizona. O'Reilly previously served as executive director of student achievement support for Mesa Public Schools, Arizona's largest school district, and has served on numerous state and national committees and work groups focused on the effective use of data to propel education.
"Lilly Endowment Elects Robert L. Smith as Vice President for Community Development." Lilly Endowment News Release 03/28/2018.	"Walton Family Foundation Names First General Counsel and People Director." Walton Family Foundation News Release 03/27/2018.	"Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Elects Venrock's Anthony Ervin, Ph.D., as New Board Chair." Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Email 03/28/2018.	"TFN Elects New Board Members at 2018 Annual Meeting." Funders' Network for Smart and Livable Communities News Release 03/26/2018.	"USA for UNHCR Announces Two New Board Members." USA for UNHCR News Release 03/28/2018.	"Decision Center for Educational Excellence Appoints New Director." Helios Education Foundation News Release 03/28/2018.
Subjects: philanthropy / voluntarism
People: alice montez; anthony ervin; cheryl casciani; craig martinez; darryl young; don hickman; elizabeth love; elizabeth lynn; frances woodard; jessica boehland; joe o'reilly; john mitterholzer; lisa montez; robert smith; tedd vogel; tom woiwode; virginia tenpenny; wallace yakey; wendy lewis jackson; yasmin causer
Organization: albert and mary lasker foundation; arizona state university; funders' network for smart growth and livable communities; helios education foundation; lilly endowment; usa for unhcr; walton family foundation
Location: arizona; arkansas; florida; indiana; national; new york
April 29, 2018	People in the News (4/29/18): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries
March 25, 2018	People in the News (3/25/18): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries
March 4, 2018	People in the News (3/4/18): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries
November 26, 2017	People in the News (11/26/17): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries


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Simplicity and probability in causal explanation
Tania Lombrozo
What makes some explanations better than others? This paper explores the roles of simplicity and probability in evaluating competing causal explanations. Four experiments investigate the hypothesis that simpler explanations are judged both better and more likely to be true. In all experiments, simplicity is quantified as the number of causes invoked in an explanation, with fewer causes corresponding to a simpler explanation. Experiment 1 confirms that all else being equal, both simpler and more probable explanations are preferred. Experiments 2 and 3 examine how explanations are evaluated when simplicity and probability compete. The data suggest that simpler explanations are assigned a higher prior probability, with the consequence that disproportionate probabilistic evidence is required before a complex explanation will be favored over a simpler alternative. Moreover, committing to a simple but unlikely explanation can lead to systematic overestimation of the prevalence of the cause invoked in the simple explanation. Finally, Experiment 4 finds that the preference for simpler explanations can be overcome when probability information unambiguously supports a complex explanation over a simpler alternative. Collectively, these findings suggest that simplicity is used as a basis for evaluating explanations and for assigning prior probabilities when unambiguous probability information is absent. More broadly, evaluating explanations may operate as a mechanism for generating estimates of subjective probability.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.09.006
Causal explanation
Inference to the best explanation
Subjective probability
10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.09.006
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Lombrozo, T. (2007). Simplicity and probability in causal explanation. Cognitive Psychology, 55(3), 232-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.09.006
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(cars, buses, aircraft), which do not have fixed routes. Thus a sufficient market for the train will not exist.
(a) Planes are not a free-wheel system because they can fly only between airports, which are less convenient for consumers than the high-speed train's stations would be.
(b)Cars, buses, and planes require the efforts of drivers and pilots to guide them, whereas the train will be guided mechanically.
(c) Cars and buses are not nearly as fast as the high-speed train will be.
(d)The high-speed train line cannot use currently underutilized train stations in large cities.
(e)For long trips, most people prefer to fly rather than to take ground-level transportation.
2)Parents often criticize schools for not doing their jobs. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.
(a) Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
(b) Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
(c) High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
(d) High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
(e) Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.
3)Last year the rate of inflation was 1.2 percent, but for the current year it has been 4 percent. We can conclude that inflation is on an upward trend and the rate will be still higher next year.
(a) The inflation figures were computed on the basis of a representative sample of economic data rather than all of the available data.
(b) Increases in the pay of some workers are tied to the level of inflation, and at an inflation rate of 4 percent or above, these pay raises constitute a force causing further inflation.
(c) Last year a dip in oil prices brought inflation temporarily below its recent stable annual level of 4 percent.
(d) The 1.2 percent rate of inflation last year represented a 10-year low.
(e) Government intervention cannot affect the rate of inflation to any significant degree.
4)The average normal infant born in the United States weighs between twelve and fourteen pounds at the age of three months. Therefore, if a three-month- old child weighs only ten pounds, its weight gain has been below the United States average.
(a) Weight is only one measure of normal infant development.
(b) Some three-month- old children weigh as much as seventeen pounds.
(c) The phrase "below average" does not necessarily mean insufficient.
(d) Average weight gain is not the same as average weight.
(e) It is possible for a normal child to weigh ten pounds at birth.
5)Time and time again, it has been shown that students who attend colleges with low student/faculty ratios get the most well rounded education. As a result, when my children are ready for college, I'll be sure they attend a school with a very small student population.
Which of the following, if true, identifies the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?
6)Museums that house Renaissance oil paintings typically store them in environments that are carefully kept within narrow margins of temperature and humidity to inhibit any deterioration. Laboratory tests have shown that the kind of oil paint used in these paintings actually adjusts to climatic changes quite well. If, as some museums directors believe, paint is the most sensitive substance in these works, then by relaxing the standards for temperature and humidity control, museums can reduce energy costs without risking damage to these paintings. Museums would be rash to relax those standards, however, since results of preliminary tests indicate that gesso, a compound routinely used by Renaissance artists to help paint adhere to canvas, is unable to withstand significant variations in humidity.
In the argument above, the two underlined portions play which of the following roles?
Directions: Each of the items below consists of a question followed by two statements, labeled (1) and (2). You must determine whether the information provided by the numbered statements is sufficient to answer the question asked. In addition to the information provided in the numbered statements, you should rely on your knowledge of mathematics and ordinary facts (such as the number of minutes in an hour).
e. If the two statements, even when taken TOGETHER, are NOT sufficient to answer the question.
7)Can a batch of identical cookies be split evenly between Laurel and Jean without leftovers and without breaking a cookie?
(1) If the batch of cookies were split among Laurel, Jean and Marc, there would be one cookie left over.
(2) If Peter eats three of the cookies before they are split, there will be no leftovers when the cookies are split evenly between Laurel and Jean.
Directions (same as previous): Each of the items below consists of a question followed by two statements, labeled (1) and (2). You must determine whether the information provided by the numbered statements is sufficient to answer the question asked. In addition to the information provided in the numbered statements, you should rely on your knowledge of mathematics and ordinary facts (such as the number of minutes in an hour).
8)What percent of the music club members enrolled at a certain school are female students?
(1) Of the female students enrolled at the school, 60 percent are members of the music club.
(2) Of the male students enrolled at the school, 15 percent are members of the music club.
9)Last year, a certain company began manufacturing product X and sold every unit of product X that it produced. Last year the company's total expenses for manufacturing product X were equal to $200,000 plus 5 percent of the company's total revenue from all units of product X sold. If the company made a profit on product X last year, did the company sell more than 21,000 units of product X last year?
(1) The company's total revenue from the sale of product X last year was greater than $220,000.
(2) For each unit of product X sold last year, the company's revenue was $10.
10)What is the area of the surface of a sphere inscribed is a cube?
11)A worker is hired for 7 days. He is paid $25 more for each day of work than he was paid for the proceeding day of work. What was the total amount that he was paid for his 7 days of work?
DIRECTIONS: Solve the problems and choose the best answer.
12)If a = -0.6, which of the following is true?
13)A password for a computer uses three distinct digits from 0 to 9. What is the probability that the password solely consists of prime numbers or zero?
14)The ratio of two quantities is 4 to 5. If each of the quantities is increased by 2, what is the ratio of these two new quantities?
15)Car A is 20 miles behind Car B, which is traveling in the opposite direction along the same route as Car A. Car A is traveling at a constant speed of 65 miles per hour and Car B is traveling at a constant speed of 55 miles per hour. Approximately how many minutes will it take for Car A and B be on a 20 miles distance from each other again?


February 04, 2015 "ICH" - Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.
Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered to plant in his newspaper over the years was a story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building poison gas factories in 2011. Ulfkotte also says he was an eyewitness to Saddam Hussein's use of poison gas against Iranians in the war between Iran and Iraq, but that the editors he worked for at the time were not interested, because Iraq was a US ally at the time.


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#ifndef SCRadioDDS_h
#define SCRadioDDS_h

#include "Wire.h"

/**
 * pulseHigh
 *
 * @detail
 *   Macro to pulses the specified Arduini PIN HIGH and then LOW
 *
 * @param[in] pin Arduino pin to pulse
 */
#define pulseHigh(pin) {digitalWrite(pin, HIGH); digitalWrite(pin, LOW); }

class SCRadioDDS
{
private:
	// Private member variables

	/**
	 * We pulse this Arduino pin HIGH to tell the DDS it has a bit to process on the data line
	 */
   const int8_t _ddsWordLoadClockPin;

	/**
	 * We pulse this Arduino pin HIGH to tell the DDS we are finished sending it a new frequency
	 */
   const int8_t _ddsFrequencyUpdatePin;

	/**
	 * This Arduino pin connects to the data pin on the DDS.  We send each bit of frequency data via this line
	 */
   const int8_t _ddsDataPin;

	/**
	 * This Arduino pin connects to the reset pin on the DDS.  We pulse it high to issue a reset
	 */
   const int8_t _ddsResetPin;

	/**
	 * This holds the value that allows us to fine tune the frequency of the DDS
	 */
   const float _ddsTuningWord;

	/**
	 * If this is true, then begin() has been run.
	 * We don't want to send data to the DDS if this class has not been initialized.
	 * This helps determine the status
	 */
   bool _beginHasRun = false;

  public:
	// public methods

	/**
	 * SCRadioDDS
	 *
	 * @detail
	 *   Creates a SCRadioDDS class.
	 *   begin() must be called before using
	 *
	 * @param[in] ddsWordLoadClockPin The Arduino pin talking to the frequency update pin on the DDS
	 * @param[in] ddsDataPin The Arduino pin talking to the data pin on the DDS
	 * @param[in] ddsResetPin The Arduino pin talking to the reset pin on the DDS
	 * @param[in] ddsTuningWord The value used to fine tune the frequency
	 */
    SCRadioDDS(int8_t ddsWordLoadClockPin,
   						int8_t ddsFrequencyUpdatePin,
   						int8_t ddsDataPin,
   						int8_t ddsResetPin,
   						float ddsTuningWord);

	/**
	 * sendFrequencyToDDS
	 *
	 * @detail
	 *   Sends a new frequency to the DDS
	 *
	 * @param frequency Integer representation of a frequency ex: 7.030.000 would be 7030000
	 */
	void sendFrequencyToDDS(int32_t frequency);

	/**
	 * begin
	 *
	 * @detail
	 *   Initializes the SCRadioDDS object
	 */
    void begin();

  private:
	 // private methods
};

#endif


Why yellow ribbon around tree?
The year was 1971 and I was in the 11th grade. That meant, given the fact that there was no kindergarten back in those days, I had been going to school thirteen years and graduation was most likely less than a lustrum (five years) away if I could ever pass trigonometry. Ah the memories of those days are rich and plentiful.
There are very few things I can recall from my high school years more poignant than gatherings under a huge oak tree on our campus. That tree was monstrous in size and loftier yet in symbolism. It was a place where dreams were first spoken out loud, where buddies learned about the birds and bees, and it was the primary location for asking a girl out on a date because of its intrinsic value as a romantic setting.
The only recollections from those years that might rank higher from an emotional standpoint were my beloved '67 Mustang, a date with the prettiest girl in school, a 20-point game in basketball, scoring a direct hit with a spitball on my romantic arch-rival without him knowing about it and making 70 in trig. There may have been others, but the tree was up there.
Even though we spent many hours under the big oak, experienced many rites of passage there and even though many eventful things took place on that sacred spot, one incident remains at the epicenter of my remembrances. Unfortunately it had nothing to do with dreams, dates or passing that hard math course.
No sir. The most memorable incident that took place under that tree was an accident and I will swear under oath to this day that I had nothing, or at least very little to do with it.
It was kind of a boring day at the school house and a group of guys were milling around under the great tree during lunch time. Someone, though not me, got the bright idea to try to swing from one of the lower hanging limbs and since no one was able to jump up and latch on we boosted one of our buddies up so he could get a hold. It was a big branch but not too big to hang on. It is also worth mentioning that the tree was in its prime and therefore had a considerable amount of elasticity to it.
After our companion had hung there a minute we (they) decided to pull on his legs and bounce him up and down a little. That tugging actually led to a full-fledged pull down as our chum held gamely on and the green limb began to arch downward into a highly coiled position. Then without warning everyone let go simultaneously and our boy was shot up into the upper reaches of the legendary oak. When he finally reappeared he was in the nose dive position and tried to break his fall with his hands.
I along with my friends didn't really get a good look at the actual landing because by the time he came back to earth we were all on the steps of the auditorium trying to appear innocent. I'm sure we looked like a spooked covey of quail as we took flight. I was leading that hasty retreat primarily because the girl I was dating happened to be the principal's daughter. I knew that among other punishments I would never darken the door of their house again if it was discovered that I was among the semi-guilty.
The yellow ribbon is used for various symbolic purposes. It is often worn on one's person or tied around a tree.


Bengaluru: An exceptional geological feature will help India by providing a natural solution to the problem of climate change, some geologists said.
Scientists have known for years that carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels has been warming the planet. The just-concluded meeting in Paris urged nations to cut their CO2 emissions to ensure that the global temperature does not rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level while aiming for a 1.5-degree limit.
But some experts, like law professor Dan Farber of the University of California-Berkeley, doubt whether even the 2-degree goal can be achieved purely through emission cuts, suggesting other avenues must be explored.
India has indeed an additional option, some geologists believe. This consists of capturing the CO2 coming out of coal-fired power plants and injecting it below the Deccan Traps for permanent storage.
Deccan Traps – a thick pile of solidified lava from volcanic eruptions 65 million years ago – occupies about a third of peninsular India and is the world's largest continental flood-basalt province outside Siberia. The trap cover varies in thickness from a few hundred to a few thousand metres and, below this, lie thick sedimentary rocks. The idea is to pump the CO2 through the porous sedimentary rocks and use the basalt layer above as a "cap" to stop the gas escaping.
"The Deccan volcanic province in India is promising and provides enough material for CO2 sequestration," Delhi University geologist JP Shrivastava, told this.
He says his laboratory studies have confirmed that CO2 reacts with calcium, magnesium and iron-rich silicates in the lava, turning them into stable carbonate minerals such as calcite, dolomite, magnesite and siderite. Ramakrishna Sonde, formerly executive director of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) had estimated that Deccan Traps might be able to hold 300,000 million tonnes of CO2 – as much as humans produce in 20 years.
Realizing the potential of Deccan Traps as a long-term CO2 storage option, Indian government agencies, jointly with American scientists, proposed in 2007 a field study to investigate the feasibility of this. The motivation for the project came from research at the Battelle Pacific North-West National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington State. The US Pacific Northwest has basalt deposits similar to the Deccan Traps with an estimated holding capacity of more than 50,000 million tonnes of CO2.
The Indian study, proposed by NTPC, was to be carried out in partnership with Hyderabad's National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) and PNNL. It was one of the 17 initiatives endorsed by the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), a 23-member voluntary climate initiative of which India was a founding member. But, according to CSLF, the Indian study has remained "inactive".
"Interest on the Indian side waned after it became clear in 2009 that no binding international emissions agreements were going to happen anytime soon," Peter McGrail of PNNL told this correspondent in an e-mail. "I am not sure if the Paris agreement will change anything – too soon to tell," he added. Officials at NTPC did not reply to a query on why the study failed to take off.
While the Indian study got stuck, McGrail said, "there has been some real progress" on small trials of CO2 injection into basalts in Iceland and another in Washington State. "We just finished closing our CO2 injection well here this August after 1,000 tonnes of CO2 was injected in 2013," he said.
Shrivastava is disappointed that the government is giving "very little attention" to the vast Deccan basalt with huge potential for CO2 storage. "Our experiments suggest Deccan Traps stands better chances (of storing CO2) compared to the Columbia river continental basalt in the US and a basaltic glass of Iceland," he said.
Not only the Deccan Traps but other basaltic rocks such as Rajmahal Traps, Sylhet Traps, Panjal Traps and many more have to be examined, he said, adding that India would benefit by reviving the stalled study in Deccan Traps.
Former NGRI director VP Dimri agreed.
"There is enough scope for further research in this direction," Dimri told this correspondent.
"In addition, to Deccan Traps basalts, the underlying sediments and older volcanic (Gujarat and western Indian offshore) can also be studied for geological sequestration of CO2," added Om Prakash Pandey, another NGRI scientist.