A woman has reportedly fallen to her death from a rock that is dangerously high while taking selfie.
The woman from California was visiting the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan. She fell to her death this week while said to be taking a selfie, according to National Park Service officials.
The woman — who has been ID'd as Tu Thanh Nguyen, 32, of Sunnyvale, California, according to WLUC-News — was hiking alone on Wednesday.
Roughly a half-mile away from park's Grand Portal Point, she stopped to take a selfie. She then fell 200 feet off the cliff edge and landed in Lake Superior below.
Two kayakers who reportedly saw the woman fall retrieved her body and brought it to the Chapel Beach shore, according to WLUC-News.
Nguyen's death was ruled an accident following an investigation by the National Park Service and Alger County authorities.


LYNN — There are two things that Doneeca Thurston especially loves to do: sing the praises of her native Lynn and awaken others to the life-changing work that happens at Raw Art Works in Central Square.
This year, as program coordinator for the two-week-long Beyond Walls Mural Festival celebration, she has the opportunity to do both. Tasked with creating diversity programming for the festival, she has played an active role in many of the events, including three free programs that take place at RAW headquarters next week.
"Life as a Working Female Artist" is one of seven Beyond Walls signature events. On August 14, from 6-8 p.m., some of this year's women artists will participate in a panel discussion about what it's like to be a working female artist today.
"The feedback from last year's Beyond Walls Mural festival indicated there were not enough female artists. This year, there is a huge increase in the number of women artists participating," said Thurston, a 2008 Classical High grad.
"The women on this panel are amazing. I thought, 'What an incredible opportunity to get these artists and young girls together to create some art themselves.'" The resulting program, 'Girl-Powered Art,' will take place at RAW from 3-5 p.m., just before the "Life as a Working Female Artist" discussion on August 14. Young girls are invited to have fun and make art with some of the women artists. "It's open to all young girls and young women, who can learn from and be inspired by these artists," said Thurston.
Thurston serves as president of RAW's Alumni Council, an active group of more than 300 creative individuals who have benefited from RAW programs through the years. "RAW has a strong alumni community. A lot of us are still in the area and doing amazing things. We're eager to share (our art) with the rest of Lynn and everyone who shows up.
"The alumni strongly believe in giving back. An alumni dinner is held each year, and we raised $1,000 for our Pay It Forward scholarship this year; our goal was $500. The sense of community you feel at RAW from the first time you walk through the door is incredible.
Thurston's day job is as a Creative Engagement Producer at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. She helps organize and coordinate at least one PEM program a month. July's summer block party was one of the successes she helped run. More than 4,000 people attended the event, which featured bands, burgers, beer and ice cream. "The museum was open, too, and about 750 people moved from the street fair to explore inside the museum. It's fantastic that I get to be creative in my job," she said.
Thurston earned a Master of Arts in Public History at Northeastern University and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Bucknell University through the Posse Foundation scholarship program. A former program coordinator for the Downtown Lynn Cultural District and programs assistant at Lynn Museum, she is thrilled about the positive energy in downtown Lynn these days.
For more information or to register for these and other programs, go to beyondwalls.org.


Good morning Alger, Thanks for your reply, still does not work, no matter where i place the step it will not execute on first run, but if i run it manually it will change the menu. I have recreated the script to its simplest from (see new) and still the same issue. It will not exec when the file opens but it will if ran manually . cant get any simpler.
hi guys, Can someone point what I am doing wrong. the idea is to open a new windows and create a record on a related table. The windows name is based on the name of the button the users presses to open the window. the script I have is the following; The issue I have is that once I add "set field [WO Notes::g_work_order_notes; ""] to clear the field for the next note I get the following error. any help is greatly appreciated.
I am looking for some advice, I am working on a database to track order activity form the time an order was generated to the time the order was delivered to the customer e.g. date and time for when entered, when printed, when sent to warehouse, when picked, also for each instant there is a start entry and end entry. then a calculation for the time each instant took. I would like to create a script that would find all records that contain empty fields (except calculations and auto entered fields), I know I can perform a find instant for each field using "=", but is there an easier way than to have about 160 find instances. Thanks for any advice.
for some reason the result are not reflecting on the popover only on the layout.


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Q: replace blob with random string I am using Oracle 11g. One of my tables has a column of type blob. I am trying to replace the value in this column with a random string of same length as the existing value in the column. This is what I have done:
`update order set info = XMLSERIALIZE(CONTENT XMLTYPE('<edit>'||DBMS_RANDOM.STRING('X', length(info))||'</edit>') as blob) where info is not null;`

As one of the rows has a value of length 190,000 I ran into an error saying

String concatenation result is more than the maximum size.

Is there any other way to do this?

A: The maximum length of a VARCHAR2 in SQL is 4000 bytes in Oracle 11g. Any row you attempt to run this statement against that has more than 3987 bytes (4000 minus 13 for the <edit></edit> tags) will result in an error as you will exceed the 4000 byte limit.
You can either:

*

*Cap the length to 3987 like:
DBMS_RANDOM.STRING('X', GREATEST(length(info), 3987))

*Or use PL/SQL and the dbms_lob package to build up the desired blob. PL/SQL has a maximum VARCHAR2 length of 32767 bytes but also allows for looping constructs that would allow you to loop over the length(info) in 32767 chunks and appending data to a lob variable using dbms_lob.append.

edit: Use GREATEST rather than MAX.

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Federal Jury Instructions
Importance Of Proper Limiting Instructions In Admitting Evidence
Jury instructions serve an important role on evidence issues. A central premise of our trial system is that jurors follow the law (or instructions) given by the court to decide the facts in the case. As the Supreme Court has noted on this point:
"The Court presumes that jurors, conscious of the gravity of their task, attend closely the particular language of the trial court's instructions in a criminal case and strive to understand, make sense of, and follow the instructions given them. Cases may arise in which the risk of prejudice inhering in material put before the jury may be so great that even a limiting instruction will not adequately protect a criminal defendant's constitutional rights. Absent such extraordinary situations, however, we adhere to the crucial assumption underlying our constitutional system of trial by jury that jurors carefully follow instructions."
Francis v. Franklin , 471 U.S. 307, 324 n.9 (1985) (citations omitted); see also Greer v. Miller , 483 U.S. 756, 766 26 n.8 (1987) (Where an inadmissible statement is followed by a curative instruction, the court must assume "that a jury will follow an instruction to disregard inadmissible evidence inadvertently presented to it, unless there is an overwhelming probability that the jury will be unable to follow the court's instructions, . . . and a strong likelihood that the effect of the evidence would be devastating to the defendant.") (internal quotation marks omitted); United States v. Rutherford , 371 F.3d 634, 640 (9th Cir. 2004) (FRE 606(b) "bars consideration of jurors' statements that they ignored the court's instructions and discussed a defendant's failure to testify during deliberations" because it did not concern any facts relevant to extraneous influences on jury deliberations).
Guiding Jury's Consideration
Once the trial court decides that particular evidence is legally admissible, the jury may need guidance on how to consider the particular evidence. Some examples include:
Limiting instructions to ensure the jury considers some particular evidence for relevant purposes but not for impermissible reasons. See, e.g., FRE 105 ("When evidence which is admissible as to one party or for one purpose but not admissible as to another party or for another purpose is admitted, the court, upon request, shall restrict the evidence to its proper scope and instruct the jury accordingly."). For other examples:
o Prior Act Evidence: Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 69 & n.1 (1991) (noting "the trial court guarded against possible misuse of the instruction by specifically advising the jury that the '[prior injury] evidence, if believed, was not received, and may not be considered by you[,] to prove that [McGuire] is a person of bad character or that he has a disposition to commit crimes'"); Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681, 691-92 (1988) (limiting instruction reduces danger of conviction based on prior acts) o Flight: United States v. Kennard, 472 F.3d 851, 855 (11th Cir. 2006) (in criminal fraud trial, evidence of post-indictment flight was not unfairly prejudicial and jury instruction guided the jury's consideration) o Summary Evidence: United States v. Johnson, 594 F.2d 1253 (9th Cir.) (discussing role of jury instruction in considering summary evidence), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 964 (1979) o Impeachment (for the "purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness."): United States v. Nururdin, 8 F.3d 1187, 1192 (7th Cir. 1993) (no abuse of discretion in impeaching defendant in a felon-in-possession case with four prior felony convictions in light of "the importance of the defendant's testimony, and the centrality of the credibility issue" and the trial court's limiting instruction "which directed that this evidence could not be used to demonstrate a propensity to commit crime, but could only be used to impeach the defendant's testimony"); United States v. Browne, 829 F.2d 760, 764 (9th Cir. 1987) (noting "the district court gave the jury a limiting instruction, informing them that they should only consider Browne's prior [bank robbery] conviction for impeachment purposes"), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 991 (1988)
Limiting instructions to inform the jury how particular evidence may be considered.
o Recorded Tapes: United States v. Franco, 136 F.3d 622, 626 (9th Cir. 1998) ("When tapes are in English, they normally constitute the actual evidence and transcripts are used only as aids to understanding the tapes; the jury is instructed that if the tape and the transcript vary, the tape is controlling.") o Violation Of Witness Sequestration Order: United States v. Cropp, 127 F.3d 354, 363 (4th Cir. 1997) (recognizing "one of three remedies when a sequestration order has been violated: sanction of the witness; instructions to the jury that they may consider the violation toward the issue of credibility; or exclusion of the witness' testimony"); Hill v. Porter Memorial Hosp., 90 F.3d 220, 222 (7th Cir. 1996) (medical expert witnesses reviewed transcription of plaintiff's testimony and plaintiff sought to strike their testimony, but judge provided jury a cautionary instruction)
Limiting instructions to mitigate the prejudicial impact of evidence or improperly admitted evidence. See, e.g., United States v. Saucedo-Munoz , 307 F.3d 344, 350 (5th Cir. 2002) (limiting instruction "mitigated any danger that the jury considered the evidence improperly as proof of bad character"); United States v. Perez , 30 F.3d 1407, 1411 (11th Cir. 1994) ("When a court gives a direct and explicit curative instruction regarding improper testimony, it supports the court's decision not to grant a mistrial by decreasing the possibility of undue prejudice."). Even though the evidence may be properly admitted, instructional error may result in case reversal on appeal.
o Prior Conviction: United States v. Tail , 459 F.3d 854, 858 (8th Cir. 2006) ("[T]he district court issued an instruction advising the jury that the evidence was received for 'a limited purpose only,' and that the prior conviction 'does not mean that he is guilty of the charges of sexual abuse and sexual abuse of a minor as to which he has pleaded not guilty in this case.' Such cautionary instructions decrease any danger of unfair prejudice.") (citation omitted) o Bad Character: United States v. Saucedo-Munoz, 307 F.3d 344, 350 (5th Cir. 2002) (limiting instruction "mitigated any danger that the jury considered the evidence improperly as proof of bad character") o Expert Testimony Based On Inadmissible Evidence: The Advisory Committee Note to the 2000 amendment to Rule 703 suggests that in deciding whether the probative value of admitting the otherwise inadmissible evidence under Rule 703, the court should consider if giving the jury a limiting instruction will minimize any prejudicial effect. ACN (2000).
Even though the evidence may be properly admitted, instructional error may result in reversal on appeal.
Strategic Choices
A host of issues can arise concerning an instruction involving specific evidence. As a strategic choice, should an instruction be given at all in the case? See, e.g., United States v. Cartagena-Carrasquillo , 70 F.3d 706, 713 (1st Cir. 1995) (trial court is not obligated, sua sponte, to provide a limiting instruction; "Whether an instruction will 'cure' a problem or exacerbate it by calling more attention to it than warranted is within the ken of counsel and part of litigation strategy and judgment. The obligation to suggest the appropriate response, if any, rested on defense counsel."). How many times should the instruction be given (when the evidence is presented and at the close of all evidence as part of the final charge)? Should the model instructions be used or a modified one tailored to the circumstances of the case?
The general rule is that limiting instructions need only be given when requested and they need not be given sua sponte by the court. United States v. McLennan, 563 F.2d 943, 947-948 (9th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 969 (1978); see also United States v. Regner, 677 F.2d 754, 757 (9th Cir. 1982) (judge did not err by failing to give "immediate" instruction that evidence of prior insurance claims by defendant was admissible only on credibility of a defendant who testified on direct that he lacked knowledge of filing insurance claims because the court need not give a limiting instruction unless counsel requests one; here the defense "only requested that the record reflect that the evidence was being introduced for a limited purpose" and did not request limiting instruction), cert denied, 459 U.S. 911 (1982). However, where a limiting instruction is not requested, the failure to give an instruction may be waived on appeal. See, e.g., Brocklesby v. United States, 767 F.2d 1288, 1293 (9th Cir. 1985) (contention that trial court failed "to instruct the jury that it could not consider the indemnity agreement as proof of liability" under Rule 408 was waived where an instruction was not requested), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1101 (1986).
First Circuit
Criminal – Updated Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Judge D. Brock Hornby's 2010 Revisions to Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions for the District Courts Of the First Circuit
Civil – Employment Discrimination
February 2002 draft for disparate treatment cases; updated June 2010
Civil – Excessive Force Cases
June 2002 draft for 4th, 8th and 14th Amendment claims; updated June 2010
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June 2002 draft; updated June 2010 -for Jones Act cases
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June 2002 draft; updated June 2010, for RELA and FSAA cases
Fifth Circuit
Civil – 2006 Pattern Jury Instructions
Prepared by the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, District Judges Association, Fifth Circuit
Criminal – 2001 Pattern Jury Instructions
Update of 1997 version by the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, District Judges Association
Criminal – 2009 Pattern Criminal Instructions
Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions, District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit (not drafted pattern civil jury instructions)
Seventh Circuit
Criminal – 1998 – Pattern Jury Instructions
Committee on Federal Criminal Jury Instructions for the Seventh Circuit
Civil – 2009 Circuit Jury Instructions
Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions of the Seventh Circuit
Eighth Circuit
Criminal – 2009 Manual of Model Instructions
Draft 2010 Revisions
Civil – 2008 Manual Of Model Instructions
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Civil – 2007 Manual of Model Jury Instructions
Ninth Circuit Jury Instruction Committee
Criminal – 2003 Manual of Model Criminal Instructions
2010 Revisions in publication process
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No civil instructions developed
Update and extend the 2003 edition
Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions of the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit
Criminal – 1987 Criminal Jury Instructions
1987 Federal Judicial Center publication
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It was during the rebound from the financial collapse of 2008 that manufacturing became the leading component of United States economic growth. It has been machine tool manufacturers that have played the largest role in repairing the economy, as well as all of the machines necessary for our industries to conduct business.
A CNC machine manufacturer has the tools necessary to work on heavy duty equipment. Unlike hand tools, tools for machining are composed of several parts. The accurate assembly of these parts is necessary to achieve error free production of goods.
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It is axiomatic that all power requires justification, and that is equally true for judicial power as for other species thereof. This article is primarily concerned with judicial power in the UK. The subject will be approached through consideration of the Judicial Power Project, which has been critical of the courts, much of this being sharp-edged, and fierce. There is repeated talk of judicial overreach and consequent legitimacy crisis, as the courts are said to encroach on terrain that is properly the preserve of the political branch of government.
It is by the same token important that the critics are properly scrutinized. This is a fortiori so the more far-reaching the critique, especially when the project has a 'political dimension', informing governmental views about judicial power. The article begins by setting out the principal argument of the Judicial Power Project, henceforth JPP. It then assesses the JPP's claims from four perspectives: individual cases, judicial review doctrine, judicial practice and the theory of adjudication.
I should at the outset clarify my own position: academics should critically assess all exercise of power, including judicial power and have always done so; courts should show respect for other branches of government on constitutional, epistemic and institutional grounds, and in general terms have done so. I do not believe that the JPP's claims are supported by evidence flowing from the positive law, and they rest on normative assumptions concerning the limits of what common law courts should be able to do that are highly contestable.
It should be acknowledged that the JPP site accepts responses that take a contrary view to publications it has posted. It is open, and this is to be commended. While there are responses to particular papers, there has, to my knowledge, not been a more general assessment of the project, and the evidence on which it rests. That is the objective of the present article.


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Q: making tabs with CSS I have tabs that look like this:
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But I want them to look like this:
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 |  A  |   B    C
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--     ------------

That is, with the bottom border of the tab gone. To create these tabs, I'm drawing a border around the tab, setting the bottom border to none, and then drawing a border around the next div. The HTML is basically like this:

Foo

Bar

    Some other stuff here.

and the CSS is basically like this:
ul { padding: 10px;
margin: 0; }
li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 10px;
}

li.current {
    border: 1px solid #bbb;
    border-bottom: none;
}

.otherStuff {
    border-top: 1px solid #bbb;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 15px;
}

Is there a better way to draw these tabs?
Here's a jsfiddle of what I've been playing with so far: http://jsfiddle.net/V9PQ7/

A: There are several ways to accomplish this, and some may work better than others depending on the surrounding content and your current layout model. Here are three ways you could try:
1) Position the
 elements over the horizontal line
By setting li { position: relative } you can move the list elements around. This allows us to move them 1 pixel downwards, so their bottom border or bottom edge cover the horizontal line. Then you can make the active tab cover the line using either border-bottom, or by setting a background-color.
Example 1 - JSFiddle
li {
    position: relative;
    bottom: -1px;
    display: inline;
    padding: 10px;
}
li.current {
    border: 1px solid #bbb;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}

2) Hide the bottom line with a pseudo element
Another way would be to generate a pseudo element (::before or ::after) to hide the horizontal line under the active tab.
Example 2 - JSFiddle
li.current {
    position: relative;
    border: 1px solid #bbb;
    border-bottom: 0;
}
li.current::after {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 10;
    left: 0;
    bottom: -2px;
    width: 100%;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}

3) Create the horizontal line using a pseudo element
Instead of setting a border on the ul element, we can set the border on a pseudo element. We can then move the pseudo element, and thus the whole line, upwards behind the list elements. Note: I've set z-index:-1 in the example below. This may interfer with your layout model. If so, increase the value, but make sure you assign a greater z-index to the list items so they will display in front of the pseudo element with the horizontal line)
Example 3 - JSFiddle
ul {
    position: relative;
    padding: 10px;
    margin: 0;
}
ul::before {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 1px;
    width: 100%;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;
}

A: There are a million ways to do this, but one simple way that comes to mind is to make all the page buttons which are not active to have a border-bottom and the active one sets its border-bottom to a transparent value (or the color of the page).


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I really like this card Teresa, the image is wonderful. I love the little houses and the way you've coloured them all in different hues. I also love the way Santa is flying right across the starry sky. Fabulous!
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Water for a Growing West contract awarded
Utility Journalist October 20, 2014 July 10, 2019 Contracts awarded, News, Pipelines, Water 0
A major contract to construct a new water main, part of the Water for a Growing West project, has been awarded by Melbourne Water.
Melbourne Water has awarded John Holland the contract to supply drinking water to homes in Melbourne's expanding outer western suburbs. While the existing network is performing well, an additional main is required to cater for future population increases.
The new main will transfer water from the St Albans Reservoir to the tanks in Cowies Hill.
Melbourne Water Project Manager, Peter Clark, said the announcement is an important milestone for the project that will ultimately improve the reliability of water supplies in Melbourne's rapidly developing Wyndham region.
"Wyndham is one of the fastest growing areas in Melbourne, and we've been working closely with City West Water to make sure drinking water supplies can keep pace with the region's growth," he said.
"When planning this project we took a whole of water cycle approach which resulted in a tailored solution that will help us deliver water efficiently while keeping costs for our customers down."
Spanning three councils and totalling 17 kilometres in length, the main will service 40,000 homes. The new main is designed to transfer a maximum of 200 megalitres of water per day, the equivalent of 80 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
"We would like to thank Brimbank, Melton, and Wyndham councils for supporting us in our project planning," said Mr Clark.
"Rigorous stakeholder engagement has provided us with a far deeper understanding of the area's environmental values and the steps we can take to minimise traffic and noise impacts for the community during works."
Project information sessions are being run for the community in early October, and construction will commence in farmland south of Boundary Road in Tarneit from late November 2014.
The new main is expected to be completed in late 2015.
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The food in Chile is as diverse as the landscape, and there's so much traditional Chilean food to try. From the native plant-based cuisine in the northern Atacama Desert to the hearty meats and rich seafood of Patagonia, don't be shy when it comes to trying Chilean food. You'll love it!
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Dec. 21, 2010 at 11:04 a.m.
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Anderson Cooper's new show adds Chicago stations
Local affiliate stations from around the country are giving the thumbs-up to a syndicated daily talk show with CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper.
In the past 10 days, some 40 stations have inked for "Anderson" for their schedules this fall, making the New York-based show a firm go for the upcoming season. They come on the heels of launch clearances with Tribune's WPIX in New York and Fox outlets in L.A., Chicago and Boston. Get the full story »
Nov. 10, 2010 at 1:01 p.m.
Lou Dobbs lands at Fox Business Network
By Dow Jones Newswires
News Corp.'s Fox Business Network has signed a multi-year contract with former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who will host a daily show on the network beginning in the first quarter.
Dobbs also will appear on a variety of Fox Business programs to provide analysis and commentary. He will continue to host his radio talk shows and financial reports, Fox Business said. Get the full story »


In view of the growing world population, within two decades global demand for food is projected to increase by 50 per cent, demand for water by 35-60 per cent, and demand for energy by 45 per cent. The world's soils are consequently under increasing pressure. Soil carbon plays a vital role in regulating climate, water supplies and biodiversity, and therefore in providing the ecosystem services that are essential to human well-being. Managing soils to obtain multiple economic, societal and environmental benefits requires integrated policies and incentives that maintain and enhance soil carbon. Decisive action needs to be taken to limit soil carbon loss due to erosion and emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
To read the document - UNEP Year book 2012. The benefits of soil carbon.
Authors: Reynaldo Victoria (chair), Steven Banwart, Helaina Black, John Ingram, Hans Joosten, Eleanor Milne and Elke Noellemeyer. Science writer: Yvonne Baskin.


Ogata Korin (Japanese: 尾形光琳; 1658 ? June 2, 1716) was a Japanese painter, lacquerer and designer of the Rinpa school. Korin is best known for his byobu folding screens, such as Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms (both registered National Treasures), and his paintings on ceramics and lacquerware produced by his brother Ogata Kenzan (1663?1743). Also a prolific designer, he worked with a variety of decorative and practical objects, such as round fans, makie writing boxes or inro medicine cases.


WHY SHOULD BODYBUILDERS KNOW ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY?
The greatest bodybuilders of our time consistently testify to one thing: most of their performance takes place in their mind. You train physically, but if most of what it takes to excel is mental, how do you train mentally?
Bodybuilders are competitive, performance-driven individuals. And where there is performance, there is the potential for improved performance. Improving anything involves breaking down your current game plan and re-building it with new perspectives, greater focus, different strategies and renewed motivation.
To improve performance (train harder, prepare better, compete more successfully) you must understand how your thoughts drive your behavior.
To understand this relationship, you need a grasp of basic psychology.
Nobody wants to feel stagnant or stuck in their situation. The desire for personal growth and change can be a great motivator.
Your motivation to change can be related to fitness. You no longer want to be sedentary, overweight, or too thin. You want to change your lifestyle, feel better about yourself, and discover a new identity. If you're ready to change who you are, start identifying yourself as what you want to be: a cyclist, a runner, a bodybuilder, or a dancer. Tell people that's who you are. From there, your new self-identification becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You turn into what you want to be!
Another great way to use growth motivation is to look at your workout as a break, a time to focus on yourself without any work or kids to interrupt you. Personal time is so important for your own well-being. Thinking of your workout as personal, and therefore as a way to improve yourself will help you stick to your workouts.
Bodybuilders are not made in power gyms and fitness centres. The psychological make-up of many bodybuilders is formed at an early age, in the school playground, psychologists at Warwick Medical School in England discovered.
The psychological tests and statistical analysis that they did showed that insatiable desire for more muscle bulk is the result of bullying. According to the psychologists, not all but many bodybuilders suffer from a syndrome referred to in the textbooks as muscle dysmorphia: they may look physically impressive, but nevertheless have the feeling that they are not big enough or that they are too fat.
They look better than 99 percent of their age mates, but they are still ashamed of their body. It's perhaps therefore not surprising that studies find a relationship between muscle dysmorphia on the one hand and steroid use, health complaints and heavy training programmes on the other.
The psychologists at Warwick looked for a relationship between bullying and muscle dysmorphia. In the book Little Big Men by the anthropologist Alan Klein, bodybuilders recount how they were bullied as a child and how they started weight training to overcome their feelings of inferiority. The psychologists asked one hundred male bodybuilders to complete a questionnaire on bullying and used specific lists to determine whether they suffered from muscle dysmorphia [MDI] – and psychological disorders as a result of being bullied. This is referred to as global psychopathology in the graph below, which summarizes the psychologists' findings. The disorders include depression, compulsive obsession and anxiety.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE MENTALITY OF A CHAMPION?
A champion knows what has to be done and does it, and anyone else wants to do the work but doesn't fully commit.
The mentality of a champion is someone who is never satisfied, because you can never be if you want to be great. Even when you achieve greatness, it doesn't stop there. Being a legend is next. Any true champion (sports, business or any other kind of champion) has no end in sight. As a champion, I believe you challenge yourself every day, until your last breath.
If you look through their answers you will find some differences, but what is fascinating is that even with their difference in experience, their mindsets are more alike than different. Could this be coincidence or could these similarities be part of the formula that makes a champion? Perhaps it is a change of thinking that may propel us to the next level.


I took my parents to Kyoto because they came to Japan in the spring and where else would you rather be?
The first thing I will admit about the gateway to old Japan is that, yes, it is crowded during cherry blossom season. But if you are willing to step off the beaten track you can still find those hushed moments of zen like calm that the ancient capital promises.
I wanted my parents to stay in a traditional Japanese ryokan (hostel) and booking was a nightmare even though I started the process early. Many ryokans aren't on the internet yet so I searched for a place and booked through Japanese Guest Houses. To be honest their system isn't super convenient but it may well be your best bet, especially if you don't speak Japanese. We ended up staying in the Ischicho Shogikuen which wasn't my first choice but was still lovely. I really recommend going for the full ryokan experience if you can – futons, tatami mats, sliding doors and Japanese cuisine served to your room. My parents had a couple of reservations about the food and my Dad sleeping on a futon with a bad back but they loved every minute.
I recommend walking between your destinations as much as you can because Kyoto is the kind of place where interesting things happen in between. There's a small art gallery or a charming independent coffee shop on every corner.
The Famous Rock Garden at Ryoanji Temple.
It's lovely walking around town as it starts to get dark. Oh and we did see a geisha- she was actually locked out of the building she was trying to get into, desperately ringing the bell and trying to remain graceful as the tourists crowded around her. I didn't take a photo as it was actually quite alarming to watch the cameras swarm like flies and I felt sorry for her, so you'll have to take my word for it that she was really, incredibly beautiful. Unfortunately I think hoardes of tourists goes with the Kyoto territory at this point but Kyoto was still able to capture my imagination.
Hey there are also a lot of tourists putting on geisha costumes too we are told by Mel's colleagues.
Yeah we saw those too. I think this young lady was the real thing though, mostly because of how much she seemed to want to get away from the tourists but also because everything looked so much more graceful, expensive and well done than the others I saw. Of course I could easily be wrong though!
Nonetheless you saw her! And its true that – being photographed like an exotic pet is not fun!


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The Quotable Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Gordon Marino
The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Kierkegaard quotations ever published
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"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven—in the spring at the earth."—Søren Kierkegaard
The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.
Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep — i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love."
Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers.
Gathers some 800 quotations
Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings
Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Mike Tyson
Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and the editor of Basic Writings of Existentialism.
"Marino's offers a collection that touches all of Kierkegaard's obsessions, from anxiety and depression to time and eternity and existence and God and Christ and love. The book is, as Marino hoped, full of arresting one-liners. . . . Beyond the aphorisms are penetrating arguments wound tightly into brief paragraphs."—Peter Leithart, First Things
"This handily compact treasury of assorted thoughts, observations, and insights bursts with Kierkegaard's characteristically infectious urgency, wit, and lapidary penetration. The volume gathers some 800 thematically organized passages—generally no longer than a few sentences—drawn from the sweeping range of this influential 19th-century Danish existentialist philosopher and theologian's published discourses, polemical tracts, books, pseudonymous works, journals, and notebooks."—Choice
"Marino . . . has done a great service to neophyte and seasoned Kierkegaard scholars with this compendium of the wit and wisdom of the Danish philosopher often dubbed the father of existentialism. Just as valuable as the quotes are Marino's introduction to Kierkegaard's thought and account of his life."—Christian Century
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Five years later and we're continuing to work in the villages of Ta Phin and Lao Chai, where the Red Dao and Black Hmong ethnic minority groups call home. Since then, I've had the pleasure of creating multiple videos to share these villagers' unique stories to the world.


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SC upholds disqualification of Karnataka's rebel MLAs, permits them to contest bypolls
ANI New Delhi, Delhi, India Nov 13, 2019, 11.08 AM(IST)
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The rebel legislators were disqualified by the then Karnataka Assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar in July under the anti-defection law after they tendered their resignation.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the decision of the then speaker KR Ramesh Kumar to disqualify 17 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs under the anti-defection law and said that they can contest the upcoming by-elections in the state.
"We are upholding the order of the Speaker," said Justice Ramana while reading out the judgment. The top court said that resignation does not take away the power of disqualification by the speaker. "Since we are deciding disqualification, resignation is not needed to be gone into. As such there is no doubt that disqualification has nothing to do with resignation," the court said.
The rebel legislators were disqualified by the then speaker KR Ramesh Kumar in July under the anti-defection law after they tendered their resignation. They were also barred from contesting polls for the duration of the current assembly, which is slated to end in 2023. The move had led to a fall of the Congress-JD (S) coalition government, paving way for BJP to stake claim to form a new government in the state.
The disgruntled MLAs then moved the apex court challenging their disqualification. They sought quashing of the order passed by the speaker and prohibition imposed on them to contest elections.
The matter was reserved by the court on October 25. The elections for 15 out of 17 seats are slated to be held on December 5. They were earlier scheduled to be conducted on October 21 but were deferred by the Election Commission (EC) as the petitions of disqualified MLAs were pending in the top court.
The poll body had withheld the elections for two seats -- Maski and Rajarajeshwari -- as the petitions against these Assembly constituencies are pending in the Karnataka High Court.
After their disqualification, the strength of the 224-member Assembly had come down to 207. This had brought down the majority mark to 104. The BJP, which helms the government in the state, has 106 MLAs in the Assembly. With the by-poll elections, the majority mark will climb to 222 and the BJP will have to win a minimum of six out of fifteen seats to keep its majority.
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The Fantasy of Addiction
by Peter Hitchens February 2017
I never meant to start an argument about addiction. I had carried my private doubts on the subject around in my head for years, in the "heresy" section where I keep my really risky thoughts. And I don't recommend disagreeing in public with Hollywood royalty, either, which is how it happened. In such a clash, most people will think you are wrong and Hollywood is right, especially if your opponent is Chandler Bing, the beloved character from Friends. Of course, he wasn't really Chandler Bing, just an actor called Matthew Perry—but an actor with an entourage so big it filled an entire elevator at the BBC's new studios in central London where we quarreled.
Our debate wasn't even supposed to be about addiction. I'd been asked onto the corporation's grand but faded late-night current affairs show Newsnight to talk about drug courts, one of many stupid ideas suggested by the idea of addiction. I reckoned my main opponent would be the other guest, Baroness (Molly) Meacher, whose name sounds like something out of The Beggar's Opera. While she looks like the sort of harmless, kindly housewife who knits next to you on the bus, she is in fact a campaigner for the wilder sorts of drug liberalization. If this Chandler Perry wanted to horn in, well and good. Who cared? Yet when I began to sense sarcasm mingled with unearned superiority oozing from the character from Friends, I decided to let my impatience show.
Hence my rash, irreversible plunge into an argument which has been going on ever since, consuming billions of electrons on social media, and which will probably still be going on when I die. I heard myself using the words "the fantasy of addiction." There. I'd done it. Let the heavens fall.
Chandler Bing called me various names and was even more sarcastic than before. He is extremely good at sarcasm, even if he understands very little about the drug problem. I have never heard the words "your book" pronounced with such eloquent contempt. The final "k" seemed to contain two whole syllables. Is this a Canadian thing? He was referring to my modest volume on the topic The War We Never Fought, so energetically ignored by reviewers and booksellers that it is known among London publishers as The Book They Never Bought.
I took a while to realize what I had done. Only for a moment did I feel that chill in the innards which always follows any sort of dangerous speech. The more I thought about it, the more pleased I became. It was a bit like the long-ago days when I had begun to change my mind about revolutionary socialism. I was wholly liberated. I had found the courage to say what I really thought, and so was more fully human than before.
Words are congealed thought—in some cases, very congealed indeed. Some words are congealed lack of thought. When we use words badly, it is because we are too lazy, or too hurried, to think about what they mean. This is most of the time, which is George Orwell's greatest point in his matchless essay on "Politics and the English Language." If the words that come out of your mouth or your keyboard do not make a picture in your mind, then they will certainly be dull and will probably be wrong.
But if we pause to let words unfold and grow, then we understand and use them better—or abandon them, as we abandon clichés and exploded theories.
The chief difficulty with the word "addiction" is the idea that it describes a power greater than the will. If it exists in the way we use it and in the way our legal and medical systems assume it exists, then free will has been abolished. I know there are people who think and argue this is so. But this is not one of those things that can be demonstrated by falsifiable experiment. In the end, the idea that humans do not really have free will is a contentious opinion, not an objective fact.
So to use the word "addiction" is to embrace one side in one of those ancient unresolved debates that cannot be settled this side of the grave. To decline to use it, by contrast, is to accept that all kinds of influences, inheritances, and misfortunes may well operate on us, and propel us towards mistaken, foolish, wrong, and dangerous actions or habits. It is to leave open the question whether we can resist these forces. I am convinced that declining the word "addiction" is both the only honest thing to do, and the only kind and wise thing to do, when we are faced with fellow creatures struggling with harmful habits and desires. It is all very well to relieve someone of the responsibility for such actions, by telling him his body is to blame. But what is that solace worth if he takes it as permission to carry on as before? Once or twice I have managed to explain to a few of my critics that this is what I am saying. But generally they are too furious, or astonished by my sheer nerve, to listen.
So let us approach it another way. The English language belongs to no state or government. It is not ruled by academies or even defined by dictionaries, however good. It operates on a sort of linguistic version of common law, by usage and precedent. And the expression "addiction" is very widely and variously used. There are people who claim, seriously, to be "addicted" to sex or to gambling.
It is now impolite to refer to habitual drunkards. They are "alcoholics," supposedly suffering from a complaint that is not their fault. The curious variable ambiguity of Alcoholics Anonymous on this point has added to the confusion. AA, to begin with, asked its adherents to admit they had no control over themselves, as a preliminary to giving that power to God. Somehow I suspect that God plays less of a part in modern AA doctrine, but the idea of powerlessness remains. Members of the organization quietly moved from calling alcoholism an "illness" or a "malady" to describing it as a "disease," round about the time that the medical profession began to do the same thing.
We are ceaselessly told that cigarettes are "addictive." Most powerfully, most of us believe that the abusers of the illegal drug heroin are "addicted" to it. Once again, the public, the government, and the legal and medical systems are more or less ordered to believe that users of these things are involuntary sufferers. A British celebrity and alleged comedian, Russell Brand, wrote recently, "The mentality and behaviour of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless [my emphasis] over their addiction and, unless they have structured help, they have no hope."
Brand is a former heroin abuser who has by now rather famously given up the drug. But how can that be, if what he says about addiction is true? The phrase "wholly irrational" simply cannot withstand the facts of Brand's own life. It will have to be replaced by something much less emphatic—let us say, "partly irrational." The same thing happens to the phrase "completely powerless." Neither the adverb nor the adjective can survive. Nor can the word "addiction" itself, which is visibly evaporating. We have to say "they struggle over their compulsion."
Or you might turn to this definition of addiction from the American Society of Addiction Medicine:
Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors.
This definition prompted one writer at Alternet, an influential pro-addiction website, to say:
If you think addiction is all about booze, drugs, sex, gambling, food and other irresistible vices, think again. And if you believe that a person has a choice whether or not to indulge in an addictive behavior, get over it. . . . Fundamental impairment in the experience of pleasure literally compels the addict to chase the chemical highs produced by substances like drugs and alcohol and obsessive behaviors like sex, food and gambling.
In other words, conscious choice plays little or no role in the actual state of addiction; as a result, a person cannot choose not to be addicted. The most an addict can do is choose not to use the substance or engage in the behavior that reinforces the entire self-destructive reward-circuitry loop. So even if the supposed "addict" ceases (as many do) to be "addicted" in practice to the addictive substance or activity, he remains "addicted" in some spiritual, subjective way, which cannot actually be seen in his behavior.
The defender of the concept of "addiction," confronted with evidence that many "addicts" cease to be "addicted," will say that of course he didn't mean to suggest the phenomenon was wholly irresistible and could not be mastered by will. Oh no, he will say, reasonable people quite understand that it is not like that at all. In any normal argument, this would be the end of the matter. Anyone who confesses to using a word in one sense when it suits him, and in a wholly contradictory sense when it also suits him, has expelled himself from the company of all reasonable people and admitted that he respects neither truth nor logic.
And yet, though he has lost the point, according to the rules, a higher umpire grants him the victory. I am still pestered weekly by peeved and affronted correspondents, with demands that I "prove" that "addiction" does not exist. Like Kipling's Gods of the Copybook Headings, I limp up to explain it once more: It is the proposer of any such concept who has to provide a testable and falsifiable theorem. But because the existence of "addiction" is assumed, the rules of normal science and discourse are reversed.
The consequences of this usage, in medical practice and law, are huge. Actions once punished or scorned are sympathetically treated as if they arose from diseases rather than choices. Persons repeatedly caught in possession of illegal drugs (a crime that in theory attracts a prison sentence of several years) are not punished according to law, but supplied by the authorities with clean needles, put into the care of doctors, and, in some jurisdictions, given free substitute drugs at the expense of the taxpayer.
It is no longer acceptable to disapprove of certain selfish and inconsiderate actions, some of them illegal. Of these alleged "addictions," only the smoking of cigarettes is still disparaged by polite liberal-minded persons. This is probably because of its undoubted anti-social stink and foul mess, the huge shared cost of treating smokers for the diseases they voluntarily contract, and the alleged danger to nonsmokers exposed to its fumes.
As a result, huge numbers of supposed cigarette "addicts," forced out of workplaces and bars and compelled to stand outside in pathetic gaggles, and frowned and coughed at when they light up in the privacy of their homes, have in recent years overcome their "addiction" and stopped smoking altogether. I personally know many such people. Several have been glad of the pressure to stop. It is interesting that the habit (as it used to be called) now tends to be commonest among the hopelessly poor, the ill-educated, and young women driven by fashion into seeking those tricky gifts which cigarettes still offer them—sexual allure and a pleasure that does not make them less thin.
But the fundamental point should not be lost. Supposed "addicts" can and do give up their supposed addictions. It is not only smokers who do this. I also know several formerly very heavy drinkers who have done it, generally because of fears for their health or their professional standing. Even heroin abusers, and gamblers, can and do just stop. Reason has overcome desire. In which case the whole idea of "addiction," as a power greater than will, is overthrown. Once again, if "addiction" exists, these people cannot exist. If they exist, "addiction" cannot exist. Since we know that such people do exist, the riddle is solved.
Scan the drug abuser's brain as you will, you will not be able to demonstrate that any part of it has forced him to take his drug of choice, or is stopping him from giving it up. Recently the psychologist and former "addict" Marc Lewis attacked this scientistic determinism in a book The Biology of Desire. Yes, the brain of the drug user changes physically and observably (so, it might be noted, does the brain of the London taxi-driver who must learn by heart the streets of London before being given his license). But this is the sign of an organ adapting to conditions, not a disease. The same brain can go on to adapt to a life without the drug involved, or a life without taxi-driving.
What sustains the continuing belief that "addiction" is a physical disease is presupposition, based upon conventional wisdom, allied with desire. People feel a near-superstitious terror that mere contact with the "addictive" substance is enough to bring ruin. This belief long predates the current era of drug abuse. A character in Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, recently rescued from a dissolute life of servitude to substances, is lured back into alcohol-sodden doom by a bottle of Zubrowka bison-grass vodka purposely left on a table by a rival in love. It is absurd. But millions believe that some such process happens. They think, especially, that the merest brush with heroin will imprison its user for life, just as the reformed "alcoholic" will be sent flying down the chute of doom by a single sip of wine or even the whiff of it in a sauce. In the 1975 movie French Connection II, the American narcotics cop "Popeye" Doyle (played by Gene Hackman) is shown being turned into a junkie by repeated forced injections. In the 1996 movie Trainspotting, withdrawal from heroin is portrayed as a nightmarish struggle. Are these fictional arguments, which have left powerful impressions in many minds, truthful?
As for the power of heroin to enslave people against their will and afflict them with terrible withdrawal, I must turn to an author whose book on drugs (unlike mine, so disdained by Chandler Bing) has been a critical and commercial success. This is perhaps because he is largely on the side of decriminalization. Johann Hari's Chasing the Scream is devastating on the subject of "addiction," yet what he writes has not gotten him into any trouble at all.
Hari cites the complete blockade of the heroin supply in Vancouver during the 1970s, when supposed "addicts" carried on taking the inert powders that dealers continued to sell for several weeks. They suffered no "withdrawal symptoms." Hari goes on to quote the medical researchers John Ball and Carl Chambers, who, he says, studied medical literature from 1875 to 1968, and found that nobody had died from heroin withdrawal alone in that time. "The only people who are killed by withdrawal," Hari says, "are people who are already very weak." But the myth of addiction requires the myth of withdrawal, a logical consequence of the idea of physiological dependence.
The desire to maximize the effects of "withdrawal" and minimize the effects of long-term abuse also features in the parallel argument about alcohol. Modern medicine, for instance, likes to say that the terrible affliction called delirium tremens is a symptom of "withdrawal" from alcohol. By "withdrawal," by the way, they do not mean total stoppage, just a reduced intake. But older reference books (the DTs were first described and defined in 1813) clearly attribute DTs to long-term alcohol abuse, not to withdrawal, partial or total, from it. No doubt a total or partial cessation of drinking can bring it on. I would be interested to see any research work showing that people who have not done serious long-term damage to themselves by drinking are susceptible to DTs under any circumstances.
According to research cited by Hari, from The Archives of General Psychiatry, some 20 percent of U.S. soldiers serving in Vietnam had "become addicted to" heroin while there. The study showed that 95 percent of these men had stopped using heroin within a year of returning home. "Treatment" and "rehabilitation" made no difference to this outcome. As Hari writes, "If you believe the theory that drugs hijack your brain and turn you into a chemical slave . . . then this makes no sense."
Indeed it doesn't. I could also cite the millions of hospital patients given medical morphine (effectively the same as heroin) during illness or recovery from injury, who do not become dependent upon it. Or I could note the view of Anthony Daniels, who often writes under the pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple. He was for many years a prison doctor, and constantly encountered heroin abusers. He describes their withdrawal symptoms as being similar to a fairly bad bout of influenza.
But it makes little difference. The belief is implanted in the modern mind, taught to the young not by explanation, experiment, and example but by being repeatedly and universally assumed. First of all, it is conventional wisdom, built into thousands of sentences, newspaper articles, TV and radio programs, sermons, speeches, and private conversations. Secondly, it is what we desire. Which of us, indulging in some pleasure, is not secretly relieved to find that others are weaker than we are, have nastier and more selfish pleasures, and that these things are generally excused because of a vast, universal thing that we cannot control or influence? Indulgence, like misery, seeks company for reassurance. Unlike misery, it generally finds that company. Beliefs spread in this way cannot really be challenged. Jonathan Swift rightly observed that you cannot reason a man out of a position he was not reasoned into in the first place.
It was the triumph of the Christian religion that for many centuries it managed to become the unreasoning assumption of almost all, built into every spoken and written word, every song, and every building. It was the disaster of the Christian religion that it assumed this triumph would last forever and outlast everything, and so it was ill equipped to resist the challenge of a rival when it came, in this, the century of the self. The Christian religion had no idea that a new power, which I call selfism, would arise. And, having arisen, selfism has easily shouldered its rival aside. In free competition, how can a faith based upon self-restraint and patience compete with one that pardons, unconditionally and in advance, all the self-indulgences you can think of, and some you cannot? That is what the "addiction" argument is most fundamentally about, and why it is especially distressing to hear Christian voices accepting and promoting it, as if it were merciful to call a man a slave, and treat him as if he had no power to resist. The mass abandonment of cigarettes by a generation of educated people demonstrates that, given responsibility for their actions and blamed for their outcomes, huge numbers of people will give up a bad habit even if it is difficult. Where we have adopted the opposite attitude, and assured abusers that they are not answerable for their actions, we have seen other bad habits grow or remain as common as before. Heroin abuse has not been defeated, the abuse of prescription drugs grows all the time, and heavy drinking is a sad and spreading problem in Britain.
Most of the people who read what I have written here, if they even get to the end, will be angry with me for expressing their own secret doubts, one of the cruellest things you can do to any fellow creature. For we all prefer the easy, comforting falsehood to the awkward truth. But at the same time, we all know exactly what we are doing, and seek with ever-greater zeal to conceal it from ourselves. Has it not been so since the beginning? And has not the greatest danger always been that those charged with the duty of preaching the steep and rugged pathway persuade themselves that weakness is compassion, and that sin can be cured at a clinic, or soothed with a pill? And so falsehood flourishes in great power, like the green bay tree.
Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the Mail on Sunday.
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A year after Nepal quake, villagers rebuild from the ruins
Reconstruction continues following a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that flattened homes across the Himalayan kingdom on April 25 last year.
By Deepesh Das Shrestha | 25 April 2016 | Español | عربي
Jagat Lama and his wife Dawa Sangmo take a break from rebuilding their earthquake levelled home in Baramchi Village, Nepal. © UNHCR/D. Das Shrestha
BARAMCHI VILLAGE, Nepal – In this rubble-strewn hamlet perched on the edge of a hill in north-east Nepal, a constant hammering on corrugated iron sheets breaks the calm as 40-year-old Jagat Lama fixes a roof over his newly built home.
"I'm planning to move into the new house before this monsoon," said the father of two, who is among thousands in Nepal still remaking their lives a year after a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck.
When the earth shunted violently back and forth around noon local time on April 25, 2015, Jagat and his wife, Dawa Sangmo, were planting maize in the field a kilometre from the village. When they rushed back home, they were horrified by what they found.
"My two-storey house was gone. There was so much panic. People were shouting, crying and running. I could hardly see beyond a few metres as a cloud of dust covered the entire village and the hill," said Jagat. "In a matter of a few seconds, my beautiful village looked as if it had been bombed."
About 8,500 people were killed by the quake and more than half a million homes were demolished, most of them in rural areas like Baramachi Village that were cut off from emergency or medical care. Just as Nepalis were starting to recover in May, a second major quake struck killing a further 153 people.
In the months that followed, homeless families faced tough challenges. These included heavy monsoon rains – which drench the country from June through August – as well as shortages of essentials like food and medicines due to protest blockades on the Indian border. Then, the harsh Himalayan winter set in.
In the first few nights after their house rattled down, Jagat and his family slept in the forest on a mattress stuffed with brush and straw. They subsequently moved to an open terraced field near their collapsed home, where they spent three months sleeping under plastic sheeting provided by UNHCR.
Following the earthquake, the UN Refugee Agency distributed 42,000 tarpaulins to nearly 210,000 displaced people. Additional aid included 8,000 solar lamps, 5,000 blankets, 450 shelter roof kits and 175 temporary schools.
"With our own supply of tarps and solar lights already in country, UNHCR was a first responder in several earthquake-affected districts," said Craig Sanders, UNHCR's representative in Nepal, recalling the relief operation that ramped up to help families like Jagat's to start rebuilding.
"As relief efforts scaled up, we switched gears to focus on using innovative techniques in the reconstruction of homes and schools using locally-resourced materials. Despite the logistical challenges, difficult terrain and widespread devastation, we were able to reach some communities with much-needed support."
In the weeks after the disaster, Jagat was among the quake homeless who received shelter roof-kits from UNHCR. As he prepares to move back home, he says he is "very happy. I wouldn't have been able to build such a nice house without the support" from UNHCR.
He has taken a loan of Rs.50,000 (US$475) to put windows and doors in his new house. He hopes to repay the loan by working in a neighbor's field and laboring for other people rebuilding their homes.
"The aftershocks still continue and we are always scared," he says. "Moving to my new house will be such a relief and I am really looking forward to it."
Cyclone Idai survivors struggle to rebuild devastated communities
UNHCR aid for Cyclone Idai survivors arrives in Mozambique
UNHCR prepares to send aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in Zimbabwe
Monsoon rains highlight needs of Rohingya refugees
Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego drives thousands from their homes
As cyclones loom, Bangladesh leads push to protect Rohingya refugees


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