*boggles* Damn. Now those are some words! *laugh* Congrats!
You are a stud. It cannot be denied.
Oh, this is enchantedonyx...just logged into my other journal and didn't realize it until after I posted.
Smart! Have you got that trip to Paris sorted yet? It's well earned, I'd say.
Well done!!! Waw... I just can say: that's a lot!
Wow. Congratulations. That's an awesome amount.


Hannah came to me as a foster dog. Her back story is mostly unknown as she was found in a ditch with a litter of puppies. Her early years were obviously unpleasant, and maybe even cruel.
She came to me from her present owner who was in a desperate situation and needed a place for Hannah to stay. And stay with me she did, for the last two years.
Hannah was an incredibly sweet dog with the gentlest of souls. She was part Greyhound, part Saluki. The Saluki heritage gave her a very reserved demeanor and one that was fairly expressionless. What I mean by that is the expression on her face NEVER changed! She held the same expression always –and some folks thought she looked a little melancholy. I thought so at first too, until I got to know Hannah. Her expressions came through her body, not her face. I knew she was excited not by the look on her face but by the thump of her tail against the couch cushion when I came in the room. I knew she was having fun, not by her facial expression but by the way she moved, the way she jumped from bed to bed, leap-frogging and bed-hopping. Her ears would stand straight out and she'd turn and look up at me from her landing position, as she considered pouncing again. I knew she was content when she would lay in the sun, rolling in the grass, from side to side, over and back, and finally come to rest on her back, her legs stretched out and her front paws poised like a praying mantis.
Everyone who met Hannah instantly feel in love with her. She was just so sweet, so calm and so mellow. Hannah liked mellow. When the other dogs started to get boisterous or rowdy in the living room, she would just pick up and retreat back to the bedroom and hang out there until things quieted down.
When Hannah first came to me she was obviously feeling displaced and probably a bit confused, having left the stable home that she'd known for several years. She didn't want to eat the first few meals. That's quite normal when a change occurs in a dog's environment. But she needed to eat! So I would bring her bowl over and hand-feed her. Goopy gobs of kibble mixed with mushy canned food. It was a messy job but at least she ate everything. And this went on for awhile, day after day of hand-feeding, when I finally realized, she's playing me! She's just a diva and wanted to be hand-fed all the time. Silly girl.
When she started eating on her own, she liked to eat in private. She didn't like any distractions or any movements around while she was eating so she took her meals in my bedroom, usually on top of my bed. She was such a princess!
But then she stopped eating. Wouldn't eat anything. At all. I took her to my vet and she was diagnosed as heading into kidney failure. There's no recovery from kidney failure so she was on borrowed time. I was told it could be a few weeks or a few months. That was two weeks ago.
After her 4-day stay in the hospital getting pumped with IV fluids she came back home and was doing fabulous! I was so happy. She was back to her old self. Trotting in the yard, rolling in the grass, bed-jumping. And she would get especially excited at treat time. But she was still being very finicky with the food. I had to get really creative with meal planning just so she would get something into her belly. And she went back to the Diva mode and I would hand-feed her meatballs, chicken nuggets, ham, bread, rigatoni noodles with sauce and whatever else she would eat to keep her strength up. I ended up throwing a lot of stuff out. Surely she'll eat tuna-fish, right? What dog doesn't like tuna fish? Hannah doesn't. She ate oatmeal one day and I thought, Great! Oatmeal is good for her. So I made a big pot of it. She never ate oatmeal after that first time. One day she'd eat something and the next day she decided she didn't like it. I kinda think she went back to playing me, but I was happy to oblige.
She had lost a lot of weight and was continuing to lose weight, but again, she seemed like she had really turned a corner. Until Tuesday. Monday she didn't eat anything at all. And believe me, I tried EVERYTHING! She would take food in her mouth but spit it right back out. Tuesday, same thing. Wouldn't eat at all. She was getting weaker. Then she suddenly couldn't sit still, like she couldn't get comfortable. She finally settled down, as we all did for the night.
On Wednesday morning when I got up she was unresponsive. Breathing, but unresponsive. I rushed her to the vet and the clinic staff whisked her back to a room. The vet came out a short while later and said that her blood pressure was so low they couldn't even get a reading. They had her on oxygen and did a blood draw, but her blood was sludgy and coagulating. The vet wanted to see what the blood work looked like because she thought it might not be the kidneys. When the results came back it wasn't good. She came out with the paperwork, a paper with a lot of red ink, indicating Hannah's levels that were abnormal — so many of her levels were abnormal and not just a little abnormal but way out of normal range. At this point it was obvious that something else was going on inside Hannah and there was just no coming back from it.
It was time. So I had to say goodbye and release sweet Hannah to be with all my other babies up at the Rainbow Bridge. It was heartbreaking to see her in the condition she was, especially when just the day before she was bouncing around.
Hannah was a very special girl who left paw prints on the hearts of all who met her. I'm very grateful to have had these last two years with her.
I know you're up there rolling in green meadows and basking in the warm sunlight. Until we meet again, feel my love and know that we miss your sweet spirit.
UPDATE 1/24/14: I had just come into the house from doing poop-duty outside and as I was about to slip back into my house shoes I noticed something white on the inside of my left shoe. When I picked it up, there lie a little white feather. I have to think that was Hannah stopping by to let me know she got her angel wings!
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I'm so sorry Michelle …. Hannah was such a sweet grey. I always loved seeing her when we visited.
Blessings to Hannah, and blessings to Michelle, for your great service and huge heart.
Thanks Lana. see you next week.
Thanks Audrey. Miss and love you too!
Michele, I just fell in love with Hanna! What a sweet ,tender soul! And I really love your blog!
Hannah was special……and she needed a special home that you provided for her….our 3 will miss her as well. Thanks for the nice post!
Thanks Karl. Hannah was particularly fond of Toby and I'd frequently find them both on top of my bed. They were dining buddies too since Toby also likes to be in a very quiet room to eat.
she was lucky that you found her and she passed away loved.
Thanks Mattie. I'm totally convinced the feather was Hannah. Almost every time I've lost a dog I get a sign a short time after. With Dodgy it was a feather also, with Maggie it was a swift breeze, with Harry it was a toy that started squeaking all by itself with no other dog near it and with Finnegan it was his belly band being in the doorway when I got home. I love getting signs from the angels! So now I bet every time you see a butterfly you think of Buttercup, huh? And I choose to believe that it actually is Buttercup checking in on you. Love you too.
Thanks for telling Hannah's story, what a special girl she was. So very sorry for your loss. No matter how short or how long a time you have a furever friend in your life. They always have a piece of your heart. Sound like you will be remembering this princess for a good long time with only happy memories.
Oh thank you! I thought I caught a glimpse of Hannah today, or I just walked past her bed and expected her to be in it I guess. I now have 7 greyhounds waiting for me up there at that Rainbow Bridge. And you're right, no matter how long or how short the time we have together, they always move right into our hearts. I adopted my Finnegan and even before the adoption was finalized I found out he had Lymphoma with a 1-3 month prognosis. I adopted him so he wouldn't leave this earth as a homeless foster dog; he ended up having 8 months here in his "forever home." And it was a fabulous 8 months. He was happy and healthy up until the day before his last. That was a real blessing. Thanks again for your comment and for reading my blog! Much appreciated.
I can't honestly say I like posts of this kind, because the writers' love is so obvious that I know there has to be great suffering … Our pets have so much meaning for us that to lose them never gets any easier – never.
It never does get any easier. But I look at losing our pets as the price we have to pay for them loving us and us loving them. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Agreed. We have to be strong every time we bring in a new one to own us: the joy is irreplaceable.
Beautiful story and sounds like she had a beautiful soul. Thanks for the heartwarming story.
What a nice comment! Thanks Shelley. I just had a dream about Hannah last night; I love when my dogs come to visit in my dreams. Thanks again for a really sweet comment.
It's been a while ago Michele but still big hugs. Each one of our dogs leaves an indelible mark and we are never the same after they are gone. It's as of pieces of us are missing and we will be complete now only when the pack is one again. May you be happy wherever you are Hannah.
Oh gosh, this is so sad and it's so hard to lose a fur babe. This is tough but the feather is a sign and your Hannah is letting you know she is ok.
Hey Birgit! Thanks for the visit. I've been out of commission for the last few months. Pretty much on medical leave, so to speak (surgery etc). I was just reorganizing my blog menus and added a new section called "My Dogs" with multiple pages, which you found! Good to see you here!
I'll be coming back to blogging next month and hoping to stay more consistent. I miss y'all! See you soon!


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137. Murray Sabrin's 7-Point Entrepreneurial Solution to the Medical Care Crisis
Entrepreneurs solve problems for customers. There are few problems bigger than the horribly perverse medical care system under which patients suffer in the US. The system has evolved over time, with the stimulus of bad decisions, bad actors, and bad incentives. Entrepreneurship can solve the system problem with specific actions at the component level, each of which are practical and do-able, and can interact to create a new outcome at the system level.
Murray Sabrin has studied both the system and the component solutions, and he joins the Economics For Business podcast to enumerate his proposed actions.
Healthcare is a consumer good, and a consumer responsibility. Medical care is a provider proposition.
Consumer sovereignty is a cornerstone concept in Austrian economic theory. Consumers determine what is produced as a result of their buying or not buying. Does this principle apply in healthcare?
To answer requires us to differentiate between healthcare and medical care. Healthcare is an individual choice and a personal responsibility: we do everything we can to maintain a healthy lifestyle of eating and drinking, exercise and sound physical and mental health practices. In the internet age, there is plenty of knowledge available to help us in our decision-making. Medical care is what we turn to when sound healthcare proves to be insufficient to keep us off medication and out of hospital.
How do consumers realize value from medical care providers? To do so is very challenging due to (among other barriers) price fixing, price opacity, price inflation, monopolistic and duopolistic market structures, the misuse of insurance, bureaucratic management, perverse incentives, government intervention, and barriers to entrepreneurial entry.
Are there potential solutions in the face of this systemic dysfunction? Yes: solutions that come from the best countervailing source — entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial Solution #1: Direct Primary Care — Restoring the doctor-patient relationship.
Murray Sabrin recalled the $5 doctor visit of the past, characterized by a personal relationship with no bureaucracy or insurance forms. Entrepreneurs are now re-establishing that relationship via Direct Primary Care. DPC is retainer fee-based access to unlimited doctor visits, including office-based testing and additional services, with no insurance forms. DPC doctors have fewer patients in their practice and can consequently provide more time and attention. Stronger relationships are built, which is the essence of entrepreneurial value-generation.
Entrepreneurial Solution #2: Transparent versus distorted pricing.
Pricing is one of the most important bulwarks of free markets. In medical care, pricing is opaque to the point of invisibility, distorted, and inflated. It is unresponsive to the normal choice-based supply-demand mechanisms, and not indicative of value.
Some entrepreneurs are acting to change these pricing conditions via what is termed fee-for-service: transparent pricing for specific services. An often-cited example is Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where specific prices for specific surgical services are openly posted on their website. Other members of the Free Market Medical Association provide similar price transparency.
One of the results is revelatory price comparison: Murray told the story of a DPC practice patient who identified a 75% price reduction at Surgery Center of Oklahoma compared to a local South Florida hospital.
Entrepreneurial Solution # 3: One stop shopping at local non-profit clinics.
Murray described the launch and success of several non-profit local and regional clinics, including one for which he was the founding trustee. These are philanthropically established and funded local clinics with volunteer staff, providing a range of services. Equipment and pharmaceuticals may be fully or partially donated by the manufacturing companies. The combination of direct primary care doctors and specialists can make these clinics one-stop shopping solutions for patients seeking quality medical care. With a little philanthropic assistance, they could eliminate the need for Medicaid.
Entrepreneurial Solution #4: Direct Contracting.
Insurance companies purposefully inflate medical care prices to fund their business model. Murray told the story of a large (4-500 employees) company that contracted directly with a service that brought a vehicle with an MRI machine to the employers location, and charged $400 per MRI to the employees. The same vehicle was utilized by a nearby hospital that charged $6,000 for the same MRI. Direct contracting saved $5400 per unit cost, or 90%.
Direct contracting has the potential to significantly reduce costs in the Medical Care system, while opening access and increasing convenience.
Entrepreneurial Solution #5: The 3-tier household medical care budget system.
Murray has a well-constructed and eminently practical household medical care budget system. There's a version for families with at least on member in employment and an alternative for those on Medicare today. There are three elements:
Direct Primary Care for a monthly fee, covering unlimited office visits and routine tests.
A Health Savings Account to cover costs of specialists, prescription drugs, medical equipment, major tests and brief hospitalizations.
Catastrophic insurance coverage for major operations and hospitalizations and long term care.
Greater detail is provided in Murray's book, Universal Medical Care From Conception To End Of Life.
Download our corresponding PDF, which features an adapted table from Murray's book: Download the PDF
In a system of personal responsibility, we would all manage our household medical care budgets with these kinds of tools.
Entrepreneurial Solution #6: Voluntarism And Mutualism.
Voluntarism has a long tradition in America. Mutual aid societies were prevalent before the New Deal. Ethnic, religious and trade groups joined together for mutual support. The Federal Government co-opted these functions and now people look to Washington DC to solve their problems.
But young people today are more interested in voluntarism and non-political social activism. 30 years ago in the Wall Street Journal, Peter Drucker argued for the non-profit sector to replace the welfare state. Creative and innovative people find ways to surmount institutionally-erected barriers in all phases of life, and medical care is certainly one of those. There's a liberating and energizing sense of acting as the custodian of one's own life and helping others who need it. It's the entrepreneurial ethic.
Entrepreneurial Solution #7: Distributed Knowledge.
There is so much available knowledge today about healthy life habits and about the symptoms and characteristics of various medical conditions, and about options for treatment. We as individuals are free to explore, and responsible for gathering our own store of knowledge. The outcome of the research may not be definitive, and we may find ourselves making a choice between alternatives. But doctors and hospital administrators make choices too, and they are not infallible. It may be possible for an individual to gather more knowledge about their own specific condition from the internet than any single doctor can know, simply as a consequence of concentrated effort. Each of us can take responsibility for our own life.
Summing up: Murray Sabrin's prescription:
Eliminate employer-based insurance.
Make a single exception for the case in which the employer pays the direct primary care fee for the patient.
The resultant employer savings are deposited in employees' health savings accounts.
Employees determine their best medical care options.
Phase out Medicare and Medicaid.
Let young people create super health savings accounts so that they don't need Medicare in the future.
Hospitals price at realistic market pricing, not insurance-inflated prices.
All prices are transparent.
Get the government out of medical care — it's none of their business.
Free up resources from the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance complex and redirect them to savings, investment and philanthropy.
Read Murray's book, Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life: The Case for A Single-Payer System: Buy It On Amazon – It's self-published and all proceeds go to charity and non-profits.
"Individual Single-Payer Alternative For Employer-Based Insurance" (PDF): Download PDF
Surgery Center Of Oklahoma: surgerycenterok.com
Forward: goforward.com
Direct Primary Care Coalition: dpcare.org
Volunteers in America: vimamerica.org
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126. Joe Matarese Defines a Whole New Level of Customer Value to Build a High Growth Service Firm
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Firms that can unlock the deep secrets of subjective value can unleash powerful, long-lasting value streams. When these flow in a confluence with well-identified market drivers, revenue and profit growth can be greatly accelerated.
Joe Matarese tells Economics For Business how he conjoined these two forces for his medical staffing service firm, creating a dynamic market leader from a three-person startup.
Market Drivers are strong, lasting forces capable of projection.
Austrians are skeptical about prediction, but it is reasonable to project some forces into the future. Demographics is one — the progression of age cohorts through the demography of a country can be mapped quite accurately. Increasing longevity is another, based on ongoing increased investment in health care and advances in the associated technologies. When Joe Matarese identified a shortage of doctors, he was able to confidently assume the shortage would continue.
When customer problems result from these forces, a market segment opens for solutions.
One customer problem fed by these forces is staffing for critical roles in hospitals — doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses, etc. Staffing complements need to be assembled, absences caused by holidays, maternity leave, etc. need to be covered, and the natural churn of individuals taking new jobs, retiring, or moving requires flexible response. Not only staffing but scheduling is required — the right medical team for the specific operation at the appointed time.
The problem-to-solve is functional. The deep value is subjective and intense.
Joe's core insight was about the intense emotional need, not just the functional need. He observed his client — an operations executive in a busy hospital system — stressing out about the problem. Operating room staffing is life-and-death. Unfilled team roles would often arise at the last minute, threatening the healthcare mission of the hospital.
Temporary staffing service providers would sometimes fail to deliver the scheduled stand-in. Stress for the executive intensified.
The solution for a deep-seated and intensely felt emotional need is to transfer the burden to the service provider.
Think of the intense burden the administrative executive bears when she's not confident that her staffing plans are secure, and her routines and methods are not foolproof. What if there is a failure at the time of a scheduled operation and it can't go forward? Or patients can't get nursing care because of under-staffing? How much value is there in a service that can relieve the stress?
Joe Matarese conceived of the emotional solution: take the responsibility off the shoulders of the executive and take it on as a service of his firm. How is that achieved? Bulletproof processes and routines. Comprehensive databases of people and their skills and attributes, and of client facilities and their needs. The latest technology for profile matching and precision scheduling. Impeccable implementation. And, most importantly, intense listening to continuously monitor customer feelings, combined with the responsiveness to act on those feelings.
Growth follows when these market drivers, functional drivers and emotional drivers are aligned.
Medicus Healthcare Solutions quickly gained market share in its initial geography. Growth comes from adding new customers, expanding territory and the underlying forces of an aging population consuming more healthcare.
But growth is a management challenge. One area of great challenge is managing people. Those who signed on for the early stages of growth and development may not have the skills — or the interest — for the later stage tasks of management like strengthening processes and systems. Making sure the team is perfectly tuned to the demands of the current stage is difficult but critical.
Further acceleration of growth is driven by innovation.
Medicus Healthcare Solutions has always grown faster than the market. How? Through an intense search for new knowledge and its application in the form of unrelenting innovation — never resting in the search for better ways to provide client service. For example, in addition to continuous improvement in precision tailored scheduling, Medicus added a consulting service. Scheduling solves the client's immediate short term problem, and does so again and again. Consulting can examine the client's systems and solve the problem in the long term by designing and installing internal systems as good as Medicus'.
Joe has a long experience with innovation and how to manage it, and promised to come back to the Economics For Business podcast in the future to share his knowledge.
"Driving Growth With Core Customer Value Insights" (PDF): Download PDF
"Medical Staffing and the Revolutionary Innovations We Need," presented by Joe Matarese at the Mises Institute's Medical Freedom Summit: Watch the Video
Medicus Healthcare Solutions: Visit the Website
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81. Dr. Keith Smith: The Free Market Medical Association Brings Entrepreneurship to Medical Services
Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder of The Free Medical Association (FMMA.org), is an entrepreneur and free market warrior who is undaunted by the seeming scale of his innovation task: to bring to healthcare the kind of customer experience only entrepreneurial free markets can deliver (see "Pillars of the Free Market Medical Association" PDF).
He is laser-focused on the problem to solve.
https://cdn.mises.org/081_entrepod_dr_keith_smith_0.mp3
(Full episode transcript available here.)
The aim is to bring buyers and sellers together.
As Dr. Smith explains, simply stating that there is a need to bring buyers and sellers together is an indication of dysfunction in the market for healthcare. Buyers and sellers talking directly with each other is what makes a market: willing buyer, willing seller, mutually agreed price.
Buyers are patients who care what healthcare costs. Today, they have sticker shock.
Buyers who care about price can be direct-buying individuals, and their proxy buyers, who can include self-funded employer health benefits systems, more and more of which are emerging. Innovations like Health Savings Accounts and high-deductible insurance policies are bringing more direct buying into the market.
Willing sellers should be complete and comprehensive advocates for the patient, across the whole range of their needs, including financial aspects.
The targeted customer experience is for patients to feel confident when they visit a doctor that they have an unapologetic advocate. Today, physicians are medical advocates, but to be a more complete advocate, physicians must think and act like entrepreneurs, bearing some risk in serving their patients. Many say, "I don't want anything to do with the business side or the money side of medicine." By doing so, they are abandoning their patients to the financial wolves, many of whom are willing to step in and make a living off the patient. It's not so much willful neglect of the patient's interests, as simply caving in to a system that has become extremely difficult to navigate.
A problem in healthcare is the dominant presence of intermediaries between the buyer and the seller.
Dr. Smith described the wide range of intermediaries, cartels and proxies that get in the way of a direct, transparent and mutually beneficial relationship between buyer and seller. Insurance companies are "money handlers and money changers", keeping healthcare prices high, so they can offer false discounts and skim off the difference. There are brokers and consultants to employers, whom Dr. Smith calls "self-dealing", who add a layer of costs. There is Big Pharma, the pharmaceutical industry that largely funds the FDA, making it inevitable that the regulator will protect the pharmaceutical companies and their business model and their pricing.
In the end, the "ultimate culprit" is the Federal Government. None of the financial abuse of the patient would be possible "without Uncle Sam riding shotgun for all of this thievery".
A solution lies in decentralization, disintermediation and the application of Hayekian knowledge theory.
Dr. Smith alluded to F.A. Hayek's concept of dispersed tacit knowledge in describing the FMMA's decentralized approach. The Free Market Medical Association establishes local chapters, who follow a small number of "pillars" regarding price and value and mutually beneficial exchange, including equal pricing to all cash buyers of the same service. The chapters are completely free to respond to customer preferences in their own local market. These chapters create new knowledge based on their transactions and experiences in their local market, and can share it with all other chapters.
Austrian principles of decentralization, free exchange without intermediaries, and the recognition of the value-creating dispersed knowledge of patients and entrepreneur-practitioners are Dr. Smith's starting point.
Free Downloads & Extras From The Episode
Pillars of the Free Market Medical Association: Download PDF
The Free Market Medical Association's annual conference, "Mission Possible: Healthcare Entrepreneurship as the Antidote to the Broken Healthcare System": FMMA Annual Conference
"The Austrian Business Model" (video): https://e4epod.com/model
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even if i cant do something usefull w. them, i wonder if i can do something cool (read: possibly dangerous, but really really awesome) with them!
Sweet! submit it to hackaday with some photos.


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Q: Wordpress wp-settins.php errors Notice: Use of undefined constant ABSPATH Just installed Wordpress with this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/wordpress-lamp-ubuntu-16-04-ru and got php errors when open wp-settings.php
Notice: Use of undefined constant ABSPATH - assumed 'ABSPATH' in /var/www/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 19
Warning: require(ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 19
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 19

Okey, I tried
sudo chmod 755 $(find /var/www/wordpress/ -type d)
sudo chmod 644 $(find /var/www/wordpress/ -type f)

Tried to manually set the way to WP's files in wp-config.php. Tried another version of the WP. Set the ownership of the files and folders to not-root sudo-user. Nothing changes. Tryed on clear 14.04 and 16.04 ubuntu and nothing.

Your constants need to be strings.

It is string, I didn't change files from repo.
Also, my WP can't update itself because
Warning: copy(/var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 257

A: My mistake, I should open domain/wp-admin/options.php instead of domain/wp-settings.php

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The Fort Santiago
Relive the history of old Manila
Activities & Amenities
Open Daily from 08:00 AM to 07:00 PM Closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday
Children, Students, Faculty, Senior Citizens, and PWDs. (Must present valid ID upon entry)
Entrance Rates
About the Fort Santiago
Welcome to Fort Santiago
Welcome to Fort Santiago! In 1571, Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi re-established Rajah Soliman's Manila as the new capital for the growing Spanish empire in the Far East, while the fallen rajah's wooden citadel was rebuilt as the headquarters for Spain's military. As the City grew in wealth and prominence in its new place in the world stage, so too did Fort Santiago got established as a formidable symbol of Spanish power in the orient.
The first Spanish fort, a palisaded structure of logs and earth, was destroyed not long after establishment, when in 1574 the Chinese pirate Lin Feng (Limahong) launched an almost successful siege of Manila. The Spanish army repelled the attack, but the fort, in realization of its defects, was rebuilt in stone. The present fort, constructed using volcanic tuff (adobe), was built between 1589 and 1592. It was named after St. James the Moor-slayer, known by the Spanish as Santiago Matamoros. The fort is notable for being a headquarters of the armies of several foreign powers in Philippine history, including the Spanish (1571 to 1898), the British (1762 through 1764 during the Seven Years War), the Americans (1898 to 1946), and the Japanese (1942 through 1945). The Fort Santiago is presently a National Shrine and National Monument since 1951, and a National Cultural Treasure since 2014.
Copyright © 2020 Fort Santiago. All rights reserved.


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There is a judgment, and everyone is subject to it.
Judgment is counterintuitive—everyone is surprised by his or her judgment.
There can be joy in judgment.
Judgment is a divine, not a human, prerogative.
Judgment is linked to how we judge others.
The quantitative outcome of judgment tends strongly to the positive rather than to the negative.
We've also noted that Jesus had much to say on the topic, particularly as He approached the end of His ministry.
Today I would like to propose a new paradigm for judgment; namely, that what is judged is simply our willingness to accept God's grace. To put it another way: Our destiny is shaped by our willingness to accept God's grace. Many parables support this paradigm.
And someone came to Him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?" And He said to him, "Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." Then he said to Him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall not commit murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself." The young man said to Him, "All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?" Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me." But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.
The rich young man asked how he could reach a favorable judgment that would lead to eternal life. The central criterion seems to be a willingness to relinquish the work of one's own hands, to relinquish one's own good deeds and righteous acts, and the profit therefrom, in favor of faith and trust in God. In short, we must be willing to exchange our own effort for the grace of God.
The answer Jesus gave the rich young man provides two important principles about judgment: (1) It is not about human goodness, since nothing is good but God; (2) Whatever the criteria might be, the act of judgment is something only God can do.
Zaccheus was deficient in physical height (hence his need to climb a tree to see Jesus over the crowd) and in spirit. He sought to overcome his deficiencies through his own effort (climbing the tree). Jesus invited him down from his tree—and from his spiritual height such as it was—in order to experience the presence of the judge of all Mankind. The short, declarative sentence: "…hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house" is telling. There was no time to be lost, Zaccheus had to come down from his perch, and Jesus had to stay at his house—it was personal. Grace is urgent, essential, and personal. Zaccheus accepted all this and did so gladly, with joy. It is vital to note that it was God's grace—not Zaccheus' willingness to give half his wealth to the poor—that brought "salvation…to this house." Zaccheus responded to the grace he was given by willingly passing it on to others. In contrast, the rich young ruler wanted to hoard what he had been given.
David: It seems to me that what is given up is not possessions but selfhood. The poor and the oppressed and others in the Beatitudes would have had no possessions to speak of—they had nothing left to give but their selves. The Prodigal Son had nothing left when he threw himself—by now, an empty shell—upon his father's grace. Not all of us have material possessions, but each and every one of us has a self, which we must give up in order to receive God's grace.
Donald: Many of us identify with our possessions. Giving up our identity, our sense of self, is indeed a very, very difficult thing to do. I remain somewhat confused. Grace is accepting Christ, but giving up one's self for Christ seems to be a different thing.
Michael: Sometimes Jesus sets criteria we can align with; but sometimes they are impossible (in practice) for us to follow. "Don't look at another woman or you are committing adultery! Give up everything! If your eye does something bad then pluck it out! If it's your arm then chop it off!" and so on. So grace is our only alternative, if I am understanding this correctly.
Robin: You are talking about works, in contrast to faith.
Donald: Faith is about grace and our acceptance of Christ; works are our behavior. We seem to be trying to tie them together, but we tend to see them as separate entities.
Robin: I think the important thing is to get them in the right order. Our behavior should change in response to the revelations and acceptance of grace. Our behavior does not earn us grace.
A decision to follow the darkness instead of the light is not work—it is just a decision. But having made a decision to follow the light, it is not easy, as Michael pointed out, to do so. The key thing is to make the decision—to prefer the light over the dark. To be saved, we must want to be saved.
Aishwarya: Giving up possessions and giving up sin are indeed difficult in human terms. But if we do good works because we feel it's our duty to do so, then it is that much easier to give up our possessions. To the extent they work hard, company workers often seem to do so mainly with an eye to promotion, not because it's the right thing to do. So, it seems to me, with God's grace: We should live life as we feel it is our duty to live it, not because we expect to be rewarded. It is easier to give up things if we don't look for them.
David: The good people in the Judgment passage had treated others with care and concern because it seemed to them to be the right thing to do. They were surprised to be rewarded with a place in heaven.
Donald: What is the rationale, or the motive, for giving to the poor or visiting people in prison? Is it a recognition of the difference, between giver and recipient, in needs, and in the ability to meet those needs?
Anonymous: It is something inside us that motivates us to give. It is not the object of compassion. Sometimes the seemingly needy are just frauds. We give because something inside us tells us to.
Donald: We don't want to be selfish. If we don't give, we appear selfish.
Anonymous: Sometimes we don't give because we don't have enough faith to believe that God will make it up to us.
Donald: I am not sure we think of our own needs and desires in that case.
Jay: I don't think I understand what it means to accept God's grace. I don't know what it looks like. I can't tell from other people's faces if they have received it. Could we tell somehow, without knowing the events that happened to them, that the rich young ruler did not accept grace but Zaccheus did? How would we know?
Don: The joyous impoverishment of Zaccheus versus the joyless lifestyle of the rich young man might provide a clue. The key to accepting grace is to divest one's self of something, in order to become selfless. In what proportion, I don't know, but the passing on of grace is evidence of having received it.
Kiran: There is also a discernible gratitude component—Zaccheus showed it when he received grace. The woman Jesus saved from being stoned to death showed it in return for the grace she received. Paul lived simply but was always professing his gratitude for what he had. It might not be immediately obvious but will manifest itself over time. One is unlikely to get this sense of sincere gratitude from people who have refused grace because they think they don't need it, like the Pharisee whose thanks to God for not being like other people ring hollow.
David: Where we go seriously wrong, it seems to me, is in seeking to discern on a rational basis. To the extent it can occur at all, true discernment can occur only internally, via the inner spirit, not via intellectual analysis of external sensory signals. The inner spirit is God. The intellect is self. Whether or not we think of ourselves as religious or spiritual, we often call the inner spirit "conscience" and we often tell our selves to do as our conscience urges. Intuitively, we know that our conscience is not part of our selves. Discernment is a tricky thing. Jesus (in my reading of Him) told us clearly enough not to mess with it intellectually.
Chris: The concept of grace should be comforting, yet I find it scary because it seems to require going against human nature. First, we have to give up control over our own lives; and second, we have to admit our faults in order to recognize our need for grace. Both of these are very hard for us to do.
Kiran: Even after accepting grace, can we really know that we have received it, when we seem unable to help but retain some sin in us? If we help someone in need even though our intellect is screaming against it, can't we only conclude that we are being driven by something divine, not something rational? Unfortunately, we tend to resist the divine.
Don: The paradox of grace is that it seems, on the face of it, so easy to accept. Who could turn down a free pass for sin? Muslims and others are aghast at what seems to them to be an evil concept. Jesus Himself said (if not in exactly these words) that it is extremely difficult for the divine to give away grace.
David: It seems we are most inclined to accept grace only when we appear to have no choice—when we have reached the end of our tether. I sense that Zaccheus was hurting badly, whereas the rich young ruler was just seeking to hedge his bets. The Publican was beating his breast in anguish, while the Pharisee next to him was preening in self-worshipful prayer. A mid-life crisis might make us feel like we have reached the end of our tether, but have we? One thing we can be sure of: We all come to the end of our tether when we die. And that must surely be the moment when the acceptance of grace is most critical.
Donald: We like to think we control our destiny, but we all know we don't, really. We fight against unwanted circumstances—we seek to control them.
Jay: There seems to be a dichotomy between accepting grace and passing it on. On the one hand, we should do nothing—just passively accept the grace, since we cannot control the future; on the other hand, we should do something with the grace we have accepted. Perhaps doing something with grace follows naturally from receiving it. But in any case, the choice of doing something with grace or doing nothing (hoarding it) implies that we do in fact have some control over our future!
Donald: If we are dying, we have no control over the future, so it is easy to accept and pass on grace.
Michael: Jesus simply told Zaccheus to "Come down!" but He told the rich young ruler to give up everything he owned. Surely Zaccheus had it much easier…!?
Chris: If we are not sure we have received grace (or love, or kindness, or anything else, for that matter) then how are we able to pass it on? If we accept it, perhaps there is a natural gratitude that drives us to pass it on.
Donald: Is it necessary to consider grace and judgment together? It seems we can talk about grace alone. Can judgment be considered alone?
Don: Jesus seems to tie them together in the parables. That He devoted so much time and effort to His parables must mean that they contain very important messages. We will continue to examine them in this light, for messages about grace and judgment that God wants us to see. But all perspectives are welcome!
Anonymous: People don't like the light because it exposes their bad deeds. So the judgment is not against them—it is for them, but they refuse it!


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Gannet Birds Stock Photos and Images
Gannet (Sula bassana) performing their courtship display ritual at their breeding colony
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Northern Gannets birds nesting on rocky seacliffs on Isle of Noss National Nature Reserve during summer breeding season. Shetland Islands Scotland UK
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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) standing on rock of coastal cliff, looking at camera, Great Saltee, Saltee Islands, Ireland.
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Northern Gannet Sula bassana colony Hermaness Unst Shetland Scotland April
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Northern Gannet, Morus bassanus, colony on the cliff Rundebranden at the island Runde, Atlantic west coast, Norway.
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Cape gannet (Morus capensis), colonie at the beach, South Africa, Western Cape, Runde, Lambert's Bay
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Northern Gannets (Sula bassana) Breeding Colony, Isle of Noss National Nature Reserve, Shetland Islands, UK
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Gannet Birds Perching On Field By Sea Against Cloudy Sky
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Flock of gannet birds flying by Bonaventure island cliff in Perce, Gaspesie, Gaspe region of Quebec, Canada
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Breeding Gannets Sula bassana covering the island of Grassholm (RSPB) Wales July
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Gannet - Morus bassanus - juvenile
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New Zealand, North Island, Murawai Gannet Colony, Australasian gannet ( Morus Serrator ).
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Little Skellig Island, Major colony for Northern Gannets (Sula bassana) County Kerry, Ireland
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Flock of gannet birds perched and flying by Bonaventure island cliff in Perce, Gaspesie, Gaspe region of Quebec, Canada
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Northern Gannet in flight
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Helgoland, an German Island in the North Sea, birds colony on the rocks, Northern Gannet birds,
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New Zealand. North Island. Auckland Region. Muriwai Beach.
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Northern Gannet taken on pelagic seabird trips from Isles of Scilly, Cornwall on board the Sapphire
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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) adult pair, displaying, standing on rock, Great Saltee, Saltee Islands, Ireland
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Endangered Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) overflying the breeding colony searching for its mate at Lamberts Bay, South Africa. Often the birds will n
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Northern gannet, Morus bassanus, breeding colo8BIM
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northern gannet, birds in love
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Colony of Northern Gannets, Bonaventure Island Quebec, Canada
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A Gannet at Bass Rock in Scotland
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Gannet taking off after catching fish
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The Gannets are white birds with black tipped wings and a long bill.
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Beautiful art drawing with a gannet birds
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Gannet birds colony at Muriwai beach in New Zealand. The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as Australian gannet and tākapu.
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The red steep coast line of Helgoland, an German Island in the North sea, birds colony on the rocks, Northern Gannet birds,
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Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) and black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) perched on the side of a cliff.
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ATLANTIC PUFFIN NEST ON ISOLATED OCEAN CLIFFS. THEY NEST IN BURROWS OR IN DEEP CREVICES IN BOULDERS. THEY HAVE DISTINCTIVE FACIAL MARKINGS.
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Dead Gannet corpse
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Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) at Heligoland
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Endangered Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) in flight at Bird Island, Lamberts Bay, South Africa.
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The colony Morus Bassanus, Northern Gannet, Saltee Islands ,Ireland, Europe
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Northern Gannet Sula bassana
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Gannet flying over Bempton Cliffs.
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Gannet with nesting Material
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Space Shuttle Discovery landed in Cape Canaveral, Florida tonight at 23:32 CET (22:32/GMT), completing one of the most complex assembly missions to the International Space Station to date, and bringing back ESA's two astronauts, Christer Fuglesang and Thomas Reiter.
On 8 and 9 January, in the historic city of Edinburgh, ESA and BNSC are to hold a workshop to kick off the first in a series of consultations with key stakeholders. The aim is to define European long-term strategy for space exploration and set the scene for the decisions to be taken at the ESA Council meeting at ministerial level scheduled for 2008.
On 27 December, COROT is to be launched into space on a unique astronomy mission: its twin goals are to detect exoplanets orbiting around other stars and to probe the mysteries of stellar interiors as never before. COROT is a French national space agency (CNES)-led mission to which the European Space Agency and European partners are adding a particularly strong international flavour.
Meeting on 12 December at the Agency's headquarters in Paris, the ESA Council appointed Mr Ludwig Kronthaler, of German nationality, to the post of Director of Resources Management for a four-year term.
With results that the Principal Investigator of the Mars Express MARSIS radar, Giovanni Picardi, of the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', describes as unprecedented, Mars is showing scientists that it has an older, craggier face buried beneath its surface. The results were obtained by MARSIS, the pioneering sounding radar onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, and provide important new clues about the still-mysterious geological history of Mars.
Christer Fuglesang was launched last night onboard NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery on a mission to proceed with the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) and to bring back to Earth another ESA astronaut, Thomas Reiter, who has been working in the orbital outpost for five months.
Have you ever wanted to track natural events such as fires, floods and volcanic eruptions as they are happening, or simply explore planet Earth through the eyes of a satellite? ESA has created a website, MIRAVI, which gives you access to the most recently acquired images from Envisat, the world's largest Earth observation satellite.
The largest European mono-segment filament-wound case solid propellant motor ever developed came to life at 12:30 Kourou time today (16:30 Paris) time when it was ignited for its first static firing test at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana.
ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang is about to become the first Swedish and the first Nordic astronaut in space. During the night of 7/8 December, he will board NASA's Shuttle Discovery as Mission Specialist on flight STS-116. With his six crewmates, he will fly to the International Space Station on a mission to add a new section to its truss structure and to reroute electrical power supply and thermal control from its new set of solar arrays and radiators.
After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, the Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning it deserves. Today, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has given the green light for a Shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the permanent space-based observatory.
With NASA's launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on flight STS-116 scheduled for the night of Thursday 7 to Friday 8 December at 01:38 GMT (02:38 CET) at the earliest, ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang of Sweden is set to become the first citizen of a Nordic country to fly to the International Space Station. Fuglesang is currently undergoing intensive training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to prepare for the mission.
For 28 years, Europe has been operating its famous Meteosat weather satellites in geostationary orbit. Today, they were joined by the first of a brand new generation of meteorological satellites. MetOp is designed to provide a closer view of the atmosphere from low earth orbit, delivering data that will improve global weather prediction and enhance our understanding of climate change.
It is with great regret that we announce the death of Michel Bignier, which occurred on 12 October.
On 19-22 September 2006, the WEU Assembly and the European Interparliamentary Space Conference joined forces to hold a colloquy on Space, Defence and European Security in Kourou (French Guiana) in association with the European Space Agency (ESA), France's national centre for space studies, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and Arianespace. The event brought together over a hundred Members of Parliament from European nations along with Members of the European Parliament and senior executives from ESA, CNES, Arianespace and the space industry in Europe.
The WEU Assembly and the European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) are jointly holding a conference on space, defence and European security in Kourou, French Guiana from 19-22 September 2006, at the invitation of the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency (CNES) and Arianespace. Numerous members of the national parliaments of European countries, as well as representatives of the European Parliament and the EU Military Staff and Satellite Centre, will be attending, alongside leading figures from Europe's space industry. The conference will address the various aspects of a European Space Policy having regard to security and defence, with a particular focus on the technological and industrial capacities needed to achieve such a policy.
For Europe, the spotlight is currently on the International Space Station. With construction of the ISS once more under way, a press conference has been organised at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany for 22 September to highlight present and forthcoming European human spaceflight missions to the Station. There will be missions involving four ESA astronauts in 2006/07, together with the launch of two ISS modules built in Europe, the Columbus laboratory and Node 2. The Columbus laboratory is one of the cornerstones of Europe's contribution to the Station, along with the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - the European ISS cargo spacecraft - also due for launch in 2007. The press conference will highlight the important role of Germany and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and more specifically of the Columbus Control Centre at Oberpfaffenhofen; this is at present supporting the European Astrolab mission on the ISS with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany, and will become the command and control centre for the European Columbus laboratory once the latter has been launched.
MetOp-A, the first in a new European series of three meteorological operational satellites designed to monitor the Earth's atmosphere from polar orbit, is now to be launched on Saturday 7 October from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It will complement Europe's already highly successful Meteosat satellites positioned in geostationary orbit and will form the European part of an integrated system to be deployed jointly with the USA to provide better weather and climate information.
Every year, the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and its associates, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).
Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the 'Lake of Excellence' region. The planned impact concluded a successful mission that, in addition to testing innovative space technology, had been conducting a thorough scientific exploration of the Moon for about a year and a half.
Now Europe too can say it has been to the Moon. In the early morning of 3 September this year (at 07:41 Central European Summer Time, as currently estimated), the European Space Agency's SMART-1 mission will end its exploration adventure through a small impact on the lunar surface.
On 3 August at 15:55 hours CEST, ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter will step out of the International Space Station to begin a 6½ hour spacewalk (extra-vehicular activity). During this time, he and fellow NASA crew member Jeff Williams will install items of hardware in preparation for future ISS assembly work and will also set up for deployment a number of instruments and experiments mounted on the outside of the Station. This will be Reiter's third EVA, having already carried out two spacewalks on his EuroMir 95 mission in 1995.
ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel of Germany has been named today to fly on the Space Shuttle mission that will deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station in September/October 2007. ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain announced the assignment on the occasion of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's official visit to ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
On Thursday, 20 July, German Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister of Germany's Hesse region, Roland Koch, will address ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, currently on board the International Space Station (ISS), from ESA's operations centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. This first live "Space-to-Earth discussion" between Chancellor Merkel and Thomas Reiter will start at 12:30 CEST and last 20 minutes.
MetOp-A, the first member of a new family of European satellites designed to monitor the Earth's atmosphere from low Earth orbit, is to be launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 17 July. It will complement Europe's already highly successful Meteosat satellites in geostationary orbit and form part of an integrated system to be run with the USA to provide better weather and climate information.
Thanks to the resumption of Space Shuttle flights, the permanent crew of the International Space Station is now back up to three. Joining Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA flight engineer Jeffrey Williams onboard is ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter.
The European Space Agency (ESA), together with the British National Space Centre (BNSC) and UK space industry, will exhibit in the International Space Pavilion at Farnborough International Air Show from 17 to 23 July.
As the Shuttle returns to flight and prepares the way for the resumption of International Space Station assembly, a European astronaut is - for the first time ever - heading for the orbital outpost to take up duty as a member of its permanent crew. His mission, dubbed Astrolab, is planned to last through to the end of the year.
Today the Council of the European Space Agency announced the renewal of the mandate of Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain as Director General of ESA for a further period of four years.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, of Italian nationality, was today assigned to the crew of the Space Shuttle flight which in summer 2007 will launch Node 2, an Italian-built U.S. connecting module, to the International Space Station.
With NASA's announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on 1 July, ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, from Germany, is set to spend six to seven months in space as a member of the permanent crew of the International Space Station.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC (Avanti) have announced the signature at the Case for Space Conference, in London, UK this 15 May of a contract for the implementation of HYLAS (Highly Flexible Satellite).
From Tuesday 16 to Sunday 21 May 2006, ESA will participate in the ILA2006 International Air Show in Berlin, together with the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR (German Aerospace Centre) and the German Space Industries Association, BDLI.
The Columbus laboratory is Europe's cornerstone contribution to the International Space Station. Final integration has been successfully completed in Bremen. Columbus will be shipped to Cape Canaveral at the end of May, from where it will be flown on a Space Shuttle to the ISS in the second half of 2007.
The first MetOp meteorological satellite arrived yesterday at its launch site, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, following shipment from the industrial prime contractor, EADS Astrium in Toulouse, on board an Antonov-124 transport plane.
This morning, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner solar system beginning with its launch on 9 November 2005, ESA's Venus Express space probe fired its main engine at 09:17 CEST for a 50-minute burn, which brought it into orbit around Venus. With this firing, the probe reduced its relative velocity toward the planet from 29,000 to about 25,000 km/h and was captured by its gravity field. This orbit insertion manoeuvre was a complete success.
After its five-month, 400 million kilometre journey inside our solar system following its lift-off on 9 November 2005, ESA's probe Venus Express will finally arrive on 11 April at its destination: planet Venus.
The European Robotic Arm (ERA), one of ESA's most important contributions to the International Space Station, will be delivered to Russia this summer in preparation for a launch to the ISS in 2007. ESA and Dutch Space have organised the European Robotics Media Day for 5 April 2006 to provide the media with the opportunity to become acquainted with ERA and the engineers behind this ambitious project (see attached programme).
A frieze depicting planet Earth – made up of 1:1000000 scale satellite images – will be unfurled around UNESCO's Paris headquarters building from 29 March to 4 November. The "Belle île en ciel" exhibition, organised by UNESCO as part of its 60th birthday celebrations, will be officially opened on 29 March (at 5 p.m.) in the presence of UNESCO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Parc Européen du Volcanisme 'Vulcania' President Jean Mallot.
The heads of space agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on March 2, 2006, to review International Space Station (ISS) cooperation and endorse a revision to the ISS configuration and assembly sequence. At today's meeting, the Heads of Agency were also briefed on the status of ongoing ISS operations and flight hardware development activities across the partnership. The partners reaffirmed their agencies' commitment to meet their mutual obligations, to implement six person crew operations in 2009, and an adequate number of Shuttle flights to complete the assembly of ISS by the end of the decade. The partners also affirmed their plans to use a combination of transportation systems provided by Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States in order to complete ISS assembly in a timeframe that meets the needs of the partners and ensures full utilization of the unique capabilities of the ISS throughout its lifetime.
At the latest meeting of the European Space Agency's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.
Former ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà has died in Rome on Thursday 23 February aged 70.
ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany will soon become the first European to undertake a long-duration mission onboard the International Space Station following his dispatch on the next Shuttle mission (STS-121), currently scheduled for May. That mission, which is due to last six to seven months, will mark many important milestones for European astronauts, European science and European control centres.
A high-capability new infrared satellite, ASTRO-F, was successfully launched last night by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). In a collaborative effort involving ESA and scientists across Europe, the spacecraft is now being prepared to start its mapping of the cosmos. Orbiting the Earth, ASTRO-F (to be renamed Akari (light) now that it is in orbit) will make an unprecedented study of the sky in infrared light, to reveal the distant phenomena hidden from our eyes that tell the story of the formation and evolution processes taking place in the universe.
After the successful launch of the GIOVE-A satellite on 28 December 2005 and the acquisition of the first "Galileo" signal on 12 January 2006, Galileo is now well on its way with the signing of the contract for the development and in-orbit validation of the constellation's first four satellites.
The GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo signals from medium earth orbit on 12 January.
On Monday 16 January, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain will meet the Press at ESA Headquarters in Paris. Starting at 08:30 with breakfast, the gathering will be followed at 09:00 by a press briefing to take stock of the Agency's activities in 2005 and announce the main events for 2006.
Press conferences, exhibitions, launches, and much more. Here is the list of the main communication activities ESA will be involved in this year. Pencil them in into your diaries.


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Woman to be sentenced over child murder
A 32-YEAR-OLD woman is to be sentenced for the murder of a young girl in Birmingham.
Claire Kennedy, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to killing the six-year-old at Birmingham Crown Court on February 5.
Police said it was in connection with the death of the child at premises in Heathside Drive in the Kings Norton area of the city on May 10 last year.
She will appear again at the same court.
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WolverhamptonPlans for £15m Wolverhampton city centre transformation revealedCity of Wolverhampton Council has been awarded cash from the Government's Future High Streets Fund
17 West Mercia Police officers 'throttled, bitten & spat at' over Christmas period
Chelmsley Wood'It's like they're breeding' - Anger as 30+ trolleys dumped in one stretch of Solihull riverCalls for action over carts plaguing popular walking route


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