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Life at König-Karlmann-Gymnasium
Lightning Strike Outside my Window
My first night in Tüßling was a little rough... Despite being awake for almost 24 hours straight and feeling exhausted, it was difficult to settle in for a night of restful sleep. I usually run a fan on for white noise, it was a strange bed, unfamiliar pillows, there was a severe thunderstorm, and then there was the freight and passenger trains that rushed past my open window every few hours... They sound a lot more loud and scary in the middle of the night when you are half asleep... Twice, I thought we were under attack. Andy's wife Angela later told me it took her three months until she could get a good night's sleep after moving in due to the passing of the loud trains at night. However... I was up, showered in my slanted bathroom, bumped my head three times, dressed, packed my backpack, bumped my head once more, and headed downstairs for breakfast. The whole family was assembled around the table to share a meal before the hectic day began. It would be a pleasant ritual each morning that I enjoyed sharing with my host family. Breakfast was a sit down meal that consisted of various fresh breads from a local bakery, sliced luncheon meats, small sausages, sliced fruits, butter, jam, and freshly brewed coffee. Every morning we all watched little one year old Amelie eat and eat and eat... Her favorite activity at any time of day. It was a joy to watch and a wonder where she could put it all! Breakfast was delicious, especially the fresh baked breads, including Bavarian pretzels called brezels. They resembled a soft pretzel at room temperature made from scratch each morning that had a settling effect on your stomach. Like many people in Bavaria, I ate at least one everyday!
Tree-lined Road to Altötting
Now it was time to depart for school, including Leo, whom we would drop off at his preschool located near the König-Karlmann-Gymnasium where Andy teaches and I would be assisting Wendy with our students in the exchange. We loaded Leo and our belongings into the car and headed out of Tüßling toward Altötting. As we sped toward our destination through the narrow twisting roadways of the Bavarian countryside, I couldn't help but notice the large robust trees bordering the road on both sides. I asked Andy why they would plant trees in a location that would seem to be an obvious driving hazard to motorists. He said it was ingrained in history, like everything else in Germany. Apparently long ago, the Count of Tüßling frequently traveled the road to Altötting in his carriage and wanted to be shaded during his trip. So the community planted shade trees along the road's edge and within a few years, the Count was cool and comfortable. Since they traditionally had always been there, they would remain despite the potential danger. It made sense when you were traveling six kilometers per hour in a horse drawn carriage but seemed to be a different story in a modern automobile going eighty. Incredibly, accidents are rare. It is a major undertaking to get a driver's license in Germany, requiring a minimum age of eighteen and a long training protocol that can cost over two thousand dollars. Sounds like a good idea to me!
Have a Great Day at School Leo!
After arriving in Altötting, we dropped Leo off in an older section of town where a long line of interconnected buildings ran along the right hand side of the street, which appeared to predate World War II. It seems everything that exists in Germany is connected in some way to the most significant period of time in the country's history as either in existence before or constructed after the Second World War. We walked Leo to his classroom and then drove a short distance to the KKG teacher's parking lot and then entered the building through a side entrance. Immediately, I noticed the lack of security measures with outside doors not only unlocked but propped open. Teachers and students flowed freely in and out of the building in multiple directions at will. We entered into the large lobby-foyer that was open to the second floor ceiling and seemed to serve the school as the nerve center of the building. We then went into the teacher's lounge nearby that was a beehive of activity. It was a large room with every teacher having a personal station of space at one of about a half dozen large tables. This was where the teaching staff started their day, checked their mail, and received their schedule for the day from an overhead monitor that slowly scrolled downward. Their schedule changed everyday as each teacher did not have his or her own classroom but rotated to whatever room was assigned to their class each period. The students converged in the lobby-foyer to watch a much larger version of the schedule monitor to know what room number they would be assigned today for each class period. In the faculty room we met up with Wendy and were introduced to several friendly faculty members and then it was off to meet up with our students.
Our Host School / KKG Entrance
As we walked up to the classroom that would be designated our academic home base for the next three weeks, we passed by several colorful signs welcoming Warwick to KKG and Bavaria. The school building was broken up into two separate sections that appeared modern in design. We passed by many large orange windows, some of which opened onto well maintained courtyards with green trees and colorful plants. The school was three stories tall and our classroom would be centrally located in a room at the end of a hallway on the second floor. This is where Wendy and I would meet with the students each morning during first period for what we would call an extended homeroom. It would be a time for us to discuss how things were going with our kids, concerning their host families, foreign language questions, and working through assigned activities. Andy started things off by delivering another friendly welcome to our group and handed out a bag of informative maps, brochures, and chocolate! The candy was instantly devoured by all and with everyone's sugar fix satisfied for the next few minutes, we could all concentrate on Andy's introduction. Everyone, except me of course, because Andy's speech was in German... So I looked in my bag again to see if I missed any stray chocolates!
Welcome Signs in the Lobby / Foyer
Following first period, our students would attend classes with their host students, learning about the routine life of someone their age living in Germany. But first, Andy led our students on a tour of the school building and accompanying grounds. After fourth period the entire building takes a break known as the pausa (pause) where they could sit in common areas or go outside. Students do not have a lunch period and are often finished with school by one o'clock. As a result, the pausa is a time to grab a bite to eat, something packed by mom earlier that morning or bought from a food kiosk located just off the lobby. The students were very well behaved and mature during this free time, as there were no teachers officially supervising. Even our students were impressed, admitting that American students back home could never handle this level of freedom at school. There were 800 students roaming in, out, and around the building and to our surprise, there was no one chasing someone else, no screaming or yelling at the top of their lungs, food was not flying through the air, no fights broke out, no mean girls dissed anyone, and no one warranted disciplinary action of any kind. How could this be? In general, the Warwick consensus was that overall, German kids have a lot more freedom than their American counterparts and most appear mature enough to handle the responsibility of that freedom. I'm sure there are exceptions but it was just a general observation shared by Wendy and I and most of the Warwick students with whom I discussed the topic. Freedom!
Hallway Student Seating Area
The public school system in Germany is mainly controlled by the individual states with the Bavarian Educational Ministry centered in nearby Munich. The Bavarian system is a complex model offering a variety of choice and career paths. In fact, there are thirteen different types of schools depending on each student's interests and ability level. All students enter elementary school and complete grades one through four together. At that point, they are evaluated by the teaching staff and along with the input of the individual student and parents, one of four school types are considered. Students who struggle academically may enter fifth grade at a remedial level school to receive instruction focusing on improving their basic reading and math skills. Middle level students may attend hauptschule / mittelschule who are interested in vocational, industrial, or even various apprenticeships. Students interested in attending university may opt for a more challenging academic setting known as realschule and the top academic students attend the highest level school known as the gymnasium. Students wanting to achieve gymnasium status must meet minimum requirements based on a point system. Students have the freedom to move from one school type to another, if they have the academic record and the support of educator recommendations to back up their request. König-Karlmann-Gymnasium is classified at the top level of the Bavarian school system pyramid structure.
Warwick Student's Homeroom Period
Our classroom, like most in the school building, had an entire wall of windows that could be opened to let in the fresh air from outside. One thing that became immediately apparent to a lot of us... especially me... was the lack of air conditioning in Germany. Ironically, we were visiting during the warmest 2-3 weeks of the year... meaning, two hot weeks in a year does not equate the practical need for air conditioning. In fact, there was no mechanical air ventilation systems in any building I encountered during my entire visit. It seemed our German friends naturally adjusted to the warm temperatures but it was a stark difference for many of the Warwick crowd. Andy told me that he always gets sick from the cold temperatures of air conditioning when he visits America and his students comment about it as well, especially inside stores, like the frigid mall. We also soon noticed that there were no water fountains in the school. German students bring a beverage from home, most commonly carbonated seltzer water, a very popular drink in Bavaria. Many of our students yearned for plain old boring tap water but Apfelsaftschorle was a nice compromise of apple juice combined with seltzer water, equating to apple flavored soda. I shared my trick with the kids of saving a plastic bottle and filling at the tap in our classroom or at home... I was adapting to my new environment.
Group Portrait of our Kids and KKG Partner Staff
The most stressful time for senior students about to graduate at KKG is when they have to face the difficult final examinations known as the Abitur or Abi, which have the power to make or break a student's academic experience at the gymnasium level. The exams are notoriously difficult and must be passed to receive the highest educational certificate available in the German school system. The exams are in essay and oral format and each may take several hours to complete. Students who do not pass the Abi may choose to complete a thirteenth year and attempt the exams again or they can decide to stop their formal education to seek an apprenticeship or enter the workforce. The Abi is seen as a distinguished achievement of academic success and a fast track to acceptance at the university level of education. Following Abi exams in early June, the graduating students celebrate the end of testing by having a relaxing school day of fun, music, and pranks known as the Abistreich. A few days later when the Abistreich took place, it was a little nerve racking as we attempted to walk into the school building flanked by students throwing buckets of water on everyone. I stuck close to Andy, who seemed confident they would hold their fire against him... Was it time for the American teacher to be initiated into the faculty? Thankfully, we were both spared! Following the test, the senior students are finished with school, while the younger grades continue until the end of July. German students have a shorter summer but have longer holiday breaks throughout the school year.
König-Karlmann-Gymnasium Abistreich 2012
Finally, a semi-formal dance called the Abi Ball is held, similar to our prom in America, to celebrate the end of their secondary education. The legal drinking age in Germany is 16 and since most students graduate between ages 18-20, alcohol was served at the dance. A sight that was very foreign to the Americans in attendance. All Warwick students were required to sign a pledge not to drink alcohol during our trip. We wanted them to experience the German culture... but not completely! Please continue to follow and respect the American legal system despite your present surroundings! The Abi ball was held in a new banquet hall, which of course, didn't have air conditioning or a ventilation system. It was a hot night and even the Germans were minding the high temperature inside. Several staff members commented that it was an oversight not to install ceiling fans in the new banquet hall. Most vacated the ball room to seek relief outside on the veranda, some taking their shoes off to cool off by standing in the outdoor fountain. I was thinking to myself, if I could open a retail store selling fans over here, I could retire in a month!
Cooling off in the Fountain at the Abi Ball
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Nubank's battle against coronavirus
We take a closer look at how fintech unicorn, Nubank has been focusing on its customers and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic...
São Paulo based Nubank is the largest fintech in Latin America and is considered one of the most innovative companies in the world. The neobank's Chief Financial Officer, Marcelo Kopel, recently commented on the company's financial balance for Q1 and Q2, where he discussed its strategy on staying resilient throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
On March 12th, the bank made the decision to send all of its teams - around 2,700 employees - to work remotely. Nubank was one of the first companies to do this and provided over a 1000 its workforce with resources to work in good conditions like monitors, keyboards, computers, equipment and furniture.
Nubank launched its People First movement on March 24th, the purpose of this was to redirect its R$20mn marketing budget to lend a hand to clients worst affected by the pandemic, offering them food, medical care, basic necessities and psychological support. Customers also benefitted from special refinancing options including lower interest rates and extensions on loans and credit card bills.
"We chose to invest in the company, people and the development of new technologies to continue delivering the best experience to our customers."
What do the statistics say?
Despite the wrath COVID-19 has had on economies and businesses across the globe, Nubank like many other digital banks has seen healthy growth in its users and product. The company hit 26 million customers, which is more than double its base a year ago. Moreover, it saw a 54% increase in transaction volume in comparison to the previous year.
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He wants to be the next FDR…
…But maybe President Obama is instead the next Herbert Hoover? Studying the policies pursued by the Hoover Administration in the wake of the 1929 crash, UCLA economist Lee Ohanian found that a strong recession became the Great Depression because of Hoover's pro-labor, statist interventions:
Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression, a UCLA economist concludes in a new study.
"These findings suggest that the recession was three times worse — at a minimum — than it would otherwise have been, because of Hoover," said Lee E. Ohanian, a UCLA professor of economics.
The policies, which included both propping up wages and encouraging job-sharing, also accounted for more than two-thirds of the precipitous decline in hours worked in the manufacturing sector, which was much harder hit initially than the agricultural sector, according to Ohanian.
"By keeping industrial wages too high, Hoover sharply depressed employment beyond where it otherwise would have been, and that act drove down the overall gross national product," Ohanian said. "His policy was the single most important event in precipitating the Great Depression."
The findings are slated to appear in the December issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Economic Theory and were posted today on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org) as a working paper.
The article goes on to point out that Hoover's exact solutions are not likely to be followed by President Obama. However, Ohanian argues, the disastrous results of Hoover's interventions illustrate what can happen when government pursues hasty, ill-advised policies. Everything Hoover tried only made things worse.
And while Obama may not follow Hoover's exact policies, we are seeing the same hasty, ill-considered rush to "do something:" the trillion-dollar pork fiesta stimulus bill; the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade "greenhouse gas" bill; and now the health-care bill aimed at nationalizing 1/6th of the US economy. Anyone of these is bad enough; in combination, the effects on the US economy would almost certainly be horrific.
I'd go a little farther than Ohanian in his article and argue that these kind of large-scale statist interventions, whether in terms of wage control and job-sharing like Hoover or massive Keynesian deficit spending like Obama, are doomed to fail because a free market economy is too complex and has too many factors to successfully control, manage, or direct. In fact, if one looks at Hoover's predecessors, Presidents Harding and Coolidge, one sees the right way to handle a sharp recession. Treasury Secretary Mellon advised cutting government spending and lowering taxes to free up capital in order to stimulate business, and then let the natural forces of the market economy heal itself. Which it did, bringing the US out of the sharp recession of 1919-1920 and laying the groundwork for a decade of prosperity. (And which was repeated with greater success by Ronald Reagan in the early 80s.)
Articles like this one and Ohanian's earlier research showing that FDR's corporatism lengthened the Depression by seven years, as well as longer works of history such as Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man, are important revisionist works for two reasons. First, they dispel forever the notion implanted in popular consciousness by liberal historians and economists, that Hoover was a laissez-faire president with a do-nothing attitude toward the economy, a view used to justify the interventionist approach. Far from it, in fact: Hoover was very much an interventionist, and FDR continued and expanded several of his policies.
The second reason is that these researches present convincing evidence that the received wisdom about the Great Depression, that FDR's policies pulled us out of it and that government intervention can fix an economy in crisis, is just plain wrong. Indeed, by 1939 the New Deal was clearly a failure and Treasury Secertary Morgenthau said (quoted in an article by Mark Levey):
By 1939 Roosevelt's own Treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau, had realized that the New Deal economic policies had failed. "We have tried spending money," Morgenthau wrote in his diary. "We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . . And an enormous debt to boot!"
In fact, only the military draft in the face of World War II broke the back of unemployment in the US, by pulling five million men off the streets.
Obama's an educated man: maybe he should look more closely at his predecessors' experiences before following further in their footsteps.
(via Jonah Goldberg)
LINKS: More at Hot Air.
PS. Sorry for the bad formatting, but something in this post is killing the spaces between paragraphs.
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The clock is ticking on Charlie Rangel
Byron York in the Washington Examiner:
Rep. Charles Rangel has been in the House since 1971. He's as old bull as you get in the Democratic hierarchy, and he waited through 12 long years of Republican rule to take over as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in 2007. Along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow Democratic power brokers Henry Waxman and Barney Frank, Rangel is playing a key role in the effort to push the president's health care, environmental, and financial initiatives through the House.
Last week, we learned that Rangel filed a grossly misleading financial disclosure report for 2007 — failing to report at least half a million dollars in assets.
It turns out Rangel had a credit union account worth at least $250,000 and maybe as much as $500,000 — and didn't report it. He had investment accounts worth about the same, which he also didn't report. Ditto for three pieces of property in New Jersey.
Beyond that, we've learned that Rangel has failed to report assets totaling more than $1 million on legally required financial disclosure forms going back to at least 2001.
The news comes on top of revelations last year that Rangel didn't report — and didn't pay taxes on — income from a villa in the Caribbean. In that matter, the Internal Revenue Service gave him sweetheart treatment; Rangel paid about $10,000 in back taxes but was not required to pay any penalty or interest.
Corruption is a bipartisan problem, but, while the Republicans waded in it, Democrats like Rangel have dived into the deep end and gone snorkeling. That clock is ticking down to 2010, and the Republicans should take advantage of this opportunity while they still have time.
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Holder knew. Did Obama?
Yet another entry into the Idiot's Guide to Why Eric Holder Should Be Impeached:
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing US-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero's welcome if allowed to return to Libya, according to the head of a group representing the families of victims.
Holder's warning to Scotland's justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, came nearly two months before the bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison and greeted by a cheering crowd on his arrival in Libya last week.
Notes prepared ahead of Holder's June 26 conversation with MacAskill were provided to the Associated Press by Frank Duggan, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 Inc. Duggan said a Justice Department official read him notes that Holder used during the conversation.
Duggan also provided notes of a July 9 teleconference between MacAskill and some victims' relatives, an emotional exchange in which family members told stories of their loved ones and implored MacAskill not to return Megrahi to Libya.
So AG Holder went through the motions with Secretary MacAskill over the release of one of the Lockerbie bombers -who killed 180 Americans– warning him that he might get a hero's welcome in the land that sent him on his murderous mission.
And then he did… just what, exactly? This news raises more questions than it answers. Did Holder stop here? Did he raise the matter with the Home Secretary in London? Did he take it to his boss, President Obama, and did the President of the United States contact the Prime Minister to demand that Meghrabi, who blasted an American passenger jet out of the sky, stay in jail? If not, why not?
Or did the Administration even care that Whitehall was cutting a true blood-for-oil deal?
These are questions that demand answers, not that we can expect the Obama-worshipping mainstream media to ask them.
Passing thought: While the UK was in this for the oil, could this also have been payback for releasing the Uighur terrorists to Bermuda?
(via NRO)
UPDATE: Why do I think Attorney-General Holder should be impeached? Forget his career prior to office; the Senate passed him knowing full-well about his role in the Marc Rich pardon and his involvement with corrupt former Illinois Governor Blagojevich. But, after becoming AG, he has tolerated the violation of voting rights in Philadelphia, launched a clearly politically-motivated investigation into the CIA, and likely been behind the dropping of the federal corruption investigation of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a major early Obama-backer. Any one of these could warrant an impeachment investigation; taken together, and in the wake of this latest revelation, they demand it.
RELATED: Thomas Sowell on AG Holder and the suicide of the West:
But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up about yourself is profoundly immoral. So is betraying the country you took an oath to protect.
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Religious freedom for me, but not for thee
In Egypt, an American ally where Coptic Christians are regularly oppressed and persecuted, controversy over the treatment of non-Muslim minorities has arisen anew after the issuance of a fatwa (a ruling on Islamic religious law) that prohibits the building of new churches or donating money to build them, comparing them to "a nightclub, a gambling casino, towards promoting the alcohol industry or for building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs."
[Dr. Naguib Gabraeel] went on to inquire "So what is the Shari'a position to what was mentioned especially concerning the will of a Muslim to donate for the building of a church or a monk's cell? If the answer is prohibition, aren't these houses where the name of God is mentioned? Is not Christianity a recognized religion according to the Egyptian constitution? There are also a lot of wealthy Copts and Coptic businessmen who donate towards the building of mosques."
The Fatwa Council replied affirming the correctness of what came in the textbook and issued a Fatwa on September 10, 2008 (document number 1809), which is also published on its official website.
To highlight the reason for this "sin" the Fatwa went on to state: "Salvation in the Christian religion is the belief in Jesus as Lord, where Muslims fundamentally disagree on it. Muslims believe that Issa [Jesus in Arabic] peace be upon him, is a slave of Allah and His Messenger, and that Allah is one. He begets not and He is not begotten and there is none like unto Him. So if it is seen that one sect has deviated from this absolute Monotheism, then according to that person's own religion he is forbidden to donate for the erection of buildings where Allah is not worshiped alone."
According to Mohammed el-Maghrabbi, deputy chief of the Faculty of Law, and author of the controversial textbook, what he wrote is a principle agreed upon by all Islamic jurists. He added that a will, if devoted by a Christian for building a Church, is forbidden and sinful and is considered in Islam as separation from God. So it is also illegal if a non-Muslim wills his inheritance towards building a Church or a Synagogue.
This Fatwa has shocked many as it classified churches with nightclub, gambling casinos, and places for rearing pigs and dogs, which are considered 'unclean' animals according to Islam and Muslims.
The article later reports that Dr. Gabraeel called on Grand Sheikh Tantawi, the head of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which is the acknowledged center and intellectual leader in Sunni Islamic thought, to seek a clarification from him. Sheikh Tantawi then caused a ruckus of his own by denying the fatwa:
On August 19, 2009, a delegation from EUHRO, headed by Dr. Gabraeel, paid a visit to Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, who said that the Fatwa was wrong and untrue and that Muslims can make voluntary contributions to build churches, as a church is a house for "worshiping and tolerance" and that "Shari'a does not prevent Muslims from donating to the building of a church, as it is his free money. He also affirmed that Al-Azhar does not object to the "unified law for building places of worship."
Tantawi added that building churches should be left to the Christians and Muslims are not allowed according to Shari'a to interfere in other faiths, "because religion, faith and what a person believes in is a relationship between him and his God." He also called on the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa to hold the five jurists who issued the Fatwa accountable.
Other Islamic scholars were quite upset with the Grand Sheikh, and with reason: the prohibition against building or repairing churches and synagogues is fundamental to Islamic law, being a part of the Pact of Umar, a deal made between the second Caliph, Umar, and subjugated Christians. Christians agreed not to:
1. Build "a monastery, church, or a sanctuary for a monk";
2. "Restore any place of worship that needs restoration";
10. "Publicize practices of Shirk" – that is, associating partners with Allah, such as regarding Jesus as Son of God. (This is the argument of the fatwa-issuers. -Phineas) In other words, Christian and other non-Muslim religious practice will be private, if not downright furtive;
11. Build "crosses on the outside of our churches and demonstrating them and our books in public in Muslim fairways and markets" – again, Christian worship must not be public, where Muslims can see it and become annoyed;
12. "Sound the bells in our churches, except discreetly, or raise our voices while reciting our holy books inside our churches in the presence of Muslims, nor raise our voices [with prayer] at our funerals, or light torches in funeral processions in the fairways of Muslims, or their markets";
Follow the link to read the whole thing. It's enlightening. In essence, Sheikh Tantawi was going against the decree of one of Muhammad's own companions, one of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs. One wonders if he sincerely believed this, or if his statement was "political," meant to avoid another Muslim-Copt riot.
Regardless, this contretemps over Coptic churches is another example Islam's compulsion to seek supremacy over all other faiths and of the incompatibility of Islamic law with Western democratic liberties.
LINKS: The site of the U.S. Copts Association. More from Jihad Watch.
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What The Heck Is Hentai
What The Heck Is Hentai Frequently when an individual hears the term hentai, they may question what it implies. The real word has a number of various meanings. Depending upon where it 's utilized, it can describe pornography or to the history of the Japanese.
Frequently translated as pervert or creep, the Japanese term " hentai " refers to manga or anime which illustrates uncommon or gross porn. This subgenre is frequently associated with severe pornography, such as gang rapes and aliens.
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Historically, hentai has actually had a huge impact on Japanese popular culture. It has likewise end up being an incredibly popular term worldwide of sex and sexuality. Understood for its fetishes and strange acts of sexual relations, hentai works have actually become more popular than sushi and geisha.
The term hentai is really a mistranslation of the Japanese term hentai seiyoku, which suggests ' graphic sexual relations '. The term was first utilized in a fiction work by Meiji Period army doctor Mori Ougai. It was initially used to describe an erotica called The Dream of the Fisherman 's Wife. It was attracted 1814 and is widely thought about to be the earliest piece of arm erotica.
Throughout the 19th century, shunga erotica was reduced by shoguns. This suggested that the production of such works needed to stop. However, the interest in erotics continued to grow in Japan, particularly during the Showa period.
By the end of the 1950s, stories about male homosexuality and cross-dressing were the significant preoccupations in publications. The OVA market, which was a precursor to the computer game industry, allowed the release of adult anime.
The Lolita anime series is based on a serialised manga in the lolicon magazine. It was the first sexual anime to get an American audience.
The term hentai has been utilized to define a range of sensual anime, manga, and doujinshi. While some are considered being a hoax, others are valid pieces of category history.
The term hentai also generated its own literary category. The History of Hentai is a book by Kimi Rito, a manga and Eromanga scholar. The book is written from multiple viewpoints, including a look at the history of hentai beyond Japan. It is published by FAKKU in late 2022. It is among the few hentai manga academic works to be equated into English.
Aside from the history of hentai, the book likewise covers the indie comics scene and the ahegao motion. The book is not for the faint of heart, nevertheless.
Significance in Japanese
Throughout the Meiji Period (1868-1912) the letter " h " was utilized to imply " other half ". During the early 20th century, hentai seiyoku was reduced to " hentai " in colloquial speech, which started to turn into a sexual meaning.
It is not uncommon for westerners to associate hentai with adult anime, however the Japanese definition of the word is much more varied. In Japan, hentai is frequently utilized in colloquial speech to describe uncommon kinks.
The Japanese term ecchi is a variant of the word hentai. Initially, ecchi suggested " h " in " husband ". It was used for this function from 1868 to 1912, and it was the very first Japanese slang to carry an explicit sexual referral. Throughout the mid-1950s, it entered broader usage in colloquial speech, and it was eventually reduced to hentai.
The very first known sensual depictions of hentai were in Wonderkid 's Lolita Anime. This was also the first anime to adopt both of the definitions of hentai. In other contexts, ecchi can be complicated, because it is typically conflated with San Ci, which implies three-dimensional porn. What The Heck Is Hentai
Er Ci Yuan is a slang term for two-dimension porn. It is normally contracted to Er Ci. It is most often utilized to explain a sexually charged scene or a sexual activity.
Yuri manga is a category of manga that focuses on lesbian relationships in between ladies. It is likewise referred to as " yama nashi " or " no significance ".
Other subgenres of hentai are tenshitachi no gogo, etsuchinaDong Hua, ero manga, and yaoi manga. They are considered to be porn in the west, however might be appropriate to some people.
The Japanese term ecchi originates from the letter " H ". It can be katakanized as ecchi, and it is mostly connected to fanservice. It is also used for somewhat sexual material, consisting of nudity.
Origins in manga
' Hentai ' () is a Japanese term describing any type of manga with sensual material. The word is utilized to explain manga that has odd fetishes and uncommon pornography. The term is normally reserved for severe pornography, but manga that includes more typical sexual fetishes also exist.
The very first traces of hentai in Japanese history go back to the 16th century. During the Edo period (1603-1868) the shoguns reduced the shunga art kind. This caused a boom in the publishing market. Several magazines were devoted to the discussion of perverse sexuality. These publications checked out decadent styles, such as tales of male cross-dressing.
The title " Hentai " relates to bondage, which is a style in the majority of hentai titles. These works are frequently self-published and are intended at an audience of people who take pleasure in manga.
The category was especially popular in the 1960s, when stories of lesbianism were a major preoccupation in magazines. Azuma Hideo 's Cybelle series defined the motion. These works were mainly self-published, although some were serialized in publications.
Throughout the Showa period (1945-1968), the interest in perverse sexuality continued. The Japanese press welcomed this decadence by developing a range of publications, including nikutai bungaku, which ignored wartime literature and concentrated on decadent themes.
In the 1980s, the lolicon boom started, which contributed to a successful adult industry. The Lolita anime series was based upon a manga serialised in a lolicon magazine.
Toshio Maeda, called the ' god of tentacle hentai ', pushed the limitations of censorship by utilizing monsters and arms in his work. His works featured beasts with different genitalia.
While Kimi Rito has actually composed a book concentrating on the hentai manga category, he is likewise associated with the media criticism and bishoujo manga criticism scenes in Japan. He is a member of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics and the coterie magazine " Ero Manga no Gemba ". He has been a regular guest at North American anime events. He has been awarded the Ankoku Seiun Award for his research study.
Significance in porn
Typically equated into English as " pervert ", hentai has a variety of significances. The term is most commonly utilized to describe sexually explicit manga and anime. It likewise has a variety of sub-genres.
For instance, yuri is a kind of hentai including two or more women in a homosexual relationship. Yuri includes a lot of blushing and blushing.
In Japan, hentai is a term for anime, porn and manga. It is commonly taken in through doujinshi (manga), video games, and virtual reality. Usually paired with graphic images, the hentai genre tells a fantasy story with explicit plots.
Hentai is normally a type of adult entertainment, however it is considered less hazardous than common pornography. It is essential to keep in mind that a hentai image is not always the same as a human image. What The Heck Is Hentai
Hentai is also used to explain the raunchy design of Japanese animation. It is often called h-anime, and is identified by oversexualized characters, over-exaggerated body parts, and specific plots.
In Japan, hentai has a long history. It came from the early twentieth century, when hentai was utilized to describe sexual perversion. In the 1980s, it was utilized to refer to sex. It is also related to ecchi, which means to make love. The word ecchi is stemmed from the first letter of hentai.
Unlike conventional porn, hentai typically depicts fetishes that are not practical. This includes big phalluses, inhuman-sized genital areas, and unusual hairstyles. In addition, hentai is likewise a sexualized kind of rape. It can likewise feature minor participants.
While hentai is associated with pornographic anime, it does not represent the genre itself. The objective of hentai is to cause desire in the viewer. The category 's appeal is partly due to its association with sexology. During the sexualization of Japan, hentai ended up being stabilized in everyday life. During the 1990s, hentai entered into prevalent usage in the United States.
It is important to note that while hentai might have more of an effect on a customer than traditional porn, it might not be as mentally affecting. Furthermore, a hentai customer would likely score greater on attachment stress and anxiety than a non-porn consumer.
The term hentai is in fact a mistranslation of the Japanese term hentai seiyoku, which suggests ' graphic sexual intercourse '. The very first recognized sexual representations of hentai were in Wonderkid 's Lolita Anime. The title " Hentai " relates to bondage, which is a theme in the majority of hentai titles. While Kimi Rito has composed a book focusing on the hentai manga genre, he is also included in the media criticism and bishoujo manga criticism scenes in Japan. Often translated into English as " pervert ", hentai has a variety of meanings.


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I swore I'd never be there, but my baby's birth was mesmerising
By TOM SYKES
Last updated at 13:36 29 November 2007
A few months ago I wrote in this newspaper that I had no intention of being present at the birth of my second child.
The whole business of childbirth, I wrote, was messy, alarming, puts men off sex and was not something that I wished to witness again.
And what use would a husband be in the delivery suite anyway?
Well, that noise you can hear is the sound of a man earnestly munching his way through a giant-sized portion of humble pie, because my wife Sasha has just given birth to a perfect baby girl – and I was there.
Hand on: Tom Sykes with his daughter Eleanor
And I'm told I was more than a little bit useful as well.
So what happened to my conviction that I'd rather stick red-hot pins in my flesh than be in the delivery room?
Well, in the course of my research, I spoke to a number of birthing gurus, including Marie Mongan, the American creator of a program called HypnoBirthing that is sweeping through fashionable society moms in the United States faster than a Californian wildfire.
It was a conversation that didn't turn out too well.
You see, Ms Mongan and I disagreed on the role of the father in the birth of his offspring – somewhat violently.
I tended towards the school of thought that the father should be down the pub awaiting the good news.
Ms Mongan, by contrast, insisted that "men do feel wonderful" being present at the birth, and that being on hand is, "part of completing what you started as a couple" and that my prespositionedence was necessary to pass on the right "energy" to the child.
My reaction? I wrote, "Frankly, most men I know consider such psychobabble a load of old cobblers."
While some individuals find words like "healing", "chakra" and "energy" soothing, they actually make me angry, and HypnoBirthing sounded like exactly the sort of hippy-dippy, New Age nonsense that I abhor.
But then came a strange coincidence.
Two couples told us that they had used HypnoBirthing, and credited the program with the easy births they had experienced. Sasha wanted to give the system a try.
When faced with a choice between his principles and the wishes of his pregnant wife, a wise man will abandon his principles in a flash.
And so, I somehow found myself lying back in a remarkably comfortable, reclining armchair, being gently lulled into a trance by hypnotherapist Aisling Killoran, who runs the Dublin clinic Accomplish Change.
In a lilting, mellifluous voice, Aisling began to intone affirmations about how easy and natural the birth would be into our ears.
"My baby is perfectly for an easy and comfortable-birth," she chanted, "I am relaxed and happy that my baby is finally coming to me."
Despite all my deep-seated hostility to alternative healing methods, I went under like a light.
One moment I was thinking, "I can't believe I am listening to this tripe," and the next Aisling was summoning us both back to consciousness by counting down from five to one.
I felt incredibly refreshed when I came round, and it was at this point that Aisling delivered the bombshell; during labour, I had to be in the room for Hypno-Birthing to work.
My job was to repeat the affirmations and massage Sasha's arm and back to trigger a relaxed, fear-free state that would make it easy for the baby to emerge.
Over the next few weeks we listened to Aisling on repeat on the CD player, and I even read up all about the system in Ms Mongan's book, HypnoBirthing.
Maybe something had been planted in my brain by the hypnosis but the more I read, the more I began to appreciate her alternative approach to birthing.
Her theory is that in many non-Western cultures giving birth is not something that is feared and, because it is generally assumed that everything will turn out OK, women are a lot more relaxed and give birth more easily.
But in our society, women have learned to fear birth, says Mongan.
Pick up almost any modern pregnancy book, and it's hard to disagree.
As a result of that fear, when the time comes to give birth, there is a flood of adrenaline coursing around the body of the average labouring mother, and the whole affair becomes incredibly fraught.
Techniques like self-hypnosis and guided meditation aim to reduce this fear, and affirmations serve to reprogram the mind.
In essence, HypnoBirthing says that instead of thinking about all the stuff that might go wrong, why not see it all going right?
Why not indeed, I thought, as my credentials as a sceptic disappeared out of the window.
And if it all turns out to be a load of nonsense, well, at least it's harmless, and Sasha can still opt to be hooked up to an epidural.
Then, one Tuesday night, around 11pm, something started to happen.
In the few short minutes it took to throw a nightdress and some other essentials into a bag, we were gunning at top speed through the inky blackness towards the hospital.
As the surges (the touchy-feely HypnoBirthing word for contractions) started coming – eight minutes apart, then seven, then six – I felt increasingly helpless.
And then I thought, well, what the hell, it might just help, and I told Sasha to close her eyes and concentrate on my voice.
"I meet each surge with confidence and joy," I found myself saying, "I am happy and excited my baby is finally coming to me."
Sasha let out a deep breath.
I felt ridiculous but I carried on, suddenly understanding why people say there are no atheists on a plane which is crashing.
"My baby is perfectly positioned for an easy, comfortable, birth," I said, in measured tones, consciously imitating Aisling's singsong delivery on the CD, "I turn my birthing over to nature. My body knows what to do."
"It's helping," said Sasha, "I just had another one and it didn't hurt as much."
By the time we arrived at the hospital, we were totally chilled out.
We sat in the car park for another ten minutes while I took Sasha on a guided meditation around the woods she used to play in as a child – the "safe place" that we had identified with Aisling as a relaxing location for Sasha's mind to go to at the crucial moments.
It felt oddly cosy – almost magical – in our old Citroen, but we couldn't stay in the car park all night. So in we went, to the bright lights of the hospital.
As we made our way up to the maternity department, Sasha continued to use the self-hypnosis and meditation techniques and stayed incredibly calm and relaxed.
It was all very different to last time when Sasha was wailing in agony on the street in New York where we were then living as we tried to hail a taxi.
A few minutes later her waters broke, and we were rapidly moved into the delivery room as the birth began in earnest.
For all her calmness previously, Sasha screamed the hospital down for the few minutes when she was pushing the baby out, but it all happened so fast that there was no time for her to be given an epidural, or any other chemical pain relief except puffing on gas and air.
Instead, the poor girl had to make do with her crazy husband mumbling in her ear, "Breathe in the green! Feel the colour flowing through your whole body! You are more relaxed than you ever thought possible!"
But then, very quickly, the baby was out, and she let out her first little cries of life.
We had signed into the hospital at 12:15am and baby Eleanor was born one hour and 19 minutes later.
Being wrong rarely feels this good.
Contact : Linda Alexander for Hypnobirthing in Glasgow Tel: 0141 632 1440 or 07875 493 358
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GERMANY: The first of 45 Flirt3 electric multiple units ordered by UK-based transport group Go-Ahead as part of its entry into the German passenger market has been completed at Stadler's Pankow factory in Berlin.
In November 2015 the Land of Baden-Württemberg selected Go-Ahead for the Stuttgart Netz Lot 1b (Rems–Fils) contract covering the operation of 3·7 million train-km/year on routes from Stuttgart to Crailsheim and Ulm from June 2019 until 2032, and the Lot 1c (Franken-Enz) contract covering 4·4 million train-km/year on routes from Stuttgart to Aalen, Karlsruhe and Würzburg.
In May 2016 Go-Ahead awarded Stadler a contract to 11 three-car and 15 five-car Flirt3 EMUs for the Lot 1b services and nine four-car and 10 six-car units for Lot 1c. Stadler will maintain the units under a separate contract awarded in May 2017.
The 160 km/h EMUs will have 165, 217, 273 or 329 seats depending on their length, with air-conditioning, accessible toilets, mobile phone signal boosters, wi-fi, folding tables, power sockets and cycle spaces. They will carry the Land's lion livery and branding.
'We are delighted that together with our partner Stadler we are making such good progress with vehicle construction', said Dr Peter Raue, Technical Director of Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg, when the first unit was unveiled on March 23. 'Passengers in Baden-Württemberg can look forward to new, completely modern and comfortable trains as of July 2019.'
Go-Ahead has begun recruiting staff, and on a March 20 held a recruitment day to for people interested in careers as train drivers. A training programme is to be offered in partnership with MEV and other train operators.
First Flirt3 for GySEV presented
At 77∙1 m in length, the new four-car EMUs are 2∙8 m longer than the 10 Flirts already in service with GySEV, and will be able to operate in multiple with these trainsets. The Flirt3 has a maximum speed of 160 km/h and 208 seats, offering 'the latest standards of ...
Syntus Flirt3 EMU unveiled
NETHERLANDS: The first of 16 Flirt3 electric multiple-units for Syntus has been unveiled at Stadler's commissioning centre at Erlen in Switzerland.
Go-Ahead selected for Stuttgart – Nürnberg operating contract
GERMANY: The Länder of Baden-Württemberg and Bayern have selected Go-Ahead as preferred bidder for the Netz 3A Murrbahn contract to operate Stuttgart – Schwäbisch Hall – Hessental – Crailsheim – Nürnberg services totalling 1∙3 million train-km/year for 13 years from December 2019.


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In this case update, Danielle Crawford considers the much awaited judgment of the Supreme Court in Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 and what it means for employers.
This case concerned the actions of Mr Skelton, who was formerly employed by Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc ("Morrisons") as an internal IT Auditor. Mr Skelton was said to hold a grudge against Morrisons following earlier disciplinary action taken against him. However, rather than raise his complaints in a conventional way, Mr Skelton took confidential payroll data from Morrisons and subsequently published the data on the internet in an apparent act of revenge.
As a consequence of his actions, Mr Skelton was convicted of criminal offences under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Computer Misuse Act 1990. However, since Mr Skelton did not personally have the funds to compensate the victims of his actions, more than 9,000 individuals affected by his unlawful conduct brought a High Court claim seeking compensation from Morrisons (as his employer).
The High Court held that Morrisons was not primarily liable to the claimants because it had not directly misused the data or permitted the misuse of the data in any way. However, Morrisons was found to be vicariously liable for Mr Skelton's actions on the basis that there was a sufficiently close connection between his position as IT Auditor and his actions.
Morrisons appealed to the Court of Appeal and argued that it could not be vicariously liable for Mr Skelton's actions since his wrongdoing was motivated by a personal vendetta and he was not acting in the course of his employment when he published the confidential data.
Morrisons also argued that provisions in the Data Protection Act 1998 had the effect of excluding vicarious liability in respect of the misuse of private data.
The Court of Appeal held that Mr Skelton's motive for taking and misusing the confidential data was irrelevant and it agreed with the High Court's findings that there was a sufficiently close connection between Mr Skelton's employment and his actions. The Court of Appeal also held that there was no express or implied exclusion of the common law principle of vicarious liability in the Data Protection Act 1998.
Morrisons appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court rejected the Court of Appeal's finding that Mr Skelton's motives for the wrongdoing were irrelevant and made clear that the question of whether Mr Skelton was acting on Morrison's business or for purely personal reasons was highly material. The Supreme Court therefore allowed the appeal on the basis that Mr Skelton's actions were motivated by a personal vendetta and were not so closely connected to the acts which he was authorised to carry out that it could be said that the wrongdoings were carried out during the course of his employment.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Supreme Court found in favour of Morrisons, it agreed that the Data Protection Act 1998 did not exclude the common law on vicarious liability.
This decision will be reassuring to employers, since even with the most sophisticated of data security systems, it is not always possible to predict or prevent disgruntled employees from acting unlawfully, taking and misusing confidential data without permission. However, employers should still take all reasonable steps to ensure that their data systems and processes are secure and not vulnerable to theft and data misuse.
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Vinales Has Big Night, Not Enough in Loss at Wagner
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Reb: Terrell Allen - 8
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Sophomore Kyle Vinales became the fastest player in school history to score 1,000 career points but the Central Connecticut men's basketball team dropped a 101-82 Northeast Conference road game at Wagner on Thursday night.
Vinales finished the game with a CCSU Division I record 42 points, including a career-high tying eight threes in the loss. He finished the game 12-of-24 from the floor and 8-of-13 from three on the night. It was his first career 40-point game, and his seventh at 30 or more. In 52 career games Vinales has now scored 1,029 points.
The 42 points in a single-game are the second-highest single game total in school history, behind only Paul Zajac's 47 points in the 1966-67 season (CCSU was Division II at the time). It topped Vinales' career-high of 39 which he set last season.
With the loss the Blue Devils are now 10-13 overall and 6-6 in NEC play. Wagner improves to 14-10 overall and 8-5 in the league with the victory.
Vinales became the 35th player in school history to score 1,000 points, and did it faster than any other. He reached the milestone in just his 52nd career game, beating the previous mark of 68 games set by former teammate and CCSU's all-time leading scorer Ken Horton.
However, the Blue Devils dropped their second straight game after not playing for a week due to the winter storm last week. CCSU was scheduled to play Quinnipiac at home on Saturday but the storm forced the game to be moved to Feb. 25 at home.
While the first half went well, the Seahawks took over in the final minutes before halftime to take command of the game.
Wagner hit 20-of-29 shots from the field in the first half, good for 69 percent, to take a 52-43 lead. They used an 8-2 run late to open the nine-point lead, their largest of the game to that point. They hit 11-of-12 from the field to end the half and open the lead.
Central was 14-of-29 from the field and 6-of-10 from three, led by 11 points from Vinales. They were also 9-of-12 from the line but turned the ball over nine times before the break.
Wagner opened the second half on an 13-2 run and took a 65-45 lead with under 16 minutes to play. Their run from the first half stretched into the second and was 26-7 as the lead reached 22 points, 70-48.
Central could not cut into the Wagner lead in the final 10 minutes of the game, but Vinales put on a show in trying to keep the Blue Devils close. He had 31 second half points and was 9-of-16 from the field in the half, including five threes. He also hit 10-of-13 from the free-throw line, had three rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Junior Terrell Allen added 14 points and eight rebounds in the game. Junior Matt Hunter finished with 11 points, five rebounds and four steals.
The Seahawks were led by 23 points from Marcus Burton off the bench, and 15 from Latif Rivers. They shot 61.4 percent (35-of-57) from the field in the game and 9-of-15 from three. They had 23 assists on 35 baskets. They outrebounded CCSU 40-31.
The Blue Devils are back in action on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at Mount St. Mary's. The game will be televised live on MSG, MASN, Fox College Sports Pacific and Cox Sports Television. Fans can also listen live on Fox Sports Radio 1410, ESPN Radio 1300 and online at iheartradio.com.
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Sandbur
The sandbur (Cenchrus longispinus), or long-spine sandbur, is a rather unusual grass. Its flat stems are sometimes upright, but frequently they are bent near the base. This allows the plant to grow low to the ground, sometimes forming large mats.
The plant as a whole has a coarse appearance. The tapered leaves are rough to the touch, and their sheaths frequently have hairy margins. More impressive, however, is the inflorescence. This is a spike 1 to 3 inches long that develops into a hard, hairy mass of up to 20 burs, each covered with spines.
The sandbur is common through the United States, where it is mostly considered a noxious weed. It may occur in any part of Kansas.
As its name suggests, the sandbur prefers sandy or gravelly soils, preferably somewhat on the dry side and in full sunlight. It thrives in waste areas of all kinds, including neglected fields, lawns, and roadsides.
The sandbur is an annual. Its seeds start to germinate in late spring and continue to show signs of life throughout the summer. At first, it looks innocuous enough, especially as its stems tend to be more upright early in the year. However, as early as July, it begins to flower and form its hallmark burs.
These burs contain the seeds. The burs serve as an effective transportation mechanism, hooking themselves onto anything that walks by and traveling to new locations. Once deposited in the soil, the seeds may remain viable for up to five years.
Sandbur plants continue to grow until the first hard frost.
Despite its ill repute, the sandbur is a native species, and it does serve a purpose. It is an aggressive colonizer species, whose job is to reclaim bare ground and protect it from erosion and further damage.
When young and more obviously grassy, the sandbur actually does have some forage value. However, as soon as the burs appear, the plant quickly loses its usefulness to livestock producers.
Sandbur is considered a nuisance weed to livestock producers because the spiny burs can injure livestock.
But it is in the yard that the sandbar is most annoying. For starters, it clings to clothing and injures pets. Furthermore, it can quickly invade a thin, poor lawn in dry years. Dealing with sandburs in the lawn requires persistence and attention to building the health of the more desirable grasses. Adjust the pH if necessary, water deeply if rains are slow in coming, mow high to allow grass roots to take hold, and reseed sparse patches.
If sandburs have already moved into your yard, mow frequently to prevent the plants from growing seed. Rake up any debris after mowing. You can also dig up sandbur plants with a garden knife—just be sure to wear thick leather gloves when handing them!
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Barnyard grass is unattractive enough to give you a brief scare at first sighting, but it is not a threat. Look closely at the inflorescence—instead of a spike full of burs (rounded objects covered in sharp spines), it grows a branching panicle covered in harmless bristles.
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New FDI strategy much needed to build resilient economy
VGP – Viet Nam has received outpouring of foreign investment since it opened the economy to the world in 1986 but experience showed attraction of high-tech projects is becoming increasingly important for the country to build a resilient economy.
Viet Nam began reform (Doi moi) process in 1986 and one year later, the first Law on Foreign Investment was introduced to make foreign invested sector an integral part of the economy.
The Southeast Asian country made another step forward by issuing the Law on Investment in 2015, putting domestic and foreign business on equal footing.
By the end of September this year, Viet Nam was home to 26,646 valid FDI projects worth US$344 billion, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Foreign investment came from 129 countries and territories, in which the Republic of Korea and Japan were the biggest foreign investors with a combined investment capital of US$117 billion.
In 2016, FDI to Viet Nam exceeded inflows into all other ASEAN countries except for Singapore. More importantly. Foreign capital rose to US$36 billion in 2017 from US$20 billion in 2014, said the Ministry.
Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) have been performing well in Viet Nam over the past years. Specifically, in 2016, their return on sales hit 6.7% compared to the average 4% of all enterprises in the economy.
In addition, FIEs' return on assets reached 6.9%, much higher than the average 2.7% of all enterprises in the economy. Also in 2016, FIEs' net revenue rose the highest, by 34.5% against 2011, accounting for 27.4% of all enterprises' total net revenue.
According to official statistics, foreign-invested sector contributed 20% to GDP and 23.7% of total social development capital. It accounted for 50% of total industrial production values and up to 70% export values.
Toward a resilient economy
As the host of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 last September, the Government of Viet Nam expected to seek advices for building a resilient economy in the industry 4.0 and this means a shift to foreign investment mobilization is a must-do thing.
Lessons learned from over 30-year of foreign investment mobilization show that high-tech FDI projects could be the shortest way for Viet Nam to manufacture new projects with high quality in a bid to gradually narrow tech gap between Viet Nam and other countries and build a resilient economy, said Phan Huu Thang, former Director General of Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Thanks to the Government's recent efforts, Viet Nam has lured several high-tech projects that help stimulate technological transfer and innovations, especially in such domains like electronics-telecommunication, computing, manufacturing, construction among others, Thang said.
A number of tech giants such as Sanyo, Samsung, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic, Nidec, Intel and Microsoft have chosen Viet Nam as their global production hub, helping to Viet Nam to move to higher ladder of making projects with higher added value.
Another encouraging signal for Viet Nam is many FDI enterprises export nearly all their products, helping the country to balance trade and making significant contributions to economic growth over the past years.
Foreign invested sector also put pressure on domestic enterprises as many of them have been forced to import modern equipment and technologies or set up research and development units to compete with foreign invested ones.
Thang, however, frankly pointed out that there remain limits in attracting high-tech FDI projects partly due to foreign investors' capability and Viet Nam's verification and management capacity.
Though Viet Nam figured out general orientations for luring high-tech investment, it still lacks specific instructions for each domain while local authorities have paid little attention to improving capacity to select high-tech projects, thus allowing import of outdated equipment and technologies from foreign countries.
Foreign invested enterprises themselves put aside limited resources for research and development activities or only finance simple innovations.
Vietnamese vocational training facilities have not focused much on practices, thus it is difficult for trainees to meet requirements of FDI enterprises in terms of quality and quantity.
Moreover, it seems that there are no linkages between foreign-funded and local enterprises as the tech capacity of local enterprises is low.
It is clear that Viet Nam has a list of things to do in order to build a resilient economy, including the implementation of a major skills supply push to enable next-generation FDI. Investors cite the lack of industry-ready skills (technical, language, and soft skills) as the greatest barrier to growth.
Experts also suggested that the Government introduce "Investment Climate 4.0" commensurate with business needs in the digital age.
"Industry 4.0 needs a business environment 4.0. Ideally, this environment should be ambitious, moving from 'playing catch-up' towards offering a superior investment climate and operating experiences compared to competing locations in the region," said Sebastian Eckardt, the World Bank's lead economist for Viet Nam.
Opening the market to foreign investment has been proved to be a right policy and foreign investment inflows are still important for Viet Nam in years to come. However, Viet Nam needs a fresh FDI strategy with a focus on high technologies to heighten the country's economic level and realize the goal of building a resilient economy./.
(Source Online Newspaper of the Government - Viet Nam Government Portal.)


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Students scored in the top one percent nationally.
Fourteen Columbia College students scored in the top one percent of all students nationally taking the test.
Columbia College administers a nationally normed test called the Measure of Academic Progress and Proficiency to assess student achievement in general education courses. The MAPP is administered at 380 colleges and universities and has been taken by 375,000 students.
In 2008-2009, 575 Columbia College students took the MAPP. Statistically, six students should have scored in the top 1 percent, but 14 Columbia College education students scored in the top one percent, a phenomenal showing and one that bodes well for education.
The college added a masters of arts in teaching in June 2008; this offering has proven quite popular for teachers and other students juggling teaching and family while going to school.


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Somali Islamist Insurgents Improving Tactics, Experts Say
NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali Islamist insurgents have imported terrorist tactics and technology used with deadly results in Iraq and Afghanistan, threatening the African country's beleaguered government and causing alarm as far as Washington.
Somali fighters over the past two years have gone from simply throwing grenades into crowded rooms to building advanced remote-controlled bombs. Analysts fear that the transfer of tactics and technology may strengthen ties between Somali Islamists and al-Qaida.
The Somali insurgents offer refuge to terrorists and may also provide territory for training for a strike on the West, said Juan Zarate, the former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for Combating Terrorism. Recruits in jihadist training camps in Somalia are already taught how to use firearms and explosives, according to local and U.S. officials.
The U.S. military wrote an urgent internal report earlier this year after a cache of bomb-making materials with sophisticated triggering devices was found in Somalia.
"People are very concerned that technology from Iraq and Afghanistan is being transferred to Somalia," said Zarate, who is now a senior adviser at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The increasing sophistication of attacks came amid an influx of hundreds of foreign jihadi fighters to the lawless Horn of Africa state over the last year. Experts are uncertain, however, whether the new tactics and technology are being brought by Somalis who fought abroad, freelance jihadi fighters or al-Qaida-linked figures.
In the latest Iraq- or Afghan-style attack, a suicide bomber wearing women's clothing detonated explosives last week during a university graduation in the tiny portion of Mogadishu under government control. The blast killed 24 people, including three Cabinet ministers.
Somalia's most dangerous militant group — al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaida — denied it was behind the bombing. Taliban militants, blamed for most suicide bombings in Afghanistan, also typically deny responsibility for blasts that kill many civilians and cause outrage.
"What happens in Somalia is not original tactics, it is a copy of what happens in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Somali Information Minister Dahir Gelle. "We understand where (the insurgents) train and who is sending them ... The coordination and tactics and sophistication comes from al-Qaida."
Although Somalia has been at war for nearly two decades, suicide bombs were unheard of there until 2007.
The first complex bomb attack in Somalia occurred in October 2008, when five nearly simultaneous suicide bombings claimed 21 lives. Since then, there have been three suicide attacks on African Union peacekeeping bases in the capital, Mogadishu. A suicide bomber also killed the security minister and 24 others in June. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility.
"They prepare, they plan, they are very smart," Roland Marchal, a Somalia expert at the Center for International Studies and Research in Paris. Marchal said tactics are still crude compared to Iraq and Afghanistan but are evolving.
Two regional analysts said the type of bombs and their deployment shows the insurgents are using more sophisticated tactics. The analysts spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Bomb-makers are aiming to maximize damage by using metal fragments known as "shipyard confetti," one analyst said. Militants once simply taped nuts and bolts to anti-tank mines but are now using heavier iron construction rods that have been partially sawed through to cause more grievous wounds.
Triggering devices commonly used in the Middle East also have made their way to Somalia.
After a twin suicide truck-bomb attack in September on an African Union base in Mogadishu, two dead pedestrians were found wearing suicide vests packed with ball bearings, a security analyst said. These men were apparently going to attack security services and medical personnel rushing to the scene but wound up being killed themselves when the trucks blew up.
The activation devices for their own bombs used keyless entry systems of the kind used to open garage doors or cars. The analyst said the bombs also featured apparent "chicken switches," also commonly used in the Middle East and that allow other people to detonate a bomb if the bomber's nerves fail.
Zarate said the improved capability might eventually work against the Somali insurgents if the government can persuade the population, which traditionally reacts badly to foreign forces, that it shows outsiders are taking over the insurgency.


St. Augustine discovered the Scriptures when he was a young man. He didn't like them. He had been studying the elegant works of the great Latin writers. Much later he realized that you have to approach Scripture with humility, and only then does it reveal its most sublime truths.
So I resolved to turn my mind to the Holy Scriptures, to see what they were all about.
There I saw something not comprehended by the proud, not revealed to children, but humble as you approach, sublime as you go on, and veiled in mysteries.
I wasn't one of those who could enter into it, or bend my neck to follow its steps. I didn't feel the way I do now when I turned to those Scriptures. They seemed to me to be unworthy of comparison with the dignity of Cicero. My puffed-up pride shunned their style, and my wit wasn't sharp enough to pierce their inner meaning.
They were writings that would develop in little ones—but I scorned to be a little one, and, swollen with pride, I considered myself a great one.
When I read the Bible, do I begin with a humble and open mind?
Lord, open the hidden things of your law when I knock. Perfect me, and let me understand the obscure things in your Word.


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Why a Trump supporter who went to Washington, D.C., rally says she understands the frustration of the rioters
To Sandi Ferguson, who drove nearly 1,000 kilometres to attend the rally planned for Washington, D.C, last Wednesday, the subsequent attack on the U.S. Capitol was a culmination of the frustration she and many other supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump feel about the results of the U.S. election.
Ferguson — who says she believes Trump's unfounded claims that the presidential election was rigged and travelled to Washington from her town of Cornelia, Ga., last Wednesday to protest the electoral college vote that was formally certified that day — said she condemns the deadly violence caused by the mob of rioters who stormed the Capitol building.
"Let's call it what it is," she said in a phone interview. "It was an insurrection."
But at the same time, she doesn't believe the day itself should necessarily be viewed as a stain on U.S. political history.
"I don't feel like it was a dark day," she said. "It was a historic day for our leaders to realize when we put you in that Capitol building, we need you to listen to what we're saying."
Ferguson didn't take part in the assault, she said. By the time she and her two sons, who accompanied her on the trip, made their way to the Capitol building, they couldn't see the violence taking place or that people had forced their way inside, she said.
Still, when asked about that violence, she said: "I understand."
"If you were to go back to the American Revolution, like, when is enough enough? And you start saying, 'No, listen to what we are saying,'" Ferguson said.
"Not that I'm saying that we needed an insurrection or revolution, but I do feel that they pushed about 75 million people to feel they are not being heard."
Millions believe unproven claims that election was fixed
Ferguson is one of millions of Trump supporters who believe Trump's unfounded and false claims that voter fraud cost him the Nov. 3 presidential election, which he lost to president-elect Joe Biden.
Election officials across the country have confirmed there was no widespread fraud in the election, as has Trump's former attorney general, William Barr. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden's victory, have also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states.
Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.
Still, Ferguson subscribes to many of Trump's conspiracy theories about the election and also questions the results of the recent U.S. Senate run-off races in Georgia that saw two Democrats claim victory.
But she said there's one main factor that makes the U.S. presidential election results impossible for her and other Trump backers to accept.
"That Joe Biden got more votes than President Trump and [former president] Barack Obama is mind-blowing" she said. "People just don't believe it's true."
Ferguson's view of the March to Save America rally before Wednesday's attack on Capitol Hill. The rally was held in an area known as the Ellipse in a park just south of the White House. (Sandi Ferguson)
It was with that mindset that Ferguson travelled to the "March to Save America" rally in support of the Republican politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate who were planning to raise objections to the certification of Biden's electoral college victory in a joint session of Congress that day.
Trump had urged his supporters to come to Washington to protest Congress's formal approval of Biden's win in the Nov.. 3 election.
Ferguson and her two sons had packed up her BMW Tuesday morning from their small town of Cornelia and travelled nearly 1,000 kilometres — almost a nine hour drive — to their hotel in D.C.
"We didn't even plan on going," she said. "I mean, it was just one of those final moments like, 'Let's do this. This could be fun and exciting. I mean, never in our wildest dreams did we think that it would be anything other than fun and joyful."
As they arrived for the rally at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, that cold Wednesday morning, the mood was "so much fun, just enjoying the excitement, the energy," she said.
She and her sons were pretty far back from where the president spoke at the podium, she said, but they could watch him on the big screen.
Trump was particularly bombastic that day, reciting his false allegations of electoral fraud.
He told the thousands in the crowd to walk down to the U.S. Capitol.
"You'll never take back our country with weakness," he said. "You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."
Shortly after that speech, a mob of people stormed the Capitol building. Five people died as a result of the riot.
On Monday, the U.S. House Democrats introduced a resolution containing a single article of impeachment against Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack.
But Ferguson said she doesn't believe Trump should be accused of inciting and whipping up the crowd into a frenzy, noting parts of his speech were boring, as he repeated the same allegations of fraud that many in the crowd knew by heart.
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Thought the plan was to protest
When Trump told the crowd to march to the U.S. Capitol, Ferguson said she didn't think it was particularly significant as she believed the plan for the rally was always to go to Capitol Hill and protest.
"He didn't say storm the doors or, you know, bust in," she said.
After Trump spoke, Ferguson and her sons walked back to the hotel to warm up and drink some hot chocolate, she said, then headed back to Capitol Hill.
She said there were thousands of people in front of her and that she still thought the prevalent feeling was one of good-spirited patriotism.
WATCH | Trump supporter Sandi Ferguson's video of crowd at March To Save America rally:
Trump supporters sing God bless the U.S.A. as they wait to hear U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. (Submitted by Sandi Ferguson) 0:32
"People were singing, 'U-S-A!' or 'I'm proud to be an American,'" she said. "And so you don't really see what's going on in front."
Ferguson and her two sons made their way closer to the entrance of the U.S. Capitol building, where, at one point, she said, a police officer was waving them through.
As they got closer, her sons went a bit ahead, then turned around to say, "Something's going down up there, and we don't want to be a part of it,'" Ferguson said.
'What in the world transpired?'
They were able to see the tear gas, and pepper spray from a distance and figured it was time to leave, thinking, "What in the world just transpired," Ferguson said.
It wasn't until they returned to the hotel and turned on the television that they learned about the violent clashes with police and the storming of the building, she said.
"[I thought], 'This just can't be right.' It was just like an alternate universe."
Yet Ferguson believes it's too early to cast judgment on the day's events.
"It may be in10 years, we look back and go, 'Wow, that was what needed to happen,'" she said. "Or we could look back in 10 years and go 'That was a bad, bad day.'"
WATCH | How the Capitol riot unfolded:
CBC News' David Common breaks down what happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and how U.S. President Donald Trump stoked discontent among his supporters before he lost the election. 3:44
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