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When I look back briefly, September felt like a curse. I got really sick for almost two weeks, which made me miss two sessions with my teaching job, an art workshop I've been looking forward to, and two plays and TWO concerts I'd die to watch. Huhuhu. Why!!!
But of course, there's also something about the month that changed me. The 2-week hibernation also led me to a book that turned around my disposition. I've never felt so grateful in my life - and being thankful, even for the littlest things, made me happier. Isn't that the thing that we aim for anyway?
Although I've received several lipstick the past months, I love my tubes of Covergirl because of the variety. Part of their Be Colorlicious collection are several shades for each color category: Pinks, Plums, Reds, and Nudes. Regardless of my current mood and style, I am covered!
During the worst days when I was sick, I turned to my Prang paint palette and Corona notebook instead of my usual blinding cellphone and internet. The feel of the paint brush felt good between my fingers, creating a mindless artwork felt reassuring and nice. I was into painting anything fall season related, my current obsession.
For 30 days, Open Art School gave tips, inspiration, and motivation to their students to create art. I chanced upon this online art school and felt the urge to enroll, one of my best decisions last month because it is encouraging, and a nice reminder of what I can do.
Thanks to my prepaid VISA, I was able to purchase several books and magazines online without leaving my house or wasting papers or storage space. I'd also like to think that by placing literature on my phone, it will lessen the amount of time I spend on social media, and more on reading good content. Parang dinedeceive ko din habits ko, hehe.
Pre-Illness, Ate and I went to Molito in Alabang for a "good dinner". Ate suggested Yushoken, which easily transported us back to our Japan trip. The service and ambiance, superb, the food EVEN BETTER! It is almost close to my favorite Ichiran ramen in Osaka, we got carried away and ordered soda and bottled drinks.
One of things that made me so so happy was the good feedback I got from my collaboration with Instagram shop Whim Manila. I was asked to design phone cases, and thought that instead of experimenting on art forms that are not really my forte, why not create designs with my usual medium. I do flatlays almost everyday!
The designs are all based on things that I love: normcore fashion, Young Adult books, palettes (both makeup and paint), junk food, and traveling.
Garnering a slot 2nd time in a row, iFlix kept me company during the latter part of my illness. I was bedridden and anxious, but movies kept me in good company. It was an easy source of entertainment, before I knew it, sleeping time nanaman na.
Part of the Teen Week 2015 launch press kit, this is actually not a paper bag but a lunch box. My mom thought masisira siya, but it is lined inside! I use it sometimes as my bag, super cute.
The past weeks, my mind also drifts on creating soaps, scents, and candles. I am addicted to them! Here are some of favorites which I got last September: Liquid soaps and yummy OLIVE room spray from @SmellChic Instagram shop, and Atkinsons 24 Old Bond Street perfume - a classic brand with an interesting history (read HERE).
Have a SOLID October, my dearest friends!


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The apostle Paul has been giving wonderful pictures of what it looks like to be a Christian. In the first six verses of 2 Corinthians 4, Paul has described Christians as those who are beholding the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ (3:18; 4:4; 4:6). Those who do not see the glory of the gospel of Jesus are the ones who are perishing (4:3). Therefore, Paul has declared that the gospel message that they are proclaiming, which was written down by the apostles and you hold in your hands today, is the means by which you are able to have God's light shine in your hearts so that you can see the glory of God. This is why Paul does not lose heart. He has a magnificent ministry given to him by the grace of God (4:1). So what does this mean for us? How does beholding the light of the gospel of the glory of God change who we are and how we live?
To our context, Paul describes this treasure as the light of the knowledge of the glory of God is the treasure. We have a precious treasure in the word of God because the gospel reveals the glory of God. But notice what Paul says about this treasure. Paul says we have this treasure in clay jars.
Clay jars were insignificant in the ancient Near East. They were common, unimportant, temporary, and expendable. If a clay jar broke, you did not try to fix it. You just discarded it and replaced it. So Paul does not say that this treasure is contain in gold treasure boxes. The treasure of the gospel message is held in clay jars. This is how Paul pictures himself and it is how we must consider ourselves. Paul does not say that he is a unique work of art, worthy of the highest value. No, he is a clay jar among many clay jars, carrying the treasure of the gospel. Why is this the case?
Paul continues in verse 7: "to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." The power is in the message, not the clay jar. God put the treasure of the gospel in human containers like Paul and the apostles with a purpose: to show that the treasure of the gospel has nothing to do with the jar. The image of clay jars was used as a metaphor for human weakness in ancient writings, including the Qumran writings. Our flaws show the flawless gospel. We are the clay jars so that we are not stealing the glory away from God and his glorious gospel. We are to embrace our weaknesses so that the power of God can be made visible in our lives. Think about how God's power is on its greatest display when it transforms a weak, selfish, fragile, broken person and into a God-loving, Christ-believing, standing in the strength that God supplies Christian. Paul reminds us that the value is not us. We are just clay jars. The value is the gospel and we are valuable in relation to the task and value given to us by God. When we promote ourselves as anything more than a clay jar, we have taken away the attention from God, where the attention always belongs. We must never draw attention to ourselves but to God and the gospel.
To reinforce this concept, Paul describes what being a clay jar carry the treasure looks like. Paul describes his weaknesses. He and the apostles are afflicted in every way, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down. But because they carry the treasure they are not crushed, driven to despair, not forsaken, nor destroyed. They may be knocked down but they are never knocked out. Our strength comes from God's sustaining power, understanding the mission he has given us. Our strength does not come from ourselves because we are just clay jars. Paul is not destroyed because he carries the treasure that is too valuable and too glorious. So he does not stop. He can be knocked down but he will not give up or be stopped. Thus, we see Paul when he is stoned and left for dead in Lystra, getting up and going to Derbe to preach. How did you do that Paul? The strength was not in himself. The strength was the gospel message he carried. He had a mission that would not allow him to stay down. God sustains us through our hardships because of the hope we have in the gospel and the ministry we are compelled to proclaim.
When you behold glory, you have to tell others. We have taken many family vacations each summer. We have had a goal for the five of us to see all the states together before our children left home for college. We have come to some amazing places in the creation. We have seen the Grand Canyon. We have seen Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Yellowstone National Parks. When we were at Yellowstone last year, there is an iconic waterfall there that is powerful and massive. But to get to it is a very long, steep hike. There were signs warning you about how difficult the hike would be. It is so steep that there are benches for trying to hike back up because you are going to need a break. As we were walking down this long, weaving walkway, I was thinking in my mind, "Is this going to be worth it? Each steep step I take down is a hard step back to the top." I am making this calculation in my mind. We would pass people who were winded and sitting on the benches. Others are huffing and puffing as they slowly would walk past us. But hardly a person would fail to say, "It's just a little further and it is worth it." So we continued to descend until we finally got to this waterfall. It was amazing! It was thundering. It shook the platform. I have never seen a waterfall like this one. Do you know what we had to do? We had to talk about it to each other as we stood beholding the majesty and glory of this waterfall. We are all taking pictures. We are pointing out things, making sure we all see everything there is to see. We had to share what we saw. Do you know what we did as we walked back up? We did the same thing everyone did for us when we came down. As we were huffing and puffing our way back to the top, we were telling people, "It is worth it. Keep going. You have to see it." This is the picture Paul is giving. What keeps us going? We have beheld the treasure and it is amazing. What keeps us going? We have to tell others about the glory that we saw. So the apostles could be beaten but they would not stop because they were carrying the treasure.
We have this gospel treasure and our lives are hidden so that Christ is on display. You have died and Christ is your life! We die to ourselves so that others may live. We do not satisfy our desires but forfeit our lives so that others can see the treasure of the gospel and find life. We have beheld the light of the glory of the Lord and we must share it. This is why we may be knocked down but we are never knocked out.
Paul now uses the scriptures to exemplify what they do, quoting Psalm 116:10. Turn to Psalm 116 so you can see what Paul is saying. It is far too easy to read 2 Corinthians 4:13 and think that Paul is saying that he speaks because he believes. But this misses the power of what Paul is saying. We need to look at Psalm 116 to see the point.
Psalm 116 begins with a declaration of loving the Lord because heard my pleas for mercy (1-2). Verse 3 pictures the dire situation that death, distress, and anguish surrounded the psalmist. He was doomed. But then he was delivered from death (4-9). Suddenly the author is rescued. The quotation Paul makes is from verse 10 but see the context of what the psalmist is saying. Even when he was greatly afflicted, he had faith. Though distress and anguish surrounded him, he believed. When death encompassed him, he had faith. So he will call on the name of the Lord (13), pay his obligations to the Lord (14), offer thanksgiving (17), and praise the Lord (19). Notice another declaration that you probably have heard at a funeral is found here: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." What is the point? Even when surrounded by death, we will still believe and we will still speak. Even when distress and anguish overwhelm us, we will still have faith and we will still speak. For even in our death, we are precious before God. Now what is Paul saying? "Since we have the same spirit of faith…we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence" (4:13-14).
We have the same faith! We may be killed for what we preach, but we have faith in God and we will still speak because we know that precious in the sight of the Lord are death of his saints. Or, to say this as Paul did, because we know that the power that raised Jesus from the dead will also raise us from the dead and bring us with you into the Lord's presence. The hope of resurrection changes our bodily concerns for the gospel. We will be killed and the reward is resurrection and to be brought back together with you. This is why they do not lose heart (4:16). This is why we do not lose heart and do not give up. We have faith and so we speak. Whatever we must do "so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God" (4:15). Paul's goal was never to be comfortable, or worry about his reputation or his popularity. His concern was that people were giving thanks to God and praising God. Paul lived so others would glorify the treasure, not the clay jar.
I want to end by each of us reflecting on the pictures Paul has given us in this paragraph. We have beheld the treasure of the gospel. But are we causing people to see the treasure we carry or are we causing people to look at the jar, which is us? Do we draw attention to ourselves or do we draw attention to the gospel? We must have the glory be directed to God and never to ourselves.
Further, are we more concerned about protecting our clay jar or about protecting the treasure? I believe too often we are willing to discard the treasure to protect this body, this clay jar. But the clay jar is not important. You are a clay jar with a purpose: protect the treasure and show the treasure. If we fail in this purpose, then we have failed God who gave us this purpose. We have died and our lives are hidden in Christ. People must see Christ, not us. We must be willing to allow the clay jar to be broken and laid in the dust so that people will see the glory of the treasure. We believe and so we speak because we believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Believing in Jesus' resurrection means we believe in our own resurrection. So why protect the clay jar? Protect the treasure and share the treasure. Give it all to the Lord and one day we will all be joined again in the Lord's presence.


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Thap Lan National Park, a key part of one of Southeast Asia's most significant forest ecosystems, faces poaching, encroachment and a major highway project. by Demelza Stokes on 31 January 2017 |
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Thailand's Thap Lan National Park is part of the Dong Phayayen – Khao Yai Forest Complex (DPKY-FC), designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its importance to global biodiversity.
The DPKY-FC supports 112 species of mammals, 392 species of birds, and 200 species of reptiles and amphibians.
Thap Lan receives few visitors and faces major threats, including poaching, illegal logging and the expansion of a highway leading from Bangkok to the country's northeast.
The park, along with the rest of the DPKY-FC, could be downgraded by UNESCO to inscription on the "List of World Heritage in Danger."
On the trail of a conservation group conducting a wildlife monitoring survey, we stop the 4×4 on the road and walk along the red earth to check on camera traps. Wildlife rangers from Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and international conservationists are working deep in Thap Lan National Park, where the air smells of forest matter and minerals.
Oriental pied hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris) streak overhead in darts of black and white from tree to tree. Their fruit-eating, high-flying lifestyles make light work of the seed-dispersal necessary for a healthy forest ecosystem. Beside the road, a greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicurus paradiseus) displays inky blue-black plumage and beautiful elongated outer tail feathers that trail hypnotically around after the bird as it flies.
The conservationists' expensive motion-sensor cameras are given various layers of defense — silica gel is put inside the camera casing (rainy season), chalk is applied to the outer edges (ants), the camera is put back in its specially-made metal box (elephants) and fixed to the tree with a lock and strong cables (thieves). Back in the 4×4 and off to the next camera, we pass a cliff face at the side of the dirt road where a small hammer and sickle has been etched into the rock — most likely a remnant of Communist guerillas, who were known to use Thap Lan's remote forests as a hideout during the 1970s. Next stop is the start of a trail close to a particular, memorable, tree. Wildlife ranger Tirawat Gotsamrong aka "Gai" (which means "Chicken") leads the way into the dense bamboo forest.
Wildlife ranger Tirawat Gotsamrong, aka "Gai," deep in the bamboo thickets of Thap Lan National Park. A camera trap can be seen affixed to a nearby tree. Photo by Demelza Stokes.
Ask Gai, or any of the other wildlife rangers working with the DNP, what they fear most in Thap Lan's deep forest, and it isn't the possibility of encountering armed illegal Siamese rosewood loggers or the deadly king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah), the longest venomous snake in the world: it's Thap Lan's biggest resident, the Asian elephant (Elephas Maximas). The forest elephants have seen their territory massively decreased over the last few decades. Encroachment and forest conversion to agriculture and cattle grazing has led to elevated levels of human-elephant conflict around the park, with elephants frequently wandering into the villages and cropland surrounding the area. Last year, both wildlife rangers and farmers died in encounters with elephants outside of Thailand's protected areas. Thankfully, the abundance of bamboo and thick forest in Thap Lan makes it easy to hear elephants as they move through the trees and reduces the chance of encounters.
Asian elephants have declined by fifty percent over the last three generations and are listed as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List. Conserving Thap Lan and its forest habitat is crucial for the long-term survival of part of Thailand's estimated population of 2500-3200 wild elephants. "We'll try to avoid them, try to walk around them. They're most dangerous when they have their young," says Paiyoon "Joe" Donsanoy, a 30-year-old ranger wearing a hand-me-down uniform so faded it's almost white. Wildlife rangers with the DNP need to buy their own uniforms. For Joe, as for many, the job is a modus vivendi and a labor of love.
Thap Lan and three other national parks, Khao Yai, Pang Sida and Ta Phraya, and the Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary meld together to form a forested belt 230 kilometers (143 miles) wide, laid down two hours' drive northeast of the heaving metropolis of Bangkok. The almost entirely contiguous forest tract is known as the Dong Phayayen – Khao Yai Forest Complex (DPKY-FC) and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005.
Wild flowers crop up in a meadow in the middle of Thap Lan National Park. Photo by Demelza Stokes.
The crucial factor in the life and death of species is the amount of suitable habitat left to them." – Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, E.O. Wilson.
One of the last substantial areas of tropical forest ecosystems in mainland Southeast Asia, the DPKY-FC lies at the fringe of two of the WWF's global ecoregions: the "Cardamom Mountains Moist Forests" and the "Indochina Dry Forests" both tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf habitats that support extraordinary biodiversity. Over 800 faunal species can be found in the DPKY-FC, including 112 species of mammals, 392 species of birds, and 200 species of reptiles and amphibians. Critically, it provides viable habitat with the potential to support the long-term survival of some of Earth's most illustrious endangered species, such as the Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti), Asian elephants, the pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), the banteng (Bos javanicus — a rare type of wild cow), the Sunda Pangolin (Manis javanica).
Thap Lan (2236 sq km/863 sq miles), established in 1981, is the biggest protected area in the DPKY-FC, and Thailand's second largest national park, but attracts relatively few visitors. "We need tourism. Thap Lan has very little tourism if you compare it with Khao Yai," said Prawatsart Jantorntep, the park's director. And he's right. Khao Yai National Park receives over a million visitors every year — it has the waterfalls, trails, and activities necessary for attracting and accommodating tourists, and is closer to Bangkok. Thap Lan, on the other hand, isn't really geared up for many visitors. Around twenty thousand visit in a typical year. Prawatsart told Mongabay he plans to build a campground in the Wang Nam Khiao district to the west of Thap Lan this year, in hopes of bringing more interest and revenue to the park.
Construction work along Highway 304, the expansion project widening the road from two to four lanes is due to be completed in 2018. Photo by Demelza Stokes.
Threats to the park
Unfortunately, Thap Lan's modest place in the shadow of its famous neighbor, Khao Yai, does not mean the park has escaped the legion of problems bombarding all of Southeast Asia's protected areas. Illegal Siamese rosewood logging, poaching of endangered species such as Pileated gibbons, vast encroachment, dams, and widening roads are all slowly eroding the overall ecological integrity of the park. Ranger Salak Chairacha has been working at Thap Lan for nine years and has seen the impacts of illegal loggers and villagers going into the forest to poach. "In the temporary camps we have found skins and carcasses, wild pigs, muntjac deer, squirrels, wild chicken, (they shoot) whatever they see in the forest," he told Mongabay. "The poachers, they go out at night. They use a torch, look for eyes in the dark. If they see it, they shoot it."
Poaching is just one threat to conservation that, if not sufficiently subdued, could see the DPKY-FC's Heritage status downgraded to inscription on the "List of World Heritage in Danger" this year. Thailand is due to submit its updated report on the "state of conservation" of the Complex by Feb. 1. At its 41st session in July, the World Heritage Committee is expected decide whether the current scenario warrants a move to the Danger List. Thailand's World Heritage Office in Bangkok declined to give comment at this time.
Leaving Thap Lan with the conservationists on one evening, another of the key threats to the park becomes starkly obvious. Cascades of glowing embers are sprouting from fifteen meters up in the air, as laborers for construction giant Italian-Thai weld metal atop a giant, Y-shaped, concrete structure that will support the expansion of Highway 304. Work is underway on a project to expand the road, one of the main arteries connecting Bangkok to the country's entire northeast via the forest complex. It runs through Thap Lan and Khao Yai, severing the latter from the rest of the protected areas. Already a two-lane highway when the UNESCO World Heritage site was declared, Highway 304 is currently being widened to four-lanes, increasing deforestation within the complex and driving a massive wedge between Khao Yai and Thap Lan.
Workers for construction giant Italian-Thai atop a concrete structure that will support an overpass and the expansion of Highway 304. Work is expected to be completed in 2018. Thai authorities are counting on mitigation measures like wildlife corridors to reduce the road's impact on wildlife. Photo by Demelza Stokes.
Prawatsart sees the road expansion as a necessary evil. "Highway 304 is a problem, but we need it for the development of our country. It is a major route to Isaan (Thailand's northeastern region)," he said. "We have to explain to the World Heritage Committee that it is necessary to have some things. I think if we can't have them, then we don't have to be a World Heritage site. We need these things for our country. We need to compromise." Prawatsart's view is not mirrored by some conservationists, who see the expansion of Highway 304 as yet another assault on one of the last remaining significant tracts of lowland forests in Southeast Asia.
To mitigate the effects of the road, wildlife corridors — including both a viaduct and overpasses over Highway 304 — are planned to be completed by 2018. If the wildlife corridors work, they will keep Thap Lan connected with Khao Yai, and help keep the entire forest area connected and suitable for large mammals who require large areas of forest habitat. The need for safe corridors for animals was made all too real by the news of a male tiger found injured near a road in Thailand's northern Lampang province this January, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) from the Huay Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, the nearest viable habitat and Thailand's last stronghold supporting a breeding population of Indochinese tigers.
"This is a first of a kind project in Thailand and we'll have a lot more work to oversee its effectiveness," said Win Trivitayanurak, an environment specialist at the Thai government's Department of Highways, who works to ensure the provisions in the project's EIA are met. Win was positive about efforts to ensure the wildlife corridors' implementation. "I think the construction company are trying to get it on track," he told Mongabay. "Of course all the mitigation measures must be complied with because we rigorously monitor that." Win also noted that the wildlife tunnels designed to run under Highway 304 have been devised to give enough clearance for elephants, even though none appeared during ecological surveys. "This project will be a good collaboration with the DNP and there will be a lot more projects like this I'm sure," said Win.
Tim Redford, project coordinator at Freeland Foundation, an NGO that has been working in Thap Lan for over 8 years, echoed those sentiments. Effective construction of wildlife corridors over Highway 304 sets an important precedent for the future of wildlife connectivity in Thailand, he said. "It's very important as it's a testing site for these methods in Thailand. They have never been tried here before."
Hidden beauty: a river running through Thap Lan. Despite its myriad charms, the park receives few visitors. Photo by Demelza Stokes.
Road-building is the spearhead of Asia's infrastructure development boom, an industrial explosion that could lead to the creation of 11,000 new kilometers (6835 miles) of roads and railways across the continent, according to a report released by WWF last year. The unmitigated fragmentation and destruction of habitats suitable for large mammals (and a host of other species) is pushing many to the brink of extinction in the wild, and is what Elizabeth Kolbert (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History) has termed a "defining feature" of the Anthropocene.
Thap Lan, the largest park in the DPKY-FC, represents a stronghold for many significant species. Protecting it is crucial for their viability far into the future, as Southeast Asia's development accelerates and the region's population continues to grow and expand its impact on wildlife and wild places. If its forests are preserved, Thap Lan is large enough that it could potentially support the reintroduction or repopulation of globally important species.
Conservationists are still mapping what lives here and gathering data on wildlife populations, the scientific groundwork necessary to build a profile of the area and to secure species-specific funding. Conducting the survey deep in the forest is hot, tiring, work. After thrashing through kilometers of thick bamboo, breaking cover is a relief. Back on the road, we stop the 4×4 at the last camera trap on the trail. The memory-card from the camera reveals buried treasure — Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), more elephants, large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) and lots of Eurasian wild pigs (Sus scrofa) — not a bad roll-call for one of the most biodiverse corners of Asia.
Article published by Isabel Esterman
Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured, Forest Elephants, Forests, Fragmentation, Habitat Destruction, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Infrastructure, Mammals, Megafauna, Protected Areas, Roads, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking


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How to Prepare for IBPS Clerk Prelims English Language Section 2017: The Institute of Banking Personnel (IBPS) will be conducting IBPS Clerk Recruitment Examination in the month of December 2017. It is essential for every candidate to crack both Prelims & Mains Examination if he/she wants to work as a Bank Clerk in a prominent Public Sector Bank.
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The Preliminary Examination for IBPS CWE Clerk prelims will be a Computer-Based Test (CBT) and the pattern will be Objective MCQ type. There will be 100 questions in total from 3 sections – English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning Ability.
Marks secured in IBPS Clerk Prelims will be taken into consideration while selecting candidates for Mains. The exam pattern for IBPS CWE Clerk Examination is pretty straight-forward but lets us see how we can crack this recruitment examination in the most efficient manner.
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The English Section of most bank exams like IBPS Clerk is primarily focused on Reading Comprehension, Cloze Test, and Grammar. Hence, you need to extremely good at solving problems based on these.
You should begin with English Grammar. This is something you've been learning since your preschool days and yet, somehow, you don't really know it at a professional level. Change that and go hit those basic books on English Grammar and start with simple exercises to understand where you can improve.
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Well, in a little over 6 months, it'll be Mr. & Mrs. Alex Fleming. I know we're not the first but that's big!
I swear by to-do lists and so I gathered some together to get an idea of where we should be up to by now and more importantly, what we might have forgotten. It was quite satisfying to see that we're pretty much on track. There are a few things we haven't done yet which we should have by now according to this list but we have already ticked off some of the up-coming stuff. So it balances out quite nicely.
I started reading up on wedding traditions and related folklore. I saw one about doing very weird stuff with lozenges. I'll leave the possibilities up to your imagination. Suffice to say at that point, I stopped reading.
Last weekend, we both independently chose the same set of vows. It's surprising how much of a boost little things like that can give. Some things we expected to be easy haven't always been while other seemingly more difficult stuff just fell into place.
The florist is happy to put together buttonholes with heather and white flowers. This was one of the things given more prominence than it really deserved.
I spent a whole day researching and booking flights and the first few nights of the honeymoon. I found that Expedia do not always quote the cheapest price or the most direct flight. We booked direct with both the airline (for the most direct flights) and the hotel (because it was much cheaper). My credit card got such a shock I haven't dared use it since.
The wording for the invites has gone off to the design/print company and so now we're just waiting on them coming back with ideas.
All in all, a very productive holiday season.
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Russell Hellard fonds
CA CCOQ F9 · Fonds · 1943-2017
The fonds consists of records relating to Russell Hellard's volunteering initiatives in Coquitlam, including his participation in the Crime Prevention Committee, the Community Policing Committee, the Mundy Park Sub Committee, the Crime Prevention Society, the BC Summer Games, the Centennial Committee, Block Watch, Vandal Watch, Court Watch, among others. The fonds also includes personal and family records, including a collection of photographs from his service in Canada and Australia during the Second World War.
Hellard, Russell
Crime Prevention and Community Policing Committees
CA CCOQ F9-S01 · Series · 1987-1997
Part of Russell Hellard fonds
The series consists of records relating to Russell Hellard's participation on the Crime Prevention Committee and later the Community Policing Committee. Hellard was Chairman of the Crime Prevention Committee from 1989-1991 and was Chairman of the Community Policy Committee from 1992-1994. A re-direction dictated from the RCMP in Ottawa changed Crime Watch to Community Policing Committees. Records include Annual Reports, committee meeting minutes, Chairman's reports, notes, and photographs. Records also pertain to the establishment, inauguration, and management of the Tri-City Community Crime Prevention Services Centre, and the activities of police officer Eric Chan, who founded the program.
Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam Crime Prevention Society
The series consists of records relating to the Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam Crime Prevention Society, an independent volunteer organization that was formed in 1996 to assist police, community organizations, committees, and citizens in crime prevention activities. Russell Hellard was the President and Chairman of the Society until its dissolution in 2000. The records include meeting minutes, notes, official documentation of the society, including the notice of dissolution, as well as records relating to public forums that were hosted by the Society. The series also includes photographs of the community forums that took place in March, 1997.
Assorted Committees
The series consists of records relating to several committees which Russell Hellard was involved with between 1984 and 1995. Records consist of meeting minutes, news clippings, and notes relating to several seniors programs, as well as Vandal Watch and Court Watch, two crime prevention initiatives in Coquitlam.
BC Summer Games
CA CCOQ F9-S04 · Series · 1991
The series consists of records relating to the BC Summer Games which were held in Coquitlam in 1991. The records include minutes of the Photography Sub-Committee, pamphlets, copies of The Spirit newsletter that was prepared for the Games, detailed notes relating to Hellard's participation in photographing the Games at the request of Craig Hodge, records relating to recruitment of volunteer photographers, and a few photographs of the Games.
Centennial Committee
The series consists of records relating to the Centennial celebrations in Coquitlam in held in 1991. Records are primarily photographs but also include news clippings and pamphlets. Photographs depict Hellard and other committee members, the centennial mascot "the Town Logger," Mayor Lou Sekora, and images from the PNE Parade.
Dogwood Pavilion Committees and Activities
The series consists of textual records, photographs, and videos relating to the various committees, activities, groups, and projects that Russell Hellard was involved with at Dogwood Pavilion including the Dogwood Lifewriters' Group, the Dogwood Veterans' Group, the Volunteer Improvement Committee, Community Volunteer Services for Seniors, the Multicultural Committee, and the Senior Safety Committee.
Second World War records
The series primarily consists of photographs taken of Russell Hellard and by Russell Hellard while serving in the Canadian Army during the Second World War as part of the No. 1 Wireless Signal Group of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. The series also includes a copy of Russell Hellard's military personnel file acquired from Library and Archives Canada, as well as some loose assorted documentation collected during his service. Finally, the series includes a copy of "Journey Down Under," a memoir written by George L. Drummond; a souvenir booklet about the history of the Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group; and a published book entitled, "The Invisible War: The Untold Secret Story of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group," by Gil Murray.
Personal and Family records (including Awards and Recognition)
CA CCOQ F9-S08 · Series · 1959 - 2006
The series consists of records relating to awards and recognition received by Russell Hellard for his various volunteer positions, including his award for Citizen of the Year in 1989. The series includes photographs of awards and ceremonies, as well as the corresponding certificates and correspondence regarding the awards. The series also includes a number of personal photographs of Russell Hellard's family and home.
Dogwood Lifewriters' Group
CA CCOQ F9-S06-SS01 · Subseries · 1999-2017
The subseries primarily consists of the annual publications of the Dogwood Lifewriters' Group from 1999 to 2017, as well as news clippings about the organization, grant applications, meeting minutes, newsletters, and photographs of members.
Dogwood Veterans' Group
The subseries consists of a number of Veterans' Stories booklets from 2005 to 2007, as well as news clippings, minutes, and reports from the Dogwood Veterans' Group. The subseries also contains photographs of members of the Dogwood Veterans' Group that were included in the booklets, as well as photographs of various events attended by members.
Dogwood Pavilion: Assorted Committees, Activities, and Projects
The subseries consists of assorted records from a number of committees, activities, and programs at Dogwood Pavilion including: the Volunteer Improvement Committee, Community Volunteer Services for Seniors, Multicultural Committee, and the Senior Safety Committee. The subseries also includes Dogwood Pavilion's Bylaws, photographs of the Dogwood Pavilion Expansion Project (1997), and photographs of various activities.
Mundy Park Sub Committee
CA CCOQ F9-S01-SS1 · Subseries · 1992-1993
The subseries consists of records relating to the Mundy Park Sub Committee, which was a sub committee of the Community Policing Committee formed to examine crime occurring in the park and determine crime prevention initiatives. Hellard was Chairman of the Committee.


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The George L. Mosse Program in History has initiated an oral history project to document the impact of George L. Mosse as a historian, teacher, and mentor and the ongoing legacy of the Program he endowed in the Department of History at UW-Madison
James Hilb
I went up to Henry Kissinger and introduced myself to him and said, Dr. Kissinger, I am a relative of yours. My name is Jim Hilb. My grandmother's maiden name was Walter. Your mother's maiden name was Walter. And my grandmother and your grandmother, I believe were first cousins or those to that effect. Well, he looked at me like, "who in the world are you?" And I sensed that I flubbed the opportunity, which as it turned out, I did. ...George Mosse was at that lecture presentation. And he came over to me and said, Let me talk to you, young man. So I introduced myself, to him and the rest, as they say, is history.
Anson Rabinbach
[Mosse] was really engaged on a personal level. He was really in loco parentis. Because when my mother died, I was sort of at sea. I didn't know what to do. I mean, I was just in my twenties. I think I'd just passed my prelims. And he just took me, you know, under his wing. And he said, "Here's what you need to do." And he told me you've got to go talk to this accountant, he gave me the name of an accountant. Told me how to go about getting rid of her belongings. I'll tell you about that in a second. And you know, he just took care of everything. And he said, "Now I want you to go back to work." And that was really important.
Alfonso Alfonsi
Even though the book, original book in which it was had gone completely out of print. And that this new generation was making use of Mosse interpretation in their work. It was also Paolo Acanfora and many others that did, as well as Renato Moro and others were mentioning how more durable Mosse interpretations were than some others that at the moment were keeping the scene, but now appear to be void of content and so on.
And on the other end, of course, the take on George Mosse himself in Italy had changed. The Mosse consensus, we could say, had appeared.
Christopher Browning
My first contact with Mosse was when he read the rough draft of my dissertation. He was wonderfully supportive and enthusiastic and made helpful additional bibliographical suggestions. After I defended the dissertation in January 1975, he shared a copy with Yehuda Bauer in Jerusalem, which was the point at which Israeli scholars became aware of my work for the first time.
Yeah. [Mosse] always had his holiday, his winter holiday party. And she was always invited to that. Always had her hair done before she went to it, as I recall. And they were very close. I told you about the story that he was talking to Judy and I in his office. And he was so excited to have Judy come and see his hooligan lamps. And we had no idea what he was talking about, thinking it was motion detector or something like that. Turns out it was a halogen lamp over his dining room table. It was like, okay.
Sidney Iwanter
I also think that Professor Mosse was digging really deeply into his own soul. And ... it's one thing to talk about intellectual or intellectual history of like the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It's another thing to talk about the reason why you had to scram out of Berlin, and that your relatives were involved, that sort of thing. I mean, so it was the sort of the emotional impact that you can hear in his voice.
Rusty Borkin
I don't want to study history just for the sake of history, just for knowing the past. I want to study it so I can know how to live in the current situation and to change it. And so that's why coming back to the present moment in which we're living was critical. For me. It was just a natural thing. ... I don't want to debate nineteenth-century racist literature. I see some value in that. But for me it's about what does it mean for now? What does it mean for my life now? My grandkids' life, and what's going to happen to the world. And that's why I think Mosse's teachings are so important.
Lucy Cooper
It was so wonderful to be involved. And to think you could make a difference. I'm not sure kids today have that. And I hadn't realized until I read Professor Mosse's autobiography, how much he was involved politically behind the scenes. He kept that out of his lectures. He really did. And I really respect that. You could be a rock-ribbed conservative and still learn from Professor Mosse. And I'm not sure that that was as true of some of the others who let the emotion of the moment get into their classes. And he really was a wonderful professional.
Seymour Drescher
Mosse comes in and he says, "Okay, I've got good news for you." Now. He, he's he knows that it's worthwhile investing himself in me. Okay. I don't think he'd like to see somebody smelling of pus, okay, and all the rest. He says to me, "you got your job, I put you in for a job at Harvard and you've got, got the job."
I said, "George, I can't do this." I said, "I haven't finished my research on Tocqueville, the big primary research at Yale. I've gotta go back and do it."
He said, "nonsense, you're not going to do that, you're going to go and take the job. And you're gonna write the dissertation and it's going to be written by June because that's what you need."
Peter Abbott
[I]n the second semester of my sophomore year, I took my first, or it was the first semester as my elective while I was in ILS, was George Mosse's introduction European history, introduction to European history. And that's, I was totally impressed the first minute he started talking. And I think he says, I'm here to destroy your illusions or your slogans, one or the other. And he went through the slogans he was destroying, which was, the first was the idea that this is a democracy. It's not, it's representative government. ... The other illusion is "the people." There is no "the people." The question is, which people are you talking about? And so I was zeroed in, focused in right away from there.
Walter Mirisch
As I recall it was a session on history as it's been reflected in the movies. I thought that would be fun and so I agreed to participate. At the end of the session an older gentleman came up and said "I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Earl Pomeroy, one of your teachers at Madison and I thought I'd come by and say hello," and I said Wonderful, thank you, and he said, "You know, I always thought that it was a shame you hadn't gone on and had a career in history, until I saw the Pink Panther (1963). Then I knew you'd done the right thing."
Image courtesy of University Communications. Photo by Jeff Miller.
Steven E. Aschheim
[Mosse] was teaching at the Hebrew University in the early years. Is it still working? And he was giving a class... I probably told this in the other interview on Weimar. And there you had old Weimarians in the class, and one Weimarian stood up and said, "Wait a minute, I was there. It wasn't like that at all." And George would say, "You are in the valley; I am in the mountain." Now for instance I couldn't say something like that. That does take a certain authority. I couldn't do that. So, in that sense, George… George was unique in that sort of thing.
Robert Nye
George was the greatest teaser ever. He'd find out something about you. And then he'd exaggerate wildly, make wild claims about things that you did or accuse you of saying something, bragging about yourself or something that he was just, he was impossible. But he would laugh at his own jokes. But he'd make everybody else, I guess, this is something I was going to say earlier that I have two faces for George. One is his laughing face. The other one is "I'm talking about Nazism here" face. And they couldn't be more different. And yet he could go from one to the other pretty fast.
Alison Klairmont Lingo
And the more I listened to George Mosse, the more I realized that we were not, as our leaders were saying, in a revolutionary situation. That if we didn't, as he told us, and why I became a historian, was because if you do not understand your historical reality, you're doomed to be a victim of what's going on, that you have to understand the context...that really is what was most important to me about George Mosse was that he taught me to step back and look at the context. And to think through what the subtext to what all the pundits and political leaders of our day.
David Sorkin
The position at Madison opened. George first told me about it over lunch in London. I told him I wasn't interested. He was disappointed.
Then Ken[neth] Sacks, who was chair of the history department came to Oxford to give a lecture. He got in touch with me. I invited him to lunch at Saint Antony's. Ken was, I'm sure still is, a fabulous salesman. And he sold me on Madison.
I went home and Shifra and I talked about it. And we realized that Madison would solve all of our problems. It was affordable. The public schools were good. It was an excellent opportunity for me professionally because it was an endowed chair. I would come as a full professor. And I was being asked, or given the opportunity, to create a Jewish studies program from the ground up.
Vicki Caron
So I was a sophomore, but I was in an honors program that should have given me the right to be in there. But for some reason, you know, the axe came down. And so I went to talk to him and he wouldn't discuss it. (laughs) But Alex[ander] Orbach, who was the TA, told me to just be persistent and keep coming to the class and other people would drop out, because there was a very heavy workload there. Which was true very quickly. People started to drop. And so I was able to stay in the course. And it was a terrific course. There were other students there, Nancy Green, also...
But to jump a little bit further ahead, you know, [Mosse] came to my graduation. I went through graduation exercises in, in 1989 and he made it very clear to me that it was only the second time that he ever did it. The only other time he did it was with a student of his who was blind. You know, and he thought this was quite important that he go through commencement exercises with him. I think it was Norman. Is it Norman Coombs (PhD, 1961)? ... He said that he would go through the ceremonies with me because he so liked my parents, my family, and respected my family.
And he says because your mother and father are such lovely people that I will, I will do this otherwise, he said I'm completely against it. I don't like this kind of thing. And it turned out to be an absolutely, an absolutely wonderful experience.
Patrick Hutton
Mosse may have been suspicious of theory because he dealt with so many of them in his scholarship and he understood the nature and limits of each one. As a scholar, he had no desire to commit himself to a theoretical position so as to forestall any tendentious political identification in his scholarship. His deepest admiration was for English liberalism, for its open-minded toleration, its commitment to fair play, and moral integrity. He had a place in his heart for Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) as well as for John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) among the heroes of his course on nineteenth-century Europe.
Michael Kaplan
24, 25, 26 February 2019
George taught me, we talked about this informally over the last couple of days, the power of myth. Which I understood to some extent when I took his classes. But I really understood far more in the 1990s, and then since the year 2000. It's an emotional construct. It's human-created. It's a way of looking at things, a way of explaining things, that is the antithesis of reason, although it may have some reasonable elements in it. And it has a great power. And the right understood this far more than the left in many countries in Western and Central Europe.
David Warren Sabean
I went in and the chair of the [history] department ... and he said, "Well, what are you interested in?" And I said, "I've narrowed it down to intellectual history and the early modern period." That was all I could say…. He said, "You go to Mosse." And that's how I got started. And I went to see George. And he was sitting in his office with his high forehead. All of us remarked how over the 20 or 30 years we knew him; he was always the same age. And he was kind of a little bit intimidating. And I asked him what his seminar was going to be on. And he said, "I'll tell you when you get there."
Stanley Payne
[O]f course, George was very present in those years. When I came to take possession of my office, the very first day of fall semester in 1968, the first person who said hello was George coming down the hallway when he heard that I was there, with a great beaming smile on his face. I never will forget that. I've never seen George beam more than on that particular occasion. So it was very nice to see that. It made me feel very welcome. And within just a year or so, George suggested we got the money to have a visiting lecturer series on fascism. I think it was in 1970, [19]71, different specialist from the different institutions around the country talking about basically different countries and different movements.
John Rowe
But second semester I took George's 1815 to the present class. And some of it was familiar to me from my own reading. But the Holocaust was almost altogether new. It probably had a paragraph or a page in my high school history book. And he didn't ever mention his own connection to it. I didn't learn about that till later. I certainly didn't know about the Mosse publishing family and the Mosse building in Berlin or any of that stuff. I didn't know that he was gay, either. Those things just weren't talked about in those days...But as I took that course, I just said, this is what I want to study.
Paul Grendler
He came through and I got my teaching job without my dissertation, a job as lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. He really was very thoughtful. ... he went out of his way to help one of his students get a job at the University of Pittsburgh for one year. ... So Mosse was very, very helpful. As graduate students our nickname for people like him was "a good provider." He was known as a graduate director who worked his tail off to help his students get jobs.
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė
Tortorice: Well, that's interesting. Because of course now this is expected, that professors are always on the market, chronically on the market, just to get some compensation that is equal to other schools.
Ciplijauskaitė: Well, yes. But that is what I consider so wrong. Because when I got all these offers, then also my friends who were saying, "Well, go and show those offers because you'll get a salary increase."
And I said, "I don't sell myself." Like when I had, I had once or twice an offer of almost twice the salary because they needed a woman. Well I wrote back to those people, "I don't sell myself." Money isn't everything in life.
Marjorie Kreilick
7, 8, 9, 10 April 2008
George Mosse and I used to talk about this all the time. That's why George always kept a beginning history course as long as he taught. He taught graduate students and a beginning history course. He found that it was the most important course in history. And I feel that the beginning design courses are the most basic foundation you can get. And they should be taught by your most sophisticated teachers. You have to get the very essence about what's important...
William F. "Jack" Fry
12 May, 6 August 2008
But you know, on the bigger scale, we all have the right to do crazy things. Because sometimes the crazy things happen to be important...The other thing I think about with great pleasure is the potential of having brought to the University of Wisconsin something that will be useful for many years. Namely, the collection [William F. "Jack" Fry Collection on Italian Culture]. Now here again, that is really, that pleasure and that thought is small compared to the pleasure I had in making it. The feeling of discovery. The feeling of learning something I never understood before. The joy of meeting people I would never have met if I were not involved in that.
Laurence Lerner
And then there was George Mosse. George Mosse was something of a campus character. Everybody knew who he was. Unlike Merle Curti, who was extremely well-known professionally, but was not known to undergraduates, George Mosse on the other hand, was a cultural phenomenon on campus...
Mosse had a very large following, both in the undergraduates and the graduate students. While he expressed a very stern demeanor and sort of huffed and puffed a lot, he was very approachable. Mosse gave himself to his students which was a very unusual phenomenon in elite academic circles. The Madison faculty as a whole was very unusual; they taught and catered to their students.
Renato Moro
But [Mosse] began to speak. I realized immediately that he was a great orator. He fascinated out of the mobility of his eyes. And another feature I remember so well was his, he addressed to us without any form of hierarchy. We were accustomed in Italy that those high standard academics, they seemed to make you a great concession speaking with you. This was not absolutely the case. He was curious. He was interested in everything you may say. He had a very strong love for discussion, different perspective. It was very, very, very interesting and very fascinating.
Paul Buhle
George, I was told, or he told me, that when an issue of Radical America arrived, he was a subscriber and it was a comic book, he thought perhaps he'd been given the wrong magazine, that he'd been given a subscription to a comic magazine, (laughs) or a comic book series. But you know, I've thought about that since. And I think he was so enthusiastic about expressing socially critical, radical ideas in popular form, that he may very well have been tickled by it. Puzzled and tickled. He kept it.
Christopher Hexter
So little things I remember about Professor Mosse. One, driving. He was a disaster as a driver, because he loved to talk. And not only did he love to talk, he loved to talk facing people in the backseat. And I remember my poor mother ducking three-quarters of the time, and being in terror as Professor Mosse would go off. And he had his hands flying around as he was talking.


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package net.tascalate.concurrent.io;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.AsynchronousByteChannel;
import java.nio.channels.CompletionHandler;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

import net.tascalate.concurrent.Promise;

public interface AsyncByteChannel extends AsynchronousByteChannel, AsyncChannel {
    @Override
    Promise<Integer> read(ByteBuffer dst);
    @Override
    Promise<Integer> write(ByteBuffer src);

    public static <V> CompletionHandler<V, Object> handler(BiConsumer<? super V, ? super Throwable > handler) {
        return new CompletionHandler<V, Object>() {
            @Override
            public void completed(V result, Object attachment) {
                handler.accept(result, null);
            }

            @Override
            public void failed(Throwable ex, Object attachment) {
                handler.accept(null, ex);
            }
        };
    }
}

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Code execution in /lib/migrate.php (oC-SA-2012-004)

20th December 2012

Risk level: High

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in lib/migrate.php in Nextcloud before 4.5.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted mount.php file in an imported ZIP file.

Affected Software

Nextcloud Server < 4.0.10 (CVE-2013-5665)

Nextcloud Server < 4.5.5 (CVE-2013-5665)

Action Taken

It is recommended that all instances are upgraded to Nextcloud Server 4.5.5 or 4.0.10.

Acknowledgements

The Nextcloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory:

Felix Richter - Vulnerability discovery and disclosure.


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Home Features Facebook's commitment to Sri Lanka election
Facebook's commitment to Sri Lanka election
We believe Facebook can be a valuable force for democracy around the world, encouraging healthy debate, providing voters more direct access to their candidates and giving more people a voice in the political process. That is why we are focused on ensuring the integrity of elections on Facebook and we have learned a lot from our work around the world over the past few years.
We have developed a multi-faceted approach that includes removing fake accounts, preventing the spread of misinformation, disrupting coordinated inauthentic behaviour, increasing ads transparency and promoting civic engagement.
We have teams of people dedicated to protecting Sri Lanka's upcoming elections and we look forward to ensuring that Facebook can play a positive role in the democratic process.
In fact, this past week we supported My First Vote organisation as they launched their campaign to encourage new voters to participate in this year's presidential elections. At Facebook we are committed to free expression and respect for the democratic process. As a tool that gives voice to all people, regardless of background or belief and to do this we must ensure the safety, security and integrity across our platform.
Here are some of the specific ways we are working to strengthen our platform ahead of the November elections:
Working with local authorities to promote civic engagement
Democratic elections require an engaged population and Facebook is working with local authorities to encourage civic participation. Last month, on the invitation of the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, we trained Election Commission officials, political parties and election monitors, among others on how best they can use the platform and empower their constituents. We have held several roundtables and product research sessions to discuss the specific needs of the Sri Lankan public and to better understand how our policies play out on the ground. Learnings from civil society help inform our product, policies and programs across the country.
In addition, we will be posting an election day reminder on our platform on voting day. Sri Lankans will be able to share with their friends that they already voted and seek more information about polling places for the election.
Fighting false information on our platform
We continue to focus on our efforts on fighting false information. False information plagues elections and is harmful to our community – this is why we are committed to combating the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the Sri Lankan elections next month.
Our dedicated elections teams, supported by the 30,000 globally working on safety and security, continue to work to detect and prevent malicious actors and abuse on Facebook. When we detect content and actors that violate our Community Standards, including fake accounts, which are a big distributor of misinformation and disrupt civic discourse, we will remove them. Specifically during this election period, we remove any misinformation that is designed to deter people from voting.
We have dedicated teams working around the clock to deal with any escalation and we continue to improve our technology to help us identify violating content and this year we expanded our automatic machine translation to include Sinhala and Tamil in order to help us better detect content we should remove from the platform for violating our policies.
In September, Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka joined AFP as our fact-checking partner for Sri Lanka. Our fact checking partners are an important part of our commitment to identify and inform the community on false news on Facebook. Not only does this help us to flag false information but their reports help reduce the distribution of false news, which means fewer people will see and share false content.
In addition to what we do to keep our platform safe, we are also committed to building a more informed community. This includes training of our community members to recognise misinformation and understands which sources to trust. Recently we trained news publishers in Colombo on our tools and best practice to ensure our platform connects people to the quality, trusted and local news that is most important to them. This is especially important during election periods when people want to be informed. We have also extended our trainings to school students and youth around Digital Safety and we also do invest in broader awareness programmes on how to use this global platform
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We are absolutely committed to maintaining the integrity of the elections in Sri Lanka and will continue to work with local organisations, government groups and experts to ensure
this happens.
(Natasha Jog is Policy Manager Elections at Facebook South Asia)


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Personal consultations are also available evenings and weekends with prior scheduling.
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The Indian Premier League (IPL)-8 has begun. Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders are the defending champions who won IPL-7 by beating Kings XI Punjab by three wickets in the final.
In the 2015 IPL Player Auction, out of 349 players, only 67 were hired, 24 of them from other countries.
Yuvraj Singh was the most expensive cricketer, whose services were acquired for 16 crore Indian rupees ($2.57 million) by Delhi Daredevils.
The second most costly player was Dinesh Karthik who was bought for Rs10.50 crore by Royal Challengers Bangalore.
But surprisingly some of the world's leading cricketers failed to attract buyers. Sri Lankan veterans Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, South Africa's Hashim Amla and New Zealand's Ross Taylor remained unsold.
Pakistan's players remain deprived of the chance to show their talent in the IPL. That has been BCCI's policy since after the first IPL in 2008, in which 11 Pakistani cricketers played for different franchises.
Interestingly, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram is the coach of KKR.
Before the beginning of the 7th edition in 2014, the Indian Supreme Court removed BCCI President N Srinivasan for alleged corruption in the IPL.
In November 2014, the Supreme Court ordered that Chennai Super Kings — owned by Indian Cements — should be disqualified with immediate effect and without any further enquiry.
Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan has been found guilty by the Mudgal panel of being actively involved in betting during the 2013 edition.
Before confirmation of anything, ICC removed him from the Champions Trophy on the basis of Indian media's reports. The ICC did not mention what the Mumbai police were investigating Rauf for and said it had no further comment to make.
Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad started a hunger strike with several other people against the way the IPL was being managed — without any transparency and accountability.
On April 25, 2010, BCCI suspended Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, who conceived the idea of this tournament and made it a huge success for alleged misappropriation of funds.


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La LZ-1 es una de las carreteras principales de la isla de Lanzarote en Canarias, España. Partiendo desde la capital insular Arrecife, comunica la zona norte de la isla, finalizando en la localidad de Órzola, en el municipio de Haría, puerto de conexión de Lanzarote con la isla de La Graciosa. El tramo de esta vía entre la Circunvalación de Arrecife y Tahíche se encuentra desdoblado.

Como Carretera de Interés Regional, forma parte del denominado Eje Órzola-Arrecife-Playa Blanca. El Gobierno de Canarias ostenta su titularidad, encargándose el Cabildo de Lanzarote de su mantenimiento.

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An art is an Art in its truest form because it has been kept pure and original. If we don't maintain the purity of the Original Giron Escrima System it will be remembered by only a few and eventually be lost forever. I believe that this Warrior Art we were taught has been proven and needs no alteration. I will carry forth the teachings of my father, Leovigildo Giron as they were given to me.
Therefore, the vehicle to make this happen is the creation of the "ORIGINAL GIRON ESCRIMA FEDERATION." Destined by blood and through this Federation we will continue to preserve the core of the warrior art of Original Giron Escrime System, the legacy of our Grandmaster, Leovigildo Miguel Giron and all of his original teachings.


Andhra Pradesh education minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao informed that the much awaited AP DSC, AP TET notifications will be released in the month of May and July, 2018. TET notification will be released on 04th May and DSC notification on 06th July. Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission- APPSC will conduct the DSC examination online.
Application Date- 07-07-2018 to 09-08-2018.
Dares of Exams- 23-08-2018 to 30-08-2018 (2 sessions-9.30-12.00 and 2.30 p to 5pm).
Objections deadline- 31-08-2018 to 07-09-2018.


Абрахам Г. Маслоу называл потоковые состояния пиковыми переживаниями.
Csikszentmihalyi M. Beyond boredom and anxiety. San Francisco, 1975.
Gardner, Howard, Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Damon, William (2002). Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. New York, Basic Books.
Geirland, John (1996). «Go With The Flow». Wired magazine, September, Issue 4.09.


I'm back in the studio after spending most of the summer researching new material and doing some work around the property, recently bought a bunch of large canvases for upcoming works too. I've spent some time at different farms looking for the perfect cow painting, but not sure I got the material I wanted. One of the farms had a creek running through the pasture, perfect setting, just couldn't get the cows to pose like they were supposed to. Also spent a great deal of time on the River doing some research . . . with a little fishing here and there. I can spend hours or days in the field trying to find the right composition, lighting and situation that will produce a good painting, not an easy task, but a challenge I truly love. Winter is coming so I thought I'd start another winter River scene, this is the first layer (underpainting), the painting will change quite a bit. Wakpa Wakan is the Ojibwe name for the river I love to paint. It means Great Spirit River. It's new given name was by European immigrants that changed spirit river to Rum River . . . I like to refer to it in the native language or just Spirit River, that's just the way it should be. There is an effort by a small group to change the name back to the original, but I'm told things aren't really moving along to well. I'm sure t's difficult to get changes like that to happen.


Forensic Audits are still being performed in a very generous manner by the various medical schemes and some of the codes being audited are for procedures performed for ultrasound investigations (specifically heart sonar examinations) and modifier applications (like modifier 0013).
SpesNet offers assistance with the forensic audits where requests are received. Please contact the SpesNet Healthcare Help Line for assistance and to obtain the required documentation. SpesNet would also like to remind practices that similar audits have been performed in the past on the application of the codes used in ICU (1204 / 1205 / etc.) as well as the application of Rule M (electively booked cases) and Rule G (post procedure follow-up consultations performed within the global period).
Practices utilizing these codes are kindly requested to review their use of these codes and the application of the modifier. Coding queries can be forwarded to SpesNet and the use of the guidelines from societies as well as the Medical Doctor's Coding Manual is highly encouraged. Coding training is also available via SpesNet for practices who might require a formal course.
Although forensic audits are at times a real inconvenience to deal with, the reasons behind the implementation of the audits seem to be based on solid facts. The Board of Healthcare Funders' Forensic Management Unit's deputy chair, Dr Hleli Nhlapo, purportedly states that between 7 and 15% of medical aid claims are fraudulent ones. To put the figure into perspective, of the estimated R130 billion spent in the private healthcare sector annually, R13 billion could be allocated to fraudulent claims alongside wastage and abuse. It has further come to light that the practitioners operating in these syndicates opted to use low value, high volume claims to commit the fraud. While more difficult to police, this type of behaviour still becomes evident on the various utilisation monitor systems.
It is generally accepted that most practitioners are ethical, caring professionals. There are unfortunately a few who persist in giving the profession a bad reputation. Bad behaviour from healthcare professionals often leads to medical schemes implementing managed care interventions (like copies or reports or second opinions) that adversely affect the administrative burden of the rest of the ethically operating profession.
While an estimated 94% of claims that might be fraudulent in nature are discussed at the audit forums, all medical schemes have processes in place to monitor claims and trends on an individual provider level.
Recently, the SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) uncovered fraudulent activities by 150 of its staff members who colluded with healthcare professionals. It stated that it views this type of behaviour in a very serious light and that it is gearing to investigate further where corruption is "probable". It is also planning to take "stern action" against the perpetrators.
With more schemes (and now also corporates) opting to clamp down on fraudulent claims, more activity in the forensic sectors are sure to follow.
SpesNet would like to remind practitioners that fraudulent behaviour transgresses several Acts and could lead to punitive measure instigation.
Codes are periodically updated or replaced by new or alternative codes by SAMA and endorsed on society level. These are then communicated to the healthcare professionals. Amidst the excitement around the possibilities the new codes offer, claims containing these codes are often rejected by medical schemes. This naturally leads to obvious frustration and at times exasperation on provider side.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that medical schemes are allowed to implement managed care interventions in terms of the Medical Schemes Act. These often include treatment protocols and guidelines pertaining to how the scheme would fund for certain procedures. A medical scheme is consequently under no legal obligation to reimburse for the use of these codes and the responsibility frequently rests on the patient to obtain (from the practitioner) the relevant codes and submit these to the medical scheme prior to any intervention (as part of the pre-authorisation).
While the off-label use of drugs are common place for some molecules, most medical schemes do not reimburse for these. The Medicines Control Council (MCC) requires the submission of what is commonly referred to as a Section 21 application form where the unregistered use of a drug is contemplated. This form can be downloaded here and it describes the function, process and information required for authorised use of the drug. Naturally, patient (or guardian / legal representative) written consent must always accompany the application.