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Is there anyone's going to Yangshuo, Fenghuang,Zhangjiajie then Chengdu IN DAYS. I'd love to go to those places with interesting people... I have to start it Quick, you know the Chinese new year is coming, the traffic will get very very crowded!!!
First,It's Ryan here working in Shenzhen, I'm from Sichuan:Chengdu by the way. I'm going back to my hometown to spend the Chinese new year by train And Would stop and go on places on the way.
The plan is Going to Yangshuo by bus and spend some time there ( I've stayed in Yangshuo for half year in 2012: studying English, Loved it, just wanna go back and breathe some nice air. ) Then I'll take a train to Fenghuang(That's on the way back to Chengdu), After that maybe I'll go to Zhangjiajie(Which is not that exactly on the way to Chengdu ). These places are kind of on the way to Chengdu (Only except Zhangjiajie, have to take some extra journey )
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On behalf of the Lions of Multiple District "A", Ontario and Western Quebec, we are happy to invite all Lions to the 97th Lions Clubs International Convention to be held in the vibrant City of Toronto, July 4 to 8, 2014.
Toronto is situated on the north west shore of beautiful Lake Ontario located in southern Ontario, Canada. Our Host City is the gateway to central and western Canada by virtue of its location on Lake Ontario. The Great Lakes which begin with Lake Ontario and extend over 1600 kilometres/1000 miles into the Canadian heartland make Toronto a major worldwide transportation centre for both Great Lakes and Ocean shipping.
The City of Toronto offers an almost endless list of attractions and things to do while visiting here. Attractions such as the city's CN Tower, magnificent harbour, sports teams and facilities such as the Air Canada Centre and the Rogers Centre together with outstanding shopping opportunities are indeed exceptional. As well, underground, there are several kilometres of shopping in our downtown area. Add to this fine restaurants and eateries too numerous to mention and many excellent hotels located conveniently downtown all make Toronto a place where visitors return again and again.
Toronto is a culturally diverse, vibrant, safe and clean city.
It is impossible to put into words all of the superb features of our city, rather it is truly a special place which you must personally experience when you attend our Lions Clubs International Convention this coming July 4 to 8, 2014.
The City of Toronto last hosted the Lions Clubs International Convention in 1964, fifty years ago. Come and visit with us again, we will make you feel welcome and right at home.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he stands by his decision not to agree with China's censorship of its Web site.
"We think it's important to be in China," Schmidt said, in an interview on CNBC. "We want to do it in a way that doesn't violate our fundamental principles."
Earlier Friday, Google said Chinese authorities had renewed its licenseto operate, averting a potential shutdown of the site.
"We do believe the move to Hong Kong does meet Chinese law and also the principles Americans care about," he said.
The Chinese market offers Google a huge opportunity for growth. As for other markets, Schmidt said its Internet business is growing despite economic turbulence around the world.
Even potential changes to the tax and financial systems have left Google's business largely unscathed, he said.
"It has not been such a big deal to Google because we're a sufficiently profitable company," he said.
Closer to home, Schmidt sees continued worries about the consumer and retail demand are weighing on corporate hiring, but employment is key to reviving a sluggish U.S. economy, Schmidt said.
"The most important thing for the government to do is to establish a program over the next few years that results in large, net new employment gains and the creation of new industries, new businesses," he said. "When people are working, they're paying taxes, their morale is better, you have fewer secondary problems in health and medical issues and so forth."
Schmidt also is concerned about U.S. debt.
"It will literally cripple us ten years from now," he said. "The U.S. economy is currently built on an unsupportable model of debt. Even under the most optimistic of projections, we don't get to a 3 to 4 percent deficit until 2015 or 2016. We simply can't live on this debt binge as a country."


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"Exquisite" isn't a term I use often to describe a book, but I'll make an exception for "America's National Parks--A Pop-Up Book." This recently released book is beautiful--and a blast to read through. It showcases some of our best-loved national playgrounds with detailed pop-up pages. When you open the Grand Canyon, for instance, an eagle soars against the vermilion backdrop; at Yellowstone, Old Faithful spews into the sky (but you don't get wet). See how some of your favorite places look in these photographs of the pages. Best of all, your purchase benefits the National Parks Conservation Assn. Read on to find out how.
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The Reno Gazette-Journal reports the bruin was snagged Wednesday night, but wildlife experts don't know if it's the same bear they were trying to catch.
For one thing, they thought the problem bear they were looking for was a female because of two yearling cubs also reported in the area.
The one that ended up in the trap was a 250-pound male.
"There's enough doubt as to whether this is really the offending bear," Chris Healy, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, told the newspaper. "This bear will not be euthanized."
Game wardens set the trap last Saturday after a bear broke into some cars in search of food and ripped up siding on a home. Such aggressive behavior could justify killing the bear as a threat to public safety under state policy, Healy said.
But the trap itself stirred polarized passions in the Lake Tahoe neighborhood. Over the weekend, someone illegally tampered with the trap by spraying it with cleaning fluids to keep bears away. Residents of the homes where the bear went on its food raids were subjected to threatening phone calls.
The trap was cleaned up and baited again. On Wednesday night, a bear got caught.
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The bear will be released into the woods Friday at an undisclosed location once it recovers from its tranquilizer-induced slumber.
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What is Riomet?
Metformin is an oral diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels.
Metformin is for people with type 2 diabetes. Metformin is sometimes used in combination with insulin or other medications, but it is not for treating type 1 diabetes.
Metformin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
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What is the most important information I should know about Riomet (Metformin)?
You should not use this medication if you are allergic to metformin, or if you are in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis (call your doctor for treatment with insulin).
If you need to have any type of x-ray or CT scan using a dye that is injected into your veins, you will need to temporarily stop taking metformin.
Before taking metformin, tell your doctor if you have liver disease or a history of heart disease.
Some people develop lactic acidosis while taking metformin. Early symptoms may get worse over time and this condition can be fatal. Get emergency medical help if you have even mild symptoms such as: muscle pain or weakness, numb or cold feeling in your arms and legs, trouble breathing, stomach pain, nausea with vomiting, slow or uneven heart rate, dizziness, or feeling very weak or tired.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking Riomet (Metformin)?
Some people develop a life-threatening condition called lactic acidosis while taking metformin. You may be more likely to develop lactic acidosis if you have liver or kidney disease, congestive heart failure, a severe infection, if you are dehydrated, or if you drink large amounts of alcohol. Talk with your doctor about your individual risk.
You should not use this medication if you are allergic to metformin, or if you are in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis (call your doctor for treatment with insulin).
If you need to have any type of x-ray or CT scan using a dye that is injected into your veins, you will need to temporarily stop taking metformin.
To make sure you can safely take metformin, tell your doctor if you have any of these other conditions:
- liver disease; or
- a history of heart disease
FDA pregnancy category B. This medication is not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
It is not known whether metformin passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. You should not breast-feed while you are using metformin.
Metformin should not be given to a child younger than 10 years old. Extended-release metformin (Glucophage XR) should not be given to a child younger than 17 years old.
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Riomet Side Effects
What are the possible side effects of Riomet (Metformin)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
This medication may cause lactic acidosis (a build-up of lactic acid in the body, which can be fatal). Lactic acidosis can start slowly and get worse over time. Get emergency medical help if you have even mild symptoms of lactic acidosis, such as:
- muscle pain or weakness
- numb or cold feeling in your arms and legs
- trouble breathing
- feeling dizzy, light-headed, tired, or very weak
- stomach pain, nausea with vomiting; or
- slow or uneven heart rate
Call your doctor at once if you have any other serious side effect such as:
- feeling short of breath, even with mild exertion
- swelling or rapid weight gain; or
- fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms
Less serious side effects may include:
- headache or muscle pain
- weakness; or
- mild nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, gas, stomach pain
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.Back to Top
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Tell your doctor about all other medicines you use, especially:
- furosemide (Lasix)
- nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia)
- cimetidine (Tagamet) or ranitidine (Zantac)
- amiloride (Midamor) or triamterene (Dyrenium)
- digoxin (Lanoxin)
- morphine (MS Contin, Kadian, Oramorph)
- procainamide (Procan, Pronestyl, Procanbid)
- quinidine (Quin-G) or quinine (Qualaquin)
- trimethoprim (Proloprim, Primsol, Bactrim, Cotrim, Septra); or
- vancomycin (Vancocin, Lyphocin)
You may be more likely to have hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) if you take metformin with other drugs that can raise blood sugar, such as:
- isoniazid
- diuretics (water pills)
- steroids (prednisone and others)
- heart or blood pressure medication (Cartia, Cardizem, Covera, Isoptin, Verelan, and others)
- niacin (Advicor, Niaspan, Niacor, Simcor, Slo-Niacin, and others)
- phenothiazines (Compazine and others)
- thyroid medicine (Synthroid and others)
- birth control pills and other hormones
- seizure medicines (Dilantin and others); and
- diet pills or medicines to treat asthma, colds or allergies
These lists are not complete and other drugs may interact with metformin. Tell your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products. Do not start a new medication without telling your doctor.Back to Top
What should I avoid while taking Riomet (Metformin)?
Avoid drinking alcohol. It lowers blood sugar and may increase your risk of lactic acidosis while taking metformin.Back to Top
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How should I take Riomet (Metformin)?
Take exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Do not take in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow the directions on your prescription label. Your doctor may occasionally change your dose to make sure you get the best results.
Take metformin with a meal, unless your doctor tells you otherwise. Some forms of metformin are taken only once daily with the evening meal. Follow your doctor's instructions.
Metformin is only part of a complete program of treatment that also includes diet, exercise, and weight control. It is important to use this medicine regularly to get the most benefit. Get your prescription refilled before you run out of medicine completely.
Do not crush, chew, or break an extended-release tablet (Glucophage XR). Swallow the pill whole. Breaking the pill may cause too much of the drug to be released at one time.
Your blood sugar will need to be checked often, and you may need other blood tests at your doctor's office. Visit your doctor regularly.
Check your blood sugar carefully during a time of stress or illness, if you travel, exercise more than usual, drink alcohol, or skip meals. These things can affect your glucose levels and your dose needs may also change.
Your doctor may want you to stop taking metformin for a short time if you become ill, have a fever or infection, or if you have surgery or a medical emergency.
Ask your doctor how to adjust your metformin dose if needed. Do not change your medication dose or schedule without your doctor's advice.
Your doctor may have you take extra vitamin B12 while you are taking metformin. Take only the amount of vitamin B12 that your doctor has prescribed.
Store at room temperature away from moisture, heat, and light.Back to Top
What happens if I overdose on Riomet (Metformin)?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
An overdose of metformin may cause lactic acidosis. Get emergency medical help if you have any of these symptoms of lactic acidosis: weakness, increasing sleepiness, slow heart rate, cold feeling, muscle pain, shortness of breath, stomach pain, feeling light-headed, and fainting.Back to Top
What happens if I miss a dose of Riomet (Metformin)?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember (be sure to take the medicine with food). Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.Back to Top
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We can put them through hell but it won't work
It is the beginning of summer and the humidity is stifling. Yesterday's rain still lingers underfoot, serving as a reminder of the dismal surrounds. The tent - a shelter if you could call it shelter at all - is a constant reminder of the misery to be found here in this forsaken place.
Rows upon rows line the grounds with some holding with up to 14 people inside. As night draws closer, so too do the storms of the rain season. The tents offer little resistance to the almost nightly torrents thrown down from above. The bedding is damp, the surrounds are bleak, and hope begins to fade. This is Nauru as Amnesty International's Dr Graham Thom has described seeing on his recent visit. This is the Pacific Solution.
A delegation from Amnesty International has recently called on the Australian Government to rethink its Pacific Solution, describing conditions in the Nauru detention camp in no uncertain terms as "completely unacceptable".
This was in reference to fact that the Government had not begun the process involved in determining the validity of asylum claims for most of the 387 asylum seekers housed on Nauru, despite some of the detainees being already held for months on the island. In addition, the conditions inside the detention camps were found to be anything but a source of pride for Australia.
Apart from concerns for the physical wellbeing of asylum seekers, the Amnesty International delegation also noted the high rates of mental duress placed on the detainees. As one detainee said "We think we will die here. We can't see any future."
As criticism was levelled at the Pacific Solution and at the Government, a spokesman for the immigration minister Chris Bowen said "Conditions in Nauru at times may not be pleasant, but they are the same conditions immigration staff and service providers are working under."
These wise words were all that could be spoken in defence of the detention facility. What the spokesman failed to note was the living conditions of the immigration staff are far superior to those of the detainees. All is not equal in Nauru.
But in fairness to the Government, the Pacific Solution was intended to deter further people smuggling, and to stem the tide of the radical queue jumping extremists from far distant lands which we in Australia have very little to no idea of including Tamils, Iranians, Afghans and Iraqis to name but a few.
As the question of whether the program is a success or failure rages in Canberra, with statistics on boat numbers being passed like the proverbial hot potato, the question of means should also be discussed as it can provide a great insight into the Governments mindset and manner in dealing with a politically and socially challenging issue.
In the plain light of day, these are facts. For the indiscretion of fleeing your country of origin and seeking asylum in Australia (whether for a valid reason or not) it is the policy of the Australian Government to detain you until your case is processed. This seems to be a fair system, checks and balances must be kept. However the story does not stop there.
You are then (if you are one of the unlucky ones) shipped off, sometimes without even setting foot on Australian soil, to another country to be held until the Government can begin your application, sometimes taking months.
You are put into a detention facility which international observers have described as "completely unacceptable", which fail to meet international standards for asylum seekers.
You are then forced to wait, while enduring the daily misery and mental degradation which comes with being housed in such a facility. That is unless of course, you decide to voluntarily go home and return to the country from which you fled.
Perhaps this is the reasoning behind Nauru and other centres like it. Perhaps the process to seek asylum in this country, including being forcibly housed offshore has been made deliberately harsh and inhumane in order to coerce the detainees to forgo the process in fear of their own sanity and health.
This would of course take a grotesque lack of care and humanity on the part of our leaders, some of which was on display when both Opposition leader Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Bob Carr spoke of the issue.
When questioned over the Amnesty International findings, Mr Abbott said: "The people who have come illegally to this country need to know that they are breaking our laws. They are… taking unfair advantage of our decency as a people. There needs to be consequences for people who do the wrong thing."
To further compound the abject lack of humanity in the Australian Parliament, Mr Carr also put on record when confronted with what Amnesty sawt: "I think Australia stands out, stands out in the world as having a humane commitment that I'm very proud of."
A shocking disconnect from reality.
There is one question that is routinely posed to the Government, is it working? On that issue the Government has finally provided an answer of sorts, by admitting that all of its' offshore detention centres were at capacity and that new arrivals would be in fact processed on Australian soil.
The announcement that not only is the policy inhumane as described the Amnesty International delegation, but that it is also ineffective has ignited little debate amongst officials in Canberra. Despite not achieved its' goals, despite it being the most Orwellian of deterrents which the Government could provide, and despite the fact that it is not making any discernible difference to the number of boat arrivals, the policy remains.
This Pacific Solution has become a stain on our once fair, proud and caring nation. A xenophobic and racist undercurrent can only been enhanced by such National policies, the fruits of which are now coming to bare.
The racially charged riots in Cronulla, Indian students being targeted for assault and now a French national being abused by thugs on a bus are all examples of how far we as a nation have fallen from the lofty ideals of Australian Multiculturalism.
As the latest in a long line of un-Australian racist outbursts fill our news-stands and televisions, and we wonder how we became such a bigoted, racist uneducated folk, perhaps we should look to our leaders to show us the way out of this quagmire, instead of marching us towards the darkness of history through the persecution of a group of people.
All for no apparent gain.
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nihonin says:
Careful Victor, you might water down your latte with your crocodile tears. What about the refugees stuck in the camps for years longer due to these country hopping opportunist.
AdamC says:
Well, this was a bit of a moving feast. (There is something to be said for using an editor.)
I agree with the article (or, at least, the headline) that simply inflicting detention on asylum seekers has not been show to discourage boat arrivals. There is an obvious reason for that. A couple of years on Nauru in exchange for the spoils of Australian citizenship is a pretty good deal for a Hazara Afghan, for example.
Deterrent approaches like offshore detention only work if access to the ultimate prize (resetllement) becomes unavailable, or at least uncertain. That changes the calculation of costs and benefits. Sadly, Labor relied on a single deterrent strategy, offshore processing, which was vulnerable to be being ovwhelmed with a flood of arrivals. There is no surprise that this strategy did not work. The Coalition was warning Labor about that from the start.
People come to Australia because we resettle boat arrivals. We do not have to do that. A stay on Nauru is pointless if there is no prospect of citizenship at the end of this. Labor are either too stupid or too obtuse to learn the lesson of their own failures. Hopefully they will eventually.
andye says:
"The people who have come illegally to this country need to know that they are breaking our laws. They are… taking unfair advantage of our decency as a people. There needs to be consequences for people who do the wrong thing."
And this is the crux of why this is such a big issue. Nothing seems to get the hordes worked up more than the impression that someone is getting something they don't deserve. Abbott is doing very well taking advantage of this.
Ash says:
Here's the way I see it.
If these people are willing to sacrifice everything they have, spend all their life's savings, travel through multiple dangerous countries, climb on some crappy little putt-putt boat and put their lives in danger all to make a life for themselves here…
Those sound like the kind of people I want in this country.
Here's how I would do it.
1) Once processed (preferably onshore, but I'm not completely opposed to off-shore processing) all refugees get a temporary protection visa. In return, they're sent to areas of the country where we need workers (out in the mines in particular) and they can start working and earning. (If they have any education or skilled trades, look where their skills are needed). Children go to school but none of the dodgy religious schools - they go to public schools and learn to mix with kids of all backgrounds.
2) After the TPV period is up, their case is re-assesed. If their home country is safe, they and their families can return with assistance from the Australian government. If they still want to stay in Australia, they need to meet certain criteria. Specifically:
- have you worked the entire period of your TPV?
- do you have qualifications or skills?
- how good is your English?
among others. You get the point. Make the criteria strict but not impossible.
3) If they are found to be suitable, they get PR. At this point, family reunion is possible but has to be tightened significantly. Not all the cousins can come in off you. I personally would limit it to spouses, children and parents.
Tim says:
nothing will work except to remove ourselves from the completely outdated Refugee convention and not allow any boat arrival to be given residency or status ever.
This will free up billions to help more people in overseas refugee camps.
Organisations like Amnesty will never admit that their solutions won't work anymore than the current government policy.
TheRealDave says:
So, plenty of good quality food, accomodation, safety, medical care, support, education, legal representation, entertainment ammenities etc are 'unnacceptable' or 'below standards'??
Well, they could wait at a proper refugee camp setup and run by the UN and hsot countries that they flew or sailed past on their way here or they could have waited in the comfort of theiri places of origin couldn't they?
Wait….thats racist to suggest such isn't it? Can I get a ruling on that? I can't remember what is and isn't racist any more…...I'd hate to offend some arts student in Manly by accident…I try to do that on purpose…
TheRealDave says:
Jsut one other comment, if I may…
Indian Students being targetted'...isn't it pretty much well known that the majority, infact overwhelming majority, of these alledged attacks were actually perpetrated by another recently arrived migrant group from Africa?
I am more than happy to be corrected as I am only referencing comments from peopl ein Melbourne at the time.
Andrew c says:
It is easy to see why we are so racist. A policy such as this says to the common person in the street, it's ok to be racist. Look at the current punch article headlines "endless cash donations do nothing to aid Asia" - don't give money to asians, they'll just invade. and "we should make an example of dumb racists" - is there such a thing as a smart racist?
Whether asylum seekers are genuine or not is beside the point. Accept them, treat them humanely, assess their claim, allow asylum or send them home. Housing and providing services to 387 people - sounds like a business opportunity to me, the government can either pay a foreign government to do it, or it could generate additional employment in Australia.
This has been a national shame for far too long.
Shane From Melbourne says:
The solution is simple- make the only processing facility for refugees in Hobart. How they they make their way to the facility is their own problem. Until then they aren't recognized as existing in Australia, i.e. no welfare, no family reunions, no permanent residency or Australian citizenship. Hope they brought enough money for a plane ticket from wherever they land because it is a long walk….
Haxton Waag says:
There is also the possibility, I suppose, that we ourselves may one day require refuge. If that day ever comes, it is to be hoped that our prospective hosts have a good opinion of us, based in part on how we have treated refugees in the past.
Millsy says:
Australia needs to nut up or shut up. We either humanely accept refugees coming to out shores or we abandon any pretext of having actual morals or giving a damn about people suffering, withdraw from the refugee convention and start sinking refugee boats and murdering "the illegals" wholesale. Its time to quit with the "concerned about the safety of people being smuggled in unsafe boats" dogwhistle and take an honest stand, one way or the other.
Reg Whiteman says:
I don't remember voting in a referendum for "multi-culturalism". I was unaware we had "...fallen from the lofty ideals of Australian multi-culturalism". Here was me thinking it had been forced upon us by Al Grassby, the Minister for the Mafia in the Whitlam Government and kept in place by jelly-backs like Fraser and Hawk, their heirs and successors.
Can someone please explain to me why I owe all these people anything? Why do I have to pay for them and provide them with food, housing, medical care and unemployment benefits?
What sort of hide do you have to have to just turn up on someone's doorstep and demand free room and board and access to the bank account - forever?
If they were in such great fear for their lives, how come they have by-passed half a dozen safe havens to get here? It has nothing to do with escaping tyranny and everything to do with shopping around for a country where they can get the most for nothing and then import their 4,000 closest relatives. And then, of course, we have seen the way Australia's generosity is repaid in that disgraceful display in Sydney recently with thugs and children holding up signs demanding that we "behead those who insult the prophet".
These people who destroy their ID and then turn up here should be informed that they will not be given citizenship - ever - and will returned to the place from whence they came and will pay the fare themselves. If they've got the $10-$20K to pay smugglers then they can pay for the cost of us booting them out.
This article has more holes than Swiss cheese and is little more than an insult to this country and its people.
Get Real says:
So what would you have us do then, Victor? Perhaps you would be happy if we built 5 star luxury hotels for them all? Sorry but if you come here illegally these are the processes you must go through. How is having access to food, clean water, accommodation, medical care, etc "unacceptable"? Certainly these are all things that our very own homeless are missing out on!
Craig says:
Most critically we have no vision of the future for Australian multi-culturalism or population levels.
Australia is drifting without leadership or a rudder - and the opposition is as vapid as the current government.
Perhaps this is due to the dumbing down of the public service - the promotion of mediocre time servers to senior roles, while the innovators and top performers take the voluntary redundancies and re-enter the private market where they are in high demand.
Certainly the quality of our overall political landscape is the worst it has been in Australia's history. Hopefully Australians will take action before we see them ruin the country.
Stephen T says:
Victor, you need a dose of reality, genuine refugees as opposed to the migratory horde that are currently assailing our Northern borders would be counting their blessings to be boarded in installations ¼ as good as that provided by the Australian Government. I've seen and worked with genuine refugees, when they flee their homelands, they leave behind most of their belongings, sometimes they manage to grab a few basics, but most of the time they are just happy to escape with their lives intact. They usually end up with thousands of others in a settlement that can stretch for miles. This is a refugee camp, a place that not one of us would willingly choose to inhabit.
The camps are comprise tents and other makeshift shelters built from whatever materials happen to be available, sticks, plastic sheeting, mud and stones. In the best of cases, humanitarian aid agencies will provide the basics: food, clean drinking water, and rudimentary health care. Health issues within the camps can be appalling with diseases such as cholera and dysentery affecting the thousands of people gathered in these makeshift settlements.
Now the thing that makes the refugees in these camps different to the migratory horde and deserving of our aid is that having fled conflicts of unimaginable proportions – massacre, genocide, and other atrocities - they don't have as much as two pennies to their name and are relieved and grateful to have reached a safe haven even if it is still akin to hell. When I contrast their attitude to the attitude of entitlement displayed by the people on Nauru and Manus Island I know which people I would be assisting. You can write whatever you like and you can choose not to publish this comment but your time would be better served in researching and writing an article about genuine refugees rather than a topical piece gratuitously designed to push your own views.
"As the latest in a long line of Un-Australian racist outbursts fill our news-stands and televisions," I seriously doubt that you know what your talking about here, I think you will find that most Australians have a sense of fair play and see them as displacing the genuine need of actual refugees rather than because they are asylum seekers. Research your fact then write another article and until you actually have some credibility in the area don't talk shit.
Mik says:
Or all of the member Nations of the UN could try living up to the ideals of the UN and really apply genuine, combined, unrelenting pressure to any nation/nations/ warring factions creating refugees, through discrimination or war, for whatever reason.
No genuine refugee wants to go through the terror and trauma of being a refugee.
Michael S says:
The people smugglers will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.
Slouch Hat says:
Time to revoke the out dated Refugee Convention which has Australia over a barrel and the equally controversial later protocol as the times, they are a changing.
Stephen T says:
@Mitch: Call it what you will Mitch, in the majority they are economic refugees and they operate from choice not from necessity. If you want to something of value argue for better representation in the genuine refugee centres so we can improve the lot of those poor souls who genuinely need it and would not take any kindness extended for granted. Its disgusting when you look at what has been spent and what could have been accomplished with the same funding elsewhere, yes I admit it is hyperbole, but its also true and unless we set our priorities now we as a Nation will fail in helping countless needy people. I vote for helping those who actually need it.
Mitch says:
I guess all the racists were left feeling a bit put out by all the negative attention from the bus video. So its good they get these asylum seeker stories to spew their irrational hate at.
C says:
How many times does it have to be repeated that the vast majority of boat arrivals are not refugees? They are economic migrants looking for a better way of life. They often come from countries which are in turmoil and where life is dangerous but that does not make them refugees. Refugee status depends on who you are, not what you are. You need to be someone who is in genuine fear of persecution - at a level where your life is in danger not merely because you get passed over for employment.
Those who can afford to pay people smugglers could also afford plane tickets. They could front up at passport control and seel asylum - and yes, the vast majority of them do have passports and identification papers and other travel documents. It is how they get into Indonesia in the first place.
They choose to come the sea route because they believe they can queue jump that way. They get angry when they realise that the money they have paid is not going to get them what they want as soon as they want it.
There is nothing illegal about Temporary Protection Visas. Anyone genuinely seeking asylum would be happy to accept that - and they would accept permanant relocation to another country too. All too often boat arrivals are saying "Australia, only Australia". That should tell the authorities who these people are and what they really want.
Until we return to TPVs this problem is just going to escalate. I know. I work with aid workers and people who work in refugee camps. Our government policy infuriates them.
Ben says:
>>This Pacific Solution has become a stain on our once fair, proud and caring nation. A xenophobic and racist undercurrent can only been enhanced by such National policies, the fruits of which are now coming to bare.
Yes, yes, yes, we know. We've heard all these cliches before from the professional wailers.
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Two very different ambassadors of this moment are Mike Skinner, a.k.a. the Streets, a twenty-five-year-old white man from Birmingham who specializes in shaggy-dog stories, and Dylan Mills, a.k.a. Dizzee Rascal, a nineteen-year-old black man from East London who uses his remarkable voice to punch holes in the air. Mills won the corporate-sponsored Mercury Prize last year for his album "Boy in Da Corner," and Skinner's new record, "A Grand Don't Come for Free," is favored for the same prize this year. Earlier in the summer, the two appeared together here, at Irving Plaza.
The club filled early—Skinner and Mills have sturdy followings—and Mills appeared first, performing with a hype man (someone who exhorts the crowd and sings along with key lines) and a disk jockey. Wearing a Yankees cap, Mills was calm and businesslike. He is small of stature but moves with equilibrium and carefully parcelled-out effort, as if he'd known since kindergarten that people are watching him. He raps over music that he produces himself; the consensus term for this genre is "grime," though the sounds are paradoxically clean in the way that only digital media are clean. Some grime tracks sound like buzzers rasping inside an oil barrel; others seem to have been made from cell-phone ring tones. The music is synthetic and hits hard, almost to the point of punishment. What strikes an American ear is the rhythm. Even the most aggressive American hip-hop is indebted to the African-American musical tradition of emphasized downbeats and swing. These tendencies are human-friendly even when the lyrics aren't. Grime shares neither this lineage nor these concerns. Its roots are in the fast and furious fusion of Jamaican dance hall and English rave music called drum and bass, and another, lighter dance music called garage. (No relation to garage rock.) If you're bracing for a test, there are two major points: grime's first motherland is likely Jamaica or England, rather than America; and grime favors fast, anxious tempos that rarely show up in American hip-hop. Grime smacks and bullies whatever time signature it is grudgingly participating in. Mills's best tracks, such as "I Luv U" and "Stop Dat," are like arguments between two implacable robot telemarketers. If popular music is how each young generation establishes its voice and draws borders with surrounding generations, grime has done it in a fairly logical way. Adults are just organic, fallible, dishonest creatures. Hard drives and cell phones are always there.
Working with his own music at Irving Plaza, Mills was relentless. When he started rhyming over the instrumental of the American hip-hop hit "Tipsy," he outclassed the song's original performer, J-Kwon, in a handful of verses. His most flattering collaborator, though, was silence. Several times, his d.j. stopped playing records and Mills rhymed a cappella. His accent is strong and his voice slightly stopped up, as if there were no easy way for him to say anything. But Mills can say just about anything, and more nimbly than your average human (or machine). As he built up his oration, angle by angle, the crowd followed along, cheering so generously that it was somewhat disappointing when plain old music returned. On his new album, "Showtime," due in September, Mills reduces the musical aggression to make room for his increasingly virtuosic rapping. There's plenty to rhyme about. The past year has been tumultuous for him—he was stabbed at a club in Ayia Napa, a resort on Cyprus. The assault gets a brief mention in "Respect Me," but Mills's larger questions are roughly the same: How can I avoid the constable? Why are you standing so close to me? How did I get here?
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- Tracey Rigden (dulce de leche brownies) was the only contestant that batch-up challenge mentor Dave Burnett managed to see through to the overall final. - B.C.'s Don Harquail (he of the golden toffee nut gems, this year's deserving runner up) seems to carry his late father's chefs hat everywhere—to his audition, to his Loblaw test kitchen tasting, even to the finale. I guess we've all got a good luck charm, haven't we? And if it's a truly meaningful one like Don's hat, that's all the better.- Remember the Travelocity gnome? Well, now there's the Stephen Childs caricature. Apparently friends of the chipotle chili bites creator cut out his little package caricature and took it with them across Canada, snapping photos along the way.- Apparently Cathy Ferguson's mixer mishap was the worst of the season. In episode seven, her Montreal deli dip exploded all over batch-up mentor Maggie McKeown—in her hair, on her clothes, everywhere. I seem to recall at least two stand-mixer meltdowns occurring this year, but if Maggie says this was "the big one," who are we to argue?
And finally, we were reminded that Rick is a pretty strong Bhangra dancer (relatively speaking, anyway). Unfortunately, he didn't break out any "Punjabi style" moves upon learning that he'd won two hundred and fifty large. Perhaps he was in shock at being anointed Canada's favourite home cook. I know I would be!
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BIG + Architectural Nexus win the competition for the Kimball Art Center
BIG + Architectural Nexus + Dunn Associates + VBFA + Envision Engineering + Big D design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of Kimball Art Center in Park City, projected for completion by Mid-2015.
The Kimball Art Center, home to Sundance House during the Annual Sundance Film Festival, invited an international group of architects to submit designs for an interior renovation of the existing Kimball Art Center and the construction of a new building directly adjacent to the original, located centrally in Park City, Utah. The winning project, announced by The Wall Street Journal this past weekend, was selected by an official jury while giving voice to the visitors of the Kimball Art Center – including those who recently attended the ten day Sundance Festival in January. The construction is expected to begin in mid-2013, with completion by 2015. Other finalists included major U.S based offices, including Brooks + Scarpa Architects, Sparano + Mooney Architecture, Will Bruder + Partners Ltd., and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
It was hard for the jury to choose between the five excellent finalists. BIG won the competition by proposing an iconic building that honors the spirit of Park City's past and looks ahead into the 21st century. BIG's design boldly reinterprets the Kimball Art Center's place in the city skyline with this amazing new structure for the arts.
Maurice Cox, Jury Member and architectural educator at the University of Virginia, former director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts
BIG's design for the new Kimball Art Center, inspired by the urban development of Park City, the Kimball site, and the city's mining heritage, envisions the building as an anchor for the street life on Main St. and as a gateway and landmark for Park City. The new Kimball is designed with the flexibility, character and personality necessary to become a natural incubator for public life.
BIG built the strongest case for the continuity of Park City's history—a bold, poetic new landmark to resurrect the spirit of the Coalition Mine Building that burned down in the 1980s. The design concept supports our mission to present engaging exhibitions, education, and events, and enhances the natural flow between the three in a uniquely free-form way. As the Kimball Art Center expands in scope and reputation, embracing both the local community and a growing group of international visitors and art collectors, BIG's design sets a course for the future.
Robin Marrouche, Executive Director, Kimball Art Center
At 80 feet, the new Kimball Art Center matches the height of the formerly neighboring Coalition Building. The building footprint and lower gallery sit in relation to Main St. and the city grid, and as the building rises it turns to greet visitors entering the city via Heber Ave, creating an iconic yet contextual building at the city's doorstep. Referencing Park City's mining heritage, the façade is constructed of massive stacked timber elements, creating an open publicly accessible space inside.
The raw charm of Park City and the Kimball Art Center is rooted in a culture of appropriating the structures of past industry to accommodate spaces for cultural life and leisure. The plumes of smoke from the chimneys have turned into clouds of snow from the snow cannons. The old garage is now an art museum. With our design for the new Kimball we seek to continue this tradition by using the construction technique of the old mines and the railroad trestles that have marinated for decades in the Great Salt Lake to create a raw spacious framework for the art and artists of Park City – a very traditional material and technique deployed to produce a highly contemporary expression. Where the Coalition Building once stood as a landmark for Park City as a mining town– the new Kimball will be a beacon for Park City today as a home for an exploding cultural life and a sprawling creative community.
Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG
The twisting façade of the building encloses a continuous spiral staircase, leading the visitors from the ground floor to the generous roof terrace, which can be used for outdoor exhibitions and events. Skylights allow light to wash down the gallery walls below. In between the two galleries is a restaurant, which spills out onto a sculpture garden on the rooftop of the existing, historic Kimball Art Center building.
The existing building is converted into an educational hub, complementing the function of the new Art Center. At its heart is a flexible double height auditorium for screenings and exhibitions. During summer, the façade towards Heber Ave opens up to the street and exposes the internal activities. The roof of the existing building is equipped with solar thermal panels concealed by indigenous plants. An outdoor sculpture garden loops around the perimeter of the roof.
The new Kimball Arts Center takes advantage of Park City's climate, with an objective to meet a LEED platinum rating by harnessing sources of natural heat, using natural daylight, maximizing ventilation, and recycling rainwater. Generous skylights and large ribbon windows flood the building with diffused natural light, greatly reducing energy costs for lighting. Operable skylights trigger natural stack ventilation. A ground-coupled heat exchanger is drilled deep into the ground in non-built areas. The heat pumps either extract heat from the circulating water in the winter, or reject heat in the summer.
+ About BIG
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is a New York and Copenhagen based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for completing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. In our architectural production we demonstrate a high sensitivity to the particular demands of site context and program. BIG's recently completed projects include The Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo (2010) and The 8 House (2010) being recently distinguished with a National AIA Honor Award and Wall Street Journal's Innovator of the Year Prize . Projects being designed in North America, include the New York City based 600 unit West 57th Tower designed for Durst Fetner Residential which will break ground in the Spring of 2012 and the interactive Valentine's Heart Sculpture currently on display at the Times Square in New York City.
+ About Kimball Art Center
Known as Kimball Corner, the original building on the property operated as a livery stable built to serve Park City's tiny mining community. In 1929, the site transformed into the Kimball Bros garage and for 43 years served Park City's automotive needs. In 1976, arts enthusiast Bill Kimball and friends transformed the dilapidated garage into a nonprofit community center for the visual arts. Bill Kimball wanted a gathering place for the community to enrich their lives and experience the transformative power of the arts. The Kimball Art Center (KAC) is the heart of Park City's historic and vibrant arts community. It is a non-profit center for the arts, committed to engaging individuals of all ages in diverse and inspiring experiences through education, exhibitions and events.
For more information, go to www.kimballartcenter.org.
+ Project facts
Project: The Renovation and Expansion of Kimball Art Center.
Client: Kimball Art Center
Location: Park City, Utah, USA.
Size: 2.800 m2, 30.000 sf
Collaborators: Architectural Nexus, Dunn Associates, Van Boerum & Frank Associates, Envision Engineering, Big D Construction.
Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen
Project Leader: Leon Rost
Team: Terrence Chew, Suemin Jeon, Chris Falla, Andreia Teixeira, Ho Kyung Lee
+ All images and drawings courtesy BIG
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Outlaw design rides into town, a month late – now what?
Butch and Sundance must surely be spinning in their unmarked Bolivian graves at the sight of Park City, Utah, home of lovable outlaws and independent film makers, rolling out the red carpet to a handful of jet-set starchitects.
If you were one of the millions of designers out there with a go-for-it attitude, a creative outlook and some serious time on your hands, you might have gotten fired up when The Kimball Art Center announced it's plans for expanding. I sure did.
And you might have been just as dismayed as I was to find out that only five concepts would be considered in the invitation-only 'competition'.
To be fair, there are reasons for this kind of approach, and the people in charge did an outstanding job. But do big names guarantee the best design in an era when, with a single keystroke, you can tap into the unplumbed depths of a world-wide pool of creativity and talent?
I don't think so, which is why I didn't let a little thing like not being invited keep me from running alongside the limo. On my own dime, and in my own time, I too came up with a design for the new Kimball Art Center. All it cost me was four weeks, $1,000, and a broken heart, because, as usual, I fell in love with my own design.
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"The Language of God" Book Club–Chapter 6
How should we interpret the Bible? What is the role of tradition? What is the role of science? Who gets to decide whether traditional interpretations need to change?
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How should we interpret the Bible? What is the role of tradition? What is the role of science? Who gets to decide whether traditional interpretations need to change?
"Being confronted with evolution may have been the catalyst for asking the difficult questions, but the real problem for me was not evolution – it was biblical literalism."
Once we recognize that no one takes the text literally, and that we have often failed to account for the details in the text regarding the time of day, we can begin anew to try to understand the text as an ancient text rather than as a modern one. As such, we must begin with the idea that the text operates in the world of omens, not the world of physics and astronomy.
This series, by Old Testament scholar Richard S. Hess, was first published as an appendix to Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers Grove: IVP Academic; Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
In this talk, originally delivered at the BioLogos President's Circle meeting in October 2012, Dr. John Walton discusses the origin stories of Genesis 1-3, and why their focus on function and archetypes mean there is no Biblical narrative of material origins.
The debate is often not about evidence, but about making sure that others do not transgress our interpretive boundaries and insist that we're wrong. We've bitten from the tree of knowledge and we love its taste.
Our desire to engage in gracious dialogue with fellow believers who reject biological evolution has been receiving increased attention in both the Christian and secular press. More importantly, we are being joined in this reconciling project by our brothers and sisters in Christ who have often been defined primarily as our "opponents".
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
N.T. Wright explores the context and manner in which Scripture is authoritative. He does so by questioning the meaning of an authoritative book as well as the application of such authority. Wright encourages us to flee from the controlling "list" mentalities that belittle the richness of God's Word, and rather to understand it as a narrative inspired by God and recorded by ancient persons. Ultimately, God "organizes" his people through his Son Jesus and by the Holy Spirit, and not through extracted rules from the Bible.
In today's video, Brian McLaren discusses the value of considering Scripture in light of the cultures that surrounded them. The Biblical writers were aware of the myths of the power nations that surrounded them, but flipped their stories on their heads to reveal truth about God.
In today's video, Rev. Lincoln Harvey discusses our desire to "domesticate" the liveliness and abundance of God. Harvey notes that the Trinity highlights both the manyness and oneness of God, which can be hard to Christians to fully understand.
So, for Driscoll, the choice is a simple dichotomy: Scripture or science. Scripture is the highest court of authority in all matters, and the role of believing scientists is to affirm Scripture. To fail to do so is to "exchange the truths of Scripture for the truths of science".
Pete Shaw highlights the story of Noah to explore how the story would have been understood in ancient times and from there he goes on to explore how we might consider it today.
When presented with the evidence for human population sizes over our evolutionary history, a common point of confusion for evangelicals is how this evidence fits with Mitochondrial Eve. How can we all come from one woman (and one man) but also come from a large population of 10,000 individuals?
I fear that many of us ask the wrong questions about the beginning of the book of Genesis. Not only does this generate needless confusion and division, it also makes us miss the life-changing truths that we could see if we asked the right questions.
This series by Michael Horton first appeared in the March/April 2010 issue of Modern Reformation. Horton begins by pointing out that the concept of inerrancy goes back to the ancient Church, but was most clearly developed by Princeton theologians A.A. Hodge and B.B. Warfield in their 1881 book, Inspiration. These men emphasized that the Holy Spirit worked through limited human authors in a centuries-long process to produce the Bible. Hodge and Warfield defined inerrancy not as the absence of technical errors but as the truthfulness in what the biblical writers were affirming.
In this series, Dennis Venema describes his personal journey that took him away from the Intelligent Design arguments toward the evolutionary creation worldview. Through careful and honest research, he discovered ID scientific reasoning to be analogy-based, in sharp contrast to evolutionary science, which was supported by concrete data. After accepting this view, God's presence ever strengthened him as he explored the compatibility between the Bible and God's creative mechanism.


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The Nevada Highway Patrol reported one fatal crash during Street Vibrations. An unidentified motorcyclist was killed Sunday morning after being struck by a truck on Plumb Lane near U.S. Highway 395.
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How could an international company that wants to be seen as an innovator and spends more than $11 billion a year on advertising and promotions so badly misjudge its audience?
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The U.S. trade deficit climbed to the highest level in five months in February as demand for American exports fell while imports increased slightly.
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Boeing delivered 161 commercial airplanes in the first quarter, nearly an 18 percent increase from last year, as it ramps up production to meet demand.
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Benton County sheriff's Deputy Joe Lusignan said Wednesday that it was "a little bit of a miracle" that no one was killed.
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Electric-car company Tesla Motors has filed notice it intends to go to court to appeal New Jersey's ruling that would stop it from selling its vehicles in the state within two weeks.
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Pop star Katy Perry makes a surprise appearance at a special sneak preview of her new 3D feature film Katy Perry: Part Of Me
Friday, June 8, 2012
Fans of Katy Perry got a surprise when the star turned up at a London screening of her new film.
An invited audience was at the Apollo West End cinema for a sneak preview of Katy Perry: Part of Me, unaware the singer would be putting in a personal appearance.
The crowd cheered and clapped as she made her way into the auditorium, where she also handed out 3D glasses and popcorn.
Also this week, Perry has been in London for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show and has been spotted partying with Florence and the Machine guitarist and former beau Rob Ackroyd, sparking rumours of a reunion.
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