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Sales of laser pointers could be licensed in an attempt to protect pilots and train drivers from attacks that could cause fatal crashes.
The devices are more commonly used in meetings and conferences to highlight items in presentations. However, airline pilots are increasingly concerned that pointing laser pointers at planes could cause aircraft to crash.
There were 1,258 laser attacks on planes landing or taking off from UK airports last year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
Brian Strutton, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association, said: "Startling, dazzling and distracting a pilot at a critical stage of flight has the potential to cause a crash and loss of life. This is especially a problem for helicopters, which operate close to the ground and are sometimes single-pilot operations."
The inexpensive pointers can also cause eye damage or temporary blindness. Stratton said he was concerned about the risk of permanent damage to pilots' and passengers' eyes as the power of lasers increased.
The first laser attack on an aircraft was reported in 2004, and since 2011 there have been an average of 1,500 annually in the UK. The number of attacks on aircraft using Heathrow airport rose by a quarter last year, to 151. Attacks at Glasgow almost doubled, to 83, and Birmingham airport reported 73. Seventy two attacks were reported at Manchester, 62 at London City, with 55 at Gatwick.
There were 466 incidents against trains between April 2011 and October 2016, according to British Transport Police.
The proposed clampdown comes after two British tourists were threatened with fines for allegedly pointing laser beams at passenger planes arriving in Málaga, in southern Spain.
The business minister Margot James, launching an eight-week call for evidence, said she wanted to ensure regulations kept up with the increasing use of the devices.
"Whilst we know most users don't intend any harm, many are not aware of the safety risks and serious health implications of shining laser pointers directly into people's eyes," she said.
"Used irresponsibly or maliciously, these products can and do wreak havoc and harm others, with potentially catastrophic consequences."
A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman welcomed the call for evidence. "Shining a laser at an aircraft in flight could pose a serious safety risk and it is a criminal offence to do so," he said.
"Anyone convicted of shining a laser at an aircraft could face a significant fine or even imprisonment should the safety of an aircraft be endangered. While these laws are already in place, we believe strengthening legislation to restrict ownership of laser pens would help enhance efforts to tackle the issue. We strongly urge anyone who sees lasers being used in the vicinity of an airport to contact the police immediately."
It is already an offence to endanger aircraft by shining a laser at them, punishable by fines of up to £2,500.
Moves to tighten up the rules and fine or jail those who shine lasers at transportation were dropped from the government's legislative programme after the June general election.
Ophthalmologists in the UK have reported more than 150 cases of laser pointer-related eye injuries since 2013, most of them involving children.


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We are the proud parents of nine fantastic cats. Two of our cats recently passed away, but they will forever be our children. Seven kitties currently reside in our home: Dixee (18), Whisket (15), Meredith (est. 8), Miles (7), Melody (7), Fred (7) and now Michael (est. 1). Lefty died from old age (21) and Harree passed far too young (12) from a chronic kidney disease condition he had since birth. Miles, Melody & Fred are the children of Meredith, who was a stray we adopted. Michael was an injured kitty who showed up at our door.
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Global News reported that drugs and sex are the two most common problems that plague the music industry and some music festivals. In fact, you can see people selling drugs, even before the start of these events. When there are drugs, there is sex. These two always go hand in hand. During last year's Coachella…
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Many pro-choice advocates maintain that, though abortions should be permissible, they are regrettable nonetheless. For instance, Bill Clinton famously said that he wanted to keep abortions "safe, legal and rare." I don't understand this view. To my mind, whether abortion is immoral turns on the question of whether a fetus is a person with a right to life. But this seems a clear dichotomy--either fetuses have such a right, or they don't. If they do, then abortion is immoral. If they don't, then not only should abortion be permitted, but there is nothing objectionable about them at all. Indeed, it is every bit as innocuous as using condoms.
Sometimes I think that what is happening is that people who advocate this position are still captive to some kind of residual pro-life sentiment. They believe that abortions should be permissible, but they can't shake the feeling that they are still, somehow, a bad thing. (And not just because of circumstantial considerations, such as that women who need abortions are often poor or otherwise disadvantaged, or that mothers who choose abortion may come to regret her decision; but because abortions are themselves are bad.) Assuming that abortions are indeed morally permissible, what is there that could make them regrettable?
It could be, as Gene Outka, has argued that we have a false dichotomy here. A fetus is neither a person or nor an inanimate object but a unique kind of entity. It is not an object and neither does it have the rights of a person.
Either way, I don't see any problem with holding that abortion should be permissible and at the same time believing that abortions are sad events. Many believe that was is sometimes justified and yet regrettable. What is there to regret in an abortion? Ending a life that is something more than a pure potential. Indeed, I would argue that when the day comes that having an abortion is akin to having a tooth extracted, we'll be in bad shape, we'll have lost a sense of the sacred. Of course, there are many who believe that losing that sense makes sense but I would beg to differ.
You slide too easily from "ought to be legal" (which is what Clinton was saying) to "is morally permissible" to "is not regrettable". Neither of these transitions is valid.
The problem with each transition can best be brought out by example. There are strong reasons for insisting that the expression of beliefs about scientific matters should be legal even when these beliefs are idiotic. So we strongly believe that people should be legally free to express the beliefs that there is no global warming, that global warming is not caused by human beings, that the members of certain races have inferior intelligence, that women have less native ability to deal with numbers, and so on. Expressing such beliefs is hurtful and damaging to social relations, and expressing such beliefs carelessly is therefore morally wrong/impermissible, at least in many cases -- and ought nevertheless not be criminalized. Similarly, it is often morally wrong to lie to your spouse; and yet we have good reason not to outlaw such lies (we'd clog up the court system, for one thing, and encourage intolerable police snooping, for another). And similarly for abortion as well. There are strong moral reasons for wanting first-trimester abortions to be legal which have nothing to do with its moral permissibility: criminalization may produce quackery and extortion, with many women maimed, blackmailed or imprisoned for long periods, and great misery therebybeing inflicted also upon their (partly innocent) families even while the abortion rate is only slightly reduced below what it would be ifabortion were legal.
Many things are morally permissible and yet morally regrettable. For example, it is morally permissible to break the speed limit to rush a heart attack victim to the hospital even while it is also regrettable that such speeding endangers pedestrians. Moral permissibility here shows merely that the moral reasons against the behavior in question are not strong enough to overcome the reasons for moral permissibility. It does not show that there are no moral reasons against the behavior, that the behavior is not regrettable in some respects.
The problems with the two transitions do not show, of course, that some abortions that ought to be legal nonetheless are morally regrettable. But consider this thought. Most people favor outlawing abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy because they take such abortions to be morally impermissible: they believe that, as a pregnancy progresses, the moral reasons against abortion become stronger and, by the second trimester, strong enough to overcome the reasons for legally permitting an abortion. If this standard view of a gradual strengthening of the moral reasons against abortion is right, then it would seem that there is a period in pregnancy during which there are moral reasons against aborting the fetus which are not strong enough to overcome the reasons against holding abortion morally impermissible. This is a period during which there already are moral reasons against abortion (abortion is already morally regrettable), but these moral reasons are not yet strong enough to overcome the reasons in favor of moral permissibility. So, the standard view on abortion suggest that, as a pregnancy progresses, moral reasons against abortion commence at some point during the first trimester, become strong enough to overcome the reasons for moral permissibility at some later point and then strong enough to overcome the reasons against criminalization at some even later point in time. This suggestion looks indeed compelling if you believe -- with Clinton and most in the US -- that late abortions are morally wrong and wrong enough to demand criminalization.
My colleagues have answered in a very thorough way - and I hesitate to add anything accept this: women's voices are important in this discussion and thus I will add mine. I can't speak for all women and I do not deny that men are affected by abortion. Men, however, can never undergo the procedure - only women can. This does not preclude insightful reflection from anyone, male or female, but it is striking to me that one often speaks of abortion as being only about the status of the fetus and not an issue that affects the woman who is considering the question.
Why is this important? In my view, there are many morally regrettable moments in a person's life - some of which involve difficult decisions and many choices involve regret. Why would a woman choose to terminate a pregnancy? Do we imagine that women (generally) do not take this to be a morally charged decision? For some, the moral clarity about abortion as a wrong action will preclude them from making that choice. Other women discover to their dismay that they hold conflicting views: the belief that abortion is wrong and yet they choose to terminate their pregnancy anyway. Does this mean these women lack a proper moral compass? Or is there something much more complex going on? Morality is always clearest in the abstract, and I would opine that in the abstract, abortion is morally wrong. But then...how do we account for morally serious persons assenting to abortion? Perhaps we need to ask. Moral imagination is hampered when we fail to consider such questions.
Take, for example, Ohio state legislator Jim Buchy. He believes all abortions should be illegal and does everything in his power to work toward legislation that would prohibit all abortions in all circumstances. In an amazing interview he is asked what he believes is a reason why women choose abortions and he suggests economic factors, but eventually he is flummoxed. He admits he never asked the question before and, not being a woman, recognizes he has no idea why a woman might choose to end their pregnancy. [Originally from a reporter for Al Jazeera, the brief clip of this exchange may may be seen at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48949126]
Perhaps listening to the lived experience and moral reasoning of women on this sensitive subject will lead to better discernment for women and men
Thanks to everyone for their contributions, and especially to Bette for reminding us of the importance of hearing women's voices on such topics. I'll add one more point, along the same lines.
The questioner says that, if a fetus has a right to life, then abortion is immoral and should not be permitted; if not, then it isn't immoral and should. But surely this is wrong. I have a right to free speech, but it does not mean that I have the right to cry "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Other people have rights, too, and their rights can sometimes out-weigh mine.
The same is true in the case of abortion. The mere fact that the fetus has a right to life is compatible with a pregnant woman's having other rights that might out-weigh the fetus's right to life in some cases. For example, the woman herself has a right to life, and I for one have a very hard time seeing why that right should not trump the fetus's similar right if the pregnancy is endangering the women's life. Similarly, a woman has a right not to be made pregnant against her will, and it is the central point of Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic paper "A Defense of Abortion" that, when that right is violated, then, even if the fetus brought thus into being does have a right to life, even one as strong as that of the mother's (a claim Thomson concedes for the sake of argument), that fact does not make aborting that fetus impermissible. Thomson's argument for this claim has always struck me as absolutely compelling. But if so, then abortion is morally permissible at least when the life of the mother is threatened or in cases of rape, and that means that the mere fact that a fetus has a right to life does not make abortion morally impermissible.
That said, if the fetus does have a right to life, that might well imply that abortion, even in cases where it is morally permissible, nonetheless has moral costs or is morally regrettable. And, as Thomas Pogge has so ably argued above, there is nothing unusual about that.
The difficult question is what rights women have in this regard, and how those rights interact with whatever rights the fetus has. Are there other cases in which a woman's rights might outweigh the fetus's? Are unintended pregnancies such a case? Does it matter if the woman and her partner were responsibly using birth control, which failed (as sometimes happens), or were being irresponsible and simply ignoring the possibility of pregnancy? These are all good questions, even if, as I'd be inclined to argue, abortion's being morally impermissible in some such cases does not imply that it ought to be illegal. (I really do not want courts trying to make such fine distinctions under severe time pressures.)
But we can't even have this kind of discussion until we recognize that simply saying "The fetus has a right to life!" doesn't end it. It only begins it, because the women carrying these fetuses have rights of their own. It is because so-called "pro-life" advocates flatly refuse to recognize this fact that they continue to be vulnerable to the charge of sexism and, frankly, to have no decent response to that charge.
All of that said, I'll close by expressing what I think is agreement with Bette. I often find myself unsure whether the language of rights is really appropriate to the evaluation of such a profoundly personal decision. Might it not in some cases be a loving though still fraught decision to choose not to bring a child into the world, made in the full light of consideration of that child's prospects for health and happiness, even once his or her development has begun? A difficult, even heart-breaking, decision that a mother makes on behalf of her child, just as parents often are called upon to make hard decisions on behalf of their children? I have heard women describe their choices in terms not unlike those, but only rarely does one hear anything along those lines in our public conversation. Why not? Because women's experience is excluded from that conversation. That's why.
Try this account, written by a woman who got pregnant because of rape, if you want to start listening to the unheard.


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Isles of Myst
Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.
-Ecclesiastes 3:15
Review by Adam Collings
Isles of Myst reads like a science fiction story that has the soul of a fantasy, or maybe it's an urban fantasy with the soul of a science fiction. Either way, you'll find a blending of the two here.
This is a dark and gritty tale with flawed but sympathetic characters. It is set in a rich world full of different cultures, though at times I found myself a little overwhelmed with the many different nationalities, trying get my head around them all.
Anyone familiar with the Bible will find much that is familiar, but everything is given a sci-fi/fantasy twist. It is difficult to say more than this without giving spoilers, but suffice it to say that this becomes quite an epic story, building up its own mythology. It will keep you trying to guess and second-guess what is actually going on here.
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Here is a passage about the pivotal moment in 1938 in Sweden when Lise Meitner and her nephew Robert Frisch worked out how much energy is released by the fission of one uranium nucleus:
...Fortunately [ my aunt] remembered how to compute the masses of nuclei.... and in that way she worked out that the two nuclei formed by the division of a uranium nucleus would be lighter than the original uranium nucleus, by about one-fifth the mass of a proton. Now whenever mass disappears, energy is created, according to Einstein's formula E = mc2 ....
..They had crossed a river on their walk out from Kungalv and it was frozen. The village was too far away to hear any market noises. Meitner did the calculation. Frisch remembers later: " One-fifth of a proton mass was just equivalent to 200 MeV. So here was the source of that energy; it all fitted!"
The atom was open. Everyone has been wrong before. The way in wasn't by blasting harder and harder fragments at it. One women and her nephew, quiet in the midday snow, had now seen that.
The equation is always linked to Einstein and his work... but this book explores the role of physicists and chemists going back to Lavoisier, Faraday and Maxwell among others whose work on mass and energy built the foundation Einstein stood on and a later cast of characters who worked out the broader implications of the equation.
The added attraction is a suspenseful commando raid that destroyed Germany's heavy water supply essential to its growing nuclear program.
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Ryan Fry...he's okay in my booksI don't know Ryan Fry. Met the guy once and he gave me and my kids an autographed picture with him and Brad Gushue and Randy Ferbey. It's hanging up on my office wall.
Judging from this story, it seems that what he thought was a small gesture, meant the world to a little girl and her dad.
From the Victoria Times-Colonist:
He may not be a true world champion, suffering a loss with his Canadian teammates to Sweden on Sunday, but Ryan Fry will always be one in the eyes of two B.C. curling fans.
Fry will be forever be remembered for his generosity by Brad Sheridan and his five-year-old daughter, Georgia, who ventured over from the Lower Mainland during the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria.
"She had never been to a sporting event before, let alone a curling match, but she was excited to cheer for Canada and we watched some games on television together before heading over," Sheridan said in an email to the Times Colonist.
"We got to the arena a little early and I took her down to ice level. I pointed out the various teams including, of course, the Canadian group. We talked at the railing for a few minutes and had just turned away to go and find our seats when I heard, 'Here, sweetheart, this is for you.' "
That's when Sheridan turned around, with Georgia in his arms, and saw Fry was giving his daughter his broom.
"She was more astute than I was and was able to say thank you," Sheridan said. "I was too stunned to do anything."
Fry then rejoined his team in the warmup.
"It was an incredible gesture and had a profound impact on both of us," Sheridan added of the encounter that took place prior to Canada's win over Russia. "Georgia carried the broom with her everywhere that day, being careful that it didn't touch the floor while she carried it.
"She absolutely could not wait to show it to her mom, running into the house when she got home," he said. "She has spoken about it every day since.
"I will try and find an address for Mr. Fry so that I can contact him to say thank you, but this amazing act of kindness and thoughtfulness will stay with both of us forever," Sheridan said. "This was a class act by a Canadian champion."
It's gestures like this that make a youngster a curling fan for life. I know part of the reason why my son likes curling is was because a junior curler (who later represented Canada at a junior world championship) spent some time with him at Little Rocks and went above and beyond in encouraging him on.
Little things mean a lot.
Like I said, I don't know Ryan Fry, but he seems like a classy guy. The reason I am a curling fan is because of stories like this.


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Rikki Wright / 4 years ago
The next step in the smartphone case could be here very, very soon. Nexpaq, a global company, is working on providing an almost fully modular case, very similar to that of Google's Project Ara.
The company wanted to bring the modular design to current users; why should we have to wait for Project Ara to have a release date and price? The current compatibility list is small, just the iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6 Edge., but they are looking to expand based on the ideas given on the Kickstarter page.
The case looks chunky, but for the functionality it brings, I can live with that; look at what it's currently offering with the initial release.
The prices look very reasonable for modules, $14 for a SD card reader, that would make the current flagship phones look more interesting with their fixed storage capacities.
The pricing offered isn't too bad either, $89 for the early bird bundle, or £109 if you miss that and buy it on release in January 2016.
I will be 100% behind this when it is released. I'm almost tempted to back them if they will make a Galaxy S6 case. Would you be interested in this phone case? Are you waiting for Project Ara to be announced? Let us know in the comments.


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The prospect of a rural landscape in north Northumberland hosting one of the biggest installations of wind turbines in the country has come a step closer following an appeal decision.
Edinburgh-based renewable energy company PNE Wind UK has been given the green light to put up an 80-metre temporary mast to test wind conditions at Ditchburn, north of the village of Eglingham.
The mast is likely to pave the way for an application to build up to nine turbines on the site, which is close to the existing wind farms at Middlemoor and Wandylaw, north of Alnwick.
Worried locals say future planning approval for the Ditchburn site would effectively create one large wind farm, comprising 37 giant turbines.
County councillors rejected the PNE Wind application for the test mast last November, despite being recommended to approve it by planning officers.
At the time, local objectors raised fears over the damaging cumulative impact of a wind farm on the site, given its close proximity to the Middlemoor and Wandylaw turbines.
They also cited concerns over the long-term impact on the open countryside and the tourism industry.
PNE Wind lodged an appeal against the refusal with the Planning Inspectorate, which has now been allowed.
Yesterday David Alston, who chairs Eglingham Parish Council, said there was significant local concern about the prospect of a third wind farm in the area.
"I think there is a general feeling that enough is enough, and that with 28 turbines already built at Middlemoor and Wandylaw we have done our bit. Any further turbines would be too many.
"There is very strong public feeling about this and 40 to 50 people came along to a parish council meeting to express their views about this test mast.
"A wind farm at this site would be equally as visible as the other two, if not more so," he added.
Yesterday PNE Wind welcomed Government Planning Inspector George Baird's decision to overturn the county council's rejection of the monitoring mast.
Laura Jeffrey, the company's project development manager, said any future wind farm scheme at Ditchburn would be designed "almost as an extension" to the nearby Middlemoor site, in order to mitigate visual impacts. She said: "The idea is that it would look like one single wind farm.
"This is our first project in Northumberland and we are very pleased that we now have permission to erect the temporary meteorological mast, which will gather wind data at the site for up to five years.
"This is the beginning of the planning consultation process for us, and over the next year we will ensure that the communities closest to the site are kept fully informed and consulted about all aspects of the Ditchburn wind farm project, which will investigate the feasibility of up to nine turbines on the site."


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|my view from community group as I had to swallow hard a few times
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
All guilt and speculation and frustration aside, I've heard so much said about Casey Anthony's face. People broken over her smiles and easy going nature.
And yes, it creeps me out too.
And then I think of myself. How on Sunday mornings, I wake usually with a thought of what I'll wear. And try on three outfits, and I've even shed a tear before if ones doesn't look just right. If I don't have time for my biweekly shower & hair doing, I'm all flustered and indignant. And I want coffee on the way there and I want to get there early to catch up with some girls. I've been known to check my email during the sermon and sip said Starbucks during worship. And when it's all said and done, I'm more worried about my kids running around like wild banshees than I am about what just transpired in my heart, if anything. And that's just Sunday, the day designated to celebrate my pardon with the family, what about everyday?
Do ya'll know what I've been pardoned from? I've thought things, done things, said things so much worse than you'd ever ascribe to me or imagine me doing. Things that would make you blush or cry and you'd ask me to just keep them to myself if I tried to confess them. And if the book of Matthew is right, I've done as worse as Casey or whoever it was that killed her sweet daughter. I've had murderous thoughts, therefore I've done murderous things. And worse, I wasn't JUST pardoned - I didn't just get off the hook.
I know who took the blame.
The gospel says that the bad news is that there is literally no way I can be "not guilty". From birth, I'm sinful. I want what I want, I want to survive, to take care of me, me, me, me. I am selfish, lazy, angry, self entitled, murderous, slanderous, did I mention angry, awful. Every sinfulness I can think of. I'm all those things. But the good news, sometimes ack! it doesn't feel so good. The good news, (swallow hard) is that knowing the fullness (more than I even know) of my sinfulness, Jesus died for me. So that I can have a relationship with the Father. So that there can be justice.
We cry, cry, cry for justice. But it's hard to look at Him on the cross imparting justice for us, and imputing righteousness to us. The only one in the room not guilty. The only one in the universe not guilty. Taking the guilt.
So it seems silly to scowl at Casey's smile each time I see it on the news, when I see the goofy, irreverent, lazy, greasy way I respond to the grace of Jesus Christ.
On Sunday. Today. Always.
Father, help me to stop crying for justice and start repenting, praising You because You invented justice. Wrote it, lost Your son for it. Are it.
And if I smile, let it be with reverent,
sorrowful, honest joy at Your great love.
With incomplete and intense gratefulness for Your Son.


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Mobile Workplaces Report Higher Productivity and Engagement Among Employees
Posted on Jun 13, 2017 in Mobility by Nicole Yeager
The mobile revolution is steadily gaining momentum, with the increased use of smartphones and other popular devices continuing to transform how we communicate and work. Working outside of the office has become more than just a convenience, but rather a powerful business strategy. Beyond the increase in productivity derived from the ability to work from anywhere, at anytime, it's been reported that employee engagement is considerably higher in mobile workplaces as well.
We all know that productivity is higher when employees are engaged and happy. But, who knew that mobility was a key driver? A recent global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), revealed a direct link between mobile work environments and an increase in employee engagement and other key areas. The study found that mobile enablement resulted in a 16 percent boost in productivity, as well as an 18 percent increase in creativity, a 23 percent increase in satisfaction and a 21 percent increase in employee loyalty.
This correlation doesn't come as too much of a surprise. Employees who have the ability to work from anywhere effectively can get more done. Less time is spent commuting, the number days off needed for appointments, conferences, traveling and inclimate weather decreases, and more work gets done on the road and after hours, resulting in higher productivity and a better work-life balance.
With vacation season in full swing, the kids getting out of school, and many businesses and industries reaching their peak busy season, effective communications and collaboration outside of the office is in even greater demand.
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This highly coveted feature is a life saver for employees who are frequently in and out of the office. It allows for spontaneous mobility, enabling a second phone number, like a mobile phone, to be designated to ring simultaneously and twin business calls that ring a deskphone, ensuring calls are never missed regardless of one's location.
For anyone who works on the road or remotely, softphones are critical. Available for iOS, Android, Mac and PC's, softphones turn a designated device into your business phone. Utilizing your company's minutes and individual extension, voicemail and contacts, calls remain professional no matter what device is used.
Hot Desking
Mobility among workplaces and multiple locations is just as crucial for productivity. For businesses where employees need to share desks or conference rooms, hot desking enables business phones to be shared interchangeably. Users can login to any phone at any location and their contacts, voicemail, settings and personal extension becomes activated, saving on equipment and enabling the flexibility to work efficiently from wherever needed.
Video Conferencing
Video and virtual meetings have become the meeting method of choice for many organizations. With the ability to meet face-to-face at anytime, from any device, meetings that would not otherwise be possible, can now include more participants without the barriers of location or room capacity. Through screen-share and live chat capabilities, mobile and local employees and clients can engage in more interactive, impromptu and productive meetings.
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Voicemail is very much alive in the business world, but has gotten a much-needed facelift for mobile workers. Voicemails can now be delivered via email, retrieved online through a secure online portal or better yet, transcribed so you never even need to listen to them at all. These advanced voicemail options ensure missed calls are returned promptly no matter where employees are.
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This doesn't work, as the MSI is coded to only allow "pure" Windows 2000 or XP installations. Faux XP-From-Windows-Server doesn't seem to cut it 🙂
As I was researching the problem, I noticed that PlanetAMD64 have set up a new Wiki, so I thought it'd be a good idea to use it to pull some x64 gaming information together.
So, if you're having a compatibility problem (or can help with one), check out the x64 Gaming Wiki . (There are two available solutions).


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For Wyndham Hotel Group leaders in the Europe, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Africa regions who spoke at the recent 2018 Global Brand Conference, attracting the 138 million outbound Chinese tourists was top of mind.
LAS VEGAS—Chinese tourists are embarking in droves to see the world, and hoteliers looking to bring those guests to their hotels will need to focus on five things, according to Wyndham Hotel Group's brand leader in China.
- Click here to read about the "first-mover" philosophy to development by Wyndham's global leadership team.
- Click here to read about how other brands are taking similar approaches to accommodating an influx of Chinese guests.
"Let's work together to bring the 138 million outbound travelers from China to your hotel," Leo Liu, president and managing director of the Greater China region, told his Wyndham partners in the Europe, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America regions, as well as an audience of hotel franchisees and owners during the opening general session at the recent 2018 Wyndham Global Brand Conference.
Later, during a panel and press briefing at the conference, Liu expanded on the "teamwork" required between hotel, brand and regional leaders.
That cooperation, he said, should extend to five key areas: language, food and beverage, slippers, retail-focused tech and electronic pay.
1. Language
Barry Robinson, president and managing director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim at Wyndham, said that his hotels in Thailand have seen a great increase in Chinese guests, and to accommodate them, the hotels have hired Chinese-speaking staff at reception.
"Our expectation when we travel to China as an English-speaking person is we want someone at the front desk who can speak English," and the reverse of that should also be true, Robinson said.
Liu agreed but said "language is only one element" or barrier.
2. Food and beverage
Hotels that offer Chinese options on food counters, for example with complimentary breakfasts, are more likely to draw in Chinese guests, Liu said.
"I'm not talking about Chinese restaurants here and there; I'm just talking about a small Chinese food counter for the breakfast," he said.
Another amenity appreciated by Chinese guests, but often overlooked by hotels outside of China, is tea service in the rooms, including a kettle with hot water to steep the tea, he said.
3. Slippers
A "must" for Chinese and "any Asian people," Liu said, is slippers, because Asian guests do not want to have to go into their rooms with shoes on.
Liu said hoteliers have to consider: "Do we offer that very simple, small stuff?"
4. Retail-focused tech
The "first thing Chinese (travelers) are looking for" on a trip is shopping.
"It's not a good restaurant or Michelin stars or whatever; it is outlets," Liu said. And hotels can help with that experience by offering map apps in Chinese that indicate nearby shops and outlets, he said.
5. Electronic pay
Seventy percent of Chinese travelers are paying electronically through services such as Alipay and WeChat, which means hotels have to offer that option, Liu said.
"Chinese (guests) cannot go without their phone. They can go out without their wallets, but the phone is a must," he added. "When those Chinese travelers come … with the currency changes, with their languages … if we can install that electronic payment, that is definitely another so-critical element to drive Chinese travelers. Japanese or Asian countries, they are doing that so well."
If hoteliers offer these things, Liu said, they can capture their share of Chinese guests.
"You can say, 'Hey, where are my 138 million (Chinese) travelers?' If you offer that, I guarantee that I'm going to bring them to your hotel. Those are the five or six elements to make it happen," Liu said.
Editor's note: Wyndham paid for meals and accommodations at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where the conference was held. Hotel News Now retained complete editorial control, and Wyndham had no influence on the coverage provided.


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Post Doctoral Fellow: Shree Durga
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Faculty Members: Derek Issacowitz (PI) and Magy Seif El-Nasr (Co-I).
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No writer, you see, wants to discuss writing or literature after a reading. Most of the time, readings leave writers on edge, or leave the writer contemplative and waiting, patiently, for some armchair critic to skewer his or her art.
Public readings of your work, of your poetry and prose before a group of mostly faculty and friends, can sure take the fun out of writing. And we'd come to the bar afterwards not to offer up critiques, not to celebrate, but to unwind. Poetry and prose readings, well, take an emotional toll on a writer's friends and family, too.
His father squinted in the bar's orange glow, reading the dedication in his son's masterpiece. His mother glanced around the bar in near silence, radiating her satisfaction at having raised such an asshole of a child. His girlfriend sat across from me, and we did the smalltalk thing, and she rolled her eyes when I rambled on about something she clearly wasn't interested in discussing.
Nobody else at our table was drinking, save for Fatsuit McUmmings, his parents, and myself. And while his parents drank their beers with the class and dignity that comes from having put a son successfully through college, the pair of us writers drank in that great Oxford Fucking Ohio tradition --
Cold cheap beer, straight from ancient plastic pitchers.
You see, in the Land o' the Buckeye, from the banks of the Ohio River to the dirty waters of Lake Erie, from James Thurber to Rita Dove to Sherwood Anderson, poetry and prose readings are best followed up with Pabst Blue Ribbon and the best onion rings in town.
Places that serve nice sipping wine after a reading, complete with plates of expensive cheese and crackers and hors d'oeuvre platters, are reserved for literary critics, pompous novelists, and the young twinks and college girls they pay to suck them off in between lectures and workshops. Writers, artists, and scholars should, at all costs, avoid such high-and-mighty events. Blowjobs mean nothing anyway, other than an excuse to keep on a-pounding away on writing and drinking.
Why waste a good bottle of wine recovering from a reading anyway? Who wastes good booze on artists? A good Merlot is best held for private moments with lovers, for a rainy evening alone with just a copy of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal or while dreaming about Chicanas, reading José Antonio Burciaga's essays aloud in the dark.
No, after a reading, after any performance, one should hit up a saloon and drink until the madness of literature is gone. Trust me. I'm a librarian. And librarians know (or should know) these things.
Whitman never did this, here in Oxford Fucking Ohio. He died a century too early, without ever having -- GASP! -- heard of that academically-neutered beast we now call Comparative Literature. Ginsberg never sat in this tavern, never stared into the rafters filled with hockey sticks and old jerseys. Allen never howled in the men's room, never gargled semen in the dark corners of the alley outside.
...Well, dude, it's not hard to imagine either man drinking away a Wednesday night with us. And, well, they probably would've been awestruck by Fatsuit McUmmings' reading, too, would've been honored to drink cheap beer, to swap stories...
William Carlos Williams would've been content, to set his Modernist doctor's bag at the end of the peeling hardwood bar for a bourbon. Carl Sandburg would've felt at home singing folk songs, performing Good Morning America into the wee hours of the morning. The floorboards reek of Bukowski and Céline, Albert Camus prowls the shadows. I can smell Steinbeck in the hair of the women from the trailer parks and the flophouses, smell Mark Twain on the college girls and alumni...
When in bars, all men are writers and all writers end up drunk off realistic daydreams of the everyday world...
Thank you, cold cheap beer. Seven dollars and fifty cents for one whole pitcher of some bland ambrosia called Bud Light.
"Okay now," the shift manager hollers at me from behind the bar, "You're drinking that pitcher way too fast. Don't make me cut you off..."
"Wha...? Uh...why, hon?"
"Because you look seriously drunk."
She wouldn't have cut me off, of course. Though the sight of me, the Cuervo-guzzling librarian, drinking beer is about as rare as seeing the face of the Virgin Mary in a lump of dogshit.
"Why the fuck do you drink so much in that place?" many folks have asked me here in Oxford.
"It's so... weird in there, the people are weird, they let in scary people..."
Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that some of those guys cooking in the kitchen sometimes graduate, sometimes write grand novellas and poetry and short stories, those guys who represent the best the ol' Local U has to offer, men who understand that art is made through the toils of the everyday and not through the whimsical nostalgia of the Academy.
Or maybe it's guys working at the door, spinning yarns about hot women and police raids, maybe it's the hot female bartenders who, well, tell stories about trips to China or about catfights in redneck saloons or who, well, occasionally play grab-ass with certain librarians of ill repute.
Hell, I could write a novel myself about last Saturday night alone, about being felt up by a gay man, about being told that, wow, I'm apparently pretty well-proportioned in certain places, about whispering into one sister's ear, half-joking, that I'd love to take her home and break her in half and whispering into the other sister's ear some drunken nonsense about taking her home, too...
Yes, I behaved very badly last Saturday. But it'd make a great story someday. Maybe I'll write about it...
Daydreams whilst drinking cold, cheap beer, straight from the goddamn pitcher. How sweet it is, sometimes, to be free to dream, to write, to think.
Shit, dude, you do get a lot of decent essays outta this fucking place, don't you?
I'd been hitting the Bud Light just a little too quick. For all the liquor I can drink, beer is my kryptonite.
"Hey! You're usually not this quiet!" Fatsuit McUmmings' girlfriend says. "So what did you think of ____'s reading?"
I really didn't know how to answer the question. My mind, lost...
I'd been thinking again, daydreaming within the madness. Singing the body electric within my own mind, absorbing both my song and my surroundings like a sponge.
And I was praying that, yes, by having helped Fatsuit McUmmings edit his work before its final presentation, by showing up to bear witness to his artistry, I'd helped keep the world from having to see another greatest mind of our generation destroyed by madness...
"So how do you think your image around town as a 'playa'... not 'player' but 'playa' ... librarian," a colleague recently asked, "...reflects upon your colleagues and this institution...?"
Well, somebody's gotta do it.
What do I think? Hey, don't hate the playa, hate the game. Blame Archibald MacLeish, too, for setting such a miserable example as to the risks librarians are supposed to take, the games they're supposed to play with writers, artists, researchers, and other madmen of knowledge.
He's the former Librarian of Congress, the one who cleaned up that bureaucratic clusterfuck back in the 1940s, the one who won all of those Pulitzer Prizes as a poet, the guy who hung out with the likes of Hemingway and FDR yet never went to Library School, the one who, well, tried to make modern librarianship a part of the modern literary establishment...
MacLeish wasn't much of a drinker. And, well, I do have an ALA-accredited master's degree, which makes me, technically, a librarian. MacLeish never bothered to waste thousands of bucks on the parchment...
MacLeish never lived in Oxford Fucking Ohio or worked with its hard-drinking patrons, either. He's also been dead since the 1980s...
And I don't see too many other librarians – we, the supposed gatekeepers of literature, of the various records of humanity and society – out at 11 o'clock on a Wednesday night, drinking with the folks who will one day produce our next great wave of great books.
All library usage is, at the end of the day, a local phenomenon. How better to understand the natives than to simply embrace them as friends, compatriots, even, at times, lovers? Why hide behind something as silly as a degree and a job title, when it's just as easy to wade into the jungle, to ravage the tender brains and bodies and souls of those asking to be played or who beg for the sweet, satisfying release of knowledge, accomplishment?
She joined us, stirred her cocktail, and, as usual, giggled for no reason whatsoever.
I wonder if she was thinking about how much of a fucktard some librarians can be sometimes, especially when drunk on beer? Or if she was thinking about Fatsuit McUmmings, how unliterary he can be when he's got a few pitchers in him, about how, well, he never seems to forget that writing's his real job and that working his way through college as a cook is just, well, a research grant with a bit of beer money thrown in for good measure...
She does this often, just gets these sparkles in her eyes and laughs at the strangest things. Her full-time job, besides working at a bar to pay for school, is as a visual artist.
Pfft. Artists. And their sparkling giggles, their whiskey-cokes, their smiles and their art.
Madness. Sheer madness, built upon the insane foundations of knowledge...
"You did great, man! Now, it's smooth sailing until graduation. And I loved how the e.e. cummings - influenced poem turned out..."
"Fuck! I'm just glad it's over. Man, I'm so ready to graduate it's not even funny."
And then, after the booze kicked in, after our egos had been greased down to an honest purr, then could we discuss writing and literature. And, yes, it was intermixed with crude comments about women's breasts, with references to the overrated genius of guys like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, critiqued some of the mixed-media, post-modernist absurdism that's blanketed the literary landscape for the last few years...
Mostly, however, we talked tits.
Tits are wondrous things. There isn't a straight man in the world who doesn't marvel at both their purpose and their aesthetics.
Yes, motherfucker, yes! We can, yes, still write about tits in this grand Information Age! We can sculpt them from paper and clay, from stone and atop a laptop keyboard! We can drink and be merry and puke in the alleys, be failures and martyrs and cocksuckers. We can do lines off our cable modems, carve sonnets and sestinas and novels into the backs of the spiders of our World Wide Web...
What good is information technology, after all, if we forget that knowledge itself is the key to our own madness, to building our beautiful creations of song and word, that all else is gimmickry and whiz-bang farts into the bedsheets of humanity?
"Hah. Uh, yeah. The librarian's fucking wasted!"
Goddamn writers, librarians, and their swinging cocks full of jism, knowledge, Carl Sandburg's "The Fog," and jokes about fucking your mother in the ass. Just keep the pitcher's flowing, and neither will have anything to bitch about...
Hey, don't hate the playa. Hate the game, baby, THE GAME!
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Farther, Colder, Rougher
adventures in marathon swimming
Archive of posts tagged 'Rob D'
2010 Sep 13:
Race Report: Big Shoulders 5K (Chicago, IL)
- My second Big Shoulders 5K swim in Chicago - colder, stormier, and with new friend Rob D.
2010 Oct 22:
2010 Open Water Season in Review
- 12 U.S. states, 17 races, 57.4 racing miles - an overview of some of my favorite experiences.
2011 Jan 3:
Back to Reality
- Meeting up with Rob D for a swim in Santa Barbara.
2011 Aug 20:
Crewing for Cliff
- Getting some practice swimming in the Catalina Channel as a pace swimmer.
2011 Dec 4:
Banquet day in San Pedro: Celebrating a big season of California channel swimming
- My Catalina swim is officially sanctioned; joining the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association board.
2011 Dec 6:
Swim Report: Catalina Channel
- Report on solo swim of the Catalina Channel. 8 hours, 55 minutes on August 25, 2011.
2011 Dec 22:
The Freshies - My 9 favorite open-water happenings of 2011
- The best of solo marathon swimming in 2011 - a biased list.
2012 Sep 27:
Report: Santa Barbara Channel, Santa Cruz Island to Oxnard
- A 19.1 mile solo marathon swim from San Pedro Point, Santa Cruz Island to Hollywood Beach, Oxnard. Subject of the documentary film DRIVEN, and a new course record.
2013 Jan 5:
Avila Polar Plunge
- Jumping off Avila Beach pier on New Years Day with Rob and Cathy.
2013 Jan 28:
14 Essential Open Water Swimming Blogs for 2013
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2013 Apr 17:
Moments in Time
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In this post, I will discuss where I find myself in the scheme of "Player Culture". To be honest, I mostly play games by myself. I do enjoy enjoy playing video games with my younger brother Michael and my friends, but nowadays Michael is away at college most of the year, and as of late, I usually don't get to see most of my friends on a regular basis. But I have played online co-op on a few Playstation 3 titles like the recent HD port of the nearly 20-year old X-Men arcade game, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.
I am also an active member of gaming's metaculture, as I have joined many message boards over the years
I hope you enjoy this blog, which I've dedicated to everything I love, and occasionally updates about my own life. All original material is © John Francis Pannozzi. All other material is ™ & © Their respective owners. Blogger is ™ & © Google, Inc.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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This fifth module addresses the challenge to transform seasonal forecasts in Climate Services for targeted users.
Climate Services differ from simple forecasts due to their regularity, time scale and added value for specific users and specific sectors.
An awareness of the consequences and the economic and social impacts of climate change and variability is growing. Impacts can be reduced by a proactive approach, because it is better to prepare than to react to such events. It is in this perspective that the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) wishes to implement Climate Services to meet the needs of the various actors.
Over the last twenty years, scientific research has produced excellent results in the field of forecasts at different temporal and spatial scale. Moreover it has also investigated to what extent human action has consequences on climate change. Academic literature underlines the desirability of a virtuous synergy between producers and users of climate information and the development of operational tools.
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It's been a long time since I've sat down and written something for a Garden Diary entry. What can I say? Summer came along and I got busy with other things. Between keeping up with travel plans, a relationship and work, I've been lucky to just keep the yard mowed. I let all of the lettuce go to flower and the squash plants have really just taken over. I've been pulling one to two squash a week and lucky to eat them. There's three sitting my fridge right now. I'm thinking of making them into a dip like babaganoush. Last weekend I'd had enough. I told Michael that I had to rework the garden and plant things for the Fall. I had ulterior motives when I told him this. First, I needed help hauling new bags of soil to my back yard. Secondly, I wanted the Cabbage involved. I wanted her to dig in the dirt and plant some seeds. I am a firm believer that one of the best ways to teach kids about good food is to get them involved with where their food comes from. Plus, playing in the dirt is just fun. The Cabbage turned out to be a great helper. She pulled up the old lettuce and spread out new soil. She diligently dropped seeds into all the wholes I poked into the new soil and then spilled a tiny handful of seeds into one corner. I didn't care. I was just thrilled that she was having fun planting, but it wasn't just her. Michael planted one whole square with green onions, carrots, and radishes. Then he asked me every day for a week if anything had sprouted.
By Thursday, I could gleefully reply with a yes and that the first sprouts to pop up out of the ground were the radishes he had planted. He spent the weekend eyeing the garden for more sprouts and pointing out all the things coming up and eating radish sprouts right out the garden. It reminded me of my first garden and how exciting it was to see the seeds I had planted turn into dinner. I love that I get to pass that on to someone new.
But my favorite part of the garden has to be that small corner where the Cabbage dumped a bunch of seeds. Nothing grew well in that squar this year. All summer it remained a dead zone of barren soil. I worried that new dirt and nutrients wouldn't even make a difference. But there they are. A small cluster of sprouts from seeds planted by tiny little hands. I have no idea what seeds she planted, but I'm sure it will be the sweetest of veggies.


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Outrage Over Trump's Comment On PMB
Following the controversial Financial Times report which claimed that the United States President, Donald Trump, allegedly referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as "lifeless" during his April visit to the US, Nigerians have upbraided the US administration for the reckless statement. Though the US Embassy in Nigeria and the federal government have refrained from commenting on the report, concerned Nigerians yesterday described the statement purportedly made by Trump as 'unpresidential', insisting that if is true, it is an affront to Nigeria. A cross section of Nigerians, who spoke to LEADERSHIP, expressed their frustrations about the statement. Abubakar Sidi Aminu criticised the US President, saying that with the several allegations of improper conduct against Trump, he is morally unfit to attack Buhari in such a manner. "Buhari has distinguished himself in character to deserve respect from the US president. Just last week, two of his close allies were found guilty and convicted. So, on what ground can Trump take President Buhari to the cleaners?" he queried. Another commentator, Dennis Akubueze Chukwuma, who said he was a banker, asserted that it was time African leaders stopped worshipping their western counterparts. He advised that, in view of the current development, the Nigerian government should look inward for sustainable development initiatives instead of going cap in hand and be insulted. "This is humiliating. I think we have had enough of the western bully. "Whichever way we look at it, a borrower is a servant to the lender. Our dependence on these people for virtually everything is the highest source of humiliation," he said. President Trump was quoted to have referred to his President Buhari as "lifeless" shortly after a meeting between the two leaders on April 30, Financial Times said yesterday. Buhari, the first sub-Saharan Africa president to meet with Trump in the White House since he was sworn in January 2017 as the 45th American president, was in the US for bilateral talks on Trump's invitation. But citing three persons familiar with the matter to back up its story, Financial Times yesterday reported that, that meeting ended with Trump saying he never wanted to meet someone as lifeless as Buhari again. This new narrative is contrary to what Trump said of Buhari at a joint press briefing held after their bilateral talks. Trump had said that he had implicit belief in the Nigerian president to rein in the "massive corruption" in the country and commended his efforts at doing that. "Nigeria has a reputation for very massive corruption. I also know that the President has been able to cut that down very substantially," Trump said. "We talked about that, he is working on it and they have made a lot of progress and I think they will continue to make a lot of progress." However, Trump has a history of making derogatory remarks when it comes to Africa. Prior to the April meeting between the two leaders, Trump had come under fire for allegedly referring to some African countries as 'shithole' at a private White House meeting on January 12. In uproar that trailed it, he denied making the comment and labelled his accusers as fake news peddlers. Last week, South Africa accused him of fuelling racial tension in the country after he tweeted that there was a "large-scale killing of farmers" in the country. His tweet came after a Fox News show about South Africa's plan to change the constitution to speed up the process of taking lands from current White minority owners without compensation to redress racial imbalance in land ownership. Meanwhile, both American and Nigerian governments have not reacted to the report published on the same day Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta will be at the White House. A pro-President Muhammadu Buhari group has fired back at the United States President, Donald Trump, over the 'lifeless' comment he reportedly made referring to the Nigerian president. The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) noted that President Buhari had continued to show fitness and capacity to run the country post-2019. It went further to observe that though the president's 800 metre walk was not intended at showboating, it was an unscripted reference point that further proved a fit and lively president. The BMO, in the statement signed by Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Maduekwe, its chairman and secretary respectively, noted that this was not the first time the US President was heard to make such derogatory remarks against other world leaders, and thus President Buhari would not be distracted by such. "President Muhammadu Buhari is fit and capable to run for the 2019 election and oversee the affairs of the country for four more years, President Donald Trump's hate speech notwithstanding", the group said. "We are aware that President Trump's disrespect for world leaders is not new; his comments on Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him 'meek and mild'; his reference to Germany's Leader, Angela Merkel's actions as 'insane', or his outlandish Tweet at the UK's Theresa May, and more recently, the alleged remarks he made after meeting President Buhari. "It is indeed not the first time President Trump would be heard to lower the standards of respect for his colleagues on the world stage. We are not surprised; we know that this age-long character of the US President would not change anytime soon. But it is important that we put it on record that President Buhari remains fit and sprightly, even for the next decade. "We recall that during President Buhari's visit to Trump in the White House, the US President commended the successes that the Buhari administration had recorded, especially in the fight against insurgency and the war on corruption. The US President was full of admiration for Nigeria's President during the visit, thus such outlandish remarks as reported by the Financial Times are not just to be taken with a pinch of salt but are untrue in themselves." The BMO noted that President Buhari would not be distracted by this report, whether it was indeed said or in fact unsaid, but would in his character continue to remain focused on his mandate to deliver on his promises to the Nigerian people. Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday accused President Buhari and his handlers of exposing Nigeria to international ridicule following President Trump's reported comment about the Nigerian leader. 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The Art of Acting
If I spelled out the last half of my 2008 in the right way, it could be a hit country song; complete with losing my two dogs in a divorce. Moving across the country to attend acting conservatory was the greatest move I could have made at the time, along with rooming with a fellow Combat Veteran. With my sister nearby on Long Island, I was fortunate to have trustworthy support while The American Academy of Dramatic Arts introduced me to the foreign world of myself. See, the one thing I did not expect was that in order to be honest in character, it would be essential to be honest with myself.
Although my original intent for training as an Actor was to bring authenticity to Military characters on screen, it was only while studying acting that I began to understand how the Military affected my own character. However, Acting truly became therapeutic not through the exploration of my past and inner world, but by requiring me to fully commit to a character as a part of a greater scene. I don't mean talk or drama therapy, but the same healing artistic focus of a painter pouring emotions into brush strokes on canvas or a songwriter penning the human experience into rhythm and rhyme.
Acting is perhaps a misnomer, as true flow is found in honestly reacting. Success is found in balancing intentional presence with receptive curiosity, allowing the actors to perform a choreographed dance with spontaneous discovery. Effectively suspending reality through the creation of a more appealing alternative, successful actors can both reach catharsis and share it.
While a professional pursuit of Acting may be neither possible nor desirable for everyone, there are different ways to get involved in Acting from non-profit endeavors to community-based theater. With amazing digital cameras in most cell phones and how-to info everywhere online, short films can be a great way to explore the art. Much like playing an instrument or holding a paintbrush, Acting is scaleable to your life and is fun at any level. More importantly, any time you open your heart as an artist, you are bound to learn something new about yourself. Go try it!
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5th BGCI Workshop in China
The fifth national workshop on biodiversity for botanic gardens in China was held at Fairy Lakes Botanical Garden (FLBG) on 15-18th November, 2004 in Shenzhen, China. Eighty Chinese botanic garden staff from 22 gardens convened at FLBG for a training workshop with the theme of "Plant Conservation: from Theory to Practice."
Speakers and participants comprised of botanic garden staff from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and the USA. Speakers presented case studies and examples of plant conservation including integrated conservation, collection policy, collections management and environmental interpretation.
Invited speakers included: Kay Havens (Chicago Botanical Garden), Steve Meredith, (Adelaide Botanic Garden), Kingsley Dixon (Kings Park Botanic Garden), Fuh-Jiunn Pan(Taiwan Forestry Research Institute [Taipei Botanic Garden]),Lawrence K. C. Chau (Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation), Yu Yong-Fu (China Wild Plant Conservation Association), Fu De-Zhi (South China Institute of Botany of China Academy of Science), Xiang Xiu-Fa (Sanxia Botanic Garden of Rare and Endangered Plants), Xing Fu-Wu (South China Institute of Botany of China Academy of Science), He Shan-an (Nanjing Botanic Garden. Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Huang Hong-Wen (Wuhan Botanic Garden of China Academy of Science), Hui Lam Hing (Hong Kong Zhonggang Biotechnology Centre) and Jiao Gen-Lin (Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanic Garden).
Participants were also treated to a tour of the Second National China Flower Expo in Shenzhen city and Shenzhen Futian Mangrove National Nature Reserve. At this workshop, it was the first time that Chinese version of the Darwin Technical Manual (translated by Jin et al., 2004) as well as the Chinese version of BG-Recorder (translated by Lin, 2004) was made available.
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WR Tim Smith (6-0 185) of Chesapeake, VA has 16 offers and four official visits scheduled. He will go to Louisville September 5th, USC September 19th, West Virginia September 27th and Virginia Ocotober 4th. For his final visit Smith is looking at Boston College and Maryland.
Smith said his interest in the Gamecocks is based in part on the coaching staff. "Coach Spurrier is a great coach," he said. "They do put people in the draft. And I know they get the ball around a lot. And they are in a great conference."
Smith said he does not have a favorite and won't make a decision until after taking his visits. Last season he had 600 receiving yards and five touchdowns, and he scored three more times on punt and kickoff returns.


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