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Just some perspective I'd like to share. I personally think a lot can be understood when imagining that each of us are in one of these categories, either trying to grow or not.
This can be added onto by others in the forum, which is meant to help understand how culture and religion are somehow overlooked as the same thing. I am almost sure this is in the right forum.
The Evolution of a Human Spirit
Truth adapts to the comprehensions seeking it.
Each culture around the world eventually found that if they tracked their fear-based instincts to a source, that dark spectrum proved to have a polarizing opposite. The Light. Just as there is a name for water in every culture, there is a name for God, but like water, there is only one God. Interpretations are dangerous to the stubborn ego. One can be happy as an infant, however their happiness is restricted to comfort zones only. So we continue to grow…
Each culture's developed deity lays down fundament principals as a guide to live within the divine intentions. Each eventually calls for their followers to convert the unholy at all cost, and if they meet resistance, they were ordered to use force. Territorial Instinct in each Human creates the "perfect storm" when battling a like mind, even when it is disguised as your enemy. We all have thus far tasted an inch of the truth, however we act as if we our inch is all there is to have. And rebuke anyone who does not fall within our one-inch space we have allotted to the entire scope of truth. So we continue to grow…
Civilization directed humans to seem civil, even as their desires remained selfish. Behind the facade of social graces, which help to hypnotize the children, the darkness begins to develop within some dark-minded spirits. Some become empowered by ownership and one-upmanship, to the point where their justifications are the only true definition to any action. Some kids pretend to follow the direction of the dissenters, but only study their habits long enough to learn stronger perspectives. So we continue to grow…
Soon we begin identifying the commonalities in the world's differences, which help to design a higher philosophy to unlock what is still hidden within, so those curious to change old patterns may proceed. Old ideas are becoming apparently out-dated, while complacent humans strain to hold onto their acquired control, a momentum manifests to aid in the disassembling of the past. Seekers of light, they will be called.
Seekers begin to challenge those that are holding onto the out-dated understandings. When they meet resistance, they use force, because this is a battle that cannot be lost. Some keepers of old ways will never assimilate to the higher compass, and want to keep humanity in its early stages. Those dark people do not have to believe what is true, for it to remain true. So we continue to grow…
Peaceful times are built from the proverbial ashes of the past. Secrets cannot exist if the walls of potential have been crumbled. Thoughts turn to reality while spectators admire, children grow from the inside out, rather than the outside in, like the old days. Being an adult in spirit reconnects the human with all the tools of the past, so that he may get to work in the present. The rocky road will forever remain smooth to the adult spirit, however we still continue to grow…
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Expanding the Knowledge Base Managing Extended Knowledge at the National Museum of the American IndianMichael Vulpe, i4i, Canada, and Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USAAbstractA Native American basketmaker was hired to teach a college class in Indian crafts. Each day she began and ended her class by having her students sing songs she had taught them, until some of the students began to complain that they would never learn basket making at that rate. So the teacher said, "Now we'll collect the materials for making baskets" – but it turned out that in order to do that she had to teach them still more songs, and the students became frustrated again. Finally, after they had collected all the materials and returned to the studio the teacher announced that she would now have to teach them still more songs in order to make the baskets. At this the students rebelled and demanded to know how to make baskets instead. To which the teacher replied, "Don't you know that the basket only represents the song, and that the songs are really the tradition that you need to make baskets? For a basket is only a visual representation of a song." Web technologies have the potential to expand the depth and scope of the knowledge base by including other, often underrepresented, sources of knowledge. This paper explores a project underway at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) that uses Web technologies to reach out to Native American communities and enables them to be active participants in the development of the knowledge base and in the sensitive care of Native American collections. The strategy goes beyond the simple 'feedback' forms on Web pages and relates directly to NMAI's mission to advance, in consultation, collaboration and cooperation with Natives, knowledge and understanding of Native cultures. The NMAI is testing a suite of Web infrastructure tools that offers Native communities opportunities to represent themselves in the knowledge base and locally manage knowledge about NMAI objects, media, and documents and related objects often stewarded by others. Focusing on technical aspects, this paper will discuss the importance of a metadata server that provides a data front end to a virtual content aggregator to bring together previously unconnected collections databases. The metadata server, which can normalize an unlimited number of metadata namespaces, is front-ended by knowledge organization applications such as XML word processors and e-learning visual studios. It allows users to create and manipulate personalized metadata driven points of view (POV) on the aggregated collections. NMAI is testing the application of these tools in its collections research, public programs, and community services activities. NMAI hopes that, by extending a level playing field using Web technologies, the knowledge base at the NMAI will serve as a public and educational resource that enables appreciation for the multiplicity of POVs of all subject matter experts. Keywords: metadata, knowledge management, xml, collaborative content OverviewThe National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) faces many challenges to effectively use its electronic information resources to meet its business objectives. The challenge discussed in this paper is how NMAI addresses the need to support collaborative interchanges of information by offering integrated modes of access to its own and other databases and incorporates, within its systems, appropriate additional knowledge gained through the collaborative processes. Many projects successfully bring data together from diverse resources. (France chartered the development of national databases to hold cultural information in 1968 and Canada launched its National Inventory Programme in 1972). This challenge addresses the next step: what people want to do after they have access to the diverse resources. The challenge includes ensuring that research, comments and expanded knowledge can be held in NMAI's systems. For example, a recent New York-based NMAI exhibit entitled, The Language of Native American Baskets: From the Weavers' View, featured more than 200 baskets from the NMAI collection. None of the information prepared for the exhibit was entered into NMAI's Registration Information Tracking System because neither the system, designed to support the move of collections, nor the work-flow processes for museum record-keeping could support the information. NMAI identified a potential solution in an emerging methodology: using a separate metadata tier as a mechanism of integration and a work and staging area for extended information. NMAI asked Infrastructures For Information Inc. (i4i), an organization experienced in metadata management, to identify and define a metadata repository implementation to address the challenge, enhance the Museum's business processes, and contribute to its strategic goals. NMAI contracted with i4i to produce a proof of concept project sufficient to demonstrate and evaluate, in controlled use, key concepts inherent in the use of an XML metadata repository to support on-going and collaborative content development, knowledge capture and knowledge representation through placeless document views. This project is linked to other efforts: internal efforts such as NMAI's implementation of Collections Information System (CIS) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) software, and external efforts such as Indigenous Knowledge Management software (Hunter et al 2002), a project previously presented at Museums and the Web by Dr. Jane Hunter, Senior Computer Scientist at Distributed Systems Technology Center in Brisbane, Queensland. The software tools developed by Dr. Hunter et al enable authorized members of Indigenous communities to define and control a variety of sensitive care needs, accessibility, and reuse of their digital resources; uphold traditional laws pertaining to secret/sacred knowledge or objects; prevent the misuse of indigenous heritage in culturally inappropriate or insensitive ways; ensure proper attribution to the traditional owners; and enable Indigenous communities to describe their resources in their own words. The goal of the project is to identify, define, and implement a proof of concept metadata repository implementation that can serve both as a "finding aid" for the museum to users of its various databases; for instance the CIS and DAM databases or public users of NMAI's Interactive Learning Center on the National Mall; and as a framework for collaborative development supporting NMAI's internal and external projects such as the Indigenous Knowledge Project. The metadata repository is based on relevant industry standards, particularly on XML, for defining metadata and for managing content created in the collaborative environment. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software is used, though some configuration and customization work is needed to adapt the software to the museum's particular content. The repository fits into the high-level system architectures set by the Smithsonian Institution's Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and the NMAI, and makes use of existing capabilities and services wherever possible. IntroductionDatabases and other information resources proliferate within enterprises, and networking based on standard protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP makes access to them broadly available, both within and among organizations. The challenge is to create a unified view or views of these resources to enable users to find what they need with a minimum of exploration, and to support software applications that can work with a set of databases without the need for separate interfaces to each one. An emerging methodology to address this fundamental problem is the use of controlled vocabulary expressed in XML to create a normalized metadata tier to provide users with location, navigation, and content categorization management services across multiple independent databases. An example of this type of service is the WinFS component of the Microsoft Longhorn operating system, promised for 2006 but now delayed indefinitely. The Function Of MetadataSimply put, metadata is data about data. Managed metadata can provide meaningful categories for content elements. These categories can then be used to create structured abstracts of the information held in the data stores below, and to present navigable views of the resources. There is a relatively long history of the use of a distinct metadata layer in document management and geographic information systems, but in these applications the metadata is drawn from a unified data store with a homogeneous data model and vocabulary. Advances in technology, specifically XML, which supports the design of very flexible data models and the interleaving of models, allow heterogeneous databases to effectively project themselves in metadata.. The projected metadata is a binary pair; an XML tag which defines 'aboutness and a content object which is the subject, are captured in a metadata tier that is data model agnostic. The net result is a consolidation of all of the participating databases presented in a normalized form and organized to support certain interactive services efficiently. (This approach is consistent with the evolving Web services model expressed in architectures like J2E and .NET. In these architectures, physical services and data stores have neutral (XML) abstract representations that are available over the Web for interrogation. The neutral abstraction masks complexities;,physical and logical, that need be resolved only once a decision to use a service or dataset is reached.) A metadata repository integrates, to some degree, the contents of the participating databases into a common view for users (persons or software processes). The degree of sophistication of the consolidation is proportional to the sophistication of the normalized form. MetaData and the RepositoryTo a database designer, metadata comprises the names and definitions of the components of a data model: tables, columns, relationships, constraints, etc. We call this prescriptive metadata. The designers of object-oriented software hold a similar view. To the curator, cataloguer, or document manager, metadata comprise the values of pre-defined data elements that identify or classify an object, intellectual work or document; author, title, subject, provenance, etc. We call this descriptive metadata. A Google search on the term metadata will yield a result set in which both views are represented, but as two almost completely disjointed subsets. Both views are relevant to a metadata repository. The following diagram illustrates their relationship: Metadata is built on data content. The data layer below the metadata repository represents a set of repositories holding digital content, in XML or other formats. Digital content may be in the form of individual files such as Word documents or organized in databases. Information processes and services, constrained by the security model, may also be included in this layer, because they too can be described in metadata. These resources are represented in the metadata repository by descriptive metadata, which must include an explicit identification (a data repository identity and some sort of address or link) in order to retrieve the content entity. Aside from this reference, the metadata repository is separate from, and essentially agnostic to, the data repositories; stronger couplings are possible, but increase the complexity of the metadata repository software for little gain in functionality. The lower layer of the metadata repository is a type of directory, encoded in XML, containing data elements defined in the dictionary layer above, populated by values that either (a) describe individual information resources or (b) define classification schemes or categories used to organize views of the resource collection. In a sense, (a) represents cataloguing of various kinds and (b) represents organizational frameworks of various kinds – thesauri, topic maps, or simply arbitrary hierarchies of folders. The content units of the directory itself are XML instances. The upper layer of the metadata repository is a type of dictionary that defines the data elements and their relationships, and is used to describe and relate information resources in the directory layer. In XML, the dictionary can be implemented as a schema or DTD or a set of schemas and/or DTDs that define the XML used in the directory layer and in any XML digital resources. A resource discovery tool would query the dictionary to be informed as to the meaning of the metadata used in the directory. This two-layer model of a metadata repository provides several potential values not inherent in a single-layer model:
The content entities represented in the directory layer can be organized into various hierarchical views by associations built on common values in directory data elements. There may be other relationships between content entities, represented by cross-references or links embedded in the content itself. In principle, such links could also be managed in the metadata repository at the directory level; however, link management would only include XML content and would entail metadata server's being more tightly coupled to the XML content repository, significantly increasing its complexity. By maintaining a loose coupling between the metadata repository and the resource repositories whose content it represents, the metadata repository fits cleanly into most existing high-level architectures. The metadata repository does not impose any restrictions on the data layer repositories; it only requires that the metadata about the content entities it describes be passed to it, or routed by it, as content entities are created or changed. An interesting aspect of this is that the metadata repository does not need to represent all of the content in any or all of the data layer repositories. This allows metadata management services to be developed over selected content, enabling an evolutionary approach to implementation. A Starting Point For NMAIThe starting point for the NMAI was an XML repository that created an aggregated metadata view of data from Smithsonian Institution museums and offices. The data includes information from the Smithsonian's American Art Museum Web site, Native American Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's Catalogue of American Portraits, a combination of the Smithsonian Institution Library and Northwestern University's Edward Curtis Collection images, the National Anthropological Archives glass plate negative portraits of Native Americans, and NMAI's collections. The idea was to bring together an interesting subset of information that could provide users with insight about Native American materials at the Smithsonian and illustrate how a metadata repository addressed NMAI's objectives – managing knowledge capture and facilitating collaboration. The metadata view is delivered in way that allows the museum's external constituencies to collaborate with the museum to build new information products and expands the factual and interpretive knowledge base about the collections. The metadata repository is not the interface but the enabler of diverse interfaces. This addresses key business needs articulated in Director West's Strategic Plan 2002-2004: Develop and produce multi-dimensional exhibitions that reach out to visitors to connect them with our message, utilize new and emerging technology tools, link them to Native sources of knowledge, and provide intergenerational learning experiences. (NMAI Strategic Plan) Knowledge Capture & CollaborationThe problem with knowledge capture is that new information is infrequently returned, managed, or preserved in a meaningful way in museums' collections systems. Knowledge about the collection is developed during the process of research projects, publication planning, and exhibit design. This knowledge is captured and held in documents. Unfortunately much of this 'added' knowledge does not return to the collection information system; it remains in the curatorial files and publication documents. It may be that this information should NOT be returned to the collections system as it is tangential to the collections data, or of a different genre, or owned and held by other communities or institutions. Staff should be able to choose to include information (records, documents, or media) in the collections system, the digital asset management system, the metadata repository, or through the metadata directory link to related information in other museum, library, and archive systems. We do not have to stuff all our expanded knowledge into a single system. The problem of collaboration has both technical and human aspects. While the human aspect of getting people to work together is separate issue, the technology aspect that can help make it as easy as possible for people to access subject materials is central to the objectives of the metadata repository project. An aspect of the project is defining and managing an electronic 'public space' wherein collaborative activity takes place. That public space brings together information resources that are a necessary part of an informed discourse as well as contributions to the discourse. Documents are central to the discourse. They are a primary knowledge capture and collaboration medium. Authors put their thoughts and knowledge on to 'paper' – documents. These are distributed to the collaborative community for review, comment, and edit. It can be said that in an asynchronous digital world, the document is the medium. XML is a core technology for enabling access to document content. An XML repository for the storage, and ultimately, management of publication materials, supported by XML content creation and manipulation systems, addresses the problem of knowledge capture and collaboration. Specifically, XML is used to identify knowledge developed during document development and editing: the 'aboutness and subject pairing of metadata in the metadata repository. The XML knowledge document is abstracted as metadata that populates the metadata repository and when projected to the normalized form is used to define and organize a public space for the collaborative activity. (A further application of this software tool will take place within a project called Indigenous Knowledge Initiative). A PilotNative communities seek local control over cultural heritage and language preservation efforts and desire to speak for and represent themselves to the museum's public. To meet these objectives, NMAI and other partners are considering a strategy, still in the formative stages, called the Indigenous Knowledge Initiative which brings together community, education, and technical experts, computer research projects, and electronic software resources outlined below. These resources will improve the ability of individual Native communities to strengthen culture and language at home while, at the same time increasing their ability to learn about other cultures, educational practices, and languages. The Initiative is centered in concepts of Native community control and Native Ways of Being approaches to teaching and learning, developed by Native people from around the world The Initiative will create a distributed network built around culture and language preservation and continuance in Indigenous communities. The Indigenous Knowledge Management System (IKMS) is a software tool developed by Smithsonian Fellow and Senior Computer Scientist Dr. Jane Hunter, at the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC) in Queensland, Australia. Jane Hunter started with the premise of enabling Native communities to use multimedia technologies to "record and preserve significant aspects of their cultures, including languages, ceremonies, dances, songs, stories, symbols, design, artwork, tools, costumes, historical photographs, film, videos, and audio tapes." (Hunter et al 2002). In concert with NMAI, Jane Hunter sought to develop electronic mechanisms to enable traditional owners to define and control the rights and access to their resources, in order to: uphold traditional laws; prevent misuse of Indigenous heritage in culturally inappropriate or insensitive ways; and receive proper compensation for their cultural and intellectual property. … [NMAI staff believes] it is essential that Native communities describe and contextualize their culturally and historically significant collections, in their own words and from their own perspectives (Hunter et al 2002.) KMS software is designed for use by any community willing to work with NMAI and the DSTC to develop the expertise necessary to implement the software in their community. Member colleges and universities from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIIHEC) and World Indigenous Network Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) reviewed the Indigenous Knowledge Management software, and two colleges are involved in the project as beta testing sites. Little Priest Tribal College in Nebraska is developing a three dimensional tour of the Ho Chunk Society Historical Museum located on the campus.Working with experts from NMAI, middle school students from the community's schools are taking photographs of the local museum's artifacts and displays. They are also meeting with elders and historical society members as part of the effort to develop annotations for each object included in their tour. Local objects will be supplemented in the virtual museum by working with NMAI to photograph Ho Chunk artifacts stored at NMAI's Cultural Resource Center located in Suitland, Maryland. NMAI's challenge is to manage and make accessible appropriate information resulting from this Initiative. NMAI will use its metadata repository to provide a staging ground and gathering site for materials generated in the Indigenous Knowledge Management software. The metadata repository 'integrates' commercial collections management and digital asset management software products as well as XML-MARC. This unified view enables tribal members to explore music or oral recordings, for example, in museum collections or on-line tribal archives from around the world, along with records about the instruments and records about objects being created while the music is played or sung. Tom Davis, a contributor to the First Voices Project, writes, Robert Peacock, former Chairman of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwa Indians in Minnesota and now the President of White Earth Tribal and Community College, used to dream that he could go over to the tribe's small museum, and then use computers to explore Anishinaabe artifacts and items and information available from Canada, Europe, or wherever they might be found. (First Voices) A preliminary view is that the Indigenous Knowledge Initiative has 7 major activity stages, suggested by Jane Hunter in the Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management resource (Hunter et al 2002). They are as follows:
The following diagram shows the basic workflow of the spiral, with the metadata repository providing the initial application support for NMAI processes and Jane Hunter's Indigenous Knowledge Management System providing the application support for community use. At NMAI the information / documents are available in a shared Web space which has the 'look and feel' of Windows folders with documents. The default folder structure is the NMAI organization model. That default structure is populated with publications, collections, and media asset documents. The metadata from the collections documents, the media asset store and the publications documents is used to create the model and the documents 'appear' in folders because of their metadata. Change the metadata in a document, and it automatically appears in the appropriate folder. This allows content to appear in multiple places simultaneously. The physical constraints of organization are removed; objects position themselves based on their metadata properties. Folders, being in effect XML documents with metadata, act as documents do. Because documents and folders position themselves logically rather than physically, the user is able to create multiple axes of understanding without having to worry about the physical placement of objects in the structures – they appear automatically. The shared Web space appears to the user as an extension of the Window's file system. Documents are accessed on users' computers from the shared Web space. Saved documents pass through the metadata server, their properties extracted and the metadata views updated appropriately. They are then stored in an XML document repository or returned, in their native form, to the collections information system or media asset server as appropriate. These logical folder structures, which are in fact XML documents viewed through the prism of Window's Explorer, are available to Web browsers. This paradigm may be easier for casual users and viewers to accept and to navigate. Note: The creation of XML representations of collections records and media assets is an extract of the current database(s) into XML form. The XML is used to populate the metadata repository and is the neutral intermediate form that the new CIS system will support. It is also the basis for data interchange between the metadata asset system and the CIS. Expected OutcomesNew knowledge sources, such as researchers or tribal visitors, can add knowledge to the collections information documents. That knowledge is expressed in:
ConclusionNMAI is developing a technical infrastructure to support knowledge gathering and collaboration to manage, maintain, and present information for use in a variety of museum activities. No one system solves all the challenges. NMAI chose to acquire a variety of systems to meet the needs of specific functions and to integrate these systems at a higher level. Just as no one system solves all the challenges, no single museum, library, archives, or information store can hold all the information and knowledge. Museums are interdependent with libraries, archives, universities and larger constituent communities. Unlike many libraries and archives, museum activities expand the existing knowledge base. Museum systems are not static; museum systems are dynamic and ever expanding. The systems must enable communities to converse, collaborate, generate, share, and comment upon information held in multiple systems. We must be able to link resources across multiple systems, add information and comment, cooperatively engage with external constituents and communities, and develop new interfaces and products. ReferencesFirst Voices Project. http://www.firstvoices.org, accessed October 26, 2004. Hunter, Jane, Bevan Koopman, and Jane Sledge. September 2002. "Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management." http://archive.dstc.edu.au/IRM_project/software_paper/IKM_software.html. Accessed October 26, 2004. NMAI Strategic Plan. National Museum of the American Indian, Strategic Plan 2002-2004. Cite as:Vulpe, M. and J. Sledge, Expanding the Knowledge Base Managing Extended Knowledge at the National Museum of the American Indian, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2005 at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/vulpe/vulpe.html |
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la signora Dotti e molto dolce e disponibile. la camera splendida come in foto, riscaldata benissimo. e il quartiere e tranquillo per dormire, ma pieno di bellissimi locali, comodo anche per raggiungere il centro in una ventina di minuti a piedi. consigliato vivamente.
Really cosy, clean and beautiful apartment, far enough from the centre to relax, enjoy and explore Amsterdam away from the busy touristy places, but close enough to stroll or catch the tram into the centre. Dotti was incredibly helpful on our arrival, providing us with a map and her own Amsterdam guide book as well as showing us a few good places to see, will definitely stay again if in Amsterdam.
Dotti is a warm, welcoming host. She was very accommodating considering that our arrival was delayed, and she gave us some excellent tips for local bars and restaurants. The room is perfect for a short stay, with a small kitchenette if you need it, and it's been decorated thoughtfully and with care. It's a great area, a short bike ride/walk to the centre, but far enough that it feels a bit quieter. We recommend the Good Chicken Society for an excellent dinner with friendly staff nearby, and Little Collins, an Australian cafe, for their brunch menu and amazing Bloody Mary's.
We had a very good time in Amsterdam. The flat is perfect, clean and the localisation is just the best. Dotti is really nice, we had a great welcome and she gave us very good tips to enjoy amsterdam.
Dotti is a lovely host! And I loved my Blue Studio, facing the back of the house! It was nice and quiet and cosy. A real home to come back home to. For me everything was just perfect!
Dotti's place was great. It was clean, large room, and in a great location. It is just around the corner from the bus lines that run to anywhere in the city. When we arrived we were greeted by her daughter who was very welcoming. She gave us a map of the city and showed us different areas in the city that would be good for us to see and explore. We didn't meet Dotti until the day before we left, but she was warm and welcoming as well and also gave us some very helpful tips and incites on some great places to go to eat and hang out at night and during the day before we left. If we ever make another trip back to Amsterdam we will definitely try to book with Dotti again.
The apartment was amazing and perfect for my friends and I's weekend trip to Amsterdam. It comfortably fit the four of us and Dotti was extremely kind and welcoming. Her guide book was helpful and the walking tours were great! I'd definitely recommend staying here.
Wir wurden sehr nett empfangen und fühlten uns direkt wohl im Zimmer. Die Lage ist hervorragend! Es gibt viele Cafés und Restaurants in der Nähe und das Zentrum ist in ca 20 min zu Fuß erreichbar.
As the name suggests, this apartment is very basic, but ultimately cozy and comfortable for the price. Dotti was very friendly and made it easy to plan our arrival. She also provided us with a quick overview of Amsterdam and gave us a copy of a guide book that she had written. The neighborhood is slightly out of the way from central Amsterdam, but my girlfriend and I actually preferred to stay in the quiet and cute neighborhood of De Pijp. There was a beautiful park just a block away and the museum district was just a short 10-15 minute walk from the studio. The kitchen and bathroom were very dated, but we didn't expect to cook so that was not a big issue. The stairs are also quite steep, but not so bad without any bags. One note: Our trip coincided with some major renovations taking place on the unit below ours, which lead to some early morning construction noises and seriously unpleasant fumes in our room on a few occasions. This likely won't affect future visitors, but we would have appreciated a warning before booking or upon arrival.
Dotti and her daughter stayed with us for a few days over the new year. They were both easy guests and were happy to discover marrakech by themselves. They are interesting and nice people.
Dotti stayed at my place a few days early Jan 2014. She is very friendly and easy to talk to, also a fellow host so we shared stories. Her daughter stayed a couple of nights too. They are charming people and I would welcome them back any day.
Josephine, dotti's daughter stayed with us. She was a friendly, positive relaxed guest and was a pleasure to host.
We were fine with Dotti and her daughter when they were in our home.


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Dragon Gobies HI BLUE! ok... now I have a Dragon Gobi (he's pretty large, 6 1/2 to 7 inches) aside from the Dino Bichir (about3 and a half inches), Clown Knife (about the same, little shorter), the same Silver Dollars (still about the size of a silver dollar each), and again that other site is advising brackish water for all but the silver dollars - oh and three HUGE goldfish I'll be giving up soon)... the 55Gal tank I have will soon hopefully house the dino, clown, a couple of either ciclids or oscars (going with small on them)... what about the dragon? will he be ok in there with them if I provide plenty of hiding places? (also, here's that site that keeps telling me to make brackish water: http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Oddb...gon%20Goby.htm) |
I splitted your post so as not to hijack the other thread.:) Your plan is pushing the 55 gallons beyond its limit. I would prefer to ditch the idea of mixing dragon gobies with clown knives, bichirs and oscars. None of them are tolerant to brackish conditions long-term. Note that the oscars grow far too large along with the clown knives regardless of your plan to keep them when in small size. Either you keep only dragon gobies or do not keep them at all. |
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Rape in the U.S. Military Rampant, 'Shoot First' Soldier Set Free, After SOPA & PIPA, Now ACTA Revealing News Articles January 31, 2012
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"Invisible War" exposes widespread rape in U.S. military January 22, 2012, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-sundance-military...
Rape in the American armed forces is an issue that has quietly been gathering attention over the past decade. The documentary "The Invisible War" [is] a devastating indictment of the government's inaction on the issue. Director Kirby Dick brought a powerful weapon to his film: victim after eloquent victim, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, Army and Air Force veterans who were assaulted by fellow officers, supervisors or recruits. They tell their stories in courageous detail, and it quickly becomes clear that these are not isolated incidents but a pattern reflective of a widespread rot within America's military institution, one that betrays its essential values. One Marine, Ariana Klay, was raped by a fellow officer in the elite Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. A Navy officer, Trina McDonald, was drugged and raped repeatedly by fellow officers on a remote base in Alaska. Coast Guard recruit Kori Cioca was raped and then assaulted -- smacked so hard in the face that it dislocated her jaw, causing her permanent damage and pain for which the Veterans Administration declines to provide medical coverage. Every woman in the film has had her life shattered by this event -- not necessarily because of the rape, but because of the response by the military establishment. After lodging complaints, the women were met with indifference or targeted retaliation. They have had to leave the military. Some were threatened with violence. Almost none of the alleged perpetrators were brought up on charges or punished in any way.
Note: For lots more on sexual abuse scandals from major media sources, click here.
Iraqi Town Says Justice Failed Victims of US Raid January 25, 2012, ABC News/Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iraqi-town-justice-failed-victims-us-raid-15436091
In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time. They were outraged both at the American military justice system and at the refusal of Iraq's Shiite-led government to condemn the killings and at least try to bring those responsible to face trial in this country. "We are deeply disappointed by this unfair deal," said Khalid Salman Rasif, an Anbar provincial council member from Haditha. "The U.S. soldier will receive a punishment that is suitable for a traffic violation." The raid took place on Nov. 19, 2005. U.S. military prosecutors worked for more than six years to bring Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to trial on manslaughter charges that could have sent him away to prison for life. [Then] they offered Wuterich a deal that stopped the proceedings and meant no jail time for the squad leader who ordered his men to "shoot first, ask questions later," resulting in one of the Iraq War's worst attacks on civilians by U.S. troops. The 31-year-old Marine, who was originally accused of unpremeditated murder, pleaded guilty Monday to negligent dereliction of duty for leading the squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians during raids after a roadside bomb exploded, killing a fellow Marine and wounding two others.
Note: For earlier reports from reliable sources on the Haditha and other massacres carried out by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, click here.
If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA January 23, 2012, Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/23/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/
When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to Washington D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online. Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, these pieces of legislation are not the only laws which threaten an open internet. Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan. Many of these countries have already signed or ratified it, and the cogs are still turning, with the final real fight playing out in the EU parliament. The treaty has been secretly negotiated behind the scenes between governments with little or no public input. The Bush administration started the process, but the Obama administration has aggressively pursued it. Indeed, we signed ACTA in 2011. According to critics, ACTA bypasses the sovereign laws of participating nations, forcing ISP's across the globe to act as internet police. Worse, it appears to go much further than the internet, cracking down on generic drugs and making food patents even more radical than they are by enforcing a global standard on seed patents that threatens local farmers and food independence across the developed world.
Note: For lots more on government secrecy from reliable sources, click here.
FBI changes definition of rape to add men as victims January 6, 2012, USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2012-01-06-Rape_ST_U.htm
The FBI is changing its long-standing definition of rape for the first time to include sexual assaults on males following persistent calls from victims advocates who claim that the offense, as currently defined in the agency's annual crime report, has been undercounted for decades. Under the current definition, established 85 years ago, many of the sex crimes alleged in the ongoing prosecution of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky would not be counted in the bureau's Uniform Crime Report, one of the most reliable measures of crime in the United States. Rape is currently defined as the "carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will." The new provision will define rape as any kind of penetration of another person, regardless of gender, without the victim's consent. Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women's Law Project, and 90 other organizations that support victims of sexual abuse have been pushing for such a change for more than a decade. Tracy said that the public has long been "misled" about the prevalence of rape. "If you can't measure it accurately, you can't monitor it and you can't direct appropriate resources to deal with the problem," Tracy said.
Note: For more good news about these changes, see the New York Times article available here. For many other revealing news articles on sexual abuse reported in the major media, click here.
Secret trial revelations prompt US-Israeli diplomatic storm September 7, 2011, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secret-trial-revelations...
A court case against a translator who leaked US government secrets was conducted in secret because it centred on the revelation that the FBI had eavesdropped on Israeli embassy phone calls, it was revealed yesterday. The extraordinary limitations in place for the prosecution of Shamai Leibowitz, who was sentenced to 20 months in prison for disseminating classified information, meant that even the judge sentencing him did not know what he was supposed to have leaked. "All I know is that it's a serious case," Judge Alexander Williams said last year. "I don't know what was divulged other than some documents, and how it compromised things, I have no idea." But now Richard Silverstein, the blogger to whom Leibowitz passed his information, has come forward to defend his source. Leibowitz passed him about 200 pages of verbatim records of phone calls and conversations between embassy officials, saying that he believed the documents revealed Israeli officials trying unlawfully to influence US policy and edging towards military action against Iran. There has been dismay among civil liberties and open government advocates who point to pledges made by Mr Obama before his election to seek new transparency in Washington. Instead, his administration has launched a record number of prosecutions under the Espionage Act – five including the Leibowitz case. Previously, there had been only four such prosecutions opened by all previous administrations.
We must stop this corporate takeover of American democracy January 20, 2012, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/20/us-constitution-and-civil-liberties...
The corporate barbarians are through the gate of American democracy. Not satisfied with their all-pervasive influence on our culture, economy and legislative processes, they want more. They want it all. Two years ago, the United States supreme court betrayed our Constitution. In its now infamous decision in the Citizens United case, five justices declared that corporations must be treated as if they are actual people under the Constitution when it comes to spending money to influence our elections, allowing them for the first time to draw on the corporate checkbook – in any amount and at any time – to run ads explicitly for or against specific candidates. What's next … a corporate right to vote? When the supreme court says ... that corporations are people, that writing checks from the company's bank account is constitutionally-protected speech and that attempts by the federal government and states to impose reasonable restrictions on campaign ads are unconstitutional, our democracy is in grave danger. Corporations are not people with constitutional rights equal to flesh-and-blood human beings. Corporations are subject to regulation by the people.
Note: For key reports on the overpowering influence of corporate money on the US political system, click here and here.
Calif. 'downer' pig ban blocked by Supreme Court January 24, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/23/MNUN1MTDBQ.DTL
California's ban on the sale of pork from "downer" pigs, those that were too feeble to walk before being slaughtered, can't be enforced because a less stringent federal law regulates slaughterhouse inspections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously [on January 23]. State lawmakers enacted the ban in 2008 after a Humane Society video showed immobile cows being kicked, dragged, shocked and rammed with forklifts at a warehouse in San Bernardino County. Advocates said meat from those animals was more likely to be diseased. Federal law forbids the sale of meat from animals suffering from serious diseases, a ban that recent regulations extended to cattle that were unable to walk. But federal law allows meat sales from downer pigs and other nonambulatory animals, like sheep and goats, that pass federal inspection. Court challenges from meat processors and packers prevented the California law from taking effect. A federal appeals court upheld the California statute in 2010, but the Obama administration joined the National Meat Association in a successful Supreme Court appeal. The ruling dismayed the Humane Society of the United States, which has unsuccessfully lobbied Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for nationwide rules like California's. "The meat industry has the USDA and Congress in its tight grips," said the society's president, Wayne Pacelle.
Note: For lots more from major media sources on corporate and government corruption, click here and here.
Gingrich reaches for the stars (well, the Moon at least) January 27, 2012, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gingrich-reaches-for-the-stars...
If Newt Gingrich makes it to the White House, America will launch an ambitious programme to colonise the Moon, according to the latest exotic pledge to emerge on the Republican campaign trail. The former House Speaker, who is running Mitt Romney a close second in the race for his party's presidential nomination, made the announcement during a rally on the "space coast" of Florida, where Nasa is a major employer. Mr Gingrich told a crowd that his permanent US Moon base would be established by 2020. And once its population has reached the legal minimum of 13,000, he promised to support any effort by residents to turn the Moon into the 51st state of the USA. "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the Moon and it will be American," he said. Admitting that announcing the "bold" vision was the "weirdest thing I have ever done", Mr Gingrich told supporters that if elected president, he would instruct Nasa to send a rocket to Mars within the same time frame. The proposal met with mirth from Mr Gingrich's opponents, who oppose "Big Government" spending at a time when deficit reduction is a Republican mantra. However, it has some chance of support in Florida, where 10,000 jobs were lost after the recent closure of the satellite programme.
Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea January 26, 2012, Yahoo News/CNN http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-divers-large-unexplained-object-bottom...
A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. "This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters. Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about the size of a jumbo jet. And it's not alone. Nearby on the sea floor is another, smaller object with a similar shape. Even more fascinating, both objects have "drag marks" behind them on the sea floor, stretching back more than 400 feet. It could just be another shipwreck. Or, mud. But Lindberg says the ship theory doesn't really hold up because of the unusually large size of the objects. The Baltic Sea is a literal treasure trove for salvage teams and a "shipwreck laboratory" for researchers. The sea's low salinity levels help preserve objects that sink to the bottom. Said sonar expert Ardreas Olsson, "I'm not sure what you will see when you go down. But I'm excited. It's going to be interesting to see what it is."
Note: Watch a CNN video clip of the find at the link above.
Mystery surrounds Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane landing plan January 22, 2012, MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46091282/ns/technology_and_science-space
The United States Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane has been circling Earth for more than 10 months, and there's no telling when it might come down. "Because it is an experimental vehicle, they kind of want to see what its limits are," said Brian Weeden, a technical adviser with the Secure World Foundation and a former orbital analyst with the Air Force. The X-37B looks a lot like NASA's now-retired space shuttle, only much smaller. The unmanned vehicle is about 29 feet long by 15 feet wide (8.8 by 4.5 meters), with a payload bay the size of a pickup truck bed. For comparison, two entire X-37Bs could fit inside the payload bay of a space shuttle. Just what the X-37B does for so long while circling our planet remains a mystery, because the space plane's payloads and missions are classified. Partly as a result of the secrecy, some concern has been raised — particularly by Russia and China — that the X-37B might be a space weapon of some sort. But the Air Force has repeatedly denied that charge, claiming that the vehicle's chief task is testing out new technologies for future satellites. The spacecraft is flying repeatedly over the stretch of Earth from 43 degrees north latitude to 43 degrees south latitude. The space plane may be observing the Middle East and Afghanistan with some brand-new spy gear, perhaps instruments optimized to observe in wavelengths beyond the visible-light spectrum.
Morgellons Mystery: No Medical Explanation for 'Crawling Skin' Disease January 26, 2012, Time Magazine http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/26/morgellons-mystery-no-medical-explanation...
The symptoms of the bizarre illness known as Morgellons are enough to make your skin crawl. For patients who say they are suffering from the condition, that sensation is all too real. Sufferers report feeling that bugs are crawling all over their skin or just under it. They have fatigue and painful sores. They also say that they've pulled "fibers" and other solid materials ... through their skin, leaving lesions, according to new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new study — a $600,000 project launched in 2008 in response to a massive swell of interest and inquiries about the condition from lawmakers and patients — sought to determine how common Morgellons is. The new findings suggest that their symptoms may exist only in their minds. CDC researchers took skin biopsies and urine and blood samples to look for infectious diseases, including bacteria or fungus, that could explain the illness. There were none. They looked for environmental causes too, and couldn't find any. Although the CDC report concluded that no medical explanation for Morgellons can be found, the paper "confirms what anybody who has ever seen a patient with this knows, which is that these patients are suffering greatly and their suffering is real; they shouldn't be dismissed," Jason Reichenberg, director of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern-Austin, told USA Today.
Note: Remember that the Feds also insisted Lyme disease was a delusion for many years. For a list of FAQ on Morgellons, click here. For more on this intriguing phenomenon, click here and here.
Magic Mushrooms Expand the Mind By Dampening Brain Activity January 24, 2012, Time Magazine http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/24/magic-mushrooms-expand-the-mind-by-dampening-brain-activity/
More than half a century ago, author Aldous Huxley titled his book on his experience with hallucinogens The Doors of Perception. Huxley posited that ordinary consciousness represents only a fraction of what the mind can take in. In order to keep us focused on survival, Huxley claimed, the brain must act as a "reducing valve" on the flood of potentially overwhelming sights, sounds and sensations. What remains, Huxley wrote, is a "measly trickle of the kind of consciousness" necessary to "help us to stay alive." A new study by British researchers supports this theory. It shows for the first time how psilocybin — the drug contained in magic mushrooms — affects the connectivity of the brain. Researchers found that the psychedelic chemical ... does not work by ramping up the brain's activity as they'd expected. Instead, it reduces it. Under the influence of mushrooms, overall brain activity drops, particularly in certain regions that are densely connected to sensory areas of the brain. When functioning normally, these connective "hubs" appear to help constrain the way we see, hear and experience the world, grounding us in reality. Psilocybin cuts activity in these nodes and severs their connection to other brain areas, allowing the senses to run free. Huxley ... had predicted what turns out to be a key finding of modern neuroscience: many of the human brain's highest achievements involve preventing actions instead of initiating them, and sifting out useless information rather than collecting and presenting it for conscious consideration.
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'Magic Mushrooms' Trigger Lasting Personality Change October 3, 2011, Time Magazine http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/03/want-to-feel-younger-more-open-magic-mushrooms...
The psychedelic drug psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms") may produce lasting, positive changes in personality, new research finds. People who took the drug showed increases in the key personality dimension of openness — being amenable to new ideas, experiences and perspectives — more than a year later. Researchers led by Katherine MacLean, a postdoctoral student at Johns Hopkins University, analyzed personality data on 52 participants (average age 46) who had participated in the group's earlier research on the drug. These volunteers took psilocybin during two to five sessions, at various doses, under highly controlled conditions at the hospital. The earlier study had found positive psychological changes — documented by both participants and their family members and other associates — in calmness, happiness and kindness. The new research found that the drug takers also saw long-term changes to their underlying personality. The personality changes also ran counter to those expected as people age. Normally, as people grow older, they become increasingly less open to new ideas and new experiences. In contrast, in participants who experienced had what researchers call a "full mystical experience," the scientists saw a shift toward increased openness, as though the volunteers had become decades younger. People became more curious and more interested in new ideas and experiences and in trying new things.
I believe in Tim Tebow January 13, 2012, ESPN http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455943/believing-tim-tebow
I've come to believe in [NFL star] Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field, which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so rarely am. Who among us is this selfless? Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or who is injured. He flies these people and their families to the Broncos game, rents them a car, puts them up in a nice hotel, buys them dinner (usually at a Dave & Buster's), gets them and their families pregame passes, visits with them just before kickoff (!), gets them 30-yard-line tickets down low, visits with them after the game (sometimes for an hour), has them walk him to his car, and sends them off with a basket of gifts. Home or road, win or lose, hero or goat. This whole thing makes no football sense, of course. Most NFL players hardly talk to teammates before a game, much less visit with the sick and dying. Isn't that a huge distraction? "Just the opposite," Tebow says. "It's by far the best thing I do to get myself ready. Here you are, about to play a game that the world says is the most important thing in the world. Win and they praise you. Lose and they crush you. And here I have a chance to talk to the coolest, most courageous people. It puts it all into perspective. The game doesn't really matter. I mean, I'll give 100 percent of my heart to win it, but in the end, the thing I most want to do is not win championships or make a lot of money, it's to invest in people's lives, to make a difference."
Key Articles From Years Past
Moore Asks Inquiry Into Charges on Preparedness Campaign February 14, 1917, New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9504E7DA1538EE32A25757C1A9649C946696D6CF
A demand for an investigation of charges printed in the Congressional Record by Representative Oscar Callaway of Texas, a pacifist Democrat, that "the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel shipbuilding, and powder interests" had purchased control of twenty-five great newspapers to further the preparedness campaign, was made in the House today by Representative J. Hampton Moore, a Pennsylvania Republican. Mr. Callaway's speech, as inserted in The Record charged: "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations got together twelve men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select from the most influential papers in the United States in sufficient numbers of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of twenty-five of the greatest newspapers. [An] editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers. The policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served."
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