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In Turkey, Obama Says U.S. ĹNeverĺ at War With Islam
In Turkey, Obama Says U.S. ĹNeverĺ at War With Islam
In Turkey, Obama Says U.S. ĹNeverĺ at War With Islam
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
By HELENE COOPER
Published: April 6, 2009
Caption: President Barack Obama addresses his remarks at a town hall meeting Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at the Tophane Cultural Center in Istanbul. White House Photo/Chuck Kennedy
ANKARA, Turkey ŚPresident Obama, directly addressing a majority Muslim country for the first time in his presidency, said Monday that the United States ôwould never be at war with Islam.ö
In a wide-ranging speech before the Turkish Parliament in the capital, Ankara, Mr. Obama extended his campaign of outreach to the Muslim world, painting himself as a man who understands it and would seek to build a bridge between Islam and the West.
ôAmericaĺs relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not just be based on opposition to Al Qaeda,ö he said. ôWe seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.ö
He drew applause when he said, ôThe United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam.ö
And in a move with potential political risks at home, he drew on his personal ties to Islam. Introduced as ôBarack Hussein Obama,ö he told the Parliament that the United States had been ôenriched by Muslim-Americans.ö
ôMany other Americans have Muslims in their family, or have lived in a Muslim-majority country,ö he said. ôI know, because I am one of them.ö
Then he paused. And waited. And, after about five seconds, as the translator caught up, the applause came.
The line was a bold one for Mr. Obama, who has been falsely labeled a Muslim by detractors. The accusations persist on some right-wing Web sites, which may try to interpret the last sentence as proof of those views.
But Mr. Obama, who has become increasingly confident and sure-footed as his one-week maiden overseas trip is drawing to a close, is seeking to use Turkey as an example of the type of relationship that can be struck between the United States and a Muslim country. Turkey is a secular Muslim democracy that is pivotal to American foreign policy goals from Iraq to Afghanistan to Middle East peace.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern Turkeyĺs founding father, laying a wreath at the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In his speech, he lauded Ataturkĺs political legacy.
ôIt is also clear that the greatest monument to Ataturkĺs life is not something that can be cast in stone and marble,ö Mr. Obama said. ôHis greatest legacy is Turkeyĺs strong and secular democracy, and that is the work that this assembly carries on today.ö
Mr. Obama also threw his weight firmly behind Turkeyĺs accession to the European Union, an issue that has split Europe, with France and Germany lobbying against it. ôLet me be clear: the United States strongly supports Turkeyĺs bid to become a member of the European Union,ö Mr. Obama said. ôWe speak not as members of the E.U., but as close friends of Turkey and Europe.ö
The comments drew an immediate rebuff from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. ôI work hand-in-hand with President Obama, but regarding the E.U., itĺs up to the E.U. member states to decide,ö Mr. Sarkozy told French television.
Mr. Obama also waded into the fraught issue of Turkeyĺs relations with Armenia, and the genocide of more than a million Ottoman Armenians beginning in 1915. Turkey acknowledges the killings but says they were casualties of war, not a systematic genocide, and has vehemently opposed the introduction of a bill in the United States Congress that would define it that way.
When he was a Senator, Mr. Obama said he supported that view, but during a press conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul before the Parliament speech, he did not use the word genocide and said that Turkey and Armenia had made progress in talks.
During the Parliament speech, he spoke eloquently of the Armenia issue, saying that ôhistory unresolved can be a heavy weight.ö
ôOur country,ö he said, ôstill struggles with the legacy of our past treatment of Native Americans.ö
Many Turks took pride in the fact that Mr. Obama had chosen Turkey for his first visit to a Muslim country, and said that recognition would help Turkey in its relations with the West and with other Muslim countries.
ôIt makes me happy that the Islam lived in Turkey is seen as a better version compared with other countries and that the message would be sent out from here,ö said Samet Yildirim, a 26-year-old sandwich shop worker in Ankara.
The visit was the latest of Mr. Obamaĺs efforts to change the tone of American relations with the Muslim world. In his inaugural address in January, Mr. Obama pledged to extend a hand of respect to the Muslim world, a sentiment which he also repeated in his interview with the Al Arabiya satellite television network later in January.
Steven Erlanger contributed reporting from Paris.
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Declarations for sustainability in higher education are often seen as a set of guiding principles that aid institutions of higher learning to incorporate the concept of sustainability into their various institutional dimensions. As the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development draws to a close and in the shadow of the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it seems appropriate to re-evaluate how these declarations have changed over the past two decades. In this study, we apply critical discourse analysis to examine how sustainability and the university are socio-politically constructed within these documents. Our analysis uncovers evidence of ideological assumptions and structures that are potentially misaligned with notions of sustainability often discussed in the Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) literature. It is not the purpose of this study to provide a definitive reading of the documents, but rather to ply a novel critical lens to help elucidate how some taken-for-granted assumptions present in the declarations may work against their stated goals.
The evolution of university declarations for sustainable development maps a series of benchmarks with respect to post-secondary institutions' commitment to incorporating principles of sustainability into their physical and philosophical dimensions. Many contend that as institutions that educate many of the future leaders of our society, universities bare a profound moral obligation to promote sustainability through their curricular, pedagogical and physical operations [
Though institutional transformation for sustainability is a laudable goal, the contested and protean nature of the concept of sustainability presents a significant challenge when using it as an organizing principle for change [
Institutional change for sustainability is further complicated by the fact that the university system as a whole is in a period of transition as a result of the waning power of the nation state. This shift in the contemporary university is often framed in terms of the corporatization or neoliberalization of higher education (HE) [
While several studies have analyzed the content and themes of these SHE declarations as they've evolved over time [
Building on the work of Wright [
Critical discourse analysis is well placed as an analytical tool for providing a novel and critical perspective on the underlying assumptions embedded in the language of SHE declarations. Rooted in critical social theory, CDA makes no claim to neutrality; in fact, it takes an explicit socio-political stance in order to gain deeper insight into how text is used in the (re)production of dominance and the hegemony inherent in notions of common sense and the status quo [
CDA moves beyond content analysis of traditional reporting to demonstrate how strategic use of textual devices obfuscates the economic, political and cultural interests that permeate mainstream mass communicative events [
SHE declarations, much like other policy statements, represent a consensus from the signatories or authoring agency, where difference tends to be minimized and, therefore, represents perhaps the simplest, most paired down visions of sustainability for the institutions. Thus, problematic assumptions and assertions situated in these texts may point to fundamental problematic themes in universities' construction of sustainability and their roles in working towards it generally. The presence of such assumptions is of particular interest, especially in light of how, through research and education, higher education is complicit in propagating and legitimizing many of the rationalizations and technologies that underpin much of the current crisis of unsustainability [
Though SHE declarations may not have the broad and immediate reach of the popular media, they nonetheless guide or frame what is possible insofar as sustainability is concerned at the university. If sustainability is constructed in a transformative, radical and profound way, it stands to reason that that vision of sustainability will begin to affect earnest change. Of course, the same would be true of any less altruistic goals or values embedded in the documents. Moreover, keeping in mind that as socially constrained agents within an institution that has itself been criticized for adopting neoliberal values, the potential exists for authors to be constrained in their ability to employ language to construct their interpretation of sustainability if they are forced to (consciously or unconsciously) operate within a neoliberal frame.
If the SHE documents are to be as effective and wide-reaching as they aim to be, some thoughtfulness into what values may be embedded in these documents seems quite fitting. Our primary concern is with how language and sites of power intersect and work to (re)produce dominance and inequality (or the opposite), since these texts are created by a particular and privileged group of people proposing to speak for a large group of people (both specific universities, the "university community" on a global scale and several specific countries or groups of countries). In other words, those whose social positions afford them privileged access to tools of mass communication are in such a position as to be able to have their social constructions of reality become the dominant interpretation, whereby, over time, they cease to be perceived as ideology and are incorporated into the discourses of civil society as either common sense or objective fact. It is the goal of this study to problematize the taken-for-granted assumptions embedded in the language of the declaration, so that future declarations may be constructed with a greater degree of reflexivity.
The sample for this CDA focused on ten sustainability declarations spanning twenty years (
For the purpose of this analysis, four linguistic devices or "tools" widely applied by CDA [
List of Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) declarations analyzed in this study.
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The process of analysis for this study was influenced by Porter, who analyzed health declarations and provided a practical set of guidelines for analyzing a similar genre of text [
Much like a thematic analysis of text, where the researcher initially creates a substantive codebook (essentially, just a reporting of what was said) before developing a set of theoretical codes that lead to theory building [
In order to organize observations, we created a spreadsheet that noted the declaration, citation, the location of citation within the document, tools identified and implications or themes that emerged. A separate sheet was created for both categories, and upon completion, we used a critical eye to remove redundancies to simplify the tables for the reader. The spreadsheet allowed easy tracking of emergence, ideological (re)production and disappearance or omission of certain themes. Since these declarations are largely built off each other and sometimes almost identical textually, it is noteworthy to identify where differences and commonalities can be found.
The following section shows the results of our analysis. In this, we review two emergent/established themes that we feel bear discussion. It is not our intent to underscore the importance of these documents for sustainability in higher education; nevertheless, there exists potentially problematic language employed in the construction of conceptualizations of both the university and sustainability, which we argue work to (re)produce an inherently unsustainable status quo.
Analysis of the declarations revealed a consistent conceptualization, on the part of the authors, of the university as a site of free and open inquiry, which bears a responsibility to society to develop novel ways of doing and being, which is static, for the most part, across all declarations. For example, the Talloires Declaration states:
Universities have a major role in the education, research, policy formation and information exchange necessary to make these goals possible. Thus, university leaders must initiate and support mobilization of internal and external resources so that their institutions respond to this urgent challenge [
In addition, the Turin Declaration demonstrates:
…the Presidents attending the 2009 University Summit acknowledge the important role that education and research play in informing, promoting and implementing sustainable and responsible development [
This conceptualization of the university is ubiquitous across all declarations and echoes perceptions of the role of the university
Equally ubiquitous and directly related is the omission of any mention of culpability on the part of universities for how knowledge generated within their walls has contributed to the current socio-ecological crisis. All declarations readily construct the university as the solver of societies "problems", and to an extent, it can be and is, but discussing the obverse of this issue without admitting its reverse, we argue, displays a lack of reflexivity on the part of the declarations, which may imply a lack of self-reflection on the part of universities. Even if the ultimate role of SHE declarations is developing or highlighting potential avenues through which the principles of sustainability can be incorporated into the functioning of the institution, It is consequently their duty to propagate environmental literacy and to promote the practice of environmental ethics in society… [
…where it is asserted that the university must engage the public sphere is present in most all declaration. In fact, it increases dramatically in frequency (e.g., Talloires Declaration refers to this in separate sentences, while the Bonn Declaration uses this as a central theme and, thus, completely saturated) over the twenty year span of the sample, alluding to a strong, socially progressive politic emerging out of the declarations. It is not our intent to criticize universities seeking to become more socially relevant; on the contrary, this should be applauded. Nonetheless, failing to realize or admit culpability associated with participating and supporting a system that has proven itself to be ecologically and socially disruptive on a global scale speaks to a hubris, which may inhibit the institution from engaging in the sort of re-examination of its current pedagogical and ethical structures that may be more conducive to a socially transformative notion of sustainability.
Although multiple common themes present in the declarations give the appearance of continuity and, at times, a progressive evolution of how the university is perceived "The reorientation of education as a whole called for in chapter 36 of Agenda 21 must involve not only the education community, but also governments and financial institutions and all other actors [
Throughout all proceeding declarations, relationships between the State and universities have been discussed. This is the first instance where financial institutions have been explicitly given a role to play into the "reorientation of education". Moreover, they are given a privileged position, since they are named, while other constituencies, such as the citizenry, NGOs,
In drawing from Fairclough's notion of genres of text and how specific genres are employed to specific ends, we begin to uncover what is occurring in these texts. The genres of policy papers, of which the declarations most closely resemble, bare the central feature of diminishing difference ([ "It (higher education) has a special responsibility to conduct the scholarship and scientific research necessary to generate the new knowledge needed and train the leaders and teachers of tomorrow, as well as communicate this knowledge to decision makers and the public at large [
If one can forgive the post-positivist slant in assuming "one" knowledge or that the authors seem to conflate knowledge and information, the central thrust of this statement speaks to an institution engaged in the public sphere by forming and disseminating a variety of ideas that will help to move society in a more sustainable direction. Thus, in a traditional or even liberal arts conceptualization, we see the university as an independent pillar of society helping to drive social change. This is perhaps even better exemplified in the following quote, where education at the university is discussed in terms of education of the whole being, which aligns itself with a liberal vision of the institutions as a site for free and critical learning, where knowledge is viewed as emancipatory (the Luneburg Declaration):
"The ultimate goal of education for sustainable development is to impart the knowledge, values, attitudes and skills needed to empower people to bring about the changes required to achieve sustainability [
However, the preceding paragraph in a seemingly benign statement of broad purpose for the university proposes:
"Higher education has a catalyst role
Though the concepts of a Learning Society and lifelong learning by association do hold promise for socio-ecological resilience, plying them uncritically is problematic in that intertextually speaking they can be understood as specifically neoliberal forms of a state of reason that have emerged largely as a result and effect of the flexibility required to meet the demands of increasingly complex and ever-expanding economies of scale. As Olssen argues, drawing on Foucault's concept of governmentality, lifelong learning as an educational ethic can be understood as a technology of control situated in a discourse for the "flexible preparation of global subjects" [ "Sustainability cannot be achieved by merely engaging natural sciences, but must also engage life sciences, social sciences and humanities [
This of course presents a somewhat enlightened view of the necessity of sustainability being understood broadly, beyond mere technical definitions, but then tied to the following:
"All students should be exposed to the issues connected with sustainable development and encouraged to be involved in the creation of a sustainable and responsible society in the spirit of global citizenship [
As with "Lifelong Learning", "Global Citizenship" may also be understood as yet another form of institutional reason that is embedded in a neoliberal web of significance [
Perhaps the most striking finding to be drawn out of our analyses is the consistent naturalization of the processes that lead to issues of global sustainability (in this instance, ecological degradation and poverty) through nominalized statements, as found in the Talloires Declaration…
We, the presidents, rectors, and vice chancellors of universities from all regions of the world are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation and the depletion of natural resources. Local, regional, and global air and water pollution; accumulation and distribution of toxic wastes; destruction and depletion of forests… [
…as well as in the COPERNICUS Charter:
Man's exploitation of the biosphere is now threatening its very existence and balance [
Where poverty is concerned, the Bonn Declaration opens with the statement:
Despite unprecedented economic growth in the 20th century, persistent poverty and inequality still affect too many people [
Unsustainable production and consumption patterns are creating ecological impacts… [
By framing these issues as naturally occurring phenomena, the authors obfuscate the fact that these are indeed historically embedded phenomena that are the result of very specific socio-economic relations promulgated by historically embedded agents who actively seek to (re)produce these relations. The danger, in particular, with the naturalization of ecological degradation and poverty is that it removes agency and, thus, invisibilizes the institutional structures that perpetuate them, thereby making it virtually impossible to address the core of the problems. Structurally speaking, for example, the quotation drawn from the Bonn Declaration [
Framing responses in techno-managerial terms implies a necessary framing of sustainability along similar lines. This is perhaps best evidenced by consistent reference throughout the majority of the declarations to the Brundtland Commission's definition of sustainable development. This occurs as late as the Turin Declaration [
The issue with techno-managerial- and expert-driven solutions is that they are inherently technocratic rather than democratic, effectively removing agency and power from civil society. Though the Brundtland discourse is by and large absent from the other declarations—Talloires [ […] rapid and radical change of behaviours and lifestyles, including changing consumption and production patterns. For this, appropriate education and public awareness should be recognized as one of the pillars of sustainability together with legislation, economy and technology [ We have the knowledge, technology and skills available to turn the situation around [
Where in the Thessaloniki Declaration the three of the central pillars are explicitly the realm of techno-managerialists and the fourth, while admitting the necessity of social change, frames this in terms of individual action and responsibility. Conversely, even though the Bonn Declaration does admit the need for cultural change without explicitly framing this in individual terms, suggesting that the root of the current socio-ecological crisis are values and lifestyle choices without critiquing the social structures that create and reinforce those very values (for their benefit), presents culture as ahistorical and the product of some inevitable "human nature". Presenting the individual as a basic, ahistorical social unit further works to (re)produce an ideological position situated in a neoliberal rhetoric of individuals as free from socio-economic constraints and as the sole site of social responsibility [
Both Wright [
Our application of CDA reveals that although many themes remain consistent through time, there is evidence of a marked ideological shift between the Copernicus Declaration and the Thessaloniki Declaration. This shift is evidenced by the presence of language and textual devices in the writing of the declarations that in the previous section we have argued work to (re)produce neoliberal market ideology. While an in-depth discussion of the socio-political conditions at work between 1993 and 1997, which may lead to such a shift in the ideological slant of the declarations, is beyond the scope of this paper, it is interesting to note that during this time frame, reports, such as the Commonwealth governments review on higher education financing [
We respectfully disagree with Lozano
As we have mentioned above, it is not the purpose of this paper to provide a definitive and final reading of SHE declarations. Rather, our intent is to add to the growing body of literature that seeks to provide a more critical assessment of sustainability in higher education. Our concern is with the spontaneous emergence of disciplinary structures with respect to thought around sustainability and how these structures may be functionally transparent to people embedded in the field. We feel that the persistence of themes in the declarations that we have argued are problematic may be indicative of the emergence of disciplinary thinking around sustainability and may work to limit a vision of what a sustainable university can look like. On a practical level, our intent with this work is to hopefully demonstrate the need for a more critical and reflexive approach in creating SHE declarations and to be sensitive to the sort of ideological (re)production that plague politically contested concepts, like sustainability. Language and discourse are powerful ways of reproducing ideology and maintaining hegemonic social relations; relations that in a contemporary socio-economic context, are not necessarily aligned with transformative visions of sustainability. Since social agents are partially socially constituted, reflexivity is exceedingly important in any work that seeks to promote social change if we do not want to unwittingly (re)produce the very ideologies and social structures we are seeking to critique or dismantle.
Finally, although the themes of sustainability in the declarations appear static over time, set against the emergence of a neoliberal ideology as a framing device, we argue that they are anything but. In other terms, the words are the same, but the meaning has changed. Instead of seeking to use the principles outlined in the declarations to sew "a golden thread" through the university, we humbly suggest using the principles to develop a
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During an online debate on the issue, Ted Haggard argued that gay marriage should be legal.
Haggard is the evangelical pastor who ran afoul of his Denver congregation after admitting to a three-year pay-for-sex affair with male prostitute Mike Jones. Immediately after Jones reveled their sexual association in 2006, Haggard denied being gay, saying only that he had committed "sexual immorality." Since that time, Haggard has said he's undergone intensive counseling. On February 6, 2007, Tim Ralph pronounced Haggard "cured," adding that Haggard is "completely heterosexual."
The married father of five says everyone – including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people – is welcome at his new church, St. James in Colorado Springs.
While Haggard supported the 2006 referendum which amended Colorado's Constitution to say that only heterosexual couples may marry in the state, he now argues otherwise.
In the online debate against Rabbi Benjamin Hecht, director of Orthodox Jewish think tank Nishma, Haggard said he sees a distinction between biblical law and civil law.
"We've reached a point where human dignity and mutual respect is so important," Haggard said. "If someone is dealing with same-sex attraction or homosexuality, and they want someone to be their life partner of the same gender, though we would oppose that in our churches, it should be allowed by the state."


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Classification | Bowed string instrument |
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Erhu, Erxian |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 해금 |
Hanja | 奚琴 |
Revised Romanization | haegeum |
McCune–Reischauer | haegŭm |
The haegeum (Hangul: 해금) is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. It is popularly known as kkangkkangi.[1] It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
The haegeum is one of the most widely used instruments in Korean music. The haegeum is used in court music as well as madangnori (ordinary people's music). The haegeum's range of expression is various despite having only two strings, with sounds ranging from sorrowful and sad to humorous. The haegeum is made using eight materials: gold, rock, thread, bamboo, gourd, soil, leather, and wood, and so it is called paleum (eight sounds).
The sohaegeum (소해금) is a modernized fiddle with four strings, used only in North Korea.photo
There are no records about the exact era when the haegeum was first introduced in Korea. According to several sources, references to the haegeum can be found in hanlimbyeolgok (the unrhymed verse and songs of the royal scholars) made in the Goryeo dynasty, so it can be inferred that the haegeum has been played at least since then.
In the Joseon Dynasty, the haegeum was used in various music: that of royal ancestral rites, parades, festivals, and hyangak (Korean music).
The way the haegeum is played changed dramatically since the Joseon Dynasty. In the past, musicians plucked the string as it was tuned, but since that time they have begun pulling the string while they play it to express sound in many ways.
To improve the acoustic ability of the haegeum, various modifications have been introduced since the 1960s. In 1965, Park Hun-bong and Kim Bun-gi developed a low-tune Haegeum, and in 1967 Kim Gisu made a small haegeum.[2]
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Airline ticket
An airline ticket is a document, issued by an airline or a travel agency, to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on a flight on an aircraft. This document is then used to obtain a boarding pass, at the airport. Then with the boarding pass and the attached ticket, the passenger is allowed to board the aircraft.
There are two sorts of airline tickets - the older style with coupons now referred to as a paper ticket, and the now more common electronic ticket usually referred to as an e-ticket.
Regardless of the type, all tickets contain details of the following information[citation needed]:
- The passenger's name.
- The issuing airline.
- A ticket number, including the airline's 3 digit code[1] at the start of the number.
- The cities the ticket is valid for travel between.
- Flight that the ticket is valid for. (Unless the ticket is "open")
- Baggage allowance. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- Fare. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- Taxes. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- The "Fare Basis", an alpha or alpha-numeric code that identifies the fare.
- Restrictions on changes and refunds. (Not always shown in detail, but referred to).
- Dates that the ticket is valid for.
- "Form of payment", i.e., details of how the ticket was paid for, which will in turn affect how it would be refunded.
- The Rate of Exchange used to calculate any international parts of the fare and tax.
- A "Fare Construction" or "Linear" showing the breakdown of the total fare.
Replacement of paper tickets[edit]
IATA announced that as of June 1, 2008, IATA-member airlines will no longer issue any paper tickets.[2]
A ticket is generally only good on the airline for which it was purchased. However, an airline can endorse the ticket, so that it may be accepted by other airlines, sometimes on standby basis or with a confirmed seat. Usually the ticket is for a specific flight. It is also possible to purchase an 'open' ticket, which allows travel on any flight between the destinations listed on the ticket. The cost for doing this is greater than a ticket for a specific flight. Some tickets are refundable. However, the lower cost tickets are usually not refundable and may carry many additional restrictions.
The carrier is represented by a standardized 2-letter code. In the example above, Thai Airways is TG. The departure and destination cities are represented by International Air Transport Association airport codes. In the example above, Munich is MUC and Bangkok is BKK. The International Air Transport Association is the standard setting organization.
Only one person can use a ticket. If multiple people are traveling together, the tickets are linked together by the same record locator or reservation number, which are assigned, if the tickets were purchased at the same time. If not, most airlines can cross-reference the tickets together in their reservation systems. This allows all members in a party to be processed in a group, allowing seat assignments to be together (if available at the time of the assignment)
Black market[edit]
When paper tickets were still frequently used, a practice existed by travellers to get rid of their tickets (which are person-specific), when they decided to alter the course of their trips. This practice consisted of selling the ticket to other travellers (often at discount prices), after which the seller accompanied the buyer at the time of departure to the airport. Here, the original owner checked in under his name and provided the airline with the buyer's baggage. After this, the buyer boarded the airplane at the moment of departure.[3] However, since most airlines check identification on boarding, this procedure is rarely functional.
See also[edit]
- ^ Airline and Airport Code Search
- ^ "Industry Bids Farewell to Paper Ticket" (Press release). International Air Transport Association. 31 May 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ Timmerhuis, Frans (2007). Handboek Voor De Wereldreiziger (in Dutch). Rijswijk: Elmar. ISBN 978-9038917597.
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Santa Cruz warns City stars
Manchester City striker Roque Santa Cruz has warned his team-mates not to rock the boat this season.
Competition for places at City is fierce with Mark Hughes adding to his squad in the summer with the arrival of over £100million worth of talent.
Robinho's future at City has been the subject of speculation in recent days with Barcelona rumoured to be courting his services, while Martin Petrov has voiced his frustration at his lack of regular action.
Santa Cruz, who missed the start of the season through injury, admits it will be hard to keep every player happy, but he wants his colleagues not to cause any upheaval by upsetting City's fine start to the season.
"It will be very hard if people get impatient and start moaning. It leads to a bad atmosphere and we don't want that," insisted Santa Cruz.
"So far, the players at Man City are working fantasically as a group. But it is very hard for the manager.
"Carlos Tevez scored two goals against West Ham, Emmanuel Adebayor is back from suspension, Craig Bellamy has been playing great and there are people like myself and Robinho waiting to see what happens.
"We all need to have the mental strength to wait for a chance and be ready when it comes."
Santa Cruz has also admitted qualifying for the UEFA Champions League is their top target this season ahead of Sunday's clash at Wigan.
"The Champions League is the aim," added Santa Cruz.
"You always set your standards at the start of the season and that is ours. So far we are on course and exactly where we want to be."


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Frances and Mary Allen (1858-1941) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, were 2 of the best early glass-plate camerawomen. Their photographs often do not report life but rather show life, as the Allens wanted it to be, story-like and peaceful. The sisters printed 4 catalogs of their work and their photographs were often used in books written by others. "Little Puritan" appeared first in a catalog printed in 1911. The photograph is colonial revival and makes this view of history seem like a sort of stage performance.
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The Rainbow Sign
Erin Leiker and Friends
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About The Rainbow Sign
Born out of good times, porch pickin', and inspired by the Old-Time sound of Tommy Jarrell and the strong harmonies of The Stanley Brothers, this trio consists of Curt Alsobrook, Rachael Bock, and Josh Cole. Taking turns leading vocally and switching up instruments The Rainbow Sign delivers a high energy performance strengthened by a common love of Mountain Music.
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Boutique Chalet Chipmunk
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Supermodel Natalia Vodianova—who grew up in Russia selling fruit on the street and later went on to marry (and divorce) a British billionaire—spoke at this weekend's British Vogue Festival. She made a few, um, controversial statements about weight... let's discuss.
Answering the question, "It's undeniable that models are very thin, expected to be very thin, and thinner than 99.9 percent of the population. What message should you be sending out?"
The Cut reports that Vodianova said:
Come on, guys, it's better to be skinny than to be fat! We eat well, we exercise — please, do the same and you will look like this. I'm sorry, but today the NHS [Britain's National Health Service] are fighting against obesity, children are taken away from their parents because they're too fat And here we are, defending that we are healthy and skinny.
My favorite part of that answer is when she says: "Please, do the same and you will look like this." Ummmm, I don't know about you, but I don't think I'll ever be 5'9" and a size 2-4, no matter how well I eat or how much I exercise... Anyway, moving on...
How does she avoid gaining weight? She says, simply: "If I eat like a pig, I feel like a pig."
I see. And what about the rest of us non-model-sized folks? Vodianova recommends the Blood Type Diet, which she says cured her of her digestion (and ulcer) problems. But, then again, it might be worth taking Vodianova's advice with a serious grain of salt—she also says that she had no issues with losing weight after her pregnancy: "I must say I actually came to [an event at] the V&A after giving birth to [my son] Victor, three days later, and I was wearing Givenchy Couture." and she is a magical athletic wonderwoman: "I run [a marathon] once a year; I don't train. It's true!"
So yeah.
What do you think about Natalia Vodianova's comments about weight? Tell us in the comments!
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Understanding "rules": When is behavior rule-guided?
UNSPECIFIED (1998) Understanding "rules": When is behavior rule-guided? In: 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society, UNIV WISCONSIN, MADISON, WI, AUG 01-04, 1998. Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY pp. 466-471.
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The extent to which human cognition can be understood as rule-based is a classic issue in Cognitive Science and one which continues to provoke heated debate in a wide variety of areas, ranging from Implicit Learning through Inflectional Morphology to the acquisition of reading skills. Despite its centrality, the central notion of "rule" is far from well-defined. This paper examines a central feature of rule-based models, the concept of rule-following, and clarifies its role, its content, and some of the typical fallacies associated with its use.
Item Type: | Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Journal or Publication Title: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY |
Publisher: | LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL |
Editor: | Gernsbacher, MA and Derry, SJ |
Official Date: | 1998 |
Number of Pages: | 6 |
Page Range: | pp. 466-471 |
Publication Status: | Published |
Title of Event: | 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society |
Location of Event: | UNIV WISCONSIN, MADISON, WI |
Date(s) of Event: | AUG 01-04, 1998 |
URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/11441 |
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Collusive market sharing with spatial competition
- This paper develops a spatial model to analyze the stability of a market sharing agreement between two firms. We find that the stability of the cartel depends on the relative market size of each firm. Collusion is not attractive for firms with a small home market, but the incentive for collusion increases when the firm's home market is getting larger relative to the home market of the competitor. The highest stability of a cartel and additionally the highest social welfare is found when regions are symmetric. Further we can show that a monetary transfer can stabilize the market sharing agreement.
Author: | Kai Andree, Mike Schwan |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62146 |
Series (Serial Number): | Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge (Bd. 105) |
Document Type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2012/10/30 |
Year of Completion: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release Date: | 2012/10/30 |
RVK - Regensburg Classification: | QD 100 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
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Time again for another cursory look at a Turbografx-16 classic. I'm going quite far back this time with Atlus' 1989 Action RPG Dungeon Explorer, thought to be the first good Atlus game to be released in the West, thus begetting that long relationship of "man, I hope Atlus bothers to translate this game for us, it looks amazing" between us and them that persists to this day.
Dungeon Explorer, for the uninitiated, is a game that takes more than a leaf or two out of Atari's playbook, being as it focused on Gauntlet style, well, gauntlets against traps and enemy spawners. The player must descend into the depths of dungeons (exploring them, if you will) while trying to stay alive long enough through the many hordes of spawning enemies to reach a boss at the end and defeat it. Though players can collect items to boost their stats (strength, speed, defence and the like), they are only temporary and vanish once the player loses one of their finite lives: Only by defeating bosses (and the occasional mini-boss) can the player level up and earn permanent boosts to their health and stats.
That's the gist of it, but the TurboMento-12 is more than just words: You get pictures too! Nothing but the best in Web 1.0 presentation for my dear readers.
What Am I To Do With All These Dungeons?
...and I'm going to stop there. Because I don't want to spoil the game's ending? Nope, because the image limit has apparently been lowered from 25 to 20 on the new site without my knowledge. Great.
As for the game, well, I'm not entirely sure it's aged gracefully. It is a well-designed game for its era - the way the passwords and lives work give you something of a fighting chance, even if the game itself can be rather difficult at times. The levels aren't particularly different in terms of how you're supposed to progress through them (protip: find the damn stairs) but visually and musically there's quite a bit of variance. The bosses are the best part, which is why I elected to show them off instead of the dungeons leading up to them.
As for cheating one's way through the game: It's probably a huge disservice, considering how easier it makes everything, but the game would be far more ponderous without it. I mean, I died a lot. It's kind of inescapable. Really, it's a bit like Dark Souls in that you want to get far enough to do some damage before your inevitable demise so you won't have to backtrack quite so far the next time through.
Overall, if you keep in mind its age and want to see some classic-ass Atlus before they got way into Jack Frosts, young detectives and alien zombie cancer, I'd say try it out. It's available on the Wii Shop last I heard. Um, which of course I know because that's the legal version I totally have and I totally got all these screenshots from. Uh, hmm, it's such a nice day I think I'll go out the window.
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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Now we know why the Broncos signed Ryan Lilja instead of Jeff Saturday to play center.
Wow good for him.
Can I borrow his cook? That is simply amazing. Cheers for Jeff.
If you get to thinkin youre a person of some influence, try orderin somebody elses dog around..
This reminds of hearing about Mark Schlereth talk about his weight loss when he retired. He said he was willing to do whatever it took to remain in the NFL, which included having about 20 surgeries. Once he retired, he lost about 55 to 60 pounds in a short amount of time. He said it was great to go to bed hungry, which was a luxury he couldn't afford being an NFL offensive lineman.
It looks like Saturday was in a similar situation to Schlereth. I wonder how many offensive lineman do this when they retire.
"See how stupid those fans sound complaining about the officials. That is one reason why I hate when Pacers fans complain about the refs - does not come across well at all, no matter the merit. "
Listened to a podcast with Jeff as a guest star lately and he was asked about how thin he looks right now. He explained that during his playing time he had to eat a lot even though he was not hungry cause otherwise he wouldn't stand a chance.
Clearly, it was something he didn't enjoy and as soon as he made up his mind last season he contacted some nutritionist (?) he knew about what he should do in order to lose weight.
Good for Jeff.
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Nice, good job Jeff.
Frank Vogel says "Killer instinct, start strong, build a lead and then step on their throats."
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Jeff secretly joined PD and participated in the latest biggest loser thread over on Market Square
That's cool! Most of us wish we could eat more. Offensive lineman wish they could eat less. What age do most of you feel your metabolism slowed way down? I would say around 30 for me.


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Measure, measure! I switched over to using first Kwik Sew, and later Ottobre Design for my children (both boys) because the big four companies sizing was wildly inconsistent (and not very many boy patterns, either). Younger Son is skinny, so I have continued with Ottobre, tracing smaller size width by the lengths he needs...and things still line up and fit together. I haven't sewn anything for my husband in, hm...probably over 9 years, but I'd still want to measure first.
Just like women's clothing. There is no connection between RTW sizing and sewing pattern sizing. Burda has great patterns for men and boys, and they have great--and somewhat unusual--measuring charts that you must use for the best fit.
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Education Fast Forward (#eff6 on Twitter) is a worldwide education and Student Learner Voice movement I've been following and sharing with students, educators and administrators. They run regularly scheduled global debates co-moderated by students. The latest debate, #EFF6, takes place January 28, 2012. It will be live streamed 11 a.m. (GMT), so make sure to check your time zone difference. The live video streaming set-ups, by Cisco Education, for students around the world, are amazingly crisp and clear quality. Promethean, a global education company, has been a driving learning force, and has supported Education Fast Forward and Learner Voice from the start.
The great thing about the event is that anyone attending the live streaming can participate through chat and social media. My choice has been Twitter, and I've found the organizers extremely responsive in presenting my questions and thoughts to the student and adult panelists. For more on #EFF6, the Education Fast Forward debate, you can download a #EFF6 Agenda PDF and learn about guest presenters, where you can also learn a bit about TakingITGlobal. And if you can't attend the live video streaming, use the links in this post to check back for the archived event. This experience, live or archived, really is something worth sharing in class with your students, as well as at a faculty meeting—or other education leadership meetings.
Teachers using technology with students need to think globally. By that I mean reference the world, beyond just local, in class practice and daily conversation. Notice that I said "daily" and not just during a specific class or specific geography or citizenship lesson. Along with that, educators should give students what my UK educator colleagues refer to as Learner Voice.
So what is Learner Voice? Well, it's when learners/students actually take control of their own learning, and help shape that learning. Now, that can be an amazing leap for many educators, especially those who have never taught away from the front of the room, and never relinquished the education stage to students.
Learning should be, after all, not about what the teacher knows and can present—anymore. It is certainly not about what the student can restate from the recitation of the teacher, either. If you ask a student to talk intelligently on topic, today, appropriately, technologically equipped students have a tremendous advantage. As an educator, you don't have all the knowledge; a textbook or reference book, no matter how recent won't either. Students get this without us telling them. Educators, who can do this, empower students.
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I have a P55 so if I use the 4x slot for physx would it render my main 16x slot into 8x. Hope this makes sense.
I'm not certain...
It might, or it might not. I don't think the second slot was intended for a video card specifically. Capable? Yes. Intended- maybe. I'm thinking that the two slots *might* not be tied together- thus regardless if slot #2 is occupied or not, your primary one runs at x16.
Though I could be wrong- at the time those mobos were out your could get by running a card in an x4 slot for CrossFire. Not the best idea, but you could do it.
Either way, I don't think going from x16 to x8 will hurt your FPS much. I've not looked into it since the 8800 days, but from what I gather the PCI-e 1.0 interface offered more bandwidth than the cards could consume. I'd only assume the same holds true for the PCI-e 2.0 bandwidth.
In other words- I don't think dropping from x16 to x8 will hurt performance any. To the best of my knowledge, we've yet to saturate PCI-e x16 1.0 bandwidth yet, let alone the bandidth of PCI-e x16 2.0.
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Switching back and forth between CNN and Fox News last night, I found that when it came to the Gulf Oil Spill, the two usually contrary channels agreed on two crucial points. First, the graveness of the crisis had reached epic proportions. Secondly, the Obama Administration (whose attitude appeared to be that since BP caused this mess, BP should clean it up) was doing next to nothing to solve this problem.
"The political stupidity of [Obama's] advisers is unbelievable!" exclaimed CNN analyst, James Carville, the usually staunch Obama backer. "He's got to get down here, and put someone in charge. People are dying!"
Meanwhile, Fox was making it clear that, now a full five weeks after the disaster occurred, President Obama was (still) not in Louisiana but in California for yet another political fund-raiser. "He is clearly putting his emphasis on fundraising now," concluded Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, as Fox was taking glee in showing Obama being heckled by an "I'm telling without asking!" gay protester at the recent dinner for Senator Barbara Boxer. Then, after CNN showed Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, out in a small boat explaining his state's predicament of poisoned water and dying, oil-coated wildlife, and the subsequent unemployment, Fox told the tale of local heroes, tired of waiting for Federal funds or approval, "borrowing" 30 British Petroleum fishing boats and putting down sand berms to block the oil's advance on their own. And Jindal, the report said, not only commended the Louisiana leaders for commandeering the BP vessels, but vowed to join them in jail if Obama's Coast Guard halted their efforts.
And where, you say, was British Petroleum during these past five weeks while their underground well's leak now threatened the economy of the entire southeastern United States? Like Obama, they were sitting around making statements, each week half-heartedly throwing another hair-brained solution at the problem. Heck, this wasn't their country, and if their spill, unchecked by Obama's mighty mites, accomplished what the War of 1812 didn't, well, so much the better. I wish I had as much confidence in BP's latest mud-followed-by-concrete scheme as the President's men do, but based on their next plan of attack should the mud shoot fail, I cannot.
"And if the mud and concrete plan doesn't work," said a BP spokesman on CNN yesterday (and I swear I'm not making this up) "the next thing we'll try to plug the hole with is rope and golf balls."
"Golf balls?" my wife Jeanette repeated, slightly bewildered.
"Call off the Coast Guard, and call up the PGA!" I declared.
"Well, if it works, perhaps Tiger Woods can redeem his reputation," Jeanette, always looking on the good side of a situation, added.
And yet, as a Christian, one is taught to always look for the positive light even in the darkest of hours. Perhaps this disaster (and his heroic handling of the situation) thrusts Governor Jindal back into the 2012 presidential race. Personally, I believe the devoutly Catholic Jindal is one of the few who could beat Obama, for not only can he match the President's shrewdness, but Bobby's ability stems from honesty where Barack's comes from bulls---, I mean baloney. Yes, it is currently comforting to many Republicans to believe that Barack is merely incompetent. But I caution that Obama has often proved in the past to not be as stupid as he seemed. While one does not have to go along with the conspiracy theorists (that Obama actually planned the oil spill to give the Democrats a reason to stop all drilling and go full speed ahead with their "Global Warming" energy alternatives) on this one, conservative Christians should at least note that Obama does have one thing in common with the original "fun-razer."
When the Emperor Nero set the slums of Rome on fire, fiddling while Rome burned, he was the first ruler to (unjustly) blame his country's problems on the Christians, claiming this fledgling but courageous sect had done the evil deed. Now it is Obama who falsely accuses America's Christians (especially former President George W. Bush) as responsible for many of our country's ills. On the other hand, it is interesting to note that many of those die-hard Christians of A.D. 64 also considered Nero to be not just their nemesis, but the Antichrist as well.
Anderson Cooper didn't seem real happy that the savior was partying with the oil heirs.
Its pretty hard to plan an oil spill. Its especially true at a mile below the surface of the ocean.
That does not negate the fact that Obama has done everything he could to exacerbate the problem.
The author missed the cherry on the top. Obama's high-dollar/plate fundraiser for Boxer took place at the Getty estate in San Francisco, a trust fund case family whose money came from Big Oil (as big as they get).
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. Rahm Emanuel
Sounds like a slam of obama to me.
Obama was being HOSTED by the GETTY's of GETTY OIL?? Is he trying to bring down a competitor to Getty, BP???? Did they not give him enough money???
Between that and people who want "free reign" over something, I'm starting to think Ebonics might be the way to go, purely in self-defense.
I think Obama is done.
"Hair" brained solution?
I think Obama is done.Wouldn't that be nice? On a related note, our two dogs, as we have six of us here walking them frequently, never need go to the door to be let out. But as DH and I were engrossed in the French Open yesterday, "Addy" went to the door in front of us and scratched. We were surprised, then looked up at the clock, and saw it was 3:25. She's a pretty smart dog (a border collie mix). I think she was alerting us to the 3:30 beads! [whatcha' think?]
"Hair" brained solution? Huh?Smarter than a spell checker. Good job. You're hired! :)
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LOL, I've seen that.
"That'll never wash out again!"
BP will contribute a lot of that money Maobama needs to fund his reelection campaign in '12 and all will be forgiven.
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