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"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -Charles Dubois
This quote is so inspirational. In life it is easy to identify yourself in a certain way. You may see yourself as an artist, a good friend, a straight A student or in any number of other ways. But it is important to not get so hung up in who you think you are and be ready to keep evolving and adapting. Life is constantly in flux, and there are opportunities everywhere. The best way to live your life is understanding that you must always be adapting. You have to let go of what you are and reach out for what you could be.… Read the rest


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Final Fantasy IX
Black Magic FAQ by Tastii
Version: Final | Updated: 06/28/02 | Printable Version
FFF FFFF@@F FFFF@@ @F FFFFFFFF@@@@ F @@@@FFFF@@@ @@@@FFF@ ###@@@@@@ #F#####@@@@ #F##F####@@@ \####F####\ @@ \###########\ \\\###\\\\\\\ ¢\\\\\\¢¢¢\\ ##¢\\\¢¢\\\\\\ ##¢\\¢¢¢\\\\\\ ¢\\\##¢\\\\\\ \¢\\##¢\\\\\\ \¢\\¢¢¢\\\\\ \\¢\\\\¢\\\\ \\\¢\\\¢\\\\ \\\\¢¢\\¢\\¢\\ \\\\\\\\\\\¢¢\\\\ [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | V I V I C H A R A C T E R G U I D E -FINAL 2- | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] ======================================================================= "How do you prove you exist? Maybe we don't exist.." -Vivi ======================================================================= Final Fantasy IX Vivi Character Guide FINAL Version 2 Written by Justin Bailey <email@example.com> ________________________________________________ / F I L E I N D E X \ | ________________________________________________| | / \ || Title of Game: Final Fantasy IX (9) | || Platform: Sony PlayStation | || Publisher: Square/Squaresoft | || FAQ Author: Justin Bailey aka Michael Galosi | || Last Updated: June, Twenty-Eighth, 2002 | || | |___________________________________________________| This work is written and copyrighted 2000, 2001, 2002 - Mike Galosi This FAQ is written and intended for personal and non-business use only. Only those with express written permission may post this FAQ on their website except for GameFAQs.com . This FAQ is not to be reproduced without permission for personal or public use in any way shape or form. This includes other websites, magazines, or any other type of published article without express written permission. FAQ created, owned, and maintained by Mike Galosi aka Justin Bailey <email@example.com>. All copyrights are acknowledged and respected in this FAQ. This FAQ can only appear on the following websites: www.gamefaqs.com www.gameadvice.com and their partners www.gamesdomain.com www.consoledomain.com www.cheatstop.com www.gamespot.com uff9.cjb.net If you wish to use my FAQ on your website, please email me and I will more than likely say yes. Final Fantasy IX is copyright Square/Squaresoft 2000 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] I. Version History II. Vivi's Black Magic Basics III. Black Magic In-Depth IV. Black Magic Chart V. Support Abilities In-Depth VI. Support Abilities Chart VII. Weapons VIII. Special Thanks [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | V E R S I O N H I S T O R Y | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] Version 1.0 - Started FAQ on Vivi, my favorite character in FFIX. (December 1, 2000) Version 1.3 - Uploaded to GameFAQs. (December 3, 2000) Version 1.4 - Almost finished, better spell descriptions may come soon. (December 4, 2000) Version 1.5 - Added quote, reorganized a bit. (December 4, 2000) Version 1.51 - Another host for this FAQ. (December 5, 2000) Version 1.6 - Added ASCII Vivi to the top of the FAQ. I like it. How about you? (December 6, 2000) Version 2.0 - Revamped the Black Magic FAQ into a Vivi Character Guide. Added a support abilities and a weapons section to the already existing magic section. (December 27, 2000) Version 3.0 - FINALLY! Added the location of Vivi's weapons! I'm sorry for all of you who have waited so very very long. Also added the stats of the weapons and support ability descriptions. (Augest 16, 2001) Version 3.1 - Added File Index. (Augest 17, 2001) FINAL Version - Added the exact location of The Mace of Zeus... now stop asking!!! :) Have a nice day. FINAL Version 2 - Fixed a few mistakes. Thanks to everyone who emailed me (too many to mention). [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | V I V I ' S B L A C K M A G I C B A S I C S | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] Vivi, the short, cute, loveable Black Mage from Final Fantasy IX is the supreme master of Black Magic. Black Magic spells can be learned from weapons, armors, and accessories that Vivi equips throughout his journey. Each spell can be used when that item is equipped immediatly and can also be permanently learned if you fulfill it's AP (Ability Points) requirements by gaining AP from defeated monsters. Vivi can select to use black (offensive) magic in battle under the BlkMag menu. From there Vivi can cast any ONE spell he has enough MP to cast. But, when Vivi Trances, he can use DblBlk. DblBlk allows him to cast two spells a round instead of just one, greatly improving his power. [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | B L A C K M A G I C I N - D E P T H | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] An in-depth look at each of Vivi's Black Magic spells. This is a listing of each spell with their effects and description of the spell itself in action. Bio: Causes poison with non-elemental damage to single/multiple targets. Blizzard: Causes ice damage to single/multiple targets. Blizzara: Causes medium ice damage to single/multiple targets. Blizzaga: Causes lots and lots of ice damage to single/multiple targets. Break: Causes petrification. Comet: Medium non-elemental damage to single target. Death: KO's the target. Demi: Causes damage based on 50% of enemies current HP. Doomsday: Causes major shadow damage to all enemies and party members. Drain: Drains HP from target and transfers it to the caster. Fire: Causes fire damage to single/multiple targets. Fira: Causes medium fire damage to single/multiple targets. Firaga: Causes el mucho damage to single/multiple targets. Flare: Causes serious non-elemental damage to single target. Meteor: Causes serious non-elemental damage to all enemies. Osmose: Drains MP from target and transfers it to the caster. Poison: Causes poison to single/multiple targets. Sleep: Causes single/multiple targets to sleep. Slow: Slows single target's Active Time Battle guage. Stop: Stops single target's Active Time Battle guage. Thunder: Causes thunder damage to single/multiple targets. Thundara: Causes medium thunder damage to single/multiple targets. Thundaga: Causes big time thunder damage to single/multiple targets. Water: Causes water damage to single/multiple targets. [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | B L A C K M A G I C C H A R T | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] Black Magic Spell: Item Learned From: MP: AP: --------------------|-------------------------------------|----|------- Bio Oak Staff 18 40 Blizzard Leather Wrist 6 25 Blizzara Ice Staff, Opal 12 50 Blizzaga Octagon Rod 24 85 Break Cypress Pile 18 30 Comet Cypress Pile 16 55 Death Black Hood 20 45 Demi Cypress Pile, Amethyst, Black Belt 18 30 Doomsday Mace of Zeus 72 150 Drain Oak Staff 14 60 Fire Mage Staff, Leather Wrist 6 20 Fira Flame Staff, Mage's Hat, Topaz, 12 50 Power Belt Firaga Octagon Rod 24 75 Flare Black Robe 40 95 Meteor High Mage Staff 42 95 Osmose High Mage Staff, Gaia Gear 2 70 Poison Lightning Staff 8 35 Sleep Flame Staff 10 20 Slow Ice Staff, Magus Hat 6 20 Stop Oak Staff 8 25 Thunder Glass Buckle, Silk Shirt 6 25 Thundara Lightning Staff, Peridot 12 50 Thundaga Octagon Rod 24 85 Water N'Kai Armlet 22 55 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | S U P P O R T A B I L I T I E S | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] Ability Up: Character learns abilities faster. Add Status: Adds weapon's status effect(Add ST) when you attack. Antibody: Prevents Poison and Venom. Auto-Float: Automatically casts Float in battle. Auto-Haste: Automatically casts Haste in battle. Auto-Life: Automatically casts Life in battle(once per battle). Auto-Potion: Automatically uses Potion when damaged. Auto-Reflect: Automatically casts Reflect in battle. Auto-Regen: Automatically casts Regen in battle. Body Temp: Prevents Freeze and Heat. Clear Headed: Prevents Confusion. Half MP: Cuts MP use by half in battle. Healer: Restores physical attack target's HP. High Tide: Allows you to Trance faster. Insomniac: Prevents Sleep. Jelly: Prevents Pretrify and Gradual Petrify Level Up: Character levels up faster. Locomotion: Prevents Stop. Loudmouth: Prevents Silence. Mag Elem Null: Nullifies magic element. MP + 20%: Increases maximum MP by 20%. Reflect Null: Nullifies enemy's Reflect status when attacking with magic. Reflect x2: Doubles strength of Reflected spells. Return Magic: Return magic used by enemy. [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | S U P P O R T A B I L I T I E S C H A R T | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] Support Ability: Item Learned From: AP: Magic Stones: ------------------------|---------------------------|-----|------------ Auto-Reflect Reflect Ring 70 15 Auto-Float Feather Boots 20 6 Auto-Haste Running Shoes 9 Auto-Regen Golems Flute 30 10 Auto-Potion Mythril Vest 10 3 Auto-Life Rebirth Ring 70 12 MP+20% Black Robe 30 8 Add Status Bone Wrist, Feather Hat 25 6 Thunder Gloves Reflect-Null Black Robe 30 7 Reflect x2 Black Robe, Rosetta Ring 110 17 Mag Elem Null Protect Ring, Promist Ring 85 13 Half MP Protect Ring 140 11 Healer Garnet 20 2 High Tide Jade Armlet, Dark Hat, 25 8 Gaia Gear Body Temp Jade Armlet, Holy Miter 15 4 Madain's Ring, Fairy Earrings, Diamond Level Up Iron Helm, Egoists Armlet, 30 7 Rosetta Ring Ability Up Stardust Rod, Brigandine, 55 3 Diamond Gloves Insomniac Coral Ring, Bandana, 25 5 Magician's Cloak Antibody Glass Armlet 30 4 Loudmouth Mage's Hat, Golden Hairpin, 40 4 Silk Robe Jelly Bronze Vest, Bronze Gloves, 25 4 Dragon Wrist, Dark Hat, Circlet Return Magic Brigandine, Coronet 90 9 Locomotion Survival Vest 35 4 Clear Headed Magician Shoes, 15 5 Lamias Tiara, Magic Armlet [---------------------------------------------------------------------] | V I V I ' S W E A P O N S | [---------------------------------------------------------------------] -Mage Staff- Ability/ies learned: Fire Attack Power: 12 Added Status: N/A Where to buy/find: Vivi starts with the Mage Staff Buy at weapon shop in Dali Price (Buy/Sell): 320g/160g -Flame Staff- Ability/ies learned: Fira, Sleep Attack Power: 16 Added Status: Fire Where to buy/find: Buy at Black Mage Village Price (Buy/Sell): 1100g/550g -Ice Staff- Ability/ies learned: Blizzara, Slow Attack Power: 16 Added Status: Ice Where to buy/find: Buy at Black Mage Village Price (Buy/Sell): 980g/490g -Lightning Staff- Ability/ies learned: Thundara, Poison Attack Power: 16 Added Status: Thunder Where to buy/find: Buy at Black Mage Village Price (Buy/Sell): 1200g/600g -Oak Staff- Ability/ies learned: Stop, Bio, Drain Attack Power: 23 Added Status: Slow Where to buy/find: Buy at Equipment Shop in Treno Price (Buy/Sell): 2400g/1200g -Cypress Pile- Ability/ies learned: Demi, Break, Comet Attack Power: 27 Added Status: Confuse Where to buy/find: Buy at Equipment Shop in Lindblum/Esto Gaza Price (Buy/Sell): 3200g/1600g -Octagon Rod- Ability/ies learned: Firaga, Blizzaga, Thundaga Attack Power: 29 Added Status: Absorbs Water/Wind, Trouble, Raises Water Attack Where to buy/find: Buy at Esto Gaza before Disc 4 Buy at Black Mage Village after Disc 3 !!CORRECTION!! Looks like I was wrong, you can't find the Octagon Rod after Disc 3, sorry. Price (Buy/Sell): 4500g/2250g -High Mage Staff- Ability/ies learned: Meteor, Osmose Attack Power: 32 Added Status: Silence Where to buy/find: 'Forbidden Forest' Chocograph Price (Buy/Sell): Can't Buy/3000g -Mace Of Zeus- (Vivi's Ultimate Weapon) Ability/ies learned: Doomsday Attack Power: 35 Added Status: Mini Where to buy/find: Found in Memoria before the Crystal World gate. -------Due to hundreds of requests, here is the !exact! location.------- *Exact Location*: Where you fight Lich. Search the second column on the right. That is precisely where the staff is located. Thank you, goodnight! 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Looking to attract more investments into the capital market,Sebi today proposed listing of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs),a popular instrument for raising funds in the realty sector.
Issuing draft norms for REITs,the capital market watchdog said the evolution of such investment vehicles is "crucial" for the rapidly growing real estate industry.
REITs would be allowed to list on stock exchanges through Initial Public Offer (IPO) and can raised funds further through Follow-On Offers,according to the consultation paper and draft norms issued by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
"REIT shall be set up as a Trust under the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act,1882," it said.
However,REITs would not be allowed to launch any schemes.
As per draft rules,only such entities that have at least 90 per cent investment in completed revenue generating projects.
The move is aimed at providing investment avenues for investors by way of trading units of REITs,similar to mutual fund and Exchange Traded Fund structures for stocks,bonds and other securities.
"The REIT shall have parties such as trustee (registered with Sebi),sponsor,manager and principal valuer," it added.
The Trust needs to initially apply for registration with Sebi as a REIT in the specified format. After being satisfied on the eligibility conditions,the regulator would grant registration to it.
According to Sebi,REITs can issue units of their investment schemes through a public offer and list them thereafter on a stock exchange in a way similar to the issuance and listing of shares during an IPO.
Thereafter,the units can be traded on the stock exchange platform just like shares. It further said that listing of units will be mandatory for all REITs.
The regulator said that REIT may raise funds from any investors,resident or foreign. However,initially,till the market develops,it is proposed that the units of REITs may be offered only to HNIs /institutions.
Consequently,it is proposed that the minimum subscription size would be Rs 2 lakh and unit size shall be Rs 1 lakh.
For coming out with an IPO,Sebi said that the size of the assets under the REIT need to be at least Rs 1,000 crore,in a bid to ensure that initially only large assets and established players enter the market.
Further,minimum initial offer size of Rs 250 crore and minimum public float of 25 per cent is specified to ensure adequate public participation and float in the units.
The regulator has sought public comments on draft REIT Regulations by October 31,2013.
The draft norms comes as the Indian real state sector witnessed rapid growth in recent years underlined by robust economic growth in the country.
The growing scale of operations of the corporate sector has increased the demand for commercial buildings and space including modern offices,warehouses,shopping and conference centres.
"For such rapidly growing industry,it is crucial that investment vehicles such as (REITs) evolve in the country," Sebi said in a draft paper.
Globally,framework for REIT exists in several countries including the US,the UK,Australia,Singapore,Japan and France.
In line with the nature of the REIT to invest primarily in completed revenue generating properties,"it has been mandated that at least 90 per cent of the …continued »


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Telematics Detroit 2014 (June 4-5, The Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, MI) will be the place where the automotive, consumer electronics, web and mobile industries converge to understand changing tech. and business paradigms and strategize with cross-industry partners as connectivity begins the process of changing the face of mobility.
The Connected Car and the Future of Mobility
Telematics Update's managing director, Precksha Saksena-Sood, said this about the 2014 event: "Conversations have begun about how the connected car will serve as a node in the bigger mobility picture of the future. Connectivity now needs to be treated firmly as an enabler not an end goal." She continued, "This year's Telematics Detroit will take the conversations around mobility to a practical level from which medium and long-term strategies can be built on. At the same time, achieving a fully connected lifestyle that the vehicle fits seamlessly into requires a great deal of challenges to be overcome, which is why these challenges, and their potential solutions will also be a core focus of this year's event."
The full agenda and speaker line-up will be announced on the website next week: http://www.telematicsupdate.com/detroit/index.php.
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Charles Upfold was born in Grove Street, Walworth Common, (both now gone), Surrey (today Walworth, London), then a prosperous middle-class district. His father, John Upfold, was a fellmonger. Charles was baptised in Sir John Soane's new St.Peter's Church of England at Walworth, on 7 January 1835. An excellent photograph of this splendid church can be found on page 206 of London's Churches by Christopher Hibbert.
Charles Upfold served his apprenticeship as a soap maker with John Knight & Co. at their Wapping soapworks in London, just across the river from the parishes where Charles's father resided and worked. Knight's Castile soap is still sold today. His sister, Eliza, married John Knight junior. Charles was later a Director of Knights.
Charles appears on the UK 1851 Census Return, with his parents and married sister Eliza at 11 Brandon Street, parish of St.Mary Newington, London, (then in Surrey), where he is described as a "soap maker".
In 1860 he was already engaged in business in New South Wales and upon his marriage at West Maitland, New South Wales in 1864 (to Sarah, née Blundell, from Finchley), he was described as a "soap maker". When his first son, John, was born in 1865 at Morpeth, New South Wales, Charles was described as a soap-boiler, aged 27 years and born at Walworth, London, England. When his son Robert was born in 1869, Charles was described as a "soap manufacturer".
That year Charles Upfold purchased the soap and candle factory of Frederick Nainby at Wickham and Honeysuckle Point, Newcastle, and in the Newcastle Chronicle of 16 May 1869 there is a reference to the "Great Northern Soap and Candle Works, proprietor, Charles Upfold." By the following year Upfolds plants were producing 9,420 hundredweight of soap and 600 cwt of candles. By 1872 soap production had increased to 21,000 cwt. Most was exported, much to China. That year Upfold expanded his Australian trading links by establishing a Sydney office at 50 Clarence Street.
By 1873 Charles Upfold was an Alderman of the newly incorporated Municipality of Wickham, a position he held for some years as evidenced by his further nomination for the Tighe's Hill Ward published in the Newcastle Morning Herald on 21st January 1888.
In 1877 Charles Upfold was back in London and visiting factories in England. The following year the New South Wales Official Post Office Directory, has listed under the now entirely separate heading of "Wickham", "Charles Upfold, soap manufacturer" (p.621). Interestingly, also in Wickham in the same directory were Charles's three brothers-in-law, Albert, James, and John Blundell, who came from Finchley, Middlesex, (north London), and were clearly all working for Charles as their occupations are given as soap-boilers.
In 1885 Charles Upfold was rapidly expanding his industrial base, having purchased further land at Newcastle, this time from from Peter Crebert, a wine merchant, whose daughter Elizabeth would later marry Charles's eldest son, John. Upfold's company called for tenders for the building of a new works costing £50,000, and the installation of machinery valued at a further £83,000, on a twenty two acres site at Port Waratah, close to the Ferndale Colliery at Tighe's Hill, whence cheap coal was expected. The soap making equipment was the 'newest American' but English manufacturers had supplied the candle making plant. These works were the largest in Australia.
The following notice from the Newcastle Morning Herald on 23 March 1886, states: "A representative of this journal called at the Tighe's Hill Soap Works on Saturday last to see what progress was being made. There are four distinct departments: 1. The manufacture of soap - toilet, household and soft, 2. Stearine and parafine candles, 3. Refining glycerine, 4. Making all kinds of lubricating oils and machinery grease. The soap department is very nearly in full swing. Toilet soap was started last Saturday. Large quantities of candles are being turned out, which have to be pronounced up to the highest standard, imported or colonial. Preparations are in full swing for exhibiting the works in the fullest manner on the occasion of Lord & Lady Carrington's visit. At the Wickham works plant is being erected for the manufacture of blue, blacking and grocer's sundries. Altogether, this is one of the most gigantic undertakings of its kind in Australia."
He eventually controlled the colony's largest soap industry - The Sydney Soap and Candle Company, in which John Ambrose Kitchen, who had a small factory at Melbourne, had a minority interest, was registered 25 July 1885. As the name implies, the registered office, along with a smaller manufactury at Botany, was at Sydney, the capital city of the colony, but the biggest works by far were at Tighes Hill, Newcastle. Probably their most famous product, one which stood the test of time, was Siren soap, which was later renamed Velvet. It was still being marketed in N.S.W., by Unilever in the latter part of the 20th century. Many argued that it was superior to Lever Bros famous Sunlight soap.
In the 1888 Official Post Office Directory for New South Wales, Newcastle District, (p.424), there appears "Upfold, Charles, soap factory".
On the 6 April 1895 the Newcastle Morning Herald carried a large article entitled "Departure of Mr Charles Upfold - Citizen's Send-off". Charles was about to depart for England, Europe and America, and a large function was given in his honour at the Centennial Hotel in Newcastle, with an impressive guest list of local worthies. He returned from that overseas trip at the end of September and another large article describing his tour appeared in the same newspaper on 3 October 1895.
In 1895 the Port Waratah works employed over 500 people. In 1898 his son, Robert Wallace Upfold, now manager of the soap & candle factory, was married to Clara, daughter of John Scholey, (a local landowner and colliery proprietor from Leeds; described in the 1901 Federal Directory as a "gentleman"). Charles Upfold, the father, is described on the certificate as "Managing Director - Soap Works". Robert had a residence in Woodstock Street, North Waratah, and the 1901 Federal Directory of Newcastle & District records him as a "manufacturer".
The late professor John Turner wrote: "the modern technology and large scale of the Sydney Soap and Candle Company made it the outstanding industrial establishment of its kind. Upfold had wide experience of colonial conditions and constructed his Port Waratah works on recent British and American lines, in a location which gave unequalled access to tallow and coal."
He continued also with his civic duties, and on 26th February 1900 Charles Upfold laid the Foundation Stone of the Tighe's Hill School of Arts, Newcastle. The stone remains in situ today. He was involved in the Victoria Theatre Company which erected, in 1890, Newcastle's first theatre of an international standard. For many years he was also a member of the committee of the Newcastle Jockey Club. He was also a magistrate.
Charles Upfold built a large mansion on a piece of land in Crebert Street, North Waratah (now Mayfield), given to him by his friend John Scholey. It was later sold to the famous biscuit manufacturer William Arnott who sold it in 1898 to Isaac Winn, owner of the big Newcastle department store. It is today a home for the aged, owned by the Methodist Church. Charles Upfold subsequently purchased a small estate near Raymond Terrace, containing extensive vineyards, where he built another fine country residence.
Upfold and his wife, Sarah Ann Temperence (née Blundell) (b.1843, Finchley Common, - d.1921, Cronulla, Sydney) had ten children: four sons and six daughters.
Following his death in Sydney, the Upfolds were bought out by Lever Bros who were also busy acquiring the paid up capital of Kitchen & Co., of Melbourne, Victoria, who also had a stake in the Sydney Soap & Candle Co. This new amalgamated firm became Lever & Kitchen.
Eventually, Levers gained full control & dropped the 'Kitchen' altogether. With the decline in candle-making, the Sino-Japanese war (much of Charles Upfold's exports went to China - he had warehouses in Canton and his son Robert spoke Cantonese), coupled with the now ageing plant, the Newcastle factory was closed down just before World War II, a great blow to the city. A new factory for the Australian Wire Rope Works was built upon its site.
A very long street in the suburb of Tighes Hill is named Upfold Street after the great man himself.
Although buried in the Gore Hill Congregational Cemetery, Sydney, his funeral service was conducted by a Church of England minister, Rev. Alfred G.Perkins. An extensive obituary appeared in the Newcastle Morning Herald on the 15 March 1919.


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The Pacific hagfish is the only vertebrate that can obey the cardinal rule of the dinner table: don't eat with your mouth open. Uniquely among the 50,000 vertebrate species alive today, it can absorb nutrients through its skin.
Vertebrate skin is impermeable to minimise chemical exchanges between the body and its surroundings. This is why backboned animals can live in salty or fresh water – and how they avoid excess water loss on land.
But the primitive hagfish, thought to be as close as we can get in a living animal to the first vertebrate, has an internal salinity that matches its surroundings. So Chris Glover at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and colleagues reasoned that the animal might have a permeable skin.
In the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) this could double as a gut, as it likes to dine inside carcasses, exposing its skin to a nutrient-rich soup.
To find out, the team placed Pacific hagfish skin samples in between nutrient-rich seawater and a solution mimicking the hagfish's bodily fluids. They found that amino acids from the seawater passed through the skin – and the stronger the amino acid concentration, the higher the rate of uptake.
Such a non-linear relationship is strong evidence that nutrients are actively transported across the skin, says Glover.
The hagfish's dining habits may have led to the adaptation, but as some invertebrates also possess a "gut skin", Glover thinks it may be a transitory state in the evolution of the vertebrate digestive system.
Robert Sansom, a palaeontologist at the University of Leicester, UK, says that data from related animal groups could help fill the gaps in our understanding of how vertebrate feeding evolved.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2784
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This is in response to an outstanding discussion of the issues surrounding the Georgia-Florida rivalry and the Jacksonville issue over at Dawg Sports. I highly recommend reading all of the comments for all of the arguments on either side of the issue, and the particularly cogent commentary of RationalGator.
Professor Sentell, the fearsome Torts professor at UGA Law, always cancelled classes the Thursday and Friday before Florida, because that's where he was headed. "They'll be jumping off the balconies of the hotel into the pool by 10 AM" he used to say. Anyway, by and large those who favor home-and-home do not attend the game in Jacksonville, while those who do feverishly support keeping the game at the neutral site. I fall on the latter side, sporting a lifetime 5-6 record in Jax.
The constant references to the 3-16 record over the past years is just another example of media and intellectual (which are mutually exclusive) laziness. As if Spurrier's dominance over Ray Gump and Dim Jonnan bears any relevance to either program today. Since the departure of Darth Visor, the series has been achingly close. As TKK pointed out, in the 5 games immediately after Spurrier's departure, the games were decided by an average of less than 4 points.
There's really no more compelling argument against the theory of a Gator "advantage" in Jax than CMR's very own record in enemy stadiums—the team seems at its disciplined, focused best when away from Athens. And in odd-numbered years, the Dawgs play a second neutral field game on North Avenue in Atlanta, where the number of fans is roughly even, and Georgia seems to do just fine there.
As opposed to the location of the game and the number of supporting fans in the stands, UGAs recent defeats in Jacksonville might be explained by:
- Dropped passes.
- Ill-timed and poorly executed trick plays (Joe T notwithstanding).
- Consistently lousy special teams play, especially field goals.
- Throwing the football to the guys in the blue jerseys.
- Giving up multiple long 1st quarter TD drives (yes, Mr. Martinez, I am looking at you).
- Putting the football on the carpet at the start of the 2nd half (what, 3 times since '02?).
- Do not even get me started on not going for it on 4th and inches on the Florida 1 in 2005.
All of the above are simply the symptoms of an unfocused, unprepared team and coaching staff. The above can also be found in most all UGA defeats in the CMR era, home, away and in Jax. Coach, we have met the enemy, and he is us. And I fail to see how a change of venue would have prevented these errors.
So why does Georgia consistently play this way against Florida? Because they are in our heads, you moron!
Were I CMR's sports psychologist (and I should be), I'd tell him this: CMR, my man, Florida is in your head and everyone on the staff and team. You try to avoid it, prevent it, and not admit it, but UF is in your head, and everybody knows it. You get it all year, from mat drills to spring practice to media days to after most big wins and all through game week: 3-16, 3-16, 3-16. 2-6 against Florida yourself. You and the team want this one so badly…you resort to the Celebration and onside kicks and halfback passes. The fans are dying for a win and never let you forget about it. And Damon certainly has a weed up his rear end about the Gators, too. That can't help. So what do you do? Work that much harder? Watch a little more film? Put Tebow posters in the locka' room? Get Bill Goldberg to give the team a pep talk?
Actually none of that will help. Coach, you and the team have a problem, and you need to name it. You need to EMBRACE the fact that Urban & Co. are in your heads. Welcome Tebow in there. Get an autograph. Have Mrs. CMR prepare coffee and warm croissants for your sweet little Gator guests and set the thermostat at 72 to make their stay up there as comfortable as possible. Laugh about it. Be straight with the media: "yes, how could they not be in our heads…they beat us consistently and we always seem to make the worst mistakes at the most critical times against them. Obviously the Gators are up there, how could they not be. It sucks." The first and biggest step is to NAME IT. Shout from the rooftops, 'yes, the Gators are in our heads.' Because remarkably, once you name it, it's out there. And when its out there, it will go away.*
Then you can get back to playing football, tend to your own business, and make the Gators earn every yard and every point. Then I think Jacksonville will be much more to your liking.
*Using this tried-and-true methodology for overcoming fear and anxiety would also have the lovely consequence of driving Urban & Co. absolutely nuts. There's nothing more satisfying than being absolutely straight with an enemy, then watching them tie themselves in knots trying to figure out what you're "really" up to.


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A Review of Achebe's There Was A Country
Official history encourages collective denial, collective forgetting, encourages silence. Literature, then becomes an affirmation, an excavation of memory, a shattering of silence. To paraphrase Cathy Caruth, history, like trauma, is never simply one's own, history is precisely the way we are involved in each other's traumas.
Achebe's There Was A Country [his "Personal History of Biafra"] originated in the experience of trauma - the Biafra-Nigeria war, whose murderous impulse Achebe witnessed and survived. Literature becomes, too, a witnessing, a testimonial. We need to consider how we are implicated in each other's history and trauma. In this instance, we seem to be involved with each other as victims, perpetrators, and collaborators.
It is this that Achebe's accusers are running from: the implication of being complicit in the genocide testified to in There Was A Country. Hence, the noisy distraction of ethnic bias, which intention is to absolve perpetrators and collaborators of all historical guilt by locating the misery of a section of Nigerian humanity [at a certain moment in our history] in a non-historical source - the mentality of the Biafran leadership. The intellectual basis for this is provided by Odia Ofeimun - now joined by Biodun Jeyifo. As for Ayo Adebanjo, let no one say anything to him.
It is correct to say that There Was A Country, properly speaking, is not history, dependent, as it is, on personal recollections. The subjective tone, impermissible in a work of history, is nevertheless inevitable in autobiography and memoirs. It is correct to say that, as a memoirist Achebe stands upon the same viewpoint he stood as a participant in the events narrated.
The reader is, of course, not obliged to share this viewpoint with the author, who is not also obliged to conceal his views, his sympathies and antipathies. This much a reader demands, and this much a memoirist owes: scholarly conscientiousness, an honest study of the facts, a faithful portrayal of the actual events.
And what of the historian's so-called objectivity? Well, we are yet to get a clear explanation of what this objectivity consists of. Objectivity is clearly not the tendency Achebe has of suggesting indirectly to the reader what he finds inconvenient to state directly. We do not need this, for it is nothing but a conventional trick.
Having submitted to the necessity "to tell Nigeria's story, Biafra's story, our story, my story," Achebe ought to have no reason to hide his sympathies or antipathies, his loves or his hates. One suspects, however, that had Achebe confined himself entirely to the pretended indifference of this sort, had he not, in rare moments of open and undisguised antipathy portrayed certain individuals in light their followers do not like them shone in, the book would still have been found lacking in indifference in certain quarters.
How does one bear witness to a trauma that "changed the course of Nigeria," that was the "cataclysmic experience that changed the history of Africa?" To go back again to Caruth, "Trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic events in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena."
Achebe responds by excavating the repressed memory of the pogrom, genocide, and the tragic consequences of the Biafra-Nigeria war, so that these events can never be forgotten: [...] The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,/ Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs/ And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps/ Behind blown-empty bellies.... She took from their possessions/ A broken comb and combed/ The rust-colored hair left on his skull/ And then-humming in her eyes-began carefully to part it./ In their former life this was perhaps/ A little daily act of no consequence/ Before his breakfast and school; now she did it/ Like putting flowers on a tiny grave.
There Was A Country is, thus, a reencounter with trauma, as well as an attempt to understand it. The monsters of Hieronymous Bosch had stalked the land.
They had neither horns, nor tusks, nor hooves. They had human form. "I want to see no Red Cross," The Commander of the 3rd Marine Commando was quoted as saying, "no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary, and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo [sic] having even one piece to eat before their capitulation." Here, we are confronted with the human face of evil.
And, one of the things Achebe achieves is not only to witness and memorialize the life of those denied even one piece, but to also confront perpetrators with the ghosts of their victims. Thus, There Was A Country becomes an excavation site.
Why did this systematic slaughter, this genocide occur? The infinite debates about who was actually responsible for the war, have only served to confuse the real issue. To lay the blame on this or that individual, on this or that accidental events only obscures the real cause of the tragedy that was the Biafra-Nigeria civil war.
A weakness of the narrative is this: history ought first of all to tell what happened and why. From this very telling, however, it ought to be clear why the event happened the way it did and not another way. Yes, this is not history, but to say that "The British governed their colony of Nigeria with considerable care.
There was a very highly competent cadre of government officials imbued with a high level knowledge of how to run a country. This was not something that the British achieved only in Nigeria; they were able to manage this on a larger scale in India and Australia."
Achebe himself recognized the contestable nature of this assertion. No, sir, this is more than "heresy". Agreed, this is a memoir, not history, but what about scholarly conscientiousness?
In addressing specifics - the genetic makeup of the January 15, 1966 coup and its tribally one-sided killings, the counter-coup six months later and the pogroms - we must situate them within the larger context of colonialism, imperialism, the backwardness of the Nigerian bourgeois, it's late entry into history after the world had already been divided up among a few imperialist powers, and its failure to unite the country.Of course one is unable within this limited space, to examine these complicated theoretical postulates critically in their essence.
Also, it would take us far afield from the intended direction. Suffice to say that the Biafran secession and subsequent civil war, like the other crisis across Africa at the time, proved the inevitable failure of trying to construct a modern, viable state under the basis of neo-colonialism.
To revisit the excavation site: "All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder." In this lies the conflict: to agree to confront excavated history is to implicate oneself, to become aware of one's role in the uncovered memory.
Refusal, therefore, is intended to absolve one of guilt. Confrontation, however, does more than implicate. It destroys gods. Part of the response to There Was A Country, is a struggle to prevent the destruction of one's god, even if it means the erasure of memory. But, does the refusal to acknowledge memory mean the non-existence of memory? Does merely refusing to visit history's excavation site, for fear of being unable to tear oneself afterwards from history's gaze, erase history?
Memory is capricious and arbitrary, and tends to suppress, to drive into a dark corner events that the mind is cognitively unable, or unwilling to grasp. Still, these memories do not entirely disappear, for they tend to leave their scars in print.
"Let me first correct some misconceptions which I have discovered here. It is said that the so-called Biafra is a gallant little nation fighting for self-determination, threatening nobody, wishing to live its own life, led by a young Rockfeller. Why then not let them go? This is not the case. Biafra is not and never was a nation...
The act of union which created Nigeria also created Eastern Nigeria and there was Nigeria long before there was an entity known as Eastern Nigeria." Apropos Awo's hunger as a weapon of war, Achebe had wondered how a "thinker" like Enahoro could accept this without question.
The answer is contained in the latter's World Press Conference in London, after his release from prison and absorption into Gowon's regime. History is no respecter of gods, it preserves their transgressions in print.
But There Was A Country had not set for itself the task of destroying gods. No, Achebe is not that kind of nihilistic writer. Rather, Achebe is simply using literature to trace trauma, to make sure it does not repeat itself, by revisiting its hurts, its hidden places. It is the voice of a man haunted by history.
Successive regimes had imposed an official silence intended to prevent public witnessing. "I believe it is impossible to write anything in Africa without some kind of commitment, some kind of message, some kind of protest.
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint," Achebe writes of himself. And so his memoir becomes an act of public witnessing, a protest whose aim is to keep alive the memory of things denied. It becomes, also, an act of mourning, a reburial.
Here is how Achebe reburies Okigbo, whose death he heard on the radio while driving: "I pulled up at the roadside. The open parkland around Nachi stretched away in all directions. Other cars came and passed. Had no one else heard the terrible news?"


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The TechAmerica Foundation's Big Data Commission, in a report released Wednesday, calls for a new federal academy to train and certify employees to capture, store, share, manage and analyze vast volumes of data.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
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GANDHI: An autobiography. The story of my experiments with Truth
Page 446, on which Gandhi is relating his struggles raising volunteers to fight for the Crown in World War I:
"I used to issue leaflets asking people to enlist as recruits. One of the arguments I had used was distasteful to the Commissioner: 'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.' The Commissioner refereed to this and said that he appreciated my presence in the conference in spite of the differences between us. And I had to justify my standpoint as courteously as I could."
Gandhi repudiates his views when they have changed, and calls out very clearly even minor errors he has made. Never in this book does he step back from condemning gun control; in fact, on page 477 he touches on the classic "when is it time to shut up and shoot the bastards" argument:
"As I proceeded further and further with my inquiry into the atrocities that had been committed on the people, I came across tales of Government's tyranny and the arbitrary despotism of it's officers such as I was hardly prepared for, and they filled me with deep pain. What surprised me then, and what still continues to fill me with surprise, was the fact that a province that had furnished the largest number of soldiers to the British Government during the war, should have taken all these brutal excesses lying down."


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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Kerry will visit Brussels, Chisinau, Jerusalem and Ramallah from Dec. 3 to Dec. 6, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said Wednesday.
In Jerusalem, Kerry will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and they will discuss several issues, including the interim agreement on Iran's nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, according to the State Department.
Kerry will meet with P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, where they will discuss the peace negotiations, and other issues, the State Department said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Kerry postponed a scheduled trip to Israel which would have occurred before last weekend's Geneva talks. The postponement raised speculation that there was a rift between Washington and Jerusalem.
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Carla Cheney, a former Walmart employee from Kemptville, Canada, claims she was fired for alerting a customer that he shouldn't leave his dog in a hot car.
On Wednesday, shortly before beginning her shift, Cheney saw the customer put his Newfoundland—a large breed with a heavy black coat—in his truck and roll up the windows, reports the Ottawa Citizen. Cheney, who worked in the Walmart pharmacy, called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and later confronted the dog owner after he left the store, telling him that "he should not be leaving his dog in the car." He responded that it was none of her business.
On Thursday afternoon, Walmart Canada posted a release on its Facebook page denying that Cheney was fired for "trying to help a dog in a locked car." It continues, "The decision to dismiss an associate is one that we take extremely seriously and must follow a comprehensive process. However, out of respect for the associate and for privacy reasons we cannot provide specifics about why this associate was let go."
The release also claims that the manager did speak to the customer about the dog and adds, "Walmart is a major supporter and advocate for animal rights. Over the past year alone we have made donations to local SPCAs, the Humane Society and Animal Shelters. In addition, signs will be added to the front of all our stores across the country to advise customers of the dangers of leaving kids and pets in a hot car."
There is also a petition on Change.org to demand that Walmart train its employees on how to report dogs and children left in cars. In less than 24 hours it has received nearly 1,500 signatures.
"Many people do not realize how quickly cars heat up, people think its OK to leave your dog in a car for just a few minutes," Dr. Louise Murray, vice president of the ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital, told Yahoo! Shine. Murray, who is also a veterinarian specializing in internal medicine, says cracking the windows won't make a difference, and the vehicle can also become dangerously hot on an overcast day.
According to Petfinder, on a day when it's about 70 degrees, the temperature inside a parked car can rise 40 degrees in an hour—mostly during the first 30 minutes. And it may not matter if the windows are cracked or the car is in the shade. The Chicago Tribune reports that on an 85-degree day, the dashboard can heat up to 170 degrees in a mere 15 minutes.


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Lugogo Cricket Oval was ablaze Friday night, all courtesy of Nigerian singing duo P-Square and their 11-man band!
First things first, this concert could have gunned an even larger crowd compared to the few thousands that were present if only it had been well marketed.
The event that was organized by Silverback Investments Limited - a new entrant in the business - started with an enormous amount of confusion. Party-goers that had paid sh75,000 expecting to get VIP seats were 'bounced' to what looked like a 'general happiness' venue.
Finally after a long wait, at exactly 9.30pm, the event's Emcees, comedian Salvado and Kats took to the stage with a few jokes.
Then curtain-raisers went on next with what was mostly like a sleeping sedative, until Jose Chameleon hit the stage! Even the chubby VIP revellers, who piled food in their mouths whilst pretending not to be moved, were forced onto their feet.
But trust Chameleon to start lamenting: "I know this is a P-Square concert but I want my mic on!"
The weather was far too kind for a night, the music was on, and the revellers did what they did best. . . party! PHOTO/Mubiru Kakebe
The curtain-raising went on for a while which agitated the crowd into shouting, "We want P-Square!" "We want P-Square!"
They were brought to calm however with a mad mix from DJ Aluda that was matched with what I would think was a superb sound system by Excel Sounds. The blah blah blahs were all said, until the moment that mattered the most - when the Nigerian singing duo stepped on stage.
Time check, 11.22pm, dressed like they were headed for combat, red pants and black armor atop the vests, the twins jumped on stage like charging bulls with a teaser of their hit Do me! Teasing and exciting, taking off shirts, they performed more hits like; The roof is on fire, Roll it, and a lot more.
They took it a notch higher when Mowzey and Weasel joined them on stage to do their [Mowzey and Weasel's] monster hit Nakudata.
Can you imagine P-Square singing Luganda!
I could swear Ugandans lost their voices screaming for this one! It was a point of no return, hit after hit, from their latest Alingo to which they danced like they were from another planet to Beautiful Onyinye.
They closed the performance with the giant hit Chop ma money along which the crowd sang word for word!


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If you can, please join us on Saturday July 28 for this concert of choral and orchestral music to celebrate Emeritus Professor Nicholas Temperley's 80th birthday and his seminal contribution to British music research, performance and scholarship, both at the U of I and throughout the USA.
The conductors are Emeritus Professor Chester Alwes and two alumni of the School of Music's graduate programs in orchestral and choral conducting, Kevin Kelly and Laurie Matheson.
The concert coincides with the North American British Music Studies Association meeting on campus, July 26-28, which has as its theme "Anglo-American Musical Connections."
Anglo-American Musical Connections
A Concert in Honor of Nicholas Temperley
on his 80th Birthday
Baroque Artists of Champaign Urbana (Conductor: Chester Alwes)
The Prairie Ensemble (Conductor: Kevin Kelly)
Prairie Voices (Conductor: Laurie Matheson)
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana
Saturday July 28, 2012, at 7:30pm
G. F. Handel The King Shall Rejoice (Coronation anthem for George II)
S. S. Wesley "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace"
Robert Pearsall "Lay a garland"
C. V. Stanford "Coelos ascendit hodie"
Irving Fine Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Michael Tippett Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
W. S. Bennett Overture "The May Queen"
Charles Ives Symphony no.3 "The Camp Meeting"
Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (Shakespeare)
This event has been generously sponsored by the University of Illinois' Center for Advanced Study, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, College of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Music (including SOM Office of Outreach and Public Engagement), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, Department of English, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, International Programs and Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory, and Institute of Communications Research; and also by the North American British Music Studies Association, the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, A-R Editions, University of Illinois Press, and Ashgate Publishing.


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Even before the 2013 fall collegiate athletics season gets under way later this month, the wait is over for Kentucky fans ready for live sports action featuring Wildcats. The IAAF World Championships begin in the Russian capital on Saturday and UK will be well represented.
Current volunteer assistant coach and two-time Olympian Arantxa King will jump among the world's best athletes inside Luzhniki Stadium. In addition to King, three former Wildcats are also entered in the biennial track and field meet.
King will jump in Group B of the qualifying round, which gets begins at 11:20 a.m. ET. Select events will likely be broadcast on a delayed basis on NBC from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
King, a Stanford alumna who serves as a volunteer assistant coach at UK working with the jumps and sprints groups, will compete for Bermuda. She is coached by UK head coach Edrick Floreal, himself a former Olympian and World Championships competitor.
King boasts a broad array of major championship experience having competed in the past two Olympic Games despite just having finished her decorated NCAA career in 2012.
She missed the 2012 Olympic long jump final last year in London by one spot and less than a centimeter on a tiebreaking procedure. King's top mark from three qualifying round attempts of 6.4 meters (just under 21 feet) tied her with Veronika Shutkova for the 12th and final spot in the final, but the Belarusian's second-best mark of 6.21 was 0.01 centimeters better than Kings'.
King is coming off a silver medal at the 2013 Central America and Caribbean [CAC] Championships in Mexico last month. King owns an all-time personal-best long jump of 6.57m and a wind-legal best of 6.5m. Her 2013 seasonal-best is 6.45m.
The Boston area native comes from a family of top-class athletes. King's father Adrian is one of the best cricket players in Bermuda history. He represented the Bermuda national team as its top fast bowler and Arantxa's mother Branwen Smith-King also represented her country as a Pan-Am games level thrower.
Should King advance, the women's long jump world championship final is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 11 at 11 a.m.
Former Wildcats Descend on Moscow
A number of former Wildcat athletes will also be competing over the course of the World Championships, which run from August 10-18.
Mikel Thomas, who won the Trinidad and Tobago National Championship in June, will represent his nation in the 110m hurdles. Thomas' fellow former Wildcat and countryman Rondel Sorrillo will also represent T&T in the 100m and 4x100m relay.
Jenna Martin will compete for Canada as part of the 4x400m relay pool. Martin was slowed by a hip injury for much of the season and did not qualify for Canada in the 400m.


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26 October 2013. In an attempt to link knowledge to action for the promotion of effective actions on climate change, land and gender at the local level, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) organized the East and Southern Africa Regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum from 16-18 October 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya.
More than 30 development practitioners from across the East and Southern Africa region gathered to look at the linkages between climate change, land tenure and gender empowerment. Over the three-day forum, IFAD country and project staff and partners from World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) heard about best practices and existing tools and instruments across all three areas.
In addition to looking at the cross-cutting thematic areas, IFAD's regional team in East and Southern Africa hosted this forum to provide an opportunity to discuss the design and implementation of the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) among the country teams from Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.
"As much as we must link gender, land and climate change when designing programmes, we have to unbundle these policy issues in order to move forward quickly where we can make dreams come true", said Mr. Périn Saint-Ange, IFAD's Director of East and Southern Africa at the opening of the forum.
During the event, participants described the need to increase access to land and better integrate climate change and gender into IFAD programming. IFAD staff back at Rome headquarters were able to participate through video conferencing. IFAD-Rome outlined investments in integrating climate change into programme cycles through the ASAP.
For more information, click on the flowing link: http://ifad-un.blogspot.ch/2013/10/linking-knowledge-to-action-across-east_17.html


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When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound-dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel-teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The Stakes were high: The Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam known as the Dragon Sea. Raising its contents required saturation diving, a crew of 160, and a fleet of boats. The costs were unprecedented. But the potential rewards were equally high: Bound would revolutionize thinking about Vietnamese ceramics, and his partner would make a fortune auctioning off the pieces. Hired as the project's manager, Frank Pope watched the tumultuous drama of the Hoi An unfold. In "Dragon Sea" he delivers an engrossing tale of danger, adventure, and ambition-a fascinating object lesson in what happens when scholarship and money join forces to recover lost treasure.
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Reply+2#2 - Sins (12/19/2012) [-]
Reply+1#10 to #2 - Fgner (12/19/2012) [-]
Actually its been proven that if you make certain drugs legal, the usage will decrease. It's the fact its contriband that makes it so desirable and unique. It's not longer anything special if any old chap can pick up a pound at the nearest store.
And we're talking about weapons... to murder people. Not about drugs... to be really happy.
And we're talking about weapons... to murder people. Not about drugs... to be really happy.
#12 to #10 - derpismaherpis (12/19/2012) [-]
That might be true for drugs, but actually its been proven that if you prohibit guns unless on special exceptions, the ammount of murders by gunfire decreases. Though there will always be people who won't follow the law, keep in mind that there is no law that can't be broken.
#6 to #2 - ninjaspartan (12/19/2012) [-]
Yeah, it would lower the amount significantly by the amount of people who use guns for protection, like me. The remainder, of course is everyone who wants to ******* kill me.
... I have a lot of enemies.
... I have a lot of enemies.
#3 to #2 - xraevicious (12/19/2012) [-]
I know what you're saying there..butttt Criminals will always find away to get weapons. I would rather have a way to defend myself rather than have someone come into my home and shoot me :T
#7 to #5 - ninjaspartan (12/19/2012) [-]
I don't think stupid people is the right way to put it. More like the clinically depressed, partially insane people. And even then, if they're smart enough to use a gun, they're capable enough to obtain one illegally, I'd bet on it.
#9 to #7 - xraevicious (12/19/2012) [-]
You're basically, proving this right..were you trying to argue? Or you agree?
#11 to #9 - ninjaspartan (12/19/2012) [-]
Trying to argue. What I was trying to say was it's not stupid people, that's not right. It takes a little more than basic intelligence to work a gun properly, especially properly enough to kill lots of people. So the best procedure to keep those kinds of insane people at bay is a bullet to their skull from a gun that I own.


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Whippet, that's pretty close to being correct...read below:
Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1-2-70).Quote:
"The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day.?
Forbidden Medicine, A Book by author Ellen Brown
Ellen was Jimmy Keller's lawyer. Her appendix shows you where all the money comes from to fund Cancer hospitals & cancer research.
If you go to her blog, you will see a quote from Gloria Tinney. She is a friend of mine. Jimmy helped her handle her cancer. Her husband Lon was the Project Manager for George Lucas. He bought the rights to Jimmy's story & was pitching it to HBO. It got a greenlight & then was squashed.
I met Jimmy in Baton Rouge in 1994. My gf then was his counselor. He passed away 2 years ago.
In 1910 the Carnegie Endowment funded the the Flexner Report. Medical schools that received Flexner?s approval received Carnegie and Rockefeller funding, while those that failed to gain approval did not. Not surprisingly, the favored paradigm prevailed, with the AMA and drug industry allying itself with Rockefeller and Carnegie, forming a power structure that dominates Western medicine to this day.
James Douglas, who owned the world?s largest copper mine, also owned large pitchblende deposits, from which come radium and uranium. Douglas began experimenting with radium as a cure all, and not long before World War I became the leading ?philanthropist? of Memorial Hospital. His $100,000 donation was attached to the condition that Memorial Hospital would begin using radium treatments for cancer. With the adoption of radium as ?medicine,? the price of radium instantly increased by more than 1000%. Douglas died in 1913, probably from radiation poisoning. By the 1920s, Memorial Hospital?s radium treatments constituted its single largest source of income.
In 1927, John D. Rockefeller and his son began contributing millions of dollars to Memorial Hospital, including money and land to build a new hospital in the 1930s. The same year that the Rockefellers began ?donating? to Memorial Hospital, Standard Oil of New Jersey signed its first agreement with I.G. Farben. Farben was Europe?s largest and most notorious cartel. Farben ran the rubber works at Auschwitz, and invented Sarin, Tabun and the Zyklon B used in the gas chambers.
The Rockefeller/Farben connection influenced Memorial Hospital to begin pursuing chemotherapy research before World War II broke out, with Standard Oil executive Frank Howard sitting on Memorial Hospital?s Research Committee. Before World War II was over, Howard recruited two General Motors executives, Alfred P. Sloan and Charles Kettering, into becoming donors for an ambitious plan to make Memorial Hospital into a research and treatment center. Kettering also bankrolled Kettering Laboratories in Cincinnati, which was notable for producing ?research? that proved the ?benign? properties of industrial substances such as lead, fluoride and aluminum. Sloan was a long-time representative of the Morgan family interests, and the Rockefeller and Morgan interests shared power in running Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Today more than ever, Wall Street runs Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering dominates the direction of Western cancer research and treatment. ?Corporate philanthropy? is an oxymoron. Corporations ?give? money with an eye toward the benefits that might accrue in the end. Everything a corporation does is ultimately designed to increase its profits. Earning a profit is about the only reason that corporations exist, but few will ever state it that baldly.


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Letter to Sarah Palin from @LisaGraas
Posted By Lisa Graas on April 21, 2011
Because the image you see in the picture above is considered scandalous by the radical Left, decent and thinking individuals need no further proof that the Left will utterly destroy America if given enough time.
Dear Sarah,
In regard to the recent attack on your son, as one mother to another, I offer a message for your consolation.
What is happening to Trig from the Left reminds me of the story of St. Germaine Cousin. She suffered from a physical deformity and was rejected for it. I wrote of her about two years ago:
During a time when money and fame were the kinds of glory people wanted — much like today, right? — St. Germaine was the opposite of that. She was very poor, not educated except in the teachings of the Faith, very sick and crippled and she was hated even by her own family. She seemed to have no one who cared, but she knew that no matter how horrible things were for her, God loved her and He was there for her. She loved Him so much in return that she did just as Jesus asked by treating people kindly, no matter how badly they treated her. For this, St. Germaine received real glory that comes from God — a place in heaven with all the saints — and she will never be lonely or sick or abused again but have a crown of glory with Jesus.
Those who suffer from mental disorders, like the suffering servant of Isaiah, are figures of Jesus Christ. So it is with Trig, and this is why he is hated, as St. Germaine Cousin was.
It is corruption in the souls of people — not goodness — that causes them to be repelled by the truth that all people have dignity, and that those who suffer are truly those most embraced by God's love — a love which has the power to break hearts of stone. Sometimes, those who hate this truth are so disgusted that they lash out. They become like serpents.
God Love you, Lisa…this is beautiful…
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