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Old Norse mythology recognizes Balder, also spelled as Baldur and Baldr, as the god of light, joy, purity, beauty, innocence and reconciliation. Born to the chief god, Odin, and his wife, Frigg, Balder represents a popular figure, beloved by other gods and people alike. Balder marries Nanna, who is the daughter of Nep, and they have son, Forseti, the god of justice. Balder and Nanna resides in a hall called Breidablik, which translates into "broad splendor."
Legends about Balder chiefly concern his death. After Balder dreams of death, his mother asks the other gods to promise they will never harm Balder. All agree, but one, Loki, who arranges for Balder's blind brother to throw mistletoe at him. The mistletoe kills Balder, and his widow, Nanna, also dies of a broken heart. According to the myth, after a final conflict, called Ragnarok, Balder will rise again in the new world.


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Television images from Colombia clearly show that the aircraft carrying the livery of Michigan-based Kalitta Air. The aircraft has been completely destroyed in the accident, which is said to have occurred after the jet departed Bogota for Miami.
All eight occupants of the aircraft reportedly survived the crash but at least two people on the ground are said to have been killed after the 747 came down near the town of Mosquera, about 3nm west Bogota's Eldorado International Airport.
The jet is thought to have been transporting a shipment of flowers to Miami on behalf of US freight carrier Centurion Air Cargo, although this has not been confirmed.
Meteorological data shows that weather conditions were good at the time of the accident, around 03:55. At least one report from Colombia suggests that the aircraft was returning to Bogota after an engine problem.
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Earlier in the season, Greene broke a longtime school record by hitting 33 consecutive free throws over a seven game period. Greene scored a season-high 28 points in a win over Tulsa and has reached double-figures in all but two games in 2012-13.
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- Improving Nutrition and Health in Laos
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Wells Fargo launches game inside 'Second Life'
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The pilot project, known as Stagecoach Island, is a digital environment intended to help young people learn financial responsibility. Visitors there can skydive, fly hovercrafts, dance and shop. But woven into the experience, to which Wells Fargo has been inviting groups of people in San Diego and Austin, Texas, is a series of financial messages intended to help them learn something about money management.
Stagecoach Island takes place on several private islands inside Linden Lab's virtual world, "Second Life." But while "Second Life" is open to the public, the Wells Fargo islands are accessible only by those who have received invitations from the bank and, thus, is branded entirely as a Wells Fargo environment. Regular "Second Life" members cannot access Stagecoach Island.
"We're just happy we were able to do something to help young adults with financial education," said Tim Collins, Wells Fargo's senior vice president of experience marketing, "and we were able to do it in a fun, engaging way."
Collins explained that Stagecoach Island players are given $30 in imaginary money with which to buy clothes, pay for rides and the like. The idea, though, is to teach the players to save money--they earn 10 percent per day on "deposits"--and to learn new things about money management through a series of quizzes that, when completed, reward players with $5 of new funds.
In "Second Life," members--who pay nothing for basic access--enter an open-ended virtual world where they can fly, chat with others, drive fanciful vehicles and do many other things. The idea is that anyone with design or 3D-modeling skills can build or design almost anything they can imagine. Indeed, almost all the content in "Second Life" is created by its users.
Linden Lab makes its money by selling "land" in the digital world and subsequently charging landowners monthly fees. The company's CEO, Philip Rosedale, recently told CNET News.com that land sells for about $129 an acre and owners pay an average of $25 a month in maintenance fees.
Observers of virtual worlds like "Second Life" say they can't remember any other examples of a partnership like the one between Wells Fargo and Linden Lab. As such, it appears to be a groundbreaking piece of marketing.
"This might be one of the first times, I hesitate to say (definitively) the first," said Betsy Book, who runs the Web site, Virtual Worlds Review, "where a world has just licensed its technology to have a completely separate world within a world."
Julian Dibbell, who writes frequently about online games and is a co-editor of Terra Nova, the leading Web site about virtual worlds, said he couldn't think of any other cases, though he did say that Coca-Cola had commissioned a digital environment from the makers of the popular online game, "Habbo Hotel."
But Book explained that the Coke effort was self-contained.
Ron Meiners, the community manager for the virtual world, "There" and an expert on online games, recalled that Adobe had hoped its 3D environment "Atmosphere" would become a platform on top of which other companies could build.
Still, neither Book, Dibbell or Meiners could recall any other projects that put a third-party branded game completely inside a virtual world.
For some time, Linden Lab has maintained that "Second Life" is not a game. It prefers to call it a platform, and to Dibbell, the Stagecoach Island pilot validates that argument.
"This is definitely proof of concept of that position," Dibbell said. "It's obviously a platform that people can come in and make of it what they will."
According to David Fleck, Linden Lab's vice president of marketing, all of the design and programming work for Stagecoach Island was done by "Second Life" members.
"The core development was done by developers in 'Second Life,'" Fleck said, "that run successful businesses and have great design skills based on our tool set."
And to Book, for Linden Lab to rely on its members for such an important project is impressive.
"It's very smart, but it's also risky," she said. "They have to trust their members and who they refer this company to. You're talking about big brand names, and you want to make sure they're professionals."
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- This was a wonderful plug for my newest obsession....Second Life, but I need to say one thing about the article....as far as "imaginary money" is concerned.....that is false!
the money in second life....is as real as the money in your pocket, or in your bank account. If you gain in money in second life, you may sell that money....as if it were "Yen".
there is a money market, which is fairly stable now at $1.00=186 "lindens" (the denomination in Second Life), or 280L=$1.00.
The environment is virtual, but the people, their businesses, and the money used in every transaction are REAL.
Its not a "Game"....its a community.
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England Under-21s players have described their 'devastation' at their elimination from the European U21 Championship after losing all three of their group matches.
Stuart Pearce's side scored just one goal and conceded five during results that goalkeeper Jack Butland and striker Connor Wickham were both unable to explain.
"It's devastation. I don't think that there are going to be any players that are proud of what we have done," Wickham told Sky Sports News.
"We have let our country down, but ultimately we have let ourselves down. Coming into the tournament we had a lot of confidence and we had strength in numbers. Clearly when it came down to it we weren't good enough."
Goalkeeper Jack Butland was also left confused by England's under performance.
"We're embarrassed we haven't done ourselves justice," Butland told Sky Sports News.
"We know we are lot better than this but we can't keep saying that. We have not proved it and we can only wonder why.
"We wanted this. It's difficult to understand what went wrong we just seemed flat and not ourselves which is difficult to understand."Finally, Wilfried Zaha insisted that the side would improve in their next tournament.
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Tiger Woods offered a rare look into his psyche after his victory.
Saturday, when asked whether his passion to win had been instilled by his late father, Woods admitted to having "the mentality of a football player playing golf."
Sunday, he expanded on that.
"I don't think you really lay up on par-5s on the football field, do you?" he said. "You'd get run over. Obviously, you've got to bring everything you're got or else you get hurt.
"In our sport … some of the guys don't bring it every day, and I just don't understand that. It's not that hard to concentrate for five hours."
Woods' concentration often is cited as one of the main reasons he's the world's top-ranked player.
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Ever wonder why the powers that be don't like the Tea Party? There's probably several reasons but the main one is that Tea Partyers are average people that look at the facts and are not controlled by a large organization.
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You might ask, "If this is true, why is the Tea Party becoming such a force in national politics?" I would answer that by saying that generally conservatives think along the same lines. Probably 90 plus percent of the time, we believe in the constitution and think that things should be done in accordance with that document and expect the same out of the people we send to represent us.


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BIOLOGICAL clocks don't just keep animals in sync with their environment. Researchers have found the first evidence that these clocks are also essential for coordinating the body's inner workings.
Biological clocks allow organisms to anticipate when to feed, mate or, in the case of some insects, find safety in numbers by emerging from pupae en masse. Periodic environmental cues, such as dawn or dusk, regulate these clocks, and there is evidence that matching clocks to these cues helps animals live longer.
But if this is the only function of these clocks, they should disappear over time in populations raised in an environment that has no periodic changes, says Amitabh Joshi, a biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. He decided to test this in fruit flies. Traits that confer no fitness advantage to the flies are known to be washed away by random mutations ...
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In a large bowl, combine salt, pepper, ginger dressing and curry powder and mix well.
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- Total Carbs: 18g
- Dietary Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 20g
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We need to learn that we can have conflict with one another without fear of losing our friendship. Author Rachel Oakes-Ash in her book, Anything She Can Do I can Do Better - The Truth About Female Competition, affirms for us that it is so hard to figure out how to do this without excessive amounts of guilt. She warns, "Without honestly discussing this fact, we will continue to compare and despair, hating our bodies, starving ourselves, earning less, hating more and the guilt we carry will keep weighing us down and holding us back forever."
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Choosing the mutual fund Azzad Ethical Mid Cap Fund the average annual returns over the last ten years are at 6.06%. If the fund continues to give the same performance over the next 35 years and the returns are the same an amount of $10000 invested in the fund today would be equal to 10000*(1 + 35*6.06) = $2131000 after 35 years.
At a rate that is 2% less than its present average rate of return the investment would be equal to 10000*(1 + 35*4.06) = $1431000 and if the rate of returns is 2% higher, the investment would be equal to $2831000 after 35 years.
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The St. Paul Police Department is short on officers this summer -- right when crime hits the hardest. But the department has found a unique way of making sure manpower meets the needs of public safety: Taking officers out from behind their desks, and putting them back on the streets.
FIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS rode along with Sgt. Valarie Namen and Ofc. Cindy Rost on Friday. They got their first call of the day almost immediately: A pizza place reporting possible fraudulent payments.
"Apparently one or more of the credit cards has come up as a stolen card," Namen said.
Namen's typical day job is a desk job, overseeing DWI charges and the mounted patrol unit. Friday was her first patrol shift in two-and-a-half years.
"I like working outside. I'm a people person, and as you can tell, I'm kind of a jabber-jaw," Namen said.
She's also a crucial part of SPPD's Officer Force Multiplier program -- one of 120 officers who work administrative or investigative jobs, but will hit the streets this summer to fill the gaps in patrol staffing. Several commanders have even volunteered to pick up shifts. Their help means up to 24 extra officers will be on patrol each weekend.
"We can respond quicker. Instead of acting reactive, we're more proactive, which is what you want to be," Namen said.
On Friday, that meant there was time for immediate follow-up at the address ordering all those pizzas. No adults were home at the time, but the officers still made a meaningful contact -- an 18-year-old celebrating his birthday invited the two officers to his party.
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Minutes later, they responded to a medical call. Officers found an intoxicated male, and gave him a ride home.
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Most of the 120 officers will pick up two patrol shifts between now and the end of August.


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Marge goes bowling for the first time ever, but is unsuccessful. At the bowling alley she meets Jacques, a handsome French bowling instructor in the next lane, who offers her bowling lessons. She finds in Jacques a sensitive and charming man, nearly the exact opposite of Homer. After one "lesson", Jacques invites her to have brunch with him. Although she feels guilty, she agrees.
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On April 12, 2011, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed into law S.B. 132/H.B. 87. Under this law, Maryland employers, except in limited circumstances, are prohibited from using an individual's consumer credit history for hiring or other employment purposes. Beginning October 1, 2011, employers are prohibited from using credit report data to deny employment, discharge an employee,… Continue Reading
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NORTH FERRISBURGH — Edward George "Big Ed" Charbonneau died on June 25, 2013, at the age of 81.
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Reflecting on Oak Creek
No one is an enemy, no one is a stranger. We befriend all. We Believe in the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of mankind. We are one family. One becomes inferior or superior only by one's deeds, and not by what caste, class, creed, or tribe one is born into.
All of the above are the core beliefs of Sikhism, but the Sikh American community which so proudly calls America home is hurting today. And in the midst of that pain, the outpouring of profound love and support the community has received from our fellow Americans following the shootings in Wisconsin is unbelievable.
Loss of any innocent life is sad, but when it happens at a house of worship where men, women, and children come together to celebrate their open, all inclusive faith by praying and offering gratitude to "One Universal Ultimate Supreme Being," asking for the well-being of all humanity, then it has to be heart wrenching.
The shooting in the Oak Creek Wisconsin Sikh Gurudwara (place of worship) on August 5th that took so many lives was such an enigma and senseless act of violence that has shattered many innocent lives. No one expected it. No one would have thought it possible that such a tragedy could occur on a peaceful summer Sunday, in a place where members of all faiths are welcome to share in the community and develop their bond with God and their neighbors. But it did not define America for Sikhs. Perhaps it can lead to better understanding of Sikhs for America.
Oak Creek Wisconsin police officers did a commendable job, and likely saved many more lives by confronting the attacker.
The entire country is baffled, and President Obama stated, "As we mourn this loss, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family."
There is no doubt the Sikh American community feels a great sense of unease resulting from this incident. Feeling both that we are mistakenly associated with people of other faiths and that neither we nor any other innocent people should be singled out for abuse or ridicule because of our faith. Such unease has been there, not only since the Iran Hostage Crisis of the late seventies, but also from the backlash of 9/11 when Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American wearing the traditional articles of faith of a beard and turban was shot and killed in Mesa Arizona on September 15, 2001, by a gunman who ignorantly declared, "I stand for America all the way." The Sikh American community, and other similar minorities, have long lived under an unfair burden of vulnerability from baseless attacks and threats by individuals who cannot rationally justify their hatred.
Incidents directed at Sikh Americans may appear at first glance to be random and isolated, but when they are viewed collectively over a period of time, a troubling pattern emerges that requires enhanced actions by policymakers and law enforcement. It is crucial that the Department of Justice, through the FBI, collect and provide more detailed statistics on such incidents, so that local and federal law enforcement are better equipped to combat hate crimes. It is also crucial that members of the Sikh American community, and other minority groups, continue reporting these incidents, pushing for prosecution, and working with law enforcement to be heard.
This time it was Sikhs who were targeted; tomorrow, it could be any other faith or ethnic community. The cognizable fear associated with such directed acts of domestic terrorism is very disturbing to Sikh Americans, as well as to an overwhelming majority of peace loving, caring, and charitable Americans. We are solaced only by the outpouring of profound love and support the Sikh American community has received from our fellow Americans, and appreciate that we all stand together in times like this.
We hope that this tragedy will compel Americans to unite as a single community, working together to counter this culture of intolerance, bigotry, hatred, and senseless violence.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." We must take a firm stand of supporting organizations that build bridges of understanding with one another rather than walls of separation and fear.
Maybe the civil war isn't over yet. Maybe the attacker here was motivated by additional factors, such as the economy. We will never know the entire truth, but we must seek ways of resolving the ultimate root causes of frustration, anger, and hate that lead to violence. It may not happen overnight, but it needs to be done – and we can do it!
Acting on hate is on the rise. But how can law enforcement protect every shopping mall, every school, every movie theater, and every place of worship at all times? They need our help, as a community.
Education alone can dispel ignorance. The mediating forces of faith and interfaith must become stronger through mutual, open dialogues about ways to establish peaceful and productive relationships of co-existence among diverse groups.
We all need to educate ourselves about the people who live here and make up our nation, starting with the Native Americans. How can we learn about people's faith and culture? And how can they learn about us? That is a significant step in promoting a sense of camaraderie and reduced fear of the unknown; about someone who is unfamiliar, looks different, or has an accent.
We are proud of our men and women in uniform because of their gallant service to our nation. Soldiers are our defenders and protectors, but when a former Soldier – one who fought for the same freedoms we as a Sikh American community also fight for – massacres his own innocent, unarmed countrymen, there is something seriously wrong. Such issues must be dealt with – they must be addressed and fixed.
Let us work together in solidarity to ensure that love prevails over hatred, and such tragedies never happen again.
We must stand up for each other, no community should be made to feel isolated and vulnerable in a society that values diversity and was founded by immigrants.
Haven't we always been global and importing and exporting our products and knowledge overseas? Haven't we received goods and knowledge from other countries and people of all faiths? We are a global society, and all interdependent on each other. May we learn sooner rather than later that we are all one… and each other's keeper.
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Like Maggie the Cat, one of her more memorable roles, Elizabeth Taylor seemed to have nine lives.
The screen legend died Wednesday at age 79 of complications from congestive heart failure. But before her death, she survived several near-death experiences and morphed from screen goddess to successful businesswoman and tireless AIDS activist to virtual recluse.
"Ultimately, it was congestive heart failure that really made her not want to be in the public eye," William J. Mann, author of "How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood," said. "She needed oxygen all the time. It became difficult to travel. It was difficult to speak, difficult to walk, just a chore to get dressed."
In 2004, Taylor was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Ever since then, she was in and out of hospitals, and in and out of the tabloids documenting her rumored health.
But just as soon as she was said to be near death, the ailing actress, who got around in a wheelchair, would appear in public.
"Elizabeth was always very conscious of her public appearance," Mann said. "About five years ago, Dominick Dunne wrote in Vanity Fair that it seemed she had 'closed the door' on acting. She called him up and he had to write a retraction in his next column."
"She was very conscious of, as long as she could feasibly do it, wanting to be in public eye," Mann said.
He recalled how friends who worked for her would take her to outdoor clubs -- most often gay clubs -- on a Sunday afternoon for a drink.
"She'd come in her wheelchair, her dog in her lap, and receive fans," he said. "She loved the attention."
This was, after all, a woman who famously said she could barely remember a time when she wasn't famous, whose arresting beauty and glamour made her an icon of Hollywood's golden age.
Taylor bounded into the spotlight at age 12 after starring in the 1944 box office sensation "National Velvet." She won acclaim as an adult with 1951's "A Place In The Sun" and went on to score best actress Oscar nominations for "Raintree County," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and "Suddenly, Last Summer."
In 1963, she memorably starred in "Cleopatra." She won Oscars for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966 and "BUtterfield 8" in 1960.
Taylor's real box office success ended with the '60s. Despite a few cameos in the '80s and '90s, Taylor retreated from the screen, though not from the public.
"She wasn't a Bette Davis or Meryl Streep saying, 'What is my next great acting part?'" Mann said. "That was never her driving passion. She didn't sit around waiting. That wasn't her."
Instead, Taylor went into business, launching her first of three fragrances, Passion, in 1987. It's still licensed with beauty products company, Elizabeth Arden.
With earnings of $200 million, her perfume business, along with a jewelry design business, allowed Taylor to maintain the lifestyle of glamour she'd become accustomed to.


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The Mars One project plans to send a crew of colonists to the Red Planet in about 10 years, but Muslims may have to defy a religious edict to make the trip.
Mars One hopes to lure investors with an opportunity to send marketing materials all the way to the Red Planet.
The seasons are shifting on some Martian sand dunes, and NASA has a fascinating photo of the thaw to share.
The current anti-American tensions in the Middle East shows how much digital media impacts such crises when compared to the time of Salman Rushdie's Iranian fatwa in 1989.
Produced by the Islamic Association of Students, it has a mouthful of a title: The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict. Will it rival World of Warcraft?
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-US) recognizes that the United States is a nation of immigrants from around the world whose many contributions have enriched our lives and communities from the nation's beginning.
|WILPF members march for immigrants workers' rights in April 2006
WILPF's first president, Jane Addams, founded and directed Hull House in Chicago for newly arrived immigrants "to provide a center for a higher civic and social life." An immigrant's successful integration will always depend on the wisdom and receptivity of policy-makers and the willingness of communities to promote diversity and assist the transition of newcomers. Such efforts should be guided by a commitment to equal protection, along with equal access to healthcare, employment, education and legal assistance for all residents.
The Women's International League for Peace & Freedom/US Section:
- supports the development of national and international policies to address the underlying causes of global migration that disrupt cultures and local economies. We call for change in a system that allows industry to poison people, communities and the natural commons, while denying people's right to a secure and decent livelihood. We call for the end of corporations that exploit low-wage, no-benefits immigrant labor in a free-market system. We call for all workers' democratic right to travel, work and organize for better conditions.
- recognizes the contribution of immigrants and refugees to our country and advocates for their human and constitutional rights. We oppose those voices that fan the fear and hatred of these newcomers to our land.
- supports local, state, and national grassroots organizing for immigrant rights.
- supports effective networking among governments at every level and community-based organizations toward the effective delivery to immigrants of needed human services without regard to documentation or legal status.
- opposes the policies and trends, some in place since September 11, 2001, that criminalize immigrants and militarize immigration law enforcement.
- opposes construction of the 700-mile separation wall along the Mexico-US border.
- supports public policy measures that allow undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States to become lawful residents and citizens of this country.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has always seen human rights and social justice for all as essential conditions for peace within and among nations. For additional information about the organization, its work and principles, see WILPF's website, www.wilpf.org .
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Indigenous Peoples and the Law
The colonial modalities which resulted in the pillaging of the 'New World' involved wholesale dispossession, genocidal violence and exploitation of their original inhabitants. It was not, however, until the latter part of the twentieth century that Indigenous peoples attained some degree of legal recognition. This book series focuses upon the manner in which Indigenous peoples' experiences of law have been transformed from an oppressive system of denying rights to a site of contestation and the articulation of various forms of self-governance. Encouraging a range of theoretical, political and ethical perspectives on Indigenous peoples and the law, this book series aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the experience of Indigenous peoples and their changing relationship with national and international juridical frameworks.
The series will include both monographs and edited collections pursuing variety a of perspectives – including, but not limited to, a concern with:
- Law as a mechanism of power/knowledge: that is, the discursive and biopolitical strategies of Conquest, Settlement, and Empire – with a particular interest in how the juridical was deployed to validate land appropriation in the 'New World' and European colonies. This might include consideration of the influence of the writings of Vattel, Blackstone, Sepulveda, Vittoria, las Casas and others in framing Indigenous populations and their lands as supposedly amenable to colonization.
- The role of law in authorising oppression, dispossession and genocide in the colonial period, and how such juridical moments continue to shape relations between Indigenous peoples and the State. This might include consideration of: specific governmental policies and legislation that allowed for forced removal of Indigenous children; appropriation of Indigenous lands; the imposition of regimes of control through government reserves and missions; and/or the role of treaties in providing legal justification for the dispossession of Indigenous peoples.
- Contemporary issues that confront Indigenous peoples in their dealings with law in the global present. This might include consideration of: disputes relating to resource extraction; access to justice and over-representation in the criminal justice system; cultural heritage and intellectual property claims; the recognition of Indigenous laws; land rights; the belated recognition of Indigenous rights in both 'new' constitutions and in international law; and/or sovereignty.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the series, please contact:
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Austrian Committee for Remembering Kim Il Sung formed
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- A Committee for Remembering President Kim Il Sung was inaugurated in Vienna on May 22. At the inaugural ceremony Max Verworner, chairman of the society for the promotion of the relations between Austria and the DPRK, was elected chairman of the committee.
The committee discussed a program of different functions to be held in the capital city and local areas.
Korea's reunification supported
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Slovak President Rudolf Schuster, when receiving credentials from new DPRK ambassador to his country Pak Hyon Bo on May 23, said that Slovakia expresses full support to the Korean people in their efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula and its reunification. Referring to the development of the friendly relations between the two countries, the president stressed that the two countries have good experience in having supported and cooperated with each other in the international arena including the U.N.
Ri Hoe Chang urged not to run for presidency
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and peace on the Korean Peninsula and the "National Federation of University Gazette Correspondents" reportedly issued statements on May 24, denouncing Ri Hoe Chang for his anti-reunification remarks. The solidarity in a statement said his remarks that the second article of the joint declaration should be repealed betray his ulterior intention to deny the joint declaration and not to implement it.
The statement condemned him as a pro-American traitor who is not interested in national reconciliation and reunification, currying favour with the U.S.
The federation in a statement urged him not to run for presidency but to retire from the politics.
The joint declaration is the only hope for reunification and the federation will respect it thoroughly and strive to implement it, the statement said.
Repressive actions against pro-reunification organization protested
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration reportedly released a statement on May 25 condemning the police and the "Grand National Party" for blocking a press conference aimed at denouncing the anti-reunification remarks made by Ri Hoe Chang. Recalling that the chief of the Yongdungpho Police Station sent policemen in to block a press conference on May 24 at the request of the GNP and walked away its participants, the statement dismissed this outrage as "tyrannical actions against reunification and democracy as they were designed to ditch the joint declaration, a landmark of reunification."
Branding the police authorities and the GNP as the "forces standing in the way of democracy and reunification", the statement held that national reunification cannot be achieved unless such forces are brought to justice.
We will never pardon the GNP and the chief of the Yongdungpho Police Station for suppressing the just activities for democracy by riot police, though a spate of anti-reunification remarks were made by the party, the statement said.
The statement declared that the solidarity would conduct a more vigorous struggle to implement the June 15 joint declaration and uncompromisingly fight against the anti-reunification moves to defile and ditch the joint declaration, in solidarity with all social organizations.
Introduction of U.S.-made fighters opposed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- A "meeting urging the withdrawal of the selection of F-15K fighters" was reportedly held in Seoul on May 25 under the sponsorship of the "National People's Solidarity" grouping more than 40 organizations including the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification", the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils with members of the organizations, students, workers, poor people, etc. attending. So Kyong Won, permanent adviser to the Council for National Reconciliation and independent reunification, asserted that "South Korea should not buy F-15Ks at any cost."
A resolution read out at the meeting said that the outcome of the negotiations held by the "defence ministry" with the U.S. turned out to be nothing but a ruse to calm down the public opinion opposed to the former's selection of fighters, yielding the latter's pressure, and demanded an immediate stop to the moves to introduce F-15Ks.
Later the headquarters of the movement for return of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan held the 7th citizens meeting to seek the return of the military base, voice opposition to the "national assembly" approval of the "joint land management plan" and frustrate the moves for a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Russian ensemble gives its premiere
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The Ensemble of the Red Flag Far Eastern Military District of the Federal Armed Forces of Russia on a visit to the DPRK gave its premiere at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre on May 28. Seeing it were servicemen of the Korean People's Army and working people in the city.
The ensemble raised the curtain with immortal revolutionary paeans "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il." through such songs as "Just Battle", "Katsusha", "Suburbs of Moscow in the Evening," "Kalinka," etc. The performers impressively depicted the Russian people's warm love for their motherland and their traditional way of life.
They also put on the stage an orchestra and chorus "we sing of red flag far eastern military district", song "military district no. 1" and ballet "soldier is always soldier" which represented the life of the soldiers in the district.
The performance proceeded in an atmosphere overflowing with DPRK-Russia friendship. It ended with the song and dance "our friendship will be ever-lasting."
S. Korean police's suppression under fire
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The South Korean police ruthlessly cracked down upon a press conference scheduled to be held by the "reunification solidarity" in front of the building of the "Grand National Party" on May 24 to lash out at Ri Hoe Chang for his remarks defiling the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, according to a news report. The police walked away the secretary general of the "reunification solidarity" and seven others and took away seven members of the "reunification solidarity" who protested against the suppression.
On hearing the news soon, those related to the "nationwide special committee for probing the truth behind the GIS' mass killings of civilians" gathered in front of the building of the "GNP" before holding a press conference.
At the press conference O Jong Ryol, permanent chairman of the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification", read out a letter of protest which charged that the reckless remarks made by Ri Hoe Chang about the second point of the joint declaration were outbursts that could never be made by a politician and they were by no means a "misstatement".
He demanded the elimination of Ri from the political arena and the withdrawal of his appointment as a "presidential candidate". He threatened to wage a vigorous struggle against the "GNP" and Ri Hoe Chang unless such demands are met.
Halt to suppression of Hanchongryon called for
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The South Korean prosecution issued warrants for arrest of the chairman of the 10th-term Hanchongryon (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils) and its spokesman and are keen to crack down on it after labeling it as an "enemy-benefiting organization". This is a very unreasonable behavior. Minju Joson says this in a signed commentary today.
The news analyst goes on:
The programme set forth by Hanchongryon and its activities conducted to carry it out can in no way be a target of suppression as they reflected the aspiration and demand of the South Korean people.
However, the South Korean "security" authorities are calling into question the activities of Hanchongryon for independence and democratization of society and national reunification and raising a whirlwind of suppression. This is prompted by their ulterior intention to keep South Korea under the domination of outside forces and perpetuate the division of the country.
The "security" authorities are intensifying the suppression of the hardcore members of Hanchongryon, the vanguard of the one million fellow students of South Korea, after labeling it as the "enemy-benefiting organization", and laying an obstacle in the way of implementing the north-south joint declaration, a declaration for national independence and reunification. These anti-national and anti-reunification acts are intolerable.
Hanchongryon will not yield to any suppression but achieve its sacred cause by the concerted efforts.
The South Korean authorities should withdraw the label of the "enemy-benefiting organization" attached to Hanchongryon, guarantee the freedom of its activities and discontinue the suppression of the patriotic students.
Appearance of Chongchon River basin changes beyond recognition
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The River Chongchon originates in Mt. Rangrim in the northwestern part of Korea and empties into the West Sea. Chongchon means clean water in Korean.
It is 217 kilometers long and its basin covers 9,552.6 square kilometers.
There are many famous beauty spots in the basin such as Mt. Myohang, Paekryong Grand Cavern, Lake Yonphung called "a sea surrounded by mountains", Paeksang Pavilion in Anju and Yaksandongdae in Nyongbyon.
There stands the International Friendship Exhibition, a treasurehouse praising great men, in Mt. Myohyang, one of the five famous mountains in Korea.
There is also Lake Yonphung, an artificial reservoir that has its source in the river.
Rest homes and camping centers are found on the shore of the lake.
The river basin abounds in cultural and historical relics and monumental edifices such as Cholong fortress in Nyongbyon, Nam Gate, Ryuksung Pavilion, Chonju Temple, Soun Temple and Hyangsan Barrage.
Modern cities and villages, industrial establishments and cooperative farms were built in the River Basin.
Anju city appeared in the 1970s. High-rise buildings of different styles stand in rows in the city. The River Basin is a main silk producer of the country.
Varieties of silk such as figured satin and Kuryongdan silk in Nyongbyon, brocade in Pakchon and heavy silk in Anju are very popular at home and abroad.
Manwol Pavilion
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Manwol Pavilion is the site of the royal palace of Koryo (918-1392), the first unified state in Korea. It is situated in Kaesong which was the capital of Koryo.
Its name originated in the word "pavilion" where men of the palace used to look at the moon.
The royal palace was erected in 919 and its area was 1,250,000 square metres.
The palace consists of the residence of the king and public offices.
The residence is about 390,000 square metres wide.
The central architectural structure of the palace was on heights.
There are sites of different buildings.
In the west there were buildings where the king managed state affairs and lived and in the east a building where the crown prince lived.
It is noteworthy that the constitution of the royal palace and plottage of buildings were identical to the remains of the royal palace of the Koguryo dynasty.
Manwol Pavilion is the precious cultural relics showing the creative talents of the Korean nation in the reign of the Koryo dynasty.
Peculiar wooden handicraft
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Wooden handicraft on the theme "our revolution that started with songs will triumph with songs" on display at the gift exhibition of the ministry of the people's armed forces is winning admiration of visitors. It was carved on the root of a 400-odd-year old linden tree. It is 3m tall and 2.16m wide.
It reflects the people's praise of the great policy on music pursued by the Workers' Party of Korea and the servicemen's absolute worship of supreme commander Kim Jong Il.
Carved on it are the words of "Song of River Amnok" President Kim Il Sung sang when crossing the River Amnok with a great aim to win the country's liberation and other songs he personally created.
The handicraft also depicts the young communists who are holding the president in high esteem as the center of the unity, composing and singing the song "star of Korea" and the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who are picturing to themselves the liberated country, singing the song "nostalgia." It also portrays servicemen holding a frontline concert with musical instruments made of empty cartridges in a pit during the Korean War and people who have turned out in the postwar rehabilitation and construction, loudly singing "song of rehabilitation."
And it vividly depicts the performance by the merited choir of the Korean People's Army.
Seeing the handicraft peculiar in ideological content and representation, Kim Jong Il highly appreciated it, saying it contains all the famous songs of Korea and it is wonderful.


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SEM327 - Dynamics of Machines
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Campus: 2 x 1 hour classes per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 2 x 3 hour practicals per trimester (CAD lab).Students must attend and participate in compulsory activities for this unit at scheduled sessions on multiple days during the trimester.
Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin . 2 x 3 hour practicals per trimester. Students must attend and participate in mandatory activities at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus on the particular scheduled day during Week 8.
This unit addresses the following topics: dynamics of machines - kinematics analysis of planar mechanisms, dynamics analysis of planar mechanisms, balancing of rotating machinery; mechanical power transmission systems - gear trains, friction clutches and belt drives; vibrations - lumped parameter models and equivalent systems, free vibration spring-mass model, damped vibration, forced vibration, vibration of multi-degree-of-freedom systems.
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Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investmentJeremy Hance
July 23, 2014
Aerial view of the Río Huaypetue gold mine in Peru. The mine, which was cut of the Amazon rainforest, has been blamed for large-scale environmental damage and social problems, including allegations of child labor. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
The new law, signed by President Ollanta Humala earlier this month, is thorough in its application. It significantly reduces most fines for environmental damages, forces environmental impact studies to be done in just 45 days, and will allow mining and fossil fuel exploitation in any newly-formed protected areas.
"We consider these measures as a serious pullback for Peru in the environmental field. We urge the Peruvian government to reconsider and withdraw this initiative," wrote over 100 local and international environmental groups in a letter protesting the new law.
The law also undercuts the Ministry of Environment, which was only established in 2008, by no longer allowing the ministry to set standards for air, soil, and water quality. Not surprisingly, the head of the ministry, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, voted against the bills.
Finally the new law enacts large tax breaks for foreign mining companies operating in the country.
Yet, Peru continues to be roiled by entrenched conflicts between local communities and mining and oil companies. Indigenous people in the Amazon have protested oil exploration and exploitation in their traditional territories for decades, while many Andean communities have campaigned against ever-expanding mines.
Oil and gas blocks in the western Amazon. Solid yellow indicates blocks already leased out to companies. Hashed yellow indicates proposed blocks or blocks still in the negotiation phase. Protected areas shown are those considered strictly protected by the IUCN (categories I to III). Image modified from Finer at al (2008).
In fact, environmentalists were heartened by some developments in Peru since Humala's election. For example, last year Peru declared a state of emergency due to decades of oil pollution in the Pastaza River in the Amazon. This state of emergency, which compelled oil giant Pluspetrol to clean-up the area, was only brought about by the Ministry of Environment's nascent soil and water standards, which the new law axes.
The Associate Press reports that Peru enacted the law in response to its slowing economic growth, which dropped from 6.3 percent in 2012 to 5 percent last year. The Latin American country is heavily dependent on mining and fossil fuels. Currently, mining makes up about 60 percent of exports, with gold accounting for around a third of that. Meanwhile about 70 percent of the Peruvian Amazon has been auctioned off to oil companies for exploration.
Critics of the new law also fear its ramifications could spread beyond Peru.
"In the context of the global climate crisis, where concrete and urgent actions are required, this newly proposed law sends a very bad signal which is made even worst considering Peru's role as COP [Conference of the Parties] 20 President," wrote the environmental groups. "This proposed investment law rewards those parties who do not comply with current environmental rules in Peru."
One of the responsibilities of holding the current presidency of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's Conference of the Parties—which moves from country to country every year—is hosting the annual climate change summit in December of this year. Hopes have been rising for the conference as it paves the way for a new agreement in Paris in 2015. But as host, Peru could have considerable sway over the outcome of this year's conference. Recent hosts, Poland and Qatar, have both been criticized for not doing enough to push ambition at summits over the past two years.
"We are at a crucial moment when Peru is required and expected to step up and show consistent and coherent leadership to develop environmental policies in the face of climate change," the environmental groups wrote.
A few days after the new law passed, Pulgar-Vidal, the Environment Minister, said the country was on track for a bold summit.
"We have received a good signals and strong political support," he told summit delegates in Petersburg. "Our main goal is to have a strong focus and draft agreement, it's the only way to move towards a strong COP in Paris."
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, cathair wrote:
> Here's how I DID get output without using the pulldown <snip>:
> my $i;
> for ($i = 0; $i <= $#array_name; $i++){
> print "$array_name[$i]\n";
> }
Do you know about perl's foreach loop construct? It is tailor-made for the
common case of doing something once for each element of an array. You could
re-write the above as:
foreach my $elem (@array_name) {
print "$elem\n"
The output is equivalent.
> THAT worked just dandy.
> But when I attempt...<snip>:
> my $j;
> print "<form name="a_form">\n";
> print "<select name="pull_my_finger" size=1>\n";
> for($j = 0; $j <= $#array_name; $j++){
> print "<option>$array_name[$j]\n";
> }
> print "</select></form>\n";
> </snip>
> ...it fails at me.
The code above looks fine. Are you sure you aren't doing something wrong
earlier in the script that does not become noticeable until this point?
How does the code fail at you?[1]
> Is there a way around this besides embedding the script (and output)
> midpage?
Cannot answer the question because of insufficient data.
[1] When asking for help, it is essential to provide specific information
about what you were doing and what went wrong. Saying 'it fails at me' is
a classic un-useful bug report. Better would be to provide the exact
faulty program output, or the perl debugging messages, if the script died
in compilation. Don't feel bad: since you are a newbie, you don't know
this stuff, but please take note for future reference.
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